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Feverfew.

A perennial plant (Pyrethrum, or Chrysanthemum, Parthenium) allied to camomile, having finely divided leaves and white blossoms; -- so named from its supposed febrifugal qualities.

all portion of units or individuals constituing a whole; often, by ellipsis of a noun, a few people. "Are not my days few" Job x. 20. Few know and fewer care. Proverb.

Fuel. [Obs.] Hooker.

See Fumet. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

The state of being few; smallness of number; paucity. Shak.

The wood of several West Indian trees, mostly of the genus Citharexylum.

Moldiness. [R.]

Fresh from the forge; bright; quite new; brand-new. Charles reade. Your fire-new stamp of honor is scarce current. Shak.

ng of fires, or to order what precautions shall be taken against fires; -- called also fireward.

An American plant (Erechthites hiercifolia), very troublesome in spots where brushwood has been burned.

Wood for fuel.

as gunpowder, sulphur, metallic filings, and various salts. The most common feature of fireworks is a paper or pasteboard tube filled with the combustible material. A number of these tubes or cases are often combined so as to make, when kindled, a great variety of figures in fire, often variously colored. The skyrocket…

The larva of a small tortricid moth which eats the leaves of the cranberry, so that the vines look as if burned; -- called also cranberry worm.

The European polecat (Putorius foetidus). See Polecat.

imp. of Fly.

Having large flews. Shak.

The pendulous or overhanging lateral parts of the upper lip of dogs, especially prominent in hounds; -- called also chaps. See Illust. of Bloodhound.

A general name for organ stops in which the sound is caused by wind passing through a flue or fissure and striking an edge above; -- in distinction from reedwork.

Same as 1st Fluke, 2.