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not be contravened by an express article admitting the exchangeability of such persons. Washington.

nto disrepute, and reject; to drive from notice and acceptance; as, to explode a scheme, fashion, or doctrine. Old exploded contrivances of mercantile fraud. Burke. To explode and exterminate dark atheism. Bently.

A wash or lotion for application to the eyes.

An eyelash. [A child's word.]

Maintenance of the countenance free from abashment or confusion; confidence; boldness; shamelessness; effrontery. This is the man that has the face to charge others with false citations. Tillotson.

To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

; renown; public estimation; celebrity, either favorable or unfavorable; as, the fame of Washington. I find thou art no less than fame hath bruited. Shak.

ght (Arch.), a window over a door; -- so called from the semicircular form and radiating sash bars of those windows which are set in the circular heads of arched doorways. -- Fan shell (Zoöl.), any shell of the family Pectinidæ. See Scallop, n., 1. -- Fan tracery (Arch.), the decorative tracery on the surface of fan…

Something new-fashioned; a foolish innovation; a gewgaw; a trifling ornament.

Manner; custom; fashion; humor. [Prov. Eng.] [Written also farand.] Grose.

A band, sash, or fillet; especially, in surgery, a bandage or roller.

Bound with a fillet, sash, or bandage.

Permanent; not liable to fade by exposure to air or by washing; durable; lasting; as, fast colors.

A respectful mode of address to an old man. And Joash the king og Israel came down unto him [Elisha], . . . and said, O my father, my father! 2 Kings xiii. 14.

Of or pertaining to ashes. [Obs.] Light and favollous particles. Sir T. Browne.

Short curls dangling over the temples; -- fashionable in the reign of Charles II. [Obs.] Farquhar.

To form; to fashion. [Obs.] To the more mature, A glass that feated them. Shak.

Shaped; fashioned. How noble, young, how rarely featured! Shak.

Any pulverulent matter obtained from plants by simply breaking down the texture, washing with water, and subsidence. Especially:

adoption; a member of the political party which favored the administration of president Washington.