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Feud(n.) A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race
Feuilleton(n.) A part of a French newspaper (usually the bottom of the page), devoted to light literature, criticism, etc
Fever(n.) A diseased state of the system, marked by increased heat, acceleration of the pulse, and a general derangement of the functions, including usually, thirst and loss of appetite
(v. t.) To put into a fever
Few(superl.) Not many
Fey(a.) Fated
(n.) Faith.
(v. t.) To cleanse
Fez(n.) A felt or cloth cap, usually red and having a tassel
Fiacre(n.) A kind of French hackney coach.
Fiasco(n.) A complete or ridiculous failure, esp. of a musical performance, or of any pretentious undertaking
Fiat(n.) An authoritative command or order to do something
Fib(n.) A falsehood
(v. i.) To speak falsely.
(v. t.) To tell a fib to.
Fibre(n.) A general name for the raw material, such as cotton, flax, hemp, etc., used in textile manufactures
Fibriform(a.) Having the form of a fiber or fibers
Fibril(n.) A small fiber
Fibrin(n.) An albuminous body, resembling animal fibrin in composition, found in cereal grains and similar seeds
Fibrocartilage(n.) A kind of cartilage with a fibrous matrix and approaching fibrous connective tissue in structure
Fibroid(a.) Resembling or forming fibrous tissue
(n.) A fibroid tumor
Fibroin(n.) A variety of gelatin
Fibroma(n.) A tumor consisting mainly of fibrous tissue, or of same modification of such tissue.
Fibrous(a.) Containing, or consisting of, fibers
Fibrovascular(a.) Containing woody fiber and ducts, as the stems of all flowering plants and ferns
Fibula(n.) A brooch, clasp, or buckle.
Fice(n.) A small dog
Fichu(n.) A light cape, usually of lace, worn by women, to cover the neck and throat, and extending to the shoulders
Fickle(a.) Not fixed or firm
Fictile(a.) Molded, or capable of being molded, into form by art
Fiction(n.) An assumption of a possible thing as a fact, irrespective of the question of its truth.
Fictitious(a.) Feigned
Fictive(a.) Feigned
Fid(n.) A block of wood used in mounting and dismounting heavy guns.
Fiddle(n.) A kind of dock (Rumex pulcher) with fiddle-shaped leaves
(v. i.) To keep the hands and fingers actively moving as a fiddler does
(v. t.) To play (a tune) on a fiddle.
Fidelity(n.) Adherence to a person or party to which one is bound
Fidget(n.) A general nervous restlessness, manifested by incessant changes of position
(v. i.) To move uneasily one way and the other
Fiducial(a.) Having faith or trust
Fiduciary(n.) One who depends for salvation on faith, without works
Fie(interj.) An exclamation denoting contempt or dislike.
Fief(n.) An estate held of a superior on condition of military service
Field(n.) A collective term for all the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or for all except the favorites in the betting
(v. i.) To stand out in the field, ready to catch, stop, or throw the ball.
(v. t.) To catch, stop, throw, etc. (the ball), as a fielder.
Fiend(n.) An implacable or malicious foe
Fierce(superl.) Excessively earnest, eager, or ardent.
Fiery(a.) Consisting of, containing, or resembling, fire
Fiesta(n.) Among Spanish, a religious festival
Fife(n.) A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music
(v. i.) To play on a fife.
Fifteen(a.) Five and ten
(n.) A symbol representing fifteen units, as 15, or xv.
Fifth(a.) Consisting of one of five equal divisions of a thing.
(n.) The interval of three tones and a semitone, embracing five diatonic degrees of the scale
Fiftieth(a.) Consisting of one of fifty equal parts or divisions.
(n.) One of fifty equal parts
Fifty(a.) Five times ten
(n.) A symbol representing fifty units, as 50, or l.
Fig(n.) A small fruit tree (Ficus Carica) with large leaves, known from the remotest antiquity. It was probably native from Syria westward to the Canary Islands
Fight(v. i.) A battle
(v. t.) To carry on, or wage, as a conflict, or battle
Figment(n.) An invention
Figural(a.) Figurate.
Figurant(n. masc.) One who dances at the opera, not singly, but in groups or figures
Figuration(n.) Mixture of concords and discords.
Figurative(a.) Abounding in figures of speech
Figure(n.) A character or symbol representing a number
(v. t.) To calculate
Figurine(n.) A very small figure, whether human or of an animal
Figwort(n.) A genus of herbaceous plants (Scrophularia), mostly found in the north temperate zones.
Fijian(a.) Of or pertaining to the Fiji islands or their inhabitants.
