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tal appendage to the border of a piece of stuff, originally consisting of the ends of the warp, projecting beyond the woven fabric; but more commonly made separate and sewed on, consisting sometimes of projecting ends, twisted or plaited together, and sometimes of loose threads of wool, silk, or linen, or narrow strips…

party in France, during the minority of Louis XIV., who opposed the government, and made war upon the court party.

the whole face. Bless'd with his father's front, his mother's tongue. Pope. Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front. Shak. His front yet threatens, and his frowns command. Prior.

Chill in affection; without warmth of affection or courage. Johnson.

Congealed with cold; affected by freezing; as, a frozen brook. They warmed their frozen feet. Dryden.

dense body; smoke; vapor; reek; as, the fumes of tobacco. The fumes of new shorn hay. T. Warton. The fumes of undigested wine. Dryden.

elementary; as, a fundamental truth; a fundamental axiom. The fundamental reasons of this war. Shak. Some fundamental antithesis in nature. Whewell. Fundamental bass (Mus.), the root note of a chord; a bass formed of the roots or fundamental tones of the chords. -- Fundamental chord (Mus.), a chord, the lowest tone of…

Strips of dressed skins with fur, used on garments for warmth or for ornament.

h heat is produced by the combustion of fuel, as for reducing ores or melting metals, for warming a house, for baking pottery, etc.; as, an iron furnace; a hot-air furnace; a glass furnace; a boiler furnace, etc.

An English warbler (Melizophilus provincialis); -- called also furze wren, and Dartford warbler.

ck. It will explode with a loud report when run over by a train, and is used to provide a warning signal to the engineer.

injure; to harass; to annoy; as, the troops were galled by the shot of the enemy. In our wars against the French of old, we used to gall them with our longbows, at a greater distance than they could shoot their arrows. Addison.

essel of the 15th and following centuries, often having three or four decks, and used for war or commerce. The term is often rather indiscriminately applied to any large sailing vessel. The gallens . . . were huge, round-stemmed, clumsy vessels, with bulwarks three or four feet thick, and built up at stem and stern, li…

A large vessel for war and national purposes; -- common in the Middle Ages, and down to the 17th century.

tion, or for winning a stake; as, a game of chance; games of skill; field games, etc. But war's a game, which, were their subject wise, Kings would not play at. Cowper.

To warble; to sing as if gargling [Obs.] Waller.

To warn by garnishment; to give notice to; to garnishee. See Garnishee, v. t. Cowell.

To make (a person) a garnishee; to warn by garnishment; to garnish.

Warning, or legal notice, to one to appear and give information to the court on any matter.

est order of knighthood in Great Britain, called the Order of the Garter, instituted by Edward III.; also, the Order itself.