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word: fondue
definition:
fondue

fon`due"
(f&obreve_;n"d&usdot_;")
a.
[F. fondu, p.p. of fondre to melt, blend. See Found to cast.]
Melted.
[Also spelled fondu.]


word: Fondus
definition:
Fondus

Fon`dus"
(?)
n.
[F. fondu, prop. p. p. of fondre to melt, blend. See Found to cast.]
A style of printing calico, paper hangings, etc., in which the colors are in bands and graduated into each other.
Ure.


word: Font
definition:
Font

Font
(?)
n.
[F. fonte, fr. fondre to melt or cast. See Found to cast, and cf. Fount a font.]
(Print.)
A complete assortment of printing type of one size, including a due proportion of all the letters in the alphabet, large and small, points, accents, and whatever else is necessary for printing with that variety of types; a fount.


word: Font₂
definition:
Font

Font
n.
[AS. font, fant, fr. L. fons, fontis, spring, fountain; cf. OF. font, funt, F. fonts, fonts baptismaux, pl. See Fount.]
1.
A fountain; a spring; a source.

      Bathing forever in the font of bliss.
Young.

2.
A basin or stone vessel in which water is contained for baptizing.

           That name was given me at the font.
Shak.


word: Fontal
definition:
Fontal

Font"al
(?)
a.
Pertaining to a font, fountain, source, or origin; original; primitive.
[R.]

         From the fontal light of ideas only can a man draw intellectual power.
Coleridge.


word: Fontanel
definition:
Fontanel

Fon"ta*nel`
(?)
n.
[F. fontanelle, prop., a little fountain, fr. fontaine fountain. See Fountain.]
1.
(Med.)
An issue or artificial ulcer for the discharge of humors from the body.
[Obs.]
Wiseman.

2.
(Anat.)
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.

&hand_; In the human fetus there are six fontanels, of which the anterior, or bregmatic, situated at the junction of the coronal and sagittal sutures, is much the largest, and remains open a considerable time after birth.


word: Fontange
definition:
Fontange

Fon`tange"
(?)
n.
[F., from the name of the first wearer, Mlle. de Fontanges, about 1679.]
A kind of tall headdress formerly worn.
Addison.


word: Food
definition:
Food

Food
(?)
n.
[OE. fode, AS. f&omacrda; akin to Icel. fæða, fæði, Sw. föda, Dan. & LG. föde, OHG. fatunga, Gr. patei^sthai to eat, and perh. to Skr. pā to protect, L. pascere to feed, pasture, pabulum food, E. pasture. √75.  Cf. Feed, Fodder food, Foster to cherish.]
1.
What is fed upon; that which goes to support life by being received within, and assimilated by, the organism of an animal or a plant; nutriment; aliment; especially, what is eaten by animals for nourishment.

&hand_; In a physiological sense, true aliment is to be distinguished as that portion of the food which is capable of being digested and absorbed into the blood, thus furnishing nourishment, in distinction from the indigestible matter which passes out through the alimentary canal as fæces.

&hand_; Foods are divided into two main groups: nitrogenous, or proteid, foods, i.e., those which contain nitrogen, and nonnitrogenous, i.e., those which do not contain nitrogen. The latter group embraces the fats and carbohydrates, which collectively are sometimes termed heat producers or respiratory foods, since by oxidation in the body they especially subserve the production of heat. The proteids, on the other hand, are known as plastic foods or tissue formers, since no tissue can be formed without them.  These latter terms, however, are misleading, since proteid foods may also give rise to heat both directly and indirectly, and the fats and carbohydrates are useful in other ways than in producing heat.

2.
Anything that instructs the intellect, excites the feelings, or molds habits of character; that which nourishes.

This may prove food to my displeasure.
Shak.

In this moment there is life and food
For future years.
Wordsworth.

&hand_; Food is often used adjectively or in self-explaining compounds, as in food fish or food-fish, food supply.

Food vacuole (Zool.), one of the spaces in the interior of a protozoan in which food is contained, during digestion. -- Food yolk. (Biol.) See under Yolk.


word: Foodful
definition:
Foodful

Food"ful
(?)
a.
Full of food; supplying food; fruitful; fertile.
foodful
Dryden.

Bent by its foodful burden [the corn].
Glover.


word: Fool
definition:
Fool

Fool
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. fouler to tread, crush.  Cf. 1st Foil.]
A compound of gooseberries scalded and crushed, with cream; -- commonly called gooseberry fool.


word: Fool₂
definition:
Fool

Fool
n.
[OE. fol, n. & adj., F. fol, fou, foolish, mad; a fool, prob. fr. L. follis a bellows, wind bag, an inflated ball; perh. akin to E. bellows.  Cf. Folly, Follicle.]
1.
One destitute of reason, or of the common powers of understanding; an idiot; a natural.

2.
A person deficient in intellect; one who acts absurdly, or pursues a course contrary to the dictates of wisdom; one without judgment; a simpleton; a dolt.

           Extol not riches, then, the toil of fools.
Milton.

 Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Franklin.

3.
(Script.)
One who acts contrary to moral and religious wisdom; a wicked person.

    The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.
Ps. xiv. 1.

4.
One who counterfeits folly; a professional jester or buffoon; a retainer formerly kept to make sport, dressed fantastically in motley, with ridiculous accouterments.

         Can they think me . . . their fool or jester?
Milton.

April fool, Court fool, etc. See under April, Court, etc. -- Fool's cap, a cap or hood to which bells were usually attached, formerly worn by professional jesters. -- Fool's errand, an unreasonable, silly, profitless adventure or undertaking. -- Fool's gold, iron or copper pyrites, resembling gold in color. -- Fool's paradise, a name applied to a limbo (see under Limbo) popularly believed to be the region of vanity and nonsense. Hence, any foolish pleasure or condition of vain self-satistaction. -- Fool's parsley (Bot.), an annual umbelliferous plant (Aethusa Cynapium) resembling parsley, but nauseous and poisonous. -- To make a fool of, to render ridiculous; to outwit; to shame. [Colloq.] -- To play the fool, to act foolishly; to act the buffoon; to act a foolish part. “I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.” 1 Sam. xxvi. 21.


word: Fool₃
definition:
Fool

Fool
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Fooled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Fooling.]
To play the fool.

2.
To waste time in unproductive activity; to spend time in idle sport or mirth; to trifle; to toy.

Syn. -- fool around.

Is this a time for fooling?
Dryden.


word: Fool₄
definition:
Fool

Fool
v. t.
1.
To infatuate; to make foolish.
Shak.

For, fooled with hope, men favor the deceit.
Dryden.

2.
To use as a fool; to deceive in a shameful or mortifying manner; to impose upon; to cheat by inspiring foolish confidence; as, to fool one out of his money.

You are fooled, discarded, and shook off
By him for whom these shames ye underwent.
Shak.

To fool away, to get rid of foolishly; to spend in trifles, idleness, folly, or without advantage.


word: fool around
definition:
fool around

fool` a*round"
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Fooled around (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Fooling around.]
1.
To waste time in idle pursuits; to fool{2}.

Syn. -- fool{2}.

2.
To flirt or philander.
RHUD
3.
To be sexually promiscuous; to engage in sexual intercourse with more than one partner; especially, to engage in adultery; as, to fool around with another woman.


word: fool around with
definition:
fool around with

fool` a*round" with`
v. t.
To manipulate (a machine or device) without proper knowledge of its operation; to experiment aimlessly with a device; as, don't fool around with the transit.


word: Foolery
definition:
Foolery

Fool"er*y
(?)
n.
pl. Fooleries (_;).
1.
The practice of folly; the behavior of a fool; foolish behavior; absurdity.

Folly in fools bears not so strong a note,
As foolery in the wise, when wit doth dote.
Shak.

2.
An act of folly or weakness; a foolish practice; something absurd or nonsensical.

That Pythagoras, Plato, or Orpheus, believed in any of these fooleries, it can not be suspected.
Sir W. Raleigh.


word: Foolfish
definition:
Foolfish

Fool"fish`
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
(a)
The orange filefish. See Filefish.
(b)
The winter flounder. See Flounder.


word: Foolhardiness
definition:
Foolhardiness

Fool"har`di*ness
n.
Courage without sense or judgment; foolish rashness; recklessness.
Dryden.


word: Foolhardise
definition:
Foolhardise

Fool"har`dise
(?)
n.
[Fool, F. fol, fou + F. hardiesse boldness.]
Foolhardiness.
[Obs.]
Spenser.


word: Foolhardy
definition:
Foolhardy

Fool"har`dy
(?)
a.
[OF. folhardi. See Fool idiot, and Hardy.]
Daring without judgment; foolishly adventurous and bold.
Howell.


word: Foolish
definition:
Foolish

Fool"ish
a.
1.
Marked with, or exhibiting, folly; void of understanding; weak in intellect; without judgment or discretion; silly; unwise.

           I am a very foolish fond old man.
Shak.

2.
Such as a fool would do; proceeding from weakness of mind or silliness; exhibiting a want of judgment or discretion; as, a foolish act.

3.
Absurd; ridiculous; despicable; contemptible.

                 A foolish figure he must make.
Prior.


word: Foolishness
definition:
Foolishness

Fool"ish*ness
n.
1.
The quality of being foolish.

2.
A foolish practice; an absurdity.

 The preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness.
1 Cor. i. 18.


word: Fool-large
definition:
Fool-large

Fool"-large`
(?)
a.
[OF. follarge. See Fool, and Large.]
Foolishly liberal.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.


word: Fool-largesse
definition:
Fool-largesse

Fool"-lar*gesse`
(?)
n.
[See Fool-large, Largess.]
Foolish expenditure; waste.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.


word: Foolscap
definition:
Foolscap

Fools"cap`
(?)
n.
[So called from the watermark of a fool's cap and bells used by old paper makers. See Fool's cap, under Fool.]
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.


word: Foot
definition:
Foot

Foot
(fŏt)
n.
pl. Feet (fēt).
[OE. fot, foot, pl. fet, feet. AS. f&omacrt, pl. fēt; akin to D. voet, OHG. fuoz, G. fuss, Icel. f&omacrtr, Sw. fot, Dan. fod, Goth. f&omacrtus, L. pes, Gr. poy`s, Skr. pād, Icel. fet step, pace measure of a foot, feta to step, find one's way. √77, 250.  Cf. Antipodes, Cap-a-pie, Expedient, Fet to fetch, Fetlock, Fetter, Pawn a piece in chess, Pedal.]
1.
(Anat.)
The terminal part of the leg of man or an animal; esp., the part below the ankle or wrist; that part of an animal upon which it rests when standing, or moves. See Manus, and Pes.

2.
(Zool.)
The muscular locomotive organ of a mollusk. It is a median organ arising from the ventral region of body, often in the form of a flat disk, as in snails. See Illust. of Buccinum.

3.
That which corresponds to the foot of a man or animal; as, the foot of a table; the foot of a stocking.

4.
The lowest part or base; the ground part; the bottom, as of a mountain, column, or page; also, the last of a row or series; the end or extremity, esp. if associated with inferiority; as, the foot of a hill; the foot of the procession; the foot of a class; the foot of the bed; ; the foot of the page.

And now at foot
Of heaven's ascent they lift their feet.
Milton.

5.
Fundamental principle; basis; plan; -- used only in the singular.

Answer directly upon the foot of dry reason.
Berkeley.

6.
Recognized condition; rank; footing; -- used only in the singular.
[R.]

As to his being on the foot of a servant.
Walpole.

7.
A measure of length equivalent to twelve inches; one third of a yard. See Yard.

&hand_; This measure is supposed to be taken from the length of a man's foot. It differs in length in different countries. In the United States and in England it is 304.8 millimeters.

8.
(Mil.)
Soldiers who march and fight on foot; the infantry, usually designated as the foot, in distinction from the cavalry.
foot
Milton.

9.
(Pros.)
A combination of syllables consisting a metrical element of a verse, the syllables being formerly distinguished by their quantity or length, but in modern poetry by the accent.

10.
(Naut.)
The lower edge of a sail.

&hand_; Foot is often used adjectively, signifying of or pertaining to a foot or the feet, or to the base or lower part. It is also much used as the first of compounds.

 Foot artillery. (Mil.) (a) Artillery soldiers serving in foot. (b) Heavy artillery. Farrow. -- Foot bank (Fort.), a raised way within a parapet. -- Foot barracks (Mil.), barracks for infantery. -- Foot bellows, a bellows worked by a treadle. Knight. -- Foot company (Mil.), a company of infantry. Milton. -- Foot gear, covering for the feet, as stocking, shoes, or boots. -- Foot hammer (Mach.), a small tilt hammer moved by a treadle. -- Foot iron. (a) The step of a carriage. (b) A fetter. -- Foot jaw. (Zool.) See Maxilliped. -- Foot key (Mus.), an organ pedal. -- Foot level (Gunnery), a form of level used in giving any proposed angle of elevation to a piece of ordnance. Farrow. -- Foot mantle, a long garment to protect the dress in riding; a riding skirt. [Obs.] -- Foot page, an errand boy; an attendant. [Obs.] -- Foot passenger, one who passes on foot, as over a road or bridge. -- Foot pavement, a paved way for foot passengers; a footway; a trottoir. -- Foot poet, an inferior poet; a poetaster. [R.] Dryden. -- Foot post. (a) A letter carrier who travels on foot. (b) A mail delivery by means of such carriers. -- Fot pound, and Foot poundal. (Mech.) See Foot pound and Foot poundal, in the Vocabulary. -- Foot press (Mach.), a cutting, embossing, or printing press, moved by a treadle. -- Foot race, a race run by persons on foot. Cowper. -- Foot rail, a railroad rail, with a wide flat flange on the lower side. -- Foot rot, an ulcer in the feet of sheep; claw sickness. -- Foot rule, a rule or measure twelve inches long. -- Foot screw, an adjusting screw which forms a foot, and serves to give a machine or table a level standing on an uneven place. -- Foot secretion. (Zool.) See Sclerobase. -- Foot soldier, a soldier who serves on foot. -- Foot stick (Printing), a beveled piece of furniture placed against the foot of the page, to hold the type in place. -- Foot stove, a small box, with an iron pan, to hold hot coals for warming the feet. -- Foot tubercle. (Zool.) See Parapodium. -- Foot valve (Steam Engine), the valve that opens to the air pump from the condenser. -- Foot vise, a kind of vise the jaws of which are operated by a treadle. -- Foot waling (Naut.), the inside planks or lining of a vessel over the floor timbers. Totten. -- Foot wall (Mining), the under wall of an inclosed vein.

 By foot, or On foot, by walking; as, to pass a stream on foot. -- Cubic foot. See under Cubic. -- Foot and mouth disease, a contagious disease (Eczema epizoötica) of cattle, sheep, swine, etc., characterized by the formation of vesicles and ulcers in the mouth and about the hoofs. -- Foot of the fine (Law), the concluding portion of an acknowledgment in court by which, formerly, the title of land was conveyed. See Fine of land, under Fine, n.; also Chirograph. (b). -- Square foot. See under Square. -- To be on foot, to be in motion, action, or process of execution. -- To keep the foot (Script.), to preserve decorum. “Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God.” Eccl. v. 1. -- To put one's foot down, to take a resolute stand; to be determined. [Colloq.] -- To put the best foot foremost, to make a good appearance; to do one's best. [Colloq.] -- To set on foot, to put in motion; to originate; as, to set on foot a subscription. -- To put one on his feet, or set one on his feet, to put one in a position to go on; to assist to start. -- Under foot. (a) Under the feet; (Fig.) at one's mercy; as, to trample under foot. Gibbon. (b) Below par. [Obs.] “They would be forced to sell . . . far under foot.” Bacon.


word: Foot₂
definition:
Foot

Foot
(fŏt)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Footed; p. pr. & vb. n. Footing.]
1.
To tread to measure or music; to dance; to trip; to skip.
Dryden.

2.
To walk; -- opposed to ride or fly.
Shak.


word: Foot₃
definition:
Foot

Foot
v. t.
1.
To kick with the foot; to spurn.
Shak.

2.
To set on foot; to establish; to land.
[Obs.]

What confederacy have you with the traitors
Late footed in the kingdom?
Shak.

3.
To tread; as, to foot the green.
Tickell.

4.
To sum up, as the numbers in a column; -- sometimes with up; as, to foot (or foot up) an account.

5.
To seize or strike with the talon.
[Poet.]
Shak.

6.
To renew the foot of, as of a stocking.
Shak.

To foot a bill, to pay it. [Colloq.] -- To foot it, to walk; also, to dance.

If you are for a merry jaunt, I'll try, for once, who can foot it farthest.
Dryden.


word: footage
definition:
footage

footage
n.
(Cinematography)
1.
the amount of film that has been shot.

2.
a rate of charging by the linear foot of work done.


word: football
definition:
football

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

The American football is an oblate spheroid, with pointed ends.  In other countries, the football is the same as a soccer ball.  The games played with the two different balls are different. In the United States, the game played with a soccer ball is called soccer.

2.
The game played with a football{1}, by two opposing teams of players moving the ball between goals at opposite ends of a rectangular playing field.  Outside the United States football refers to soccer, and in England, also to rugby, but in the United States the shape of the ball and the rules of the game are different.
Arbuthnot.

3.
Soccer or rugby.
[Brit.]

4.
[fig.]
Something which is treated in a rough manner, usually as part of a dispute; as, a political football.


word: Footboard
definition:
Footboard

Foot"board`
(?)
n.
1.
A board or narrow platfrom upon which one may stand or brace his feet
(a)
The platform for the engineer and fireman of a locomotive.
(b)
The foot-rest of a coachman's box.

2.
A board forming the foot of a bedstead.

3.
A treadle.


word: Footbreadth
definition:
Footbreadth

Foot"breadth`
(?)
n.
The breadth of a foot; -- used as a measure.
Longfellow.

Not so much as a footbreadth.
Deut. ii. 5.


word: Foot candle
definition:
Foot candle

Foot candle
(Photom.)
The amount of illumination produced by a standard candle at a distance of one foot.


word: Footed
definition:
Footed

Foot"ed
a.
1.
Having a foot or feet; shaped in the foot; as, a footed candlestick.
Footed
Grew.

&hand_; Footed is often used in composition in the sense of having (such or so many) feet; as, fourfooted beasts.

2.
Having a foothold; established.

Our king . . . is footed in this land already.
Shak.


word: -footer
definition:
-footer

-foot"er
suff.
a suffix designating something with a length of (so many) feet; -- used only in combinations with a numerical prefix; as, he is a six-footer; the golfer sank a 40-footer; his yacht is a 60-footer.


word: Footfall
definition:
Footfall

Foot"fall`
(?)
n.
A setting down of the foot; a footstep; the sound of a footstep.
Shak.

Seraphim, whose footfalls tinkled on the tufted floor.
Poe.


word: Footfight
definition:
Footfight

Foot"fight`
(?)
n.
A conflict by persons on foot; -- distinguished from a fight on horseback.
Sir P. Sidney.


word: Foot Guards
definition:
Foot Guards

Foot" Guards`
(?)
pl.
Infantry soldiers belonging to select regiments called the Guards.
[Eng.]


word: Foothold
definition:
Foothold

Foot"hold`
(?)
n.
A holding with the feet; firm standing; that on which one may tread or rest securely; footing.
L'Estrange.


word: Foothot
definition:
Foothot

Foot"hot`
(?)
adv.
Hastily; immediately; instantly; on the spot; hotfoot.
Gower.

Custance have they taken anon, foothot.
Chaucer.


word: Footing
definition:
Footing

Foot"ing
n.
1.
Ground for the foot; place for the foot to rest on; firm foundation to stand on.

In ascent, every step gained is a footing and help to the next.
Holder.

2.
Standing; position; established place; basis for operation; permanent settlement; foothold.

As soon as he had obtained a footing at court, the charms of his manner . . . made him a favorite.
Macaulay.

3.
Relative condition; state.

Lived on a footing of equality with nobles.
Macaulay.

4.
Tread; step; especially, measured tread.

Hark, I hear the footing of a man.
Shak.

5.
The act of adding up a column of figures; the amount or sum total of such a column.

6.
The act of putting a foot to anything; also, that which is added as a foot; as, the footing of a stocking.

7.
A narrow cotton lace, without figures.

8.
The finer refuse part of whale blubber, not wholly deprived of oil.
Simmonds.

9.
(Arch. & Enging.)
The thickened or sloping portion of a wall, or of an embankment at its foot.

Footing course (Arch.), one of the courses of masonry at the foot of a wall, broader than the courses above. -- To pay one's footing, to pay a fee on first doing anything, as working at a trade or in a shop. Wright. -- Footing beam, the tie beam of a roof.


word: Footlight
definition:
Footlight

Foot"light`
(?)
n.
One of a row of lights in the front of the stage in a theater, etc., and on a level therewith.

Before the footlights, upon the stage; -- hence, in the capacity of an actor.


word: footling
definition:
footling

foot"ling
adj.
small and of little importance; as, a footling gesture.

Syn. -- fiddling, lilliputian, little, niggling, paltry, petty, piddling, picayune, small, trivial.


word: footlocker
definition:
footlocker

foot"lock*er
n.
a trunk for storing personal possessions; usually kept at the foot of a bed (as in a military barracks).

Syn. -- locker.


word: foot-loose
definition:
foot-loose

foot-loose
adj.
1.
having no commitments or restrictions.

Syn. -- fancy-free, footloose.


word: footloose
definition:
footloose

footloose
adj.
1.
without ties to a particular location; free to roam; wandering.

Syn. -- aimless, drifting, floating, vagabond, vagrant.

2.
without dependents or responsibilities.

Syn. -- untrammeled, untrammelled.

3.
having no commitments or restrictions.

Syn. -- fancy-free, foot-loose.


word: Footman
definition:
Footman

Foot"man
(?)
n.
pl. Footmen (_;).
1.
A soldier who marches and fights on foot; a foot soldier.

2.
A man in waiting; a male servant whose duties are to attend the door, the carriage, the table, etc.

3.
Formerly, a servant who ran in front of his master's carriage; a runner.
Prior.

4.
A metallic stand with four feet, for keeping anything warm before a fire.

5.
(Zool.)
A moth of the family Lithosidæ; -- so called from its livery-like colors.


word: Footpace
definition:
Footpace

Foot"pace`
(?)
n.
1.
A walking pace or step.

2.
A dais, or elevated platform; the highest step of the altar; a landing in a staircase.
Shipley.


word: Footpath
definition:
Footpath

Foot"path`
(?)
n.
pl. Footpaths (_;).
A narrow path or way for pedestrains only; a footway.


word: Foot pound
definition:
Foot pound

Foot" pound`
(?)
(Mech.)
A unit of energy, or work, being equal to the work done in raising one pound avoirdupois against the force of gravity through a vertical distance of one foot.


word: Foot poundal
definition:
Foot poundal

Foot" pound`al
(?)
(Mech.)
A unit of energy or work, equal to the work done in moving a body through one foot against the force of one poundal.


word: Footprint
definition:
Footprint

Foot"print`
(?)
n.
The impression of the foot; a trace or footmark; as, “Footprints of the Creator.”


word: Footrope
definition:
Footrope

Foot"rope`
(?)
n.
(Aut.)
(a)
The rope rigged below a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling; -- formerly called a horse.
(b)
That part of the boltrope to which the lower edge of a sail is sewed.


word: Foots
definition:
Foots

Foots
(?)
n. pl.
The settlings of oil, molasses, etc., at the bottom of a barrel or hogshead.
Simmonds.


word: foot-sore
definition:
foot-sore

footsore

foot"sore, foot"-sore`
(?)
a.
Having sore or tender feet, as by reason of much walking; as, foot-sore cattle.


word: Footstalk
definition:
Footstalk

Foot"stalk`
(?)
n.
1.
(Bot.)
The stalk of a leaf or of flower; a petiole, pedicel, or reduncle.

2.
(Zool.)
(a)
The peduncle or stem by which various marine animals are attached, as certain brachiopods and goose barnacles.
(b)
The stem which supports which supports the eye in decapod Crustacea; eyestalk.

3.
(Mach.)
The lower part of a millstone spindle. It rests in a step.
Knight.


word: Footstall
definition:
Footstall

Foot"stall`
(?)
n.
[Cf. Pedestal.]
1.
The stirrup of a woman's saddle.

2.
(Arch.)
The plinth or base of a pillar.


word: Footstep
definition:
Footstep

Foot"step`
(?)
n.
1.
The mark or impression of the foot; a track; hence, visible sign of a course pursued; token; mark; as, the footsteps of divine wisdom.

How on the faltering footsteps of decay
Youth presses.
Bryant.

2.
An inclined plane under a hand printing press.


word: Foot ton
definition:
Foot ton

Foot ton
(Mech.)
A unit of energy or work, being equal to the work done in raising one ton against the force of gravity through the height of one foot.


word: Foot valve
definition:
Foot valve

Foot valve
(Mech.)
A suction valve or check valve at the lower end of a pipe; esp., such a valve in a steam-engine condenser opening to the air pump.


word: Footworn
definition:
Footworn

Foot"worn`
(?)
a.
Worn by, or weared in, the feet; as, a footworn path; a footworn traveler.


word: Footy
definition:
Footy

Foot"y
(?)
a.
1.
Having foots, or settlings; as, footy oil, molasses, etc.
[Eng.]

2.
Poor; mean.
[Prov. Eng.]
C. Kingsley.


word: Foozle
definition:
Foozle

Foo"zle
(?)
v. t. & i.
[imp. & p. p. Foozled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Foozling (?).]
[Cf. G. fuseln to work badly or slowly.]
To bungle; to manage awkwardly; to treat or play unskillfully; as, to foozle a stroke in golf.
She foozles all along the course.
Century Mag.


word: Foozle₂
definition:
Foozle

Foo"zle
n.
1.
A stupid fellow; a fogy.
[Colloq.]

2.
Act of foozling; a bungling stroke, as in golf.


word: Fop
definition:
Fop

Fop
(?)
n.
[OE. foppe, fop, fool; cf. E. fob to cheat, G. foppen to make a fool of one, jeer, D. foppen.]
One whose ambition it is to gain admiration by showy dress; a coxcomb; an inferior dandy.


word: Fop-doodle
definition:
Fop-doodle

Fop"-doo`dle
(?)
n.
A stupid or insignificant fellow; a fool; a simpleton.
[R.]
Hudibras.


word: Foppery
definition:
Foppery

Fop"per*y
(?)
n.
pl. Fopperies (#).
[From Fop.]
1.
The behavior, dress, or other indication of a fop; coxcombry; affectation of show; showy folly.

2.
Folly; foolery.

Let not the sound of shallow foppery enter
My sober house.
Shak.


word: Foppish
definition:
Foppish

Fop"pish
(?)
a.
Foplike; characteristic of a top in dress or manners; making an ostentatious display of gay clothing; affected in manners.


word: For-
definition:
For-

For-
(_;)
[AS. for-; akin to D. & G. ver-, OHG. fir-, Icel. for-, Goth. fra-, cf. Skr. parā- away, Gr. _; beside, and E. far, adj.  Cf. Fret to rub.]
A prefix to verbs, having usually the force of a negative or privative. It often implies also loss, detriment, or destruction, and sometimes it is intensive, meaning utterly, quite thoroughly, as in forbathe.


word: For
definition:
For

For
(?)
prep.
[AS. for, fore; akin to OS. for, fora, furi, D. voor, OHG. fora, G. vor, OHG. furi, G. für, Icel. fyrir, Sw. för, Dan. for, adv. för, Goth. faúr, faúra, L. pro, Gr. _;, Skr. pra-. √ 202.  Cf. Fore, First, Foremost, Forth, Pro-.]
In the most general sense, indicating that in consideration of, in view of, or with reference to, which anything is done or takes place.

1.
Indicating the antecedent cause or occasion of an action; the motive or inducement accompanying and prompting to an act or state; the reason of anything; that on account of which a thing is or is done.

With fiery eyes sparkling for very wrath.
Shak.

How to choose dogs for scent or speed.
Waller.

Now, for so many glorious actions done,
For peace at home, and for the public wealth,
I mean to crown a bowl for Cæsar's health.
Dryden.

That which we, for our unworthiness, are afraid to crave, our prayer is, that God, for the worthiness of his Son, would, notwithstanding, vouchsafe to grant.
Hooker.

2.
Indicating the remoter and indirect object of an act; the end or final cause with reference to which anything is, acts, serves, or is done.

The oak for nothing ill,
The osier good for twigs, the poplar for the mill.
Spenser.

It was young counsel for the persons, and violent counsel for the matters.
Bacon.

Shall I think the worls was made for one,
And men are born for kings, as beasts for men,
Not for protection, but to be devoured?
Dryden.

For he writes not for money, nor for praise.
Denham.

3.
Indicating that in favor of which, or in promoting which, anything is, or is done; hence, in behalf of; in favor of; on the side of; -- opposed to against.

We can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
2 Cor. xiii. 8.

It is for the general good of human society, and consequently of particular persons, to be true and just; and it is for men's health to be temperate.
Tillotson.

Aristotle is for poetical justice.
Dennis.

4.
Indicating that toward which the action of anything is directed, or the point toward which motion is made; _;ntending to go to.

We sailed from Peru for China and Japan.
Bacon.

5.
Indicating that on place of or instead of which anything acts or serves, or that to which a substitute, an equivalent, a compensation, or the like, is offered or made; instead of, or place of.

And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
Ex. xxi. 23, 24.

6.
Indicating that in the character of or as being which anything is regarded or treated; to be, or as being.

We take a falling meteor for a star.
Cowley.

If a man can be fully assured of anything for a truth, without having examined, what is there that he may not embrace for tru_;?
Locke.

Most of our ingenious young men take up some cried-up English poet for their model.
Dryden.

But let her go for an ungrateful woman.
Philips.

7.
Indicating that instead of which something else controls in the performing of an action, or that in spite of which anything is done, occurs, or is; hence, equivalent to notwithstanding, in spite of; -- generally followed by all, aught, anything, etc.

The writer will do what she please for all me.
Spectator.

God's desertion shall, for aught he knows, the next minute supervene.
Dr. H. More.

For anything that legally appears to the contrary, it may be a contrivance to fright us.
Swift.

8.
Indicating the space or time through which an action or state extends; hence, during; in or through the space or time of.

For many miles about
There 's scarce a bush.
Shak.

Since, hired for life, thy servile muse sing.
prior.

To guide the sun's bright chariot for a day.
Garth.

9.
Indicating that in prevention of which, or through fear of which, anything is done.
[Obs.]

We 'll have a bib, for spoiling of thy doublet.
Beau. & Fl.

For, or As for, so far as concerns; as regards; with reference to; -- used parenthetically or independently. See under As.
[1913 Webster]
As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. Josh. xxiv. 15.
[1913 Webster]
For me, my stormy voyage at an end,
I to the port of death securely tend. Dryden.
-- For all that, notwithstanding; in spite of. -- For all the world, wholly; exactly. “Whose posy was, for all the world, like cutlers' poetry.” Shak. -- For as much as, or Forasmuch as, in consideration that; seeing that; since. -- For by. See Forby, adv. -- For ever, eternally; at all times. See Forever. -- For me, or For all me, as far as regards me. -- For my life, or For the life of me, if my life depended on it. [Colloq.] T. Hook. -- For that, For the reason that, because; since. [Obs.] “For that I love your daughter.” Shak.  -- For thy, or Forthy [AS. forð&ymacr_;.], for this; on this account. [Obs.] “Thomalin, have no care for thy.” Spenser. -- For to, as sign of infinitive, in order to; to the end of. [Obs., except as sometimes heard in illiterate speech.] -- “What went ye out for to see?” Luke vii. 25. See To, prep., 4. -- O for, would that I had; may there be granted; -- elliptically expressing desire or prayer. “O for a muse of fire.” Shak. -- Were it not for, or If it were not for, leaving out of account; but for the presence or action of. “Moral consideration can no way move the sensible appetite, were it not for the will.” Sir M. Hale.


word: For₂
definition:
For

For
(?)
conj.
1.
Because; by reason that; for that; indicating, in Old English, the reason of anything.

And for of long that way had walkéd none,
The vault was hid with plants and bushes hoar.
Fairfax.

And Heaven defend your good souls, that you think
I will your serious and great business scant,
For she with me.
Shak.

2.
Since; because; introducing a reason of something before advanced, a cause, motive, explanation, justification, or the like, of an action related or a statement made. It is logically nearly equivalent to since, or because, but connects less closely, and is sometimes used as a very general introduction to something suggested by what has gone before.

Give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good; for his mercy endureth forever.
Ps. cxxxvi. 1.

Heaven doth with us as we with torches do,
Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues
Did not go forth of us, 't were all alike
As if we had them not.
Shak.

For because, because. [Obs.] “Nor for because they set less store by their own citizens.” Robynson (More's Utopia). -- For why. (a) Why; for that reason; wherefore. [Obs.] (b) Because. [Obs.] See Forwhy.


word: For₃
definition:
For

For
n.
One who takes, or that which is said on, the affrimative side; that which is said in favor of some one or something; -- the antithesis of against, and commonly used in connection with it.

The fors and against. those in favor and those opposed; the pros and the cons; the advantages and the disadvantages. Jane Austen.


word: Forage
definition:
Forage

For"age
(?; 48)
n.
[OF. fourage, F. fourrage, fr. forre, fuerre, fodder, straw, F. feurre, fr. LL. foderum, fodrum, of German or Scand, origin; cf. OHG. fuotar, G. futter. See Fodder food, and cf. Foray.]
1.
The act of foraging; search for provisions, etc.

He [the lion] from forage will incline to play.
Shak.

One way a band select from forage drives
A herd of beeves, fair oxen and fair kine.
Milton.

Mawhood completed his forage unmolested.
Marshall.

2.
Food of any kind for animals, especially for horses and cattle, as grass, pasture, hay, corn, oats.
Dryden.

Forage cap. See under Cap. -- Forage master (Mil.), a person charged with providing forage and the means of transporting it. Farrow.


word: Forage₂
definition:
Forage

For"age
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Foraged ; p. pr. & vb. n. Foraging (?).]
To wander or rove in search of food; to collect food, esp. forage, for horses and cattle by feeding on or stripping the country; to ravage; to feed on spoil.

His most mighty father on a hill
Stood smiling to behold his lion's whelp
Forage in blood of French nobility.
Shak.

Foraging ant (Zool.), one of several species of ants of the genus Eciton, very abundant in tropical America, remarkable for marching in vast armies in search of food. -- Foraging cap, a forage cap. -- Foraging party, a party sent out after forage.


word: Forage₃
definition:
Forage

For"age
(?)
v. t.
To strip of provisions; to supply with forage; as, to forage steeds.
Pope.


word: Foralite
definition:
Foralite

For"a*lite
(?)
n.
[L. forare to bore + -lite.]
(Geol.)
A tubelike marking, occuring in sandstone and other strata.


word: Foramen
definition:
Foramen

Fo*ra"men
(?)
n.
pl. L. Foramina (#), E. Foramines (#).
[L., fr. forare to bore, pierce.]
A small opening, perforation, or orifice; a fenestra.

Foramen of Monro (Anat.), the opening from each lateral into the third ventricle of the brain. -- Foramen of Winslow (Anat.), the opening connecting the sac of the omentum with the general cavity of the peritoneum.


word: Foraminifera
definition:
Foraminifera

Fo*ram`i*nif"e*ra
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. L. foramen, -aminis, a foramen + ferre to bear.]
(Zool.)
An extensive order of rhizopods which generally have a chambered calcareous shell formed by several united zooids. Many of them have perforated walls, whence the name. Some species are covered with sand. See Rhizophoda.


word: Foraminiferous
definition:
Foraminiferous

Fo*ram`i*nif"er*ous
(?)
a.
1.
Having small openings, or foramina.

2.
Pertaining to, or composed of, Foraminifera; as, foraminiferous mud.


word: Forasmuch
definition:
Forasmuch

For`as*much"
(?)
conj.
In consideration that; seeing that; since; because that; -- followed by as.  See under For, prep.


word: Foray
definition:
Foray

For"ay
(f&obreve_;r"a̝ or fo̝*rā"; 277)
n.
[Another form of forahe.  Cf. Forray.]
A sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid.
Spenser.

The huge Earl Doorm, . . . 
Bound on a foray, rolling eyes of prey.
Tennyson.


word: Forayer
definition:
Forayer

For"ay*er
(? or ?)
n.
One who makes or joins in a foray.

They might not choose the lowland road,
For the Merse forayers were abroad.
Sir W. Scott.


word: Forbear
definition:
Forbear

For*bear"
(f&obreve_;r*bâr")
n.
[See Fore, and Bear to produce.]
An ancestor; a forefather; -- usually in the plural.
[Scot.]
[Also spelled forebear.]
forbears
Sir W. Scott.


word: Forbear₂
definition:
Forbear

For*bear"
(f&obreve_;r*bâr")
v. i.
[imp. Forbore (?) (Forbare (_;), [Obs.]); p. p. Forborne (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Forbearing.]
[OE. forberen, AS. forberan; pref. for- + beran to bear. See Bear to support.]
1.
To refrain from proceeding; to pause; to delay.

Shall I go against Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear?
1 Kings xxii. 6.

2.
To refuse; to decline; to give no heed.

Thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.
Ezek. ii. 7.

3.
To control one's self when provoked.

The kindest and the happiest pair
Will find occasion to forbear.
Cowper.

Both bear and forbear.
Old Proverb.


word: Forbear₃
definition:
Forbear

For*bear"
v. t.
1.
To keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from; to give up; as, to forbear the use of a word of doubtful propriety.

But let me that plunder forbear.
Shenstone.

The King
In open battle or the tilting field
Forbore his own advantage.
Tennyson.

2.
To treat with consideration or indulgence.

Forbearing one another in love.
Eph. iv. 2.

3.
To cease from bearing.
[Obs.]

Whenas my womb her burden would forbear.
Spenser.


word: Forbearance
definition:
Forbearance

For*bear"ance
(?)
n.
The act of forbearing or waiting; the exercise of patience.

He soon shall find
Forbearance no acquittance ere day end.
Milton.

2.
The quality of being forbearing; indulgence toward offenders or enemies; long-suffering.

Have a continent forbearance, till the speed of his rage goes slower.
Shak.


word: Forbearing
definition:
Forbearing

For*bear"ing
a.
Disposed or accustomed to forbear; patient; long-suffering.
For*bear"ing*ly, adv.


word: Forbid
definition:
Forbid

For*bid"
(f&obreve_;r*bĭd")
v. t.
[imp. Forbade (f&obreve_;r*băd"); p. p. Forbidden (f&obreve_;r*bĭd"d'n) (Forbid, [Obs.]); p. pr. & vb. n. Forbidding (f&obreve_;r*bĭd"dĭng).]
[OE. forbeden, AS. forbeódan; pref. for- + beódan to bid; akin to D. verbieden, G. verbieten, Icel. fyrirbj&omacrða, forboða, Sw. förbjuda, Dan. forbyde. See Bid, v. t.]
1.
To command against, or contrary to; to prohibit; to interdict.

More than I have said . . . 
The leisure and enforcement of the time
Forbids to dwell upon.
Shak.

2.
To deny, exclude from, or warn off, by express command; to command not to enter.

Have I not forbid her my house?
Shak.

3.
To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command; as, an impassable river forbids the approach of the army.

A blaze of glory that forbids the sight.
Dryden.

4.
To accurse; to blast.
[Obs.]

He shall live a man forbid.
Shak.

5.
To defy; to challenge.
[Obs.]
L. Andrews.


word: Forbiddance
definition:
Forbiddance

For*bid"dance
(?)
n.
The act of forbidding; prohibition; command or edict against a thing.
[Obs.]

How hast thou yield to transgress
The strict forbiddance.
Milton.


word: Forbidden
definition:
Forbidden

For*bid"den
(?)
a.
Prohibited; interdicted.

I know no spells, use no forbidden arts.
Milton.

Forbidden fruit. (a) Any coveted unlawful pleasure, -- so called with reference to the forbidden fruit of the Garden of Eden. (b) (Bot.) A small variety of shaddock (Citrus decumana). The name is given in different places to several varieties of Citrus fruits.


word: Forbidding
definition:
Forbidding

For*bid"ding
(?)
a.
Repelling approach; repulsive; raising abhorrence, aversion, or dislike; disagreeable; prohibiting or interdicting; as, a forbidding aspect; a forbidding formality; a forbidding air.


word: Forblack
definition:
Forblack

For*black"
(?)
a.
Very black.
[Obs.]

As any raven's feathers it shone forblack.
Chaucer.


word: Forbruise
definition:
Forbruise

For*bruise"
(?)
v. t.
To bruise sorely or exceedingly.
[Obs.]

All forbrosed, both back and side.
Chaucer.


word: Forby
definition:
Forby

For*by"
(?)
adv. & prep.
[See Foreby.]
Near; hard by; along; past.
[Obs.]

To tell her if her child went ought forby.
Chaucer.

To the intent that ships may pass along forby all the sides of the city without let.
Robynson (More's Utopia).


word: Force
definition:
Force

Force
(?)
v. t.
[See Farce to stuff.]
To stuff; to lard; to farce.
[R.]

Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit.
Shak.


word: Force₂
definition:
Force

Force
n.
[Of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. fors, foss, Dan. fos.]
A waterfall; a cascade.
[Prov. Eng.]

To see the falls for force of the river Kent.
T. Gray.


word: Force₃
definition:
Force

Force
n.
[F. force, LL. forcia, fortia, fr. L. fortis strong. See Fort, n.]
1.
Capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect; strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigor; might; often, an unusual degree of strength or energy; especially, power to persuade, or convince, or impose obligation; pertinency; validity; special signification; as, the force of an appeal, an argument, a contract, or a term.

He was, in the full force of the words, a good man.
Macaulay.

2.
Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion; as, by force of arms; to take by force.

Which now they hold by force, and not by right.
Shak.

3.
Strength or power for war; hence, a body of land or naval combatants, with their appurtenances, ready for action; -- an armament; troops; warlike array; -- often in the plural; hence, a body of men prepared for action in other ways; as, the laboring force of a plantation; the armed forces.

Is Lucius general of the forces?
Shak.

4.
(Law)
(a)
Strength or power exercised without law, or contrary to law, upon persons or things; violence.
(b)
Validity; efficacy.
Burrill.

5.
(Physics)
Any action between two bodies which changes, or tends to change, their relative condition as to rest or motion; or, more generally, which changes, or tends to change, any physical relation between them, whether mechanical, thermal, chemical, electrical, magnetic, or of any other kind; as, the force of gravity; cohesive force; centrifugal force.

Animal force (Physiol.), muscular force or energy. -- Catabiotic force [Gr. _; down (intens.) + _; life.] (Biol.), the influence exerted by living structures on adjoining cells, by which the latter are developed in harmony with the primary structures. -- Centrifugal force, Centripetal force, Coercive force, etc. See under Centrifugal, Centripetal, etc. -- Composition of forces, Correlation of forces, etc. See under Composition, Correlation, etc. -- Force and arms [trans. of L. vi et armis] (Law), an expression in old indictments, signifying violence. -- In force, or Of force, of unimpaired efficacy; valid; of full virtue; not suspended or reversed. “A testament is of force after men are dead.” Heb. ix. 17. -- Metabolic force (Physiol.), the influence which causes and controls the metabolism of the body. -- No force, no matter of urgency or consequence; no account; hence, to do no force, to make no account of; not to heed. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- Of force, of necessity; unavoidably; imperatively. “Good reasons must, of force, give place to better.” Shak. -- Plastic force (Physiol.), the force which presumably acts in the growth and repair of the tissues. -- Vital force (Physiol.), that force or power which is inherent in organization; that form of energy which is the cause of the vital phenomena of the body, as distinguished from the physical forces generally known.
Thy tears are of no force to mollify
This flinty man.
Heywood.

More huge in strength than wise in works he was.
Spenser.

Adam and first matron Eve
Had ended now their orisons, and found
Strength added from above, new hope to spring
Out of despair.
Milton.


word: Force₄
definition:
Force

Force
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Forced (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Forcing (?).]
[OF. forcier, F. forcer, fr. LL. forciare, fortiare. See Force, n.]
1.
To constrain to do or to forbear, by the exertion of a power not resistible; to compel by physical, moral, or intellectual means; to coerce; as, masters force slaves to labor.

2.
To compel, as by strength of evidence; as, to force conviction on the mind.

3.
To do violence to; to overpower, or to compel by violence to one's will; especially, to ravish; to violate; to commit rape upon.

To force their monarch and insult the court.
Dryden.

I should have forced thee soon wish other arms.
Milton.

To force a spotless virgin's chastity.
Shak.

4.
To obtain, overcome, or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress; as, to force the castle; to force a lock.

5.
To impel, drive, wrest, extort, get, etc., by main strength or violence; -- with a following adverb, as along, away, from, into, through, out, etc.

It stuck so fast, so deeply buried lay
That scarce the victor forced the steel away.
Dryden.

To force the tyrant from his seat by war.
Sahk.

Ethelbert ordered that none should be forced into religion.
Fuller.

6.
To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce.
[Obs.]

What can the church force more?
J. Webster.

7.
To exert to the utmost; to urge; hence, to strain; to urge to excessive, unnatural, or untimely action; to produce by unnatural effort; as, to force a conceit or metaphor; to force a laugh; to force fruits.

High on a mounting wave my head I bore,
Forcing my strength, and gathering to the shore.
Dryden.

8.
(Whist)
To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit of which he has none.

9.
To provide with forces; to reënforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison.
[Obs.]
Shak.

10.
To allow the force of; to value; to care for.
[Obs.]

For me, I force not argument a straw.
Shak.


word: Force₅
definition:
Force

Force
v. i.
[Obs. in all the senses.]
1.
To use violence; to make violent effort; to strive; to endeavor.

Forcing with gifts to win his wanton heart.
Spenser.

2.
To make a difficult matter of anything; to labor; to hesitate; hence, to force of, to make much account of; to regard.

Your oath once broke, you force not to forswear.
Shak.

I force not of such fooleries.
Camden.

3.
To be of force, importance, or weight; to matter.

It is not sufficient to have attained the name and dignity of a shepherd, not forcing how.
Udall.


word: Forced
definition:
Forced

Forced
(?)
a.
Done or produced with force or great labor, or by extraordinary exertion; hurried; strained; produced by unnatural effort or pressure; as, a forced style; a forced laugh.

Forced draught. See under Draught. -- Forced march (Mil.), a march of one or more days made with all possible speed.


word: force-feed₂
definition:
force-feed

force-feed
n.
a method of lubricating internal combustion engines in which a pump forces oil into the engine bearings.

Syn. -- lubricating system, force-feed lubricating system, force feed, pressure-feed lubricating system, pressure feed.


word: Forceful
definition:
Forceful

Force"ful
(?)
a.
Full of or processing force; exerting force; mighty.
Force"ful*ly, adv.

Against the steed he threw
His forceful spear.
Dryden.


word: Forceless
definition:
Forceless

Force"less
a.
Having little or no force; feeble.

These forceless flowers like sturdy trees support me.
Shak.


word: Forcemeat
definition:
Forcemeat

Force"meat`
(?)
n.
[Corrupt. for farce-meat, fr. F. farce stuffing. See Farce, n.]
(Cookery)
Meat chopped fine and highly seasoned, either served up alone, or used as a stuffing.
[Written also forced meat.]


word: Forcement
definition:
Forcement

Force"ment
(?)
n.
The act of forcing; compulsion.
[Obs.]

It was imposed upon us by constraint;
And will you count such forcement treachery?
J. Webster.


word: Forceps
definition:
Forceps

For"ceps
(?)
n.
[L. forceps, -cipis, from the root of formus Hot + capere to take; akin to E. heave.  Cf. Furnace.]
1.
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.

2.
(Zool.)
The caudal forceps-shaped appendage of earwigs and some other insects. See Earwig.

Dressing forceps. See under Dressing.


word: Force pump
definition:
Force pump

Force" pump`
(?)
(Mach.)
(a)
A pump having a solid piston, or plunger, for drawing and forcing a liquid, as water, through the valves; in distinction from a pump having a bucket, or valved piston.
(b)
A pump adapted for delivering water at a considerable height above the pump, or under a considerable pressure; in distinction from one which lifts the water only to the top of the pump or delivers it through a spout. See Illust. of Plunger pump, under Plunger.


word: Forcer
definition:
Forcer

For"cer
(?)
n.
1.
One who, or that which, forces or drives.

2.
(Mech.)
(a)
The solid piston of a force pump; the instrument by which water is forced in a pump.
(b)
A small hand pump for sinking pits, draining cellars, etc.


word: Forcible
definition:
Forcible

For"ci*ble
(?)
a.
[Cf. OF. forcible forcible, forceable that may be forced.]
1.
Possessing force; characterized by force, efficiency, or energy; powerful; efficacious; impressive; influential.

How forcible are right words!
Job. vi. 2_;.

Sweet smells are most forcible in dry substances, when broken.
Bacon.

But I have reasons strong and forcible.
Shak.

That punishment which hath been sometimes forcible to bridle sin.
Hooker.

He is at once elegant and sublime, forcible and ornamented.
Lowth (Transl. )

2.
Violent; impetuous.

Like mingled streams, more forcible when joined.
Prior.

3.
Using force against opposition or resistance; obtained by compulsion; effected by force; as, forcible entry or abduction.

In embraces of King James . . . forcible and unjust.
Swift.

Forcible entry and detainer (Law), the entering upon and taking and withholding of land and tenements by actual force and violence, and with a strong hand, to the hindrance of the person having the right to enter.


word: Forcible-feeble
definition:
Forcible-feeble

For"ci*ble-fee`ble
(?)
a.
[From Feeble, a character in the Second Part of Shakespeare's “King Henry IV.,” to whom Falstaff derisively applies the epithet “forcible.”]
Seemingly vigorous, but really weak or insipid.

