F () F is the sixth letter of the
English alphabet, and a nonvocal consonant. Its form and sound are from the
Latin. The Latin borrowed the form from the Greek digamma /, which probably had
the value of English w consonant. The form and value of Greek letter came from
the Phoenician, the ultimate source being probably Egyptian. Etymologically f is
most closely related to p, k, v, and b; as in E. five, Gr. pe`nte; E. wolf, L.
lupus, Gr. ly`kos; E. fox, vixen ; fragile, break; fruit, brook, v. t.; E. bear,
L. ferre. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 178, 179, 188, 198, 230.
F (v. t.) The name of the
fourth tone of the model scale, or scale of C. F sharp (F /) is a tone
intermediate between F and G.
Fa (n.) A syllable applied
to the fourth tone of the diatonic scale in solmization.
Fa (n.) The tone F.
Fabaceous (a.) Having the
nature of a bean; like a bean.
Fabellae (pl. ) of Fabella
Fabella (n.) One of the
small sesamoid bones situated behind the condyles of the femur, in some mammals.
Fabian (a.) Of, pertaining
to, or in the manner of, the Roman general, Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus;
cautious; dilatory; avoiding a decisive contest.
Fable (n.) A Feigned story
or tale, intended to instruct or amuse; a fictitious narration intended to
enforce some useful truth or precept; an apologue. See the Note under Apologue.
Fable (n.) The plot,
story, or connected series of events, forming the subject of an epic or dramatic
poem.
Fable (n.) Any story told
to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.
Fable (n.) Fiction;
untruth; falsehood.
Fabled (imp. & p. p.) of
Fable
Fabling (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fable
Fable (v. i.) To compose
fables; hence, to write or speak fiction ; to write or utter what is not true.
Fable (v. t.) To feign; to
invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely.
Fabler (n.) A writer of
fables; a fabulist; a dealer in untruths or falsehoods.
Fabliaux (pl. ) of Fabliau
Fabliau (n.) One of the
metrical tales of the Trouveres, or early poets of the north of France.
Fabric (n.) The structure
of anything; the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship;
texture; make; as cloth of a beautiful fabric.
Fabric (n.) That which is
fabricated
Fabric (n.) Framework;
structure; edifice; building.
Fabric (n.) Cloth of any
kind that is woven or knit from fibers, either vegetable or animal; manufactured
cloth; as, silks or other fabrics.
Fabric (n.) The act of
constructing; construction.
Fabric (n.) Any system or
structure consisting of connected parts; as, the fabric of the universe.
Fabricked (imp. & p. p.)
of Fabric
Fabricking (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fabric
Fabric (v. t.) To frame;
to build; to construct.
Fabricant (n.) One who
fabricates; a manufacturer.
Fabricated (imp. & p. p.)
of Fabricate
Fabricating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fabricate
Fabricate (v. t.) To form
into a whole by uniting its parts; to frame; to construct; to build; as, to
fabricate a bridge or ship.
Fabricate (v. t.) To form
by art and labor; to manufacture; to produce; as, to fabricate woolens.
Fabricate (v. t.) To
invent and form; to forge; to devise falsely; as, to fabricate a lie or story.
Fabrication (n.) The act
of fabricating, framing, or constructing; construction; manufacture; as, the
fabrication of a bridge, a church, or a government.
Fabrication (n.) That
which is fabricated; a falsehood; as, the story is doubtless a fabrication.
Fabricator (n.) One who
fabricates; one who constructs or makes.
Fabricatress (n.) A woman
who fabricates.
Fabrile (a.) Pertaining to
a workman, or to work in stone, metal, wood etc.; as, fabrile skill.
Fabulist (n.) One who
invents or writes fables.
Fabulized (imp. & p. p.)
of Fabulize
Fabulizing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fabulize
Fabulize (v. i.) To
invent, compose, or relate fables or fictions.
Fabulosity (n.)
Fabulousness.
Fabulosity (n.) A fabulous
or fictitious story.
Fabulous (a.) Feigned, as
a story or fable; related in fable; devised; invented; not real; fictitious; as,
a fabulous description; a fabulous hero.
Fabulous (a.) Passing
belief; exceedingly great; as, a fabulous price.
Faburden (n.) A species of
counterpoint with a drone bass.
Faburden (n.) A succession
of chords of the sixth.
Faburden (n.) A monotonous
refrain.
Fac (n.) A large
ornamental letter used, esp. by the early printers, at the commencement of the
chapters and other divisions of a book.
Facade (n.) The front of a
building; esp., the principal front, having some architectural pretensions. Thus
a church is said to have its facade unfinished, though the interior may be in
use.
Face (n.) The exterior
form or appearance of anything; that part which presents itself to the view;
especially, the front or upper part or surface; that which particularly offers
itself to the view of a spectator.
Face (n.) That part of a
body, having several sides, which may be seen from one point, or which is
presented toward a certain direction; one of the bounding planes of a solid; as,
a cube has six faces.
Face (n.) The principal
dressed surface of a plate, disk, or pulley; the principal flat surface of a
part or object.
Face (n.) That part of the
acting surface of a cog in a cog wheel, which projects beyond the pitch line.
Face (n.) The width of a
pulley, or the length of a cog from end to end; as, a pulley or cog wheel of ten
inches face.
Face (n.) The upper
surface, or the character upon the surface, of a type, plate, etc.
Face (n.) The style or cut
of a type or font of type.
Face (n.) Outside
appearance; surface show; look; external aspect, whether natural, assumed, or
acquired.
Face (n.) That part of the
head, esp. of man, in which the eyes, cheeks, nose, and mouth are situated;
visage; countenance.
Face (n.) Cast of
features; expression of countenance; look; air; appearance.
Face (n.) Ten degrees in
extent of a sign of the zodiac.
Face (n.) Maintenance of
the countenance free from abashment or confusion; confidence; boldness;
shamelessness; effrontery.
Face (n.) Presence; sight;
front; as in the phrases, before the face of, in the immediate presence of; in
the face of, before, in, or against the front of; as, to fly in the face of
danger; to the face of, directly to; from the face of, from the presence of.
Face (n.) Mode of regard,
whether favorable or unfavorable; favor or anger; mostly in Scriptural phrases.
Face (n.) The end or wall
of the tunnel, drift, or excavation, at which work is progressing or was last
done.
Face (n.) The exact amount
expressed on a bill, note, bond, or other mercantile paper, without any addition
for interest or reduction for discount.
Faced (imp. & p. p.) of
Face
Facing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Face
Face (v. t.) To meet in
front; to oppose with firmness; to resist, or to meet for the purpose of
stopping or opposing; to confront; to encounter; as, to face an enemy in the
field of battle.
Face (v. t.) To Confront
impudently; to bully.
Face (v. t.) To stand
opposite to; to stand with the face or front toward; to front upon; as, the
apartments of the general faced the park.
Face (v. t.) To cover in
front, for ornament, protection, etc.; to put a facing upon; as, a building
faced with marble.
Face (v. t.) To line near
the edge, esp. with a different material; as, to face the front of a coat, or
the bottom of a dress.
Face (v. t.) To cover with
better, or better appearing, material than the mass consists of, for purpose of
deception, as the surface of a box of tea, a barrel of sugar, etc.
Face (v. t.) To make the
surface of (anything) flat or smooth; to dress the face of (a stone, a casting,
etc.); esp., in turning, to shape or smooth the flat surface of, as
distinguished from the cylindrical surface.
Face (v. t.) To cause to
turn or present a face or front, as in a particular direction.
Face (v. i.) To carry a
false appearance; to play the hypocrite.
Face (v. i.) To turn the
face; as, to face to the right or left.
Face (v. i.) To present a
face or front.
Faced (a.) Having (such) a
face, or (so many) faces; as, smooth-faced, two-faced.
Faser (n.) One who faces;
one who puts on a false show; a bold-faced person.
Faser (n.) A blow in the
face, as in boxing; hence, any severe or stunning check or defeat, as in
controversy.
Facet (n.) A little face;
a small, plane surface; as, the facets of a diamond.
Facet (n.) A smooth
circumscribed surface; as, the articular facet of a bone.
Facet (n.) The narrow
plane surface between flutings of a column.
Facet (n.) One of the
numerous small eyes which make up the compound eyes of insects and crustaceans.
Faceted (imp. & p. p.) of
Facet
Faceting (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Facet
Facet (v. t.) To cut
facets or small faces upon; as, to facet a diamond.
Facete (a.) Facetious;
witty; humorous.
Faceted (a.) Having
facets.
Facetiae (n. pl.) Witty or
humorous writings or saying; witticisms; merry conceits.
Facetious (a.) Given to
wit and good humor; merry; sportive; jocular; as, a facetious companion.
Facetious (a.)
Characterized by wit and pleasantry; exciting laughter; as, a facetious story or
reply.
Facette (n.) See Facet, n.
Facework (n.) The material
of the outside or front side, as of a wall or building; facing.
Facia (n.) See Fascia.
Facial (a.) Of or
pertaining to the face; as, the facial artery, vein, or nerve.
Faciend (n.) The
multiplicand. See Facient, 2.
Facient (n.) One who does
anything, good or bad; a doer; an agent.
Facient (n.) One of the
variables of a quantic as distinguished from a coefficient.
Facient (n.) The
multiplier.
Facies (n.) The anterior
part of the head; the face.
Facies (n.) The general
aspect or habit of a species, or group of species, esp. with reference to its
adaptation to its environment.
Facies (n.) The face of a
bird, or the front of the head, excluding the bill.
Facile (a.) Easy to be
done or performed: not difficult; performable or attainable with little labor.
Facile (a.) Easy to be
surmounted or removed; easily conquerable; readily mastered.
Facile (a.) Easy of access
or converse; mild; courteous; not haughty, austere, or distant; affable;
complaisant.
Facile (a.) Easily
persuaded to good or bad; yielding; ductile to a fault; pliant; flexible.
Facile (a.) Ready; quick;
expert; as, he is facile in expedients; he wields a facile pen.
Facilitated (imp. & p. p.)
of Facilitate
Facilitating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Facilitate
Facilitate (v. t.) To make
easy or less difficult; to free from difficulty or impediment; to lessen the
labor of; as, to facilitate the execution of a task.
Facilitation (n.) The act
of facilitating or making easy.
Facilities (pl. ) of
Facility
Facility (n.) The quality
of being easily performed; freedom from difficulty; ease; as, the facility of an
operation.
Facility (n.) Ease in
performance; readiness proceeding from skill or use; dexterity; as, practice
gives a wonderful facility in executing works of art.
Facility (n.) Easiness to
be persuaded; readiness or compliance; -- usually in a bad sense; pliancy.
Facility (n.) Easiness of
access; complaisance; affability.
Facility (n.) That which
promotes the ease of any action or course of conduct; advantage; aid;
assistance; -- usually in the plural; as, special facilities for study.
Facing (n.) A covering in
front, for ornament or other purpose; an exterior covering or sheathing; as, the
facing of an earthen slope, sea wall, etc. , to strengthen it or to protect or
adorn the exposed surface.
Facing (n.) A lining
placed near the edge of a garment for ornament or protection.
Facing (n.) The finishing
of any face of a wall with material different from that of which it is chiefly
composed, or the coating or material so used.
Facing (n.) A powdered
substance, as charcoal, bituminous coal, ect., applied to the face of a mold, or
mixed with the sand that forms it, to give a fine smooth surface to the casting.
Facing (n.) The collar and
cuffs of a military coat; -- commonly of a color different from that of the
coat.
Facing (n.) The movement
of soldiers by turning on their heels to the right, left, or about; -- chiefly
in the pl.
Facingly (adv.) In a
facing manner or position.
Facinorous (a.)
Atrociously wicked.
Facound (n.) Speech;
eloquence.
Facsimiles (pl. ) of
Facsimile
Facsimile (n.) A copy of
anything made, either so as to be deceptive or so as to give every part and
detail of the original; an exact copy or likeness.
Facsimile (v. t.) To make
a facsimile of.
Fact (n.) A doing, making,
or preparing.
Fact (n.) An effect
produced or achieved; anything done or that comes to pass; an act; an event; a
circumstance.
Fact (n.) Reality;
actuality; truth; as, he, in fact, excelled all the rest; the fact is, he was
beaten.
Fact (n.) The assertion or
statement of a thing done or existing; sometimes, even when false, improperly
put, by a transfer of meaning, for the thing done, or supposed to be done; a
thing supposed or asserted to be done; as, history abounds with false facts.
Faction (n.) One of the
divisions or parties of charioteers (distinguished by their colors) in the games
of the circus.
Faction (n.) A party, in
political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition to the government,
or state; -- usually applied to a minority, but it may be applied to a majority;
a combination or clique of partisans of any kind, acting for their own
interests, especially if greedy, clamorous, and reckless of the common good.
Faction (n.) Tumult;
discord; dissension.
Factionary (a.) Belonging
to a faction; being a partisan; taking sides.
Factioner (n.) One of a
faction.
Factionist (n.) One who
promotes faction.
Factious (a.) Given to
faction; addicted to form parties and raise dissensions, in opposition to
government or the common good; turbulent; seditious; prone to clamor against
public measures or men; -- said of persons.
Factious (a.) Pertaining
to faction; proceeding from faction; indicating, or characterized by, faction;
-- said of acts or expressions; as, factious quarrels.
Factitious (a.) Made by
art, in distinction from what is produced by nature; artificial; sham; formed
by, or adapted to, an artificial or conventional, in distinction from a natural,
standard or rule; not natural; as, factitious cinnabar or jewels; a factitious
taste.
Factitive (a.) Causing;
causative.
Factitive (a.) Pertaining
to that relation which is proper when the act, as of a transitive verb, is not
merely received by an object, but produces some change in the object, as when we
say, He made the water wine.
Factive (a.) Making;
having power to make.
Facto (adv.) In fact; by
the act or fact.
Factor (n.) One who
transacts business for another; an agent; a substitute; especially, a mercantile
agent who buys and sells goods and transacts business for others in commission;
a commission merchant or consignee. He may be a home factor or a foreign factor.
He may buy and sell in his own name, and he is intrusted with the possession and
control of the goods; and in these respects he differs from a broker.
Factor (n.) A steward or
bailiff of an estate.
Factor (n.) One of the
elements or quantities which, when multiplied together, from a product.
Factor (n.) One of the
elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result; a
constituent.
Factored (imp. & p. p.) of
Factor
Factoring (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Factor
Factor (v. t.) To resolve
(a quantity) into its factors.
Factorage (n.) The
allowance given to a factor, as a compensation for his services; -- called also
a commission.
Factoress (n.) A factor
who is a woman.
Factorial (a.) Of or
pertaining to a factory.
Factorial (a.) Related to
factorials.
Factorial (n.) A name
given to the factors of a continued product when the former are derivable from
one and the same function F(x) by successively imparting a constant increment or
decrement h to the independent variable. Thus the product F(x).F(x + h).F(x +
2h) . . . F[x + (n-1)h] is called a factorial term, and its several factors take
the name of factorials.
Factorial (n.) The product
of the consecutive numbers from unity up to any given number.
Factoring (n.) The act of
resolving into factors.
Factorized (imp. & p. p.)
of Factorize
Factorizing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Factorize
Factorize (v. t.) To give
warning to; -- said of a person in whose hands the effects of another are
attached, the warning being to the effect that he shall not pay the money or
deliver the property of the defendant in his hands to him, but appear and answer
the suit of the plaintiff.
Factorize (v. t.) To
attach (the effects of a debtor) in the hands of a third person ; to garnish.
See Garnish.
Factorship (n.) The
business of a factor.
Factories (pl. ) of
Factory
Factory (n.) A house or
place where factors, or commercial agents, reside, to transact business for
their employers.
Factory (n.) The body of
factors in any place; as, a chaplain to a British factory.
Factory (n.) A building,
or collection of buildings, appropriated to the manufacture of goods; the place
where workmen are employed in fabricating goods, wares, or utensils; a
manufactory; as, a cotton factory.
Factotums (pl. ) of
Factotum
Factotum (n.) A person
employed to do all kinds of work or business.
Factual (a.) Relating to,
or containing, facts.
Facta (pl. ) of Factum
Factum (n.) A man's own
act and deed
Factum (n.) Anything
stated and made certain.
Factum (n.) The due
execution of a will, including everything necessary to its validity.
Factum (n.) The product.
See Facient, 2.
Facture (n.) The act or
manner of making or doing anything; -- now used of a literary, musical, or
pictorial production.
Facture (n.) An invoice or
bill of parcels.
Faculae (n. pl.) Groups of
small shining spots on the surface of the sun which are brighter than the other
parts of the photosphere. They are generally seen in the neighborhood of the
dark spots, and are supposed to be elevated portions of the photosphere.
Facular (a.) Of or
pertaining to the faculae.
Faculties (pl. ) of
Faculty
Faculty (n.) Ability to
act or perform, whether inborn or cultivated; capacity for any natural function;
especially, an original mental power or capacity for any of the well-known
classes of mental activity; psychical or soul capacity; capacity for any of the
leading kinds of soul activity, as knowledge, feeling, volition; intellectual
endowment or gift; power; as, faculties of the mind or the soul.
Faculty (n.) Special
mental endowment; characteristic knack.
Faculty (n.) Power;
prerogative or attribute of office.
Faculty (n.) Privilege or
permission, granted by favor or indulgence, to do a particular thing; authority;
license; dispensation.
Faculty (n.) A body of a
men to whom any specific right or privilege is granted; formerly, the graduates
in any of the four departments of a university or college (Philosophy, Law,
Medicine, or Theology), to whom was granted the right of teaching (profitendi or
docendi) in the department in which they had studied; at present, the members of
a profession itself; as, the medical faculty; the legal faculty, ect.
Faculty (n.) The body of
person to whom are intrusted the government and instruction of a college or
university, or of one of its departments; the president, professors, and tutors
in a college.
Facund (a.) Eloquent.
Facundious (a.) Eloquement;
full of words.
Facundity (n.) Eloquence;
readiness of speech.
Fad (n.) A hobby ; freak;
whim.
Faddle (v. i.) To trifle;
to toy.
Faddle (v. t. ) To fondle;
to dandle.
Fade (a.) Weak; insipid;
tasteless; commonplace.
Faded (imp. & p. p.) of
Fade
Fading (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fade
Fade (a.) To become fade;
to grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a
plant.
Fade (a.) To lose
freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be
wanting in color.
Fade (a.) To sink away; to
disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish.
Fade (v. t.) To cause to
wither; to deprive of freshness or vigor; to wear away.
Faded (a.) That has lost
freshness, color, or brightness; grown dim.
Fadedly (adv.) In a faded
manner.
Fadeless (a.) Not liable
to fade; unfading.
Fader (n.) Father.
Fadge (a.) To fit; to
suit; to agree.
Fadge (n.) A small flat
loaf or thick cake; also, a fagot.
Fading (a.) Losing
freshness, color, brightness, or vigor.
Fading (n.) Loss of color,
freshness, or vigor.
Fading (n.) An Irish
dance; also, the burden of a song.
Fadme (n.) A fathom.
Fady (a.) Faded.
Faecal (a.) See Fecal.
Faeces (n.pl.) Excrement;
ordure; also, settlings; sediment after infusion or distillation.
Faecula (n.) See Fecula.
Faery (n. & a.) Fairy.
Faffle (v. i.) To stammer.
Fag (n.) A knot or coarse
part in cloth.
Fagged (imp. & p. p.) of
Fag
Fagging (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fag
Fag (v. i.) To become
weary; to tire.
Fag (v. i.) To labor to
wearness; to work hard; to drudge.
Fag (v. i.) To act as a
fag, or perform menial services or drudgery, for another, as in some English
schools.
Fag (v. t.) To tire by
labor; to exhaust; as, he was almost fagged out.
Fag (v. t.) Anything that
fatigues.
Fagend (n.) An end of
poorer quality, or in a spoiled condition, as the coarser end of a web of cloth,
the untwisted end of a rope, ect.
Fagend (n.) The refuse or
meaner part of anything.
Fagging (n.) Laborious
drudgery; esp., the acting as a drudge for another at an English school.
Fagot (n.) A bundle of
sticks, twigs, or small branches of trees, used for fuel, for raising batteries,
filling ditches, or other purposes in fortification; a fascine.
Fagot (n.) A bundle of
pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or
hammering at a welding heat; a pile.
Fagot (n.) A bassoon. See
Fagotto.
Fagot (n.) A person hired
to take the place of another at the muster of a company.
Fagot (n.) An old
shriveled woman.
Fagoted (imp. & p. p.) of
Fagot
Fagoting (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fagot
Fagot (v. t.) To make a
fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle; also, to collect promiscuously.
Fagotto (n.) The bassoon;
-- so called from being divided into parts for ease of carriage, making, as it
were, a small fagot.
Faham (n.) The leaves of
an orchid (Angraecum fragrans), of the islands of Bourbon and Mauritius, used
(in France) as a substitute for Chinese tea.
Fahlband (n.) A stratum in
crystalline rock, containing metallic sulphides.
Fahlerz (n.) Alt. of
Fahlband
Fahlband (n.) Same as
Tetrahedrite.
Fahlunite (n.) A hydration
of iolite.
Fahrenheit (a.) Conforming
to the scale used by Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit in the graduation of his
thermometer; of or relating to Fahrenheit's thermometric scale.
Fahrenheit (n.) The
Fahrenheit termometer or scale.
Faience (n.) Glazed
earthenware; esp., that which is decorated in color.
Failed (imp. & p. p.) of
Fail
Failing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fail
Fail (v. i.) To be
wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to
total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expected manner, or to
be altogether cut off from supply; to be lacking; as, streams fail; crops fail.
Fail (v. i.) To be
affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; --
used with of.
Fail (v. i.) To fall away;
to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.
Fail (v. i.) To
deteriorate in respect to vigor, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker;
as, a sick man fails.
Fail (v. i.) To perish; to
die; -- used of a person.
Fail (v. i.) To be found
wanting with respect to an action or a duty to be performed, a result to be
secured, etc.; to miss; not to fulfill expectation.
Fail (v. i.) To come short
of a result or object aimed at or desired ; to be baffled or frusrated.
Fail (v. i.) To err in
judgment; to be mistaken.
Fail (v. i.) To become
unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or
discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent.
Fail (v. t.) To be wanting
to ; to be insufficient for; to disappoint; to desert.
Fail (v. t.) To miss of
attaining; to lose.
Fail (v. i.) Miscarriage;
failure; deficiency; fault; -- mostly superseded by failure or failing, except
in the phrase without fail.
Fail (v. i.) Death;
decease.
Failance (n.) Fault;
failure; omission.
Failing (n.) A failing
short; a becoming deficient; failure; deficiency; imperfection; weakness; lapse;
fault; infirmity; as, a mental failing.
Failing (n.) The act of
becoming insolvent of bankrupt.
Faille (n.) A soft silk,
heavier than a foulard and not glossy.
Failure (n.) Cessation of
supply, or total defect; a failing; deficiency; as, failure of rain; failure of
crops.
Failure (n.) Omission;
nonperformance; as, the failure to keep a promise.
Failure (n.) Want of
success; the state of having failed.
Failure (n.) Decay, or
defect from decay; deterioration; as, the failure of memory or of sight.
Failure (n.) A becoming
insolvent; bankruptcy; suspension of payment; as, failure in business.
Failure (n.) A failing; a
slight fault.
Fain (a.) Well-pleased;
glad; apt; wont; fond; inclined.
Fain (a.) Satisfied;
contented; also, constrained.
Fain (adv.) With joy;
gladly; -- with wold.
Fain (v. t. & i.) To be
glad ; to wish or desire.
Faineant (a.) Doing
nothing; shiftless.
Faineant (n.) A
do-nothing; an idle fellow; a sluggard.
Faint (superl.) Lacking
strength; weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, faint with fatigue, hunger, or
thirst.
Faint (superl.) Wanting in
courage, spirit, or energy; timorous; cowardly; dejected; depressed; as, "Faint
heart ne'er won fair lady."
Faint (superl.) Lacking
distinctness; hardly perceptible; striking the senses feebly; not bright, or
loud, or sharp, or forcible; weak; as, a faint color, or sound.
Faint (superl.) Performed,
done, or acted, in a weak or feeble manner; not exhibiting vigor, strength, or
energy; slight; as, faint efforts; faint resistance.
Faint (n.) The act of
fainting, or the state of one who has fainted; a swoon. [R.] See Fainting, n.
Fainted (imp. & p. p.) of
Faint
Fainting (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Faint
Faint (v. i.) To become
weak or wanting in vigor; to grow feeble; to lose strength and color, and the
control of the bodily or mental functions; to swoon; -- sometimes with away. See
Fainting, n.
Faint (n.) To sink into
dejection; to lose courage or spirit; to become depressed or despondent.
Faint (n.) To decay; to
disappear; to vanish.
Faint (v. t.) To cause to
faint or become dispirited; to depress; to weaken.
Fainthearted (a.) Wanting
in courage; depressed by fear; easily discouraged or frightened; cowardly;
timorous; dejected.
Fainting (n.) Syncope, or
loss of consciousness owing to a sudden arrest of the blood supply to the brain,
the face becoming pallid, the respiration feeble, and the heat's beat weak.
Faintish (a.) Slightly
faint; somewhat faint.
Faintling (a.) Timorous;
feeble-minded.
Faintly (adv.) In a faint,
weak, or timidmanner.
Faintness (n.) The state
of being faint; loss of strength, or of consciousness, and self-control.
Faintness (n.) Want of
vigor or energy.
Faintness (n.) Feebleness,
as of color or light; lack of distinctness; as, faintness of description.
Faintness (n.)
Faint-heartedness; timorousness; dejection.
Faints (n.pl.) The impure
spirit which comes over first and last in the distillation of whisky; -- the
former being called the strong faints, and the latter, which is much more
abundant, the weak faints. This crude spirit is much impregnated with fusel oil.
Fainty (a.) Feeble;
languid.
Fair (superl.) Free from
spots, specks, dirt, or imperfection; unblemished; clean; pure.
Fair (superl.) Pleasing to
the eye; handsome; beautiful.
Fair (superl.) Without a
dark hue; light; clear; as, a fair skin.
Fair (superl.) Not
overcast; cloudless; clear; pleasant; propitious; favorable; -- said of the sky,
weather, or wind, etc.; as, a fair sky; a fair day.
Fair (superl.) Free from
obstacles or hindrances; unobstructed; unincumbered; open; direct; -- said of a
road, passage, etc.; as, a fair mark; in fair sight; a fair view.
Fair (superl.) Without
sudden change of direction or curvature; smooth; fowing; -- said of the figure
of a vessel, and of surfaces, water lines, and other lines.
Fair (superl.)
Characterized by frankness, honesty, impartiality, or candor; open; upright;
free from suspicion or bias; equitable; just; -- said of persons, character, or
conduct; as, a fair man; fair dealing; a fair statement.
Fair (superl.) Pleasing;
favorable; inspiring hope and confidence; -- said of words, promises, etc.
Fair (superl.) Distinct;
legible; as, fair handwriting.
Fair (superl.) Free from
any marked characteristic; average; middling; as, a fair specimen.
Fair (adv.) Clearly;
openly; frankly; civilly; honestly; favorably; auspiciously; agreeably.
Fair (n.) Fairness,
beauty.
Fair (n.) A fair woman; a
sweetheart.
Fair (n.) Good fortune;
good luck.
Fair (v. t.) To make fair
or beautiful.
Fair (v. t.) To make
smooth and flowing, as a vessel's lines.
Fair (n.) A gathering of
buyers and sellers, assembled at a particular place with their merchandise at a
stated or regular season, or by special appointment, for trade.
Fair (n.) A festival, and
sale of fancy articles. erc., usually for some charitable object; as, a Grand
Army fair.
Fair (n.) A competitive
exhibition of wares, farm products, etc., not primarily for purposes of sale;
as, the Mechanics' fair; an agricultural fair.
Fair-haired (a.) Having
fair or light-colored hair.
Fairhood (n.) Fairness;
beauty.
Fairily (adv.) In the
manner of a fairy.
Fairing (n.) A present;
originally, one given or purchased at a fair.
Fairish (a.) Tolerably
fair.
Fair-leader (n.) A block,
or ring, serving as a guide for the running rigging or for any rope.
Fairly (adv.) In a fair
manner; clearly; openly; plainly; fully; distinctly; frankly.
Fairly (adv.) Favorably;
auspiciously; commodiously; as, a town fairly situated for foreign traade.
Fairly (adv.) Honestly;
properly.
Fairly (adv.) Softly;
quietly; gently.
Fair-minded (a.)
Unprejudiced; just; judicial; honest.
Fair-natured (a.)
Well-disposed.
Fairness (n.) The state of
being fair, or free form spots or stains, as of the skin; honesty, as of
dealing; candor, as of an argument, etc.
Faair-spoken (a.) Using
fair speech, or uttered with fairness; bland; civil; courteous; plausible.
Fairway (n.) The navigable
part of a river, bay, etc., through which vessels enter or depart; the part of a
harbor or channel ehich is kept open and unobstructed for the passage of
vessels.
Fair-weather (a.) Made or
done in pleasant weather, or in circumstances involving but little exposure or
sacrifice; as, a fair-weather voyage.
Fair-weather (a.)
Appearing only when times or circumstances are prosperous; as, a fair-weather
friend.
Fair-world (n.) State of
prosperity.
Fairies (pl. ) of Fairy
Fairy (n.) Enchantment;
illusion.
Fairy (n.) The country of
the fays; land of illusions.
Fairy (n.) An imaginary
supernatural being or spirit, supposed to assume a human form (usually
diminutive), either male or female, and to meddle for good or evil in the
affairs of mankind; a fay. See Elf, and Demon.
Fairy (n.) An enchantress.
Fairy (a.) Of or
pertaining to fairies.
Fairy (a.) Given by
fairies; as, fairy money.
Fairyland (n.) The
imaginary land or abode of fairies.
Fairylike (a.) Resembling
a fairy, or what is made or done be fairies; as, fairylike music.
Faith (n.) Belief; the
assent of the mind to the truth of what is declared by another, resting solely
and implicitly on his authority and veracity; reliance on testimony.
Faith (n.) The assent of
the mind to the statement or proposition of another, on the ground of the
manifest truth of what he utters; firm and earnest belief, on probable evidence
of any kind, especially in regard to important moral truth.
Faith (n.) The belief in
the historic truthfulness of the Scripture narrative, and the supernatural
origin of its teachings, sometimes called historical and speculative faith.
Faith (n.) The belief in
the facts and truth of the Scriptures, with a practical love of them;
especially, that confiding and affectionate belief in the person and work of
Christ, which affects the character and life, and makes a man a true Christian,
-- called a practical, evangelical, or saving faith.
Faith (n.) That which is
believed on any subject, whether in science, politics, or religion; especially
(Theol.), a system of religious belief of any kind; as, the Jewish or Mohammedan
faith; and especially, the system of truth taught by Christ; as, the Christian
faith; also, the creed or belief of a Christian society or church.
Faith (n.) Fidelity to
one's promises, or allegiance to duty, or to a person honored and beloved;
loyalty.
Faith (n.) Word or honor
pledged; promise given; fidelity; as, he violated his faith.
Faith (n.) Credibility or
truth.
Faith (interj.) By my
faith; in truth; verily.
Faithed (a.) Having faith
or a faith; honest; sincere.
Faithful (a.) Full of
faith, or having faith; disposed to believe, especially in the declarations and
promises of God.
Faithful (a.) Firm in
adherence to promises, oaths, contracts, treaties, or other engagements.
Faithful (a.) True and
constant in affection or allegiance to a person to whom one is bound by a vow,
be ties of love, gratitude, or honor, as to a husband, a prince, a friend; firm
in the observance of duty; loyal; of true fidelity; as, a faithful husband or
servant.
Faithful (a.) Worthy of
confidence and belief; conformable to truth ot fact; exact; accurate; as, a
faithful narrative or representation.
Faithless (a.) Not
believing; not giving credit.
Faithless (a.) Not
believing on God or religion; specifically, not believing in the Christian
religion.
Faithless (a.) Not
observant of promises or covenants.
Faithless (a.) Not true to
allegiance, duty, or vows; perfidious; trecherous; disloyal; not of true
fidelity; inconstant, as a husband or a wife.
Faithless (a.) Serving to
disappoint or deceive; delusive; unsatisfying.
Faitour (n.) A doer or
actor; particularly, an evil doer; a scoundrel.
Fake (n.) One of the
circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or
coil.
Fake (v. t.) To coil (a
rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers
usually of zigzag or figure of eight form,, to prevent twisting when running
out.
Fake (v. t.) To cheat; to
swindle; to steal; to rob.
Fake (v. t.) To make; to
construct; to do.
Fake (v. t.) To manipulate
fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is;
as, to fake a bulldog, by burning his upper lip and thus artificially shortening
it.
Fake (n.) A trick; a
swindle.
Fakir (n.) An Oriental
religious ascetic or begging monk.
Falanaka (n.) A viverrine
mammal of Madagascar (Eupleres Goudotii), allied to the civet; -- called also
Falanouc.
Falcade (n.) The action of
a horse, when he throws himself on his haunches two or three times, bending
himself, as it were, in very quick curvets.
Falcate (a.) Alt. of
Falcated
Falcated (a.) Hooked or
bent like a sickle; as, a falcate leaf; a falcate claw; -- said also of the
moon, or a planet, when horned or crescent-formed.
Falcation (n.) The state
of being falcate; a bend in the form of a sickle.
Falcer (n.) One of the
mandibles of a spider.
Falchion (n.) A
broad-bladed sword, slightly curved, shorter and lighter than the ordinary
sword; -- used in the Middle Ages.
Falchion (n.) A name given
generally and poetically to a sword, especially to the swords of Oriental and
fabled warriors.
Falcidian (a.) Of or
pertaining to Publius Falcidius, a Roman tribune.
Falciform (a.) Having the
shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform
ligatment of the liver.
Falcon (n.) One of a
family (Falconidae) of raptorial birds, characterized by a short, hooked beak,
strong claws, and powerful flight.
Falcon (n.) Any species of
the genus Falco, distinguished by having a toothlike lobe on the upper mandible;
especially, one of this genus trained to the pursuit of other birds, or game.
Falcon (n.) An ancient
form of cannon.
Falconer (n.) A person who
breeds or trains hawks for taking birds or game; one who follows the sport of
fowling with hawks.
Falconet (n.) One of the
smaller cannon used in the 15th century and later.
Falconet (n.) One of
several very small Asiatic falcons of the genus Microhierax.
Falconet (n.) One of a
group of Australian birds of the genus Falcunculus, resembling shrikes and
titmice.
Falcongentil (n.) The
female or young of the goshawk (Astur palumbarius).
Falconine (a.) Like a
falcon or hawk; belonging to the Falconidae
Falconry (n.) The art of
training falcons or hawks to pursue and attack wild fowl or game.
Falconry (n.) The sport of
taking wild fowl or game by means of falcons or hawks.
Falcula (n.) A curved and
sharp-pointed claw.
Falculate (a.) Curved and
sharppointed, like a falcula, or claw of a falcon.
Faldage (n.) A privilege
of setting up, and moving about, folds for sheep, in any fields within manors,
in order to manure them; -- often reserved to himself by the lord of the manor.
Faldfee (n.) A fee or rent
paid by a tenant for the privilege of faldage on his own ground.
Falding (n.) A frieze or
rough-napped cloth.
Faldistory (n.) The throne
or seat of a bishop within the chancel.
Faldstool (n.) A folding
stool, or portable seat, made to fold up in the manner of a camo stool. It was
formerly placed in the choir for a bishop, when he offciated in any but his own
cathedral church.
Falernian (a.) Of or
pertaining to Mount Falernus, in Italy; as, Falernianwine.
Falk (n.) The razorbill.
Fell (imp.) of Fall
Fallen (p. p.) of Fall
Falling (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fall
Fall (v. t.) To Descend,
either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity;
to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; the mercury falls in the
barometer.
Fall (v. t.) To cease to
be erect; to take suddenly a recumbent posture; to become prostrate; to drop;
as, a child totters and falls; a tree falls; a worshiper falls on his knees.
Fall (v. t.) To find a
final outlet; to discharge its waters; to empty; -- with into; as, the river
Rhone falls into the Mediterranean.
Fall (v. t.) To become
prostrate and dead; to die; especially, to die by violence, as in battle.
Fall (v. t.) To cease to
be active or strong; to die away; to lose strength; to subside; to become less
intense; as, the wind falls.
Fall (v. t.) To issue
forth into life; to be brought forth; -- said of the young of certain animals.
Fall (v. t.) To decline in
power, glory, wealth, or importance; to become insignificant; to lose rank or
position; to decline in weight, value, price etc.; to become less; as, the
falls; stocks fell two points.
Fall (v. t.) To be
overthrown or captured; to be destroyed.
Fall (v. t.) To descend in
character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin;
to depart from the faith; to apostatize; to sin.
Fall (v. t.) To become
insnared or embarrassed; to be entrapped; to be worse off than before; asm to
fall into error; to fall into difficulties.
Fall (v. t.) To assume a
look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; -- said of the
countenance.
Fall (v. t.) To sink; to
languish; to become feeble or faint; as, our spirits rise and fall with our
fortunes.
Fall (v. t.) To pass
somewhat suddenly, and passively, into a new state of body or mind; to become;
as, to fall asleep; to fall into a passion; to fall in love; to fall into
temptation.
Fall (v. t.) To happen; to
to come to pass; to light; to befall; to issue; to terminate.
Fall (v. t.) To come; to
occur; to arrive.
Fall (v. t.) To begin with
haste, ardor, or vehemence; to rush or hurry; as, they fell to blows.
Fall (v. t.) To pass or be
transferred by chance, lot, distribution, inheritance, or otherwise; as, the
estate fell to his brother; the kingdom fell into the hands of his rivals.
Fall (v. t.) To belong or
appertain.
Fall (v. t.) To be dropped
or uttered carelessly; as, an unguarded expression fell from his lips; not a
murmur fell from him.
Fall (v. t.) To let fall;
to drop.
Fall (v. t.) To sink; to
depress; as, to fall the voice.
Fall (v. t.) To diminish;
to lessen or lower.
Fall (v. t.) To bring
forth; as, to fall lambs.
Fall (v. t.) To fell; to
cut down; as, to fall a tree.
Fall (n.) The act of
falling; a dropping or descending be the force of gravity; descent; as, a fall
from a horse, or from the yard of ship.
Fall (n.) The act of
dropping or tumbling from an erect posture; as, he was walking on ice, and had a
fall.
Fall (n.) Death;
destruction; overthrow; ruin.
Fall (n.) Downfall;
degradation; loss of greatness or office; termination of greatness, power, or
dominion; ruin; overthrow; as, the fall of the Roman empire.
Fall (n.) The surrender of
a besieged fortress or town ; as, the fall of Sebastopol.
Fall (n.) Diminution or
decrease in price or value; depreciation; as, the fall of prices; the fall of
rents.
Fall (n.) A sinking of
tone; cadence; as, the fall of the voice at the close of a sentence.
Fall (n.) Declivity; the
descent of land or a hill; a slope.
Fall (n.) Descent of
water; a cascade; a cataract; a rush of water down a precipice or steep; --
usually in the plural, sometimes in the singular; as, the falls of Niagara.
Fall (n.) The discharge of
a river or current of water into the ocean, or into a lake or pond; as, the fall
of the Po into the Gulf of Venice.
Fall (n.) Extent of
descent; the distance which anything falls; as, the water of a stream has a fall
of five feet.
Fall (n.) The season when
leaves fall from trees; autumn.
Fall (n.) That which
falls; a falling; as, a fall of rain; a heavy fall of snow.
Fall (n.) The act of
felling or cutting down.
Fall (n.) Lapse or
declension from innocence or goodness. Specifically: The first apostasy; the act
of our first parents in eating the forbidden fruit; also, the apostasy of the
rebellious angels.
Fall (n.) Formerly, a kind
of ruff or band for the neck; a falling band; a faule.
Fall (n.) That part (as
one of the ropes) of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting.
Fallacious (a.) Embodying
or pertaining to a fallacy; illogical; fitted to deceive; misleading; delusive;
as, fallacious arguments or reasoning.
Fallacies (pl. ) of
Fallacy
Fallacy (n.) Deceptive or
false appearance; deceitfulness; that which misleads the eye or the mind;
deception.
Fallacy (n.) An argument,
or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter at issue,
while in reality it is not; a sophism.
Fallals (n.pl.) Gay
ornaments; frippery; gewgaws.
Fallax (n.) Cavillation; a
caviling.
Fallen (a.) Dropped;
prostrate; degraded; ruined; decreased; dead.
Fallency (n.) An
exception.
Faller (n.) One who, or
that which, falls.
Faller (n.) A part which
acts by falling, as a stamp in a fulling mill, or the device in a spinning
machine to arrest motion when a thread breaks.
Fallfish (n.) A
fresh-water fish of the United States (Semotilus bullaris); -- called also
silver chub, and Shiner. The name is also applied to other allied species.
Fallibility (n.) The state
of being fallible; liability to deceive or to be deceived; as, the fallibity of
an argument or of an adviser.
Fallible (a.) Liable to
fail, mistake, or err; liable to deceive or to be deceived; as, all men are
fallible; our opinions and hopes are fallible.
Fallibly (adv.) In a
fallible manner.
Falling (a. & n.) from
Fall, v. i.
Fallopian (a.) Pertaining
to, or discovered by, Fallopius; as, the Fallopian tubes or oviducts, the ducts
or canals which conduct the ova from the ovaries to the uterus.
Fallow (a.) Pale red or
pale yellow; as, a fallow deer or greyhound.
Fallow (n.) Left untilled
or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground.
Fallow (n.) Plowed land.
Fallow (n.) Land that has
lain a year or more untilled or unseeded; land plowed without being sowed for
the season.
Fallow (n.) The plowing or
tilling of land, without sowing it for a season; as, summer fallow, properly
conducted, has ever been found a sure method of destroying weeds.
Fallowed (imp. & p. p.) of
Fallow
Fallowing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fallow
Fallow (n.) To plow,
harrow, and break up, as land, without seeding, for the purpose of destroying
weeds and insects, and rendering it mellow; as, it is profitable to fallow cold,
strong, clayey land.
Fallow deer () A European species
of deer (Cervus dama), much smaller than the red deer. In summer both sexes are
spotted with white. It is common in England, where it is often domesticated in
the parks.
Fallowist (n.) One who
favors the practice of fallowing land.
Fallowness (n.) A well or
opening, through the successive floors of a warehouse or manufactory, through
which goods are raised or lowered.
Falsary (a.) A falsifier
of evidence.
False (superl.) Uttering
falsehood; unveracious; given to deceit; dishnest; as, a false witness.
False (superl.) Not
faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue;
treacherous; perfidious; as, a false friend, lover, or subject; false to
promises.
False (superl.) Not
according with truth or reality; not true; fitted or likely to deceive or
disappoint; as, a false statement.
False (superl.) Not
genuine or real; assumed or designed to deceive; counterfeit; hypocritical; as,
false tears; false modesty; false colors; false jewelry.
False (superl.) Not well
founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous; as, a false claim; a false
conclusion; a false construction in grammar.
False (superl.) Not
essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or
supplemental.
False (superl.) Not in
tune.
False (adv.) Not truly;
not honestly; falsely.
False (a.) To report
falsely; to falsify.
False (a.) To betray; to
falsify.
False (a.) To mislead by
want of truth; to deceive.
False (a.) To feign; to
pretend to make.
False-faced (a.)
Hypocritical.
False-heart (a.)
False-hearted.
False-hearted (a.) Hollow
or unsound at the core; treacherous; deceitful; perfidious.
Falsehood (n.) Want of
truth or accuracy; an untrue assertion or representation; error;
misrepresentation; falsity.
Falsehood (n.) A
deliberate intentional assertion of what is known to be untrue; a departure from
moral integrity; a lie.
Falsehood (n.) Treachery;
deceit; perfidy; unfaithfulness.
Falsehood (n.) A
counterfeit; a false appearance; an imposture.
Falsely (adv.) In a false
manner; erroneously; not truly; perfidiously or treacherously.
Falseness (n.) The state
of being false; contrariety to the fact; inaccuracy; want of integrity or
uprightness; double dealing; unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as, the
falseness of a report, a drawing, or a singer's notes; the falseness of a man,
or of his word.
Falser (n.) A deceiver.
Falsettos (pl. ) of
Falsetto
Falsetto (n.) A false or
artificial voice; that voice in a man which lies above his natural voice; the
male counter tenor or alto voice. See Head voice, under Voice.
Falsicrimen () The crime of
falsifying.
Falsifiable (a.) Capable
of being falsified, counterfeited, or corrupted.
Falsification (n.) The act
of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an
appearance of something which it is not.
Falsification (n.) Willful
misstatement or misrepresentation.
Falsification (n.) The
showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong.
Falsificator (n.) A
falsifier.
Falsifier (n.) One who
falsifies, or gives to a thing a deceptive appearance; a liar.
Falsified (imp. & p. p.)
of Falsify
Falsifying (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Falsify
Falsify (a.) To make
false; to represent falsely.
Falsify (a.) To
counterfeit; to forge; as, to falsify coin.
Falsify (a.) To prove to
be false, or untrustworthy; to confute; to disprove; to nullify; to make to
appear false.
Falsify (a.) To violate;
to break by falsehood; as, to falsify one's faith or word.
Falsify (a.) To baffle or
escape; as, to falsify a blow.
Falsify (a.) To avoid or
defeat; to prove false, as a judgment.
Falsify (a.) To show, in
accounting, (an inem of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong.
Falsify (a.) To make false
by multilation or addition; to tamper with; as, to falsify a record or document.
Falsify (v. i.) To tell
lies; to violate the truth.
Falsism (n.) That which is
evidently false; an assertion or statement the falsity of which is plainly
apparent; -- opposed to truism.
Falsities (pl. ) of
Falsity
Falsity (a.) The quality
of being false; coutrariety or want of conformity to truth.
Falsity (a.) That which is
false; falsehood; a lie; a false assertion.
Falter (v. t.) To thrash
in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley.
Faltered (imp. & p. p.) of
Falter
Faltering (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Falter
Falter (v. & n.) To
hesitate; to speak brokenly or weakly; to stammer; as, his tongue falters.
Falter (v. & n.) To
tremble; to totter; to be unsteady.
Falter (v. & n.) To
hesitate in purpose or action.
Falter (v. & n.) To fail
in distinctness or regularity of exercise; -- said of the mind or of thought.
Falter (v. t.) To utter
with hesitation, or in a broken, trembling, or weak manner.
Falter (v. i.) Hesitation;
trembling; feebleness; an uncertain or broken sound; as, a slight falter in her
voice.
Faltering (a.) Hesitating;
trembling.
Faltering (n.) Falter;
halting; hesitation.
