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pellicle|ˈpɛlɪk(ə)l|
Also 6 -ycle, pel(l)ikel.
[ad. L. pellicula small or thin skin, dim. of pell-is skin.]
A small or thin skin; a fine sheet or layer of some substance, either covering a surface or (less usually) enclosing a cavity; a membrane, cuticle, film. Chiefly in scientific use, and applied to natural formations, as a thin membrane in an animal or plant body, a fine scum on a liquid, etc.
1541R. Copland Guydon's Quest. Chirurg. F ij b, It hath collygaunce with the bely by his outwarde pellycle. 1547Boorde Brev. Health x. 10 b, Ioynynge to the pellicles of the kydnes. 1548–77Vicary Anat. viii. (1888) 61 The Lunges is deuided into fiue Lobbes or Pellikels of fiue portions. 1601Holland Pliny I. 466. 1669 W. Simpson Hydrol. Chym. 276 The newly ingendred juyces, in their own pellicles or membranes. 1707Curios. in Husb. & Gard. 136 We need only Evaporate the humidity..till there appear a little Pellicle on the Water. 1815J. Smith Panorama Sc. & Art I. 17 A pellicle of iron may be taken from a surface of a 100 square inches by the Chisel. Ibid. II. 112 Having observed how thin the pellicle of oil poured out upon water will become, without losing its effect in depriving the wind of its influence. 1871Tyndall Fragm. Sc. (1879) II. xiii. 324 A thin pellicle of india-rubber..surrounding a pea keeps it hard in boiling water. 1872Huxley Phys. iv. 78 The blood in each capillary of the lung is separated from the air by only a delicate pellicle. |