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he quiet, steady movement of a river; a stream. The feast of reason and the flow of soul. Pope.

lown with the mouth at a lateral hole. The breathing flute's soft notes are heard around. Pope.

No rag, no scrap, of all the beau, or wit, That once so fluttered, and that once so writ. Pope.

Hurry; tumult; agitation of the mind; confusion; disorder. Pope. Flutter wheel, a water wheel placed below a fall or in a chute where rapidly moving water strikes the tips of the floats; -- so called from the spattering, and the fluttering noise it makes.

To strip of provisions; to supply with forage; as, to forage steeds. Pope.

efore occurence; to prophesy; to foreshow. Deeds then undone my faithful tongue foretold. Pope. Prodigies, foretelling the future eminence and luster of his character. C. Middleton.

A pair of shears. Pope.

ce or recollection; a ceasing to remember; oblivion. A sweet forgetfulness of human care. Pope.

Opening into two or more parts or shoots; forked; furcated. "Forky tongues." Pope.

discipline; to mold by influence, etc.; to train. 'T is education forms the common mind. Pope. Thus formed for speed, he challenges the wind. Dryden.

al. Still in constraint your suffering sex remains, Or bound in formal or in real chains. Pope.

fortune of an ill judgment; but he can not be latter without both that and an ill temper. Pope.

Full of fountains. Pope.

n a cloud of fragrance. Milton. The goblet crowned, Breathed aromatic fragrancies around. Pope.

seceded from the Franciscan Order, chiefly in Italy and Sicily, in 1294, repudiating the pope as an apostate, maintaining the duty of celibacy and poverty, and discountenancing oaths. Called also Fratricellians and Fraticelli.

; trick. If success a lover's toil attends, Few ask, if fraud or force attained his ends. Pope.

he more freakish of the two. L'Estrange. Freakish when well, and fretful when she's sick. Pope. -- Freak"ish*ly, adv. -- Freak"ish*ness, n.

ion; as, he keeps his mind in a continual fret. Yet then did Dennis rave in furious fret. Pope.

In a friendly manner. Pope.

To break into small pieces or fragments. Break all nerves, and fritter all their sense. Pope. To fritter away, to diminish; to pare off; to reduce to nothing by taking away a little at a time; also, to waste piecemeal; as, to fritter away time, strength, credit, etc.