He [Prof. Ayton] would purge his book of much offensive matter, if he struck out epithets which are in the bad taste of the forcible-feeble school.
N. Brit. Review.


word: Forcing
definition:
Forcing

For"cing
(?)
n.
1.
The accomplishing of any purpose violently, precipitately, prematurely, or with unusual expedition.

2.
(Gardening)
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.

Forcing bed or Forcing pit, a plant bed having an under layer of fermenting manure, the fermentation yielding bottom heat for forcing plants; a hotbed. -- Forcing engine, a fire engine. -- Forcing fit (Mech.), a tight fit, as of one part into a hole in another part, which makes it necessary to use considerable force in putting the two parts together. -- Forcing house, a greenhouse for the forcing of plants, fruit trees, etc. -- Forcing machine, a powerful press for putting together or separating two parts that are fitted tightly one into another, as for forcing a crank on a shaft, or for drawing off a car wheel from the axle. -- Forcing pump. See Force pump (b).


word: Forcipal
definition:
Forcipal

For"ci*pal
(?)
a.
Forked or branched like a pair of forceps; constructed so as to open and shut like a pair of forceps.
Sir T. Browne.


word: Forcipated
definition:
Forcipated

Forcipate

{ For"ci*pate (?), For"ci*pa`ted (?) }
a.
Like a pair of forceps; as, a forcipated mouth.


word: Forcite
definition:
Forcite

For"cite
(?)
n.
[From 3d Force, n.]
(Chem.)
A gelatin dynamite in which the dope is composed largely of sodium nitrate.


word: Ford
definition:
Ford

Ford
(f&omacrrd)
n.
[AS. ford; akin to G. furt, Icel. fjörðr bay, and to E. fare. √78. See Fare, v. i., and cf. Frith arm of the sea.]
1.
A place in a river, or other water, where it may be passed by man or beast on foot, by wading.

He swam the Esk river where ford there was none.
Sir W. Scott.

2.
A stream; a current.

With water of the ford
Or of the clouds.
Spenser.

Permit my ghost to pass the Styg_;an ford.
Dryden.


word: Ford₂
definition:
Ford

Ford
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Forded; p. pr. & vb. n. Fording.]
To pass or cross, as a river or other water, by wading; to wade through.

His last section, which is no deep one, remains only to be forted.
Milton.


word: Fordo
definition:
Fordo

For*do"
(?)
v. t.
[OE. fordon, AS. ford_;n; pref. for- + d_;n to do. See For-, and Do, v. i.]
1.
To destroy; to undo; to ruin.
[Obs.]

This is the night
That either makes me or fordoes me quite.
Shak.

2.
To overcome with fatigue; to exhaust.
M. Arnold.

All with weary task fordone.
Shak.


word: Fore
definition:
Fore

Fore
(f&omacrr)
n.
[AS. f&omacrr, fr. faran to go. See Fare, v. i.]
Journey; way; method of proceeding.
[Obs.]
fore
Chaucer.


word: Fore₂
definition:
Fore

Fore
adv.
[AS. fore, adv. & prep., another form of for. See For, and cf. Former, Foremost.]
1.
In the part that precedes or goes first; -- opposed to aft, after, back, behind, etc.

2.
Formerly; previously; afore.
[Obs. or Colloq.]

The eyes, fore duteous, now converted are.
Shak.

3.
(Naut.)
In or towards the bows of a ship.

Fore and aft (Naut.), from stem to stern; lengthwise of the vessel; -- in distinction from athwart. R. H. Dana, Jr. -- Fore-and-aft rigged (Naut.), not rigged with square sails attached to yards, but with sails bent to gaffs or set on stays in the midship line of the vessel. See Schooner, Sloop, Cutter.


word: Fore₃
definition:
Fore

Fore
(f&omacrr)
a.
[See Fore, adv.]
Advanced, as compared with something else; toward the front; being or coming first, in time, place, order, or importance; preceding; anterior; antecedent; earlier; forward; -- opposed to back or behind; as, the fore part of a garment; the fore part of the day; the fore and of a wagon.

The free will of the subject is preserved, while it is directed by the fore purpose of the state.
Southey.

&hand_; Fore is much used adjectively or in composition.

Fore bay, a reservoir or canal between a mill race and a water wheel; the discharging end of a pond or mill race. -- Fore body (Shipbuilding), the part of a ship forward of the largest cross-section, distinguished from middle body and after body. -- Fore boot, a receptacle in the front of a vehicle, for stowing baggage, etc. -- Fore bow, the pommel of a saddle. Knight. -- Fore cabin, a cabin in the fore part of a ship, usually with inferior accommodations. -- Fore carriage. (a) The forward part of the running gear of a four-wheeled vehicle. (b) A small carriage at the front end of a plow beam. -- Fore course (Naut.), the lowermost sail on the foremost of a square-rigged vessel; the foresail. See Illust. under Sail. -- Fore door. Same as Front door. -- Fore edge, the front edge of a book or folded sheet, etc. -- Fore elder, an ancestor. [Prov. Eng.] -- Fore end. (a) The end which precedes; the earlier, or the nearer, part; the beginning.
[1913 Webster]
I have . . . paid
More pious debts to heaven, than in all
The fore end of my time. Shak.
(b) In firearms, the wooden stock under the barrel, forward of the trigger guard, or breech frame. -- Fore girth, a girth for the fore part (of a horse, etc.); a martingale. -- Fore hammer, a sledge hammer, working alternately, or in time, with the hand hammer. -- Fore leg, one of the front legs of a quadruped, or multiped, or of a chair, settee, etc. -- Fore peak (Naut.), the angle within a ship's bows; the portion of the hold which is farthest forward. -- Fore piece, a front piece, as the flap in the fore part of a sidesaddle, to guard the rider's dress. -- Fore plane, a carpenter's plane, in size and use between a jack plane and a smoothing plane. Knight.  -- Fore reading, previous perusal. [Obs.] Hales.  -- Fore rent, in Scotland, rent payable before a crop is gathered. -- Fore sheets (Naut.), the forward portion of a rowboat; the space beyond the front thwart. See Stern sheets. -- Fore shore. (a) A bank in advance of a sea wall, to break the force of the surf. (b) The seaward projecting, slightly inclined portion of a breakwater. Knight. (c) The part of the shore between high and low water marks. -- Fore sight, that one of the two sights of a gun which is near the muzzle. -- Fore tackle (Naut.), the tackle on the foremast of a ship. -- Fore topmast. (Naut.) See Fore-topmast, in the Vocabulary. -- Fore wind, a favorable wind. [Obs.]
[1913 Webster]
Sailed on smooth seas, by fore winds borne. Sandys.
 -- Fore world, the antediluvian world. [R.] Southey.


word: Fore₄
definition:
Fore

Fore
n.
The front; hence, that which is in front; the future.

At the fore (Naut.), at the fore royal masthead; -- said of a flag, so raised as a signal for sailing, etc. -- To the fore. (a) In advance; to the front; to a prominent position; in plain sight; in readiness for use. (b) In existence; alive; not worn out, lost, or spent, as money, etc. [Irish] “While I am to the fore.” W. Collins. “How many captains in the regiment had two thousand pounds to the fore?” Thackeray.


word: Foreadmonish
definition:
Foreadmonish

Fore`ad*mon"ish
(?)
v. t.
To admonish beforehand, or before the act or event.
Bp. Hall.


word: Foreadvise
definition:
Foreadvise

Fore`ad*vise"
(?)
v. t.
To advise or counsel before the time of action, or before the event.
Shak.


word: Foreallege
definition:
Foreallege

Fore`al*lege"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Forealleged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Forealleging (?).]
To allege or cite before.
Fotherby.


word: Forearm
definition:
Forearm

Fore*arm"
(?)
v. t.
To arm or prepare for attack or resistance before the time of need.
South.


word: Forearm₂
definition:
Forearm

Fore"arm`
(?)
n.
(Anat.)
That part of the arm or fore limb between the elbow and wrist; the antibrachium.


word: Forebode
definition:
Forebode

Fore*bode"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Foreboded; p. pr. & vb. n. Foreboding.]
[AS. forebodian; fore + bodian to announce. See Bode v. t.]
1.
To foretell.

2.
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.

His heart forebodes a mystery.
Tennyson.

Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation, as the certain consequence of Cæsar's death.
Middleton.

I have a sort of foreboding about him.
H. James.


word: Forebrace
definition:
Forebrace

Fore"brace`
(?)
n.
(Naut.)
A rope applied to the fore yardarm, to change the position of the foresail.


word: Forebrain
definition:
Forebrain

Fore"brain`
(?)
n.
(Anat.)
The anterior of the three principal divisions of the brain, including the prosencephalon and thalamencephalon. Sometimes restricted to the prosencephalon only. See Brain.


word: Forecast
definition:
Forecast

Fore*cast"
(?)
v. t.
1.
To plan beforehand; to scheme; to project.

He shall forecast his devices against the strongholds.
Dan. xi. 24.

2.
To foresee; to calculate beforehand, so as to provide for; as, to forecast the weather; to forecast prices.

It is wisdom to consider the end of things before we embark, and to forecast consequences.
L'Estrange.


word: Forecast₂
definition:
Forecast

Fore*cast"
v. i.
To contrive or plan beforehand.

If it happen as I did forecast.
Milton.


word: Forecast₃
definition:
Forecast

Fore"cast
(?)
n.
Previous contrivance or determination; predetermination.

He makes this difference to arise from the forecast and predetermination of the gods themselves.
Addison.

2.
A calculation predicting future events; the foresight of consequences, and provision against them; prevision; premeditation; as, the weather forecast.

His calm, deliberate forecast better fitted him for the council than the camp.
Prescott.


word: forecasting
definition:
forecasting

fore"cast*ing
n.
The process of calculating and predicting future events, usually based on extrapolation from past experience, and with varying degress of uncertainty.

Syn. -- prediction, foretelling.


word: Forecastle
definition:
Forecastle

Fore"cas`tle
(?; sailors say _;)
n.
(Naut.)
(a)
A short upper deck forward, formerly raised like a castle, to command an enemy's decks.
(b)
That part of the upper deck of a vessel forward of the foremast, or of the after part of the fore channels.
(c)
In merchant vessels, the forward part of the vessel, under the deck, where the sailors live.


word: Foreclose
definition:
Foreclose

Fore*close"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Foreclosed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Foreclosing (?).]
[F. forclos, p. p. of forclore to exclude; OF. fors, F. hors, except, outside (fr. L. foris outside) + F. clore to close. See Foreign, and Close, v. t.]
To shut up or out; to preclude; to stop; to prevent; to bar; to exclude.

The embargo with Spain foreclosed this trade.
Carew.

To foreclose a mortgager (Law), to cut him off by a judgment of court from the power of redeeming the mortgaged premises, termed his equity of redemption. -- To foreclose a mortgage, (not technically correct, but often used to signify) the obtaining a judgment for the payment of an overdue mortgage, and the exposure of the mortgaged property to sale to meet the mortgage debt. Wharton.


word: Foreclosure
definition:
Foreclosure

Fore*clo"sure
(?; 135)
n.
The act or process of foreclosing; a proceeding which bars or extinguishes a mortgager's right of redeeming a mortgaged estate.


word: Foredeem
definition:
Foredeem

Fore*deem"
(?)
v. t.
To recognize or judge in advance; to forebode.
[Obs.]
Udall.

Laugh at your misery, as foredeeming you
An idle meteor.
J. Webster.


word: Foredeem₂
definition:
Foredeem

Fore*deem"
v. i.
[Cf. Foredoom.]
To know or discover beforehand; to foretell.
[Obs.]

Which [maid] could guess and foredeem of things past, present, and to come.
Genevan Test.


word: Foredispose
definition:
Foredispose

Fore`dis*pose"
(?)
v. t.
To bestow beforehand.
[R.]

King James had by promise foredisposed the place on the Bishop of Meath.
Fuller.


word: Foredoom
definition:
Foredoom

Fore*doom"
(?)
v. t.
[Cf. Foredeem.]
To doom beforehand; to predestinate.

Thou art foredoomed to view the Stygian state.
Dryden.


word: Forefather
definition:
Forefather

Fore"fa`ther
(?; 277)
n.
One who precedes another in the line of genealogy in any degree, but usually in a remote degree; an ancestor.

Respecting your forefathers, you would have been taught to respect yourselves.
Burke.

Forefathers' Day, the anniversary of the day (December 21) on which the Pilgrim Fathers landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts (1620). On account of a mistake in reckoning the change from Old Style to New Style, it has generally been celebrated on the 22d.


word: Forefeel
definition:
Forefeel

Fore*feel"
(?)
v. t.
To feel beforehand; to have a presentiment of.
[Obs.]

As when, with unwieldy waves, the great sea forefeels winds.
Chapman.


word: Forefend
definition:
Forefend

Fore*fend"
(?)
v. t.
[OE. forfenden; pref. for- + fenden to fend. See Fend, v. t.]
To hinder; to fend off; to avert; to prevent the approach of; to forbid or prohibit. See Forfend.

God forefend it should ever be recorded in our history.
Landor.

It would be a far better work . . . to forefend the cruelty.
I. Taylor.


word: Forefoot
definition:
Forefoot

Fore"foot`
(?)
n.
1.
One of the anterior feet of a quadruped or multiped; -- usually written fore foot.

2.
(Shipbuilding)
A piece of timber which terminates the keel at the fore end, connecting it with the lower end of the stem.


word: Forefront
definition:
Forefront

Fore"front`
(?)
n.
Foremost part or place.

Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle.
2 Sam. xi. 15.

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, standing in the forefront for all time, the masters of those who know.
J. C. Shairp.


word: Foreganger
definition:
Foreganger

Fore"gang`er
(?)
n.
[Prop., a goer before cf. G. voregänger. See Fore, and Gang.]
(Naut.)
A short rope grafted on a harpoon, to which a longer line may be attached.
Totten.


word: Foregleam
definition:
Foregleam

Fore"gleam`
(?)
n.
An antecedent or premonitory gleam; a dawning light.

The foregleams of wisdom.
Whittier.


word: Forego
definition:
Forego

Fore*go"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. Forewent 2; p. p. Foregone (?; 115); p. pr. & vb. n. Foregoing.]
[See Forgo.]
1.
To quit; to relinquish; to leave.

Stay at the third cup, or forego the place.
Herbert.

2.
To relinquish the enjoyment or advantage of; to give up; to resign; to renounce; -- said of a thing already enjoyed, or of one within reach, or anticipated.

All my patrimony,,
If need be, I am ready to forego.
Milton.

Thy lovers must their promised heaven forego.
Keble.

[He] never forewent an opportunity of honest profit.
R. L. Stevenson.

&hand_; Forgo is the better spelling etymologically, but the word has been confused with Forego, to go before.


word: Forego₂
definition:
Forego

Fore*go"
v. t.
[AS. foregān; fore + gān to go; akin to G. vorgehen to go before, precede. See Go, v. i.]
To go before; to precede; -- used especially in the present and past participles.

Pleasing remembrance of a thought foregone.
Wordsworth.

For which the very mother's face forewent
The mother's special patience.
Mrs. Browning.

Foregone conclusion, a conclusion which has preceded argument or examination; a predetermined conclusion.


word: Foregoer
definition:
Foregoer

Fore*go"er
(?)
n.
1.
One who goes before another; a predecessor; hence, an ancestor; a progenitor.

2.
A purveyor of the king; -- so called, formerly, from going before to provide for his household.
[Obs.]


word: foregone
definition:
foregone

foregone
adj.
past; -- used of time; as, foregone summers.  Contrassted to present.

Syn. -- bygone, bypast, departed, gone.


word: Foreground
definition:
Foreground

Fore"ground`
(?)
n.
On a painting, and sometimes in a bas-relief, mosaic picture, or the like, that part of the scene represented, which is nearest to the spectator, and therefore occupies the lowest part of the work of art itself.  Cf. Distance, n., 6.


word: Foregut
definition:
Foregut

Fore"gut`
(?)
n.
(Anat.)
The anterior part of the alimentary canal, from the mouth to the intestine, or to the entrance of the bile duct.


word: Forehand
definition:
Forehand

Fore"hand`
(?)
n.
1.
All that part of a horse which is before the rider.
Johnson.

2.
The chief or most important part.
Shak.

3.
Superiority; advantage; start; precedence.

And, but for ceremony, such a wretch . . . 
Had the forehand and vantage of a king.
Shak.


word: Forehanded
definition:
Forehanded

Fore"hand`ed
a.
1.
Early; timely; seasonable.
Forehanded
Jer. Taylor.

2.
Beforehand with one's needs, or having resources in advance of one's necessities; in easy circumstances; as, a forehanded farmer.
[U.S.]

3.
Formed in the forehand or fore parts.

A substantial, true-bred beast, bravely forehanded.
Dryden.


word: Forehead
definition:
Forehead

Fore"head
(?; 277)
n.
1.
The front of that part of the head which incloses the brain; that part of the face above the eyes; the brow.

2.
The aspect or countenance; assurance.

To look with forehead bold and big enough
Upon the power and puissance of the king.
Shak.

3.
The front or fore part of anything.

Flames in the forehead of the morning sky.
Milton.

So rich advantage of a promised glory
As smiles upon the forehead of this action.
Shak.


word: Forehearth
definition:
Forehearth

Fore"hearth`
(?)
n.
(Metal.)
The forward extension of the hearth of a blast furnace under the tymp.


word: Foreholding
definition:
Foreholding

Fore*hold"ing
(?)
n.
Ominous foreboding; superstitious prognostication.
[Obs.]
L'Estrange.


word: Forehook
definition:
Forehook

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


word: Foreign
definition:
Foreign

For"eign
(?)
a.
[OE. forein, F. forain, LL. foraneus, fr. L. foras, foris, out of doors, abroad, without; akin to fores doors, and E. door. See Door, and cf. Foreclose, Forfeit, Forest, Forum.]
1.
Outside; extraneous; separated; alien; as, a foreign country; a foreign government.
Foreign
Milton.

2.
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.
foreign
Atterbury.

Hail, foreign wonder!
Whom certain these rough shades did never breed.
Milton.

3.
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.

This design is not foreign from some people's thoughts.
Swift.

4.
Held at a distance; excluded; exiled.
[Obs.]

Kept him a foreign man still; which so grieved him,
That he ran mad and died.
Shak.

Foreign attachment (Law), a process by which the property of a foreign or absent debtor is attached for the satisfaction of a debt due from him to the plaintiff; an attachment of the goods, effects, or credits of a debtor in the hands of a third person; -- called in some States trustee, in others factorizing, and in others garnishee process. Kent. Tomlins. Cowell. -- Foreign bill, a bill drawn in one country, and payable in another, as distinguished from an inland bill, which is one drawn and payable in the same country. In this latter, as well as in several other points of view, the different States of the United States are foreign to each other. See Exchange, n., 4. Kent. Story. -- Foreign body (Med.), a substance occurring in any part of the body where it does not belong, and usually introduced from without. -- Foreign office, that department of the government of Great Britain which has charge British interests in foreign countries.


word: foreign-born
definition:
foreign-born

foreign-born
adj.
born in another area or country than that lived in; -- of persons.

Syn. -- nonnative.


word: Foreigner
definition:
Foreigner

For"eign*er
(?)
n.
A person belonging to or owning allegiance to a foreign country; one not native in the country or jurisdiction under consideration, or not naturalized there; an alien; a stranger.

Joy is such a foreigner,
So mere a stranger to my thoughts.
Denham.

Nor could the majesty of the English crown appear in a greater luster, either to foreigners or subjects.
Swift.


word: Foreignism
definition:
Foreignism

For"eign*ism
(?)
n.
Anything peculiar to a foreign language or people; a foreign idiom or custom.

It is a pity to see the technicalities of the so-called liberal professions distigured by foreignisms.
Fitzed. Hall.


word: Foreignness
definition:
Foreignness

For"eign*ness
n.
The quality of being foreign; remoteness; want of relation or appropriateness.

Let not the foreignness of the subject hinder you from endeavoring to set me right.
Locke.

A foreignness of complexion.
G. Eliot.


word: Forejudge
definition:
Forejudge

Fore*judge"
(?)
v. t.
[Fore + judge.]
To judge beforehand, or before hearing the facts and proof; to prejudge.


word: Forejudge₂
definition:
Forejudge

Fore*judge"
v. t.
[For forjudge, fr. F. forjuger; OF. fors outside, except + F. juger to judge.]
(O. Eng. Law)
To expel from court for some offense or misconduct, as an attorney or officer; to deprive or put out of a thing by the judgment of a court.
Burrill.


word: Forejudger
definition:
Forejudger

Fore*judg"er
(?)
n.
(Eng. Law)
A judgment by which one is deprived or put out of a right or thing in question.


word: Foreknow
definition:
Foreknow

Fore*know"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. Foreknew (?); p. p. Foreknown (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Foreknowing.]
To have previous knowledge of; to know beforehand.

Who would the miseries of man foreknow?
Dryden.


word: Foreknowingly
definition:
Foreknowingly

Fore*know"ing*ly
adv.
With foreknowledge.

He who . . . foreknowingly loses his life.
Jer. Taylor.


word: Foreknowledge
definition:
Foreknowledge

Fore*knowl"edge
(?)
n.
Knowledge of a thing before it happens, or of whatever is to happen; prescience.

If I foreknew,
Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault.
Milton.


word: Forel
definition:
Forel

For"el
(?)
n.
[OE. forelcase, sheath, OF. forel, fourel, F. fourreau, LL. forellus, fr. OF. forre, fuerre, sheath, case, of German origin; cf. OHG. fuotar, akin to Goth. f&omacrdr; prob. not the same word as E. fodder food.  Cf. Fur, Fodder food.]
A kind of parchment for book covers. See Forrill.


word: Foreland
definition:
Foreland

Fore"land`
(?)
n.
1.
A promontory or cape; a headland; as, the North and South Foreland in Kent, England.

2.
(Fort.)
A piece of ground between the wall of a place and the moat.
Farrow.

3.
(Hydraul. Engin.)
That portion of the natural shore on the outside of the embankment which receives the stock of waves and deadens their force.
Knight.


word: Forelay
definition:
Forelay

Fore*lay"
(?)
v. t.
1.
To lay down beforehand.

These grounds being forelaid and understood.
Mede.

2.
To waylay. See Forlay.
[Obs.]


word: Forelend
definition:
Forelend

Fore*lend"
(?)
v. t.
See Forlend.
[Obs.]

As if that life to losse they had forelent.
Spenser.


word: Forelie
definition:
Forelie

Fore*lie"
(?)
v. i.
To lie in front of.
[Obs.]

Which forelay
Athwart her snowy breast.
Spenser.


word: Forelock
definition:
Forelock

Fore"lock`
(?)
n.
1.
The lock of hair that grows from the forepart of the head.

2.
(Mech.)
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.

Forelock bolt, a bolt retained by a key, gib, or cotter passing through a slot. -- Forelock hook (Rope Making), a winch or whirl by which a bunch of three yarns is twisted into a standard. Knight. -- To take time by the forelock or To take occasion by the forelock, to make prompt use of anything; not to let slip an opportunity.

Time is painted with a lock before and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for when it is once past, there is no recalling it.
Swift.

On occasion's forelock watchful wait.
Milton.


word: Foreman
definition:
Foreman

Fore"man
(?)
n.
pl. Foremen (_;).
The first or chief man
(a)
The chief man of a jury, who acts as their speaker.
(b)
The chief of a set of hands employed in a shop, or on works of any kind, who superintends the rest; an overseer.


word: Foremast
definition:
Foremast

Fore"mast`
(?)
n.
(Naut.)
The mast nearest the bow.

Foremast hand or Foremast man (Naut.), a common sailor; also, a man stationed to attend to the gear of the foremast.


word: Foremilk
definition:
Foremilk

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


word: Foremost
definition:
Foremost

Fore"most`
(?)
a.
[OE. formest first, AS. formest, fyrmest, superl. of forma first, which is a superl. fr. fore fore; cf. Goth. frumist, fruma, first. See Fore, adv., and cf. First, Former, Frame, v. t., Prime, a.]
First in time or place; most advanced; chief in rank or dignity; as, the foremost troops of an army.

THat struck the foremost man of all this world.
Shak.


word: Forenenst
definition:
Forenenst

Fore*nenst"
(?)
prep.
[See Fore, and Anent.]
Over against; opposite to.
[Now dialectic]

The land forenenst the Greekish shore.
Fairfax.


word: Forenotice
definition:
Forenotice

Fore"no`tice
(?)
n.
Notice or information of an event before it happens; forewarning.
[R.]
Rymer.


word: Forensic
definition:
Forensic

Fo*ren"sic
(?)
a.
[L. forensis, fr. forum a public place, market place. See Forum.]
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.

Forensic medicine, medical jurisprudence; medicine in its relations to law.


word: Forensic₂
definition:
Forensic

Fo*ren"sic
n.
(Amer. Colleges)
An exercise in debate; a forensic contest; an argumentative thesis.


word: Foreordain
definition:
Foreordain

Fore`or*dain"
(?)
v. t.
To ordain or appoint beforehand; to preordain; to predestinate; to predetermine.
Hooker.


word: Foreordination
definition:
Foreordination

Fore*or`di*na"tion
(?)
n.
Previous ordination or appointment; predetermination; predestination.


word: Forepart
definition:
Forepart

Fore part

{ Fore" part` (f&omacrr"pärt), or Fore"part`  }
n.
The part most advanced, or first in time or in place; the beginning.


word: forepole
definition:
forepole

fore"pole`
(f&omacrr"p&omacrl`)
a.
(Mining)
One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead on top of a set of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.

Syn. -- spile{4}; spill{2d}.


word: Forepossessed
definition:
Forepossessed

Fore`pos*sessed"
(f&omacrr`p&obreve_;z*zĕst" or f&omacrr`p&obreve_;s*sĕst")
a.
1.
Holding or held formerly in possession.
[Obs.]

2.
Preoccupied; prepossessed; preëngaged.
[Obs.]

Not extremely forepossessed with prejudice.
Bp. Sanderson.


word: Forereach
definition:
Forereach

Fore*reach"
(?)
v. t.
(Naut.)
To advance or gain upon; -- said of a vessel that gains upon another when sailing closehauled.


word: Forereach₂
definition:
Forereach

Fore*reach"
v. i.
(Naut.)
To shoot ahead, especially when going in stays.
R. H. Dana, Jr.


word: Foreread
definition:
Foreread

Fore*read"
(?)
v. t.
To tell beforehand; to signify by tokens; to predestine.
[Obs.]
Spenser.


word: Forerun
definition:
Forerun

Fore*run"
(?)
v. t.
1.
To turn before; to precede; to be in advance of (something following).

2.
To come before as an earnest of something to follow; to introduce as a harbinger; to announce.

These signs forerun the death or fall of kings.
Shak.


word: Forerunner
definition:
Forerunner

Fore*run"ner
(?)
n.
1.
A messenger sent before to give notice of the approach of others; a harbinger; a sign foreshowing something; a prognostic; as, the forerunner of a fever.

Whither the forerunner in for us entered, even Jesus.
Heb. vi. 20.

My elder brothers, my forerunners, came.
Dryden.

2.
A predecessor; an ancestor.
[Obs.]
Shak.

3.
(Naut.)
A piece of rag terminating the log line.


word: Foresail
definition:
Foresail

Fore"sail`
(?)
n.
(Naut.)
(a)
The sail bent to the foreyard of a square-rigged vessel, being the lowest sail on the foremast.
(b)
The gaff sail set on the foremast of a schooner.
(c)
The fore staysail of a sloop, being the triangular sail next forward of the mast.


word: Foresay
definition:
Foresay

Fore*say"
(?)
v. t.
[AS. foresecgan; fore + secgan to say. See Say, v. t.]
To foretell.
[Obs.]

Her danger nigh that sudden change foresaid.
Fairfax.


word: Foresee
definition:
Foresee

Fore*see"
(?)
v. t.
[AS. foreseón; fore + seón to see. See See, v. t.]
1.
To see beforehand; to have prescience of; to foreknow.

A prudent man foreseeth the evil.
Prov. xxii. 3.

2.
To provide.
[Obs.]

Great shoals of people, which go on to populate, without foreseeing means of life.
Bacon.


word: foreseeable
definition:
foreseeable

foreseeable
adj.
being such as may reasonable be anticipated; as, foreseeable costs were well within the budget.


word: Foreseen
definition:
Foreseen

Fore*seen"
(?)
conj.
p. p.
Provided; in case that; on condition that.
[Obs.]

One manner of meat is most sure to every complexion, foreseen that it be alway most commonly in conformity of qualities, with the person that eateth.
Sir T. Elyot.


word: Foreshorten
definition:
Foreshorten

Fore*short"en
(?)
v. t.
1.
(Fine Art)
To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective.

2.
Fig.: To represent pictorially to the imagination.

Songs, and deeds, and lives that lie
Foreshortened in the tract of time.
Tennyson.


word: Foreshot
definition:
Foreshot

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


word: Foreshow
definition:
Foreshow

Fore*show"
(?)
v. t.
[AS. foresceáwian to foresee, provide; fore + sceáwian to see. See Show, v. t.]
To show or exhibit beforehand; to give foreknowledge of; to prognosticate; to foretell.

Your looks foreshow
You have a gentle heart.
Shak.

Next, like Aurora, Spenser rose,
Whose purple blush the day foreshows.
Denham.


word: Foreside
definition:
Foreside

Fore"side
(?)
n.
1.
The front side; the front; esp., a stretch of country fronting the sea.

2.
The outside or external covering.
Spenser.


word: Foresight
definition:
Foresight

Fore"sight`
(?)
n.
1.
The act or the power of foreseeing; prescience; foreknowledge.
Milton.

2.
Action in reference to the future; provident care; prudence; wise forethought.

This seems an unseasonable foresight.
Milton.

A random expense, without plan or foresight.
Burke.

3.
(Surv.)
Any sight or reading of the leveling staff, except the backsight; any sight or bearing taken by a compass or theodolite in a forward direction.

4.
(Gun.)
Muzzle sight. See Fore sight, under Fore, a.


word: Foreskin
definition:
Foreskin

Fore"skin
(?)
n.
(Anat.)
The fold of skin which covers the glans of the penis; the prepuce.


word: Foreskirt
definition:
Foreskirt

Fore"skirt`
(?)
n.
The front skirt of a garment, in distinction from the train.

Honor's train
Is longer than his foreskirt.
Shak.


word: Foreslow
definition:
Foreslow

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

No stream, no wood, no mountain could foreslow
Their hasty pace.
Fairfax.


word: Forespeak₂
definition:
Forespeak

Fore*speak"
v. t.
To foretell; to predict.
[Obs.]

My mother was half a witch; never anything that she forespake but came to pass.
Beau. & Fl.


word: Forest
definition:
Forest

For"est
(?)
n.
[OF. forest, F. forêt, LL. forestis, also, forestus, forestum, foresta, prop., open ground reserved for the chase, fr. L. foris, foras, out of doors, abroad. See Foreign.]
1.
An extensive wood; a large tract of land covered with trees; in the United States, a wood of native growth, or a tract of woodland which has never been cultivated.

2.
(Eng. Law)
A large extent or precinct of country, generally waste and woody, belonging to the sovereign, set apart for the keeping of game for his use, not inclosed, but distinguished by certain limits, and protected by certain laws, courts, and officers of its own.
Burrill.


word: Forest₂
definition:
Forest

For"est
a.
Of or pertaining to a forest; sylvan.

Forest fly. (Zool.) (a) One of numerous species of blood-sucking flies, of the family Tabanidæ, which attack both men and beasts. See Horse fly. (b) A fly of the genus Hippobosca, esp. H. equina. See Horse tick. -- Forest glade, a grassy space in a forest. Thomson. -- Forest laws, laws for the protection of game, preservation of timber, etc., in forests. -- Forest tree, a tree of the forest, especially a timber tree, as distinguished from a fruit tree.


word: Forestaff
definition:
Forestaff

Fore"staff`
(?)
n.
(Naut.)
An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of heavenly bodies, now superseded by the sextant; -- called also cross-staff.
Brande & C.


word: Forestage
definition:
Forestage

For"est*age
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. forestage.]
(O. Eng. Law)
(a)
A duty or tribute payable to the king's foresters.
(b)
A service paid by foresters to the king.


word: Forestall
definition:
Forestall

Fore*stall"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Forestalled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Forestalling.]
[OE. forstallen to stop, to obstruct; to stop (goods) on the way to the market by buying them beforehand, from forstal obstruction, AS. forsteal, foresteall, prop., a placing one's self before another. See Fore, and Stall.]
1.
To take beforehand, or in advance; to anticipate.

What need a man forestall his date of grief,
And run to meet what he would most avoid?
Milton.

2.
To take possession of, in advance of some one or something else, to the exclusion or detriment of the latter; to get ahead of; to preoccupy; also, to exclude, hinder, or prevent, by prior occupation, or by measures taken in advance.

An ugly serpent which forestalled their way.
Fairfax.

But evermore those damsels did forestall
Their furious encounter.
Spenser.

To be forestalled ere we come to fall.
Shak.

Habit is a forestalled and obstinate judge.
Rush.

3.
To deprive; -- with of.
[R.]

All the better; may
This night forestall him of the coming day!
Shak.

4.
(Eng. Law)
To obstruct or stop up, as a way; to stop the passage of on highway; to intercept on the road, as goods on the way to market.

To forestall the market, to buy or contract for merchandise or provision on its way to market, with the intention of selling it again at a higher price; to dissuade persons from bringing their goods or provisions there; or to persuade them to enhance the price when there. This was an offense at law in England until 1844. Burrill.


word: Forestay
definition:
Forestay

Fore"stay`
(?)
n.
(Naut.)
A large, strong rope, reaching from the foremast head to the bowsprit, to support the mast. See Illust. under Ship.


word: forested
definition:
forested

for"est*ed
adj.
covered with forest; as, efforts to protect forested lands of the northwest.


word: Forester
definition:
Forester

For"est*er
(?)
n.
[F. forestier, LL. forestarius.]
1.
One who has charge of the growing timber on an estate; an officer appointed to watch a forest and preserve the game.

2.
An inhabitant of a forest.
Wordsworth.

3.
A forest tree.
[R.]
Evelyn.

4.
(Zool.)
A lepidopterous insect belonging to Alypia and allied genera; as, the eight-spotted forester (A. octomaculata), which in the larval state is injurious to the grapevine.


word: Forestry
definition:
Forestry

For"est*ry
(?)
n.
[Cf. OF. foresterie.]
The art of forming or of cultivating forests; the management of growing timber.


word: Foretaste₂
definition:
Foretaste

Fore*taste"
(?)
v. t.
1.
To taste before full possession; to have previous enjoyment or experience of; to anticipate.

2.
To taste before another.
Foretasted
Milton.


word: Foretell
definition:
Foretell

Fore*tell"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Foretold (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Foretelling.]
To predict; to tell before occurence; to prophesy; to foreshow.

Deeds then undone my faithful tongue foretold.
Pope.

Prodigies, foretelling the future eminence and luster of his character.
C. Middleton.


word: Forethink
definition:
Forethink

Fore*think"
(?)
v. t.
1.
To think beforehand; to anticipate in the mind; to prognosticate.
[Obs.]

The soul of every man
Prophetically doth forethink thy fall.
Shak.

2.
To contrive (something) beforehend.
[Obs.]
Bp. Hall.


word: Forethought
definition:
Forethought

Fore"thought`
(?)
a.
Thought of, or planned, beforehand; aforethought; prepense; hence, deliberate.
Forethought
Bacon.


word: Forethought₂
definition:
Forethought

Fore"thought`
n.
A thinking or planning beforehand; prescience; premeditation; forecast; provident care.

A sphere that will demand from him forethought, courage, and wisdom.
I. Taylor.


word: Foretoken
definition:
Foretoken

Fore"to`ken
(?)
n.
[AS. foretācen. See Token.]
Prognostic; previous omen.
Sir P. Sidney.


word: Foretoken₂
definition:
Foretoken

Fore*to"ken
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Foretokened (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Foretokening (?).]
[AS. foretācnian; fore + tācnian.]
To foreshow; to presignify; to prognosticate.

Whilst strange prodigious signs foretoken blood.
Daniel.


word: Fore tooth
definition:
Fore tooth

Fore" tooth`
(?)
pl. Fore teeth (_;).
(Anat.)
One of the teeth in the forepart of the mouth; an incisor.


word: Foretop
definition:
Foretop

Fore"top`
(?)
n.
1.
The hair on the forepart of the head; esp., a tuft or lock of hair which hangs over the forehead, as of a horse.

2.
That part of a headdress that is in front; the top of a periwig.

3.
(Naut.)
The platform at the head of the foremast.


word: Fore-topgallant
definition:
Fore-topgallant

Fore`-top*gal"lant
(? or ?)
a.
(Naut.)
Designating the mast, sail, yard, etc., above the topmast; as, the fore-topgallant sail. See Sail.


word: Fore-topmast
definition:
Fore-topmast

Fore`-top"mast
(?)
n.
(Naut.)
The mast erected at the head of the foremast, and at the head of which stands the fore-topgallant mast; the mast next above the foremast. See Ship.


word: Forever
definition:
Forever

For*ev"er
(f&obreve_;r*ĕv"ẽr)
adv.
[For, prep. + ever.]
1.
Through eternity; through endless ages; eternally.

2.
At all times; always.

&hand_; In England, for and ever are usually written and printed as two separate words; but, in the United States, the general practice is to make but a single word of them.

Forever and ever, an emphatic “forever.”


word: Forevouched
definition:
Forevouched

Fore*vouched"
(f&omacrr*voucht")
a.
Formerly vouched or avowed; affirmed in advance.
[R.]
Shak.


word: Foreward
definition:
Foreward

Fore"ward`
(f&omacrr"w&asuml_;rd`)
n.
The van; the front.
[Obs.]

My foreward shall be drawn out all in length,
Consisting equally of horse and foot.
Shak.


word: Forewarn
definition:
Forewarn

Fore*warn"
(f&omacrr*w&asuml_;rn")
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Forewarned (f&omacrr*w&asuml_;rnd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Forewarning.]
To warn beforehand; to give previous warning, admonition, information, or notice to; to caution in advance.

We were forewarned of your coming.
Shak.


word: Forewit
definition:
Forewit

Fore"wit`
(?)
n.
1.
A leader, or would-be leader, in matters of knowledge or taste.
[Obs.]

Nor that the forewits, that would draw the rest unto their liking, always like the best.
B. Jonson.

2.
Foresight; prudence.

Let this forewit guide thy thought.
Southwell.


word: Forewite
definition:
Forewite

Fore*wite"
(?)
v. t.
[pres. indic. sing., 1st & 3d pers. Forewot (?), 2d person Forewost (_;), pl. Forewiten (_;); imp. sing. Forewiste (?), pl. Forewisten (_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Forewiting (?).]
[AS. forewitan. See Wit to know.]
To foreknow.
[Obs.]
[Written also forwete.]
Chaucer.


word: Forewoman
definition:
Forewoman

Fore"wom`an
(?)
n.
pl. Forewomen (_;).
A woman who is chief; a woman who has charge of the work or workers in a shop or other place; a head woman.
Tatler. W. Besant.


word: Foreworn
definition:
Foreworn

Fore*worn"
(?)
a.
[See Forworn.]
Worn out; wasted; used up.
[Archaic]

Old foreworn stories almost forgotten.
Brydges.


word: Forfeit
definition:
Forfeit

For"feit
(?)
n.
[OE. forfet crime, penalty, F. forfait crime (LL. forefactum, forifactum), prop. p. p. of forfaire to forfeit, transgress, fr. LL. forifacere, prop., to act beyond; L. foris out of doors, abroad, beyond + facere to do. See Foreign, and Fact.]
1.
Injury; wrong; mischief.
[Obs. & R.]

To seek arms upon people and country that never did us any forfeit.
Ld. Berners.

2.
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.

Thy slanders I forgive; and therewithal
Remit thy other forfeits.
Shak.

3.
Something deposited and redeemable by a sportive fine; -- whence the game of forfeits.

Country dances and forfeits shortened the rest of the day.
Goldsmith.


word: Forfeit₂
definition:
Forfeit

For"feit
a.
[F. forfait, p. p. of forfaire. See Forfeit, n.]
Lost or alienated for an offense or crime; liable to penal seizure.

Thy wealth being forfeit to the state.
Shak.

To tread the forfeit paradise.
Emerson.


word: Forfeit₃
definition:
Forfeit

For"feit
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Forfeited; p. pr. & vb. n. Forfeiting.]
[OE. forfeten. See Forfeit, n.]
To lose, or lose the right to, by some error, fault, offense, or crime; to render one's self by misdeed liable to be deprived of; to alienate the right to possess, by some neglect or crime; as, to forfeit an estate by treason; to forfeit reputation by a breach of promise; -- with to before the one acquiring what is forfeited.

[They] had forfeited their property by their crimes.
Burke.

Undone and forfeited to cares forever!
Shak.


word: Forfeit₄
definition:
Forfeit

For"feit
v. i.
1.
To be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to transgress.
[Obs.]

2.
To fail to keep an obligation.
[Obs.]

I will have the heart of him if he forfeit.
Shak.


word: Forfeit₅
definition:
Forfeit

For"feit
p. p. or a.
In the condition of being forfeited; subject to alienation.
Shak.

Once more I will renew
His lapsèd powers, though forfeite.
Milton.


word: Forfeitable
definition:
Forfeitable

For"feit*a*ble
(?)
a.
Liable to be forfeited; subject to forfeiture.

For the future, uses shall be subject to the statutes of mortmain, and forfeitable, like the lands themselves.
Blackstone.


word: Forfeiture
definition:
Forfeiture

For"fei*ture
(?; 135)
n.
[F. forfeiture, LL. forisfactura.]
1.
The act of forfeiting; the loss of some right, privilege, estate, honor, office, or effects, by an offense, crime, breach of condition, or other act.

Under pain of foreiture of the said goods.
Hakluyt.

2.
That which is forfeited; a penalty; a fine or mulct.

What should I gain
By the exaction of the forfeiture?
Shak.


word: Forfend
definition:
Forfend

For*fend"
(?)
v. t.
[Pref. for- + fend. See Forewend.]
To prohibit; to forbid; to avert.
[Archaic]

Which peril heaven forefend!
Shak.

&hand_; This is etymologically the preferable spelling.


word: Forfered
definition:
Forfered

For*fer"ed
(f&obreve_;r*fēr"ĕd)
p. p. & a.
[See For-, and Fear.]
Excessively alarmed; in great fear.
[Obs.]
Forfered
Chaucer.


word: Forfete
definition:
Forfete

For"fete
(?)
v. i.
[See Forfeit.]
To incur a penalty; to transgress.
[Obs.]

And all this suffered our Lord Jesus Christ that never forfeted.
Chaucer.


word: Forficate
definition:
Forficate

For"fi*cate
(?)
a.
[L. forfex, forficis, shears.]
(Zool.)
Deeply forked, as the tail of certain birds.


word: Forficula
definition:
Forficula

For*fic"u*la
(?)
n.
[L., small shears, scissors, dim. of forfex shears.]
(Zool.)
A genus of insects including the earwigs. See Earwig, 1.


word: Forficulidae
definition:
Forficulidae

Forficulidae
n.
A natural family of insects incliuding the typical earwigs.

Syn. -- family Forficulidae.


word: Forgather
definition:
Forgather

For*gath"er
(?)
v. i.
To convene; to gossip; to meet accidentally.
[Scot.]
Jamieson.

Within that circle he forgathered with many a fool.
Wilson.


word: Forge
definition:
Forge

Forge
(f&omacrrj)
n.
[F. forge, fr. L. fabrica the workshop of an artisan who works in hard materials, fr. faber artisan, smith, as adj., skillful, ingenious; cf. Gr. _; soft, tender.  Cf. Fabric.]
1.
A place or establishment where iron or other metals are wrought by heating and hammering; especially, a furnace, or a shop with its furnace, etc., where iron is heated and wrought; a smithy.

In the quick forge and working house of thought.
Shak.

2.
The works where wrought iron is produced directly from the ore, or where iron is rendered malleable by puddling and shingling; a shingling mill.

3.
The act of beating or working iron or steel; the manufacture of metallic bodies.
[Obs.]

In the greater bodies the forge was easy.
Bacon.

American forge, a forge for the direct production of wrought iron, differing from the old Catalan forge mainly in using finely crushed ore and working continuously. Raymond. -- Catalan forge. (Metal.) See under Catalan. -- Forge cinder, the dross or slag form a forge or bloomary. -- Forge rolls, Forge train, the train of rolls by which a bloom is converted into puddle bars. -- Forge wagon (Mil.), a wagon fitted up for transporting a blackmith's forge and tools. -- Portable forge, a light and compact blacksmith's forge, with bellows, etc., that may be moved from place to place.


word: Forge₂
definition:
Forge

Forge
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Forged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Forging (?).]
[F. forger, OF. forgier, fr. L. fabricare, fabricari, to form, frame, fashion, from fabrica. See Forge, n., and cf. Fabricate.]
1.
To form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal.

Mars's armor forged for proof eterne.
Shak.

2.
To form or shape out in any way; to produce; to frame; to invent.

Those names that the schools forged, and put into the mouth of scholars, could never get admittance into common use.
Locke.

Do forge a life-long trouble for ourselves.
Tennyson.

3.
To coin.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

4.
To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate; to counterfeit, as, a signature, or a signed document.

That paltry story is untrue,
And forged to cheat such gulls as you.
Hudibras.

Forged certificates of his . . . moral character.
Macaulay.


word: Forge₃
definition:
Forge

Forge
v. i.
[See Forge, v. t., and for sense 2, cf. Forge compel.]
1.
To commit forgery.

2.
(Naut.)
To move heavily and slowly, as a ship after the sails are furled; to work one's way, as one ship in outsailing another; -- used especially in the phrase to forge ahead.
Totten.

And off she [a ship] forged without a shock.
De Quincey.


word: forged
definition:
forged

forged
(f&omacrrjd)
adj.
1.
Not genuine; counterfeit; -- used mostly of signatures and documents.  See forge, v. t., 4.

Syn. -- bad.

2.
shaped by strong pressure in a press, or by heatng and hammering; -- of metal objects.
Also used metaphorically of results requiring intense or difficult effort.


word: Forger
definition:
Forger

For"ger
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. forgeur metal worker, L. fabricator artificer. See Forge, n. & v. t., and cf. Fabricator.]
One who forges, makes, of forms; a fabricator; a falsifier.

2.
Especially: One guilty of forgery; one who makes or issues a counterfeit document.


word: Forgery
definition:
Forgery

For"ger*y
(?)
n.
pl. Forgeries (#).
[Cf. F. forgerie.]
1.
The act of forging metal into shape.
[Obs.]

Useless the forgery
Of brazen shield and spear.
Milton.

2.
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.
Bouvier.

3.
That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised, or counterfeited.

These are the forgeries of jealously.
Shak.

The writings going under the name of Aristobulus were a forgery of the second century.
Waterland.


word: Forget
definition:
Forget

For*get"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. Forgot (?) (Forgat (_;), Obs.); p. p. Forgotten (?), Forgot; p. pr. & vb. n. Forgetting.]
[OE. forgeten, foryeten, AS. forgietan, forgitan; pref. for- + gietan, gitan (only in comp.), to get; cf. D. vergeten, G. vergessen, Sw. förgäta, Dan. forgiette. See For-, and Get, v. t.]
1.
To lose the remembrance of; to let go from the memory; to cease to have in mind; not to think of; also, to lose the power of; to cease from doing.

Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits.
Ps. ciii. 2.

Let my right hand forget her cunning.
Ps. cxxxvii. 5.

Hath thy knee forget to bow?
Shak.

2.
To treat with inattention or disregard; to slight; to neglect.

Can a woman forget her sucking child? . . . Yes, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
Is. xlix. 15.

To forget one's self. (a) To become unmindful of one's own personality; to be lost in thought. (b) To be entirely unselfish. (c) To be guilty of what is unworthy of one; to lose one's dignity, temper, or self-control.


word: Forgetful
definition:
Forgetful

For*get"ful
(?)
a.
1.
Apt to forget; easily losing remembrance; as, a forgetful man should use helps to strengthen his memory.

2.
Heedless; careless; neglectful; inattentive.

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers.
Heb. xiii. 2.

3.
Causing to forget; inducing oblivion; oblivious.
[Archaic or Poetic]
forgetful
J. Webster.


word: Forgetfulness
definition:
Forgetfulness

For*get"ful*ness
n.
1.
The quality of being forgetful; prononess to let slip from the mind.

2.
Loss of remembrance or recollection; a ceasing to remember; oblivion.

A sweet forgetfulness of human care.
Pope.

3.
Failure to bear in mind; careless omission; inattention; as, forgetfulness of duty.


word: Forget-me-not
definition:
Forget-me-not

For*get"-me-not`
(?)
n.
[Cf. G. vergissmeinnicht.]
(Bot.)
A small perennial herb, of the genus Myosotis (Myosotis scorpiodes, Myosotis palustris, Myosotis incespitosa, etc.), bearing a beautiful bright blue or white flowers, and extensively considered the emblem of fidelity.

Syn. -- mouse ear,  .

&hand_; Formerly the name was given to the Ajuga Chamæpitus.


word: Forging
definition:
Forging

For"ging
(?)
n.
1.
The act of shaping metal by hammering or pressing.

2.
The act of counterfeiting.

3.
(Mach.)
A piece of forged work in metal; -- a general name for a piece of hammered iron or steel.

