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ines, the first portion of spirit that comes over, being a fluid abounding in fusel oil. Knight.

To deprive; -- with of. [R.] All the better; may This night forestall him of the coming day! Shak.

Beyond a (certain) boundary; away; abroad; out. I have no mind of feasting forth to-night. Shak.

Direct; straightforward; as, a forthright man. [Archaic] Lowell. They were Night and Day, and Day and Night, Piligrims wight with steps forthright. Emerson.

To fall out; to happen. It fortuned the same night that a Christian, serving a Turk in the camp, secretely gave the watchmen warning. Knolles.

rked piece between two adjacent fingers, to which the front and back portions are sewed. Knight.

The crucible or basin in a furnace which receives the molten metal. Knight.

steel struck by the flint, to throw sparks into the pan, in an early form of flintlock. Knight.

t lamp, a lamp placed below the oil tube of an Argand lamp to keep the oil limpid on cold nights; -- used especially in lighthouses. Knight. -- Frost nail, a nail with a sharp head driven into a horse's shoe to keen him from slipping. -- Frost smoke, an appearance resembling smoke, caused by congelation of vapor in t…

cake; frosted glass. Frosted work is introduced as a foil or contrast to burnished work. Knight.

ed with, or producing, frost; having power to congeal water; cold; freezing; as, a frosty night.

in which the decomposition of a liquid by the passage of an electric spark is observed. Knight.

To become full or wholly illuminated; as, the moon fulls at midnight.

he like. Funnel box (Mining), an apparatus for collecting finely crushed ore from water. Knight. -- Funnel stay (Naut.), one of the ropes or rods steadying a steamer's funnel.

The jaws between which the hinder end of a carriage tongue is inserted. Knight.

To measure. See Gauge, v. t. You shall not gage me By what we do to-night. Shak.

The Milky Way; that luminous tract, or belt, which is seen at night stretching across the heavens, and which is composed of innumerable stars, so distant and blended as to be distinguishable only with the telescope. The term has recently been used for remote clusters of stars. Nichol.

ley slave." Macaulay.-- Galley slice (Print.), a sliding false bottom to a large galley. Knight.

allinule (Gallinula chloropus) is also called moor hen, water hen, water rail, moor coot, night bird, and erroneously dabchick. Closely related to it is the Florida gallinule (Gallinula galeata).

respectively, for a gang of saws for cutting the round log into boards at one operation. Knight. -- Slabbing gang, an arrangement of saws which cuts slabs from two sides of a log, leaving the middle part as a thick beam.