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Freakish. [Obs.] Pepys.

Not salt; as, fresh water, in distinction from that which is from the sea, or brackish; fresh meat, in distinction from that which is pickled or salted. Fresh breeze (Naut.), a breeze between a moderate and a strong breeze; one blowinq about twenty miles an hour. -- Fresh gale, a gale blowing about forty-five miles an…

Properly, belonging to an order of alga: (Fucoideæ) which are blackish in color, and produce oöspores which are not fertilized until they have escaped from the conceptacle. The common rockweeds and the gulfweed (Sargassum) are fucoid in character.

To make up; to devise; to contrive; to fabricate. Fudged up into such a smirkish liveliness. N. Fairfax.

nial climbing plant with elegant feathery leaves and large clusters of pretty white or pinkish flowers looking like grains of rice.

Brown or grayish black; darkish. Sad and fuscous colors, as black or brown, or deep purple and the like. Burke.

A Turkish general, and standard keeper.

Mawkishly or weakly good; exhibiting goodness with silliness. [Colloq.]

ith a fibrous, reniform, or stalactitic structure. The color varies from yellowish to blackish brown.

Imposition; cheat; fraud; also, an impostor; a cheat; a trickish person. [Slang, U. S.] Gouge bit, a boring bit, shaped like a gouge.

arine, sparoid, food fish of California (Cæsiosoma Californiense). The body is ovate, blackish above, blue or gray below. Called also medialuna.

A irrevocable Turkish decree countersigned by the sultan.

A coarse, blackish seaweed. See Badderlocks.

A Turkish standard, denoting rank.

A mean, trickish fellow. Bp. Hall.

A spirit of deception; cajolery; trickishness.

atter, action, language, etc.; a foreign ingredient. Foul impurities reigned among the monkish clergy. Atterbury.

Darkened with a blackish tinge.

within an inclosure; shut off from public sight; private; secluded; retired. I have no Turkish proclivities, and I do not think that, after all, impaling is preferable as a mode of capital punishment to intraparietal hanging. Roll

ving a long, slim body and very short legs. Its color is grayish brown, varied with a blackish hue. It is arboreal in its habits and feeds mostly on birds.