FIRE-FANGED 280 FIRKIN 14 10 6 3 5. Mantle. 9. Flue. 12, and mounted on wheels, for easier transport is called the flue. The fireplace cavity fire-bridge, on the erroneous supposition from place to place. Under the first or being much wider than the true, they are that its only office is to prevent the stoker main ladder is a recess, down which the in- joined by a taper pushing the coals too far. mates of the house on fire are lowered to ing portion, at the Fire-surface (fir sér - fas), n. In steamthe ground. narrowest part of boilers, the aggregate surface of the boiler Fire-fanged (fir'fang), a. Dried up as hy which there is often exposed to the action of the fire. Called fire; specifically, applied to manure which a damper for regu also leating-surface. has assumed a baked appearance, from the lating tho draught. Fireswab (fir'swob), n. Naut. a bunch of heat evolved during decomposition. The fuel is usually rope-yarn, secured to the tompion, and imFire-flaire (fir'tlar), n. A fish; a name of burned in an iron mersed in water to wet the gun and clear the only British species of sting-ray (Trygon receptacle or grate. away any particles of powder, &c. pastinaca) For the Various Fire-telegraph (fir'te-le-graf). n. A teleFire-flaught (firfacht), n. A flash of light- terms connected 5 graph to announce the outbreak of fire to ning; more specifically, a flash unaccom- with a fireplace see different parts of a city. panied by thunder. [Scotch.) the cut. Fire-tower (fir'tou-er), n. A sort of lightFirefly (fir'fli), n. A name indefinitely Fireplug (fir'plug), house. given to any winged insect which possesses n. A plug for craw Firetube (fir'tub), n. A pipe or flue for much luminosity. Except the lantern-tly, ing water from the conveying heat, as, in a locomotive, a tube the fire-flies are all coleopterous, and are main pipes in a through which fire passes for obtaining a members of two nearly allied families, the street to extinguish large heating surface. It is fixed longituElateridæ or skipjacks, and Lampyridæ, fire. dinally in the middle compartment between to which the glow-worm belongs. Our Fire - policy (fir' the firebox and smokebox. British glow-worm has too little luminosity poli-si), n A Fireward, Firewarden (fir' ward, fir'. to entitle it to the name of firefly, but deed or instrument ward-n), n. An officer who has authority the Lampyris italica, and L. corusca of whereby, in con to direct others in the extinguishing of Canada are allied to it. True fireflies are sideration of a sin. Section of Fireplace. fires. found only in the warmer regions of the gle or periodical 1. Slab. 2, Hearth. 3. Jamb Fireweed (fir'wēd), n. Erechthites hieraearth. The Elater or Pyrophorus noctilucus payment of premi. 4. Fireplace. cifolia, a North American plant, nat, order of South America and the West Indies is um, an insurance piece. 6, Throat. 7, Gather. Composita. It is an erect coarse annual one of the most brilliant, giving out its engages 8. Funnel. with many-flowered heads of whitish flowers, 1), Mantle to make good to Grate. 13. Breast. 14, Damlight from two eye-like tubercles on the Its popular name is given to it from its apthorax. Their light is so powerful that the assured person per. pearing abundantly wherever lands have small print may be read by it, and in St. such loss as may been burnt over. It possesses a strong and Domingo they are used to give light for occur by fire to his property, described in the disagreeable odour. domestic purposes, eight or ten confined in policy, within the period therein specified, Firewood (fir'wyd), n. Wood for fuel. a phial emitting sufficient light to enable a to an amount not exceeding a particular Firework (fir'werk), n. 1. A preparation of person to write. sum, which is fixed by such policy. gunpowiler, sulphur, and other inflammable Fireguard (fir' gård), n. A framework of Firepot (fir' pot), n. i. A small earthen pot materials used for making explosions in the iron wire, to be placed in front of a fireplace filled with combustibles, used in military air on occasions of public rejoicing, &c.; to protect against fire. operations.-2. That part of a furnace in also, the name given to various combustible Firehook (fir’hök), n. A large hook for which the fire is made. preparations used in war. pulling down buildings in conflagrations. Fireproof (fir próf), a. Proof against fire; The light of his fine mind is not sunshine, but the Fire - insurance (fir’in-shor-ans), n. Inincombustible. Various plans have been glitter of an artificial firework. Carlyie. surance against loss by fire. See INSUR- adopted for rendering houses, or an apart. 2. pl. An exhibition or exhibitions of fireANCE. ment in a house, fireproof, as by construct works; pyrotechnics. Fire-irons (firi-érnz), n. pl. Utensils em- ing them entirely of brick or stone, and em Fireworker (fr'werk-ér), n. An officer of ployed for managing a fire, consisting of ploying iron doors, ties, and lintels, stone artillery subordinate to the firemaster, now poker, tongs, and shovel. staircases, and landings. In the case of called the second lieutenant. Fire-kiln (fir'kil), n. An oven or place for textile fabrics, as cotton, linen, &c., satura Fire-worship (fir'wer-ship), n. The worship heating anything. Simmonds. tion with various salts, as borax, which leave Fire-ladder (firlad-der), n. A fire-escape. their crystals in the substance of the fabrics, of fire, the highest type of which worship is seen in the adoration of the sun, not Fireless (fir'les), a. Destitute of fire. is the means adopted for rendering them Firelight, Firelighter (firlit, fir'lit-ér), n. only as the most glorious visible object in incombustible. Wood is best protected by the universe, but also as the source of light A composition of very inflammable material, silicate of soda, which, on the application of and heat. In the early religion of India as pitch and sawdust, for lighting tires. strong heat, fuses into a glass, which en the sun appears in the form of the god Agni Firelock (fir'lok), n. A musket or other veloping not only the outside but also the (L. ignis, fire), what was first regarded as a gun, with a lock furnished with a flint and internal fibres of the wood shield it from mere abstract influence or a phenomenon steel, by means of which fire is produced in contact with the oxygen of the air. All that in time being regarded as a sentient indiorder to discharge it; distinguished from can be done by any process, however, is the vidual Thus in the Vedic hymns Agni is the old matchlock, which was fired with a prevention of contlagration; no mode yet the god of fire, corresponding to the Greek match. known can prevent smouldering. Fire-main (firman), n. A pipe for water, Firer (fir'er), n. Hephæstos. In the East the worship of the One who sets fire to any. element of fire was practised by the ancient to be employed in case of conflagration. thing; an incendiary. Persians or Magians, and is continued by Fireman (firman), n. 1. A man whose Fireraft (fir'raft), n. A timber construc the modern Parsees. The establishment of business is to extinguish fires in towns; a tion bearing combustible matters, used by member of a fire-brigade. -- 2. A man em- the Chinese to destroy an enemy's vessel. this species of idolatry among the Persians is ascribed to Zoroaster, who taught his disployed in tending the fires, as of a steam Fire-raising (fir'rāz-ing), n. The act of setengine; a stoker. 