| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| fabella | noun | One of the small sesamoid bones situated behind the condyles of the femur, in some mammals. |
| fabling | present participle & vb. noun | of Fable |
| fabliau | noun | One of the metrical tales of the Trouveres, or early poets of the north of France. |
| fabrile | adjective | Pertaining to a workman, or to work in stone, metal, wood etc.; as, fabrile skill. |
| faceted | imp. & past participle | of Facet, Having facets. |
| facette | noun | See Facet, n. |
| faciend | noun | The multiplicand. See Facient, 2. |
| facient | noun | One who does anything, good or bad; a doer; an agent., One of the variables of a quantic as distinguished from a coefficient., The multiplier. |
| facound | noun | Speech; eloquence. |
| faction | noun | One of the divisions or parties of charioteers (distinguished by their colors) in the games of the circus., 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., Tumult; discord; dissension. |
| factive | adjective | Making; having power to make. |
| factory | noun | A house or place where factors, or commercial agents, reside, to transact business for their employers., The body of factors in any place; as, a chaplain to a British factory., 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. |
| factual | adjective | Relating to, or containing, facts. |
| facture | noun | The act or manner of making or doing anything; — now used of a literary, musical, or pictorial production., An invoice or bill of parcels. |
| faculae | noun pl. | Groups of small shining spots on the surface of the sun which are brighter than the other parts of the photosphere. They are generally seen in the neighborhood of the dark spots, and are supposed to be elevated portions of the photosphere. |
| facular | adjective | Of or pertaining to the faculae. |
| faculty | noun | Ability to act or perform, whether inborn or cultivated; capacity for any natural function; especially, an original mental power or capacity for any of the well-known classes of mental activity; psychical or soul capacity; capacity for any of the leading kinds of soul activity, as knowledge, feeling, volition; intellectual endowment or gift; power; as, faculties of the mind or the soul., Special mental endowment; characteristic knack., Power; prerogative or attribute of office., Privilege or permission, granted by favor or indulgence, to do a particular thing; authority; license; dispensation., 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., 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. |
| fadedly | adverb | In a faded manner. |
| faecula | noun | See Fecula. |
| fagging | present participle & vb. noun | of Fag, Laborious drudgery; esp., the acting as a drudge for another at an English school. |
| fagoted | imp. & past participle | of Fagot |
| fagotto | noun | The bassoon; — so called from being divided into parts for ease of carriage, making, as it were, a small fagot. |
| fahlerz | noun | Alt. of Fahlband |
| faience | noun | Glazed earthenware; esp., that which is decorated in color. |
| failing | present participle & vb. noun | of Fail, A failing short; a becoming deficient; failure; deficiency; imperfection; weakness; lapse; fault; infirmity; as, a mental failing., The act of becoming insolvent of bankrupt. |
| failure | noun | Cessation of supply, or total defect; a failing; deficiency; as, failure of rain; failure of crops., Omission; nonperformance; as, the failure to keep a promise., Want of success; the state of having failed., Decay, or defect from decay; deterioration; as, the failure of memory or of sight., A becoming insolvent; bankruptcy; suspension of payment; as, failure in business., A failing; a slight fault. |
| fainted | imp. & past participle | of Faint |
| faintly | adverb | In a faint, weak, or timidmanner. |
| fairily | adverb | In the manner of a fairy. |
| fairing | noun | A present; originally, one given or purchased at a fair. |
| fairish | adjective | Tolerably fair. |
| fairway | noun | The navigable part of a river, bay, etc., through which vessels enter or depart; the part of a harbor or channel ehich is kept open and unobstructed for the passage of vessels. |
| fairies | plural | of Fairy |
| faithed | adjective | Having faith or a faith; honest; sincere. |
| faitour | noun | A doer or actor; particularly, an evil doer; a scoundrel. |
| falcade | noun | The action of a horse, when he throws himself on his haunches two or three times, bending himself, as it were, in very quick curvets. |
| falcate | adjective | Alt. of Falcated |
| falcula | noun | A curved and sharp-pointed claw. |
| faldage | noun | A privilege of setting up, and moving about, folds for sheep, in any fields within manors, in order to manure them; — often reserved to himself by the lord of the manor. |
| faldfee | noun | A fee or rent paid by a tenant for the privilege of faldage on his own ground. |
| falding | noun | A frieze or rough-napped cloth. |
| falling | present participle & vb. noun | of Fall, from Fall, v. i. |
| fallacy | noun | Deceptive or false appearance; deceitfulness; that which misleads the eye or the mind; deception., An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it is not; a sophism. |
| fallals | nounpl. | Gay ornaments; frippery; gewgaws. |
| falsary | adjective | A falsifier of evidence. |
| falsely | adverb | In a false manner; erroneously; not truly; perfidiously or treacherously. |
| falsify | adjective | To make false; to represent falsely., To counterfeit; to forge; as, to falsify coin., To prove to be false, or untrustworthy; to confute; to disprove; to nullify; to make to appear false., To violate; to break by falsehood; as, to falsify one’s faith or word., To baffle or escape; as, to falsify a blow., To avoid or defeat; to prove false, as a judgment., To show, in accounting, (an inem of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong., To make false by multilation or addition; to tamper with; as, to falsify a record or document., To tell lies; to violate the truth. |
| falsism | noun | That which is evidently false; an assertion or statement the falsity of which is plainly apparent; — opposed to truism. |
| falsity | adjective | The quality of being false; coutrariety or want of conformity to truth., That which is false; falsehood; a lie; a false assertion. |
| famular | noun | Domestic; familiar. |
| fanning | present participle & vb. noun | of Fan |
| fanatic | adjective | Pertaining to, or indicating, fanaticism; extravagant in opinions; ultra; unreasonable; excessively enthusiastic, especially on religious subjects; as, fanatic zeal; fanatic notions., A person affected by excessive enthusiasm, particularly on religious subjects; one who indulges wild and extravagant notions of religion. |
| fancied | verb t. | Formed or conceived by the fancy; unreal; as, a fancied wrong., of Fancy |
| fancier | noun | One who is governed by fancy., 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. |
| fancies | plural | of Fancy |
| fanfare | noun | A flourish of trumpets, as in coming into the lists, etc.; also, a short and lively air performed on hunting horns during the chase. |
| fanfoot | noun | A species of gecko having the toes expanded into large lobes for adhesion. The Egyptian fanfoot (Phyodactylus gecko) is believed, by the natives, to have venomous toes., Any moth of the genus Polypogon. |
| fangled | adjective | New made; hence, gaudy; showy; vainly decorated. [Obs., except with the prefix new.] See Newfangled. |
| fanlike | adjective | Resembling a fan;, folded up like a fan, as certain leaves; plicate. |
| fantail | noun | A variety of the domestic pigeon, so called from the shape of the tail., 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. |
| fantasm | noun | Same as Phantasm. |
| fantast | noun | One whose manners or ideas are fantastic. |
| fantasy | noun | Fancy; imagination; especially, a whimsical or fanciful conception; a vagary of the imagination; whim; caprice; humor., Fantastic designs., To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like; to fancy. |
| faradic | adjective | Of or pertaining to Michael Faraday, the distinguished electrician; — applied especially to induced currents of electricity, as produced by certain forms of inductive apparatus, on account of Faraday’s investigations of their laws. |
| farcing | present participle & vb. noun | of Farce, Stuffing; forcemeat. |
| fardage | noun | See Dunnage. |
| farming | present participle & vb. noun | of Farm, Pertaining to agriculture; devoted to, adapted to, or engaged in, farming; as, farming tools; farming land; a farming community., The business of cultivating land. |
| farmery | noun | The buildings and yards necessary for the business of a farm; a homestead. |
| farmost | adjective | Most distant; farthest. |
| farness | adjective | The state of being far off; distance; remoteness. |
| faroese | noun sing. & pl. | An inhabitant, or, collectively, inhabitants, of the Faroe islands. |
| far-off | adjective | Remote; as, the far-off distance. Cf. Far-off, under Far, adv. |
| farrago | noun | A mass composed of various materials confusedly mixed; a medley; a mixture. |
| farrand | noun | Manner; custom; fashion; humor. |
| farrier | noun | A shoer of horses; a veterinary surgeon., To practice as a farrier; to carry on the trade of a farrier. |
| farther | superl. | More remote; more distant than something else., Tending to a greater distance; beyond a certain point; additional; further., At or to a greater distance; more remotely; beyond; as, let us rest with what we have, without looking farther., Moreover; by way of progress in treating a subject; as, farther, let us consider the probable event., To help onward. [R.] See Further. |
