fist-ball !f (fist'bal), H. [< fittl + Ixiin.] 
b " 
Fissurellacea L-IMO 
Fissurellacea(fis"u-re-la'se-a), 
H. j>l. [NL., < ritav/retta + 
-acea.] Same as I-',**,,,', l/ida;. 
fiSSUrellid (fis-u-rel'id), n. A 
gastropod of tlie family Fissn- 
rellida'. 
Fissurellidse (fis-u-rel'i-de), . 
pl. [NL., < Fissurclla + -id<f. } 
A family of scutibranchiate 
prosobranchiate gastropodous Keyhole-Limpet 
mollusks; the keyhole-limpets. " 
They resemble ordinary limpets in appearance and habits, 
but differ much in structure. The shell is perforate or 
emarginate, and sometimes disproportionately small for 
the size of the animal. There are many species, extinct 
and extant. Also Finsurellacea. 
The Fissurellidw . . . are structurally closely allied to 
the . . . [Haliotidce], but in external appearance they 
seem far different. The shell is conical, and shows but 
very slightly any spiral. The series of openings of the 
Haliotis are replaced by a hole at or near the apex of the 
shell, or by a notch in the front margin. On the inside 
of tlie shell is a horseshoe-shaped impression, indicating _ 
the surface of attachment of the muscles of the foot, fisticatlngt (fis'tl-ka-tmg), a. A corruption of 
The eyes, instead of being placed on stalks, are scarcely 
elevated above the surrounding surface. . . . The species 
are largely inhabitants of the wanner seas of the globe, 
although some forms are boreal in their range. They are 
mostly found near the shores, where they feed on the 
smaller seaweeds. In their habits they are not different 
from other limpets. Stand. Nat. Hint., 1. 320. 
fistulous 
4. [cflyi.] [NL.] In zoiil., a genus of polyps. 
Okeil, 1815.-. FlStUla in anO, IMula pclietratinj; into 
the cellular lubetance about the amis, or into the rectum 
itself. Fistula In perluaeo, fistula resulting from par- 
. 
tinl closure of a raptured perineum. Fistula lacry- 
malis, a fistula of the lacrymal sac, through which the 
tears usually escape on the cheek: a disorder character- 
ized by the flowing of tears, and usually proceeding from 
obliteration of the iniMil duct. 
+ 
kind of ball to be struck by the fists. 
I'/aiftr (1585), p. 296. (SaUiaett.) 
fist-ball 2 (fist'- or fist'bal), . {(.fiats + bain.] 
A puffball. Compare ISnriatn. 
fistful (fist'ful), n. [< fisft + -fnl.] A handful. 
Even the poorest mines have their streaks and chunks -" l ! ll 'lf r!ltl "!i ",' ' t J'V.!"V'" 1 '''"? ^ 
of rich ore ; do not, therefore, judge by a single jM-/,,ll. nstular (ns tu-lar), . [= F. fistlllaire = Sp. fis- 
ii"i by an assay. S. Boirli's. our New UVM. p. :ni4. liilur = It. JUtolare, < L. fixtiilaris, like a pipe, 
fistiana (fis-ti-an'a or -a'na), H. /)?. [</<!+ _ < ..'!*''!''".. a PJpe : Me^Wwo.] Fistulous. 
-i-ami : see -ana * 
regarding pugilists 
iana. 
fistic (fis'tik), a. [< fisft + -ic.] Relating to 
or done with the fists; pertaining to boxing; 
pugilistic: as, fistic exploits; fistic heroes. 
[Colloq.] 
In fistic phraseology, he had genius for coming up to 
, . . . . 
j.J Anecdotes or information Fistularia (fis-tu-la'ri-ji), . [NL., < L. fibula- 
lists or pugilistic matters; box- ris, like a pipe, < tettUa, a pipe: see fistula.] 
1. The typical and only genus of the restricted 
i typical i 
family Fixtulariida'. 
ly genus of 1 
'. tabacatria, the best-known 
species, is the tobacco-pipe flsh. The genus is nanu-d from 
the long tubular snout, like a fistula or tube, at the end of 
which is the month. 
