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A brood of eels. [Prov. Eng.]

s, etc.; also, a short and lively air performed on hunting horns during the chase. The fanfare announcing the arrival of the various Christian princes. Sir W. Scott.

A bully; a hector; a swaggerer; an empty boaster. [R.] Dryden.

A swaggering; vain boasting; ostentation; a bluster. Swift.

The fieldfare.

re ash-colored; the upper part of the back and wing coverts, chestnut; -- called also fellfare.

See under Injector.

To stuff; to swell. [Obs.] The body is infarced with . . . watery humors. Sir T. Elyot.

e morbid condition of a limited area resulting from such obstruction; as, a hemorrhagic infarct.

The act of stuffing or filling; an overloading and obstruction of any organ or vessel of the body; constipation.

A house-warming; especially, a reception, party, or entertainment given by a newly married couple, or by the husband upon receiving the wife to his house. [Written also infair.] [Scot., & Local, U. S.]

See Megafarad. [R.]

One of the larger measures of electrical capacity, amounting to one million farads; a macrofarad.

The millionth part of a farad.

To fare ill. [Obs.] -- n.

of various kinds; diversified; made up of many differing parts; manifold. There is a multifarious artifice in the structure of the meanest animal. Dr. H. More.

With great multiplicity and diversity; with variety of modes and relations.

Multiplied diversity.

Wicked in the extreme; abominable; iniquitous; atrociously villainous; execrable; detestably vile.

Going or traveling in the night. Gay.