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A light covering of reeds, over which the main covering is laid, in thatching houses. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

ot connected with the others in front; in man they are the last two pairs. -- Floating screed (Plastering), a strip of plastering first laid on, to serve as a guide for the thickness of the coat. -- Floating threads (Weaving), threads which span several other threads without being interwoven with them, in a woven fab…

dge, or lip, causing a wave motion in the air within; a mouth pipe; -- distinguished from reed pipe. Flue pipes are either open or closed (stopped at the distant end). The flute and flageolet are open pipes; a bottle acts as a closed pipe when one blows across the neck. The organ has both open and closed flue pipes, th…

wind passing through a flue or fissure and striking an edge above; -- in distinction from reedwork.

commonwealth; also, a local court. [Hist.] To which folkmote they all with one consent Agreed to travel. Spenser.

Doom or sentence decreed in advance. "A dread foredoom ringing in the ears of the guilty adult." Southey.

ign writers." Atterbury. Hail, foreign wonder! Whom certain these rough shades did never breed. Milton.

Having freedom of motion interfered with by collision or entanglement; entangled; -- opposed to clear; as, a rope or cable may get foul while paying it out.

ety, called the cat squirrel, is more common. -- Fox terrier (Zoöl.), one of a peculiar breed of terriers, used in hunting to drive foxes from their holes, and for other purposes. There are rough- and smooth-haired varieties. -- Fox trot, a pace like that which is adopted for a few steps, by a horse, when passing fro…

One of a special breed of hounds used for chasing foxes.

Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty. [Obs.] Spenser.

Release; deliverance; freedom. Spenser.

Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special rights; -- followed by of. He therefore makes all birds, of every sect, Free of his farm. Dryden.

Born free; not born in vasssalage; inheriting freedom.

The state or quality of being free; freedom; liberty; openness; liberality; gratuitousness.

the altar, to which offenders formerly fled for sanctuary. [Written variously fridstool, freedstool, etc.] [Obs.]

, free course; unrestrained liberty; "Leaving corrupt nature to . . . the full swing and freedom of its own extravagant actings." South (Colloq.) -- In full, at length; uncontracted; unabridged; written out in words, and not indicated by figures. -- In full blast. See under Blast.

of fine and soft fur which is highly prized. The northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus) breeds in vast numbers on the Prybilov Islands, off the coast of Alaska; -- called also sea bear.

sal fusion of races, languages, and customs . . . had produced a corresponding fusion of creeds. C. Kingsley. Watery fusion (Chem.) the melting of certain crystals by heat in their own water of crystallization.

g future; futurity. [R.] Nothing . . . can have this imagined futurition, but as it is decreed. Coleridge.