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To be agitated; to be greatly moved. [Obs.] What kindling motions in their breasts do fry. Fairfax.

book when made wholly of leather, as distinguished from half binding. -- Full bottom, a kind of wig full and large at the bottom. -- Full brother or sister, a brother or sister having the same parents as another. -- Full cry (Hunting), eager chase; -- said of hounds that have caught the scent, and give tongue toget…

A hand containing three of a kind and a pair, as three kings and two tens. It ranks above a flush and below four of a kind.

culty, as of the soul, or of the intellect; the exertion of an energy of some determinate kind. As the mind opens, and its functions spread. Pope.

Things which may be furnished or restored in kind, as distinguished from specific things; -- called also fungible things. Burrill.

A kind of match for lighting a pipe or cigar. (Railroad)

An elongated body or frame of an aëroplane or flying machine; sometimes, erroneously, any kind of frame or body. Many aëroplanes have no fuselage, properly so called.

Capable of being melted or rendered fluid by heat; fusible. [R.] "A kind of fusil marble" Woodward.

A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff, including corduroy, velveteen, etc.

Fine, light particles or fibers; loose, volatile matter. Fuzz ball, a kind of fungus or mushroom, which, when pressed, bursts and scatters a fine dust; a puffball.

A kind of coarse cloth for packing goods. [Obs.]

A name originally given by the Italians to a kind of serpentine, later to the rock called euphotide, and now generally used for a coarsely crystalline, igneous rock consisting of lamellar pyroxene (diallage) and labradorite, with sometimes chrysolite (olivine gabbro).

A kind of shoe, consisting of cloth, and covering the ankle.

A kind of striped cotton fabric, usually of superior quality and striped with blue or red on white.

lants, mostly species of Ferula. The Bubon Galbanum of South Africa furnishes an inferior kind of galbanum. It has an acrid, bitter taste, a strong, unpleasant smell, and is used for medical purposes, also in the arts, as in the manufacture of varnish.

A kind of bandage for the head.

two iambic dimeters catalectic, the last of which lacks the final syllable; -- said of a kind of verse.

A hash of various kinds of meats, a ragout. Delighting in hodge-podge, gallimaufries, forced meat. King.

An inferior kind of olive oil, brought from Gallipoli, in Italy.

I horsemanship, a sidelong or curveting kind of gallop.