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The material for glaze of pottery. Frit brick, a lump of calcined glass materials, brought to a pasty condition in a reverberatory furnace, preliminary to the perfect vitrification in the melting pot.

A small dipterous fly of the genus Oscinis, esp. O. vastator, injurious to grain in Europe, and O. Trifole, injurious to clover in America.

A narrow arm of the sea; an estuary; the opening of a river into the sea; as, the Frith of Forth.

Woody. [Obs.] Skelton.

A genus of liliaceous plants, of which the crown-imperial (Fritillaria imperialis) is one species, and the Guinea-hen flower (F. Meleagris) another. See Crown-imperial.

A plant with checkered petals, of the genus Fritillaria: the Guinea-hen flower. See Fritillaria.

A chirping or creaking, as of a cricket. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A small quantity of batter, fried in boiling lard or in a frying pan. Fritters are of various kinds, named from the substance inclosed in the batter; as, apple fritters, clam fritters, oyster fritters.

The formation of frit or slag by heat with but incipient fusion.

A vitrified sand tube produced by the striking of lightning on sand; a lightning tube; also, the portion of rock surface fused by a lightning discharge.

Relating to what is to come; pertaining to futurity; future. [R.]

The state of being future; futurity. [R.] Nothing . . . can have this imagined futurition, but as it is decreed. Coleridge.

Event to come; a future event. All futurities are naked before the All-seeing Eye. South.

A cretaceous fossil sea urchin of the genus Galerites.

An amorphous mineral of apple-green color; a hydrous silicate of nickel and magnesia. It is an important ore of nickel.

Inflammation of the stomach, esp. of its mucuos membrane.

Inflammation of the lining membrane of the stomach and the intestines.

Reproduction by budding; gemmation. See Budding.

Reproduction by means of germs.

A loose hydrated form of silica, a variety of opal, deposited in concretionary cauliflowerlike masses, around some hot springs and geysers.