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Worn by, or weared in, the feet; as, a footworn path; a footworn traveler.

A woman who is chief; a woman who has charge of the work or workers in a shop or other place; a head woman. Tatler. W. Besant.

A preface. Furnvall.

Worn out; wasted; used up. [Archaic] Old foreworn stories almost forgotten. Brydges.

, 1st & 3d pers. sing. of Forewite. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Overlabored; exhausted; worn out. [Obs.] Spenser.

imp. of Forswear.

p. p. of Forswear.

State of being forsworn. [R.]

Much worn. [Obs.] A silly man, in simple weeds forworn. Spenser.

pres. indic. 1st & 3d pers. sing. of Forwete. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The work of framing, or the completed work; the frame or constructional part of anything; as, the framework of society. A staunch and solid piece of framework. Milton.

Work adorned with frets; ornamental openwork or work in relief, esp. when elaborate and minute in its parts. Heuce, any minute play of light andshade, dark and light, or the like. Banqueting on the turf in the fretwork of shade and sunshine. Macaulay.

The figurework, often fantastic and delicate, which moisture sometimes forms in freezing, as upon a window pane or a flagstone.

Same as Frostweed.

A chilognath myriapod of the genus Iulus, and allied genera, having numerous short legs along the sides; a milliped or "thousand legs." See Chilognatha.

The parasitic worm that causes the gapes in birds. See Illustration in Appendix.

A woman of good family or of good breeding; a woman above the vulgar. Bacon.

Manufacture of glass; articles or ornamentation made of glass.

A seashore plant of the Spinach family (Salicornia herbacea), with succulent jointed stems; also, a prickly plant of the same family (Salsola Kali), both formerly burned for the sake of the ashes, which yield soda for making glass and soap.