Faluns (n.) A series of
strata, of the Middle Tertiary period, of France, abounding in shells, and used
by Lyell as the type of his Miocene subdivision.
Falwe (a. & n.) Fallow.
Falx (n.) A curved fold or
process of the dura mater or the peritoneum; esp., one of the partitionlike
folds of the dura mater which extend into the great fissures of the brain.
Famble (v. i.) To stammer.
Famble (v.) A hand.
Fame (n.) Public report or
rumor.
Fame (n.) Report or
opinion generally diffused; renown; public estimation; celebrity, either
favorable or unfavorable; as, the fame of Washington.
Famed (imp. & p. p.) of
Fame
Faming (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fame
Fame (v. t.) To report
widely or honorably.
Fame (v. t.) To make
famous or renowned.
Fameless (a.) Without fame
or renown.
Familiar (a.) Of or
pertaining to a family; domestic.
Familiar (a.) Closely
acquainted or intimate, as a friend or companion; well versed in, as any subject
of study; as, familiar with the Scriptures.
Familiar (a.)
Characterized by, or exhibiting, the manner of an intimate friend; not formal;
unconstrained; easy; accessible.
Familiar (a.) Well known;
well understood; common; frequent; as, a familiar illustration.
Familiar (a.) Improperly
acquainted; wrongly intimate.
Familiar (n.) An intimate;
a companion.
Familiar (n.) An attendant
demon or evil spirit.
Familiar (n.) A
confidential officer employed in the service of the tribunal, especially in
apprehending and imprisoning the accused.
Familiarities (pl. ) of
Familiarity
Familiarity (n.) The state
of being familiar; intimate and frequent converse, or association; unconstrained
intercourse; freedom from ceremony and constraint; intimacy; as, to live in
remarkable familiarity.
Familiarity (n.) Anything
said or done by one person to another unceremoniously and without constraint;
esp., in the pl., such actions and words as propriety and courtesy do not
warrant; liberties.
Familiarization (n.) The
act or process of making familiar; the result of becoming familiar; as,
familiarization with scenes of blood.
Familiarized (imp. & p. p.)
of Familiarize
Familiarizing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Familiarize
Familiarize (v. t.) To
make familiar or intimate; to habituate; to accustom; to make well known by
practice or converse; as, to familiarize one's self with scenes of distress.
Familiarize (v. t.) To
make acquainted, or skilled, by practice or study; as, to familiarize one's self
with a business, a book, or a science.
Familiarly (adv.) In a
familiar manner.
Familiarness (n.)
Familiarity.
Familiary (a.) Of or
pertaining to a family or household; domestic.
Familism (n.) The tenets
of the Familists.
Familist (n.) One of
afanatical Antinomian sect originating in Holland, and existing in England about
1580, called the Family of Love, who held that religion consists wholly in love.
Familisteries (pl. ) of
Familistery
Familistery (n.) A
community in which many persons unite as in one family, and are regulated by
certain communistic laws and customs.
Familistic (a.) Alt. of
Familistical
Familistical (a.)
Pertaining to Familists.
Families (pl. ) of Family
Family (v. t.) The
collective body of persons who live in one house, and under one head or manager;
a household, including parents, children, and servants, and, as the case may be,
lodgers or boarders.
Family (v. t.) The group
comprising a husband and wife and their dependent children, constituting a
fundamental unit in the organization of society.
Family (v. t.) Those who
descend from one common progenitor; a tribe, clan, or race; kindred; house; as,
the human family; the family of Abraham; the father of a family.
Family (v. t.) Course of
descent; genealogy; line of ancestors; lineage.
Family (v. t.) Honorable
descent; noble or respectable stock; as, a man of family.
Family (v. t.) A group of
kindred or closely related individuals; as, a family of languages; a family of
States; the chlorine family.
Family (v. t.) A group of
organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance
in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is
usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoology a
family is less comprehesive than an order; in botany it is often considered the
same thing as an order.
Famine (n.) General
scarcity of food; dearth; a want of provisions; destitution.
Famished (imp. & p. p.) of
Famish
Famishing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Famish
Famish (v. t.) To starve,
kill, or destroy with hunger.
Famish (v. t.) To exhaust
the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to distress with hanger.
Famish (v. t.) To kill, or
to cause to suffer extremity, by deprivation or denial of anything necessary.
Famish (v. t.) To force or
constrain by famine.
Famish (v. i.) To die of
hunger; to starve.
Famish (v. i.) To suffer
extreme hunger or thirst, so as to be exhausted in strength, or to come near to
perish.
Famish (v. i.) To suffer
extremity from deprivation of anything essential or necessary.
Famishment (n.) State of
being famished.
Famosity (n.) The state or
quality of being famous.
Famous (a.) Celebrated in
fame or public report; renowned; mach talked of; distinguished in story; -- used
in either a good or a bad sense, chiefly the former; often followed by for; as,
famous for erudition, for eloquence, for military skill; a famous pirate.
Famoused (a.) Renowned.
Famously (adv.) In a
famous manner; in a distinguished degree; greatly; splendidly.
Famousness (n.) The state
of being famous.
Famular (n.) Domestic;
familiar.
Famulate (v. i.) To serve.
Famulist (n.) A collegian
of inferior rank or position, corresponding to the sizar at Cambridge.
Fan (n.) An instrument
used for producing artificial currents of air, by the wafting or revolving
motion of a broad surface
Fan (n.) An instrument for
cooling the person, made of feathers, paper, silk, etc., and often mounted on
sticks all turning about the same pivot, so as when opened to radiate from the
center and assume the figure of a section of a circle.
Fan (n.) Any revolving
vane or vanes used for producing currents of air, in winnowing grain, blowing a
fire, ventilation, etc., or for checking rapid motion by the resistance of the
air; a fan blower; a fan wheel.
Fan (n.) An instrument for
winnowing grain, by moving which the grain is tossed and agitated, and the chaff
is separated and blown away.
Fan (n.) Something in the
form of a fan when spread, as a peacock's tail, a window, etc.
Fan (n.) A small vane or
sail, used to keep the large sails of a smock windmill always in the direction
of the wind.
Fan (n.) That which
produces effects analogous to those of a fan, as in exciting a flame, etc.; that
which inflames, heightens, or strengthens; as, it served as a fan to the flame
of his passion.
Fan (n.) A quintain; --
from its form.
Fanned (imp. & p. p.) of
Fan
Fanning (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fan
Fan (n.) To move as with a
fan.
Fan (n.) To cool and
refresh, by moving the air with a fan; to blow the air on the face of with a
fan.
Fan (n.) To ventilate; to
blow on; to affect by air put in motion.
Fan (n.) To winnow; to
separate chaff from, and drive it away by a current of air; as, to fan wheat.
Fan (n.) To excite or stir
up to activity, as a fan axcites a flame; to stimulate; as, this conduct fanned
the excitement of the populace.
Fanal (n.) A lighthouse,
or the apparatus placed in it for giving light.
Fanatic (a.) Pertaining
to, or indicating, fanaticism; extravagant in opinions; ultra; unreasonable;
excessively enthusiastic, especially on religious subjects; as, fanatic zeal;
fanatic notions.
Fanatic (n.) A person
affected by excessive enthusiasm, particularly on religious subjects; one who
indulges wild and extravagant notions of religion.
Fanatical (a.)
Characteristic of, or relating to, fanaticism; fanatic.
Fanaticism (n.) Excessive
enthusiasm, unreasoning zeal, or wild and extravagant notions, on any subject,
especially religion; religious frenzy.
Fanaticized (imp. & p. p.)
of Fanaticize
Fanaticizing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fanaticize
Fanaticize (v. t.) To
cause to become a fanatic.
Fanatism (n.) Fanaticism.
Fancied (v. t.) Formed or
conceived by the fancy; unreal; as, a fancied wrong.
Fancier (n.) One who is
governed by fancy.
Fancier (n.) One who
fancies or has a special liking for, or interest in, a particular object or
class or objects; hence, one who breeds and keeps for sale birds and animals;
as, bird fancier, dog fancier, etc.
Fanciful (a.) Full of
fancy; guided by fancy, rather than by reason and experience; whimsical; as, a
fanciful man forms visionary projects.
Fanciful (a.) Conceived in
the fancy; not consistent with facts or reason; abounding in ideal qualities or
figures; as, a fanciful scheme; a fanciful theory.
Fanciful (a.) Curiously
shaped or constructed; as, she wore a fanciful headdress.
Fanciless (a.) Having no
fancy; without ideas or imagination.
Fancies (pl. ) of Fancy
Fancy (n.) The faculty by
which the mind forms an image or a representation of anything perceived before;
the power of combining and modifying such objects into new pictures or images;
the power of readily and happily creating and recalling such objects for the
purpose of amusement, wit, or embellishment; imagination.
Fancy (n.) An image or
representation of anything formed in the mind; conception; thought; idea;
conceit.
Fancy (n.) An opinion or
notion formed without much reflection; caprice; whim; impression.
Fancy (n.) Inclination;
liking, formed by caprice rather than reason; as, to strike one's fancy; hence,
the object of inclination or liking.
Fancy (n.) That which
pleases or entertains the taste or caprice without much use or value.
Fancy (n.) A sort of love
song or light impromptu ballad.
Fancied (imp. & p. p.) of
Fancy
Fancying (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fancy
Fancy (v. i.) To figure to
one's self; to believe or imagine something without proof.
Fancy (v. i.) To love.
Fancy (v. t.) To form a
conception of; to portray in the mind; to imagine.
Fancy (v. t.) To have a
fancy for; to like; to be pleased with, particularly on account of external
appearance or manners.
Fancy (v. t.) To believe
without sufficient evidence; to imagine (something which is unreal).
Fancy (a.) Adapted to
please the fancy or taste; ornamental; as, fancy goods.
Fancy (a.) Extravagant;
above real value.
Fancy-free (a.) Free from
the power of love.
Fancymonger (n.) A
lovemonger; a whimsical lover.
Fancy-sick (a.) Love-sick.
Fancywork (n.) Ornamental
work with a needle or hook, as embroidery, crocheting, netting, etc.
Fand () imp. of Find.
Fandangoes (pl. ) of
Fandango
Fandango (n.) A lively
dance, in 3-8 or 6-8 time, much practiced in Spain and Spanish America. Also,
the tune to which it is danced.
Fandango (n.) A ball or
general dance, as in Mexico.
Fane (n.) A temple; a
place consecrated to religion; a church.
Fane (n.) A weathercock.
Fanega (n.) A dry measure
in Spain and Spanish America, varying from 1/ to 2/ bushels; also, a measure of
land.
Fanfare (n.) A flourish of
trumpets, as in coming into the lists, etc.; also, a short and lively air
performed on hunting horns during the chase.
Fanfaron (n.) A bully; a
hector; a swaggerer; an empty boaster.
Fanfaronade (n.) A
swaggering; vain boasting; ostentation; a bluster.
Fanfoot (n.) A species of
gecko having the toes expanded into large lobes for adhesion. The Egyptian
fanfoot (Phyodactylus gecko) is believed, by the natives, to have venomous toes.
Fanfoot (n.) Any moth of
the genus Polypogon.
Fang (a.) To catch; to
seize, as with the teeth; to lay hold of; to gripe; to clutch.
Fang (a.) To enable to
catch or tear; to furnish with fangs.
Fang (v. t.) The tusk of
an animal, by which the prey is seized and held or torn; a long pointed tooth;
esp., one of the usually erectile, venomous teeth of serpents. Also, one of the
falcers of a spider.
Fang (v. t.) Any shoot or
other thing by which hold is taken.
Fang (v. t.) The root, or
one of the branches of the root, of a tooth. See Tooth.
Fang (v. t.) A niche in
the side of an adit or shaft, for an air course.
Fang (v. t.) A projecting
tooth or prong, as in a part of a lock, or the plate of a belt clamp, or the end
of a tool, as a chisel, where it enters the handle.
Fang (v. t.) The valve of
a pump box.
Fang (v. t.) A bend or
loop of a rope.
Fanged (a.) Having fangs
or tusks; as, a fanged adder. Also used figuratively.
Fangle (v. t.) Something
new-fashioned; a foolish innovation; a gewgaw; a trifling ornament.
Fangle (v. t.) To fashion.
Fangled (a.) New made;
hence, gaudy; showy; vainly decorated. [Obs., except with the prefix new.] See
Newfangled.
Fangleness (n.) Quality of
being fangled.
Fangless (a.) Destitute of
fangs or tusks.
Fangot (n.) A quantity of
wares, as raw silk, etc., from one hundred weight.
Fanion (n.) A small flag
sometimes carried at the head of the baggage of a brigade.
Fanion (n.) A small flag
for marking the stations in surveying.
Fanlike (a.) Resembling a
fan;
Fanlike (a.) folded up
like a fan, as certain leaves; plicate.
Fannel (n.) Same as Fanon.
Fanner (n.) One who fans.
Fanner (n.) A fan wheel; a
fan blower. See under Fan.
Fan-nerved (a.) Having the
nerves or veins arranged in a radiating manner; -- said of certain leaves, and
of the wings of some insects.
Fanon (n.) A term applied
to various articles, as: (a) A peculiar striped scarf worn by the pope at mass,
and by eastern bishops. (b) A maniple.
Fan palm () Any palm tree having
fan-shaped or radiate leaves; as the Chamaerops humilis of Southern Europe; the
species of Sabal and Thrinax in the West Indies, Florida, etc.; and especially
the great talipot tree (Corypha umbraculifera) of Ceylon and Malaya. The leaves
of the latter are often eighteen feet long and fourteen wide, and are used for
umbrellas, tents, and roofs. When cut up, they are used for books and
manuscripts.
Fantail (n.) A variety of
the domestic pigeon, so called from the shape of the tail.
Fantail (n.) Any bird of
the Australian genus Rhipidura, in which the tail is spread in the form of a fan
during flight. They belong to the family of flycatchers.
Fan-tailed (a.) Having an
expanded, or fan-shaped, tail; as, the fan-tailed pigeon.
Fantasia (n.) A continuous
composition, not divided into what are called movements, or governed by the
ordinary rules of musical design, but in which the author's fancy roves
unrestricted by set form.
Fantasied (a.) Filled with
fancies or imaginations.
Fantasm (n.) Same as
Phantasm.
Fantast (n.) One whose
manners or ideas are fantastic.
Fantastic (a.) Existing
only in imagination; fanciful; imaginary; not real; chimerical.
Fantastic (a.) Having the
nature of a phantom; unreal.
Fantastic (a.) Indulging
the vagaries of imagination; whimsical; full of absurd fancies; capricious; as,
fantastic minds; a fantastic mistress.
Fantastic (a.) Resembling
fantasies in irregularity, caprice, or eccentricity; irregular; oddly shaped;
grotesque.
Fantastic (n.) A person
given to fantastic dress, manners, etc.; an eccentric person; a fop.
Fantastical (a.) Fanciful;
unreal; whimsical; capricious; fantastic.
Fantasticality (n.)
Fantastically.
Fantastically (adv.) In a
fantastic manner.
Fantastic-alness (n.) The
quality of being fantastic.
Fantasticism (n.) The
quality of being fantastical; fancifulness; whimsicality.
Fantasticly (adv.)
Fantastically.
Fantasticness (n.)
Fantasticalness.
Fantasticco (n.) A
fantastic.
Fantasies (pl. ) of
Fantasy
Fantasy (n.) Fancy;
imagination; especially, a whimsical or fanciful conception; a vagary of the
imagination; whim; caprice; humor.
Fantasy (n.) Fantastic
designs.
Fantasy (v. t.) To have a
fancy for; to be pleased with; to like; to fancy.
Fantoccini (n. pl.)
Puppets caused to perform evolutions or dramatic scenes by means of machinery;
also, the representations in which they are used.
Fantom (n.) See Phantom.
Fap (a.) Fuddled.
Faquir (n.) See Fakir.
Far (n.) A young pig, or a
litter of pigs.
Far (a.) Distant in any
direction; not near; remote; mutually separated by a wide space or extent.
Far (a.) Remote from
purpose; contrary to design or wishes; as, far be it from me to justify cruelty.
Far (a.) Remote in
affection or obedience; at a distance, morally or spiritually; t enmity with;
alienated.
Far (a.) Widely different
in nature or quality; opposite in character.
Far (a.) The more distant
of two; as, the far side (called also off side) of a horse, that is, the right
side, or the one opposite to the rider when he mounts.
Far (adv.) To a great
extent or distance of space; widely; as, we are separated far from each other.
Far (adv.) To a great
distance in time from any point; remotely; as, he pushed his researches far into
antiquity.
Far (adv.) In great part;
as, the day is far spent.
Far (adv.) In a great
proportion; by many degrees; very much; deeply; greatly.
Farabout (n.) A going out
of the way; a digression.
Farad (n.) The standard
unit of electrical capacity; the capacity of a condenser whose charge, having an
electro-motive force of one volt, is equal to the amount of electricity which,
with the same electromotive force, passes through one ohm in one second; the
capacity, which, charged with one coulomb, gives an electro-motive force of one
volt.
Faradic (a.) Of or
pertaining to Michael Faraday, the distinguished electrician; -- applied
especially to induced currents of electricity, as produced by certain forms of
inductive apparatus, on account of Faraday's investigations of their laws.
Faradism (n.) Alt. of
Faradization
Faradization (n.) The
treatment with faradic or induced currents of electricity for remedial purposes.
Farand (n.) See Farrand,
n.
Farandams (n.) A fabrik
made of silk and wool or hair.
Farantly (a.) Orderly;
comely; respectable.
Farced (imp. & p. p.) of
Farce
Farcing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Farce
Farce (v. t.) To stuff
with forcemeat; hence, to fill with mingled ingredients; to fill full; to stuff.
Farce (v. t.) To render
fat.
Farce (v. t.) To swell
out; to render pompous.
Farce (v. t.) Stuffing, or
mixture of viands, like that used on dressing a fowl; forcemeat.
Farce (v. t.) A low style
of comedy; a dramatic composition marked by low humor, generally written with
little regard to regularity or method, and abounding with ludicrous incidents
and expressions.
Farce (v. t.) Ridiculous
or empty show; as, a mere farce.
Farcement (n.) Stuffing;
forcemeat.
Farcical (a.) Pertaining
to farce; appropriated to farce; ludicrous; unnatural; unreal.
Farcical (a.) Of or
pertaining to the disease called farcy. See Farcy, n.
Farcilite (n.) Pudding
stone.
Farcimen (n.) Alt. of
Farcin
Farcin (n.) Same as Farcy.
Farcing (n.) Stuffing;
forcemeat.
Farctate (v. t.) Stuffed;
filled solid; as, a farctate leaf, stem, or pericarp; -- opposed to tubular or
hollow.
Farcy (n.) A contagious
disease of horses, associated with painful ulcerating enlargements, esp. upon
the head and limbs. It is of the same nature as glanders, and is often fatal.
Called also farcin, and farcimen.
Fard (n.) Paint used on
the face.
Fard (v. t.) To paint; --
said esp. of one's face.
Fardage (n.) See Dunnage.
Fardel (n.) A bundle or
little pack; hence, a burden.
Fardel (v. t.) To make up
in fardels.
Farding-bag (n.) The upper
stomach of a cow, or other ruminant animal; the rumen.
Fardingdale (n.) A
farthingale.
Fardingdeal (n.) The
fourth part of an acre of land.
Fared (imp. & p. p.) of
Fare
Faring (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fare
Fare (n.) To go; to pass;
to journey; to travel.
Fare (n.) To be in any
state, or pass through any experience, good or bad; to be attended with any
circummstances or train of events, fortunate or unfortunate; as, he fared well,
or ill.
Fare (n.) To be treated or
entertained at table, or with bodily or social comforts; to live.
Fare (n.) To happen well,
or ill; -- used impersonally; as, we shall see how it will fare with him.
Fare (n.) To behave; to
conduct one's self.
Fare (v.) A journey; a
passage.
Fare (v.) The price of
passage or going; the sum paid or due for conveying a person by land or water;
as, the fare for crossing a river; the fare in a coach or by railway.
Fare (v.) Ado; bustle;
business.
Fare (v.) Condition or
state of things; fortune; hap; cheer.
Fare (v.) Food; provisions
for the table; entertainment; as, coarse fare; delicious fare.
Fare (v.) The person or
persons conveyed in a vehicle; as, a full fare of passengers.
Fare (v.) The catch of
fish on a fishing vessel.
Faren () p. p. of Fare, v. i.
Farewell (interj.) Go
well; good-by; adieu; -- originally applied to a person departing, but by custom
now applied both to those who depart and those who remain. It is often separated
by the pronoun; as, fare you well; and is sometimes used as an expression of
separation only; as, farewell the year; farewell, ye sweet groves; that is, I
bid you farewell.
Farewell (n.) A wish of
happiness or welfare at parting; the parting compliment; a good-by; adieu.
Farewell (n.) Act of
departure; leave-taking; a last look at, or reference to something.
Farewell (a.) Parting;
valedictory; final; as, a farewell discourse; his farewell bow.
Farfet (p. p.) Farfetched.
Farfetch (v. t.) To bring
from far; to seek out studiously.
Farfetch (n.) Anything
brought from far, or brought about with studious care; a deep strategem.
Farfetched (a.) Brought
from far, or from a remote place.
Farfetched (a.) Studiously
sought; not easily or naturally deduced or introduced; forced; strained.
Farina (n.) A fine flour
or meal made from cereal grains or from the starch or fecula of vegetables,
extracted by various processes, and used in cookery.
Farina (n.) Pollen.
Farinaceous (a.)
Consisting or made of meal or flour; as, a farinaceous diet.
Farinaceous (a.) Yielding
farina or flour; as, ffarinaceous seeds.
Farinaceous (a.) Like
meal; mealy; pertainiing to meal; as, a farinaceous taste, smell, or appearance.
Farinose (a.) Yielding
farinaa; as, farinose substances.
Farinose (a.) Civered with
a sort of white, mealy powder, as the leaves of some poplars, and the body of
certain insects; mealy.
Farl (v. t.) Same as Furl.
Farlie (n.) An unusual or
unexpected thing; a wonder. See Fearly.
Farm (a. & n.) The rent of
land, -- originally paid by reservation of part of its products.
Farm (a. & n.) The term or
tenure of a lease of land for cultivation; a leasehold.
Farm (a. & n.) The land
held under lease and by payment of rent for the purpose of cultivation.
Farm (a. & n.) Any tract
of land devoted to agricultural purposes, under the management of a tenant or
the owner.
Farm (a. & n.) A district
of country leased (or farmed) out for the collection of the revenues of
government.
Farm (a. & n.) A lease of
the imposts on particular goods; as, the sugar farm, the silk farm.
Farmed (imp. & p. p.) of
Farm
Farming (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Farm
Farm (v. t.) To lease or
let for an equivalent, as land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds.
Farm (v. t.) To give up to
another, as an estate, a business, the revenue, etc., on condition of receiving
in return a percentage of what it yields; as, to farm the taxes.
Farm (v. t.) To take at a
certain rent or rate.
Farm (v. t.) To devote
(land) to agriculture; to cultivate, as land; to till, as a farm.
Farm (v. i.) To engage in
the business of tilling the soil; to labor as a farmer.
Farmable (a.) Capable of
being farmed.
Farmer (n.) One who farms
Farmer (n.) One who hires
and cultivates a farm; a cultivator of leased ground; a tenant.
Farmer (n.) One who is
devoted to the tillage of the soil; one who cultivates a farm; an agriculturist;
a husbandman.
Farmer (n.) One who takes
taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect, either paying a fixed
annuual rent for the privilege; as, a farmer of the revenues.
Farmer (n.) The lord of
the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown.
Farmeress (n.) A woman who
farms.
Farmership (n.) Skill in
farming.
Farmery (n.) The buildings
and yards necessary for the business of a farm; a homestead.
Farmhouse (n.) A dwelling
house on a farm; a farmer's residence.
Farming (a.) Pertaining to
agriculture; devoted to, adapted to, or engaged in, farming; as, farming tools;
farming land; a farming community.
Farming (n.) The business
of cultivating land.
Farmost (a.) Most distant;
farthest.
Farmstead (n.) A farm with
the building upon it; a homestead on a farm.
Farmsteading (n.) A
farmstead.
Farmyard (n.) The yard or
inclosure attached to a barn, or the space inclosed by the farm buildings.
Farness (a.) The state of
being far off; distance; remoteness.
Faro (n.) A gambling game
at cardds, in whiich all the other players play against the dealer or banker,
staking their money upon the order in which the cards will lie and be dealt from
the pack.
Faroese (n. sing. & pl.)
An inhabitant, or, collectively, inhabitants, of the Faroe islands.
Far-off (a.) Remote; as,
the far-off distance. Cf. Far-off, under Far, adv.
Farraginous (a.) Formed of
various materials; mixed; as, a farraginous mountain.
Farrago (n.) A mass
composed of various materials confusedly mixed; a medley; a mixture.
Farrand (n.) Manner;
custom; fashion; humor.
Farreation (n.) Same as
Confarreation.
Farrier (n.) A shoer of
horses; a veterinary surgeon.
Farrier (v. i.) To
practice as a farrier; to carry on the trade of a farrier.
Farriery (n.) The art of
shoeing horses.
Farriery (n.) The art of
preventing, curing, or mitigating diseases of horses and cattle; the veterinary
art.
Farriery (n.) The place
where a smith shoes horses.
Farrow (n.) A little of
pigs.
Farrowed (imp. & p. p.) of
Farfow
Farrowing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Farfow
Farfow (v. t. & i.) To
bring forth (young); -- said only of swine.
Farrow (a.) Not producing
young in a given season or year; -- said only of cows.
Farry (n.) A farrow.
Farse (n.) An addition to,
or a paraphrase of, some part of the Latin service in the vernacular; -- common
in English before the Reformation.
Farseeing (a.) Able to see
to a great distance; farsighted.
Farseeing (a.) Having
foresight as regards the future.
Farsighted (a.) Seeing to
great distance; hence, of good judgment regarding the remote effects of actions;
sagacious.
Farsighted (a.)
Hypermetropic.
Farsightedness (n.)
Quality of bbeing farsighted.
Farsightedness (n.)
Hypermetropia.
Farstretched (a.)
Streatched beyond ordinary limits.
Farther (superl.) More
remote; more distant than something else.
Farther (superl.) Tending
to a greater distance; beyond a certain point; additional; further.
Farther (adv.) At or to a
greater distance; more remotely; beyond; as, let us rest with what we have,
without looking farther.
Farther (adv.) Moreover;
by way of progress in treating a subject; as, farther, let us consider the
probable event.
Farther (v. t.) To help
onward. [R.] See Further.
Fartherance (n.) See
Furtherance.
Farthermore (adv.) See
Furthermore.
Farthermost (a.) Most
remote; farthest.
Farthest (Superl.) Most
distant or remote; as, the farthest degree. See Furthest.
Farthest (adv.) At or to
the greatest distance. See Furthest.
Farthing (n.) The fourth
of a penny; a small copper coin of Great Britain, being a cent in United States
currency.
Farthing (n.) A very small
quantity or value.
Farthing (n.) A division
of land.
Farthingale (n.) A hoop
skirt or hoop petticoat, or other light, elastic material, used to extend the
petticoat.
Fasces (pl.) A bundle of
rods, having among them an ax with the blade projecting, borne before the Roman
magistrates as a badge of their authority.
Fascet (n.) A wire basket
on the end of a rod to carry glass bottles, etc., to the annealing furnace;
also, an iron rod to be thrust into the mouths of bottles, and used for the same
purpose; -- called also pontee and punty.
Fasciae (pl. ) of Fascia
Fascia (n.) A band, sash,
or fillet; especially, in surgery, a bandage or roller.
Fascia (n.) A flat member
of an order or building, like a flat band or broad fillet; especially, one of
the three bands which make up the architrave, in the Ionic order. See Illust. of
Column.
Fascia (n.) The layer of
loose tissue, often containing fat, immediately beneath the skin; the stronger
layer of connective tissue covering and investing all muscles; an aponeurosis.
Fascia (n.) A broad
well-defined band of color.
Fascial (a.) Pertaining to
the fasces.
Fascial (a.) Relating to a
fascia.
Fasciate (a.) Alt. of
Fasciated
Fasciated (a.) Bound with
a fillet, sash, or bandage.
Fasciated (a.) Banded or
compacted together.
Fasciated (a.) Flattened
and laterally widened, as are often the stems of the garden cockscomb.
Fasciated (a.) Broadly
banded with color.
Fasciation (n.) The act or
manner of binding up; bandage; also, the condition of being fasciated.
Fascicle (n.) A small
bundle or collection; a compact cluster; as, a fascicle of fibers; a fascicle of
flowers or roots.
Fascicled (a.) Growing in
a bundle, tuft, or close cluster; as, the fascicled leaves of the pine or larch;
the fascicled roots of the dahlia; fascicled muscle fibers; fascicled tufts of
hair.
Fascicular (a.) Pertaining
to a fascicle; fascicled; as, a fascicular root.
Fascicularly (adv.) In a
fascicled manner.
Fasciculate (a.) Alt. of
Fasciculated
Fasciculated (a.) Grouped
in a fascicle; fascicled.
Fasciculi (pl. ) of
Fasciculus
Fasciculus (n.) A little
bundle; a fascicle.
Fasciculus (n.) A division
of a book.
Fascinated (imp. & p. p.)
of Fascinate
Fascinating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fascinate
Fascinate (v. t.) To
influence in an uncontrollable manner; to operate on by some powerful or
irresistible charm; to bewitch; to enchant.
Fascinate (v. t.) To
excite and allure irresistibly or powerfully; to charm; to captivate, as by
physical or mental charms.
Fascination (n.) The act
of fascinating, bewhiching, or enchanting; enchantment; witchcraft; the exercise
of a powerful or irresistible influence on the affections or passions; unseen,
inexplicable influence.
Fascination (n.) The state
or condition of being fascinated.
Fascination (n.) That
which fascinates; a charm; a spell.
Fascine (n.) A cylindrical
bundle of small sticks of wood, bound together, used in raising batteries,
filling ditches, strengthening ramparts, and making parapets; also in revetments
for river banks, and in mats for dams, jetties, etc.
Fascinous (a.) Caused or
acting by witchcraft.
Fasciolae (pl. ) of
Fasciola
Fasciola (n.) A band of
gray matter bordering the fimbria in the brain; the dentate convolution.
Fasciole (n.) A band of
minute tubercles, bearing modified spines, on the shells of spatangoid sea
urchins. See Spatangoidea.
Fashed (imp. & p. p.) of
Fash
Fashing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fash
Fash (v. t.) To vex; to
tease; to trouble.
Fash (n.) Vexation;
anxiety; care.
Fashion (n.) The make or
form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern,
model; as, the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.;
workmanship; execution.
Fashion (n.) The
prevailing mode or style, especially of dress; custom or conventional usage in
respect of dress, behavior, etiquette, etc.; particularly, the mode or style
usual among persons of good breeding; as, to dress, dance, sing, ride, etc., in
the fashion.
Fashion (n.) Polite,
fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding; as, men of
fashion.
Fashion (n.) Mode of
action; method of conduct; manner; custom; sort; way.
Fashioned (imp. & p. p.)
of Fashion
Fashioning (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fashion
Fashion (v. t.) To form;
to give shape or figure to; to mold.
Fashion (v. t.) To fit; to
adapt; to accommodate; -- with to.
Fashion (v. t.) To make
according to the rule prescribed by custom.
Fashion (v. t.) To forge
or counterfeit.
Fashionable (a.)
Conforming to the fashion or established mode; according with the prevailing
form or style; as, a fashionable dress.
Fashionable (a.)
Established or favored by custom or use; current; prevailing at a particular
time; as, the fashionable philosophy; fashionable opinions.
Fashionable (a.) Observant
of the fashion or customary mode; dressing or behaving according to the
prevailing fashion; as, a fashionable man.
Fashionable (a.) Genteel;
well-bred; as, fashionable society.
Fashionable (n.) A person
who conforms to the fashions; -- used chiefly in the plural.
Fashionableness (n.) State
of being fashionable.
Fashionably (adv.) In a
fashionable manner.
Fashioned (a.) Having a
certain style or fashion; as old-fashioned; new-fashioned.
Fashioner (n.) One who
fashions, forms, ar gives shape to anything.
Fashionist (n.) An
obsequious follower of the modes and fashions.
Fashionless (a.) Having no
fashion.
Fashion-monger (n.) One
who studies the fashions; a fop; a dandy.
Fashion-mongering (a.)
Behaving like a fashion-monger.
Fassaite (n.) A variety of
pyroxene, from the valley of Fassa, in the Tyrol.
Fasted (imp. & p. p.) of
Fast
Fasting (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fast
Fast (v. i.) To abstain
from food; to omit to take nourishment in whole or in part; to go hungry.
Fast (v. i.) To practice
abstinence as a religious exercise or duty; to abstain from food voluntarily for
a time, for the mortification of the body or appetites, or as a token of grief,
or humiliation and penitence.
Fast (v. i.) Abstinence
from food; omission to take nourishment.
Fast (v. i.) Voluntary
abstinence from food, for a space of time, as a spiritual discipline, or as a
token of religious humiliation.
Fast (v. i.) A time of
fasting, whether a day, week, or longer time; a period of abstinence from food
or certain kinds of food; as, an annual fast.
Fast (v.) Firmly fixed;
closely adhering; made firm; not loose, unstable, or easily moved; immovable;
as, to make fast the door.
Fast (v.) Firm against
attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable; strong.
Fast (v.) Firm in
adherence; steadfast; not easily separated or alienated; faithful; as, a fast
friend.
Fast (v.) Permanent; not
liable to fade by exposure to air or by washing; durable; lasting; as, fast
colors.
Fast (v.) Tenacious;
retentive.
Fast (v.) Not easily
disturbed or broken; deep; sound.
Fast (v.) Moving rapidly;
quick in mition; rapid; swift; as, a fast horse.
Fast (v.) Given to
pleasure seeking; disregardful of restraint; reckless; wild; dissipated;
dissolute; as, a fast man; a fast liver.
Fast (a.) In a fast,
fixed, or firmly established manner; fixedly; firmly; immovably.
Fast (a.) In a fast or
rapid manner; quickly; swiftly; extravagantly; wildly; as, to run fast; to live
fast.
Fast (n.) That which
fastens or holds; especially, (Naut.) a mooring rope, hawser, or chain; --
called, according to its position, a bow, head, quarter, breast, or stern fast;
also, a post on a pier around which hawsers are passed in mooring.
Fastened (imp. & p. p.) of
Fasten
Fastening (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fasten
Fasten (a.) To fix firmly;
to make fast; to secure, as by a knot, lock, bolt, etc.; as, to fasten a chain
to the feet; to fasten a door or window.
Fasten (a.) To cause to
hold together or to something else; to attach or unite firmly; to cause to
cleave to something , or to cleave together, by any means; as, to fasten boards
together with nails or cords; to fasten anything in our thoughts.
Fasten (a.) To cause to
take close effect; to make to tell; to lay on; as, to fasten a blow.
Fasten (v. i.) To fix
one's self; to take firm hold; to clinch; to cling.
Fastener (n.) One who, or
that which, makes fast or firm.
Fastening (n.) Anything
that binds and makes fast, as a lock, catch, bolt, bar, buckle, etc.
Faster (n.) One who
abstains from food.
Fast-handed (a.)
Close-handed; close-fisted; covetous; avaricious.
Fasti (n.pl.) The Roman
calendar, which gave the days for festivals, courts, etc., corresponding to a
modern almanac.
Fasti (n.pl.) Records or
registers of important events.
Fastidiosity (n.)
Fastidiousness; squeamishness.
Fastidious (a.) Difficult
to please; delicate to a fault; suited with difficulty; squeamish; as, a
fastidious mind or ear; a fastidious appetite.
Fastigiate (a.) Alt. of
Fastigiated
Fastigiated (a.) Narrowing
towards the top.
Fastigiated (a.)
Clustered, parallel, and upright, as the branches of the Lombardy poplar;
pointed.
Fastigiated (a.) United
into a conical bundle, or into a bundle with an enlarged head, like a sheaf of
wheat.
Fastish (a.) Rather fast;
also, somewhat dissipated.
Fastly (adv.) Firmly;
surely.
Fastness (a.) The state of
being fast and firm; firmness; fixedness; security; faithfulness.
Fastness (a.) A fast
place; a stronghold; a fortress or fort; a secure retreat; a castle; as, the
enemy retired to their fastnesses in the mountains.
Fastness (a.) Conciseness
of style.
Fastness (a.) The state of
being fast or swift.
Fastuous (a.) Proud;
haughty; disdainful.
Fat (n.) A large tub,
cistern, or vessel; a vat.
Fat (n.) A measure of
quantity, differing for different commodities.
Fat (superl.) Abounding
with fat
Fat (superl.) Fleshy;
characterized by fatness; plump; corpulent; not lean; as, a fat man; a fat ox.
Fat (superl.) Oily;
greasy; unctuous; rich; -- said of food.
Fat (superl.) Exhibiting
the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid.
Fat (superl.) Fertile;
productive; as, a fat soil; a fat pasture.
Fat (superl.) Rich;
producing a large income; desirable; as, a fat benefice; a fat office; a fat
job.
Fat (superl.) Abounding in
riches; affluent; fortunate.
Fat (superl.) Of a
character which enables the compositor to make large wages; -- said of matter
containing blank, cuts, or many leads, etc.; as, a fat take; a fat page.
Fat (n.) An oily liquid or
greasy substance making up the main bulk of the adipose tissue of animals, and
widely distributed in the seeds of plants. See Adipose tissue, under Adipose.
Fat (n.) The best or
richest productions; the best part; as, to live on the fat of the land.
Fat (n.) Work. containing
much blank, or its equivalent, and, therefore, profitable to the compositor.
Fatted (imp. & p. p.) of
Fat
atting (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fat
Fat (a.) To make fat; to
fatten; to make plump and fleshy with abundant food; as, to fat fowls or sheep.
Fat (v. i.) To grow fat,
plump, and fleshy.
Fatal (a.) Proceeding
from, or appointed by, fate or destiny; necessary; inevitable.
Fatal (a.) Foreboding
death or great disaster.
Fatal (a.) Causing death
or destruction; deadly; mortal; destructive; calamitous; as, a fatal wound; a
fatal disease; a fatal day; a fatal error.
Fatalism (n.) The doctrine
that all things are subject to fate, or that they take place by inevitable
necessity.
Fatalist (n.) One who
maintains that all things happen by inevitable necessity.
Fatalistic (a.) Implying,
or partaking of the nature of, fatalism.
Fatalities (pl. ) of
Fatality
Fatality (n.) The state of
being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and
independent of, free and rational control.
Fatality (n.) The state of
being fatal; tendency to destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate;
mortaility.
Fatality (n.) That which
is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event.
Fatally (adv.) In a manner
proceeding from, or determined by, fate.
Fatally (adv.) In a manner
issuing in death or ruin; mortally; destructively; as, fatally deceived or
wounded.
Fatalness (n.) Quality of
being fatal.
Fata Morgana () A kind of mirage
by which distant objects appear inverted, distorted, displaced, or multiplied.
It is noticed particularly at the Straits of Messina, between Calabria and
Sicily.
Fatback (n.) The menhaden.
Fat-brained (a.) Dull of
apprehension.
Fate (n.) A fixed decree
by which the order of things is prescribed; the immutable law of the universe;
inevitable necessity; the force by which all existence is determined and
conditioned.
Fate (n.) Appointed lot;
allotted life; arranged or predetermined event; destiny; especially, the final
lot; doom; ruin; death.
Fate (n.) The element of
chance in the affairs of life; the unforeseen and unestimated conitions
considered as a force shaping events; fortune; esp., opposing circumstances
against which it is useless to struggle; as, fate was, or the fates were,
against him.
Fate (n.) The three
goddesses, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, sometimes called the Destinies, or
Parcaewho were supposed to determine the course of human life. They are
represented, one as holding the distaff, a second as spinning, and the third as
cutting off the thread.
Fated (p. p. & a.) Decreed
by fate; destined; doomed; as, he was fated to rule a factious people.
Fated (p. p. & a.)
Invested with the power of determining destiny.
Fated (p. p. & a.)
Exempted by fate.
Fateful (a. .) Having the
power of serving or accomplishing fate.
Fateful (a. .) Significant
of fate; ominous.
Fathead (n.) A cyprinoid
fish of the Mississippi valley (Pimephales promelas); -- called also
black-headed minnow.
Fathead (n.) A labroid
food fish of California; the redfish.
Father (n.) One who has
begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a generator; a male parent.
Father (n.) A male
ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor;
a founder of a race or family; -- in the plural, fathers, ancestors.
Father (n.) One who
performs the offices of a parent by maintenance, affetionate care, counsel, or
protection.
Father (n.) A respectful
mode of address to an old man.
Father (n.) A senator of
ancient Rome.
Father (n.) A dignitary of
the church, a superior of a convent, a confessor (called also father confessor),
or a priest; also, the eldest member of a profession, or of a legislative
assembly, etc.
Father (n.) One of the
chief esslesiastical authorities of the first centuries after Christ; -- often
spoken of collectively as the Fathers; as, the Latin, Greek, or apostolic
Fathers.
Father (n.) One who, or
that which, gives origin; an originator; a producer, author, or contriver; the
first to practice any art, profession, or occupation; a distinguished example or
teacher.
Father (n.) The Supreme
Being and Creator; God; in theology, the first person in the Trinity.
Fathered (imp. & p. p.) of
Father
Fathering (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Father
Father (v. t.) To make
one's self the father of; to beget.
Father (v. t.) To take as
one's own child; to adopt; hence, to assume as one's own work; to acknowledge
one's self author of or responsible for (a statement, policy, etc.).
Father (v. t.) To provide
with a father.
Fatherhood (n.) The state
of being a father; the character or authority of a father; paternity.
Fathers-in-law (pl. ) of
Father-in-law
Father-in-law (n.) The
father of one's husband or wife; -- correlative to son-in-law and
daughter-in-law.
Fatherland (n.) One's
native land; the native land of one's fathers or ancestors.
Father-lasher (n.) A
European marine fish (Cottus bubalis), allied to the sculpin; -- called also
lucky proach.
Fatherless (a.) Destitute
of a living father; as, a fatherless child.
Fatherless (a.) Without a
known author.
Fatherlessness (n.) The
state of being without a father.
Fatherliness (n.) The
qualities of a father; parantal kindness, care, etc.
Father longlegs () See Daddy
longlegs, 2.
Fatherly (a.) Like a
father in affection and care; paternal; tender; protecting; careful.
Fatherly (a.) Of or
pertaining to a father.
Fathership (n.) The state
of being a father; fatherhood; paternity.
Fathom (n.) A measure of
length, containing six feet; the space to which a man can extend his arms; --
used chiefly in measuring cables, cordage, and the depth of navigable water by
soundings.
Fathom (n.) The measure or
extant of one's capacity; depth, as of intellect; profundity; reach;
penetration.
Fathomed (imp. & p. p.) of
Fathom
Fathoming (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fathom
Fathom (v. t.) To
encompass with the arms extended or encircling; to measure by throwing the arms
about; to span.
Fathom (v. t.) The measure
by a sounding line; especially, to sound the depth of; to penetrate, measure,
and comprehend; to get to the bottom of.
Fathomable (a.) Capable of
being fathomed.
Fathomer (n.) One who
fathoms.
Fathomless (a.) Incapable
of being fathomed; immeasurable; that can not be sounded.
Fathomless (a.)
Incomprehensible.
Fatidical (a.) Having
power to foretell future events; prophetic; fatiloquent; as, the fatidical oak.
Fatiferous (a.)
Fate-bringing; deadly; mortal; destructive.
Fatigable (a.) Easily
tired.
Fatigate (a.) Wearied;
tired; fatigued.
Fatigate (v. t.) To weary;
to tire; to fatigue.
Fatigation (n.) Weariness.
Fatigue (n.) Weariness
from bodily labor or mental exertion; lassitude or exhaustion of strength.
Fatigue (n.) The cause of
weariness; labor; toil; as, the fatigues of war.
Fatigue (n.) The weakening
of a metal when subjected to repeated vibrations or strains.
Fatigued (imp. & p. p.) of
Fatigue
Fatiguing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fatigue
Fatigue (n.) To weary with
labor or any bodily or mental exertion; to harass with toil; to exhaust the
strength or endurance of; to tire.
Fatiloquent (a.)
Prophetic; fatidical.
Fatiloquist (n.) A fortune
teller.
Fatimite (a.) Alt. of
Fatimide
Fatimide (a.) Descended
from Fatima, the daughter and only child of Mohammed.
Fatimide (n.) A descendant
of Fatima.
Fatiscence (n.) A gaping
or opening; state of being chinky, or having apertures.
Fat-kidneyed (a.) Gross;
lubberly.
Fatling (n.) A calf, lamb,
kid, or other young animal fattened for slaughter; a fat animal; -- said of such
animals as are used for food.
Fatly (adv.) Grossly;
greasily.
Fatner (n.) One who
fattens. [R.] See Fattener.
Fatness (n.) The quality
or state of being fat, plump, or full-fed; corpulency; fullness of flesh.
Fatness (n.) Hence;
Richness; fertility; fruitfulness.
Fatness (n.) That which
makes fat or fertile.
Fattened (imp. & p. p.) of
Fatten
Fattining (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fatten
Fatten (v. t.) To make
fat; to feed for slaughter; to make fleshy or plump with fat; to fill full; to
fat.
Fatten (v. t.) To make
fertile and fruitful; to enrich; as, to fatten land; to fatten fields with
blood.
Fatten (v. i.) To grow fat
or corpulent; to grow plump, thick, or fleshy; to be pampered.
Fattener (n.) One who, or
that which, fattens; that which gives fatness or fertility.
Fattiness (n.) State or
quality of being fatty.
Fattish (a.) Somewhat fat;
inclined to fatness.
Fatty (a.) Containing fat,
or having the qualities of fat; greasy; gross; as, a fatty substance.
Fatuitous (a.) Stupid;
fatuous.
Fatuity (n.) Weakness or
imbecility of mind; stupidity.
Fatuous (a.) Feeble in
mind; weak; silly; stupid; foolish; fatuitous.
Fatuous (a.) Without
reality; illusory, like the ignis fatuus.
Fat-wited (a.) Dull;
stupid.
Faubourg (n.) A suburb of
French city; also, a district now within a city, but formerly without its walls.
Faucal (a.) Pertaining to
the fauces, or opening of the throat; faucial; esp., (Phon.) produced in the
fauces, as certain deep guttural sounds found in the Semitic and some other
languages.
Fauces (n.pl.) The narrow
passage from the mouth to the pharynx, situated between the soft palate and the
base of the tongue; -- called also the isthmus of the fauces. On either side of
the passage two membranous folds, called the pillars of the fauces, inclose the
tonsils.
Fauces (n.pl.) The throat
of a calyx, corolla, etc.