(n.) A native of the Fiji islands.
Filament(n.) A thread or threadlike object or appendage
Filaria(n.) A genus of slender, nematode worms of many species, parasitic in various animals.
Filature(n.) A drawing out into threads
Filbert(n.) The fruit of the Corylus Avellana or hazel. It is an oval nut, containing a kernel that has a mild, farinaceous, oily taste, agreeable to the palate
Filch(v. t.) To steal or take privily (commonly, that which is of little value)
File(n.) An orderly collection of papers, arranged in sequence or classified for preservation and reference
(v. i.) To march in a file or line, as soldiers, not abreast, but one after another
(v. t.) To bring before a court or legislative body by presenting proper papers in a regular way
Filial(a.) Bearing the relation of a child.
Filiation(n.) Descent from, or as if from, a parent
Filibuster(n.) A lawless military adventurer, especially one in quest of plunder
(v. i.) To act as a filibuster, or military freebooter.
Filicide(n.) The act of murdering a son or a daughter
Filiform(a.) Having the shape of a thread or filament
Filigree(a.) Relating to, composed of, or resembling, work in filigree
(n.) Ornamental work, formerly with grains or breads, but now composed of fine wire and used chiefly in decorating gold and silver to which the wire is soldered, being arranged in designs frequently of a delicate and intricate arabesque pattern
Filing(n.) A fragment or particle rubbed off by the act of filing
Filipino(n.) A native of the Philippine Islands, specif. one of Spanish descent or of mixed blood.
Fill(a.) To fill or supply fully with food
(n.) One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.
(v. i.) To become full
(v. t.) A full supply, as much as supplies want
Film(n.) A slender thread, as that of a cobweb.
(v. t.) To cover with a thin skin or pellicle.
Fils(n.) Son
Filter(n.) Any porous substance, as cloth, paper, sand, or charcoal, through which water or other liquid may passed to cleanse it from the solid or impure matter held in suspension
(v. i.) To pass through a filter
Filth(n.) Anything that sullies or defiles the moral character
Filtrate(n.) That which has been filtered
(v. t.) To filter
Filtration(n.) The act or process of filtering
Fimbria(n.) A band of white matter bordering the hippocampus in the brain.
Fin(n.) A blade of whalebone.
(v. t.) To carve or cut up, as a chub.
Finable(a.) Liable or subject to a fine
Final(a.) Conclusive
Finance(n.) The income of a ruler or of a state
(v. t. & i.) To conduct the finances of
Financial(a.) Pertaining to finance.
Financier(n.) One charged with the administration of finance
(v. i.) To conduct financial operations.
Finback(n.) Any whale of the genera Sibbaldius, Balaenoptera, and allied genera, of the family Balaenopteridae, characterized by a prominent fin on the back
Finch(n.) A small singing bird of many genera and species, belonging to the family Fringillidae.
Find(n.) Anything found
(v. i.) To determine an issue of fact, and to declare such a determination to a court
(v. t.) To arrive at, as a conclusion
Fine(a.) To change by fine gradations
(adv.) Finely
(n.) A final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal.
(superl.) (Used ironically.)
(v. i.) To become fine (in any one of various senses)
(v. t.) To finish
Finfoot(n.) A South American bird (heliornis fulica) allied to the grebes. The name is also applied to several related species of the genus Podica
Finger(n.) Anything that does work of a finger
(v. i.) To use the fingers in playing on an instrument.
(v. t.) To execute, as any delicate work.
Finial(n.) The knot or bunch of foliage, or foliated ornament, that forms the upper extremity of a pinnacle in Gothic architecture
Finicky(a.) Finical
Fining(n.) That which is used to refine
Finis(n.) An end
Finite(a.) Having a limit
Finitude(n.) Limitation.
Finn(a.) A native of Finland
Fiord(n.) A narrow inlet of the sea, penetrating between high banks or rocks, as on the coasts of Norway and Alaska
Fipple(n.) A stopper, as in a wind instrument of music.
Fir(n.) A genus (Abies) of coniferous trees, often of large size and elegant shape, some of them valued for their timber and others for their resin
Fire(n.) Anything which destroys or affects like fire.
(v. i.) To be irritated or inflamed with passion.
(v. t.) To animate
Firing(n.) Fuel
Firkin(n.) A small wooden vessel or cask of indeterminate size
Firm(a.) The name, title, or style, under which a company transacts business
(superl.) Fixed
First(a.) Foremost
(adv.) Before any other person or thing in time, space, rank, etc.
(n.) The upper part of a duet, trio, etc., either vocal or instrumental
Firth(n.) An arm of the sea
Fisc(n.) A public or state treasury.
