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The act of formularizing; a formularized or formulated statement or exhibition. C. Kingsley.

e. -- Fox shark (Zoöl.), the thrasher shark. See Thrasher shark, under Thrasher. -- Fox sleep, pretended sleep. -- Fox sparrow (Zoöl.), a large American sparrow (Passerella iliaca); -- so called on account of its reddish color. -- Fox squirrel (Zoöl.), a large North American squirrel (Sciurus niger, or S. cinereus)…

onanthus virginica), of the southern United States, having clusters of white flowers with slender petals. It is often cultivated.

ned, and shrink back; to flinch; as, to funk at the edge of a precipice. [Colloq.] C. Kingsley. To funk out, to back out in a cowardly fashion. [Colloq.] To funk right out o' political strife. Lowell (Biglow Papers).

races, languages, and customs . . . had produced a corresponding fusion of creeds. C. Kingsley. Watery fusion (Chem.) the melting of certain crystals by heat in their own water of crystallization.

ngus) having aromatic roots; also, any plant of the same genus. Chaucer. Meadow, set with slender galingale. Tennyson.

A heavy-armed foot soldier from Ireland and the Western Isles in the time of Edward Shak.

lose or squander by gaming; -- usually with away. "Bankrupts or sots who have gambled or slept away their estates." Ames.

In the English House of Commons, a narrow aisle across the house, below which sit those who do not vote steadly either with the government or with the opposition.

Indicating sleepiness or indifference; to yawn. She stretches, gapes, unglues her eyes, And asks if it be time to rise. Swift.

Any slender marine fish of the genera Belone and Tylosurus. See Garfish.

To ornament, as a dish, with something laid about it; as, a dish garnished with parsley.

soothing; pacific; as, a gentle touch; a gentle gallop. "Gentle music." Sir J. Davies. O sleep! it is a gentle thing. Coleridge. The gentle craft, the art or trade of shoemaking.

n which the parts of a thing are combined; make-up; style of dress, etc. [Colloq.] H. Kingsley.

a specter. The mighty ghosts of our great Harrys rose. Shak. I thought that I had died in sleep, And was a blessed ghost. Coleridge.

To surround; to encircle, or encompass. That Nyseian isle, Girt with the River Triton. Milton.

To inclose; to environ; to shut in. Those sleeping stones, That as a waist doth girdle you about. Shak.

art were ransacked to glut the wonder, lust, and ferocity of a degraded populace. C. Kingsley. To glut the market, to furnish an oversupply of any article of trade, so that there is no sale for it.

A rough sled or dray used for dragging logs, hauling stone, etc. [Local, U. S.]

enus Solidago. Golden-rod tree (Bot.), a shrub (Bosea Yervamora), a native of the Canary Isles.