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Most distant or remote; as, the farthest degree. See Furthest.

Partly fibrous, partly cartilaginous, and partly osseous. St. George Mivart.

Having the bill cleft beyond the horny part, as in the case of swallows and goatsuckers.

A group of birds having the bill deeply cleft.

Having bent or curved ribs.

First in time or place; most advanced; chief in rank or dignity; as, the foremost troops of an army. THat struck the foremost man of all this world. Shak.

In the foremost place or order; among the foremost. J. Webster.

To feed; to nourish; to support; to bring up. Some say that ravens foster forlorn children. Shak.

The care of a foster child; the charge of nursing. Sir W. Raleigh.

One who, or that which, fosters.

A foster child.

Food; nourishment. [Obs.]

A woman who feeds and cherishes; a nurse. B. Jonson.

A large bedstead with tall posts at the corners to support curtains. [Colloq.]

ation, or the freezing of water; severe cold or freezing weather. The third bay comes a frost, a killing frost. Shak.

with a black center, used by the United States Weather Bureau to indicate that a local frost is expected. It is used only in Florida and along the coasts of the Pacific and the Gulf Mexico.

Nipped, withered, or injured, by frost or freezing.

A plant of the genus Atriplex; orache. Gray.

The golden plover.

To expose to the effect of frost, or a frosty air; to blight or nip with frost. My wife up and with Mrs. Pen to walk in the fields to frostbite themselves. Pepys.