frit1llaria

[From Lat. fri tell us a dicebox, which the checkered petals resemble.] Bot.: A genus of Liliacese, tribe Tulipese. The bulbs are often clustered, the leaves se ile, not sheathing, the flowers drooping, the perianth campanulate, anthers attached to the filament above the base in front, the style three-cleft at the apex, the capsule three-celled, three-valved oblong, seeds many, flat. About thirty species are known. One is Fritillaria meleagris , the Common Fritillary or Snake's-head, found in moist meadows; the flowers are te elated with dull purple, occasionally almost colorle . frit-Il-lar-ў, 8. [FRITILLARIA.] 1. Bot.: The English name of the genus Fritillaria IMG:content-0166.png:[blocks in formation] (1) Various butterflies divided by Stainton into Large and Small Fritillaries. The genus Argynnis, or the sub-family Argynnidi, ranked under the family Nymphal ide. Argynnis paphia is the Silver washed Fritillary, A. aglaia the Dark-green Fritillary, A. lathonia the Queen of Spain Fritillary A. selene the Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary. "The white admirals and silver-washed fritillaries flit around every bramble-bed."-C. Kingsley: Two Years Ago, ch. xxiii. (2) The genus Nemeobius, one of the Erycinide. Nemeobius lucina is the Burgundy Fritillary. ( Stainton .) *frit-I-năn-çỹ, s. [Lat. fritinnio =to twitter.) A chirping or twittering as of an insect. "The note or frit i nancy thereof is far more shrill than bk. v., ch. iii. the locust, and its life short." - Browne: Vulgar Errors, fritt, s. [FRIT, 8.] combinations or compositions for use in manufactfrit-ter, *fret-ure, *frit-ure, *fret-our, *fruturing. It is not applied to manufactured articles, but to those in course of conversion, as the calcined kelp and lead, which are ingredients in the glaze of Delft-ware (q. v.). frit-brick, 8. Gla -mak.: A lump of calcined gla materials, which have been united and brought to a pasty condition in a reverberatory furnace preliminary to the perfect vitrification in the melting-pot. [FRITTING-FURNACE.]