Fauces (n.pl.) That
portion of the interior of a spiral shell which can be seen by looking into the
aperture.
Faucet (n.) A fixture for
drawing a liquid, as water, molasses, oil, etc., from a pipe, cask, or other
vessel, in such quantities as may be desired; -- called also tap, and cock. It
consists of a tubular spout, stopped with a movable plug, spigot, valve, or
slide.
Faucet (n.) The enlarged
end of a section of pipe which receives the spigot end of the next section.
Fauchion (n.) See
Falchion.
Faucial (a.) Pertaining to
the fauces; pharyngeal.
Faugh (interj.) An
exclamation of contempt, disgust, or abhorrence.
Faulchion (n.) See
Falchion.
Faulcon (n.) See Falcon.
Fauld (n.) The arch over
the dam of a blast furnace; the tymp arch.
Faule (n.) A fall or
falling band.
Fault (n.) Defect; want;
lack; default.
Fault (n.) Anything that
fails, that is wanting, or that impairs excellence; a failing; a defect; a
blemish.
Fault (n.) A moral
failing; a defect or dereliction from duty; a deviation from propriety; an
offense less serious than a crime.
Fault (n.) A dislocation
of the strata of the vein.
Fault (n.) In coal seams,
coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam; as, slate fault, dirt fault,
etc.
Fault (n.) A lost scent;
act of losing the scent.
Fault (n.) Failure to
serve the ball into the proper court.
Faulted (imp. & p. p.) of
Fault
Faulting (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fault
Fault (v. t.) To charge
with a fault; to accuse; to find fault with; to blame.
Fault (v. t.) To interrupt
the continuity of (rock strata) by displacement along a plane of fracture; --
chiefly used in the p. p.; as, the coal beds are badly faulted.
Fault (v. i.) To err; to
blunder, to commit a fault; to do wrong.
Faulter (n.) One who
commits a fault.
Fault-finder (n.) One who
makes a practice of discovering others' faults and censuring them; a scold.
Fault-finding (n.) The act
of finding fault or blaming; -- used derogatively. Also Adj.
Faultful (a.) Full of
faults or sins.
Faultily (adv.) In a
faulty manner.
Faultiness (n.) Quality or
state of being faulty.
Faulting (n.) The state or
condition of being faulted; the process by which a fault is produced.
Faultless (a.) Without
fault; not defective or imperfect; free from blemish; free from incorrectness,
vice, or offense; perfect; as, a faultless poem.
Faulty (a.) Containing
faults, blemishes, or defects; imperfect; not fit for the use intended.
Faulty (a.) Guilty of a
fault, or of faults; hence, blamable; worthy of censure.
Faun (n.) A god of fields
and shipherds, diddering little from the satyr. The fauns are usually
represented as half goat and half man.
Fauna (n.) The animals of
any given area or epoch; as, the fauna of America; fossil fauna; recent fauna.
Faunal (a.) Relating to
fauna.
Faunist (n.) One who
describes the fauna of country; a naturalist.
Fauni (pl. ) of Faunus
Faunus (n.) See Faun.
Fausen (n.) A young eel.
Fausse-braye (n.) A second
raampart, exterior to, and parallel to, the main rampart, and considerably below
its level.
Fauteuil (n.) An armchair;
hence (because the members sit in fauteuils or armchairs), membership in the
French Academy.
Fauteuil (n.) Chair of a
presiding officer.
Fautor (n.) A favorer; a
patron; one who gives countenance or support; an abettor.
Fautress (n.) A patroness.
Fauvette (n.) A small
singing bird, as the nightingale and warblers.
Fauces (pl. ) of Faux
Faux (n.) See Fauces.
faux pas () A false step; a
mistake or wrong measure.
Favaginous (a.) Formed
like, or resembling, a honeycomb.
Favas (n.) See Favus, n.,
2.
Favel (a.) Yellow; fal/ow;
dun.
Favel (n.) A horse of a
favel or dun color.
Favel (n.) Flattery;
cajolery; deceit.
Favella (n.) A group of
spores arranged without order and covered with a thin gelatinous envelope, as in
certain delicate red algae.
Faveolate (a.) Honeycomb;
having cavities or cells, somewhat resembling those of a honeycomb; alveolate;
favose.
Favillous (a.) Of or
pertaining to ashes.
Favonian (a.) Pertaining
to the west wind; soft; mild; gentle.
Favor (n.) Kind regard;
propitious aspect; countenance; friendly disposition; kindness; good will.
Favor (n.) The act of
countenancing, or the condition of being countenanced, or regarded propitiously;
support; promotion; befriending.
Favor (n.) A kind act or
office; kindness done or granted; benevolence shown by word or deed; an act of
grace or good will, as distinct from justice or remuneration.
Favor (n.) Mildness or
mitigation of punishment; lenity.
Favor (n.) The object of
regard; person or thing favored.
Favor (n.) A gift or
represent; something bestowed as an evidence of good will; a token of love; a
knot of ribbons; something worn as a token of affection; as, a marriage favor is
a bunch or knot of white ribbons or white flowers worn at a wedding.
Favor (n.) Appearance;
look; countenance; face.
Favor (n.) Partiality;
bias.
Favor (n.) A letter or
epistle; -- so called in civility or compliment; as, your favor of yesterday is
received.
Favor (n.) Love locks.
Favored (imp. & p. p.) of
Favor
Favoring (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Favor
Favor (n.) To regard with
kindness; to support; to aid, or to have the disposition to aid, or to wish
success to; to be propitious to; to countenance; to treat with consideration or
tenderness; to show partiality or unfair bias towards.
Favor (n.) To afford
advantages for success to; to facilitate; as, a weak place favored the entrance
of the enemy.
Favor (n.) To resemble in
features; to have the aspect or looks of; as, the child favors his father.
Favorable (n.) Full of
favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly.
Favorable (n.) Conducive;
contributing; tending to promote or facilitate; advantageous; convenient.
Favorable (n.) Beautiful;
well-favored.
Favored (a.) Countenanced;
aided; regarded with kidness; as, a favored friend.
Favored (a.) Having a
certain favor or appearance; featured; as, well-favored; hard-favored, etc.
Favoredly (adv.) In a
favored or a favorable manner; favorably.
Favoredness (n.)
Appearance.
Favorer (n.) One who
favors; one who regards with kindness or friendship; a well-wisher; one who
assists or promotes success or prosperity.
Favoress (n.) A woman who
favors or gives countenance.
Favoring (a.) That favors.
Favorite (n.) A person or
thing regarded with peculiar favor; one treated with partiality; one preferred
above others; especially, one unduly loved, trusted, and enriched with favors by
a person of high rank or authority.
Favorite (n.) Short curls
dangling over the temples; -- fashionable in the reign of Charles II.
Favorite (n.) The
competitor (as a horse in a race) that is judged most likely to win; the
competitor standing highest in the betting.
Favorite (a.) Regarded
with particular affection, esteem, or preference; as, a favorite walk; a
favorite child.
Favoritism (n.) The
disposition to favor and promote the interest of one person or family, or of one
class of men, to the neglect of others having equal claims; partiality.
Favorless (a.) Unfavored;
not regarded with favor; having no countenance or support.
Favorless (a.)
Unpropitious; unfavorable.
Favose (a.) Honeycombed.
See Faveolate.
Favose (a.) Of or
pertaining to the disease called favus.
Favosite (a.) Like or
pertaining to the genus Favosites.
Favosites (n.) A genus of
fossil corals abundant in the Silurian and Devonian rocks, having polygonal
cells with perforated walls.
Favus (n.) A disease of
the scalp, produced by a vegetable parasite.
Favus (n.) A tile or
flagstone cut into an hexagonal shape to produce a honeycomb pattern, as in a
pavement; -- called also favas and sectila.
Fawe (a.) Fain; glad;
delighted.
Fawkner (n.) A falconer.
Fawn (n.) A young deer; a
buck or doe of the first year. See Buck.
Fawn (n.) The young of an
animal; a whelp.
Fawn (n.) A fawn color.
Fawn (a.) Of the color of
a fawn; fawn-colored.
Fawn (v. i.) To bring
forth a fawn.
Fawned (imp. & p. p.) of
Fawn
Fawning (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fawn
Fawn (v. i.) To court
favor by low cringing, frisking, etc., as a dog; to flatter meanly; -- often
followed by on or upon.
Fawn (n.) A servile cringe
or bow; mean flattery; sycophancy.
Fawn-colored (a.) Of the
color of a fawn; light yellowish brown.
Fawner (n.) One who fawns;
a sycophant.
Fawningly (adv.) In a
fawning manner.
Faxed (a.) Hairy.
Fay (n.) A fairy; an elf.
Fay (n.) Faith; as, by my
fay.
fayed (imp. & p. p.) of
Fay
Faying (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fay
Fay (v. t.) To fit; to
join; to unite closely, as two pieces of wood, so as to make the surface fit
together.
Fay (v. i.) To lie close
together; to fit; to fadge; -- often with in, into, with, or together.
Fayalite (n.) A black,
greenish, or brownish mineral of the chrysolite group. It is a silicate of iron.
Fayence (n.) See Fa/ence.
Faytour (n.) See Faitour.
Faze (v. t.) See Feeze.
Fazzolet (n.) A
handkerchief.
Feaberry (n.) A
gooseberry.
Feague (v. t.) To beat or
whip; to drive.
Feal (a.) Faithful; loyal.
Fealty (n.) Fidelity to
one's lord; the feudal obligation by which the tenant or vassal was bound to be
faithful to his lord; the special oath by which this obligation was assumed;
fidelity to a superior power, or to a government; loyality. It is no longer the
practice to exact the performance of fealty, as a feudal obligation.
Fealty (n.) Fidelity;
constancy; faithfulness, as of a friend to a friend, or of a wife to her
husband.
Fear (n.) A variant of
Fere, a mate, a companion.
Fear (n.) A painful
emotion or passion excited by the expectation of evil, or the apprehension of
impending danger; apprehension; anxiety; solicitude; alarm; dread.
Fear (n.) Apprehension of
incurring, or solicitude to avoid, God's wrath; the trembling and awful
reverence felt toward the Supreme Belng.
Fear (n.) Respectful
reverence for men of authority or worth.
Fear (n.) That which
causes, or which is the object of, apprehension or alarm; source or occasion of
terror; danger; dreadfulness.
Feared (imp. & p. p.) of
Fear
Fearing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fear
Fear (n.) To feel a
painful apprehension of; to be afraid of; to consider or expect with emotion of
alarm or solicitude.
Fear (n.) To have a
reverential awe of; to solicitous to avoid the displeasure of.
Fear (n.) To be anxious or
solicitous for.
Fear (n.) To suspect; to
doubt.
Fear (n.) To affright; to
terrify; to drive away or prevent approach of by fear.
Fear (v. i.) To be in
apprehension of evil; to be afraid; to feel anxiety on account of some expected
evil.
Fearer (n.) One who fars.
Fearful (a.) Full of fear,
apprehension, or alarm; afraid; frightened.
Fearful (a.) inclined to
fear; easily frightened; without courage; timid.
Fearful (a.) Indicating,
or caused by, fear.
Fearful (a.) Inspiring
fear or awe; exciting apprehension or terror; terrible; frightful; dreadful.
Fearfully (adv.) In a
fearful manner.
Fearfulness (n.) The state
of being fearful.
Fearless (a.) Free from
fear.
Fearnaught (n.) A fearless
person.
Fearnaught (n.) A stout
woolen cloth of great thickness; dreadnaught; also, a warm garment.
Fearsome (a.) Frightful;
causing fear.
Fearsome (a.) Easily
frightened; timid; timorous.
Feasibilities (pl. ) of
Feasibility
Feasibility (n.) The
quality of being feasible; practicability; also, that which is feasible; as,
before we adopt a plan, let us consider its feasibility.
Feasible (a.) Capable of
being done, executed, or effected; practicable.
Feasible (a.) Fit to be
used or tailed, as land.
Feast (n.) A festival; a
holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary.
Feast (n.) A festive or
joyous meal; a grand, ceremonious, or sumptuous entertainment, of which many
guests partake; a banquet characterized by tempting variety and abundance of
food.
Feast (n.) That which is
partaken of, or shared in, with delight; something highly agreeable;
entertainment.
Feasted (imp. & p. p.) of
Feast
Feasting (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Feast
Feast (n.) To eat
sumptuously; to dine or sup on rich provisions, particularly in large companies,
and on public festivals.
Feast (n.) To be highly
gratified or delighted.
Feast (v. t.) To entertain
with sumptuous provisions; to treat at the table bountifully; as, he was feasted
by the king.
Feast (v. t.) To delight;
to gratify; as, to feast the soul.
Feaster (n.) One who fares
deliciously.
Feaster (n.) One who
entertains magnificently.
Feastful (a.) Festive;
festal; joyful; sumptuous; luxurious.
Feat (n.) An act; a deed;
an exploit.
Feat (n.) A striking act
of strength, skill, or cunning; a trick; as, feats of horsemanship, or of
dexterity.
Feat (v. t.) To form; to
fashion.
Feat (n.) Dexterous in
movements or service; skillful; neat; nice; pretty.
Feat-bodied (a.) Having a
feat or trim body.
Feateous (a.) Dexterous;
neat.
Feather (n.) One of the
peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour
feathers, quills, and down.
Feather (n.) Kind; nature;
species; -- from the proverbial phrase, "Birds of a feather," that is, of the
same species.
Feather (n.) The fringe of
long hair on the legs of the setter and some other dogs.
Feather (n.) A tuft of
peculiar, long, frizzly hair on a horse.
Feather (n.) One of the
fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.
Feather (n.) A
longitudinal strip projecting as a fin from an object, to strengthen it, or to
enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sidwise but
permit motion lengthwise; a spline.
Feather (n.) A thin wedge
driven between the two semicylindrical parts of a divided plug in a hole bored
in a stone, to rend the stone.
Feather (n.) The angular
adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis,
as it leaves or enters the water.
Feathered (imp. & p. p.)
of Feather
Feathering. (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Feather
Feather (v. t.) To furnish
with a feather or feathers, as an arrow or a cap.
Feather (v. t.) To adorn,
as with feathers; to fringe.
Feather (v. t.) To render
light as a feather; to give wings to.
Feather (v. t.) To enrich;
to exalt; to benefit.
Feather (v. t.) To tread,
as a cock.
Feather (v. i.) To grow or
form feathers; to become feathered; -- often with out; as, the birds are
feathering out.
Feather (v. i.) To curdle
when poured into another liquid, and float about in little flakes or "feathers;"
as, the cream feathers
Feather (v. i.) To turn to
a horizontal plane; -- said of oars.
Feather (v. i.) To have
the appearance of a feather or of feathers; to be or to appear in feathery form.
Feather-brained/ (a.)
Giddy; frivolous; feather-headed.
Feathered (a.) Clothed,
covered, or fitted with (or as with) feathers or wings; as, a feathered animal;
a feathered arrow.
Feathered (a.) Furnished
with anything featherlike; ornamented; fringed; as, land feathered with trees.
Feathered (a.) Having a
fringe of feathers, as the legs of certian birds; or of hairs, as the legs of a
setter dog.
Feathered (a.) Having
feathers; -- said of an arrow, when the feathers are of a tincture different
from that of the shaft.
Feather-edge/ (n.) The
thin, new growth around the edge of a shell, of an oyster.
Feather-edge/ (n.) Any
thin, as on a board or a razor.
Feather-edged/ (a.) Having
a feather-edge; also, having one edge thinner than the other, as a board; -- in
the United States, said only of stuff one edge of which is made as thin as
practicable.
Feather-few/ (n.)
Feverfew.
Feather-foil (n.) An
aquatic plant (Hottonia palustris), having finely divided leaves.
Feather-head (n.) A
frivolous or featherbrained person.
Feather-headed (a.) Giddy;
frivolous; foolish.
Feather-heeled (a.)
Light-heeled; gay; frisky; frolicsome.
Featherness (n.) The state
or condition of being feathery.
Feathering (n.) Same as
Foliation.
Feathering (n.) The act of
turning the blade of the oar, as it rises from the water in rowing, from a
vertical to a horizontal position. See To feather an oar, under Feather, v. t.
Feathering (v. t.) A
covering of feathers.
Featherless (a.) Destitute
of feathers.
Featherly (a.) Like
feathers.
Feather-pated (a.)
Feather-headed; frivolous.
Feather-veined (a.) Having
the veins (of a leaf) diverging from the two sides of a midrib.
Feathery (a.) Pertaining
to, or resembling, feathers; covered with, or as with, feathers; as, feathery
spray or snow.
Featly (a.) Neatly;
dexterously; nimbly.
Featness (n.) Skill;
adroitness.
Feature (n.) The make,
form, or outward appearance of a person; the whole turn or style of the body;
esp., good appearance.
Feature (n.) The make,
cast, or appearance of the human face, and especially of any single part of the
face; a lineament. (pl.) The face, the countenance.
Feature (n.) The cast or
structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture,
a treaty, or an essay; any marked peculiarity or characteristic; as, one of the
features of the landscape.
Feature (n.) A form; a
shape.
Featured (a.) Shaped;
fashioned.
Featured (a.) Having
features; formed into features.
Featureless (a.) Having no
distinct or distinctive features.
Featurely (a.) Having
features; showing marked peculiarities; handsome.
Feazed (imp. & p. p.) of
Feaze
Feazing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Feaze
Feaze (v. t.) To untwist;
to unravel, as the end of a rope.
Feaze (v. t.) To beat; to
chastise; also, to humble; to harass; to worry.
Feaze (n.) A state of
anxious or fretful excitement; worry; vexation.
Feazings (v. t.) The
unlaid or ragged end of a rope.
Febricitate (v. i.) To
have a fever.
Febriculose (a.) Somewhat
feverish.
Febrifacient (a.)
Febrific.
Febrifacient (n.) That
which causes fever.
Febriferous (a.) Causing
fever; as, a febriferous locality.
Febrific (a.) Producing
fever.
Febrifugal (a.) Having the
quality of mitigating or curing fever.
Febrifuge (n.) A medicine
serving to mitigate or remove fever.
Febrifuge (a.)
Antifebrile.
Febrile (a.) Pertaining to
fever; indicating fever, or derived from it; as, febrile symptoms; febrile
action.
February (n.) The second
month in the year, said to have been introduced into the Roman calendar by Numa.
In common years this month contains twenty-eight days; in the bissextile, or
leap year, it has twenty-nine days.
Februation (n.)
Purification; a sacrifice.
Fecal (a.) relating to, or
containing, dregs, feces, or ordeure; faecal.
Fecche (v. t.) To fetch.
Feces (n. pl.) dregs;
sediment; excrement. See FAeces.
Fecial (a.) Pertaining to
heralds, declarations of war, and treaties of peace; as, fecial law.
Fecifork (n.) The anal
fork on which the larvae of certain insects carry their faeces.
Feckless (a.) Spiritless;
weak; worthless.
Fecks (n.) A corruption of
the word faith.
FeculAe (pl. ) of Fecula
Fecula (n.) Any
pulverulent matter obtained from plants by simply breaking down the texture,
washing with water, and subsidence.
Fecula (n.) The nutritious
part of wheat; starch or farina; -- called also amylaceous fecula.
Fecula (n.) The green
matter of plants; chlorophyll.
Feculence (n.) The state
or quality of being feculent; muddiness; foulness.
Feculence (n.) That which
is feculent; sediment; lees; dregs.
Feculency (n.) Feculence.
Feculent (a.) Foul with
extraneous or impure substances; abounding with sediment or excrementitious
matter; muddy; thick; turbid.
Fecund (a.) Fruitful in
children; prolific.
Fecundated (imp. & p. p.)
of Fecundate
Fecundating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fecundate
Fecundate (v. t.) To make
fruitful or prolific.
Fecundate (v. t.) To
render fruitful or prolific; to impregnate; as, in flowers the pollen fecundates
the ovum through the stigma.
Fecundation (n.) The act
by which, either in animals or plants, material prepared by the generative
organs the female organism is brought in contact with matter from the organs of
the male, so that a new organism results; impregnation; fertilization.
Fecundify (v. t.) To make
fruitful; to fecundate.
Fecundity (n.) The quality
or power of producing fruit; fruitfulness; especially (Biol.), the quality in
female organisms of reproducing rapidly and in great numbers.
Fecundity (n.) The power
of germinating; as in seeds.
Fecundity (n.) The power
of bringing forth in abundance; fertility; richness of invention; as, the
fecundity of God's creative power.
Fed () imp. & p. p. of Feed.
Fedary (n.) A feodary.
Federal (a.) Pertaining to
a league or treaty; derived from an agreement or covenant between parties,
especially between nations; constituted by a compact between parties, usually
governments or their representatives.
Federal (a.) Composed of
states or districts which retain only a subordinate and limited sovereignty, as
the Union of the United States, or the Sonderbund of Switzerland.
Federal (a.) Consisting or
pertaining to such a government; as, the Federal Constitution; a Federal
officer.
Federal (a.) Friendly or
devoted to such a government; as, the Federal party. see Federalist.
Federal (n.) See
Federalist.
Federalism (n.) the
principles of Federalists or of federal union.
Federalist (n.) An
advocate of confederation; specifically (Amer. Hist.), a friend of the
Constitution of the United States at its formation and adoption; a member of the
political party which favored the administration of president Washington.
Federalized (imp. & p. p.)
of Federalize
Federalizing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Federalize
Federalize (v. t.) To
unite in compact, as different States; to confederate for political purposes; to
unite by or under the Federal Constitution.
Federary (n.) A partner; a
confederate; an accomplice.
Federate (a.) United by
compact, as sovereignties, states, or nations; joined in confederacy; leagued;
confederate; as, federate nations.
Federation (n.) The act of
uniting in a league; confederation.
Federation (n.) A league;
a confederacy; a federal or confederated government.
Federative (a.) Uniting in
a league; forming a confederacy; federal.
Fedity (n.) Turpitude;
vileness.
Fee (n.) property;
possession; tenure.
Fee (n.) Reward or
compensation for services rendered or to be rendered; especially, payment for
professional services, of optional amount, or fixed by custom or laws; charge;
pay; perquisite; as, the fees of lawyers and physicians; the fees of office;
clerk's fees; sheriff's fees; marriage fees, etc.
Fee (n.) A right to the
use of a superior's land, as a stipend for services to be performed; also, the
land so held; a fief.
Fee (n.) An estate of
inheritance supposed to be held either mediately or immediately from the
sovereign, and absolutely vested in the owner.
Fee (n.) An estate of
inheritance belonging to the owner, and transmissible to his heirs, absolutely
and simply, without condition attached to the tenure.
Feed (imp. & p. p.) of Fee
Feeing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fee
Fee (v. t.) To reward for
services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire;
hence, to bribe.
Feeble (superl.) Deficient
in physical strength; weak; infirm; debilitated.
Feeble (superl.) Wanting
force, vigor, or efficiency in action or expression; not full, loud, bright,
strong, rapid, etc.; faint; as, a feeble color; feeble motion.
Feeble (v. t.) To make
feble; to enfeeble.
Feeble-minded (a.) Weak in
intellectual power; wanting firmness or constancy; irresolute; vacilating;
imbecile.
Feebleness (n.) The
quality or condition of being feeble; debility; infirmity.
Feebly (adv.) In a feeble
manner.
Fed (imp. & p. p.) of Feed
Feeding (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Feed
Feed (v. t.) To give food
to; to supply with nourishment; to satisfy the physical huger of.
Feed (v. t.) To satisfy;
grafity or minister to, as any sense, talent, taste, or desire.
Feed (v. t.) To fill the
wants of; to supply with that which is used or wasted; as, springs feed ponds;
the hopper feeds the mill; to feed a furnace with coal.
Feed (v. t.) To nourish,
in a general sense; to foster, strengthen, develop, and guard.
Feed (v. t.) To graze; to
cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle; as, if grain is too
forward in autumn, feed it with sheep.
Feed (v. t.) To give for
food, especially to animals; to furnish for consumption; as, to feed out turnips
to the cows; to feed water to a steam boiler.
Feed (v. t.) To supply
(the material to be operated upon) to a machine; as, to feed paper to a printing
press.
Feed (v. t.) To produce
progressive operation upon or with (as in wood and metal working machines, so
that the work moves to the cutting tool, or the tool to the work).
Feed (v. i.) To take food;
to eat.
Feed (v. i.) To subject by
eating; to satisfy the appetite; to feed one's self (upon something); to prey;
-- with on or upon.
Feed (v. i.) To be
nourished, strengthened, or satisfied, as if by food.
Feed (v. i.) To place
cattle to feed; to pasture; to graze.
Feed (n.) That which is
eaten; esp., food for beasts; fodder; pasture; hay; grain, ground or whole; as,
the best feed for sheep.
Feed (n.) A grazing or
pasture ground.
Feed (n.) An allowance of
provender given to a horse, cow, etc.; a meal; as, a feed of corn or oats.
Feed (n.) A meal, or the
act of eating.
Feed (n.) The water
supplied to steam boilers.
Feed (n.) The motion, or
act, of carrying forward the stuff to be operated upon, as cloth to the needle
in a sewing machine; or of producing progressive operation upon any material or
object in a machine, as, in a turning lathe, by moving the cutting tool along or
in the work.
Feed (n.) The supply of
material to a machine, as water to a steam boiler, coal to a furnace, or grain
to a run of stones.
Feed (n.) The mechanism by
which the action of feeding is produced; a feed motion.
Feeder (n.) One who, or
that which, gives food or supplies nourishment; steward.
Feeder (n.) One who
furnishes incentives; an encourager.
Feeder (n.) One who eats
or feeds; specifically, an animal to be fed or fattened.
Feeder (n.) One who
fattens cattle for slaughter.
Feeder (n.) A stream that
flows into another body of water; a tributary; specifically (Hydraulic Engin.),
a water course which supplies a canal or reservoir by gravitation or natural
flow.
Feeder (n.) A branch
railroad, stage line, or the like; a side line which increases the business of
the main line.
Feeder (n.) A small
lateral lode falling into the main lode or mineral vein.
Feeder (n.) A strong
discharge of gas from a fissure; a blower.
Feeder (n.) An auxiliary
part of a machine which supplies or leads along the material operated upon.
Feeder (n.) A device for
supplying steam boilers with water as needed.
Feeding (n.) the act of
eating, or of supplying with food; the process of fattening.
Feeding (n.) That which is
eaten; food.
Feeding (n.) That which
furnishes or affords food, especially for animals; pasture land.
Fee-faw-fum (n.) A
nonsensical exclamation attributed to giants and ogres; hence, any expression
calculated to impose upon the timid and ignorant.
Feejee (a. & n.) See
Fijian.
Felt (imp. & p. p.) of
Feel
Feeling (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Feel
Feel (v. t.) To perceive
by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation
distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; to have
sensation excited by contact of (a thing) with the body or limbs.
Feel (v. t.) To touch; to
handle; to examine by touching; as, feel this piece of silk; hence, to make
trial of; to test; often with out.
Feel (v. t.) To perceive
by the mind; to have a sense of; to experience; to be affected by; to be
sensible of, or sensetive to; as, to feel pleasure; to feel pain.
Feel (v. t.) To take
internal cognizance of; to be conscious of; to have an inward persuasion of.
Feel (v. t.) To perceive;
to observe.
Feel (v. i.) To have
perception by the touch, or by contact of anything with the nerves of sensation,
especially those upon the surface of the body.
Feel (v. i.) To have the
sensibilities moved or affected.
Feel (v. i.) To be
conscious of an inward impression, state of mind, persuasion, physical
condition, etc.; to perceive one's self to be; -- followed by an adjective
describing the state, etc.; as, to feel assured, grieved, persuaded.
Feel (v. i.) To know with
feeling; to be conscious; hence, to know certainly or without misgiving.
Feel (v. i.) To appear to
the touch; to give a perception; to produce an impression by the nerves of
sensation; -- followed by an adjective describing the kind of sensation.
Feel (n.) Feeling;
perception.
Feel (n.) A sensation
communicated by touching; impression made upon one who touches or handles; as,
this leather has a greasy feel.
Feeler (n.) One who, or
that which, feels.
Feeler (n.) One of the
sense organs or certain animals (as insects), which are used in testing objects
by touch and in searching for food; an antenna; a palp.
Feeler (n.) Anything, as a
proposal, observation, etc., put forth or thrown out in order to ascertain the
views of others; something tentative.
Feeling (a.) Possessing
great sensibility; easily affected or moved; as, a feeling heart.
Feeling (a.) Expressive of
great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility; as, he made a feeling
representation of his wrongs.
Feeling (n.) The sense by
which the mind, through certain nerves of the body, perceives external objects,
or certain states of the body itself; that one of the five senses which resides
in the general nerves of sensation distributed over the body, especially in its
surface; the sense of touch; nervous sensibility to external objects.
Feeling (n.) An act or
state of perception by the sense above described; an act of apprehending any
object whatever; an act or state of apprehending the state of the soul itself;
consciousness.
Feeling (n.) The capacity
of the soul for emotional states; a high degree of susceptibility to emotions or
states of the sensibility not dependent on the body; as, a man of feeling; a man
destitute of feeling.
Feeling (n.) Any state or
condition of emotion; the exercise of the capacity for emotion; any mental state
whatever; as, a right or a wrong feeling in the heart; our angry or kindly
feelings; a feeling of pride or of humility.
Feeling (n.) That quality
of a work of art which embodies the mental emotion of the artist, and is
calculated to affect similarly the spectator.
Feelingly (adv.) In a
feeling manner; pathetically; sympathetically.
Feere (n.) A consort,
husband or wife; a companion; a fere.
Feese (n.) the short run
before a leap.
Feet (n. pl.) See Foot.
Feet (n.) Fact;
performance.
Feetless (a.) Destitute of
feet; as, feetless birds.
Feeze (v. t.) To turn, as
a screw.
Feeze (v. t.) To beat; to
chastise; to humble; to worry.
Feeze (n.) Fretful
excitement. [Obs.] See Feaze.
Fehling (n.) See Fehling's
solution, under Solution.
Fehmic (a.) See Vehmic.
Feigned (imp. & p. p.) of
Feign
Feigning (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Feign
Feign (v. t.) To give a
mental existence to, as to something not real or actual; to imagine; to invent;
hence, to pretend; to form and relate as if true.
Feign (v. t.) To represent
by a false appearance of; to pretend; to counterfeit; as, to feign a sickness.
Feign (v. t.) To
dissemble; to conceal.
Feigned (a.) Not real or
genuine; pretended; counterfeit; insincere; false.
Feigner (n.) One who
feigns or pretends.
Feigning (a.) That feigns;
insincere; not genuine; false.
Feine (v. t. & i.) To
feign.
Feint (a.) Feigned;
counterfeit.
Feint (a.) That which is
feigned; an assumed or false appearance; a pretense; a stratagem; a fetch.
Feint (a.) A mock blow or
attack on one part when another part is intended to be struck; -- said of
certain movements in fencing, boxing, war, etc.
Feint (v. i.) To make a
feint, or mock attack.
Feitsui (n.) The Chinese
name for a highly prized variety of pale green jade. See Jade.
Feize (v. t.) See Feeze,
v. t.
Felanders (n. pl.) See
Filanders.
Feldspar (n.) Alt. of
Feldspath
Feldspath (n.) A name
given to a group of minerals, closely related in crystalline form, and all
silicates of alumina with either potash, soda, lime, or, in one case, baryta.
They occur in crystals and crystalline masses, vitreous in luster, and breaking
rather easily in two directions at right angles to each other, or nearly so. The
colors are usually white or nearly white, flesh-red, bluish, or greenish.
Feldspathic (a.) Alt. of
Feldspathose
Feldspathose (a.)
Pertaining to, or consisting of, feldspar.
Fele (a.) Many.
Fe-licify (v. t.) To make
happy; to felicitate.
Felicitate (a.) Made very
happy.
Felicitated (imp. & p. p.)
of Felicitate
felicitating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Felicitate
Felicitate (v. t.) To make
very happy; to delight.
Felicitate (v. t.) To
express joy or pleasure to; to wish felicity to; to call or consider (one's
self) happy; to congratulate.
Felicitation (n.) The act
of felicitating; a wishing of joy or happiness; congratulation.
Felicitous (a.)
Characterized by felicity; happy; prosperous; delightful; skilful; successful;
happily applied or expressed; appropriate.
Felicities (pl. ) of
Felicity
Felicity (n.) The state of
being happy; blessedness; blissfulness; enjoyment of good.
Felicity (n.) That which
promotes happiness; a successful or gratifying event; prosperity; blessing.
Felicity (n.) A pleasing
faculty or accomplishment; as, felicity in painting portraits, or in writing or
talking.
Feline (a.) Catlike; of or
pertaining to the genus Felis, or family Felidae; as, the feline race; feline
voracity.
Feline (a.) Characteristic
of cats; sly; stealthy; treacherous; as, a feline nature; feline manners.
Felis (n.) A genus of
carnivorous mammals, including the domestic cat, the lion, tiger, panther, and
similar animals.
Fell () imp. of Fall.
Fell (a.) Cruel;
barbarous; inhuman; fierce; savage; ravenous.
Fell (a.) Eager; earnest;
intent.
Fell (a.) Gall; anger;
melancholy.
Fell (n.) A skin or hide
of a beast with the wool or hair on; a pelt; -- used chiefly in composition, as
woolfell.
Fell (n.) A barren or
rocky hill.
Fell (n.) A wild field; a
moor.
Felled (imp. & p. p.) of
Fell
Felling (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fell
Fell (v. i.) To cause to
fall; to prostrate; to bring down or to the ground; to cut down.
Fell (n.) The finer
portions of ore which go through the meshes, when the ore is sorted by sifting.
Fell (v. t.) To sew or
hem; -- said of seams.
Fell (n.) A form of seam
joining two pieces of cloth, the edges being folded together and the stitches
taken through both thicknesses.
Fell (n.) The end of a
web, formed by the last thread of the weft.
Fellable (a.) Fit to be
felled.
Fellahin (pl. ) of Fellah
Fellahs (pl. ) of Fellah
Fellah (n.) A peasant or
cultivator of the soil among the Egyptians, Syrians, etc.
Feller (n.) One who, or
that which, fells, knocks or cuts down; a machine for felling trees.
Feller (n.) An appliance
to a sewing machine for felling a seam.
Felltare (n.) The
fieldfare.
Felliflu-ous (a.) Flowing
with gall.
Fellinic (a.) Of, relating
to, or derived from, bile or gall; as, fellinic acid.
Fellmonger (n.) A dealer
in fells or sheepskins, who separates the wool from the pelts.
Fellness (n.) The quality
or state of being fell or cruel; fierce barbarity.
Felloe (n.) See Felly.
Fellon (n.) Variant of
Felon.
Fellow (n.) A companion; a
comrade; an associate; a partner; a sharer.
Fellow (n.) A man without
good breeding or worth; an ignoble or mean man.
Fellow (n.) An equal in
power, rank, character, etc.
Fellow (n.) One of a pair,
or of two things used together or suited to each other; a mate; the male.
Fellow (n.) A person; an
individual.
Fellow (n.) In the English
universities, a scholar who is appointed to a foundation called a fellowship,
which gives a title to certain perquisites and privileges.
Fellow (n.) In an American
college or university, a member of the corporation which manages its business
interests; also, a graduate appointed to a fellowship, who receives the income
of the foundation.
Fellow (n.) A member of a
literary or scientific society; as, a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Fellow (v. t.) To suit
with; to pair with; to match.
Fellow-commoner (n.) A
student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's
table.
Fellow-creature (n.) One
of the same race or kind; one made by the same Creator.
Fellowfeel (v. t.) To
share through sympathy; to participate in.
Fellow-feeling (n.)
Sympathy; a like feeling.
Fellow-feeling (n.) Joint
interest.
Fellowless (a.) Without
fellow or equal; peerless.
Fellowlike (a.) Like a
companion; companionable; on equal terms; sympathetic.
Fellowly (a.) Fellowlike.
Fellowship (n.) The state
or relation of being or associate.
Fellowship (n.)
Companionship of persons on equal and friendly terms; frequent and familiar
intercourse.
Fellowship (n.) A state of
being together; companionship; partnership; association; hence, confederation;
joint interest.
Fellowship (n.) Those
associated with one, as in a family, or a society; a company.
Fellowship (n.) A
foundation for the maintenance, on certain conditions, of a scholar called a
fellow, who usually resides at the university.
Fellowship (n.) The rule
for dividing profit and loss among partners; -- called also partnership,
company, and distributive proportion.
Fellowshiped (imp. & p. p.)
of Fellowship
Fellowshiping (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fellowship
Fellowship (v. t.) To
acknowledge as of good standing, or in communion according to standards of faith
and practice; to admit to Christian fellowship.
Felly (adv.) In a fell or
cruel manner; fiercely; barbarously; savagely.
Fellies (pl. ) of Felly
Felly (n.) The exterior
wooden rim, or a segment of the rim, of a wheel, supported by the spokes.
Felos-de-se (pl. ) of
Felo-de-se
Felo-de-se (n.) One who
deliberately puts an end to his own existence, or loses his life while engaged
in the commission of an unlawful or malicious act; a suicide.
Felon (a.) A person who
has committed a felony.
Felon (a.) A person guilty
or capable of heinous crime.
Felon (a.) A kind of
whitlow; a painful imflammation of the periosteum of a finger, usually of the
last joint.
Felon (a.) Characteristic
of a felon; malignant; fierce; malicious; cruel; traitorous; disloyal.
Felonious (a.) Having the
quality of felony; malignant; malicious; villainous; traitorous; perfidious; in
a legal sense, done with intent to commit a crime; as, felonious homicide.
Felonous (a.) Wicked;
felonious.
Felonry (n.) A body of
felons; specifically, the convict population of a penal colony.
Felonwort (n.) The
bittersweet nightshade (Solanum Dulcamara). See Bittersweet.
Felonies (pl. ) of Felony
Felony (n.) An act on the
part of the vassal which cost him his fee by forfeiture.
Felony (n.) An offense
which occasions a total forfeiture either lands or goods, or both, at the common
law, and to which capital or other punishment may be added, according to the
degree of guilt.
Felony (n.) A heinous
crime; especially, a crime punishable by death or imprisonment.
To compound a felony () See under
Compound, v. t.
Felsite (n.) A finegrained
rock, flintlike in fracture, consisting essentially of orthoclase feldspar with
occasional grains of quartz.
Felsitic (a.) relating to,
composed of, or containing, felsite.
Felspar (n.) Alt. of
Felspath
Felspath (n.) See
Feldspar.
Felspathic (a.) See
Feldspathic.
Felstone (n.) See Felsite.
Felt () imp. & p. p. / a. from
Feel.
Felt (n.) A cloth or stuff
made of matted fibers of wool, or wool and fur, fulled or wrought into a compact
substance by rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or
weaving.
Felt (n.) A hat made of
felt.
Felt (n.) A skin or hide;
a fell; a pelt.
Felted (imp. & p. p.) of
Felt
Felting (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Felt
Felt (v. t.) To make into
felt, or a feltike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.
Felt (v. t.) To cover
with, or as with, felt; as, to felt the cylinder of a steam emgine.
Felter (v. t.) To clot or
mat together like felt.
Felting (n.) The material
of which felt is made; also, felted cloth; also, the process by which it is
made.
Felting (n.) The act of
splitting timber by the felt grain.
Feltry (n.) See Felt, n.
Felucca (n.) A small,
swift-sailing vessel, propelled by oars and lateen sails, -- once common in the
Mediterranean.
Felwort (n.) A European
herb (Swertia perennis) of the Gentian family.
Female (n.) An individual
of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or (in a wider sense) which
has an ovary and produces ova.
Female (n.) A plant which
produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing
into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant.
Female (a.) Belonging to
the sex which conceives and gives birth to young, or (in a wider sense) which
produces ova; not male.
Female (a.) Belonging to
an individual of the female sex; characteristic of woman; feminine; as, female
tenderness.
Female (a.) Having pistils
and no stamens; pistillate; or, in cryptogamous plants, capable of receiving
fertilization.
Female rhymes () double rhymes,
or rhymes (called in French feminine rhymes because they end in e weak, or
feminine) in which two syllables, an accented and an unaccented one, correspond
at the end of each line.
Female fern () a common species
of fern with large decompound fronds (Asplenium Filixfaemina), growing in many
countries; lady fern.
Femalist (n.) A gallant.
Femalize (v. t.) To make,
or to describe as, female or feminine.
Feme (n.) A woman.
Femeral (n.) See Femerell.
Femerell (n.) A lantern,
or louver covering, placed on a roof, for ventilation or escape of smoke.
Feminal (a.) Feminine.
Feminality (n.) Feminity.
Feminate (a.) Feminine.
Femineity (n.)
Womanliness; femininity.
Feminine (a.) Of or
pertaining to a woman, or to women; characteristic of a woman; womanish;
womanly.
Feminine (a.) Having the
qualities of a woman; becoming or appropriate to the female sex; as, in a good
sense, modest, graceful, affectionate, confiding; or, in a bad sense, weak,
nerveless, timid, pleasure-loving, effeminate.
Feminine rhyme () See Female
rhyme, under Female, a.
Feminine (n.) A woman.
Feminine (n.) Any one of
those words which are the appellations of females, or which have the
terminations usually found in such words; as, actress, songstress, abbess,
executrix.
Femininely (adv.) In a
feminine manner.
Feminineness (n.) The
quality of being feminine; womanliness; womanishness.
Femininity (n.) The
quality or nature of the female sex; womanliness.
Femininity (n.) The female
form.
Feminity (n.) Womanliness;
femininity.
Feminization (n.) The act
of feminizing, or the state of being feminized.
Feminize (v. t.) To make
womanish or effeminate.
Feminye (n.) The people
called Amazons.
Femme (n.) A woman. See
Feme, n.
Femoral (a.) Pertaining to
the femur or thigh; as, the femoral artery.
Femora (pl. ) of Femur
Femur (n.) The thigh bone.
Femur (n.) The proximal
segment of the hind limb containing the thigh bone; the thigh. See Coxa.
Fen (n.) Low land
overflowed, or covered wholly or partially with water, but producing sedge,
coarse grasses, or other aquatic plants; boggy land; moor; marsh.
Fence (n.) That which
fends off attack or danger; a defense; a protection; a cover; security; shield.
Fence (n.) An inclosure
about a field or other space, or about any object; especially, an inclosing
structure of wood, iron, or other material, intended to prevent intrusion from
without or straying from within.
Fence (n.) A projection on
the bolt, which passes through the tumbler gates in locking and unlocking.
Fence (n.) Self-defense by
the use of the sword; the art and practice of fencing and sword play; hence,
skill in debate and repartee. See Fencing.
Fence (n.) A receiver of
stolen goods, or a place where they are received.
Fencing (imp. & p. p. Fenced
(/); p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fence
Fence (v. t.) To fend off
danger from; to give security to; to protect; to guard.
Fence (v. t.) To inclose
with a fence or other protection; to secure by an inclosure.
Fence (v. i.) To make a
defense; to guard one's self of anything, as against an attack; to give
protection or security, as by a fence.
Fence (v. i.) To practice
the art of attack and defense with the sword or with the foil, esp. with the
smallsword, using the point only.
Fence (v. i.) Hence, to
fight or dispute in the manner of fencers, that is, by thrusting, guarding,
parrying, etc.
Fenceful (a.) Affording
defense; defensive.
Fenceless (a.) Without a
fence; uninclosed; open; unguarded; defenseless.
Fencer (n.) One who
fences; one who teaches or practices the art of fencing with sword or foil.
Fenci-ble (a.) Capable of
being defended, or of making or affording defense.
Fencible (n.) A soldier
enlisted for home service only; -- usually in the pl.
Fencing (n.) The art or
practice of attack and defense with the sword, esp. with the smallsword. See
Fence, v. i., 2.
Fencing (v. i.) Disputing
or debating in a manner resembling the art of fencers.
Fencing (v. i.) The
materials used for building fences.
Fencing (v. i.) The act of
building a fence.
Fencing (v. i.) The
aggregate of the fences put up for inclosure or protection; as, the fencing of a
farm.
Fen cricket () The mole cricket.
Fend (n.) A fiend.
Fended (imp. & p. p.) of
Fend
Fending (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fend
Fend (v. t.) To keep off;
to prevent from entering or hitting; to ward off; to shut out; -- often with
off; as, to fend off blows.
Fend (v. i.) To act on the
defensive, or in opposition; to resist; to parry; to shift off.
Fender (v. t. & i.) One
who or that which defends or protects by warding off harm
Fender (v. t. & i.) A
screen to prevent coals or sparks of an open fire from escaping to the floor.
Fender (v. t. & i.)
Anything serving as a cushion to lessen the shock when a vessel comes in contact
with another vessel or a wharf.
Fender (v. t. & i.) A
screen to protect a carriage from mud thrown off the wheels: also, a
splashboard.
Fender (v. t. & i.)
Anything set up to protect an exposed angle, as of a house, from damage by
carriage wheels.
Fendliche (a.) Fiendlike.
Fenerate (v. i.) To put
money to usury; to lend on interest.
Feneration (n.) The act of
fenerating; interest.
Fenes-tella (n.) Any small
windowlike opening or recess, esp. one to show the relics within an altar, or
the like.
Fenestrae (pl. ) of
Fenestra
Fenestra (n.) A small
opening; esp., one of the apertures, closed by membranes, between the tympanum
and internal ear.
Fenestral (a.) Pertaining
to a window or to windows.
Fenestral (a.) Of or
pertaining to a fenestra.
Fenestral (n.) A casement
or window sash, closed with cloth or paper instead of glass.
Fenestrate (a.) Having
numerous openings; irregularly reticulated; as, fenestrate membranes; fenestrate
fronds.
Fenestrate (a.) Having
transparent spots, as the wings of certain butterflies.
Fenestrated (a.) Having
windows; characterized by windows.
Fenestrated (a.) Same as
Fenestrate.
Fenestration (n.) The
arrangement and proportioning of windows; -- used by modern writers for the
decorating of an architectural composition by means of the window (and door)
openings, their ornaments, and proportions.
Fenestration (n.) The
state or condition of being fenestrated.
Fenestrule (n.) One of the
openings in a fenestrated structure.
Fengite (n.) A kind of
marble or alabaster, sometimes used for windows on account of its transparency.
Fenian (n.) A member of a
secret organization, consisting mainly of Irishment, having for its aim the
overthrow of English rule in ireland.
Fenian (a.) Pertaining to
Fenians or to Fenianism.
Fenianism (n.) The
principles, purposes, and methods of the Fenians.
Fenks (n.) The refuse
whale blubber, used as a manure, and in the manufacture of Prussian blue.
Fennec (n.) A small,
African, foxlike animal (Vulpes zerda) of a pale fawn color, remarkable for the
large size of its ears.
Fennel (n.) A perennial
plant of the genus Faeniculum (F. vulgare), having very finely divided leaves.
It is cultivated in gardens for the agreeable aromatic flavor of its seeds.
