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rentage. -- Foster dam, one who takes the place of a mother; a nurse. Dryden. -- Foster earth, earth by which a plant is nourished, though not its native soil. J. Philips. -- Foster father, a man who takes the place of a father in caring for a child. Bacon. -- Foster land. (a) Land allotted for the maintenance of a…

A spring of water issuing from the earth.

A machine used in making paper; -- so named from an early inventor of improvements in this class of machinery.

o'clock is M. Jalapa. Its flowers are white, yellow, and red, and open toward sunset, or earlier in cloudy weather; hence the name. It is also called marvel of Peru, and afternoon lady.

A hole in the earth to which a fox resorts to hide himself.

y; sweet of smell; odorous; having or emitting an agreeable perfume. Fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers. Milton.

The name which St. Francis of Assisi gave to his followers, early in the 13th century.

ines on cloth, etc. See under Chalk. -- French cowslip (Bot.) The Primula Auricula. See Bear's-ear. -- French fake (Naut.), a mode of coiling a rope by running it backward and forward in parallel bends, so that it may run freely. -- French honeysuckle (Bot.) a plant of the genus Hedysarum (H. coronarium); -- called…

A French mode or characteristic; an idiom peculiar to the French language. Earle.

fficient to excite the generative power; impotent. Johnson. Frigid zone, that part of the earth which lies between either polar circle and its pole. It extends 23Arctic.

mall curls, as hair, with a crisping pin; to crisp. With her hair frizzed short up to her ears. Pepys.

movable furrowed piece of steel struck by the flint, to throw sparks into the pan, in an early form of flintlock. Knight.

The freezing, or effect of a freezing, of some part of the body, as the ears or nose. Kane.

To bear fruit. "Causeth the earth to fructify." Beveridge.

Full of fruit; producing fruit abundantly; bearing results; prolific; fertile; liberal; bountiful; as, a fruitful tree, or season, or soil; a fruitful wife. -- Fruit"ful*ly, adv. -- Fruit"ful*ness, n. Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth. Gen. i. 28. [Nature] By disburdening grows More fruitful. Milton. T…

One whose occupation is to full cloth. Fuller's earth, a variety of clay, used in scouring and cleansing cloth, to imbibe grease. -- Fuller's herb (Bot.), the soapwort (Saponaria officinalis), formerly used to remove stains from cloth. -- Fuller's thistle or weed (Bot.), the teasel (Dipsacus fullonum) whose burs are…

ely fall into and rise from troughs where the cloth is placed with hot water and fuller's earth, or other cleansing materials.

furnished or supplied; supplies; outfit; equipment. The form and all the furniture of the earth. Tillotson. The thoughts which make the furniture of their minds. M. Arnold.

A trench in the earth made by, or as by, a plow.

rwork, like a basket without a bottom. Gabions are made of various sizes, and filled with earth in building fieldworks to shelter men from an enemy's fire.