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Having features; showing marked peculiarities; handsome. [R.] Featurely warriors of Christian chivalry. Coleridge.

kind; one made by the same Creator. Reason, by which we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes. I. Watts.

The mechanism for closing the breech of a breech-loading firearm, in artillery consisting principally of the breechblock, obturator, and carrier ring.

The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance. Flowers have all exquisite figures. Bacon.

Adorned with figures; marked with figures; as, figured muslin.

The figure, statue, or bust, on the prow of a ship.

A drawing out into threads; hence, the reeling of silk from cocoons. Ure.

Little flowers of ornament introduced into a melody by a singer or player.

A narrow opening, made by the parting of any substance; a cleft; as, the fissure of a rock. Cerebral fissures (Anat.), the furrows or clefts by which the surface of the cerebrum is divided; esp., the furrows first formed by the infolding of the whole wall of the cerebrum. -- Fissure needle (Surg.), a spiral needle for…

A genus of marine gastropod mollusks, having a conical or limpetlike shell, with an opening at the apex; -- called also keyhole limpet.

That which is fixed or attached to something as a permanent appendage; as, the fixtures of a pump; the fixtures of a farm or of a dwelling, that is, the articles which a tenant may not take away.

Fixed position; stable condition; firmness. [Obs.] Shak.

rning or curving; flexion; hence, obsequious bowing or bending. Will it give place to flexure and low bending Shak.

The cultivation of flowering plants.

Finely granulated; -- said of quicksilver which has been granulated by agitation during the amalgamation process. Raymond.

The quality of being fluid. [Obs.] Fielding.

1. Foliage; leafage. [Obs.] Shuckford.

The act or process of foreclosing; a proceeding which bars or extinguishes a mortgager's right of redeeming a mortgaged estate.

Forfeiture. [Obs.]

or effects, by an offense, crime, breach of condition, or other act. Under pain of foreiture of the said goods. Hakluyt.