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Fairy \Fair"y\, n.; pl. {Fairies}. [OE. fairie, faierie, enchantment, fairy folk, fairy, OF. faerie enchantment, F. f[82]er, fr. LL. Fata one of the goddesses of fate. See {Fate}, and cf. {Fay} a fairy.] [Written also {fa[89]ry}.] 1. Enchantment; illusion. [Obs.] --Chaucer. The God of her has made an end, And fro this worlde's fairy Hath taken her into company. --Gower. 2. The country of the fays; land of illusions. [Obs.] He [Arthur] is a king y-crowned in Fairy. --Lydgate. 3. An imaginary supernatural being or spirit, supposed to assume a human form (usually diminutive), either male or female, and to meddle for good or evil in the affairs of mankind; a fay. See {Elf}, and {Demon}. The fourth kind of spirit [is] called the Fairy. --K. James. And now about the caldron sing, Like elves and fairies in a ring. --Shak. 5. An enchantress. [Obs.] --Shak. {Fairy of the mine}, an imaginary being supposed to inhabit mines, etc. German folklore tells of two species; one fierce and malevolent, the other gentle, See {Kobold}. No goblin or swart fairy of the mine Hath hurtful power over true virginity. --Milton. | |
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Fairish \Fair"ish\, a. Tolerably fair. [Colloq.] --W. D. Howells. | |
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Farce \Farce\, n. [F. farce, from L. farsus (also sometimes farctus), p. p. pf farcire. See {Farce}, v. t.] 1. (Cookery) Stuffing, or mixture of viands, like that used on dressing a fowl; forcemeat. 2. A low style of comedy; a dramatic composition marked by low humor, generally written with little regard to regularity or method, and abounding with ludicrous incidents and expressions. Farce is that in poetry which [bd]grotesque[b8] is in a picture: the persons and action of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false. --Dryden. 3. Ridiculous or empty show; as, a mere farce. [bd]The farce of state.[b8] --Pope. | |
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Farce \Farce\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Farced}, p. pr. & vb. n. {Farcing}.] [F. Farcir, L. farcire; akin to Gr. [?][?][?][?][?][?][?][?] to fence in, stop up. Cf. {Force} to stuff, {Diaphragm}, {Frequent}, {Farcy}, {Farse}.] 1. To stuff with forcemeat; hence, to fill with mingled ingredients; to fill full; to stuff. [Obs.] The first principles of religion should not be farced with school points and private tenets. --Bp. Sanderson. His tippet was aye farsed full of knives. --Chaucer. 2. To render fat. [Obs.] If thou wouldst farce thy lean ribs. --B. Jonson. 3. To swell out; to render pompous. [Obs.] Farcing his letter with fustian. --Sandys. | |
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Farcy \Far"cy\, n. [F. farcin; cf. L. farciminum a disease of horses, fr. farcire. See {Farce}.] (Far.) A contagious disease of horses, associated with painful ulcerating enlargements, esp. upon the head and limbs. It is of the same nature as glanders, and is often fatal. Called also {farcin}, and {farcimen}. Note: Farcy, although more common in horses, is communicable to other animals and to human beings. {Farcy bud}, a hard, prominent swelling occurring upon the cutaneous surface in farcy, due to the obstruction and inflammation of the lymphatic vessels, and followed by ulceration. --Youatt. | |
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Faroese \Fa`ro*ese`\, n. sing. & pl. An inhabitant, or, collectively, inhabitants, of the Faroe islands. | |
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Farse \Farse\, n. [See {Farce}, n.] (Eccl.) An addition to, or a paraphrase of, some part of the Latin service in the vernacular; -- common in English before the Reformation. | |
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Ferous \Fe"rous\, a. [L. ferus. See {Fierce}.] Wild; savage. [R.] --Arthur Wilson. | |
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-ferous \-fer*ous\ [L. -fer. fr. ferre to bear. See {Bear} to support.] A suffix signifying bearing, producing, yielding; as, auriferous, yielding gold; chyliferous, producing chyle. | |
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Ferous \Fe"rous\, a. [L. ferus. See {Fierce}.] Wild; savage. [R.] --Arthur Wilson. | |
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-ferous \-fer*ous\ [L. -fer. fr. ferre to bear. See {Bear} to support.] A suffix signifying bearing, producing, yielding; as, auriferous, yielding gold; chyliferous, producing chyle. | |
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Ferreous \Fer"re*ous\, a. [L. ferreus, fr. ferrum iron. Cf. {Farrier}, {Ferrous}.] Partaking of, made of, or pertaining to, iron; like iron. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne. | |
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Ferriage \Fer"ri*age\ (?; 48), n. [From {Ferry}.] The price or fare to be paid for passage at a ferry. | |
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Ferric \Fer"ric\, a. [L. ferrum iron: cf. F. ferrique. See {Ferrous}.] Pertaining to, derived from, or containing iron. Specifically (Chem.), denoting those compounds in which iron has a higher valence than in the ferrous compounds; as, ferric oxide; ferric acid. {Ferric acid} (Chem.), an acid, {H2FeO4}, which is not known in the free state, but forms definite salts, analogous to the chromates and sulphates. {Ferric oxide} (Chem.), sesquioxide of iron, {Fe2O3}; hematite. See {Hematite}. | |
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Ferry \Fer"ry\, n.; pl. {Ferries}. [OE. feri; akin to Icel. ferja, Sw. f[84]rja, Dan. f[91]rge, G. f[84]hre. See {Ferry}, v. t.] 1. A place where persons or things are carried across a river, arm of the sea, etc., in a ferryboat. It can pass the ferry backward into light. --Milton. To row me o'er the ferry. --Campbell. 2. A vessel in which passengers and goods are conveyed over narrow waters; a ferryboat; a wherry. 3. A franchise or right to maintain a vessel for carrying passengers and freight across a river, bay, etc., charging tolls. {Ferry bridge}, a ferryboat adapted in its structure for the transfer of railroad trains across a river or bay. {Ferry railway}. See under {Railway}. | |
