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urpose of removing any foreign substance that obstructs the passage. [Written also oesophagotomy.]

A bassoon. See Fagotto.

called from being divided into parts for ease of carriage, making, as it were, a small fagot.

A lively dance, in 3-8 or 6-8 time, much practiced in Spain and Spanish America. Also, the tune to which it is danced.

A quantity of wares, as raw silk, etc., from one hundred weight.

s ccomposed of various materials confusedly mixed; a medley; a mixture. A confounded farrago of doubts, fears, hopes, wishes, and all the flimsy furniture of a country miss's brain. Sheridan.

ess; the spirit and disposition befitting comrades. There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee. Shak.

A disease of plants caused by fungi, commonly called the rust, from its resemblance to iron rust in color.

The lowest title of nobility in Portugal, corresponding to that of Hidalgo in Spain.

A prickly, climbing shrub of the genus Pisonia. The fruit is a kind of berry.

e, and of leather or stoneware rather than of glass. A trencher of mutton chops, and a flagon of ale. Macaulay.

Any bird of the genus Phoenicopterus. The flamingoes have webbed feet, very long legs, and a beak bent down as if broken. Their color is usually red or pink. The American flamingo is P. ruber; the European is P. antiquorum.

To swallow whole, as a flapdragon; to devour. [Obs.] See how the sea flapdragoned it. Shak.

To quit; to relinquish; to leave. Stay at the third cup, or forego the place. Herbert.

One who goes before another; a predecessor; hence, an ancestor' a progenitor.

To pass by; to leave. See 1st Forego. For sith [since] I shall forgoon my liberty At your request. Chaucer. And four [days] since Florimell the court forwent. Spenser.

imp. & p. p. of Forget.

p. p. of Forget.

A going forth; an utterance. A. Chalmers.

A French baggage wagon.