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es the mental emotion of the artist, and is calculated to affect similarly the spectator. Fairholt.

To clot or mat together like felt. His feltered locks that on his bosom fell. Fairfax.

A fair or market. [Obs.] Chaucer.

ruggle against; to contend; to strive; to make resistance. To fight shy, to avoid meeting fairly or at close quarters; to keep out of reach.

t to shoot, she singled forth among her foes who first her quarry's strength should feel. Fairfax.

ke the common flail, often having the striking part armed with rows of spikes, or loaded. Fairholt. No citizen thought himself safe unless he carried under his coat a small flail, loaded with lead, to brain the Popish assassins. Macaulay.

e comparative safety of oils, esp. kerosene; a flashing point of 100º F. is regarded as a fairly safe standard. The burning point of the oil is usually from ten to thirty degree above the flashing point of its vapor.

f flax; resembling flax or its fibers; of the color of flax; of a light soft straw color; fair and flowing, like flax or tow; as, flaxen thread; flaxen hair.

er in the ocean; -- opposed to ebb; as, young flood; high flood. There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Shak.

The fairest, freshest, and choicest part of anything; as, the flower of an army, or of a family; the state or time of freshness and bloom; as, the flower of life, that is, youth. The choice and flower of all things profitable the Psalms do more briefly contain. Hooker. The flower of the chivalry of all Spain. Southey.…

y or temporarily red or rosy, as if suffused with blood. How faintly flushed. how phantom fair, Was Monte Rosa, hanging there! Tennyson.

ground, taken from the ferret or weasel of the same name.[Obs.] He came to the stake in a fair black gown furred and faced with foins. Fuller.

And for of long that way had walkéd none, The vault was hid with plants and bushes hoar. Fairfax. And Heaven defend your good souls, that you think I will your serious and great business scant, For she with me. Shak.

ge will incline to play. Shak. One way a band select from forage drives A herd of beeves, fair oxen and fair kine. Milton. Mawhood completed his forage unmolested. Marshall.

Over against; opposite to. [Now dialectic] The land forenenst the Greekish shore. Fairfax.

To foretell. [Obs.] Her danger nigh that sudden change foresaid. Fairfax.

Obs.] See Forslow, v. t. No stream, no wood, no mountain could foreslow Their hasty pace. Fairfax.

oForlese. [Obs.] The beasts their caves, the birds their neforlore. Fairfax.

To foray; to ravage; to pillage. For they that morn had forrayed all the land. Fairfax.

ly by effort. Our equal crimes shall equal fortune give. Dryden. There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Shak. His father dying, he was driven to seek his fortune. Swift.