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Lying outside of the domain of logic. -- Ex`tra*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

Implying, or partaking of the nature of, fatalism.

n to the part that directly produces the feed in a machine. -- Feed pipe, a pipe for supplying the boiler of a steam engine, etc., with water. -- Feed pump, a force pump for supplying water to a steam boiler, etc. -- Feed regulator, a device for graduating the operation of a feeder. Knight. -- Feed screw, in lathes…

A device for supplying steam boilers with water as needed.

the act of eating, or of supplying with food; the process of fattening.

Bellying or swelling out on the under side; as, a fish-bellied rail. Knight.

Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike. What showers of mortal hail, what flaky fires! Watts. A flaky weight of winter's purest snows. Wordsworth.

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.

ing brick. -- Flemish coil, a flat coil of rope with the end in the center and the turns lying against, without riding over, each other. -- Flemish eye (Naut.), an eye formed at the end of a rope by dividing the strands and lying them over each other. -- Flemish horse (Naut.), an additional footrope at the end of a…

To flutter; to flap the wings without flying. And flickering on her nest made short essays to sing. Dryden.

The act or flying; a passing through the air by the help of wings; volitation; mode or style of flying. Like the night owl's lazy flight. Shak.

Taking flight; flying; -- used in composition. "Drowsy-flighted steeds." Milton.

A flying with lightness and celerity; a fluttering.

The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.

Represented as flying or streaming in the air; as, a banner flotant.

A low-lying piece of watery land; -- called also flow moss and flow bog. [Scot.] Jamieson.

A kind of light carriage for rapid transit, plying for hire and usually drawn by one horse. [Eng.]

A name given to the series of sandstones and schists overlying the true nummulitic formation in the Alps, and included in the Eocene Tertiary.

Full of food; supplying food; fruitful; fertile. "The foodful earth." Dryden. Bent by its foodful burden [the corn]. Glover.

or retard progress. Angle of friction (Mech.), the angle which a plane onwhich a body is lying makes with a horizontal plane,when the hody is just ready to slide dewn the plane.