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or with the leg part back over the foot, as a stocking in pulling off or for putting on. [Scot.]

To frisk; to skip; to caper. [Obs. Scot.] "The flisking flies." Gosson.

To remove from one place or habitation to another. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] Wright. Jamieson.

Strife; dispute; abusive or upbraiding talk, as in fliting; wrangling. [Obs. or Scot. & Prov. Eng.]

A removal from one habitation to another. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] A neighbor had lent his cart for the flitting, and it was now standing loaded at the door, ready to move away. Jeffrey.

on; strife; scolding; specif., a kind of metrical contest between two persons, popular in Scotland in the 16th century. [Obs. or Scot.]

Bloom; blossom. [Obs.] J. Scott.

A low-lying piece of watery land; -- called also flow moss and flow bog. [Scot.] Jamieson.

emy in war. And the stern joy which warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel. Sir W. Scott

Formerly, a housing or caparison for a horse. Sir W. Scott.

To pillage; to ravage. He might foray our lands. Sir W. Scott.

foray. They might not choose the lowand road, For the Merse forayers were abroad. Sir W. Scott.

An ancestor; a forefather; -- usually in the plural. [Scot.] "Your forbears of old." Sir W. Scott.

man or beast on foot, by wading. He swam the Esk river where ford there was none. Sir W. Scott.

othing plane. Knight. -- Fore reading, previous perusal. [Obs.] Hales. -- Fore rent, in Scotland, rent payable before a crop is gathered. -- Fore sheets (Naut.), the forward portion of a rowboat; the space beyond the front thwart. See Stern sheets. -- Fore shore. (a) A bank in advance of a sea wall, to break the fo…

The evening between twilight and bedtime. [Scot.]

tation. His calm, deliberate forecast better fitted him for the council than the camp. Prescott.

To convene; to gossip; to meet accidentally. [Scot.] Jamieson. Within that circle he forgathered with many a fool. Wilson.

Goldsmith. The condition of the besieged in the mean time was forlorn in the extreme. Prescott. She cherished the forlorn hope that he was still living. Thomson. A forlorn hope Etym: [D. verloren hoop, prop., a lost band or troop; verloren, p.p. of verliezen to lose + hoop band; akin to E. heap. See For-, and Heap.] (…

ace against attack; a fortified place; a fortress; a fort; a castle. Fortification agate, Scotch pebble.