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Exquisite(a.) Carefully selected or sought out
(n.) One who manifests an exquisite attention to external appearance
Extant(a.) Publicly known
Extemporaneous(a.) Composed, performed, or uttered on the spur of the moment, or without previous study
Extempore(a.) Done or performed extempore.
(adv.) Without previous study or meditation
(n.) Speaking or writing done extempore.
Extemporize(v. i.) To speak extempore
(v. t.) To do, make, or utter extempore or off-hand
Extend(v. t.) To bestow
Extensible(a.) Capable of being extended, whether in length or breadth
Extension(v. t.) A written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt
Extensive(a.) Capable of being extended.
Extensometer(n.) An instrument for measuring the extension of a body, especially for measuring the elongation of bars of iron, steel, or other material, when subjected to a tensile force
Extensor(n.) A muscle which serves to extend or straighten any part of the body, as an arm or a finger
Extent(a.) Extended.
(n.) A peculiar species of execution upon debts due to the crown, under which the lands and goods of the debtor may be seized to secure payment
Extenuate(a.) Thin
(v. i.) To become thinner
(v. t.) To lessen
Exterior(a.) External
(n.) Outward or external deportment, form, or ceremony
Exterminate(v. t.) To destroy utterly
Exterminator(n.) One who, or that which, exterminates.
Extern(a.) External
(n.) A pupil in a seminary who lives without its walls
Exterritorial(a.) Beyond the territorial limits
Extinct(a.) Extinguished
(v. t.) To cause to be extinct.
Extinguish(v. t.) To obscure
Extirpate(v. t.) To pluck up by the stem or root
Extol(v. t.) To elevate by praise
Extort(p. p. & a.) Extorted.
(v. i.) To practice extortion.
(v. t.) To get by the offense of extortion.
Extra(a.) Beyond what is due, usual, expected, or necessary
(n.) An edition of a newspaper issued at a time other than the regular one.
Extreme(a.) At the utmost point, edge, or border
(n.) An extreme state or condition
Extremist(n.) A supporter of extreme doctrines or practice
Extremity(n.) One of locomotive appendages of an animal
Extricate(v. t.) To cause to be emitted or evolved
Extrinsic(a.) Attached partly to an organ or limb and partly to some other part/—said of certain groups of muscles
Extrorse(a.) Facing outwards, or away from the axis of growth
Extroversion(n.) The condition of being turned wrong side out
Extrude(v. t.) To shape or form by forcing metal heated to a semi-plastic condition through dies by the use of hydraulic power
Extrusion(n.) The act of thrusting or pushing out
Extrusive(a.) Forced out at the surface
Exuberant(a.) Characterized by abundance or superabundance
Exudate(n.) A product of exudation
(v. t. & i.) To exude.
Exudation(n.) The act of exuding
Exude(v. i.) To flow from a body through the pores, or by a natural discharge, as juice.
(v. t.) To discharge through pores or incisions, as moisture or other liquid matter
Exult(v. i.) To be in high spirits
Exuviae(n. pl.) Cast skins, shells, or coverings of animals
Eyas(a.) Unfledged, or newly fledged.
(n.) A nesting or unfledged bird
Eye(n.) A brood
(v. i.) To appear
(v. t.) To fix the eye on
Eyeball(n.) The ball or globe of the eye.
Eyebolt(n.) A bolt which a looped head, or an opening in the head.
Eyebright(n.) A small annual plant (Euphrasia officinalis), formerly much used as a remedy for diseases of the eye
Eyebrow(n.) The brow or hairy arch above the eye.
Eyecup(n.) A small oval porcelain or glass cup, having a rim curved to fit the orbit of the eye. it is used in the application of liquid remedies to eyes
Eyed(a.) Heaving (such or so many) eyes
Eyeglass(n.) A glass eyecup.
Eyehole(n.) A circular opening to recive a hook, cord, ring, or rope
Eyelash(n.) A hair of the fringe on the edge of the eyelid.