Fennish (a.) Abounding in
fens; fenny.
Fenny (a.) Pertaining to,
or inhabiting, a fen; abounding in fens; swampy; boggy.
Fenowed (a.) Corrupted;
decayed; moldy. See Vinnewed.
Fensi-ble (a.) Fencible.
Fen-sucked (a.) Sucked out
of marches.
Fenugreek (n.) A plant
(trigonella Foenum Graecum) cultivated for its strong-smelling seeds, which are
Feod (n.) A feud. See 2d
Feud.
Feodal (a.) Feudal. See
Feudal.
Feodality (n.) Feudal
tenure; the feudal system. See Feudality.
Feodary (n.) An
accomplice.
Feodary (n.) An ancient
officer of the court of wards.
Feodatory (n.) See
Feudatory.
Feoffed (imp. & p. p.) of
Feoff
Feoffing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Feoff
Feoff (v. t.) To invest
with a fee or feud; to give or grant a corporeal hereditament to; to enfeoff.
Feoff (n.) A fief. See
Fief.
Feoffee (n.) The person to
whom a feoffment is made; the person enfeoffed.
Feoffment (n.) The grant
of a feud or fee.
Feoffment (n.) A gift or
conveyance in fee of land or other corporeal hereditaments, accompanied by
actual delivery of possession.
Feoffment (n.) The
instrument or deed by which corporeal hereditaments are conveyed.
Feofor (n.) Alt. of
Feoffer
Feoffer (n.) One who
enfeoffs or grants a fee.
Fer (a. & adv.) Far.
Feracious (a.) Fruitful;
producing abundantly.
Feracity (n.) The state of
being feracious or fruitful.
Ferae (n. pl.) A group of
mammals which formerly included the Carnivora, Insectivora, Marsupialia, and
lemurs, but is now often restricted to the Carnivora.
Ferae naturae () Of a wild
nature; -- applied to animals, as foxes, wild ducks, etc., in which no one can
claim property.
Feral (a.) Wild; untamed;
ferine; not domesticated; -- said of beasts, birds, and plants.
Feral (a.) Funereal;
deadly; fatal; dangerous.
Ferde () imp. of Fare.
Fer-de-lance (n.) A large,
venomous serpent (Trigonocephalus lanceolatus) of Brazil and the West Indies. It
is allied to the rattlesnake, but has no rattle.
Ferding (n.) A measure of
land mentioned in Domesday Book. It is supposed to have consisted of a few acres
only.
Ferdness (n.) Fearfulness.
Fere (n.) A mate or
companion; -- often used of a wife.
Fere (a.) Fierce.
Fere (n.) Fire.
Fere (n.) Fear.
Fere (v. t. & i.) To fear.
Feretory (n.) A portable
bier or shrine, variously adorned, used for containing relics of saints.
Ferforth (adv.) Far forth.
Ferforthly (adv.)
Ferforth.
Fergusonite (n.) A mineral
of a brownish black color, essentially a tantalo-niobate of yttrium, erbium, and
cerium; -- so called after Robert Ferguson.
Feriae (pl. ) of Feria
Feria (n.) A week day,
esp. a day which is neither a festival nor a fast.
Ferial (n.) Same as Feria.
Ferial (a.) Of or
pertaining to holidays.
Ferial (a.) Belonging to
any week day, esp. to a day that is neither a festival nor a fast.
Feriation (n.) The act of
keeping holiday; cessation from work.
Ferie (n.) A holiday.
Ferier (a.) compar. of
Fere, fierce.
Ferine (a.) Wild; untamed;
savage; as, lions, tigers, wolves, and bears are ferine beasts.
Ferine (n.) A wild beast;
a beast of prey.
Feringee (n.) The name
given to Europeans by the Hindos.
Ferity (n.) Wildness;
savageness; fierceness.
Ferly (n.) Singular;
wonderful; extraordinary.
Ferly (n.) A wonder; a
marvel.
Fermacy (n.) Medicine;
pharmacy.
Ferm (n.) Alt. of Ferme
Ferme (n.) Rent for a
farm; a farm; also, an abode; a place of residence; as, he let his land to ferm.
Ferment (n.) That which
causes fermentation, as yeast, barm, or fermenting beer.
Ferment (n.) Intestine
motion; heat; tumult; agitation.
Ferment (n.) A gentle
internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation.
Fermented (imp. & p. p.)
of Ferment
Fermenting (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Ferment
Ferment (n.) To cause
ferment of fermentation in; to set in motion; to excite internal emotion in; to
heat.
Ferment (v. i.) To undergo
fermentation; to be in motion, or to be excited into sensible internal motion,
as the constituent oarticles of an animal or vegetable fluid; to work; to
effervesce.
Ferment (v. i.) To be
agitated or excited by violent emotions.
Fermentability (n.)
Capability of fermentation.
Fermentable (a.) Capable
of fermentation; as, cider and other vegetable liquors are fermentable.
Fermental (a.)
Fermentative.
Fermentation (n.) The
process of undergoing an effervescent change, as by the action of yeast; in a
wider sense (Physiol. Chem.), the transformation of an organic substance into
new compounds by the action of a ferment, either formed or unorganized. It
differs in kind according to the nature of the ferment which causes it.
Fermentation (n.) A state
of agitation or excitement, as of the intellect or the feelings.
Fermentative (a.) Causing,
or having power to cause, fermentation; produced by fermentation; fermenting;
as, a fermentative process.
Fermerere (n.) The officer
in a religious house who had the care of the infirmary.
Fermillet (n.) A buckle or
clasp.
Fern (adv.) Long ago.
Fern (a.) Ancient; old.
[Obs.] "Pilgrimages to . . . ferne halwes." [saints].
Fern (n.) An order of
cryptogamous plants, the Filices, which have their fructification on the back of
the fronds or leaves. They are usually found in humid soil, sometimes grow
epiphytically on trees, and in tropical climates often attain a gigantic size.
Fernery (n.) A place for
rearing ferns.
Fernticle (n.) A freckle
on the skin, resembling the seed of fern.
Ferny (a.) Abounding in
ferns.
Ferocious (a.) Fierce;
savage; wild; indicating cruelty; ravenous; rapacious; as, ferocious look or
features; a ferocious lion.
Ferocity (n.) Savage
wildness or fierceness; fury; cruelty; as, ferocity of countenance.
Feroher (n.) A symbol of
the solar deity, found on monuments exhumed in Babylon, Nineveh, etc.
Ferous (a.) Wild; savage.
-ferous () A suffix signifying
bearing, producing, yielding; as, auriferous, yielding gold; chyliferous,
producing chyle.
Ferrandine (n.) A stuff
made of silk and wool.
Ferrara (n.) A sword
bearing the mark of one of the Ferrara family of Italy. These swords were highly
esteemed in England and Scotland in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Ferrarese (a.) Pertaining
to Ferrara, in Italy.
Ferrarese (n., sing. & pl.)
A citizen of Ferrara; collectively, the inhabitants of Ferrara.
Ferrary (n.) The art of
working in iron.
Ferrate (n.) A salt of
ferric acid.
Ferre (a. & adv.) Alt. of
Ferrer
Ferrer (a. & adv.) compar.
of Fer.
Ferreous (a.) Partaking
of, made of, or pertaining to, iron; like iron.
Ferrest (a. & adv.)
superl. of Fer.
Ferret (n.) An animal of
the Weasel family (Mustela / Putorius furo), about fourteen inches in length, of
a pale yellow or white color, with red eyes. It is a native of Africa, but has
been domesticated in Europe. Ferrets are used to drive rabbits and rats out of
their holes.
Ferreted (imp. & p. p.) of
Ferret
Ferreting (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Ferret
Ferret (n.) To drive or
hunt out of a lurking place, as a ferret does the cony; to search out by patient
and sagacious efforts; -- often used with out; as, to ferret out a secret.
Ferret (n.) A kind of
narrow tape, usually made of woolen; sometimes of cotton or silk; -- called also
ferreting.
Ferret (n.) The iron used
for trying the melted glass to see if is fit to work, and for shaping the rings
at the mouths of bottles.
Ferreter (n.) One who
ferrets.
Ferret-eye (n.) The
spur-winged goose; -- so called from the red circle around the eyes.
Ferretto (n.) Copper
sulphide, used to color glass.
Ferri- () A combining form
indicating ferric iron as an ingredient; as, ferricyanide.
Ferriage (n.) The price or
fare to be paid for passage at a ferry.
Ferric (a.) Pertaining to,
derived from, or containing iron. Specifically (Chem.), denoting those compounds
in which iron has a higher valence than in the ferrous compounds; as, ferric
oxide; ferric acid.
Ferricyanate (n.) A salt
of ferricyanic acid; a ferricyanide.
Ferricyanic (a.)
Pertaining to, or derived from, a ferricyanide.
Ferricyanide (n.) One of a
complex series of double cyanides of ferric iron and some other base.
Ferrier (n.) A ferryman.
Ferriferous (a.) Producing
or yielding iron.
Ferriprussiate (n.) A
ferricyanate; a ferricyanide.
Ferriprussic (a.)
Ferricyanic.
Ferro- () A prefix, or combining
form, indicating ferrous iron as an ingredient; as, ferrocyanide.
Ferrocalcite (n.)
Limestone containing a large percentage of iron carbonate, and hence turning
brown on exposure.
Ferrocyanate (n.) A salt
of ferrocyanic acid; a ferrocyanide.
Ferrocyanic (a.)
Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, a ferrocyanide.
Ferrocyanide (n.) One of a
series of complex double cyanides of ferrous iron and some other base.
Ferroprussiate (n.) A
ferrocyanate; a ferocyanide.
Ferroprussic (a.)
Ferrocyanic.
Ferroso- () See Ferro-.
Ferrotype (n.) A
photographic picture taken on an iron plate by a collodion process; --
familiarly called tintype.
Ferrous (a.) Pertaining
to, or derived from, iron; -- especially used of compounds of iron in which the
iron has its lower valence; as, ferrous sulphate.
Ferruginated (a.) Having
the color or properties of the rust of iron.
Ferrugineous (a.)
Ferruginous.
Ferruginous (a.) Partaking
of iron; containing particles of iron.
Ferruginous (a.)
Resembling iron rust in appearance or color; brownish red, or yellowish red.
Ferrugo (n.) A disease of
plants caused by fungi, commonly called the rust, from its resemblance to iron
rust in color.
Ferrule (n.) A ring or cap
of metal put round a cane, tool, handle, or other similar object, to strengthen
it, or prevent splitting and wearing.
Ferrule (n.) A bushing for
expanding the end of a flue to fasten it tightly in the tube plate, or for
partly filling up its mouth.
Ferruminate (v. t.) To
solder or unite, as metals.
Ferrumination (n.) The
soldering ir uniting of me/ als.
Ferried (imp. & p. p.) of
Ferry
Ferrying (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Ferry
Ferry (v. t.) To carry or
transport over a river, strait, or other narrow water, in a boat.
Ferry (v. i.) To pass over
water in a boat or by a ferry.
Ferries (pl. ) of Ferry
Ferry (v. t.) A place
where persons or things are carried across a river, arm of the sea, etc., in a
ferryboat.
Ferry (v. t.) A vessel in
which passengers and goods are conveyed over narrow waters; a ferryboat; a
wherry.
Ferry (v. t.) A franchise
or right to maintain a vessel for carrying passengers and freight across a
river, bay, etc., charging tolls.
Ferryboat (n.) A vessel
for conveying passengers, merchandise, etc., across streams and other narrow
waters.
Ferrymen (pl. ) of
Ferryman
Ferryman (n.) One who
maintains or attends a ferry.
Fers (a.) Fierce.
Ferthe (a.) Fourth.
Fertile (a.) Producing
fruit or vegetation in abundance; fruitful; able to produce abundantly;
prolific; fecund; productive; rich; inventive; as, fertile land or fields; a
fertile mind or imagination.
Fertile (a.) Capable of
producing fruit; fruit-bearing; as, fertile flowers.
Fertile (a.) Containing
pollen; -- said of anthers.
Fertile (a.) produced in
abundance; plenteous; ample.
Fertilely (adv.) In a
fertile or fruitful manner.
fertileness (n.)
Fertility.
Fertilitate (v. t.) To
fertilize; to fecundate.
Fertility (n.) The state
or quality of being fertile or fruitful; fruitfulness; productiveness;
fecundity; richness; abundance of resources; fertile invention; quickness;
readiness; as, the fertility of soil, or of imagination.
Fertilization (n.) The act
or process of rendering fertile.
Fertilization (n.) The act
of fecundating or impregnating animal or vegetable germs; esp., the process by
which in flowers the pollen renders the ovule fertile, or an analogous process
in flowerless plants; fecundation; impregnation.
Fertilized (imp. & p. p.)
of Fertilize
Fertilizing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fertilize
Fertilize (v. t.) To make
fertile or enrich; to supply with nourishment for plants; to make fruitful or
productive; as, to fertilize land, soil, ground, and meadows.
Fertilize (v. t.) To
fecundate; as, to fertilize flower.
Fertilizer (n.) One who
fertilizes; the agent that carries the fertilizing principle, as a moth to an
orchid.
Fertilizer (n.) That which
renders fertile; a general name for commercial manures, as guano, phosphate of
lime, etc.
Ferula (n.) A ferule.
Ferula (n.) The imperial
scepter in the Byzantine or Eastern Empire.
Ferulaceous (a.)
Pertaining to reeds and canes; having a stalk like a reed; as, ferulaceous
plants.
Ferular (n.) A ferule.
Ferule (n.) A flat piece
of wood, used for striking, children, esp. on the hand, in punishment.
Feruled (imp. & p. p.) of
Ferule
Feruling (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Ferule
Ferule (v. t.) To punish
with a ferule.
Ferulic (a.) Pertaining
to, or derived from, asafetida (Ferula asafoetida); as, ferulic acid.
Fervence (n.) Heat;
fervency.
Fervency (n.) The state of
being fervent or warm; ardor; warmth of feeling or devotion; eagerness.
Fervent (a.) Hot; glowing;
boiling; burning; as, a fervent summer.
Fervent (a.) Warm in
feeling; ardent in temperament; earnest; full of fervor; zealous; glowing.
Fervescent (a.) Growing
hot.
Fervid (a.) Very hot;
burning; boiling.
Fervid (a.) Ardent;
vehement; zealous.
Fervor (n.) Heat;
excessive warmth.
Fervor (n.) Intensity of
feeling or expression; glowing ardor; passion; holy zeal; earnestness.
Fescennine (a.) Pertaining
to, or resembling, the Fescennines.
Fescennine (n.) A style of
low, scurrilous, obscene poetry originating in fescennia.
Fescue (n.) A straw, wire,
stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to
read.
Fescue (n.) An instrument
for playing on the harp; a plectrum.
Fescue (n.) The style of a
dial.
Fescue (n.) A grass of the
genus Festuca.
Fescued (imp. & p. p.) of
Fescue
Fescuing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fescue
Fescue (v. i. & t.) To use
a fescue, or teach with a fescue.
Fesels (n. pl.) See
Phasel.
Fess (n.) Alt. of Fesse
Fesse (n.) A band drawn
horizontally across the center of an escutcheon, and containing in breadth the
third part of it; one of the nine honorable ordinaries.
Fessitude (n.) Weariness.
Fesswise (adv.) In the
manner of fess.
Fest (n.) The fist.
Fest (n.) Alt. of Feste
Feste (n.) A feast.
Festal (a.) Of or
pertaining to a holiday or a feast; joyous; festive.
Festally (adv.) Joyously;
festively; mirthfully.
Festennine (n.) A
fescennine.
Festered (imp. & p. p.) of
Fester
Festering (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fester
Fester (n.) To generate
pus; to become imflamed and suppurate; as, a sore or a wound festers.
Fester (n.) To be
inflamed; to grow virulent, or malignant; to grow in intensity; to rankle.
Fester (v. t.) To cause to
fester or rankle.
Fester (n.) A small sore
which becomes inflamed and discharges corrupt matter; a pustule.
Fester (n.) A festering or
rankling.
Festerment (n.) A
festering.
Festeye (v. t.) To feast;
to entertain.
Festinate (a.) Hasty;
hurried.
Festination (n.) Haste;
hurry.
Festival (a.) Pertaining
to a fest; festive; festal; appropriate to a festival; joyous; mirthful.
Festi-val (n.) A time of
feasting or celebration; an anniversary day of joy, civil or religious.
Festive (a.) Pertaining
to, or becoming, a feast; festal; joyous; gay; mirthful; sportive.
Festivities (pl. ) of
Festivity
Festivity (n.) The
condition of being festive; social joy or exhilaration of spirits at an
entertaintment; joyfulness; gayety.
Festivity (n.) A festival;
a festive celebration.
Festivous (a.) Pertaining
to a feast; festive.
Festlich (n.) Festive;
fond of festive occasions.
Festoon (n.) A garland or
wreath hanging in a depending curve, used in decoration for festivals, etc.;
anything arranged in this way.
Festoon (n.) A carved
ornament consisting of flowers, and leaves, intermixed or twisted together,
wound with a ribbon, and hanging or depending in a natural curve. See Illust. of
Bucranium.
Festooned (imp. & p. p.)
of Festoon
Festooning (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Festoon
Festoon (v. t.) To form in
festoons, or to adorn with festoons.
Festoony (a.) Pertaining
to, consisting of, or resembling, festoons.
Festucine (a.) Of a straw
color; greenish yellow.
Festucous (a.) Formed or
consisting of straw.
Festue (n.) A straw; a
fescue.
Fet (n.) A piece.
Fet (v. t.) To fetch.
Fet (p. p.) Fetched.
Fetal (a.) Pertaining to,
or connected with, a fetus; as, fetal circulation; fetal membranes.
Fetation (n.) The
formation of a fetus in the womb; pregnancy.
Fetched (imp. & p. p.) of
Fetch
Fetching (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fetch
Fetch (v. t.) To bear
toward the person speaking, or the person or thing from whose point of view the
action is contemplated; to go and bring; to get.
Fetch (v. t.) To obtain as
price or equivalent; to sell for.
Fetch (v. t.) To recall
from a swoon; to revive; -- sometimes with to; as, to fetch a man to.
Fetch (v. t.) To reduce;
to throw.
Fetch (v. t.) To bring to
accomplishment; to achieve; to make; to perform, with certain objects; as, to
fetch a compass; to fetch a leap; to fetch a sigh.
Fetch (v. t.) To bring or
get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by
sailing.
Fetch (v. t.) To cause to
come; to bring to a particular state.
fetch (v. i.) To bring
one's self; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
Fetch (n.) A stratagem by
which a thing is indirectly brought to pass, or by which one thing seems
intended and another is done; a trick; an artifice.
Fetch (n.) The apparation
of a living person; a wraith.
Fethcer (n.) One wo
fetches or brings.
Fete (n.) A feat.
Fete (n. pl.) Feet.
Fete (n.) A festival.
Feted (imp. & p. p.) of
Fete
Feting (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fete
Fete (v. t.) To feast; to
honor with a festival.
Fetich (n.) Alt. of Fetish
Fetish (n.) A material
object supposed among certain African tribes to represent in such a way, or to
be so connected with, a supernatural being, that the possession of it gives to
the possessor power to control that being.
Fetish (n.) Any object to
which one is excessively devoted.
fetichism (n.) Alt. of
Fetishism
Fetishism (n.) The
doctrine or practice of belief in fetiches.
Fetishism (n.) Excessive
devotion to one object or one idea; abject superstition; blind adoration.
Fetichist (n.) Alt. of
Fetishist
Fetishist (n.) A believer
in fetiches.
Fetichistic (a.) Alt. of
Fetishistic
Fetishistic (a.)
Pertaining to, or involving, fetichism.
Feticide (n.) The act of
killing the fetus in the womb; the offense of procuring an abortion.
Feticism (n.) See
Fetichism.
Fetid (a.) Having an
offensive smell; stinking.
Fetidity (n.) Fetidness.
Fetidness (n.) The quality
or state of being fetid.
Fetiferous (a.) Producing
young, as animals.
Fetis (a.) Neat; pretty;
well made; graceful.
Fetisely (adv.) Neatly;
gracefully; properly.
Fetish (a.) Alt. of
Fetishistic
Fetishism (a.) Alt. of
Fetishistic
Fetishistic (a.) See
Fetich, n., Fetichism, n., Fetichistic, a.
Fetlock (n.) The
cushionlike projection, bearing a tuft of long hair, on the back side of the leg
above the hoof of the horse and similar animals. Also, the joint of the limb at
this point (between the great pastern bone and the metacarpus), or the tuft of
hair.
Fetor (n.) A strong,
offensive smell; stench; fetidness.
Fette (imp.) of Fette
Fet (p. p.) of Fette
Fette (v. t.) To fetch.
fetters (pl. ) of Fetter
Fetter (n.) A chain or
shackle for the feet; a chain by which an animal is confined by the foot, either
made fast or disabled from free and rapid motion; a bond; a shackle.
Fetter (n.) Anything that
confines or restrains; a restraint.
Fetter (p. pr. & vb. n.)
To put fetters upon; to shackle or confine the feet of with a chain; to bind.
Fetter (p. pr. & vb. n.)
To restrain from motion; to impose restraints on; to confine; to enchain; as,
fettered by obligations.
Fettered (a.) Seeming as
if fettered, as the feet of certain animals which bend backward, and appear
unfit for walking.
Fetterer (n.) One who
fetters.
Fetterless (a.) Free from
fetters.
Fettle (a.) To repair; to
prepare; to put in order.
Fettle (a.) To cover or
line with a mixture of ore, cinders, etc., as the hearth of a puddling furnace.
Fettle (v. i.) To make
preparations; to put things in order; to do trifling business.
Fettle (n.) The act of
fettling.
Fettling (n.) A mixture of
ore, cinders, etc., used to line the hearth of a puddling furnace.
Fettling (n.) The
operation of shaving or smoothing the surface of undried clay ware.
Fetuous (a.) Neat; feat.
Fetuses (pl. ) of Fetus
Fetus (n.) The young or
embryo of an animal in the womb, or in the egg; often restricted to the later
stages in the development of viviparous and oviparous animals, embryo being
applied to the earlier stages.
Fetwah (n.) A written
decision of a Turkish mufti on some point of law.
Feu (n.) A free and
gratuitous right to lands made to one for service to be performed by him; a
tenure where the vassal, in place of military services, makes a return in grain
or in money.
Feuar (n.) One who holds a
feu.
Feud (n.) A combination of
kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood,
on the offender and all his race.
Feud (n.) A contention or
quarrel; especially, an inveterate strife between families, clans, or parties;
deadly hatred; contention satisfied only by bloodshed.
Feud (n.) A stipendiary
estate in land, held of superior, by service; the right which a vassal or tenant
had to the lands or other immovable thing of his lord, to use the same and take
the profists thereof hereditarily, rendering to his superior such duties and
services as belong to military tenure, etc., the property of the soil always
remaining in the lord or superior; a fief; a fee.
Feudal (a.) Of or
pertaining to feuds, fiefs, or feels; as, feudal rights or services; feudal
tenures.
Feudal (a.) Consisting of,
or founded upon, feuds or fiefs; embracing tenures by military services; as, the
feudal system.
Feudalism (n.) The feudal
system; a system by which the holding of estates in land is made dependent upon
an obligation to render military service to the kind or feudal superior; feudal
principles and usages.
Feudalist (n.) An upholder
of feudalism.
Feudality (n.) The state
or quality of being feudal; feudal form or constitution.
Fedaliza/tion (n.) The act
of reducing to feudal tenure.
Feudalized (imp. & p. p.)
of Feudalize
Feudalizing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Feudalize
Feudalize (v. t.) To
reduce toa feudal tenure; to conform to feudalism.
Feudally (adv.) In a
feudal manner.
Feudary (a.) Held by, or
pertaining to, feudal tenure.
Feudary (n.) A tenant who
holds his lands by feudal service; a feudatory.
Feudary (n.) A feodary.
See Feodary.
Feudataty (a. & n.) See
Feudatory.
Feudatories (pl. ) of
Feudatory
Feudatory (n.) A tenant or
vassal who held his lands of a superior on condition of feudal service; the
tenant of a feud or fief.
Feudtory (a.) Held from
another on some conditional tenure; as, a feudatory title.
Feu de joie () A fire kindled in
a public place in token of joy; a bonfire; a firing of guns in token of joy.
Feudist (n.) A writer on
feuds; a person versed in feudal law.
Feuillants (n. pl.) A
reformed branch of the Bernardines, founded in 1577 at Feuillans, near Toulouse,
in France.
Feuillemort (a.) Having
the color of a faded leaf.
Feuilleton (n.) A part of
a French newspaper (usually the bottom of the page), devoted to light
literature, criticism, etc.; also, the article or tale itself, thus printed.
Feuilltonist (n.) A writer
of feuilletons.
feuter (v. t.) To set
close; to fix in rest, as a spear.
Feuterer (n.) A dog
keeper.
Fever (n.) A diseased
state of the system, marked by increased heat, acceleration of the pulse, and a
general derangement of the functions, including usually, thirst and loss of
appetite. Many diseases, of which fever is the most prominent symptom, are
denominated fevers; as, typhoid fever; yellow fever.
Fever (n.) Excessive
excitement of the passions in consequence of strong emotion; a condition of
great excitement; as, this quarrel has set my blood in a fever.
Fevered (imp. & p. p.) of
Fever
Fevering (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fever
Fever (v. t.) To put into
a fever; to affect with fever; as, a fevered lip.
Feveret (n.) A slight
fever.
Feverfew (n.) A perennial
plant (Pyrethrum, / Chrysanthemum, Parthenium) allied to camomile, having finely
divided leaves and white blossoms; -- so named from its supposed febrifugal
qualities.
Feverish (a.) Having a
fever; suffering from, or affected with, a moderate degree of fever; showing
increased heat and thirst; as, the patient is feverish.
Feverish (a.) Indicating,
or pertaining to, fever; characteristic of a fever; as, feverish symptoms.
Feverish (a.) Hot; sultry.
Feverish (a.) Disordered
as by fever; excited; restless; as, the feverish condition of the commercial
world.
Feverous (a.) Affected
with fever or ague; feverish.
Feverous (a.) Pertaining
to, or having the nature of, fever; as, a feverous pulse.
Feverous (a.) Having the
tendency to produce fever; as, a feverous disposition of the year.
Feverously (adv.)
Feverishly.
Feverwort (n.) See Fever
root, under Fever.
Fevery (a.) Feverish.
Few (superl.) Not many;
small, limited, or confined in number; -- indicating a small portion of units or
individuals constituing a whole; often, by ellipsis of a noun, a few people.
Fewel (n.) Fuel.
Fewmet (n.) See Fumet.
Fewness (n.) The state of
being few; smallness of number; paucity.
Fewness (n.) Brevity;
conciseness.
Fey (a.) Fated; doomed.
Fey (n.) Faith.
Fey (v. t.) To cleanse; to
clean out.
Feyne (v. t.) To feign.
Feyre (n.) A fair or
market.
Fez (n.) A felt or cloth
cap, usually red and having a tassel, -- a variety of the tarboosh. See
Tarboosh.
Fiacre (n.) A kind of
French hackney coach.
Fiance (v. t.) To betroth;
to affiance.
Fiance (n.) A betrothed
man.
Fiancee (n.) A betrothed
woman.
Fiants (n.) The dung of
the fox, wolf, boar, or badger.
Fiar (n.) One in whom the
property of an estate is vested, subject to the estate of a life renter.
Fiar (n.) The price of
grain, as legally fixed, in the counties of Scotland, for the current year.
Fiascoes (pl. ) of Fiasco
Fiasco (n.) A complete or
ridiculous failure, esp. of a musical performance, or of any pretentious
undertaking.
Fiat (n.) An authoritative
command or order to do something; an effectual decree.
Fiat (n.) A warrant of a
judge for certain processes.
Fiat (n.) An authority for
certain proceedings given by the Lord Chancellor's signature.
Fiaunt (n.) Commission;
fiat; order; decree.
Fib (n.) A falsehood; a
lie; -- used euphemistically.
Fibbed (imp. & p. p.) of
Fib
Fibbing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fib
Fib (v. i.) To speak
falsely.
Fib (v. t.) To tell a fib
to.
Fibber (n.) One who tells
fibs.
Fiber (n.) Alt. of Fibre
Fibre (n.) One of the
delicate, threadlike portions of which the tissues of plants and animals are in
part constituted; as, the fiber of flax or of muscle.
Fibre (n.) Any fine,
slender thread, or threadlike substance; as, a fiber of spun glass; especially,
one of the slender rootlets of a plant.
Fibre (n.) Sinew;
strength; toughness; as, a man of real fiber.
Fibre (n.) A general name
for the raw material, such as cotton, flax, hemp, etc., used in textile
manufactures.
Fibered (a.) Alt. of
Fibred
Fibred (a.) Having fibers;
made up of fibers.
Fiber-faced (a.) Alt. of
Fibre-faced
Fibre-faced (a.) Having a
visible fiber embodied in the surface of; -- applied esp. to a kind of paper for
checks, drafts, etc.
Fiberless (a.) Alt. of
Fibreless
Fibreless (a.) Having no
fibers; destitute of fibers or fiber.
Fibriform (a.) Having the
form of a fiber or fibers; resembling a fiber.
Fibril (n.) A small fiber;
the branch of a fiber; a very slender thread; a fibrilla.
FibrillAe (pl. ) of
Fibrilla
Fibrilla (n.) A minute
thread of fiber, as one of the fibrous elements of a muscular fiber; a fibril.
Fibrillar (a.) Of or
pertaining to fibrils or fibers; as, fibrillar twitchings.
Fibrillary (a.) Of of
pertaining to fibrils.
Fibrillated (a.) Furnished
with fibrils; fringed.
Fibrillation (n.) The
state of being reduced to fibers.
Fibrillose (a.) Covered
with hairlike appendages, as the under surface of some lichens; also, composed
of little strings or fibers; as, fibrillose appendages.
Fibrillous (a.) Pertaining
to, or composed of, fibers.
Fibrin (n.) A white,
albuminous, fibrous substance, formed in the coagulation of the blood either by
decomposition of fibrinogen, or from the union of fibrinogen and paraglobulin
which exist separately in the blood. It is insoluble in water, but is readily
digestible in gastric and pancreatic juice.
Fibrin (n.) The white,
albuminous mass remaining after washing lean beef or other meat with water until
all coloring matter is removed; the fibrous portion of the muscle tissue; flesh
fibrin.
Fibrin (n.) An albuminous
body, resembling animal fibrin in composition, found in cereal grains and
similar seeds; vegetable fibrin.
Fibrination (n.) The state
of acquiring or having an excess of fibrin.
Fibrine (a.) Belonging to
the fibers of plants.
Fibrinogen (n.) An
albuminous substance existing in the blood, and in other animal fluids, which
either alone or with fibrinoplastin or paraglobulin forms fibrin, and thus
causes coagulation.
Fibrinogenous (a.)
Possessed of properties similar to fibrinogen; capable of forming fibrin.
Fibrinoplastic (a.) Like
fibrinoplastin; capable of forming fibrin when brought in contact with
fibrinogen.
Fibrinoplastin (n.) An
albuminous substance, existing in the blood, which in combination with
fibrinogen forms fibrin; -- called also paraglobulin.
Fibrinous (a.) Having, or
partaking of the properties of, fibrin; as, fibrious exudation.
Fibrocartilage (n.) A kind
of cartilage with a fibrous matrix and approaching fibrous connective tissue in
structure.
Fibrochondrosteal (a.)
Partly fibrous, partly cartilaginous, and partly osseous.
Fibroid (a.) Resembling or
forming fibrous tissue; made up of fibers; as, fibroid tumors.
Fibroid (n.) A fibroid
tumor; a fibroma.
Fibroin (n.) A variety of
gelatin; the chief ingredient of raw silk, extracted as a white amorphous mass.
Fibrolite (n.) A silicate
of alumina, of fibrous or columnar structure. It is like andalusite in
composition; -- called also sillimanite, and bucholizite.
Fibroma (n.) A tumor
consisting mainly of fibrous tissue, or of same modification of such tissue.
Fibrospongiae (n. pl.) An
order of sponges having a fibrous skeleton, including the commercial sponges.
Fibrous (a.) Containing,
or consisting of, fibers; as, the fibrous coat of the cocoanut; the fibrous
roots of grasses.
Fibrovascular (a.)
Containing woody fiber and ducts, as the stems of all flowering plants and
ferns; -- opposed to cellular.
Fibster (n.) One who tells
fibs.
FibulAe (pl. ) of Fibula
Fibula (n.) A brooch,
clasp, or buckle.
Fibula (n.) The outer and
usually the smaller of the two bones of the leg, or hind limb, below the knee.
Fibula (n.) A needle for
sewing up wounds.
Fibu-lar (a.) Pertaining
to the fibula.
Fibularia (pl. ) of
Fibulare
Fibulare (n.) The bone or
cartilage of the tarsus, which articulates with the fibula, and corresponds to
the calcaneum in man and most mammals.
Fice (n.) A small dog; --
written also fise, fyce, fiste, etc.
Fiche (a.) See FitchE.
Ficttelite (n.) A white
crystallized mineral resin from the Fichtelgebirge, Bavaria.
Fichu (n.) A light cape,
usually of lace, worn by women, to cover the neck and throat, and extending to
the shoulders.
Fickle (a.) Not fixed or
firm; liable to change; unstable; of a changeable mind; not firm in opinion or
purpose; inconstant; capricious; as, Fortune's fickle wheel.
Fickleness (n.) The
quality of being fickle; instability; inconsonancy.
Fickly (adv.) In a fickle
manner.
Ficoes (pl. ) of Fico
Fico (n.) A fig; an
insignificant trifle, no more than the snap of one's thumb; a sign of contempt
made by the fingers, expressing. A fig for you.
Fictile (a.) Molded, or
capable of being molded, into form by art; relating to pottery or to molding in
any soft material.
Fiction (n.) The act of
feigning, inventing, or imagining; as, by a mere fiction of the mind.
Fiction (n.) That which is
feigned, invented, or imagined; especially, a feigned or invented story, whether
oral or written. Hence: A story told in order to deceive; a fabrication; --
opposed to fact, or reality.
Fiction (n.) Fictitious
literature; comprehensively, all works of imagination; specifically, novels and
romances.
Fiction (n.) An assumption
of a possible thing as a fact, irrespective of the question of its truth.
Fiction (n.) Any like
assumption made for convenience, as for passing more rapidly over what is not
disputed, and arriving at points really at issue.
Fictional (a.) Pertaining
to, or characterized by, fiction; fictitious; romantic.
Fictionist (n.) A writer
of fiction.
Fictious (a.) Fictitious.
Fictitious (a.) Feigned;
imaginary; not real; fabulous; counterfeit; false; not genuine; as, fictitious
fame.
Fictive (a.) Feigned;
counterfeit.
Fictor (n.) An artist who
models or forms statues and reliefs in any plastic material.
Ficus (n.) A genus of
trees or shrubs, one species of which (F. Carica) produces the figs of commerce;
the fig tree.
Fid (n.) A square bar of
wood or iron, used to support the topmast, being passed through a hole or
mortise at its heel, and resting on the trestle trees.
Fid (n.) A wooden or metal
bar or pin, used to support or steady anything.
Fid (n.) A pin of hard
wood, tapering to a point, used to open the strands of a rope in splicing.
Fid (n.) A block of wood
used in mounting and dismounting heavy guns.
Fidalgo (n.) The lowest
title of nobility in Portugal, corresponding to that of Hidalgo in Spain.
Fiddle (n.) A stringed
instrument of music played with a bow; a violin; a kit.
Fiddle (n.) A kind of dock
(Rumex pulcher) with fiddle-shaped leaves; -- called also fiddle dock.
Fiddle (n.) A rack or
frame of bars connected by strings, to keep table furniture in place on the
cabin table in bad weather.
Fiddled (imp. & p. p.) of
Fiddle
Fiddling (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fiddle
Fiddle (v. i.) To play on
a fiddle.
Fiddle (v. i.) To keep the
hands and fingers actively moving as a fiddler does; to move the hands and
fingers restlessy or in busy idleness; to trifle.
Fiddle (v. t.) To play (a
tune) on a fiddle.
Fiddledeedee (interj.) An
exclamatory word or phrase, equivalent to nonsense!
Foddle-faddle (n.) A
trifle; trifling talk; nonsense.
Fiddle-faddle (v. i.) To
talk nonsense.
Fiddler (n.) One who plays
on a fiddle or violin.
Fiddler (n.) A burrowing
crab of the genus Gelasimus, of many species. The male has one claw very much
enlarged, and often holds it in a position similar to that in which a musician
holds a fiddle, hence the name; -- called also calling crab, soldier crab, and
fighting crab.
Fiddler (n.) The common
European sandpiper (Tringoides hypoleucus); -- so called because it continually
oscillates its body.
Fiddle-shaped (a.)
Inversely ovate, with a deep hollow on each side.
Fiddlestick (n.) The bow,
strung with horsehair, used in playing the fiddle; a fiddle bow.
Fiddlestring (n.) One of
the catgut strings of a fiddle.
Fiddlewood (n.) The wood
of several West Indian trees, mostly of the genus Citharexylum.
Fidejussion (n.) The act
or state of being bound as surety for another; suretyship.
Fidejussor (n.) A surety;
one bound for another, conjointly with him; a guarantor.
Fidelity (n.)
Faithfulness; adherence to right; careful and exact observance of duty, or
discharge of obligations.
Fidelity (n.) Adherence to
a person or party to which one is bound; loyalty.
Fidelity (n.) Adherence to
the marriage contract.
Fidelity (n.) Adherence to
truth; veracity; honesty.
Fides (n.) Faith
personified as a goddess; the goddess of faith.
Fidge (n. & i.) See
Fidget.
Fidgeted (imp. & p. p.) of
Fidget
Fodgeting (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fidget
Fidget (v. i.) To move
uneasily one way and the other; to move irregularly, or by fits and starts.
Fidget (n.) Uneasiness;
restlessness.
Fidget (n.) A general
nervous restlessness, manifested by incessant changes of position; dysphoria.
Fidgetiness (n.) Quality
of being fidgety.
Fidgety (a.) Restless;
uneasy.
Fidia (n.) A genus of
small beetles, of which one species (the grapevine Fidia, F. longipes) is very
injurious to vines in America.
Fidicinal (a.) Of or
pertaining to a stringed instrument.
Fiducial (a.) Having faith
or trust; confident; undoubting; firm.
Fiducial (a.) Having the
nature of a trust; fiduciary; as, fiducial power.
Fiducially (adv.) With
confidence.
Fidiciary (a.) Involving
confidence or trust; confident; undoubting; faithful; firm; as, in a fiduciary
capacity.
Fidiciary (a.) Holding,
held, or founded, in trust.
Fiduciary (n.) One who
holds a thing in trust for another; a trustee.
Fiduciary (n.) One who
depends for salvation on faith, without works; an Antinomian.
Fie (interj.) An
exclamation denoting contempt or dislike. See Fy.
Fief (n.) An estate held
of a superior on condition of military service; a fee; a feud. See under
Benefice, n., 2.
Field (n.) Cleared land;
land suitable for tillage or pasture; cultivated ground; the open country.
Field (n.) A piece of land
of considerable size; esp., a piece inclosed for tillage or pasture.
Field (n.) A place where a
battle is fought; also, the battle itself.
Field (n.) An open space;
an extent; an expanse.
Field (n.) Any blank space
or ground on which figures are drawn or projected.
Field (n.) The space
covered by an optical instrument at one view.
Field (n.) The whole
surface of an escutcheon; also, so much of it is shown unconcealed by the
different bearings upon it. See Illust. of Fess, where the field is represented
as gules (red), while the fess is argent (silver).
Field (n.) An unresticted
or favorable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement; province; room.
Field (n.) A collective
term for all the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or for all except
the favorites in the betting.
Field (n.) That part of
the grounds reserved for the players which is outside of the diamond; -- called
also outfield.
Fielded (imp. & p. p.) of
Field
Fielding (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Field
Field (v. i.) To take the
field.
Field (v. i.) To stand out
in the field, ready to catch, stop, or throw the ball.
Field (v. t.) To catch,
stop, throw, etc. (the ball), as a fielder.
Fielded (a.) Engaged in
the field; encamped.
Fielden (a.) Consisting of
fields.
Fielder (n.) A ball payer
who stands out in the field to catch or stop balls.
Fieldfare (n.) a small
thrush (Turdus pilaris) which breeds in northern Europe and winters in Great
Britain. The head, nape, and lower part of the back are ash-colored; the upper
part of the back and wing coverts, chestnut; -- called also fellfare.
Fielding (n.) The act of
playing as a fielder.
Fieldpiece (n.) A cannon
mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army; a piece of field artillery;
-- called also field gun.
Fieldwork (n.) Any
temporary fortification thrown up by an army in the field; -- commonly in the
plural.
Fieldy (a.) Open, like a
field.
Fiend (n.) An implacable
or malicious foe; one who is diabolically wicked or cruel; an infernal being; --
applied specifically to the devil or a demon.
Fiendful (a.) Full of
fiendish spirit or arts.
Fiendish (a.) Like a
fiend; diabolically wicked or cruel; infernal; malignant; devilish; hellish.
Fiendlike (a.) Fiendish;
diabolical.
Fiendly (a.) Fiendlike;
monstrous; devilish.
Fierasfer (n.) A genus of
small, slender fishes, remarkable for their habit of living as commensals in
other animals. One species inhabits the gill cavity of the pearl oyster near
Panama; another lives within an East Indian holothurian.
Fierce (superl.) Furious;
violent; unrestrained; impetuous; as, a fierce wind.
Fierce (superl.) Vehement
in anger or cruelty; ready or eager to kill or injure; of a nature to inspire
terror; ferocious.
Fierce (superl.)
Excessively earnest, eager, or ardent.
Fieri facias () A judicial writ
that lies for one who has recovered in debt or damages, commanding the sheriff
that he cause to be made of the goods, chattels, or real estate of the
defendant, the sum claimed.
Fieriness (n.) The quality
of being fiery; heat; acrimony; irritability; as, a fieriness of temper.
Fiery (a.) Consisting of,
containing, or resembling, fire; as, the fiery gulf of Etna; a fiery appearance.
Fiery (a.) Vehement;
ardent; very active; impetuous.
Fiery (a.) Passionate;
easily provoked; irritable.
Fiery (a.) Unrestrained;
fierce; mettlesome; spirited.
Fiery (a.) heated by fire,
or as if by fire; burning hot; parched; feverish.
Fife (n.) A small shrill
pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in
military music.
Fifed (imp. & p. p.) of
Fife
fifing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fife
Fife (v. i.) To play on a
fife.
Fifer (n.) One who plays
on a fife.
Fifteen (a.) Five and ten;
one more than fourteen.
Fifteen (n.) The sum of
five and ten; fifteen units or objects.
Fifteen (n.) A symbol
representing fifteen units, as 15, or xv.
Fifteenth (a.) Next in
order after the fourteenth; -- the ordinal of fifteen.
Fifteenth (a.) Consisting
of one of fifteen equal parts or divisions of a thing.
Fifteenth (n.) One of
fifteen equal parts or divisions; the quotient of a unit divided by fifteen.
Fifteenth (n.) A species
of tax upon personal property formerly laid on towns, boroughs, etc., in
England, being one fifteenth part of what the personal property in each town,
etc., had been valued at.
Fifteenth (n.) A stop in
an organ tuned two octaves above the diaposon.
Fifteenth (n.) An interval
consisting of two octaves.
Fifth (a.) Next in order
after the fourth; -- the ordinal of five.
Fifth (a.) Consisting of
one of five equal divisions of a thing.
Fifth (n.) The quotient of
a unit divided by five; one of five equal parts; a fifth part.
Fifth (n.) The interval of
three tones and a semitone, embracing five diatonic degrees of the scale; the
dominant of any key.
Fifthly (adv.) In the
fifth place; as the fifth in order.
Fiftieth (a.) Next in
order after the forty-ninth; -- the ordinal of fifty.
Fiftieth (a.) Consisting
of one of fifty equal parts or divisions.
Fiftieth (n.) One of fifty
equal parts; the quotient of a unit divided by fifty.
Fifty (a.) Five times ten;
as, fifty men.
Fifties (pl. ) of Fifty
Fifty (n.) The sum of five
tens; fifty units or objects.
Fifty (n.) A symbol
representing fifty units, as 50, or l.
Fig (n.) A small fruit
tree (Ficus Carica) with large leaves, known from the remotest antiquity. It was
probably native from Syria westward to the Canary Islands.
Fig (n.) The fruit of a
fig tree, which is of round or oblong shape, and of various colors.
Fig (n.) A small piece of
tobacco.
Fig (n.) The value of a
fig, practically nothing; a fico; -- used in scorn or contempt.
Fig (n.) To insult with a
fico, or contemptuous motion. See Fico.
Fig (n.) To put into the
head of, as something useless o/ contemptible.
Fig (n.) Figure; dress;
array.
Figaro (n.) An adroit and
unscrupulous intriguer.
Figary (n.) A frolic; a
vagary; a whim.
Figeater (n.) A large
beetle (Allorhina nitida) which in the Southern United States destroys figs. The
elytra are velvety green with pale borders.
Figeater (n.) A bird. See
Figpecker.
Figent (a.) Fidgety;
restless.
Figgum (n.) A juggler's
trick; conjuring.
Fought (imp. & p. p.) of
Fight
Fighting (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fight
Fight (v. i.) To strive or
contend for victory, with armies or in single combat; to attempt to defeat,
subdue, or destroy an enemy, either by blows or weapons; to contend in arms; --
followed by with or against.
Fight (v. i.) To act in
opposition to anything; to struggle against; to contend; to strive; to make
resistance.
Fight (v. t.) To carry on,
or wage, as a conflict, or battle; to win or gain by struggle, as one's way; to
sustain by fighting, as a cause.
Fight (v. t.) To contend
with in battle; to war against; as, they fought the enemy in two pitched
battles; the sloop fought the frigate for three hours.
Fight (v. t.) To cause to
fight; to manage or maneuver in a fight; as, to fight cocks; to fight one's
ship.
Fight (v. i.) A battle; an
engagement; a contest in arms; a combat; a violent conflict or struggle for
victory, between individuals or between armies, ships, or navies, etc.
Fight (v. i.) A struggle
or contest of any kind.
Fight (v. i.) Strength or
disposition for fighting; pugnacity; as, he has a great deal of fight in him.
Fight (v. i.) A screen for
the combatants in ships.
Fighter (n.) One who
fights; a combatant; a warrior.
Fighting (a.) Qualified
for war; fit for battle.
Fighting (a.) Occupied in
war; being the scene of a battle; as, a fighting field.
Fightingly (adv.)
Pugnaciously.
Fightwite (n.) A mulct or
fine imposed on a person for making a fight or quarrel to the disturbance of the
peace.
