+
father
v.t.
To make one's self the father of; to beget.
+
frozen
a.
Cold-hearted; unsympathetic; unyielding.
+
forty
a.
Four times ten; thirty-nine and one more.
+
fullonical
a.
Pertaining to a fuller of cloth.
+
freedom
n.
Improper familiarity; violation of the rules of decorum; license.
+
fibroin
n.
A variety of gelatin; the chief ingredient of raw silk, extracted as a white amorphous mass.
+
fopperies
pl.
of Foppery
+
flesh
v.t.
To feed with flesh, as an incitement to further exertion; to initiate; -- from the practice of training hawks and dogs by feeding them with the first game they take, or other flesh. Hence, to use upon flesh (as a murderous weapon) so as to draw blood, especially for the first time.
+
for
prep.
Indicating that in the character of or as being which anything is regarded or treated; to be, or as being.
+
fungi
pl.
of Fungus
+
flickermouse
n.
See Flittermouse.
+
freed
imp.|p.p.
of Free
+
florid
a.
Embellished with flowers of rhetoric; enriched to excess with figures; excessively ornate; as, a florid style; florid eloquence.
+
febrifacient
n.
That which causes fever.
+
flagitate
v.t.
To importune; to demand fiercely or with passion.
+
fast
v.
Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable; strong.
+
flugelman
n.
Same as Fugleman.
+
fermented
imp.|p.p.
of Ferment
+
forgetful
a.
Causing to forget; inducing oblivion; oblivious.
+
fizzing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fizz
+
fowl
n.
Any domesticated bird used as food, as a hen, turkey, duck; in a more restricted sense, the common domestic cock or hen (Gallus domesticus).
+
frowned
imp.|p.p.
of Frown
+
forisfamiliate
v.t.
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.
+
focillation
n.
Comfort; support.
+
fastness
a.
Conciseness of style.
+
fleck
n.
A spot; a streak; a speckle.
+
fowlers solution

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.
+
frontier
a.
Lying on the exterior part; bordering; conterminous; as, a frontier town.
+
fleet
n.|a.
To fly swiftly; to pass over quickly; to hasten; to flit as a light substance.
+
fit
v.t.
To make fit or suitable; to adapt to the purpose intended; to qualify; to put into a condition of readiness or preparation.
+
frightening
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Frighten
+
friary
n.
A monastery; a convent of friars.
+
funny
superl.
Droll; comical; amusing; laughable.
+
fibroid
n.
A fibroid tumor; a fibroma.
+
finlander
n.
A native or inhabitant of Finland.
+
flisk
v.i.
To frisk; to skip; to caper.
+
feverish
a.
Hot; sultry.
+
fudge
v.t.
To foist; to interpolate.
+
fewness
n.
Brevity; conciseness.
+
finos
n.pl.
Second best wool from Merino sheep.
+
float
v.i.
The hollow, metallic ball of a self-acting faucet, which floats upon the water in a cistern or boiler.
+
fluoborate
n.
A salt of fluoboric acid; a fluoboride.
+
fragmentak
a.
Fragmentary.
+
fabulosity
n.
Fabulousness.
+
floccus
n.
A tuft of feathers on the head of young birds.
+
forgive
v.t.
To give wholly; to make over without reservation; to resign.
+
feast
n.
To eat sumptuously; to dine or sup on rich provisions, particularly in large companies, and on public festivals.
+
flat
superl.
Tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as, fruit or drink flat to the taste.
+
fluctiferous
a.
Tending to produce waves.
+
front
n.
That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women.
+
frounce
v.i.
To gather into or adorn with plaits, as a dress; to form wrinkles in or upon; to curl or frizzle, as the hair.
+
fodder
n.
A weight by which lead and some other metals were formerly sold, in England, varying from 19/ to 24 cwt.; a fother.
+
frame
n.
A glazed portable structure for protecting young plants from frost.
+
fertilization
n.
The act of fecundating or impregnating animal or vegetable germs; esp., the process by which in flowers the pollen renders the ovule fertile, or an analogous process in flowerless plants; fecundation; impregnation.
+
fictor
n.
An artist who models or forms statues and reliefs in any plastic material.
+
flat
n.
A level surface, without elevation, relief, or prominences; an extended plain; specifically, in the United States, a level tract along the along the banks of a river; as, the Mohawk Flats.
+
foe
v.t.
To treat as an enemy.
+
fore
prep.
Before; -- sometimes written 'fore as if a contraction of afore or before.
+
feather
v.t.
To furnish with a feather or feathers, as an arrow or a cap.
+
fondled
imp.|p.p.
of Fondle
+
file
v.t.
To make foul; to defile.
+
foretelling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Foretell
+
falciform
a.
Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver.
+
faburden
n.
A succession of chords of the sixth.
+
finish
v.i.
To end; to die.
+
forthputing
a.
Bold; forward; aggressive.
+
flow
v.i.
To rise, as the tide; -- opposed to ebb; as, the tide flows twice in twenty-four hours.
+
fanega
n.
A dry measure in Spain and Spanish America, varying from 1/ to 2/ bushels; also, a measure of land.
+
frist
v.t.
To sell upon credit, as goods.
+
fleet
v.i.
Swift in motion; moving with velocity; light and quick in going from place to place; nimble.
+
firstclass
a.
Of the best class; of the highest rank; in the first division; of the best quality; first-rate; as, a first-class telescope.
+
funk
v.t.
To envelop with an offensive smell or smoke.
+
founder
n.
A lameness in the foot of a horse, occasioned by inflammation; closh.
+
fit
superl.
Conformed to a standart of duty, properiety, or taste; convenient; meet; becoming; proper.
+
fitness
n.
The state or quality of being fit; as, the fitness of measures or laws; a person's fitness for office.
+
fashion
v.t.
To forge or counterfeit.
+
fortifying
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fortify
+
fraenula
pl.
of Fraenulum
+
factum
n.
Anything stated and made certain.
+
flirt
v.t.
To jeer at; to treat with contempt; to mock.
+
flute
v.t.
To form flutes or channels in, as in a column, a ruffle, etc.
+
factory
n.
A house or place where factors, or commercial agents, reside, to transact business for their employers.
+
facia
n.
See Fascia.
+
femeral
n.
See Femerell.
+
figure
n.
A character or symbol representing a number; a numeral; a digit; as, 1, 2,3, etc.
+
freightage
n.
The transportation of freight.
+
funest
a.
Lamentable; doleful.
+
freeliver
n.
One who gratifies his appetites without stint; one given to indulgence in eating and drinking.
+
fawner
n.
One who fawns; a sycophant.
+
fecundity
n.
The power of bringing forth in abundance; fertility; richness of invention; as, the fecundity of God's creative power.
+
fringeless
a.
Having no fringe.
+
fail
v.i.
To perish; to die; -- used of a person.
+
flench
v.t.
Same as Flence.
+
fatigate
v.t.
To weary; to tire; to fatigue.
+
flashes
pl.
of Flash
+
ery
n.
A state of excitement; as, to be in a fry.
+
fidiciary
a.
Holding, held, or founded, in trust.
+
fatten
v.i.
To grow fat or corpulent; to grow plump, thick, or fleshy; to be pampered.
+
factious
a.
Pertaining to faction; proceeding from faction; indicating, or characterized by, faction; -- said of acts or expressions; as, factious quarrels.
+
fasciculus
n.
A division of a book.
+
first
n.
The upper part of a duet, trio, etc., either vocal or instrumental; -- so called because it generally expresses the air, and has a preeminence in the combined effect.
+
fulgidity
n.
Splendor; resplendence; effulgence.
+
fleshly
a.
Human; not celestial; not spiritual or divine.
+
fissipedal
a.
Having the toes separated to the base. [See Aves.]
+
fibrovascular
a.
Containing woody fiber and ducts, as the stems of all flowering plants and ferns; -- opposed to cellular.
+
finisher
n.
Something that gives the finishing touch to, or settles, anything.
+
floorless
a.
Having no floor.
+
fahlband
n.
Same as Tetrahedrite.
+
flaw
v.t.
To crack; to make flaws in.
+
fricative
a.
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.
+
friskiness
n.
State or quality of being frisky.
+
flush
v.t.
To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water; as, to flush the meadows; to flood for the purpose of cleaning; as, to flush a sewer.
+
fourling
n.
One of four children born at the same time.
+
feel
n.
A sensation communicated by touching; impression made upon one who touches or handles; as, this leather has a greasy feel.
+
facework
n.
The material of the outside or front side, as of a wall or building; facing.
+
fought

imp. & p. p. of Fight.
+
foliferous
a.
Producing leaves.
+
foretold
imp.|p.p.
of Foretell
+
fetichism
n.
Alt. of Fetishism
+
fumous
a.
Producing fumes; full of fumes.
+
false
superl.
Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous; perfidious; as, a false friend, lover, or subject; false to promises.
+
frontier
n.
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.
+
fibered
a.
Alt. of Fibred
+
finger
n.
Skill in the use of the fingers, as in playing upon a musical instrument.
+
follow
v.t.
To walk in, as a road or course; to attend upon closely, as a profession or calling.
+
floxed silk

See Floss silk, under Floss.
+
fullage
n.
The money or price paid for fulling or cleansing cloth.
+
feel
v.i.
To appear to the touch; to give a perception; to produce an impression by the nerves of sensation; -- followed by an adjective describing the kind of sensation.
+
fire
n.
The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.
+
fame
n.
Public report or rumor.
+
formative
n.
A word formed in accordance with some rule or usage, as from a root.
+
fable
v.i.
To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction ; to write or utter what is not true.
+
fill
a.
To press and dilate, as a sail; as, the wind filled the sails.
+
full
compar.
Abundantly furnished or provided; sufficient in. quantity, quality, or degree; copious; plenteous; ample; adequate; as, a full meal; a full supply; a full voice; a full compensation; a house full of furniture.
+
firsthand
a.
Obtained directly from the first or original source; hence, without the intervention of an agent.
+
falcula
n.
A curved and sharp-pointed claw.
+
feeder
n.
A device for supplying steam boilers with water as needed.
+
feoffer
n.
One who enfeoffs or grants a fee.
+
forester
n.
A forest tree.
+
formula
n.
A prescribed or set form; an established rule; a fixed or conventional method in which anything is to be done, arranged, or said.
+
friending
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Friend
+
flint
n.
A massive, somewhat impure variety of quartz, in color usually of a gray to brown or nearly black, breaking with a conchoidal fracture and sharp edge. It is very hard, and strikes fire with steel.
+
farfet
p.p.
Farfetched.
+
forte
n.
The strong point; that in which one excels.
+
flighty
a.
Fleeting; swift; transient.
+
footbath
n.
A bath for the feet; also, a vessel used in bathing the feet.
+
festoon
v.t.
To form in festoons, or to adorn with festoons.
+
faveolate
a.
Honeycomb; having cavities or cells, somewhat resembling those of a honeycomb; alveolate; favose.
+
fortuitous
a.
Happening by chance; coming or occuring unexpectedly, or without any known cause; chance; as, the fortuitous concourse of atoms.
+
fretty
a.
Adorned with fretwork.
+
fortune
n.
To presage; to tell the fortune of.
+
fusee
n.
The track of a buck.
+
faithed
a.
Having faith or a faith; honest; sincere.
+
fifteenth
n.
A stop in an organ tuned two octaves above the diaposon.
+
flutter
n.
Hurry; tumult; agitation of the mind; confusion; disorder.
+
flunk
v.i.
To fail, as on a lesson; to back out, as from an undertaking, through fear.
+
frondescence
n.
The time at which each species of plants unfolds its leaves.
+
fruitery
n.
Fruit, taken collectively; fruitage.
+
forecastle
n.
In merchant vessels, the forward part of the vessel, under the deck, where the sailors live.
+
frankincense
n.
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.
+
fan
n.
A quintain; -- from its form.
+
funambulo
n.
Alt. of Funambulus
+
fluctuate
v.i.
To move as a wave; to roll hither and thither; to wave; to float backward and forward, as on waves; as, a fluctuating field of air.
+
flower
v.i.
To froth; to ferment gently, as new beer.
+
flagging
n.
A pavement or sidewalk of flagstones; flagstones, collectively.
+
fromwards
prep.
A way from; -- the contrary of toward.
+
feting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fete
+
fomentation
n.
Excitation; instigation; encouragement.
+
freemason
n.
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.
+
flux
n.
Any substance or mixture used to promote the fusion of metals or minerals, as alkalies, borax, lime, fluorite.
+
facet
n.
The narrow plane surface between flutings of a column.
+
frippery
n.
Coast-off clothes.
+
facingly
adv.
In a facing manner or position.
+
fin
n.
An organ of a fish, consisting of a membrane supported by rays, or little bony or cartilaginous ossicles, and serving to balance and propel it in the water.
+
forbearant
a.
Forbearing.
+
formality
n.
The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal.
+
forte
a.|adv.
Loudly; strongly; powerfully.
+
facta
pl.
of Factum
+
fluctuant
a.
Floating on the waves.
+
felicitation
n.
The act of felicitating; a wishing of joy or happiness; congratulation.
+
frounce
v.i.
To form wrinkles in the forehead; to manifest displeasure; to frown.
+
feigned
a.
Not real or genuine; pretended; counterfeit; insincere; false.
+
frame
n.
A structure of four bars, adjustable in size, on which cloth, etc., is stretched for quilting, embroidery, etc.
+
fjord
n.
See Fiord.
+
fenestrule
n.
One of the openings in a fenestrated structure.
+
fall
v.t.
To cease to be erect; to take suddenly a recumbent posture; to become prostrate; to drop; as, a child totters and falls; a tree falls; a worshiper falls on his knees.
+
freta
pl.
of Fretum
+
firstrate
a.
Of the highest excellence; preeminent in quality, size, or estimation.
+
flaily
a.
Acting like a flail.
+
fiddleshaped
a.
Inversely ovate, with a deep hollow on each side.
+
faculty
n.
Privilege or permission, granted by favor or indulgence, to do a particular thing; authority; license; dispensation.
+
frugalities
pl.
of Frugality
+
fillet
n.
An ordinary equaling in breadth one fourth of the chief, to the lowest portion of which it corresponds in position.
+
footing
n.
Tread; step; especially, measured tread.
+
forejudge
v.t.
To judge beforehand, or before hearing the facts and proof; to prejudge.
+
folk lore

Tales, legends, or superstitions long current among the people.
+
fishtail
a.
Like the of a fish; acting, or producing something, like the tail of a fish.
+
fluxion
n.
A method of analysis developed by Newton, and based on the conception of all magnitudes as generated by motion, and involving in their changes the notion of velocity or rate of change. Its results are the same as those of the differential and integral calculus, from which it differs little except in notation and logical method.
+
fornication
n.
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.
+
fourteenth
a.
Next in order after the thirteenth; as, the fourteenth day of the month.
+
fend
v.t.
To keep off; to prevent from entering or hitting; to ward off; to shut out; -- often with off; as, to fend off blows.
+
flat
n.
A homaloid space or extension.
+
fluework
n.
A general name for organ stops in which the sound is caused by wind passing through a flue or fissure and striking an edge above; -- in distinction from reedwork.
+
frounced
imp.|p.p.
of Frounce
+
funiculus
n.
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.
+
force
n.
Strength or power exercised without law, or contrary to law, upon persons or things; violence.
+
fulmiaic
a.
Pertaining to fulmination; detonating; specifically (Chem.), pertaining to, derived from, or denoting, an acid, so called; as, fulminic acid.
+
ferrandine
n.
A stuff made of silk and wool.
+
fall
n.
The act of falling; a dropping or descending be the force of gravity; descent; as, a fall from a horse, or from the yard of ship.
+
focalized
imp.|p.p.
of Focalize
+
finger
v.i.
To use the fingers in playing on an instrument.
+
firmly
adv.
In a firm manner.
+
fluid
n.
A fluid substance; a body whose particles move easily among themselves.
+
frosty
a.
Attended with, or producing, frost; having power to congeal water; cold; freezing; as, a frosty night.
+
flotant
a.
Represented as flying or streaming in the air; as, a banner flotant.
+
floater
n.
One who floats or swims.
+
finable
a.
Liable or subject to a fine; as, a finable person or offense.
+
flatbottomed
a.
Having an even lower surface or bottom; as, a flat-bottomed boat.
+
fallow
n.
The plowing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season; as, summer fallow, properly conducted, has ever been found a sure method of destroying weeds.
+
fragment
v.t.
A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part; as, a fragment of an ancient writing.
+
file
v.t.
To smooth or polish as with a file.
+
foredispose
v.t.
To bestow beforehand.
+
freezing
a.
Tending to freeze; for freezing; hence, cold or distant in manner.
+
fagend
n.
An end of poorer quality, or in a spoiled condition, as the coarser end of a web of cloth, the untwisted end of a rope, ect.
+
friendlily
adv.
In a friendly manner.
+
flote
v.t.
To fleet; to skim.
+
fag
v.i.
To labor to wearness; to work hard; to drudge.
+
furring
v.t.
A deposit from water, as on the inside of a boiler; also, the operation of cleaning away this deposit.
+
fascinating
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fascinate
+
footboy
n.
A page; an attendant in livery; a lackey.
+
fall
n.
Diminution or decrease in price or value; depreciation; as, the fall of prices; the fall of rents.
+
foredeem
v.i.
To know or discover beforehand; to foretell.
+
forecast
n.
Foresight of consequences, and provision against them; prevision; premeditation.
+
foliation
n.
The process of forming into a leaf or leaves.
+
ferrymen
pl.
of Ferryman
+
fluoride
n.
A binary compound of fluorine with another element or radical.
+
foolahs
n.pl.
Same as Fulahs.
+
froth
v.t.
To cover with froth; as, a horse froths his chain.
+
fortread
v.t.
To tread down; to trample upon.
+
frickle
n.
A bushel basket.
+
frote
v.t.
To rub or wear by rubbing; to chafe.
+
flowering
n.
The act of blossoming, or the season when plants blossom; florification.
+
feminine
a.
Having the qualities of a woman; becoming or appropriate to the female sex; as, in a good sense, modest, graceful, affectionate, confiding; or, in a bad sense, weak, nerveless, timid, pleasure-loving, effeminate.
+
fodgeting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fidget
+
fate
n.
A fixed decree by which the order of things is prescribed; the immutable law of the universe; inevitable necessity; the force by which all existence is determined and conditioned.
+
factotums
pl.
of Factotum
+
flagstaff
n.
A staff on which a flag is hoisted.
+
figured
imp.|p.p.
of Figure
+
firecracker
n.
See Cracker., n., 3.
+
fixedness
n.
The quality of a body which resists evaporation or volatilization by heat; solidity; cohesion of parts; as, the fixedness of gold.
+
farther
adv.
At or to a greater distance; more remotely; beyond; as, let us rest with what we have, without looking farther.
+
fulminate
v.t.
To utter or send out with denunciations or censures; -- said especially of menaces or censures uttered by ecclesiastical authority.
+
flating
a.
With the flat side, as of a sword; flatlong; in a prostrate position.
+
forkiness
n.
The quality or state or dividing in a forklike manner.
+
frush
n.
The frog of a horse's foot.
+
fancysick
a.
Love-sick.
+
fondly
adv.
In a fond manner; affectionately; tenderly.
+
fisherman
n.
One whose occupation is to catch fish.
+
forerun
v.t.
To come before as an earnest of something to follow; to introduce as a harbinger; to announce.
+
feckless
a.
Spiritless; weak; worthless.
+
foreman
n.
The chief of a set of hands employed in a shop, or on works of any kind, who superintends the rest; an overseer.
+
ferment
n.
A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation.
+
fine
n.
To impose a pecuniary penalty upon for an offense or breach of law; to set a fine on by judgment of a court; to punish by fine; to mulct; as, the trespassers were fined ten dollars.
+
fornicator
n.
An unmarried person, male or female, who has criminal intercourse with the other sex; one guilty of fornication.
+
foregift
n.
A premium paid by / lessee when taking his lease.
+
feed
v.t.
To produce progressive operation upon or with (as in wood and metal working machines, so that the work moves to the cutting tool, or the tool to the work).
+
frett
n.
A vitreous compound, used by potters in glazing, consisting of lime, silica, borax, lead, and soda.
+
figuring
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Figure
+
fornices
pl.
of Fornix
+
familiarness
n.
Familiarity.
+
fatiguing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fatigue
+
footbreadth
n.
The breadth of a foot; -- used as a measure.
+
fenestration
n.
The arrangement and proportioning of windows; -- used by modern writers for the decorating of an architectural composition by means of the window (and door) openings, their ornaments, and proportions.
+
fell
n.
The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft.
+
fling
v.t.
To throw; to hurl; to throw off or down; to prostrate; hence, to baffle; to defeat; as, to fling a party in litigation.
+
furrow
n.
A trench in the earth made by, or as by, a plow.
+
fain
a.
Satisfied; contented; also, constrained.
+
fohist
n.
A Buddhist priest. See Fo.
+
fifteen
a.
Five and ten; one more than fourteen.
+
fluxation
n.
The act of fluxing.
+
fizz
n.
A hissing sound; as, the fizz of a fly.
+
fiendful
a.
Full of fiendish spirit or arts.
+
fulminant
a.
Thundering; fulminating.
+
fatuous
a.
Without reality; illusory, like the ignis fatuus.
+
frame
v.t.
To provide with a frame, as a picture.
+
fact
n.
Reality; actuality; truth; as, he, in fact, excelled all the rest; the fact is, he was beaten.
+
flare
n.
An unsteady, broad, offensive light.
+
fumosity
n.
The fumes of drink.
+
fringillaceous
a.
Fringilline.
+
fearful
a.
inclined to fear; easily frightened; without courage; timid.
+
fine
n.
A sum of money paid as the settlement of a claim, or by way of terminating a matter in dispute; especially, a payment of money imposed upon a party as a punishment for an offense; a mulct.
+
firm
superl.
Indicating firmness; as, a firm tread; a firm countenance.
+
fistuliform
a.
Of a fistular form; tubular; pipe-shaped.
+
furfurous
a.
Made of bran; furfuraceous.
+
fricassed
imp.|p.p.
of Frlcassee
+
flabel
n.
A fan.
+
fudged
imp.|p.p.
of Fudge
+
flux
v.t.
To affect, or bring to a certain state, by flux.
+
flare
v.i.
To burn with an unsteady or waving flame; as, the candle flares.
+
frizette
n.
A curl of hair or silk; a pad of frizzed hair or silk worn by women under the hair to stuff it out.
+
fret
n.
Ornamental work in relief, as carving or embossing. See Fretwork.
+
folier
n.
Goldsmith's foil.
+
fistinut
n.
A pistachio nut.
+
formaldehyde
n.
A colorless, volatile liquid, H2CO, resembling acetic or ethyl aldehyde, and chemically intermediate between methyl alcohol and formic acid.
+
foil
n.
A thin leaf of sheet copper silvered and burnished, and afterwards coated with transparent colors mixed with isinglass; -- employed by jewelers to give color or brilliancy to pastes and inferior stones.
+
feoffee
n.
The person to whom a feoffment is made; the person enfeoffed.
+
furhelow
v.t.
To put a furbelow on; to ornament.
+
ferrying
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Ferry
+
furling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Furl
+
faldistory
n.
The throne or seat of a bishop within the chancel.
+
forespurrer
n.
One who rides before; a harbinger.
+
fermental
a.
Fermentative.
+
fear
n.
Apprehension of incurring, or solicitude to avoid, God's wrath; the trembling and awful reverence felt toward the Supreme Belng.
+
fausen
n.
A young eel.
+
fourchette
n.
A small fold of membrane, connecting the labia in the posterior part of the vulva.
+
foreshew
v.t.
See Foreshow.
+
floccus
n.
A woolly filament sometimes occuring with the sporules of certain fungi.
+
femalist
n.
A gallant.
+
felt

imp. & p. p. / a. from Feel.
+
founded
imp.|p.p.
of Found
+
foreganger
n.
A short rope grafted on a harpoon, to which a longer lin/ may be attached.
+
folly
n.
The result of a foolish action or enterprise.
+
fermentation
n.
A state of agitation or excitement, as of the intellect or the feelings.
+
fluviatile
a.
Belonging to rivers or streams; existing in or about rivers; produced by river action; fluvial; as, fluviatile starta, plants.
+
foreadmonish
v.t.
To admonish beforehand, or before the act or event.
+
flatting
n.
The process of forming metal into sheets by passing it between rolls.
+
folder
n.
One who, or that which, folds; esp., a flat, knifelike instrument used for folding paper.
+
fagend
n.
The refuse or meaner part of anything.
+
find
v.t.
To come upon by seeking; as, to find something lost.
+
faluns
n.
A series of strata, of the Middle Tertiary period, of France, abounding in shells, and used by Lyell as the type of his Miocene subdivision.
+
fluey
a.
Downy; fluffy.
+
fertile
a.
Containing pollen; -- said of anthers.
+
fructuous
a.
Fruitful; productive; profitable.
+
firstrate
n.
A war vessel of the highest grade or the most powerful class.
+
float
v.i.
Anything used to buoy up whatever is liable to sink; an inflated bag or pillow used by persons learning to swim; a life preserver.
+
facular
a.
Of or pertaining to the faculae.
+
floscule
n.
A floret.
+
firmitude
n.
Strength; stability.
+
fool
v.t.
To use as a fool; to deceive in a shameful or mortifying manner; to impose upon; to cheat by inspiring foolish confidence; as, to fool one out of his money.
+
falsify
a.
To prove to be false, or untrustworthy; to confute; to disprove; to nullify; to make to appear false.
+
faruncular
a.
Of or pertaining to a furuncle; marked by the presence of furuncles.
+
flux
v.t.
To cause to become fluid; to fuse.
+
flounder
v.i.
To fling the limbs and body, as in making efforts to move; to struggle, as a horse in the mire, or as a fish on land; to roll, toss, and tumble; to flounce.
+
foraminiferous
a.
Having small openings, or foramina.
+
fawned
imp.|p.p.
of Fawn
+
farinose
a.
Yielding farinaa; as, farinose substances.
+
fist
v.t.
To gripe with the fist.
+
fellow
n.
A person; an individual.
+
farm
a.|n.
A district of country leased (or farmed) out for the collection of the revenues of government.
+
frost
v.t.
To injure by frost; to freeze, as plants.
+
fraternate
v.i.
To fraternize; to hold fellowship.
+
forbade

imp. of Forbid.
+
firefly
n.
Any luminous winged insect, esp. luminous beetles of the family Lampyridae.
+
foliate
v.t.
To spread over with a thin coat of tin and quicksilver; as, to foliate a looking-glass.
+
flowerless
a.
Having no flowers.
+
floscularian
n.
One of a group of stalked rotifers, having ciliated tentacles around the lobed disk.
+
forstall
v.t.
To forestall.
+
fishing
n.
Pertaining to fishing; used in fishery; engaged in fishing; as, fishing boat; fishing tackle; fishing village.
+
feed
n.
A meal, or the act of eating.
+
fonge
v.t.
To take; to receive.
+
fluoranthene
n.
A white crystalline hydrocarbon C/H/, of a complex structure, found as one ingrdient of the higher boiling portion of coal tar.
+
flathead
a.
Characterized by flatness of head, especially that produced by artificial means, as a certain tribe of American Indians.
+
fable
n.
A Feigned story or tale, intended to instruct or amuse; a fictitious narration intended to enforce some useful truth or precept; an apologue. See the Note under Apologue.
+
fatbrained
a.
Dull of apprehension.
+
flukeworm
n.
Same as 1st Fluke, 2.
+
feminity
n.
Womanliness; femininity.
+
flag
v.i.
To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.
+
fellowfeeling
n.
Joint interest.
+
fraught

of Fraught
+
foyer
n.
The crucible or basin in a furnace which receives the molten metal.
+
fray
v.i.
To wear out or into shreads, or to suffer injury by rubbing, as when the threads of the warp or of the woof wear off so that the cross threads are loose; to ravel; as, the cloth frays badly.
+
forisfamiliating
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Forisfamiliate
+
fid
n.
A wooden or metal bar or pin, used to support or steady anything.
+
fourteenth
n.
The octave of the seventh.
+
friary
n.
Like a friar; pertaining to friars or to a convent.
+
flapper
n.
One who, or that which, flaps.
+
fluxility
n.
State of being fluxible.
+
facsimile
n.
A copy of anything made, either so as to be deceptive or so as to give every part and detail of the original; an exact copy or likeness.
+
flang
n.
A miner's two-pointed pick.
+
freeness
n.
The state or quality of being free; freedom; liberty; openness; liberality; gratuitousness.
+
fruticose
a.
Pertaining to a shrub or shrubs; branching like a shrub; shrubby; shrublike; as, a fruticose stem.
+
foot
v.t.
The size or strike with the talon.
+
foots
n.pl.
The settlings of oil, molasses, etc., at the bottom of a barrel or hogshead.
+
foulard
n.
A thin, washable material of silk, or silk and cotton, originally imported from India, but now also made elsewhere.
+
filipendulous
a.
Suspended by, or strung upon, a thread; -- said of tuberous swellings in the middle or at the extremities of slender, threadlike rootlets.
+
flippant
a.
Of smooth, fluent, and rapid speech; speaking with ease and rapidity; having a voluble tongue; talkative.
+
foredesign
v.t.
To plan beforehand; to intend previously.
+
fascial
a.
Relating to a fascia.
+
flatten
a.
To make vapid or insipid; to render stale.
+
fracture
n.
The breaking of a bone.
+
fly
v.i.
One of the upper screens of a stage in a theater.
+
flesher
n.
A butcher.
+
framed
imp.|p.p.
of Frame
+
formulae
pl.
of Formula
+
fault
n.
A lost scent; act of losing the scent.
+
flinging
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fling
+
flammens
pl.
of Flamen
+
father
v.t.
To take as one's own child; to adopt; hence, to assume as one's own work; to acknowledge one's self author of or responsible for (a statement, policy, etc.).
+
frontal
n.
An ornamental band for the hair.
+
fontal
a.
Pertaining to a font, fountain, source, or origin; original; primitive.
+
feaze
n.
A state of anxious or fretful excitement; worry; vexation.
+
flaxseed
n.
The seed of the flax; linseed.
+
friborgh
n.
The pledge and tithing, afterwards called by the Normans frankpledge. See Frankpledge.
+
flagellums
pl.
of Flagellum
+
fingering
n.
The act or process of handling or touching with the fingers.
+
forfex
n.
A pair of shears.
+
fast
v.i.
To abstain from food; to omit to take nourishment in whole or in part; to go hungry.
+
flooding
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Flood
+
feeder
n.
A stream that flows into another body of water; a tributary; specifically (Hydraulic Engin.), a water course which supplies a canal or reservoir by gravitation or natural flow.
+
fan
n.
An instrument for winnowing grain, by moving which the grain is tossed and agitated, and the chaff is separated and blown away.
+
fulahs
n.pl.
Alt. of Foolahs
+
fauld
n.
The arch over the dam of a blast furnace; the tymp arch.
+
fifteenth
n.
A species of tax upon personal property formerly laid on towns, boroughs, etc., in England, being one fifteenth part of what the personal property in each town, etc., had been valued at.
+
faze
v.t.
See Feeze.
+
flitches
pl.
of Flitch
+
follower
n.
Among law stationers, a sheet of parchment or paper which is added to the first sheet of an indenture or other deed.
+
frondose
a.
Leafy.
+
ferula
n.
The imperial scepter in the Byzantine or Eastern Empire.
+
factionist
n.
One who promotes faction.
+
frown
n.
A wrinkling of the face in displeasure, rebuke, etc.; a sour, severe, or stere look; a scowl.
+
fresh
v.t.
To refresh; to freshen.
+
fret
v.t.
To ornament with raised work; to variegate; to diversify.
+
flat
v.t.
To make flat; to flatten; to level.
+
fahlband
n.
A stratum in crystalline rock, containing metallic sulphides.
+
finedrawn
imp.|p.p.
of Finedraw
+
fret
n.
The reticulated headdress or net, made of gold or silver wire, in which ladies in the Middle Ages confined their hair.
+
frank
v.t.
To extempt from charge for postage, as a letter, package, or packet, etc.
+
fecundity
n.
The quality or power of producing fruit; fruitfulness; especially (Biol.), the quality in female organisms of reproducing rapidly and in great numbers.
+
frustrately
adv.
In vain.
+
feltry
n.
See Felt, n.
+
for
prep.
Indicating that toward which the action of anything is directed, or the point toward which motion is made; /ntending to go to.
+
fluted
imp.|p.p.
of Flute
+
frustums
pl.
of Frustum
+
fasciola
n.
A band of gray matter bordering the fimbria in the brain; the dentate convolution.
+
fub
v.t.
To put off by trickery; to cheat.
+
fullblown
a.
Fully distended with wind, as a sail.
+
fight
v.t.
To cause to fight; to manage or maneuver in a fight; as, to fight cocks; to fight one's ship.
+
fingering
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Finger
+
fist
n.
The hand with the fingers doubled into the palm; the closed hand, especially as clinched tightly for the purpose of striking a blow.
+
ferreous
a.
Partaking of, made of, or pertaining to, iron; like iron.
+
fruiting
a.
Pertaining to, or producing, fruit.
+
fold
n.
A boundary; a limit.
+
facete
a.
Facetious; witty; humorous.
+
forwweary
v.t.
To weary extremely; to dispirit.
+
fete
n.
A festival.
+
furniture
v.t.
The necessary appendages to anything, as to a machine, a carriage, a ship, etc.
+
fifteen
n.
A symbol representing fifteen units, as 15, or xv.
+
flimsy
superl.
Weak; feeble; limp; slight; vain; without strength or solidity; of loose and unsubstantial structure; without reason or plausibility; as, a flimsy argument, excuse, objection.
+
furrowy
a.
Furrowed.
+
fall
n.
That part (as one of the ropes) of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting.
+
fanner
n.
One who fans.
+
fibrin
n.
A white, albuminous, fibrous substance, formed in the coagulation of the blood either by decomposition of fibrinogen, or from the union of fibrinogen and paraglobulin which exist separately in the blood. It is insoluble in water, but is readily digestible in gastric and pancreatic juice.
+
fallacy
n.
Deceptive or false appearance; deceitfulness; that which misleads the eye or the mind; deception.
+
fust
v.i.
To become moldy; to smell ill.
+
formality
n.
That which is formal; the formal part.
+
field
n.
That part of the grounds reserved for the players which is outside of the diamond; -- called also outfield.
+
fashion
v.t.
To fit; to adapt; to accommodate; -- with to.
+
feeble
superl.
Wanting force, vigor, or efficiency in action or expression; not full, loud, bright, strong, rapid, etc.; faint; as, a feeble color; feeble motion.
+
fining
n.
The process of fining or refining; clarification; also (Metal.), the conversion of cast iron into suitable for puddling, in a hearth or charcoal fire.
+
flush
a.
Consisting of cards of one suit.
+
facture
n.
The act or manner of making or doing anything; -- now used of a literary, musical, or pictorial production.
+
fameless
a.
Without fame or renown.
+
furmonty
n.
Alt. of Furmity
+
fumigating
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fumigate
+
foul
superl.
Scurrilous; obscene or profane; abusive; as, foul words; foul language.
+
fiend
n.
An implacable or malicious foe; one who is diabolically wicked or cruel; an infernal being; -- applied specifically to the devil or a demon.
+
finding
n.
The result of a judicial examination or inquiry, especially into some matter of fact; a verdict; as, the finding of a jury.
+
frizzly
a.
Alt. of Frizzy
+
fidalgo
n.
The lowest title of nobility in Portugal, corresponding to that of Hidalgo in Spain.
+
fashioning
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fashion
+
fere
v.t.|i.
To fear.
+
fraudulently
adv.
In a fraudulent manner.
+
fallowing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fallow
+
freshness
n.
The state of being fresh.
+
fring
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fire
+
fume
v.t.
To throw off in vapor, or as in the form of vapor.
+
fellness
n.
The quality or state of being fell or cruel; fierce barbarity.
+
figured
a.
Indicated or noted by figures.
+
fruitless
a.
Lacking, or not bearing, fruit; barren; destitute of offspring; as, a fruitless tree or shrub; a fruitless marriage.
+
fast
v.
Permanent; not liable to fade by exposure to air or by washing; durable; lasting; as, fast colors.
+
farrand
n.
Manner; custom; fashion; humor.
+
fabulizing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fabulize
+
futurist
n.
One who believes or maintains that the fulfillment of the prophecies of the Bible is to be in the future.
+
framework
n.
Work done in, or by means of, a frame or loom.
+
fiance
v.t.
To betroth; to affiance.
+
fuel
v.t.
To feed with fuel.
+
findable
a.
Capable of beong found; discoverable.
+
frlcassee
v.t.
To dress like a fricassee.
+
fleak
n.
A flake; a thread or twist.
+
feudary
a.
Held by, or pertaining to, feudal tenure.
+
figure
n.
Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression.
+
forehold
n.
The forward part of the hold of a ship.
+
float
v.i.
The sea; a wave. See Flote, n.
+
fatling
n.
A calf, lamb, kid, or other young animal fattened for slaughter; a fat animal; -- said of such animals as are used for food.
+
fee
v.t.
To reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe.
+
fomenting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Foment
+
foil
v.t.
To render (an effort or attempt) vain or nugatory; to baffle; to outwit; to balk; to frustrate; to defeat.
+
floriken
n.
An Indian bustard (Otis aurita). The Bengal floriken is Sypheotides Bengalensis.
+
flee
v.i.
To run away, as from danger or evil; to avoid in an alarmed or cowardly manner; to hasten off; -- usually with from. This is sometimes omitted, making the verb transitive.
+
flagellate
a.
Of or pertaining to the Flagellata.
+
fear
n.
To have a reverential awe of; to solicitous to avoid the displeasure of.
+
firer
n.
One who fires or sets fire to anything; an incendiary.
+
fraxin
n.
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.
+
forswear
v.i.
To swear falsely; to commit perjury.
+
flowing
a.
That flows or for flowing (in various sense of the verb); gliding along smoothly; copious.
+
falsification
n.
Willful misstatement or misrepresentation.
+
feoffed
imp.|p.p.
of Feoff
+
feriae
pl.
of Feria
+
faradic
a.
Of or pertaining to Michael Faraday, the distinguished electrician; -- applied especially to induced currents of electricity, as produced by certain forms of inductive apparatus, on account of Faraday's investigations of their laws.
+
flush
v.t.
To cause the blood to rush into (the face); to put to the blush, or to cause to glow with excitement.
+
feudalism
n.
The feudal system; a system by which the holding of estates in land is made dependent upon an obligation to render military service to the kind or feudal superior; feudal principles and usages.
+
footcloth
n.
Formerly, a housing or caparison for a horse.
+
fulcrate
a.
Propped; supported by accessory organs.
+
flourish
v.i.
To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive.
+
forked
imp.|p.p.
of Fork
+
farmhouse
n.
A dwelling house on a farm; a farmer's residence.
+
firework
n.
A pyrotechnic exhibition.
+
ferment
n.
Intestine motion; heat; tumult; agitation.
+
farm
a.|n.
The rent of land, -- originally paid by reservation of part of its products.
+
fevering
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fever
+
fruticant
a.
Full of shoots.
+
foot
n.
Fundamental principle; basis; plan; -- used only in the singular.
+
fluidizing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fluidize
+
fomalhaut
n.
A star of the first magnitude, in the constellation Piscis Australis, or Southern Fish.
+
frank
n.
Free in uttering one's real sentiments; not reserved; using no disguise; candid; ingenuous; as, a frank nature, conversation, manner, etc.
+
flon
n.pl.
See Flo.
+
femme
n.
A woman. See Feme, n.
+
fossilized
imp.|p.p.
of Fossilize
+
fusilier
n.
Formerly, a soldier armed with a fusil. Hence, in the plural:
+
forcible
a.
Using force against opposition or resistance; obtained by compulsion; effected by force; as, forcible entry or abduction.
+
found
v.t.
To form by melting a metal, and pouring it into a mold; to cast.
+
forsook
imp.
of Forsake
+
flowing

a. & n. from Flow, v. i. & t.
+
fluorous
a.
Pertaining to fluor.
+
fluxive
a.
Flowing; also, wanting solidity.
+
focus
v.t.
To bring to a focus; to focalize; as, to focus a camera.
+
flexure
n.
The small distortion of an astronomical instrument caused by the weight of its parts; the amount to be added or substracted from the observed readings of the instrument to correct them for this distortion.
+
fleer
n.
One who flees.
+
flawter
v.t.
To scrape o/ pare, as a skin.
+
face
v.i.
To turn the face; as, to face to the right or left.
+
fist
v.t.
To strike with the fist.
+
ferous

A suffix signifying bearing, producing, yielding; as, auriferous, yielding gold; chyliferous, producing chyle.
+
flockly
adv.
In flocks; in crowds.
+
folious
a.
Foliose.
+
fret
n.
A short piece of wire, or other material fixed across the finger board of a guitar or a similar instrument, to indicate where the finger is to be placed.
+
fyke
n.
A long bag net distended by hoops, into which fish can pass easily, without being able to return; -- called also fyke net.
+
fungicide
n.
Anything that kills fungi.
+
franklin stove

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.
+
fairnatured
a.
Well-disposed.
+
fiddle
v.i.
To keep the hands and fingers actively moving as a fiddler does; to move the hands and fingers restlessy or in busy idleness; to trifle.
+
foxearth
n.
A hole in the earth to which a fox resorts to hide himself.
+
flasket
n.
A vessel in which viands are served.
+
finned
imp.|p.p.
of Fin
+
fulmination
n.
The act of thundering forth threats or censures, as with authority.
+
foreordain
v.t.
To ordain or appoint beforehand; to preordain; to predestinate; to predetermine.
+
fume
n.
To smoke; to throw off fumes, as in combustion or chemical action; to rise up, as vapor.
+
ferroso

See Ferro-.
+
fume
n.
Exhalation; volatile matter (esp. noxious vapor or smoke) ascending in a dense body; smoke; vapor; reek; as, the fumes of tobacco.
+
foredoom
v.t.
To doom beforehand; to predestinate.
+
foliolate
a.
Of or pertaining to leaflets; -- used in composition; as, bi-foliolate.
+
flapdragon
v.t.
To swallow whole, as a flapdragon; to devour.
+
fontanel
n.
An issue or artificial ulcer for the discharge of humors from the body.
+
flintlock
n.
A lock for a gun or pistol, having a flint fixed in the hammer, which on striking the steel ignites the priming.
+
fix
v.t.
To make firm, stable, or fast; to set or place permanently; to fasten immovably; to establish; to implant; to secure; to make definite.
+
fecundation
n.
The act by which, either in animals or plants, material prepared by the generative organs the female organism is brought in contact with matter from the organs of the male, so that a new organism results; impregnation; fertilization.
+
farmer
n.
One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect, either paying a fixed annuual rent for the privilege; as, a farmer of the revenues.
+
finnish
a.
Of or pertaining to Finland, to the Finns, or to their language.
+
furnace
n.
A place or time of punishment, affiction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline.
+
familisteries
pl.
of Familistery
+
finger
n.
The breadth of a finger, or the fourth part of the hand; a measure of nearly an inch; also, the length of finger, a measure in domestic use in the United States, of about four and a half inches or one eighth of a yard.
+
fist
n.
The talons of a bird of prey.
+
frankfort black

A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc.
+
fusty
superl
Moping.
+
for
prep.
In the most general sense, indicating that in consideration of, in view of, or with reference to, which anything is done or takes place.
+
fisted
imp.|p.p.
of Fist
+
flap
v.i.
To move as do wings, or as something broad or loose; to fly with wings beating the air.
+
forties
n.pl.
See Forty.
+
flanch
n.
A flange.
+
fighting
a.
Occupied in war; being the scene of a battle; as, a fighting field.
+
frontal
n.
Something worn on the forehead or face; a frontlet
+
finback
n.
Any whale of the genera Sibbaldius, Balaenoptera, and allied genera, of the family Balaenopteridae, characterized by a prominent fin on the back. The common finbacks of the New England coast are Sibbaldius tectirostris and S. tuberosus.
+
foundry
n.
The act, process, or art of casting metals.
+
fluorated
a.
Combined with fluorine; subjected to the action of fluoride.
+
furfuration
n.
Falling of scurf from the head; desquamation.
+
fichu
n.
A light cape, usually of lace, worn by women, to cover the neck and throat, and extending to the shoulders.
+
fawncolored
a.
Of the color of a fawn; light yellowish brown.
+
ferrocyanic
a.
Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, a ferrocyanide.
+
foramina
pl.
of Foramen
+
flashing
n.
Pieces of metal, built into the joints of a wall, so as to lap over the edge of the gutters or to cover the edge of the roofing; also, similar pieces used to cover the valleys of roofs of slate, shingles, or the like. By extension, the metal covering of ridges and hips of roofs; also, in the United States, the protecting of angles and breaks in walls of frame houses with waterproof material, tarred paper, or the like.  Cf. Filleting.
+
flourish
v.i.
To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.
+
fuzzle
v.t.
To make drunk; to intoxicate; to fuddle.
+
footmanship
n.
Art or skill of a footman.
+
footway
n.
A passage for pedestrians only.
+
fine
n.
End; conclusion; termination; extinction.
+
female
a.
Having pistils and no stamens; pistillate; or, in cryptogamous plants, capable of receiving fertilization.
+
finite
a.
Having a limit; limited in quantity, degree, or capacity; bounded; -- opposed to infinite; as, finite number; finite existence; a finite being; a finite mind; finite duration.
+
frow
a.
Brittle.
+
fuming
a.
Producing fumes, or vapors.
+
face
n.
The exterior form or appearance of anything; that part which presents itself to the view; especially, the front or upper part or surface; that which particularly offers itself to the view of a spectator.
+
fubbery
n.
Cheating; deception.
+
fast
n.
The shaft of a column, or trunk of pilaster.
+
femineity
n.
Womanliness; femininity.
+
fabric
v.t.
To frame; to build; to construct.
+
fan
n.
Something in the form of a fan when spread, as a peacock's tail, a window, etc.
+
foundering
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Founder
+
fardingdeal
n.
The fourth part of an acre of land.
+
fanfare
n.
A flourish of trumpets, as in coming into the lists, etc.; also, a short and lively air performed on hunting horns during the chase.
+
forbid
v.t.
To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command; as, an impassable river forbids the approach of the army.
+
full
compar.
Sated; surfeited.
+
forcing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Force
+
floss
n.
Fluid glass floating on iron in the puddling furnace, produced by the vitrification of oxides and earths which are present.
+
form
n.
Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system; as, a republican form of government.
+
famished
imp.|p.p.
of Famish
+
fee
n.
An estate of inheritance supposed to be held either mediately or immediately from the sovereign, and absolutely vested in the owner.
+
forejudgment
n.
Prejudgment.
+
ferrocyanate
n.
A salt of ferrocyanic acid; a ferrocyanide.
+
forsake
v.t.
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.
+
fibrochondrosteal
a.
Partly fibrous, partly cartilaginous, and partly osseous.
+
fanaticism
n.
Excessive enthusiasm, unreasoning zeal, or wild and extravagant notions, on any subject, especially religion; religious frenzy.
+
fornix
n.
An arch or fold; as, the fornix, or vault, of the cranium; the fornix, or reflection, of the conjuctiva.
+
farm
v.t.
To take at a certain rent or rate.
+
forethink
v.t.
To contrive (something) beforehend.
+
frit
v.t.
To fritter; -- with away.
+
flange
n.
An external or internal rib, or rim, for strength, as the flange of an iron beam; or for a guide, as the flange of a car wheel (see Car wheel.); or for attachment to another object, as the flange on the end of a pipe, steam cylinder, etc.
+
fen cricket

The mole cricket.
+
fernery
n.
A place for rearing ferns.
+
flamboyant
a.
Characterized by waving or flamelike curves, as in the tracery of windows, etc.; -- said of the later (15th century) French Gothic style.
+
frena
pl.
of Frenum
+
fulfill
v.t.
To accomplish or carry into effect, as an intention, promise, or prophecy, a desire, prayer, or requirement, etc.; to complete by performance; to answer the requisitions of; to bring to pass, as a purpose or design; to effectuate.
+
flanch
n.
A bearing consisting of a segment of a circle encroaching on the field from the side.
+
fossorious
a.
Adapted for digging; -- said of the legs of certain insects.
+
friendly
a.
Not hostile; as, a friendly power or state.
+
fly
v.i.
A parasite.
+
frontlet
n.
The margin of the head, behind the bill of birds, often bearing rigid bristles.
+
firth
n.
An arm of the sea; a frith.
+
flux
n.
Flowing; unstable; inconstant; variable.
+
famoused
a.
Renowned.
+
fiberless
a.
Alt. of Fibreless
+
frown
v.i.
To contract the brow in displeasure, severity, or sternness; to scowl; to put on a stern, grim, or surly look.
+
ferrugineous
a.
Ferruginous.
+
follow
v.t.
To copy after; to take as an example.
+
fulgurata
n.
A spectro-electric tube in which the decomposition of a liquid by the passage of an electric spark is observed.
+
frame
v.i.
To shape; to arrange, as the organs of speech.
+
farrow
n.
A little of pigs.
+
fare
v.
The price of passage or going; the sum paid or due for conveying a person by land or water; as, the fare for crossing a river; the fare in a coach or by railway.
+
foddlefaddle
n.
A trifle; trifling talk; nonsense.
+
fairness
n.
The state of being fair, or free form spots or stains, as of the skin; honesty, as of dealing; candor, as of an argument, etc.
+
furnishment
n.
The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture; also, furniture.
+
feuillants
n.pl.
A reformed branch of the Bernardines, founded in 1577 at Feuillans, near Toulouse, in France.
+
force
n.
To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce.
+
farthing
n.
A very small quantity or value.
+
fire
v.i.
To take fire; to be kindled; to kindle.
+
flare
v.i.
To shine out with gaudy colors; to flaunt; to be offensively bright or showy.
+
fully
adv.
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.
+
forwarding
n.
The act of one who forwards; the act or occupation of transmitting merchandise or other property for others.
+
filleting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fillet
+
featured
a.
Having features; formed into features.
+
foxtail
n.
The tail or brush of a fox.
+
fag
v.t.
To tire by labor; to exhaust; as, he was almost fagged out.
+
familiar
a.
Well known; well understood; common; frequent; as, a familiar illustration.
+
flavol
n.
A yellow, crystalline substance, obtained from anthraquinone, and regarded as a hydroxyl derivative of it.
+
faceting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Facet
+
fin
n.
The hand.
+
femur
n.
The proximal segment of the hind limb containing the thigh bone; the thigh. See Coxa.
+
favorite
n.
The competitor (as a horse in a race) that is judged most likely to win; the competitor standing highest in the betting.
+
flambeau
n.
A flaming torch, esp. one made by combining together a number of thick wicks invested with a quick-burning substance (anciently, perhaps, wax; in modern times, pitch or the like); hence, any torch.
+
free
superl.
Liberated, by arriving at a certain age, from the control of parents, guardian, or master.
+
friable
a.
Easily crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder.
+
filature
n.
A drawing out into threads; hence, the reeling of silk from cocoons.
+
fold
v.i.
To become folded, plaited, or doubled; to close over another of the same kind; to double together; as, the leaves of the door fold.
+
figure
v.t.
To calculate; to contrive; to scheme; as, he is figuring to secure the nomination.
+
fanged
a.
Having fangs or tusks; as, a fanged adder. Also used figuratively.
+
flutter
n.
The act of fluttering; quick and irregular motion; vibration; as, the flutter of a fan.
+
forficula
n.
A genus of insects including the earwigs. See Earwig, 1.
+
fireflaire
n.
A European sting ray of the genus Trygon (T. pastinaca); -- called also fireflare and fiery flaw.
+
flashing
n.
A mode of covering transparent white glass with a film of colored glass.
+
forlornly
adv.
In a forlorn manner.
+
fiacre
n.
A kind of French hackney coach.
+
foul
v.t.
To incrust (the bore of a gun) with burnt powder in the process of firing.
+
finner
n.
A finback whale.
+
face
v.t.
To cover in front, for ornament, protection, etc.; to put a facing upon; as, a building faced with marble.
+
ferruginous
a.
Resembling iron rust in appearance or color; brownish red, or yellowish red.
+
fitting
a.
Fit; appropriate; suitable; proper.
+
fluency
n.
The quality of being fluent; smoothness; readiness of utterance; volubility.
+
flatulent
a.
Pretentious without substance or reality; puffy; empty; vain; as, a flatulent vanity.
+
frater
n.
A monk; also, a frater house.
+
fleet
v.t.
To draw apart the blocks of; -- said of a tackle.
+
fly
v.i.
The length of an extended flag from its staff; sometimes, the length from the "union" to the extreme end.
+
fever
n.
A diseased state of the system, marked by increased heat, acceleration of the pulse, and a general derangement of the functions, including usually, thirst and loss of appetite.  Many diseases, of which fever is the most prominent symptom, are denominated fevers; as, typhoid fever; yellow fever.
+
feet
pl.
of Foot
+
fag
v.t.
Anything that fatigues.
+
fly
v.i.
Any dipterous insect; as, the house fly; flesh fly; black fly. See Diptera, and Illust. in Append.
+
feted
imp.|p.p.
of Fete
+
frondation
n.
The act of stripping, as trees, of leaves or branches; a kind of pruning.
+
forth
adv.
Throughly; from beginning to end.
+
fougasse
n.
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.
+
featherveined
a.
Having the veins (of a leaf) diverging from the two sides of a midrib.
+
figaro
n.
An adroit and unscrupulous intriguer.
+
formulary
a.
Stated; prescribed; ritual.
+
fagot
n.
A bundle of sticks, twigs, or small branches of trees, used for fuel, for raising batteries, filling ditches, or other purposes in fortification; a fascine.
+
footbridge
n.
A narrow bridge for foot passengers only.
+
fleshed
a.
Corpulent; fat; having flesh.
+
faecal
a.
See Fecal.
+
fewness
n.
The state of being few; smallness of number; paucity.
+
fidelity
n.
Faithfulness; adherence to right; careful and exact observance of duty, or discharge of obligations.
+
fourth
a.
Next in order after the third; the ordinal of four.
+
foxing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fox
+
flax
n.
The skin or fibrous part of the flax plant, when broken and cleaned by hatcheling or combing.
+
fifth
n.
The quotient of a unit divided by five; one of five equal parts; a fifth part.
+
frontless
a.
Without face or front; shameless; not diffident; impudent.
+
faithless
a.
Not observant of promises or covenants.
+
fistuca
n.
An instrument used by the ancients in driving piles.
+
fencing
imp.|p.p.fencedp.pr.|vb.n.
of Fence
+
fixture
n.
State of being fixed; fixedness.
+
felting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Felt
+
fly
v.i.
A kind of light carriage for rapid transit, plying for hire and usually drawn by one horse.
+
fone
n.
pl. of Foe.
+
far
a.
Distant in any direction; not near; remote; mutually separated by a wide space or extent.
+
fraternity
n.
Men of the same class, profession, occupation, character, or tastes.
+
fold
n.
An inclosure for sheep; a sheep pen.
+
fumaric
a.
Pertaining to, or derived from, fumitory (Fumaria officinalis).
+
fabulosity
n.
A fabulous or fictitious story.
+
foreboding
n.
Presage of coming ill; expectation of misfortune.
+
fritter
v.t.
To break into small pieces or fragments.
+
forejudge
v.t.
To expel from court for some offense or misconduct, as an attorney or officer; to deprive or put out of a thing by the judgment of a court.
+
form
n.
A long seat; a bench; hence, a rank of students in a school; a class; also, a class or rank in society.
+
fettling
n.
A mixture of ore, cinders, etc., used to line the hearth of a puddling furnace.
+
fumer
n.
One who makes or uses perfumes.
+
frailness
n.
Frailty.
+
fathoming
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fathom
+
fireball
n.
A ball filled with powder or other combustibles, intended to be thrown among enemies, and to injure by explosion; also, to set fire to their works and light them up, so that movements may be seen.
+
frivolities
pl.
of Frivolity
+
forereach
v.i.
To shoot ahead, especially when going in stays.
+
frankpledge
n.
The tithing itself.
+
fingerer
n.
One who fingers; a pilferer.
+
freighter
n.
One for whom freight is transported.
+
fleshed
imp.|p.p.
of Flesh
+
feverous
a.
Affected with fever or ague; feverish.
+
fidelity
n.
Adherence to the marriage contract.
+
farce
v.t.
Stuffing, or mixture of viands, like that used on dressing a fowl; forcemeat.
+
flush
v.i.
To snow red; to shine suddenly; to glow.
+
frenchify
v.t.
To make French; to infect or imbue with the manners or tastes of the French; to Gallicize.
+
fit
superl.
Prepared; ready.
+
finish
n.
The result of completed labor, as on the surface of an object; manner or style of finishing; as, a rough, dead, or glossy finish given to cloth, stone, metal, etc.
+
families
pl.
of Family
+
fecal
a.
relating to, or containing, dregs, feces, or ordeure; faecal.
+
florid
a.
Flowery; ornamental; running in rapid melodic figures, divisions, or passages, as in variations; full of fioriture or little ornamentations.
+
foulmouthed
a.
Using language scurrilous, opprobrious, obscene, or profane; abusive.
+
flashy
a.
Dazzling for a moment; making a momentary show of brilliancy; transitorily bright.
+
fraternity
n.
The state or quality of being fraternal or brotherly; brotherhood.
+
farriery
n.
The place where a smith shoes horses.
+
fine
superl.
Having (such) a proportion of pure metal in its composition; as, coins nine tenths fine.
+
flatus
pl.
of Flatus
+
franklin
a.
An English freeholder, or substantial householder.
+
prigidity
n.
Want of heat or vigor; as, the frigidity of old age.
+
footboard
n.
The platform for the engineer and fireman of a locomotive.
+
fullwinged
a.
Having large and strong or complete wings.
+
fesels
n.pl.
See Phasel.
+
fortune
n.
That which comes as the result of an undertaking or of a course of action; good or ill success; especially, favorable issue; happy event; success; prosperity as reached partly by chance and partly by effort.
+
functionless
a.
Destitute of function, or of an appropriate organ. Darwin.
+
figurative
a.
Abounding in figures of speech; flowery; florid; as, a highly figurative description.
+
famble
v.i.
To stammer.
+
fet
n.
A piece.
+
force
n.
To constrain to do or to forbear, by the exertion of a power not resistible; to compel by physical, moral, or intellectual means; to coerce; as, masters force slaves to labor.
+
fillet
n.
A thin strip or ribbon; esp.: (a) A strip of metal from which coins are punched. (b) A strip of card clothing. (c) A thin projecting band or strip.
+
feminize
v.t.
To make womanish or effeminate.
+
flounced
imp.|p.p.
of Flounce
+
fancied
v.t.
Formed or conceived by the fancy; unreal; as, a fancied wrong.
+
famous
a.
Celebrated in fame or public report; renowned; mach talked of; distinguished in story; -- used in either a good or a bad sense, chiefly the former; often followed by for; as, famous for erudition, for eloquence, for military skill; a famous pirate.
+
falsicrimen

The crime of falsifying.
+
fourgon
n.
An ammunition wagon.
+
flow
n.
A low-lying piece of watery land; -- called also flow moss and flow bog.
+
fleece
v.t.
To spread over as with wool.
+
forebode
v.t.
To foretell.
+
fanciful
a.
Full of fancy; guided by fancy, rather than by reason and experience; whimsical; as, a fanciful man forms visionary projects.
+
figure
n.
Value, as expressed in numbers; price; as, the goods are estimated or sold at a low figure.
+
feeler
n.
Anything, as a proposal, observation, etc., put forth or thrown out in order to ascertain the views of others; something tentative.
+
fancy
n.
An opinion or notion formed without much reflection; caprice; whim; impression.
+
fraught
n.
A freight; a cargo.
+
farce
v.t.
A low style of comedy; a dramatic composition marked by low humor, generally written with little regard to regularity or method, and abounding with ludicrous incidents and expressions.
+
forge
n.
To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate; to counterfeit, as, a signature, or a signed document.
+
fawn
n.
The young of an animal; a whelp.
+
faineant
n.
A do-nothing; an idle fellow; a sluggard.
+
forget
v.t.
To treat with inattention or disregard; to slight; to neglect.
+
friend
n.
One who looks propitiously on a cause, an institution, a project, and the like; a favorer; a promoter; as, a friend to commerce, to poetry, to an institution.
+
festucous
a.
Formed or consisting of straw.
+
fistulose
a.
Formed like a fistula; hollow; reedlike.
+
fibre
n.
One of the delicate, threadlike portions of which the tissues of plants and animals are in part constituted; as, the fiber of flax or of muscle.
+
flexicostate
a.
Having bent or curved ribs.
+
fautor
n.
A favorer; a patron; one who gives countenance or support; an abettor.
+
feeling
n.
That quality of a work of art which embodies the mental emotion of the artist, and is calculated to affect similarly the spectator.
+
formality
n.
The manner in which a thing is conceived or constituted by an act of human thinking; the result of such an act; as, animality and rationality are formalities.
+
foot poundal

A unit of energy or work, equal to the work done in moving a body through one foot against the force of one poundal.
+
ferdelance
n.
A large, venomous serpent (Trigonocephalus lanceolatus) of Brazil and the West Indies. It is allied to the rattlesnake, but has no rattle.
+
fencing
n.
The art or practice of attack and defense with the sword, esp. with the smallsword. See Fence, v. i., 2.
+
feathered
a.
Having a fringe of feathers, as the legs of certian birds; or of hairs, as the legs of a setter dog.
+
fatkidneyed
a.
Gross; lubberly.
+
ferry
v.t.
A place where persons or things are carried across a river, arm of the sea, etc., in a ferryboat.
+
futurist
n.
One whose chief interests are in what is to come; one who anxiously, eagerly, or confidently looks forward to the future; an expectant.
+
franciscan
n.
A monk or friar of the Order of St. Francis, a large and zealous order of mendicant monks founded in 1209 by St. Francis of Assisi. They are called also Friars Minor; and in England, Gray Friars, because they wear a gray habit.
+
fabric
n.
That which is fabricated
+
flat
superl.
Wanting relief; destitute of variety; without points of prominence and striking interest.
+
feat
n.
An act; a deed; an exploit.
+
feed
n.
An allowance of provender given to a horse, cow, etc.; a meal; as, a feed of corn or oats.
+
flourish
v.t.
To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
+
flabellinerved
a.
Having many nerves diverging radiately from the base; -- said of a leaf.
+
fool
n.
A compound of gooseberries scalded and crushed, with cream; -- commonly called gooseberry fool.
+
fulcrum
n.
A prop or support.
+
fall
v.t.
To find a final outlet; to discharge its waters; to empty; -- with into; as, the river Rhone falls into the Mediterranean.
+
forfeit
v.i.
To fail to keep an obligation.
+
fix
v.t.
To line the hearth of (a puddling furnace) with fettling.
+
fluke
n.
The European flounder.  See Flounder.
+
fringe
n.
One of a number of light or dark bands, produced by the interference of light; a diffraction band; --  called also interference fringe.
+
flat
n.
A platform on wheel, upon which emblematic designs, etc., are carried in processions.
+
fib
v.t.
To tell a fib to.
+
ferriferous
a.
Producing or yielding iron.
+
fructuary
n.
One who enjoys the profits, income, or increase of anything.
+
fiddler
n.
The common European sandpiper (Tringoides hypoleucus); -- so called because it continually oscillates its body.
+
fox
v.i.
To turn sour; -- said of beer, etc., when it sours in fermenting.
+
fulling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Full
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flake
v.i.
To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off.
+
file
n.
An orderly collection of papers, arranged in sequence or classified for preservation and reference; as, files of letters or of newspapers; this mail brings English files to the 15th instant.
+
for
prep.
Indicating the remoter and indirect object of an act; the end or final cause with reference to which anything is, acts, serves, or is done.
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faint
superl.
Performed, done, or acted, in a weak or feeble manner; not exhibiting vigor, strength, or energy; slight; as, faint efforts; faint resistance.
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fleury
a.
Finished at the ends with fleurs-de-lis; -- said esp. of a cross so decorated.
+
frisker
n.
One who frisks; one who leaps of dances in gayety; a wanton; an inconstant or unsettled person.
+
friendliness
n.
The condition or quality of being friendly.
+
foge
n.
The Cornish name for a forge used for smelting tin.
+
furloughing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Furlough
+
flirtation
n.
Playing at courtship; coquetry.
+
fleecy
a.
Covered with, made of, or resembling, a fleece.
+
firebote
n.
An allowance of fuel. See Bote.
+
fives
n.pl.
A kind of play with a ball against a wall, resembling tennis; -- so named because three fives, or fifteen, are counted to the game.
+
fuero
n.
A custom having the force of law.
+
flusher
n.
A workman employed in cleaning sewers by flushing them with water.
+
five
n.
The number next greater than four, and less than six; five units or objects.
+
flower
n.
A substance in the form of a powder, especially when condensed from sublimation; as, the flowers of sulphur.
+
fervent
a.
Hot; glowing; boiling; burning; as, a fervent summer.
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fiduciary
n.
One who depends for salvation on faith, without works; an Antinomian.
+
flush
a.
Full of vigor; fresh; glowing; bright.
+
fulgently
adv.
Dazzlingly; glitteringly.
+
facetious
a.
Characterized by wit and pleasantry; exciting laughter; as, a facetious story or reply.
+
firing
n.
The application of fire, or of a cautery.
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flea
n.
An insect belonging to the genus Pulex, of the order Aphaniptera. Fleas are destitute of wings, but have the power of leaping energetically. The bite is poisonous to most persons. The human flea (Pulex irritans), abundant in Europe, is rare in America, where the dog flea (P. canis) takes its place. See Aphaniptera, and Dog flea. See Illustration in Appendix.
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fender
v.t.|i.
Anything serving as a cushion to lessen the shock when a vessel comes in contact with another vessel or a wharf.
+
firmless
a.
Infirm; unstable.
+
frustum
n.
One of the drums of the shaft of a column.
+
flourish
v.t.
To embellish with the flowers of diction; to adorn with rhetorical figures; to grace with ostentatious eloquence; to set off with a parade of words.
+
folding
n.
The keepig of sheep in inclosures on arable land, etc.
+
formulation
n.
The act, process, or result of formulating or reducing to a formula.
+
flat
n.
A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.
+
frustrable
a.
Capable of beeing frustrated or defeated.
+
foreside
n.
The front side; the front; esp., a stretch of country fronting the sea.
+
foresightful
a.
Foresighted.
+
fondling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fondle
+
fitter
n.
A little piece; a flitter; a flinder.
+
fissipedia
n.pl.
A division of the Carnivora, including the dogs, cats, and bears, in which the feet are not webbed; -- opposed to Pinnipedia.
+
farry
n.
A farrow.
+
fen
n.
Low land overflowed, or covered wholly or partially with water, but producing sedge, coarse grasses, or other aquatic plants; boggy land; moor; marsh.
+
fitful
a.
Full of fits; irregularly variable; impulsive and unstable.
+
fanion
n.
A small flag for marking the stations in surveying.
+
fake
v.t.
To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.
+
fourpence
n.
A name formerly given in New England to the Spanish half real, a silver coin worth six and a quarter cents.
+
flagellation
n.
A beating or flogging; a whipping; a scourging.
+
fellowcreature
n.
One of the same race or kind; one made by the same Creator.
+
finger
n.
One of the five terminating members of the hand; a digit; esp., one of the four extermities of the hand, other than the thumb.
+
fledge
v.t.|i.
To furnish with feathers; to supply with the feathers necessary for flight.
+
fulgurating
a.
Resembling lightning; -- used to describe intense lancinating pains accompanying locomotor ataxy.
+
floccose
n.
Having tufts of soft hairs, which are often deciduous.
+
fluorite
n.
Calcium fluoride, a mineral of many different colors, white, yellow, purple, green, red, etc., often very beautiful, crystallizing commonly in cubes with perfect octahedral cleavage; also massive. It is used as a flux. Some varieties are used for ornamental vessels. Also called fluor spar, or simply fluor.
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falsity
a.
The quality of being false; coutrariety or want of conformity to truth.
+
forborne

p. p. of Forbear.
+
following
a.
Next after; succeeding; ensuing; as, the assembly was held on the following day.
+
frame
n.
A molding box or flask, which being filled with sand serves as a mold for castings.
+
flattish
a.
Somewhat flat.
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free
a.
To make free; to set at liberty; to rid of that which confines, limits, embarrasses, oppresses, etc.; to release; to disengage; to clear; -- followed by from, and sometimes by off; as, to free a captive or a slave; to be freed of these inconveniences.
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forthward
adv.
Forward.
+
far
a.
The more distant of two; as, the far side (called also off side) of a horse, that is, the right side, or the one opposite to the rider when he mounts.
+
foolishness
n.
The quality of being foolish.
+
fortnightly
a.
Occurring or appearing once in a fortnight; as, a fortnightly meeting of a club; a fortnightly magazine, or other publication.
+
fairweather
a.
Made or done in pleasant weather, or in circumstances involving but little exposure or sacrifice; as, a fair-weather voyage.
+
fescennine
n.
A style of low, scurrilous, obscene poetry originating in fescennia.
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finochio
n.
An umbelliferous plant (Foeniculum dulce) having a somewhat tuberous stem; sweet fennel. The blanched stems are used in France and Italy as a culinary vegetable.
+
fronde
n.
A political party in France, during the minority of Louis XIV., who opposed the government, and made war upon the court party.
+
fire
v.i.
To discharge artillery or firearms; as, they fired on the town.
+
federalist
n.
An advocate of confederation; specifically (Amer. Hist.), a friend of the Constitution of the United States at its formation and adoption; a member of the political party which favored the administration of president Washington.
+
figure
n.
A pattern in cloth, paper, or other manufactured article; a design wrought out in a fabric; as, the muslin was of a pretty figure.
+
fail
v.i.
To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent.
+
fronton
n.
Same as Frontal, 2.
+
fluent
a.
Ready in the use of words; voluble; copious; having words at command; and uttering them with facility and smoothness; as, a fluent speaker; hence, flowing; voluble; smooth; -- said of language; as, fluent speech.
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fascination
n.
The act of fascinating, bewhiching, or enchanting; enchantment; witchcraft; the exercise of a powerful or irresistible influence on the affections or passions; unseen, inexplicable influence.
+
fund
v.t.
To put into the form of bonds or stocks bearing regular interest; as, to fund the floating debt.
+
fear
n.
To affright; to terrify; to drive away or prevent approach of by fear.
+
fribbling
a.
Frivolous; trining; toolishly captious.
+
forbear
v.t.
To treat with consideration or indulgence.
+
forgery
n.
That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised, or counterfeited.
+
fawn
v.i.
To court favor by low cringing, frisking, etc., as a dog; to flatter meanly; -- often followed by on or upon.
+
float
v.i.
Anything which floats or rests on the surface of a fluid, as to sustain weight, or to indicate the height of the surface, or mark the place of, something.
+
federalize
v.t.
To unite in compact, as different States; to confederate for political purposes; to unite by or under the Federal Constitution.
+
forswearer
n.
One who rejects of renounces upon oath; one who swears a false oath.
+
fairy
n.
An enchantress.
+
fleming
n.
A native or inhabitant of Flanders.
+
f