2. A genus of holothurians of vermiform fig- 
- . .- . ure with pinnate tentacles. DeSlninrille, 1830. 
he scratch, wherever and whatever it was, and proving TW_4._i,._j;L. ,K *- i-/ -. i I-XTI I 
Himself an ugly customer. Dictnu, Hard Times, ii FlStUlaria (fis-tu-la ri-e), H. pl. [NL., pl. of 
Fistularia, 2.] The vermiform holothuriaus, a 
section represented by such forms as Synuptti, 
Chirodota, and Oncinolabes. Also, incorrectly, 
Hi 
There are so mm\y Jittusatmg Tobaco-mungers in Eng- 
land, were it neuer so bad, they would sell it for Verinas. - 
Quoted in Cajit. John Smith's Works, II. 38. HStUlarilQ (ns-tu-la ri-ld), . 
A fish of the 
fissure-needle (fish'Sr-ne'dl), . A spiral 
needle for bringing together the lips of a wound. 
Being turned round its axis, it catches each lip alter- 
nately, and it is so made as to introduce a thread or wire, 
which is left in place when the needle is withdrawn. 
fissure-vein (fish'ur-van), n. Mineral matter, 
often metalliferous, filling a preexisting fis- 
sure, not formed by simple shrinkage of the 
rock itself, but resulting from deep-seated or 
crust movements, and which therefore may be 
expected to extend indefinitely downward, in- 
stead of ending in the particular stratum or 
group of strata in which it began. See vein, 
deposit, true vein (under vein), and gash-vein. 
fist 1 (fist), n. [< ME. fist, fyst, fust, rarely fest, 
fisticuff (fis'ti-kuf), n. [Formerly 
fistyS, = fistl, + cuff, a blow.] A 
the fist: commonly in the plural, combat with 
the fists ; cuffs of the fist given and taken. 
There's two at fixty^uffs about It. 
Middleton (and another), Mayor of Queenborough, iii. 3. 
family f'itiilariifl<e. 
"istulariidse (fis"tu-la-ri'i-de), w. pl. [NL., < 
J'ixtiilaria, 1, + -idte.] A family of hemibrancni- 
ate fishes, typified by the genus Fistularia, and 
characterized by the very elongate and some- 
what depressed body, long tubiform snout, ven- 
G. faust, the fist. The Goth, form is not record- 
ed ; possibly "fitlistus, < "full, thus connecting 
the Teut. forms with L. pugitus, fist, pugil, a 
fist-fighter, pugilist, pugna, battle, etc., Gr. 
irvyu.il, the fist, nv'f , with the fist, etc. : see pug- 
nacious, expugn, impugn, etc., pugilism, etc. ; 
see also fight. Otherwise the Teut. forms are 
prob. akin to OBulg. pesti = Slov. pest = Pol. 
piesc = Bohem. pent = Buss, pyasti, fist.] 1. 
The hand clenched ; the hand with the fingers 
doubled into the palm. 
For god the fader is as nfmtle, the sone is as a fynger, 
The holy goste of heuene is, as it were, the pawme. 
Pirn Plowman (B), xvii. 200. 
Kynge Arthur fonde the kynge Ban on fote, in myddell 
of the presse, his swerde in his fiste, that hym derfended 
so vigorously that noon ne durst hym a-proche. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 164. 
Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with 
the fist of wickedness. Isa. Iviii. 4. 
2. Used to translate German faust, hand- 
breadth, equal in Austria to 10.54 centimeters, 
or about 4 inches.- Hand over fist. See haw/. 
fist 1 (fist), v. t. [< fisti, n.] 1. To strike with 
the fist. 
On a sudden at a something for a nothing 
The boy would fist me hard. Tennyson, Harold, i. 1. 
2. To grip with the fist. 
We have been down together in my sleep, 
Unbuckling helms, fisting each other's throat. 
Shak., Cor., iv. 5. 
We fitted the sail together, and, after six or eight min- 
utes of hard hauling and pulling and beating down the 
sail, ... we managed to get it furled. 
Ji. //. Dana, Jr., Before the Mast, p. 352. 
fist 2 (fist or fist), n. [Also written fyst, feist, 
fiest, foist (see foisft); early mod. E. fyest, < 
ME. *fis_t, fyst, fyyst = OD. reest, D. rijst = 
MLG. vist, LG. fist = MHG. vist, a breaking 
wind; with formative -t (equiv. to the simpler 
form fise = Sw. Dan. fis), from the verb rep- 
resented by Icel. fisa = Dan. fise, break wind : 
see .fee 1 , fizz, fizzle, n. Cf. bullfist, Bovista.] 