Eyelet(n.) A metal ring or grommet, or short metallic tube, the ends of which can be bent outward and over to fasten it in place
Eyelid(n.) The cover of the eye
Eyepiece(n.) The lens, or combination of lenses, at the eye end of a telescope or other optical instrument, through which the image formed by the mirror or object glass is viewed
Eyeshot(n.) Range, reach, or glance of the eye
Eyesight(n.) Sight of the eye
Eyesore(n.) Something offensive to the eye or sight
Eyestalk(n.) One of the movable peduncles which, in the decapod Crustacea, bear the eyes at the tip.
Eyetooth(n.) A canine tooth of the upper jaw.
Eyewitness(n.) One who sees a thing done
Eyra(n.) A wild cat (Felis eyra) ranging from southern Brazil to Texas. It is reddish yellow and about the size of the domestic cat, but with a more slender body and shorter legs
Eyry(n.) The nest of a bird of prey or other large bird that builds in a lofty place
F(v. t.) The name of the fourth tone of the model scale, or scale of C. F sharp (F /) is a tone intermediate between F and G
Fa(n.) A syllable applied to the fourth tone of the diatonic scale in solmization.
Fabian(a.) Designating, or pertaining to, a society of socialists, organized in England in 1884 to spread socialistic principles gradually without violent agitation
(n.) A member of, or sympathizer with, the Fabian Society.
Fable(n.) A Feigned story or tale, intended to instruct or amuse
(v. i.) To compose fables
(v. t.) To feign
Fabliau(n.) One of the metrical tales of the Trouveres, or early poets of the north of France.
Fabric(n.) Any system or structure consisting of connected parts
(v. t.) To frame
Fabulist(n.) One who invents or writes fables.
Fabulous(a.) Feigned, as a story or fable
Fac(n.) A large ornamental letter used, esp. by the early printers, at the commencement of the chapters and other divisions of a book
Face(n.) Cast of features
(v. i.) To carry a false appearance
(v. t.) To cause to turn or present a face or front, as in a particular direction.
Facial(a.) Of or pertaining to the face
Facies(n.) The anterior part of the head
Facile(a.) Easily persuaded to good or bad
Facilitate(v. t.) To make easy or less difficult
Facilitation(n.) The act of facilitating or making easy.
Facility(n.) Ease in performance
Facing(n.) A covering in front, for ornament or other purpose
Facsimile(n.) A copy of anything made, either so as to be deceptive or so as to give every part and detail of the original
(v. t.) To make a facsimile of.
Fact(n.) A doing, making, or preparing.
Facultative(a.) Having relation to the grant or exercise faculty, or authority, privilege, license, or the like hence, optional
Faculty(n.) Ability to act or perform, whether inborn or cultivated
Fad(n.) A hobby
Fadeless(a.) Not liable to fade
Faeces(n.pl.) Excrement
Fag(n.) A knot or coarse part in cloth.
(v. i.) To act as a fag, or perform menial services or drudgery, for another, as in some English schools
(v. t.) Anything that fatigues.
Fagot(n.) A bassoon.
(v. t.) To make a fagot of
Fahrenheit(a.) Conforming to the scale used by Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit in the graduation of his thermometer
(n.) The Fahrenheit termometer or scale.
Faience(n.) Glazed earthenware
Fail(v. i.) Death
(v. t.) To be wanting to
Fain(a.) Satisfied
(adv.) With joy
(v. t. & i.) To be glad
Fair(adv.) Clearly
(n.) A competitive exhibition of wares, farm products, etc., not primarily for purposes of sale
(superl.) Characterized by frankness, honesty, impartiality, or candor
(v. t.) To make fair or beautiful.
Faith(interj.) By my faith
(n.) Belief
Fake(n.) A trick
(v. t.) To cheat
Fakir(n.) An Oriental religious ascetic or begging monk.
Falchion(n.) A broad-bladed sword, slightly curved, shorter and lighter than the ordinary sword
Falcon(n.) An ancient form of cannon.