| fasciae | plural | of Fascia |
| fascial | adjective | Pertaining to the fasces., Relating to a fascia. |
| fascine | noun | A cylindrical bundle of small sticks of wood, bound together, used in raising batteries, filling ditches, strengthening ramparts, and making parapets; also in revetments for river banks, and in mats for dams, jetties, etc. |
| fashing | present participle & vb. noun | of Fash |
| fashion | noun | The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; as, the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.; workmanship; execution., 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., Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding; as, men of fashion., Mode of action; method of conduct; manner; custom; sort; way., To form; to give shape or figure to; to mold., To fit; to adapt; to accommodate; — with to., To make according to the rule prescribed by custom., To forge or counterfeit. |
| fasting | present participle & vb. noun | of Fast |
| fastish | adjective | Rather fast; also, somewhat dissipated. |
| fatally | adverb | In a manner proceeding from, or determined by, fate., In a manner issuing in death or ruin; mortally; destructively; as, fatally deceived or wounded. |
| fatback | noun | The menhaden. |
| fateful | adjective . | Having the power of serving or accomplishing fate., Significant of fate; ominous. |
| fathead | noun | A cyprinoid fish of the Mississippi valley (Pimephales promelas); — called also black-headed minnow., A labroid food fish of California; the redfish. |
| fatigue | noun | Weariness from bodily labor or mental exertion; lassitude or exhaustion of strength., The cause of weariness; labor; toil; as, the fatigues of war., The weakening of a metal when subjected to repeated vibrations or strains., To weary with labor or any bodily or mental exertion; to harass with toil; to exhaust the strength or endurance of; to tire. |
| fatling | noun | A calf, lamb, kid, or other young animal fattened for slaughter; a fat animal; — said of such animals as are used for food. |
| fatness | noun | The quality or state of being fat, plump, or full-fed; corpulency; fullness of flesh., Hence; Richness; fertility; fruitfulness., That which makes fat or fertile. |
| fattish | adjective | Somewhat fat; inclined to fatness. |
| fatuity | noun | Weakness or imbecility of mind; stupidity. |
| fatuous | adjective | Feeble in mind; weak; silly; stupid; foolish; fatuitous., Without reality; illusory, like the ignis fatuus. |
| faucial | adjective | Pertaining to the fauces; pharyngeal. |
| faulcon | noun | See Falcon. |
| faulted | imp. & past participle | of Fault |
| faulter | noun | One who commits a fault. |
| faunist | noun | One who describes the fauna of country; a naturalist. |
| favella | noun | A group of spores arranged without order and covered with a thin gelatinous envelope, as in certain delicate red algae. |
| favored | imp. & past participle | of Favor, Countenanced; aided; regarded with kidness; as, a favored friend., Having a certain favor or appearance; featured; as, well-favored; hard-favored, etc. |
| favorer | noun | One who favors; one who regards with kindness or friendship; a well-wisher; one who assists or promotes success or prosperity. |
| fawkner | noun | A falconer. |
| fawning | present participle & vb. noun | of Fawn |
| fayence | noun | See Fa/ence. |
| faytour | noun | See Faitour. |
| fearing | present participle & vb. noun | of Fear |
| fearful | adjective | Full of fear, apprehension, or alarm; afraid; frightened., inclined to fear; easily frightened; without courage; timid., Indicating, or caused by, fear., Inspiring fear or awe; exciting apprehension or terror; terrible; frightful; dreadful. |
| feasted | imp. & past participle | of Feast |
| feaster | noun | One who fares deliciously., One who entertains magnificently. |
| feather | noun | One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down., Kind; nature; species; — from the proverbial phrase, “Birds of a feather,” that is, of the same species., The fringe of long hair on the legs of the setter and some other dogs., A tuft of peculiar, long, frizzly hair on a horse., One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow., 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., A thin wedge driven between the two semicylindrical parts of a divided plug in a hole bored in a stone, to rend the stone., The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water., To furnish with a feather or feathers, as an arrow or a cap., To adorn, as with feathers; to fringe., To render light as a feather; to give wings to., To enrich; to exalt; to benefit., To tread, as a cock., To grow or form feathers; to become feathered; — often with out; as, the birds are feathering out., To curdle when poured into another liquid, and float about in little flakes or “feathers;” as, the cream feathers, To turn to a horizontal plane; — said of oars., To have the appearance of a feather or of feathers; to be or to appear in feathery form. |
| feature | noun | The make, form, or outward appearance of a person; the whole turn or style of the body; esp., good appearance., 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., 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., A form; a shape. |
| feazing | present participle & vb. noun | of Feaze |
| febrile | adjective | Pertaining to fever; indicating fever, or derived from it; as, febrile symptoms; febrile action. |
| feculae | plural | of Fecula |
| federal | adjective | Pertaining to a league or treaty; derived from an agreement or covenant between parties, especially between nations; constituted by a compact between parties, usually governments or their representatives., 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., Consisting or pertaining to such a government; as, the Federal Constitution; a Federal officer., Friendly or devoted to such a government; as, the Federal party. see Federalist., See Federalist. |
| feeding | present participle & vb. noun | of Feed, the act of eating, or of supplying with food; the process of fattening., That which is eaten; food., That which furnishes or affords food, especially for animals; pasture land. |
| feeling | present participle & vb. noun | of Feel, Possessing great sensibility; easily affected or moved; as, a feeling heart., Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility; as, he made a feeling representation of his wrongs., 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., 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., 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., 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., That quality of a work of art which embodies the mental emotion of the artist, and is calculated to affect similarly the spectator. |
| fehling | noun | See Fehling’s solution, under Solution. |
| feigned | imp. & past participle | of Feign, Not real or genuine; pretended; counterfeit; insincere; false. |
| feigner | noun | One who feigns or pretends. |
| feitsui | noun | The Chinese name for a highly prized variety of pale green jade. See Jade. |
| felling | present participle & vb. noun | of Fell |
| fellahs | plural | of Fellah |
| fellies | plural | of Felly |
| felonry | noun | A body of felons; specifically, the convict population of a penal colony. |
| felsite | noun | A finegrained rock, flintlike in fracture, consisting essentially of orthoclase feldspar with occasional grains of quartz. |
| felspar | noun | Alt. of Felspath |
| felting | present participle & vb. noun | of Felt, The material of which felt is made; also, felted cloth; also, the process by which it is made., The act of splitting timber by the felt grain. |
| felucca | noun | A small, swift-sailing vessel, propelled by oars and lateen sails, — once common in the Mediterranean. |
| felwort | noun | A European herb (Swertia perennis) of the Gentian family. |
| femeral | noun | See Femerell. |
| feminal | adjective | Feminine. |
| feminye | noun | The people called Amazons. |
| femoral | adjective | Pertaining to the femur or thigh; as, the femoral artery. |
| fencing | imp. & past participle fenced (/); present participle & vb. noun | of Fence, The art or practice of attack and defense with the sword, esp. with the smallsword. See Fence, v. i., 2., Disputing or debating in a manner resembling the art of fencers., The materials used for building fences., The act of building a fence., The aggregate of the fences put up for inclosure or protection; as, the fencing of a farm. |
| fending | present participle & vb. noun | of Fend |
| fengite | noun | A kind of marble or alabaster, sometimes used for windows on account of its transparency. |
| fennish | adjective | Abounding in fens; fenny. |
| fenowed | adjective | Corrupted; decayed; moldy. See Vinnewed. |
| feodary | noun | An accomplice., An ancient officer of the court of wards. |
| feoffed | imp. & past participle | of Feoff |
| feoffee | noun | The person to whom a feoffment is made; the person enfeoffed. |
| feoffer | noun | One who enfeoffs or grants a fee. |
| ferding | noun | A measure of land mentioned in Domesday Book. It is supposed to have consisted of a few acres only. |
| fermacy | noun | Medicine; pharmacy. |
| ferment | noun | That which causes fermentation, as yeast, barm, or fermenting beer., Intestine motion; heat; tumult; agitation., A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation., To cause ferment of fermentation in; to set in motion; to excite internal emotion in; to heat., 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., To be agitated or excited by violent emotions. |
