Folly
"On Folly of Men" On the Folly of Men is the magnum opus of the famed satirist Ontillas .
Excerpts
“There are three, and only three, kinds of men in the world: cynics, fanatics, and Mandate Schoolmen.” “Men are forever pointing at others, which is why I always follow the knuckle and not the nail.” “They strike down the weak and call it justice. They ungird their loins and call it reparation. They bark like dogs and call it reason.” “Of course we make crutches of one another. Why else would we crawl when we lose our lovers?” “As a miller once told me, when the gears do not meet, they become as teeth. So it is with men and their machinations.”
Fool
"Ode to Long-Lived Fool" Ode to the Long-Lived Fool is a work by Managoras .
Excerpts
“If you find yourself taken unawares by someone you thought you knew, recall that the character revealed is as much your own as otherwise. When it comes to Men and their myriad, mercenary natures, revelation always comes in twos.”
Foolhardy
Mimara's mule.
Forum
"Allosium Forum" Allosium Forum (or simply Allosium ) are the great judicial galleries located at the foot of the Andiamine Heights .
Trivia
- Allosium Forum is alternately spelled “Allosian Forum” in The Darkness That Comes Before and in the Encyclopedic Glossary and “Allosium Forum” in The Judging Eye and in The White-Luck Warrior.
Four
"Four Revelations of Cinial’jin" The Four Revelations of Cinial’jin of just Four Revelations is an Atrocity Tale published by R. Scott Bakker it was released in November 7, 2011 as free in the blog Three Pound Brain . This Atrocity Tale, along with The False Sun , was included as appendix in The Unholy Consult under the title, Four Revelations .
Fan Summary
An extrapolated journey through the atrocious and fragmented memories of the Erratic Nonman Cinial’jin . Plot summary
(Information needed) Trivia
According to Bakker himself " 'Context baiting' is pretty much what this piece is all about. Fragments that will or will not reward readers depending on their intimacy with the books." Besides "another part of the [story] was to contrast the varieties of the sordid/human (via the burning and Conphas) versus the epic/Nonman (via C[inial’jin]’s memories of trauma). The problem is that the lack of clarity is the creative point, which is well and fine for readers who have a taste for that thing, and frustrating as all hell for readers who do not". External links
- The Four Revelations of Cinial’jin in Three Pound Brain
The Four Revelations of Cinial’jin
Series: Atrocity Tales
Author: R. Scott Bakker
Released: November 7, 2011
The Four Revelations of Cinial’jin
Series: Atrocity Tales
Author: R. Scott Bakker
Released: November 7, 2011
Four Revelations
The Four Revelations of Cinial’jin of just Four Revelations is an Atrocity Tale published by R. Scott Bakker it was released in November 7, 2011 as free in the blog Three Pound Brain . This Atrocity Tale, along with The False Sun , was included as appendix in The Unholy Consult under the title, Four Revelations .
Fan Summary
An extrapolated journey through the atrocious and fragmented memories of the Erratic Nonman Cinial’jin . Plot summary
(Information needed) Trivia
According to Bakker himself " 'Context baiting' is pretty much what this piece is all about. Fragments that will or will not reward readers depending on their intimacy with the books." Besides "another part of the [story] was to contrast the varieties of the sordid/human (via the burning and Conphas) versus the epic/Nonman (via C[inial’jin]’s memories of trauma). The problem is that the lack of clarity is the creative point, which is well and fine for readers who have a taste for that thing, and frustrating as all hell for readers who do not". External links
- The Four Revelations of Cinial’jin in Three Pound Brain
The Four Revelations of Cinial’jin
Series: Atrocity Tales
Author: R. Scott Bakker
Released: November 7, 2011
The Four Revelations of Cinial’jin
Series: Atrocity Tales
Author: R. Scott Bakker
Released: November 7, 2011
Four Revelations of Cinial’jin
The Four Revelations of Cinial’jin of just Four Revelations is an Atrocity Tale published by R. Scott Bakker it was released in November 7, 2011 as free in the blog Three Pound Brain . This Atrocity Tale, along with The False Sun , was included as appendix in The Unholy Consult under the title, Four Revelations .
Fan Summary
An extrapolated journey through the atrocious and fragmented memories of the Erratic Nonman Cinial’jin . Plot summary
(Information needed) Trivia
According to Bakker himself " 'Context baiting' is pretty much what this piece is all about. Fragments that will or will not reward readers depending on their intimacy with the books." Besides "another part of the [story] was to contrast the varieties of the sordid/human (via the burning and Conphas) versus the epic/Nonman (via C[inial’jin]’s memories of trauma). The problem is that the lack of clarity is the creative point, which is well and fine for readers who have a taste for that thing, and frustrating as all hell for readers who do not". External links
- The Four Revelations of Cinial’jin in Three Pound Brain
The Four Revelations of Cinial’jin
Series: Atrocity Tales
Author: R. Scott Bakker
Released: November 7, 2011
The Four Revelations of Cinial’jin
Series: Atrocity Tales
Author: R. Scott Bakker
Released: November 7, 2011
Fourth
"Fourth Analytic of Men" The Fourth Analytic of Men , also known as the Book of Maxims , is one of the more famous works of Ajencis . The Fourth Analytic contains several hundred not-so-flattering "Observations of Men", and the corresponding maxim outlining the practical way to deal with each of the Men so observed.
Excerpts
"Faith is the truth of passion. Since no passion is more true than another, faith is the truth of nothing."
Fourth Analytic of Men
The Fourth Analytic of Men , also known as the Book of Maxims , is one of the more famous works of Ajencis . The Fourth Analytic contains several hundred not-so-flattering "Observations of Men", and the corresponding maxim outlining the practical way to deal with each of the Men so observed.
Excerpts
"Faith is the truth of passion. Since no passion is more true than another, faith is the truth of nothing."
Fourth Battle of Mengedda
The Fourth Battle of Mengedda is the battle where the so-called Vulgar Holy War under Nersei Calmemunis suffered utter destruction at the hands of the Kianene under Skauras ab Nalajan in 4110.
Fourth Dialogue of Movements of Planets as They Pertain to Astrology
The Fourth Dialogue of the Movements of the Planets as They Pertain to Astrology is one of the famed "lost works" of Ajencis .
fo
-the chinese name of buddha.
fo'gey
-see fogy.
fo'liolate
-of or pertaining to leaflets;
-- used in composition; as, bi
-foliolate.
foal
-the young of any animal of the horse family (equidae); a colt; a filly.
-to bring forth (a colt);
-- said of a mare or a she ass.
-to bring forth young, as an animal of the horse kind.
foaled
-of foal
foalfoot
-see coltsfoot.
foaling
-of foal
foam
-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; froth; spume; scum; as, the foam of the sea.
-to gather foam; to froth; as, the billows foam.
-to form foam, or become filled with foam;
-- said of a steam boiler when the water is unduly agitated and frothy, as because of chemical action.
-to cause to foam; as,to foam the goblet; also (with out), to throw out with rage or violence, as foam.
foamed
-of foam
foaming
-of foam
foamingly
-with foam; frothily.
foamless
-having no foam.
foamy
-covered with foam; frothy; spumy.
fob
-a little pocket for a watch.
-to beat; to maul.
-to cheat; to trick; to impose on.
fobbed
-of fob
fobbing
-of fob
focal
-belonging to,or concerning, a focus; as, a focal point.
focalization
-the act of focalizing or bringing to a focus, or the state of being focalized.
focalize
-to bring to a focus; to focus; to concentrate.
focalized
-of focalize
focalizing
-of focalize
foci
-of focus
focillate
-to nourish.
focillation
-comfort; support.
focimeter
-an assisting instrument for focusing an object in or before a camera.
focus
-a point in which the rays of light meet, after being reflected or refrcted, and at which the image is formed; as, the focus of a lens or mirror.
-a point so related to a conic section and certain straight line called the directrix that the ratio of the distace between any point of the curve and the focus to the distance of the same point from the directrix is constant.
-a central point; a point of concentration.
-to bring to a focus; to focalize; as, to focus a camera.
focused
-of focus
focuses
-of focus
focusing
-of focus
fodder
-a weight by which lead and some other metals were formerly sold, in england, varying from 19/ to 24 cwt.; a fother.
-that which is fed out to cattle horses, and sheep, as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc.
-to feed, as cattle, with dry food or cut grass, etc.;to furnish with hay, straw, oats, etc.
foddered
-of fodder
fodderer
-one who fodders cattle.
foddering
-of fodder
foddle
-faddle
-a trifle; trifling talk; nonsense.
fodgeting
-of fidget
fodient
-fitted for, or pertaining to, digging.
-one of the fodientia.
fodientia
-a group of african edentates including the aard
-vark.
foe
-one who entertains personal enmity, hatred, grudge, or malice, against another; an enemy.
-an enemy in war; a hostile army.
-one who opposes on principle; an opponent; an adversary; an ill
-wisher; as, a foe to religion.
-to treat as an enemy.
foehood
-enmity.
foeman
-an enemy in war.
foemen
-of foeman
foetal
-same as fetal.
foetation
-same as fetation.
foeticide
-same as feticide.
foetor
-same as fetor.
foetus
-same as fetus.
fog
-a second growth of grass; aftergrass.
-dead or decaying grass remaining on land through the winter;
-- called also foggage.
-to pasture cattle on the fog, or aftergrass, of; to eat off the fog from.
-to practice in a small or mean way; to pettifog.
-watery vapor condensed in the lower part of the atmosphere and disturbing its transparency. it differs from cloud only in being near the ground, and from mist in not approaching so nearly to fine rain. see cloud.
-a state of mental confusion.
-to envelop, as with fog; to befog; to overcast; to darken; to obscure.
-to show indistinctly or become indistinct, as the picture on a negative sometimes does in the process of development.
fog'gage
-see 1st fog.
fog'ger
-one who fogs; a pettifogger.
foge
-the cornish name for a forge used for smelting tin.
fogged
-of fog
foggily
-in a foggy manner; obscurely.
fogginess
-the state of being foggy.
fogging
-of fog
foggy
-filled or abounding with fog, or watery exhalations; misty; as, a foggy atmosphere; a foggy morning.
-beclouded; dull; obscure; as, foggy ideas.
fogie
-see fogy.
fogies
-of fogy
fogless
-without fog; clear.
fogy
-a dull old fellow; a person behind the times, over
-conservative, or slow;
-- usually preceded by old.
fogyism
-the principles and conduct of a fogy.
foh
-an exclamation of abhorrence or contempt; poh; fle.
fohist
-a buddhist priest. see fo.
foible
-weak; feeble.
-a moral weakness; a failing; a weak point; a frailty.
-the half of a sword blade or foil blade nearest the point;
-- opposed to forte.
foil
-to tread under foot; to trample.
-to render (an effort or attempt) vain or nugatory; to baffle; to outwit; to balk; to frustrate; to defeat.
-to blunt; to dull; to spoil; as, to foil the scent in chase.
-to defile; to soil.
-failure of success when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage.
