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dent during his fist year in a college or university. He drank his glass and cracked his joke, And freshmen wondered as he spoke. Goldsmith. Freshman class, the lowest of the four classes in an American college. [ U. S.]

rt of the coast of Holland and Northwestern Germany. The modern dialects of Friesic are spoken chiefly in the province of Friesland, and on some of the islands near the coast of Germany and Denmark.

h is between the architrave and cornice. It is a flat member or face, either uniform or broken by triglyphs, and often enriched with figures and other ornaments of sculpture.

A native or inhabitant of Friesland; also, the language spoken in Friesland. See Friesic, n.

nail with a sharp head driven into a horse's shoe to keen him from slipping. -- Frost smoke, an appearance resembling smoke, caused by congelation of vapor in the atmosphere in time of severe cold. The brig and the ice round her are covered by a strange black obscurity: it is the frost smoke of arctic winters. Kane.…

Old-fashioned, as a woman's dress. Our Bell . . . looked very frumpish. Foote.

Easily broken; brittle; crisp.

The condition or quality of being fuliginous; sootiness; matter deposited by smoke. [R.]

Pertaining to smoke; resembling smoke.

scribed by authority or by etiquette to be worn on occasions of ceremony. -- Full hand (Poker), three of a kind and a pair. -- Full moon. (a) The moon with its whole disk illuminated, as when opposite to the sun. (b) The time when the moon is full. -- Full organ (Mus.), the organ when all or most stops are out. --…

A salted and smoked fish, as the pilchard.

Hearth money. Fumage, or fuage, vulgarly called smoke farthings. Blackstone.

Exhalation; volatile matter (esp. noxious vapor or smoke) ascending in a dense body; smoke; vapor; reek; as, the fumes of tobacco. The fumes of new shorn hay. T. Warton. The fumes of undigested wine. Dryden.

Producing smoke.

One who, or that which, drives away smoke or fumes.

To subject to the action of smoke. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

To apply smoke to; to expose to smoke or vapor; to purify, or free from infection, by the use of smoke or vapors.

The act of fumigating, or applying smoke or vapor, as for disinfection.

Having the quality of purifying by smoke. [R.]

In a fuming manner; angrily. "They answer fumingly." Hooker.