| fernery | noun | A place for rearing ferns. |
| feroher | noun | A symbol of the solar deity, found on monuments exhumed in Babylon, Nineveh, etc. |
| ferrara | noun | A sword bearing the mark of one of the Ferrara family of Italy. These swords were highly esteemed in England and Scotland in the 16th and 17th centuries. |
| ferrary | noun | The art of working in iron. |
| ferrate | noun | A salt of ferric acid. |
| ferrest | adjective & adverb | superl. of Fer. |
| ferrier | noun | A ferryman. |
| ferrous | adjective | Pertaining to, or derived from, iron; — especially used of compounds of iron in which the iron has its lower valence; as, ferrous sulphate. |
| ferrugo | noun | A disease of plants caused by fungi, commonly called the rust, from its resemblance to iron rust in color. |
| ferrule | noun | A ring or cap of metal put round a cane, tool, handle, or other similar object, to strengthen it, or prevent splitting and wearing., A bushing for expanding the end of a flue to fasten it tightly in the tube plate, or for partly filling up its mouth. |
| ferried | imp. & past participle | of Ferry |
| ferries | plural | of Ferry |
| fertile | adjective | Producing fruit or vegetation in abundance; fruitful; able to produce abundantly; prolific; fecund; productive; rich; inventive; as, fertile land or fields; a fertile mind or imagination., Capable of producing fruit; fruit-bearing; as, fertile flowers., Containing pollen; — said of anthers., produced in abundance; plenteous; ample. |
| ferular | noun | A ferule. |
| feruled | imp. & past participle | of Ferule |
| ferulic | adjective | Pertaining to, or derived from, asafetida (Ferula asafoetida); as, ferulic acid. |
| fervent | adjective | Hot; glowing; boiling; burning; as, a fervent summer., Warm in feeling; ardent in temperament; earnest; full of fervor; zealous; glowing. |
| fescued | imp. & past participle | of Fescue |
| festeye | verb t. | To feast; to entertain. |
| festive | adjective | Pertaining to, or becoming, a feast; festal; joyous; gay; mirthful; sportive. |
| festoon | noun | A garland or wreath hanging in a depending curve, used in decoration for festivals, etc.; anything arranged in this way., 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., To form in festoons, or to adorn with festoons. |
| fetched | imp. & past participle | of Fetch |
| fethcer | noun | One wo fetches or brings. |
| fetlock | noun | The cushionlike projection, bearing a tuft of long hair, on the back side of the leg above the hoof of the horse and similar animals. Also, the joint of the limb at this point (between the great pastern bone and the metacarpus), or the tuft of hair. |
| fetters | plural | of Fetter |
| fetuous | adjective | Neat; feat. |
| fetuses | plural | of Fetus |
| feudary | adjective | Held by, or pertaining to, feudal tenure., A tenant who holds his lands by feudal service; a feudatory., A feodary. See Feodary. |
| feudist | noun | A writer on feuds; a person versed in feudal law. |
| fevered | imp. & past participle | of Fever |
| feveret | noun | A slight fever. |
| fewness | noun | The state of being few; smallness of number; paucity., Brevity; conciseness. |
| fiancee | noun | A betrothed woman. |
| fibbing | present participle & vb. noun | of Fib |
| fibered | adjective | Alt. of Fibred |
| fibrine | adjective | Belonging to the fibers of plants. |
| fibroid | adjective | Resembling or forming fibrous tissue; made up of fibers; as, fibroid tumors., A fibroid tumor; a fibroma. |
| fibroin | noun | A variety of gelatin; the chief ingredient of raw silk, extracted as a white amorphous mass. |
| fibroma | noun | A tumor consisting mainly of fibrous tissue, or of same modification of such tissue. |
| fibrous | adjective | Containing, or consisting of, fibers; as, the fibrous coat of the cocoanut; the fibrous roots of grasses. |
| fibster | noun | One who tells fibs. |
| fibulae | plural | of Fibula |
| fictile | adjective | Molded, or capable of being molded, into form by art; relating to pottery or to molding in any soft material. |
| fiction | noun | The act of feigning, inventing, or imagining; as, by a mere fiction of the mind., 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., Fictitious literature; comprehensively, all works of imagination; specifically, novels and romances., An assumption of a possible thing as a fact, irrespective of the question of its truth., Any like assumption made for convenience, as for passing more rapidly over what is not disputed, and arriving at points really at issue. |
| fictive | adjective | Feigned; counterfeit. |
| fidalgo | noun | The lowest title of nobility in Portugal, corresponding to that of Hidalgo in Spain. |
| fiddled | imp. & past participle | of Fiddle |
| fiddler | noun | One who plays on a fiddle or violin., 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., The common European sandpiper (Tringoides hypoleucus); — so called because it continually oscillates its body. |
| fidgety | adjective | Restless; uneasy. |
| fielded | imp. & past participle | of Field, Engaged in the field; encamped. |
| fielden | adjective | Consisting of fields. |
| fielder | noun | A ball payer who stands out in the field to catch or stop balls. |
| fiendly | adjective | Fiendlike; monstrous; devilish. |
| fifteen | adjective | Five and ten; one more than fourteen., The sum of five and ten; fifteen units or objects., A symbol representing fifteen units, as 15, or xv. |
| fifthly | adverb | In the fifth place; as the fifth in order. |
| fifties | plural | of Fifty |
| fighter | noun | One who fights; a combatant; a warrior. |
| figment | noun | An invention; a fiction; something feigned or imagined. |
| figural | adjective | Represented by figure or delineation; consisting of figures; as, figural ornaments., Figurate. See Figurate. |
| figured | imp. & past participle | of Figure, Adorned with figures; marked with figures; as, figured muslin., Not literal; figurative., Free and florid; as, a figured descant. See Figurate, 3., Indicated or noted by figures. |
| figwort | noun | A genus of herbaceous plants (Scrophularia), mostly found in the north temperate zones. See Brownwort. |
| filacer | noun | A former officer in the English Court of Common Pleas; — so called because he filed the writs on which he made out process. |
| filaria | noun | A genus of slender, nematode worms of many species, parasitic in various animals. See Guinea worm. |
| filbert | noun | The fruit of the Corylus Avellana or hazel. It is an oval nut, containing a kernel that has a mild, farinaceous, oily taste, agreeable to the palate. |
| filched | imp. & past participle | of Filch |
| filcher | noun | One who filches; a thief. |
| filemot | noun | See Feullemort. |
| filiate | verb t. | To adopt as son or daughter; to establish filiation between. |
| filibeg | noun | Same as Kilt. |
| filical | adjective | Belonging to the Filices, r ferns. |
| filicic | adjective | Pertaining to, or derived from, ferns; as, filicic acid. |
| filiety | noun | The relation of a son to a father; sonship; — the correlative of paternity. |
| filling | present participle & vb. noun | of Fill, 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., The woof in woven fabrics., Prepared wort added to ale to cleanse it. |
| fillies | plural | of Filly |
| fimbria | noun | A fringe, or fringed border., A band of white matter bordering the hippocampus in the brain. |
| finning | present participle & vb. noun | of Fin |
| finable | adjective | Liable or subject to a fine; as, a finable person or offense. |
| finally | adverb | At the end or conclusion; ultimately; lastly; as, the contest was long, but the Romans finally conquered., Completely; beyond recovery. |
| finance | noun | The income of a ruler or of a state; revennue; public money; sometimes, the income of an individual; often used in the plural for funds; available money; resources., The science of raising and expending the public revenue. |
| finback | noun | Any whale of the genera Sibbaldius, Balaenoptera, and allied genera, of the family Balaenopteridae, characterized by a prominent fin on the back. The common finbacks of the New England coast are Sibbaldius tectirostris and S. tuberosus. |
| finched | adjective | Same as Finchbacked. |
| finding | present participle & vb. noun | of Find, That which is found, come upon, or provided; esp. (pl.), that which a journeyman artisan finds or provides for himself; as tools, trimmings, etc., Support; maintenance; that which is provided for one; expence; provision., The result of a judicial examination or inquiry, especially into some matter of fact; a verdict; as, the finding of a jury. |
| finesse | adjective | Subtilty of contrivance to gain a point; artifice; stratagem., The act of finessing. See Finesse, v. i., 2., To use artifice or stratagem., 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. |
| finfish | noun | A finback whale., True fish, as distinguished from shellfish. |
| finfoot | noun | A South American bird (heliornis fulica) allied to the grebes. The name is also applied to several related species of the genus Podica. |
| finical | adjective | Affectedly fine; overnice; unduly particular; fastidious. |
| finicky | adjective | Finical; unduly particular. |
| finific | noun | A limiting element or quality. |
| finikin | adjective | Precise in trifles; idly busy. |
| finless | adjective | destitute of fins. |
| finlike | adjective | Resembling a fin. |
| finnish | adjective | Of or pertaining to Finland, to the Finns, or to their language., A Northern Turanian group of languages; the language of the Finns. |
