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oolen refuse, especially that from shearing the nap of cloths, used as a coating for wall paper to give it a velvety or clothlike appearance; also, the dust of vegetable fiber used for a similar purpose. Flock bed, a bed filled with flocks or locks of coarse wool, or pieces of cloth cut up fine. "Once a flock bed, but…

widely diffused; an overflowing; a superabundance; as, a flood of bank notes; a flood of paper currency.

-- Fly orchis (Bot.), a plant (Ophrys muscifera), whose flowers resemble flies. -- Fly paper, poisoned or sticky paper for killing flies that feed upon or are entangled by it. -- Fly powder, an arsenical powder used to poison flies. -- Fly press, a screw press for punching, embossing, etc., operated by hand and ha…

One who, or that which, folds; esp., a flat, knifelike instrument used for folding paper.

A sheet of paper once folded.

Among law stationers, a sheet of parchment or paper which is added to the first sheet of an indenture or other deed.

A style of printing calico, paper hangings, etc., in which the colors are in bands and graduated into each other. Ure.

A writing paper made in sheets, ordinarily 16 x 13 inches, and folded so as to make a page 13 x 8 inches. See Paper.

ently a vegetable resin, partly changed by remaining in the earth. -- Fossil cork, flax, paper, or wood, varieties of amianthus. -- Fossil farina, a soft carbonate of lime. -- Fossil ore, fossiliferous red hematite. Raymond.

A machine used in making paper; -- so named from an early inventor of improvements in this class of machinery.

Discolored or stained; -- said of timber, and also of the paper of books or engravings.

repeated solution and crystallization therefrom. -- Fractional currency, small coin, or paper notes, in circulation, of less value than the monetary unit. -- Fractional distillation (Chem.), a process of distillation so conducted that a mixture of liquids, differing considerably from each other in their boiling poin…

The light frame which holds the sheet of paper to the tympan in printing.

ut in a cowardly fashion. [Colloq.] To funk right out o' political strife. Lowell (Biglow Papers).

A newspaper; a printed sheet published periodically; esp., the official journal published by the British government, and containing legal and state notices.

A newspaper; a gazette. [Obs.] Burke.

gures or lines, formed by little dots or points, originally on the earth, and latterly on paper.

Having a gilt edge; as, gilt-edged paper.

ss; as, to glaze earthenware; hence, to render smooth, glasslike, or glossy; as, to glaze paper, gunpowder, and the like. Sorrow's eye glazed with blinding tears. Shak.

e who gives a glasslike or glossy surface to anything; a calenderer or smoother of cloth, paper, and the like.