GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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   Capillary , a. [L. capillaris, fr. capillus hair. Cf. Capillaire.]
   Resembling a hair; fine; minute; very slender; having minute tubes or interspaces; having very small bore; as, the capillary vessels of animals and plants.
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   Pertaining to capillary tubes or vessels; as, capillary action.
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   Capillary attraction, Capillary repulsion, the apparent attraction or repulsion between a solid and liquid caused by capillarity. See Capillarity, and Attraction. -- Capillarity tubes. See the Note under Capillarity.
   
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   Capillary, n.; pl. Capillaries .
   A tube or vessel, extremely fine or minute.
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   (Anat.) A minute, thin-walled vessel; particularly one of the smallest blood vessels connecting arteries and veins, but used also for the smallest lymphatic and biliary vessels.
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