FEU SUPPLEMENT. FRE 



FEUILLANS, a religious order founded at FORAMIXIFERA, the Kftizopoda, a clasi 

 Feuillant, Languedoc, iu 1577; a branch of o f Protozoa or A or ita of which Amoeba ii 

 the Bemardiues. [the type. They are mostly microscopic organ- 



FKUILLAS*. CLUB DBS, a French politi-isms, and the calcined shells of some of them 

 cal club of the Revolution, which separated euter largely into the composition of chalk 

 from the Jacobines in 1791, and held meet- a iid other sedimentary strata, 

 ings at the convent of the Feuillaus, till its : FOUOKs, composition and resolution of, 

 extinction in the following year. I the accumulation of two or more forces into 



PlOOiDI.fi, the order Mesembryacec* ; a a mechanically united equivalent, 

 natural order of perigyuous exogens, allied to FOKKXsic, relating to courts of justice, 

 the CacCacece, with perigynous stamens, ' forensic Medicine is that branch ol medical 

 superior calyx, and embryos curved round science which relates to Medical Jurispru- 

 mealy albumen. Idence, or medical questions arising before 



KIKLO-VOLK, the Arvicola agrestis of courts of law. 



Cuvier, or field-mouse. | FORMICATION, a creeping sensition of 



FiLi', two soldiers, one belonging to the the skin, as if ants (formlf.cn) were creep- 

 front line and one to t*e rear. ing over it. 



FILK .\lAurni.M-, a line of soldiers two FoiiMYLE,=fl, H, the hydrocarbon base 

 deep, when marching in file, that is, facing of formic acid, 

 right or left, and two abreast. KOSSULATK, a surface characterised by 



FiLEH'tSH, a genus of acanthopterygious one or more long narrow depressions, 

 flsheswith rough shagreened skins and deeply; FOUSKL or FUSEL OIL, Amylic alcohol, 

 serrated anterior dorsal spines. The genus tne hydrate of oxide of amyl, found in 

 Batistes. potato and corn spirit, and the cause of their 



FILIBUSTERS a ^word said to come from Uarsh tas(e aud offensive flavour. Its for: 

 the English word freebooter," adopted in mu i a j,, c H o , H Q 

 America through the French corruption, 



fllbustier, and used of any piratical depre-l FOWLEK'S AIlNERAL.solution of arsenite 

 datore. ofpotassa. 



FIMBRI^, the processes of the abdom-j FOXGLOVE, Digitalis purpurea. 

 inal openings of the Fallopian tube. * RAPPING, increasing the tension of 



FISSION, breaking up into parts. ropes running parallel or nearly so by draw- 



FlTCHET, the Putoriusfcetidus, or Pole- ing and tying them together. 

 cat. | FRATKRCULA, the genus which includes 



FLAOELLA, an old botanical name for the puffins. 



the younger shoots or twigs of plants. I FRATIUCELLT, a sect of Franciscan 



FLEA, the Pulex of entomology Monks, founded by Maurato and Fossom- 



FLOATING SCtt:Ki)s, strips of plaster broui about the end of the thirteenth cen- 



adjusted to guide the floating rule in plaster- tur ^ but subsequently condemned by 



ing or floated work. j Boniface VIII., and persecuted by the In- 



FLO RETS, the smaller interior flowers in quisitiou in the two following centuries, 



the discoranthodiumof composite flowers, during which it is said more than two thou- 



as distinguished from the marginal flowers in sand of tnera became its victims. The re- 



the circumference of the disc. mamder of the body became Lutherans at 



FLOTA, the Spanish synonym of " fleet," the Reformation. 



applied to those ships which sailed in fleets FKAU.VHOKKK'S LINKS, the dark lines 

 or under convoy between the Peninsula and of tne 80lar spectrum, first examined by 

 the transatlantic possessions of Spain and Fraunhofer. and which have latterly led to 

 Portugal. sucn important discoveries in spectrum 



FLOTILLA, a fleet of small vessels, how- analysis, g. v. 



ever numerous I FKKOKLKS, the brownish or dark yellow 



FLUELLITK, native fluoride of alu- s P eck8 produced by sunshine on the face aud 

 minium. skin ^ ^ alr Persons. See COS.M K r i< .-. 



FLUOCERIXE, or FLTJOERINE, native FRKEZIXG MIXTURES. These mixture* 



fluoride of cerium. have in some instances reduced the tempera- 



FLUOBORIC ACIP, a gas composed of one lure to 140 U below 0". Equal parts of sal 



atom of boron and three of fluorine ; also ammoniac and powdered nitre mixed, in one 



called Fluoride of Boron. |and a half their quantity of water, reduce 



FcE-TUS, the name given to the unborn the temperature and the thermometer from 



child between the fifth month of pregnancy 50 to 10. Ice or snow mixed with one half 



and the time of its birth. Previous to this their weight of salt, reduce the thermometer 



period it is called " the Embryo," q. v. to s . 



FOOL'S PARSLEY, a poisonous plant dto-l FitKXC'f POLISH. A solution of shell- 

 tlnguished from parsley, for which it is apt lac in spirits of wine is the chief Boutl- 

 to be mistaken, by the iu volueels, each having tuent. Linseed oil is used a!o:ii with it, 

 three leaflets always next the circumference when applying it, and friction \\iih a ball 

 f the umbel. The jEthuia Cynayiutn. of cotton wool in a cloth applied rapidly. 

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