-a blunt weapon used in fencing, resembling a smallsword in the main, but usually lighter and having a button at the point.
-the track or trail of an animal.
-a leaf or very thin sheet of metal; as, brass foil; tin foil; gold foil.
-a thin leaf of sheet copper silvered and burnished, and afterwards coated with transparent colors mixed with isinglass;
-- employed by jewelers to give color or brilliancy to pastes and inferior stones.
-anything that serves by contrast of color or quality to adorn or set off another thing to advantage.
-a thin coat of tin, with quicksilver, laid on the back of a looking
-glass, to cause reflection.
-the space between the cusps in gothic architecture; a rounded or leaflike ornament, in windows, niches, etc. a group of foils is called trefoil, quatrefoil, quinquefoil, etc., according to the number of arcs of which it is composed.
foilable
-capable of being foiled.
foiled
-of foil
foiler
-one who foils or frustrates.
foiling
-of foil
-a foil.
-the track of game (as deer) in the grass.
foin
-the beech marten (mustela foina). see marten.
-a kind of fur, black at the top on a whitish ground, taken from the ferret or weasel of the same name.
-to thrust with a sword or spear; to lunge.
-to prick; to st?ng.
-a pass in fencing; a lunge.
foinery
-thrusting with the foil; fencing with the point, as distinguished from broadsword play.
foiningly
-with a push or thrust.
foison
-rich harvest; plenty; abundance.
foist
-a light and fast
-sailing ship.
-to insert surreptitiously, wrongfully, or without warrant; to interpolate; to pass off (something spurious or counterfeit) as genuine, true, or worthy;
-- usually followed by in.
-a foister; a sharper.
-a trick or fraud; a swindle.
foisted
-of foist
foister
-one who foists something surreptitiously; a falsifier.
foistied
-fusty.
foistiness
-fustiness; mustiness.
foisting
-of foist
foisty
-fusty; musty.
fol'io
-to put a serial number on each folio or page of (a book); to page.
-formed of sheets each folded once, making two leaves, or four pages; as, a folio volume. see folio, n., 3.
fold
-to lap or lay in plaits or folds; to lay one part over another part of; to double; as, to fold cloth; to fold a letter.
-to double or lay together, as the arms or the hands; as, he folds his arms in despair.
-to inclose within folds or plaitings; to envelop; to infold; to clasp; to embrace.
-to cover or wrap up; to conceal.
-to become folded, plaited, or doubled; to close over another of the same kind; to double together; as, the leaves of the door fold.
-a doubling,esp. of any flexible substance; a part laid over on another part; a plait; a plication.
-times or repetitions;
-- used with numerals, chiefly in composition, to denote multiplication or increase in a geometrical ratio, the doubling, tripling, etc., of anything; as, fourfold, four times, increased in a quadruple ratio, multiplied by four.
-that which is folded together, or which infolds or envelops; embrace.
-an inclosure for sheep; a sheep pen.
-a flock of sheep; figuratively, the church or a church; as, christ's fold.
-a boundary; a limit.
-to confine in a fold, as sheep.
-to confine sheep in a fold.
foldage
-see faldage.
folded
-of fold
folder
-one who, or that which, folds; esp., a flat, knifelike instrument used for folding paper.
folderol
-nonsense.
folding
-of fold
-the act of making a fold or folds; also, a fold; a doubling; a plication.
-the keepig of sheep in inclosures on arable land, etc.
foldless
-having no fold.
folia
-of folium
foliaceous
-belonging to, or having the texture or nature of, a leaf; having leaves intermixed with flowers; as, a foliaceous spike.
-consisting of leaves or thin laminae; having the form of a leaf or plate; as, foliaceous spar.
-leaflike in form or mode of growth; as, a foliaceous coral.
foliage
-leaves, collectively, as produced or arranged by nature; leafage; as, a tree or forest of beautiful foliage.
-a cluster of leaves, flowers, and branches; especially, the representation of leaves, flowers, and branches, in architecture, intended to ornament and enrich capitals, friezes, pediments, etc.
-to adorn with foliage or the imitation of foliage; to form into the representation of leaves.
foliaged
-furnished with foliage; leaved; as, the variously foliaged mulberry.
foliar
-consisting of, or pertaining to, leaves; as, foliar appendages.
foliate
-furnished with leaves; leafy; as, a foliate stalk.
-to beat into a leaf, or thin plate.
-to spread over with a thin coat of tin and quicksilver; as, to foliate a looking
-glass.
foliated
-of foliate
-having leaves, or leaflike projections; as, a foliated shell.
-containing, or consisting of, foils; as, a foliated arch.
-characterized by being separable into thin plates or folia; as, graphite has a foliated structure.
-laminated, but restricted to the variety of laminated structure found in crystalline schist, as mica schist, etc.; schistose.
-spread over with an amalgam of tin and quicksilver.
foliating
-of foliate
foliation
-the process of forming into a leaf or leaves.
-the manner in which the young leaves are dispo/ed within the bud.
-the act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, foil, or lamina.
-the act of coating with an amalgam of tin foil and quicksilver, as in making looking
-glasses.
-the enrichment of an opening by means of foils, arranged in trefoils, quatrefoils, etc.; also, one of the ornaments. see tracery.
-the property, possessed by some crystalline rocks, of dividing into plates or slabs, which is due to the cleavage structure of one of the constituents, as mica or hornblende. it may sometimes include slaty structure or cleavage, though the latter is usually independent of any mineral constituent, and transverse to the bedding, it having been produced by pressure.
foliature
-foliage; leafage.
-the state of being beaten into foil.
folier
-goldsmith's foil.
foliferous
-producing leaves.
folily
-foolishly.
folio
-a leaf of a book or manuscript.
-a sheet of paper once folded.
-a book made of sheets of paper each folded once (four pages to the sheet); hence, a book of the largest kind. see note under paper.
-the page number. the even folios are on the left
-hand pages and the odd folios on the right
-hand.
-a page of a book; (bookkeeping) a page in an account book; sometimes, two opposite pages bearing the same serial number.
-a leaf containing a certain number of words, hence, a certain number of words in a writing, as in england, in law proceedings 72, and in chancery, 90; in new york, 100 words.
foliole
-one of the distinct parts of a compound leaf; a leaflet.
foliomort
-see feuillemort.
folios
-of folio
foliose
-having many leaves; leafy.
foliosity
-the ponderousness or bulk of a folio; voluminousness.
folious
-like a leaf; thin; unsubstantial.
-foliose.
folium
-a leaf, esp. a thin leaf or plate.
-a curve of the third order, consisting of two infinite branches, which have a common asymptote. the curve has a double point, and a leaf
-shaped loop; whence the name. its equation is x3 + y3 = axy.
foliums
-of folium
folk
-alt. of folks
folk lore
-tales, legends, or superstitions long current among the people.
folkland
-land held in villenage, being distributed among the folk, or people, at the pleasure of the lord of the manor, and resumed at his discretion. not being held by any assurance in writing, it was opposed to bookland or charter land, which was held by deed.
folklore
-alt. of folk lore
folkmote
-an assembly of the people
-a general assembly of the people to consider and order matters of the commonwealth; also, a local court.
folkmoter
-one who takes part in a folkmote, or local court.
folks
-in anglo
-saxon times, the people of a group of townships or villages; a community; a tribe.
-people in general, or a separate class of people;
-- generally used in the plural form, and often with a qualifying adjective; as, the old folks; poor folks.
-the persons of one's own family; as, our folks are all well.
follicle
-a simple podlike pericarp which contains several seeds and opens along the inner or ventral suture, as in the peony, larkspur and milkweed.
-a small cavity, tubular depression, or sac; as, a hair follicle.
-a simple gland or glandular cavity; a crypt.
-a small mass of adenoid tissue; as, a lymphatic follicle.
follicular
-like, pertaining to, or consisting of, a follicles or follicles.
-affecting the follicles; as, follicular pharyngitis.
folliculated
-having follicles.
folliculous
-having or producing follicles.
follies
-of folly
folliful
-full of folly.
follow
-to go or come after; to move behind in the same path or direction; hence, to go with (a leader, guide, etc.); to accompany; to attend.
-to endeavor to overtake; to go in pursuit of; to chase; to pursue; to prosecute.
-to accept as authority; to adopt the opinions of; to obey; to yield to; to take as a rule of action; as, to follow good advice.
-to copy after; to take as an example.
-to succeed in order of time, rank, or office.
-to result from, as an effect from a cause, or an inference from a premise.
-to watch, as a receding object; to keep the eyes fixed upon while in motion; to keep the mind upon while in progress, as a speech, musical performance, etc.; also, to keep up with; to understand the meaning, connection, or force of, as of a course of thought or argument.
-to walk in, as a road or course; to attend upon closely, as a profession or calling.
-to go or come after;
-- used in the various senses of the transitive verb: to pursue; to attend; to accompany; to be a result; to imitate.
followed
-of follow
follower
-one who follows; a pursuer; an attendant; a disciple; a dependent associate; a retainer.
-a sweetheart; a beau.
-the removable flange, or cover, of a piston. see illust. of piston.
-a gland. see illust. of stuffing box.
-the part of a machine that receives motion from another part. see driver.
-among law stationers, a sheet of parchment or paper which is added to the first sheet of an indenture or other deed.
following
-of follow
-one's followers, adherents, or dependents, collectively.
-vocation; business; profession.
-next after; succeeding; ensuing; as, the assembly was held on the following day.
-(in the field of a telescope) in the direction from which stars are apparently moving (in consequence of the earth's rotation); as, a small star, north following or south following. in the direction toward which stars appear to move is called preceding.
folly
-the state of being foolish; want of good sense; levity, weakness, or derangement of mind.
-a foolish act; an inconsiderate or thoughtless procedure; weak or light
-minded conduct; foolery.
-scandalous crime; sin; specifically, as applied to a woman, wantonness.
-the result of a foolish action or enterprise.
folwe
-to follow.
fomalhaut
-a star of the first magnitude, in the constellation piscis australis, or southern fish.
foment
-to apply a warm lotion to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge wet with warm water or medicated liquid.
-to cherish with heat; to foster.
-to nurse to life or activity; to cherish and promote by excitements; to encourage; to abet; to instigate;
-- used often in a bad sense; as, to foment ill humors.
fomentation
-the act of fomenting; the application of warm, soft, medicinal substances, as for the purpose of easing pain, by relaxing the skin, or of discussing tumors.
-the lotion applied to a diseased part.
-excitation; instigation; encouragement.
fomented
-of foment
fomenter
-one who foments; one who encourages or instigates; as, a fomenter of sedition.
fomenting
-of foment
fomes
-any substance supposed to be capable of absorbing, retaining, and transporting contagious or infectious germs; as, woolen clothes are said to be active fomites.
fomites
-of fomes
fon
-a fool; an idiot.
fond
-imp. of find. found.
-foolish; silly; simple; weak.
-foolishly tender and loving; weakly indulgent; over
-affectionate.
-affectionate; loving; tender;
-- in a good sense; as, a fond mother or wife.
