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To frisk; to skip; to caper. [Obs. Scot.] "The flisking flies." Gosson.

olen refuse, especially that from shearing the nap of cloths, used as a coating for wall paper to give it a velvety or clothlike appearance; also, the dust of vegetable fiber used for a similar purpose. Flock bed, a bed filled with flocks or locks of coarse wool, or pieces of cloth cut up fine. "Once a flock bed, but r…

widely diffused; an overflowing; a superabundance; as, a flood of bank notes; a flood of paper currency.

-- Fly orchis (Bot.), a plant (Ophrys muscifera), whose flowers resemble flies. -- Fly paper, poisoned or sticky paper for killing flies that feed upon or are entangled by it. -- Fly powder, an arsenical powder used to poison flies. -- Fly press, a screw press for punching, embossing, etc., operated by hand and hav…

One who, or that which, folds; esp., a flat, knifelike instrument used for folding paper.

A sheet of paper once folded.

Among law stationers, a sheet of parchment or paper which is added to the first sheet of an indenture or other deed.

A style of printing calico, paper hangings, etc., in which the colors are in bands and graduated into each other. Ure.

A writing paper made in sheets, ordinarily 16 x 13 inches, and folded so as to make a page 13 x 8 inches. See Paper.

ntly a vegetable resin, partly changed by remaining in the earth. -- Fossil cork, flax, paper, or wood, varieties of amianthus. -- Fossil farina, a soft carbonate of lime. -- Fossil ore, fossiliferous red hematite. Raymond.

A machine used in making paper; -- so named from an early inventor of improvements in this class of machinery.

Discolored or stained; -- said of timber, and also of the paper of books or engravings.

repeated solution and crystallization therefrom. -- Fractional currency, small coin, or paper notes, in circulation, of less value than the monetary unit. -- Fractional distillation (Chem.), a process of distillation so conducted that a mixture of liquids, differing considerably from each other in their boiling point…

Peevish; cross; vexatious; quarrelsome. [Obs.] Shak. Is Pompey grown so malapert, so frampel Beau. & Fl.

A leap or caper. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

The light frame which holds the sheet of paper to the tympan in printing.

al; solemn. Hence: Dark; dismal; mournful. Jer. Taylor. What seem to us but sad funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps. Longfellow. -- Fu*ne"re*al*ly, adv.

t in a cowardly fashion. [Colloq.] To funk right out o' political strife. Lowell (Biglow Papers).

One of several patterns or diapers used as tinctures. There are nine in all, or, according to some writers, only six. See Tincture.

Shaped like a spindle; tapering at each end; as, a fusiform root; a fusiform cell.