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A plant (trigonella Foenum Græcum) cultivated for its strong- smelling seeds, which are "now only used for giving false importance to horse medicine and damaged hay." J. Smith (Pop. Names of Plants, 1881).

A large, venomous serpent (Trigonocephalus lanceolatus) of Brazil and the West Indies. It is allied to the rattlesnake, but has no rattle.

rication; -- opposed to fact, or reality. The fiction of those golden apples kept by a dragon. Sir W. Raleigh. When it could no longer be denied that her flight had been voluntary, numerous fictions were invented to account for it. Macaulay.

one of a class of rural deities or monsters supposed to live on figs. "Therefore shall dragons dwell there with the fig fauns." Jer. i. 39. (Douay version). -- Fig gnat (Zoöl.), a small fly said to be injurious to figs. -- Fig leaf, the leaf tree; hence, in allusion to the first clothing of Adam and Eve (Genesis iii.…

of symmetrical arrangement in different geometrical figures, as triangles, squares, pentagons, etc.

A fiery dragon. Beau. & Fl.

A European sting ray of the genus Trygon (T. pastinaca); -- called also fireflare and fiery flaw.

A barrel-shaped bottle; a flagon.

A variety of aragonite, occuring in delicate white coralloidal forms; -- common in beds of iron ore.

the flowers consist of a few special leaves surrounding or subtending organs called archegonia. See Blossom, and Corolla.

nged insect; esp., one with transparent wings; as, the Spanish fly; firefly; gall fly; dragon fly.

liage plant (Bot.), any plant cultivated for the beauty of its leaves, as many kinds of Begonia and Coleus.

, and is sometimes used as a very general introduction to something suggested by what has gone before. Give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good; for his mercy endureth forever. Ps. cxxxvi. 1. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 't were al…

nt: behind; as, the fore part of a garment; the fore part of the day; the fore and of a wagon. The free will of the subject is preserved, while it is directed by the fore purpose of the state. Southey.

sed especially in the present and past participles. Pleasing remembrance of a thought foregone. Wordsworth. For which the very mother's face forewent The mother's special patience. Mrs. Browning. Foregone conclusion, one which has preceded argument or examination; one predetermined.

Bygone. [Obs.] Shak.

Already spent; gone by; past. [Obs.] Shak.

rge train, the train of rolls by which a bloom is converted into puddle bars. -- Forge wagon (Mil.), a wagon fitted up for transporting a blackmith's forge and tools. -- Portable forge, a light and compact blacksmith's forge, with bellows, etc., that may be moved from place to place.

One of those who went to California in the rush for gold in 1849; an argonaut. [Colloq., U. S.]

A wagonload; a load of any sort. [Obs.] Of dung full many a fother. Chaucer.