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The cushionlike projection, bearing a tuft of long hair, on the back side of the leg above the hoof of the horse and similar animals. Also, the joint of the limb at this point (between the great pastern bone and the metacarpus), or the tuft of hair. Their wounded steeds Fret fetlock deep in gore. Shak.…

Covered with hairlike appendages, as the under surface of some lichens; also, composed of little strings or fibers; as, fibrillose appendages.

The bow, strung with horsehair, used in playing the fiddle; a fiddle bow.

To make f [Obs.] All his hairy breast with blood was filed.Spenser. For Banquo's issue have I filed mind.Shak.

ubstantial; merely decorative. You ask for reality, not fiction and filigree work. J. C. Shairp.

; the president fills the office of chief magistrate; the speaker of the House fills the chair.

A little band, especially one intended to encircle the hair of the head. A belt her waist, a fillet binds her hair. Pope.

A hairlike feather; a father with a slender scape and without a web in most or all of its length.

Having the edge or extremity bordered by filiform processes thicker than hairs; fringed; as, the fimbriate petals of the pink; the fimbriate end of the Fallopian tube.

fringed, on one side only, by long, straight hairs, as the antennæ of certain insects.

implant; to secure; to make efinite. An ass's nole I fixed on his head. Shak. O, fix thy chair of grace, that all my powers May also fix their reverence. Herbert. His heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord. Ps. cxii. 7. And fix far deeper in his head their stings. Milton.

Having yellow hair. [R.]

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

Having tufts of soft hairs, which are often deciduous.

Furnished with tufts of curly hairs, as some insects.

The tuft of hair terminating the tail of mammals.

A lock of wool or hair. I prythee, Tom, beat Cut's saddle, put a few flocks in the point [pommel]. Shak.

Light down, such as rises from cotton, fur, etc.; very fine lint or hair. Dickens.

Tending to move away from a center, rather than remain in a compact group; -- used of hair or clothing or of small particles of matter. Light objects or particles readily taking a static electric charge may be moved apart by acquisition of a charge, or by approach of a charged object. Such a property is called flyawa…

The hair grass (Agrostis scabra). So called from its light panicle, which is blown to great distances by the wind.