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of an argument on which its conclusiveness depends; that which convinces of refutes an antagonist; a refutation.

One who encounters; an opponent; an antagonist. Atterbury.

A figure having nine sides; a nonagon.

r excursions on land; as, to escort a public functionary, or a lady; to escort a baggage wagon.

brittle gem occurring in light green, transparent crystals, affording a brilliant clinodiagonal cleavage. It is a silicate of alumina and glucina.

To inflict agonizing pain upon; to torture; to torment greatly; to rack; as, to excruciate the heart or the body. Their thoughts, like devils, them excruciate. Drayton.

The act of inflicting agonizing pain, or the state of being thus afflicted; that which excruciates; torture. Feltham.

emit the last breath; to breathe out the life; to die; as, to expire calmly; to expire in agony.

A person employed in the express business; also, the driver of a job wagon. W. D. Howells.

A tile or flagstone cut into an hexagonal shape to produce a honeycomb pattern, as in a pavement; -- called also favas and sectila. Mollett.

brication; -- opposed to fact, or reality. The fiction of those golden apples kept by a dragon. Sir W. Raleigh. When it could no longer be denied that her flight had been voluntary, numerous fictions were invented to account for it. Macaulay.

one of a class of rural deities or monsters supposed to live on figs. "Therefore shall dragons dwell there with the fig fauns." Jer. i. 39. (Douay version). -- Fig gnat (Zoöl.), a small fly said to be injurious to figs. -- Fig leaf, the leaf tree; hence, in allusion to the first clothing of Adam and Eve (Genesis iii…

e of symmetrical arrangement in different geometrical figures, as triangles, squares, pentagons, etc.

A fiery dragon. Beau. & Fl.

A barrel-shaped bottle; a flagon.

A variety of aragonite, occuring in delicate white coralloidal forms; -- common in beds of iron ore.

inged insect; esp., one with transparent wings; as, the Spanish fly; firefly; gall fly; dragon fly.

Ant: behind; as, the fore part of a garment; the fore part of the day; the fore and of a wagon. The free will of the subject is preserved, while it is directed by the fore purpose of the state. Southey.

orge train, the train of rolls by which a bloom is converted into puddle bars. -- Forge wagon (Mil.), a wagon fitted up for transporting a blackmith's forge and tools. -- Portable forge, a light and compact blacksmith's forge, with bellows, etc., that may be moved from place to place.

A wagonload; a load of any sort. [Obs.] Of dung full many a fother. Chaucer.