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s gigas). -- Fountain of youth, a mythical fountain whose waters were fabled to have the property of renewing youth.

Sour; unpleasant in taste; -- said of wine, beer, etc., not properly fermented; -- also of grapes which have the coarse flavor of the fox grape.

ecimal fraction, Partial fraction, etc. See under Continued, Decimal, Partial, etc. -- Improper fraction, a fraction in which the numerator is greater than the denominator. -- Proper fraction, a fraction in which the numerator is less than the denominator.

The quality or property of being in fragnebts, or broken pieces, incompleteness; want of continuity. G. Eliot.

(varying in the several statutes) is required to give efficacy to certain dispositions of property. Wharton.

The lines of the spectrun; especially and properly, the dark lines of the solar spectrum, so called because first accurately observed and interpreted by Fraunhofer, a German physicist.

Peace; -- a word used in composition, especially in proper names; as, Alfred; Frederic.

An estate in real property, of inheritance (in fee simple or fee tail) or for life; or the tenure by which such estate is held. Kent. Burrill. To abate into a freehold. See under Abate.

Properly, belonging to an order of alga: (Fucoideæ) which are blackish in color, and produce oöspores which are not fertilized until they have escaped from the conceptacle. The common rockweeds and the gulfweed (Sargassum) are fucoid in character.

ine; sometimes, erroneously, any kind of frame or body. Many aëroplanes have no fuselage, properly so called.

stic spectrum, found associated with yttrium and other rare metals. Its individuality and properties have not yet been determined.

A law or ruling prohibiting proper or free debate, as in closure. [Colloq. or Cant]

in gums. When oxidized it forms mucic acid. Called also lactose (though it is not lactose proper).

The branch of physical science which treats of dynamical elecricity, or the properties and effects of electrical currents.

h system of law (called ganancial system) which controls the title and disposition of the property acquired during marriage by the husband or wife.

k of a vessel on each side of the booms, from the quarter-deck to the forecastle; -- more properly termed the waist. Totten. Gangway ladder, a ladder rigged on the side of a vessel at the gangway. -- To bring to the gangway, to punish (a seaman) by flogging him at the gangway.

garnishment has been served in a suit by a creditor against a debtor, such person holding property belonging to the debtor, or owing him money.

The art or practice of measuring gases; also, the science which treats of the nature and properties of these elastic fluids. Coxe.

Goods; property; household stuff. Chaucer. Homely gear and common ware. Robynson (More's Utopia)

ing in which the teeth or cogs are ranged round either the concave or the convex surface (properly the latter) of a cylindrical wheel; -- for transmitting motion between parallel shafts, etc.