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if by decree of fate; mortaility. The year sixty-three is conceived to carry with it the most considerable fatality. Ser T. Browne. By a strange fatality men suffer their dissenting. Eikon Basilike.

e house, the member of a legislative body who has had the longest continuous service. -- Most Reverend Father in God, a title given to archbishops and metropolitans, as to the archbishops of Canterbury and York. -- Natural father, the father of an illegitimate child. -- Putative father, one who is presumed to be the…

Incapable of being fathomed; immeasurable; that can not be sounded. And buckle in a waist most fathomless. Shak.

s certain deep guttural sounds found in the Semitic and some other languages. Ayin is the most difficult of the faucals. I. Taylor (The Alphabet).

The competitor (as a horse in a race) that is judged most likely to win; the competitor standing highest in the betting.

; abounding with sediment or excrementitious matter; muddy; thick; turbid. Both his hands most filthy feculent. Spenser.

dment shall feel no evil thing. Eccl. viii. 5. He best can paint them who shall feel them most. Pope. Mankind have felt their strength and made it felt. Byron.

s still, Serving alike in sorrow. Shak. That enormous engine was flanked by two fellows almost of equal magnitude. Gibbon.

a tough, yellow, crystalline salt, K4(CN)6Fe, the starting point in the manufacture of almost all cyanogen compounds, and the basis of the ferric ferrocyanate, prussian blue. It is obtained by strongly heating together potash, scrap iron, and animal matter containing nitrogen, as horn, leather, blood, etc., in iron po…

Having an offensive smell; stinking. Most putrefactions . . . smell either fetid or moldy. Bacon.

ons, including usually, thirst and loss of appetite. Many diseases, of which fever is the most prominent symptom, are denominated fevers; as, typhoid fever; yellow fever.

he tarsus, which articulates with the fibula, and corresponds to the calcaneum in man and most mammals.

office of fiction as a vehicle of instruction and moral elevation has been recognized by most if not all great educators. Dict. of Education.

The wood of several West Indian trees, mostly of the genus Citharexylum.

A genus of herbaceous plants (Scrophularia), mostly found in the north temperate zones. See Brownwort.

of parallel teeth; a float. -- Smooth file, a file having teeth so fine as to make an almost smooth surface.

A hairlike feather; a father with a slender scape and without a web in most or all of its length.

Lit., end of the century; -- mostly used adjectively in English to signify: belonging to, or characteristic of, the close of the 19th century; modern; "up-to-date;" as, fin-de-siècle ideas.

tful; skillful; dexterous. The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Pope. The nicest and most delicate touches of satire consist in fine raillery. Dryden. He has as fine a hand at picking a pocket as a woman. T. Gray.

To bestow the last required labor upon; to complete; to bestow the utmost possible labor upon; to perfect; to accomplish; to polish.