| finpike | noun | The bichir. See Crossopterygii. |
| fiorite | noun | A variety of opal occuring in the cavities of volcanic tufa, in smooth and shining globular and botryoidal masses, having a pearly luster; — so called from Fiora, in Ischia. |
| firearm | noun | A gun, pistol, or any weapon from a shot is discharged by the force of an explosive substance, as gunpowder. |
| firedog | noun | A support for wood in a fireplace; an andiron. |
| firefly | noun | Any luminous winged insect, esp. luminous beetles of the family Lampyridae. |
| firemen | plural | of Fireman |
| fireman | noun | A man whose business is to extinguish fires in towns; a member of a fire company., A man who tends the fires, as of a steam engine; a stocker. |
| firmans | plural | of Firman |
| firmity | noun | Strength; firmness; stability. |
| firring | noun | See Furring. |
| firstly | adverb | In the first place; before anything else; — sometimes improperly used for first. |
| fisetic | adjective | Pertaining to fustet or fisetin. |
| fisetin | noun | A yellow crystalline substance extracted from fustet, and regarded as its essential coloring principle; — called also fisetic acid. |
| fishing | present participle & vb. noun | of Fish, The act, practice, or art of one who fishes., A fishery., Pertaining to fishing; used in fishery; engaged in fishing; as, fishing boat; fishing tackle; fishing village. |
| fishery | noun | The business or practice of catching fish; fishing., A place for catching fish., The right to take fish at a certain place, or in particular waters. |
| fishful | adjective | Abounding with fish. |
| fishgig | noun | A spear with barbed prongs used for harpooning fish. |
| fishify | verb t. | To change to fish. |
| fissile | adjective | Capable of being split, cleft, or divided in the direction of the grain, like wood, or along natural planes of cleavage, like crystals. |
| fission | noun | A cleaving, splitting, or breaking up into parts., 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., A process by which certain coral polyps, echinoderms, annelids, etc., spontaneously subdivide, each individual thus forming two or more new ones. See Strobilation. |
| fissure | noun | A narrow opening, made by the parting of any substance; a cleft; as, the fissure of a rock., To cleave; to divide; to crack or fracture. |
| fisting | present participle & vb. noun | of Fist |
| fistuca | noun | An instrument used by the ancients in driving piles. |
| fistula | noun | A reed; a pipe., A pipe for convejing water., 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. |
| fistule | noun | A fistula. |
| fitting | present participle & vb. noun | of Fit, Anything used in fitting up, necessary fixtures or apparatus; as, the fittings of a church or study; gas fittings., Fit; appropriate; suitable; proper. |
| fitches | plural | of Fitch |
| fitched | adjective | Fitche. |
| fitchet | noun | Alt. of Fitchew |
| fitchew | noun | The European polecat (Putorius foetidus). See Polecat. |
| fitment | noun | The act of fitting; that which is proper or becoming; equipment. |
| fitness | noun | The state or quality of being fit; as, the fitness of measures or laws; a person’s fitness for office. |
| fitweed | noun | A plant (Eryngium foetidum) supposed to be a remedy for fits. |
| fixable | adjective | Capable of being fixed. |
| fixedly | adverb | In a fixed, stable, or constant manner. |
| fixture | noun | That which is fixed or attached to something as a permanent appendage; as, the fixtures of a pump; the fixtures of a farm or of a dwelling, that is, the articles which a tenant may not take away., State of being fixed; fixedness., 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. |
| fizzing | present participle & vb. noun | of Fizz |
| fizzled | imp. & past participle | of Fizzle |
| flabile | adjective | Liable to be blown about. |
| flaccid | adjective | Yielding to pressure for want of firmness and stiffness; soft and weak; limber; lax; drooping; flabby; as, a flaccid muscle; flaccid flesh. |
| flacker | verb i. | To flutter, as a bird. |
| flacket | noun | A barrel-shaped bottle; a flagon. |
| flagged | imp. & past participle | of Flag |
| flagmen | plural | of Flagman |
| flagman | noun | One who makes signals with a flag. |
| flaking | present participle & vb. noun | of Flake |
| flammed | imp. & past participle | of Flam |
| flaming | present participle & vb. noun | of Flame, Emitting flames; afire; blazing; consuming; illuminating., Of the color of flame; high-colored; brilliant; dazzling., Ardent; passionate; burning with zeal; irrepressibly earnest; as, a flaming proclomation or harangue. |
| flaneur | noun | One who strolls about aimlessly; a lounger; a loafer. |
| flanged | imp. & past participle | of Flange, Having a flange or flanges; as, a flanged wheel. |
| flanked | imp. & past participle | of Flank |
| flanker | noun | One who, or that which, flanks, as a skirmisher or a body of troops sent out upon the flanks of an army toguard a line of march, or a fort projecting so as to command the side of an assailing body., To defend by lateral fortifications., To attack sideways. |
| flannel | noun | A soft, nappy, woolen cloth, of loose texture. |
| flannen | adjective | Made or consisting of flannel. |
| flapped | imp. & past participle | of Flap |
| flapper | noun | One who, or that which, flaps., See Flipper. |
| flaring | present participle & vb. noun | of Flare, That flares; flaming or blazing unsteadily; shining out with a dazzling light., Opening or speading outwards. |
| flashed | imp. & past participle | of Flash |
| flashes | plural | of Flash |
| flasher | noun | One who, or that which, flashes., A man of more appearance of wit than reality., A large sparoid fish of the Atlantic coast and all tropical seas (Lobotes Surinamensis)., The European red-backed shrike (Lanius collurio); — called also flusher. |
| flasket | noun | A long, shallow basket, with two handles., A small flask., A vessel in which viands are served. |
| flatted | imp. & past participle | of Flat |
| flative | adjective | Producing wind; flatulent. |
| flating | adjective | With the flat side, as of a sword; flatlong; in a prostrate position. |
| flatour | noun | A flatterer. |
| flatten | adjective | To reduce to an even surface or one approaching evenness; to make flat; to level; to make plane., To throw down; to bring to the ground; to prostrate; hence, to depress; to deject; to dispirit., To make vapid or insipid; to render stale., To lower the pitch of; to cause to sound less sharp; to let fall from the pitch., To become or grow flat, even, depressed dull, vapid, spiritless, or depressed below pitch. |
| flatter | noun | One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens., A flat-faced fulling hammer., A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc., 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., To raise hopes in; to encourage or favorable, but sometimes unfounded or deceitful, representations., To portray too favorably; to give a too favorable idea of; as, his portrait flatters him., To use flattery or insincere praise. |
| flavine | noun | A yellow, crystalline, organic base, C13H12N2O, obtained artificially. |
| flavous | adjective | Yellow. |
| flawing | present participle & vb. noun | of Flaw |
| flawter | verb t. | To scrape o/ pare, as a skin. |
| flaying | present participle & vb. noun | of Flay |
| flecked | imp. & past participle | of Fleck |
| flecker | verb t. | To fleck. |
| flector | noun | A flexor. |
| fledged | imp. & past participle | of Fledge |
| fleeing | present participle & vb. noun | of Flee |
| fleeced | imp. & past participle | of Fleece, Furnished with a fleece; as, a sheep is well fleeced., Stripped of a fleece; plundered; robbed. |
| fleecer | noun | One who fleeces or strips unjustly, especially by trickery or fraund. |
| fleered | imp. & past participle | of Fleer |
| fleerer | noun | One who fleers. |
| fleeted | imp. & past participle | of Fleet |
| fleeten | noun | Fleeted or skimmed milk. |
| fleetly | adverb | In a fleet manner; rapidly. |
| fleming | noun | A native or inhabitant of Flanders. |
| flemish | adjective | Pertaining to Flanders, or the Flemings., The language or dialect spoken by the Flemings; also, collectively, the people of Flanders. |
| fleshed | imp. & past participle | of Flesh, Corpulent; fat; having flesh., Glutted; satiated; initiated. |
| flesher | noun | A butcher., A two-handled, convex, blunt-edged knife, for scraping hides; a fleshing knife. |
| fleshly | adjective | Of or pertaining to the flesh; corporeal., Animal; not/vegetable., Human; not celestial; not spiritual or divine., Carnal; wordly; lascivious., In a fleshly manner; carnally; lasciviously. |
| flexing | present participle & vb. noun | of Flex |
| flexile | adjective | Flexible; pliant; pliable; easily bent; plastic; tractable. |
| flexion | noun | The act of flexing or bending; a turning., A bending; a part bent; a fold., Syntactical change of form of words, as by declension or conjugation; inflection., 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. |
| flexure | noun | The act of flexing or bending; a turning or curving; flexion; hence, obsequious bowing or bending., A turn; a bend; a fold; a curve., The last joint, or bend, of the wing of a bird., 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. |
| flicked | imp. & past participle | of Flick |
| flicker | verb i. | To flutter; to flap the wings without flying., To waver unsteadily, like a flame in a current of air, or when about to expire; as, the flickering light., The act of wavering or of fluttering; flucuation; sudden and brief increase of brightness; as, the last flicker of the dying flame., The golden-winged woodpecker (Colaptes aurutus); — so called from its spring note. Called also yellow-hammer, high-holder, pigeon woodpecker, and yucca. |
