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Show o T Day's harbinge Comes dancing from the Eaft, and Teads with he "The flow'ry May, who from her green lap throw Milton The yellow cowflip and the pale primrofe O'er his fair limbs aflow'ry velt he threw. ope field To her the fhady grove, the fow'r FrgwiveLy I'opc' Wit [from fsw. ado volubility ; with abundance Frowk. n. /. [fuke, Scott. the name of a fifh A flounder thefe the fowk, fole, and plaice, follo Amongf Carew the tide up into the freth waters z /. The name of a plant Fro'wgkworT _Frown. Participle of /iy, or flee, they bein confounded; properly of ffy 1. Gone away For thofe Appointed to fit there, had left their charge Miltor's Paradife Lof Flown to the upper world Where, my deluded fenfe! was reafon flows Where the high majefty of David's throne 2 Prior elate inflated 2. Puffed And whe nigh Darkens the ftreets, then wander forth the fon Milton Of Belial, flown with infolence and wine Is this a bridal or a friendly feaft Or from your deeds I rightly may divine, Unfeemly flown with infolence or wine Fru/crvawt Wavering adj Pope Latin. [fuftnans uncertain To be longing for this thing to-day, and for tha thing to-morrow; to change likings for loathings and to frand wifhing and hankering at a venture how is it poflible forany man to be at reft in thi flucuant wandering humour and opinion L Efrange To FLUCTUATE. @. 2. [ fufino, Latin. 1. 'To roll to and again, as water in agitation The futiuating fields of liquid aix With all the curious meteors hov'ring there And the wide regions of the land, proclai The Pow'r Divine, that rais'd the mighty frame Blackmore 2. 'To float backward and forward, as wit the motion of water 3 T move wit uncertain and hafty mo tion The tempte New parts puts on; and, as to paflion mov'd Fluiyates difturb'd Milton's Paradif 4, To be in an uncertai {fudden viciffitudes ftate Loff. to fee As the greateft part of my eftate has hitherto been of an unfteady and volatile nature, either toft upo feas, or fluctuating in funds, it is nowfixed and fet tled in fubftantial acres and tenements Addifon %. To be irrefolute; to be undetermined LucTualTioN n. f [[fr8uatio Latin Juétnation, Yrench; from fufuate. 1. The alternate motion ot the water FluGuations are but motions fubfervient, whic winds, ftorms, fhores, fhelves, and every inter Brown jacency irregulates They were caufed by the impulfes and fu&uatio Woodward of water in the bowels of the earth 1. Th fmoothnefs flowing o qualit freedom from harfhnefs or afperity Llwency of numbers, and moft exprefliv figure Garth for admirers of points of wit volubility 2. Readinefs ; copioufnefs Our publick diturgy muft be cafhiered, the bette to pleafe thofe men who gloried in their exteiporar King Charles vein and fuency We reafon with fuch fuency and fire Zickel and the learned tire The beaux we baffle The common flzency of fpeech in many men and moft women, is owing to a fearcity of matter and a fcarcity of words; for whoever is mafter o language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will b apt, in fpeaking, to hefitate upon the choice of both Swift 3. Afluence obfolete abundance fenf Thi i Thofe who grow old in ffuéncy and eafe Sandys Behold him toft on feas God riches and renow to men imparts Even all they wifh; and yet their narrow heart Cannot fo great a fluency receive Sandys But their fruition to a {tranger leave FLUENT 1. Liquid adj [fluens, Latin. It is not malleable pified 2. Flowing but yet is not ffwent, but ftuBacon in motion in flux Thof copious fom hav voluble difpofitions natura whic have better grace in youth than in age, fuch asis Bacon Adent and luxurious {peech 1 fhall lay before you all that's within me And with moft fuent utterance Fru/svt 7/. Stream Denbam's Sophy running water Confiding in their hands, that fed'lous ftriv To cut th' outrageous_fuent; in this diftrefs Philips Ev'n in the fight of death read [from fueni edv Fru'entLy flow volubly readily Wit withou obftruction or diificulty FLUID adj French. -not folid [fuidus Ylatin fuide Having parts eafily feparable Or ferve they as a-flow'ry verge to bin The fuid fkires of that fame wat'ry cloud Leftiit again diffolve, and {how'r the earth ? Milton If pariicle flip eafily and are of a fit fize to b agitated by heat, and the heat is big enough t keep them in agitation, the body is fuid; and if i be apt to flick to things, it