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See Ingraftment. [Obs.]

t a distance from each other, without the intervention of money, by exchanging orders or drafts, called bills of exchange. These may be drawn in one country and payable in another, in which case they are called foreign bills; or they may be drawn and made payable in the same country, in which case they are called inlan…

se or chamber, to create a blast of air (fan blast) for forge purposes, or a current for draft and ventilation; a fanner. -- Fan cricket (Zoöl.), a mole cricket. -- Fan light (Arch.), a window over a door; -- so called from the semicircular form and radiating sash bars of those windows which are set in the circular h…

The act of fascinating, bewhiching, or enchanting; enchantment; witchcraft; the exercise of a powerful or irresistible influence on the affections or passions; unseen, inexplicable influence. The Turks hang old rags . . . upon their fairest horses, and other goodly creatures, to secure them against fascination. Waller.…

Caused or acting by witchcraft. [Obs.] "Fascinous diseases." Harvey.

visible fiber embodied in the surface of; -- applied esp. to a kind of paper for checks, drafts, etc.

h holds the fuel or fire in a furnace. (c) A crucible. (d) A solderer's furnace. -- Fire raft, a raft laden with combustibles, used for setting fire to an enemy's ships. -- Fire roll, a peculiar beat of the drum to summon men to their quarters in case of fire. -- Fire setting (Mining), the process of softening or cr…

The principal rafters of a roof, especially a pair of rafters taken together. [Obs.]

mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft.

aut.), a drag or sea anchor; drag sail. -- Floating battery (Mil.), a battery erected on rafts or the hulls of ships, chiefly for the defense of a coast or the bombardment of a place. -- Floating bridge. (a) A bridge consisting of rafts or timber, with a floor of plank, supported wholly by the water; a bateau bridge.…

A short rope grafted on a harpoon, to which a longer lin Totten.

A sly, cunning fellow. [Colloq.] We call a crafty and cruel man a fox. Beattie.

The state or quality of being foxy, or foxlike; craftiness; shrewdness.

Foxlike. [Obs.] "Foxly craft." Latimer.

Foxiness; craftiness. [R.] Shak.

A strong, light-draft, Dutch merchant vessel, carrying a mainmast and a mizzenmast, and a large gaff mainsail.

lop. "Gentle music." Sir J. Davies. O sleep! it is a gentle thing. Coleridge. The gentle craft, the art or trade of shoemaking.

R.] It seemed even more unaccountable than if it had been a thing of ghostology and witchcraft. Hawthorne.

Witchcraft; magic; a spell. Tennyson.

Invocation of evil spirits; witchcraft. [Obs.] Hallywell.