There are very few yards in the world at which such forgings could be turned out.
London Times.


word: Forgive
definition:
Forgive

For*give"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. Forgave (?); p. p. Forgiven (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Forgiving]
[OE. forgiven, foryiven, foryeven, AS. forgiefan, forgifan; perh. for- + giefan, gifan to give; cf. D. vergeven, G. vergeben, Icel. fyrirgefa, Sw. f_;rgifva, Goth. fragiban to give, grant. See For-, and Give, v. t.]
1.
To give wholly; to make over without reservation; to resign.

To them that list the world's gay shows I leave,
And to great ones such folly do forgive.
Spenser.

2.
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.

And their sins should be forgiven them.
Mark iv. 12.

He forgive injures so readily that he might be said to invite them.
Macaulay.

3.
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.

Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.
Luke xxiii. 34.

I as free forgive you, as I would be fforgiven.
Shak.

&hand_; Sometimes both the person and the offense follow as objects of the verb, sometimes one and sometimes the other being the indirect object. “Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.” Matt. vi. 12. “Be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee.” Matt. ix. 2.


word: Forgiveness
definition:
Forgiveness

For*give"ness
n.
[AS. forgifnes.]
1.
The act of forgiving; the state of being forgiven; as, the forgiveness of sin or of injuries.

To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses.
Dan. ix. 9.

In whom we have . . . the forgiveness of sin.
Eph. i. 7.

2.
Disposition to pardon; willingness to forgive.

If thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared.
Ps. cxxx. 3, 4.


word: Forgiving
definition:
Forgiving

For*giv"ing
a.
Disposed to forgive; inclined to overlook offenses; mild; merciful; compassionate; placable; as, a forgiving temper.


word: Forgo
definition:
Forgo

For*go"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. Forwent; p. p. Forgone; p. pr. & vb. n. Forgoing.]
[OE. forgan, forgon, forgoon, AS. forgān, prop., to go past, hence, to abstain from; pref. for- + gān to go; akin to G. vergehen to pass away, to transgress. See Go, v. i.]
1.
To pass by; to leave. See 1st Forego.

For sith [since] I shall forgoon my liberty
At your request.
Chaucer.

And four [days] since Florimell the court forwent.
Spenser.

2.
to abstain from; to do without; to refrain from; to renounce; -- said of a thing already enjoyed, or of one within reach, or anticipated.  See 1st forego, 2.

&hand_; This word in spelling has been confused with, and almost superseded by, forego to go before. Etymologically the form forgo is correct.


word: Forhall
definition:
Forhall

For*hall"
(?)
v. t.
[Pref. for- + hale to draw.]
To harass; to torment; to distress.
[Obs.]
Spenser.


word: Forisfamiliate
definition:
Forisfamiliate

Fo`ris*fa*mil"i*ate
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Forisfamiliated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Forisfamiliating (?).]
[LL. forisfamiliatus, p. p. of forisfamiliater to forisfamiliate; L. foris abroad, without + familia family.]
(LAw)
Literally, to put out of a family; hence, to portion off, so as to exclude further claim of inheritance; to emancipate (as a with his own consent) from paternal authority.
Blackstone.


word: Forisfamiliate₂
definition:
Forisfamiliate

Fo`ris*fa*mil"i*ate
v. i.
(Law)
To renounce a legal title to a further share of paternal inheritance.


word: Fork
definition:
Fork

Fork
(fôrk)
n.
[AS. forc, fr. L. furca.  Cf. Fourché, Furcate.]
1.
An instrument consisting of a handle with a shank terminating in two or more prongs or tines, which are usually of metal, parallel and slightly curved; -- used for piercing, holding, taking up, or pitching anything.

2.
Anything furcate or like a fork in shape, or furcate at the extremity; as, a tuning fork.

3.
One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow.

Let it fall . . . though the fork invade
The region of my heart.
Shak.

A thunderbolt with three forks.
Addison.

4.
The place where a division or a union occurs; the angle or opening between two branches or limbs; as, the fork of a river, a tree, or a road.

5.
The gibbet.
[Obs.]
Bp. Butler.

Fork beam (Shipbuilding), a half beam to support a deck, where hatchways occur. -- Fork chuck (Wood Turning), a lathe center having two prongs for driving the work. -- Fork head. (a) The barbed head of an arrow. (b) The forked end of a rod which forms part of a knuckle joint. -- In fork. (Mining) A mine is said to be in fork, or an engine to “have the water in fork,” when all the water is drawn out of the mine. Ure. -- The forks of a river or The forks of a road, the branches into which it divides, or which come together to form it; the place where separation or union takes place.


word: Fork₂
definition:
Fork

Fork
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Forked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Forking.]
1.
To shoot into blades, as corn.

The corn beginneth to fork.
Mortimer.

2.
To divide into two or more branches; as, a road, a tree, or a stream forks.


word: Fork₃
definition:
Fork

Fork
v. t.
To raise, or pitch with a fork, as hay; to dig or turn over with a fork, as the soil.

Forking the sheaves on the high-laden cart.
Prof. Wilson.

To fork over To fork  out, to hand or pay over, as money; to cough up. [Slang] G. Eliot.


word: Forkbeard
definition:
Forkbeard

Fork"beard`
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
(a)
A European fish (Raniceps raninus), having a large flat head; -- also called tadpole fish, and lesser forked beard.
(b)
The European forked hake or hake's-dame (Phycis blennoides); -- also called great forked beard.


word: Forked
definition:
Forked

Forked
(?)
a.
1.
Formed into a forklike shape; having a fork; dividing into two or more prongs or branches; furcated; bifurcated; zigzag; as, the forked lighting.

A serpent seen, with forked tongue.
Shak.

2.
Having a double meaning; ambiguous; equivocal.

Cross forked (Her.), a cross, the ends of whose arms are divided into two sharp points; -- called also cross double fitché. A cross forked of three points is a cross, each of whose arms terminates in three sharp points. -- Forked counsel, advice pointing more than one way; ambiguous advice. [Obs.] B. Jonson.


word: Forktail
definition:
Forktail

Fork"tail`
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
(a)
One of several Asiatic and East Indian passerine birds, belonging to Enucurus, and allied genera. The tail is deeply forked.
(b)
A salmon in its fourth year's growth.
[Prov. Eng.]


word: Fork-tailed
definition:
Fork-tailed

Fork"-tailed`
(?)
a.
(Zool.)
Having the outer tail feathers longer than the median ones; swallow-tailed; -- said of many birds.

Fork-tailed flycatcher (Zool.), a tropical American flycatcher (Milvulus tyrannus). -- Fork-tailed gull (Zool.), a gull of the genus Xema, of two species, esp. X. Sabinii of the Arctic Ocean. -- Fork-tailed kite (Zool.), a graceful American kite (Elanoides forficatus); -- called also swallow-tailed kite.


word: Forlay
definition:
Forlay

For*lay"
(?)
v. t.
[Pref. for- + lay.]
To lie in wait for; to ambush.

An ambushed thief forlays a traveler.
Dryden.


word: Forleave
definition:
Forleave

For*leave"
(?)
v. t.
[OE. forleven; pref. for- + leven to leave.]
To leave off wholly.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.


word: Forlese
definition:
Forlese

For*lese"
(?)
v. t.
[p. p. Forlore (?), Forlorn (_;).]
[OE. forlesen. See Forlorn.]
To lose utterly.
[Obs.]
haucer.


word: Forlet
definition:
Forlet

For*let"
v. t.
[OE. forleten, AS. forl&aemacr_;tan; pref. for- + l&aemacr_;tan to allow; akin to G. verlassen to leave. See Let to allow.]
To give up; to leave; to abandon.
[Obs.]
forlet
Chaucer.


word: Forlore
definition:
Forlore

For*lore"
(?)
imp. pl. & p. p. of Forlese.
[Obs.]

The beasts their caves, the birds their nests forlore.
Fairfax.


word: Forlorn
definition:
Forlorn

For*lorn"
(?)
a.
[OE., p. p. of forlesen to lose utterly, AS. forleósan (p. p. forloren); pref. for- + leósan (in comp.) to lose; cf. D. verliezen to lose, G. verlieren, Sw. förlora, Dan. forloren, Goth. fraliusan to lose. See For-, and Lorn, a., Lose, v. t.]
1.
Deserted; abandoned; lost.

Of fortune and of hope at once forlorn.
Spenser.

Some say that ravens foster forlorn children.
Shak.

2.
Destitute; helpless; in pitiful plight; wretched; miserable; almost hopeless; desperate.

For here forlorn and lost I tread.
Goldsmith.

The condition of the besieged in the mean time was forlorn in the extreme.
Prescott.

She cherished the forlorn hope that he was still living.
Thomson.

A forlorn hope [D. verloren hoop, prop., a lost band or troop; verloren, p. p. of verliezen to lose + hoop band; akin to E. heap. See For-, and Heap.] (Mil.), a body of men (called in F. enfants perdus, in G. verlornen posten) selected, usually from volunteers, to attempt a breach, scale the wall of a fortress, or perform other extraordinarily perilous service; also, a desperate case or enterprise.


word: Forlorn₂
definition:
Forlorn

For*lorn"
n.
1.
A lost, forsaken, or solitary person.

Forced to live in Scotland a forlorn.
Shak.

2.
A forlorn hope; a vanguard.
[Obs.]

Our forlorn of horse marched within a mile of the enemy.
Oliver Cromvell.


word: -form
definition:
-form

-form
(_;)
[See Form, n.]
A suffix used to denote in the form or shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.


word: Form
definition:
Form

Form
(f&omacrrm; in senses 8 & 9, often f&omacrrm in England)
n.
[OE. & F. forme, fr. L. forma; cf. Skr. dhariman.  Cf. Firm.]
1.
The shape and structure of anything, as distinguished from the material of which it is composed; particular disposition or arrangement of matter, giving it individuality or distinctive character; configuration; figure; external appearance.

The form of his visage was changed.
Dan. iii. 19.

And woven close close, both matter, form, and style.
Milton.

2.
Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system; as, a republican form of government.

3.
Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula; as, a form of prayer.

Those whom form of laws
Condemned to die.
Dryden.

4.
Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality; as, a matter of mere form.

Though well we may not pass upon his life
Without the form of justice.
Shak.

5.
Orderly arrangement; shapeliness; also, comeliness; elegance; beauty.

The earth was without form and void.
Gen. i. 2.

He hath no form nor comeliness.
Is. liii. 2.

6.
A shape; an image; a phantom.

7.
That by which shape is given or determined; mold; pattern; model.

8.
A long seat; a bench; hence, a rank of students in a school; a class; also, a class or rank in society.
form
Bp. Burnet.

9.
The seat or bed of a hare.

As in a form sitteth a weary hare.
Chaucer.

10.
(Print.)
The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase.

11.
(Fine Arts)
The boundary line of a material object. In (painting), more generally, the human body.

12.
(Gram.)
The particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech; as, participial forms; verbal forms.

13.
(Crystallog.)
The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.

14.
(Metaph.)
That assemblage or disposition of qualities which makes a conception, or that internal constitution which makes an existing thing to be what it is; -- called essential or substantial form, and contradistinguished from matter; hence, active or formative nature; law of being or activity; subjectively viewed, an idea; objectively, a law.

15.
Mode of acting or manifestation to the senses, or the intellect; as, water assumes the form of ice or snow. In modern usage, the elements of a conception furnished by the mind's own activity, as contrasted with its object or condition, which is called the matter; subjectively, a mode of apprehension or belief conceived as dependent on the constitution of the mind; objectively, universal and necessary accompaniments or elements of every object known or thought of.

16.
(Biol.)
The peculiar characteristics of an organism as a type of others; also, the structure of the parts of an animal or plant.

Good form or Bad form, the general appearance, condition or action, originally of horses, afterwards of persons; as, the members of a boat crew are said to be in good form when they pull together uniformly.  The phrases are further used colloquially in description of conduct or manners in society; as, it is not good form to smoke in the presence of a lady.


word: Form₂
definition:
Form

Form
(fôrm)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Formed (fôrmd); p. pr. & vb. n. Forming.]
[F. former, L. formare, fr. forma. See Form, n.]
1.
To give form or shape to; to frame; to construct; to make; to fashion.

God formed man of the dust of the ground.
Gen. ii. 7.

The thought that labors in my forming brain.
Rowe.

2.
To give a particular shape to; to shape, mold, or fashion into a certain state or condition; to arrange; to adjust; also, to model by instruction and discipline; to mold by influence, etc.; to train.

'T is education forms the common mind.
Pope.

Thus formed for speed, he challenges the wind.
Dryden.

3.
To go to make up; to act as constituent of; to be the essential or constitutive elements of; to answer for; to make the shape of; -- said of that out of which anything is formed or constituted, in whole or in part.

The diplomatic politicians . . . who formed by far the majority.
Burke.

4.
To provide with a form, as a hare. See Form, n., 9.

The melancholy hare is formed in brakes and briers.
Drayton.

5.
(Gram.)
To derive by grammatical rules, as by adding the proper suffixes and affixes.

6.
(Elec.)
To treat (plates) so as to bring them to fit condition for introduction into a storage battery, causing one plate to be composed more or less of spongy lead, and the other of lead peroxide. This was formerly done by repeated slow alternations of the charging current, but now the plates or grids are coated or filled, one with a paste of red lead and the other with litharge, introduced into the cell, and formed by a direct charging current.


word: Form₃
definition:
Form

Form
v. i.
1.
To take a form, definite shape, or arrangement; as, the infantry should form in column.

2.
To run to a form, as a hare.
B. Jonson.

To form on (Mil.), to form a lengthened line with reference to (any given object) as a basis.


word: Formal₂
definition:
Formal

Form"al
(fôrm"al)
a.
[L. formalis: cf. F. formel.]
1.
Belonging to the form, shape, frame, external appearance, or organization of a thing.

2.
Belonging to the constitution of a thing, as distinguished from the matter composing it; having the power of making a thing what it is; constituent; essential; pertaining to or depending on the forms, so called, of the human intellect.

Of [the sounds represented by] letters, the material part is breath and voice; the formal is constituted by the motion and figure of the organs of speech.
Holder.

3.
Done in due form, or with solemnity; according to regular method; not incidental, sudden or irregular; express; as, he gave his formal consent.

His obscure funeral . . . 
No noble rite nor formal ostentation.
Shak.

4.
Devoted to, or done in accordance with, forms or rules; punctilious; regular; orderly; methodical; of a prescribed form; exact; prim; stiff; ceremonious; as, a man formal in his dress, his gait, his conversation.

A cold-looking, formal garden, cut into angles and rhomboids.
W. Irwing.

She took off the formal cap that confined her hair.
Hawthorne.

5.
Having the form or appearance without the substance or essence; external; as, formal duty; formal worship; formal courtesy, etc.

6.
Dependent in form; conventional.

Still in constraint your suffering sex remains,
Or bound in formal or in real chains.
Pope.

7.
Sound; normal.
[Obs.]

To make of him a formal man again.
Shak.

Formal cause. See under Cause.


word: Formaldehyde
definition:
Formaldehyde

For*mal"de*hyde
(?)
n.
[Formic + aldehyde.]
(Chem.)
A colorless, volatile liquid, H2CO, resembling acetic or ethyl aldehyde, and chemically intermediate between methyl alcohol and formic acid.


word: Formalin
definition:
Formalin

For"ma*lin
(?)
n.
[Formic + aldehyde + -in.]
(Chem.)
An aqueous solution of formaldehyde, used as a preservative in museums and as a disinfectant.


word: Formalism
definition:
Formalism

Form"al*ism
(fôrm"al*ĭz'm)
n.
The practice or the doctrine of strict adherence to, or dependence on, external forms, esp. in matters of religion.

Official formalism.
Sir H. Rawlinson.


word: Formalist
definition:
Formalist

Form"al*ist
n.
[Cf. F. formaliste.]
One overattentive to forms, or too much confined to them; esp., one who rests in external religious forms, or observes strictly the outward forms of worship, without possessing the life and spirit of religion.

As far a formalist from wisdom sits,
In judging eyes, as libertines from wits.
Young.


word: Formality
definition:
Formality

For*mal"i*ty
(?)
n.
pl. Formalities (#).
[Cf. F. formalité.]
1.
The condition or quality of being formal, strictly ceremonious, precise, etc.

2.
Form without substance.

Such [books] as are mere pieces of formality, so that if you look on them, you look though them.
Fuller.

3.
Compliance with formal or conventional rules; ceremony; conventionality.

Nor was his attendance on divine offices a matter of formality and custom, but of conscience.
Atterbury.

4.
An established order; conventional rule of procedure; usual method; habitual mode.

He was installed with all the usual formalities.
C. Middleton.

5.
pl.
The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal.
[Obs.]

The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover.
Fuller.

6.
That which is formal; the formal part.

It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while it aims to keep fast the outward formality.
Milton.

7.
The quality which makes a thing what it is; essence.

The material part of the evil came from our father upon us, but the formality of it, the sting and the curse, is only by ourselves.
Jer. Taylor.

The formality of the vow lies in the promise made to God.
Bp. Stillingfleet.

8.
(Scholastic. Philos.)
The manner in which a thing is conceived or constituted by an act of human thinking; the result of such an act; as, animality and rationality are formalities.


word: formalities
definition:
formalities

formalities
n.
a set of procedures required to make a transaction official.

Syn. -- form, formality.


word: Formalize
definition:
Formalize

Form"al*ize
(fôrm"al*īz)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Formalized (fôrm"al*īzd); p. pr. & vb. n. Formalizing (fôrm"al*ī`zĭng).]
1.
To give form, or a certain form, to; to model.
[R.]

2.
To render formal.


word: formalized
definition:
formalized

formalized
adj.
1.
concerned with or characterized by rigorous adherence to recognized forms, especially in religion or art; using formalism; as, highly formalized plays like "Waiting for Godot".

Syn. -- formalistic.

2.
given formal standing or endorsement; made official or legitimate by the observance of proper procedures.
official (vs. unofficial) --- (having official authority or sanction: "official permission"; "an official representative")


word: Formally
definition:
Formally

Form"al*ly
adv.
In a formal manner; essentially; characteristically; expressly; regularly; ceremoniously; precisely.

That which formally makes this [charity] a Christian grace, is the spring from which it flows.
Smalridge.

You and your followers do stand formally divided against the authorized guides of the church and rest of the people.
Hooker.


word: formalwear
definition:
formalwear

formalwear
n.
attire to wear on formal occasions in the evening.

Syn. -- eveningwear, evening dress, evening clothes.


word: Format
definition:
Format

For`mat"
(fo̝r`mȧ" or fo̝r`mät")
n.
[F. or G. Cf. Formation.]
1.
(Print.)
The shape and size of a book or other printed publication; hence, its external form.
[wns=2]

The older manuscripts had been written in a much larger format than that found convenient for university work.
G. H. Putnam.

One might, indeed, protest that the format is a little too luxurious.
Nature.

2.
(Print.)
the arrangement of the parts of a printed page, such as text and graphics; as, text flowing around an illustration provides a more pleasing format; multiple columns are a more common format for large pages.

3.
(Computers)
The pattern of organization of information in an electronic storage medium, such as the number and size of records, or the size, spacing, or separation symbols for fields in a record.  A computer file, for example, may be in fixed-length format, in which each field or record occupies the same number of bytes, or in variable-length format, in which the lengths of fields or records varies.  The number of formats are unlimited, being specifiable at will by programmers or in some cases by the users of programs.
[wns=1]

Syn. -- data format.

4.
Hence,
The general organization, form, or plan for anything, such as an organized social, political, or entertainment event.


word: format
definition:
format

format
v. t.
to set into a specific format; -- of printed matter or data recorded on a data soorage medium.

Syn. -- arrange.


word: Formate
definition:
Formate

For"mate
(fôr"ma̝t)
n.
[See Formic.]
(Chem.)
A salt of formic acid.
[Written also formiate.]


word: Formation
definition:
Formation

For*ma"tion
(f&obreve_;r*mā"shŭn)
n.
[L. formatio: cf. F. formation.]
1.
The act of giving form or shape to anything; a forming; a shaping.
Beattie.

2.
The manner in which a thing is formed; structure; construction; conformation; form; as, the peculiar formation of the heart.

3.
A substance formed or deposited.

4.
(Geol.)
(a)
Mineral deposits and rock masses designated with reference to their origin; as, the siliceous formation about geysers; alluvial formations; marine formations.
(b)
A group of beds of the same age or period; as, the Eocene formation.

5.
(Mil.)
The arrangement of a body of troops, as in a square, column, etc.
Farrow.


word: Formative
definition:
Formative

Form"a*tive
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. formatif.]
1.
Giving form; having the power of giving form; plastic; as, the formative arts.

The meanest plant can not be raised without seed, by any formative residing in the soil.
Bentley.

2.
(Gram.)
Serving to form; derivative; not radical; as, a termination merely formative.

3.
(Biol.)
Capable of growth and development; germinal; as, living or formative matter.


word: Formative₂
definition:
Formative

Form"a*tive
n.
(Gram.)
(a)
That which serves merely to give form, and is no part of the radical, as the prefix or the termination of a word.
(b)
A word formed in accordance with some rule or usage, as from a root.


word: Formed
definition:
Formed

Formed
(fôrmd)
a.
1.
(Astron.)
Arranged, as stars in a constellation; as, formed stars.
[R.]

2.
(Biol.)
Having structure; capable of growth and development; organized; as, the formed or organized ferments. See Ferment, n.

Formed material (Biol.), a term employed by Beale to denote the lifeless matter of a cell, that which is physiologically dead, in distinction from the truly germinal or living matter.


word: Formedon
definition:
Formedon

For"me*don
(fôr"me̝*d&obreve_;n)
n.
[OF., fr. Latin. So called because the plaintiff claimed “by the form of the gift,” L. per formam doni.]
(O. Eng. Law)
A writ of right for a tenant in tail in case of a discontinuance of the estate tail.  This writ has been abolished.


word: Formell
definition:
Formell

For"mell
(?)
n.
[Dim. of F. forme the female of a bird of prey.]
(Zool.)
The female of a hawk or falcon.


word: Former
definition:
Former

Form"er
(?)
n.
1.
One who forms; a maker; a creator.

2.
(Mech.)
(a)
A shape around which an article is to be shaped, molded, woven wrapped, pasted, or otherwise constructed.
(b)
A templet, pattern, or gauge by which an article is shaped.
(c)
A cutting die.


word: Former₂
definition:
Former

For"mer
(?)
a.
[A compar. due to OE. formest. See Foremost.]
1.
Preceding in order of time; antecedent; previous; prior; earlier; hence, ancient; long past.

For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age.
Job. viii. 8.

The latter and former rain.
Hosea vi. 3.

3.
Near the beginning; preceeding; as, the former part of a discourse or argument.

3.
Earlier, as between two things mentioned together; first mentioned.

A bad author deserves better usage than a bad critic; a man may be the former merely through the misfortune of an ill judgment; but he can not be latter without both that and an ill temper.
Pope.


word: Formeret
definition:
Formeret

For`me*ret"
(?)
n.
[F.]
(Arch.)
One of the half ribs against the walls in a ceiling vaulted with ribs.


word: Formerly
definition:
Formerly

For"mer*ly
(?)
adv.
In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.


word: Formic
definition:
Formic

For"mic
(?)
a.
[L. formica an ant: cf. F. formique.]
(Chem.)
Pertaining to, or derived from, ants; as, formic acid; in an extended sense, pertaining to, or derived from, formic acid; as, formic ether.

Amido formic acid, carbamic acid. -- Formic acid, a colorless, mobile liquid, HCO.OH, of a sharp, acid taste, occurring naturally in ants, nettles, pine needles, etc., and produced artifically in many ways, as by the oxidation of methyl alcohol, by the reduction of carbonic acid or the destructive distillation of oxalic acid. It is the first member of the fatty acids in the paraffin series, and is homologous with acetic acid.


word: Formica
definition:
Formica

For*mi"ca
(fôr*mī"kȧ)
prop. n.
[L., an ant.]
(Zool.)
A Linnæan genus of hymenopterous insects, including the common ants. See Ant.


word: Formica₂
definition:
Formica

For*mi"ca
(fôr*mī"kȧ)
prop. n.
[a trademark.]
A thermosetting plastic material composed of melamine resin, having good heat and chemical resistance, and commonly used as the surface layer in laminated sheets employed as coverings for counter tops, walls, or furniture.


word: Formicaroid
definition:
Formicaroid

For`mi*ca"roid
(?)
a.
[NL. Formicarius, the typical genus + -oid.]
(Zool.)
Like or pertaining to the family Formicaridæ or ant thrushes.


word: Formicary
definition:
Formicary

For"mi*ca*ry
(?)
n.
[LL. formicarium, fr. L. formica an ant.]
(Zool.)
The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill.


word: Formicate
definition:
Formicate

For"mi*cate
(?)
a.
[L. formica an ant.]
(Zool.)
Resembling, or pertaining to, an ant or ants.


word: Formicate₂
definition:
Formicate

For"mi*cate
(fôr"mĭ*kāt)
v. i.
[See Formication.]
To creep or crawl like ants; swarm with, or as with, ants.
An open space which formicated with peasantry.
Lowell.


word: Formication
definition:
Formication

For`mi*ca"tion
(?)
n.
[L. formicatio, fr. formicare to creep like an ant, to feel as if ants were crawling on one's self, fr. formica ant: cf. F. formication.]
(Med.)
A sensation resembling that made by the creeping of ants on the skin.
Dunglison.


word: Formicid
definition:
Formicid

For"mi*cid
(?)
a.
(Zool.)
Pertaining to the ants.
n. One of the family Formicidæ, or ants.


word: Formicidae
definition:
Formicidae

Formicidae
prop. n.
The natural family of insects comprising the ants.

Syn. -- family Formicidae.


word: Formidable
definition:
Formidable

For"mi*da*ble
(?)
a.
[L. formidabilis, fr. formidare to fear, dread: cf. F. formidable.]
Exciting fear or apprehension; impressing dread; adapted to excite fear and deter from approach, encounter, or undertaking; alarming.

They seemed to fear the formodable sight.
Dryden.

I swell my preface into a volume, and make it formidable, when you see so many pages behind.
Drydn.


word: Formidableness
definition:
Formidableness

For"mi*da*ble*ness
n.
The quality of being formidable, or adapted to excite dread.
Boyle.


word: Formidolose
definition:
Formidolose

For*mid"o*lose
(?)
a.
[L. formidolosus, fr. formido fear.]
Very much afraid.
[Obs.]
Bailey.


word: Forming
definition:
Forming

Form"ing
(?)
n.
The act or process of giving form or shape to anything; as, in shipbuilding, the exact shaping of partially shaped timbers.


word: Formless
definition:
Formless

Form"less
a.
Shapeless; without a determinate form; wanting regularity of shape.
Form"less*ly, adv. -- Form"less*ness, n.


word: Formosa
definition:
Formosa

Formosa
prop. n.
An island off the coast of China, also called Taiwan.  It was occupied by Japan from 1895 to 1945, when it was returned to Chinese sovereignty.  After the Communist revolution which took over the Chinese mainland in 1949, the Nationalist Chinese under Chang Kai-Shek retreated to the island of Formosa and established that island as the base of their government, being recognized for several years as the de jure possessor of the China seat in the United Nations.  The capital is Taipei.  As of 1998, both the Taiwan government and the mainland China government recognized Taiwan as properly a part of China, but the island is currently ruled as a de facto independent nation, though it does not possess a seat in the United Nations.  The question of when and under what circumstances the island will be reunited with the mainland government is still unresolved.

Syn. -- Taiwan.


word: Formosan
definition:
Formosan

Formosan
prop. adj.
of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, Formosa or the natives of Formosa; as, The native Formosan population now forms a minority on their own island..

Syn. -- Taiwanese, Chinese.


word: Formula
definition:
Formula

For"mu*la
(?)
n.
pl. E. Formulas (#), L. Formulæ (#).
[L., dim. of forma form, model. SeeForm, n.]
1.
A prescribed or set form; an established rule; a fixed or conventional method in which anything is to be done, arranged, or said.

2.
(Eccl.)
A written confession of faith; a formal statement of foctrines.

3.
(Math.)
A rule or principle expressed in algebraic language; as, the binominal formula.

4.
(Med.)
A prescription or recipe for the preparation of a medicinal compound.

5.
(Chem.)
A symbolic expression (by means of letters, figures, etc.) of the constituents or constitution of a compound.

&hand_; Chemical formulæ consist of the abbreviations of the names of the elements, with a small figure at the lower right hand, to denote the number of atoms of each element contained.

Empirical formula (Chem.), an expression which gives the simple proportion of the constituents; as, the empirical formula of acetic acid is C2H4O2. -- Graphic formula, Rational formula (Chem.), an expression of the constitution, and in a limited sense of the structure, of a compound, by the grouping of its atoms or radicals; as, a rational formula of acetic acid is CH3.(C:O).OH; -- called also structural formula, constitutional formula, etc. See also the formula of Benzene nucleus, under Benzene. -- Molecular formula (Chem.), a formula indicating the supposed molecular constitution of a compound.


word: Formularization
definition:
Formularization

For`mu*lar*i*za"tion
(?)
n.
The act of formularizing; a formularized or formulated statement or exhibition.
C. Kingsley.


word: Formulary₂
definition:
Formulary

For"mu*la*ry
n.
pl. Formularies (#).
[Cf. F. formulaire.]
1.
A book containing stated and prescribed forms, as of oaths, declarations, prayers, medical formulaæ, etc.; a book of precedents.

2.
Prescribed form or model; formula.


word: Formulate
definition:
Formulate

For"mu*late
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Formulated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Formulating (?).]
To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.
G. P. Marsh.


word: Formulation
definition:
Formulation

For`mu*la"tion
(?)
n.
The act, process, or result of formulating or reducing to a formula.


word: Formulization
definition:
Formulization

For`mu*li*za"tion
(?)
n.
The act or process of reducing to a formula; the state of being formulized.


word: Formulize
definition:
Formulize

For"mu*lize
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Formulized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Formulizing (?).]
To reduce to a formula; to formulate.
Emerson.


word: Formyl
definition:
Formyl

For"myl
(?)
n.
[Formic + -yl.]
(Chem.)
(a)
A univalent radical, H.C:O, regarded as the essential residue of formic acid and aldehyde.
(b)
Formerly, the radical methyl, CH3.


word: Fornicated
definition:
Fornicated

Fornicate

{ For"ni*cate (?), For"ni*ca`ted (?) }
a.
[L. fornicatus, fr. fornix, -icis, an arch, vault.]
1.
Vaulted like an oven or furnace; arched.

2.
(Bot.)
Arching over; overarched.
Gray.


word: Fornicate
definition:
Fornicate

For"ni*cate
(?)
v. i.
[L. fornicatus, p. p. of fornicari to fornicate, fr. fornix, -icis, a vault, a brothel in an underground vault.]
To commit fornication; to have unlawful sexual intercourse.


word: Fornication
definition:
Fornication

For`ni*ca"tion
(?)
n.
[F. fornication, L. fornicatio.]
1.
Unlawful sexual intercourse on the part of an unmarried person; the act of such illicit sexual intercourse between a man and a woman as does not by law amount to adultery.

&hand_; In England, the offense, though cognizable in the ecclesiastical courts, was not at common law subject to secular prosecution. In the United States it is indictable in some States at common law, in others only by statute.
Whartyon.

2.
(Script.)
(a)
Adultery.
(b)
Incest.
(c)
Idolatry.


word: Fornicator
definition:
Fornicator

For"ni*ca`tor
(?)
n.
[F. fornicateur, OF. fornicator, from L. fornicator.]
An unmarried person, male or female, who has criminal intercourse with the other sex; one guilty of fornication.


word: Fornicatress
definition:
Fornicatress

For"ni*ca`tress
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. fornicatrice, L. fornicatrix.]
A woman guilty of fornication.
Shak.


word: Fornix
definition:
Fornix

For"nix
(?)
n.
pl. Fornices (#).
[L., an arch.]
(Anat.)
(a)
An arch or fold; as, the fornix, or vault, of the cranium; the fornix, or reflection, of the conjuctiva.
(b)
Esp., two longitudinal bands of white nervous tissue beneath the lateral ventricles of the brain.


word: Forpine
definition:
Forpine

For*pine"
(?)
v. t.
To waste away completely by suffering or torment.
[Archaic]
forpined
Chaucer.


word: Forray
definition:
Forray

For"ray
(? or ?)
v. t.
[OE. forrayen. See Foray.]
To foray; to ravage; to pillage.

For they that morn had forrayed all the land.
Fairfax.


word: Forsake
definition:
Forsake

For*sake"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. Forsook (?); p. p. Forsaken (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Forsaking.]
[AS. forsacan to oppose, refuse; for- + sacan to contend, strive; akin to Goth. sakan. See For-, and Sake.]
1.
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.

If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments.
Ps. lxxxix. 30.

2.
To renounce; to reject; to refuse.

If you forsake the offer of their love.
Shak.


word: Forsay
definition:
Forsay

For*say"
(?)
v. t.
[AS. forsecgan to accuse; pref. for- + secgan to say.]
To forbid; to renounce; to forsake; to deny.
[Obs.]
Spenser.


word: Forslack
definition:
Forslack

For*slack"
(?)
v. t.
[Pref. for- + slack to neglect.]
To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth.
[Obs.]
Spenser.


word: Forslouthe
definition:
Forslouthe

For*slouth"e
(?)
v. t.
[See For-, and Slouth.]
To lose by sloth or negligence.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.


word: Forslow
definition:
Forslow

For*slow"
(?)
v. t.
[Pref. for- + slow.]
To delay; to hinder; to neglect; to put off.
[Obs.]
Bacon.


word: Forslugge
definition:
Forslugge

For*slug"ge
(?)
v. t.
[See Slug to be idle.]
To lsoe by idleness or slotch.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.


word: Forsooth
definition:
Forsooth

For*sooth"
(?)
adv.
[AS. fors&omacrð; for, prep. + s&omacrð sooth, truth. See For, prep., and Sooth.]
In truth; in fact; certainly; very well; -- formerly used as an expression of deference or respect, especially to woman; now used ironically or contemptuously.

A fit man, forsooth, to govern a realm!
Hayward.

Our old English word forsooth has been changed for the French madam.
Guardian.


word: Forsooth₂
definition:
Forsooth

For*sooth"
v. t.
To address respectfully with the term forsooth.
[Obs.]

The captain of the “Charles” had forsoothed her, though he knew her well enough and she him.
Pepys.


word: Forsooth₃
definition:
Forsooth

For*sooth"
n.
A person who used forsooth much; a very ceremonious and deferential person.
[R.]

You sip so like a forsooth of the city.
B. Jonson.


word: Forspeak
definition:
Forspeak

For*speak"
(?)
v. t.
[Pref. for- + speak.]
1.
To forbid; to prohibit.
Shak.

2.
To bewitch.
[Obs.]
Drayton.


word: Forspent
definition:
Forspent

For*spent"
(?)
a.
[AS. forspendan to consume; pref. for- + spendan to spend.]
Wasted in strength; tired; exhausted.
[Archaic]

A gentleman almost forspent with speed.
Shak.


word: Forstraught
definition:
Forstraught

For*straught"
(?)
p. p. & a.
[Pref. for- + straught; cf. distraught.]
Distracted.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.


word: Forswear
definition:
Forswear

For*swear"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. Forswore (?); p. p. Forsworn (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Forswearing.]
[OE. forsweren, forswerien, AS. forswerian; pref. for- + swerian to swear. See For-, and Swear, v. i.]
1.
To reject or renounce upon oath; hence, to renounce earnestly, determinedly, or with protestations.

I . . . do forswear her.
Shak.

2.
To deny upon oath.

Like innocence, and as serenely bold
As truth, how loudly he forswears thy gold!
Dryden.

To forswear one's self, to swear falsely; to perjure one's self. “Thou shalt not forswear thyself.”  Matt. v. 33.


word: Forswearer
definition:
Forswearer

For*swear"er
(?)
n.
One who rejects of renounces upon oath; one who swears a false oath.


word: Forswonk
definition:
Forswonk

For*swonk"
(?)
a.
[Pref. for- + swonk, p. p. of swinkto labor. See Swink.]
Overlabored; exhausted; worn out.
[Obs.]
Spenser.


word: Forsythia
definition:
Forsythia

For*syth"i*a
(?)
a.
[NL. Named after William Forsyth, who brought in from China.]
(Bot.)
A shrub of the Olive family, with yellow blossoms.


word: Fort
definition:
Fort

Fort
(?)
n.
[F., from fort strong, L. fortis; perh. akin to Skr. darh to fix, make firm, and to E. firm Cf. Forte, Force, Fortalice, Comfort, Effort.]
(Mil.)
A strong or fortified place; usually, a small fortified place, occupied only by troops, surrounded with a ditch, rampart, and parapet, or with palisades, stockades, or other means of defense; a fortification.

Detached works, depending solely on their own strength, belong to the class of works termed forts.
Farrow.


word: Fortalice
definition:
Fortalice

Fort"a*lice
(?)
n.
[LL. fortalitia, or OF. fortelesce. See Fortress.]
(Mil.)
A small outwork of a fortification; a fortilage; -- called also fortelace.


word: Forte
definition:
Forte

Forte
(f&omacrrt)
n.
[IT. forte: cf. F. fort. See Fort.]
1.
The strong point; that in which one excels.

The construction of a fable seems by no means the forte of our modern poetical writers.
Jeffrey.

2.
The stronger part of the blade of a sword; the part of half nearest the hilt; -- opposed to foible.


word: Forte₂
definition:
Forte

For"te
(fôr"ta̝ or f&omacrr"ta̝)
adv.
[It. forte, a. & adv., fr. L. fortis strong.]
(Mus.)
Loudly; strongly; powerfully.


word: Forted
definition:
Forted

Fort"ed
(?)
a.
Furnished with, or guarded by, forts; strengthened or defended, as by forts.
[R.]
Shak.


word: Forth
definition:
Forth

Forth
(?)
v.
[AS. forð, fr. for akin to D. voort, G. fort √78. See Fore, For, and cf. Afford, Further, adv.]
1.
Forward; onward in time, place, or order; in advance from a given point; on to end; as, from that day forth; one, two, three, and so forth.

Lucas was Paul's companion, at the leastway from the sixteenth of the Acts forth.
Tyndale.

From this time forth, I never will speak word.
Shak.

I repeated the Ave Maria; the inquisitor bad me say forth; I said I was taught no more.
Strype.

2.
Out, as from a state of concealment, retirement, confinement, nondevelopment, or the like; out into notice or view; as, the plants in spring put forth leaves.

When winter past, and summer scarce begun,
Invites them forth to labor in the sun.
Dryden.

3.
Beyond a (certain) boundary; away; abroad; out.

I have no mind of feasting forth to-night.
Shak.

4.
Throughly; from beginning to end.
[Obs.]
Shak.

And so forth, Back and forth, From forth. See under And, Back, and From. -- Forth of, Forth from, out of. [Obs.] Shak. -- To bring forth. See under Bring.


word: forthcoming
definition:
forthcoming

forth"com`ing
(f&omacrrth"kŭm`ĭng or f&omacrrth`kŭm"ĭng)
a.
1.
Ready or about to appear; making appearance.

2.
Candid; frank; not withholding relevant information; cooperative in providing information.

3.
Having an agreeable and sociable personality; friendly.

4.
Available or ready at the time required; as, payment will be forthcoming on receipt of the goods.


word: Forthink
definition:
Forthink

For*think"
(?)
v. t.
To repent; to regret; to be sorry for; to cause regret.
[Obs.]
forthink
Tyndale.

That me forthinketh, quod this January.
Chaucer.


word: Forthright
definition:
Forthright

Forth"right`
(? or ?)
adv.
[Forth, adv. + right, adv.]
Straight forward; in a straight direction.
[Archaic]
Sir P. Sidney.


word: Forthright₂
definition:
Forthright

Forth"right`
a.
Direct; straightforward; as, a forthright man.
[Archaic]
Lowell.

They were Night and Day, and Day and Night,
Piligrims wight with steps forthright.
Emerson.


word: Forthright₃
definition:
Forthright

Forth"right`
n.
A straight path.
[Archaic]

Here's a maze trod, indeed,
Through forthrights and meanders!
Shak.


word: Forthrightness
definition:
Forthrightness

Forth"right`ness
n.
Straightforwardness; explicitness; directness.
[Archaic]

Dante's concise forthrightness of phrase.
Hawthorne.


word: Forthwith
definition:
Forthwith

Forth`with"
(? or ?; see With)
adv.
1.
Immediately; without delay; directly.

Immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales; and he received sight forthwith.
Acts ix. 18.

2.
(Law)
As soon as the thing required may be done by reasonable exertion confined to that object.
Bouvier.


word: Forthy
definition:
Forthy

For*thy"
(?)
adv.
[AS. forð&ymacr_;; for, prep. + ð&ymacr_;, instrumental neut. of se, seó, ðæt, pron. demonstrative and article. See The.]
Therefore.
[Obs.]
Spenser.


word: Fortieth
definition:
Fortieth

For"ti*eth
(?)
a.
[AS. feówertigo_;a. See Forty.]
1.
Following the thirty-ninth, or preceded by thirty-nine units, things, or parts.

2.
Constituting one of forty equal parts into which anything is divided.


word: Fortieth₂
definition:
Fortieth

For"ti*eth
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.


word: Fortification
definition:
Fortification

For`ti*fi*ca"tion
(?)
n.
[L. fortificatio : cf. F. fortification.]
1.
The act of fortifying; the art or science of fortifying places in order to defend them against an enemy.

2.
That which fortifies; especially, a work or works erected to defend a place against attack; a fortified place; a fortress; a fort; a castle.

Fortification agate, Scotch pebble.


word: Fortifier
definition:
Fortifier

For"ti*fi`er
(?)
n.
One who, or that which, fortifies, strengthens, supports, or upholds.


word: Fortify
definition:
Fortify

For"ti*fy
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Fortified (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Fortifying.]
[F. fortifier, L. fortificare; fortis strong + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See Fort, and -fy.]
1.
To add strength to; to strengthen; to confirm; to furnish with power to resist attack.

Timidity was fortified by pride.
Gibbon.

Pride came to the aid of fancy, and both combined to fortify his resolution.
Sir W. Scott.

2.
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.


word: Fortissimo
definition:
Fortissimo

For*tis"si*mo
(? or ?)
adv.
[It., superl. of forte, adv. See Forte, adv.]
(Mus.)
Very loud; with the utmost strength or loudness.


word: Fortition
definition:
Fortition

For*ti"tion
(?)
n.
[See Fortuitous.]
Casual choice; fortuitous selection; hazard.
[R.]

No mode of election operating in the spirit of fortition or rotation can be generally good.
Burke.


word: Fortitude
definition:
Fortitude

For"ti*tude
(?)
n.
[L. fortitudo, fr. fortis strong. See Fort.]
1.
Power to resist attack; strength; firmness.
[Obs.]

The fortitude of the place is best known to you.
Shak.

2.
That strength or firmness of mind which enables a person to encounter danger with coolness and courage, or to bear pain or adversity without murmuring, depression, or despondency; passive courage; resolute endurance; firmness in confronting or bearing up against danger or enduring trouble.

Extolling patience as the truest fortitude.
Milton.

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
Locke.


word: Fortnight
definition:
Fortnight

Fort"night`
(?; in U.S. often ?; 277)
n.
[Contr. fr. fourteen nights, our ancestors reckoning time by nights and winters; so, also, seven nights, sennight, a week.]
The space of fourteen days; two weeks.


word: Fortnightly
definition:
Fortnightly

Fort"night`ly
(?)
a.
Occurring or appearing once in a fortnight; as, a fortnightly meeting of a club; a fortnightly magazine, or other publication.
adv. Once in a fortnight; at intervals of a fortnight.


word: FORTRAN
definition:
FORTRAN

FORTRAN
n.
(Computers)
[Formula Translation.]
a higher programming language with an instruction set designed for ease of expression of mathematical functions, much used in programming of scientific and mathematical problems.


word: Fortread
definition:
Fortread

For*tread"
(?)
v. t.
To tread down; to trample upon.
[Obs.]

In hell shall they be all fortroden of devils.
Chaucer.


word: Fortress
definition:
Fortress

For"tress
(?)
n.
pl. Fortresses (#).
[F. forteresse, OF. forteresce, fortelesce, LL. foralitia, fr. L. fortis strong. See Fort, and cf. Fortalice.]
A fortified place; a large and permanent fortification, sometimes including a town; a fort; a castle; a stronghold; a place of defense or security.


word: Fortress₂
definition:
Fortress

For"tress
v. t.
To furnish with a fortress or with fortresses; to guard; to fortify.
Shak.


word: Fortuitous
definition:
Fortuitous

For*tu"i*tous
(?)
a.
[L. fortuitus; akin to forte, adv., by chance, prop. abl. of fors, fortis, chance. See Fortune.]
1.
Happening by chance; coming or occuring unexpectedly, or without any known cause; chance; as, the fortuitous concourse of atoms.

It was from causes seemingly fortuitous . . . that all the mighty effects of the Reformation flowed.
Robertson.

So as to throw a glancing and fortuitous light upon the whole.
Hazlitt.

2.
(LAw)
Happening independently of human will or means of foresight; resulting from unavoidable physical causes.
Abbott.


word: Fortunate
definition:
Fortunate

For"tu*nate
(?; 135)
a.
[L. fortunatus, p. p. of fortunare to make fortunate or prosperous, fr. fortuna. See Fortune, n.]
1.
Coming by good luck or favorable chance; bringing some good thing not foreseen as certain; presaging happiness; auspicious; as, a fortunate event; a fortunate concurrence of circumstances; a fortunate investment.

2.
Receiving same unforeseen or unexpected good, or some good which was not dependent on one's own skill or efforts; favored with good forune; lucky.


word: Fortunateness
definition:
Fortunateness

For"tu*nate*ness
n.
The condition or quality of being fortunate; good luck; success; happiness.


word: Fortune
definition:
Fortune

For"tune
(fôr"t&uuptack_;n; 135)
n.
[F. fortune, L. fortuna; akin to fors, fortis, chance, prob. fr. ferre to bear, bring. See Bear to support, and cf. Fortuitous.]
1.
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.

'T is more by fortune, lady, than by merit.
Shak.

O Fortune, Fortune, all men call thee fickle.
Shak.

2.
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.

You, who men's fortunes in their faces read.
Cowley.

3.
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.

Our equal crimes shall equal fortune give.
Dryden.

There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
Shak.

His father dying, he was driven to seek his fortune.
Swift.

4.
Wealth; large possessions; large estate; riches; as, a gentleman of fortune.
Fortune book, a book supposed to reveal future events to those who consult it. Crashaw. -- Fortune hunter, one who seeks to acquire wealth by marriage. -- Fortune teller, one who professes to tell future events in the life of another. -- Fortune telling, the practice or art of professing to reveal future events in the life of another.


word: Fortune₂
definition:
Fortune

For"tune
v. t.
[OF. fortuner, L. fortunare. See Fortune, n.]
1.
To make fortunate; to give either good or bad fortune to.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

2.
To provide with a fortune.
Richardson.

3.
To presage; to tell the fortune of.
[Obs.]
Dryden.


word: Fortune₃
definition:
Fortune

For"tune
v. i.
To fall out; to happen.

It fortuned the same night that a Christian, serving a Turk in the camp, secretely gave the watchmen warning.
Knolles.


word: Fortunella
definition:
Fortunella

Fortunella
prop. n.
small genus of shrubs called kumquats, native to South China, producing small ovoid orangelike fruits called kumquats.

Syn. -- genus Fortunella.


word: fortuneteller
definition:
fortuneteller

for"tune*tel`ler
n.
a person who claims to be able to foretell events in the future of another person.

Syn. -- fortune teller, fortune-teller.

for"tune*tel`ling, n.


word: Forty
definition:
Forty

For"ty
(fôr"t&ybreve_;)
a.
[OE. forti, fourti, fowerti, AS. feówertig; feówer four + suff. -tig ten; akin to OS. fiwartig, fiartig, D. veertig, G. vierzig, Icel. fjörutīu, Sw. fyratio, Dan. fyrretyve, Goth. fidw&omacrr tigjus. See Four, and Ten, and cf. Fourteen.]
Four times ten; thirty-nine and one more.


word: Forty₂
definition:
Forty

For"ty
n.
pl. Forties (-tĭz).
1.
The sum of four tens; forty units or objects.

2.
A symbol expressing forty units; as, 40, or xl.


word: Forty-niner
definition:
Forty-niner

For`ty-nin"er
(?)
n.
One the miners who took part in the California gold rush in 1849; an argonaut.
[Colloq., U. S.]


word: Forty-spot
definition:
Forty-spot

For"ty-spot`
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
The Tasmanian forty-spotted diamond bird (Pardalotus quadragintus).


word: Forum
definition:
Forum

Fo"rum
(?)
n.
pl. E. Forums (#), L. Fora (#).
[L.; akin to foris, foras, out of doors. See Foreign.]
1.
A market place or public place in Rome, where causes were judicially tried, and orations delivered to the people.

2.
A tribunal; a court; an assembly empowered to hear and decide causes.

He [Lord Camden] was . . . more eminent in the senate than in the forum.
Brougham.


word: Forwaked
definition:
Forwaked

For*waked"
(? or ?)
p. p. & a.
Tired out with excessive waking or watching.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.


word: Forwander
definition:
Forwander

For*wan"der
(?)
v. i.
To wander away; to go astray; to wander far and to weariness.
[Obs.]


word: Forward
definition:
Forward

For"ward
(?)
n.
[OE., fr. AS. foreweard; fore before + weard a ward. See Ward, n.]
An agreement; a covenant; a promise.
[Obs.]