is humid Newton Fru'iv. z. / 1. Any thing not folid 2. [In phyfick. the blood An animal juice a oonfider howlixury hath irtroduced new difeafes and with them, not improbably, altered the whol Arbuthnot courfe of the fuids fro A diie, s By v 'The quality in bodies oppofit Juid. to ftability; want of coherence betwee Heat promotes fuidizy very much, by diminifhin the tenacity of bodies : it makes many bedies fiuid which are not fluid in cold, and increafes the fuwidit but errour of tenacious liquids Boyle Fruve. z f. [A word of which T kno not the etymology, unlefs it be derive from few of fy. 1. A fmall pipe or chimney to convey air heat, or fmoke 2. Soft down or fur, fuch as may fly in th wind as of oil,'balfam and thereby decreafes their refittance and honey Neavton A difeafe oppofite to this fpiffitude is. teo grea Suidity Boyle Fru'MMery. #. /. A kind of food mad by coagulation of wheatflower or oat meal Milk and flummery are very fit for children Locke Fruwe participle and preterite of fing Thrown ; caft Several ftatues the Romans themfelves fuzg int the river, when they would revenge themfelves Addifon on Italy FLUOR n. /. [Latin. 1. A fluid ftate donot cohere to particles of fluids, whic Th ftrongly, and are of fuch a fmallnefs as render them moft fufceptible of thofe agitations whic are moft eafily feparate Newton's Opt keep liquors in a jfluor and rarefied into ¥apours 2. Catamenia Fru'rry, 2. f 1. A guft or ftorm of wind ; a hafty blaft The boat was overfet by a fudden furry from th Sawift North 2. Hurry; a violent commotion 7o FLUSH «. n. [ fluyfen, Dutch, t 1. To flow with violence The pulfe of the heart he attributes to an ebullition and fudden expanfion of the blood in th afte being heate manne th Arbuthnot Tha Fru'tpwess. 7 /. [from fluid. quality 1n bodies oppofite to ftability What if ‘we fhould fay that Auidnefs and ftability depends fo much upon the texture of th parts, , that, , by &p change of that texture, th o which milk th to fuch a degree, doth fuddenly, an all at once, f/b up and run over the veffel. ~ Ray It flufbes violently out of the cock for about quart, and then ftops Mortiner's. Hufbandry 2. 'To come in hafte If the place but afford Any ftore of lucky birds As I make 'em to jfiu/b Each owl out of his buth 3. T glo Ben Fonfon's Owls {kin in th t produc colour in the face by a fudden afflux o blood It is properly ufed of a fudde or tranfient heat of countenance not o a fettled complexion Ere yet the falt of moft unrighteous tear Had left the fufbing in her gauled eyes She married Shakefpeare's Hamlet. Thus Eve with count'nance blithe her ftory told But in her cheek diftemper fu/bing glow'd ilton What can be more fignificant than the fudde Sufbing and confufien of a blufh Collier What means that lovely fruit ? What means, alas That blood, which #x/bes guilty in'your face Dryden. At once, array' In all the colours of the fx/bing year The garden glows Thomfon's Spring 4. To fhine fuddenly It will not hinder it from making a profelyte o a perfon, that loves jfxé&uation of judgment littl encugh to be willing to be eafed of it by any thin or a diy body, and that permanently too ventricles Motion being a fluent thing, and one part of it duration being independent upon another, it dot not follow that becaufe any thing moves this moment, it muft do fo the next Ray on the Creation 3. Ready fame parts may be made to conftitute either a flui flow ; flus, or flux, French. the parts indetermination 2. Uncertainty Fruz/vLrin. #. /. The herb SprepwEeLL Fru'ency. z /. [from fluent. for the poet, morals for the ferious, and pleafantric The ftreams and fountains no delight could yield A Obfolete A flake of fire that flufbinzg in his beard Him all amaz'd To FrusH 1. T @, a colour redde Spenfer t redden properl t fuddenly The glowing dames of Zama's royal court Have faces ff/b'd with more exalted charms Some court, or fecret corner feek Addff. Cato Nor flufb with fhame the pafling virgin's cheek Gay's Triv. 2. To elate; to elevate; to give the appearance of fudden joy As profperous people, flufhed with great victorie an_d 1_;1ccctiks, are rarely known to confine their joy within the bounds of mederation and innocence, Atterbury's Sermons Frusu: adj 1. Freth; full of vigour He tosk my father groily, full of bread With all his crimes broad blown, and /b as May And how his audit ftands, who knows, fave-Heav'n Shakefpeare Ilov |