(pl. ) of Freedman

(n.) The state or quality of being free; freedom; liberty; openness; liberality; gratuitousness.

(a.) Of or pertaining to free will; voluntary; spontaneous; as, a freewill offering.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Freeze

(a.) Tending to freeze; for freezing; hence, cold or distant in manner.

(p. p. & a.) Affected with frenzy; frantic; maddened.

(pl. ) of Frenzy

(n.) Often to be met with; happening at short intervals; often repeated or occurring; as, frequent visits.

(n.) Addicted to any course of conduct; inclined to indulge in any practice; habitual; persistent.

(n.) Full; crowded; thronged.

(n.) Often or commonly reported.

(a.) To visit often; to resort to often or habitually.

(a.) To make full; to fill.

(a.) A cool walk; shady place.

(pl. ) of Fresco

(imp. & p. p.) of Fresco

(pl. ) of Freshman

(n.) novice; one in the rudiments of knowledge; especially, a student during his fist year in a college or university.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fret

(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.

(n.) The act of breaking up or pulverizing.

(n.) A trifler; a fribble.

(n.) The pledge and tithing, afterwards called by the Normans frankpledge. See Frankpledge.

(n.) A ragout or fricassee of veal; a fancy dish of veal or of boned turkey, served as an entree, -- called also fricandel.

(imp. & p. p.) of Friend

(a.) Having friends;

(a.) Inclined to love; well-disposed.

(imp.) of Fright

(v. t.) To disturb with fear; to throw into a state of alarm or fright; to affright; to terrify.

(adv.) In a frigid manner; coldly; dully; without affection.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Frill

(p. pr. & vb. a.) of Fringe

(a.) Encircling like a fringe; bordering.

(n.) Coast-off clothes.

(n.) Hence: Secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance.

(n.) A place where old clothes are sold.

(n.) The trade or traffic in old clothes.

(a.) Trifling; contemptible.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Frisk

(a.) Brisk; lively; frolicsome.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Frit

(n.) The formation of frit or slag by heat with but incipient fusion.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Friz

(n.) A curl of hair or silk; a pad of frizzed hair or silk worn by women under the hair to stuff it out.

(imp. & p. p.) of Frizzle

(n.) One who frizzles.

(a.) Frolicsome.

(adv.) In a frolicsome manner; with mirth and gayety.

(prep.) Alt. of Fromwards

(a.) Covered with leaves; leafy; as, a frondent tree.

(v. t.) To develop; to make thrive; to expand.

(n.) A flourishing condition; prosperity; vigor.

(n.) Decoration; ornament; beauty.

(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.

(n.) A fanciful stroke of the pen or graver; a merely decorative figure.

(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.

(n.) The waving of a weapon or other thing; a brandishing; as, the flourish of a sword.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flout

(imp. & p. p.) of Flower

(n.) A plant which flowers or blossoms.

(n.) A small flower; a floret.

(adv.) In a fluent manner.

(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.

(v. t.) To render fluid.

(n.) A light kind of food, formerly made of flour or meal; a sort of pap.

(n.) Something insipid, or not worth having; empty compliment; trash; unsubstantial talk of writing.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flunk

(pl. ) of Flunky

(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.

(n.) A binary compound of fluorine with another element or radical.

(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.

(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.

(n.) A tetrahexahedron; -- so called because it is a common form of fluorite.

(a.) Agitated; excited.

(pl. ) of Flurry

(imp. & p. p.) of Flurry

(a.) Capable of being melted or fused, as a mineral.

(n. pl.) See Fluxion, 6(b).

(v. i.) To angle, using flies for bait.

(n.) A speck or stain made by the excrement of a fly; hence, any insignificant dot.

(v. t.) To soil with flyspecks.

(n.) See Coltsfoot.

(a.) Having no foam.

(v. t.) To bring to a focus; to focus; to concentrate.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Focus

(imp. & p. p.) of Fodder

(n.) One who fodders cattle.

(a.) Capable of being foiled.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Foist

(n.) Nonsense.

(a.) Having no fold.

(a.) Furnished with foliage; leaved; as, the variously foliaged mulberry.

(imp. & p. p.) of Foliate

(a.) Having leaves, or leaflike projections; as, a foliated shell.

(a.) Containing, or consisting of, foils; as, a foliated arch.

(a.) Characterized by being separable into thin plates or folia; as, graphite has a foliated structure.

(a.) Laminated, but restricted to the variety of laminated structure found in crystalline schist, as mica schist, etc.; schistose.

(a.) Spread over with an amalgam of tin and quicksilver.

(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.

() Alt. of Folk lore

(n.) An assembly of the people

(n.) a general assembly of the people to consider and order matters of the commonwealth; also, a local court.

(n.) A simple podlike pericarp which contains several seeds and opens along the inner or ventral suture, as in the peony, larkspur and milkweed.

(n.) A small cavity, tubular depression, or sac; as, a hair follicle.

(n.) A simple gland or glandular cavity; a crypt.

(n.) A small mass of adenoid tissue; as, a lymphatic follicle.

(a.) Full of folly.

(imp. & p. p.) of Follow

(n.) One who follows; a pursuer; an attendant; a disciple; a dependent associate; a retainer.

(n.) A sweetheart; a beau.

(n.) The removable flange, or cover, of a piston. See Illust. of Piston.

(n.) A gland. See Illust. of Stuffing box.

(n.) The part of a machine that receives motion from another part. See Driver.

(n.) Among law stationers, a sheet of parchment or paper which is added to the first sheet of an indenture or other deed.

(imp. & p. p.) of Foment

(n.) One who foments; one who encourages or instigates; as, a fomenter of sedition.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fondle

(n.) The act of caressing; manifestation of tenderness.

(n.) A person or thing fondled or caressed; one treated with foolish or doting affection.

(n.) A fool; a simpleton; a ninny.

(n.) The quality or state of being fond; foolishness.

(n.) Doting affection; tender liking; strong appetite, propensity, or relish; as, he had a fondness for truffles.

(n.) An issue or artificial ulcer for the discharge of humors from the body.

(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.

(n.) A kind of tall headdress formerly worn.