| flighty | adjective | Fleeting; swift; transient., 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. |
| flinger | noun | One who flings; one who jeers. |
| flipped | imp. & past participle | of Flip |
| flipper | noun | A broad flat limb used for swimming, as those of seals, sea turtles, whales, etc., The hand. |
| flirted | imp. & past participle | of Flirt |
| flitted | imp. & past participle | of Flit |
| flitter | verb i. | To flutter., To flutter; to move quickly; as, to flitter the cards., A rag; a tatter; a small piece or fragment. |
| floated | imp. & past participle | of Float |
| floater | noun | One who floats or swims., A float for indicating the height of a liquid surface. |
| flobert | noun | A small cartridge designed for target shooting; — sometimes called ball cap. |
| floccus | noun | The tuft of hair terminating the tail of mammals., A tuft of feathers on the head of young birds., A woolly filament sometimes occuring with the sporules of certain fungi. |
| flocked | imp. & past participle | of Flock |
| flockly | adverb | In flocks; in crowds. |
| flogged | imp. & past participle | of Flog |
| flogger | noun | One who flogs., A kind of mallet for beating the bung stave of a cask to start the bung. |
| flooded | imp. & past participle | of Flood |
| flooder | noun | One who floods anything. |
| flookan | noun | Alt. of Flukan |
| floored | imp. & past participle | of Floor |
| floorer | noun | Anything that floors or upsets a person, as a blow that knocks him down; a conclusive answer or retort; a task that exceeds one’s abilities. |
| flopped | imp. & past participle | of Flop |
| floreal | noun | The eight month of the French republican calendar. It began April 20, and ended May 19. See Vendemiare. |
| florist | noun | A cultivator of, or dealer in, flowers., One who writes a flora, or an account of plants. |
| floroon | noun | A border worked with flowers. |
| flotage | noun | The state of floating., That which floats on the sea or in rivers. |
| flotant | adjective | Represented as flying or streaming in the air; as, a banner flotant. |
| flotery | adjective | Wavy; flowing. |
| flotsam | noun | Alt. of Flotson |
| flotson | noun | Goods lost by shipwreck, and floating on the sea; — in distinction from jetsam or jetson. |
| flotten | verb t. | Skimmed. |
| flounce | verb 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., The act of floucing; a sudden, jerking motion of the body., 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., To deck with a flounce or flounces; as, to flounce a petticoat or a frock. |
| floured | imp. & past participle | of Flour, Finely granulated; — said of quicksilver which has been granulated by agitation during the amalgamation process. |
| flouted | imp. & past participle | of Flout |
| flouter | noun | One who flouts; a mocker. |
| flowing | present participle & vb. noun | of Flow, That flows or for flowing (in various sense of the verb); gliding along smoothly; copious., a. & n. from Flow, v. i. & t. |
| flowage | noun | An overflowing with water; also, the water which thus overflows. |
| flowery | adjective | Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms., Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. |
| fluavil | noun | A hydrocarbon extracted from gutta-percha, as a yellow, resinous substance; — called also fluanil. |
| fluence | noun | Fluency. |
| fluency | noun | The quality of being fluent; smoothness; readiness of utterance; volubility. |
| fluidal | adjective | Pertaining to a fluid, or to its flowing motion. |
| flunked | imp. & past participle | of Flunk |
| fluoric | adjective | Pertaining to, obtained from, or containing, fluorine. |
| flushed | imp. & past participle | of Flush |
| flusher | noun | A workman employed in cleaning sewers by flushing them with water., The red-backed shrike. See Flasher. |
| fluster | verb t. | To make hot and rosy, as with drinking; to heat; hence, to throw into agitation and confusion; to confuse; to muddle., To be in a heat or bustle; to be agitated and confused., Heat or glow, as from drinking; agitation mingled with confusion; disorder. |
| fluting | present participle & vb. noun | of Flute, Decoration by means of flutes or channels; a flute, or flutes collectively; as, the fluting of a column or pilaster; the fluting of a lady’s ruffle. |
| flutist | noun | A performer on the flute; a flautist., To move with quick vibrations or undulations; as, a sail flutters in the wind; a fluttering fan., To move about briskly, irregularly, or with great bustle and show, without much result., To be in agitation; to move irregularly; to flucttuate; to be uncertainty. |
| flutter | verb t. | To vibrate or move quickly; as, a bird flutters its wings., To drive in disorder; to throw into confusion., The act of fluttering; quick and irregular motion; vibration; as, the flutter of a fan., Hurry; tumult; agitation of the mind; confusion; disorder. |
| fluvial | adjective | Belonging to rivers; growing or living in streams or ponds; as, a fluvial plant. |
| fluxing | present participle & vb. noun | of Flux |
| fluxile | adjective | Fluxible. |
| fluxion | noun | The act of flowing., The matter that flows., Fusion; the running of metals into a fluid state., An unnatural or excessive flow of blood or fluid toward any organ; a determination., A constantly varying indication., 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., 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. |
| fluxive | adjective | Flowing; also, wanting solidity. |
| fluxure | noun | The quality of being fluid., Fluid matter. |
| flybane | noun | A kind of catchfly of the genus Silene; also, a poisonous mushroom (Agaricus muscarius); fly agaric. |
| flyblow | verb 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., One of the eggs or young larvae deposited by a flesh fly, or blowfly. |
| flyboat | noun | A large Dutch coasting vessel., A kind of passenger boat formerly used on canals. |
| flyfish | noun | A California scorpaenoid fish (Sebastichthys rhodochloris), having brilliant colors. |
| flytrap | noun | A trap for catching flies., 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. |
| foaling | present participle & vb. noun | of Foal |
| foaming | present participle & vb. noun | of Foam |
| fobbing | present participle & vb. noun | of Fob |
| focuses | plural | of Focus |
| focused | imp. & past participle | of Focus |
| fodient | adjective | Fitted for, or pertaining to, digging., One of the Fodientia. |
| foehood | noun | Enmity. |
| fogging | present participle & vb. noun | of Fog |
| fog’ger | noun | One who fogs; a pettifogger. |
| foggily | adverb | In a foggy manner; obscurely. |
| fogless | adjective | Without fog; clear. |
| fogyism | noun | The principles and conduct of a fogy. |
| foiling | present participle & vb. noun | of Foil, A foil., The track of game (as deer) in the grass. |
| foinery | noun | Thrusting with the foil; fencing with the point, as distinguished from broadsword play. |
| foisted | imp. & past participle | of Foist |
| foister | noun | One who foists something surreptitiously; a falsifier. |
| folding | present participle & vb. noun | of Fold, The act of making a fold or folds; also, a fold; a doubling; a plication., The keepig of sheep in inclosures on arable land, etc. |
| foldage | noun | See Faldage. |
| foliage | noun | Leaves, collectively, as produced or arranged by nature; leafage; as, a tree or forest of beautiful foliage., 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., To adorn with foliage or the imitation of foliage; to form into the representation of leaves. |
| foliate | adjective | Furnished with leaves; leafy; as, a foliate stalk., To beat into a leaf, or thin plate., To spread over with a thin coat of tin and quicksilver; as, to foliate a looking-glass. |
| foliole | noun | One of the distinct parts of a compound leaf; a leaflet. |
| foliose | adjective | Having many leaves; leafy. |
| folious | adjective | Like a leaf; thin; unsubstantial., Foliose. |
| foliums | plural | of Folium |
| follies | plural | of Folly |
| fomites | plural | of Fomes |
| fondled | imp. & past participle | of Fondle |
| fondler | noun | One who fondles. |
| foodful | adjective | Full of food; supplying food; fruitful; fertile. |
| fooling | present participle & vb. noun | of Fool |
| foolahs | noun pl. | Same as Fulahs., 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. |
| foolery | noun | The practice of folly; the behavior of a fool; absurdity., An act of folly or weakness; a foolish practice; something absurd or nonsensical. |
| foolify | verb t. | To make a fool of; to befool. |
| foolish | adjective | Marked with, or exhibiting, folly; void of understanding; weak in intellect; without judgment or discretion; silly; unwise., Such as a fool would do; proceeding from weakness of mind or silliness; exhibiting a want of judgment or discretion; as, a foolish act., Absurd; ridiculous; despicable; contemptible. |
| footing | present participle & vb. noun | of Foot, Ground for the foot; place for the foot to rest on; firm foundation to stand on., Standing; position; established place; basis for operation; permanent settlement; foothold., Relative condition; state., Tread; step; especially, measured tread., The act of adding up a column of figures; the amount or sum total of such a column., The act of putting a foot to anything; also, that which is added as a foot; as, the footing of a stocking., A narrow cotton lace, without figures., The finer refuse part of whale blubber, not wholly deprived of oil., The thickened or sloping portion of a wall, or of an embankment at its foot. |
