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F Dictionary F - verb transitive 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 Dictionary F - noun A syllable applied to the fourth tone of the diatonic scale in solmization.
Fabaceous Dictionary F - adjective Having the nature of a bean; like a bean.
Fabellae Dictionary F - pleural of Fabella.
Fabella Dictionary F - noun One of the small sesamoid bones situated behind the condyles of the femur, in some mammals.
Fabian Dictionary F - adjective Of, pertaining to, or in the manner of, the Roman general, Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus; cautious; dilatory; avoiding a decisive contest.
Fable Dictionary F - noun 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.
Fabled Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fable.
Fabling Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fable.
Fabler Dictionary F - noun A writer of fables; a fabulist; a dealer in untruths or falsehoods.
Fabliaux Dictionary F - pleural of Fabliau.
Fabliau Dictionary F - noun One of the metrical tales of the Trouveres, or early poets of the north of France.
Fabric Dictionary F - noun The structure of anything; the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship; texture; make; as cloth of a beautiful fabric.
Fabricked Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fabric.
Fabricking Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fabric.
Fabricant Dictionary F - noun One who fabricates; a manufacturer.
Fabricated Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fabricate.
Fabricating Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fabricate.
Fabricate Dictionary F - verb transitive To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to frame; to construct; to build; as, to fabricate a bridge or ship.
Fabrication Dictionary F - noun The act of fabricating, framing, or constructing; construction; manufacture; as, the fabrication of a bridge, a church, or a government.
Fabricator Dictionary F - noun One who fabricates; one who constructs or makes.
Fabricatress Dictionary F - noun A woman who fabricates.
Fabrile Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to a workman, or to work in stone, metal, wood etc.; as, fabrile skill.
Fabulist Dictionary F - noun One who invents or writes fables.
Fabulized Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fabulize.
Fabulizing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fabulize.
Fabulize Dictionary F - intransitive verb To invent, compose, or relate fables or fictions.
Fabulosity Dictionary F - noun Fabulousness.
Fabulous Dictionary F - adjective Feigned, as a story or fable; related in fable; devised; invented; not real; fictitious; as, a fabulous description; a fabulous hero.
Faburden Dictionary F - noun A species of counterpoint with a drone bass.
Fac Dictionary F - noun A large ornamental letter used, esp. by the early printers, at the commencement of the chapters and other divisions of a book.
Facade Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - noun 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.
Faced Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Face.
Facing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Face.
Faser Dictionary F - noun One who faces; one who puts on a false show; a bold-faced person.
Facet Dictionary F - noun A little face; a small, plane surface; as, the facets of a diamond.
Faceted Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Facet.
Faceting Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Facet.
Facete Dictionary F - adjective Facetious; witty; humorous.
Facetiae Dictionary F - noun plural Witty or humorous writings or saying; witticisms; merry conceits.
Facetious Dictionary F - adjective Given to wit and good humor; merry; sportive; jocular; as, a facetious companion.
Facette Dictionary F - noun See Facet, n.
Facework Dictionary F - noun The material of the outside or front side, as of a wall or building; facing.
Facia Dictionary F - noun See Fascia.
Facial Dictionary F - adjective Of or pertaining to the face; as, the facial artery, vein, or nerve.
Faciend Dictionary F - noun The multiplicand. See Facient, 2.
Facient Dictionary F - noun One who does anything, good or bad; a doer; an agent.
Facies Dictionary F - noun The anterior part of the head; the face.
Facile Dictionary F - adjective Easy to be done or performed: not difficult; performable or attainable with little labor.
Facilitated Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Facilitate.
Facilitating Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Facilitate.
Facilitate Dictionary F - verb transitive 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 Dictionary F - noun The act of facilitating or making easy.
Facilities Dictionary F - pleural of Facility.
Facility Dictionary F - noun The quality of being easily performed; freedom from difficulty; ease; as, the facility of an operation.
Facingly Dictionary F - adverb In a facing manner or position.
Facinorous Dictionary F - adjective Atrociously wicked.
Facound Dictionary F - noun Speech; eloquence.
Facsimiles Dictionary F - pleural of Facsimile.
Facsimile Dictionary F - noun 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.
Fact Dictionary F - noun A doing, making, or preparing.
Faction Dictionary F - noun One of the divisions or parties of charioteers (distinguished by their colors) in the games of the circus.
Factionary Dictionary F - adjective Belonging to a faction; being a partisan; taking sides.
Factioner Dictionary F - noun One of a faction.
Factionist Dictionary F - noun One who promotes faction.
Factious Dictionary F - adjective 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.
Factitious Dictionary F - adjective 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 Dictionary F - adjective Causing; causative.
Factive Dictionary F - adjective Making; having power to make.
Facto Dictionary F - adverb In fact; by the act or fact.
Factor Dictionary F - noun 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.
Factored Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Factor.
Factoring Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Factor.
Factorage Dictionary F - noun The allowance given to a factor, as a compensation for his services; - called also a commission.
Factoress Dictionary F - noun A factor who is a woman.
Factorial Dictionary F - adjective Of or pertaining to a factory.
Factorized Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Factorize.
Factorizing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Factorize.
Factorize Dictionary F - verb transitive 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.
Factorship Dictionary F - noun The business of a factor.
Factories Dictionary F - pleural of Factory.
Factory Dictionary F - noun A house or place where factors, or commercial agents, reside, to transact business for their employers.
Factotums Dictionary F - pleural of Factotum.
Factotum Dictionary F - noun A person employed to do all kinds of work or business.
Factual Dictionary F - adjective Relating to, or containing, facts.
Facta Dictionary F - pleural of Factum.
Factum Dictionary F - noun A man's own act and deed.
Facture Dictionary F - noun The act or manner of making or doing anything; - now used of a literary, musical, or pictorial production.
Faculae Dictionary F - noun plural 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 Dictionary F - adjective Of or pertaining to the faculae.
Faculties Dictionary F - pleural of Faculty.
Faculty Dictionary F - noun 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.
Facund Dictionary F - adjective Eloquent.
Facundious Dictionary F - adjective Eloquement; full of words.
Facundity Dictionary F - noun Eloquence; readiness of speech.
Fad Dictionary F - noun A hobby ; freak; whim.
Faddle Dictionary F - intransitive verb To trifle; to toy.
Fade Dictionary F - adjective Weak; insipid; tasteless; commonplace.
Faded Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fade.
Fading Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fade.
Fadedly Dictionary F - adverb In a faded manner.
Fadeless Dictionary F - adjective Not liable to fade; unfading.
Fader Dictionary F - noun Father.
Fadge Dictionary F - adjective To fit; to suit; to agree.
Fadme Dictionary F - noun A fathom.
Fady Dictionary F - adjective Faded.
Faecal Dictionary F - adjective See Fecal.
Faeces Dictionary F - noun plural Excrement; ordure; also, settlings; sediment after infusion or distillation.
Faecula Dictionary F - noun See Fecula.
Faery Dictionary F - noun & adjective Fairy.
Faffle Dictionary F - intransitive verb To stammer.
Fag Dictionary F - noun A knot or coarse part in cloth.
Fagged Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fag.
Fagging Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fag.
Fagend Dictionary F - noun 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.
Fagot Dictionary F - noun 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.
Fagoted Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fagot.
Fagoting Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fagot.
Fagotto Dictionary F - noun The bassoon; - so called from being divided into parts for ease of carriage, making, as it were, a small fagot.
Faham Dictionary F - noun The leaves of an orchid (Angraecum fragrans), of the islands of Bourbon and Mauritius, used (in France) as a substitute for Chinese tea.
Fahlband Dictionary F - noun A stratum in crystalline rock, containing metallic sulphides.
Fahlerz Dictionary F - noun Alt. of Fahlband.
Fahlunite Dictionary F - noun A hydration of iolite.
Fahrenheit Dictionary F - adjective Conforming to the scale used by Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit in the graduation of his thermometer; of or relating to Fahrenheit's thermometric scale.
Faience Dictionary F - noun Glazed earthenware; esp., that which is decorated in color.
Failed Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fail.
Failing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fail.
Fail Dictionary F - intransitive verb 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.
Failance Dictionary F - noun Fault; failure; omission.
Faille Dictionary F - noun A soft silk, heavier than a foulard and not glossy.
Failure Dictionary F - noun Cessation of supply, or total defect; a failing; deficiency; as, failure of rain; failure of crops.
Fain Dictionary F - adjective Well-pleased; glad; apt; wont; fond; inclined.
Faineant Dictionary F - adjective Doing nothing; shiftless.
Faint Dictionary F - superlative Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, faint with fatigue, hunger, or thirst.
Fainted Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Faint.
Fainting Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Faint.
Fainthearted Dictionary F - adjective Wanting in courage; depressed by fear; easily discouraged or frightened; cowardly; timorous; dejected.
Faintish Dictionary F - adjective Slightly faint; somewhat faint.
Faintling Dictionary F - adjective Timorous; feeble-minded.
Faintly Dictionary F - adverb In a faint, weak, or timidmanner.
Faintness Dictionary F - noun The state of being faint; loss of strength, or of consciousness, and self-control.
Faints Dictionary F - noun plural 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 Dictionary F - adjective Feeble; languid.
Fair Dictionary F - superlative Free from spots, specks, dirt, or imperfection; unblemished; clean; pure.
Fair-haired Dictionary F - adjective Having fair or light-colored hair.
Fairhood Dictionary F - noun Fairness; beauty.
Fairily Dictionary F - adverb In the manner of a fairy.
Fairing Dictionary F - noun A present; originally, one given or purchased at a fair.
Fairish Dictionary F - adjective Tolerably fair.
Fair-leader Dictionary F - noun A block, or ring, serving as a guide for the running rigging or for any rope.
Fairly Dictionary F - adverb In a fair manner; clearly; openly; plainly; fully; distinctly; frankly.
Fair-minded Dictionary F - adjective Unprejudiced; just; judicial; honest.
Fair-natured Dictionary F - adjective Well-disposed.
Fairness Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - adjective Using fair speech, or uttered with fairness; bland; civil; courteous; plausible.
Fairway Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - adjective Made or done in pleasant weather, or in circumstances involving but little exposure or sacrifice; as, a fair-weather voyage.
Fair-world Dictionary F - noun State of prosperity.
Fairies Dictionary F - pleural of Fairy.
Fairy Dictionary F - noun Enchantment; illusion.
Fairyland Dictionary F - noun The imaginary land or abode of fairies.
Fairylike Dictionary F - adjective Resembling a fairy, or what is made or done be fairies; as, fairylike music.
Faith Dictionary F - noun 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.
Faithed Dictionary F - adjective Having faith or a faith; honest; sincere.
Faithful Dictionary F - adjective Full of faith, or having faith; disposed to believe, especially in the declarations and promises of God.
Faithless Dictionary F - adjective Not believing; not giving credit.
Faitour Dictionary F - noun A doer or actor; particularly, an evil doer; a scoundrel.
Fake Dictionary F - noun One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.
Fakir Dictionary F - noun An Oriental religious ascetic or begging monk.
Falanaka Dictionary F - noun A viverrine mammal of Madagascar (Eupleres Goudotii), allied to the civet; - called also Falanouc.
Falcade Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - adjective Alt. of Falcated.
Falcated Dictionary F - adjective 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 Dictionary F - noun The state of being falcate; a bend in the form of a sickle.
Falcer Dictionary F - noun One of the mandibles of a spider.
Falchion Dictionary F - noun A broad-bladed sword, slightly curved, shorter and lighter than the ordinary sword; - used in the Middle Ages.
Falcidian Dictionary F - adjective Of or pertaining to Publius Falcidius, a Roman tribune.
Falciform Dictionary F - adjective Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver.
Falcon Dictionary F - noun One of a family (Falconidae) of raptorial birds, characterized by a short, hooked beak, strong claws, and powerful flight.
Falconer Dictionary F - noun A person who breeds or trains hawks for taking birds or game; one who follows the sport of fowling with hawks.
Falconet Dictionary F - noun One of the smaller cannon used in the 15th century and later.
Falcongentil Dictionary F - noun The female or young of the goshawk (Astur palumbarius).
Falconine Dictionary F - adjective Like a falcon or hawk; belonging to the Falconidae.
Falconry Dictionary F - noun The art of training falcons or hawks to pursue and attack wild fowl or game.
Falcula Dictionary F - noun A curved and sharp-pointed claw.
Falculate Dictionary F - adjective Curved and sharppointed, like a falcula, or claw of a falcon.
Faldage Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - noun A fee or rent paid by a tenant for the privilege of faldage on his own ground.
Falding Dictionary F - noun A frieze or rough-napped cloth.
Faldistory Dictionary F - noun The throne or seat of a bishop within the chancel.
Faldstool Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - adjective Of or pertaining to Mount Falernus, in Italy; as, Falernianwine.
Falk Dictionary F - noun The razorbill.
Fell Dictionary F - imperative of Fall.
Fallen Dictionary F - past participle of Fall.
Falling Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fall.
Fall Dictionary F - verb transitive 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.
Fallacious Dictionary F - adjective Embodying or pertaining to a fallacy; illogical; fitted to deceive; misleading; delusive; as, fallacious arguments or reasoning.
Fallacies Dictionary F - pleural of Fallacy.
Fallacy Dictionary F - noun Deceptive or false appearance; deceitfulness; that which misleads the eye or the mind; deception.
Fallals Dictionary F - noun plural Gay ornaments; frippery; gewgaws.
Fallax Dictionary F - noun Cavillation; a caviling.
Fallency Dictionary F - noun An exception.
Faller Dictionary F - noun One who, or that which, falls.
Fallfish Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - noun The state of being fallible; liability to deceive or to be deceived; as, the fallibity of an argument or of an adviser.
Fallible Dictionary F - adjective 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 Dictionary F - adverb In a fallible manner.
Fallopian Dictionary F - adjective 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 Dictionary F - adjective Pale red or pale yellow; as, a fallow deer or greyhound.
Fallowed Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fallow.
Fallowing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fallow.
Fallow deer Dictionary F - 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 Dictionary F - noun One who favors the practice of fallowing land.
Fallowness Dictionary F - noun A well or opening, through the successive floors of a warehouse or manufactory, through which goods are raised or lowered.
Falsary Dictionary F - adjective A falsifier of evidence.
False Dictionary F - superlative Uttering falsehood; unveracious; given to deceit; dishnest; as, a false witness.
False-faced Dictionary F - adjective Hypocritical.
False-heart Dictionary F - adjective False-hearted.
False-hearted Dictionary F - adjective Hollow or unsound at the core; treacherous; deceitful; perfidious.
Falsehood Dictionary F - noun Want of truth or accuracy; an untrue assertion or representation; error; misrepresentation; falsity.
Falsely Dictionary F - adverb In a false manner; erroneously; not truly; perfidiously or treacherously.
Falseness Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - noun A deceiver.
Falsettos Dictionary F - pleural of Falsetto.
Falsetto Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - The crime of falsifying.
Falsifiable Dictionary F - adjective Capable of being falsified, counterfeited, or corrupted.
Falsification Dictionary F - noun The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not.
Falsificator Dictionary F - noun A falsifier.
Falsifier Dictionary F - noun One who falsifies, or gives to a thing a deceptive appearance; a liar.
Falsified Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Falsify.
Falsifying Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Falsify.
Falsify Dictionary F - adjective To make false; to represent falsely.
Falsism Dictionary F - noun That which is evidently false; an assertion or statement the falsity of which is plainly apparent; - opposed to truism.
Falsities Dictionary F - pleural of Falsity.
Falsity Dictionary F - adjective The quality of being false; coutrariety or want of conformity to truth.
Falter Dictionary F - verb transitive To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley.
Faltered Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Falter.
Faltering Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Falter.
Faluns Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - adjective & noun Fallow.
Falx Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - intransitive verb To stammer.
Fame Dictionary F - noun Public report or rumor.
Famed Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fame.
Faming Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fame.
Fameless Dictionary F - adjective Without fame or renown.
Familiar Dictionary F - adjective Of or pertaining to a family; domestic.
Familiarities Dictionary F - pleural of Familiarity.
Familiarity Dictionary F - noun 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.
Familiarization Dictionary F - noun The act or process of making familiar; the result of becoming familiar; as, familiarization with scenes of blood.
Familiarized Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Familiarize.
Familiarizing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Familiarize.
Familiarize Dictionary F - verb transitive 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.
Familiarly Dictionary F - adverb In a familiar manner.
Familiarness Dictionary F - noun Familiarity.
Familiary Dictionary F - adjective Of or pertaining to a family or household; domestic.
Familism Dictionary F - noun The tenets of the Familists.
Familist Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - pleural of Familistery.
Familistery Dictionary F - noun A community in which many persons unite as in one family, and are regulated by certain communistic laws and customs.
Familistic Dictionary F - adjective Alt. of Familistical.
Familistical Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to Familists.
Families Dictionary F - pleural of Family.
Family Dictionary F - verb transitive 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.
Famine Dictionary F - noun General scarcity of food; dearth; a want of provisions; destitution.
Famished Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Famish.
Famishing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Famish.
Famish Dictionary F - verb transitive To starve, kill, or destroy with hunger.
Famishment Dictionary F - noun State of being famished.
Famosity Dictionary F - noun The state or quality of being famous.
Famous Dictionary F - adjective 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 Dictionary F - adjective Renowned.
Famously Dictionary F - adverb In a famous manner; in a distinguished degree; greatly; splendidly.
Famousness Dictionary F - noun The state of being famous.
Famular Dictionary F - noun Domestic; familiar.
Famulate Dictionary F - intransitive verb To serve.
Famulist Dictionary F - noun A collegian of inferior rank or position, corresponding to the sizar at Cambridge.
Fan Dictionary F - noun An instrument used for producing artificial currents of air, by the wafting or revolving motion of a broad surface.
Fanned Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fan.
Fanning Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fan.
Fanal Dictionary F - noun A lighthouse, or the apparatus placed in it for giving light.
Fanatic Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to, or indicating, fanaticism; extravagant in opinions; ultra; unreasonable; excessively enthusiastic, especially on religious subjects; as, fanatic zeal; fanatic notions.
Fanatical Dictionary F - adjective Characteristic of, or relating to, fanaticism; fanatic.
Fanaticism Dictionary F - noun Excessive enthusiasm, unreasoning zeal, or wild and extravagant notions, on any subject, especially religion; religious frenzy.
Fanaticized Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fanaticize.
Fanaticizing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fanaticize.
Fanaticize Dictionary F - verb transitive To cause to become a fanatic.
Fanatism Dictionary F - noun Fanaticism.
Fancied Dictionary F - verb transitive Formed or conceived by the fancy; unreal; as, a fancied wrong.
Fancier Dictionary F - noun One who is governed by fancy.
Fanciful Dictionary F - adjective Full of fancy; guided by fancy, rather than by reason and experience; whimsical; as, a fanciful man forms visionary projects.
Fanciless Dictionary F - adjective Having no fancy; without ideas or imagination.
Fancies Dictionary F - pleural of Fancy.
Fancy Dictionary F - noun 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.
Fancying Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fancy.
Fancy-free Dictionary F - adjective Free from the power of love.
Fancymonger Dictionary F - noun A lovemonger; a whimsical lover.
Fancy-sick Dictionary F - adjective Love-sick.
Fancywork Dictionary F - noun Ornamental work with a needle or hook, as embroidery, crocheting, netting, etc.
Fand Dictionary F - imp. of Find.
Fandangoes Dictionary F - pleural of Fandango.
Fandango Dictionary F - noun 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.
Fane Dictionary F - noun A temple; a place consecrated to religion; a church.
Fanega Dictionary F - noun A dry measure in Spain and Spanish America, varying from 1/ to 2/ bushels; also, a measure of land.
Fanfare Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - noun A bully; a hector; a swaggerer; an empty boaster.
Fanfaronade Dictionary F - noun A swaggering; vain boasting; ostentation; a bluster.
Fanfoot Dictionary F - noun 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.
Fang Dictionary F - adjective To catch; to seize, as with the teeth; to lay hold of; to gripe; to clutch.
Fanged Dictionary F - adjective Having fangs or tusks; as, a fanged adder. Also used figuratively.
Fangle Dictionary F - verb transitive Something new-fashioned; a foolish innovation; a gewgaw; a trifling ornament.
Fangled Dictionary F - adjective New made; hence, gaudy; showy; vainly decorated. Obs., except with the prefix new. See Newfangled.
Fangleness Dictionary F - noun Quality of being fangled.
Fangless Dictionary F - adjective Destitute of fangs or tusks.
Fangot Dictionary F - noun A quantity of wares, as raw silk, etc., from one hundred weight.
Fanion Dictionary F - noun A small flag sometimes carried at the head of the baggage of a brigade.
Fanlike Dictionary F - adjective Resembling a fan;.
Fannel Dictionary F - noun Same as Fanon.
Fanner Dictionary F - noun One who fans.
Fan-nerved Dictionary F - adjective Having the nerves or veins arranged in a radiating manner; - said of certain leaves, and of the wings of some insects.
Fanon Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - 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 Dictionary F - noun A variety of the domestic pigeon, so called from the shape of the tail.
Fan-tailed Dictionary F - adjective Having an expanded, or fan-shaped, tail; as, the fan-tailed pigeon.
Fantasia Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - adjective Filled with fancies or imaginations.
Fantasm Dictionary F - noun Same as Phantasm.
Fantast Dictionary F - noun One whose manners or ideas are fantastic.
Fantastic Dictionary F - adjective Existing only in imagination; fanciful; imaginary; not real; chimerical.
Fantastical Dictionary F - adjective Fanciful; unreal; whimsical; capricious; fantastic.
Fantasticality Dictionary F - noun Fantastically.
Fantastically Dictionary F - adverb In a fantastic manner.
Fantastic-alness Dictionary F - noun The quality of being fantastic.
Fantasticism Dictionary F - noun The quality of being fantastical; fancifulness; whimsicality.
Fantasticly Dictionary F - adverb Fantastically.
Fantasticness Dictionary F - noun Fantasticalness.
Fantasticco Dictionary F - noun A fantastic.
Fantasies Dictionary F - pleural of Fantasy.
Fantasy Dictionary F - noun Fancy; imagination; especially, a whimsical or fanciful conception; a vagary of the imagination; whim; caprice; humor.
Fantoccini Dictionary F - noun plural Puppets caused to perform evolutions or dramatic scenes by means of machinery; also, the representations in which they are used.
Fantom Dictionary F - noun See Phantom.
Fap Dictionary F - adjective Fuddled.
Faquir Dictionary F - noun See Fakir.
Far Dictionary F - noun A young pig, or a litter of pigs.
Farabout Dictionary F - noun A going out of the way; a digression.
Farad Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - adjective 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 Dictionary F - noun Alt. of Faradization.
Faradization Dictionary F - noun The treatment with faradic or induced currents of electricity for remedial purposes.
Farand Dictionary F - noun See Farrand, n.
Farandams Dictionary F - noun A fabrik made of silk and wool or hair.
Farantly Dictionary F - adjective Orderly; comely; respectable.
Farced Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Farce.
Farcing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Farce.
Farce Dictionary F - verb transitive To stuff with forcemeat; hence, to fill with mingled ingredients; to fill full; to stuff.
Farcement Dictionary F - noun Stuffing; forcemeat.
Farcical Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to farce; appropriated to farce; ludicrous; unnatural; unreal.
Farcilite Dictionary F - noun Pudding stone.
Farcimen Dictionary F - noun Alt. of Farcin.
Farcin Dictionary F - noun Same as Farcy.
Farctate Dictionary F - verb transitive Stuffed; filled solid; as, a farctate leaf, stem, or pericarp; - opposed to tubular or hollow.
Farcy Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - noun Paint used on the face.
Fardage Dictionary F - noun See Dunnage.
Fardel Dictionary F - noun A bundle or little pack; hence, a burden.
Farding-bag Dictionary F - noun The upper stomach of a cow, or other ruminant animal; the rumen.
Fardingdale Dictionary F - noun A farthingale.
Fardingdeal Dictionary F - noun The fourth part of an acre of land.
Fared Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fare.
Faring Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fare.
Fare Dictionary F - noun To go; to pass; to journey; to travel.
Faren Dictionary F - p. p. of Fare, v. i.
Farewell Dictionary F - interjection 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.
Farfet Dictionary F - past participle Farfetched.
Farfetch Dictionary F - verb transitive To bring from far; to seek out studiously.
Farfetched Dictionary F - adjective Brought from far, or from a remote place.
Farina Dictionary F - noun 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.
Farinaceous Dictionary F - adjective Consisting or made of meal or flour; as, a farinaceous diet.
Farinose Dictionary F - adjective Yielding farinaa; as, farinose substances.
Farl Dictionary F - verb transitive Same as Furl.
Farlie Dictionary F - noun An unusual or unexpected thing; a wonder. See Fearly.
Farm Dictionary F - adjective & noun The rent of land, - originally paid by reservation of part of its products.
Farmed Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Farm.
Farming Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Farm.
Farmable Dictionary F - adjective Capable of being farmed.
Farmer Dictionary F - noun One who farms.
Farmeress Dictionary F - noun A woman who farms.
Farmership Dictionary F - noun Skill in farming.
Farmery Dictionary F - noun The buildings and yards necessary for the business of a farm; a homestead.
Farmhouse Dictionary F - noun A dwelling house on a farm; a farmer's residence.
Farmost Dictionary F - adjective Most distant; farthest.
Farmstead Dictionary F - noun A farm with the building upon it; a homestead on a farm.
Farmsteading Dictionary F - noun A farmstead.
Farmyard Dictionary F - noun The yard or inclosure attached to a barn, or the space inclosed by the farm buildings.
Farness Dictionary F - adjective The state of being far off; distance; remoteness.
Faro Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - noun singular & plural An inhabitant, or, collectively, inhabitants, of the Faroe islands.
Far-off Dictionary F - adjective Remote; as, the far-off distance. Cf. Far-off, under Far, adv.
Farraginous Dictionary F - adjective Formed of various materials; mixed; as, a farraginous mountain.
Farrago Dictionary F - noun A mass composed of various materials confusedly mixed; a medley; a mixture.
Farrand Dictionary F - noun Manner; custom; fashion; humor.
Farreation Dictionary F - noun Same as Confarreation.
Farrier Dictionary F - noun A shoer of horses; a veterinary surgeon.
Farriery Dictionary F - noun The art of shoeing horses.
Farrow Dictionary F - noun A little of pigs.
Farrowed Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Farfow.
Farrowing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Farfow.
Farfow Dictionary F - verb transitive & intransitive To bring forth (young); - said only of swine.
Farry Dictionary F - noun A farrow.
Farse Dictionary F - noun An addition to, or a paraphrase of, some part of the Latin service in the vernacular; - common in English before the Reformation.
Farseeing Dictionary F - adjective Able to see to a great distance; farsighted.
Farsighted Dictionary F - adjective Seeing to great distance; hence, of good judgment regarding the remote effects of actions; sagacious.
Farsightedness Dictionary F - noun Quality of bbeing farsighted.
Farstretched Dictionary F - adjective Streatched beyond ordinary limits.
Farther Dictionary F - superlative More remote; more distant than something else.
Fartherance Dictionary F - noun See Furtherance.
Farthermore Dictionary F - adverb See Furthermore.
Farthermost Dictionary F - adjective Most remote; farthest.
Farthest Dictionary F - Superl. Most distant or remote; as, the farthest degree. See Furthest.
Farthing Dictionary F - noun The fourth of a penny; a small copper coin of Great Britain, being a cent in United States currency.
Farthingale Dictionary F - noun A hoop skirt or hoop petticoat, or other light, elastic material, used to extend the petticoat.
Fasces Dictionary F - 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 Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - pleural of Fascia.
Fascia Dictionary F - noun A band, sash, or fillet; especially, in surgery, a bandage or roller.
Fascial Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to the fasces.
Fasciate Dictionary F - adjective Alt. of Fasciated.
Fasciated Dictionary F - adjective Bound with a fillet, sash, or bandage.
Fasciation Dictionary F - noun The act or manner of binding up; bandage; also, the condition of being fasciated.
Fascicle Dictionary F - noun A small bundle or collection; a compact cluster; as, a fascicle of fibers; a fascicle of flowers or roots.
Fascicled Dictionary F - adjective 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 Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to a fascicle; fascicled; as, a fascicular root.
Fascicularly Dictionary F - adverb In a fascicled manner.
Fasciculate Dictionary F - adjective Alt. of Fasciculated.
Fasciculated Dictionary F - adjective Grouped in a fascicle; fascicled.
Fasciculi Dictionary F - pleural of Fasciculus.
Fasciculus Dictionary F - noun A little bundle; a fascicle.
Fascinated Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fascinate.
Fascinating Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fascinate.
Fascinate Dictionary F - verb transitive To influence in an uncontrollable manner; to operate on by some powerful or irresistible charm; to bewitch; to enchant.
Fascination Dictionary F - noun 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.
Fascine Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - adjective Caused or acting by witchcraft.
Fasciolae Dictionary F - pleural of Fasciola.
Fasciola Dictionary F - noun A band of gray matter bordering the fimbria in the brain; the dentate convolution.
Fasciole Dictionary F - noun A band of minute tubercles, bearing modified spines, on the shells of spatangoid sea urchins. See Spatangoidea.
Fashed Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fash.
Fashing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fash.
Fash Dictionary F - verb transitive To vex; to tease; to trouble.
Fashion Dictionary F - noun 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.
Fashioned Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fashion.
Fashioning Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fashion.
Fashionable Dictionary F - adjective Conforming to the fashion or established mode; according with the prevailing form or style; as, a fashionable dress.
Fashionableness Dictionary F - noun State of being fashionable.
Fashionably Dictionary F - adverb In a fashionable manner.
Fashioner Dictionary F - noun One who fashions, forms, ar gives shape to anything.
Fashionist Dictionary F - noun An obsequious follower of the modes and fashions.
Fashionless Dictionary F - adjective Having no fashion.
Fashion-monger Dictionary F - noun One who studies the fashions; a fop; a dandy.
Fashion-mongering Dictionary F - adjective Behaving like a fashion-monger.
Fassaite Dictionary F - noun A variety of pyroxene, from the valley of Fassa, in the Tyrol.
Fasted Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fast.
Fasting Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fast.
Fast Dictionary F - intransitive verb To abstain from food; to omit to take nourishment in whole or in part; to go hungry.
Fastened Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fasten.
Fastening Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fasten.
Fasten Dictionary F - adjective 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.
Fastener Dictionary F - noun One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.
Faster Dictionary F - noun One who abstains from food.
Fast-handed Dictionary F - adjective Close-handed; close-fisted; covetous; avaricious.
Fasti Dictionary F - noun plural The Roman calendar, which gave the days for festivals, courts, etc., corresponding to a modern almanac.
Fastidiosity Dictionary F - noun Fastidiousness; squeamishness.
Fastidious Dictionary F - adjective Difficult to please; delicate to a fault; suited with difficulty; squeamish; as, a fastidious mind or ear; a fastidious appetite.
Fastigiate Dictionary F - adjective Alt. of Fastigiated.
Fastigiated Dictionary F - adjective Narrowing towards the top.
Fastish Dictionary F - adjective Rather fast; also, somewhat dissipated.
Fastly Dictionary F - adverb Firmly; surely.
Fastness Dictionary F - adjective The state of being fast and firm; firmness; fixedness; security; faithfulness.
Fastuous Dictionary F - adjective Proud; haughty; disdainful.
Fat Dictionary F - noun A large tub, cistern, or vessel; a vat.
Fatted Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fat.
atting Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fat.
Fatal Dictionary F - adjective Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny; necessary; inevitable.
Fatalism Dictionary F - noun The doctrine that all things are subject to fate, or that they take place by inevitable necessity.
Fatalist Dictionary F - noun One who maintains that all things happen by inevitable necessity.
Fatalistic Dictionary F - adjective Implying, or partaking of the nature of, fatalism.
Fatalities Dictionary F - pleural of Fatality.
Fatality Dictionary F - noun The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.
Fatally Dictionary F - adverb In a manner proceeding from, or determined by, fate.
Fatalness Dictionary F - noun Quality of being fatal.
Fata Morgana Dictionary F - 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 Dictionary F - noun The menhaden.
Fat-brained Dictionary F - adjective Dull of apprehension.
Fate Dictionary F - noun 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.
Fated Dictionary F - past particle & adjective Decreed by fate; destined; doomed; as, he was fated to rule a factious people.
Fateful Dictionary F - [[adjective] Having the power of serving or accomplishing fate.
Fathead Dictionary F - noun A cyprinoid fish of the Mississippi valley (Pimephales promelas); - called also black-headed minnow.
Father Dictionary F - noun One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a generator; a male parent.
Fathered Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Father.
Fathering Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Father.
Fatherhood Dictionary F - noun The state of being a father; the character or authority of a father; paternity.
Fathers-in-law Dictionary F - pleural of Father-in-law.
Father-in-law Dictionary F - noun The father of one's husband or wife; - correlative to son-in-law and daughter-in-law.
Fatherland Dictionary F - noun One's native land; the native land of one's fathers or ancestors.
Father-lasher Dictionary F - noun A European marine fish (Cottus bubalis), allied to the sculpin; - called also lucky proach.
Fatherless Dictionary F - adjective Destitute of a living father; as, a fatherless child.
Fatherlessness Dictionary F - noun The state of being without a father.
Fatherliness Dictionary F - noun The qualities of a father; parantal kindness, care, etc.
Father longlegs Dictionary F - See Daddy longlegs, 2.
Fatherly Dictionary F - adjective Like a father in affection and care; paternal; tender; protecting; careful.
Fathership Dictionary F - noun The state of being a father; fatherhood; paternity.
Fathom Dictionary F - noun 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.
Fathomed Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fathom.
Fathoming Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fathom.
Fathomable Dictionary F - adjective Capable of being fathomed.
Fathomer Dictionary F - noun One who fathoms.
Fathomless Dictionary F - adjective Incapable of being fathomed; immeasurable; that can not be sounded.
Fatidical Dictionary F - adjective Having power to foretell future events; prophetic; fatiloquent; as, the fatidical oak.
Fatiferous Dictionary F - adjective Fate-bringing; deadly; mortal; destructive.
Fatigable Dictionary F - adjective Easily tired.
Fatigate Dictionary F - adjective Wearied; tired; fatigued.
Fatigation Dictionary F - noun Weariness.
Fatigue Dictionary F - noun Weariness from bodily labor or mental exertion; lassitude or exhaustion of strength.
Fatigued Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fatigue.
Fatiguing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fatigue.
Fatiloquent Dictionary F - adjective Prophetic; fatidical.
Fatiloquist Dictionary F - noun A fortune teller.
Fatimite Dictionary F - adjective Alt. of Fatimide.
Fatimide Dictionary F - adjective Descended from Fatima, the daughter and only child of Mohammed.
Fatiscence Dictionary F - noun A gaping or opening; state of being chinky, or having apertures.
Fat-kidneyed Dictionary F - adjective Gross; lubberly.
Fatling Dictionary F - noun A calf, lamb, kid, or other young animal fattened for slaughter; a fat animal; - said of such animals as are used for food.
Fatly Dictionary F - adverb Grossly; greasily.
Fatner Dictionary F - noun One who fattens. R. See Fattener.
Fatness Dictionary F - noun The quality or state of being fat, plump, or full-fed; corpulency; fullness of flesh.
Fattened Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fatten.
Fattining Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fatten.
Fatten Dictionary F - verb transitive To make fat; to feed for slaughter; to make fleshy or plump with fat; to fill full; to fat.
Fattener Dictionary F - noun One who, or that which, fattens; that which gives fatness or fertility.
Fattiness Dictionary F - noun State or quality of being fatty.
Fattish Dictionary F - adjective Somewhat fat; inclined to fatness.
Fatty Dictionary F - adjective Containing fat, or having the qualities of fat; greasy; gross; as, a fatty substance.
Fatuitous Dictionary F - adjective Stupid; fatuous.
Fatuity Dictionary F - noun Weakness or imbecility of mind; stupidity.
Fatuous Dictionary F - adjective Feeble in mind; weak; silly; stupid; foolish; fatuitous.
Fat-wited Dictionary F - adjective Dull; stupid.
Faubourg Dictionary F - noun A suburb of French city; also, a district now within a city, but formerly without its walls.
Faucal Dictionary F - adjective 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 Dictionary F - noun plural 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.
Faucet Dictionary F - noun 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.
Fauchion Dictionary F - noun See Falchion.
Faucial Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to the fauces; pharyngeal.
Faugh Dictionary F - interjection An exclamation of contempt, disgust, or abhorrence.
Faulchion Dictionary F - noun See Falchion.
Faulcon Dictionary F - noun See Falcon.
Fauld Dictionary F - noun The arch over the dam of a blast furnace; the tymp arch.
Faule Dictionary F - noun A fall or falling band.
Fault Dictionary F - noun Defect; want; lack; default.
Faulted Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fault.
Faulting Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fault.
Faulter Dictionary F - noun One who commits a fault.
Fault-finder Dictionary F - noun One who makes a practice of discovering others' faults and censuring them; a scold.
Fault-finding Dictionary F - noun The act of finding fault or blaming; - used derogatively. Also Adj.
Faultful Dictionary F - adjective Full of faults or sins.
Faultily Dictionary F - adverb In a faulty manner.
Faultiness Dictionary F - noun Quality or state of being faulty.
Faultless Dictionary F - adjective Without fault; not defective or imperfect; free from blemish; free from incorrectness, vice, or offense; perfect; as, a faultless poem.
Faulty Dictionary F - adjective Containing faults, blemishes, or defects; imperfect; not fit for the use intended.
Faun Dictionary F - noun A god of fields and shipherds, diddering little from the satyr. The fauns are usually represented as half goat and half man.
Fauna Dictionary F - noun The animals of any given area or epoch; as, the fauna of America; fossil fauna; recent fauna.
Faunal Dictionary F - adjective Relating to fauna.
Faunist Dictionary F - noun One who describes the fauna of country; a naturalist.
Fauni Dictionary F - pleural of Faunus.
Faunus Dictionary F - noun See Faun.
Fausen Dictionary F - noun A young eel.
