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A lamb just brought forth; a yeanling. Shak.

An inhabitant of the earth; a mortal. Earthings oft her deemed a deity. Drummond.

ers from the coasts of the Baltic. Merchants of Norway, Denmark, . . . called . . . Easterlings because they lie east in respect of us. Holinshed.

The European perch when two years old. [Prov. Eng.]

A compound or twin crystal made up of eight individuals.

To deprive of the tongue. [Obs.] Davies (Holy Roode).

Punishment by cutting out the tongue.

Tongue-tied; dumb. [Obs.]

See Elenge, Elengeness. [Obs.]

A failing short; a becoming deficient; failure; deficiency; imperfection; weakness; lapse; fault; infirmity; as, a mental failing. And ever in her mind she cas about For that unnoticed failing in herself. Tennyson.

Timorous; feeble-minded. [Obs.] "A fainting, silly creature." Arbuthnot.

from Fall, v. i. Falling away, Falling off, etc. See To fall away, To fall off, etc., under Fall, v. i. -- Falling band, the plain, broad, linen collar turning down over the doublet, worn in the early part of the 17th century. -- Falling sickness (Med.), epilepsy. Shak. -- Falling star. (Astron.) See Shooting star.…

er; a fat animal; -- said of such animals as are used for food. He sacrificed oxen and fatlings. 2 Sam. vi. 13.

Possessing great sensibility; easily affected or moved; as, a feeling heart.

In a feeling manner; pathetically; sympathetically.

See Fehling's solution, under Solution.

Sympathy; a like feeling.

A mixture of ore, cinders, etc., used to line the hearth of a puddling furnace. [Eng.] [It is commonly called fix in the United States.]

A fragment or particle rubbed off by the act of filing; as, iron filings.

That which is used to fill a cavity or any empty space, or to supply a deficiency; as, filling for a cavity in a tooth, a depression in a roadbed, the space between exterior and interior walls of masonry, the pores of open-grained wood, the space between the outer and inner planks of a vessel, etc.