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n accordance with, forms or rules; punctilious; regular; orderly; methodical; of a prescribed form; exact; prim; stiff; ceremonious; as, a man formal in his dress, his gait, his conversation. A cold-looking, formal garden, cut into angles and rhomboids. W. Irwing. She took off the formal cap that confined her hair. Haw…

The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. [Obs.] The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller.

A group of beds of the same age or period; as, the Eocene formation.

A prescribed or set form; an established rule; a fixed or conventional method in which anything is to be done, arranged, or said.

Stated; prescribed; ritual.

A set or prescribed model; a formula. [Obs.] Johnson.

A large bedstead with tall posts at the corners to support curtains. [Colloq.]

Rope yarn twisted together, and rubbed with tar; -- used for seizings or mats.

Crabbed; peevish. [Prov. Eng.]

Rubbed or worn away; chafed.

Rubbed; marked; as, pock-fretten, marked with the smallpox. [Obs.] Wright.

f and formal; as, a frigid constitution; a frigid style; a frigid look or manner; frigid obedience or service.

Not willing to yield or compIy with what is required or is reasonable; perverse; disobedient; peevish; as, a froward child. A froward man soweth strife. Prov. xvi. 28. A froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as innovation. Bacon.

To put off by trickery; to cheat. [Obs.] I have been fubbed off, and fubbed off, and fabbed off, from this day to that day. Shak.

Having the attention, thoughts, etc., absorbed in any matter, and the feelings more or less excited by it, as, to be full of some project. Every one is full of the miracles done by cold baths on decayed and weak constitutions. Locke.

ences (stocks or bonds) of money lent to government, for which interest is paid at prescribed intervals; -- called also public funds.

Articles used for convenience or decoration in a house or apartment, as tables, chairs, bedsteads, sofas, carpets, curtains, pictures, vases, etc.

A barbed spear or a hook with a handle, used by fishermen in securing heavy fish.

A piece of iron imbedded in the sand of a mold to keep the sand in place.

. Dunglison. -- Gall of the earth (Bot.), an herbaceous composite plant with variously lobed and cleft leaves, usually the Prenanthes serpentaria.