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Ferroso- \Fer*ro"so-\ (Chem.) See {Ferro-}. | |
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Ferrous \Fer"rous\, a. [Cf. F. ferreux. See {Ferreous}.] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, iron; -- especially used of compounds of iron in which the iron has its lower valence; as, ferrous sulphate. | |
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Fers \Fers\, a. Fierce. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Fierce \Fierce\, a. [Compar. {Fiercer}; superl. {Fiercest}.] [OE. fers, fiers, OF. fier, nom. fiers, fierce, savage, cruel, F. fier proud, from L. ferus wild, savage, cruel; perh. akin to E. bear the animal. Cf. {Feral}, {Ferocity}.] 1. Furious; violent; unrestrained; impetuous; as, a fierce wind. His fierce thunder drove us to the deep. --Milton. 2. Vehement in anger or cruelty; ready or eager to kill or injure; of a nature to inspire terror; ferocious. [bd]A fierce whisper.[b8] --Dickens. [bd]A fierce tyrant.[b8] --Pope. The fierce foe hung upon our broken rear. --Milton. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion. --Job. x. 16. 3. Excessively earnest, eager, or ardent. Syn: Ferocious; savage; cruel; vehement; impetuous; barbarous; fell. See {Ferocious}. -- {Fierce"ly}, adv. -- {Fierce"ness}, n. | |
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Firk \Firk\, v. t. [Cf. OE. ferken to proceed, hasten, AS. fercian to bring, assist; perh. akin to faran to go, E. fare.] To beat; to strike; to chastise. [Obs.] I'll fer him, and firk him, and ferret him. --Shak. | |
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Firk \Firk\, v. i. To fly out; to turn out; to go off. [Obs.] A wench is a rare bait, with which a man No sooner's taken but he straight firks mad.B.Jonson. | |
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Firk \Firk\, n. A freak; trick; quirk. [Obs.] --Ford. | |
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Forage \For"age\, v. t. To strip of provisions; to supply with forage; as, to forage steeds. --Pope. | |
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Forage \For"age\ (?; 48), n. [OF. fourage, F. fourrage, fr. forre, fuerre, fodder, straw, F. feurre, fr. LL. foderum, fodrum, of German or Scand, origin; cf. OHG. fuotar, G. futter. See {Fodder} food, and cf. {Foray}.] 1. The act of foraging; search for provisions, etc. He [the lion] from forage will incline to play. --Shak. One way a band select from forage drives A herd of beeves, fair oxen and fair kine. --Milton. Mawhood completed his forage unmolested. --Marshall. 2. Food of any kind for animals, especially for horses and cattle, as grass, pasture, hay, corn, oats. --Dryden. {Forage cap}. See under {Cap}. {Forage master} (Mil.), a person charged with providing forage and the means of transporting it. --Farrow. | |
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Forage \For"age\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Foraged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Foraging}.] To wander or rove in search of food; to collect food, esp. forage, for horses and cattle by feeding on or stripping the country; to ravage; to feed on spoil. His most mighty father on a hill Stood smiling to behold his lion's whelp Forage in blood of French nobility. --Shak. {Foraging ant} (Zo[94]l.), one of several species of ants of the genus {Eciton}, very abundant in tropical America, remarkable for marching in vast armies in search of food. {Foraging cap}, a forage cap. {Foraging party}, a party sent out after forage. | |
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Force \Force\, v. t. [See {Farce} to stuff.] To stuff; to lard; to farce. [R.] Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. --Shak. | |
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Force \Force\, n. [Of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. fors, foss, Dan. fos.] A waterfall; a cascade. [Prov. Eng.] To see the falls for force of the river Kent. --T. Gray. | |
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Force \Force\, n. [F. force, LL. forcia, fortia, fr. L. fortis strong. See {Fort}, n.] 1. 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. He was, in the full force of the words, a good man. --Macaulay. 2. Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion. Which now they hold by force, and not by right. --Shak. 3. Strength or power for war; hence, a body of land or naval combatants, with their appurtenances, ready for action; -- an armament; troops; warlike array; -- often in the plural; hence, a body of men prepared for action in other ways; as, the laboring force of a plantation. Is Lucius general of the forces? --Shak. 4. (Law) (a) Strength or power exercised without law, or contrary to law, upon persons or things; violence. (b) Validity; efficacy. --Burrill. 5. (Physics) Any action between two bodies which changes, or tends to change, their relative condition as to rest or motion; or, more generally, which changes, or tends to change, any physical relation between them, whether mechanical, thermal, chemical, electrical, magnetic, or of any other kind; as, the force of gravity; cohesive force; centrifugal force. {Animal force} (Physiol.), muscular force or energy. {Catabiotic force} [Gr. [?] down (intens.) + [?] life.] (Biol.), the influence exerted by living structures on adjoining cells, by which the latter are developed in harmony with the primary structures. {Centrifugal force}, {Centripetal force}, {Coercive force}, etc. See under {Centrifugal}, {Centripetal}, etc. {Composition of forces}, {Correlation of forces}, etc. See under {Composition}, {Correlation}, etc. {Force and arms} [trans. of L. vi et armis] (Law), an expression in old indictments, signifying violence. {In force}, [or] {Of force}, of unimpaired efficacy; valid; of full virtue; not suspended or reversed. [bd]A testament is of force after men are dead.[b8] --Heb. ix. 17. {Metabolic force} (Physiol.), the influence which causes and controls the metabolism of the body. {No force}, no matter of urgency or consequence; no account; hence, to do no force, to make no account of; not to heed. [Obs.] --Chaucer. {Of force}, of necessity; unavoidably; imperatively. [bd]Good reasons must, of force, give place to better.