(a.) Without food; barren.

(n.) The orange filefish. See Filefish.

(n.) The winter flounder. See Flounder.

(v. t.) To bring from far; to seek out studiously.

(n.) Anything brought from far, or brought about with studious care; a deep strategem.

(n.) The yard or inclosure attached to a barn, or the space inclosed by the farm buildings.

(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, feathers; covered with, or as with, feathers; as, feathery spray or snow.

(n.) Skill; adroitness.

(a.) Shaped; fashioned.

(a.) Having features; formed into features.

(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.

(n.) An exercise in debate; a forensic contest; an argumentative thesis.

(a.) Bygone.

(n.) The first rank; the front.

(a.) Mentioned before; aforesaid.

(p. p.) Provided; in case that; on condition that.

(n.) One who foresees or foreknows.

(n.) The fore part of a ship.

(n.) In distillation of low wines, the first portion of spirit that comes over, being a fluid abounding in fusel oil.

(v. t.) To show or exhibit beforehand; to give foreknowledge of; to prognosticate; to foretell.

(n.) The front side; the front; esp., a stretch of country fronting the sea.

(v. t.) The unlaid or ragged end of a rope.

(a.) Producing fever.

(n.) The anal fork on which the larvae of certain insects carry their faeces.

(a.) Spiritless; weak; worthless.

(a.) Foul with extraneous or impure substances; abounding with sediment or excrementitious matter; muddy; thick; turbid.

(n.) A partner; a confederate; an accomplice.

(a.) United by compact, as sovereignties, states, or nations; joined in confederacy; leagued; confederate; as, federate nations.

(a.) Destitute of feet; as, feetless birds.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Feign

(a.) That feigns; insincere; not genuine; false.

(n.) Alt. of Feldspath

(a.) Fit to be felled.

(pl. ) of Fellah

(a.) Of, relating to, or derived from, bile or gall; as, fellinic acid.

(n.) The quality or state of being fell or cruel; fierce barbarity.

(a.) Fellowlike.

(a.) Wicked; felonious.

(pl. ) of Felony

(a.) relating to, composed of, or containing, felsite.

(n.) See Feldspar.

(n.) See Felsite.

(n.) A gallant.

(v. t.) To make, or to describe as, female or feminine.

(n.) A lantern, or louver covering, placed on a roof, for ventilation or escape of smoke.

(a.) Feminine.

(n.) Womanliness; femininity.

(v. t.) To make womanish or effeminate.

(a.) Affording defense; defensive.

(n.) A soldier enlisted for home service only; -- usually in the pl.

(v. i.) To put money to usury; to lend on interest.

(n.) A small opening; esp., one of the apertures, closed by membranes, between the tympanum and internal ear.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Feoff

(n.) The state of being feracious or fruitful.

(n.) A portable bier or shrine, variously adorned, used for containing relics of saints.

(adv.) Far forth.

(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.

(a.) Full of faith, or having faith; disposed to believe, especially in the declarations and promises of God.

(a.) Firm in adherence to promises, oaths, contracts, treaties, or other engagements.

(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.

(a.) Worthy of confidence and belief; conformable to truth ot fact; exact; accurate; as, a faithful narrative or representation.

(n.) A viverrine mammal of Madagascar (Eupleres Goudotii), allied to the civet; -- called also Falanouc.

(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.

(n.) A broad-bladed sword, slightly curved, shorter and lighter than the ordinary sword; -- used in the Middle Ages.

(n.) A name given generally and poetically to a sword, especially to the swords of Oriental and fabled warriors.

(n.) One of the smaller cannon used in the 15th century and later.

(n.) One of several very small Asiatic falcons of the genus Microhierax.

(n.) One of a group of Australian birds of the genus Falcunculus, resembling shrikes and titmice.

(n.) The art of training falcons or hawks to pursue and attack wild fowl or game.

(n.) The sport of taking wild fowl or game by means of falcons or hawks.

(n.) An exception.

(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.

(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.

(adv.) In a fallible manner.

(imp. & p. p.) of Fallow

(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.

(imp. & p. p.) of Falter

(a.) Without fame or renown.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a family; domestic.

(a.) Closely acquainted or intimate, as a friend or companion; well versed in, as any subject of study; as, familiar with the Scriptures.

(a.) Characterized by, or exhibiting, the manner of an intimate friend; not formal; unconstrained; easy; accessible.

(a.) Well known; well understood; common; frequent; as, a familiar illustration.

(a.) Improperly acquainted; wrongly intimate.

(n.) An intimate; a companion.

(n.) An attendant demon or evil spirit.

(n.) A confidential officer employed in the service of the tribunal, especially in apprehending and imprisoning the accused.

(n.) The tenets of the Familists.

(pl. ) of Family

(imp. & p. p.) of Famish

(adv.) In a famous manner; in a distinguished degree; greatly; splendidly.

(n.) Fanaticism.

(a.) Full of fancy; guided by fancy, rather than by reason and experience; whimsical; as, a fanciful man forms visionary projects.

(a.) Conceived in the fancy; not consistent with facts or reason; abounding in ideal qualities or figures; as, a fanciful scheme; a fanciful theory.

(a.) Curiously shaped or constructed; as, she wore a fanciful headdress.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fancy

(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.

(n.) A ball or general dance, as in Mexico.

(n.) A bully; a hector; a swaggerer; an empty boaster.

(a.) Destitute of fangs or tusks.

(n.) Alt. of Faradization

(a.) Pertaining to farce; appropriated to farce; ludicrous; unnatural; unreal.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the disease called farcy. See Farcy, n.

(v. t.) Stuffed; filled solid; as, a farctate leaf, stem, or pericarp; -- opposed to tubular or hollow.

(a.) Yielding farinaa; as, farinose substances.

(a.) Civered with a sort of white, mealy powder, as the leaves of some poplars, and the body of certain insects; mealy.

(a.) Capable of being farmed.

(n.) The art of shoeing horses.

(n.) The art of preventing, curing, or mitigating diseases of horses and cattle; the veterinary art.

(n.) The place where a smith shoes horses.