Tell us a tale anon, as forward is.
Chaucer.


word: Forwards
definition:
Forwards

Forward

{ For"ward (?), For"wards (?) }
adv.
[AS. forweard, foreweard; for, fore + -weardes; akin to G. vorwärts. The s is properly a genitive ending. See For, Fore, and -ward, -wards.]
Toward a part or place before or in front; onward; in advance; progressively; -- opposed to backward.


word: Forward₂
definition:
Forward

For"ward
a.
1.
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.

2.
Ready; prompt; strongly inclined; in an ill sense, overready; too hasty.

Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do.
Gal. ii. 10.

Nor do we find him forward to be sounded.
Shak.

3.
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.

I have known men disagreeably forward from their shyness.
T. Arnold.

4.
Advanced beyond the usual degree; advanced for the season; as, the grass is forward, or forward for the season; we have a forward spring.

The most forward bud
Is eaten by the canker ere it blow.
Shak.


word: Forward₃
definition:
Forward

For"ward
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Forwarded; p. pr. & vb. n. Forwarding.]
1.
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.

2.
To send forward; to send toward the place of destination; to transmit; as, to forward a letter.


word: Forwarder
definition:
Forwarder

For"ward*er
(?)
n.
1.
One who forwards or promotes; a promoter.
Udall.

2.
One who sends forward anything;
specifically
(Com.)
one who transmits goods; a forwarding merchant, such as a freight forwarder.

3.
(Bookbinding)
One employed in forwarding.


word: Forwarding
definition:
Forwarding

For"ward*ing
n.
1.
The act of one who forwards; the act or occupation of transmitting merchandise or other property for others.

2.
(Bookbinding)
The process of putting a book into its cover, and making it ready for the finisher.


word: forward-looking
definition:
forward-looking

forward-looking
adj.
planning for the future; concerned primarily with the future; -- contrasted with conern for the immediate present or reacting to past events.
backward-looking


word: Forwardness
definition:
Forwardness

For"ward*ness
n.
The quality of being forward; cheerful readiness; promtness; as, the forwardness of Christians in propagating the gospel.

2.
An advanced stage of progress or of preparation; advancement; as, his measures were in great forwardness.
Robertson.

3.
Eagerness; ardor; as, it is difficult to restrain the forwardness of youth.

3.
Boldness; confidence; assurance; want of due reserve or modesty.

In France it is usual to bring children into company, and cherish in them, from their infancy, a kind of forwardness and assurance.
Addison.

5.
A state of advance beyond the usual degree; prematureness; precocity; as, the forwardnessof spring or of corn; the forwardness of a pupil.

He had such a dexterous proclivity, as his teachers were fain to restrain his forwardness.
Sir H. Wotton.


word: Forwaste
definition:
Forwaste

For*waste"
(?)
v. t.
[Pref. for- + waste.]
To desolate or lay waste utterly.
[Obs.]
Spenser.


word: Forwhy
definition:
Forwhy

For*why"
(?)
conj.
[For + why, AS. hw_;, instrumental case of hwā who.]
Wherefore; because.
[Obs.]


word: Forwrap
definition:
Forwrap

For*wrap"
(?)
v. t.
To wrap up; to conceal.
[Obs.]

All mote be said and nought excused, nor hid, nor forwrapped.
Chaucer.


word: fossa
definition:
fossa

fossae

fos"sa
(?)
n.
pl. fossæ (#).
[L., a ditch. See Fosse.]
(Anat.)
A pit, groove, cavity, or depression, of greater or less depth; as, the temporal fossa on the side of the skull; the nasal fossæ containing the nostrils in most birds.


word: Fossane
definition:
Fossane

Fos"sane`
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. fossane.]
(Zool.)
A species of civet (Viverra fossa) resembling the genet.


word: Fosse
definition:
Fosse

Fosse
(?)
n.
[F., fr. L. fossa, fr. fodere, fossum, to dig.]
1.
(Fort.)
A ditch or moat.

2.
(Anat.)
See Fossa.

Fosse road. See Fosseway.


word: Fossette
definition:
Fossette

Fos`sette"
(? or ?)
n.
[F., dim. of fosse a fosse.]
1.
A little hollow; hence, a dimple.

2.
(Med.)
A small, deep-centered ulcer of the transparent cornea.


word: Fosseway
definition:
Fosseway

Fosse"way`
(?)
n.
One of the great military roads constructed by the Romans in England and other parts of Europe; -- so called from the fosse or ditch on each side for keeping it dry.


word: Fossick
definition:
Fossick

Fos"sick
(?)
v. i.
[Dial. E. fossick, fossuck, a troublesome person, fussick to potter over one's work, fussock to bustle about; of uncertain origin. Cf. Fuss.]
1.
(Mining)
To search for gold by picking at stone or earth or among roots in isolated spots, picking over abandoned workings, etc.; hence, to steal gold or auriferous matter from another's claim.
[Australia]

2.
To search about; to rummage.
A man who has fossicked in nature's byways.
D. Macdonald.


word: Fossil
definition:
Fossil

Fos"sil
(?)
a.
[L. fossilis, fr. fodere to dig: cf. F. fossile. See Fosse.]
1.
Dug out of the earth; as, fossil coal; fossil salt.

2.
preserved from a previous geological age; as, fossil water from deep wells; -- usually implying that the object so described has had its substance modified by long residence in the ground, but also used (as with fossil water) in cases where chemical composition is not altered.

3.
(Paleon.)
Like or pertaining to fossils; contained in rocks, whether petrified or not; as, fossil plants, shells.

Fossil copal, a resinous substance, first found in the blue clay at Highgate, near London, and apparently a vegetable resin, partly changed by remaining in the earth. -- Fossil cork, Fossil flax, Fossil paper, or Fossil wood, varieties of amianthus. -- Fossil farina, a soft carbonate of lime. -- Fossil ore, fossiliferous red hematite. Raymond.


word: Fossil₂
definition:
Fossil

Fos"sil
n.
1.
A substance dug from the earth.
[Obs.]

&hand_; Formerly all minerals were called fossils, but the word is now restricted to express the remains of animals and plants found buried in the earth.
Ure.

2.
(Paleon.)
The remains of an animal or plant found in stratified rocks. Most fossils belong to extinct species, but many of the later ones belong to species still living.

3.
A person whose views and opinions are extremely antiquated; one whose sympathies are with a former time rather than with the present.
[Colloq.]


word: Fossiliferous
definition:
Fossiliferous

Fos`sil*if"er*ous
(?)
a.
[Fossil + -ferous.]
(Paleon.)
Containing or composed of fossils.


word: Fossilification
definition:
Fossilification

Fos*sil`i*fi*ca"tion
(?)
n.
[Fossil + L. facere to make.]
The process of becoming fossil.


word: Fossilism
definition:
Fossilism

Fos"sil*ism
(?)
n.
1.
The science or state of fossils.
Coleridge.

2.
The state of being extremely antiquated in views and opinions.


word: Fossilist
definition:
Fossilist

Fos"sil*ist
n.
One who is versed in the science of fossils; a paleontologist.
Joseph Black.


word: Fossilization
definition:
Fossilization

Fos`sil*i*za"tion
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. fossilisation.]
The process of converting, or of being converted, into a fossil.


word: Fossilize
definition:
Fossilize

Fos"sil*ize
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Fossilized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Fossilizing (?).]
[Cf. F. fossiliser.]
1.
To convert into a fossil; to petrify; as, to fossilize bones or wood.

2.
To cause to become antiquated, rigid, or fixed, as by fossilization; to mummify; to deaden.

Ten layers of birthdays on a woman's head
Are apt to fossilize her girlish mirth.
Mrs. Browning.


word: Fossilize₂
definition:
Fossilize

Fos"sil*ize
v. i.
1.
To become fossil.

2.
To become antiquated, rigid, or fixed, beyond the influence of change or progress.


word: Fossilized
definition:
Fossilized

Fos"sil*ized
(?)
a.
Converted into a fossil; antiquated; firmly fixed in views or opinions.

A fossilized sample of confused provincialism.
Earle.


word: Fossores
definition:
Fossores

Fos*so"res
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. L. fossor_; digger, fr. fodere to dig.]
(Zool.)
A group of hymenopterous insects including the sand wasps. They excavate cells in earth, where they deposit their eggs, with the bodies of other insects for the food of the young when hatched.
[Written also Fossoria.]


word: Fossorial
definition:
Fossorial

Fos*so"ri*al
(?)
a.
[L. fossor a digger.]
Fitted for digging, adapted for burrowing or digging; as, a fossorial foot; a fossorial animal.


word: Fossorious
definition:
Fossorious

Fos*so"ri*ous
(?)
a.
(Zool.)
Adapted for digging; -- said of the legs of certain insects.


word: Fossulate
definition:
Fossulate

Fos"su*late
(?)
a.
[L. fossula little ditch, dim. of fossa. See Fosse.]
Having, or surrounded by, long, narrow depressions or furrows.


word: Foster
definition:
Foster

Fos"ter
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Fostered (?), p. pr. & vb. n. Fostering.]
[OE. fostren, fr. AS. f&omacrster, f&omacrstor, food, nourishment, fr. f&omacrda food. √75. See Food.]
1.
To feed; to nourish; to support; to bring up.

Some say that ravens foster forlorn children.
Shak.

2.
To cherish; to promote the growth of; to encourage; to sustain and promote; as, to foster genius.


word: Foster₃
definition:
Foster

Fos"ter
a.
[AS. f&omacrster, f&omacrstor, nourishment. See Foster, v. t.]
Relating to nourishment; affording, receiving, or sharing nourishment or nurture; -- applied to father, mother, child, brother, etc., to indicate that the person so called stands in the relation of parent, child, brother, etc., as regards sustenance and nurture, but not by tie of blood.

Foster babe or Foster child, an infant or child nursed or raised by a woman not its mother, or bred by a man not its father. -- Foster brother, Foster sister, one who is, or has been, nursed at the same breast, or brought up by the same nurse as another, but is not of the same parentage. -- Foster dam, one who takes the place of a mother; a nurse. Dryden. -- Foster earth, earth by which a plant is nourished, though not its native soil. J. Philips. -- Foster father, a man who takes the place of a father in caring for a child. Bacon. -- Foster land. (a) Land allotted for the maintenance of any one. [Obs.] (b) One's adopted country. -- Foster lean [foster + AS. læn a loan See Loan.], remuneration fixed for the rearing of a foster child; also, the jointure of a wife. [Obs.] Wharton. -- Foster mother, a woman who takes a mother's place in the nurture and care of a child; a nurse. -- Foster nurse, a nurse; a nourisher. [R.] Shak. -- Foster parent, a foster mother or foster father. -- Foster son, a male foster child.


word: Fosterage
definition:
Fosterage

Fos"ter*age
(?; 48)
n.
The care of a foster child; the charge of nursing.
Sir W. Raleigh.


word: Fother
definition:
Fother

Foth"er
(?)
n.
[OE. fother, foder, AS. f&omacr_;er a cartload; akin to G. fuder a cartload, a unit of measure, OHG. fuodar, D. voeder, and perh. to E. fathom, or cf. Skr. pātrā vessel, dish.  Cf. Fodder a fother.]
1.
A wagonload; a load of any sort.
[Obs.]

Of dung full many a fother.
Chaucer.

2.
See Fodder, a unit of weight.


word: Fother₂
definition:
Fother

Foth"er
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Fothered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Fothering.]
[Cf. Fodder food, and G. füttern, futtern, to cover within or without, to line. √75.]
To stop (a leak in a ship at sea) by drawing under its bottom a thrummed sail, so that the pressure of the water may force it into the crack.
Totten.


word: Fotive
definition:
Fotive

Fo"tive
(?)
a.
[L. fovere, fotum, to keep warm, to cherish.]
Nourishing.
[Obs.]
T. Carew (1633).


word: Foucault current
definition:
Foucault current

Fou`cault" cur`rent
(?)
[After J. B. L. Foucault (1819-68), French physicist.]
(Elec.)
An eddy current.


word: Fougasse
definition:
Fougasse

Fougade

{ &VerbarFou`gade" (?), &VerbarFou`gasse" (?) }
n.
(Mil.)
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.


word: Foul₂
definition:
Foul

Foul
(foul)
a.
[Compar. Fouler (-ẽr); superl. Foulest.]
[OE. foul, ful, AS. fūl; akin to D. vuil, G. faul rotten, OHG. fūl, Icel. fūl foul, fetid; Dan. fuul, Sw. ful foul, Goth. fūls fetid, Lith. puti to be putrid, L. putere to stink, be putrid, pus pus, Gr. py`on pus, to cause to rot, Skr. pūy to stink. √82.  Cf. Defile to foul, File to foul, Filth, Pus, Putrid.]
1.
Covered with, or containing, extraneous matter which is injurious, noxious, offensive, or obstructive; filthy; dirty; not clean; polluted; nasty; defiled; as, a foul cloth; foul hands; a foul chimney; foul air; a ship's bottom is foul when overgrown with barnacles; a gun becomes foul from repeated firing; a well is foul with polluted water.

My face is foul with weeping.
Job. xvi. 16.

2.
Scurrilous; obscene or profane; abusive; as, foul words; foul language.

3.
Hateful; detestable; shameful; odious; wretched.
foul
Shak.

Who first seduced them to that foul revolt?
Milton.

4.
Loathsome; disgusting; as, a foul disease.

5.
Ugly; homely; poor.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

Let us, like merchants, show our foulest wares.
Shak.

6.
Not favorable; unpropitious; not fair or advantageous; as, a foul wind; a foul road; cloudy or rainy; stormy; not fair; -- said of the weather, sky, etc.

So foul a sky clears not without a storm.
Shak.

7.
Not conformed to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.; unfair; dishonest; dishonorable; cheating; as, foul play.

8.
Having freedom of motion interfered with by collision or entanglement; entangled; -- opposed to clear; as, a rope or cable may get foul while paying it out.

Foul anchor. (Naut.) See under Anchor. -- Foul ball (Baseball), a ball that first strikes the ground outside of the foul ball lines, or rolls outside of certain limits. -- Foul ball lines (Baseball), lines from the home base, through the first and third bases, to the boundary of the field. -- Foul berth (Naut.), a berth in which a ship is in danger of fouling another vesel. -- Foul bill, or Foul bill of health, a certificate, duly authenticated, that a ship has come from a place where a contagious disorder prevails, or that some of the crew are infected. -- Foul copy, a rough draught, with erasures and corrections; -- opposed to fair or clean copy. “Some writers boast of negligence, and others would be ashamed to show their foul copies.” Cowper. -- Foul proof, an uncorrected proof; a proof containing an excessive quantity of errors. -- Foul strike (Baseball), a strike by the batsman when any part of his person is outside of the lines of his position. -- To fall foul, to fall out; to quarrel. [Obs.] “If they be any ways offended, they fall foul.” Burton. -- To fall foul of or To run foul of. See under Fall. -- To make foul water, to sail in such shallow water that the ship's keel stirs the mud at the bottom.


word: Foul₃
definition:
Foul

Foul
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Fouled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Fouling.]
1.
To make filthy; to defile; to daub; to dirty; to soil; as, to foul the face or hands with mire.

2.
(Mil.)
To incrust (the bore of a gun) with burnt powder in the process of firing.

3.
To cover (a ship's bottom) with anything that impered its sailing; as, a bottom fouled with barnacles.

4.
To entangle, so as to impede motion; as, to foul a rope or cable in paying it out; to come into collision with; as, one boat fouled the other in a race.


word: Foul₄
definition:
Foul

Foul
v. i.
1.
To become clogged with burnt powder in the process of firing, as a gun.

2.
To become entagled, as ropes; to come into collision with something; as, the two boats fouled.


word: Foul₅
definition:
Foul

Foul
n.
1.
An entanglement; a collision, as in a boat race.

2.
(Baseball)
See Foul ball, under Foul, a.

3.
In various games or sports, an act done contrary to the rules; a foul stroke, hit, play, or the like.


word: Foulard
definition:
Foulard

Fou`lard"
(f. fō`lȧr"; E. fō`lärd")
n.
[F.]
1.
A thin, washable material of silk, or silk and cotton, usually with a printed pattern on it.  It was originally imported from India, but now also made elsewhere.

2.
an article of clothing made of foulard{1}, such as a neckpiece.


word: Foulder
definition:
Foulder

Foul"der
(?)
v. i.
[OE. fouldre lightning, fr. F. foudre, OF. also fouldre, fr. L. fulgur. See Fulgor.]
To flash, as lightning; to lighten; to gleam; to thunder.
[Obs.]
fouldering
Spenser.


word: Foully
definition:
Foully

Foul"ly
(?)
v.
In a foul manner; filthily; nastily; shamefully; unfairly; dishonorably.

I foully wronged him; do forgive me, do.
Gay.


word: Foul-mouthed
definition:
Foul-mouthed

Foul"-mouthed`
(?)
a.
Using language scurrilous, opprobrious, obscene, or profane; abusive; as, noisy foul-mouthed women all shouting at once.

Syn. -- foul-spoken.

So foul-mouthed a witness never appeared in any cause.
Addison.


word: foul-smelling
definition:
foul-smelling

foul-smelling
adj.
emitting an unpleasasnt odor.

Syn. -- fetid, foul, funky, noisome, smelly, putrid, stinking.


word: Foul-spoken
definition:
Foul-spoken

Foul"-spo`ken
(?)
a.
Using profane, scurrilous, slanderous, or obscene language; same as foul-mouthed.
Shak.


word: foul-up
definition:
foul-up

foul-up
n.
an embarrassing mistake.

Syn. -- blunder, blooper, bungle, flub, botch, boner, boo-boo, misdoing.


word: Foumart
definition:
Foumart

Fou"mart`
(?)
n.
[OE. folmard, fulmard; AS. fūl foul + mearð, meard, marten: cf. F. marte, martre. See Foul, a., and Marten the quadruped.]
(Zool.)
The European polecat; -- called also European ferret, and fitchew. See Polecat.
[Written also foulmart, foulimart, and fulimart.]


word: Found₂
definition:
Found

Found
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Founded; p. pr. & vb. n. Founding.]
[F. fondre, L. fundere to found, pour.]
To form by melting a metal, and pouring it into a mold; to cast.
found
Milton.


word: Found₄
definition:
Found

Found
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Founded; p. pr. & vb. n. Founding.]
[F. fonder, L. fundare, fr. fundus bottom. See 1st Bottom, and cf. Founder, v. i., Fund.]
1.
To lay the basis of; to set, or place, as on something solid, for support; to ground; to establish upon a basis, literal or figurative; to fix firmly.

I had else been perfect,
Whole as the marble, founded as the rock.
Shak.

A man that all his time
Hath founded his good fortunes on your love.
Shak.

It fell not, for it was founded on a rock.
Matt. vii. 25.

2.
To take the ffirst steps or measures in erecting or building up; to furnish the materials for beginning; to begin to raise; to originate; as, to found a college; to found a family.

There they shall found
Their government, and their great senate choose.
Milton.


word: Foundation
definition:
Foundation

Foun*da"tion
(?)
n.
[F. fondation, L. fundatio. See Found to establish.]
1.
The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.

2.
That upon which anything is founded; that on which anything stands, and by which it is supported; the lowest and supporting layer of a superstructure; groundwork; basis.

Behold, I lay in Zion, for a foundation, a stone . . . a precious corner stone, a sure foundation.
Is. xxviii. 16.

The foundation of a free common wealth.
Motley.

3.
(Arch.)
The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course (see Base course (a), under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry.

4.
A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, and constituting a permanent fund; endowment.

He was entered on the foundation of Westminster.
Macaulay.

5.
That which is founded, or established by endowment; an endowed institution or charity; as, the Ford Foundation.

Against the canon laws of our foundation.
Milton.

Foundation course. See Base course, under Base, n. -- Foundation muslin, an open-worked gummed fabric used for stiffening dresses, bonnets, etc. -- Foundation school, in England, an endowed school. -- To be on a foundation, to be entitled to a support from the proceeds of an endowment, as a scholar or a fellow of a college.


word: Foundationer
definition:
Foundationer

Foun*da"tion*er
(?)
n.
One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school.
[Eng.]


word: founded
definition:
founded

founded
adj.
based; -- often used as combining terms; as, well-founded suspicions.

Syn. -- based.


word: Founder
definition:
Founder

Found"er
(?)
n.
[Cf. OF. fondeor, F. fondateur, L. fundator.]
One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.


word: Founder₂
definition:
Founder

Found"er
n.
[From Found to cast.]
One who founds; one who casts metals in various forms; a caster; as, a founder of cannon, bells, hardware, or types.

Fonder's dust. Same as Facing, 4. -- Founder's sand, a kind of sand suitable for purposes of molding.


word: Founder₃
definition:
Founder

Found"er
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Foundered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Foundering.]
[OF. fondrer to fall in, cf. F. s'effondrer, fr. fond bottom, L. fundus. See Found to establish.]
1.
(Naut.)
To become filled with water, and sink, as a ship.

2.
To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse.

For which his horse fearé gan to turn,
And leep aside, and foundrede as he leep.
Chaucer.

3.
To fail; to miscarry.
founder
Shak.


word: Founder₄
definition:
Founder

Found"er
v. t.
To cause internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs of (a horse), so as to disable or lame him.


word: Founder₅
definition:
Founder

Found"er
n.
(Far.)
(a)
A lameness in the foot of a horse, occasioned by inflammation; closh.
(b)
An inflammatory fever of the body, or acute rheumatism; as, chest founder. See Chest ffounder.
James White.


word: Founderous
definition:
Founderous

Foun"der*ous
(?)
a.
Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road.
[R.]
Burke.


word: Foundery
definition:
Foundery

Found"er*y
(?)
n.
pl. Founderies (#).
[F. fonderie, fr. fondre. See Found to cast, and cf. Foundry.]
Same as Foundry.


word: Foundling
definition:
Foundling

Found"ling
(?)
n.
[OE. foundling, fundling; finden to find + -ling; cf. fündling, findling. See Find, v. t., and -ling.]
A deserted or exposed infant; a child found without a parent or owner.

Foundling hospital, a hospital for foundlings.


word: Foundress
definition:
Foundress

Found"ress
(?)
n.
A female founder; a woman who founds or establishes, or who endows with a fund.


word: Foundry
definition:
Foundry

Found"ry
(?)
n.
pl. Foundries (#).
[See Foundery.]
1.
The act, process, or art of casting metals.

2.
The buildings and works for casting metals.

Foundry ladle, a vessel for holding molten metal and conveying it from cupola to the molds.


word: Fount₂
definition:
Fount

Fount
n.
[OF. font, funt, fr. L. fons, fontis, a fountain; of uncertain origin, perh. akin to fundere to pour, E. found to cast.  Cf. Font.]
A fountain.


word: Fountain
definition:
Fountain

Foun"tain
(foun"tĭn)
n.
[F. fontaine, LL. fontana, fr. L. fons, fontis. See 2d Fount.]
1.
A spring of water issuing from the earth.

2.
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.

3.
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.

4.
The source from which anything proceeds, or from which anything is supplied continuously; origin; source.

Judea, the fountain of the gospel.
Fuller.

Author of all being,
Fountain of light, thyself invisible.
Milton.

Air fountain. See under Air. -- Fountain heead, primary source; original; first principle. Young. -- Fountain inkstand, an inkstand having a continual supply of ink, as from elevated reservoir. -- Fountain lamp, a lamp fed with oil from an elevated reservoir. -- Fountain pen, a pen with a reservoir in the handle which furnishes a supply of ink. -- Fountain pump. (a) A structure for a fountain, having the form of a pump. (b) A portable garden pump which throws a jet, for watering plants, etc. -- Fountain shell (Zool.), the large West Indian conch shell (Strombus gigas). -- Fountain of youth, a mythical fountain whose waters were fabled to have the property of renewing youth.


word: fountainhead
definition:
fountainhead

fountainhead
n.
1.
an abundant source.

Syn. -- well, wellspring.

2.
the source of water from which a stream arises.

Syn. -- headspring, head.


word: Fountainless
definition:
Fountainless

Foun"tain*less
a.
Having no fountain; destitute of springs or sources of water.

Barren desert, fountainless and dry.
Milton.


word: Fouquieria
definition:
Fouquieria

Fouquieria
n.
a genus of resinous succulent trees or shrubs of desert and semi-desert regions of the southwestern U. S. that are leafless most of the year.

Syn. -- genus Fouquieria.


word: Fouquieriaceae
definition:
Fouquieriaceae

Fouquieriaceae
prop. n.
a small natural family of spiny shrubs or trees of the southwestern U. S.

Syn. -- family Fouquieriaceae.


word: Four
definition:
Four

Four
(f&omacrr)
a.
[OE. four, fower, feower, AS. feówer; akin to OS. fiwar, D. & G. vier, OHG. fior, Icel. fj&omacrrir, Sw. fyra, Dan. fire, Goth. fidw&omacrr, Russ. chetuire, chetvero, W. pedwar, L. quatuor, Gr. te`ttares, te`ssares, pi`syres, Skr. catur. √302.  Cf. Farthing, Firkin, Forty, Cater four, Quater-cousin, Quatuor, Quire of paper, tetrarch.]
One more than three; twice two.


word: Four₂
definition:
Four

Four
n.
1.
The sum of four units; four units or objects.

2.
A symbol representing four units, as 4 or iv.

3.
Four things of the same kind, esp. four horses; as, a chariot and four.

All fours. See All fours, in the Vocabulary.


word: Fourche
definition:
Fourche

Four`ché"
(fōr`sha̝")
a.
[F. See Fork.]
(Her.)
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.


word: Fourchette
definition:
Fourchette

Four`chette"
(fōr`shĕt")
n.
[F., dim. of fourche. See Fork.]
1.
A table fork.

2.
(Anat.)
(a)
A small fold of membrane, connecting the labia in the posterior part of the vulva.
(b)
The wishbone or furculum of birds.
(c)
The frog of the hoof of the horse and allied animals.

3.
(Surg.)
An instrument used to raise and support the tongue during the cutting of the frænum.

4.
(Glove Making)
The forked piece between two adjacent fingers, to which the front and back portions are sewed.
Knight.

5.
(Card Playing)
The combination of the card immediately above and the one immediately below a given card.


word: Four-cycle
definition:
Four-cycle

Four"-cy`cle
n.
(Thermodynamics)
A four-stroke cycle, as the Otto cycle, for an internal-combustion engine.
Four"-cy`cle, a.


word: Fourdrinier
definition:
Fourdrinier

Four`dri`nier"
(?)
n.
A machine used in making paper; -- so named from an early inventor of improvements in this class of machinery.


word: Fourfold
definition:
Fourfold

Four"fold`
(?)
a. & adv.
[AS. feówerfeold.]
Four times; quadruple; as, a fourfold division.

He shall restore the lamb fourfold.
2 Sam. xii. 6.


word: Fourhanded
definition:
Fourhanded

Four"hand`ed
(?)
a.
1.
Having four hands; quadrumanous.
Goldsmith.

2.
Requiring four “hands” or players; as, a fourhanded game at cards.


word: four-hitter
definition:
four-hitter

four-hitter
n.
(Baseball)
A game in which a pitcher allows the opposing team four hits; as, he pitched a four-hitter.

Syn. -- 4-hitter.


word: four-in-hand
definition:
four-in-hand

four-in-hand
n.
1.
A long necktie that is tied in a slipknot with one end hanging in front of the other.

2.
a coach pulled by four horses with one driver.

Syn. -- coach, coach-and-four.


word: Fourierism
definition:
Fourierism

Fou"ri*er*ism
(?)
n.
The coöperative socialistic system of Charles Fourier, a Frenchman, who recommended the reorganization of society into small communities, living in common.


word: Fourierite
definition:
Fourierite

Fourierist

{ Fou"ri*er*ist, Fou"ri*er*ite (?) }
n.
One who adopts the views of Fourier.


word: Four-in-hand
definition:
Four-in-hand

Four"-in-hand
(?)
a.
Consisting of four horses controlled by one person; as, a four-in-hand team; drawn by four horses driven by one person; as, a four-in-hand coach.
n. A team of four horses driven by one person; also, a vehicle drawn by such a team.

As quaint a four-in-hand
As you shall see.
Tennyson.


word: Fourling
definition:
Fourling

Four"ling
n.
1.
One of four children born at the same time; a quadruplet.

2.
(Crystallog.)
A compound or twin crystal consisting of four individuals.


word: Four-o'clock
definition:
Four-o'clock

Four"-o'clock`
(?)
n.
1.
(Bot.)
A plant of the genus Mirabilis. There are about half a dozen species, natives of the warmer parts of America. The common four-o'clock is M. Jalapa. Its flowers are white, yellow, and red, and open toward sunset, or earlier in cloudy weather; hence the name. It is also called marvel of Peru, and afternoon lady.

2.
(Zool.)
The friar bird; -- so called from its cry, which resembles these words.


word: Fourpence
definition:
Fourpence

Four"pence
(?)
n.
1.
A British silver coin, worth four pence; a groat.

2.
A name formerly given in New England to the Spanish half real, a silver coin worth six and a quarter cents.


word: Four-poster
definition:
Four-poster

Four"-post`er
(?)
n.
A large bedstead with tall posts at the corners to support a canopy or curtains.
[Colloq.]


word: Foursome
definition:
Foursome

Four"some
(f&omacrr"sŭm)
a.
[Four + 2d -some.]
Consisting of four; requiring four participants.
[Scot. or Golf]


word: Foursome₂
definition:
Foursome

Four"some
n.
1.
(Golf)
A game between four players, with two on each side and each side playing but one ball, the partners striking alternately.  It is called a mixed foursome when each side consists of a man and a woman.

2.
A group of four people or objects; as, we need another player to make a foursome for bridge.


word: Foursquare
definition:
Foursquare

Four"square`
(f&omacrr"skwâr`)
a.
Having four sides and four equal angles.
Sir W. Raleigh.


word: Fourteen
definition:
Fourteen

Four"teen`
(?)
a.
[OE. fourtene, feowertene, AS. feówert&ymacr_;ne, feówertēne. See Four, and Ten, and cf. Forty.]
Four and ten more; twice seven.


word: Fourteen₂
definition:
Fourteen

Four"teen`
n.
1.
The sum of ten and four; forteen units or objects.

2.
A symbol representing fourteen, as 14 or xiv.


word: Fourteenth
definition:
Fourteenth

Four"teenth`
(?)
a.
[Cf. OE. fourtende, fourtethe, AS. feówerteoða.]
1.
Next in order after the thirteenth; as, the fourteenth day of the month.

2.
Making or constituting one of fourteen equal parts into which anything may be divided.


word: Fourteenth₂
definition:
Fourteenth

Four"teenth`
n.
1.
One of fourteen equal parts into which one whole may be divided; the quotient of a unit divided by fourteen.

2.
(Mus.)
The octave of the seventh.

3.
One next after the thirteenth in a series.


word: Fourth
definition:
Fourth

Fourth
(?)
a.
[OE. fourthe, ferthe, feorthe, AS. feórða, fr. feówer four.]
1.
Next in order after the third; the ordinal of four.

2.
Forming one of four equal parts into which anything may be divided.


word: Fourth₂
definition:
Fourth

Fourth
n.
1.
One of four equal parts into which one whole may be divided; the quotient of a unit divided by four.

2.
(Mus.)
The interval of two tones and a semitone, embracing four diatonic degrees of the scale; the subdominant of any key.

3.
One coming next in order after the third.

The Fourth, specifically, in the United States, the fourth day of July, the anniversary of the declaration of American independence; as, to celebrate the Fourth.


word: fourth-year
definition:
fourth-year

fourth-year
adj.
of or pertaining to the fourth and final year in a U. S. high school or college.

Syn. -- senior(prenominal).


word: Four-way
definition:
Four-way

Four"-way`
(?)
a.
Allowing passage in either of four directions; as, a four-way cock, or valve.
Francis.

Four-way cock, a cock connected with four pipes or ports, and having two or more passages in the plug, by which the adjacent pipes or ports may be made to communicate; formerly used as a valve in the steam engine, and now for various other purposes. In the illustration, a leads to the upper end of a steam engine cylinder, and b to the lower end; c is the steam pipe, and d the exhaust pipe.


word: Four-way stop
definition:
Four-way stop

Four"-way` stop
(?)
n.
An intersection of two roads having stop signs at all four entry points.  The usual rule for such intersections requires that those entering the intersection yield the right of way to vehicles entering before them.


word: Four-wheeler
definition:
Four-wheeler

Four"-wheel`er
(?)
n.
A vehicle having four wheels;
specifically,
a hackney carriage with four weels.
[Colloq.]


word: Foussa
definition:
Foussa

Fous"sa
(?)
n.
[Natibe name.]
(Zool.)
A viverrine animal of Madagascar (Cryptoprocta ferox). It resembles a cat in size and form, and has retractile claws.


word: Fouter
definition:
Fouter

Fou"ter
(?)
n.
[F. foutre to lecher, L. futuere.  Cf. Fouty.]
A despicable fellow.
[Prov. Eng.]
Brockett.


word: Foutra
definition:
Foutra

Fou"tra
(?)
n.
[See Fouter.]
A fig; -- a word of contempt.
[Obs.]

A foutra for the world and wordlings base!
Shak.


word: Fouty
definition:
Fouty

Fou"ty
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. foutu, p. p. of foutre; OF. foutu scoundrel. See Fouter.]
Despicable.
[Obs.]


word: Foveola
definition:
Foveola

Fo*ve"o*la
(?)
n.
pl. Foveolæ (#).
[NL., dim. of L. fovea.]
A small depression or pit; a fovea.


word: Foveolate
definition:
Foveolate

Fo"ve*o*late
(? or ?)
a.
Having small pits or depressions, as the receptacle in some composite flowers.


word: Fovilla
definition:
Fovilla

Fo*vil"la
(?)
n.
pl. Fovillæ (#).
[Dim. fr. L. fovere to cherish.]
(Bot.)
One of the fine granules contained in the protoplasm of a pollen grain.


word: Fowl
definition:
Fowl

Fowl
(foul)
n.
 Instead of the pl. Fowls the singular is often used collectively.
[OE. foul, fowel, foghel, fuhel, fugel, AS. fugol; akin to OS. fugal D. & G. vogel, OHG. fogal, Icel. & Dan. fugl, Sw. fogel, fågel, Goth. fugls; of unknown origin, possibly by loss of l, from the root of E. fly, or akin to E. fox, as being a tailed animal.]
1.
Any bird; esp., any large edible bird.

Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air.
Gen. i. 26.

Behold the fowls of the air; for they sow not.
Matt. vi. 26.

Like a flight of fowl
Scattered by winds and high tempestuous gusts.
Shak.

2.
Any domesticated bird used as food, as a hen, turkey, duck; in a more restricted sense, the common domestic cock or hen (Gallus domesticus).

Barndoor fowl, or Barnyard fowl, a fowl that frequents the barnyard; the common domestic cock or hen.


word: Fowl₂
definition:
Fowl

Fowl
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Fowled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Fowling.]
To catch or kill wild fowl, for game or food, as by shooting, or by decoys, nets, etc.

Such persons as may lawfully hunt, fish, or fowl.
Blackstone.

Fowling piece, a light gun with smooth bore, adapted for the use of small shot in killing birds or small quadrupeds.


word: Fowlerite
definition:
Fowlerite

Fow"ler*ite
(?)
n.
[From Dr. Samuel Fowler.]
(Min.)
A variety of rhodonite, from Franklin Furnace, New Jersey, containing some zinc.


word: Fowler's solution
definition:
Fowler's solution

Fow"ler's so*lu"tion
(?)
An aqueous solution of arsenite of potassium, of such strength that one hundred parts represent one part of arsenious acid, or white arsenic; -- named from Fowler, an English physician who first brought it into use.


word: Fox
definition:
Fox

Fox
(f&obreve_;ks)
n.
pl. Foxes (#).
[AS. fox; akin to D. vos, G. fuchs, OHG. fuhs, foha, Goth. faúh&omacr, Icel. f&omacra fox, fox fraud; of unknown origin, cf. Skr. puccha tail.  Cf. Vixen.]
1.
(Zool.)
A carnivorous animal of the genus Vulpes, family Canidæ, of many species. The European fox (V. vulgaris or V. vulpes), the American red fox (V. fulvus), the American gray fox (V. Virginianus), and the arctic, white, or blue, fox (V. lagopus) are well-known species.

&hand_; The black or silver-gray fox is a variety of the American red fox, producing a fur of great value; the cross-gray and woods-gray foxes are other varieties of the same species, of less value. The common foxes of Europe and America are very similar; both are celebrated for their craftiness. They feed on wild birds, poultry, and various small animals.

Subtle as the fox for prey.
Shak.

2.
(Zool.)
The European dragonet.

3.
(Zool.)
The fox shark or thrasher shark; -- called also sea fox. See Thrasher shark, under Shark.

4.
A sly, cunning fellow.
[Colloq.]

We call a crafty and cruel man a fox.
Beattie.

5.
(Naut.)
Rope yarn twisted together, and rubbed with tar; -- used for seizings or mats.

6.
A sword; -- so called from the stamp of a fox on the blade, or perhaps of a wolf taken for a fox.
[Obs.]

Thou diest on point of fox.
Shak.

7.
pl.
(Ethnol.)
A tribe of Indians which, with the Sacs, formerly occupied the region about Green Bay, Wisconsin; -- called also Outagamies.

Fox and geese. (a) A boy's game, in which one boy tries to catch others as they run one goal to another. (b) A game with sixteen checkers, or some substitute for them, one of which is called the fox, and the rest the geese; the fox, whose first position is in the middle of the board, endeavors to break through the line of the geese, and the geese to pen up the fox. -- Fox bat (Zool.), a large fruit bat of the genus Pteropus, of many species, inhabiting Asia, Africa, and the East Indies, esp. P. medius of India. Some of the species are more than four feet across the outspread wings. See Fruit bat. -- Fox bolt, a bolt having a split end to receive a fox wedge. -- Fox brush (Zool.), the tail of a fox. -- Fox evil, a disease in which the hair falls off; alopecy. -- Fox grape (Bot.), the name of two species of American grapes. The northern fox grape (Vitis Labrusca) is the origin of the varieties called Isabella, Concord, Hartford, etc., and the southern fox grape (Vitis vulpina) has produced the Scuppernong, and probably the Catawba. -- Fox hunter. (a) One who pursues foxes with hounds. (b) A horse ridden in a fox chase. -- Fox shark (Zool.), the thrasher shark. See Thrasher shark, under Thrasher. -- Fox sleep, pretended sleep. -- Fox sparrow (Zool.), a large American sparrow (Passerella iliaca); -- so called on account of its reddish color. -- Fox squirrel (Zool.), a large North American squirrel (Sciurus niger, or S. cinereus). In the Southern States the black variety prevails; farther north the fulvous and gray variety, called the cat squirrel, is more common. -- Fox terrier (Zool.), one of a peculiar breed of terriers, used in hunting to drive foxes from their holes, and for other purposes. There are rough- and smooth-haired varieties. -- Fox trot, a pace like that which is adopted for a few steps, by a horse, when passing from a walk into a trot, or a trot into a walk. -- Fox wedge (Mach. & Carpentry), a wedge for expanding the split end of a bolt, cotter, dowel, tenon, or other piece, to fasten the end in a hole or mortise and prevent withdrawal. The wedge abuts on the bottom of the hole and the piece is driven down upon it. Fastening by fox wedges is called foxtail wedging. -- Fox wolf (Zool.), one of several South American wild dogs, belonging to the genus Canis. They have long, bushy tails like a fox.


word: Fox₂
definition:
Fox

Fox
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Foxed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Foxing.]
[See Fox, n., cf. Icel. fox imposture.]
1.
To intoxicate; to stupefy with drink.

I drank . . . so much wine that I was almost foxed.
Pepys.

2.
To make sour, as beer, by causing it to ferment.

3.
To repair the feet of, as of boots, with new front upper leather, or to piece the upper fronts of.


word: Foxed
definition:
Foxed

Foxed
(?)
a.
1.
Discolored or stained; -- said of timber, and also of the paper of books or engravings.

2.
Repaired by foxing; as, foxed boots.


word: Foxfish
definition:
Foxfish

Fox"fish`
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
(a)
The fox shark; -- called also sea fox. See Thrasher shark, under Shark.
(b)
The european dragonet. See Dragonet.


word: Foxglove
definition:
Foxglove

Fox"glove`
(?)
n.
[AS. foxes-gl&omacrfa, foxes-cl&omacrfa,foxes-clife.]
(Bot.)
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.

Pan through the pastures oftentimes hath run
To pluck the speckled foxgloves from their stem.
W. Browne.


word: foxhole
definition:
foxhole

foxhole
n.
(Mil.)
a small pit in the ground for individual shelter against enemy fire.

Syn. -- fox hole.


word: Fox-hunting
definition:
Fox-hunting

Fox"-hunt`ing
(?)
a.
Pertaining to or engaged in the hunting of foxes; fond of hunting foxes.


word: Foxiness
definition:
Foxiness

Fox"i*ness
(?)
n.
1.
The state or quality of being foxy, or foxlike; craftiness; shrewdness.

2.
The state of being foxed or discolored, as books; decay; deterioration.

3.
A coarse and sour taste in grapes.


word: Foxtail
definition:
Foxtail

Fox"tail`
(?)
n.
1.
The tail or brush of a fox.

2.
(Bot.)
The name of several kinds of grass having a soft dense head of flowers, mostly the species of Alopecurus and Setaria.

3.
(Metal.)
The last cinders obtained in the fining process.
Raymond.

Foxtail saw, a dovetail saw. -- Foxtail wedging. See Fox wedge, under Fox.


word: foxtrot
definition:
foxtrot

fox trot

fox" trot`, fox"trot`
n.
a ballroom dance for couples in quadruple time, combining short and long and fast and slow steps in fixed sequences.

Syn. -- fox-trot.


word: Foxy
definition:
Foxy

Fox"y
(?)
a.
1.
Like or pertaining to the fox; foxlike in disposition or looks; wily; cunning.

Modred's narrow, foxy face.
Tennyson.

2.
Having the color of a fox; of a yellowish or reddish brown color; -- applied sometimes to paintings when they have too much of this color.

3.
Having the odor of a fox; rank; strong smelling.

4.
Sour; unpleasant in taste; -- said of wine, beer, etc., not properly fermented; -- also of grapes which have the coarse flavor of the fox grape.

5.
Attractive in a sexually appealing way; --of women.
[Slang]

6.
Stylish and sexually attractive; -- of women's clothing; as, wearing a foxy new outfit.
[Slang]


word: Foy
definition:
Foy

Foy
(foi)
n.
[F. foi, old spelling foy, faith. See Faith.]
1.
Faith; allegiance; fealty.
[Obs.]
Spenser.

2.
A feast given by one about to leave a place.
[Obs.]

He did at the Dog give me, and some other friends of his, his foy, he being to set sail to-day.
Pepys.


word: Foyer
definition:
Foyer

Foy`er"
(?)
n.
[F., fr. LL. focarium fireplace. See Focus, n.]
1.
A lobby in a theater; a greenroom.

2.
The crucible or basin in a furnace which receives the molten metal.
Knight.


word: Foziness
definition:
Foziness

Fo"zi*ness
(?)
n.
The state of being fozy; spiritlessness; dullness.
[Scot.]

[The Whigs'] foziness can no longer be concealed.
Blackwood's.


word: Fra₂
definition:
Fra

Fra
(frȧ)
n.
[It., for frate. See Friar.]
Brother; -- a title of a monk or friar; as, Fra Angelo.
Longfellow.


word: Fracas
definition:
Fracas

Fra"cas
(frā"kas; F. frȧ`kä"; 277)
n.
[F., crash, din, tumult, It. fracasso, fr. fracassare to break in pieces, perh. fr. fra within, among (L. infra) + cassare to annul, cashier.  Cf. Cashier, v. t.]
An uproar; a noisy quarrel; a disturbance; a brawl.


word: Fracid
definition:
Fracid

Frac"id
(?)
a.
[L. fracidus mellow, soft.]
Rotten from being too ripe; overripe.
[Obs.]
Blount.


word: Fract
definition:
Fract

Fract
(frăkt)
v. t.
[L. fractus, p. p. of frangere to break.]
To break; to violate.
[Obs.]
Shak.


word: Fracted
definition:
Fracted

Frac"ted
a.
(Her.)
Having a part displaced, as if broken; -- said of an ordinary.
Macaulay.


word: Fraction
definition:
Fraction

Frac"tion
(?)
n.
[F. fraction, L. fractio a breaking, fr. frangere, fractum, to break. See Break.]
1.
The act of breaking, or state of being broken, especially by violence.
[Obs.]

Neither can the natural body of Christ be subject to any fraction or breaking up.
Foxe.

2.
A portion; a fragment.

Some niggard fractions of an hour.
Tennyson.

3.
(Arith. or Alg.)
One or more aliquot parts of a unit or whole number; an expression for a definite portion of a unit or magnitude.

Common fraction, or Vulgar fraction, a fraction in which the number of equal parts into which the integer is supposed to be divided is indicated by figures or letters, called the denominator, written below a line, over which is the numerator, indicating the number of these parts included in the fraction; as 1/2, one half, 2/5, two fifths. -- Complex fraction, a fraction having a fraction or mixed number in the numerator or denominator, or in both. Davies & Peck. -- Compound fraction, a fraction of a fraction; two or more fractions connected by of. -- Continued fraction, Decimal fraction, Partial fraction, etc. See under Continued, Decimal, Partial, etc. -- Improper fraction, a fraction in which the numerator is greater than the denominator. -- Proper fraction, a fraction in which the numerator is less than the denominator.


word: Fraction₂
definition:
Fraction

Frac"tion
v. t.
(Chem.)
To separate by means of, or to subject to, fractional distillation or crystallization; to fractionate; -- frequently used with out; as, to fraction out a certain grade of oil from pretroleum.


word: Fractional
definition:
Fractional

Frac"tion*al
(?)
a.
1.
Of or pertaining to fractions or a fraction; constituting a fraction; as, fractional numbers.

2.
Relatively small; inconsiderable; insignificant; as, a fractional part of the population.

Fractional crystallization (Chem.), a process of gradual and approximate purification and separation, by means of repeated solution and crystallization therefrom. -- Fractional currency, small coin, or paper notes, in circulation, of less value than the monetary unit. -- Fractional distillation (Chem.), a process of distillation so conducted that a mixture of liquids, differing considerably from each other in their boiling points, can be separated into its constituents.


word: Fractionally
definition:
Fractionally

Frac"tion*al*ly
adv.
By fractions or separate portions; as, to distill a liquid fractionally, that is, so as to separate different portions.


word: Fractionate
definition:
Fractionate

Frac"tion*ate
(?)
v. t.
To separate (a mixture of chemical substances) into different portions or fractions, as in the distillation of liquids.


word: fractionation
definition:
fractionation

frac`tion*a"tion
n.
the act or process of separating a mixture into portions of different composition, as in distillation or fractional crystallization.

Syn. -- fractional process.

2.
(Petroleum industry)
Separation of crude oil into components of differing composition by fractional distillation.


word: Fractious
definition:
Fractious

Frac"tious
(?)
a.
[Cf. Prov. E. frack forward, eager, E. freak, fridge; or Prov. E. fratch to squabble, quarrel.]
Apt to break out into a passion; apt to scold; cross; snappish; ugly; unruly; as, a fractious man; a fractious horse.


word: Fracture
definition:
Fracture

Frac"ture
(?; 135)
n.
[L. fractura, fr. frangere, fractum, to break: cf. F. fracture. See Fraction.]
1.
The act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach.

2.
(Surg.)
The breaking of a bone.

3.
(Min.)
The texture of a freshly broken surface; as, a compact fracture; an even, hackly, or conchoidal fracture.

Comminuted fracture (Surg.), a fracture in which the bone is broken into several parts. -- Complicated fracture (Surg.), a fracture of the bone combined with the lesion of some artery, nervous trunk, or joint. -- Compound fracture (Surg.), a fracture in which there is an open wound from the surface down to the fracture. -- Simple fracture (Surg.), a fracture in which the bone only is ruptured. It does not communicate with the surface by an open wound.


word: Fracture₂
definition:
Fracture

Frac"ture
(?; 135)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Fractured (#; 135); p. pr. & vb. n.. Fracturing.]
[Cf. F. fracturer.]
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.


word: fraenulum
definition:
fraenulum

frenulum

Fræn"u*lum
(?)
n.
pl. Frænula (#).
[NL., dim. of L. fraenum a bridle.]
(Anat.)
A frænum.


word: frenum
definition:
frenum

fraenum

{ Fræ"num (?), or Fre"num  }
n.
pl. E. Frænums (#), L. Fræna (#).
[L., a bridle.]
(Anat.)
A connecting fold of membrane serving to support or restrain any part; as, the frænum of the tongue.


word: frag
definition:
frag

frag
(frăg)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. fragged (frăgd); p. pr. & vb. n. fragging.]
[by shortening from fragmentation grenade; ca. 1965.]
(Mil.)
To assault, especially to kill or wound, with a fragmentation grenade.
[Slang]
This term became popularized when disaffected American troops serving in Vietnam were reported on occasion to kill unpopular commanders by the use of grenades.


word: Fragaria
definition:
Fragaria

Fragaria
prop. n.
a genus of plants comprising the strawberry plants.

Syn. -- genus Fragaria.


word: Fragile
definition:
Fragile

Frag"ile
(?)
a.
[L. fragilis, from frangere to break; cf. F. fragile. See Break, v. t., and cf. Frail, a.]
Easily broken; brittle; frail; delicate; easily destroyed.

