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lly given for special objects, as to a traveler to insure him protection and assistance. [Written also firmaun.]

A group of Lacertilia having the tongue forked, including the common lizards. [Written also Fissilingues.]

In Old English, a song; a strain; a canto or portion of a ballad; a passus. [Written also fitte, fytte, etc.] To play some pleasant fit. Spenser.

An Indian bustard (Otis aurita). The Bengal floriken is Sypheotides Bengalensis. [Written also florikan, floriken, florican.]

That which floats on the sea or in rivers. [Written also floatage.]

Soft clayey matter in the vein, or surrounding it. [Written also flookan, flukan, and fluccan.]

low; a person behind the times, over- conservative, or slow; -- usually preceded by old. [Written also fogie and fogey.] [Colloq.] Notorious old bore; regular old fogy. Thackeray.

The half of a sword blade or foil blade nearest the point; -- opposed to forte. [Written also faible.]

Producing leaves. [Written also foliiferous.]

Meat chopped fine and highly seasoned, either served up alone, or used as a stuffing. [Written also forced meat.]

Before; -- sometimes written 'fore as if a contraction of afore or before. [Obs.]

One of the anterior feet of a quardruped or multiped; -- usually written fore foot.

To foreknow. [Obs.] [Written also forwete.] Chaucer.

orting to be made by another; the false making or material alteration of or addition to a written instrument for the purpose of deceit and fraud; as, the forgery of a bond. Bouvier.

A salt of formic acid. [Written also formiate.]

A written confession of faith; a formal statement of foctrines.

sit their eggs, with the bodies of other insects for the food of the young when hatched. [Written also Fossoria.]

The European polecat; -- called also European ferret, and fitchew. See Polecat. [Written also foulmart, foulimart, and fulimart.]

ger is supposed to be divided is indicated by figures or letters, called the denominator, written below a line, over which is the numerator, indicating the number of these parts included in the fraction; as -- Complex fraction, a fraction having a fraction or mixed number in the numerator or denominator, or in both. Da…

avian Venus; -- in Teutonic myths confounded with Frigga, but in Scandinavian, distinct. [Written also Frea, Fraying, and Ereyja.]