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A stuff made of silk and wool. I did buy a colored silk ferrandine. Pepys.

n Europe and winters in Great Britain. The head, nape, and lower part of the back are ash-colored; the upper part of the back and wing coverts, chestnut; -- called also fellfare.

rious combustible substances, as sulphur, niter, lampblack, etc., the flames of which are colored by various metallic salts, as those of antimony, strontium, barium, etc. -- Fire alarm (a) A signal given on the breaking out of a fire. (b) An apparatus for giving such an alarm. -- Fire annihilator, a machine, device,…

A device for producing a striking display of light, or a figure or figures in plain or colored fire, by the combustion of materials that burn in some peculiar manner, as gunpowder, sulphur, metallic filings, and various salts. The most common feature of fireworks is a paper or pasteboard tube filled with the combustibl…

Of the color of flame; high-colored; brilliant; dazzling. "In flaming yellow bright." Prior.

Flaming; blazing; flamelike; flame-colored; composed of flame. Pope.

A mode of covering transparent white glass with a film of colored glass. Knight. Flashing point (Chem.), that degree of temperature at which a volatile oil gives off vapor in sufficient quantity to burn, or flash, on the approach of a flame, used as a test of the comparative safety of oils, esp. kerosene; a flashing po…

Flesh-colored tights, worn by actors dancers. D. Jerrold.

Discolored or stained; -- said of timber, and also of the paper of books or engravings.

The state of being foxed or discolored, as books; decay; deterioration.

To spinkle or mark with freckle or small discolored spots; to spot.

A dark-colored substance obtained from empyreumatic animal oil. [R.]

e of poetry, a witty or wise saying. Artificial gem, an imitation of a gem, made of glass colored with metallic oxide. Cf. Paste, and Strass.

ich when dried becomes hard and durable, often used in making bas-relief casts, which are colored and mounted in elaborate frames.

hrys, auratus, a valuable food fish common in the Mediterranean (so named from its golden-colored head); -- called also giltpoll.

A name given to some sulphides, mostly dark-colored, which have a brilliant metallic luster, as the sulphide of copper, called copper glance. Glance coal, anthracite; a mineral composed chiefly of carbon. -- Glance cobalt, cobaltite, or gray cobalt. -- Glance copper, c -- Glance wood, a hard wood grown in Cuba, and u…

A hard, brittle, translucent, and commonly transparent substance, white or colored, having a conchoidal fracture, and made by fusing together sand or silica with lime, potash, soda, or lead oxide. It is used for window panes and mirrors, for articles of table and culinary use, for lenses, and various articles of orname…

, found in the warmer latitudes, swimming in the open sea. These mollusks are beautifully colored with blue and silvery white.

nth (Bot.), a plant of the genus Gomphrena (G. globosa), bearing round heads of variously colored flowers, which long retain color when gathered. -- Globe animalcule, a small, globular, locomotive organism (Volvox globator), once throught to be an animal, afterward supposed to be a colony of microscopic algæ. -- Glob…

A genus of composite plants with white or colored dry and persistent involucres; a kind of everlasting.