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A style of low, scurrilous, obscene poetry originating in fescennia.

tinued fever, etc. See under Brain, Continued, etc. -- Fever and ague, a form of fever recurring in paroxysms which are preceded by chills. It is of malarial origin. -- Fever blister (Med.), a blister or vesicle often found about the mouth in febrile states; a variety of herpes. -- Fever bush (Bot.), the wild allspi…

The price of grain, as legally fixed, in the counties of Scotland, for the current year.

tain proceedings given by the Lord Chancellor's signature. Fiat money, irredeemable paper currency, not resting on a specie basis, but deriving its purchasing power from the declaratory fiat of the government issuing it.

The European garden warbler (Sylvia, or Currica, hortensis); -- called also beccafico and greater pettychaps.

tall, a cover or shield for a finger. -- Finger steel, a steel instrument for whetting a currier's knife. To burn one's fingers. See under Burn. -- To have a finger in, to be concerned in. [Colloq.] -- To have at one's fingers' ends, to be thoroughly familiar with. [Colloq.]

orge; bright; quite new; brand-new. Charles reade. Your fire-new stamp of honor is scarce current. Shak.

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

A horizontal vane revolving over the surface of wort in a cooler, to produce a circular current in the liquor. Knight.

A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft.

y diffused; an overflowing; a superabundance; as, a flood of bank notes; a flood of paper currency.

A stream of water or other fluid; a current; as, a flow of water; a flow of blood.

An inclosed passage way for establishing and directing a current of air, gases, etc.; an air passage; esp.:

A pipe, esp. an organ pipe, whose tone is produced by the impinging of a current of air upon an edge, or lip, causing a wave motion in the air within; a mouth pipe; -- distinguished from reed pipe. Flue pipes are either open or closed (stopped at the distant end). The flute and flageolet are open pipes; a bottle acts a…

A current of water; a stream. [Obs.]

. Tales, legends, or superstitions long current among the people. Trench.

A stream; a current. With water of the ford Or of the clouds. Spenser. Permit my ghost to pass the Stygford. Dryden.

n to each other. See Exchange, n., 4. Kent. Story. -- Foreign body (Med.), a substance occurring in any part of the body where it does not belong, and usually introduced from without. -- Foreign office, that department of the government of Great Britain which has charge British interests in foreign countries.…

amic acid. -- Formic acid, a colorless, mobile liquid, HCO.OH, of a sharp, acid taste, occurring naturally in ants, nettles, pine needles, etc., and produced artifically in many ways, as by the oxidation of methyl alcohol, by the reduction of carbonic acid or the destructive distillation of oxalic acid. It is the firs…

Occurring or appearing once in a fortnight; as, a fortnightly meeting of a club; a fortnightly magazine, or other publication. -- adv.