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The act of exploiting or accomplishing; achievement. [Obs.] Udall.

Exposure. [Obs.] Shak.

Not in accordance with the doctrines of Scripture; unscriptural.

The act or manner of making or doing anything; -- now used of a literary, musical, or pictorial production. Bacon.

Well-disposed. "A fair-natured prince." Ford.

The make, form, or outward appearance of a person; the whole turn or style of the body; esp., good appearance. What needeth it his feature to descrive Chaucer. Cheated of feature by dissembling nature. Shak.

Shaped; fashioned. How noble, young, how rarely featured! Shak.

Having no distinct or distinctive features.

Having features; showing marked peculiarities; handsome. [R.] Featurely warriors of Christian chivalry. Coleridge.

r kind; one made by the same Creator. Reason, by which we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes. I. Watts.

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

ch of a breech-loading firearm, in artillery consisting principally of the breechblock, obturator, and carrier ring.

A drawing out into threads; hence, the reeling of silk from cocoons. Ure.

Little flowers of ornament introduced into a melody by a singer or player.

That which is fixed or attached to something as a permanent appendage; as, the fixtures of a pump; the fixtures of a farm or of a dwelling, that is, the articles which a tenant may not take away.

Pertaining to the cultivation of flowering plants.

The cultivation of flowering plants.

One skilled in the cultivation of flowers; a florist.

1. Foliage; leafage. [Obs.] Shuckford.

Forfeiture. [Obs.]