1. The act of breaking wind: same as fise 1 . 
Prompt. Pan:, p. 163. [Obsolete or vulgar.1 
2. A puffball. 
fist 2 (fist or fist), v. i. [Also written fyst, feist, 
- _ , . . , .. . 
Jfy invention and judgment are perpetually at fttiaiff, tral fins wlth five or SIX spineless rays, no dor- 
till they have quite disabled each other. Swift, sal spines, and extension of the two middle rays 
People who share a cell in the Bastile, or are thrown to- ? tne tail-fin into a long filament ; the tobacco- 
gether on an uninhabited isle, if they do not immediately pipe fishes or sea-snipes. Only three species are 
fall to Jisliciifx, will find some possible ground of compro- known, all of the genus f'istularia. formerly referred to 
the Avtoslotnida! or even the Centrixcidtr. In Cuvier's 
system Fistulariida! was the fifteenth family of Aean- 
thuptenjgii, and included not only the Firhiliiriiihr prop- 
er, hut also the A ulostmnulce, Macrorhami>hotiAa, said Am- 
fUtUUa of recent authors. In Oiinther's system they 
were a family of AcaHthupterygii gatfterosteifoiinett, with 
the ventrals remote from the pubic bone, and with six 
soft rays, including Figtidariidce proper, Aulottttnnultf, 
and Aulnrhynchida' of later authors. Also written Fi'tlu- 
land<v, Figtularidfx, Figtulanoidtte. 
fistularioid (fis-tu-la'ri-oid), . and H. I. a. 
Pertaining to or naving the characters of the 
Fistulariida'. 
II. n. A fistulariid. 
!. L. Stemnmn, Virginibus I'uerisque, i. 
fisticuffer (fis'ti-kuf-er), n. One who fights 
with the fists ; a boxer. 
Every rising fiitieufer within half a hundred miles 
round had heard of Bob's strength, and the more ambi- 
tious of these had felt bound to "dare " him. 
E. Egglenton, The Oraysons, x. 
fisticuffing (fis'ti-kuf -ing), w. Boxing; fighting 
with the fists. 
Six men were under sentence for simple assault and 
battery mere fisticuffing one of two years, two of five 
years, one of six years, one of seven , and one of eight. 
The Century, XXXII. 167. 
fisting 
hound. 
rison 
Also foisting-ltoitnd. 
g-houndt, . [< fisting, ppr. of fisft, v., + fi stulary (fis'tu-la-ri), a [< L. fislularis, < fistu- 
d. Ct.fise^dog.] A kind" of spaniel. W.Sar- K a P^e: see //-.] Fistulous. 
, Descrip. of England, p. 230. (Halliwell.) Qaue hlm tlle farr-hearrt Jt*hilarir. reede. 
Chapman, Homeric Hymn to Jlermes. 
A nd alledging urgent excuses for my stay behind, part Sstulate (fis'tu-lat), v. i. ; pret. and pp. fistn 
ith her as passionately as she would from herfoittiny. lated, ppr. fistiilatiiig. [< fistulate, a.] To as 
hound. Marxian, Johnson, and Chairman, Eastward Ho. 
fistinutt (fis'ti-nut), . [For "fistic- = "fustic- 
nut: 
nut 
fist 
[Rare.] 
The president ["of the parliament of Burgundy" and 
envoy of Henry IV. of France] told the States-General in 
full assembly that there was no law in Christendom, as 
between nations, . . . [but] the good oW fist-law, the code 
of brute force. Motley, I'nited Netherlands, IV. 497. 
it), n. 
[Rare.] 
sume the form or character of a fistula, as an 
abscess. 
t: see fustic and pistachio-nut.] A pistachio- fistulate, fistulated (fis'tu-lat, -la-ted), a. [= 
it. Pg. fixtulado, < L. fistulatug, fumished with 
i-law (fist'la), n. The law of brute force. P'pes, pipe-shaped, < fistula, a pipe: see figtu- 
la.] Hollowed like a pipe or fistula: as," a fis- 
Mated ulcer," Fuller. 