Figment (n.) An invention;
a fiction; something feigned or imagined.
Pigpecker (n.) The
European garden warbler (Sylvia, / Currica, hortensis); -- called also beccafico
and greater pettychaps.
Fig-shell (n.) A marine
univalve shell of the genus Pyrula, or Ficula, resembling a fig in form.
Figulate (a.) Alt. of
Figulated
Figulated (a.) Made of
potter's clay; molded; shaped.
Figuline (n.) A piece of
pottery ornamented with representations of natural objects.
Figurability (n.) The
quality of being figurable.
Figurable (a.) Capable of
being brought to a fixed form or shape.
Figural (a.) Represented
by figure or delineation; consisting of figures; as, figural ornaments.
Figural (a.) Figurate. See
Figurate.
Figurant (n. masc.) One
who dances at the opera, not singly, but in groups or figures; an accessory
character on the stage, who figures in its scenes, but has nothing to say;
hence, one who figures in any scene, without taking a prominent part.
Figurante (n. fem.) A
female figurant; esp., a ballet girl.
Figurate (a.) Of a
definite form or figure.
Figurate (a.) Figurative;
metaphorical.
Figurate (a.) Florid;
figurative; involving passing discords by the freer melodic movement of one or
more parts or voices in the harmony; as, figurate counterpoint or descant.
Figurated (a.) Having a
determinate form.
Figurately (adv.) In a
figurate manner.
Figuration (n.) The act of
giving figure or determinate form; determination to a certain form.
Figuration (n.) Mixture of
concords and discords.
Figurative (a.)
Representing by a figure, or by resemblance; typical; representative.
Figurative (a.) Used in a
sense that is tropical, as a metaphor; not literal; -- applied to words and
expressions.
Figurative (a.) Abounding
in figures of speech; flowery; florid; as, a highly figurative description.
Figurative (a.) Relating
to the representation of form or figure by drawing, carving, etc. See Figure,
n., 2.
Figure (n.) The form of
anything; shape; outline; appearance.
Figure (n.) The
representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modeling, carving,
embroidering, etc.; especially, a representation of the human body; as, a figure
in bronze; a figure cut in marble.
Figure (n.) A pattern in
cloth, paper, or other manufactured article; a design wrought out in a fabric;
as, the muslin was of a pretty figure.
Figure (n.) A diagram or
drawing; made to represent a magnitude or the relation of two or more
magnitudes; a surface or space inclosed on all sides; -- called superficial when
inclosed by lines, and solid when inclosed by surface; any arrangement made up
of points, lines, angles, surfaces, etc.
Figure (n.) The appearance
or impression made by the conduct or carrer of a person; as, a sorry figure.
Figure (n.) Distinguished
appearance; magnificence; conspicuous representation; splendor; show.
Figure (n.) A character or
symbol representing a number; a numeral; a digit; as, 1, 2,3, etc.
Figure (n.) Value, as
expressed in numbers; price; as, the goods are estimated or sold at a low
figure.
Figure (n.) A person,
thing, or action, conceived of as analogous to another person, thing, or action,
of which it thus becomes a type or representative.
Figure (n.) A mode of
expressing abstract or immaterial ideas by words which suggest pictures or
images from the physical world; pictorial language; a trope; hence, any
deviation from the plainest form of statement.
Figure (n.) The form of a
syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term.
Figure (n.) Any one of the
several regular steps or movements made by a dancer.
Figure (n.) A horoscope;
the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses.
Figure (n.) Any short
succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a
single complete and distinct impression.
Figure (n.) A form of
melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a musical or
motive; a florid embellishment.
Figured (imp. & p. p.) of
Figure
Figuring (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Figure
Figure (n.) To represent
by a figure, as to form or mold; to make an image of, either palpable or ideal;
also, to fashion into a determinate form; to shape.
Figure (n.) To embellish
with design; to adorn with figures.
Figure (n.) To indicate by
numerals; also, to compute.
Figure (n.) To represent
by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize.
Figure (n.) To prefigure;
to foreshow.
Figure (n.) To write over
or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the
accompanying chords.
Figure (n.) To embellish.
Figure (v. t.) To make a
figure; to be distinguished or conspicious; as, the envoy figured at court.
Figure (v. t.) To
calculate; to contrive; to scheme; as, he is figuring to secure the nomination.
Figured (a.) Adorned with
figures; marked with figures; as, figured muslin.
Figured (a.) Not literal;
figurative.
Figured (a.) Free and
florid; as, a figured descant. See Figurate, 3.
Figured (a.) Indicated or
noted by figures.
Figurehead (n.) The
figure, statue, or bust, on the prow of a ship.
Figurehead (n.) A person
who allows his name to be used to give standing to enterprises in which he has
no responsible interest or duties; a nominal, but not real, head or chief.
Figurial (a.) Represented
by figure or delineation.
Figurine (n.) A very small
figure, whether human or of an animal; especially, one in terra cotta or the
like; -- distinguished from statuette, which is applied to small figures in
bronze, marble, etc.
Figurist (n.) One who uses
or interprets figurative expressions.
Figwort (n.) A genus of
herbaceous plants (Scrophularia), mostly found in the north temperate zones. See
Brownwort.
Fijian (a.) Of or
pertaining to the Fiji islands or their inhabitants.
Fijian (n.) A native of
the Fiji islands.
Fike (n.) See Fyke.
Fil () imp. of Fall, v. i. Fell.
Filaceous (a.) Composed of
threads.
Filacer (n.) A former
officer in the English Court of Common Pleas; -- so called because he filed the
writs on which he made out process.
Filament (n.) A thread or
threadlike object or appendage; a fiber; esp. (Bot.), the threadlike part of the
stamen supporting the anther.
Filamentary (a.) Having
the character of, or formed by, a filament.
Filametoid (a.) Like a
filament.
Filamentous (a.) Like a
thread; consisting of threads or filaments.
Filander (n.) A species of
kangaroo (Macropus Brunii), inhabiting New Guinea.
Filanders (n. pl.) A
disease in hawks, characterized by the presence of small threadlike worms, also
of filaments of coagulated blood, from the rupture of a vein; -- called also
backworm.
Filar (a.) Of or
pertaining to a thread or line; characterized by threads stretched across the
field of view; as, a filar microscope; a filar micrometer.
Filaria (n.) A genus of
slender, nematode worms of many species, parasitic in various animals. See
Guinea worm.
Filatory (n.) A machine
for forming threads.
Filature (n.) A drawing
out into threads; hence, the reeling of silk from cocoons.
Filature (n.) A reel for
drawing off silk from cocoons; also, an establishment for reeling silk.
Filbert (n.) The fruit of
the Corylus Avellana or hazel. It is an oval nut, containing a kernel that has a
mild, farinaceous, oily taste, agreeable to the palate.
Filched (imp. & p. p.) of
Filch
Filching (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Filch
Filch (v. t.) To steal or
take privily (commonly, that which is of little value); to pilfer.
Filcher (n.) One who
filches; a thief.
Filchingly (adv.) By
pilfering or petty stealing.
File (n.) An orderly
succession; a line; a row
File (n.) A row of
soldiers ranged one behind another; -- in contradistinction to rank, which
designates a row of soldiers standing abreast; a number consisting the depth of
a body of troops, which, in the ordinary modern formation, consists of two men,
the battalion standing two deep, or in two ranks.
File (n.) An orderly
collection of papers, arranged in sequence or classified for preservation and
reference; as, files of letters or of newspapers; this mail brings English files
to the 15th instant.
File (n.) The line, wire,
or other contrivance, by which papers are put and kept in order.
File (n.) A roll or list.
File (n.) Course of
thought; thread of narration.
Filed (imp. & p. p.) of
File
Filing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of File
File (v. t.) To set in
order; to arrange, or lay away, esp. as papers in a methodical manner for
preservation and reverence; to place on file; to insert in its proper place in
an arranged body of papers.
File (v. t.) To bring
before a court or legislative body by presenting proper papers in a regular way;
as, to file a petition or bill.
File (v. t.) To put upon
the files or among the records of a court; to note on (a paper) the fact date of
its reception in court.
File (v. i.) To march in a
file or line, as soldiers, not abreast, but one after another; -- generally with
off.
File (n.) A steel
instrument, having cutting ridges or teeth, made by indentation with a chisel,
used for abrading or smoothing other substances, as metals, wood, etc.
File (n.) Anything
employed to smooth, polish, or rasp, literally or figuratively.
File (n.) A shrewd or
artful person.
File (v. t.) To rub,
smooth, or cut away, with a file; to sharpen with a file; as, to file a saw or a
tooth.
File (v. t.) To smooth or
polish as with a file.
File (v. t.) To make foul;
to defile.
Filefish (n.) Any
plectognath fish of the genera Monacanthus, Alutera, balistes, and allied
genera; -- so called on account of the roughly granulated skin, which is
sometimes used in place of sandpaper.
Filemot (n.) See
Feullemort.
Filer (n.) One who works
with a file.
Filial (a.) Of or
pertaining to a son or daughter; becoming to a child in relation to his parents;
as, filial obedience.
Filial (a.) Bearing the
relation of a child.
Filially (adv.) In a
filial manner.
Filiate (v. t.) To adopt
as son or daughter; to establish filiation between.
Filiation (n.) The
relationship of a son or child to a parent, esp. to a father.
Filiation (n.) The
assignment of a bastard child to some one as its father; affiliation.
Filibeg (n.) Same as Kilt.
Filibuster (n.) A lawless
military adventurer, especially one in quest of plunder; a freebooter; --
originally applied to buccaneers infesting the Spanish American coasts, but
introduced into common English to designate the followers of Lopez in his
expedition to Cuba in 1851, and those of Walker in his expedition to Nicaragua,
in 1855.
Fillibustered (imp. & p. p.)
of Filibuster
Filibustering (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Filibuster
Filibuster (v. i.) To act
as a filibuster, or military freebooter.
Filibuster (v. i.) To
delay legislation, by dilatory motions or other artifices.
Filibusterism (n.) The
characteristics or practices of a filibuster.
Filical (a.) Belonging to
the Filices, r ferns.
Filicic (a.) Pertaining
to, or derived from, ferns; as, filicic acid.
Filicide (n.) The act of
murdering a son or a daughter; also, parent who commits such a murder.
Filiciform (a.) Shaped
like a fern or like the parts of a fern leaf.
Filicoid (a.) Fernlike,
either in form or in the nature of the method of reproduction.
Filicoid (n.) A fernlike
plant.
Filiety (n.) The relation
of a son to a father; sonship; -- the correlative of paternity.
Filiferous (a.) Producing
threads.
Filiform (a.) Having the
shape of a thread or filament; as, the filiform papillae of the tongue; a
filiform style or peduncle. See Illust. of AntennAe.
Filigrain (n.) Alt. of
Filigrane
Filigrane (n.) Filigree.
Filigraned (a.) See
Filigreed.
Filigree (n.) Ornamental
work, formerly with grains or breads, but now composed of fine wire and used
chiefly in decorating gold and silver to which the wire is soldered, being
arranged in designs frequently of a delicate and intricate arabesque pattern.
Filigree (a.) Relating to,
composed of, or resembling, work in filigree; as, a filigree basket. Hence:
Fanciful; unsubstantial; merely decorative.
Filigreed (a.) Adorned
with filigree.
Filing (n.) A fragment or
particle rubbed off by the act of filing; as, iron filings.
Filipendulous (a.)
Suspended by, or strung upon, a thread; -- said of tuberous swellings in the
middle or at the extremities of slender, threadlike rootlets.
Fill (n.) One of the
thills or shafts of a carriage.
Filled (imp. & p. p.) of
Fill
Filling (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fill
Fill (a.) To make full; to
supply with as much as can be held or contained; to put or pour into, till no
more can be received; to occupy the whole capacity of.
Fill (a.) To furnish an
abudant supply to; to furnish with as mush as is desired or desirable; to occupy
the whole of; to swarm in or overrun.
Fill (a.) To fill or
supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy.
Fill (a.) To possess and
perform the duties of; to officiate in, as an incumbent; to occupy; to hold; as,
a king fills a throne; the president fills the office of chief magistrate; the
speaker of the House fills the chair.
Fill (a.) To supply with
an incumbent; as, to fill an office or a vacancy.
Fill (a.) To press and
dilate, as a sail; as, the wind filled the sails.
Fill (a.) To trim (a yard)
so that the wind shall blow on the after side of the sails.
Fill (a.) To make an
embankment in, or raise the level of (a low place), with earth or gravel.
Fill (v. i.) To become
full; to have the whole capacity occupied; to have an abundant supply; to be
satiated; as, corn fills well in a warm season; the sail fills with the wind.
Fill (v. i.) To fill a cup
or glass for drinking.
Fill (v. t.) A full
supply, as much as supplies want; as much as gives complete satisfaction.
Filler (n.) One who, or
that which, fills; something used for filling.
Filler (n.) A thill horse.
Fillet (n.) A little band,
especially one intended to encircle the hair of the head.
Fillet (n.) A piece of
lean meat without bone; sometimes, a long strip rolled together and tied.
Fillet (n.) A thin strip
or ribbon; esp.: (a) A strip of metal from which coins are punched. (b) A strip
of card clothing. (c) A thin projecting band or strip.
Fillet (n.) A concave
filling in of a reentrant angle where two surfaces meet, forming a rounded
corner.
Fillet (n.) A narrow flat
member; especially, a flat molding separating other moldings; a reglet; also,
the space between two flutings in a shaft. See Illust. of Base, and Column.
Fillet (n.) An ordinary
equaling in breadth one fourth of the chief, to the lowest portion of which it
corresponds in position.
Fillet (n.) The thread of
a screw.
Fillet (n.) A border of
broad or narrow lines of color or gilt.
Fillet (n.) The raised
molding about the muzzle of a gun.
Fillet (n.) Any scantling
smaller than a batten.
Fillet (n.) A fascia; a
band of fibers; applied esp. to certain bands of white matter in the brain.
Fillet (n.) The loins of a
horse, beginning at the place where the hinder part of the saddle rests.
Filleted (imp. & p. p.) of
Fillet
Filleting (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fillet
Fillet (v. t.) To bind,
furnish, or adorn with a fillet.
Filleting (n.) The
protecting of a joint, as between roof and parapet wall, with mortar, or cement,
where flashing is employed in better work.
Filleting (n.) The
material of which fillets are made; also, fillets, collectively.
Fillibeg (n.) A kilt. See
Filibeg.
Fillibuster (n.) See
Filibuster.
Filling (n.) That which is
used to fill a cavity or any empty space, or to supply a deficiency; as, filling
for a cavity in a tooth, a depression in a roadbed, the space between exterior
and interior walls of masonry, the pores of open-grained wood, the space between
the outer and inner planks of a vessel, etc.
Filling (n.) The woof in
woven fabrics.
Filling (n.) Prepared wort
added to ale to cleanse it.
Filliped (imp. & p. p.) of
Fillip
Filliping (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fillip
Fillip (v. t.) To strike
with the nail of the finger, first placed against the ball of the thumb, and
forced from that position with a sudden spring; to snap with the finger.
Fillip (v. t.) To snap; to
project quickly.
Fillip (n.) A jerk of the
finger forced suddenly from the thumb; a smart blow.
Fillip (n.) Something
serving to rouse or excite.
Fillipeen (n.) See
Philopena.
Fillister (n.) The rabbet
on the outer edge of a sash bar to hold the glass and the putty.
Fillister (n.) A plane for
making a rabbet.
Fillies (pl. ) of Filly
Filly (n.) A female foal
or colt; a young mare. Cf. Colt, Foal.
Filly (n.) A lively,
spirited young girl.
Film (n.) A thin skin; a
pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity; hence, any thin, slight
covering.
Film (n.) A slender
thread, as that of a cobweb.
Film (v. t.) To cover with
a thin skin or pellicle.
Filminess (n.) State of
being filmy.
Filmy (a.) Composed of
film or films.
Filoplumaceous (a.) Having
the structure of a filoplume.
Filoplume (n.) A hairlike
feather; a father with a slender scape and without a web in most or all of its
length.
Filose (a.) Terminating in
a threadlike process.
Filter (n.) Any porous
substance, as cloth, paper, sand, or charcoal, through which water or other
liquid may passed to cleanse it from the solid or impure matter held in
suspension; a chamber or device containing such substance; a strainer; also, a
similar device for purifying air.
Filtered (imp. & p. p.) of
Filter
Filtering (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Filter
Filter (n.) To purify or
defecate, as water or other liquid, by causing it to pass through a filter.
Filter (v. i.) To pass
through a filter; to percolate.
Filter (n.) Same as
Philter.
Filth (n.) Foul matter;
anything that soils or defiles; dirt; nastiness.
Filth (n.) Anything that
sullies or defiles the moral character; corruption; pollution.
Filthily (adv.) In a
filthy manner; foully.
Filthiness (n.) The state
of being filthy.
Filthiness (n.) That which
is filthy, or makes filthy; foulness; nastiness; corruption; pollution;
impurity.
Filthy (superl.) Defiled
with filth, whether material or moral; nasty; dirty; polluted; foul; impure;
obscene.
Filtrated (imp. & p. p.)
of Filtrate
Filtrating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Filtrate
Filtrate (v. t.) To
filter; to defecate; as liquid, by straining or percolation.
Filtrate (n.) That which
has been filtered; the liquid which has passed through the filter in the process
of filtration.
Filtration (n.) The act or
process of filtering; the mechanical separation of a liquid from the undissolved
particles floating in it.
Finble () Alt. of Fimble hemp
Fimble hemp () Light summer hemp,
that bears no seed.
Fimbriae (pl. ) of Fimbria
Fimbria (n.) A fringe, or
fringed border.
Fimbria (n.) A band of
white matter bordering the hippocampus in the brain.
Fimbriate (a.) Having the
edge or extremity bordered by filiform processes thicker than hairs; fringed;
as, the fimbriate petals of the pink; the fimbriate end of the Fallopian tube.
Fimbriated (imp. & p. p.)
of Fimbriate
Fimbriating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fimbriate
Fimbriate (v. t.) To hem;
to fringe.
Fimbriated (a.) Having a
fringed border; fimbriate.
Fimbriated (a.) Having a
very narrow border of another tincture; -- said esp. of an ordinary or
subordinary.
Fimbricate (a.) Fringed;
jagged; fimbriate.
Fimbricate (a.) fringed,
on one side only, by long, straight hairs, as the antennae of certain insects.
Finned (imp. & p. p.) of
Fin
Finning (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fin
Fin (v. t.) To carve or
cut up, as a chub.
Fin (n.) End; conclusion;
object.
Fin (n.) An organ of a
fish, consisting of a membrane supported by rays, or little bony or
cartilaginous ossicles, and serving to balance and propel it in the water.
Fin (n.) A membranous,
finlike, swimming organ, as in pteropod and heteropod mollusks.
Fin (n.) A finlike organ
or attachment; a part of an object or product which protrudes like a fin
Fin (n.) The hand.
Fin (n.) A blade of
whalebone.
Fin (n.) A mark or ridge
left on a casting at the junction of the parts of a mold.
Fin (n.) The thin sheet of
metal squeezed out between the collars of the rolls in the process of rolling.
Fin (n.) A feather; a
spline.
Fin (n.) A finlike
appendage, as to submarine boats.
Finable (a.) Liable or
subject to a fine; as, a finable person or offense.
Final (a.) Pertaining to
the end or conclusion; last; terminating; ultimate; as, the final day of a
school term.
Final (a.) Conclusive;
decisive; as, a final judgment; the battle of Waterloo brought the contest to a
final issue.
Final (a.) Respecting an
end or object to be gained; respecting the purpose or ultimate end in view.
Finale (n.) Close;
termination
Finale (n.) The last
movement of a symphony, sonata, concerto, or any instrumental composition.
Finale (n.) The last
composition performed in any act of an opera.
Finale (n.) The closing
part, piece, or scene in any public performance or exhibition.
Finalities (pl. ) of
Finality
Finality (n.) The state of
being final, finished, or complete; a final or conclusive arrangement; a
settlement.
Finality (n.) The relation
of end or purpose to its means.
Finally (adv.) At the end
or conclusion; ultimately; lastly; as, the contest was long, but the Romans
finally conquered.
Finally (adv.) Completely;
beyond recovery.
Finance (n.) The income of
a ruler or of a state; revennue; public money; sometimes, the income of an
individual; often used in the plural for funds; available money; resources.
Finance (n.) The science
of raising and expending the public revenue.
Financial (a.) Pertaining
to finance.
Financialist (n.) A
financier.
Financially (adv.) In a
dfinancial manner.
Financier (n.) One charged
with the administration of finance; an officer who administers the public
revenue; a treasurer.
Financier (n.) One skilled
in financial operations; one acquainted with money matters.
Financiered (imp. & p. p.)
of Financier
Financiering (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Financier
Financier (v. i.) To
conduct financial operations.
Finary (n.) See Finery.
Finative (a.) Conclusive;
decisive; definitive; final.
Finback (n.) Any whale of
the genera Sibbaldius, Balaenoptera, and allied genera, of the family
Balaenopteridae, characterized by a prominent fin on the back. The common
finbacks of the New England coast are Sibbaldius tectirostris and S. tuberosus.
Fishes (pl. ) of Finch
Finch (n.) A small singing
bird of many genera and species, belonging to the family Fringillidae.
Finchbacked (a.) Streaked
or spotted on the back; -- said of cattle.
Finched (a.) Same as
Finchbacked.
Found (imp. & p. p.) of
Find
Finding (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Find
Find (v. t.) To meet with,
or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of
something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a person.
Find (v. t.) To learn by
experience or trial; to perceive; to experience; to discover by the intellect or
the feelings; to detect; to feel.
Find (v. t.) To come upon
by seeking; as, to find something lost.
Find (v. t.) To discover
by sounding; as, to find bottom.
Find (v. t.) To discover
by study or experiment direct to an object or end; as, water is found to be a
compound substance.
Find (v. t.) To gain, as
the object of desire or effort; as, to find leisure; to find means.
Find (v. t.) To attain to;
to arrive at; to acquire.
Find (v. t.) To provide
for; to supply; to furnish; as, to find food for workemen; he finds his nephew
in money.
Find (v. t.) To arrive at,
as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish; as, to find a verdict; to
find a true bill (of indictment) against an accused person.
Find (v. i.) To determine
an issue of fact, and to declare such a determination to a court; as, the jury
find for the plaintiff.
Find (n.) Anything found;
a discovery of anything valuable; especially, a deposit, discovered by
archaeologists, of objects of prehistoric or unknown origin.
Findable (a.) Capable of
beong found; discoverable.
Finder (n.) One who, or
that which, finds; specifically (Astron.), a small telescope of low power and
large field of view, attached to a larger telescope, for the purpose of finding
an object more readily.
Findfault (n.) A censurer
or caviler.
Findfaulting (a.) Apt to
censure or cavil; faultfinding; captious.
Finding (n.) That which is
found, come upon, or provided; esp. (pl.), that which a journeyman artisan finds
or provides for himself; as tools, trimmings, etc.
Finding (n.) Support;
maintenance; that which is provided for one; expence; provision.
Finding (n.) The result of
a judicial examination or inquiry, especially into some matter of fact; a
verdict; as, the finding of a jury.
Findy (a.) Full; heavy;
firm; solid; substemtial.
Fine (superl.) Finished;
brought to perfection; refined; hence, free from impurity; excellent; superior;
elegant; worthy of admiration; accomplished; beautiful.
Fine (superl.) Aiming at
show or effect; loaded with ornament; overdressed or overdecorated; showy.
Fine (superl.) Nice;
delicate; subtle; exquisite; artful; skillful; dexterous.
Fine (superl.) Not coarse,
gross, or heavy
Fine (superl.) Not gross;
subtile; thin; tenous.
Fine (superl.) Not coarse;
comminuted; in small particles; as, fine sand or flour.
Fine (superl.) Not thick
or heavy; slender; filmy; as, a fine thread.
Fine (superl.) Thin;
attenuate; keen; as, a fine edge.
Fine (superl.) Made of
fine materials; light; delicate; as, fine linen or silk.
Fine (superl.) Having
(such) a proportion of pure metal in its composition; as, coins nine tenths
fine.
Fine (superl.) (Used
ironically.)
Fined (imp. & p. p.) of
Fine
Fining (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fine
Fine (a.) To make fine; to
refine; to purify, to clarify; as, to fine gold.
Fine (a.) To make finer,
or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc.; as. to fine the soil.
Fine (a.) To change by
fine gradations; as (Naut.), to fine down a ship's lines, to diminish her lines
gradually.
Fine (n.) End; conclusion;
termination; extinction.
Fine (n.) A sum of money
paid as the settlement of a claim, or by way of terminating a matter in dispute;
especially, a payment of money imposed upon a party as a punishment for an
offense; a mulct.
Fine (n.) A final
agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal.
Fine (n.) A sum of money
or price paid for obtaining a benefit, favor, or privilege, as for admission to
a copyhold, or for obtaining or renewing a lease.
Fine (n.) To impose a
pecuniary penalty upon for an offense or breach of law; to set a fine on by
judgment of a court; to punish by fine; to mulct; as, the trespassers were fined
ten dollars.
Fine (v. i.) To pay a
fine. See Fine, n., 3 (b).
Fine (v. t.) To finish; to
cease; or to cause to cease.
Finedrawn (imp. & p. p.)
of Finedraw
Finedrawing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Finedraw
Finedraw (v. t.) To sew
up, so nicely that the seam is not perceived; to renter.
Finedrawer (n.) One who
finedraws.
Finedrawn (a.) Drawn out
with too much subtilty; overnice; as, finedrawn speculations.
Fineer (v. i.) To run in
dept by getting goods made up in a way unsuitable for the use of others, and
then threatening not to take them except on credit.
Fineer (v. t.) To veneer.
Fineless (a.) Endless;
boundless.
Finely (adv.) In a fine or
finished manner.
Fineness (a.) The quality
or condition of being fine.
Fineness (a.) Freedom from
foreign matter or alloy; clearness; purity; as, the fineness of liquor.
Fineness (a.) The
proportion of pure silver or gold in jewelry, bullion, or coins.
Fineness (a.) Keenness or
sharpness; as, the fineness of a needle's point, or of the edge of a blade.
Finer (n.) One who fines
or purifies.
Finery (n.) Fineness;
beauty.
Finery (n.) Ornament;
decoration; especially, excecially decoration; showy clothes; jewels.
Finery (n.) A charcoal
hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into
iron suitable for puddling.
Finespun (a.) Spun so as
to be fine; drawn to a fine thread; attenuated; hence, unsubstantial; visionary;
as, finespun theories.
Finesse (a.) Subtilty of
contrivance to gain a point; artifice; stratagem.
Finesse (a.) The act of
finessing. See Finesse, v. i., 2.
Finessed (imp. & p. p.) of
Finesse
Finessing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Finesse
Finesse (v. i.) To use
artifice or stratagem.
Finesse (v. i.) To
attempt, when second or third player, to make a lower card answer the purpose of
a higher, when an intermediate card is out, risking the chance of its being held
by the opponent yet to play.
Finestill (v. t.) To
distill, as spirit from molasses or some saccharine preparation.
Finestiller (n.) One who
finestills.
Finew (n.) Moldiness.
Finfish (n.) A finback
whale.
Finfish (n.) True fish, as
distinguished from shellfish.
Finfoot (n.) A South
American bird (heliornis fulica) allied to the grebes. The name is also applied
to several related species of the genus Podica.
Fin-footed (a.) Having
palmate feet.
Fin-footed (a.) Having
lobate toes, as the coot and grebe.
Finger (n.) One of the
five terminating members of the hand; a digit; esp., one of the four extermities
of the hand, other than the thumb.
Finger (n.) Anything that
does work of a finger; as, the pointer of a clock, watch, or other registering
machine; especially (Mech.) a small projecting rod, wire, or piece, which is
brought into contact with an object to effect, direct, or restrain a motion.
Finger (n.) The breadth of
a finger, or the fourth part of the hand; a measure of nearly an inch; also, the
length of finger, a measure in domestic use in the United States, of about four
and a half inches or one eighth of a yard.
Finger (n.) Skill in the
use of the fingers, as in playing upon a musical instrument.
Fingered (imp. & p. p.) of
Finger
Fingering (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Finger
Finger (v. t.) To touch
with the fingers; to handle; to meddle with.
Finger (v. t.) To touch
lightly; to toy with.
Finger (v. t.) To perform
on an instrument of music.
Finger (v. t.) To mark the
notes of (a piece of music) so as to guide the fingers in playing.
Finger (v. t.) To take
thievishly; to pilfer; to purloin.
Finger (v. t.) To execute,
as any delicate work.
Finger (v. i.) To use the
fingers in playing on an instrument.
Fingered (a.) Having
fingers.
Fingered (a.) Having
leaflets like fingers; digitate.
Fingered (a.) Marked with
figures designating which finger should be used for each note.
Fingerer (n.) One who
fingers; a pilferer.
Fingering (n.) The act or
process of handling or touching with the fingers.
Fingering (n.) The manner
of using the fingers in playing or striking the keys of an instrument of music;
movement or management of the fingers in playing on a musical instrument, in
typewriting, etc.
Fingering (n.) The marking
of the notes of a piece of music to guide or regulate the action or use of the
fingers.
Fingering (n.) Delicate
work made with the fingers.
Fingerling (n.) A young
salmon. See Parr.
Fingle-fangle (n.) A
trifle.
Fingrigos (pl. ) of
Fingrigo
Fingrigo (n.) A prickly,
climbing shrub of the genus Pisonia. The fruit is a kind of berry.
Finial (n.) The knot or
bunch of foliage, or foliated ornament, that forms the upper extremity of a
pinnacle in Gothic architecture; sometimes, the pinnacle itself.
Finical (a.) Affectedly
fine; overnice; unduly particular; fastidious.
Finicality (n.) The
quality of being finical; finicalness.
Finicking (a.) Alt. of
Finicky
Finicky (a.) Finical;
unduly particular.
Finific (n.) A limiting
element or quality.
Finify (a.) To make fine;
to dress finically.
Finikin (a.) Precise in
trifles; idly busy.
Fining (n.) The act of
imposing a fin/.
Fining (n.) The process of
fining or refining; clarification; also (Metal.), the conversion of cast iron
into suitable for puddling, in a hearth or charcoal fire.
Fining (n.) That which is
used to refine; especially, a preparation of isinglass, gelatin, etc., for
clarifying beer.
Finis (n.) An end;
conclusion. It is often placed at the end of a book.
Finished (imp. & p. p.) of
Finish
Finishing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Finish
Finish (v. t.) To arrive
at the end of; to bring to an end; to put an end to; to make an end of; to
terminate.
Finish (v. t.) To bestow
the last required labor upon; to complete; to bestow the utmost possible labor
upon; to perfect; to accomplish; to polish.
Finish (v. i.) To come to
an end; to terminate.
Finish (v. i.) To end; to
die.
Finish (n.) That which
finishes, puts an end to/ or perfects.
Finish (n.) The joiner
work and other finer work required for the completion of a building, especially
of the interior. See Inside finish, and Outside finish.
Finish (n.) The labor
required to give final completion to any work; hence, minute detail, careful
elaboration, or the like.
Finish (n.) See Finishing
coat, under Finishing.
Finish (n.) The result of
completed labor, as on the surface of an object; manner or style of finishing;
as, a rough, dead, or glossy finish given to cloth, stone, metal, etc.
Finish (n.) Completion; --
opposed to start, or beginning.
Finished (a.) Polished to
the highest degree of excellence; complete; perfect; as, a finished poem; a
finished education.
Finisher (n.) One who
finishes, puts an end to, completes, or perfects; esp. used in the trades, as in
hatting, weaving, etc., for the workman who gives a finishing touch to the work,
or any part of it, and brings it to perfection.
Finisher (n.) Something
that gives the finishing touch to, or settles, anything.
Finishing (n.) The act or
process of completing or perfecting; the final work upon or ornamentation of a
thing.
Finishing (a.) Tending to
complete or to render fit for the market or for use.
Finite (a.) Having a
limit; limited in quantity, degree, or capacity; bounded; -- opposed to
infinite; as, finite number; finite existence; a finite being; a finite mind;
finite duration.
Finiteless (a.) Infinite.
Finitely (adv.) In a
finite manner or degree.
Finiteness (n.) The state
of being finite.
Finitude (n.) Limitation.
Finlander (n.) A native or
inhabitant of Finland.
Finless (a.) destitute of
fins.
Finlet (n.) A little fin;
one of the parts of a divided fin.
Finlike (a.) Resembling a
fin.
Finn (a.) A native of
Finland; one of the Finn/ in the ethnological sense. See Finns.
Finnan haddie () Haddock cured in
peat smoke, originally at Findon (pron. fin"an), Scotland. the name is also
applied to other kinds of smoked haddock.
Finned (a.) Having a fin,
or fins, or anything resembling a fin.
Finner (n.) A finback
whale.
Finnic (a.) Of or
pertaining to the Finns.
Finnikin (n.) A variety of
pigeon, with a crest somewhat resembling the mane of a horse.
Finnish (a.) Of or
pertaining to Finland, to the Finns, or to their language.
Finnish (n.) A Northern
Turanian group of languages; the language of the Finns.
Finns (n. pl.) Natives of
Finland; Finlanders.
Finns (n. pl.) A branch of
the Mongolian race, inhabiting Northern and Eastern Europe, including the
Magyars, Bulgarians, Permians, Lapps, and Finlanders.
Finny (a.) Having, or
abounding in, fins, as fishes; pertaining to fishes.
Finny (a.) Abounding in
fishes.
Finochio (n.) An
umbelliferous plant (Foeniculum dulce) having a somewhat tuberous stem; sweet
fennel. The blanched stems are used in France and Italy as a culinary vegetable.
Finos (n. pl.) Second best
wool from Merino sheep.
Finpike (n.) The bichir.
See Crossopterygii.
Fint () 3d pers. sing. pr. of
Find, for findeth.
Fin-toed (a.) Having toes
connected by a membrane; palmiped; palmated; also, lobate.
Fiord (n.) A narrow inlet
of the sea, penetrating between high banks or rocks, as on the coasts of Norway
and Alaska.
Fiorin (n.) A species of
creeping bent grass (Agrostis alba); -- called also fiorin grass.
Fiorite (n.) A variety of
opal occuring in the cavities of volcanic tufa, in smooth and shining globular
and botryoidal masses, having a pearly luster; -- so called from Fiora, in
Ischia.
Fioriture (n. pl.) Little
flowers of ornament introduced into a melody by a singer or player.
Fippenny bit () The Spanish half
real, or one sixteenth of a dollar, -- so called in Pennsylvania and the
adjacent States.
Fipple (n.) A stopper, as
in a wind instrument of music.
Fir (n.) A genus (Abies)
of coniferous trees, often of large size and elegant shape, some of them valued
for their timber and others for their resin. The species are distinguished as
the balsam fir, the silver fir, the red fir, etc. The Scotch fir is a Pinus.
Fire (n.) The evolution of
light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.
Fire (n.) Fuel in a state
of combustion, as on a hearth, or in a stove or a furnace.
Fire (n.) The burning of a
house or town; a conflagration.
Fire (n.) Anything which
destroys or affects like fire.
Fire (n.) Ardor of
passion, whether love or hate; excessive warmth; consuming violence of temper.
Fire (n.) Liveliness of
imagination or fancy; intellectual and moral enthusiasm; capacity for ardor and
zeal.
Fire (n.) Splendor;
brilliancy; luster; hence, a star.
Fire (n.) Torture by
burning; severe trial or affliction.
Fire (n.) The discharge of
firearms; firing; as, the troops were exposed to a heavy fire.
Fired (imp. & p. p.) of
Fire
Fring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of
Fire
Fire (v. t.) To set on
fire; to kindle; as, to fire a house or chimney; to fire a pile.
Fire (v. t.) To subject to
intense heat; to bake; to burn in a kiln; as, to fire pottery.
Fire (v. t.) To inflame;
to irritate, as the passions; as, to fire the soul with anger, pride, or
revenge.
Fire (v. t.) To animate;
to give life or spirit to; as, to fire the genius of a young man.
Fire (v. t.) To feed or
serve the fire of; as, to fire a boiler.
Fire (v. t.) To light up
as if by fire; to illuminate.
Fire (v. t.) To cause to
explode; as, to fire a torpedo; to disharge; as, to fire a musket or cannon; to
fire cannon balls, rockets, etc.
Fire (v. t.) To drive by
fire.
Fire (v. t.) To cauterize.
Fire (v. i.) To take fire;
to be kindled; to kindle.
Fire (v. i.) To be
irritated or inflamed with passion.
Fire (v. i.) To discharge
artillery or firearms; as, they fired on the town.
Firearm (n.) A gun,
pistol, or any weapon from a shot is discharged by the force of an explosive
substance, as gunpowder.
Fireback (n.) One of
several species of pheasants of the genus Euplocamus, having the lower back a
bright, fiery red. They inhabit Southern Asia and the East Indies.
Fireball (n.) A ball
filled with powder or other combustibles, intended to be thrown among enemies,
and to injure by explosion; also, to set fire to their works and light them up,
so that movements may be seen.
Fireball (n.) A luminous
meteor, resembling a ball of fire passing rapidly through the air, and sometimes
exploding.
Firebare (n.) A beacon.
Fire beetle () A very brilliantly
luminous beetle (Pyrophorus noctilucus), one of the elaters, found in Central
and South America; -- called also cucujo. The name is also applied to other
species. See Firefly.
Firebird (n.) The
Baltimore oriole.
Fireboard (n.) A chimney
board or screen to close a fireplace when not in use.
Firebote (n.) An allowance
of fuel. See Bote.
Firebrand (n.) A piece of
burning wood.
Firebrand (n.) One who
inflames factions, or causes contention and mischief; an incendiary.
Firecracker (n.) See
Cracker., n., 3.
Firecrest (n.) A small
European kinglet (Regulus ignicapillus), having a bright red crest; -- called
also fire-crested wren.
Firedog (n.) A support for
wood in a fireplace; an andiron.
Firedrake (n.) A fiery
dragon.
Firedrake (n.) A fiery
meteor; an ignis fatuus; a rocket.
Firedrake (n.) A worker at
a furnace or fire.
Fire-fanged (a.) Injured
as by fire; burned; -- said of manure which has lost its goodness and acquired
an ashy hue in consequence of heat generated by decomposition.
Firefish (n.) A singular
marine fish of the genus Pterois, family Scorpaenidae, of several species,
inhabiting the Indo-Pacific region. They are usually red, and have very large
spinose pectoral and dorsal fins.
Fireflaire (n.) A European
sting ray of the genus Trygon (T. pastinaca); -- called also fireflare and fiery
flaw.
Fireflame (n.) The
European band fish (Cepola rubescens).
Fireflies (pl. ) of
Firefly
Firefly (n.) Any luminous
winged insect, esp. luminous beetles of the family Lampyridae.
Fireless (a.) Destitute of
fire.
Firelock (n.) An old form
of gunlock, as the flintlock, which ignites the priming by a spark; perhaps
originally, a matchlock. Hence, a gun having such a lock.
Firemen (pl. ) of Fireman
Fireman (n.) A man whose
business is to extinguish fires in towns; a member of a fire company.
Fireman (n.) A man who
tends the fires, as of a steam engine; a stocker.
Fire-new (a.) Fresh from
the forge; bright; quite new; brand-new.
Fireplace (n.) The part a
chimney appropriated to the fire; a hearth; -- usually an open recess in a wall,
in which a fire may be built.
Fireproof (a.) Proof
against fire; incombustible.
Fireprrofing (n.) The act
or process of rendering anything incombustible; also, the materials used in the
process.
Firer (n.) One who fires
or sets fire to anything; an incendiary.
Fire-set (n.) A set of
fire irons, including, commonly, tongs, shovel, and poker.
Fireside (n.) A place near
the fire or hearth; home; domestic life or retirement.
Firestone (n.) Iron
pyrites, formerly used for striking fire; also, a flint.
Firestone (n.) A stone
which will bear the heat of a furnace without injury; -- especially applied to
the sandstone at the top of the upper greensand in the south of England, used
for lining kilns and furnaces.
Firetail (n.) The European
redstart; -- called also fireflirt.
Firewarden (n.) An officer
who has authority to direct in the extinguishing of fires, or to order what
precautions shall be taken against fires; -- called also fireward.
Fireweed (n.) An American
plant (Erechthites hiercifolia), very troublesome in spots where brushwood has
been burned.
Fireweed (n.) The great
willow-herb (Epilobium spicatum).
Firewood (n.) Wood for
fuel.
Firework (n.) A device for
producing a striking display of light, or a figure or figures in plain or
colored fire, by the combustion of materials that burn in some peculiar manner,
as gunpowder, sulphur, metallic filings, and various salts. The most common
feature of fireworks is a paper or pasteboard tube filled with the combustible
material. A number of these tubes or cases are often combined so as to make,
when kindled, a great variety of figures in fire, often variously colored. The
skyrocket is a common form of firework. The name is also given to various
combustible preparations used in war.
Firework (n.) A
pyrotechnic exhibition.
Fireworm (n.) The larva of
a small tortricid moth which eats the leaves of the cranberry, so that the vines
look as if burned; -- called also cranberry worm.
Firing (n.) The act of
disharging firearms.
Firing (n.) The mode of
introducing fuel into the furnace and working it.
Firing (n.) The
application of fire, or of a cautery.
Firing (n.) The process of
partly vitrifying pottery by exposing it to intense heat in a kiln.
Firing (n.) Fuel; firewood
or coal.
Firk (v. t.) To beat; to
strike; to chastise.
Firk (v. i.) To fly out;
to turn out; to go off.
Firk (n.) A freak; trick;
quirk.
Firkin (n.) A varying
measure of capacity, usually being the fourth part of a barrel; specifically, a
measure equal to nine imperial gallons.
Firkin (n.) A small wooden
vessel or cask of indeterminate size, -- used for butter, lard, etc.
Firlot (n.) A dry measure
formerly used in Scotland; the fourth part of a boll of grain or meal. The
Linlithgow wheat firlot was to the imperial bushel as 998 to 1000; the barley
firlot as 1456 to 1000.
Firm (superl.) Fixed;
hence, closely compressed; compact; substantial; hard; solid; -- applied to the
matter of bodies; as, firm flesh; firm muscles, firm wood.
Firm (superl.) Not easily
excited or disturbed; unchanging in purpose; fixed; steady; constant; stable;
unshaken; not easily changed in feelings or will; strong; as, a firm believer; a
firm friend; a firm adherent.
Firm (superl.) Solid; --
opposed to fluid; as, firm land.
Firm (superl.) Indicating
firmness; as, a firm tread; a firm countenance.
Firm (a.) The name, title,
or style, under which a company transacts business; a partnership of two or more
persons; a commercial house; as, the firm of Hope & Co.
Firm (a.) To fix; to
settle; to confirm; to establish.
Firm (a.) To fix or direct
with firmness.
Firmament (v. & a.) Fixed
foundation; established basis.
Firmament (v. & a.) The
region of the air; the sky or heavens.
Firmament (v. & a.) The
orb of the fixed stars; the most rmote of the celestial spheres.
Firmamental (a.)
Pertaining to the firmament; celestial; being of the upper regions.
Firmans (pl. ) of Firman
Firman (n.) In Turkey and
some other Oriental countries, a decree or mandate issued by the sovereign; a
royal order or grant; -- generally given for special objects, as to a traveler
to insure him protection and assistance.
Firmer-chisel (n.) A
chisel, thin in proportion to its width. It has a tang to enter the handle
instead of a socket for receiving it.
Firmitude (n.) Strength;
stability.
Firmity (n.) Strength;
firmness; stability.
Firmless (a.) Detached
from substance.
Firmless (a.) Infirm;
unstable.
Firmly (adv.) In a firm
manner.
Firmness (n.) The state or
quality of being firm.
Firms (a.) The principal
rafters of a roof, especially a pair of rafters taken together.
Firring (n.) See Furring.
Firry (a.) Made of fir;
abounding in firs.
First (a.) Preceding all
others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a
month; the first year of a reign.
First (a.) Foremost; in
front of, or in advance of, all others.
First (a.) Most eminent or
exalted; most excellent; chief; highest; as, Demosthenes was the first orator of
Greece.
First (adv.) Before any
other person or thing in time, space, rank, etc.; -- much used in composition
with adjectives and participles.
First (n.) The upper part
of a duet, trio, etc., either vocal or instrumental; -- so called because it
generally expresses the air, and has a preeminence in the combined effect.
Firstborn (a.) First
brought forth; first in the order of nativity; eldest; hence, most excellent;
most distinguished or exalted.
First-class (a.) Of the
best class; of the highest rank; in the first division; of the best quality;
first-rate; as, a first-class telescope.
First-hand (a.) Obtained
directly from the first or original source; hence, without the intervention of
an agent.
Firstling (n.) The first
produce or offspring; -- said of animals, especially domestic animals; as, the
firstlings of his flock.
Firstling (n.) The thing
first thought or done.
Firstling (a.) Firstborn.
Firstly (adv.) In the
first place; before anything else; -- sometimes improperly used for first.
First-rate (a.) Of the
highest excellence; preeminent in quality, size, or estimation.
First-rate (n.) A war
vessel of the highest grade or the most powerful class.
Firth (n.) An arm of the
sea; a frith.
Fir tree () See Fir.
Fisc (n.) A public or
state treasury.
Fiscal (a.) Pertaining to
the public treasury or revenue.
Fiscal (n.) The income of
a prince or a state; revenue; exhequer.
Fiscal (n.) A treasurer.
Fiscal (n.) A public
officer in Scotland who prosecutes in petty criminal cases; -- called also
procurator fiscal.
Fiscal (n.) The solicitor
in Spain and Portugal; the attorney-general.
Fisetic (a.) Pertaining to
fustet or fisetin.
Fisetin (n.) A yellow
crystalline substance extracted from fustet, and regarded as its essential
coloring principle; -- called also fisetic acid.
Fish (n.) A counter, used
in various games.
Fishes (pl. ) of Fish
Fish (pl. ) of Fish
Fish (n.) A name loosely
applied in popular usage to many animals of diverse characteristics, living in
the water.
Fish (n.) An oviparous,
vertebrate animal usually having fins and a covering scales or plates. It
breathes by means of gills, and lives almost entirely in the water. See Pisces.
Fish (n.) The twelfth sign
of the zodiac; Pisces.
Fish (n.) The flesh of
fish, used as food.
Fish (n.) A purchase used
to fish the anchor.
Fish (n.) A piece of
timber, somewhat in the form of a fish, used to strengthen a mast or yard.
Fished (imp. & p. p.) of
Fish
Fishing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fish
Fish (v. i.) To attempt to
catch fish; to be employed in taking fish, by any means, as by angling or
drawing a net.
Fish (v. i.) To seek to
obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for
compliments.
Fish (v. t.) To catch; to
draw out or up; as, to fish up an anchor.
Fish (v. t.) To search by
raking or sweeping.