[b8] --Shak. {Plastic force} (Physiol.), the force which presumably acts in the growth and repair of the tissues. {Vital force} (Physiol.), that force or power which is inherent in organization; that form of energy which is the cause of the vital phenomena of the body, as distinguished from the physical forces generally known. Syn: Strength; vigor; might; energy; stress; vehemence; violence; compulsion; coaction; constraint; coercion. Usage: {Force}, {Strength}. Strength looks rather to power as an inward capability or energy. Thus we speak of the strength of timber, bodily strength, mental strength, strength of emotion, etc. Force, on the other hand, looks more to the outward; as, the force of gravitation, force of circumstances, force of habit, etc. We do, indeed, speak of strength of will and force of will; but even here the former may lean toward the internal tenacity of purpose, and the latter toward the outward expression of it in action. But, though the two words do in a few cases touch thus closely on each other, there is, on the whole, a marked distinction in our use of force and strength. [bd]Force is the name given, in mechanical science, to whatever produces, or can produce, motion.[b8] --Nichol. Thy tears are of no force to mollify This flinty man. --Heywood. More huge in strength than wise in works he was. --Spenser. Adam and first matron Eve Had ended now their orisons, and found Strength added from above, new hope to spring Out of despair. --Milton. | |
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Force \Force\, v. i. [Obs. in all the senses.] 1. To use violence; to make violent effort; to strive; to endeavor. Forcing with gifts to win his wanton heart. --Spenser. 2. To make a difficult matter of anything; to labor; to hesitate; hence, to force of, to make much account of; to regard. Your oath once broke, you force not to forswear. --Shak. I force not of such fooleries. --Camden. 3. To be of force, importance, or weight; to matter. It is not sufficient to have attained the name and dignity of a shepherd, not forcing how. --Udall. | |
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Force \Force\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Forced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Forcing}.] [OF. forcier, F. forcer, fr. LL. forciare, fortiare. See {Force}, n.] 1. To constrain to do or to forbear, by the exertion of a power not resistible; to compel by physical, moral, or intellectual means; to coerce; as, masters force slaves to labor. 2. To compel, as by strength of evidence; as, to force conviction on the mind. 3. To do violence to; to overpower, or to compel by violence to one;s will; especially, to ravish; to violate; to commit rape upon. To force their monarch and insult the court. --Dryden. I should have forced thee soon wish other arms. --Milton. To force a spotless virgin's chastity. --Shak. 4. To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress. 5. To impel, drive, wrest, extort, get, etc., by main strength or violence; -- with a following adverb, as along, away, from, into, through, out, etc. It stuck so fast, so deeply buried lay That scarce the victor forced the steel away. --Dryden. To force the tyrant from his seat by war. --Sahk. Ethelbert ordered that none should be forced into religion. --Fuller. 6. To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce. [Obs.] What can the church force more? --J. Webster. 7. To exert to the utmost; to urge; hence, to strain; to urge to excessive, unnatural, or untimely action; to produce by unnatural effort; as, to force a consient or metaphor; to force a laugh; to force fruits. High on a mounting wave my head I bore, Forcing my strength, and gathering to the shore. --Dryden. 8. (Whist) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit of which he has none. 9. To provide with forces; to re[89]nforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison. [Obs.] --Shak. 10. To allow the force of; to value; to care for. [Obs.] For me, I force not argument a straw. --Shak. Syn: To compel; constrain; oblige; necessitate; coerce; drive; press; impel. | |
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Forego \Fore*go"\, v. t. [imp. {Forewent 2}; p. p. {Foregone} (?; 115); p. pr. & vb. n. {Foregoing}.] [See {Forgo}.] 1. To quit; to relinquish; to leave. Stay at the third cup, or forego the place. --Herbert. 2. To relinquish the enjoyment or advantage of; to give up; to resign; to renounce; -- said of a thing already enjoyed, or of one within reach, or anticipated. All my patrimony,, If need be, I am ready to forego. --Milton. Thy lovers must their promised heaven forego. --Keble. [He] never forewent an opportunity of honest profit. --R. L. Stevenson. Note: Forgo is the better spelling etymologically, but the word has been confused with {Forego}, to go before. | |
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Forego \Fore*go"\, v. t. [AS. foreg[be]n; fore + g[be]n to go; akin to G. vorgehen to go before, precede. See {GO}, v. i.] To go before; to precede; -- used especially in the present and past participles. Pleasing remembrance of a thought foregone. --Wordsworth. For which the very mother's face forewent The mother's special patience. --Mrs. Browning. {Foregone conclusion}, one which has preceded argument or examination; one predetermined. | |
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Forehook \Fore"hook`\, n. (Naut.) A piece of timber placed across the stem, to unite the bows and strengthen the fore part of the ship; a breast hook. | |
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Foresay \Fore*say"\, v. t. [AS. foresecgan; fore + secgan to say. See {Say}, v. t.] To foretell. [Obs.] Her danger nigh that sudden change foresaid. --Fairfax. | |
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Foresee \Fore*see"\, v. t. [AS. forese[a2]n; fore + se[a2]n to see. See {See}, v. t.] 1. To see beforehand; to have prescience of; to foreknow. A prudent man foreseeth the evil. --Prov. xxii. 3. 2. To provide. [Obs.] Great shoals of people, which go on to populate, without foreseeing means of life. --Bacon. | |
