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assists or promotes success or prosperity. [Written also favourer.] And come to us as favorers, not as foes. Shak.

A woman who favors or gives countenance. [Written also fovouress.]

Of the color of a fawn; light yellowish brown.

Of the color of flame; of a bright orange yellow color. Shak.

Having a distinct flavor; as, high-flavored wine.

Anything that floors or upsets a person, as a blow that knocks him down; a conclusive answer or retort; a task that exceeds one's abilities. [Colloq.]

The eight month of the French republican calendar. It began April 20, and ended May 19. See Vendémiare.

A cerain gold coin; a Florence. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A kind of cloth. Johnson. Florence flask. See under Flask. -- Florence oil, olive oil prepared in Florence.

Belonging or relating to Florence, in Italy. Florentine mosaic, a mosaic of hard or semiprecious stones, often so chosen and arranged that their natural colors represent leaves, flowers, and the like, inlaid in a background, usually of black or white marble.

A bursting into flower; a blossoming. Martyn.

Expanding into flowers; blossoming.

A little flower; one of the numerous little flowers which compose the head or anthodium in such flowers as the daisy, thistle, and dandelion. Gray.

A colorless, crystalline hydrocarbon, C13H10 having a beautiful violet fluorescence; whence its name. It occurs in the higher boiling products of coal tar, and is obtained artificially.

phthalic anhydride and resorcin; -- so called, from the very brilliant yellowish green fluorescence of its alkaline solutions. It has acid properties, and its salts of the alkalies are known to the trade under the name of uranin.

which the substance has of modifying the light incident upon it. The light emitted by fluorescent substances is in general of lower refrangibility than the incident light. Stockes.

Having the property of fluorescence.

A colorless, amorphous substance which is produced by the reduction of fluoresceïn, and from which the latter may be formed by oxidation.

. Tales, legends, or superstitions long current among the people. Trench.

Having sore or tender feet, as by reason of much walking; as, foot-sore cattle.