Faldstool(n.) A folding stool, or portable seat, made to fold up in the manner of a camo stool. It was formerly placed in the choir for a bishop, when he offciated in any but his own cathedral church
Fall(n.) A sinking of tone
(v. t.) To assume a look of shame or disappointment
False(a.) To betray
(adv.) Not truly
(superl.) Not according with truth or reality
Falsification(n.) The act of falsifying, or making false
Falsify(a.) To avoid or defeat
(v. i.) To tell lies
Falsity(a.) That which is false
Falter(v. & n.) To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise
(v. i.) Hesitation
(v. t.) To thrash in the chaff
Fame(n.) Public report or rumor.
(v. t.) To make famous or renowned.
Familiar(a.) Characterized by, or exhibiting, the manner of an intimate friend
(n.) A confidential officer employed in the service of the tribunal, especially in apprehending and imprisoning the accused
Family(v. t.) A group of kindred or closely related individuals
Famine(n.) General scarcity of food
Famish(a.) Smoky
(v. i.) To die of hunger
(v. t.) To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger
Famous(a.) Celebrated in fame or public report
Fan(n.) An instrument for cooling the person, made of feathers, paper, silk, etc., and often mounted on sticks all turning about the same pivot, so as when opened to radiate from the center and assume the figure of a section of a circle
Fanatic(a.) Pertaining to, or indicating, fanaticism
(n.) A person affected by excessive enthusiasm, particularly on religious subjects
Fancier(n.) One who fancies or has a special liking for, or interest in, a particular object or class or objects
Fanciful(a.) Conceived in the fancy
Fancy(a.) Adapted to please the fancy or taste
(n.) An image or representation of anything formed in the mind
(v. i.) To figure to one's self
(v. t.) To believe without sufficient evidence
Fandango(n.) A ball or general dance, as in Mexico.
Fane(n.) A temple
Fanfare(n.) A flourish of trumpets, as in coming into the lists, etc.
Fang(a.) To catch
(v. t.) A bend or loop of a rope.
Fanion(n.) A small flag for marking the stations in surveying.
Fantail(n.) Any bird of the Australian genus Rhipidura, in which the tail is spread in the form of a fan during flight
Fantasia(n.) A continuous composition, not divided into what are called movements, or governed by the ordinary rules of musical design, but in which the author's fancy roves unrestricted by set form
Fantast(n.) One whose manners or ideas are fantastic.
Fantasy(n.) Fancy
(v. t.) To have a fancy for
Far(a.) Distant in any direction
(adv.) In a great proportion
(n.) A young pig, or a litter of pigs.
Farad(n.) The standard unit of electrical capacity
Farandole(n.) A rapid dance in six-eight time in which a large number join hands and dance in various figures, sometimes moving from room to room
Farce(v. t.) A low style of comedy
Farcical(a.) Of or pertaining to the disease called farcy.
Farcy(n.) A contagious disease of horses, associated with painful ulcerating enlargements, esp. upon the head and limbs
Fardel(n.) A bundle or little pack
(v. t.) To make up in fardels.
Fare(n.) To behave
(v.) Ado
Farina(n.) A fine flour or meal made from cereal grains or from the starch or fecula of vegetables, extracted by various processes, and used in cookery
Farinose(a.) Civered with a sort of white, mealy powder, as the leaves of some poplars, and the body of certain insects
Farm(a. & n.) A district of country leased (or farmed) out for the collection of the revenues of government
(v. i.) To engage in the business of tilling the soil
(v. t.) To devote (land) to agriculture
Faro(n.) A gambling game at cardds, in whiich all the other players play against the dealer or banker, staking their money upon the order in which the cards will lie and be dealt from the pack
Farraginous(a.) Formed of various materials
Farrago(n.) A mass composed of various materials confusedly mixed
Farrier(n.) A shoer of horses
(v. i.) To practice as a farrier
Farrow(a.) Not producing young in a given season or year
(n.) A little of pigs.
