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s or from the starch or fecula of vegetables, extracted by various processes, and used in cookery.

To be nourished, strengthened, or satisfied, as if by food. "He feeds upon the cooling shade." Spenser.

Intestine motion; heat; tumult; agitation. Subdue and cool the ferment of desire. Rogers. the nation is in a ferment. Walpole. in a ferment in a state of agitation, applied to human groups.

A drawing out into threads; hence, the reeling of silk from cocoons. Ure.

Having lobate toes, as the coot and grebe.

products of combustion; heating surface. -- Fire swab, a swab saturated with water, for cooling a gun in action and clearing away particles of powder, etc. Farrow. -- Fire teaser, in England, the fireman of a steam emgine. -- Fire water, ardent spirits; -- so called by the American Indians. -- Fire worship, the wo…

The act of keeping fractured limbs cool by the use of a fan or some other contrivance. Dunglison.

tic plant, with long, ensiform leaves, belonging to either of the genera Iris and Acorus. Cooper's flag, the cat-tail (Typha latifolia), the long leaves of which are placed between the staves of barrels to make the latter water-tight. -- Corn flag. See under 2d Corn. -- Flag broom, a coarse of broom, originally made…

used by savage tribes, made of a flake or chip of hard stone. Tylor. -- Flake stand, the cooling tub or vessel of a still worm. Knight. -- Flake white. (Paint.) (a) The purest white lead, in the form of flakes or scales. (b) The trisnitrate of bismuth. Ure.

A fklat cake turned on the griddle while cooking; a griddlecake or pacake.

A pot or vessel in which flesh is cooked; hence (pl.),

A horizontal vane revolving over the surface of wort in a cooler, to produce a circular current in the liquor. Knight.

That strength or firmness of mind which enables a person to encounter danger with coolness and courage, or to bear pain or adversity without murmuring, depression, or despondency; passive courage; resolute endurance; firmness in confronting or bearing up against danger or enduring trouble. Extolling patience as the tru…

Freshness; coolness. [R.] Dryden.

Iced; frozen; artificially cooled; as, wine frappé. -- n.

One who, or that which, cools or freezes, as a refrigerator, or the tub and can used in the process of freezing ice cream.

A cool walk; shady place. [R.] Maunder.

A cool, refreshing state of the air; duskiness; coolness; shade. [R.] Prior.

ness for action; as, fresh for a combat; hence, tending to renew in vigor; rather strong; cool or brisk; as, a fresh wind.

In a fresh manner; vigorously; newly, recently; brightly; briskly; coolly; as, freshly gathered; freshly painted; the wind blows freshly. Looks he as freshly as he did Shak.