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To diminish; to lessen or lower. [Obs.] Upon lessening interest to four per cent, you fall the price of your native commodities. Locke.

gh the successive floors of a warehouse or manufactory, through which goods are raised or lowered. [U.S.] Bartlett.

A quintain; -- from its form. [Obs.] Chaucer. Fan blower, a wheel with vanes fixed on a rotating shaft inclosed in a case or chamber, to create a blast of air (fan blast) for forge purposes, or a current for draft and ventilation; a fanner. -- Fan cricket (Zoöl.), a mole cricket. -- Fan light (Arch.), a window over a…

A fan wheel; a fan blower. See under Fan.

A small bundle or collection; a compact cluster; as, a fascicle of fibers; a fascicle of flowers or roots.

An obsequious follower of the modes and fashions. [R.] Fuller.

Tenacious; retentive. [Obs.] Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of their smells. Bacon.

ish; as, a fastidious mind or ear; a fastidious appetite. Proud youth ! fastidious of the lower world. Young.

a token of affection; as, a marriage favor is a bunch or knot of white ribbons or white flowers worn at a wedding. Wear thou this favor for me, and stick it in thy cap. Shak.

To render fruitful or prolific; to impregnate; as, in flowers the pollen fecundates the ovum through the stigma.

A strong discharge of gas from a fissure; a blower. Raymond.

nel (Anthemis Cotula), a foul-smelling European weed; -- called also mayweed. -- Fennel flower (Bot.), an herb (Nigella) of the Buttercup family, having leaves finely divided, like those of the fennel. N.Damascena is common in gardens. N.sativa furnishes the fennel seed, used as a condiment, etc., in India. These seed…

or derived from, iron; -- especially used of compounds of iron in which the iron has its lower valence; as, ferrous sulphate.

Capable of producing fruit; fruit-bearing; as, fertile flowers.

of fecundating or impregnating animal or vegetable germs; esp., the process by which in flowers the pollen renders the ovule fertile, or an analogous process in flowerless plants; fecundation; impregnation. Close fertilization (Bot.), the fertilization of pistils by pollen derived from the stamens of the same blossom.…

To fecundate; as, to fertilize flower. A. R. Wallace.

A carved ornament consisting of flowers, and leaves, intermixed or twisted together, wound with a ribbon, and hanging or depending in a natural curve. See Illust. of Bucranium.

Containing woody fiber and ducts, as the stems of all flowering plants and ferns; -- opposed to cellular.

ilaris) which breeds in northern Europe and winters in Great Britain. The head, nape, and lower part of the back are ash-colored; the upper part of the back and wing coverts, chestnut; -- called also fellfare.

genus Mesembryanthemum, some of which are prized for the brilliancy and beauty of their flowers. -- Fig tree (Bot.), any tree of the genus Ficus, but especially F. Carica which produces the fig of commerce.