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land; a kilt. Written also Filibeg, Philli- which liquors are passed for defecation. Fil- Fimbriate (fim'bri-āt), a. (L. fimbria, a beg.

ters are now largely employed for the pur- thread, in the pl. a fringe.] In bot. fringed; Fillibuster (fil'i-bus-ter), n. Same as Fili- pose of filtering water, either for drinking

having the edge surbuster. or culinary purposes. One of the most suc

rounded by hairs or bris. Filling (fil'ing), a. Calculated to fill, satisfy, cessful apparatus for the purification of

tles. or satiate; as, a filling diet. water for domestic purposes is the ascend

Fimbriate(fim'bri-āt), v.t. Things that are sweet and fat are more filling. ing filter of Leloge, shown in cut. It is

To hem; to fringe. Bacon. divided into four compartments, one above

Fimbriated (fim'bri-atFilling (All'ing), n. Materials used for occu- the other. The upper part, containing the

ed), p. and a 1. In bot. pying some vacant space, for completing water to be filtered, communicates with the

same as Fimbriate (which some structure, stopping up a hole, or the lowest hy a tube having a loose sponge at

see). -- 2. In zool. a term like. its mouth to stop some of the impurities. The

applied to many of the Fillip (fillip), v.t. (Probably formed from top of the lowest compartment is composed

Murices or whelks havthe sound; comp. prov. E. fip.) To strike of a porous slab, through which the water

ing thin, elevated, finwith the nail of the fore-finger, first placed passes into the third part, which is filled

like processes on their against the ball of the thumb, and forced with charcoal. The water is forced through

shells, and to some cyfrom that position with some violence; the charcoal and another porous slab into

Fimbriate Petals (Di: clostomous land - shells hence, to strike in any way or with any in- the fourth compartment, which is furnished anthus caryophyllus). which have like processes strument. with a tap to draw off the filtered water. To

round the aperture. If I do, fillip me with a three-man beetle. Shak.

enable the filter to be cleaned there is a 3. In her, ornamented, as an ordinary, with Fillip (fil’lip), v.i. To strike with the nail movable plug in the lowest part.

a narrow border or hem of another tincof the finger. See v.t.

Filter (fl'ter), v.t. To purify or defecate ture. He laughed, and swore by Peter and by Paul: liquor by passing it through a filter, or Fimbricate (fim'bri-kāt), a. Fringed; jagged.

Then jillip'd at the diamond in her ear. Tennyson. causing it to pass through a porous sub- Fimbrilliferous (fim-bril-if"ér-us), a. (As Fillip (fil'lip), n. 1. A jerk of the finger

stance that retains any feculent matter. if from a L. fimbrilla, a little fringe, and sero, forced suddenly from the thumb; hence, a

Filter (fil'ter), v.i. To percolate; to pass to bear.] In bot. bearing many little fringes, smart blow or stroke. -2. Anything which through a filter.

as the receptacle of some composites. tends to rouse, excite, or revive; as, that Filter, n. Same as Philter.

Fimetarious (fi-mē-tä'ri-us), a. (L. fimetum, acted as a fillip to my spirits.

Filtering (filtering), p. and a. Straining; a dunghill.] In bot. growing on or amidst Fullipeen (fil-li-pen'), 1.. [G. vielliebchen, defecating - Filtering bag, a conical-shaped dung. much-loved.) In some of the Northern bag made of close flannel, and kept open at Fin (fin), n. A native of Finland; a Finn. states of America, a small present given in

the top by means of a hoop, to which it is Fin (fin), n. [A. Sax. fin, finn; L. G. and Dan. accordance with a custom borrowed from attached. It is used in filtering wine, vine- finne; D. vin; Sw. fena; allied to L. pinna, Germany When a person eating almonds gar, &c.-- Filtering cup, a pneumatic ap- another form of penna, a feather.

See or nuts finds one with two kernels he or paratus used for the purpose of showing FEATHER.] 1. One of the projecting wingshe gives it to a person of the opposite sex, that, if the pressure of the atmosphere be like organs which enable fishes to balance and whoever at the next meeting shall

removed from an under surface, the pres- themselves in an upright position, and assist utter the word fillipeen first is entitled to a

sure on the surface above has the effect of in regulating their movements in the water. present from the other.

The term is ap

forcing a fluid through the pores of such The fin consists of a thin elastic membrane plied also to the kernel thus given. Written substances as it could not otherwise pene

1 also Phillipena, Philopena.

trate.--Filtering funnel, a glass or other Fillister (til'lis-tér), n. A kind of plane

funnel made with slight flutes or channels used for grooving timber or for rebates. down the lower parts of the sides. When

2 D Fully (fil’li), n. (Apparently a dim. form of used it is lined with filtering-paper, folded foal, A. Sax. fola. See FOAL.] 1. A female and loosely put in. The channels allow the or mare foal; a young mare. -2. A wanton liquid to ooze more freely than in a funnel girl.

of a smooth surface. - Filtering paper, any I am joined in wedlock, for my sins, to one of those paper unsized and sufficiently porous to Ellies who are described in the old poet. Addison. allow liquids to pass through it. - Filtering Filly-foal (fil'li-fől), 12. A female foal.

stone, any porous stone, such as sandstone, Film (film), n. [A. Sax. film, a skin, a husk; through which water is filtered. fylment, a thin skin; Fris. fimel, filmene, the Filth (filth), n. (A. Sax. fylth, from ful, foul,

Fins - Common Perch (Ferca fluviatilis). human skin.] 1. A thin skin; a pellicle, as corrupt, rotten. See FOUL) 1. Anything that soils or defiles; dirt; any foul matter;

IDFirst Dorsal. 2 D, Second Dorsal. on the eye.

P, Pec.

toral. v, Ventral. A, Anal. C, Caudal. Michael from Adam's eyes the film removed

waste matter; nastiness.-2. Anything that Which that false fruit, that promised clearer sight, sullies or defiles the moral character; cor

supported by rays or little bony or cartilaHad bred.

Milton. ruption; pollution. 2. A fine thread, as of a cobweb.

ginous ossicles. The pectoral and ventral

To purify the soul from the dross and filth of sen. are known as paired fins, and represent the Her whip of cricket-bone, the lash of film. Skak.

sual delights.

Tillotson.

fore and hind limbs of other vertebrates; the At the tip-top Filthily (filth'i-li), auv. In a filthy manner;

dorsal, anal, and caudal are median, verti. There hangs by unseen films an orbed drop. K’eats. foully; grossly.

cal, or impar fins, and are peculiar to fishes. Film (film), v. t. To cover with a thin skin Filthiness (filth'i-nes), n. 1. The state of The principal organ of motion (in fishes) is the tail; or pellicle. being filthy.--2. That which is filthy; filth;

the dorsaland ventral fi sapparently serve to balance It will but skin and film the ulcerous place,

the fish, and the pectorals to arrest its progress when foul matter; corruption; pollution; defileWhilst rank corruption, mining all within,

required.

Eng. Cyclopædia. Infects unseen.