| footboy | noun | A page; an attendant in livery; a lackey. |
| foothot | adverb | Hastily; immediately; instantly; on the spot; hotfloot. |
| footmen | plural | of Footman |
| footman | noun | A soldier who marches and fights on foot; a foot soldier., A man in waiting; a male servant whose duties are to attend the door, the carriage, the table, etc., Formerly, a servant who ran in front of his master’s carriage; a runner., A metallic stand with four feet, for keeping anything warm before a fire., A moth of the family Lithosidae; — so called from its livery-like colors. |
| footpad | noun | A highwayman or robber on foot. |
| footway | noun | A passage for pedestrians only. |
| fopling | noun | A petty fop. |
| foppery | noun | The behavior, dress, or other indication of a fop; coxcombry; affectation of show; showy folly., Folly; foolery. |
| foppish | adjective | Foplike; characteristic of a top in dress or manners; making an ostentatious display of gay clothing; affected in manners. |
| foraged | imp. & past participle | of Forage |
| forager | noun | One who forages. |
| foramen | noun | A small opening, perforation, or orifice; a fenestra. |
| forayer | noun | One who makes or joins in a foray. |
| forbade | imp. of Forbid., of Forbid | |
| forbear | noun | An ancestor; a forefather; — usually in the plural., To refrain from proceeding; to pause; to delay., To refuse; to decline; to give no heed., To control one’s self when provoked., To keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from; to give up; as, to forbear the use of a word of doubdtful propriety., To treat with consideration or indulgence., To cease from bearing. |
| forbore | imp. | of Forbear, imp. of Forbear. |
| forbare | of Forbear | |
| forcing | present participle & vb. noun | of Force, The accomplishing of any purpose violently, precipitately, prematurely, or with unusual expedition., 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. |
| forceps | noun | A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies which it would be inconvenient or impracticable to seize with the fingers, especially one for delicate operations, as those of watchmakers, surgeons, accoucheurs, dentists, etc., The caudal forceps-shaped appendage of earwigs and some other insects. See Earwig. |
| fording | present participle & vb. noun | of Ford |
| fordone | adjective | Undone; ruined. |
| forearm | verb t. | To arm or prepare for attack or resistance before the time of need., That part of the arm or fore limb between the elbow and wrist; the antibrachium. |
| foregut | noun | The anterior part of the alimentary canal, from the mouth to the intestine, o/ to the entrance of the bile duct. |
| forehew | verb t. | To hew or cut in front. |
| foreign | adjective | Outside; extraneous; separated; alien; as, a foreign country; a foreign government., 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., 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., Held at a distance; excluded; exiled. |
| forelay | verb t. | To lay down beforehand., To waylay. See Forlay. |
| forelet | verb t. | See Forlet. |
| forelie | verb i. | To lie in front of. |
| foremen | plural | of Foreman |
| foreman | noun | The first or chief man, The chief man of a jury, who acts as their speaker., The chief of a set of hands employed in a shop, or on works of any kind, who superintends the rest; an overseer. |
| foreran | imp. of Forerun. | |
| forerun | verb t. | To turn before; to precede; to be in advance of (something following)., To come before as an earnest of something to follow; to introduce as a harbinger; to announce. |
| foresay | verb t. | To foretell. |
| foresee | verb t. | To see beforehand; to have prescience of; to foreknow., To provide., To have or exercise foresight. |
| foretop | noun | The hair on the forepart of the head; esp., a tuft or lock of hair which hangs over the forehead, as of a horse., That part of a headdress that is in front; the top of a periwig., The platform at the head of the foremast. |
| forever | adverb | Through eternity; through endless ages, eternally., At all times; always. |
| forewit | noun | A leader, or would-be leader, in matters of knowledge or taste., Foresight; prudence. |
| forewot | pres. indic. sing., 1st & 3d pers. | of Forewite, pres. indic., 1st & 3d pers. sing. of Forewite. |
| forfeit | noun | Injury; wrong; mischief., 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., Something deposited and redeemable by a sportive fine; — whence the game of forfeits., Lost or alienated for an offense or crime; liable to penal seizure., 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., To be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to transgress., To fail to keep an obligation., In the condition of being forfeited; subject to alienation. |
| forfend | verb t. | To prohibit; to forbid; to avert. |
| forfete | verb i. | To incur a penalty; to transgress. |
| forgave | imp. of Forgive., of Forgive | |
| forging | present participle & vb. noun | of Forge, The act of shaping metal by hammering or pressing., The act of counterfeiting., A piece of forged work in metal; — a general name for a piece of hammered iron or steel. |
| forgery | noun | The act of forging metal into shape., 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., That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised, or counterfeited. |
| forgive | verb t. | To give wholly; to make over without reservation; to resign., 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., 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. |
| forwent | imp. | of Forgo |
| forgone | past participle | of Forgo |
| forhall | verb t. | To harass; to torment; to distress. |
| forhend | verb t. | To seize upon. |
| forking | present participle & vb. noun | of Fork |
| forlaft | p. p. of Forleave. | |
| forlend | verb t. | To give up wholly. |
| forlore | past participle | of Forlese, imp. pl. & p. p. of Forlese. |
| forlorn | of Forlese, Deserted; abandoned; lost., Destitute; helpless; in pitiful plight; wretched; miserable; almost hopeless; desperate., A lost, forsaken, or solitary person., A forlorn hope; a vanguard. | |
| forlese | verb t. | To lose utterly. |
| forming | present participle & vb. noun | of Form, The act or process of giving form or shape to anything; as, in shipbuilding, the exact shaping of partially shaped timbers. |
| formate | noun | A salt of formic acid. |
| formell | noun | The female of a hawk or falcon. |
| formful | adjective | Creative; imaginative. |
| formica | noun | A Linnaean genus of hymenopterous insects, including the common ants. See Ant. |
| formula | noun | A prescribed or set form; an established rule; a fixed or conventional method in which anything is to be done, arranged, or said., A written confession of faith; a formal statement of foctrines., A rule or principle expressed in algebraic language; as, the binominal formula., A prescription or recipe for the preparation of a medicinal compound., A symbolic expression (by means of letters, figures, etc.) of the constituents or constitution of a compound. |
| formule | noun | A set or prescribed model; a formula. |
| forpass | verb t. & i. | To pass by or along; to pass over. |
| forpine | verb t. | To waste away completely by suffering or torment. |
| forrill | noun | Lambskin parchment; vellum; forel. |
| forsook | imp. | of Forsake |
| forsake | verb 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., To renounce; to reject; to refuse. |
| forslow | verb t. | To delay; to hinder; to neglect; to put off., To loiter. |
| forster | noun | A forester. |
| forswat | adjective | Spent with heat; covered with sweat. |
| forthby | adverb | See Forby. |
| forties | noun pl. | See Forty., of Forty |
| fortify | verb t. | To add strength to; to strengthen; to confirm; to furnish with power to resist attack., 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., To raise defensive works. |
| fortlet | noun | A little fort. |
| fortune | noun | The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident; luck; hap; also, the personified or deified power regarded as determining human success, apportioning happiness and unhappiness, and distributing arbitrarily or fortuitously the lots of life., 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., 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., Wealth; large possessions; large estate; riches; as, a gentleman of fortune., To make fortunate; to give either good or bad fortune to., To provide with a fortune., To presage; to tell the fortune of., To fall out; to happen. |
| forward | noun | An agreement; a covenant; a promise., Alt. of Forwards, 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., Ready; prompt; strongly inclined; in an ill sense, overready; to hasty., 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., Advanced beyond the usual degree; advanced for season; as, the grass is forward, or forward for the season; we have a forward spring., 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., To send forward; to send toward the place of destination; to transmit; as, to forward a letter. |
| forweep | verb i. | To weep much. |
| forwete | verb t. | See Forewite. |
| forworn | adjective | Much worn. |
| forwrap | verb t. | To wrap up; to conceal. |
| foryete | verb t. | To forget. |
| fossane | noun | A species of civet (Viverra fossa) resembling the genet. |
| fougade | noun | Alt. of Fougasse |
