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The officer in a religious house who had the care of the infirmary. [Obs.]

pendiary estate in land, held of superior, by service; the right which a vassal or tenant had to the lands or other immovable thing of his lord, to use the same and take the profists thereof hereditarily, rendering to his superior such duties and services as belong to military tenure, etc., the property of the soil alw…

of a feud or fief. The grantee . . . was styled the feudatory or vassal. Blackstone. [He] had for feudatories great princes. J. H. Newman.

Sinew; strength; toughness; as, a man of real fiber. Yet had no fibers in him, nor no force. Chapman.

pples kept by a dragon. Sir W. Raleigh. When it could no longer be denied that her flight had been voluntary, numerous fictions were invented to account for it. Macaulay.

., in England, being one fifteenth part of what the personal property in each town, etc., had been valued at. Burrill.

battle; to win or gain by struggle, as one's way; to sustain by fighting, as a cause. He had to fight his way through the world. Macaulay. I have fought a good fight. 2 Tim. iv. 7.

his, they will say, was figurative, and served, by God's appointment, but for a time, to shadow out the true glory of a more divine sanctity. Hooker.

A plane for making a rabbet. Fillister screw had, a short cylindrical screw head, having a convex top.

Ardor of passion, whether love or hate; excessive warmth; consumingviolence of temper. he had fire in his temper.Atterbury.

h a stouter and shorter pole or club, called a swipe, is so hung as to swing freely. His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn. Milton.

g which a flash is visible; an instant; a very brief period. The Persians and Macedonians had it for a flash. Bacon.

The human eace; mankind; humanity. All flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. Gen. vi. 12.

A butcher. A flesher on a block had laid his whittle down. Macaulay.

like a flame in a current of air, or when about to expire; as, the flickering light. The shadows flicker to fro. Tennyson.

flight of imagination, ambition, folly. Could he have kept his spirit to that flight, He had been happy. Byron. His highest flights were indeed far below those of Taylor. Macaulay.

o the full; to have a season of dissipation. J. H. Newman. "When I was as young as you, I had my fling. I led a life of pleasure." D. Jerrold.

iddiness, or plays at courtship; a coquette; a pert girl. Several young flirts about town had a design to cast us out of the fashionable world. Addison.

h a rapid motion; to dart along; to fleet; as, a bird flits away; a cloud flits along. A shadow flits before me. Tennyson.

A removal from one habitation to another. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] A neighbor had lent his cart for the flitting, and it was now standing loaded at the door, ready to move away. Jeffrey.