3. In coal-mining, one ciples that in the sun and in the sacred tires ting on fire. In Scots law, fire-raising is of their temples God more especially dwelt, whose special duty it is to examine every the technical equivalent of arson in English and that therefore divine homage was to be morning the working-places and roads of a law. In Scotland it is a capital crime, where paid to these. pit to ascertain if firedamp is present. the property is houses, ships, corn, coal Fire-worshipper (fir'wer-ship-per), m. A Firemaster (fir'mas-tér), n. 1. An officer of heughs, or woods, but capital punishment worshipper of fire; specifically, a follower artillery who superintends the composi. is not now inflicted. See ARSON tion of fireworks. -- 2. The chief of a fire- Fireroll (fir'rol), n. of Zoroaster, who inculcated the worship of Naut, a peculiar beat fire as the symbol of the sun-deity. See brigade. of the drum to order men to their stations GUEBRE, PARSEE. Firenew (fir'nū), a. Fresh from the forge; on an alarm of fire; a summons to quarters. Fir-in-bond (ier-in - bond'), n. In carp. a bright; bran-new. Firescreen (fir'skren), n. 1. A kind of mov name given to lintels, bond-timbers, wallYou should have accosted her; and with some ex. able screen placed before a fire to inter See plates, and all timbers built in walls. cellent jests, fire.new from the mint. Shak. cept the heat. -2. A woollen screen placed BOND. Fire-office (firof-fis), n. An office for mak- in the passage way from a powder-maya- Firing (fir’ing), n. 1. The act of diseharging ing insurance against fire. zine, whenever this is opened. firearms.-2. Fuel; firewood or coal. -- 3. The Fire-opal (fir’o-pal), n. A variety of opal. Fireset (fir'set), n. A set of fire-irons, com application of fire or of a cautery, See GIRASOLE, 2. monly shovel, poker, and tongs. Fire - ordeal (firor-de-al), n. An instru Firing-iron (fir'ing-i-érn), n. ment used in farriery for cauterizing; it mode of trying an accused person by means combustibles to be set on tire for the pur cautery of fire. See ORDEAL. pose of carrying fire to and burning an Firing-machine (fir'ing-ma-shen), n. In Firepan (fir pan), n. 1. A pan for holding enemy's ships. or conveying fire. mech. an apparatus for feeding an engineEx. xxvii. 3.-2. In a A shovel or in- furnace with coal. firelock, the receptacle for the priming- strument for taking up or removing coals of Firkt (férk), v. t. (Perhaps onomatopoetic powder fire. Fireplace (fīr'plās), n. The lower part of a Fireside (fir'sid), n. in origin. Comp. flick, jerk.] To beat; to The side of the fire whip; to chastise. chimney which opens into an apartment, place; the hearth; home. I'll firk him and ferret him. Shak. and in which fuel is burned; a hearth. The How often shall her old fireside bottom or floor of the fireplace is called the Be cheered with tidings of the bride. Tennyson. Firkt (férk), v. i. [A. Sax. frician, to dance) hearth, sometimes the inner hearth; the Firesteel (fir'stel), n. A steel used with a To spring; to go off or fly out suddenly. broad flat stone in front of the hearth is llint for striking fire. A wench is a rare bait, with which a man called the xlab or outer hearth. The vertical Firestick (fir'stik), n. A lighted stick or No sooner's taken but he pirks mad. B. Youson. sides of the fireplace opening are termeil brand. Firkt (férk), n. A stroke; a lash. the jambs, and the lintel which lies on them Firestone (fīr'ston), n. 1. A name formerly Firkin (fèr'kin), n. (A contr. form of four, is called the mantle. The part of the wall given to iron pyrites because it strikes fire with dim. suffix kin. See KIN, suffix. ] 1. A immeiliately above the mantle is called the with steel. See PYRITES. -2. A kind of sand- measure of capacity, being the fourth part breast, and the wall behind the fireplace the stone which bears a high degree of heat; a of a barrel, or equal to 74 imperial gallons back. The tube which conveys the smoke stone which resists the action of the fire. or 2538 cubic inches. It is now legally abolfrom the fireplace to the top of the chimney Firestop (fir'stop), n. A name given to the ished.-2. A small wooden vessel or cask FIRLOT 281 FIR-WOOD of no determinate capacity: used chiefly for Firmation (fér-ma'shon), n. A fixing: steady- as, the first-born son; hence, most excellent; butter, tallow, dc. ing. “If we define sitting to be a firmation most distinguished or exalted. Firlot (fér'lot), 11. (A contr. form of four, of the body upon the ischias.'Sir T. Browne. The image of the invisible God, the first-born of and lot, part. ] A dry measure used in Scot- Firm-footed (fèrm'fyt-ed), a. Having tirin every creature. Col. i. 15 land, but now legally abolished; the fourth feet; standing firmly; not easily made to First-class (férst'klas), a. First-rate; of part of a boll. stumble or fall. the highest excellence or quality. [Colloq.) Firm (fèrm), a. (L. firmus, firm.) 1. Fixed; Firmitudet (férm'i-tūd), 12. Strength; solid First-day (férst'dā), n. The name given to hence, closely compressed; compact; hard; ity. the Lord's-day by the Quakers and some solid; as, flesh; firin muscles; some Thy covenant implies no less than firmitude and other Christian bodies, from being the species of wood are more firm than others; perpetuity. Bp. Hall, first day of the week. a cloth of firm texture. -2. Fixed; steady;con- Firmityt (férm’i-ti), n. Strength; firmness. First-floor (férst’ilor), n. The floor or story stant; stable; imshaken; not easily moved; The strength and firmity of my assent. of a building next above the ground floor; as, a firm believer; a firm friend; a firm Chillinguorth, in the United States, the ground floor. adherent or supporter; à firm man, or a man Firmless (fèrm'les), a. Detached from sub- First-foot (férst'int), n. In Scotland, the of firm resolution. stance. person who first enters a dwelling - house Oh! shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Does passion still the firmless mind control. Pore. after the coming in of the year; also, the Firm concord holds, men only disagree Firmlier (férm'li-ér), adv. More firmly. first person or object met on setting out on Of creatures rational. Milton. any important journey or undertaking. 3. Solid; not giving way; opposed to fluid; Though thou wert firmlier fasten'd than a rock. Great attention is paid to the first.foot, that is, the as, firm land. -4. Indicating firmness; as, a Milton. person who happens to meet then. (the marriage In a firm manner; firin countenance. - Sex. Compact, dense, Firmly (fèrmli), adv. company); and if such person does not voluntarily hard, solid, stable, stanch, robust, strong, solidly; compactly; closely; steadily; with offer to go back with them, they are generally com constancy or fixedness; immovably; stead- pelled to do so. sturiy, unshaken, fixed, steady, resolute, A man on horseback is reckoned constant. fastly; as, particles of matter firmly coher very lucky, and a bare-footed woman almost as bad as a witch. Edix. Alag. Firm (ferm), n. (Originally a signature by ing; he firinly believes in the divine origin which a writing was pirined or rendered of the Scriptures; his resolution is firmly First-fruit, First-fruits (férst'frot, férstfixed. fröts), n. valid] A partnership or association of two 1. The fruit or produce first ma1. The state or tured and collected in any season. Of these or more persons for carrying on a business; Firmness (fèrm'nes), n. å commercial house; or the name or title quality of being firm; compactness; hard the Jews made an oblation to God, as an under which a company transact business; ness: solidity; stability; strength; steadfast acknowledgment of his sovereign dominion. as, the firm of Hope & Co.