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free, as from difficulties or perplexities; to disentangle; to disembarrass; as, to extricate a person from debt, peril, etc. We had now extricated ourselves from the various labyrinths and defiles. Eustance.

The act or process of extricating or disentangling; a freeing from perplexities; disentanglement.

To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to frame; to construct; to build; as, to fabricate a bridge or ship.

The act of fabricating, framing, or constructing; construction; manufacture; as, the fabrication of a bridge, a church, or a government. Burke.

One who fabricates; one who constructs or makes. The fabricator of the works of Ossian. Mason.

A woman who fabricates.

A catch made by a player on side who makes a prescribed signal that he will not attempt to advance the ball when caught. He must not then be interfered with.

Hooked or bent like a sickle; as, a falcate leaf; a falcate claw; -- said also of the moon, or a planet, when horned or crescent- formed.

The state of being falcate; a bend in the form of a sickle. Sir T. Browne.

ich it is not. To counterfeit the living image of king in his person exceedeth all falsifications. Bacon.

A falsifier. Bp. Morton.

Fringed; jagged; fimbriate.

The act, process, or time of flowering; florescence.

A flowering; florification. [R.] Craig.

A double fluoride of silicon and some other (usually basic) element or radical, regarded as a salt of fluosilicic acid; -- called also silicofluoride.

Having the habit of catching insects on the wing.

One of numerous species of birds that feed upon insects, which they take on the wing.

Deeply forked, as the tail of certain birds.

Resembling, or pertaining to, an ant or ants.

A sensation resembling that made by the creeping of ants on the skin. Dunglison.