Fish (v. t.) To try with a
fishing rod; to catch fish in; as, to fish a stream.
Fish (v. t.) To strengthen
(a beam, mast, etc.), or unite end to end (two timbers, railroad rails, etc.) by
bolting a plank, timber, or plate to the beam, mast, or timbers, lengthwise on
one or both sides. See Fish joint, under Fish, n.
Fish-bellied (a.) Bellying
or swelling out on the under side; as, a fish-bellied rail.
Fish-block (n.) See
Fish-tackle.
Fisher (n.) One who
fishes.
Fisher (n.) A carnivorous
animal of the Weasel family (Mustela Canadensis); the pekan; the "black cat."
Fishermen (pl. ) of
Fisherman
Fisherman (n.) One whose
occupation is to catch fish.
Fisherman (n.) A ship or
vessel employed in the business of taking fish, as in the cod fishery.
Fisheries (pl. ) of
Fishery
Fishery (n.) The business
or practice of catching fish; fishing.
Fishery (n.) A place for
catching fish.
Fishery (n.) The right to
take fish at a certain place, or in particular waters.
Fishful (a.) Abounding
with fish.
Fishgig (n.) A spear with
barbed prongs used for harpooning fish.
Fishhawk (n.) The osprey
(Pandion haliaetus), found both in Europe and America; -- so called because it
plunges into the water and seizes fishes in its talons. Called also fishing
eagle, and bald buzzard.
Fishhook (n.) A hook for
catching fish.
Fishhook (n.) A hook with
a pendant, to the end of which the fish-tackle is hooked.
Fishify (v. t.) To change
to fish.
Fishiness (n.) The state
or quality of being fishy or fishlike.
Fishing (n.) The act,
practice, or art of one who fishes.
Fishing (n.) A fishery.
Fishing (n.) Pertaining to
fishing; used in fishery; engaged in fishing; as, fishing boat; fishing tackle;
fishing village.
Fishlike (a.) Like fish;
suggestive of fish; having some of the qualities of fish.
Fishmonger (n.) A dealer
in fish.
Fishskin (n.) The skin of
a fish (dog fish, shark, etc.)
Fishskin (n.) See
Ichthyosis.
Fish-tackle (n.) A tackle
or purchase used to raise the flukes of the anchor up to the gunwale. The block
used is called the fish-block.
Fish-tail (a.) Like the of
a fish; acting, or producing something, like the tail of a fish.
Fishwife (n.) A fishwoman.
Fishwomen (pl. ) of
Fishwoman
Fishwoman (n.) A woman who
retails fish.
Fishy (a.) Consisting of
fish; fishlike; having the qualities or taste of fish; abounding in fish.
Fishy (a.) Extravagant,
like some stories about catching fish; improbable; also, rank or foul.
Fisk (v. i.) To run about;
to frisk; to whisk.
Fissigemmation (n.) A
process of reproduction intermediate between fission and gemmation.
Fissile (a.) Capable of
being split, cleft, or divided in the direction of the grain, like wood, or
along natural planes of cleavage, like crystals.
Fissilingual (a.) Having
the tongue forked.
Fissilinguia (n. pl.) A
group of Lacertilia having the tongue forked, including the common lizards.
Fissility (n.) Quality of
being fissile.
Fission (n.) A cleaving,
splitting, or breaking up into parts.
Fission (n.) A method of
asexual reproduction among the lowest (unicellular) organisms by means of a
process of self-division, consisting of gradual division or cleavage of the into
two parts, each of which then becomes a separate and independent organisms; as
when a cell in an animal or plant, or its germ, undergoes a spontaneous
division, and the parts again subdivide. See Segmentation, and Cell division,
under Division.
Fission (n.) A process by
which certain coral polyps, echinoderms, annelids, etc., spontaneously
subdivide, each individual thus forming two or more new ones. See Strobilation.
Fissipalmate (a.)
Semipalmate and loboped, as a grebe's foot. See Illust. under Aves.
Fissipara (n. pl.) Animals
which reproduce by fission.
Fissiparism (n.)
Reproduction by spontaneous fission.
Fissiparity (n.) Quality
of being fissiparous; fissiparism.
Fissiparous (a.)
Reproducing by spontaneous fission. See Fission.
Fissipation (n.)
Reproduction by fission; fissiparism.
Fissiped (a.) Alt. of
Fissipedal
Fissipedal (a.) Having the
toes separated to the base. [See Aves.]
Fissiped (n.) One of the
Fissipedia.
Fissipedia (n. pl.) A
division of the Carnivora, including the dogs, cats, and bears, in which the
feet are not webbed; -- opposed to Pinnipedia.
Fissirostral (a.) Having
the bill cleft beyond the horny part, as in the case of swallows and
goatsuckers.
Fissirostres (n. pl.) A
group of birds having the bill deeply cleft.
Fissural (a.) Pertaining
to a fissure or fissures; as, the fissural pattern of a brain.
Fissuration (n.) The act
of dividing or opening; the state of being fissured.
Fissure (n.) A narrow
opening, made by the parting of any substance; a cleft; as, the fissure of a
rock.
Fissure (v. t.) To cleave;
to divide; to crack or fracture.
Fissurella (n.) A genus of
marine gastropod mollusks, having a conical or limpetlike shell, with an opening
at the apex; -- called also keyhole limpet.
Fist (n.) The hand with
the fingers doubled into the palm; the closed hand, especially as clinched
tightly for the purpose of striking a blow.
Fist (n.) The talons of a
bird of prey.
Fist (n.) the index mark
[/], used to direct special attention to the passage which follows.
Fisted (imp. & p. p.) of
Fist
Fisting (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fist
Fist (v. t.) To strike
with the fist.
Fist (v. t.) To gripe with
the fist.
Fistic (a.) Pertaining to
boxing, or to encounters with the fists; puglistic; as, fistic exploits; fistic
heroes.
Fisticuff (n.) A cuff or
blow with the fist or hand
Fisticuff (n.) a fight
with the fists; boxing.
Fistinut (n.) A pistachio
nut.
Fistuca (n.) An instrument
used by the ancients in driving piles.
Fistulae (pl. ) of Fistula
Fistula (n.) A reed; a
pipe.
Fistula (n.) A pipe for
convejing water.
Fistula (n.) A permanent
abnormal opening into the soft parts with a constant discharge; a deep, narrow,
chronic abscess; an abnormal opening between an internal cavity and another
cavity or the surface; as, a salivary fistula; an anal fistula; a recto-vaginal
fistula.
Fistular (a.) Hollow and
cylindrical, like a pipe or reed.
Fistularia (n.) A genus of
fishes, having the head prolonged into a tube, with the mouth at the extremity.
Fistularioid (a.) Like or
pertaining to the genus Fistularia.
Fistulate (v. t. & i.) To
make hollow or become hollow like a fistula, or pipe.
Fistule (n.) A fistula.
Fistuliform (a.) Of a
fistular form; tubular; pipe-shaped.
Fistulose (a.) Formed like
a fistula; hollow; reedlike.
Fistulous (a.) Having the
form or nature of a fistula; as, a fistulous ulcer.
Fistulous (a.) Hollow,
like a pipe or reed; fistulose.
Fit () imp. & p. p. of Fight.
Fit (n.) In Old English, a
song; a strain; a canto or portion of a ballad; a passus.
Fit (superl.) Adapted to
an end, object, or design; suitable by nature or by art; suited by character,
qualitties, circumstances, education, etc.; qualified; competent; worthy.
Fit (superl.) Prepared;
ready.
Fit (superl.) Conformed to
a standart of duty, properiety, or taste; convenient; meet; becoming; proper.
Fitted (imp. & p. p.) of
Fit
Fitting (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fit
Fit (v. t.) To make fit or
suitable; to adapt to the purpose intended; to qualify; to put into a condition
of readiness or preparation.
Fit (v. t.) To bring to a
required form and size; to shape aright; to adapt to a model; to adjust; -- said
especially of the work of a carpenter, machinist, tailor, etc.
Fit (v. t.) To supply with
something that is suitable or fit, or that is shaped and adjusted to the use
required.
Fit (v. t.) To be suitable
to; to answer the requirements of; to be correctly shaped and adjusted to; as,
if the coat fits you, put it on.
Fit (v. i.) To be proper
or becoming.
Fit (v. i.) To be adjusted
to a particular shape or size; to suit; to be adapted; as, his coat fits very
well.
Fit (n.) The quality of
being fit; adjustment; adaptedness; as of dress to the person of the wearer.
Fit (n.) The coincidence
of parts that come in contact.
Fit (n.) The part of an
object upon which anything fits tightly.
Fit (n.) A stroke or blow.
Fit (n.) A sudden and
violent attack of a disorder; a stroke of disease, as of epilepsy or apoplexy,
which produces convulsions or unconsciousness; a convulsion; a paroxysm; hence,
a period of exacerbation of a disease; in general, an attack of disease; as, a
fit of sickness.
Fit (n.) A mood of any
kind which masters or possesses one for a time; a temporary, absorbing
affection; a paroxysm; as, a fit melancholy, of passion, or of laughter.
Fit (n.) A passing humor;
a caprice; a sudden and unusual effort, activity, or motion, followed by
relaxation or insction; an impulse and irregular action.
Fit (n.) A darting point;
a sudden emission.
Fitches (pl. ) of Fitch
Fitch (n.) A vetch.
Fitch (n.) A word found in
the Authorized Version of the Bible, representing different Hebrew originals. In
Isaiah xxviii. 25, 27, it means the black aromatic seeds of Nigella sativa,
still used as a flavoring in the East. In Ezekiel iv. 9, the Revised Version now
reads spelt.
Fitch (n.) The European
polecat; also, its fur.
Fitche (a.) Sharpened to a
point; pointed.
Fitched (a.) Fitche.
Fitchet (n.) Alt. of
Fitchew
Fitchew (n.) The European
polecat (Putorius foetidus). See Polecat.
Fitchy (a.) Having fitches
or vetches.
Fitchy (a.) Fitche.
Fitful (a.) Full of fits;
irregularly variable; impulsive and unstable.
Fithel (n.) Alt. of Fithul
Fithul (n.) A fiddle.
Fitly (adv.) In a fit
manner; suitably; properly; conveniently; as, a maxim fitly applied.
Fitment (n.) The act of
fitting; that which is proper or becoming; equipment.
Fitness (n.) The state or
quality of being fit; as, the fitness of measures or laws; a person's fitness
for office.
Fitt (n.) See 2d Fit.
Fittable (a.) Suitable;
fit.
Fittedness (n.) The state
or quality of being fitted; adaptation.
Fitter (n.) One who fits
or makes to fit;
Fitter (n.) One who tries
on, and adjusts, articles of dress.
Fitter (n.) One who fits
or adjusts the different parts of machinery to each other.
Fitter (n.) A coal broker
who conducts the sales between the owner of a coal pit and the shipper.
Fitter (n.) A little
piece; a flitter; a flinder.
Fitting (n.) Anything used
in fitting up
Fitting (n.) necessary
fixtures or apparatus; as, the fittings of a church or study; gas fittings.
Fitting (a.) Fit;
appropriate; suitable; proper.
Fitweed (n.) A plant
(Eryngium foetidum) supposed to be a remedy for fits.
Fitz (n.) A son; -- used
in compound names, to indicate paternity, esp. of the illegitimate sons of kings
and princes of the blood; as, Fitzroy, the son of the king; Fitzclarence, the
son of the duke of Clarence.
Five (a.) Four and one
added; one more than four.
Five (n.) The number next
greater than four, and less than six; five units or objects.
Five (n.) A symbol
representing this number, as 5, or V.
Five-finger (n.) See
Cinquefoil.
Five-finger (n.) A
starfish with five rays, esp. Asterias rubens.
Fivefold (a. & adv.) In
fives; consisting of five in one; five repeated; quintuple.
Five-leaf (n.) Cinquefoil;
five-finger.
Five-leafed (a.) Alt. of
Five-leaved
Five-leaved (a.) Having
five leaflets, as the Virginia creeper.
Fiveling (n.) A compound
or twin crystal consisting of five individuals.
Fives (n. pl.) A kind of
play with a ball against a wall, resembling tennis; -- so named because three
fives, or fifteen, are counted to the game.
Fives (n.) A disease of
the glands under the ear in horses; the vives.
Five-twenties (n. pl.)
Five-twenty bonds of the United States (bearing six per cent interest), issued
in 1862, '64, and '65, redeemable after five and payable in twenty years.
Fix (a.) Fixed;
solidified.
Fixed (imp. & p. p.) of
Fix
Fixing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fix
Fix (v. t.) To make firm,
stable, or fast; to set or place permanently; to fasten immovably; to establish;
to implant; to secure; to make definite.
Fix (v. t.) To hold
steadily; to direct unwaveringly; to fasten, as the eye on an object, the
attention on a speaker.
Fix (v. t.) To transfix;
to pierce.
Fix (v. t.) To render (an
impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it
insensible to the action of light.
Fix (v. t.) To put in
order; to arrange; to dispose of; to adjust; to set to rights; to set or place
in the manner desired or most suitable; hence, to repair; as, to fix the
clothes; to fix the furniture of a room.
Fix (v. t.) To line the
hearth of (a puddling furnace) with fettling.
Fix (v. i.) To become
fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
Fix (v. i.) To become
firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal;
to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance.
Fix (n.) A position of
difficulty or embarassment; predicament; dilemma.
Fix (n.) fettling.
Fixable (a.) Capable of
being fixed.
Fixation (n.) The act of
fixing, or the state of being fixed.
Fixation (n.) The act of
uniting chemically with a solid substance or in a solid form; reduction to a
non-volatile condition; -- said of gaseous elements.
Fixation (n.) The act or
process of ceasing to be fluid and becoming firm.
Fixation (n.) A state of
resistance to evaporation or volatilization by heat; -- said of metals.
Fixative (n.) That which
serves to set or fix colors or drawings, as a mordant.
Fixed (a.) Securely placed
or fastened; settled; established; firm; imovable; unalterable.
Fixed (a.) Stable;
non-volatile.
Fixedly (adv.) In a fixed,
stable, or constant manner.
Fixedness (n.) The state
or quality of being fixed; stability; steadfastness.
Fixedness (n.) The quality
of a body which resists evaporation or volatilization by heat; solidity;
cohesion of parts; as, the fixedness of gold.
Fixidity (n.) Fixedness.
Fixing (n.) The act or
process of making fixed.
Fixing (n.) That which is
fixed; a fixture.
Fixing (n.) Arrangements;
embellishments; trimmings; accompaniments.
Fixity (n.) Fixedness; as,
fixity of tenure; also, that which is fixed.
Fixity (n.) Coherence of
parts.
Fixture (n.) That which is
fixed or attached to something as a permanent appendage; as, the fixtures of a
pump; the fixtures of a farm or of a dwelling, that is, the articles which a
tenant may not take away.
Fixture (n.) State of
being fixed; fixedness.
Fixture (n.) Anything of
an accessory character annexed to houses and lands, so as to constitute a part
of them. This term is, however, quite frequently used in the peculiar sense of
personal chattels annexed to lands and tenements, but removable by the person
annexing them, or his personal representatives. In this latter sense, the same
things may be fixtures under some circumstances, and not fixtures under others.
Fixure (n.) Fixed
position; stable condition; firmness.
Fizgig (n.) A fishgig.
Fizgig (n.) A firework,
made of damp powder, which makes a fizzing or hissing noise when it explodes.
Fizgig (n.) A gadding,
flirting girl.
Fizzed (imp. & p. p.) of
Fizz
Fizzing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fizz
Fizz (v. i.) To make a
hissing sound, as a burning fuse.
Fizz (n.) A hissing sound;
as, the fizz of a fly.
Fizzled (imp. & p. p.) of
Fizzle
Fizzling (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fizzle
Fizzle (v. i.) To make a
hissing sound.
Fizzle (v. i.) To make a
ridiculous failure in an undertaking.
Fizzle (n.) A failure or
abortive effort.
Fjord (n.) See Fiord.
Flabbergast (v. t.) To
astonish; to strike with wonder, esp. by extraordinary statements.
Flabbergastation (n.) The
state of being flabbergasted.
Flabbily (adv.) In a
flabby manner.
Flabbiness (n.) Quality or
state of being flabby.
Flabby (a.) Yielding to
the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; wanting
firmness; flaccid; as, flabby flesh.
Flabel (n.) A fan.
Flabellate (a.)
Flabelliform.
Flabellation (n.) The act
of keeping fractured limbs cool by the use of a fan or some other contrivance.
Flabelliform (a.) Having
the form of a fan; fan-shaped; flabellate.
Flabellinerved (a.) Having
many nerves diverging radiately from the base; -- said of a leaf.
Flabellum (n.) A fan;
especially, the fan carried before the pope on state occasions, made in ostrich
and peacock feathers.
Flabile (a.) Liable to be
blown about.
Flaccid (a.) Yielding to
pressure for want of firmness and stiffness; soft and weak; limber; lax;
drooping; flabby; as, a flaccid muscle; flaccid flesh.
Flaccidity (n.) The state
of being flaccid.
Flacker (v. i.) To
flutter, as a bird.
Flacket (n.) A
barrel-shaped bottle; a flagon.
Flagged (imp. & p. p.) of
Flag
Flagging (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Flag
Flag (v. i.) To hang loose
without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding,
limp.
Flag (v. i.) To droop; to
grow spiritless; to lose vigor; to languish; as, the spirits flag; the streugth
flags.
Flag (v. t.) To let droop;
to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness; as, to flag the wings.
Flag (v. t.) To enervate;
to exhaust the vigor or elasticity of.
Flag (n.) That which flags
or hangs down loosely.
Flag (n.) A cloth usually
bearing a device or devices and used to indicate nationality, party, etc., or to
give or ask information; -- commonly attached to a staff to be waved by the
wind; a standard; a banner; an ensign; the colors; as, the national flag; a
military or a naval flag.
Flag (n.) A group of
feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc.
Flag (n.) A group of
elongated wing feathers in certain hawks.
Flag (n.) The bushy tail
of a dog, as of a setter.
Flag (v. t.) To signal to
with a flag; as, to flag a train.
Flag (v. t.) To convey, as
a message, by means of flag signals; as, to flag an order to troops or vessels
at a distance.
Flag (n.) An aquatic
plant, with long, ensiform leaves, belonging to either of the genera Iris and
Acorus.
Flag (v. t.) To furnish or
deck out with flags.
Flag (n.) A flat stone
used for paving.
Flag (n.) Any hard, evenly
stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.
Flag (v. t.) To lay with
flags of flat stones.
Flagellant (n.) One of a
fanatical sect which flourished in Europe in the 13th and 14th centuries, and
maintained that flagellation was of equal virtue with baptism and the sacrament;
-- called also disciplinant.
Flagellata (v. t.) An
order of Infusoria, having one or two long, whiplike cilia, at the anterior end.
It includes monads. See Infusoria, and Monad.
Flagellated (imp. & p. p.)
of Flagellate
Flagellating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Flagellate
Flagellate (v. t.) To
whip; to scourge; to flog.
Flagellate (a.)
Flagelliform.
Flagellate (a.) Of or
pertaining to the Flagellata.
Flagellation (n.) A
beating or flogging; a whipping; a scourging.
Flagellator (n.) One who
practices flagellation; one who whips or scourges.
Flagelliform (a.) Shaped
like a whiplash; long, slender, round, flexible, and (comming) tapering.
Flagellums (pl. ) of
Flagellum
Flagella (pl. ) of
Flagellum
Flagellum (v. t.) A young,
flexible shoot of a plant; esp., the long trailing branch of a vine, or a
slender branch in certain mosses.
Flagellum (v. t.) A long,
whiplike cilium. See Flagellata.
Flagellum (v. t.) An
appendage of the reproductive apparatus of the snail.
Flagellum (v. t.) A
lashlike appendage of a crustacean, esp. the terminal ortion of the antennae and
the epipodite of the maxilipeds. See Maxilliped.
Flageolet (n.) A small
wooden pipe, having six or more holes, and a mouthpiece inserted at one end. It
produces a shrill sound, softer than of the piccolo flute, and is said to have
superseded the old recorder.
Flagginess (n.) The
condition of being flaggy; laxity; limberness.
Flagging (n.) A pavement
or sidewalk of flagstones; flagstones, collectively.
Flagging (a.) Growing
languid, weak, or spiritless; weakening; delaying.
Flaggy (a.) Weak;
flexible; limber.
Flaggy (a.) Tasteless;
insipid; as, a flaggy apple.
Flaggy (a.) Abounding with
the plant called flag; as, a flaggy marsh.
Flagitate (v. t.) To
importune; to demand fiercely or with passion.
Flagitation (n.)
Importunity; urgent demand.
Flagitious (a.)
Disgracefully or shamefully criminal; grossly wicked; scandalous; shameful; --
said of acts, crimes, etc.
Flagitious (a.) Guilty of
enormous crimes; corrupt; profligate; -- said of persons.
Flagitious (a.)
Characterized by scandalous crimes or vices; as, flagitious times.
Flagmen (pl. ) of Flagman
Flagman (n.) One who makes
signals with a flag.
Flagon (n.) A vessel with
a narrow mouth, used for holding and conveying liquors. It is generally larger
than a bottle, and of leather or stoneware rather than of glass.
Flagrance (n.) Flagrancy.
Flagrancies (pl. ) of
Flagrancy
Flagrancy (n.) A burning;
great heat; inflammation.
Flagrancy (n.) The
condition or quality of being flagrant; atrocity; heiniousness; enormity;
excess.
Flagrant (a.) Flaming;
inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent.
Flagrant (a.) Actually in
preparation, execution, or performance; carried on hotly; raging.
Flagrant (a.) Flaming into
notice; notorious; enormous; heinous; glaringly wicked.
Flagrantly (adv.) In a
flagrant manner.
Flagrate (v. t.) To burn.
Flagration (n.) A
conflagration.
Flagship (n.) The vessel
which carries the commanding officer of a fleet or squadron and flies his
distinctive flag or pennant.
-staves (pl. ) of
Flagstaff
-staffs (pl. ) of
Flagstaff
Flagstaff (n.) A staff on
which a flag is hoisted.
Flagstone (n.) A flat
stone used in paving, or any rock which will split into such stones. See Flag, a
stone.
Flagworm (n.) A worm or
grub found among flags and sedge.
Flail (n.) An instrument
for threshing or beating grain from the ear by hand, consisting of a wooden
staff or handle, at the end of which a stouter and shorter pole or club, called
a swipe, is so hung as to swing freely.
Flail (n.) An ancient
military weapon, like the common flail, often having the striking part armed
with rows of spikes, or loaded.
Flaily (a.) Acting like a
flail.
Flain () p. p. of Flay.
Flake (n.) A paling; a
hurdle.
Flake (n.) A platform of
hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for
drying codfish and other things.
Flake (n.) A small stage
hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on in calking, etc.
Flake (n.) A loose filmy
mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything; a film; flock; lamina; layer; scale;
as, a flake of snow, tallow, or fish.
Flake (n.) A little
particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash.
Flake (n.) A sort of
carnation with only two colors in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
Flaked (imp. & p. p.) of
Flake
Flaking (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Flake
Flake (v. t.) To form into
flakes.
Flake (v. i.) To separate
in flakes; to peel or scale off.
Flakiness (n.) The state
of being flaky.
Flaky (a.) Consisting of
flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers;
flakelike.
Flam (n.) A freak or whim;
also, a falsehood; a lie; an illusory pretext; deception; delusion.
Flammed (imp. & p. p.) of
Flam
Flamming (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Flam
Flam (v. t.) To deceive
with a falsehood.
Flambeaux (pl. ) of
Flambeau
Flambeaus (pl. ) of
Flambeau
Flambeau (n.) A flaming
torch, esp. one made by combining together a number of thick wicks invested with
a quick-burning substance (anciently, perhaps, wax; in modern times, pitch or
the like); hence, any torch.
Flamboyant (a.)
Characterized by waving or flamelike curves, as in the tracery of windows, etc.;
-- said of the later (15th century) French Gothic style.
Flamboyer (n.) A name
given in the East and West Indies to certain trees with brilliant blossoms,
probably species of Caesalpinia.
Flame (n.) A stream of
burning vapor or gas, emitting light and heat; darting or streaming fire; a
blaze; a fire.
Flame (n.) Burning zeal or
passion; elevated and noble enthusiasm; glowing imagination; passionate
excitement or anger.
Flame (n.) Ardor of
affection; the passion of love.
Flame (n.) A person
beloved; a sweetheart.
Flamed (imp. & p. p.) of
Flame
Flaming (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Flame
Flame (n.) To burn with a
flame or blaze; to burn as gas emitted from bodies in combustion; to blaze.
Flame (n.) To burst forth
like flame; to break out in violence of passion; to be kindled with zeal or
ardor.
Flame (v. t.) To kindle;
to inflame; to excite.
Flame-colored (a.) Of the
color of flame; of a bright orange yellow color.
Flameless (a.) Destitute
of flame.
Flamelet (n.) A small
flame.
Flammens (pl. ) of Flamen
Flamines (pl. ) of Flamen
Flamen (n.) A priest
devoted to the service of a particular god, from whom he received a
distinguishing epithet. The most honored were those of Jupiter, Mars, and
Quirinus, called respectively Flamen Dialis, Flamen Martialis, and Flamen
Quirinalis.
Flamineous (a.) Pertaining
to a flamen; flaminical.
Flaming (a.) Emitting
flames; afire; blazing; consuming; illuminating.
Flaming (a.) Of the color
of flame; high-colored; brilliant; dazzling.
Flaming (a.) Ardent;
passionate; burning with zeal; irrepressibly earnest; as, a flaming proclomation
or harangue.
Flamingly (adv.) In a
flaming manner.
Flamingoes (pl. ) of
Flamingo
Flamingo (n.) Any bird of
the genus Phoenicopterus. The flamingoes have webbed feet, very long legs, and a
beak bent down as if broken. Their color is usually red or pink. The American
flamingo is P. ruber; the European is P. antiquorum.
Flaminical (a.) Pertaining
to a flamen.
Flammability (n.) The
quality of being flammable; inflammability.
Flammable (a.)
Inflammable.
Flammation (n.) The act of
setting in a flame or blaze.
Flammeous (a.) Pertaining
to, consisting of, or resembling, flame.
Flammiferous (a.)
Producing flame.
Flammivomous (a.) Vomiting
flames, as a volcano.
Flammulated (a.) Of a
reddish color.
Flamy (a.) Flaming;
blazing; flamelike; flame-colored; composed of flame.
Flanches (pl. ) of Flanch
Flanch (n.) A flange.
Flanch (n.) A bearing
consisting of a segment of a circle encroaching on the field from the side.
Flanched (a.) Having
flanches; -- said of an escutcheon with those bearings.
Flanconade (n.) A thrust
in the side.
Flaneur (n.) One who
strolls about aimlessly; a lounger; a loafer.
Flang (n.) A miner's
two-pointed pick.
Flange (n.) An external or
internal rib, or rim, for strength, as the flange of an iron beam; or for a
guide, as the flange of a car wheel (see Car wheel.); or for attachment to
another object, as the flange on the end of a pipe, steam cylinder, etc.
Flange (n.) A plate or
ring to form a rim at the end of a pipe when fastened to the pipe.
Flanged (imp. & p. p.) of
Flange
Flanging (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Flange
Flange (v. t.) To make a
flange on; to furnish with a flange.
Flange (v. i.) To be bent
into a flange.
Flanged (a.) Having a
flange or flanges; as, a flanged wheel.
Flank (n.) The fleshy or
muscular part of the side of an animal, between the ribs and the hip. See
Illust. of Beef.
Flank (n.) The side of an
army, or of any division of an army, as of a brigade, regiment, or battalion;
the extreme right or left; as, to attack an enemy in flank is to attack him on
the side.
Flank (n.) That part of a
bastion which reaches from the curtain to the face, and defends the curtain, the
flank and face of the opposite bastion; any part of a work defending another by
a fire along the outside of its parapet.
Flank (n.) The side of any
building.
Flank (n.) That part of
the acting surface of a gear wheel tooth that lies within the pitch line.
Flanked (imp. & p. p.) of
Flank
Flanking (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Flank
Flank (v. t.) To stand at
the flank or side of; to border upon.
Flank (v. t.) To overlook
or command the flank of; to secure or guard the flank of; to pass around or turn
the flank of; to attack, or threaten to attack; the flank of.
Flank (v. i.) To border;
to touch.
Flank (v. i.) To be posted
on the side.
Flanker (n.) One who, or
that which, flanks, as a skirmisher or a body of troops sent out upon the flanks
of an army toguard a line of march, or a fort projecting so as to command the
side of an assailing body.
Flankered (imp. & p. p.)
of Flanker
Flankering (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Flanker
Flanker (v. t.) To defend
by lateral fortifications.
Flanker (v. t.) To attack
sideways.
Flannel (n.) A soft,
nappy, woolen cloth, of loose texture.
Flanneled (a.) Covered or
wrapped in flannel.
Flannen (a.) Made or
consisting of flannel.
Flap (v.) Anything broad
and limber that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is
easily moved; as, the flap of a garment.
Flap (v.) A hinged leaf,
as of a table or shutter.
Flap (v.) The motion of
anything broad and loose, or a stroke or sound made with it; as, the flap of a
sail or of a wing.
Flap (v.) A disease in the
lips of horses.
Flapped (imp. & p. p.) of
Flap
Flapping (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Flap
Flap (n.) To beat with a
flap; to strike.
Flap (n.) To move, as
something broad and flaplike; as, to flap the wings; to let fall, as the brim of
a hat.
Flap (v. i.) To move as do
wings, or as something broad or loose; to fly with wings beating the air.
Flap (v. i.) To fall and
hang like a flap, as the brim of a hat, or other broad thing.
Flapdragon (n.) A game in
which the players catch raisins out burning brandy, and swallow them blazing.
Flapdragon (n.) The thing
thus caught and eaten.
Flapdragon (v. t.) To
swallow whole, as a flapdragon; to devour.
Flap-eared (a.) Having
broad, loose, dependent ears.
Flapjack (n.) A fklat cake
turned on the griddle while cooking; a griddlecake or pacake.
Flapjack (n.) A fried
dough cake containing fruit; a turnover.
Flap-mouthed (a.) Having
broad, hangling lips.
Flapper (n.) One who, or
that which, flaps.
Flapper (n.) See Flipper.
Flared (imp. & p. p.) of
Flare
Flaring (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Flare
Flare (v. i.) To burn with
an unsteady or waving flame; as, the candle flares.
Flare (v. i.) To shine out
with a sudden and unsteady light; to emit a dazzling or painfully bright light.
Flare (v. i.) To shine out
with gaudy colors; to flaunt; to be offensively bright or showy.
Flare (v. i.) To be
exposed to too much light.
Flare (v. i.) To open or
spread outwards; to project beyond the perpendicular; as, the sides of a bowl
flare; the bows of a ship flare.
Flare (n.) An unsteady,
broad, offensive light.
Flare (n.) A spreading
outward; as, the flare of a fireplace.
Flare (n.) Leaf of lard.
Flare-up (n.) A sudden
burst of anger or passion; an angry dispute.
Flaring (a.) That flares;
flaming or blazing unsteadily; shining out with a dazzling light.
Flaring (a.) Opening or
speading outwards.
Flaringly (adv.) In a
flaring manner.
Flashed (imp. & p. p.) of
Flash
Flashing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Flash
Flash (v. i.) To burst or
break forth with a sudden and transient flood of flame and light; as, the
lighting flashes vividly; the powder flashed.
Flash (v. i.) To break
forth, as a sudden flood of light; to burst instantly and brightly on the sight;
to show a momentary brilliancy; to come or pass like a flash.
Flash (v. i.) To burst
forth like a sudden flame; to break out violently; to rush hastily.
Flash (v. t.) To send out
in flashes; to cause to burst forth with sudden flame or light.
Flash (v. t.) To convey as
by a flash; to light up, as by a sudden flame or light; as, to flash a message
along the wires; to flash conviction on the mind.
Flash (v. t.) To cover
with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different color. See
Flashing, n., 3 (b).
Flash (n.) To trick up in
a showy manner.
Flash (n.) To strike and
throw up large bodies of water from the surface; to splash.
Flashes (pl. ) of Flash
Flash (n.) A sudden burst
of light; a flood of light instantaneously appearing and disappearing; a
momentary blaze; as, a flash of lightning.
Flash (n.) A sudden and
brilliant burst, as of wit or genius; a momentary brightness or show.
Flash (n.) The time during
which a flash is visible; an instant; a very brief period.
Flash (n.) A preparation
of capsicum, burnt sugar, etc., for coloring and giving a fictious strength to
liquors.
Flash (a.) Showy, but
counterfeit; cheap, pretentious, and vulgar; as, flash jewelry; flash finery.
Flash (a.) Wearing showy,
counterfeit ornaments; vulgarly pretentious; as, flash people; flash men or
women; -- applied especially to thieves, gamblers, and prostitutes that dress in
a showy way and wear much cheap jewelry.
Flash (n.) Slang or cant
of thieves and prostitutes.
Flash (n.) A pool.
Flash (n.) A reservoir and
sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may
pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal.
Flashboard (n.) A board
placed temporarily upon a milldam, to raise the water in the pond above its
usual level; a flushboard.
Flasher (n.) One who, or
that which, flashes.
Flasher (n.) A man of more
appearance of wit than reality.
Flasher (n.) A large
sparoid fish of the Atlantic coast and all tropical seas (Lobotes Surinamensis).
Flasher (n.) The European
red-backed shrike (Lanius collurio); -- called also flusher.
Flashily (adv.) In a
flashy manner; with empty show.
Flashiness (n.) The
quality of being flashy.
Flashing (n.) The creation
of an artifical flood by the sudden letting in of a body of water; -- called
also flushing.
Flashing (n.) Pieces of
metal, built into the joints of a wall, so as to lap over the edge of the
gutters or to cover the edge of the roofing; also, similar pieces used to cover
the valleys of roofs of slate, shingles, or the like. By extension, the metal
covering of ridges and hips of roofs; also, in the United States, the protecting
of angles and breaks in walls of frame houses with waterproof material, tarred
paper, or the like. Cf. Filleting.
Flashing (n.) The
reheating of an article at the furnace aperture during manufacture to restore
its plastic condition; esp., the reheating of a globe of crown glass to allow it
to assume a flat shape as it is rotated.
Flashing (n.) A mode of
covering transparent white glass with a film of colored glass.
Flashy (a.) Dazzling for a
moment; making a momentary show of brilliancy; transitorily bright.
Flashy (a.) Fiery;
vehement; impetuous.
Flashy (a.) Showy; gay;
gaudy; as, a flashy dress.
Flashy (a.) Without taste
or spirit.
Flask (n.) A small
bottle-shaped vessel for holding fluids; as, a flask of oil or wine.
Flask (n.) A narrow-necked
vessel of metal or glass, used for various purposes; as of sheet metal, to carry
gunpowder in; or of wrought iron, to contain quicksilver; or of glass, to heat
water in, etc.
Flask (n.) A bed in a gun
carriage.
Flask (n.) The wooden or
iron frame which holds the sand, etc., forming the mold used in a foundry; it
consists of two or more parts; viz., the cope or top; sometimes, the cheeks, or
middle part; and the drag, or bottom part. When there are one or more cheeks,
the flask is called a three part flask, four part flask, etc.
Flasket (n.) A long,
shallow basket, with two handles.
Flasket (n.) A small
flask.
Flasket (n.) A vessel in
which viands are served.
Flat (superl.) Having an
even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions;
level without inclination; plane.
Flat (superl.) Lying at
full length, or spread out, upon the ground; level with the ground or earth;
prostrate; as, to lie flat on the ground; hence, fallen; laid low; ruined;
destroyed.
Flat (superl.) Wanting
relief; destitute of variety; without points of prominence and striking
interest.
Flat (superl.) Tasteless;
stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as, fruit or drink flat to the taste.
Flat (superl.) Unanimated;
dull; uninteresting; without point or spirit; monotonous; as, a flat speech or
composition.
Flat (superl.) Lacking
liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings; depressed; dull; as, the market
is flat.
Flat (superl.) Clear;
unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive; downright.
Flat (superl.) Below the
true pitch; hence, as applied to intervals, minor, or lower by a half step; as,
a flat seventh; A flat.
Flat (superl.) Not sharp
or shrill; not acute; as, a flat sound.
Flat (superl.) Sonant;
vocal; -- applied to any one of the sonant or vocal consonants, as distinguished
from a nonsonant (or sharp) consonant.
Flat (adv.) In a flat
manner; directly; flatly.
Flat (adv.) Without
allowance for accrued interest.
Flat (n.) A level surface,
without elevation, relief, or prominences; an extended plain; specifically, in
the United States, a level tract along the along the banks of a river; as, the
Mohawk Flats.
Flat (n.) A level tract
lying at little depth below the surface of water, or alternately covered and
left bare by the tide; a shoal; a shallow; a strand.
Flat (n.) Something broad
and flat in form
Flat (n.) A flat-bottomed
boat, without keel, and of small draught.
Flat (n.) A straw hat,
broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
Flat (n.) A car without a
roof, the body of which is a platform without sides; a platform car.
Flat (n.) A platform on
wheel, upon which emblematic designs, etc., are carried in processions.
Flat (n.) The flat part,
or side, of anything; as, the broad side of a blade, as distinguished from its
edge.
Flat (n.) A floor, loft,
or story in a building; especially, a floor of a house, which forms a complete
residence in itself.
Flat (n.) A horizontal
vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a
vein not elsewhere horizontal.
Flat (n.) A dull fellow; a
simpleton; a numskull.
Flat (n.) A character [/]
before a note, indicating a tone which is a half step or semitone lower.
Flat (n.) A homaloid space
or extension.
Flatted (imp. & p. p.) of
Flat
Flatting (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Flat
Flat (v. t.) To make flat;
to flatten; to level.
Flat (v. t.) To render
dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress.
Flat (v. t.) To depress in
tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.
Flat (v. i.) To become
flat, or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.
Flat (v. i.) To fall form
the pitch.
Flatbill (n.) Any bird of
the genus Flatyrynchus. They belong to the family of flycatchers.
Flatboat (n.) A boat with
a flat bottom and square ends; -- used for the transportation of bulky freight,
especially in shallow waters.
Flat-bottomed (a.) Having
an even lower surface or bottom; as, a flat-bottomed boat.
Flat-cap (n.) A kind of
low-crowned cap formerly worn by all classes in England, and continued in London
after disuse elsewhere; -- hence, a citizen of London.
Flatfish (n.) Any fish of
the family Pleuronectidae; esp., the winter flounder (Pleuronectes Americanus).
The flatfishes have the body flattened, swim on the side, and have eyes on one
side, as the flounder, turbot, and halibut. See Flounder.
Flat foot () A foot in which the
arch of the instep is flattened so that the entire sole of the foot rests upon
the ground; also, the deformity, usually congential, exhibited by such a foot;
splayfoot.
Flat-footed (a.) Having a
flat foot, with little or no arch of the instep.
Flat-footed (a.)
Firm-footed; determined.
Flathead (a.)
Characterized by flatness of head, especially that produced by artificial means,
as a certain tribe of American Indians.
Flathead (n.) A Chinook
Indian. See Chinook, n., 1.
Flat-headed (a.) Having a
head with a flattened top; as, a flat-headed nail.
Flatiron (n.) An iron with
a flat, smooth surface for ironing clothes.
Flative (a.) Producing
wind; flatulent.
Flating (a.) With the flat
side, as of a sword; flatlong; in a prostrate position.
Flatlong (adv.) With the
flat side downward; not edgewise.
Flatly (adv.) In a flat
manner; evenly; horizontally; without spirit; dully; frigidly; peremptorily;
positively, plainly.
Flatness (n.) The quality
or state of being flat.
Flatness (n.) Eveness of
surface; want of relief or prominence; the state of being plane or level.
Flatness (n.) Want of
vivacity or spirit; prostration; dejection; depression.
Flatness (n.) Want of
variety or flavor; dullness; insipidity.
Flatness (n.) Depression
of tone; the state of being below the true pitch; -- opposed to sharpness or
acuteness.
Flatour (n.) A flatterer.
Flattened (imp. & p. p.)
of Flatten
Flattening (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Flatten
Flatten (a.) To reduce to
an even surface or one approaching evenness; to make flat; to level; to make
plane.
Flatten (a.) To throw
down; to bring to the ground; to prostrate; hence, to depress; to deject; to
dispirit.
Flatten (a.) To make vapid
or insipid; to render stale.
Flatten (a.) To lower the
pitch of; to cause to sound less sharp; to let fall from the pitch.
Flatten (v. i.) To become
or grow flat, even, depressed dull, vapid, spiritless, or depressed below pitch.
Flatter (n.) One who, or
that which, makes flat or flattens.
Flatter (n.) A flat-faced
fulling hammer.
Flatter (n.) A drawplate
with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs,
etc.
Flattered (imp. & p. p.)
of Flatter
Flattering (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Flatter
Flatter (v. t.) To treat
with praise or blandishments; to gratify or attempt to gratify the self-love or
vanity of, esp. by artful and interested commendation or attentions; to
blandish; to cajole; to wheedle.
Flatter (v. t.) To raise
hopes in; to encourage or favorable, but sometimes unfounded or deceitful,
representations.
Flatter (v. t.) To portray
too favorably; to give a too favorable idea of; as, his portrait flatters him.
Flatter (v. i.) To use
flattery or insincere praise.
Flatterer (n.) One who
flatters.
Flattering (a.) That
flatters (in the various senses of the verb); as, a flattering speech.
Flatteringly (adv.) With
flattery.
Flatteries (pl. ) of
Flattery
Flattery (v. t.) The act
or practice of flattering; the act of pleasing by artiful commendation or
compliments; adulation; false, insincere, or excessive praise.
Flatting (n.) The process
or operation of making flat, as a cylinder of glass by opening it out.
Flatting (n.) A mode of
painting,in which the paint, being mixed with turpentine, leaves the work
without gloss.
Flatting (n.) A method of
preserving gilding unburnished, by touching with size.
Flatting (n.) The process
of forming metal into sheets by passing it between rolls.
Flattish (a.) Somewhat
flat.
Flatulence (n.) Alt. of
Flatlency
Flatlency (n.) The state
or quality of being flatulent.
Flatulent (a.) Affected
with flatus or gases generated in the alimentary canal; windy.
Flatulent (a.) Generating,
or tending to generate, wind in the stomach.
Flatulent (a.) Turgid with
flatus; as, a flatulent tumor.
Flatulent (a.) Pretentious
without substance or reality; puffy; empty; vain; as, a flatulent vanity.
Flatulently (adv.) In a
flatulent manner; with flatulence.
Flatuosity (n.)
Flatulence.
Flatuous (a.) Windy;
generating wind.
Flatuses (pl. ) of Flatus
Flatus (pl. ) of Flatus
Flatus (n.) A breath; a
puff of wind.
Flatus (n.) Wind or gas
generated in the stomach or other cavities of the body.
Flatware (n.) Articles for
the table, as china or silverware, that are more or less flat, as distinguished
from hollow ware.
Flatwise (a. / adv.) With
the flat side downward, or next to another object; not edgewise.
Flatworm (n.) Any worm
belonging to the Plathelminthes; also, sometimes applied to the planarians.
Flaundrish (a.) Flemish.
Flaunted (imp. & p. p.) of
Flaunt
Flaunting (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Flaunt
Flaunt (v. i.) To throw or
spread out; to flutter; to move ostentatiously; as, a flaunting show.
Flaunt (v. t.) To display
ostentatiously; to make an impudent show of.
Flaunt (n.) Anything
displayed for show.
Flauntingly (adv.) In a
flaunting way.
Flautist (n.) A player on
the flute; a flutist.
Flauto (n.) A flute.
Flavaniline (n.) A yellow,
crystalline, organic dyestuff, C16H14N2, of artifical production. It is a strong
base, and is a complex derivative of aniline and quinoline.
Flavescent (a.) Turning
yellow; yellowish.
Flavicomous (a.) Having
yellow hair.
Flavin (n.) A yellow,
vegetable dyestuff, resembling quercitron.
Flavine (n.) A yellow,
crystalline, organic base, C13H12N2O, obtained artificially.
Flavol (n.) A yellow,
crystalline substance, obtained from anthraquinone, and regarded as a hydroxyl
derivative of it.
Flavor (n.) That quality
of anything which affects the smell; odor; fragrances; as, the flavor of a rose.
Flavor (n.) That quality
of anything which affects the taste; that quality which gratifies the palate;
relish; zest; savor; as, the flavor of food or drink.
Flavor (n.) That which
imparts to anything a peculiar odor or taste, gratifying to the sense of smell,
or the nicer perceptions of the palate; a substance which flavors.
Flavor (n.) That quality
which gives character to any of the productions of literature or the fine arts.
Flavored (imp. & p. p.) of
Flavor
Flavoring (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Flavor
Flavor (v. t.) To give
flavor to; to add something (as salt or a spice) to, to give character or zest.
Flavored (a.) Having a
distinct flavor; as, high-flavored wine.
Flavorles (a.) Without
flavor; tasteless.
Flavorous (a.) Imparting
flavor; pleasant to the taste or smell; sapid.
Flavous (a.) Yellow.
Flaw (n.) A crack or
breach; a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion; as, a flaw in a
knife or a vase.
Flaw (n.) A defect; a
fault; as, a flaw in reputation; a flaw in a will, in a deed, or in a statute.
Flaw (n.) A sudden burst
of noise and disorder; a tumult; uproar; a quarrel.
Flaw (n.) A sudden burst
or gust of wind of short duration.
Flawed (imp. & p. p.) of
Flaw
Flawing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Flaw
Flaw (v. t.) To crack; to
make flaws in.
Flaw (v. t.) To break; to
violate; to make of no effect.
Flawless (a.) Free from
flaws.
Flawn (n.) A sort of flat
custard or pie.
Flawter (v. t.) To scrape
o/ pare, as a skin.
Flawy (a.) Full of flaws
or cracks; broken; defective; faulty.
Flawy (a.) Subject to
sudden flaws or gusts of wind.
Flax (n.) A plant of the
genus Linum, esp. the L. usitatissimum, which has a single, slender stalk, about
a foot and a half high, with blue flowers. The fiber of the bark is used for
making thread and cloth, called linen, cambric, lawn, lace, etc. Linseed oil is
expressed from the seed.
Flax (n.) The skin or
fibrous part of the flax plant, when broken and cleaned by hatcheling or
combing.
Flaxen (a.) Made of flax;
resembling flax or its fibers; of the color of flax; of a light soft straw
color; fair and flowing, like flax or tow; as, flaxen thread; flaxen hair.
Flax-plant (n.) A plant in
new Zealand (Phormium tenax), allied to the lilies and aloes. The leaves are two
inches wide and several feet long, and furnish a fiber which is used for making
ropes, mats, and coarse cloth.
