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Something offensive to the eye or sight; a blemish. Mordecai was an eyesore to Haman. L'Estrange.

ning being to the effect that he shall not pay the money or deliver the property of the defendant in his hands to him, but appear and answer the suit of the plaintiff.

A moral failing; a defect or dereliction from duty; a deviation from propriety; an offense less serious than a crime.

fault; not defective or imperfect; free from blemish; free from incorrectness, vice, or offense; perfect; as, a faultless poem. Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be. Pope.

k on one part when another part is intended to be struck; -- said of certain movements in fencing, boxing, war, etc.

An offense which occasions a total forfeiture either lands or goods, or both, at the common law, and to which capital or other punishment may be added, according to the degree of guilt.

, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Feoffed; p. pr. & vb. n.. Feoffing.] Etym: [OE. feffen, OF. feffer, fieffer, F. fieffer, fr. fief fief; cf. LL. feoffare, fefare. See Fief.] (Law)

The act of killing the fetus in the womb; the offense of procuring an abortion.

Having an offensive smell; stinking. Most putrefactions . . . smell either fetid or moldy. Bacon.

A strong, offensive smell; stench; fetidness. Arbuthnot.

f kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race.

ding the sheriff that he cause to be made of the goods, chattels, or real estate of the defendant, the sum claimed. Blackstone. Cowell.

Liable or subject to a fine; as, a finable person or offense. Bacon.

in dispute; especially, a payment of money imposed upon a party as a punishment for an offense; a mulct.

An umbelliferous plant (Foeniculum dulce) having a somewhat tuberous stem; sweet fennel. The blanched stems are used in France and Italy as a culinary vegetable.

To fire up, to grow irritated or angry. "He . . . fired up, and stood vigorously on his defense." Macaulay.

That part of a bastion which reaches from the curtain to the face, and defends the curtain, the flank and face of the opposite bastion; any part of a work defending another by a fire along the outside of its parapet. See Illust. of Bastion.

To defend by lateral fortifications. [Obs.] Sir T. Herbert.

To shine out with gaudy colors; to flaunt; to be offensively bright or showy. With ribbons pendant, flaring about her head. Shak.

ating battery (Mil.), a battery erected on rafts or the hulls of ships, chiefly for the defense of a coast or the bombardment of a place. -- Floating bridge. (a) A bridge consisting of rafts or timber, with a floor of plank, supported wholly by the water; a bateau bridge. See Bateau. (b) (Mil.) A kind of double bridge…