- Long Firm, a ness; constancy; fixedness; certainty; as, 2. The first profits of anything; as, (a) in old term given to that class of swindlers who firmness of wood; firmness of union; the feudal tenures, one year's profit of the land obtain goods by pretending to be in business firinness of a purpose or resolution; the after the death of a tenant, which was paid in a certain place, and ordering goods to be jirinness of a man, or of his courage. to the king. (6) In the Church of England, sent to them, generally from persons at a In persons already passed with notions of religion, the income of every spiritual benefice for the distance, without any intention of payment. the understanding cannot be brought to change first year, paid originally to the crown, but them, but by great examination of the truth and now to a board, which applies the money When they have obtained all they can in firmness of the one, and the flaws and weakness of so obtained to the supplementing of the this way, they decamp to reappear else- the other. South. incomes of small benefices.-3. The first or where under a different name. A person 2. In phren. an organ situated towards the earliest effect of anything, in a good or bad practising this system is said to be a mem back part of the head, between Self-esteem sense; as, the first-fruits of grace in the ber of the Long Firm. [The term Long and Veneration. Its function is said to be firm is probably employed because the heart, or the first-fruits of vice. to produce determination, constancy, and See, Father, what first fruits on earth are sprung, number of such swindlers is so great that, perseverance. From thy implanted grace in man! Milton if they are regarded as the members of one Firolidæ (fi-rol'i-dē), n. pl. A family of gastirm, the name of the firm is a very long First-fruit (férst'fröt), a. Original; earliest. teropodous molluscs, belonging to the order one.) Congreve. First-hand (férsthand), a. Obtained direct bers of the typical genus, Firola, are very strengthen; to establish.] 1. To fix; to settle; from the first source; obtained direct from common in tropical seas and in the Mediterto confirm; to establish. (Rare.) the producer, maker, &c., and without the ranean, but are so transparent that some- intervention of agents. And Jove has firm'd it with an awful nod. times they can scarcely be seen. They swim Dryden. One sphere there is . . , where the apprehension with their foot upwards. They have no 2. To fix or direct with firmness. of Him is first hand and direct; and that is the shell. The individuals of Carinaria, another sphere of our own mind. Alartinean. Upon his card and compass firms his eye. genus, have a small delicate shell inclosing First-hand (férst'hand), adv. Directly from Spenser the gills. 3. In agri. to render firm or solid; to solidify. Firrings (fér'ingz), n. pl. See FURRINGS. the first or highest source; without the inFirm (iérm), v. i. To become firm or solid. tervention of agents; as, I have my goods Firmament (ferm'a-ment), n. Firry (fèr'ri), a. Of or pertaining to firs; first-hand from the manufacturer; I have formed of fir; abounding in firs. mentum, from firmo, firmatum, to make my information first-hand from the person And oft I heard the tender dove firm, to support, from firmius, steadfast, interested. In firry woodlands making moan. Tennyson. stable, strong. ) 1. † Basis; foundation; sup First-hand (férsthand), n. Direct transfer First (férst), a. [A. Sax. fyrst, first, most port. from the producer without the intervention Custom is the ... firmament of the law. to the fore; a superl. form for E. fore, which of an agent: used only in the phrase at first. Jer. Taylor. is of cognate origin with L pra, pro, Gr. hand. - At first-hand, directly; without the 2. The region of the air; the sky or heavens. pro, Skr. pra, before. Comp. L. primus, intervention of an agent. (The Hebrew word rakia, which is so ren- first, from præe, Gr. protox, first, from pro, I am empowered to mention, that it is the intention dered in Scripture, conveys chiefly the idea Skr. prathama, first, from pra.) 1. Preced- of the person to reveal it at first-hand, by way of of expansion, although that of solidity is ing all others in a series; advanced before mouth, to yourself. Dickens. also suggested, inasmuch as the root signifi- or further than any other in progression; Firsthood † (férst'hyd), n. State or condication of the word is that which is ex- foremost in place; the ordinal of one; as, tion of priority. panded by beating out. The English firma- the first man in a marching company or So that in election Christ held the primacy, the ment is adopted from the Latin firmamen- troop is the man that precedes all the rest. firsthood. Good/10711 tum, which is the equivalent of the Greek Hence—2. Preceding all others in the order Firstling (férst'ling), n. 1. The first produce stereoma (stereos, firm, solid), by which the of time; as, Adam was the first man; Cain or offspring: applied to beasts; as, the firstwriters of the Septuagint rendered rakia.) was the first murderer. lings of his ock. -- 2. The thing first thought God said, Let there be a firmament in the I am Alph and Omega, the beginning and the or done. midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from end, the first and the last. Rev. xxii, 13 The very firstling's of my heart shall be the waters. Gen. i. 6. Shak. 'Tis very sweet to look into the fair excellence; as, Demosthenes was the first Firstling (férst'ling). a. And open face of heaven, to breathe a prayer First produced. Full in the smile of the blue firmament. Keals, orator of Greece; Burke was one of the first Firstling males.' Deut. xv. 19. 3. In old astron. the orb of the fixed stars, or geniuses of his age. Firstly (férst'li), adv. First; in the first the most remote of all the celestial spheres. Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, and place; before anything else: improperly used free, Firmamental (férm-a-mental), a. Pertain for first. First flower of the earth, and first gem of the sea. ing to the firmament; celestial; being of the Moore, First-mate (férst'mät), n. The chief officer upper regions. SYN. Primary, primordial, original, primi of a merchant-vessel; the person next in An hollow crystal pyramid he takes, tive, pristine, highest, chief, principal. rank to the captain, In firmamental waters dipt above Dryden. First (férst), n. In music, the upper part of First-mover (férst'möv-ér), n. In mech. the Firman (fér-man' or fer'man), n. [Per. fer- a duet, trio, &c. prime-mover; the original propelling power, whether natural or artificial, man, Skr. pramana, measure, judgment, First (férst), adv. Before all others in place Of the first class authority, mandate Skr. pra ( = L. or progression, rank, order of time, and the First-rate (férst'rāt). a. fer), ma, measure, and suffix ana] A decree, like; as, let the officers enter the gate first; or rate; of the highest excellence; preorder, or grant of an Oriental sovereign, as first let us attend to the