folkrede (folk as fok)

[Eng. folk, and Mid. Eng. rede knowledge, advice.] Popular stories or legends imbedded in the common vernacular of the people. folk-right (as fōk'-rit), s . [Eng. folk , and right . ] The rights to which every citizen of an organized society has a claim, as distinguished from those of the sovereign; common justice. Folk-stone, Folke-stone (folk as fök), s. & a. A. As subst.: A seaport town in Kent, England, five miles W. S. W. of Dover. B. As adj .: Found at or near, belonging to, or in any way connected with the town described under A. +Folk stone-marl, s . Geol.: The same as GAULT (q. v.). *fol-li-al, a. [Eng. foll (y); -al .] Foolish. *fol-lět, s . [Fr.) The same as FOLIOT (q. v.). *fol-liche, adv . [Mid. Eng. fol =foolish; -liche =ly.] Foolishly. fol-1l-cle, *fol-li-cule, *fol-lic-u-lūs, s. [Lat. folliculus a small bag or sack; dim in. of follis a leathern sack.] 1. Ord. Lang.: A cavity in any body with strong coats. 2. Bot . A form of fruit placed by Lindley in his cla Apocarp i. It is one-celled, one or many seeded, one-valved, superior, ventral, dehiscent by the suture, and bearing its seeds at the base or each margin of the suture. It differs from the legume in having but one valve instead of two. A flower of Nigella, or one of Delphinium , produces several such follicles. 3. Anat . & Zool .: A minute secreting bag, which commonly opens upon a mucous membrane; a simple gland. It is called also a crypt or lacuna. "The follicles then appear to become atrophied."- Todd & Bowman: Physiol. Anat . , ii. 454. Double follicle : The same as Conceptaculum (q.v.). Lindley places it in his cla Syncarp i. It is akin to the follicle, but the seeds lie loose instead of adhering to marginal placente. Example, Asclepius, Apocyncum (q. v.). In general it is not now distinguished from the ordinary follicle.