The beginnings or first stamina in animals are their 
tubes, pipes, or ducts, Jittulattd or hollowed, to rircil- 
i ate the blood and juices. The Student, II. 379. 
. fl t j t (fl , t lfi t . < 
flstulet (fis'tul), . [< F. fittule, < L. fistula, a 
Pipe, fistula: see fistula.] \ fistula. Holland. 
fistulld (fis tu-hd), w. A member of Lamarck's 
thir(] section of radiated animals, as a holothu- 
nan; a fistulidan. 
fistulids (fis-tu'li-de), . pi. [NL., < Fistula 
+ ., A ,,.] A family of echinodermatous ani- 
ma i B the holothurians : a term now disused. 
an (fis-tu'li-dan), . One of the Fistu- 
a holothurian. " 
)k), n. [<fisfl + dim. -oci:] A fist. 
Scarce able for to stay his fifttock from the servant's face. 
Guiding, tr. of Ovid's Metamorph. 
fistuca (fis-tu'ka), n. [L., a rammer, beetle.] 
An instrument for driving piles ; a monkey. 
fistula (fis'tu-la), n. [= D G. Dan. Sw. fisM fistulidan (fis-tu'li-dan), n. 
= OF. fistle, festre (> ME. festre, E. fester), F. '->- - - >- - '-*- * 
a ^ restored form) .fistule = Pr fistola = Sp./.- fistuliform (fis'tu-li-form), a. [< L. fistula, a 
tola = Pg. fistula =It.fistola,<l,. fistula, apipe, p j pe? + forma, shape.] Fistular or fistulous 
tube, a reed, cane a musical pipe, a sort of in f or m; tubular or tubiform. 
ulcer, fistula. Cf.>sterl, ult. a doublet of fis- ,, 
tula in the pathological sense.] If. A reed; a -JS?* ?f T< ^ T 
pipe ; a wind-instrument of music. 2. In the FlStulma (fis-tu-h na), . [NL., dim. of L. fis- 
Kom. Catii. Ch., same as calamus, 4. tula ' a pipe: see fistula.] A genus of hymeno- 
For some centuries it appears to have been the custom m y eetous fun gi> al }ied to Boletus. F. he,,,,!!,;,. 
for the priest to hold the chalice while the communicant whlc . 8 S >WS " *f ?" d 1 . e8s ."'"""only on various other 
sucked the wine through a silver tube orfixtula. Jrf '" E<'"I '"'il America, is highly esteemed as an ar- 
FH/.I/*. RvA YTY IQ^ ticle of food. It is called oeasteat-nHunu. and is much 
o T ti. i like Beefsteak in appearance and quality. 
In pathol, a narrow passage or duct, formed figtulose (fis'tu-los), a. Same as li*t<,l<,,<s. 
by disease or injury, leading from an abscess fistulous (fis'tu-lus), a. [= F. tixtulfus = Sp. 
to a free surface, or furnishing an abnormal Pg . fi a t u l o *o = It, fistoloso, < L. 'fistulosus, pipe- 
LG. fisten = MHG. visten, break wind; from 
the noun : see fists, ., an a c f. fizz, fizzle, foisfl, 
v.] To break wind. Prompt. Pan., p. 163. 
[Obsolete or vulgar.] 
enfwt feist * ?g TI ^T S me nOrmal Cfmty ' as ln shaped, full of holes, having a fistula, < fistula, 
Znfvisten- ve f cova g"jal. fi stula. A tistnia may be cutaneous a pipe, etc. : see fistula.] 1. Hollow, like a 
MLG viste^ openZ" Se S^ C w ti.ere are t^'"^''^ ""'iT Pipeorreed; tubular; fistuliform.- 2. Hav- 
fistula may be external or internal, according to the posi- 
tion of the opening. 
Moreover you shall not see a part of the bodie but it is 
subject to the fistulas, which creep inwardly and hollow 
as they go. Holland, tr. of Pliny, xxvi. 14. 
pipe or reed; tubular; fistuliform. 2. Hav- 
ing the form or nature of a tube or fistula ; con- 
taining fistulas. 
As for the flesh of the polype, it is to see to, fistulous 
and spongeous, like unto honycombs. 
Holland, tr. of Plutarch, p. 827. 
