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Entirely. "Too long to print in entire." Thackeray.

To trammel; to entangle. Bp. Hacket.

A twining or twisting together or round; union. Bp. Hacket.

from the pipes; electricity escapes from its conductors. To escape out of these meshes. Thackeray.

One who does anything, good or bad; a doer; an agent. [Obs.] Br. Hacket.

Gay ornaments; frippery; gewgaws. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

ladies to come over in a family way, and dine with some other plain country gentlefolks" Thackeray. -- In the family way, pregnant. [Colloq.]

which is unreal). He fancied he was welcome, because those arounde him were his kinsmen. Thackeray.

rdful of restraint; reckless; wild; dissipated; dissolute; as, a fast man; a fast liver. Thackeray. Fast and loose, now cohering, now disjoined; inconstant, esp. in the phrases to play at fast and loose, to play fast and loose, to act with giddy or reckless inconstancy or in a tricky manner; to say one thing and do ano…

Rather fast; also, somewhat dissipated. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

A chain or shackle for the feet; a chain by which an animal is confined by the foot, either made fast or disabled from free and rapid motion; a bond; a shackle. [They] bound him with fetters of brass. Judg. xvi. 21.

A kind of French hackney coach.

sold at a low figure. [Colloq.] With nineteen thousand a year at the very lowest figure. Thackeray.

shrewd or artful person. [Slang] Fielding. Will is an old file spite of his smooth face. Thackeray. Bastard file, Cross file, etc. See under Bastard, Cross, etc. -- Cross-cut file, a file having two sets of teeth crossing obliquely. -- File blank, a steel blank shaped and ground ready for cutting to form a file. --…

To try with a fishing rod; to catch fish in; as, to fish a stream. Thackeray.

A person beloved; a sweetheart. Thackeray.

e. To flare up, to become suddenly heated or excited; to burst into a passion. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

achine for removing the woody portion of flax from the fibrous. -- Flax comb, a hatchel, hackle, or heckle. -- Flax cotton, the fiber of flax, reduced by steeping in bicarbinate of soda and acidulated liquids, and prepared for bleaching and spinning like cotton. Knight. -- Flax dresser, one who breaks and swingles f…

ghtly or with a quick jerk; to flap; as, to flick a horse; to flick the dirt from boots. Thackeray.

Pertaining to, or resembling, fluff or nap; soft and downy. "The carpets were fluffy." Thackeray. The present Barnacle . . . had a youthful aspect, and the fluffiest little whisker, perhaps, that ever was seen. Dickens. -- Fluff"i*ness, n.