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the letter A, in scarlet, fantastically embroidered with gold thread, upon her bosom. Hawthorne.

Fantastic designs. Embroidered with fantasies and flourishes of gold thread. Hawthorne.

lace. Every remedy contained a multitude of farfetched and heterogeneous ingredients. Hawthorne.

y strongly heating together potash, scrap iron, and animal matter containing nitrogen, as horn, leather, blood, etc., in iron pots.

bmarine boats. Apidose fin. (Zoöl.) See under Adipose, a. -- Fin ray (Anat.), one of the hornlike, cartilaginous, or bony, dermal rods which form the skeleton of the fins of fishes. -- Fin whale (Zoöl.), a finback. -- Paired fins (Zoöl.), the pectoral and ventral fins, corresponding to the fore and hind legs of the…

Having the bill cleft beyond the horny part, as in the case of swallows and goatsuckers.

The entire coat of wood that covers a sheep or other similar animal; also, the quantity shorn from a sheep, or animal, at one time. Who shore me Like a tame wether, all my precious fleece. Milton.

The state or quality of being flighty. The flightness of her temper. Hawthorne.

ealthy growing plant; a thrive. A tree thrives and flourishes in a kindly . . . soil. Bp. Horne.

which are injurious to crops. -- Flower bird (Zoöl.), an Australian bird of the genus Anthornis, allied to the honey eaters. -- Flower bud, an unopened flower. -- Flower clock, an assemblage of flowers which open and close at different hours of the day, thus indicating the time. -- Flower head (Bot.), a compound fl…

A state of mental confusion. Fog alarm, Fog bell, Fog horn, etc., a bell, horn, whistle or other contrivance that sounds an alarm, often automatically, near places of danger where visible signals would be hidden in thick weather. -- Fog bank, a mass of fog resting upon the sea, and resembling distant land. -- Fog rin…

s or slabs, which is due to the cleavage structure of one of the constituents, as mica or hornblende. It may sometimes include slaty structure or cleavage, though the latter is usually independent of any mineral constituent, and transverse to the bedding, it having been produced by pressure.

To fortell; to presage; to augur. If I forebode aright. Hawthorne.

angles and rhomboids. W. Irwing. She took off the formal cap that confined her hair. Hawthorne.

rdness; explicitness; directness. [Archaic] Dante's concise forthrightness of phrase. Hawthorne.

Pertaining to, or drived from, frangulin, or a species (Rhamnus Frangula) of the buckthorn. Frangulinic acid (Chem.), a yellow crystalline substance, resembling alizarin, and obtained by the decomposition of frangulin.

yestuff, regarded as a glucoside, extracted from a species (Rhamnus Frangula) of the buckthorn; -- called also rhamnoxanthin.

The skin which a deer frays from his horns. B. Jonson.

kidney bean (Phaseolus vulgaris). -- French berry (Bot.), the berry of a species of buckthorn (Rhamnus catharticus), which affords a saffron, green or purple pigment. -- French casement (Arch.) See French window, under Window. -- French chalk (Min.), a variety of granular talc; -- used for drawing lines on cloth, et…

The horny inferior surface of the lingua of certain insects.