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Having numerous openings; irregularly reticulated; as, fenestrate membranes; fenestrate fronds.

Same as Fenestrate.

A salt of ferric acid.

Of a definite form or figure. Plants are all figurate and determinate, which inanimate bodies are not. Bacon.

Having a determinate form.

In a figurate manner.

To filter; to defecate; as liquid, by straining or percolation. Arbuthnot.

Of the highest excellence; preëminent in quality, size, or estimation. Our only first-rate body of contemporary poetry is the German. M. Arnold. Hermocrates . . . a man of first-rate ability. Jowett (Thucyd).

To burn. [Obs.] Greenhill.

A salt of fluoboric acid; a fluoboride.

Combined with fluorine; subjected to the action of fluoride. [R.]

To fluster. [Colloq.] Spectator.

A monk; also, a frater house. [R.] Shipley. Frater house, an apartament in a convent used as an eating room; a refectory; -- called also a fratery.

Pf, pertaining to, or involving, brethren; becoming to brothers; brotherly; as, fraternal affection; a fraternal embrace. -- Fra*ter"nal*ly, adv. An abhorred, a cursed, a fraternal war. Milton. Fraternal love and friendship. Addison.

To fraternize; to hold fellowship. Jefferson.

Fraternization. [R.] Jefferson.

The state or quality of being fraternal or brotherly; brotherhood.

The act of fraternizing or uniting as brothers. I hope that no French fraternization . . . could so change the hearts of Englishmen. Burke.

To bring into fellowship or brotherly sympathy. Correspondence for fraternizing the two nations. Burke.

One who fraternizes. Burke.