Farseeing(a.) Able to see to a great distance
Farsighted(a.) Hypermetropic.
Farther(adv.) At or to a greater distance
(superl.) More remote
(v. t.) To help onward.
Farthest(adv.) At or to the greatest distance.
(Superl.) Most distant or remote
Farthing(n.) A division of land.
Fasces(pl.) A bundle of rods, having among them an ax with the blade projecting, borne before the Roman magistrates as a badge of their authority
Fascia(n.) A band, sash, or fillet
Fascicle(n.) A small bundle or collection
Fascicular(a.) Pertaining to a fascicle
Fascicule(n.) A small bunch or bundle
Fascinate(v. t.) To excite and allure irresistibly or powerfully
Fascination(n.) That which fascinates
Fascine(n.) A cylindrical bundle of small sticks of wood, bound together, used in raising batteries, filling ditches, strengthening ramparts, and making parapets
Fash(n.) Vexation
(v. t.) To vex
Fast(a.) In a fast, fixed, or firmly established manner
(n.) That which fastens or holds
(v.) Firm against attack
(v. i.) Abstinence from food
Fat(a.) To make fat
(n.) A large tub, cistern, or vessel
(superl.) Abounding in riches
(v. i.) To grow fat, plump, and fleshy.
Fatal(a.) Causing death or destruction
Fatback(n.) The menhaden.
Fate(n.) A fixed decree by which the order of things is prescribed
Fathead(n.) A cyprinoid fish of the Mississippi valley (Pimephales promelas)
Father(n.) A dignitary of the church, a superior of a convent, a confessor (called also father confessor), or a priest
(v. t.) To make one's self the father of
Fathom(n.) A measure of length, containing six feet
(v. t.) The measure by a sounding line
Fatigable(a.) Easily tired.
Fatigue(n.) The cause of weariness
Fatten(v. i.) To grow fat or corpulent
(v. t.) To make fat
Fatuity(n.) Weakness or imbecility of mind
Fatuous(a.) Feeble in mind
Faubourg(n.) A suburb of French city
Faucal(a.) Pertaining to the fauces, or opening of the throat
Fauces(n.pl.) That portion of the interior of a spiral shell which can be seen by looking into the aperture
Faucet(n.) A fixture for drawing a liquid, as water, molasses, oil, etc., from a pipe, cask, or other vessel, in such quantities as may be desired
Faucial(a.) Pertaining to the fauces
Fault(n.) A defective point in an electric circuit due to a crossing of the parts of the conductor, or to contact with another conductor or the earth, or to a break in the circuit
(v. i.) To err
(v. t.) To charge with a fault
Faun(n.) A god of fields and shipherds, diddering little from the satyr. The fauns are usually represented as half goat and half man
Fauteuil(n.) An armchair
Fautor(n.) A favorer
Faveolate(a.) Honeycomb
Favonian(a.) Pertaining to the west wind
Favor(n.) A gift or represent
Favus(n.) A disease of the scalp, produced by a vegetable parasite.
Fawn(a.) Of the color of a fawn
(n.) A fawn color.
(v. i.) To bring forth a fawn.
Fay(n.) A fairy
(v. i.) To lie close together
(v. t.) To fit
Feal(a.) Faithful
Fear(n.) A painful emotion or passion excited by the expectation of evil, or the apprehension of impending danger
(v. i.) To be in apprehension of evil
Feasibility(n.) The quality of being feasible
Feasible(a.) Capable of being done, executed, or effected
Feast(n.) A festival
(v. t.) To delight
Feat(n.) An act
(v. t.) To form
Febrific(a.) Producing fever.
Febrifuge(a.) Antifebrile.
(n.) A medicine serving to mitigate or remove fever.