Flaxseed (n.) The seed of
the flax; linseed.
Flaxweed (n.) See
Toadflax.
Flaxy (a.) Like flax;
flaxen.
Flayed (imp. & p. p.) of
Flay
Flaying (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Flay
Flay (v. t.) To skin; to
strip off the skin or surface of; as, to flay an ox; to flay the green earth.
Flayer (n.) One who strips
off the skin.
Flea (v. t.) To flay.
Flea (n.) An insect
belonging to the genus Pulex, of the order Aphaniptera. Fleas are destitute of
wings, but have the power of leaping energetically. The bite is poisonous to
most persons. The human flea (Pulex irritans), abundant in Europe, is rare in
America, where the dog flea (P. canis) takes its place. See Aphaniptera, and Dog
flea. See Illustration in Appendix.
Fleabane (n.) One of
various plants, supposed to have efficacy in driving away fleas. They belong,
for the most part, to the genera Conyza, Erigeron, and Pulicaria.
Flea-beetle (n.) A small
beetle of the family Halticidae, of many species. They have strong posterior
legs and leap like fleas. The turnip flea-beetle (Phyllotreta vittata) and that
of the grapevine (Graptodera chalybea) are common injurious species.
Flea-bite (n.) The bite of
a flea, or the red spot caused by the bite.
Flea-bite (n.) A trifling
wound or pain, like that of the bite of a flea.
Flea-bitten (a.) Bitten by
a flea; as, a flea-bitten face.
Flea-bitten (a.) White,
flecked with minute dots of bay or sorrel; -- said of the color of a horse.
Fleagh () imp. of Fly.
Fleak (n.) A flake; a
thread or twist.
Fleaking (n.) A light
covering of reeds, over which the main covering is laid, in thatching houses.
Flea-louse (n.) A jumping
plant louse of the family Psyllidae, of many species. That of the pear tree is
Psylla pyri.
Fleam (n.) A sharp
instrument used for opening veins, lancing gums, etc.; a kind of lancet.
Fleamy (a.) Bloody;
clotted.
Flear (v. t. & i.) See
Fleer.
Fleawort (n.) An herb used
in medicine (Plantago Psyllium), named from the shape of its seeds.
Fleche (n.) A simple
fieldwork, consisting of two faces forming a salient angle pointing outward and
open at the gorge.
Fleck (n.) A flake; also,
a lock, as of wool.
Fleck (n.) A spot; a
streak; a speckle.
Flecked (imp. & p. p.) of
Fleck
Flecking (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fleck
Fleck (n.) To spot; to
streak or stripe; to variegate; to dapple.
Flecker (v. t.) To fleck.
Fleckless (a.) Without
spot or blame.
Flection (n.) The act of
bending, or state of being bent.
Flection (n.) The
variation of words by declension, comparison, or conjugation; inflection.
Flectional (a.) Capable
of, or pertaining to, flection or inflection.
Flector (n.) A flexor.
Fled () imp. & p. p. of Flee.
Fledge (v. i.) Feathered;
furnished with feathers or wings; able to fly.
Fledged (imp. & p. p.) of
Fledge
Fledging (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fledge
Fledge (v. t. & i.) To
furnish with feathers; to supply with the feathers necessary for flight.
Fledge (v. t. & i.) To
furnish or adorn with any soft covering.
Fledgeling (n.) A young
bird just fledged.
Fled (imp. & p. p.) of
Flee
Fleeing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Flee
Flee (v. i.) To run away,
as from danger or evil; to avoid in an alarmed or cowardly manner; to hasten
off; -- usually with from. This is sometimes omitted, making the verb
transitive.
Fleece (n.) The entire
coat of wood that covers a sheep or other similar animal; also, the quantity
shorn from a sheep, or animal, at one time.
Fleece (n.) Any soft
woolly covering resembling a fleece.
Fleece (n.) The fine web
of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding
machine.
Fleeced (imp. & p. p.) of
Fleece
Fleecing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fleece
Fleece (v. t.) To deprive
of a fleece, or natural covering of wool.
Fleece (v. t.) To strip of
money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or fraud; to bring to
straits by oppressions and exactions.
Fleece (v. t.) To spread
over as with wool.
Fleeced (a.) Furnished
with a fleece; as, a sheep is well fleeced.
Fleeced (a.) Stripped of a
fleece; plundered; robbed.
Fleeceless (a.) Without a
fleece.
Fleecer (n.) One who
fleeces or strips unjustly, especially by trickery or fraund.
Fleecy (a.) Covered with,
made of, or resembling, a fleece.
Fleen (n. pl.) Obs. pl. of
Flea.
Fleer (n.) One who flees.
Fleered (imp. & p. p.) of
Fleer
Fleering (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fleer
Fleer () To make a wry face in
contempt, or to grin in scorn; to deride; to sneer; to mock; to gibe; as, to
fleer and flout.
Fleer () To grin with an air of
civility; to leer.
Fleer (v. t.) To mock; to
flout at.
Flear (n.) A word or look
of derision or mockery.
Flear (n.) A grin of
civility; a leer.
Fleerer (n.) One who
fleers.
Fleeringly (adv.) In a
fleering manner.
Fleeted (imp. & p. p.) of
Fleet
Fleeting (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fleet
Fleet (n. & a.) To sail;
to float.
Fleet (n. & a.) To fly
swiftly; to pass over quickly; to hasten; to flit as a light substance.
Fleet (n. & a.) To slip on
the whelps or the barrel of a capstan or windlass; -- said of a cable or hawser.
Fleet (v. t.) To pass over
rapidly; to skin the surface of; as, a ship that fleets the gulf.
Fleet (v. t.) To hasten
over; to cause to pass away lighty, or in mirth and joy.
Fleet (v. t.) To draw
apart the blocks of; -- said of a tackle.
Fleet (v. t.) To cause to
slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.
Fleet (v. i.) Swift in
motion; moving with velocity; light and quick in going from place to place;
nimble.
Fleet (v. i.) Light;
superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil.
Fleet (v. i.) A number of
vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of
a country, etc.
Fleet (v. i.) A flood; a
creek or inlet; a bay or estuary; a river; -- obsolete, except as a place name,
-- as Fleet Street in London.
Fleet (v. i.) A former
prison in London, which originally stood near a stream, the Fleet (now filled
up).
Fleet (v. i.) To take the
cream from; to skim.
Fleeten (n.) Fleeted or
skimmed milk.
Fleet-foot (a.) Swift of
foot.
Fleeting (a.) Passing
swiftly away; not durable; transient; transitory; as, the fleeting hours or
moments.
Fleetingly (adv.) In a
fleeting manner; swiftly.
Fleetings (n. pl.) A
mixture of buttermilk and boiling whey; curds.
Fleetly (adv.) In a fleet
manner; rapidly.
Fleetness (n.) Swiftness;
rapidity; velocity; celerity; speed; as, the fleetness of a horse or of time.
Fleigh () imp. of Fly.
Fleme (v. t.) To banish;
to drive out; to expel.
Flemer (n.) One who, or
that which, banishes or expels.
Fleming (n.) A native or
inhabitant of Flanders.
Flemish (a.) Pertaining to
Flanders, or the Flemings.
Flemish (n.) The language
or dialect spoken by the Flemings; also, collectively, the people of Flanders.
Flench (v. t.) Same as
Flence.
Flense (v. t.) To strip
the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal, etc.
Flesh (n.) The aggregate
of the muscles, fat, and other tissues which cover the framework of bones in man
and other animals; especially, the muscles.
Flesh (n.) Animal food, in
distinction from vegetable; meat; especially, the body of beasts and birds used
as food, as distinguished from fish.
Flesh (n.) The human body,
as distinguished from the soul; the corporeal person.
Flesh (n.) The human eace;
mankind; humanity.
Flesh (n.) Human nature
Flesh (n.) In a good
sense, tenderness of feeling; gentleness.
Flesh (n.) In a bad sense,
tendency to transient or physical pleasure; desire for sensual gratification;
carnality.
Flesh (n.) The character
under the influence of animal propensities or selfish passions; the soul unmoved
by spiritual influences.
Flesh (n.) Kindred; stock;
race.
Flesh (n.) The soft, pulpy
substance of fruit; also, that part of a root, fruit, and the like, which is fit
to be eaten.
Fleshed (imp. & p. p.) of
Flesh
Fleshing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Flesh
Flesh (v. t.) To feed with
flesh, as an incitement to further exertion; to initiate; -- from the practice
of training hawks and dogs by feeding them with the first game they take, or
other flesh. Hence, to use upon flesh (as a murderous weapon) so as to draw
blood, especially for the first time.
Flesh (v. t.) To glut; to
satiate; hence, to harden, to accustom.
Flesh (v. t.) To remove
flesh, membrance, etc., from, as from hides.
Fleshed (a.) Corpulent;
fat; having flesh.
Fleshed (a.) Glutted;
satiated; initiated.
Flesher (n.) A butcher.
Flesher (n.) A
two-handled, convex, blunt-edged knife, for scraping hides; a fleshing knife.
Fleshhood (n.) The state
or condition of having a form of flesh; incarnation.
Fleshiness (n.) The state
of being fleshy; plumpness; corpulence; grossness.
Fleshings (n. pl.)
Flesh-colored tights, worn by actors dancers.
Fleshless (a.) Destitute
of flesh; lean.
Fleshliness (n.) The state
of being fleshly; carnal passions and appetites.
Fleshing (n.) A person
devoted to fleshly things.
Fleshly (a.) Of or
pertaining to the flesh; corporeal.
Fleshly (a.) Animal;
not/vegetable.
Fleshly (a.) Human; not
celestial; not spiritual or divine.
Fleshly (a.) Carnal;
wordly; lascivious.
Fleshly (adv.) In a
fleshly manner; carnally; lasciviously.
Fleshment (n.) The act of
fleshing, or the excitement attending a successful beginning.
Fleshmonger (n.) One who
deals in flesh; hence, a pimp; a procurer; a pander.
Fleshpot (n.) A pot or
vessel in which flesh is cooked
Fleshpot (n.) plenty; high
living.
Fleshquake (n.) A quaking
or trembling of the flesh; a quiver.
Fleshy (superl.) Full of,
or composed of, flesh; plump; corpulent; fat; gross.
Fleshy (superl.) Human.
Fleshy (superl.) Composed
of firm pulp; succulent; as, the houseleek, cactus, and agave are fleshy plants.
Flet (p. p.) Skimmed.
Fletched (imp. & p. p.) of
Fletch
Fletching (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fletch
Fletch (v. t.) To feather,
as an arrow.
Fletcher (n.) One who
fletches of feathers arrows; a manufacturer of bows and arrows.
Flete (v. i.) To float; to
swim.
Fletiferous (a.) Producing
tears.
Fleurs-de-lis (pl. ) of
Fleur-de-lis
Fleur-de-lis (n.) The
iris. See Flower-de-luce.
Fleur-de-lis (n.) A
conventional flower suggested by the iris, and having a form which fits it for
the terminal decoration of a scepter, the ornaments of a crown, etc. It is also
a heraldic bearing, and is identified with the royal arms and adornments of
France.
Fleury (a.) Finished at
the ends with fleurs-de-lis; -- said esp. of a cross so decorated.
Flew () imp. of Fly.
Flewed (a.) Having large
flews.
Flews (n. pl.) The
pendulous or overhanging lateral parts of the upper lip of dogs, especially
prominent in hounds; -- called also chaps. See Illust. of Bloodhound.
Flexed (imp. & p. p.) of
Flex
Flexing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Flex
Flex (v. t.) To bend; as,
to flex the arm.
Flex (n.) Flax.
Flexanimous (a.) Having
power to change the mind.
Flexibility (n.) The state
or quality of being flexible; flexibleness; pliancy; pliability; as, the
flexibility of strips of hemlock, hickory, whalebone or metal, or of rays of
light.
Flexible (a.) Capable of
being flexed or bent; admitting of being turned, bowed, or twisted, without
breaking; pliable; yielding to pressure; not stiff or brittle.
Flexible (a.) Willing or
ready to yield to the influence of others; not invincibly rigid or obstinate;
tractable; manageable; ductile; easy and compliant; wavering.
Flexible (a.) Capable or
being adapted or molded; plastic,; as, a flexible language.
Flexicostate (a.) Having
bent or curved ribs.
Flexile (a.) Flexible;
pliant; pliable; easily bent; plastic; tractable.
Flexion (n.) The act of
flexing or bending; a turning.
Flexion (n.) A bending; a
part bent; a fold.
Flexion (n.) Syntactical
change of form of words, as by declension or conjugation; inflection.
Flexion (n.) The bending
of a limb or joint; that motion of a joint which gives the distal member a
continually decreasing angle with the axis of the proximal part; --
distinguished from extension.
Flexor (n.) A muscle which
bends or flexes any part; as, the flexors of the arm or the hand; -- opposed to
extensor.
Flexuose (a.) Flexuous.
Flexuous (a.) Having
turns, windings, or flexures.
Flexuous (a.) Having
alternate curvatures in opposite directions; bent in a zigzag manner.
Flexuous (a.) Wavering;
not steady; flickering.
Flexural (a.) Of,
pertaining to, or resulting from, flexure; of the nature of, or characterized
by, flexure; as, flexural elasticity.
Flexure (n.) The act of
flexing or bending; a turning or curving; flexion; hence, obsequious bowing or
bending.
Flexure (n.) A turn; a
bend; a fold; a curve.
Flexure (n.) The last
joint, or bend, of the wing of a bird.
Flexure (n.) The small
distortion of an astronomical instrument caused by the weight of its parts; the
amount to be added or substracted from the observed readings of the instrument
to correct them for this distortion.
Flibbergib (n.) A
sycophant.
Flibbertigibbet (n.) An
imp.
Flibustier (n.) A
buccaneer; an American pirate. See Flibuster.
Flicked (imp. & p. p.) of
Flick
Flicking (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Flick
Flick (v. t.) To whip
lightly or with a quick jerk; to flap; as, to flick a horse; to flick the dirt
from boots.
Flick (n.) A flitch; as, a
flick of bacon.
Flickered (imp. & p. p.)
of Flicker
Flickering (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Flicker
Flicker (v. i.) To
flutter; to flap the wings without flying.
Flicker (v. i.) To waver
unsteadily, like a flame in a current of air, or when about to expire; as, the
flickering light.
Flicker (n.) The act of
wavering or of fluttering; flucuation; sudden and brief increase of brightness;
as, the last flicker of the dying flame.
Flicker (n.) The
golden-winged woodpecker (Colaptes aurutus); -- so called from its spring note.
Called also yellow-hammer, high-holder, pigeon woodpecker, and yucca.
Flickeringly (adv.) In a
flickering manner.
Flickermouse (n.) See
Flittermouse.
Flidge (a.) Fledged;
fledge.
Flidge (v. i.) To become
fledged; to fledge.
Flier (v.) One who flies
or flees; a runaway; a fugitive.
Flier (v.) A fly. See Fly,
n., 9, and 13 (b).
Flier (n.) See Flyer, n.,
5.
Flier (n.) See Flyer, n.,
4.
Flight (n.) The act or
flying; a passing through the air by the help of wings; volitation; mode or
style of flying.
Flight (n.) The act of
fleeing; the act of running away, to escape or expected evil; hasty departure.
Flight (n.) Lofty
elevation and excursion;a mounting; a soa/ing; as, a flight of imagination,
ambition, folly.
Flight (n.) A number of
beings or things passing through the air together; especially, a flock of birds
flying in company; the birds that fly or migrate together; the birds produced in
one season; as, a flight of arrows.
Flight (n.) A series of
steps or stairs from one landing to another.
Flight (n.) A kind of
arrow for the longbow; also, the sport of shooting with it. See Shaft.
Flight (n.) The husk or
glume of oats.
Flighted (a.) Taking
flight; flying; -- used in composition.
Flighted (a.) Feathered;
-- said of arrows.
Flighter (n.) A horizontal
vane revolving over the surface of wort in a cooler, to produce a circular
current in the liquor.
Flightily (adv.) In a
flighty manner.
Flightiness (n.) The state
or quality of being flighty.
Flight-shot (n.) The
distance to which an arrow or flight may be shot; bowshot, -- about the fifth of
a mile.
Flighty (a.) Fleeting;
swift; transient.
Flighty (a.) Indulging in
flights, or wild and unrestrained sallies, of imagination, humor, caprice, etc.;
given to disordered fancies and extravagant conduct; volatile; giddy; eccentric;
slighty delirious.
Flimflam (n.) A freak; a
trick; a lie.
Flimsily (adv.) In a
flimsy manner.
Flimsiness (n.) The state
or quality of being flimsy.
Flimsy (superl.) Weak;
feeble; limp; slight; vain; without strength or solidity; of loose and
unsubstantial structure; without reason or plausibility; as, a flimsy argument,
excuse, objection.
Flimsy (n.) Thin or
transfer paper.
Flimsy (n.) A bank note.
Flinched (imp. & p. p.) of
Flinch
Flinching (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Flinch
Flinch (v. i.) To withdraw
from any suffering or undertaking, from pain or danger; to fail in doing or
perserving; to show signs of yielding or of suffering; to shrink; to wince; as,
one of the parties flinched from the combat.
Flinch (v. i.) To let the
foot slip from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet.
Flinch (n.) The act of
flinching.
Flincher (n.) One who
flinches or fails.
Flinchingly (adv.) In a
flinching manner.
Flindermouse (n.) A bat; a
flittermouse.
Flinders (n. pl.) Small
pieces or splinters; fragments.
Flung (imp. & p. p.) of
Fling
Flinging (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fling
Fling (v. t.) To cast,
send, to throw from the hand; to hurl; to dart; to emit with violence as if
thrown from the hand; as, to fing a stone into the pond.
Fling (v. t.) To shed
forth; to emit; to scatter.
Fling (v. t.) To throw; to
hurl; to throw off or down; to prostrate; hence, to baffle; to defeat; as, to
fling a party in litigation.
Fling (v. i.) To throw; to
wince; to flounce; as, the horse began to kick and fling.
Fling (v. i.) To cast in
the teeth; to utter abusive language; to sneer; as, the scold began to flout and
fling.
Fling (v. i.) To throw
one's self in a violent or hasty manner; to rush or spring with violence or
haste.
Fling (n.) A cast from the
hand; a throw; also, a flounce; a kick; as, the fling of a horse.
Fling (n.) A severe or
contemptuous remark; an expression of sarcastic scorn; a gibe; a sarcasm.
Fling (n.) A kind of
dance; as, the Highland fling.
Fling (n.) A trifing
matter; an object of contempt.
Flingdust (n.) One who
kicks up the dust; a streetwalker; a low manner.
Flinger (n.) One who
flings; one who jeers.
Flint (n.) A massive,
somewhat impure variety of quartz, in color usually of a gray to brown or nearly
black, breaking with a conchoidal fracture and sharp edge. It is very hard, and
strikes fire with steel.
Flint (n.) A piece of
flint for striking fire; -- formerly much used, esp. in the hammers of gun
locks.
Flint (n.) Anything
extremely hard, unimpressible, and unyielding, like flint.
Flint glass () A soft, heavy,
brilliant glass, consisting essentially of a silicate of lead and potassium. It
is used for tableware, and for optical instruments, as prisms, its density
giving a high degree of dispersive power; -- so called, because formerly the
silica was obtained from pulverized flints. Called also crystal glass. Cf.
Glass.
Flint-hearted (a.)
Hard-hearted.
Flintiness (n.) The state
or quality of being flinty; hardness; cruelty.
Flintlock (n.) A lock for
a gun or pistol, having a flint fixed in the hammer, which on striking the steel
ignites the priming.
Flintlock (n.) A hand
firearm fitted with a flintlock; esp., the old-fashioned musket of European and
other armies.
Flintware (n.) A superior
kind of earthenware into whose composition flint enters largely.
Flintwood (n.) An
Australian name for the very hard wood of the Eucalyptus piluralis.
Flinty (superl.)
Consisting of, composed of, abounding in, or resembling, flint; as, a flinty
rock; flinty ground; a flinty heart.
Flip (n.) A mixture of
beer, spirit, etc., stirred and heated by a hot iron.
Flipped (imp. & p. p.) of
Flip
Flipping (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Flip
Flip (v. t.) To toss or
fillip; as, to flip up a cent.
Flipe (v. t.) To turn
inside out, or with the leg part back over the foot, as a stocking in pulling
off or for putting on.
Flip-flap (n.) The
repeated stroke of something long and loose.
Flip-flap (adv.) With
repeated strokes and noise, as of something long and loose.
Flippancy (n.) The state
or quality of being flippant.
Flippant (a.) Of smooth,
fluent, and rapid speech; speaking with ease and rapidity; having a voluble
tongue; talkative.
Flippant (a.) Speaking
fluently and confidently, without knowledge or consideration; empty; trifling;
inconsiderate; pert; petulant.
Flippant (n.) A flippant
person.
Flippantly (adv.) In a
flippant manner.
Flippantness (n.) State or
quality of being flippant.
Flipper (n.) A broad flat
limb used for swimming, as those of seals, sea turtles, whales, etc.
Flipper (n.) The hand.
Flirted (imp. & p. p.) of
Flirt
Flirting (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Flirt
Flirt (v. t.) To throw
with a jerk or quick effort; to fling suddenly; as, they flirt water in each
other's faces; he flirted a glove, or a handkerchief.
Flirt (v. t.) To toss or
throw about; to move playfully to and fro; as, to flirt a fan.
Flirt (v. t.) To jeer at;
to treat with contempt; to mock.
Flirt (v. i.) To run and
dart about; to act with giddiness, or from a desire to attract notice;
especially, to play the coquette; to play at courtship; to coquet; as, they
flirt with the young men.
Flirt (v. i.) To utter
contemptuous language, with an air of disdain; to jeer or gibe.
Flirt (n.) A sudden jerk;
a quick throw or cast; a darting motion; hence, a jeer.
Flirt (v. t.) One who
flirts; esp., a woman who acts with giddiness, or plays at courtship; a
coquette; a pert girl.
Flirt (a.) Pert; wanton.
Flirtation (n.) Playing at
courtship; coquetry.
Flirt-gill (n.) A woman of
light behavior; a gill-flirt.
Flirtigig (n.) A wanton,
pert girl.
Flirtingly (adv.) In a
flirting manner.
Flisk (v. i.) To frisk; to
skip; to caper.
Flisk (n.) A caper; a
spring; a whim.
Flitted (imp. & p. p.) of
Flit
Flitting (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Flit
Flit (v. i.) To move with
celerity through the air; to fly away with a rapid motion; to dart along; to
fleet; as, a bird flits away; a cloud flits along.
Flit (v. i.) To flutter;
to rove on the wing.
Flit (v. i.) To pass
rapidly, as a light substance, from one place to another; to remove; to migrate.
Flit (v. i.) To remove
from one place or habitation to another.
Flit (v. i.) To be
unstable; to be easily or often moved.
Flit (a.) Nimble; quick;
swift. [Obs.] See Fleet.
Flitches (pl. ) of Flitch
Flitch (n.) The side of a
hog salted and cured; a side of bacon.
Flitch (n.) One of several
planks, smaller timbers, or iron plates, which are secured together, side by
side, to make a large girder or built beam.
Flitch (n.) The outside
piece of a sawed log; a slab.
Flite (v. i.) To scold; to
quarrel.
Flitter (v. i.) To
flutter.
Flitter (v. t.) To
flutter; to move quickly; as, to flitter the cards.
Flitter (v. i.) A rag; a
tatter; a small piece or fragment.
Flittermouse (n.) A bat;
-- called also flickermouse, flindermouse, and flintymouse.
Flittern (a.) A term
applied to the bark obtained from young oak trees.
Flittiness (n.)
Unsteadiness; levity; lightness.
Flitting (n.) A flying
with lightness and celerity; a fluttering.
Flitting (n.) A removal
from one habitation to another.
Flittingly (adv.) In a
flitting manner.
Flitty (a.) Unstable;
fluttering.
Flix (n.) Down; fur.
Flix (n.) The flux;
dysentery.
Flon (pl. ) of Flo
Flo (n.) An arrow.
Float (v. i.) Anything
which floats or rests on the surface of a fluid, as to sustain weight, or to
indicate the height of the surface, or mark the place of, something.
Float (v. i.) A mass of
timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a
raft.
Float (v. i.) The hollow,
metallic ball of a self-acting faucet, which floats upon the water in a cistern
or boiler.
Float (v. i.) The cork or
quill used in angling, to support the bait line, and indicate the bite of a
fish.
Float (v. i.) Anything
used to buoy up whatever is liable to sink; an inflated bag or pillow used by
persons learning to swim; a life preserver.
Float (v. i.) A float
board. See Float board (below).
Float (v. i.) A
contrivance for affording a copious stream of water to the heated surface of an
object of large bulk, as an anvil or die.
Float (v. i.) The act of
flowing; flux; flow.
Float (v. i.) A quantity
of earth, eighteen feet square and one foot deep.
Float (v. i.) The trowel
or tool with which the floated coat of plastering is leveled and smoothed.
Float (v. i.) A polishing
block used in marble working; a runner.
Float (v. i.) A single-cut
file for smoothing; a tool used by shoemakers for rasping off pegs inside a
shoe.
Float (v. i.) A coal cart.
Float (v. i.) The sea; a
wave. See Flote, n.
Floated (imp. & p. p.) of
Float
Floating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Float
Float (n.) To rest on the
surface of any fluid; to swim; to be buoyed up.
Float (n.) To move quietly
or gently on the water, as a raft; to drift along; to move or glide without
effort or impulse on the surface of a fluid, or through the air.
Float (v. t.) To cause to
float; to cause to rest or move on the surface of a fluid; as, the tide floated
the ship into the harbor.
Float (v. t.) To flood; to
overflow; to cover with water.
Float (v. t.) To pass over
and level the surface of with a float while the plastering is kept wet.
Float (v. t.) To support
and sustain the credit of, as a commercial scheme or a joint-stock company, so
as to enable it to go into, or continue in, operation.
Floatable (a.) That may be
floated.
Floatage (n.) Same as
Flotage.
Floatation (n.) See
Flotation.
Floater (n.) One who
floats or swims.
Floater (n.) A float for
indicating the height of a liquid surface.
Floating (a.) Buoyed upon
or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a wreck; floating motes in the air.
Floating (a.) Free or lose
from the usual attachment; as, the floating ribs in man and some other animals.
Floating (a.) Not funded;
not fixed, invested, or determined; as, floating capital; a floating debt.
Floating (n.) Floating
threads. See Floating threads, above.
Floating (n.) The second
coat of three-coat plastering.
Floatingly (adv.) In a
floating manner.
Floaty (a.) Swimming on
the surface; buoyant; light.
Flobert (n.) A small
cartridge designed for target shooting; -- sometimes called ball cap.
Floccillation (n.) A
delirious picking of bedclothes by a sick person, as if to pick off flocks of
wool; carphology; -- an alarming symptom in acute diseases.
Floccose (n.) Spotted with
small tufts like wool.
Floccose (n.) Having tufts
of soft hairs, which are often deciduous.
Floccular (a.) Of or
pertaining to the flocculus.
Flocculated (imp. & p. p.)
of Flocculate
Flocculating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Flocculate
Flocculate (v. i.) To
aggregate into small lumps.
Flocculate (a.) Furnished
with tufts of curly hairs, as some insects.
Flocculation (n.) The
process by which small particles of fine soils and sediments aggregate into
larger lumps.
Flocculence (n.) The state
of being flocculent.
Flocculent (a.) Clothed
with small flocks or flakes; woolly.
Flocculent (a.) Applied to
the down of newly hatched or unfledged birds.
Flocculi (pl. ) of
Flocculus
Flocculus (n.) A small
lobe in the under surface of the cerebellum, near the middle peduncle; the
subpeduncular lobe.
Flocci (pl. ) of Floccus
Floccus (n.) The tuft of
hair terminating the tail of mammals.
Floccus (n.) A tuft of
feathers on the head of young birds.
Floccus (n.) A woolly
filament sometimes occuring with the sporules of certain fungi.
Flock (n.) A company or
collection of living creatures; -- especially applied to sheep and birds, rarely
to persons or (except in the plural) to cattle and other large animals; as, a
flock of ravenous fowl.
Flock (n.) A Christian
church or congregation; considered in their relation to the pastor, or minister
in charge.
Flocked (imp. & p. p.) of
Flock
Flocking (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Flock
Flock (v. i.) To gather in
companies or crowds.
Flock (v. t.) To flock to;
to crowd.
Flock (n.) A lock of wool
or hair.
Flock (n.) Woolen or
cotton refuse (sing. / pl.), old rags, etc., reduced to a degree of fineness by
machinery, and used for stuffing unpholstered furniture.
Flock (sing. / pl.) Very
fine, sifted, woolen refuse, especially that from shearing the nap of cloths,
used as a coating for wall paper to give it a velvety or clothlike appearance;
also, the dust of vegetable fiber used for a similar purpose.
Flock (v. t.) To coat with
flock, as wall paper; to roughen the surface of (as glass) so as to give an
appearance of being covered with fine flock.
Flockling (n.) A lamb.
Flockly (adv.) In flocks;
in crowds.
Flockmel (adv.) In a
flock; in a body.
Flocky (a.) Abounding with
flocks; floccose.
Floe (n.) A low, flat mass
of floating ice.
Flogged (imp. & p. p.) of
Flog
Flogging (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Flog
Flog (v. t.) To beat or
strike with a rod or whip; to whip; to lash; to chastise with repeated blows.
Flogger (n.) One who
flogs.
Flogger (n.) A kind of
mallet for beating the bung stave of a cask to start the bung.
Flogging (a. & n.) from
Flog, v. t.
Flon (n. pl.) See Flo.
Flong () imp. & p. p. of Fling.
Flood (v. i.) A great flow
of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially,
a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land not usually thus
covered; a deluge; a freshet; an inundation.
Flood (v. i.) The flowing
in of the tide; the semidiurnal swell or rise of water in the ocean; -- opposed
to ebb; as, young flood; high flood.
Flood (v. i.) A great flow
or stream of any fluid substance; as, a flood of light; a flood of lava; hence,
a great quantity widely diffused; an overflowing; a superabundance; as, a flood
of bank notes; a flood of paper currency.
Flood (v. i.) Menstrual
disharge; menses.
Flooded (imp. & p. p.) of
Flood
Flooding (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Flood
Flood (v. t.) To overflow;
to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river flooded the valley.
Flood (v. t.) To cause or
permit to be inundated; to fill or cover with water or other fluid; as, to flood
arable land for irrigation; to fill to excess or to its full capacity; as, to
flood a country with a depreciated currency.
Floodage (n.) Inundation.
Flooder (n.) One who
floods anything.
Flooding (n.) The filling
or covering with water or other fluid; overflow; inundation; the filling
anything to excess.
Flooding (n.) An abnormal
or excessive discharge of blood from the uterus.
Flook (n.) A fluke of an
anchor.
Flookan (n.) Alt. of
Flukan
Flukan (n.) See Flucan.
Flooky (a.) Fluky.
Floor (n.) The bottom or
lower part of any room; the part upon which we stand and upon which the movables
in the room are supported.
Floor (n.) The structure
formed of beams, girders, etc., with proper covering, which divides a building
horizontally into stories. Floor in sense 1 is, then, the upper surface of floor
in sense 2.
Floor (n.) The surface, or
the platform, of a structure on which we walk or travel; as, the floor of a
bridge.
Floor (n.) A story of a
building. See Story.
Floor (n.) The part of the
house assigned to the members.
Floor (n.) The right to
speak.
Floor (n.) That part of
the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly
horizontal.
Floor (n.) The rock
underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
Floor (n.) A horizontal,
flat ore body.
Floored (imp. & p. p.) of
Floor
Flooring (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Floor
Floor (v. t.) To cover
with a floor; to furnish with a floor; as, to floor a house with pine boards.
Floor (v. t.) To strike
down or lay level with the floor; to knock down; hence, to silence by a
conclusive answer or retort; as, to floor an opponent.
Floor (v. t.) To finish or
make an end of; as, to floor a college examination.
Floorage (n.) Floor space.
Floorer (n.) Anything that
floors or upsets a person, as a blow that knocks him down; a conclusive answer
or retort; a task that exceeds one's abilities.
Floorheads (n. pl.) The
upper extermities of the floor of a vessel.
Flooring (n.) A platform;
the bottom of a room; a floor; pavement. See Floor, n.
Flooring (n.) Material for
the construction of a floor or floors.
Floorless (a.) Having no
floor.
Floorwalker (n.) One who
walks about in a large retail store as an overseer and director.
Flopped (imp. & p. p.) of
Flop
Flopping (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Flop
Flop (v. t.) To clap or
strike, as a bird its wings, a fish its tail, etc.; to flap.
Flop (v. t.) To turn
suddenly, as something broad and flat.
Flop (v. i.) To strike
about with something broad abd flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its
wings; to rise and fall; as, the brim of a hat flops.
Flop (v. i.) To fall,
sink, or throw one's self, heavily, clumsily, and unexpectedly on the ground.
Flop (n.) Act of flopping.
Floppy (n.) Having a
tendency to flop or flap; as, a floppy hat brim.
Flopwing (n.) The lapwing.
Flora (n.) The goddess of
flowers and spring.
Flora (n.) The complete
system of vegetable species growing without cultivation in a given locality,
region, or period; a list or description of, or treatise on, such plants.
Floral (a.) Pertaining to
Flora, or to flowers; made of flowers; as, floral games, wreaths.
Floral (a.) Containing, or
belonging to, a flower; as, a floral bud; a floral leaf; floral characters.
Florally (adv.) In a
floral manner.
Floramour (n.) The plant
love-lies-bleeding.
Floran (n.) Tin ore
scarcely perceptible in the stone; tin ore stamped very fine.
Floreal (n.) The eight
month of the French republican calendar. It began April 20, and ended May 19.
See Vendemiare.
Floren (n.) A cerain gold
coin; a Florence.
Florence (n.) An ancient
gold coin of the time of Edward III., of six shillings sterling value.
Florence (n.) A kind of
cloth.
Florentine (a.) Belonging
or relating to Florence, in Italy.
Florentine (n.) A native
or inhabitant of Florence, a city in Italy.
Florentine (n.) A kind of
silk.
Florentine (n.) A kind of
pudding or tart; a kind of meat pie.
Florescence (n.) A
bursting into flower; a blossoming.
Florescent (a.) Expanding
into flowers; blossoming.
Floret (n.) A little
flower; one of the numerous little flowers which compose the head or anthodium
in such flowers as the daisy, thistle, and dandelion.
Floret (n.) A foil; a
blunt sword used in fencing.
Floriage (n.) Bloom;
blossom.
Floriated (a.) Having
floral ornaments; as, floriated capitals of Gothic pillars.
Floricomous (a.) Having
the head adorned with flowers.
Floricultural (a.)
Pertaining to the cultivation of flowering plants.
Floriculture (n.) The
cultivation of flowering plants.
Floriculturist (n.) One
skilled in the cultivation of flowers; a florist.
Florid (a.) Covered with
flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery.
Florid (a.) Bright in
color; flushed with red; of a lively reddish color; as, a florid countenance.
Florid (a.) Embellished
with flowers of rhetoric; enriched to excess with figures; excessively ornate;
as, a florid style; florid eloquence.
Florid (a.) Flowery;
ornamental; running in rapid melodic figures, divisions, or passages, as in
variations; full of fioriture or little ornamentations.
Florida bean () The large,
roundish, flattened seed of Mucuna urens. See under Bean.
Florida bean () One of the very
large seeds of the Entada scandens.
Florideae (n. pl.) A
subclass of algae including all the red or purplish seaweeds; the Rhodospermeae
of many authors; -- so called from the rosy or florid color of most of the
species.
Floridity (n.) The quality
of being florid; floridness.
Floridly (adv.) In a
florid manner.
Floridness (n.) The
quality of being florid.
Floriferous (a.) Producing
flowers.
Florification (n.) The
act, process, or time of flowering; florescence.
Floriform (a.) Having the
form of a flower; flower-shaped.
Floriken (n.) An Indian
bustard (Otis aurita). The Bengal floriken is Sypheotides Bengalensis.
Florilege (n.) The act of
gathering flowers.
Florimer (n.) See
Floramour.
Florin (n.) A silver coin
of Florence, first struck in the twelfth century, and noted for its beauty. The
name is given to different coins in different countries. The florin of England,
first minted in 1849, is worth two shillings, or about 48 cents; the florin of
the Netherlands, about 40 cents; of Austria, about 36 cents.
Florist (n.) A cultivator
of, or dealer in, flowers.
Florist (n.) One who
writes a flora, or an account of plants.
Floroon (n.) A border
worked with flowers.
Florulent (a.) Flowery;
blossoming.
Floscular (a.) Flosculous.
Floscularian (n.) One of a
group of stalked rotifers, having ciliated tentacles around the lobed disk.
Floscule (n.) A floret.
Flosculous (a.) Consisting
of many gamopetalous florets.
Flos-ferri (n.) A variety
of aragonite, occuring in delicate white coralloidal forms; -- common in beds of
iron ore.
Flosh (n.) A hopper-shaped
box or /nortar in which ore is placed for the action of the stamps.
Floss (n.) The slender
styles of the pistillate flowers of maize; also called silk.
Floss (n.) Untwisted
filaments of silk, used in embroidering.
Floss (n.) A small stream
of water.
Floss (n.) Fluid glass
floating on iron in the puddling furnace, produced by the vitrification of
oxides and earths which are present.
Flossification (n.) A
flowering; florification.
Flossy (a.) Pertaining to,
made of, or resembling, floss; hence, light; downy.
Flota (n.) A fleet;
especially, a /eet of Spanish ships which formerly sailed every year from Cadiz
to Vera Cruz, in Mexico, to transport to Spain the production of Spanish
America.
Flotage (n.) The state of
floating.
Flotage (n.) That which
floats on the sea or in rivers.
Flotant (a.) Represented
as flying or streaming in the air; as, a banner flotant.
Flotation (n.) The act,
process, or state of floating.
Flotation (n.) The science
of floating bodies.
Flote (v. t.) To fleet; to
skim.
Flote (n.) A wave.
Flotery (a.) Wavy;
flowing.
Flotilla (n.) A little
fleet, or a fleet of small vessels.
Flotsam (n.) Alt. of
Flotson
Flotson (n.) Goods lost by
shipwreck, and floating on the sea; -- in distinction from jetsam or jetson.
Flotten (v. t.) Skimmed.
Flounced (imp. & p. p.) of
Flounce
Flouncing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Flounce
Flounce (v. i.) To throw
the limbs and body one way and the other; to spring, turn, or twist with sudden
effort or violence; to struggle, as a horse in mire; to flounder; to throw one's
self with a jerk or spasm, often as in displeasure.
Flounce (n.) The act of
floucing; a sudden, jerking motion of the body.
Flounce (n.) An ornamental
appendage to the skirt of a woman's dress, consisting of a strip gathered and
sewed on by its upper edge around the skirt, and left hanging.
Flounce (v. t.) To deck
with a flounce or flounces; as, to flounce a petticoat or a frock.
Flounder (n.) A flatfish
of the family Pleuronectidae, of many species.
Flounder (n.) A tool used
in crimping boot fronts.
Floundered (imp. & p. p.)
of Flounder
Floundering (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Flounder
Flounder (v. i.) To fling
the limbs and body, as in making efforts to move; to struggle, as a horse in the
mire, or as a fish on land; to roll, toss, and tumble; to flounce.
Flounder (n.) The act of
floundering.
Flour (n.) The finely
ground meal of wheat, or of any other grain; especially, the finer part of meal
separated by bolting; hence, the fine and soft powder of any substance; as,
flour of emery; flour of mustard.
Floured (imp. & p. p.) of
Flour
Flouring (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Flour
Flour (v. t.) To grind and
bolt; to convert into flour; as, to flour wheat.
Flour (v. t.) To sprinkle
with flour.
Floured (p. a.) Finely
granulated; -- said of quicksilver which has been granulated by agitation during
the amalgamation process.
Flourished (imp. & p. p.)
of Flourish
Flourishing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Flourish
Flourish (v. i.) To grow
luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive.
Flourish (v. i.) To be
prosperous; to increase in wealth, honor, comfort, happiness, or whatever is
desirable; to thrive; to be prominent and influental; specifically, of authors,
painters, etc., to be in a state of activity or production.
Flourish (v. i.) To use
florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be
flowery.
Flourish (v. i.) To make
bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade,
bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.
Flourish (v. i.) To make
ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
Flourish (v. i.) To
execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
Flourish (v. i.) To boast;
to vaunt; to brag.
Flourish (v. t.) To adorn
with flowers orbeautiful figures, either natural or artificial; to ornament with
anything showy; to embellish.
Flourish (v. t.) To
embellish with the flowers of diction; to adorn with rhetorical figures; to
grace with ostentatious eloquence; to set off with a parade of words.
Flourish (v. t.) To move
in bold or irregular figures; to swing about in circles or vibrations by way of
show or triumph; to brandish.
Flourish (v. t.) To
develop; to make thrive; to expand.
Flourishes (pl. ) of
Flourish
Flourish (n.) A
flourishing condition; prosperity; vigor.
Flourish (n.) Decoration;
ornament; beauty.
Flourish (n.) Something
made or performed in a fanciful, wanton, or vaunting manner, by way of
ostentation, to excite admiration, etc.; ostentatious embellishment; ambitious
copiousness or amplification; parade of words and figures; show; as, a flourish
of rhetoric or of wit.
Flourish (n.) A fanciful
stroke of the pen or graver; a merely decorative figure.
Flourish (n.) A fantastic
or decorative musical passage; a strain of triumph or bravado, not forming part
of a regular musical composition; a cal; a fanfare.
Flourish (n.) The waving
of a weapon or other thing; a brandishing; as, the flourish of a sword.
Flourisher (n.) One who
flourishes.
Flourishingly (adv.) In a
flourishing manner; ostentatiously.
Floury (a.) Of or
resembling flour; mealy; covered with flour.
Flouted (imp. & p. p.) of
Flout
Flouting (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Flout
Flout (v. t.) To mock or
insult; to treat with contempt.
Flout (v. i.) To practice
mocking; to behave with contempt; to sneer; to fleer; -- often with at.
Flout (n.) A mock; an
insult.
Flouter (n.) One who
flouts; a mocker.
Floutingly (adv.) With
flouting; insultingly; as, to treat a lover floutingly.
Flow () imp. sing. of Fly, v. i.
Flowed (imp. & p. p.) of
Flow
Flowing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Flow
Flow (v. i.) To move with
a continual change of place among the particles or parts, as a fluid; to change
place or circulate, as a liquid; as, rivers flow from springs and lakes; tears
flow from the eyes.
Flow (v. i.) To become
liquid; to melt.
Flow (v. i.) To proceed;
to issue forth; as, wealth flows from industry and economy.
Flow (v. i.) To glide
along smoothly, without harshness or asperties; as, a flowing period; flowing
numbers; to sound smoothly to the ear; to be uttered easily.
Flow (v. i.) To have or be
in abundance; to abound; to full, so as to run or flow over; to be copious.
Flow (v. i.) To hang loose
and waving; as, a flowing mantle; flowing locks.
Flow (v. i.) To rise, as
the tide; -- opposed to ebb; as, the tide flows twice in twenty-four hours.
Flow (v. i.) To discharge
blood in excess from the uterus.
Flow (v. t.) To cover with
water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
Flow (v. t.) To cover with
varnish.
Flow (n.) A stream of
water or other fluid; a current; as, a flow of water; a flow of blood.
Flow (n.) A continuous
movement of something abundant; as, a flow of words.
Flow (n.) Any gentle,
gradual movement or procedure of thought, diction, music, or the like,
resembling the quiet, steady movement of a river; a stream.
Flow (n.) The tidal
setting in of the water from the ocean to the shore. See Ebb and flow, under
Ebb.
Flow (n.) A low-lying
piece of watery land; -- called also flow moss and flow bog.
Flowage (n.) An
overflowing with water; also, the water which thus overflows.
Flowen () imp. pl. of Fly, v. i.
Flower (n.) In the popular
sense, the bloom or blossom of a plant; the showy portion, usually of a
different color, shape, and texture from the foliage.
Flower (n.) That part of a
plant destined to produce seed, and hence including one or both of the sexual
organs; an organ or combination of the organs of reproduction, whether inclosed
by a circle of foliar parts or not. A complete flower consists of two essential
parts, the stamens and the pistil, and two floral envelopes, the corolla and
callyx. In mosses the flowers consist of a few special leaves surrounding or
subtending organs called archegonia. See Blossom, and Corolla.
Flower (n.) The fairest,
freshest, and choicest part of anything; as, the flower of an army, or of a
family; the state or time of freshness and bloom; as, the flower of life, that
is, youth.
Flower (n.) Grain
pulverized; meal; flour.
Flower (n.) A substance in
the form of a powder, especially when condensed from sublimation; as, the
flowers of sulphur.
Flower (n.) A figure of
speech; an ornament of style.
Flower (n.) Ornamental
type used chiefly for borders around pages, cards, etc.
Flower (n.) Menstrual
discharges.
Flowered (imp. & p. p.) of
Flower
Flowering (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Flower
Flower (v. i.) To blossom;
to bloom; to expand the petals, as a plant; to produce flowers; as, this plant
flowers in June.
Flower (v. i.) To come
into the finest or fairest condition.
Flower (v. i.) To froth;
to ferment gently, as new beer.
Flower (v. i.) To come off
as flowers by sublimation.
Flower (v. t.) To
embellish with flowers; to adorn with imitated flowers; as, flowered silk.
Flowerage (n.) State of
flowers; flowers, collectively or in general.
Flower-de-luce (n.) A
genus of perennial herbs (Iris) with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled
flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen
for the royal French emblem.
Flowerer (n.) A plant
which flowers or blossoms.
Floweret (n.) A small
flower; a floret.
Flower-fence (n.) A
tropical leguminous bush (Poinciana, / Caesalpinia, pulcherrima) with prickly
branches, and showy yellow or red flowers; -- so named from its having been
sometimes used for hedges in the West Indies.
Flowerful (a.) Abounding
with flowers.
Flower-gentle (n.) A
species of amaranth (Amarantus melancholicus).
Floweriness (n.) The state
of being flowery.
Flowering (a.) Having
conspicuous flowers; -- used as an epithet with many names of plants; as,
flowering ash; flowering dogwood; flowering almond, etc.
Flowering (n.) The act of
blossoming, or the season when plants blossom; florification.
Flowering (n.) The act of
adorning with flowers.
Flowerless (a.) Having no
flowers.
Flowerlessness (n.) State
of being without flowers.
Flowerpot (n.) A vessel,
commonly or earthenware, for earth in which plants are grown.
Flowery (a.) Full of
flowers; abounding with blossoms.
Flowery (a.) Highly
embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style.
Flowery-kirtled (a.)
Dressed with garlands of flowers.