Fish(n.) A counter, used in various games.
(v. i.) To attempt to catch fish
(v. t.) To catch
Fissile(a.) Capable of being split, cleft, or divided in the direction of the grain, like wood, or along natural planes of cleavage, like crystals
Fission(n.) A cleaving, splitting, or breaking up into parts.
Fissiparous(a.) Reproducing by spontaneous fission.
Fissiped(n.) One of the Fissipedia.
Fissure(n.) A narrow opening, made by the parting of any substance
(v. t.) To cleave
Fistic(a.) Pertaining to boxing, or to encounters with the fists
Fistula(n.) A permanent abnormal opening into the soft parts with a constant discharge
Fistulous(a.) Having the form or nature of a fistula
Fit(n.) A darting point
(superl.) Adapted to an end, object, or design
(v. i.) To be adjusted to a particular shape or size
(v. t.) To be suitable to
Fitch(n.) A vetch.
Fitful(a.) Full of fits
Fitly(adv.) In a fit manner
Fitness(n.) The state or quality of being fit
Fitter(n.) A coal broker who conducts the sales between the owner of a coal pit and the shipper.
Fitting(a.) Fit
(n.) Anything used in fitting up
Five(a.) Four and one added
(n.) A symbol representing this number, as 5, or V.
Fix(a.) Fixed
(n.) A position of difficulty or embarassment
(v. i.) To become firm, so as to resist volatilization
(v. t.) To hold steadily
Fixation(n.) A state of resistance to evaporation or volatilization by heat
Fixative(n.) That which serves to set or fix colors or drawings, as a mordant.
Fixed(a.) Securely placed or fastened
Fixing(n.) Arrangements
Fixity(n.) Coherence of parts.
Fixture(n.) Anything of an accessory character annexed to houses and lands, so as to constitute a part of them
Fizgig(n.) A firework, made of damp powder, which makes a fizzing or hissing noise when it explodes.
Fizz(n.) A hissing sound
(v. i.) To make a hissing sound, as a burning fuse.
Flabbergast(v. t.) To astonish
Flabby(a.) Yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken
Flabellate(a.) Flabelliform.
Flabellum(n.) A fan
Flaccid(a.) Yielding to pressure for want of firmness and stiffness
Flacon(n.) A small glass bottle
Flag(n.) A cloth usually bearing a device or devices and used to indicate nationality, party, etc., or to give or ask information
(v. i.) To droop
(v. t.) To convey, as a message, by means of flag signals
Flail(n.) An ancient military weapon, like the common flail, often having the striking part armed with rows of spikes, or loaded
Flair(n.) Sense of smell
Flake(n.) A flat layer, or fake, of a coiled cable.
(v. i.) To separate in flakes
(v. t.) To form into flakes.
Flaky(a.) Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses
Flam(n.) A freak or whim
(v. t.) To deceive with a falsehood.
Flange(n.) An external or internal rib, or rim, for strength, as the flange of an iron beam
(v. i.) To be bent into a flange.
(v. t.) To make a flange on
Flank(n.) That part of a bastion which reaches from the curtain to the face, and defends the curtain, the flank and face of the opposite bastion
(v. i.) To be posted on the side.
(v. t.) To overlook or command the flank of
Flannel(n.) A soft, nappy, woolen cloth, of loose texture.
Flap(n.) To beat with a flap
(v.) A disease in the lips of horses.
(v. i.) To fall and hang like a flap, as the brim of a hat, or other broad thing.
Flare(n.) A defect in a photographic objective such that an image of the stop, or diaphragm, appears as a fogged spot in the center of the developed negative
(v. i.) To be exposed to too much light.
Flaring(a.) Opening or speading outwards.
Flash(a.) Showy, but counterfeit
(n.) A pool.
(v. i.) To break forth, as a sudden flood of light
(v. t.) To convey as by a flash
Flask(n.) A bed in a gun carriage.
Flat(a.) Flattening at the ends
(adv.) In a flat manner
(n.) A car without a roof, the body of which is a platform without sides
(superl.) Below the true pitch
(v. i.) To become flat, or flattened
(v. t.) To depress in tone, as a musical note
Flaunt(n.) Anything displayed for show.
(v. i.) To throw or spread out
(v. t.) To display ostentatiously
Flautist(n.) A player on the flute
Flavin(n.) A yellow, vegetable dyestuff, resembling quercitron.
