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A public officer in Scotland who prosecutes in petty criminal cases; -- called also procurator fiscal.

To seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments. Any other fishing question. Sir W. Scott.

te or quality of being fit; as, the fitness of measures or laws; a person's fitness for office.

a setter. Black flag. See under Black. -- Flag captain, Flag leutenant, etc., special officers attached to the flagship, as aids to the flag officer. -- Flag officer, the commander of a fleet or squadron; an admiral, or commodore. -- Flag of truse, a white flag carried or displayed to an enemy, as an invitation to…

The vessel which carries the commanding officer of a fleet or squadron and flies his distinctive flag or pennant.

A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.

To cheat; to trick; to impose on. Shak. To fob off, to shift off by an artifice; to put aside; to delude with a trick."A conspiracy of bishops could prostrate and fob off the right of the people." Milton.

To succeed in order of time, rank, or office.

A small opening, perforation, or orifice; a fenestra. Foramen of Monro (Anat.), the opening from each lateral into the third ventricle of the brain. -- Foramen of Winslow (Anat.), the opening connecting the sac of the omentum with the general cavity of the peritoneum.

of the body where it does not belong, and usually introduced from without. -- Foreign office, that department of the government of Great Britain which has charge British interests in foreign countries.

To expel from court for some offense or misconduct, as an attorney or officer; to deprive or put out of a thing by the judgment of a court. Burrill.

closed, but distinguished by certain limits, and protected by certain laws, courts, and officers of its own. Burrill.

One who has charge of the growing timber on an estate; an officer appointed to watch a forest and preserve the game.

The act of forfeiting; the loss of some right, privilege, estate, honor, office, or effects, by an offense, crime, breach of condition, or other act. Under pain of foreiture of the said goods. Hakluyt.

rmal or conventional rules; ceremony; conventionality. Nor was his attendance on divine offices a matter of formality and custom, but of conscience. Atterbury.

Chaucer. Elective franchise, the privilege or right of voting in an election of public officers.

eption deliberately practiced with a view to gaining an unlawful or unfair advantage; artifice by which the right or interest of another is injured; injurious stratagem; deceit; trick. If success a lover's toil attends, Few ask, if fraud or force attained his ends. Pope.

Obtained or performed by artifice; as, fraudulent conquest. Milton.

The front part of an edifice or lot; extent of front.

Full and large at the bottom, as wigs worn by certain civil officers in Great Britain.