fantail (fantal)

and a. I. n. 1. A fantailed flycatcher; any bird of the genus Rhi pidura, as the Australian fantail, R. motacilloi des.-2. An artificial fan-tailed variety of the Fantails. domestic pigeon.-3. A form of gas-burner.4. A splayed tenon or mortise.-5. In ship building, the projecting part of the stern of a yacht or other small ve el when it extends unusually far over the water abaft the stern-post. Lady Bra ey, Voyage of Sunbeam, II. xxiii. fantascope (fan'ta-skōp), n . [Irreg. fanta ( sy ), or fantastic ), + Gr. σκοπεῖν , view.] An apparatus for enabling persons to converge the optical axes of the eyes, or to look cro -eyed, and thereby observe certain phenomena of binocular vision. Brande and Cox . fantasia (fan-ta-zē ́ä; sometimes, wrongly, fantäʼzi-ä), n. [ Nothing is more difficult in the whole navigation of the Nile than weathering a coffee-house when the barbaric music of the fantasia throbs over the waters and the voice of the al'men is heard in the land. C. W. Stoddard , Mashallah, p. 185. IMG:content-1081.png:[blocks in formation]