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orcing engine, a fire engine. -- Forcing fit (Mech.), a tight fit, as of one part into a hole in another part, which makes it necessary to use considerable force in putting the two parts together. -- Forcing house, a greenhouse for the forcing of plants, fruit trees, etc. -- Forcing machine, a powerful press for put…

r, settee, etc. -- Fore peak (Naut.), the angle within a ship's bows; the portion of the hold which is farthest forward. -- Fore piece, a front piece, as the flap in the fore part of a sidesaddle, to guard the rider's dress. -- Fore plane, a carpenter's plane, in size and use between a jack plane and a smoothing pla…

The forward part of the hold of a ship.

See Forlet. [Obs.] Holland.

Holding or held formerly in possession. [Obs.]

r tines, which are usually of metal, parallel and slightly curved; -- used from piercing, holding, taking up, or pitching anything.

th and voice; the formal is constituted by the motion and figure of the organs of speech. Holder.

A little hollow; hence, a dimple.

The buildings and works for casting metals. Foundry ladle, a vessel for holding molten metal and conveying it from cupola to the molds.

r (Zoöl.), one of a peculiar breed of terriers, used in hunting to drive foxes from their holes, and for other purposes. There are rough- and smooth-haired varieties. -- Fox trot, a pace like that which is adopted for a few steps, by a horse, when passing from a walk into a trot, or a trot into a walk. -- Fox wedge (…

A hole in the earth to which a fox resorts to hide himself.

A shallow iron pan to hold glass ware while being annealed.

ability to error and sin; frailty. [Obs.] The fragility and youthful folly of Qu. Fabius. Holland.

A fluted reamer for enlarging holes in stone; a small milling cutter.

A tenure by which a religious corporation holds lands given to them and their successors forever, usually on condition of praying for the soul of the donor and his heirs; -- called also tenure by free alms. Burrill.

To fraternize; to hold fellowship. Jefferson.

To associate or hold fellowship as brothers, or as men of like occupation or character; to have brotherly feelings.

A lantern having a lamp surrounded by a hollow cylindrical Fresnel lens.

in the illustration, the cone a on one shaft, when thrust forcibly into the corresponding hollow cone b on the other shaft, compels the shafts to rotate together, by the hold the friction of the conical surfaces gives. (b) A toothed clutch, one member of which, instead of being made fast on its shaft, is held by fricti…

nguage of the Frisians, a Teutonic people formerly occupying a large part of the coast of Holland and Northwestern Germany. The modern dialects of Friesic are spoken chiefly in the province of Friesland, and on some of the islands near the coast of Germany and Denmark.