flying worm

The tetter, the ringworm. ( Ash.) flysch, s. [A Swi provincial word.] Sea foal - foot , sea folefoot : Bot .: Convolvulus soldan ell a . foam, *fame, *fom, *foom, *fome, 8. [A. S. fám ; cogn. with O. H. Ger. feim , faim ; Low Ger. fám ; Ger. feim, faum; Lat. spuma.] The white substance, consisting of an aggregation of bubbles, which arises on the top of liquids from violent agitation or fermentation; froth, spume. "He was of foom as flekked as a pye." Chaucer. C. Т., 12,493. IMG:content-1838.png:[blocks in formation] focal-distance, s. 1. Optics: The distance between a concave mirror and the focus or point at which its rays are most concentrated. 2. Conic Sections : (1) Of the parabola : The distance between the focus and the vertex. (2) Of the ellipse and the hyperbola : The distance between the foci and the center. Principal focal distance : Optics: The distance between the principal focus and a concave mirror. *fō-cal-ize, v. t . [Eng. focal ; -ize.] To bring to a focus; to focus. "Light is focalized in the eye, sound in the ear."-De Quincey. *fō-çile, *fō'-çil, s. [Fr. focile .] Anat .: A bone of the forearm and leg; the greater focile being the ulna or tibia, the le er the radius or fibula. *fō-çil-lāte, v. t . [Lat. focillatus , pa. par. of focillo to revive a benumbed person by means of fire or heat; focus =fire, a hearth.] To cherish, to warm. *fō-çil-lā-tion, s. [FOCILLATE.] Cherishing, comfort, support.