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A rope applied to the fore yardarm, to change the position of the foresail.

Meat sliced and dressed with strong sauce. [Obs.] King.

Fringilline.

Made of, or resembling, wheat or other grain.

Made of bran; like bran; scurfy.

An inclosed place in which heat is produced by the combustion of fuel, as for reducing ores or melting metals, for warming a house, for baking pottery, etc.; as, an iron furnace; a hot-air furnace; a glass furnace; a boiler furnace, etc.

Same as Gallinae.

One of the Gallinae or gallinaceous birds.

Resembling the domestic fowls and pheasants; of or pertaining to the Gallinae.

Of or pertaining to gems or to gemmæ; of the nature of, or resembling, gems or gemmæ.

Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Gentianaceæ) of which the gentian is the type.

Of or pertaining to a natural order of pants (Geraniaceæ) which includes the genera Geranium, Pelargonium, and many others.

Moving irregularly; flighty; fickle. [R.] Shak.

Coated with icing; iced; glazed; -- said of fruits, sweetmeats, cake, etc.

Mirror-faced; reflecting the sentiments of another. [R.] "The glass-faced flatterer." Shak.

Having glumes; consisting of glumes.

A division of nematoid worms, including the hairworms or hair eels (Gordius and Mermis). See Gordius, and Illustration in Appendix.

See Gorgoniacea.

One of the principal divisions of Alcyonaria, including those forms which have a firm and usually branched axis, covered with a porous crust, or c

to benefit or serve another; favor bestowed or privilege conferred. To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee. Milton.