(imp. & p. p.) of Farfow

(Superl.) Most distant or remote; as, the farthest degree. See Furthest.

(adv.) At or to the greatest distance. See Furthest.

(n.) The fourth of a penny; a small copper coin of Great Britain, being a cent in United States currency.

(n.) A very small quantity or value.

(n.) A division of land.

(a.) Alt. of Fasciated

(n.) A small bundle or collection; a compact cluster; as, a fascicle of fibers; a fascicle of flowers or roots.

(n.) A band of gray matter bordering the fimbria in the brain; the dentate convolution.

(n.) A band of minute tubercles, bearing modified spines, on the shells of spatangoid sea urchins. See Spatangoidea.

(n.) A variety of pyroxene, from the valley of Fassa, in the Tyrol.

(imp. & p. p.) of Fasten

(n.) One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.

(a.) The state of being fast and firm; firmness; fixedness; security; faithfulness.

(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.

(a.) Conciseness of style.

(a.) The state of being fast or swift.

(a.) Proud; haughty; disdainful.

(n.) The doctrine that all things are subject to fate, or that they take place by inevitable necessity.

(n.) One who maintains that all things happen by inevitable necessity.

(n.) The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.

(n.) The state of being fatal; tendency to destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate; mortaility.

(n.) That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event.

(imp. & p. p.) of Father

(a.) Like a father in affection and care; paternal; tender; protecting; careful.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a father.

(imp. & p. p.) of Fathom

(n.) One who fathoms.

(a.) Wearied; tired; fatigued.

(v. t.) To weary; to tire; to fatigue.

(imp. & p. p.) of Fatigue

(imp. & p. p.) of Fatten

(n.) One who, or that which, fattens; that which gives fatness or fertility.

(n.) A suburb of French city; also, a district now within a city, but formerly without its walls.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fault

(a.) Full of faults or sins.

(adv.) In a faulty manner.

(n.) The state or condition of being faulted; the process by which a fault is produced.

(n.) An armchair; hence (because the members sit in fauteuils or armchairs), membership in the French Academy.

(n.) Chair of a presiding officer.

(n.) A small singing bird, as the nightingale and warblers.

(a.) Pertaining to the west wind; soft; mild; gentle.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Favor

(n.) A woman who favors or gives countenance.

(a.) That favors.

(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.

(n.) Short curls dangling over the temples; -- fashionable in the reign of Charles II.

(n.) The competitor (as a horse in a race) that is judged most likely to win; the competitor standing highest in the betting.

(a.) Regarded with particular affection, esteem, or preference; as, a favorite walk; a favorite child.

(a.) Like or pertaining to the genus Favosites.

(n.) A black, greenish, or brownish mineral of the chrysolite group. It is a silicate of iron.

(n.) A gooseberry.

(n.) A very small frond, or distinct portion of a compound frond.

(a.) Frond bearing; resembling a frond; having a simple expansion not separable into stem and leaves.

(a.) Leafy.

(a.) Frondose.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Front

(n.) The front part of an edifice or lot; extent of front.

(a.) Alt. of Fron'tated

(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.

(n.) An outwork.

(a.) Lying on the exterior part; bordering; conterminous; as, a frontier town.

(a.) Of or relating to a frontier.

(v. i.) To constitute or form a frontier; to have a frontier; -- with on.

(n.) A frontal or brow band; a fillet or band worn on the forehead.

(n.) A frown (likened to a frontlet).

(n.) The margin of the head, behind the bill of birds, often bearing rigid bristles.

(a.) Peevish; froward.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Frost

(adv.) In a frosty manner.

(n.) A composition of sugar and beaten egg, used to cover or ornament cake, pudding, etc.

(n.) A lusterless finish of metal or glass; the process of producing such a finish.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Froth

(adv.) In a frothy manner.

(n.) Exaggerated declamation; rant.

(imp. & p. p.) of Frounce

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Frown

(v. i.) To bear fruit.

(v. t.) To make fruitful; to render productive; to fertilize; as, to fructify the earth.

(n.) Fruit sugar; levulose.

(n.) Use; fruition; enjoyment.

(adv.) Thriftily; prudently.

(n.) Fruit, collectively; fruit, in general; fruitery.

(n.) Product or result of any action; effect, good or ill.

(n.) Fruit, taken collectively; fruitage.

(n.) A repository for fruit.

(a.) Full of fruit; producing fruit abundantly; bearing results; prolific; fertile; liberal; bountiful; as, a fruitful tree, or season, or soil; a fruitful wife.

(a.) Pertaining to, or producing, fruit.

(n.) The bearing of fruit.

(n.) Use or possession of anything, especially such as is accompanied with pleasure or satisfaction; pleasure derived from possession or use.

(a.) Enjoying; possessing.

(n.) Food made of hulled wheat boiled in milk, with sugar, plums, etc.

(a.) Cross-tempered; scornful.

(a.) Old-fashioned, as a woman's dress.

(n.) The siliceous shell of a diatom. It is composed of two valves, one overlapping the other, like a pill box and its cover.

(pl. ) of Frustum

(pl. ) of Fuchsia

(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.

(a.) Fucoid.

(a.) Containing impressions of fossil fucoids or seaweeds; as, fucoidal sandstone.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fuddle

(a.) The quality of being fugacious; fugaclousness; volatility; as, fugacity of spirits.

(a.) Uncertainty; instability.

(n.) a short, condensed fugue.

(a.) Fleeing from pursuit, danger, restraint, etc., escaping, from service, duty etc.; as, a fugitive solder; a fugitive slave; a fugitive debtor.

(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.

(n.) One who flees from pursuit, danger, restraint, service, duty, etc.; a deserter; as, a fugitive from justice.

(n.) Something hard to be caught or detained.

(pl. ) of 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.

(n.) Hence, one who leads the way.

(a.) Propped; supported by accessory organs.

(a.) Furnished with fulcrums.

(pl. ) of Fulcrum

(n.) Brightness; splendor; glitter; effulgence.

(n.) Same as Foumart.

(a.) Very fiery.

(n.) The state of being full, or of abounding; abundance; completeness.

(a.) Fulsome.

