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To serve. [Obs.]

Grouped in a fascicle; fascicled.

Honeycomb; having cavities or cells, somewhat resembling those of a honeycomb; alveolate; favose.

Furnished with fibrils; fringed.

The state of being reduced to fibers. Carpenter.

Made of potter's clay; molded; shaped. [R.] Johnson.

A machine for forming threads. [Obs.] W. Tooke.

A drawing out into threads; hence, the reeling of silk from cocoons. Ure.

To make hollow or become hollow like a fistula, or pipe. [Obs.] "A fistulated ulcer." Fuller.

Flabelliform.

The act of keeping fractured limbs cool by the use of a fan or some other contrivance. Dunglison.

An order of Infusoria, having one or two long, whiplike cilia, at the anterior end. It includes monads. See Infusoria, and Monad.

Of or pertaining to the Flagellata.

A beating or flogging; a whipping; a scourging. Garth.

One who practices flagellation; one who whips or scourges.

Of a reddish color.

nences or depressions; level without inclination; plane. Though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. Milton.

A foot in which the arch of the instep is flattened so that the entire sole of the foot rests upon the ground; also, the deformity, usually congential, exhibited by such a foot; splayfoot.

Having an even lower surface or bottom; as, a flat-bottomed boat.

A kind of low-crowned cap formerly worn by all classes in England, and continued in London after disuse elsewhere; -- hence, a citizen of London. Marston.