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A structure of four bars, adjustable in size, on which cloth, etc., is stretched for quilting, embroidery, etc.

his joke, And freshmen wondered as he spoke. Goldsmith. Freshman class, the lowest of the four classes in an American college. [ U. S.]

A brother or member of any religious order, but especially of one of the four mendicant orders, viz: (a) Minors, Gray Friars, or Franciscans. (b) Augustines. (c) Dominicans or Black Friars. (d) White Friars or Carmelites. See these names in the Vocabulary.

e of the hoof, in the middle of the sole of the foot of the horse, and other animals; the fourchette.

To oppose face to face; to oppose directly; to meet in a hostile manner. You four shall front them in the narrow lane. Shak.

A genus of flowering plants having elegant drooping flowers, with four sepals, four petals, eight stamens, and a single pistil. They are natives of Mexico and South America. Double-flowered varieties are now common in cultivation.

then, while that pursues its way, it is repeated by another at the interval of a fifth or fourth, and so on, until all the parts have answered one by one, continuing their several melodies and interweaving them in one complex progressive whole, in which the theme is often lost and reappears. All parts of the scheme are…

three of a kind and a pair, as three kings and two tens. It ranks above a flush and below four of a kind.

A sailing vessel of the 15th and following centuries, often having three or four decks, and used for war or commerce. The term is often rather indiscriminately applied to any large sailing vessel. The gallens . . . were huge, round-stemmed, clumsy vessels, with bulwarks three or four feet thick, and built up at stem an…

A measure of capacity, containing four quarts; -- used, for the most part, in liquid measure, but sometimes in dry measure.

A cross formed of four capital gammas, formerly used as a mysterious ornament on ecclesiastical vestments, etc. See Fylfot.

Any one of a genus (Gentiana) of herbaceous plants with opposite leaves and a tubular four- or five-lobed corolla, usually blue, but sometimes white, yellow, or red. See Illust. of Capsule.

Of or relating to the reigns of the four Georges, kings of Great Britan; as, the Georgian era.

British or British colonial architecture of the period of the four Georges, especially that of the period before 1800.

of protoplasm, not divided into separate cells, from which certain ova are developed. Balfour.

A kind of verbal noun, having only the four oblique cases of the singular number, and governing cases like a participle.

A range of mountains. Balfour (Cyc. of Ind. ).

A measure of capacity, containing one fourth of a pint.

result; to produce; to show; as, the number of men, divided by the number of ships, gives four hundred to each ship.

lad to me than to a miser money is. Sir P. Sidney. Glad evening and glad morn crowned the fourth day. Milton.