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The last cinders obtained in the fining process. Raymond. Foxtail saw, a dovetail saw. -- Foxtail wedging. See Fox wedge, under Fox.

The art of painting on freshly spread plaster, before it dries.

w, as the material used to prevent chafing; as, to freshen a hawse. Totten. To freshen ballast (Naut.), to shift Or restore it. -- To freshen the hawse, to pay out a little more cable, so as to bring the chafe on another part. -- To freshen the way, to increase the speed of a vessel. Ham. Nav. Encyc.…

hina comprising several hsein; also, the chief city of a department; -- often forming the last part of a name; as, Paoting-fu.

To foist; to interpolate. That last "suppose" is fudged in. Foote .

Flying, or disposed to fly; fleeing away; lasting but a short time; volatile. Much of its possessions is so hid, so fugacious, and of so uncertain purchase. Jer. Taylor.

The sudden brightening of a fused globule of gold or silver, when the last film of the oxide of lead or copper leaves its surface; -- also called blick. A phenomenon called, by the old chemists, fulguration. Ure.

ncontracted; unabridged; written out in words, and not indicated by figures. -- In full blast. See under Blast.

. -- Furnace hoist (Iron Manuf.), a lift for raising ore, coal, etc., to the mouth of a blast furnace.

g filled with combustible matter, by means of which a charge of powder is ignited, as in blasting; -- called also fuzee. See Fuze. Fuse hole, the hole in a shell prepared for the reception of the fuse. Farrow.

The shaft of a column, or trunk of pilaster. Gwilt.

Consisting of two iambic dimeters catalectic, the last of which lacks the final syllable; -- said of a kind of verse.

Having a resolute, unyielding spirit, like the gamecock; ready to fight to the last; plucky. I was game . . . .I felt that I could have fought even to the death. W. Irving.

Showing an unyielding spirit to the last; plucky; furnishing sport; as, a gamy trout.

emists as synonymous with air, but since restricted to fluids supposed to be permanently elastic, as oxygen, hydrogen, etc., in distinction from vapors, as steam, which become liquid on a reduction of temperature. In present usage, since all of the supposed permanent gases have been liquified by cold and pressure, the…

of measuring gases; also, the science which treats of the nature and properties of these elastic fluids. Coxe.

vely to catch the breath; a labored respiration; a painful catching of the breath. At the last gasp, at the point of death. Addison.

That part of blastoderm where the hypoblast appears like a small disk on the inner face of the epibladst.

c form having its origin in the invagination or pushing in of the wall of the planula or blastula (the blastosphere) on one side, thus giving rise to a double-walled sac, with one opening or mouth (the blastopore) which leads into the cavity (the archenteron) lined by the inner wall (the hypoblast). See Illust. under I…

Plaster as used in Persian architecture and decorative art.