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Fig.: To represent pictorially to the imagination. Songs, and deeds, and lives that lie Foreshortened in the tract of time. Tennyson.

A lost, forsaken, or solitary person. Forced to live in Scotland a forlorn. Shak.

A shrub of the Olive family, with yellow blossoms.

market place or public place in Rome, where causes were judicially tried, and orations delivered to the people.

Release; deliverance; freedom. Spenser.

used in a bad sense. The critics have been very free in their censures. Felton. A man may live a free life as to wine or women. Shelley.

leges; a member of a borough, town, or State, who has the right to vote at elections. See Liveryman. Burrill. Both having been made freemen on the same day. Addison.

r. Freight agent, a person employed by a transportation company to receive, forward, or deliver goods. -- Freight car. See under Car. -- Freight train, a railroad train made up of freight cars; -- called in England goods train.

inistry, by simplicity of dress and speech, and esp. by opposition to war and a desire to live at peace with all men. They are popularly called Quakers. America was first visited by Friends in 1656. T. Chase.

Lively; brisk; frolicsome; frisky. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Brisk; lively; frolicsome.

A scene of gayety and mirth, as in lively play, or in dancing; a merrymaking.

The fruit bate; a group of the Cheiroptera, comprising the bats which live on fruits. See Eruit bat, under Fruit.

To cook in a pan or on a griddle (esp. with the use of fat, butter, or olive oil) by heating over a fire; to cook in boiling lard or fat; as, to fry fish; to fry doughnuts.

To make up; to devise; to contrive; to fabricate. Fudged up into such a smirkish liveliness. N. Fairfax.

ing; lasting but a short time; -- applied particularly to organs or parts which are short-lived as compared with the life of the individual.

e. Farrow weed a weed which grows on plowed land. Shak. -- To draw a straight furrow, to live correctly; not to deviate from the right line of duty. Lowell.

Pertaining to, or derived from, the cod (Gadus); -- applied to an acid obtained from cod-liver oil, viz., gadic acid.

A yellow or brown amorphous substance, of indifferent nature, found in cod-liver oil.

A lively French and Italian dance.