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To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize. Whose white vestments figure innocence. Shak.

The loins of a horse, beginning at the place where the hinder part of the saddle rests. Arris fillet. See under Arris.

nterior walls of masonry, the pores of open-grained wood, the space between the outer and inner planks of a vessel, etc.

The knot or bunch of foliage, or foliated ornament, that forms the upper extremity of a pinnacle in Gothic architecture; sometimes, the pinnacle itself.

Completion; -- opposed to Ant: start, or Ant: beginning.

ciples. Adam was first formed, then Eve. 1 Tim. ii. 13. At first, At the first, at the beginning or origin. -- First or last, at one time or another; at the beginning or end. And all are fools and lovers first or last. Dryden.

ra, including the dogs, cats, and bears, in which the feet are not webbed; -- opposed to Pinnipedia.

To fall form the pitch. To flat out, to fail from a promising beginning; to make a bad ending; to disappoint expectations. [Colloq.]

steeping in bicarbinate of soda and acidulated liquids, and prepared for bleaching and spinning like cotton. Knight. -- Flax dresser, one who breaks and swingles flax, or prepares it for the spinner. -- Flax mill, a mill or factory where flax is spun or linen manufactured. -- Flax puller, a machine for pulling flax…

To grin with an air of civility; to leer. [Obs.] Grinning and fleering as though they went to a bear baiting. Latimer.

ely hast thou fleshed Thy maiden sword. Shak. The wild dog Shall flesh his tooth on every innocent. Shak.

The act of fleshing, or the excitement attending a successful beginning. [R.] Shak.

The state of beinng liquid through heat; fusion.

The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn.

The pair of arms attached to the spindle of a spinning frame, over which the thread passes to the bobbin; -- so called from their swift revolution. See Fly, n., 11.

Spenser. They lash, they foin, they pass, they strive to bore Their corselets, and the thinnest parts explore. Dryden.

A simple podlike pericarp which contains several seeds and opens along the inner or ventral suture, as in the peony, larkspur and milkweed.

A fool; a simpleton; a ninny. [Obs.] Chapman.

The part most advanced, or first in time or in place; the beginning.

To shoot into blades, as corn. The corn beginneth to fork. Mortimer. 1