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A light kind of food, formerly made of flour or meal; a sort of pap. Milk and flummery are very fit for children. Locke.

sion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind; a blush; a glow. The flush of angered shame. Tennyson.

A kindof flyboat; a storeship. Armed en flûte ( (Nav.), partially armed.

A kind of light carriage for rapid transit, plying for hire and usually drawn by one horse. [Eng.]

A kind of catchfly of the genus Silene; also, a poisonous mushroom (Agaricus muscarius); fly agaric.

A kind of passenger boat formerly used on canals.

To bring forth young, as an animal of the horse kind.

A kind of fur, black at the top on a whitish ground, taken from the ferret or weasel of the same name.[Obs.] He came to the stake in a fair black gown furred and faced with foins. Fuller.

To become folded, plaited, or doubled; to close over another of the same kind; to double together; as, the leaves of the door fold. 1 Kings vi. 34.

ts, etc. Foliage plant (Bot.), any plant cultivated for the beauty of its leaves, as many kinds of Begonia and Coleus.

sheets of paper each folded once (four pages to the sheet); hence, a book of the largest kind. See Note under Paper.

A kind of soft sweetmeat made by boiling solutions to the point of crystallization, usually molded; as, cherry fondant.

A kind of tall headdress formerly worn. Addison.

A kind of stocking. [Obs.]

Food of any kind for animals, especially for horses and cattle, as grass, pasture, hay, corn, oats. Dryden. Forage cap. See under Cap. -- Forage master (Mil.), a person charged with providing forage and the means of transporting it. Farrow.

ing; to pause; to delay. Shall I go against Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear 1 Kinds xxii. 6.

etween them, whether mechanical, thermal, chemical, electrical, magnetic, or of any other kind; as, the force of gravity; cohesive force; centrifugal force. Animal force (Physiol.), muscular force or energy. -- Catabiotic force Etym: [Gr. (Biol.), the influence exerted by living structures on adjoining cells, by which…

A kind of parchment for book covers. See Forrill.

The chief of a set of hands employed in a shop, or on works of any kind, who superintends the rest; an overseer.

ce it is usual to bring children into company, and cherish in them, from their infancy, a kind of forwardness and assurance. Addison.