| fouling | present participle & vb. noun | of Foul |
| foulard | noun | A thin, washable material of silk, or silk and cotton, originally imported from India, but now also made elsewhere. |
| foulder | verb i. | To flash, as lightning; to lighten; to gleam; to thunder. |
| foumart | adjective | The European polecat; — called also European ferret, and fitchew. See Polecat. |
| founded | imp. & past participle | of Found, of Found |
| founder | noun | One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows., One who founds; one who casts metals in various forms; a caster; as, a founder of cannon, bells, hardware, or types., To become filled with water, and sink, as a ship., To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse., To fail; to miscarry., To cause internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs of (a horse), so as to disable or lame him., A lameness in the foot of a horse, occasioned by inflammation; closh., An inflammatory fever of the body, or acute rheumatism; as, chest founder. See Chest ffounder. |
| foundry | noun | The act, process, or art of casting metals., The buildings and works for casting metals. |
| fourche | adjective | Having the ends forked or branched, and the ends of the branches terminating abruptly as if cut off; — said of an ordinary, especially of a cross. |
| fourgon | noun | An ammunition wagon., A French baggage wagon. |
| foveate | adjective | Having pits or depressions; pitted. |
| foveola | noun | A small depression or pit; a fovea. |
| fovilla | noun | One of the fine granules contained in the protoplasm of a pollen grain. |
| fowling | present participle & vb. noun | of Fowl |
| fracted | adjective | Having a part displaced, as if broken; — said of an ordinary. |
| foxfish | noun | The fox shark; — called also sea fox. See Thrasher shark, under Shark., The european dragonet. See Dragonet. |
| foxlike | adjective | Resembling a fox in his characteristic qualities; cunning; artful; foxy. |
| foxship | noun | Foxiness; craftiness. |
| foxtail | noun | The tail or brush of a fox., The name of several kinds of grass having a soft dense head of flowers, mostly the species of Alopecurus and Setaria., The last cinders obtained in the fining process. |
| frabbit | adjective | Crabbed; peevish. |
| fraenum | noun | Alt. of Frenum |
| fragile | adjective | Easily broken; brittle; frail; delicate; easily destroyed. |
| fraight | adjective | Same as Fraught. |
| frailly | adverb | Weakly; infirmly. |
| frailty | adjective | The condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally, frailness; infirmity; weakness of resolution; liableness to be deceived or seduced., A fault proceeding from weakness; foible; sin of infirmity. |
| fraised | adjective | Fortified with a fraise. |
| framing | present participle & vb. noun | of Frame, The act, process, or style of putting together a frame, or of constructing anything; a frame; that which frames., A framework, or a sy/ of frames. |
| frampel | adjective | Alt. of Frampoid |
| francic | adjective | Pertaining to the Franks, or their language; Frankish. |
| franion | noun | A paramour; a loose woman; also, a gay, idle fellow. |
| franked | imp. & past participle | of Frank |
| frankly | adverb | In a frank manner; freely. |
| frantic | adjective | Mad; raving; furious; violent; wild and disorderly; distracted. |
| frapped | imp. & past participle | of Frap |
| frapler | noun | A blusterer; a rowdy. |
| fratery | noun | A frater house. See under Frater. |
| fraught | noun | A freight; a cargo., Freighted; laden; filled; stored; charged., of Fraught, To freight; to load; to burden; to fill; to crowd. |
| fraying | present participle & vb. noun | of Fray, The skin which a deer frays from his horns. |
| freaked | imp. & past participle | of Freak |
| freckle | verb t. | A small yellowish or brownish spot in the skin, particularly on the face, neck, or hands., Any small spot or discoloration., To spinkle or mark with freckle or small discolored spots; to spot., To become covered or marked with freckles; to be spotted. |
| freckly | adjective | Full of or marked with freckles; sprinkled with spots; freckled. |
| freeing | present participle & vb. noun | of Free |
| freedom | noun | The state of being free; exemption from the power and control of another; liberty; independence., Privileges; franchises; immunities., Exemption from necessity, in choise and action; as, the freedom of the will., Ease; facility; as, he speaks or acts with freedom., Frankness; openness; unreservedness., Improper familiarity; violation of the rules of decorum; license., Generosity; liberality. |
| freelte | noun | Frailty. |
| freemen | plural | of Freeman |
| freeman | noun | One who enjoys liberty, or who is not subject to the will of another; one not a slave or vassal., 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. |
| freezer | noun | One who, or that which, cools or freezes, as a refrigerator, or the tub and can used in the process of freezing ice cream. |
| freight | noun | That with which anything in fraught or laden for transportation; lading; cargo, especially of a ship, or a car on a railroad, etc.; as, a freight of cotton; a full freight., The sum paid by a party hiring a ship or part of a ship for the use of what is thus hired., The price paid a common carrier for the carriage of goods., Freight transportation, or freight line., Employed in the transportation of freight; having to do with freight; as, a freight car., 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. |
| frenums | plural | of Frenum |
| frescos | plural | of Fresco |
| freshes | plural | of Fresh |
| freshen | verb t. | To make fresh; to separate, as water, from saline ingredients; to make less salt; as, to freshen water, fish, or flesh., To refresh; to revive., 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., To grow fresh; to lose saltness., To grow brisk or strong; as, the wind freshens. |
| freshet | adjective | A stream of fresh water., A flood or overflowing of a stream caused by heavy rains or melted snow; a sudden inundation. |
| freshly | adverb | In a fresh manner; vigorously; newly, recently; brightly; briskly; coolly; as, freshly gathered; freshly painted; the wind blows freshly. |
| fretted | imp. & past participle | of Fret, Rubbed or worn away; chafed., Agitated; vexed; worried., Ornamented with fretwork; furnished with frets; variegated; made rough on the surface., Interlaced one with another; — said of charges and ordinaries. |
| fretful | adjective | Disposed to fret; ill-humored; peevish; angry; in a state of vexation; as, a fretful temper. |
| fretten | adjective | Rubbed; marked; as, pock-fretten, marked with the smallpox. |
| fretter | noun | One who, or that which, frets. |
| friable | adjective | Easily crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder. |
| friarly | adjective | Like a friar; inexperienced. |
| fribble | noun | A frivolous, contemptible fellow; a fop., To act in a trifling or foolish manner; to act frivolously., To totter. |
| friborg | noun | Alt. of Friborgh |
| fricace | noun | Meat sliced and dressed with strong sauce., An unguent; also, the act of rubbing with the unguent. |
| frickle | noun | A bushel basket. |
| friesic | adjective | Of or pertaining to Friesland, a province in the northern part of the Netherlands., 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. |
| friezed | adjective | Gathered, or having the map gathered, into little tufts, knots, or protuberances. Cf. Frieze, v. t., and Friz, v. t., 2. |
| friezer | noun | One who, or that which, friezes or frizzes. |
| frigate | noun | Originally, a vessel of the Mediterranean propelled by sails and by oars. The French, about 1650, transferred the name to larger vessels, and by 1750 it had been appropriated for a class of war vessels intermediate between corvettes and ships of the line. Frigates, from about 1750 to 1850, had one full battery deck and, often, a spar deck with a lighter battery. They carried sometimes as many as fifty guns. After the application of steam to navigation steam frigates of largely increased size and power were built, and formed the main part of the navies of the world till about 1870, when the introduction of ironclads superseded them., Any small vessel on the water. |
| frilled | imp. & past participle | of Frill, Furnished with a frill or frills. |
| fringed | imp. & past participle | of Fringe, Furnished with a fringe. |
| fripper | noun | One who deals in frippery or in old clothes. |
| frisian | adjective | Of or pertaining to Friesland, a province of the Netherlands; Friesic., A native or inhabitant of Friesland; also, the language spoken in Friesland. See Friesic, n. |
| frisked | imp. & past participle | of Frisk |
| friskal | noun | A leap or caper. |
| frisker | noun | One who frisks; one who leaps of dances in gayety; a wanton; an inconstant or unsettled person. |
| frisket | adjective | The light frame which holds the sheet of paper to the tympan in printing. |
| frislet | noun | A kind of small ruffle. |
| frisure | noun | The dressing of the hair by crisping or curling. |
| fritted | imp. & past participle | of Frit |
| fritter | verb 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., A fragment; a shred; a small piece., To cut, as meat, into small pieces, for frying., To break into small pieces or fragments. |
| frizzed | imp. & past participle | of Friz |
| frizzes | plural | of Friz |
| frizzle | verb t. | To curl or crisp, as hair; to friz; to crinkle., A curl; a lock of hair crisped. |
| frizzly | adjective | Alt. of Frizzy |
| frocked | adjective | Clothed in a frock. |
