flabilet (flabil)

[L. flabilis, airy, flaccid (flak's id), a. [= Sp. flacido = Pg. It. flaccido, Mrs. Oliphant , Poor Gentleman, xl. Could you evolve the intensity and intellectual alertne of Maggie Tulliver from her precedent conditions: to wit, a flaccid mother, and a father wooden by nature and sodden by misfortune? S. Lanier, The English Novel, p. 290. flaccidezza (It. pron. flå-chi-det'sä), n. [It. (= Sp. flacidez = Pg. flaccidez = OF. flache e), flaccidne , flaccido, flaccid: see flaccid.] Same as flaccidity , 2. Encyc. Brit., XIX. 856. It seems probable that the parasitic organism which causes that disease [pebrine] is (as is also the distinct parasite causing the disease known as flaccidezza in the same animals [silkworms]) one of the Schizomycetes (Bacteria). flaccidity (flak-sid'i-ti), n. [= F. flaccid ité , flaccid it a ( t- )s, flaccid us , flaccid: see flaccid.] 1. Same as flaccidne . The viscidity of the juices and the flaccidity of the fibres would,. by proper remedies and a due regimen, be removed. G. Cheyne, Health, vii. 2. A disease of silkworms, due to fermentation of the food in the intestinal canal, and caused by one of the bacteria, Micrococcus Bombycis . Also called flachery or (as French) flacherie , or (as Italian) flaccidezza . When the symptoms are observed we may be sure that the worms are attacked by flaccidity. Riley, Silk-Culture, p. 36. flaccidly (flak's id-li), adv. In a flaccid manner. flaccidne (flak's id-nes), n. The state of being flaccid; laxity; limberne ; want of firmne or elasticity. flacherie, flachery (flash'e-ri), n. [F. flache rie (see extract); cf. OF. flache e, flaccidne : see flaccidezza.] Same as flaccidity, 2. Consulting the authors who had written upon silkworms, Pasteur could not doubt that he had before his eyes a characteristic specimen of the disease called morts-flats or flacherie. Life of Pasteur , tr. by Lady Claud Hamilton, p. 152.