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The European redstart; -- called also fireflirt. [prov. Eng.]

Like the of a fish; acting, or producing something, like the tail of a fish. Fish-tail burner, a gas burner that gives a spreading flame shaped somewhat like the tail of a fish. -- Fish-tail propeller (Steamship), a propeller with a single blade that oscillates like the tail of a fish when swimming.…

An instrument for threshing or beating grain from the ear by hand, consisting of a wooden staff or handle, at the end of which a stouter and shorter pole or club, called a swipe, is so hung as to swing freely. His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn. Milton.

Acting like a flail. [Obs.] Vicars.

p. p. of Flay. Chaucer.

Smell; odor. [Obs.]

See Sail.

The anterior of the three principal divisions of the brain, including the prosencephalon and thalamencephalon. Sometimes restricted to the prosencephalon only. See Brain.

To ordain or appoint beforehand; to preordain; to predestinate; to predetermine. Hooker.

Mentioned before; aforesaid.

The sail bent to the foreyard of a square-rigged vessel, being the lowest sail on the foremast.

Having the outer tail feathers longer than the median ones; swallow-tailed; -- said of many birds. Fork-tailed flycatcher (Zoöl.), a tropical American flycatcher (Milvulus tyrannus). -- Fork-tailed gull (Zoöl.), a gull of the genus Xema, of two species, esp. X. Sabinii of the Arctic Ocean. -- Fork-tailed kite (Zoöl.)…

l Asiatic and East Indian passerine birds, belonging to Enucurus, and allied genera. The tail is deeply forking.

A reservoir or chamber to contain a liquid which can be conducted or drawn off as needed for use; as, the ink fountain in a printing press, etc.

Having no fountain; destitute of springs or sources of water. Barren desert, fountainless and dry. Milton.

The tail or brush of a fox.

Same as Fraught. [Obs.] Spenser.

A basket made of rushes, used chiefly for containing figs and raisins.

Weakly; infirmly.

Frailty.