Fausse-braye Dictionary F - noun A second raampart, exterior to, and parallel to, the main rampart, and considerably below its level.
Fauteuil Dictionary F - noun An armchair; hence (because the members sit in fauteuils or armchairs), membership in the French Academy.
Fautor Dictionary F - noun A favorer; a patron; one who gives countenance or support; an abettor.
Fautress Dictionary F - noun A patroness.
Fauvette Dictionary F - noun A small singing bird, as the nightingale and warblers.
Faux Dictionary F - noun See Fauces.
faux pas Dictionary F - A false step; a mistake or wrong measure.
Favaginous Dictionary F - adjective Formed like, or resembling, a honeycomb.
Favas Dictionary F - noun See Favus, n., 2.
Favel Dictionary F - adjective Yellow; fal/ow; dun.
Favella Dictionary F - noun A group of spores arranged without order and covered with a thin gelatinous envelope, as in certain delicate red algae.
Faveolate Dictionary F - adjective Honeycomb; having cavities or cells, somewhat resembling those of a honeycomb; alveolate; favose.
Favillous Dictionary F - adjective Of or pertaining to ashes.
Favonian Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to the west wind; soft; mild; gentle.
Favor Dictionary F - noun Kind regard; propitious aspect; countenance; friendly disposition; kindness; good will.
Favored Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Favor.
Favoring Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Favor.
Favorable Dictionary F - noun Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly.
Favoredly Dictionary F - adverb In a favored or a favorable manner; favorably.
Favoredness Dictionary F - noun Appearance.
Favorer Dictionary F - noun One who favors; one who regards with kindness or friendship; a well-wisher; one who assists or promotes success or prosperity.
Favoress Dictionary F - noun A woman who favors or gives countenance.
Favorite Dictionary F - noun 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.
Favoritism Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - adjective Unfavored; not regarded with favor; having no countenance or support.
Favose Dictionary F - adjective Honeycombed. See Faveolate.
Favosite Dictionary F - adjective Like or pertaining to the genus Favosites.
Favosites Dictionary F - noun A genus of fossil corals abundant in the Silurian and Devonian rocks, having polygonal cells with perforated walls.
Favus Dictionary F - noun A disease of the scalp, produced by a vegetable parasite.
Fawe Dictionary F - adjective Fain; glad; delighted.
Fawkner Dictionary F - noun A falconer.
Fawn Dictionary F - noun A young deer; a buck or doe of the first year. See Buck.
Fawned Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fawn.
Fawning Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fawn.
Fawn-colored Dictionary F - adjective Of the color of a fawn; light yellowish brown.
Fawner Dictionary F - noun One who fawns; a sycophant.
Fawningly Dictionary F - adverb In a fawning manner.
Faxed Dictionary F - adjective Hairy.
Fay Dictionary F - noun A fairy; an elf.
fayed Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fay.
Faying Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fay.
Fayalite Dictionary F - noun A black, greenish, or brownish mineral of the chrysolite group. It is a silicate of iron.
Fayence Dictionary F - noun See Fa/ence.
Faytour Dictionary F - noun See Faitour.
Faze Dictionary F - verb transitive See Feeze.
Fazzolet Dictionary F - noun A handkerchief.
Feaberry Dictionary F - noun A gooseberry.
Feague Dictionary F - verb transitive To beat or whip; to drive.
Feal Dictionary F - adjective Faithful; loyal.
Fealty Dictionary F - noun 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.
Fear Dictionary F - noun A variant of Fere, a mate, a companion.
Feared Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fear.
Fearing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fear.
Fearer Dictionary F - noun One who fars.
Fearful Dictionary F - adjective Full of fear, apprehension, or alarm; afraid; frightened.
Fearfully Dictionary F - adverb In a fearful manner.
Fearfulness Dictionary F - noun The state of being fearful.
Fearless Dictionary F - adjective Free from fear.
Fearnaught Dictionary F - noun A fearless person.
Fearsome Dictionary F - adjective Frightful; causing fear.
Feasibilities Dictionary F - pleural of Feasibility.
Feasibility Dictionary F - noun The quality of being feasible; practicability; also, that which is feasible; as, before we adopt a plan, let us consider its feasibility.
Feasible Dictionary F - adjective Capable of being done, executed, or effected; practicable.
Feast Dictionary F - noun A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary.
Feasted Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Feast.
Feasting Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Feast.
Feaster Dictionary F - noun One who fares deliciously.
Feastful Dictionary F - adjective Festive; festal; joyful; sumptuous; luxurious.
Feat Dictionary F - noun An act; a deed; an exploit.
Feat-bodied Dictionary F - adjective Having a feat or trim body.
Feateous Dictionary F - adjective Dexterous; neat.
Feather Dictionary F - noun One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down.
Feathered Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Feather.
Feathering. Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Feather.
Feather-brained/ Dictionary F - adjective Giddy; frivolous; feather-headed.
Feather-edge/ Dictionary F - noun The thin, new growth around the edge of a shell, of an oyster.
Feather-edged/ Dictionary F - adjective 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/ Dictionary F - noun Feverfew.
Feather-foil Dictionary F - noun An aquatic plant (Hottonia palustris), having finely divided leaves.
Feather-head Dictionary F - noun A frivolous or featherbrained person.
Feather-headed Dictionary F - adjective Giddy; frivolous; foolish.
Feather-heeled Dictionary F - adjective Light-heeled; gay; frisky; frolicsome.
Featherness Dictionary F - noun The state or condition of being feathery.
Feathering Dictionary F - noun Same as Foliation.
Featherless Dictionary F - adjective Destitute of feathers.
Featherly Dictionary F - adjective Like feathers.
Feather-pated Dictionary F - adjective Feather-headed; frivolous.
Feather-veined Dictionary F - adjective Having the veins (of a leaf) diverging from the two sides of a midrib.
Feathery Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to, or resembling, feathers; covered with, or as with, feathers; as, feathery spray or snow.
Featly Dictionary F - adjective Neatly; dexterously; nimbly.
Featness Dictionary F - noun Skill; adroitness.
Feature Dictionary F - noun The make, form, or outward appearance of a person; the whole turn or style of the body; esp., good appearance.
Featured Dictionary F - adjective Shaped; fashioned.
Featureless Dictionary F - adjective Having no distinct or distinctive features.
Featurely Dictionary F - adjective Having features; showing marked peculiarities; handsome.
Feazed Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Feaze.
Feazing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Feaze.
Feaze Dictionary F - verb transitive To untwist; to unravel, as the end of a rope.
Feazings Dictionary F - verb transitive The unlaid or ragged end of a rope.
Febricitate Dictionary F - intransitive verb To have a fever.
Febriculose Dictionary F - adjective Somewhat feverish.
Febrifacient Dictionary F - adjective Febrific.
Febriferous Dictionary F - adjective Causing fever; as, a febriferous locality.
Febrific Dictionary F - adjective Producing fever.
Febrifugal Dictionary F - adjective Having the quality of mitigating or curing fever.
Febrifuge Dictionary F - noun A medicine serving to mitigate or remove fever.
Febrile Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to fever; indicating fever, or derived from it; as, febrile symptoms; febrile action.
February Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - noun Purification; a sacrifice.
Fecal Dictionary F - adjective relating to, or containing, dregs, feces, or ordeure; faecal.
Fecche Dictionary F - verb transitive To fetch.
Feces Dictionary F - noun plural dregs; sediment; excrement. See FAeces.
Fecial Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to heralds, declarations of war, and treaties of peace; as, fecial law.
Fecifork Dictionary F - noun The anal fork on which the larvae of certain insects carry their faeces.
Feckless Dictionary F - adjective Spiritless; weak; worthless.
Fecks Dictionary F - noun A corruption of the word faith.
FeculAe Dictionary F - pleural of Fecula.
Fecula Dictionary F - noun Any pulverulent matter obtained from plants by simply breaking down the texture, washing with water, and subsidence.
Feculence Dictionary F - noun The state or quality of being feculent; muddiness; foulness.
Feculency Dictionary F - noun Feculence.
Feculent Dictionary F - adjective Foul with extraneous or impure substances; abounding with sediment or excrementitious matter; muddy; thick; turbid.
Fecund Dictionary F - adjective Fruitful in children; prolific.
Fecundated Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fecundate.
Fecundating Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fecundate.
Fecundate Dictionary F - verb transitive To make fruitful or prolific.
Fecundation Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - verb transitive To make fruitful; to fecundate.
Fecundity Dictionary F - noun The quality or power of producing fruit; fruitfulness; especially (Biol.), the quality in female organisms of reproducing rapidly and in great numbers.
Fed Dictionary F - imp. & p. p. of Feed.
Fedary Dictionary F - noun A feodary.
Federal Dictionary F - adjective 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.
Federalism Dictionary F - noun the principles of Federalists or of federal union.
Federalist Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Federalize.
Federalizing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Federalize.
Federalize Dictionary F - verb transitive To unite in compact, as different States; to confederate for political purposes; to unite by or under the Federal Constitution.
Federary Dictionary F - noun A partner; a confederate; an accomplice.
Federate Dictionary F - adjective United by compact, as sovereignties, states, or nations; joined in confederacy; leagued; confederate; as, federate nations.
Federation Dictionary F - noun The act of uniting in a league; confederation.
Federative Dictionary F - adjective Uniting in a league; forming a confederacy; federal.
Fedity Dictionary F - noun Turpitude; vileness.
Fee Dictionary F - noun property; possession; tenure.
Feed Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fee.
Feeing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fee.
Feeble Dictionary F - superlative Deficient in physical strength; weak; infirm; debilitated.
Feeble-minded Dictionary F - adjective Weak in intellectual power; wanting firmness or constancy; irresolute; vacilating; imbecile.
Feebleness Dictionary F - noun The quality or condition of being feeble; debility; infirmity.
Feebly Dictionary F - adverb In a feeble manner.
Feeding Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Feed.
Feeder Dictionary F - noun One who, or that which, gives food or supplies nourishment; steward.
Fee-faw-fum Dictionary F - noun A nonsensical exclamation attributed to giants and ogres; hence, any expression calculated to impose upon the timid and ignorant.
Feejee Dictionary F - adjective & noun See Fijian.
Felt Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Feel.
Feeling Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Feel.
Feel Dictionary F - verb transitive 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.
Feeler Dictionary F - noun One who, or that which, feels.
Feelingly Dictionary F - adverb In a feeling manner; pathetically; sympathetically.
Feere Dictionary F - noun A consort, husband or wife; a companion; a fere.
Feese Dictionary F - noun the short run before a leap.
Feet Dictionary F - noun plural See Foot.
Feetless Dictionary F - adjective Destitute of feet; as, feetless birds.
Feeze Dictionary F - verb transitive To turn, as a screw.
Fehling Dictionary F - noun See Fehling's solution, under Solution.
Fehmic Dictionary F - adjective See Vehmic.
Feigned Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Feign.
Feigning Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Feign.
Feign Dictionary F - verb transitive 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.
Feigner Dictionary F - noun One who feigns or pretends.
Feine Dictionary F - verb transitive & intransitive To feign.
Feint Dictionary F - adjective Feigned; counterfeit.
Feitsui Dictionary F - noun The Chinese name for a highly prized variety of pale green jade. See Jade.
Feize Dictionary F - verb transitive See Feeze, v. t.
Felanders Dictionary F - noun plural See Filanders.
Feldspar Dictionary F - noun Alt. of Feldspath.
Feldspath Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - adjective Alt. of Feldspathose.
Feldspathose Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to, or consisting of, feldspar.
Fele Dictionary F - adjective Many.
Fe-licify Dictionary F - verb transitive To make happy; to felicitate.
Felicitate Dictionary F - adjective Made very happy.
Felicitated Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Felicitate.
felicitating Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Felicitate.
Felicitation Dictionary F - noun The act of felicitating; a wishing of joy or happiness; congratulation.
Felicitous Dictionary F - adjective Characterized by felicity; happy; prosperous; delightful; skilful; successful; happily applied or expressed; appropriate.
Felicities Dictionary F - pleural of Felicity.
Felicity Dictionary F - noun The state of being happy; blessedness; blissfulness; enjoyment of good.
Feline Dictionary F - adjective Catlike; of or pertaining to the genus Felis, or family Felidae; as, the feline race; feline voracity.
Felis Dictionary F - noun A genus of carnivorous mammals, including the domestic cat, the lion, tiger, panther, and similar animals.
Felled Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fell.
Felling Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fell.
Fellable Dictionary F - adjective Fit to be felled.
Fellahin Dictionary F - pleural of Fellah.
Fellahs Dictionary F - pleural of Fellah.
Fellah Dictionary F - noun A peasant or cultivator of the soil among the Egyptians, Syrians, etc.
Feller Dictionary F - noun One who, or that which, fells, knocks or cuts down; a machine for felling trees.
Felltare Dictionary F - noun The fieldfare.
Felliflu-ous Dictionary F - adjective Flowing with gall.
Fellinic Dictionary F - adjective Of, relating to, or derived from, bile or gall; as, fellinic acid.
Fellmonger Dictionary F - noun A dealer in fells or sheepskins, who separates the wool from the pelts.
Fellness Dictionary F - noun The quality or state of being fell or cruel; fierce barbarity.
Felloe Dictionary F - noun See Felly.
Fellon Dictionary F - noun Variant of Felon.
Fellow Dictionary F - noun A companion; a comrade; an associate; a partner; a sharer.
Fellow-commoner Dictionary F - noun A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table.
Fellow-creature Dictionary F - noun One of the same race or kind; one made by the same Creator.
Fellowfeel Dictionary F - verb transitive To share through sympathy; to participate in.
Fellow-feeling Dictionary F - noun Sympathy; a like feeling.
Fellowless Dictionary F - adjective Without fellow or equal; peerless.
Fellowlike Dictionary F - adjective Like a companion; companionable; on equal terms; sympathetic.
Fellowly Dictionary F - adjective Fellowlike.
Fellowship Dictionary F - noun The state or relation of being or associate.
Fellowshiped Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fellowship.
Fellowshiping Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fellowship.
Felly Dictionary F - adverb In a fell or cruel manner; fiercely; barbarously; savagely.
Fellies Dictionary F - pleural of Felly.
Felos-de-se Dictionary F - pleural of Felo-de-se.
Felo-de-se Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - adjective A person who has committed a felony.
Felonious Dictionary F - adjective 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 Dictionary F - adjective Wicked; felonious.
Felonry Dictionary F - noun A body of felons; specifically, the convict population of a penal colony.
Felonwort Dictionary F - noun The bittersweet nightshade (Solanum Dulcamara). See Bittersweet.
Felonies Dictionary F - pleural of Felony.
Felony Dictionary F - noun An act on the part of the vassal which cost him his fee by forfeiture.
To compound a felony Dictionary F - See under Compound, v. t.
Felsite Dictionary F - noun A finegrained rock, flintlike in fracture, consisting essentially of orthoclase feldspar with occasional grains of quartz.
Felsitic Dictionary F - adjective relating to, composed of, or containing, felsite.
Felspar Dictionary F - noun Alt. of Felspath.
Felspath Dictionary F - noun See Feldspar.
Felspathic Dictionary F - adjective See Feldspathic.
Felstone Dictionary F - noun See Felsite.
Felted Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Felt.
Felting Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Felt.
Felter Dictionary F - verb transitive To clot or mat together like felt.
Feltry Dictionary F - noun See Felt, n.
Felucca Dictionary F - noun A small, swift-sailing vessel, propelled by oars and lateen sails, - once common in the Mediterranean.
Felwort Dictionary F - noun A European herb (Swertia perennis) of the Gentian family.
Female Dictionary F - noun An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or (in a wider sense) which has an ovary and produces ova.
Female rhymes Dictionary F - 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 Dictionary F - a common species of fern with large decompound fronds (Asplenium Filixfaemina), growing in many countries; lady fern.
Femalist Dictionary F - noun A gallant.
Femalize Dictionary F - verb transitive To make, or to describe as, female or feminine.
Feme Dictionary F - noun A woman.
Femeral Dictionary F - noun See Femerell.
Femerell Dictionary F - noun A lantern, or louver covering, placed on a roof, for ventilation or escape of smoke.
Feminal Dictionary F - adjective Feminine.
Feminality Dictionary F - noun Feminity.
Feminate Dictionary F - adjective Feminine.
Femineity Dictionary F - noun Womanliness; femininity.
Feminine Dictionary F - adjective Of or pertaining to a woman, or to women; characteristic of a woman; womanish; womanly.
Feminine rhyme Dictionary F - See Female rhyme, under Female, a.
Femininely Dictionary F - adverb In a feminine manner.
Feminineness Dictionary F - noun The quality of being feminine; womanliness; womanishness.
Femininity Dictionary F - noun The quality or nature of the female sex; womanliness.
Feminity Dictionary F - noun Womanliness; femininity.
Feminization Dictionary F - noun The act of feminizing, or the state of being feminized.
Feminize Dictionary F - verb transitive To make womanish or effeminate.
Feminye Dictionary F - noun The people called Amazons.
Femme Dictionary F - noun A woman. See Feme, n.
Femoral Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to the femur or thigh; as, the femoral artery.
Femora Dictionary F - pleural of Femur.
Femur Dictionary F - noun The thigh bone.
Fen Dictionary F - noun Low land overflowed, or covered wholly or partially with water, but producing sedge, coarse grasses, or other aquatic plants; boggy land; moor; marsh.
Fence Dictionary F - noun That which fends off attack or danger; a defense; a protection; a cover; security; shield.
Fencing Dictionary F - imperative &past particle & verb noun of Fence.
Fenceful Dictionary F - adjective Affording defense; defensive.
Fenceless Dictionary F - adjective Without a fence; uninclosed; open; unguarded; defenseless.
Fencer Dictionary F - noun One who fences; one who teaches or practices the art of fencing with sword or foil.
Fenci-ble Dictionary F - adjective Capable of being defended, or of making or affording defense.
Fencible Dictionary F - noun A soldier enlisted for home service only; - usually in the pl.
Fen cricket Dictionary F - The mole cricket.
Fend Dictionary F - noun A fiend.
Fended Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fend.
Fending Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fend.
Fender Dictionary F - verb transitive & intransitive One who or that which defends or protects by warding off harm.
Fendliche Dictionary F - adjective Fiendlike.
Fenerate Dictionary F - intransitive verb To put money to usury; to lend on interest.
Feneration Dictionary F - noun The act of fenerating; interest.
Fenes-tella Dictionary F - noun Any small windowlike opening or recess, esp. one to show the relics within an altar, or the like.
Fenestrae Dictionary F - pleural of Fenestra.
Fenestra Dictionary F - noun A small opening; esp., one of the apertures, closed by membranes, between the tympanum and internal ear.
Fenestral Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to a window or to windows.
Fenestrate Dictionary F - adjective Having numerous openings; irregularly reticulated; as, fenestrate membranes; fenestrate fronds.
Fenestrated Dictionary F - adjective Having windows; characterized by windows.
Fenestration Dictionary F - noun 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.
Fenestrule Dictionary F - noun One of the openings in a fenestrated structure.
Fengite Dictionary F - noun A kind of marble or alabaster, sometimes used for windows on account of its transparency.
Fenian Dictionary F - noun A member of a secret organization, consisting mainly of Irishment, having for its aim the overthrow of English rule in ireland.
Fenianism Dictionary F - noun The principles, purposes, and methods of the Fenians.
Fenks Dictionary F - noun The refuse whale blubber, used as a manure, and in the manufacture of Prussian blue.
Fennec Dictionary F - noun A small, African, foxlike animal (Vulpes zerda) of a pale fawn color, remarkable for the large size of its ears.
Fennel Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - adjective Abounding in fens; fenny.
Fenny Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to, or inhabiting, a fen; abounding in fens; swampy; boggy.
Fenowed Dictionary F - adjective Corrupted; decayed; moldy. See Vinnewed.
Fensi-ble Dictionary F - adjective Fencible.
Fen-sucked Dictionary F - adjective Sucked out of marches.
Fenugreek Dictionary F - noun A plant (trigonella Foenum Graecum) cultivated for its strong-smelling seeds, which are.
Feod Dictionary F - noun A feud. See 2d Feud.
Feodal Dictionary F - adjective Feudal. See Feudal.
Feodality Dictionary F - noun Feudal tenure; the feudal system. See Feudality.
Feodary Dictionary F - noun An accomplice.
Feodatory Dictionary F - noun See Feudatory.
Feoffed Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Feoff.
Feoffing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Feoff.
Feoff Dictionary F - verb transitive To invest with a fee or feud; to give or grant a corporeal hereditament to; to enfeoff.
Feoffee Dictionary F - noun The person to whom a feoffment is made; the person enfeoffed.
Feoffment Dictionary F - noun The grant of a feud or fee.
Feofor Dictionary F - noun Alt. of Feoffer.
Feoffer Dictionary F - noun One who enfeoffs or grants a fee.
Fer Dictionary F - adjective & adverb Far.
Feracious Dictionary F - adjective Fruitful; producing abundantly.
Feracity Dictionary F - noun The state of being feracious or fruitful.
Ferae Dictionary F - noun plural A group of mammals which formerly included the Carnivora, Insectivora, Marsupialia, and lemurs, but is now often restricted to the Carnivora.
Ferae naturae Dictionary F - Of a wild nature; - applied to animals, as foxes, wild ducks, etc., in which no one can claim property.
Feral Dictionary F - adjective Wild; untamed; ferine; not domesticated; - said of beasts, birds, and plants.
Ferde Dictionary F - imp. of Fare.
Fer-de-lance Dictionary F - noun A large, venomous serpent (Trigonocephalus lanceolatus) of Brazil and the West Indies. It is allied to the rattlesnake, but has no rattle.
Ferding Dictionary F - noun A measure of land mentioned in Domesday Book. It is supposed to have consisted of a few acres only.
Ferdness Dictionary F - noun Fearfulness.
Fere Dictionary F - noun A mate or companion; - often used of a wife.
Feretory Dictionary F - noun A portable bier or shrine, variously adorned, used for containing relics of saints.
Ferforth Dictionary F - adverb Far forth.
Ferforthly Dictionary F - adverb Ferforth.
Fergusonite Dictionary F - noun A mineral of a brownish black color, essentially a tantalo-niobate of yttrium, erbium, and cerium; - so called after Robert Ferguson.
Feriae Dictionary F - pleural of Feria.
Feria Dictionary F - noun A week day, esp. a day which is neither a festival nor a fast.
Ferial Dictionary F - noun Same as Feria.
Feriation Dictionary F - noun The act of keeping holiday; cessation from work.
Ferie Dictionary F - noun A holiday.
Ferier Dictionary F - adjective compar. of Fere, fierce.
Ferine Dictionary F - adjective Wild; untamed; savage; as, lions, tigers, wolves, and bears are ferine beasts.
Feringee Dictionary F - noun The name given to Europeans by the Hindos.
Ferity Dictionary F - noun Wildness; savageness; fierceness.
Ferly Dictionary F - noun Singular; wonderful; extraordinary.
Fermacy Dictionary F - noun Medicine; pharmacy.
Ferm Dictionary F - noun Alt. of Ferme.
Ferme Dictionary F - noun Rent for a farm; a farm; also, an abode; a place of residence; as, he let his land to ferm.
Ferment Dictionary F - noun That which causes fermentation, as yeast, barm, or fermenting beer.
Fermented Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Ferment.
Fermenting Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Ferment.
Fermentability Dictionary F - noun Capability of fermentation.
Fermentable Dictionary F - adjective Capable of fermentation; as, cider and other vegetable liquors are fermentable.
Fermental Dictionary F - adjective Fermentative.
Fermentation Dictionary F - noun 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.
Fermentative Dictionary F - adjective Causing, or having power to cause, fermentation; produced by fermentation; fermenting; as, a fermentative process.
Fermerere Dictionary F - noun The officer in a religious house who had the care of the infirmary.
Fermillet Dictionary F - noun A buckle or clasp.
Fern Dictionary F - adverb Long ago.
Fernery Dictionary F - noun A place for rearing ferns.
Fernticle Dictionary F - noun A freckle on the skin, resembling the seed of fern.
Ferny Dictionary F - adjective Abounding in ferns.
Ferocious Dictionary F - adjective Fierce; savage; wild; indicating cruelty; ravenous; rapacious; as, ferocious look or features; a ferocious lion.
Ferocity Dictionary F - noun Savage wildness or fierceness; fury; cruelty; as, ferocity of countenance.
Feroher Dictionary F - noun A symbol of the solar deity, found on monuments exhumed in Babylon, Nineveh, etc.
Ferous Dictionary F - adjective Wild; savage.
-ferous Dictionary F - A suffix signifying bearing, producing, yielding; as, auriferous, yielding gold; chyliferous, producing chyle.
Ferrandine Dictionary F - noun A stuff made of silk and wool.
Ferrara Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to Ferrara, in Italy.
Ferrary Dictionary F - noun The art of working in iron.
Ferrate Dictionary F - noun A salt of ferric acid.
Ferre Dictionary F - adjective & adverb Alt. of Ferrer.
Ferrer Dictionary F - adjective & adverb compar. of Fer.
Ferreous Dictionary F - adjective Partaking of, made of, or pertaining to, iron; like iron.
Ferrest Dictionary F - adjective & adverb superl. of Fer.
Ferret Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Ferret.
Ferreting Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Ferret.
Ferreter Dictionary F - noun One who ferrets.
Ferret-eye Dictionary F - noun The spur-winged goose; - so called from the red circle around the eyes.
Ferretto Dictionary F - noun Copper sulphide, used to color glass.
Ferri- Dictionary F - A combining form indicating ferric iron as an ingredient; as, ferricyanide.
Ferriage Dictionary F - noun The price or fare to be paid for passage at a ferry.
Ferric Dictionary F - adjective 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 Dictionary F - noun A salt of ferricyanic acid; a ferricyanide.
Ferricyanic Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, a ferricyanide.
Ferricyanide Dictionary F - noun One of a complex series of double cyanides of ferric iron and some other base.
Ferrier Dictionary F - noun A ferryman.
Ferriferous Dictionary F - adjective Producing or yielding iron.
Ferriprussiate Dictionary F - noun A ferricyanate; a ferricyanide.
Ferriprussic Dictionary F - adjective Ferricyanic.
Ferro- Dictionary F - A prefix, or combining form, indicating ferrous iron as an ingredient; as, ferrocyanide.
Ferrocalcite Dictionary F - noun Limestone containing a large percentage of iron carbonate, and hence turning brown on exposure.
Ferrocyanate Dictionary F - noun A salt of ferrocyanic acid; a ferrocyanide.
Ferrocyanic Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, a ferrocyanide.
Ferrocyanide Dictionary F - noun One of a series of complex double cyanides of ferrous iron and some other base.
Ferroprussiate Dictionary F - noun A ferrocyanate; a ferocyanide.
Ferroprussic Dictionary F - adjective Ferrocyanic.
Ferroso- Dictionary F - See Ferro-.
Ferrotype Dictionary F - noun A photographic picture taken on an iron plate by a collodion process; - familiarly called tintype.
Ferrous Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, iron; - especially used of compounds of iron in which the iron has its lower valence; as, ferrous sulphate.
Ferruginated Dictionary F - adjective Having the color or properties of the rust of iron.
Ferrugineous Dictionary F - adjective Ferruginous.
Ferruginous Dictionary F - adjective Partaking of iron; containing particles of iron.
Ferrugo Dictionary F - noun A disease of plants caused by fungi, commonly called the rust, from its resemblance to iron rust in color.
Ferrule Dictionary F - noun A ring or cap of metal put round a cane, tool, handle, or other similar object, to strengthen it, or prevent splitting and wearing.
Ferruminate Dictionary F - verb transitive To solder or unite, as metals.
Ferrumination Dictionary F - noun The soldering ir uniting of me/ als.
Ferried Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Ferry.
Ferrying Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Ferry.
Ferry Dictionary F - verb transitive To carry or transport over a river, strait, or other narrow water, in a boat.
Ferries Dictionary F - pleural of Ferry.
Ferryboat Dictionary F - noun A vessel for conveying passengers, merchandise, etc., across streams and other narrow waters.
Ferrymen Dictionary F - pleural of Ferryman.
Ferryman Dictionary F - noun One who maintains or attends a ferry.
Fers Dictionary F - adjective Fierce.
Ferthe Dictionary F - adjective Fourth.
Fertile Dictionary F - adjective 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.
Fertilely Dictionary F - adverb In a fertile or fruitful manner.
fertileness Dictionary F - noun Fertility.
Fertilitate Dictionary F - verb transitive To fertilize; to fecundate.
Fertility Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - noun The act or process of rendering fertile.
Fertilized Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fertilize.
Fertilizing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fertilize.
Fertilize Dictionary F - verb transitive To make fertile or enrich; to supply with nourishment for plants; to make fruitful or productive; as, to fertilize land, soil, ground, and meadows.
Fertilizer Dictionary F - noun One who fertilizes; the agent that carries the fertilizing principle, as a moth to an orchid.
Ferula Dictionary F - noun A ferule.
Ferulaceous Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to reeds and canes; having a stalk like a reed; as, ferulaceous plants.
Ferular Dictionary F - noun A ferule.
Ferule Dictionary F - noun A flat piece of wood, used for striking, children, esp. on the hand, in punishment.
Feruled Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Ferule.
Feruling Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Ferule.
Ferulic Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, asafetida (Ferula asafoetida); as, ferulic acid.
Fervence Dictionary F - noun Heat; fervency.
Fervency Dictionary F - noun The state of being fervent or warm; ardor; warmth of feeling or devotion; eagerness.
Fervent Dictionary F - adjective Hot; glowing; boiling; burning; as, a fervent summer.
Fervescent Dictionary F - adjective Growing hot.
Fervid Dictionary F - adjective Very hot; burning; boiling.
Fervor Dictionary F - noun Heat; excessive warmth.
Fescennine Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to, or resembling, the Fescennines.
Fescue Dictionary F - noun A straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read.
Fescued Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fescue.
Fescuing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fescue.
Fesels Dictionary F - noun plural See Phasel.
Fess Dictionary F - noun Alt. of Fesse.
Fesse Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - noun Weariness.
Fesswise Dictionary F - adverb In the manner of fess.
Fest Dictionary F - noun The fist.
Feste Dictionary F - noun A feast.
Festal Dictionary F - adjective Of or pertaining to a holiday or a feast; joyous; festive.
Festally Dictionary F - adverb Joyously; festively; mirthfully.
Festennine Dictionary F - noun A fescennine.
Festered Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fester.
Festering Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fester.
Fester Dictionary F - noun To generate pus; to become imflamed and suppurate; as, a sore or a wound festers.
Festerment Dictionary F - noun A festering.
Festeye Dictionary F - verb transitive To feast; to entertain.
Festinate Dictionary F - adjective Hasty; hurried.
Festination Dictionary F - noun Haste; hurry.
Festival Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to a fest; festive; festal; appropriate to a festival; joyous; mirthful.
Festi-val Dictionary F - noun A time of feasting or celebration; an anniversary day of joy, civil or religious.
Festive Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to, or becoming, a feast; festal; joyous; gay; mirthful; sportive.
Festivities Dictionary F - pleural of Festivity.
Festivity Dictionary F - noun The condition of being festive; social joy or exhilaration of spirits at an entertaintment; joyfulness; gayety.
Festivous Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to a feast; festive.
Festlich Dictionary F - noun Festive; fond of festive occasions.
Festoon Dictionary F - noun A garland or wreath hanging in a depending curve, used in decoration for festivals, etc.; anything arranged in this way.
Festooned Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Festoon.
Festooning Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Festoon.
Festoony Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling, festoons.
Festucine Dictionary F - adjective Of a straw color; greenish yellow.
Festucous Dictionary F - adjective Formed or consisting of straw.
Festue Dictionary F - noun A straw; a fescue.
Fet Dictionary F - noun A piece.
Fetal Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to, or connected with, a fetus; as, fetal circulation; fetal membranes.
Fetation Dictionary F - noun The formation of a fetus in the womb; pregnancy.
Fetched Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fetch.
Fetching Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fetch.
Fetch Dictionary F - verb transitive 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.
Fethcer Dictionary F - noun One wo fetches or brings.
Fete Dictionary F - noun A feat.
Feted Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fete.
Feting Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fete.
Fetich Dictionary F - noun Alt. of Fetish.
Fetish Dictionary F - noun 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.
fetichism Dictionary F - noun Alt. of Fetishism.
Fetishism Dictionary F - noun The doctrine or practice of belief in fetiches.
Fetichist Dictionary F - noun Alt. of Fetishist.
Fetishist Dictionary F - noun A believer in fetiches.
Fetichistic Dictionary F - adjective Alt. of Fetishistic.
Fetishistic Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to, or involving, fetichism.
Feticide Dictionary F - noun The act of killing the fetus in the womb; the offense of procuring an abortion.
Feticism Dictionary F - noun See Fetichism.
Fetid Dictionary F - adjective Having an offensive smell; stinking.
Fetidity Dictionary F - noun Fetidness.
Fetidness Dictionary F - noun The quality or state of being fetid.
Fetiferous Dictionary F - adjective Producing young, as animals.
Fetis Dictionary F - adjective Neat; pretty; well made; graceful.
Fetisely Dictionary F - adverb Neatly; gracefully; properly.
Fetlock Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - noun A strong, offensive smell; stench; fetidness.
Fette Dictionary F - imperative of Fette.
fetters Dictionary F - pleural of Fetter.
Fetter Dictionary F - noun 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.
Fettered Dictionary F - adjective Seeming as if fettered, as the feet of certain animals which bend backward, and appear unfit for walking.
Fetterer Dictionary F - noun One who fetters.
Fetterless Dictionary F - adjective Free from fetters.
Fettle Dictionary F - adjective To repair; to prepare; to put in order.
Fettling Dictionary F - noun A mixture of ore, cinders, etc., used to line the hearth of a puddling furnace.
Fetuous Dictionary F - adjective Neat; feat.
Fetuses Dictionary F - pleural of Fetus.
Fetus Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - noun A written decision of a Turkish mufti on some point of law.
Feu Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - noun One who holds a feu.
Feud Dictionary F - noun A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race.
Feudal Dictionary F - adjective Of or pertaining to feuds, fiefs, or feels; as, feudal rights or services; feudal tenures.
Feudalism Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - noun An upholder of feudalism.
Feudality Dictionary F - noun The state or quality of being feudal; feudal form or constitution.
Fedaliza/tion Dictionary F - noun The act of reducing to feudal tenure.
Feudalized Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Feudalize.
Feudalizing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Feudalize.
Feudalize Dictionary F - verb transitive To reduce toa feudal tenure; to conform to feudalism.
Feudally Dictionary F - adverb In a feudal manner.
Feudary Dictionary F - adjective Held by, or pertaining to, feudal tenure.
Feudataty Dictionary F - adjective & noun See Feudatory.
Feudatories Dictionary F - pleural of Feudatory.
Feudatory Dictionary F - noun A tenant or vassal who held his lands of a superior on condition of feudal service; the tenant of a feud or fief.
Feudtory Dictionary F - adjective Held from another on some conditional tenure; as, a feudatory title.
Feu de joie Dictionary F - A fire kindled in a public place in token of joy; a bonfire; a firing of guns in token of joy.
Feudist Dictionary F - noun A writer on feuds; a person versed in feudal law.
Feuillants Dictionary F - noun plural A reformed branch of the Bernardines, founded in 1577 at Feuillans, near Toulouse, in France.
Feuillemort Dictionary F - adjective Having the color of a faded leaf.
Feuilleton Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - noun A writer of feuilletons.
feuter Dictionary F - verb transitive To set close; to fix in rest, as a spear.
Feuterer Dictionary F - noun A dog keeper.
Fever Dictionary F - noun 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.
Fevered Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fever.
Fevering Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fever.
Feveret Dictionary F - noun A slight fever.
Feverfew Dictionary F - noun A perennial plant (Pyrethrum, / Chrysanthemum, Parthenium) allied to camomile, having finely divided leaves and white blossoms; - so named from its supposed febrifugal qualities.
Feverish Dictionary F - adjective Having a fever; suffering from, or affected with, a moderate degree of fever; showing increased heat and thirst; as, the patient is feverish.
Feverous Dictionary F - adjective Affected with fever or ague; feverish.
Feverously Dictionary F - adverb Feverishly.
Feverwort Dictionary F - noun See Fever root, under Fever.
Fevery Dictionary F - adjective Feverish.
Few Dictionary F - superlative 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 Dictionary F - noun Fuel.
Fewmet Dictionary F - noun See Fumet.
Fewness Dictionary F - noun The state of being few; smallness of number; paucity.
Fey Dictionary F - adjective Fated; doomed.
Feyne Dictionary F - verb transitive To feign.
Feyre Dictionary F - noun A fair or market.
Fez Dictionary F - noun A felt or cloth cap, usually red and having a tassel, - a variety of the tarboosh. See Tarboosh.
Fiacre Dictionary F - noun A kind of French hackney coach.
Fiance Dictionary F - verb transitive To betroth; to affiance.
Fiancee Dictionary F - noun A betrothed woman.
Fiants Dictionary F - noun The dung of the fox, wolf, boar, or badger.
Fiar Dictionary F - noun One in whom the property of an estate is vested, subject to the estate of a life renter.
Fiascoes Dictionary F - pleural of Fiasco.
Fiasco Dictionary F - noun A complete or ridiculous failure, esp. of a musical performance, or of any pretentious undertaking.
Fiat Dictionary F - noun An authoritative command or order to do something; an effectual decree.
Fiaunt Dictionary F - noun Commission; fiat; order; decree.
Fib Dictionary F - noun A falsehood; a lie; - used euphemistically.
Fibbed Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fib.
Fibbing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fib.
Fibber Dictionary F - noun One who tells fibs.
Fiber Dictionary F - noun Alt. of Fibre.
Fibre Dictionary F - noun 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.
Fibered Dictionary F - adjective Alt. of Fibred.
Fibred Dictionary F - adjective Having fibers; made up of fibers.
Fiber-faced Dictionary F - adjective Alt. of Fibre-faced.
