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A mock; an insult. Who put your beauty to this flout and scorn. Tennyson.

A colorless, crystalline hydrocarbon, C13H10 having a beautiful violet fluorescence; whence its name. It occurs in the higher boiling products of coal tar, and is obtained artificially.

, a mineral of many different colors, white, yellow, purple, green, red, etc., often very beautiful, crystallizing commonly in cubes with perfect octahedral cleavage; also massive. It is used as a flux. Some varieties are used for ornamental vessels. Also called fluor spar, or simply fluor.

gularly, or with great bustle and show, without much result. No rag, no scrap, of all the beau, or wit, That once so fluttered, and that once so writ. Pope.

ut of the body. Arbuthnot. Her image has escaped the flux of things, And that same infant beauty that she wore Is fixed upon her now forevermore. Trench. Languages, like our bodies, are in a continual flux. Felton.

A light and fast-sailing ship. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Leaves, collectively, as produced or arranged by nature; leafage; as, a tree or forest of beautiful foliage.

A sweetheart; a beau. [Colloq.] A. Trollope.

h fear of which, anything is done. [Obs.] We 'll have a bib, for spoiling of thy doublet. Beau. & Fl. For, or As for, so far as concerns; as regards; with reference to; -- used parenthetically or independently. See under As. As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. Josh. xxiv. 15. For me, my stormy voyage at an…

t. [Obs.] My mother was half a witch; never anything that she forespake but came to pass. Beau. & Fl.

A small herb, of the genus Myosotis (M. palustris, incespitosa, etc.), bearing a beautiful blue flower, and extensively considered the emblem of fidelity.

Orderly arrangement; shapeliness; also, comeliness; elegance; beauty. The earth was without form and void. Gen. i. 2. He hath no form nor comeliness. Is. liii. 2.

feebleness. An appearance of delicacy, and even of fragility, is almost essential to it [beauty]. Burke.

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

The daughter of Njörd, aud goddess of love and beauty; the Scandinavian Venus; -- in Teutonic myths confounded with Frigga, but in Scandinavian, distinct. [Written also Frea, Fraying, and Ereyja.]

nner of friends; amicably; like friends. [Obs.] Shak. In whom all graces that can perfect beauty Are friendly met. Beau. & Fl.

In a frolicsome manner; with mirth and gayety. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

A wrinkle, plait, or curl; a flounce; -- also, a frown. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

A woman; especially, a Dutch or German woman. Beau. & Fl.

To rub up: to furbish. [Obs.] Beau. c& Et.