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A float for indicating the height of a liquid surface.

Swimming on the surface; buoyant; light. Sir W. Raleigh.

The eight month of the French republican calendar. It began April 20, and ended May 19. See Vendémiare.

was not isolated until 1886. It is a pungent, corrosive, colorless gas. Symbol F. Atomic weight 19.

An instrument for measuring the height of water in a river; a river gauge.

A heavy wheel, or cross arms with weights at the ends on a revolving axis, to regulate or equalize the motion of machinery by means of its inertia, where the power communicated, or the resistance to be overcome, is variable, as in the steam engine or the coining press. See Fly wheel (below).

A weight by which lead and some other metals were formerly sold, in England, varying from 19 [Obs.]

One of the membranous intervals between the incompleted angles of the parietal and neighboring bones of a fetal or young skull; -- so called because it exhibits a rhythmical pulsation.

Plato, or Orpheus, believed in any of these fooleries, it can not be suspected. Sir W. Raleigh.

equal to the work done in raising one pound avoirdupois against the force of gravity the height of one foot.

being equal to the work done in raising one ton against the force of gravity through the height of one foot.

To be of force, importance, or weight; to matter. It is not sufficient to have attained the name and dignity of a shepherd, not forcing how. Udall.

A pump adapted for delivering water at a considerable height above the pump, or under a considerable pressure; in distinction from one which lifts the water only to the top of the pump or delivers it through a spout. See Illust. of Plunger pump, under Plunger.

A lepidopterous insect belonging to Alypia and allied genera; as, the eight-spotted forester (A. octomaculata), which in the larval state is injurious to the grapevine.

The care of a foster child; the charge of nursing. Sir W. Raleigh.

See Fodder, a unit of weight.

Four times twenty; eighty.

Having four sides and four equal angles. Sir W. Raleigh.

A freight; a cargo. [Obs.] Shak.

Freight; loading; cargo. [Obs.] Shak.