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xplain; to clear of difficulties or obscurity; to interpret. The last verse of his last satire is not yet sufficiently explicated. Dryden.

To become weary; to tire. Creighton withheld his force till the Italian began to fag. G. Mackenzie.

fast place; a stronghold; a fortress or fort; a secure retreat; a castle; as, the enemy retired to their fastnesses in the mountains.

Easily tired. [Obs.] Bailey.

Wearied; tired; fatigued. [Obs.] Requickened what in flesh was fatigate. Shak.

dily or mental exertion; to harass with toil; to exhaust the strength or endurance of; to tire.

ete; as, to fill out a bill. -- To fill up, to make quite full; to fill to the brim or entirely; to occupy completely; to complete. "The bliss that fills up all the mind." Pope. "And fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ." Col. i. 24.

The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Pope. The nicest and most delicate touches of satire consist in fine raillery. Dryden. He has as fine a hand at picking a pocket as a woman. T. Gray.

A place near the fire or hearth; home; domestic life or retirement.

g fins and a covering scales or plates. It breathes by means of gills, and lives almost entirely in the water. See Pisces.

o attack him on the side. When to right and left the front Divided, and to either flank retired. Milton.

A foot in which the arch of the instep is flattened so that the entire sole of the foot rests upon the ground; also, the deformity, usually congential, exhibited by such a foot; splayfoot.

The entire coat of wood that covers a sheep or other similar animal; also, the quantity shorn from a sheep, or animal, at one time. Who shore me Like a tame wether, all my precious fleece. Milton.

lets fly his arrow without taking any aim." Addison. (b) (Naut.) To let go suddenly and entirely; as, to let fly the sheets.

Entirely dry; withered. [Obs.] "A tree fordry." Chaucer.

elf. (a) To become unmindful of one's own personality; to be lost in thought. (b) To be entirely unselfish. (c) To be guilty of what is unworthy of one; to lose one's dignity, temper, or self-control.

To quit or leave entirely; to desert; to abandon; to depart or withdraw from; to leave; as, false friends and flatterers forsake us in adversity. If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments. Ps. lxxxix. 30.

Wasted in strength; tired; exhausted. [Archaic] A gentleman almost forspent with speed. Shak.

Out, as from a state of concealment, retirement, confinement, nondevelopment, or the like; out into notice or view; as, the plants in spring put forth leaves. When winter past, and summer scarce begun, Invites them forth to labor in the sun. Dryden.

Tired out with excessive waking or watching. [Obs.] Chaucer.