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A passerine bird of the family Dicruridæ. They are usually black with a deeply forked tail. They are natives of Asia, Africa, and Australia; -- called also drongo shrikes.

A spear with barbed forks for spearing eels.

e or scroll at the head of a violin. -- Fiddle pattern, a form of the handles of spoons, forks, etc., somewhat like a violin. -- Scotch fiddle, the itch. (Low) -- To play first, or second, fiddle, to take a leading or a subordinate part. [Colloq.]

Having the tongue forked.

A group of Lacertilia having the tongue forked, including the common lizards. [Written also Fissilingues.]

ter and flounce will do nothing but batter and bruise us. Barrow. With his broad fins and forky tail he laves The rising sirge, and flounces in the waves. Addison.

Forked or branched like a pair of forceps; constructed so as to open and shut like a pair of forceps. Sir T. Browne.

Deeply forked, as the tail of certain birds.

Having the ends forked or branched, and the ends of the branches terminating abruptly as if cut off; -- said of an ordinary, especially of a cross.

A table fork.

Forked; branching like a fork; as, furcate twigs.

A branching like a. fork.

A forked process; the wishbone or furculum.

Shaped like a fork; furcate.

A small South American deer (Furcifer Chilensis), with simple forked horns. [Written also guemul.]

A tine, prong, or fork. Specifically:

A dungfork. [Scot.] Burns.

l planes of projection. -- Ground liverwort (Bot.), a flowerless plant with a broad flat forking thallus and the fruit raised on peduncled and radiated receptacles (Marchantia polymorpha). -- Ground mail, in Scotland, the fee paid for interment in a churchyard. -- Ground mass (Geol.), the fine-grained or glassy base…

A post at the fork of a road, with a guideboard on it, to direct travelers.

A pin, usually forked, or of bent wire, for fastening the hair in place, -- used by women.