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One who feigns or pretends.

A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table.

To put money to usury; to lend on interest. [Obs.] Cockeram.

The act of fenerating; interest. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A place for rearing ferns.

One who fines or purifies.

Fineness; beauty. [Obs.] Don't choose your place of study by the finery of the prospects. I. Watts.

A finback whale.

Having many nerves diverging radiately from the base; -- said of a leaf.

Lit., strolling; sauntering; hence, aimless; idleness; as, intellectual flânerie.

A gas burner with a device for lighting by an electric spark.

Thrusting with the foil; fencing with the point, as distinguished from broadsword play. [Obs.] Marston.

under consideration, or not naturalized there; an alien; a stranger. Joy is such a foreigner, So mere a stranger to my thoughts. Denham. Nor could the majesty of the English crown appear in a greater luster, either to foreigners or subjects. Swift.

proach of others; a harbinger; a sign foreshowing something; a prognostic; as, the forerunner of a fever. Whither the forerunner in for us entered, even Jesus. Heb. vi. 20. My elder brothers, my forerunners, came. Dryden.

One of those who went to California in the rush for gold in 1849; an argonaut. [Colloq., U. S.]

One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school. [Eng.]

Having four corners or angles.

A moving, inclined, endless apron on which ore is concentrated by a current of water; a kind of buddle.

ization of interment; obsequies; burial; -- formerly used in the plural. King James his funerals were performed very solemnly in the collegiate church at Westminster. Euller.

To bury with funeral rites. [Obs.] Cockeram.