fimbriate

[Lat. fimbriœ =a fringe.] Bot.: Fringed; having a fringe or border. fim-bri-āte, v. t. (FIMBRIATE, a.] To fringe, to hem. fim-bri-ā-těd, pa. par. & a. [FIMBRIATE, v.] A. As pa. par.: (See the verb.) B. As adjective: I. Ord. Lang.: Fringed. II. Technically: 1. Bot .: The same as FIMBRIATE (q. v.). "The margin is either entire, or divided into lobes or teeth. These teeth sometimes form a regular fringe round the margin, and the petal becomes fimbriated ." Balfour Botany , § 372. 2. Her .: Ornamented, as an ordinary, with a nar row border or hem of another tincture. 3. Zool .: Having fimbriæ or fringes. fimbriated extremity, 8. Anat.: The fringed end of the Fallopian tube. [FIMBRIA.] fim-bri-ā-tō, in compos. [Latin fimbriatus.] Fringed. fimbria to-laciniate, a. Bot.: Having torn and fringed edges. IMG:content-1633.png:[blocks in formation] 1. The quality or state of being filthy, foul, or dirty; foulne , dirtine . 2. That which is filthy, foul, or dirty; filth. 3. That which is morally filthy or foul; pollution in action, thought, or language. filth'-y, a. [Eng. filth; -y.] 1. Nasty, dirty, foul, unclean. 2. Polluting or defiling morally. 3. Obscene, coarse, low. 4. Polluted, defiled; morally impure or unclean; obscene. *fil-trāte, v . t . or i. [Low Lat. filtratus , pa. par. of filtro to filter.] [FILTER, v.] To filter, to strain; to purify or defecate by filtration. fil-trāte, s. [FILTRATE, v.] Any liquid which has pa ed through a filter. fil-tra-tion, s . [FILTRATE, v .] The act or proce of filtering or defecating liquids by pa ing them through a filter; the mechanical separation of solid substances from a liquid in which they exist, by filtering or percolation through a filter. "We took then common nitre, and having, by the usual way of solution, filtration, and coagulation, reduced it into crystals, we put four ounces of this purified nitre into a strong new crucible."- Boyle . fi-lum (pl. fi'-la), s. [Lat.=a thread of any. thing woven.] Anat .: A thread-like proce . Thus the filum ter minale of the spinal cord is its central ligament, ( Quain .)