F is the sixth letter of the English alphabet, and a nonvocal consonant. Its form and sound are from the Latin. The Latin borrowed the form from the Greek digamma /, which probably had the value of English w consonant. The form and value of Greek letter came from the Phoenician, the ultimate source being probably Egyptian. Etymologically f is most closely related to p, k, v, and b; as in E. five, Gr. pe`nte; E. wolf, L. lupus, Gr. ly`kos; E. fox, vixen ; fragile, break; fruit, brook, v. t.; E. bear, L. ferre. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 178, 179, 188, 198, 230.
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fellowfeeling
n.
Sympathy; a like feeling.
+
filth
n.
Foul matter; anything that soils or defiles; dirt; nastiness.
+
fossilism
n.
The science or state of fossils.
+
fourteen
a.
Four and ten more; twice seven.
+
flat
superl.
Lying at full length, or spread out, upon the ground; level with the ground or earth; prostrate; as, to lie flat on the ground; hence, fallen; laid low; ruined; destroyed.
+
forgiveness
n.
The act of forgiving; the state of being forgiven; as, the forgiveness of sin or of injuries.
+
foundation
n.
The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course (see Base course (a), under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry.
+
fordwine
v.i.
To dwindle away; to disappear.
+
feverwort
n.
See Fever root, under Fever.
+
funuless
a.
Destitute of funds.
+
feudary
n.
A tenant who holds his lands by feudal service; a feudatory.
+
ferriage
n.
The price or fare to be paid for passage at a ferry.
+
formulizing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Formulize
+
forgather
v.i.
To convene; to gossip; to meet accidentally.
+
flossy
a.
Pertaining to, made of, or resembling, floss; hence, light; downy.
+
finish
n.
That which finishes, puts an end to/ or perfects.
+
flexuous
a.
Wavering; not steady; flickering.
+
fashioner
n.
One who fashions, forms, ar gives shape to anything.
+
fashionist
n.
An obsequious follower of the modes and fashions.
+
fleet
v.t.
To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.
+
farcy
n.
A contagious disease of horses, associated with painful ulcerating enlargements, esp. upon the head and limbs. It is of the same nature as glanders, and is often fatal. Called also farcin, and farcimen.
+
florentine
a.
Belonging or relating to Florence, in Italy.
+
falsificator
n.
A falsifier.
+
foal
v.t.
To bring forth (a colt); -- said of a mare or a she ass.
+
filial
a.
Bearing the relation of a child.
+
fetish
a.
Alt. of Fetishistic
+
fascicular
a.
Pertaining to a fascicle; fascicled; as, a fascicular root.
+
furbelow
n.
A plaited or gathered flounce on a woman's garment.
+
flouting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Flout
+
filaceous
a.
Composed of threads.
+
formidably
adv.
In a formidable manner.
+
forebeam
n.
The breast beam of a loom.
+
faculty
n.
Power; prerogative or attribute of office.
+
forums
pl.
of Forum
+
finitely
adv.
In a finite manner or degree.
+
footing
n.
Ground for the foot; place for the foot to rest on; firm foundation to stand on.
+
fibrin
n.
The white, albuminous mass remaining after washing lean beef or other meat with water until all coloring matter is removed; the fibrous portion of the muscle tissue; flesh fibrin.
+
favorless
a.
Unpropitious; unfavorable.
+
figuline
n.
A piece of pottery ornamented with representations of natural objects.
+
fluctuating
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fluctuate
+
fellow
n.
A companion; a comrade; an associate; a partner; a sharer.
+
folkland
n.
Land held in villenage, being distributed among the folk, or people, at the pleasure of the lord of the manor, and resumed at his discretion. Not being held by any assurance in writing, it was opposed to bookland or charter land, which was held by deed.
+
fermacy
n.
Medicine; pharmacy.
+
farmer
n.
One who farms
+
fashing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fash
+
foundries
pl.
of Foundry
+
friezed
a.
Gathered, or having the map gathered, into little tufts, knots, or protuberances.  Cf. Frieze, v. t., and Friz, v. t., 2.
+
fairish
a.
Tolerably fair.
+
frivolity
n.
The condition or quality of being frivolous; also, acts or habits of trifling; unbecoming levity of disposition.
+
fosse
n.
A ditch or moat.
+
founder
v.t.
To cause internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs of (a horse), so as to disable or lame him.
+
fox
n.
A sly, cunning fellow.
+
forepast
a.
Bygone.
+
fracturing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fracture
+
flankered
imp.|p.p.
of Flanker
+
factorage
n.
The allowance given to a factor, as a compensation for his services; -- called also a commission.
+
familistical
a.
Pertaining to Familists.
+
fresco
a.
In modern parlance, incorrectly applied to painting on plaster in any manner.
+
floury
a.
Of or resembling flour; mealy; covered with flour.
+
furcation
n.
A branching like a. fork.
+
feel
v.i.
To be conscious of an inward impression, state of mind, persuasion, physical condition, etc.; to perceive one's self to be; -- followed by an adjective describing the state, etc.; as, to feel assured, grieved, persuaded.
+
flatten
a.
To reduce to an even surface or one approaching evenness; to make flat; to level; to make plane.
+
frue vanner

A moving, inclined, endless apron on which ore is concentrated by a current of water; a kind of buddle.
+
finary
n.
See Finery.
+
foreman
n.
The first or chief man
+
fatality
n.
The state of being fatal; tendency to destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate; mortaility.
+
flue
n.
Light down, such as rises from cotton, fur, etc.; very fine lint or hair.
+
floret
n.
A foil; a blunt sword used in fencing.
+
fell
imp.
of Fall
+
filigraned
a.
See Filigreed.
+
fat
superl.
Rich; producing a large income; desirable; as, a fat benefice; a fat office; a fat job.
+
fibrospongiae
n.pl.
An order of sponges having a fibrous skeleton, including the commercial sponges.
+
fur
a.
Of or pertaining to furs; bearing or made of fur; as, a fur cap; the fur trade.
+
fur
v.t.
To nail small strips of board or larger scantling upon, in order to make a level surface for lathing or boarding, or to provide for a space or interval back of the plastered or boarded surface, as inside an outer wall, by way of protection against damp.
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frothy
superl.
Full of foam or froth, or consisting of froth or light bubbles; spumous; foamy.
+
flyer
n.
Anything that is scattered abroad in great numbers as a theatrical programme, an advertising leaf, etc.
+
factioner
n.
One of a faction.
+
flesh
v.t.
To glut; to satiate; hence, to harden, to accustom.
+
frush
n.
Noise; clatter; crash.
+
frit
v.t.
The material for glaze of pottery.
+
atting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fat
+
factious
a.
Given to faction; addicted to form parties and raise dissensions, in opposition to government or the common good; turbulent; seditious; prone to clamor against public measures or men; -- said of persons.
+
fat
v.i.
To grow fat, plump, and fleshy.
+
follies
pl.
of Folly
+
fret
n.
A saltire interlaced with a mascle.
+
falsetto
n.
A false or artificial voice; that voice in a man which lies above his natural voice; the male counter tenor or alto voice. See Head voice, under Voice.
+
flowerful
a.
Abounding with flowers.
+
febriculose
a.
Somewhat feverish.
+
fee
n.
A right to the use of a superior's land, as a stipend for services to be performed; also, the land so held; a fief.
+
fiat
n.
An authority for certain proceedings given by the Lord Chancellor's signature.
+
fragrant
a.
Affecting the olfactory nerves agreeably; sweet of smell; odorous; having or emitting an agreeable perfume.
+
feria
n.
A week day, esp. a day which is neither a festival nor a fast.
+
forgetfulness
n.
The quality of being forgetful; prononess to let slip from the mind.
+
fuegian
a.
Of or pertaining to Terra del Fuego.
+
forlorn

of Forlese
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faceted
a.
Having facets.
+
frightened
imp.
of Frighten
+
forelay
v.t.
To waylay. See Forlay.
+
fervor
n.
Heat; excessive warmth.
+
foreclosure
n.
The act or process of foreclosing; a proceeding which bars or extinguishes a mortgager's right of redeeming a mortgaged estate.
+
flavous
a.
Yellow.
+
filibeg
n.
Same as Kilt.
+
foramen
n.
A small opening, perforation, or orifice; a fenestra.
+
foilable
a.
Capable of being foiled.
+
fork
v.i.
To shoot into blades, as corn.
+
fleshy
superl.
Human.
+
forfeit
p.p.a.
In the condition of being forfeited; subject to alienation.
+
forswat
a.
Spent with heat; covered with sweat.
+
fearfulness
n.
The state of being fearful.
+
fire
v.t.
To feed or serve the fire of; as, to fire a boiler.
+
ferroprussiate
n.
A ferrocyanate; a ferocyanide.
+
fusarole
n.
A molding generally placed under the echinus or quarter round of capitals in the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian orders of architecture.
+
frenchman
n.
A native or one of the people of France.
+
foreordination
n.
Previous ordination or appointment; predetermination; predestination.
+
flicker
n.
The act of wavering or of fluttering; flucuation; sudden and brief increase of brightness; as, the last flicker of the dying flame.
+
fortnightly
adv.
Once in a fortnight; at intervals of a fortnight.
+
fissiped
a.
Alt. of Fissipedal
+
foreran

imp. of Forerun.
+
favaginous
a.
Formed like, or resembling, a honeycomb.
+
friesic
n.
The language of the Frisians, a Teutonic people formerly occupying a large part of the coast of Holland and Northwestern Germany. The modern dialects of Friesic are spoken chiefly in the province of Friesland, and on some of the islands near the coast of Germany and Denmark.
+
floor
n.
The surface, or the platform, of a structure on which we walk or travel; as, the floor of a bridge.
+
feign
v.t.
To give a mental existence to, as to something not real or actual; to imagine; to invent; hence, to pretend; to form and relate as if true.
+
farsightedness
n.
Quality of bbeing farsighted.
+
fetter
n.
Anything that confines or restrains; a restraint.
+
flurry
v.t.
To put in a state of agitation; to excite or alarm.
+
forename
v.t.
To name or mention before.
+
fortitude
n.
Power to resist attack; strength; firmness.
+
feminate
a.
Feminine.
+
forthgoing
a.
Going forth.
+
fungoid
a.
Like a fungus; fungous; spongy.
+
flesh
n.
The character under the influence of animal propensities or selfish passions; the soul unmoved by spiritual influences.
+
featurely
a.
Having features; showing marked peculiarities; handsome.
+
flowery
a.
Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style.
+
fasciated
a.
Bound with a fillet, sash, or bandage.
+
fit
n.
In Old English, a song; a strain; a canto or portion of a ballad; a passus.
+
flour
n.
The finely ground meal of wheat, or of any other grain; especially, the finer part of meal separated by bolting; hence, the fine and soft powder of any substance; as, flour of emery; flour of mustard.
+
fall
v.t.
To become insnared or embarrassed; to be entrapped; to be worse off than before; asm to fall into error; to fall into difficulties.
+
fellowship
n.
The rule for dividing profit and loss among partners; -- called also partnership, company, and distributive proportion.
+
flagstone
n.
A flat stone used in paving, or any rock which will split into such stones. See Flag, a stone.
+
footing
n.
The act of adding up a column of figures; the amount or sum total of such a column.
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final
a.
Respecting an end or object to be gained; respecting the purpose or ultimate end in view.
+
figgum
n.
A juggler's trick; conjuring.
+
finfish
n.
True fish, as distinguished from shellfish.
+
forestalled
imp.|p.p.
of Forestall
+
flippancy
n.
The state or quality of being flippant.
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facility
n.
Ease in performance; readiness proceeding from skill or use; dexterity; as, practice gives a wonderful facility in executing works of art.
+
forestall
v.t.
To take beforehand, or in advance; to anticipate.
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fret
v.t.
To rub; to wear away by friction; to chafe; to gall; hence, to eat away; to gnaw; as, to fret cloth; to fret a piece of gold or other metal; a worm frets the plants of a ship.
+
filibustering
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Filibuster
+
flurt
n.
A flirt.
+
funding
a.
Providing a fund for the payment of the interest or principal of a debt.
+
force
v.i.
To be of force, importance, or weight; to matter.
+
frumper
n.
A mocker.
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force pump

A pump adapted for delivering water at a considerable height above the pump, or under a considerable pressure; in distinction from one which lifts the water only to the top of the pump or delivers it through a spout. See Illust. of Plunger pump, under Plunger.
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foulder
v.i.
To flash, as lightning; to lighten; to gleam; to thunder.
+
forehanded
a.
Beforehand with one's needs, or having resources in advance of one's necessities; in easy circumstances; as, a forehanded farmer.
+
fecula
n.
The green matter of plants; chlorophyll.
+
fugitive
a.
Fleeing from pursuit, danger, restraint, etc., escaping, from service, duty etc.; as, a fugitive solder; a fugitive slave; a fugitive debtor.
+
farness
a.
The state of being far off; distance; remoteness.
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fatiloquent
a.
Prophetic; fatidical.
+
fop
n.
One whose ambition it is to gain admiration by showy dress; a coxcomb; an inferior dandy.
+
fearful
a.
Inspiring fear or awe; exciting apprehension or terror; terrible; frightful; dreadful.
+
fish
n.
The flesh of fish, used as food.
+
flunkies
pl.
of Flunky
+
fashioned
a.
Having a certain style or fashion; as old-fashioned; new-fashioned.
+
field
n.
An open space; an extent; an expanse.
+
fustianist
n.
A writer of fustian.
+
freedom
n.
Ease; facility; as, he speaks or acts with freedom.
+
fa
n.
The tone F.
+
fatness
n.
The quality or state of being fat, plump, or full-fed; corpulency; fullness of flesh.
+
florulent
a.
Flowery; blossoming.
+
favosite
a.
Like or pertaining to the genus Favosites.
+
fashionable
n.
A person who conforms to the fashions; -- used chiefly in the plural.
+
frustratory
a.
Making void; rendering null; as, a frustratory appeal.
+
frogfish
n.
See Angler, n., 2.
+
float
n.
To rest on the surface of any fluid; to swim; to be buoyed up.
+
filigreed
a.
Adorned with filigree.
+
flo
n.
An arrow.
+
familist
n.
One of afanatical Antinomian sect originating in Holland, and existing in England about 1580, called the Family of Love, who held that religion consists wholly in love.
+
fondling
n.
A person or thing fondled or caressed; one treated with foolish or doting affection.
+
faintness
n.
The state of being faint; loss of strength, or of consciousness, and self-control.
+
flatuosity
n.
Flatulence.
+
fritillaria
n.
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.
+
fretted
p.p.|a.
Interlaced one with another; -- said of charges and ordinaries.
+
fossilizing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fossilize
+
forties
pl.
of Forty
+
fusain
n.
A drawing made with it. See Charcoal, n. 2, and Charcoal drawing, under Charcoal.
+
frampel
a.
Alt. of Frampoid
+
farrier
n.
A shoer of horses; a veterinary surgeon.
+
flimflam
n.
A freak; a trick; a lie.
+
fumify
v.t.
To subject to the action of smoke.
+
fain
adv.
With joy; gladly; -- with wold.
+
flirt
v.i.
To run and dart about; to act with giddiness, or from a desire to attract notice; especially, to play the coquette; to play at courtship; to coquet; as, they flirt with the young men.
+
fuddle
v.i.
To drink to excess.
+
fleam
n.
A sharp instrument used for opening veins, lancing gums, etc.; a kind of lancet.
+
frowey
a.
Working smoothly, or without splitting; -- said of timber.
+
firm
superl.
Solid; -- opposed to fluid; as, firm land.
+
foundation
n.
That which is founded, or established by endowment; an endowed institution or charity.
+
frock
v.t.
To make a monk of.  Cf. Unfrock.
+
form
n.
That by which shape is given or determined; mold; pattern; model.
+
fourgon
n.
A French baggage wagon.
+
fail
v.i.
To err in judgment; to be mistaken.
+
fatuitous
a.
Stupid; fatuous.
+
folliful
a.
Full of folly.
+
feathered
imp.|p.p.
of Feather
+
fucus
n.
A paint; a dye; also, false show.
+
factitive
a.
Pertaining to that relation which is proper when the act, as of a transitive verb, is not merely received by an object, but produces some change in the object, as when we say, He made the water wine.
+
footed
a.
Having a foot or feet; shaped in the foot.
+
fughetta
n.
a short, condensed fugue.
+
fawkner
n.
A falconer.
+
falter
v.|n.
To hesitate in purpose or action.
+
fiendish
a.
Like a fiend; diabolically wicked or cruel; infernal; malignant; devilish; hellish.
+
friended
imp.|p.p.
of Friend
+
freshening
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Freshen
+
fluxibility
n.
The quality of being fluxible.
+
feyre
n.
A fair or market.
+
fricando
n.
A ragout or fricassee of veal; a fancy dish of veal or of boned turkey, served as an entree, -- called also fricandel.
+
falsified
imp.|p.p.
of Falsify
+
fithul
n.
A fiddle.
+
forensic
a.
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.
+
fall
n.
The season when leaves fall from trees; autumn.
+
flow
v.i.
To move with a continual change of place among the particles or parts, as a fluid; to change place or circulate, as a liquid; as, rivers flow from springs and lakes; tears flow from the eyes.
+
fretten
a.
Rubbed; marked; as, pock-fretten, marked with the smallpox.
+
formulary
n.
Prescribed form or model; formula.
+
flexure
n.
The act of flexing or bending; a turning or curving; flexion; hence, obsequious bowing or bending.
+
flagellata
v.t.
An order of Infusoria, having one or two long, whiplike cilia, at the anterior end. It includes monads. See Infusoria, and Monad.
+
fetch
n.
A stratagem by which a thing is indirectly brought to pass, or by which one thing seems intended and another is done; a trick; an artifice.
+
fairies
pl.
of Fairy
+
forcemeat
n.
Meat chopped fine and highly seasoned, either served up alone, or used as a stuffing.
+
formalized
imp.|p.p.
of Formalize
+
foot
v.t.
To sum up, as the numbers in a column; -- sometimes with up; as, to foot (or foot up) an account.
+
flybitten
a.
Marked by, or as if by, the bite of flies.
+
float
v.t.
To cause to float; to cause to rest or move on the surface of a fluid; as, the tide floated the ship into the harbor.
+
fonly
adv.
Foolishly; fondly.
+
flotery
a.
Wavy; flowing.
+
foredetermine
v.t.
To determine or decree beforehand.
+
face
v.t.
To Confront impudently; to bully.
+
foetor
n.
Same as Fetor.
+
fratrage
n.
A sharing among brothers, or brothers' kin.
+
fat
superl.
Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate.
+
fantail
n.
A variety of the domestic pigeon, so called from the shape of the tail.
+
fulminate
v.i.
A fulminating powder.
+
fast
v.
Given to pleasure seeking; disregardful of restraint; reckless; wild; dissipated; dissolute; as, a fast man; a fast liver.
+
fulcrum
n.
An accessory organ such as a tendril, stipule, spine, and the like.
+
ferae naturae

Of a wild nature; -- applied to animals, as foxes, wild ducks, etc., in which no one can claim property.
+
fusion
v.t.
The union or blending together of things, as, melted together.
+
furoin
n.
A colorless, crystalline substance, C10H8O4, from furfurol.
+
feeder
n.
One who furnishes incentives; an encourager.
+
frame
n.
The skeleton structure which supports the boiler and machinery of a locomotive upon its wheels.
+
favored
a.
Countenanced; aided; regarded with kidness; as, a favored friend.
+
fancy
v.t.
To form a conception of; to portray in the mind; to imagine.
+
frondous
a.
Frondose.
+
frisk
a.
A frolic; a fit of wanton gayety; a gambol: a little playful skip or leap.
+
friskal
n.
A leap or caper.
+
father
n.
One of the chief esslesiastical authorities of the first centuries after Christ; -- often spoken of collectively as the Fathers; as, the Latin, Greek, or apostolic Fathers.
+
fire
n.
Anything which destroys or affects like fire.
+
fahrenheit
a.
Conforming to the scale used by Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit in the graduation of his thermometer; of or relating to Fahrenheit's thermometric scale.
+
foggy
superl.
Beclouded; dull; obscure; as, foggy ideas.
+
fogger
n.
One who fogs; a pettifogger.
+
foul
n.
See Foul ball, under Foul, a.
+
fecche
v.t.
To fetch.
+
foliated
a.
Having leaves, or leaflike projections; as, a foliated shell.
+
form
v.i.
To run to a form, as a hare.
+
fourchette
n.
A table fork.
+
flock
v.t.
To flock to; to crowd.
+
fleering
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fleer
+
funk
n.
An offensive smell; a stench.
+
forgot

of Forget
+
floor
v.t.
To cover with a floor; to furnish with a floor; as, to floor a house with pine boards.
+
foistiness
n.
Fustiness; mustiness.
+
fico
n.
A fig; an insignificant trifle, no more than the snap of one's thumb; a sign of contempt made by the fingers, expressing. A fig for you.
+
faculties
pl.
of Faculty
+
foundation
n.
A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, and constituting a permanent fund; endowment.
+
frieze
v.t.
To make a nap on (cloth); to friz. See Friz, v. t., 2.
+
flipper
n.
The hand.
+
fastigiated
a.
United into a conical bundle, or into a bundle with an enlarged head, like a sheaf of wheat.
+
forbathe
v.t.
To bathe.
+
fractious
a.
Apt to break out into a passion; apt to scold; cross; snappish; ugly; unruly; as, a fractious man; a fractious horse.
+
fluor albus

The whites; leucorrhaea.
+
flative
a.
Producing wind; flatulent.
+
facet
n.
A smooth circumscribed surface; as, the articular facet of a bone.
+
fusil
n.
A light kind of flintlock musket, formerly in use.
+
fumacious
a.
Smoky; hence, fond of smoking; addicted to smoking tobacco.
+
favus
n.
A disease of the scalp, produced by a vegetable parasite.
+
fluxionary
a.
Pertaining to, or caused by, an increased flow of blood to a part; congestive; as, a fluxionary hemorrhage.
+
fasciolae
pl.
of Fasciola
+
farmer
n.
The lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown.
+
forlay
v.t.
To lie in wait for; to ambush.
+
falter
v.|n.
To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; -- said of the mind or of thought.
+
flit
v.i.
To be unstable; to be easily or often moved.
+
flourisher
n.
One who flourishes.
+
foreshorten
v.t.
Fig.: To represent pictorially to the imagination.
+
fruitful
a.
Full of fruit; producing fruit abundantly; bearing results; prolific; fertile; liberal; bountiful; as, a fruitful tree, or season, or soil; a fruitful wife.
+
forenoon
n.
The early part of the day, from morning to meridian, or noon.
+
flix
n.
The flux; dysentery.
+
fucoidal
a.
Containing impressions of fossil fucoids or seaweeds; as, fucoidal sandstone.
+
fetish
n.
Any object to which one is excessively devoted.
+
foster
v.t.
Relating to nourishment; affording, receiving, or sharing nourishment or nurture; -- applied to father, mother, child, brother, etc., to indicate that the person so called stands in the relation of parent, child, brother, etc., as regards sustenance and nurture, but not by tie of blood.
+
fang
a.
To catch; to seize, as with the teeth; to lay hold of; to gripe; to clutch.
+
fester
n.
A festering or rankling.
+
fainthearted
a.
Wanting in courage; depressed by fear; easily discouraged or frightened; cowardly; timorous; dejected.
+
fealty
n.
Fidelity; constancy; faithfulness, as of a friend to a friend, or of a wife to her husband.
+
forward
a.
Ready; prompt; strongly inclined; in an ill sense, overready; to hasty.
+
finn
a.
A native of Finland; one of the Finn/ in the ethnological sense. See Finns.
+
fanal
n.
A lighthouse, or the apparatus placed in it for giving light.
+
formerly
adv.
In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
+
fundholder
a.
One who has money invested in the public funds.
+
feed
v.t.
To give for food, especially to animals; to furnish for consumption; as, to feed out turnips to the cows; to feed water to a steam boiler.
+
featness
n.
Skill; adroitness.
+
fetichistic
a.
Alt. of Fetishistic
+
fathom
v.t.
The measure by a sounding line; especially, to sound the depth of; to penetrate, measure, and comprehend; to get to the bottom of.
+
fool
v.t.
To infatuate; to make foolish.
+
free
superl.
Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special rights; -- followed by of.
+
footstall
n.
The plinth or base of a pillar.
+
fulcrum
n.
The connective tissue supporting the framework of the retina of the eye.
+
forebrain
n.
The anterior of the three principal divisions of the brain, including the prosencephalon and thalamencephalon. Sometimes restricted to the prosencephalon only. See Brain.
+
flaming
a.
Ardent; passionate; burning with zeal; irrepressibly earnest; as, a flaming proclomation or harangue.
+
festination
n.
Haste; hurry.
+
fulcrum
n.
One of the small, spiniform scales found on the front edge of the dorsal and caudal fins of many ganoid fishes.
+
fishes
pl.
of Fish
+
falter
v.|n.
To hesitate; to speak brokenly or weakly; to stammer; as, his tongue falters.
+
flighted
a.
Taking flight; flying; -- used in composition.
+
flakiness
n.
The state of being flaky.
+
foregather
v.i.
Same as Forgather.
+
filly
n.
A lively, spirited young girl.
+
foughten

p. p. of Fight.
+
fanatic
a.
Pertaining to, or indicating, fanaticism; extravagant in opinions; ultra; unreasonable; excessively enthusiastic, especially on religious subjects; as, fanatic zeal; fanatic notions.
+
fame
n.
Report or opinion generally diffused; renown; public estimation; celebrity, either favorable or unfavorable; as, the fame of Washington.
+
filigree
a.
Relating to, composed of, or resembling, work in filigree; as, a filigree basket. Hence: Fanciful; unsubstantial; merely decorative.
+
fiducial
a.
Having the nature of a trust; fiduciary; as, fiducial power.
+
first
a.
Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign.
+
farthest
adv.
At or to the greatest distance. See Furthest.
+
fringe
v.t.
To adorn the edge of with a fringe or as with a fringe.
+
firing
n.
The mode of introducing fuel into the furnace and working it.
+
feel
v.i.
To have the sensibilities moved or affected.
+
fossette
n.
A small, deep-centered ulcer of the transparent cornea.
+
farthingale
n.
A hoop skirt or hoop petticoat, or other light, elastic material, used to extend the petticoat.
+
form
n.
Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula; as, a form of prayer.
+
frowningly
adv.
In a frowning manner.
+
famish
a.
Smoky; hot; choleric.
+
fellow
n.
One of a pair, or of two things used together or suited to each other; a mate; the male.
+
fa
n.
A syllable applied to the fourth tone of the diatonic scale in solmization.
+
forbidding
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Forbid
+
focimeter
n.
An assisting instrument for focusing an object in or before a camera.
+
fluted
a.
Decorated with flutes; channeled; grooved; as, a fluted column; a fluted ruffle; a fluted spectrum.
+
fust
n.
A strong, musty smell; mustiness.
+
fortification
n.
That which fortifies; especially, a work or works erected to defend a place against attack; a fortified place; a fortress; a fort; a castle.
+
fugle
v.i.
To maneuver; to move hither and thither.
+
fatness
n.
That which makes fat or fertile.
+
familiarized
imp.|p.p.
of Familiarize
+
fervor
n.
Intensity of feeling or expression; glowing ardor; passion; holy zeal; earnestness.
+
fear
n.
A variant of Fere, a mate, a companion.
+
fum
v.i.
To play upon a fiddle.
+
feather
n.
The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.
+
flop
v.i.
To strike about with something broad abd flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall; as, the brim of a hat flops.
+
fine
superl.
Not thick or heavy; slender; filmy; as, a fine thread.
+
fillies
pl.
of Filly
+
foliate
v.t.
To beat into a leaf, or thin plate.
+
flapjack
n.
A fklat cake turned on the griddle while cooking; a griddlecake or pacake.
+
front
a.
Of or relating to the front or forward part; having a position in front; foremost; as, a front view.
+
framing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Frame
+
finis
n.
An end; conclusion. It is often placed at the end of a book.
+
floscular
a.
Flosculous.
+
fullbutt
adv.
With direct and violentop position; with sudden collision.
+
fang
v.t.
A bend or loop of a rope.
+
foreseer
n.
One who foresees or foreknows.
+
fatalist
n.
One who maintains that all things happen by inevitable necessity.
+
fall
n.
Descent of water; a cascade; a cataract; a rush of water down a precipice or steep; -- usually in the plural, sometimes in the singular; as, the falls of Niagara.
+
fasten
a.
To cause to hold together or to something else; to attach or unite firmly; to cause to cleave to something , or to cleave together, by any means; as, to fasten boards together with nails or cords; to fasten anything in our thoughts.
+
fork
v.i.
To divide into two or more branches; as, a road, a tree, or a stream forks.
+
flowerfence
n.
A tropical leguminous bush (Poinciana, / Caesalpinia, pulcherrima) with prickly branches, and showy yellow or red flowers; -- so named from its having been sometimes used for hedges in the West Indies.
+
finnic
a.
Of or pertaining to the Finns.
+
fragmentary
a.
Composed of fragments, or broken pieces; disconnected; not complete or entire.
+
franion
n.
A paramour; a loose woman; also, a gay, idle fellow.
+
fascicularly
adv.
In a fascicled manner.
+
floriferous
a.
Producing flowers.
+
future
a.
A future tense.
+
fatly
adv.
Grossly; greasily.
+
farl
v.t.
Same as Furl.
+
fortieth
n.
One of forty equal parts into which one whole is divided; the quotient of a unit divided by forty; one next in order after the thirty-ninth.
+
forewarned
imp.|p.p.
of Forewarn
+
fehling
n.
See Fehling's solution, under Solution.
+
ferine
a.
Wild; untamed; savage; as, lions, tigers, wolves, and bears are ferine beasts.
+
foxy
a.
Having the color of a fox; of a yellowish or reddish brown color; -- applied sometimes to paintings when they have too much of this color.
+
fearnaught
n.
A stout woolen cloth of great thickness; dreadnaught; also, a warm garment.
+
frontiniac
n.
See Frontignac.
+
forinsecal
a.
Foreign; alien.
+
fascia
n.
The layer of loose tissue, often containing fat, immediately beneath the skin; the stronger layer of connective tissue covering and investing all muscles; an aponeurosis.
+
feracious
a.
Fruitful; producing abundantly.
+
foxed
a.
Discolored or stained; -- said of timber, and also of the paper of books or engravings.
+
faints
n.pl.
The impure spirit which comes over first and last in the distillation of whisky; -- the former being called the strong faints, and the latter, which is much more abundant, the weak faints. This crude spirit is much impregnated with fusel oil.
+
foxly
a.
Foxlike.
+
flocculate
v.i.
To aggregate into small lumps.
+
fret
v.t.
To tease; to irritate; to vex.
+
fairy
n.
Enchantment; illusion.
+
fomented
imp.|p.p.
of Foment
+
forthrightness
n.
Straightforwardness; explicitness; directness.
+
fitz
n.
A son; -- used in compound names, to indicate paternity, esp. of the illegitimate sons of kings and princes of the blood; as, Fitzroy, the son of the king; Fitzclarence, the son of the duke of Clarence.
+
flake
n.
A paling; a hurdle.
+
floccular
a.
Of or pertaining to the flocculus.
+
fluoroid
n.
A tetrahexahedron; -- so called because it is a common form of fluorite.
+
flycatcher
n.
One of numerous species of birds that feed upon insects, which they take on the wing.
+
fishtackle
n.
A tackle or purchase used to raise the flukes of the anchor up to the gunwale. The block used is called the fish-block.
+
fix
v.t.
To render (an impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensible to the action of light.
+
flagrant
a.
Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent.
+
footing
n.
The act of putting a foot to anything; also, that which is added as a foot; as, the footing of a stocking.
+
furnisher
n.
One who supplies or fits out.
+
forgot

imp. & p. p. of Forget.
+
flier
n.
See Flyer, n., 4.
+
foxy
a.
Having the odor of a fox; rank; strong smeelling.
+
feere
n.
A consort, husband or wife; a companion; a fere.
+
fetishistic
a.
See Fetich, n., Fetichism, n., Fetichistic, a.
+
fetishist
n.
A believer in fetiches.
+
fury
n.
A stormy, turbulent violent woman; a hag; a vixen; a virago; a termagant.
+
faithless
a.
Not true to allegiance, duty, or vows; perfidious; trecherous; disloyal; not of true fidelity; inconstant, as a husband or a wife.
+
frame
v.t.
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.
+
femoral
a.
Pertaining to the femur or thigh; as, the femoral artery.
+
firemen
pl.
of Fireman
+
filicic
a.
Pertaining to, or derived from, ferns; as, filicic acid.
+
fussure
v.t.
Act of fusing; fusion.
+
fiat
n.
A warrant of a judge for certain processes.
+
faulty
a.
Guilty of a fault, or of faults; hence, blamable; worthy of censure.
+
flaring
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Flare
+
formicate
a.
Resembling, or pertaining to, an ant or ants.
+
fetiferous
a.
Producing young, as animals.
+
flawy
a.
Subject to sudden flaws or gusts of wind.
+
fontange
n.
A kind of tall headdress formerly worn.
+
findfault
n.
A censurer or caviler.
+
fish
v.t.
To try with a fishing rod; to catch fish in; as, to fish a stream.
+
fling
v.t.
To shed forth; to emit; to scatter.
+
fir tree

See Fir.
+
frumpish
a.
Old-fashioned, as a woman's dress.
+
fetichist
n.
Alt. of Fetishist
+
floating
a.
Not funded; not fixed, invested, or determined; as, floating capital; a floating debt.
+
fresh
superl
Renewed in vigor, alacrity, or readiness for action; as, fresh for a combat; hence, tending to renew in vigor; rather strong; cool or brisk; as, a fresh wind.
+
frankfee
n.
A species of tenure in fee simple, being the opposite of ancient demesne, or copyhold.
+
forsaker
n.
One who forsakes or deserts.
+
foremeant
a.
Intended beforehand; premeditated.
+
fecks
n.
A corruption of the word faith.
+
far
a.
Remote in affection or obedience; at a distance, morally or spiritually; t enmity with; alienated.
+
fetishistic
a.
Pertaining to, or involving, fetichism.
+
fecula
n.
The nutritious part of wheat; starch or farina; -- called also amylaceous fecula.
+
fluavil
n.
A hydrocarbon extracted from gutta-percha, as a yellow, resinous substance; -- called also fluanil.
+
failed
imp.|p.p.
of Fail
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friabiiity
n.
The quality of being friable; friableness.
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flat
adv.
Without allowance for accrued interest.
+
fry
n.
The young of any fish.
+
fecund
a.
Fruitful in children; prolific.
+
flanking
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Flank
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fleurdelis
n.
A conventional flower suggested by the iris, and having a form which fits it for the terminal decoration of a scepter, the ornaments of a crown, etc. It is also a heraldic bearing, and is identified with the royal arms and adornments of France.
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funeral
n.
A funeral sermon; -- usually in the plural.
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fresh
superl
Possessed of original life and vigor; new and strong; unimpaired; sound.
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forehead
n.
The aspect or countenance; assurance.
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fund
v.t.
To provide and appropriate a fund or permanent revenue for the payment of the interest of; to make permanent provision of resources (as by a pledge of revenue from customs) for discharging the interest of or principal of; as, to fund government notes.
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foreordinate
v.t.
To foreordain.
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feed
v.t.
To fill the wants of; to supply with that which is used or wasted; as, springs feed ponds; the hopper feeds the mill; to feed a furnace with coal.
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foliums
pl.
of Folium
+
fig
n.
A small piece of tobacco.
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friendless
a.
Destitute of friends; forsaken.
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fugitive
n.
One who flees from pursuit, danger, restraint, service, duty, etc.; a deserter; as, a fugitive from justice.
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flagitious
a.
Characterized by scandalous crimes or vices; as, flagitious times.
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fright
n.
A state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short duration; a sudden alarm.
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fisetic
a.
Pertaining to fustet or fisetin.
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fault
n.
A moral failing; a defect or dereliction from duty; a deviation from propriety; an offense less serious than a crime.
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faddle
v.t.
To fondle; to dandle.
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funic
a.
Funicular.
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freeborn
a.
Born free; not born in vassalage; inheriting freedom.
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fodder
v.t.
To feed, as cattle, with dry food or cut grass, etc.;to furnish with hay, straw, oats, etc.
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falsehearted
a.
Hollow or unsound at the core; treacherous; deceitful; perfidious.
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fame
v.t.
To make famous or renowned.
+
footstalk
n.
The stalk of a leaf or of flower; a petiole, pedicel, or reduncle.
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federation
n.
The act of uniting in a league; confederation.
+
federation
n.
A league; a confederacy; a federal or confederated government.
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fund
n.
An aggregation or deposit of resources from which supplies are or may be drawn for carrying on any work, or for maintaining existence.
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fig
n.
The fruit of a fig tree, which is of round or oblong shape, and of various colors.
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fry
v.t.
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.
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fluctisonous
a.
Sounding like waves.
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fee
n.
Reward or compensation for services rendered or to be rendered; especially, payment for professional services, of optional amount, or fixed by custom or laws; charge; pay; perquisite; as, the fees of lawyers and physicians; the fees of office; clerk's fees; sheriff's fees; marriage fees, etc.
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freshman
n.
novice; one in the rudiments of knowledge; especially, a student during his fist year in a college or university.
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ferial
a.
Of or pertaining to holidays.
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fluent
n.
A current of water; a stream.
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future
a.
The possibilities of the future; -- used especially of prospective success or advancement; as, he had great future before him.
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freshwater
a.
Of, pertaining to, or living in, water not salt; as, fresh-water geological deposits; a fresh-water fish; fresh-water mussels.
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find
v.t.
To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish; as, to find a verdict; to find a true bill (of indictment) against an accused person.
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fives
n.
A disease of the glands under the ear in horses; the vives.
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flatter
v.t.
To treat with praise or blandishments; to gratify or attempt to gratify the self-love or vanity of, esp. by artful and interested commendation or attentions; to blandish; to cajole; to wheedle.
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forestal
a.
Of or pertaining to forests; as, forestal rights.
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friend
n.
One of a religious sect characterized by disuse of outward rites and an ordained ministry, by simplicity of dress and speech, and esp. by opposition to war and a desire to live at peace with all men. They are popularly called Quakers.
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fordo
v.i.
To destroy; to undo; to ruin.
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frigidness
n.
The state of being frigid; want of heat, vigor, or affection; coldness; dullness.
+
fourteen
n.
The sum of ten and four; forteen units or objects.
+
fasciculated
a.
Grouped in a fascicle; fascicled.
+
flasher
n.
A man of more appearance of wit than reality.
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foundress
n.
A female founder; a woman who founds or establishes, or who endows with a fund.
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featured
a.
Shaped; fashioned.
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franchise
a.
Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty.
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fade
v.t.
To cause to wither; to deprive of freshness or vigor; to wear away.
+
fluence
n.
Fluency.
+
fat
a.
To make fat; to fatten; to make plump and fleshy with abundant food; as, to fat fowls or sheep.
+
flogging
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Flog
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feeling
n.
Any state or condition of emotion; the exercise of the capacity for emotion; any mental state whatever; as, a right or a wrong feeling in the heart; our angry or kindly feelings; a feeling of pride or of humility.
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felon
a.
A person guilty or capable of heinous crime.
+
finish
n.
The labor required to give final completion to any work; hence, minute detail, careful elaboration, or the like.
+
fly
v.i.
To float, wave, or rise in the air, as sparks or a flag.
+
fifthly
adv.
In the fifth place; as the fifth in order.
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for
conj.
Since; because; introducing a reason of something before advanced, a cause, motive, explanation, justification, or the like, of an action related or a statement made. It is logically nearly equivalent to since, or because, but connects less closely, and is sometimes used as a very general introduction to something suggested by what has gone before.
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finedrawer
n.
One who finedraws.
+
faith
n.
Belief; the assent of the mind to the truth of what is declared by another, resting solely and implicitly on his authority and veracity; reliance on testimony.
+
fundable
a.
Capable of being funded, or converted into a fund; convertible into bonds.
+
formalizing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Formalize
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ferulic
a.
Pertaining to, or derived from, asafetida (Ferula asafoetida); as, ferulic acid.
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fatherless
a.
Destitute of a living father; as, a fatherless child.
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floured
p.a.
Finely granulated; -- said of quicksilver which has been granulated by agitation during the amalgamation process.
+
fourfold
v.t.
To make four times as much or as many, as an assessment,; to quadruple.
+
fan
n.
To excite or stir up to activity, as a fan axcites a flame; to stimulate; as, this conduct fanned the excitement of the populace.
+
foreign
a.
Held at a distance; excluded; exiled.
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fool
n.
One who acts contrary to moral and religious wisdom; a wicked person.
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fissility
n.
Quality of being fissile.
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flete
v.i.
To float; to swim.
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flavor
n.
That quality of anything which affects the smell; odor; fragrances; as, the flavor of a rose.
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feed
n.
A grazing or pasture ground.
+
foveola
n.
A small depression or pit; a fovea.
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foregleam
n.
An antecedent or premonitory gleam; a dawning light.
+
foolhardiness
n.
Courage without sense or judgment; foolish rashness; recklessness.
+
flower
n.
In the popular sense, the bloom or blossom of a plant; the showy portion, usually of a different color, shape, and texture from the foliage.
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fane
n.
A weathercock.
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facility
n.
Easiness of access; complaisance; affability.
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frigerate
e.t.
To make cool.
+
fabricant
n.
One who fabricates; a manufacturer.
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flesh
n.
In a bad sense, tendency to transient or physical pleasure; desire for sensual gratification; carnality.
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forslouthe
v.t.
To lose by sloth or negligence.
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folly
n.
Scandalous crime; sin; specifically, as applied to a woman, wantonness.
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farad
n.
The standard unit of electrical capacity; the capacity of a condenser whose charge, having an electro-motive force of one volt, is equal to the amount of electricity which, with the same electromotive force, passes through one ohm in one second; the capacity, which, charged with one coulomb, gives an electro-motive force of one volt.
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forewarning
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Forewarn
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fulsome
a.
Offending or disgusting by overfullness, excess, or grossness; cloying; gross; nauseous; esp., offensive from excess of praise; as, fulsome flattery.
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fatidical
a.
Having power to foretell future events; prophetic; fatiloquent; as, the fatidical oak.
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flammed
imp.|p.p.
of Flam
+
flutteringly
adv.
In a fluttering manner.
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fellmonger
n.
A dealer in fells or sheepskins, who separates the wool from the pelts.
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fairy
n.
An imaginary supernatural being or spirit, supposed to assume a human form (usually diminutive), either male or female, and to meddle for good or evil in the affairs of mankind; a fay. See Elf, and Demon.
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fold
v.t.
To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands; as, he folds his arms in despair.
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fripperer
n.
A fripper.
+
facient
n.
The multiplier.
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flesh
n.
The human body, as distinguished from the soul; the corporeal person.
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forage
n.
Food of any kind for animals, especially for horses and cattle, as grass, pasture, hay, corn, oats.
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fluent
a.
Flowing or capable of flowing; liquid; glodding; easily moving.
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focal
a.
Belonging to,or concerning, a focus; as, a focal point.
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flameless
a.
Destitute of flame.
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flaxen
a.
Made of flax; resembling flax or its fibers; of the color of flax; of a light soft straw color; fair and flowing, like flax or tow; as, flaxen thread; flaxen hair.
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fat
superl.
Fertile; productive; as, a fat soil; a fat pasture.
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flitted
imp.|p.p.
of Flit
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forel
v.t.
To bind with a forel.
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favorite
a.
Regarded with particular affection, esteem, or preference; as, a favorite walk; a favorite child.
+
flowering
n.
The act of adorning with flowers.
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fistulae
pl.
of Fistula
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fangled
a.
New made; hence, gaudy; showy; vainly decorated. [Obs., except with the prefix new.] See Newfangled.
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feeze
v.t.
To turn, as a screw.
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fantasticly
adv.
Fantastically.
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fredstole
n.
See Fridstol.
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footpad
n.
A highwayman or robber on foot.
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foraminous
a.
Having foramina; full of holes; porous.
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fang
v.t.
A projecting tooth or prong, as in a part of a lock, or the plate of a belt clamp, or the end of a tool, as a chisel, where it enters the handle.
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footrope
n.
The rope rigged below a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling; -- formerly called a horse.
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free
superl.
Not arbitrary or despotic; assuring liberty; defending individual rights against encroachment by any person or class; instituted by a free people; -- said of a government, institutions, etc.
+
ferding
n.
A measure of land mentioned in Domesday Book. It is supposed to have consisted of a few acres only.
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forbiddance
n.
The act of forbidding; prohibition; command or edict against a thing.
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fain
v.t.|i.
To be glad ; to wish or desire.
+
fizzle
v.i.
To make a ridiculous failure in an undertaking.
+
fahlerz
n.
Alt. of Fahlband
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fertility
n.
The state or quality of being fertile or fruitful; fruitfulness; productiveness; fecundity; richness; abundance of resources; fertile invention; quickness; readiness; as, the fertility of soil, or of imagination.
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fast
n.
That which fastens or holds; especially, (Naut.) a mooring rope, hawser, or chain; -- called, according to its position, a bow, head, quarter, breast, or stern fast; also, a post on a pier around which hawsers are passed in mooring.
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fiddle
n.
A rack or frame of bars connected by strings, to keep table furniture in place on the cabin table in bad weather.
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fillip
v.t.
To snap; to project quickly.
+
fluctuation
n.
A motion like that of waves; a moving in this and that direction; as, the fluctuations of the sea.
+
flycase
n.
The covering of an insect, esp. the elytra of beetles.
+
foxglove
n.
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.
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flop
v.t.
To clap or strike, as a bird its wings, a fish its tail, etc.; to flap.
+
fortifiable
a.
Capable of being fortified.
+
forbear
v.t.
To cease from bearing.
+
foreknowing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Foreknow
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flam
n.
A freak or whim; also, a falsehood; a lie; an illusory pretext; deception; delusion.
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felicitate
v.t.
To make very happy; to delight.
+
fishbellied
a.
Bellying or swelling out on the under side; as, a fish-bellied rail.
+
fatigue
n.
The weakening of a metal when subjected to repeated vibrations or strains.
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fanciless
a.
Having no fancy; without ideas or imagination.
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falernian
a.
Of or pertaining to Mount Falernus, in Italy; as, Falernianwine.
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flooder
n.
One who floods anything.
+
finfoot
n.
A South American bird (heliornis fulica) allied to the grebes. The name is also applied to several related species of the genus Podica.
+
franchisement
n.
Release; deliverance; freedom.
+
fox
n.
To make sour, as beer, by causing it to ferment.
+
foreword
n.
A preface.
+
footlight
n.
One of a row of lights in the front of the stage in a theater, etc., and on a level therewith.
+
ferricyanic
a.
Pertaining to, or derived from, a ferricyanide.
+
filth
n.
Anything that sullies or defiles the moral character; corruption; pollution.
+
fatwited
a.
Dull; stupid.
+
feline
a.
Characteristic of cats; sly; stealthy; treacherous; as, a feline nature; feline manners.
+
flicking
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Flick
+
fusil
v.t.
Capable of being melted or rendered fluid by heat; fusible.
+
farmership
n.
Skill in farming.
+
forswonk
a.
Overlabored; exhausted; worn out.
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fill
a.
To trim (a yard) so that the wind shall blow on the after side of the sails.
+
fellable
a.
Fit to be felled.
+
freighter
n.
One who loads a ship, or one who charters and loads a ship.
+
frequentage
n.
The practice or habit of frequenting.
+
fuming
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fume
+
firelock
n.
An old form of gunlock, as the flintlock, which ignites the priming by a spark; perhaps originally, a matchlock. Hence, a gun having such a lock.
+
fungilliform
a.
Shaped like a small fungus.
+
foul
v.i.
To become entagled, as ropes; to come into collision with something; as, the two boats fouled.
+
factorial
n.
The product of the consecutive numbers from unity up to any given number.
+
fantast
n.
One whose manners or ideas are fantastic.
+
flag
n.
That which flags or hangs down loosely.
+
fluxions
n.pl.
See Fluxion, 6(b).
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foliage
n.
Leaves, collectively, as produced or arranged by nature; leafage; as, a tree or forest of beautiful foliage.
+
futurities
pl.
of Futurity
+
fellah
n.
A peasant or cultivator of the soil among the Egyptians, Syrians, etc.
+
forgivable
a.
Capable of being forgiven; pardonable; venial.
+
finchbacked
a.
Streaked or spotted on the back; -- said of cattle.
+
fiscal
n.
The solicitor in Spain and Portugal; the attorney-general.
+
formularistic
a.
Pertaining to, or exhibiting, formularization.
+
fuller
a.
A die; a half-round set hammer, used for forming grooves and spreading iron; -- called also a creaser.
+
felonies
pl.
of Felony
+
fatherless
a.
Without a known author.
+
foe
n.
One who opposes on principle; an opponent; an adversary; an ill-wisher; as, a foe to religion.
+
foreboding
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Forebode
+
foliated
a.
Characterized by being separable into thin plates or folia; as, graphite has a foliated structure.
+
feline
a.
Catlike; of or pertaining to the genus Felis, or family Felidae; as, the feline race; feline voracity.
+
field
v.i.
To stand out in the field, ready to catch, stop, or throw the ball.
+
feudalist
n.
An upholder of feudalism.
+
freedom
n.
Privileges; franchises; immunities.
+
frontal
a.
Of or pertaining to the forehead or the anterior part of the roof of the brain case; as, the frontal bones.
+
frightfulness
n.
The quality of being frightful.
+
firedog
n.
A support for wood in a fireplace; an andiron.
+
floaty
a.
Swimming on the surface; buoyant; light.
+
function
v.i.
Alt. of Functionate
+
frigatoon
n.
A Venetian vessel, with a square stern, having only a mainmast, jigger mast, and bowsprit; also a sloop of war ship-rigged.
+
fill
a.
To possess and perform the duties of; to officiate in, as an incumbent; to occupy; to hold; as, a king fills a throne; the president fills the office of chief magistrate; the speaker of the House fills the chair.
+
florally
adv.
In a floral manner.
+
fraught
n.
To freight; to load; to burden; to fill; to crowd.
+
fellowless
a.
Without fellow or equal; peerless.
+
foundationer
n.
One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school.
+
fasciae
pl.
of Fascia
+
frutage
n.
A picture of fruit; decoration by representation of fruit.
+
fellowship
n.
Companionship of persons on equal and friendly terms; frequent and familiar intercourse.
+
flurrying
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Flurry
+
flange
v.i.
To be bent into a flange.
+
fehmic
a.
See Vehmic.
+
fishiness
n.
The state or quality of being fishy or fishlike.
+
feldspathic
a.
Alt. of Feldspathose
+
fast
v.i.
Abstinence from food; omission to take nourishment.
+
flourish
n.
The waving of a weapon or other thing; a brandishing; as, the flourish of a sword.
+
facing
n.
A covering in front, for ornament or other purpose; an exterior covering or sheathing; as, the facing of an earthen slope, sea wall, etc. , to strengthen it or to protect or adorn the exposed surface.
+
fingrigos
pl.
of Fingrigo
+
fusibility
n.
The quality of being fusible.
+
flush
n.
Any tinge of red color like that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood; as, the flush on the side of a peach; the flush on the clouds at sunset.
+
flagrate
v.t.
To burn.
+
faltering
n.
Falter; halting; hesitation.
+
following
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Follow
+
foddering
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fodder
+
formedon
n.
A writ of right for a tenant in tail in case of a discontinuance of the estate tail. This writ has been abolished.
+
fritting
n.
The formation of frit or slag by heat with but incipient fusion.
+
farriery
n.
The art of preventing, curing, or mitigating diseases of horses and cattle; the veterinary art.
+
forepossessed
a.
Preoccupied; prepossessed; preengaged.
+
foresight
n.
Any sight or reading of the leveling staff, except the backsight; any sight or bearing taken by a compass or theodolite in a forward direction.
+
firk
v.i.
To fly out; to turn out; to go off.
+
flyboat
n.
A kind of passenger boat formerly used on canals.
+
fit
v.t.
To be suitable to; to answer the requirements of; to be correctly shaped and adjusted to; as, if the coat fits you, put it on.
+
fowlerite
n.
A variety of rhodonite, from Franklin Furnace, New Jersey, containing some zinc.
+
faburden
n.
A monotonous refrain.
+
fluate
n.
A fluoride.
+
fund
n.
The stock of a national debt; public securities; evidences (stocks or bonds) of money lent to government, for which interest is paid at prescribed intervals; -- called also public funds.
+
father
v.t.
To provide with a father.
+
flash
v.t.
To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different color. See Flashing, n., 3 (b).
+
fiddle
n.
A stringed instrument of music played with a bow; a violin; a kit.
+
frowzy
a.
Slovenly; unkempt; untidy; frouzy.
+
force
n.
To provide with forces; to reenforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison.
+
fracture
v.t.
To cause a fracture or fractures in; to break; to burst asunder; to crack; to separate the continuous parts of; as, to fracture a bone; to fracture the skull.
+
foam
v.t.
To cause to foam; as,to foam the goblet; also (with out), to throw out with rage or violence, as foam.
+
frustrate
v.t.
To bring to nothing; to prevent from attaining a purpose; to disappoint; to defeat; to baffle; as, to frustrate a plan, design, or attempt; to frustrate the will or purpose.
+
forehead
n.
The front or fore part of anything.
+
focusing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Focus
+
fate
n.
The element of chance in the affairs of life; the unforeseen and unestimated conitions considered as a force shaping events; fortune; esp., opposing circumstances against which it is useless to struggle; as, fate was, or the fates were, against him.
+
flatulent
a.
Generating, or tending to generate, wind in the stomach.
+
forbid
v.t.
To accurse; to blast.
+
fleeringly
adv.
In a fleering manner.
+
flapping
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Flap
+
felanders
n.pl.
See Filanders.
+
flinty
superl.
Consisting of, composed of, abounding in, or resembling, flint; as, a flinty rock; flinty ground; a flinty heart.
+
faulting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fault
+
funeral
n.
Per. taining to a funeral; used at the interment of the dead; as, funeral rites, honors, or ceremonies.
+
fig
n.
Figure; dress; array.
+
false
a.
To betray; to falsify.
+
fuscous
a.
Brown or grayish black; darkish.
+
furniture
v.t.
Builders' hardware such as locks, door and window trimmings.
+
flushness
n.
The state of being flush; abundance.
+
freestone
n.
A stone composed of sand or grit; -- so called because it is easily cut or wrought.
+
frosty
a.
Appearing as if covered with hoarfrost; white; gray-haired; as, a frosty head.
+
flirted
imp.|p.p.
of Flirt
+
front
n.
The forehead, countenance, or personal presence, as expressive of character or temper, and especially, of boldness of disposition, sometimes of impudence; seeming; as, a bold front; a hardened front.
+
fume
n.
Anything vaporlike, unsubstantial, or airy; idle conceit; vain imagination.
+
fissure
v.t.
To cleave; to divide; to crack or fracture.
+
fake
v.t.
To manipulate fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is; as, to fake a bulldog, by burning his upper lip and thus artificially shortening it.
+
flamed
imp.|p.p.
of Flame
+
frozen
a.
Subject to frost, or to long and severe cold; chilly; as, the frozen north; the frozen zones.
+
fragmentary
a.
Composed of the fragments of other rocks.
+
fantom
n.
See Phantom.
+
faithful
a.
True and constant in affection or allegiance to a person to whom one is bound by a vow, be ties of love, gratitude, or honor, as to a husband, a prince, a friend; firm in the observance of duty; loyal; of true fidelity; as, a faithful husband or servant.
+
fix
v.t.
To put in order; to arrange; to dispose of; to adjust; to set to rights; to set or place in the manner desired or most suitable; hence, to repair; as, to fix the clothes; to fix the furniture of a room.
+
flank
n.
The side of an army, or of any division of an army, as of a brigade, regiment, or battalion; the extreme right or left; as, to attack an enemy in flank is to attack him on the side.
+
fountain
n.
A spring of water issuing from the earth.
+
flicked
imp.|p.p.
of Flick
+
flittiness
n.
Unsteadiness; levity; lightness.
+
furtively
adv.
Stealthily by theft.
+
feeder
n.
A small lateral lode falling into the main lode or mineral vein.
+
figure
n.
To embellish.
+
fling
v.i.
To throw one's self in a violent or hasty manner; to rush or spring with violence or haste.
+
flounder
n.
The act of floundering.
+
fury
n.
Violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm.
+
froggy
a.
Abounding in frogs.
+
fitly
adv.
In a fit manner; suitably; properly; conveniently; as, a maxim fitly applied.
+
frump
n.
A cross, old-fashioned person; esp., an old woman; a gossip.
+
ferier
a.
compar. of Fere, fierce.
+
foam
n.
To form foam, or become filled with foam; -- said of a steam boiler when the water is unduly agitated and frothy, as because of chemical action.
+
fantasia
n.
A continuous composition, not divided into what are called movements, or governed by the ordinary rules of musical design, but in which the author's fancy roves unrestricted by set form.
+
fetching
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fetch
+
fenestella
n.
Any small windowlike opening or recess, esp. one to show the relics within an altar, or the like.
+
friending
n.
Friendliness.
+
fingering
n.
The manner of using the fingers in playing or striking the keys of an instrument of music; movement or management of the fingers in playing on a musical instrument, in typewriting, etc.
+
flashing
n.
The creation of an artifical flood by the sudden letting in of a body of water; -- called also flushing.
+
flamingo
n.
Any bird of the genus Phoenicopterus. The flamingoes have webbed feet, very long legs, and a beak bent down as if broken. Their color is usually red or pink. The American flamingo is P. ruber; the European is P. antiquorum.
+
finns
n.pl.
A branch of the Mongolian race, inhabiting Northern and Eastern Europe, including the Magyars, Bulgarians, Permians, Lapps, and Finlanders.
+
flincher
n.
One who flinches or fails.
+
fronted
imp.|p.p.
of Front
+
forealleging
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Foreallege
+
forcible
a.
Possessing force; characterized by force, efficiency, or energy; powerful; efficacious; impressive; influential.
+
felon
a.
Characteristic of a felon; malignant; fierce; malicious; cruel; traitorous; disloyal.
+
frivolism
n.
Frivolity.
+
forehand
n.
Superiority; advantage; start; precedence.
+
fur
n.
A coat of morbid matter collected on the tongue in persons affected with fever.
+
flicker
v.i.
To flutter; to flap the wings without flying.
+
forethink
v.i.
To contrive beforehand.
+
farabout
n.
A going out of the way; a digression.
+
frost
v.i.
The state or temperature of the air which occasions congelation, or the freezing of water; severe cold or freezing weather.
+
female
n.
A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant.
+
funeral
n.
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.
+
fauchion
n.
See Falchion.
+
fireprrofing
n.
The act or process of rendering anything incombustible; also, the materials used in the process.
+
forespeak
v.t.
To foretell; to predict.
+
finance
n.
The science of raising and expending the public revenue.
+
foreright
a.
Ready; directly forward; going before.
+
fell
n.
A form of seam joining two pieces of cloth, the edges being folded together and the stitches taken through both thicknesses.
+
foul
v.t.
To entangle, so as to impede motion; as, to foul a rope or cable in paying it out; to come into collision with; as, one boat fouled the other in a race.
+
feazings
v.t.
The unlaid or ragged end of a rope.
+
flighted
a.
Feathered; -- said of arrows.
+
fender
v.t.|i.
A screen to protect a carriage from mud thrown off the wheels: also, a splashboard.
+
fasthanded
a.
Close-handed; close-fisted; covetous; avaricious.
+
fibrinous
a.
Having, or partaking of the properties of, fibrin; as, fibrious exudation.
+
feint
v.i.
To make a feint, or mock attack.
+
fabricate
v.t.
To form by art and labor; to manufacture; to produce; as, to fabricate woolens.
+
fathomless
a.
Incapable of being fathomed; immeasurable; that can not be sounded.
+
fail
v.i.
To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; -- used with of.
+
fastness
a.
A fast place; a stronghold; a fortress or fort; a secure retreat; a castle; as, the enemy retired to their fastnesses in the mountains.
+
fellowship
n.
A state of being together; companionship; partnership; association; hence, confederation; joint interest.
+
fizzle
n.
A failure or abortive effort.
+
freightage
n.
Freight; cargo; lading. Milton.
+
face
n.
The upper surface, or the character upon the surface, of a type, plate, etc.
+
fetis
a.
Neat; pretty; well made; graceful.
+
foister
n.
One who foists something surreptitiously; a falsifier.
+
furry
a.
Consisting of fur; as, furry spoils.
+
feticism
n.
See Fetichism.
+
frequent
a.
To visit often; to resort to often or habitually.
+
failance
n.
Fault; failure; omission.
+
farcimen
n.
Alt. of Farcin
+
floating
n.
The second coat of three-coat plastering.
+
fluxion
n.
The infinitely small increase or decrease of a variable or flowing quantity in a certain infinitely small and constant period of time; the rate of variation of a fluent; an incerement; a differential.
+
fur
n.
Articles of clothing made of fur; as, a set of furs for a lady (a collar, tippet, or cape, muff, etc.).
+
foe
n.
An enemy in war; a hostile army.
+
fibrocartilage
n.
A kind of cartilage with a fibrous matrix and approaching fibrous connective tissue in structure.
+
farand
n.
See Farrand, n.
+
freshly
adv.
In a fresh manner; vigorously; newly, recently; brightly; briskly; coolly; as, freshly gathered; freshly painted; the wind blows freshly.
+
forsooth
adv.
In truth; in fact; certainly; very well; -- formerly used as an expression of deference or respect, especially to woman; now used ironically or contemptuously.
+
fool
v.i.
To play the fool; to trifle; to toy; to spend time in idle sport or mirth.
+
financially
adv.
In a dfinancial manner.
+
fourth
n.
One of four equal parts into which one whole may be divided; the quotient of a unit divided by four; one coming next in order after the third.
+
forcut
v.t.
To cut completely; to cut off.
+
flower
n.
Grain pulverized; meal; flour.
+
frailty
a.
A fault proceeding from weakness; foible; sin of infirmity.
+
feodality
n.
Feudal tenure; the feudal system. See Feudality.
+
faltering
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Falter
+
flap
n.
To beat with a flap; to strike.
+
frittered
imp.|p.p.
of Fritter
+
fondle
v.
To treat or handle with tenderness or in a loving manner; to caress; as, a nurse fondles a child.
+
floricultural
a.
Pertaining to the cultivation of flowering plants.
+
flat
superl.
Below the true pitch; hence, as applied to intervals, minor, or lower by a half step; as, a flat seventh; A flat.
+
faulcon
n.
See Falcon.
+
full
compar.
Impregnated; made pregnant.
+
form
n.
Mode of acting or manifestation to the senses, or the intellect; as, water assumes the form of ice or snow. In modern usage, the elements of a conception furnished by the mind's own activity, as contrasted with its object or condition, which is called the matter; subjectively, a mode of apprehension or belief conceived as dependent on the constitution of the mind; objectively, universal and necessary accompaniments or elements of every object known or thought of.
+
fistula
n.
A reed; a pipe.
+
facture
n.
An invoice or bill of parcels.
+
feofor
n.
Alt. of Feoffer
+
fundus
n.
The bottom or base of any hollow organ; as, the fundus of the bladder; the fundus of the eye.
+
floating
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Float
+
fencing
v.i.
The materials used for building fences.
+
fat
n.
A large tub, cistern, or vessel; a vat.
+
frangipane
n.
A perfume of jasmine; frangipani.
+
featheredge
n.
Any thin, as on a board or a razor.
+
finific
n.
A limiting element or quality.
+
filleted
imp.|p.p.
of Fillet
+
fathering
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Father
+
fugitively
adv.
In a fugitive manner.
+
favella
n.
A group of spores arranged without order and covered with a thin gelatinous envelope, as in certain delicate red algae.
+
fleamy
a.
Bloody; clotted.
+
found
n.
A thin, single-cut file for combmakers.
+
fumade
v.i.
Alt. of Fumado
+
forebear
n.
An ancestor. See Forbear.
+
forstraught
p.p.|a.
Distracted.
+
favor
n.
To regard with kindness; to support; to aid, or to have the disposition to aid, or to wish success to; to be propitious to; to countenance; to treat with consideration or tenderness; to show partiality or unfair bias towards.
+
fleet
v.i.
Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil.
+
flush
v.i.
To start up suddenly; to take wing as a bird.
+
fatted
imp.|p.p.
of Fat
+
fraughtage
n.
Freight; loading; cargo.
+
flow

imp. sing. of Fly, v. i.
+
familiarize
v.t.
To make familiar or intimate; to habituate; to accustom; to make well known by practice or converse; as, to familiarize one's self with scenes of distress.
+
feitsui
n.
The Chinese name for a highly prized variety of pale green jade. See Jade.
+
festooned
imp.|p.p.
of Festoon
+
flag
n.
An aquatic plant, with long, ensiform leaves, belonging to either of the genera Iris and Acorus.
+
fourdrinier
n.
A machine used in making paper; -- so named from an early inventor of improvements in this class of machinery.
+
fossilize
v.t.
To convert into a fossil; to petrify; as, to fossilize bones or wood.
+
ery
n.
A dish of anything fried.
+
functional
a.
Pertaining to the function of an organ or part, or to the functions in general.
+
fore
v.i.
Journey; way; method of proceeding.
+
fraternize
v.t.
To bring into fellowship or brotherly sympathy.
+
flamingly
adv.
In a flaming manner.
+
filiform
a.
Having the shape of a thread or filament; as, the filiform papillae of the tongue; a filiform style or peduncle.  See Illust. of AntennAe.
+
fasciole
n.
A band of minute tubercles, bearing modified spines, on the shells of spatangoid sea urchins. See Spatangoidea.
+
flurries
pl.
of Flurry
+
forepart
n.
The part most advanced, or first in time or in place; the beginning.
+
fume
n.
To pass off in fumes or vapors.
+
flooring
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Floor
+
flagrancies
pl.
of Flagrancy
+
frill
v.i.
A ruffing of a bird's feathers from cold.
+
foin
n.
A pass in fencing; a lunge.
+
forth
adv.
Beyond a (certain) boundary; away; abroad; out.
+
fitting
n.
Anything used in fitting up
+
faux pas

A false step; a mistake or wrong measure.
+
force
n.
Strength or power for war; hence, a body of land or naval combatants, with their appurtenances, ready for action; -- an armament; troops; warlike array; -- often in the plural; hence, a body of men prepared for action in other ways; as, the laboring force of a plantation.
+
flourish
v.i.
To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
+
fermentable
a.
Capable of fermentation; as, cider and other vegetable liquors are fermentable.
+
foreslack
v.t.
See Forslack.
+
fangleness
n.
Quality of being fangled.
+
flosferri
n.
A variety of aragonite, occuring in delicate white coralloidal forms; -- common in beds of iron ore.
+
farlie
n.
An unusual or unexpected thing; a wonder. See Fearly.
+
falsifying
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Falsify
+
favose
a.
Honeycombed. See Faveolate.
+
focalize
v.t.
To bring to a focus; to focus; to concentrate.
+
formeret
n.
One of the half ribs against the walls in a ceiling vaulted with ribs.
+
forcing
n.
The art of raising plants, flowers, and fruits at an earlier season than the natural one, as in a hitbed or by the use of artificial heat.
+
farrier
v.i.
To practice as a farrier; to carry on the trade of a farrier.
+
floor
n.
The bottom or lower part of any room; the part upon which we stand and upon which the movables in the room are supported.
+
flecked
imp.|p.p.
of Fleck
+
forbear
v.i.
To refuse; to decline; to give no heed.
+
feather
v.t.
To render light as a feather; to give wings to.
+
fiscal
n.
The income of a prince or a state; revenue; exhequer.
+
feu de joie

