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ul or prolific; to impregnate; as, in flowers the pollen fecundates the ovum through the stigma.

A genus of carnivorous mammals, including the domestic cat, the lion, tiger, panther, and similar animals.

Wild; untamed; savage; as, lions, tigers, wolves, and bears are ferine beasts. Sir M. Hale. -- n.

A bushing for expanding the end of a flue to fasten it tightly in the tube plate, or for partly filling up its mouth.

The hand with the fingers doubled into the palm; the closed hand, especially as clinched tightly for the purpose of striking a blow. Who grasp the earth and heaven with my fist. Herbert.

The part of an object upon which anything fits tightly. Fit rod (Shipbuilding), a gauge rod used to try the depth of a bolt hole in order to determine the length of the bolt required. Knight.

he long leaves of which are placed between the staves of barrels to make the latter water-tight. -- Corn flag. See under 2d Corn. -- Flag broom, a coarse of broom, originally made of flags or rushes. -- Flag root, the root of the sweet flag. -- Sweet flag. See Calamus, n., 2.

Flesh-colored tights, worn by actors dancers. D. Jerrold.

To let the foot slip from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet.

o throw off or down; to prostrate; hence, to baffle; to defeat; as, to fling a party in litigation. His horse started, flung him, and fell upon him. Walpole.

ith waterproof material, for covering floors; oilcloth. -- Floor cramp, an implement for tightening the seams of floor boards before nailing them in position. -- Floor light, a frame with glass panes in a floor. -- Floor plan. (a) (Shipbuilding) A longitudinal section, showing a ship as divided at the water line. (b…

flowers. Flowerless plants, plants which have no true flowers, and produce no seeds; cryptigamous plants.

ng card; hence, colloquially, to follow an example set. -- To follow up, to pursue indefatigably.

to life or activity; to cherish and promote by excitements; to encourage; to abet; to instigate; -- used often in a bad sense; as, to foment ill humors. Locke. But quench the choler you foment in vain. Dryden. Exciting and fomenting a religious rebellion. Southey.

Excitation; instigation; encouragement. Dishonest fomentation of your pride. Young.

One who foments; one who encourages or instigates; as, a fomenter of sedition.

A footprint; a track or vestige. Coleridge.

r forcing plants; a hotbed. -- Forcing engine, a fire engine. -- Forcing fit (Mech.), a tight fit, as of one part into a hole in another part, which makes it necessary to use considerable force in putting the two parts together. -- Forcing house, a greenhouse for the forcing of plants, fruit trees, etc. -- Forcing…

To overcome with fatigue; to exhaust. M. Arnold. All with weary task fordone. Shak.

or custom. It is a pity to see the technicalities of the so-called liberal professions distigured by foreignisms. Fitzed. Hall.