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Appropriate to, or implying, friendship; befitting friends; amicable. In friendly relations with his moderate opponents. Macaulay.

Lying on the exterior part; bordering; conterminous; as, a frontier town.

Flying, or disposed to fly; fleeing away; lasting but a short time; volatile. Much of its possessions is so hid, so fugacious, and of so uncertain purchase. Jer. Taylor.

ars. Abbott. -- Full and by (Naut.), sailing closehauled, having all the sails full, and lying as near the wind as poesible. -- Full band (Mus.), a band in which all the instruments are employed. -- Full binding, the binding of a book when made wholly of leather, as distinguished from half binding. -- Full bottom,…

The act of fumigating, or applying smoke or vapor, as for disinfection.

The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture; also, furniture. [Obs.] Daniel.

An elongated body or frame of an aëroplane or flying machine; sometimes, erroneously, any kind of frame or body. Many aëroplanes have no fuselage, properly so called.

A genus of flying Insectivora, formerly called flying lemurs. See Colugo.

(Aëronautics) A shed for housing an airship or flying machine; a hangar.

multiplying by buds.

anner of carrying the body; position of the body or limbs; posture. [Obs.] Accubation, or lying down at meals, was a gesture used by many nations. Sir T. Browne.

Flying off (after striking) in an oblique direction; as, a glancing shot.

d also jingle shell and silver shell. See Anomia. -- Gold size, a composition used in applying gold leaf. -- Gold solder, a kind of solder, often containing twelve parts of gold, two of silver, and four of copper. -- Gold stick, the colonel of a regiment of English lifeguards, who attends his sovereign on state occa…

Soft material lying between the wall of a vein aud the solid vein. Raymond.

Small particles of earth; gravel. [Obs.] Lying down upon the sandy grail. Spenser.

Foul matter; dirt, rubbed in; sullying blackness, deeply ingrained.

aying a groundwork or foundation; hence, elementary instruction; the act or process of applying a ground, as of color, to wall paper, cotton cloth, etc.; a basis.

Lying prone; low; debased. [Written also grovelling.] "A groveling creature." Cowper.

s applied to the American sea robins. [Written also gournet.] Plyling gurnard. See under Flying.

A flying object simulating a pigeon in flight, when projected from a spring trap. It is used as a flying target in shooting matches. Knight.