A fire kindled in a public place in token of joy; a bonfire; a firing of guns in token of joy.
+
fiendly
a.
Fiendlike; monstrous; devilish.
+
frayed
imp.|p.p.
of Fray
+
fall
v.t.
To decline in power, glory, wealth, or importance; to become insignificant; to lose rank or position; to decline in weight, value, price etc.; to become less; as, the falls; stocks fell two points.
+
flipped
imp.|p.p.
of Flip
+
finlet
n.
A little fin; one of the parts of a divided fin.
+
facile
a.
Ready; quick; expert; as, he is facile in expedients; he wields a facile pen.
+
flake
n.
A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on in calking, etc.
+
frigidaria
pl.
of Frigidarium
+
felodese
n.
One who deliberately puts an end to his own existence, or loses his life while engaged in the commission of an unlawful or malicious act; a suicide.
+
francolite
n.
A variety of apatite from Wheal Franco in Devonshire.
+
feel
v.t.
To perceive; to observe.
+
flippantness
n.
State or quality of being flippant.
+
flocked
imp.|p.p.
of Flock
+
forbid
v.t.
To deny, exclude from, or warn off, by express command; to command not to enter.
+
factory
n.
A building, or collection of buildings, appropriated to the manufacture of goods; the place where workmen are employed in fabricating goods, wares, or utensils; a manufactory; as, a cotton factory.
+
fining
n.
The act of imposing a fin/.
+
federal
a.
Composed of states or districts which retain only a subordinate and limited sovereignty, as the Union of the United States, or the Sonderbund of Switzerland.
+
fluster
v.i.
To be in a heat or bustle; to be agitated and confused.
+
forward
v.t.
To help onward; to advance; to promote; to accelerate; to quicken; to hasten; as, to forward the growth of a plant; to forward one in improvement.
+
frondeur
n.
A member of the Fronde.
+
floriated
a.
Having floral ornaments; as, floriated capitals of Gothic pillars.
+
fossil
n.
A person whose views and opinions are extremely antiquated; one whose sympathies are with a former time rather than with the present.
+
fell
a.
Eager; earnest; intent.
+
feathery
a.
Pertaining to, or resembling, feathers; covered with, or as with, feathers; as, feathery spray or snow.
+
frugivora
n.pl.
The fruit bate; a group of the Cheiroptera, comprising the bats which live on fruits. See Eruit bat, under Fruit.
+
fire
v.t.
To subject to intense heat; to bake; to burn in a kiln; as, to fire pottery.
+
faxed
a.
Hairy.
+
frippery
n.
Hence: Secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance.
+
fructed
a.
Bearing fruit; -- said of a tree or plant so represented upon an escutcheon.
+
female
a.
Belonging to the sex which conceives and gives birth to young, or (in a wider sense) which produces ova; not male.
+
feasting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Feast
+
flote
n.
A wave.
+
farmed
imp.|p.p.
of Farm
+
forewarn
v.t.
To warn beforehand; to give previous warning, admonition, information, or notice to; to caution in advance.
+
flibbertigibbet
n.
An imp.
+
flowing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Flow
+
flatteries
pl.
of Flattery
+
funking
n.
A shrinking back through fear.
+
flaxweed
n.
See Toadflax.
+
find
v.t.
To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.
+
fleawort
n.
An herb used in medicine (Plantago Psyllium), named from the shape of its seeds.
+
furniment
n.
Furniture.
+
fanon
n.
A term applied to various articles, as: (a) A peculiar striped scarf worn by the pope at mass, and by eastern bishops. (b) A maniple.
+
failing
n.
A failing short; a becoming deficient; failure; deficiency; imperfection; weakness; lapse; fault; infirmity; as, a mental failing.
+
frothiness
n.
State or quality of being frothy.
+
follow
v.t.
To succeed in order of time, rank, or office.
+
fuze
n.
A tube, filled with combustible matter, for exploding a shell, etc. See Fuse, n.
+
fag
n.
A knot or coarse part in cloth.
+
feneration
n.
The act of fenerating; interest.
+
fitter
n.
One who fits or makes to fit;
+
foolhardy
a.
Daring without judgment; foolishly adventurous and bold.
+
ford
v.t.
To pass or cross, as a river or other water, by wading; to wade through.
+
flaw
n.
A sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration.
+
failure
n.
Decay, or defect from decay; deterioration; as, the failure of memory or of sight.
+
frond
n.
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.
+
furrow
n.
To mark with channels or with wrinkles.
+
flightshot
n.
The distance to which an arrow or flight may be shot; bowshot, -- about the fifth of a mile.
+
fuegian
n.
A native of Terra del Fuego.
+
foxiness
n.
The state or quality of being foxy, or foxlike; craftiness; shrewdness.
+
fillet
v.t.
To bind, furnish, or adorn with a fillet.
+
fibrin
n.
An albuminous body, resembling animal fibrin in composition, found in cereal grains and similar seeds; vegetable fibrin.
+
footboard
n.
A treadle.
+
fanlike
a.
folded up like a fan, as certain leaves; plicate.
+
faugh
interj.
An exclamation of contempt, disgust, or abhorrence.
+
fawn
n.
A young deer; a buck or doe of the first year. See Buck.
+
feuterer
n.
A dog keeper.
+
faint
v.t.
To cause to faint or become dispirited; to depress; to weaken.
+
fielding
n.
The act of playing as a fielder.
+
fourinhand
a.
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.
+
feast
n.
To be highly gratified or delighted.
+
fluxible
a.
Capable of being melted or fused, as a mineral.
+
fallency
n.
An exception.
+
firewood
n.
Wood for fuel.
+
frontated
a.
Growing broader and broader, as a leaf; truncate.
+
fergusonite
n.
A mineral of a brownish black color, essentially a tantalo-niobate of yttrium, erbium, and cerium; -- so called after Robert Ferguson.
+
feebleminded
a.
Weak in intellectual power; wanting firmness or constancy; irresolute; vacilating; imbecile.
+
floweret
n.
A small flower; a floret.
+
follow
v.t.
To watch, as a receding object; to keep the eyes fixed upon while in motion; to keep the mind upon while in progress, as a speech, musical performance, etc.; also, to keep up with; to understand the meaning, connection, or force of, as of a course of thought or argument.
+
farewell
n.
A wish of happiness or welfare at parting; the parting compliment; a good-by; adieu.
+
farming
a.
Pertaining to agriculture; devoted to, adapted to, or engaged in, farming; as, farming tools; farming land; a farming community.
+
firm
a.
To fix or direct with firmness.
+
fortunate
n.
Receiving same unforeseen or unexpected good, or some good which was not dependent on one's own skill or efforts; favored with good forune; lucky.
+
familiar
a.
Of or pertaining to a family; domestic.
+
formality
n.
Form without substance.
+
fractionally
adv.
By fractions or separate portions; as, to distill a liquid fractionally, that is, so as to separate different portions.
+
fraise
n.
A defense consisting of pointed stakes driven into the ramparts in a horizontal or inclined position.
+
fetter
n.
A chain or shackle for the feet; a chain by which an animal is confined by the foot, either made fast or disabled from free and rapid motion; a bond; a shackle.
+
fix
v.t.
To hold steadily; to direct unwaveringly; to fasten, as the eye on an object, the attention on a speaker.
+
frapping
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Frap
+
fracture
n.
The act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach.
+
folkmote
n.
An assembly of the people
+
forlore
p.p.
of Forlese
+
factorial
a.
Of or pertaining to a factory.
+
forage
v.i.
To wander or rove in search of food; to collect food, esp. forage, for horses and cattle by feeding on or stripping the country; to ravage; to feed on spoil.
+
fiction
n.
Any like assumption made for convenience, as for passing more rapidly over what is not disputed, and arriving at points really at issue.
+
focalization
n.
The act of focalizing or bringing to a focus, or the state of being focalized.
+
foreign
a.
Remote; distant; strange; not belonging; not connected; not pertaining or pertient; not appropriate; not harmonious; not agreeable; not congenial; -- with to or from; as, foreign to the purpose; foreign to one's nature.
+
frenchifying
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Frenchify
+
flow
v.i.
To proceed; to issue forth; as, wealth flows from industry and economy.
+
fly
v.i.
The fore flap of a bootee; also, a lap on trousers, overcoats, etc., to conceal a row of buttons.
+
forsworn

p. p. of Forswear.
+
fever
v.t.
To put into a fever; to affect with fever; as, a fevered lip.
+
face
n.
Ten degrees in extent of a sign of the zodiac.
+
fuero
n.
A code; a charter; a grant of privileges.
+
furmity
n.
Same as Frumenty.
+
founder
n.
One who founds; one who casts metals in various forms; a caster; as, a founder of cannon, bells, hardware, or types.
+
ferrier
n.
A ferryman.
+
foremother
n.
A female ancestor.
+
famish
v.t.
To starve, kill, or destroy with hunger.
+
freemilling
a.
Yielding free gold or silver; -- said of certain ores which can be reduced by crushing and amalgamation, without roasting or other chemical treatment.
+
filter
v.i.
To pass through a filter; to percolate.
+
free
a.
To remove, as something that confines or bars; to relieve from the constraint of.
+
flesh
n.
Kindred; stock; race.
+
featbodied
a.
Having a feat or trim body.
+
favoredly
adv.
In a favored or a favorable manner; favorably.
+
fillet
n.
A narrow flat member; especially, a flat molding separating other moldings; a reglet; also, the space between two flutings in a shaft. See Illust. of Base, and Column.
+
flute
v.i.
A musical wind instrument, consisting of a hollow cylinder or pipe, with holes along its length, stopped by the fingers or by keys which are opened by the fingers. The modern flute is closed at the upper end, and blown with the mouth at a lateral hole.
+
fake
v.t.
To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form,, to prevent twisting when running out.
+
fission
n.
A cleaving, splitting, or breaking up into parts.
+
finish
v.t.
To bestow the last required labor upon; to complete; to bestow the utmost possible labor upon; to perfect; to accomplish; to polish.
+
forfeited
imp.|p.p.
of Forfeit
+
fusee
n.
The cone or conical wheel of a watch or clock, designed to equalize the power of the mainspring by having the chain from the barrel which contains the spring wind in a spiral groove on the surface of the cone in such a manner that the diameter of the cone at the point where the chain acts may correspond with the degree of tension of the spring.
+
flyer
n.
A small operation not involving ? considerable part of one's capital, or not in the line of one's ordinary business; a venture.
+
fagot
n.
An old shriveled woman.
+
forgoing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Forgo
+
frump
n.
A contemptuous speech or piece of conduct; a gibe or flout.
+
fiery
a.
Passionate; easily provoked; irritable.
+
fortified
imp.|p.p.
of Fortify
+
fenowed
a.
Corrupted; decayed; moldy. See Vinnewed.
+
falcate
a.
Alt. of Falcated
+
famish
v.t.
To force or constrain by famine.
+
fordry
a.
Entirely dry; withered.
+
faren

p. p. of Fare, v. i.
+
folio
a.
Formed of sheets each folded once, making two leaves, or four pages; as, a folio volume. See Folio, n., 3.
+
flaming
a.
Emitting flames; afire; blazing; consuming; illuminating.
+
factum
n.
The product. See Facient, 2.
+
feigned
imp.|p.p.
of Feign
+
feveret
n.
A slight fever.
+
footplate
n.
See Footboard (a).
+
file
n.
A row of soldiers ranged one behind another; -- in contradistinction to rank, which designates a row of soldiers standing abreast; a number consisting the depth of a body of troops, which, in the ordinary modern formation, consists of two men, the battalion standing two deep, or in two ranks.
+
foppery
n.
The behavior, dress, or other indication of a fop; coxcombry; affectation of show; showy folly.
+
foramines
pl.
of Foramen
+
freeze
v.i.
To become congealed by cold; to be changed from a liquid to a solid state by the abstraction of heat; to be hardened into ice or a like solid body.
+
fabricated
imp.|p.p.
of Fabricate
+
frisked
imp.|p.p.
of Frisk
+
foreknew
imp.
of Foreknow
+
farcical
a.
Of or pertaining to the disease called farcy. See Farcy, n.
+
flimsy
n.
Thin or transfer paper.
+
fashionless
a.
Having no fashion.
+
fuguist
n.
A musician who composes or performs fugues.
+
furculum
n.
The wishbone or merrythought of birds, formed by the united clavicles.
+
ferule
n.
A flat piece of wood, used for striking, children, esp. on the hand, in punishment.
+
figurative
a.
Relating to the representation of form or figure by drawing, carving, etc. See Figure, n., 2.
+
freelte
n.
Frailty.
+
frostbite
v.t.
To expose to the effect of frost, or a frosty air; to blight or nip with frost.
+
froze
imp.
of Freeze
+
figary
n.
A frolic; a vagary; a whim.
+
fordless
a.
Without a ford.
+
fur
n.
The deposit formed on the interior of boilers and other vessels by hard water.
+
fuage
n.
Same as Fumage.
+
fork
n.
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.
+
fling
n.
A cast from the hand; a throw; also, a flounce; a kick; as, the fling of a horse.
+
fubsy
a.
Plump; chubby; short and stuffy; as a fubsy sofa.
+
prigidity
n.
Want of ardor, animation, vivacity, etc.; coldness of affection or of manner; dullness; stiffness and formality; as, frigidity of a reception, of a bow, etc.
+
feel
v.t.
To perceive by the mind; to have a sense of; to experience; to be affected by; to be sensible of, or sensetive to; as, to feel pleasure; to feel pain.
+
furcular
a.
Shaped like a fork; furcate.
+
fouroclock
n.
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.
+
febricitate
v.i.
To have a fever.
+
fogies
pl.
of Fogy
+
fixation
n.
The act of fixing, or the state of being fixed.
+
face
n.
That part of the acting surface of a cog in a cog wheel, which projects beyond the pitch line.
+
foppery
n.
Folly; foolery.
+
frory
a.
Covered with a froth like hoarfrost.
+
fourscore
n.
The product of four times twenty; eighty units or objects.
+
fastigiated
a.
Clustered, parallel, and upright, as the branches of the Lombardy poplar; pointed.
+
friborg
n.
Alt. of Friborgh
+
frithy
a.
Woody.
+
forgat

of Forget
+
fenestrate
a.
Having numerous openings; irregularly reticulated; as, fenestrate membranes; fenestrate fronds.
+
fortunize
v.t.
To regulate the fortune of; to make happy.
+
frail
superl
Easily broken; fragile; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish; easily destroyed; not tenacious of life; weak; infirm.
+
fruit
v.i.
To bear fruit.
+
flying fish

A fish which is able to leap from the water, and fly a considerable distance by means of its large and long pectoral fins. These fishes belong to several species of the genus Exocoetus, and are found in the warmer parts of all the oceans.
+
font
n.
A basin or stone vessel in which water is contained for baptizing.
+
fell
a.
Gall; anger; melancholy.
+
fleshpot
n.
plenty; high living.
+
fahlunite
n.
A hydration of iolite.
+
fulgurite
n.
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.
+
fall
n.
Extent of descent; the distance which anything falls; as, the water of a stream has a fall of five feet.
+
frightless
a.
Free from fright; fearless.
+
fippenny bit

The Spanish half real, or one sixteenth of a dollar, -- so called in Pennsylvania and the adjacent States.
+
forgetive
a.
Inventive; productive; capable.
+
fluorescein
n.
A yellowish red, crystalline substance, C20H12O5, produced by heating together phthalic anhydride and resorcin; -- so called, from the very brilliant yellowish green fluorescence of its alkaline solutions. It has acid properties, and its salts of the alkalies are known to the trade under the name of uranin.
+
fiveling
n.
A compound or twin crystal consisting of five individuals.
+
fund
n.
A stock or capital; a sum of money appropriated as the foundation of some commercial or other operation undertaken with a view to profit; that reserve by means of which expenses and credit are supported; as, the fund of a bank, commercial house, manufacturing corporation, etc.
+
feint
a.
Feigned; counterfeit.
+
forehanded
a.
Formed in the forehand or fore parts.
+
fovillae
pl.
of Fovilla
+
fasten
a.
To fix firmly; to make fast; to secure, as by a knot, lock, bolt, etc.; as, to fasten a chain to the feet; to fasten a door or window.
+
foamingly
adv.
With foam; frothily.
+
forewish
v.t.
To wish beforehand.
+
fetterless
a.
Free from fetters.
+
fringe
n.
Something resembling in any respect a fringe; a line of objects along a border or edge; a border; an edging; a margin; a confine.
+
floor
n.
The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
+
fishing
n.
A fishery.
+
fan
n.
Any revolving vane or vanes used for producing currents of air, in winnowing grain, blowing a fire, ventilation, etc., or for checking rapid motion by the resistance of the air; a fan blower; a fan wheel.
+
foaling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Foal
+
flyblown
a.
Tainted or contaminated with flyblows; damaged; foul.
+
footboard
n.
The foot-rest of a coachman's box.
+
fahrenheit
n.
The Fahrenheit termometer or scale.
+
freebooter
n.
One who plunders or pillages without the authority of national warfare; a member of a predatory band; a pillager; a buccaneer; a sea robber.
+
freighting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Freight
+
freestone
a.
Having the flesh readily separating from the stone, as in certain kinds of peaches.
+
frequence
n.
Frequency; abundance.
+
forceless
a.
Having little or no force; feeble.
+
firetail
n.
The European redstart; -- called also fireflirt.
+
front
v.t.
To stand opposed or opposite to, or over against as, his house fronts the church.
+
fingered
a.
Marked with figures designating which finger should be used for each note.
+
fact
n.
An effect produced or achieved; anything done or that comes to pass; an act; an event; a circumstance.
+
falseheart
a.
False-hearted.
+
fertilize
v.t.
To fecundate; as, to fertilize flower.
+
foible
a.
Weak; feeble.
+
frenzies
pl.
of Frenzy
+
fitchy
a.
Having fitches or vetches.
+
fatal
a.
Foreboding death or great disaster.
+
furcate
a.
Alt. of Furcated
+
fall
v.t.
To bring forth; as, to fall lambs.
+
fly
v.i.
A batted ball that flies to a considerable distance, usually high in the air; also, the flight of a ball so struck; as, it was caught on the fly.
+
fodientia
n.pl.
A group of African edentates including the aard-vark.
+
flask
n.
A bed in a gun carriage.
+
fanciful
a.
Conceived in the fancy; not consistent with facts or reason; abounding in ideal qualities or figures; as, a fanciful scheme; a fanciful theory.
+
feudatories
pl.
of Feudatory
+
florist
n.
One who writes a flora, or an account of plants.
+
file
n.
A shrewd or artful person.
+
fly
v.i.
The outer canvas of a tent with double top, usually drawn over the ridgepole, but so extended as to touch the roof of the tent at no other place.
+
fret
n.
An ornament consisting of smmall fillets or slats intersecting each other or bent at right angles, as in classical designs, or at obilique angles, as often in Oriental art.
+
flaringly
adv.
In a flaring manner.
+
foryetten

p. p. of Foryete.
+
frontal
n.
A movable, decorative member in metal, carved wood, or, commonly, in rich stuff or in embroidery, covering the front of the altar. Frontals are usually changed according to the different ceremonies.
+
felon
a.
A person who has committed a felony.
+
forever
adv.
At all times; always.
+
fielden
a.
Consisting of fields.
+
federal
a.
Pertaining to a league or treaty; derived from an agreement or covenant between parties, especially between nations; constituted by a compact between parties, usually governments or their representatives.
+
frank
a.
A French coin. See Franc.
+
fabled
imp.|p.p.
of Fable
+
flank
n.
That part of a bastion which reaches from the curtain to the face, and defends the curtain, the flank and face of the opposite bastion; any part of a work defending another by a fire along the outside of its parapet.
+
frostwork
n.
The figurework, often fantastic and delicate, which moisture sometimes forms in freezing, as upon a window pane or a flagstone.
+
fussed
imp.|p.p.
of Fuss
+
favor
n.
Partiality; bias.
+
flection
n.
The act of bending, or state of being bent.
+
free
superl.
Characteristic of one acting without restraint; charming; easy.
+
fuchsia
n.
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.
+
fruiting
n.
The bearing of fruit.
+
feigning
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Feign
+
felled
imp.|p.p.
of Fell
+
fullwinged
a.
Beady for flight; eager.
+
fillet
n.
The thread of a screw.
+
filcher
n.
One who filches; a thief.
+
folious
a.
Like a leaf; thin; unsubstantial.
+
foul
v.i.
To become clogged with burnt powder in the process of firing, as a gun.
+
fitch
n.
A word found in the Authorized Version of the Bible, representing different Hebrew originals. In Isaiah xxviii. 25, 27, it means the black aromatic seeds of Nigella sativa, still used as a flavoring in the East. In Ezekiel iv. 9, the Revised Version now reads spelt.
+
feodatory
n.
See Feudatory.
+
favorless
a.
Unfavored; not regarded with favor; having no countenance or support.
+
francolin
n.
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.
+
finiteness
n.
The state of being finite.
+
fluxure
n.
Fluid matter.
+
fifteen
n.
The sum of five and ten; fifteen units or objects.
+
fettle
n.
The act of fettling.
+
fucoid
a.
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.
+
flat
superl.
Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane.
+
fethcer
n.
One wo fetches or brings.
+
fubby
a.
Alt. of Fubsy
+
fielder
n.
A ball payer who stands out in the field to catch or stop balls.
+
feeing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fee
+
friar
n.
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.
+
farm
v.t.
To lease or let for an equivalent, as land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds.
+
fetch
v.t.
To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
+
frith
a.
A small field taken out of a common, by inclosing it; an inclosure.
+
featherfoil
n.
An aquatic plant (Hottonia palustris), having finely divided leaves.
+
feel
v.i.
To have perception by the touch, or by contact of anything with the nerves of sensation, especially those upon the surface of the body.
+
felicities
pl.
of Felicity
+
firebird
n.
The Baltimore oriole.
+
forespent
a.
See Forspent.
+
fig
n.
To insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion. See Fico.
+
flashy
a.
Without taste or spirit.
+
fair
superl.
Without sudden change of direction or curvature; smooth; fowing; -- said of the figure of a vessel, and of surfaces, water lines, and other lines.
+
frislet
n.
A kind of small ruffle.
+
float
v.t.
To support and sustain the credit of, as a commercial scheme or a joint-stock company, so as to enable it to go into, or continue in, operation.
+
floutingly
adv.
With flouting; insultingly; as, to treat a lover floutingly.
+
friz
v.t.
To curl or form into small curls, as hair, with a crisping pin; to crisp.
+
fearless
a.
Free from fear.
+
fake
n.
One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.
+
fistulate
v.t.|i.
To make hollow or become hollow like a fistula, or pipe.
+
fair
superl.
Distinct; legible; as, fair handwriting.
+
fence
n.
Self-defense by the use of the sword; the art and practice of fencing and sword play; hence, skill in debate and repartee. See Fencing.
+
falconine
a.
Like a falcon or hawk; belonging to the Falconidae
+
fytte
n.
See Fit a song.
+
fenestration
n.
The state or condition of being fenestrated.
+
fasciation
n.
The act or manner of binding up; bandage; also, the condition of being fasciated.
+
felon
a.
A kind of whitlow; a painful imflammation of the periosteum of a finger, usually of the last joint.
+
fibrillar
a.
Of or pertaining to fibrils or fibers; as, fibrillar twitchings.
+
freeman
n.
A member of a corporation, company, or city, possessing certain privileges; a member of a borough, town, or State, who has the right to vote at elections. See Liveryman.
+
frivolous
a.
Given to trifling; marked with unbecoming levity; silly; interested especially in trifling matters.
+
foreskirt
n.
The front skirt of a garment, in distinction from the train.
+
filtrating
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Filtrate
+
fervent
a.
Warm in feeling; ardent in temperament; earnest; full of fervor; zealous; glowing.
+
fertileness
n.
Fertility.
+
fantastical
a.
Fanciful; unreal; whimsical; capricious; fantastic.
+
ficus
n.
A genus of trees or shrubs, one species of which (F. Carica) produces the figs of commerce; the fig tree.
+
femur
n.
The thigh bone.
+
fossilist
n.
One who is versed in the science of fossils; a paleontologist.
+
forbidder
n.
One who forbids.
+
float
v.i.
A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft.
+
fronted
a.
Formed with a front; drawn up in line.
+
frame
n.
Contrivance; the act of devising or scheming.
+
fresnel lantern

A lantern having a lamp surrounded by a hollow cylindrical Fresnel lens.
+
fothered
imp.|p.p.
of Fother
+
flitch
n.
The outside piece of a sawed log; a slab.
+
flora
n.
The complete system of vegetable species growing without cultivation in a given locality, region, or period; a list or description of, or treatise on, such plants.
+
flourishingly
adv.
In a flourishing manner; ostentatiously.
+
fidge
n.|i.
See Fidget.
+
filiferous
a.
Producing threads.
+
fitch
n.
A vetch.
+
fusilier
n.
A title now borne by some regiments and companies; as, "The Royal Fusiliers," etc.
+
fifteenth
n.
One of fifteen equal parts or divisions; the quotient of a unit divided by fifteen.
+
fetter
p.pr.|vb.n.
To restrain from motion; to impose restraints on; to confine; to enchain; as, fettered by obligations.
+
foregame
n.
A first game; first plan.
+
foliate
a.
Furnished with leaves; leafy; as, a foliate stalk.
+
foy
n.
A feast given by one about to leave a place.
+
fadge
a.
To fit; to suit; to agree.
+
feathered
a.
Furnished with anything featherlike; ornamented; fringed; as, land feathered with trees.
+
fizgig
n.
A firework, made of damp powder, which makes a fizzing or hissing noise when it explodes.
+
flora
n.
The goddess of flowers and spring.
+
fiery
a.
Consisting of, containing, or resembling, fire; as, the fiery gulf of Etna; a fiery appearance.
+
ferreted
imp.|p.p.
of Ferret
+
foreign
a.
Not native or belonging to a certain country; born in or belonging to another country, nation, sovereignty, or locality; as, a foreign language; foreign fruits.
+
fence
n.
An inclosure about a field or other space, or about any object; especially, an inclosing structure of wood, iron, or other material, intended to prevent intrusion from without or straying from within.
+
fibulare
n.
The bone or cartilage of the tarsus, which articulates with the fibula, and corresponds to the calcaneum in man and most mammals.
+
forrill
n.
Lambskin parchment; vellum; forel.
+
flear
n.
A word or look of derision or mockery.
+
fused
imp.|p.p.
of Fuse
+
fin
n.
A finlike appendage, as to submarine boats.
+
fossulate
a.
Having, or surrounded by, long, narrow depressions or furrows.
+
fire
n.
The burning of a house or town; a conflagration.
+
fishery
n.
The business or practice of catching fish; fishing.
+
febrifuge
n.
A medicine serving to mitigate or remove fever.
+
fussy
superl
Making a fuss; disposed to make an unnecessary ado about trifles; overnice; fidgety.
+
figment
n.
An invention; a fiction; something feigned or imagined.
+
fillister
n.
A plane for making a rabbet.
+
fabian
a.
Of, pertaining to, or in the manner of, the Roman general, Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus; cautious; dilatory; avoiding a decisive contest.
+
fusillading
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fusillade
+
fin
v.t.
To carve or cut up, as a chub.
+
fill
n.
One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.
+
farraginous
a.
Formed of various materials; mixed; as, a farraginous mountain.
+
factual
a.
Relating to, or containing, facts.
+
fondly
adv.
Foolishly.
+
fortuitous
a.
Happening independently of human will or means of foresight; resulting from unavoidable physical causes.
+
foundershaft
n.
The first shaft sunk.
+
fenestral
n.
A casement or window sash, closed with cloth or paper instead of glass.
+
falcer
n.
One of the mandibles of a spider.
+
fumerell
n.
See Femerell.
+
fling
n.
A kind of dance; as, the Highland fling.
+
forceps
n.
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.
+
foolfish
n.
The winter flounder. See Flounder.
+
fail
v.i.
To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.
+
fanciful
a.
Curiously shaped or constructed; as, she wore a fanciful headdress.
+
foreadvise
v.t.
To advise or counsel before the time of action, or before the event.
+
frape
n.
A crowd, a rabble.
+
forefoot
n.
A piece of timber which terminates the keel at the fore end, connecting it with the lower end of the stem.
+
forelook
v.i.
To look beforehand or forward.
+
frenum
n.
A cheek stripe of color.
+
foster
v.t.
To feed; to nourish; to support; to bring up.
+
fugaciousness
n.
Fugacity.
+
fettle
a.
To repair; to prepare; to put in order.
+
flag
v.t.
To furnish or deck out with flags.
+
furring
v.t.
The strips thus laid on.
+
fletching
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fletch
+
forlorn
v.t.
Destitute; helpless; in pitiful plight; wretched; miserable; almost hopeless; desperate.
+
formation
n.
The arrangement of a body of troops, as in a square, column, etc.
+
flyman
n.
The driver of a fly, or light public carriage.
+
film
n.
A slender thread, as that of a cobweb.
+
fumette
n.
The stench or high flavor of game or other meat when kept long.
+
footsore
a.
Having sore or tender feet, as by reason of much walking; as, foot-sore cattle.
+
firmerchisel
n.
A chisel, thin in proportion to its width. It has a tang to enter the handle instead of a socket for receiving it.
+
ferment
n.
To cause ferment of fermentation in; to set in motion; to excite internal emotion in; to heat.
+
famosity
n.
The state or quality of being famous.
+
flipe
v.t.
To turn inside out, or with the leg part back over the foot, as a stocking in pulling off or for putting on.
+
finnish
n.
A Northern Turanian group of languages; the language of the Finns.
+
front
n.
The part or surface of anything which seems to look out, or to be directed forward; the fore or forward part; the foremost rank; the van; -- the opposite to back or rear; as, the front of a house; the front of an army.
+
follow
v.t.
To endeavor to overtake; to go in pursuit of; to chase; to pursue; to prosecute.
+
finble

Alt. of Fimble hemp
+
furring
n.
The leveling of a surface, or the preparing of an air space, by means of strips of board or of larger pieces. See Fur, v. t., 3.
+
figeater
n.
A bird. See Figpecker.
+
fact
n.
The assertion or statement of a thing done or existing; sometimes, even when false, improperly put, by a transfer of meaning, for the thing done, or supposed to be done; a thing supposed or asserted to be done; as, history abounds with false facts.
+
file
v.t.
To rub, smooth, or cut away, with a file; to sharpen with a file; as, to file a saw or a tooth.
+
fourhanded
a.
Having four hands; quadrumanous.
+
founding
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Found
+
figurante
n.fem.
A female figurant; esp., a ballet girl.
+
fled
imp.|p.p.
of Flee
+
fingering
n.
Delicate work made with the fingers.
+
finned
a.
Having a fin, or fins, or anything resembling a fin.
+
fulminate
v.t.
To cause to explode.
+
felucca
n.
A small, swift-sailing vessel, propelled by oars and lateen sails, -- once common in the Mediterranean.
+
fortieth
a.
Constituting one of forty equal parts into which anything is divided.
+
fruticous
a.
Fruticose.
+
frolicking
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Frolic
+
fadedly
adv.
In a faded manner.
+
forspeak
v.t.
To forbid; to prohibit.
+
fadme
n.
A fathom.
+
flush
v.i.
To flow and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face.
+
forwardness
n.
Eagerness; ardor; as, it is difficult to restrain the forwardness of youth.
+
fustian
n.
A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff, including corduroy, velveteen, etc.
+
force
n.
To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress.
+
fish
v.t.
To strengthen (a beam, mast, etc.), or unite end to end (two timbers, railroad rails, etc.) by bolting a plank, timber, or plate to the beam, mast, or timbers, lengthwise on one or both sides. See Fish joint, under Fish, n.
+
fist
n.
the index mark [/], used to direct special attention to the passage which follows.
+
forbear
v.t.
To keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from; to give up; as, to forbear the use of a word of doubdtful propriety.
+
fairly
adv.
In a fair manner; clearly; openly; plainly; fully; distinctly; frankly.
+
false
a.
To report falsely; to falsify.
+
favor
n.
Kind regard; propitious aspect; countenance; friendly disposition; kindness; good will.
+
fallibly
adv.
In a fallible manner.
+
flear
n.
A grin of civility; a leer.
+
flower
n.
Menstrual discharges.
+
flaming
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Flame
+
forisfamiliated
imp.|p.p.
of Forisfamiliate
+
fyrd
v.i.
Alt. of Fyrdung
+
fail
v.i.
To be found wanting with respect to an action or a duty to be performed, a result to be secured, etc.; to miss; not to fulfill expectation.
+
faint
superl.
Wanting in courage, spirit, or energy; timorous; cowardly; dejected; depressed; as, "Faint heart ne'er won fair lady."
+
fawn
n.
A fawn color.
+
filtered
imp.|p.p.
of Filter
+
familiarizing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Familiarize
+
fonde
v.t.|i.
To endeavor; to strive; to try.
+
fract
v.t.
To break; to violate.
+
freeminded
a.
Not perplexed; having a mind free from care.
+
flankering
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Flanker
+
florentine
n.
A kind of silk.
+
fare
v.
Ado; bustle; business.
+
fulgor
n.
Dazzling brightness; splendor.
+
florin
n.
A silver coin of Florence, first struck in the twelfth century, and noted for its beauty. The name is given to different coins in different countries. The florin of England, first minted in 1849, is worth two shillings, or about 48 cents; the florin of the Netherlands, about 40 cents; of Austria, about 36 cents.
+
furnish
v.t.
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.
+
furniture
v.t.
The mountings of a gun.
+
foaming
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Foam
+
foliated
a.
Laminated, but restricted to the variety of laminated structure found in crystalline schist, as mica schist, etc.; schistose.
+
fob
v.t.
To beat; to maul.
+
flooded
imp.|p.p.
of Flood
+
flockling
n.
A lamb.
+
frontingly
adv.
In a fronting or facing position; opposingly.
+
frizzler
n.
One who frizzles.
+
forethought
n.
A thinking or planning beforehand; prescience; premeditation; forecast; provident care.
+
flocculence
n.
The state of being flocculent.
+
forging
n.
The act of shaping metal by hammering or pressing.
+
fledging
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fledge
+
flue
n.
A passage way for conducting a current of fresh, foul, or heated air from one place to another.
+
feed
n.
The water supplied to steam boilers.
+
folio
n.
A page of a book; (Bookkeeping) a page in an account book; sometimes, two opposite pages bearing the same serial number.
+
fill
v.i.
To become full; to have the whole capacity occupied; to have an abundant supply; to be satiated; as, corn fills well in a warm season; the sail fills with the wind.
+
frangipane
n.
A species of pastry, containing cream and almonds.
+
frigid
a.
Wanting natural heat or vigor sufficient to excite the generative power; impotent.
+
flabellate
a.
Flabelliform.
+
foam
n.
The white substance, consisting of an aggregation of bubbles, which is formed on the surface of liquids, or in the mouth of an animal, by violent agitation or fermentation; froth; spume; scum; as, the foam of the sea.
+
fidelity
n.
Adherence to a person or party to which one is bound; loyalty.
+
fess
n.
Alt. of Fesse
+
fusillader
imp.|p.p.
of Fusillade
+
facing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Face
+
fumage
n.
Hearth money.
+
foil
n.
The track or trail of an animal.
+
foreflow
v.t.
To flow before.
+
flickering
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Flicker
+
flash
v.i.
To break forth, as a sudden flood of light; to burst instantly and brightly on the sight; to show a momentary brilliancy; to come or pass like a flash.
+
foreskin
n.
The fold of skin which covers the glans of the penis; the prepuce.
+
flyblow
v.t.
To deposit eggs upon, as a flesh fly does on meat; to cause to be maggoty; hence, to taint or contaminate, as if with flyblows.
+
flinch
v.i.
To withdraw from any suffering or undertaking, from pain or danger; to fail in doing or perserving; to show signs of yielding or of suffering; to shrink; to wince; as, one of the parties flinched from the combat.
+
formative
a.
Serving to form; derivative; not radical; as, a termination merely formative.
+
fungiform
a.
Shaped like a fungus or mushroom.
+
fungin
n.
A name formerly given to cellulose found in certain fungi and mushrooms.
+
four
n.
Four things of the same kind, esp. four horses; as, a chariot and four.
+
finedrawn
a.
Drawn out with too much subtilty; overnice; as, finedrawn speculations.
+
flap
v.
The motion of anything broad and loose, or a stroke or sound made with it; as, the flap of a sail or of a wing.
+
fragrancy
n.
The quality of being fragrant; sweetness of smell; a sweet smell; a pleasing odor; perfume.
+
faulchion
n.
See Falchion.
+
fundamental
a.
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.
+
fixed
a.
Stable; non-volatile.
+
fare
v.
The catch of fish on a fishing vessel.
+
fact
n.
A doing, making, or preparing.
+
filling
n.
That which is used to fill a cavity or any empty space, or to supply a deficiency; as, filling for a cavity in a tooth, a depression in a roadbed, the space between exterior and interior walls of masonry, the pores of open-grained wood, the space between the outer and inner planks of a vessel, etc.
+
froze

imp. of Freeze.
+
fondus
n.
A style of printing calico, paper hangings, etc., in which the colors are in bands and graduated into each other.
+
frondesce
v.i.
To unfold leaves, as plants.
+
ferocious
a.
Fierce; savage; wild; indicating cruelty; ravenous; rapacious; as, ferocious look or features; a ferocious lion.
+
foresight
n.
Action in reference to the future; provident care; prudence; wise forethought.
+
fagot
n.
A bassoon. See Fagotto.
+
fallacy
n.
An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it is not; a sophism.
+
footlicker
n.
A sycophant; a fawner; a toady.  Cf. Bootlick.
+
fellowlike
a.
Like a companion; companionable; on equal terms; sympathetic.
+
feudtory
a.
Held from another on some conditional tenure; as, a feudatory title.
+
flanging
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Flange
+
flashy
a.
Showy; gay; gaudy; as, a flashy dress.
+
farm
a.|n.
A lease of the imposts on particular goods; as, the sugar farm, the silk farm.
+
frumentaceous
a.
Made of, or resembling, wheat or other grain.
+
fauces
pl.
of Faux
+
figure
v.t.
To make a figure; to be distinguished or conspicious; as, the envoy figured at court.
+
face
n.
Maintenance of the countenance free from abashment or confusion; confidence; boldness; shamelessness; effrontery.
+
foreland
n.
A promontory or cape; a headland; as, the North and South Foreland in Kent, England.
+
flash
n.
A sudden and brilliant burst, as of wit or genius; a momentary brightness or show.
+
forging
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Forge
+
footstone
n.
The stone at the foot of a grave; -- opposed to headstone.
+
fuglemen
pl.
of Fugleman
+
figurately
adv.
In a figurate manner.
+
farcical
a.
Pertaining to farce; appropriated to farce; ludicrous; unnatural; unreal.
+
feather
n.
One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.
+
foully
v.
In a foul manner; filthily; nastily; shamefully; unfairly; dishonorably.
+
faulting
n.
The state or condition of being faulted; the process by which a fault is produced.
+
free
superl.
Exempt; clear; released; liberated; not encumbered or troubled with; as, free from pain; free from a burden; -- followed by from, or, rarely, by of.
+
floriage
n.
Bloom; blossom.
+
fumiferous
a.
Producing smoke.
+
fainty
a.
Feeble; languid.
+
flint
n.
Anything extremely hard, unimpressible, and unyielding, like flint.
+
formful
a.
Creative; imaginative.
+
fluor
n.
See Fluorite.
+
flap
v.
Anything broad and limber that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved; as, the flap of a garment.
+
female
n.
An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or (in a wider sense) which has an ovary and produces ova.
+
freshmanship
n.
The state of being a freshman.
+
fusil
n.
A bearing of a rhomboidal figure; -- named from its shape, which resembles that of a spindle.
+
fusil
v.t.
Running or flowing, as a liquid.
+
firing
n.
The process of partly vitrifying pottery by exposing it to intense heat in a kiln.
+
feather
v.t.
To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.
+
fake
n.
A trick; a swindle.
+
ferruginated
a.
Having the color or properties of the rust of iron.
+
fireman
n.
A man whose business is to extinguish fires in towns; a member of a fire company.
+
fang
v.t.
The root, or one of the branches of the root, of a tooth. See Tooth.
+
fourchette
n.
The wishbone or furculum of birds.
+
flattering
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Flatter
+
fill
a.
To make an embankment in, or raise the level of (a low place), with earth or gravel.
+
frith
a.
A forest; a woody place.
+
footglove
n.
A kind of stocking.
+
filthiness
n.
That which is filthy, or makes filthy; foulness; nastiness; corruption; pollution; impurity.
+
favus
n.
A tile or flagstone cut into an hexagonal shape to produce a honeycomb pattern, as in a pavement; -- called also favas and sectila.
+
flesh
n.
The aggregate of the muscles, fat, and other tissues which cover the framework of bones in man and other animals; especially, the muscles.
+
forbidden
a.
Prohibited; interdicted.
+
figure
n.
A horoscope; the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses.
+
frostfish
n.
The smelt.
+
flint glass

A soft, heavy, brilliant glass, consisting essentially of a silicate of lead and potassium. It is used for tableware, and for optical instruments, as prisms, its density giving a high degree of dispersive power; -- so called, because formerly the silica was obtained from pulverized flints. Called also crystal glass.  Cf. Glass.
+
feed
v.t.
To nourish, in a general sense; to foster, strengthen, develop, and guard.
+
filter
n.
To purify or defecate, as water or other liquid, by causing it to pass through a filter.
+
firmament
v.|a.
The orb of the fixed stars; the most rmote of the celestial spheres.
+
facies
n.
The general aspect or habit of a species, or group of species, esp. with reference to its adaptation to its environment.
+
fatigue
n.
To weary with labor or any bodily or mental exertion; to harass with toil; to exhaust the strength or endurance of; to tire.
+
formularies
pl.
of Formulary
+
flagitious
a.
Disgracefully or shamefully criminal; grossly wicked; scandalous; shameful; -- said of acts, crimes, etc.
+
fimbriated
a.
Having a very narrow border of another tincture; -- said esp. of an ordinary or subordinary.
+
frontlessly
adv.
Shamelessly; impudently.
+
forewent 
imp.
of Forego
+
fronting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Front
+
friendly
a.
Having the temper and disposition of a friend; disposed to promote the good of another; kind; favorable.
+
floss
n.
Untwisted filaments of silk, used in embroidering.
+
fat
n.
An oily liquid or greasy substance making up the main bulk of the adipose tissue of animals, and widely distributed in the seeds of plants. See Adipose tissue, under Adipose.
+
flavorles
a.
Without flavor; tasteless.
+
figurehead
n.
The figure, statue, or bust, on the prow of a ship.
+
fluinity
n.
The quality of being fluid or capable of flowing; a liquid, aeriform. or gaseous state; -- opposed to solidity.
+
frost
v.t.
To cover with hoarfrost; to produce a surface resembling frost upon, as upon cake, metals, or glass.
+
figured
a.
Adorned with figures; marked with figures; as, figured muslin.
+
foreman
n.
The chief man of a jury, who acts as their speaker.
+
frizzled
imp.|p.p.
of Frizzle
+
fiducially
adv.
With confidence.
+
fly
v.t.
To hunt with a hawk.
+
fulfillment
n.
Execution; performance; as, the fulfillment of a promise.
+
fatimide
a.
Descended from Fatima, the daughter and only child of Mohammed.
+
fine
superl.
Thin; attenuate; keen; as, a fine edge.
+
flexed
imp.|p.p.
of Flex
+
forego
v.t.
To relinquish the enjoyment or advantage of; to give up; to resign; to renounce; -- said of a thing already enjoyed, or of one within reach, or anticipated.
+
ferula
n.
A ferule.
+
fuci
pl.
of Fucus
+
fretful
a.
Disposed to fret; ill-humored; peevish; angry; in a state of vexation; as, a fretful temper.
+
fault
n.
Failure to serve the ball into the proper court.
+
flunky
n.
One who is obsequious or cringing; a snob.
+
flicker
v.i.
To waver unsteadily, like a flame in a current of air, or when about to expire; as, the flickering light.
+
fumigant
a.
Fuming.
+
fast
a.
In a fast or rapid manner; quickly; swiftly; extravagantly; wildly; as, to run fast; to live fast.
+
freshen
v.t.
To relieve, as a rope, by change of place where friction wears it; or to renew, as the material used to prevent chafing; as, to freshen a hawse.
+
flare
v.i.
To be exposed to too much light.
+
faithless
a.
Not believing; not giving credit.
+
fly
v.i.
The part of a vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows.
+
frangible
a.
Capable of being broken; brittle; fragile; easily broken.
+
flick
n.
A flitch; as, a flick of bacon.
+
frequented
imp.|p.p.
of Frequent
+
flittermouse
n.
A bat; -- called also flickermouse, flindermouse, and flintymouse.
+
filiate
v.t.
To adopt as son or daughter; to establish filiation between.
+
filigrain
n.
Alt. of Filigrane
+
fivetwenties
n.pl.
Five-twenty bonds of the United States (bearing six per cent interest), issued in 1862, '64, and '65, redeemable after five and payable in twenty years.
+
fleshing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Flesh
+
fleshiness
n.
The state of being fleshy; plumpness; corpulence; grossness.
+
fay
v.t.
To fit; to join; to unite closely, as two pieces of wood, so as to make the surface fit together.
+
fold
v.
That which is folded together, or which infolds or envelops; embrace.
+
filling
n.
The woof in woven fabrics.
+
fifty
a.
Five times ten; as, fifty men.
+
frightfully
adv.
In a frightful manner; to a frightful dagree.
+
foresail
n.
The fore staysail of a sloop, being the triangular sail next forward of the mast.
+
formularization
n.
The act of formularizing; a formularized or formulated statement or exhibition.
+
fox
n.
Rope yarn twisted together, and rubbed with tar; -- used for seizings or mats.
+
flank
v.t.
To overlook or command the flank of; to secure or guard the flank of; to pass around or turn the flank of; to attack, or threaten to attack; the flank of.
+
fibrillary
a.
Of of pertaining to fibrils.
+
freshen
v.i.
To grow fresh; to lose saltness.
+
field
n.
The whole surface of an escutcheon; also, so much of it is shown unconcealed by the different bearings upon it. See Illust. of Fess, where the field is represented as gules (red), while the fess is argent (silver).
+
frenum
n.
A connecting fold of membrane serving to support or restrain any part; as, the fraenum of the tongue.
+
fronded
a.
Furnished with fronds.
+
filemot
n.
See Feullemort.
+
funicle
n.
A small cord, ligature, or fiber.
+
formula
n.
A written confession of faith; a formal statement of foctrines.
+
facound
n.
Speech; eloquence.
+
fallow deer

A European species of deer (Cervus dama), much smaller than the red deer. In summer both sexes are spotted with white. It is common in England, where it is often domesticated in the parks.
+
fred
n.
Peace; -- a word used in composition, especially in proper names; as, Alfred; Frederic.
+
flux
n.
A fluid discharge from the bowels or other part; especially, an excessive and morbid discharge; as, the bloody flux or dysentery. See Bloody flux.
+
forearm
v.t.
To arm or prepare for attack or resistance before the time of need.
+
fiveleafed
a.
Alt. of Five-leaved
+
fibrillae
pl.
of Fibrilla
+
flagmen
pl.
of Flagman
+
falsely
adv.
In a false manner; erroneously; not truly; perfidiously or treacherously.
+
finger
v.t.
To perform on an instrument of music.
+
fourbe
n.
A trickly fellow; a cheat.
+
fit
n.
The part of an object upon which anything fits tightly.
+
frescoes
pl.
of Fresco
+
forcibleness
n.
The quality of being forcible.
+
foreward
n.
The van; the front.
+
forecast
v.i.
To contrive or plan beforehand.
+
ferine
n.
A wild beast; a beast of prey.
+
foolery
n.
The practice of folly; the behavior of a fool; absurdity.
+
falcon
n.
Any species of the genus Falco, distinguished by having a toothlike lobe on the upper mandible; especially, one of this genus trained to the pursuit of other birds, or game.
+
frontier
a.
Of or relating to a frontier.
+
fumy
a.
Producing fumes; fumous.
+
frizzle
v.t.
To curl or crisp, as hair; to friz; to crinkle.
+
freedom
n.
The state of being free; exemption from the power and control of another; liberty; independence.
+
forlye
v.i.
Same as Forlie.
+
feeder
n.
A strong discharge of gas from a fissure; a blower.
+
flingdust
n.
One who kicks up the dust; a streetwalker; a low manner.
+
felsitic
a.
relating to, composed of, or containing, felsite.
+
flung

imp. & p. p. of Fling.
+
fishery
n.
A place for catching fish.
+
fortunate
n.
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.
+
footing
n.
The thickened or sloping portion of a wall, or of an embankment at its foot.
+
fluosilicic
a.
Composed of, or derived from, silicon and fluorine.
+
fizz
v.i.
To make a hissing sound, as a burning fuse.
+
fluke
n.
The part of an anchor which fastens in the ground; a flook. See Anchor.
+
forfeiting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Forfeit
+
frouzy
a.
Fetid, musty; rank; disordered and offensive to the smell or sight; slovenly; dingy. See Frowzy.
+
funambulatory
a.
Narrow, like the walk of a ropedancer.
+
field
n.
A collective term for all the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or for all except the favorites in the betting.
+
forbore
imp.
of Forbear
+
famish
v.i.
To suffer extreme hunger or thirst, so as to be exhausted in strength, or to come near to perish.
+
fixation
n.
The act of uniting chemically with a solid substance or in a solid form; reduction to a non-volatile condition; -- said of gaseous elements.
+
fox
n.
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.
+
federative
a.
Uniting in a league; forming a confederacy; federal.
+
false
superl.
Not in tune.
+
fancy
n.
The faculty by which the mind forms an image or a representation of anything perceived before; the power of combining and modifying such objects into new pictures or images; the power of readily and happily creating and recalling such objects for the purpose of amusement, wit, or embellishment; imagination.
+
fillet
n.
A little band, especially one intended to encircle the hair of the head.
+
freetongued
a.
Speaking without reserve.
+
frame
n.
Particular state or disposition, as of the mind; humor; temper; mood; as, to be always in a happy frame.
+
fosterling
n.
A foster child.
+
firman
n.
In Turkey and some other Oriental countries, a decree or mandate issued by the sovereign; a royal order or grant; -- generally given for special objects, as to a traveler to insure him protection and assistance.
+
flibbergib
n.
A sycophant.
+
fawn
v.i.
To bring forth a fawn.
+
fifth
a.
Next in order after the fourth; -- the ordinal of five.
+
fillet
n.
The raised molding about the muzzle of a gun.
+
fabliaux
pl.
of Fabliau
+
fold
v.t.
To inclose within folds or plaitings; to envelop; to infold; to clasp; to embrace.
+
fesswise
adv.
In the manner of fess.
+
fangle
v.t.
To fashion.
+
fault
n.
Defect; want; lack; default.
+
fine
superl.
Nice; delicate; subtle; exquisite; artful; skillful; dexterous.
+
fount
n.
A fountain.
+
fantasy
n.
Fantastic designs.
+
facilitate
v.t.
To make easy or less difficult; to free from difficulty or impediment; to lessen the labor of; as, to facilitate the execution of a task.
+
fall
v.t.
To belong or appertain.
+
fonne
n.
A fon.
+
fence
v.t.
To inclose with a fence or other protection; to secure by an inclosure.
+
felling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fell
+
fear
n.
That which causes, or which is the object of, apprehension or alarm; source or occasion of terror; danger; dreadfulness.
+
forbade
imp.
of Forbid
+
ferry
v.t.
A franchise or right to maintain a vessel for carrying passengers and freight across a river, bay, etc., charging tolls.
+
fabrile
a.
Pertaining to a workman, or to work in stone, metal, wood etc.; as, fabrile skill.
+
for

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.
+
freethinker
n.
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.
+
fathead
n.
A cyprinoid fish of the Mississippi valley (Pimephales promelas); -- called also black-headed minnow.
+
fear
v.i.
To be in apprehension of evil; to be afraid; to feel anxiety on account of some expected evil.
+
fibula
n.
A needle for sewing up wounds.
+
ferretto
n.
Copper sulphide, used to color glass.
+
familiar
n.
A confidential officer employed in the service of the tribunal, especially in apprehending and imprisoning the accused.
+
furring
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fur
+
flux
n.
The setting in of the tide toward the shore, -- the ebb being called the reflux.
+
far
adv.
In a great proportion; by many degrees; very much; deeply; greatly.
+
fidejussor
n.
A surety; one bound for another, conjointly with him; a guarantor.
+
fangot
n.
A quantity of wares, as raw silk, etc., from one hundred weight.
+
flocculus
n.
A small lobe in the under surface of the cerebellum, near the middle peduncle; the subpeduncular lobe.
+
fault
v.i.
To err; to blunder, to commit a fault; to do wrong.
+
flank
v.t.
To stand at the flank or side of; to border upon.
+
fortify
v.t.
To strengthen and secure by forts or batteries, or by surrounding with a wall or ditch or other military works; to render defensible against an attack by hostile forces.
+
fund
n.
A store laid up, from which one may draw at pleasure; a supply; a full provision of resources; as, a fund of wisdom or good sense.
+
ferruginous
a.
Partaking of iron; containing particles of iron.
+
fogless
a.
Without fog; clear.
+
fineness
a.
Keenness or sharpness; as, the fineness of a needle's point, or of the edge of a blade.
+
fritting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Frit
+
foursquare
a.
Having four sides and four equal angles.
+
former
a.
Preceding in order of time; antecedent; previous; prior; earlier; hence, ancient; long past.
+
foxfish
n.
The fox shark; -- called also sea fox. See Thrasher shark, under Shark.
+
fecundity
n.
The power of germinating; as in seeds.
+
freeze
v.i.
To become chilled with cold, or as with cold; to suffer loss of animation or life by lack of heat; as, the blood freezes in the veins.
+
favoring
a.
That favors.
+
forwhy
conj.
Wherefore; because.
+
fumigate
n.
To smoke; to perfume.
+
flemish
n.
The language or dialect spoken by the Flemings; also, collectively, the people of Flanders.
+
fornicated
a.
Arching over; overarched.
+
favas
n.
See Favus, n., 2.
+
furriery
n.
The business of a furrier; trade in furs.
+
forestalling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Forestall
+
fussily
adv.
In a fussy manner.
+
fungibles
n.pl.
Movable goods which may be valued by weight or measure, in contradistinction from those which must be judged of individually.
+
fallible
a.
Liable to fail, mistake, or err; liable to deceive or to be deceived; as, all men are fallible; our opinions and hopes are fallible.
+
fire
v.t.
To cause to explode; as, to fire a torpedo; to disharge; as, to fire a musket or cannon; to fire cannon balls, rockets, etc.
+
fraternization
n.
The act of fraternizing or uniting as brothers.
+
fane
n.
A temple; a place consecrated to religion; a church.
+
flight
n.
A series of steps or stairs from one landing to another.
+
flocculi
pl.
of Flocculus
+
famble
v.
A hand.
+
far
adv.
In great part; as, the day is far spent.
+
fingering
n.
The marking of the notes of a piece of music to guide or regulate the action or use of the fingers.
+
forethink
v.t.
To think beforehand; to anticipate in the mind; to prognosticate.
+
factor
n.
A steward or bailiff of an estate.
+
flat
adv.
In a flat manner; directly; flatly.
+
film
n.
A thin skin; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity; hence, any thin, slight covering.
+
fracid
a.
Rotten from being too ripe; overripe.
+
fag
v.i.
To act as a fag, or perform menial services or drudgery, for another, as in some English schools.
+
fickly
adv.
In a fickle manner.
+
fin
n.
A finlike organ or attachment; a part of an object or product which protrudes like a fin
+
fieldwork
n.
Any temporary fortification thrown up by an army in the field; -- commonly in the plural.
+
financialist
n.
A financier.
+
feed
n.
The motion, or act, of carrying forward the stuff to be operated upon, as cloth to the needle in a sewing machine; or of producing progressive operation upon any material or object in a machine, as, in a turning lathe, by moving the cutting tool along or in the work.
+
foil
n.
A leaf or very thin sheet of metal; as, brass foil; tin foil; gold foil.
+
female fern

a common species of fern with large decompound fronds (Asplenium Filixfaemina), growing in many countries; lady fern.
+
flossification
n.
A flowering; florification.
+
fume
n.
The incense of praise; inordinate flattery.
+
flour
v.t.
To sprinkle with flour.
+
forhall
v.t.
To harass; to torment; to distress.
+
flow
n.
A continuous movement of something abundant; as, a flow of words.
+
faceted
imp.|p.p.
of Facet
+
flanker
v.t.
To attack sideways.
+
frankly
adv.
In a frank manner; freely.
+
frenzied
p.p.|a.
Affected with frenzy; frantic; maddened.
+
franchise
a.
A particular privilege conferred by grant from a sovereign or a government, and vested in individuals; an imunity or exemption from ordinary jurisdiction; a constitutional or statutory right or privilege, esp. the right to vote.
+
fatimide
n.
A descendant of Fatima.
+
filthiness
n.
The state of being filthy.
+
fledged
imp.|p.p.
of Fledge
+
fensucked
a.
Sucked out of marches.
+
fielded
a.
Engaged in the field; encamped.
+
foliosity
n.
The ponderousness or bulk of a folio; voluminousness.
+
flagrancy
n.
The condition or quality of being flagrant; atrocity; heiniousness; enormity; excess.
+
foxed
a.
Repaired by foxing; as, foxed boots.
+
fast
v.i.
A time of fasting, whether a day, week, or longer time; a period of abstinence from food or certain kinds of food; as, an annual fast.
+
fratricelli
n.pl.
A sect which seceded from the Franciscan Order, chiefly in Italy and Sicily, in 1294, repudiating the pope as an apostate, maintaining the duty of celibacy and poverty, and discountenancing oaths. Called also Fratricellians and Fraticelli.
+
flash
v.t.
To send out in flashes; to cause to burst forth with sudden flame or light.
+
fantastic
a.
Indulging the vagaries of imagination; whimsical; full of absurd fancies; capricious; as, fantastic minds; a fantastic mistress.
+
fit
n.
A mood of any kind which masters or possesses one for a time; a temporary, absorbing affection; a paroxysm; as, a fit melancholy, of passion, or of laughter.
+
forcipate
a.
Alt. of Forcipated
+
fourway
a.
Allowing passage in either of four directions; as, a four-way cock, or valve.
+
flotation
n.
The act, process, or state of floating.
+
faculae
n.pl.
Groups of small shining spots on the surface of the sun which are brighter than the other parts of the photosphere. They are generally seen in the neighborhood of the dark spots, and are supposed to be elevated portions of the photosphere.
+
fancy
n.
Inclination; liking, formed by caprice rather than reason; as, to strike one's fancy; hence, the object of inclination or liking.
+
fere
n.
A mate or companion; -- often used of a wife.
+
flushing
n.
A surface formed of floating threads.
+
flag
n.
A flat stone used for paving.
+
forewiste
imp.sing.
of Forewite
+
flowering
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Flower
+
flatboat
n.
A boat with a flat bottom and square ends; -- used for the transportation of bulky freight, especially in shallow waters.
+
festivous
a.
Pertaining to a feast; festive.
+
full
compar.
Not wanting in any essential quality; complete, entire; perfect; adequate; as, a full narrative; a person of full age; a full stop; a full face; the full moon.
+
feminal
a.
Feminine.
+
farewell
interj.
Go well; good-by; adieu;  -- originally applied to a person departing, but by custom now applied both to those who depart and those who remain. It is often separated by the pronoun; as, fare you well; and is sometimes used as an expression of separation only; as, farewell the year; farewell, ye sweet groves; that is, I bid you farewell.
+
fastening
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fasten
+
fling
v.i.
To cast in the teeth; to utter abusive language; to sneer; as, the scold began to flout and fling.
+
fireweed
n.
The great willow-herb (Epilobium spicatum).
+
fullblooded
a.
Having a full supply of blood.
+
forwarder
n.
One who forwards or promotes; a promoter.
+
fortune
n.
That which befalls or is to befall one; lot in life, or event in any particular undertaking; fate; destiny; as, to tell one's fortune.
+
fond
superl.
Trifling; valued by folly; trivial.
+
fulmination
n.
That which is fulminated or thundered forth; vehement menace or censure.
+
fantailed
a.
Having an expanded, or fan-shaped, tail; as, the fan-tailed pigeon.
+
facient
n.
One who does anything, good or bad; a doer; an agent.
+
fertilization
n.
The act or process of rendering fertile.
+
falconry
n.
The art of training falcons or hawks to pursue and attack wild fowl or game.
+
fouter
n.
A despicable fellow.
+
featureless
a.
Having no distinct or distinctive features.
+
fuel
n.
Anything that serves to feed or increase passion or excitement.
+
fallow
n.
Plowed land.
+
ftiction
n.
A clashing between two persons or parties in opinions or work; a disagreement tending to prevent or retard progress.
+
firestone
n.
A stone which will bear the heat of a furnace without injury; -- especially applied to the sandstone at the top of the upper greensand in the south of England, used for lining kilns and furnaces.
+
finesse
v.i.
To use artifice or stratagem.
+
flaxplant
n.
A plant in new Zealand (Phormium tenax), allied to the lilies and aloes. The leaves are two inches wide and several feet long, and furnish a fiber which is used for making ropes, mats, and coarse cloth.
+
flunlyism
n.
The quality or characteristics of a flunky; readiness to cringe to those who are superior in wealth or position; toadyism.
+
frill
v.i.
To shake or shiver as with cold; as, the hawk frills.
+
foreknow
v.t.
To have previous knowledge of; to know beforehand.
+
find
v.t.
To learn by experience or trial; to perceive; to experience; to discover by the intellect or the feelings; to detect; to feel.
+
formula
n.
A symbolic expression (by means of letters, figures, etc.) of the constituents or constitution of a compound.
+
frequentation
n.
The act or habit of frequenting or visiting often; resort.
+
flowerlessness
n.
State of being without flowers.
+
falsehood
n.
Treachery; deceit; perfidy; unfaithfulness.
+
fantastically
adv.
In a fantastic manner.
+
forwarding
n.
The process of putting a book into its cover, and making it ready for the finisher.
+
flagellant
n.
One of a fanatical sect which flourished in Europe in the 13th and 14th centuries, and maintained that flagellation was of equal virtue with baptism and the sacrament; -- called also disciplinant.
+
foreholding
n.
Ominous foreboding; superstitious prognostication.
+
feminineness
n.
The quality of being feminine; womanliness; womanishness.
+
flake
n.
A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
+
frutescent
a.
Somewhat shrubby in character; imperfectly shrubby, as the American species of Wistaria.
+
fashion
n.
The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; as, the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.; workmanship; execution.
+
fritter
v.t.
A fragment; a shred; a small piece.
+
foaled
imp.|p.p.
of Foal
+
frontal
n.
The frontal bone, or one of the two frontal bones, of the cranium.
+
freight
n.
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.
+
floriculture
n.
The cultivation of flowering plants.
+
formality
n.
An established order; conventional rule of procedure; usual method; habitual mode.
+
family
v.t.
Course of descent; genealogy; line of ancestors; lineage.
+
fullsailed
a.
Having all its sails set,; hence, without restriction or reservation.
+
factitive
a.
Causing; causative.
+
fell
v.t.
To sew or hem; -- said of seams.
+
frog
n.
An oblong cloak button, covered with netted thread, and fastening into a loop instead of a button hole.
+
foolhardise
n.
Foolhardiness.
+
florideae
n.pl.
A subclass of algae including all the red or purplish seaweeds; the Rhodospermeae of many authors; -- so called from the rosy or florid color of most of the species.
+
frostblite
n.
The lamb's-quarters (Chenopodium album).
+
frame
n.
A term applied, especially in England, to certain machines built upon or within framework; as, a stocking frame; lace frame; spinning frame, etc.
+
friend
n.
One not inimical or hostile; one not a foe or enemy; also, one of the same nation, party, kin, etc., whose friendly feelings may be assumed. The word is some times used as a term of friendly address.
+
fiendlike
a.
Fiendish; diabolical.
+
fell
n.
A wild field; a moor.
+
failure
n.
Omission; nonperformance; as, the failure to keep a promise.
+
fennish
a.
Abounding in fens; fenny.
+
flustering
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fluster
+
fang
a.
To enable to catch or tear; to furnish with fangs.
+
fooleries
pl.
of Foolery
+
frondose
a.
Frond bearing; resembling a frond; having a simple expansion not separable into stem and leaves.
+
febrile
a.
Pertaining to fever; indicating fever, or derived from it; as, febrile symptoms; febrile action.
+
fore
n.
The front; hence, that which is in front; the future.
+
freeze
n.
The act of congealing, or the state of being congealed.
+
florist
n.
A cultivator of, or dealer in, flowers.
+
foryete
v.t.
To forget.
+
fed

imp. & p. p. of Feed.
+
fourb
n.
Alt. of Fourbe
+
finfooted
a.
Having palmate feet.
+
faulty
a.
Containing faults, blemishes, or defects; imperfect; not fit for the use intended.
+
fence
v.t.
To fend off danger from; to give security to; to protect; to guard.
+
fulled
imp.|p.p.
of Full
+
fresh
superl
New; original; additional.
+
foziness
n.
The state of being fozy; spiritlessness; dullness.
+
fireflies
pl.
of Firefly
+
frockless
a.
Destitute of a frock.
+
fluviomarine
a.
Formed by the joint action of a river and the sea, as deposits at the mouths of rivers.
+
frabbit
a.
Crabbed; peevish.
+
forbear
v.i.
To control one's self when provoked.
+
finger
v.t.
To mark the notes of (a piece of music) so as to guide the fingers in playing.
+
futile
v.t.
Of no importance; answering no useful end; useless; vain; worthless.
+
frostweed
n.
An American species of rockrose (Helianthemum Canadense), sometimes used in medicine as an astringent or aromatic tonic.
+
furfur
n.
Scurf; dandruff.
+
feller
n.
One who, or that which, fells, knocks or cuts down; a machine for felling trees.
+
furibundal
a.
Full of rage.
+
fairly
adv.
Favorably; auspiciously; commodiously; as, a town fairly situated for foreign traade.
+
findy
a.
Full; heavy; firm; solid; substemtial.
+
fight
v.i.
A screen for the combatants in ships.
+
fifteenth
a.
Consisting of one of fifteen equal parts or divisions of a thing.
+
foul
superl.
Covered with, or containing, extraneous matter which is injurious, noxious, offensive, or obstructive; filthy; dirty; not clean; polluted; nasty; defiled; as, a foul cloth; foul hands; a foul chimney; foul air; a ship's bottom is foul when overgrown with barnacles; a gun becomes foul from repeated firing; a well is foul with polluted water.
+
fleshmonger
n.
One who deals in flesh; hence, a pimp; a procurer; a pander.
+
fulguration
n.
The act of lightening.
+
farcilite
n.
Pudding stone.
+
forgot
imp.
of Forget
+
fimbria
n.
A fringe, or fringed border.
+
factum
n.
A man's own act and deed
+
foretaster
n.
One who tastes beforehand, or before another.
+
frontal
a.
Belonging to the front part; being in front
+
feet
n.pl.
See Foot.
+
foeman
n.
An enemy in war.
+
filametoid
a.
Like a filament.
+
fencible
a.
Capable of being defended, or of making or affording defense.
+
fifty
n.
The sum of five tens; fifty units or objects.
+
festerment
n.
A festering.
+
foreclose
v.t.
To shut up or out; to preclude; to stop; to prevent; to bar; to exclude.
+
fascine
n.
A cylindrical bundle of small sticks of wood, bound together, used in raising batteries, filling ditches, strengthening ramparts, and making parapets; also in revetments for river banks, and in mats for dams, jetties, etc.
+
faultless
a.
Without fault; not defective or imperfect; free from blemish; free from incorrectness, vice, or offense; perfect; as, a faultless poem.
+
frogged
a.
Provided or ornamented with frogs; as, a frogged coat. See Frog, n., 4.
+
filibuster
v.i.
To act as a filibuster, or military freebooter.
+
finative
a.
Conclusive; decisive; definitive; final.
+
frizzle
n.
A curl; a lock of hair crisped.
+
forein
a.
Foreign.
+
fabaceous
a.
Having the nature of a bean; like a bean.
+
finessed
imp.|p.p.
of Finesse
+
farewell
a.
Parting; valedictory; final; as, a farewell discourse; his farewell bow.
+
fer
a.|adv.
Far.
+
fast
v.i.
To practice abstinence as a religious exercise or duty; to abstain from food voluntarily for a time, for the mortification of the body or appetites, or as a token of grief, or humiliation and penitence.
+
flitting
n.
A removal from one habitation to another.
+
flourish
v.i.
To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
+
figure
n.
A mode of expressing abstract or immaterial ideas by words which suggest pictures or images from the physical world; pictorial language; a trope; hence, any deviation from the plainest form of statement.
+
finisher
n.
One who finishes, puts an end to, completes, or perfects; esp. used in the trades, as in hatting, weaving, etc., for the workman who gives a finishing touch to the work, or any part of it, and brings it to perfection.
+
flasket
n.
A small flask.
+
fertile
a.
produced in abundance; plenteous; ample.
+
floppy
n.
Having a tendency to flop or flap; as, a floppy hat brim.
+
fishermen
pl.
of Fisherman
+
formidableness
n.
The quality of being formidable, or adapted to excite dread.
+
fixedly
adv.
In a fixed, stable, or constant manner.
+
flute
n.
A long French breakfast roll.
+
farmsteading
n.
A farmstead.
+
faultily
adv.
In a faulty manner.
+
feoffment
n.
The instrument or deed by which corporeal hereditaments are conveyed.
+
fornication
n.
Incest.
+
freight
n.
The price paid a common carrier for the carriage of goods.
+
feature
n.
The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty, or an essay; any marked peculiarity or characteristic; as, one of the features of the landscape.
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farthermost
a.
Most remote; farthest.
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face
n.
The width of a pulley, or the length of a cog from end to end; as, a pulley or cog wheel of ten inches face.
+
fountain
n.
The source from which anything proceeds, or from which anything is supplied continuously; origin; source.
+
fishify
v.t.
To change to fish.
+
fourscore
n.
Four times twenty; eighty.
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fescennine
a.
Pertaining to, or resembling, the Fescennines.
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fascicled
a.
Growing in a bundle, tuft, or close cluster; as, the fascicled leaves of the pine or larch; the fascicled roots of the dahlia; fascicled muscle fibers; fascicled tufts of hair.
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future
a.
Time to come; time subsequent to the present (as, the future shall be as the present); collectively, events that are to happen in time to come.
+
faction
n.
One of the divisions or parties of charioteers (distinguished by their colors) in the games of the circus.
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feudatory
n.
A tenant or vassal who held his lands of a superior on condition of feudal service; the tenant of a feud or fief.
+
foreprize
v.t.
To prize or rate beforehand.
+
finger
v.t.
To execute, as any delicate work.
+
fussing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fuss
+
fumeless
a.
Free from fumes.
+
forsake
v.t.
To renounce; to reject; to refuse.
+
fixing
n.
The act or process of making fixed.
+
freckledness
n.
The state of being freckled.
+
fustic
n.
The wood of the Maclura tinctoria, a tree growing in the West Indies, used in dyeing yellow; -- called also old fustic.
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fascia
n.
A band, sash, or fillet; especially, in surgery, a bandage or roller.
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forger
n.|v.t.
One who forges, makes, of forms; a fabricator; a falsifier.
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frangent
a.
Causing fracture; breaking.
+
forebode
v.i.
To fortell; to presage; to augur.
+
fullbottomed
a.
Full and large at the bottom, as wigs worn by certain civil officers in Great Britain.
+
flange
v.t.
To make a flange on; to furnish with a flange.
+
folium
n.
A curve of the third order, consisting of two infinite branches, which have a common asymptote. The curve has a double point, and a leaf-shaped loop; whence the name. Its equation is x3 + y3 = axy.
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field
v.t.
To catch, stop, throw, etc. (the ball), as a fielder.
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fagot
v.t.
To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle; also, to collect promiscuously.
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fetor
n.
A strong, offensive smell; stench; fetidness.
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fribble
n.
A frivolous, contemptible fellow; a fop.
+
fagging
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fag
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fur
n.
The short, fine, soft hair of certain animals, growing thick on the skin, and distinguished from the hair, which is longer and coarser.
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folly
n.
A foolish act; an inconsiderate or thoughtless procedure; weak or light-minded conduct; foolery.
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fat
superl.
Of a character which enables the compositor to make large wages; -- said of matter containing blank, cuts, or many leads, etc.; as, a fat take; a fat page.
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fetch
v.t.
To reduce; to throw.
+
flowerpot
n.
A vessel, commonly or earthenware, for earth in which plants are grown.
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frank
v.t.
To send by public conveyance free of expense.
+
fox
n.
A tribe of Indians which, with the Sacs, formerly occupied the region about Green Bay, Wisconsin; -- called also Outagamies.
+
functional
a.
Pertaining to, or connected with, a function or duty; official.
+
fine
n.
A final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal.
+
feelingly
adv.
In a feeling manner; pathetically; sympathetically.
+
fauteuil
n.
An armchair; hence (because the members sit in fauteuils or armchairs), membership in the French Academy.
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figure
n.
The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modeling, carving, embroidering, etc.; especially, a representation of the human body; as, a figure in bronze; a figure cut in marble.
+
field
n.
An unresticted or favorable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement; province; room.
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formative
a.
Giving form; having the power of giving form; plastic; as, the formative arts.
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faith
n.
The assent of the mind to the statement or proposition of another, on the ground of the manifest truth of what he utters; firm and earnest belief, on probable evidence of any kind, especially in regard to important moral truth.
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familiarization
n.
The act or process of making familiar; the result of becoming familiar; as, familiarization with scenes of blood.
+
find
v.i.
To determine an issue of fact, and to declare such a determination to a court; as, the jury find for the plaintiff.
+
friendly
adv.
In the manner of friends; amicably; like friends.
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folily
a.
Foolishly.
+
folks
n.collect.|pl.
In Anglo-Saxon times, the people of a group of townships or villages; a community; a tribe.
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fluvial
a.
Belonging to rivers; growing or living in streams or ponds; as, a fluvial plant.
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frier
n.
One who fries.
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feather
v.i.
To grow or form feathers; to become feathered; -- often with out; as, the birds are feathering out.
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foliaged
a.
Furnished with foliage; leaved; as, the variously foliaged mulberry.
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flagging
a.
Growing languid, weak, or spiritless; weakening; delaying.
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fraenum
n.
Alt. of Frenum
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fishwife
n.
A fishwoman.
+
freshwater
a.
Accustomed to sail on fresh water only; unskilled as a seaman; as, a fresh-water sailor.
+
flex
n.
Flax.
+
fovilla
n.
One of the fine granules contained in the protoplasm of a pollen grain.
+
facilities
pl.
of Facility
+
frame
v.t.
To cause; to bring about; to produce.
+
field
n.
Cleared land; land suitable for tillage or pasture; cultivated ground; the open country.
+
file
v.i.
To march in a file or line, as soldiers, not abreast, but one after another; -- generally with off.
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forthgoing
n.
A going forth; an utterance.
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firm
superl.
Fixed; hence, closely compressed; compact; substantial; hard; solid; -- applied to the matter of bodies; as, firm flesh; firm muscles, firm wood.
+
freshen
v.i.
To grow brisk or strong; as, the wind freshens.
+
flaked
imp.|p.p.
of Flake
+
four
a.
One more than three; twice two.
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foisty
a.
Fusty; musty.
+
freighter
n.
One employed in receiving and forwarding freight.
+
fimbricate
a.
fringed, on one side only, by long, straight hairs, as the antennae of certain insects.
+
freaked
imp.|p.p.
of Freak
+
fidgeted
imp.|p.p.
of Fidget
+
falter
v.t.
To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley.
+
fetch
n.
The apparation of a living person; a wraith.
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freshwater
a.
Unskilled; raw.
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form
n.
To give form or shape to; to frame; to construct; to make; to fashion.
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foggy
superl.
Filled or abounding with fog, or watery exhalations; misty; as, a foggy atmosphere; a foggy morning.
+
federal
a.
Friendly or devoted to such a government; as, the Federal party. see Federalist.
+
foveae
pl.
of Fovea
+
falk
n.
The razorbill.
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fire
v.t.
To cauterize.
+
fancy
n.
A sort of love song or light impromptu ballad.
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fulvous
a.
Tawny; dull yellow, with a mixture of gray and brown.
+
false
superl.
Uttering falsehood; unveracious; given to deceit; dishnest; as, a false witness.
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faecula
n.
See Fecula.
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flask
n.
The wooden or iron frame which holds the sand, etc., forming the mold used in a foundry; it consists of two or more parts; viz., the cope or top; sometimes, the cheeks, or middle part; and the drag, or bottom part. When there are one or more cheeks, the flask is called a three part flask, four part flask, etc.
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fratery
n.
A frater house. See under Frater.
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foreshorten
v.t.
To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective.
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forewit
n.
Foresight; prudence.
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furcula
n.
A forked process; the wishbone or furculum.
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filliped
imp.|p.p.
of Fillip
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fuss
n.
A tumult; a bustle; unnecessary or annoying ado about trifles.
+
fester
n.
To be inflamed; to grow virulent, or malignant; to grow in intensity; to rankle.
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forgettingly
adv.
By forgetting.
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footstalk
n.
The peduncle or stem by which various marine animals are attached, as certain brachiopods and goose barnacles.
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flightiness
n.
The state or quality of being flighty.
+
furbisher
n.
One who furbishes; esp., a sword cutler, who finishes sword blades and similar weapons.
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flower
v.i.
To come off as flowers by sublimation.
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forced
imp.|p.p.
of Force
+
frame
n.
A kind of open case or structure made for admitting, inclosing, or supporting things, as that which incloses or contains a window, door, picture, etc.; that on which anything is held or stretched
+
flamines
pl.
of Flamen
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feed
v.t.
To supply (the material to be operated upon) to a machine; as, to feed paper to a printing press.
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flare
v.i.
To open or spread outwards; to project beyond the perpendicular; as, the sides of a bowl flare; the bows of a ship flare.
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face
v.t.
To make the surface of (anything) flat or smooth; to dress the face of (a stone, a casting, etc.); esp., in turning, to shape or smooth the flat surface of, as distinguished from the cylindrical surface.
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frush
a.
Easily broken; brittle; crisp.
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florescence
n.
A bursting into flower; a blossoming.
+
flounder
n.
A tool used in crimping boot fronts.
+
fleursdelis
pl.
of Fleur-de-lis
+
fluxion
n.
An unnatural or excessive flow of blood or fluid toward any organ; a determination.
+
fosterage
n.
The care of a foster child; the charge of nursing.
+
forslack
v.t.
To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth.
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front
n.
The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face.
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flicker
n.
The golden-winged woodpecker (Colaptes aurutus); -- so called from its spring note. Called also yellow-hammer, high-holder, pigeon woodpecker, and yucca.
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fugacity
a.
The quality of being fugacious; fugaclousness; volatility; as, fugacity of spirits.
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feldspath
n.
A name given to a group of minerals, closely related in crystalline form, and all silicates of alumina with either potash, soda, lime, or, in one case, baryta. They occur in crystals and crystalline masses, vitreous in luster, and breaking rather easily in two directions at right angles to each other, or nearly so. The colors are usually white or nearly white, flesh-red, bluish, or greenish.
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found
v.i.
To lay the basis of; to set, or place, as on something solid, for support; to ground; to establish upon a basis, literal or figurative; to fix firmly.
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fleshment
n.
The act of fleshing, or the excitement attending a successful beginning.
+
fay
n.
Faith; as, by my fay.
+
frame
n.
The ribs and stretchers of an umbrella or other structure with a fabric covering.
+
force
n.
To impel, drive, wrest, extort, get, etc., by main strength or violence; -- with a following adverb, as along, away, from, into, through, out, etc.
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foretokening
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Foretoken
+
fruitery
n.
A repository for fruit.
+
flattery
v.t.
The act or practice of flattering; the act of pleasing by artiful commendation or compliments; adulation; false, insincere, or excessive praise.
+
forming
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Form
+
fitment
n.
The act of fitting; that which is proper or becoming; equipment.
+
forcer
n.
One who, or that which, forces or drives.
+
fluxure
n.
The quality of being fluid.
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furnishing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Furnish
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frequent
n.
Full; crowded; thronged.
+
few
superl.
Not many; small, limited, or confined in number; -- indicating a small portion of units or individuals constituing a whole; often, by ellipsis of a noun, a few people.
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flatuous
a.
Windy; generating wind.
+
firstling
n.
The first produce or offspring; -- said of animals, especially domestic animals; as, the firstlings of his flock.
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fading
n.
An Irish dance; also, the burden of a song.
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foot
n.
The lowest part or base; the ground part; the bottom, as of a mountain or column; also, the last of a row or series; the end or extremity, esp. if associated with inferiority; as, the foot of a hill; the foot of the procession; the foot of a class; the foot of the bed.
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frailty
a.
The condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally, frailness; infirmity; weakness of resolution; liableness to be deceived or seduced.
+
fub
n.
Alt. of Fubs
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flybane
n.
A kind of catchfly of the genus Silene; also, a poisonous mushroom (Agaricus muscarius); fly agaric.
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full
n.
To thicken by moistening, heating, and pressing, as cloth; to mill; to make compact; to scour, cleanse, and thicken in a mill.
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founder
v.i.
To fail; to miscarry.
+
fallacies
pl.
of Fallacy
+
farmery
n.
The buildings and yards necessary for the business of a farm; a homestead.
+
fulvid
a.
Fulvous.
+
fodder
n.
That which is fed out to cattle horses, and sheep, as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc.
+
furbelowing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Furhelow
+
feste
n.
A feast.
+
fat
superl.
Fleshy; characterized by fatness; plump; corpulent; not lean; as, a fat man; a fat ox.
+
flense
v.t.
To strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal, etc.
+
fecundate
v.t.
To make fruitful or prolific.
+
fluxion
n.
A constantly varying indication.
+
fish
pl.
of Fish
+
frighten
v.t.
To disturb with fear; to throw into a state of alarm or fright; to affright; to terrify.
+
frontignan
n.
A sweet muscadine wine made in Frontignan (Languedoc), France.
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feudary
n.
A feodary. See Feodary.
+
folded
imp.|p.p.
of Fold
+
flesher
n.
A two-handled, convex, blunt-edged knife, for scraping hides; a fleshing knife.
+
family
v.t.
The collective body of persons who live in one house, and under one head or manager; a household, including parents, children, and servants, and, as the case may be, lodgers or boarders.
+
frouncing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Frounce
+
feast
n.
A festive or joyous meal; a grand, ceremonious, or sumptuous entertainment, of which many guests partake; a banquet characterized by tempting variety and abundance of food.
+
flaming
a.
Of the color of flame; high-colored; brilliant; dazzling.
+
festal
a.
Of or pertaining to a holiday or a feast; joyous; festive.
+
fish
v.t.
To catch; to draw out or up; as, to fish up an anchor.
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forwarder
n.
One who sends forward anything; (Com.) one who transmits goods; a forwarding merchant.
+
fumidness
n.
The state of being fumid; smokiness.
+
feathered
a.
Having feathers; -- said of an arrow, when the feathers are of a tincture different from that of the shaft.
+
fellowshiped
imp.|p.p.
of Fellowship
+
fleer

