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pulverized, or reduced to powder. "Friable ground." Evelyn. "Soft and friable texture." Paley. -- Fri'a-ble-ness, n.

dish of veal or of boned turkey, served as an entrée, -- called also fricandel. A. J. Cooley.

A device in which a piece on one shaft or pulley is so forcibly pressed against a piece on another shaft that the two will revolve together; as, in the illustration, the cone a on one shaft, when thrust forcibly into the corresponding hollow cone b on the other shaft, compels the shafts to rotate together, by the hold…

Frivolity. [R.] Pristley.

ront; as, the house fronts the street. And then suddenly front the changed reality. J. Morley.

feed with fuel. [Obs.] Never, alas I the dreadful name, That fuels the infernal flame. Cowley.

Brightness; splendor; glitter; effulgence. Bailey.

Splendor; resplendence; effulgence. [R.] Bailey.

Thundering; fulminating. [R.] Bailey.

Tawny; dull yellow, with a mixture of gray and brown. Lindley.

cord or chain attached at one end to a fixed point, and having the other passed over a pulley and sustaining a weight, while one or more other weights are suspended from the cord at points between the fixed support and the pulley. -- Funicular polygon (Mech.), the polygonal figure assumed by a cord fastened at its ext…

ed, and shrink back; to flinch; as, to funk at the edge of a precipice. [Colloq.] C. Kingsley. To funk out, to back out in a cowardly fashion. [Colloq.] To funk right out o' political strife. Lowell (Biglow Papers).

aces, languages, and customs . . . had produced a corresponding fusion of creeds. C. Kingsley. Watery fusion (Chem.) the melting of certain crystals by heat in their own water of crystallization.

To cudgel. [R.] Bailey.

beating with a stick or club; cudgeling. This satire, composed of actual fustigation. Motley.

The payment of a rent or annuity. [Eng.] Mozley & W. Gale day, the day on which rent or interest is due.

A small galley, formerly used in the Mediterranean, built mainly for speed. It was moved both by sails and oars, having one mast, and sixteen or twenty seats for rowers.

A large galley, having some features of the galleon, as broadside guns; esp., such a vessel used by the southern nations of Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. See Galleon, and Galley. [Written variously galeas, gallias, etc.]

with bulwarks three or four feet thick, and built up at stem and stern, like castels. Motley.

An adherent to, and supporter of, Gallicanism. Shipley.