Part 4330

<h1>First-rate</h1> <Xpage=563>

<hw>First"-rate`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of the highest excellence; pre\'89minent in quality, size, or estimation.</def>

<blockquote>Our only <b>first-rate</b> body of contemporary poetry is the German. <i>M. Arnold.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Hermocrates . . . a man of <b>first-rate</b> ability. <i>Jowett (Thucyd).</i></blockquote>

<h1>First-rate</h1> <Xpage=563>

<hw>First"-rate`</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>A war vessel of the highest grade or the most powerful class.</def>

<h1>Firth</h1> <Xpage=563>

<hw>Firth</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Scot. See <er>Frith</er>.]</ety> <fld>(geog.)</fld> <def>An arm of the sea; a frith.</def>

<h1>Fir tree</h1> <Xpage=563>

<hw>Fir" tree`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt><def>. See <er>Fir</er>.</def>

<h1>Fisc</h1> <Xpage=563>

<hw>Fisc</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>fisc</ets>, fr. L. <ets>fiscus</ets> basket, money basket, treasury; prob. akin to <ets>fascis</ets> bundle. See <er>Fasces</er>.]</ety> <def>A public or state treasury.</def>

<i>Burke.</i>

<h1>Fiscal</h1> <Xpage=563>

<hw>Fis"cal</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>fiscal</ets>, L. <ets>fiscalis</ets>, fr. <ets>fiscus</ets>. See <er>Fisc</er>.]</ety> <def>Pertaining to the public treasury or revenue.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>fiscal</b> arreangements of government. <i>A\'3eHamilton.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Fiscal</h1> <Xpage=563>

<hw>Fis"cal</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The income of a prince or a state; revenue; exhequer.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Bacon.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A treasurer.</def>

<i>H. Swinburne.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A public officer in Scotland who prosecutes in petty criminal cases; -- called also <altname>procurator fiscal</altname>.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>The solicitor in Spain and Portugal; the attorney-general.</def>

<h1>Fisetic</h1> <Xpage=563>

<hw>Fi*set"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>Pertaining to fustet or fisetin.</def>

<h1>Fisetin</h1> <Xpage=563>

<hw>Fis"e*tin</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[G. <ets>fisett</ets>holz a species of fustic.]</ety> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>A yellow crystalline substance extracted from fustet, and regarded as its essential coloring principle; -- called also <altname>fisetic acid</altname>.</def>

<h1>Fish</h1> <Xpage=563>