The state of ivy is tough, and not fragile.
Bacon.


word: Fragility
definition:
Fragility

Fra*gil"i*ty
(?)
n.
[L. fragilitas: cf. F. fragilité.  Cf. Frailty.]
1.
The condition or quality of being fragile; brittleness; frangibility.
Bacon.

2.
Weakness; feebleness.

An appearance of delicacy, and even of fragility, is almost essential to it [beauty].
Burke.

3.
Liability to error and sin; frailty.
[Obs.]

The fragility and youthful folly of Qu. Fabius.
Holland.


word: Fragment
definition:
Fragment

Frag"ment
(?)
n.
[L. fragmentum, fr. frangere to break: cf. F. fragment. See Break, v. t.]
A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part; as, a fragment of an ancient writing.

Gather up the fragments that remain.
John vi. 12.


word: Fragmental
definition:
Fragmental

Frag*men"tal
(?)
a.
1.
Fragmentary.

2.
(Geol.)
Consisting of the pulverized or fragmentary material of rock, as conglomerate, shale, etc.


word: Fragmentariness
definition:
Fragmentariness

Frag"men*ta*ri*ness
n.
The quality or property of being in fragments, or broken pieces; incompleteness; want of continuity.
G. Eliot.


word: Fragmentary
definition:
Fragmentary

Frag"men*ta*ry
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. fragmentaire.]
1.
Composed of fragments, or broken pieces; disconnected; not complete or entire.
Donne.

2.
(Geol.)
Composed of the fragments of other rocks.


word: fragmentation
definition:
fragmentation

fragmentation
n.
the act or process of separating something into small pieces or fine particles.

Syn. -- atomization, atomisation.


word: fragmentation grenade
definition:
fragmentation grenade

fragmentation grenade
n.
(Mil.)
A type of hand grenade designed to burst into multiple fragments upon detonation of the explosive charge; the fragments fly away at high velocity, killing or wounding persons nearby.  Contrasted to concussion grenade.  The common  type of fragmentation grenade used by the American military was sometimes jocosely referred to as a pineapple from its reticulated surface appearance, resembling that of the fruit.


word: Fragor
definition:
Fragor

Fra"gor
(_;)
n.
[L., a breaking to pieces, fr. frangere to break.]
1.
A loud and sudden sound; the report of anything bursting; a crash.
I. Watts.

2.
[Due to confusion with fragrant.]
A strong or sweet scent.
[Obs. & Illegitimate.]
Sir T. Herbert.


word: Fragrancy
definition:
Fragrancy

Fragrance

{ Fra"grance (?), Fra"gran*cy (?) }
n.
[L. fragrantia: cf. OF. fragrance.]
The quality of being fragrant; sweetness of smell; a sweet smell; a pleasing odor; perfume.

Eve separate he spies,
Veiled in a cloud of fragrance.
Milton.

The goblet crowned,
Breathed aromatic fragrancies around.
Pope.


word: Fragrant
definition:
Fragrant

Fra"grant
(?)
a.
[L. fragrans. -antis, p. pr. of fragrare to emit a smell of fragrance: cf. OF. fragrant.]
Affecting the olfactory nerves agreeably; sweet of smell; odorous; having or emitting an agreeable perfume.

Fragrant the fertile earth
After soft showers.
Milton.


word: frail
definition:
frail

frail
(frāl)
n.
[OE. fraiel, fraile, OF. fraiel, freel, frael, fr. LL. fraellum.]
A basket made of rushes, used chiefly for containing figs and raisins.

2.
The quantity of raisins -- about thirty-two, fifty-six, or seventy-five pounds, -- contained in a frail.

3.
A rush for weaving baskets.
Johnson.


word: frail₂
definition:
frail

frail
a.
[Compar. frailer (frāl"ẽr); superl. frailest.]
[OE. frele, freile, OF. fraile, frele, F. frêle, fr. L. fragilis. See Fragile.]
1.
Easily broken; fragile; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish; easily destroyed; not tenacious of life; weak; infirm.

That I may know how frail I am.
Ps. xxxix. 4.

An old bent man, worn and frail.
Lowell.

2.
Tender.
[Obs.]

Deep indignation and compassion frail.
Spenser.

3.
Liable to fall from virtue or be led into sin; not strong against temptation; weak in resolution; also, unchaste; -- often applied to fallen women.

Man is frail, and prone to evil.
Jer. Taylor.


word: frailty
definition:
frailty

frail"ty
(frāl"t&ybreve_;)
n.
pl. frailties (frāl"tĭz).
[OE. frelete, freilte, OF. fraileté, fr. L. fragilitas. See Frail, a., and cf. Fragility.]
1.
The condition or quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally; frailness; infirmity; weakness of resolution; liableness to be deceived or seduced.

God knows our frailty, [and] pities our weakness.
Locke.

2.
A fault proceeding from weakness; foible; sin of infirmity.


word: Fraischeur
definition:
Fraischeur

Frai"scheur
(?)
n.
[OF.; F fraicheur, fr. frais, fem. fraîche, fresh; of German origin. See Frash, a.]
Freshness; coolness.
[R.]
Dryden.


word: Fraise
definition:
Fraise

Fraise
(?)
n.
[See Froise.]
A large and thick pancake, with slices of bacon in it.
[Obs.]
Johnson.


word: Fraise₂
definition:
Fraise

Fraise
(?)
n.
[F. fraise, orig., a ruff, cf. F. frise frieze, E. frieze a coarse stuff.]
1.
(Fort.)
A defense consisting of pointed stakes driven into the ramparts in a horizontal or inclined position.

2.
(Mech.)
A fluted reamer for enlarging holes in stone; a small milling cutter.


word: Fraise₃
definition:
Fraise

Fraise
v. t.
(Mil.)
To protect, as a line of troops, against an onset of cavalry, by opposing bayonets raised obliquely forward.
Wilhelm.


word: Frame
definition:
Frame

Frame
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Framed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Framing.]
[OE. framen, fremen, to execute, build, AS. fremman to further, perform, effect, fr. fram strong, valiant; akin to E. foremost, and prob. to AS. fram from, Icel. fremja, frama, to further, framr forward, G. fromm worthy, excellent, pious. See Foremost, From, and cf. Furnish.]
1.
(Arch. & Engin.)
To construct by fitting and uniting the several parts of the skeleton of any structure; specifically, in woodwork, to put together by cutting parts of one member to fit parts of another. See Dovetail, Halve, v. t., Miter, Tenon, Tooth, Tusk, Scarf, and Splice.

2.
To originate; to plan; to devise; to contrive; to compose; in a bad sense, to invent or fabricate, as something false.

How many excellent reasonings are framed in the mind of a man of wisdom and study in a length of years.
I. Watts.

3.
To fit to something else, or for some specific end; to adjust; to regulate; to shape; to conform.

And frame my face to all occasions.
Shak.

We may in some measure frame our minds for the reception of happiness.
Landor.

The human mind is framed to be influenced.
I. Taylor.

4.
To cause; to bring about; to produce.
[Obs.]

Fear frames disorder, and disorder wounds.
Shak.

5.
To support.
[Obs. & R.]

That on a staff his feeble steps did frame.
Spenser.

6.
To provide with a frame, as a picture.

7.
to manufacture false evidence against (an innocent person), so as to make the person appear guilty of a crime.  The act of framing a person is often referred to as a frame-up.


word: Frame₂
definition:
Frame

Frame
v. i.
1.
To shape; to arrange, as the organs of speech.
[Obs.]
Judg. xii. 6.

2.
To proceed; to go.
[Obs.]

The bauty of this sinful dame
Made many princes thither frame.
Shak.


word: Frame₃
definition:
Frame

Frame
n.
1.
Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure; esp., the constructional system, whether of timber or metal, that gives to a building, vessel, etc., its model and strength; the skeleton of a structure.

These are thy glorious works, Parent of good,
Almighty! thine this universal frame.
Milton.

2.
The bodily structure; physical constitution; make or build of a person.

Some bloody passion shakes your very frame.
Shak.

No frames could be strong enough to endure it.
Prescott.

3.
A kind of open case or structure made for admitting, inclosing, or supporting things, as that which incloses or contains a window, door, picture, etc.; that on which anything is held or stretched
(a)
The skeleton structure which supports the boiler and machinery of a locomotive upon its wheels.
(b)
(Founding)
A molding box or flask, which being filled with sand serves as a mold for castings.
(c)
The ribs and stretchers of an umbrella or other structure with a fabric covering.
(d)
A structure of four bars, adjustable in size, on which cloth, etc., is stretched for quilting, embroidery, etc.
(e)
(Hort.)
A glazed portable structure for protecting young plants from frost.
(f)
(Print.)
A stand to support the type cases for use by the compositor.
(f)
a pair of glasses without the lenses; that part of a pair of glasses that excludes the lenses.

4.
(Mach.)
A term applied, especially in England, to certain machines built upon or within framework; as, a stocking frame; lace frame; spinning frame, etc.

5.
Form; shape; proportion; scheme; structure; constitution; system; as, a frameof government.

She that hath a heart of that fine frame
To pay this debt of love but to a brother.
Shak.

Put your discourse into some frame.
Shak.

6.
Particular state or disposition, as of the mind; humor; temper; mood; as, to be always in a happy frame.  Same as frame of mind

7.
Contrivance; the act of devising or scheming.
[Obs.]

John the bastard
Whose spirits toil in frame of villainies.
Shak.

8.
In games: (a) In pool, the triangular form used in setting up the balls; also, the balls as set up, or the round of playing required to pocket them all; as, to play six frames in a game of 50 points. (b) In bowling, as in tenpins, one of the several innings forming a game.

Balloon frame, Cant frames, etc. See under Balloon, Cant, etc. -- Frame building or Frame house, a building of which the form and support is made of framed timbers. [U.S.] -- Frame level, a mason's level. -- Frame saw, a thin saw stretched in a frame to give it rigidity.


word: framed
definition:
framed

framed
adj.
provided with a frame; as, there were framed snapshots of family and friends on her desk.  Opposite of unframed.


word: Frame of reference
definition:
Frame of reference

Frame of reference
(?)
n.
1.
an arbitrary set of spatial coordinates used to describe the position or motion of objects.  The coordinates may be fixed or moving; as, a rotating frame of reference.

2.
a set of assumptions or conditions that are used to discuss or understand something; as, a religious frame of reference.


word: Framer
definition:
Framer

Fram"er
(?)
n.
One who frames; as, the framer of a building; the framers of the Constitution.


word: frameshift
definition:
frameshift

frame"shift
(?)
a.
(Genetics)
of, pertaining to, or causing a type of mutation consisting of the insertion or deletion of one or more nucleotides in the nucleic acid structure of a gene, when the number of base pairs inserted or deleted is not a multiple of three. If the addition or deletion occurs in multiples of three, the unaffected nucleotides in the genome remain in the proper order ("frame") to be correctly translated into protein; in such cases of insertions or deletions not causing a frame shift, a functional though altered protein may be produced by the organism.  Frameshift mutations cause more profound changes in the composition of the protein resulting from translation of the mutated gene.


word: Frame-up
definition:
Frame-up

Frame"-up`
n.
A conspiracy or plot for a malicious or evil purpose;
especially
an act that incriminates a person on false evidence.
[Slang]


word: Framework
definition:
Framework

Frame"work`
(?)
n.
1.
The work of framing, or the completed work; the frame or constructional part of anything; as, the framework of society.

A staunch and solid piece of framework.
Milton.

2.
Work done in, or by means of, a frame or loom.


word: Framing
definition:
Framing

Fram"ing
n.
1.
The act, process, or style of putting together a frame, or of constructing anything; a frame; that which frames.

2.
(Arch. & Engin.)
A framework, or a sy_; of frames.

Framing chisel (Carp.), a heavy chisel with a socket shank for making mortises.


word: Frampoid
definition:
Frampoid

Frampel

{ Fram"pel (?), Fram"poid (?) }
a.
[Also written frampul, frampled, framfold.]
[Cf. W. fframfol passionate, ffrom angry, fretting; or perh. akin to E. frump.]
Peevish; cross; vexatious; quarrelsome.
[Obs.]
Shak.

Is Pompey grown so malapert, so frampel?
Beau. & Fl.


word: Franc
definition:
Franc

Franc
(fră&nsmacr_;k)
n.
[F., fr. franc a Franc. See Frank, a.]
A silver coin of France, and since 1795 the unit of the French monetary system. It has been adopted by Belgium and Swizerland. In 1913 it was equivalent to about nineteen cents American, or ten pence British, and is divided into 100 centimes.


word: Franchise
definition:
Franchise

Fran"chise
(? or ?; 277)
n.
[F., fr. franc, fem. franche, free. See Frank, a.]
1.
Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty.
[Obs.]
Spenser.

2.
(LAw)
A particular privilege conferred by grant from a sovereign or a government, and vested in individuals; an immunity or exemption from ordinary jurisdiction; a constitutional or statutory right or privilege, esp. the right to vote.

Election by universal suffrage, as modified by the Constitution, is the one crowning franchise of the American people.
W. H. Seward.

3.
The district or jurisdiction to which a particular privilege extends; the limits of an immunity; hence, an asylum or sanctuary.

Churches and mobasteries in Spain are franchises for criminals.
London Encyc.

4.
Magnanimity; generosity; liberality; frankness; nobility.
Franchise
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

Elective franchise, the privilege or right of voting in an election of public officers.


word: Franchise₂
definition:
Franchise

Fran"chise
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Franchised (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Franchising.]
[Cf. OF. franchir to free, F., to cross.]
To make free; to enfranchise; to give liberty to.
Shak.


word: Franchisement
definition:
Franchisement

Fran"chise*ment
(?)
n.
[Cf. OF. franchissement.]
Release; deliverance; freedom.
Spenser.


word: Franciscan
definition:
Franciscan

Fran*cis"can
(?)
a.
[LL. Franciscus Francis: cf. F. franciscain.]
(R. C. Ch.)
Belonging to the Order of St. Francis of the Franciscans.

Franciscan Brothers, pious laymen who devote themselves to useful works, such as manual labor schools, and other educational institutions; -- called also Brothers of the Third Order of St. Francis. -- Franciscan Nuns, nuns who follow the rule of St. Francis, esp. those of the Second Order of St. Francis, -- called also Poor Clares or Minoresses. -- Franciscan Tertiaries, the Third Order of St. Francis.


word: Franciscan₂
definition:
Franciscan

Fran*cis"can
n.
(R.C.Ch.)
A monk or friar of the Order of St. Francis, a large and zealous order of mendicant monks founded in 1209 by St. Francis of Assisi. They are called also Friars Minor; and in England, Gray Friars, because they wear a gray habit.


word: Francolin
definition:
Francolin

Fran"co*lin
(?)
n.
[F.; cf. It. francolino, Sp. francolin.]
(Zool.)
A spurred partidge of the genus Francolinus and allied genera, of Asia and Africa. The common species (F. vulgaris) was formerly common in southern Europe, but is now nearly restricted to Asia.


word: Francophile
definition:
Francophile

Francophil

Francophil, Francophile
prop. n.
An admirer of France and everything French.


word: Francophobe
definition:
Francophobe

Francophobe
prop. n.
a person who hates or fears France, French culture, or the French people.


word: Francophonic
definition:
Francophonic

Francophone

Francophone, Francophonic
prop. a.
Able to communicate in the French language; -- used especially of those whose native language is French.

Syn. -- French-speaking.


word: Frangent
definition:
Frangent

Fran"gent
(?)
a.
[L. frangens, p. pr. of frangere. See Fraction.]
Causing fracture; breaking.
[R.]
H. Walpole.


word: Frangibility
definition:
Frangibility

Fran`gi*bil"i*ty
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. frangibilité.]
The state or quality of being frangible.
Fox.


word: Frangible
definition:
Frangible

Fran"gi*ble
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. frangible.]
Capable of being broken; brittle; fragile; easily broken.


word: Frangipane
definition:
Frangipane

Fran"gi*pane
(?)
n.
[F. frangipane; supposed to be called so from the inventor, the Marquis Frangipani, major general under Louis XIV.]
1.
A perfume of jasmine; frangipani.

2.
A species of pastry, containing cream and almonds.


word: Frangipanni
definition:
Frangipanni

Frangipani

{ Fran`gi*pan"i (?), Fran`gi*pan"ni (?) }
n.
[Another spelling of frangipane.]
A perfume derived from, or imitating the odor of, the flower of the red jasmine, a West Indian tree of the genus Plumeria.


word: Frangulinic
definition:
Frangulinic

Frangulic

{ Fran*gu"lic (?), Fran`gu*lin"ic (?) }
a.
(Chem.)
Pertaining to, or drived from, frangulin, or a species (Rhamnus Frangula) of the buckthorn.

Frangulinic acid (Chem.), a yellow crystalline substance, resembling alizarin, and obtained by the decomposition of frangulin.


word: Frangulin
definition:
Frangulin

Fran"gu*lin
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
A yellow crystalline dyestuff, regarded as a glucoside, extracted from a species (Rhamnus Frangula) of the buckthorn; -- called also rhamnoxanthin.


word: Franion
definition:
Franion

Fran"ion
(?)
n.
[Perh. from F. fainéant an idler.]
A paramour; a loose woman; also, a gay, idle fellow.
[Obs.]
Spenser.


word: Frank₂
definition:
Frank

Frank
v. t.
To shut up in a frank or sty; to pen up; hence, to cram; to fatten.
[Obs.]
Shak.


word: frank
definition:
frank

frank
(fră&nsmacr_;k)
a.
[Compar. franker (fră&nsmacr_;k"ẽr); superl. frankest.]
[F. franc free, frank, L. Francus a Frank, fr. OHG. Franko the name of a Germanic people on the Rhine, who afterward founded the French monarchy; cf. AS. franca javelin, Icel. frakka.  Cf. Franc, French, a., Franchise, n.]
1.
Unbounded by restrictions, limitations, etc.; free.
[R.]
frank
Spenser.

2.
Free in uttering one's real sentiments; not reserved; using no disguise; candid; ingenuous; as, a frank nature, conversation, manner, etc.

3.
Liberal; generous; profuse.
[Obs.]

Frank of civilities that cost them nothing.
L'Estrange.

4.
Unrestrained; loose; licentious; -- used in a bad sense.
Spenser.


word: frank₂
definition:
frank

frank
(fră&nsmacr_;k)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. franked (fră&nsmacr_;kt); p. pr. & vb. n. franking.]
1.
To send by public conveyance free of expense.
Dickens.

2.
To extempt from charge for postage, as a letter, package, or packet, etc.


word: Frank₄
definition:
Frank

Frank
n.
[See Frank, a.]
The privilege of sending letters or other mail matter, free of postage, or without charge; also, the sign, mark, or signature denoting that a letter or other mail matter is to go free of postage.  Called also the franking privilege.

I have said so much, that, if I had not a frank, I must burn my letter and begin again.
Cowper.


word: Frank₅
definition:
Frank

Frank
n.
[Cf. F. franc. See Frank, a.]
1.
(Ethnol.)
A member of one of the German tribes that in the fifth century overran and conquered Gaul, and established the kingdom of France.

2.
A native or inhabitant of Western Europe; a European; -- a term used in the Levant.

3.
A French coin. See Franc.


word: Frankalmoigne
definition:
Frankalmoigne

Frank`al*moigne"
(?)
n.
[F. franc free + Norm. F. almoigne alma, for almosne, F. aumône. See Frank, a., and Almoner.]
(Eng. Law)
A tenure by which a religious corporation holds lands given to them and their successors forever, usually on condition of praying for the soul of the donor and his heirs; -- called also tenure by free alms.
Burrill.


word: Frank-chase
definition:
Frank-chase

Frank"-chase`
(?)
n.
[Frank free + chase.]
(Eng. Law)
The liberty or franchise of having a chase; free chase.
Burrill.


word: Frank-fee
definition:
Frank-fee

Frank"-fee`
(?)
n.
[Frank free + fee.]
(Eng. Law)
A species of tenure in fee simple, being the opposite of ancient demesne, or copyhold.
Burrill.


word: Frankfort black
definition:
Frankfort black

Frank"fort black`
(?)
A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc.
McElrath.


word: frankfurter
definition:
frankfurter

frank"fur*ter
(?)
A small cooked sausage of beef or beef and pork, usually 5 to 6 inches, sometimes as long as 12 inches in length; called also frankforter, frankfort, frankfurt.  It is commonly eaten on a roll, called a hot dog bun.

Syn. -- wiener, hot dog{1}.


word: Frankincense
definition:
Frankincense

Frank"in*cense
(?)
n.
[OF. franc free, pure + encens incense.]
A fragrant, aromatic resin, or gum resin, burned as an incense in religious rites or for medicinal fumigation. The best kinds now come from East Indian trees, of the genus Boswellia; a commoner sort, from the Norway spruce (Abies excelsa) and other coniferous trees. The frankincense of the ancient Jews is still unidentified.


word: Franking
definition:
Franking

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


word: Frank-law
definition:
Frank-law

Frank"-law`
(?)
n.
[Frank free + law.]
(Eng. Law)
The liberty of being sworn in courts, as a juror or witness; one of the ancient privileges of a freeman; free and common law; -- an obsolete expression signifying substantially the same as the American expression civil rights.
Abbot.


word: Franklin
definition:
Franklin

Frank"lin
(?)
n.
[OE. frankelein; cf. LL. franchilanus. See Frank, a.]
An English freeholder, or substantial householder.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

The franklin, a small landholder of those days.
Sir J. Stephen.


word: Franklinic
definition:
Franklinic

Frank*lin"ic
(?)
a.
Of or pertaining to Benjamin Franklin.

Franklinic electricity, electricity produced by friction; called also static electricity.


word: Franklin stove
definition:
Franklin stove

Frank"lin stove`
(?)
A kind of open stove introduced by Benjamin Franklin, the peculiar feature of which was that a current of heated air was directly supplied to the room from an air box; -- now applied to other varieties of open stoves.


word: Frank-marriage
definition:
Frank-marriage

Frank"-mar"riage
(?)
n.
[Frank free + marriage.]
(Eng. Law)
A certain tenure in tail special; an estate of inheritance given to a man his wife (the wife being of the blood of the donor), and descendible to the heirs of their two bodies begotten.
[Obs.]
Blackstone.


word: Frankness
definition:
Frankness

Frank"ness
n.
The quality of being frank; candor; openess; ingenuousness; fairness; liberality.


word: Frankpledge
definition:
Frankpledge

Frank"pledge`
(?)
n.
[Frank free + pledge.]
(O. Eng. Law)
(a)
A pledge or surety for the good behavior of freemen, -- each freeman who was a member of an ancient decennary, tithing, or friborg, in England, being a pledge for the good conduct of the others, for the preservation of the public peace; a free surety.
(b)
The tithing itself.
Bouvier.

The servants of the crown were not, as now, bound in frankpledge for each other.
Macaulay.


word: Frantic
definition:
Frantic

Fran"tic
(?)
a.
[OE. frentik, frenetik, F. frentique, L. phreneticus, from Gr. _;. See Frenzy, and cf. Frenetic, Phrenetic.]
Mad; raving; furious; violent; wild and disorderly; distracted.

Die, frantic wretch, for this accursed deed!
Shak.

Torrents of frantic abuse.
Macaulay.


word: Frap
definition:
Frap

Frap
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Frapped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Frapping.]
[Cf. F. frapper to strike, to seize ropes.  Cf. Affrap.]
1.
(Naut.)
To draw together; to bind with a view to secure and strengthen, as a vessel by passing cables around it; to tighten; as a tackle by drawing the lines together.
Tottem.

2.
To brace by drawing together, as the cords of a drum.
Knoght.


word: Frappe
definition:
Frappe

&VerbarFrap`pé" or Frappe
(frȧ`pā")
a.
[F., p.p. of frapper to strike, to chill.]
Iced; frozen; artificially cooled; as, wine frappé.
(frȧ`pā" or frăp)n. A frappé mixture or beverage, as a water ice, variously flavored, frozen soft, and served in glasses; also, a milk shake.


word: Frapping
definition:
Frapping

Frap"ping
(?)
n.
[From Frap.]
(Naut.)
A lashing binding a thing tightly or binding things together.


word: Frasera
definition:
Frasera

Frasera
n.
A genus of North American herbs: columbo; it includes some species sometimes placed in the genus Swertia.

Syn. -- genus Frasera.


word: frat
definition:
frat

frat
n.
a social club for male college undergraduates; a shortened form of fraternity.

Syn. -- fraternity.


word: frat house
definition:
frat house

frat house
n.
a house used by a chapter of a fraternity at a college.

Syn. -- fraternity house; chapter house.


word: Frater
definition:
Frater

Fra"ter
n.
[L., a brother.]
(Eccl.)
A monk; also, a frater house.
[R.]
Shipley.

Frater house, an apartament in a convent used as an eating room; a refectory; -- called also a fratery.


word: Fratercula
definition:
Fratercula

Fratercula
n.
a genus of sea birds, one of the genera of puffins.

Syn. -- genus Fratercula.


word: Fraternal
definition:
Fraternal

Fra*ter"nal
(?)
a.
[F. fraternel, LL. fraternalis, fr. L. fraternus, fr. frater brother. See Brother.]
Of, pertaining to, or involving, brethren; becoming to brothers; brotherly; as, fraternal affection; a fraternal embrace.
Fra*ter"nal*ly, adv.

An abhorred, a cursed, a fraternal war.
Milton.

Fraternal love and friendship.
Addison.


word: Fraternism
definition:
Fraternism

Fraternation

{ Fra`ter*na"tion (?), Fra"ter*nism (?) }
n.
Fraternization.
[R.]
Jefferson.


word: Fraternity
definition:
Fraternity

Fra*ter"ni*ty
(?)
n.
pl. Fraternities (#).
[F. fraternité, L. fraternitas.]
1.
The state or quality of being fraternal or brotherly; brotherhood.

2.
A body of men associated for their common interest, business, or pleasure; a company; a brotherhood; a society; in the Roman Catholic Church, an association for special religious purposes, for relieving the sick and destitute, etc.

3.
Men of the same class, profession, occupation, character, or tastes.

With what terms of respect knaves and sots will speak of their own fraternity!
South.

4.
A social club for male college undergraduates.  They often have secret initiation rites, and are named by the use of two or three Greek letters.  The corresponding association for women students is called a sorority.

Syn. -- frat.


word: Fraternization
definition:
Fraternization

Fra`ter*ni*za"tion
(? or ?)
n.
The act of fraternizing or uniting as brothers.

I hope that no French fraternization . . . could so change the hearts of Englishmen.
Burke.


word: Fraternize
definition:
Fraternize

Fra"ter*nize
(? or ?; 277)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Fraternized (#); p. pr. & vb. n.. Fraternizing (#).]
[Cf. F. fraterniser.]
To associate or hold fellowship as brothers, or as men of like occupation or character; to have brotherly feelings.


word: Fraternize₂
definition:
Fraternize

Fra"ter*nize
v. t.
To bring into fellowship or brotherly sympathy.

Correspondence for fraternizing the two nations.
Burke.


word: Fratery
definition:
Fratery

Fra"ter*y
(? or ?)
n.
[L. frater brother: cf. It. frateria a brotherhood of monks. See Friar.]
A frater house. See under Frater.


word: Fratrage
definition:
Fratrage

Fra"trage
(? or ?; 48)
n.
[L. frater a brother.]
(Law)
A sharing among brothers, or brothers' kin.
[Obs.]
Crabb.


word: Fratricelli
definition:
Fratricelli

Fra`tri*cel"li
(?)
n. pl.
[It. fraticelli, lit., little brothers, dim. fr. frate brother, L. frater.]
(Eccl. Hist.)
(a)
The name which St. Francis of Assisi gave to his followers, early in the 13th century.
(b)
A sect which seceded from the Franciscan Order, chiefly in Italy and Sicily, in 1294, repudiating the pope as an apostate, maintaining the duty of celibacy and poverty, and discountenancing oaths. Called also Fratricellians and Fraticelli.


word: Fratricide
definition:
Fratricide

Frat"ri*cide
(?)
n.
[L. fratricidium a brother's murder, fr. fratricida a brother's murderer; frater, fratris, brother + caedere to kill: cf. F. fratricide.]
1.
The act of one who murders or kills his own brother.

2.
[L. fratricida: cf. F. fratricide.]
One who murders or kills his own brother.


word: Frau
definition:
Frau

Frau
(frou)
n.
pl. Frauen (frou"en)
[G. Cf. 1st Frow.]
In Germany, a woman; a married woman; a wife; -- as a title, equivalent to Mrs., Madam.


word: Fraud
definition:
Fraud

Fraud
(fr&asuml_;d)
n.
[F. fraude, L. fraus, fraudis; prob. akin to Skr. dhūrv to injure, dhv&rsdot_; to cause to fall, and E. dull.]
1.
Deception deliberately practiced with a view to gaining an unlawful or unfair advantage; artifice by which the right or interest of another is injured; injurious stratagem; deceit; trick.

If success a lover's toil attends,
Few ask, if fraud or force attained his ends.
Pope.

2.
(Law)
An intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of obtaining some valuable thing or promise from another.

3.
A trap or snare.
[Obs.]

To draw the proud King Ahab into fraud.
Milton.

Constructive fraud (Law), an act, statement, or omission which operates as a fraud, although perhaps not intended to be such. Mozley & W. -- Pious fraud (Ch. Hist.), a fraud contrived and executed to benefit the church or accomplish some good end, upon the theory that the end justified the means. -- Statute of frauds (Law), an English statute (1676), the principle of which is incorporated in the legislation of all the States of this country, by which writing with specific solemnities (varying in the several statutes) is required to give efficacy to certain dispositions of property. Wharton.


word: Fraudful
definition:
Fraudful

Fraud"ful
(?)
a.
Full of fraud, deceit, or treachery; trickish; treacherous; fraudulent; -- applied to persons or things.
I. Taylor.


word: Fraudulency
definition:
Fraudulency

Fraudulence

{ Fraud"u*lence (?; 135), Fraud"u*len*cy (?) }
n.
[L. fraudulentia.]
The quality of being fraudulent; deliberate deceit; trickishness.
Hooker.


word: Fraudulent
definition:
Fraudulent

Fraud"u*lent
(?)
a.
[L. fraudulentus, fr. fraus, fraudis, fraud: cf. F. fraudulent.]
1.
Using fraud; tricky; deceitful; dishonest.

2.
Characterized by, founded on, or proceeding from, fraud; as, a fraudulent bargain.

He, with serpent tongue, . . . 
His fraudulent temptation thus began.
Milton.

3.
Obtained or performed by artifice; as, fraudulent conquest.
Milton.


word: Fraught
definition:
Fraught

Fraught
(fr&asuml_;t)
n.
[OE.fraight, fraght; akin to Dan. fragt, Sw. frakt, D. vracht, G. fracht, cf. OHG. frēht merit, reward; perh. from a pref. corresponding to E. for + The root of E. own.  Cf. Freight.]
A freight; a cargo.
[Obs.]
Shak.


word: Fraught₂
definition:
Fraught

Fraught
a.
Freighted; laden; filled; stored; charged.

A vessel of our country richly fraught.
Shak.

A discourse fraught with all the commending excellences of speech.
South.

Enterprises fraught with world-wide benefits.
I. Taylor.


word: Fraught₃
definition:
Fraught

Fraught
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Fraughted or Fraught; p. pr. & vb. n. Fraughting.]
[Akin to Dan. fragte, Sw. frakta, D. bevrachten, G. frachten, cf. OHG. frēht&omacrn to deserve. See Fraught, n.]
To freight; to load; to burden; to fill; to crowd.
[Obs.]

Upon the tumbling billows fraughted ride
The armed ships.
Fairfax.


word: Fraulein
definition:
Fraulein

Fräu"lein
(froi"līn)
n. sing. & pl.
[G., dim. of frau woman. See Frau.]
In Germany, a young lady; an unmarried woman; -- as a title, equivalent to Miss.


word: Fraunhofer lines
definition:
Fraunhofer lines

Fraun"ho*fer lines`
(?)
prop. n. pl.
(Physics.)
The lines of the spectrum; especially and properly, the dark lines of the solar spectrum, so called because first accurately observed and interpreted by Fraunhofer, a German physicist.


word: fraxin
definition:
fraxin

frax"in
(?)
n.
[From Fraxinus.]
(Chem.)
A colorless crystalline substance (C16H18O10) found in the bark of the ash (Fraxinus), and along with esculin in the bark of the horse-chestnut.  It is structurally a derivative of a coumarin glucoside. It shows a delicate blue-green fluorescence in alkaline solutions; -- called also paviin and fraxoside.
MI-11
Syn. --  8-(β-D-Glucopyranosyloxy)-7-hydroxy-6-methoxy-2H-1-benzopyran-2-one; also, 7,8-dihydroxy-6-methoxy-coumarin-8-β-D-glucoside; fraxetin-8-glucoside.


word: Fraxinus
definition:
Fraxinus

Frax"i*nus
(?)
prop. n.
[L., the ash tree.]
(Bot.)
A genus of deciduous forest trees, found in the north temperate zone, and including the true ash trees.

&hand_; Fraxinus excelsior is the European ash; Fraxinus Americana, the white ash; Fraxinus sambucifolia, the black ash or water ash.


word: fray
definition:
fray

fray
(frā)
n.
[Abbreviated from affray.]
An angry quarrel; an affray; contest; combat; broil.

Who began this bloody fray?
Shak.


word: Fray
definition:
Fray

Fray
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Frayed (frād); p. pr. & vb. n. Fraying.]
[See 1st Fray, and cf. Affray.]
To frighten; to terrify; to alarm.
I. Taylor.

What frays ye, that were wont to comfort me affrayed?
Spenser.


word: Fray₂
definition:
Fray

Fray
v. t.
[Cf. OF. fraier. See Defray, v. t.]
To bear the expense of; to defray.
[Obs.]

The charge of my most curious and costly ingredients frayed, I shall acknowledge myself amply satisfied.
Massinger.


word: Fray₃
definition:
Fray

Fray
v. t.
[OF. freier, fraier, froier, to rub. L. fricare; cf. friare to crumble, E. friable; perh. akin to Gr. chri`ein to anoint, chri^sma an anointing, Skr. gh&rsdot_;sh to rub, scratch.  Cf. Friction.]
To rub; to wear off, or wear into shreds, by rubbing; to fret, as cloth; as, a deer is said to fray her head.


word: Fray₄
definition:
Fray

Fray
v. i.
1.
To rub.

We can show the marks he made
When 'gainst the oak his antlers frayed.
Sir W. Scott.

2.
To wear out or into shreads, or to suffer injury by rubbing, as when the threads of the warp or of the woof wear off so that the cross threads are loose; to ravel; as, the cloth frays badly.

A suit of frayed magnificience.
tennyson.


word: Frazzle
definition:
Frazzle

Fraz"zle
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Frazzled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Frazzling (?).]
[Cf. G. faseln, and E. fray.]
To fray; to wear or pull into tatters or tag ends; to tatter; -- used literally and figuratively.
[Prov. Eng. & U. S.]

Her hair was of a reddish gray color, and its frazzled and tangled condition suggested that the woman had recently passed through a period of extreme excitement.
J. C. Harris.


word: Frazzle₂
definition:
Frazzle

Fraz"zle
n.
1.
The act or result of frazzling; the condition or quality of being frazzled; the tag end; a frayed-out end.
[Prov. Eng. & U. S.]

My fingers are all scratched to frazzles.
Kipling.

2.
a state of extreme exhaustion; -- often used in the phrase worn to a frazzle.
[wns=1]

Gordon had sent word to Lee that he “had fought his corps to a frazzle.”
Nicolay & Hay (Life of Lincoln).


word: Freak
definition:
Freak

Freak
(frēk)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Freaked (frēkt); p. pr. & vb. n. Freaking.]
[Akin to OE. frakin, freken, freckle, Icel. freknur, pl., Sw. fräkne, Dan. fregne, Gr. perkno`s dark-colored, Skr. p&rsdot_;çni variegated.  Cf. Freckle, Freck.]
To variegate; to checker; to streak.
[R.]

Freaked with many a mingled hue.
Thomson.


word: Freak₂
definition:
Freak

Freak
n.
[Prob. from OE. frek bold, AS. frec bold, greedly; akin to OHG. freh greedly, G. frech insolent, Icel. frekr greedy, Goth. faíhufriks avaricious.]
1.
A sudden causeless change or turn of the mind; a whim of fancy; a capricious prank; a vagary or caprice.

She is restless and peevish, and sometimes in a freak will instantly change her habitation.
Spectator.
2.
a rare and unpredictable event; as, the July snowstorm was a freak of nature.

3.
an habitual drug user, especially one who uses psychedelic drugs.

4.
an animal or person with a visible congenital abnormality; -- applied especially to those who appear in a circus sideshow.


word: Freak₃
definition:
Freak

Freak
v. i.
1.
to react with irrationality or extreme emotion; to lose one's composure; -- often used in the phrase freak out.

2.
to become irrational or to experience hallucinations under the influence of drugs; -- often used in the phrase freak out.


word: Freak₄
definition:
Freak

Freak
v. t.
1.
to cause (a person) react with great distress or extreme emotion; -- often used in the phrase freak out.


word: Freakish
definition:
Freakish

Freak"ish
a.
Apt to change the mind suddenly; whimsical; capricious.

It may be a question whether the wife or the woman was the more freakish of the two.
L'Estrange.

Freakish when well, and fretful when she's sick.
Pope.
2.
rapidly changing and unpredictable; as, freakish weather.

3.
markedly abnormal.

Syn. -- freaky.


word: Freck
definition:
Freck

Freck
(?)
v. t.
[Cf. Freak, v. t., Freckle.]
To checker; to diversify.
[R. & Poet.]

The painted windows, frecking gloom with glow.
Lowell.


word: Freckle
definition:
Freckle

Freck"le
(frĕk"k'l)
n.
[Dim., from the same root as freak, v. t.]
1.
A small yellowish or brownish spot in the skin, particularly on the face, neck, or hands.

2.
Any small spot or discoloration.


word: Freckle₂
definition:
Freckle

Frec"kle
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Freckled (frĕk"k'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Freckling (frĕk"klĭng).]
To sprinkle or mark with freckles or small discolored spots; to spot.


word: Freckled
definition:
Freckled

Frec"kled
(frĕk"k'ld)
a.
Marked with freckles; spotted.
freckled
Dryden.

The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover.
Shak.


word: Freckly
definition:
Freckly

Frec"kly
(-kl&ybreve_;)
a.
Full of or marked with freckles; sprinkled with spots; freckled.


word: Fred
definition:
Fred

Fred
(frĕd)
n.
[AS. frið peace. See Frith inclosure.]
Peace; -- a word used in composition, especially in proper names; as, Alfred; Frederic.


word: Free
definition:
Free

Free
(frē)
a.
[Compar. Freer (-ẽr); superl. Freest (-ĕst).]
[OE. fre, freo, AS. freó, frī; akin to D. vrij, OS. & OHG. frī, G. frei, Icel. frī, Sw. & Dan. fri, Goth. freis, and also to Skr. prija beloved, dear, fr. prī to love, Goth. frij&omacrn.  Cf. Affray, Belfry, Friday, Friend, Frith inclosure.]
1.
Exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow one's own impulses, desires, or inclinations; determining one's own course of action; not dependent; at liberty.

That which has the power, or not the power, to operate, is that alone which is or is not free.
Locke.

2.
Not under an arbitrary or despotic government; subject only to fixed laws regularly and fairly administered, and defended by them from encroachments upon natural or acquired rights; enjoying political liberty.

3.
Liberated, by arriving at a certain age, from the control of parents, guardian, or master.

4.
Not confined or imprisoned; released from arrest; liberated; at liberty to go.

Set an unhappy prisoner free.
Prior.

5.
Not subjected to the laws of physical necessity; capable of voluntary activity; endowed with moral liberty; -- said of the will.

Not free, what proof could they have given sincere
Of true allegiance, constant faith, or love.
Milton.

6.
Clear of offense or crime; guiltless; innocent.

My hands are guilty, but my heart is free.
Dryden.

7.
Unconstrained by timidity or distrust; unreserved; ingenuous; frank; familiar; communicative.

He was free only with a few.
Milward.

8.
Unrestrained; immoderate; lavish; licentious; -- used in a bad sense.

The critics have been very free in their censures.
Felton.

A man may live a free life as to wine or women.
Shelley.

9.
Not close or parsimonious; liberal; open-handed; lavish; as, free with his money.

10.
Exempt; clear; released; liberated; not encumbered or troubled with; as, free from pain; free from a burden; -- followed by from, or, rarely, by of.

Princes declaring themselves free from the obligations of their treaties.
Bp. Burnet.

11.
Characteristic of one acting without restraint; charming; easy.

12.
Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited; as, a free horse.

13.
Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special rights; -- followed by of.

He therefore makes all birds, of every sect,
Free of his farm.
Dryden.

14.
Thrown open, or made accessible, to all; to be enjoyed without limitations; unrestricted; not obstructed, engrossed, or appropriated; open; -- said of a thing to be possessed or enjoyed; as, a free school.

Why, sir, I pray, are not the streets as free
For me as for you?
Shak.

15.
Not gained by importunity or purchase; gratuitous; spontaneous; as, free admission; a free gift.

16.
Not arbitrary or despotic; assuring liberty; defending individual rights against encroachment by any person or class; instituted by a free people; -- said of a government, institutions, etc.

17.
(O. Eng. Law)
Certain or honorable; the opposite of base; as, free service; free socage.
Burrill.

18.
(Law)
Privileged or individual; the opposite of common; as, a free fishery; a free warren.
Burrill.

19.
Not united or combined with anything else; separated; dissevered; unattached; at liberty to escape; as, free carbonic acid gas; free cells.

Free agency, the capacity or power of choosing or acting freely, or without necessity or constraint upon the will. -- Free bench (Eng. Law), a widow's right in the copyhold lands of her husband, corresponding to dower in freeholds. -- Free board (Naut.), a vessel's side between water line and gunwale. -- Free bond (Chem.), an unsaturated or unemployed unit, or bond, of affinity or valence, of an atom or radical. -- Free-borough men (O.Eng. Law). See Friborg. -- Free chapel (Eccles.), a chapel not subject to the jurisdiction of the ordinary, having been founded by the king or by a subject specially authorized. [Eng.] Bouvier. -- Free charge (Elec.), a charge of electricity in the free or statical condition; free electricity. -- Free church. (a) A church whose sittings are for all and without charge. (b) An ecclesiastical body that left the Church of Scotland, in 1843, to be free from control by the government in spiritual matters. -- Free city, or Free town, a city or town independent in its government and franchises, as formerly those of the Hanseatic league. -- Free cost, freedom from charges or expenses. South. -- Free and easy, unconventional; unrestrained; regardless of formalities. [Colloq.] “Sal and her free and easy ways.” W. Black. -- Free goods, goods admitted into a country free of duty. -- Free labor, the labor of freemen, as distinguished from that of slaves. -- Free port. (Com.) (a) A port where goods may be received and shipped free of custom duty. (b) A port where goods of all kinds are received from ships of all nations at equal rates of duty. -- Free public house, in England, a tavern not belonging to a brewer, so that the landlord is free to brew his own beer or purchase where he chooses. Simmonds. -- Free school. (a) A school to which pupils are admitted without discrimination and on an equal footing. (b) A school supported by general taxation, by endowmants, etc., where pupils pay nothing for tuition; a public school. -- Free services (O.Eng. Law), such feudal services as were not unbecoming the character of a soldier or a freemen to perform; as, to serve under his lord in war, to pay a sum of money, etc. Burrill. -- Free ships, ships of neutral nations, which in time of war are free from capture even though carrying enemy's goods. -- Free socage (O.Eng. Law), a feudal tenure held by certain services which, though honorable, were not military. Abbott. -- Free States, those of the United States before the Civil War, in which slavery had ceased to exist, or had never existed. -- Free stuff (Carp.), timber free from knots; clear stuff. -- Free thought, that which is thought independently of the authority of others. -- Free trade, commerce unrestricted by duties or tariff regulations. -- Free trader, one who believes in free trade. -- To make free with, to take liberties with; to help one's self to. [Colloq.] -- To sail free (Naut.), to sail with the yards not braced in as sharp as when sailing closehauled, or close to the wind.


word: Free₂
definition:
Free

Free
(?)
adv.
1.
Freely; willingly.
[Obs.]

I as free forgive you
As I would be forgiven.
Shak.

2.
Without charge; as, children admitted free.


word: Free₃
definition:
Free

Free
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Freed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Freeing.]
[OE. freen, freoien, AS. freógan. See Free, a.]
1.
To make free; to set at liberty; to rid of that which confines, limits, embarrasses, oppresses, etc.; to release; to disengage; to clear; -- followed by from, and sometimes by off; as, to free a captive or a slave; to be freed of these inconveniences.
Clarendon.

Our land is from the rage of tigers freed.
Dryden.

Arise, . . . free thy people from their yoke.
Milton.

2.
To remove, as something that confines or bars; to relieve from the constraint of.

This master key
Frees every lock, and leads us to his person.
Dryden.

3.
To frank.
[Obs.]
Johnson.


word: free-and-easy
definition:
free-and-easy

free-and-easy
adj.
1.
unconstrained and informal; as, an informal free-and-easy manner.  Opposite of stiff, starchy, formal.

Syn. -- casual.

2.
lacking normal concern for propriety.

Syn. -- free-and-easy.


word: free-associate
definition:
free-associate

free-associate
v. i.
(psychoanalysis)
to express one's thoughts, ideas, impressions, etc. in an unplanned and unstructured way, allowing each thought or idea to prompt recollection of the next one.  It is a process used in psychotherapy.

Syn. -- associate freely.


word: free association
definition:
free association

free association
n.
(psychoanalysis)
The act or process of free-associating. It is a technique used in psychoanalysis and is supposed to allow the analyst access to the unconscious thoughts of the analysand.  See free-associate.


word: Free base
definition:
Free base

Free" base`
(frē" bās`)
n.
1.
(Chem.)
The basic form of an organic amine which is capable of forming acid salts such as hydrochlorides.

2.
The basic form of a drug, often more powerful than a salt form because it is more readily absorbed into the blood stream.


word: Free base₂
definition:
Free base

free-base

free-base, Free" base`
(frē" bās`)
v. i.
To ingest the basic form of a narcotic drug, usually by injection.


word: Freebooter
definition:
Freebooter

Free"boot`er
(?)
n.
[D. vrijbuiter, fr. vrijbuiten to plunder; vrij free + buit booty, akin to E. booty. See Free, and Booty, and cf. Filibuster.]
One who plunders or pillages without the authority of national warfare; a member of a predatory band; a pillager; a buccaneer; a sea robber.
Bacon.


word: Freebootery
definition:
Freebootery

Free"boot`er*y
(?)
n.
The act, practice, or gains of a freebooter; freebooting.
Booth.


word: Freebooting₂
definition:
Freebooting

Free"boot`ing
a.
Acting the freebooter; practicing freebootery; robbing.

Your freebooting acquaintance.
Sir W. Scott.


word: free-burning
definition:
free-burning

free-burning
adj.
burning in a continuous manner; -- of an electric arc; as, heat transfer to the anode in free-burning arcs.

Syn. -- free burning, sustained.


word: Free coinage
definition:
Free coinage

Free coinage
In the fullest sense, the conversion of bullion (of any specified metal) into legal-tender coins for any person who chooses to bring it to the mint; in a modified sense, such coinage when done at a fixed charge proportionate to the cost of the operation.


word: Freedom
definition:
Freedom

Free"dom
(frē"dŭm)
n.
[AS. freód&omacrm; freófree + -dom. See Free, and -dom.]
1.
The state of being free; exemption from the power and control of another; liberty; independence.

Made captive, yet deserving freedom more.
Milton.

2.
Privileges; franchises; immunities.

Your charter and your caty's freedom.
Shak.

3.
Exemption from necessity, in choise and action; as, the freedom of the will.

4.
Ease; facility; as, he speaks or acts with freedom.

5.
Frankness; openness; unreservedness.

I emboldened spake and freedom used.
Milton.

6.
Improper familiarity; violation of the rules of decorum; license.

7.
Generosity; liberality.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

Freedom fine, a sum paid on entry to incorporations of trades. -- Freedom of the city, the possession of the rights and privileges of a freeman of the city; formerly often, and now occasionally, conferred on one not a resident, as a mark of honorary distinction for public services.


word: free enterprise
definition:
free enterprise

free enterprise
n.
1.
an economic system having predominantly private ownership of the means of production, and relying chiefly on market forces to allocate goods and resources and to determine prices, and having a minimum of governmental interference in economic decisions; also, the political doctrine advocating such a system as the economic system of a country.
[wns=1]

Syn. -- market economy, laissez-faire economy.

2.
The conduct of business according to the principles of the free enterprise doctrine; the conduct of economic activity without governmental interference.


word: free-enterprise
definition:
free-enterprise

free-enterprise
adj.
Of or pertaining to the free enterprise system having private ownership of the means of production and competition between enterprises.
[prenominal]
capitalistic, capitalist
socialistic

Syn. -- competitive, private-enterprise(prenominal).


word: free-for-all
definition:
free-for-all

free-for-all
n.
1.
a noisy and disordered fight conducted without rules.

Syn. -- brawl.

2.
Hence:
Any vigorous competition in which anyone can compete, with few or no rules, and in which the winner is unpredictable; as, when they began to distribute the free food, the orderly line of hungry recipients degenerated into a free-for-all.


word: Free-hand
definition:
Free-hand

Free"-hand`
(?)
a.
Done by the hand, without support, or the guidance of instruments; -- of drawing or sculpture; as, free-hand drawing. See under Drawing.

