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access; complaisance; affability. Offers himself to the visits of a friend with facility. South.

-- Fair maid. (Zoöl.) (a) The European pilchard (Clupea pilchardus) when dried. (b) The southern scup (Stenotomus Gardeni). [Virginia] -- Fair one, a handsome woman; a beauty, -- Fair play, equitable or impartial treatment; a fair or equal chance; justice. -- From fair to middling, passable; tolerable. [Colloq.] --…

filling away again on the same tack. -- False vampire (Zoöl.), the Vampyrus spectrum of South America, formerly erroneously supposed to have blood-sucking habits; -- called also vampire, and ghost vampire. The genuine blood-sucking bats belong to the genera Desmodus and Diphylla. See Vampire. -- False window. (Arch.…

lies; to violate the truth. It is absolutely and universally unlawful to lie and falsify. South.

ruth. Probability does not make any alteration, either in the truth or falsity of things. South.

Any palm tree having fan-shaped or radiate leaves; as the Chamærops humilis of Southern Europe; the species of Sabal and Thrinax in the West Indies, Florida, etc.; and especially the great talipot tree (Corypha umbraculifera) of Ceylon and Malaya. The leaves of the latter are often eighteen feet long and fourteen wide,…

hich fascinates; a charm; a spell. There is a certain bewitchery or fascination in words. South.

rational control. The Stoics held a fatality, and a fixed, unalterable course of events. South.

ss may give a wound that shall bleed and smart, but it is treachery that makes it fester. South. Hatred . . . festered in the hearts of the children of the soil. Macaulay.

To reduce; to throw. The sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a man to the ground. South.

A small dog; -- written also fise, fyce, fiste, etc. [Southern U.S.]

With confidence. South.

A large beetle (Allorhina nitida) which in the Southern United States destroys figs. The elytra are velvety green with pale borders.

To adopt as son or daughter; to establish filiation between. [R.] Southey.

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

liantly luminous beetle (Pyrophorus noctilucus), one of the elaters, found in Central and South America; -- called also cucujo. The name is also applied to other species. See Firefly.

heasants of the genus Euplocamus, having the lower back a bright, fiery red. They inhabit Southern Asia and the East Indies.

t injury; -- especially applied to the sandstone at the top of the upper greensand in the south of England, used for lining kilns and furnaces. Ure.

illusory pretext; deception; delusion. [Obs.] A perpetual abuse and flam upon posterity. South.

flaw in a will, in a deed, or in a statute. Has not this also its flaws and its dark side South.