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A flock of birds suddenly started up or flushed.

mpede the motion of machinery by the resistance of the air, as in the striking part of a clock.

; to baffle; to outwit; to balk; to frustrate; to defeat. And by foiled. Dryden. Her long locks that foil the painter's power. Byron.

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.

encourage; to abet; to instigate; -- used often in a bad sense; as, to foment ill humors. Locke. But quench the choler you foment in vain. Dryden. Exciting and fomenting a religious rebellion. Southey.

ything for a truth, without having examined, what is there that he may not embrace for truLocke. Most of our ingenious young men take up some cried-up English poet for their model. Dryden. But let her go for an ungrateful woman. Philips.

Without a ford. A deep and fordless river. Mallock.

A first game; first plan. [Obs.] Whitlock.

ness. Let not the foreignness of the subject hinder you from endeavoring to set me right. Locke. A foreignness of complexion. G. Eliot.

One who forestalls; esp., one who forestalls the market. Locke.

The hair on the forepart of the head; esp., a tuft or lock of hair which hangs over the forehead, as of a horse.

s forged, and put into the mouth of scholars, could never get admittance into common use. Locke. Do forge a life-long trouble for ourselves. Tennyson.

A little fort; a blockhouse. [Obs.] Spenser.

as the truest fortitude. Milton. Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues. Locke.

; liableness to be deceived or seduced. God knows our frailty, [and] pities our weakness. Locke.

which has the power, or not the power, to operate, is that alone which is or is not free. Locke.

The quality of being friable; friableness. Locke.

tute of feathers; -- called also coldong, leatherhead, pimlico; poor soldier, and four-o'clock. The name is also applied to several other species of the same genus. -- Friar's balsam (Med.), a stimulating application for wounds and ulcers, being an alcoholic solution of benzoin, styrax, tolu balsam, and aloes; compoun…

iece of steel struck by the flint, to throw sparks into the pan, in an early form of flintlock. Knight.

A curl; a lock of hair crisped. Milton.