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State of flowers; flowers, collectively or in general. Tennyson.

The motion or undulation of a fluid collected in a natural or artifical cavity, which is felt when it is subjected to pressure or percussion. Dunglison.

Decoration by means of flutes or channels; a flute, or flutes collectively; as, the fluting of a column or pilaster; the fluting of a lady's ruffle. Fluting iron, a laundry iron for fluting ruffles; -- called also Italian iron, or gaufering iron. Knight. -- Fluting lathe, a machine for forming spiral flutes, as on bal…

Leaves, collectively, as produced or arranged by nature; leafage; as, a tree or forest of beautiful foliage.

One's followers, adherents, or dependents, collectively. Macaulay.

To wander or rove in search of food; to collect food, esp. forage, for horses and cattle by feeding on or stripping the country; to ravage; to feed on spoil. His most mighty father on a hill Stood smiling to behold his lion's whelp Forage in blood of French nobility. Shak. Foraging ant (Zoöl.), one of several species o…

Loss of remembrance or recollection; a ceasing to remember; oblivion. A sweet forgetfulness of human care. Pope.

Collectively, the people of France.

The collective organs by which a plant produces its fruit, or seeds, or reproductive spores.

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

Fruit, taken collectively; fruitage. J. Philips.

iety; a fund for the maintenance of lectures or poor students; also, money systematically collected to meet the expenses of some permanent object.

pipe; the iron chimney of a steamship or the like. Funnel box (Mining), an apparatus for collecting finely crushed ore from water. Knight. -- Funnel stay (Naut.), one of the ropes or rods steadying a steamer's funnel.

A coat of morbid matter collected on the tongue in persons affected with fever.

Time to come; time subsequent to the present (as, the future shall be as the present); collectively, events that are to happen in time to come. "Lay the future open." Shak.

A collector of gabels or taxes.

A porch or waiting room, usually at the west end of an abbey church, where the monks collected on returning from processions, where bodies were laid previous to interment, and where women were allowed to see the monks to whom they were related, or to hear divine service. Also, frequently applied to the porch of a churc…

Gallant persons, collectively. [R.] Helenus, Antenor, and all the gallantry of Troy. Shak.

the exhibition of works of art; as, a picture gallery; hence, also, a large or important collection of paintings, sculptures, etc.

go rapidly or carelessly, as in making a hasty examination. Such superficial ideas he may collect in galloping over it. Locke.