Shak.
ment by sin; impurity.

2. Anything resembling a fin; as, (a) a finFilminess (film'i-nes), n. State of being Carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place. like organ or attachment. 'The fins of her filmy.

2 Chr. xxix. 5.

eyelids.' J. Webster. (6) The sharp plate Filmy (film'i), a. Composed of thin mem- Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the

flesh and spirit.

in the coulter of a plough. (c) In mould

2 Cor. vii. 1. branes or pellicles, or of fine threads.

ing, a thin excrescence on the surface Celestial coursers paw the unyielding air;

Filthy (filth'i), a. 1. Dirty; foul; unclean; of a casting, caused by the imperfect apTheir filiny pennons at her word they furl, nasty: impure. Filthy air. Shak.--2. Pol

proximation of two moulding-boxes, conAnd stop obedient to the reins of light. Shelley. luted; defiled by sinful practices; morally taining each a portion of the mould. The --Filmy fern, the common name for the impure; licentious.

fin is formed by the metal running in betwo British species of the genus Hymeno- He which is filthy, let him be filthy still. tween the two parting surfaces. (d) In com. phyllum. They have a creeping thread-like

Rev. xxii. II. a blade of whalebone. (e) A hand. [Slang. ). rhizome, and small delicate pellucid fronds. Filtrate (fil'trāt), v.t. pret. & pp. filtrated; Fin (fin), v.t. pret. & pp. pinned; ppr. jinning. The sori are seated on a column protected ppr. filtrating. (L.L. filtro, filtratum; Sp. To carve or cut up, as a chub. hy a two-valved involucre. Both species are filtrar. See FILTER.) To filter; to defecate, Fin,t n. [Fr.) End; conclusion. Chaucer. found on moist

as liquor, by straining or percolation. Finable (fin'a-bl), a. (See FINE.) That adrocks and copses.

Filtrate (fil'trat), n. The liquid which has mits a fine; subject to a fine or penalty; as, Filose (fil'ős), a. been passed through a filter,

a finable person or offence. (From .. filuin, a Filtration (fil-trā'shon), n. The act or pro

If jurymen, after sworn, eat and drink, ... they thread.) 'In zool. cess of filtering; the process of mechanically are jinable.

Tomlins. and bot. a term

separating a liquid from the undissolved Finable (fīn'a-bl), a. (See FINE, v.t., to applied to a part

particles floating in it, as by passing the clarify.) That may be clarified, refined, or when it ends in

liquid through filtering paper, through char- purified. athread-like pro

coal, sand, and the like. See FILTER Final (fin'al), a. (L. finalis, from finis, end. } cess.

Fimashing (fim'ash-ing), n. (L. fimus, dung.) 1. Pertaining to the end or conclusion; last; Filoselle (fē - lo

Among hunters, the dung of several sorts of ultimate; as, the final issue or event of zål), n. (Fr.) Ferwild beasts; fumets.

things; final hope; final salvation. ret or floss silk; Fimble, Fimble-hemp(fim'bl, fim'bl-hemp),

Oh yet we trust that somehow good grogram yarn or

n. [G. fiinmel, fimmel-hanf.) The male Will be the final goal of ill. Tennyson. thread

plants of hemp, which, being soonest ripe, 2. Conclusive; decisive; ultimate; as, a final Filter (fil'ter), n.

are picked out by hand from among the le

judgment; the battle of Waterloo brought (Fr. filtre, It. felfemale, which are left to ripen their seed.

the struggle to a final issue. --3. Respecting trare, to filter,

Fimbria (fim'bri-a), n. [L., a thread, in the from feltro, L.L. Leloge's Water Filter.

the end or object to be gained; respecting pl. a fringe.) A fringe: specifically, (a) in 1 2 3 4. The compartinents :

the purpose or ultimate end in view; as, the filtrum, feltrum,

anat. applied to any fringe-like body, and felt

final cause is that for which anything is ab, porous top of 2d compart. or fulled ment; cd, filtering top of 3d especially to the fringed extremity of the

done; the efficient cause is that which prowool, used origincompartment;e, movable plug. Fallopian tube. (6) In bot. applied to the

duces the event or effect. ally as a strainer. dentated or fringe-like ring of the oper

Thus we necessarily include, in our idea of organiSee FELT.) A strainer; a piece of woollen culum of mosses, by the elastic power of zation, the notion of an end, a purpose, a design; or cloth, paper, or other substance, through which the operculum is displaced.

to use another phrase, a final cause. Whowell

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FINE

Old prov.

- Final decree, in law, a conclusive sentence of a court, as distinguished from interlocutory. -Final, Conclusive, Ultimate. Final, bringing an end or to an end, coming at the end or at last, marks mainly the circumstance of something being the last or at the last; conclusive mens shutting up or settling; putting a stop to any further question or procedure, as a conclusive argument, a conclusive step; utimate recalls the fact that something has gone before, and is applied to what is last in a sequence; an ultimate object is that to which all one's actions tend as the crowning point.

Yet despair not of his final pardon. Millon, This objection ... will not be found by any means so conclusive as at first sight it seems.

Hobbes. Many actions apt to procure fame are not conducive to this our ultimate happiness. Addison. Finale (fé-nä'lă), n. (It.) 1. In music, (a) the last part of a concerted piece, sonata, or symphony; the last piece in the act of an opera. (b) The final piece in a concert programme. Finales are generally characterized by their grand effects, all the power of the instrument, the orchestra, or the chorus being called into play.-2. The last part, piece, or scene in any public performance or exhibition

It was arranged that the two horsemen should first occupy the arena, .. that Glaucus and the lion should next perform their part in the bloody spec: tacle; and the tiger and the Nazarene be the grand finale.

Lord Lytton. Finality (fi-nal'i-ti), n. 1. The state of being final; the state of being settled or finally arranged; completeness. -2. In philos. the doctrine that nothing exists or was made except for a determinate end; the doctrine of final causes. Finally (fi'nal-li), adv. 1. At the end or conclusion; ultimately; lastly; as, the cause is expensive, but we shall finally recover.2. Completely; beyond recovery. The enemy was finally exterminated. Siry Davies. Finance (fi-nans'), n. [Fr., from L.L financia, a money payment, from finare, to pay a fine or subsidy, from L. finis, in the sense of a sum of money paid by the subject to the king for the enjoyment of a privilege; the final settlement of a claim by composition or agreement.) 1. The system or science of public revenue and expenditure.

I hope, however, he will not rely too much on the fertility of Lord North's genius for finance.

Í unius' Letters 2. pl. Revenue; funds in the public treasury, or accruing to it; public resources of money; as, the finances of the king or government were in a low condition. 3. pl. The income or resources of individuals; as, my finances are in a very unhealthy state. (Colloq.) Finance (fi-nans'), v. i. To conduct financial operations; especially, in a commercial sense, to meet obligations by continual borrowing. Financeer, v.i. See FINANCIER. Financial (fi-nan'shal), a. Pertaining to

finance or public revenue; having to do with money matters; as, financial concerns or operations.

