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The quality or state of being suitable for exportation. To increase the exportability of native goods. J. P. Peters.

sen or lower. [Obs.] Upon lessening interest to four per cent, you fall the price of your native commodities. Locke.

To hesitate in purpose or action. Ere her native king Shall falter under foul rebellion's arms. Shak.

o large lobes for adhesion. The Egyptian fanfoot (Phyodactylus gecko) is believed, by the natives, to have venomous toes.

One's native land; the native land of one's fathers or ancestors.

5). -- Fennel water (Med.), the distilled water of fennel seed. It is stimulant and carminative. -- Giant fennel (Ferula communis), has stems full of pith, which, it is said, were used to carry fire, first, by Prometheus. -- Hog's fennel, a European plant (Peucedanum officinale) looking something like fennel.…

about fourteen inches in length, of a pale yellow or white color, with red eyes. It is a native of Africa, but has been domesticated in Europe. Ferrets are used to drive rabbits and rats out of their holes.

To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for. Our native horses were held in small esteem, and fetched low prices. Macaulay.

tree (Ficus Carica) with large leaves, known from the remotest antiquity. It was probably native from Syria westward to the Canary Islands.

A native of the Fiji islands. [Written also Feejeean, Feejee.]

A native of the Philippine Islands, specif. one of Spanish descent or of mixed blood.

A native or inhabitant of Finland.

A native of Finland; one of the FinnFinns.

Natives of Finland; Finlanders.

tion, execution, or performance; carried on hotly; raging. A war the most powerful of the native tribes was flagrant. Palfrey.

A native or inhabitant of Flanders.

A native or inhabitant of Florence, a city in Italy.

Not native or belonging to a certain country; born in or belonging to another country, nation, sovereignty, or locality; as, a foreign language; foreign fruits. "Domestic and foreign writers." Atterbury. Hail, foreign wonder! Whom certain these rough shades did never breed. Milton.

A person belonging to or owning allegiance to a foreign country; one not native in the country or jurisdiction under consideration, or not naturalized there; an alien; a stranger. Joy is such a foreigner, So mere a stranger to my thoughts. Denham. Nor could the majesty of the English crown appear in a greater luster, e…

extensive wood; a large tract of land covered with trees; in the United States, a wood of native growth, or a tract of woodland which has never been cultivated.