Fibre-faced Dictionary F - adjective Having a visible fiber embodied in the surface of; - applied esp. to a kind of paper for checks, drafts, etc.
Fiberless Dictionary F - adjective Alt. of Fibreless.
Fibreless Dictionary F - adjective Having no fibers; destitute of fibers or fiber.
Fibriform Dictionary F - adjective Having the form of a fiber or fibers; resembling a fiber.
Fibril Dictionary F - noun A small fiber; the branch of a fiber; a very slender thread; a fibrilla.
FibrillAe Dictionary F - pleural of Fibrilla.
Fibrilla Dictionary F - noun A minute thread of fiber, as one of the fibrous elements of a muscular fiber; a fibril.
Fibrillar Dictionary F - adjective Of or pertaining to fibrils or fibers; as, fibrillar twitchings.
Fibrillary Dictionary F - adjective Of of pertaining to fibrils.
Fibrillated Dictionary F - adjective Furnished with fibrils; fringed.
Fibrillation Dictionary F - noun The state of being reduced to fibers.
Fibrillose Dictionary F - adjective Covered with hairlike appendages, as the under surface of some lichens; also, composed of little strings or fibers; as, fibrillose appendages.
Fibrillous Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to, or composed of, fibers.
Fibrin Dictionary F - noun 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.
Fibrination Dictionary F - noun The state of acquiring or having an excess of fibrin.
Fibrine Dictionary F - adjective Belonging to the fibers of plants.
Fibrinogen Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - adjective Possessed of properties similar to fibrinogen; capable of forming fibrin.
Fibrinoplastic Dictionary F - adjective Like fibrinoplastin; capable of forming fibrin when brought in contact with fibrinogen.
Fibrinoplastin Dictionary F - noun An albuminous substance, existing in the blood, which in combination with fibrinogen forms fibrin; - called also paraglobulin.
Fibrinous Dictionary F - adjective Having, or partaking of the properties of, fibrin; as, fibrious exudation.
Fibrocartilage Dictionary F - noun A kind of cartilage with a fibrous matrix and approaching fibrous connective tissue in structure.
Fibrochondrosteal Dictionary F - adjective Partly fibrous, partly cartilaginous, and partly osseous.
Fibroid Dictionary F - adjective Resembling or forming fibrous tissue; made up of fibers; as, fibroid tumors.
Fibroin Dictionary F - noun A variety of gelatin; the chief ingredient of raw silk, extracted as a white amorphous mass.
Fibrolite Dictionary F - noun A silicate of alumina, of fibrous or columnar structure. It is like andalusite in composition; - called also sillimanite, and bucholizite.
Fibroma Dictionary F - noun A tumor consisting mainly of fibrous tissue, or of same modification of such tissue.
Fibrospongiae Dictionary F - noun plural An order of sponges having a fibrous skeleton, including the commercial sponges.
Fibrous Dictionary F - adjective Containing, or consisting of, fibers; as, the fibrous coat of the cocoanut; the fibrous roots of grasses.
Fibrovascular Dictionary F - adjective Containing woody fiber and ducts, as the stems of all flowering plants and ferns; - opposed to cellular.
Fibster Dictionary F - noun One who tells fibs.
FibulAe Dictionary F - pleural of Fibula.
Fibula Dictionary F - noun A brooch, clasp, or buckle.
Fibu-lar Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to the fibula.
Fibularia Dictionary F - pleural of Fibulare.
Fibulare Dictionary F - noun The bone or cartilage of the tarsus, which articulates with the fibula, and corresponds to the calcaneum in man and most mammals.
Fice Dictionary F - noun A small dog; - written also fise, fyce, fiste, etc.
Fiche Dictionary F - adjective See FitchE.
Ficttelite Dictionary F - noun A white crystallized mineral resin from the Fichtelgebirge, Bavaria.
Fichu Dictionary F - noun A light cape, usually of lace, worn by women, to cover the neck and throat, and extending to the shoulders.
Fickle Dictionary F - adjective 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 Dictionary F - noun The quality of being fickle; instability; inconsonancy.
Fickly Dictionary F - adverb In a fickle manner.
Ficoes Dictionary F - pleural of Fico.
Fico Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - adjective Molded, or capable of being molded, into form by art; relating to pottery or to molding in any soft material.
Fiction Dictionary F - noun The act of feigning, inventing, or imagining; as, by a mere fiction of the mind.
Fictional Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to, or characterized by, fiction; fictitious; romantic.
Fictionist Dictionary F - noun A writer of fiction.
Fictious Dictionary F - adjective Fictitious.
Fictitious Dictionary F - adjective Feigned; imaginary; not real; fabulous; counterfeit; false; not genuine; as, fictitious fame.
Fictive Dictionary F - adjective Feigned; counterfeit.
Fictor Dictionary F - noun An artist who models or forms statues and reliefs in any plastic material.
Ficus Dictionary F - noun A genus of trees or shrubs, one species of which (F. Carica) produces the figs of commerce; the fig tree.
Fid Dictionary F - noun 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.
Fidalgo Dictionary F - noun The lowest title of nobility in Portugal, corresponding to that of Hidalgo in Spain.
Fiddle Dictionary F - noun A stringed instrument of music played with a bow; a violin; a kit.
Fiddled Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fiddle.
Fiddling Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fiddle.
Fiddledeedee Dictionary F - interjection An exclamatory word or phrase, equivalent to nonsense!.
Foddle-faddle Dictionary F - noun A trifle; trifling talk; nonsense.
Fiddle-faddle Dictionary F - intransitive verb To talk nonsense.
Fiddler Dictionary F - noun One who plays on a fiddle or violin.
Fiddle-shaped Dictionary F - adjective Inversely ovate, with a deep hollow on each side.
Fiddlestick Dictionary F - noun The bow, strung with horsehair, used in playing the fiddle; a fiddle bow.
Fiddlestring Dictionary F - noun One of the catgut strings of a fiddle.
Fiddlewood Dictionary F - noun The wood of several West Indian trees, mostly of the genus Citharexylum.
Fidejussion Dictionary F - noun The act or state of being bound as surety for another; suretyship.
Fidejussor Dictionary F - noun A surety; one bound for another, conjointly with him; a guarantor.
Fidelity Dictionary F - noun Faithfulness; adherence to right; careful and exact observance of duty, or discharge of obligations.
Fides Dictionary F - noun Faith personified as a goddess; the goddess of faith.
Fidge Dictionary F - noun & intransitive See Fidget.
Fidgeted Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fidget.
Fodgeting Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fidget.
Fidget Dictionary F - intransitive verb To move uneasily one way and the other; to move irregularly, or by fits and starts.
Fidgetiness Dictionary F - noun Quality of being fidgety.
Fidgety Dictionary F - adjective Restless; uneasy.
Fidia Dictionary F - noun A genus of small beetles, of which one species (the grapevine Fidia, F. longipes) is very injurious to vines in America.
Fidicinal Dictionary F - adjective Of or pertaining to a stringed instrument.
Fiducial Dictionary F - adjective Having faith or trust; confident; undoubting; firm.
Fiducially Dictionary F - adverb With confidence.
Fidiciary Dictionary F - adjective Involving confidence or trust; confident; undoubting; faithful; firm; as, in a fiduciary capacity.
Fiduciary Dictionary F - noun One who holds a thing in trust for another; a trustee.
Fie Dictionary F - interjection An exclamation denoting contempt or dislike. See Fy.
Fief Dictionary F - noun An estate held of a superior on condition of military service; a fee; a feud. See under Benefice, n., 2.
Field Dictionary F - noun Cleared land; land suitable for tillage or pasture; cultivated ground; the open country.
Fielded Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Field.
Fielding Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Field.
Fielden Dictionary F - adjective Consisting of fields.
Fielder Dictionary F - noun A ball payer who stands out in the field to catch or stop balls.
Fieldfare Dictionary F - noun 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.
Fieldpiece Dictionary F - noun A cannon mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army; a piece of field artillery; - called also field gun.
Fieldwork Dictionary F - noun Any temporary fortification thrown up by an army in the field; - commonly in the plural.
Fieldy Dictionary F - adjective Open, like a field.
Fiend Dictionary F - noun An implacable or malicious foe; one who is diabolically wicked or cruel; an infernal being; - applied specifically to the devil or a demon.
Fiendful Dictionary F - adjective Full of fiendish spirit or arts.
Fiendish Dictionary F - adjective Like a fiend; diabolically wicked or cruel; infernal; malignant; devilish; hellish.
Fiendlike Dictionary F - adjective Fiendish; diabolical.
Fiendly Dictionary F - adjective Fiendlike; monstrous; devilish.
Fierasfer Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - superlative Furious; violent; unrestrained; impetuous; as, a fierce wind.
Fieri facias Dictionary F - 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 Dictionary F - noun The quality of being fiery; heat; acrimony; irritability; as, a fieriness of temper.
Fiery Dictionary F - adjective Consisting of, containing, or resembling, fire; as, the fiery gulf of Etna; a fiery appearance.
Fife Dictionary F - noun A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music.
Fifed Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fife.
fifing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fife.
Fifer Dictionary F - noun One who plays on a fife.
Fifteen Dictionary F - adjective Five and ten; one more than fourteen.
Fifteenth Dictionary F - adjective Next in order after the fourteenth; - the ordinal of fifteen.
Fifth Dictionary F - adjective Next in order after the fourth; - the ordinal of five.
Fifthly Dictionary F - adverb In the fifth place; as the fifth in order.
Fiftieth Dictionary F - adjective Next in order after the forty-ninth; - the ordinal of fifty.
Fifty Dictionary F - adjective Five times ten; as, fifty men.
Fifties Dictionary F - pleural of Fifty.
Fig Dictionary F - noun 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.
Figaro Dictionary F - noun An adroit and unscrupulous intriguer.
Figary Dictionary F - noun A frolic; a vagary; a whim.
Figeater Dictionary F - noun A large beetle (Allorhina nitida) which in the Southern United States destroys figs. The elytra are velvety green with pale borders.
Figent Dictionary F - adjective Fidgety; restless.
Figgum Dictionary F - noun A juggler's trick; conjuring.
Fought Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fight.
Fighting Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fight.
Fight Dictionary F - intransitive verb 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.
Fighter Dictionary F - noun One who fights; a combatant; a warrior.
Fightingly Dictionary F - adverb Pugnaciously.
Fightwite Dictionary F - noun A mulct or fine imposed on a person for making a fight or quarrel to the disturbance of the peace.
Figment Dictionary F - noun An invention; a fiction; something feigned or imagined.
Pigpecker Dictionary F - noun The European garden warbler (Sylvia, / Currica, hortensis); - called also beccafico and greater pettychaps.
Fig-shell Dictionary F - noun A marine univalve shell of the genus Pyrula, or Ficula, resembling a fig in form.
Figulate Dictionary F - adjective Alt. of Figulated.
Figulated Dictionary F - adjective Made of potter's clay; molded; shaped.
Figuline Dictionary F - noun A piece of pottery ornamented with representations of natural objects.
Figurability Dictionary F - noun The quality of being figurable.
Figurable Dictionary F - adjective Capable of being brought to a fixed form or shape.
Figural Dictionary F - adjective Represented by figure or delineation; consisting of figures; as, figural ornaments.
Figurant Dictionary F - noun masculine 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 Dictionary F - noun feminine A female figurant; esp., a ballet girl.
Figurate Dictionary F - adjective Of a definite form or figure.
Figurated Dictionary F - adjective Having a determinate form.
Figurately Dictionary F - adverb In a figurate manner.
Figuration Dictionary F - noun The act of giving figure or determinate form; determination to a certain form.
Figurative Dictionary F - adjective Representing by a figure, or by resemblance; typical; representative.
Figure Dictionary F - noun The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance.
Figured Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Figure.
Figuring Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Figure.
Figurehead Dictionary F - noun The figure, statue, or bust, on the prow of a ship.
Figurial Dictionary F - adjective Represented by figure or delineation.
Figurine Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - noun One who uses or interprets figurative expressions.
Figwort Dictionary F - noun A genus of herbaceous plants (Scrophularia), mostly found in the north temperate zones. See Brownwort.
Fijian Dictionary F - adjective Of or pertaining to the Fiji islands or their inhabitants.
Fike Dictionary F - noun See Fyke.
Fil Dictionary F - imp. of Fall, v. i. Fell.
Filaceous Dictionary F - adjective Composed of threads.
Filacer Dictionary F - noun A former officer in the English Court of Common Pleas; - so called because he filed the writs on which he made out process.
Filament Dictionary F - noun A thread or threadlike object or appendage; a fiber; esp. (Bot.), the threadlike part of the stamen supporting the anther.
Filamentary Dictionary F - adjective Having the character of, or formed by, a filament.
Filametoid Dictionary F - adjective Like a filament.
Filamentous Dictionary F - adjective Like a thread; consisting of threads or filaments.
Filander Dictionary F - noun A species of kangaroo (Macropus Brunii), inhabiting New Guinea.
Filanders Dictionary F - noun plural 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 Dictionary F - adjective 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 Dictionary F - noun A genus of slender, nematode worms of many species, parasitic in various animals. See Guinea worm.
Filatory Dictionary F - noun A machine for forming threads.
Filature Dictionary F - noun A drawing out into threads; hence, the reeling of silk from cocoons.
Filbert Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Filch.
Filching Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Filch.
Filch Dictionary F - verb transitive To steal or take privily (commonly, that which is of little value); to pilfer.
Filcher Dictionary F - noun One who filches; a thief.
Filchingly Dictionary F - adverb By pilfering or petty stealing.
File Dictionary F - noun An orderly succession; a line; a row.
Filed Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of File.
Filing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of File.
Filefish Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - noun See Feullemort.
Filer Dictionary F - noun One who works with a file.
Filial Dictionary F - adjective Of or pertaining to a son or daughter; becoming to a child in relation to his parents; as, filial obedience.
Filially Dictionary F - adverb In a filial manner.
Filiate Dictionary F - verb transitive To adopt as son or daughter; to establish filiation between.
Filiation Dictionary F - noun The relationship of a son or child to a parent, esp. to a father.
Filibeg Dictionary F - noun Same as Kilt.
Filibuster Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Filibuster.
Filibustering Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Filibuster.
Filibusterism Dictionary F - noun The characteristics or practices of a filibuster.
Filical Dictionary F - adjective Belonging to the Filices, r ferns.
Filicic Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, ferns; as, filicic acid.
Filicide Dictionary F - noun The act of murdering a son or a daughter; also, parent who commits such a murder.
Filiciform Dictionary F - adjective Shaped like a fern or like the parts of a fern leaf.
Filicoid Dictionary F - adjective Fernlike, either in form or in the nature of the method of reproduction.
Filiety Dictionary F - noun The relation of a son to a father; sonship; - the correlative of paternity.
Filiferous Dictionary F - adjective Producing threads.
Filiform Dictionary F - adjective 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 Dictionary F - noun Alt. of Filigrane.
Filigrane Dictionary F - noun Filigree.
Filigraned Dictionary F - adjective See Filigreed.
Filigree Dictionary F - noun 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.
Filigreed Dictionary F - adjective Adorned with filigree.
Filipendulous Dictionary F - adjective Suspended by, or strung upon, a thread; - said of tuberous swellings in the middle or at the extremities of slender, threadlike rootlets.
Fill Dictionary F - noun One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.
Filled Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fill.
Filling Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fill.
Filler Dictionary F - noun One who, or that which, fills; something used for filling.
Fillet Dictionary F - noun A little band, especially one intended to encircle the hair of the head.
Filleted Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fillet.
Filleting Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fillet.
Fillibeg Dictionary F - noun A kilt. See Filibeg.
Fillibuster Dictionary F - noun See Filibuster.
Filliped Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fillip.
Filliping Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fillip.
Fillip Dictionary F - verb transitive 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.
Fillipeen Dictionary F - noun See Philopena.
Fillister Dictionary F - noun The rabbet on the outer edge of a sash bar to hold the glass and the putty.
Fillies Dictionary F - pleural of Filly.
Filly Dictionary F - noun A female foal or colt; a young mare. Cf. Colt, Foal.
Film Dictionary F - noun A thin skin; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity; hence, any thin, slight covering.
Filminess Dictionary F - noun State of being filmy.
Filmy Dictionary F - adjective Composed of film or films.
Filoplumaceous Dictionary F - adjective Having the structure of a filoplume.
Filoplume Dictionary F - noun A hairlike feather; a father with a slender scape and without a web in most or all of its length.
Filose Dictionary F - adjective Terminating in a threadlike process.
Filter Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Filter.
Filtering Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Filter.
Filth Dictionary F - noun Foul matter; anything that soils or defiles; dirt; nastiness.
Filthily Dictionary F - adverb In a filthy manner; foully.
Filthiness Dictionary F - noun The state of being filthy.
Filthy Dictionary F - superlative Defiled with filth, whether material or moral; nasty; dirty; polluted; foul; impure; obscene.
Filtrated Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Filtrate.
Filtrating Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Filtrate.
Filtrate Dictionary F - verb transitive To filter; to defecate; as liquid, by straining or percolation.
Filtration Dictionary F - noun The act or process of filtering; the mechanical separation of a liquid from the undissolved particles floating in it.
Finble Dictionary F - Alt. of Fimble hemp.
Fimble hemp Dictionary F - Light summer hemp, that bears no seed.
Fimbriae Dictionary F - pleural of Fimbria.
Fimbria Dictionary F - noun A fringe, or fringed border.
Fimbriate Dictionary F - adjective 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 Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fimbriate.
Fimbriating Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fimbriate.
Fimbricate Dictionary F - adjective Fringed; jagged; fimbriate.
Finned Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fin.
Finning Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fin.
Fin Dictionary F - verb transitive To carve or cut up, as a chub.
Finable Dictionary F - adjective Liable or subject to a fine; as, a finable person or offense.
Final Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to the end or conclusion; last; terminating; ultimate; as, the final day of a school term.
Finale Dictionary F - noun Close; termination.
Finalities Dictionary F - pleural of Finality.
Finality Dictionary F - noun The state of being final, finished, or complete; a final or conclusive arrangement; a settlement.
Finally Dictionary F - adverb At the end or conclusion; ultimately; lastly; as, the contest was long, but the Romans finally conquered.
Finance Dictionary F - noun 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.
Financial Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to finance.
Financialist Dictionary F - noun A financier.
Financially Dictionary F - adverb In a dfinancial manner.
Financier Dictionary F - noun One charged with the administration of finance; an officer who administers the public revenue; a treasurer.
Financiered Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Financier.
Financiering Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Financier.
Finary Dictionary F - noun See Finery.
Finative Dictionary F - adjective Conclusive; decisive; definitive; final.
Finback Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - pleural of Finch.
Finch Dictionary F - noun A small singing bird of many genera and species, belonging to the family Fringillidae.
Finchbacked Dictionary F - adjective Streaked or spotted on the back; - said of cattle.
Finched Dictionary F - adjective Same as Finchbacked.
Found Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Find.
Finding Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Find.
Find Dictionary F - verb transitive 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.
Findable Dictionary F - adjective Capable of beong found; discoverable.
Finder Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - noun A censurer or caviler.
Findfaulting Dictionary F - adjective Apt to censure or cavil; faultfinding; captious.
Findy Dictionary F - adjective Full; heavy; firm; solid; substemtial.
Fine Dictionary F - superlative Finished; brought to perfection; refined; hence, free from impurity; excellent; superior; elegant; worthy of admiration; accomplished; beautiful.
Fined Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fine.
Fining Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fine.
Finedrawn Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Finedraw.
Finedrawing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Finedraw.
Finedraw Dictionary F - verb transitive To sew up, so nicely that the seam is not perceived; to renter.
Finedrawer Dictionary F - noun One who finedraws.
Fineer Dictionary F - intransitive verb 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.
Fineless Dictionary F - adjective Endless; boundless.
Finely Dictionary F - adverb In a fine or finished manner.
Fineness Dictionary F - adjective The quality or condition of being fine.
Finer Dictionary F - noun One who fines or purifies.
Finery Dictionary F - noun Fineness; beauty.
Finespun Dictionary F - adjective Spun so as to be fine; drawn to a fine thread; attenuated; hence, unsubstantial; visionary; as, finespun theories.
Finesse Dictionary F - adjective Subtilty of contrivance to gain a point; artifice; stratagem.
Finessed Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Finesse.
Finessing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Finesse.
Finestill Dictionary F - verb transitive To distill, as spirit from molasses or some saccharine preparation.
Finestiller Dictionary F - noun One who finestills.
Finew Dictionary F - noun Moldiness.
Finfish Dictionary F - noun A finback whale.
Finfoot Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - adjective Having palmate feet.
Finger Dictionary F - noun One of the five terminating members of the hand; a digit; esp., one of the four extermities of the hand, other than the thumb.
Fingered Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Finger.
Fingering Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Finger.
Fingerer Dictionary F - noun One who fingers; a pilferer.
Fingerling Dictionary F - noun A young salmon. See Parr.
Fingle-fangle Dictionary F - noun A trifle.
Fingrigos Dictionary F - pleural of Fingrigo.
Fingrigo Dictionary F - noun A prickly, climbing shrub of the genus Pisonia. The fruit is a kind of berry.
Finial Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - adjective Affectedly fine; overnice; unduly particular; fastidious.
Finicality Dictionary F - noun The quality of being finical; finicalness.
Finicking Dictionary F - adjective Alt. of Finicky.
Finicky Dictionary F - adjective Finical; unduly particular.
Finific Dictionary F - noun A limiting element or quality.
Finify Dictionary F - adjective To make fine; to dress finically.
Finikin Dictionary F - adjective Precise in trifles; idly busy.
Finis Dictionary F - noun An end; conclusion. It is often placed at the end of a book.
Finished Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Finish.
Finishing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Finish.
Finish Dictionary F - verb transitive To arrive at the end of; to bring to an end; to put an end to; to make an end of; to terminate.
Finisher Dictionary F - noun 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.
Finite Dictionary F - adjective 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 Dictionary F - adjective Infinite.
Finitely Dictionary F - adverb In a finite manner or degree.
Finiteness Dictionary F - noun The state of being finite.
Finitude Dictionary F - noun Limitation.
Finlander Dictionary F - noun A native or inhabitant of Finland.
Finless Dictionary F - adjective destitute of fins.
Finlet Dictionary F - noun A little fin; one of the parts of a divided fin.
Finlike Dictionary F - adjective Resembling a fin.
Finn Dictionary F - adjective A native of Finland; one of the Finn/ in the ethnological sense. See Finns.
Finnan haddie Dictionary F - Haddock cured in peat smoke, originally at Findon (pron. fin"an), Scotland. the name is also applied to other kinds of smoked haddock.
Finner Dictionary F - noun A finback whale.
Finnic Dictionary F - adjective Of or pertaining to the Finns.
Finnikin Dictionary F - noun A variety of pigeon, with a crest somewhat resembling the mane of a horse.
Finnish Dictionary F - adjective Of or pertaining to Finland, to the Finns, or to their language.
Finns Dictionary F - noun plural Natives of Finland; Finlanders.
Finny Dictionary F - adjective Having, or abounding in, fins, as fishes; pertaining to fishes.
Finochio Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - noun plural Second best wool from Merino sheep.
Finpike Dictionary F - noun The bichir. See Crossopterygii.
Fint Dictionary F - 3d pers. singular plural of Find, for findeth.
Fin-toed Dictionary F - adjective Having toes connected by a membrane; palmiped; palmated; also, lobate.
Fiord Dictionary F - noun A narrow inlet of the sea, penetrating between high banks or rocks, as on the coasts of Norway and Alaska.
Fiorin Dictionary F - noun A species of creeping bent grass (Agrostis alba); - called also fiorin grass.
Fiorite Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - noun plural Little flowers of ornament introduced into a melody by a singer or player.
Fippenny bit Dictionary F - The Spanish half real, or one sixteenth of a dollar, - so called in Pennsylvania and the adjacent States.
Fipple Dictionary F - noun A stopper, as in a wind instrument of music.
Fir Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - noun The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.
Fired Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fire.
Fring Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fire.
Firearm Dictionary F - noun A gun, pistol, or any weapon from a shot is discharged by the force of an explosive substance, as gunpowder.
Fireback Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - noun 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.
Firebare Dictionary F - noun A beacon.
Fire beetle Dictionary F - 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 Dictionary F - noun The Baltimore oriole.
Fireboard Dictionary F - noun A chimney board or screen to close a fireplace when not in use.
Firebote Dictionary F - noun An allowance of fuel. See Bote.
Firebrand Dictionary F - noun A piece of burning wood.
Firecracker Dictionary F - noun See Cracker., n., 3.
Firecrest Dictionary F - noun A small European kinglet (Regulus ignicapillus), having a bright red crest; - called also fire-crested wren.
Firedog Dictionary F - noun A support for wood in a fireplace; an andiron.
Firedrake Dictionary F - noun A fiery dragon.
Fire-fanged Dictionary F - adjective 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 Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - noun A European sting ray of the genus Trygon (T. pastinaca); - called also fireflare and fiery flaw.
Fireflame Dictionary F - noun The European band fish (Cepola rubescens).
Fireflies Dictionary F - pleural of Firefly.
Firefly Dictionary F - noun Any luminous winged insect, esp. luminous beetles of the family Lampyridae.
Fireless Dictionary F - adjective Destitute of fire.
Firelock Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - pleural of Fireman.
Fireman Dictionary F - noun A man whose business is to extinguish fires in towns; a member of a fire company.
Fire-new Dictionary F - adjective Fresh from the forge; bright; quite new; brand-new.
Fireplace Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - adjective Proof against fire; incombustible.
Fireprrofing Dictionary F - noun The act or process of rendering anything incombustible; also, the materials used in the process.
Firer Dictionary F - noun One who fires or sets fire to anything; an incendiary.
Fire-set Dictionary F - noun A set of fire irons, including, commonly, tongs, shovel, and poker.
Fireside Dictionary F - noun A place near the fire or hearth; home; domestic life or retirement.
Firestone Dictionary F - noun Iron pyrites, formerly used for striking fire; also, a flint.
Firetail Dictionary F - noun The European redstart; - called also fireflirt.
Firewarden Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - noun An American plant (Erechthites hiercifolia), very troublesome in spots where brushwood has been burned.
Firewood Dictionary F - noun Wood for fuel.
Firework Dictionary F - noun 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.
Fireworm Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - noun The act of disharging firearms.
Firk Dictionary F - verb transitive To beat; to strike; to chastise.
Firkin Dictionary F - noun A varying measure of capacity, usually being the fourth part of a barrel; specifically, a measure equal to nine imperial gallons.
Firlot Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - superlative Fixed; hence, closely compressed; compact; substantial; hard; solid; - applied to the matter of bodies; as, firm flesh; firm muscles, firm wood.
Firmament Dictionary F - Verb & adjective Fixed foundation; established basis.
Firmamental Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to the firmament; celestial; being of the upper regions.
Firmans Dictionary F - pleural of Firman.
Firman Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - noun A chisel, thin in proportion to its width. It has a tang to enter the handle instead of a socket for receiving it.
Firmitude Dictionary F - noun Strength; stability.
Firmity Dictionary F - noun Strength; firmness; stability.
Firmless Dictionary F - adjective Detached from substance.
Firmly Dictionary F - adverb In a firm manner.
Firmness Dictionary F - noun The state or quality of being firm.
Firms Dictionary F - adjective The principal rafters of a roof, especially a pair of rafters taken together.
Firring Dictionary F - noun See Furring.
Firry Dictionary F - adjective Made of fir; abounding in firs.
First Dictionary F - adjective 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.
Firstborn Dictionary F - adjective First brought forth; first in the order of nativity; eldest; hence, most excellent; most distinguished or exalted.
First-class Dictionary F - adjective 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 Dictionary F - adjective Obtained directly from the first or original source; hence, without the intervention of an agent.
Firstling Dictionary F - noun The first produce or offspring; - said of animals, especially domestic animals; as, the firstlings of his flock.
Firstly Dictionary F - adverb In the first place; before anything else; - sometimes improperly used for first.
First-rate Dictionary F - adjective Of the highest excellence; preeminent in quality, size, or estimation.
Firth Dictionary F - noun An arm of the sea; a frith.
Fir tree Dictionary F - See Fir.
Fisc Dictionary F - noun A public or state treasury.
Fiscal Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to the public treasury or revenue.
Fisetic Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to fustet or fisetin.
Fisetin Dictionary F - noun A yellow crystalline substance extracted from fustet, and regarded as its essential coloring principle; - called also fisetic acid.
Fish Dictionary F - noun A counter, used in various games.
Fished Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fish.
Fishing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fish.
Fish-bellied Dictionary F - adjective Bellying or swelling out on the under side; as, a fish-bellied rail.
Fish-block Dictionary F - noun See Fish-tackle.
Fisher Dictionary F - noun One who fishes.
Fishermen Dictionary F - pleural of Fisherman.
Fisherman Dictionary F - noun One whose occupation is to catch fish.
Fisheries Dictionary F - pleural of Fishery.
Fishery Dictionary F - noun The business or practice of catching fish; fishing.
Fishful Dictionary F - adjective Abounding with fish.
Fishgig Dictionary F - noun A spear with barbed prongs used for harpooning fish.
Fishhawk Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - noun A hook for catching fish.
Fishify Dictionary F - verb transitive To change to fish.
Fishiness Dictionary F - noun The state or quality of being fishy or fishlike.
Fishlike Dictionary F - adjective Like fish; suggestive of fish; having some of the qualities of fish.
Fishmonger Dictionary F - noun A dealer in fish.
Fishskin Dictionary F - noun The skin of a fish (dog fish, shark, etc.).
Fish-tackle Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - adjective Like the of a fish; acting, or producing something, like the tail of a fish.
Fishwife Dictionary F - noun A fishwoman.
Fishwomen Dictionary F - pleural of Fishwoman.
Fishwoman Dictionary F - noun A woman who retails fish.
Fishy Dictionary F - adjective Consisting of fish; fishlike; having the qualities or taste of fish; abounding in fish.
Fisk Dictionary F - intransitive verb To run about; to frisk; to whisk.
Fissigemmation Dictionary F - noun A process of reproduction intermediate between fission and gemmation.
Fissile Dictionary F - adjective Capable of being split, cleft, or divided in the direction of the grain, like wood, or along natural planes of cleavage, like crystals.
Fissilingual Dictionary F - adjective Having the tongue forked.
Fissilinguia Dictionary F - noun plural A group of Lacertilia having the tongue forked, including the common lizards.
Fissility Dictionary F - noun Quality of being fissile.
Fission Dictionary F - noun A cleaving, splitting, or breaking up into parts.
Fissipalmate Dictionary F - adjective Semipalmate and loboped, as a grebe's foot. See Illust. under Aves.
Fissipara Dictionary F - noun plural Animals which reproduce by fission.
Fissiparism Dictionary F - noun Reproduction by spontaneous fission.
Fissiparity Dictionary F - noun Quality of being fissiparous; fissiparism.
Fissiparous Dictionary F - adjective Reproducing by spontaneous fission. See Fission.
Fissipation Dictionary F - noun Reproduction by fission; fissiparism.
Fissiped Dictionary F - adjective Alt. of Fissipedal.
Fissipedal Dictionary F - adjective Having the toes separated to the base. See Aves..
Fissipedia Dictionary F - noun plural A division of the Carnivora, including the dogs, cats, and bears, in which the feet are not webbed; - opposed to Pinnipedia.
Fissirostral Dictionary F - adjective Having the bill cleft beyond the horny part, as in the case of swallows and goatsuckers.
Fissirostres Dictionary F - noun plural A group of birds having the bill deeply cleft.
Fissural Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to a fissure or fissures; as, the fissural pattern of a brain.
Fissuration Dictionary F - noun The act of dividing or opening; the state of being fissured.
Fissure Dictionary F - noun A narrow opening, made by the parting of any substance; a cleft; as, the fissure of a rock.
Fissurella Dictionary F - noun A genus of marine gastropod mollusks, having a conical or limpetlike shell, with an opening at the apex; - called also keyhole limpet.
Fist Dictionary F - noun The hand with the fingers doubled into the palm; the closed hand, especially as clinched tightly for the purpose of striking a blow.
Fisted Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fist.
Fisting Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fist.
Fistic Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to boxing, or to encounters with the fists; puglistic; as, fistic exploits; fistic heroes.
Fisticuff Dictionary F - noun A cuff or blow with the fist or hand.
Fistinut Dictionary F - noun A pistachio nut.
Fistuca Dictionary F - noun An instrument used by the ancients in driving piles.
Fistulae Dictionary F - pleural of Fistula.
Fistula Dictionary F - noun A reed; a pipe.
Fistular Dictionary F - adjective Hollow and cylindrical, like a pipe or reed.
Fistularia Dictionary F - noun A genus of fishes, having the head prolonged into a tube, with the mouth at the extremity.
Fistularioid Dictionary F - adjective Like or pertaining to the genus Fistularia.
Fistulate Dictionary F - verb transitive & intransitive To make hollow or become hollow like a fistula, or pipe.
Fistule Dictionary F - noun A fistula.
Fistuliform Dictionary F - adjective Of a fistular form; tubular; pipe-shaped.
Fistulose Dictionary F - adjective Formed like a fistula; hollow; reedlike.
Fistulous Dictionary F - adjective Having the form or nature of a fistula; as, a fistulous ulcer.
Fit Dictionary F - imp. & p. p. of Fight.
Fitted Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fit.
Fitting Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fit.
Fitches Dictionary F - pleural of Fitch.
Fitch Dictionary F - noun A vetch.
Fitche Dictionary F - adjective Sharpened to a point; pointed.
Fitched Dictionary F - adjective Fitche.
Fitchet Dictionary F - noun Alt. of Fitchew.
Fitchew Dictionary F - noun The European polecat (Putorius foetidus). See Polecat.
Fitchy Dictionary F - adjective Having fitches or vetches.
Fitful Dictionary F - adjective Full of fits; irregularly variable; impulsive and unstable.
Fithel Dictionary F - noun Alt. of Fithul.
Fithul Dictionary F - noun A fiddle.
Fitly Dictionary F - adverb In a fit manner; suitably; properly; conveniently; as, a maxim fitly applied.
Fitment Dictionary F - noun The act of fitting; that which is proper or becoming; equipment.
Fitness Dictionary F - noun The state or quality of being fit; as, the fitness of measures or laws; a person's fitness for office.
Fitt Dictionary F - noun See 2d Fit.
Fittable Dictionary F - adjective Suitable; fit.
Fittedness Dictionary F - noun The state or quality of being fitted; adaptation.
Fitter Dictionary F - noun One who fits or makes to fit;.
Fitweed Dictionary F - noun A plant (Eryngium foetidum) supposed to be a remedy for fits.
Fitz Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - adjective Four and one added; one more than four.
Five-finger Dictionary F - noun See Cinquefoil.
Fivefold Dictionary F - adjective & adverb In fives; consisting of five in one; five repeated; quintuple.
Five-leaf Dictionary F - noun Cinquefoil; five-finger.
Five-leafed Dictionary F - adjective Alt. of Five-leaved.
Five-leaved Dictionary F - adjective Having five leaflets, as the Virginia creeper.
Fiveling Dictionary F - noun A compound or twin crystal consisting of five individuals.
Fives Dictionary F - noun plural A kind of play with a ball against a wall, resembling tennis; - so named because three fives, or fifteen, are counted to the game.
Five-twenties Dictionary F - noun plural 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 Dictionary F - adjective Fixed; solidified.
Fixed Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fix.
Fixing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fix.
Fixable Dictionary F - adjective Capable of being fixed.
Fixation Dictionary F - noun The act of fixing, or the state of being fixed.
Fixative Dictionary F - noun That which serves to set or fix colors or drawings, as a mordant.
Fixedly Dictionary F - adverb In a fixed, stable, or constant manner.
Fixedness Dictionary F - noun The state or quality of being fixed; stability; steadfastness.
Fixidity Dictionary F - noun Fixedness.
Fixity Dictionary F - noun Fixedness; as, fixity of tenure; also, that which is fixed.
Fixture Dictionary F - noun 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.
Fixure Dictionary F - noun Fixed position; stable condition; firmness.
Fizgig Dictionary F - noun A fishgig.
Fizzed Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fizz.
Fizzing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fizz.
Fizz Dictionary F - intransitive verb To make a hissing sound, as a burning fuse.
Fizzled Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fizzle.
Fizzling Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fizzle.
Fizzle Dictionary F - intransitive verb To make a hissing sound.
Fjord Dictionary F - noun See Fiord.
Flabbergast Dictionary F - verb transitive To astonish; to strike with wonder, esp. by extraordinary statements.
Flabbergastation Dictionary F - noun The state of being flabbergasted.
Flabbily Dictionary F - adverb In a flabby manner.
Flabbiness Dictionary F - noun Quality or state of being flabby.
Flabby Dictionary F - adjective Yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; wanting firmness; flaccid; as, flabby flesh.
Flabel Dictionary F - noun A fan.
Flabellate Dictionary F - adjective Flabelliform.
Flabellation Dictionary F - noun The act of keeping fractured limbs cool by the use of a fan or some other contrivance.
Flabelliform Dictionary F - adjective Having the form of a fan; fan-shaped; flabellate.
Flabellinerved Dictionary F - adjective Having many nerves diverging radiately from the base; - said of a leaf.
Flabellum Dictionary F - noun A fan; especially, the fan carried before the pope on state occasions, made in ostrich and peacock feathers.
Flabile Dictionary F - adjective Liable to be blown about.
Flaccid Dictionary F - adjective Yielding to pressure for want of firmness and stiffness; soft and weak; limber; lax; drooping; flabby; as, a flaccid muscle; flaccid flesh.
Flaccidity Dictionary F - noun The state of being flaccid.
Flacker Dictionary F - intransitive verb To flutter, as a bird.
Flacket Dictionary F - noun A barrel-shaped bottle; a flagon.
Flagged Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Flag.
Flagging Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Flag.
Flag Dictionary F - intransitive verb To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.
Flagellant Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - verb transitive An order of Infusoria, having one or two long, whiplike cilia, at the anterior end. It includes monads. See Infusoria, and Monad.