Syn. -- free, freehanded, unguided, untraced.


word: Free-handed
definition:
Free-handed

Free"-hand`ed
a.
1.
Open-handed; liberal; given or giving freely or liberally; as, a freehanded host.
[wns=2]

Syn. -- big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, handsome, giving, liberal, openhanded.

2.
same as freehand.
[wns=1]

Syn. -- free, freehand, unguided, untraced.


word: Free-hearted
definition:
Free-hearted

freehearted

free"heart`ed, Free"-heart`ed
(?)
a.
Open; frank; unreserved; liberal; generous; as, free-hearted mirth.  Opposite of stingy.

Syn. -- benevolent.

Free"-heart`ed*ly, adv. -- Free"-heart`ed*ness, n.


word: Freehold
definition:
Freehold

Free"hold`
(?)
n.
(Lw)
An estate in real property, of inheritance (in fee simple or fee tail) or for life; or the tenure by which such estate is held.
Kent. Burrill.

To abate into a freehold. See under Abate.


word: Freeholder
definition:
Freeholder

Free"hold`er
(?)
n.
1.
(Law)
The possessor of a freehold.

2.
A person who owns local property and has been a resident for a certain period of years; -- used in some U.S. counties.
[U.S., local]

3.
(Politics, U.S)
A member of the Board of Chosen Freeholders of some county, such a board being a form of legislative and administrive body which controls the government in some counties in the United States.
[U.S., local]


word: Freelance
definition:
Freelance

Free"lance`
(frē"lăns`)
n.
1.
a person who acts independently or without authorization of an organization or of his superiors.

2.
a person who pursues a profession independently, and not as the employee of an organization; -- used especially of writers or photographers who sell their work to organizations of which they are not employees.


word: Freelance₂
definition:
Freelance

Free"lance`
(frē"lăns`)
a.
of or pertaining to a freelance{2}; as, a freelance photographer.


word: free-lance
definition:
free-lance

free-lance
v. i.
to work on a free-lance basis; to work as a freelancer.

Syn. -- freelance.


word: Free-liver
definition:
Free-liver

Free"-liv`er
(?)
n.
One who gratifies his physical appetites without stint; one given to indulgence in eating and drinking.


word: free-living
definition:
free-living

free-living
adj.
(Biology)
Living independently of other organisms; not parasitic or commensal.
eating other organisms is not considered "dependence" in this sense.

Syn. -- nonparasitic, nonsymbiotic.


word: Free-love
definition:
Free-love

Free"-love`
(?)
n.
The doctrine or practice of consorting with the opposite sex, at pleasure, without marriage.


word: Freely
definition:
Freely

Free"ly
adv.
[AS. freólice.]
In a free manner; without restraint or compulsion; abundantly; gratuitously.

Of every tree of the garden thou mayst freely eat.
Gen. ii. 16.

Freely ye have received, freely give.
Matt. x. 8.

Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell.
Milton.

Freely we serve
Because we freely love.
Milton.


word: Freeman
definition:
Freeman

Free"man
(?)
n.
pl. Freemen (#).
[AS. freóman; freófree + mann man.]
1.
One who enjoys liberty, or who is not subject to the will of another; one not a slave or vassal.

2.
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.
Burrill.

Both having been made freemen on the same day.
Addison.


word: Free-martin
definition:
Free-martin

Free"-mar`tin
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
An imperfect female calf, twinborn with a male, which is sterile as a result of exposure to masculinizing hormones.


word: Freemason
definition:
Freemason

Free"ma`son
(?)
n.
One of an ancient and secret association or fraternity, said to have been at first composed of masons or builders in stone, but now consisting of persons who are united for social enjoyment and mutual assistance.


word: Freemasonic
definition:
Freemasonic

Free`ma*son"ic
(?)
a.
Pertaining to, or resembling, the institutions or the practices of freemasons; as, a freemasonic signal.


word: Free-milling
definition:
Free-milling

Free"-mill`ing
(?)
a.
Yielding free gold or silver; -- said of certain ores which can be reduced by crushing and amalgamation, without roasting or other chemical treatment.
Raymond.


word: Freeness
definition:
Freeness

Free"ness
n.
The state or quality of being free; freedom; liberty; openness; liberality; gratuitousness.


word: free-range
definition:
free-range

free-range
adj.
permitted to graze or forage rather than being confined to a feedlot; -- of livestock and domestic poultry.

Syn. -- unenclosed.


word: Free silver
definition:
Free silver

Free silver
The free coinage of silver; often, specif., the free coinage of silver at a fixed ratio with gold, as at the ratio of 16 to 1, which ratio for some time represented nearly or exactly the ratio of the market values of gold and silver respectively.


word: Free-soil
definition:
Free-soil

Free"-soil`
(?)
a.
1.
Pertaining to, or advocating, the non-extension of slavery; -- esp. applied to a party which was active during the period 1846-1856.
[U.S.]

2.
Pertaining to territory where slavery was prohibited.
[U.S.]
[wns=1]

Syn. -- slaveless.


word: Free-spoken
definition:
Free-spoken

Free"-spo`ken
(?)
a.
Accustomed to speak without reserve; willing to speak out without subtlety.
Bacon.

Syn. -- bluff, blunt, candid, frank, outspoken, plainspoken, point-blank.


word: Freestone
definition:
Freestone

Free"stone`
(?)
n.
A stone composed of sand or grit; -- so called because it is easily cut or wrought.


word: Freestone₂
definition:
Freestone

Free"stone`
a.
Having the flesh readily separating from the stone, as in certain kinds of peaches.


word: Free-swimming
definition:
Free-swimming

Free"-swim`ming
(?)
a.
(Zool.)
1.
Swimming in the open sea; -- said of certain marine animals.

2.
(Zoology)
able to swim about; not attached to a stationary object; -- of aquatic animals.
[wns=1]

Syn. -- unattached.


word: freetail
definition:
freetail

freetail
n.
A small swift bat with leathery ears and a long tail; common in warm regions.

Syn. -- freetailed bat.


word: freetailed bat
definition:
freetailed bat

freetailed bat
n.
A small swift bat with leathery ears and a long tail; common in warm regions.

Syn. -- freetail.


word: Freethinker
definition:
Freethinker

Free"think`er
(?)
n.
One who speculates or forms opinions independently of the authority of others; esp., in the sphere or religion, one who forms opinions independently of the authority of revelation or of the church; an unbeliever; -- a term assumed by deists and skeptics in the eighteenth century.

Atheist is an old-fashioned word: I'm a freethinker, child.
Addison.


word: free-thinking
definition:
free-thinking

free-thinking
adj.
inclined to forms one's own opinions rather than depend upon authority, especially about social and religious issues; exhibiting boldness of speculation; skeptical of authority.

Syn. -- latitudinarian, undogmatic, undogmatical.


word: Freetown
definition:
Freetown

Freetown
prop. n.
(Geography)
The capital city of Sierra Leone.  Population (2000) = 1,300,000.


word: Freewheel
definition:
Freewheel

Free"wheel`
(?)
n.
(Mach.)
A clutch fitted in the rear hub of a cycle, which engages the rear sprocket with the rear wheel when the pedals are rotated forwards, but permits the rear wheel to run on free from the rear sprocket when the pedals are stopped or rotated backwards. Freewheelcycles are usually fitted with hub brakes or rim brakes, operated by back pedaling.


word: Freewheel₂
definition:
Freewheel

Free"wheel`
v. i.
1.
(a)
Of a freewheel cycle, to run on while the pedals are held still.
(b)
Of a person, to ride a cycle of this manner; to coast in a vehicle having a freewheel. To ride a freewheel cycle.
[wns=2]

2.
(Mach.)
To operate like a freewheel, so that one part moves freely over another which normally moves with it; -- said of a clutch.

3.
To act without controls, external or internal; to live freely, independently, and without concern; -- of people.
[wns=1]


word: freewheeler
definition:
freewheeler

freewheeler
n.
Someone acting freely or even irresponsibly.

Syn. -- free agent, free spirit.


word: freewheeling
definition:
freewheeling

freewheeling
adj.
Acting heedless of consequences; acting without controls, external or internal; as, freewheeling foolishness.

Syn. -- careless, irresponsible, reckless.


word: Free will
definition:
Free will

Free will
(?)
1.
A will free from improper coercion or restraint.

To come thus was I not constrained, but did
On my free will.
Shak.

2.
The power asserted of moral beings of willing or choosing without the restraints of physical or absolute necessity.


word: freewill
definition:
freewill

free-will

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

Freewill Baptists. See under Baptist.


word: Freeze₂
definition:
Freeze

Freeze
v. i.
[imp. Froze (fr&omacrz); p. p. Frozen (fr&omacr"z'n); p. pr. & vb. n. Freezing.]
[OE. fresen, freosen, AS. freósan; akin to D. vriezen, OHG. iosan, G. frieren, Icel. frjsa, Sw. frysa, Dan. fryse, Goth. frius cold, frost, and prob. to L. prurire to itch, E. prurient, cf. L. prna a burning coal, pruina hoarfrost, Skr. prushvā ice, prush to spirt. _; 18.  Cf. Frost.]
1.
To become congealed by cold; to be changed from a liquid to a solid state by the abstraction of heat; to be hardened into ice or a like solid body.

&hand_; Water freezes at 32° above zero by Fahrenheit's thermometer; mercury freezes at 40° below zero.

2.
To become chilled with cold, or as with cold; to suffer loss of animation or life by lack of heat; as, the blood freezes in the veins.

To freeze up (Fig.), to become formal and cold in demeanor. [Colloq.]


word: Freeze₃
definition:
Freeze

Freeze
v. t.
1.
To congeal; to harden into ice; to convert from a fluid to a solid form by cold, or abstraction of heat.

2.
To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill.

A faint, cold fear runs through my veins,
That almost freezes up the heat of life.
Shak.

To freeze out, to drive out or exclude by cold or by cold treatment; to force to withdraw; as, to be frozen out of one's room in winter; to freeze out a competitor. [Colloq.]
A railroad which had a London connection must not be allowed to freeze out one that had no such connection. A. T. Hadley.
It is sometimes a long time before a player who is frozen out can get into a game again. R. F. Foster.


word: freeze-dried
definition:
freeze-dried

freeze-dried
adj.
dried by freezing and applying a vacuum; -- used of tissue or blood or serum or other biological substances.
This technique is gentler than other drying techniques and caused less damage or deterioration to sensitive substances.  It is used primarily as a method to preserve foods or substances, and permit storage without deterioration.

Syn. -- lyophilized, lyophilised.


word: Freeze-dry
definition:
Freeze-dry

Freeze"-dry`
(frēz"-drī`)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Freeze-dried; p. pr. & vb. n. Freeze-drying.]
to remove the moisture from (e.g. food) by first freezing and then subjecting to a high vacuum; -- used as a mild method for drying foods or chemicals while causing little decomposition, in contrast to heat-drying.
This is a relatively gently drying process used to preserve food or sensitive biological materials.  For biochemical materials, the term lyophilize is often used.


word: Freezer
definition:
Freezer

Freez"er
(?)
n.
One who, or that which, cools or freezes, as a refrigerator, or the tub and can used in the process of freezing ice cream.


word: Freezing
definition:
Freezing

Freez"ing
a.
Tending to freeze; for freezing; hence, cold or distant in manner.
Frrez"ing*ly, adv.

Freezing machine. See Ice machine, under Ice. -- Freezing mixture, a mixture (of salt and snow or of chemical salts) for producing intense cold. -- Freezing point, that degree of a thermometer at which a fluid begins to freeze; -- applied particularly to water, whose freezing point is at 32° Fahr., and at 0° Centigrade.


word: Fregatidae
definition:
Fregatidae

Fregatidae
n.
A natural family including the genus Fregata, of frigate birds.

Syn. -- family Fregatidae.


word: Freieslebenite
definition:
Freieslebenite

Frei"es*le`ben*ite
(?)
n.
[Named after the German chemist Freiesleben.]
A sulphide of antimony, lead, and silver, occuring in monoclinic crystals.


word: Freight
definition:
Freight

Freight
(frāt)
n.
[F. fret, OHG. frēht merit, reward. See Fraught, n.]
1.
That with which anything is 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.

2.
(Law)
(a)
The sum paid by a party hiring a ship or part of a ship for the use of what is thus hired.
(b)
The price paid a common carrier for the carriage of goods.
Wharton.

3.
Freight transportation, or freight line.


word: Freight₂
definition:
Freight

Freight
(frāt)
a.
Employed in the transportation of freight; having to do with freight; as, a freight car.

Freight agent, a person employed by a transportation company to receive, forward, or deliver goods. -- Freight car. See under Car. -- Freight train, a railroad train made up of freight cars; -- called in England goods train.


word: Freight₃
definition:
Freight

Freight
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Freighted; p. pr. & vb. n. Freighting.]
[Cf. F. freter.]
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.


word: Freightage
definition:
Freightage

Freight"age
(frāt"a̝j; 48)
n.
1.
The charge for transportation; the expense of carriage.

2.
The transportation of freight.

3.
Freight; cargo; lading. Milton.


word: Freighter
definition:
Freighter

Freight"er
(?)
n.
1.
One who loads a ship, or one who charters and loads a ship.

2.
One employed in receiving and forwarding freight.

3.
One for whom freight is transported.

4.
A vessel used mainly to carry freight.


word: Freiherr
definition:
Freiherr

Frei"herr`
(?)
n.
pl. Freiherrn (#)
[G., lit., free lord.]
In Germany and Austria, a baron.


word: Fremed
definition:
Fremed

Fremd

{ Fremd (?), Frem"ed (?) }
a.
[OE., from AS. fremede, fremde; akin to G. fremd.]
Strange; foreign.
[Old Eng. & Scot.]
Chaucer.


word: Fremescent
definition:
Fremescent

Fre*mes"cent
(?)
a.
[L. fremere to roar, murmur + -escent.]
Becoming murmurous, roaring.
Fremescent
Carlyle
Fre*mes"cence (#), n.


word: Fremitus
definition:
Fremitus

Frem"i*tus
(?)
n., sing. & pl.
[L., a murmuring, roaring.]
(Med.)
Palpable vibration or thrill; as, the rhonchial fremitus.


word: Fren
definition:
Fren

Fren
(frĕn)
n.
[OE. frenne, contr. fr. forrene foreign. See Foreign, a.]
A stranger.
[Obs.]
Spenser.


word: French
definition:
French

French
(frĕnch)
prop. a.
[AS. frencisc, LL. franciscus, from L. Francus a Frank: cf. OF. franceis, franchois, françois, F. français. See Frank, a., and cf. Frankish.]
Of or pertaining to France or its inhabitants.

 French bean (Bot.), the common kidney bean (Phaseolus vulgaris). -- French berry (Bot.), the berry of a species of buckthorn (Rhamnus catharticus), which affords a saffron, green or purple pigment. -- French casement (Arch.) See French window, under Window. -- French chalk (Min.), a variety of granular talc; -- used for drawing lines on cloth, etc. See under Chalk. -- French cowslip (Bot.) The Primula Auricula. See Bear's-ear. -- French fake (Naut.), a mode of coiling a rope by running it backward and forward in parallel bends, so that it may run freely. -- French honeysuckle (Bot.) a plant of the genus Hedysarum (H. coronarium); -- called also garland honeysuckle. -- French horn, a metallic wind instrument, consisting of a long tube twisted into circular folds and gradually expanding from the mouthpiece to the end at which the sound issues; -- called in France cor de chasse. -- French leave, an informal, hasty, or secret departure; esp., the leaving a place without paying one's debts. -- French pie [French (here used in sense of “foreign”) + pie a magpie (in allusion to its black and white color)] (Zool.), the European great spotted woodpecker (Dryobstes major); -- called also wood pie. -- French polish. (a) A preparation for the surface of woodwork, consisting of gums dissolved in alcohol, either shellac alone, or shellac with other gums added. (b) The glossy surface produced by the application of the above. -- French purple, a dyestuff obtained from lichens and used for coloring woolen and silken fabrics, without the aid of mordants. Ure. -- French red rouge. -- French rice, amelcorn. -- French roof (Arch.), a modified form of mansard roof having a nearly flat deck for the upper slope. -- French tub, a dyer's mixture of protochloride of tin and logwood; -- called also plum tub. Ure. -- French window. See under Window.


word: french-fried potatoes
definition:
french-fried potatoes

french fries

french fries
french-fried potatoes
n. pl.
Strips of potatoes, usually cut with a rectangular cross-section, cooked by immersing in hot fat or oil.


word: Frenchify
definition:
Frenchify

French"i*fy
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Frenchified (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Frenchifying.]
[French + -fy.]
To make French; to infect or imbue with the manners or tastes of the French; to Gallicize.
Burke.


word: Frenchism
definition:
Frenchism

French"ism
(?)
n.
A French mode or characteristic; an idiom peculiar to the French language.
Earle.


word: French-speaking
definition:
French-speaking

French-speaking
adj.
able to communicate in French.

Syn. -- Francophone, Francophonic.


word: Frenetic
definition:
Frenetic

Fre*net"ic
(?)
a.
[See Frantic, a.]
Distracted; mad; frantic; phrenetic; frenzied.
Milton.

Syn. -- frenetical.


word: Frenetical
definition:
Frenetical

Fre*net"ic*al
(?)
a.
Frenetic; frantic; frenzied.
Frenet"ic*al*ly, adv.

Syn. -- frenetic; phrenetic.


word: Frenum
definition:
Frenum

Fre"num
(?)
n.
pl. E. Frenums (#), L. Frena (#).
[L., a bridle.]
1.
(Zool.)
A cheek stripe of color.

2.
(Anat.)
Same as Frænum.


word: Frenzied
definition:
Frenzied

Fren"zied
(frĕn"zĭd)
p. p. & a.
Affected with frenzy; frantic; maddened.
Fren"zied*ly, adv.

The people frenzied by centuries of oppression.
Buckle.

Up starting with a frenzied look.
Sir W. Scott.


word: Frenzy
definition:
Frenzy

Fren"zy
(frĕn"z&ybreve_;)
n.
pl. Frenzies (frĕn"zĭz).
[OE. frenesie, fransey, F. frénésie, L. phrenesis, fr. Gr. fre`nhsis  for freni^tis disease of the mind, phrenitis, fr. frhn mind.  Cf. Frantic, Phrenitis.]
Any violent agitation of the mind approaching to distraction; violent and temporary derangement of the mental faculties; madness; rage.

All else is towering frenzy and distraction.
Addison.

The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling.
Shak.


word: Frenzy₂
definition:
Frenzy

Fren"zy
a.
Mad; frantic.
[R.]

They thought that some frenzy distemper had got into his head.
Bunyan.


word: Frequence
definition:
Frequence

Fre"quence
(?)
n.
[See Frequency.]
1.
A crowd; a throng; a concourse.
[Archaic.]
Tennyson.

2.
Frequency; abundance.
[R.]
Bp. Hall.


word: Frequency
definition:
Frequency

Fre"quen*cy
(?)
n.
pl. Frequencies (#).
[L. frequentia numerous attendance, multitude: cf. F. fréquence. See Frequent.]
1.
The condition of returning frequently; occurrence often repeated; common occurence; as, the frequency of crimes; the frequency of miracles.

The reasons that moved her to remove were, because Rome was a place of riot and luxury, her soul being almost stifled with, the frequencies of ladies' visits.
Fuller.

2.
A crowd; a throng.
[Obs.]
B. Jonson.


word: Frequent
definition:
Frequent

Fre"quent
(?)
a.
[L. frequens, -entis, crowded, frequent, akin to farcire to stuff: cf. F. fréquent.  Cf. Farce, n.]
1.
Often to be met with; happening at short intervals; often repeated or occurring; as, frequent visits.
Frequent
Byron.

2.
Addicted to any course of conduct; inclined to indulge in any practice; habitual; persistent.

He has been loud and frequent in declaring himself hearty for the government.
Swift.

3.
Full; crowded; thronged.
[Obs.]

'T is Cæsar's will to have a frequent senate.
B. Jonson.

4.
Often or commonly reported.
[Obs.]

'T is frequent in the city he hath subdued
The Catti and the Daci.
Massinger.


word: Frequent₂
definition:
Frequent

Fre*quent"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Frequented; p. pr. & vb. n. Frequenting.]
[L. frequentare: cf. F. fréquenter. See Frequent, a.]
1.
To visit often; to resort to often or habitually; as, to frequent a tavern.

He frequented the court of Augustus.
Dryden.

2.
To make full; to fill.
[Obs.]

With their sighs the air
Frequenting, sent from hearts contrite.
Milton.


word: Frequentation
definition:
Frequentation

Fre"quen*ta"tion
(?)
n.
[L. frequentatio a crowding together, frequency: cf. F. fréquentation.]
The act or habit of frequenting or visiting often; resort.
Chesterfield.


word: Frequentative
definition:
Frequentative

Fre*quent"a*tive
(?)
a.
[L. frequentativus: cf. F. fréquentatif.]
(Gram.)
Serving to express the frequent repetition of an action; as, a frequentative verb.
n. A frequentative verb.


word: Frequenter
definition:
Frequenter

Fre*quent*er
(?)
n.
One who frequents; one who often visits, or resorts to customarily.


word: Frequently
definition:
Frequently

Fre*quent*ly
(?)
adv.
At frequent or short intervals; many times; often; repeatedly; commonly.


word: Fresco
definition:
Fresco

Fres"co
(?)
n.
pl. Frescoes or Frescos (#).
[It., fr. fresco fresh; of German origin. See Fresh, a.]
1.
A cool, refreshing state of the air; duskiness; coolness; shade.
[R.]
Prior.

2.
(Fine Arts)
(a)
The art of painting on freshly spread plaster, before it dries.
(b)
In modern parlance, incorrectly applied to painting on plaster in any manner.
(c)
A painting on plaster in either of senses a and b.

al fresco in the open air; out of doors; outdoors; as, to dine al fresco.


word: Fresco₂
definition:
Fresco

Fres"co
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Frescoed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Frescoing.]
To paint in fresco, as walls.


word: Fresh
definition:
Fresh

Fresh
(frĕsh)
a.
[Compar. Fresher (frĕsh"ẽr); superl. Freshest.]
[OE. fresch, AS. fersc; akin to D. versch, G. frisch, OHG. frisc, Sw. frisk, Dan. frisk, fersk, Icel. frīskr frisky, brisk, ferskr fresh; cf. It. fresco, OF. fres, freis, fem. freske, fresche, F. frais, fem. fraîche, which are of German origin.  Cf. Fraischeur, Fresco, Frisk.]
1.
Possessed of original life and vigor; new and strong; unimpaired; sound.

2.
New; original; additional.
fresh
Sir W. Scott.

A fresh pleasure in every fresh posture of the limbs.
Landor.

3.
Lately produced, gathered, or prepared for market; not stale; not dried or preserved; not wilted, faded, or tainted; in good condition; as, fresh vegetables, flowers, eggs, meat, fruit, etc.; recently made or obtained; occurring again; repeated; as, a fresh supply of goods; fresh tea, raisins, etc.; lately come or made public; as, fresh news; recently taken from a well or spring; as, fresh water.

4.
Youthful; florid; as, these fresh nymphs.
Shak.

5.
In a raw, green, or untried state; uncultivated; uncultured; unpracticed; as, a fresh hand on a ship.

6.
Renewed in vigor, alacrity, or readiness for action; as, fresh for a combat; hence, tending to renew in vigor; rather strong; cool or brisk; as, a fresh wind.

7.
Not salt; as, fresh water, in distinction from that which is from the sea, or brackish; fresh meat, in distinction from that which is pickled or salted.

Fresh breeze (Naut.), a breeze between a moderate and a strong breeze; one blowinq about twenty miles an hour. -- Fresh gale, a gale blowing about forty-five miles an hour. -- Fresh way (Naut.), increased speed.


word: Fresh₂
definition:
Fresh

Fresh
n.
pl. Freshes (_;).
1.
A stream or spring of fresh water.

He shall drink naught but brine; for I'll not show him
Where the quick freshes are.
Shak.

2.
A flood; a freshet.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.

3.
The mingling of fresh water with salt in rivers or bays, as by means of a flood of fresh water flowing toward or into the sea.
Beverly.


word: Freshen
definition:
Freshen

Fresh"en
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Freshened (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Freshening (?)]
1.
To make fresh; to separate, as water, from saline ingredients; to make less salty; as, to freshen water, fish, or flesh.

2.
To refresh; to revive.
[Obs.]
Spenser.

3.
(Naut.)
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.
 Totten.

To freshen ballast (Naut.), to shift Or restore it. -- To freshen the hawse, to pay out a little more cable, so as to bring the chafe on another part. -- To freshen the way, to increase the speed of a vessel. Ham. Nav. Encyc.


word: Freshen₂
definition:
Freshen

Fresh"en
(?)
v. i.
1.
To grow fresh; to lose saltness.

2.
To grow brisk or strong; as, the wind freshens.


word: Freshet
definition:
Freshet

Fresh"et
(?)
n.
[OE. fresche flood + -et. See Fresh, a.]
1.
A stream of fresh water.
[Obs.]
Milton.

2.
A flood or overflowing of a stream caused by heavy rains or melted snow; a sudden inundation.

Cracked the sky, as ice in rivers
When the freshet is at highest.
Longfellow.


word: Freshly
definition:
Freshly

Fresh"ly
adv.
In a fresh manner; vigorously; newly, recently; brightly; briskly; coolly; as, freshly gathered; freshly painted; the wind blows freshly.

Looks he as freshly as he did?
Shak.


word: Freshman
definition:
Freshman

Fresh"man
(?)
n.
pl. Freshmen (_;).
A novice; one in the rudiments of knowledge; especially, a student during his first year in a high school, college, or university.

Syn. -- frosh.

He drank his glass and cracked his joke,
And freshmen wondered as he spoke.
Goldsmith.

Freshman class, the lowest of the four classes in an American college. [ U. S.]


word: Freshness
definition:
Freshness

Fresh"ness
n.
The state of being fresh.

The Scots had the advantage both for number and freshness
of men.
Hayward.

And breathe the freshness of the open air.
Dryden.

Her cheeks their freshness lose and wonted grace.
Granville.


word: Fresh-water
definition:
Fresh-water

Fresh"-wa`ter
(?)
a.
1.
Of, pertaining to, or living in, water which is not salty; as, fresh-water geological deposits; a fresh-water fish; fresh-water mussels.

2.
Accustomed to sail on fresh water only; unskilled as a seaman; as, a fresh-water sailor.

3.
Unskilled; raw.
[Colloq.]
Fresh-water
Knolles.


word: Fres'nel' lan'tern
definition:
Fres'nel' lan'tern

Fresnel lamp

{ Fres`nel" lamp" (?), Fres'nel' lan'tern (?).}
[From Fresnel the inventor, a French physicist.]
A lantern having a lamp surrounded by a hollow cylindrical Fresnel lens.


word: fress
definition:
fress

fress
v. i.
[Yiddish, fresn fr. G. fressen to eat (used of animals).]
to eat copiously and without restraint; to snack frequently.
[slang]

Syn. -- gluttonize.


word: Fret₂
definition:
Fret

Fret
(frĕt)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Fretted; p. pr. & vb. n. Fretting.]
[OE. freten to eat, consume; AS. fretan, for foretan; pref. for- + etan to eat; akin to D. vreten, OHG. frezzan, G. fressen, Sw. fräta, Goth. fra-itan. See For, and Eat, v. t.]
1.
To devour.
[Obs.]

The sow frete the child right in the cradle.
Chaucer.

2.
To rub; to wear away by friction; to chafe; to gall; hence, to eat away; to gnaw; as, to fret cloth; to fret a piece of gold or other metal; a worm frets the plants of a ship.

With many a curve my banks I fret.
Tennyson.

3.
To impair; to wear away; to diminish.

By starts
His fretted fortunes give him hope and fear.
Shak.

4.
To make rough, agitate, or disturb; to cause to ripple; as, to fret the surface of water.

5.
To tease; to irritate; to vex.

Fret not thyself because of evil doers.
Ps. xxxvii. 1.


word: Fret₃
definition:
Fret

Fret
v. i.
1.
To be worn away; to chafe; to fray; as, a wristband frets on the edges.

2.
To eat in; to make way by corrosion.

Many wheals arose, and fretted one into another with great excoriation.
Wiseman.

3.
To be agitated; to be in violent commotion; to rankle; as, rancor frets in the malignant breast.

4.
To be vexed; to be chafed or irritated; to be angry; to utter peevish expressions.

He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground.
Dryden.


word: Fret₄
definition:
Fret

Fret
n.
1.
The agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.
Addison.

2.
Agitation of mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation; as, he keeps his mind in a continual fret.

Yet then did Dennis rave in furious fret.
Pope.

3.
Herpes; tetter.
Dunglison.

4.
pl.
(Mining)
The worn sides of river banks, where ores, or stones containing them, accumulate by being washed down from the hills, and thus indicate to the miners the locality of the veins.


word: Fret₅
definition:
Fret

Fret
v. t.
[OE. fretten to adorn, AS. frætwan, frætwian; akin to OS. fratah&omacrn, cf. Goth. us-fratwjan to make wise, also AS. frætwe ornaments, OS. fratahī adornment.]
To ornament with raised work; to variegate; to diversify.

 Whose skirt with gold was fretted all about.
Spenser.

Yon gray lines,
That fret the clouds, are messengers of day.
Shak.


word: Fret₆
definition:
Fret

Fret
n.
1.
Ornamental work in relief, as carving or embossing. See Fretwork.

2.
(Arch.)
An ornament consisting of small fillets or slats intersecting each other or bent at right angles, as in classical designs, or at oblique angles, as often in Oriental art.

His lady's cabinet is a adorned on the fret, ceiling, and chimney-piece with . . . carving.
Evelyn.

3.
The reticulated headdress or net, made of gold or silver wire, in which ladies in the Middle Ages confined their hair.

A fret of gold she had next her hair.
Chaucer.

Fret saw, a saw with a long, narrow blade, used in cutting frets, scrolls, etc.; a scroll saw; a keyhole saw; a compass saw.


word: Fret₇
definition:
Fret

Fret
(?)
n.
[F. frette a saltire, also a hoop, ferrule, prob. a dim. of L. ferrum iron. For sense 2, cf. also E. fret to rub.]
1.
(Her.)
A saltire interlaced with a mascle.

2.
(Mus.)
A short piece of wire, or other material fixed across the finger board of a guitar or a similar instrument, to indicate where the finger is to be placed.


word: Fretful
definition:
Fretful

Fret"ful
(?)
a.
[See 2d Fret.]
Disposed to fret; ill-humored; peevish; angry; in a state of vexation; as, a fretful temper.
Fret"ful*ly, adv. -- Fret"ful*ness, n.


word: fretsaw
definition:
fretsaw

fretsaw
n.
A narrow-bladed fine-toothed saw for cutting curved outlines.

Syn. -- jigsaw, scroll saw.


word: Frett
definition:
Frett

Frett
(?)
n.
[See 2d Fret.]
(Mining)
The worn side of the bank of a river. See 4th Fret, n., 4.


word: Frett₂
definition:
Frett

Frett
n.
[See Frit.]
A vitreous compound, used by potters in glazing, consisting of lime, silica, borax, lead, and soda.


word: Fretted
definition:
Fretted

Fret"ted
(?)
p. p. & a.
[From 2d Fret.]

1.
Rubbed or worn away; chafed.

2.
Agitated; vexed; worried.


word: Fretted₂
definition:
Fretted

Fret"ted
p. p. & a.
[See 5th Fret.]
1.
Ornamented with fretwork; furnished with frets; variegated; made rough on the surface.

2.
(Her.)
Interlaced one with another; -- said of charges and ordinaries.


word: Fretten
definition:
Fretten

Fret"ten
(?)
a.
[The old p. p. of fret to rub.]
Rubbed; marked; as, pock-fretten, marked with the smallpox.
[Obs.]
Wright.


word: Fretwork
definition:
Fretwork

Fret"work
(?)
n.
[6th fret + work.]
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.

Banqueting on the turf in the fretwork of shade and sunshine.
Macaulay.


word: Freud
definition:
Freud

Freud
prop. n.
Sigmund Freud, the founder of the practise of psychoanalysis.  Born 1856, died 1939.


word: Freyr
definition:
Freyr

Frey

Frey, Freyr
(frī)
prop. n.
(Norse Mythology)
The god of earth's fertility and peace and prosperity, presiding over rain, sunshine, and all the fruits of the earth, dispensing wealth among men; son of Njorth (Njord) and brother of Freya; originally of the Vanir; later with the Aesir.  He was especially worshipped in the temple at Upsala in Sweden


word: Freya
definition:
Freya

Frey"a
(frī"ȧ)
prop. n.
[Icel. Freyja.]
(Scand. Myth.)
The daughter of Njörd, and goddess of love and beauty; the Scandinavian Venus; -- in Teutonic myths confounded with Frigga, but in Scandinavian, distinct.
[Written also Frea, Freyia, and Freyja.]


word: Friabiiity
definition:
Friabiiity

Fri"a*bii"i*ty
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. friabilité.]
The quality of being friable; friableness.
Locke.


word: Friable
definition:
Friable

Fri"a*ble
(?)
a.
[L. friabilis, fr. friare to rub, break, or crumble into small pieces, cf. fricare to rub, E. fray:  cf. F. friable.]
Easily crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder.
Friable
Evelyn.
friable
Paley.
Fri'a*ble*ness, n.


word: Friar
definition:
Friar

Fri"ar
(?)
n.
[OR. frere, F. frère brother, friar, fr. L. frater brother. See Brother.]
1.
(R. C. Ch.)
A brother or member of any religious order, but especially of one of the four mendicant orders, viz: (a) Minors, Gray Friars, or Franciscans. (b) Augustines. (c) Dominicans or Black Friars. (d) White Friars or Carmelites. See these names in the Vocabulary.

2.
(Print.)
A white or pale patch on a printed page.

3.
(Zool.)
An American fish; the silversides.

Friar bird (Zool.), an Australian bird (Tropidorhynchus corniculatus), having the head destitute of feathers; -- called also coldong, leatherhead, pimlico; poor soldier, and four-o'clock. The name is also applied to several other species of the same genus. -- Friar's balsam (Med.), a stimulating application for wounds and ulcers, being an alcoholic solution of benzoin, styrax, tolu balsam, and aloes; compound tincture of benzoin. Brande & C. -- Friar's cap (Bot.), the monkshood. -- Friar's cowl (Bot.), an arumlike plant  (Arisarum vulgare) with a spathe or involucral leaf resembling a cowl. -- Friar's lantern, the ignis fatuus or Will-o'-the-wisp. Milton. -- Friar skate (Zool.), the European white or sharpnosed skate (Raia alba); -- called also Burton skate, border ray, scad, and doctor.


word: friar's-cowls
definition:
friar's-cowls

friar's-cowl

friar's-cowl, friar's-cowls
n.
(Bot.)
A tuberous perennial (Arisarum vulgare) having a cowl-shaped maroon or violet-black spathe; -- found in the Mediterranean, Canaries, and Azores.

Syn. -- friars' cowl, Arisarum vulgare.


word: Friary
definition:
Friary

Fri"ar*y
(?)
a.
[From Friar, n.]
Like a friar; pertaining to friars or to a convent.
[Obs.]
Camden.


word: Friary₂
definition:
Friary

Fri"ar*y
n.
[OF. frerie, frairie, fr. frère. See Friar.]
1.
A monastery; a convent of friars.
Drugdale.

2.
The institution or practices of friars.
Fuller.


word: Fribble
definition:
Fribble

Frib"ble
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. frivole, L. frivolus, or E. frippery.]
Frivolous; trifling; silly.


word: Fribble₂
definition:
Fribble

Frib"ble
n.
A frivolous, contemptible fellow; a fop.

A pert fribble of a peer.
Thackeray.


word: Fribble₃
definition:
Fribble

Frib"ble
v. i.
1.
To act in a trifling or foolish manner; to act frivolously.

The fools that are fribbling round about you.
Thackeray.

2.
To totter.
[Obs.]


word: Friborgh
definition:
Friborgh

Friborg

{ Fri"borg , Fri"borgh  }
(?)
n.
[AS. friðborh, lit., peace pledge; frið peace + borh, borg, pledge, akin to E. borrow. The first part of the word was confused with free, the last part, with borough.]
(Old Eng. Law)
The pledge and tithing, afterwards called by the Normans frankpledge. See Frankpledge.
[Written also friburgh and fribourg.]
Burril.


word: Fricace
definition:
Fricace

Fric"ace
(?)
n.
[See Fricassee.]
1.
Meat sliced and dressed with strong sauce.
[Obs.]
King.

2.
An unguent; also, the act of rubbing with the unguent.


word: Fricando
definition:
Fricando

Fricandeau

&VerbarFri`can`deau" (?), &VerbarFric`an*do" (_;)
n.
[F. fricandeau; cf. Sp. fricandó.]
(Cookery)
A ragout or fricassee of veal; a fancy dish of veal or of boned turkey, served as an entrée, -- called also fricandel.
A. J. Cooley.


word: Fricassee
definition:
Fricassee

Fric"as*see`
(?)
n.
[F. fricassée, fr. fricasser to fry, fricassee; cf. LL. fricare, perh. for frictare, fricare, frictum, to rub.  Cf. Fry, Friction.]
(Cookery)
A dish made of fowls, veal, or other meat of small animals cut into pieces, and stewed in a gravy.


word: Fricassee₂
definition:
Fricassee

Fric"as*see`
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Fricasseed (?); p. pr. &. vb. n. Fricasseeing.]
To dress like a fricassee.


word: Frication
definition:
Frication

Fri*ca"tion
(?)
n.
[L. fricatio, fr. fricare, fricatum, to rub. ]
Friction.
[Obs.]
Bacon.


word: Fricative
definition:
Fricative

Fric"a*tive
(?)
a.
[See Frication.]
(Phon.)
Produced by the friction or rustling of the breath, intonated or unintonated, through a narrow opening between two of the mouth organs; uttered through a close approach, but not with a complete closure, of the organs of articulation, and hence capable of being continued or prolonged; -- said of certain consonantal sounds, as f, v, s, z, etc.
n. A fricative consonant letter or sound. See Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 197-206, etc.


word: Fricatrice
definition:
Fricatrice

Fric"a*trice
(?)
n.
[Cf. L. frictrix, fr. fricare to rub.]
A lewd woman; a harlot.
[Obs.]
B. Jonson.


word: Friction
definition:
Friction

Fric"tion
(?)
n.
[L. frictio, fr. fricare, frictum,to rub: cf. F. friction. See Fray to rub, arid cf. Dentifrice.]
1.
The act of rubbing the surface of one body against that of another; attrition; in hygiene, the act of rubbing the body with the hand, with flannel, or with a brush etc., to excite the skin to healthy action.

2.
(Mech.)
The resistance which a body meets with from the surface on which it moves. It may be resistance to sliding motion, or to rolling motion.

3.
A clashing between two persons or parties in opinions or work; a disagreement tending to prevent or retard progress.

Angle of friction (Mech.), the angle which a plane onwhich a body is lying makes with a horizontal plane,when the hody is just ready to slide dewn the plane. This angle varies for different bodies, and for planes of different materials. -- Anti-friction wheels (Mach.), wheels turning freely on small pivots, and sustaining, at the angle formed by their circumferences, the pivot or journal of a revolving shaft, to relieve it of friction; -- called also friction wheels. -- Friction balls, or Friction rollers, balls or rollers placed so as to receive the pressure or weight of bodies in motion, and relieve friction, as in the hub of a bicycle wheel. -- Friction brake (Mach.), a form of dynamometer for measuring the power a motor exerts. A clamp around the revolving shaft or fly wheel of the motor resists the motion by its friction, the work thus absorbed being ascertained by observing the force required to keep the clamp from revolving with the shaft; a Prony brake. -- Friction chocks, brakes attached to the common standing garrison carriages of guns, so as to raise the trucks or wheels off the platform when the gun begins to recoil, and prevent its running back. Earrow. -- Friction clutch, Friction coupling, an engaging and disengaging gear for revolving shafts, pulleys, etc., acting by friction; esp.:  (a) A device in which a piece on one shaft or pulley is so forcibly pressed against a piece on another shaft that the two will revolve together; as, in the illustration, the cone a on one shaft, when thrust forcibly into the corresponding hollow cone b on the other shaft, compels the shafts to rotate together, by the hold the friction of the conical surfaces gives. (b) A toothed clutch, one member of which, instead of being made fast on its shaft, is held by friction and can turn, by slipping, under excessive strain or in starting. -- Friction drop hammer, one in which the hammer is raised for striking by the friction of revolving rollers which nip the hammer rod. -- Friction gear. See Frictional gearing, under Frictional. -- Friction machine, an electrical machine, generating electricity by friction. -- Friction meter, an instrument for measuring friction, as in testing lubricants. -- Friction powder, Friction composition, a composition of chlorate of potassium, antimony, sulphide, etc, which readily ignites by friction. -- Friction primer, Friction tube, a tube used for firing cannon by means of the friction of a roughened wire in the friction powder or composition with which the tube is filled. -- Friction wheel (Mach.), one of the wheels in frictional gearing. See under Frictional.


word: Frictional
definition:
Frictional

Fric"tion*al
(?)
a.
Relating to friction; moved by friction; produced by friction; as, frictional electricity.

Frictional gearing, wheels which transmit motion by surface friction instead of teeth. The faces are sometimes made more or less V-shaped to increase or decrease friction, as required.


word: Friday
definition:
Friday

Fri"day
(?)
n.
[AS. frigedæg, fr. Frigu, the gooddes of marriage; friqu love + dæg day; cf. Icel. Frigg name of a goddess, the wife of Odin or Wodan, OHG. Frīatag, Icel. Frjādagr. AS. frigu is prob. from the root of E. friend, free. See Free, and Day.]
The sixth day of the week, following Thursday and preceding Saturday.


word: Fridge
definition:
Fridge

Fridge
(?)
v. t.
[AS. frician to dance, from free bold.  Cf. Freak, n.]
To rub; to fray.
[Obs.]
Sterne.


word: Frithstool
definition:
Frithstool

Fridstol

{ Frid"stol` (frĭd"st&omacrl`), Frith`stool" (frĭth"stōl`) }
n.
[AS. friðst&omacrl. See Fred, and Stool.]
A seat in churches near the altar, to which offenders formerly fled for sanctuary.
[Written variously fridstool, freedstool, etc.]
[Obs.]


word: Friend
definition:
Friend

Friend
(frĕnd)
n.
[OE. frend, freond, AS. freónd, prop. p. pr. of freón, freógan, to love; akin to D. vriend friend, OS. friund friend, friohan to love, OHG. friunt friend, G. freund, Icel. frændi kinsman, Sw. frände. Goth. frij&omacrnds friend, frij&omacrn to love. √83. See Free, and cf. Fiend.]
1.
One who entertains for another such sentiments of esteem, respect, and affection that he seeks his society and welfare; a wellwisher; an intimate associate; sometimes, an attendant.

Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend.
Dryden.

A friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
Prov. xviii. 24.

2.
One not inimical or hostile; one not a foe or enemy; also, one of the same nation, party, kin, etc., whose friendly feelings may be assumed. The word is some times used as a term of friendly address.

Friend, how camest thou in hither?
Matt. xxii. 12.

3.
One who looks propitiously on a cause, an institution, a project, and the like; a favorer; a promoter; as, a friend to commerce, to poetry, to an institution.

4.
One of a religious sect characterized by disuse of outward rites and an ordained ministry, by simplicity of dress and speech, and esp. by opposition to war and a desire to live at peace with all men. They are popularly called Quakers.

America was first visited by Friends in 1656.
T. Chase.

5.
A paramour of either sex.
[Obs.]
Shak.

A friend at court or A friend in court, one disposed to act as a friend in a place of special opportunity or influence. -- To be friends with, to have friendly relations with. “He's . . . friends with Cæsar.” Shak. -- To make friends with, to become reconciled to or on friendly terms with. “Having now made friends with the Athenians.” Jowett (Thucyd.).


word: Friend₂
definition:
Friend

Friend
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Friended; p. pr. & vb. n. Friending.]
To act as the friend of; to favor; to countenance; to befriend.
[Obs.]

Fortune friends the bold.
Spenser.


word: Friendly
definition:
Friendly

Friend"ly
a.
[AS. freéndlīce.]
1.
Having the temper and disposition of a friend; disposed to promote the good of another; kind; favorable.

2.
Appropriate to, or implying, friendship; befitting friends; amicable.

In friendly relations with his moderate opponents.
Macaulay.

3.
Not hostile; as, a friendly power or state.

4.
Promoting the good of any person; favorable; propitious; serviceable; as, a friendly breeze or gale.

On the first friendly bank he throws him down.
Addison.


word: Friendly₂
definition:
Friendly

Friend"ly
adv.
In the manner of friends; amicably; like friends.
[Obs.]
Shak.

In whom all graces that can perfect beauty
Are friendly met.
Beau. & Fl.


word: Friendly₃
definition:
Friendly

Friend"ly
n.
1.
A friendly person; -- usually applied to natives friendly to foreign settlers or invaders.
These were speedily routed by the friendlies, who attacked the small force before them in fine style.
E. N. Bennett.

2.
(Mil.)
A member of one's own military forces, or of allied forces.


word: friendly fire
definition:
friendly fire

friend"ly fire`
n.
(Mil.)
Weapons fire{9}, such as artillery or aerial bombardment, from one's own forces; -- used mostly when troops do damage or cause casualties among their own forces; as, the tank was hit by friendly fire.


word: Friendship
definition:
Friendship

Friend"ship
n.
[AS. freóndscipe. See Friend, and -ship.]
1.
The state of being friends; friendly relation, or attachment, to a person, or between persons; affection arising from mutual esteem and good will; friendliness; amity; good will.

There is little friendship in the world.
Bacon.

There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
Rambler.

Preferred by friendship, and not chosen by sufficiency.
Spenser.

2.
Kindly aid; help; assistance,
[Obs.]

Some friendship will it [a hovel] lend you gainst the tempest.
Shak.

3.
Aptness to unite; conformity; affinity; harmony; correspondence.
[Obs.]

Those colors . . . have a friendship with each other.
Dryden.


word: Friesic
definition:
Friesic

Fries"ic
(?)
prop. a.
Of or pertaining to Friesland, a province in the northern part of the Netherlands.


word: Friesic₂
definition:
Friesic

Fries"ic
prop. n.
The language of the Frisians, a Teutonic people formerly occupying a large part of the coast of Holland and Northwestern Germany. The modern dialects of Friesic are spoken chiefly in the province of Friesland, and on some of the islands near the coast of Germany and Denmark.


word: Frieze
definition:
Frieze

Frieze
(?)
n.
[Perh. the same word as frieze a, kind of cloth.  Cf. Friz.]
(Arch.)
(a)
That part of the entablature of an order which is between the architrave and cornice. It is a flat member or face, either uniform or broken by triglyphs, and often enriched with figures and other ornaments of sculpture.
(b)
Any sculptured or richly ornamented band in a building or, by extension, in rich pieces of furniture. See Illust. of Column.

Cornice or frieze with bossy sculptures graven.
Milton.


word: Frieze₂
definition:
Frieze

Frieze
(?)
n.
[F. frise, perh. originally a woolen cloth or stuff from Friesland (F. Frise); cf. LL. frisii panni and frissatus pannus, a shaggy woolen cloth, F. friser to friz, curl.  Cf. Friz.]
A kind of coarse woolen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side.
frieze
Goldsmith.


word: Frieze₃
definition:
Frieze

Frieze
v. t.
To make a nap on (cloth); to friz. See Friz, v. t., 2.

Friezing machine, a machine for friezing cloth; a friezing machine.


word: Friezed
definition:
Friezed

Friezed
(?)
a.
Gathered, or having the map gathered, into little tufts, knots, or protuberances.  Cf. Frieze, v. t., and Friz, v. t., 2.


word: Frigate
definition:
Frigate

Frig"ate
(?)
n.
[F. frégate, It. fregata, prob. contracted fr. L. fabricata something constructed or built. See Fabricate.]
1.
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.
[Formerly spelled frigat and friggot.]

2.
Any small vessel on the water.
[Obs.]
Spenser.

Frigate bird (Zool.), a web-footed rapacious bird, of the genus Fregata; -- called also man-of-war bird, and frigate pelican. Two species are known; that of the Southern United States and West Indies is F. aquila. They are remarkable for their long wings and powerful flight. Their food consists of fish which they obtain by robbing gulls, terns, and other birds, of their prey. They are related to the pelicans. -- Frigate mackerel (Zool.), an oceanic fish (Auxis Rochei) of little or no value as food, often very abundant off the coast of the United States. -- Frigate pelican. (Zool.) Same as Frigate bird.


word: Frigate-built
definition:
Frigate-built

Frig"ate-built"
(?)
a.
(Naut.)
Built like a frigate with a raised quarter-deck and forecastle.


word: Frigatoon
definition:
Frigatoon

Frig"a*toon`
(?)
n.
[It. fregatone: cf. F.frégaton. See Frigate.]
(Naut.)
A Venetian vessel, with a square stern, having only a mainmast, jigger mast, and bowsprit; also a sloop of war ship-rigged.


word: Frigefaction
definition:
Frigefaction

Frig"e*fac`tion
(?)
n.
[L. frigere to be cold + facere to make.]
The act of making cold. [Obs.] 


word: Frigga
definition:
Frigga

Frigg

{ Frigg (?), Frig"ga (?) }
n.
[Icel. Frigg. See Friday.]
(Scand. Myth.)
The wife of Odin and mother of the gods; the supreme goddess; the Juno of the Valhalla.  Cf. Freya.


word: Fright
definition:
Fright

Fright
(frīt)
n.
[OE. frigt, freyht, AS. fyrhto, fyrhtu; akin to OS. forhta, OHG. forhta, forahta, G. furcht, Dan. frygt, Sw. fruktan, Goth. faúrhtei fear, faúrhts timid.]

