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The interval of three tones and a semitone, embracing five diatonic degrees of the scale; the dominant of any key.

A genus of herbaceous plants (Scrophularia), mostly found in the north temperate zones. See Brownwort.

ms, annelids, etc., spontaneously subdivide, each individual thus forming two or more new ones. See Strobilation.

Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.

er than of the piccolo flute, and is said to have superseded the old recorder. Flageolet tones (Mus.), the naturel harmonics or overtones of stringed instruments.

A pavement or sidewalk of flagstones; flagstones, collectively.

A flat stone used in paving, or any rock which will split into such stones. See Flag, a stone.

The aggregate of the muscles, fat, and other tissues which cover the framework of bones in man and other animals; especially, the muscles.

., which were commonly made of flint, but also of granite, jade, jasper, and other hard stones. -- Flint mill. (a) (Pottery) A mill in which flints are ground. (b) (Mining) An obsolete appliance for lighting the miner at his work, in which flints on a revolving wheel were made to produce a shower of sparks, which gave…

To toss or fillip; as, to flip up a cent. As when your little ones Do 'twixt their fingers flip their cherry stones. W. Browne.

or relating to Florence, in Italy. Florentine mosaic, a mosaic of hard or semiprecious stones, often so chosen and arranged that their natural colors represent leaves, flowers, and the like, inlaid in a background, usually of black or white marble.

ame or reel, for sifting the flour from the refuse contained in the meal yielded by the stones. -- Flour box a tin box for scattering flour; a dredging box. -- Flour dredge or dredger, a flour box. -- Flour dresser, a mashine for sorting and distributing flour according to grades of fineness. -- Flour mill, a mill…

A name given to the series of sandstones and schists overlying the true nummulitic formation in the Alps, and included in the Eocene Tertiary.

h isinglass; -- employed by jewelers to give color or brilliancy to pastes and inferior stones. Ure.

Excitation; instigation; encouragement. Dishonest fomentation of your pride. Young.

the membranous intervals between the incompleted angles of the parietal and neighboring bones of a fetal or young skull; -- so called because it exhibits a rhythmical pulsation.

y lovers must their promised heaven forego. Keble. [He] never forewent an opportunity of honest profit. R. L. Stevenson.

The quality of being forgetful; prononess to let slip from the mind.

out reservation; to resign. To them that list the world's gay shows I leave, And to great ones such folly do forgive. Spenser.

Having the outer tail feathers longer than the median ones; swallow-tailed; -- said of many birds. Fork-tailed flycatcher (Zoöl.), a tropical American flycatcher (Milvulus tyrannus). -- Fork-tailed gull (Zoöl.), a gull of the genus Xema, of two species, esp. X. Sabinii of the Arctic Ocean. -- Fork-tailed kite (Zoöl.)…