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filmy, a.|ˈfɪlmɪ|
[f. film n. + -y1.]
†1. Of membranous structure. Obs.
1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. Introd. 37 The ventricle..is filmy, and therefore cold, hard, dry, and glutinous. 1665Evelyn Diary 9 Feb., Its lower beak..being filmy, stretches to a prodigious wideness when it devours a great fish.
2. Forming a thin pellicle or coating.
1628Wotton Let. 14 Dec. in Reliq. Wotton. (1685) 441 A little Excrescence..upon the uttermost ball of his Eyes, a filmy matter, like the rudiment of a Pin and Web. 1735N. Torriano Gangr. Sore Throat 94 As these filmy Membranes came away, the Weasand or Throat became freer. 1772Priestley in Phil. Trans. LXII. 219 The water..had deposited a filmy kind of matter. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xxxvii (1856) 344 The area of filmy ice. 1885R. Buchanan Annan Water iii, Encrusting its black sides with a species of filmy salt.
3. Resembling a film, of extremely delicate texture, gauze-like; consisting of slender filaments, as of gossamer.
1604Drayton Owle 764 The Spiders..in his traine their filmie netting cast. 1664Power Exp. Philos. i. 30 Another pair of filmy Tiffany long wings. 1740Somerville Hobbinol ii. 190 The luxurious Wasp His filmy Pennons struggling flaps in vain. 1813Scott Trierm. iii. xi, It seem'd a veil of filmy lawn. a1839Praed Poems (1864) II. 21 The filmy shroud Of many a mild transparent cloud. 1871R. Ellis Catullus lxix. 3 Some robe most filmy.
fig.1794Coleridge Lines on Friend who died of Fever, Vanity her filmy net-work spread. 1820Hazlitt Lect. Dram. Lit. 75 A veil of words and filmy abstractions. 1856R. A. Vaughan Mystics (1860) II. ix. i. 120 The filmiest evanescence of the feeling has to be..anatomized.
b. filmy-fern, filmy-leaf, names of a genus of ferns, Hymenophyllum. (Cf. film-fern, film n. 7.)
1829Loudon Encycl. Plants 886 Hymenophyllum, Filmy-Leaf. 1861Miss Pratt Flower. Pl. VI. 154 Order Filices..(Filmy Fern). 1882The Garden 5 Aug. 111/3 The Filmy Fern House in the Pine-apple Nursery.
4. Covered with or as with a film; beclouded, dim, hazy.
1825J. Neal Bro. Jonathan III. 345 With eyes no longer white or filmy. 1833H. Martineau Briery Creek i. 3 The filmy orb of the moon. 1864Lowell Fireside Trav. 132 Gradually the filmy trees defined themselves.
5. Comb.
1821Shelley To Night iv, Thy sweet child Sleep, the filmy-eyed.
Hence ˈfilmily adv.; ˈfilminess.
1727Bailey vol. II, Filminess. 1831Fraser's Mag. III. 483 The haze and filminess dropped from our ‘optic nerve’. 1870H. Macmillan Bible Teach. xiii. 262 The milk-white filminess of the onyx. 1890Harper's Mag. Oct. 803/2 Something that filmily wavers before their senses. |