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A grin of civility; a leer. [Obs.] A sly, treacherous fleer on the face of deceivers. South.

rk no more now floats, but seems on ground. Milton. Three blustering nights, borne by the southern blast, I floated. Dryden.

able the Psalms do more briefly contain. Hooker. The flower of the chivalry of all Spain. Southey. A simple maiden in her flower Is worth a hundred coats of arms. Tennyson.

cite; to animate; to stir. Such things as can only feed his pride and flush his ambition. South.

be in a heat or bustle; to be agitated and confused. The flstering, vainglorious Greeks. South.

. He might fashionably and genteelly . . . have been dueled or fluxed into another world. South.

When a scripture has been corrupted . . . by a supposititious foisting of some words in. South.

ntly moving (in consequence of the erth's rotation); as, a small star, north following or south following. In the direction toward which stars appear to move is called preceding.

A star of the first magnitude, in the constellation Piscis Australis, or Southern Fish.

ench the choler you foment in vain. Dryden. Exciting and fomenting a religious rebellion. Southey.

will of the subject is preserved, while it is directed by the fore purpose of the state. Southey.

To arm or prepare for attack or resistance before the time of need. South.

sentence decreed in advance. "A dread foredoom ringing in the ears of the guilty adult." Southey.

A promontory or cape; a headland; as, the North and South Foreland in Kent, England.

Foresight; prudence. Let this forewit guide thy thought. Southwell.

abrusca) is the origin of the varieties called Isabella, Concord, Hartford, etc., and the southern fox grape (Vitis vulpina) has produced the Scuppernong, and probably the Catawba. -- Fox hunter. (a) One who pursues foxes with hounds. (b) A horse ridden in a fox chase. -- Fox shark (Zoöl.), the thrasher shark. See Th…

llied genera, of Asia and Africa. The common species (F. vulgaris) was formerly common in southern Europe, but is now nearly restricted to Asia.

or tastes. With what terms of respect knaves and sots will speak of their own fraternity! South.

ur country richly fraught. Shak. A discourse fraught with all the commending excellences oSouth. Enterprises fraught with world-wide benefits. I. Taylor.

formerly those of the Hanseatic league. -- Free cost, freedom from charges or expenses. South. -- Free and easy, unconventional; unrestrained; regardless of formalities. [Colloq.] "Sal and her free and easy ways." W. Black. -- Free goods, goods admitted into a country free of duty. -- Free labor, the labor of free…