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t; act of losing the scent. Ceasing their clamorous cry till they have singled, With much ado, the cold fault cleary out. Shak.

he quality of being feasible; practicability; also, that which is feasible; as, before we adopt a plan, let us consider its feasibility. Men often swallow falsities for truths, dubiosities for certainties, possibilities for feasibilities. Sir T. Browne.

To adorn, as with feathers; to fringe. A few birches and oaks still feathered the narrow ravines. Sir W. Scott.

lly (Amer. Hist.), a friend of the Constitution of the United States at its formation and adoption; a member of the political party which favored the administration of president Washington.

th the foil, esp. with the smallsword, using the point only. He will fence with his own shadow. Shak.

A portable bier or shrine, variously adorned, used for containing relics of saints. Mollett.

nt for plants; to make fruitful or productive; as, to fertilize land, soil, ground, and meadows. And fertilize the field that each pretends to gain. Byron.

al species of importance in agriculture. Festuca ovina is sheep's fescue; F. elatior is meadow fescue.

To form in festoons, or to adorn with festoons.

Excessive devotion to one object or one idea; abject superstition; blind adoration. The real and absolute worship of fire falls into two great divisions, the first belonging rather to fetichism, the second to polytheism proper. Tylor.

is, they will say, was figurative, and served, by God's appointment, but for a time, to shadow out the true glory of a more divine sanctity. Hooker.

To embellish with design; to adorn with figures. The vaulty top of heaven Figured quite o'er with burning meteors. Shak.

Adorned with figures; marked with figures; as, figured muslin.

To adopt as son or daughter; to establish filiation between. [R.] Southey.

Adorned with filigree. Tatler.

To bind, furnish, or adorn with a fillet.

a stouter and shorter pole or club, called a swipe, is so hung as to swing freely. His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn. Milton.

To furnish or adorn with any soft covering. Your master, whose chin is not yet fledged. Shak.

of a crown, etc. It is also a heraldic bearing, and is identified with the royal arms and adornments of France.

ike a flame in a current of air, or when about to expire; as, the flickering light. The shadows flicker to fro. Tennyson.