-loving; much pleased; affectionately regardful, indulgent, or desirous; longing or yearning;
-- followed by of (formerly also by on).
-doted on; regarded with affection.
-trifling; valued by folly; trivial.
-to caress; to fondle.
-to be fond; to dote.
fonde
-to endeavor; to strive; to try.
fondle
-to treat or handle with tenderness or in a loving manner; to caress; as, a nurse fondles a child.
fondled
-of fondle
fondler
-one who fondles.
fondling
-of fondle
-the act of caressing; manifestation of tenderness.
-a person or thing fondled or caressed; one treated with foolish or doting affection.
-a fool; a simpleton; a ninny.
fondly
-foolishly.
-in a fond manner; affectionately; tenderly.
fondness
-the quality or state of being fond; foolishness.
-doting affection; tender liking; strong appetite, propensity, or relish; as, he had a fondness for truffles.
fondon
-a large copper vessel used for hot amalgamation.
fondus
-a style of printing calico, paper hangings, etc., in which the colors are in bands and graduated into each other.
fone
-pl. of foe.
fonge
-to take; to receive.
fonly
-foolishly; fondly.
fonne
-a fon.
font
-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.
-a fountain; a spring; a source.
-a basin or stone vessel in which water is contained for baptizing.
fontal
-pertaining to a font, fountain, source, or origin; original; primitive.
fontanel
-an issue or artificial ulcer for the discharge of humors from the body.
-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.
fontanelle
-same as fontanel, 2.
fontange
-a kind of tall headdress formerly worn.
food
-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.
-anything that instructs the intellect, excites the feelings, or molds habits of character; that which nourishes.
-to supply with food.
foodful
-full of food; supplying food; fruitful; fertile.
foodless
-without food; barren.
foody
-eatable; fruitful.
fool
-a compound of gooseberries scalded and crushed, with cream;
-- commonly called gooseberry fool.
-one destitute of reason, or of the common powers of understanding; an idiot; a natural.
-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.
-one who acts contrary to moral and religious wisdom; a wicked person.
-one who counterfeits folly; a professional jester or buffoon; a retainer formerly kept to make sport, dressed fantastically in motley, with ridiculous accouterments.
-to play the fool; to trifle; to toy; to spend time in idle sport or mirth.
-to infatuate; to make foolish.
-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.
fool
-born
-begotten by a fool.
fool
-happy
-lucky, without judgment or contrivance.
fool
-hasty
-foolishly hasty.
fool
-large
-foolishly liberal.
fool
-largesse
-foolish expenditure; waste.
foolahs
-same as fulahs.
-a peculiar african race of uncertain origin, but distinct from the negro tribes, inhabiting an extensive region of western soudan. their color is brown or yellowish bronze. they are mohammedans. called also fellatahs, foulahs, and fellani. fulah is also used adjectively; as, fulah empire, tribes, language.
fooled
-of fool
fooleries
-of foolery
foolery
-the practice of folly; the behavior of a fool; absurdity.
-an act of folly or weakness; a foolish practice; something absurd or nonsensical.
foolfish
-the orange filefish. see filefish.
-the winter flounder. see flounder.
foolhardihood
-the state of being foolhardy; foolhardiness.
foolhardily
-in a foolhardy manner.
foolhardiness
-courage without sense or judgment; foolish rashness; recklessness.
foolhardise
-foolhardiness.
foolhardy
-daring without judgment; foolishly adventurous and bold.
foolify
-to make a fool of; to befool.
fooling
-of fool
foolish
-marked with, or exhibiting, folly; void of understanding; weak in intellect; without judgment or discretion; silly; unwise.
-such as a fool would do; proceeding from weakness of mind or silliness; exhibiting a want of judgment or discretion; as, a foolish act.
-absurd; ridiculous; despicable; contemptible.
foolishly
-in a foolish manner.
foolishness
-the quality of being foolish.
-a foolish practice; an absurdity.
foolscap
-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.
foot
-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.
-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.
-that which corresponds to the foot of a man or animal; as, the foot of a table; the foot of a stocking.
-the lowest part or base; the ground part; the bottom, as of a mountain or column; 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.
-fundamental principle; basis; plan;
-- used only in the singular.
-recognized condition; rank; footing;
-- used only in the singular.
-a measure of length equivalent to twelve inches; one third of a yard. see yard.
-soldiers who march and fight on foot; the infantry, usually designated as the foot, in distinction from the cavalry.
-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.
-the lower edge of a sail.
-to tread to measure or music; to dance; to trip; to skip.
-to walk;
-- opposed to ride or fly.
-to kick with the foot; to spurn.
-to set on foot; to establish; to land.
-to tread; as, to foot the green.
-to sum up, as the numbers in a column;
-- sometimes with up; as, to foot (or foot up) an account.
-the size or strike with the talon.
-to renew the foot of, as of stocking.
foot guards
-infantry soldiers belonging to select regiments called the guards.
foot pound
-a unit of energy, or work, being equal to the work done in raising one pound avoirdupois against the force of gravity the height of one foot.
foot poundal
-a unit of energy or work, equal to the work done in moving a body through one foot against the force of one poundal.
foot
-sore
-having sore or tender feet, as by reason of much walking; as, foot
-sore cattle.
football
-an inflated ball to be kicked in sport, usually made in india rubber, or a bladder incased in leather.
-the game of kicking the football by opposing parties of players between goals.
footband
-a band of foot soldiers.
footbath
-a bath for the feet; also, a vessel used in bathing the feet.
footboard
-a board or narrow platfrom upon which one may stand or brace his feet
-the platform for the engineer and fireman of a locomotive.
-the foot
-rest of a coachman's box.
-a board forming the foot of a bedstead.
-a treadle.
footboy
-a page; an attendant in livery; a lackey.
footbreadth
-the breadth of a foot;
-- used as a measure.
footbridge
-a narrow bridge for foot passengers only.
footcloth
-formerly, a housing or caparison for a horse.
footed
-of foot
-having a foot or feet; shaped in the foot.
-having a foothold; established.
footfall
-a setting down of the foot; a footstep; the sound of a footstep.
footfight
-a conflict by persons on foot;
-- distinguished from a fight on horseback.
footglove
-a kind of stocking.
foothalt
-a disease affecting the feet of sheep.
foothill
-a low hill at the foot of higher hills or mountains.
foothold
-a holding with the feet; firm standing; that on which one may tread or rest securely; footing.
foothook
-see futtock.
foothot
-hastily; immediately; instantly; on the spot; hotfloot.
footing
-of foot
-ground for the foot; place for the foot to rest on; firm foundation to stand on.
-standing; position; established place; basis for operation; permanent settlement; foothold.
-relative condition; state.
-tread; step; especially, measured tread.
-the act of adding up a column of figures; the amount or sum total of such a column.
-the act of putting a foot to anything; also, that which is added as a foot; as, the footing of a stocking.
-a narrow cotton lace, without figures.
-the finer refuse part of whale blubber, not wholly deprived of oil.
-the thickened or sloping portion of a wall, or of an embankment at its foot.
footless
-having no feet.
footlicker
-a sycophant; a fawner; a toady. cf. bootlick.
footlight
-one of a row of lights in the front of the stage in a theater, etc., and on a level therewith.
footman
-a soldier who marches and fights on foot; a foot soldier.
-a man in waiting; a male servant whose duties are to attend the door, the carriage, the table, etc.
-formerly, a servant who ran in front of his master's carriage; a runner.
-a metallic stand with four feet, for keeping anything warm before a fire.
-a moth of the family lithosidae;
-- so called from its livery
-like colors.
footmanship
-art or skill of a footman.
footmark
-a footprint; a track or vestige.
footmen
-of footman
footnote
-a note of reference or comment at the foot of a page.
footpace
-a walking pace or step.
-a dais, or elevated platform; the highest step of the altar; a landing in a staircase.
footpad
-a highwayman or robber on foot.
footpath
-a narrow path or way for pedestrains only; a footway.
footpaths
-of footpath
footplate
-see footboard (a).
footprint
-the impression of the foot; a trace or footmark; as, "footprints of the creator."
footrope
-the rope rigged below a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling;
-- formerly called a horse.
-that part of the boltrope to which the lower edge of a sail is sewed.
foots
-the settlings of oil, molasses, etc., at the bottom of a barrel or hogshead.
footstalk
-the stalk of a leaf or of flower; a petiole, pedicel, or reduncle.
-the peduncle or stem by which various marine animals are attached, as certain brachiopods and goose barnacles.
-the stem which supports which supports the eye in decapod crustacea; eyestalk.
-the lower part of a millstone spindle. it rests in a step.
footstall
-the stirrup of a woman's saddle.
-the plinth or base of a pillar.
footstep
-the mark or impression of the foot; a track; hence, visible sign of a course pursued; token; mark; as, the footsteps of divine wisdom.
-an inclined plane under a hand printing press.
footstone
-the stone at the foot of a grave;
-- opposed to headstone.
footstool
-a low stool to support the feet of one when sitting.
footway
-a passage for pedestrians only.
footworn
-worn by, or weared in, the feet; as, a footworn path; a footworn traveler.
footy
-having foots, or settlings; as, footy oil, molasses, etc.
-poor; mean.
fop
-one whose ambition it is to gain admiration by showy dress; a coxcomb; an inferior dandy.
fop
-doodle
-a stupid or insignificant fellow; a fool; a simpleton.
fopling
-a petty fop.
fopperies
-of foppery
foppery
-the behavior, dress, or other indication of a fop; coxcombry; affectation of show; showy folly.
-folly; foolery.
foppish
-foplike; characteristic of a top in dress or manners; making an ostentatious display of gay clothing; affected in manners.
for
-in the most general sense, indicating that in consideration of, in view of, or with reference to, which anything is done or takes place.
-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.
-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.
-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.
-indicating that toward which the action of anything is directed, or the point toward which motion is made; /ntending to go to.
-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.
-indicating that in the character of or as being which anything is regarded or treated; to be, or as being.
-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.
-indicating the space or time through which an action or state extends; hence, during; in or through the space or time of.
-indicating that in prevention of which, or through fear of which, anything is done.
-because; by reason that; for that; indicating, in old english, the reason of anything.
-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.
-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.
for
-
-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.
fora
-of forum
forage
-the act of foraging; search for provisions, etc.
-food of any kind for animals, especially for horses and cattle, as grass, pasture, hay, corn, oats.
-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.
-to strip of provisions; to supply with forage; as, to forage steeds.
foraged
-of forage
forager
-one who forages.
foraging
-of forage
foralite
-a tubelike marking, occuring in sandstone and other strata.
foramen
-a small opening, perforation, or orifice; a fenestra.
foramina
-of foramen
foraminated
-having small opening, or foramina.
foramines
-of foramen
foraminifer
-one of the foraminifera.
foraminifera
-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.
foraminiferous
-having small openings, or foramina.
