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Fuel in a state of combustion, as on a hearth, or in

Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign.

rom the temporal lobe. See Illust. under Brain. -- Fissure vein (Mining), a crack in the earth's surface filled with mineral matter. Raymond.

ed hand, especially as clinched tightly for the purpose of striking a blow. Who grasp the earth and heaven with my fist. Herbert.

A disease of the glands under the ear in horses; the vives. Shak.

An instrument for threshing or beating grain from the ear by hand, consisting of a wooden staff or handle, at the end of which a stouter and shorter pole or club, called a swipe, is so hung as to swing freely. His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn. Milton.

Ardent; passionate; burning with zeal; irrepressibly earnest; as, a flaming proclomation or harangue.

Having broad, loose, dependent ears. Shak.

Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane. Though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. Milton.

skin or fibrous part of the flax plant, when broken and cleaned by hatcheling or combing. Earth flax (Min.), amianthus. -- Flax brake, a machine for removing the woody portion of flax from the fibrous. -- Flax comb, a hatchel, hackle, or heckle. -- Flax cotton, the fiber of flax, reduced by steeping in bicarbinate o…

To skin; to strip off the skin or surface of; as, to flay an ox; to flay the green earth. With her nails She 'll flay thy wolfish visage. Shak.

kes its place. See Aphaniptera, and Dog flea. See Illustration in Appendix. A flea in the ear, an unwelcome hint or unexpected reply, annoying like a flea; an irritating repulse; as, to put a flea in one's ear; to go away with a flea in one's ear. -- Beach flea, Black flea, etc. See under Beach, etc.…

e of, or pertaining to, flection or inflection. A flectional word is a phrase in the bud. Earle.

t as a light substance. All the unaccomplished works of Nature's hand, . . . Dissolved on earth, fleet hither. Milton.

The human eace; mankind; humanity. All flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. Gen. vi. 12.

A superior kind of earthenware into whose composition flint enters largely. Knight.

ng used to buoy up whatever is liable to sink; an inflated bag or pillow used by persons learning to swim; a life preserver. This reform bill . . . had been used as a float by the conservative ministry. J. P. Peters.

usually thus covered; a deluge; a freshet; an inundation. A covenant never to destroy The earth again by flood. Milton.

ass floating on iron in the puddling furnace, produced by the vitrification of oxides and earths which are present. Floss hole.

luid; to change place or circulate, as a liquid; as, rivers flow from springs and lakes; tears flow from the eyes.