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A festering. [R.] Chalmers.

An invention; a fiction; something feigned or imagined. Social figments, feints, and formalism. Mrs. Browning. It carried rather an appearance of figment and invention . . . than of truth and reality. Woodward.

A thread or threadlike object or appendage; a fiber; esp. (Bot.), the threadlike part of the stamen supporting the anther.

Having the character of, or formed by, a filament.

Like a filament.

Like a thread; consisting of threads or filaments. Gray.

Fixed foundation; established basis. [Obs.] Custom is the . . . firmament of the law. Jer. Taylor.

Pertaining to the firmament; celestial; being of the upper regions. Dryden.

The act of fitting; that which is proper or becoming; equipment. [Obs.] Shak.

The act of fleshing, or the excitement attending a successful beginning. [R.] Shak.

To cherish with heat; to foster. [Obs.] Which these soft fires . . . foment and warm. Milton.

The act of fomenting; the application of warm, soft, medicinal substances, as for the purpose of easing pain, by relaxing the skin, or of discussing tumors.

One who foments; one who encourages or instigates; as, a fomenter of sedition.

ng; compulsion. [Obs.] It was imposed upon us by constraint; And will you count such forcement treachery J. Webster.

Previous appointment; preordinantion. Sherwood.

The act of foreboding; the thing foreboded.

Prejudgment. [Obs.] Spenser.

Mentioned before; already cited; aforementioned. Addison.

Food; nourishment. [Obs.]

A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part; as, a fragment of an ancient writing. Gather up the fragments that remain. John vi. 12.