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on and activity. Jer. Taylor. A univesal fermentation of human thought and faith. C. Kingsley. Acetous, or Acetic, fermentation, a form of oxidation in which alcohol is converted into vinegar or acetic acid by the agency of a specific fungus or ferment (Mycoderma aceti). The process involves two distinct reactions, in…

Weariness. [Obs.] Bailey.

A fernlike plant. Lindley.

flint, I found This paper, thus sealed up. Shak. In woods and forests thou art found. Cowley.

To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc.; as. to fine the soil. L. H. Bailey.

in or meal. The Linlithgow wheat firlot was to the imperial bushel as 998 to 1000; the barley firlot as 1456 to 1000. Brande & C.

Hollow, like a pipe or reed; fistulose. Lindley.

fan carried before the pope on state occasions, made in ostrich and peacock feathers. Shipley.

Liable to be blown about. Bailey.

nd flapdragtons and mummer's plays, and all the happy sports of Christians night. C. Kingsley.

See Flipper. "The flapper of a porpoise." Buckley. Flapper skate (Zoöl.), a European skate (Raia intermedia).

he gutters or to cover the edge of the roofing; also, similar pieces used to cover the valleys of roofs of slate, shingles, or the like. By extension, the metal covering of ridges and hips of roofs; also, in the United States, the protecting of angles and breaks in walls of frame houses with waterproof material, tarred…

A bed in a gun carriage. [Obs.] Bailey.

A turn; a bend; a fold; a curve. Varying with the flexures of the valley through which it meandered. British Quart. Rev.

shot, -- about the fifth of a mile. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Within a flight-shot it inthe valley. Evelyn. Half a flight-shot from the king's oak. Sir W. Scott.

, the upper one projecting beyond the lower one, and capable of being moved forward by pulleys; -- used for carrying troops over narrow moats in attacking the outworks of a fort. (c) A kind of ferryboat which is guided and impelled by means of chains which are anchored on each side of a stream, and pass over wheels on…

To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river flooded the valley.

compliment; trash; unsubstantial talk of writing. The flummery of modern criticism. J. Morley.

The place or region of flunkies. C. Kingsley.

Fluxional. Berkeley.