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Of, pertaining to, or caused by, filariæ and allied parasitic worms.

The presence of filariæ in the blood; infection with filariæ.

Hollow and cylindrical, like a pipe or reed. Johnson.

A genus of fishes, having the head prolonged into a tube, with the mouth at the extremity.

Like or pertaining to the genus Fistularia.

To burn with an unsteady or waving flame; as, the candle flares.

A sudden burst of anger or passion; an angry dispute. [Colloq.]

That flares; flaming or blazing unsteadily; shining out with a dazzling light. His [the sun's] flaring beams. Milton.

In a flaring manner.

Of or pertaining to the flocculus.

Flosculous.

One of a group of stalked rotifers, having ciliated tentacles around the lobed disk.

Affecting the follicles; as, follicular pharyngitis.

Foolishly liberal. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Foolish expenditure; waste. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Pertaining to, or exhibiting, formularization. Emerson.

The act of formularizing; a formularized or formulated statement or exhibition. C. Kingsley.

To reduce to a forula; to formulate.

A book containing stated and prescribed forms, as of oaths, declarations, prayers, medical formulaæ, etc.; a book of precedents.

A thin, washable material of silk, or silk and cotton, originally imported from India, but now also made elsewhere.