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In a manner issuing in death or ruin; mortally; destructively; as, fatally deceived or wounded.

Fate-bringing; deadly; mortal; destructive. [R.] Johnson.

is too forward in autumn, feed it with sheep. Once in three years feed your mowing lands. Mortimer.

fell; a pelt. [Obs.] To know whether sheep are sound or not, see that the felt be loose. Mortimer.

A square bar of wood or iron, used to support the topmast, being passed through a hole or mortise at its heel, and resting on the trestle trees.

See Feullemort. Swift.

One of the thills or shafts of a carriage. Mortimer. Fill horse, a thill horse. Shak.

Dryden. They have six diggers to four fillers, so as to keep the fillers always at work. Mortimer.

The protecting of a joint, as between roof and parapet wall, with mortar, or cement, where flashing is employed in better work.

Having a fin, or fins, or anything resembling a fin. Mortimer.

Fuel; firewood or coal. [Obs.] Mortimer. Firing iron, an instrument used in cauterizing.

case ready for loading. -- Fixed battery (Mil.), a battery which contains heavy guns and mortars intended to remain stationary; -- distinguished from movable battery. -- Fixed bodies, those which can not be volatilized or separated by a common menstruum, without great difficulty, as gold, platinum, lime, etc. -- Fix…

ll, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike. What showers of mortal hail, what flaky fires! Watts. A flaky weight of winter's purest snows. Wordsworth.

Light; superficially thin; not penetring deep, as soil. [Prov. Eng.] Mortimer.

One who fletches of feathers arrows; a manufacturer of bows and arrows. [Obs.] Mortimer.

England, on the face of which are exposed the black surfaces of broken flints set in the mortar, with quions of masonry. -- Liquor of flints, a solution of silica, or flints, in potash. -- To skin a flint, to be capable of, or guilty of, any expedient or any meanness for making money. [Colloq.]

A quantity of earth, eighteen feet square and one foot deep. [Obs.] Mortimer.

the face. The flushing noise of many waters. Boyle. It flushes violently out of the cock. Mortimer.

To use as a fool; to deceive in a shameful or mortifying manner; to impose upon; to cheat by inspiring foolish confidence; as, to fool one out of his money. You are fooled, discarded, and shook off By him for whom these shames ye underwent. Shak. To fool away, to get rid of foolishly; to spend in trifles, idleness, fol…

; to bar; to exclude. The embargo with Spain foreclosed this trade. Carew. To foreclose a mortgager (Law), to cut him off by a judgment of court from the power of redeeming the mortgaged premises, termed his equity of redemption. -- To foreclose a mortgage, (not technically correct, but often used to signify) the obta…