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ze fighters, etc. At a great book sale in London, which had congregated all the fancy. De Quincey.

Vexation; anxiety; care. [Scot.] Without further fash on my part. De Quincey.

favoreth Joab, . . . let him go after Joab. 2 Sam. xx. 11. [The painter] has favored her squint admirably. Swift.

duced by the fermentation of plants, and not originally contained in them. These were the quintessences of the alchenists. Ure.

To tell a fib to. [R.] De Quincey.

In fives; consisting of five in one; five repeated; quintuple.

either. Poor Aroar can not live, and can not die, -- so that he is in an almighty fix. De Quincey.

back. Prior. A young man yet flagrant from the lash of the executioner or the beadle. De Quincey. Flagrant desires and affections. Hooker.

Turgid with flatus; as, a flatulent tumor. Quincy.

Wind or gas generated in the stomach or other cavities of the body. Quincy.

of artifical production. It is a strong base, and is a complex derivative of aniline and quinoline.

A yellow, crystalline substance, obtained from anthraquinone, and regarded as a hydroxyl derivative of it.

st fluent utterance. Denham. Fluent as the flight of a swallow is the sultan's letter. De Quincey.

A constantly varying indication. Less to be counted than the fluxions of sun dials. De Quincey.

to a focus; to focus; to concentrate. Light is focalized in the eye, sound in the ear. De Quincey.

osition radically noble and generous, clouded and overshadowed by superficial foibles. De Quincey.

aflike ornament, in windows, niches, etc. A group of foils is called trefoil, quatrefoil, quinquefoil, etc., according to the number of arcs of which it is composed. Foil stone, an imitation of a jewel or precious stone.

which the young leaves are dispo The . . . foliation must be in relation to the stem. De Quincey.

The ponderousness or bulk of a folio; voluminousness. [R.] De Quincey.

ch attack both men and beasts. See Horse fly. (b) A fly of the genus Hippobosca, esp. H. equina. See Horse tick. -- Forest glade, a grassy space in a forest. Thomson. -- Forest laws, laws for the protection of game, preservation of timber, etc., in forests. -- Forest tree, a tree of the forest, especially a timber t…