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Fuel. [Obs.] Hooker.

nce to truth; veracity; honesty. The principal thing required in a witness is fidelity. Hooker.

he devil or a demon. Into this wild abyss the wary fiend Stood on the brink of Hell and looked a while. Milton. O woman! woman! when to ill thy mind Is bent, all hell contains no fouler fiend. Pope.

ous. "A fierce whisper." Dickens. "A fierce tyrant." Pope. The fierce foe hung upon our broken rear. Milton. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion. Job. x. 16.

Passionate; easily provoked; irritable. You kniw the fiery quality of the duke. Shak.

's appointment, but for a time, to shadow out the true glory of a more divine sanctity. Hooker.

A machine for forming threads. [Obs.] W. Tooke.

Bearing the relation of a child. And thus the filial Godhead answering spoke. Milton.

Haddock cured in peat smoke, originally at Findon (pron. fìn"an), Scotland. the name is also applied to other kinds of smoked haddock. [Written also finnan haddock.]

during a specified period. -- Fire irons, utensils for a fireplace or grate, as tongs, poker, and shovel. -- Fire main, a pipe for water, to be used in putting out fire. -- Fire master (Mil), an artillery officer who formerly supervised the composition of fireworks. -- Fire office, an office at which to effect ins…

A set of fire irons, including, commonly, tongs, shovel, and poker.

Same as Stokehold, below.

A hook with a pendant, to the end of which the fish-tackle is hooked. Dana.

A stroke or blow. [Obs. or R.] Curse on that cross, quoth then the Sarazin, That keeps thy body from the bitter fit. Spenser.

A coal broker who conducts the sales between the owner of a coal pit and the shipper. [Eng.] Simmonds.

, is emblazoned. -- Red flag, a flag of a red color, displayed as a signal of danger or token of defiance; the emblem of anarchists. -- To dip, the flag, to mlower it and quickly restore it to its place; -- done as a mark of respect. -- To hang out the white flag, to ask truce or quarter, or, in some cases, to manif…

the lash of the executioner or the beadle. De Quincey. Flagrant desires and affections. Hooker.

nicopterus. The flamingoes have webbed feet, very long legs, and a beak bent down as if broken. Their color is usually red or pink. The American flamingo is P. ruber; the European is P. antiquorum.

The motion of anything broad and loose, or a stroke or sound made with it; as, the flap of a sail or of a wing.

Without allowance for accrued interest. [Broker's Cant]