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straw color; greenish yellow. [Obs.] A little insect of a festucine or pale green. Sir T. Browne.

Formed or consisting of straw. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

n; a fiction; something feigned or imagined. Social figments, feints, and formalism. Mrs. Browning. It carried rather an appearance of figment and invention . . . than of truth and reality. Woodward.

epresented by figure or delineation; consisting of figures; as, figural ornaments. Sir T. Browne.

genus of herbaceous plants (Scrophularia), mostly found in the north temperate zones. See Brownwort.

ilaments of coagulated blood, from the rupture of a vein; -- called also backworm. Sir T. Browne.

evenings, watching how they fined themselves With gradual conscience to a perfect night. Browning.

Infinite. [Obs.] Sir T. browne.

The quality of being flammable; inflammability. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

The act of setting in a flame or blaze. [Obs.] Sir. T. Browne.

Pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling, flame. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

d; as, the flap of a garment. A cartilaginous flap upon the opening of the larynx. Sir T. Browne.

ng a form of flesh; incarnation. [R.] Thou, who hast thyself Endured this fleshhood. Mrs. Browning.

Milton. I flung closer to his breast, As sword that, after battle, flings to sheath. Mrs. Browning. To fling out, to become ugly and intractable; to utter sneers and insinuations.

A massive, somewhat impure variety of quartz, in color usually of a gray to brown or nearly black, breaking with a conchoidal fracture and sharp edge. It is very hard, and strikes fire with steel.

up a cent. As when your little ones Do 'twixt their fingers flip their cherry stones. W. Browne.

To star Flushing from one spray unto another. W. Browne.

nitens), allied to the chatterers and shrikes. The male is glossy blue-black; the female brownish gray. -- Fly wheel (Mach.), a heavy wheel attached to machinery to equalize the movement (opposing any sudden acceleration by its inertia and any retardation by its momentum), and to accumulate or give out energy for a v…

Like a leaf; thin; unsubstantial. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

like a pair of forceps; constructed so as to open and shut like a pair of forceps. Sir T. Browne.