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One who fences; one who teaches or practices the art of fencing with sword or foil. As blunt as the fencer's foils. Shak.

The art or practice of attack and defense with the sword, esp. with the s,allword. See Fence, v. i., 2.

principles are about to prevail. It is often represented on porcelains and other works of art.

An accomplice. Art thou a feodary for this act Shak.

The mechanism for closing the breech of a breech-loading firearm, in artillery consisting principally of the breechblock, obturator, and carrier ring.

Wild; savage. [R.] Arthur Wilson.

The art of working in iron. [Obs.] Chapman.

To cause to come; to bring to a particular state. They could n't fetch the butter in the churn. W. Barnes. To fetch a compass (Naut.), to make a sircuit; to take a circuitious route going to a place. -- To fetch a pump, to make it draw water by pouring water into the top and working the handle. -- To fetch headway or…

se restrains on; to confine; to enchain; as, fettered by obligations. My conscience! thou art fettered More than my shanks and wrists. Shak.

A part of a French newspaper (usually the bottom of the page), devoted to light literature, criticism, etc.; also, the article or tale itself, thus printed.

e of the delicate, threadlike portions of which the tissues of plants and animals are in part constituted; as, the fiber of flax or of muscle.

The bone or cartilage of the tarsus, which articulates with the fibula, and corresponds to the calcaneum in man and most mammals.

Molded, or capable of being molded, into form by art; relating to pottery or to molding in any soft material. Fictile earth is more fragile than crude earth. Bacon. The earliest specimens of Italian fictile art. C. Wordsworth. Fictile ware, ware made of any material which is molded or shaped while soft; hence, pottery…

An artist who models or forms statues and reliefs in any plastic material. [R.] Elmes.

A cannon mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army; a piece of field artillery; -- called also field gun.

Full of fiendish spirit or arts. Marlowe. -- Fiend"ful*ly, adv.

g, carving, etc. See Figure, n., 2. They belonged to a nation dedicated to the figurative arts, and they wrote for a public familiar with painted form. J. A. Symonds. Figurative counterpointdescant. See under Figurate. -- Fig"ur*a*tive*ly, adv. -- Fig"ur*a*tive*ness, n.

A pattern in cloth, paper, or other manufactured article; a design wrought out in a fabric; as, the muslin was of a pretty figure.

rporals and privates. Wilhelm. (b) Those who constitute the bulk or working members of a party, society, etc., in distinction from the leaders.

To act as a filibuster, or military freebooter. Bartlett.