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To be agitated or excited by violent emotions. But finding no redress, ferment an rage. Milton. The intellect of the age was a fermenting intellect. De Quincey.

of low power and large field of view, attached to a larger telescope, for the purpose of finding an object more readily.

Apt to censure or cavil; faultfinding; captious. [Obs.] Whitlock.

Having turns, windings, or flexures.

ting and distributing flour according to grades of fineness. -- Flour mill, a mill for grinding and sifting flour.

on controlled by a fly wheel, the driving power being applied by the hand through a cord winding in reverse directions upon the spindle as it rotates backward and forward. Knight. -- Fly fishing, the act or art of angling with a bait of natural or artificial flies. Walton. -- Fly flap, an implement for killing flies.…

To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce. [Obs.] What can the church force more J. Webster.

A lashing binding a thing tightly or binding things together.

esible. -- Full band (Mus.), a band in which all the instruments are employed. -- Full binding, the binding of a book when made wholly of leather, as distinguished from half binding. -- Full bottom, a kind of wig full and large at the bottom. -- Full brother or sister, a brother or sister having the same parents as…

The union, or binding together, of adjacent parts or tissues.

A square or beveled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam.

A narrow tapelike fabric used for binding hats, shoes, etc., -- sometimes made ornamental.

To protect (the part of a line next a fishhook, or the hook itself) by winding it with wire.

Assembling; collecting; used for gathering or concentrating. Gathering board (Bookbinding), a table or board on which signatures are gathered or assembled, to form a book. Knight. -- Gathering coal, a lighted coal left smothered in embers over night, about which kindling wood is gathered in the morning. -- Gathering…

Winding; twisted; warped; -- applied to curves and surfaces.

specific gravity, as in the boilers of ocean steamers. -- Sea gauge, an instrument for finding the depth of the sea. -- Siphon gauge, a glass siphon tube, partly filled with mercury, -- used to indicate pressure, as of steam, or the degree of rarefaction produced in the receiver of an air pump or other vacuum; a man…

An agreement binding only as a matter of honor; often, specif., such an agreement among the heads of industrial or merchantile enterprises, the terms of which could not be included and enforced in a legal contract.

To make fast, as clothing, by binding with a cord, girdle, bandage, etc.

The white of egg. It is used as a size or a glaze in bookbinding, for pastry, etc.

slike, or glossy; as, to glaze paper, gunpowder, and the like. Sorrow's eye glazed with blinding tears. Shak.