Godolphin, whose financial skill had been greatly inissed during the summer, was brought back to the Treasury.

Macaulay. Financialist (fi-nan'shal-ist), n. One skilled

in financial matters; a financier. Financially (fi-nan'shal-li), adv. In relation to finances or public revenue; in a manner to produce revenue.

I consider, therefore, the stopping of the distillery, economically, financially, commercially, as a measure rather well ineant than well considered.

Burke. Financian (i - nan'shan), n. A financier.

(Rare.) Financier (fi-nan'sēr), n. 1. An officer who receives and manages the public revenues; a treasurer.--2. One who is skilled in financial matters or in the principles or system of public revenue; one who understands money matters; one who is acquainted with the mode of raising money by imposts, excise, or taxes, and the economical management and application of public money, 3. In France, a receiver or farmer of the public revenues. Financier, Financeer (fi-nan'sēr), v. i. To borrow one day to meet an obligation, and on a subseqnent day to again borrow to meet the borrowed money, and so on till one's affairs get into confusion. Lever. Finary (fin'é-ri), 11. (From finc, refine.) In ironworks, the second forge at the iron mill. See FINERY, 3. Finative (fin'a-tiv), a. Decisive; definitive; fipal,

Finback. See FINNER.

liberty that follows our places stops the mouth of all Finch (finsh), 11. (A. Sax. finc; L.G. G. Dan.

findfaults.

Shak. and Sw. fink, finke; D. rink. Comp. Fr. Findfaultingt (find'sąlt-ing), a. Apt to cenpinson, Sp. pinzon, It. pincione, W. pinc, a sure: captious. “Unquiet branglings and tinch, Armor. pint and tint, Prov. E. and findfaulting quarrels.' Whitlock, Sc. pink, spink. How many of these names Finding (find'ing), n. 1. Discovery; the act are to be connected together, and what of discovering. -2. That which is found; degree of relationship may be between especially, in law, the return of a jury to a them is doubtful. Probably onomatopoeia bill; a verdict. -3. pl. The tools and mateis partly the cause of their resemblance. rials which some workmen have to furnish Grimm points out the resemblance of the in their employment. Teutonic forms to words meaning spark' Finding-store (find'ing-stör), n. In the or sparkling.' as G. funke, &c.] The popu. United States, a shop where shoemakers' lar name of the small singing birds forming tools, &c., are sold. Called in England the genus Fringilla. In its widest sense the Grindery Warehouse. term is applied to the numerous group con. Findon Haddock, Finnan Haddock (fin'stituting the family Fringillidæ (which see). in-had-dok), n. A species of smoke-cured Finch-backed, Finched (finsh'bakt, finsht), haddock largely used at table: so namel a. Striped or spotted on the back, as cattle. from Findon, a fishing village on the coast (Provincial.)

of Kincardineshire, where this mode of curFind (find), v.t. pret. & pp. found; ppr. find- ing haddocks appears to have originated.

ing. (A. Sax. 0. Sax. and 0. G. findan, G. Findy (fin'di), a. (A. Sax. findig, heavy: gefin.
finden, Dan, finde, Icel. sinna (for finda), to dig, capacious; Dan. fyndig, strong, empha-
find; Goth. finthan, to find. From root (na- tical, nervous, weighty, from fynd, force,
salized) cognate with L. pet, in peto, to aim energy, emphasis, strength.) Full; heavy;
at, to seek; and Gr. pynth, in pynthanomai, or firm, solid, substantial.
to learn by asking.] 1. To discover by the

A cold May and a windy,
eye; to gain first sight or knowledge of Makes the barn fat and findy.
something lost; to recover either by search- Fine (fin), a. (This word appears with little
ing for or by accident; to fall in with a per- variation of form or meaning both in the
son or thing unknown or unexpected). Teutonic and Romance languages. Comp. G.

What woman, having ten pieces of silver, if she fein, D. jin, Dan. fin. Sw. fin, Icel. jinn, lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep Fr. fin, It. fino. It is generally derived with the house, and seek diligently till she find it?

Diez from L. finitus, finished, perfect, com

Luke xv. 8.
In the Proverbs of Solomon you will find the fol.

plete: pp. of finio, to finish, from finis, an lowing words: May we ne'er want a friend nor a end (whence final, &c.)] i. Small; thin; bottle to give him!'' When found, make a note of. slender; minute; of very small diameter;

Dickens.
2. To come upon or discover by seeking or

as, a fine thread; fine silk; a fine hair.

2. Not coarse; comminuted; in small grains sounding; as, to find bottom; to discover or

or particles; as, fine sand or flour.-3. Subknow by experience; to learn by study, ex

tile; thin; tenuous; rare; as, fine spirits periment, or trial; as, air and water are found to be compound substances; alche

evaporate; a fine, as opposed to a dense

medium. mists long attempted to find the philoso

When the eye standeth in the finer medium, and the pher's stone, but it is not yet found.

object in the grosser, things show greater. Bacon The torrid zone is now found habitable. Cowley.

4. Thin; keen; sharp; as, the fine edge of a
3. To gain; to acquire; to enjoy; as, to find razor.
leisure for a visit.

What fine chisel
In ills their business and their glory find. Cowley.

Could ever yet cut breath? Shak. 4. To catch; to detect.

5. Made of fine threads or material; light; When first found in a lie, talk to him of it as a

delicate; as, fine linen or cambric.-6. Clear; strange monstrous thing.

Locke, pure; free from feculence or foreign matter; 5. In law, to determine and declare, or

as, fine gold or silver. 'A cup of wine that's award, by verdict; as, the jury find the ac

brisk and fine.' Shak.-7. Refined; elegant; cused to be guilty; they find a verdict for

cultivated. the plaintiff or defendant; the grand-jury

Then turned to Lady Geraldine,

His eyes made up of wonder and love. find a true bill; the jury have found a large

And said in courtly accents fine. Coleridge. sum in damages for the plaintiff. – 6. To supply; to provide; to furnish; as, who will

8. Nice; delicate; susceptible; perceiving or

discerning minute beauties or deformities; find the money or provisions for this expedition.

as, a fine laste; a fine sense. Listen to ine,

The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! If I must find you wit. Tennyson.

Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.

Pore. -To find one's self, to be; to fare in regard 9. Subtle; artful; dexterous. See FINESSE. to ease or pain, health or sickness; as, how

* The finest mad devil of jealousy.' Shak. do you find yourself this morning?-To find 10. Handsome; beautiful; accomplished. one in, to supply, furnish, or provide one

There, with eyes reverentially fixed on Burke, apwith; as, he finds his nephew in money, peared the finest gentleman of the age, . . the victuals, and clothes. In this sense, to find chivalrous, the high-souled Windham. "Macaulay. one's self is sometimes used without any sup- 11. Free from clouds or rain ; sunshiny; as, plementary phrase, the meaning being to fine weather.-12. Excellent: superior; brilfurnish all one's requirements for one's self. liant or acute; as, a man of fine genius. “The

He that shall marry thee, had better spend the finest critical spirit of our time.' Matt. poor remainder of his days in a dung-barge, for two- Arnold.-13. Amiable; noble; ingenuous ; pence a week, and find himself. Beau. & FI.

excellent; as, a man of a fine mind. - To find out, to detect, as a thief or the

Spirits are not finely touched like; to find out or discover, as something

But to fine issues.