1.
A state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short duration; a sudden alarm.

2.
Anything strange, ugly or shocking, producing a feeling of alarm or aversion.
[Colloq.]


word: Fright₂
definition:
Fright

Fright
(?)
v. t.
[imp. Frighted; p. pr. & vb. n.. Frighting.]
[OE. frigten to fear, frighten, AS. fyrhtan to frighten, forhtian to fear; akin to OS. forhtian, OHG. furihten, forahtan, G. fürchten, Sw. frukta, Dan. frygte, Goth. faurhtjan. See Fright, n., and cf. Frighten.]
To alarm suddenly; to shock by causing sudden fear; to terrify; to scare.

Nor exile or danger can fright a brave spirit.
Dryden.


word: Frighten
definition:
Frighten

Fright"en
(?)
v. t.
[imp. Frightened (#); p. pr. & vb. n. Frightening (#).]
[See Fright, v. t.]
To disturb with fear; to throw into a state of alarm or fright; to affright; to terrify.

More frightened than hurt.
Old Proverb.


word: Frightful
definition:
Frightful

Fright"ful
(?)
a.
1.
Full of fright; affrighted; frightened.
[Obs.]

See how the frightful herds run from the wood.
W. Browne.

2.
Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance.


word: Frigid
definition:
Frigid

Frig"id
(?)
a.
[L. frigidus, fr. frigere to be cold; prob. akin to Gr. _; to shudder, or perh. to _; cold.  Cf. Frill.]
1.
Cold; wanting heat or warmth; of low temperature; as, a frigid climate.

2.
Wanting warmth, fervor, ardor, fire, vivacity, etc.; unfeeling; forbidding in manner; dull and unanimated; stiff and formal; as, a frigid constitution; a frigid style; a frigid look or manner; frigid obedience or service.

3.
Wanting natural heat or vigor sufficient to excite the generative power; impotent.
Johnson.

Frigid zone, that part of the earth which lies between either polar circle and its pole. It extends 23_; 28_; from the pole. See the Note under Arctic.


word: Frigidarium
definition:
Frigidarium

Frig"i*da`ri*um
(?)
n.
pl. Frigidaria (#).
[L., neut. of frigidarium cooling.]
The cooling room of the Roman thermæ, furnished with a cold bath.


word: Frigidity
definition:
Frigidity

Fri*gid"i*ty
(?)
n.
[L. frigiditas: cf. F. frigidité.]
1.
The condition or quality of being frigid; coldness; want of warmth.

Ice is water congealed by the frigidity of the air.
Sir T. Browne.

2.
Want of ardor, animation, vivacity, etc.; coldness of affection or of manner; dullness; stiffness and formality; as, frigidity of a reception, of a bow, etc.

3.
Want of heat or vigor; as, the frigidity of old age.


word: Frigidness
definition:
Frigidness

Frig"id*ness
n.
The state of being frigid; want of heat, vigor, or affection; coldness; dullness.


word: Frigorifical
definition:
Frigorifical

Frigorific

{ Frig"o*rif"ic (?), Frig"o*rif`ic*al (?) }
a.
[L. frigorificus; frigus, frigoris, cold + facere to make: cf. F. frigorifique.]
Causing cold; producing or generating cold.
Quincy.


word: Frejol
definition:
Frejol

Frijole

Frijol

{ Fri"jol, Fri"jole (?), n.; pl. Frijoles (_;). Also Fre"jol }
[Sp. fríjol, fréjol.]
1.
In Mexico, the southwestern United States, and the West Indies, any cultivated bean of the genus Phaseolus, esp. the black seed of a variety of P. vulgaris.

2.
The beanlike seed of any of several related plants, as the cowpea. Frijoles are an important article of diet among Spanish-American peoples, being used as an ingredient of many dishes.


word: frijolito
definition:
frijolito

frijolillo

frijolillo, frijolito
n.
A shrub or small tree(Sophora secundiflora) having pinnate leaves poisonous to livestock and dense racemes of intensely fragrant blue flowers and red beans.

Syn. -- mescal bean, coral bean, Sophora secundiflora.


word: frill
definition:
frill

frill
(frĭl)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. frilled (frĭld); p. pr. & vb. n. frilling.]
[OF. friller, fr. L. frigidulus somewhat cold, dim. of frigidus cold; akin to F. frileux chilly.]
1.
To shake or shiver as with cold; as, the hawk frills.
Johnson.

2.
(Photog.)
To wrinkle; -- said of the gelatin film.


word: Frill
definition:
Frill

Frill
v. t.
To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn back. in crimped plaits; as, to frill a cap.


word: Frill₂
definition:
Frill

Frill
n.
[See Frill, v. i.]
(Zool.)
(a)
A ruffing of a bird's feathers from cold.
(b)
A ruffle, consisting of a fold of membrane, of hairs, or of feathers, around the neck of an animal.
Frilled lizard
(c)
A similar ruffle around the legs or other appendages of animals.
(d)
A ruffled varex or fold on certain shells.

2.
A border or edging secured at one edge and left free at the other, usually fluted or crimped like a very narrow flounce.

3.
Hence:
Something superfluous, such as an ornament, or an additional function on a device or in a system not essential to the basic operation. -- Commonly used in the phrase no frills, used adjectively to indicate a fully functional but economical device or service; as, an economical no-frills airline.


word: frilled
definition:
frilled

frilled
(frĭld)
a.
Furnished with a frill or frills.

Frilled lizard (Zool.), a large Australian lizard (Chlamydosaurus Kingii) about three feet long, which has a large, erectile frill on each side of the neck.


word: frills
definition:
frills

frills
n.
Ornamental objects of no great value.

Syn. -- falderal, folderol, gimcrackery, gimcracks, nonsense, trumpery.


word: frim
definition:
frim

frim
(frĭm)
a.
[Cf. AS. freme good, bold, and E. frame.]
Flourishing; thriving; fresh; in good condition; vigorous.
[Obs.]
Drayton.


word: Frimaire
definition:
Frimaire

Fri"maire`
(?)
n.
[F., fr. frimas hoarfrost.]
The third month of the French republican calendar. It commenced November 21, and ended December 20., See Vendémiaire.


word: Fringe
definition:
Fringe

Fringe
(frĭnj)
n.
[OF, fringe, F. frange, prob. fr. L. fimbria fiber, thread, fringe, cf. fibra fiber, E. fiber, fimbriate.]
1.
An ornamental appendage to the border of a piece of stuff, originally consisting of the ends of the warp, projecting beyond the woven fabric; but more commonly made separate and sewed on, consisting sometimes of projecting ends, twisted or plaited together, and sometimes of loose threads of wool, silk, or linen, or narrow strips of leather, or the like.

2.
Something resembling in any respect a fringe; a line of objects along a border or edge; a border; an edging; a margin; a confine.

The confines of grace and the fringes of repentance.
Jer. Taylor.

3.
(Opt.)
One of a number of light or dark bands, produced by the interference of light; a diffraction band; --  called also interference fringe.

4.
(Bot.)
The peristome or fringelike appendage of the capsules of most mosses. See Peristome.


word: Fringe₂
definition:
Fringe

Fringe
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Fringed (frĭnjd); p. pr. & vb. n. Fringing.]
To adorn the edge of with a fringe or as with a fringe.

Precipices fringed with grass.
 Bryant.

Fringing reef. See Coral reefs, under Coral.


word: Fringed
definition:
Fringed

Fringed
(?)
a.
Furnished with a fringe.

Fringed lear (Bot.), a leaf edged with soft parallel hairs.


word: fringepod
definition:
fringepod

fringepod
n.
An annual herb having pinnatifid basal leaves and slender racemes of small white flowers followed by one-seeded winged silicles.

Syn. -- lacepod.


word: Fringe tree
definition:
Fringe tree

Fringe tree
A small oleaceous tree (Chionanthus virginica), of the southern United States, having clusters of snow-white flowers with slender petals. It is often cultivated.


word: Fringilla
definition:
Fringilla

Frin*gil"la
(?)
a.
[NL., fr. L. fringilla a chaffinch.]
(Zool.)
A genus of birds, with a short, conical, pointed bill. It formerly included all the sparrows and finches, but is now restricted to certain European finches, like the chaffinch and brambling.


word: Fringillidae
definition:
Fringillidae

Fringillidae
n.
A natural family of birds of the finch group having short conical bills adapted for eating seeds, including finches, goldfinches, bullfinches, chaffinches, siskins, canaries, cardinals, grosbeaks, crossbills, linnets, and buntings.  This family at one time included the sparrows of the family Emberizinae, but has more recently been restricted in usage.

Syn. -- family Fringillidae.


word: Fringilline
definition:
Fringilline

Frin*gil"line
(?)
a.
(Zool.)
Pertaining to the family Fringillidæ; characteristic of finches; sparrowlike.


word: Fripper
definition:
Fripper

Frip"per
(?)
n.
[F. fripier, fr. friper to rumple, fumble, waste.]
One who deals in frippery or in old clothes.
[Obs.]
Bacon.


word: Frippery
definition:
Frippery

Frip"per*y
(?)
n.
[F. friperie, fr. fruper. See Fripper.]
1.
Coast-off clothes.
[Obs.]
B. Jonson.

2.
Hence: Secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance.

Fond of gauze and French frippery.
Goldsmith.

The gauzy frippery of a French translation.
Sir W. Scott.

3.
A place where old clothes are sold.
Shak.

4.
The trade or traffic in old clothes.


word: Frisette
definition:
Frisette

Frizette

{ Fri*sette", Fri*zette"  }
(?)
n.
[F. frisette curl.]
a fringe of hair or curls worn about the forehead by women.


word: Frisian₂
definition:
Frisian

Fri"sian
n.
A native or inhabitant of Friesland; also, the language spoken in Friesland. See Friesic, n.


word: Frisk
definition:
Frisk

Frisk
(?)
a.
[OF. frieque, cf. OHG. frise lively, brisk, fresh, Dan. & Sw. frisk, Icel. friskr. See Fresh, a.]
Lively; brisk; frolicsome; frisky.
[Obs.]
Bp. Hall.


word: Frisk₂
definition:
Frisk

Frisk
a.
A frolic; a fit of wanton gayety; a gambol: a little playful skip or leap.
Johnson.


word: Frisk₃
definition:
Frisk

Frisk
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Frisked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Frisking.]
To leap, skip, dance, or gambol, in fronc and gayety.

The frisking satyrs on the summits danced.
Addison.


word: frisk
definition:
frisk

frisk
(frĭsk)
v. t.
To search (a person) for concealed weapons or other objects, by patting the clothing to detect objects underneath; as, the police pulled the car over and frisked the occupants.

Syn. -- frisk.


word: Frisker
definition:
Frisker

Frisker
(?)
n.
One who frisks; one who leaps of dances in gayety; a wanton; an inconstant or unsettled person.
Camden.


word: Frisket
definition:
Frisket

Fris"ket
(?)
n.
[F. frisguette.  Perhaps so named from the velocity or frequency of its motion. See Frisk a.]
(Print.)
The light frame which holds the sheet of paper to the tympan in printing.


word: frisking
definition:
frisking

frisking
n.
The act or process of searching someone for concealed weapons.

Syn. -- frisk.


word: Frislet
definition:
Frislet

Fris"let
(frĭz"lĕt)
n.
[Cf. Fraise a kind of defense; also Friz.]
A kind of small ruffle.
Halliwell.


word: Frist
definition:
Frist

Frist
(frĭst)
v. t.
[OE. fristen, firsten, to lend, give respite, postpone, AS. firstan to give respite to; akin to first time, G. frist, Icel. frest delay.]
To sell upon credit, as goods.
[R.]
Crabb.


word: Frit
definition:
Frit

Frit
(frĭt)
n.
[F. fritte, fr. frit fried, p. p. of frire to fry. See Far, v. t.]
1.
(Glass Making)
The material of which glass is made, after having been calcined or partly fused in a furnace, but before vitrification. It is a composition of silex and alkali, occasionally with other ingredients.
Ure.

2.
(Ceramics)
The material for glaze of pottery.

Frit brick, a lump of calcined glass materials, brought to a pasty condition in a reverberatory furnace, preliminary to the perfect vitrification in the melting pot.


word: Frit₂
definition:
Frit

Frit
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Fritted; p. pr. & vb. n. Fritting.]
To prepare by heat (the materials for making glass); to fuse partially.
Ure.


word: Fritfly
definition:
Fritfly

Frit"fly`
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
A small dipterous fly of the genus Oscinis, esp. O. vastator, injurious to grain in Europe, and O. Trifole, injurious to clover in America.


word: Frith
definition:
Frith

Frith
(frĭth)
n.
[OE. firth, Icel. fjörðr; akin to Sw. fjärd, Dan. fiord, E. ford. √78. See Ford, n., and cf. Firth, Fiord, Fret a frith, Port a harbor.]

1.
(Geog.)
A narrow arm of the sea; an estuary; the opening of a river into the sea; as, the Frith of Forth.  Also called firth.

2.
A kind of weir for catching fish.
[Eng.]
Carew.


word: Frith₂
definition:
Frith

Frith
n.
[OE. frith peace, protection, land inclosed for hunting, park, forest, AS. frið peace; akin to frenoð peace, protection, asylum, G. friede peace, Icel. friðr, and from the root of E. free, friend. See Free, a., and cf. Affray, Defray.]
1.
A forest; a woody place.
[Obs.]
Drayton.

2.
A small field taken out of a common, by inclosing it; an inclosure.
[Obs.]
Sir J. Wynne.


word: Fritillaria
definition:
Fritillaria

Frit"il*la`ri*a
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. L. fritillus dicebox: cf. F. fritillaire. So named from the checkered markings of the petals.]
(Bot.)
A genus of liliaceous plants, of which the crown-imperial (Fritillaria imperialis) is one species, and the Guinea-hen flower (F. Meleagris) another. See Crown-imperial.


word: Fritillary
definition:
Fritillary

Frit"il*la*ry
(?)
n.
1.
(Bot.)
A plant with checkered petals, of the genus Fritillaria: the Guinea-hen flower. See Fritillaria.

2.
(Zool.)
One of several species of butterflies belonging to Argynnis and allied genera; -- so called because the coloring of their wings resembles that of the common Fritillaria. See Aphrodite.


word: Fritinancy
definition:
Fritinancy

Frit"i*nan*cy
(?)
n.
[L. fritinnire to twitter.]
A chirping or creaking, as of a cricket.
[Obs.]
Sir T. Browne.


word: Fritter
definition:
Fritter

Frit"ter
(?)
n.
[OR. fritour, friture, pancake, F. friture frying, a thing fried, from frire to fry. See Far, v. t.]
1.
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.

2.
A fragment; a shred; a small piece.

And cut whole giants into fritters.
Hudibras.

Corn fritter. See under Corn.


word: Fritter₂
definition:
Fritter

Frit"ter
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Frittered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Frittering.]
1.
To cut, as meat, into small pieces, for frying.

2.
To break into small pieces or fragments.

Break all nerves, and fritter all their sense.
Pope.

To fritter away, to diminish; to pare off; to reduce to nothing by taking away a little at a time; also, to waste piecemeal; as, to fritter away time, strength, credit, etc.


word: Fritting
definition:
Fritting

Frit"ting
(?)
n.
[See Frit to expose to heat.]
The formation of frit or slag by heat with but incipient fusion.


word: Frivol
definition:
Frivol

Friv"ol
(?)
v. i.
To act frivolously; to trifle.
Kipling
Friv"ol*er (#), Friv"ol*ler, n. [All Colloq.]


word: Frivolity
definition:
Frivolity

Fri*vol"i*ty
(?)
n.
pl. Frivolities (#).
[Cg. F. frivolité. See Frivolous.]
The condition or quality of being frivolous; also, acts or habits of trifling; unbecoming levity of disposition.


word: Frivolous
definition:
Frivolous

Friv"o*lous
(?)
a.
[L. frivolus; prob. akin to friare to rub, crumble, E. friable: cf. F. frivole.]

1.
Of little weight or importance; not worth notice; slight; as, a frivolous argument.
Swift.

2.
Given to trifling; marked with unbecoming levity; silly; interested especially in trifling matters.

His personal tastes were low and frivolous.
Macaulay.


word: Friz
definition:
Friz

Friz
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Frizzed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Frizzing (?).]
[Cf. F. friser to curl, crisp, frizzle, to raise the nap (on certain stuffs); prob.akin to OFries. frisle hair of the head.  Cf. Frieze kind of cloth.]
[Written also frizz.]
1.
To curl or form into small curls, as hair, with a crisping pin; to crisp.

With her hair frizzed short up to her ears.
Pepys.

2.
To form into little burs, prominences, knobs, or tufts, as the nap of cloth.

3.
(Leather Manufacture)
To soften and make of even thickness by rubbing, as with pumice stone or a blunt instrument.

Frizzing machine. (a) (Fabrics) A machine for frizzing the surface of cloth. (b) (Wood Working) A bench with a revolving cutter head slightly protruding above its surface, for dressing boards.


word: Friz₂
definition:
Friz

Friz
n.
pl. Frizzes (_;).
That which is frizzed; anything crisped or curled, as a wig; a frizzle.
[Written also frizz.]

He [Dr. Johnson], who saw in his glass how his wig became his face and head, might easily infer that a similar fullbottomed, well-curled friz of words would be no less becoming to his thoughts.
Hare.


word: Frizel
definition:
Frizel

Friz"el
(?)
a.
(Firearms)
A movable furrowed piece of steel struck by the flint, to throw sparks into the pan, in an early form of flintlock.
Knight.


word: Frizette
definition:
Frizette

Fri*zette"
(?)
n.
[F. frisette curl.]
A curl of hair or silk; a pad of frizzed hair or silk worn by women under the hair to stuff it out.


word: Frizz₂
definition:
Frizz

Frizz
v. t. & i.
[Partly imitative, but cf. Fry.]
To fry, cook, or sear with a sizzling noise; to sizzle.


word: Frizzle
definition:
Frizzle

Friz"zle
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Frizzled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Frizzling (?).]
[Dim. of friz.]
To curl or crisp, as hair; to friz; to crinkle.
Gay.

To frizzle up, to crinkle or crisp excessively.


word: Frizzle₂
definition:
Frizzle

Friz"zle
(?)
v. t. & i.
[imp. & p. p. Frizzled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Frizzling (?).]
[Freq. of an imitative word frizz, in dial. use.]
1.
To fry, toast, or broil with a sputtering sound to cook with a sizzling noise. Also fig.
Hawthorne.

2.
To cook, in certain way, so as to curl or crinkle up.
Drain and heat it [shaved smoked beef] in one tablespoonful of hot butter, to curl or frizzle it.
Mrs. Lincoln (Cook Book).


word: Fro
definition:
Fro

Fro
(fr&omacr)
adv.
[OE. fra, fro, adv. & prep., Icel. frā, akin to Dan. fra from, E. from. See From.]
From; away; back or backward; -- now used only in opposition to the word to, in the phrase to and fro, that is, to and from. See To and fro under To.
Milton.


word: Frock
definition:
Frock

Frock
(fr&obreve_;k)
n.
[F. froc a monk's cowl, coat, garment, LL. frocus, froccus, flocus, floccus, fr. L. floccus a flock of wool; hence orig., a flocky cloth or garment; cf. L. flaccus flabby, E. flaccid.]
1.
A loose outer garment; especially, a gown forming a part of European modern costume for women and children; also, a coarse shirtlike garment worn by some workmen over their other clothes; a smock frock; as, a marketman's frock.

2.
A coarse gown worn by monks or friars, and supposed to take the place of all, or nearly all, other garments. It has a hood which can be drawn over the head at pleasure, and is girded by a cord.

Frock coat, a body coat for men, usually double-breasted, the skirts not being in one piece with the body, but sewed on so as to be somewhat full. -- Smock frock. See in the Vocabulary.


word: Froebelian
definition:
Froebelian

Froe*bel"i*an
(?)
a.
Pertaining to, or derived from, Friedrich Froebel, or the kindergarten system of education, which he organized.
n. One who teaches by, or advocates the use of, the kindergarten system.


word: Frog
definition:
Frog

Frog
(fr&obreve_;g)
n.
[AS. froggu, frocga a frog (in sensel); akin to D. vorsch, OHG. frosk, G. frosch, Icel. froskr, fraukr, Sw. & Dan. frö.]
1.
(Zool.)
An amphibious animal of the genus Rana and related genera, of many species. Frogs swim rapidly, and take long leaps on land. Many of the species utter loud notes in the springtime.

&hand_; The edible frog of Europe (Rana esculenta) is extensively used as food; the American bullfrog (R. Catesbiana) is remarkable for its great size and loud voice.

2.
[Perh. akin to E. fork, cf. frush frog of a horse.]
(Anat.)
The triangular prominence of the hoof, in the middle of the sole of the foot of the horse, and other animals; the fourchette.

3.
(Railroads)
A supporting plate having raised ribs that form continuations of the rails, to guide the wheels where one track branches from another or crosses it.

4.
[Cf. fraco of wool or silk, L. floccus, E. frock.]
An oblong cloak button, covered with netted thread, and fastening into a loop instead of a button hole.

5.
The loop of the scabbard of a bayonet or sword.

Cross frog (Railroads), a frog adapted for tracks that cross at right angles. -- Frog cheese, a popular name for a large puffball. -- Frog eater, one who eats frogs; -- a term of contempt applied to a Frenchman by the vulgar class of English. -- Frog fly. (Zool.) See Frog hopper. -- Frog hopper (Zool.), a small, leaping, hemipterous insect living on plants.  The larvæ are inclosed in a frothy liquid called cuckoo spit or frog spit. --  Frog lily (Bot.), the yellow water lily (Nuphar). -- Frog spit (Zool.), the frothy exudation of the frog hopper; -- called also frog spittle. See Cuckoo spit, under Cuckoo.


word: frogmarch
definition:
frogmarch

frogmarch
v.
1.
to march a person against his will by any method.

2.
to carry someone against his will upside down such that each limb is held by one person.


word: frog's-bit
definition:
frog's-bit

frogbit

frog"bit`, frog's-bit
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
(a)
A European plant (Hydrocharis Morsus-ranæ), floating on still water and propagating itself by runners. It has roundish heart-shaped leaves and small white flowers.
(b)
An American plant (Limnobium Spongia), with similar habits.


word: Frog-eyed
definition:
Frog-eyed

Frog"-eyed`
(?)
a.
Spotted with whitish specks due to a disease, or produced artificially by spraying; -- said of tobacco used for cigar wrappers.


word: Frogfish
definition:
Frogfish

Frog"fish`
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
(a)
See Angler, n., 2.
(b)
An oceanic fish of the genus Antennarius or Pterophrynoides; -- called also mousefish and toadfish.


word: Frogged
definition:
Frogged

Frogged
(?)
a.
Provided or ornamented with frogs; as, a frogged coat. See Frog, n., 4.
Ld. Lytton.


word: Frogmouth
definition:
Frogmouth

Frog"mouth`
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
One of several species of Asiatic and East Indian birds of the genus Batrachostomus  (family Podargidæ); -- so called from their very broad, flat bills.


word: Frogshell
definition:
Frogshell

Frog"shell`
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
One of numerous species of marine gastropod shells, belonging to Ranella and allied genera.


word: Froise
definition:
Froise

Froise
(?)
n.
[OE. froise cf. F. froisser to bruise, E. frush to bruise,]
A kind of pancake. See 1st Fraise.
[Written also fraise.]


word: Frolic
definition:
Frolic

Frol"ic
(fr&obreve_;l"ĭk)
a.
[D. vroolijk; akin to G. frölich, fr. froh, OHG. fr&omacr, Dan. fro, OS. frāh, cf. Icel. frār swift; all perh. akin to Skr. pru to spring up.]
Full of levity; dancing, playing, or frisking about; full of pranks; frolicsome; gay; merry.

The frolic wind that breathes the spring.
Milton.

The gay, the frolic, and the loud.
Waller.


word: Frolic₂
definition:
Frolic

Frol"ic
n.
1.
A wild prank; a flight of levity, or of gayety and mirth.

He would be at his frolic once again.
Roscommon.

2.
A scene of gayety and mirth, as in lively play, or in dancing; a merrymaking.


word: Frolic₃
definition:
Frolic

Frol"ic
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Frolicked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Frolicking.]
To play wild pranks; to play tricks of levity, mirth, and gayety; to indulge in frolicsome play; to sport.

Hither, come hither, and frolic and play.
Tennyson.


word: Frolicsome
definition:
Frolicsome

Frol"ic*some
(?)
a.
Full of gayety and mirth; given to pranks; sportive.

Old England, who takes a frolicsome brain fever once every two or three years, for the benefit of her doctors.
Sir W. Scott.


word: From
definition:
From

From
(fr&obreve_;m)
prep.
[AS. fram, from; akin to OS. fram out, OHG. & Icel. fram forward, Sw. fram, Dan. frem, Goth. fram from, prob. akin to E. forth. _;202.  Cf. Fro, Foremost.]
Out of the neighborhood of; lessening or losing proximity to; leaving behind; by reason of; out of; by aid of; -- used whenever departure, setting out, commencement of action, being, state, occurrence, etc., or procedure, emanation, absence, separation, etc., are to be expressed. It is construed with, and indicates, the point of space or time at which the action, state, etc., are regarded as setting out or beginning; also, less frequently, the source, the cause, the occasion, out of which anything proceeds; -- the antithesis and correlative of to; as, it, is one hundred miles from Boston to Springfield; he took his sword from his side; light proceeds from the sun; separate the coarse wool from the fine; men have all sprung from Adam, and often go from good to bad, and from bad to worse; the merit of an action depends on the principle from which it proceeds; men judge of facts from personal knowledge, or from testimony.

Experience from the time past to the time present.
Bacon.

The song began from Jove.
Drpden.

From high Mæonia's rocky shores I came.
Addison.

If the wind blow any way from shore.
Shak.

&hand_; From sometimes denotes away from, remote from, inconsistent with. “Anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing.” Shak. From, when joined with another preposition or an adverb, gives an opportunity for abbreviating the sentence. “There followed him great multitudes of people . . . from [the land] beyond Jordan.” Math. iv. 25. In certain constructions, as from forth, from out, etc., the ordinary and more obvious arrangment is inverted, the sense being more distinctly forth from, out from -- from being virtually the governing preposition, and the word the adverb. See From off, under Off, adv., and From afar, under Afar, adv.

Sudden partings such as press
The life from out young hearts.
Byron.


word: Fromwards
definition:
Fromwards

Fromward

{ From"ward (?), From"wards (?), }
prep.
[AS. framweard about to depart.  Cf. Froward]
A way from; -- the contrary of toward.
[Obs.]

Towards or fromwards the zenith.
Cheyne.


word: Frond
definition:
Frond

Frond
(fr&obreve_;nd)
n.
[L. frons, frondis, a leafy branch, foliage.]
(Bot.)
The organ formed by the combination or union into one body of stem and leaf, and often bearing the fructification; as, the frond of a fern or of a lichen or seaweed; also, the peculiar leaf of a palm tree.


word: Frondation
definition:
Frondation

Fron*da"tion
(?)
n.
[L. frondatio, from frons. See Frond.]
The act of stripping, as trees, of leaves or branches; a kind of pruning.
Evelyn.


word: Fronde
definition:
Fronde

Fronde
(?)
n.
[F.]
(F. Hist.)
A political party in France, during the minority of Louis XIV., who opposed the government, and made war upon the court party.


word: Frondent
definition:
Frondent

Fron"dent
(?)
a.
[L. frondens, p. pr. of frondere to put forth leaves. See Frond.]
Covered with leaves; leafy; as, a frondent tree.
[R.]


word: Frondesce
definition:
Frondesce

Fron*desce"
(?)
v. i.
[L. frondescere, inchoative fr. frondere. See Frondent.]
To unfold leaves, as plants.


word: Frondescence
definition:
Frondescence

Fron*des"cence
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
(a)
The time at which each species of plants unfolds its leaves.
(b)
The act of bursting into leaf.
Milne.  Martyn.


word: Frondiferous
definition:
Frondiferous

Fron*dif"er*ous
(?)
a.
[L. frondifer frons a leafy branch + ferre to bear: cf. F. frondifere.]
Producing fronds.


word: Frondose
definition:
Frondose

Fron*dose"
(?)
a.
[L. frondosus leafy.]
(Bot.)
(a)
Frond bearing; resembling a frond; having a simple expansion not separable into stem and leaves.
(b)
Leafy.
Gray.


word: Frons
definition:
Frons

Frons
(?)
n.
[L., front.]
(Anal.)
The forehead; the part of the cranium between the orbits and the vertex.


word: Front
definition:
Front

Front
(frŭnt)
n.
[F. frant forehead, L. frons, frontis; perh. akin to E. brow.]
1.
The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face.

Bless'd with his father's front, his mother's tongue.
Pope.

Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front.
Shak.

His front yet threatens, and his frowns command.
Prior.

2.
The forehead, countenance, or personal presence, as expressive of character or temper, and especially, of boldness of disposition, sometimes of impudence; seeming; as, a bold front; a hardened front;
hence,
an attitude and demeanor intended to represent one's feelings, even if not actually felt; as, to put on a good front.

With smiling fronts encountering.
Shak.

The inhabitants showed a bold front.
Macaulay.

3.
The part or surface of anything which seems to look out, or to be directed forward; the fore or forward part; the foremost rank; the van; -- the opposite to back or rear; as, the front of a house; the front of an army.

Had he his hurts before?
Ay, on the front.
Shak.

4.
A position directly before the face of a person, or before the foremost part of a thing; as, in front of un person, of the troops, or of a house.

5.
The most conspicuous part.

The very head and front of my offending.
Shak.

6.
That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women.

Like any plain Miss Smith's, who wears s front.
Mrs. Browning.

7.
The beginning.
front
Shak.

8.
(Fort.)
All the works along one side of the polygon inclosing the site which is fortified.

9.
(Phon.)
The middle of the upper part of the tongue, -- the part of the tongue which is more or less raised toward the palate in the pronunciation of certain sounds, as the vowel i in machine, e in bed, and consonant y in you. See Guide to Pronunciation, §10.

10.
The call boy whose turn it is to answer the call, which is often the word “front,” used as an exclamation.
[Hotel Cant]

Bastioned front (Mil.), a curtain connerting two half bastions. -- Front door, the door in the front wall of a building, usually the principal entrance. -- Front of fortification, the works constructed upon any one side of a polygon. Farrow. -- Front of operations, all that part of the field of operations in front of the successive positions occupied by the army as it moves forward. Farrow. -- To come to the front, to attain prominence or leadership.


word: Front₂
definition:
Front

Front
a.
Of or relating to the front or forward part; having a position in front; foremost; as, a front view.


word: Front₃
definition:
Front

Front
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Fronted; p. pr. & vb. n. Fronting.]
1.
To oppose face to face; to oppose directly; to meet in a hostile manner.

You four shall front them in the narrow lane.
Shak.

2.
To appear before; to meet.

[Enid] daily fronted him
In some fresh splendor.
Tennyson.

3.
To face toward; to have the front toward; to confront; as, the house fronts the street.

And then suddenly front the changed reality.
J. Morley.

4.
To stand opposed or opposite to, or over against as, his house fronts the church.

5.
To adorn in front; to supply a front to; as, to front a house with marble; to front a head with laurel.

Yonder walls, that pertly front your town.
Shak.


word: Front₄
definition:
Front

Front
v. t.
To have or turn the face or front in any direction; as, the house fronts toward the east.


word: Frontal
definition:
Frontal

Fron"tal
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. frontal.]
Belonging to the front part; being in front
(Anat.)
Of or pertaining to the forehead or the anterior part of the roof of the brain case; as, the frontal bones.


word: Frontal₂
definition:
Frontal

Fron"tal
n.
[F. frontal, fronteau, OF. Frontel, frontal, L. frontale an ornament for the forehead, frontlet. See Front.]
1.
Something worn on the forehead or face; a frontlet
(a)
An ornamental band for the hair.
(b)
(Mil.)
The metal face guard of a soldier.

2.
(Arch.)
A little pediment over a door or window.

3.
(Eccl.)
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.

4.
(Med.)
A medicament or application for the forehead.
[Obs.]
Quincy.

5.
(Anat.)
The frontal bone, or one of the two frontal bones, of the cranium.

Frontal hammer or Frontal helve, a forge hammer lifted by a cam, acting upon a “tongue” immediately in front of the hammer head. Raymond.


word: Fron'tated
definition:
Fron'tated

Frontate

{ Fron"tate (?), Fron'ta*ted (?), }
a.
Growing broader and broader, as a leaf; truncate.


word: frontbench
definition:
frontbench

frontbench
n.
any of the front seats in the House of Commons of Great Britain that are reserved for ministers or ex-ministers.


word: frontbencher
definition:
frontbencher

frontbencher
n.
a member of the House of Commons of Great Britain who is a minister or an ex-minister.


word: Frontier
definition:
Frontier

Fron"tier
(?)
n.
[F. frontière, LL. frontaria. See Front.]
1.
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.

2.
(Fort.)
An outwork.
[Obs.]

Palisadoes, frontiers, parapets.
Shak.


word: Frontier₂
definition:
Frontier

Fron"tier
a.
1.
Lying on the exterior part; bordering; conterminous; as, a frontier town.

2.
Of or relating to a frontier.
W. Irving.


word: Frontier₃
definition:
Frontier

Fron"tier
v. i.
To constitute or form a frontier; to have a frontier; -- with on.
[Obs.]
Sir W. Temple.


word: Frontignan
definition:
Frontignan

Frontignac

&VerbarFron`ti*gnac" (?), Fron`ti`gnan" (_;)
n.
[So called from Frontignan, a town in Southern France.]
1.
A sweet muscadine wine made in Frontignan (Languedoc), France.

2.
(Bot.)
A grape of many varieties and colors.


word: Frontispiece
definition:
Frontispiece

Fron"tis*piece
(?)
n.
[F. frontispice, LL. frontispicium beginning, front of a church, fr. L. frons front + spicere, specere, to look at, view: cf. It. frontispizio. See Front and Spy.]
The part which first meets the eye
(a)
(Arch.)
The principal front of a building.
[Obs. or R.]
(b)
An ornamental figure or illustration fronting the first page, or titlepage, of a book; formerly, the titlepage itself.


word: Frontless
definition:
Frontless

Front"less
(?)
a.
Without face or front; shameless; not diffident; impudent.
[Obs.]
Frontless
Dryden.
Frontless
Pope.


word: Frontlet
definition:
Frontlet

Front"let
(?)
n.
[OF. frontelet brow band, dim. of frontel, frontal. See Frontal, n.]
1.
A frontal or brow band; a fillet or band worn on the forehead.

They shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.
Deut. vi. 8.

2.
A frown (likened to a frontlet).
[R. & Poetic]

What makes that frontlet on? Methinks you are too much of late i' the frown.
Shak.

3.
(Zool.)
The margin of the head, behind the bill of birds, often bearing rigid bristles.


word: Fronto-
definition:
Fronto-

Fron"to-
(?)
[L. frons, frontis, the forehead.]
(Anat.)
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.


word: front-runner
definition:
front-runner

front-runner
n.
a competitor thought to be most likely to win.

Syn. -- favorite, favourite.


word: Frore
definition:
Frore

Frore
(?)
adv.
[See Frorn.]
Frostily.
[Obs.]

The parching air
Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire.
Milton.


word: Frorn
definition:
Frorn

Frorn
(?)
p. a.
[AS. froren, p. p. of freósun to freeze. See Freeze.]
Frozen.
[Obs.]

Well nigh frorn I feel.
Spenser.


word: Frory
definition:
Frory

Fro"ry
(?)
a.
[AS. freórig. See Frorn.]
1.
Frozen; stiff with cold.
[Obs.]
Spenser.

2.
Covered with a froth like hoarfrost.
[Archaic]

The foaming steed with frory bit to steer.
Fairfax.


word: frosh
definition:
frosh

frosh
(?)
n.
pl. frosh (_;).
[from freshman by shortening.]
a student during his first year in a high school, college, or university; a freshman.
[informal]


word: Frost
definition:
Frost

Frost
(fr&obreve_;st; 115)
n.
[OE. frost, forst, AS. forst, frost. fr. freósan to freeze; akin to D. varst, G., OHG., Icel., Dan., & Sw. frost. √18. See Freeze, v. i.]
1.
The act of freezing; -- applied chiefly to the congelation of water; congelation of fluids.

2.
The state or temperature of the air which occasions congelation, or the freezing of water; severe cold or freezing weather.

The third bay comes a frost, a killing frost.
Shak.

3.
Frozen dew; -- called also hoarfrost or white frost.

He scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.
Ps. cxlvii. 16.

4.
Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character.
[R.]

It was of those moments of intense feeling when the frost of the Scottish people melts like a snow wreath.
Sir W. Scott.

Black frost, cold so intense as to freeze vegetation and cause it to turn black, without the formation of hoarfrost. -- Frost bearer (Physics), a philosophical instrument illustrating the freezing of water in a vacuum; a cryophorus. -- Frost grape (Bot.), an American grape, with very small, acid berries. -- Frost lamp, a lamp placed below the oil tube of an Argand lamp to keep the oil limpid on cold nights; -- used especially in lighthouses. Knight. -- Frost nail, a nail with a sharp head driven into a horse's shoe to keep him from slipping. -- Frost smoke, an appearance resembling smoke, caused by congelation of vapor in the atmosphere in time of severe cold.
[1913 Webster]
The brig and the ice round her are covered by a strange black
obscurity: it is the frost smoke of arctic winters. Kane.
-- Frost valve, a valve to drain the portion of a pipe, hydrant, pump, etc., where water would be liable to freeze. -- Jack Frost, a popular personification of frost.


word: Frost₂
definition:
Frost

Frost
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Frosted; p. pr. & vb. n. Frosting.]
1.
To injure by frost; to freeze, as plants.

2.
To cover with hoarfrost; to produce a surface resembling frost upon, as upon cake, metals, or glass; as, glass may be frosted by exposure to hydrofluoric acid.

While with a hoary light she frosts the ground.
Wordsworth.

3.
To roughen or sharpen, as the nail heads or calks of horseshoes, so as to fit them for frosty weather.


word: Frostbite
definition:
Frostbite

Frost"bite
(?)
n.
The freezing, or effect of a freezing, of some part of the body, as the ears, fingers, toes, or nose.  Severe frostbite can lead to the loss of fingers or toes.
Kane.


word: Frostbite₂
definition:
Frostbite

Frost`bite"
v. t.
To expose to the effect of frost, or a frosty air; to blight or nip with frost.

My wife up and with Mrs. Pen to walk in the fields to frostbite themselves.
Pepys.


word: Frost-blite
definition:
Frost-blite

Frost`-blite"
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
(a)
A plant of the genus Atriplex; orache.
Gray.
(b)
The lamb's-quarters (Chenopodium album).
Dr. Prior.


word: Frostbow
definition:
Frostbow

Frost"bow`
(?)
n.
A white arc or circle in the sky attending frosty weather and formed by reflection of sunlight from ice crystals floating in the air; the parhelic circle whose center is at the zenith.


word: Frosted
definition:
Frosted

Frost"ed
a.
1.
Covered with hoarfrost or anything resembling hoarfrost; ornamented with frosting; also, frost-bitten; as, a frosted cake; frosted donuts.

2.
Provided with a surface finish which is matte or with a very fine grain, reminiscent of the surface texture of frost; as, frosted glass.  Opposed to polished or burnished.

Frosted work is introduced as a foil or contrast to burnished work.
Knight.


word: Frostfish
definition:
Frostfish

Frost`fish"
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
(a)
The tomcod; -- so called because it is abundant on the New England coast in autumn at about the commencement of frost. See Tomcod.
(b)
The smelt.
[Local, U. S.]
(c)
A name applied in New Zealand to the scabbard fish (Lepidotus) valued as a food fish.


word: Frosting
definition:
Frosting

Frost"ing
n.
1.
A composition of sugar and beaten egg, used to cover or ornament cake, pudding, etc.

2.
A lusterless finish of metal or glass; the process of producing such a finish.

3.
the lightened color on part of an object, as of hair, produced by treatment with bleach or other chemicals; as only part of the object is thus treated, the final color of the object is two-toned; also, the process of producing such a two-toned effect.


word: Frost-free
definition:
Frost-free

Frost"-free
a.
not accumulating frost; -- used especially of refrigerators with an automatic defrost cycle such that the freezer compartment remains free of ice without need for a manual defrosting.


word: Frost signal
definition:
Frost signal

Frost" sig`nal
(Meteor.)
A signal consisting of a white flag with a black center, used by the United States Weather Bureau to indicate that a local frost is expected. It is used only in Florida and along the coasts of the Pacific and the Gulf Mexico.


word: Frostweed
definition:
Frostweed

Frost"weed`
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
An American species of rockrose (Helianthemum Canadense), sometimes used in medicine as an astringent or aromatic tonic.

&hand_; It has large yellow flowers which are often sterile, and later it has abundant but inconspicuous flowers which bear seed. It is so called because, late in autumn, crystals of ice shoot from the cracked bark at the root; -- called also frostwort.


word: Frostwork
definition:
Frostwork

Frost`work"
(?)
n.
The figurework, often fantastic and delicate, which moisture sometimes forms in freezing, as upon a window pane or a flagstone.


word: Frosty
definition:
Frosty

Frost"y
(?)
a.
[Cf. AS. fyrstig.]
1.
Attended with, or producing, frost; having power to congeal water; cold; freezing; as, a frosty night.

2.
Covered with frost; as, the grass is frosty.

3.
Chill in affection; without warmth of affection or courage.
Johnson.

4.
Appearing as if covered with hoarfrost; white; gray-haired; as, a frosty head.
Shak.


word: Froth
definition:
Froth

Froth
(?)
n.
[OE. frothe, Icel. froða; akin to Dan. fraade, Sw. fradga, AS. āfreoðan to froth.]

1.
The bubbles caused in fluids or liquors by fermentation or agitation; spume; foam; esp., a spume of saliva caused by disease or nervous excitement.

2.
Any empty, senseless show of wit or eloquence; rhetoric without thought.
Johnson.

It was a long speech, but all froth.
L'Estrange.

3.
Light, unsubstantial matter.
Tusser.

Froth insect (Zool.), the cuckoo spit or frog hopper; -- called also froth spit, froth worm, and froth fly. -- Froth spit. See Cuckoo spit, under Cuckoo.


word: Froth₂
definition:
Froth

Froth
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Frothed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.. Frothing.]
1.
To cause to foam.

2.
To spit, vent, or eject, as froth.

He . . . froths treason at his mouth.
Dryden.

Is your spleen frothed out, or have ye more?
Tennyson.

3.
To cover with froth; as, a horse froths his chain.


word: Froth₃
definition:
Froth

Froth
v. i.
To throw up or out spume, foam, or bubbles; to foam; as beer froths; a horse froths.


word: Frothy
definition:
Frothy

Froth"y
(?)
a.
[Compar. Frothier (?); superl. Frothiest.]
1.
Full of foam or froth, or consisting of froth or light bubbles; spumous; foamy.

2.
Not firm or solid; soft; unstable.
Bacon.

3.
Of the nature of froth; light; empty; unsubstantial; as, a frothy speaker or harangue.
Tillotson.


word: Froufrou
definition:
Froufrou

Frou"frou`
(frō"frō`)
n.
[F., of imitative origin.]
1.
A rustling, esp. the rustling of a woman's dress.

2.
showy or frilly ornamentation.
MW10


word: Frounce
definition:
Frounce

Frounce
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Frounced (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Frouncing (?).]
[OE. frouncen, fronsen, to told, wrinkle, OF. froncier, F. froncer, perh. fr. an assumed LL. frontiare to wrinkle the forehead, L. frons forehead. See Front, and cf. Flounce part of a dress.]
To gather into or adorn with plaits, as a dress; to form wrinkles in or upon; to curl or frizzle, as the hair.

Not tricked and frounced, as she was wont.
Milton.


word: Frounce₂
definition:
Frounce

Frounce
v. i.
To form wrinkles in the forehead; to manifest displeasure; to frown.
[Obs.]

The Commons frounced and stormed.
 Holland.


word: Frounce₃
definition:
Frounce

Frounce
n.
1.
A wrinkle, plait, or curl; a flounce; -- also, a frown.
[Obs.]
Beau. & Fl.

2.
An affection in hawks, in which white spittle gathers about the hawk's bill.
Booth.


word: Frouzy
definition:
Frouzy

Frou"zy
(?)
a.
[Prov. E. frouzy froward, peevish, offensive to the eye or smell; cf. froust a musty smell, frouse to rumple, frouze to curl, and E. frounce, frowy.]
Fetid, musty; rank; disordered and offensive to the smell or sight; slovenly; dingy. See Frowzy.
frouzy
Swift.


word: Frow
definition:
Frow

Frow
(?)
n.
[D. vrouw; akin to G. frau woman, wife, goth, fráuja master, lord, AS. freá.]
1.
A woman; especially, a Dutch or German woman.
Beau. & Fl.

2.
A dirty woman; a slattern.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.


word: Frow₂
definition:
Frow

Frow
(?)
n.
[Cf. Frower.]
A cleaving tool with handle at right angles to the blade, for splitting cask staves and shingles from the block; a frower.


word: Froward
definition:
Froward

Fro"ward
(?)
a.
[Fro + -ward. See Fro, and cf. Fromward.]
Not willing to yield or compIy with what is required or is reasonable; perverse; disobedient; peevish; as, a froward child.

A froward man soweth strife.
Prov. xvi. 28.

A froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as innovation.
Bacon.


word: Frowey
definition:
Frowey

Frow"ey
(?)
a.
[See Frow, a.]
(Carp.)
Working smoothly, or without splitting; -- said of timber.


word: Frown
definition:
Frown

Frown
(froun)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Frowned (fround); p. pr. & vb. n. Frowning.]
[OF. froignier, F. frogner, in se refrogner, se renfrogner, to knit the brow, to frown; perh. of Teutonic origin; cf. It. in frigno wrinkled, frowning, Prov. It. frignare to cringe the face, to make a wry face, dial. Sw. fryna to make a wry face,]
1.
To contract the brow in displeasure, severity, or sternness; to scowl; to put on a stern, grim, or surly look.

The frowning wrinkle of her brow.
Shak.

2.
To manifest displeasure or disapprobation; to look with disfavor or threateningly; to lower; as, polite society frowns upon rudeness.

The sky doth frown and lower upon our army.
Shak.


word: Frown₂
definition:
Frown

Frown
v. t.
To repress or repel by expressing displeasure or disapproval; to rebuke with a look; as, frown the impudent fellow into silence.


word: Frown₃
definition:
Frown

Frown
n.
1.
A wrinkling of the face in displeasure, rebuke, etc.; a sour, severe, or stern look; a scowl.

His front yet threatens, and his frowns command.
Prior.

Her very frowns are fairer far
Than smiles of other maidens are.
H. Coleridge.

2.
Any expression of displeasure; as, the frowns of Providence; the frowns of Fortune.


word: Frowny
definition:
Frowny

Frown"y
(?)
a.
Frowning; scowling.
[Obs.]

Her frowny mother's ragged shoulder.
Sir F. Palgrave.


word: Frowzy
definition:
Frowzy

Frow"zy
(?)
a.
[See Frouzy.]
Slovenly; unkempt; untidy; frouzy.
frowzy
Spenser.

The frowzy soldiers' wives hanging out clothes.
W. D. Howells.


word: Frozen
definition:
Frozen

Fro"zen
(?)
a.
1.
Congealed with cold; affected by freezing; as, a frozen brook.

They warmed their frozen feet.
Dryden.

2.
Subject to frost, or to long and severe cold; chilly; as, the frozen north; the frozen zones.

3.
Cold-hearted; unsympathetic; unyielding.
[R.]

Be not ever frozen, coy.
T. Carew.


word: Fructed
definition:
Fructed

Fruc"ted
(?)
a.
[L. fructus fruit. See Fruit.]
(Her.)
Bearing fruit; -- said of a tree or plant so represented upon an escutcheon.
Cussans.


word: Fructescence
definition:
Fructescence

Fruc*tes"cence
(?)
n.
[L. fructus fruit.]
(Bot.)
The maturing or ripening of fruit.
[R.]
Martyn.


word: Fructidor
definition:
Fructidor

Fruc`ti`dor"
(?)
n.
[F., fr. L. fructus fruit.]
The twelfth month of the French republican calendar; -- commencing August 18, and ending September 16. See Vendémiaire.


word: Fructiferuos
definition:
Fructiferuos

Fruc*tif"er*uos
(?)
a.
[L. fructifer; fructus fruit + ferre to bear; cf. F. fructifère.]
Bearing or producing fruit.
Boyle.


word: Fructification
definition:
Fructification

Fruc`ti*fi*ca"tion
(?)
n.
[L. fructificatio: cf. F. fructification.]
1.
The act of forming or producing fruit; the act of fructifying, or rendering productive of fruit; fecundation.

The prevalent fructification of plants.
Sir T. Brown.

