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One of the great military roads constructed by the Romans in England and other parts of Europe; -- so called from the fosse or ditch on each side for keeping it dry.

A wagonload; a load of any sort. [Obs.] Of dung full many a fother. Chaucer.

Not favorable; unpropitious; not fair or advantageous; as, a foul wind; a foul road; cloudy or rainy; stormy; not fair; -- said of the weather, sky, etc. So foul a sky clears not without a storm. Shak.

Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road. [R.] Burke.

To freight; to load; to burden; to fill; to crowd. [Obs.] Upon the tumbling billows fraughted ride The armed ships. Fairfax.

Freight; loading; cargo. [Obs.] Shak.

ught or laden for transportation; lading; cargo, especially of a ship, or a car on a railroad, etc.; as, a freight of cotton; a full freight.

One who loads a ship, or one who charters and loads a ship.

The loop of the scabbard of a bayonet or sword. Cross frog (Railroads), a frog adapted for tracks that cross at right angles. -- Frog cheese, a popular name for a large puffball. -- Frog eater, one who eats frogs; -- a term of contempt applied to a Frenchman by the vulgar class of English. -- Frog fly. (Zoöl.) See F…

n oceanic fish of the genus Antennarius or Pterophrynoides; -- called also mousefish and toadfish.

dian birds of the genus Batrachostomus (family Podargidæ); -- so called from their very broad, flat bills.

Growing broader and broader, as a leaf; truncate.

oup of thallophytes of low organization, -- the molds, mildews, rusts, smuts, mushrooms, toadstools, puff balls, and the allies of each.

A kind of match for lighting a pipe or cigar. (Railroad)

A sharp-pointed rod; a goad.

One who uses a gad or goad in driving.

A woman's broad-brimmed hat of a form thought to resemble those shown in portraits by Thomas Gainsborough, the English artist (1727- 88).

A large galley, having some features of the galleon, as broadside guns; esp., such a vessel used by the southern nations of Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. See Galleon, and Galley. [Written variously galeas, gallias, etc.]

mixed with fire clay; -- used for lining Bessemer converters; also used for macadamizing roads.

An East Indian bird of the genus Cymbirhynchus, related to the broadbills.