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p. p. of Fly; -- often used with the auxiliary verb to be; as, the birds are flown.

An accidental and favorable stroke at billiards (called a scratch in the United States); hence, any accidental or unexpected advantage; as, he won by a fluke. [Cant, Eng.] A. Trollope.

A familiar spirit; a witch's attendant. [Obs.] A trifling fly, none of your great familiars. B. Jonson.

Anything peculiar to a foreign language or people; a foreign idiom or custom. It is a pity to see the technicalities of the so-called liberal professions distigured by foreignisms. Fitzed. Hall.

The peculiar characteristics of an organism as a type of others; also, the structure of the parts of an animal or plant.

nner in which a thing is formed; structure; construction; conformation; form; as, the peculiar formation of the heart.

y variety, called the cat squirrel, is more common. -- Fox terrier (Zoöl.), one of a peculiar breed of terriers, used in hunting to drive foxes from their holes, and for other purposes. There are rough- and smooth-haired varieties. -- Fox trot, a pace like that which is adopted for a few steps, by a horse, when passi…

. A kind of open stove introduced by Benjamin Franklin, the peculiar feature of which was that a current of heated air was directly supplied to the room from an air box; -- now applied to other varieties of open stoves.

Unconstrained by timidity or distrust; unreserved; ingenuous; frank; familiar; communicative. He was free only with a few. Milward.

Improper familiarity; violation of the rules of decorum; license.

A French mode or characteristic; an idiom peculiar to the French language. Earle.

ring the fructification; as, the frond of a fern or of a lichen or seaweed; also, the peculiar leaf of a palm tree.

, Foo"lahs` (, n. pl.; sing. Fulah, Foolan (. (Ethnol.) A peculiar African race of uncertain origin, but distinct from the negro tribes, inhabiting an extensive region of Western Soudan. Their color is brown or yellowish bronze. They are Mohammedans. Called also Fellatahs, Foulahs, and Fellani. Fulah is also used adjec…

Thundering; exploding in a peculiarly sudden or violent manner.

The course of action which peculiarly pertains to any public officer in church or state; the activity appropriate to any business or profession. Tradesmen . . . going about their functions. Shak. The malady which made him incapable of performing his regal functions. Macaulay.

ce; in addition; moreover. See Farther. Carries us, I know not how much further, into familiar company. M. Arnold. They sdvanced us far as Eleusis and Thria; but no further. Jowett (Thucyd. ). Further off, not so near; apart by a greater distance.

A liar; a deceiver. [Obs.]

Gay; brisk; merry; galliard. Chaucer.

A mode of speech peculiar to the French; a French idiom; also, in general, a French mode or custom.

A concretion, or calculus, formed in the gall bladder or biliary passages. See Calculus, n., 1.