firmlesst (fermles)

[ Past the Red-Sea, heer vp and down we float, On firm - le sands of this vast Desart heer. first Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world, Add is on. Faithfulne can feed on suffering, And knows no disappointment. George Eliot , Spanish Gypsy, i. No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his Burke, Rev. in France. fidelity. firn (firn or fern), n. [G. dial. (Swi ), also firne, a glacier, accumulated snow, lit. last year's snow; writers on Alpine geology and mountaineering generally. The imperfectly consolidated substance, partly snow and partly ice, is known in Switzerland as névé or firn. Huxley, Physiography, p. 155.