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nkle, and fester, and gangrene. Milton. Unkindness may give a wound that shall bleed and smart, but it is treachery that makes it fester. South. Hatred . . . festered in the hearts of the children of the soil. Macaulay.

The assignment of a bastard child to some one as its ather; affiliation. Smart.

Shaped like a fern or like the parts of a fern leaf. Smart.

A jerk of the finger forced suddenly from the thumb; a smart blow.

Precise in trifles; idly busy. [Colloq.] Smart.

apprehension of him is first-hand and direct; and that is the sphere of our own mind. J. Martineau.

esembling tennis; - - so named because three fives, or fifteen, are counted to the game. Smart. Fives court, a place for playing fives.

ored were those of Jupiter, Mars, and Quirinus, called respectively Flamen Dialis, Flamen Martialis, and Flamen Quirinalis. Affrights the flamens at their service quaint. Milton.

A flake; also, a lock, as of wool. [Obs.] J. Martin.

ontaining, or belonging to, a flower; as, a floral bud; a floral leaf; floral characters. Martyn. Floral envelope (Bot.), the calyx and corolla, one or the other of which (mostly the corolla) may be wanting.

A bursting into flower; a blossoming. Martyn.

The beech marten (Mustela foina). See Marten.

r guard, or breech frame. -- Fore girth, a girth for the fore part (of a horse, etc.); a martingale. -- Fore hammer, a sledge hammer, working alternately, or in time, with the hand hammer. -- Fore leg, one of the front legs of a quadruped, or multiped, or of a chair, settee, etc. -- Fore peak (Naut.), the angle wit…

The act of bursting into leaf. Milne. Martyn.

The maturing or ripening of fruit. [R.] Martyn.

A plump young person or child. [Obs.] Smart.

veal, chickens, or other white meat, freed from bones, tied up, boiled, and served cold. Smart.

Covered as with a hat or cap. Smart.

rapidly over marshes and on floating plants. The purple gallinule of America is Ionornis Martinica, that of the Old World is Porphyrio porphyrio. The common European gallinule (Gallinula chloropus) is also called moor hen, water hen, water rail, moor coot, night bird, and erroneously dabchick. Closely related to it is…

e. [Obs.] God loved he best with all his whole hearte At alle times, though him gamed or smarte. Chaucer.