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To turn, as a screw. [Scot] Jamieson.

t thou feignest them out of thine own heart. Neh. vi. 8. The poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods. Shak.

A shrewd or artful person. [Slang] Fielding. Will is an old file spite of his smooth face. Thackeray. Bastard file, Cross file, etc. See under Bastard, Cross, etc. -- Cross-cut file, a file having two sets of teeth crossing obliquely. -- File blank, a steel blank shaped and ground ready for cutting to form a file. -…

The thread of a screw.

A plane for making a rabbet. Fillister screw had, a short cylindrical screw head, having a convex top.

process of handling or touching with the fingers. The mere sight and fingering of money. Grew.

y of air heated by a fire placed in the lower part. (b) A balloon sent up at night with fireworks which ignite at a regulated height. Simmonds. -- Fire bar, a grate bar. -- Fire basket, a portable grate; a cresset. Knight. -- Fire beetle. (Zoöl.) See in the Vocabulary. -- Fire blast, a disease of plants which cause…

One who fires or sets fire to anything; an incendiary. [R.] R. Carew.

Fuel; firewood or coal. [Obs.] Mortimer. Firing iron, an instrument used in cauterizing.

Abounding with fish. [R.] "My fishful pond." R. Carew.

A word found in the Authorized Version of the Bible, representing different Hebrew originals. In Isaiah xxviii. 25, 27, it means the black aromatic seeds of Nigella sativa, still used as a flavoring in the East. In Ezekiel iv. 9, the Revised Version now reads spelt.

A firework, made of damp powder, which makes a fizzing or hissing noise when it explodes.

ine of march, or a fort projecting so as to command the side of an assailing body. They threw out flankers, and endeavored to dislodge their assailants. W. Irwing.

To trick up in a showy manner. Limning and flashing it with various dyes. A. Brewer.

Producing wind; flatulent. [Obs.] A. Brewer.

Consisting of cards of one suit. Flush bolt. (a) A screw bolt whose head is countersunk, so as to be flush with a surface. (b) A sliding bolt let into the face or edge of a door, so as to be flush therewith. -- Flush deck. (Naut.) See under Deck, n., 1. -- Flush tank, a water tank which can be emptied rapidly for flu…

ngled by it. -- Fly powder, an arsenical powder used to poison flies. -- Fly press, a screw press for punching, embossing, etc., operated by hand and having a heavy fly. -- Fly rail, a bracket which turns out to support the hinged leaf of a table. -- Fly rod, a light fishing rod used in angling with a fly. -- Fly…

he habits of some animals of running back over the same track to mislead their pursuers. Brewer.

lowed by in. Lest negligence or partiality might admit or fois in abuses corruption. R. Carew. When a scripture has been corrupted . . . by a supposititious foisting of some words in. South.

Having a foot or feet; shaped in the foot. "Footed like a goat." Grew.