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Injured as by fire; burned; -- said of manure which has lost its goodness and acquired an ashy hue in consequence of heat generated by decomposition.

The region of the air; the sky or heavens. And God said, Let there be a firmament in the miGen. i. 6. And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament. Gen. i. 14.

e men on duty during that time. -- First water, the highest quality or purest luster; -- said of gems, especially of diamond and pearls.

The first produce or offspring; -- said of animals, especially domestic animals; as, the firstlings of his flock. Milton.

To bring to a required form and size; to shape aright; to adapt to a model; to adjust; -- said especially of the work of a carpenter, machinist, tailor, etc. The carpenter . . . marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes. Is. xliv. 13.

ally with a solid substance or in a solid form; reduction to a non-volatile condition; -- said of gaseous elements.

Having many nerves diverging radiately from the base; -- said of a leaf.

inserted at one end. It produces a shrill sound, softer than of the piccolo flute, and is said to have superseded the old recorder. Flageolet tones (Mus.), the naturel harmonics or overtones of stringed instruments.

Disgracefully or shamefully criminal; grossly wicked; scandalous; shameful; -- said of acts, crimes, etc. Debauched principles and flagitious practices. I. Taylor.

upon the surface, or apparently applied at the top and allowed to run down the sides; -- said of pieces of Chinese porcelain.

Characterized by waving or flamelike curves, as in the tracery of windows, etc.; -- said of the later (15th century) French Gothic style.

Having flanches; -- said of an escutcheon with those bearings.

White, flecked with minute dots of bay or sorrel; -- said of the color of a horse.

To slip on the whelps or the barrel of a capstan or windlass; - - said of a cable or hawser.

Finished at the ends with fleurs-de-lis; -- said esp. a cross so decorated.

Feathered; -- said of arrows.

Finely granulated; -- said of quicksilver which has been granulated by agitation during the amalgamation process. Raymond.

m with facility and smoothness; as, a fluent speaker; hence, flowing; voluble; smooth; -- said of language; as, fluent speech. With most fluent utterance. Denham. Fluent as the flight of a swallow is the sultan's letter. De Quincey.

open; a bomb flies apart. To fly about (Naut.), to change frequently in a short time; -- said of the wind. -- To fly around, to move about in haste. [Colloq.] -- To fly at, to spring toward; to rush on; to attack suddenly. -- To fly in the face of, to insult; to assail; to set at defiance; to oppose with violence; t…

the first set of teeth of a horse. -- In foal, With foal, being with young; pregnant; -- said of a mare or she ass.