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Surroundings; specif., collectively, one's attendants or associates.

A membranaceous or calcareous septum with which some mollusks close the aperture of the shell during the time of hibernation, or æstivation.

Belonging to another race or kind.

The allowance given to a factor, as a compensation for his services; -- called also a commission.

Formed of various materials; mixed; as, a farraginous mountain. [R.] Kirwan. AA farraginous concurrence of all conditions, tempers, sexes, and ages. Sir T. Browne.

ass ccomposed of various materials confusedly mixed; a medley; a mixture. A confounded farrago of doubts, fears, hopes, wishes, and all the flimsy furniture of a country miss's brain. Sheridan.

The thing thus caught abd eaten. Johnson. Cakes and ale, and flapdragtons and mummer's plays, and all the happy sports of Christians night. C. Kingsley.

Floor space.

State of flowers; flowers, collectively or in general. Tennyson.

The act of foraging; search for provisions, etc. He [the lion] from forage will incline to play. Shak. One way a band select from forage drives A herd of beeves, fair oxen and fair kine. Milton. Mawhood completed his forage unmolested. Marshall.

One who forages.

The care of a foster child; the charge of nursing. Sir W. Raleigh.

y broken; brittle; frail; delicate; easily destroyed. The state of ivy is tough, and not fragile. Bacon.

The condition or quality of being fragile; brittleness; frangibility. Bacon.

A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part; as, a fragment of an ancient writing. Gather up the fragments that remain. John vi. 12.

Fragmentary.

In a fragmentary manner; piecemeal.

The quality or property of being in fragnebts, or broken pieces, incompleteness; want of continuity. G. Eliot.

Composed of fragments, or broken pieces; disconnected; not complete or entire. Donne.

Broken into fragments.