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A projection downward from the keel of a yacht, resembling in shape the fin of a fish, though often with a cigar-shaped bulb of lead at the bottom, and generally made of metal. Its use is to ballast the boat and also to enable her to sail close to the wind and to make the least possible leeway by offering great resista…

dactylus) resembling a finger in form. -- Finger sponge (Zoöl.), a sponge having finger-shaped lobes, or branches. -- Finger stall, a cover or shield for a finger. -- Finger steel, a steel instrument for whetting a currier's knife. To burn one's fingers. See under Burn. -- To have a finger in, to be concerned in.…

rolls of a train which receive the bar from roughing rolls, and reduce it to its finished shape. Raymond.

A genus (Abies) of coniferous trees, often of large size and elegant shape, some of them valued for their timber and others for their resin. The species are distinguished as the balsam fir, the silver fir, the red fir, etc. The Scoth fir is a Pinus.

ing, like the tail of a fish. Fish-tail burner, a gas burner that gives a spreading flame shaped somewhat like the tail of a fish. -- Fish-tail propeller (Steamship), a propeller with a single blade that oscillates like the tail of a fish when swimming.

Of a fistular form; tubular; pipe-shaped. Stalactite often occurs fistuliform. W. Philips.

To bring to a required form and size; to shape aright; to adapt to a model; to adjust; -- said especially of the work of a carpenter, machinist, tailor, etc. The carpenter . . . marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes. Is. xliv. 13.

Having the form of a fan; fan-shaped; flabellate.

A barrel-shaped bottle; a flagon.

Shaped like a whiplash; long, slender, round, flexible, and (comming) tapering.

tic condition; esp., the reheating of a globe of crown glass to allow it to assume a flat shape as it is rotated.

A small bottle-shaped vessel for holding fluids; as, a flask of oil or wine.

ed for opening veins, lancing gums, etc.; a kind of lancet. Fleam tooth, a tooth of a saw shaped like an isosceles triangle; a peg tooth. Knight.

An herb used in medicine (Plantago Psyllium), named from the shape of its seeds. Loudon.

A flower-shaped ornament, esp. one terminating an object or forming one of a series, as a knob of a cover to a dish, or a flower- shaped part in a necklace.

ht. -- Floating heart (Bot.), a small aquatic plant (Limnanthemum lacunosum) whose heart-shaped leaves float on the water of American ponds. -- Floating island, a dish for dessert, consisting of custard with floating masses of whipped cream or white of eggs. -- Floating kidney. (Med.) See Wandering kidney, under Wan…

Having the form of a flower; flower-shaped.

A hopper-shaped box or Knight.

sense, the bloom or blossom of a plant; the showy portion, usually of a different color, shape, and texture from the foliage.

A grand piano or a harpsichord, both being wing-shaped.