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The common European sandpiper (Tringoides hypoleucus); -- so called because it continually oscillates its body. Fiddler crab. (Zoöl.) See Fiddler, n., 2.

The European garden warbler (Sylvia, or Currica, hortensis); -- called also beccafico and greater pettychaps.

A small European kinglet (Regulus ignicapillus), having a bright red crest; -- called also fire-crested wren.

A European sting ray of the genus Trygon (T. pastinaca); -- called also fireflare and fiery flaw.

The European band fish (Cepola rubescens).

The European redstart; -- called also fireflirt. [prov. Eng.]

The European polecat; also, its fur.

The European polecat (Putorius foetidus). See Polecat.

if broken. Their color is usually red or pink. The American flamingo is P. ruber; the European is P. antiquorum.

See Flipper. "The flapper of a porpoise." Buckley. Flapper skate (Zoöl.), a European skate (Raia intermedia).

The European red-backed shrile (Lanius collurio); -- called also flusher.

A hand firearm fitted with a flintlock; esp., the old-fashioned musket of European and other armies.

s; phenogamous plants; -- distinguished from flowerless plants. -- Flowering rush, a European rushlike plant (Butomus umbellatus), with an umbel of rosy blossoms.

A European fish (Raniceps raninus), having a large flat head; -- also called tadpole fish, and lesser forked beard.

The European polecat; -- called also European ferret, and fitchew. See Polecat. [Written also foulmart, foulimart, and fulimart.]

A carnivorous animal of the genus Vulpes, family Canidæ, of many species. The European fox (V. vulgaris or V. vulpes), the American red fox (V. fulvus), the American gray fox (V. Virginianus), and the arctic, white, or blue, fox (V. lagopus) are well-known species.

The european dragonet. See Dragonet.

A native or inhabitant of Western Europe; a European; -- a term used in the Levant.

of "foreign") + pie a magpie (in allusion to its black and white color)] (Zoöl.), the European great spotted woodpecker (Dryobstes major); -- called also wood pie. -- French polish. (a) A preparation for the surface of woodwork, consisting of gums dissolved in alcohol, either shellac alone, or shellac with other gums…

s lantern, the ignis fatuus or Will-o'-the-wisp. Milton. -- Friar skate (Zoöl.), the European white or sharpnosed skate (Raia alba); -- called also Burton skate, border ray, scad, and doctor.