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A fabrik made of silk and wool or hair. Simmonds.

A rapid dance in six-eight time in which a large number join hands and dance in various figures, sometimes moving from room to room. It originated in Provence.

Orderly; comely; respectable. [Obs.] Halliwell.

Manner; custom; fashion; humor. [Prov. Eng.] [Written also farand.] Grose.

See Furtherence.

A stuff made of silk and wool. I did buy a colored silk ferrandine. Pepys.

A form of conductor, designed by Ferranti, for currents of high potential, and consisting of concentric tubes of copper separated by an insulating material composed of paper saturated with black mineral wax.

An increase in the ratio of transformation of an alternating current converter, accompanied by other changes in electrical conditions, occurring when the secondary of the converter is connected with a condenser of moderate capacity; -- so called because first observed in connection with the Ferranti cables in London.…

One who dances at the opera, not singly, but in groups or figures; an accessory character on the stage, who figures in its scenes, but has nothing to say; hence, one who figures in any scene, without taking a prominent part.

A female figurant; esp., a ballet girl.

Filigree. [Archaic] With her head . . . touches the crown of filigrane. Longfellow.

See Filigreed. [Archaic]

A piece of burning wood. L'Estrange.

Flagrancy. Bp. Hall.

A burning; great heat; inflammation. [Obs.] Lust causeth a flagrancy in the eyes. Bacon.

Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent. The beadle's lash still flagrant on their back. Prior. A young man yet flagrant from the lash of the executioner or the beadle. De Quincey. Flagrant desires and affections. Hooker.

In a flagrant manner.

Tin ore scarcely perceptible in the stone; tin ore stamped very fine. Pryce.

A white crystalline hydrocarbon C

The act of forbearing or waiting; the exercise of patience. He soon shall findForbearance no acquittance ere day end. Milton.