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The European polecat; -- called also European ferret, and fitchew. See Polecat. [Written also foulmart, foulimart, and fulimart.]

Causing fracture; breaking. [R.] H. Walpole.

hnson. Frigid zone, that part of the earth which lies between either polar circle and its pole. It extends 23Arctic.

he other fry. Milton. We have burned two frigates, and a hundred and twenty small fry. Walpole.

Pompous; ridiculously tumid; inflated; bombastic; as, fustian history. Walpole.

An openwork frame, as of poles, filled with stones and sunk, to assist in forming a bar dyke, etc., as in harbor improvement.

e heavens, to which the course of the galaxy most nearly conforms. Herschel. -- Galactic poles, the poles of the galactic circle.

alk; confused mixture. Her dress, like her talk, is a galimatias of several countries. Walpole.

A machine for raising or moving heavy weights, consisting of a tripod formed of poles united at the top, with a windlass, pulleys, ropes, etc.

The zodiac; also, the equator. [Poetic] Bacon. From the world's girdle to the frozen pole. Cowper. That gems the starry girdle of the year. Campbell.

A weapon formerly used, consisting of a large blade fixed on the end of a pole, whose edge was on the outside curve; also, a light lance with a long sharp-pointed head. Wilhelm.

o render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken. A bow window . . . gloomed with limes. Walpole. A black yew gloomed the stagnant air. Tennyson.

Gloom. [R.] Walpole.

good than the contrary; not actually bad; tolerable. Goodish pictures in rich frames. Walpole.

ricable. Gordian knot, an intricate knot tied by Gordius in the thong which connected the pole of the chariot with the yoke. An oracle having declared that he who should untie it should be master of Asia, Alexander the Great averted the ill omen of his inability to loosen it by cutting it with his sword. Hence, a Gordi…

modern times, a member of a special regiment or corps; as, a grenadier of the guard of Napoleon I. one of the regiment of Grenadier Guards of the British army, etc.

rs; to chaffer; to higgle. Royalty and science never haggled about the value of blood. Walpole.

can not bear elections, and still less the hash of them over again in a first session. Walpole.

A hedge; an inclosed garden or yard. And eke there was a polecat in his haw. Chaucer.

at kind of organic form, in which the stereometric ground form is a pyramid, with similar poles. See Promorphology.