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a fight with the fists; boxing. Swift.

imp. & p. p. of Fight. [Obs. or Colloq.]

Sense of smell; scent; fig., discriminating sense.

lat chasing, in fine art metal working, a mode of ornamenting silverware, etc., producing figures by dots and lines made with a punching tool. Knight. -- Flat chisel, a sculptor's chisel for smoothing. -- Flat file, a file wider than its thickness, and of rectangular section. See File. -- Flat nail, a small, sharp-p…

Embellished with flowers of rhetoric; enriched to excess with figures; excessively ornate; as, a florid style; florid eloquence.

To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery. They dilate . . . and flourish long on little incidents. J. Watts.

A figure of speech; an ornament of style.

Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China.

A flock of sheep; figuratively, the Church or a church; as, Christ's fold. There shall be one fold and one shepherd. John x. 16. The very whitest lamb in all my fold. Tennyson.

Absurd; ridiculous; despicable; contemptible. A foolish figure he must make. Prior.

Soldiers who march and fight on foot; the infantry, usually designated as the foot, in distinction from the cavalry. "Both horse and foot." Milton.

The act of adding up a column of figures; the amount or sum total of such a column.

A soldier who marches and fights on foot; a foot soldier.

Fig.: To represent pictorially to the imagination. Songs, and deeds, and lives that lie Foreshortened in the tract of time. Tennyson.

isposition or arrangement of matter, giving it individuality or distinctive character; configuration; figure; external appearance. The form of his visage was changed. Dan. iii. 19. And woven close close, both matter, form, and style. Milton.

tters, the material part is breath and voice; the formal is constituted by the motion and figure of the organs of speech. Holder.

A symbolic expression (by means of letters, figures, etc.) of the constituents or constitution of a compound.

imp. & p. p. of Fight.

p. p. of Fight. [Archaic]

ace, as on something solid, for support; to ground; to establish upon a basis, literal or figurative; to fix firmly. I had else been perfect, Whole as the marble, founded as the rock. Shak. A man that all his time Hath founded his good fortunes on your love. Shak. It fell not, for it was founded on a rock. Matt. vii. 2…