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creen for the combatants in ships. [Obs.] Up with your fights, and your nettings prepare. Dryden. Running fight, a fight in which the enemy is continually chased; also, one which continues without definite end or result.

made by the conduct or carrer of a person; as, a sorry figure. I made some figure there. Dryden. Gentlemen of the best figure in the county. Blackstone.

, that which is of little value); to pilfer. Fain would they filch that little food away. Dryden. But he that filches from me my good name, Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed. Shak.

fills; something used for filling. 'T is mere filer, to stop a vacancy in the hexameter. Dryden. They have six diggers to four fillers, so as to keep the fillers always at work. Mortimer.

Composed of film or films. Whose filmy cord should bind the struggling fly. Dryden.

tely fine! Pope. The nicest and most delicate touches of satire consist in fine raillery. Dryden. He has as fine a hand at picking a pocket as a woman. T. Gray.

the passions; as, to fire the soul with anger, pride, or revenge. Love had fired my mind. Dryden.

A dry measure formerly used in Scotland; the fourth part of a boll of grain or meal. The Linlithgow wheat firlot was to the imperial bushel as 998 to 1000; the barley firlot as 1456 to 1000. Brande & C.

ix; to settle; to confirm; to establish. [Obs.] And Jove has firmed it with an awful nod. Dryden.

Pertaining to the firmament; celestial; being of the upper regions. Dryden.

one time or another; at the beginning or end. And all are fools and lovers first or last. Dryden.

To strike with the fist. Dryden.

latform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things. You shall also, after they be ripe, neither suffer them to have straw nor fern under them, but lay them either upon some smooth table, boards, or flakes of wands, and they will last the longer. Eng…

Made or consisting of flannel. [Obs.] "Flannen robes." Dryden.

fy; empty; vain; as, a flatulent vanity. He is too flatulent sometimes, and sometimes too dry. Dryden.

Imparting flavor; pleasant to the taste or smell; sapid. Dryden.

rel. [Obs.] And deluges of armies from the town Came pouring in; I heard the mighty flaw. Dryden.

ak or stripe; to variegate; to dapple. Both flecked with white, the true Arcadian strain. Dryden. A bird, a cloud, flecking the sunny air. Trench.

Glutted; satiated; initiated. Fleshed with slaughter. Dryden.

Animal; not Dryden.