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A genus of extinct Merostomata, found in Silurian rocks. Some of the species are more than three feet long.

erotic; e Choroid; f Cillary Muscle; g Cillary Process; h Iris; i Suspensory Ligament; k Prosterior Aqueous Chamber between h and i; l Anterior Aqueous Chamber; m Crystalline Lens; n Vitreous Humor; o Retina; p Yellow spot; q Center of blind spot; r Artery of Retina in center of the Optic Nerve.

To cease to be erect; to take suddenly a recumbent posture; to become prostrate; to drop; as, a child totters and falls; a tree falls; a worshiper falls on his knees. I fell at his feet to worship him. Rev. xix. 10.

Dropped; prostrate; degraded; ruined; decreased; dead. Some ruined temple or fallen monument. Rogers.

ng a large income; desirable; as, a fat benefice; a fat office; a fat job. Now parson of Troston, a fat living in Suffolk. Carlyle.

To cause to fall; to prostrate; to bring down or to the ground; to cut down. Stand, or I'll fell thee down. Shak.

ominent fin on the back. The common finbacks of the New England coast are Sibbaldius tectirostris and S. tuberosus.

A species of creeping bent grass (Agrostis alba); -- called also fiorin grass.

s; as, flash people; flash men or women; -- applied especially to thieves, gamblers, and prostitutes that dress in a showy way and wear much cheap jewelry. Flash house, a house frequented by flash people, as thieves and whores; hence, a brothel. "A gang of footpads, reveling with their favorite beauties at a flash hous…

Lying at full length, or spread out, upon the ground; level with the ground or earth; prostrate; as, to lie flat on the ground; hence, fallen; laid low; ruined; destroyed. What ruins kingdoms, and lays cities flat! Milton. I feel . . . my hopes all flat. Milton.

With the flat side, as of a sword; flatlong; in a prostrate position. [Obs.] Spenser.

Want of vivacity or spirit; prostration; dejection; depression.

To throw down; to bring to the ground; to prostrate; hence, to depress; to deject; to dispirit.

To crack; to make flaws in. The brazen caldrons with the frosts are flawed. Dryden.

lling flax plants in the field. -- Flax wench. (a) A woman who spins flax. [Obs.] (b) A prostitute. [Obs.] Shak. -- Mountain flax (Min.), amianthus. -- New Zealand flax (Bot.) See Flax-plant.

To throw; to hurl; to throw off or down; to prostrate; hence, to baffle; to defeat; as, to fling a party in litigation. His horse started, flung him, and fell upon him. Walpole.

The hair grass (Agrostis scabra). So called from its light panicle, which is blown to great distances by the wind.

off by an artifice; to put aside; to delude with a trick."A conspiracy of bishops could prostrate and fob off the right of the people." Milton.

Frostily. [Obs.] The parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire. Milton.

Covered with a froth like hoarfrost. [Archaic] The foaming steed with frory bit to steer. Fairfax.