2.
(Bot.)
(a)
The collective organs by which a plant produces its fruit, or seeds, or reproductive spores.
(b)
The process of producing fruit, or seeds, or spores.


word: Fructify
definition:
Fructify

Fruc"ti*fy
(frŭk"tĭ*fī)
v. i.
[F. fructifier, L. fructificare; fructus fruit + -ficare (only in comp.), akin to L. facere to make. See Fruit, and Fact.]
To bear fruit.
fructify
Beveridge.


word: Fructify₂
definition:
Fructify

Fruc"ti*fy
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Fructified (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Fructifying.]
To make fruitful; to render productive; to fertilize; as, to fructify the earth.


word: Fructose
definition:
Fructose

Fruc*tose"
(frŭk*t&omacrs" or frŭk"t&omacrs)
n.
[L. fructus fruit.]
(Chem.)
Fruit sugar; levulose.
[R.]


word: Fructuary
definition:
Fructuary

Fruc"tu*a*ry
(frŭk"t&uuptack_;*a̝*r&ybreve_;)
n.
pl. Fructuaries (-rĭz).
[L. fructuarius.]
One who enjoys the profits, income, or increase of anything.

Kings are not proprietors nor fructuaries.
Prynne.


word: Fructuous
definition:
Fructuous

Fruc"tu*ous
(?)
a.
[L. fructuosus: cf, F. fructueux.]
Fruitful; productive; profitable.
[Obs.]

Nothing fructuous or profitable.
Chaucer.


word: Fructure
definition:
Fructure

Fruc"ture
(?)
n.
[L. frui, p. p. fructus, to enjoy. See Fruit, n.]
Use; fruition; enjoyment.
[Obs.]
Cotgrave.


word: Frue vanner
definition:
Frue vanner

Frue" van"ner
(?)
[Etymol. uncertain.]
(Mining)
A moving, inclined, endless apron on which ore is concentrated by a current of water; a kind of buddle.


word: Frugal
definition:
Frugal

Fru"gal
(?)
a.
[L. frugalis, fr. frugi, lit., for fruit; hence, fit for food, useful, proper, temperate, the dative of frux, frugis, fruit, akin to E. fruit: cf. F. frugal. See Fruit, n.]
1.
Economical in the use or appropriation of resources; not wasteful or lavish; wise in the expenditure or application of force, materials, time, etc.; characterized by frugality; sparing; economical; saving; as, a frugal housekeeper; frugal of time.

I oft admire
How Nature, wise and frugal, could commit
Such disproportions.
Milton.

2.
Obtained by, or appropriate to, economy; as, a frugal fortune.
Frugal
Dryden.


word: Frugality
definition:
Frugality

Fru*gal"i*ty
(?)
n.
pl. Frugalities (#).
[L. frugalitas: cf. F. frugalité.]
1.
The quality of being frugal; prudent economy; that careful management of anything valuable which expends nothing unnecessarily, and applies what is used to a profitable purpose; thrift; --- opposed to extravagance.

Frugality is founded on the principle that all riches have
limits.
Burke.

2.
A sparing use; sparingness; as, frugality of praise.


word: Frugiferous
definition:
Frugiferous

Fru*gif"er*ous
(?)
a.
[L. frugifer; frux, frugis, fruit + ferre to bear: cf. F. frugifere.]
Producing fruit; fruitful; fructiferous.
Dr. H. More.


word: Frugivora
definition:
Frugivora

Fru*giv"o*ra
(?)
n. pl.
[NL. See Frugivorous.]
(Zool.)
The fruit bate; a group of the Cheiroptera, comprising the bats which live on fruits. See Eruit bat, under Fruit.


word: Frugivorous
definition:
Frugivorous

Fru*giv"o*rous
(?)
a.
[L. frux, frugis, fruit + vorare to devour.: cf. F. frugivore.]
Feeding on fruit, as birds and other animals.
Pennant.


word: Fruit
definition:
Fruit

Fruit
(?)
n.
[OE. fruit, frut, F. fruit, from L. fructus enjoyment, product, fruit, from frui, p. p. fructus, to enjoy; akin to E. brook, v. t. See Brook, v. t., and cf. Fructify, Frugal.]
1.
Whatever is produced for the nourishment or enjoyment of man or animals by the processes of vegetable growth, as corn, grass, cotton, flax, etc.; -- commonly used in the plural.

Six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the
fruits thereof.
Ex. xxiii. 10.

2.
(Hort.)
The pulpy, edible seed vessels of certain plants, especially those grown on branches above ground, as apples, oranges, grapes, melons, berries, etc. See 3.

3.
(Bot.)
The ripened ovary of a flowering plant, with its contents and whatever parts are consolidated with it.

&hand_; Fruits are classified as fleshy, drupaceous, and dry. Fleshy fruits include berries, gourds, and melons, orangelike fruits and pomes; drupaceous fruits are stony within and fleshy without, as peaches, plums, and cherries; and dry fruits are further divided into achenes, follicles, legumes, capsules, nuts, and several other kinds.

4.
(Bot.)
The spore cases or conceptacles of flowerless plants, as of ferns, mosses, algae, etc., with the spores contained in them.

6.
The produce of animals; offspring; young; as, the fruit of the womb, of the loins, of the body.

King Edward's fruit, true heir to the English crown.
Shak.

6.
That which is produced; the effect or consequence of any action; advantageous or desirable product or result; disadvantageous or evil consequence or effect; as, the fruits of labor, of self-denial, of intemperance.

The fruit of rashness.
Shak.

What I obtained was the fruit of no bargain.
Burke.

They shall eat the fruit of their doings.
Is. iii 10.

The fruits of this education became visible.
Macaulay.

&hand_; Fruit is frequently used adjectively, signifying of, for, or pertaining to a fruit or fruits; as, fruit bud; fruit frame; fruit jar; fruit knife; fruit loft; fruit show; fruit stall; fruit tree; etc.

Fruit bat (Zool.), one of the Frugivora; -- called also fruit-eating bat. -- Fruit bud (Bot.), a bud that produces fruit; -- in most oplants the same as the power bud. Fruit dot (Bot.), a collection of fruit cases, as in ferns. See Sorus. -- Fruit fly (Zool.), a small dipterous insect of the genus Drosophila, which lives in fruit, in the larval state.  There are seveal species, some of which are very damaging to fruit crops.  One species, Drosophila melanogaster, has been intensively studied as a model species for genetic reserach. -- Fruit jar, a jar for holding preserved fruit, usually made of glass or earthenware. -- Fruit pigeon (Zool.), one of numerous species of pigeons of the family Carpophagidæ, inhabiting India, Australia, and the Pacific Islands. They feed largely upon fruit. and are noted for their beautiful colors. -- Fruit sugar (Chem.), a kind of sugar occurring, naturally formed, in many ripe fruits, and in honey; levulose. The name is also, though rarely, applied to invert sugar, or to the natural mixture or dextrose and levulose resembling it, and found in fruits and honey. -- Fruit tree (Hort.), a tree cultivated for its edible fruit. -- Fruit worm (Zool.), one of numerous species of insect larvæ: which live in the interior of fruit. They are mostly small species of Lepidoptera and Diptera. -- Small fruits (Hort.), currants, raspberries, strawberries, etc.


word: Fruitage
definition:
Fruitage

Fruit"age
(?)
n.
[F. fruitage.]
1.
Fruit, collectively; fruit, in general; fruitery.

The trees . . . ambrosial fruitage bear.
Milton.

2.
Product or result of any action; effect, good or ill.


word: Fruitery
definition:
Fruitery

Fruit"er*y
(?)
n.
pl. Fruiteries (#).
[F. fruiterie place where fruit is kept, in OF. also, fruitage.]

1.
Fruit, taken collectively; fruitage.
J. Philips.

2.
A repository for fruit.
Johnson.


word: Fruitful
definition:
Fruitful

Fruit"ful
(?)
a.
Full of fruit; producing fruit abundantly; bearing results; prolific; fertile; liberal; bountiful; as, a fruitful tree, or season, or soil; a fruitful wife.
Fruit"ful*ly, adv. -- Fruit"ful*ness, n.

Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth.
Gen. i. 28.

[Nature] By disburdening grows
More fruitful.
Milton.

The great fruitfulness of the poet's fancy.
Addison.


word: Fruition
definition:
Fruition

Fru*i"tion
(?)
n.
[OF. fruition, L. fruitio, enjoyment, fr. L. frui, p. p. fruitus, to use or enjoy. See Fruit, n.]
Use or possession of anything, especially such as is accompanied with pleasure or satisfaction; pleasure derived from possession or use.
fruition
Rogers.
fruition
Milton.

Where I may have fruition of her love.
Shak.


word: Fruitless
definition:
Fruitless

Fruit"less
(?)
a.
1.
Lacking, or not bearing, fruit; barren; destitute of offspring; as, a fruitless tree or shrub; a fruitless marriage.
Shak.

2.
Productive of no advantage or good effect; vain; idle; useless; unprofitable; as, a fruitless attempt; a fruitless controversy.

They in mutual accusation spent
The fruitless hours.
Milton.


word: Frumentaceous
definition:
Frumentaceous

Fru"men*ta"ceous
(?)
a.
[L. frumentaceus, fr. frumentum corn or grain, from the root of frux fruit: cf. F. frumentacé. See Frugal.]
Made of, or resembling, wheat or other grain.


word: Frumentarious
definition:
Frumentarious

Fru`men*ta"ri*ous
(?)
a.
[L. frumentarius.]
Of or pertaining to wheat or grain.
[R.]
Coles.


word: Frumentation
definition:
Frumentation

Fru`men*ta"tion
(?)
n.
[L. frumentatio.]
(Rom. Antiq.)
A largess of grain bestowed upon the people, to quiet them when uneasy.


word: Frumenty
definition:
Frumenty

Fru"men*ty
(?)
n.
[OF. fromentée, fr. L. frumentum. See Frumentaceous.]
Food made of hulled wheat boiled in milk, with sugar, plums, etc.
[Written also furmenty and furmity.]
Halliwell.


word: Frump
definition:
Frump

Frump
(?)
v. t.
[Cf. Prov. E. frumple to wrinkle, ruffle, D. frommelen.]
To insult; to flout; to mock; to snub.
[Obs.]
Beau. & Fl.


word: Frump₂
definition:
Frump

Frump
n.
1.
A contemptuous speech or piece of conduct; a gibe or flout.
[Obs.]
Beau. & Fl.

2.
A cross, old-fashioned person; esp., an old woman; a gossip.
[Colloq.]
Halliwell.


word: Frumpish
definition:
Frumpish

Frump"ish
a.
1.
Cross-tempered; scornful.
[Obs.]

2.
Old-fashioned, as a woman's dress.

Our Bell . . . looked very frumpish.
Foote.


word: Frush
definition:
Frush

Frush
(?)
v. t.
[F. froisser to bruise.  Cf. Froise.]
To batter; to break in pieces.
[Obs.]

I like thine armor well;
I'll frush it and unlock the rivets all.
Shak.


word: Frush₄
definition:
Frush

Frush
n.
[Cf. OE. frosch, frosk, a frog (the animal), G. frosch frog (the animal), also carney or lampass of horses. See Frog, n., 2.]
1.
(Far.)
The frog of a horse's foot.

2.
A discharge of a fetid or ichorous matter from the frog of a horse's foot; -- also caled thrush.


word: Frustrable
definition:
Frustrable

Frus"tra*ble
(?)
a.
[L. frustrabilis: cf. F. frustable.]
Capable of beeing frustrated or defeated.


word: Frustraneous
definition:
Frustraneous

Frus*tra"ne*ous
(?)
a.
[See Frustrate, a.]
Vain; useless; unprofitable.
[Obs.]
South.


word: Frustrate
definition:
Frustrate

Frus"trate
(?)
a.
[L. frustratus, p. p. of frustrare, frustrari, to deceive, frustrate, fr. frustra in vain, witout effect, in erorr, prob. for frudtra and akin to fraus, E. fraud.]
Vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable; null; voil; nugatory; of no effect.
frustrate
Shak.


word: Frustrate₂
definition:
Frustrate

Frus"trate
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Frustrated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Frustrating.]
1.
To bring to nothing; to prevent from attaining a purpose; to disappoint; to defeat; to baffle; as, to frustrate a plan, design, or attempt; to frustrate the will or purpose.

Shall the adversary thus obtain
His end and frustrate thine ?
Milton.

2.
To make null; to nullifly; to render invalid or of no effect; as, to frustrate a conveyance or deed.


word: frustrating
definition:
frustrating

frustrating
n.
an act of hindering someone's plans or efforts.

Syn. -- frustration, thwarting, foiling.


word: frustrating₂
definition:
frustrating

frustrating
adj.
1.
preventing realization or attainment of a desire; causing frustration.

Syn. -- frustrative, thwarting.

2.
discouraging.  Opposite of encouraging.

Syn. -- disappointing.


word: Frustration
definition:
Frustration

Frus*tra"tion
(?)
n.
[L. frustratio: cf. OF. frustration.]
The act of frustrating; disappointment; defeat; as, the frustration of one's designs.


word: Frustratory
definition:
Frustratory

Frus"tra*to*ry
(?)
a.
[L. frustratorius: cf. F. frustratoire.]
Making void; rendering null; as, a frustratory appeal.
[Obs.]
Ayliffe.


word: Frustule
definition:
Frustule

Frus"tule
(?)
n.
[L. frustulum, dim. fr. frustum a piece: cf. F. frustule.]
(Bot.)
The siliceous shell of a diatom. It is composed of two valves, one overlapping the other, like a pill box and its cover.


word: Frustum
definition:
Frustum

Frus"tum
(?)
n.
pl. L. Frusta (#), E. Frustums (#).
[L. fruslum piece, bit.]

1.
(Geom.)
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.

2.
(Arch.)
One of the drums of the shaft of a column.


word: Frutage
definition:
Frutage

Frut"age
(?)
n.
[Cf. Fruitage.]
1.
A picture of fruit; decoration by representation of fruit.

The cornices consist of frutages and festoons.
Evelyn.

2.
A confection of fruit.
[Obs.]
Nares.


word: Frutescent
definition:
Frutescent

Fru*tes"cent
(?)
a.
[L. frutex, fruticis, shrub, bush: cf. F. frutescent, L. fruticescens, p. pr.]
(Bot.)
Somewhat shrubby in character; imperfectly shrubby, as the American species of Wisteria.


word: Frutex
definition:
Frutex

Fru"tex
(?)
n.
[L.]
(Bot.)
A plant having a woody, durable stem, but less than a tree; a shrub.


word: Fruticant
definition:
Fruticant

Fru"ti*cant
(?)
a.
[L. fruticans, p. pr. of fruticare, to become bushy, fr. frutex, fruticis, shrub.]
Full of shoots.
[Obs.]
Evelyn.


word: Fruticose
definition:
Fruticose

Fru"ti*cose`
(?)
a.
[L. fruticosus, from frutex, fruticis, shrub]
(Bot.)
Pertaining to a shrub or shrubs; branching like a shrub; shrubby; shrublike; as, a fruticose stem.
Gray.


word: Fruticulose
definition:
Fruticulose

Fru*tic"u*lose`
(?)
a.
[Dim. fr. L. fruticosus bushy: cf. F. fruticuleux.]
(Bot.)
Like, or pertaining to, a small shrub.
Gray.


word: Fry
definition:
Fry

Fry
(frī)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Fried (frīd); p. pr. & vb. n. Frying.]
[OE. frien, F. frire, fr. L. frigere to roast, parch, fry, cf. Gr. _;, Skr. bhrajj.  Cf. Fritter.]
To cook in a pan or on a griddle (esp. with the use of fat, butter, or olive oil) by heating over a fire; to cook in boiling lard or fat; as, to fry fish; to fry doughnuts.


word: Fry₂
definition:
Fry

Fry
v. i.
1.
To undergo the process of frying; to be subject to the action of heat in a frying pan, or on a griddle, or in a kettle of hot fat.

2.
To simmer; to boil.
[Obs.]

With crackling flames a caldron fries.
Dryden

The frothy billows fry.
Spenser.

3.
To undergo or cause a disturbing action accompanied with a sensation of heat.

To keep the oil from frying in the stomach.
Bacon.

4.
To be agitated; to be greatly moved.
[Obs.]

What kindling motions in their breasts do fry.
Fairfax.


word: Fry₄
definition:
Fry

Fry
n.
[OE. fri, fry, seed, descendants, cf. OF. froye spawning, spawn of. fishes, little fishes, fr. L. fricare tosub (see Friction), but cf. also Icel. fræ, frj&omacr, seed, Sw. & Dan. frö, Goth. fraiw seed, descendants.]

1.
(Zool.)
The young of any fish.

2.
A swarm or crowd, especially of little fishes; young or small things in general.

The fry of children young.
Spenser.

To sever . . . the good fish from the other fry.
Milton.

We have burned two frigates, and a hundred and twenty small fry.
Walpole.


word: Fryer
definition:
Fryer

Fry"er
n.
1.
Something or someone that fries.

2.
A young chicken or other food item suitable to be cooked by frying.

3.
A pot equipped with a removable basket, designed to be used for frying objects; -- also called deep fryer.


word: Frying
definition:
Frying

Fry"ing
n.
The process denoted by the verb fry.

Frying pan, an iron pan with a long handle, used for frying meat, vegetables, etc.


word: FTP
definition:
FTP

ftp

ftp, FTP
(ĕf`tē*pē")
n.
[acronym from File Transfer Protocol.]
(Computers)
An acronym for file transfer protocol, a standardized protocol used to allow transmission of files between computers; as, send me the file by ftp.  It consists of a set of coded signals which are transmitted between computers, and which inform the receiving computer of the nature of a packet of information to be transmitted, and inform the transmitting computer when a packet has been successfully received.
[acronym]


word: FTP₂
definition:
FTP

ftp

ftp, FTP
(ĕf`tē*pē")
prop. v. t.
[imp. & p. p. ftp'd or FTP'd (ĕf`tē*pēd"); p. pr. & vb. n. FTPing or ftp'ing or ftp-ing (ĕf`tē*pē"ĭng).]
[acronym from File Transfer Protocol.]
(Computers)
To send from one computer to another by means of the standard file transfer protocol (ftp); as, he ftp'd me the file yesterday.
[acronym]
The participle forms have not been standardized, and either lower-case or upper-case may be used, but when lower-case is used, either a hyphen or apostrophe is used before the ed or ing endings.


word: Fu
definition:
Fu

Fu
(?)
n.
[Chin.]
A department in China comprising several hsein; also, the chief city of a department; -- often forming the last part of a name; as, Paoting-fu.


word: Fub
definition:
Fub

Fub
v. t.
[The same word as fob to cheat.]
To put off by trickery; to cheat.
[Obs.]

I have been fubbed off, and fubbed off, and fabbed off, from this day to that day.
Shak.


word: Fubsy
definition:
Fubsy

Fubby

{ Fub"by (?), Fub"sy (?) }
a.
Plump; chubby; short and stuffy; as a fubsy sofa.
[Eng.]

A fubsy, good-humored, silly . . . old maid.
Mme. D'Arblay.


word: Fucated
definition:
Fucated

Fucate

{ Fu"cate (?), Fu"ca*ted (?) }
a.
[L. fucatus, p. p. of fucare to color, paint, fr. fucus.]
Painted; disguised with paint, or with false show.


word: Fuchsia
definition:
Fuchsia

Fuch"si*a
(?)
n.
pl. E. Fuchsias (#), L. Fuchsiæ (#).
[NL. Named after Leonard Fuchs, a German botanist.]
1.
(Bot.)
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.

2.
A plant belonging to the genus Fuschia.


word: Fuchsine
definition:
Fuchsine

Fuch"sine
(?)
n.
[Named by the French inventor, from Fuchs a fox, the German equivalent of his own name, Renard.]
(Chem.)
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.


word: Fucivorous
definition:
Fucivorous

Fu*civ"o*rous
(?)
a.
[Fucus + L. vorare to eat.]
(Zool.)
Eating fucus or other seaweeds.


word: fuck
definition:
fuck

fuck
n.
A slang term for sexual intercourse.
[vulgar slang]

Syn. -- fucking, screw, screwing, ass, piece of ass, roll in the hay, shag.


word: fuck₂
definition:
fuck

fuck
v. t. & i.
to have sexual intercourse (with).
[vulgar slang]

Syn. -- love, make love, sleep with, get laid, have sex, know, do it, be intimate, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, screw, jazz, eff, have, hump, lie with, bed, have a go at it, get it on, bonk.


word: fucked-up
definition:
fucked-up

fucked-up
adj.
snarled or stalled in complete confusion.
[Vulgar slang]

Syn. -- snafued, fouled up.


word: fuckhead
definition:
fuckhead

fuckhead
n.
1.
a stupid person; -- disparaging and vulgar.
[disparaging, vulgar slang]

Syn. -- dunce, dunderhead, numskull, blockhead, bonehead, lunkhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, muttonhead, shithead.


word: fucking
definition:
fucking

fucking
n.
the act of sexual intercourse.
[vulgar slang]

Syn. -- fuck, screw, screwing, ass, piece of ass, roll in the hay, shag.


word: fucking₂
definition:
fucking

fucking
adj.
unpleasant; annoying; -- also used as an informal intensifier.
[Vulgar slang, prenominal]

Syn. -- bally(prenominal), blinking(prenominal), bloody(prenominal), crashing(prenominal), flaming(prenominal).


word: Fucoid
definition:
Fucoid

Fu"coid
(?)
a.
[Fucus + -oid.]
(Bot.)
(a)
Properly, belonging to an order of alga: (Fucoideæ) which are blackish in color, and produce oöspores which are not fertilized until they have escaped from the conceptacle. The common rockweeds and the gulfweed (Sargassum) are fucoid in character.
(b)
In a vague sense, resembling seaweeds, or of the nature of seaweeds.


word: Fucoid₂
definition:
Fucoid

Fu"coid
n.
(Bot.)
A plant, whether recent or fossil, which resembles a seaweed. See Fucoid, a.


word: Fucoidal
definition:
Fucoidal

Fu*coid"al
(?)
a.
1.
(Bot.)
Fucoid.

2.
(Geol.)
Containing impressions of fossil fucoids or seaweeds; as, fucoidal sandstone.


word: Fucus
definition:
Fucus

Fu"cus
(?)
n.
pl. Fuci (#).
[L. rock lichen, orchil, used as a red dye, red or purple color, disguise, deceit.]
1.
A paint; a dye; also, false show.
[Obs.]

2.
(Bot.)
A genus of tough, leathery seaweeds, usually of a dull brownish green color; rockweed.

&hand_; Formerly most marine algæ were called fuci.


word: Fucusol
definition:
Fucusol

Fu"cu*sol
(?)
n.
[Fucus + L. oleum oil.]
(Chem.)
An oily liquid, resembling, and possibly identical with, furfurol, and obtained from fucus, and other seaweeds.


word: Fud
definition:
Fud

Fud
(?)
n.
[Of uncertain origin.]
1.
The tail of a hare, coney, etc.
[Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Burns.

2.
Woolen waste, for mixing with mungo and shoddy.


word: Fuddle
definition:
Fuddle

Fud"dle
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Fuddled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Fuddling (?).]
[Perh. formed as a kind of dim. of full.  Cf. Fuzzle.]
To make foolish by drink; to cause to become intoxicated.
[Colloq.]

I am too fuddled to take care to observe your orders.
Steele.


word: Fudge
definition:
Fudge

Fudge
(?)
n.
[Cf. Prov. F. fuche, feuche, an interj. of contempt.]
A made-up story; stuff; nonsense; humbug; -- often an exclamation of contempt.


word: Fudge₂
definition:
Fudge

Fudge
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Fudged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Fudging.]
1.
To make up; to devise; to contrive; to fabricate.

Fudged up into such a smirkish liveliness.
N. Fairfax.

2.
To foist; to interpolate.

That last “suppose” is fudged in.
Foote.


word: Fudge₃
definition:
Fudge

Fudge
n.
A kind of soft candy composed of sugar or maple sugar, milk, and butter, and often chocolate or nuts, boiled and stirred to a proper consistency.


word: fudge factor
definition:
fudge factor

fudge factor
n.
a term or factor inserted into a calculation to compensate for anticipated errors, or to arbitrarily make the result conform to some desired conclusion.


word: Fuel
definition:
Fuel

Fu"el
(?)
n.
[OF. fouail, fuail, or fouaille, fuaille, LL. focalium, focale, fr. L. focus hearth, fireplace, in LL., fire. See Focus.]
[Formerly written also fewel.]
1.
Any matter used to produce heat by burning; that which feeds fire; combustible matter used for fires, as wood, coal, peat, etc.

2.
Anything that serves to feed or increase passion or excitement.

Artificial fuel, fuel consisting of small particles, as coal dust, sawdust, etc., consolidated into lumps or blocks.


word: Fuel₂
definition:
Fuel

Fu"el
v. t.
1.
To feed with fuel.
[Obs.]

Never, alas I the dreadful name,
That fuels the infernal flame.
Cowley.

2.
To store or furnish with fuel or firing.
[Obs.]

Well watered and well fueled.
Sir H. Wotton.


word: Fuero
definition:
Fuero

Fu*e"ro
(?)
n.
[Sp., fr. L. forum.]
(Sp. Law)
(a)
A code; a charter; a grant of privileges.
(b)
A custom having the force of law.
(c)
A declaration by a magistrate.
(d)
A place where justice is administered.
(e)
The jurisdiction of a tribunal.
Burrill.


word: Fuff
definition:
Fuff

Fuff
(?)
v. t. & i.
[Of imitative origin.  Cf. Puff.]
To puff.
[Prov. Eng. A Local, U. S.]
Halliwel.


word: Fugacious
definition:
Fugacious

Fu*ga"cious
(?)
a.
[L. fugax, fugacis, from fugere: cf. F. fugace. See Fugitive.]
1.
Flying, or disposed to fly; fleeing away; lasting but a short time; volatile.

Much of its possessions is so hid, so fugacious, and of so uncertain purchase.
Jer. Taylor.

2.
(Biol.)
Fleeting; lasting but a short time; -- applied particularly to organs or parts which are short-lived as compared with the life of the individual.


word: Fugacity
definition:
Fugacity

Fu*gac"i*ty
(?)
a.
[L fugacitas: cf. F. fugacité.]
1.
The quality of being fugacious; fugaclousness; volatility; as, fugacity of spirits.
Boyle.

2.
Uncertainty; instability.
Johnson.


word: Fugato
definition:
Fugato

Fu*ga"to
(?)
a.
(Mus.)
in the gugue style, but not strictly like a fugue.
n. A composition resembling a fugue.


word: Fugitive
definition:
Fugitive

Fu"gi*tive
(?)
a.
[OE. fugitif, F. fugitif, fr. L. fugitivus, fr. fugere to flee. See Bow to bend, and cf. Feverfew.]
1.
Fleeing from pursuit, danger, restraint, etc., escaping, from service, duty etc.; as, a fugitive solder; a fugitive slave; a fugitive debtor.

The fugitive Parthians follow.
Shak.

Can a fugitive daughter enjoy herself while her parents are in tear?
Richardson

A libellous pamphlet of a fugitive physician.
Sir H. Wotton.

2.
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.

The me more tender and fugitive parts, the leaves . . . of vegatables.
Woodward.

Fugitive compositions, Such as are short and occasional, and so published that they quickly escape notice.


word: Fugitive₂
definition:
Fugitive

Fu"gi*tive
(?)
n.
1.
One who flees from pursuit, danger, restraint, service, duty, etc.; a deserter; as, a fugitive from justice.

2.
Something hard to be caught or detained.

Or Catch that airy fugitive called wit.
Harte.

Fugitive from justice (Law), one who, having committed a crime in one jurisdiction, flees or escapes into another to avoid punishment.


word: Fugitiveness
definition:
Fugitiveness

Fu"gi*tive*ness
n.
The quality or condition of being fugitive; evanescence; volatility; fugacity; instability.


word: Fugle
definition:
Fugle

Fu"gle
(?)
v. i.
To maneuver; to move hither and thither.
[Colloq.]

Wooden arms with elbow joints jerking and fugling in the
air.
Carlyle.


word: Fugleman
definition:
Fugleman

Fu"gle*man
(?)
n.
pl. Fuglemen (#).
[G. flügelmann file leader; flügel wing (akin to E. fly) + mann man.  Cf. Flugrelman.]
1.
(Mil.)
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.
[Written also flugelman.]

2.
Hence, one who leads the way.
[Jocose]


word: Fugue
definition:
Fugue

Fugue
(?)
n.
[F., fr. It. fuga, fr. L. fuga a fleeing, flight, akin to fugere to fiee. See Fugitive.]
(Mus.)
A polyphonic composition, developed from a given theme or themes, according to strict contrapuntal rules. The theme is first given out by one voice or part, and then, while that pursues its way, it is repeated by another at the interval of a fifth or fourth, and so on, until all the parts have answered one by one, continuing their several melodies and interweaving them in one complex progressive whole, in which the theme is often lost and reappears.

All parts of the scheme are eternally chasing each other, like the parts of a fugue.
Jer. Taylor.


word: -ful
definition:
-ful

-ful
(?)
[See Full, a.]
A suffix signifying full of, abounding with; as, boastful, harmful, woeful.


word: Fulani
definition:
Fulani

Foolahs

Fulahs

Fu"lahs`, Foo"lahs`, Fu"la*ni
(_;)
n. pl.
sing. Fulah, Foolah (_;)
(Ethnol.)
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 Muslims. Called also Fellatahs, Foulahs, and Fellani. Fulah and Fulani are also used adjectively; as, Fulah or Fulani empire, tribes, language.


word: Fulani₂
definition:
Fulani

Fu"la*ni
n.
The language of the Fulani people, a member of the Niger-Congo family of languages.
RHUD


word: Fulcible
definition:
Fulcible

Ful"ci*ble
(fŭl"sĭ*b'l)
a.
[L. fulcire to prop.]
Capable of being propped up.
[Obs.]
Cockeram.


word: Fulciment
definition:
Fulciment

Ful"ci*ment
(fŭl"sĭ*ment)
n.
[L. fulcimentum, fr. fulcire to prop.]
A prop; a fulcrum.
[Obs.]
Bp. Wilkins.


word: Fulcrate
definition:
Fulcrate

Ful"crate
(?)
a.
[See Fulcrum.]
1.
(Bot.)
Propped; supported by accessory organs.
[R.]
Gray.

2.
Furnished with fulcrums.


word: Fulcrum
definition:
Fulcrum

Ful"crum
(?)
n.
pl. L. Fulcra (#), E. Fulcrums (#).
[L., bedpost, fr. fulcire to prop.]

1.
A prop or support.

2.
(Mech.)
That by which a lever is sustained, or about which it turns in lifting or moving a body.

3.
(Bot.)
An accessory organ such as a tendril, stipule, spine, and the like.
[R.]
Gray.

4.
(Zool.)
(a)
The horny inferior surface of the lingua of certain insects.
(b)
One of the small, spiniform scales found on the front edge of the dorsal and caudal fins of many ganoid fishes.

5.
(Anat.)
The connective tissue supporting the framework of the retina of the eye.


word: Fulfill
definition:
Fulfill

Ful*fill"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Fulfilled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Fulfilling.]
[OE. fulfillen, fulfullen, AS. fulfyllan; ful full + fyllan to fill. See Full, a., and Fill, v. t.]
[Written also fulfil.]
1.
To fill up; to make full or complete.
[Obs.]
Fulfill
Gen. xxix. 27.

Suffer thou that the children be fulfilled first, for it is not good to take the bread of children and give to hounds.
Wyclif (Mark vii. 27).

2.
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.

He will, fulfill the desire of them fear him.
Ps. cxlv. 199.

Here Nature seems fulfilled in all her ends.
Milton.

Servants must their masters' minds fulfill.
Shak.


word: Fulfillment
definition:
Fulfillment

Ful*fill"ment
(?)
n.
[Written also fulfilment.]

1.
The act of fulfilling; accomplishment; completion; as, the fulfillment of prophecy.

2.
Execution; performance; as, the fulfillment of a promise.


word: Fulgent
definition:
Fulgent

Ful"gent
(?)
a.
[L. fulgens, -entis, p. pr. of fulgere to flash, glitter, shine, akin to Gr. _; to burn. See Phlox, Flagrant.]
Exquisitely bright; shining; dazzling; effulgent.

Other Thracians . . . fulgent morions wore.
Glower.


word: Fulgor
definition:
Fulgor

Ful"gor
(?)
n.
[L. fulgor, fr. fulgere to shine.]
Dazzling brightness; splendor.
[R.]
Sir T. Browne.


word: Fulgurata
definition:
Fulgurata

Ful"gu*ra"ta
(?)
n.
[NL.]
(Electricity)
A spectro-electric tube in which the decomposition of a liquid by the passage of an electric spark is observed.
Knight.


word: Fulgurate
definition:
Fulgurate

Ful"gu*rate
(?)
v. i.
[L. fulguratus, p. p. of fulgurare to flash, fr. fulgur lightning, fr. fulgere to shine. See Fulgent.]
To flash as lightning.
[R.]


word: Fulgurating
definition:
Fulgurating

Ful"gu*ra`ting
(?)
a.
(Med.)
Resembling lightning; -- used to describe intense lancinating pains accompanying locomotor ataxy.


word: Fulguration
definition:
Fulguration

Ful"gu*ra`tion
(?)
n.
[L. fulguratio: cf. F. fulguration.]
1.
The act of lightening.
[R.]
Donne.

2.
(Assaying)
The sudden brightening of a fused globule of gold or silver, when the last film of the oxide of lead or copper leaves its surface; -- also called blick.

A phenomenon called, by the old chemists, fulguration.
Ure.


word: Fulgurite
definition:
Fulgurite

Ful"gu*rite
(?)
n.
[L. fulguritus, p. p. of fulgurire to strike with lightning, fr. fulgur lightning: cf. F. fulgurite.]
A vitrified sand tube produced by the striking of lightning on sand; a lightning tube; also, the portion of rock surface fused by a lightning discharge.


word: Fulham
definition:
Fulham

Ful"ham
(?)
n.
[So named because supposed to have been chiefly made at Fulham, in Middlesex, Eng.]
A false die.
[Cant]
[Written also fullam.]
Shak.


word: Fuliginosity
definition:
Fuliginosity

Fu*lig"i*nos"i*ty
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. fuliginosité.]
The condition or quality of being fuliginous; sootiness; matter deposited by smoke.
[R.]


word: Fuliginous
definition:
Fuliginous

Fu*lig"i*nous
(?)
a.
[L. fuliginosus, from fuligo soot: cf. F. fuligineux. See Fume.]
1.
Pertaining to soot; sooty; dark; dusky.

2.
Pertaining to smoke; resembling smoke.


word: Full
definition:
Full

Full
(f&usdot_;l)
a.
[Compar. Fuller (f&usdot_;l"ẽr); superl. Fullest.]
[OE. & AS. ful; akin to OS. ful, D. vol, OHG. fol, G. voll, Icel. fullr, Sw. full, Dan. fuld, Goth. fulls, L. plenus, Gr. plh`rhs, Skr. pū&rsdot_;na full, prā to fill, also to Gr. poly`s much, E. poly-, pref., G. viel, AS. fela. √80.  Cf. Complete, Fill, Plenary, Plenty.]
1.
Filled up, having within its limits all that it can contain; supplied; not empty or vacant; -- said primarily of hollow vessels, and hence of anything else; as, a cup full of water; a house full of people.

Had the throne been full, their meeting would not have been regular.
Blackstone.

2.
Abundantly furnished or provided; sufficient in quantity, quality, or degree; copious; plenteous; ample; adequate; as, a full meal; a full supply; a full voice; a full compensation; a house full of furniture.

3.
Not wanting in any essential quality; complete; entire; perfect; adequate; as, a full narrative; a person of full age; a full stop; a full face; the full moon.

It came to pass, at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh
dreamed.
Gen. xii. 1.

The man commands
Like a full soldier.
Shak.

I can not
Request a fuller satisfaction
Than you have freely granted.
Ford.

4.
Sated; surfeited.

I am full of the burnt offerings of rams.
Is. i. 11.

5.
Having the mind filled with ideas; stocked with knowledge; stored with information.

Reading maketh a full man.
Bacon.

6.
Having the attention, thoughts, etc., absorbed in any matter, and the feelings more or less excited by it, as, to be full of some project.

Every one is full of the miracles done by cold baths on decayed and weak constitutions.
Locke.

7.
Filled with emotions.

The heart is so full that a drop overfills it.
Lowell.

8.
Impregnated; made pregnant.
[Obs.]

Ilia, the fair, . . . full of Mars.
Dryden.

At full, when full or complete. Shak. -- Full age (Law) the age at which one attains full personal rights; majority; -- in England and the United States the age of 21 years. Abbott. -- Full and by (Naut.), sailing closehauled, having all the sails full, and lying as near the wind as poesible. -- Full band (Mus.), a band in which all the instruments are employed. -- Full binding, the binding of a book when made wholly of leather, as distinguished from half binding. -- Full bottom, a kind of wig full and large at the bottom. -- Full brother or Full sister, a brother or sister having the same parents as another. -- Full cry (Hunting), eager chase; -- said of hounds that have caught the scent, and give tongue together. -- Full dress, the dress prescribed by authority or by etiquette to be worn on occasions of ceremony. -- Full hand (Poker), three of a kind and a pair. -- Full moon. (a) The moon with its whole disk illuminated, as when opposite to the sun. (b) The time when the moon is full. -- Full organ (Mus.), the organ when all or most stops are out. -- Full score (Mus.), a score in which all the parts for voices and instruments are given. -- Full sea, high water. -- Full swing, free course; unrestrained liberty; “Leaving corrupt nature to . . . the full swing and freedom of its own extravagant actings.” South (Colloq.) -- In full, at length; uncontracted; unabridged; written out in words, and not indicated by figures. -- In full blast. See under Blast.


word: Full₂
definition:
Full

Full
(?)
n.
Complete measure; utmost extent; the highest state or degree.

The swan's-down feather,
That stands upon the swell at full of tide.
Shak.

Full of the moon, the time of full moon.


word: Full₃
definition:
Full

Full
adv.
Quite; to the same degree; without abatement or diminution; with the whole force or effect; thoroughly; completely; exactly; entirely.

The pawn I proffer shall be full as good.
Dryden.

The diapason closing full in man.
Dryden.

Full in the center of the sacred wood.
Addison.

&hand_; Full is placed before adjectives and adverbs to heighten or strengthen their signification. “Full sad.” Milton. “Master of a full poor cell.” Shak. “Full many a gem of purest ray serene.” T. Gray.
Full is also prefixed to participles to express utmost extent or degree; as, full-bloomed, full-blown, full-crammed full-grown, full-laden, full-stuffed, etc. Such compounds, for the most part, are self-defining.


word: Full₅
definition:
Full

Full
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Fulled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Fulling.]
[OE. fullen, OF. fuler, fouler, F. fouler, LL. fullare, fr. L. fullo fuller, cloth fuller, cf. Gr. _; shining, white, AS. fullian to whiten as a fuller, to baptize, fullere a fuller.  Cf. Defile to foul, Foil to frustrate, Fuller. n. ]
To thicken by moistening, heating, and pressing, as cloth; to mill; to make compact; to scour, cleanse, and thicken in a mill.


word: fullback
definition:
fullback

fullback
n.
an offensive football player who plays farther behind the line of scrimmage than the half-back.  They are used primarily for blocking and line plunges.

Syn. -- fullback.


word: fullback₂
definition:
fullback

fullback
v.
1.
(Football)
To play the position of fullback on a football team; to be the fullback.


word: Full-blooded
definition:
Full-blooded

Full"-blood`ed
(?)
a.
1.
Having a full supply of blood.

2.
Of pure blood; thoroughbred; as, a full-blooded horse.


word: Full-blown
definition:
Full-blown

Full"-blown`
(?)
a.
1.
Fully expanded, as a blossom; completely developed; as, a full-blown rose.
Denham.

2.
Fully distended with wind, as a sail.
Dryden.

3.
Hence:
Of full intensity; as, the recession developed into full-blown depression; a full-blown international crisis.


word: full-bosomed
definition:
full-bosomed

full-bosomed
adj.
having a pronounced womanly shape, with well-developed breasts.
[informal]

Syn. -- bosomy, buxom, curvaceous, sonsie, sonsy, voluptuous.


word: Full-bottomed
definition:
Full-bottomed

Full"-bot"tomed
(?)
a.
1.
Full and large at the bottom, as wigs worn by certain civil officers in Great Britain.

2.
(Naut.)
Of great capacity below the water line.


word: Full-butt
definition:
Full-butt

Full"-butt"
(?)
adv.
With direct and violent opposition; with sudden collision.
[Colloq.]
L'Estrange.


word: full-dress
definition:
full-dress

full-dress
n.
full evening dress for men.

Syn. -- dress suit, full dress, tailcoat, tail coat, tails, white tie, white tie and tails.


word: full-dress₂
definition:
full-dress

full-dress
adj.
1.
suitable for formal occasions; as, a full-dress uniform.

Syn. -- dress.

2.
requiring formal clothes; -- of a social event; as, a full-dress ceremony.

Syn. -- dress.

3.
complete in every respect, including formalities; as, a full-dress debate; a full-dress investigation.


word: Fuller
definition:
Fuller

Full"er
(?)
n.
[AS. fullere, fr. L. fullo. See Full, v. t.]
One whose occupation is to full cloth.

Fuller's earth, a variety of clay, used in scouring and cleansing cloth, to imbibe grease. -- Fuller's herb (Bot.), the soapwort (Saponaria officinalis), formerly used to remove stains from cloth. -- Fuller's thistle or Fuller's weed (Bot.), the teasel (Dipsacus fullonum) whose burs are used by fullers in dressing cloth. See Teasel.


word: Fuller₂
definition:
Fuller

Full"er
n.
[From Full, a.]
(Blacksmith's Work)
A die; a half-round set hammer, used for forming grooves and spreading iron; -- called also a creaser.


word: Fuller₃
definition:
Fuller

Full"er
v. t.
To form a groove or channel in, by a fuller or set hammer; as, to fuller a bayonet.


word: Fullery
definition:
Fullery

Full"er*y
(?)
n.
pl. Fulleries (_;).
The place or the works where the fulling of cloth is carried on.


word: full-face
definition:
full-face

full-face
adj.
(Heraldry)
looking forward.

Syn. -- guardant(postnominal), gardant(postnominal).


word: full-fashioned
definition:
full-fashioned

full-fashioned
adj.
knitted to fit the shape of the body; as, full-fashioned hosiery.

Syn. -- fully fashioned.


word: full-fledged
definition:
full-fledged

full-fledged
adj.
1.
having reached full development with fully grown adult plumage; ready to fly; -- of a bird.
fledgling

Syn. -- fully fledged.

2.
having gained full status; -- of persons in respect to human roles; as, a full-fledged lawyer; by the age of seventeen I was a full-fledged atheist.

Syn. -- fully fledged.


word: Full-formed
definition:
Full-formed

Full"-formed`
(?)
a.
Full in form or shape; rounded out with flesh.

The full-formed maids of Afric.
Thomson.


word: Full-grown
definition:
Full-grown

Full"-grown`
(?)
a.
Having reached the limits of growth; mature; fully developed; -- used mostly of living organisms; as, A full-grown lion can easily kill an unarmed man..
Full-grown
Lowell.

Syn. -- adult, big, fully grown, grown, grownup.


word: Full house
definition:
Full house

Full house
(Poker)
A hand containing three of a kind and a pair, as three kings and two tens. It ranks above a flush and below four of a kind.


word: Fulling
definition:
Fulling

Full"ing
n.
The process of cleansing, shrinking, and thickening cloth by moisture, heat, and pressure.

Fulling mill, a mill for fulling cloth as by means of pesties or stampers, which alternately fall into and rise from troughs where the cloth is placed with hot water and fuller's earth, or other cleansing materials.


word: full-length
definition:
full-length

full-length
adj.
1.
accommodating the full height of the human figure; as, a full-length mirror.

2.
representing the full height of the human figure; as, a full-length portrait.

3.
unabridged; as, the full-length play.  Opposite of abridged.

Syn. -- complete, uncut.


word: Fullness
definition:
Fullness

Full"ness
n.
The state of being full, or of abounding; abundance; completeness.
[Written also fulness.]

“In thy presence is fullness of joy.”
Ps. xvi. 11.


word: full-of-the-moon
definition:
full-of-the-moon

full-of-the-moon
n.
the time when the moon is fully illuminated.

Syn. -- full moon, full-of-the-moon.


word: Fullonical
definition:
Fullonical

Ful*lon"i*cal
(?)
a.
[L. fullonicus, from fullo a cloth fuller.]
Pertaining to a fuller of cloth.
[Obs.]
Blount.


word: Full-orbed
definition:
Full-orbed

Full"-orbed`
(_;)
a.
Having the orb or disk complete or fully illuminated; like the full moon.


word: Full-sailed
definition:
Full-sailed

Full"-sailed`
(?)
a.
Having all its sails set,; hence, without restriction or reservation.
Massinger.


word: full-scale
definition:
full-scale

full-scale
adj.
using all available resources; -- of actions; as, a full-scale effort to find the perpetrator.

Syn. -- all-out.


word: full-strength
definition:
full-strength

full-strength
adj.
Undiluted; -- of liquids.  Opposite of diluted.

Syn. -- neat, straight.


word: full-term
definition:
full-term

full-term
adj.
Gestated for the entire duration of normal pregnancy; as, a healthy full-term baby; -- of new-born infants.  Opposite of premature.
Also See: mature.


word: full-time
definition:
full-time

full-time
adj.
spending or requiring all of the time normally given to an activity; as, full-time students; a full-time job.  Opposite of part-time.


word: Full-winged
definition:
Full-winged

Full"-winged`
(?)
a.
1.
Having large and strong or complete wings.
Shak.

2.
Ready for flight; eager.
[Archaic]
Beau. & Fl.


word: Fully
definition:
Fully

Ful"ly
(?)
adv.
In a full manner or degree; completely; entirely; without lack or defect; adequately; satisfactorily; as, to be fully persuaded of the truth of a proposition.

Fully committed (Law), committed to prison for trial, in distinction from being detained for examination.


word: Fulmar
definition:
Fulmar

Ful"mar
(fŭlmär)
n.
[Icel. fūlmār. See foul, and Man a gull.]
(Zool.)
One of several species of sea birds, of the family Procellariidæ, allied to the albatrosses and petrels. Among the well-known species are the arctic fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) (called also fulmar petrel, malduck, and mollemock), and the giant fulmar (Ossifraga gigantea).


word: Fulminant
definition:
Fulminant

Ful"mi*nant
(?)
a.
[L. fulminans, p. pr. of fulminare to lighten: cf. F. fulminant.]
Thundering; fulminating.
[R.]
Bailey.


word: Fulminate
definition:
Fulminate

Ful"mi*nate
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Fulminated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Fulminating.]
[L. fulminatus, p. p. of fulminare to lighten, strike with lightning, fr. fulmen thunderbolt, fr. fulgere to shine. See Fulgent, and cf. Fulmine.]
1.
To thunder; hence, to make a loud, sudden noise; to detonate; to explode with a violent report.

2.
To issue or send forth decrees or censures with the assumption of supreme authority; to thunder forth menaces.


word: Fulminate₂
definition:
Fulminate

Ful"mi*nate
v. t.
1.
To cause to explode.
Sprat.

2.
To utter or send out with denunciations or censures; -- said especially of menaces or censures uttered by ecclesiastical authority.

They fulminated the most hostile of all decrees.
De Quincey.


word: Fulminate₃
definition:
Fulminate

Ful"mi*nate
(?)
n.
[Cf. P. fulminate. See Fulminate, v. i.]
(Chem.)
(a)
A salt of fulminic acid. See under Fulminic.
(b)
A fulminating powder.

Fulminate of gold, an explosive compound of gold; -- called also fulminating gold, and aurum fulminans.


word: fulminate of mercury
definition:
fulminate of mercury

ful"mi*nate of mer"cu*ry
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
The mercury salt of fulminic acid (Hg(CNO)2), called also mercury fulminate.  It is prepared as gray crystals, and is used primarily in detonators for detonating high explosives, such as dynamite or TNT.


word: Fulminating
definition:
Fulminating

Ful"mi*na"ting
(?)
a.
1.
Thundering; exploding in a peculiarly sudden or violent manner.

2.
Hurling denunciations, menaces, or censures.

Fulminating oil, nitroglycerin. -- Fulminating powder (Chem.) any violently explosive powder, but especially one of the fulminates, as mercuric fulminate.


word: Fulmination
definition:
Fulmination

Ful"mi*na`tion
(?)
n.
[L. fulminatio a darting of lightning: cf. F. fulmination.]
1.
The act of fulminating or exploding; detonation.

2.
The act of thundering forth threats or censures, as with authority.

3.
That which is fulminated or thundered forth; vehement menace or censure.

The fulminations from the Vatican were turned into ridicule.
Ayliffe.


word: Fulmine₂
definition:
Fulmine

Ful"mine
v. t.
To shoot; to dart like lightning; to fulminate; to utter with authority or vehemence.

She fulmined out her scorn of laws Salique.
Tennyson.


word: Fulmiaic
definition:
Fulmiaic

Ful*mia"ic
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. fulminique.]
Pertaining to fulmination; detonating; specifically (Chem.), pertaining to, derived from, or denoting, an acid, so called; as, fulminic acid.

Fulminic acid (Chem.), a complex acid, H2C2N2O2, isomeric with cyanic and cyanuric acids, and not known in the free state, but forming a large class of highly explosive salts, the fulminates. Of these, mercuric fulminate, the most common, is used, mixed with niter, to fill percussion caps, charge cartridges, etc.  Fulminic acid is made by the action of nitric acid on alcohol.


word: Fulminuric
definition:
Fulminuric

Ful"mi*nu"ric
(?)
a.
[Fulminic + cyanuric.]
(Chem.)
Pertaining to fulminic and cyanuric acids, and designating an acid so called.

Fulminuric acid (Chem.), a white, crystalline, explosive substance, H3C3N3O3, forming well known salts, and obtained from the fulminates. It is isomeric with cyanuric acid, and hence is also called isocyanuric acid.


