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Italy. Florentine mosaic, a mosaic of hard or semiprecious stones, often so chosen and arranged that their natural colors represent leaves, flowers, and the like, inlaid in a background, usually of black or white marble.

; parade of wordas, a flourish of rhetoric or of wit. He lards with flourishes his long harangue. Dryden.

nd, etc. Flowering fern, a genus of showy ferns (Osmunda), with conspicuous bivalvular sporangia. They usually grow in wet places. -- Flowering plants, plants which have stamens and pistils, and produce true seeds; phenogamous plants; -- distinguished from flowerless plants. -- Flowering rush, a European rushlike pla…

structure (Geol.), the structure characteristic of certain volcanic rocks in which the arrangement of the minute crystals shows the lines of flow of thew molten material before solidification; -- also called fluxion structure.

t incident upon it. The light emitted by fluorescent substances is in general of lower refrangibility than the incident light. Stockes.

s of fog resting upon the sea, and resembling distant land. -- Fog ring, a bank of fog arranged in a circular form, -- often seen on the coast of Newfoundland.

Leaves, collectively, as produced or arranged by nature; leafage; as, a tree or forest of beautiful foliage.

The enrichment of an opening by means of foils, arranged in trefoils, quatrefoils, etc.; also, one of the ornaments. See Tracery.

ships or villages; a community; a tribe. [Obs.] The organization of each folk, as such, sprang mainly from war. J. R. Green.

The state of being foolish; want of good sense; levity, weakness, or derangement of mind.

treated with foolish or doting affection. Fondlings are in danger to be made fools. L'Estrange.

The orange filefish. See Filefish.

A holding with the feet; firm L'Estrange.

wisdom to consider the end of things before we embark, and to forecast consequences. L'Estrange.

Ominous foreboding; superstitious prognostication. [Obs.] L'Estrange.

Remote; distant; strange; not belonging; not connected; not pertaining or pertient; not appropriate; not harmonious; not agreeable; not congenial; -- with to or from; as, foreign to the purpose; foreign to one's nature. This design is not foreign from some people's thoughts. Swift.

the country or jurisdiction under consideration, or not naturalized there; an alien; a stranger. Joy is such a foreigner, So mere a stranger to my thoughts. Denham. Nor could the majesty of the English crown appear in a greater luster, either to foreigners or subjects. Swift.

To foreshow; to presignify; to prognosticate. Whilst strange prodigious signs foretoken blood. Daniel.

Heedless; careless; neglectful; inattentive. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers. Heb. xiii. 2.

, as distinguished from the material of which it is composed; particular disposition 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.…