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The complete system of vegetable species growing without cultivation in a given locality, region, or period; a list or description of, or treatise on, such plants.

A hydrocarbon extracted from gutta-percha, as a yellow, resinous substance; -- called also fluanil.

A white crystalline hydrocarbon C

A colorless, crystalline hydrocarbon, C13H10 having a beautiful violet fluorescence; whence its name. It occurs in the higher boiling products of coal tar, and is obtained artificially.

Fly cap, a cap with wings, formerly worn by women. -- Fly drill, a drill having a reciprocating motion controlled by a fly wheel, the driving power being applied by the hand through a cord winding in reverse directions upon the spindle as it rotates backward and forward. Knight. -- Fly fishing, the act or art of ang…

To bring to a focus; to focalize; as, to focus a camera. R. Hunt.

eneral assembly of the people to consider and order matters of the commonwealth; also, a local court. [Hist.] To which folkmote they all with one consent Agreed to travel. Spenser.

One who takes part in a folkmote, or local court. [Obs.] Milton.

Vocation; business; profession.

the tackle on the foremast of a ship. -- Fore topmast. (Naut.) See Fore-topmast, in the Vocabulary. -- Fore wind, a favorable wind. [Obs.] Sailed on smooth seas, by fore winds borne. Sandys. -- Fore world, the antediluvian world. [R.] Southey.

g to a certain country; born in or belonging to another country, nation, sovereignty, or locality; as, a foreign language; foreign fruits. "Domestic and foreign writers." Atterbury. Hail, foreign wonder! Whom certain these rough shades did never breed. Milton.

Having a double meaning; ambiguous; equivocal. Cross forked (Her.), a cross, the ends of whose arms are divided into two sharp points; -- called also cross double fitché. A cross forked of three points is a cross, each of whose arms terminates in three sharp points. -- Forked counsel, advice pointing more than one way…

he same kind, esp. four horses; as, a chariot and four. All fours. See All fours, in the Vocabulary.

Certain or honorable; the opposite of base; as, free service; free socage. Burrill.

Pertaining to, or advocating, the non-extension of slavery; -- esp. applied to a party which was active during the period 1846-1856. [U.S.] -- Free"soil`er, n. [U.S.] -- Free"-soil`ism, n. [U.S.]

hem, accumulate by being washed down from the hills, and thus indicate to the miners the locality of the veins.

. (c) Dominicans or Black Friars. (d) White Friars or Carmelites. See these names in the Vocabulary.

piece with the body, but sewed on so as to be somewhat full. -- Smock frock. See in the Vocabulary.

One who teaches by, or advocates the use of, the kindergarten system.

te flag with a black center, used by the United States Weather Bureau to indicate that a local frost is expected. It is used only in Florida and along the coasts of the Pacific and the Gulf Mexico.