Flagellated Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Flagellate.
Flagellating Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Flagellate.
Flagellate Dictionary F - verb transitive To whip; to scourge; to flog.
Flagellation Dictionary F - noun A beating or flogging; a whipping; a scourging.
Flagellator Dictionary F - noun One who practices flagellation; one who whips or scourges.
Flagelliform Dictionary F - adjective Shaped like a whiplash; long, slender, round, flexible, and (comming) tapering.
Flagellums Dictionary F - pleural of Flagellum.
Flagella Dictionary F - pleural of Flagellum.
Flagellum Dictionary F - verb transitive A young, flexible shoot of a plant; esp., the long trailing branch of a vine, or a slender branch in certain mosses.
Flageolet Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - noun The condition of being flaggy; laxity; limberness.
Flaggy Dictionary F - adjective Weak; flexible; limber.
Flagitate Dictionary F - verb transitive To importune; to demand fiercely or with passion.
Flagitation Dictionary F - noun Importunity; urgent demand.
Flagitious Dictionary F - adjective Disgracefully or shamefully criminal; grossly wicked; scandalous; shameful; - said of acts, crimes, etc.
Flagmen Dictionary F - pleural of Flagman.
Flagman Dictionary F - noun One who makes signals with a flag.
Flagon Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - noun Flagrancy.
Flagrancies Dictionary F - pleural of Flagrancy.
Flagrancy Dictionary F - noun A burning; great heat; inflammation.
Flagrant Dictionary F - adjective Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent.
Flagrantly Dictionary F - adverb In a flagrant manner.
Flagrate Dictionary F - verb transitive To burn.
Flagration Dictionary F - noun A conflagration.
Flagship Dictionary F - noun The vessel which carries the commanding officer of a fleet or squadron and flies his distinctive flag or pennant.
-staves Dictionary F - pleural of Flagstaff.
-staffs Dictionary F - pleural of Flagstaff.
Flagstaff Dictionary F - noun A staff on which a flag is hoisted.
Flagstone Dictionary F - noun A flat stone used in paving, or any rock which will split into such stones. See Flag, a stone.
Flagworm Dictionary F - noun A worm or grub found among flags and sedge.
Flail Dictionary F - noun 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.
Flaily Dictionary F - adjective Acting like a flail.
Flain Dictionary F - p. p. of Flay.
Flake Dictionary F - noun A paling; a hurdle.
Flaked Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Flake.
Flaking Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Flake.
Flakiness Dictionary F - noun The state of being flaky.
Flaky Dictionary F - adjective Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike.
Flam Dictionary F - noun A freak or whim; also, a falsehood; a lie; an illusory pretext; deception; delusion.
Flammed Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Flam.
Flamming Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Flam.
Flambeaux Dictionary F - pleural of Flambeau.
Flambeaus Dictionary F - pleural of Flambeau.
Flambeau Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - adjective Characterized by waving or flamelike curves, as in the tracery of windows, etc.; - said of the later (15th century) French Gothic style.
Flamboyer Dictionary F - noun A name given in the East and West Indies to certain trees with brilliant blossoms, probably species of Caesalpinia.
Flame Dictionary F - noun A stream of burning vapor or gas, emitting light and heat; darting or streaming fire; a blaze; a fire.
Flamed Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Flame.
Flaming Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Flame.
Flame-colored Dictionary F - adjective Of the color of flame; of a bright orange yellow color.
Flameless Dictionary F - adjective Destitute of flame.
Flamelet Dictionary F - noun A small flame.
Flammens Dictionary F - pleural of Flamen.
Flamines Dictionary F - pleural of Flamen.
Flamen Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to a flamen; flaminical.
Flamingly Dictionary F - adverb In a flaming manner.
Flamingoes Dictionary F - pleural of Flamingo.
Flamingo Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to a flamen.
Flammability Dictionary F - noun The quality of being flammable; inflammability.
Flammable Dictionary F - adjective Inflammable.
Flammation Dictionary F - noun The act of setting in a flame or blaze.
Flammeous Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling, flame.
Flammiferous Dictionary F - adjective Producing flame.
Flammivomous Dictionary F - adjective Vomiting flames, as a volcano.
Flammulated Dictionary F - adjective Of a reddish color.
Flamy Dictionary F - adjective Flaming; blazing; flamelike; flame-colored; composed of flame.
Flanches Dictionary F - pleural of Flanch.
Flanch Dictionary F - noun A flange.
Flanched Dictionary F - adjective Having flanches; - said of an escutcheon with those bearings.
Flanconade Dictionary F - noun A thrust in the side.
Flaneur Dictionary F - noun One who strolls about aimlessly; a lounger; a loafer.
Flang Dictionary F - noun A miner's two-pointed pick.
Flange Dictionary F - noun 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.
Flanged Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Flange.
Flanging Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Flange.
Flank Dictionary F - noun The fleshy or muscular part of the side of an animal, between the ribs and the hip. See Illust. of Beef.
Flanked Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Flank.
Flanking Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Flank.
Flanker Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Flanker.
Flankering Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Flanker.
Flannel Dictionary F - noun A soft, nappy, woolen cloth, of loose texture.
Flanneled Dictionary F - adjective Covered or wrapped in flannel.
Flannen Dictionary F - adjective Made or consisting of flannel.
Flap Dictionary F - verb 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.
Flapped Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Flap.
Flapping Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Flap.
Flapdragon Dictionary F - noun A game in which the players catch raisins out burning brandy, and swallow them blazing.
Flap-eared Dictionary F - adjective Having broad, loose, dependent ears.
Flapjack Dictionary F - noun A fklat cake turned on the griddle while cooking; a griddlecake or pacake.
Flap-mouthed Dictionary F - adjective Having broad, hangling lips.
Flapper Dictionary F - noun One who, or that which, flaps.
Flared Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Flare.
Flaring Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Flare.
Flare Dictionary F - intransitive verb To burn with an unsteady or waving flame; as, the candle flares.
Flare-up Dictionary F - noun A sudden burst of anger or passion; an angry dispute.
Flaringly Dictionary F - adverb In a flaring manner.
Flashed Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Flash.
Flashing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Flash.
Flash Dictionary F - intransitive verb To burst or break forth with a sudden and transient flood of flame and light; as, the lighting flashes vividly; the powder flashed.
Flashes Dictionary F - pleural of Flash.
Flashboard Dictionary F - noun A board placed temporarily upon a milldam, to raise the water in the pond above its usual level; a flushboard.
Flasher Dictionary F - noun One who, or that which, flashes.
Flashily Dictionary F - adverb In a flashy manner; with empty show.
Flashiness Dictionary F - noun The quality of being flashy.
Flashy Dictionary F - adjective Dazzling for a moment; making a momentary show of brilliancy; transitorily bright.
Flask Dictionary F - noun A small bottle-shaped vessel for holding fluids; as, a flask of oil or wine.
Flasket Dictionary F - noun A long, shallow basket, with two handles.
Flat Dictionary F - superlative Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane.
Flatted Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Flat.
Flatting Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Flat.
Flatbill Dictionary F - noun Any bird of the genus Flatyrynchus. They belong to the family of flycatchers.
Flatboat Dictionary F - noun A boat with a flat bottom and square ends; - used for the transportation of bulky freight, especially in shallow waters.
Flat-bottomed Dictionary F - adjective Having an even lower surface or bottom; as, a flat-bottomed boat.
Flat-cap Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - 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 Dictionary F - adjective Having a flat foot, with little or no arch of the instep.
Flathead Dictionary F - adjective Characterized by flatness of head, especially that produced by artificial means, as a certain tribe of American Indians.
Flat-headed Dictionary F - adjective Having a head with a flattened top; as, a flat-headed nail.
Flatiron Dictionary F - noun An iron with a flat, smooth surface for ironing clothes.
Flative Dictionary F - adjective Producing wind; flatulent.
Flating Dictionary F - adjective With the flat side, as of a sword; flatlong; in a prostrate position.
Flatlong Dictionary F - adverb With the flat side downward; not edgewise.
Flatly Dictionary F - adverb In a flat manner; evenly; horizontally; without spirit; dully; frigidly; peremptorily; positively, plainly.
Flatness Dictionary F - noun The quality or state of being flat.
Flatour Dictionary F - noun A flatterer.
Flattened Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Flatten.
Flattening Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Flatten.
Flatten Dictionary F - adjective To reduce to an even surface or one approaching evenness; to make flat; to level; to make plane.
Flatter Dictionary F - noun One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens.
Flattered Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Flatter.
Flattering Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Flatter.
Flatterer Dictionary F - noun One who flatters.
Flatteringly Dictionary F - adverb With flattery.
Flatteries Dictionary F - pleural of Flattery.
Flattery Dictionary F - verb transitive The act or practice of flattering; the act of pleasing by artiful commendation or compliments; adulation; false, insincere, or excessive praise.
Flattish Dictionary F - adjective Somewhat flat.
Flatulence Dictionary F - noun Alt. of Flatlency.
Flatlency Dictionary F - noun The state or quality of being flatulent.
Flatulent Dictionary F - adjective Affected with flatus or gases generated in the alimentary canal; windy.
Flatulently Dictionary F - adverb In a flatulent manner; with flatulence.
Flatuosity Dictionary F - noun Flatulence.
Flatuous Dictionary F - adjective Windy; generating wind.
Flatuses Dictionary F - pleural of Flatus.
Flatus Dictionary F - pleural of Flatus.
Flatware Dictionary F - noun Articles for the table, as china or silverware, that are more or less flat, as distinguished from hollow ware.
Flatwise Dictionary F - adjective / adverb With the flat side downward, or next to another object; not edgewise.
Flatworm Dictionary F - noun Any worm belonging to the Plathelminthes; also, sometimes applied to the planarians.
Flaundrish Dictionary F - adjective Flemish.
Flaunted Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Flaunt.
Flaunting Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Flaunt.
Flaunt Dictionary F - intransitive verb To throw or spread out; to flutter; to move ostentatiously; as, a flaunting show.
Flauntingly Dictionary F - adverb In a flaunting way.
Flautist Dictionary F - noun A player on the flute; a flutist.
Flauto Dictionary F - noun A flute.
Flavaniline Dictionary F - noun A yellow, crystalline, organic dyestuff, C16H14N2, of artifical production. It is a strong base, and is a complex derivative of aniline and quinoline.
Flavescent Dictionary F - adjective Turning yellow; yellowish.
Flavicomous Dictionary F - adjective Having yellow hair.
Flavin Dictionary F - noun A yellow, vegetable dyestuff, resembling quercitron.
Flavine Dictionary F - noun A yellow, crystalline, organic base, C13H12N2O, obtained artificially.
Flavol Dictionary F - noun A yellow, crystalline substance, obtained from anthraquinone, and regarded as a hydroxyl derivative of it.
Flavor Dictionary F - noun That quality of anything which affects the smell; odor; fragrances; as, the flavor of a rose.
Flavored Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Flavor.
Flavoring Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Flavor.
Flavorles Dictionary F - adjective Without flavor; tasteless.
Flavorous Dictionary F - adjective Imparting flavor; pleasant to the taste or smell; sapid.
Flavous Dictionary F - adjective Yellow.
Flaw Dictionary F - noun A crack or breach; a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion; as, a flaw in a knife or a vase.
Flawed Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Flaw.
Flawing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Flaw.
Flawless Dictionary F - adjective Free from flaws.
Flawn Dictionary F - noun A sort of flat custard or pie.
Flawter Dictionary F - verb transitive To scrape o/ pare, as a skin.
Flawy Dictionary F - adjective Full of flaws or cracks; broken; defective; faulty.
Flax Dictionary F - noun 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.
Flaxen Dictionary F - adjective 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 Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - noun The seed of the flax; linseed.
Flaxweed Dictionary F - noun See Toadflax.
Flaxy Dictionary F - adjective Like flax; flaxen.
Flayed Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Flay.
Flaying Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Flay.
Flay Dictionary F - verb transitive To skin; to strip off the skin or surface of; as, to flay an ox; to flay the green earth.
Flayer Dictionary F - noun One who strips off the skin.
Flea Dictionary F - verb transitive To flay.
Fleabane Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - noun The bite of a flea, or the red spot caused by the bite.
Flea-bitten Dictionary F - adjective Bitten by a flea; as, a flea-bitten face.
Fleagh Dictionary F - imp. of Fly.
Fleak Dictionary F - noun A flake; a thread or twist.
Fleaking Dictionary F - noun A light covering of reeds, over which the main covering is laid, in thatching houses.
Flea-louse Dictionary F - noun A jumping plant louse of the family Psyllidae, of many species. That of the pear tree is Psylla pyri.
Fleam Dictionary F - noun A sharp instrument used for opening veins, lancing gums, etc.; a kind of lancet.
Fleamy Dictionary F - adjective Bloody; clotted.
Flear Dictionary F - verb transitive & intransitive See Fleer.
Fleawort Dictionary F - noun An herb used in medicine (Plantago Psyllium), named from the shape of its seeds.
Fleche Dictionary F - noun A simple fieldwork, consisting of two faces forming a salient angle pointing outward and open at the gorge.
Fleck Dictionary F - noun A flake; also, a lock, as of wool.
Flecked Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fleck.
Flecking Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fleck.
Flecker Dictionary F - verb transitive To fleck.
Fleckless Dictionary F - adjective Without spot or blame.
Flection Dictionary F - noun The act of bending, or state of being bent.
Flectional Dictionary F - adjective Capable of, or pertaining to, flection or inflection.
Flector Dictionary F - noun A flexor.
Fled Dictionary F - imp. & p. p. of Flee.
Fledge Dictionary F - intransitive verb Feathered; furnished with feathers or wings; able to fly.
Fledged Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fledge.
Fledging Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fledge.
Fledgeling Dictionary F - noun A young bird just fledged.
Fleeing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Flee.
Flee Dictionary F - intransitive verb 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 Dictionary F - noun 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.
Fleeced Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fleece.
Fleecing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fleece.
Fleeceless Dictionary F - adjective Without a fleece.
Fleecer Dictionary F - noun One who fleeces or strips unjustly, especially by trickery or fraund.
Fleecy Dictionary F - adjective Covered with, made of, or resembling, a fleece.
Fleen Dictionary F - noun plural Obs. pl. of Flea.
Fleer Dictionary F - noun One who flees.
Fleered Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fleer.
Fleering Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fleer.
Fleerer Dictionary F - noun One who fleers.
Fleeringly Dictionary F - adverb In a fleering manner.
Fleeted Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fleet.
Fleeting Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fleet.
Fleet Dictionary F - noun & adjective To sail; to float.
Fleeten Dictionary F - noun Fleeted or skimmed milk.
Fleet-foot Dictionary F - adjective Swift of foot.
Fleetingly Dictionary F - adverb In a fleeting manner; swiftly.
Fleetings Dictionary F - noun plural A mixture of buttermilk and boiling whey; curds.
Fleetly Dictionary F - adverb In a fleet manner; rapidly.
Fleetness Dictionary F - noun Swiftness; rapidity; velocity; celerity; speed; as, the fleetness of a horse or of time.
Fleigh Dictionary F - imp. of Fly.
Fleme Dictionary F - verb transitive To banish; to drive out; to expel.
Flemer Dictionary F - noun One who, or that which, banishes or expels.
Fleming Dictionary F - noun A native or inhabitant of Flanders.
Flemish Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to Flanders, or the Flemings.
Flench Dictionary F - verb transitive Same as Flence.
Flense Dictionary F - verb transitive To strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal, etc.
Flesh Dictionary F - noun The aggregate of the muscles, fat, and other tissues which cover the framework of bones in man and other animals; especially, the muscles.
Fleshed Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Flesh.
Fleshing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Flesh.
Flesher Dictionary F - noun A butcher.
Fleshhood Dictionary F - noun The state or condition of having a form of flesh; incarnation.
Fleshiness Dictionary F - noun The state of being fleshy; plumpness; corpulence; grossness.
Fleshings Dictionary F - noun plural Flesh-colored tights, worn by actors dancers.
Fleshless Dictionary F - adjective Destitute of flesh; lean.
Fleshliness Dictionary F - noun The state of being fleshly; carnal passions and appetites.
Fleshly Dictionary F - adjective Of or pertaining to the flesh; corporeal.
Fleshment Dictionary F - noun The act of fleshing, or the excitement attending a successful beginning.
Fleshmonger Dictionary F - noun One who deals in flesh; hence, a pimp; a procurer; a pander.
Fleshpot Dictionary F - noun A pot or vessel in which flesh is cooked.
Fleshquake Dictionary F - noun A quaking or trembling of the flesh; a quiver.
Fleshy Dictionary F - superlative Full of, or composed of, flesh; plump; corpulent; fat; gross.
Flet Dictionary F - past participle Skimmed.
Fletched Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fletch.
Fletching Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fletch.
Fletch Dictionary F - verb transitive To feather, as an arrow.
Fletcher Dictionary F - noun One who fletches of feathers arrows; a manufacturer of bows and arrows.
Flete Dictionary F - intransitive verb To float; to swim.
Fletiferous Dictionary F - adjective Producing tears.
Fleurs-de-lis Dictionary F - pleural of Fleur-de-lis.
Fleur-de-lis Dictionary F - noun The iris. See Flower-de-luce.
Fleury Dictionary F - adjective Finished at the ends with fleurs-de-lis; - said esp. of a cross so decorated.
Flew Dictionary F - imp. of Fly.
Flewed Dictionary F - adjective Having large flews.
Flews Dictionary F - noun plural The pendulous or overhanging lateral parts of the upper lip of dogs, especially prominent in hounds; - called also chaps. See Illust. of Bloodhound.
Flexed Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Flex.
Flexing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Flex.
Flex Dictionary F - verb transitive To bend; as, to flex the arm.
Flexanimous Dictionary F - adjective Having power to change the mind.
Flexibility Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - adjective Capable of being flexed or bent; admitting of being turned, bowed, or twisted, without breaking; pliable; yielding to pressure; not stiff or brittle.
Flexicostate Dictionary F - adjective Having bent or curved ribs.
Flexile Dictionary F - adjective Flexible; pliant; pliable; easily bent; plastic; tractable.
Flexion Dictionary F - noun The act of flexing or bending; a turning.
Flexor Dictionary F - noun A muscle which bends or flexes any part; as, the flexors of the arm or the hand; - opposed to extensor.
Flexuose Dictionary F - adjective Flexuous.
Flexuous Dictionary F - adjective Having turns, windings, or flexures.
Flexural Dictionary F - adjective Of, pertaining to, or resulting from, flexure; of the nature of, or characterized by, flexure; as, flexural elasticity.
Flexure Dictionary F - noun The act of flexing or bending; a turning or curving; flexion; hence, obsequious bowing or bending.
Flibbergib Dictionary F - noun A sycophant.
Flibbertigibbet Dictionary F - noun An imp.
Flibustier Dictionary F - noun A buccaneer; an American pirate. See Flibuster.
Flicked Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Flick.
Flicking Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Flick.
Flick Dictionary F - verb transitive To whip lightly or with a quick jerk; to flap; as, to flick a horse; to flick the dirt from boots.
Flickered Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Flicker.
Flickering Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Flicker.
Flicker Dictionary F - intransitive verb To flutter; to flap the wings without flying.
Flickeringly Dictionary F - adverb In a flickering manner.
Flickermouse Dictionary F - noun See Flittermouse.
Flidge Dictionary F - adjective Fledged; fledge.
Flier Dictionary F - verb One who flies or flees; a runaway; a fugitive.
Flight Dictionary F - noun The act or flying; a passing through the air by the help of wings; volitation; mode or style of flying.
Flighted Dictionary F - adjective Taking flight; flying; - used in composition.
Flighter Dictionary F - noun A horizontal vane revolving over the surface of wort in a cooler, to produce a circular current in the liquor.
Flightily Dictionary F - adverb In a flighty manner.
Flightiness Dictionary F - noun The state or quality of being flighty.
Flight-shot Dictionary F - noun The distance to which an arrow or flight may be shot; bowshot, - about the fifth of a mile.
Flighty Dictionary F - adjective Fleeting; swift; transient.
Flimflam Dictionary F - noun A freak; a trick; a lie.
Flimsily Dictionary F - adverb In a flimsy manner.
Flimsiness Dictionary F - noun The state or quality of being flimsy.
Flimsy Dictionary F - superlative Weak; feeble; limp; slight; vain; without strength or solidity; of loose and unsubstantial structure; without reason or plausibility; as, a flimsy argument, excuse, objection.
Flinched Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Flinch.
Flinching Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Flinch.
Flinch Dictionary F - intransitive verb 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.
Flincher Dictionary F - noun One who flinches or fails.
Flinchingly Dictionary F - adverb In a flinching manner.
Flindermouse Dictionary F - noun A bat; a flittermouse.
Flinders Dictionary F - noun plural Small pieces or splinters; fragments.
Flung Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fling.
Flinging Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fling.
Fling Dictionary F - verb transitive 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.
Flingdust Dictionary F - noun One who kicks up the dust; a streetwalker; a low manner.
Flinger Dictionary F - noun One who flings; one who jeers.
Flint Dictionary F - noun 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 glass Dictionary F - 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 Dictionary F - adjective Hard-hearted.
Flintiness Dictionary F - noun The state or quality of being flinty; hardness; cruelty.
Flintlock Dictionary F - noun A lock for a gun or pistol, having a flint fixed in the hammer, which on striking the steel ignites the priming.
Flintware Dictionary F - noun A superior kind of earthenware into whose composition flint enters largely.
Flintwood Dictionary F - noun An Australian name for the very hard wood of the Eucalyptus piluralis.
Flinty Dictionary F - superlative Consisting of, composed of, abounding in, or resembling, flint; as, a flinty rock; flinty ground; a flinty heart.
Flip Dictionary F - noun A mixture of beer, spirit, etc., stirred and heated by a hot iron.
Flipped Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Flip.
Flipping Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Flip.
Flipe Dictionary F - verb transitive 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 Dictionary F - noun The repeated stroke of something long and loose.
Flippancy Dictionary F - noun The state or quality of being flippant.
Flippant Dictionary F - adjective Of smooth, fluent, and rapid speech; speaking with ease and rapidity; having a voluble tongue; talkative.
Flippantly Dictionary F - adverb In a flippant manner.
Flippantness Dictionary F - noun State or quality of being flippant.
Flipper Dictionary F - noun A broad flat limb used for swimming, as those of seals, sea turtles, whales, etc.
Flirted Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Flirt.
Flirting Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Flirt.
Flirt Dictionary F - verb transitive 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.
Flirtation Dictionary F - noun Playing at courtship; coquetry.
Flirt-gill Dictionary F - noun A woman of light behavior; a gill-flirt.
Flirtigig Dictionary F - noun A wanton, pert girl.
Flirtingly Dictionary F - adverb In a flirting manner.
Flisk Dictionary F - intransitive verb To frisk; to skip; to caper.
Flitted Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Flit.
Flitting Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Flit.
Flit Dictionary F - intransitive verb 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.
Flitches Dictionary F - pleural of Flitch.
Flitch Dictionary F - noun The side of a hog salted and cured; a side of bacon.
Flite Dictionary F - intransitive verb To scold; to quarrel.
Flitter Dictionary F - intransitive verb To flutter.
Flittermouse Dictionary F - noun A bat; - called also flickermouse, flindermouse, and flintymouse.
Flittern Dictionary F - adjective A term applied to the bark obtained from young oak trees.
Flittiness Dictionary F - noun Unsteadiness; levity; lightness.
Flittingly Dictionary F - adverb In a flitting manner.
Flitty Dictionary F - adjective Unstable; fluttering.
Flix Dictionary F - noun Down; fur.
Flon Dictionary F - pleural of Flo.
Flo Dictionary F - noun An arrow.
Float Dictionary F - intransitive verb 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.
Floated Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Float.
Floating Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Float.
Floatable Dictionary F - adjective That may be floated.
Floatage Dictionary F - noun Same as Flotage.
Floatation Dictionary F - noun See Flotation.
Floater Dictionary F - noun One who floats or swims.
Floatingly Dictionary F - adverb In a floating manner.
Floaty Dictionary F - adjective Swimming on the surface; buoyant; light.
Flobert Dictionary F - noun A small cartridge designed for target shooting; - sometimes called ball cap.
Floccillation Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - noun Spotted with small tufts like wool.
Floccular Dictionary F - adjective Of or pertaining to the flocculus.
Flocculated Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Flocculate.
Flocculating Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Flocculate.
Flocculate Dictionary F - intransitive verb To aggregate into small lumps.
Flocculation Dictionary F - noun The process by which small particles of fine soils and sediments aggregate into larger lumps.
Flocculence Dictionary F - noun The state of being flocculent.
Flocculent Dictionary F - adjective Clothed with small flocks or flakes; woolly.
Flocculi Dictionary F - pleural of Flocculus.
Flocculus Dictionary F - noun A small lobe in the under surface of the cerebellum, near the middle peduncle; the subpeduncular lobe.
Flocci Dictionary F - pleural of Floccus.
Floccus Dictionary F - noun The tuft of hair terminating the tail of mammals.
Flock Dictionary F - noun 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.
Flocked Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Flock.
Flocking Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Flock.
Flockling Dictionary F - noun A lamb.
Flockly Dictionary F - adverb In flocks; in crowds.
Flockmel Dictionary F - adverb In a flock; in a body.
Flocky Dictionary F - adjective Abounding with flocks; floccose.
Floe Dictionary F - noun A low, flat mass of floating ice.
Flogged Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Flog.
Flogging Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Flog.
Flog Dictionary F - verb transitive To beat or strike with a rod or whip; to whip; to lash; to chastise with repeated blows.
Flogger Dictionary F - noun One who flogs.
Flong Dictionary F - imp. & p. p. of Fling.
Flood Dictionary F - intransitive verb 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.
Flooded Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Flood.
Flooding Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Flood.
Floodage Dictionary F - noun Inundation.
Flooder Dictionary F - noun One who floods anything.
Flook Dictionary F - noun A fluke of an anchor.
Flookan Dictionary F - noun Alt. of Flukan.
Flukan Dictionary F - noun See Flucan.
Flooky Dictionary F - adjective Fluky.
Floor Dictionary F - noun The bottom or lower part of any room; the part upon which we stand and upon which the movables in the room are supported.
Floored Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Floor.
Flooring Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Floor.
Floorage Dictionary F - noun Floor space.
Floorer Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - noun plural The upper extermities of the floor of a vessel.
Floorless Dictionary F - adjective Having no floor.
Floorwalker Dictionary F - noun One who walks about in a large retail store as an overseer and director.
Flopped Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Flop.
Flopping Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Flop.
Flop Dictionary F - verb transitive To clap or strike, as a bird its wings, a fish its tail, etc.; to flap.
Floppy Dictionary F - noun Having a tendency to flop or flap; as, a floppy hat brim.
Flopwing Dictionary F - noun The lapwing.
Flora Dictionary F - noun The goddess of flowers and spring.
Floral Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to Flora, or to flowers; made of flowers; as, floral games, wreaths.
Florally Dictionary F - adverb In a floral manner.
Floramour Dictionary F - noun The plant love-lies-bleeding.
Floran Dictionary F - noun Tin ore scarcely perceptible in the stone; tin ore stamped very fine.
Floreal Dictionary F - noun The eight month of the French republican calendar. It began April 20, and ended May 19. See Vendemiare.
Floren Dictionary F - noun A cerain gold coin; a Florence.
Florence Dictionary F - noun An ancient gold coin of the time of Edward III., of six shillings sterling value.
Florentine Dictionary F - adjective Belonging or relating to Florence, in Italy.
Florescence Dictionary F - noun A bursting into flower; a blossoming.
Florescent Dictionary F - adjective Expanding into flowers; blossoming.
Floret Dictionary F - noun A little flower; one of the numerous little flowers which compose the head or anthodium in such flowers as the daisy, thistle, and dandelion.
Floriage Dictionary F - noun Bloom; blossom.
Floriated Dictionary F - adjective Having floral ornaments; as, floriated capitals of Gothic pillars.
Floricomous Dictionary F - adjective Having the head adorned with flowers.
Floricultural Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to the cultivation of flowering plants.
Floriculture Dictionary F - noun The cultivation of flowering plants.
Floriculturist Dictionary F - noun One skilled in the cultivation of flowers; a florist.
Florid Dictionary F - adjective Covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery.
Florida bean Dictionary F - The large, roundish, flattened seed of Mucuna urens. See under Bean.
Florideae Dictionary F - noun plural 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 Dictionary F - noun The quality of being florid; floridness.
Floridly Dictionary F - adverb In a florid manner.
Floridness Dictionary F - noun The quality of being florid.
Floriferous Dictionary F - adjective Producing flowers.
Florification Dictionary F - noun The act, process, or time of flowering; florescence.
Floriform Dictionary F - adjective Having the form of a flower; flower-shaped.
Floriken Dictionary F - noun An Indian bustard (Otis aurita). The Bengal floriken is Sypheotides Bengalensis.
Florilege Dictionary F - noun The act of gathering flowers.
Florimer Dictionary F - noun See Floramour.
Florin Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - noun A cultivator of, or dealer in, flowers.
Floroon Dictionary F - noun A border worked with flowers.
Florulent Dictionary F - adjective Flowery; blossoming.
Floscular Dictionary F - adjective Flosculous.
Floscularian Dictionary F - noun One of a group of stalked rotifers, having ciliated tentacles around the lobed disk.
Floscule Dictionary F - noun A floret.
Flosculous Dictionary F - adjective Consisting of many gamopetalous florets.
Flos-ferri Dictionary F - noun A variety of aragonite, occuring in delicate white coralloidal forms; - common in beds of iron ore.
Flosh Dictionary F - noun A hopper-shaped box or /nortar in which ore is placed for the action of the stamps.
Floss Dictionary F - noun The slender styles of the pistillate flowers of maize; also called silk.
Flossification Dictionary F - noun A flowering; florification.
Flossy Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to, made of, or resembling, floss; hence, light; downy.
Flota Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - noun The state of floating.
Flotant Dictionary F - adjective Represented as flying or streaming in the air; as, a banner flotant.
Flotation Dictionary F - noun The act, process, or state of floating.
Flote Dictionary F - verb transitive To fleet; to skim.
Flotery Dictionary F - adjective Wavy; flowing.
Flotilla Dictionary F - noun A little fleet, or a fleet of small vessels.
Flotsam Dictionary F - noun Alt. of Flotson.
Flotson Dictionary F - noun Goods lost by shipwreck, and floating on the sea; - in distinction from jetsam or jetson.
Flotten Dictionary F - verb transitive Skimmed.
Flounced Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Flounce.
Flouncing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Flounce.
Flounce Dictionary F - intransitive verb 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.
Flounder Dictionary F - noun A flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae, of many species.
Floundered Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Flounder.
Floundering Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Flounder.
Flour Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Flour.
Flouring Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Flour.
Flourished Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Flourish.
Flourishing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Flourish.
Flourish Dictionary F - intransitive verb To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive.
Flourishes Dictionary F - pleural of Flourish.
Flourisher Dictionary F - noun One who flourishes.
Flourishingly Dictionary F - adverb In a flourishing manner; ostentatiously.
Floury Dictionary F - adjective Of or resembling flour; mealy; covered with flour.
Flouted Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Flout.
Flouting Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Flout.
Flout Dictionary F - verb transitive To mock or insult; to treat with contempt.
Flouter Dictionary F - noun One who flouts; a mocker.
Floutingly Dictionary F - adverb With flouting; insultingly; as, to treat a lover floutingly.
Flow Dictionary F - imp. sing. of Fly, v. i.
Flowed Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Flow.
Flowing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Flow.
Flowage Dictionary F - noun An overflowing with water; also, the water which thus overflows.
Flowen Dictionary F - imp. pl. of Fly, v. i.
Flower Dictionary F - noun 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.
Flowered Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Flower.
Flowering Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Flower.
Flowerage Dictionary F - noun State of flowers; flowers, collectively or in general.
Flower-de-luce Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - noun A plant which flowers or blossoms.
Floweret Dictionary F - noun A small flower; a floret.
Flower-fence Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - adjective Abounding with flowers.
Flower-gentle Dictionary F - noun A species of amaranth (Amarantus melancholicus).
Floweriness Dictionary F - noun The state of being flowery.
Flowerless Dictionary F - adjective Having no flowers.
Flowerlessness Dictionary F - noun State of being without flowers.
Flowerpot Dictionary F - noun A vessel, commonly or earthenware, for earth in which plants are grown.
Flowery Dictionary F - adjective Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms.
Flowery-kirtled Dictionary F - adjective Dressed with garlands of flowers.
Flowingly Dictionary F - adverb In a flowing manner.
Flowingness Dictionary F - noun Flowing tendency or quality; fluency.
Flowk Dictionary F - noun See 1st Fluke.
Flown Dictionary F - p. p. of Fly; - often used with the auxiliary verb to be; as, the birds are flown.
Floxed silk Dictionary F - See Floss silk, under Floss.
Floyte Dictionary F - noun & verb A variant of Flute.
Fluate Dictionary F - noun A fluoride.
Fluavil Dictionary F - noun A hydrocarbon extracted from gutta-percha, as a yellow, resinous substance; - called also fluanil.
Flucan Dictionary F - noun Soft clayey matter in the vein, or surrounding it.
Fluctiferous Dictionary F - adjective Tending to produce waves.
Fluctisonous Dictionary F - adjective Sounding like waves.
Fluctuability Dictionary F - noun The capacity or ability to fluctuate.
Fluctuant Dictionary F - adjective Moving like a wave; wavering.
Fluctuated Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fluctuate.
Fluctuating Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fluctuate.
Fluctuate Dictionary F - intransitive verb 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.
Fluctuation Dictionary F - noun A motion like that of waves; a moving in this and that direction; as, the fluctuations of the sea.
Flue Dictionary F - noun An inclosed passage way for establishing and directing a current of air, gases, etc.; an air passage.
Fluence Dictionary F - noun Fluency.
Fluency Dictionary F - noun The quality of being fluent; smoothness; readiness of utterance; volubility.
Fluent Dictionary F - adjective Flowing or capable of flowing; liquid; glodding; easily moving.
Fluently Dictionary F - adverb In a fluent manner.
Fluentness Dictionary F - noun The quality of being fluent.
Fluework Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - adjective Downy; fluffy.
Fluff Dictionary F - noun Nap or down; flue; soft, downy feathers.
Fluffy Dictionary F - superlative Pertaining to, or resembling, fluff or nap; soft and downy.
Flugel Dictionary F - noun A grand piano or a harpsichord, both being wing-shaped.
Flugelman Dictionary F - noun Same as Fugleman.
Fluid Dictionary F - adjective 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.
Fluidal Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to a fluid, or to its flowing motion.
Fluinity Dictionary F - noun The quality of being fluid or capable of flowing; a liquid, aeriform. or gaseous state; - opposed to solidity.
Fluidized Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fluidize.
Fluidizing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fluidize.
Fluidize Dictionary F - verb transitive To render fluid.
Fluidness Dictionary F - noun The state of being flluid; fluidity.
Fluidounce Dictionary F - noun See Fluid ounce, under Fluid.
Fluidrachm Dictionary F - noun See Fluid dram, under Fluid.
Fluke Dictionary F - noun The European flounder. See Flounder.
Flukeworm Dictionary F - noun Same as 1st Fluke, 2.
Fluky Dictionary F - adjective Formed like, or having, a fluke.
Flume Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to rivers; abounding in streama.
Flummery Dictionary F - noun A light kind of food, formerly made of flour or meal; a sort of pap.
Flunked Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Flunk.
Flunking Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Flunk.
Flunk Dictionary F - intransitive verb To fail, as on a lesson; to back out, as from an undertaking, through fear.
Flunkies Dictionary F - pleural of Flunky.
Flunky Dictionary F - noun A contemptuous name for a liveried servant or a footman.
Flunkydom Dictionary F - noun The place or region of flunkies.
Flunlyism Dictionary F - noun The quality or characteristics of a flunky; readiness to cringe to those who are superior in wealth or position; toadyism.
Fluo- Dictionary F - A combining form indicating fluorine as an ingredient; as in fluosilicate, fluobenzene.
Fluoborate Dictionary F - noun A salt of fluoboric acid; a fluoboride.
Fluoboric Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to, derived from, or consisting of, fluorine and boron.
Fluoboride Dictionary F - noun See Borofluoride.
Fluocerine Dictionary F - noun Alt. of Fluocerite.
Fluocerite Dictionary F - noun A fluoride of cerium, occuring near Fahlun in Sweden. Tynosite, from Colorado, is probably the same mineral.
Fluohydric Dictionary F - adjective See Hydrofluoric.
Fluophosphate Dictionary F - noun A double salt of fluoric and phosphoric acids.
Fluor Dictionary F - noun A fluid state.
Fluor albus Dictionary F - The whites; leucorrhaea.
Fluoranthene Dictionary F - noun A white crystalline hydrocarbon C/H/, of a complex structure, found as one ingrdient of the higher boiling portion of coal tar.
Fluorated Dictionary F - adjective Combined with fluorine; subjected to the action of fluoride.
Fluorene Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - adjective Having the property of fluorescence.
Fluorescin Dictionary F - noun A colorless, amorphous substance which is produced by the reduction of fluorescein, and from which the latter may be formed by oxidation.
Fluoric Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to, obtained from, or containing, fluorine.
Fluoride Dictionary F - noun A binary compound of fluorine with another element or radical.
Fluorine Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - noun A tetrahexahedron; - so called because it is a common form of fluorite.
Fluoroscope Dictionary F - noun An instrument for observing or exhibiting fluorescence.
Fluorous Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to fluor.
Fluor spar Dictionary F - See Fluorite.
Fluosilicate Dictionary F - noun A double fluoride of silicon and some other (usually basic) element or radical, regarded as a salt of fluosilicic acid; - called also silicofluoride.
Fluosilicic Dictionary F - adjective Composed of, or derived from, silicon and fluorine.
Flurried Dictionary F - adjective Agitated; excited.
Flurries Dictionary F - pleural of Flurry.
Flurry Dictionary F - noun A sudden and brief blast or gust; a light, temporary breeze; as, a flurry of wind.
