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One of a breed of horned sheep of Devonshire, England, having white legs and face and black nostrils. They are esp. valuable for mutton.

ught which anything is expanded; also, pure space. Lost in expansion, void and infinite. Blackmore.

To unfold; to expand; to lay open. [Obs.] "They explicate the leaves." Blackmore.

owder. But late the kindled powder did explode The massy ball and the brass tube unload. Blackmore.

expansive; extended, superficially or otherwise. Men and gods are too extense; Could you slacken and condense Emerson.

inds have no power to extinguish. Prescott. This extinguishes my right to the reversion. Blackstone.

ittle island in a river or lake. See Ait. [Written also ait, ayt, eey, eyet, and eyght.] Blackstone.

furnished in the usual or expected manner, or to be altogether cut off from supply; to be lacking; as, streams fail; crops fail. As the waters fail from the sea. Job xiv. 11. Till Lionel's issue fails, his should not reign. Shak.

Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, faint with fatigue, hunger, or thirst.

Feebleness, as of color or light; lack of distinctness; as, faintness of description.

To avoid or defeat; to prove false, as a judgment. Blackstone.

A farmstead. [Scot.] Black.

A cyprinoid fish of the Mississippi valley (Pimephales promelas); -- called also black-headed minnow.

Defect; want; lack; default. One, it pleases me, for fault of a better, to call my friend. Shak.

A black, greenish, or brownish mineral of the chrysolite group. It is a silicate of iron.

n that mentioned in the feoffment; an estate in fee simple, subject to a perpetual rent. Blackstone. -- Fee farm rent (Eng. Law), a perpetual rent reserved upon a conveyance in fee simple. -- Fee fund (Scot. Law), certain court dues out of which the clerks and other court officers are paid. -- Fee simple (Law), an a…

f sensation; -- followed by an adjective describing the kind of sensation. Blind men say black feels rough, and white feels smooth. Dryden. To feel after, to search for; to seek to find; to seek as a person groping in the dark. "If haply they might feel after him, and find him." Acts xvii. 27. - To feel of, to examine…

A feud. See 2d Feud. Blackstone.

A mineral of a brownish black color, essentially a tantalo- niobate of yttrium, erbium, and cerium; -- so called after Robert Ferguson.

ric tubes of copper separated by an insulating material composed of paper saturated with black mineral wax.