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Same as Fontanel, 2.

To predict; to tell before occurence; to prophesy; to foreshow. Deeds then undone my faithful tongue foretold. Pope. Prodigies, foretelling the future eminence and luster of his character. C. Middleton.

One who predicts. Boyle.

The female of a hawk or falcon.

ntaining the duty of celibacy and poverty, and discountenancing oaths. Called also Fratricellians and Fraticelli.

One of numerous species of marine gastropod shells, belonging to Ranella and allied genera.

See Femerell.

A tax, especially on salt. [France] Brande & C.

A gabeler. Carlyle.

One of several small, swift, elegantly formed species of antelope, of the genus Gazella, esp. G. dorcas; -- called also algazel, corinne, korin, and kevel. The gazelles are celebrated for the luster and soft expression of their eyes. [Written also gazel.]

Jelly. [Obs.] Spenser.

Producing twins. [R.] Bailey.

In a genteel manner.

A kind of blue color. Johnson.

A cell, of either sex, directly concerned in the production of a new organism.

One of a faction in Italy, in the 12th and 13th centuries, which favored the German emperors, and opposed the Guelfs, or adherents of the poses. Brande & C.

The space between the eyebrows, also including the corresponding part of the frontal bone; the mesophryon. -- Gla*bel"lar, a.

The median, convex lobe of the head of a trilobite. See Trilobite.

One of the pelets or inner chaffy scales of the flowers or spikelets of grasses.

Agreeable companionship; companionableness.