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ed him, That he ran mad and died. Shak. Foreign attachment (Law), a process by which the property of a foreign or absent debtor is attached for the satisfaction of a debt due from him to the plaintiff; an attachment of the goods, effects, or credits of a debtor in the hands of a third person; -- called in some States t…

omise; -- with to before the one acquiring what is forfeited. [They] had forfeited their property by their crimes. Burke. Undone and forfeited to cares forever! Shak.

To derive by grammatical rules, as by adding the proper suffixes and affixes.

Ardent; eager; earnest; in an ill sense, less reserved or modest than is proper; bold; confident; as, the boy is too forward for his years. I have known men disagreeably forward from their shyness. T. Arnold.

The act of one who forwards; the act or occupation of transmitting merchandise or other property for others.

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.

cimal 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.

A will free from improper coercion or restraint. To come thus was I not constrained, but did On my free will. Shak.

Improper familiarity; violation of the rules of decorum; license.

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.

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

tic 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]

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