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The people called Amazons. [Obs.] "[The reign of] feminye." Chaucer.

Pertaining to, or inhabiting, a fen; abounding in fens; swampy; boggy. "Fenny snake." Shak.

Abounding in ferns.

Pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling, festoons. Sir J. Herschel.

Abounding in fishes. With patient angle trolls the finny deep. Goldsmoth.

The Spanish half real, or one sixteenth of a dollar, -- so called in Pennsylvania and the adjacent States. [Obs.]

Frowning; scowling. [Obs.] Her frowny mother's ragged shoulder. Sir F. Palgrave.

Droll; comical; amusing; laughable. Funny bone. See crazy bone, under Crazy.

Twins; a pair; a couple. [Obs.] Shak.

See Conys.

The branch of science which treats of the formation of the earth.

Something which gets or gains money; a successful affair. [Colloq.] Chapman.

A small, strong carriage for conveying materials on a railroad. [Eng.]

Excess in eating; extravagant indulgence of the appetite for food; voracity. Their sumptuous gluttonies, and gorgeous feasts. Milton.

The production or formation of sugar from gycogen, as in the liver.

ean labroid fishes (Crenilabrus melops, and Ctenolabrus rupestris); -- called also goldsinny, and goldney.

See Goldfinny.

Pertaining to the gonys of a bird's beak.

The keel or lower outline of a bird's bill, so far as the mandibular rami are united.