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Foresee \Fore*see"\, v. i. To have or exercise foresight. [Obs.] | |
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Foreshew \Fore*shew"\, v. t. See {Foreshow}. | |
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Foreshow \Fore*show"\, v. t. [AS. foresce[a0]wian to foresee, provide; fore + sce[a0]wian to see. See {Show}, v. t.] To show or exhibit beforehand; to give foreknowledge of; to prognosticate; to foretell. Your looks foreshow You have a gentle heart. --Shak. Next, like Aurora, Spenser rose, Whose purple blush the day foreshows. --Denham. | |
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Forewish \Fore*wish"\, v. t. To wish beforehand. | |
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Forge \Forge\, n. [F. forge, fr. L. fabrica the workshop of an artisan who works in hard materials, fr. faber artisan, smith, as adj., skillful, ingenious; cf. Gr. [?] soft, tender. Cf. {Fabric}.] 1. A place or establishment where iron or other metals are wrought by heating and hammering; especially, a furnace, or a shop with its furnace, etc., where iron is heated and wrought; a smithy. In the quick forge and working house of thought. --Shak. 2. The works where wrought iron is produced directly from the ore, or where iron is rendered malleable by puddling and shingling; a shingling mill. 3. The act of beating or working iron or steel; the manufacture of metalic bodies. [Obs.] In the greater bodies the forge was easy. --Bacon. {American forge}, a forge for the direct production of wrought iron, differing from the old Catalan forge mainly in using finely crushed ore and working continuously. --Raymond. {Catalan forge}. (Metal.) See under {Catalan}. {Forge cinder}, the dross or slag form a forge or bloomary. {Forge rolls}, {Forge train}, the train of rolls by which a bloom is converted into puddle bars. {Forge wagon} (Mil.), a wagon fitted up for transporting a blackmith's forge and tools. {Portable forge}, a light and compact blacksmith's forge, with bellows, etc., that may be moved from place to place. | |
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Forge \Forge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Forged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Forging}.] [F. forger, OF. forgier, fr. L. fabricare, fabricari, to form, frame, fashion, from fabrica. See {Forge}, n., and cf. {Fabricate}.] 1. To form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal. Mars's armor forged for proof eterne. --Shak. 2. To form or shape out in any way; to produce; to frame; to invent. Those names that the schools forged, and put into the mouth of scholars, could never get admittance into common use. --Locke. Do forge a life-long trouble for ourselves. --Tennyson. 3. To coin. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 4. To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate; to counterfeit, as, a signature, or a signed document. That paltry story is untrue, And forged to cheat such gulls as you. --Hudibras. Forged certificates of his . . . moral character. --Macaulay. Syn: To fabricate; counterfeit; feign; falsify. | |
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Forge \Forge\, v. t. (Naut.) To impel forward slowly; as, to forge a ship forward. | |
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Forge \Forge\, v. i. [See {Forge}, v. t., and for sense 2, cf. {Forge} compel.] 1. To commit forgery. 2. (Naut.) To move heavily and slowly, as a ship after the sails are furled; to work one's way, as one ship in outsailing another; -- used especially in the phrase to forge ahead. --Totten. And off she [a ship] forged without a shock. --De Quincey. | |
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Forgo \For*go"\, v. t. [imp. {Forwent}; p. p. {Forgone}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Forgoing}.] [OE. forgan, forgon, forgoon, AS. forg[be]n, prop., to go past, hence, to abstain from; pref. for- + g[be]n to go; akin to G. vergehen to pass away, to transgress. See {Go}, v. i.] To pass by; to leave. See 1st {Forego}. For sith [since] I shall forgoon my liberty At your request. --Chaucer. And four [days] since Florimell the court forwent. --Spenser. Note: This word in spelling has been confused with, and almost superseded by, forego to go before. Etymologically the form forgo is correct. | |
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Bracket \Brack"et\, n. (Gunnery) A figure determined by firing a projectile beyond a target and another short of it, as a basis for ascertaining the proper elevation of the piece; -- only used in the phrase, to establish a bracket. After the bracket is established shots are fired with intermediate elevations until the exact range is obtained. In the United States navy it is called {fork}. | |
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Fork \Fork\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Forked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Forking}.] 1. To shoot into blades, as corn. The corn beginneth to fork. --Mortimer. 2. To divide into two or more branches; as, a road, a tree, or a stream forks. | |
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Fork \Fork\ (f[ocir]rj), n. [AS. forc, fr. L. furca. Cf. {Fourch[82]}, {Furcate}.] 1. An instrument consisting of a handle with a shank terminating in two or more prongs or tines, which are usually of metal, parallel and slightly curved; -- used from piercing, holding, taking up, or pitching anything. 2. Anything furcate or like a fork in shape, or furcate at the extremity; as, a tuning fork. 3. One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow. Let it fall . . . though the fork invade The region of my heart. --Shak. A thunderbolt with three forks. --Addison. 4. The place where a division or a union occurs; the angle or opening between two branches or limbs; as, the fork of a river, a tree, or a road. 5. The gibbet. [Obs.] --Bp. Butler. {Fork beam} (Shipbuilding), a half beam to support a deck, where hatchways occur. {Fork chuck} (Wood Turning), a lathe center having two prongs for driving the work. {Fork head}. (a) The barbed head of an arrow. (b) The forked end of a rod which forms part of a knuckle joint. {In fork}. (Mining) A mine is said to be in fork, or an engine to [bd]have the water in fork,[b8] when all the water is drawn out of the mine. --Ure. {The forks of a river} [or] {a road}, the branches into which it divides, or which come together to form it; the place where separation or union takes place. | |
