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hissing noise and then go out, like wet gunpowder; hence, to fail completely and ridicuously; to prove a failure. [Colloq.]

Disgracefully or shamefully criminal; grossly wicked; scandalous; shameful; -- said of acts, crimes, etc. Debauched principles and flagitious practices. I. Taylor.

One who strolls about aimlessly; a lounger; a loafer.

An umbelliferous Australian flower (Actinotus helianthi), often erroneously thought to be composite. The involucre looks as if cut out of white flannel.

A sudden burst of light; a flood of light instantaneously appearing and disappearing; a momentary blaze; as, a flash of lightning.

To throw or spread out; to flutter; to move ostentatiously; as, a flaunting show. You flaunt about the streets in your new gilt chariot. Arbuthnot. One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade. Pope.

A grin of civility; a leer. [Obs.] A sly, treacherous fleer on the face of deceivers. South.

lighty, or in mirth and joy. Many young gentlemen flock to him, and fleet the time carelessly. Shak.

In a fleshly manner; carnally; lasciviously. [Obs.] Chaucer.

r graver; a merely decorative figure. The neat characters and flourishes of a Bible curiously printed. Boyle.

, adv. In a flourishing manner; ostentatiously.

To insert surreptitiously, wrongfully, or without warrant; to interpolate; to pass off (something spurious or counterfeit) as genuine, true, or worthy; -- usually followed by in. Lest negligence or partiality might admit or fois in abuses corruption. R. Carew. When a scripture has been corrupted . . . by a supposititio…

One who foists something surreptitiously; a falsitier. Mir. for Mag.

Furnished with foliage; leaved; as, the variously foliaged mulberry.

Formerly; previously; afore. [Obs. or Colloq.] The eyes, fore duteous, now converted are. Shak.

To plan beforehand; to intend previously. Cheyne.

Called to mind previously. Bp. Montagu.

fering from the old Catalan forge mainly in using finely crushed ore and working continuously. Raymond. -- Catalan forge. (Metal.) See under Catalan. -- Forge cinder, the dross or slag form a forge or bloomary. -- Forge rolls, Forge train, the train of rolls by which a bloom is converted into puddle bars. -- Forge…

s forged, fabricated, falsely devised, or counterfeited. These are the forgeries of jealously. Shak. The writings going under the name of Aristobulus were a forgery of the second century. Waterland.

In a formal manner; essentially; characteristically; expressly; regularly; ceremoniously; precisely. That which formally makes this [charity] a Christian grace, is the spring from which it flows. Smalridge. You and your followers do stand formally divided against the authorized guides of the church and rest of the peop…