Part 125

Following edge. (Aëronautics) See Advancing-edge, above.

Following surface. (Aëronautics) See Advancing-surface, above.

Fo"ment (?), n. 1. Fomentation.

2. State of excitation; -- perh. confused with ferment.

He came in no conciliatory mood, and the foment was kept up.

Julian Ralph.

Fond (?), n. [F., fr. L. fundus. See Fund.] [Obs., or used as a French word] 1. Foundation; bottom; groundwork; specif.: (a) (Lace Making) The ground. (b) (Cookery) The broth or juice from braised flesh or fish, usually served as a sauce.

2. Fund, stock, or store.

||Fon"dant (fn"dant; Fr. fôN`däN"), n. [F., lit., melting, p. pr. of fondre to melt, L. fundere. See Found to cast.] A kind of soft sweetmeat made by boiling solutions to the point of crystallization, usually molded; as, cherry fondant.

||Fon`du" (fn"d"), a. [F. fondu, p.p. of fondre to melt, blend. See Found to cast.] Blended; passing into each other by subtle gradations; -- said of colors or of the surface or material on which the colors are laid.

||Fon`due" (?), n. [Also erroneously Fon`du".] [F. See Fondu; cf. Fondant.] (Cookery) A dish made of cheese, eggs, butter, etc., melted together.

Foot candle. (Photom.) The amount of illumination produced by a standard candle at a distance of one foot.

Foot ton. (Mech.) A unit of energy or work, being equal to the work done in raising one ton against the force of gravity through the height of one foot.

Foot valve. (Mech.) A suction valve or check valve at the lower end of a pipe; esp., such a valve in a steam-engine condenser opening to the air pump.

Foo"zle (?), v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Foozled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Foozling (?).] [Cf. G. fuseln to work badly or slowly.] To bungle; to manage awkwardly; to treat or play unskillfully; as, to foozle a stroke in golf.

She foozles all along the course.

Century Mag.

Foo"zle, n. 1. A stupid fellow; a fogy. [Colloq.]

2. Act of foozling; a bungling stroke, as in golf.

For"cite (?), n. [From 3d Force, n.] (Chem.) A gelatin dynamite in which the dope is composed largely of sodium nitrate.

||Fö"ren*di*ház` (?), n. [Hung., lit., House of Lords.] (Hungary) See Legislature.

Form, v. t. (Elec.) To treat (plates) so as to bring them to fit condition for introduction into a storage battery, causing one plate to be composed more or less of spongy lead, and the other of lead peroxide. This was formerly done by repeated slow alternations of the charging current, but now the plates or grids are coated or filled, one with a paste of red lead and the other with litharge, introduced into the cell, and formed by a direct charging current.

For"ma*lin (?), n. [Formic + aldehyde + -in.] (Chem.) An aqueous solution of formaldehyde, used as a preservative in museums and as a disinfectant.

||For`mat" (fr`m" or fr`mät"), n. [F. or G. Cf. Formation.] (Print.) The shape and size of a book; hence, its external form.

The older manuscripts had been written in a much larger format than that found convenient for university work.

G. H. Putnam.

One might, indeed, protest that the format is a little too luxurious.

Nature.