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Hesitating; trembling. "With faltering speech." Milton. -- n.

Behaving like a fashion-monger. [R.] Shak.

That favors. -- Fa"vor*ing*ly, adv.

A covering of feathers. Feathering float (Naut.), the float or paddle of a feathering wheel. -- Feathering screw (Naut.), a screw propeller, of which the blades may be turned so as to move edgewise through the water when the vessel is moving under sail alone. -- Feathering wheel (Naut.), a paddle wheel whose floats t…

The name given to Europeans by the Hindos. [Written also Feringhee.]

One of the catgut strings of a fiddle.

The act or process of handling or touching with the fingers. The mere sight and fingering of money. Grew.

Fuel; firewood or coal. [Obs.] Mortimer. Firing iron, an instrument used in cauterizing.

In the breech mechanism of a firearm, the pin which strikes the head of the cartridge and explodes it.

See Furring.

res; flaming or blazing unsteadily; shining out with a dazzling light. His [the sun's] flaring beams. Milton.

In a flaring manner.

That flatters (in the various senses of the verb); as, a flattering speech. Lay not that flattering unction to your soul. Shak. A flattering painter, who made it his care, To draw men as they ought be, not as they are. Goldsmith.

With flattery.

In a fleering manner.

In a flickering manner.

A platform; the bottom of a room; a floor; pavement. See Floor, n. Addison.

Having conspicuous flowers; -- used as an epithet with many names of plants; as, flowering ash; flowering dogwood; flowering almond, etc. Flowering fern, a genus of showy ferns (Osmunda), with conspicuous bivalvular sporangia. They usually grow in wet places. -- Flowering plants, plants which have stamens and pistils,…

In a fluttering manner.

Disposed or accustomed to forbear; patient; long-suffering. -- For*bear"ing*ly, adv.