To grin with an air of civility; to leer.
+
feminine rhyme

See Female rhyme, under Female, a.
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fringy
a.
Aborned with fringes.
+
fungite
n.
A fossil coral resembling Fungia.
+
fenian
a.
Pertaining to Fenians or to Fenianism.
+
fancier
n.
One who fancies or has a special liking for, or interest in, a particular object or class or objects; hence, one who breeds and keeps for sale birds and animals; as, bird fancier, dog fancier, etc.
+
fright
n.
To alarm suddenly; to shock by causing sudden fear; to terrify; to scare.
+
feed
v.t.
To give food to; to supply with nourishment; to satisfy the physical huger of.
+
frictional
a.
Relating to friction; moved by friction; produced by friction; as, frictional electricity.
+
floorage
n.
Floor space.
+
fishful
a.
Abounding with fish.
+
feast
v.t.
To delight; to gratify; as, to feast the soul.
+
fleece
v.t.
To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or fraud; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions.
+
ferry
v.i.
To pass over water in a boat or by a ferry.
+
fuar
n.
Same as Feuar.
+
frying
n.
The process denoted by the verb fry.
+
fair
n.
Good fortune; good luck.
+
faint
n.
To sink into dejection; to lose courage or spirit; to become depressed or despondent.
+
festivities
pl.
of Festivity
+
fin
n.
End; conclusion; object.
+
folks
n.collect.|pl.
People in general, or a separate class of people; -- generally used in the plural form, and often with a qualifying adjective; as, the old folks; poor folks.
+
feeling
n.
An act or state of perception by the sense above described; an act of apprehending any object whatever; an act or state of apprehending the state of the soul itself; consciousness.
+
fisetin
n.
A yellow crystalline substance extracted from fustet, and regarded as its essential coloring principle; -- called also fisetic acid.
+
formalize
v.i.
To affect formality.
+
feverous
a.
Pertaining to, or having the nature of, fever; as, a feverous pulse.
+
flout
v.i.
To practice mocking; to behave with contempt; to sneer; to fleer; -- often with at.
+
fetidity
n.
Fetidness.
+
fright
n.
Anything strange, ugly or shocking, producing a feeling of alarm or aversion.
+
fleabane
n.
One of various plants, supposed to have efficacy in driving away fleas. They belong, for the most part, to the genera Conyza, Erigeron, and Pulicaria.
+
folio
n.
A leaf containing a certain number of words, hence, a certain number of words in a writing, as in England, in law proceedings 72, and in chancery, 90; in New York, 100 words.
+
fulfill
v.t.
To fill up; to make full or complete.
+
fermenting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Ferment
+
fisk
v.i.
To run about; to frisk; to whisk.
+
fourfeitable
a.
Liable to be forfeited; subject to forfeiture.
+
fraenulum
n.
A fraenum.
+
fourche
a.
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.
+
fife
v.i.
To play on a fife.
+
flay
v.t.
To skin; to strip off the skin or surface of; as, to flay an ox; to flay the green earth.
+
frangipani
n.
Alt. of Frangipanni
+
freehold
n.
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.
+
festooning
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Festoon
+
fogging
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fog
+
forsooth
n.
A person who used forsooth much; a very ceremonious and deferential person.
+
facing
n.
A lining placed near the edge of a garment for ornament or protection.
+
ferie
n.
A holiday.
+
falling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fall
+
foliage
n.
A cluster of leaves, flowers, and branches; especially, the representation of leaves, flowers, and branches, in architecture, intended to ornament and enrich capitals, friezes, pediments, etc.
+
fourhanded
a.
Requiring four "hands" or players; as, a fourhanded game at cards.
+
fissiped
n.
One of the Fissipedia.
+
flush
v.t.
To make suddenly or temporarily red or rosy, as if suffused with blood.
+
fovea
n.
A slight depression or pit; a fossa.
+
fervence
n.
Heat; fervency.
+
fade
a.
To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish.
+
farsighted
a.
Seeing to great distance; hence, of good judgment regarding the remote effects of actions; sagacious.
+
feat
n.
Dexterous in movements or service; skillful; neat; nice; pretty.
+
fordable
a.
Capable of being forded.
+
forky
a.
Opening into two or more parts or shoots; forked; furcated.
+
forestry
n.
The art of forming or of cultivating forests; the management of growing timber.
+
flyer
n.
The pair of arms attached to the spindle of a spinning frame, over which the thread passes to the bobbin; -- so called from their swift revolution. See Fly, n., 11.
+
ferret
n.
To drive or hunt out of a lurking place, as a ferret does the cony; to search out by patient and sagacious efforts; -- often used with out; as, to ferret out a secret.
+
federary
n.
A partner; a confederate; an accomplice.
+
foresignify
v.t.
To signify beforehand; to foreshow; to typify.
+
flickeringly
adv.
In a flickering manner.
+
flag
n.
Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.
+
freighted
imp.|p.p.
of Freight
+
firefanged
a.
Injured as by fire; burned; -- said of manure which has lost its goodness and acquired an ashy hue in consequence of heat generated by decomposition.
+
fine
superl.
Made of fine materials; light; delicate; as, fine linen or silk.
+
fresnel lamp

Alt. of Fres'nel' lan'tern
+
flaggy
a.
Abounding with the plant called flag; as, a flaggy marsh.
+
froth
v.t.
To cause to foam.
+
fimbriate
v.t.
To hem; to fringe.
+
forcipated
a.
Like a pair of forceps; as, a forcipated mouth.
+
flying
v.i.
Moving in the air with, or as with, wings; moving lightly or rapidly; intended for rapid movement.
+
forswore

imp. of Forswear.
+
fold
v.
A doubling,esp. of any flexible substance; a part laid over on another part; a plait; a plication.
+
fife
n.
A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music.
+
foyson
n.
See Foison.
+
forerunner
n.
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.
+
festucine
a.
Of a straw color; greenish yellow.
+
floret
n.
A little flower; one of the numerous little flowers which compose the head or anthodium in such flowers as the daisy, thistle, and dandelion.
+
finglefangle
n.
A trifle.
+
fertilize
v.t.
To make fertile or enrich; to supply with nourishment for plants; to make fruitful or productive; as, to fertilize land, soil, ground, and meadows.
+
father
n.
One who performs the offices of a parent by maintenance, affetionate care, counsel, or protection.
+
flowed
imp.|p.p.
of Flow
+
fuscin
n.
A brown, nitrogenous pigment contained in the retinal epithelium; a variety of melanin.
+
fraughting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fraught
+
faithful
a.
Full of faith, or having faith; disposed to believe, especially in the declarations and promises of God.
+
fullblown
a.
Fully expanded, as a blossom; as, a full-bloun rose.
+
freethinking
n.
Undue boldness of speculation; unbelief.
+
fishhook
n.
A hook for catching fish.
+
fairylike
a.
Resembling a fairy, or what is made or done be fairies; as, fairylike music.
+
fibril
n.
A small fiber; the branch of a fiber; a very slender thread; a fibrilla.
+
furniture
v.t.
A mixed or compound stop in an organ; -- sometimes called mixture.
+
funky
a.
Pertaining to, or characterized by, great fear, or funking.
+
fit
v.i.
To be adjusted to a particular shape or size; to suit; to be adapted; as, his coat fits very well.
+
fibrilla
n.
A minute thread of fiber, as one of the fibrous elements of a muscular fiber; a fibril.
+
feint
a.
That which is feigned; an assumed or false appearance; a pretense; a stratagem; a fetch.
+
fourierist
n.
Alt. of Fourierite
+
felicitated
imp.|p.p.
of Felicitate
+
falchion
n.
A name given generally and poetically to a sword, especially to the swords of Oriental and fabled warriors.
+
fleeten
n.
Fleeted or skimmed milk.
+
fuzz
v.i.
To fly off in minute particles.
+
free
adv.
Without charge; as, children admitted free.
+
fumbler
n.
One who fumbles.
+
forth
n.
A way; a passage or ford.
+
frangulin
n.
A yellow crystalline dyestuff, regarded as a glucoside, extracted from a species (Rhamnus Frangula) of the buckthorn; -- called also rhamnoxanthin.
+
fleme
v.t.
To banish; to drive out; to expel.
+
free
superl.
Not under an arbitrary or despotic government; subject only to fixed laws regularly and fairly administered, and defended by them from encroachments upon natural or acquired rights; enjoying political liberty.
+
fungous
a.
Of the nature of fungi; spongy.
+
foxiness
n.
The state of being foxed or discolored, as books; decay; deterioration.
+
foul
n.
An entanglement; a collision, as in a boat race.
+
flyer
n.
The fan wheel that rotates the cap of a windmill as the wind veers.
+
forelay
v.t.
To lay down beforehand.
+
founderous
a.
Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road.
+
flat
n.
A character [/] before a note, indicating a tone which is a half step or semitone lower.
+
fabric
n.
Cloth of any kind that is woven or knit from fibers, either vegetable or animal; manufactured cloth; as, silks or other fabrics.
+
festered
imp.|p.p.
of Fester
+
flatterer
n.
One who flatters.
+
fatal
a.
Causing death or destruction; deadly; mortal; destructive; calamitous; as, a fatal wound; a fatal disease; a fatal day; a fatal error.
+
full
adv.
Quite; to the same degree; without abatement or diminution; with the whole force or effect; thoroughly; completely; exactly; entirely.
+
foresee
v.t.
To provide.
+
feminye
n.
The people called Amazons.
+
fastigiate
a.
Alt. of Fastigiated
+
fog
v.t.
To pasture cattle on the fog, or aftergrass, of; to eat off the fog from.
+
face
v.t.
To cause to turn or present a face or front, as in a particular direction.
+
femerell
n.
A lantern, or louver covering, placed on a roof, for ventilation or escape of smoke.
+
feize
v.t.
See Feeze, v. t.
+
felicity
n.
A pleasing faculty or accomplishment; as, felicity in painting portraits, or in writing or talking.
+
fuliginous
a.
Pertaining to soot; sooty; dark; dusky.
+
foundered
imp.|p.p.
of Founder
+
fiery
a.
Vehement; ardent; very active; impetuous.
+
fornication
n.
Adultery.
+
frill
v.i.
A similar ruffle around the legs or other appendages of animals.
+
fouling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Foul
+
fleece
n.
The entire coat of wood that covers a sheep or other similar animal; also, the quantity shorn from a sheep, or animal, at one time.
+
frump
v.t.
To insult; to flout; to mock; to snub.
+
french
a.
Of or pertaining to France or its inhabitants.
+
firstling
a.
Firstborn.
+
fiveleaf
n.
Cinquefoil; five-finger.
+
flatly
adv.
In a flat manner; evenly; horizontally; without spirit; dully; frigidly; peremptorily; positively, plainly.
+
facund
a.
Eloquent.
+
fry
v.i.
To be agitated; to be greatly moved.
+
fashionmongering
a.
Behaving like a fashion-monger.
+
fourling
n.
A compound or twin crystal consisting of four individuals.
+
fissural
a.
Pertaining to a fissure or fissures; as, the fissural pattern of a brain.
+
frothless
a.
Free from froth.
+
farinaceous
a.
Consisting or made of meal or flour; as, a farinaceous diet.
+
flashiness
n.
The quality of being flashy.
+
focus
n.
A point so related to a conic section and certain straight line called the directrix that the ratio of the distace between any point of the curve and the focus to the distance of the same point from the directrix is constant.
+
flexuous
a.
Having alternate curvatures in opposite directions; bent in a zigzag manner.
+
fijian
n.
A native of the Fiji islands.
+
feud
n.
A stipendiary estate in land, held of superior, by service; the right which a vassal or tenant had to the lands or other immovable thing of his lord, to use the same and take the profists thereof hereditarily, rendering to his superior such duties and services as belong to military tenure, etc., the property of the soil always remaining in the lord or superior; a fief; a fee.
+
faucal
a.
Pertaining to the fauces, or opening of the throat; faucial; esp., (Phon.) produced in the fauces, as certain deep guttural sounds found in the Semitic and some other languages.
+
fibrine
a.
Belonging to the fibers of plants.
+
foxship
n.
Foxiness; craftiness.
+
fall
v.t.
To be dropped or uttered carelessly; as, an unguarded expression fell from his lips; not a murmur fell from him.
+
firstborn
a.
First brought forth; first in the order of nativity; eldest; hence, most excellent; most distinguished or exalted.
+
fillip
n.
A jerk of the finger forced suddenly from the thumb; a smart blow.
+
fang
v.t.
The valve of a pump box.
+
footed
a.
Having a foothold; established.
+
fringilla
a.
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.
+
face
v.t.
To cover with better, or better appearing, material than the mass consists of, for purpose of deception, as the surface of a box of tea, a barrel of sugar, etc.
+
flew
imp.
of Fly
+
fearing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fear
+
fangle
v.t.
Something new-fashioned; a foolish innovation; a gewgaw; a trifling ornament.
+
fermentative
a.
Causing, or having power to cause, fermentation; produced by fermentation; fermenting; as, a fermentative process.
+
fletcher
n.
One who fletches of feathers arrows; a manufacturer of bows and arrows.
+
funebrious
a.
Funebrial.
+
figure
n.
A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a musical or motive; a florid embellishment.
+
frock
n.
A coarse gown worn by monks or friars, and supposed to take the place of all, or nearly all, other garments. It has a hood which can be drawn over the head at pleasure, and is girded by a cord.
+
frolicky
a.
Frolicsome.
+
favor
n.
The act of countenancing, or the condition of being countenanced, or regarded propitiously; support; promotion; befriending.
+
flustration
n.
The act of flustrating; confusion; flurry.
+
faldfee
n.
A fee or rent paid by a tenant for the privilege of faldage on his own ground.
+
fixity
n.
Coherence of parts.
+
falconer
n.
A person who breeds or trains hawks for taking birds or game; one who follows the sport of fowling with hawks.
+
faitour
n.
A doer or actor; particularly, an evil doer; a scoundrel.
+
frontate
a.
Alt. of Fron'tated
+
fritted
imp.|p.p.
of Frit
+
flawless
a.
Free from flaws.
+
fiddle
n.
A kind of dock (Rumex pulcher) with fiddle-shaped leaves; -- called also fiddle dock.
+
foreshot
n.
In distillation of low wines, the first portion of spirit that comes over, being a fluid abounding in fusel oil.
+
firebrand
n.
A piece of burning wood.
+
ferrate
n.
A salt of ferric acid.
+
fere
n.
Fear.
+
found
imp.|p.p.
of Find
+
foisted
imp.|p.p.
of Foist
+
fiaunt
n.
Commission; fiat; order; decree.
+
foreignness
n.
The quality of being foreign; remoteness; want of relation or appropriateness.
+
finish
n.
Completion; -- opposed to start, or beginning.
+
fructiculose
a.
Fruitful; full of fruit.
+
flagellum
v.t.
A lashlike appendage of a crustacean, esp. the terminal ortion of the antennae and the epipodite of the maxilipeds. See Maxilliped.
+
fault
n.
In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam; as, slate fault, dirt fault, etc.
+
flame
n.
A person beloved; a sweetheart.
+
fusible
v.t.
CapabIe of being melted or liquefied.
+
factoring
n.
The act of resolving into factors.
+
foreigner
n.
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.
+
fat
n.
A measure of quantity, differing for different commodities.
+
frisky
a.
Inclined to frisk; frolicsome; gay.
+
function
n.
The course of action which peculiarly pertains to any public officer in church or state; the activity appropriate to any business or profession.
+
follower
n.
The removable flange, or cover, of a piston. See Illust. of Piston.
+
figure
n.
To embellish with design; to adorn with figures.
+
flared
imp.|p.p.
of Flare
+
furore
n.
Excitement; commotion; enthusiasm.
+
feed
v.i.
To take food; to eat.
+
flogger
n.
One who flogs.
+
flocculate
a.
Furnished with tufts of curly hairs, as some insects.
+
flunk
v.t.
To fail in; to shirk, as a task or duty.
+
falding
n.
A frieze or rough-napped cloth.
+
foiling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Foil
+
frozenness
n.
A state of being frozen.
+
fly
v.i.
To move in or pass thorugh the air with wings, as a bird.
+
fraction
n.
A portion; a fragment.
+
fourpence
n.
A British silver coin, worth four pence; a groat.
+
flogged
imp.|p.p.
of Flog
+
foster
v.i.
To be nourished or trained up together.
+
forenight
n.
The evening between twilight and bedtime.
+
freckle
v.t.
A small yellowish or brownish spot in the skin, particularly on the face, neck, or hands.
+
funding
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fund
+
foremost
a.
First in time or place; most advanced; chief in rank or dignity; as, the foremost troops of an army.
+
finding
n.
That which is found, come upon, or provided; esp. (pl.), that which a journeyman artisan finds or provides for himself; as tools, trimmings, etc.
+
frigate
n.
Any small vessel on the water.
+
falsify
a.
To violate; to break by falsehood; as, to falsify one's faith or word.
+
floatingly
adv.
In a floating manner.
+
fee
n.
property; possession; tenure.
+
flag
v.t.
To lay with flags of flat stones.
+
fawn
a.
Of the color of a fawn; fawn-colored.
+
flimsy
n.
A bank note.
+
flat
n.
A level tract lying at little depth below the surface of water, or alternately covered and left bare by the tide; a shoal; a shallow; a strand.
+
fold
n.
A flock of sheep; figuratively, the Church or a church; as, Christ's fold.
+
fostering
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Foster
+
flagellate
a.
Flagelliform.
+
fidget
n.
A general nervous restlessness, manifested by incessant changes of position; dysphoria.
+
fermentability
n.
Capability of fermentation.
+
fruiter
a.
A ship for carrying fruit.
+
fid
n.
A square bar of wood or iron, used to support the topmast, being passed through a hole or mortise at its heel, and resting on the trestle trees.
+
fecifork
n.
The anal fork on which the larvae of certain insects carry their faeces.
+
fuff
v.t.|i.
To puff.
+
ferric
a.
Pertaining to, derived from, or containing iron. Specifically (Chem.), denoting those compounds in which iron has a higher valence than in the ferrous compounds; as, ferric oxide; ferric acid.
+
fotmal
n.
Seventy pounds of lead.
+
filtering
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Filter
+
fraternities
pl.
of Fraternity
+
fernticle
n.
A freckle on the skin, resembling the seed of fern.
+
falsities
pl.
of Falsity
+
formalist
n.
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.
+
famishing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Famish
+
fatality
n.
The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.
+
fancies
pl.
of Fancy
+
fleet
v.t.
To hasten over; to cause to pass away lighty, or in mirth and joy.
+
fid
n.
A pin of hard wood, tapering to a point, used to open the strands of a rope in splicing.
+
featherheeled
a.
Light-heeled; gay; frisky; frolicsome.
+
fascinous
a.
Caused or acting by witchcraft.
+
flirt
v.t.
To throw with a jerk or quick effort; to fling suddenly; as, they flirt water in each other's faces; he flirted a glove, or a handkerchief.
+
flyboat
n.
A large Dutch coasting vessel.
+
fall
v.t.
To diminish; to lessen or lower.
+
fourwheeler
n.
A vehicle having four wheels.
+
frapler
n.
A blusterer; a rowdy.
+
find
v.t.
To provide for; to supply; to furnish; as, to find food for workemen; he finds his nephew in money.
+
forasmuch
conj.
In consideration that; seeing that; since; because that; -- followed by as. See under For, prep.
+
fireman
n.
A man who tends the fires, as of a steam engine; a stocker.
+
forejudger
n.
A judgment by which one is deprived or put of a right or thing in question.
+
fy
interj.
A word which expresses blame, dislike, disapprobation, abhorrence, or contempt. See Fie.
+
floridness
n.
The quality of being florid.
+
frank
n.
Liberal; generous; profuse.
+
fallopian
a.
Pertaining to, or discovered by, Fallopius; as, the Fallopian tubes or oviducts, the ducts or canals which conduct the ova from the ovaries to the uterus.
+
flit
v.i.
To remove from one place or habitation to another.
+
fourchette
n.
An instrument used to raise and support the tongue during the cutting of the fraenum.
+
flagship
n.
The vessel which carries the commanding officer of a fleet or squadron and flies his distinctive flag or pennant.
+
fickleness
n.
The quality of being fickle; instability; inconsonancy.
+
formula
n.
A rule or principle expressed in algebraic language; as, the binominal formula.
+
forming
n.
The act or process of giving form or shape to anything; as, in shipbuilding, the exact shaping of partially shaped timbers.
+
frizz
v.t.|n.
See Friz, v. t. & n.
+
flinching
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Flinch
+
feriation
n.
The act of keeping holiday; cessation from work.
+
flail
n.
An ancient military weapon, like the common flail, often having the striking part armed with rows of spikes, or loaded.
+
foreshadow
v.t.
To shadow or typi/y beforehand; to prefigure.
+
forthright
adv.
Straight forward; in a straight direction.
+
formule
n.
A set or prescribed model; a formula.
+
followed
imp.|p.p.
of Follow
+
following
n.
Vocation; business; profession.
+
ferular
n.
A ferule.
+
fossilized
a.
Converted into a fossil; antiquated; firmly fixed in views or opinions.
+
feel
v.t.
To touch; to handle; to examine by touching; as, feel this piece of silk; hence, to make trial of; to test; often with out.
+
fringe
n.
The peristome or fringelike appendage of the capsules of most mosses. See Peristome.
+
fabric
n.
Framework; structure; edifice; building.
+
fullhot
a.
Very fiery.
+
feruling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Ferule
+
flaw
n.
A crack or breach; a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion; as, a flaw in a knife or a vase.
+
fricandeau
n.
Alt. of Fricando
+
folklore

Alt. of Folk lore
+
falter
v.t.
To utter with hesitation, or in a broken, trembling, or weak manner.
+
fleabite
n.
A trifling wound or pain, like that of the bite of a flea.
+
firefish
n.
A singular marine fish of the genus Pterois, family Scorpaenidae, of several species, inhabiting the Indo-Pacific region. They are usually red, and have very large spinose pectoral and dorsal fins.
+
feather
v.t.
To tread, as a cock.
+
flambeaus
pl.
of Flambeau
+
foreshortening
n.
Representation in a foreshortened mode or way.
+
faded
imp.|p.p.
of Fade
+
fatalness
n.
Quality of being fatal.
+
forementioned
a.
Mentioned before; already cited; aforementioned.
+
fragmental
n.
A fragmentary rock.
+
flowingly
adv.
In a flowing manner.
+
fortresses
pl.
of Fortress
+
farthing
n.
The fourth of a penny; a small copper coin of Great Britain, being a cent in United States currency.
+
flagrantly
adv.
In a flagrant manner.
+
fullhearted
a.
Full of courage or confidence.
+
frictionless
a.
Having no friction.
+
flatware
n.
Articles for the table, as china or silverware, that are more or less flat, as distinguished from hollow ware.
+
favorite
n.
A person or thing regarded with peculiar favor; one treated with partiality; one preferred above others; especially, one unduly loved, trusted, and enriched with favors by a person of high rank or authority.
+
florentine
n.
A kind of pudding or tart; a kind of meat pie.
+
febrifuge
a.
Antifebrile.
+
fele
a.
Many.
+
flummery
n.
A light kind of food, formerly made of flour or meal; a sort of pap.
+
februation
n.
Purification; a sacrifice.
+
frizzing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Friz
+
forum
n.
A market place or public place in Rome, where causes were judicially tried, and orations delivered to the people.
+
ferment
n.
That which causes fermentation, as yeast, barm, or fermenting beer.
+
flashy
a.
Fiery; vehement; impetuous.
+
fomentation
n.
The lotion applied to a diseased part.
+
forester
n.
An inhabitant of a forest.
+
foci
pl.
of Focus
+
foster
n.
A forester.
+
flood
v.i.
A great flow or stream of any fluid substance; as, a flood of light; a flood of lava; hence, a great quantity widely diffused; an overflowing; a superabundance; as, a flood of bank notes; a flood of paper currency.
+
forlie
v.i.
See Forelie.
+
fenestral
a.
Of or pertaining to a fenestra.
+
flue
n.
A pipe or passage for conveying flame and hot gases through surrounding water in a boiler; -- distinguished from a tube which holds water and is surrounded by fire. Small flues are called fire tubes or simply tubes.
+
flux
n.
The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream; constant succession; change.
+
frondent
a.
Covered with leaves; leafy; as, a frondent tree.
+
fellowshiping
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fellowship
+
frigefaction
n.
The act of making cold. [Obs.] 
+
fulcrum
n.
That by which a lever is sustained, or about which it turns in lifting or moving a body.
+
foliation
n.
The enrichment of an opening by means of foils, arranged in trefoils, quatrefoils, etc.; also, one of the ornaments. See Tracery.
+
furious
a.
Rushing with impetuosity; moving with violence; as, a furious stream; a furious wind or storm.
+
flunking
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Flunk
+
fuldble
a.
Capable of being propped up.
+
flaneur
n.
One who strolls about aimlessly; a lounger; a loafer.
+
fumble
v.i.
To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly; as, to fumble for an excuse.
+
fumigate
n.
To apply smoke to; to expose to smoke or vapor; to purify, or free from infection, by the use of smoke or vapors.
+
facetiae
n.pl.
Witty or humorous writings or saying; witticisms; merry conceits.
+
fifer
n.
One who plays on a fife.
+
female
a.
Belonging to an individual of the female sex; characteristic of woman; feminine; as, female tenderness.
+
fur
v.t.
To cover with morbid matter, as the tongue.
+
fall
v.t.
To become prostrate and dead; to die; especially, to die by violence, as in battle.
+
footpace
n.
A dais, or elevated platform; the highest step of the altar; a landing in a staircase.
+
frothy
superl.
Of the nature of froth; light; empty; unsubstantial; as, a frothy speaker or harangue.
+
finitude
n.
Limitation.
+
fancy
v.i.
To love.
+
fossil
n.
The remains of an animal or plant found in stratified rocks. Most fossils belong to extinct species, but many of the later ones belong to species still living.
+
flammeous
a.
Pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling, flame.
+
fortitude
n.
That strength or firmness of mind which enables a person to encounter danger with coolness and courage, or to bear pain or adversity without murmuring, depression, or despondency; passive courage; resolute endurance; firmness in confronting or bearing up against danger or enduring trouble.
+
feudalized
imp.|p.p.
of Feudalize
+
fungology
n.
Mycology.
+
fluid
a.
Having particles which easily move and change their relative position without a separation of the mass, and which easily yield to pressure; capable of flowing; liquid or gaseous.
+
focus
n.
A central point; a point of concentration.
+
flirtgill
n.
A woman of light behavior; a gill-flirt.
+
figured
a.
Free and florid; as, a figured descant. See Figurate, 3.
+
facing
n.
The finishing of any face of a wall with material different from that of which it is chiefly composed, or the coating or material so used.
+
fricassee
n.
A dish made of fowls, veal, or other meat of small animals cut into pieces, and stewed in a gravy.
+
fillet
n.
A fascia; a band of fibers; applied esp. to certain bands of white matter in the brain.
+
fishing
n.
The act, practice, or art of one who fishes.
+
fever
n.
Excessive excitement of the passions in consequence of strong emotion; a condition of great excitement; as, this quarrel has set my blood in a fever.
+
fusiform
a.
Shaped like a spindle; tapering at each end; as, a fusiform root; a fusiform cell.
+
flocculated
imp.|p.p.
of Flocculate
+
flexure
n.
A turn; a bend; a fold; a curve.
+
friday
n.
The sixth day of the week, following Thursday and preceding Saturday.
+
fluocerine
n.
Alt. of Fluocerite
+
feed
v.i.
To be nourished, strengthened, or satisfied, as if by food.
+
faience
n.
Glazed earthenware; esp., that which is decorated in color.
+
forme
a.
First.
+
fancy
v.t.
To believe without sufficient evidence; to imagine (something which is unreal).
+
frequency
n.
The condition of returning frequently; occurrence often repeated; common occurence; as, the frequency of crimes; the frequency of miracles.
+
freightless
a.
Destitute of freight.
+
frorn
p.a.
Frozen.
+
frumentarious
a.
Of or pertaining to wheat or grain.
+
flapdragon
n.
The thing thus caught and eaten.
+
fade
a.
To become fade; to grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.
+
fellowcommoner
n.
A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table.
+
funded
a.
Existing in the form of bonds bearing regular interest; as, funded debt.
+
fleeceless
a.
Without a fleece.
+
flag
n.
A cloth usually bearing a device or devices and used to indicate nationality, party, etc., or to give or ask information; -- commonly attached to a staff to be waved by the wind; a standard; a banner; an ensign; the colors; as, the national flag; a military or a naval flag.
+
fenny
a.
Pertaining to, or inhabiting, a fen; abounding in fens; swampy; boggy.
+
flagrant
a.
Flaming into notice; notorious; enormous; heinous; glaringly wicked.
+
fan
n.
An instrument for cooling the person, made of feathers, paper, silk, etc., and often mounted on sticks all turning about the same pivot, so as when opened to radiate from the center and assume the figure of a section of a circle.
+
finger
n.
Anything that does work of a finger; as, the pointer of a clock, watch, or other registering machine; especially (Mech.) a small projecting rod, wire, or piece, which is brought into contact with an object to effect, direct, or restrain a motion.
+
freight
n.
The sum paid by a party hiring a ship or part of a ship for the use of what is thus hired.
+
forewiting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Forewite
+
flytrap
n.
A trap for catching flies.
+
facilitation
n.
The act of facilitating or making easy.
+
fathom
v.t.
To encompass with the arms extended or encircling; to measure by throwing the arms about; to span.
+
forgetful
a.
Apt to forget; easily losing remembrance; as, a forgetful man should use helps to strengthen his memory.
+
fling
n.
A trifing matter; an object of contempt.
+
fluffy
superl.
Pertaining to, or resembling, fluff or nap; soft and downy.
+
fluorescence
n.
That property which some transparent bodies have of producing at their surface, or within their substance, light different in color from the mass of the material, as when green crystals of fluor spar afford blue reflections. It is due not to the difference in the color of a distinct surface layer, but to the power which the substance has of modifying the light incident upon it. The light emitted by fluorescent substances is in general of lower refrangibility than the incident light.
+
form
v.i.
To take a form, definite shape, or arrangement; as, the infantry should form in column.
+
flaggy
a.
Weak; flexible; limber.
+
free
superl.
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.
+
fray
v.t.
To rub; to wear off, or wear into shreds, by rubbing; to fret, as cloth; as, a deer is said to fray her head.
+
fluoboric
a.
Pertaining to, derived from, or consisting of, fluorine and boron.
+
foodless
a.
Without food; barren.
+
fugacious
a.
Fleeting; lasting but a short time; -- applied particularly to organs or parts which are short-lived as compared with the life of the individual.
+
fint

3d pers. sing. pr. of Find, for findeth.
+
fallow
n.
Land that has lain a year or more untilled or unseeded; land plowed without being sowed for the season.
+
foul
superl.
Hateful; detestable; shameful; odious; wretched.
+
frothy
superl.
Not firm or solid; soft; unstable.
+
flexing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Flex
+
flash
n.
To strike and throw up large bodies of water from the surface; to splash.
+
fistula
n.
A pipe for convejing water.
+
fandango
n.
A lively dance, in 3-8 or 6-8 time, much practiced in Spain and Spanish America. Also, the tune to which it is danced.
+
forecited
a.
Cited or quoted before or above.
+
flotson
n.
Goods lost by shipwreck, and floating on the sea; -- in distinction from jetsam or jetson.
+
face
n.
Outside appearance; surface show; look; external aspect, whether natural, assumed, or acquired.
+
flash
a.
Showy, but counterfeit; cheap, pretentious, and vulgar; as, flash jewelry; flash finery.
+
fritter
v.t.
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.
+
forerecited
a.
Named or recited before.
+
familiary
a.
Of or pertaining to a family or household; domestic.
+
faubourg
n.
A suburb of French city; also, a district now within a city, but formerly without its walls.
+
festoon
n.
A garland or wreath hanging in a depending curve, used in decoration for festivals, etc.; anything arranged in this way.
+
fleshhood
n.
The state or condition of having a form of flesh; incarnation.
+
footstool
n.
A low stool to support the feet of one when sitting.
+
flurry
n.
A sudden and brief blast or gust; a light, temporary breeze; as, a flurry of wind.
+
fission
n.
A process by which certain coral polyps, echinoderms, annelids, etc., spontaneously subdivide, each individual thus forming two or more new ones. See Strobilation.
+
flobert
n.
A small cartridge designed for target shooting; -- sometimes called ball cap.
+
four
n.
A symbol representing four units, as 4 or iv.
+
float
v.i.
A float board. See Float board (below).
+
form
n.
To derive by grammatical rules, as by adding the proper suffixes and affixes.
+
foible
n.
The half of a sword blade or foil blade nearest the point; -- opposed to forte.
+
filter
n.
Any porous substance, as cloth, paper, sand, or charcoal, through which water or other liquid may passed to cleanse it from the solid or impure matter held in suspension; a chamber or device containing such substance; a strainer; also, a similar device for purifying air.
+
fenestrate
a.
Having transparent spots, as the wings of certain butterflies.
+
foreknowable
a.
That may be foreknown.
+
foot
n.
A measure of length equivalent to twelve inches; one third of a yard. See Yard.
+
flowerykirtled
a.
Dressed with garlands of flowers.
+
foraminiferous
a.
Pertaining to, or composed of, Foraminifera; as, foraminiferous mud.
+
fere
a.
Fierce.
+
fierce
superl.
Furious; violent; unrestrained; impetuous; as, a fierce wind.
+
fuero
n.
A declaration by a magistrate.
+
flavored
imp.|p.p.
of Flavor
+
fides
n.
Faith personified as a goddess; the goddess of faith.
+
foule
adv.
Foully.
+
fungosity
n.
The quality of that which is fungous; fungous excrescence.
+
fourth
a.
Forming one of four equal parts into which anything may be divided.
+
flitter
v.i.
A rag; a tatter; a small piece or fragment.
+
fought
imp.|p.p.
of Fight
+
foolify
v.t.
To make a fool of; to befool.
+
forked
a.
Formed into a forklike shape; having a fork; dividing into two or more prongs or branches; furcated; bifurcated; zigzag; as, the forked lighting.
+
farm
v.i.
To engage in the business of tilling the soil; to labor as a farmer.
+
fruit
v.t.
The ripened ovary of a flowering plant, with its contents and whatever parts are consolidated with it.
+
fairminded
a.
Unprejudiced; just; judicial; honest.
+
fibrinogen
n.
An albuminous substance existing in the blood, and in other animal fluids, which either alone or with fibrinoplastin or paraglobulin forms fibrin, and thus causes coagulation.
+
flare
n.
A spreading outward; as, the flare of a fireplace.
+
feeder
n.
A branch railroad, stage line, or the like; a side line which increases the business of the main line.
+
fenestral
a.
Pertaining to a window or to windows.
+
freieslebenite
n.
A sulphide of antimony, lead, and silver, occuring in monoclinic crystals.
+
fleerer
n.
One who fleers.
+
for
prep.
Indicating the antecedent cause or occasion of an action; the motive or inducement accompanying and prompting to an act or state; the reason of anything; that on account of which a thing is or is done.
+
farm
a.|n.
The land held under lease and by payment of rent for the purpose of cultivation.
+
flatfish
n.
Any fish of the family Pleuronectidae; esp., the winter flounder (Pleuronectes Americanus). The flatfishes have the body flattened, swim on the side, and have eyes on one side, as the flounder, turbot, and halibut. See Flounder.
+
floreal
n.
The eight month of the French republican calendar. It began April 20, and ended May 19. See Vendemiare.
+
fridstol
n.
Alt. of Frithstool
+
fumishness
n.
Choler; fretfulness; passion.
+
fiddledeedee
interj.
An exclamatory word or phrase, equivalent to nonsense!
+
fluorescin
n.
A colorless, amorphous substance which is produced by the reduction of fluorescein, and from which the latter may be formed by oxidation.
+
file
v.t.
To bring before a court or legislative body by presenting proper papers in a regular way; as, to file a petition or bill.
+
febrifacient
a.
Febrific.
+
filicoid
a.
Fernlike, either in form or in the nature of the method of reproduction.
+
furzechat
n.
The whinchat; -- called also furzechuck.
+
falcongentil
n.
The female or young of the goshawk (Astur palumbarius).
+
forfeit
v.i.
To be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to transgress.
+
fossil
n.
A substance dug from the earth.
+
flat
n.
A dull fellow; a simpleton; a numskull.
+
frantic
a.
Mad; raving; furious; violent; wild and disorderly; distracted.
+
flagging
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Flag
+
forlornness
n.
State of being forlorn.
+
feral
a.
Wild; untamed; ferine; not domesticated; -- said of beasts, birds, and plants.
+
furial
a.
Furious; raging; tormenting.
+
farrago
n.
A mass composed of various materials confusedly mixed; a medley; a mixture.
+
foggage
n.
See 1st Fog.
+
flower
v.i.
To blossom; to bloom; to expand the petals, as a plant; to produce flowers; as, this plant flowers in June.
+
fancyfree
a.
Free from the power of love.
+
fathomer
n.
One who fathoms.
+
fissipalmate
a.
Semipalmate and loboped, as a grebe's foot. See Illust. under Aves.
+
fetation
n.
The formation of a fetus in the womb; pregnancy.
+
fulsome
a.
Lustful; wanton; obscene; also, tending to obscenity.
+
forereach
v.t.
To advance or gain upon; -- said of a vessel that gains upon another when sailing closehauled.
+
free
superl.
Privileged or individual; the opposite of common; as, a free fishery; a free warren.
+
face
n.
The exact amount expressed on a bill, note, bond, or other mercantile paper, without any addition for interest or reduction for discount.
+
flautist
n.
A player on the flute; a flutist.
+
fibrolite
n.
A silicate of alumina, of fibrous or columnar structure. It is like andalusite in composition; -- called also sillimanite, and bucholizite.
+
fatigue
n.
The cause of weariness; labor; toil; as, the fatigues of war.
+
flipping
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Flip
+
ferruminate
v.t.
To solder or unite, as metals.
+
funiculi
pl.
of Funiculus
+
furlough
v.t.
To furnish with a furlough; to grant leave of absence to, as to an offcer or soldier.
+
flush
v.t.
To cause to start, as a hunter a bird.
+
farmstead
n.
A farm with the building upon it; a homestead on a farm.
+
fertile
a.
Producing fruit or vegetation in abundance; fruitful; able to produce abundantly; prolific; fecund; productive; rich; inventive; as, fertile land or fields; a fertile mind or imagination.
+
flatten
a.
To throw down; to bring to the ground; to prostrate; hence, to depress; to deject; to dispirit.
+
funiculus
n.
A short cord which connects the embryo of some myriapods with the amnion.
+
favonian
a.
Pertaining to the west wind; soft; mild; gentle.
+
frimaire
n.
The third month of the French republican calendar. It commenced November 21, and ended December 20., See Vendemiaire.
+
fill
a.
To make full; to supply with as much as can be held or contained; to put or pour into, till no more can be received; to occupy the whole capacity of.
+
famish
v.t.
To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to distress with hanger.
+
furuncle
n.
A superficial, inflammatory tumor, suppurating with a central core; a boil.
+
fetch
v.t.
To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
+
footmark
n.
A footprint; a track or vestige.
+
forgetting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Forget
+
floss
n.
A small stream of water.
+
foresail
n.
The gaff sail set on the foremast of a schooner.
+
finance
n.
The income of a ruler or of a state; revennue; public money; sometimes, the income of an individual; often used in the plural for funds; available money; resources.
+
farctate
v.t.
Stuffed; filled solid; as, a farctate leaf, stem, or pericarp; -- opposed to tubular or hollow.
+
fordo
v.i.
To overcome with fatigue; to exhaust.
+
fora
pl.
of Forum
+
fiche
a.
See FitchE.
+
femalize
v.t.
To make, or to describe as, female or feminine.
+
feodary
n.
An accomplice.
+
fulminating
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fulminate
+
forerank
n.
The first rank; the front.
+
floured
imp.|p.p.
of Flour
+
fetwah
n.
A written decision of a Turkish mufti on some point of law.
+
fight
v.i.
To strive or contend for victory, with armies or in single combat; to attempt to defeat, subdue, or destroy an enemy, either by blows or weapons; to contend in arms; -- followed by with or against.
+
foxhound
n.
One of a special breed of hounds used for chasing foxes.
+
fence
n.
A receiver of stolen goods, or a place where they are received.
+
fashionable
a.
Conforming to the fashion or established mode; according with the prevailing form or style; as, a fashionable dress.
+
foollarge
a.
Foolishly liberal.
+
fair
superl.
Pleasing to the eye; handsome; beautiful.
+
fructescence
n.
The maturing or ripening of fruit.
+
faultful
a.
Full of faults or sins.
+
fornication
n.
Idolatry.
+
forwete
v.t.
See Forewite.
+
farreation
n.
Same as Confarreation.
+
frustule
n.
The siliceous shell of a diatom. It is composed of two valves, one overlapping the other, like a pill box and its cover.
+
flatus
n.
Wind or gas generated in the stomach or other cavities of the body.
+
flasher
n.
One who, or that which, flashes.
+
ferforth
adv.
Far forth.
+
fantasticality
n.
Fantastically.
+
ferrule
n.
A ring or cap of metal put round a cane, tool, handle, or other similar object, to strengthen it, or prevent splitting and wearing.
+
ferrotype
n.
A photographic picture taken on an iron plate by a collodion process; -- familiarly called tintype.
+
flame
n.
A stream of burning vapor or gas, emitting light and heat; darting or streaming fire; a blaze; a fire.
+
fibula
n.
A brooch, clasp, or buckle.
+
flatter
v.t.
To portray too favorably; to give a too favorable idea of; as, his portrait flatters him.
+
flycatching
a.
Having the habit of catching insects on the wing.
+
fearfully
adv.
In a fearful manner.
+
fading
n.
Loss of color, freshness, or vigor.
+
flauto
n.
A flute.
+
fairway
n.
The navigable part of a river, bay, etc., through which vessels enter or depart; the part of a harbor or channel ehich is kept open and unobstructed for the passage of vessels.
+
federal
a.
Consisting or pertaining to such a government; as, the Federal Constitution; a Federal officer.
+
faying
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fay
+
feaberry
n.
A gooseberry.
+
fondon
n.
A large copper vessel used for hot amalgamation.
+
flounder
n.
A flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae, of many species.
+
franklinic
a.
Of or pertaining to Benjamin Franklin.
+
fond
superl.
Loving; much pleased; affectionately regardful, indulgent, or desirous; longing or yearning; --  followed by of (formerly also by on).
+
foregone
p.p.
of Forego
+
family
v.t.
The group comprising a husband and wife and their dependent children, constituting a fundamental unit in the organization of society.
+
flippant
n.
A flippant person.
+
fumlly
adv.
Smokily; with fume.
+
fester
n.
A small sore which becomes inflamed and discharges corrupt matter; a pustule.
+
faille
n.
A soft silk, heavier than a foulard and not glossy.
+
fee
n.
An estate of inheritance belonging to the owner, and transmissible to his heirs, absolutely and simply, without condition attached to the tenure.
+
flocculating
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Flocculate
+
fry
v.i.
To undergo or cause a disturbing action accompanied with a sensation of heat.
+
frenetir
a.
Distracted; mad; frantic; phrenetic.
+
front
v.t.
To appear before; to meet.
+
fund
v.t.
To place in a fund, as money.
+
futile
v.t.
Talkative; loquacious; tattling.
+
fluophosphate
n.
A double salt of fluoric and phosphoric acids.
+
fuel
n.
Any matter used to produce heat by burning; that which feeds fire; combustible matter used for fires, as wood, coal, peat, etc.
+
fresh
superl
Not salt; as, fresh water, in distinction from that which is from the sea, or brackish; fresh meat, in distinction from that which is pickled or salted.
+
fleece
v.t.
To deprive of a fleece, or natural covering of wool.
+
freckly
a.
Full of or marked with freckles; sprinkled with spots; freckled.
+
faring
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fare
+
football
n.
An inflated ball to be kicked in sport, usually made in India rubber, or a bladder incased in Leather.
+
fungologist
n.
A mycologist.
+
flux
n.
The quantity of a fluid that crosses a unit area of a given surface in a unit of time.
+
fork
n.
The gibbet.
+
flock
v.i.
To gather in companies or crowds.
+
fabulous
a.
Passing belief; exceedingly great; as, a fabulous price.
+
following
n.
One's followers, adherents, or dependents, collectively.
+
fitter
n.
One who tries on, and adjusts, articles of dress.
+
fall
v.t.
To sink; to languish; to become feeble or faint; as, our spirits rise and fall with our fortunes.
+
fayalite
n.
A black, greenish, or brownish mineral of the chrysolite group. It is a silicate of iron.
+
fire
v.t.
To set on fire; to kindle; as, to fire a house or chimney; to fire a pile.
+
functionally
adv.
In a functional manner; as regards normal or appropriate activity.
+
fall
n.
The act of dropping or tumbling from an erect posture; as, he was walking on ice, and had a fall.
+
fiar
n.
One in whom the property of an estate is vested, subject to the estate of a life renter.
+
fourteen
n.
A symbol representing fourteen, as 14 or xiv.
+
feasted
imp.|p.p.
of Feast
+
frailly
adv.
Weakly; infirmly.
+
fashioned
imp.|p.p.
of Fashion
+
foolishness
n.
A foolish practice; an absurdity.
+
filical
a.
Belonging to the Filices, r ferns.
+
faller
n.
One who, or that which, falls.
+
fishhook
n.
A hook with a pendant, to the end of which the fish-tackle is hooked.
+
frapped
imp.|p.p.
of Frap
+
functionary
n.
One charged with the performance of a function or office; as, a public functionary; secular functionaries.
+
fard
v.t.
To paint; -- said esp. of one's face.
+
fanner
n.
A fan wheel; a fan blower. See under Fan.
+
fill
v.i.
To fill a cup or glass for drinking.
+
flood
v.i.
A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land not usually thus covered; a deluge; a freshet; an inundation.
+
founded
imp.|p.p.
of Found
+
figure
n.
The form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term.
+
flavor
n.
That which imparts to anything a peculiar odor or taste, gratifying to the sense of smell, or the nicer perceptions of the palate; a substance which flavors.
+
faser
n.
One who faces; one who puts on a false show; a bold-faced person.
+
fed
imp.|p.p.
of Feed
+
fell
n.
A barren or rocky hill.
+
fit
n.
The coincidence of parts that come in contact.
+
felony
n.
A heinous crime; especially, a crime punishable by death or imprisonment.
+
farinose
a.
Civered with a sort of white, mealy powder, as the leaves of some poplars, and the body of certain insects; mealy.
+
forging
n.
The act of counterfeiting.
+
futurition
n.
The state of being future; futurity.
+
fine
a.
To make fine; to refine; to purify, to clarify; as, to fine gold.
+
fugacity
a.
Uncertainty; instability.
+
feverish
a.
Indicating, or pertaining to, fever; characteristic of a fever; as, feverish symptoms.
+
flaundrish
a.
Flemish.
+
fair
v.t.
To make fair or beautiful.
+
fotive
a.
Nourishing.
+
fumigatory
a.
Having the quality of purifying by smoke.
+
favorable
n.
Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly.
+
franc
a.
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.
+
filtration
n.
The act or process of filtering; the mechanical separation of a liquid from the undissolved particles floating in it.
+
furring
v.t.
Double planking of a ship's side.
+
felspathic
a.
See Feldspathic.
+
flurry
n.
A light shower or snowfall accompanied with wind.
+
forgive
v.t.
To cease to feel resentment against, on account of wrong committed; to give up claim to requital from or retribution upon (an offender); to absolve; to pardon; -- said of the person offending.
+
functionaries
pl.
of Functionary
+
friese
n.
Same as Friesic, n.
+
finestiller
n.
One who finestills.
+
fellon
n.
Variant of Felon.
+
foolahs
n.pl.
A peculiar African race of uncertain origin, but distinct from the negro tribes, inhabiting an extensive region of Western Soudan. Their color is brown or yellowish bronze. They are Mohammedans. Called also Fellatahs, Foulahs, and Fellani. Fulah is also used adjectively; as, Fulah empire, tribes, language.
+
failure
n.
Want of success; the state of having failed.
+
feculence
n.
The state or quality of being feculent; muddiness; foulness.
+
full
compar.
Filled with emotions.
+
frigidly
adv.
In a frigid manner; coldly; dully; without affection.
+
faintling
a.
Timorous; feeble-minded.
+
fatality
n.
That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event.
+
fireback
n.
One of several species of pheasants of the genus Euplocamus, having the lower back a bright, fiery red. They inhabit Southern Asia and the East Indies.
+
farthest
superl.
Most distant or remote; as, the farthest degree.  See Furthest.
+
frustrate
v.t.
To make null; to nullifly; to render invalid or of no effect; as, to frustrate a conveyance or deed.
+
frustum
n.
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.
+
find
v.t.
To gain, as the object of desire or effort; as, to find leisure; to find means.
+
fourneau
n.
The chamber of a mine in which the powder is placed.
+
fade
a.
Weak; insipid; tasteless; commonplace.
+
front
v.t.
To adorn in front; to supply a front to; as, to front a house with marble; to front a head with laurel.
+
felter
v.t.
To clot or mat together like felt.
+
fraternizing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fraternize
+
fool
n.
One who counterfeits folly; a professional jester or buffoon; a retainer formerly kept to make sport, dressed fantastically in motley, with ridiculous accouterments.
+
fluorene
n.
A colorless, crystalline hydrocarbon, C13H10 having a beautiful violet fluorescence; whence its name. It occurs in the higher boiling products of coal tar, and is obtained artificially.
+
fother
v.t.
To stop (a leak in a ship at sea) by drawing under its bottom a thrummed sail, so that the pressure of the water may force it into the crack.
+
feel
v.t.
To take internal cognizance of; to be conscious of; to have an inward persuasion of.
+
fresco
a.
A painting on plaster in either of senses a and b.
+
fan
n.
To cool and refresh, by moving the air with a fan; to blow the air on the face of with a fan.
+
feeler
n.
One who, or that which, feels.
+
frett
n.
The worn side of the bank of a river. See 4th Fret, n., 4.
+
financiered
imp.|p.p.
of Financier
+
fullmart
n.
See Foumart.
+
fuero
n.
The jurisdiction of a tribunal.
+
friended
a.
Inclined to love; well-disposed.
+
forelet
v.t.
See Forlet.
+
flammulated
a.
Of a reddish color.
+
formalities
pl.
of Formality
+
foreworn
a.
Worn out; wasted; used up.
+
flute
n.
A similar channel or groove made in wood or other material, esp. in plaited cloth, as in a lady's ruffle.
+
fardingbag
n.
The upper stomach of a cow, or other ruminant animal; the rumen.
+
ftiction
n.
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.
+
furbishable
a.
Capable of being furbished.
+
fructify
v.t.
To make fruitful; to render productive; to fertilize; as, to fructify the earth.
+
fretter
n.
One who, or that which, frets.
+
fazzolet
n.
A handkerchief.
+
fearsome
a.
Easily frightened; timid; timorous.
+
forenenst
prep.
Over against; opposite to.
+
frothing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Froth
+
fly
v.t.
To cause to fly or to float in the air, as a bird, a kite, a flag, etc.
+
frank
n.
Unbounded by restrictions, limitations, etc.; free.
+
fifed
imp.|p.p.
of Fife
+
factum
n.
The due execution of a will, including everything necessary to its validity.
+
firm
a.
To fix; to settle; to confirm; to establish.
+
federalism
n.
the principles of Federalists or of federal union.
+
formed
a.
Arranged, as stars in a constellation; as, formed stars.
+
forest
v.t.
To cover with trees or wood.
+
fish
n.
A counter, used in various games.
+
farantly
a.
Orderly; comely; respectable.
+
flyspeck
v.t.
To soil with flyspecks.
+
foh
interj.
An exclamation of abhorrence or contempt; poh; fle.
+
float
v.i.
A coal cart.
+
felsite
n.
A finegrained rock, flintlike in fracture, consisting essentially of orthoclase feldspar with occasional grains of quartz.
+
fusome
a.
Handy; reat; handsome; notable.
+
fagging
n.
Laborious drudgery; esp., the acting as a drudge for another at an English school.
+
form
n.
The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body.
+
firmless
a.
Detached from substance.
+
flawn
n.
A sort of flat custard or pie.
+
foliole
n.
One of the distinct parts of a compound leaf; a leaflet.
+
fraunhofer lines

