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Honestly; properly. Such means of comfort or even luxury, as lay fairly within their grasp. Hawthorne.

Festive; festal; joyful; sumptuous; luxurious. "Feastful days." Milton. -- Feast"ful*ly, adv.

The flux; dysentery. [Obs.] Udall. Flix weed (Bot.), the Sisymbrium Sophia, a kind of hedge mustard, formerly used as a remedy for dysentery.

The act of flowing; flux; flow. [Obs.] Bacon.

To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive. A tree thrives and flourishes in a kindly . . . soil. Bp. Horne.

ls shows the lines of flow of thew molten material before solidification; -- also called fluxion structure.

Menstrual flux; catamenia; menses. [Obs.]

lizing commonly in cubes with perfect octahedral cleavage; also massive. It is used as a flux. Some varieties are used for ornamental vessels. Also called fluor spar, or simply fluor.

miracles. The reasons that moved her to remove were, because Rome was a place of riot and luxury, her soul being almost stifled with, the frequencies of ladies' visits. Fuller.

A constellation of the zodiac, containing the two bright stars Castor and Pollux; also, the third sign of the zodiac, which the sun enters about May 20th.

so in this sense used very frequently in the past participle; as, the people are given to luxury and pleasure; the youth is given to study.

A greedy or ravenous eater; a luxurious feeder; a gourmand.

ppearance of the fibers in wood, or of the strata in stone, slate, etc. Knots, by the conflux of meeting sap, Infect the sound pine and divert his grain Tortive and errant from his course of growth. Shak.

of thought or expression; nobility of action. Nor doth this grandeur and majestic show Of luxury . . . allure mine eye. Milton.

Of or pertaining to the hallux.

A fight with the hands; boxing. "Pollux loves handyfights." B. Jonson.

Pertaining or tending to a flux o

Pampered; fed luxuriously.

less; boundless; as, illimitable space. The wild, the irregular, the illimitable, and the luxuriant, have their appropriate force of beauty. De Quincey.

An immoral act or practice. Luxury and sloth and then a great drove of heresies and immoralities broke loose among them. Milton.