Shak before unknown, a mystery, secret, trick, and the like: to solve, as an enigma; to

14. Showy; splendid; elegant; handsome; as, understand; to comprehend.

a range of fine buildings; a fine house or

garden; a fine view.
A man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold , and to
find out every device.

2 Chr. ii. 14.
Fine feathers, they say, make fine birds.

Bicker

staff Canst thou by searching find out God! Job xi. 7. 15. Ironically, finically or affectedly elegant; -- To find fault with, to blame; to censure. aiming too much at show or effect; stilted; Find (find), v.i. In lain, to determine and ridiculously ornate. declare an issue of fact; to give judgment I cannot talk with civet in the room, on the merits or facts of a case; as, the jury A fine puss gentleman that's all perfume. Cowper. finds for the plaintiff.

He gratified them with occasional... fire writing, Find (find), n. A discovery of anything

Halt. drnold valuable: the thing found; as, a find in the

16. Eminent even for bad qualities. '0, for gold-fields.

a fine thief.' Shak. - Fine arts, the arts Specimens were among the find of coins at High which depend chiefly on the labours of the Wycombe in 1827.

Evans, mind or imagination, and whose object is Finder (find'ér), n. One who or that which the production of pleasure by their immefinds or discovers by accident, by searching, diate impression on the mind, as poetry, or the like; especially, (a) in the customs, a music, painting, and sculpture. In modern searcher employed to discover goods im- usage the term is restricted to the imitaported or exported without paying custom. tive arts which appeal to us through the (6) In astron. a smaller telescope attached eye, namely, painting, sculpture, engraving, to a larger, for the purpose of finding an architecture, and is sometimes even reolject more readily.

stricted to the two first as more essentially Findfault (find'falt),n. A censurer; a cavil

imitative and imaginative. ler.

Thien Fine Art is that in which the hand, the head, We are the makers of manners, Kate; and the

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A genus of

Fine (fin), v. t. pret. & pp. jined; ppr. fining. elaborated; subtile; as, finespun theories. Finger-board (fing'ger-bõrd), n. The board [See FINE, a.] 1. To clarify; to retine; to Lowth.

at the neck of a violin, guitar, or the like, purify; to defecate; to free from feculence Men have no faith in fines un sentiment

where the fingers act on the strings; also or foreign matter; as, to fine wine; to fine

Who put their faith in bullocks and in beeves. the whole range of keys of a pianoforte,

Longfellow. gold or silver. Job xxviii. 1; Prov. xvii. 3. Finesse (fi-nes), n. [Fr.; It. finezza, Sp.

organ, or harmonium; a keyboard. 2. To make less coarse; as, to fine grass. 3. + To decorate; to adorn. fineza, properly fineness. )' 1. Artifice;'stra- Finger-bowl (fing'gėr-ből), n.

A fingertagem; subtlety of contrivance to gain a

glass. Hugh Capet also, who usurp'd the crown, point. - 2. In whist-playing, the act of play

Fingered (fing'gėrd), pp. or a. 1. Having To fine his title with some show of truth, ing with the view of taking the trick with a

fingers. --2. In bot. dixitate; having leaflets Convey'd himself as heir to the Lady Lingare.

Shak
lower card than may be in the hand of your

like fingers, proceeding from the top of the 4. To change gradually or by imperceptible adversary on the left, while a higher card is

petiole; as in Trifolium, where there are degrees; to cause to pass by fine gradations in your own hand. -- 3.1 Fineness. - SYN.

three such leaflets; Marsilea quadrifolia, from one condition to another. Browning. Artifice, trick, stratagem, deceit, guile, craft,

where there are four ; Potentilla reptans,

cunning Fine (fin), n. [From L. finis, an end, and in

where there are five; and Æsculus hippocaslater times and in a feudal sense, a final Finesse (fi-nes), v.i. 1. To use artifice or

tanum, where there are seven.-3. In music, settlement of a claim by composition or stratagem.-2. In whist-playing, to attempt

(a) touched or played on, as a keyed, agreement.] 1. The end; the conclusion; to take a trick with a card lower than one

stringed, or holed instrument. (6) Marked as, 'the fine's the crown.'

with figures showing what finger is to be Shak.

which may be held by one's opponent on his
left hand, while one has a card capable of

used for producing each note. (c) Produced
To see their fatal fine. Spenser.
taking it with more certainty in his hand.

by pressing the finger on a particular key, 2 A payment of money imposed upon a Finesse (fi-nes'), v.t. In whist-playing, to

string, or hole, as a note. person as a punishment for an offence.-

finesse with; to practise or perform a finesse

Fingerer (fing'gér-ér), n. One who fingers; 3. In law, (a) in feudal law, a final agree

one who handles that with which he has with; as, to finesse a king, a knave, &c. ment between persons concerning lands or Eng. Ency.

nothing to do; a pilferer. rents, or between the lord and his vassal, Finestill (fin'stil), v. t. To distil, as spirits,

Finger-fern (fing'ger-férn), n. prescribing the conditions on which the from molasses, treacle, or some preparation

ferns, Asplenium. latter should hold his lands. (b) A sum of of saccharine matter.

Finger-glass (fing'ger-glas), n. A glass or money formerly paid by a tenant at the enFinestiller (fin'stil-ér), n. One who distils

bowl introduced at table in which to rinse trance into his land; a sum paid for the renewal of a lease. - In fine, in conclusion; Finestuff (fin'stuf), n. spirit from treacle or molasses.

the fingers after dinner or dessert.

The second coat of Finger-grass (fing'ger-gras), n. Digitaria, to conclude; to sum all up. plaster for the walls of a room, made of

a genus of grasses. Two species, cock'sFine (fin), v.t. pret. & pp. fined; ppr. fining. finely sifted lime with sand and hair.

foot finger-grass and smooth finger-grass, (See FINE, n.] 1. To bring to an end. Finew (fin’ū), n. (See FENOWED.) Mouldi

are found in England. Time's office is to fine the hate of foes. Shak.

Fingering (fing’yer-ing), 1. 1. The act of ness. Scott. 2. To impose a pecuniary penalty; to set a

Fin-fish (fin'fish), n.
A sailor's name for

touching lightly or handling.--2. In inusic, fine on by judgment of a court; to punish by some of the fin-backed whales.

