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A tile or flagstone cut into an hexagonal shape to produce a honeycomb pattern, as in a pavement; -- called also favas and sectila. Mollett.

Long ago. [Obs.] Chaucer.

n engineer, who erected the first of its kind for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893.

brication; -- opposed to fact, or reality. The fiction of those golden apples kept by a dragon. Sir W. Raleigh. When it could no longer be denied that her flight had been voluntary, numerous fictions were invented to account for it. Macaulay.

one of a class of rural deities or monsters supposed to live on figs. "Therefore shall dragons dwell there with the fig fauns." Jer. i. 39. (Douay version). -- Fig gnat (Zoöl.), a small fly said to be injurious to figs. -- Fig leaf, the leaf tree; hence, in allusion to the first clothing of Adam and Eve (Genesis iii…

e of symmetrical arrangement in different geometrical figures, as triangles, squares, pentagons, etc.

A fiery dragon. Beau. & Fl.

A barrel-shaped bottle; a flagon.

An herb used in medicine (Plantago Psyllium), named from the shape of its seeds. Loudon.

A variety of aragonite, occuring in delicate white coralloidal forms; -- common in beds of iron ore.

inged insect; esp., one with transparent wings; as, the Spanish fly; firefly; gall fly; dragon fly.

n act of folly or weakness; a foolish practice; something absurd or nonsensical. That Pythagoras, Plato, or Orpheus, believed in any of these fooleries, it can not be suspected. Sir W. Raleigh.

Ant: behind; as, the fore part of a garment; the fore part of the day; the fore and of a wagon. The free will of the subject is preserved, while it is directed by the fore purpose of the state. Southey.

orge train, the train of rolls by which a bloom is converted into puddle bars. -- Forge wagon (Mil.), a wagon fitted up for transporting a blackmith's forge and tools. -- Portable forge, a light and compact blacksmith's forge, with bellows, etc., that may be moved from place to place.

A wagonload; a load of any sort. [Obs.] Of dung full many a fother. Chaucer.

A French baggage wagon.

fulvus), the American gray fox (V. Virginianus), and the arctic, white, or blue, fox (V. lagopus) are well-known species.

The european dragonet. See Dragonet.

A ragout or fricassee of veal; a fancy dish of veal or of boned turkey, served as an entrée, -- called also fricandel. A. J. Cooley.

A stormy, turbulent violent woman; a hag; a vixen; a virago; a termagant.