examination of eminent in quality, size, or estimation; as, of Turkey, &c., issued for various special witnesses. a first-rate scholar or painter; a first-rate purposes, as to insure a traveller protection Adam was first formed, then Eve. 1 Tim. ii. 13 ship. and assistance: passport, permit, license, or At billiards he is said to be first-rate. Thackeray, -- At first, at the first, at the beginning or grant of privileges. Written also Firaun. origin. -- First or last, at one time or another; First-rate (férst'rāt), n. A war-ship of the The difference between a Firman and a Hatti first or most powerful rate or class. Sherif is, that though both are edicts of the Turkish at the beginning or end. First-water (férst'wa-tér), n. The first or government, the former is signed by any Minister, And all are fools and lovers first or last. Dryden. highest quality: purest lustre: applied to whereas the latter is approved by the Sultan him; First-begott (férst' bē - got), a. Same as self, with his special mark. and is therefore supposed gems and principally to diamonds and to be irrevocable. The distinction is as real as be. first-begotten. pearls; as, a diamond of the first-water. tween a love-letter and a marriage settlement. First-begotten (férst'bē-got-n), a. First Firth (férth), n. A frith (which see). Blackwood's Alag. produced, ellest among children. Fir-tree (fer trē). See FIR. Firmary(fèrm'a-ri), n. The right of a First-born (férst'born), a. First brought Fir-wood (fér'wyd), n. The wood of the firtenant to his lands and tenements. forth; first in the order of nativity; eldest; tree. pro, Per. FISC 282 FISH-WEIR Fisc (fisk), n. [Fr., from L. fiscus, a basket To fish out, to get out by cunning or artifice; Fishing-tackle (fish'ing-tak-1), n. All the of wicker-work, a money-basket, the state to elicit by stratagem. 1 apparatus, as rod, lines, hooks, artificial treasury.) A treasury, chietly of a prince or Fish (fish), n. [Fr. fiche, a gardener's dibble, flies, dc., used by an angler for carching fish. state. a pey used to mark distances, from sicher, Fishing-wand (fish'ing-wond), n. A fishThe streams were perennial which fed his fisc. to fix; hence, a peg used in marking at crib. iny-rod. [Scotch.) Lamh. bage, &c.) A counter used in various games. Unless trimming the laird's fishing ward or busk. Fiscal (fisk'al), a. Pertaining to the public Fish-backed (fish'bakt), a. Shaped like a ing his flies, or may be catching a dish of routs at an The fiscal arrange over time. treasury or revenue. fish's back; swelling upwards; as, a fish Sir II'. Scott ments of government. llainillon.-Fiscal ! backed rail. Fishjoint (fish'joint), n. In rail. a splice lands, among the Franks, lands set apart to Fishbasket (fish'bas-ket), n. A basket for consisting of one or more oblong plates, form a fund which might support the dignity carrying fish. pieces of iron or wood, bolted to the side or of the king, and supply him with the means Fishbeam (fish'bēm), n. In mech. a beam sides of two rails meeting end to end. of rewarding merit and encouraging valour. which bellies out usually on the under side. Fishkettle (fioli'ket-l), n. A kettle made These, under the name of benefices, were Fish-bellied (fish'bel-lid), a. Shaped like a long for boiling fish whole. granteil to favoured subjects, upon the con- fish's belly; swelling downwards; as, a fish- Fishknife (tislı'nis), 11. A fish-carver or fishclition of the grantees rendering to the king bellied rail. slice. personal service in the field. Fishblock(fish'blok),n. See FISH, 3. Naut.(a). Fishlike (fishlik), a. Resembling fish; per Fiscal (fiskal). n. 1. + Revenue; the income Fish-carver (fish'karv-ér), n. Abroad taining to or suggestive of fish. of a prince or state. knife, generally of silver, for carving fish A very ancient and fishlike smell. Shak. War cannot be long maintained by the ordinary at table; a fish-slice; a fish-knife. Fish-louse (fish'lous), n. A pame for sevefisari and receipt. Bacon. Fish-davit (fish'da-vit), n. Maut. a spar, ral crustaceans of the order Siphonostoma 2. A treasurer.-3. A colloquial abbreviawith a roller or sheave at its end, used for or Ichthyophthira, as the genera Argulus. tion of Procurator-fiscal (which see). --4. In fishing the anchor. Caligus, &c., parasitic on fishes. Some of Spain and Portugal, the king's solicitor: Fish-day (fish'dā), n. A day on which fish the Caligidæ are common on many of the answering to an attorney-general. is eaten. British sea-fishes. Argulus foliaceus is Fish (fish), n. pl. Fishes (fisli'ez), instead of Fisher (fish'ér), n. 1. One who is employed found on fresh-water fishes, and even on which the sing. is often used collectively. in catching fish.-2. A species of marten, the tadpoles. Sickly fishes often become the [A. Sax. fisc, G. fisch, Goth. fisks, Cog. with L. pekan (which see). victims of multitudes of these creatures, or piscis (whence Fr. poisson, It. pesce), W. pyeg, Fisherboat (fish'ér-bot), n. A fishing-boat. the sickness is induced by the numbers Gael, and Ir. iasg, and perhaps Gr. ichthys.) Fisherman (fish'er-man), n. 1. One whose which attack them. 1. A general name for a class of animals sub- Occupation is to catch fish. - 2. A vessel em Fishmarket (fish'mär-ket), n. A market sisting in water. Fishes proper constitute ployed in the business of taking fish, as in where tish are exposed for sale. the first divis on of vertebrate animals. They the cod fishery Fishmaw (fish'ma), n. The sound or airbreathe by means of gills, swim generally by Fisher-town, Fishing-town (fish'ér-toun, bladder of a fish. aid of lins symmetrically arranged, which re tish'ing-toun), n. A town inhabited by Fishmeal (fishʼmel), n. A meal of fish; diet present the limbs of other vertebrates; have fishermen; a town the inhabitants of which on lish; abstemious diet. a heart with two cavities an auricle and a are chiefly occupied in fishing Thin drink doth so overcool their blood, and ventricle-cold blood, a naked skin covered Fishery (fish'è-ri), i. 1. The business of making many fishmeals, they fall into a kind of only by seales, and an osseous or cartilagi. catching tish. – 2. A place where fish are male green-sickness. Shak. nous skeleton, the vertebrae of which are regularly caught, or other products of the Fishmonger (fish'mung-gėr), n. A seller of not grouped into regions as in other vertesea or rivers are taken from the water. fish; a dealer in fish. brates. Cetaceous animals, as the whale Fishfag (fish'fag), n. [E. fish, and fag, a Fish-oil (tish'oil), n. Oil btained from the and dolphin, are in popular language called drudge.] A woman who sells fish; a tish- bodies of fishes and marine animals, as from wife. fishes, but they breathe by lungs, and are wiales, porpoises, seals, pilchards, sharks viviparous, and suckle their young like Fishflake (fish'flāk). n. A flake or frame and cods' livers, &c. mammalia. The term rish has been also ex covered with fagyots for the purpose of dry- | Fishplate (fish'plăt), n. In rail, one of the tended in popular language to other aquatic ing fish. [United States.) plates composing a tish-joint. animals, such as mollusca, crustacea, &c. Fish-flour (fish'flour), n. A kind of four Fishpond (fish'pond), 1. A pond in which See PISCES. -2. The flesh of fish used as food, made by grinding down dried fish, as is done fishes are bred and kept. 3. Vaut. (a) a purchase used to raise the in