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Serving to explain; containing explanation; as explanatory notes. Swift.

Exposure. Swift.

a passage from a book. I have extracted out of that pamphlet a few notorious falsehoods. Swift. To extract the root (Math.), to ascertain the root of a number or quantity.

ss; to light; to befall; to issue; to terminate. The Romans fell on this model by chance. Swift. Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the matter will fall. Ruth. iii. 18. They do not make laws, they fall into customs. H. Spencer.

A swaggering; vain boasting; ostentation; a bluster. Swift.

Moving rapidly; quick in mition; rapid; swift; as, a fast horse.

o the service of many successions of parties, with very different ideas fastened to them. Swift.

Fastidiousness; squeamishness. [Obs.] Swift.

The state of being fast or swift.

in riches; affluent; fortunate. [Obs.] Persons grown fat and wealthy by long impostures. Swift.

f or responsible for (a statement, policy, etc.). Men of wit Often fathered what he writ. Swift.

gation of punishment; lenity. I could not discover the lenity and fabor of this sentence. Swift.

A small, swift-sailing vessel, propelled by oars and lateen sails, -- once common in the Mediterranean.

See Fidget. [R.] Swift.

See Feullemort. Swift.

To search by raking or sweeping. Swift.

a fight with the fists; boxing. Swift.

of passion, or of laughter. All fits of pleasure we balanced by an equal degree of pain. Swift. The English, however, were on this subject prone to fits of jealously. Macaulay.

guish; as, the spirits flag; the streugth flags. The pleasures of the town begin to flag. Swift.

To fly swiftly; to pass over quickly; to hasten; to flit as a light substance. All the unaccomplished works of Nature's hand, . . . Dissolved on earth, fleet hither. Milton.