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A kind of mirage by which distant objects appear inverted, distorted, displaced, or multiplied. It is noticed particularly at the Straits of Messina, between Calabria and Sicily.

The qualities of a father; parantal kindness, care, etc.

Kind regard; propitious aspect; countenance; friendly disposition; kindness; good will. Hath crawled into the favor of the king. Shak.

Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly. Lend favorable ears to our request. Shak. Lord, thou hast been favorable unto thy land. Ps. lxxxv. 1.

One who favors; one who regards with kindness or friendship; a well-wisher; one who assists or promotes success or prosperity. [Written also favourer.] And come to us as favorers, not as foes. Shak.

One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down.

A kind of embroidery stitch producing a branching zigzag line.

he work. -- Feed water, water supplied to a steam boiler, etc. -- Feed wheel (Mach.), a kind of feeder. See Feeder, n., 8.

l no evil thing. Eccl. viii. 5. He best can paint them who shall feel them most. Pope. Mankind have felt their strength and made it felt. Byron.

ion; any mental state whatever; as, a right or a wrong feeling in the heart; our angry or kindly feelings; a feeling of pride or of humility. A fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind. Garrick. Tenderness for the feelings of others. Macaulay.

One of the same race or kind; one made by the same Creator. Reason, by which we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes. I. Watts.

A kind of whitlow; a painful imflammation of the periosteum of a finger, usually of the last joint.

A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant.

A kind of marble or alabaster, sometimes used for windows on account of its transparency.

ood and evil believed by the Chinese to attend the natural features of landscape; also, a kind of geomancy dealing with these influences, used in determining sites for graves, houses, etc.

nto new compounds by the action of a ferment, either formed or unorganized. It differs in kind according to the nature of the ferment which causes it.

A kind of narrow tape, usually made of woolen; sometimes of cotton or silk; -- called also ferreting.

rim; -- so called after G. W. G. Ferris, American engineer, who erected the first of its kind for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893.

A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race.

of estates in land is made dependent upon an obligation to render military service to the kind or feudal superior; feudal principles and usages.