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to gossip; to meet accidentally. [Scot.] Jamieson. Within that circle he forgathered with many a fool. Wilson.

Having the outer tail feathers longer than the median ones; swallow-tailed; -- said of many birds. Fork-tailed flycatcher (Zoöl.), a tropical American flycatcher (Milvulus tyrannus). -- Fork-tailed gull (Zoöl.), a gull of the genus Xema, of two species, esp. X. Sabinii of the Arctic Ocean. -- Fork-tailed kite (Zoöl.)…

te, occurring naturally in ants, nettles, pine needles, etc., and produced artifically in many ways, as by the oxidation of methyl alcohol, by the reduction of carbonic acid or the destructive distillation of oxalic acid. It is the first member of the fatty acids in the paraffin series, and is homologous with acetic ac…

sight. Dryden. I swell my preface into a volume, and make it formidable, when you see so many pages behind. Drydn.

an animal or plant found in stratified rocks. Most fossils belong to extinct species, but many of the later ones belong to species still living.

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

Four times as many or as much.

A carnivorous animal of the genus Vulpes, family Canidæ, of many species. The European fox (V. vulgaris or V. vulpes), the American red fox (V. fulvus), the American gray fox (V. Virginianus), and the arctic, white, or blue, fox (V. lagopus) are well-known species.

to contrive; to compose; in a bad sense, to invent or fabricate, as something false. How many excellent reasonings are framed in the mind of a man of wisdom and study in a length of years. I. Watts.

In Germany, a woman; a married woman; a wife; -- as a title, equivalent to Mrs., Madam.

In Germany, a young lady; an unmarried woman; -- as a title, equivalent to Miss.

To variegate; to checker; to streak. [R.] Freaked with many a mingled hue. Thomson.

In Germany and Austria, a baron.

At frequent or short intervals; many times; often; repeatedly; commonly.

et cloth; to fret a piece of gold or other metal; a worm frets the plants of a ship. With many a curve my banks I fret. Tennyson.

utonic people formerly occupying a large part of the coast of Holland and Northwestern Germany. The modern dialects of Friesic are spoken chiefly in the province of Friesland, and on some of the islands near the coast of Germany and Denmark.

ll battery deck and, often, a spar deck with a lighter battery. They carried sometimes as many as fifty guns. After the application of steam to navigation steam frigates of largely increased size and power were built, and formed the main part of the navies of the world till about 1870, when the introduction of ironclad…

important article of diet among Spanish- American peoples, being used as an ingredient of many dishes.

1. (Zoöl.) An amphibious animal of the genus Rana and related genera, of many species. Frogs swim rapidly, and take long leaps on land. Many of the species utter loud notes in the springtime.

A grape of many varieties and colors.