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Of or pertaining to euhemerism.

An inscription, label, or the like, in a book indicating its ownership; esp., a bookplate.

Tolerably fair. [Colloq.] W. D. Howells.

rrying a number of balanced passenger cars around its rim; -- so called after G. W. G. Ferris, American engineer, who erected the first of its kind for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893.

th, a moderate degree of fever; showing increased heat and thirst; as, the patient is feverish.

One who uses or interprets figurative expressions. Waterland.

The characteristics or practices of a filibuster. Bartlett.

Reproduction by spontaneous fission.

Flemish. [Obs.]

One skilled in the cultivation of flowers; a florist.

A cultivator of, or dealer in, flowers.

ly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive. A tree thrives and flourishes in a kindly . . . soil. Bp. Horne.

One who flourishes.

, adv. In a flourishing manner; ostentatiously.

Literally, to put out of a family; hence, to portion off, so as to exclude further claim of inheritance; to emancipate (as a with his own consent) from paternal authority. Blackstone.

The act of forisfamiliating.

Pertaining to, or exhibiting, formularization. Emerson.

The coöperative socialistic system of Charles Fourier, a Frenchman, who recommended the reorganization of society into small communities, living in common.

One who adopts the views of Fourier.

a fringe of hair or curls worn about the forehead by women.