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A tumor consisting mainly of fibrous tissue, or of same modification of such tissue.

Fidgety; restless. [Obs.] Such a little figent thing. Beau. & Fl.

er may be formed in the same manner, and so on, the numbers in the resulting series being such that points representing them are capable of symmetrical arrangement in different geometrical figures, as triangles, squares, pentagons, etc.

The act of murdering a son or a daughter; also, parent who commits such a murder.

An inferior kind of cheese made from skim milk with a fatty "filling," such as oleomargarine or lard, to replace the fat removed in the cream.

nse it from the solid or impure matter held in suspension; a chamber or device containing such substance; a strainer; also, a similar device for purifying air. Filter bed, a pond, the bottom of which is a filter composed of sand gravel. -- Filter gallery, an underground gallery or tunnel, alongside of a stream, to col…

To determine an issue of fact, and to declare such a determination to a court; as, the jury find for the plaintiff. Burrill.

Having (such) a proportion of pure metal in its composition; as, coins nine tenths fine.

In the Levant, a small coffee cup without a handle, such as is held in a cup or stand called a zarf.

Fire alarm (a) A signal given on the breaking out of a fire. (b) An apparatus for giving such an alarm. -- Fire annihilator, a machine, device, or preparation to be kept at hand for extinguishing fire by smothering it with some incombustible vapor or gas, as carbonic acid. -- Fire balloon. (a) A balloon raised in th…

hich ignites the priming by a spark; perhaps originally, a matchlock. Hence, a gun having such a lock.

To render (an impression) permanent by treating with such applications a will make it insensible to the action of light. Abney.

(Mil.), the fixed point about which any line of troops wheels. -- Fixed stars (Astron.), such stars as always retain nearly the same apparent position and distance with respect to each other, thus distinguished from planets and comets.

A flat stone used in paving, or any rock which will split into such stones. See Flag, a stone.

of the foot rests upon the ground; also, the deformity, usually congential, exhibited by such a foot; splayfoot.

. -- Flint implements (Archæol.), tools, etc., employed by men before the use of metals, such as axes, arrows, spears, knives, wedges, etc., which were commonly made of flint, but also of granite, jade, jasper, and other hard stones. -- Flint mill. (a) (Pottery) A mill in which flints are ground. (b) (Mining) An obso…

king with ease and rapidity; having a voluble tongue; talkative. It becometh good men, in such cases, to be flippant and free in their speech. Barrow.

A charge, lien, etc., that successively attaches to such assets as a person may have from time to time, leaving him more or less free to dispose of or encumber them as if no such charge or lien existed.

ivation in a given locality, region, or period; a list or description of, or treatise on, such plants.

little flower; one of the numerous little flowers which compose the head or anthodium in such flowers as the daisy, thistle, and dandelion. Gray.