(a) the management of the fingers in playing fine; as, the trespassers were fined ten Fin-foot (in'lıt), n, Heliornis, a genus of

on an instrument of music; the art of dexpounds and imprisoned a month. tropical South American birds, allied to our

terously applying the fingers to a musical Fine (fin), r. i.

instrument in playing. (b) The marking 1. To cease.

grebes, so called from their feet being lobed. Fin-footed (fin'fyt-ed), a. Having palmated

of the notes of a piece of music, as for the Then wold they never fine To don of gentillesse the faire office.

piano, organ, harmonium,concertina, &c., so Chaucer.

or feet with toes connected by a membrane.

as to guide the fingers in playing.-3. + Deli2. To pay a fine. Finger (fing gér), n. [A. Sax. and G. finger, D.

cate work done with the fingers. Men fined to have right done them; to sue in a vinger, Fris. Sw. and Dan. finger, Goth.

Not any skill'd in loops of fingering fine. Hallam. certain court.

With this so curious net-work might compare. figgrs. The root is found in A. Sax. Jón, G. Finedraw (fin'dra), v.t. [Fine and draw.]

Sponser fangen, to catch. See FANG.) 1. One of the To sew up à rent with so much nicety that

4. A thick loose woollen yarn used for knit

five extreme members of the hand; a digit; it is not perceived; to renter.

ting stockings and the like.

also, one of the extremities of the hand, exFinedrawer (fin'drą-ér), 16. One who fine

Fingerling (fing'ger-ling), n. A local name clusive of the thumb. [The word is applied draws.

of the young of the salmon.

to some other animals as well as to man.) Finedrawn (fīn'drạn), a. Drawn out to

Finger-organ (fing'ger-or-gan), n. An organ

With forced fingers rude too great a degree of fineness or tenuity, as

played with the fingers.

Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. thread; drawn out with too much subtlety;

Finger-parted (fing'ger-pårt-ed), a. In bot.

Millon. as, fine-drawn conclusions. 2. Something resembling or serving the pur

divided into lobes having a fanciful resemFineer (fi-nêr'), v.i. To get goods made up in

blance to the fingers of the human hand, pose of a finger; an index. a way unsuitable for any other purchaser,

as a leaf.

Fancy, like the finger of a clock, and then refuse to take them except on Runs the great circuit, and is still at home.

Finger-plate (fing'ger-plāt), n. A plate of credit. Goldsmith.

Cowper. metal or porcelain fixed on the edge of a Fineer (fi-nêr'), v.t. See VENEER

Spires whose solemn finger points to heaven. door where the handle is, to protect the

Il'ord snorth. wood from finger-marks, and to preserve Finefingered (fin’fing-gérd), a. Nice in work3. The breadth of a finger, sometimes used

the paint. manship; dexterous at fine work. Finelesst (fin'les), a. Endless; boundless.

as a measure. --4. In musie, ability in execu- Finger-post (fing'gèr-post), n. A post set

tion, especially on a keyed instrument; as, up for the direction of travellers, generally Riches Aneless is as poor as winter

she has a good finger. To him that ever fears he shall be poor. Shak.

where roads cross or divide, and often with Miss Wirt, with great deliberation, played the

the figure of a hand and a finger pointing Finely (fin'li), adv. In a fine or finished

original and beautiful melody, What a jinger!' on a projecting arm. manner; admirably; beautifully; delicately; cried Mrs. Ponto; and indeed it was a finger, as subtlely; to a fine state; minutely; thinly: knotty as a turkey's drumstick, and splaying all over

He threw himself in the attitude of a finger.post: the piano.

magnificently and mutely suggesting that I should as, finely attired; a stuff finely wrought;

Thackeray.
take myself away from his presence.

Hook. flour finely ground; a finely sharpened edge.

--Finger of God, power, strength, or work
of God.

A marine

Finger-shell (fing'ger-shel), n. Plutarch says very finely, that a man should not

shell resembling a finger. allow himself to hate even his enemies; for if you in

The magicians said to Pharaoh, This is the finger

Finger-stall (fing'ger-stal), n. A cover of

Ex. viii. 19. dulge this passion on soine occasions, it will rise of of God. itself in others. Addison. - To have a finger in, to be concerned in. - leather, 8C h worn for protection of the

fingers, as when wounded Pineness (fin'nes), n. The state or quality To have at one's finger ends, to be quite fa

A fossil of being fine in all its senses; thinness; slen- miliar with; to be able to make available Finger-stone (fing'ger-stón), n.

resembling an arrow. derness; tenuity; minuteness; purity; sharp- readily.

A trifle. ness; elegance; beauty; refinement; splen- Finger (fing'ger), v.t. 1. To touch with the Fingle-fangle (fingʻgl-fang-gl), n.

(Vulgar ) dour; subtlety. Fineness of the gold.' Shak. fingers; to handle; as, the covetous man delights to finger money. -- 2. To toy or

Fingrigo (fing'gri-go), n. It (the Directory) should have been composed with

[ The Jamaica so much artifice and fineness, that it might have meddle with.

name. ) A plant of the genus Pisonia. The been to all the world an argument of their learning

Let the papers lie;

fruit is a kind of berry or plum, and excellency of spirit.

Fer. Taylor. You would be fingering them to 'anger me. Shak. Finial (fin'i-al), 1. [L. finio, to finish.] In Finer (fin'er), n. One who refines or purifies. 3. To touch or take thievishly; to pilfer; to Prov. XXV. 4.

filch. Finery (fin'e-ri), n. 1. Fineness; splendour; The king was slyly fingered from the deck (=pack beauty. “Don't choose your place of study

of cards).

Shak. by the finery of the prospects.' Watts. 4. In music, (a) to apply the fingers to in 2. Ornament; decoration; especially, showy order to produce musical effects, as to an or excessive decoration, as gay clothes,

instrument of music, or the keys or strings jewels, trinkets, &c.

of an instrument; to play on an instrument. His muse had no objection to a russet attire; but

(6) To indicate by means of figures written she turned with disgust from the finery of Guarini, over or under the notes which finger is to as tawdry and as paltry as the rags of a chimney. strike the key or stop the string; as, to sweeper on May.day.

Macaulay.

finger a piece of music. -5. To perform with 3. In iron-works, the second forge at the the fingers, as a delicate piece of work, &c. iron-mills at which the iron is hammered and Finger (fing'ger), v.i. To use the fingers in fashioned into what is called a bloom or playing on an instrument. square bar. Written also Finary.

Finger-alphabet (fing'gėr-al-fa-bet), n. CerFinespoken (fin'spok-n), a. Using fine tain positions and motions of the hands and

Finial phrases.

fingers answering to the common written 1, Early English Period. 2, Perpendicular Period. Fine dressed and fines poken'chevaliers d'industrie.' alphabet. See DEAFNESS.

Chesterfield Finger-and-toe (fing'ger-and-to), n. The Gothic arch. the ornamental termination or Finespun (fin'spun), a. Drawn to a fine popular name for dactylorhiza, a disease in apex of a pinnacle, canopy, gable, or the thread; minute; hence, over-refined; over- turnips. See DACTYLORHIZA.