(n.) A salt of fumaric acid.

(n.) An alkaloid extracted from fumitory, as a white crystalline substance.

(n.) A hole or spot in a volcanic or other region, from which fumes issue.

(n.) See Fumitory.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fumble

(a.) Free from fumes.

(n.) Alt. of Fumidness

(a.) Fuming.

(n.) To apply smoke to; to expose to smoke or vapor; to purify, or free from infection, by the use of smoke or vapors.

(n.) To smoke; to perfume.

(adv.) In a fuming manner; angrily.

(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.

(n.) The fumes of drink.

(n.) The act of executing or performing any duty, office, or calling; per formance.

(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.

(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.

(n.) The course of action which peculiarly pertains to any public officer in church or state; the activity appropriate to any business or profession.

(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.

(v. i.) Alt. of Functionate

(a.) Capable of being funded, or converted into a fund; convertible into bonds.

(v. t.) To bury with funeral rites.

(a.) Suiting a funeral; pertaining to burial; solemn. Hence: Dark; dismal; mournful.

(pl. ) of Fungus

(pl. ) of Funiculus

(n.) Addictedness to theft; thievishness.

(n.) A plaited or gathered flounce on a woman's garment.

(a.) Forked; branching like a fork; as, furcate twigs.

(a.) Shaped like a fork; furcate.

(n.) The wishbone or merrythought of birds, formed by the united clavicles.

(n.) A colorless, oily substance, C4H4O, obtained by distilling certain organic substances, as pine wood, salts of pyromucic acid, etc.; -- called also tetraphenol.

(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.

(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.

(v. t.) To furnish with a furlough; to grant leave of absence to, as to an offcer or soldier.

(n.) Furs, in general.

(n.) The business of a furrier; trade in furs.

(imp. & p. p.) of Furrow

(a.) superl. Most remote; most in advance; farthest. See Further, a.

(adv.) At the greatest distance; farthest.

(n.) A superficial, inflammatory tumor, suppurating with a central core; a boil.

(n.) A molding generally placed under the echinus or quarter round of capitals in the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian orders of architecture.

(a.) Shaped like a spindle; tapering at each end; as, a fusiform root; a fusiform cell.

(n.) Alt. of Fusilier

(n.) Formerly, a soldier armed with a fusil. Hence, in the plural:

(n.) A title now borne by some regiments and companies; as, "The Royal Fusiliers," etc.

(n.) The coloring matter of fustet.

(adv.) In a futile manner.

(n.) The quality of being talkative; talkativeness; loquaciousness; loquacity.

(n.) The quality of producing no valuable effect, or of coming to nothing; uselessness.

(a.) Futile; trifling.

(adv.) In time to come.

(n.) State of being that is yet to come; future state.

(n.) Future time; time to come; the future.

(n.) Event to come; a future event.

(pl. ) of Fabliau

(n.) One who invents or writes fables.

(v. i.) To invent, compose, or relate fables or fictions.

(a.) Feigned, as a story or fable; related in fable; devised; invented; not real; fictitious; as, a fabulous description; a fabulous hero.

(a.) Passing belief; exceedingly great; as, a fabulous price.

(n.) A species of counterpoint with a drone bass.

(n.) A succession of chords of the sixth.

(n.) A monotonous refrain.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Facet

(n. pl.) Witty or humorous writings or saying; witticisms; merry conceits.

(n.) The material of the outside or front side, as of a wall or building; facing.

(n.) The quality of being easily performed; freedom from difficulty; ease; as, the facility of an operation.

(n.) Ease in performance; readiness proceeding from skill or use; dexterity; as, practice gives a wonderful facility in executing works of art.

(n.) Easiness to be persuaded; readiness or compliance; -- usually in a bad sense; pliancy.

(n.) Easiness of access; complaisance; affability.

(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.

(adv.) In a facing manner or position.

(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.

(a.) Pertaining to faction; proceeding from faction; indicating, or characterized by, faction; -- said of acts or expressions; as, factious quarrels.

(imp. & p. p.) of Factor

(n.) A person employed to do all kinds of work or business.

(a.) Not liable to fade; unfading.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fagot

(n.) A stratum in crystalline rock, containing metallic sulphides.

(n.) Same as Tetrahedrite.

(n.) Fault; failure; omission.

(a.) Doing nothing; shiftless.

(n.) A do-nothing; an idle fellow; a sluggard.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Faint

(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.

(a.) Slightly faint; somewhat faint.

(a.) Free from fear.

(a.) Frightful; causing fear.

(a.) Easily frightened; timid; timorous.

(a.) Capable of being done, executed, or effected; practicable.

(a.) Fit to be used or tailed, as land.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Feast

(a.) Festive; festal; joyful; sumptuous; luxurious.

(a.) Dexterous; neat.

(n.) The outside or external covering.

(n.) The fold of skin which covers the glans of the penis; the prepuce.

(v. t.) To make slow; to hinder; to obstruct. [Obs.] See Forslow, v. t.

(v. i.) To loiter. [Obs.] See Forslow, v. i.

(a.) Of or pertaining to forests; as, forestal rights.

(n.) The art of forming or of cultivating forests; the management of growing timber.

(imp. & p. p.) of Foretell

(v. t.) To predict; to tell before occurence; to prophesy; to foreshow.

(v. i.) To utter predictions.

(n.) The past; the time before the present.

(n.) The van; the front.

(v. t.) To warn beforehand; to give previous warning, admonition, information, or notice to; to caution in advance.

(v. t.) To wish beforehand.

(n.) A preface.

(a.) Worn out; wasted; used up.

(n.) The lowermost yard on the foremast.

(pl. ) of Forgeman

(n.) A skilled smith, who has a hammerer to assist him.

(p. p.) of Forgive

(n.) One who forgives.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Forgo

(a.) Having no fork.

(n.) One of several Asiatic and East Indian passerine birds, belonging to Enucurus, and allied genera. The tail is deeply forking.

(n.) A salmon in its fourth year's growth.

(v. t.) To leave off wholly.

(adv.) In a formal manner; essentially; characteristically; expressly; regularly; ceremoniously; precisely.

