The solution is forced through five capillary tubes under high pressure, and the filament so obtained solidifying at once is wound together with other similar filaments upon suitable bobbins.
Instantly the tip sprayed into a web of fine filaments that laced on around his body.
Then the arm's point sprayed into a web of shining filaments that laced the rodent's body inexorably in their web.
In all species of Meloseira, as well as Gaillonella and Lysigonium, the frustules are so closely coherent that when the filaments are broken entire frustules are less frequently found than a union of two valves of contiguous frustules.
Stamens showing the union of the filaments into a common tube (monadelphous).
The petals also are united by their base to the tube formed by the coalesced filaments of the stamens.
The receptacle, on which the filaments are placed, has a conical form, abrupt, somewhat rounded above.
Stamens; filaments many, very short, covered with scales at the receptacle.
From the tip of the tongue the creature extrudes two small filaments of a pinkish colour which wriggle about, bearing a perfect resemblance to the small round worms of which fishes are so fond.
Their skeleton-forms, having the appearance of eight straggling filaments of seaweed, are thus, doubtless, a great protection to these creatures from their many enemies.
The moulds which cover bread and cheese with a delicate tracery of filaments and raise on high their tiny balls of spores are as worthy to be called a plant growth as are the great oaks which shade our houses.
In Gallus sonneratii the barbs and barbules blend together, and form thin horny plates of the same nature with the shaft: in this variety of the goose, the shaft divides into filaments which acquire barbules, and thus resemble true barbs.
It is a curious fact that these filaments are regularly clothed on each side with fine down or barbules, precisely like those on the proper barbs of the feather.
Rather like an ordinary electric light bulb, it looked, save that there were no filaments in the thin glass shell.
Where filaments should have been there was a thin cylinder of bluish-gray metal.
Even the elemental parts of the same feather may be transposed; for in the Sebastopol goose, barbules are developed on the divided filaments of the shaft.
Often thesefilaments are not straight, but spirally twisted, and are called "spirilla.
There can be no doubt that it is a mechanical action, a communication of impulses to delicate hair-like processes, by the movements of which the nervous filaments are irritated.
It would appear also that the filaments of the auditory nerve terminate in the basilar membrane, and possibly they may be connected with the hair-cells.
These two filaments are like two long fingers of exquisite sensitiveness, which direct the difficult operation.
Footnote 16: In all the Lamp-shells the mouth is provided with two long fleshy organs, which carry delicate filaments on their sides, and which are usually coiled into a spiral.
C), each with a longitudinal groove down its middle; and along each side of each of these grooves there seems to have been attached a row of short jointed calcareous filaments or "pinnules.
These filaments can be thrown out at will, and to considerable distances, and can be again retracted into the soft mass of the general body-substance, and they are the agents by which the animal obtains its food.
Sometimes the shell has but one large opening into it--the mouth; and then it is from this aperture that the animal protrudes the delicate net of filaments with which it seeks its food.
It had the quality of fairyland architecture, a dream ship woven from the filaments of spiderwebs.
Its froglike head, with a ruff of exposed filaments lifted, like an animal scenting blood.
The flowers are male and female; the first consist of four sepals, two of which are much longer than the others, and a beard of anthers, with the filaments united into one common stalk, and each anther containing two cells for pollen.
They have ten stamens, the filaments of which are hairy at the base (see a in fig.
The stamens in all these genera grow from beneath the ovary, and the filaments are thick and fleshy.
There are ten stamens, nine of which have the lower half of their filaments growing together, so as to form a fleshy substance at the base, as shown in fig.
There are four short stamens, with their filaments inserted in the throat of the corolla, and two very short styles.
The filaments of some of the stamens are very long and curving over, but the others are much shorter and erect; the style is long and slender, ending in a pointed stigma.
The anthers of the stamens are often enfolded in the flowers before they are fully expanded, so that the filaments appear bent, till at last they open fully and hang down.
There are five stamens, the filaments of which grow together slightly at the base, and there are five little points like filamentswithout anthers, rising between the stamens.
At the base of the stipe are two or more rows of filaments without anthers, which are called the rays.
The delicate inner coat of the eye, formed by nervous filaments spreading from the optic nerve, and serving for the perception of the impressions produced by light.
Those cylinders being very close together allow the filaments of cotton to pass but not the seeds, which are as large as small peas.
It is also well, should washing with sulphuric acid be suspected, to ascertain, by aid of a lens, if the filaments on the surface of the manuscript possess an inflated appearance.
Filaments of the strained fabric; detected by their texture, and general appearance.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "filaments" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
