fichtelite (fichtelit)

[ Touching the fichu , which seems to have been a favourite article of attire with Marie Antoinette. Its form was that of a combination of a pointed cape between the shoulders and a scarf cro ing the bosom, the long ends of which were tied in a bow at the back of the waist. fiction ficoidal (fi-koi'dal), a. [ Ficoideæ (fi-koi'dē-ē), n. pl. [NL., Prophets of things to come the truth predict: But poets of things past write false and fict . earthen, fictus, pp. of fingere, form, mold, IMG:content-1267.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Capable of being molded; plastic: as, fictile clay. Fictile earth is more fragile than crude earth. Bacon, Nat. Hist., § 841. 3. Having to do with pottery; composed of or consisting in pottery. The Myth was not only embodied in the sculpture of Pheidias on the Par the non, or portrayed in the paintings of Polygnotos in the Stoa Poikile; it was repeated in a more compendious and abbreviated form on the fictile vase of the A then i an household; on the coin which circulated in the market-place; on the mirror in which the Aspasia of the day beheld her charms. C. T. Newton , Art and Archæol., p. 23. Fictile mosaic, a variety of ancient Roman mosaic in which the te ere are composed of an artificial compound The quality of being of vitreous nature. fictile ne (fik'til-nes), n. fictile. I fear thou art grown too fickle ; for I hear A lady mourns for thee; men say, to death. Beau . and Fl ., Maid's Tragedy, i. 1. A fickle world, not worth the least desire, Where ev'ry chance proclaims a change of state. til is, made of clay: see fictile.] Objects made of fictile material, as pottery; especially, decorative objects of this nature, in general. fictility (fik-til'i-ti), n. [ Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle , fierce, and vain? Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And fickle as a changeful dream. Scott, L. of the L., v. 30. 3. Perilous; ticklish. [Prov. Eng.] But it's a fickle corner in the dark,. a wrong step, a bit swing out on the open, and there would be no help. Mrs. Oliphant , Ladies Lindores, p. 39. =Syn. 2. Variable, mutable, changeable, unsteady, un settled, vacillating, fitful, volatile. fickle (fik'l), v. t.; pret. and pp. fickled, ppr. fickling. [ME. fikelen (= LG. fikkelen = G. ficklen, ficheln ), deceive, flatter; from the adj.] 11. To deceive; flatter. Heo nolde fikelen , as hire sustren hadde ydo. Robert of Gloucester , p. 31. 2. To puzzle; perplex; nonplus. [Scotch.] How some ver, she's a weel-educate woman, and an' she win to her English, she may come to fickle us a'. Scott, Antiquary, xxxix. ficklene (fik'l-nes), n. The character of being fickle; inconstancy; unsteadine in opinion or purpose; instability; changeablene . I am a soldier; and unapt to weep, Or to exclaim on fortune's ficklene . Shak ., 1 Hen. VI., v. 3. W. H. Gibson, Spring. fickly (fik'l-i), adv . [ fikely , fikel , fickle, +-ly2.] 11. Deceitfully. Oh, the lovely ficklene of an April day. With thar tunges fikely thai dide. Ps. v. 11 (ME. version). 2. In a fickle manner; without firmne or steadine . [Rare.] Away goes Alce, our cook-maid, of her own accord, after having given her mistre warning fickly. Pepys, Diary, II. 366.