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blage of foliage. By older writers finial is Finishing-school (fin'ish-ing-sköl), n. A Fiorite (fi'o-rīt), n. A variety of siliceous used to denote not only the leafy termina- school in which young people complete sinter found incrusting volcanic tufa at tion but the whole pyramidal mass.

their education: generally applied to ladies' Santa Fiore in Tuscany, whence the name. Finic (fin'ik), a. Finical. (Rare.] schools.

It is found in the vicinity of hot springs and Does he think to be courted for acting the finick Finite (fi'nit), a. [L. finitus, from finio, to volcanoes, and consists of silex, with a little and conceited?

Collier. finish, from finis, limit.] 1. Having a limit; alumina, iron-peroxide, and water. Finical (fin'ik-al), a. [From fine.) Affecting limited; bounded: opposed to infinite; as, Fipple+ (fip?), n. (Perhaps from L. fibula, great nicety or supertluous elegance; over- finite number, finite existence; a finite being; a clasp, a pin.) A stopper, as at the mouth nice; unduly particular about trifles; fastid- finite duration. -2. In gram. a term applied of a musical wind-instrument. ious; as, a jinical fellow; a finical style.

to those moods of a verb which are limited Fir (fér), n. [A. Sax. furh; G. föhre; Icel. Finical taste.' Wordsworth.

by number and person, as the indicative, Sw. fura, Dan. syr, fyrre. The close reThe gross style consists in giving no detail, the

potential, subjunctive, and imperative. semblance of these words to the words finical in giving nothing else.

Hazlitt. Finiteless t (fi'nit-les), a. Infinite. Sir T. meaning fire in the different languages is

Browne. Finicality (fin'ik-al"'i-ti), n. 1. State of

remarkable. Comp. E. fire, A. Sax. fyr, G.

Within limits; to a feuer, Dan. fyrr; also Gr. pyr. Fir, A. Sax. being finical. -2. Something finical; finical- Finitely (fi'nīt-li), adv.

certain degree only. [Rare.]

furh, represents an ancient word, which apness.

State of being Finically (fin'ik-al-li), adv. With great Finiteness (fi'nit-nes), n.

pears in L. as quercus, an oak, and probanicety or spruceness; foppishly.

finite; confinement within certain bound- bly meant originally tree in general. It Finicalness (fin'ik-al-nes), n. Quality of

aries; as, the finiteness of our natural powers. seems to be also connected with forest. being finical ; extreme nicety in dress or

Finitude (fin'it-ūd), n. State of being finite; From the needle-shaped leaves, common to

limitation. * The fulness of the creation, manners; foppishness; finicality; fastidious

all the varieties of fir, the term furze, anand the finitude of the creature.' Chalmers ciently firres, firs, may have come to be apness.

A native of
Finicking (fin'ik-ing), a. Finikin, a.
Finlander (fin'land-ér), n.

plied to gorse, which is also characterized Finland. Many a young partridge strutted complacently Finless (fin'les), a.

by sharp needle-like spines.) A name someamong the stubble, with all the finicking coxcombry

Destitute of fins; as, times used as co-extensive with the term of youth. Dickens. finless fish.

pine, and including the whole genus Pinus; Finific (fi-nif'ik), n. [L. finis, end, and

Finlike (fin'lik), a. Resembling a fin; as, a as, the Scotch fir, the silver fir, spruce fir, facio, to make.] A limiting element or finlike oar.

and oriental fir. Sometimes the term is requality. [Rare.]

Finn (fin), n. A native of Finland; a Fin

lander. The essential finific in the form of the finite.

Coleridge.

Finned (find), a. Having a fin or fins, or Finifyt (fin'i-fi), v.t. [E. fine, and L. facio, anything resembling a fin; especially, havto make.) To make fine; to adorn. Hath

ing broad edges on either side, as a plough. so pared and finified them (his feet).' B. Finner, Finback (fin'er, fin'bak), n. A Jonson.

name given to the species of a genus of Finikin (fin'i-kin), a. (Equivalent to finical.]

whales (Physalus), so called from their posPrecise in trifles; idly busy.

sessing a dorsal hump or fin. The name is The bearded creatures are quite as finikin over also sometimes given to the members of the their toilets, as any coquette in the world.

genus Balænoptera.

Thackeray. Finnikin (fin'i-kin), n.
Finikin (fin'i-kin), n.

A sort of pigeon,
Same as Finnikin.
Fining (řin'ing), n.

with a crest somewhat resembling the mane
1. The process of re-

of a horse. fining or purifying: applied specifically to

Finnish (fin'ish), a. Relating to the Finns the clarifying of wines, malt liquors, &c.

or Finland. 2. The preparation, generally a solution of

Finnish (fin'ish), n. isinglass or gelatine, used to fine or clarify.

A language spoken by

the Finns in North - western Russia and Fining-pot (fin'ing-pot), n. A vessel in

related tribes in Esthonia and Livonia. It which metals are refined.

is allied to the Turkish and Hungarian lanFinis (fin'is), n. (L.) An end; conclusion: a

guages. word sometimes placed at the end of a book. Finny (fin'i), a. Furnished with fins; relatFinish (fin'ish), v.t. [Fr. finir, ppr. finissant;

ing to, or abounding with, fins or fish; as, L. finio, finitum, to finish, to complete, from finis, limit, end.] 1. To bring to an end; to

finny fish; finny tribes; finny prey. With make an end of; to arrive at the end of; as,

patient angle trolls the finny deep.' Gold

smith. to finish a journey; to finish a house.

Scotch Fir (Pinus sy vestris). Finochio (fi-nö'kē-o), n. (It. finocchio, fenSeventy weeks are determined upon thy people, nel.] Fæniculum dulce, a variety of fennel; stricted to trees of the section Abies, which and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins.

Dan. ix. 24.
sweet fennel. Loudon.

differ from the true pines (Pinus) in their 2. To bestow the last required labour upon;

Finos (fēn'öz), n. [Sp.] The second-best leaves growing singly on the stem, and the wool from merino sheep.

scales of the cones being smooth, round, and to perfect; to accomplish; to polish to a high degree; to elaborate carefully; as, some

Fin-pike (fin'pik), n. The name given to thin. (See ABIES.) The firs, even in the

the individuals of a family (Polypteridae) widest sense of the term, are almost all repoets spend far more time and labour in

of ganoid fishes, remarkable for the structure markable for the regularity of their growth, finishing their poems than others. [Com

of the dorsal fin, which, instead of boing their tapering form, and the great altitude pare with reference to this meaning FINISH,

continuous, is separated into twelve or of their stems. Their timber is valuable, n. and FINISHED.)-SYN. To end, terminate,

sixteen strong spines, distributed at short being almost solely used in the construcclose, conclude, complete, accomplish, per

intervals along nearly the whole of the back, tion of houses, and for the spars and masts fect.

and each bordered behind by a small soft of vessels of all kinds. Finish (fin'ish), v.i. To come to an end; to

fin. Two species of this curious group are Fire (fir), n. [A. Sax. fýr, G. feuer, Icel. terminate; to expire. His days may finish

living, one of which inhabits the Nile and fýri, fire. Comp. etym. of fir. Cog. Gr. pyr, ere that.' Shak. Finish (fin'ish), n.

the other the Senegal; but the family at- fire; allied to Skr. pu, to purify, as fire is 1. The last touch to a work; the last working up of any object of

tained its maximum in paleozoic times, the great purifying element.] 1. The simulart whereby its completion is effected or

most of the old red and carboniferous fishes taneous and vividly perceptible evolution of belonging to it.

heat and light during the process of comwhereby, it is perfected; polish ; careful Fin-scale (fin'skāl), n. A name of the fresh- bustion; combustion. Anciently, fire, air, elaboration

water fish otherwise called the Rudd or Red- earth, and water were regarded as the four To us who write in a hurry for people who read in

elements of which all things are composed. a hurry, finish would be loss of time.

eye.
Dr. Caird.
Fint. For Findeth. Chaucer.