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.
+
feodal
a.
Feudal. See Feudal.
+
foyer
n.
A lobby in a theater; a greenroom.
+
flamen
n.
A priest devoted to the service of a particular god, from whom he received a distinguishing epithet. The most honored were those of Jupiter, Mars, and Quirinus, called respectively Flamen Dialis, Flamen Martialis, and Flamen Quirinalis.
+
folwe
v.t.
To follow.
+
fine
superl.
Not gross; subtile; thin; tenous.
+
factored
imp.|p.p.
of Factor
+
fluted
a.
Thin; fine; clear and mellow; flutelike; as, fluted notes.
+
finesse
a.
Subtilty of contrivance to gain a point; artifice; stratagem.
+
flagrant
a.
Actually in preparation, execution, or performance; carried on hotly; raging.
+
fraught
a.
Freighted; laden; filled; stored; charged.
+
foxtail
n.
The last cinders obtained in the fining process.
+
forbruise
v.t.
To bruise sorely or exceedingly.
+
fool
n.
A person deficient in intellect; one who acts absurdly, or pursues a course contrary to the dictates of wisdom; one without judgment; a simpleton; a dolt.
+
fine
v.t.
To finish; to cease; or to cause to cease.
+
fasted
imp.|p.p.
of Fast
+
foreleader
n.
One who leads others by his example; aguide.
+
fastidiosity
n.
Fastidiousness; squeamishness.
+
fulminuric
a.
Pertaining to fulminic and cyanuric acids, and designating an acid so called.
+
floundered
imp.|p.p.
of Flounder
+
fleshings
n.pl.
Flesh-colored tights, worn by actors dancers.
+
frill
v.i.
To wrinkle; -- said of the gelatin film.
+
fructification
n.
The process of producing fruit, or seeds, or spores.
+
fit
n.
A passing humor; a caprice; a sudden and unusual effort, activity, or motion, followed by relaxation or insction; an impulse and irregular action.
+
fennec
n.
A small, African, foxlike animal (Vulpes zerda) of a pale fawn color, remarkable for the large size of its ears.
+
fellahs
pl.
of Fellah
+
forncast
p.p.
Predestined.
+
fertile
a.
Capable of producing fruit; fruit-bearing; as, fertile flowers.
+
flank
v.i.
To border; to touch.
+
fulfilled
imp.|p.p.
of Fulfill
+
farcing
n.
Stuffing; forcemeat.
+
ferrous
a.
Pertaining to, or derived from, iron; -- especially used of compounds of iron in which the iron has its lower valence; as, ferrous sulphate.
+
fluidrachm
n.
See Fluid dram, under Fluid.
+
foodful
a.
Full of food; supplying food; fruitful; fertile.
+
forehand
n.
The chief or most important part.
+
fungic
a.
Pertaining to, or obtained from, mushrooms; as, fungic acid.
+
filiciform
a.
Shaped like a fern or like the parts of a fern leaf.
+
folk
n.collect.|pl.
Alt. of Folks
+
fair
superl.
Free from spots, specks, dirt, or imperfection; unblemished; clean; pure.
+
flowering
a.
Having conspicuous flowers; -- used as an epithet with many names of plants; as, flowering ash; flowering dogwood; flowering almond, etc.
+
fashion
v.t.
To make according to the rule prescribed by custom.
+
frize
n.
See 1st Frieze.
+
fit
n.
The quality of being fit; adjustment; adaptedness; as of dress to the person of the wearer.
+
family
v.t.
A group of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoology a family is less comprehesive than an order; in botany it is often considered the same thing as an order.
+
feathered
a.
Clothed, covered, or fitted with (or as with) feathers or wings; as, a feathered animal; a feathered arrow.
+
feed
v.t.
To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle; as, if grain is too forward in autumn, feed it with sheep.
+
foumart
a.
The European polecat; -- called also European ferret, and fitchew. See Polecat.
+
fawn
n.
A servile cringe or bow; mean flattery; sycophancy.
+
fascial
a.
Pertaining to the fasces.
+
fustian
n.
An inflated style of writing; a kind of writing in which high-sounding words are used,' above the dignity of the thoughts or subject; bombast.
+
festivity
n.
The condition of being festive; social joy or exhilaration of spirits at an entertaintment; joyfulness; gayety.
+
fullblooded
a.
Of pure blood; thoroughbred; as, a full-blooded horse.
+
formulized
imp.|p.p.
of Formulize
+
flexor
n.
A muscle which bends or flexes any part; as, the flexors of the arm or the hand; -- opposed to extensor.
+
fautress
n.
A patroness.
+
flexuous
a.
Having turns, windings, or flexures.
+
foamy
a.
Covered with foam; frothy; spumy.
+
floatable
a.
That may be floated.
+
foot
v.t.
To set on foot; to establish; to land.
+
furciferous
a.
Rascally; scandalous.
+
flutter
v.t.
To vibrate or move quickly; as, a bird flutters its wings.
+
flag
v.t.
To let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness; as, to flag the wings.
+
flukan
n.
Flucan.
+
fraudulency
n.
The quality of being fraudulent; deliberate deceit; trickishness.
+
fog
v.t.
To envelop, as with fog; to befog; to overcast; to darken; to obscure.
+
formalize
v.t.
To render formal.
+
find
n.
Anything found; a discovery of anything valuable; especially, a deposit, discovered by archaeologists, of objects of prehistoric or unknown origin.
+
familism
n.
The tenets of the Familists.
+
follower
n.
One who follows; a pursuer; an attendant; a disciple; a dependent associate; a retainer.
+
frail
superl
Tender.
+
forgo
v.i.
To pass by; to leave. See 1st Forego.
+
forehand
a.
Done beforehand; anticipative.
+
fan
n.
A small vane or sail, used to keep the large sails of a smock windmill always in the direction of the wind.
+
formative
n.
That which serves merely to give form, and is no part of the radical, as the prefix or the termination of a word.
+
flouncing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Flounce
+
fraud
n.
A trap or snare.
+
fresh
n.
The mingling of fresh water with salt in rivers or bays, as by means of a flood of fresh water flowing toward or into the sea.
+
ferthe
a.
Fourth.
+
form
n.
That assemblage or disposition of qualities which makes a conception, or that internal constitution which makes an existing thing to be what it is; -- called essential or substantial form, and contradistinguished from matter; hence, active or formative nature; law of being or activity; subjectively viewed, an idea; objectively, a law.
+
fuss
n.
One who is unduly anxious about trifles.
+
famish
v.t.
To kill, or to cause to suffer extremity, by deprivation or denial of anything necessary.
+
flier
v.
A fly. See Fly, n., 9, and 13 (b).
+
foreknowledge
n.
Knowledge of a thing before it happens, or of whatever is to happen; prescience.
+
fume
v.t.
To praise inordinately; to flatter.
+
fabrication
n.
The act of fabricating, framing, or constructing; construction; manufacture; as, the fabrication of a bridge, a church, or a government.
+
forward
v.t.
To send forward; to send toward the place of destination; to transmit; as, to forward a letter.
+
fling
v.t.
To cast, send, to throw from the hand; to hurl; to dart; to emit with violence as if thrown from the hand; as, to fing a stone into the pond.
+
flavorous
a.
Imparting flavor; pleasant to the taste or smell; sapid.
+
forspent
a.
Wasted in strength; tired; exhausted.
+
festue
n.
A straw; a fescue.
+
forgiver
n.
One who forgives.
+
fugacy
n.
Banishment.
+
flyfish
n.
A California scorpaenoid fish (Sebastichthys rhodochloris), having brilliant colors.
+
formation
n.
The act of giving form or shape to anything; a forming; a shaping.
+
flightily
adv.
In a flighty manner.
+
fanaticize
v.t.
To cause to become a fanatic.
+
feuilltonist
n.
A writer of feuilletons.
+
flake
v.t.
To form into flakes.
+
fishy
a.
Consisting of fish; fishlike; having the qualities or taste of fish; abounding in fish.
+
folio
n.
A book made of sheets of paper each folded once (four pages to the sheet); hence, a book of the largest kind. See Note under Paper.
+
furry
a.
Covered with fur; dressed in fur.
+
florid
a.
Bright in color; flushed with red; of a lively reddish color; as, a florid countenance.
+
flutter
v.t.
To drive in disorder; to throw into confusion.
+
fishy
a.
Extravagant, like some stories about catching fish; improbable; also, rank or foul.
+
flashed
imp.|p.p.
of Flash
+
field
v.i.
To take the field.
+
fon
a.
A fool; an idiot.
+
farmeress
n.
A woman who farms.
+
fraena
pl.
of Frenum
+
florilege
n.
The act of gathering flowers.
+
feeding
n.
That which furnishes or affords food, especially for animals; pasture land.
+
fondler
n.
One who fondles.
+
fettered
a.
Seeming as if fettered, as the feet of certain animals which bend backward, and appear unfit for walking.
+
fell

imp. of Fall.
+
fourth
n.
The interval of two tones and a semitone, embracing four diatonic degrees of the scale; the subdominant of any key.
+
foliated
a.
Containing, or consisting of, foils; as, a foliated arch.
+
fastness
a.
The state of being fast and firm; firmness; fixedness; security; faithfulness.
+
fringed
a.
Furnished with a fringe.
+
fady
a.
Faded.
+
fittable
a.
Suitable; fit.
+
fortune
n.
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.
+
funambulus
n.
A ropewalker or ropedancer.
+
facilitated
imp.|p.p.
of Facilitate
+
fall
v.t.
To pass somewhat suddenly, and passively, into a new state of body or mind; to become; as, to fall asleep; to fall into a passion; to fall in love; to fall into temptation.
+
flattening
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Flatten
+
foot
n.
That which corresponds to the foot of a man or animal; as, the foot of a table; the foot of a stocking.
+
fifties
pl.
of Fifty
+
flash
a.
Wearing showy, counterfeit ornaments; vulgarly pretentious; as, flash people; flash men or women; -- applied especially to thieves, gamblers, and prostitutes that dress in a showy way and wear much cheap jewelry.
+
fumatory
n.
See Fumitory.
+
furies
n.pl.
See Fury, 3.
+
fecundating
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fecundate
+
freehanded
a.
Open-handed; liberal.
+
fulcra
pl.
of Fulcrum
+
flusher
n.
The red-backed shrike. See Flasher.
+
foal
v.i.
To bring forth young, as an animal of the horse kind.
+
felt
n.
A cloth or stuff made of matted fibers of wool, or wool and fur, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving.
+
frenzy
v.t.
To affect with frenzy; to drive to madness
+
fossilification
n.
The process of becoming fossil.
+
fore
adv.
Formerly; previously; afore.
+
faltering
a.
Hesitating; trembling.
+
fete
n.
A feat.
+
face
n.
Cast of features; expression of countenance; look; air; appearance.
+
flint
n.
A piece of flint for striking fire; -- formerly much used, esp. in the hammers of gun locks.
+
felltare
n.
The fieldfare.
+
flipflap
n.
The repeated stroke of something long and loose.
+
floored
imp.|p.p.
of Floor
+
filleting
n.
The material of which fillets are made; also, fillets, collectively.
+
fatuous
a.
Feeble in mind; weak; silly; stupid; foolish; fatuitous.
+
fitting
n.
necessary fixtures or apparatus; as, the fittings of a church or study; gas fittings.
+
fracted
a.
Having a part displaced, as if broken; -- said of an ordinary.
+
festlich
n.
Festive; fond of festive occasions.
+
frenzical
a.
Frantic.
+
fedary
n.
A feodary.
+
faction
n.
A party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition to the government, or state; -- usually applied to a minority, but it may be applied to a majority; a combination or clique of partisans of any kind, acting for their own interests, especially if greedy, clamorous, and reckless of the common good.
+
fiscal
n.
A treasurer.
+
fandangoes
pl.
of Fandango
+
felony
n.
An offense which occasions a total forfeiture either lands or goods, or both, at the common law, and to which capital or other punishment may be added, according to the degree of guilt.
+
formalism
n.
The practice or the doctrine of strict adherence to, or dependence on, external forms, esp. in matters of religion.
+
flag
n.
The bushy tail of a dog, as of a setter.
+
faytour
n.
See Faitour.
+
fraud
n.
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.
+
feather
v.i.
To curdle when poured into another liquid, and float about in little flakes or "feathers;" as, the cream feathers
+
flue
n.
An inclosed passage way for establishing and directing a current of air, gases, etc.; an air passage
+
fall
n.
Downfall; degradation; loss of greatness or office; termination of greatness, power, or dominion; ruin; overthrow; as, the fall of the Roman empire.
+
forwent
imp.
of Forgo
+
finify
a.
To make fine; to dress finically.
+
foxish
a.
Foxlike.
+
fixing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fix
+
forfeit
n.
Lost or alienated for an offense or crime; liable to penal seizure.
+
fusee
n.
A similar wheel used in other machinery.
+
file
n.
A steel instrument, having cutting ridges or teeth, made by indentation with a chisel, used for abrading or smoothing other substances, as metals, wood, etc.
+
flitting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Flit
+
featly
a.
Neatly; dexterously; nimbly.
+
foresight
n.
The act or the power of foreseeing; prescience; foreknowledge.
+
fair
n.
Fairness, beauty.
+
freeswimming
a.
Swimming in the open sea; -- said of certain marine animals.
+
fork
n.
One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow.
+
flat
n.
A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
+
familiar
a.
Closely acquainted or intimate, as a friend or companion; well versed in, as any subject of study; as, familiar with the Scriptures.
+
flitch
n.
The side of a hog salted and cured; a side of bacon.
+
fiducial
a.
Having faith or trust; confident; undoubting; firm.
+
finesse
a.
The act of finessing. See Finesse, v. i., 2.
+
fulldrive
adv.
With full speed.
+
fierce
superl.
Excessively earnest, eager, or ardent.
+
fusee
n.
A kind of match for lighting a pipe or cigar.
+
figurative
a.
Representing by a figure, or by resemblance; typical; representative.
+
fissilinguia
n.pl.
A group of Lacertilia having the tongue forked, including the common lizards.
+
fleshed
a.
Glutted; satiated; initiated.
+
flatter
n.
One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens.
+
froth
n.
The bubbles caused in fluids or liquors by fermentation or agitation; spume; foam; esp., a spume of saliva caused by disease or nervous excitement.
+
forethought
a.
Thought of, or planned, beforehand; aforethought; prepense; hence, deliberate.
+
fare
n.
To be in any state, or pass through any experience, good or bad; to be attended with any circummstances or train of events, fortunate or unfortunate; as, he fared well, or ill.
+
freighter
n.
A vessel used mainly to carry freight.
+
fall
n.
A sinking of tone; cadence; as, the fall of the voice at the close of a sentence.
+
freeholder
n.
The possessor of a freehold.
+
foreslow
v.i.
To loiter. [Obs.] See Forslow, v. i.
+
fleabitten
a.
White, flecked with minute dots of bay or sorrel; -- said of the color of a horse.
+
fevered
imp.|p.p.
of Fever
+
faithful
a.
Firm in adherence to promises, oaths, contracts, treaties, or other engagements.
+
fourthly
adv.
In the fourth place.
+
forest
n.
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.
+
fructure
n.
Use; fruition; enjoyment.
+
fumigated
imp.|p.p.
of Fumigate
+
fielding
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Field
+
flitty
a.
Unstable; fluttering.
+
foremast
n.
The mast nearest the bow.
+
foredate
v.t.
To date before the true time; to antendate.
+
facade
n.
The front of a building; esp., the principal front, having some architectural pretensions. Thus a church is said to have its facade unfinished, though the interior may be in use.
+
fantasy
n.
Fancy; imagination; especially, a whimsical or fanciful conception; a vagary of the imagination; whim; caprice; humor.
+
fiddler
n.
One who plays on a fiddle or violin.
+
fixative
n.
That which serves to set or fix colors or drawings, as a mordant.
+
feudally
adv.
In a feudal manner.
+
funded
a.
Invested in public funds; as, funded money.
+
fighting
a.
Qualified for war; fit for battle.
+
fold
v.t.
To lap or lay in plaits or folds; to lay one part over another part of; to double; as, to fold cloth; to fold a letter.
+
fifth
a.
Consisting of one of five equal divisions of a thing.
+
faultiness
n.
Quality or state of being faulty.
+
forty
n.
A symbol expressing forty units; as, 40, or xl.
+
flocking
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Flock
+
fra
n.
Brother; -- a title of a monk of friar; as, Fra Angelo.
+
fatalistic
a.
Implying, or partaking of the nature of, fatalism.
+
feather
v.t.
To adorn, as with feathers; to fringe.
+
formal
a.
Belonging to the constitution of a thing, as distinguished from the matter composing it; having the power of making a thing what it is; constituent; essential; pertaining to or depending on the forms, so called, of the human intellect.
+
founderies
pl.
of Foundery
+
float
v.i.
A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.
+
fluky
a.
Formed like, or having, a fluke.
+
fibre
n.
Sinew; strength; toughness; as, a man of real fiber.
+
fricace
n.
Meat sliced and dressed with strong sauce.
+
forgeries
pl.
of Forgery
+
fraternity
n.
A body of men associated for their common interest, business, or pleasure; a company; a brotherhood; a society; in the Roman Catholic Chucrch, an association for special religious purposes, for relieving the sick and destitute, etc.
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frustulent
a.
Abounding in fragments.
+
feeding
n.
the act of eating, or of supplying with food; the process of fattening.
+
fungi
n.pl.
See Fungus.
+
fineer
v.i.
To run in dept by getting goods made up in a way unsuitable for the use of others, and then threatening not to take them except on credit.
+
flon
pl.
of Flo
+
frontal
n.
A medicament or application for the forehead.
+
forelock
n.
The lock of hair that grows from the forepart of the head.
+
formality
n.
The condition or quality of being formal, strictly ceremonious, precise, etc.
+
freshes
pl.
of Fresh
+
fasten
a.
To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to lay on; as, to fasten a blow.
+
fluxing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Flux
+
fetuses
pl.
of Fetus
+
filatory
n.
A machine for forming threads.
+
forfered
p.p.|a.
Excessively alarmed; in great fear.
+
faculty
n.
Special mental endowment; characteristic knack.
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fucoid
a.
In a vague sense, resembling seaweeds, or of the nature of seaweeds.
+
flat
superl.
Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings; depressed; dull; as, the market is flat.
+
forkbeard
n.
The European forked hake or hake's-dame (Phycis blennoides); -- also called great forked beard.
+
fret
n.
See 1st Frith.
+
fusee
n.
A flintlock gun. See 2d Fusil.
+
fetuous
a.
Neat; feat.
+
frondlet
n.
A very small frond, or distinct portion of a compound frond.
+
frieze
n.
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.
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foveolate
a.
Having small pits or depression, as the receptacle in some composite flowers.
+
flat
superl.
Unanimated; dull; uninteresting; without point or spirit; monotonous; as, a flat speech or composition.
+
fashionableness
n.
State of being fashionable.
+
flash
n.
A pool.
+
favillous
a.
Of or pertaining to ashes.
+
fret
v.t.
To make rough, agitate, or disturb; to cause to ripple; as, to fret the surface of water.
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for
prep.
Indicating that instead of which something else controls in the performing of an action, or that in spite of which anything is done, occurs, or is; hence, equivalent to notwithstanding, in spite of; -- generally followed by all, aught, anything, etc.
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forded
imp.|p.p.
of Ford
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frock
n.
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.
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faithless
a.
Serving to disappoint or deceive; delusive; unsatisfying.
+
fuel
v.t.
To store or furnish with fuel or firing.
+
fridge
n.
To rub; to fray.
+
fertilizer
n.
One who fertilizes; the agent that carries the fertilizing principle, as a moth to an orchid.
+
foolhasty
a.
Foolishly hasty.
+
flog
v.t.
To beat or strike with a rod or whip; to whip; to lash; to chastise with repeated blows.
+
flock
v.t.
To coat with flock, as wall paper; to roughen the surface of (as glass) so as to give an appearance of being covered with fine flock.
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fomentation
n.
The act of fomenting; the application of warm, soft, medicinal substances, as for the purpose of easing pain, by relaxing the skin, or of discussing tumors.
+
frill
v.i.
A ruffled varex or fold on certain shells.
+
flatting
n.
A method of preserving gilding unburnished, by touching with size.
+
foin
n.
The beech marten (Mustela foina). See Marten.
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fishwomen
pl.
of Fishwoman
+
fatherland
n.
One's native land; the native land of one's fathers or ancestors.
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fubs
n.
A plump young person or child.
+
fly
v.t.
To fly or flee from; to shun; to avoid.
+
faced
imp.|p.p.
of Face
+
fetid
a.
Having an offensive smell; stinking.
+
filar
a.
Of or pertaining to a thread or line; characterized by threads stretched across the field of view; as, a filar microscope; a filar micrometer.
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fieldfare
n.
a small thrush (Turdus pilaris) which breeds in northern Europe and winters in Great Britain. The head, nape, and lower part of the back are ash-colored; the upper part of the back and wing coverts, chestnut; -- called also fellfare.
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flitter
v.t.
To flutter; to move quickly; as, to flitter the cards.
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fleabitten
a.
Bitten by a flea; as, a flea-bitten face.
+
flasher
n.
The European red-backed shrike (Lanius collurio); -- called also flusher.
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flooding
n.
An abnormal or excessive discharge of blood from the uterus.
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flank
v.i.
To be posted on the side.
+
fluxionary
a.
Fluxional.
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fascicle
n.
A small bundle or collection; a compact cluster; as, a fascicle of fibers; a fascicle of flowers or roots.
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forensic
n.
An exercise in debate; a forensic contest; an argumentative thesis.
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fruiteries
pl.
of Fruitery
+
fuddle
v.t.
To make foolish by drink; to cause to become intoxicated.
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film
v.t.
To cover with a thin skin or pellicle.
+
foundation
n.
That upon which anything is founded; that on which anything stands, and by which it is supported; the lowest and supporting layer of a superstructure; groundwork; basis.
+
fleck
n.
A flake; also, a lock, as of wool.
+
fenks
n.
The refuse whale blubber, used as a manure, and in the manufacture of Prussian blue.
+
feejee
a.|n.
See Fijian.
+
flustrate
v.t.
To fluster.
+
fig
n.
To put into the head of, as something useless o/ contemptible.
+
falconet
n.
One of several very small Asiatic falcons of the genus Microhierax.
+
flagellate
v.t.
To whip; to scourge; to flog.
+
firstling
n.
The thing first thought or done.
+
friesic
a.
Of or pertaining to Friesland, a province in the northern part of the Netherlands.
+
fetch
v.t.
To bear toward the person speaking, or the person or thing from whose point of view the action is contemplated; to go and bring; to get.
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fitche
a.
Sharpened to a point; pointed.
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fluxion
n.
Fusion; the running of metals into a fluid state.
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foxiness
n.
A coarse and sour taste in grapes.
+
forfete
v.i.
To incur a penalty; to transgress.
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favor
n.
To afford advantages for success to; to facilitate; as, a weak place favored the entrance of the enemy.
+
foil
n.
A thin coat of tin, with quicksilver, laid on the back of a looking-glass, to cause reflection.
+
frith
n.
A narrow arm of the sea; an estuary; the opening of a river into the sea; as, the Frith of Forth.
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fleshy
superl.
Full of, or composed of, flesh; plump; corpulent; fat; gross.
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fructose
n.
Fruit sugar; levulose.
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foul
superl.
Not favorable; unpropitious; not fair or advantageous; as, a foul wind; a foul road; cloudy or rainy; stormy; not fair; -- said of the weather, sky, etc.
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fittedness
n.
The state or quality of being fitted; adaptation.
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flectional
a.
Capable of, or pertaining to, flection or inflection.
+
flavescent
a.
Turning yellow; yellowish.
+
frosting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Frost
+
flexure
n.
The last joint, or bend, of the wing of a bird.
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flourish
n.
Decoration; ornament; beauty.
+
fez
n.
A felt or cloth cap, usually red and having a tassel, -- a variety of the tarboosh. See Tarboosh.
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furcated
a.
Forked; branching like a fork; as, furcate twigs.
+
flaking
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Flake
+
foraged
imp.|p.p.
of Forage
+
fresh
n.
A stream or spring of fresh water.
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frumpish
a.
Cross-tempered; scornful.
+
fulfiller
n.
One who fulfills.
+
file
v.t.
To put upon the files or among the records of a court; to note on (a paper) the fact date of its reception in court.
+
fricasseeing
p.pr.|.vb.n.
of Frlcassee
+
fightwite
n.
A mulct or fine imposed on a person for making a fight or quarrel to the disturbance of the peace.
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flooding
n.
The filling or covering with water or other fluid; overflow; inundation; the filling anything to excess.
+
fenestra
n.
A small opening; esp., one of the apertures, closed by membranes, between the tympanum and internal ear.
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flew

imp. of Fly.
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fragility
n.
Liability to error and sin; frailty.
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fantasy
v.t.
To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like; to fancy.
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frambaesia
n.
The yaws. See Yaws.
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fly
v.i.
Any winged insect; esp., one with transparent wings; as, the Spanish fly; firefly; gall fly; dragon fly.
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filefish
n.
Any plectognath fish of the genera Monacanthus, Alutera, balistes, and allied genera; -- so called on account of the roughly granulated skin, which is sometimes used in place of sandpaper.
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ferule
v.t.
To punish with a ferule.
+
foot
n.
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.
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flout
n.
A mock; an insult.
+
floricomous
a.
Having the head adorned with flowers.
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fulgurate
v.i.
To flash as lightning.
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funnies
pl.
of Funny
+
fatiloquist
n.
A fortune teller.
+
finery
n.
A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling.
+
folio
n.
A sheet of paper once folded.
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fore part
n.
Alt. of Forepart
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filigree
n.
Ornamental work, formerly with grains or breads, but now composed of fine wire and used chiefly in decorating gold and silver to which the wire is soldered, being arranged in designs frequently of a delicate and intricate arabesque pattern.
+
foreignism
n.
Anything peculiar to a foreign language or people; a foreign idiom or custom.
+
fuscine
n.
A dark-colored substance obtained from empyreumatic animal oil.
+
force
n.
A waterfall; a cascade.
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feebleness
n.
The quality or condition of being feeble; debility; infirmity.
+
floridly
adv.
In a florid manner.
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firebrand
n.
One who inflames factions, or causes contention and mischief; an incendiary.
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flooky
a.
Fluky.
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flugel
n.
A grand piano or a harpsichord, both being wing-shaped.
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floriform
a.
Having the form of a flower; flower-shaped.
+
firstly
adv.
In the first place; before anything else; -- sometimes improperly used for first.
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frame
n.
Form; shape; proportion; scheme; structure; constitution; system; as, a frameof government.
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futurity
n.
Future time; time to come; the future.
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flail
n.
An instrument for threshing or beating grain from the ear by hand, consisting of a wooden staff or handle, at the end of which a stouter and shorter pole or club, called a swipe, is so hung as to swing freely.
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fraudulent
a.
Characterized by,, founded on, or proceeding from, fraund; as, a fraudulent bargain.
+
frogmouth
n.
One of several species of Asiatic and East Indian birds of the genus Batrachostomus  (family Podargidae); -- so called from their very broad, flat bills.
+
farstretched
a.
Streatched beyond ordinary limits.
+
forlore

imp. pl. & p. p. of Forlese.
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fordrive
v.t.
To drive about; to drive here and there.
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filbert
n.
The fruit of the Corylus Avellana or hazel. It is an oval nut, containing a kernel that has a mild, farinaceous, oily taste, agreeable to the palate.
+
fimbriating
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fimbriate
+
flosculous
a.
Consisting of many gamopetalous florets.
+
finally
adv.
At the end or conclusion; ultimately; lastly; as, the contest was long, but the Romans finally conquered.
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filch
v.t.
To steal or take privily (commonly, that which is of little value); to pilfer.
+
frigefactive
a.
Cooling.
+
florida bean

The large, roundish, flattened seed of Mucuna urens. See under Bean.
+
froth
n.
Any empty, senseless show of wit or eloquence; rhetoric without thought.
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fascinated
imp.|p.p.
of Fascinate
+
forgettable
a.
Liable to be, or that may be, forgotten.
+
flout
v.t.
To mock or insult; to treat with contempt.
+
flower
n.
Ornamental type used chiefly for borders around pages, cards, etc.
+
finnikin
n.
A variety of pigeon, with a crest somewhat resembling the mane of a horse.
+
foretokened
imp.|p.p.
of Foretoken
+
frogbit
n.
An American plant (Limnobium Spongia), with similar habits.
+
feat
n.
A striking act of strength, skill, or cunning; a trick; as, feats of horsemanship, or of dexterity.
+
flatworm
n.
Any worm belonging to the Plathelminthes; also, sometimes applied to the planarians.
+
falsification
n.
The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not.
+
firmament
v.|a.
The region of the air; the sky or heavens.
+
further
adv.
To a greater distance; in addition; moreover. See Farther.
+
flinger
n.
One who flings; one who jeers.
+
fire
v.t.
To light up as if by fire; to illuminate.
+
foolfish
n.
The orange filefish. See Filefish.
+
ferreteye
n.
The spur-winged goose; -- so called from the red circle around the eyes.
+
filially
adv.
In a filial manner.
+
famine
n.
General scarcity of food; dearth; a want of provisions; destitution.
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flounce
v.i.
To throw the limbs and body one way and the other; to spring, turn, or twist with sudden effort or violence; to struggle, as a horse in mire; to flounder; to throw one's self with a jerk or spasm, often as in displeasure.
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fuliginous
a.
Pertaining to smoke; resembling smoke.
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fillibeg
n.
A kilt. See Filibeg.
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facetious
a.
Given to wit and good humor; merry; sportive; jocular; as, a facetious companion.
+
firk
n.
A freak; trick; quirk.
+
fizzled
imp.|p.p.
of Fizzle
+
feoff
n.
A fief. See Fief.
+
frost
v.i.
Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character.
+
flower
v.t.
To embellish with flowers; to adorn with imitated flowers; as, flowered silk.
+
flashboard
n.
A board placed temporarily upon a milldam, to raise the water in the pond above its usual level; a flushboard.
+
fuller
v.t.
One whose occupation is to full cloth.
+
fair
v.t.
To make smooth and flowing, as a vessel's lines.
+
fullmanned
a.
Completely furnished wiith men, as a ship.
+
flashing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Flash
+
fishskin
n.
See Ichthyosis.
+
flexible
a.
Capable or being adapted or molded; plastic,; as, a flexible language.
+
forego
v.i.
To go before; to precede; -- used especially in the present and past participles.
+
forkbeard
n.
A European fish (Raniceps raninus), having a large flat head; -- also called tadpole fish, and lesser forked beard.
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flock
sing.pl.
Very fine, sifted, woolen refuse, especially that from shearing the nap of cloths, used as a coating for wall paper to give it a velvety or clothlike appearance; also, the dust of vegetable fiber used for a similar purpose.
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figurated
a.
Having a determinate form.
+
fight
v.t.
To contend with in battle; to war against; as, they fought the enemy in two pitched battles; the sloop fought the frigate for three hours.
+
forcible
a.
Violent; impetuous.
+
furze
n.
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.
+
flowen

imp. pl. of Fly, v. i.
+
felicitate
a.
Made very happy.
+
fortification
n.
The act of fortifying; the art or science of fortifying places in order to defend them against an enemy.
+
featherless
a.
Destitute of feathers.
+
forlet
v.t.
To give up; to leave; to abandon.
+
float
v.i.
The trowel or tool with which the floated coat of plastering is leveled and smoothed.
+
fictive
a.
Feigned; counterfeit.
+
fasting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fast
+
font
n.
A complete assortment of printing type of one size, including a due proportion of all the letters in the alphabet, large and small, points, accents, and whatever else is necessary for printing with that variety of types; a fount.
+
fraction
v.t.
To separate by means of, or to subject to, fractional distillation or crystallization; to fractionate; -- frequently used with out; as, to fraction out a certain grade of oil from pretroleum.
+
freedom
n.
Generosity; liberality.
+
fallowist
n.
One who favors the practice of fallowing land.
+
fuse
v.i.
To be blended, as if melted together.
+
fopdoodle
n.
A stupid or insignificant fellow; a fool; a simpleton.
+
fireflame
n.
The European band fish (Cepola rubescens).
+
fall
v.t.
To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; -- said of the young of certain animals.
+
father
n.
A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor; a founder of a race or family; -- in the plural, fathers, ancestors.
+
fescue
n.
An instrument for playing on the harp; a plectrum.
+
finality
n.
The state of being final, finished, or complete; a final or conclusive arrangement; a settlement.
+
figure
n.
To indicate by numerals; also, to compute.
+
fungian
n.
One of the Fungidae.
+
fortitudinous
a.
Having fortitude; courageous.
+
fibber
n.
One who tells fibs.
+
finery
n.
Ornament; decoration; especially, excecially decoration; showy clothes; jewels.
+
fightingly
adv.
Pugnaciously.
+
familistic
a.
Alt. of Familistical
+
foreslow
v.t.
To make slow; to hinder; to obstruct. [Obs.] See Forslow, v. t.
+
fusion
v.t.
The state of being melted or dissolved by heat; a state of fluidity or flowing in consequence of heat; as, metals in fusion.
+
filoplume
n.
A hairlike feather; a father with a slender scape and without a web in most or all of its length.
+
favel
a.
Yellow; fal/ow; dun.
+
foredeck
n.
The fore part of a deck, or of a ship.
+
fantasticalness
n.
The quality of being fantastic.
+
fall
v.t.
To happen; to to come to pass; to light; to befall; to issue; to terminate.
+
frubish
v.t.
To rub up: to furbish.
+
fiduciary
n.
One who holds a thing in trust for another; a trustee.
+
fete
v.t.
To feast; to honor with a festival.
+
frigid
a.
Wanting warmth, fervor, ardor, fire, vivacity, etc.; unfeeling; forbidding in manner; dull and unanimated; stiff and formal; as, a frigid constitution; a frigid style; a frigid look or manner; frigid obedience or service.
+
fasciculus
n.
A little bundle; a fascicle.
+
footless
a.
Having no feet.
+
fall
v.t.
To cease to be active or strong; to die away; to lose strength; to subside; to become less intense; as, the wind falls.
+
finger
v.t.
To touch with the fingers; to handle; to meddle with.
+
floccose
n.
Spotted with small tufts like wool.
+
formal
a.
Having the form or appearance without the substance or essence; external; as, formal duty; formal worship; formal courtesy, etc.
+
fan
n.
To ventilate; to blow on; to affect by air put in motion.
+
fruit
v.t.
The pulpy, edible seed vessels of certain plants, especially those grown on branches above ground, as apples, oranges, grapes, melons, berries, etc. See 3.
+
feasibilities
pl.
of Feasibility
+
falsehood
n.
Want of truth or accuracy; an untrue assertion or representation; error; misrepresentation; falsity.
+
faith
n.
That which is believed on any subject, whether in science, politics, or religion; especially (Theol.), a system of religious belief of any kind; as, the Jewish or Mohammedan faith; and especially, the system of truth taught by Christ; as, the Christian faith; also, the creed or belief of a Christian society or church.
+
frescoed
imp.|p.p.
of Fresco
+
foliation
n.
The property, possessed by some crystalline rocks, of dividing into plates or slabs, which is due to the cleavage structure of one of the constituents, as mica or hornblende. It may sometimes include slaty structure or cleavage, though the latter is usually independent of any mineral constituent, and transverse to the bedding, it having been produced by pressure.
+
filoplumaceous
a.
Having the structure of a filoplume.
+
frostblite
n.
A plant of the genus Atriplex; orache.
+
foundery
n.
Same as Foundry.
+
feoffment
n.
A gift or conveyance in fee of land or other corporeal hereditaments, accompanied by actual delivery of possession.
+
frown
n.
Any expression of displeasure; as, the frowns of Providence; the frowns of Fortune.
+
forehanded
a.
Early; timely; seasonable.
+
freak
v.t.
To variegate; to checker; to streak.
+
foody
a.
Eatable; fruitful.
+
fuse
v.t.
To unite or blend, as if melted together.
+
full
compar.
Having the attention, thoughts, etc., absorbed in any matter, and the feelings more or less excited by it, as, to be full of some project.
+
force
v.i.
To use violence; to make violent effort; to strive; to endeavor.
+
fitweed
n.
A plant (Eryngium foetidum) supposed to be a remedy for fits.
+
flute
v.t.
To play, whistle, or sing with a clear, soft note, like that of a flute.
+
forerunner
n.
A piece of rag terminating the log line.
+
firmament
v.|a.
Fixed foundation; established basis.
+
flamy
a.
Flaming; blazing; flamelike; flame-colored; composed of flame.
+
frontiered
p.a.
Placed on the frontiers.
+
frustration
n.
The act of frustrating; disappointment; defeat; as, the frustration of one's designs
+
flet
p.p.
Skimmed.
+
faint
superl.
Lacking distinctness; hardly perceptible; striking the senses feebly; not bright, or loud, or sharp, or forcible; weak; as, a faint color, or sound.
+
foil
n.
Failure of success when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage.
+
fly
v.i.
Formerly, the person who took the printed sheets from the press.
+
finalities
pl.
of Finality
+
frith
n.
A kind of weir for catching fish.
+
formal
a.
Belonging to the form, shape, frame, external appearance, or organization of a thing.
+
function
n.
A quantity so connected with another quantity, that if any alteration be made in the latter there will be a consequent alteration in the former. Each quantity is said to be a function of the other. Thus, the circumference of a circle is a function of the diameter. If x be a symbol to which different numerical values can be assigned, such expressions as x2, 3x, Log. x, and Sin. x, are all functions of x.
+
forbare

of Forbear
+
follower
n.
A sweetheart; a beau.
+
flowingness
n.
Flowing tendency or quality; fluency.
+
fleecing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fleece
+
frail
n.
A basket made of rushes, used chiefly for containing figs and raisins.
+
fo
n.
The Chinese name of Buddha.
+
funerate
v.t.
To bury with funeral rites.
+
frosting
n.
A composition of sugar and beaten egg, used to cover or ornament cake, pudding, etc.
+
fellowly
a.
Fellowlike.
+
forge
n.
To form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal.
+
freely
adv.
In a free manner; without restraint or compulsion; abundantly; gratuitously.
+
free
superl.
Thrown open, or made accessible, to all; to be enjoyed without limitations; unrestricted; not obstructed, engrossed, or appropriated; open; -- said of a thing to be possessed or enjoyed; as, a free school.
+
famousness
n.
The state of being famous.
+
familiar
n.
An intimate; a companion.
+
femininely
adv.
In a feminine manner.
+
fecundated
imp.|p.p.
of Fecundate
+
frame
v.t.
To fit to something else, or for some specific end; to adjust; to regulate; to shape; to conform.
+
fraternized
imp.|p.p.
of Fraternize
+
frequentative
n.
A frequentative verb.
+
flatfooted
a.
Firm-footed; determined.
+
fadge
n.
A small flat loaf or thick cake; also, a fagot.
+
foul
superl.
Ugly; homely; poor.
+
frenum
n.
Same as Fraenum.
+
federate
a.
United by compact, as sovereignties, states, or nations; joined in confederacy; leagued; confederate; as, federate nations.
+
famish
v.i.
To die of hunger; to starve.
+
fatigued
imp.|p.p.
of Fatigue
+
finer
n.
One who fines or purifies.
+
forest
a.
Of or pertaining to a forest; sylvan.
+
filiety
n.
The relation of a son to a father; sonship; -- the correlative of paternity.
+
fissurella
n.
A genus of marine gastropod mollusks, having a conical or limpetlike shell, with an opening at the apex; -- called also keyhole limpet.
+
fatigue
n.
Weariness from bodily labor or mental exertion; lassitude or exhaustion of strength.
+
faintness
n.
Want of vigor or energy.
+
feast
v.t.
To entertain with sumptuous provisions; to treat at the table bountifully; as, he was feasted by the king.
+
free
superl.
Not subjected to the laws of physical necessity; capable of voluntary activity; endowed with moral liberty; -- said of the will.
+
forevouched
a.
Formerly vouched or avowed; affirmed in advance.
+
favored
imp.|p.p.
of Favor
+
funguses
pl.
of Fungus
+
fermillet
n.
A buckle or clasp.
+
foundry
n.
The buildings and works for casting metals.
+
fast
v.
Firmly fixed; closely adhering; made firm; not loose, unstable, or easily moved; immovable; as, to make fast the door.
+
fallacious
a.
Embodying or pertaining to a fallacy; illogical; fitted to deceive; misleading; delusive; as, fallacious arguments or reasoning.
+
fenugreek
n.
A plant (trigonella Foenum Graecum) cultivated for its strong-smelling seeds, which are
+
felt
v.t.
To make into felt, or a feltike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.
+
furdle
v.t.
To draw up into a bundle; to roll up.
+
flown

p. p. of Fly; -- often used with the auxiliary verb to be; as, the birds are flown.
+
fuscation
n.
A darkening; obscurity; obfuscation.
+
forthy
adv.
Therefore.
+
fret
v.t.
To devour.
+
footing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Foot
+
flapper
n.
See Flipper.
+
fluidize
v.t.
To render fluid.
+
foot
n.
Soldiers who march and fight on foot; the infantry, usually designated as the foot, in distinction from the cavalry.
+
faming
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fame
+
fuchs
n.
A student of the first year.
+
felt
imp.|p.p.
of Feel
+
floccillation
n.
A delirious picking of bedclothes by a sick person, as if to pick off flocks of wool; carphology; -- an alarming symptom in acute diseases.
+
feaster
n.
One who entertains magnificently.
+
filtrate
v.t.
To filter; to defecate; as liquid, by straining or percolation.
+
font
n.
A fountain; a spring; a source.
+
festoony
a.
Pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling, festoons.
+
flock
n.
Woolen or cotton refuse (sing. / pl.), old rags, etc., reduced to a degree of fineness by machinery, and used for stuffing unpholstered furniture.
+
formation
n.
A substance formed or deposited.
+
feeling
n.
The sense by which the mind, through certain nerves of the body, perceives external objects, or certain states of the body itself; that one of the five senses which resides in the general nerves of sensation distributed over the body, especially in its surface; the sense of touch; nervous sensibility to external objects.
+
filched
imp.|p.p.
of Filch
+
fishes
pl.
of Finch
+
fluidized
imp.|p.p.
of Fluidize
+
freedstool
n.
See Fridstol.
+
farewell
n.
Act of departure; leave-taking; a last look at, or reference to something.
+
falsify
a.
To baffle or escape; as, to falsify a blow.
+
fellinic
a.
Of, relating to, or derived from, bile or gall; as, fellinic acid.
+
freak
n.
A sudden causeless change or turn of the mind; a whim of fancy; a capricious prank; a vagary or caprice.
+
fringent
a.
Encircling like a fringe; bordering.
+
fence
n.
That which fends off attack or danger; a defense; a protection; a cover; security; shield.
+
foretaste
n.
A taste beforehand; enjoyment in advance; anticipation.
+
floorheads
n.pl.
The upper extermities of the floor of a vessel.
+
free
superl.
Not gained by importunity or purchase; gratuitous; spontaneous; as, free admission; a free gift.
+
frame
v.t.
To support.
+
frampoid
a.
Peevish; cross; vexatious; quarrelsome.
+
forblack
a.
Very black.
+
fimbricate
a.
Fringed; jagged; fimbriate.
+
feeder
n.
One who fattens cattle for slaughter.
+
form
n.
The peculiar characteristics of an organism as a type of others; also, the structure of the parts of an animal or plant.
+
flurried
imp.|p.p.
of Flurry
+
feature
n.
A form; a shape.
+
finger
v.t.
To take thievishly; to pilfer; to purloin.
+
fillet
n.
A piece of lean meat without bone; sometimes, a long strip rolled together and tied.
+
flatus
n.
A breath; a puff of wind.
+
flamboyer
n.
A name given in the East and West Indies to certain trees with brilliant blossoms, probably species of Caesalpinia.
+
foul
superl.
Loathsome; disgusting; as, a foul disease.
+
foraminifera
n.pl.
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.
+
flash
v.i.
To burst forth like a sudden flame; to break out violently; to rush hastily.
+
fore teeth
pl.
of Fore tooth
+
flysch
n.
A name given to the series of sandstones and schists overlying the true nummulitic formation in the Alps, and included in the Eocene Tertiary.
+
filature
n.
A reel for drawing off silk from cocoons; also, an establishment for reeling silk.
+
fortnight
n.
The space of fourteen days; two weeks.
+
fontanelle
n.
Same as Fontanel, 2.
+
fardel
n.
A bundle or little pack; hence, a burden.
+
fragrance
n.
Alt. of Fragrancy
+
forthby
adv.
See Forby.
+
forbid
v.t.
To command against, or contrary to; to prohibit; to interdict.
+
flesh
n.
In a good sense, tenderness of feeling; gentleness.
+
fire
n.
The discharge of firearms; firing; as, the troops were exposed to a heavy fire.
+
finale
n.
Close; termination
+
figent
a.
Fidgety; restless.
+
fellowfeel
v.t.
To share through sympathy; to participate in.
+
fucoidal
a.
Fucoid.
+
falsism
n.
That which is evidently false; an assertion or statement the falsity of which is plainly apparent; -- opposed to truism.
+
formidolose
a.
Very much afraid.
+
fellowship
n.
The state or relation of being or associate.
+
farmer
n.
One who hires and cultivates a farm; a cultivator of leased ground; a tenant.
+
frankpledge
n.
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.
+
forlese
v.t.
To lose utterly.
+
fraudulence
n.
Alt. of Fraudulency
+
fifteenth
a.
Next in order after the fourteenth; -- the ordinal of fifteen.
+
fording
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Ford
+
feigner
n.
One who feigns or pretends.
+
fret
v.i.
To be worn away; to chafe; to fray; as, a wristband frets on the edges.
+
flemish
a.
Pertaining to Flanders, or the Flemings.
+
fike
n.
See Fyke.
+
fret
v.i.
To be agitated; to be in violent commotion; to rankle; as, rancor frets in the malignant breast.
+
fettling
n.
The operation of shaving or smoothing the surface of undried clay ware.
+
familiarity
n.
Anything said or done by one person to another unceremoniously and without constraint; esp., in the pl., such actions and words as propriety and courtesy do not warrant; liberties.
+
forgotten

p. p. of Forget.
+
foison
n.
Rich harvest; plenty; abundance.
+
freezer
n.
One who, or that which, cools or freezes, as a refrigerator, or the tub and can used in the process of freezing ice cream.
+
flute
v.i.
A channel of curved section; -- usually applied to one of a vertical series of such channels used to decorate columns and pilasters in classical architecture. See Illust. under Base, n.
+
footed
imp.|p.p.
of Foot
+
friend
v.t.
To act as the friend of; to favor; to countenance; to befriend.
+
foothot
adv.
Hastily; immediately; instantly; on the spot; hotfloot.
+
fornicatress
n.
A woman guilty of fornication.
+
fremd
a.
Alt. of Fremed
+
fallfish
n.
A fresh-water fish of the United States (Semotilus bullaris); -- called also silver chub, and Shiner. The name is also applied to other allied species.
+
fluoboride
n.
See Borofluoride.
+
founder
v.i.
To become filled with water, and sink, as a ship.
+
fraughted
imp.|p.p.
of Fraught
+
flush
n.
A hand of cards of the same suit.
+
fine
a.
To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc.; as. to fine the soil.
+
frostily
adv.
In a frosty manner.
+
fairworld
n.
State of prosperity.
+
fragmentarily
adv.
In a fragmentary manner; piecemeal.
+
fifth
n.
The interval of three tones and a semitone, embracing five diatonic degrees of the scale; the dominant of any key.
+
flatteringly
adv.
With flattery.
+
finish
n.
The joiner work and other finer work required for the completion of a building, especially of the interior. See Inside finish, and Outside finish.
+
formed
imp.|p.p.
of Form
+
fly
a.
Knowing; wide awake; fully understanding another's meaning.
+
forty
n.
The sum of four tens; forty units or objects.
+
flirt
v.t.
One who flirts; esp., a woman who acts with giddiness, or plays at courtship; a coquette; a pert girl.
+
fabric
n.
Any system or structure consisting of connected parts; as, the fabric of the universe.
+
fecial
a.
Pertaining to heralds, declarations of war, and treaties of peace; as, fecial law.
+
floorer
n.
Anything that floors or upsets a person, as a blow that knocks him down; a conclusive answer or retort; a task that exceeds one's abilities.
+
foothook
n.
See Futtock.
+
fall
v.t.
To be overthrown or captured; to be destroyed.
+
flintlock
n.
A hand firearm fitted with a flintlock; esp., the old-fashioned musket of European and other armies.
+
flusteration
n.
The act of flustering, or the state of being flustered; fluster.
+
filander
n.
A species of kangaroo (Macropus Brunii), inhabiting New Guinea.
+
falsify
v.i.
To tell lies; to violate the truth.
+
foxed
imp.|p.p.
of Fox
+
forfeit
n.
Something deposited and redeemable by a sportive fine; -- whence the game of forfeits.
+
febrific
a.
Producing fever.
+
femininity
n.
The female form.
+
forehook
n.
A piece of timber placed across the stem, to unite the bows and strengthen the fore part of the ship; a breast hook.
+
fastilarian
n.
A low fellow; a stinkard; a scoundrel.
+
freckled
imp.|p.p.
of Freckle
+
foetation
n.
Same as Fetation.
+
fornix
n.
Esp., two longitudinal bands of white nervous tissue beneath the lateral ventricles of the brain.
+
forewit
n.
A leader, or would-be leader, in matters of knowledge or taste.
+
flexion
n.
The act of flexing or bending; a turning.
+
fulminated
imp.|p.p.
of Fulminate
+
finfish
n.
A finback whale.
+
forensical
a.
Forensic.
+
flutemouth
n.
A fish of the genus Aulostoma, having a much elongated tubular snout.
+
felis
n.
A genus of carnivorous mammals, including the domestic cat, the lion, tiger, panther, and similar animals.
+
forge
n.
To coin.
+
flocculation
n.
The process by which small particles of fine soils and sediments aggregate into larger lumps.
+
famishment
n.
State of being famished.
+
fury
n.
pl. (Greek Myth.) The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megaera; the Erinyes or Eumenides.
+
feigning
a.
That feigns; insincere; not genuine; false.
+
furfurol
n.
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.
+
fabricate
v.t.
To invent and form; to forge; to devise falsely; as, to fabricate a lie or story.
+
forced
a.
Done or produced with force or great labor, or by extraordinary exertion; hurried; strained; produced by unnatural effort or pressure; as, a forced style; a forced laugh.
+
fireball
n.
A luminous meteor, resembling a ball of fire passing rapidly through the air, and sometimes exploding.
+
furred
imp.|p.p.
of Fur
+
friar
n.
An American fish; the silversides.
+
file
v.t.
To set in order; to arrange, or lay away, esp. as papers in a methodical manner for preservation and reverence; to place on file; to insert in its proper place in an arranged body of papers.
+
frequentness
n.
The quality of being frequent.
+
fatigate
a.
Wearied; tired; fatigued.
+
fallowness
n.
A well or opening, through the successive floors of a warehouse or manufactory, through which goods are raised or lowered.
+
fond

imp. of Find.  Found.
+
frugal
n.
Obtained by, or appropriate to, economy; as, a frugal fortune.
+
forging
n.
A piece of forged work in metal; -- a general name for a piece of hammered iron or steel.
+
funiliform
a.
Resembling a cord in toughness and flexibility, as the roots of some endogenous trees.
+
figwort
n.
A genus of herbaceous plants (Scrophularia), mostly found in the north temperate zones. See Brownwort.
+
food
n.
Anything that instructs the intellect, excites the feelings, or molds habits of character; that which nourishes.
+
forborne
p.p.
of Forbear
+
farthing
n.
A division of land.
+
fusion
v.t.
The union, or binding together, of adjacent parts or tissues.
+
ferae
n.pl.
A group of mammals which formerly included the Carnivora, Insectivora, Marsupialia, and lemurs, but is now often restricted to the Carnivora.
+
fang
v.t.
The tusk of an animal, by which the prey is seized and held or torn; a long pointed tooth; esp., one of the usually erectile, venomous teeth of serpents. Also, one of the falcers of a spider.
+
fibrinoplastin
n.
An albuminous substance, existing in the blood, which in combination with fibrinogen forms fibrin; -- called also paraglobulin.
+
factorized
imp.|p.p.
of Factorize
+
foraging
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Forage
+
fellowship
v.t.
To acknowledge as of good standing, or in communion according to standards of faith and practice; to admit to Christian fellowship.
+
fair
superl.
Characterized by frankness, honesty, impartiality, or candor; open; upright; free from suspicion or bias; equitable; just; -- said of persons, character, or conduct; as, a fair man; fair dealing; a fair statement.
+
fanfoot
n.
Any moth of the genus Polypogon.
+
feme
n.
A woman.
+
frush
n.
A discharge of a fetid or ichorous matter from the frog of a horse's foot; -- also caled thrush.
+
for
prep.
Indicating that in prevention of which, or through fear of which, anything is done.
+
ferries
pl.
of Ferry
+
fireside
n.
A place near the fire or hearth; home; domestic life or retirement.
+
ferrumination
n.
The soldering ir uniting of me/ als.
+
filicoid
n.
A fernlike plant.
+
formal
a.
Dependent in form; conventional.
+
fret
v.t.
To furnish with frets, as an instrument of music.
+
fidget
v.i.
To move uneasily one way and the other; to move irregularly, or by fits and starts.
+
flexural
a.
Of, pertaining to, or resulting from, flexure; of the nature of, or characterized by, flexure; as, flexural elasticity.
+
fellowship
n.
A foundation for the maintenance, on certain conditions, of a scholar called a fellow, who usually resides at the university.
+
forgotten
p.p.
of Forget
+
flamineous
a.
Pertaining to a flamen; flaminical.
+
foin
n.
A kind of fur, black at the top on a whitish ground, taken from the ferret or weasel of the same name.
+
funebrial
a.
Pertaining to a funeral or funerals; funeral; funereal.
+
forecastle
n.
That part of the upper deck of a vessel forward of the foremast, or of the after part of the fore channels.
+
fungal
a.
Of or pertaining to fungi.
+
follow
v.i.
To go or come after; -- used in the various senses of the transitive verb: To pursue; to attend; to accompany; to be a result; to imitate.
+
float
v.t.
To flood; to overflow; to cover with water.
+
flambeaux
pl.
of Flambeau
+
fijian
a.
Of or pertaining to the Fiji islands or their inhabitants.
+
facies
n.
The anterior part of the head; the face.
+
fog
n.
Watery vapor condensed in the lower part of the atmosphere and disturbing its transparency. It differs from cloud only in being near the ground, and from mist in not approaching so nearly to fine rain. See Cloud.
+
fribble
v.i.
To act in a trifling or foolish manner; to act frivolously.
+
ferial
n.
Same as Feria.
+
fettle
a.
To cover or line with a mixture of ore, cinders, etc., as the hearth of a puddling furnace.
+
fractured
imp.|p.p.
of Fracture
+
firm
a.
The name, title, or style, under which a company transacts business; a partnership of two or more persons; a commercial house; as, the firm of Hope & Co.
+
fasciated
a.
Broadly banded with color.
+
fresh
n.
A flood; a freshet.
+
frilling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Frill
+
foist
n.
A light and fast-sailing ship.
+
foray
v.t.
To pillage; to ravage.
+
fosset
n.
A faucet.
+
frank
a.
A native or inhabitant of Western Europe; a European; -- a term used in the Levant.
+
free
superl.
Clear of offense or crime; guiltless; innocent.
+
fundamentally
adv.
Primarily; originally; essentially; radically; at the foundation; in origin or constituents.
+
foretaste
v.t.
To taste before another.
+
frame
n.
The bodily structure; physical constitution; make or build of a person.
+
forsooth
v.t.
To address respectfully with the term forsooth.
+
flash
n.
The time during which a flash is visible; an instant; a very brief period.
+
fustian
a.
Made of fustian.
+
fuse
n.
A tube or casing filled with combustible matter, by means of which a charge of powder is ignited, as in blasting; -- called also fuzee. See Fuze.
+
faint
n.
To decay; to disappear; to vanish.
+
fertilitate
v.t.
To fertilize; to fecundate.
+
feretory
n.
A portable bier or shrine, variously adorned, used for containing relics of saints.
+
fix
v.i.
To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
+
fancy
a.
Adapted to please the fancy or taste; ornamental; as, fancy goods.
+
frush
v.t.
To batter; to break in pieces.
+
fluke
n.
An instrument for cleaning out a hole drilled in stone for blasting.
+
flower
v.i.
To come into the finest or fairest condition.
+
freightage
n.
Charge for transportation; expense of carriage.
+
family
v.t.
Honorable descent; noble or respectable stock; as, a man of family.
+
franchise
a.
Magnanimity; generosity; liberality; frankness; nobility.
+
frigid
a.
Cold; wanting heat or warmth; of low temperature; as, a frigid climate.
+
flyblow
n.
One of the eggs or young larvae deposited by a flesh fly, or blowfly.
+
facilitating
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Facilitate
+
foolish
a.
Marked with, or exhibiting, folly; void of understanding; weak in intellect; without judgment or discretion; silly; unwise.
+
fieldy
a.
Open, like a field.
+
feather
n.
A thin wedge driven between the two semicylindrical parts of a divided plug in a hole bored in a stone, to rend the stone.
+
fining
n.
That which is used to refine; especially, a preparation of isinglass, gelatin, etc., for clarifying beer.
+
footy
a.
Having foots, or settlings; as, footy oil, molasses, etc.
+
fibula
n.
The outer and usually the smaller of the two bones of the leg, or hind limb, below the knee.
+
fiddlefaddle
v.i.
To talk nonsense.
+
ful
a.
A suffix signifying full of, abounding with; as, boastful, harmful, woeful.
+
flat foot

A foot in which the arch of the instep is flattened so that the entire sole of the foot rests upon the ground; also, the deformity, usually congential, exhibited by such a foot; splayfoot.
+
fullery
n.
The place or the works where the fulling of cloth is carried on.
+
fluent
n.
A variable quantity, considered as increasing or diminishing; -- called, in the modern calculus, the function or integral.
+
fancy
v.t.
To have a fancy for; to like; to be pleased with, particularly on account of external appearance or manners.
+
foolery
n.
An act of folly or weakness; a foolish practice; something absurd or nonsensical.
+
fly
v.i.
To move or pass swiftly; to hasten away; to circulate rapidly; as, a ship flies on the deep; a top flies around; rumor flies.
+
fluter
n.
One who makes grooves or flutings.
+
featherbrained
a.
Giddy; frivolous; feather-headed.
+
fleche
n.
A simple fieldwork, consisting of two faces forming a salient angle pointing outward and open at the gorge.
+
frail
n.
The quantity of raisins -- about thirty-two, fifty-six, or seventy-five pounds, -- contained in a frail.
+
fern
a.
Ancient; old. [Obs.] "Pilgrimages to . . . ferne halwes." [saints].
+
fostered
imp.|p.p.
of Foster
+
fore tooth

One of the teeth in the forepart of the mouth; an incisor.
+
function
n.
The act of executing or performing any duty, office, or calling; per formance.
+
futility
n.
The quality of producing no valuable effect, or of coming to nothing; uselessness.
+
fandango
n.
A ball or general dance, as in Mexico.
+
four
n.
The sum of four units; four units or objects.
+
fescue
n.
A straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read.
+
fogginess
n.
The state of being foggy.
+
fellahin
pl.
of Fellah
+
fancy
n.
That which pleases or entertains the taste or caprice without much use or value.
+
flipflap
adv.
With repeated strokes and noise, as of something long and loose.
+
fetus
n.
The young or embryo of an animal in the womb, or in the egg; often restricted to the later stages in the development of viviparous and oviparous animals, embryo being applied to the earlier stages.
+
fraise
n.
A large and thick pancake, with slices of bacon in it.
+
friend
n.
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.
+
foamed
imp.|p.p.
of Foam
+
founder
v.i.
To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse.
+
flewed
a.
Having large flews.
+
fossil
a.
Dug out of the earth; as, fossil coal; fossil salt.
+
facet
n.
A little face; a small, plane surface; as, the facets of a diamond.
+
floor
n.
The structure formed of beams, girders, etc., with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into stories. Floor in sense 1 is, then, the upper surface of floor in sense 2.
+
funnelform
a.
Having the form of a funnel, or tunnel; that is, expanding gradually from the bottom upward, as the corolla of some flowers; infundibuliform.
+
fisherman
n.
A ship or vessel employed in the business of taking fish, as in the cod fishery.
+
fiddled
imp.|p.p.
of Fiddle
+
fraise
v.t.
To protect, as a line of troops, against an onset of cavalry, by opposing bayonets raised obliquely forward.
+
frugal
n.
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.
+
fleecer
n.
One who fleeces or strips unjustly, especially by trickery or fraund.
+
fluke
n.
An accidental and favorable stroke at billiards (called a scratch in the United States); hence, any accidental or unexpected advantage; as, he won by a fluke.
+
frustrative
a.
Tending to defeat; fallacious.
+
frontiersmen
pl.
of Floatiersman
+
first
a.
Foremost; in front of, or in advance of, all others.
+
fumitez
n.
Fumitory.
+
fillibustered
imp.|p.p.
of Filibuster
+
false
a.
To mislead by want of truth; to deceive.
+
fell
a.
Cruel; barbarous; inhuman; fierce; savage; ravenous.
+
fauces
n.pl.
That portion of the interior of a spiral shell which can be seen by looking into the aperture.
+
footmen
pl.
of Footman
+
flopping
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Flop
+
feeze
n.
Fretful excitement. [Obs.] See Feaze.
+
flourish
n.
A fanciful stroke of the pen or graver; a merely decorative figure.
+
figurate
a.
Florid; figurative; involving passing discords by the freer melodic movement of one or more parts or voices in the harmony; as, figurate counterpoint or descant.
+
forswear
v.i.
To reject or renounce upon oath; hence, to renounce earnestly, determinedly, or with protestations.
+
fucoid
n.
A plant, whether recent or fossil, which resembles a seaweed. See Fucoid, a.
+
finicking
a.
Alt. of Finicky
+
frustrate
a.
Vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable; null; voil; nugatory; of no effect.
+
fourchette
n.
The frog of the hoof of the horse and allied animals.
+
fifing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fife
+
florence
n.
An ancient gold coin of the time of Edward III., of six shillings sterling value.
+
feeding
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Feed
+
fork
v.t.
To raise, or pitch with a fork, as hay; to dig or turn over with a fork, as the soil.
+
fluo

A combining form indicating fluorine as an ingredient; as in fluosilicate, fluobenzene.
+
face
n.
That part of the head, esp. of man, in which the eyes, cheeks, nose, and mouth are situated; visage; countenance.
+
fiftieth
n.
One of fifty equal parts; the quotient of a unit divided by fifty.
+
furbishing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Furbish
+
frequent
n.
Addicted to any course of conduct; inclined to indulge in any practice; habitual; persistent.
+
forecast
n.
Previous contrivance or determination; predetermination.
+
ferm
n.
Alt. of Ferme
+
footprint
n.
The impression of the foot; a trace or footmark; as, "Footprints of the Creator."
+
fidicinal
a.
Of or pertaining to a stringed instrument.
+
forewisten
pl.
of Forewite
+
fillipeen
n.
See Philopena.
+
form
n.
Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality; as, a matter of mere form.
+
fud
n.
The tail of a hare, coney, etc.
+
fellifluous
a.
Flowing with gall.
+
fair
adv.
Clearly; openly; frankly; civilly; honestly; favorably; auspiciously; agreeably.
+
fissigemmation
n.
A process of reproduction intermediate between fission and gemmation.
+
flatness
n.
Want of variety or flavor; dullness; insipidity.
+
file
n.
Anything employed to smooth, polish, or rasp, literally or figuratively.
+
flear
v.t.|i.
See Fleer.
+
fish
n.
A name loosely applied in popular usage to many animals of diverse characteristics, living in the water.
+
fuller
v.t.
To form a groove or channel in, by a fuller or set hammer; as, to fuller a bayonet.
+
ferri

A combining form indicating ferric iron as an ingredient; as, ferricyanide.
+
fetisely
adv.
Neatly; gracefully; properly.
+
flasket
n.
A long, shallow basket, with two handles.
+
furnace
n.
To throw out, or exhale, as from a furnace; also, to put into a furnace.
+
forceps
n.
The caudal forceps-shaped appendage of earwigs and some other insects. See Earwig.
+
fawningly
adv.
In a fawning manner.
+
flatwise
a.adv.
With the flat side downward, or next to another object; not edgewise.
+
furry
a.
Resembling fur.
+
forecaster
n.
One who forecast.
+
feminine
n.
Any one of those words which are the appellations of females, or which have the terminations usually found in such words; as, actress, songstress, abbess, executrix.
+
forfalture
n.
Forfeiture.
+
feverfew
n.
A perennial plant (Pyrethrum, / Chrysanthemum, Parthenium) allied to camomile, having finely divided leaves and white blossoms; -- so named from its supposed febrifugal qualities.
+
fly
v.i.
A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk.
+
forearm
n.
That part of the arm or fore limb between the elbow and wrist; the antibrachium.
+
fix
v.t.
To transfix; to pierce.
+
farinaceous
a.
Like meal; mealy; pertainiing to meal; as, a farinaceous taste, smell, or appearance.
+
fairy
n.
The country of the fays; land of illusions.
+
foul
superl.
Not conformed to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.; unfair; dishonest; dishonorable; cheating; as, foul play.
+
fitchet
n.
Alt. of Fitchew
+
forenotice
n.
Notice or information of an event before it happens; forewarning.
+
frigga
n.
The wife of Odin and mother of the gods; the supreme goddess; the Juno of the Valhalla.  Cf. Freya.
+
firecrest
n.
A small European kinglet (Regulus ignicapillus), having a bright red crest; -- called also fire-crested wren.
+
form
n.
The shape and structure of anything, as distinguished from the material of which it is composed; particular disposition or arrangement of matter, giving it individuality or distinctive character; configuration; figure; external appearance.
+
friendship
n.
Aptness to unite; conformity; affinity; harmony; correspondence.
+
frescoing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fresco
+
flaunt
v.i.
To throw or spread out; to flutter; to move ostentatiously; as, a flaunting show.
+
fest
n.
The fist.
+
flatiron
n.
An iron with a flat, smooth surface for ironing clothes.
+
fratricide
n.
One who murders or kills his own brother.
+
fluohydric
a.
See Hydrofluoric.
+
fruticulose
a.
Like, or pertaining to, a small shrub.
+
flavor
v.t.
To give flavor to; to add something (as salt or a spice) to, to give character or zest.
+
fantastic
a.
Having the nature of a phantom; unreal.
+
flabbergast
v.t.
To astonish; to strike with wonder, esp. by extraordinary statements.
+
flex
v.t.
To bend; as, to flex the arm.
+
forwardness
n.
An advanced stage of progress or of preparation; advancement; as, his measures were in great forwardness.
+
floroon
n.
A border worked with flowers.
+
fossilize
v.i.
To become antiquated, rigid, or fixed, beyond the influence of change or progress.
+
fanfaronade
n.
A swaggering; vain boasting; ostentation; a bluster.
+
foolhardihood
n.
The state of being foolhardy; foolhardiness.
+
frolic
a.
Full of levity; dancing, playing, or frisking about; full of pranks; frolicsome; gay; merry.
+
foot
v.t.
To tread; as, to foot the green.
+
fistule
n.
A fistula.
+
fail
v.i.
Miscarriage; failure; deficiency; fault; -- mostly superseded by failure or failing, except in the phrase without fail.
+
force
n.
To compel, as by strength of evidence; as, to force conviction on the mind.
+
fadeless
a.
Not liable to fade; unfading.
+
fenerate
v.i.
To put money to usury; to lend on interest.
+
front
n.
A position directly before the face of a person, or before the foremost part of a thing; as, in front of un person, of the troops, or of a house.
+
foreefront
n.
Foremost part or place.
+
frequencies
pl.
of Frequency
+
fasti
n.pl.
Records or registers of important events.
+
frolic
v.i.
To play wild pranks; to play tricks of levity, mirth, and gayety; to indulge in frolicsome play; to sport.
+
flighty
a.
Indulging in flights, or wild and unrestrained sallies, of imagination, humor, caprice, etc.; given to disordered fancies and extravagant conduct; volatile; giddy; eccentric; slighty delirious.
+
figshell
n.
A marine univalve shell of the genus Pyrula, or Ficula, resembling a fig in form.
+
ftiction
n.
The resistance which a body meets with from the surface on which it moves. It may be resistance to sliding motion, or to rolling motion.
+
fibrous
a.
Containing, or consisting of, fibers; as, the fibrous coat of the cocoanut; the fibrous roots of grasses.
+
fossoria
n.pl.
See Fossores.
+
fold
v.t.
To cover or wrap up; to conceal.
+
facient
n.
One of the variables of a quantic as distinguished from a coefficient.
+
folding
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fold
+
foil
n.
The space between the cusps in Gothic architecture; a rounded or leaflike ornament, in windows, niches, etc. A group of foils is called trefoil, quatrefoil, quinquefoil, etc., according to the number of arcs of which it is composed.
+
ferment
v.i.
To be agitated or excited by violent emotions.
+
funicle
n.
The little stalk that attaches a seed to the placenta.
+
floodage
n.
Inundation.
+
forcarve
v.t.
To cut completely; to cut off.
+
fabricating
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fabricate
+
former
n.
A templet, pattern, or gauge by which an article is shaped.
+
flounce
v.t.
To deck with a flounce or flounces; as, to flounce a petticoat or a frock.
+
frumenty
n.
Food made of hulled wheat boiled in milk, with sugar, plums, etc.
+
formate
n.
A salt of formic acid.
+
friendship
n.
Kindly aid; help; assistance,
+
frost
v.t.
To roughen or sharpen, as the nail heads or calks of horseshoes, so as to fit them for frosty weather.
+
formalize
v.t.
To give form, or a certain form, to; to model.
+
fillip
n.
Something serving to rouse or excite.
+
furacity
n.
Addictedness to theft; thievishness.
+
forgetfully
adv.
In a forgetful manner.
+
fordrunken
a.
Utterly drunk; very drunk.
+
fallowed
imp.|p.p.
of Fallow
+
fable
n.
Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.
+
fullformed
a.
Full in form or shape; rounded out with flesh.
+
fulgent
a.
Exquisitely bright; shining; dazzling; effulgent.
+
ferroprussic
a.
Ferrocyanic.
+
forename
n.
A name that precedes the family name or surname; a first name.
+
fashion
n.
Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding; as, men of fashion.
+
featherfew
n.
Feverfew.
+
flaunting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Flaunt
+
forbear
v.i.
To refrain from proceeding; to pause; to delay.
+
filmy
a.
Composed of film or films.
+
fine
superl.
Finished; brought to perfection; refined; hence, free from impurity; excellent; superior; elegant; worthy of admiration; accomplished; beautiful.
+
fault
v.t.
To charge with a fault; to accuse; to find fault with; to blame.
+
fensible
a.
Fencible.
+
foraminifer
n.
One of the foraminifera.
+
fob
v.t.
To cheat; to trick; to impose on.
+
framing
n.
The act, process, or style of putting together a frame, or of constructing anything; a frame; that which frames.
+
foxfish
n.
The european dragonet. See Dragonet.
+
feces
n.pl.
dregs; sediment; excrement. See FAeces.
+
flyer
n.
One that uses wings.
+
flawed
imp.|p.p.
of Flaw
+
frizzed
imp.|p.p.
of Friz
+
fourrier
n.
A harbinger.
+
fuchslae
pl.
of Fuchsia
+
fidia
n.
A genus of small beetles, of which one species (the grapevine Fidia, F. longipes) is very injurious to vines in America.
+
flow
n.
The tidal setting in of the water from the ocean to the shore. See Ebb and flow, under Ebb.
+
fairy
a.
Given by fairies; as, fairy money.
+
flatness
n.
The quality or state of being flat.
+
filtrated
imp.|p.p.
of Filtrate
+
foregoer
n.
One who forbears to enjoy.
+
friz
v.t.
To form into little burs, prominences, knobs, or tufts, as the nap of cloth.
+
folios
pl.
of Folio
+
felonious
a.
Having the quality of felony; malignant; malicious; villainous; traitorous; perfidious; in a legal sense, done with intent to commit a crime; as, felonious homicide.
+
fulmine
v.t.
To shoot; to dart like lightning; to fulminate; to utter with authority or vehemence.
+
forswornness
n.
State of being forsworn.
+
flow
v.i.
To glide along smoothly, without harshness or asperties; as, a flowing period; flowing numbers; to sound smoothly to the ear; to be uttered easily.
+
friezer
n.
One who, or that which, friezes or frizzes.
+
fixing
n.
Arrangements; embellishments; trimmings; accompaniments.
+
fluxionist
n.
One skilled in fluxions.
+
fescue
n.
The style of a dial.
+
flag
v.t.
To convey, as a message, by means of flag signals; as, to flag an order to troops or vessels at a distance.
+
feign
v.t.
To dissemble; to conceal.
+
fork
n.
The place where a division or a union occurs; the angle or opening between two branches or limbs; as, the fork of a river, a tree, or a road.
+
flyfish
v.i.
To angle, using flies for bait.
+
fencible
n.
A soldier enlisted for home service only; -- usually in the pl.
+
forwot

pres. indic. 1st & 3d pers. sing. of Forwete.
+
for
prep.
Indicating that on place of or instead of which anything acts or serves, or that to which a substitute, an equivalent, a compensation, or the like, is offered or made; instead of, or place of.
+
flunked
imp.|p.p.
of Flunk
+
folia
pl.
of Folium
+
frons
n.
The forehead; the part of the cranium between the orbits and the vertex.
+
full
v.i.
To become fulled or thickened; as, this material fulls well.
+
firebare
n.
A beacon.
+
flourish
v.t.
To adorn with flowers orbeautiful figures, either natural or artificial; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
+
fineer
v.t.
To veneer.
+
fire beetle

A very brilliantly luminous beetle (Pyrophorus noctilucus), one of the elaters, found in Central and South America; -- called also cucujo.  The name is also applied to other species. See Firefly.
+
forum
n.
A tribunal; a court; an assembly empowered to hear and decide causes.
+
famously
adv.
In a famous manner; in a distinguished degree; greatly; splendidly.
+
fain
a.
Well-pleased; glad; apt; wont; fond; inclined.
+
framer
n.
One who frames; as, the framer of a building; the framers of the Constitution.
+
frame
v.t.
To originate; to plan; to devise; to contrive; to compose; in a bad sense, to invent or fabricate, as something false.
+
factive
a.
Making; having power to make.
+
fermentation
n.
The process of undergoing an effervescent change, as by the action of yeast; in a wider sense (Physiol. Chem.), the transformation of an organic substance into new compounds by the action of a ferment, either formed or unorganized. It differs in kind according to the nature of the ferment which causes it.
+
funeration
n.
The act of burying with funeral rites.
+
filer
n.
One who works with a file.
+
foolhardily
adv.
In a foolhardy manner.
+
festoon
n.
A carved ornament consisting of flowers, and leaves, intermixed or twisted together, wound with a ribbon, and hanging or depending in a natural curve. See Illust. of Bucranium.
+
fatalities
pl.
of Fatality
+
furnace
n.
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.
+
freakish
a.
Apt to change the mind suddenly; whimsical; capricious.
+
frizzes
pl.
of Friz
+
fin
n.
The thin sheet of metal squeezed out between the collars of the rolls in the process of rolling.
+
foulness
n.
The quality or condition of being foul.
+
frank
n.
Unrestrained; loose; licentious; -- used in a bad sense.
+
flopped
imp.|p.p.
of Flop
+
fouled
imp.|p.p.
of Foul
+
foistied
a.
Fusty.
+
fiscal
n.
A public officer in Scotland who prosecutes in petty criminal cases; -- called also procurator fiscal.
+
fogged
imp.|p.p.
of Fog
+
factorial
a.
Related to factorials.
+
fine
v.i.
To pay a fine. See Fine, n., 3 (b).
+
ferrarese
n.sing.|pl.
A citizen of Ferrara; collectively, the inhabitants of Ferrara.
+
fere
n.
Fire.
+
facility
n.
That which promotes the ease of any action or course of conduct; advantage; aid; assistance; -- usually in the plural; as, special facilities for study.
+
flagworm
n.
A worm or grub found among flags and sedge.
+
follower
n.
A gland. See Illust. of Stuffing box.
+
festival
n.
A time of feasting or celebration; an anniversary day of joy, civil or religious.
+
fur
n.
The soft, downy covering on the skin of a peach.
+
fougade
n.
Alt. of Fougasse
+
flume
n.
A stream; especially, a passage channel, or conduit for the water that drives a mill wheel; or an artifical channel of water for hydraulic or placer mining; also, a chute for conveying logs or lumber down a declivity.
+
flush
v.i.
To become suddenly suffused, as the cheeks; to turn red; to blush.
+
foment
v.t.
To nurse to life or activity; to cherish and promote by excitements; to encourage; to abet; to instigate; -- used often in a bad sense; as, to foment ill humors.
+
feminine
n.
A woman.
+
foggily
adv.
In a foggy manner; obscurely.
+
fuliginously
adv.
In a smoky manner.
+
freedom
n.
Exemption from necessity, in choise and action; as, the freedom of the will.
+
fillet
n.
Any scantling smaller than a batten.
+
fortune
n.
To make fortunate; to give either good or bad fortune to.
+
feel
v.t.
To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; to have sensation excited by contact of (a thing) with the body or limbs.
+
fowls
pl.
of Fowl
+
fibrinoplastic
a.
Like fibrinoplastin; capable of forming fibrin when brought in contact with fibrinogen.
+
fail
v.t.
To miss of attaining; to lose.
+
fanatism
n.
Fanaticism.
+
fulcrate
a.
Furnished with fulcrums.
+
festeye
v.t.
To feast; to entertain.
+
faunus
n.
See Faun.
+
fresh
superl
In a raw, green, or untried state; uncultivated; uncultured; unpracticed; as, a fresh hand on a ship.
+
fined
imp.|p.p.
of Fine
+
flat
n.
The flat part, or side, of anything; as, the broad side of a blade, as distinguished from its edge.
+
frank
n.
A pigsty.
+
foothold
n.
A holding with the feet; firm standing; that on which one may tread or rest securely; footing.
+
flirt
v.i.
To utter contemptuous language, with an air of disdain; to jeer or gibe.
+
fudge
v.t.
To make up; to devise; to contrive; to fabricate.
+
fruit
v.t.
That which is produced; the effect or consequence of any action; advantageous or desirable product or result; disadvantageous or evil consequence or effect; as, the fruits of labor, of self-denial, of intemperance.
+
fiat
n.
An authoritative command or order to do something; an effectual decree.
+
flawy
a.
Full of flaws or cracks; broken; defective; faulty.
+
falsifier
n.
One who falsifies, or gives to a thing a deceptive appearance; a liar.
+
flourish
v.i.
To be prosperous; to increase in wealth, honor, comfort, happiness, or whatever is desirable; to thrive; to be prominent and influental; specifically, of authors, painters, etc., to be in a state of activity or production.
+
fabricatress
n.
A woman who fabricates.
+
farfetched
a.
Studiously sought; not easily or naturally deduced or introduced; forced; strained.
+
flight
n.
Lofty elevation and excursion;a mounting; a soa/ing; as, a flight of imagination, ambition, folly.
+
fire
n.
Splendor; brilliancy; luster; hence, a star.
+
fanfoot
n.
A species of gecko having the toes expanded into large lobes for adhesion. The Egyptian fanfoot (Phyodactylus gecko) is believed, by the natives, to have venomous toes.
+
flatting
n.
The process or operation of making flat, as a cylinder of glass by opening it out.
+
finnan haddie

