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Made or consisting of flannel. [Obs.] "Flannen robes." Dryden.

aperture during manufacture to restore its plastic condition; esp., the reheating of a globe of crown glass to allow it to assume a flat shape as it is rotated.

A small lobe in the under surface of the cerebellum, near the middle peduncle; the subpeduncular lobe.

One of a group of stalked rotifers, having ciliated tentacles around the lobed disk.

Decoration; ornament; beauty. The flourish of his sober youth Was the pride of naked truth. Crashaw.

One of the lobes of a whale's tail, so called from the resemblance to the fluke of an anchor.

A combining form indicating fluorine as an ingredient; as in fluosilicate, fluobenzene.

To accept as authority; to adopt the opinions of; to obey; to yield to; to take as a rule of action; as, to follow good advice. Approve the best, and follow what I approve. Milton. Follow peace with all men. Heb. xii. 14. It is most agreeable to some men to follow their reason; and to others to follow their appetites.…

Folly; foolery. Let not the sound of shallow foppery enter My sober house. Shak.

causes seemingly fortuitous . . . that all the mighty effects of the Reformation flowed. Robertson. So as to throw a glancing and fortuitous light upon the whole. Hazlitt.

of progress or of preparation; advancement; as, his measures were in great forwardness. Robertson.

kind of coarse woolen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side. "Robes of frieze." Goldsmith.

ff and formal; as, a frigid constitution; a frigid style; a frigid look or manner; frigid obedience or service.

Not willing to yield or compIy with what is required or is reasonable; perverse; disobedient; peevish; as, a froward child. A froward man soweth strife. Prov. xvi. 28. A froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as innovation. Bacon.

To line, face, or cover with fur; as, furred robes. "You fur your gloves with reason." Shak.

s. Dunglison. -- Gall of the earth (Bot.), an herbaceous composite plant with variously lobed and cleft leaves, usually the Prenanthes serpentaria.

of cloth by a thread; to pucker; to plait; as, to gather a ruffle. Gathering his flowing robe, he seemed to stand In act to speak, and graceful stretched his hand. Pope.

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.

The science which treats: (a) Of the structure and mineral constitution of the globe; structural geology. (b) Of its history as regards rocks, minerals, rivers, valleys, mountains, climates, life, etc.; historical geology. (c) Of the causes and methods by which its structure, features, changes, and conditions have been…

A hollow globe on the inner surface of which a map of the world is depicted, to be examined by one standing inside.