Flavor(n.) That quality of anything which affects the smell
(v. t.) To give flavor to
Flaw(n.) A crack or breach
(v. t.) To break
Flax(n.) A plant of the genus Linum, esp. the L. usitatissimum, which has a single, slender stalk, about a foot and a half high, with blue flowers
Flay(v. t.) To skin
Flea(n.) An insect belonging to the genus Pulex, of the order Aphaniptera. Fleas are destitute of wings, but have the power of leaping energetically
(v. t.) To flay.
Fleck(n.) A flake
Flection(n.) The act of bending, or state of being bent.
Fledge(v. i.) Feathered
(v. t. & i.) To furnish or adorn with any soft covering.
Flee(v. i.) To run away, as from danger or evil
Fleming(n.) A native or inhabitant of Flanders.
Flemish(a.) Pertaining to Flanders, or the Flemings.
(n.) The language or dialect spoken by the Flemings
Flense(v. t.) To strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal, etc.
Flesh(n.) Animal food, in distinction from vegetable
(v. t.) To feed with flesh, as an incitement to further exertion
Fletch(v. t.) To feather, as an arrow.
Flew(imp.) of Fly
Flex(n.) Flax.
(v. t.) To bend
Flibbertigibbet(n.) An imp.
Flick(n.) A flitch
(v. t.) A light quick stroke or blow, esp. with something pliant
Flier(n.) An aeroplane or flying machine.
(v.) A fly.
Flight(n.) A kind of arrow for the longbow
Flimflam(n.) A freak
Flimsy(n.) A bank note.
(superl.) Weak
Flinch(n.) The act of flinching.
(v. i.) To let the foot slip from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet.
Flinders(n. pl.) Small pieces or splinters
Fling(n.) A cast from the hand
(v. i.) To cast in the teeth
(v. t.) To cast, send, to throw from the hand
Flint(n.) A massive, somewhat impure variety of quartz, in color usually of a gray to brown or nearly black, breaking with a conchoidal fracture and sharp edge
Flip(n.) A mixture of beer, spirit, etc., stirred and heated by a hot iron.
(v. t.) To toss or fillip
Flirt(a.) Pert
(n.) A sudden jerk
(v. i.) To run and dart about
(v. t.) One who flirts
Flit(a.) Nimble
(v. i.) To be unstable
Float(n.) To move quietly or gently on the water, as a raft
(v. i.) A coal cart.
(v. t.) To cause to float
Floccillation(n.) A delirious picking of bedclothes by a sick person, as if to pick off flocks of wool
Floccose(n.) Having tufts of soft hairs, which are often deciduous.
Flocculate(a.) Furnished with tufts of curly hairs, as some insects.
(v. i.) To aggregate into small lumps.
(v. t.) To convert into floccules or flocculent aggregates
Floccule(n.) A detached mass of loosely fibrous structure like a shredded tuft of wool.
Flocculus(n.) A small lobe in the under surface of the cerebellum, near the middle peduncle
Floccus(n.) A tuft of feathers on the head of young birds.
Flock(n.) A Christian church or congregation
(sing. / pl.) Very fine, sifted, woolen refuse, especially that from shearing the nap of cloths, used as a coating for wall paper to give it a velvety or clothlike appearance
(v. i.) To gather in companies or crowds.
(v. t.) To coat with flock, as wall paper
Floe(n.) A low, flat mass of floating ice.
Flog(v. t.) To beat or strike with a rod or whip
Flong(n.) A compressed mass of paper sheets, forming a matrix or mold for stereotype plates.
Flood(v. i.) A great flow of water
(v. t.) To cause or permit to be inundated
Floor(n.) A horizontal, flat ore body.
(v. t.) To cover with a floor
Flop(n.) Act of flopping.
(v. i.) To fall, sink, or throw one's self, heavily, clumsily, and unexpectedly on the ground.
(v. t.) To clap or strike, as a bird its wings, a fish its tail, etc.
Flora(n.) The complete system of vegetable species growing without cultivation in a given locality, region, or period
Floreal(n.) The eight month of the French republican calendar. It began April 20, and ended May 19.
Florentine(a.) Belonging or relating to Florence, in Italy.
(n.) A kind of pudding or tart
Florescence(n.) A bursting into flower
Floret(n.) A foil
Floriated(a.) Having floral ornaments
Floriculture(n.) The cultivation of flowering plants.
Florid(a.) Bright in color
Floriferous(a.) Producing flowers.
Florin(n.) A silver coin of Florence, first struck in the twelfth century, and noted for its beauty. The name is given to different coins in different countries
Florist(n.) A cultivator of, or dealer in, flowers.
Floss(n.) A body feather of an ostrich. Flosses are soft, and gray from the female and black from the male
Flotage(n.) That which floats on the sea or in rivers.
