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1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. iv. 80 Effluvium passing out in a smaller thred and more enlengthened filament..stirreth not the bodies interposed. View more context for this quotation

1712 R. Blackmore Creation ii. 76 The ever-rolling Orb's impulsive Ray On the next Threads and Filaments does bear.

1810 S. Vince Elem. Astron. (ed. 3) xxi. 229 Part of that exceedingly fine filament of light was intercepted.

1828 J. M. Spearman Brit. Gunner 200 The lateral pressure of a filament of fluid is equal to its vertical pressure.

1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 154 A Filament is an imaginary portion of a stream, of very small breadth, consisting of a row of corpuscles, or of an indefinite number of particles, following each other in the same direction.

1856 T. De Quincey Confessions Eng. Opium-eater (rev. ed.) in Select. Grave & Gay V. 73 Slender as a filament of air.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xxi. 146 The fog was drawn away in long filaments by the wind.

1879 G. B. Prescott Speaking Telephone (new ed.) 128 The action of the helix..upon filings, consists in grouping them under the forms of filaments parallel to the axis.