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Scandalous crime; sin; specifically, as applied to a woman, wantonness. [Achan] wrought folly in Israel. Josh. vii. 15. When lovely woman stoops to folly. Goldsmith.

is not sufficient to have attained the name and dignity of a shepherd, not forcing how. Udall.

The caudal forceps-shaped appendage of earwigs and some other insects. See Earwig. Dressing forceps. See under Dressing.

To recognize or judge in advance; to forebode. [Obs.] Udall. Laugh at your misery, as foredeeming you An idle meteor. J. Webster.

rth. Lucas was Paul's companion, at the leastway from the sixteenth of the Acts forth. Tyndale. From this time forth, I never will speak word. Shak. I repeated the Ave Maria; the inquisitor bad me say forth; I said I was taught no more. Strype.

To repent; to regret; to be sorry for; to cause regret. [Obs.] "Let it forthink you." Tyndale. That me forthinketh, quod this January. Chaucer.

The Tasmanian forty-spotted diamond bird (Pardalotus quadragintus).

One who forwards or promotes; a promoter. Udall.

e texture of a freshly broken surface; as, a compact fracture; an even, hackly, or conchoidal fracture. Comminuted fracture (Surg.), a fracture in which the bone is broken into several parts. -- Complicated fracture (Surg.), a fracture of the bone combined with the lesion of some artery, nervous trunk, or joint. -- C…

pupils pay nothing for tuition; a public school. -- Free services (O.Eng. Law), such feudal services as were not unbecoming the character of a soldier or a freemen to perform; as, to serve under his lord in war, to pay a sum of money, etc. Burrill. -- Free ships, ships of neutral nations, which in time of war are fr…

n the rear hub of a cycle, which engages the rear sprocket with the rear wheel when the pedals are rotated forwards, but permits the rear wheel to run on free from the rear sprocket when the pedals are stopped or rotated backwards. Freewheelcycles are usually fitted with hub brakes or rim brakes, operated by back pedal…

pening at short intervals; often repeated or occurring; as, frequent visits. "Frequent feudal towers." Byron.

A monastery; a convent of friars. Drugdale.

One of the small, spiniform scales found on the front edge of the dorsal and caudal fins of many ganoid fishes.

the conidium stages of various Ascomycetes. The group is divided into the orders Sphæropsidales, Melanconiales, and Moniliales.

Anything that kills fungi. -- Fun`gi*ci"dal, n.

Rascally; scandalous. [R.] "Furciferous knaves." De Quincey.

A bearing of a rhomboidal figure; -- named from its shape, which resembles that of a spindle.

or produced by, the process of electolytic deposition; as, a galvano-plastic copy of a medal or the like.

One who takes general or comprehensive views. Tyndall.