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See Filigreed. [Archaic]

To importune; to demand fiercely or with passion. [Archaic] Carcyle.

Importunity; urgent demand. [Archaic] Carlyle.

A flourishing condition; prosperity; vigor. [Archaic] The Roman monarchy, in her highest flourish, never had the like. Howell.

Rich harvest; plenty; abundance. [Archaic] Lowell. That from the seedness the bare fallow brings To teeming foison. Shak.

Foolish; silly; simple; weak. [Archaic] Grant I may never prove so fond To trust man on his oath or bond. Shak.

Foolishly. [Archaic] Verstegan (1673). Make him speak fondly like a frantic man. Shak.

Worn out; wasted; used up. [Archaic] Old foreworn stories almost forgotten. Brydges.

To prohibit; to forbid; to avert. [Archaic] Which peril heaven forefend! Shak.

Causing to forget; inducing oblivion; oblivious. [Archaic or Poetic] "The forgetful wine." J. Webster.

To waste away completely by suffering or torment. [Archaic] "Pale as a forpined ghost." Chaucer.

Wasted in strength; tired; exhausted. [Archaic] A gentleman almost forspent with speed. Shak.

Forth from; out of. [Archaic] Some forth their cabins peep. Donne.

Straight forward; in a straight direction. [Archaic] Sir P. Sidney.

Straightforwardness; explicitness; directness. [Archaic] Dante's concise forthrightness of phrase. Hawthorne.

p. p. of Fight. [Archaic]

A crowd; a throng; a concourse. [Archaic.] Tennyson.

Covered with a froth like hoarfrost. [Archaic] The foaming steed with frory bit to steer. Fairfax.

Beady for flight; eager. [Archaic] Beau. & Fl.

Moping. [Archaic] A melancholy, fusty humor. Pepys.