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A spreading outward; as, the flare of a fireplace.

aused by the weight of its parts; the amount to be added or substracted from the observed readings of the instrument to correct them for this distortion. The flexure of a curve (Math.), the bending of a curve towards or from a straight line.

ter's plane, in size and use between a jack plane and a smoothing plane. Knight. -- Fore reading, previous perusal. [Obs.] Hales. -- Fore rent, in Scotland, rent payable before a crop is gathered. -- Fore sheets (Naut.), the forward portion of a rowboat; the space beyond the front thwart. See Stern sheets. -- Fore…

Any sight or reading of the leveling staff, except the backsight; any sight or bearing taken by a compass or theodolite in a forward direction.

Having the mind filled with ideas; stocked with knowledge; stored with information. Reading maketh a full man. Bacon.

A die; a half-round set hammer, used for forming grooves and spreading iron; -- called also a creaser.

Mrs. Caskell. -- To go on. (a) To proceed; to advance further; to continue; as, to go on reading. (b) To be put or drawn on; to fit over; as, the coat will not go on. -- To go all fours, to correspond exactly, point for point. It is not easy to make a simile go on all fours. Macaulay. -- To go out. (a) To issue forth…

possessed, and firmly retained; as, a religious habit; his habit is morose; elms have a spreading habit; esp., physical temperament or constitution; as, a full habit of body.

Informed by insufficient reading; superficial; shallow. Dryden.

Shaped like the head of a halberd; triangular, with the basal angles or lobes spreading; as, a hastate leaf.

f hay extracted by boiling, used as food for cattle, etc. -- Hay tedder, a machine for spreading and turning newmown hay. See Tedder.

ve score. Also, a symbol representing one hundred units, as 100 or C. With many hundreds treading on his heels. Shak.

at this moment, the inclosed thermometer gives the dew-point, and this, compared with the reading of one in the air, determines the humidity.

Salver-shaped; having a slender tube, expanding suddenly above into a bowl-shaped or spreading border, as in the blossom of the phlox and the lilac.

Tending to illuminate or illustrate; throwing light; illustrative. "Illuminative reading." Carlyle.

the exponent. [In this sense the plural is always indices.] Index error, the error in the reading of a mathematical instrument arising from the zero of the index not being in complete adjustment with that of the limb, or with its theoretically perfect position in the instrument; a correction to be applied to the instru…

ers or obtained by personal study and investigation; intelligence; knowledge derived from reading, observation, or instruction. Larger opportunities of information. Rogers. He should get some information in the subject he intends to handle. Swift.

To modulate the voice in a musical, sonorous, and measured manner, as in reading the liturgy; to intone.

act of inundating, or the state of being inundated; an overflow; a flood; a rising and spreading of water over grounds. With inundation wide the deluge reigns, Drowns the deep valleys, and o'erspreads the plains. Wilkie.

ings. They are able to run about over floating water weeds by means of their very long, spreading toes. Called also surgeon bird.