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To ornament with raised work; to variegate; to diversify. Whose skirt with gold was fretted all about. Spenser. Yon gray lines, That fret the clouds, are messengers of day. Shak.

der excessive strain or in starting. -- Friction drop hammer, one in which the hammer is raised for striking by the friction of revolving rollers which nip the hammer rod. -- Friction gear. See Frictional gearing, under Frictional. -- Friction machine, an electrical machine, generating electricity by friction. -- F…

Built like a frigate with a raised quarter-deck and forecastle.

[Fraise a kind of defense; also Friz.) A kind of small ruffle. Halliwell.

A supporting plate having raised ribs that form continuations of the rails, to guide the wheels where one track branches from another or crosses it.

A kind of pancake. See 1st Fraise. [Written also fraise.]

A sparing use; sparingness; as, frugality of praise.

fullness, excess, or grossness; cloying; gross; nauseous; esp., offensive from excess of praise; as, fulsome flattery. And lest the fulsome artifice should fail Themselves will hide its coarseness with a veil. Cowper.

The incense of praise; inordinate flattery. To smother him with fumes and eulogies. Burton. In a fume, in ill temper, esp. from impatience.

Vapor raised in the process of fumigating.

nvolves only the algebraic operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, raising to a given power, and extracting a given root; -- opposed to transcendental function. -- Arbitrary function. See under Arbitrary. -- Calculus of functions. See under Calculus. -- Carnot's function (Thermo-dynamics), a r…

furnaces smelting zinciferous ores. Raymond. -- Furnace hoist (Iron Manuf.), a lift for raising ore, coal, etc., to the mouth of a blast furnace.

A small horse of a breed raised at Galloway, Scotland; -- called also garran, and garron.

The rest for the tympan when raised.

A bud. From the joints of thy prolific stem A swelling knot is raised called a gem. Denham.

Fig.: Leadership; management. An artful stroke of generalship in Trim to raise a dust. Sterne.

To make genteel; to raise from the vulgar; to ennoble. [Obs.] Shak.

A machine for raising or moving heavy weights, consisting of a tripod formed of poles united at the top, with a windlass, pulleys, ropes, etc.

ale, a mild beer impregnated with ginger. -- Ginger cordial, a liquor made from ginger, raisins, lemon rind, and water, and sometimes whisky or brandy. -- Ginger pop. See Ginger beer (above). -- Ginger wine, wine impregnated with ginger. -- Wild ginger (Bot.), an American herb (Asarum Canadense) with two reniform…

Broth reduced by boiling to a gelatinous paste, and spread thinly over braised dishes.