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One skilled in fluxions. Berkeley.

narcotic juice which, in sufficient quantities, is poisonous. -- Fly block (Naut.), a pulley whose position shifts to suit the working of the tackle with which it is connected; -- used in the hoisting tackle of yards. -- Fly board (Printing Press), the board on which printed sheets are deposited by the fly. -- Fly b…

A warm dry wind that often blows in the northern valleys of the Alps, due to the indraught of a storm center passing over Central Europe. The wind, heated by compression in its descent from the mountains, reaches the base, particularly in winter, dry and warm.

urance in writing, it was opposed to bookland or charter land, which was held by deed. Mozley & W.

al jester or buffoon; a retainer formerly kept to make sport, dressed fantastically in motley, with ridiculous accouterments. Can they think me . . . their fool or jester Milton. April fool, Court fool, etc. See under April, Court, etc. -- Fool's cap, a cap or hood to which bells were usually attached, formerly worn b…

is; plan; -- used only in the singular. Answer directly upon the foot of dry reason. Berkeley.

dais, or elevated platform; the highest step of the altar; a landing in a staircase. Shipley.

Poor; mean. [Prov. Eng.] C. Kingsley.

thing is regarded or treated; to be, or as being. We take a falling meteor for a star. Cowley. If a man can be fully assured of anything for a truth, without having examined, what is there that he may not embrace for truLocke. Most of our ingenious young men take up some cried-up English poet for their model. Dryden. B…

Forensic. Berkley.

meanest plant can not be raised without seed, by any formative residing in the soil. Bentley.

Very much afraid. [Obs.] Bailey.

The act of formularizing; a formularized or formulated statement or exhibition. C. Kingsley.

A little fort. [R.] Bailey.

fate; destiny; as, to tell one's fortune. You, who men's fortunes in their faces read. Cowley.

rner stone, a sure foundation. Is. xxviii. 16. The foundation of a free common wealth. Motley.

A monk; also, a frater house. [R.] Shipley. Frater house, an apartament in a convent used as an eating room; a refectory; -- called also a fratery.

ment, or omission which operates as a fraud, although perhaps not intended to be such. Mozley & W. -- Pious fraud (Ch. Hist.), a fraud contrived and executed to benefit the church or accomplish some good end, upon the theory that the end justified the means. -- Statute of frauds (Law), an English statute (1676), the…

very free in their censures. Felton. A man may live a free life as to wine or women. Shelley.

Undue boldness of speculation; unbelief. Berkeley. -- a.