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Cry :: Cry (v. i.) Any expression of grief, distress, etc., accompanied with tears or sobs; a loud sound, uttered in lamentation..

Tetrathecal :: Tetrathecal (a.) Having four loculaments, or thecae..

Dowle :: Dowle (n.) Feathery or wool-like down; filament of a feather.

Deploration :: Deploration (n.) The act of deploring or lamenting; lamentation.

Polyadelphia :: Polyadelphia (n. pl.) A Linnaean class of plants having stamens united in three or more bodies or bundles by the filaments.

Byssus :: Byssus (n.) A tuft of long, tough filaments which are formed in a groove of the foot, and issue from between the valves of certain bivalve mollusks, as the Pinna and Mytilus, by which they attach themselves to rocks, etc..

Polyneme :: Polyneme (n.) Any one of numerous species of tropical food fishes of the family Polynemidae. They have several slender filaments, often very long, below the pectoral fin. Some of them yield isinglass of good quality. Called also threadfish..

Sporidium :: Sporidium (n.) A secondary spore, or a filament produced from a spore, in certain kinds of minute fungi..

Byssaceous :: Byssaceous (a.) Byssuslike; consisting of fine fibers or threads, as some very delicate filamentous algae..

Vibrio :: Vibrio (n.) A genus of motile bacteria characterized by short, slightly sinuous filaments and an undulatory motion; also, an individual of this genus..

Elater :: Elater (n.) An elastic spiral filament for dispersing the spores, as in some liverworts..

Palpocil :: Palpocil (n.) A minute soft filamentary process springing from the surface of certain hydroids and sponges.

Incumbent :: Incumbent (a.) Leaning or resting; -- said of anthers when lying on the inner side of the filament, or of cotyledons when the radicle lies against the back of one of them..

Wail :: Wail (n.) Loud weeping; violent lamentation; wailing.

Pentadelphous :: Pentadelphous (a.) Having the stamens arranged in five clusters, those of each cluster having their filaments more or less united, as the flowers of the linden..

Postticous :: Postticous (a.) Situated on the outer side of a filament; -- said of an extrorse anther.

Throw :: Throw (v. t.) To twist two or more filaments of, as silk, so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles, in a direction contrary to the twist of the singles themselves; -- sometimes applied to the whole class of operations by which silk is prepared for the weaver..

Plain :: Plain (v. i.) To lament; to bewail; to complain.

Threnody :: Threnody (n.) A song of lamentation; a threnode.

Single :: Single (n.) The reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness..

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