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To interweave; to intertwine. [Obs.] Spenser.

The internal parts; as, the entrails of the earth. That treasure . . . hid the dark entrails of America. Locke.

Espial. [Obs.]

or expected manner, or to be altogether cut off from supply; to be lacking; as, streams fail; crops fail. As the waters fail from the sea. Job xiv. 11. Till Lionel's issue fails, his should not reign. Shak.

Fault; failure; omission. [Obs.] Bp. Fell.

A failing short; a becoming deficient; failure; deficiency; imperfection; weakness; lapse; fault; infirmity; as, a mental failing. And ever in her mind she cas about For that unnoticed failing in herself. Tennyson.

A soft silk, heavier than a foulard and not glossy.

Cessation of supply, or total defect; a failing; deficiency; as, failure of rain; failure of crops.

Having an expanded, or fan-shaped, tail; as, the fan-tailed pigeon.

A variety of the domestic pigeon, so called from the shape of the tail.

The European redstart; -- called also fireflirt. [prov. Eng.]

Like the of a fish; acting, or producing something, like the tail of a fish. Fish-tail burner, a gas burner that gives a spreading flame shaped somewhat like the tail of a fish. -- Fish-tail propeller (Steamship), a propeller with a single blade that oscillates like the tail of a fish when swimming.…

er and shorter pole or club, called a swipe, is so hung as to swing freely. His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn. Milton.

Acting like a flail. [Obs.] Vicars.

See Sail.

The sail bent to the foreyard of a square-rigged vessel, being the lowest sail on the foremast.

Having the outer tail feathers longer than the median ones; swallow-tailed; -- said of many birds. Fork-tailed flycatcher (Zoöl.), a tropical American flycatcher (Milvulus tyrannus). -- Fork-tailed gull (Zoöl.), a gull of the genus Xema, of two species, esp. X. Sabinii of the Arctic Ocean. -- Fork-tailed kite (Zoöl.)…

l Asiatic and East Indian passerine birds, belonging to Enucurus, and allied genera. The tail is deeply forking.

The tail or brush of a fox.

ty of raisins -- about thirty-two, fifty-six, or seventy-five pounds, -- contained in a frail.