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flowers of rhetoric; enriched to excess with figures; excessively ornate; as, a florid style; florid eloquence.

The quality of being florid. Boyle.

The slender styles of the pistillate flowers of maize; also called silk.

ely decorative figure. The neat characters and flourishes of a Bible curiously printed. Boyle.

A figure of speech; an ornament of style.

Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China.

suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face. The flushing noise of many waters. Boyle. It flushes violently out of the cock. Mortimer.

to be pulled down and foiled under foot. Knoless. Whom he did all to pieces breake and foyle, In filthy durt, and left so in the loathely soyle. Spenser.

A style of printing calico, paper hangings, etc., in which the colors are in bands and graduated into each other. Ure.

Forbearing. [R.] Carlyle.

ary exertion; hurried; strained; produced by unnatural effort or pressure; as, a forced style; a forced laugh. Forced draught. See under Draught. -- Forced march (Mil.), a march of one or more days made with all possible speed. -- For"ced*ly, adv. -- For"ced*ness, n.

lymouth, Massachusetts (1620). On account of a mistake in reckoning the change from Old Style to New Style, it has generally been celebrated on the 22d.

One who predicts. Boyle.

Liable to be, or that may be, forgotten. Carlyle.

State of being forlorn. Boyle.

of his visage was changed. Dan. iii. 19. And woven close close, both matter, form, and style. Milton.

The quality of being formidable, or adapted to excite dread. Boyle.

The act, process, or style of putting together a frame, or of constructing anything; a frame; that which frames.

Becoming murmurous, roaring. "Fremescent clangor." Carlyle. -- Fre*mes"cence (#), n.

Cooling. [Obs.] Boyle.