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Fork \Fork\, v. t. To raise, or pitch with a fork, as hay; to dig or turn over with a fork, as the soil. Forking the sheaves on the high-laden cart. --Prof. Wilson. {To fork} {over [or] out}, to hand or pay over, as money. [Slang] --G. Eliot. | |
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Bracket \Brack"et\, n. (Gunnery) A figure determined by firing a projectile beyond a target and another short of it, as a basis for ascertaining the proper elevation of the piece; -- only used in the phrase, to establish a bracket. After the bracket is established shots are fired with intermediate elevations until the exact range is obtained. In the United States navy it is called {fork}. | |
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Fork \Fork\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Forked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Forking}.] 1. To shoot into blades, as corn. The corn beginneth to fork. --Mortimer. 2. To divide into two or more branches; as, a road, a tree, or a stream forks. | |
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Fork \Fork\ (f[ocir]rj), n. [AS. forc, fr. L. furca. Cf. {Fourch[82]}, {Furcate}.] 1. An instrument consisting of a handle with a shank terminating in two or more prongs or tines, which are usually of metal, parallel and slightly curved; -- used from piercing, holding, taking up, or pitching anything. 2. Anything furcate or like a fork in shape, or furcate at the extremity; as, a tuning fork. 3. One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow. Let it fall . . . though the fork invade The region of my heart. --Shak. A thunderbolt with three forks. --Addison. 4. The place where a division or a union occurs; the angle or opening between two branches or limbs; as, the fork of a river, a tree, or a road. 5. The gibbet. [Obs.] --Bp. Butler. {Fork beam} (Shipbuilding), a half beam to support a deck, where hatchways occur. {Fork chuck} (Wood Turning), a lathe center having two prongs for driving the work. {Fork head}. (a) The barbed head of an arrow. (b) The forked end of a rod which forms part of a knuckle joint. {In fork}. (Mining) A mine is said to be in fork, or an engine to [bd]have the water in fork,[b8] when all the water is drawn out of the mine. --Ure. {The forks of a river} [or] {a road}, the branches into which it divides, or which come together to form it; the place where separation or union takes place. | |
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Fork \Fork\, v. t. To raise, or pitch with a fork, as hay; to dig or turn over with a fork, as the soil. Forking the sheaves on the high-laden cart. --Prof. Wilson. {To fork} {over [or] out}, to hand or pay over, as money. [Slang] --G. Eliot. | |
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Forky \Fork"y\, a. Opening into two or more parts or shoots; forked; furcated. [bd]Forky tongues.[b8] --Pope. | |
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Forsay \For*say"\, v. t. [AS. forsecgan to accuse; pref. for- + secgan to say.] To forbid; to renounce; to forsake; to deny. [Obs.] --Spenser. | |
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Fracho \Fracho\, n. A shallow iron pan to hold glass ware while being annealed. | |
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Fraise \Fraise\, n. [See {Froise}.] A large and thick pancake, with slices of bacon in it. [Obs.] --Johnson. | |
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Fraise \Fraise\, v. t. (Mil.) To protect, as a line of troops, against an onset of cavalry, by opposing bayonets raised obliquely forward. --Wilhelm. | |
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Froise \Froise\, n. [OE. froise cf. F. froisser to bruise, E. frush to bruise,] A kind of pancake. See 1st {Fraise}. [Written also {fraise}.] | |
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Fraise \Fraise\, n. [See {Froise}.] A large and thick pancake, with slices of bacon in it. [Obs.] --Johnson. | |
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Fraise \Fraise\, v. t. (Mil.) To protect, as a line of troops, against an onset of cavalry, by opposing bayonets raised obliquely forward. --Wilhelm. | |
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Froise \Froise\, n. [OE. froise cf. F. froisser to bruise, E. frush to bruise,] A kind of pancake. See 1st {Fraise}. [Written also {fraise}.] | |
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Freak \Freak\ (fr[emac]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Freaked} (fr[emac]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Freaking}.] [Akin to OE. frakin, freken, freckle, Icel. freknur, pl., Sw. fr[84]kne, Dan. fregne, Gr. perkno`s dark-colored, Skr. p[rsdot][cced]ni variegated. Cf. {Freckle}, {Freck}.] To variegate; to checker; to streak. [R.] Freaked with many a mingled hue. --Thomson. | |
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Freak \Freak\, n. [Prob. from OE. frek bold, AS. frec bold, greedly; akin to OHG. freh greedly, G. frech insolent, Icel. frekr greedy, Goth. fa[a1]hufriks avaricious.] A sudden causeless change or turn of the mind; a whim of fancy; a capricious prank; a vagary or caprice. She is restless and peevish, and sometimes in a freak will instantly change her habitation. --Spectator. Syn: Whim; caprice; folly; sport. See {Whim}. | |
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Freck \Freck\, v. t. [Cf. {Freak}, v. t., {Freckle}.] To checker; to diversify. [R. & Poet.] The painted windows, frecking gloom with glow. --Lowell. | |
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Freeze \Freeze\, v. t. {To freeze out}, to drive out or exclude by cold or by cold treatment; to force to withdraw; as, to be frozen out of one's room in winter; to freeze out a competitor. [Colloq.] A railroad which had a London connection must not be allowed to freeze out one that had no such connection. --A. T. Hadley. It is sometimes a long time before a player who is frozen out can get into a game again. --R. F. Foster. d8Freiherr \[d8]Frei"herr`\, n.; pl. {Freiherrn}. [G., lit., free lord.] In Germany and Austria, a baron. | |
