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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.

hence, to pretend; to form and relate as if true. There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart. Neh. vi. 8. The poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods. Shak.

e; pretended; counterfeit; insincere; false. "A feigned friend." Shak. Give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips. Ps. xvii. 1. -- Feign"ed*ly, adv. -- Feign"ed*ness, n. Her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly. Jer. iii. 10. Feigned issue (Law), an issu…

hnson. Finally, after this life, to attain everlasting joy and felicity. Book of Common Prayer.

Corrupted; decayed; moldy. See Vinnewed. [Obs.] Dr. Favour.

ind. Macaulay. -- Fer"vent*ly, adv. -- Fer"vent*ness, n. Laboring fervently for you in prayers. Col. iv. 12.

f being festive; social joy or exhilaration of spirits at an entertaintment; joyfulness; gayety. The unrestrained festivity of the rustic youth. Bp. Hurd.

A stringed instrument of music played with a bow; a violin; a kit.

That part of the grounds reserved for the players which is outside of the diamond; -- called also outfield.

A ball payer who stands out in the field to catch or stop balls.

Any of the players who meet in the final round of a tournament in which the losers in any round do not play again.

To attempt, when second or third player, to make a lower card answer the purpose of a higher, when an intermediate card is out, risking the chance of its being held by the opponent yet to play.

Little flowers of ornament introduced into a melody by a singer or player.

et or squadron; an admiral, or commodore. -- Flag of truse, a white flag carried or displayed to an enemy, as an invitation to conference, or for the purpose of making some communication not hostile. -- Flag share, the flag officer's share of prize money. -- Flag station (Railroad), a station at which trains do not…

A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything; a film; flock; lamina; layer; scale; as, a flake of snow, tallow, or fish. "Lottle flakes of scurf." Addison. Great flakes of ice encompassing our boat. Evelyn.

Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike. What showers of mortal hail, what flaky fires! Watts. A flaky weight of winter's purest snows. Wordsworth.

A game in which the players catch raisins out burning brandy, and swallow them blazing. Johnson.

To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different color. See Flashing, n., 3 (b).

To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress. Passions are allayed, appetites are flatted. Barrow.

Anything displayed for show. [Obs.] In these my borrowed flaunts. Shak.