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Composed of firm pulp; succulent; as, the houseleek, cactus, and agave are fleshy plants.

ession of sarcastic scorn; a gibe; a sarcasm. I, who love to have a fling, Both at senate house and king. Swift.

The part of the house assigned to the members.

Any dipterous insect; as, the house fly; flesh fly; black fly. See Diptera, and Illust. in Append.

tred, grudge, or malice, against another; an enemy. A man's foes shall be they of his own household. Matt. x. 36

The lower house of the Danish Rigsdag, or Parliament. See Legislature, below.

Folly; foolery. Let not the sound of shallow foppery enter My sober house. Shak.

th reference to; -- used parenthetically or independently. See under As. As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. Josh. xxiv. 15. For me, my stormy voyage at an end, I to the port of death securely tend. Dryden. -- For all that, notwithstanding; in spite of. -- For all the world, wholly; exactly. "Whose posy wa…

from, or warn off, by express command; to command not to enter. Have I not forbid her my house Shak.

kes it necessary to use considerable force in putting the two parts together. -- Forcing house, a greenhouse for the forcing of plants, fruit trees, etc. -- Forcing machine, a powerful press for putting together or separating two parts that are fitted tightly one into another, as for forcing a crank on a shaft, or fo…

A purveyor of the king; -- so called, formerly, from going before to provide for his household. [Obs.]

furnace, etc., where iron is heated and wrought; a smithy. In the quick forge and working house of thought. Shak.

A little fort; a blockhouse. [Obs.] Spenser.

ing the base course (see Base course (a), under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry.

hak. Balloon frame, Cant frames, etc. See under Balloon, Cant, etc. -- Frame building or house, a building of which the form and support is made of framed timbers. [U.S.] -- Frame level, a mason's level. -- Frame saw, a thin saw stretched in a frame to give it rigidity.

An English freeholder, or substantial householder. [Obs.] Chaucer. The franklin, a small landholder of those days. Sir J. Stephen.

A monk; also, a frater house. [R.] Shipley. Frater house, an apartament in a convent used as an eating room; a refectory; -- called also a fratery.

A frater house. See under Frater.

all kinds are received from ships of all nations at equal rates of duty. -- Free public house, in England, a tavern not belonging to a brewer, so that the landlord is free to brew his own beer or purchase where he chooses. Simmonds. -- Free school. (a) A school to which pupils are admitted without discrimination and…

ard part; the foremost rank; the van; -- the opposite to back or rear; as, the front of a house; the front of an army. Had he his hurts before Ay, on the front. Shak.