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A strongly forced expiration of air from the lungs.

The condition of being turned wrong side out; as, extroversion of the bladder. Dunglison.

comes over first and last in the distillation of whisky; -- the former being called the strong faints, and the latter, which is much more abundant, the weak faints. This crude spirit is much impregnated with fusel oil. Ure.

One of a family (Falconidæ) of raptorial birds, characterized by a short, hooked beak, strong claws, and powerful flight.

To cease to be active or strong; to die away; to lose strength; to subside; to become less intense; as, the wind falls.

roying weeds and insects, and rendering it mellow; as, it is profitable to fallow cold, strong, clayey land.

be a lie in the clock, it is but a falsehood in the hand of the dial when pointing at a wrong hour, if rightly following the direction of the wheel which moveth it. Fuller.

The showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong. Story.

To show, in accounting, (an inem of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong. Story. Daniell.

Improperly acquainted; wrongly intimate. Camden. Familiar spirit, a demon or evil spirit supposed to attend at call. 1 Sam. xxviii. 3, 7-9.

Formed or conceived by the fancy; unreal; as, a fancied wrong.

R.] A pert or bluff important wight, Whose brain is fanciless, whose blood is white. Armstrong.

A projecting tooth or prong, as in a part of a lock, or the plate of a belt clamp, or the end of a tool, as a chisel, where it enters the handle.

ice; humor. Is not this something more than fantasy Shak. A thousand fantasies Being to throng into my memory. Milton.

The layer of loose tissue, often containing fat, immediately beneath the skin; the stronger layer of connective tissue covering and investing all muscles; an aponeurosis.

Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable; strong. Outlaws . . . lurking in woods and fast places. Spenser.

A fast place; a stronghold; a fortress or fort; a secure retreat; a castle; as, the enemy retired to their fastnesses in the mountains.

To provide with a father. [R.] Think you I am no stronger than my sex, Being so fathered and so husbanded Shak. To father on or upon, to ascribe to, or charge upon, as one's offspring or work; to put or lay upon as being responsible. "Nothing can be so uncouth or extravagant, which may not be fathered on some fetch of…

To err; to blunder, to commit a fault; to do wrong. [Obs.] If after Samuel's death the people had asked of God a king, they had not faulted. Latimer.

A false step; a mistake or wrong measure.