Flurrying Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Flurry.
Flurt Dictionary F - noun A flirt.
Flushed Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Flush.
Flushing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Flush.
Flush Dictionary F - intransitive verb To flow and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face.
Flushboard Dictionary F - noun Same as Flashboard.
Flusher Dictionary F - noun A workman employed in cleaning sewers by flushing them with water.
Flushingly Dictionary F - adverb In a flushing manner.
Flushness Dictionary F - noun The state of being flush; abundance.
Flustered Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fluster.
Flustering Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fluster.
Fluster Dictionary F - verb transitive To make hot and rosy, as with drinking; to heat; hence, to throw into agitation and confusion; to confuse; to muddle.
Flusteration Dictionary F - noun The act of flustering, or the state of being flustered; fluster.
Flustrate Dictionary F - verb transitive To fluster.
Flustration Dictionary F - noun The act of flustrating; confusion; flurry.
Flute Dictionary F - intransitive verb 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.
Fluted Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Flute.
Fluting Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Flute.
Flute a bec Dictionary F - A beak flute, an older form of the flute, played with a mouthpiece resembling a beak, and held like a flageolet.
Flutemouth Dictionary F - noun A fish of the genus Aulostoma, having a much elongated tubular snout.
Fluter Dictionary F - noun One who plays on the flute; a flutist or flautist.
Flutist Dictionary F - noun A performer on the flute; a flautist.
Flutter Dictionary F - verb transitive To vibrate or move quickly; as, a bird flutters its wings.
Flutterer Dictionary F - noun One who, or that which, flutters.
Flutteringly Dictionary F - adverb In a fluttering manner.
Fluty Dictionary F - adjective Soft and clear in tone, like a flute.
Fluvial Dictionary F - adjective Belonging to rivers; growing or living in streams or ponds; as, a fluvial plant.
Fluvialist Dictionary F - noun One who exlpains geological phenomena by the action of streams.
Fluviatic Dictionary F - adjective Belonging to rivers or streams; fluviatile.
Fluviatile Dictionary F - adjective Belonging to rivers or streams; existing in or about rivers; produced by river action; fluvial; as, fluviatile starta, plants.
Fluvio-marine Dictionary F - adjective Formed by the joint action of a river and the sea, as deposits at the mouths of rivers.
Flux Dictionary F - noun The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream; constant succession; change.
Fluxed Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Flux.
Fluxing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Flux.
Fluxation Dictionary F - noun The act of fluxing.
Fluxibility Dictionary F - noun The quality of being fluxible.
Fluxible Dictionary F - adjective Capable of being melted or fused, as a mineral.
Fluxile Dictionary F - adjective Fluxible.
Fluxility Dictionary F - noun State of being fluxible.
Fluxion Dictionary F - noun The act of flowing.
Fluxional Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to, or having the nature of, fluxion or fluxions; variable; inconstant.
Fluxionary Dictionary F - adjective Fluxional.
Fluxionist Dictionary F - noun One skilled in fluxions.
Fluxions Dictionary F - noun plural See Fluxion, 6(b).
Fluxive Dictionary F - adjective Flowing; also, wanting solidity.
Fluxure Dictionary F - noun The quality of being fluid.
Flying Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fly.
Fly Dictionary F - intransitive verb To move in or pass thorugh the air with wings, as a bird.
Flies Dictionary F - pleural of Fly.
Flybane Dictionary F - noun A kind of catchfly of the genus Silene; also, a poisonous mushroom (Agaricus muscarius); fly agaric.
Fly-bitten Dictionary F - adjective Marked by, or as if by, the bite of flies.
Flyblow Dictionary F - verb transitive 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.
Flyblown Dictionary F - adjective Tainted or contaminated with flyblows; damaged; foul.
Flyboat Dictionary F - noun A large Dutch coasting vessel.
Fly-case Dictionary F - noun The covering of an insect, esp. the elytra of beetles.
Flycatcher Dictionary F - noun One of numerous species of birds that feed upon insects, which they take on the wing.
Fly-catching Dictionary F - adjective Having the habit of catching insects on the wing.
Flyer Dictionary F - noun One that uses wings.
Flyfish Dictionary F - noun A California scorpaenoid fish (Sebastichthys rhodochloris), having brilliant colors.
Fly-fish Dictionary F - intransitive verb To angle, using flies for bait.
Flying fish Dictionary F - 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 Dictionary F - 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 Dictionary F - pleural of Flyman.
Flyman Dictionary F - noun The driver of a fly, or light public carriage.
Flysch Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - noun A speck or stain made by the excrement of a fly; hence, any insignificant dot.
Flytrap Dictionary F - noun A trap for catching flies.
Fnese Dictionary F - intransitive verb To breathe heavily; to snort.
Fo Dictionary F - noun The Chinese name of Buddha.
Foal Dictionary F - noun The young of any animal of the Horse family (Equidae); a colt; a filly.
Foaled Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Foal.
Foaling Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Foal.
Foalfoot Dictionary F - noun See Coltsfoot.
Foam Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Foam.
Foaming Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Foam.
Foamingly Dictionary F - adverb With foam; frothily.
Foamless Dictionary F - adjective Having no foam.
Foamy Dictionary F - adjective Covered with foam; frothy; spumy.
Fob Dictionary F - noun A little pocket for a watch.
Fobbed Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fob.
Fobbing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fob.
Focal Dictionary F - adjective Belonging to,or concerning, a focus; as, a focal point.
Focalization Dictionary F - noun The act of focalizing or bringing to a focus, or the state of being focalized.
Focalized Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Focalize.
Focalizing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Focalize.
Focalize Dictionary F - verb transitive To bring to a focus; to focus; to concentrate.
Focillate Dictionary F - verb transitive To nourish.
Focillation Dictionary F - noun Comfort; support.
Focimeter Dictionary F - noun An assisting instrument for focusing an object in or before a camera.
Focuses Dictionary F - pleural of Focus.
Foci Dictionary F - pleural of Focus.
Focus Dictionary F - noun 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.
Focused Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Focus.
Focusing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Focus.
Fodder Dictionary F - noun A weight by which lead and some other metals were formerly sold, in England, varying from 19/ to 24 cwt.; a fother.
Foddered Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fodder.
Foddering Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fodder.
Fodderer Dictionary F - noun One who fodders cattle.
Fodient Dictionary F - adjective Fitted for, or pertaining to, digging.
Fodientia Dictionary F - noun plural A group of African edentates including the aard-vark.
Foe Dictionary F - noun One who entertains personal enmity, hatred, grudge, or malice, against another; an enemy.
Foehood Dictionary F - noun Enmity.
Foemen Dictionary F - pleural of Foeman.
Foeman Dictionary F - noun An enemy in war.
Foetal Dictionary F - adjective Same as Fetal.
Foetation Dictionary F - noun Same as Fetation.
Foeticide Dictionary F - noun Same as Feticide.
Foetor Dictionary F - noun Same as Fetor.
Foetus Dictionary F - noun Same as Fetus.
Fog Dictionary F - noun A second growth of grass; aftergrass.
Fogged Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fog.
Fogging Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fog.
Foge Dictionary F - noun The Cornish name for a forge used for smelting tin.
Fo'gey Dictionary F - noun See Fogy.
Fog'gage Dictionary F - noun See 1st Fog.
Fog'ger Dictionary F - noun One who fogs; a pettifogger.
Foggily Dictionary F - adverb In a foggy manner; obscurely.
Fogginess Dictionary F - noun The state of being foggy.
Foggy Dictionary F - superlative Filled or abounding with fog, or watery exhalations; misty; as, a foggy atmosphere; a foggy morning.
Fogie Dictionary F - noun See Fogy.
Fogless Dictionary F - adjective Without fog; clear.
Fogies Dictionary F - pleural of Fogy.
Fogy Dictionary F - noun A dull old fellow; a person behind the times, over-conservative, or slow; - usually preceded by old.
Fogyism Dictionary F - noun The principles and conduct of a fogy.
Foh Dictionary F - interjection An exclamation of abhorrence or contempt; poh; fle.
Fohist Dictionary F - noun A Buddhist priest. See Fo.
Foible Dictionary F - adjective Weak; feeble.
Foiled Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Foil.
Foiling Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Foil.
Foil Dictionary F - verb transitive To tread under foot; to trample.
Foilable Dictionary F - adjective Capable of being foiled.
Foiler Dictionary F - noun One who foils or frustrates.
Foin Dictionary F - noun The beech marten (Mustela foina). See Marten.
Foinery Dictionary F - noun Thrusting with the foil; fencing with the point, as distinguished from broadsword play.
Foiningly Dictionary F - adverb With a push or thrust.
Foison Dictionary F - noun Rich harvest; plenty; abundance.
Foist Dictionary F - noun A light and fast-sailing ship.
Foisted Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Foist.
Foisting Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Foist.
Foister Dictionary F - noun One who foists something surreptitiously; a falsifier.
Foistied Dictionary F - adjective Fusty.
Foistiness Dictionary F - noun Fustiness; mustiness.
Foisty Dictionary F - adjective Fusty; musty.
Folded Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fold.
Folding Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fold.
Fold Dictionary F - verb transitive 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.
Foldage Dictionary F - noun See Faldage.
Folder Dictionary F - noun One who, or that which, folds; esp., a flat, knifelike instrument used for folding paper.
Folderol Dictionary F - noun Nonsense.
Foldless Dictionary F - adjective Having no fold.
Foliaceous Dictionary F - adjective Belonging to, or having the texture or nature of, a leaf; having leaves intermixed with flowers; as, a foliaceous spike.
Foliage Dictionary F - noun Leaves, collectively, as produced or arranged by nature; leafage; as, a tree or forest of beautiful foliage.
Foliaged Dictionary F - adjective Furnished with foliage; leaved; as, the variously foliaged mulberry.
Foliar Dictionary F - adjective Consisting of, or pertaining to, leaves; as, foliar appendages.
Foliate Dictionary F - adjective Furnished with leaves; leafy; as, a foliate stalk.
Foliated Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Foliate.
Foliating Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Foliate.
Foliation Dictionary F - noun The process of forming into a leaf or leaves.
Foliature Dictionary F - noun Foliage; leafage.
Folier Dictionary F - noun Goldsmith's foil.
Foliferous Dictionary F - adjective Producing leaves.
Folily Dictionary F - adjective Foolishly.
Folios Dictionary F - pleural of Folio.
Folio Dictionary F - noun A leaf of a book or manuscript.
Fol'io Dictionary F - verb transitive To put a serial number on each folio or page of (a book); to page.
Fo'liolate Dictionary F - adjective Of or pertaining to leaflets; - used in composition; as, bi-foliolate.
Foliole Dictionary F - noun One of the distinct parts of a compound leaf; a leaflet.
Foliomort Dictionary F - adjective See Feuillemort.
Foliose Dictionary F - adjective Having many leaves; leafy.
Foliosity Dictionary F - noun The ponderousness or bulk of a folio; voluminousness.
Folious Dictionary F - adjective Like a leaf; thin; unsubstantial.
Foliums Dictionary F - pleural of Folium.
Folia Dictionary F - pleural of Folium.
Folium Dictionary F - noun A leaf, esp. a thin leaf or plate.
Folk Dictionary F - noun collect. & plural Alt. of Folks.
Folks Dictionary F - noun collect. & particle In Anglo-Saxon times, the people of a group of townships or villages; a community; a tribe.
Folkland Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - Alt. of Folk lore.
Folk lore Dictionary F - Tales, legends, or superstitions long current among the people.
Folkmote Dictionary F - noun An assembly of the people.
Folkmoter Dictionary F - noun One who takes part in a folkmote, or local court.
Follicle Dictionary F - noun A simple podlike pericarp which contains several seeds and opens along the inner or ventral suture, as in the peony, larkspur and milkweed.
Follicular Dictionary F - adjective Like, pertaining to, or consisting of, a follicles or follicles.
Folliculated Dictionary F - adjective Having follicles.
Folliculous Dictionary F - adjective Having or producing follicles.
Folliful Dictionary F - adjective Full of folly.
Followed Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Follow.
Following Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Follow.
Follow Dictionary F - verb transitive 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.
Follower Dictionary F - noun One who follows; a pursuer; an attendant; a disciple; a dependent associate; a retainer.
Follies Dictionary F - pleural of Folly.
Folly Dictionary F - noun The state of being foolish; want of good sense; levity, weakness, or derangement of mind.
Folwe Dictionary F - verb transitive To follow.
Fomalhaut Dictionary F - noun A star of the first magnitude, in the constellation Piscis Australis, or Southern Fish.
Fomented Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Foment.
Fomenting Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Foment.
Foment Dictionary F - verb transitive To apply a warm lotion to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge wet with warm water or medicated liquid.
Fomentation Dictionary F - noun 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.
Fomenter Dictionary F - noun One who foments; one who encourages or instigates; as, a fomenter of sedition.
Fomites Dictionary F - pleural of Fomes.
Fomes Dictionary F - noun 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 Dictionary F - adjective A fool; an idiot.
Fond Dictionary F - imp. of Find. Found.
Fonde Dictionary F - verb transitive & intransitive To endeavor; to strive; to try.
Fondled Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fondle.
Fondling Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fondle.
Fondle Dictionary F - verb To treat or handle with tenderness or in a loving manner; to caress; as, a nurse fondles a child.
Fondler Dictionary F - noun One who fondles.
Fondly Dictionary F - adverb Foolishly.
Fondness Dictionary F - noun The quality or state of being fond; foolishness.
Fondon Dictionary F - noun A large copper vessel used for hot amalgamation.
Fondus Dictionary F - noun A style of printing calico, paper hangings, etc., in which the colors are in bands and graduated into each other.
Fone Dictionary F - noun plural of Foe.
Fonge Dictionary F - verb transitive To take; to receive.
Fonly Dictionary F - adverb Foolishly; fondly.
Fonne Dictionary F - noun A fon.
Font Dictionary F - noun 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.
Fontal Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to a font, fountain, source, or origin; original; primitive.
Fontanel Dictionary F - noun An issue or artificial ulcer for the discharge of humors from the body.
Fontanelle Dictionary F - noun Same as Fontanel, 2.
Fontange Dictionary F - noun A kind of tall headdress formerly worn.
Food Dictionary F - noun What is fed upon; that which goes to support life by being received within, and assimilated by, the organism of an animal or a plant; nutriment; aliment; especially, what is eaten by animals for nourishment.
Foodful Dictionary F - adjective Full of food; supplying food; fruitful; fertile.
Foodless Dictionary F - adjective Without food; barren.
Foody Dictionary F - adjective Eatable; fruitful.
Fool Dictionary F - noun A compound of gooseberries scalded and crushed, with cream; - commonly called gooseberry fool.
Fooled Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fool.
Fooling Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fool.
Foolahs Dictionary F - noun plural Same as Fulahs.
Fool-born Dictionary F - adjective Begotten by a fool.
Fooleries Dictionary F - pleural of Foolery.
Foolery Dictionary F - noun The practice of folly; the behavior of a fool; absurdity.
Foolfish Dictionary F - noun The orange filefish. See Filefish.
Fool-happy Dictionary F - adjective Lucky, without judgment or contrivance.
Foolhardihood Dictionary F - noun The state of being foolhardy; foolhardiness.
Foolhardily Dictionary F - adverb In a foolhardy manner.
Foolhardiness Dictionary F - noun Courage without sense or judgment; foolish rashness; recklessness.
Foolhardise Dictionary F - noun Foolhardiness.
Foolhardy Dictionary F - adjective Daring without judgment; foolishly adventurous and bold.
Fool-hasty Dictionary F - adjective Foolishly hasty.
Foolify Dictionary F - verb transitive To make a fool of; to befool.
Foolish Dictionary F - adjective Marked with, or exhibiting, folly; void of understanding; weak in intellect; without judgment or discretion; silly; unwise.
Foolishly Dictionary F - adverb In a foolish manner.
Foolishness Dictionary F - noun The quality of being foolish.
Fool-large Dictionary F - adjective Foolishly liberal.
Fool-largesse Dictionary F - noun Foolish expenditure; waste.
Foolscap Dictionary F - noun A writing paper made in sheets, ordinarily 16 x 13 inches, and folded so as to make a page 13 x 8 inches. See Paper.
Foot Dictionary F - noun The terminal part of the leg of man or an animal; esp., the part below the ankle or wrist; that part of an animal upon which it rests when standing, or moves. See Manus, and Pes.
Footed Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Foot.
Footing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Foot.
Football Dictionary F - noun An inflated ball to be kicked in sport, usually made in India rubber, or a bladder incased in Leather.
Footband Dictionary F - noun A band of foot soldiers.
Footbath Dictionary F - noun A bath for the feet; also, a vessel used in bathing the feet.
Footboard Dictionary F - noun A board or narrow platfrom upon which one may stand or brace his feet.
Footboy Dictionary F - noun A page; an attendant in livery; a lackey.
Footbreadth Dictionary F - noun The breadth of a foot; - used as a measure.
Footbridge Dictionary F - noun A narrow bridge for foot passengers only.
Footcloth Dictionary F - noun Formerly, a housing or caparison for a horse.
Footfall Dictionary F - noun A setting down of the foot; a footstep; the sound of a footstep.
Footfight Dictionary F - noun A conflict by persons on foot; - distinguished from a fight on horseback.
Footglove Dictionary F - noun A kind of stocking.
Foot Guards Dictionary F - pl. Infantry soldiers belonging to select regiments called the Guards.
Foothalt Dictionary F - noun A disease affecting the feet of sheep.
Foothill Dictionary F - noun A low hill at the foot of higher hills or mountains.
Foothold Dictionary F - noun A holding with the feet; firm standing; that on which one may tread or rest securely; footing.
Foothook Dictionary F - noun See Futtock.
Foothot Dictionary F - adverb Hastily; immediately; instantly; on the spot; hotfloot.
Footless Dictionary F - adjective Having no feet.
Footlicker Dictionary F - noun A sycophant; a fawner; a toady. Cf. Bootlick.
Footlight Dictionary F - noun One of a row of lights in the front of the stage in a theater, etc., and on a level therewith.
Footmen Dictionary F - pleural of Footman.
Footman Dictionary F - noun A soldier who marches and fights on foot; a foot soldier.
Footmanship Dictionary F - noun Art or skill of a footman.
Footmark Dictionary F - noun A footprint; a track or vestige.
Footnote Dictionary F - noun A note of reference or comment at the foot of a page.
Footpace Dictionary F - noun A walking pace or step.
Footpad Dictionary F - noun A highwayman or robber on foot.
Footpaths Dictionary F - pleural of Footpath.
Footpath Dictionary F - noun A narrow path or way for pedestrains only; a footway.
Footplate Dictionary F - noun See Footboard (a).
Foot pound Dictionary F - A unit of energy, or work, being equal to the work done in raising one pound avoirdupois against the force of gravity the height of one foot.
Foot poundal Dictionary F - A unit of energy or work, equal to the work done in moving a body through one foot against the force of one poundal.
Footprint Dictionary F - noun The impression of the foot; a trace or footmark; as, "Footprints of the Creator.".
Footrope Dictionary F - noun The rope rigged below a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling; - formerly called a horse.
Foots Dictionary F - noun plural The settlings of oil, molasses, etc., at the bottom of a barrel or hogshead.
Foot-sore Dictionary F - adjective Having sore or tender feet, as by reason of much walking; as, foot-sore cattle.
Footstalk Dictionary F - noun The stalk of a leaf or of flower; a petiole, pedicel, or reduncle.
Footstall Dictionary F - noun The stirrup of a woman's saddle.
Footstep Dictionary F - noun The mark or impression of the foot; a track; hence, visible sign of a course pursued; token; mark; as, the footsteps of divine wisdom.
Footstone Dictionary F - noun The stone at the foot of a grave; - opposed to headstone.
Footstool Dictionary F - noun A low stool to support the feet of one when sitting.
Footway Dictionary F - noun A passage for pedestrians only.
Footworn Dictionary F - adjective Worn by, or weared in, the feet; as, a footworn path; a footworn traveler.
Footy Dictionary F - adjective Having foots, or settlings; as, footy oil, molasses, etc.
Fop Dictionary F - noun One whose ambition it is to gain admiration by showy dress; a coxcomb; an inferior dandy.
Fop-doodle Dictionary F - noun A stupid or insignificant fellow; a fool; a simpleton.
Fopling Dictionary F - noun A petty fop.
Fopperies Dictionary F - pleural of Foppery.
Foppery Dictionary F - noun The behavior, dress, or other indication of a fop; coxcombry; affectation of show; showy folly.
Foppish Dictionary F - adjective Foplike; characteristic of a top in dress or manners; making an ostentatious display of gay clothing; affected in manners.
For- Dictionary F - A prefix to verbs, having usually the force of a negative or privative. It often implies also loss, detriment, or destruction, and sometimes it is intensive, meaning utterly, quite thoroughly, as in forbathe.
For Dictionary F - preposition In the most general sense, indicating that in consideration of, in view of, or with reference to, which anything is done or takes place.
Forage Dictionary F - noun The act of foraging; search for provisions, etc.
Foraged Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Forage.
Foraging Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Forage.
Forager Dictionary F - noun One who forages.
Foralite Dictionary F - noun A tubelike marking, occuring in sandstone and other strata.
Foramina Dictionary F - pleural of Foramen.
Foramines Dictionary F - pleural of Foramen.
Foramen Dictionary F - noun A small opening, perforation, or orifice; a fenestra.
Foraminated Dictionary F - adjective Having small opening, or foramina.
Foraminifer Dictionary F - noun One of the foraminifera.
Foraminifera Dictionary F - noun plural An extensive order of rhizopods which generally have a chambered calcareous shell formed by several united zooids. Many of them have perforated walls, whence the name. Some species are covered with sand. See Rhizophoda.
Foraminiferous Dictionary F - adjective Having small openings, or foramina.
Foraminous Dictionary F - adjective Having foramina; full of holes; porous.
Forasmuch Dictionary F - conjecture In consideration that; seeing that; since; because that; - followed by as. See under For, prep.
Foray Dictionary F - noun A sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid.
Forayer Dictionary F - noun One who makes or joins in a foray.
Forbade Dictionary F - imp. of Forbid.
Forbathe Dictionary F - verb transitive To bathe.
Forbear Dictionary F - noun An ancestor; a forefather; - usually in the plural.
Forbore Dictionary F - imperative of Forbear.
Forbare Dictionary F - of Forbear.
Forborne Dictionary F - past participle of Forbear.
Forbearing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Forbear.
Forbearance Dictionary F - noun The act of forbearing or waiting; the exercise of patience.
Forbearant Dictionary F - adjective Forbearing.
Forbearer Dictionary F - noun One who forbears.
Forbidden Dictionary F - past participle of Forbid.
Forbid Dictionary F - of Forbid.
Forbidding Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Forbid.
Forbiddance Dictionary F - noun The act of forbidding; prohibition; command or edict against a thing.
Forbiddenly Dictionary F - adverb In a forbidden or unlawful manner.
Forbidder Dictionary F - noun One who forbids.
Forblack Dictionary F - adjective Very black.
Forboden Dictionary F - p. p. of Forbid.
Forbruise Dictionary F - verb transitive To bruise sorely or exceedingly.
Forby Dictionary F - adverb & preposition Near; hard by; along; past.
Forcarve Dictionary F - verb transitive To cut completely; to cut off.
Force Dictionary F - verb transitive To stuff; to lard; to farce.
Forced Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Force.
Forcing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Force.
Forceful Dictionary F - adjective Full of or processing force; exerting force; mighty.
Forceless Dictionary F - adjective Having little or no force; feeble.
Forcemeat Dictionary F - noun Meat chopped fine and highly seasoned, either served up alone, or used as a stuffing.
Forcement Dictionary F - noun The act of forcing; compulsion.
Forceps Dictionary F - noun A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies which it would be inconvenient or impracticable to seize with the fingers, especially one for delicate operations, as those of watchmakers, surgeons, accoucheurs, dentists, etc.
Force pump Dictionary F - A pump having a solid piston, or plunger, for drawing and forcing a liquid, as water, through the valves; in distinction from a pump having a bucket, or valved piston.
Forcer Dictionary F - noun One who, or that which, forces or drives.
Forcible Dictionary F - adjective Possessing force; characterized by force, efficiency, or energy; powerful; efficacious; impressive; influential.
Forcible-feeble Dictionary F - adjective Seemingly vigorous, but really weak or insipid.
Forcibleness Dictionary F - noun The quality of being forcible.
Forcibly Dictionary F - adverb In a forcible manner.
Forcipal Dictionary F - adjective Forked or branched like a pair of forceps; constructed so as to open and shut like a pair of forceps.
Forcipate Dictionary F - adjective Alt. of Forcipated.
Forcipated Dictionary F - adjective Like a pair of forceps; as, a forcipated mouth.
Forcipation Dictionary F - noun Torture by pinching with forceps or pinchers.
Forcut Dictionary F - verb transitive To cut completely; to cut off.
Ford Dictionary F - intransitive verb A place in a river, or other water, where it may be passed by man or beast on foot, by wading.
Forded Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Ford.
Fording Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Ford.
Fordable Dictionary F - adjective Capable of being forded.
Fordless Dictionary F - adjective Without a ford.
Fordo Dictionary F - intransitive verb To destroy; to undo; to ruin.
Fordone Dictionary F - adjective Undone; ruined.
Fordrive Dictionary F - verb transitive To drive about; to drive here and there.
Fordrunken Dictionary F - adjective Utterly drunk; very drunk.
Fordry Dictionary F - adjective Entirely dry; withered.
Fordwine Dictionary F - intransitive verb To dwindle away; to disappear.
Fore Dictionary F - intransitive verb Journey; way; method of proceeding.
Foreadmonish Dictionary F - verb transitive To admonish beforehand, or before the act or event.
Foreadvise Dictionary F - verb transitive To advise or counsel before the time of action, or before the event.
Forealleged Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Foreallege.
Forealleging Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Foreallege.
Foreallege Dictionary F - verb transitive To allege or cite before.
Foreappoint Dictionary F - verb transitive To set, order, or appoint, beforehand.
Foreappointment Dictionary F - noun Previous appointment; preordinantion.
Forearm Dictionary F - verb transitive To arm or prepare for attack or resistance before the time of need.
Forebeam Dictionary F - noun The breast beam of a loom.
Forebear Dictionary F - noun An ancestor. See Forbear.
Foreboded Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Forebode.
Foreboding Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Forebode.
Forebode Dictionary F - verb transitive To foretell.
Forebodement Dictionary F - noun The act of foreboding; the thing foreboded.
Foreboder Dictionary F - noun One who forebodes.
Forebodingly Dictionary F - adverb In a foreboding manner.
Forebrace Dictionary F - noun A rope applied to the fore yardarm, to change the position of the foresail.
Forebrain Dictionary F - noun The anterior of the three principal divisions of the brain, including the prosencephalon and thalamencephalon. Sometimes restricted to the prosencephalon only. See Brain.
Foreby Dictionary F - preposition Near; hard by; along; past. See Forby.
Forecast Dictionary F - verb transitive To plan beforehand; to scheme; to project.
Forecaster Dictionary F - noun One who forecast.
Forecastle Dictionary F - noun A short upper deck forward, formerly raised like a castle, to command an enemy's decks.
Forechosen Dictionary F - adjective Chosen beforehand.
Forecited Dictionary F - adjective Cited or quoted before or above.
Foreclosed Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Foreclose.
Foreclosing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Foreclose.
Foreclose Dictionary F - verb transitive To shut up or out; to preclude; to stop; to prevent; to bar; to exclude.
Foreclosure Dictionary F - noun The act or process of foreclosing; a proceeding which bars or extinguishes a mortgager's right of redeeming a mortgaged estate.
Foreconceive Dictionary F - verb transitive To preconceive; to imagine beforehand.
Foredate Dictionary F - verb transitive To date before the true time; to antendate.
Foredeck Dictionary F - noun The fore part of a deck, or of a ship.
Foredeem Dictionary F - verb transitive To recognize or judge in advance; to forebode.
Foredesign Dictionary F - verb transitive To plan beforehand; to intend previously.
Foredetermine Dictionary F - verb transitive To determine or decree beforehand.
Foredispose Dictionary F - verb transitive To bestow beforehand.
Foredoom Dictionary F - verb transitive To doom beforehand; to predestinate.
Forefather Dictionary F - noun One who precedes another in the line of genealogy in any degree, but usually in a remote degree; an ancestor.
Forefeel Dictionary F - verb transitive To feel beforehand; to have a presentiment of.
Forefence Dictionary F - noun Defense in front.
Forefend Dictionary F - verb transitive To hinder; to fend off; to avert; to prevent the approach of; to forbid or prohibit. See Forfend.
Forefinger Dictionary F - noun The finger next to the thumb; the index.
Foreflow Dictionary F - verb transitive To flow before.
Forefoot Dictionary F - noun One of the anterior feet of a quardruped or multiped; - usually written fore foot.
Foreefront Dictionary F - noun Foremost part or place.
Foregame Dictionary F - noun A first game; first plan.
Foreganger Dictionary F - noun A short rope grafted on a harpoon, to which a longer lin/ may be attached.
Foregather Dictionary F - intransitive verb Same as Forgather.
Foregift Dictionary F - noun A premium paid by / lessee when taking his lease.
Foregleam Dictionary F - noun An antecedent or premonitory gleam; a dawning light.
Forewent 2 Dictionary F - imperative of Forego.
Foregone Dictionary F - past participle of Forego.
Foregoing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Forego.
Forego Dictionary F - verb transitive To quit; to relinquish; to leave.
Foregoer Dictionary F - noun One who goes before another; a predecessor; hence, an ancestor' a progenitor.
Foreground Dictionary F - noun On a painting, and sometimes in a bas-relief, mosaic picture, or the like, that part of the scene represented, which is nearest to the spectator, and therefore occupies the lowest part of the work of art itself. Cf. Distance, n., 6.
Foreguess Dictionary F - verb transitive To conjecture.
Foregut Dictionary F - noun The anterior part of the alimentary canal, from the mouth to the intestine, o/ to the entrance of the bile duct.
Forehand Dictionary F - noun All that part of a horse which is before the rider.
Forehanded Dictionary F - adjective Early; timely; seasonable.
Forehead Dictionary F - noun The front of that part of the head which incloses the brain; that part of the face above the eyes; the brow.
Forehear Dictionary F - verb intransitive & transitive To hear beforehand.
Forehearth Dictionary F - noun The forward extension of the hearth of a blast furnace under the tymp.
Forehend Dictionary F - verb transitive See Forhend.
Forehew Dictionary F - verb transitive To hew or cut in front.
Forehold Dictionary F - noun The forward part of the hold of a ship.
Foreholding Dictionary F - noun Ominous foreboding; superstitious prognostication.
Forehook Dictionary F - noun A piece of timber placed across the stem, to unite the bows and strengthen the fore part of the ship; a breast hook.
Foreign Dictionary F - adjective Outside; extraneous; separated; alien; as, a foreign country; a foreign government.
Foreigner Dictionary F - noun A person belonging to or owning allegiance to a foreign country; one not native in the country or jurisdiction under consideration, or not naturalized there; an alien; a stranger.
Foreignism Dictionary F - noun Anything peculiar to a foreign language or people; a foreign idiom or custom.
Foreignness Dictionary F - noun The quality of being foreign; remoteness; want of relation or appropriateness.
Forein Dictionary F - adjective Foreign.
Forejudge Dictionary F - verb transitive To judge beforehand, or before hearing the facts and proof; to prejudge.
Forejudger Dictionary F - noun A judgment by which one is deprived or put of a right or thing in question.
Forejudgment Dictionary F - noun Prejudgment.
Foreknew Dictionary F - imperative of Foreknow.
Foreknown Dictionary F - past participle of Foreknow.
Foreknowing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Foreknow.
Foreknow Dictionary F - verb transitive To have previous knowledge of; to know beforehand.
Foreknowa-ble Dictionary F - adjective That may be foreknown.
Foreknower Dictionary F - noun One who foreknows.
Foreknowingly Dictionary F - adverb With foreknowledge.
Foreknowledge Dictionary F - noun Knowledge of a thing before it happens, or of whatever is to happen; prescience.
Forel Dictionary F - noun A kind of parchment for book covers. See Forrill.
Foreland Dictionary F - noun A promontory or cape; a headland; as, the North and South Foreland in Kent, England.
Forelay Dictionary F - verb transitive To lay down beforehand.
Foreleader Dictionary F - noun One who leads others by his example; aguide.
Forelend Dictionary F - verb transitive See Forlend.
Forelet Dictionary F - verb transitive See Forlet.
Forelie Dictionary F - intransitive verb To lie in front of.
Forelift Dictionary F - verb transitive To lift up in front.
Forelock Dictionary F - noun The lock of hair that grows from the forepart of the head.
Forelook Dictionary F - intransitive verb To look beforehand or forward.
Foremen Dictionary F - pleural of Foreman.
Foreman Dictionary F - noun The first or chief man.
Foremast Dictionary F - noun The mast nearest the bow.
Foremeant Dictionary F - adjective Intended beforehand; premeditated.
Forementioned Dictionary F - adjective Mentioned before; already cited; aforementioned.
Foremilk Dictionary F - noun The milk secreted just before, or directly after, the birth of a child or of the young of an animal; colostrum.
Foremost Dictionary F - adjective First in time or place; most advanced; chief in rank or dignity; as, the foremost troops of an army.
Foremostly Dictionary F - adverb In the foremost place or order; among the foremost.
Foremother Dictionary F - noun A female ancestor.
Forename Dictionary F - noun A name that precedes the family name or surname; a first name.
Forenamed Dictionary F - adjective Named before; aforenamed.
Forenenst Dictionary F - preposition Over against; opposite to.
Fore-night Dictionary F - noun The evening between twilight and bedtime.
Forenoon Dictionary F - noun The early part of the day, from morning to meridian, or noon.
Forenotice Dictionary F - noun Notice or information of an event before it happens; forewarning.
Forensal Dictionary F - adjective Forensic.
Forensic Dictionary F - adjective Belonging to courts of judicature or to public discussion and debate; used in legal proceedings, or in public discussions; argumentative; rhetorical; as, forensic eloquence or disputes.
Forensical Dictionary F - adjective Forensic.
Foreordain Dictionary F - verb transitive To ordain or appoint beforehand; to preordain; to predestinate; to predetermine.
Foreordinate Dictionary F - verb transitive To foreordain.
Foreordination Dictionary F - noun Previous ordination or appointment; predetermination; predestination.
Fore part Dictionary F - noun Alt. of Forepart.
Forepart Dictionary F - noun The part most advanced, or first in time or in place; the beginning.
Forepast Dictionary F - adjective Bygone.
Forepossessed Dictionary F - adjective Holding or held formerly in possession.
Foreprize Dictionary F - verb transitive To prize or rate beforehand.
Forepromised Dictionary F - adjective Promised beforehand; preengaged.
Forequoted Dictionary F - adjective Cited before; quoted in a foregoing part of the treatise or essay.
Foreran Dictionary F - imp. of Forerun.
Forerank Dictionary F - noun The first rank; the front.
Forereach Dictionary F - verb transitive To advance or gain upon; - said of a vessel that gains upon another when sailing closehauled.
Foreread Dictionary F - verb transitive To tell beforehand; to signify by tokens; to predestine.
Forerecited Dictionary F - adjective Named or recited before.
Foreremembered Dictionary F - adjective Called to mind previously.
Foreright Dictionary F - adjective Ready; directly forward; going before.
Forerun Dictionary F - verb transitive To turn before; to precede; to be in advance of (something following).
Forerunner Dictionary F - noun A messenger sent before to give notice of the approach of others; a harbinger; a sign foreshowing something; a prognostic; as, the forerunner of a fever.
Foresaid Dictionary F - adjective Mentioned before; aforesaid.
Foresail Dictionary F - noun The sail bent to the foreyard of a square-rigged vessel, being the lowest sail on the foremast.
Foresay Dictionary F - verb transitive To foretell.
Foresee Dictionary F - verb transitive To see beforehand; to have prescience of; to foreknow.
Foreseen Dictionary F - past participle Provided; in case that; on condition that.
Foreseer Dictionary F - noun One who foresees or foreknows.
Foreseize Dictionary F - verb transitive To seize beforehand.
Foreshadow Dictionary F - verb transitive To shadow or typi/y beforehand; to prefigure.
Foreshew Dictionary F - verb transitive See Foreshow.
Foreship Dictionary F - noun The fore part of a ship.
Foreshorten Dictionary F - verb transitive To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective.
Foreshortening Dictionary F - noun Representation in a foreshortened mode or way.
Foreshot Dictionary F - noun In distillation of low wines, the first portion of spirit that comes over, being a fluid abounding in fusel oil.
Foreshow Dictionary F - verb transitive To show or exhibit beforehand; to give foreknowledge of; to prognosticate; to foretell.
Foreshower Dictionary F - noun One who predicts.
Foreside Dictionary F - noun The front side; the front; esp., a stretch of country fronting the sea.
Foresight Dictionary F - noun The act or the power of foreseeing; prescience; foreknowledge.
Foresighted Dictionary F - adjective Sagacious; prudent; provident for the future.
Foresightful Dictionary F - adjective Foresighted.
Foresignify Dictionary F - verb transitive To signify beforehand; to foreshow; to typify.
Foreskin Dictionary F - noun The fold of skin which covers the glans of the penis; the prepuce.
Foreskirt Dictionary F - noun The front skirt of a garment, in distinction from the train.
Foreslack Dictionary F - verb transitive See Forslack.
Foresleeve Dictionary F - noun The sleeve below the elbow.
Foreslow Dictionary F - verb transitive To make slow; to hinder; to obstruct. Obs. See Forslow, v. t.
Forespeak Dictionary F - verb transitive See Forspeak.
Forespeaking Dictionary F - noun A prediction; also, a preface.
Forespeech Dictionary F - noun A preface.
Forespent Dictionary F - adjective Already spent; gone by; past.
Forespurrer Dictionary F - noun One who rides before; a harbinger.
