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going out after external objects. [R.] Their natures being almost wholly extroitive. Coleridge.

pel; to drive off or away. "Parentheses thrown into notes or extruded to the margin." Coleridge.

thing, to receive a rope, hook, pin, shaft, etc.; as an eye at the end of a tie bar in a bridge truss; as an eye through a crank; an eye at the end of rope.

into a whole by uniting its parts; to frame; to construct; to build; as, to fabricate a bridge or ship.

bricating, framing, or constructing; construction; manufacture; as, the fabrication of a bridge, a church, or a government. Burke.

To labor to wearness; to work hard; to drudge. Read, fag, and subdue this chapter. Coleridge.

that is, fidelity, -- the fealty of the finite will and understanding to the reason. Coleridge.

Engin.), construction works to facilitate the erection of the main work, as scaffolding, bridge centering, etc.

A collegian of inferior rank or position, corresponding to the sizar at Cambridge. [Oxford Univ., Eng.]

One whose manners or ideas are fantastic. [R.] Coleridge.

s on a street car, etc. -- Fare wicket. (a) A gate or turnstile at the entrance of toll bridges, exhibition grounds, etc., for registering the number of persons passing it. (b) An opening in the door of a street car for purchasing tickets of the driver or passing fares to the conductor. Knight.

Somewhat fat; inclined to fatness. Coleridge, a puffy, anxious, obstructed-looking, fattish old man. Carlyle.

howing marked peculiarities; handsome. [R.] Featurely warriors of Christian chivalry. Coleridge.

A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table.

To solder or unite, as metals. [R.] Coleridge.

The soldering ir uniting of me [R.] Coleridge.

sel for carrying passengers and freight across a river, bay, etc., charging tolls. Ferry bridge, a ferryboat adapted in its structure for the transfer of railroad trains across a river or bay. -- Ferry railway. See under Railway.

A steel instrument, having cutting ridges or teeth, made by indentation with a chisel, used for abrading or smoothing other substances, as metals, wood, etc.

A limiting element or quality. [R.] The essential finific in the form of the finite. Coleridge.

In the breech mechanism of a firearm, the pin which strikes the head of the cartridge and explodes it.