2. Fuel in a state of combustion, as on a 2. The last hard, smooth coat of plaster on Fin-toed (fin'tod), a. Having toes lobed or

hearth, in a furnace, and the like. a wall. Finished (fin'isht), p. and a.

connected by a membrane, as aquatic fowls; Fire answers fire, and through their paly flames Polished to web-footed.

Shak

Each battle sees the other's umber'd face. the highest degree of excellence; complete; Fion, Fein, n. [Gael, fein, pl. feinne; Ir.

The broken soldier, kindly bid to stay, perfect; as, a finished poem; a finished

Sat by his fire, and talked the night away. education. fion, fian, pl. fiona, fionna.) A name given

Goldsmith in the Ossianic poetry to a semi-mythical The keen observation and ironical pleasantry of a

3. The burning of a house or town; a conclass of warriors of superhuman size, finished man of the world. Macaulay.

flagration; as, the great fire in London in 1696 strength, speed, and prowess. Generally i consumed a great part of the city.-4. The There are two great and separate senses in which we call a thing finished, One, which refers to they are supposed to have been a sort of

discharge of firearms; the discharge of a the mere neatness and completeness of the actual Irish militia, and to have had their name

number of firearms, as rifles, muskets, or work, as we speak of a well.finished knife-handle or from Fion Mac Cumhal(the Finn Mac Coul of ivory toy; and secondly, a sense which refers to the

cannon, from a body of troops, a battery, or Dunbar, and Fingal of Macpherson), their effect produced by the thing done, as we call a pic.

the like; as, to be under fire; to silence the ture well-finished if it is so full in its details as to most distinguished leader; but Mr. Skene

enemy's fire; enfilade and ricochet fire, &c produce the effect of reality.

Ruskin.
believes them to have been of the race that

5. A spark, as from hot iron accidentally Finisher (fin'ish-ér), n. 1. One who finishes, inhabited Germany before the Germans, and

lodged in the eye.-6. Light; lustre; splenScotland and Ireland before the Scots. puts an end to, completes, or perfects.

dour; hence, a star. The heavenly fires.' Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. Fiord (fyord), n. [Dan. and N. fiord; Icel.

Milton.
Heb. xii, 2.
fiördr.] An inlet from the sea, usually long,

Stars, hide your fires ! Shał. 2. Something that gives the finishing touch narrow, and very irregularly shaped, such as

7. That which inflames or irritates the pasto or settles anything. (Colloq.] are common on the coast of Norway; a frith.

sions.

Skak. You need go no farther on your Aying tour of Fiorin (fi'o-rin), n. [It. fiore, flower, blossom,

What fire is in my ears? matrimony; my house and my heart alike are open

from L. flos, floris, a flower.) Agrostis alba, to you both.' - This was a finisher,' said Lacking- a common British grass, found in pastures

8. Ardour of passion, whether of love, hate, ton.

r. Hook.
and waste places. It is not of much agri-

anger, &c.; violence of passions; consuming Finishing - coat (fin'ish-ing-kot), n. The cultural value. A stoloniferous variety,

violence of temper; as, the fire of love. coat which finishes, as the last coat of sometimes called A. stolonifera, is often a

He had fire in his temper. Atterbury stucco, the last coat of paint. troublesome weed.

9. Liveliness of imagination; vigour of fancy;

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animation; vivacity; force of sentiment or Fire-barrel (fit'ba-rel), n. A hollow cylinder, even to pass through a fierce flame, to rescue expression; capacity for ardour and zeal. filled with various kinds of combustibles, lives or valuable property, or to use means And warm the critic with a poet's fire. Pope.

used in fireships, to convey the fire to the for the extinction of fire. It consists of an

shrouds. 10. Torture by burning; hence, trouble; Fire-basket (fīr'bas-ket), n.

exterior light armour of metallic gauze, and

A portable of an inner covering of a material which is affliction; suffering; severe trial. To set on

grate or cresset for a bed-room. fire, to kindle; to inflame; to excite to violent Firebavin (fir ba-vin), n. A bundle of brush

a slow conductor of heat, such as wool,

cotton, &c., immersed in certain saline action. -On fire, ignited; inflamed; burning; wood for lighting a fire.

solutions. hence, fig. eager; ardent; zealous.

Firebill (fir' bil), n. Naut. the distribu- Fire-eater (fir'ēt-ér), n. 1. A juggler who All frets

tion of the officers and crew on board a pretends to eat fire. But chafing me on fire to find iny bride. Tennyson. man-of-war in the case of alarm of fire.

I took leave of my Lady Sunderland. She made - To take fire, to become ignited; to begin Fireblast (fir'blast), n. A disease in hops, me stay dinner at Leicester House, and afterwards to burn; hence, fig. to take violent offence; chietly toward the later periods of their sent for Richardson, the famous fire-ealer. He de. to become enraged; to fly into a passion. -- growth, in which they appear as if burned

voured brimstone, on glowing coals before us, chew.

ing and swallowing them; he melted a beer-glass, and St. Anthony's fire, see ANTHONY'S FIRE and by fire, due to the delicate parts of the

eat it quite up, &c.

Evelyn. ERYSIPELAS. Running fire (milit.), the plants being too suddenly exposed to a bril

2. A cant term for a fighting character or rapid discharge of firearms by a line of liant sun, the rapid transpiration which

duellist. troops in succession.-Greek fire, an artificial takes place drying up and shrivelling the Fire-engine (fīr'en-jin), n. An engine for fire, which the Greeks of the Byzantine leaves.

throwing water to extinguish fire and save Empire used in their struggles against the Fireboard (fir'bord), n. A chimney-board

buildings. Fire-engines are a species of Saracens, and which is said to have burned used to close a fireplace in summer.

force-pumps, in which the water is subjected even in water. It is supposed to have been Fireboom (fir böm), n. Naut. a long boom,

to pressure sufficient to raise it to the rea composition of sulphur, naphtha, pitch, having a goose-neck to slip on to a bolt in

quired height. Those commonly used congum, and bitumen. - Letters of fire and a ship's wales; the ends of firebooms are

sist of two force-pumps, which play into a stoord, in the ancient law of Scotland, letters formed with open prongs, through which of ejectment issued from the Scots Privy rope is reeved, and carried round the vessel, Council, and directed to the sheriff of the to prevent an enemy's boats from getting county, authorizing him to call the assist- alongside during the night, or to keep off ance of the county to dispossess a tenant fire-ships, fire-stages, or vessels accidentally who retained his possession contrary to the on fire. order of the judge and the diligence of the Firebote (fīrbot), n. [Fire and bote.) In