Febrile(a.) Pertaining to fever
February(n.) The second month in the year, said to have been introduced into the Roman calendar by Numa
Fecal(a.) relating to, or containing, dregs, feces, or ordeure
Feces(n. pl.) dregs
Feckless(a.) Spiritless
Fecula(n.) Any pulverulent matter obtained from plants by simply breaking down the texture, washing with water, and subsidence
Feculent(a.) Foul with extraneous or impure substances
Fecund(a.) Fruitful in children
Federal(a.) Composed of states or districts which retain only a subordinate and limited sovereignty, as the Union of the United States, or the Sonderbund of Switzerland
Federate(a.) United by compact, as sovereignties, states, or nations
Federation(n.) A league
Fee(n.) An estate of inheritance belonging to the owner, and transmissible to his heirs, absolutely and simply, without condition attached to the tenure
(v. t.) To reward for services performed, or to be performed
Feeble(superl.) Deficient in physical strength
(v. t.) To make feble
Feed(n.) A grazing or pasture ground.
(v. i.) To be nourished, strengthened, or satisfied, as if by food.
(v. t.) To fill the wants of
Feel(n.) A sensation communicated by touching
(v. i.) To appear to the touch
(v. t.) To perceive
Feet(n.) Fact
Feign(v. t.) To dissemble
Feint(a.) A mock blow or attack on one part when another part is intended to be struck
(v. i.) To make a feint, or mock attack.
Felicitate(a.) Made very happy.
(v. t.) To express joy or pleasure to
Felicitation(n.) The act of felicitating
Felicitous(a.) Characterized by felicity
Felicity(n.) A pleasing faculty or accomplishment
Feline(a.) Catlike
Fell(a.) Cruel
(imp.) of Fall
(n.) A barren or rocky hill.
(v. i.) To cause to fall
(v. t.) To sew or hem
Felon(a.) A kind of whitlow
Felsite(n.) A finegrained rock, flintlike in fracture, consisting essentially of orthoclase feldspar with occasional grains of quartz
Felt(imp. & p. p.) of Feel
(n.) A cloth or stuff made of matted fibers of wool, or wool and fur, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving
(v. t.) To cover with, or as with, felt
Felucca(n.) A small, swift-sailing vessel, propelled by oars and lateen sails
Felwort(n.) A European herb (Swertia perennis) of the Gentian family.
Feme(n.) A woman.
Femineity(n.) Womanliness
Feminine(a.) Having the qualities of a woman
(n.) Any one of those words which are the appellations of females, or which have the terminations usually found in such words
Femininity(n.) The female form.
Feminize(v. t.) To make womanish or effeminate.
Femme(n.) A woman.
Femoral(a.) Pertaining to the femur or thigh
Femur(n.) The proximal segment of the hind limb containing the thigh bone
Fen(n.) Low land overflowed, or covered wholly or partially with water, but producing sedge, coarse grasses, or other aquatic plants
Fence(n.) An inclosure about a field or other space, or about any object
(v. i.) Hence, to fight or dispute in the manner of fencers, that is, by thrusting, guarding, parrying, etc
(v. t.) To fend off danger from
Fencing(imp. & p. p. Fenced (/))
(n.) The art or practice of attack and defense with the sword, esp. with the smallsword.
(v. i.) Disputing or debating in a manner resembling the art of fencers.
Fend(n.) A fiend.
(v. i.) To act on the defensive, or in opposition
(v. t.) To keep off
Fenestra(n.) A small opening
Fenian(a.) Pertaining to Fenians or to Fenianism.
(n.) A member of a secret organization, consisting mainly of Irishment, having for its aim the overthrow of English rule in ireland
Fennec(n.) A small, African, foxlike animal (Vulpes zerda) of a pale fawn color, remarkable for the large size of its ears
Fennel(n.) A perennial plant of the genus Faeniculum (F. vulgare), having very finely divided leaves. It is cultivated in gardens for the agreeable aromatic flavor of its seeds
Fenugreek(n.) A plant (trigonella Foenum Graecum) cultivated for its strong-smelling seeds, which are
Feoff(n.) A fief.
(v. t.) To invest with a fee or feud
Feral(a.) Funereal
Fere(a.) Fierce.