Flowing (a.) That flows or
for flowing (in various sense of the verb); gliding along smoothly; copious.
Flowing () a. & n. from Flow, v.
i. & t.
Flowingly (adv.) In a
flowing manner.
Flowingness (n.) Flowing
tendency or quality; fluency.
Flowk (n.) See 1st Fluke.
Flown () p. p. of Fly; -- often
used with the auxiliary verb to be; as, the birds are flown.
Flown (a.) Flushed,
inflated.
Floxed silk () See Floss silk,
under Floss.
Floyte (n. & v.) A variant
of Flute.
Fluate (n.) A fluoride.
Fluavil (n.) A hydrocarbon
extracted from gutta-percha, as a yellow, resinous substance; -- called also
fluanil.
Flucan (n.) Soft clayey
matter in the vein, or surrounding it.
Fluctiferous (a.) Tending
to produce waves.
Fluctisonous (a.) Sounding
like waves.
Fluctuability (n.) The
capacity or ability to fluctuate.
Fluctuant (a.) Moving like
a wave; wavering
Fluctuant (a.) showing
undulation or fluctuation; as, a fluctuant tumor.
Fluctuant (a.) Floating on
the waves.
Fluctuated (imp. & p. p.)
of Fluctuate
Fluctuating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fluctuate
Fluctuate (v. i.) To move
as a wave; to roll hither and thither; to wave; to float backward and forward,
as on waves; as, a fluctuating field of air.
Fluctuate (v. i.) To move
now in one direction and now in another; to be wavering or unsteady; to be
irresolute or undetermined; to vacillate.
Fluctuate (v. t.) To cause
to move as a wave; to put in motion.
Fluctuation (n.) A motion
like that of waves; a moving in this and that direction; as, the fluctuations of
the sea.
Fluctuation (n.) A
wavering; unsteadiness; as, fluctuations of opinion; fluctuations of prices.
Fluctuation (n.) The
motion or undulation of a fluid collected in a natural or artifical cavity,
which is felt when it is subjected to pressure or percussion.
Flue (n.) An inclosed
passage way for establishing and directing a current of air, gases, etc.; an air
passage
Flue (n.) A compartment or
division of a chimney for conveying flame and smoke to the outer air.
Flue (n.) A passage way
for conducting a current of fresh, foul, or heated air from one place to
another.
Flue (n.) A pipe or
passage for conveying flame and hot gases through surrounding water in a boiler;
-- distinguished from a tube which holds water and is surrounded by fire. Small
flues are called fire tubes or simply tubes.
Flue (n.) Light down, such
as rises from cotton, fur, etc.; very fine lint or hair.
Fluence (n.) Fluency.
Fluency (n.) The quality
of being fluent; smoothness; readiness of utterance; volubility.
Fluent (a.) Flowing or
capable of flowing; liquid; glodding; easily moving.
Fluent (a.) Ready in the
use of words; voluble; copious; having words at command; and uttering them with
facility and smoothness; as, a fluent speaker; hence, flowing; voluble; smooth;
-- said of language; as, fluent speech.
Fluent (n.) A current of
water; a stream.
Fluent (n.) A variable
quantity, considered as increasing or diminishing; -- called, in the modern
calculus, the function or integral.
Fluently (adv.) In a
fluent manner.
Fluentness (n.) The
quality of being fluent.
Fluework (n.) A general
name for organ stops in which the sound is caused by wind passing through a flue
or fissure and striking an edge above; -- in distinction from reedwork.
Fluey (a.) Downy; fluffy.
Fluff (n.) Nap or down;
flue; soft, downy feathers.
Fluffy (superl.)
Pertaining to, or resembling, fluff or nap; soft and downy.
Flugel (n.) A grand piano
or a harpsichord, both being wing-shaped.
Flugelman (n.) Same as
Fugleman.
Fluid (a.) Having
particles which easily move and change their relative position without a
separation of the mass, and which easily yield to pressure; capable of flowing;
liquid or gaseous.
Fluid (n.) A fluid
substance; a body whose particles move easily among themselves.
Fluidal (a.) Pertaining to
a fluid, or to its flowing motion.
Fluinity (n.) The quality
of being fluid or capable of flowing; a liquid, aeriform. or gaseous state; --
opposed to solidity.
Fluidized (imp. & p. p.)
of Fluidize
Fluidizing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fluidize
Fluidize (v. t.) To render
fluid.
Fluidness (n.) The state
of being flluid; fluidity.
Fluidounce (n.) See Fluid
ounce, under Fluid.
Fluidrachm (n.) See Fluid
dram, under Fluid.
Flukan (n.) Flucan.
Fluke (n.) The European
flounder. See Flounder.
Fluke (n.) A parasitic
trematode worm of several species, having a flat, lanceolate body and two
suckers. Two species (Fasciola hepatica and Distoma lanceolatum) are found in
the livers of sheep, and produce the disease called rot.
Fluke (n.) The part of an
anchor which fastens in the ground; a flook. See Anchor.
Fluke (n.) One of the
lobes of a whale's tail, so called from the resemblance to the fluke of an
anchor.
Fluke (n.) An instrument
for cleaning out a hole drilled in stone for blasting.
Fluke (n.) An accidental
and favorable stroke at billiards (called a scratch in the United States);
hence, any accidental or unexpected advantage; as, he won by a fluke.
Flukeworm (n.) Same as 1st
Fluke, 2.
Fluky (a.) Formed like, or
having, a fluke.
Flume (n.) A stream;
especially, a passage channel, or conduit for the water that drives a mill
wheel; or an artifical channel of water for hydraulic or placer mining; also, a
chute for conveying logs or lumber down a declivity.
Fluminous (a.) Pertaining
to rivers; abounding in streama.
Flummery (n.) A light kind
of food, formerly made of flour or meal; a sort of pap.
Flummery (n.) Something
insipid, or not worth having; empty compliment; trash; unsubstantial talk of
writing.
Flung () imp. & p. p. of Fling.
Flunked (imp. & p. p.) of
Flunk
Flunking (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Flunk
Flunk (v. i.) To fail, as
on a lesson; to back out, as from an undertaking, through fear.
Flunk (v. t.) To fail in;
to shirk, as a task or duty.
Flunk (n.) A failure or
backing out
Flunk (n.) a total failure
in a recitation.
Flunkies (pl. ) of Flunky
Flunky (n.) A contemptuous
name for a liveried servant or a footman.
Flunky (n.) One who is
obsequious or cringing; a snob.
Flunky (n.) One easily
deceived in buying stocks; an inexperienced and unwary jobber.
Flunkydom (n.) The place
or region of flunkies.
Flunlyism (n.) The quality
or characteristics of a flunky; readiness to cringe to those who are superior in
wealth or position; toadyism.
Fluo- () A combining form
indicating fluorine as an ingredient; as in fluosilicate, fluobenzene.
Fluoborate (n.) A salt of
fluoboric acid; a fluoboride.
Fluoboric (a.) Pertaining
to, derived from, or consisting of, fluorine and boron.
Fluoboride (n.) See
Borofluoride.
Fluocerine (n.) Alt. of
Fluocerite
Fluocerite (n.) A fluoride
of cerium, occuring near Fahlun in Sweden. Tynosite, from Colorado, is probably
the same mineral.
Fluohydric (a.) See
Hydrofluoric.
Fluophosphate (n.) A
double salt of fluoric and phosphoric acids.
Fluor (n.) A fluid state.
Fluor (n.) Menstrual flux;
catamenia; menses.
Fluor (n.) See Fluorite.
Fluor albus () The whites;
leucorrhaea.
Fluoranthene (n.) A white
crystalline hydrocarbon C/H/, of a complex structure, found as one ingrdient of
the higher boiling portion of coal tar.
Fluorated (a.) Combined
with fluorine; subjected to the action of fluoride.
Fluorene (n.) A colorless,
crystalline hydrocarbon, C13H10 having a beautiful violet fluorescence; whence
its name. It occurs in the higher boiling products of coal tar, and is obtained
artificially.
Fluorescein (n.) A
yellowish red, crystalline substance, C20H12O5, produced by heating together
phthalic anhydride and resorcin; -- so called, from the very brilliant yellowish
green fluorescence of its alkaline solutions. It has acid properties, and its
salts of the alkalies are known to the trade under the name of uranin.
Fluorescence (n.) That
property which some transparent bodies have of producing at their surface, or
within their substance, light different in color from the mass of the material,
as when green crystals of fluor spar afford blue reflections. It is due not to
the difference in the color of a distinct surface layer, but to the power which
the substance has of modifying the light incident upon it. The light emitted by
fluorescent substances is in general of lower refrangibility than the incident
light.
Fluorescent (a.) Having
the property of fluorescence.
Fluorescin (n.) A
colorless, amorphous substance which is produced by the reduction of
fluorescein, and from which the latter may be formed by oxidation.
Fluoric (a.) Pertaining
to, obtained from, or containing, fluorine.
Fluoride (n.) A binary
compound of fluorine with another element or radical.
Fluorine (n.) A
non-metallic, gaseous element, strongly acid or negative, or associated with
chlorine, bromine, and iodine, in the halogen group of which it is the first
member. It always occurs combined, is very active chemically, and possesses such
an avidity for most elements, and silicon especially, that it can neither be
prepared nor kept in glass vessels. If set free it immediately attacks the
containing material, so that it was not isolated until 1886. It is a pungent,
corrosive, colorless gas. Symbol F. Atomic weight 19.
Fluorite (n.) Calcium
fluoride, a mineral of many different colors, white, yellow, purple, green, red,
etc., often very beautiful, crystallizing commonly in cubes with perfect
octahedral cleavage; also massive. It is used as a flux. Some varieties are used
for ornamental vessels. Also called fluor spar, or simply fluor.
Fluoroid (n.) A
tetrahexahedron; -- so called because it is a common form of fluorite.
Fluoroscope (n.) An
instrument for observing or exhibiting fluorescence.
Fluorous (a.) Pertaining
to fluor.
Fluor spar () See Fluorite.
Fluosilicate (n.) A double
fluoride of silicon and some other (usually basic) element or radical, regarded
as a salt of fluosilicic acid; -- called also silicofluoride.
Fluosilicic (a.) Composed
of, or derived from, silicon and fluorine.
Flurried (a.) Agitated;
excited.
Flurries (pl. ) of Flurry
Flurry (n.) A sudden and
brief blast or gust; a light, temporary breeze; as, a flurry of wind.
Flurry (n.) A light shower
or snowfall accompanied with wind.
Flurry (n.) Violent
agitation; commotion; bustle; hurry.
Flurry (n.) The violent
spasms of a dying whale.
Flurried (imp. & p. p.) of
Flurry
Flurrying (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Flurry
Flurry (v. t.) To put in a
state of agitation; to excite or alarm.
Flurt (n.) A flirt.
Flushed (imp. & p. p.) of
Flush
Flushing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Flush
Flush (v. i.) To flow and
spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face.
Flush (v. i.) To become
suddenly suffused, as the cheeks; to turn red; to blush.
Flush (v. i.) To snow red;
to shine suddenly; to glow.
Flush (v. i.) To start up
suddenly; to take wing as a bird.
Flush (v. t.) To cause to
be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water; as, to flush the
meadows; to flood for the purpose of cleaning; as, to flush a sewer.
Flush (v. t.) To cause the
blood to rush into (the face); to put to the blush, or to cause to glow with
excitement.
Flush (v. t.) To make
suddenly or temporarily red or rosy, as if suffused with blood.
Flush (v. t.) To excite;
to animate; to stir.
Flush (v. t.) To cause to
start, as a hunter a bird.
Flush (n.) A sudden
flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes.
Flush (n.) A suffusion of
the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of
any kind; a blush; a glow.
Flush (n.) Any tinge of
red color like that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood; as, the
flush on the side of a peach; the flush on the clouds at sunset.
Flush (n.) A sudden flood
or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement. animation, etc.; as, a flush of joy.
Flush (n.) A flock of
birds suddenly started up or flushed.
Flush (n.) A hand of cards
of the same suit.
Flush (a.) Full of vigor;
fresh; glowing; bright.
Flush (a.) Affluent;
abounding; well furnished or suppled; hence, liberal; prodigal.
Flush (a.) Unbroken or
even in surface; on a level with the adjacent surface; forming a continuous
surface; as, a flush panel; a flush joint.
Flush (a.) Consisting of
cards of one suit.
Flush (adv.) So as to be
level or even.
Flushboard (n.) Same as
Flashboard.
Flusher (n.) A workman
employed in cleaning sewers by flushing them with water.
Flusher (n.) The
red-backed shrike. See Flasher.
Flushing (n.) A heavy,
coarse cloth manufactured from shoddy; -- commonly in the /
Flushing (n.) A surface
formed of floating threads.
Flushingly (adv.) In a
flushing manner.
Flushness (n.) The state
of being flush; abundance.
Flustered (imp. & p. p.)
of Fluster
Flustering (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fluster
Fluster (v. t.) To make
hot and rosy, as with drinking; to heat; hence, to throw into agitation and
confusion; to confuse; to muddle.
Fluster (v. i.) To be in a
heat or bustle; to be agitated and confused.
Fluster (n.) Heat or glow,
as from drinking; agitation mingled with confusion; disorder.
Flusteration (n.) The act
of flustering, or the state of being flustered; fluster.
Flustrate (v. t.) To
fluster.
Flustration (n.) The act
of flustrating; confusion; flurry.
Flute (v. i.) A musical
wind instrument, consisting of a hollow cylinder or pipe, with holes along its
length, stopped by the fingers or by keys which are opened by the fingers. The
modern flute is closed at the upper end, and blown with the mouth at a lateral
hole.
Flute (v. i.) A channel of
curved section; -- usually applied to one of a vertical series of such channels
used to decorate columns and pilasters in classical architecture. See Illust.
under Base, n.
Flute (n.) A similar
channel or groove made in wood or other material, esp. in plaited cloth, as in a
lady's ruffle.
Flute (n.) A long French
breakfast roll.
Flute (n.) A stop in an
organ, having a flutelike sound.
Flute (n.) A kind of
flyboat; a storeship.
Flute (v. i.) To play on,
or as on, a flute; to make a flutelike sound.
Fluted (imp. & p. p.) of
Flute
Fluting (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Flute
Flute (v. t.) To play,
whistle, or sing with a clear, soft note, like that of a flute.
Flute (v. t.) To form
flutes or channels in, as in a column, a ruffle, etc.
Flute a bec () A beak flute, an
older form of the flute, played with a mouthpiece resembling a beak, and held
like a flageolet.
Fluted (a.) Thin; fine;
clear and mellow; flutelike; as, fluted notes.
Fluted (a.) Decorated with
flutes; channeled; grooved; as, a fluted column; a fluted ruffle; a fluted
spectrum.
Flutemouth (n.) A fish of
the genus Aulostoma, having a much elongated tubular snout.
Fluter (n.) One who plays
on the flute; a flutist or flautist.
Fluter (n.) One who makes
grooves or flutings.
Fluting (n.) Decoration by
means of flutes or channels; a flute, or flutes collectively; as, the fluting of
a column or pilaster; the fluting of a lady's ruffle.
Flutist (n.) A performer
on the flute; a flautist.
Flutist (n.) To move with
quick vibrations or undulations; as, a sail flutters in the wind; a fluttering
fan.
Flutist (n.) To move about
briskly, irregularly, or with great bustle and show, without much result.
Flutist (n.) To be in
agitation; to move irregularly; to flucttuate; to be uncertainty.
Flutter (v. t.) To vibrate
or move quickly; as, a bird flutters its wings.
Flutter (v. t.) To drive
in disorder; to throw into confusion.
Flutter (n.) The act of
fluttering; quick and irregular motion; vibration; as, the flutter of a fan.
Flutter (n.) Hurry;
tumult; agitation of the mind; confusion; disorder.
Flutterer (n.) One who, or
that which, flutters.
Flutteringly (adv.) In a
fluttering manner.
Fluty (a.) Soft and clear
in tone, like a flute.
Fluvial (a.) Belonging to
rivers; growing or living in streams or ponds; as, a fluvial plant.
Fluvialist (n.) One who
exlpains geological phenomena by the action of streams.
Fluviatic (a.) Belonging
to rivers or streams; fluviatile.
Fluviatile (a.) Belonging
to rivers or streams; existing in or about rivers; produced by river action;
fluvial; as, fluviatile starta, plants.
Fluvio-marine (a.) Formed
by the joint action of a river and the sea, as deposits at the mouths of rivers.
Flux (n.) The act of
flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream; constant
succession; change.
Flux (n.) The setting in
of the tide toward the shore, -- the ebb being called the reflux.
Flux (n.) The state of
being liquid through heat; fusion.
Flux (n.) Any substance or
mixture used to promote the fusion of metals or minerals, as alkalies, borax,
lime, fluorite.
Flux (n.) A fluid
discharge from the bowels or other part; especially, an excessive and morbid
discharge; as, the bloody flux or dysentery. See Bloody flux.
Flux (n.) The matter thus
discharged.
Flux (n.) The quantity of
a fluid that crosses a unit area of a given surface in a unit of time.
Flux (n.) Flowing;
unstable; inconstant; variable.
Fluxed (imp. & p. p.) of
Flux
Fluxing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Flux
Flux (v. t.) To affect, or
bring to a certain state, by flux.
Flux (v. t.) To cause to
become fluid; to fuse.
Flux (v. t.) To cause a
discharge from; to purge.
Fluxation (n.) The act of
fluxing.
Fluxibility (n.) The
quality of being fluxible.
Fluxible (a.) Capable of
being melted or fused, as a mineral.
Fluxile (a.) Fluxible.
Fluxility (n.) State of
being fluxible.
Fluxion (n.) The act of
flowing.
Fluxion (n.) The matter
that flows.
Fluxion (n.) Fusion; the
running of metals into a fluid state.
Fluxion (n.) An unnatural
or excessive flow of blood or fluid toward any organ; a determination.
Fluxion (n.) A constantly
varying indication.
Fluxion (n.) The
infinitely small increase or decrease of a variable or flowing quantity in a
certain infinitely small and constant period of time; the rate of variation of a
fluent; an incerement; a differential.
Fluxion (n.) A method of
analysis developed by Newton, and based on the conception of all magnitudes as
generated by motion, and involving in their changes the notion of velocity or
rate of change. Its results are the same as those of the differential and
integral calculus, from which it differs little except in notation and logical
method.
Fluxional (a.) Pertaining
to, or having the nature of, fluxion or fluxions; variable; inconstant.
Fluxionary (a.) Fluxional.
Fluxionary (a.) Pertaining
to, or caused by, an increased flow of blood to a part; congestive; as, a
fluxionary hemorrhage.
Fluxionist (n.) One
skilled in fluxions.
Fluxions (n. pl.) See
Fluxion, 6(b).
Fluxive (a.) Flowing;
also, wanting solidity.
Fluxure (n.) The quality
of being fluid.
Fluxure (n.) Fluid matter.
Flew (imp.) of Fly
Flown (p. p.) of Fly
Flying (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fly
Fly (v. i.) To move in or
pass thorugh the air with wings, as a bird.
Fly (v. i.) To move
through the air or before the wind; esp., to pass or be driven rapidly through
the air by any impulse.
Fly (v. i.) To float,
wave, or rise in the air, as sparks or a flag.
Fly (v. i.) To move or
pass swiftly; to hasten away; to circulate rapidly; as, a ship flies on the
deep; a top flies around; rumor flies.
Fly (v. i.) To run from
danger; to attempt to escape; to flee; as, an enemy or a coward flies. See Note
under Flee.
Fly (v. i.) To move
suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly; -- usually with a
qualifying word; as, a door flies open; a bomb flies apart.
Fly (v. t.) To cause to
fly or to float in the air, as a bird, a kite, a flag, etc.
Fly (v. t.) To fly or flee
from; to shun; to avoid.
Fly (v. t.) To hunt with a
hawk.
Flies (pl. ) of Fly
Fly (v. i.) Any winged
insect; esp., one with transparent wings; as, the Spanish fly; firefly; gall
fly; dragon fly.
Fly (v. i.) Any dipterous
insect; as, the house fly; flesh fly; black fly. See Diptera, and Illust. in
Append.
Fly (v. i.) A hook dressed
in imitation of a fly, -- used for fishing.
Fly (v. i.) A familiar
spirit; a witch's attendant.
Fly (v. i.) A parasite.
Fly (v. i.) A kind of
light carriage for rapid transit, plying for hire and usually drawn by one
horse.
Fly (v. i.) The length of
an extended flag from its staff; sometimes, the length from the "union" to the
extreme end.
Fly (v. i.) The part of a
vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows.
Fly (v. i.) That part of a
compass on which the points are marked; the compass card.
Fly (v. i.) Two or more
vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a fanner, or to equalize or impede the
motion of machinery by the resistance of the air, as in the striking part of a
clock.
Fly (v. i.) A heavy wheel,
or cross arms with weights at the ends on a revolving axis, to regulate or
equalize the motion of machinery by means of its inertia, where the power
communicated, or the resistance to be overcome, is variable, as in the steam
engine or the coining press. See Fly wheel (below).
Fly (v. i.) The piece
hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while the needle
is penetrating another loop; a latch.
Fly (v. i.) The pair of
arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to
twist the yarn.
Fly (v. i.) A shuttle
driven through the shed by a blow or jerk.
Fly (v. i.) Formerly, the
person who took the printed sheets from the press.
Fly (v. i.) A vibrating
frame with fingers, attached to a power to a power printing press for doing the
same work.
Fly (v. i.) The outer
canvas of a tent with double top, usually drawn over the ridgepole, but so
extended as to touch the roof of the tent at no other place.
Fly (v. i.) One of the
upper screens of a stage in a theater.
Fly (v. i.) The fore flap
of a bootee; also, a lap on trousers, overcoats, etc., to conceal a row of
buttons.
Fly (v. i.) A batted ball
that flies to a considerable distance, usually high in the air; also, the flight
of a ball so struck; as, it was caught on the fly.
Fly (a.) Knowing; wide
awake; fully understanding another's meaning.
Flybane (n.) A kind of
catchfly of the genus Silene; also, a poisonous mushroom (Agaricus muscarius);
fly agaric.
Fly-bitten (a.) Marked by,
or as if by, the bite of flies.
Flyblow (v. t.) To deposit
eggs upon, as a flesh fly does on meat; to cause to be maggoty; hence, to taint
or contaminate, as if with flyblows.
Flyblow (n.) One of the
eggs or young larvae deposited by a flesh fly, or blowfly.
Flyblown (a.) Tainted or
contaminated with flyblows; damaged; foul.
Flyboat (n.) A large Dutch
coasting vessel.
Flyboat (n.) A kind of
passenger boat formerly used on canals.
Fly-case (n.) The covering
of an insect, esp. the elytra of beetles.
Flycatcher (n.) One of
numerous species of birds that feed upon insects, which they take on the wing.
Fly-catching (a.) Having
the habit of catching insects on the wing.
Flyer (n.) One that uses
wings.
Flyer (n.) The fly of a
flag: See Fly, n., 6.
Flyer (n.) Anything that
is scattered abroad in great numbers as a theatrical programme, an advertising
leaf, etc.
Flyer (n.) One in a flight
of steps which are parallel to each other(as in ordinary stairs), as
distinguished from a winder.
Flyer (n.) The pair of
arms attached to the spindle of a spinning frame, over which the thread passes
to the bobbin; -- so called from their swift revolution. See Fly, n., 11.
Flyer (n.) The fan wheel
that rotates the cap of a windmill as the wind veers.
Flyer (n.) A small
operation not involving ? considerable part of one's capital, or not in the line
of one's ordinary business; a venture.
Flyfish (n.) A California
scorpaenoid fish (Sebastichthys rhodochloris), having brilliant colors.
Fly-fish (v. i.) To angle,
using flies for bait.
Flying (v. i.) Moving in
the air with, or as with, wings; moving lightly or rapidly; intended for rapid
movement.
Flying fish () A fish which is
able to leap from the water, and fly a considerable distance by means of its
large and long pectoral fins. These fishes belong to several species of the
genus Exocoetus, and are found in the warmer parts of all the oceans.
Flying squirrel () One of a group
of squirrels, of the genera Pteromus and Sciuropterus, having parachute-like
folds of skin extending from the fore to the hind legs, which enable them to
make very long leaps.
Flymen (pl. ) of Flyman
Flyman (n.) The driver of
a fly, or light public carriage.
Flysch (n.) A name given
to the series of sandstones and schists overlying the true nummulitic formation
in the Alps, and included in the Eocene Tertiary.
Flyspeck (n.) A speck or
stain made by the excrement of a fly; hence, any insignificant dot.
Flyspeck (v. t.) To soil
with flyspecks.
Flytrap (n.) A trap for
catching flies.
Flytrap (n.) A plant
(Dionaea muscipula), called also Venus's flytrap, the leaves of which are
fringed with stiff bristles, and fold together when certain hairs on their upper
surface are touched, thus seizing insects that light on them. The insects so
caught are afterwards digested by a secretion from the upper surface of the
leaves.
Fnese (v. i.) To breathe
heavily; to snort.
Fo (n.) The Chinese name
of Buddha.
Foal (n.) The young of any
animal of the Horse family (Equidae); a colt; a filly.
Foaled (imp. & p. p.) of
Foal
Foaling (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Foal
Foal (v.t.) To bring forth
(a colt); -- said of a mare or a she ass.
Foal (v.i.) To bring forth
young, as an animal of the horse kind.
Foalfoot (n.) See
Coltsfoot.
Foam (n.) The white
substance, consisting of an aggregation of bubbles, which is formed on the
surface of liquids, or in the mouth of an animal, by violent agitation or
fermentation; froth; spume; scum; as, the foam of the sea.
Foamed (imp. & p. p.) of
Foam
Foaming (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Foam
Foam (n.) To gather foam;
to froth; as, the billows foam.
Foam (n.) To form foam, or
become filled with foam; -- said of a steam boiler when the water is unduly
agitated and frothy, as because of chemical action.
Foam (v.t.) To cause to
foam; as,to foam the goblet; also (with out), to throw out with rage or
violence, as foam.
Foamingly (adv.) With
foam; frothily.
Foamless (a.) Having no
foam.
Foamy (a.) Covered with
foam; frothy; spumy.
Fob (n.) A little pocket
for a watch.
Fobbed (imp. & p. p.) of
Fob
Fobbing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fob
Fob (v.t.) To beat; to
maul.
Fob (v.t.) To cheat; to
trick; to impose on.
Focal (a.) Belonging to,or
concerning, a focus; as, a focal point.
Focalization (n.) The act
of focalizing or bringing to a focus, or the state of being focalized.
Focalized (imp. & p. p.)
of Focalize
Focalizing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Focalize
Focalize (v. t.) To bring
to a focus; to focus; to concentrate.
Focillate (v. t.) To
nourish.
Focillation (n.) Comfort;
support.
Focimeter (n.) An
assisting instrument for focusing an object in or before a camera.
Focuses (pl. ) of Focus
Foci (pl. ) of Focus
Focus (n.) A point in
which the rays of light meet, after being reflected or refrcted, and at which
the image is formed; as, the focus of a lens or mirror.
Focus (n.) A point so
related to a conic section and certain straight line called the directrix that
the ratio of the distace between any point of the curve and the focus to the
distance of the same point from the directrix is constant.
Focus (n.) A central
point; a point of concentration.
Focused (imp. & p. p.) of
Focus
Focusing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Focus
Focus (v. t.) To bring to
a focus; to focalize; as, to focus a camera.
Fodder (n.) A weight by
which lead and some other metals were formerly sold, in England, varying from
19/ to 24 cwt.; a fother.
Fodder (n.) That which is
fed out to cattle horses, and sheep, as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc.
Foddered (imp. & p. p.) of
Fodder
Foddering (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fodder
Fodder (v.t.) To feed, as
cattle, with dry food or cut grass, etc.;to furnish with hay, straw, oats, etc.
Fodderer (n.) One who
fodders cattle.
Fodient (a.) Fitted for,
or pertaining to, digging.
Fodient (n.) One of the
Fodientia.
Fodientia (n.pl.) A group
of African edentates including the aard-vark.
Foe (n.) One who
entertains personal enmity, hatred, grudge, or malice, against another; an
enemy.
Foe (n.) An enemy in war;
a hostile army.
Foe (n.) One who opposes
on principle; an opponent; an adversary; an ill-wisher; as, a foe to religion.
Foe (v. t.) To treat as an
enemy.
Foehood (n.) Enmity.
Foemen (pl. ) of Foeman
Foeman (n.) An enemy in
war.
Foetal (a.) Same as Fetal.
Foetation (n.) Same as
Fetation.
Foeticide (n.) Same as
Feticide.
Foetor (n.) Same as Fetor.
Foetus (n.) Same as Fetus.
Fog (n.) A second growth
of grass; aftergrass.
Fog (n.) Dead or decaying
grass remaining on land through the winter; -- called also foggage.
Fog (v. t.) To pasture
cattle on the fog, or aftergrass, of; to eat off the fog from.
Fog (v. i.) To practice in
a small or mean way; to pettifog.
Fog (n.) Watery vapor
condensed in the lower part of the atmosphere and disturbing its transparency.
It differs from cloud only in being near the ground, and from mist in not
approaching so nearly to fine rain. See Cloud.
Fog (n.) A state of mental
confusion.
Fogged (imp. & p. p.) of
Fog
Fogging (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fog
Fog (v. t.) To envelop, as
with fog; to befog; to overcast; to darken; to obscure.
Fog (v. i.) To show
indistinctly or become indistinct, as the picture on a negative sometimes does
in the process of development.
Foge (n.) The Cornish name
for a forge used for smelting tin.
Fo'gey (n.) See Fogy.
Fog'gage (n.) See 1st Fog.
Fog'ger (n.) One who fogs;
a pettifogger.
Foggily (adv.) In a foggy
manner; obscurely.
Fogginess (n.) The state
of being foggy.
Foggy (superl.) Filled or
abounding with fog, or watery exhalations; misty; as, a foggy atmosphere; a
foggy morning.
Foggy (superl.) Beclouded;
dull; obscure; as, foggy ideas.
Fogie (n.) See Fogy.
Fogless (a.) Without fog;
clear.
Fogies (pl. ) of Fogy
Fogy (n.) A dull old
fellow; a person behind the times, over-conservative, or slow; -- usually
preceded by old.
Fogyism (n.) The
principles and conduct of a fogy.
Foh (interj.) An
exclamation of abhorrence or contempt; poh; fle.
Fohist (n.) A Buddhist
priest. See Fo.
Foible (a.) Weak; feeble.
Foible (n.) A moral
weakness; a failing; a weak point; a frailty.
Foible (n.) The half of a
sword blade or foil blade nearest the point; -- opposed to forte.
Foiled (imp. & p. p.) of
Foil
Foiling (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Foil
Foil (v. t.) To tread
under foot; to trample.
Foil (v. t.) To render (an
effort or attempt) vain or nugatory; to baffle; to outwit; to balk; to
frustrate; to defeat.
Foil (v. t.) To blunt; to
dull; to spoil; as, to foil the scent in chase.
Foil (v. t.) To defile; to
soil.
Foil (n.) Failure of
success when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage.
Foil (n.) A blunt weapon
used in fencing, resembling a smallsword in the main, but usually lighter and
having a button at the point.
Foil (n.) The track or
trail of an animal.
Foil (n.) A leaf or very
thin sheet of metal; as, brass foil; tin foil; gold foil.
Foil (n.) A thin leaf of
sheet copper silvered and burnished, and afterwards coated with transparent
colors mixed with isinglass; -- employed by jewelers to give color or brilliancy
to pastes and inferior stones.
Foil (n.) Anything that
serves by contrast of color or quality to adorn or set off another thing to
advantage.
Foil (n.) A thin coat of
tin, with quicksilver, laid on the back of a looking-glass, to cause reflection.
Foil (n.) The space
between the cusps in Gothic architecture; a rounded or leaflike ornament, in
windows, niches, etc. A group of foils is called trefoil, quatrefoil,
quinquefoil, etc., according to the number of arcs of which it is composed.
Foilable (a.) Capable of
being foiled.
Foiler (n.) One who foils
or frustrates.
Foiling (n.) A foil.
Foiling (n.) The track of
game (as deer) in the grass.
Foin (n.) The beech marten
(Mustela foina). See Marten.
Foin (n.) A kind of fur,
black at the top on a whitish ground, taken from the ferret or weasel of the
same name.
Foin (v. i.) To thrust
with a sword or spear; to lunge.
Foin (v. t.) To prick; to
st?ng.
Foin (n.) A pass in
fencing; a lunge.
Foinery (n.) Thrusting
with the foil; fencing with the point, as distinguished from broadsword play.
Foiningly (adv.) With a
push or thrust.
Foison (n.) Rich harvest;
plenty; abundance.
Foist (n.) A light and
fast-sailing ship.
Foisted (imp. & p. p.) of
Foist
Foisting (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Foist
Foist (v. t.) To insert
surreptitiously, wrongfully, or without warrant; to interpolate; to pass off
(something spurious or counterfeit) as genuine, true, or worthy; -- usually
followed by in.
Foist (n.) A foister; a
sharper.
Foist (n.) A trick or
fraud; a swindle.
Foister (n.) One who
foists something surreptitiously; a falsifier.
Foistied (a.) Fusty.
Foistiness (n.) Fustiness;
mustiness.
Foisty (a.) Fusty; musty.
Folded (imp. & p. p.) of
Fold
Folding (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fold
Fold (v. t.) To lap or lay
in plaits or folds; to lay one part over another part of; to double; as, to fold
cloth; to fold a letter.
Fold (v. t.) To double or
lay together, as the arms or the hands; as, he folds his arms in despair.
Fold (v. t.) To inclose
within folds or plaitings; to envelop; to infold; to clasp; to embrace.
Fold (v. t.) To cover or
wrap up; to conceal.
Fold (v. i.) To become
folded, plaited, or doubled; to close over another of the same kind; to double
together; as, the leaves of the door fold.
Fold (v.) A doubling,esp.
of any flexible substance; a part laid over on another part; a plait; a
plication.
Fold (v.) Times or
repetitions; -- used with numerals, chiefly in composition, to denote
multiplication or increase in a geometrical ratio, the doubling, tripling, etc.,
of anything; as, fourfold, four times, increased in a quadruple ratio,
multiplied by four.
Fold (v.) That which is
folded together, or which infolds or envelops; embrace.
Fold (n.) An inclosure for
sheep; a sheep pen.
Fold (n.) A flock of
sheep; figuratively, the Church or a church; as, Christ's fold.
Fold (n.) A boundary; a
limit.
Fold (v. t.) To confine in
a fold, as sheep.
Fold (v. i.) To confine
sheep in a fold.
Foldage (n.) See Faldage.
Folder (n.) One who, or
that which, folds; esp., a flat, knifelike instrument used for folding paper.
Folderol (n.) Nonsense.
Folding (n.) The act of
making a fold or folds; also, a fold; a doubling; a plication.
Folding (n.) The keepig of
sheep in inclosures on arable land, etc.
Foldless (a.) Having no
fold.
Foliaceous (a.) Belonging
to, or having the texture or nature of, a leaf; having leaves intermixed with
flowers; as, a foliaceous spike.
Foliaceous (a.) Consisting
of leaves or thin laminae; having the form of a leaf or plate; as, foliaceous
spar.
Foliaceous (a.) Leaflike
in form or mode of growth; as, a foliaceous coral.
Foliage (n.) Leaves,
collectively, as produced or arranged by nature; leafage; as, a tree or forest
of beautiful foliage.
Foliage (n.) A cluster of
leaves, flowers, and branches; especially, the representation of leaves,
flowers, and branches, in architecture, intended to ornament and enrich
capitals, friezes, pediments, etc.
Foliage (v. t.) To adorn
with foliage or the imitation of foliage; to form into the representation of
leaves.
Foliaged (a.) Furnished
with foliage; leaved; as, the variously foliaged mulberry.
Foliar (a.) Consisting of,
or pertaining to, leaves; as, foliar appendages.
Foliate (a.) Furnished
with leaves; leafy; as, a foliate stalk.
Foliated (imp. & p. p.) of
Foliate
Foliating (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Foliate
Foliate (v. t.) To beat
into a leaf, or thin plate.
Foliate (v. t.) To spread
over with a thin coat of tin and quicksilver; as, to foliate a looking-glass.
Foliated (a.) Having
leaves, or leaflike projections; as, a foliated shell.
Foliated (a.) Containing,
or consisting of, foils; as, a foliated arch.
Foliated (a.)
Characterized by being separable into thin plates or folia; as, graphite has a
foliated structure.
Foliated (a.) Laminated,
but restricted to the variety of laminated structure found in crystalline
schist, as mica schist, etc.; schistose.
Foliated (a.) Spread over
with an amalgam of tin and quicksilver.
Foliation (n.) The process
of forming into a leaf or leaves.
Foliation (n.) The manner
in which the young leaves are dispo/ed within the bud.
Foliation (n.) The act of
beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, foil, or lamina.
Foliation (n.) The act of
coating with an amalgam of tin foil and quicksilver, as in making
looking-glasses.
Foliation (n.) The
enrichment of an opening by means of foils, arranged in trefoils, quatrefoils,
etc.; also, one of the ornaments. See Tracery.
Foliation (n.) The
property, possessed by some crystalline rocks, of dividing into plates or slabs,
which is due to the cleavage structure of one of the constituents, as mica or
hornblende. It may sometimes include slaty structure or cleavage, though the
latter is usually independent of any mineral constituent, and transverse to the
bedding, it having been produced by pressure.
Foliature (n.) Foliage;
leafage.
Foliature (n.) The state
of being beaten into foil.
Folier (n.) Goldsmith's
foil.
Foliferous (a.) Producing
leaves.
Folily (a.) Foolishly.
Folios (pl. ) of Folio
Folio (n.) A leaf of a
book or manuscript.
Folio (n.) A sheet of
paper once folded.
Folio (n.) A book made of
sheets of paper each folded once (four pages to the sheet); hence, a book of the
largest kind. See Note under Paper.
Folio (n.) The page
number. The even folios are on the left-hand pages and the odd folios on the
right-hand.
Folio (n.) A page of a
book; (Bookkeeping) a page in an account book; sometimes, two opposite pages
bearing the same serial number.
Folio (n.) A leaf
containing a certain number of words, hence, a certain number of words in a
writing, as in England, in law proceedings 72, and in chancery, 90; in New York,
100 words.
Fol'io (v. t.) To put a
serial number on each folio or page of (a book); to page.
Fol'io (a.) Formed of
sheets each folded once, making two leaves, or four pages; as, a folio volume.
See Folio, n., 3.
Fo'liolate (a.) Of or
pertaining to leaflets; -- used in composition; as, bi-foliolate.
Foliole (n.) One of the
distinct parts of a compound leaf; a leaflet.
Foliomort (a.) See
Feuillemort.
Foliose (a.) Having many
leaves; leafy.
Foliosity (n.) The
ponderousness or bulk of a folio; voluminousness.
Folious (a.) Like a leaf;
thin; unsubstantial.
Folious (a.) Foliose.
Foliums (pl. ) of Folium
Folia (pl. ) of Folium
Folium (n.) A leaf, esp. a
thin leaf or plate.
Folium (n.) A curve of the
third order, consisting of two infinite branches, which have a common asymptote.
The curve has a double point, and a leaf-shaped loop; whence the name. Its
equation is x3 + y3 = axy.
Folk (n. collect. & pl.)
Alt. of Folks
Folks (n. collect. & pl.)
In Anglo-Saxon times, the people of a group of townships or villages; a
community; a tribe.
Folks (n. collect. & pl.)
People in general, or a separate class of people; -- generally used in the
plural form, and often with a qualifying adjective; as, the old folks; poor
folks.
Folks (n. collect. & pl.)
The persons of one's own family; as, our folks are all well.
Folkland (n.) Land held in
villenage, being distributed among the folk, or people, at the pleasure of the
lord of the manor, and resumed at his discretion. Not being held by any
assurance in writing, it was opposed to bookland or charter land, which was held
by deed.
Folklore () Alt. of Folk lore
Folk lore () Tales, legends, or
superstitions long current among the people.
Folkmote (n.) An assembly
of the people
Folkmote (n.) a general
assembly of the people to consider and order matters of the commonwealth; also,
a local court.
Folkmoter (n.) One who
takes part in a folkmote, or local court.
Follicle (n.) A simple
podlike pericarp which contains several seeds and opens along the inner or
ventral suture, as in the peony, larkspur and milkweed.
Follicle (n.) A small
cavity, tubular depression, or sac; as, a hair follicle.
Follicle (n.) A simple
gland or glandular cavity; a crypt.
Follicle (n.) A small mass
of adenoid tissue; as, a lymphatic follicle.
Follicular (a.) Like,
pertaining to, or consisting of, a follicles or follicles.
Follicular (a.) Affecting
the follicles; as, follicular pharyngitis.
Folliculated (a.) Having
follicles.
Folliculous (a.) Having or
producing follicles.
Folliful (a.) Full of
folly.
Followed (imp. & p. p.) of
Follow
Following (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Follow
Follow (v. t.) To go or
come after; to move behind in the same path or direction; hence, to go with (a
leader, guide, etc.); to accompany; to attend.
Follow (v. t.) To endeavor
to overtake; to go in pursuit of; to chase; to pursue; to prosecute.
Follow (v. t.) To accept
as authority; to adopt the opinions of; to obey; to yield to; to take as a rule
of action; as, to follow good advice.
Follow (v. t.) To copy
after; to take as an example.
Follow (v. t.) To succeed
in order of time, rank, or office.
Follow (v. t.) To result
from, as an effect from a cause, or an inference from a premise.
Follow (v. t.) To watch,
as a receding object; to keep the eyes fixed upon while in motion; to keep the
mind upon while in progress, as a speech, musical performance, etc.; also, to
keep up with; to understand the meaning, connection, or force of, as of a course
of thought or argument.
Follow (v. t.) To walk in,
as a road or course; to attend upon closely, as a profession or calling.
Follow (v. i.) To go or
come after; -- used in the various senses of the transitive verb: To pursue; to
attend; to accompany; to be a result; to imitate.
Follower (n.) One who
follows; a pursuer; an attendant; a disciple; a dependent associate; a retainer.
Follower (n.) A
sweetheart; a beau.
Follower (n.) The
removable flange, or cover, of a piston. See Illust. of Piston.
Follower (n.) A gland. See
Illust. of Stuffing box.
Follower (n.) The part of
a machine that receives motion from another part. See Driver.
Follower (n.) Among law
stationers, a sheet of parchment or paper which is added to the first sheet of
an indenture or other deed.
Following (n.) One's
followers, adherents, or dependents, collectively.
Following (n.) Vocation;
business; profession.
Following (a.) Next after;
succeeding; ensuing; as, the assembly was held on the following day.
Following (a.) (In the
field of a telescope) In the direction from which stars are apparently moving
(in consequence of the earth's rotation); as, a small star, north following or
south following. In the direction toward which stars appear to move is called
preceding.
Follies (pl. ) of Folly
Folly (n.) The state of
being foolish; want of good sense; levity, weakness, or derangement of mind.
Folly (n.) A foolish act;
an inconsiderate or thoughtless procedure; weak or light-minded conduct;
foolery.
Folly (n.) Scandalous
crime; sin; specifically, as applied to a woman, wantonness.
Folly (n.) The result of a
foolish action or enterprise.
Folwe (v. t.) To follow.
Fomalhaut (n.) A star of
the first magnitude, in the constellation Piscis Australis, or Southern Fish.
Fomented (imp. & p. p.) of
Foment
Fomenting (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Foment
Foment (v. t.) To apply a
warm lotion to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge wet with warm water or medicated
liquid.
Foment (v. t.) To cherish
with heat; to foster.
Foment (v. t.) To nurse to
life or activity; to cherish and promote by excitements; to encourage; to abet;
to instigate; -- used often in a bad sense; as, to foment ill humors.
Fomentation (n.) The act
of fomenting; the application of warm, soft, medicinal substances, as for the
purpose of easing pain, by relaxing the skin, or of discussing tumors.
Fomentation (n.) The
lotion applied to a diseased part.
Fomentation (n.)
Excitation; instigation; encouragement.
Fomenter (n.) One who
foments; one who encourages or instigates; as, a fomenter of sedition.
Fomites (pl. ) of Fomes
Fomes (n.) Any substance
supposed to be capable of absorbing, retaining, and transporting contagious or
infectious germs; as, woolen clothes are said to be active fomites.
Fon (a.) A fool; an idiot.
Fond () imp. of Find. Found.
Fond (superl.) Foolish;
silly; simple; weak.
Fond (superl.) Foolishly
tender and loving; weakly indulgent; over-affectionate.
Fond (superl.)
Affectionate; loving; tender; -- in a good sense; as, a fond mother or wife.
Fond (superl.) Loving;
much pleased; affectionately regardful, indulgent, or desirous; longing or
yearning; -- followed by of (formerly also by on).
Fond (superl.) Doted on;
regarded with affection.
Fond (superl.) Trifling;
valued by folly; trivial.
Fond (v. t.) To caress; to
fondle.
Fond (v. i.) To be fond;
to dote.
Fonde (v. t. & i.) To
endeavor; to strive; to try.
Fondled (imp. & p. p.) of
Fondle
Fondling (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Fondle
Fondle (v.) To treat or
handle with tenderness or in a loving manner; to caress; as, a nurse fondles a
child.
Fondler (n.) One who
fondles.
Fondling (n.) The act of
caressing; manifestation of tenderness.
Fondling (n.) A person or
thing fondled or caressed; one treated with foolish or doting affection.
Fondling (n.) A fool; a
simpleton; a ninny.
Fondly (adv.) Foolishly.
Fondly (adv.) In a fond
manner; affectionately; tenderly.
Fondness (n.) The quality
or state of being fond; foolishness.
Fondness (n.) Doting
affection; tender liking; strong appetite, propensity, or relish; as, he had a
fondness for truffles.
Fondon (n.) A large copper
vessel used for hot amalgamation.
Fondus (n.) A style of
printing calico, paper hangings, etc., in which the colors are in bands and
graduated into each other.
Fone (n.) pl. of Foe.
Fonge (v. t.) To take; to
receive.
Fonly (adv.) Foolishly;
fondly.
Fonne (n.) A fon.
Font (n.) A complete
assortment of printing type of one size, including a due proportion of all the
letters in the alphabet, large and small, points, accents, and whatever else is
necessary for printing with that variety of types; a fount.
Font (n.) A fountain; a
spring; a source.
Font (n.) A basin or stone
vessel in which water is contained for baptizing.
Fontal (a.) Pertaining to
a font, fountain, source, or origin; original; primitive.
Fontanel (n.) An issue or
artificial ulcer for the discharge of humors from the body.
Fontanel (n.) One of the
membranous intervals between the incompleted angles of the parietal and
neighboring bones of a fetal or young skull; -- so called because it exhibits a
rhythmical pulsation.
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