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The fox shark; -- called also sea fox. See Thrasher shark, under Shark.

A loud and sudden sound; the report of anything bursting; a crash. I. Watts.

A method of forming a joint at the intersection of window-sash bars, by cutting away only enough wood to show a miter.

A lashing binding a thing tightly or binding things together.

A colorless crystalline substance, regarded as a glucoside, and found in the bark of the ash (Fraxinus) and along with esculin in the bark of the horse-chestnut. It shows a delicate fluorescence in alkaline solutions; -- called also paviin.

enus of deciduous forest trees, found in the north temperate zone, and including the true ash trees.

r; -- a term assumed by deists and skeptics in the eighteenth century. Atheist is an old-fashioned word: I'm a freethinker, child. Addison.

he worn sides of river banks, where ores, or stones containing them, accumulate by being washed down from the hills, and thus indicate to the miners the locality of the veins.

A clashing between two persons or parties in opinions or work; a disagreement tending to prevent or retard progress. Angle of friction (Mech.), the angle which a plane onwhich a body is lying makes with a horizontal plane,when the hody is just ready to slide dewn the plane.

Frozen dew; -- called also hoarfrost or white frost. He scattereth the frost like ashes. Ps. cxlvii. 16.

quence or effect; as, the fruits of labor, of self-denial, of intemperance. The fruit of rashness. Shak. What I obtained was the fruit of no bargain. Burke. They shall eat the fruit of their doings. Is. iii 10. The fruits of this education became visible. Macaulay.

A cross, old-fashioned person; esp., an old woman; a gossip. [Colloq.] Halliwell.

Old-fashioned, as a woman's dress. Our Bell . . . looked very frumpish. Foote.

Noise; clatter; crash. [R.] Southey.

To flash as lightning. [R.]

Like a perfect blossom. "Full-bloomed lips." Crashaw.

e, a structure of combustible material, upon which a dead body is placed to be reduced to ashes, as part of a funeral rite; a pyre. -- Fu"ner*al*ly, adv. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

t the edge of a precipice. [Colloq.] C. Kingsley. To funk out, to back out in a cowardly fashion. [Colloq.] To funk right out o' political strife. Lowell (Biglow Papers).

A man of mettle or spirit; a gay; fashionable man; a young blood. Shak.

A hash of various kinds of meats, a ragout. Delighting in hodge-podge, gallimaufries, forced meat. King.