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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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