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inal; as, a farewell discourse; his farewell bow. Leans in his spear to take his farewell view. Tickell. Farewell rock (Mining), the Millstone grit; -- so called because no coal is found worth working below this stratum. It is used for hearths of furnaces, having power to resist intense heat. Ure.

erpents can stupefy and fascinate the prey which they are desirous to obtain. Griffith (Cuvier).

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

Partiality; bias. Bouvier.

promote or facilitate; advantageous; convenient. A place very favorable for the making levies of men. Clarendon. The temper of the climate, favorable to generation, health, and long life. Sir W. Temple.

hing, as a proposal, observation, etc., put forth or thrown out in order to ascertain the views of others; something tentative.

stion of fact which it becomes necessary to settle in the progress of a cause. Burill. Bouvier.

To bear toward the person speaking, or the person or thing from whose point of view the action is contemplated; to go and bring; to get. Time will run back and fetch the age of gold. Milton. He called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink. And as she was going to fetch it…

The space covered by an optical instrument at one view. Without covering, save yon field of stars. Shak. Ask of yonder argent fields above. Pope.

lent conflict or struggle for victory, between individuals or between armies, ships, or navies, etc. Who now defies thee thrice to single fight. Milton.

or pertaining to a thread or line; characterized by threads stretched across the field of view; as, a filar microscope; a filar micrometer.

Respecting an end or object to be gained; respecting the purpose or ultimate end in view. Final cause. See under Cause.

y house of noble English in Ireland was utterly destroyed or finally rooted out. Sir J. Davies.

t which, finds; specifically (Astron.), a small telescope of low power and large field of view, attached to a larger telescope, for the purpose of finding an object more readily.

ixtures under some circumstances, and not fixtures under others. Wharton (Law Dict. ). Bouvier.

In the most general sense, indicating that in consideration of, in view of, or with reference to, which anything is done or takes place.

struck out epithets which are in the bad taste of the forcible-feeble school. N. Brit. Review.

To doom beforehand; to predestinate. Thou art foredomed to view the Stygian state. Dryden.

wn and payable in the same country. In this latter, as well as in several other points of view, the different States of the United States are foreign to each other. See Exchange, n., 4. Kent. Story. -- Foreign body (Med.), a substance occurring in any part of the body where it does not belong, and usually introduced f…

o a written instrument for the purpose of deceit and fraud; as, the forgery of a bond. Bouvier.