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n of warm, soft, medicinal substances, as for the purpose of easing pain, by relaxing the skin, or of discussing tumors.

To tread to measure or music; to dance; to trip; to skip. Dryden.

Art or skill of a footman.

To bungle; to manage awkwardly; to treat or play unskillfully; as, to foozle a stroke in golf.

A skilled smith, who has a hammerer to assist him.

A sensation resembling that made by the creeping of ants on the skin. Dunglison.

Very old. [Obs.] A bear's skin, coal-black, forold. Chaucer.

Lambskin parchment; vellum; forel. McElrath.

ing same unforeseen or unexpected good, or some good which was not dependent on one's own skill or efforts; favored with good forune; lucky.

partisan soldier, or one belonging to a corps of detached light troops engaged in forays, skirmishes, scouting, etc.

The skin which a deer frays from his horns. B. Jonson.

A small yellowish or brownish spot in the skin, particularly on the face, neck, or hands.

A cool, refreshing state of the air; duskiness; coolness; shade. [R.] Prior.

Accustomed to sail on fresh water only; unskilled as a seaman; as, a fresh-water sailor.

To ornament with raised work; to variegate; to diversify. Whose skirt with gold was fretted all about. Spenser. Yon gray lines, That fret the clouds, are messengers of day. Shak.

act of rubbing the body with the hand, with flannel, or with a brush etc., to excite the skin to healthy action.

A frolic; a fit of wanton gayety; a gambol: a little playful skip or leap. Johnson.

re, and is girded by a cord. Frock coat, a body coat for men, usually doublebreasted, the skirts not being in one piece with the body, but sewed on so as to be somewhat full. -- Smock frock. See in the Vocabulary.

Full of levity; dancing, playing, or frisking about; full of pranks; frolicsome; gay; merry. The frolic wind that breathes the spring. Milton. The gay, the frolic, and the loud. Waller.

The short, fine, soft hair of certain animals, growing thick on the skin, and distinguished from the hair, which is longer and coarser.