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A little fort; a blockhouse. [Obs.] Spenser.

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

A certain tenure in tail special; an estate of inheritance given to a man his wife (the wife being of the blood of the donor), and descendible to the heirs of their two bodies begotten. [Obs.] Blackstone.

A sharing among brothers, or brothers' kin. [Obs.] Crabb.

Freight; loading; cargo. [Obs.] Shak.

r coins for any person who chooses to bring it to the mint; in a modified sense, such coinage when done at a fixed charge proportionate to the cost of the operation.

Charge for transportation; expense of carriage.

The practice or habit of frequenting. [R.] Southey.

The front part of an edifice or lot; extent of front.

Fruit, collectively; fruit, in general; fruitery. The trees . . . ambrosial fruitage bear. Milton.

A picture of fruit; decoration by representation of fruit. The cornices consist of frutages and festoons. Evelyn.

Same as Fumage.

The money or price paid for fulling or cleansing cloth. Johnson.

Hearth money. Fumage, or fuage, vulgarly called smoke farthings. Blackstone.

machine; sometimes, erroneously, any kind of frame or body. Many aëroplanes have no fuselage, properly so called.

A kind of coarse cloth for packing goods. [Obs.]

The part of a fortification built of gabions.

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

A measurer. See Gauger.

The horses, oxen, plows, wains or wagons and implements for carrying on tillage.