| frogbit | noun | A European plant (Hydrocharis Morsus-ranae), floating on still water and propagating itself by runners. It has roundish leaves and small white flowers., An American plant (Limnobium Spongia), with similar habits. |
| frogged | adjective | Provided or ornamented with frogs; as, a frogged coat. See Frog, n., 4. |
| fronded | adjective | Furnished with fronds. |
| fronted | imp. & past participle | of Front, Formed with a front; drawn up in line. |
| frontal | adjective | Belonging to the front part; being in front, Of or pertaining to the forehead or the anterior part of the roof of the brain case; as, the frontal bones., Something worn on the forehead or face; a frontlet, An ornamental band for the hair., The metal face guard of a soldier., A little pediment over a door or window., 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., A medicament or application for the forehead., The frontal bone, or one of the two frontal bones, of the cranium. |
| 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. | |
| fronton | noun | Same as Frontal, 2. |
| frosted | adjective | Covered with hoarfrost or anything resembling hoarfrost; ornamented with frosting; also, frost-bitten; as, a frosted cake; frosted glass. |
| frothed | imp. & past participle | of Froth |
| frounce | verb i. | To gather into or adorn with plaits, as a dress; to form wrinkles in or upon; to curl or frizzle, as the hair., To form wrinkles in the forehead; to manifest displeasure; to frown., A wrinkle, plait, or curl; a flounce; — also, a frown., An affection in hawks, in which white spittle gathers about the hawk’s bill. |
| froward | adjective | Not willing to yield or compIy with what is required or is reasonable; perverse; disobedient; peevish; as, a froward child. |
| frowned | imp. &, past participle | of Frown |
| frubish | verb t. | To rub up: to furbish. |
| fructed | adjective | Bearing fruit; — said of a tree or plant so represented upon an escutcheon. |
| fruiter | adjective | A ship for carrying fruit. |
| fruit’y | adjective | Having the odor, taste, or appearance of fruit; also, fruitful. |
| frumper | noun | A mocker. |
| frustum | noun | The part of a solid next the base, formed by cutting off the, top; or the part of any solid, as of a cone, pyramid, etc., between two planes, which may be either parallel or inclined to each other., One of the drums of the shaft of a column. |
| frutage | noun | A picture of fruit; decoration by representation of fruit., A confection of fruit. |
| fubbery | noun | Cheating; deception. |
| fucated | adjective | Painted; disguised with paint, or with false show. |
| fuchsia | noun | A genus of flowering plants having elegant drooping flowers, with four sepals, four petals, eight stamens, and a single pistil. They are natives of Mexico and South America. Double-flowered varieties are now common in cultivation. |
| fucusol | noun | An oily liquid, resembling, and possibly identical with, furfurol, and obtained from fucus, and other seaweeds. |
| fuddled | imp. & past participle, | of Fuddle |
| fuddler | noun | A drunkard. |
| fudging | present participle & vb. noun | of Fudge |
| fuegian | adjective | Of or pertaining to Terra del Fuego., A native of Terra del Fuego. |
| fuguist | noun | A musician who composes or performs fugues. |
| fuldble | adjective | Capable of being propped up. |
| fulcrum | noun | A prop or support., That by which a lever is sustained, or about which it turns in lifting or moving a body., An accessory organ such as a tendril, stipule, spine, and the like., The horny inferior surface of the lingua of certain insects., One of the small, spiniform scales found on the front edge of the dorsal and caudal fins of many ganoid fishes., The connective tissue supporting the framework of the retina of the eye. |
| fulfill | verb t. | To fill up; to make full or complete., 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. |
| fulgent | adjective | Exquisitely bright; shining; dazzling; effulgent. |
| fulgury | noun | Lightning. |
| fulling | present participle & vb. noun | of Full, The process of cleansing, shrinking, and thickening cloth by moisture, heat, and pressure. |
| fullage | noun | The money or price paid for fulling or cleansing cloth. |
| fullery | noun | The place or the works where the fulling of cloth is carried on. |
| fulmine | verb | To thunder., To shoot; to dart like lightning; to fulminate; to utter with authority or vehemence. |
| falness | noun | See Fullness. |
| fulsome | adjective | Full; abundant; plenteous; not shriveled., Offending or disgusting by overfullness, excess, or grossness; cloying; gross; nauseous; esp., offensive from excess of praise; as, fulsome flattery., Lustful; wanton; obscene; also, tending to obscenity. |
| fulvous | adjective | Tawny; dull yellow, with a mixture of gray and brown. |
| fumades | plural | of Fumado |
| fumaric | adjective | Pertaining to, or derived from, fumitory (Fumaria officinalis). |
| fumbled | imp. & past participle | of Fumble |
| fumbler | noun | One who fumbles. |
| fumette | noun | The stench or high flavor of game or other meat when kept long. |
| fumitez | noun | Fumitory. |
| funding | present participle & vb. noun | of Fund, Providing a fund for the payment of the interest or principal of a debt., Investing in the public funds. |
| funeral | noun | The solemn rites used in the disposition of a dead human body, whether such disposition be by interment, burning, or otherwise; esp., the ceremony or solemnization of interment; obsequies; burial; — formerly used in the plural., The procession attending the burial of the dead; the show and accompaniments of an interment., A funeral sermon; — usually in the plural., Per. taining to a funeral; used at the interment of the dead; as, funeral rites, honors, or ceremonies. |
| fungate | noun | A salt of fungic acid. |
| fungian | adjective | Of or pertaining to the Fungidae, a family of stony corals., One of the Fungidae. |
| fungite | noun | A fossil coral resembling Fungia. |
| fungoid | adjective | Like a fungus; fungous; spongy. |
| fungous | adjective | Of the nature of fungi; spongy., Growing suddenly, but not substantial or durable. |
| funicle | noun | A small cord, ligature, or fiber., The little stalk that attaches a seed to the placenta. |
| funking | noun | A shrinking back through fear. |
| funnies | plural | of Funny |
| furring | present participle & vb. noun | of Fur, 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., The strips thus laid on., Double planking of a ship’s side., A deposit from water, as on the inside of a boiler; also, the operation of cleaning away this deposit. |
| furbish | verb t. | To rub or scour to brightness; to clean; to burnish; as, to furbish a sword or spear. |
| furcate | adjective | Alt. of Furcated |
| furcula | noun | A forked process; the wishbone or furculum. |
| furilic | adjective | Pertaining to, or derived from, furile; as, furilic acid. |
| furioso | adjective & adverb | With great force or vigor; vehemently. |
| furious | adjective | Transported with passion or fury; raging; violent; as, a furious animal., Rushing with impetuosity; moving with violence; as, a furious stream; a furious wind or storm. |
| furling | present participle & vb. noun | of Furl |
| furlong | adjective | A measure of length; the eighth part of a mile; forty rods; two hundred and twenty yards. |
| furmity | noun | Same as Frumenty. |
| furnace | noun | An inclosed place in which heat is produced by the combustion of fuel, as for reducing ores or melting metals, for warming a house, for baking pottery, etc.; as, an iron furnace; a hot-air furnace; a glass furnace; a boiler furnace, etc., A place or time of punishment, affiction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline., To throw out, or exhale, as from a furnace; also, to put into a furnace. |
| furnish | verb 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., To offer for use; to provide (something); to give (something); to afford; as, to furnish food to the hungry: to furnish arms for defense., That which is furnished as a specimen; a sample; a supply. |
| furrier | noun | A dealer in furs; one who makes or sells fur goods. |
| furrowy | adjective | Furrowed. |
| further | adverb | To a greater distance; in addition; moreover. See Farther., More remote; at a greater distance; more in advance; farther; as, the further end of the field. See Farther., Beyond; additional; as, a further reason for this opinion; nothing further to suggest., To help forward; to promote; to advance; to forward; to help or assist. |
| furtive | adjective | Stolen; obtained or characterized by stealth; sly; secret; stealthy; as, a furtive look. |
| fuscine | noun | A dark-colored substance obtained from empyreumatic animal oil. |
| fuscous | adjective | Brown or grayish black; darkish. |
| fusible | verb t. | CapabIe of being melted or liquefied. |
| fussing | present participle & vb. noun | of Fuss |
| fussily | adverb | In a fussy manner. |
| fustian | noun | A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff, including corduroy, velveteen, etc., 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., Made of fustian., Pompous; ridiculously tumid; inflated; bombastic; as, fustian history. |
| fussure | verb t. | Act of fusing; fusion. |
| futchel | noun | The jaws between which the hinder end of a carriage tongue is inserted. |
| futtock | noun | One of the crooked timbers which are scarfed together to form the lower part of the compound rib of a vessel; one of the crooked transverse timbers passing across and over the keel. |
| fyrdung | verb i. | The military force of the whole nation, consisting of all men able to bear arms. |