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A footprint; a track or vestige. Coleridge.

pean polecat; -- called also European ferret, and fitchew. See Polecat. [Written also foulmart, foulimart, and fulimart.]

A certain tenure in tail special; an estate of inheritance given to a man his wife (the wife being of the blood of the donor), and descendible to the heirs of their two bodies begotten. [Obs.] Blackstone.

An imperfect female calf, twinborn with a male.

Same as Foumart.

See Foumart. B. Jonson.

æ, allied to the albatrosses and petrels. Among the well- known species are the arctic fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) (called also fulmar petrel, malduck, and mollemock), and the giant fulmar (Ossifraga gigantea).

A salt of fumaric acid.

Pertaining to, or derived from, fumitory (Fumaria officinalis). Fumaric acid (Chem.), a widely occurring organic acid, exttracted from fumitory as a white crystallline substance, C2H2(CO2H)2, and produced artificially in many ways, as by the distillation of malic acid; boletic acid. It is found also in the lichen, Icel…

An alkaloid extracted from fumitory, as a white crystalline substance.

A hole or spot in a volcanic or other region, from which fumes issue.

The second part of the Talmud, or the commentary on the Mishna (which forms the first part or text).

Pertaining to the Gemara.

One versed in the Gemara, or adhering to its teachings.

Of or pertaining to gems.

An organ in which the ova are developed in certain Turbellaria.

One of the followers of Francis Gomar or Gomarus, a Dutch disciple of Calvin in the 17th century, who strongly opposed the Arminians.

Necromancy; magic. Sir W. Scott.

ss or according to established usage; speech considered with regard to the rules of a grammar. The original bad grammar and bad spelling. Macaulay.

One versed in grammar, or the construction of languages; a philologist.