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The officers captured with Burgoyne were exchangeable within the powers of General Howe. Marshall.

e: To emit, as vapor; to send out, as an odor; to evaporate; as, the earth exhales vapor; marshes exhale noxious effluvia. Less fragrant scents the unfolding rose exhales. Pope.

One who studies the fashions; a fop; a dandy. Marston.

Fatty series (Chem.), the series of the paraffine hydrocarbons and their derivatives; the marsh gas or methane series. -- Natural fats (Chem.), the group of oily substances of natural occurrence, as butter, lard, tallow, etc., as distinguished from certain fatlike substance of artificial production, as paraffin. Most…

A gallant. [Obs.] Courting her smoothly like a femalist. Marston.

th water, but producing sedge, coarse grasses, or other aquatic plants; boggy land; moor; marsh. 'Mid reedy fens wide spread. Wordsworth.

A group of mammals which formerly included the Carnivora, Insectivora, Marsupialia, and lemurs, but is now often restricted to the Carnivora.

, compar. of Fere, fierce. [Obs.] Rhenus ferier than the cataract. Marston.

e. For which I burnt in inward, swelt'ring hate, And fstered ranking malice in my breast. Marston.

Free from fetters. Marston.

Abounding with the plant called flag; as, a flaggy marsh.

, from whom he received a distinguishing epithet. The most honored were those of Jupiter, Mars, and Quirinus, called respectively Flamen Dialis, Flamen Martialis, and Flamen Quirinalis. Affrights the flamens at their service quaint. Milton.

ht. Flat burglary as ever was committed. Shak. A great tobacco taker too, -- that's flat. Marston.

n England, and continued in London after disuse elsewhere; -- hence, a citizen of London. Marston.

Bloody; clotted. [Obs. or Prov.] Foamy bubbling of a fleamy brain. Marston.

ting with the foil; fencing with the point, as distinguished from broadsword play. [Obs.] Marston.

herd of beeves, fair oxen and fair kine. Milton. Mawhood completed his forage unmolested. Marshall.

To form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal. Mars's armor forged for proof eterne. Shak.

ress in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression. G. P. Marsh.

One who frotes; one who rubs or chafes. [Obs.] Marston.