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Freeze \Freeze\, n. (Arch.) A frieze. [Obs.] | |
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Freeze \Freeze\, v. i. [imp. {Froze}; p. p. {Frozen}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Freezing}.] [OE. fresen, freosen, AS. fre[a2]san; akin to D. vriezen, OHG. iosan, G. frieren, Icel. frjsa, Sw. frysa, Dan. fryse, Goth. frius cold, frost, and prob. to L. prurire to itch, E. prurient, cf. L. prna a burning coal, pruina hoarfrost, Skr. prushv[be] ice, prush to spirt. [?] 18. Cf. {Frost}.] 1. To become congealed by cold; to be changed from a liquid to a solid state by the abstraction of heat; to be hardened into ice or a like solid body. Note: Water freezes at 32[deg] above zero by Fahrenheit's thermometer; mercury freezes at 40[deg] below zero. 2. To become chilled with cold, or as with cold; to suffer loss of animation or life by lack of heat; as, the blood freezes in the veins. {To freeze up} (Fig.), to become formal and cold in demeanor. [Colloq.] | |
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Freeze \Freeze\, v. t. 1. To congeal; to harden into ice; to convert from a fluid to a solid form by cold, or abstraction of heat. 2. To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill. A faint, cold fear runs through my veins, That almost freezes up the heat of life. --Shak. | |
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Freeze \Freeze\, n. The act of congealing, or the state of being congealed. [Colloq.] | |
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Fresco \Fres"co\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Frescoed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Frescoing}.] To paint in fresco, as walls. | |
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Fresco \Fres"co\, n.; pl. {Frescoes} or {Frescos}. [It., fr. fresco fresh; of German origin. See {Fresh}, a.] 1. A cool, refreshing state of the air; duskiness; coolness; shade. [R.] --Prior. 2. (Fine Arts) (a) The art of painting on freshly spread plaster, before it dries. (b) In modern parlance, incorrectly applied to painting on plaster in any manner. (c) A painting on plaster in either of senses a and b . | |
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Fresh \Fresh\, n.; pl. {Freshes}. 1. A stream or spring of fresh water. He shall drink naught but brine; for I'll not show him Where the quick freshes are. --Shak. 2. A flood; a freshet. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. 3. The mingling of fresh water with salt in rivers or bays, as by means of a flood of fresh water flowing toward or into the sea. --Beverly. | |
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Fresh \Fresh\, a. [Compar. {Fresher}; superl. {Freshest}.] [OE. fresch, AS. fersc; akin to D. versch, G. frisch, OHG. frisc, Sw. frisk, Dan. frisk, fersk, Icel. fr[?]skr frisky, brisk, ferskr fresh; cf. It. fresco, OF. fres, freis, fem. freske, fresche, F. frais, fem. fra[?]che, which are of German origin. Cf. {Fraischeur}, {Fresco}, {Frisk}.] 1. Possessed of original life and vigor; new and strong; unimpaired; sound. 2. New; original; additional. [bd]Fear of fresh mistakes.[b8] --Sir W. Scott. A fresh pleasure in every fresh posture of the limbs. --Landor. 3. Lately produced, gathered, or prepared for market; not stale; not dried or preserved; not wilted, faded, or tainted; in good condition; as, fresh vegetables, flowers, eggs, meat, fruit, etc.; recently made or obtained; occurring again; repeated; as, a fresh supply of goods; fresh tea, raisins, etc.; lately come or made public; as, fresh news; recently taken from a well or spring; as, fresh water. 4. Youthful; florid; as, these fresh nymphs. --Shak. 5. In a raw, green, or untried state; uncultivated; uncultured; unpracticed; as, a fresh hand on a ship. 6. Renewed in vigor, alacrity, or readiness for action; as, fresh for a combat; hence, tending to renew in vigor; rather strong; cool or brisk; as, a fresh wind. 7. Not salt; as, fresh water, in distinction from that which is from the sea, or brackish; fresh meat, in distinction from that which is pickled or salted. {Fresh breeze} (Naut.), a breeze between a moderate and a strong breeze; one blowinq about twenty miles an hour. {Fresh gale}, a gale blowing about forty-five miles an hour. {Fresh way} (Naut.), increased speed. Syn: Sound; unimpaired; recent; unfaded: ruddy; florid; sweet; good: inexperienced; unpracticed: unused; lively; vigorous; strong. | |
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Fresh \Fresh\, v. t. To refresh; to freshen. [Obs.] --Rom. of R. | |
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Fresh \Fresh\, a. [Compar. {Fresher}; superl. {Freshest}.] [OE. fresch, AS. fersc; akin to D. versch, G. frisch, OHG. frisc, Sw. frisk, Dan. frisk, fersk, Icel. fr[?]skr frisky, brisk, ferskr fresh; cf. It. fresco, OF. fres, freis, fem. freske, fresche, F. frais, fem. fra[?]che, which are of German origin. Cf. {Fraischeur}, {Fresco}, {Frisk}.] 1. Possessed of original life and vigor; new and strong; unimpaired; sound. 2. New; original; additional. [bd]Fear of fresh mistakes.[b8] --Sir W. Scott. A fresh pleasure in every fresh posture of the limbs. --Landor. 3. Lately produced, gathered, or prepared for market; not stale; not dried or preserved; not wilted, faded, or tainted; in good condition; as, fresh vegetables, flowers, eggs, meat, fruit, etc.; recently made or obtained; occurring again; repeated; as, a fresh supply of goods; fresh tea, raisins, etc.; lately come or made public; as, fresh news; recently taken from a well or spring; as, fresh water. 4. Youthful; florid; as, these fresh nymphs. --Shak. 5. In a raw, green, or untried state; uncultivated; uncultured; unpracticed; as, a fresh hand on a ship. 6. Renewed in vigor, alacrity, or readiness for action; as, fresh for a combat; hence, tending to renew in vigor; rather strong; cool or brisk; as, a fresh wind. 7. Not salt; as, fresh water, in distinction from that which is from the sea, or brackish; fresh meat, in distinction from that which is pickled or salted. {Fresh breeze} (Naut.), a breeze between a moderate and a strong breeze; one blowinq about twenty miles an hour. {Fresh gale}, a gale blowing about forty-five miles an hour. {Fresh way} (Naut.), increased speed. Syn: Sound; unimpaired; recent; unfaded: ruddy; florid; sweet; good: inexperienced; unpracticed: unused; lively; vigorous; strong. | |
