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Filigree. [Archaic] With her head . . . touches the crown of filigrane. Longfellow.

A small glass bottle; as, a flacon for perfume. "Two glass flacons for the ink." Longfellow.

A small flame. The flamelets gleamed and flickered. Longfellow.

A dull fellow; a simpleton; a numskull. [Colloq.] Or if you can not make a speech, Because you are a flat. Holmes.

A spot; a streak; a speckle. "A sunny fleck." Longfellow. Life is dashed with flecks of sin. tennyson.

baffle; to defeat; as, to fling a party in litigation. His horse started, flung him, and fell upon him. Walpole.

To flock to; to crowd. [Obs.] Good fellows, trooping, flocked me so. Taylor (1609).

hower or snowfall accompanied with wind. Like a flurry of snow on the whistling wind. Longfellow.

A dull old fellow; a person behind the times, over- conservative, or slow; -- usually preceded by old. [Written also fogie and fogey.] [Colloq.] Notorious old bore; regular old fogy. Thackeray.

The breadth of a foot; -- used as a measure. Longfellow. Not so much as a footbreadth. Deut. ii. 5.

A stupid fellow; a fogy. [Colloq.]

A stupid or insignaficant fellow; a fool; a simpleton. [R.] Hudibras.

Immediately; without delay; directly. Immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales; and he received sight forthwith. Acts ix. 18.

rock. Shak. A man that all his time Hath founded his good fortunes on your love. Shak. It fell not, for it was founded on a rock. Matt. vii. 25.

ndation, to be entitled to a support from the proceeds of an endowment, as a scholar or a fellow of a college.

A trickly fellow; a cheat. [Obs.] Evelyn. Denham.

A despicable fellow. [Prov. Eng.] Brockett.

A sly, cunning fellow. [Colloq.] We call a crafty and cruel man a fox. Beattie.

Brother; -- a title of a monk of friar; as, Fra Angelo. Longfellow.

A paramour; a loose woman; also, a gay, idle fellow. [Obs.] Spenser.