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ld. -- Fancy woods, the more rare and expensive furniture woods, as mahogany, satinwood, rosewood, etc.

See Phantom. Fantom corn, phantom corn. Grose.

Manner; custom; fashion; humor. [Prov. Eng.] [Written also farand.] Grose.

Tenacious; retentive. [Obs.] Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of their smells. Bacon.

A public officer in Scotland who prosecutes in petty criminal cases; -- called also procurator fiscal.

To flutter, as a bird. [Prov. Eng.] Grose.

ash, on the approach of a flame, used as a test of the comparative safety of oils, esp. kerosene; a flashing point of 100º F. is regarded as a fairly safe standard. The burning point of the oil is usually from ten to thirty degree above the flashing point of its vapor.

That quality of anything which affects the smell; odor; fragrances; as, the flavor of a rose.

To scold; to quarrel. [Prov. Eng.] Grose.

flush with shame the passing virgin's cheek. Gay. Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose, Flushing his brow. Keats.

stop in an organ, having a flutelike sound. Flute bit, a boring tool for piercing ebony, rosewood, and other hard woods. -- Flute pipe, an organ pipe having a sharp lip or wind-cutter which imparts vibrations to Knight.

To endeavor to overtake; to go in pursuit of; to chase; to pursue; to prosecute. I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall follow them. Ex. xiv. 17.

To bruise sorely or exceedingly. [Obs.] All forbrosed, both back and side. Chaucer.

The anterior of the three principal divisions of the brain, including the prosencephalon and thalamencephalon. Sometimes restricted to the prosencephalon only. See Brain.

o foretell. Your looks foreshow You have a gentle heart. Shak. Next, like Aurora, Spenser rose, Whose purple blush the day foreshows. Denham.

To eat in; to make way by corrosion. Many wheals arose, and fretted one into another with great excoriation. Wiseman.

An American species of rockrose (Helianthemum Canadense), sometimes used in medicine as an astringent or aromatic tonic.

Fully expanded, as a blossom; as, a full-bloun rose. Denham.

A white, crystalline sugar, C6H12O6, isomeric with dextrose, obtained by the decomposition of milk sugar, and also from certain gums. When oxidized it forms mucic acid. Called also lactose (though it is not lactose proper).

A book of extracts in prose or poetry; an anthology. They [ballads] began to be collected into little miscellanies under the name of garlands. Percy.