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Freya \Frey"a\ (fr[imac]"[adot]), n. [Icel. Freyja.] (Scand. Myth.) The daughter of Nj[94]rd, and goddess of love and beauty; the Scandinavian Venus; -- in Teutonic myths confounded with Frigga, but in Scandinavian, distinct. [Written also {Frea}, {Freyia}, and {Freyja}.] | |
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Friese \Friese\, n. Same as {Friesic}, n. | |
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Frieze \Frieze\, n. [Perh. the same word as frieze a, kind of cloth. Cf. {Friz}.] (Arch.) (a) That part of the entablature of an order which is between the architrave and cornice. It is a flat member or face, either uniform or broken by triglyphs, and often enriched with figures and other ornaments of sculpture. (b) Any sculptured or richly ornamented band in a building or, by extension, in rich pieces of furniture. See Illust. of {Column}. Cornice or frieze with bossy sculptures graven. --Milton. | |
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Frieze \Frieze\, n. [F. frise, perh. originally a woolen cloth or stuff from Friesland (F. Frise); cf. LL. frisii panni and frissatus pannus, a shaggy woolen cloth, F. friser to friz, curl. Cf. {Friz}.] A kind of coarse woolen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side. [bd]Robes of frieze.[b8] --Goldsmith. | |
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Frieze \Frieze\, v. t. To make a nap on (cloth); to friz. See {Friz}, v. t., 2. {Friezing machine}, a machine for friezing cloth; a friezing machine. | |
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Frigg \Frigg\, Frigga \Frig"ga\n. [Icel. Frigg. See {Friday}.] (Scand. Myth.) The wife of Odin and mother of the gods; the supreme goddess; the Juno of the Valhalla. Cf. {Freya}. | |
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Frigg \Frigg\, Frigga \Frig"ga\n. [Icel. Frigg. See {Friday}.] (Scand. Myth.) The wife of Odin and mother of the gods; the supreme goddess; the Juno of the Valhalla. Cf. {Freya}. | |
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Frisk \Frisk\, a. [OF. frieque, cf. OHG. frise lively, brisk, fresh, Dan. & Sw. frisk, Icel. friskr. See {Fresh}, a.] Lively; brisk; frolicsome; frisky. [Obs.] --Bp. Hall. | |
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Frisk \Frisk\, a. A frolic; a fit of wanton gayety; a gambol: a little playful skip or leap. --Johnson. | |
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Frisk \Frisk\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Frisked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Frisking}.] To leap, skip, dance, or gambol, in fronc and gayety. The frisking satyrs on the summits danced. --Addison. | |
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Frisky \Frisk"y\, a. Inclined to frisk; frolicsome; gay. He is too frisky for an old man. --Jeffrey. | |
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Friz \Friz\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Frizzed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Frizzing}.] [Cf. F. friser to curl, crisp, frizzle, to raise the nap (on certain stuffs); prob.akin to OFries. frisle hair of the head. Cf. {Frieze} kind of cloth.] [Written also {frizz}.] 1. To curl or form into small curls, as hair, with a crisping pin; to crisp. With her hair frizzed short up to her ears. --Pepys. 2. To form into little burs, prominences, knobs, or tufts, as the nap of cloth. 3. (Leather Manufacture) To soften and make of even thickness by rubbing, as with pumice stone or a blunt instrument. {Frizzing machine}. (a) (Fabrics) A machine for frizzing the surface of cloth. (b) (Wood Working) A bench with a revolving cutter head slightly protruding above its surface, for dressing boards. | |
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Friz \Friz\, n.; pl. {Frizzes}. That which is frizzed; anything crisped or curled, as a wig; a frizzle. [Written also {frizz}.] He [Dr. Johnson], who saw in his glass how his wig became his face and head, might easily infer that a similar fullbottomed, well-curled friz of words would be no less becoming to his thoughts. --Hare. | |
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Frize \Frize\, n. (Arch.) See 1st {Frieze}. | |
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Frizz \Frizz\, v. t. & i. [Partly imitative, but cf. {Fry}.] To fry, cook, or sear with a sizzling noise; to sizzle. | |
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Friz \Friz\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Frizzed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Frizzing}.] [Cf. F. friser to curl, crisp, frizzle, to raise the nap (on certain stuffs); prob.akin to OFries. frisle hair of the head. Cf. {Frieze} kind of cloth.] [Written also {frizz}.] 1. To curl or form into small curls, as hair, with a crisping pin; to crisp. With her hair frizzed short up to her ears. --Pepys. 2. To form into little burs, prominences, knobs, or tufts, as the nap of cloth. 3. (Leather Manufacture) To soften and make of even thickness by rubbing, as with pumice stone or a blunt instrument. {Frizzing machine}. (a) (Fabrics) A machine for frizzing the surface of cloth. (b) (Wood Working) A bench with a revolving cutter head slightly protruding above its surface, for dressing boards. | |
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Friz \Friz\, n.; pl. {Frizzes}. That which is frizzed; anything crisped or curled, as a wig; a frizzle. [Written also {frizz}.] He [Dr. Johnson], who saw in his glass how his wig became his face and head, might easily infer that a similar fullbottomed, well-curled friz of words would be no less becoming to his thoughts. --Hare. | |
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Frizz \Frizz\, v. t. & n. See {Friz}, v. t. & n. | |