-pertaining to, or composed of, foraminifera; as, foraminiferous mud.
foraminous
-having foramina; full of holes; porous.
forasmuch
-in consideration that; seeing that; since; because that;
-- followed by as. see under for, prep.
foray
-a sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid.
-to pillage; to ravage.
forayer
-one who makes or joins in a foray.
forbade
-imp. of forbid.
-of forbid
forbare
-of forbear
forbathe
-to bathe.
forbear
-an ancestor; a forefather;
-- usually in the plural.
-to refrain from proceeding; to pause; to delay.
-to refuse; to decline; to give no heed.
-to control one's self when provoked.
-to keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from; to give up; as, to forbear the use of a word of doubdtful propriety.
-to treat with consideration or indulgence.
-to cease from bearing.
forbearance
-the act of forbearing or waiting; the exercise of patience.
-the quality of being forbearing; indulgence toward offenders or enemies; long
-suffering.
forbearant
-forbearing.
forbearer
-one who forbears.
forbearing
-of forbear
-disposed or accustomed to forbear; patient; long
-suffering.
forbid
-of forbid
-to command against, or contrary to; to prohibit; to interdict.
-to deny, exclude from, or warn off, by express command; to command not to enter.
-to oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command; as, an impassable river forbids the approach of the army.
-to accurse; to blast.
-to defy; to challenge.
-to utter a prohibition; to prevent; to hinder.
forbiddance
-the act of forbidding; prohibition; command or edict against a thing.
forbidden
-of forbid
-prohibited; interdicted.
forbiddenly
-in a forbidden or unlawful manner.
forbidder
-one who forbids.
forbidding
-of forbid
-repelling approach; repulsive; raising abhorrence, aversion, or dislike; disagreeable; prohibiting or interdicting; as, a forbidding aspect; a forbidding formality; a forbidding air.
forblack
-very black.
forboden
-p. p. of forbid.
forbore
-of forbear
-imp. of forbear.
forborne
-of forbear
-p. p. of forbear.
forbruise
-to bruise sorely or exceedingly.
forby
-near; hard by; along; past.
forcarve
-to cut completely; to cut off.
force
-to stuff; to lard; to farce.
-a waterfall; a cascade.
-strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigor; might; often, an unusual degree of strength or energy; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect; 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.
-power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.
-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.
-strength or power exercised without law, or contrary to law, upon persons or things; violence.
-validity; efficacy.
-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.
-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.
-to compel, as by strength of evidence; as, to force conviction on the mind.
-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 obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress.
-to impel, drive, wrest, extort, get, etc., by main strength or violence;
-- with a following adverb, as along, away, from, into, through, out, etc.
-to put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce.
-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 consient or metaphor; to force a laugh; to force fruits.
-to compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit of which he has none.
-to provide with forces; to reenforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison.
-to allow the force of; to value; to care for.
-to use violence; to make violent effort; to strive; to endeavor.
-to make a difficult matter of anything; to labor; to hesitate; hence, to force of, to make much account of; to regard.
-to be of force, importance, or weight; to matter.
force pump
-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.
-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.
forced
-of force
-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.
forceful
-full of or processing force; exerting force; mighty.
forceless
-having little or no force; feeble.
forcemeat
-meat chopped fine and highly seasoned, either served up alone, or used as a stuffing.
forcement
-the act of forcing; compulsion.
forceps
-a pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies which it would be inconvenient or impracticable to seize with the fingers, especially one for delicate operations, as those of watchmakers, surgeons, accoucheurs, dentists, etc.
-the caudal forceps
-shaped appendage of earwigs and some other insects. see earwig.
forcer
-one who, or that which, forces or drives.
-the solid piston of a force pump; the instrument by which water is forced in a pump.
-a small hand pump for sinking pits, draining cellars, etc.
forcible
-possessing force; characterized by force, efficiency, or energy; powerful; efficacious; impressive; influential.
-violent; impetuous.
-using force against opposition or resistance; obtained by compulsion; effected by force; as, forcible entry or abduction.
forcible
-feeble
-seemingly vigorous, but really weak or insipid.
forcibleness
-the quality of being forcible.
forcibly
-in a forcible manner.
forcing
-of force
-the accomplishing of any purpose violently, precipitately, prematurely, or with unusual expedition.
-the art of raising plants, flowers, and fruits at an earlier season than the natural one, as in a hitbed or by the use of artificial heat.
forcipal
-forked or branched like a pair of forceps; constructed so as to open and shut like a pair of forceps.
forcipate
-alt. of forcipated
forcipated
-like a pair of forceps; as, a forcipated mouth.
forcipation
-torture by pinching with forceps or pinchers.
forcut
-to cut completely; to cut off.
ford
-a place in a river, or other water, where it may be passed by man or beast on foot, by wading.
-a stream; a current.
-to pass or cross, as a river or other water, by wading; to wade through.
fordable
-capable of being forded.
forded
-of ford
fording
-of ford
fordless
-without a ford.
fordo
-to destroy; to undo; to ruin.
-to overcome with fatigue; to exhaust.
fordone
-undone; ruined.
fordrive
-to drive about; to drive here and there.
fordrunken
-utterly drunk; very drunk.
fordry
-entirely dry; withered.
fordwine
-to dwindle away; to disappear.
fore
-journey; way; method of proceeding.
-in the part that precedes or goes first;
-- opposed to aft, after, back, behind, etc.
-formerly; previously; afore.
-in or towards the bows of a ship.
-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 front; hence, that which is in front; the future.
-before;
-- sometimes written 'fore as if a contraction of afore or before.
fore part
-alt. of forepart
fore teeth
-of fore tooth
fore tooth
-one of the teeth in the forepart of the mouth; an incisor.
fore
-night
-the evening between twilight and bedtime.
fore
-topgallant
-designating the mast, sail, yard, etc., above the topmast; as, the fore
-topgallant sail. see sail.
fore
-topmast
-the mast erected at the head of the foremast, and at the head of which stands the fore
-topgallant mast. see ship.
fore
-topsail
-see sail.
foreadmonish
-to admonish beforehand, or before the act or event.
foreadvise
-to advise or counsel before the time of action, or before the event.
foreallege
-to allege or cite before.
forealleged
-of foreallege
forealleging
-of foreallege
foreappoint
-to set, order, or appoint, beforehand.
foreappointment
-previous appointment; preordinantion.
forearm
-to arm or prepare for attack or resistance before the time of need.
-that part of the arm or fore limb between the elbow and wrist; the antibrachium.
forebeam
-the breast beam of a loom.
forebear
-an ancestor. see forbear.
forebode
-to foretell.
-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.
-to fortell; to presage; to augur.
-prognostication; presage.
foreboded
-of forebode
forebodement
-the act of foreboding; the thing foreboded.
foreboder
-one who forebodes.
foreboding
-of forebode
-presage of coming ill; expectation of misfortune.
forebodingly
-in a foreboding manner.
forebrace
-a rope applied to the fore yardarm, to change the position of the foresail.
forebrain
-the anterior of the three principal divisions of the brain, including the prosencephalon and thalamencephalon. sometimes restricted to the prosencephalon only. see brain.
foreby
-near; hard by; along; past. see forby.
forecast
-to plan beforehand; to scheme; to project.
-to foresee; to calculate beforehand, so as to provide for.
-to contrive or plan beforehand.
-previous contrivance or determination; predetermination.
-foresight of consequences, and provision against them; prevision; premeditation.
forecaster
-one who forecast.
forecastle
-a short upper deck forward, formerly raised like a castle, to command an enemy's decks.
-that part of the upper deck of a vessel forward of the foremast, or of the after part of the fore channels.
-in merchant vessels, the forward part of the vessel, under the deck, where the sailors live.
forechosen
-chosen beforehand.
forecited
-cited or quoted before or above.
foreclose
-to shut up or out; to preclude; to stop; to prevent; to bar; to exclude.
foreclosed
-of foreclose
foreclosing
-of foreclose
foreclosure
-the act or process of foreclosing; a proceeding which bars or extinguishes a mortgager's right of redeeming a mortgaged estate.
foreconceive
-to preconceive; to imagine beforehand.
foredate
-to date before the true time; to antendate.
foredeck
-the fore part of a deck, or of a ship.
foredeem
-to recognize or judge in advance; to forebode.
-to know or discover beforehand; to foretell.
foredesign
-to plan beforehand; to intend previously.
foredetermine
-to determine or decree beforehand.
foredispose
-to bestow beforehand.
foredoom
-to doom beforehand; to predestinate.
-doom or sentence decreed in advance.
foreefront
-foremost part or place.
forefather
-one who precedes another in the line of genealogy in any degree, but usually in a remote degree; an ancestor.
forefeel
-to feel beforehand; to have a presentiment of.
forefence
-defense in front.
forefend
-to hinder; to fend off; to avert; to prevent the approach of; to forbid or prohibit. see forfend.
forefinger
-the finger next to the thumb; the index.
foreflow
-to flow before.
forefoot
-one of the anterior feet of a quardruped or multiped;
-- usually written fore foot.
-a piece of timber which terminates the keel at the fore end, connecting it with the lower end of the stem.
foregame
-a first game; first plan.
foreganger
-a short rope grafted on a harpoon, to which a longer lin/ may be attached.
foregather
-same as forgather.
foregift
-a premium paid by / lessee when taking his lease.
foregleam
-an antecedent or premonitory gleam; a dawning light.
forego
-to quit; to relinquish; to leave.
-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.
-to go before; to precede;
-- used especially in the present and past participles.
foregoer
-one who goes before another; a predecessor; hence, an ancestor' a progenitor.
-a purveyor of the king;
-- so called, formerly, from going before to provide for his household.
-one who forbears to enjoy.
foregoing
-of forego
foregone
-of forego
foreground
-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.
foreguess
-to conjecture.
foregut
-the anterior part of the alimentary canal, from the mouth to the intestine, o/ to the entrance of the bile duct.
forehand
-all that part of a horse which is before the rider.
-the chief or most important part.
-superiority; advantage; start; precedence.
-done beforehand; anticipative.
forehanded
-early; timely; seasonable.
-beforehand with one's needs, or having resources in advance of one's necessities; in easy circumstances; as, a forehanded farmer.
-formed in the forehand or fore parts.
forehead
-the front of that part of the head which incloses the brain; that part of the face above the eyes; the brow.
-the aspect or countenance; assurance.
-the front or fore part of anything.
forehear
-to hear beforehand.
forehearth
-the forward extension of the hearth of a blast furnace under the tymp.
forehend
-see forhend.
forehew
-to hew or cut in front.
forehold
-the forward part of the hold of a ship.
foreholding
-ominous foreboding; superstitious prognostication.
forehook
-a piece of timber placed across the stem, to unite the bows and strengthen the fore part of the ship; a breast hook.
foreign
-outside; extraneous; separated; alien; as, a foreign country; a foreign government.
-not native or belonging to a certain country; born in or belonging to another country, nation, sovereignty, or locality; as, a foreign language; foreign fruits.
-remote; distant; strange; not belonging; not connected; not pertaining or pertient; not appropriate; not harmonious; not agreeable; not congenial;
-- with to or from; as, foreign to the purpose; foreign to one's nature.
