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ut a caper. I gave a flourishing about the room and cut a curlycue with my right foot. McClintock.

smear with a dabber. A sore should . . . be wiped . . . only by dabbing it over with fine lint. S. Sharp.

ich the arteries empty directly into the veins without the interposition of capillaries. Flint. -- De*riv"a*tive*ly, adv. -- De*riv"a*tive*ness, n.

individual is nothing. He is no more than the diatom, the bit of protoplasm. Mrs. E. Lynn Linton.

r, window, or other opening, to distribute the pressure of the wall above. See Illust. of Lintel. -- Discharging piece, Discharging strut (Arch.), a piece set to carry thrust or weight to a solid point of support. -- Discharging rod (Elec.), a bent wire, with knobs at both ends, and insulated by a glass handle. It is…

A small ovoid or cylindrical roil or pledget of lint, for keeping a sore, wound, etc., open; a tent.

A very diminutive person; a dwarf. Elf arrow, a flint arrowhead; - - so called by the English rural folk who often find these objects of prehistoric make in the fields and formerly attributed them to fairies; -- called also elf bolt, elf dart, and elf shot. -- Elf child, a child supposed to be left by elves, in room o…

ward or outward instead of downward. It is esteemed an index of milking qualities. C. L. Flint.

. an error to suppose that where an Esquimau can live, a civilized man can live also. McClintock.

; involving exaggeration. "Exaggerative language." Geddes. "Exaggerative pictures." W. J. Linton. -- Ex*ag"ger*a*tive*ly, adv. Carlyle.

To remove scales, laminæ, or splinters from the surface of.

ion or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, a splinter from the finger. The bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet. Milton.

A finegrained rock, flintlike in fracture, consisting essentially of orthoclase feldspar with occasional grains of quartz.

mething new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a person. Searching the window for a flint, I found This paper, thus sealed up. Shak. In woods and forests thou art found. Cowley.

An old form of gunlock, as the flintlock, which ignites the priming by a spark; perhaps originally, a matchlock. Hence, a gun having such a lock.

Iron pyrites, formerly used for striking fire; also, a flint.

ds of dimness. Knight. -- Flash in the pan, the flashing of the priming in the pan of a flintlock musket without discharging the piece; hence, sudden, spasmodic effort that accomplishes nothing.

Small pieces or splinters; fragments. The tough ash spear, so stout and true, Into a thousand flinders flew. Sir W. Scott.

A bat; -- called also flickermouse, flindermouse, and flintymouse.

Light down, such as rises from cotton, fur, etc.; very fine lint or hair. Dickens.