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itudinal sleeper. -- Flat rods (Mining), horizontal or inclined connecting rods, for transmitting motion to pump rods at a distance. Raymond. -- Flat rope, a rope made by plaiting instead of twisting; gasket; sennit.

ttering painter, who made it his care, To draw men as they ought be, not as they are. Goldsmith.

Goldsmith's foil. [R.] Sprat.

s. [Achan] wrought folly in Israel. Josh. vii. 15. When lovely woman stoops to folly. Goldsmith.

a fond manner; affectionately; tenderly. My heart, untarveled, fondly turns to thee. Goldsmith.

ence the game of forfeits. Country dances and forfeits shortened the rest of the day. Goldsmith.

ecially, a furnace, or a shop with its furnace, etc., where iron is heated and wrought; a smithy. In the quick forge and working house of thought. Shak.

A skilled smith, who has a hammerer to assist him.

; wretched; miserable; almost hopeless; desperate. For here forlorn and lost I tread. Goldsmith. The condition of the besieged in the mean time was forlorn in the extreme. Prescott. She cherished the forlorn hope that he was still living. Thomson. A forlorn hope Etym: [D. verloren hoop, prop., a lost band or troop; ver…

To send forward; to send toward the place of destination; to transmit; as, to forward a letter.

One who sends forward anything; (Com.) one who transmits goods; a forwarding merchant.

The act of one who forwards; the act or occupation of transmitting merchandise or other property for others.

Having four hands; quadrumanous. Goldsmith.

iversity. He drank his glass and cracked his joke, And freshmen wondered as he spoke. Goldsmith. Freshman class, the lowest of the four classes in an American college. [ U. S.]

n; produced by friction; as, frictional electricity. Frictional gearing, wheels which transmit motion by surface friction instead of teeth. The faces are sometimes made more or less V-shaped to increase or decrease friction, as required.

cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side. "Robes of frieze." Goldsmith.

y; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance. Fond of gauze and French frippery. Goldsmith. The gauzy frippery of a French translation. Sir W. Scott.

foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women. Like any plain Miss Smith's, who wears s front. Mrs. Browning.

Sport; merriment; frolicsome amusement. "Oddity, frolic, and fun." Goldsmith. To make fan of, to hold up to, or turn into, ridicule.

Made of bran; furfuraceous. [R.] "Furfurous bread." Sydney Smith.