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Wearied; tired; fatigued. [Obs.] Requickened what in flesh was fatigate. Shak.

tfulness; productiveness; fecundity; richness; abundance of resources; fertile invention; quickness; readiness; as, the fertility of soil, or of imagination. "fertility of resource." E. Everett. And all her husbandry doth lie on heaps Corrupting in its own fertility. Shak. Thy very weeds are beautiful; thy waste More r…

ch a leap; to fetch a sigh. I'll fetch a turn about the garden. Shak. He fetches his blow quick and sure. South.

To snap; to project quickly. The use of the elastic switch to fillip small missiles with. Tylor.

ng buildings. -- Fire gilding (Fine Arts), a mode of gilding with an amalgam of gold and quicksilver, the latter metal being driven off afterward by heat. -- Fire gilt (Fine Arts), gold laid on by the process of fire gilding. -- Fire insurance, the act or system of insuring against fire; also, a contract by which an…

er or token of defiance; the emblem of anarchists. -- To dip, the flag, to mlower it and quickly restore it to its place; -- done as a mark of respect. -- To hang out the white flag, to ask truce or quarter, or, in some cases, to manifest a friendly design by exhibiting a white flag. -- To hang the flag half-mast hi…

laming torch, esp. one made by combining together a number of thick wicks invested with a quick-burning substance (anciently, perhaps, wax; in modern times, pitch or the like); hence, any torch.

arious purposes; as of sheet metal, to carry gunpowder in; or of wrought iron, to contain quicksilver; or of glass, to heat water in, etc.

To fly swiftly; to pass over quickly; to hasten; to flit as a light substance. All the unaccomplished works of Nature's hand, . . . Dissolved on earth, fleet hither. Milton.

To whip lightly or with a quick jerk; to flap; as, to flick a horse; to flick the dirt from boots. Thackeray.

To throw with a jerk or quick effort; to fling suddenly; as, they flirt water in each other's faces; he flirted a glove, or a handkerchief.

Nimble; quick; swift. [Obs.] See Fleet.

To flutter; to move quickly; as, to flitter the cards. [R.] Lowell.

ke by depositing the mixture on the surface of a flowing liquid, the substances that are quickly wet readily overcoming the surface tension of the liquid and sinking, the others flowing off in a film or slime on the surface, though, perhaps, having a greater specific gravity than those that sink.

Finely granulated; -- said of quicksilver which has been granulated by agitation during the amalgamation process. Raymond.

To move with quick vibrations or undulations; as, a sail flutters in the wind; a fluttering fan.

To vibrate or move quickly; as, a bird flutters its wings.

A thin coat of tin, with quicksilver, laid on the back of a looking-glass, to cause reflection.

To spread over with a thin coat of tin and quicksilver; as, to foliate a looking-glass.

Spread over with an amalgam of tin and quicksilver. Foliated telluium. (Min.) See Nagyagite.