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on; error; misrepresentation; falsity. Though it be a lie in the clock, it is but a falsehood in the hand of the dial when pointing at a wrong hour, if rightly following the direction of the wheel which moveth it. Fuller.

species of gecko having the toes expanded into large lobes for adhesion. The Egyptian fanfoot (Phyodactylus gecko) is believed, by the natives, to have venomous toes.

The state of being a father; the character or authority of a father; paternity.

nionableness; the spirit and disposition befitting comrades. There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee. Shak.

To form in festoons, or to adorn with festoons.

Pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling, festoons. Sir J. Herschel.

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

Having lobate toes, as the coot and grebe.

A South American bird (heliornis fulica) allied to the grebes. The name is also applied to several related species of the genus Podica.

Proof against fire; incombustible.

The act or process of rendering anything incombustible; also, the materials used in the process.

Same as Stokehold, below.

Wood for fuel.

A hook for catching fish.

A foot in which the arch of the instep is flattened so that the entire sole of the foot rests upon the ground; also, the deformity, usually congential, exhibited by such a foot; splayfoot.

Having a flat foot, with little or no arch of the instep.

Swift of foot. Shak.

on of having a form of flesh; incarnation. [R.] Thou, who hast thyself Endured this fleshhood. Mrs. Browning.

An Australian name for the very hard wood of the Eucalyptus piluralis.

red; a deluge; a freshet; an inundation. A covenant never to destroy The earth again by flood. Milton.