-held at a distance; excluded; exiled.
foreigner
-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.
foreignism
-anything peculiar to a foreign language or people; a foreign idiom or custom.
foreignness
-the quality of being foreign; remoteness; want of relation or appropriateness.
forein
-foreign.
forejudge
-to judge beforehand, or before hearing the facts and proof; to prejudge.
-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.
forejudger
-a judgment by which one is deprived or put of a right or thing in question.
forejudgment
-prejudgment.
foreknew
-of foreknow
foreknow
-to have previous knowledge of; to know beforehand.
foreknowa
-ble
-that may be foreknown.
foreknower
-one who foreknows.
foreknowing
-of foreknow
foreknowingly
-with foreknowledge.
foreknowledge
-knowledge of a thing before it happens, or of whatever is to happen; prescience.
foreknown
-of foreknow
forel
-a kind of parchment for book covers. see forrill.
-to bind with a forel.
foreland
-a promontory or cape; a headland; as, the north and south foreland in kent, england.
-a piece of ground between the wall of a place and the moat.
-that portion of the natural shore on the outside of the embankment which receives the stock of waves and deadens their force.
forelay
-to lay down beforehand.
-to waylay. see forlay.
foreleader
-one who leads others by his example; aguide.
forelend
-see forlend.
forelet
-see forlet.
forelie
-to lie in front of.
forelift
-to lift up in front.
forelock
-the lock of hair that grows from the forepart of the head.
-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.
forelook
-to look beforehand or forward.
foreman
-the first or chief man
-the chief man of a jury, who acts as their speaker.
-the chief of a set of hands employed in a shop, or on works of any kind, who superintends the rest; an overseer.
foremast
-the mast nearest the bow.
foremeant
-intended beforehand; premeditated.
foremen
-of foreman
forementioned
-mentioned before; already cited; aforementioned.
foremilk
-the milk secreted just before, or directly after, the birth of a child or of the young of an animal; colostrum.
foremost
-first in time or place; most advanced; chief in rank or dignity; as, the foremost troops of an army.
foremostly
-in the foremost place or order; among the foremost.
foremother
-a female ancestor.
forename
-a name that precedes the family name or surname; a first name.
-to name or mention before.
forenamed
-named before; aforenamed.
forenenst
-over against; opposite to.
forenoon
-the early part of the day, from morning to meridian, or noon.
forenotice
-notice or information of an event before it happens; forewarning.
forensal
-forensic.
forensic
-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.
-an exercise in debate; a forensic contest; an argumentative thesis.
forensical
-forensic.
foreordain
-to ordain or appoint beforehand; to preordain; to predestinate; to predetermine.
foreordinate
-to foreordain.
foreordination
-previous ordination or appointment; predetermination; predestination.
forepart
-the part most advanced, or first in time or in place; the beginning.
forepast
-bygone.
forepossessed
-holding or held formerly in possession.
-preoccupied; prepossessed; preengaged.
foreprize
-to prize or rate beforehand.
forepromised
-promised beforehand; preengaged.
forequoted
-cited before; quoted in a foregoing part of the treatise or essay.
foreran
-imp. of forerun.
forerank
-the first rank; the front.
forereach
-to advance or gain upon;
-- said of a vessel that gains upon another when sailing closehauled.
-to shoot ahead, especially when going in stays.
foreread
-to tell beforehand; to signify by tokens; to predestine.
forerecited
-named or recited before.
foreremembered
-called to mind previously.
foreright
-ready; directly forward; going before.
-right forward; onward.
forerun
-to turn before; to precede; to be in advance of (something following).
-to come before as an earnest of something to follow; to introduce as a harbinger; to announce.
forerunner
-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.
-a predecessor; an ancestor.
-a piece of rag terminating the log line.
foresaid
-mentioned before; aforesaid.
foresail
-the sail bent to the foreyard of a square
-rigged vessel, being the lowest sail on the foremast.
-the gaff sail set on the foremast of a schooner.
-the fore staysail of a sloop, being the triangular sail next forward of the mast.
foresay
-to foretell.
foresee
-to see beforehand; to have prescience of; to foreknow.
-to provide.
-to have or exercise foresight.
foreseen
-provided; in case that; on condition that.
foreseer
-one who foresees or foreknows.
foreseize
-to seize beforehand.
foreshadow
-to shadow or typi/y beforehand; to prefigure.
foreshew
-see foreshow.
foreship
-the fore part of a ship.
foreshorten
-to represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective.
-fig.: to represent pictorially to the imagination.
foreshortening
-representation in a foreshortened mode or way.
foreshot
-in distillation of low wines, the first portion of spirit that comes over, being a fluid abounding in fusel oil.
foreshow
-to show or exhibit beforehand; to give foreknowledge of; to prognosticate; to foretell.
foreshower
-one who predicts.
foreside
-the front side; the front; esp., a stretch of country fronting the sea.
-the outside or external covering.
foresight
-the act or the power of foreseeing; prescience; foreknowledge.
-action in reference to the future; provident care; prudence; wise forethought.
-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.
-muzzle sight. see fore sight, under fore, a.
foresighted
-sagacious; prudent; provident for the future.
foresightful
-foresighted.
foresignify
-to signify beforehand; to foreshow; to typify.
foreskin
-the fold of skin which covers the glans of the penis; the prepuce.
foreskirt
-the front skirt of a garment, in distinction from the train.
foreslack
-see forslack.
foresleeve
-the sleeve below the elbow.
foreslow
-to make slow; to hinder; to obstruct. [obs.] see forslow, v. t.
-to loiter. [obs.] see forslow, v. i.
forespeak
-see forspeak.
-to foretell; to predict.
forespeaking
-a prediction; also, a preface.
forespeech
-a preface.
forespent
-already spent; gone by; past.
-see forspent.
forespurrer
-one who rides before; a harbinger.
forest
-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.
-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.
-of or pertaining to a forest; sylvan.
-to cover with trees or wood.
forestaff
-an instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of heavenly bodies, now superseded by the sextant;
-- called also cross
-staff.
forestage
-a duty or tribute payable to the king's foresters.
-a service paid by foresters to the king.
forestal
-of or pertaining to forests; as, forestal rights.
forestall
-to take beforehand, or in advance; to anticipate.
-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.
-to deprive;
-- with of.
-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.
forestalled
-of forestall
forestaller
-one who forestalls; esp., one who forestalls the market.
forestalling
-of forestall
forestay
-a large, strong rope, reaching from the foremast head to the bowsprit, to support the mast. see illust. under ship.
forester
-one who has charge of the growing timber on an estate; an officer appointed to watch a forest and preserve the game.
-an inhabitant of a forest.
-a forest tree.
-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.
forestick
-front stick of a hearth fire.
forestry
-the art of forming or of cultivating forests; the management of growing timber.
foreswart
-alt. of foreswart
-see forswat.
foretaste
-a taste beforehand; enjoyment in advance; anticipation.
-to taste before full possession; to have previous enjoyment or experience of; to anticipate.
-to taste before another.
foretaster
-one who tastes beforehand, or before another.
foreteach
-to teach beforehand.
foretell
-to predict; to tell before occurence; to prophesy; to foreshow.
-to utter predictions.
foreteller
-one who predicts.
foretelling
-of foretell
forethink
-to think beforehand; to anticipate in the mind; to prognosticate.
-to contrive (something) beforehend.
-to contrive beforehand.
forethought
-thought of, or planned, beforehand; aforethought; prepense; hence, deliberate.
-a thinking or planning beforehand; prescience; premeditation; forecast; provident care.
forethoughtful
-having forethought.
foretime
-the past; the time before the present.
foretoken
-prognostic; previous omen.
-to foreshow; to presignify; to prognosticate.
foretokened
-of foretoken
foretokening
-of foretoken
foretold
-of foretell
foretop
-the hair on the forepart of the head; esp., a tuft or lock of hair which hangs over the forehead, as of a horse.
-that part of a headdress that is in front; the top of a periwig.
-the platform at the head of the foremast.
forever
-through eternity; through endless ages, eternally.
-at all times; always.
forevouched
-formerly vouched or avowed; affirmed in advance.
foreward
-the van; the front.
forewarn
-to warn beforehand; to give previous warning, admonition, information, or notice to; to caution in advance.
forewarned
-of forewarn
forewarning
-of forewarn
forewaste
-see forewaste.
forewend
-to go before.
forewent 2
-of forego
forewish
-to wish beforehand.
forewiste
-of forewite
forewisten
-of forewite
forewit
-a leader, or would
-be leader, in matters of knowledge or taste.
-foresight; prudence.
forewite
-to foreknow.
forewiten
-of forewite
forewiting
-of forewite
forewoman
-a woman who is chief; a woman who has charge of the work or workers in a shop or other place; a head woman.
forewomen
-of forewoman
foreword
-a preface.
foreworn
-worn out; wasted; used up.
forewost
-of forewite
forewot
-of forewite
-pres. indic., 1st & 3d pers. sing. of forewite.
foreyard
-the lowermost yard on the foremast.
forfalture
-forfeiture.
forfeit
-injury; wrong; mischief.
-a thing forfeit or forfeited; what is or may be taken from one in requital of a misdeed committed; that which is lost, or the right to which is alienated, by a crime, offense, neglect of duty, or breach of contract; hence, a fine; a mulct; a penalty; as, he who murders pays the forfeit of his life.
-something deposited and redeemable by a sportive fine;
-- whence the game of forfeits.
-lost or alienated for an offense or crime; liable to penal seizure.
-to lose, or lose the right to, by some error, fault, offense, or crime; to render one's self by misdeed liable to be deprived of; to alienate the right to possess, by some neglect or crime; as, to forfeit an estate by treason; to forfeit reputation by a breach of promise;
-- with to before the one acquiring what is forfeited.
-to be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to transgress.
-to fail to keep an obligation.
-in the condition of being forfeited; subject to alienation.
forfeited
-of forfeit
forfeiter
-one who incurs a penalty of forfeiture.
forfeiting
-of forfeit
forfeiture
-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.
-that which is forfeited; a penalty; a fine or mulct.
forfend
-to prohibit; to forbid; to avert.
forfered
-excessively alarmed; in great fear.
forfete
-to incur a penalty; to transgress.
forfex
-a pair of shears.
forficate
-deeply forked, as the tail of certain birds.
forficula
-a genus of insects including the earwigs. see earwig, 1.
forgat
-of forget
forgather
-to convene; to gossip; to meet accidentally.
forgave
-imp. of forgive.
-of forgive
forge
-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.
-the works where wrought iron is produced directly from the ore, or where iron is rendered malleable by puddling and shingling; a shingling mill.
-the act of beating or working iron or steel; the manufacture of metalic bodies.
-to form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal.
-to form or shape out in any way; to produce; to frame; to invent.
-to coin.
-to make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate; to counterfeit, as, a signature, or a signed document.
-to commit forgery.
-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.