METROPOLITAN law. law, an allowance of fuel, to which a tenant

FIRE BRICADE Fire (fir), v.t. pret. & pp. fired; ppr. firing. is entitled 1. To set on fire; to kindle; as, to fire a Firebox (fir'boks), n. The box (generally house or chimney; to fire a pile. -2. To in- made of copper) in which the fire in a flame; to irritate, as the passions of; as, to fire locomotive is placed, surrounded on the outone with anger or revenge. Then soonest side by an iron casing which is separated fired with zeal.' Milton.—3. To animate; to from the copper firebox by a space of about give life or spirit; as, to fire the genius.- 3 inches all round for water to prevent the 4. To drive by fire. (Rare.]

radiation of heat. He that parts us, shall bring a brand from heaven

Firebrand (fir brand), n. 1. A piece of wood And fire us hence.

Shak. kindled or on fire. 2. An incendiary; one 5. To cause to explode; to discharge; as, to who inflames factions, or causes contention

Steam Fire-engine. fire a musket or cannon.–6. In farriery, to

and mischief. cauterize. -7. To illuminate strongly; to

Our firebrand brother, Paris, burns us all. Shak. common reservoir containing in its upper make to shine as if on fire. Firebrick (fir'brik), n. A brick that will

portion (the air-chamber) air compressed by When, from under this terrestrial ball, sustain intense heat without fusion, made of

the working of the engine. A tube dips He (the sun) fires the proud tops of the eastern pines. fireclay.

into the water in the reservoir, and to the Shak. Firebridge (fīr'brij), n. The partition at the

upper end of this tube is screwed the leather To fire up, to kindle the fires of, as an inner end of the furnace of a steam-boiler,

hose through which the water is discharged. engine. over which the products of combustion pass

The piston-rods are jointed to a double Fire (fīr), v.i. 1. To take fire; to be kindled. to the flues, and so cause the flame to im

lever, the ends of which are connected with 2. To be irritated or inflamed with passion. pinge on the bottom of the boiler.

two long handles running parallel to the 3. To discharge artillery or firearms; as, they Fire-brief (fir'brēs), n. A circular letter

engine on each side, so that the lever may fired on the town.-To fire away, to begin; soliciting subscriptions for sufferers from a

be worked by several men at once. The ends to go on : a slang expression borrowed fire.

of the lever are thus raised and depressed from the language of soldiers and sailors. - We laugh at fire-briefs now, although they be alternately, and one piston ascends while To fire up, to become irritated or angry; to Commended to us by his Majesty. Cartwright. the other descends, water being thus confly into a passion. Fire-brigade (fir'bri-gād), n. A body of

tinually forced into the reservoir, except at He ... fired up, and stood vigorously on his de. firemen organized in large towns to work

the instant of the reversing stroke; and as fence. Macaulay. the fire-engine in extinguishing fires.

the compressed air in the air-chamber perFire-alarm (fir'a-lärm), n. An apparatus Firebrush (fīrbrush), n. A brush used to

forms the part of a reservoir of work the for instantaneously communicating infor- sweep the hearth.

discharge of water from the hose is very mation of fire, as by telegraphic signal. Fire-bucket (fir buk-et), 1. A bucket to steady. The engine is sometimes supplied Fire-annihilator (fir'an-ni-hil-āt-ér), n. An convey water to engines for extinguishing

with water by means of an attached cistern apparatus for extinguishing fire; an extincfire.

into which water is poured, but it is more teur (which see). Fireclay (fir klā), n. A kind of clay, con

usually furnished with a suction-pipe which Firearm (fir'ärm),n. A weapon whose charge sisting chiefly of silica and alumina, capable

renders it self-feeding Fire-engines are is expelled by the combustion of powder, as of sustaining intense heat, and used in

now often worked by steam. cannon, pistols, muskets, &c.

making firebricks, gas-retorts, crucibles,

Fire-escape (fir'es-kāp), n. A machine for Fire-arrow (fir'a-ro), n. A small iron dart, &c. It exists chiefly in the coal measures,

escaping from the upper part of a building furnished with a match impregnated with the finest being the Stourbridge, which is powder and sulphur, formerly used to fire found in a bed 4 ft. thick. the sails of ships.

Firecock (fir'kok), n. A cock or spout to Fireball (fir'bąl), n. 1. A ball filled with let out water for extinguishing fire. powder or other combustibles, intended Fire-company (fir’kum-pa-ni), n. 1. A comto be thrown among enemies, and to injure pany of men

for managing an engine to exby explosion, or to set fire to their works tinguish fires.-2. A fire-insurance company, in order that by the light movements may Fire-cracker (fir krak-er), n. A species of be seen. – 2. A popular name applied to firework discharged for amusement. It a certain class of meteors which exhibit consists of a small paper cylinder filled with themselves as globular masses of light, ganpowder, &c., and furnished with a fusee. moving with great velocity, and not unfre- Firedamp (fir'damp), n. Light carburetted quently passing unbroken across the sky hydrogen gas or marsh-gas (CH4). It is until lost in the horizon. They differ from sometimes very abundantly evolved in coalordinary meteors, probably, more in volume mines, and is productive of the most dreadand brilliancy than in any other distinctive ful results, occasioning the death of nearly characteristic. They are not to be con- all employed in the mines, from its exfounded with another class of meteors that plosion. It appears to be generated by the explode in their passage, and appear to let decomposition of partially carbonized coal, fall a dull red body (meteorolite) to the ar when it constitutes more than th of earth.

the volume of the atmosphere of mines, the Fire-balloon (fir'bal-lön), n. 1. A balloon whole becomes highly explosive when fire is sent up through the superior buoyancy of brought in contact with it. The safety-lamp air rarefied by means of the heat of a fire affords the chief protection against the fatal kindled in connection with it.-2. A balloon effects of this gas.

sent up at night with fire-works, which Fire-dog (fir'dog). See ANDIRON. ignite at a regulated height.

Firedrake (fir'drāk), n. 1. A fiery dragon Firebar, Furnace-bar (fir bär, fer'nās-bår), or serpent. Beau & Fl.-2. A fiery meteor; n. One of the series of bars which form the an ignis fatuus.-3. A worker at a furnace

Fire-escape. grated bottom of a furnace, on which the fuel or fire. B. Jonson. rests.

Fire-dress (fir’dres), n. An invention used when on fire. It is composed of an arrangeFirebaret (fir bār), n. [Fire, and bear, to as a protection against fire, with the view ment of long ladders, capable of being carry. ) A beacon.

of enabling the wearer to approach, and drawn out after the manner of a telescope,

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