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To solder or unite, as metals. [R.] Coleridge.

nimals. Also, the joint of the limb at this point (between the great pastern bone and the metacarpus), or the tuft of hair. Their wounded steeds Fret fetlock deep in gore. Shak.

A wooden or metal bar or pin, used to support or steady anything.

Unrestrained; fierce; mettlesome; spirited. One curbed the fiery steed. Dryden.

Figurative; metaphorical. [Obs.] Bale.

Used in a sense that is tropical, as a metaphor; not literal; -- applied to words and expressions.

h design; to adorn with figures. The vaulty top of heaven Figured quite o'er with burning meteors. Shak.

To set in order; to arrange, or lay away, esp. as papers in a methodical manner for preservation and reverence; to place on file; to insert in its proper place in an arranged body of papers. I would have my several courses and my dishes well filed. Beau. & Fl.

Fernlike, either in form or in the nature of the method of reproduction.

A piece of lean meat without bone; sometimes, a long strip rolled together and tied.

Having (such) a proportion of pure metal in its composition; as, coins nine tenths fine.

b grass, under Crab. -- Finger nut, a fly nut or thumb nut. -- Finger plate, a strip of metal, glass, etc., to protect a painted or polished door from finger marks. -- Finger post, a guide post bearing an index finger. -- Finger reading, reading printed in relief so as to be sensible to the touch; -- so made for th…

The process of fining or refining; clarification; also (Metal.), the conversion of cast iron into suitable for puddling, in a hearth or charcoal fire.

manner or style of finishing; as, a rough, dead, or glossy finish given to cloth, stone, metal, etc.

fish, though often with a cigar-shaped bulb of lead at the bottom, and generally made of metal. Its use is to ballast the boat and also to enable her to sail close to the wind and to make the least possible leeway by offering great resistance to lateral motion through the water.

ubstances, as sulphur, niter, lampblack, etc., the flames of which are colored by various metallic salts, as those of antimony, strontium, barium, etc. -- Fire alarm (a) A signal given on the breaking out of a fire. (b) An apparatus for giving such an alarm. -- Fire annihilator, a machine, device, or preparation to b…

A luminous meteor, resembling a ball of fire passing rapidly through the air, and sometimes exploding.

A fiery meteor; an ignis fatuus; a rocket.

by the combustion of materials that burn in some peculiar manner, as gunpowder, sulphur, metallic filings, and various salts. The most common feature of fireworks is a paper or pasteboard tube filled with the combustible material. A number of these tubes or cases are often combined so as to make, when kindled, a great…

A method of asexual reproduction among the lowest (unicellular) organisms by means of a process of self-division, consisting of gradual division or cleavage of the into two parts, each of which then becomes a separate and independent organisms; as when a cell in an animal or plant, or its germ, undergoes a spontaneous…