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or cohesion; as, a flaw in a knife or a vase. This heart Shall break into a hundered thousand flaws. Shak.

Like flax; flaxen. Sir M. Sandys.

Small pieces or splinters; fragments. The tough ash spear, so stout and true, Into a thousand flinders flew. Sir W. Scott.

To pproceed; to issue forth; as, wealth flows from industry and economy. Those thousand decencies that daily flow From all her words and actions. Milton.

A name given to the series of sandstones and schists overlying the true nummulitic formation in the Alps, and included in the Eocene Tertiary.

. Shak. Follow board (Founding), a board on which the pattern and the flask lie while the sand is rammed into the flask. Knight. -- To follow the hounds, to hunt with dogs. -- To follow suit (Card Playing), to play a card of the same suit as the leading card; hence, colloquially, to follow an example set. -- To foll…

Without food; barren. Sandys.

A tubelike marking, occuring in sandstone and other strata.

ooids. Many of them have perforated walls, whence the name. Some species are covered with sand. See Rhizophoda.

lary. -- Fore wind, a favorable wind. [Obs.] Sailed on smooth seas, by fore winds borne. Sandys. -- Fore world, the antediluvian world. [R.] Southey.

ccupied; prepossessed; preëngaged. [Obs.] Not extremely forepossessed with prejudice. Bp. Sanderson.

A group of hymenopterous insects including the sand wasps. They excavate cells in earth, where they deposit their eggs, with the bodies of other insects for the food of the young when hatched. [Written also Fossoria.]

der of cannon, bells, hardware, or types. Fonder's dust. Same as Facing, 4. -- Founder's sand, a kind of sand suitable for purposes of molding.

A stone composed of sand or grit; -- so called because it is easily cut or wrought.

Containing impressions of fossil fucoids or seaweeds; as, fucoidal sandstone.

A vitrified sand tube produced by the striking of lightning on sand; a lightning tube; also, the portion of rock surface fused by a lightning discharge.

A structure of gabions sunk in lines, as a core for a sand bar in harbor improvements.

iting it, and forfeited by nonperformance; security. Nor without gages to the needy lend. Sandys.

A piece of iron imbedded in the sand of a mold to keep the sand in place.

Iulus, and allied genera, having numerous short legs along the sides; a milliped or "thousand legs." See Chilognatha.