-to impel forward slowly; as, to forge a ship forward.
forged
-of forge
forgeman
-a skilled smith, who has a hammerer to assist him.
forgemen
-of forgeman
forger
-one who forges, makes, of forms; a fabricator; a falsifier.
-especially: one guilty of forgery; one who makes or issues a counterfeit document.
forgeries
-of forgery
forgery
-the act of forging metal into shape.
-the act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; esp., the crime of fraudulently making or altering a writing or signature purporting to be made by another; the false making or material alteration of or addition to a written instrument for the purpose of deceit and fraud; as, the forgery of a bond.
-that which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised, or counterfeited.
forget
-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.
-to treat with inattention or disregard; to slight; to neglect.
forget
-me
-not
-a small herb, of the genus myosotis (m. palustris, incespitosa, etc.), bearing a beautiful blue flower, and extensively considered the emblem of fidelity.
forgetful
-apt to forget; easily losing remembrance; as, a forgetful man should use helps to strengthen his memory.
-heedless; careless; neglectful; inattentive.
-causing to forget; inducing oblivion; oblivious.
forgetfully
-in a forgetful manner.
forgetfulness
-the quality of being forgetful; prononess to let slip from the mind.
-loss of remembrance or recollection; a ceasing to remember; oblivion.
-failure to bear in mind; careless omission; inattention; as, forgetfulness of duty.
forgetive
-inventive; productive; capable.
forgettable
-liable to be, or that may be, forgotten.
forgetter
-one who forgets; a heedless person.
forgetting
-of forget
forgettingly
-by forgetting.
forging
-of forge
-the act of shaping metal by hammering or pressing.
-the act of counterfeiting.
-a piece of forged work in metal;
-- a general name for a piece of hammered iron or steel.
forgivable
-capable of being forgiven; pardonable; venial.
forgive
-to give wholly; to make over without reservation; to resign.
-to give up resentment or claim to requital on account of (an offense or wrong); to remit the penalty of; to pardon;
-- said in reference to the act forgiven.
-to cease to feel resentment against, on account of wrong committed; to give up claim to requital from or retribution upon (an offender); to absolve; to pardon;
-- said of the person offending.
forgiven
-of forgive
forgiveness
-the act of forgiving; the state of being forgiven; as, the forgiveness of sin or of injuries.
-disposition to pardon; willingness to forgive.
forgiver
-one who forgives.
forgiving
-of forgive
-disposed to forgive; inclined to overlook offenses; mild; merciful; compassionate; placable; as, a forgiving temper.
forgo
-to pass by; to leave. see 1st forego.
forgoing
-of forgo
forgone
-of forgo
forgot
-of forget
-of forget
-imp. & p. p. of forget.
forgotten
-of forget
-p. p. of forget.
forhall
-to harass; to torment; to distress.
forhend
-to seize upon.
forinsecal
-foreign; alien.
forisfamiliate
-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.
-to renounce a legal title to a further share of paternal inheritance.
forisfamiliated
-of forisfamiliate
forisfamiliating
-of forisfamiliate
forisfamiliation
-the act of forisfamiliating.
fork
-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 from piercing, holding, taking up, or pitching anything.
-anything furcate or like a fork in shape, or furcate at the extremity; as, a tuning fork.
-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.
-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.
-the gibbet.
-to shoot into blades, as corn.
-to divide into two or more branches; as, a road, a tree, or a stream forks.
-to raise, or pitch with a fork, as hay; to dig or turn over with a fork, as the soil.
fork
-tailed
-having the outer tail feathers longer than the median ones; swallow
-tailed;
-- said of many birds.
forkbeard
-a european fish (raniceps raninus), having a large flat head;
-- also called tadpole fish, and lesser forked beard.
-the european forked hake or hake's
-dame (phycis blennoides);
-- also called great forked beard.
forked
-of fork
-formed into a forklike shape; having a fork; dividing into two or more prongs or branches; furcated; bifurcated; zigzag; as, the forked lighting.
-having a double meaning; ambiguous; equivocal.
forkerve
-see forcarve, v. t.
forkiness
-the quality or state or dividing in a forklike manner.
forking
-of fork
forkless
-having no fork.
forktail
-one of several asiatic and east indian passerine birds, belonging to enucurus, and allied genera. the tail is deeply forking.
-a salmon in its fourth year's growth.
forky
-opening into two or more parts or shoots; forked; furcated.
forlaft
-p. p. of forleave.
forlay
-to lie in wait for; to ambush.
forleave
-to leave off wholly.
forlend
-to give up wholly.
forlese
-to lose utterly.
forlet
-to give up; to leave; to abandon.
forlie
-see forelie.
forlore
-of forlese
-imp. pl. & p. p. of forlese.
forlorn
-of forlese
-deserted; abandoned; lost.
-destitute; helpless; in pitiful plight; wretched; miserable; almost hopeless; desperate.
-a lost, forsaken, or solitary person.
-a forlorn hope; a vanguard.
forlornly
-in a forlorn manner.
forlornness
-state of being forlorn.
forlye
-same as forlie.
form
-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.
-constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system; as, a republican form of government.
-established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula; as, a form of prayer.
-show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality; as, a matter of mere form.
-orderly arrangement; shapeliness; also, comeliness; elegance; beauty.
-a shape; an image; a phantom.
-that by which shape is given or determined; mold; pattern; model.
-a long seat; a bench; hence, a rank of students in a school; a class; also, a class or rank in society.
-the seat or bed of a hare.
-the type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase.
-the boundary line of a material object. in painting, more generally, the human body.
-the particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech; as, participial forms; verbal forms.
-the combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. it is not necessarily a closed solid.
-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.
-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.
-the peculiar characteristics of an organism as a type of others; also, the structure of the parts of an animal or plant.
-to give form or shape to; to frame; to construct; to make; to fashion.
-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.
-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.
-to provide with a form, as a hare. see form, n., 9.
-to derive by grammatical rules, as by adding the proper suffixes and affixes.
-to take a form, definite shape, or arrangement; as, the infantry should form in column.
-to run to a form, as a hare.
formal
-see methylal.
-belonging to the form, shape, frame, external appearance, or organization of a thing.
-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.
-done in due form, or with solemnity; according to regular method; not incidental, sudden or irregular; express; as, he gave his formal consent.
-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.
-having the form or appearance without the substance or essence; external; as, formal duty; formal worship; formal courtesy, etc.
-dependent in form; conventional.
-sound; normal.
formaldehyde
-a colorless, volatile liquid, h2co, resembling acetic or ethyl aldehyde, and chemically intermediate between methyl alcohol and formic acid.
formalism
-the practice or the doctrine of strict adherence to, or dependence on, external forms, esp. in matters of religion.
formalist
-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.
formalities
-of formality
formality
-the condition or quality of being formal, strictly ceremonious, precise, etc.
-form without substance.
-compliance with formal or conventional rules; ceremony; conventionality.
-an established order; conventional rule of procedure; usual method; habitual mode.
-the dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal.
-that which is formal; the formal part.
-the quality which makes a thing what it is; essence.
-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.
formalize
-to give form, or a certain form, to; to model.
-to render formal.
-to affect formality.
formalized
-of formalize
formalizing
-of formalize
formally
-in a formal manner; essentially; characteristically; expressly; regularly; ceremoniously; precisely.
formate
-a salt of formic acid.
formation
-the act of giving form or shape to anything; a forming; a shaping.
-the manner in which a thing is formed; structure; construction; conformation; form; as, the peculiar formation of the heart.
-a substance formed or deposited.
-mineral deposits and rock masses designated with reference to their origin; as, the siliceous formation about geysers; alluvial formations; marine formations.
-a group of beds of the same age or period; as, the eocene formation.
-the arrangement of a body of troops, as in a square, column, etc.
formative
-giving form; having the power of giving form; plastic; as, the formative arts.
-serving to form; derivative; not radical; as, a termination merely formative.
-capable of growth and development; germinal; as, living or formative matter.
-that which serves merely to give form, and is no part of the radical, as the prefix or the termination of a word.
-a word formed in accordance with some rule or usage, as from a root.
forme
-same as pate or patte.
-first.
formed
-of form
-arranged, as stars in a constellation; as, formed stars.
-having structure; capable of growth and development; organized; as, the formed or organized ferments. see ferment, n.
formedon
-a writ of right for a tenant in tail in case of a discontinuance of the estate tail. this writ has been abolished.
formell
-the female of a hawk or falcon.
former
-one who forms; a maker; a creator.
-a shape around which an article is to be shaped, molded, woven wrapped, pasted, or otherwise constructed.
-a templet, pattern, or gauge by which an article is shaped.
-a cutting die.
-preceding in order of time; antecedent; previous; prior; earlier; hence, ancient; long past.
-near the beginning; preceeding; as, the former part of a discourse or argument.
-earlier, as between two things mentioned together; first mentioned.
formeret
-one of the half ribs against the walls in a ceiling vaulted with ribs.
formerly
-in time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
formful
-creative; imaginative.
formic
-pertaining to, or derived from, ants; as, formic acid; in an extended sense, pertaining to, or derived from, formic acid; as, formic ether.
formica
-a linnaean genus of hymenopterous insects, including the common ants. see ant.
formicaroid
-like or pertaining to the family formicaridae or ant thrushes.
formicary
-the nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant
-hill.
formicate
-resembling, or pertaining to, an ant or ants.
formication
-a sensation resembling that made by the creeping of ants on the skin.
formicid
-pertaining to the ants.
-one of the family formicidae, or ants.
formidability
-formidableness.
formidable
-exciting fear or apprehension; impressing dread; adapted to excite fear and deter from approach, encounter, or undertaking; alarming.
formidableness
-the quality of being formidable, or adapted to excite dread.
formidably
-in a formidable manner.
formidolose
-very much afraid.
forming
-of form
-the act or process of giving form or shape to anything; as, in shipbuilding, the exact shaping of partially shaped timbers.
formless
-shapeless; without a determinate form; wanting regularity of shape.
formula
-a prescribed or set form; an established rule; a fixed or conventional method in which anything is to be done, arranged, or said.
-a written confession of faith; a formal statement of foctrines.
-a rule or principle expressed in algebraic language; as, the binominal formula.
-a prescription or recipe for the preparation of a medicinal compound.
-a symbolic expression (by means of letters, figures, etc.) of the constituents or constitution of a compound.
formulae
-of formula
formularies
-of formulary
formularistic
-pertaining to, or exhibiting, formularization.
formularization
-the act of formularizing; a formularized or formulated statement or exhibition.
formularize
-to reduce to a forula; to formulate.
formulary
-stated; prescribed; ritual.
-a book containing stated and prescribed forms, as of oaths, declarations, prayers, medical formulaae, etc.; a book of precedents.
-prescribed form or model; formula.
formulas
-of formula
formulate
-to reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.
formulated
-of formulate
formulating
-of formulate
formulation
-the act, process, or result of formulating or reducing to a formula.
formule
-a set or prescribed model; a formula.
formulization
-the act or process of reducing to a formula; the state of being formulized.
formulize
-to reduce to a formula; to formulate.
formulized
-of formulize
formulizing
-of formulize
formyl
-a univalent radical, h.c:o, regarded as the essential residue of formic acid and aldehyde.
