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The make, form, or outward appearance of a person; the whole turn or style of the body; esp., good appearance. What needeth it his feature to descrive Chaucer. Cheated of feature by dissembling nature. Shak.

To represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to counterfeit; as, to feign a sickness. Shak.

Feigned; counterfeit. [Obs.] Dressed up into any feint appearance of it. Locke.

Resembling iron rust in appearance or color; brownish red, or yellowish red.

otion; eagerness. When you pray, let it be with attention, with fervency, and with perseverance. Wake.

A reformed branch of the Bernardines, founded in 1577 at Feuillans, near Toulouse, in France.

brin, in coagulation. -- Fibrin ferment (Physiol. Chem.), a ferment which makes its appearance in the blood shortly after it is shed, and is supposed to be the active agent in causing coagulation of the blood, with formation of fibrin.

Consisting of, containing, or resembling, fire; as, the fiery gulf of Etna; a fiery appearance. And fiery billows roll below. I. Watts.

magined. Social figments, feints, and formalism. Mrs. Browning. It carried rather an appearance of figment and invention . . . than of truth and reality. Woodward.

The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance. Flowers have all exquisite figures. Bacon.

lum dulce) having a somewhat tuberous stem; sweet fennel. The blanched stems are used in France and Italy as a culinary vegetable.

eat. -- Fire gilt (Fine Arts), gold laid on by the process of fire gilding. -- Fire insurance, the act or system of insuring against fire; also, a contract by which an insurance company undertakes, in consideration of the payment of a premium or small percentage -- usually made periodically -- to indemnify an owner o…

A man of more appearance of wit than reality.

That quality of anything which affects the smell; odor; fragrances; as, the flavor of a rose.

To break; to violate; to make of no effect. [Obs.] France hath flawed the league. Shak.

stom. "Fleshed in triumphs." Glanvill. Old soldiers Fleshed in the spoils of Germany and France. Beau. & Fl.

. It is also a heraldic bearing, and is identified with the royal arms and adornments of France.

ike Jove, his lighting flung. Dryden. I know thy generous temper well. Fling but the appearance of dishonor on it, It straight takes fire. Addison.

he nap of cloths, used as a coating for wall paper to give it a velvety or clothlike appearance; also, the dust of vegetable fiber used for a similar purpose. Flock bed, a bed filled with flocks or locks of coarse wool, or pieces of cloth cut up fine. "Once a flock bed, but repaired with straw." Pope. -- Flock paper,…

The quality of being fluent; smoothness; readiness of utterance; volubility. The art of expressing with fluency and perspicuity. Macaulay.