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bark is used for making thread and cloth, called linen, cambric, lawn, lace, etc. Linseed oil is expressed from the seed.

Light; superficially thin; not penetring deep, as soil. [Prov. Eng.] Mortimer.

A mixture of buttermilk and boiling whey; curds. [prov. Eng.] Wright.

ond. (Arch.) See Bond, n., 8. -- Flemish brick, a hard yellow paving brick. -- Flemish coil, a flat coil of rope with the end in the center and the turns lying against, without riding over, each other. -- Flemish eye (Naut.), an eye formed at the end of a rope by dividing the strands and lying them over each other.…

e, to harden, to accustom. "Fleshed in triumphs." Glanvill. Old soldiers Fleshed in the spoils of Germany and France. Beau. & Fl.

llow, metallic ball of a self-acting faucet, which floats upon the water in a cistern or boiler.

The process by which small particles of fine soils and sediments aggregate into larger lumps.

fabric, painted, varnished, or saturated, with waterproof material, for covering floors; oilcloth. -- Floor cramp, an implement for tightening the seams of floor boards before nailing them in position. -- Floor light, a frame with glass panes in a floor. -- Floor plan. (a) (Shipbuilding) A longitudinal section, sho…

A kind of cloth. Johnson. Florence flask. See under Flask. -- Florence oil, olive oil prepared in Florence.

A foil; a blunt sword used in fencing. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

e, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive. A tree thrives and flourishes in a kindly . . . soil. Bp. Horne.

C13H10 having a beautiful violet fluorescence; whence its name. It occurs in the higher boiling products of coal tar, and is obtained artificially.

To soil with flyspecks.

tation or fermentation; froth; spume; scum; as, the foam of the sea. Foam cock, in steam boilers, a cock at the water level, to blow off impurities.

The half of a sword blade or foil blade nearest the point; -- opposed to forte. [Written also faible.]

Thrusting with the foil; fencing with the point, as distinguished from broadsword play. [Obs.] Marston.

Containing, or consisting of, foils; as, a foliated arch.

The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, foil, or lamina.

The state of being beaten into foil. Johnson.

Goldsmith's foil. [R.] Sprat.