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everal explosive mixtures, chiefly of ammonium nitrate and a nitrate derivative of naphthalene. They are stable, but require protection from moisture. As prepared it is a compressed cylinder of the explosive, filled with loose powder of the same composition, all inclosed in waterproof wrappers. It is used for mining.…

well-favored. [Obs.] Spenser. -- Fa"vora*ble*ness, n. -- Fa"vor*a*bly, sdv. The faborableness of the present times to all extertions in the cause of liberty. Burke.

Turpitude; vileness. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

companionableness; the spirit and disposition befitting comrades. There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee. Shak.

s actively moving as a fiddler does; to move the hands and fingers restlessy or in busy idleness; to trifle. Talking, and fiddling with their hats and feathers. Pepys.

To let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness; as, to flag the wings. prior.

Lit., strolling; sauntering; hence, aimless; idleness; as, intellectual flânerie.

In a good sense, tenderness of feeling; gentleness. There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart. Cowper.

The state or quality of being flexible; flexibleness; pliancy; pliability; as, the flexibility of strips of hemlock, hickory, whalebone or metal, or of rays of light. Sir I. Newton. All the flexibility of a veteran courtier. Macaulay.

A kind of catchfly of the genus Silene; also, a poisonous mushroom (Agaricus muscarius); fly agaric.

shames ye underwent. Shak. To fool away, to get rid of foolishly; to spend in trifles, idleness, folly, or without advantage.

Formidableness. Walpole.

To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth. [Obs.] Spenser.

To lsoe by idleness or slotch. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The condition or quality of being fragile; brittleness; frangibility. Bacon.

rail, physically, mentally, or morally, frailness; infirmity; weakness of resolution; liableness to be deceived or seduced. God knows our frailty, [and] pities our weakness. Locke.

The quality of being friable; friableness. Locke.

Gentleness; courtesy; kindness; nobility. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Gentilesse; gentleness. [Obs.]

e; joyful satisfaction; cheerfulness. They . . . did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart. Acts ii. 46.