Forest Dictionary F - noun An extensive wood; a large tract of land covered with trees; in the United States, a wood of native growth, or a tract of woodland which has never been cultivated.
Forestaff Dictionary F - noun An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of heavenly bodies, now superseded by the sextant; - called also cross-staff.
Forestage Dictionary F - noun A duty or tribute payable to the king's foresters.
Forestal Dictionary F - adjective Of or pertaining to forests; as, forestal rights.
Forestalled Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Forestall.
Forestalling Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Forestall.
Forestall Dictionary F - verb transitive To take beforehand, or in advance; to anticipate.
Forestaller Dictionary F - noun One who forestalls; esp., one who forestalls the market.
Forestay Dictionary F - noun A large, strong rope, reaching from the foremast head to the bowsprit, to support the mast. See Illust. under Ship.
Forester Dictionary F - noun One who has charge of the growing timber on an estate; an officer appointed to watch a forest and preserve the game.
Forestick Dictionary F - noun Front stick of a hearth fire.
Forestry Dictionary F - noun The art of forming or of cultivating forests; the management of growing timber.
Foreswart Dictionary F - adjective Alt. of Foreswart.
Foretaste Dictionary F - noun A taste beforehand; enjoyment in advance; anticipation.
Foretaster Dictionary F - noun One who tastes beforehand, or before another.
Foreteach Dictionary F - verb transitive To teach beforehand.
Foretold Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Foretell.
Foretelling Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Foretell.
Foretell Dictionary F - verb transitive To predict; to tell before occurence; to prophesy; to foreshow.
Foreteller Dictionary F - noun One who predicts.
Forethink Dictionary F - verb transitive To think beforehand; to anticipate in the mind; to prognosticate.
Forethought Dictionary F - adjective Thought of, or planned, beforehand; aforethought; prepense; hence, deliberate.
Forethoughtful Dictionary F - adjective Having forethought.
Foretime Dictionary F - noun The past; the time before the present.
Foretoken Dictionary F - noun Prognostic; previous omen.
Foretokened Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Foretoken.
Foretokening Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Foretoken.
Fore teeth Dictionary F - pleural of Fore tooth.
Fore tooth Dictionary F - One of the teeth in the forepart of the mouth; an incisor.
Foretop Dictionary F - noun The hair on the forepart of the head; esp., a tuft or lock of hair which hangs over the forehead, as of a horse.
Fore-topgallant Dictionary F - adjective Designating the mast, sail, yard, etc., above the topmast; as, the fore-topgallant sail. See Sail.
Fore-topmast Dictionary F - noun The mast erected at the head of the foremast, and at the head of which stands the fore-topgallant mast. See Ship.
Fore-topsail Dictionary F - noun See Sail.
Forever Dictionary F - adverb Through eternity; through endless ages, eternally.
Forevouched Dictionary F - adjective Formerly vouched or avowed; affirmed in advance.
Foreward Dictionary F - noun The van; the front.
Forewarned Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Forewarn.
Forewarning Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Forewarn.
Forewarn Dictionary F - verb transitive To warn beforehand; to give previous warning, admonition, information, or notice to; to caution in advance.
Forewaste Dictionary F - verb transitive See Forewaste.
Forewend Dictionary F - verb transitive To go before.
Forewish Dictionary F - verb transitive To wish beforehand.
Forewit Dictionary F - noun A leader, or would-be leader, in matters of knowledge or taste.
Forewot Dictionary F - pres. indic. sing., 1st & 3d pers. of Forewite.
Forewost Dictionary F - 2d person of Forewite.
Forewiten Dictionary F - pl. of Forewite.
Forewiste Dictionary F - imperative singular of Forewite.
Forewisten Dictionary F - pl. of Forewite.
Forewiting Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Forewite.
Forewite Dictionary F - verb transitive To foreknow.
Forewomen Dictionary F - pleural of Forewoman.
Forewoman Dictionary F - noun A woman who is chief; a woman who has charge of the work or workers in a shop or other place; a head woman.
Foreword Dictionary F - noun A preface.
Foreworn Dictionary F - adjective Worn out; wasted; used up.
Foreyard Dictionary F - noun The lowermost yard on the foremast.
Forfalture Dictionary F - noun Forfeiture.
Forfeit Dictionary F - noun Injury; wrong; mischief.
Forfeited Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Forfeit.
Forfeiting Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Forfeit.
Fourfeitable Dictionary F - adjective Liable to be forfeited; subject to forfeiture.
Forfeiter Dictionary F - noun One who incurs a penalty of forfeiture.
Forfeiture Dictionary F - noun The act of forfeiting; the loss of some right, privilege, estate, honor, office, or effects, by an offense, crime, breach of condition, or other act.
Forfend Dictionary F - verb transitive To prohibit; to forbid; to avert.
Forfered Dictionary F - past particle & adjective Excessively alarmed; in great fear.
Forfete Dictionary F - intransitive verb To incur a penalty; to transgress.
Forfex Dictionary F - noun A pair of shears.
Forficate Dictionary F - adjective Deeply forked, as the tail of certain birds.
Forficula Dictionary F - noun A genus of insects including the earwigs. See Earwig, 1.
Forgather Dictionary F - intransitive verb To convene; to gossip; to meet accidentally.
Forgave Dictionary F - imp. of Forgive.
Forge Dictionary F - noun A place or establishment where iron or other metals are wrought by heating and hammering; especially, a furnace, or a shop with its furnace, etc., where iron is heated and wrought; a smithy.
Forged Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Forge.
Forging Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Forge.
Forgemen Dictionary F - pleural of Forgeman.
Forgeman Dictionary F - noun A skilled smith, who has a hammerer to assist him.
Forger Dictionary F - noun & transitive verb One who forges, makes, of forms; a fabricator; a falsifier.
Forgeries Dictionary F - pleural of Forgery.
Forgery Dictionary F - noun The act of forging metal into shape.
Forgot Dictionary F - imperative of Forget.
Forgat Dictionary F - of Forget.
Forgotten Dictionary F - past participle of Forget.
Forgetting Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Forget.
Forget Dictionary F - verb transitive To lose the remembrance of; to let go from the memory; to cease to have in mind; not to think of; also, to lose the power of; to cease from doing.
Forgetful Dictionary F - adjective Apt to forget; easily losing remembrance; as, a forgetful man should use helps to strengthen his memory.
Forgetfully Dictionary F - adverb In a forgetful manner.
Forgetfulness Dictionary F - noun The quality of being forgetful; prononess to let slip from the mind.
Forgetive Dictionary F - adjective Inventive; productive; capable.
Forget-me-not Dictionary F - noun A small herb, of the genus Myosotis (M. palustris, incespitosa, etc.), bearing a beautiful blue flower, and extensively considered the emblem of fidelity.
Forgettable Dictionary F - adjective Liable to be, or that may be, forgotten.
Forgetter Dictionary F - noun One who forgets; a heedless person.
Forgettingly Dictionary F - adverb By forgetting.
Forgivable Dictionary F - adjective Capable of being forgiven; pardonable; venial.
Forgiven Dictionary F - past participle of Forgive.
Forgiving Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Forgive.
Forgive Dictionary F - verb transitive To give wholly; to make over without reservation; to resign.
Forgiveness Dictionary F - noun The act of forgiving; the state of being forgiven; as, the forgiveness of sin or of injuries.
Forgiver Dictionary F - noun One who forgives.
Forwent Dictionary F - imperative of Forgo.
Forgone Dictionary F - past participle of Forgo.
Forgoing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Forgo.
Forgo Dictionary F - intransitive verb To pass by; to leave. See 1st Forego.
Forhall Dictionary F - verb transitive To harass; to torment; to distress.
Forhend Dictionary F - verb transitive To seize upon.
Forinsecal Dictionary F - adjective Foreign; alien.
Forisfamiliated Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Forisfamiliate.
Forisfamiliating Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Forisfamiliate.
Forisfamiliate Dictionary F - verb transitive Literally, to put out of a family; hence, to portion off, so as to exclude further claim of inheritance; to emancipate (as a with his own consent) from paternal authority.
Forisfamiliation Dictionary F - noun The act of forisfamiliating.
Fork Dictionary F - noun An instrument consisting of a handle with a shank terminating in two or more prongs or tines, which are usually of metal, parallel and slightly curved; - used from piercing, holding, taking up, or pitching anything.
Forked Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fork.
Forking Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fork.
Forkbeard Dictionary F - noun A European fish (Raniceps raninus), having a large flat head; - also called tadpole fish, and lesser forked beard.
Forkerve Dictionary F - verb transitive See Forcarve, v. t.
Forkiness Dictionary F - noun The quality or state or dividing in a forklike manner.
Forkless Dictionary F - adjective Having no fork.
Forktail Dictionary F - noun One of several Asiatic and East Indian passerine birds, belonging to Enucurus, and allied genera. The tail is deeply forking.
Fork-tailed Dictionary F - adjective Having the outer tail feathers longer than the median ones; swallow-tailed; - said of many birds.
Forky Dictionary F - adjective Opening into two or more parts or shoots; forked; furcated.
Forlaft Dictionary F - p. p. of Forleave.
Forlay Dictionary F - verb transitive To lie in wait for; to ambush.
Forleave Dictionary F - verb transitive To leave off wholly.
Forlend Dictionary F - verb transitive To give up wholly.
Forlore Dictionary F - past participle of Forlese.
Forlorn Dictionary F - of Forlese.
Forlese Dictionary F - verb transitive To lose utterly.
Forlet Dictionary F - verb transitive To give up; to leave; to abandon.
Forlie Dictionary F - intransitive verb See Forelie.
Forlornly Dictionary F - adverb In a forlorn manner.
Forlornness Dictionary F - noun State of being forlorn.
Forlye Dictionary F - intransitive verb Same as Forlie.
form Dictionary F - noun A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.
Formed Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Form.
Forming Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Form.
Formal Dictionary F - noun See Methylal.
Formaldehyde Dictionary F - noun A colorless, volatile liquid, H2CO, resembling acetic or ethyl aldehyde, and chemically intermediate between methyl alcohol and formic acid.
Formalism Dictionary F - noun The practice or the doctrine of strict adherence to, or dependence on, external forms, esp. in matters of religion.
Formalist Dictionary F - noun One overattentive to forms, or too much confined to them; esp., one who rests in external religious forms, or observes strictly the outward forms of worship, without possessing the life and spirit of religion.
Formalities Dictionary F - pleural of Formality.
Formality Dictionary F - noun The condition or quality of being formal, strictly ceremonious, precise, etc.
Formalized Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Formalize.
Formalizing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Formalize.
Formalize Dictionary F - verb transitive To give form, or a certain form, to; to model.
Formally Dictionary F - adverb In a formal manner; essentially; characteristically; expressly; regularly; ceremoniously; precisely.
Formate Dictionary F - noun A salt of formic acid.
Formation Dictionary F - noun The act of giving form or shape to anything; a forming; a shaping.
Formative Dictionary F - adjective Giving form; having the power of giving form; plastic; as, the formative arts.
Forme Dictionary F - adjective Same as Pate or Patte.
Formedon Dictionary F - noun A writ of right for a tenant in tail in case of a discontinuance of the estate tail. This writ has been abolished.
Formell Dictionary F - noun The female of a hawk or falcon.
Former Dictionary F - noun One who forms; a maker; a creator.
Formeret Dictionary F - noun One of the half ribs against the walls in a ceiling vaulted with ribs.
Formerly Dictionary F - adverb In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
Formful Dictionary F - adjective Creative; imaginative.
Formic Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, ants; as, formic acid; in an extended sense, pertaining to, or derived from, formic acid; as, formic ether.
Formica Dictionary F - noun A Linnaean genus of hymenopterous insects, including the common ants. See Ant.
Formicaroid Dictionary F - adjective Like or pertaining to the family Formicaridae or ant thrushes.
Formicary Dictionary F - noun The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill.
Formicate Dictionary F - adjective Resembling, or pertaining to, an ant or ants.
Formication Dictionary F - noun A sensation resembling that made by the creeping of ants on the skin.
Formicid Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to the ants.
Formidability Dictionary F - noun Formidableness.
Formidable Dictionary F - adjective Exciting fear or apprehension; impressing dread; adapted to excite fear and deter from approach, encounter, or undertaking; alarming.
Formidableness Dictionary F - noun The quality of being formidable, or adapted to excite dread.
Formidably Dictionary F - adverb In a formidable manner.
Formidolose Dictionary F - adjective Very much afraid.
Formless Dictionary F - adjective Shapeless; without a determinate form; wanting regularity of shape.
Formulas Dictionary F - pleural of Formula.
Formulae Dictionary F - pleural of Formula.
Formula Dictionary F - noun A prescribed or set form; an established rule; a fixed or conventional method in which anything is to be done, arranged, or said.
Formularistic Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to, or exhibiting, formularization.
Formularization Dictionary F - noun The act of formularizing; a formularized or formulated statement or exhibition.
Formularize Dictionary F - verb transitive To reduce to a forula; to formulate.
Formulary Dictionary F - adjective Stated; prescribed; ritual.
Formularies Dictionary F - pleural of Formulary.
Formulated Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Formulate.
Formulating Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Formulate.
Formulate Dictionary F - verb transitive To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.
Formulation Dictionary F - noun The act, process, or result of formulating or reducing to a formula.
Formule Dictionary F - noun A set or prescribed model; a formula.
Formulization Dictionary F - noun The act or process of reducing to a formula; the state of being formulized.
Formulized Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Formulize.
Formulizing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Formulize.
Formulize Dictionary F - verb transitive To reduce to a formula; to formulate.
Formyl Dictionary F - noun A univalent radical, H.C:O, regarded as the essential residue of formic acid and aldehyde.
Forncast Dictionary F - past participle Predestined.
Fornical Dictionary F - adjective Relating to a fornix.
Fornicate Dictionary F - adjective Alt. of Fornicated.
Fornicated Dictionary F - adjective Vaulted like an oven or furnace; arched.
Fornication Dictionary F - noun Unlawful sexual intercourse on the part of an unmarried person; the act of such illicit sexual intercourse between a man and a woman as does not by law amount to adultery.
Fornicator Dictionary F - noun An unmarried person, male or female, who has criminal intercourse with the other sex; one guilty of fornication.
Fornicatress Dictionary F - noun A woman guilty of fornication.
Fornices Dictionary F - pleural of Fornix.
Fornix Dictionary F - noun An arch or fold; as, the fornix, or vault, of the cranium; the fornix, or reflection, of the conjuctiva.
Forold Dictionary F - adjective Very old.
Forpass Dictionary F - verb transitive & intransitive To pass by or along; to pass over.
Forpine Dictionary F - verb transitive To waste away completely by suffering or torment.
Forray Dictionary F - verb transitive To foray; to ravage; to pillage.
Forrill Dictionary F - noun Lambskin parchment; vellum; forel.
Forsook Dictionary F - imperative of Forsake.
Forsaken Dictionary F - past participle of Forsake.
Forsaking Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Forsake.
Forsake Dictionary F - verb transitive To quit or leave entirely; to desert; to abandon; to depart or withdraw from; to leave; as, false friends and flatterers forsake us in adversity.
Forsaker Dictionary F - noun One who forsakes or deserts.
Forsay Dictionary F - verb transitive To forbid; to renounce; to forsake; to deny.
Forshape Dictionary F - verb transitive To render misshapen.
Forslack Dictionary F - verb transitive To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth.
Forslouthe Dictionary F - verb transitive To lose by sloth or negligence.
Forslow Dictionary F - verb transitive To delay; to hinder; to neglect; to put off.
Forslugge Dictionary F - verb transitive To lsoe by idleness or slotch.
Forsooth Dictionary F - adverb In truth; in fact; certainly; very well; - formerly used as an expression of deference or respect, especially to woman; now used ironically or contemptuously.
Forspeak Dictionary F - verb transitive To forbid; to prohibit.
Forspent Dictionary F - adjective Wasted in strength; tired; exhausted.
Forstall Dictionary F - verb transitive To forestall.
Forster Dictionary F - noun A forester.
Forstraught Dictionary F - past particle & adjective Distracted.
Forswat Dictionary F - adjective Spent with heat; covered with sweat.
Forswore Dictionary F - imperative of Forswear.
Forsworn Dictionary F - past participle of Forswear.
Forswearing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Forswear.
Forswear Dictionary F - intransitive verb To reject or renounce upon oath; hence, to renounce earnestly, determinedly, or with protestations.
Forswearer Dictionary F - noun One who rejects of renounces upon oath; one who swears a false oath.
Forswonk Dictionary F - adjective Overlabored; exhausted; worn out.
Forswornness Dictionary F - noun State of being forsworn.
Forsythia Dictionary F - adjective A shrub of the Olive family, with yellow blossoms.
Fort Dictionary F - noun A strong or fortified place; usually, a small fortified place, occupied only by troops, surrounded with a ditch, rampart, and parapet, or with palisades, stockades, or other means of defense; a fortification.
Fortalice Dictionary F - noun A small outwork of a fortification; a fortilage; - called also fortelace.
Forte Dictionary F - noun The strong point; that in which one excels.
Forted Dictionary F - adjective Furnished with, or guarded by, forts; strengthened or defended, as by forts.
Forth Dictionary F - adverb Forward; onward in time, place, or order; in advance from a given point; on to end; as, from that day forth; one, two, three, and so forth.
Forthby Dictionary F - adverb See Forby.
Forthcoming Dictionary F - adjective Ready or about to appear; making appearance.
Forthgoing Dictionary F - noun A going forth; an utterance.
Forthink Dictionary F - verb transitive To repent; to regret; to be sorry for; to cause regret.
Forthputing Dictionary F - adjective Bold; forward; aggressive.
Forthright Dictionary F - adverb Straight forward; in a straight direction.
Forthrightness Dictionary F - noun Straightforwardness; explicitness; directness.
Forthward Dictionary F - adverb Forward.
Forthwith Dictionary F - adverb Immediately; without delay; directly.
Forthy Dictionary F - adverb Therefore.
Forties Dictionary F - noun plural See Forty.
Fortieth Dictionary F - adjective Following the thirty-ninth, or preceded by thirty-nine units, things, or parts.
Fortifiable Dictionary F - adjective Capable of being fortified.
Fortification Dictionary F - noun The act of fortifying; the art or science of fortifying places in order to defend them against an enemy.
Fortifier Dictionary F - noun One who, or that which, fortifies, strengthens, supports, or upholds.
Fortified Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fortify.
Fortifying Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fortify.
Fortify Dictionary F - verb transitive To add strength to; to strengthen; to confirm; to furnish with power to resist attack.
Fortilage Dictionary F - noun A little fort; a blockhouse.
Fortin Dictionary F - noun A little fort; a fortlet.
Fortissimo Dictionary F - adverb Very loud; with the utmost strength or loudness.
Fortition Dictionary F - noun Casual choice; fortuitous selection; hazard.
Fortitude Dictionary F - noun Power to resist attack; strength; firmness.
Fortitudinous Dictionary F - adjective Having fortitude; courageous.
Fortlet Dictionary F - noun A little fort.
Fortnight Dictionary F - noun The space of fourteen days; two weeks.
Fortnightly Dictionary F - adjective Occurring or appearing once in a fortnight; as, a fortnightly meeting of a club; a fortnightly magazine, or other publication.
Fortread Dictionary F - verb transitive To tread down; to trample upon.
Fortresses Dictionary F - pleural of Fortress.
Fortress Dictionary F - noun A fortified place; a large and permanent fortification, sometimes including a town; a fort; a castle; a stronghold; a place of defense or security.
Fortuitous Dictionary F - adjective Happening by chance; coming or occuring unexpectedly, or without any known cause; chance; as, the fortuitous concourse of atoms.
Fortuity Dictionary F - noun Accident; chance; casualty.
Fortunate Dictionary F - noun Coming by good luck or favorable chance; bringing some good thing not foreseen as certain; presaging happiness; auspicious; as, a fortunate event; a fortunate concurrence of circumstances; a fortunate investment.
Fortunately Dictionary F - adverb In a fortunate manner; luckily; successfully; happily.
Fortunateness Dictionary F - noun The condition or quality of being fortunate; good luck; success; happiness.
Fortune Dictionary F - noun The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident; luck; hap; also, the personified or deified power regarded as determining human success, apportioning happiness and unhappiness, and distributing arbitrarily or fortuitously the lots of life.
Fortuneless Dictionary F - adjective Luckless; also, destitute of a fortune or portion.
Fortunize Dictionary F - verb transitive To regulate the fortune of; to make happy.
Forty Dictionary F - adjective Four times ten; thirty-nine and one more.
Forty-spot Dictionary F - noun The Tasmanian forty-spotted diamond bird (Pardalotus quadragintus).
Forums Dictionary F - pleural of Forum.
Fora Dictionary F - pleural of Forum.
Forum Dictionary F - noun A market place or public place in Rome, where causes were judicially tried, and orations delivered to the people.
Forwaked Dictionary F - past particle & adjective Tired out with excessive waking or watching.
Forwander Dictionary F - intransitive verb To wander away; to go astray; to wander far and to weariness.
Forward Dictionary F - noun An agreement; a covenant; a promise.
Forwards Dictionary F - adverb Toward a part or place before or in front; onward; in advance; progressively; - opposed to backward.
Forwarded Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Forward.
Forwarding Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Forward.
Forwarder Dictionary F - noun One who forwards or promotes; a promoter.
Forwardly Dictionary F - adverb Eagerly; hastily; obtrusively.
Forwardness Dictionary F - noun The quality of being forward; cheerful readiness; promtness; as, the forwardness of Christians in propagating the gospel.
Forwaste Dictionary F - verb transitive To desolate or lay waste utterly.
Forwweary Dictionary F - verb transitive To weary extremely; to dispirit.
Forweep Dictionary F - intransitive verb To weep much.
Forwete Dictionary F - verb transitive See Forewite.
Forwhy Dictionary F - conjecture Wherefore; because.
Forworn Dictionary F - adjective Much worn.
Forwot Dictionary F - pres. indic. 1st & 3d pers. sing. of Forwete.
Forwrap Dictionary F - verb transitive To wrap up; to conceal.
Foryelde Dictionary F - verb transitive To repay; to requite.
Foryete Dictionary F - verb transitive To forget.
Foryetten Dictionary F - p. p. of Foryete.
Forzando Dictionary F - adverb See Sforzato.
FossAe Dictionary F - pleural of Fossa.
Fossa Dictionary F - noun A pit, groove, cavity, or depression, of greater or less depth; as, the temporal fossa on the side of the skull; the nasal fossae containing the nostrils in most birds.
Fossane Dictionary F - noun A species of civet (Viverra fossa) resembling the genet.
Fosse Dictionary F - noun A ditch or moat.
Fosset Dictionary F - noun A faucet.
Fossette Dictionary F - noun A little hollow; hence, a dimple.
Fosseway Dictionary F - noun One of the great military roads constructed by the Romans in England and other parts of Europe; - so called from the fosse or ditch on each side for keeping it dry.
Fossil Dictionary F - adjective Dug out of the earth; as, fossil coal; fossil salt.
Fossiliferous Dictionary F - adjective Containing or composed of fossils.
Fossilification Dictionary F - noun The process of becoming fossil.
Fossilism Dictionary F - noun The science or state of fossils.
Fossilist Dictionary F - noun One who is versed in the science of fossils; a paleontologist.
Fossilization Dictionary F - noun The process of converting, or of being converted, into a fossil.
Fossilized Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fossilize.
Fossilizing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fossilize.
Fossilize Dictionary F - verb transitive To convert into a fossil; to petrify; as, to fossilize bones or wood.
Fossores Dictionary F - noun plural A group of hymenopterous insects including the sand wasps. They excavate cells in earth, where they deposit their eggs, with the bodies of other insects for the food of the young when hatched.
Fossoria Dictionary F - noun plural See Fossores.
Fossorial Dictionary F - adjective Fitted for digging, adapted for burrowing or digging; as, a fossorial foot; a fossorial animal.
Fossorious Dictionary F - adjective Adapted for digging; - said of the legs of certain insects.
Fossulate Dictionary F - adjective Having, or surrounded by, long, narrow depressions or furrows.
Fostered Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Foster.
Fostering Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Foster.
Foster Dictionary F - verb transitive To feed; to nourish; to support; to bring up.
Fosterage Dictionary F - noun The care of a foster child; the charge of nursing.
Fosterling Dictionary F - noun A foster child.
Fosterment Dictionary F - noun Food; nourishment.
Fostress Dictionary F - noun A woman who feeds and cherishes; a nurse.
Fother Dictionary F - noun A wagonload; a load of any sort.
Fothered Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fother.
Fothering Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fother.
Fotive Dictionary F - adjective Nourishing.
Fotmal Dictionary F - noun Seventy pounds of lead.
Fougade Dictionary F - noun Alt. of Fougasse.
Fougasse Dictionary F - noun A small mine, in the form of a well sunk from the surface of the ground, charged with explosive and projectiles. It is made in a position likely to be occupied by the enemy.
Foughten Dictionary F - p. p. of Fight.
Foul Dictionary F - noun A bird.
Fouled Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Foul.
Fouling Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Foul.
Foulard Dictionary F - noun A thin, washable material of silk, or silk and cotton, originally imported from India, but now also made elsewhere.
Foulder Dictionary F - intransitive verb To flash, as lightning; to lighten; to gleam; to thunder.
Foule Dictionary F - adverb Foully.
Foully Dictionary F - verb In a foul manner; filthily; nastily; shamefully; unfairly; dishonorably.
Foul-mouthed Dictionary F - adjective Using language scurrilous, opprobrious, obscene, or profane; abusive.
Foulness Dictionary F - noun The quality or condition of being foul.
Foul-spoken Dictionary F - adjective Using profane, scurrilous, slanderous, or obscene language.
Foumart Dictionary F - adjective The European polecat; - called also European ferret, and fitchew. See Polecat.
Founded Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Found.
Founding Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Found.
Foundation Dictionary F - noun The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.
Foundationer Dictionary F - noun One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school.
Foundationless Dictionary F - adjective Having no foundation.
Founder Dictionary F - noun One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.
Foundered Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Founder.
Foundering Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Founder.
Founderous Dictionary F - adjective Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road.
Foundershaft Dictionary F - noun The first shaft sunk.
Founderies Dictionary F - pleural of Foundery.
Foundery Dictionary F - noun Same as Foundry.
Foundling Dictionary F - verb transitive A deserted or exposed infant; a child found without a parent or owner.
Foundress Dictionary F - noun A female founder; a woman who founds or establishes, or who endows with a fund.
Foundries Dictionary F - pleural of Foundry.
Foundry Dictionary F - noun The act, process, or art of casting metals.
Fount Dictionary F - noun A font.
Fountain Dictionary F - noun A spring of water issuing from the earth.
Fountainless Dictionary F - adjective Having no fountain; destitute of springs or sources of water.
Fountful Dictionary F - adjective Full of fountains.
Four Dictionary F - adjective One more than three; twice two.
Fourb Dictionary F - noun Alt. of Fourbe.
Fourbe Dictionary F - noun A trickly fellow; a cheat.
Fourche Dictionary F - adjective Having the ends forked or branched, and the ends of the branches terminating abruptly as if cut off; - said of an ordinary, especially of a cross.
Fourchette Dictionary F - noun A table fork.
Four-cornered Dictionary F - adjective Having four corners or angles.
Fourdrinier Dictionary F - noun A machine used in making paper; - so named from an early inventor of improvements in this class of machinery.
Fourfold Dictionary F - adjective & adverb Four times; quadruple; as, a fourfold division.
Fourfooted Dictionary F - adjective Having four feet; quadruped; as, fourfooted beasts.
Fourgon Dictionary F - noun An ammunition wagon.
Fourhanded Dictionary F - adjective Having four hands; quadrumanous.
Fourierism Dictionary F - noun The cooperative socialistic system of Charles Fourier, a Frenchman, who recommended the reorganization of society into small communities, living in common.
Fourierist Dictionary F - noun Alt. of Fourierite.
Fourierite Dictionary F - noun One who adopts the views of Fourier.
Four-in-hand Dictionary F - adjective Consisting of four horses controlled by one person; as, a four-in-hand team; drawn by four horses driven by one person; as, a four-in-hand coach.
Fourling Dictionary F - noun One of four children born at the same time.
Fourneau Dictionary F - noun The chamber of a mine in which the powder is placed.
Four-o'clock Dictionary F - noun A plant of the genus Mirabilis. There are about half a dozen species, natives of the warmer parts of America. The common four-o'clock is M. Jalapa. Its flowers are white, yellow, and red, and open toward sunset, or earlier in cloudy weather; hence the name. It is also called marvel of Peru, and afternoon lady.
Fourpence Dictionary F - noun A British silver coin, worth four pence; a groat.
Four-poster Dictionary F - noun A large bedstead with tall posts at the corners to support curtains.
Fourrier Dictionary F - noun A harbinger.
Fourscore Dictionary F - noun Four times twenty; eighty.
Foursquare Dictionary F - adjective Having four sides and four equal angles.
Fourteen Dictionary F - adjective Four and ten more; twice seven.
Fourteenth Dictionary F - adjective Next in order after the thirteenth; as, the fourteenth day of the month.
Fourth Dictionary F - adjective Next in order after the third; the ordinal of four.
Fourthly Dictionary F - adverb In the fourth place.
Four-way Dictionary F - adjective Allowing passage in either of four directions; as, a four-way cock, or valve.
Four-wheeled Dictionary F - adjective Having four wheels.
Four-wheeler Dictionary F - noun A vehicle having four wheels.
Foussa Dictionary F - noun A viverrine animal of Madagascar (Cryptoprocta ferox). It resembles a cat in size and form, and has retractile claws.
Fouter Dictionary F - noun A despicable fellow.
Foutra Dictionary F - noun A fig; - a word of contempt.
Fouty Dictionary F - adjective Despicable.
Foveae Dictionary F - pleural of Fovea.
Fovea Dictionary F - noun A slight depression or pit; a fossa.
Foveate Dictionary F - adjective Having pits or depressions; pitted.
Foveolae Dictionary F - pleural of Foveola.
Foveola Dictionary F - noun A small depression or pit; a fovea.
Foveolate Dictionary F - adjective Having small pits or depression, as the receptacle in some composite flowers.
Foveolated Dictionary F - adjective Foveolate.
Fovillae Dictionary F - pleural of Fovilla.
Fovilla Dictionary F - noun One of the fine granules contained in the protoplasm of a pollen grain.
Fowls Dictionary F - pleural of Fowl.
Fowl Dictionary F - noun Any bird; esp., any large edible bird.
Fowled Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fowl.
Fowling Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fowl.
Fowler Dictionary F - noun A sportsman who pursues wild fowl, or takes or kills for food.
Fowlerite Dictionary F - noun A variety of rhodonite, from Franklin Furnace, New Jersey, containing some zinc.
Fowler's solution Dictionary F - An aqueous solution of arsenite of potassium, of such strength that one hundred parts represent one part of arsenious acid, or white arsenic; - named from Fowler, an English physician who first brought it into use.
Foxes Dictionary F - pleural of Fox.
Fox Dictionary F - noun A carnivorous animal of the genus Vulpes, family Canidae, of many species. The European fox (V. vulgaris or V. vulpes), the American red fox (V. fulvus), the American gray fox (V. Virginianus), and the arctic, white, or blue, fox (V. lagopus) are well-known species.
Foxed Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fox.
Foxing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fox.
Foxearth Dictionary F - noun A hole in the earth to which a fox resorts to hide himself.
Fracas Dictionary F - verb transitive An uproar; a noisy quarrel; a disturbance; a brawl.
Fracho Dictionary F - noun A shallow iron pan to hold glass ware while being annealed.
Fracid Dictionary F - adjective Rotten from being too ripe; overripe.
Fract Dictionary F - verb transitive To break; to violate.
Fracted Dictionary F - adjective Having a part displaced, as if broken; - said of an ordinary.
Foxery Dictionary F - noun Behavior like that of a fox; cunning.
Foxfish Dictionary F - noun The fox shark; - called also sea fox. See Thrasher shark, under Shark.
Foxglove Dictionary F - noun Any plant of the genus Digitalis. The common English foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) is a handsome perennial or biennial plant, whose leaves are used as a powerful medicine, both as a sedative and diuretic. See Digitalis.
Foxhound Dictionary F - noun One of a special breed of hounds used for chasing foxes.
Fox-hunting Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to or engaged in the hunting of foxes; fond of hunting foxes.
Foxiness Dictionary F - noun The state or quality of being foxy, or foxlike; craftiness; shrewdness.
Foxish Dictionary F - adjective Foxlike.
Foxlike Dictionary F - adjective Resembling a fox in his characteristic qualities; cunning; artful; foxy.
Foxly Dictionary F - adjective Foxlike.
Foxship Dictionary F - noun Foxiness; craftiness.
Foxtail Dictionary F - noun The tail or brush of a fox.
Foxy Dictionary F - adjective Like or pertaining to the fox; foxlike in disposition or looks; wily.
Foy Dictionary F - noun Faith; allegiance; fealty.
Foyer Dictionary F - noun A lobby in a theater; a greenroom.
Foyson Dictionary F - noun See Foison.
Foziness Dictionary F - noun The state of being fozy; spiritlessness; dullness.
Fozy Dictionary F - adjective Spongy; soft; fat and puffy.
Fra Dictionary F - adverb & preposition Fro.
Frab Dictionary F - verb intransitive & transitive To scold; to nag.
Frabbit Dictionary F - adjective Crabbed; peevish.
Fraction Dictionary F - noun The act of breaking, or state of being broken, especially by violence.
Fractional Dictionary F - adjective Of or pertaining to fractions or a fraction; constituting a fraction; as, fractional numbers.
Fractionally Dictionary F - adverb By fractions or separate portions; as, to distill a liquid fractionally, that is, so as to separate different portions.
Fractionary Dictionary F - adjective Fractional.
Fractionate Dictionary F - verb transitive To separate into different portions or fractions, as in the distillation of liquids.
Fractious Dictionary F - adjective Apt to break out into a passion; apt to scold; cross; snappish; ugly; unruly; as, a fractious man; a fractious horse.
Fractural Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to, or consequent on, a fracture.
Fracture Dictionary F - noun The act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach.
Fractured Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fracture.
Fracturing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fracture.
Fraenula Dictionary F - pleural of Fraenulum.
Fraenulum Dictionary F - noun A fraenum.
Fraenums Dictionary F - pleural of Frenum.
Fraena Dictionary F - pleural of Frenum.
Fraenum Dictionary F - noun Alt. of Frenum.
Frenum Dictionary F - noun A connecting fold of membrane serving to support or restrain any part; as, the fraenum of the tongue.
Fragile Dictionary F - adjective Easily broken; brittle; frail; delicate; easily destroyed.
Fragility Dictionary F - noun The condition or quality of being fragile; brittleness; frangibility.
Fragment Dictionary F - verb transitive A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part; as, a fragment of an ancient writing.
Fragmentak Dictionary F - adjective Fragmentary.
Fragmental Dictionary F - noun A fragmentary rock.
Fragmentarily Dictionary F - adverb In a fragmentary manner; piecemeal.
Fragmentariness Dictionary F - noun The quality or property of being in fragnebts, or broken pieces, incompleteness; want of continuity.
Fragmentary Dictionary F - adjective Composed of fragments, or broken pieces; disconnected; not complete or entire.
Fragmented Dictionary F - adjective Broken into fragments.
Fragmentist Dictionary F - noun A writer of fragments; as, the fragmentist of Wolfenbuttel.
Fragor Dictionary F - noun A loud and sudden sound; the report of anything bursting; a crash.
Fragrance Dictionary F - noun Alt. of Fragrancy.
Fragrancy Dictionary F - noun The quality of being fragrant; sweetness of smell; a sweet smell; a pleasing odor; perfume.
Fragrant Dictionary F - adjective Affecting the olfactory nerves agreeably; sweet of smell; odorous; having or emitting an agreeable perfume.
Fraight Dictionary F - adjective Same as Fraught.
Frail Dictionary F - noun A basket made of rushes, used chiefly for containing figs and raisins.
Frailly Dictionary F - adverb Weakly; infirmly.
Frailness Dictionary F - noun Frailty.
Frailties Dictionary F - pleural of Frailty.
Frailty Dictionary F - adjective The condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally, frailness; infirmity; weakness of resolution; liableness to be deceived or seduced.
Fraischeur Dictionary F - adjective Freshness; coolness.
Fraise Dictionary F - noun A large and thick pancake, with slices of bacon in it.
Fraised Dictionary F - adjective Fortified with a fraise.
Fraken Dictionary F - noun A freckle.
Framable Dictionary F - adjective Capable of being framed.
Frambaesia Dictionary F - noun The yaws. See Yaws.
Framed Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Frame.
Framing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Frame.
Frame Dictionary F - verb transitive To construct by fitting and uniting the several parts of the skeleton of any structure; specifically, in woodwork, to put together by cutting parts of one member to fit parts of another. See Dovetail, Halve, v. t., Miter, Tenon, Tooth, Tusk, Scarf, and Splice.
Framer Dictionary F - noun One who frames; as, the framer of a building; the framers of the Constitution.
Framework Dictionary F - noun The work of framing, or the completed work; the frame or constructional part of anything; as, the framework of society.
Frampel Dictionary F - adjective Alt. of Frampoid.
Frampoid Dictionary F - adjective Peevish; cross; vexatious; quarrelsome.
Franc Dictionary F - adjective A silver coin of France, and since 1795 the unit of the French monetary system. It has been adopted by Belgium and Swizerland. It is equivalent to about nineteen cents, or ten pence, and is divided into 100 centimes.
Franchise Dictionary F - adjective Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty.
Franchised Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Franchise.
Franchising Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Franchise.
Franchisement Dictionary F - noun Release; deliverance; freedom.
Francic Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to the Franks, or their language; Frankish.
Franciscan Dictionary F - adjective Belonging to the Order of St. Francis of the Franciscans.