-formerly, the radical methyl, ch3.
forncast
-predestined.
fornical
-relating to a fornix.
fornicate
-alt. of fornicated
-to commit fornication; to have unlawful sexual intercourse.
fornicated
-vaulted like an oven or furnace; arched.
-arching over; overarched.
fornication
-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.
-adultery.
-incest.
-idolatry.
fornicator
-an unmarried person, male or female, who has criminal intercourse with the other sex; one guilty of fornication.
fornicatress
-a woman guilty of fornication.
fornices
-of fornix
fornix
-an arch or fold; as, the fornix, or vault, of the cranium; the fornix, or reflection, of the conjuctiva.
-esp., two longitudinal bands of white nervous tissue beneath the lateral ventricles of the brain.
forold
-very old.
forpass
-to pass by or along; to pass over.
forpine
-to waste away completely by suffering or torment.
forray
-to foray; to ravage; to pillage.
-the act of ravaging; a ravaging; a predatory excursion. see foray.
forrill
-lambskin parchment; vellum; forel.
forsake
-to quit or leave entirely; to desert; to abandon; to depart or withdraw from; to leave; as, false friends and flatterers forsake us in adversity.
-to renounce; to reject; to refuse.
forsaken
-of forsake
forsaker
-one who forsakes or deserts.
forsaking
-of forsake
forsay
-to forbid; to renounce; to forsake; to deny.
forshape
-to render misshapen.
forslack
-to neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth.
forslouthe
-to lose by sloth or negligence.
forslow
-to delay; to hinder; to neglect; to put off.
-to loiter.
forslugge
-to lsoe by idleness or slotch.
forsook
-of forsake
forsooth
-in truth; in fact; certainly; very well;
-- formerly used as an expression of deference or respect, especially to woman; now used ironically or contemptuously.
-to address respectfully with the term forsooth.
-a person who used forsooth much; a very ceremonious and deferential person.
forspeak
-to forbid; to prohibit.
-to bewitch.
forspent
-wasted in strength; tired; exhausted.
forstall
-to forestall.
forster
-a forester.
forstraught
-distracted.
forswat
-spent with heat; covered with sweat.
forswear
-to reject or renounce upon oath; hence, to renounce earnestly, determinedly, or with protestations.
-to deny upon oath.
-to swear falsely; to commit perjury.
forswearer
-one who rejects of renounces upon oath; one who swears a false oath.
forswearing
-of forswear
forswonk
-overlabored; exhausted; worn out.
forswore
-of forswear
-imp. of forswear.
forsworn
-of forswear
-p. p. of forswear.
forswornness
-state of being forsworn.
forsythia
-a shrub of the olive family, with yellow blossoms.
fort
-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.
fortalice
-a small outwork of a fortification; a fortilage;
-- called also fortelace.
forte
-the strong point; that in which one excels.
-the stronger part of the blade of a sword; the part of half nearest the hilt;
-- opposed to foible.
-loudly; strongly; powerfully.
forted
-furnished with, or guarded by, forts; strengthened or defended, as by forts.
forth
-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.
-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.
-beyond a (certain) boundary; away; abroad; out.
-throughly; from beginning to end.
-forth from; out of.
-a way; a passage or ford.
forthby
-see forby.
forthcoming
-ready or about to appear; making appearance.
forthgoing
-a going forth; an utterance.
-going forth.
forthink
-to repent; to regret; to be sorry for; to cause regret.
forthputing
-bold; forward; aggressive.
forthright
-straight forward; in a straight direction.
-direct; straightforward; as, a forthright man.
-a straight path.
forthrightness
-straightforwardness; explicitness; directness.
forthward
-forward.
forthwith
-immediately; without delay; directly.
-as soon as the thing required may be done by reasonable exertion confined to that object.
forthy
-therefore.
forties
-see forty.
-of forty
fortieth
-following the thirty
-ninth, or preceded by thirty
-nine units, things, or parts.
-constituting one of forty equal parts into which anything is divided.
-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.
fortifiable
-capable of being fortified.
fortification
-the act of fortifying; the art or science of fortifying places in order to defend them against an enemy.
-that which fortifies; especially, a work or works erected to defend a place against attack; a fortified place; a fortress; a fort; a castle.
fortified
-of fortify
fortifier
-one who, or that which, fortifies, strengthens, supports, or upholds.
fortify
-to add strength to; to strengthen; to confirm; to furnish with power to resist attack.
-to strengthen and secure by forts or batteries, or by surrounding with a wall or ditch or other military works; to render defensible against an attack by hostile forces.
-to raise defensive works.
fortifying
-of fortify
fortilage
-a little fort; a blockhouse.
fortin
-a little fort; a fortlet.
fortissimo
-very loud; with the utmost strength or loudness.
fortition
-casual choice; fortuitous selection; hazard.
fortitude
-power to resist attack; strength; firmness.
-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.
fortitudinous
-having fortitude; courageous.
fortlet
-a little fort.
fortnight
-the space of fourteen days; two weeks.
fortnightly
-occurring or appearing once in a fortnight; as, a fortnightly meeting of a club; a fortnightly magazine, or other publication.
-once in a fortnight; at intervals of a fortnight.
fortread
-to tread down; to trample upon.
fortress
-a fortified place; a large and permanent fortification, sometimes including a town; a fort; a castle; a stronghold; a place of defense or security.
-to furnish with a fortress or with fortresses; to guard; to fortify.
fortresses
-of fortress
fortuitous
-happening by chance; coming or occuring unexpectedly, or without any known cause; chance; as, the fortuitous concourse of atoms.
-happening independently of human will or means of foresight; resulting from unavoidable physical causes.
fortuity
-accident; chance; casualty.
fortunate
-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.
-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.
fortunately
-in a fortunate manner; luckily; successfully; happily.
fortunateness
-the condition or quality of being fortunate; good luck; success; happiness.
fortune
-the arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident; luck; hap; also, the personified or deified power regarded as determining human success, apportioning happiness and unhappiness, and distributing arbitrarily or fortuitously the lots of life.
-that which befalls or is to befall one; lot in life, or event in any particular undertaking; fate; destiny; as, to tell one's fortune.
-that which comes as the result of an undertaking or of a course of action; good or ill success; especially, favorable issue; happy event; success; prosperity as reached partly by chance and partly by effort.
-wealth; large possessions; large estate; riches; as, a gentleman of fortune.
-to make fortunate; to give either good or bad fortune to.
-to provide with a fortune.
-to presage; to tell the fortune of.
-to fall out; to happen.
fortuneless
-luckless; also, destitute of a fortune or portion.
fortunize
-to regulate the fortune of; to make happy.
forty
-four times ten; thirty
-nine and one more.
-the sum of four tens; forty units or objects.
-a symbol expressing forty units; as, 40, or xl.
forty
-spot
-the tasmanian forty
-spotted diamond bird (pardalotus quadragintus).
forum
-a market place or public place in rome, where causes were judicially tried, and orations delivered to the people.
-a tribunal; a court; an assembly empowered to hear and decide causes.
forums
-of forum
forwaked
-tired out with excessive waking or watching.
forwander
-to wander away; to go astray; to wander far and to weariness.
forward
-an agreement; a covenant; a promise.
-alt. of forwards
-near, or at the fore part; in advance of something else; as, the forward gun in a ship, or the forward ship in a fleet.
-ready; prompt; strongly inclined; in an ill sense, overready; to hasty.
-ardent; eager; earnest; in an ill sense, less reserved or modest than is proper; bold; confident; as, the boy is too forward for his years.
-advanced beyond the usual degree; advanced for season; as, the grass is forward, or forward for the season; we have a forward spring.
-to help onward; to advance; to promote; to accelerate; to quicken; to hasten; as, to forward the growth of a plant; to forward one in improvement.
-to send forward; to send toward the place of destination; to transmit; as, to forward a letter.
forwarded
-of forward
forwarder
-one who forwards or promotes; a promoter.
-one who sends forward anything; (com.) one who transmits goods; a forwarding merchant.
-one employed in forwarding.
forwarding
-of forward
-the act of one who forwards; the act or occupation of transmitting merchandise or other property for others.
-the process of putting a book into its cover, and making it ready for the finisher.
forwardly
-eagerly; hastily; obtrusively.
forwardness
-the quality of being forward; cheerful readiness; promtness; as, the forwardness of christians in propagating the gospel.
-an advanced stage of progress or of preparation; advancement; as, his measures were in great forwardness.
-eagerness; ardor; as, it is difficult to restrain the forwardness of youth.
-boldness; confidence; assurance; want of due reserve or modesty.
-a state of advance beyond the usual degree; prematureness; precocity; as, the forwardnessof spring or of corn; the forwardness of a pupil.
forwards
-toward a part or place before or in front; onward; in advance; progressively;
-- opposed to backward.
-same as forward.
forwaste
-to desolate or lay waste utterly.
forweep
-to weep much.
forwent
-of forgo
forwete
-see forewite.
forwhy
-wherefore; because.
forworn
-much worn.
forwot
-pres. indic. 1st & 3d pers. sing. of forwete.
forwrap
-to wrap up; to conceal.
forwweary
-to weary extremely; to dispirit.
foryelde
-to repay; to requite.
foryete
-to forget.
foryetten
-p. p. of foryete.
forzando
-see sforzato.
fossae
-of fossa
fossa
-a pit, groove, cavity, or depression, of greater or less depth; as, the temporal fossa on the side of the skull; the nasal fossae containing the nostrils in most birds.
fossane
-a species of civet (viverra fossa) resembling the genet.
fosse
-a ditch or moat.
-see fossa.
fosset
-a faucet.
fossette
-a little hollow; hence, a dimple.
-a small, deep
-centered ulcer of the transparent cornea.
fosseway
-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.
fossil
-dug out of the earth; as, fossil coal; fossil salt.
-like or pertaining to fossils; contained in rocks, whether petrified or not; as, fossil plants, shells.
-a substance dug from the earth.
-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.
-a person whose views and opinions are extremely antiquated; one whose sympathies are with a former time rather than with the present.
fossiliferous
-containing or composed of fossils.
fossilification
-the process of becoming fossil.
fossilism
-the science or state of fossils.
-the state of being extremely antiquated in views and opinions.
fossilist
-one who is versed in the science of fossils; a paleontologist.
fossilization
-the process of converting, or of being converted, into a fossil.
fossilize
-to convert into a fossil; to petrify; as, to fossilize bones or wood.
-to cause to become antiquated, rigid, or fixed, as by fossilization; to mummify; to deaden.
-to become fossil.
