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Anything that binds and makes fast, as a lock, catch, bolt, bar, buckle, etc.

Incapable of being fathomed; immeasurable; that can not be sounded. And buckle in a waist most fathomless. Shak.

A young deer; a buck or doe of the first year. See Buck.

A buckle or clasp. [Obs.] Donne.

A brooch, clasp, or buckle. Mere fibulæ, without a robe to clasp. Wordsworth.

e boxes, etc. -- Fire brigade, an organized body of men for extinguished fires. -- Fire bucket. See under Bucket. -- Fire bug, an incendiary; one who, from malice or through mania, persistently sets fire to property; a pyromaniac. [U.S.] -- Fire clay. See under Clay. -- Fire company, a company of men managing an en…

See Flipper. "The flapper of a porpoise." Buckley. Flapper skate (Zoöl.), a European skate (Raia intermedia).

g and forcing a liquid, as water, through the valves; in distinction from a pump having a bucket, or valved piston.

Pertaining to, or drived from, frangulin, or a species (Rhamnus Frangula) of the buckthorn. Frangulinic acid (Chem.), a yellow crystalline substance, resembling alizarin, and obtained by the decomposition of frangulin.

ine dyestuff, regarded as a glucoside, extracted from a species (Rhamnus Frangula) of the buckthorn; -- called also rhamnoxanthin.

mmon kidney bean (Phaseolus vulgaris). -- French berry (Bot.), the berry of a species of buckthorn (Rhamnus catharticus), which affords a saffron, green or purple pigment. -- French casement (Arch.) See French window, under Window. -- French chalk (Min.), a variety of granular talc; -- used for drawing lines on clot…

frantic; maddened. -- Fren"zied-ly, adv. The people frenzied by centuries of oppression. Buckle. Up starting with a frenzied look. Sir W Scott.

The track of a buck. Ainsworth.

A clog or patten. [Obs.] Nor were worthy [to] unbuckle his galoche. Chaucer.

r.) With the face turned directly to the front; -- said of the figures of the stag, hart, buck, or hind, when borne, in this position, upon an escutcheon. (b) In a position expressing sudden fear or surprise; -- a term used in stag hunting to describe the manner of a stag when he first hears the hounds and gazes round…

A roebuck two years old. [Prov. Eng.]

f flour. They also appointed and removed, at their own pleasure, teachers of every grade. Buckle.

Old; mature; as, gray experience. Ames. Gray antimony (Min.), stibnite. -- Gray buck (Zoöl.), the chickara. -- Gray cobalt (Min.), smaltite. -- Gray copper (Min.), tetrahedrite. -- Gray duck (Zoöl.), the gadwall; also applied to the female mallard. -- Gray falcon (Zoöl.) the peregrine falcon. -- Gray Friar. See F…

A cake baked or fried on a griddle, esp. a thin batter cake, as of buckwheat or common flour.

lix. 10. To grope a little longer among the miseries and sensualities ot a worldly life. Buckminster.