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United States, a wood of native growth, or a tract of woodland which has never been cultivated.

The art of forming or of cultivating forests; the management of growing timber.

To give wholly; to make over without reservation; to resign. To them that list the world's gay shows I leave, And to great ones such folly do forgive. Spenser.

An aqueous solution of formaldehyde, used as a preservative in museums and as a disinfectant.

Serving to form; derivative; not radical; as, a termination merely formative.

A group of hymenopterous insects including the sand wasps. They excavate cells in earth, where they deposit their eggs, with the bodies of other insects for the food of the young when hatched. [Written also Fossoria.]

e. Young. -- Fountain inkstand, an inkstand having a continual supply of ink, as from elevated reservoir. -- Fountain lamp, a lamp fed with oil from an elevated reservoir. -- Fountain pen, a pen with a reservoir in the handle which furnishes a supply of ink. -- Fountain pump. (a) A structure for a fountain, having…

or friborg, in England, being a pledge for the good conduct of the others, for the preservation of the public peace; a free surety.

In a raw, green, or untried state; uncultivated; uncultured; unpracticed; as, a fresh hand on a ship.

In Mexico, the southwestern United States, and the West Indies, any cultivated bean of the genus Phaseolus, esp. the black seed of a variety of P. vulgaris.

ern United States, having clusters of white flowers with slender petals. It is often cultivated.

treme part of a country, bordering on another country; the border of the settled and cultivated part of a country; as, the frontier of civilization.

oweth strife. Prov. xvi. 28. A froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as innovation. Bacon.

are natives of Mexico and South America. Double-flowered varieties are now common in cultivation.

Having all its sails set,; hence, without restriction or reservation. Massinger.

h is fulminated or thundered forth; vehement menace or censure. The fulminations from the Vatican were turned into ridicule. Ayliffe.

odor, obtained by the distillation of bran, sugar, etc., and regarded as an aldehyde derivative of furfuran; -- called also furfural.

connecting passageway, as between one room and another; also, a long hole or passage excavated by a boring or burrowing animal.

A species of grass (Tripsacum dactyloides) tall, stout, and exceedingly productive; cultivated in the West Indies, Mexico, and the Southern States of North America as a forage grass; -- called also sesame grass.

l cask in which to bring water aboard ships or in which it is kept on deck. -- Gang cultivator, Gang plow, a cultivator or plow in which several shares are attached to one frame, so as to make two or more furrows at the same time. -- Gang days, Rogation days; the time of perambulating parishes. See Gang week (below).…