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aërolite. -- Falling tide, the ebb tide. -- Falling weather, a rainy season. [Colloq.] Bartlett.

e floors of a warehouse or manufactory, through which goods are raised or lowered. [U.S.] Bartlett.

To act as a filibuster, or military freebooter. Bartlett.

The characteristics or practices of a filibuster. Bartlett.

ak. To flash in the pan, to fail of success. [Colloq.] See under Flash, a burst of light. Bartlett.

e part of one's capital, or not in the line of one's ordinary business; a venture. [Cant] Bartlett.

The persons of one's own family; as, our folks are all well. [Colloq. New Eng.] Bartlett. Folk song, one of a class of songs long popular with the common people. -- Folk speech, the speech of the common people, as distinguished from that of the educated class.

An iron cleaver or splitting tool; a frow. [U. S.] Bartlett.

a measuring rod, or a rod used to drive cattle with. [Prov. Eng. Local, U.S.] Halliwell. Bartlett. Upon the gad, upon the spur of the moment; hastily. [Obs.] "All this done upon the gad!" Shak.

Bread made of unbolted wheat flour. [U. S.] Bartlett.

covered with bushes and vines. Used also adjectively; as, hammock land. [Southern U. S.] Bartlett. Hammock nettings (Naut.), formerly, nets for stowing hammocks; now, more often, wooden boxes or a trough on the rail, used for that purpose.

A civil officer charged with the duty of impounding hogs running at large. [New Eng.] Bartlett.

On one's own hook, on one's own account or responsibility; by one's self. [Colloq. U.S.] Bartlett. -- To go off the hooks, to die. [Colloq.] Thackeray. -- Bid hook, a small boat hook. -- Chain hook. See under Chain. -- Deck hook, a horizontal knee or frame, in the bow of a ship, on which the forward part of the de…

To agree; to harmonize. [Colloq.] Bartlett.

aked hard and oiled, used as a marble by boys in playing. [Prov. Eng. & U. S.] Halliwell. Bartlett.

A rounded hill or mountain; as, the Pilot Knob. [U. S.] Bartlett.

Abounding in rounded hills or mountains; hilly. [U.S.] Bartlett.

A measure of land in Mexico and Texas, equivalent to an area of 177 Bartlett.

islative body in the lobby or elsewhere, with the purpose to influence their votes.[U.S.] Bartlett.

One having five eighths negro blood; the offspring of a mulatto and a griffe. [Louisiana] Bartlett.