Sorway. Fishpool (fish'pol), n. A pond or pool for flukes of an anchor up to the gunwale: Fishful (tish'ful), a. Abounding with fish. fish. called also a Fish-block. (b) A long piece of Drayton; Camden. Fishpot (fish'pot), n. A wicker basket or timber used to strengthen a mast or a yard Fish-garth (fish'garth), n. A garth or weir on inclosure sunk with a cork-float attached, when sprung: the term is used also by a river, or on the sea-shore, for the taking for catching crabs, lobsters, &c. Simmonds. joiners in a similar sense. - To be neither and retaining of fish; a fish preserve. Fishroom (fish'röm), n. An apartment in a jlesh nor jish, to be neither one thing nor Fishgig, Fizgig (fish'gig, fiz'yiy), n. [E. fish, ship between the afterhold and the spiritanother; to be a nondescript; sometimes anal gig, a dart.] An instrument used for room. contemptuously said of a waverer or trim striking fish at sea, consisting of a staff with Fish-salesman (fish'sālz-man), n. One who mer who belongs to no party or sect. barbed prongs, and a line fastened above receives consignments of fish for sale, gen the prongs. Damned neuters in their iniddle way of steering, erally by auction, to retail dealers. Simdre neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red-herring. Fishglue (fislı'glū), n. Isinglass (which see). monds. Dryden. Fish-guano (fish'gwä-no), i. Fish or fish- Fish-sauce (fish'sąs), n. Sauce to be eaten To have other fish to fry, a colloquial exoflal, used as manure. with fish, as anchovy, soy, &c. pression denoting that a person has other | Fish-hawk (fish'hak), n. The American Fish-skin (fish'skin), n. The skin of fish, occupations or other objects which require name of the Pandion haliaëtus, the osprey, from which a sort of shagreen is made.his attention. - A strange or queer fish, a bald buzzarı, or fishing-eagle. See OSPREY. Fish-skin disease, in med. ichthyosis; a whimsical,odd, or eccentric person. - A loose Fishhook (fish'hök), n. 1. A hook for catch- horny condition of the skin. fish, a person of irregular habits. ing fish. 2. See FISH-TACKLE. Fish-slice (fish'slis), n. Same as Fish-carrer Fish (fislı), v.i. 1. To atteinpt to catch fish; Fishify (fish'i-fi), v. t. [E. fishy, and L. facio, (which see) to be employed in taking fish by any means, to make.) To change to fish. "O flesh, Fish-sound (fish'sound), n. The swimming as by angling or drawing nets. flesh, how art thou jishised' Shak. [Low.) bladder or air-sac of a fish. Isinglass is A man may fish with a worm that hath eat of a king. Fishiness (fishi'i-nes), n. The state or quality prepared from the sounds of some fishes, Shah of being fishy, both in the proper and the others are sold to China to be converted 2. To attempt or seek to obtain by artifice, slang sense of this word. into glue, and some, as in the case of the or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to Fishing (fish'ing), n. 1. The art or practice cod, are eaten. fish for compliments. of catching fish. – 2. A fishery. Fishspear (fish'spēr), n. A spear for taking Fish (fish), v.t. 1. To attempt to catch fish A good town, having both a good haven and a fish hy stabbing them. in; to try with any apparatus for catching plentiful fishing. Spenser. Fish-strainer (fish'strān-ér), n. A Dietal fish, as a rod; as, to fish a stream. -2. To Fishing (fish'ing), a. Used or employed in colander, with handles, for taking fish from catch or lay hold of, especially in water; to fishery or by fishermen; as, fishing-boat, a boiler; an earthenware slab with holes draw out or up; as, to pish up a human body fishing tackle, fishing village, &c. placed at the bottom of a dish, to drain the when sunk; to fish an anchor. - 3. To search Fishing-boat (fish'ing-bot), n. A boat em- water from cooked fish. by dragging, raking, or sweeping. plo ed in fishing Fish-tackle (fish'tak-1), 9. Naut, a tackle Some have fished the very jakes for papers left Fishing-cruive (fish'ing-krov), n. A cruive used for fishing or raising an anchor to the there by men of wit. Swift. or inclosure for fish in a river. (Scotch.) gunwale of a ship. To this tackle a pen4. (a) Naut. to strengthen, as a mast or yard, Fishing-fly (tish'ing-tli), n. An artificial fly dant is attached, with a large iron hook, with a piece of timber. (b) In joinery, to used as a bait for catching fish. called the fish-hook, fastened to its end. strengthen, as a piece of wood by fastening Fishing-frog (fish'ing-froy), n. Lophius pis. Fishtail (fish'tāl), a. Shaped like a fish's another piece above or below it, and some catorius, the angler. See ANGLER and Lo- tail; resembling a fish's tail in any way. times both.-5. In rail. to splice, as rails, PHIUS. Fishtail burner, a gas-burner whose jet A line with with a fish-joint. - Fished beam, in joinery, Fishing-line (fish'ing-lin), n. takes the form of a fishi's tail.- Fishtail prohooks and bait nised in catching fish. peller (naut.), a propeller consisting of a Fishing-net (fish'ing-net), n. À net for single wing or blade attached to the sterncatching fish. Fishing-nets are of various post of a ship, and oscillating like a fish's kinds, as the landiny-net for the salmon- tail. angler, the bag-net, the shrimping-net, the Fish-tongue (fish'tung), 12. An instrument drag-net, the trawl and the seine for sea- used by some dentists for the removal of fishing, the casting-net, &c. the wisdom-teeth: so named from its shape. Fished-beam. Fishing-place (fish'ing-plās), n. A place Fish-trowel (fish'trou-el), n. A fish-carver, where fishes are caught; a convenient place fish-slice, or fish-knife. See FISHI-CARVER. a long beam composed of two shorter beams for fishing; a fishery. Fish-way (fish'wa), n. A contrivance to joined end to end and fished, that is, secured Fishing-rod (fish'ing-rod), n. A long slen- enable a fish to ascend a fall. by pieces of wood covering the joints on der rod or wand to which the line is fast- Fish-weir, Fish-wear (fish'wer), n. The opposite sides and bolted to both beams. ened for angling. same as Fish-garth. FISHWIFE 283 FISTY Fishwife, Fishwoman (fish' wif, fish'wų. moths are of small size; some of them are by Rus. past and other words. For other man), n. A woman who sells fish. diurnal, and brightly coloured; others are probable connections see FIGHT.] 1. The Fishy (fish'i), a. 1. Consisting of fish; in- twilight-Hiers, and of a duller aspect. hand clenched; the hand with the fingers habited by fish; as, the fishy flood.-2. Hav- Some species have the power of folding up doubled into the palm. ing the qualities of fish; like fish; as, a fishy the wings like a fan, so that, when closed, Logic differeth from rhetoric as the fist from the form; a fishy taste or smell. --3. [Slang] (a) they present the appearance of a single palm; the one close, the other at large. Басоп, Applied to persons, worn out, as if by dissibroad ray. 2. The talons of a bird of prey. pation; effete; seedy: probably from the Fissirostral (fis-si-ros'tral), a. Belonging to Had he so done, he had him snatched away watery or dull appearance of the eyes. (6) the Fissirostres; characterized by a deeply- More light than culver in the falcon's fist. Spenser. Applied to speculations, equivocal; unsafe; cleft bill, as swallows, goatsuckers, &c. 1. To strike with the fist. -unsound. Fissirostres (fis-si-ros'trez), n. pl. (L. findo, Fist (fist), u.t. "I thought it was all up.. Didn't you, Henry Sid; fissum, to divide, and rostrum, a beak.) 2. To gripe with the fist. ney?' The most fishy thing I ever saw,' said A tribe of the Insessores or perching birds, We have been down together in my sleep. Unbuckling helms, fisting each other's throats, Shak. Fisk (fisk), v.i. [A form of chirk. Comp. Fistiana (fis-ti-ā'na), n. pl. (E. fist, and Sw. Jeska, to bustle or whisk about.) To affix ana (which see).] A collection of anec. whisk about; to run or hustle about; to frisk dotes or information regarding pugilists or or juinp about. “A fisking housewife.' Cot pugilistic matters; boxiana. grave. Fistic (tist'ik), a. Relating to or done with Then in a cave, then in a field of corn, the fist; pertaining to boxing; pugilistic; as, Creeps to and fro, and fisketh in and out. Jistic exploits; fistic heroes. (Colloq.) Sylvester, Du Bartas. Fisticuffs (fist'i-kufs). 