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Tillotson. Filth disease (Med.), a disease supposed to be due to pollution of the soil or water.

ys, or little bony or cartilaginous ossicles, and serving to balance and propel it in the water.

Conclusive; decisive; as, a final judgment; the battle of Waterloo brought the contest to a final issue.

To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end; as, water is found to be a compound substance.

yboard of a piano, organ, etc.; manual. -- Finger bowl or glass, a bowl or glass to hold water for rinsing the fingers at table. -- Finger flower (Bot.), the foxglove. -- Finger grass (Bot.), a kind of grass (Panicum sanguinale) with slender radiating spikes; common crab grass. See Crab grass, under Crab. -- Finger…

make the least possible leeway by offering great resistance to lateral motion through the water.

tspur. [Colloq.] -- Fire engine, a portable forcing pump, usually on wheels, for throwing water to extinguish fire. -- Fire escape, a contrivance for facilitating escape from burning buildings. -- Fire gilding (Fine Arts), a mode of gilding with an amalgam of gold and quicksilver, the latter metal being driven off af…

watch from eight to twelve at midnight; also, the men on duty during that time. -- First water, the highest quality or purest luster; -- said of gems, especially of diamond and pearls.

oosely applied in popular usage to many animals of diverse characteristics, living in the water.

The right to take fish at a certain place, or in particular waters. Abbott.

on haliaëtus), found both in Europe and America; -- so called because it plunges into the water and seizes fishes in its talons. Called also fishing eagle, and bald buzzard.

A pipe for convejing water. [Obs.] Knight.

ia), the long leaves of which are placed between the staves of barrels to make the latter water-tight. -- Corn flag. See under 2d Corn. -- Flag broom, a coarse of broom, originally made of flags or rushes. -- Flag root, the root of the sweet flag. -- Sweet flag. See Calamus, n., 2.

To strike and throw up large bodies of water from the surface; to splash. [Obs.] He rudely flashed the waves about. Spenser. Flashed glass. See Flashing, n., 3.

A board placed temporarily upon a milldam, to raise the water in the pond above its usual level; a flushboard. [U.S.]

A variety of water-tube boiler, used chiefly in steam automobiles, consisting of a nest of strong tubes with very little water space, kept nearly red hot so that the water as it trickles drop by drop into the tubes is immediately flashed into steam and superheated.

The creation of an artifical flood by the sudden letting in of a body of water; -- called also flushing.

, to carry gunpowder in; or of wrought iron, to contain quicksilver; or of glass, to heat water in, etc.

A level tract lying at little depth below the surface of water, or alternately covered and left bare by the tide; a shoal; a shallow; a strand. Half my power, this night Passing these flats, are taken by the tide. Shak.

m and square ends; -- used for the transportation of bulky freight, especially in shallow waters.