(n.) A writ of right for a tenant in tail in case of a discontinuance of the estate tail. This writ has been abolished.

(n.) One of the half ribs against the walls in a ceiling vaulted with ribs.

(adv.) In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.

(a.) Pertaining to the ants.

(n.) One of the family Formicidae, or ants.

(a.) Shapeless; without a determinate form; wanting regularity of shape.

(pl. ) of Formula

(pl. ) of Formula

(p. p.) Predestined.

(a.) Relating to a fornix.

(pl. ) of Fornix

(p. p.) of Forsake

(n.) One who forsakes or deserts.

(v. t.) To render misshapen.

(v. t.) To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth.

(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.

(v. t.) To address respectfully with the term forsooth.

(n.) A person who used forsooth much; a very ceremonious and deferential person.

(v. t.) To forbid; to prohibit.

(v. t.) To bewitch.

(a.) Wasted in strength; tired; exhausted.

(v. t.) To forestall.

(imp.) of Forswear

(p. p.) of Forswear

(v. i.) To reject or renounce upon oath; hence, to renounce earnestly, determinedly, or with protestations.

(v. i.) To deny upon oath.

(v. i.) To swear falsely; to commit perjury.

() imp. of Forswear.

() p. p. of Forswear.

(v. t.) To repent; to regret; to be sorry for; to cause regret.

(a.) Following the thirty-ninth, or preceded by thirty-nine units, things, or parts.

(a.) Constituting one of forty equal parts into which anything is divided.

(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.

(v. t.) To tread down; to trample upon.

(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.

(v. t.) To furnish with a fortress or with fortresses; to guard; to fortify.

(n.) Accident; chance; casualty.

(p. p. & a.) Tired out with excessive waking or watching.

(adv.) Toward a part or place before or in front; onward; in advance; progressively; -- opposed to backward.

(adv.) Same as Forward.

(v. t.) To desolate or lay waste utterly.

(adv.) See Sforzato.

(n.) A little hollow; hence, a dimple.

(n.) A small, deep-centered ulcer of the transparent cornea.

(imp. & p. p.) of Foster

(n.) A woman who feeds and cherishes; a nurse.

(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.

() p. p. of Fight.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Found

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Found

(n.) Same as Foundry.

(n.) The art of smelting and casting metals.

(n.) A spring of water issuing from the earth.

(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.

(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.

(n.) The source from which anything proceeds, or from which anything is supplied continuously; origin; source.

(a.) Full of fountains.

(a. & adv.) Four times; quadruple; as, a fourfold division.

(n.) Four times as many or as much.

(v. t.) To make four times as much or as many, as an assessment,; to quadruple.

(n.) One of four children born at the same time.

(n.) A compound or twin crystal consisting of four individuals.

(n.) The chamber of a mine in which the powder is placed.

(n.) A harbinger.

(a.) Four and ten more; twice seven.

(n.) The sum of ten and four; forteen units or objects.

(n.) A symbol representing fourteen, as 14 or xiv.

(adv.) In the fourth place.

(a.) Allowing passage in either of four directions; as, a four-way cock, or valve.

(pl. ) of Foveola

(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.

(n.) One of a special breed of hounds used for chasing foxes.

(n.) The state or quality of being foxy, or foxlike; craftiness; shrewdness.

(n.) The state of being foxed or discolored, as books; decay; deterioration.

(n.) A coarse and sour taste in grapes.

(n.) The state of being fozy; spiritlessness; dullness.

(n.) The act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach.

(n.) The breaking of a bone.

(n.) The texture of a freshly broken surface; as, a compact fracture; an even, hackly, or conchoidal 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.

(pl. ) of Fraenulum

(pl. ) of Frenum

(v. t.) A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part; as, a fragment of an ancient writing.

(a.) Affecting the olfactory nerves agreeably; sweet of smell; odorous; having or emitting an agreeable perfume.

(a.) Capable of being framed.

(a.) Causing fracture; breaking.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Frank

(n.) A method of forming a joint at the intersection of window-sash bars, by cutting away only enough wood to show a miter.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Frap

(a.) Full of fraud, deceit, or treachery; trickish; treacherous; fraudulent; -- applied to persons or things.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Freak

(a.) Freakish.

(a.) Apt to change the mind suddenly; whimsical; capricious.

(imp. & p. p.) of Freckle

(a.) Marked with freckles; spotted.

(n.) An inflated ball to be kicked in sport, usually made in India rubber, or a bladder incased in Leather.

(n.) The game of kicking the football by opposing parties of players between goals.

(n.) A band of foot soldiers.

(n.) A bath for the feet; also, a vessel used in bathing the feet.

(n.) A setting down of the foot; a footstep; the sound of a footstep.

(n.) A disease affecting the feet of sheep.

(n.) A low hill at the foot of higher hills or mountains.

(n.) A holding with the feet; firm standing; that on which one may tread or rest securely; footing.

(a.) Having no feet.

(n.) A note of reference or comment at the foot of a page.

(n.) A walking pace or step.

(n.) A dais, or elevated platform; the highest step of the altar; a landing in a staircase.

(n.) A narrow path or way for pedestrains only; a footway.

(n.) The rope rigged below a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling; -- formerly called a horse.

(n.) That part of the boltrope to which the lower edge of a sail is sewed.

(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.

(n.) An inclined plane under a hand printing press.

(a.) Worn by, or weared in, the feet; as, a footworn path; a footworn traveler.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Forage

(n.) A tubelike marking, occuring in sandstone and other strata.

(pl. ) of Foramen

(v. t.) To bathe.

(p. p.) of Forbear

(a.) Very black.

() p. p. of Forbear.

(v. t.) To cut completely; to cut off.

(a.) Full of or processing force; exerting force; mighty.

(a.) Possessing force; characterized by force, efficiency, or energy; powerful; efficacious; impressive; influential.

(a.) Violent; impetuous.

(a.) Using force against opposition or resistance; obtained by compulsion; effected by force; as, forcible entry or abduction.

(adv.) In a forcible manner.

(a.) Forked or branched like a pair of forceps; constructed so as to open and shut like a pair of forceps.