1. (Fist and cuff. ] Fissel, Fissi), v.i. and n. See FISSLE. Blows or a combat with the fist; a boxing. Fissenless, Fizzenless (fiz'zen-les), a. (For My invention and judgment are perpetually at foisonless - foison and less. See Foison.] fisticuffs, till they have quite disabled each other. Pithless; weak. (Scotch.) Shift. Fissicostate (fis-si-kos'tát), a. [L findo, Fistinut (fis'ti-nut), n. (Corrupted for fixxum, to cleave, and costatus, having ribs, pistachio-nut.) A pistachio-nut. from costa, a rib.) Having the ribs divided. Fist-mate (fist'mät), n. An antagonist in Fissidenteæ (fis-si-den'tė-ē), n. pl. (L. fissus, Fissirostres. a pugilistic encounter. cleft, and dens, dentis, a tooth.) A nat. 1, Diurna. Head, foot, and bill of Hirundo rustic, One fights because he fights an Englishman order of mosses, remarkable for their peri- 2, Nocturna. Head, foot, and bill of Vyctibins third because the next parish is an eyesore to him grandis. and his fise.mate is from it. stome being almost rudimentary, and having Landor. broad-keeled sheathing leaves. The species Fistockt (fist'ok), n. [Fist, and dim. term. distinguished by having the bill very widegrow in running water, and only one has ock.) Fist. Scarce able for to stay his the gape extended beneath the eyes been found in Europe. jistock from the servant's face.' Golding, culmen short and curved to the top, and Fissile (fis'sil), a. (L. fissilis, from findo, Ocid's Metamorph. feet weak. It is divided into two sections: Fistuca (fis-tūłka), n. [L., a rammer.] An fissum, to split or cleave.] That may be (1) The Nocturna, Caprimulgida, or goatsplit, cleft, or divided in the direction of the instrument for driving piles: a monkey. suckers, distinguished by having the eyes Fistula (tis'tū-la), n. L., a pipe. Comp. E. grain like wood, or in the planes of strati very large, and the plumage soft, enabling fication like shales, or along natural cleavage whistle. ] 1. A reed; a pipe; a wind instruthem to fly without noise. This division planes like crystals, or along superinduced ment of music.-2. In surg, a channel excacomprehends the night-jars or goatsuckers, cleavage planes like slates. vated between an internal part and the whip-poor-will, &c. (2) The Diurna, Hir skin-surface, showing no tendency to heal, This crystal is a pellucid fissile stone. Newton. undinidæ, or swallows, which fly by day, and generally arising from abscesses. It Fissilinguia (fis-si-ling-gwi-a), n. pl. [L. and have the eyes moderate, and the plumage differs from a sinus in being callous. Fixjissus, cleft, and lingua, a tongue. ] One of close. This section includes the whole of tula lachrymalis, a fistula of the lachrymal two divisions of the Lacertilia or lizards, the swallows, swifts, martins, &c. The sac, a disorder accompanied with the flowing into which it has been proposed to divide group is rather artificial, since the fly of tears. -- Fistula in ano, fistula penetratins them, according as the tongue is bifid and catchers should be included under it, and into the cellular substance about the anus, protrusible when the mouth is open. The are only separated from it by the notch on or into the rectum itself.--Fistula in perifamily Lacertide, lizaris commonly so called, the upper mandille. the monitors, the genus Ameiva, and some Fissle, Fissil (fis'n), v.i. [Origin doubtful; Fistular (fis'tū-ler), a. não, fistula in the course of the perinæum. Hollow, like a pipe fossil genera, belong to this section. perhaps onomatopoetic.) 1. To make a or reed; as, a fixtular leaf or stem. Fissility (tis-sil'i-ti), n. The quality of being slight continued rustling noise. [Scotch.) Fistularia (fis'tü-lă" ri - a), 1. Tobacco fissile. He thought, Mr. Lovel, that he heard the curtains pipe fish, a genus of acanthopterygious Fission (fi'shon), n. [L. fissio, from findo, o' his bed jissil. Str II Scott, fishes, family Aulostomidæ or Fistularida, fissuin, to split or cleave.] 1. The act of 2. To move about from side to side; to fidge. cleaving, splitting, or breaking up to parts. [Scotch.] 2. In physiol, multiplication by means of a Twa lines frae you wad gar me fissle. Burns. process of self-division, consisting of gradual division or cleavage of the body into two Fissle, Fissel (fis'l), n. Bustle. (Scotch.) parts, each of which then becomes a sepa- Fissura (fis-sū'ra), n. (L.) In anat. a fissure; rate and independent individual, as when a a groove; a fine crack in a bone. vegetable or animal cell undergoes spontan- Fissuration (fi-shūr-a'shon), n. In physiol. eous division, the divided parts again sub- same as Fission, 2. dividing, or an animalcule or polyp divides Fissure (fi'shūr), n. [Fr., from L. fissura, from into two parts. findo, to split.] 1. A cleft; a crack; a narrow Tobacco-pipe Fish (Fistularia tatacaria). Fissipara (fis-sip'àr-a), n. pl. [See FISSI- chasm made by the parting of any substance; PAROUS.] In zool. a term applied to animals a longitudinal opening; as, the fissure of a characterized by the elongation of the facial which propagate by spontaneous fission, as rock.-2. In her. a fourth part of the bend bones into a long fistula or tube, at the exin the Polypi, Infusoria, and certain worms. sinister. -- 3. In bot. the opening of seed- tremity of which the mouth opens, Fissiparism, Fissiparity (fis-sip'ár-izm, fis- vessels, anthers, &c.-Fissure of Sylvius, in Fistularidæ (fis- tü- lar'i-de), n. pl. A si-pa'ri-ti), n. In physiol. reproduction by anat. a deep narrow sulcus or depression family of malacopterygious fishes, synony. fission. See FISSION, 2. dividing the anterior and middle lobes of mous with Aulostomidae. Fissiparous (fis-sip'ar-us), a. (L. fissus, the cerebrum on each side. --Great fissure Fistulary (fis'tü-la-ri), a. Same as Fixfrom rindo, to cut, and pario, to produce.] of Bichat, a depression running across the tular. In physiol. reproducing by spontaneous divi- brain in a curve backwards, and connecting Fistulate (fis'tū-lāt), v.i. To become a pipe sion: an epithet applied to certain animals the two fissures of Sylvius. or fistula. and vegetables of the lower orders, in which Fissure (fi'shūr), v.t. pret. & pp. fissured; Fistulate (fis'tū-lāt), v. t. To make hollow the body of the parent spontaneously divides ppr. fissuring To cleave; to divide; to like a pipe. 'A fistulated ulcer.' Fuller. into two or more parts, each part, when crack or fracture.