Francolin Dictionary F - noun A spurred partidge of the genus Francolinus and allied genera, of Asia and Africa. The common species (F. vulgaris) was formerly common in southern Europe, but is now nearly restricted to Asia.
Francolite Dictionary F - noun A variety of apatite from Wheal Franco in Devonshire.
Frangent Dictionary F - adjective Causing fracture; breaking.
Frangibility Dictionary F - noun The state or quality of being frangible.
Frangible Dictionary F - adjective Capable of being broken; brittle; fragile; easily broken.
Frangipane Dictionary F - noun A perfume of jasmine; frangipani.
Frangipani Dictionary F - noun Alt. of Frangipanni.
Frangipanni Dictionary F - noun A perfume derived from, or imitating the odor of, the flower of the red jasmine, a West Indian tree of the genus Plumeria.
Frangulic Dictionary F - adjective Alt. of Frangulinic.
Frangulinic Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to, or drived from, frangulin, or a species (Rhamnus Frangula) of the buckthorn.
Frangulin Dictionary F - noun A yellow crystalline dyestuff, regarded as a glucoside, extracted from a species (Rhamnus Frangula) of the buckthorn; - called also rhamnoxanthin.
Franion Dictionary F - noun A paramour; a loose woman; also, a gay, idle fellow.
Frank Dictionary F - noun A pigsty.
Franked Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Frank.
Franking Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Frank.
Frankalmoigne Dictionary F - adjective A tenure by which a religious corporation holds lands given to them and their successors forever, usually on condition of praying for the soul of the donor and his heirs; - called also tenure by free alms.
Frank-chase Dictionary F - noun The liberty or franchise of having a chase; free chase.
Frank-fee Dictionary F - noun A species of tenure in fee simple, being the opposite of ancient demesne, or copyhold.
Frankfort black Dictionary F - A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc.
Frankincense Dictionary F - noun A fragrant, aromatic resin, or gum resin, burned as an incense in religious rites or for medicinal fumigation. The best kinds now come from East Indian trees, of the genus Boswellia; a commoner sort, from the Norway spruce (Abies excelsa) and other coniferous trees. The frankincense of the ancient Jews is still unidentified.
Frankish Dictionary F - adjective Like, or pertaining to, the Franks.
Frank-law Dictionary F - noun The liberty of being sworn in courts, as a juror or witness; one of the ancient privileges of a freeman; free and common law; - an obsolete expression signifying substantially the same as the American expression civil rights.
Franklin Dictionary F - adjective An English freeholder, or substantial householder.
Franklinic Dictionary F - adjective Of or pertaining to Benjamin Franklin.
Franklinite Dictionary F - noun A kind of mineral of the spinel group.
Franklin stove Dictionary F - A kind of open stove introduced by Benjamin Franklin, the peculiar feature of which was that a current of heated air was directly supplied to the room from an air box; - now applied to other varieties of open stoves.
Frankly Dictionary F - adverb In a frank manner; freely.
Frank-marriage Dictionary F - noun A certain tenure in tail special; an estate of inheritance given to a man his wife (the wife being of the blood of the donor), and descendible to the heirs of their two bodies begotten.
Frankness Dictionary F - noun The quality of being frank; candor; openess; ingenuousness; fairness; liberality.
Frankpledge Dictionary F - noun A pledge or surety for the good behavior of freemen, - each freeman who was a member of an ancient decennary, tithing, or friborg, in England, being a pledge for the good conduct of the others, for the preservation of the public peace; a free surety.
Frantic Dictionary F - adjective Mad; raving; furious; violent; wild and disorderly; distracted.
Frapped Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Frap.
Frapping Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Frap.
Frap Dictionary F - verb transitive To draw together; to bind with a view to secure and strengthen, as a vessel by passing cables around it; to tighten; as a tackle by drawing the lines together.
Frape Dictionary F - noun A crowd, a rabble.
Frapler Dictionary F - noun A blusterer; a rowdy.
Frater Dictionary F - noun A monk; also, a frater house.
Fraternal Dictionary F - adjective Pf, pertaining to, or involving, brethren; becoming to brothers; brotherly; as, fraternal affection; a fraternal embrace.
Fraternate Dictionary F - intransitive verb To fraternize; to hold fellowship.
Fraternation Dictionary F - noun Alt. of Fraternism.
Fraternism Dictionary F - noun Fraternization.
Fraternities Dictionary F - pleural of Fraternity.
Fraternity Dictionary F - noun The state or quality of being fraternal or brotherly; brotherhood.
Fraternization Dictionary F - noun The act of fraternizing or uniting as brothers.
Fraternized Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fraternize.
Fraternizing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fraternize.
Fraternize Dictionary F - intransitive verb To associate or hold fellowship as brothers, or as men of like occupation or character; to have brotherly feelings.
Fraternizer Dictionary F - noun One who fraternizes.
Fratery Dictionary F - noun A frater house. See under Frater.
Fratrage Dictionary F - noun A sharing among brothers, or brothers' kin.
Fratricelli Dictionary F - noun plural The name which St. Francis of Assisi gave to his followers, early in the 13th century.
Fratricidal Dictionary F - adjective Of or pertaining to fratricide; of the nature of fratricide.
Fratricide Dictionary F - noun The act of one who murders or kills his own brother.
Fraud Dictionary F - noun Deception deliberately practiced with a view to gaining an unlawful or unfair advantage; artifice by which the right or interest of another is injured; injurious stratagem; deceit; trick.
Fraudful Dictionary F - adjective Full of fraud, deceit, or treachery; trickish; treacherous; fraudulent; - applied to persons or things.
Fraudless Dictionary F - adjective Free from fraud.
Fraudulence Dictionary F - noun Alt. of Fraudulency.
Fraudulency Dictionary F - noun The quality of being fraudulent; deliberate deceit; trickishness.
Fraudulent Dictionary F - adjective Using fraud; trickly; deceitful; dishonest.
Fraudulently Dictionary F - adverb In a fraudulent manner.
Fraught Dictionary F - noun A freight; a cargo.
Fraughted Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fraught.
Fraughting Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fraught.
Fraughtage Dictionary F - noun Freight; loading; cargo.
Fraunhofer lines Dictionary F - The lines of the spectrun; especially and properly, the dark lines of the solar spectrum, so called because first accurately observed and interpreted by Fraunhofer, a German physicist.
Fraxin Dictionary F - noun A colorless crystalline substance, regarded as a glucoside, and found in the bark of the ash (Fraxinus) and along with esculin in the bark of the horse-chestnut. It shows a delicate fluorescence in alkaline solutions; - called also paviin.
Fraxinus Dictionary F - noun A genus of deciduous forest trees, found in the north temperate zone, and including the true ash trees.
Fray Dictionary F - noun Affray; broil; contest; combat.
Frayed Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fray.
Fraying Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fray.
Freaked Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Freak.
Freaking Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Freak.
Freak Dictionary F - verb transitive To variegate; to checker; to streak.
Freakish Dictionary F - adjective Apt to change the mind suddenly; whimsical; capricious.
Freck Dictionary F - verb transitive To checker; to diversify.
Freckle Dictionary F - verb transitive A small yellowish or brownish spot in the skin, particularly on the face, neck, or hands.
Freckled Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Freckle.
Freckling Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Freckle.
Freckledness Dictionary F - noun The state of being freckled.
Freckly Dictionary F - adjective Full of or marked with freckles; sprinkled with spots; freckled.
Fred Dictionary F - noun Peace; - a word used in composition, especially in proper names; as, Alfred; Frederic.
Fredstole Dictionary F - noun See Fridstol.
Free Dictionary F - superlative Exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow one's own impulses, desires, or inclinations; determining one's own course of action; not dependent; at liberty.
Freed Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Free.
Freeing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Free.
Freebooter Dictionary F - noun One who plunders or pillages without the authority of national warfare; a member of a predatory band; a pillager; a buccaneer; a sea robber.
Freebootery Dictionary F - noun The act, practice, or gains of a freebooter; freebooting.
Freebooting Dictionary F - noun Robbery; plunder; a pillaging.
Freebooty Dictionary F - noun Freebootery.
Freeborn Dictionary F - adjective Born free; not born in vassalage; inheriting freedom.
Free-denizen Dictionary F - verb transitive To make free.
Freedmen Dictionary F - pleural of Freedman.
Freedman Dictionary F - noun A man who has been a slave, and has been set free.
Freedom Dictionary F - noun The state of being free; exemption from the power and control of another; liberty; independence.
Freedstool Dictionary F - noun See Fridstol.
Free-hand Dictionary F - adjective Done by the hand, without support, or the guidance of instruments; as, free-hand drawing. See under Drawing.
Free-handed Dictionary F - adjective Open-handed; liberal.
Free-hearted Dictionary F - adjective Open; frank; unreserved; liberal; generous; as, free-hearted mirth.
Freehold Dictionary F - noun An estate in real property, of inheritance (in fee simple or fee tail) or for life; or the tenure by which such estate is held.
Freeholder Dictionary F - noun The possessor of a freehold.
Free-liver Dictionary F - noun One who gratifies his appetites without stint; one given to indulgence in eating and drinking.
Free-living Dictionary F - noun Unrestrained indulgence of the appetites.
Free-love Dictionary F - noun The doctrine or practice of consorting with the opposite sex, at pleasure, without marriage.
Free-lover Dictionary F - noun One who believes in or practices free-love.
Freelte Dictionary F - noun Frailty.
Freely Dictionary F - adverb In a free manner; without restraint or compulsion; abundantly; gratuitously.
Freemen Dictionary F - pleural of Freeman.
Freeman Dictionary F - noun One who enjoys liberty, or who is not subject to the will of another; one not a slave or vassal.
Free-martin Dictionary F - noun An imperfect female calf, twinborn with a male.
Freemason Dictionary F - noun One of an ancient and secret association or fraternity, said to have been at first composed of masons or builders in stone, but now consisting of persons who are united for social enjoyment and mutual assistance.
Freemasonic Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to, or resembling, the institutions or the practices of freemasons; as, a freemasonic signal.
Freemasonry Dictionary F - noun The institutions or the practices of freemasons.
Free-milling Dictionary F - adjective Yielding free gold or silver; - said of certain ores which can be reduced by crushing and amalgamation, without roasting or other chemical treatment.
Free-minded Dictionary F - adjective Not perplexed; having a mind free from care.
Freeness Dictionary F - noun The state or quality of being free; freedom; liberty; openness; liberality; gratuitousness.
Freer Dictionary F - noun One who frees, or sets free.
Free-soil Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to, or advocating, the non-extension of slavery; - esp. applied to a party which was active during the period 1846-1856.
Free-spoken Dictionary F - adjective Accustomed to speak without reserve.
Freestone Dictionary F - noun A stone composed of sand or grit; - so called because it is easily cut or wrought.
Free-swimming Dictionary F - adjective Swimming in the open sea; - said of certain marine animals.
Freethinker Dictionary F - noun One who speculates or forms opinions independently of the authority of others; esp., in the sphere or religion, one who forms opinions independently of the authority of revelation or of the church; an unbeliever; - a term assumed by deists and skeptics in the eighteenth century.
Freethinking Dictionary F - noun Undue boldness of speculation; unbelief.
Free-tongued Dictionary F - adjective Speaking without reserve.
Free will Dictionary F - A will free from improper coercion or restraint.
Freewill Dictionary F - adjective Of or pertaining to free will; voluntary; spontaneous; as, a freewill offering.
Freezable Dictionary F - adjective Capable of being frozen.
Freeze Dictionary F - noun A frieze.
Froze Dictionary F - imperative of Freeze.
Frozen Dictionary F - past participle of Freeze.
Freezing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Freeze.
Freezer Dictionary F - noun One who, or that which, cools or freezes, as a refrigerator, or the tub and can used in the process of freezing ice cream.
Freieslebenite Dictionary F - noun A sulphide of antimony, lead, and silver, occuring in monoclinic crystals.
Freight Dictionary F - noun That with which anything in fraught or laden for transportation; lading; cargo, especially of a ship, or a car on a railroad, etc.; as, a freight of cotton; a full freight.
Freighted Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Freight.
Freighting Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Freight.
Freightage Dictionary F - noun Charge for transportation; expense of carriage.
Freighter Dictionary F - noun One who loads a ship, or one who charters and loads a ship.
Freightless Dictionary F - adjective Destitute of freight.
Frelte Dictionary F - noun Frailty.
Fremd Dictionary F - adjective Alt. of Fremed.
Fremed Dictionary F - adjective Strange; foreign.
Fren Dictionary F - adjective A stranger.
French Dictionary F - adjective Of or pertaining to France or its inhabitants.
Frenchified Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Frenchify.
Frenchifying Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Frenchify.
Frenchify Dictionary F - verb transitive To make French; to infect or imbue with the manners or tastes of the French; to Gallicize.
Frenchism Dictionary F - noun A French mode or characteristic; an idiom peculiar to the French language.
Frenchmen Dictionary F - pleural of Frenchman.
Frenchman Dictionary F - noun A native or one of the people of France.
Frenetir Dictionary F - adjective Distracted; mad; frantic; phrenetic.
Frenetical Dictionary F - adjective Frenetic; frantic; frenzied.
Frenums Dictionary F - pleural of Frenum.
Frena Dictionary F - pleural of Frenum.
Frenzical Dictionary F - adjective Frantic.
Frenzied Dictionary F - past particle & adjective Affected with frenzy; frantic; maddened.
Frenzies Dictionary F - pleural of Frenzy.
Frenzy Dictionary F - noun Any violent agitation of the mind approaching to distraction; violent and temporary derangement of the mental faculties; madness; rage.
Frequence Dictionary F - noun A crowd; a throng; a concourse.
Frequencies Dictionary F - pleural of Frequency.
Frequency Dictionary F - noun The condition of returning frequently; occurrence often repeated; common occurence; as, the frequency of crimes; the frequency of miracles.
Frequent Dictionary F - noun Often to be met with; happening at short intervals; often repeated or occurring; as, frequent visits.
Frequented Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Frequent.
Frequenting Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Frequent.
Frequentable Dictionary F - adjective Accessible.
Frequentage Dictionary F - noun The practice or habit of frequenting.
Frequentation Dictionary F - noun The act or habit of frequenting or visiting often; resort.
Frequentative Dictionary F - adjective Serving to express the frequent repetition of an action; as, a frequentative verb.
Frequenter Dictionary F - noun One who frequents; one who often visits, or resorts to customarily.
Frequently Dictionary F - adverb At frequent or short intervals; many times; often; repeatedly; commonly.
Frequentness Dictionary F - noun The quality of being frequent.
Frere Dictionary F - noun A friar.
Frescade Dictionary F - adjective A cool walk; shady place.
Frescoes Dictionary F - pleural of Fresco.
Frescos Dictionary F - pleural of Fresco.
Fresco Dictionary F - adjective A cool, refreshing state of the air; duskiness; coolness; shade.
Frescoed Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fresco.
Frescoing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fresco.
Fresh Dictionary F - superl Possessed of original life and vigor; new and strong; unimpaired; sound.
Freshes Dictionary F - pleural of Fresh.
Freshened Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Freshen.
Freshening Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Freshen.
Freshen Dictionary F - verb transitive To make fresh; to separate, as water, from saline ingredients; to make less salt; as, to freshen water, fish, or flesh.
Freshet Dictionary F - adjective A stream of fresh water.
Freshly Dictionary F - adverb In a fresh manner; vigorously; newly, recently; brightly; briskly; coolly; as, freshly gathered; freshly painted; the wind blows freshly.
Freshmen Dictionary F - pleural of Freshman.
Freshman Dictionary F - noun novice; one in the rudiments of knowledge; especially, a student during his fist year in a college or university.
Freshmanship Dictionary F - noun The state of being a freshman.
Freshment Dictionary F - noun Refreshment.
Freshness Dictionary F - noun The state of being fresh.
Fresh-new Dictionary F - adjective Unpracticed.
Fresh-water Dictionary F - adjective Of, pertaining to, or living in, water not salt; as, fresh-water geological deposits; a fresh-water fish; fresh-water mussels.
Fresnel lamp Dictionary F - Alt. of Fres'nel' lan'tern.
Fres'nel' lan'tern Dictionary F - A lantern having a lamp surrounded by a hollow cylindrical Fresnel lens.
Fresnel lens Dictionary F - See under Lens.
Fret Dictionary F - noun See 1st Frith.
Fretted Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fret.
Fretting Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fret.
Fretful Dictionary F - adjective Disposed to fret; ill-humored; peevish; angry; in a state of vexation; as, a fretful temper.
Frett Dictionary F - noun The worn side of the bank of a river. See 4th Fret, n., 4.
Fretten Dictionary F - adjective Rubbed; marked; as, pock-fretten, marked with the smallpox.
Fretter Dictionary F - noun One who, or that which, frets.
Fretty Dictionary F - adjective Adorned with fretwork.
Freta Dictionary F - pleural of Fretum.
Fretum Dictionary F - noun A strait, or arm of the sea.
Fretwork Dictionary F - noun Work adorned with frets; ornamental openwork or work in relief, esp. when elaborate and minute in its parts. Hence, any minute play of light and shade, dark and light, or the like.
Freya Dictionary F - noun The daughter of Njord, and goddess of love and beauty; the Scandinavian Venus; - in Teutonic myths confounded with Frigga, but in Scandinavian, distinct.
Friabiiity Dictionary F - noun The quality of being friable; friableness.
Friable Dictionary F - adjective Easily crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder.
Friar Dictionary F - noun A brother or member of any religious order, but especially of one of the four mendicant orders, viz: (a) Minors, Gray Friars, or Franciscans. (b) Augustines. (c) Dominicans or Black Friars. (d) White Friars or Carmelites. See these names in the Vocabulary.
Friarly Dictionary F - adjective Like a friar; inexperienced.
Friary Dictionary F - noun Like a friar; pertaining to friars or to a convent.
Friation Dictionary F - noun The act of breaking up or pulverizing.
Frible Dictionary F - adjective Frivolous; trifling; sily.
Fribble Dictionary F - noun A frivolous, contemptible fellow; a fop.
Fribbler Dictionary F - noun A trifler; a fribble.
Fribbling Dictionary F - adjective Frivolous; trining; toolishly captious.
Friborg Dictionary F - noun Alt. of Friborgh.
Friborgh Dictionary F - noun The pledge and tithing, afterwards called by the Normans frankpledge. See Frankpledge.
Fricace Dictionary F - noun Meat sliced and dressed with strong sauce.
Fricandeau Dictionary F - noun Alt. of Fricando.
Fricando Dictionary F - noun A ragout or fricassee of veal; a fancy dish of veal or of boned turkey, served as an entree, - called also fricandel.
Fricassee Dictionary F - noun A dish made of fowls, veal, or other meat of small animals cut into pieces, and stewed in a gravy.
Fricassed Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Frlcassee.
Fricasseeing Dictionary F - past particle &. verb noun of Frlcassee.
Frlcassee Dictionary F - verb transitive To dress like a fricassee.
Frication Dictionary F - noun Friction.
Fricative Dictionary F - adjective Produced by the friction or rustling of the breath, intonated or unintonated, through a narrow opening between two of the mouth organs; uttered through a close approach, but not with a complete closure, of the organs of articulation, and hence capable of being continued or prolonged; - said of certain consonantal sounds, as f, v, s, z, etc.
Fricatrice Dictionary F - noun A lewd woman; a harlot.
Frickle Dictionary F - noun A bushel basket.
Ftiction Dictionary F - noun The act of rubbing the surface of one body against that of another; attrition; in hygiene, the act of rubbing the body with the hand, with flannel, or with a brush etc., to excite the skin to healthy action.
Frictional Dictionary F - adjective Relating to friction; moved by friction; produced by friction; as, frictional electricity.
Frictionless Dictionary F - adjective Having no friction.
Friday Dictionary F - noun The sixth day of the week, following Thursday and preceding Saturday.
Fridge Dictionary F - noun To rub; to fray.
Fridstol Dictionary F - noun Alt. of Frithstool.
Frithstool Dictionary F - noun A seat in churches near the altar, to which offenders formerly fled for sanctuary.
Fried Dictionary F - imp. & p. p. of Fry.
Friend Dictionary F - noun One who entertains for another such sentiments of esteem, respect, and affection that he seeks his society aud welfare; a wellwisher; an intimate associate; sometimes, an attendant.
Friended Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Friend.
Friending Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Friend.
Friendless Dictionary F - adjective Destitute of friends; forsaken.
Friendlily Dictionary F - adverb In a friendly manner.
Friendliness Dictionary F - noun The condition or quality of being friendly.
Friendly Dictionary F - adjective Having the temper and disposition of a friend; disposed to promote the good of another; kind; favorable.
Friendship Dictionary F - noun The state of being friends; friendly relation, or attachment, to a person, or between persons; affection arising from mutual esteem and good will; friendliness; amity; good will.
Frier Dictionary F - noun One who fries.
Friese Dictionary F - noun Same as Friesic, n.
Friesic Dictionary F - adjective Of or pertaining to Friesland, a province in the northern part of the Netherlands.
Friesish Dictionary F - adjective Friesic.
Frieze Dictionary F - noun That part of the entablature of an order which is between the architrave and cornice. It is a flat member or face, either uniform or broken by triglyphs, and often enriched with figures and other ornaments of sculpture.
Friezed Dictionary F - adjective Gathered, or having the map gathered, into little tufts, knots, or protuberances. Cf. Frieze, v. t., and Friz, v. t., 2.
Friezer Dictionary F - noun One who, or that which, friezes or frizzes.
Frigate Dictionary F - noun Originally, a vessel of the Mediterranean propelled by sails and by oars. The French, about 1650, transferred the name to larger vessels, and by 1750 it had been appropriated for a class of war vessels intermediate between corvettes and ships of the line. Frigates, from about 1750 to 1850, had one full battery deck and, often, a spar deck with a lighter battery. They carried sometimes as many as fifty guns. After the application of steam to navigation steam frigates of largely increased size and power were built, and formed the main part of the navies of the world till about 1870, when the introduction of ironclads superseded them.
Frigate-built Dictionary F - adjective Built like a frigate with a raised quarter-deck and forecastle.
Frigatoon Dictionary F - noun A Venetian vessel, with a square stern, having only a mainmast, jigger mast, and bowsprit; also a sloop of war ship-rigged.
Frigefaction Dictionary F - noun The act of making cold. Obs..
Frigefactive Dictionary F - adjective Cooling.
Frigerate Dictionary F - e. t. To make cool.
Frigg Dictionary F - noun Alt. of Frigga.
Frigga Dictionary F - noun The wife of Odin and mother of the gods; the supreme goddess; the Juno of the Valhalla. Cf. Freya.
Fright Dictionary F - noun A state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short duration; a sudden alarm.
Frighted Dictionary F - imperative of Fright.
Frighting Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fright.
Frightened Dictionary F - imperative of Frighten.
Frightening Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Frighten.
Frighten Dictionary F - verb transitive To disturb with fear; to throw into a state of alarm or fright; to affright; to terrify.
Frightful Dictionary F - adjective Full of fright; affrighted; frightened.
Frightfully Dictionary F - adverb In a frightful manner; to a frightful dagree.
Frightfulness Dictionary F - noun The quality of being frightful.
Frightless Dictionary F - adjective Free from fright; fearless.
Frightment Dictionary F - noun Fear; terror.
Frigid Dictionary F - adjective Cold; wanting heat or warmth; of low temperature; as, a frigid climate.
Frigidaria Dictionary F - pleural of Frigidarium.
Frigidarium Dictionary F - noun The cooling room of the Roman thermae, furnished with a cold bath.
Prigidity Dictionary F - noun The condition or quality of being frigid; coldness; want of warmth.
Frigidly Dictionary F - adverb In a frigid manner; coldly; dully; without affection.
Frigidness Dictionary F - noun The state of being frigid; want of heat, vigor, or affection; coldness; dullness.
Frigorific Dictionary F - adjective Alt. of Frigorifical.
Frigorifical Dictionary F - adjective Causing cold; producing or generating cold.
Frilled Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Frill.
Frilling Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Frill.
Frill Dictionary F - intransitive verb To shake or shiver as with cold; as, the hawk frills.
Frim Dictionary F - adjective Flourishing; thriving; fresh; in good case; vigorous.
Frimaire Dictionary F - noun The third month of the French republican calendar. It commenced November 21, and ended December 20., See Vendemiaire.
Fringe Dictionary F - noun An ornamental appendage to the border of a piece of stuff, originally consisting of the ends of the warp, projecting beyond the woven fabric; but more commonly made separate and sewed on, consisting sometimes of projecting ends, twisted or plaited together, and sometimes of loose threads of wool, silk, or linen, or narrow strips of leather, or the like.
Fringed Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fringe.
Fringing Dictionary F - past particle & verb adjective of Fringe.
Fringeless Dictionary F - adjective Having no fringe.
Fringent Dictionary F - adjective Encircling like a fringe; bordering.
Fringilla Dictionary F - adjective A genus of birds, with a short, conical, pointed bill. It formerly included all the sparrows and finches, but is now restricted to certain European finches, like the chaffinch and brambling.
Fringillaceous Dictionary F - adjective Fringilline.
Fringilline Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to the family Fringillidae; characteristic of finches; sparrowlike.
Fringy Dictionary F - adjective Aborned with fringes.
Fripper Dictionary F - noun One who deals in frippery or in old clothes.
Fripperer Dictionary F - noun A fripper.
Frippery Dictionary F - noun Coast-off clothes.
Friseur' Dictionary F - noun A hairdresser.
Frisian Dictionary F - adjective Of or pertaining to Friesland, a province of the Netherlands; Friesic.
Frisk Dictionary F - adjective Lively; brisk; frolicsome; frisky.
Frisked Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Frisk.
Frisking Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Frisk.
Friskal Dictionary F - noun A leap or caper.
Frisker Dictionary F - noun One who frisks; one who leaps of dances in gayety; a wanton; an inconstant or unsettled person.
Frisket Dictionary F - adjective The light frame which holds the sheet of paper to the tympan in printing.
Friskful Dictionary F - adjective Brisk; lively; frolicsome.
Friskily' Dictionary F - adverb In a frisky manner.
Friskiness Dictionary F - noun State or quality of being frisky.
Frisky Dictionary F - adjective Inclined to frisk; frolicsome; gay.
Frislet Dictionary F - noun A kind of small ruffle.
Frist Dictionary F - verb transitive To sell upon credit, as goods.
Frisure Dictionary F - noun The dressing of the hair by crisping or curling.
Frit Dictionary F - verb transitive The material of which glass is made, after having been calcined or partly fused in a furnace, but before vitrification. It is a composition of silex and alkali, occasionally with other ingredients.
Fritted Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Frit.
Fritting Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Frit.
Frith Dictionary F - noun A narrow arm of the sea; an estuary; the opening of a river into the sea; as, the Frith of Forth.
Frithy Dictionary F - adjective Woody.
Fritillaria Dictionary F - noun A genus of liliaceous plants, of which the crown-imperial (Fritillaria imperialis) is one species, and the Guinea-hen flower (F. Meleagris) another. See Crown-imperial.
Fritillary Dictionary F - noun A plant with checkered petals, of the genus Fritillaria: the Guinea-hen flower. See Fritillaria.
Fritinancy Dictionary F - noun A chirping or creaking, as of a cricket.
Fritter Dictionary F - verb transitive A small quantity of batter, fried in boiling lard or in a frying pan. Fritters are of various kinds, named from the substance inclosed in the batter; as, apple fritters, clam fritters, oyster fritters.
Frittered Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fritter.
Frittering Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fritter.
Frivolism Dictionary F - noun Frivolity.
Frivolities Dictionary F - pleural of Frivolity.
Frivolity Dictionary F - noun The condition or quality of being frivolous; also, acts or habits of trifling; unbecoming levity of disposition.
Frivolous Dictionary F - adjective Of little weight or importance; not worth notice; slight; as, a frivolous argument.
Frizzed Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Friz.
Frizzing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Friz.
Friz Dictionary F - verb transitive To curl or form into small curls, as hair, with a crisping pin; to crisp.
Frizzes Dictionary F - pleural of Friz.
Frize Dictionary F - noun See 1st Frieze.
Frizel Dictionary F - adjective A movable furrowed piece of steel struck by the flint, to throw sparks into the pan, in an early form of flintlock.
Frizette Dictionary F - noun A curl of hair or silk; a pad of frizzed hair or silk worn by women under the hair to stuff it out.
Frizz Dictionary F - verb transitive & noun See Friz.
Frizzled Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Frizzle.
Frizzling Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Frizzle.
Frizzle Dictionary F - verb transitive To curl or crisp, as hair; to friz; to crinkle.
Frizzler Dictionary F - noun One who frizzles.
Frizzly Dictionary F - adjective Alt. of Frizzy.
Frizzy Dictionary F - adjective Curled or crisped; as, frizzly, hair.
Fro Dictionary F - adverb From; away; back or backward; - now used only in opposition to the word to, in the phrase to and fro, that is, to and from. See To and fro under To.
Frock Dictionary F - noun A loose outer garment; especially, a gown forming a part of European modern costume for women and children; also, a coarse shirtlike garment worn by some workmen over their other clothes; a smock frock; as, a marketman's frock.
Frocked Dictionary F - adjective Clothed in a frock.
Frockless Dictionary F - adjective Destitute of a frock.
Froe Dictionary F - noun A dirty woman; a slattern; a frow.
Frog Dictionary F - noun An amphibious animal of the genus Rana and related genera, of many species. Frogs swim rapidly, and take long leaps on land. Many of the species utter loud notes in the springtime.
Frogbit Dictionary F - noun A European plant (Hydrocharis Morsus-ranae), floating on still water and propagating itself by runners. It has roundish leaves and small white flowers.
Frogfish Dictionary F - noun See Angler, n., 2.
Frogged Dictionary F - adjective Provided or ornamented with frogs; as, a frogged coat. See Frog, n., 4.
Froggy Dictionary F - adjective Abounding in frogs.
Frogmouth Dictionary F - noun One of several species of Asiatic and East Indian birds of the genus Batrachostomus (family Podargidae); - so called from their very broad, flat bills.
Frogs-bit Dictionary F - noun Frogbit.
Frogshell Dictionary F - noun One of numerous species of marine gastropod shells, belonging to Ranella and allied genera.
Froise Dictionary F - noun A kind of pancake. See 1st Fraise.
Frolic Dictionary F - adjective Full of levity; dancing, playing, or frisking about; full of pranks; frolicsome; gay; merry.
Frolicked Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Frolic.
Frolicking Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Frolic.
Frolicful Dictionary F - adjective Frolicsome.
Frolicky Dictionary F - adjective Frolicsome.
Frolicly Dictionary F - adverb In a frolicsome manner; with mirth and gayety.
Frolicsome Dictionary F - adjective Full of gayety and mirth; given to pranks; sportive.
From Dictionary F - preposition Out of the neighborhood of; lessening or losing proximity to; leaving behind; by reason of; out of; by aid of; - used whenever departure, setting out, commencement of action, being, state, occurrence, etc., or procedure, emanation, absence, separation, etc., are to be expressed. It is construed with, and indicates, the point of space or time at which the action, state, etc., are regarded as setting out or beginning; also, less frequently, the source, the cause, the occasion, out of which anything proceeds; - the aritithesis and correlative of to; as, it, is one hundred miles from Boston to Springfield; he took his sword from his side; light proceeds from the sun; separate the coarse wool from the fine; men have all sprung from Adam, and often go from good to bad, and from bad to worse; the merit of an action depends on the principle from which it proceeds; men judge of facts from personal knowledge, or from testimony.
Fromward Dictionary F - preposition Alt. of Fromwards.
Fromwards Dictionary F - preposition A way from; - the contrary of toward.
Frond Dictionary F - noun The organ formed by the combination or union into one body of stem and leaf, and often bearing the fructification; as, the frond of a fern or of a lichen or seaweed; also, the peculiar leaf of a palm tree.
Frondation Dictionary F - noun The act of stripping, as trees, of leaves or branches; a kind of pruning.
Fronde Dictionary F - noun A political party in France, during the minority of Louis XIV., who opposed the government, and made war upon the court party.
Fronded Dictionary F - adjective Furnished with fronds.
Frondent Dictionary F - adjective Covered with leaves; leafy; as, a frondent tree.
Frondesce Dictionary F - intransitive verb To unfold leaves, as plants.
Frondescence Dictionary F - noun The time at which each species of plants unfolds its leaves.
Frondeur Dictionary F - noun A member of the Fronde.
Frondiferous Dictionary F - adjective Producing fronds.
Frondlet Dictionary F - noun A very small frond, or distinct portion of a compound frond.
Frondose Dictionary F - adjective Frond bearing; resembling a frond; having a simple expansion not separable into stem and leaves.
Frondous Dictionary F - adjective Frondose.
Frons Dictionary F - noun The forehead; the part of the cranium between the orbits and the vertex.
Front Dictionary F - noun The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face.
Fronted Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Front.
Fronting Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Front.
Frontage Dictionary F - noun The front part of an edifice or lot; extent of front.
Frontal Dictionary F - adjective Belonging to the front part; being in front.
Frontate Dictionary F - adjective Alt. of Fron'tated.
Fron'tated Dictionary F - adjective Growing broader and broader, as a leaf; truncate.
Frontier Dictionary F - noun That part of a country which fronts or faces another country or an unsettled region; the marches; the border, confine, or extreme part of a country, bordering on another country; the border of the settled and cultivated part of a country; as, the frontier of civilization.
Frontiered Dictionary F - particle adjective Placed on the frontiers.
Frontiersmen Dictionary F - pleural of Floatiersman.
Floatiersman Dictionary F - noun A man living on the frontier.
Frontignac Dictionary F - noun Alt. of Frontignan.
Frontignan Dictionary F - noun A sweet muscadine wine made in Frontignan (Languedoc), France.
Frontingly Dictionary F - adverb In a fronting or facing position; opposingly.
Frontiniac Dictionary F - noun See Frontignac.
Frontispiece Dictionary F - noun The part which first meets the eye.
Frontless Dictionary F - adjective Without face or front; shameless; not diffident; impudent.
Frontlessly Dictionary F - adverb Shamelessly; impudently.
Frontlet Dictionary F - noun A frontal or brow band; a fillet or band worn on the forehead.
Fronto- Dictionary F - A combining form signifying relating to the forehead or the frontal bone; as, fronto-parietal, relating to the frontal and the parietal bones; fronto-nasal, etc.
Fronton Dictionary F - noun Same as Frontal, 2.
Froppish Dictionary F - adjective Peevish; froward.
Frore Dictionary F - adverb Frostily.
Frorn Dictionary F - particle adjective Frozen.
Frory Dictionary F - adjective Frozen; stiff with cold.
Frost Dictionary F - intransitive verb The act of freezing; - applied chiefly to the congelation of water; congelation of fluids.
Frostted Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Frost.
Frosting Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Frost.
Frostbird Dictionary F - noun The golden plover.
Frostbite Dictionary F - noun The freezing, or effect of a freezing, of some part of the body, as the ears or nose.
Frost-bitten Dictionary F - particle adjective Nipped, withered, or injured, by frost or freezing.
Frost-blite Dictionary F - noun A plant of the genus Atriplex; orache.
Frosted Dictionary F - adjective Covered with hoarfrost or anything resembling hoarfrost; ornamented with frosting; also, frost-bitten; as, a frosted cake; frosted glass.
Frostfish Dictionary F - noun The tomcod; - so called because it is abundant on the New England coast in autumn at about the commencement of frost. See Tomcod.
Frostily Dictionary F - adverb In a frosty manner.
Frostiness Dictionary F - noun State or quality of being frosty.
Frostless Dictionary F - adjective Free from frost; as, a frostless winter.
Frostweed Dictionary F - noun An American species of rockrose (Helianthemum Canadense), sometimes used in medicine as an astringent or aromatic tonic.
Frostwork Dictionary F - noun The figurework, often fantastic and delicate, which moisture sometimes forms in freezing, as upon a window pane or a flagstone.
Frostwort Dictionary F - noun Same as Frostweed.
Frosty Dictionary F - adjective Attended with, or producing, frost; having power to congeal water; cold; freezing; as, a frosty night.
Frote Dictionary F - verb transitive To rub or wear by rubbing; to chafe.
Froterer Dictionary F - noun One who frotes; one who rubs or chafes.
Froth Dictionary F - noun The bubbles caused in fluids or liquors by fermentation or agitation; spume; foam; esp., a spume of saliva caused by disease or nervous excitement.
Frothed Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Froth.
Frothing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Froth.
Frothily Dictionary F - adverb In a frothy manner.
Frothiness Dictionary F - noun State or quality of being frothy.
Frothless Dictionary F - adjective Free from froth.
Frothy Dictionary F - superlative Full of foam or froth, or consisting of froth or light bubbles; spumous; foamy.
Frounced Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Frounce.
Frouncing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Frounce.
Frounce Dictionary F - intransitive verb To gather into or adorn with plaits, as a dress; to form wrinkles in or upon; to curl or frizzle, as the hair.
Frounceless Dictionary F - adjective Without frounces.
Frouzy Dictionary F - adjective Fetid, musty; rank; disordered and offensive to the smell or sight; slovenly; dingy. See Frowzy.
Frow Dictionary F - noun A woman; especially, a Dutch or German woman.
Froward Dictionary F - adjective Not willing to yield or compIy with what is required or is reasonable; perverse; disobedient; peevish; as, a froward child.
Frower Dictionary F - noun A tool. See 2d Frow.
Frowey Dictionary F - adjective Working smoothly, or without splitting; - said of timber.
Frowned Dictionary F - imperative &, past particle of Frown.
Frowning Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Frown.
Frown Dictionary F - intransitive verb To contract the brow in displeasure, severity, or sternness; to scowl; to put on a stern, grim, or surly look.
Frowningly Dictionary F - adverb In a frowning manner.
Frowny Dictionary F - adjective Frowning; scowling.
Frowy Dictionary F - adjective Musty. rancid; as, frowy butter.
Frowzy Dictionary F - adjective Slovenly; unkempt; untidy; frouzy.
Frozenness Dictionary F - noun A state of being frozen.