(a.) Capable of being forded.

(a.) Without a ford.

(v. t.) To drive about; to drive here and there.

(v. i.) To dwindle away; to disappear.

(n.) An ancestor. See Forbear.

(v. t.) To foretell.

(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.

(v. i.) To fortell; to presage; to augur.

(n.) Prognostication; presage.

(v. t.) To plan beforehand; to scheme; to project.

(v. t.) To foresee; to calculate beforehand, so as to provide for.

(v. i.) To contrive or plan beforehand.

(n.) Previous contrivance or determination; predetermination.

(n.) Foresight of consequences, and provision against them; prevision; premeditation.

(n.) The part most advanced, or first in time or in place; the beginning.

(v. t.) To tell beforehand; to signify by tokens; to predestine.

(n.) The sail bent to the foreyard of a square-rigged vessel, being the lowest sail on the foremast.

(n.) The gaff sail set on the foremast of a schooner.

(n.) The fore staysail of a sloop, being the triangular sail next forward of the mast.

(v. t.) To date before the true time; to antendate.

(v. t.) To recognize or judge in advance; to forebode.

(v. i.) To know or discover beforehand; to foretell.

(v. t.) To doom beforehand; to predestinate.

(n.) Doom or sentence decreed in advance.

(v. t.) To feel beforehand; to have a presentiment of.

(v. t.) To hinder; to fend off; to avert; to prevent the approach of; to forbid or prohibit. See Forfend.

(n.) A premium paid by / lessee when taking his lease.

(p. p.) of Forego

(n.) One who goes before another; a predecessor; hence, an ancestor' a progenitor.

(n.) A purveyor of the king; -- so called, formerly, from going before to provide for his household.

(n.) One who forbears to enjoy.

(n.) All that part of a horse which is before the rider.

(n.) The chief or most important part.

(n.) Superiority; advantage; start; precedence.

(a.) Done beforehand; anticipative.

(n.) The front of that part of the head which incloses the brain; that part of the face above the eyes; the brow.

(n.) The aspect or countenance; assurance.

(n.) A large, strong rope, reaching from the foremast head to the bowsprit, to support the mast. See Illust. under Ship.

(n.) See Angler, n., 2.

(n.) An oceanic fish of the genus Antennarius or Pterophrynoides; -- called also mousefish and toadfish.

(n.) The front or fore part of anything.

(v. i. & t.) To hear beforehand.

(n.) The forward part of the hold of a ship.

(n.) A piece of timber placed across the stem, to unite the bows and strengthen the fore part of the ship; a breast hook.

(imp.) of Foreknow

(v. t.) To have previous knowledge of; to know beforehand.

(n.) The lock of hair that grows from the forepart of the head.

(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.

(v. i.) To look beforehand or forward.

(n.) The mast nearest the bow.

(n.) The milk secreted just before, or directly after, the birth of a child or of the young of an animal; colostrum.

(a.) First in time or place; most advanced; chief in rank or dignity; as, the foremost troops of an army.

(n.) A name that precedes the family name or surname; a first name.

(v. t.) To name or mention before.

(n.) The early part of the day, from morning to meridian, or noon.

(a.) Forensic.

(n.) Savage wildness or fierceness; fury; cruelty; as, ferocity of countenance.

(a.) Partaking of, made of, or pertaining to, iron; like iron.

(imp. & p. p.) of Ferret

(n.) One who ferrets.

(n.) Copper sulphide, used to color glass.

(n.) The price or fare to be paid for passage at a ferry.

() See Ferro-.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ferry

(pl. ) of Ferryman

(n.) One who maintains or attends a ferry.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ferule

(n.) Heat; fervency.

(n.) The state of being fervent or warm; ardor; warmth of feeling or devotion; eagerness.

(adv.) In the manner of fess.

(adv.) Joyously; festively; mirthfully.

(imp. & p. p.) of Fester

(a.) Pertaining to a fest; festive; festal; appropriate to a festival; joyous; mirthful.

(a.) Pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling, festoons.

(n.) The formation of a fetus in the womb; pregnancy.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fetch

(n.) The act of killing the fetus in the womb; the offense of procuring an abortion.

(n.) Fetidness.

(a.) Seeming as if fettered, as the feet of certain animals which bend backward, and appear unfit for walking.

(n.) One who fetters.

(n.) A mixture of ore, cinders, etc., used to line the hearth of a puddling furnace.

(n.) The operation of shaving or smoothing the surface of undried clay ware.

(adv.) In a feudal manner.

(n.) A dog keeper.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fever

(n.) A perennial plant (Pyrethrum, / Chrysanthemum, Parthenium) allied to camomile, having finely divided leaves and white blossoms; -- so named from its supposed febrifugal qualities.

(a.) Having a fever; suffering from, or affected with, a moderate degree of fever; showing increased heat and thirst; as, the patient is feverish.

(a.) Indicating, or pertaining to, fever; characteristic of a fever; as, feverish symptoms.

(a.) Hot; sultry.

(a.) Disordered as by fever; excited; restless; as, the feverish condition of the commercial world.

(a.) Affected with fever or ague; feverish.

(a.) Pertaining to, or having the nature of, fever; as, a feverous pulse.

(a.) Having the tendency to produce fever; as, a feverous disposition of the year.

(pl. ) of Fiasco

(n.) A minute thread of fiber, as one of the fibrous elements of a muscular fiber; a fibril.

(n.) The bone or cartilage of the tarsus, which articulates with the fibula, and corresponds to the calcaneum in man and most mammals.

(a.) Fictitious.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fiddle

(imp. & p. p.) of Fidget

(a.) Having faith or trust; confident; undoubting; firm.

(a.) Having the nature of a trust; fiduciary; as, fiducial power.

(a.) Full of fiendish spirit or arts.

(a.) Like a fiend; diabolically wicked or cruel; infernal; malignant; devilish; hellish.

(a.) Next in order after the forty-ninth; -- the ordinal of fifty.

(a.) Consisting of one of fifty equal parts or divisions.

(n.) One of fifty equal parts; the quotient of a unit divided by fifty.