--Fissured leaf, in bot, a Fistule (fis'tūl), ii, A fistula. Holland, separated, becoming a distinct individual, leaf divided into segments. Fistulidæ (fis-tú'li-de), n. pl. The former as in the monad, vorticella, &c. Fissurellidæ (fis-sur-el'li-dē), n. pl. [From name of the family of echinodermatous aniFissiparously (fis-sip'ar-us-li), adv. In a Fixsurella, the typical genus, dim. of L. fis- mals now known as Holothurida, fissiparous manner; by fission or spontan. sura, a fissure, and Gr. eidos, likeness.] 'The Fistuliform (fis'tū-li-form), a. Having a fiseous division keyhole limpets, a family of gasteropodous tular form; being in round hollow columns, Fissipation (fis-si-pā'shon), n. In physiol. molluscs of the order Scutibranchiata, re- as a mineral. reproduction by fission. Mayme. sembling the limpets in appearance and Stalactite often occurs fistuliform. Phillips. Fissiped (fis'si-ped), a. (L. fissus, divided, habits, but differing considerably in struc- Fistulina (fis- tū-li'na), n. A genus of and pex, pedix, a foot.] Having separate toes. ture. The animal is generally too large for Fungi, allied to Boletus, found on old oak, Fissiped (fis'si-ped), n. An animal whose the shell, so that, in the genus Fissurella, walnut, and chestnut trees, as also on ash and toes are separate or not connected by a the shell appears as if it were rudimentary. beech; it is much esteemed in some parts of membrane. The species are widely distributed; many Europe as an article of food. It has been Fissipennæ (fis-si-pen'nē), n. pl. (L. findo, are British, and many fossil. known to grow to the weight of 30 lbs. fissum, to cleave, and penna, å wing. ) The Fissure-needle (fi'shūr-nē'ul), n. A spiral When grilled it is scarcely to be distinplumed moths, a small group of lepidopter- needle for bringing together the lips of a guished from broiled meat. It furnishes ous insects, including the Pterophorida and wound. Being turned round its axis it itself with abundance of sauce. Tineina, to which latter group the clothes- catches each lip alternately, and it is so Fistulose (fis'tül-os), a. Formed like a moth belongs. They are distinguished by made as to be able to introduce a thread or fistula; fistular. the singular division of the wing into wire, which is left in the place when the Fistulous (fis'tül-us), a. 1. Hollow, like a branches or rays, of which each pair has needle is withdrawn. pipe or reed. -2. Having the form or nature from two to six. These are most beauti- Fist (fist), n. (A. Sax. fyst. Comp. the cog. of a fistula; as, a fistulous ulcer. fully fringed at their edges, and much G. faust, D. vuist, fist; Swiss fausten, to beat Fisty (fist'i), a. Pertaining to the fists or resemble the feathers of birds. The plumed with fist or stick. It is represented in Slav. pugilism; fistic. FIT 284 FIX In twice five years the greatest living roet,' suit or be suitable; to be adapted; as, his and land.) The near horse or ox of the Like to the champion in the fisty ring coat fits very well. hindmost pair in the plough. (Scotch.) Is calld on to support his clann. By on Fit (fit), n. Nice adjustment; adaptation, Thou was a noble fithe-lan, Fit (fit), n. [Of doubtful etymology. Skeat as of the dress to the body, or parts of ma As e'er in tug or tow was drawn, Burns. takes it from A. Sax. fit, a song, also a strug- chinery to each other. gle; Icel. fet, a pace, step, verse, connecting Fit (fit), n. Fitting (fit'ing), a. Fit or appropriate; suitA foot; a step. [Scotch. ] able; proper. it with jetch and fout, and with Skr pada, a Fitt (fit), n. A musical strain; a song, or Fitting (tit'ing), n. Anything employed in footstep, a verse. Step, part of poem, strug. part of a song: a canto; a titt. See FITT. fitting up permanently: used generally in gle, attack of pain, are the gradations of Fit (fit), pre and pp. from right; as, he the plural, in the sense of fixtures, tackle, meaning according to him. ] 1 The invasion, won every tight he fit. (Low. ] exacerbation, or paroxysm of a disease. We Fitch (fich), i. (See FITCHET.) In furriery, apparatus, equipment; as, shop fittings, gas sittings apply the word to the return of an ague the skin of the polecat. It is soft and fittingly (fit'ing-li), adv. Suitably, aiter intermission; as, a cold fit. We apply warni, but its offensive odour depresses its Fittingnesst (fit'ing-nes), n. Suitableness. it to the first attack, or to the return of value. other diseases; as, a fit of the gout or stune; Fitch (fich), 11. (See VETCH.) A chick-pea; Fitting-out (fit'ing-out), n. 1. The furnish ing of things necessary for the proper acand, in general, to a disease, however cona vetch. complishment of any object or undertaking. mued; as, a fit of sickness. - 2. A sudden Fitch-brush (fichbrush), n. A brush or hair- 2. The supply of things necessary for the and violent attack of disorder, in which the pencil made of the hair of the fitch or pole- accomplishment of any undertaking or obbody is often convulsed, and sometimes cat. Such brushes are much esteemed, are ject; equipments; a fit-out. senseless; as, a fit of apoplexy or epilepsy; elastic and firm, can be brought to a fine Fitting-shop (fit'ing-shop), n. In mech. a hysteric jits. point, and work freely. shop in which machinery is fitted up, in Such is that ancient burgess, whom in vain Fitchée, Fitched (fich'ě, contradistinction to turning-shop, foundry, Would yout and fever on his couch detain; And that large lady, who resolves to come. ficht), pp. [Fr. fiche, pp. smithy, &c.; the shop in which the fitters Though a first fit has warnd her of her doom. Crabbe. officher, to drive or work. thrust in.) In heraliry, Fitting-up (fit'ing-up), n. An equipment; 3. A sudden effort, activity, or motion folpointed or sharpened, preparation; the act of furnishing with lowed by an interval of relaxation; impul. venerally at the lower things suitable. sive and irregular action; as, he moves by part. Fittont (fit'on), n. Fiction. He doth feed you with filtons. B. Jonson. By fits my swelling grief appears. Addison. are said to be fitchie when Fit-weed (fit'wēd), n. The West Indian 4. A temporary but violent mental affection they diminish from the Cross fitchée at the or attack; a paroxysm; as, a fit of passion, centre clownward, name of a plant of the genus Eryngium (E. or foot. fatidu), so called because considered as a of melancholy, or of grief. "A fit of mad- fitchie at the foot, when ness.' powerful remedy for hysteria. Shak. * Thy jealous fits.' Shak. the diminution commences only at the botThese sullen fits.' Shak. ---5.1 Disorder; tom of the cross. Fitz (fits). Norm. fites, fiuz, or fiz, a son; Fr. fils; L jiliux.] A son: used as a prefix irregularity; caprice. And best knows the Fitchet, Fitchew (fich'et, fich'ú), n. [Vari in certain surnames, as Fitzgerald, Fitzfits o' the season.' Shak. --6. A sudden ously written Fitch. Fitchee, Fitchele, Fit herbert, Fitzmaurice, Fitzwilliam, especially emission. chuk. Coc. 0.D. risxe, tisxe, vitsche, 0. Fr. in the surnames of the illegitimate sons of A tongue of light, a fit of flame. Coleridge. fixadu, polecat.) A polecat; a foumart. 7. A stroke. Fitchy (fich'i), a. Vetchy. Fuller. kings or princes of the blood, &c.; as, FitzFitful (tit'iul), a. Varied by paroxysms; full roy, Fitzclarence. Curse on that cross, quoth then the Sarazin, Five (fiv), n. 1. The number which consists of fits; spasmodic; eventful; chequered. That keeps thy body from the bitter fit. Spenser. of four and one; the number of the fingers There are, therefore, two strange and solemn Fit (fit), a. _(Can hardly be from Fr. fait, and thumb of one hand. -- 2. A symbol repreliglies in which we have to regard alınost every scene from faire, L. facere, factum, to do, to make; in the fitful history of the Rivo Alto. Ruskin, senting this number; as, 5 or V. rather allied to Goth. setjan, to arrange, Fitfully (fit'ful-li), adv. By fits; at intervals. Five (fiv), a. (A. Sax fit; comp. the cog. to adorn, and fettle. See FETTLE.) 