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One who fogs; a pettifogger. [Obs.] A beggarly fogger. Terence in English(1614)

or quality to adorn or set off another thing to advantage. As she a black silk cap on him began To set, for foil of his milk- white to serve. Sir P. Sidney. Hector has a foil to set him off. Broome.

Foliage plant (Bot.), any plant cultivated for the beauty of its leaves, as many kinds of Begonia and Coleus.

Begotten by a fool. Shak.

The part most advanced, or first in time or in place; the beginning.

To shoot into blades, as corn. The corn beginneth to fork. Mortimer. 1

Near the beginning; preceeding; as, the former part of a discourse or argument.

e or view; as, the plants in spring put forth leaves. When winter past, and summer scarce begun, Invites them forth to labor in the sun. Dryden.

ake the ffirst steps or measures in erecting or building up; to furnish the materials for beginning; to begin to raise; to originate; as, to found a college; to found a family. There they shall found Their government, and their great senate choose. Milton.

The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.

ee of postage. I have said so much, that, if I had not a frank, I must burn my letter and begin again. Cowper.

e wife being of the blood of the donor), and descendible to the heirs of their two bodies begotten. [Obs.] Blackstone.

; as, a fraudulent bargain. He, with serpent tongue, . . . His fraudulent temptation thus began. Milton.

Affray; broil; contest; combat. Who began this bloody fray Shak.

producing intense cold. -- Freezing point, that degree of a thermometer at which a fluid begins to freeze; -- applied particularly to water, whose freezing point is at 32º Fahr., and at 0º Centigrade.

e point of space or time at which the action, state, etc., are regarded as setting out or beginning; also, less frequently, the source, the cause, the occasion, out of which anything proceeds; -- the aritithesis and correlative of to; as, it, is one hundred miles from Boston to Springfield; he took his sword from his s…

The beginning. "Summer's front." Shak. Bastioned front (Mil.), a curtain connerting two half bastions. -- Front door, the door in the front wall of a building, usually the principal entrance. -- Front of fortification, the works constructed upon any one side of a polygon. Farrow. -- Front of operations, all that par…

To feel or grope about; to make awkward attempts to do or find something. Adams now began to fumble in his pockets. Fielding.

Violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm. Her wit began to be with a divine fury inspired. Sir P. Sidney.

A beggar with a wallet; a licensed beggar. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.