Haddock cured in peat smoke, originally at Findon (pron. fin"an), Scotland. the name is also applied to other kinds of smoked haddock.
+
foil
n.
A blunt weapon used in fencing, resembling a smallsword in the main, but usually lighter and having a button at the point.
+
frutex
n.
A plant having a woody, durable stem, but less than a tree; a shrub.
+
fold
v.
Times or repetitions; -- used with numerals, chiefly in composition, to denote multiplication or increase in a geometrical ratio, the doubling, tripling, etc., of anything; as, fourfold, four times, increased in a quadruple ratio, multiplied by four.
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feed
n.
The mechanism by which the action of feeding is produced; a feed motion.
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flanneled
a.
Covered or wrapped in flannel.
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flathead
n.
A Chinook Indian. See Chinook, n., 1.
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foiler
n.
One who foils or frustrates.
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fence
v.i.
To make a defense; to guard one's self of anything, as against an attack; to give protection or security, as by a fence.
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forehearth
n.
The forward extension of the hearth of a blast furnace under the tymp.
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fathom
n.
A measure of length, containing six feet; the space to which a man can extend his arms; -- used chiefly in measuring cables, cordage, and the depth of navigable water by soundings.
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fretted
p.p.|a.
Ornamented with fretwork; furnished with frets; variegated; made rough on the surface.
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flotsam
n.
Alt. of Flotson
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folio
v.t.
To put a serial number on each folio or page of (a book); to page.
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favored
a.
Having a certain favor or appearance; featured; as, well-favored; hard-favored, etc.
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fruit
v.t.
The produce of animals; offspring; young; as, the fruit of the womb, of the loins, of the body.
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feetless
a.
Destitute of feet; as, feetless birds.
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figure
n.
The appearance or impression made by the conduct or carrer of a person; as, a sorry figure.
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fleet
v.i.
A flood; a creek or inlet; a bay or estuary; a river; -- obsolete, except as a place name, -- as Fleet Street in London.
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filibusterism
n.
The characteristics or practices of a filibuster.
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firing
n.
The act of disharging firearms.
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fencer
n.
One who fences; one who teaches or practices the art of fencing with sword or foil.
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fattener
n.
One who, or that which, fattens; that which gives fatness or fertility.
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flaunt
v.t.
To display ostentatiously; to make an impudent show of.
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furzy
a.a.
bounding in, or overgrown with, furze; characterized by furze.
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flagged
imp.|p.p.
of Flag
+
focillate
v.t.
To nourish.
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forestage
n.
A duty or tribute payable to the king's foresters.
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featherly
a.
Like feathers.
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fortifier
n.
One who, or that which, fortifies, strengthens, supports, or upholds.
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flatten
v.i.
To become or grow flat, even, depressed dull, vapid, spiritless, or depressed below pitch.
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fleeting
a.
Passing swiftly away; not durable; transient; transitory; as, the fleeting hours or moments.
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fullorbed
a.
Having the orb or disk complete or fully illuminated; like the full moon.
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firry
a.
Made of fir; abounding in firs.
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ferdness
n.
Fearfulness.
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furniture
v.t.
Pieces of wood or metal of a lesser height than the type, placed around the pages or other matter in a form, and, with the quoins, serving to secure the form in its place in the chase.
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forewite
v.t.
To foreknow.
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finny
a.
Abounding in fishes.
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force
n.
Validity; efficacy.
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find
v.t.
To discover by sounding; as, to find bottom.
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fleckless
a.
Without spot or blame.
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fin
n.
A blade of whalebone.
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fiddler
n.
A burrowing crab of the genus Gelasimus, of many species. The male has one claw very much enlarged, and often holds it in a position similar to that in which a musician holds a fiddle, hence the name; -- called also calling crab, soldier crab, and fighting crab.
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fraudulent
a.
Using fraud; trickly; deceitful; dishonest.
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farmost
a.
Most distant; farthest.
+
faquir
n.
See Fakir.
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frontispiece
n.
An ornamental figure or illustration fronting the first page, or titlepage, of a book; formerly, the titlepage itself.
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figured
a.
Not literal; figurative.
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fossilization
n.
The process of converting, or of being converted, into a fossil.
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fell
n.
A skin or hide of a beast with the wool or hair on; a pelt; -- used chiefly in composition, as woolfell.
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furrow
n.
Any trench, channel, or groove, as in wood or metal; a wrinkle on the face; as, the furrows of age.
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flittern
a.
A term applied to the bark obtained from young oak trees.
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fullam
n.
A false die. See Fulham.
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farfetch
v.t.
To bring from far; to seek out studiously.
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face
n.
The end or wall of the tunnel, drift, or excavation, at which work is progressing or was last done.
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final
a.
Conclusive; decisive; as, a final judgment; the battle of Waterloo brought the contest to a final issue.
+
foolishly
adv.
In a foolish manner.
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facsimile
v.t.
To make a facsimile of.
+
finlike
a.
Resembling a fin.
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fretum
n.
A strait, or arm of the sea.
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fabella
n.
One of the small sesamoid bones situated behind the condyles of the femur, in some mammals.
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fence
n.
A projection on the bolt, which passes through the tumbler gates in locking and unlocking.
+
faintness
n.
Faint-heartedness; timorousness; dejection.
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fetishism
a.
Alt. of Fetishistic
+
fraight
a.
Same as Fraught.
+
fang
v.t.
A niche in the side of an adit or shaft, for an air course.
+
flam
v.t.
To deceive with a falsehood.
+
fibrination
n.
The state of acquiring or having an excess of fibrin.
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fascination
n.
That which fascinates; a charm; a spell.
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face
v.i.
To present a face or front.
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feeling
n.
The capacity of the soul for emotional states; a high degree of susceptibility to emotions or states of the sensibility not dependent on the body; as, a man of feeling; a man destitute of feeling.
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fructification
n.
The collective organs by which a plant produces its fruit, or seeds, or reproductive spores.
+
face
n.
The style or cut of a type or font of type.
+
fizzed
imp.|p.p.
of Fizz
+
faun
n.
A god of fields and shipherds, diddering little from the satyr. The fauns are usually represented as half goat and half man.
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faculty
n.
Ability to act or perform, whether inborn or cultivated; capacity for any natural function; especially, an original mental power or capacity for any of the well-known classes of mental activity; psychical or soul capacity; capacity for any of the leading kinds of soul activity, as knowledge, feeling, volition; intellectual endowment or gift; power; as, faculties of the mind or the soul.
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ferrara
n.
A sword bearing the mark of one of the Ferrara family of Italy. These swords were highly esteemed in England and Scotland in the 16th and 17th centuries.
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foreread
v.t.
To tell beforehand; to signify by tokens; to predestine.
+
forwards
adv.
Same as Forward.
+
furacious
a.
Given to theft; thievish.
+
finally
adv.
Completely; beyond recovery.
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fornical
a.
Relating to a fornix.
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function
n.
The appropriate action of any special organ or part of an animal or vegetable organism; as, the function of the heart or the limbs; the function of leaves, sap, roots, etc.; life is the sum of the functions of the various organs and parts of the body.
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fineness
a.
Freedom from foreign matter or alloy; clearness; purity; as, the fineness of liquor.
+
furioso
a.|adv.
With great force or vigor; vehemently.
+
father
n.
A respectful mode of address to an old man.
+
foliation
n.
The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, foil, or lamina.
+
footstep
n.
An inclined plane under a hand printing press.
+
frostfish
n.
A name applied in New Zealand to the scabbard fish (Lepidotus) valued as a food fish.
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flake
n.
A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything; a film; flock; lamina; layer; scale; as, a flake of snow, tallow, or fish.
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fast
a.
In a fast, fixed, or firmly established manner; fixedly; firmly; immovably.
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fixity
n.
Fixedness; as, fixity of tenure; also, that which is fixed.
+
flight
n.
A kind of arrow for the longbow; also, the sport of shooting with it. See Shaft.
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faintness
n.
Feebleness, as of color or light; lack of distinctness; as, faintness of description.
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finishing
n.
The act or process of completing or perfecting; the final work upon or ornamentation of a thing.
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frithstool
n.
A seat in churches near the altar, to which offenders formerly fled for sanctuary.
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fleet
v.t.
To pass over rapidly; to skin the surface of; as, a ship that fleets the gulf.
+
flipper
n.
A broad flat limb used for swimming, as those of seals, sea turtles, whales, etc.
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foreground
n.
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.
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falter
v.i.
Hesitation; trembling; feebleness; an uncertain or broken sound; as, a slight falter in her voice.
+
forehear
v.i.|t.
To hear beforehand.
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flookan
n.
Alt. of Flukan
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firm
superl.
Not easily excited or disturbed; unchanging in purpose; fixed; steady; constant; stable; unshaken; not easily changed in feelings or will; strong; as, a firm believer; a firm friend; a firm adherent.
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fortunateness
n.
The condition or quality of being fortunate; good luck; success; happiness.
+
forslugge
v.t.
To lsoe by idleness or slotch.
+
factionary
a.
Belonging to a faction; being a partisan; taking sides.
+
frowy
a.
Musty. rancid; as, frowy butter.
+
fool
n.
One destitute of reason, or of the common powers of understanding; an idiot; a natural.
+
frontispiece
n.
The part which first meets the eye
+
fogey
n.
See Fogy.
+
fissiparity
n.
Quality of being fissiparous; fissiparism.
+
flouted
imp.|p.p.
of Flout
+
forefend
v.t.
To hinder; to fend off; to avert; to prevent the approach of; to forbid or prohibit. See Forfend.
+
fren
a.
A stranger.
+
fastness
a.
The state of being fast or swift.
+
filose
a.
Terminating in a threadlike process.
+
follower
n.
The part of a machine that receives motion from another part. See Driver.
+
frigate
n.
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.
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froward
a.
Not willing to yield or compIy with what is required or is reasonable; perverse; disobedient; peevish; as, a froward child.
+
foreteller
n.
One who predicts.
+
foalfoot
n.
See Coltsfoot.
+
fighting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fight
+
fight
v.i.
A struggle or contest of any kind.
+
fashion
v.t.
To form; to give shape or figure to; to mold.
+
flush
n.
A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement. animation, etc.; as, a flush of joy.
+
feod
n.
A feud. See 2d Feud.
+
fugh
interj.
An exclamation of disgust; foh; faugh.
+
flyspeck
n.
A speck or stain made by the excrement of a fly; hence, any insignificant dot.
+
foreseize
v.t.
To seize beforehand.
+
fork
n.
Anything furcate or like a fork in shape, or furcate at the extremity; as, a tuning fork.
+
fearnaught
n.
A fearless person.
+
flash
n.
A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal.
+
ficttelite
n.
A white crystallized mineral resin from the Fichtelgebirge, Bavaria.
+
facial
a.
Of or pertaining to the face; as, the facial artery, vein, or nerve.
+
fan
n.
An instrument used for producing artificial currents of air, by the wafting or revolving motion of a broad surface
+
fluidounce
n.
See Fluid ounce, under Fluid.
+
flatulently
adv.
In a flatulent manner; with flatulence.
+
fry
v.i.
To simmer; to boil.
+
frequenter
n.
One who frequents; one who often visits, or resorts to customarily.
+
feese
n.
the short run before a leap.
+
freight
n.
Freight transportation, or freight line.
+
flinders
n.pl.
Small pieces or splinters; fragments.
+
fusileer
n.
Alt. of Fusilier
+
frequentative
a.
Serving to express the frequent repetition of an action; as, a frequentative verb.
+
fibred
a.
Having fibers; made up of fibers.
+
footman
n.
A moth of the family Lithosidae; -- so called from its livery-like colors.
+
flatuses
pl.
of Flatus
+
freckling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Freckle
+
fallen
p.p.
of Fall
+
far
a.
Widely different in nature or quality; opposite in character.
+
fray
n.
A fret or chafe, as in cloth; a place injured by rubbing.
+
falcon
n.
One of a family (Falconidae) of raptorial birds, characterized by a short, hooked beak, strong claws, and powerful flight.
+
foxes
n.pl.
See Fox, n., 7.
+
forsaken
p.p.
of Forsake
+
fulciment
n.
A prop; a fulcrum.
+
fetch
v.t.
To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
+
flagella
pl.
of Flagellum
+
foil
v.t.
To defile; to soil.
+
foreremembered
a.
Called to mind previously.
+
fuchsine
n.
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.
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forktail
n.
A salmon in its fourth year's growth.
+
frost
v.i.
Frozen dew; -- called also hoarfrost or white frost.
+
farsighted
a.
Hypermetropic.
+
fall
n.
The act of felling or cutting down.
+
foam
n.
To gather foam; to froth; as, the billows foam.
+
false
adv.
Not truly; not honestly; falsely.
+
freshmen
pl.
of Freshman
+
furfurine
n.
A white, crystalline base, obtained indirectly from furfurol.
+
figure
n.
To represent by a figure, as to form or mold; to make an image of, either palpable or ideal; also, to fashion into a determinate form; to shape.
+
footman
n.
A metallic stand with four feet, for keeping anything warm before a fire.
+
furrowed
imp.|p.p.
of Furrow
+
fracture
n.
The texture of a freshly broken surface; as, a compact fracture; an even, hackly, or conchoidal fracture.
+
frieze
n.
Any sculptured or richly ornamented band in a building or, by extension, in rich pieces of furniture. See Illust. of Column.
+
foreclosed
imp.|p.p.
of Foreclose
+
float
v.i.
The act of flowing; flux; flow.
+
fractionate
v.t.
To separate into different portions or fractions, as in the distillation of liquids.
+
foreboded
imp.|p.p.
of Forebode
+
feudalize
v.t.
To reduce toa feudal tenure; to conform to feudalism.
+
flying squirrel

One of a group of squirrels, of the genera Pteromus and Sciuropterus, having parachute-like folds of skin extending from the fore to the hind legs, which enable them to make very long leaps.
+
flatness
n.
Depression of tone; the state of being below the true pitch; -- opposed to sharpness or acuteness.
+
fennel
n.
A perennial plant of the genus Faeniculum (F. vulgare), having very finely divided leaves. It is cultivated in gardens for the agreeable aromatic flavor of its seeds.
+
fullness
n.
The state of being full, or of abounding; abundance; completeness.
+
foretell
v.i.
To utter predictions.
+
formal
n.
See Methylal.
+
funereal
a.
Suiting a funeral; pertaining to burial; solemn. Hence: Dark; dismal; mournful.
+
furzeling
n.
An English warbler (Melizophilus provincialis); -- called also furze wren, and Dartford warbler.
+
furrier
n.
A dealer in furs; one who makes or sells fur goods.
+
fleshless
a.
Destitute of flesh; lean.
+
frothily
adv.
In a frothy manner.
+
facile
a.
Easy to be surmounted or removed; easily conquerable; readily mastered.
+
feather
n.
A longitudinal strip projecting as a fin from an object, to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sidwise but permit motion lengthwise; a spline.
+
feuilleton
n.
A part of a French newspaper (usually the bottom of the page), devoted to light literature, criticism, etc.; also, the article or tale itself, thus printed.
+
frumentation
n.
A largess of grain bestowed upon the people, to quiet them when uneasy.
+
fishskin
n.
The skin of a fish (dog fish, shark, etc.)
+
fette
imp.
of Fette
+
forthright
a.
Direct; straightforward; as, a forthright man.
+
forayer
n.
One who makes or joins in a foray.
+
funeral
n.
The procession attending the burial of the dead; the show and accompaniments of an interment.
+
fair
n.
A festival, and sale of fancy articles. erc., usually for some charitable object; as, a Grand Army fair.
+
foment
v.t.
To apply a warm lotion to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge wet with warm water or medicated liquid.
+
fivefinger
n.
See Cinquefoil.
+
foot
v.t.
To kick with the foot; to spurn.
+
faded
a.
That has lost freshness, color, or brightness; grown dim.
+
fizgig
n.
A fishgig.
+
false
a.
To feign; to pretend to make.
+
fast
v.i.
Voluntary abstinence from food, for a space of time, as a spiritual discipline, or as a token of religious humiliation.
+
foreallege
v.t.
To allege or cite before.
+
feeder
n.
An auxiliary part of a machine which supplies or leads along the material operated upon.
+
floundering
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Flounder
+
fremed
a.
Strange; foreign.
+
fruiterer
n.
One who deals in fruit; a seller of fruits.
+
flying
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fly
+
fingered
a.
Having fingers.
+
frogfish
n.
An oceanic fish of the genus Antennarius or Pterophrynoides; -- called also mousefish and toadfish.
+
fannerved
a.
Having the nerves or veins arranged in a radiating manner; -- said of certain leaves, and of the wings of some insects.
+
fleshly
a.
Animal; not/vegetable.
+
falsefaced
a.
Hypocritical.
+
frightful
a.
Full of fright; affrighted; frightened.
+
forbearance
n.
The act of forbearing or waiting; the exercise of patience.
+
flesh
n.
The soft, pulpy substance of fruit; also, that part of a root, fruit, and the like, which is fit to be eaten.
+
fungus
n.
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.
+
franciscan
a.
Belonging to the Order of St. Francis of the Franciscans.
+
fucus
n.
A genus of tough, leathery seaweeds, usually of a dull brownish green color; rockweed.
+
fasciculate
a.
Alt. of Fasciculated
+
fibulae
pl.
of Fibula
+
formulated
imp.|p.p.
of Formulate
+
footfall
n.
A setting down of the foot; a footstep; the sound of a footstep.
+
fit
superl.
Adapted to an end, object, or design; suitable by nature or by art; suited by character, qualitties, circumstances, education, etc.; qualified; competent; worthy.
+
foretop
n.
The platform at the head of the foremast.
+
felonwort
n.
The bittersweet nightshade (Solanum Dulcamara). See Bittersweet.
+
floor
n.
A horizontal, flat ore body.
+
fine
n.
A sum of money or price paid for obtaining a benefit, favor, or privilege, as for admission to a copyhold, or for obtaining or renewing a lease.
+
faldage
n.
A privilege of setting up, and moving about, folds for sheep, in any fields within manors, in order to manure them; -- often reserved to himself by the lord of the manor.
+
fish
v.i.
To attempt to catch fish; to be employed in taking fish, by any means, as by angling or drawing a net.
+
flickered
imp.|p.p.
of Flicker
+
fantail
n.
Any bird of the Australian genus Rhipidura, in which the tail is spread in the form of a fan during flight. They belong to the family of flycatchers.
+
frozen
a.
Congealed with cold; affected by freezing; as, a frozen brook.
+
fell
n.
The finer portions of ore which go through the meshes, when the ore is sorted by sifting.
+
fade
a.
To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color.
+
fig
n.
A small fruit tree (Ficus Carica) with large leaves, known from the remotest antiquity. It was probably native from Syria westward to the Canary Islands.
+
force
n.
Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.
+
feoffment
n.
The grant of a feud or fee.
+
foist
n.
A trick or fraud; a swindle.
+
flap
n.
To move, as something broad and flaplike; as, to flap the wings; to let fall, as the brim of a hat.
+
folium
n.
A leaf, esp. a thin leaf or plate.
+
froppish
a.
Peevish; froward.
+
fissile
a.
Capable of being split, cleft, or divided in the direction of the grain, like wood, or along natural planes of cleavage, like crystals.
+
forsaking
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Forsake
+
frail
superl
Liable to fall from virtue or be led into sin; not strong against temptation; weak in resolution; also, unchaste; -- often applied to fallen women.
+
fogyism
n.
The principles and conduct of a fogy.
+
fauni
pl.
of Faunus
+
floe
n.
A low, flat mass of floating ice.
+
foamless
a.
Having no foam.
+
foot
v.i.
To tread to measure or music; to dance; to trip; to skip.
+
filamentary
a.
Having the character of, or formed by, a filament.
+
footstalk
n.
The lower part of a millstone spindle. It rests in a step.
+
foremostly
adv.
In the foremost place or order; among the foremost.
+
fervid
a.
Ardent; vehement; zealous.
+
fern
adv.
Long ago.
+
fracas
v.t.
An uproar; a noisy quarrel; a disturbance; a brawl.
+
fet
p.p.
Fetched.
+
fulimart
n.
Same as Foumart.
+
fauna
n.
The animals of any given area or epoch; as, the fauna of America; fossil fauna; recent fauna.
+
faller
n.
A part which acts by falling, as a stamp in a fulling mill, or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread breaks.
+
face
v.i.
To carry a false appearance; to play the hypocrite.
+
forestick
n.
Front stick of a hearth fire.
+
festennine
n.
A fescennine.
+
flung
imp.|p.p.
of Fling
+
flinch
n.
The act of flinching.
+
fair
superl.
Without a dark hue; light; clear; as, a fair skin.
+
ferny
a.
Abounding in ferns.
+
famular
n.
Domestic; familiar.
+
finpike
n.
The bichir. See Crossopterygii.
+
fable
n.
Fiction; untruth; falsehood.
+
flower
n.
A figure of speech; an ornament of style.
+
fester
v.t.
To cause to fester or rankle.
+
feuillemort
a.
Having the color of a faded leaf.
+
faldstool
n.
A folding stool, or portable seat, made to fold up in the manner of a camo stool. It was formerly placed in the choir for a bishop, when he offciated in any but his own cathedral church.
+
fossiliferous
a.
Containing or composed of fossils.
+
fight
v.i.
To act in opposition to anything; to struggle against; to contend; to strive; to make resistance.
+
ferforthly
adv.
Ferforth.
+
fooled
imp.|p.p.
of Fool
+
filamentous
a.
Like a thread; consisting of threads or filaments.
+
frontignan
n.
A grape of many varieties and colors.
+
frosting
n.
A lusterless finish of metal or glass; the process of producing such a finish.
+
ford
v.i.
A place in a river, or other water, where it may be passed by man or beast on foot, by wading.
+
fooling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fool
+
flushing
n.
A heavy, coarse cloth manufactured from shoddy; -- commonly in the /
+
foliaceous
a.
Consisting of leaves or thin laminae; having the form of a leaf or plate; as, foliaceous spar.
+
fight
v.i.
A battle; an engagement; a contest in arms; a combat; a violent conflict or struggle for victory, between individuals or between armies, ships, or navies, etc.
+
fillet
n.
The loins of a horse, beginning at the place where the hinder part of the saddle rests.
+
frivolous
a.
Of little weight or importance; not worth notice; slight; as, a frivolous argument.
+
formell
n.
The female of a hawk or falcon.
+
frog
n.
The triangular prominence of the hoof, in the middle of the sole of the foot of the horse, and other animals; the fourchette.
+
fresnel lens

See under Lens.
+
fisheries
pl.
of Fishery
+
fish
n.
An oviparous, vertebrate animal usually having fins and a covering scales or plates. It breathes by means of gills, and lives almost entirely in the water. See Pisces.
+
flirtingly
adv.
In a flirting manner.
+
fire
v.t.
To inflame; to irritate, as the passions; as, to fire the soul with anger, pride, or revenge.
+
fleer
v.t.
To mock; to flout at.
+
fleeced
imp.|p.p.
of Fleece
+
fuddler
n.
A drunkard.
+
fishgig
n.
A spear with barbed prongs used for harpooning fish.
+
foothalt
n.
A disease affecting the feet of sheep.
+
fibriform
a.
Having the form of a fiber or fibers; resembling a fiber.
+
finished
a.
Polished to the highest degree of excellence; complete; perfect; as, a finished poem; a finished education.
+
fruition
n.
Use or possession of anything, especially such as is accompanied with pleasure or satisfaction; pleasure derived from possession or use.
+
fellowship
n.
Those associated with one, as in a family, or a society; a company.
+
fuzzy
n.
Furnished with fuzz; having fuzz; like fuzz; as, the fuzzy skin of a peach.
+
frightful
a.
Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance.
+
falsify
a.
To show, in accounting, (an inem of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong.
+
flanker
v.t.
To defend by lateral fortifications.
+
forfeit
n.
A thing forfeit or forfeited; what is or may be taken from one in requital of a misdeed committed; that which is lost, or the right to which is alienated, by a crime, offense, neglect of duty, or breach of contract; hence, a fine; a mulct; a penalty; as, he who murders pays the forfeit of his life.
+
fornicate
a.
Alt. of Fornicated
+
fumades
pl.
of Fumado
+
furld
imp.|p.p.
of Furl
+
flat
n.
A floor, loft, or story in a building; especially, a floor of a house, which forms a complete residence in itself.
+
frock
v.t.
To clothe in a frock.
+
fortune
v.i.
To fall out; to happen.
+
friation
n.
The act of breaking up or pulverizing.
+
fast
v.
Firm in adherence; steadfast; not easily separated or alienated; faithful; as, a fast friend.
+
flocci
pl.
of Floccus
+
focalizing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Focalize
+
fructifying
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fructify
+
forehend
v.t.
See Forhend.
+
floyte
n.|v.
A variant of Flute.
+
forbid
v.i.
To utter a prohibition; to prevent; to hinder.
+
fly
v.i.
A familiar spirit; a witch's attendant.
+
fie
interj.
An exclamation denoting contempt or dislike. See Fy.
+
forenamed
a.
Named before; aforenamed.
+
flit
v.i.
To pass rapidly, as a light substance, from one place to another; to remove; to migrate.
+
falculate
a.
Curved and sharppointed, like a falcula, or claw of a falcon.
+
financier
n.
One charged with the administration of finance; an officer who administers the public revenue; a treasurer.
+
flabellum
n.
A fan; especially, the fan carried before the pope on state occasions, made in ostrich and peacock feathers.
+
financiering
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Financier
+
fellies
pl.
of Felly
+
fret
v.i.
To eat in; to make way by corrosion.
+
free
superl.
Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited; as, a free horse.
+
freight
v.t.
To load with goods, as a ship, or vehicle of any kind, for transporting them from one place to another; to furnish with freight; as, to freight a ship; to freight a car.
+
forechosen
a.
Chosen beforehand.
+
faculty
n.
The body of person to whom are intrusted the government and instruction of a college or university, or of one of its departments; the president, professors, and tutors in a college.
+
fawning
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fawn
+
foreclosing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Foreclose
+
fissipara
n.pl.
Animals which reproduce by fission.
+
fateful
a..
Significant of fate; ominous.
+
funicular
a.
Dependent on the tension of a cord.
+
flourish
v.t.
To move in bold or irregular figures; to swing about in circles or vibrations by way of show or triumph; to brandish.
+
fit
n.
A darting point; a sudden emission.
+
foliaceous
a.
Belonging to, or having the texture or nature of, a leaf; having leaves intermixed with flowers; as, a foliaceous spike.
+
falseness
n.
The state of being false; contrariety to the fact; inaccuracy; want of integrity or uprightness; double dealing; unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as, the falseness of a report, a drawing, or a singer's notes; the falseness of a man, or of his word.
+
fingered
a.
Having leaflets like fingers; digitate.
+
foolish
a.
Absurd; ridiculous; despicable; contemptible.
+
fairy
a.
Of or pertaining to fairies.
+
functionalize
v.t.
To assign to some function or office.
+
flattened
imp.|p.p.
of Flatten
+
flat
n.
Something broad and flat in form
+
fan palm

Any palm tree having fan-shaped or radiate leaves; as the Chamaerops humilis of Southern Europe; the species of Sabal and Thrinax in the West Indies, Florida, etc.; and especially the great talipot tree (Corypha umbraculifera) of Ceylon and Malaya. The leaves of the latter are often eighteen feet long and fourteen wide, and are used for umbrellas, tents, and roofs. When cut up, they are used for books and manuscripts.
+
foresaid
a.
Mentioned before; aforesaid.
+
fabulize
v.i.
To invent, compose, or relate fables or fictions.
+
foliated
imp.|p.p.
of Foliate
+
fenian
n.
A member of a secret organization, consisting mainly of Irishment, having for its aim the overthrow of English rule in ireland.
+
fetishism
n.
Excessive devotion to one object or one idea; abject superstition; blind adoration.
+
frequently
adv.
At frequent or short intervals; many times; often; repeatedly; commonly.
+
fleen
n.pl.
Obs. pl. of Flea.
+
ferrer
a.|adv.
compar. of Fer.
+
flavin
n.
A yellow, vegetable dyestuff, resembling quercitron.
+
fragility
n.
The condition or quality of being fragile; brittleness; frangibility.
+
forwardness
n.
Boldness; confidence; assurance; want of due reserve or modesty.
+
floorwalker
n.
One who walks about in a large retail store as an overseer and director.
+
futuritial
a.
Relating to what is to come; pertaining to futurity; future.
+
ferro

A prefix, or combining form, indicating ferrous iron as an ingredient; as, ferrocyanide.
+
frenchified
imp.|p.p.
of Frenchify
+
fuffy
a.
Light; puffy.
+
fawe
a.
Fain; glad; delighted.
+
fiddling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fiddle
+
fresh
superl
Youthful; florid; as, these fresh nymphs.
+
fall
v.t.
To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin; to depart from the faith; to apostatize; to sin.
+
fap
a.
Fuddled.
+
foppish
a.
Foplike; characteristic of a top in dress or manners; making an ostentatious display of gay clothing; affected in manners.
+
fecundify
v.t.
To make fruitful; to fecundate.
+
figure
n.
A person, thing, or action, conceived of as analogous to another person, thing, or action, of which it thus becomes a type or representative.
+
fluoric
a.
Pertaining to, obtained from, or containing, fluorine.
+
flood
v.t.
To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river flooded the valley.
+
fossores
n.pl.
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.
+
fall
n.
Formerly, a kind of ruff or band for the neck; a falling band; a faule.
+
foussa
n.
A viverrine animal of Madagascar (Cryptoprocta ferox). It resembles a cat in size and form, and has retractile claws.
+
fulling
n.
The process of cleansing, shrinking, and thickening cloth by moisture, heat, and pressure.
+
fair
n.
A gathering of buyers and sellers, assembled at a particular place with their merchandise at a stated or regular season, or by special appointment, for trade.
+
forehead
n.
The front of that part of the head which incloses the brain; that part of the face above the eyes; the brow.
+
fundament
n.
Foundation.
+
feudist
n.
A writer on feuds; a person versed in feudal law.
+
futilely
adv.
In a futile manner.
+
freebooting
a.
Acting the freebooter; practicing freebootery; robbing.
+
firmity
n.
Strength; firmness; stability.
+
forked
a.
Having a double meaning; ambiguous; equivocal.
+
frontage
n.
The front part of an edifice or lot; extent of front.
+
faith
n.
The belief in the facts and truth of the Scriptures, with a practical love of them; especially, that confiding and affectionate belief in the person and work of Christ, which affects the character and life, and makes a man a true Christian, -- called a practical, evangelical, or saving faith.
+
flavored
a.
Having a distinct flavor; as, high-flavored wine.
+
fraction
n.
One or more aliquot parts of a unit or whole number; an expression for a definite portion of a unit or magnitude.
+
fanaticized
imp.|p.p.
of Fanaticize
+
forthcoming
a.
Ready or about to appear; making appearance.
+
fur
v.t.
To line, face, or cover with fur; as, furred robes.
+
forgeman
n.
A skilled smith, who has a hammerer to assist him.
+
franklinite
n.
A kind of mineral of the spinel group.
+
flippant
a.
Speaking fluently and confidently, without knowledge or consideration; empty; trifling; inconsiderate; pert; petulant.
+
forthright
n.
A straight path.
+
flexion
n.
A bending; a part bent; a fold.
+
furbelowed
imp.|p.p.
of Furhelow
+
fortunately
adv.
In a fortunate manner; luckily; successfully; happily.
+
flatlency
n.
The state or quality of being flatulent.
+
ferried
imp.|p.p.
of Ferry
+
folly
n.
The state of being foolish; want of good sense; levity, weakness, or derangement of mind.
+
furzen
a.
Furzy; gorsy.
+
flier
v.
One who flies or flees; a runaway; a fugitive.
+
forward
n.
An agreement; a covenant; a promise.
+
fugato
n.
A composition resembling a fugue.
+
foreknowingly
adv.
With foreknowledge.
+
factorship
n.
The business of a factor.
+
flacket
n.
A barrel-shaped bottle; a flagon.
+
fro
adv.
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.
+
fencing
v.i.
The act of building a fence.
+
familiar
n.
An attendant demon or evil spirit.
+
fishwoman
n.
A woman who retails fish.
+
flytrap
n.
A plant (Dionaea muscipula), called also Venus's flytrap, the leaves of which are fringed with stiff bristles, and fold together when certain hairs on their upper surface are touched, thus seizing insects that light on them. The insects so caught are afterwards digested by a secretion from the upper surface of the leaves.
+
fouty
a.
Despicable.
+
father
n.
One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a generator; a male parent.
+
frustrated
imp.|p.p.
of Frustrate
+
forster
n.
A forester.
+
fly
v.i.
The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn.
+
fidgetiness
n.
Quality of being fidgety.
+
forbearer
n.
One who forbears.
+
fabricator
n.
One who fabricates; one who constructs or makes.
+
float
n.
To move quietly or gently on the water, as a raft; to drift along; to move or glide without effort or impulse on the surface of a fluid, or through the air.
+
foremen
pl.
of Foreman
+
filchingly
adv.
By pilfering or petty stealing.
+
feared
imp.|p.p.
of Fear
+
forethoughtful
a.
Having forethought.
+
filacer
n.
A former officer in the English Court of Common Pleas; -- so called because he filed the writs on which he made out process.
+
fill
a.
To fill or supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy.
+
forestall
v.t.
To deprive; -- with of.
+
foliomort
a.
See Feuillemort.
+
fort
n.
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.
+
fatherlasher
n.
A European marine fish (Cottus bubalis), allied to the sculpin; -- called also lucky proach.
+
failure
n.
A becoming insolvent; bankruptcy; suspension of payment; as, failure in business.
+
field
n.
Any blank space or ground on which figures are drawn or projected.
+
fantasm
n.
Same as Phantasm.
+
fixure
n.
Fixed position; stable condition; firmness.
+
facing
n.
The movement of soldiers by turning on their heels to the right, left, or about; -- chiefly in the pl.
+
flatting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Flat
+
forspeak
v.t.
To bewitch.
+
fleet
v.i.
A former prison in London, which originally stood near a stream, the Fleet (now filled up).
+
forensal
a.
Forensic.
+
foothill
n.
A low hill at the foot of higher hills or mountains.
+
forage
n.
The act of foraging; search for provisions, etc.
+
footy
a.
Poor; mean.
+
fated
p.p.|a.
Decreed by fate; destined; doomed; as, he was fated to rule a factious people.
+
force pump

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.
+
founding
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Found
+
formation
n.
Mineral deposits and rock masses designated with reference to their origin; as, the siliceous formation about geysers; alluvial formations; marine formations.
+
fiddlestick
n.
The bow, strung with horsehair, used in playing the fiddle; a fiddle bow.
+
ferly
n.
A wonder; a marvel.
+
fusted
a.
Moldy; ill-smelling.
+
feint
a.
A mock blow or attack on one part when another part is intended to be struck; -- said of certain movements in fencing, boxing, war, etc.
+
fur
n.
Any coating considered as resembling fur
+
farther
superl.
More remote; more distant than something else.
+
flaring
a.
Opening or speading outwards.
+
failing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fail
+
formica
n.
A Linnaean genus of hymenopterous insects, including the common ants. See Ant.
+
freya
n.
The daughter of Njord, and goddess of love and beauty; the Scandinavian Venus; -- in Teutonic myths confounded with Frigga, but in Scandinavian, distinct.
+
fission
n.
A method of asexual reproduction among the lowest (unicellular) organisms by means of a process of self-division, consisting of gradual division or cleavage of the into two parts, each of which then becomes a separate and independent organisms; as when a cell in an animal or plant, or its germ, undergoes a spontaneous division, and the parts again subdivide. See Segmentation, and Cell division, under Division.
+
flirt
a.
Pert; wanton.
+
freshnew
a.
Unpracticed.
+
footworn
a.
Worn by, or weared in, the feet; as, a footworn path; a footworn traveler.
+
fudge wheel

A tool for ornamenting the edge of a sole.
+
foreright
adv.
Right forward; onward.
+
fimbria
n.
A band of white matter bordering the hippocampus in the brain.
+
fraying
n.
The skin which a deer frays from his horns.
+
fulminatory
a.
Thundering; striking terror.
+
forkerve
v.t.
See Forcarve, v. t.
+
forcement
n.
The act of forcing; compulsion.
+
falcidian
a.
Of or pertaining to Publius Falcidius, a Roman tribune.
+
figural
a.
Represented by figure or delineation; consisting of figures; as, figural ornaments.
+
faced
a.
Having (such) a face, or (so many) faces; as, smooth-faced, two-faced.
+
fueler
n.
One who, or that which, supplies fuel.
+
fleshquake
n.
A quaking or trembling of the flesh; a quiver.
+
facile
a.
Easy of access or converse; mild; courteous; not haughty, austere, or distant; affable; complaisant.
+
flourish
n.
Something made or performed in a fanciful, wanton, or vaunting manner, by way of ostentation, to excite admiration, etc.; ostentatious embellishment; ambitious copiousness or amplification; parade of words and figures; show; as, a flourish of rhetoric or of wit.
+
farcin
n.
Same as Farcy.
+
foot
v.t.
To renew the foot of, as of stocking.
+
flutist
n.
To move about briskly, irregularly, or with great bustle and show, without much result.
+
flapped
imp.|p.p.
of Flap
+
flawing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Flaw
+
feeder
n.
One who eats or feeds; specifically, an animal to be fed or fattened.
+
foreship
n.
The fore part of a ship.
+
fay
v.i.
To lie close together; to fit; to fadge; -- often with in, into, with, or together.
+
furlong
a.
A measure of length; the eighth part of a mile; forty rods; two hundred and twenty yards.
+
frigg
n.
Alt. of Frigga
+
fray
n.
Affray; broil; contest; combat.
+
ferre
a.|adv.
Alt. of Ferrer
+
follicle
n.
A simple podlike pericarp which contains several seeds and opens along the inner or ventral suture, as in the peony, larkspur and milkweed.
+
fibre
n.
Any fine, slender thread, or threadlike substance; as, a fiber of spun glass; especially, one of the slender rootlets of a plant.
+
fabric
n.
The act of constructing; construction.
+
fealty
n.
Fidelity to one's lord; the feudal obligation by which the tenant or vassal was bound to be faithful to his lord; the special oath by which this obligation was assumed; fidelity to a superior power, or to a government; loyality. It is no longer the practice to exact the performance of fealty, as a feudal obligation.
+
frenetical
a.
Frenetic; frantic; frenzied.
+
flannen
a.
Made or consisting of flannel.
+
ferry
v.t.
To carry or transport over a river, strait, or other narrow water, in a boat.
+
foresighted
a.
Sagacious; prudent; provident for the future.
+
fattened
imp.|p.p.
of Fatten
+
flat
n.
A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
+
facing
n.
The collar and cuffs of a military coat; -- commonly of a color different from that of the coat.
+
flagon
n.
A vessel with a narrow mouth, used for holding and conveying liquors. It is generally larger than a bottle, and of leather or stoneware rather than of glass.
+
freezing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Freeze
+
filanders
n.pl.
A disease in hawks, characterized by the presence of small threadlike worms, also of filaments of coagulated blood, from the rupture of a vein; -- called also backworm.
+
faule
n.
A fall or falling band.
+
froth
n.
Light, unsubstantial matter.
+
flower
n.
That part of a plant destined to produce seed, and hence including one or both of the sexual organs; an organ or combination of the organs of reproduction, whether inclosed by a circle of foliar parts or not. A complete flower consists of two essential parts, the stamens and the pistil, and two floral envelopes, the corolla and callyx. In mosses the flowers consist of a few special leaves surrounding or subtending organs called archegonia. See Blossom, and Corolla.
+
froth
v.t.
To spit, vent, or eject, as froth.
+
form
n.
To give a particular shape to; to shape, mold, or fashion into a certain state or condition; to arrange; to adjust; also, to model by instruction and discipline; to mold by influence, etc.; to train.
+
fantasticness
n.
Fantasticalness.
+
free will

The power asserted of moral beings of willing or choosing without the restraints of physical or absolute necessity.
+
forever
adv.
Through eternity; through endless ages, eternally.
+
flintiness
n.
The state or quality of being flinty; hardness; cruelty.
+
foreteach
v.t.
To teach beforehand.
+
fractional
a.
Of or pertaining to fractions or a fraction; constituting a fraction; as, fractional numbers.
+
fluor spar

See Fluorite.
+
flange
n.
A plate or ring to form a rim at the end of a pipe when fastened to the pipe.
+
foresleeve
n.
The sleeve below the elbow.
+
farm
a.|n.
Any tract of land devoted to agricultural purposes, under the management of a tenant or the owner.
+
flustered
imp.|p.p.
of Fluster
+
fumbling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fumble
+
fuse
v.i.
To be reduced from a solid to a Quid state by heat; to be melted; to melt.
+
freeman
n.
One who enjoys liberty, or who is not subject to the will of another; one not a slave or vassal.
+
friz
v.t.
To soften and make of even thickness by rubbing, as with pumice stone or a blunt instrument.
+
furniture
v.t.
That with which anything is furnished or supplied; supplies; outfit; equipment.
+
force
n.
Any action between two bodies which changes, or tends to change, their relative condition as to rest or motion; or, more generally, which changes, or tends to change, any physical relation between them, whether mechanical, thermal, chemical, electrical, magnetic, or of any other kind; as, the force of gravity; cohesive force; centrifugal force.
+
fluxion
n.
The matter that flows.
+
flit
v.i.
To flutter; to rove on the wing.
+
forestay
n.
A large, strong rope, reaching from the foremast head to the bowsprit, to support the mast. See Illust. under Ship.
+
foolhappy
a.
Lucky, without judgment or contrivance.
+
fistic
a.
Pertaining to boxing, or to encounters with the fists; puglistic; as, fistic exploits; fistic heroes.
+
fastidious
a.
Difficult to please; delicate to a fault; suited with difficulty; squeamish; as, a fastidious mind or ear; a fastidious appetite.
+
forester
n.
A lepidopterous insect belonging to Alypia and allied genera; as, the eight-spotted forester (A. octomaculata), which in the larval state is injurious to the grapevine.
+
fancywork
n.
Ornamental work with a needle or hook, as embroidery, crocheting, netting, etc.
+
franking
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Frank
+
fulleries
pl.
of Fullery
+
fag
v.i.
To become weary; to tire.
+
founding
n.
The art of smelting and casting metals.
+
foretaste
v.t.
To taste before full possession; to have previous enjoyment or experience of; to anticipate.
+
fillip
v.t.
To strike with the nail of the finger, first placed against the ball of the thumb, and forced from that position with a sudden spring; to snap with the finger.
+
freaking
a.
Freakish.
+
feminality
n.
Feminity.
+
factitious
a.
Made by art, in distinction from what is produced by nature; artificial; sham; formed by, or adapted to, an artificial or conventional, in distinction from a natural, standard or rule; not natural; as, factitious cinnabar or jewels; a factitious taste.
+
foresay
v.t.
To foretell.
+
frown
v.i.
To manifest displeasure or disapprobation; to look with disfavor or threateningly; to lower; as, polite society frowns upon rudeness.
+
finew
n.
Moldiness.
+
fraughting
a.
Constituting the freight or cargo.
+
felony
n.
An act on the part of the vassal which cost him his fee by forfeiture.
+
flaw
n.
A sudden burst of noise and disorder; a tumult; uproar; a quarrel.
+
fired
imp.|p.p.
of Fire
+
fascia
n.
A broad well-defined band of color.
+
frogbit
n.
A European plant (Hydrocharis Morsus-ranae), floating on still water and propagating itself by runners. It has roundish leaves and small white flowers.
+
foregoing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Forego
+
flap
v.
A hinged leaf, as of a table or shutter.
+
feastful
a.
Festive; festal; joyful; sumptuous; luxurious.
+
foiningly
adv.
With a push or thrust.
+
forbear
n.
An ancestor; a forefather; -- usually in the plural.
+
foretoken
v.t.
To foreshow; to presignify; to prognosticate.
+
fulcrums
pl.
of Fulcrum
+
fathomable
a.
Capable of being fathomed.
+
foretop
n.
The hair on the forepart of the head; esp., a tuft or lock of hair which hangs over the forehead, as of a horse.
+
fill
v.t.
A full supply, as much as supplies want; as much as gives complete satisfaction.
+
futchel
n.
The jaws between which the hinder end of a carriage tongue is inserted.
+
firedrake
n.
A fiery dragon.
+
floridity
n.
The quality of being florid; floridness.
+
flanconade
n.
A thrust in the side.
+
fleurdelis
n.
The iris. See Flower-de-luce.
+
flowered
imp.|p.p.
of Flower
+
fat
superl.
Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich; -- said of food.
+
flaky
a.
Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike.
+
flatulent
a.
Affected with flatus or gases generated in the alimentary canal; windy.
+
staves
pl.
of Flagstaff
+
farce
v.t.
To render fat.
+
fox
n.
The fox shark or thrasher shark; -- called also sea fox. See Thrasher shark, under Shark.
+
flap
v.
A disease in the lips of horses.
+
farina
n.
A fine flour or meal made from cereal grains or from the starch or fecula of vegetables, extracted by various processes, and used in cookery.
+
fling
n.
A severe or contemptuous remark; an expression of sarcastic scorn; a gibe; a sarcasm.
+
flash
v.t.
To convey as by a flash; to light up, as by a sudden flame or light; as, to flash a message along the wires; to flash conviction on the mind.
+
fleshliness
n.
The state of being fleshly; carnal passions and appetites.
+
false
superl.
Not according with truth or reality; not true; fitted or likely to deceive or disappoint; as, a false statement.
+
favose
a.
Of or pertaining to the disease called favus.
+
fix
v.i.
To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance.
+
fellow
n.
A member of a literary or scientific society; as, a Fellow of the Royal Society.
+
filled
imp.|p.p.
of Fill
+
flirting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Flirt
+
fascia
n.
A flat member of an order or building, like a flat band or broad fillet; especially, one of the three bands which make up the architrave, in the Ionic order. See Illust. of Column.
+
flagellum
v.t.
An appendage of the reproductive apparatus of the snail.
+
fine
superl.
Not coarse, gross, or heavy
+
flavor
n.
That quality of anything which affects the taste; that quality which gratifies the palate; relish; zest; savor; as, the flavor of food or drink.
+
forwardly
adv.
Eagerly; hastily; obtrusively.
+
foot
n.
A combination of syllables consisting a metrical element of a verse, the syllables being formerly distinguished by their quantity or length, but in modern poetry by the accent.
+
felicity
n.
That which promotes happiness; a successful or gratifying event; prosperity; blessing.
+
funicular
a.
Consisting of a small cord or fiber.
+
falcated
a.
Hooked or bent like a sickle; as, a falcate leaf; a falcate claw; -- said also of the moon, or a planet, when horned or crescent-formed.
+
feast
n.
A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary.
+
fragility
n.
Weakness; feebleness.
+
fishlike
a.
Like fish; suggestive of fish; having some of the qualities of fish.
+
falcation
n.
The state of being falcate; a bend in the form of a sickle.
+
floating
a.
Free or lose from the usual attachment; as, the floating ribs in man and some other animals.
+
flaring
a.
That flares; flaming or blazing unsteadily; shining out with a dazzling light.
+
fustilugs
n.
A gross, fat, unwieldy person.
+
filter
n.
Same as Philter.
+
fenestrated
a.
Having windows; characterized by windows.
+
flirt
n.
A sudden jerk; a quick throw or cast; a darting motion; hence, a jeer.
+
fainted
imp.|p.p.
of Faint
+
foliature
n.
The state of being beaten into foil.
+
frog
n.
The loop of the scabbard of a bayonet or sword.
+
foretell
v.t.
To predict; to tell before occurence; to prophesy; to foreshow.
+
fitter
n.
One who fits or adjusts the different parts of machinery to each other.
+
ferret
n.
An animal of the Weasel family (Mustela / Putorius furo), about fourteen inches in length, of a pale yellow or white color, with red eyes. It is a native of Africa, but has been domesticated in Europe. Ferrets are used to drive rabbits and rats out of their holes.
+
foster
v.t.
To cherish; to promote the growth of; to encourage; to sustain and promote; as, to foster genius.
+
fence
v.i.
Hence, to fight or dispute in the manner of fencers, that is, by thrusting, guarding, parrying, etc.
+
fortuity
n.
Accident; chance; casualty.
+
forgave

imp. of Forgive.
+
folkmoter
n.
One who takes part in a folkmote, or local court.
+
filing
n.
A fragment or particle rubbed off by the act of filing; as, iron filings.
+
forge
n.
The act of beating or working iron or steel; the manufacture of metalic bodies.
+
forged
imp.|p.p.
of Forge
+
fundament
n.
The part of the body on which one sits; the buttocks; specifically (Anat.), the anus.
+
flareup
n.
A sudden burst of anger or passion; an angry dispute.
+
flexuose
a.
Flexuous.
+
feminization
n.
The act of feminizing, or the state of being feminized.
+
flounce
n.
An ornamental appendage to the skirt of a woman's dress, consisting of a strip gathered and sewed on by its upper edge around the skirt, and left hanging.
+
fallax
n.
Cavillation; a caviling.
+
frittering
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fritter
+
foreland
n.
A piece of ground between the wall of a place and the moat.
+
frizzling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Frizzle
+
focuses
pl.
of Focus
+
fayed
imp.|p.p.
of Fay
+
fiveleaved
a.
Having five leaflets, as the Virginia creeper.
+
forewend
v.t.
To go before.
+
fructiferuos
a.
Bearing or producing fruit.
+
fistularioid
a.
Like or pertaining to the genus Fistularia.
+
fugitiveness
n.
The quality or condition of being fugitive; evanescence; volatility; fugacity; instability.
+
flopwing
n.
The lapwing.
+
feaze
v.t.
To untwist; to unravel, as the end of a rope.
+
fagotto
n.
The bassoon; -- so called from being divided into parts for ease of carriage, making, as it were, a small fagot.
+
faultfinder
n.
One who makes a practice of discovering others' faults and censuring them; a scold.
+
flute
n.
A kind of flyboat; a storeship.
+
fir
n.
A genus (Abies) of coniferous trees, often of large size and elegant shape, some of them valued for their timber and others for their resin. The species are distinguished as the balsam fir, the silver fir, the red fir, etc.  The Scotch fir is a Pinus.
+
fulfillment
n.
The act of fulfilling; accomplishment; completion; as, the fulfillment of prophecy.
+
flow
v.i.
To discharge blood in excess from the uterus.
+
ferret
n.
The iron used for trying the melted glass to see if is fit to work, and for shaping the rings at the mouths of bottles.
+
febrifugal
a.
Having the quality of mitigating or curing fever.
+
form
n.
The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.
+
force
v.t.
To stuff; to lard; to farce.
+
feudalizing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Feudalize
+
fasces
pl.
A bundle of rods, having among them an ax with the blade projecting, borne before the Roman magistrates as a badge of their authority.
+
fagged
imp.|p.p.
of Fag
+
frugiferous
a.
Producing fruit; fruitful; fructiferous.
+
flat
superl.
Not sharp or shrill; not acute; as, a flat sound.
+
feeble
v.t.
To make feble; to enfeeble.
+
footboard
n.
A board forming the foot of a bedstead.
+
forwander
v.i.
To wander away; to go astray; to wander far and to weariness.
+
follicle
n.
A simple gland or glandular cavity; a crypt.
+
filigrane
n.
Filigree.
+
frolicked
imp.|p.p.
of Frolic
+
forgetfulness
n.
Loss of remembrance or recollection; a ceasing to remember; oblivion.
+
filthily
adv.
In a filthy manner; foully.
+
favor
n.
The object of regard; person or thing favored.
+
fessitude
n.
Weariness.
+
fanaticizing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fanaticize
+
fiery
a.
Unrestrained; fierce; mettlesome; spirited.
+
felicitous
a.
Characterized by felicity; happy; prosperous; delightful; skilful; successful; happily applied or expressed; appropriate.
+
fractionary
a.
Fractional.
+
farmer
n.
One who is devoted to the tillage of the soil; one who cultivates a farm; an agriculturist; a husbandman.
+
frontier
n.
An outwork.
+
fortyspot
n.
The Tasmanian forty-spotted diamond bird (Pardalotus quadragintus).
+
fibrefaced
a.
Having a visible fiber embodied in the surface of; -- applied esp. to a kind of paper for checks, drafts, etc.
+
finiteless
a.
Infinite.
+
flat
v.i.
To fall form the pitch.
+
flock
n.
A company or collection of living creatures; -- especially applied to sheep and birds, rarely to persons or (except in the plural) to cattle and other large animals; as, a flock of ravenous fowl.
+
foreshow
v.t.
To show or exhibit beforehand; to give foreknowledge of; to prognosticate; to foretell.
+
fengite
n.
A kind of marble or alabaster, sometimes used for windows on account of its transparency.
+
fantastic
a.
Existing only in imagination; fanciful; imaginary; not real; chimerical.
+
falx
n.
A curved fold or process of the dura mater or the peritoneum; esp., one of the partitionlike folds of the dura mater which extend into the great fissures of the brain.
+
file
n.
The line, wire, or other contrivance, by which papers are put and kept in order.
+
flatfooted
a.
Having a flat foot, with little or no arch of the instep.
+
flamming
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Flam
+
fomites
pl.
of Fomes
+
friesish
a.
Friesic.
+
frontispiece
n.
The principal front of a building.
+
frostless
a.
Free from frost; as, a frostless winter.
+
faith
n.
Word or honor pledged; promise given; fidelity; as, he violated his faith.
+
furious
a.
Transported with passion or fury; raging; violent; as, a furious animal.
+
fnese
v.i.
To breathe heavily; to snort.
+
fault
n.
Anything that fails, that is wanting, or that impairs excellence; a failing; a defect; a blemish.
+
filling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fill
+
fissilingual
a.
Having the tongue forked.
+
force
n.
To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit of which he has none.
+
forefence
n.
Defense in front.
+
fate
n.
The three goddesses, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, sometimes called the Destinies, or Parcaewho were supposed to determine the course of human life. They are represented, one as holding the distaff, a second as spinning, and the third as cutting off the thread.
+
fieldpiece
n.
A cannon mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army; a piece of field artillery; -- called also field gun.
+
flutterer
n.
One who, or that which, flutters.
+
fold
v.t.
To confine in a fold, as sheep.
+
fraischeur
a.
Freshness; coolness.
+
furnish
v.t.
To offer for use; to provide (something); to give (something); to afford; as, to furnish food to the hungry: to furnish arms for defense.
+
flood
v.i.
The flowing in of the tide; the semidiurnal swell or rise of water in the ocean; -- opposed to ebb; as, young flood; high flood.
+
fraenums
pl.
of Frenum
+
flight
n.
The act of fleeing; the act of running away, to escape or expected evil; hasty departure.
+
flounce
n.
The act of floucing; a sudden, jerking motion of the body.
+
fannel
n.
Same as Fanon.
+
forestall
v.t.
To take possession of, in advance of some one or something else, to the exclusion or detriment of the latter; to get ahead of; to preoccupy; also, to exclude, hinder, or prevent, by prior occupation, or by measures taken in advance.
+
flaunt
n.
Anything displayed for show.
+
flag
v.i.
To droop; to grow spiritless; to lose vigor; to languish; as, the spirits flag; the streugth flags.
+
filthy
superl.
Defiled with filth, whether material or moral; nasty; dirty; polluted; foul; impure; obscene.
+
fluentness
n.
The quality of being fluent.
+
frankalmoigne
a.
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.
+
farm
v.t.
To give up to another, as an estate, a business, the revenue, etc., on condition of receiving in return a percentage of what it yields; as, to farm the taxes.
+
face
v.t.
To stand opposite to; to stand with the face or front toward; to front upon; as, the apartments of the general faced the park.
+
formally
adv.
In a formal manner; essentially; characteristically; expressly; regularly; ceremoniously; precisely.
+
flame
n.
To burst forth like flame; to break out in violence of passion; to be kindled with zeal or ardor.
+
fibrillation
n.
The state of being reduced to fibers.
+
femora
pl.
of Femur
+
fluidness
n.
The state of being flluid; fluidity.
+
fog
v.i.
To practice in a small or mean way; to pettifog.
+
fibrillose
a.
Covered with hairlike appendages, as the under surface of some lichens; also, composed of little strings or fibers; as, fibrillose appendages.
+
farse
n.
An addition to, or a paraphrase of, some part of the Latin service in the vernacular; -- common in English before the Reformation.
+
fasciated
a.
Banded or compacted together.
+
felspath
n.
See Feldspar.
+
fauces
n.pl.
The throat of a calyx, corolla, etc.
+
freshen
v.t.
To make fresh; to separate, as water, from saline ingredients; to make less salt; as, to freshen water, fish, or flesh.
+
fiftieth
a.
Consisting of one of fifty equal parts or divisions.
+
fog
n.
A state of mental confusion.
+
finedraw
v.t.
To sew up, so nicely that the seam is not perceived; to renter.
+
fraise
n.
A fluted reamer for enlarging holes in stone; a small milling cutter.
+
finale
n.
The last movement of a symphony, sonata, concerto, or any instrumental composition.
+
feudality
n.
The state or quality of being feudal; feudal form or constitution.
+
form
n.
The seat or bed of a hare.
+
froe
n.
A dirty woman; a slattern; a frow.
+
fossilize
v.t.
To cause to become antiquated, rigid, or fixed, as by fossilization; to mummify; to deaden.
+
flitting
n.
A flying with lightness and celerity; a fluttering.
+
follow
v.t.
To go or come after; to move behind in the same path or direction; hence, to go with (a leader, guide, etc.); to accompany; to attend.
+
farcement
n.
Stuffing; forcemeat.
+
foundation
n.
The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.
+
forktailed
a.
Having the outer tail feathers longer than the median ones; swallow-tailed; -- said of many birds.
+
foundationless
a.
Having no foundation.
+
frippery
n.
A place where old clothes are sold.
+
fruity
a.
Having the odor, taste, or appearance of fruit; also, fruitful.
+
fire
n.
Torture by burning; severe trial or affliction.
+
fissirostres
n.pl.
A group of birds having the bill deeply cleft.
+
furilic
a.
Pertaining to, or derived from, furile; as, furilic acid.
+
forme
a.
Same as Pate or Patte.
+
fluor
n.
Menstrual flux; catamenia; menses.
+
forsythia
a.
A shrub of the Olive family, with yellow blossoms.
+
fancymonger
n.
A lovemonger; a whimsical lover.
+
favor
n.
A gift or represent; something bestowed as an evidence of good will; a token of love; a knot of ribbons; something worn as a token of affection; as, a marriage favor is a bunch or knot of white ribbons or white flowers worn at a wedding.
+
forlaft

p. p. of Forleave.
+
fosterment
n.
Food; nourishment.
+
forleave
v.t.
To leave off wholly.
+
fossilism
n.
The state of being extremely antiquated in views and opinions.
+
formulization
n.
The act or process of reducing to a formula; the state of being formulized.
+
foremilk
n.
The milk secreted just before, or directly after, the birth of a child or of the young of an animal; colostrum.
+
fumado
v.i.
A salted and smoked fish, as the pilchard.
+
far
adv.
To a great distance in time from any point; remotely; as, he pushed his researches far into antiquity.
+
fixing
n.
That which is fixed; a fixture.
+
forgiveness
n.
Disposition to pardon; willingness to forgive.
+
far
n.
A young pig, or a litter of pigs.
+
frounce
n.
An affection in hawks, in which white spittle gathers about the hawk's bill.
+
fan
n.
To move as with a fan.
+
fog
n.
A second growth of grass; aftergrass.
+
fatness
n.
Hence; Richness; fertility; fruitfulness.
+
fume
v.t.
To expose to the action of fumes; to treat with vapors, smoke, etc.; as, to bleach straw by fuming it with sulphur; to fill with fumes, vapors, odors, etc., as a room.
+
fit
v.t.
To bring to a required form and size; to shape aright; to adapt to a model; to adjust; -- said especially of the work of a carpenter, machinist, tailor, etc.
+
forestage
n.
A service paid by foresters to the king.
+
familiarity
n.
The state of being familiar; intimate and frequent converse, or association; unconstrained intercourse; freedom from ceremony and constraint; intimacy; as, to live in remarkable familiarity.
+
fated
p.p.|a.
Invested with the power of determining destiny.
+
figure
n.
The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance.
+
flemer
n.
One who, or that which, banishes or expels.
+
fortilage
n.
A little fort; a blockhouse.
+
finical
a.
Affectedly fine; overnice; unduly particular; fastidious.
+
feateous
a.
Dexterous; neat.
+
fixation
n.
The act or process of ceasing to be fluid and becoming firm.
+
formation
n.
The manner in which a thing is formed; structure; construction; conformation; form; as, the peculiar formation of the heart.
+
freckled
a.
Marked with freckles; spotted.
+
frisian
a.
Of or pertaining to Friesland, a province of the Netherlands; Friesic.
+
formation
n.
A group of beds of the same age or period; as, the Eocene formation.
+
facility
n.
The quality of being easily performed; freedom from difficulty; ease; as, the facility of an operation.
+
flammation
n.
The act of setting in a flame or blaze.
+
flatcap
n.
A kind of low-crowned cap formerly worn by all classes in England, and continued in London after disuse elsewhere; -- hence, a citizen of London.
+
forefather
n.
One who precedes another in the line of genealogy in any degree, but usually in a remote degree; an ancestor.
+
fleshly
a.
Of or pertaining to the flesh; corporeal.
+
filaria
n.
A genus of slender, nematode worms of many species, parasitic in various animals. See Guinea worm.
+
fourfold
a.|adv.
Four times; quadruple; as, a fourfold division.
+
foreappoint
v.t.
To set, order, or appoint, beforehand.
+
fret
n.
The worn sides of river banks, where ores, or stones containing them, accumulate by being washed down from the hills, and thus indicate to the miners the locality of the veins.
+
fletiferous
a.
Producing tears.
+
fatherliness
n.
The qualities of a father; parantal kindness, care, etc.
+
frusta
pl.
of Frustum
+
flushingly
adv.
In a flushing manner.
+
f
v.t.
The name of the fourth tone of the model scale, or scale of C. F sharp (F /) is a tone intermediate between F and G.
+
foredeem
v.t.
To recognize or judge in advance; to forebode.
+
flit
a.
Nimble; quick; swift. [Obs.] See Fleet.
+
flow
v.i.
To become liquid; to melt.
+
fall
n.
Death; destruction; overthrow; ruin.
+
farced
imp.|p.p.
of Farce
+
fassaite
n.
A variety of pyroxene, from the valley of Fassa, in the Tyrol.
+
fusain
n.
Fine charcoal of willow wood, used as a drawing implement.
+
figurative
a.
Used in a sense that is tropical, as a metaphor; not literal; -- applied to words and expressions.
+
finality
n.
The relation of end or purpose to its means.
+
first
a.
Most eminent or exalted; most excellent; chief; highest; as, Demosthenes was the first orator of Greece.
+
fair
superl.
Pleasing; favorable; inspiring hope and confidence; -- said of words, promises, etc.
+
flagration
n.
A conflagration.
+
foreland
n.
That portion of the natural shore on the outside of the embankment which receives the stock of waves and deadens their force.
+
fainting
n.
Syncope, or loss of consciousness owing to a sudden arrest of the blood supply to the brain, the face becoming pallid, the respiration feeble, and the heat's beat weak.
+
fumous
a.
Producing smoke; smoky.
+
foretoken
n.
Prognostic; previous omen.
+
forpass
v.t.|i.
To pass by or along; to pass over.
+
figure
n.
To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize.
+
fantasticco
n.
A fantastic.
+
fiction
n.
An assumption of a possible thing as a fact, irrespective of the question of its truth.
+
frisk
a.
Lively; brisk; frolicsome; frisky.
+
frenzy
a.
Mad; frantic.
+
former
n.
A cutting die.
+
fared
imp.|p.p.
of Fare
+
forbid

of Forbid
+
fossilize
v.i.
To become fossil.
+
fardage
n.
See Dunnage.
+
friar
n.
A white or pale patch on a printed page.
+
feculent
a.
Foul with extraneous or impure substances; abounding with sediment or excrementitious matter; muddy; thick; turbid.
+
fractional
a.
Relatively small; inconsiderable; insignificant; as, a fractional part of the population.
+
fatback
n.
The menhaden.
+
flood
v.t.
To cause or permit to be inundated; to fill or cover with water or other fluid; as, to flood arable land for irrigation; to fill to excess or to its full capacity; as, to flood a country with a depreciated currency.
+
firms
a.
The principal rafters of a roof, especially a pair of rafters taken together.
+
fimbriated
imp.|p.p.
of Fimbriate
+
fin
n.
A mark or ridge left on a casting at the junction of the parts of a mold.
+
festering
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fester
+
flavine
n.
A yellow, crystalline, organic base, C13H12N2O, obtained artificially.
+
frightment
n.
Fear; terror.
+
flap
v.i.
To fall and hang like a flap, as the brim of a hat, or other broad thing.
+
fatner
n.
One who fattens. [R.] See Fattener.
+
fathership
n.
The state of being a father; fatherhood; paternity.
+
frail
n.
A rush for weaving baskets.
+
frog
n.
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.
+
fare
v.
Food; provisions for the table; entertainment; as, coarse fare; delicious fare.
+
flash
v.i.
To burst or break forth with a sudden and transient flood of flame and light; as, the lighting flashes vividly; the powder flashed.
+
fast
v.
Tenacious; retentive.
+
fineness
a.
The quality or condition of being fine.
+
formyl
n.
Formerly, the radical methyl, CH3.
+
fructification
n.
The act of forming or producing fruit; the act of fructifying, or rendering productive of fruit; fecundation.
+
fruitage
n.
Product or result of any action; effect, good or ill.
+
frequency
n.
A crowd; a throng.
+
footstep
n.
The mark or impression of the foot; a track; hence, visible sign of a course pursued; token; mark; as, the footsteps of divine wisdom.
+
finikin
a.
Precise in trifles; idly busy.
+
feudal
a.
Of or pertaining to feuds, fiefs, or feels; as, feudal rights or services; feudal tenures.
+
fury
n.
A thief.
+
filliping
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fillip
+
fluviatic
a.
Belonging to rivers or streams; fluviatile.
+
favor
n.
Appearance; look; countenance; face.
+
fil

imp. of Fall, v. i. Fell.
+
fluxion
n.
The act of flowing.
+
forge
v.t.
To move heavily and slowly, as a ship after the sails are furled; to work one's way, as one ship in outsailing another; -- used especially in the phrase to forge ahead.
+
fetter
p.pr.|vb.n.
To put fetters upon; to shackle or confine the feet of with a chain; to bind.
+
fob
n.
A little pocket for a watch.
+
forold
a.
Very old.
+
flock
n.
A Christian church or congregation; considered in their relation to the pastor, or minister in charge.
+
flutist
n.
To be in agitation; to move irregularly; to flucttuate; to be uncertainty.
+
flown
a.
Flushed, inflated.
+
fall
v.t.
To come; to occur; to arrive.
+
furthering
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Further
+
falsify
a.
To make false; to represent falsely.
+
felly
n.
The exterior wooden rim, or a segment of the rim, of a wheel, supported by the spokes.
+
figulate
a.
Alt. of Figulated
+
frequenting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Frequent
+
frank
v.t.
To shut up in a frank or sty; to pen up; hence, to cram; to fatten.
+
fluctuation
n.
The motion or undulation of a fluid collected in a natural or artifical cavity, which is felt when it is subjected to pressure or percussion.
+
fistula
n.
A permanent abnormal opening into the soft parts with a constant discharge; a deep, narrow, chronic abscess; an abnormal opening between an internal cavity and another cavity or the surface; as, a salivary fistula; an anal fistula; a recto-vaginal fistula.
+
familiarize
v.t.
To make acquainted, or skilled, by practice or study; as, to familiarize one's self with a business, a book, or a science.
+
fipple
n.
A stopper, as in a wind instrument of music.
+
forgetful
a.
Heedless; careless; neglectful; inattentive.
+
fardingdale
n.
A farthingale.
+
fulsamic
a.
Fulsome.
+
fraud
n.
An intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of obtaining some valuable thing or promise from another.
+
fuddled
imp.|p.p.
of Fuddle
+
filicide
n.
The act of murdering a son or a daughter; also, parent who commits such a murder.
+
fatherinlaw
n.
The father of one's husband or wife; -- correlative to son-in-law and daughter-in-law.
+
farfetch
n.
Anything brought from far, or brought about with studious care; a deep strategem.
+
forcibly
adv.
In a forcible manner.
+
frying
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fry
+
fungate
n.
A salt of fungic acid.
+
forbidding
a.
Repelling approach; repulsive; raising abhorrence, aversion, or dislike; disagreeable; prohibiting or interdicting; as, a forbidding aspect; a forbidding formality; a forbidding air.
+
fathead
n.
A labroid food fish of California; the redfish.
+
feculency
n.
Feculence.
+
fuga
n.
A fugue.
+
feathering
n.
The act of turning the blade of the oar, as it rises from the water in rowing, from a vertical to a horizontal position. See To feather an oar, under Feather, v. t.
+
failure
n.
Cessation of supply, or total defect; a failing; deficiency; as, failure of rain; failure of crops.
+
findfaulting
a.
Apt to censure or cavil; faultfinding; captious.
+
financial
a.
Pertaining to finance.
+
fond
superl.
Foolish; silly; simple; weak.
+
finely
adv.
In a fine or finished manner.
+
father
n.
A dignitary of the church, a superior of a convent, a confessor (called also father confessor), or a priest; also, the eldest member of a profession, or of a legislative assembly, etc.
+
fixture
n.
Anything of an accessory character annexed to houses and lands, so as to constitute a part of them. This term is, however, quite frequently used in the peculiar sense of personal chattels annexed to lands and tenements, but removable by the person annexing them, or his personal representatives. In this latter sense, the same things may be fixtures under some circumstances, and not fixtures under others.
+
fortalice
n.
A small outwork of a fortification; a fortilage; -- called also fortelace.
+
forester
n.
One who has charge of the growing timber on an estate; an officer appointed to watch a forest and preserve the game.
+
faster
n.
One who abstains from food.
+
florida bean