1. Con- Fitfulness (fitful-nes), n. State of being forms o. Sax. fif, Goth. fimf, Icelfiinm, formable to a standard of right, duty, taste, fitful; impulsiveness; waywardness; insta Sw. and Dan. fem, D. rijf. G. fünf, Lith. or propriety; meet; becoming: appropriate. bility penki, W. pump. Gael, coig, L. quinque, Gr. Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as it is Fithul, n. A fiddle. Chaucer. pempe, pente, Skr. panchan-five. All these fit in the Lord. Col. iii. 18. words are traced from a hypothetical IndoAnd fitter is my study and my books Than wanton dalliance with a paramour. properly; with propriety; commodiously; European word kankan, but what the ultiShak. mate elements of this word were is doubtful.] conveniently; as, a maxim fitly applied. 2. Adapted to an end, object, or design; con Four and one added; the half of ten; as, five Fitmentt (fit'ment), n. The act of fitting; formable to a standard of efficiency or qualisomething adapted to a purpose. men; five loaves. fication; suitable; qualified; competent. Five of them were wise, and fire were foolish. Poor beseeming; 'twas a fitment for Mat. XXV. 2. No man having put his hand to the plough, and look. The purpose I then followed. Shk. -The Five Points, the principal points of ing back, is fit for the kingdom of God. Luke ix. 62. Fitness (fitnes), n. The state or quality of controversy between the Calvinists and Still govern thou my song Urania, and fit audience find, though few, Milton. being fit; suitableness; adaptedness; adap- Arminians, relating to predestination, satis tation; propriety; meetness: justness; con3. In a state of preparedness; ready; as, fit faction, regeneration, grace, and final pervenience: preparation; qualification; as, the severance. See under QUINQUE-ARTICULAR. to die. fitness of things to their use, of measures or Five-bar, Five-barred (fīybär, fivbärd), So fit to shoot, she singled forth among laws, of a student for college, &c. a. Having five bars; as, a fire-barred gate. Her foes who first her quarry's strength should feel. Fairfax. According to Dr. Samuel Clarke, virtue consists in Five-cleft (fiv’kleft), a. Quinquefid; divided SYN. Suitable, proper, appropriate, meet, acting in conforinity to the nature and stress of into five segments. things. In this theory the term fitness does not becoming, expedient, congruous, corres- mean the adaptation of an action, as a means towards Five-finger (fiv'fing-gėr), n. Potentilla reppondent, convenient, apposite, apt, adapted, some end designed by the agent; but a congruity tans, a perennial plant; cinquefoil. prepared, qualified, competent, adequate. proportion, or suitableness between an action and Five-fingered (fiv'fing-gérd), a. Having five Fit (fit), v.t. pret. & pp. fitted; ppr. fitting. the relations, in which, as a moral being, the agent fingers. stands. Fleming 1. To adapt; to suit; to make suitable; to Five-fingers (fiv'fing-gers), n. 1. The name bring into some required form. Fit-rod (fit'rod), n. In ship-building, a small given by oyster-fishers to two species of iron rod with a hook on the end, used for The carpenter . . . marketh it out with a line, he star-fish, the Uraster rubens and Solaster fitieth it with planes. Is. xliv. 13. papposus.-2. A name given to the five of vessel's sides, in order to ascertain the re2. To accommodate a person with anything; trumps in certain games of cards. [Slang. ) quired length of the bolts or treenails which Five-finger-tied (fiv’fing-ger-tid), a. Tied as, the tailor fits his customer with a coat. are to be driven in. The original phrase is, he fits a coat to his by all the fingers of the hand, that is, eagerly Fitt (fit), n. (A.Sax fitt, a song: fittan, to sing, customer. But the phrase implies also or securely tied. to dispute.] A musical strain or air; a And with another knot, five-finger-fied, furnishing, providing a thing suitable for canto. The fragments, scraps, the bits, and greasy reliques, another, or that is shaped and adapted for He, sitting ine beside in that same shade, Of her o'er-eaten faith, are bound to Diomed, Shak. another's use. Provoked me to plaie some pleasant sitt; No milliner can so fit his customers with gloves. And when he heard the musicke which I made, Fivefold (fiv'föld), a. In fives; consisting of Shok. He found himself full greatly pleased at it. five in one; five times repeated. 3. To prepare; to put in order for; to fur Srenser. Five-leaf (fiv'lēf), n. Cinquefoil. nish with things proper or necessary; as, Fittable (fit'a-bl), a. Suitable. Sherwood. Five-parted (fiv'pärt-ed), a. Divided into to fit a ship for a long voyage; fit your Fittedness (fit'ed-nes), n. The state of being five parts. self for action or defence.-4. To qualify; Fitter (tit'er), n. fitted; adaptation. (Rare.) Fiver (fiv'èr), n. Anything that counts as 1. One who makes fit or to prepare; as, to fit a student for college. five, as a five-pound note, a stroke at cricket suitable; one who adapts: one who prepares; 5. To be properly fitted for or adjusted to: by which five runs are made, &c. Colloq.) to be suitable for; to suit; to become; as, if specifically, in mech. one who puts the parts Fives (fivz), n. A kind of play with a ball, the cap fits you, put it on. "That time best of machinery together, in contradistinction originally called hand-tennis : so named tits the work.' Shak. to pattern-maker, founder, turner, &c. -- 2. A probably from its being usually played with coal-broker who sells the coal produced by five on each side, although others give So clothe yourself in this; that better fits Our mended fortunes and a prince's bride. Tennyson. a particular mine or by particular mines. different explanations, as that it is so called (Local.) because the ball is struck with the hand or - To fit out, to furnish; to equip; to supply Fitter (fit'er), 11. (A form of fritter.) A fire fingers. with necessaries or means; as, to fit out a broil; a quarrel; a division. ---In fitters, in Éives (fivz), n. A disease of horses, resembl. ship, that is, to furnish her with men, masts, angry recrimination. | ing the strangles. Written also Vives. sails, stores, and the like. -To fit up, to pre They were in fitters about prosecuting their titles Fives-court (fivz'kort), n. A place where pare; to furnish with things suitable; to to this city. Fuller. the game of fives is played. make proper for the reception or use of any Fittert (fit'er), n. (A form of flitter, flinder.) Fix (fiks), v.t. [Fr. fixer; L. figo, fixum, to person; as, to fit up a house for a guest. A fragment; a flinder; a rag; a flitter. fasten.) 1. To make stable, firm, or fast; to Fit (fit), v.i. 1. To be proper or becoming. Where's the Frenchman! set or place permanently: to establish firmly Nor fits it to prolong the feast. Pore. Alas! he's all to fitters. Bean. & FI. or immovably; to establish; as, the universe 2. To be adjusted to the shape intended; to Fittie-lan (fit'i-lan), n. [From fit for foot, is governed by fixed laws; the prince lized |