(n.) A mate or companion
(v. t. & i.) To fear.
Feria(n.) A week day, esp. a day which is neither a festival nor a fast.
Ferment(n.) A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid
(v. i.) To be agitated or excited by violent emotions.
Fern(a.) Ancient
(adv.) Long ago.
(n.) An order of cryptogamous plants, the Filices, which have their fructification on the back of the fronds or leaves
Ferocious(a.) Fierce
Ferreous(a.) Partaking of, made of, or pertaining to, iron
Ferret(n.) A kind of narrow tape, usually made of woolen
Ferriage(n.) The price or fare to be paid for passage at a ferry.
Ferric(a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing iron. Specifically (Chem.), denoting those compounds in which iron has a higher valence than in the ferrous compounds
Ferriferous(a.) Producing or yielding iron.
Ferrocyanide(n.) One of a series of complex double cyanides of ferrous iron and some other base.
Ferrotype(n.) A photographic picture taken on an iron plate by a collodion process
Ferrous(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, iron
Ferruginous(a.) Partaking of iron
Ferrule(n.) A bushing for expanding the end of a flue to fasten it tightly in the tube plate, or for partly filling up its mouth
Ferry(v. i.) To pass over water in a boat or by a ferry.
(v. t.) A franchise or right to maintain a vessel for carrying passengers and freight across a river, bay, etc
Fertile(a.) Capable of producing fruit
Fertility(n.) The state or quality of being fertile or fruitful
Fertilization(n.) The act of fecundating or impregnating animal or vegetable germs
Fertilize(v. t.) To fecundate
Ferula(n.) A ferule.
Ferule(n.) A flat piece of wood, used for striking, children, esp. on the hand, in punishment.
(v. t.) To punish with a ferule.
Fervency(n.) The state of being fervent or warm
Fervent(a.) Hot
Fervid(a.) Ardent
Fervor(n.) Heat
Fescennine(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the Fescennines.
(n.) A style of low, scurrilous, obscene poetry originating in fescennia.
Fescue(n.) A grass of the genus Festuca.
(v. i. & t.) To use a fescue, or teach with a fescue.
Festal(a.) Of or pertaining to a holiday or a feast
Fester(n.) A festering or rankling.
(v. t.) To cause to fester or rankle.
Festination(n.) Haste
Festival(a.) Pertaining to a fest
Festive(a.) Pertaining to, or becoming, a feast
Festivity(n.) A festival
Festoon(n.) A carved ornament consisting of flowers, and leaves, intermixed or twisted together, wound with a ribbon, and hanging or depending in a natural curve
(v. t.) To form in festoons, or to adorn with festoons.
Fet(n.) A piece.
(p. p.) Fetched.
(v. t.) To fetch.
Fetal(a.) Pertaining to, or connected with, a fetus
Fetch(n.) A stratagem by which a thing is indirectly brought to pass, or by which one thing seems intended and another is done
(v. i.) To bring one's self
(v. t.) To bear toward the person speaking, or the person or thing from whose point of view the action is contemplated
Fete(n.) A feat.
(n. pl.) Feet.
(v. t.) To feast
Feticide(n.) The act of killing the fetus in the womb
Fetid(a.) Having an offensive smell
Fetish(n.) A material object supposed among certain African tribes to represent in such a way, or to be so connected with, a supernatural being, that the possession of it gives to the possessor power to control that being
Fetlock(n.) The cushionlike projection, bearing a tuft of long hair, on the back side of the leg above the hoof of the horse and similar animals
Fetor(n.) A strong, offensive smell
Fetter(n.) A chain or shackle for the feet
(p. pr. & vb. n.) To put fetters upon
Fettle(a.) To cover or line with a mixture of ore, cinders, etc., as the hearth of a puddling furnace
(n.) The act of fettling.
(v. i.) To make preparations
Fettling(n.) A mixture of ore, cinders, etc., used to line the hearth of a puddling furnace.
Fetus(n.) The young or embryo of an animal in the womb, or in the egg
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