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A luminous meteor, resembling a ball of fire passing rapidly through the air, and sometimes exploding.

In the first place; before anything else; -- sometimes improperly used for first.

ming the mold used in a foundry; it consists of two or more parts; viz., the cope or top; sometimes, the cheeks, or middle part; and the drag, or bottom part. When there are one or more cheeks, the flask is called a three part flask, four part flask, etc. Erlenmeyer flask, a thin glass flask, flat-bottomed and cone-sha…

To raise hopes in; to encourage or favorable, but sometimes unfounded or deceitful, representations.

out substance or reality; puffy; empty; vain; as, a flatulent vanity. He is too flatulent sometimes, and sometimes too dry. Dryden.

Any worm belonging to the Plathelminthes; also, sometimes applied to the planarians.

; to avoid in an alarmed or cowardly manner; to hasten off; -- usually with from. This is sometimes omitted, making the verb transitive. [He] cowardly fled, not having struck one stroke. Shak. Flee fornication. 1 Cor. vi. 18. So fled his enemies my warlike father. Shak.

A small cartridge designed for target shooting; -- sometimes called ball cap. Flobert rifle, a rifle adapted to the use of floberts.

A woolly filament sometimes occuring with the sporules of certain fungi.

with prickly branches, and showy yellow or red flowers; -- so named from its having been sometimes used for hedges in the West Indies. Baird.

The length of an extended flag from its staff; sometimes, the length from the "union" to the extreme end.

To show indistinctly or become indistinct, as the picture on a negative sometimes does in the process of development.

A nebulous arch, or bow, of white or yellowish light sometimes seen in fog, etc.

s due to the cleavage structure of one of the constituents, as mica or hornblende. It may sometimes include slaty structure or cleavage, though the latter is usually independent of any mineral constituent, and transverse to the bedding, it having been produced by pressure.

A page of a book; (Bookkeeping) a page in an account book; sometimes, two opposite pages bearing the same serial number.

To sum up, as the numbers in a column; -- sometimes with up; as, to foot (or foot up) an account.

Spenser. -- For to, as sign of infinitive, in order to; to the end of. [Obs., except as sometimes heard in illiterate speech.] -- "What went ye out for to see" Luke vii. 25. See To, prep., 4. -- O for, would that I had; may there be granted; -- elliptically expressing desire or prayer. "O for a muse of fire." Shak.…

ce of a negative or privative. It often implies also loss, detriment, or destruction, and sometimes it is intensive, meaning utterly, quite thoroughly, as in forbathe.

ken. Bacon. But I have reasons strong and forcible. Shak. That punishment which hath been sometimes forcible to bridle sin. Hooker. He is at once elegant and sublime, forcible and ornamented. Lowth (Transl. )

Before; -- sometimes written 'fore as if a contraction of afore or before. [Obs.]