Film (?), n. [AS. film skin, fr. fell skin; akin to fylmen membrane, OFries. filmene skin. See Fell skin.]
1.
A thin skin; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity; hence, any thin, slight covering.
He from thick films shall purge the visual ray.
Pope.
2.
A slender thread, as that of a cobweb.
Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of film.
Shak.
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Film, v. t.
To cover with a thin skin or pellicle.
It will but skin and film the ulcerous place.
Shak.
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Film (?), n. (Photog.)
The layer, usually of gelatin or collodion, containing the sensitive salts of photographic plates; also, the flexible sheet of celluloid or the like on which this layer is sometimes mounted.
Celluloid film (Photog.), a thin flexible sheet of celluloid, coated with a sensitized emulsion of gelatin, and used as a substitute for photographic plates. --
Cut film (Photog.), a celluloid film cut into pieces suitable for use in a camera.
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