(n.) A large beetle (Allorhina nitida) which in the Southern United States destroys figs. The elytra are velvety green with pale borders.

(n.) A bird. See Figpecker.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fight

(a.) Qualified for war; fit for battle.

(a.) Occupied in war; being the scene of a battle; as, a fighting field.

(a.) Alt. of Figulated

(n.) A piece of pottery ornamented with representations of natural objects.

(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.

(a.) Of a definite form or figure.

(a.) Figurative; metaphorical.

(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.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Figure

(a.) Represented by figure or delineation.

(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.

(n.) One who uses or interprets figurative expressions.

(n.) A thread or threadlike object or appendage; a fiber; esp. (Bot.), the threadlike part of the stamen supporting the anther.

(n.) A species of kangaroo (Macropus Brunii), inhabiting New Guinea.

(n.) A machine for forming threads.

(n.) A drawing out into threads; hence, the reeling of silk from cocoons.

(n.) A reel for drawing off silk from cocoons; also, an establishment for reeling silk.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Filch

(adv.) In a filial manner.

(n.) The act of murdering a son or a daughter; also, parent who commits such a murder.

(a.) Fernlike, either in form or in the nature of the method of reproduction.

(n.) A fernlike plant.

(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.

(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.

(a.) Relating to, composed of, or resembling, work in filigree; as, a filigree basket. Hence: Fanciful; unsubstantial; merely decorative.

(imp. & p. p.) of Fillet

(imp. & p. p.) of Fillip

(imp. & p. p.) of Filter

(adv.) In a filthy manner; foully.

(v. t.) To filter; to defecate; as liquid, by straining or percolation.

(n.) That which has been filtered; the liquid which has passed through the filter in the process of filtration.

(pl. ) of Fimbria

(n.) The state of being final, finished, or complete; a final or conclusive arrangement; a settlement.

(n.) The relation of end or purpose to its means.

(a.) Capable of beong found; discoverable.

(a.) Endless; boundless.

(a.) The quality or condition of being fine.

(a.) Freedom from foreign matter or alloy; clearness; purity; as, the fineness of liquor.

(a.) The proportion of pure silver or gold in jewelry, bullion, or coins.

(a.) Keenness or sharpness; as, the fineness of a needle's point, or of the edge of a blade.

(imp. & p. p.) of Finesse

(imp. & p. p.) of Finger

(a.) Having fingers.

(a.) Having leaflets like fingers; digitate.

(a.) Marked with figures designating which finger should be used for each note.

(n.) One who fingers; a pilferer.

(n.) A prickly, climbing shrub of the genus Pisonia. The fruit is a kind of berry.

(imp. & p. p.) of Finish

(a.) Polished to the highest degree of excellence; complete; perfect; as, a finished poem; a finished education.

(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.

(n.) Something that gives the finishing touch to, or settles, anything.

(adv.) In a finite manner or degree.

(n.) Limitation.

(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.

(a.) Having toes connected by a membrane; palmiped; palmated; also, lobate.

(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.

(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.

(n.) A luminous meteor, resembling a ball of fire passing rapidly through the air, and sometimes exploding.

(n.) An allowance of fuel. See Bote.

(a.) Destitute of fire.

(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.

(a.) Fresh from the forge; bright; quite new; brand-new.

(n.) A place near the fire or hearth; home; domestic life or retirement.

(n.) The European redstart; -- called also fireflirt.

(n.) An American plant (Erechthites hiercifolia), very troublesome in spots where brushwood has been burned.

(n.) The great willow-herb (Epilobium spicatum).

(n.) Wood for fuel.

(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.

(a.) Detached from substance.

(a.) Infirm; unstable.

(n.) The state or quality of being firm.

(n.) A hook for catching fish.

(n.) A hook with a pendant, to the end of which the fish-tackle is hooked.

(a.) Like fish; suggestive of fish; having some of the qualities of fish.

(n.) The skin of a fish (dog fish, shark, etc.)

(n.) See Ichthyosis.

(n.) A fishwoman.

(a.) Alt. of Fissipedal

(n.) One of the Fissipedia.

(a.) Pertaining to a fissure or fissures; as, the fissural pattern of a brain.

(n.) A pistachio nut.

(pl. ) of Fistula

(a.) Hollow and cylindrical, like a pipe or reed.

(a.) Suitable; fit.

(a. & adv.) In fives; consisting of five in one; five repeated; quintuple.

(n.) A compound or twin crystal consisting of five individuals.

(n.) The act of fixing, or the state of being fixed.

(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.

(n.) The act or process of ceasing to be fluid and becoming firm.

(n.) A state of resistance to evaporation or volatilization by heat; -- said of metals.

(n.) That which serves to set or fix colors or drawings, as a mordant.

(n.) Fixedness.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fizzle

(adv.) In a flabby manner.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flag

(pl. ) of Flagellum

(n.) A pavement or sidewalk of flagstones; flagstones, collectively.

(a.) Growing languid, weak, or spiritless; weakening; delaying.

(a.) Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent.

(a.) Actually in preparation, execution, or performance; carried on hotly; raging.

(a.) Flaming into notice; notorious; enormous; heinous; glaringly wicked.

(v. t.) To burn.

(n.) The vessel which carries the commanding officer of a fleet or squadron and flies his distinctive flag or pennant.

(n.) A worm or grub found among flags and sedge.

(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.

(v. t.) To sew up, so nicely that the seam is not perceived; to renter.

(a.) Spun so as to be fine; drawn to a fine thread; attenuated; hence, unsubstantial; visionary; as, finespun theories.

(n.) The Baltimore oriole.

(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.

(n.) A pyrotechnic exhibition.

(n.) The seed of the flax; linseed.

(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.

(n.) A pot or vessel in which flesh is cooked

(n.) plenty; high living.

(a.) Tainted or contaminated with flyblows; damaged; foul.

(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.

(n.) See Futtock.

(n.) A footprint; a track or vestige.

(n.) The fore part of a deck, or of a ship.

(n.) One of the anterior feet of a quardruped or multiped; -- usually written fore foot.

(n.) A piece of timber which terminates the keel at the fore end, connecting it with the lower end of the stem.

