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he spirit and disposition befitting comrades. There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee. Shak.

, adv. In a fell or cruel manner; fiercely; barbarously; savagely. Spenser.

A lantern, or louver covering, placed on a roof, for ventilation or escape of smoke.

Any small windowlike opening or recess, esp. one to show the relics within an altar, or the like.

A marine univalve shell of the genus Pyrula, or Ficula, resembling a fig in form.

A kind of silk thread less glossy than floss, and spun from coarser material. It is much used in embroidery instead of floss.

Bellying or swelling out on the under side; as, a fish-bellied rail. Knight.

A genus of marine gastropod mollusks, having a conical or limpetlike shell, with an opening at the apex; -- called also keyhole limpet.

Flabelliform.

The act of keeping fractured limbs cool by the use of a fan or some other contrivance. Dunglison.

Having the form of a fan; fan-shaped; flabellate.

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

A fan; especially, the fan carried before the pope on state occasions, made in ostrich and peacock feathers. Shipley.

l sect which flourished in Europe in the 13th and 14th centuries, and maintained that flagellation was of equal virtue with baptism and the sacrament; -- called also disciplinant.

An order of Infusoria, having one or two long, whiplike cilia, at the anterior end. It includes monads. See Infusoria, and Monad.

Flagelliform.

A beating or flogging; a whipping; a scourging. Garth.

One who practices flagellation; one who whips or scourges.

Shaped like a whiplash; long, slender, round, flexible, and (comming) tapering.

A long, whiplike cilium. See Flagellata.