One of the very large seeds of the Entada scandens.
+
foxhunting
a.
Pertaining to or engaged in the hunting of foxes; fond of hunting foxes.
+
farseeing
a.
Having foresight as regards the future.
+
forpine
v.t.
To waste away completely by suffering or torment.
+
flatter
v.t.
To raise hopes in; to encourage or favorable, but sometimes unfounded or deceitful, representations.
+
featherhead
n.
A frivolous or featherbrained person.
+
fasti
n.pl.
The Roman calendar, which gave the days for festivals, courts, etc., corresponding to a modern almanac.
+
fat
superl.
Abounding with fat
+
fothering
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fother
+
fitted
imp.|p.p.
of Fit
+
formal
a.
Devoted to, or done in accordance with, forms or rules; punctilious; regular; orderly; methodical; of a prescribed form; exact; prim; stiff; ceremonious; as, a man formal in his dress, his gait, his conversation.
+
feruled
imp.|p.p.
of Ferule
+
flash
n.
A sudden burst of light; a flood of light instantaneously appearing and disappearing; a momentary blaze; as, a flash of lightning.
+
flauntingly
adv.
In a flaunting way.
+
fossa
n.
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.
+
faith
n.
Credibility or truth.
+
fraudulent
a.
Obtained or performed by artifice; as, fraudulent conquest.
+
fatiferous
a.
Fate-bringing; deadly; mortal; destructive.
+
foinery
n.
Thrusting with the foil; fencing with the point, as distinguished from broadsword play.
+
freewill
a.
Of or pertaining to free will; voluntary; spontaneous; as, a freewill offering.
+
fete
n.pl.
Feet.
+
facinorous
a.
Atrociously wicked.
+
forlend
v.t.
To give up wholly.
+
fling
v.i.
To throw; to wince; to flounce; as, the horse began to kick and fling.
+
frow
n.
A cleaving tool with handle at right angles to the blade, for splitting cask staves and shingles from the block; a frower.
+
fugue
n.
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.
+
fluxional
a.
Pertaining to, or having the nature of, fluxion or fluxions; variable; inconstant.
+
freeing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Free
+
fill
a.
To supply with an incumbent; as, to fill an office or a vacancy.
+
fluting
n.
Decoration by means of flutes or channels; a flute, or flutes collectively; as, the fluting of a column or pilaster; the fluting of a lady's ruffle.
+
flatness
n.
Want of vivacity or spirit; prostration; dejection; depression.
+
fleet
n.|a.
To sail; to float.
+
fad
n.
A hobby ; freak; whim.
+
fulgury
n.
Lightning.
+
fourierism
n.
The cooperative socialistic system of Charles Fourier, a Frenchman, who recommended the reorganization of society into small communities, living in common.
+
first
adv.
Before any other person or thing in time, space, rank, etc.; -- much used in composition with adjectives and participles.
+
frolicful
a.
Frolicsome.
+
fluidal
a.
Pertaining to a fluid, or to its flowing motion.
+
folliculated
a.
Having follicles.
+
flapeared
a.
Having broad, loose, dependent ears.
+
forge
n.
The works where wrought iron is produced directly from the ore, or where iron is rendered malleable by puddling and shingling; a shingling mill.
+
flirt
v.t.
To toss or throw about; to move playfully to and fro; as, to flirt a fan.
+
fatten
v.t.
To make fat; to feed for slaughter; to make fleshy or plump with fat; to fill full; to fat.
+
flintware
n.
A superior kind of earthenware into whose composition flint enters largely.
+
front
n.
The most conspicuous part.
+
frisure
n.
The dressing of the hair by crisping or curling.
+
fetich
n.
Alt. of Fetish
+
formidable
a.
Exciting fear or apprehension; impressing dread; adapted to excite fear and deter from approach, encounter, or undertaking; alarming.
+
feculence
n.
That which is feculent; sediment; lees; dregs.
+
figure
n.
Any one of the several regular steps or movements made by a dancer.
+
for
prep.
Indicating that in favor of which, or in promoting which, anything is, or is done; hence, in behalf of; in favor of; on the side of; -- opposed to against.
+
fender
v.t.|i.
Anything set up to protect an exposed angle, as of a house, from damage by carriage wheels.
+
fumetere
n.
Fumitory.
+
flighter
n.
A horizontal vane revolving over the surface of wort in a cooler, to produce a circular current in the liquor.
+
frown
v.t.
To repress or repel by expressing displeasure or disapproval; to rebuke with a look; as, frown the impudent fellow into silence.
+
finish
v.t.
To arrive at the end of; to bring to an end; to put an end to; to make an end of; to terminate.
+
fluently
adv.
In a fluent manner.
+
fleered
imp.|p.p.
of Fleer
+
family
v.t.
Those who descend from one common progenitor; a tribe, clan, or race; kindred; house; as, the human family; the family of Abraham; the father of a family.
+
flymen
pl.
of Flyman
+
flag
n.
A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc.
+
fearer
n.
One who fars.
+
fluster
v.t.
To make hot and rosy, as with drinking; to heat; hence, to throw into agitation and confusion; to confuse; to muddle.
+
foolscap
n.
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.
+
forelift
v.t.
To lift up in front.
+
frugivorous
a.
Feeding on fruit, as birds and other animals.
+
fructuation
n.
Produce; fruit.
+
fletched
imp.|p.p.
of Fletch
+
fudging
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fudge
+
forealleged
imp.|p.p.
of Foreallege
+
fourposter
n.
A large bedstead with tall posts at the corners to support curtains.
+
flukan
n.
See Flucan.
+
frigatebuilt
a.
Built like a frigate with a raised quarter-deck and forecastle.
+
fireset
n.
A set of fire irons, including, commonly, tongs, shovel, and poker.
+
floor
v.t.
To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down; hence, to silence by a conclusive answer or retort; as, to floor an opponent.
+
furlough
a.
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.
+
farfow
v.t.|i.
To bring forth (young); -- said only of swine.
+
fluctuated
imp.|p.p.
of Fluctuate
+
freshen
v.t.
To refresh; to revive.
+
fusty
superl
Moldy; musty; ill-smelling; rank.
+
fang
v.t.
Any shoot or other thing by which hold is taken.
+
fire
n.
Ardor of passion, whether love or hate; excessive warmth; consuming violence of temper.
+
featherheaded
a.
Giddy; frivolous; foolish.
+
furriery
n.
Furs, in general.
+
finder
n.
One who, or that which, finds; specifically (Astron.), a small telescope of low power and large field of view, attached to a larger telescope, for the purpose of finding an object more readily.
+
fly
v.i.
To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly; -- usually with a qualifying word; as, a door flies open; a bomb flies apart.
+
fissure
n.
A narrow opening, made by the parting of any substance; a cleft; as, the fissure of a rock.
+
fiftieth
a.
Next in order after the forty-ninth; -- the ordinal of fifty.
+
flabby
a.
Yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; wanting firmness; flaccid; as, flabby flesh.
+
forespent
a.
Already spent; gone by; past.
+
friarly
a.
Like a friar; inexperienced.
+
fourfold
n.
Four times as many or as much.
+
fumadoes
pl.
of Fumado
+
futility
n.
The quality of being talkative; talkativeness; loquaciousness; loquacity.
+
fuddling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fuddle
+
fulham
n.
A false die.
+
furloughed
imp.|p.p.
of Furlough
+
flanches
pl.
of Flanch
+
foreboder
n.
One who forebodes.
+
fatuity
n.
Weakness or imbecility of mind; stupidity.
+
forestaller
n.
One who forestalls; esp., one who forestalls the market.
+
figuration
n.
The act of giving figure or determinate form; determination to a certain form.
+
finished
imp.|p.p.
of Finish
+
fauces
n.pl.
The narrow passage from the mouth to the pharynx, situated between the soft palate and the base of the tongue; -- called also the isthmus of the fauces.  On either side of the passage two membranous folds, called the pillars of the fauces, inclose the tonsils.
+
fighter
n.
One who fights; a combatant; a warrior.
+
finish
v.i.
To come to an end; to terminate.
+
fourfooted
a.
Having four feet; quadruped; as, fourfooted beasts.
+
fother
n.
A wagonload; a load of any sort.
+
foveolae
pl.
of Foveola
+
frisket
a.
The light frame which holds the sheet of paper to the tympan in printing.
+
flowage
n.
An overflowing with water; also, the water which thus overflows.
+
formulary
n.
A book containing stated and prescribed forms, as of oaths, declarations, prayers, medical formulaae, etc.; a book of precedents.
+
fleck
n.
To spot; to streak or stripe; to variegate; to dapple.
+
fullgrown
a.
Having reached the limits of growth; mature.
+
feed
v.i.
To place cattle to feed; to pasture; to graze.
+
faroff
a.
Remote; as, the far-off distance.  Cf. Far-off, under Far, adv.
+
feather
v.i.
To turn to a horizontal plane; -- said of oars.
+
fossae
pl.
of Fossa
+
fond
v.t.
To caress; to fondle.
+
foldless
a.
Having no fold.
+
falsehood
n.
A counterfeit; a false appearance; an imposture.
+
fatal
a.
Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny; necessary; inevitable.
+
felicify
v.t.
To make happy; to felicitate.
+
fiorite
n.
A variety of opal occuring in the cavities of volcanic tufa, in smooth and shining globular and botryoidal masses, having a pearly luster; -- so called from Fiora, in Ischia.
+
fashed
imp.|p.p.
of Fash
+
feed
imp.|p.p.
of Fee
+
fibroma
n.
A tumor consisting mainly of fibrous tissue, or of same modification of such tissue.
+
flattering
a.
That flatters (in the various senses of the verb); as, a flattering speech.
+
farfetched
a.
Brought from far, or from a remote place.
+
feminine
a.
Of or pertaining to a woman, or to women; characteristic of a woman; womanish; womanly.
+
foulspoken
a.
Using profane, scurrilous, slanderous, or obscene language.
+
flush
n.
A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind; a blush; a glow.
+
flax
n.
A plant of the genus Linum, esp. the L. usitatissimum, which has a single, slender stalk, about a foot and a half high, with blue flowers. The fiber of the bark is used for making thread and cloth, called linen, cambric, lawn, lace, etc. Linseed oil is expressed from the seed.
+
family
v.t.
A group of kindred or closely related individuals; as, a family of languages; a family of States; the chlorine family.
+
frap
v.t.
To brace by drawing together, as the cords of a drum.
+
fusel oil

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.
+
fusee
n.
A small packet of explosive material with wire appendages allowing it to be conveniently attached to a railroad track.  It will explode with a loud report when run over by a train, and is used to provide a warning signal to the engineer.
+
franchising
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Franchise
+
felonry
n.
A body of felons; specifically, the convict population of a penal colony.
+
farther
v.t.
To help onward. [R.] See Further.
+
ferrugo
n.
A disease of plants caused by fungi, commonly called the rust, from its resemblance to iron rust in color.
+
fringilline
a.
Pertaining to the family Fringillidae; characteristic of finches; sparrowlike.
+
fro
prep.
From.
+
feeble
superl.
Deficient in physical strength; weak; infirm; debilitated.
+
flop
v.t.
To turn suddenly, as something broad and flat.
+
fibrinogenous
a.
Possessed of properties similar to fibrinogen; capable of forming fibrin.
+
flabile
a.
Liable to be blown about.
+
fortune
n.
To provide with a fortune.
+
fugitive
a.
Not fixed; not durable; liable to disappear or fall away; volatile; uncertain; evanescent; liable to fade; -- applied to material and immaterial things; as, fugitive colors; a fugitive idea.
+
fancying
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fancy
+
frangulinic
a.
Pertaining to, or drived from, frangulin, or a species (Rhamnus Frangula) of the buckthorn.
+
fury
n.
One of the Parcae, or Fates, esp. Atropos.
+
forcer
n.
A small hand pump for sinking pits, draining cellars, etc.
+
falsettos
pl.
of Falsetto
+
flat
n.
A car without a roof, the body of which is a platform without sides; a platform car.
+
factorial
n.
A name given to the factors of a continued product when the former are derivable from one and the same function F(x) by successively imparting a constant increment or decrement h to the independent variable. Thus the product F(x).F(x + h).F(x + 2h) . . . F[x + (n-1)h] is called a factorial term, and its several factors take the name of factorials.
+
firestone
n.
Iron pyrites, formerly used for striking fire; also, a flint.
+
factotum
n.
A person employed to do all kinds of work or business.
+
fluxed
imp.|p.p.
of Flux
+
forweep
v.i.
To weep much.
+
foiling
n.
The track of game (as deer) in the grass.
+
forgiving
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Forgive
+
fother
n.
See Fodder, a unit of weight.
+
frostiness
n.
State or quality of being frosty.
+
fume
n.
Rage or excitement which deprives the mind of self-control; as, the fumes of passion.
+
forsworn
p.p.
of Forswear
+
flush
n.
A flock of birds suddenly started up or flushed.
+
free
superl.
Unconstrained by timidity or distrust; unreserved; ingenuous; frank; familiar; communicative.
+
feverous
a.
Having the tendency to produce fever; as, a feverous disposition of the year.
+
fumarine
n.
An alkaloid extracted from fumitory, as a white crystalline substance.
+
flagrancy
n.
A burning; great heat; inflammation.
+
favor
n.
To resemble in features; to have the aspect or looks of; as, the child favors his father.
+
fulcra
n.pl.
See Fulcrum.
+
fleshing
n.
A person devoted to fleshly things.
+
faddle
v.i.
To trifle; to toy.
+
fitt
n.
See 2d Fit.
+
fugleman
n.
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.
+
float
v.i.
A quantity of earth, eighteen feet square and one foot deep.
+
forward
adv.
Alt. of Forwards
+
formulize
v.t.
To reduce to a formula; to formulate.
+
fanned
imp.|p.p.
of Fan
+
fly
v.i.
A heavy wheel, or cross arms with weights at the ends on a revolving axis, to regulate or equalize the motion of machinery by means of its inertia, where the power communicated, or the resistance to be overcome, is variable, as in the steam engine or the coining press. See Fly wheel (below).
+
free
superl.
Not close or parsimonious; liberal; open-handed; lavish; as, free with his money.
+
fellow
n.
A man without good breeding or worth; an ignoble or mean man.
+
frill
v.i.
A ruffle, consisting of a fold of membrane, of hairs, or of feathers, around the neck of an animal.
+
fence
v.i.
To practice the art of attack and defense with the sword or with the foil, esp. with the smallsword, using the point only.
+
frisking
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Frisk
+
fraternizer
n.
One who fraternizes.
+
find
v.t.
To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a person.
+
folkmote
n.
a general assembly of the people to consider and order matters of the commonwealth; also, a local court.
+
flit
v.i.
To move with celerity through the air; to fly away with a rapid motion; to dart along; to fleet; as, a bird flits away; a cloud flits along.
+
fresh
superl
Lately produced, gathered, or prepared for market; not stale; not dried or preserved; not wilted, faded, or tainted; in good condition; as, fresh vegetables, flowers, eggs, meat, fruit, etc.; recently made or obtained; occurring again; repeated; as, a fresh supply of goods; fresh tea, raisins, etc.; lately come or made public; as, fresh news; recently taken from a well or spring; as, fresh water.
+
fratricide
n.
The act of one who murders or kills his own brother.
+
french
n.
Collectively, the people of France.
+
fortress
v.t.
To furnish with a fortress or with fortresses; to guard; to fortify.
+
fisher
n.
One who fishes.
+
forbiddenly
adv.
In a forbidden or unlawful manner.
+
form
n.
A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.
+
footband
n.
A band of foot soldiers.
+
footing
n.
The finer refuse part of whale blubber, not wholly deprived of oil.
+
fricative
n.
A fricative consonant letter or sound. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 197-206, etc.
+
flip
v.t.
To toss or fillip; as, to flip up a cent.
+
fustigation
n.
A punishment by beating with a stick or club; cudgeling.
+
fabricking
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fabric
+
fastuous
a.
Proud; haughty; disdainful.
+
fireless
a.
Destitute of fire.
+
frowning
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Frown
+
formyl
n.
A univalent radical, H.C:O, regarded as the essential residue of formic acid and aldehyde.
+
flourish
n.
A fantastic or decorative musical passage; a strain of triumph or bravado, not forming part of a regular musical composition; a cal; a fanfare.
+
flourish
n.
A flourishing condition; prosperity; vigor.
+
frostbird
n.
The golden plover.
+
factoring
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Factor
+
frostbite
n.
The freezing, or effect of a freezing, of some part of the body, as the ears or nose.
+
flowerage
n.
State of flowers; flowers, collectively or in general.
+
fourierite
n.
One who adopts the views of Fourier.
+
flashing
n.
The reheating of an article at the furnace aperture during manufacture to restore its plastic condition; esp., the reheating of a globe of crown glass to allow it to assume a flat shape as it is rotated.
+
former
a.
Earlier, as between two things mentioned together; first mentioned.
+
froth
v.i.
To throw up or out spume, foam, or bubbles; to foam; as beer froths; a horse froths.
+
fetish
n.
A material object supposed among certain African tribes to represent in such a way, or to be so connected with, a supernatural being, that the possession of it gives to the possessor power to control that being.
+
fail
v.t.
To be wanting to ; to be insufficient for; to disappoint; to desert.
+
fibrillated
a.
Furnished with fibrils; fringed.
+
feaster
n.
One who fares deliciously.
+
fithel
n.
Alt. of Fithul
+
felly
adv.
In a fell or cruel manner; fiercely; barbarously; savagely.
+
fishing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fish
+
frogsbit
n.
Frogbit.
+
forgetmenot
n.
A small herb, of the genus Myosotis (M. palustris, incespitosa, etc.), bearing a beautiful blue flower, and extensively considered the emblem of fidelity.
+
fatimite
a.
Alt. of Fatimide
+
fluorescent
a.
Having the property of fluorescence.
+
formative
a.
Capable of growth and development; germinal; as, living or formative matter.
+
free
superl.
Not confined or imprisoned; released from arrest; liberated; at liberty to go.
+
forswearing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Forswear
+
farther
adv.
Moreover; by way of progress in treating a subject; as, farther, let us consider the probable event.
+
fraternation
n.
Alt. of Fraternism
+
freespoken
a.
Accustomed to speak without reserve.
+
flosh
n.
A hopper-shaped box or /nortar in which ore is placed for the action of the stamps.
+
fat
superl.
Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid.
+
foiled
imp.|p.p.
of Foil
+
fracho
n.
A shallow iron pan to hold glass ware while being annealed.
+
farandams
n.
A fabrik made of silk and wool or hair.
+
fleeced
a.
Stripped of a fleece; plundered; robbed.
+
flocky
a.
Abounding with flocks; floccose.
+
faint
n.
The act of fainting, or the state of one who has fainted; a swoon. [R.] See Fainting, n.
+
frill
v.i.
A border or edging secured at one edge and left free at the other, usually fluted or crimped like a very narrow flounce.
+
festive
a.
Pertaining to, or becoming, a feast; festal; joyous; gay; mirthful; sportive.
+
ferde

imp. of Fare.
+
fortieth
a.
Following the thirty-ninth, or preceded by thirty-nine units, things, or parts.
+
farther
superl.
Tending to a greater distance; beyond a certain point; additional; further.
+
ferial
a.
Belonging to any week day, esp. to a day that is neither a festival nor a fast.
+
fourcornered
a.
Having four corners or angles.
+
frosted
a.
Covered with hoarfrost or anything resembling hoarfrost; ornamented with frosting; also, frost-bitten; as, a frosted cake; frosted glass.
+
flammability
n.
The quality of being flammable; inflammability.
+
fly
v.i.
A hook dressed in imitation of a fly, -- used for fishing.
+
festinate
a.
Hasty; hurried.
+
friendly
a.
Promoting the good of any person; favorable; propitious; serviceable; as, a friendly breeze or gale.
+
flotation
n.
The science of floating bodies.
+
fathomless
a.
Incomprehensible.
+
faradization
n.
The treatment with faradic or induced currents of electricity for remedial purposes.
+
future
v.i.
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.
+
fribble
v.i.
To totter.
+
falling
a.|n.
from Fall, v. i.
+
fratricidal
a.
Of or pertaining to fratricide; of the nature of fratricide.
+
fetch
v.t.
To recall from a swoon; to revive; -- sometimes with to; as, to fetch a man to.
+
foundling
v.t.
A deserted or exposed infant; a child found without a parent or owner.
+
forfeit
n.
Injury; wrong; mischief.
+
fixation
n.
A state of resistance to evaporation or volatilization by heat; -- said of metals.
+
foil
v.t.
To blunt; to dull; to spoil; as, to foil the scent in chase.
+
flagginess
n.
The condition of being flaggy; laxity; limberness.
+
fanatic
n.
A person affected by excessive enthusiasm, particularly on religious subjects; one who indulges wild and extravagant notions of religion.
+
forget
v.t.
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.
+
five
n.
A symbol representing this number, as 5, or V.
+
furbish
v.t.
To rub or scour to brightness; to clean; to burnish; as, to furbish a sword or spear.
+
familiarly
adv.
In a familiar manner.
+
flews
n.pl.
The pendulous or overhanging lateral parts of the upper lip of dogs, especially prominent in hounds; -- called also chaps. See Illust. of Bloodhound.
+
feign
v.t.
To represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to counterfeit; as, to feign a sickness.
+
filiation
n.
The relationship of a son or child to a parent, esp. to a father.
+
fur
n.
One of several patterns or diapers used as tinctures. There are nine in all, or, according to some writers, only six.
+
footman
n.
A soldier who marches and fights on foot; a foot soldier.
+
fern
n.
An order of cryptogamous plants, the Filices, which have their fructification on the back of the fronds or leaves. They are usually found in humid soil, sometimes grow epiphytically on trees, and in tropical climates often attain a gigantic size.
+
fear
n.
A painful emotion or passion excited by the expectation of evil, or the apprehension of impending danger; apprehension; anxiety; solicitude; alarm; dread.
+
frow
n.
A woman; especially, a Dutch or German woman.
+
fetal
a.
Pertaining to, or connected with, a fetus; as, fetal circulation; fetal membranes.
+
frication
n.
Friction.
+
flitch
n.
One of several planks, smaller timbers, or iron plates, which are secured together, side by side, to make a large girder or built beam.
+
fringe
n.
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.
+
fertilely
adv.
In a fertile or fruitful manner.
+
freckle
v.t.
To spinkle or mark with freckle or small discolored spots; to spot.
+
fox
n.
The European dragonet.
+
frere
n.
A friar.
+
front
v.t.
To oppose face to face; to oppose directly; to meet in a hostile manner.
+
further
adv.
To help forward; to promote; to advance; to forward; to help or assist.
+
fin
n.
A membranous, finlike, swimming organ, as in pteropod and heteropod mollusks.
+
freezable
a.
Capable of being frozen.
+
footnote
n.
A note of reference or comment at the foot of a page.
+
fox
n.
To intoxicate; to stupefy with drink.
+
fasciculi
pl.
of Fasciculus
+
fantasied
a.
Filled with fancies or imaginations.
+
fertilizing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fertilize
+
flouring
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Flour
+
forgone
p.p.
of Forgo
+
forswear
v.i.
To deny upon oath.
+
forge
v.t.
To impel forward slowly; as, to forge a ship forward.
+
flask
n.
A small bottle-shaped vessel for holding fluids; as, a flask of oil or wine.
+
fiants
n.
The dung of the fox, wolf, boar, or badger.
+
foveate
a.
Having pits or depressions; pitted.
+
flaccid
a.
Yielding to pressure for want of firmness and stiffness; soft and weak; limber; lax; drooping; flabby; as, a flaccid muscle; flaccid flesh.
+
fash
v.t.
To vex; to tease; to trouble.
+
force
n.
To exert to the utmost; to urge; hence, to strain; to urge to excessive, unnatural, or untimely action; to produce by unnatural effort; as, to force a consient or metaphor; to force a laugh; to force fruits.
+
feather
v.i.
To have the appearance of a feather or of feathers; to be or to appear in feathery form.
+
fathersinlaw
pl.
of Father-in-law
+
frizzy
a.
Curled or crisped; as, frizzly, hair.
+
flammiferous
a.
Producing flame.
+
fortify
v.i.
To raise defensive works.
+
flare
v.i.
To shine out with a sudden and unsteady light; to emit a dazzling or painfully bright light.
+
flix
n.
Down; fur.
+
festival
a.
Pertaining to a fest; festive; festal; appropriate to a festival; joyous; mirthful.
+
fulminate
v.i.
To thunder; hence, to make a loud, sudden noise; to detonate; to explode with a violent report.
+
favorer
n.
One who favors; one who regards with kindness or friendship; a well-wisher; one who assists or promotes success or prosperity.
+
fair
superl.
Free from any marked characteristic; average; middling; as, a fair specimen.
+
faltered
imp.|p.p.
of Falter
+
frow
n.
A dirty woman; a slattern.
+
frustraneous
a.
Vain; useless; unprofitable.
+
floren
n.
A cerain gold coin; a Florence.
+
focus
n.
A point in which the rays of light meet, after being reflected or refrcted, and at which the image is formed; as, the focus of a lens or mirror.
+
faucet
n.
The enlarged end of a section of pipe which receives the spigot end of the next section.
+
fromward
prep.
Alt. of Fromwards
+
fable
v.t.
To feign; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely.
+
frible
a.
Frivolous; trifling; sily.
+
frontal
n.
A little pediment over a door or window.
+
fireworm
n.
The larva of a small tortricid moth which eats the leaves of the cranberry, so that the vines look as if burned; -- called also cranberry worm.
+
falness
n.
See Fullness.
+
fimble hemp

Light summer hemp, that bears no seed.
+
fox
n.
To repair the feet of, as of boots, with new front upper leather, or to piece the upper fronts of.
+
flatter
n.
A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.
+
fertilized
imp.|p.p.
of Fertilize
+
felwort
n.
A European herb (Swertia perennis) of the Gentian family.
+
fielded
imp.|p.p.
of Field
+
fidelity
n.
Adherence to truth; veracity; honesty.
+
fidget
n.
Uneasiness; restlessness.
+
fish
n.
A purchase used to fish the anchor.
+
figurable
a.
Capable of being brought to a fixed form or shape.
+
framing
n.
A framework, or a sy/ of frames.
+
fitchew
n.
The European polecat (Putorius foetidus). See Polecat.
+
fattining
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fatten
+
fritinancy
n.
A chirping or creaking, as of a cricket.
+
flagrance
n.
Flagrancy.
+
fireboard
n.
A chimney board or screen to close a fireplace when not in use.
+
fixed
a.
Securely placed or fastened; settled; established; firm; imovable; unalterable.
+
fozy
a.
Spongy; soft; fat and puffy.
+
frequent
a.
To make full; to fill.
+
fireproof
a.
Proof against fire; incombustible.
+
forewoman
n.
A woman who is chief; a woman who has charge of the work or workers in a shop or other place; a head woman.
+
form
n.
The particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech; as, participial forms; verbal forms.
+
forward
a.
Ardent; eager; earnest; in an ill sense, less reserved or modest than is proper; bold; confident; as, the boy is too forward for his years.
+
friary
n.
The institution or praactices of friars.
+
flinchingly
adv.
In a flinching manner.
+
fleece
n.
Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.
+
frounceless
a.
Without frounces.
+
ferme
n.
Rent for a farm; a farm; also, an abode; a place of residence; as, he let his land to ferm.
+
frab
v.i.|t.
To scold; to nag.
+
fleshly
adv.
In a fleshly manner; carnally; lasciviously.
+
fulguration
n.
The sudden brightening of a fused globule of gold or silver, when the last film of the oxide of lead or copper leaves its surface; -- also called blick.
+
forte
n.
The stronger part of the blade of a sword; the part of half nearest the hilt; -- opposed to foible.
+
frisk
v.i.
To leap, skip, dance, or gambol, in fronc and gayety.
+
feeding
n.
That which is eaten; food.
+
fail
v.i.
Death; decease.
+
franchised
imp.|p.p.
of Franchise
+
fending
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fend
+
free
a.
To frank.
+
force
n.
To allow the force of; to value; to care for.
+
foresight
n.
Muzzle sight. See Fore sight, under Fore, a.
+
find
v.t.
To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end; as, water is found to be a compound substance.
+
false
superl.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous; as, a false claim; a false conclusion; a false construction in grammar.
+
forespeak
v.t.
See Forspeak.
+
faunist
n.
One who describes the fauna of country; a naturalist.
+
fedalization
n.
The act of reducing to feudal tenure.
+
flake
n.
A little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash.
+
feefawfum
n.
A nonsensical exclamation attributed to giants and ogres; hence, any expression calculated to impose upon the timid and ignorant.
+
frescos
pl.
of Fresco
+
fluff
n.
Nap or down; flue; soft, downy feathers.
+
firmamental
a.
Pertaining to the firmament; celestial; being of the upper regions.
+
factories
pl.
of Factory
+
footpaths
pl.
of Footpath
+
feed
v.t.
To satisfy; grafity or minister to, as any sense, talent, taste, or desire.
+
falsity
a.
That which is false; falsehood; a lie; a false assertion.
+
fanion
n.
A small flag sometimes carried at the head of the baggage of a brigade.
+
flecker
v.t.
To fleck.
+
flagelliform
a.
Shaped like a whiplash; long, slender, round, flexible, and (comming) tapering.
+
fumarate
n.
A salt of fumaric acid.
+
founder
n.
An inflammatory fever of the body, or acute rheumatism; as, chest founder. See Chest ffounder.
+
farming
n.
The business of cultivating land.
+
fief
n.
An estate held of a superior on condition of military service; a fee; a feud. See under Benefice, n., 2.
+
fissuration
n.
The act of dividing or opening; the state of being fissured.
+
formicid
a.
Pertaining to the ants.
+
flooring
n.
A platform; the bottom of a room; a floor; pavement. See Floor, n.
+
feathering
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Feather
+
foretopmast
n.
The mast erected at the head of the foremast, and at the head of which stands the fore-topgallant mast. See Ship.
+
forespeaking
n.
A prediction; also, a preface.
+
flame
n.
To burn with a flame or blaze; to burn as gas emitted from bodies in combustion; to blaze.
+
ferrest
a.|adv.
superl. of Fer.
+
friend
n.
A paramour of either sex.
+
fining
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fine
+
fizzling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fizzle
+
fluctuant
a.
showing undulation or fluctuation; as, a fluctuant tumor.
+
ferrocalcite
n.
Limestone containing a large percentage of iron carbonate, and hence turning brown on exposure.
+
foul
n.
A bird.
+
fragmentariness
n.
The quality or property of being in fragnebts, or broken pieces, incompleteness; want of continuity.
+
fulminating
a.
Hurling denunciations, menaces, or censures.
+
feeder
n.
One who, or that which, gives food or supplies nourishment; steward.
+
felt
v.t.
To cover with, or as with, felt; as, to felt the cylinder of a steam emgine.
+
flavicomous
a.
Having yellow hair.
+
fagot
n.
A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company.
+
funded
imp.|p.p.
of Fund
+
fissiparism
n.
Reproduction by spontaneous fission.
+
fare
n.
To be treated or entertained at table, or with bodily or social comforts; to live.
+
fitch
n.
The European polecat; also, its fur.
+
form
n.
To provide with a form, as a hare. See Form, n., 9.
+
fid
n.
A block of wood used in mounting and dismounting heavy guns.
+
flummery
n.
Something insipid, or not worth having; empty compliment; trash; unsubstantial talk of writing.
+
fowling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fowl
+
fumer
n.
One that fumes.
+
faineant
a.
Doing nothing; shiftless.
+
franked
imp.|p.p.
of Frank
+
fritter
v.t.
To cut, as meat, into small pieces, for frying.
+
fundamental
n.
A leading or primary principle, rule, law, or article, which serves as the groundwork of a system; essential part, as, the fundamentals of the Christian faith.
+
foliated
a.
Spread over with an amalgam of tin and quicksilver.
+
feast
n.
That which is partaken of, or shared in, with delight; something highly agreeable; entertainment.
+
forworn
a.
Much worn.
+
fog
v.i.
To show indistinctly or become indistinct, as the picture on a negative sometimes does in the process of development.
+
full
v.i.
To become full or wholly illuminated; as, the moon fulls at midnight.
+
fountainless
a.
Having no fountain; destitute of springs or sources of water.
+
fud
n.
Woolen waste, for mixing with mungo and shoddy.
+
funambulatory
a.
Performing like a ropedancer.
+
forbearing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Forbear
+
forlorn
v.t.
Deserted; abandoned; lost.
+
fend
v.i.
To act on the defensive, or in opposition; to resist; to parry; to shift off.
+
fusion
v.t.
The act or operation of melting or rendering fluid by heat; the act of melting together; as, the fusion of metals.
+
fluting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Flute
+
fluctuation
n.
A wavering; unsteadiness; as, fluctuations of opinion; fluctuations of prices.
+
fit
n.
A stroke or blow.
+
feud
n.
A contention or quarrel; especially, an inveterate strife between families, clans, or parties; deadly hatred; contention satisfied only by bloodshed.
+
flute a bec

A beak flute, an older form of the flute, played with a mouthpiece resembling a beak, and held like a flageolet.
+
fountain
n.
A reservoir or chamber to contain a liquid which can be conducted or drawn off as needed for use; as, the ink fountain in a printing press, etc.
+
fickle
a.
Not fixed or firm; liable to change; unstable; of a changeable mind; not firm in opinion or purpose; inconstant; capricious; as, Fortune's fickle wheel.
+
footstalk
n.
The stem which supports which supports the eye in decapod Crustacea; eyestalk.
+
faser
n.
A blow in the face, as in boxing; hence, any severe or stunning check or defeat, as in controversy.
+
flowergentle
n.
A species of amaranth (Amarantus melancholicus).
+
frame
n.
Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure; esp., the constructional system, whether of timber or metal, that gives to a building, vessel, etc., its model and strength; the skeleton of a structure.
+
filament
n.
A thread or threadlike object or appendage; a fiber; esp. (Bot.), the threadlike part of the stamen supporting the anther.
+
flouter
n.
One who flouts; a mocker.
+
forbore

imp. of Forbear.
+
fruitage
n.
Fruit, collectively; fruit, in general; fruitery.
+
forerunner
n.
A predecessor; an ancestor.
+
freemasonry
n.
The institutions or the practices of freemasons.
+
flush
n.
A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes.
+
fraised
a.
Fortified with a fraise.
+
foliation
n.
The act of coating with an amalgam of tin foil and quicksilver, as in making looking-glasses.
+
fiascoes
pl.
of Fiasco
+
fall
n.
The surrender of a besieged fortress or town ; as, the fall of Sebastopol.
+
furtherance
n.
The act of furthering or helping forward; promotion; advancement; progress.
+
frolicsome
a.
Full of gayety and mirth; given to pranks; sportive.
+
feathering
v.t.
A covering of feathers.
+
fledge
v.i.
Feathered; furnished with feathers or wings; able to fly.
+
flatter
n.
A flat-faced fulling hammer.
+
flurry
n.
Violent agitation; commotion; bustle; hurry.
+
fortissimo
adv.
Very loud; with the utmost strength or loudness.
+
face
n.
The principal dressed surface of a plate, disk, or pulley; the principal flat surface of a part or object.
+
felonous
a.
Wicked; felonious.
+
founder
n.
One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.
+
freer
n.
One who frees, or sets free.
+
fleigh

imp. of Fly.
+
forfeiture
n.
That which is forfeited; a penalty; a fine or mulct.
+
furthered
imp.|p.p.
of Further
+
fiddle
v.t.
To play (a tune) on a fiddle.
+
freelove
n.
The doctrine or practice of consorting with the opposite sex, at pleasure, without marriage.
+
fated
p.p.|a.
Exempted by fate.
+
fraction
n.
The act of breaking, or state of being broken, especially by violence.
+
fixed
imp.|p.p.
of Fix
+
fallibility
n.
The state of being fallible; liability to deceive or to be deceived; as, the fallibity of an argument or of an adviser.
+
fenceful
a.
Affording defense; defensive.
+
fragmented
a.
Broken into fragments.
+
ferrocyanide
n.
One of a series of complex double cyanides of ferrous iron and some other base.
+
foxy
a.
Like or pertaining to the fox; foxlike in disposition or looks; wily.
+
forth
adv.
Out, as from a state of concealment, retirement, confinement, nondevelopment, or the like; out into notice or view; as, the plants in spring put forth leaves.
+
fiar
n.
The price of grain, as legally fixed, in the counties of Scotland, for the current year.
+
faucet
n.
A fixture for drawing a liquid, as water, molasses, oil, etc., from a pipe, cask, or other vessel, in such quantities as may be desired; -- called also tap, and cock. It consists of a tubular spout, stopped with a movable plug, spigot, valve, or slide.
+
fenestrae
pl.
of Fenestra
+
fetch
v.i.
To bring one's self; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
+
feyne
v.t.
To feign.
+
facile
a.
Easily persuaded to good or bad; yielding; ductile to a fault; pliant; flexible.
+
floriculturist
n.
One skilled in the cultivation of flowers; a florist.
+
frizel
a.
A movable furrowed piece of steel struck by the flint, to throw sparks into the pan, in an early form of flintlock.
+
floated
imp.|p.p.
of Float
+
forecastle
n.
A short upper deck forward, formerly raised like a castle, to command an enemy's decks.
+
funiculus
n.
In Bryozoa, an organ extending back from the stomach. See Bryozoa, and Phylactolema.
+
flanker
n.
One who, or that which, flanks, as a skirmisher or a body of troops sent out upon the flanks of an army toguard a line of march, or a fort projecting so as to command the side of an assailing body.
+
feudal
a.
Consisting of, or founded upon, feuds or fiefs; embracing tenures by military services; as, the feudal system.
+
fullbottomed
a.
Of great capacity below the water line.
+
facsimiles
pl.
of Facsimile
+
flown
p.p.
of Fly
+
flabellation
n.
The act of keeping fractured limbs cool by the use of a fan or some other contrivance.
+
fester
n.
To generate pus; to become imflamed and suppurate; as, a sore or a wound festers.
+
fume
n.
To be as in a mist; to be dulled and stupefied.
+
flatting
n.
A mode of painting,in which the paint, being mixed with turpentine, leaves the work without gloss.
+
flowk
n.
See 1st Fluke.
+
flamingoes
pl.
of Flamingo
+
facto
adv.
In fact; by the act or fact.
+
fornicate
v.i.
To commit fornication; to have unlawful sexual intercourse.
+
frankchase
n.
The liberty or franchise of having a chase; free chase.
+
fey
v.t.
To cleanse; to clean out.
+
fleet
n.|a.
To slip on the whelps or the barrel of a capstan or windlass; -- said of a cable or hawser.
+
formication
n.
A sensation resembling that made by the creeping of ants on the skin.
+
frothing
n.
Exaggerated declamation; rant.
+
financier
v.i.
To conduct financial operations.
+
foreshower
n.
One who predicts.
+
fluke
n.
A parasitic trematode worm of several species, having a flat, lanceolate body and two suckers.  Two species (Fasciola hepatica and Distoma lanceolatum) are found in the livers of sheep, and produce the disease called rot.
+
fulgency
n.
Brightness; splendor; glitter; effulgence.
+
fanlike
a.
Resembling a fan;
+
falwe
a.|n.
Fallow.
+
falsification
n.
The showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong.
+
final
a.
Pertaining to the end or conclusion; last; terminating; ultimate; as, the final day of a school term.
+
forth
adv.
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.
+
fear
n.
To be anxious or solicitous for.
+
flabbily
adv.
In a flabby manner.
+
forger
n.|v.t.
Especially: One guilty of forgery; one who makes or issues a counterfeit document.
+
flatter
v.i.
To use flattery or insincere praise.
+
fowler
n.
A sportsman who pursues wild fowl, or takes or kills for food.
+
fallals
n.pl.
Gay ornaments; frippery; gewgaws.
+
flotilla
n.
A little fleet, or a fleet of small vessels.
+
fucated
a.
Painted; disguised with paint, or with false show.
+
fight
v.i.
Strength or disposition for fighting; pugnacity; as, he has a great deal of fight in him.
+
finish
n.
See Finishing coat, under Finishing.
+
fluctuate
v.i.
To move now in one direction and now in another; to be wavering or unsteady; to be irresolute or undetermined; to vacillate.
+
finial
n.
The knot or bunch of foliage, or foliated ornament, that forms the upper extremity of a pinnacle in Gothic architecture; sometimes, the pinnacle itself.
+
fabling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fable
+
file
n.
A roll or list.
+
flook
n.
A fluke of an anchor.
+
farcing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Farce
+
flitter
v.i.
To flutter.
+
fisticuff
n.
A cuff or blow with the fist or hand
+
flat
superl.
Clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive; downright.
+
faulted
imp.|p.p.
of Fault
+
feral
a.
Funereal; deadly; fatal; dangerous.
+
feverously
adv.
Feverishly.
+
fumble
v.i.
To feel or grope about; to make awkward attempts to do or find something.
+
fathom
n.
The measure or extant of one's capacity; depth, as of intellect; profundity; reach; penetration.
+
from
prep.
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.
+
foddered
imp.|p.p.
of Fodder
+
follicle
n.
A small cavity, tubular depression, or sac; as, a hair follicle.
+
freight
a.
Employed in the transportation of freight; having to do with freight; as, a freight car.
+
formularize
v.t.
To reduce to a forula; to formulate.
+
fretted
imp.|p.p.
of Fret
+
fancied
imp.|p.p.
of Fancy
+
fioriture
n.pl.
Little flowers of ornament introduced into a melody by a singer or player.
+
fluor
n.
A fluid state.
+
fyrdung
v.i.
The military force of the whole nation, consisting of all men able to bear arms.
+
fortress
n.
A fortified place; a large and permanent fortification, sometimes including a town; a fort; a castle; a stronghold; a place of defense or security.
+
fascinate
v.t.
To influence in an uncontrollable manner; to operate on by some powerful or irresistible charm; to bewitch; to enchant.
+
faucial
a.
Pertaining to the fauces; pharyngeal.
+
filler
n.
A thill horse.
+
fatty
a.
Containing fat, or having the qualities of fat; greasy; gross; as, a fatty substance.
+
frankmarriage
n.
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.
+
fatally
adv.
In a manner issuing in death or ruin; mortally; destructively; as, fatally deceived or wounded.
+
facies
n.
The face of a bird, or the front of the head, excluding the bill.
+
formidability
n.
Formidableness.
+
fore
adv.
Advanced, as compared with something else; toward the front; being or coming first, in time, place, order, or importance; preceding; anterior; antecedent; earlier; forward; -- opposed to back or behind; as, the fore part of a garment; the fore part of the day; the fore and of a wagon.
+
forestall
v.t.
To obstruct or stop up, as a way; to stop the passage of on highway; to intercept on the road, as goods on the way to market.
+
fresco
a.
A cool, refreshing state of the air; duskiness; coolness; shade.
+
flatbill
n.
Any bird of the genus Flatyrynchus. They belong to the family of flycatchers.
+
foolish
a.
Such as a fool would do; proceeding from weakness of mind or silliness; exhibiting a want of judgment or discretion; as, a foolish act.
+
forlorn
n.
A lost, forsaken, or solitary person.
+
foy
n.
Faith; allegiance; fealty.
+
fret
n.
Herpes; tetter.
+
float
v.t.
To pass over and level the surface of with a float while the plastering is kept wet.
+
favoredness
n.
Appearance.
+
fescuing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fescue
+
florimer
n.
See Floramour.
+
footpath
n.
A narrow path or way for pedestrains only; a footway.
+
foin
v.i.
To thrust with a sword or spear; to lunge.
+
flute
n.
A stop in an organ, having a flutelike sound.
+
flaying
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Flay
+
forewomen
pl.
of Forewoman
+
favel
n.
Flattery; cajolery; deceit.
+
foment
v.t.
To cherish with heat; to foster.
+
foretopsail
n.
See Sail.
+
forgave
imp.
of Forgive
+
freaking
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Freak
+
feverish
a.
Disordered as by fever; excited; restless; as, the feverish condition of the commercial world.
+
fudge
n.
A made-up story; stuff; nonsense; humbug; -- often an exclamation of contempt.
+
frippery
n.
The trade or traffic in old clothes.
+
favor
n.
Love locks.
+
felstone
n.
See Felsite.
+
flyer
n.
One in a flight of steps which are parallel to each other(as in ordinary stairs), as distinguished from a winder.
+
feathering
n.
Same as Foliation.
+
flux
n.
The matter thus discharged.
+
french
n.
The language spoken in France.
+
frim
a.
Flourishing; thriving; fresh; in good case; vigorous.
+
freckle
v.i.
To become covered or marked with freckles; to be spotted.
+
forbid
v.t.
To defy; to challenge.
+
finny
a.
Having, or abounding in, fins, as fishes; pertaining to fishes.
+
favor
n.
Mildness or mitigation of punishment; lenity.
+
fail
v.i.
To come short of a result or object aimed at or desired ; to be baffled or frusrated.
+
floor
n.
That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
+
fagoting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fagot
+
frog
v.t.
To ornament or fasten (a coat, etc.) with trogs. See Frog, n., 4.
+
foot
v.i.
To walk; -- opposed to ride or fly.
+
floweriness
n.
The state of being flowery.
+
feu
n.
A free and gratuitous right to lands made to one for service to be performed by him; a tenure where the vassal, in place of military services, makes a return in grain or in money.
+
fancy
n.
An image or representation of anything formed in the mind; conception; thought; idea; conceit.
+
fistularia
n.
A genus of fishes, having the head prolonged into a tube, with the mouth at the extremity.
+
free
superl.
Unrestrained; immoderate; lavish; licentious; -- used in a bad sense.
+
fartherer
n.
One who furthers. or helps to advance; a promoter.
+
foeticide
n.
Same as Feticide.
+
fleagh

imp. of Fly.
+
forficate
a.
Deeply forked, as the tail of certain birds.
+
futureless
a.
Without prospect of betterment in the future.
+
fluocerite
n.
A fluoride of cerium, occuring near Fahlun in Sweden. Tynosite, from Colorado, is probably the same mineral.
+
flector
n.
A flexor.
+
freshment
n.
Refreshment.
+
flurried
a.
Agitated; excited.
+
factorize
v.t.
To attach (the effects of a debtor) in the hands of a third person ; to garnish. See Garnish.
+
fecundate
v.t.
To render fruitful or prolific; to impregnate; as, in flowers the pollen fecundates the ovum through the stigma.
+
farrowing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Farfow
+
fivefold
a.|adv.
In fives; consisting of five in one; five repeated; quintuple.
+
felicitate
v.t.
To express joy or pleasure to; to wish felicity to; to call or consider (one's self) happy; to congratulate.
+
flank
n.
The fleshy or muscular part of the side of an animal, between the ribs and the hip. See Illust. of Beef.
+
foralite
n.
A tubelike marking, occuring in sandstone and other strata.
+
fantasies
pl.
of Fantasy
+
fatiscence
n.
A gaping or opening; state of being chinky, or having apertures.
+
fly
v.i.
Two or more vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of machinery by the resistance of the air, as in the striking part of a clock.
+
foveolated
a.
Foveolate.
+
forceful
a.
Full of or processing force; exerting force; mighty.
+
forray
v.t.
To foray; to ravage; to pillage.
+
fore
adv.
In the part that precedes or goes first; -- opposed to aft, after, back, behind, etc.
+
filing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of File
+
fullbloomed
a.
Like a perfect blossom.
+
fan
n.
To winnow; to separate chaff from, and drive it away by a current of air; as, to fan wheat.
+
fata morgana

A kind of mirage by which distant objects appear inverted, distorted, displaced, or multiplied. It is noticed particularly at the Straits of Messina, between Calabria and Sicily.
+
furniture
v.t.
Articles used for convenience or decoration in a house or apartment, as tables, chairs, bedsteads, sofas, carpets, curtains, pictures, vases, etc.
+
fancy
v.i.
To figure to one's self; to believe or imagine something without proof.
+
fixedness
n.
The state or quality of being fixed; stability; steadfastness.
+
faintly
adv.
In a faint, weak, or timidmanner.
+
foul
v.t.
To make filthy; to defile; to daub; to dirty; to soil; as, to foul the face or hands with mire.
+
fret
v.t.
To impair; to wear away; to diminish.
+
futurity
n.
Event to come; a future event.
+
foreside
n.
The outside or external covering.
+
fistulous
a.
Hollow, like a pipe or reed; fistulose.
+
forktail
n.
One of several Asiatic and East Indian passerine birds, belonging to Enucurus, and allied genera. The tail is deeply forking.
+
fathomed
imp.|p.p.
of Fathom
+
frame
v.i.
To proceed; to go.
+
facet
v.t.
To cut facets or small faces upon; as, to facet a diamond.
+
flite
v.i.
To scold; to quarrel.
+
fly
v.i.
The piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while the needle is penetrating another loop; a latch.
+
fierce
superl.
Vehement in anger or cruelty; ready or eager to kill or injure; of a nature to inspire terror; ferocious.
+
free
superl.
Not united or combined with anything else; separated; dissevered; unattached; at liberty to escape; as, free carbonic acid gas; free cells.
+
fixable
a.
Capable of being fixed.
+
flirtigig
n.
A wanton, pert girl.
+
fimbriated
a.
Having a fringed border; fimbriate.
+
foreswart
a.
See Forswat.
+
follow
v.t.
To accept as authority; to adopt the opinions of; to obey; to yield to; to take as a rule of action; as, to follow good advice.
+
frank
a.
The privilege of sending letters or other mail matter, free of postage, or without charge; also, the sign, mark, or signature denoting that a letter or other mail matter is to free of postage.
+
fidejussion
n.
The act or state of being bound as surety for another; suretyship.
+
fayence
n.
See Fa/ence.
+
finched
a.
Same as Finchbacked.
+
fabulous
a.
Feigned, as a story or fable; related in fable; devised; invented; not real; fictitious; as, a fabulous description; a fabulous hero.
+
full
compar.
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.
+
fieriness
n.
The quality of being fiery; heat; acrimony; irritability; as, a fieriness of temper.
+
fostress
n.
A woman who feeds and cherishes; a nurse.
+
frilled
imp.|p.p.
of Frill
+
funnel
v.t.
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.
+
fragor
n.
A strong or sweet scent.
+
fan
n.
That which produces effects analogous to those of a fan, as in exciting a flame, etc.; that which inflames, heightens, or strengthens; as, it served as a fan to the flame of his passion.
+
fodient
n.
One of the Fodientia.
+
fish
n.
A piece of timber, somewhat in the form of a fish, used to strengthen a mast or yard.
+
fund
n.
An invested sum, whose income is devoted to a specific object; as, the fund of an ecclesiastical society; a fund for the maintenance of lectures or poor students; also, money systematically collected to meet the expenses of some permanent object.
+
fear
n.
To feel a painful apprehension of; to be afraid of; to consider or expect with emotion of alarm or solicitude.
+
foreappointment
n.
Previous appointment; preordinantion.
+
feoffing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Feoff
+
fabliau
n.
One of the metrical tales of the Trouveres, or early poets of the north of France.
+
fresco
v.t.
To paint in fresco, as walls.
+
freemasonic
a.
Pertaining to, or resembling, the institutions or the practices of freemasons; as, a freemasonic signal.
+
freedom
n.
Frankness; openness; unreservedness.
+
fairhood
n.
Fairness; beauty.
+
flow
v.t.
To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
+
finale
n.
The last composition performed in any act of an opera.
+
funambulate
v.i.
To walk or to dance on a rope.
+
fatten
v.t.
To make fertile and fruitful; to enrich; as, to fatten land; to fatten fields with blood.
+
fanatical
a.
Characteristic of, or relating to, fanaticism; fanatic.
+
fratricelli
n.pl.
The name which St. Francis of Assisi gave to his followers, early in the 13th century.
+
falconet
n.
One of a group of Australian birds of the genus Falcunculus, resembling shrikes and titmice.
+
forewot

pres. indic., 1st & 3d pers. sing. of Forewite.
+
fox
n.
A sword; -- so called from the stamp of a fox on the blade, or perhaps of a wolf taken for a fox.
+
foresee
v.t.
To see beforehand; to have prescience of; to foreknow.
+
folio
n.
The page number. The even folios are on the left-hand pages and the odd folios on the right-hand.
+
fulfilling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fulfill
+
fructify
v.i.
To bear fruit.
+
flue
n.
A compartment or division of a chimney for conveying flame and smoke to the outer air.
+
fumigator
n.
One who, or that which, fumigates; an apparattus for fumigating.
+
fashionable
a.
Established or favored by custom or use; current; prevailing at a particular time; as, the fashionable philosophy; fashionable opinions.
+
foil
v.t.
To tread under foot; to trample.
+
fair
n.
A competitive exhibition of wares, farm products, etc., not primarily for purposes of sale; as, the Mechanics' fair; an agricultural fair.
+
fowled
imp.|p.p.
of Fowl
+
fall
v.t.
To begin with haste, ardor, or vehemence; to rush or hurry; as, they fell to blows.
+
flindermouse
n.
A bat; a flittermouse.
+
flow
n.
Any gentle, gradual movement or procedure of thought, diction, music, or the like, resembling the quiet, steady movement of a river; a stream.
+
feuter
v.t.
To set close; to fix in rest, as a spear.
+
fieri facias

A judicial writ that lies for one who has recovered in debt or damages, commanding the sheriff that he cause to be made of the goods, chattels, or real estate of the defendant, the sum claimed.
+
fly
v.i.
To run from danger; to attempt to escape; to flee; as, an enemy or a coward flies. See Note under Flee.
+
fetlock
n.
The cushionlike projection, bearing a tuft of long hair, on the back side of the leg above the hoof of the horse and similar animals. Also, the joint of the limb at this point (between the great pastern bone and the metacarpus), or the tuft of hair.
+
fauteuil
n.
Chair of a presiding officer.
+
feller
n.
An appliance to a sewing machine for felling a seam.
+
flinthearted
a.
Hard-hearted.
+
fruitless
a.
Productive of no advantage or good effect; vain; idle; useless; unprofitable; as, a fruitless attempt; a fruitless controversy.
+
fading
a.
Losing freshness, color, brightness, or vigor.
+
foollargesse
n.
Foolish expenditure; waste.
+
friz
n.
That which is frizzed; anything crisped or curled, as a wig; a frizzle.
+
funis
n.
A cord; specifically, the umbilical cord or navel string.
+
fruit
v.t.
The spore cases or conceptacles of flowerless plants, as of ferns, mosses, algae, etc., with the spores contained in them.
+
feague
v.t.
To beat or whip; to drive.
+
frontlet
n.
A frown (likened to a frontlet).
+
fluosilicate
n.
A double fluoride of silicon and some other (usually basic) element or radical, regarded as a salt of fluosilicic acid; -- called also silicofluoride.
+
file
n.
Course of thought; thread of narration.
+
finessing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Finesse
+
fascinate
v.t.
To excite and allure irresistibly or powerfully; to charm; to captivate, as by physical or mental charms.
+
fleshy
superl.
Composed of firm pulp; succulent; as, the houseleek, cactus, and agave are fleshy plants.
+
fog
n.
Dead or decaying grass remaining on land through the winter; -- called also foggage.
+
for
prep.
Indicating the space or time through which an action or state extends; hence, during; in or through the space or time of.
+
fortlet
n.
A little fort.
+
figurial
a.
Represented by figure or delineation.
+
feldspathose
a.
Pertaining to, or consisting of, feldspar.
+
flittingly
adv.
In a flitting manner.
+
flagitation
n.
Importunity; urgent demand.
+
fragor
n.
A loud and sudden sound; the report of anything bursting; a crash.
+
flatulence
n.
Alt. of Flatlency
+
fidgety
a.
Restless; uneasy.
+
formulate
v.t.
To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.
+
flinch
v.i.
To let the foot slip from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet.
+
fraternism
n.
Fraternization.
+
flockmel
adv.
In a flock; in a body.
+
fewmet
n.
See Fumet.
+
flat
v.i.
To become flat, or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.
+
fossil
a.
Like or pertaining to fossils; contained in rocks, whether petrified or not; as, fossil plants, shells.
+
frequent
n.
Often or commonly reported.
+
flanked
imp.|p.p.
of Flank
+
faith
interj.
By my faith; in truth; verily.
+
ferocity
n.
Savage wildness or fierceness; fury; cruelty; as, ferocity of countenance.
+
flowery
a.
Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms.
+
face
v.t.
To meet in front; to oppose with firmness; to resist, or to meet for the purpose of stopping or opposing; to confront; to encounter; as, to face an enemy in the field of battle.
+
fiancee
n.
A betrothed woman.
+
ferity
n.
Wildness; savageness; fierceness.
+
ferrarese
a.
Pertaining to Ferrara, in Italy.
+
fimbriate
a.
Having the edge or extremity bordered by filiform processes thicker than hairs; fringed; as, the fimbriate petals of the pink; the fimbriate end of the Fallopian tube.
+
forwards
adv.
Toward a part or place before or in front; onward; in advance; progressively; -- opposed to backward.
+
fitched
a.
Fitche.
+
farrowed
imp.|p.p.
of Farfow
+
fisting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fist
+
flaunted
imp.|p.p.
of Flaunt
+
foxy
a.
Sour; unpleasant in taste; -- said of wine, beer, etc., not properly fermented; -- also of grapes which have the coarse flavor of the fox grape.
+
fucivorous
a.
Eating fucus or other seaweeds.
+
forgiven
p.p.
of Forgive
+
fate
n.
Appointed lot; allotted life; arranged or predetermined event; destiny; especially, the final lot; doom; ruin; death.
+
forthink
v.t.
To repent; to regret; to be sorry for; to cause regret.
+
firearm
n.
A gun, pistol, or any weapon from a shot is discharged by the force of an explosive substance, as gunpowder.
+
favoring
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Favor
+
fasten
v.i.
To fix one's self; to take firm hold; to clinch; to cling.
+
fibroid
a.
Resembling or forming fibrous tissue; made up of fibers; as, fibroid tumors.
+
feverish
a.
Having a fever; suffering from, or affected with, a moderate degree of fever; showing increased heat and thirst; as, the patient is feverish.
+
fragile
a.
Easily broken; brittle; frail; delicate; easily destroyed.
+
fleetness
n.
Swiftness; rapidity; velocity; celerity; speed; as, the fleetness of a horse or of time.
+
fet
p.p.
of Fette
+
faculty
n.
A body of a men to whom any specific right or privilege is granted; formerly, the graduates in any of the four departments of a university or college (Philosophy, Law, Medicine, or Theology), to whom was granted the right of teaching (profitendi or docendi) in the department in which they had studied; at present, the members of a profession itself; as, the medical faculty; the legal faculty, ect.
+
ferrary
n.
The art of working in iron.
+
frequence
n.
A crowd; a throng; a concourse.
+
fakir
n.
An Oriental religious ascetic or begging monk.
+
felted
imp.|p.p.
of Felt
+
forisfamiliate
v.i.
To renounce a legal title to a further share of paternal inheritance.
+
fungivorous
a.
Eating fungi; -- said of certain insects and snails.
+
fashion
n.
The prevailing mode or style, especially of dress; custom or conventional usage in respect of dress, behavior, etiquette, etc.; particularly, the mode or style usual among persons of good breeding; as, to dress, dance, sing, ride, etc., in the fashion.
+
fastener
n.
One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.
+
fungia
n.
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.
+
febriferous
a.
Causing fever; as, a febriferous locality.
+
forward
a.
Advanced beyond the usual degree; advanced for season; as, the grass is forward, or forward for the season; we have a forward spring.
+
forcipal
a.
Forked or branched like a pair of forceps; constructed so as to open and shut like a pair of forceps.
+
federalizing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Federalize
+
flute
v.i.
To play on, or as on, a flute; to make a flutelike sound.
+
fragmentist
n.
A writer of fragments; as, the fragmentist of Wolfenbuttel.
+
forking
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fork
+
fusillade
v.t.
To shoot down of shoot at by a simultaneous discharge of firearms.
+
farina
n.
Pollen.
+
folding
n.
The act of making a fold or folds; also, a fold; a doubling; a plication.
+
fewel
n.
Fuel.
+
frondiferous
a.
Producing fronds.
+
fumbled
imp.|p.p.
of Fumble
+
filching
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Filch
+
for
n.
One who takes, or that which is said on, the affrimative side; that which is said in favor of some one or something; -- the antithesis of against, and commonly used in connection with it.
+
feracity
n.
The state of being feracious or fruitful.
+
floating
n.
Floating threads. See Floating threads, above.
+
furthermore
adv.
or conj. Moreover; besides; in addition to what has been said.
+
face
n.
Presence; sight; front; as in the phrases, before the face of, in the immediate presence of; in the face of, before, in, or against the front of; as, to fly in the face of danger; to the face of, directly to; from the face of, from the presence of.
+
flayed
imp.|p.p.
of Flay
+
fantastic
n.
A person given to fantastic dress, manners, etc.; an eccentric person; a fop.
+
fended
imp.|p.p.
of Fend
+
fretting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fret
+
freeze
n.
A frieze.
+
formality
n.
The quality which makes a thing what it is; essence.
+
fretted
p.p.|a.
Agitated; vexed; worried.
+
faunal
a.
Relating to fauna.
+
foreign
a.
Outside; extraneous; separated; alien; as, a foreign country; a foreign government.
+
forest
n.
A large extent or precinct of country, generally waste and woody, belonging to the sovereign, set apart for the keeping of game for his use, not inclosed, but distinguished by certain limits, and protected by certain laws, courts, and officers of its own.
+
falcade
n.
The action of a horse, when he throws himself on his haunches two or three times, bending himself, as it were, in very quick curvets.
+
foiling
n.
A foil.
+
fled

imp. & p. p. of Flee.
+
fret
n.
The agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.
+
farthermore
adv.
See Furthermore.
+
fruiteress
n.
A woman who sells fruit.
+
frontlet
n.
A frontal or brow band; a fillet or band worn on the forehead.
+
feroher
n.
A symbol of the solar deity, found on monuments exhumed in Babylon, Nineveh, etc.
+
fitchy
a.
Fitche.
+
flagellated
imp.|p.p.
of Flagellate
+
forby
adv.|prep.
Near; hard by; along; past.
+
fear
n.
To suspect; to doubt.
+
freshened
imp.|p.p.
of Freshen
+
fashionable
a.
Observant of the fashion or customary mode; dressing or behaving according to the prevailing fashion; as, a fashionable man.
+
fashionably
adv.
In a fashionable manner.
+
funge
n.
A blockhead; a dolt; a fool.
+
fairily
adv.
In the manner of a fairy.
+
fescue
v.i.|t.
To use a fescue, or teach with a fescue.
+
fish
v.i.
To seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments.
+
fixidity
n.
Fixedness.
+
frocked
a.
Clothed in a frock.
+
fy

A suffix signifying to make, to form into, etc.; as, acetify, amplify, dandify, Frenchify, etc.
+
fissipation
n.
Reproduction by fission; fissiparism.
+
footman
n.
A man in waiting; a male servant whose duties are to attend the door, the carriage, the table, etc.
+
fraken
n.
A freckle.
+
falsary
a.
A falsifier of evidence.
+
florentine
n.
A native or inhabitant of Florence, a city in Italy.
+
funiculate
a.
Forming a narrow ridge.
+
fleetly
adv.
In a fleet manner; rapidly.
+
fritillary
n.
A plant with checkered petals, of the genus Fritillaria: the Guinea-hen flower. See Fritillaria.
+
flunk
n.
A failure or backing out
+
fast
v.
Moving rapidly; quick in mition; rapid; swift; as, a fast horse.
+
freckle
v.t.
Any small spot or discoloration.
+
flagellum
v.t.
A young, flexible shoot of a plant; esp., the long trailing branch of a vine, or a slender branch in certain mosses.
+
florescent
a.
Expanding into flowers; blossoming.
+
fiction
n.
The act of feigning, inventing, or imagining; as, by a mere fiction of the mind.
+
forgemen
pl.
of Forgeman
+
fix
n.
A position of difficulty or embarassment; predicament; dilemma.
+
feoff
v.t.
To invest with a fee or feud; to give or grant a corporeal hereditament to; to enfeoff.
+
february
n.
The second month in the year, said to have been introduced into the Roman calendar by Numa. In common years this month contains twenty-eight days; in the bissextile, or leap year, it has twenty-nine days.
+
faery
n.|a.
Fairy.
+
fall
v.t.
To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; the mercury falls in the barometer.
+
fornicated
a.
Vaulted like an oven or furnace; arched.
+
fire
n.
Liveliness of imagination or fancy; intellectual and moral enthusiasm; capacity for ardor and zeal.
+
ferricyanate
n.
A salt of ferricyanic acid; a ferricyanide.
+
flogger
n.
A kind of mallet for beating the bung stave of a cask to start the bung.
+
forwaked
p.p.|a.
Tired out with excessive waking or watching.
+
fructidor
n.
The twelfth month of the French republican calendar; -- commencing August 18, and ending September 16. See Vendemiaire.
+
frankness
n.
The quality of being frank; candor; openess; ingenuousness; fairness; liberality.
+
fatherlessness
n.
The state of being without a father.
+
froe
n.
An iron cleaver or splitting tool; a frow.
+
force
n.
To do violence to; to overpower, or to compel by violence to one;s will; especially, to ravish; to violate; to commit rape upon.
+
fucate
a.
Alt. of Fucated
+
forwardness
n.
The quality of being forward; cheerful readiness; promtness; as, the forwardness of Christians in propagating the gospel.
+
freebooting
n.
Robbery; plunder; a pillaging.
+
figeater
n.
A large beetle (Allorhina nitida) which in the Southern United States destroys figs.  The elytra are velvety green with pale borders.
+
forebodement
n.
The act of foreboding; the thing foreboded.
+
frontier
v.i.
To constitute or form a frontier; to have a frontier; -- with on.
+
fold
v.i.
To confine sheep in a fold.
+
famed
imp.|p.p.
of Fame
+
forefinger
n.
The finger next to the thumb; the index.
+
formicid
n.
One of the family Formicidae, or ants.
+
flimsiness
n.
The state or quality of being flimsy.
+
frory
a.
Frozen; stiff with cold.
+
fusil
v.t.
Formed by melting and pouring into a mold; cast; founded.
+
fash
n.
Vexation; anxiety; care.
+
frill
v.t.
To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn back. in crimped plaits; as, to frill a cap.
+
foliating
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Foliate
+
fauvette
n.
A small singing bird, as the nightingale and warblers.
+
fluctuability
n.
The capacity or ability to fluctuate.
+
fine
superl.
Aiming at show or effect; loaded with ornament; overdressed or overdecorated; showy.
+
fand

imp. of Find.
+
flash
n.
A preparation of capsicum, burnt sugar, etc., for coloring and giving a fictious strength to liquors.
+
fulminate
v.i.
A salt of fulminic acid. See under Fulminic.
+
forefoot
n.
One of the anterior feet of a quardruped or multiped; -- usually written fore foot.
+
faeces
n.pl.
Excrement; ordure; also, settlings; sediment after infusion or distillation.
+
fey
n.
Faith.
+
frenums
pl.
of Frenum
+
filibuster
v.i.
To delay legislation, by dilatory motions or other artifices.
+
formality
n.
Compliance with formal or conventional rules; ceremony; conventionality.
+
freshet
a.
A stream of fresh water.
+
fusel

Alt. of Fusel oil
+
forge
n.
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.
+
forcer
n.
The solid piston of a force pump; the instrument by which water is forced in a pump.
+
fillister
n.
The rabbet on the outer edge of a sash bar to hold the glass and the putty.
+
fledge
v.t.|i.
To furnish or adorn with any soft covering.
+
fifteenth
n.
An interval consisting of two octaves.
+
forelock
n.
A cotter or split pin, as in a slot in a bolt, to prevent retraction; a linchpin; a pin fastening the cap-square of a gun.
+
foretime
n.
The past; the time before the present.
+
floater
n.
A float for indicating the height of a liquid surface.
+
fabellae
pl.
of Fabella
+
fabricked
imp.|p.p.
of Fabric
+
foretopgallant
a.
Designating the mast, sail, yard, etc., above the topmast; as, the fore-topgallant sail. See Sail.
+
foxery
n.
Behavior like that of a fox; cunning.
+
flesh
n.
Human nature
+
foetal
a.
Same as Fetal.
+
feed
n.
The supply of material to a machine, as water to a steam boiler, coal to a furnace, or grain to a run of stones.
+
falsehood
n.
A deliberate intentional assertion of what is known to be untrue; a departure from moral integrity; a lie.
+
foin
v.t.
To prick; to st?ng.
+
flexible
a.
Willing or ready to yield to the influence of others; not invincibly rigid or obstinate; tractable; manageable; ductile; easy and compliant; wavering.
+
flush
adv.
So as to be level or even.
+
forfend
v.t.
To prohibit; to forbid; to avert.
+
fetched
imp.|p.p.
of Fetch
+
flip
n.
A mixture of beer, spirit, etc., stirred and heated by a hot iron.
+
fibreless
a.
Having no fibers; destitute of fibers or fiber.
+
felting
n.
The act of splitting timber by the felt grain.
+
fantasticism
n.
The quality of being fantastical; fancifulness; whimsicality.
+
federal
n.
See Federalist.
+
fishmonger
n.
A dealer in fish.
+
finicality
n.
The quality of being finical; finicalness.
+
frighting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fright
+
fenceless
a.
Without a fence; uninclosed; open; unguarded; defenseless.
+
fungian
a.
Of or pertaining to the Fungidae, a family of stony corals.
+
fictionist
n.
A writer of fiction.
+
fummel
n.
A hinny.
+
fuzz
v.t.
To make drunk.
+
failure
n.
A failing; a slight fault.
+
fedity
n.
Turpitude; vileness.
+
flank
n.
That part of the acting surface of a gear wheel tooth that lies within the pitch line.
+
fruit
v.t.
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.
+
femininity
n.
The quality or nature of the female sex; womanliness.
+
foreconceive
v.t.
To preconceive; to imagine beforehand.
+
friended
a.
Having friends;
+
foryelde
v.t.
To repay; to requite.
+
feasible
a.
Capable of being done, executed, or effected; practicable.
+
flunky
n.
A contemptuous name for a liveried servant or a footman.
+
freeze
v.t.
To congeal; to harden into ice; to convert from a fluid to a solid form by cold, or abstraction of heat.
+
fond
v.i.
To be fond; to dote.
+
flight
n.
The act or flying; a passing through the air by the help of wings; volitation; mode or style of flying.
+
ferous
a.
Wild; savage.
+
florid
a.
Covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery.
+
form
n.
A shape; an image; a phantom.
+
fluter
n.
One who plays on the flute; a flutist or flautist.
+
figulated
a.
Made of potter's clay; molded; shaped.
+
finless
a.
destitute of fins.
+
flight
n.
A number of beings or things passing through the air together; especially, a flock of birds flying in company; the birds that fly or migrate together; the birds produced in one season; as, a flight of arrows.
+
firmness
n.
The state or quality of being firm.
+
frost
v.i.
The act of freezing; -- applied chiefly to the congelation of water; congelation of fluids.
+
flash
n.
Slang or cant of thieves and prostitutes.
+
fodient
a.
Fitted for, or pertaining to, digging.
+
forel
n.
A kind of parchment for book covers. See Forrill.
+
frenchism
n.
A French mode or characteristic; an idiom peculiar to the French language.
+
foreswart
a.
Alt. of Foreswart
+
former
a.
Near the beginning; preceeding; as, the former part of a discourse or argument.
+
fleabeetle
n.
A small beetle of the family Halticidae, of many species. They have strong posterior legs and leap like fleas. The turnip flea-beetle (Phyllotreta vittata) and that of the grapevine (Graptodera chalybea) are common injurious species.
+
flushed
imp.|p.p.
of Flush
+
filial
a.
Of or pertaining to a son or daughter; becoming to a child in relation to his parents; as, filial obedience.
+
freeliving
n.
Unrestrained indulgence of the appetites.
+
fib
n.
A falsehood; a lie; -- used euphemistically.
+
fulminate
v.i.
To issue or send forth decrees or censures with the assumption of supreme authority; to thunder forth menaces.
+
fairyland
n.
The imaginary land or abode of fairies.
+
feeling
a.
Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility; as, he made a feeling representation of his wrongs.
+
feldspar
n.
Alt. of Feldspath
+
farriery
n.
The art of shoeing horses.
+
facette
n.
See Facet, n.
+
fabler
n.
A writer of fables; a fabulist; a dealer in untruths or falsehoods.
+
fasciated
a.
Flattened and laterally widened, as are often the stems of the garden cockscomb.
+
flunk
n.
a total failure in a recitation.
+
floral
a.
Pertaining to Flora, or to flowers; made of flowers; as, floral games, wreaths.
+
fizgig
n.
A gadding, flirting girl.
+
forth
prep.
Forth from; out of.
+
fortition
n.
Casual choice; fortuitous selection; hazard.
+
forwarding
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Forward
+
fit

imp. & p. p. of Fight.
+
fogy
n.
A dull old fellow; a person behind the times, over-conservative, or slow; -- usually preceded by old.
+
forray
n.
The act of ravaging; a ravaging; a predatory excursion. See Foray.
+
foliature
n.
Foliage; leafage.
+
fruitive
a.
Enjoying; possessing.
+
fette
v.t.
To fetch.
+
foot guards
pl.
Infantry soldiers belonging to select regiments called the Guards.
+
flammivomous
a.
Vomiting flames, as a volcano.
+
furl
v.t.
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.
+
ferly
n.
Singular; wonderful; extraordinary.
+
farce
v.t.
To stuff with forcemeat; hence, to fill with mingled ingredients; to fill full; to stuff.
+
futurable
a.
Capable of being future; possible to occur.
+
flabbiness
n.
Quality or state of being flabby.
+
flasher
n.
A large sparoid fish of the Atlantic coast and all tropical seas (Lobotes Surinamensis).
+
firedrake
n.
A fiery meteor; an ignis fatuus; a rocket.
+
faint
superl.
Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, faint with fatigue, hunger, or thirst.
+
food
n.
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.
+
fiord
n.
A narrow inlet of the sea, penetrating between high banks or rocks, as on the coasts of Norway and Alaska.
+
father longlegs

