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e critics have been very free in their censures. Felton. A man may live a free life as to wine or women. Shelley.

which affords a saffron, green or purple pigment. -- French casement (Arch.) See French window, under Window. -- French chalk (Min.), a variety of granular talc; -- used for drawing lines on cloth, etc. See under Chalk. -- French cowslip (Bot.) The Primula Auricula. See Bear's-ear. -- French fake (Naut.), a mode o…

for a combat; hence, tending to renew in vigor; rather strong; cool or brisk; as, a fresh wind.

To grow brisk or strong; as, the wind freshens.

y; newly, recently; brightly; briskly; coolly; as, freshly gathered; freshly painted; the wind blows freshly. Looks he as freshly as he did Shak.

e Southern United States and West Indies is F. aquila. They are remarkable for their long wings and powerful flight. Their food consists of fish which they obtain by robbing gulls, terns, and other birds, of their prey. They are related to the pelicans. -- Frigate mackerel (Zoöl.), an oceanic fish (Auxis Rochei) of li…

flies belonging to Argynnis and allied genera; -- so called because the coloring of their wings resembles that of the common Fritillaria. See Aphrodite.

; dancing, playing, or frisking about; full of pranks; frolicsome; gay; merry. The frolic wind that breathes the spring. Milton. The gay, the frolic, and the loud. Waller.

The song began from Jove. Drpden. From high Mæonia's rocky shores I came. Addison. If the wind blow any way from shore. Shak.

A little pediment over a door or window.

A sweet muscadine wine made in Frontignan (Languedoc), France.

e ice round her are covered by a strange black obscurity: it is the frost smoke of arctic winters. Kane. -- Frost valve, a valve to drain the portion of a pipe, hydrant, pump, etc., where water would be liable to freeze. -- Jack Frost, a popular personification of frost.

Free from frost; as, a frostless winter.

work, often fantastic and delicate, which moisture sometimes forms in freezing, as upon a window pane or a flagstone.

r the others in their exercises; a file leader. He originally stood in front of the right wing. [Written also flugelman.]

ull and by (Naut.), sailing closehauled, having all the sails full, and lying as near the wind as poesible. -- Full band (Mus.), a band in which all the instruments are employed. -- Full binding, the binding of a book when made wholly of leather, as distinguished from half binding. -- Full bottom, a kind of wig full…

Fully distended with wind, as a sail. Dryden.

Having reached the limits of growth; mature. "Full-grown wings." Lowell.

Having large and strong or complete wings. Shak.

as, the fumes of tobacco. The fumes of new shorn hay. T. Warton. The fumes of undigested wine. Dryden.