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In a fairmanner; clearly; openly; plainly; fully; distinctly; frankly. Even the nature of Mr. Dimmesdale's disease had never fairly been revealed to him. Hawthorne.

tc., through which vessels enter or depart; the part of a harbor or channel ehich is kept open and unobstructed for the passage of vessels. Totten. the rough.

A well or opening, through the successive floors of a warehouse or manufactory, through which goods are raised or lowered. [U.S.] Bartlett.

per, silk, etc., and often mounted on sticks all turning about the same pivot, so as when opened to radiate from the center and assume the figure of a section of a circle.

idges, exhibition grounds, etc., for registering the number of persons passing it. (b) An opening in the door of a street car for purchasing tickets of the driver or passing fares to the conductor. Knight.

irm; firmness; fixedness; security; faithfulness. All . . . places of fastness [are] laid open. Sir J. Davies.

A gaping or opening; state of being chinky, or having apertures. Kirwan.

Pertaining to the fauces, or opening of the throat; faucial; esp., (Phon.) produced in the fauces, as certain deep guttural sounds found in the Semitic and some other languages. Ayin is the most difficult of the faucals. I. Taylor (The Alphabet).

Without a fence; uninclosed; open; unguarded; defenseless. Milton.

A screen to prevent coals or sparks of an open fire from escaping to the floor.

Any small windowlike opening or recess, esp. one to show the relics within an altar, or the like.

A small opening; esp., one of the apertures, closed by membranes, between the tympanum and internal ear.

Having numerous openings; irregularly reticulated; as, fenestrate membranes; fenestrate fronds.

ters for the decorating of an architectural composition by means of the window (and door) openings, their ornaments, and proportions.

One of the openings in a fenestrated structure.

A festival. Fête champêtre ( Etym: [F.], a festival or entertainment in the open air; a rural festival.

ery high pressure which is afterward relieved suddenly by letting a lid at the muzzle fly open, when the rapid expansion separates the fibers. -- Fiber plants (Bot.), plants capable of yielding fiber useful in the arts, as hemp, flax, ramie, agave, etc.

A pin of hard wood, tapering to a point, used to open the strands of a rope in splicing.

Cleared land; land suitable for tillage or pasture; cultivated ground; the open country.

Open, like a field. [Obs.] Wyclif.