See Daddy longlegs, 2.
+
fugato
a.
in the gugue style, but not strictly like a fugue.
+
fluctuant
a.
Moving like a wave; wavering
+
flourishing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Flourish
+
frosty
a.
Chill in affection; without warmth of affection or courage.
+
flame
v.t.
To kindle; to inflame; to excite.
+
falsifiable
a.
Capable of being falsified, counterfeited, or corrupted.
+
face
n.
Mode of regard, whether favorable or unfavorable; favor or anger; mostly in Scriptural phrases.
+
forepromised
a.
Promised beforehand; preengaged.
+
fripper
n.
One who deals in frippery or in old clothes.
+
fire
n.
Fuel in a state of combustion, as on a hearth, or in a stove or a furnace.
+
farsightedness
n.
Hypermetropia.
+
fledgeling
n.
A young bird just fledged.
+
feel
v.i.
To know with feeling; to be conscious; hence, to know certainly or without misgiving.
+
fare
v.
A journey; a passage.
+
forgetfulness
n.
Failure to bear in mind; careless omission; inattention; as, forgetfulness of duty.
+
fine
superl.
(Used ironically.)
+
frangipanni
n.
A perfume derived from, or imitating the odor of, the flower of the red jasmine, a West Indian tree of the genus Plumeria.
+
forward
a.
Near, or at the fore part; in advance of something else; as, the forward gun in a ship, or the forward ship in a fleet.
+
flexion
n.
The bending of a limb or joint; that motion of a joint which gives the distal member a continually decreasing angle with the axis of the proximal part; -- distinguished from extension.
+
fucusol
n.
An oily liquid, resembling, and possibly identical with, furfurol, and obtained from fucus, and other seaweeds.
+
fault
n.
A dislocation of the strata of the vein.
+
freedenizen
v.t.
To make free.
+
farm
v.t.
To devote (land) to agriculture; to cultivate, as land; to till, as a farm.
+
feculae
pl.
of Fecula
+
funambulist
n.
A ropewalker or ropedancer.
+
fibbed
imp.|p.p.
of Fib
+
firlot
n.
A dry measure formerly used in Scotland; the fourth part of a boll of grain or meal. The Linlithgow wheat firlot was to the imperial bushel as 998 to 1000; the barley firlot as 1456 to 1000.
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forgery
n.
The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; esp., the crime of fraudulently making or altering a writing or signature purporting to be made by another; the false making or material alteration of or addition to a written instrument for the purpose of deceit and fraud; as, the forgery of a bond.
+
fellow
n.
In the English universities, a scholar who is appointed to a foundation called a fellowship, which gives a title to certain perquisites and privileges.
+
fell
v.i.
To cause to fall; to prostrate; to bring down or to the ground; to cut down.
+
staffs
pl.
of Flagstaff
+
follicular
a.
Affecting the follicles; as, follicular pharyngitis.
+
feal
a.
Faithful; loyal.
+
fat
n.
Work. containing much blank, or its equivalent, and, therefore, profitable to the compositor.
+
fiddlewood
n.
The wood of several West Indian trees, mostly of the genus Citharexylum.
+
finch
n.
A small singing bird of many genera and species, belonging to the family Fringillidae.
+
frit
v.t.
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.
+
flanched
a.
Having flanches; -- said of an escutcheon with those bearings.
+
furthersome
a.
Tending to further, advance, or promote; helpful; advantageous.
+
flogging
a.|n.
from Flog, v. t.
+
fragmentak
a.
Consisting of the pulverized or fragmentary material of rock, as conglomerate, shale, etc.
+
full
n.
Complete measure; utmost extent; the highest state or degree.
+
front
v.t.
To have or turn the face or front in any direction; as, the house fronts toward the east.
+
firing
n.
Fuel; firewood or coal.
+
fuzz
n.
Fine, light particles or fibers; loose, volatile matter.
+
famish
v.i.
To suffer extremity from deprivation of anything essential or necessary.
+
freehearted
a.
Open; frank; unreserved; liberal; generous; as, free-hearted mirth.
+
foul
superl.
Having freedom of motion interfered with by collision or entanglement; entangled; -- opposed to clear; as, a rope or cable may get foul while paying it out.
+
forfeiter
n.
One who incurs a penalty of forfeiture.
+
funk
n.
Alt. of Funking
+
fit
v.t.
To supply with something that is suitable or fit, or that is shaped and adjusted to the use required.
+
faux
n.
See Fauces.
+
fortin
n.
A little fort; a fortlet.
+
fender
v.t.|i.
A screen to prevent coals or sparks of an open fire from escaping to the floor.
+
fall
n.
That which falls; a falling; as, a fall of rain; a heavy fall of snow.
+
frower
n.
A tool. See 2d Frow.
+
fustilug
n.
Alt. of Fustilugs
+
frangibility
n.
The state or quality of being frangible.
+
favorable
n.
Conducive; contributing; tending to promote or facilitate; advantageous; convenient.
+
forthwith
adv.
As soon as the thing required may be done by reasonable exertion confined to that object.
+
fall
v.t.
To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; -- said of the countenance.
+
false
superl.
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
+
foreguess
v.t.
To conjecture.
+
favel
n.
A horse of a favel or dun color.
+
forhend
v.t.
To seize upon.
+
fortuneless
a.
Luckless; also, destitute of a fortune or portion.
+
fritillary
n.
One of several species of butterflies belonging to Argynnis and allied genera; -- so called because the coloring of their wings resembles that of the common Fritillaria. See Aphrodite.
+
felicitating
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Felicitate
+
fantastic
a.
Resembling fantasies in irregularity, caprice, or eccentricity; irregular; oddly shaped; grotesque.
+
flain

p. p. of Flay.
+
faith
n.
Fidelity to one's promises, or allegiance to duty, or to a person honored and beloved; loyalty.
+
fried

imp. & p. p. of Fry.
+
forgery
n.
The act of forging metal into shape.
+
fountful
a.
Full of fountains.
+
favoritism
n.
The disposition to favor and promote the interest of one person or family, or of one class of men, to the neglect of others having equal claims; partiality.
+
flong

imp. & p. p. of Fling.
+
frustrating
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Frustrate
+
forfeit
n.
To lose, or lose the right to, by some error, fault, offense, or crime; to render one's self by misdeed liable to be deprived of; to alienate the right to possess, by some neglect or crime; as, to forfeit an estate by treason; to forfeit reputation by a breach of promise; -- with to before the one acquiring what is forfeited.
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foreknower
n.
One who foreknows.
+
fight
v.t.
To carry on, or wage, as a conflict, or battle; to win or gain by struggle, as one's way; to sustain by fighting, as a cause.
+
frolic
n.
A scene of gayety and mirth, as in lively play, or in dancing; a merrymaking.
+
flea
v.t.
To flay.
+
flag
v.t.
To signal to with a flag; as, to flag a train.
+
fopling
n.
A petty fop.
+
finns
n.pl.
Natives of Finland; Finlanders.
+
force
n.
Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigor; might; often, an unusual degree of strength or energy; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect; especially, power to persuade, or convince, or impose obligation; pertinency; validity; special signification; as, the force of an appeal, an argument, a contract, or a term.
+
fitting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fit
+
facile
a.
Easy to be done or performed: not difficult; performable or attainable with little labor.
+
forego
v.t.
To quit; to relinquish; to leave.
+
fictious
a.
Fictitious.
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forgiving
a.
Disposed to forgive; inclined to overlook offenses; mild; merciful; compassionate; placable; as, a forgiving temper.
+
furniture
v.t.
The masts and rigging of a ship.
+
fluster
n.
Heat or glow, as from drinking; agitation mingled with confusion; disorder.
+
false
superl.
Not genuine or real; assumed or designed to deceive; counterfeit; hypocritical; as, false tears; false modesty; false colors; false jewelry.
+
firring
n.
See Furring.
+
floor
n.
A story of a building. See Story.
+
fumifugist
n.
One who, or that which, drives away smoke or fumes.
+
ferriprussic
a.
Ferricyanic.
+
foreknown
p.p.
of Foreknow
+
floating
a.
Buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a wreck; floating motes in the air.
+
freelover
n.
One who believes in or practices free-love.
+
fendliche
a.
Fiendlike.
+
fictional
a.
Pertaining to, or characterized by, fiction; fictitious; romantic.
+
frontal
n.
The metal face guard of a soldier.
+
flaw
v.t.
To break; to violate; to make of no effect.
+
flatted
imp.|p.p.
of Flat
+
floor
n.
The right to speak.
+
fabricate
v.t.
To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to frame; to construct; to build; as, to fabricate a bridge or ship.
+
forewaste
v.t.
See Forewaste.
+
flowerdeluce
n.
A genus of perennial herbs (Iris) with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem.
+
frigorifical
a.
Causing cold; producing or generating cold.
+
found

imp. & p. p. of Find.
+
fenestrated
a.
Same as Fenestrate.
+
fare
v.
Condition or state of things; fortune; hap; cheer.
+
factorizing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Factorize
+
field
n.
The space covered by an optical instrument at one view.
+
fugacious
a.
Flying, or disposed to fly; fleeing away; lasting but a short time; volatile.
+
fatigation
n.
Weariness.
+
flux
n.
The state of being liquid through heat; fusion.
+
ford
v.i.
A stream; a current.
+
flashily
adv.
In a flashy manner; with empty show.
+
father
n.
A senator of ancient Rome.
+
fervency
n.
The state of being fervent or warm; ardor; warmth of feeling or devotion; eagerness.
+
fardel
v.t.
To make up in fardels.
+
fervescent
a.
Growing hot.
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fatigable
a.
Easily tired.
+
forecast
v.t.
To foresee; to calculate beforehand, so as to provide for.
+
franking
n.
A method of forming a joint at the intersection of window-sash bars, by cutting away only enough wood to show a miter.
+
fuliginosity
n.
The condition or quality of being fuliginous; sootiness; matter deposited by smoke.
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fray
v.i.
To rub.
+
fine
a.
To change by fine gradations; as (Naut.), to fine down a ship's lines, to diminish her lines gradually.
+
form
n.
To go to make up; to act as constituent of; to be the essential or constitutive elements of; to answer for; to make the shape of; -- said of that out of which anything is formed or constituted, in whole or in part.
+
frondescence
n.
The act of bursting into leaf.
+
falanaka
n.
A viverrine mammal of Madagascar (Eupleres Goudotii), allied to the civet; -- called also Falanouc.
+
flourish
v.i.
To boast; to vaunt; to brag.
+
fairly
adv.
Softly; quietly; gently.
+
flocculent
a.
Clothed with small flocks or flakes; woolly.
+
flotage
n.
That which floats on the sea or in rivers.
+
fortify
v.t.
To add strength to; to strengthen; to confirm; to furnish with power to resist attack.
+
foregut
n.
The anterior part of the alimentary canal, from the mouth to the intestine, o/ to the entrance of the bile duct.
+
forepossessed
a.
Holding or held formerly in possession.
+
filly
n.
A female foal or colt; a young mare.  Cf. Colt, Foal.
+
floatiersman
n.
A man living on the frontier.
+
fifty
n.
A symbol representing fifty units, as 50, or l.
+
funicular
a.
Pertaining to a funiculus; made up of, or resembling, a funiculus, or funiculi; as, a funicular ligament.
+
flanged
a.
Having a flange or flanges; as, a flanged wheel.
+
football
n.
The game of kicking the football by opposing parties of players between goals.
+
ferricyanide
n.
One of a complex series of double cyanides of ferric iron and some other base.
+
frelte
n.
Frailty.
+
fetterer
n.
One who fetters.
+
forwarded
imp.|p.p.
of Forward
+
fishhawk
n.
The osprey (Pandion haliaetus), found both in Europe and America; -- so called because it plunges into the water and seizes fishes in its talons. Called also fishing eagle, and bald buzzard.
+
flattered
imp.|p.p.
of Flatter
+
flamecolored
a.
Of the color of flame; of a bright orange yellow color.
+
fumble
v.i.
To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over.
+
fumitory
n.
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.
+
formal
a.
Done in due form, or with solemnity; according to regular method; not incidental, sudden or irregular; express; as, he gave his formal consent.
+
flealouse
n.
A jumping plant louse of the family Psyllidae, of many species. That of the pear tree is Psylla pyri.
+
float
v.i.
A contrivance for affording a copious stream of water to the heated surface of an object of large bulk, as an anvil or die.
+
flageolet
n.
A small wooden pipe, having six or more holes, and a mouthpiece inserted at one end. It produces a shrill sound, softer than of the piccolo flute, and is said to have superseded the old recorder.
+
fringed
imp.|p.p.
of Fringe
+
freedman
n.
A man who has been a slave, and has been set free.
+
forelie
v.i.
To lie in front of.
+
funnel
v.t.
A passage or avenue for a fluid or flowing substance; specifically, a smoke flue or pipe; the iron chimney of a steamship or the like.
+
fiddle
v.i.
To play on a fiddle.
+
fourteenth
a.
Making or constituting one of fourteen equal parts into which anything may be derived.
+
pigpecker
n.
The European garden warbler (Sylvia, / Currica, hortensis); -- called also beccafico and greater pettychaps.
+
forboden

p. p. of Forbid.
+
framable
a.
Capable of being framed.
+
fleshpot
n.
A pot or vessel in which flesh is cooked
+
flask
n.
A narrow-necked vessel of metal or glass, used for various purposes; as of sheet metal, to carry gunpowder in; or of wrought iron, to contain quicksilver; or of glass, to heat water in, etc.
+
flavoring
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Flavor
+
flexion
n.
Syntactical change of form of words, as by declension or conjugation; inflection.
+
flatheaded
a.
Having a head with a flattened top; as, a flat-headed nail.
+
fader
n.
Father.
+
frugally
adv.
Thriftily; prudently.
+
fay
n.
A fairy; an elf.
+
flow
n.
A stream of water or other fluid; a current; as, a flow of water; a flow of blood.
+
fumingly
adv.
In a fuming manner; angrily.
+
foible
n.
A moral weakness; a failing; a weak point; a frailty.
+
fleeced
a.
Furnished with a fleece; as, a sheep is well fleeced.
+
fard
n.
Paint used on the face.
+
feticide
n.
The act of killing the fetus in the womb; the offense of procuring an abortion.
+
fangless
a.
Destitute of fangs or tusks.
+
flaminical
a.
Pertaining to a flamen.
+
foehood
n.
Enmity.
+
foster
n.
One who, or that which, fosters.
+
fallen
a.
Dropped; prostrate; degraded; ruined; decreased; dead.
+
frangulic
a.
Alt. of Frangulinic
+
fluctuate
v.t.
To cause to move as a wave; to put in motion.
+
flush
a.
Affluent; abounding; well furnished or suppled; hence, liberal; prodigal.
+
flash
n.
To trick up in a showy manner.
+
fleshly
a.
Carnal; wordly; lascivious.
+
frostwort
n.
Same as Frostweed.
+
flunkydom
n.
The place or region of flunkies.
+
fetters
pl.
of Fetter
+
foutra
n.
A fig; -- a word of contempt.
+
foot
n.
Recognized condition; rank; footing; -- used only in the singular.
+
fibster
n.
One who tells fibs.
+
forslow
v.i.
To loiter.
+
fisher
n.
A carnivorous animal of the Weasel family (Mustela Canadensis); the pekan; the "black cat."
+
flood
v.i.
Menstrual disharge; menses.
+
fall
v.t.
To pass or be transferred by chance, lot, distribution, inheritance, or otherwise; as, the estate fell to his brother; the kingdom fell into the hands of his rivals.
+
flippantly
adv.
In a flippant manner.
+
flux
v.t.
To cause a discharge from; to purge.
+
frowny
a.
Frowning; scowling.
+
fricace
n.
An unguent; also, the act of rubbing with the unguent.
+
frounce
n.
A wrinkle, plait, or curl; a flounce; -- also, a frown.
+
federalized
imp.|p.p.
of Federalize
+
flag
v.t.
To enervate; to exhaust the vigor or elasticity of.
+
fret
n.
Agitation of mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation; as, he keeps his mind in a continual fret.
+
flunky
n.
One easily deceived in buying stocks; an inexperienced and unwary jobber.
+
fraxinus
n.
A genus of deciduous forest trees, found in the north temperate zone, and including the true ash trees.
+
fattiness
n.
State or quality of being fatty.
+
flight
n.
The husk or glume of oats.
+
fig
n.
The value of a fig, practically nothing; a fico; -- used in scorn or contempt.
+
fair
superl.
Not overcast; cloudless; clear; pleasant; propitious; favorable; -- said of the sky, weather, or wind, etc.; as, a fair sky; a fair day.
+
full
compar.
Having the mind filled with ideas; stocked with knowledge; stored with information.
+
flourishes
pl.
of Flourish
+
floatation
n.
See Flotation.
+
francic
a.
Pertaining to the Franks, or their language; Frankish.
+
fanning
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fan
+
favosites
n.
A genus of fossil corals abundant in the Silurian and Devonian rocks, having polygonal cells with perforated walls.
+
flagman
n.
One who makes signals with a flag.
+
form
n.
The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase.
+
fearsome
a.
Frightful; causing fear.
+
fulmineous
a.
Of, or concerning thunder.
+
fellow
n.
An equal in power, rank, character, etc.
+
fictile
a.
Molded, or capable of being molded, into form by art; relating to pottery or to molding in any soft material.
+
fabulized
imp.|p.p.
of Fabulize
+
factory
n.
The body of factors in any place; as, a chaplain to a British factory.
+
fuzzy
n.
Not firmly woven; that ravels.
+
flayer
n.
One who strips off the skin.
+
firk
v.t.
To beat; to strike; to chastise.
+
flotten
v.t.
Skimmed.
+
familiar
a.
Improperly acquainted; wrongly intimate.
+
flesh
n.
Animal food, in distinction from vegetable; meat; especially, the body of beasts and birds used as food, as distinguished from fish.
+
follow
v.t.
To result from, as an effect from a cause, or an inference from a premise.
+
fish
n.
The twelfth sign of the zodiac; Pisces.
+
flourish
v.i.
To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery.
+
frescade
a.
A cool walk; shady place.
+
formless
a.
Shapeless; without a determinate form; wanting regularity of shape.
+
fatalism
n.
The doctrine that all things are subject to fate, or that they take place by inevitable necessity.
+
fluminous
a.
Pertaining to rivers; abounding in streama.
+
functionate
v.i.
To execute or perform a function; to transact one's regular or appointed business.
+
fissirostral
a.
Having the bill cleft beyond the horny part, as in the case of swallows and goatsuckers.
+
free
superl.
Certain or honorable; the opposite of base; as, free service; free socage.
+
flake
n.
A sort of carnation with only two colors in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
+
fireweed
n.
An American plant (Erechthites hiercifolia), very troublesome in spots where brushwood has been burned.
+
foregoer
n.
One who goes before another; a predecessor; hence, an ancestor' a progenitor.
+
feasibility
n.
The quality of being feasible; practicability; also, that which is feasible; as, before we adopt a plan, let us consider its feasibility.
+
father
n.
The Supreme Being and Creator; God; in theology, the first person in the Trinity.
+
feed
n.
That which is eaten; esp., food for beasts; fodder; pasture; hay; grain, ground or whole; as, the best feed for sheep.
+
fleer

To make a wry face in contempt, or to grin in scorn; to deride; to sneer; to mock; to gibe; as, to fleer and flout.
+
fumed
imp.|p.p.
of Fume
+
foemen
pl.
of Foeman
+
fluorine
n.
A non-metallic, gaseous element, strongly acid or negative, or associated with chlorine, bromine, and iodine, in the halogen group of which it is the first member. It always occurs combined, is very active chemically, and possesses such an avidity for most elements, and silicon especially, that it can neither be prepared nor kept in glass vessels. If set free it immediately attacks the containing material, so that it was not isolated until 1886. It is a pungent, corrosive, colorless gas. Symbol F. Atomic weight 19.
+
ferryman
n.
One who maintains or attends a ferry.
+
fleeted
imp.|p.p.
of Fleet
+
feringee
n.
The name given to Europeans by the Hindos.
+
fisticuff
n.
a fight with the fists; boxing.
+
falsify
a.
To make false by multilation or addition; to tamper with; as, to falsify a record or document.
+
for
conj.
Because; by reason that; for that; indicating, in Old English, the reason of anything.
+
forcing
n.
The accomplishing of any purpose violently, precipitately, prematurely, or with unusual expedition.
+
flow
v.i.
To hang loose and waving; as, a flowing mantle; flowing locks.
+
flat
v.t.
To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress.
+
fair
superl.
Free from obstacles or hindrances; unobstructed; unincumbered; open; direct; -- said of a road, passage, etc.; as, a fair mark; in fair sight; a fair view.
+
fire
v.t.
To drive by fire.
+
fastened
imp.|p.p.
of Fasten
+
fyllot
n.
A rebated cross, formerly used as a secret emblem, and a common ornament. It is also called gammadion, and swastika.
+
filminess
n.
State of being filmy.
+
fers
a.
Fierce.
+
festally
adv.
Joyously; festively; mirthfully.
+
fleet
v.i.
To take the cream from; to skim.
+
flapmouthed
a.
Having broad, hangling lips.
+
fervid
a.
Very hot; burning; boiling.
+
fried
imp.|p.p.
of Fry
+
forge
n.
To form or shape out in any way; to produce; to frame; to invent.
+
flutist
n.
To move with quick vibrations or undulations; as, a sail flutters in the wind; a fluttering fan.
+
flower
n.
The fairest, freshest, and choicest part of anything; as, the flower of an army, or of a family; the state or time of freshness and bloom; as, the flower of life, that is, youth.
+
fray
v.t.
To bear the expense of; to defray.
+
free
adv.
Freely; willingly.
+
fermerere
n.
The officer in a religious house who had the care of the infirmary.
+
face
v.t.
To line near the edge, esp. with a different material; as, to face the front of a coat, or the bottom of a dress.
+
foretop
n.
That part of a headdress that is in front; the top of a periwig.
+
flexibility
n.
The state or quality of being flexible; flexibleness; pliancy; pliability; as, the flexibility of strips of hemlock, hickory, whalebone or metal, or of rays of light.
+
fingrigo
n.
A prickly, climbing shrub of the genus Pisonia. The fruit is a kind of berry.
+
fastening
n.
Anything that binds and makes fast, as a lock, catch, bolt, bar, buckle, etc.
+
fusillade
n.
A simultaneous discharge of firearms.
+
familistery
n.
A community in which many persons unite as in one family, and are regulated by certain communistic laws and customs.
+
floor
v.t.
To finish or make an end of; as, to floor a college examination.
+
finicky
a.
Finical; unduly particular.
+
forewot
pres.indic.sing.st|dpers.
of Forewite
+
fly
v.i.
A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power to a power printing press for doing the same work.
+
fondness
n.
The quality or state of being fond; foolishness.
+
frolic
n.
A wild prank; a flight of levity, or of gayety and mirth.
+
fusiness
n.
A fusty state or quality; moldiness; mustiness; an ill smell from moldiness.
+
fagoted
imp.|p.p.
of Fagot
+
fumblingly
adv.
In the manner of one who fumbles.
+
flibustier
n.
A buccaneer; an American pirate. See Flibuster.
+
feebly
adv.
In a feeble manner.
+
furbished
imp.|p.p.
of Furbish
+
franklaw
n.
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.
+
fail
v.i.
To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expected manner, or to be altogether cut off from supply; to be lacking; as, streams fail; crops fail.
+
flinched
imp.|p.p.
of Flinch
+
foresee
v.i.
To have or exercise foresight.
+
foray
n.
A sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid.
+
franchise
a.
The district or jurisdiction to which a particular privilege extends; the limits of an immunity; hence, an asylum or sanctuary.
+
feine
v.t.|i.
To feign.
+
firedrake
n.
A worker at a furnace or fire.
+
failing
n.
The act of becoming insolvent of bankrupt.
+
foliation
n.
The manner in which the young leaves are dispo/ed within the bud.
+
forfeiture
n.
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.
+
forbearing
a.
Disposed or accustomed to forbear; patient; long-suffering.
+
feud
n.
A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race.
+
fulmar
n.
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).
+
fish
v.t.
To search by raking or sweeping.
+
frame
n.
A stand to support the type cases for use by the compositor.
+
fulminating
a.
Thundering; exploding in a peculiarly sudden or violent manner.
+
foliage
v.t.
To adorn with foliage or the imitation of foliage; to form into the representation of leaves.
+
fearful
a.
Full of fear, apprehension, or alarm; afraid; frightened.
+
faradism
n.
Alt. of Faradization
+
faffle
v.i.
To stammer.
+
footman
n.
Formerly, a servant who ran in front of his master's carriage; a runner.
+
factorize
v.t.
To give warning to; -- said of a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached, the warning being to the effect that he shall not pay the money or deliver the property of the defendant in his hands to him, but appear and answer the suit of the plaintiff.
+
fondling
n.
A fool; a simpleton; a ninny.
+
footboard
n.
A board or narrow platfrom upon which one may stand or brace his feet
+
feudataty
a.|n.
See Feudatory.
+
fore
adv.
In or towards the bows of a ship.
+
flavor
n.
That quality which gives character to any of the productions of literature or the fine arts.
+
fugitive
n.
Something hard to be caught or detained.
+
frutage
n.
A confection of fruit.
+
fudder
n.
See Fodder, a weight.
+
fastigiated
a.
Narrowing towards the top.
+
forelend
v.t.
See Forlend.
+
finishing
a.
Tending to complete or to render fit for the market or for use.
+
furtive
a.
Stolen; obtained or characterized by stealth; sly; secret; stealthy; as, a furtive look.
+
frosty
a.
Covered with frost; as, the grass is frosty.
+
frozen
p.p.
of Freeze
+
frolicly
adv.
In a frolicsome manner; with mirth and gayety.
+
fussiness
n.
The quality of being fussy.
+
fibbing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fib
+
flatour
n.
A flatterer.
+
fumidity
n.
Alt. of Fumidness
+
fall
v.t.
To fell; to cut down; as, to fall a tree.
+
footing
n.
A narrow cotton lace, without figures.
+
flatness
n.
Eveness of surface; want of relief or prominence; the state of being plane or level.
+
fall
n.
The discharge of a river or current of water into the ocean, or into a lake or pond; as, the fall of the Po into the Gulf of Venice.
+
frit
v.t.
To prepare by heat (the materials for making glass); to fuse partially.
+
fur
n.
The skins of certain wild animals with the fur; peltry; as, a cargo of furs.
+
fabulist
n.
One who invents or writes fables.
+
figurist
n.
One who uses or interprets figurative expressions.
+
fusing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fuse
+
frostbitten
p.a.
Nipped, withered, or injured, by frost or freezing.
+
flacker
v.i.
To flutter, as a bird.
+
fleetingly
adv.
In a fleeting manner; swiftly.
+
fulmine
v.
To thunder.
+
felspar
n.
Alt. of Felspath
+
fantoccini
n.pl.
Puppets caused to perform evolutions or dramatic scenes by means of machinery; also, the representations in which they are used.
+
faburden
n.
A species of counterpoint with a drone bass.
+
fall
v.t.
To sink; to depress; as, to fall the voice.
+
ferryboat
n.
A vessel for conveying passengers, merchandise, etc., across streams and other narrow waters.
+
fire
v.t.
To animate; to give life or spirit to; as, to fire the genius of a young man.
+
fly
v.i.
That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card.
+
fulgurant
a.
Lightening.
+
finery
n.
Fineness; beauty.
+
foil
n.
Anything that serves by contrast of color or quality to adorn or set off another thing to advantage.
+
front
n.
The beginning.
+
fluxile
a.
Fluxible.
+
focused
imp.|p.p.
of Focus
+
furnish
n.
That which is furnished as a specimen; a sample; a supply.
+
forciblefeeble
a.
Seemingly vigorous, but really weak or insipid.
+
famulist
n.
A collegian of inferior rank or position, corresponding to the sizar at Cambridge.
+
follicle
n.
A small mass of adenoid tissue; as, a lymphatic follicle.
+
flatlong
adv.
With the flat side downward; not edgewise.
+
fungibles
n.pl.
Things which may be furnished or restored in kind, as distinguished from specific things; -- called also fungible things.
+
feed
v.i.
To subject by eating; to satisfy the appetite; to feed one's self (upon something); to prey; -- with on or upon.
+
field
n.
A place where a battle is fought; also, the battle itself.
+
flabbergastation
n.
The state of being flabbergasted.
+
fistulous
a.
Having the form or nature of a fistula; as, a fistulous ulcer.
+
floran
n.
Tin ore scarcely perceptible in the stone; tin ore stamped very fine.
+
freethinking
a.
Exhibiting undue boldness of speculation; skeptical.
+
fribbler
n.
A trifler; a fribble.
+
fice
n.
A small dog; -- written also fise, fyce, fiste, etc.
+
furies
pl.
of Fury
+
flagellum
v.t.
A long, whiplike cilium. See Flagellata.
+
forewost
dperson
of Forewite
+
feat
v.t.
To form; to fashion.
+
fast
v.
Not easily disturbed or broken; deep; sound.
+
freebooty
n.
Freebootery.
+
formicary
n.
The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill.
+
frugalness
n.
Quality of being frugal; frugality.
+
figurine
n.
A very small figure, whether human or of an animal; especially, one in terra cotta or the like; -- distinguished from statuette, which is applied to small figures in bronze, marble, etc.
+
factor
n.
One of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result; a constituent.
+
fineness
a.
The proportion of pure silver or gold in jewelry, bullion, or coins.
+
factor
n.
One who transacts business for another; an agent; a substitute; especially, a mercantile agent who buys and sells goods and transacts business for others in commission; a commission merchant or consignee. He may be a home factor or a foreign factor. He may buy and sell in his own name, and he is intrusted with the possession and control of the goods; and in these respects he differs from a broker.
+
figure
n.
Distinguished appearance; magnificence; conspicuous representation; splendor; show.
+
folio
n.
A leaf of a book or manuscript.
+
furrowing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Furrow
+
fancy
a.
Extravagant; above real value.
+
fourwheeled
a.
Having four wheels.
+
fingered
imp.|p.p.
of Finger
+
following
a.
(In the field of a telescope) In the direction from which stars are apparently moving (in consequence of the earth's rotation); as, a small star, north following or south following. In the direction toward which stars appear to move is called preceding.
+
fraternal
a.
Pf, pertaining to, or involving, brethren; becoming to brothers; brotherly; as, fraternal affection; a fraternal embrace.
+
farce
v.t.
To swell out; to render pompous.
+
figurability
n.
The quality of being figurable.
+
flagitious
a.
Guilty of enormous crimes; corrupt; profligate; -- said of persons.
+
faussebraye
n.
A second raampart, exterior to, and parallel to, the main rampart, and considerably below its level.
+
flaxy
a.
Like flax; flaxen.
+
finedrawing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Finedraw
+
felt
n.
A hat made of felt.
+
foal
n.
The young of any animal of the Horse family (Equidae); a colt; a filly.
+
fresco
a.
The art of painting on freshly spread plaster, before it dries.
+
floatage
n.
Same as Flotage.
+
formula
n.
A prescription or recipe for the preparation of a medicinal compound.
+
fumid
a.
Smoky; vaporous.
+
faintish
a.
Slightly faint; somewhat faint.
+
feature
n.
The make, cast, or appearance of the human face, and especially of any single part of the face; a lineament. (pl.) The face, the countenance.
+
fall
n.
Declivity; the descent of land or a hill; a slope.
+
farm
a.|n.
The term or tenure of a lease of land for cultivation; a leasehold.
+
foreseen
p.p.
Provided; in case that; on condition that.
+
flop
n.
Act of flopping.
+
fructuaries
pl.
of Fructuary
+
fevery
a.
Feverish.
+
falser
n.
A deceiver.
+
fiction
n.
Fictitious literature; comprehensively, all works of imagination; specifically, novels and romances.
+
fouroclock
n.
The friar bird; -- so called from its cry, which resembles these words.
+
found
v.i.
To take the ffirst steps or measures in erecting or building up; to furnish the materials for beginning; to begin to raise; to originate; as, to found a college; to found a family.
+
fimbriae
pl.
of Fimbria
+
flexile
a.
Flexible; pliant; pliable; easily bent; plastic; tractable.
+
funding
a.
Investing in the public funds.
+
fulsome
a.
Full; abundant; plenteous; not shriveled.
+
falter
v.|n.
To tremble; to totter; to be unsteady.
+
figure
n.
To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords.
+
ferreting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Ferret
+
fractural
a.
Pertaining to, or consequent on, a fracture.
+
filler
n.
One who, or that which, fills; something used for filling.
+
favor
n.
A letter or epistle; -- so called in civility or compliment; as, your favor of yesterday is received.
+
fraternize
v.i.
To associate or hold fellowship as brothers, or as men of like occupation or character; to have brotherly feelings.
+
formulas
pl.
of Formula
+
fray
v.t.
To frighten; to terrify; to alarm.
+
furrow
n.
To cut a furrow in; to make furrows in; to plow; as, to furrow the ground or sea.
+
furnished
imp.|p.p.
of Furnish
+
figuration
n.
Mixture of concords and discords.
+
fleabite
n.
The bite of a flea, or the red spot caused by the bite.
+
frank
a.
A member of one of the German tribes that in the fifth century overran and conquered Gaul, and established the kingdom of France.
+
freemen
pl.
of Freeman
+
feeling
a.
Possessing great sensibility; easily affected or moved; as, a feeling heart.
+
fare
n.
To go; to pass; to journey; to travel.
+
frore
adv.
Frostily.
+
fallow
n.
Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground.
+
facet
n.
One of the numerous small eyes which make up the compound eyes of insects and crustaceans.
+
fleet
v.i.
A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.
+
forehew
v.t.
To hew or cut in front.
+
fit
n.
A sudden and violent attack of a disorder; a stroke of disease, as of epilepsy or apoplexy, which produces convulsions or unconsciousness; a convulsion; a paroxysm; hence, a period of exacerbation of a disease; in general, an attack of disease; as, a fit of sickness.
+
felloe
n.
See Felly.
+
forbidden
p.p.
of Forbid
+
frontignac
n.
Alt. of Frontignan
+
faint
v.i.
To become weak or wanting in vigor; to grow feeble; to lose strength and color, and the control of the bodily or mental functions; to swoon; -- sometimes with away. See Fainting, n.
+
floccus
n.
The tuft of hair terminating the tail of mammals.
+
facundity
n.
Eloquence; readiness of speech.
+
flurry
n.
The violent spasms of a dying whale.
+
forwarder
n.
One employed in forwarding.
+
frieze
n.
A kind of coarse woolen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side.
+
former
n.
A shape around which an article is to be shaped, molded, woven wrapped, pasted, or otherwise constructed.
+
fillet
n.
A border of broad or narrow lines of color or gilt.
+
foliaceous
a.
Leaflike in form or mode of growth; as, a foliaceous coral.
+
fencing
v.i.
Disputing or debating in a manner resembling the art of fencers.
+
futilous
a.
Futile; trifling.
+
foregoer
n.
A purveyor of the king; -- so called, formerly, from going before to provide for his household.
+
fosse
n.
See Fossa.
+
freemartin
n.
An imperfect female calf, twinborn with a male.
+
fierasfer
n.
A genus of small, slender fishes, remarkable for their habit of living as commensals in other animals. One species inhabits the gill cavity of the pearl oyster near Panama; another lives within an East Indian holothurian.
+
food
v.t.
To supply with food.
+
foot pound

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.
+
folliculous
a.
Having or producing follicles.
+
frisian
n.
A native or inhabitant of Friesland; also, the language spoken in Friesland. See Friesic, n.
+
foe
n.
One who entertains personal enmity, hatred, grudge, or malice, against another; an enemy.
+
ferry
v.t.
A vessel in which passengers and goods are conveyed over narrow waters; a ferryboat; a wherry.
+
frigorific
a.
Alt. of Frigorifical
+
fall
n.
Lapse or declension from innocence or goodness. Specifically: The first apostasy; the act of our first parents in eating the forbidden fruit; also, the apostasy of the rebellious angels.
+
filtrate
n.
That which has been filtered; the liquid which has passed through the filter in the process of filtration.
+
flapjack
n.
A fried dough cake containing fruit; a turnover.
+
fascet
n.
A wire basket on the end of a rod to carry glass bottles, etc., to the annealing furnace; also, an iron rod to be thrust into the mouths of bottles, and used for the same purpose; -- called also pontee and punty.
+
friskful
a.
Brisk; lively; frolicsome.
+
falcon
n.
An ancient form of cannon.
+
floss
n.
The slender styles of the pistillate flowers of maize; also called silk.
+
fartherance
n.
See Furtherance.
+
fond
superl.
Doted on; regarded with affection.
+
fatally
adv.
In a manner proceeding from, or determined by, fate.
+
figurate
a.
Of a definite form or figure.
+
folks
n.collect.|pl.
The persons of one's own family; as, our folks are all well.
+
further
superl.
Beyond; additional; as, a further reason for this opinion; nothing further to suggest.
+
forebodingly
adv.
In a foreboding manner.
+
fastly
adv.
Firmly; surely.
+
faairspoken
a.
Using fair speech, or uttered with fairness; bland; civil; courteous; plausible.
+
fumet
n.
The dung of deer.
+
fiasco
n.
A complete or ridiculous failure, esp. of a musical performance, or of any pretentious undertaking.
+
foliar
a.
Consisting of, or pertaining to, leaves; as, foliar appendages.
+
felting
n.
The material of which felt is made; also, felted cloth; also, the process by which it is made.
+
fibular
a.
Pertaining to the fibula.
+
fumarole
n.
A hole or spot in a volcanic or other region, from which fumes issue.
+
flyer
n.
The fly of a flag: See Fly, n., 6.
+
forted
a.
Furnished with, or guarded by, forts; strengthened or defended, as by forts.
+
foot
n.
The lower edge of a sail.
+
forwardness
n.
A state of advance beyond the usual degree; prematureness; precocity; as, the forwardnessof spring or of corn; the forwardness of a pupil.
+
flannel
n.
A soft, nappy, woolen cloth, of loose texture.
+
fomenter
n.
One who foments; one who encourages or instigates; as, a fomenter of sedition.
+
friskily
adv.
In a frisky manner.
+
fattish
a.
Somewhat fat; inclined to fatness.
+
fry
n.
A swarm or crowd, especially of little fishes; young or small things in general.
+
flaccidity
n.
The state of being flaccid.
+
foreby
prep.
Near; hard by; along; past. See Forby.
+
flow
v.i.
To have or be in abundance; to abound; to full, so as to run or flow over; to be copious.
+
forbearance
n.
The quality of being forbearing; indulgence toward offenders or enemies; long-suffering.
+
formulating
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Formulate
+
flagellating
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Flagellate
+
flagellator
n.
One who practices flagellation; one who whips or scourges.
+
faithless
a.
Not believing on God or religion; specifically, not believing in the Christian religion.
+
fungus
n.
A spongy, morbid growth or granulation in animal bodies, as the proud flesh of wounds.
+
farmyard
n.
The yard or inclosure attached to a barn, or the space inclosed by the farm buildings.
+
forage
v.t.
To strip of provisions; to supply with forage; as, to forage steeds.
+
fiorin
n.
A species of creeping bent grass (Agrostis alba); -- called also fiorin grass.
+
fesse
n.
A band drawn horizontally across the center of an escutcheon, and containing in breadth the third part of it; one of the nine honorable ordinaries.
+
fencing
v.i.
The aggregate of the fences put up for inclosure or protection; as, the fencing of a farm.
+
finfooted
a.
Having lobate toes, as the coot and grebe.
+
fulmination
n.
The act of fulminating or exploding; detonation.
+
farming
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Farm
+
forkless
a.
Having no fork.
+
filleting
n.
The protecting of a joint, as between roof and parapet wall, with mortar, or cement, where flashing is employed in better work.
+
fond
superl.
Foolishly tender and loving; weakly indulgent; over-affectionate.
+
fraudful
a.
Full of fraud, deceit, or treachery; trickish; treacherous; fraudulent; -- applied to persons or things.
+
front
v.t.
To face toward; to have the front toward; to confront; as, the house fronts the street.
+
flimsily
adv.
In a flimsy manner.
+
fusteric
n.
The coloring matter of fustet.
+
female rhymes

double rhymes, or rhymes (called in French feminine rhymes because they end in e weak, or feminine) in which two syllables, an accented and an unaccented one, correspond at the end of each line.
+
fringing
p.pr.|vb.a.
of Fringe
+
fend
n.
A fiend.
+
follicular
a.
Like, pertaining to, or consisting of, a follicles or follicles.
+
firenew
a.
Fresh from the forge; bright; quite new; brand-new.
+
fluoroscope
n.
An instrument for observing or exhibiting fluorescence.
+
farmable
a.
Capable of being farmed.
+
flies
pl.
of Fly
+
firewarden
n.
An officer who has authority to direct in the extinguishing of fires, or to order what precautions shall be taken against fires; -- called also fireward.
+
flintwood
n.
An Australian name for the very hard wood of the Eucalyptus piluralis.
+
freesoil
a.
Pertaining to, or advocating, the non-extension of slavery; -- esp. applied to a party which was active during the period 1846-1856.
+
forthwith
adv.
Immediately; without delay; directly.
+
faithful
a.
Worthy of confidence and belief; conformable to truth ot fact; exact; accurate; as, a faithful narrative or representation.
+
froterer
n.
One who frotes; one who rubs or chafes.
+
flier
n.
See Flyer, n., 5.
+
fashionable
a.
Genteel; well-bred; as, fashionable society.
+
funk
v.i.
To be frightened, and shrink back; to flinch; as, to funk at the edge of a precipice.
+
faith
n.
The belief in the historic truthfulness of the Scripture narrative, and the supernatural origin of its teachings, sometimes called historical and speculative faith.
+
ferrule
n.
A bushing for expanding the end of a flue to fasten it tightly in the tube plate, or for partly filling up its mouth.
+
frighted
imp.
of Fright
+
ferment
v.i.
To undergo fermentation; to be in motion, or to be excited into sensible internal motion, as the constituent oarticles of an animal or vegetable fluid; to work; to effervesce.
+
felicity
n.
The state of being happy; blessedness; blissfulness; enjoyment of good.
+
freehand
a.
Done by the hand, without support, or the guidance of instruments; as, free-hand drawing. See under Drawing.
+
flaw
n.
A defect; a fault; as, a flaw in reputation; a flaw in a will, in a deed, or in a statute.
+
flop
v.i.
To fall, sink, or throw one's self, heavily, clumsily, and unexpectedly on the ground.
+
flection
n.
The variation of words by declension, comparison, or conjugation; inflection.
+
forespeech
n.
A preface.
+
furthest
adv.
At the greatest distance; farthest.
+
feeze
v.t.
To beat; to chastise; to humble; to worry.
+
frequent
n.
Often to be met with; happening at short intervals; often repeated or occurring; as, frequent visits.
+
forcipation
n.
Torture by pinching with forceps or pinchers.
+
fashionmonger
n.
One who studies the fashions; a fop; a dandy.
+
floramour
n.
The plant love-lies-bleeding.
+
flag
n.
A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks.
+
fin
n.
A feather; a spline.
+
flidge
v.i.
To become fledged; to fledge.
+
fume
n.
To be in a rage; to be hot with anger.
+
field
n.
A piece of land of considerable size; esp., a piece inclosed for tillage or pasture.
+
finesse
v.i.
To attempt, when second or third player, to make a lower card answer the purpose of a higher, when an intermediate card is out, risking the chance of its being held by the opponent yet to play.
+
fading
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fade
+
falconet
n.
One of the smaller cannon used in the 15th century and later.
+
factor
n.
One of the elements or quantities which, when multiplied together, from a product.
+
felosdese
pl.
of Felo-de-se
+
figurate
a.
Figurative; metaphorical.
+
fiction
n.
That which is feigned, invented, or imagined; especially, a feigned or invented story, whether oral or written. Hence: A story told in order to deceive; a fabrication; -- opposed to fact, or reality.
+
formal
a.
Sound; normal.
+
fished
imp.|p.p.
of Fish
+
forehand
n.
All that part of a horse which is before the rider.
+
ficoes
pl.
of Fico
+
facundious
a.
Eloquement; full of words.
+
fibrillous
a.
Pertaining to, or composed of, fibers.
+
face
n.
That part of a body, having several sides, which may be seen from one point, or which is presented toward a certain direction; one of the bounding planes of a solid; as, a cube has six faces.
+
footpace
n.
A walking pace or step.
+
fatherly
a.
Like a father in affection and care; paternal; tender; protecting; careful.
+
florence
n.
A kind of cloth.
+
feel
n.
Feeling; perception.
+
ferret
n.
A kind of narrow tape, usually made of woolen; sometimes of cotton or silk; -- called also ferreting.
+
faultfinding
n.
The act of finding fault or blaming; -- used derogatively. Also Adj.
+
farce
v.t.
Ridiculous or empty show; as, a mere farce.
+
flocculent
a.
Applied to the down of newly hatched or unfledged birds.
+
flooring
n.
Material for the construction of a floor or floors.
+
fourchette
n.
The forked piece between two adjacent fingers, to which the front and back portions are sewed.
+
forslow
v.t.
To delay; to hinder; to neglect; to put off.
+
friendly
a.
Appropriate to, or implying, friendship; befitting friends; amicable.
+
fodderer
n.
One who fodders cattle.
+
fey
a.
Fated; doomed.
+
fettle
v.i.
To make preparations; to put things in order; to do trifling business.
+
fungous
a.
Growing suddenly, but not substantial or durable.
+
fleaking
n.
A light covering of reeds, over which the main covering is laid, in thatching houses.
+
footfight
n.
A conflict by persons on foot; -- distinguished from a fight on horseback.
+
fulgid
a.
Shining; glittering; dazzling.
+
fisc
n.
A public or state treasury.
+
fixture
n.
That which is fixed or attached to something as a permanent appendage; as, the fixtures of a pump; the fixtures of a farm or of a dwelling, that is, the articles which a tenant may not take away.
+
finishing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Finish
+
fiscal
a.
Pertaining to the public treasury or revenue.
+
fun
n.
Sport; merriment; frolicsome amusement.
+
fashion
n.
Mode of action; method of conduct; manner; custom; sort; way.
+
funambulation
n.
Ropedancing.
+
forgetter
n.
One who forgets; a heedless person.
+
fulbe
n.
Same as Fulahs.
+
firkin
n.
A varying measure of capacity, usually being the fourth part of a barrel; specifically, a measure equal to nine imperial gallons.
+
flatten
a.
To lower the pitch of; to cause to sound less sharp; to let fall from the pitch.
+
footstall
n.
The stirrup of a woman's saddle.
+
feuar
n.
One who holds a feu.
+
fulcrum
n.
The horny inferior surface of the lingua of certain insects.
+
flecking
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fleck
+
forerun
v.t.
To turn before; to precede; to be in advance of (something following).
+
fix
n.
fettling.
+
flick
v.t.
To whip lightly or with a quick jerk; to flap; as, to flick a horse; to flick the dirt from boots.
+
factor
v.t.
To resolve (a quantity) into its factors.
+
flabelliform
a.
Having the form of a fan; fan-shaped; flabellate.
+
financier
n.
One skilled in financial operations; one acquainted with money matters.
+
fatherhood
n.
The state of being a father; the character or authority of a father; paternity.
+
finding
n.
Support; maintenance; that which is provided for one; expence; provision.
+
forequoted
a.
Cited before; quoted in a foregoing part of the treatise or essay.
+
forisfamiliation
n.
The act of forisfamiliating.
+
frenchmen
pl.
of Frenchman
+
five
a.
Four and one added; one more than four.
+
favor
n.
A kind act or office; kindness done or granted; benevolence shown by word or deed; an act of grace or good will, as distinct from justice or remuneration.
+
forebrace
n.
A rope applied to the fore yardarm, to change the position of the foresail.
+
fagot
n.
A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a pile.
+
fustigate
v.t.
To cudgel.
+
flisk
n.
A caper; a spring; a whim.
+
flank
n.
The side of any building.
+
fontanel
n.
One of the membranous intervals between the incompleted angles of the parietal and neighboring bones of a fetal or young skull; -- so called because it exhibits a rhythmical pulsation.
+
festivity
n.
A festival; a festive celebration.
+
frap
v.t.
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.
+
fable
n.
The plot, story, or connected series of events, forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem.
+
fastish
a.
Rather fast; also, somewhat dissipated.
+
fet
v.t.
To fetch.
+
frilled
a.
Furnished with a frill or frills.
+
freck
v.t.
To checker; to diversify.
+
falconry
n.
The sport of taking wild fowl or game by means of falcons or hawks.
+
farseeing
a.
Able to see to a great distance; farsighted.
+
friendship
n.
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.
+
foist
v.t.
To insert surreptitiously, wrongfully, or without warrant; to interpolate; to pass off (something spurious or counterfeit) as genuine, true, or worthy; -- usually followed by in.
+
foxes
pl.
of Fox
+
foul
v.t.
To cover (a ship's bottom) with anything that impered its sailing; as, a bottom fouled with barnacles.
+
featheredge
n.
The thin, new growth around the edge of a shell, of an oyster.
+
fallow
n.
To plow, harrow, and break up, as land, without seeding, for the purpose of destroying weeds and insects, and rendering it mellow; as, it is profitable to fallow cold, strong, clayey land.
+
filed
imp.|p.p.
of File
+
fill
a.
To furnish an abudant supply to; to furnish with as mush as is desired or desirable; to occupy the whole of; to swarm in or overrun.
+
farinaceous
a.
Yielding farina or flour; as, ffarinaceous seeds.
+
fossane
n.
A species of civet (Viverra fossa) resembling the genet.
+
flamelet
n.
A small flame.
+
foetus
n.
Same as Fetus.
+
fabrication
n.
That which is fabricated; a falsehood; as, the story is doubtless a fabrication.
+
familiarities
pl.
of Familiarity
+
fake
v.t.
To make; to construct; to do.
+
foxtail
n.
The name of several kinds of grass having a soft dense head of flowers, mostly the species of Alopecurus and Setaria.
+
finale
n.
The closing part, piece, or scene in any public performance or exhibition.
+
featheredged
a.
Having a feather-edge; also, having one edge thinner than the other, as a board; -- in the United States, said only of stuff one edge of which is made as thin as practicable.
+
forebode
n.
Prognostication; presage.
+
floor
n.
The part of the house assigned to the members.
+
fanfaron
n.
A bully; a hector; a swaggerer; an empty boaster.
+
forwaste
v.t.
To desolate or lay waste utterly.
+
float
v.i.
A single-cut file for smoothing; a tool used by shoemakers for rasping off pegs inside a shoe.
+
feather
n.
A tuft of peculiar, long, frizzly hair on a horse.
+
felt
n.
A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.
+
floral
a.
Containing, or belonging to, a flower; as, a floral bud; a floral leaf; floral characters.
+
free will

A will free from improper coercion or restraint.
+
fathered
imp.|p.p.
of Father
+
foot
n.
The muscular locomotive organ of a mollusk. It is a median organ arising from the ventral region of body, often in the form of a flat disk, as in snails. See Illust. of Buccinum.
+
fine
superl.
Not coarse; comminuted; in small particles; as, fine sand or flour.
+
fobbed
imp.|p.p.
of Fob
+
fumet
n.
Alt. of Fumette
+
frailties
pl.
of Frailty
+
former
n.
One who forms; a maker; a creator.
+
finestill
v.t.
To distill, as spirit from molasses or some saccharine preparation.
+
feodary
n.
An ancient officer of the court of wards.
+
fogie
n.
See Fogy.
+
formed
a.
Having structure; capable of growth and development; organized; as, the formed or organized ferments. See Ferment, n.
+
flare
n.
Leaf of lard.
+
fascination
n.
The state or condition of being fascinated.
+
fumble
v.t.
To handle or manage awkwardly; to crowd or tumble together.
+
finespun
a.
Spun so as to be fine; drawn to a fine thread; attenuated; hence, unsubstantial; visionary; as, finespun theories.
+
fistular
a.
Hollow and cylindrical, like a pipe or reed.
+
fairweather
a.
Appearing only when times or circumstances are prosperous; as, a fair-weather friend.
+
ferreter
n.
One who ferrets.
+
forsay
v.t.
To forbid; to renounce; to forsake; to deny.
+
flexanimous
a.
Having power to change the mind.
+
firework
n.
A device for producing a striking display of light, or a figure or figures in plain or colored fire, by the combustion of materials that burn in some peculiar manner, as gunpowder, sulphur, metallic filings, and various salts. The most common feature of fireworks is a paper or pasteboard tube filled with the combustible material. A number of these tubes or cases are often combined so as to make, when kindled, a great variety of figures in fire, often variously colored. The skyrocket is a common form of firework. The name is also given to various combustible preparations used in war.
+
fustian
a.
Pompous; ridiculously tumid; inflated; bombastic; as, fustian history.
+
forager
n.
One who forages.
+
fury
n.
Violent anger; extreme wrath; rage; -- sometimes applied to inanimate things, as the wind or storms; impetuosity; violence.
+
funny
n.
A clinkerbuit, narrow boat for sculling.
+
flushboard
n.
Same as Flashboard.
+
fasciate
a.
Alt. of Fasciated
+
feather
n.
The fringe of long hair on the legs of the setter and some other dogs.
+
fault
v.t.
To interrupt the continuity of (rock strata) by displacement along a plane of fracture; -- chiefly used in the p. p.; as, the coal beds are badly faulted.
+
frostfish
n.
The tomcod; -- so called because it is abundant on the New England coast in autumn at about the commencement of frost. See Tomcod.
+
faham
n.
The leaves of an orchid (Angraecum fragrans), of the islands of Bourbon and Mauritius, used (in France) as a substitute for Chinese tea.
+
to compound a felony

See under Compound, v. t.
+
fame
v.t.
To report widely or honorably.
+
fest
n.
Alt. of Feste
+
fletch
v.t.
To feather, as an arrow.
+
fat
n.
The best or richest productions; the best part; as, to live on the fat of the land.
+
fleeting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fleet
+
foredoom
n.
Doom or sentence decreed in advance.
+
fineless
a.
Endless; boundless.
+
fetishism
n.
The doctrine or practice of belief in fetiches.
+
ferulaceous
a.
Pertaining to reeds and canes; having a stalk like a reed; as, ferulaceous plants.
+
fruitestere
n.
A fruiteress.
+
fintoed
a.
Having toes connected by a membrane; palmiped; palmated; also, lobate.
+
fuse
v.t.
To liquefy by heat; to render fiuid; to dissolve; to melt.
+
furthermost
a.
Most remote; furthest.
+
flotage
n.
The state of floating.
+
frugality
n.
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.
+
fiber
n.
Alt. of Fibre
+
forgive
v.t.
To give up resentment or claim to requital on account of (an offense or wrong); to remit the penalty of; to pardon; -- said in reference to the act forgiven.
+
froise
n.
A kind of pancake. See 1st Fraise.
+
fetch
v.t.
To bring to accomplishment; to achieve; to make; to perform, with certain objects; as, to fetch a compass; to fetch a leap; to fetch a sigh.
+
flowerer
n.
A plant which flowers or blossoms.
+
fancier
n.
One who is governed by fancy.
+
feaze
v.t.
To beat; to chastise; also, to humble; to harass; to worry.
+
flutist
n.
A performer on the flute; a flautist.
+
factoress
n.
A factor who is a woman.
+
flourished
imp.|p.p.
of Flourish
+
flock
n.
A lock of wool or hair.
+
figure
n.
To prefigure; to foreshow.
+
flat
v.t.
To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.
+
franchise
v.t.
To make free; to enfranchise; to give liberty to.
+
fescued
imp.|p.p.
of Fescue
+
fillet
n.
A concave filling in of a reentrant angle where two surfaces meet, forming a rounded corner.
+
foraminated
a.
Having small opening, or foramina.
+
fluty
a.
Soft and clear in tone, like a flute.
+
flavaniline
n.
A yellow, crystalline, organic dyestuff, C16H14N2, of artifical production. It is a strong base, and is a complex derivative of aniline and quinoline.
+
furfuraceous
a.
Made of bran; like bran; scurfy.
+
footing
n.
Standing; position; established place; basis for operation; permanent settlement; foothold.
+
faro
n.
A gambling game at cardds, in whiich all the other players play against the dealer or banker, staking their money upon the order in which the cards will lie and be dealt from the pack.
+
frothed
imp.|p.p.
of Froth
+
fleece
n.
The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.
+
far
a.
Remote from purpose; contrary to design or wishes; as, far be it from me to justify cruelty.
+
fingerling
n.
A young salmon. See Parr.
+
fishery
n.
The right to take fish at a certain place, or in particular waters.
+
faciend
n.
The multiplicand. See Facient, 2.
+
frenzy
n.
Any violent agitation of the mind approaching to distraction; violent and temporary derangement of the mental faculties; madness; rage.
+
filibuster
n.
A lawless military adventurer, especially one in quest of plunder; a freebooter; -- originally applied to buccaneers infesting the Spanish American coasts, but introduced into common English to designate the followers of Lopez in his expedition to Cuba in 1851, and those of Walker in his expedition to Nicaragua, in 1855.
+
furfuran
n.
A colorless, oily substance, C4H4O, obtained by distilling certain organic substances, as pine wood, salts of pyromucic acid, etc.; -- called also tetraphenol.
+
featherness
n.
The state or condition of being feathery.
+
feature
n.
The make, form, or outward appearance of a person; the whole turn or style of the body; esp., good appearance.
+
flat
superl.
Sonant; vocal; -- applied to any one of the sonant or vocal consonants, as distinguished from a nonsonant (or sharp) consonant.
+
fiance
n.
A betrothed man.
+
furthest
a.
superl. Most remote; most in advance; farthest. See Further, a.
+
freshet
a.
A flood or overflowing of a stream caused by heavy rains or melted snow; a sudden inundation.
+
feazed
imp.|p.p.
of Feaze
+
fairleader
n.
A block, or ring, serving as a guide for the running rigging or for any rope.
+
fustet
n.
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.
+
firkin
n.
A small wooden vessel or cask of indeterminate size, -- used for butter, lard, etc.
+
flush
a.
Unbroken or even in surface; on a level with the adjacent surface; forming a continuous surface; as, a flush panel; a flush joint.
+
furile
n.
A yellow, crystalline substance, (C4H3O)2.C2O2, obtained by the oxidation of furoin.
+
fricatrice
n.
A lewd woman; a harlot.
+
fare
n.
To happen well, or ill; -- used impersonally; as, we shall see how it will fare with him.
+
fondness
n.
Doting affection; tender liking; strong appetite, propensity, or relish; as, he had a fondness for truffles.
+
father
n.
One who, or that which, gives origin; an originator; a producer, author, or contriver; the first to practice any art, profession, or occupation; a distinguished example or teacher.
+
float
v.i.
The cork or quill used in angling, to support the bait line, and indicate the bite of a fish.
+
fishblock
n.
See Fish-tackle.
+
form
n.
Orderly arrangement; shapeliness; also, comeliness; elegance; beauty.
+
flesh
v.t.
To remove flesh, membrance, etc., from, as from hides.
+
foxlike
a.
Resembling a fox in his characteristic qualities; cunning; artful; foxy.
+
fructified
imp.|p.p.
of Fructify
+
fronto

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.
+
fluke
n.
One of the lobes of a whale's tail, so called from the resemblance to the fluke of an anchor.
+
file
n.
An orderly succession; a line; a row
+
foist
n.
A foister; a sharper.
+
fossette
n.
A little hollow; hence, a dimple.
+
feasible
a.
Fit to be used or tailed, as land.
+
figural
a.
Figurate. See Figurate.
+
fourteenth
n.
One of fourteen equal parts into which one whole may be divided; the quotient of a unit divided by fourteen; one next after the thirteenth.
+
fiddlestring
n.
One of the catgut strings of a fiddle.
+
futtock
n.
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.
+
forestaff
n.
An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of heavenly bodies, now superseded by the sextant; -- called also cross-staff.
+
frogshell
n.
One of numerous species of marine gastropod shells, belonging to Ranella and allied genera.
+
frankish
a.
Like, or pertaining to, the Franks.
+
fellow
n.
In an American college or university, a member of the corporation which manages its business interests; also, a graduate appointed to a fellowship, who receives the income of the foundation.
+
frostted
imp.|p.p.
of Frost
+
flammable
a.
Inflammable.
+
flucan
n.
Soft clayey matter in the vein, or surrounding it.
+
flushing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Flush
+
foliose
a.
Having many leaves; leafy.
+
fix
a.
Fixed; solidified.
+
finding
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Find
+
foreyard
n.
The lowermost yard on the foremast.
+
favorable
n.
Beautiful; well-favored.
+
fur
n.
Strips of dressed skins with fur, used on garments for warmth or for ornament.
+
flaggy
a.
Tasteless; insipid; as, a flaggy apple.
+
foisting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Foist
+
fretted
p.p.|a.
Rubbed or worn away; chafed.
+
feather
n.
Kind; nature; species; -- from the proverbial phrase, "Birds of a feather," that is, of the same species.
+
frigidarium
n.
The cooling room of the Roman thermae, furnished with a cold bath.
+
forswore
imp.
of Forswear
+
ferriprussiate
n.
A ferricyanate; a ferricyanide.
+
fallow
a.
Pale red or pale yellow; as, a fallow deer or greyhound.
+
frank
n.
The common heron; -- so called from its note.
+
figurant
n.masc.
One who dances at the opera, not singly, but in groups or figures; an accessory character on the stage, who figures in its scenes, but has nothing to say; hence, one who figures in any scene, without taking a prominent part.
+
fossorial
a.
Fitted for digging, adapted for burrowing or digging; as, a fossorial foot; a fossorial animal.
+
fillibuster
n.
See Filibuster.
+
fire
v.i.
To be irritated or inflamed with passion.
+
fortune
n.
Wealth; large possessions; large estate; riches; as, a gentleman of fortune.
+
fairing
n.
A present; originally, one given or purchased at a fair.
+
further
superl.
More remote; at a greater distance; more in advance; farther; as, the further end of the field. See Farther.
+
fizzle
v.i.
To make a hissing sound.
+
fare
v.
The person or persons conveyed in a vehicle; as, a full fare of passengers.
+
florification
n.
The act, process, or time of flowering; florescence.
+
feeling
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Feel
+
fount
n.
A font.
+
fleetfoot
a.
Swift of foot.
+
fuss
v.i.
To be overbusy or unduly anxious about trifles; to make a bustle or ado.
+
flexible
a.
Capable of being flexed or bent; admitting of being turned, bowed, or twisted, without breaking; pliable; yielding to pressure; not stiff or brittle.
+
firmans
pl.
of Firman
+
fender
v.t.|i.
One who or that which defends or protects by warding off harm
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fordone
a.
Undone; ruined.
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fiery
a.
heated by fire, or as if by fire; burning hot; parched; feverish.
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frugality
n.
A sparing use; sparingness; as, frugality of praise.
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fleeing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Flee
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fecula
n.
Any pulverulent matter obtained from plants by simply breaking down the texture, washing with water, and subsidence.
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fumigation
n.
Vapor raised in the process of fumigating.
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fourinhand
n.
A team of four horses driven by one person; also, a vehicle drawn by such a team.
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fowl
v.i.
To catch or kill wild fowl, for game or food, as by shooting, or by decoys, nets, etc.
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faction
n.
Tumult; discord; dissension.
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falchion
n.
A broad-bladed sword, slightly curved, shorter and lighter than the ordinary sword; -- used in the Middle Ages.
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fondling
n.
The act of caressing; manifestation of tenderness.
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fairly
adv.
Honestly; properly.
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fiberfaced
a.
Alt. of Fibre-faced
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fabric
n.
The structure of anything; the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship; texture; make; as cloth of a beautiful fabric.
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filiation
n.
The assignment of a bastard child to some one as its father; affiliation.
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feazing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Feaze
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forebode
v.t.
To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly.
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footing
n.
Relative condition; state.
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facility
n.
Easiness to be persuaded; readiness or compliance; -- usually in a bad sense; pliancy.
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fuero
n.
A place where justice is administered.
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footrope
n.
That part of the boltrope to which the lower edge of a sail is sewed.
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flame
n.
Ardor of affection; the passion of love.
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fivefinger
n.
A starfish with five rays, esp. Asterias rubens.
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fowl
n.
Any bird; esp., any large edible bird.
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fusee
n.
A fuse. See Fuse, n.
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funk
v.i.
To emit an offensive smell; to stink.
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famulate
v.i.
To serve.
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freedmen
pl.
of Freedman
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fountain
n.
An artificially produced jet or stream of water; also, the structure or works in which such a jet or stream rises or flows; a basin built and constantly supplied with pure water for drinking and other useful purposes, or for ornament.
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fear
n.
Respectful reverence for men of authority or worth.
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frippery
a.
Trifling; contemptible.
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fescue
n.
A grass of the genus Festuca.
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forge
v.t.
To commit forgery.
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fretwork
n.
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.
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foresail
n.
The sail bent to the foreyard of a square-rigged vessel, being the lowest sail on the foremast.
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featherpated
a.
Feather-headed; frivolous.
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fraudless
a.
Free from fraud.
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fac
n.
A large ornamental letter used, esp. by the early printers, at the commencement of the chapters and other divisions of a book.
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fairhaired
a.
Having fair or light-colored hair.
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fry
v.i.
To undergo the process of frying; to be subject to the action of heat in a frying pan, or on a griddle, or in a kettle of hot fat.
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formicaroid
a.
Like or pertaining to the family Formicaridae or ant thrushes.
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fitter
n.
A coal broker who conducts the sales between the owner of a coal pit and the shipper.
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familiar
a.
Characterized by, or exhibiting, the manner of an intimate friend; not formal; unconstrained; easy; accessible.
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favorite
n.
Short curls dangling over the temples; -- fashionable in the reign of Charles II.
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folderol
n.
Nonsense.
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flesh
n.
The human eace; mankind; humanity.
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fearful
a.
Indicating, or caused by, fear.
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forwrap
v.t.
To wrap up; to conceal.
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faulter
n.
One who commits a fault.
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fugleman
n.
Hence, one who leads the way.
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fusile
a.
Same as Fusil, a.
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forewiten
pl.
of Forewite
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friseur
n.
A hairdresser.
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flow
v.t.
To cover with varnish.
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flour
v.t.
To grind and bolt; to convert into flour; as, to flour wheat.
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fair
n.
A fair woman; a sweetheart.
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foolborn
a.
Begotten by a fool.
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facing
n.
A powdered substance, as charcoal, bituminous coal, ect., applied to the face of a mold, or mixed with the sand that forms it, to give a fine smooth surface to the casting.
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formic
a.
Pertaining to, or derived from, ants; as, formic acid; in an extended sense, pertaining to, or derived from, formic acid; as, formic ether.
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forecast
v.t.
To plan beforehand; to scheme; to project.
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feet
n.
Fact; performance.
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fluvialist
n.
One who exlpains geological phenomena by the action of streams.
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feeler
n.
One of the sense organs or certain animals (as insects), which are used in testing objects by touch and in searching for food; an antenna; a palp.
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forlorn
n.
A forlorn hope; a vanguard.
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fidiciary
a.
Involving confidence or trust; confident; undoubting; faithful; firm; as, in a fiduciary capacity.
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fuchsias
pl.
of Fuchsia
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flanged
imp.|p.p.
of Flange
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frequentable
a.
Accessible.
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far
adv.
To a great extent or distance of space; widely; as, we are separated far from each other.
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fissiparous
a.
Reproducing by spontaneous fission. See Fission.
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fatherly
a.
Of or pertaining to a father.
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freebootery
n.
The act, practice, or gains of a freebooter; freebooting.
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fly
v.i.
To move through the air or before the wind; esp., to pass or be driven rapidly through the air by any impulse.
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fomes
n.
Any substance supposed to be capable of absorbing, retaining, and transporting contagious or infectious germs; as, woolen clothes are said to be active fomites.
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filling
n.
Prepared wort added to ale to cleanse it.
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flatulent
a.
Turgid with flatus; as, a flatulent tumor.
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fibre
n.
A general name for the raw material, such as cotton, flax, hemp, etc., used in textile manufactures.
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fenianism
n.
The principles, purposes, and methods of the Fenians.
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foldage
n.
See Faldage.
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fibularia
pl.
of Fibulare
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flame
n.
Burning zeal or passion; elevated and noble enthusiasm; glowing imagination; passionate excitement or anger.
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fireplace
n.
The part a chimney appropriated to the fire; a hearth; -- usually an open recess in a wall, in which a fire may be built.
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fateful
a..
Having the power of serving or accomplishing fate.
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fosseway
n.
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.
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flush
v.t.
To excite; to animate; to stir.
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fare
n.
To behave; to conduct one's self.
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fit
v.i.
To be proper or becoming.
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frog
n.
A supporting plate having raised ribs that form continuations of the rails, to guide the wheels where one track branches from another or crosses it.
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fictitious
a.
Feigned; imaginary; not real; fabulous; counterfeit; false; not genuine; as, fictitious fame.
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fra
adv.|prep.
Fro.
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fond
superl.
Affectionate; loving; tender; -- in a good sense; as, a fond mother or wife.
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fumigation
n.
The act of fumigating, or applying smoke or vapor, as for disinfection.
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finger
v.t.
To touch lightly; to toy with.
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prigidity
n.
The condition or quality of being frigid; coldness; want of warmth.
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flapdragon
n.
A game in which the players catch raisins out burning brandy, and swallow them blazing.
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flota
n.
A fleet; especially, a /eet of Spanish ships which formerly sailed every year from Cadiz to Vera Cruz, in Mexico, to transport to Spain the production of Spanish America.
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fainting
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Faint
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fret
v.i.
To be vexed; to be chafed or irritated; to be angry; to utter peevish expressions.
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fraying
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fray
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falsify
a.
To avoid or defeat; to prove false, as a judgment.
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forzando
adv.
See Sforzato.
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fetidness
n.
The quality or state of being fetid.
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flidge
a.
Fledged; fledge.
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forefeel
v.t.
To feel beforehand; to have a presentiment of.
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futurely
adv.
In time to come.
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faroese
n.sing.|pl.
An inhabitant, or, collectively, inhabitants, of the Faroe islands.
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fleetings
n.pl.
A mixture of buttermilk and boiling whey; curds.
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figurehead
n.
A person who allows his name to be used to give standing to enterprises in which he has no responsible interest or duties; a nominal, but not real, head or chief.
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favoress
n.
A woman who favors or gives countenance.
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function
n.
The natural or assigned action of any power or faculty, as of the soul, or of the intellect; the exertion of an energy of some determinate kind.
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futurity
n.
State of being that is yet to come; future state.
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fail
v.i.
To deteriorate in respect to vigor, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker; as, a sick man fails.
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fall
v.t.
To let fall; to drop.
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forshape
v.t.
To render misshapen.
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fib
v.i.
To speak falsely.
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framework
n.
The work of framing, or the completed work; the frame or constructional part of anything; as, the framework of society.
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finning
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fin
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fellow
v.t.
To suit with; to pair with; to match.
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freeze
v.t.
To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill.
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falsify
a.
To counterfeit; to forge; as, to falsify coin.
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figure
n.
A diagram or drawing; made to represent a magnitude or the relation of two or more magnitudes; a surface or space inclosed on all sides; -- called superficial when inclosed by lines, and solid when inclosed by surface; any arrangement made up of points, lines, angles, surfaces, etc.
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farrow
a.
Not producing young in a given season or year; -- said only of cows.
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fertilizer
n.
That which renders fertile; a general name for commercial manures, as guano, phosphate of lime, etc.
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fobbing
p.pr.|vb.n.
of Fob
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force
v.i.
To make a difficult matter of anything; to labor; to hesitate; hence, to force of, to make much account of; to regard.
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feather
n.
One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down.
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fitches
pl.
of Fitch
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