-to become antiquated, rigid, or fixed, beyond the influence of change or progress.
fossilized
-of fossilize
-converted into a fossil; antiquated; firmly fixed in views or opinions.
fossilizing
-of fossilize
fossores
-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.
fossoria
-see fossores.
fossorial
-fitted for digging, adapted for burrowing or digging; as, a fossorial foot; a fossorial animal.
fossorious
-adapted for digging;
-- said of the legs of certain insects.
fossulate
-having, or surrounded by, long, narrow depressions or furrows.
foster
-to feed; to nourish; to support; to bring up.
-to cherish; to promote the growth of; to encourage; to sustain and promote; as, to foster genius.
-to be nourished or trained up together.
-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.
-a forester.
-one who, or that which, fosters.
fosterage
-the care of a foster child; the charge of nursing.
fostered
-of foster
fostering
-of foster
fosterling
-a foster child.
fosterment
-food; nourishment.
fostress
-a woman who feeds and cherishes; a nurse.
fother
-a wagonload; a load of any sort.
-see fodder, a unit of weight.
-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.
fothered
-of fother
fothering
-of fother
fotive
-nourishing.
fotmal
-seventy pounds of lead.
fougade
-alt. of fougasse
fougasse
-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.
fought
-of fight
-imp. & p. p. of fight.
foughten
-p. p. of fight.
foul
-a bird.
-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.
-scurrilous; obscene or profane; abusive; as, foul words; foul language.
-hateful; detestable; shameful; odious; wretched.
-loathsome; disgusting; as, a foul disease.
-ugly; homely; poor.
-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.
-not conformed to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.; unfair; dishonest; dishonorable; cheating; as, foul play.
-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.
-to make filthy; to defile; to daub; to dirty; to soil; as, to foul the face or hands with mire.
-to incrust (the bore of a gun) with burnt powder in the process of firing.
-to cover (a ship's bottom) with anything that impered its sailing; as, a bottom fouled with barnacles.
-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.
-to become clogged with burnt powder in the process of firing, as a gun.
-to become entagled, as ropes; to come into collision with something; as, the two boats fouled.
-an entanglement; a collision, as in a boat race.
-see foul ball, under foul, a.
foul
-mouthed
-using language scurrilous, opprobrious, obscene, or profane; abusive.
foul
-spoken
-using profane, scurrilous, slanderous, or obscene language.
foulard
-a thin, washable material of silk, or silk and cotton, originally imported from india, but now also made elsewhere.
foulder
-to flash, as lightning; to lighten; to gleam; to thunder.
foule
-foully.
fouled
-of foul
fouling
-of foul
foully
-in a foul manner; filthily; nastily; shamefully; unfairly; dishonorably.
foulness
-the quality or condition of being foul.
foumart
-the european polecat;
-- called also european ferret, and fitchew. see polecat.
found
-of find
-imp. & p. p. of find.
-to form by melting a metal, and pouring it into a mold; to cast.
-a thin, single
-cut file for combmakers.
-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.
-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.
foundation
-the act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.
-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.
-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.
-a donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, and constituting a permanent fund; endowment.
-that which is founded, or established by endowment; an endowed institution or charity.
foundationer
-one who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school.
foundationless
-having no foundation.
founded
-of found
-of found
founder
-one who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.
-one who founds; one who casts metals in various forms; a caster; as, a founder of cannon, bells, hardware, or types.
-to become filled with water, and sink, as a ship.
-to fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse.
-to fail; to miscarry.
-to cause internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs of (a horse), so as to disable or lame him.
-a lameness in the foot of a horse, occasioned by inflammation; closh.
-an inflammatory fever of the body, or acute rheumatism; as, chest founder. see chest ffounder.
foundered
-of founder
founderies
-of foundery
foundering
-of founder
founderous
-difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road.
foundershaft
-the first shaft sunk.
foundery
-same as foundry.
founding
-of found
-of found
-the art of smelting and casting metals.
foundling
-a deserted or exposed infant; a child found without a parent or owner.
foundress
-a female founder; a woman who founds or establishes, or who endows with a fund.
foundries
-of foundry
foundry
-the act, process, or art of casting metals.
-the buildings and works for casting metals.
fount
-a font.
-a fountain.
fountain
-a spring of water issuing from the earth.
-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.
-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.
-the source from which anything proceeds, or from which anything is supplied continuously; origin; source.
fountainless
-having no fountain; destitute of springs or sources of water.
fountful
-full of fountains.
four
-one more than three; twice two.
-the sum of four units; four units or objects.
-a symbol representing four units, as 4 or iv.
-four things of the same kind, esp. four horses; as, a chariot and four.
four
-cornered
-having four corners or angles.
four
-in
-hand
-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.
-a team of four horses driven by one person; also, a vehicle drawn by such a team.
four
-o'clock
-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.
-the friar bird;
-- so called from its cry, which resembles these words.
four
-poster
-a large bedstead with tall posts at the corners to support curtains.
four
-way
-allowing passage in either of four directions; as, a four
-way cock, or valve.
four
-wheeled
-having four wheels.
four
-wheeler
-a vehicle having four wheels.
fourb
-alt. of fourbe
fourbe
-a trickly fellow; a cheat.
fourche
-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.
fourchette
-a table fork.
-a small fold of membrane, connecting the labia in the posterior part of the vulva.
-the wishbone or furculum of birds.
-the frog of the hoof of the horse and allied animals.
-an instrument used to raise and support the tongue during the cutting of the fraenum.
-the forked piece between two adjacent fingers, to which the front and back portions are sewed.
fourdrinier
-a machine used in making paper;
-- so named from an early inventor of improvements in this class of machinery.
fourfeitable
-liable to be forfeited; subject to forfeiture.
fourfold
-four times; quadruple; as, a fourfold division.
-four times as many or as much.
-to make four times as much or as many, as an assessment,; to quadruple.
fourfooted
-having four feet; quadruped; as, fourfooted beasts.
fourgon
-an ammunition wagon.
-a french baggage wagon.
fourhanded
-having four hands; quadrumanous.
-requiring four "hands" or players; as, a fourhanded game at cards.
fourierism
-the cooperative socialistic system of charles fourier, a frenchman, who recommended the reorganization of society into small communities, living in common.
fourierist
-alt. of fourierite
fourierite
-one who adopts the views of fourier.
fourling
-one of four children born at the same time.
-a compound or twin crystal consisting of four individuals.
fourneau
-the chamber of a mine in which the powder is placed.
fourpence
-a british silver coin, worth four pence; a groat.
-a name formerly given in new england to the spanish half real, a silver coin worth six and a quarter cents.
fourrier
-a harbinger.
fourscore
-four times twenty; eighty.
-the product of four times twenty; eighty units or objects.
foursquare
-having four sides and four equal angles.
fourteen
-four and ten more; twice seven.
-the sum of ten and four; forteen units or objects.
-a symbol representing fourteen, as 14 or xiv.
fourteenth
-next in order after the thirteenth; as, the fourteenth day of the month.
-making or constituting one of fourteen equal parts into which anything may be derived.
-one of fourteen equal parts into which one whole may be divided; the quotient of a unit divided by fourteen; one next after the thirteenth.
-the octave of the seventh.
fourth
-next in order after the third; the ordinal of four.
-forming one of four equal parts into which anything may be divided.
-one of four equal parts into which one whole may be divided; the quotient of a unit divided by four; one coming next in order after the third.
-the interval of two tones and a semitone, embracing four diatonic degrees of the scale; the subdominant of any key.
fourthly
-in the fourth place.
foussa
-a viverrine animal of madagascar (cryptoprocta ferox). it resembles a cat in size and form, and has retractile claws.
fouter
-a despicable fellow.
foutra
-a fig;
-- a word of contempt.
fouty
-despicable.
fovea
-a slight depression or pit; a fossa.
foveae
-of fovea
foveate
-having pits or depressions; pitted.
foveola
-a small depression or pit; a fovea.
foveolae
-of foveola
foveolate
-having small pits or depression, as the receptacle in some composite flowers.
foveolated
-foveolate.
fovilla
-one of the fine granules contained in the protoplasm of a pollen grain.
fovillae
-of fovilla
fowl
-any bird; esp., any large edible bird.
-any domesticated bird used as food, as a hen, turkey, duck; in a more restricted sense, the common domestic cock or hen (gallus domesticus).
-to catch or kill wild fowl, for game or food, as by shooting, or by decoys, nets, etc.
fowled
-of fowl
fowler
-a sportsman who pursues wild fowl, or takes or kills for food.
fowler's solution
-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.
fowlerite
-a variety of rhodonite, from franklin furnace, new jersey, containing some zinc.
fowling
-of fowl
fowls
-of fowl
fox
-a carnivorous animal of the genus vulpes, family canidae, 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.
-the european dragonet.
-the fox shark or thrasher shark;
-- called also sea fox. see thrasher shark, under shark.
-a sly, cunning fellow.
-rope yarn twisted together, and rubbed with tar;
-- used for seizings or mats.
-a sword;
-- so called from the stamp of a fox on the blade, or perhaps of a wolf taken for a fox.
-a tribe of indians which, with the sacs, formerly occupied the region about green bay, wisconsin;
-- called also outagamies.
-to intoxicate; to stupefy with drink.
-to make sour, as beer, by causing it to ferment.
-to repair the feet of, as of boots, with new front upper leather, or to piece the upper fronts of.
-to turn sour;
-- said of beer, etc., when it sours in fermenting.
fox
-hunting
-pertaining to or engaged in the hunting of foxes; fond of hunting foxes.
foxearth
-a hole in the earth to which a fox resorts to hide himself.
foxed
-of fox
-discolored or stained;
-- said of timber, and also of the paper of books or engravings.
-repaired by foxing; as, foxed boots.
foxery
-behavior like that of a fox; cunning.
foxes
-of fox
-see fox, n., 7.
foxfish
-the fox shark;
-- called also sea fox. see thrasher shark, under shark.
-the european dragonet. see dragonet.
foxglove
-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.
foxhound
-one of a special breed of hounds used for chasing foxes.
foxiness
-the state or quality of being foxy, or foxlike; craftiness; shrewdness.
-the state of being foxed or discolored, as books; decay; deterioration.
-a coarse and sour taste in grapes.
foxing
-of fox
foxish
-foxlike.
foxlike
-resembling a fox in his characteristic qualities; cunning; artful; foxy.
foxly
-foxlike.
foxship
-foxiness; craftiness.
foxtail
-the tail or brush of a fox.
-the name of several kinds of grass having a soft dense head of flowers, mostly the species of alopecurus and setaria.
-the last cinders obtained in the fining process.
foxy
-like or pertaining to the fox; foxlike in disposition or looks; wily.
-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.
-having the odor of a fox; rank; strong smeelling.
-sour; unpleasant in taste;
-- said of wine, beer, etc., not properly fermented;
-- also of grapes which have the coarse flavor of the fox grape.
foy
-faith; allegiance; fealty.
-a feast given by one about to leave a place.
foyer
-a lobby in a theater; a greenroom.
-the crucible or basin in a furnace which receives the molten metal.
foyson
-see foison.
foziness
-the state of being fozy; spiritlessness; dullness.
fozy
-spongy; soft; fat and puffy.
form
-a suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.