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To put money to usury; to lend on interest. [Obs.] Cockeram.

The act of fenerating; interest. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Fruitful; producing abudantly. [R.] Thomson.

The state of being feracious or fruitful. [Obs.] Beattie.

A group of mammals which formerly included the Carnivora, Insectivora, Marsupialia, and lemurs, but is now often restricted to the Carnivora.

Of a wild nature; -- applied to animals, as foxes, wild ducks, etc., in which no one can claim property.

Wild; untamed; ferine; not domesticated; -- said of beasts, birds, and plants. feral child, not raised by humans

A genus of small, slender fishes, remarkable for their habit of living as commensals in other animals. One species inhabits the gill cavity of the pearl oyster near Panama; another lives within an East Indian holothurian.

State of flowers; flowers, collectively or in general. Tennyson.

The act of flustering, or the state of being flustered; fluster. [Colloq.]

An extensive order of rhizopods which generally have a chambered calcareous shell formed by several united zooids. Many of them have perforated walls, whence the name. Some species are covered with sand. See Rhizophoda.

imp. of Forerun.

The first rank; the front.

The care of a foster child; the charge of nursing. Sir W. Raleigh.

To make cool. [Obs.] Blount.

zation of interment; obsequies; burial; -- formerly used in the plural. King James his funerals were performed very solemnly in the collegiate church at Westminster. Euller.

To bury with funeral rites. [Obs.] Cockeram.

The act of burying with funeral rites. [Obs.] Knatchbull.

d continue with you all for your furthersnce and joy of faith. Phil. i. 25. Built of furtherance and pursuing, Not of spent deeds, but of doing. Emerson.

Capable of being gathered or collected; deducible from premises. [R.] Godwin.