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, or a nation; to exterminate error or vice. To explode and exterminate rank atheism. Bentley.

A builder. [Obs.] Bailey.

To overflow; to inundate. [Obs.] Bailey.

The act or operation of burning up. Bailey.

to molt. There is reason to suppose that very old crayfish do not exuviate every year. Huxley.

lie or story. Our books were not fabricated with an accomodation to prevailing usages. Paley.

The principal dressed surface of a plate, disk, or pulley; the principal flat surface of a part or object.

should have been a stercoraceous mendicant if I had hollowed when I got a facer. C. Kingsley.

spite of antipathy, to fadge together. Milton. Well, Sir, how fadges the new design Wycherley.

To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A mass ccomposed of various materials confusedly mixed; a medley; a mixture. A confounded farrago of doubts, fears, hopes, wishes, and all the flimsy furniture of a country miss's brain. Sheridan.

A variety of pyroxene, from the valley of Fassa, in the Tyrol.

to say one thing and do another "Play fast and loose with faith." Shak. Fast and loose pulleys (Mach.), two pulleys placed side by side on a revolving shaft, which is driven from another shaft by a band, and arranged to disengage and reëngage the machinery driven thereby. When the machinery is to be stopped, the band i…

In a manner proceeding from, or determined by, fate. Bentley.

A cyprinoid fish of the Mississippi valley (Pimephales promelas); -- called also black-headed minnow.

Easily tired. [Obs.] Bailey.

To have a fever. [Obs.] Bailey.

undance; fertility; richness of invention; as, the fecundity of God's creative power. Bentley.

which is feigned; an assumed or false appearance; a pretense; a stratagem; a fetch. Courtley's letter is but a feint to get off. Spectator.

A week day, esp. a day which is neither a festival nor a fast. Shipley.