Flotation(n.) Act of financing, or floating, a commercial venture or an issue of bonds, stock, or the like
Flotilla(n.) A little fleet, or a fleet of small vessels.
Flounce(n.) An ornamental appendage to the skirt of a woman's dress, consisting of a strip gathered and sewed on by its upper edge around the skirt, and left hanging
(v. i.) To throw the limbs and body one way and the other
(v. t.) To deck with a flounce or flounces
Flounder(n.) A flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae, of many species.
(v. i.) To fling the limbs and body, as in making efforts to move
Flour(n.) The finely ground meal of wheat, or of any other grain
(v. t.) To grind and bolt
Flout(n.) A mock
(v. i.) To practice mocking
(v. t.) To mock or insult
Flow(n.) A continuous movement of something abundant
(v. i.) To become liquid
(v. t.) To cover with varnish.
Fluctuate(v. i.) To move as a wave
(v. t.) To cause to move as a wave
Fluctuation(n.) A motion like that of waves
Flue(n.) A compartment or division of a chimney for conveying flame and smoke to the outer air.
Fluff(n.) Nap or down
(v. t. & i.) To make or become fluffy
Fluid(a.) Having particles which easily move and change their relative position without a separation of the mass, and which easily yield to pressure
(n.) A fluid substance
Fluke(n.) An accidental and favorable stroke at billiards (called a scratch in the United States)
(v. t. & i.) To get or score by a fluke
Fluky(a.) Formed like, or having, a fluke.
Flume(n.) A stream
Flummery(n.) A light kind of food, formerly made of flour or meal
Flung(imp. & p. p.) of Fling
Flunk(n.) A failure or backing out
(v. i.) To fail, as on a lesson
(v. t.) To fail in
Fluor(n.) A fluid state.
Flurry(n.) A light shower or snowfall accompanied with wind.
(v. t.) To put in a state of agitation
Flush(a.) Affluent
(adv.) So as to be level or even.
(n.) A flock of birds suddenly started up or flushed.
(v. i.) To become suddenly suffused, as the cheeks
(v. t.) To cause by flow
Fluster(n.) Heat or glow, as from drinking
(v. i.) To be in a heat or bustle
(v. t.) To make hot and rosy, as with drinking
Flute(n.) A kind of flyboat
(v. i.) A channel of curved section
(v. t.) To form flutes or channels in, as in a column, a ruffle, etc.
Fluting(n.) Decoration by means of flutes or channels
Flutist(n.) A performer on the flute
Flutter(n.) Hurry
(v. t.) To drive in disorder
Fluty(a.) Soft and clear in tone, like a flute.
Fluvial(a.) Belonging to rivers
Flux(n.) A fluid discharge from the bowels or other part
(v. t.) To affect, or bring to a certain state, by flux.
Fly(a.) Knowing
(n.) Waste cotton.
(v. i.) A batted ball that flies to a considerable distance, usually high in the air
(v. t.) To cause to fly or to float in the air, as a bird, a kite, a flag, etc.
Flyaway(a.) Disposed to fly away
(n.) A flyaway person or thing.
Flyblow(n.) One of the eggs or young larvae deposited by a flesh fly, or blowfly.
(v. t.) To deposit eggs upon, as a flesh fly does on meat
Flyboat(n.) A kind of passenger boat formerly used on canals.
Flycatcher(n.) One of numerous species of birds that feed upon insects, which they take on the wing.
Flyer(n.) Anything that is scattered abroad in great numbers as a theatrical programme, an advertising leaf, etc
Flying(v. i.) Moving in the air with, or as with, wings
Flyman(n.) The driver of a fly, or light public carriage.
Flysch(n.) A name given to the series of sandstones and schists overlying the true nummulitic formation in the Alps, and included in the Eocene Tertiary
Flyspeck(n.) A speck or stain made by the excrement of a fly
(v. t.) To soil with flyspecks.
Flytrap(n.) A plant (Dionaea muscipula), called also Venus's flytrap, the leaves of which are fringed with stiff bristles, and fold together when certain hairs on their upper surface are touched, thus seizing insects that light on them
Fo(n.) The Chinese name of Buddha.
Foal(n.) The young of any animal of the Horse family (Equidae)
(v.i.) To bring forth young, as an animal of the horse kind.
(v.t.) To bring forth (a colt)
Foam(n.) The white substance, consisting of an aggregation of bubbles, which is formed on the surface of liquids, or in the mouth of an animal, by violent agitation or fermentation
(v.t.) To cause to foam
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