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The soft, pulpy substance of fruit; also, that part of a root, fruit, and the like, which is fit to be eaten.

a man of great severity, and no ways flexible to the will of the people. Bacon. Women are soft, mild, pitiful, and flexible. Shak.

A soft, heavy, brilliant glass, consisting essentially of a silicate of lead and potassium. It is used for tableware, and for optical instruments, as prisms, its density giving a high degree of dispersive power; -- so called, because formerly the silica was obtained from pulverized flints. Called also crystal glass. Cf…

Having tufts of soft hairs, which are often deciduous.

cter. It is much used in embroidery. Called also floxed silk. -- Floss thread, a kind of soft flaxen yarn or thread, used for embroidery; -- called also linen floss, and floss yarn. McElrath.

other grain; especially, the finer part of meal separated by bolting; hence, the fine and soft powder of any substance; as, flour of emery; flour of mustard. Flour bolt, in milling, a gauze-covered, revolving, cylindrical frame or reel, for sifting the flour from the refuse contained in the meal yielded by the stones.…

Soft clayey matter in the vein, or surrounding it. [Written also flookan, flukan, and fluccan.]

Nap or down; flue; soft, downy feathers.

Pertaining to, or resembling, fluff or nap; soft and downy. "The carpets were fluffy." Thackeray. The present Barnacle . . . had a youthful aspect, and the fluffiest little whisker, perhaps, that ever was seen. Dickens. -- Fluff"i*ness, n.

losed at the upper end, and blown with the mouth at a lateral hole. The breathing flute's soft notes are heard around. Pope.

Soft and clear in tone, like a flute.

To cherish with heat; to foster. [Obs.] Which these soft fires . . . foment and warm. Milton.

The act of fomenting; the application of warm, soft, medicinal substances, as for the purpose of easing pain, by relaxing the skin, or of discussing tumors.

A kind of soft sweetmeat made by boiling solutions to the point of crystallization, usually molded; as, cherry fondant.

arth. -- Fossil cork, flax, paper, or wood, varieties of amianthus. -- Fossil farina, a soft carbonate of lime. -- Fossil ore, fossiliferous red hematite. Raymond.

The name of several kinds of grass having a soft dense head of flowers, mostly the species of Alopecurus and Setaria.

Spongy; soft; fat and puffy. [Scot.]

smell; odorous; having or emitting an agreeable perfume. Fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers. Milton.

A frappé mixture or beverage, as a water ice, variously flavored, frozen soft, and served in glasses.

. friable.) Easily crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder. "Friable ground." Evelyn. "Soft and friable texture." Paley. -- Fri'a-ble-ness, n.