(n.) A first game; first plan.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flam

(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.

(n.) A small flame.

(pl. ) of Flamen

(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.

(a.) Having flanches; -- said of an escutcheon with those bearings.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flange

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flank

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flap

(n.) A fklat cake turned on the griddle while cooking; a griddlecake or pacake.

(n.) A fried dough cake containing fruit; a turnover.

(n.) A sudden burst of anger or passion; an angry dispute.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flash

(adv.) In a flashy manner; with empty show.

(n.) The creation of an artifical flood by the sudden letting in of a body of water; -- called also flushing.

(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.

(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.

(n.) A mode of covering transparent white glass with a film of colored glass.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flat

(n.) A boat with a flat bottom and square ends; -- used for the transportation of bulky freight, especially in shallow waters.

(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.

(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.

(n.) An iron with a flat, smooth surface for ironing clothes.

(adv.) With the flat side downward; not edgewise.

(n.) The quality or state of being flat.

(n.) Eveness of surface; want of relief or prominence; the state of being plane or level.

(n.) Want of vivacity or spirit; prostration; dejection; depression.

(n.) Want of variety or flavor; dullness; insipidity.

(n.) Depression of tone; the state of being below the true pitch; -- opposed to sharpness or acuteness.

(v. t.) The act or practice of flattering; the act of pleasing by artiful commendation or compliments; adulation; false, insincere, or excessive praise.

(n.) The process or operation of making flat, as a cylinder of glass by opening it out.

(n.) A mode of painting,in which the paint, being mixed with turpentine, leaves the work without gloss.

(n.) A method of preserving gilding unburnished, by touching with size.

(n.) The process of forming metal into sheets by passing it between rolls.

(a.) Somewhat flat.

(a.) Windy; generating wind.

(pl. ) of Flatus

(n.) Articles for the table, as china or silverware, that are more or less flat, as distinguished from hollow ware.

(a. / adv.) With the flat side downward, or next to another object; not edgewise.

(n.) Any worm belonging to the Plathelminthes; also, sometimes applied to the planarians.

(imp. & p. p.) of Flaunt

(n.) A player on the flute; a flutist.

(imp. & p. p.) of Flavor

(a.) Having a distinct flavor; as, high-flavored wine.

(a.) Free from flaws.

(n.) See Toadflax.

(n.) An herb used in medicine (Plantago Psyllium), named from the shape of its seeds.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fleck

(n.) The act of bending, or state of being bent.

(n.) The variation of words by declension, comparison, or conjugation; inflection.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fledge

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fleece

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fleer

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fleet

(a.) Passing swiftly away; not durable; transient; transitory; as, the fleeting hours or moments.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flesh

(n.) A person devoted to fleshly things.

(imp. & p. p.) of Fletch

(a.) Capable of being flexed or bent; admitting of being turned, bowed, or twisted, without breaking; pliable; yielding to pressure; not stiff or brittle.

(a.) Willing or ready to yield to the influence of others; not invincibly rigid or obstinate; tractable; manageable; ductile; easy and compliant; wavering.

(a.) Capable or being adapted or molded; plastic,; as, a flexible language.

(a.) Flexuous.

(a.) Having turns, windings, or flexures.

(a.) Having alternate curvatures in opposite directions; bent in a zigzag manner.

(a.) Wavering; not steady; flickering.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or resulting from, flexure; of the nature of, or characterized by, flexure; as, flexural elasticity.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flick

(a.) Taking flight; flying; -- used in composition.

(a.) Feathered; -- said of arrows.

(n.) A horizontal vane revolving over the surface of wort in a cooler, to produce a circular current in the liquor.

(n.) A freak; a trick; a lie.

(adv.) In a flimsy manner.

(imp. & p. p.) of Flinch

(n.) One who flinches or fails.

(n. pl.) Small pieces or splinters; fragments.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fling

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flip

(a.) Of smooth, fluent, and rapid speech; speaking with ease and rapidity; having a voluble tongue; talkative.

(a.) Speaking fluently and confidently, without knowledge or consideration; empty; trifling; inconsiderate; pert; petulant.

(n.) A flippant person.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flirt

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flit

(pl. ) of Flitch

(a.) A term applied to the bark obtained from young oak trees.

(n.) A flying with lightness and celerity; a fluttering.

(n.) A removal from one habitation to another.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Float

(n.) Same as Flotage.

(a.) Buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a wreck; floating motes in the air.

(a.) Free or lose from the usual attachment; as, the floating ribs in man and some other animals.

(a.) Not funded; not fixed, invested, or determined; as, floating capital; a floating debt.

(n.) Floating threads. See Floating threads, above.

(n.) The second coat of three-coat plastering.

(n.) Spotted with small tufts like wool.

(n.) Having tufts of soft hairs, which are often deciduous.

(pl. ) of Flocculus

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flock

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flog

(a. & n.) from Flog, v. t.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flood

(n.) Inundation.

(n.) The filling or covering with water or other fluid; overflow; inundation; the filling anything to excess.

(n.) An abnormal or excessive discharge of blood from the uterus.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Floor

(n.) Floor space.

(n.) A platform; the bottom of a room; a floor; pavement. See Floor, n.

(n.) Material for the construction of a floor or floors.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flop

(n.) The lapwing.

(adv.) In a floral manner.

(n.) Bloom; blossom.

(adv.) In a florid manner.

(n.) An Indian bustard (Otis aurita). The Bengal floriken is Sypheotides Bengalensis.

(n.) A floret.

(n.) A little fleet, or a fleet of small vessels.

(imp. & p. p.) of Flounce

(n.) A flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae, of many species.

(n.) A tool used in crimping boot fronts.

(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.

(n.) The act of floundering.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flour

(v. i.) To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive.

(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.

(v. i.) To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery.

(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.

(v. i.) To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.

(v. i.) To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.

(v. i.) To boast; to vaunt; to brag.

(v. t.) To adorn with flowers orbeautiful figures, either natural or artificial; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.

(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.

(v. t.) To move in bold or irregular figures; to swing about in circles or vibrations by way of show or triumph; to brandish.