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In a figurate manner.

The act of giving figure or determinate form; determination to a certain form. Bacon.

ing by a figure, or by resemblance; typical; representative. This, they will say, was figurative, and served, by God's appointment, but for a time, to shadow out the true glory of a more divine sanctity. Hooker.

h has been filtered; the liquid which has passed through the filter in the process of filtration.

The act or process of filtering; the mechanical separation of a liquid from the undissolved particles floating in it.

Of the highest excellence; preëminent in quality, size, or estimation. Our only first-rate body of contemporary poetry is the German. M. Arnold. Hermocrates . . . a man of first-rate ability. Jowett (Thucyd).

The act of dividing or opening; the state of being fissured.

To burn. [Obs.] Greenhill.

A conflagration. [Obs.]

A salt of fluoboric acid; a fluoboride.

Combined with fluorine; subjected to the action of fluoride. [R.]

The act of flustering, or the state of being flustered; fluster. [Colloq.]

To fluster. [Colloq.] Spectator.

The act of flustrating; confusion; flurry. [Colloq.] Richardson.

A monk; also, a frater house. [R.] Shipley. Frater house, an apartament in a convent used as an eating room; a refectory; -- called also a fratery.

Pf, pertaining to, or involving, brethren; becoming to brothers; brotherly; as, fraternal affection; a fraternal embrace. -- Fra*ter"nal*ly, adv. An abhorred, a cursed, a fraternal war. Milton. Fraternal love and friendship. Addison.

To fraternize; to hold fellowship. Jefferson.

Fraternization. [R.] Jefferson.

The state or quality of being fraternal or brotherly; brotherhood.

The act of fraternizing or uniting as brothers. I hope that no French fraternization . . . could so change the hearts of Englishmen. Burke.