Frubish Dictionary F - verb transitive To rub up: to furbish.
Fructed Dictionary F - adjective Bearing fruit; - said of a tree or plant so represented upon an escutcheon.
Fructescence Dictionary F - noun The maturing or ripening of fruit.
Fructiculose Dictionary F - adjective Fruitful; full of fruit.
Fructidor Dictionary F - noun The twelfth month of the French republican calendar; - commencing August 18, and ending September 16. See Vendemiaire.
Fructiferuos Dictionary F - adjective Bearing or producing fruit.
Fructification Dictionary F - noun The act of forming or producing fruit; the act of fructifying, or rendering productive of fruit; fecundation.
Fructify Dictionary F - intransitive verb To bear fruit.
Fructified Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fructify.
Fructifying Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fructify.
Fructose Dictionary F - noun Fruit sugar; levulose.
Fructuaries Dictionary F - pleural of Fructuary.
Fructuary Dictionary F - noun One who enjoys the profits, income, or increase of anything.
Fructuation Dictionary F - noun Produce; fruit.
Fructuous Dictionary F - adjective Fruitful; productive; profitable.
Fructure Dictionary F - noun Use; fruition; enjoyment.
Frue vanner Dictionary F - A moving, inclined, endless apron on which ore is concentrated by a current of water; a kind of buddle.
Frugal Dictionary F - noun Economical in the use or appropriation of resources; not wasteful or lavish; wise in the expenditure or application of force, materials, time, etc.; characterized by frugality; sparing; economical; saving; as, a frugal housekeeper; frugal of time.
Frugalities Dictionary F - pleural of Frugality.
Frugality Dictionary F - noun The quality of being frugal; prudent economy; that careful management of anything valuable which expends nothing unnecessarily, and applies what is used to a profitable purpose; thrift; -- opposed to extravagance.
Frugally Dictionary F - adverb Thriftily; prudently.
Frugalness Dictionary F - noun Quality of being frugal; frugality.
Frugiferous Dictionary F - adjective Producing fruit; fruitful; fructiferous.
Frugivora Dictionary F - noun plural The fruit bate; a group of the Cheiroptera, comprising the bats which live on fruits. See Eruit bat, under Fruit.
Frugivorous Dictionary F - adjective Feeding on fruit, as birds and other animals.
Fruit Dictionary F - verb transitive Whatever is produced for the nourishment or enjoyment of man or animals by the processes of vegetable growth, as corn, grass, cotton, flax, etc.; - commonly used in the plural.
Fruitage Dictionary F - noun Fruit, collectively; fruit, in general; fruitery.
Fruiter Dictionary F - adjective A ship for carrying fruit.
Fruiterer Dictionary F - noun One who deals in fruit; a seller of fruits.
Fruiteress Dictionary F - noun A woman who sells fruit.
Fruiteries Dictionary F - pleural of Fruitery.
Fruitery Dictionary F - noun Fruit, taken collectively; fruitage.
Fruitestere Dictionary F - noun A fruiteress.
Fruitful Dictionary F - adjective Full of fruit; producing fruit abundantly; bearing results; prolific; fertile; liberal; bountiful; as, a fruitful tree, or season, or soil; a fruitful wife.
Fruiting Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to, or producing, fruit.
Fruition Dictionary F - noun Use or possession of anything, especially such as is accompanied with pleasure or satisfaction; pleasure derived from possession or use.
Fruitive Dictionary F - adjective Enjoying; possessing.
Fruitless Dictionary F - adjective Lacking, or not bearing, fruit; barren; destitute of offspring; as, a fruitless tree or shrub; a fruitless marriage.
Fruit'y Dictionary F - adjective Having the odor, taste, or appearance of fruit; also, fruitful.
Frumentaceous Dictionary F - adjective Made of, or resembling, wheat or other grain.
Frumentarious Dictionary F - adjective Of or pertaining to wheat or grain.
Frumentation Dictionary F - noun A largess of grain bestowed upon the people, to quiet them when uneasy.
Frumenty Dictionary F - noun Food made of hulled wheat boiled in milk, with sugar, plums, etc.
Frump Dictionary F - verb transitive To insult; to flout; to mock; to snub.
Frumper Dictionary F - noun A mocker.
Frumpish Dictionary F - adjective Cross-tempered; scornful.
Frush Dictionary F - verb transitive To batter; to break in pieces.
Frustrable Dictionary F - adjective Capable of beeing frustrated or defeated.
Frustraneous Dictionary F - adjective Vain; useless; unprofitable.
Frustrate Dictionary F - adjective Vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable; null; voil; nugatory; of no effect.
Frustrated Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Frustrate.
Frustrating Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Frustrate.
Frustrately Dictionary F - adverb In vain.
Frustration Dictionary F - noun The act of frustrating; disappointment; defeat; as, the frustration of one's designs.
Frustrative Dictionary F - adjective Tending to defeat; fallacious.
Frustratory Dictionary F - adjective Making void; rendering null; as, a frustratory appeal.
Frustule Dictionary F - noun The siliceous shell of a diatom. It is composed of two valves, one overlapping the other, like a pill box and its cover.
Frustulent Dictionary F - adjective Abounding in fragments.
Frusta Dictionary F - pleural of Frustum.
Frustums Dictionary F - pleural of Frustum.
Frustum Dictionary F - noun The part of a solid next the base, formed by cutting off the, top; or the part of any solid, as of a cone, pyramid, etc., between two planes, which may be either parallel or inclined to each other.
Frutage Dictionary F - noun A picture of fruit; decoration by representation of fruit.
Frutescent Dictionary F - adjective Somewhat shrubby in character; imperfectly shrubby, as the American species of Wistaria.
Frutex Dictionary F - noun A plant having a woody, durable stem, but less than a tree; a shrub.
Fruticant Dictionary F - adjective Full of shoots.
Fruticose Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to a shrub or shrubs; branching like a shrub; shrubby; shrublike; as, a fruticose stem.
Fruticous Dictionary F - adjective Fruticose.
Fruticulose Dictionary F - adjective Like, or pertaining to, a small shrub.
Frying Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fry.
Fry Dictionary F - verb transitive To cook in a pan or on a griddle (esp. with the use of fat, butter, or olive oil) by heating over a fire; to cook in boiling lard or fat; as, to fry fish; to fry doughnuts.
Ery Dictionary F - noun A dish of anything fried.
Fuage Dictionary F - noun Same as Fumage.
Fuar Dictionary F - noun Same as Feuar.
Fub Dictionary F - noun Alt. of Fubs.
Fubs Dictionary F - noun A plump young person or child.
Fubbery Dictionary F - noun Cheating; deception.
Fubby Dictionary F - adjective Alt. of Fubsy.
Fubsy Dictionary F - adjective Plump; chubby; short and stuffy; as a fubsy sofa.
Fucate Dictionary F - adjective Alt. of Fucated.
Fucated Dictionary F - adjective Painted; disguised with paint, or with false show.
Fuchs Dictionary F - noun A student of the first year.
Fuchsias Dictionary F - pleural of Fuchsia.
Fuchslae Dictionary F - pleural of Fuchsia.
Fuchsia Dictionary F - noun A genus of flowering plants having elegant drooping flowers, with four sepals, four petals, eight stamens, and a single pistil. They are natives of Mexico and South America. Double-flowered varieties are now common in cultivation.
Fuchsine Dictionary F - noun Aniline red; an artificial coal-tar dyestuff, of a metallic green color superficially, resembling cantharides, but when dissolved forming a brilliant dark red. It consists of a hydrochloride or acetate of rosaniline. See Rosaniline.
Fucivorous Dictionary F - adjective Eating fucus or other seaweeds.
Fucoid Dictionary F - adjective Properly, belonging to an order of alga: (Fucoideae) which are blackish in color, and produce oospores which are not fertilized until they have escaped from the conceptacle. The common rockweeds and the gulfweed (Sargassum) are fucoid in character.
Fucoidal Dictionary F - adjective Fucoid.
Fuci Dictionary F - pleural of Fucus.
Fucus Dictionary F - noun A paint; a dye; also, false show.
Fucusol Dictionary F - noun An oily liquid, resembling, and possibly identical with, furfurol, and obtained from fucus, and other seaweeds.
Fud Dictionary F - noun The tail of a hare, coney, etc.
Fudder Dictionary F - noun See Fodder, a weight.
Fuddled Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fuddle.
Fuddling Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fuddle.
Fuddle Dictionary F - verb transitive To make foolish by drink; to cause to become intoxicated.
Fuddler Dictionary F - noun A drunkard.
Fudge Dictionary F - noun A made-up story; stuff; nonsense; humbug; - often an exclamation of contempt.
Fudged Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fudge.
Fudging Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fudge.
Fudge wheel Dictionary F - A tool for ornamenting the edge of a sole.
Fuegian Dictionary F - adjective Of or pertaining to Terra del Fuego.
Fuel Dictionary F - noun Any matter used to produce heat by burning; that which feeds fire; combustible matter used for fires, as wood, coal, peat, etc.
Fueler Dictionary F - noun One who, or that which, supplies fuel.
Fuero Dictionary F - noun A code; a charter; a grant of privileges.
Fuff Dictionary F - verb transitive & intransitive To puff.
Fuffy Dictionary F - adjective Light; puffy.
Fuga Dictionary F - noun A fugue.
Fugacious Dictionary F - adjective Flying, or disposed to fly; fleeing away; lasting but a short time; volatile.
Fugaciousness Dictionary F - noun Fugacity.
Fugacity Dictionary F - adjective The quality of being fugacious; fugaclousness; volatility; as, fugacity of spirits.
Fugacy Dictionary F - noun Banishment.
Fugato Dictionary F - adjective in the gugue style, but not strictly like a fugue.
Fugh Dictionary F - interjection An exclamation of disgust; foh; faugh.
Fughetta Dictionary F - noun a short, condensed fugue.
Fugitive Dictionary F - adjective Fleeing from pursuit, danger, restraint, etc., escaping, from service, duty etc.; as, a fugitive solder; a fugitive slave; a fugitive debtor.
Fugitively Dictionary F - adverb In a fugitive manner.
Fugitiveness Dictionary F - noun The quality or condition of being fugitive; evanescence; volatility; fugacity; instability.
Fugle Dictionary F - intransitive verb To maneuver; to move hither and thither.
Fuglemen Dictionary F - pleural of Fugleman.
Fugleman Dictionary F - noun A soldier especially expert and well drilled, who takes his place in front of a military company, as a guide for the others in their exercises; a file leader. He originally stood in front of the right wing.
Fugue Dictionary F - noun A polyphonic composition, developed from a given theme or themes, according to strict contrapuntal rules. The theme is first given out by one voice or part, and then, while that pursues its way, it is repeated by another at the interval of a fifth or fourth, and so on, until all the parts have answered one by one, continuing their several melodies and interweaving them in one complex progressive whole, in which the theme is often lost and reappears.
Fuguist Dictionary F - noun A musician who composes or performs fugues.
-ful Dictionary F - adjective A suffix signifying full of, abounding with; as, boastful, harmful, woeful.
Fulahs Dictionary F - noun plural Alt. of Foolahs.
Fulbe Dictionary F - noun Same as Fulahs.
Fuldble Dictionary F - adjective Capable of being propped up.
Fulciment Dictionary F - noun A prop; a fulcrum.
Fulcra Dictionary F - noun plural See Fulcrum.
Fulcrate Dictionary F - adjective Propped; supported by accessory organs.
Fulcrums Dictionary F - pleural of Fulcrum.
Fulcrum Dictionary F - noun A prop or support.
Fulfilled Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fulfill.
Fulfilling Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fulfill.
Fulfill Dictionary F - verb transitive To fill up; to make full or complete.
Fulfiller Dictionary F - noun One who fulfills.
Fulfillment Dictionary F - noun The act of fulfilling; accomplishment; completion; as, the fulfillment of prophecy.
Fulgency Dictionary F - noun Brightness; splendor; glitter; effulgence.
Fulgent Dictionary F - adjective Exquisitely bright; shining; dazzling; effulgent.
Fulgently Dictionary F - adverb Dazzlingly; glitteringly.
Fulgid Dictionary F - adjective Shining; glittering; dazzling.
Fulgidity Dictionary F - noun Splendor; resplendence; effulgence.
Fulgor Dictionary F - noun Dazzling brightness; splendor.
Fulgurant Dictionary F - adjective Lightening.
Fulgurata Dictionary F - noun A spectro-electric tube in which the decomposition of a liquid by the passage of an electric spark is observed.
Fulgurate Dictionary F - intransitive verb To flash as lightning.
Fulgurating Dictionary F - adjective Resembling lightning; - used to describe intense lancinating pains accompanying locomotor ataxy.
Fulguration Dictionary F - noun The act of lightening.
Fulgurite Dictionary F - noun A vitrified sand tube produced by the striking of lightning on sand; a lightning tube; also, the portion of rock surface fused by a lightning discharge.
Fulgury Dictionary F - noun Lightning.
Fulham Dictionary F - noun A false die.
Fuliginosity Dictionary F - noun The condition or quality of being fuliginous; sootiness; matter deposited by smoke.
Fuliginous Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to soot; sooty; dark; dusky.
Fuliginously Dictionary F - adverb In a smoky manner.
Fulimart Dictionary F - noun Same as Foumart.
Full Dictionary F - Compartment Filled up, having within its limits all that it can contain; supplied; not empty or vacant; - said primarily of hollow vessels, and hence of anything else; as, a cup full of water; a house full of people.
Fulled Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Full.
Fulling Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Full.
Fullage Dictionary F - noun The money or price paid for fulling or cleansing cloth.
Fullam Dictionary F - noun A false die. See Fulham.
Full-blooded Dictionary F - adjective Having a full supply of blood.
Full-bloomed Dictionary F - adjective Like a perfect blossom.
Full-blown Dictionary F - adjective Fully expanded, as a blossom; as, a full-bloun rose.
Full-bottomed Dictionary F - adjective Full and large at the bottom, as wigs worn by certain civil officers in Great Britain.
Full-butt Dictionary F - adverb With direct and violentop position; with sudden collision.
Full-drive Dictionary F - adverb With full speed.
Fuller Dictionary F - verb transitive One whose occupation is to full cloth.
Fulleries Dictionary F - pleural of Fullery.
Fullery Dictionary F - noun The place or the works where the fulling of cloth is carried on.
Full-formed Dictionary F - adjective Full in form or shape; rounded out with flesh.
Full-grown Dictionary F - adjective Having reached the limits of growth; mature.
Full-hearted Dictionary F - adjective Full of courage or confidence.
Full-hot Dictionary F - adjective Very fiery.
Full-manned Dictionary F - adjective Completely furnished wiith men, as a ship.
Fullmart Dictionary F - noun See Foumart.
Fullness Dictionary F - noun The state of being full, or of abounding; abundance; completeness.
Fullonical Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to a fuller of cloth.
Full-orbed Dictionary F - adjective Having the orb or disk complete or fully illuminated; like the full moon.
Full-sailed Dictionary F - adjective Having all its sails set,; hence, without restriction or reservation.
Full-winged Dictionary F - adjective Having large and strong or complete wings.
Fully Dictionary F - adverb In a full manner or degree; completely; entirely; without lack or defect; adequately; satisfactorily; as, to be fully persuaded of the truth of a proposition.
Fulmar Dictionary F - noun One of several species of sea birds, of the family procellariidae, allied to the albatrosses and petrels. Among the well-known species are the arctic fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) (called also fulmar petrel, malduck, and mollemock), and the giant fulmar (Ossifraga gigantea).
Fulminant Dictionary F - adjective Thundering; fulminating.
Fulminated Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fulminate.
Fulminating Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fulminate.
Fulminate Dictionary F - intransitive verb To thunder; hence, to make a loud, sudden noise; to detonate; to explode with a violent report.
Fulmination Dictionary F - noun The act of fulminating or exploding; detonation.
Fulminatory Dictionary F - adjective Thundering; striking terror.
Fulmine Dictionary F - verb To thunder.
Fulmineous Dictionary F - adjective Of, or concerning thunder.
Fulmiaic Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to fulmination; detonating; specifically (Chem.), pertaining to, derived from, or denoting, an acid, so called; as, fulminic acid.
Fulminuric Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to fulminic and cyanuric acids, and designating an acid so called.
Falness Dictionary F - noun See Fullness.
Fulsamic Dictionary F - adjective Fulsome.
Fulsome Dictionary F - adjective Full; abundant; plenteous; not shriveled.
Fulvid Dictionary F - adjective Fulvous.
Fulvous Dictionary F - adjective Tawny; dull yellow, with a mixture of gray and brown.
Fum Dictionary F - intransitive verb To play upon a fiddle.
Fumacious Dictionary F - adjective Smoky; hence, fond of smoking; addicted to smoking tobacco.
Fumades Dictionary F - pleural of Fumado.
Fumadoes Dictionary F - pleural of Fumado.
Fumade Dictionary F - intransitive verb Alt. of Fumado.
Fumado Dictionary F - intransitive verb A salted and smoked fish, as the pilchard.
Fumage Dictionary F - noun Hearth money.
Fumarate Dictionary F - noun A salt of fumaric acid.
Fumaric Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, fumitory (Fumaria officinalis).
Fumarine Dictionary F - noun An alkaloid extracted from fumitory, as a white crystalline substance.
Fumarole Dictionary F - noun A hole or spot in a volcanic or other region, from which fumes issue.
Fumatory Dictionary F - noun See Fumitory.
Fumbled Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fumble.
Fumbling Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fumble.
Fumble Dictionary F - intransitive verb To feel or grope about; to make awkward attempts to do or find something.
Fumbler Dictionary F - noun One who fumbles.
Fumblingly Dictionary F - adverb In the manner of one who fumbles.
Fume Dictionary F - noun Exhalation; volatile matter (esp. noxious vapor or smoke) ascending in a dense body; smoke; vapor; reek; as, the fumes of tobacco.
Fumed Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fume.
Fuming Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fume.
Fumeless Dictionary F - adjective Free from fumes.
Fumer Dictionary F - noun One that fumes.
Fumerell Dictionary F - noun See Femerell.
Fumet Dictionary F - noun The dung of deer.
Fumette Dictionary F - noun The stench or high flavor of game or other meat when kept long.
Fumetere Dictionary F - noun Fumitory.
Fumid Dictionary F - adjective Smoky; vaporous.
Fumidity Dictionary F - noun Alt. of Fumidness.
Fumidness Dictionary F - noun The state of being fumid; smokiness.
Fumiferous Dictionary F - adjective Producing smoke.
Fumifugist Dictionary F - noun One who, or that which, drives away smoke or fumes.
Fumify Dictionary F - verb transitive To subject to the action of smoke.
Fumigant Dictionary F - adjective Fuming.
Fumigated Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fumigate.
Fumigating Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fumigate.
Fumigate Dictionary F - noun To apply smoke to; to expose to smoke or vapor; to purify, or free from infection, by the use of smoke or vapors.
Fumigation Dictionary F - noun The act of fumigating, or applying smoke or vapor, as for disinfection.
Fumigator Dictionary F - noun One who, or that which, fumigates; an apparattus for fumigating.
Fumigatory Dictionary F - adjective Having the quality of purifying by smoke.
Fumlly Dictionary F - adverb Smokily; with fume.
Fumingly Dictionary F - adverb In a fuming manner; angrily.
Fumishness Dictionary F - noun Choler; fretfulness; passion.
Fumitez Dictionary F - noun Fumitory.
Fumitory Dictionary F - noun The common uame of several species of the genus Fumaria, annual herbs of the Old World, with finely dissected leaves and small flowers in dense racemes or spikes. F. officinalis is a common species, and was formerly used as an antiscorbutic.
Fummel Dictionary F - noun A hinny.
Fumosity Dictionary F - noun The fumes of drink.
Fumous Dictionary F - adjective Producing smoke; smoky.
Fumy Dictionary F - adjective Producing fumes; fumous.
Fun Dictionary F - noun Sport; merriment; frolicsome amusement.
Funambulate Dictionary F - intransitive verb To walk or to dance on a rope.
Funambulation Dictionary F - noun Ropedancing.
Funambulatory Dictionary F - adjective Performing like a ropedancer.
Funambulist Dictionary F - noun A ropewalker or ropedancer.
Funambulo Dictionary F - noun Alt. of Funambulus.
Funambulus Dictionary F - noun A ropewalker or ropedancer.
Function Dictionary F - noun The act of executing or performing any duty, office, or calling; per formance.
Functionate Dictionary F - intransitive verb To execute or perform a function; to transact one's regular or appointed business.
Functional Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to, or connected with, a function or duty; official.
Functionalize Dictionary F - verb transitive To assign to some function or office.
Functionally Dictionary F - adverb In a functional manner; as regards normal or appropriate activity.
Functionaries Dictionary F - pleural of Functionary.
Functionary Dictionary F - noun One charged with the performance of a function or office; as, a public functionary; secular functionaries.
Functionless Dictionary F - adjective Destitute of function, or of an appropriate organ. Darwin.
Fund Dictionary F - noun An aggregation or deposit of resources from which supplies are or may be drawn for carrying on any work, or for maintaining existence.
Funded Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fund.
Funding Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fund.
Fundable Dictionary F - adjective Capable of being funded, or converted into a fund; convertible into bonds.
Fundament Dictionary F - noun Foundation.
Fundamental Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to the foundation or basis; serving for the foundation. Hence: Essential, as an element, principle, or law; important; original; elementary; as, a fundamental truth; a fundamental axiom.
Fundamentally Dictionary F - adverb Primarily; originally; essentially; radically; at the foundation; in origin or constituents.
Fundholder Dictionary F - adjective One who has money invested in the public funds.
Funuless Dictionary F - adjective Destitute of funds.
Fundus Dictionary F - noun The bottom or base of any hollow organ; as, the fundus of the bladder; the fundus of the eye.
Funebrial Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to a funeral or funerals; funeral; funereal.
Funebrious Dictionary F - adjective Funebrial.
Funeral Dictionary F - noun The solemn rites used in the disposition of a dead human body, whether such disposition be by interment, burning, or otherwise; esp., the ceremony or solemnization of interment; obsequies; burial; - formerly used in the plural.
Funerate Dictionary F - verb transitive To bury with funeral rites.
Funeration Dictionary F - noun The act of burying with funeral rites.
Funereal Dictionary F - adjective Suiting a funeral; pertaining to burial; solemn. Hence: Dark; dismal; mournful.
Funest Dictionary F - adjective Lamentable; doleful.
Fungal Dictionary F - adjective Of or pertaining to fungi.
Fungate Dictionary F - noun A salt of fungic acid.
Funge Dictionary F - noun A blockhead; a dolt; a fool.
Fungi Dictionary F - noun plural See Fungus.
Fungia Dictionary F - noun A genus of simple, stony corals; - so called because they are usually flat and circular, with radiating plates, like the gills of a mushroom. Some of them are eighteen inches in diameter.
Fungian Dictionary F - adjective Of or pertaining to the Fungidae, a family of stony corals.
Fungibles Dictionary F - noun plural Things which may be furnished or restored in kind, as distinguished from specific things; - called also fungible things.
Fungic Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to, or obtained from, mushrooms; as, fungic acid.
Fungicide Dictionary F - noun Anything that kills fungi.
Fungiform Dictionary F - adjective Shaped like a fungus or mushroom.
Fungilliform Dictionary F - adjective Shaped like a small fungus.
Fungin Dictionary F - noun A name formerly given to cellulose found in certain fungi and mushrooms.
Fungite Dictionary F - noun A fossil coral resembling Fungia.
Fungivorous Dictionary F - adjective Eating fungi; - said of certain insects and snails.
Fungoid Dictionary F - adjective Like a fungus; fungous; spongy.
Fungologist Dictionary F - noun A mycologist.
Fungology Dictionary F - noun Mycology.
Fungosity Dictionary F - noun The quality of that which is fungous; fungous excrescence.
Fungous Dictionary F - adjective Of the nature of fungi; spongy.
Funguses Dictionary F - pleural of Fungus.
Fungus Dictionary F - noun Any one of the Fungi, a large and very complex group of thallophytes of low organization, - the molds, mildews, rusts, smuts, mushrooms, toadstools, puff balls, and the allies of each.
Funic Dictionary F - adjective Funicular.
Funicle Dictionary F - noun A small cord, ligature, or fiber.
Funicular Dictionary F - adjective Consisting of a small cord or fiber.
Funiculate Dictionary F - adjective Forming a narrow ridge.
Funiculi Dictionary F - pleural of Funiculus.
Funiculus Dictionary F - noun A cord, baud, or bundle of fibers; esp., one of the small bundles of fibers, of which large nerves are made up; applied also to different bands of white matter in the brain and spinal cord.
Funiliform Dictionary F - adjective Resembling a cord in toughness and flexibility, as the roots of some endogenous trees.
Funis Dictionary F - noun A cord; specifically, the umbilical cord or navel string.
Funk Dictionary F - noun An offensive smell; a stench.
Funking Dictionary F - noun A shrinking back through fear.
Funky Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to, or characterized by, great fear, or funking.
Funnel Dictionary F - verb transitive A vessel of the shape of an inverted hollow cone, terminating below in a pipe, and used for conveying liquids into a close vessel; a tunnel.
Funnelform Dictionary F - adjective Having the form of a funnel, or tunnel; that is, expanding gradually from the bottom upward, as the corolla of some flowers; infundibuliform.
Funny Dictionary F - superlative Droll; comical; amusing; laughable.
Funnies Dictionary F - pleural of Funny.
Fur Dictionary F - noun The short, fine, soft hair of certain animals, growing thick on the skin, and distinguished from the hair, which is longer and coarser.
Furred Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fur.
Furring Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fur.
Furacious Dictionary F - adjective Given to theft; thievish.
Furacity Dictionary F - noun Addictedness to theft; thievishness.
Furbelow Dictionary F - noun A plaited or gathered flounce on a woman's garment.
Furbelowed Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Furhelow.
Furbelowing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Furhelow.
Furhelow Dictionary F - verb transitive To put a furbelow on; to ornament.
Furbished Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Furbish.
Furbishing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Furbish.
Furbish Dictionary F - verb transitive To rub or scour to brightness; to clean; to burnish; as, to furbish a sword or spear.
Furbishable Dictionary F - adjective Capable of being furbished.
Furbisher Dictionary F - noun One who furbishes; esp., a sword cutler, who finishes sword blades and similar weapons.
Furcate Dictionary F - adjective Alt. of Furcated.
Furcated Dictionary F - adjective Forked; branching like a fork; as, furcate twigs.
Furcation Dictionary F - noun A branching like a. fork.
Furciferous Dictionary F - adjective Rascally; scandalous.
Furcula Dictionary F - noun A forked process; the wishbone or furculum.
Furcular Dictionary F - adjective Shaped like a fork; furcate.
Furculum Dictionary F - noun The wishbone or merrythought of birds, formed by the united clavicles.
Furdle Dictionary F - verb transitive To draw up into a bundle; to roll up.
Furfur Dictionary F - noun Scurf; dandruff.
Furfuraceous Dictionary F - adjective Made of bran; like bran; scurfy.
Furfuran Dictionary F - noun A colorless, oily substance, C4H4O, obtained by distilling certain organic substances, as pine wood, salts of pyromucic acid, etc.; - called also tetraphenol.
Furfuration Dictionary F - noun Falling of scurf from the head; desquamation.
Furfurine Dictionary F - noun A white, crystalline base, obtained indirectly from furfurol.
Furfurol Dictionary F - noun A colorless oily liquid, C4H3O.CHO, of a pleasant odor, obtained by the distillation of bran, sugar, etc., and regarded as an aldehyde derivative of furfuran; - called also furfural.
Furfurous Dictionary F - adjective Made of bran; furfuraceous.
Furial Dictionary F - adjective Furious; raging; tormenting.
Furibundal Dictionary F - adjective Full of rage.
Furies Dictionary F - noun plural See Fury, 3.
Furile Dictionary F - noun A yellow, crystalline substance, (C4H3O)2.C2O2, obtained by the oxidation of furoin.
Furilic Dictionary F - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, furile; as, furilic acid.
Furioso Dictionary F - adjective & adverb With great force or vigor; vehemently.
Furious Dictionary F - adjective Transported with passion or fury; raging; violent; as, a furious animal.
Furld Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Furl.
Furling Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Furl.
Furl Dictionary F - verb transitive To draw up or gather into close compass; to wrap or roll, as a sail, close to the yard, stay, or mast, or, as a flag, close to or around its staff, securing it there by a gasket or line. Totten.
Furlong Dictionary F - adjective A measure of length; the eighth part of a mile; forty rods; two hundred and twenty yards.
Furlough Dictionary F - adjective Leave of abserice; especially, leave given to an offcer or soldier to be absent from service for a certain time; also, the document granting leave of absence.
Furloughed Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Furlough.
Furloughing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Furlough.
Furmonty Dictionary F - noun Alt. of Furmity.
Furmity Dictionary F - noun Same as Frumenty.
Furnace Dictionary F - noun An inclosed place in which heat is produced by the combustion of fuel, as for reducing ores or melting metals, for warming a house, for baking pottery, etc.; as, an iron furnace; a hot-air furnace; a glass furnace; a boiler furnace, etc.
Furniment Dictionary F - noun Furniture.
Furnished Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Furnish.
Furnishing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Furnish.
Furnish Dictionary F - verb transitive To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to adorn; as, to furnish a family with provisions; to furnish one with arms for defense; to furnish a Cable; to furnish the mind with ideas; to furnish one with knowledge or principles; to furnish an expedition or enterprise, a room or a house.
Furnisher Dictionary F - noun One who supplies or fits out.
Furnishment Dictionary F - noun The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture; also, furniture.
Furniture Dictionary F - verb transitive That with which anything is furnished or supplied; supplies; outfit; equipment.
Furoin Dictionary F - noun A colorless, crystalline substance, C10H8O4, from furfurol.
Furore Dictionary F - noun Excitement; commotion; enthusiasm.
Furrier Dictionary F - noun A dealer in furs; one who makes or sells fur goods.
Furriery Dictionary F - noun Furs, in general.
Furrow Dictionary F - noun A trench in the earth made by, or as by, a plow.
Furrowed Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Furrow.
Furrowing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Furrow.
Furrowy Dictionary F - adjective Furrowed.
Furry Dictionary F - adjective Covered with fur; dressed in fur.
Further Dictionary F - adverb To a greater distance; in addition; moreover. See Farther.
Furthered Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Further.
Furthering Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Further.
Furtherance Dictionary F - noun The act of furthering or helping forward; promotion; advancement; progress.
Fartherer Dictionary F - noun One who furthers. or helps to advance; a promoter.
Furthermore Dictionary F - adverb or conj. Moreover; besides; in addition to what has been said.
Furthermost Dictionary F - adjective Most remote; furthest.
Furthersome Dictionary F - adjective Tending to further, advance, or promote; helpful; advantageous.
Furthest Dictionary F - adjective superl. Most remote; most in advance; farthest. See Further, a.
Furtive Dictionary F - adjective Stolen; obtained or characterized by stealth; sly; secret; stealthy; as, a furtive look.
Furtively Dictionary F - adverb Stealthily by theft.
Furuncle Dictionary F - noun A superficial, inflammatory tumor, suppurating with a central core; a boil.
Faruncular Dictionary F - adjective Of or pertaining to a furuncle; marked by the presence of furuncles.
Fury Dictionary F - noun A thief.
Furze Dictionary F - noun A thorny evergreen shrub (Ulex Europaeus), with beautiful yellow flowers, very common upon the plains and hills of Great Britain; - called also gorse, and whin. The dwarf furze is Ulex nanus.
Furzechat Dictionary F - noun The whinchat; - called also furzechuck.
Furzeling Dictionary F - noun An English warbler (Melizophilus provincialis); - called also furze wren, and Dartford warbler.
Furzen Dictionary F - adjective Furzy; gorsy.
Furzy Dictionary F - adjective adjective bounding in, or overgrown with, furze; characterized by furze.
Fusain Dictionary F - noun Fine charcoal of willow wood, used as a drawing implement.
Fusarole Dictionary F - noun A molding generally placed under the echinus or quarter round of capitals in the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian orders of architecture.
Fuscation Dictionary F - noun A darkening; obscurity; obfuscation.
Fuscin Dictionary F - noun A brown, nitrogenous pigment contained in the retinal epithelium; a variety of melanin.
Fuscine Dictionary F - noun A dark-colored substance obtained from empyreumatic animal oil.
Fuscous Dictionary F - adjective Brown or grayish black; darkish.
Fused Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fuse.
Fusing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fuse.
Fuse Dictionary F - verb transitive To liquefy by heat; to render fiuid; to dissolve; to melt.
Fusee Dictionary F - noun A flintlock gun. See 2d Fusil.
Fusel Dictionary F - Alt. of Fusel oil.
Fusel oil Dictionary F - A hot, acrid, oily liquid, accompanying many alcoholic liquors (as potato whisky, corn whisky, etc.), as an undesirable ingredient, and consisting of several of the higher alcohols and compound ethers, but particularly of amyl alcohol; hence, specifically applied to amyl alcohol.
Fusibility Dictionary F - noun The quality of being fusible.
Fusible Dictionary F - verb transitive CapabIe of being melted or liquefied.
Fusiform Dictionary F - adjective Shaped like a spindle; tapering at each end; as, a fusiform root; a fusiform cell.
Fusil Dictionary F - verb transitive Capable of being melted or rendered fluid by heat; fusible.
Fusile Dictionary F - adjective Same as Fusil, a.
Fusileer Dictionary F - noun Alt. of Fusilier.
Fusilier Dictionary F - noun Formerly, a soldier armed with a fusil. Hence, in the plural:.
Fusillade Dictionary F - noun A simultaneous discharge of firearms.
Fusillader Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fusillade.
Fusillading Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fusillade.
Fusion Dictionary F - verb transitive The act or operation of melting or rendering fluid by heat; the act of melting together; as, the fusion of metals.
Fusome Dictionary F - adjective Handy; reat; handsome; notable.
Fuss Dictionary F - noun A tumult; a bustle; unnecessary or annoying ado about trifles.
Fussed Dictionary F - imperative & past particle of Fuss.
Fussing Dictionary F - past particle & verb noun of Fuss.
Fussily Dictionary F - adverb In a fussy manner.
Fussiness Dictionary F - noun The quality of being fussy.
Fussy Dictionary F - superl Making a fuss; disposed to make an unnecessary ado about trifles; overnice; fidgety.
Fust Dictionary F - noun A strong, musty smell; mustiness.
Fusted Dictionary F - adjective Moldy; ill-smelling.
Fusteric Dictionary F - noun The coloring matter of fustet.
Fustet Dictionary F - noun The wood of the Rhus Cptinus or Venice sumach, a shrub of Southern Europe, which yields a fine orange color, which, however, is not durable without a mordant.
Fustian Dictionary F - noun A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff, including corduroy, velveteen, etc.
Fustianist Dictionary F - noun A writer of fustian.
Fustic Dictionary F - noun The wood of the Maclura tinctoria, a tree growing in the West Indies, used in dyeing yellow; - called also old fustic.
Fustigate Dictionary F - verb transitive To cudgel.
Fustigation Dictionary F - noun A punishment by beating with a stick or club; cudgeling.
Fastilarian Dictionary F - noun A low fellow; a stinkard; a scoundrel.
Fustilug Dictionary F - noun Alt. of Fustilugs.
Fustilugs Dictionary F - noun A gross, fat, unwieldy person.
Fusiness Dictionary F - noun A fusty state or quality; moldiness; mustiness; an ill smell from moldiness.
Fusty Dictionary F - superl Moldy; musty; ill-smelling; rank.
Fussure Dictionary F - verb transitive Act of fusing; fusion.
Futchel Dictionary F - noun The jaws between which the hinder end of a carriage tongue is inserted.
Futile Dictionary F - verb transitive Talkative; loquacious; tattling.
Futilely Dictionary F - adverb In a futile manner.
Futility Dictionary F - noun The quality of being talkative; talkativeness; loquaciousness; loquacity.
Futilous Dictionary F - adjective Futile; trifling.
Futtock Dictionary F - noun One of the crooked timbers which are scarfed together to form the lower part of the compound rib of a vessel; one of the crooked transverse timbers passing across and over the keel.
Futurable Dictionary F - adjective Capable of being future; possible to occur.
Future Dictionary F - intransitive verb That is to be or come hereafter; that will exist at any time after the present; as, the next moment is future, to the present.
Futureless Dictionary F - adjective Without prospect of betterment in the future.
Futurely Dictionary F - adverb In time to come.
Futurist Dictionary F - noun One whose chief interests are in what is to come; one who anxiously, eagerly, or confidently looks forward to the future; an expectant.
Futuritial Dictionary F - adjective Relating to what is to come; pertaining to futurity; future.
Futurition Dictionary F - noun The state of being future; futurity.
Futurities Dictionary F - pleural of Futurity.
Futurity Dictionary F - noun State of being that is yet to come; future state.
Fuze Dictionary F - noun A tube, filled with combustible matter, for exploding a shell, etc. See Fuse, n.
Fuzz Dictionary F - verb transitive To make drunk.
Fuzzle Dictionary F - verb transitive To make drunk; to intoxicate; to fuddle.
Fuzzy Dictionary F - noun Not firmly woven; that ravels.
-fy Dictionary F - A suffix signifying to make, to form into, etc.; as, acetify, amplify, dandify, Frenchify, etc.
Fy Dictionary F - interjection A word which expresses blame, dislike, disapprobation, abhorrence, or contempt. See Fie.
Fyke Dictionary F - noun A long bag net distended by hoops, into which fish can pass easily, without being able to return; - called also fyke net.
Fyllot Dictionary F - noun A rebated cross, formerly used as a secret emblem, and a common ornament. It is also called gammadion, and swastika.
Fyrd Dictionary F - intransitive verb Alt. of Fyrdung.
Fyrdung Dictionary F - intransitive verb The military force of the whole nation, consisting of all men able to bear arms.
Fytte Dictionary F - noun See Fit a song.

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