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Radical; ultra; as, extreme opinions. The Puritans or extreme Protestants. Gladstone.

The hole through the upper millstone.

e island in a river or lake. See Ait. [Written also ait, ayt, eey, eyet, and eyght.] Blackstone.

Pertaining to a workman, or to work in stone, metal, wood etc.; as, fabrile skill.

To make the surface of (anything) flat or smooth; to dress the face of (a stone, a casting, etc.); esp., in turning, to shape or smooth the flat surface of, as distinguished from the cylindrical surface.

Faded. [R.] Shenstone.

A fair woman; a sweetheart. I have found out a gift for my fair. Shenstone.

nd graceful motions. The name is sometimes applied to similar American species. -- Fairy stone (Paleon.), an echinite.

ckness (Med.), epilepsy. Shak. -- Falling star. (Astron.) See Shooting star. -- Falling stone, a stone falling through the atmosphere; a meteorite; an aërolite. -- Falling tide, the ebb tide. -- Falling weather, a rainy season. [Colloq.] Bartlett.

To avoid or defeat; to prove false, as a judgment. Blackstone.

Pudding stone. [Obs.] Kirwan.

To paint; -- said esp. of one's face. [Obs.] Shenstone.

w. Leans in his spear to take his farewell view. Tickell. Farewell rock (Mining), the Millstone grit; -- so called because no coal is found worth working below this stratum. It is used for hearths of furnaces, having power to resist intense heat. Ure.

A tile or flagstone cut into an hexagonal shape to produce a honeycomb pattern, as in a pavement; -- called also favas and sectila. Mollett.

wedge driven between the two semicylindrical parts of a divided plug in a hole bored in a stone, to rend the stone. Knight.

Having features; formed into features. The well-stained canvas or the featured stone. Young.

at mentioned in the feoffment; an estate in fee simple, subject to a perpetual rent. Blackstone. -- Fee farm rent (Eng. Law), a perpetual rent reserved upon a conveyance in fee simple. -- Fee fund (Scot. Law), certain court dues out of which the clerks and other court officers are paid. -- Fee simple (Law), an absol…

aterial to a machine, as water to a steam boiler, coal to a furnace, or grain to a run of stones.

nest them out of thine own heart. Neh. vi. 8. The poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods. Shak.

A feud. See 2d Feud. Blackstone.