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Fated; doomed. [Old Eng. & Scot.]

To feign. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A fair or market. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Downy; fluffy. [R.]

See Fogy.

The lowermost yard on the foremast.

confounded with Frigga, but in Scandinavian, distinct. [Written also Frea, Fraying, and Ereyja.]

Spotted with whitish specks due to a disease, or produced artificially by spraying; -- said of tobacco used for cigar wrappers.

Working smoothly, or without splitting; -- said of timber.

A proof sheet taken from type while on a galley; a galley proof. Galley slave, a person condemned, often as a punishment for crime, to work at the oar on board a galley. "To toil like a galley slave." Macaulay.-- Galley slice (Print.), a sliding false bottom to a large galley. Knight.

The European green woodpecker; also, the spotted woodpecker. [Prov. Eng.]

A chilognath myriapod of the genus Iulus, and allied genera, having numerous short legs along the sides; a milliped or "thousand legs." See Chilognatha.

A small European duck (Anas querquedula); -- called also cricket teal, and summer teal.

The process of removing moisture from the blast of an iron blast furnace by reducing its temperature so far that it will not remain suspended as vapor in the blast current, but will be deposited as snow in the cooling apparatus. The resultant uniformly dehydrated blast effects great economy in fuel consumption, and pro…

A boiling spring which throws forth at frequent intervals jets of water, mud, etc., driven up by the expansive power of steam.

of opal, deposited in concretionary cauliflowerlike masses, around some hot springs and geysers.

The European yellow-hammer.

A fish of the great lakes; the wall-eyed pike.

See Glair. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To squint; to look obliquely; to overlook things. [Scot.] Jamieson.