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Frizz \Frizz\, v. t. & i. [Partly imitative, but cf. {Fry}.] To fry, cook, or sear with a sizzling noise; to sizzle. | |
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Friz \Friz\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Frizzed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Frizzing}.] [Cf. F. friser to curl, crisp, frizzle, to raise the nap (on certain stuffs); prob.akin to OFries. frisle hair of the head. Cf. {Frieze} kind of cloth.] [Written also {frizz}.] 1. To curl or form into small curls, as hair, with a crisping pin; to crisp. With her hair frizzed short up to her ears. --Pepys. 2. To form into little burs, prominences, knobs, or tufts, as the nap of cloth. 3. (Leather Manufacture) To soften and make of even thickness by rubbing, as with pumice stone or a blunt instrument. {Frizzing machine}. (a) (Fabrics) A machine for frizzing the surface of cloth. (b) (Wood Working) A bench with a revolving cutter head slightly protruding above its surface, for dressing boards. | |
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Friz \Friz\, n.; pl. {Frizzes}. That which is frizzed; anything crisped or curled, as a wig; a frizzle. [Written also {frizz}.] He [Dr. Johnson], who saw in his glass how his wig became his face and head, might easily infer that a similar fullbottomed, well-curled friz of words would be no less becoming to his thoughts. --Hare. | |
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Frizz \Frizz\, v. t. & n. See {Friz}, v. t. & n. | |
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Frizz \Frizz\, v. t. & i. [Partly imitative, but cf. {Fry}.] To fry, cook, or sear with a sizzling noise; to sizzle. | |
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Friz \Friz\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Frizzed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Frizzing}.] [Cf. F. friser to curl, crisp, frizzle, to raise the nap (on certain stuffs); prob.akin to OFries. frisle hair of the head. Cf. {Frieze} kind of cloth.] [Written also {frizz}.] 1. To curl or form into small curls, as hair, with a crisping pin; to crisp. With her hair frizzed short up to her ears. --Pepys. 2. To form into little burs, prominences, knobs, or tufts, as the nap of cloth. 3. (Leather Manufacture) To soften and make of even thickness by rubbing, as with pumice stone or a blunt instrument. {Frizzing machine}. (a) (Fabrics) A machine for frizzing the surface of cloth. (b) (Wood Working) A bench with a revolving cutter head slightly protruding above its surface, for dressing boards. | |
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Friz \Friz\, n.; pl. {Frizzes}. That which is frizzed; anything crisped or curled, as a wig; a frizzle. [Written also {frizz}.] He [Dr. Johnson], who saw in his glass how his wig became his face and head, might easily infer that a similar fullbottomed, well-curled friz of words would be no less becoming to his thoughts. --Hare. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Frizz \Frizz\, v. t. & n. See {Friz}, v. t. & n. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Frizzly \Friz"zly\, Frizzy \Friz"zy\, a. Curled or crisped; as, frizzly, hair. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Frock \Frock\, n. [F. froc a monk's cowl, coat, garment, LL. frocus, froccus, flocus, floccus, fr. L. floccus a flock of wool; hence orig., a flocky cloth or garment; cf. L. flaccus flabby, E. flaccid.] 1. A loose outer garment; especially, a gown forming a part of European modern costume for women and children; also, a coarse shirtlike garment worn by some workmen over their other clothes; a smock frock; as, a marketman's frock. 2. A coarse gown worn by monks or friars, and supposed to take the place of all, or nearly all, other garments. It has a hood which can be drawn over the head at pleasure, and is girded by a cord. {Frock coat}, a body coat for men, usually double-breasted, the skirts not being in one piece with the body, but sewed on so as to be somewhat full. {Smock frock}. See in the Vocabulary. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Frock \Frock\, v. t. 1. To clothe in a frock. 2. To make a monk of. Cf. {Unfrock}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Frog \Frog\ (fr[ocr]g), n. [AS. froggu, frocga a frog (in sensel); akin to D. vorsch, OHG. frosk, G. frosch, Icel. froskr, fraukr, Sw. & Dan. fr[94].] 1. (Zo[94]l.) An amphibious animal of the genus {Rana} and related genera, of many species. Frogs swim rapidly, and take long leaps on land. Many of the species utter loud notes in the springtime. Note: The edible frog of Europe ({Rana esculenta}) is extensively used as food; the American bullfrog ({R. Catesbiana}) is remarkable for its great size and loud voice. 2. [Perh. akin to E. fork, cf. frush frog of a horse.] (Anat.) The triangular prominence of the hoof, in the middle of the sole of the foot of the horse, and other animals; the fourchette. 3. (Railroads) A supporting plate having raised ribs that form continuations of the rails, to guide the wheels where one track branches from another or crosses it. 4. [Cf. fraco of wool or silk, L. floccus, E. frock.] An oblong cloak button, covered with netted thread, and fastening into a loop instead of a button hole. 5. The loop of the scabbard of a bayonet or sword. {Cross frog} (Railroads), a frog adapted for tracks that cross at right angles. {Frog cheese}, a popular name for a large puffball. {Frog eater}, one who eats frogs; -- a term of contempt applied to a Frenchman by the vulgar class of English. {Frog fly}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Frog} hopper. {Frog hopper} (Zo[94]l.), a small, leaping, hemipterous insect living on plants. The larv[91] are inclosed in a frothy liquid called {cuckoo spit} or {frog spit}. {Frog lily} (Bot.), the yellow water lily ({Nuphar}). {Frog spit} (Zo[94]l.), the frothy exudation of the {frog hopper}; -- called also {frog spittle}. See {Cuckoo spit}, under {Cuckoo}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Frog \Frog\, v. t. To ornament or fasten (a coat, etc.) with trogs. See {Frog}, n., 4. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Froggy \Frog"gy\, a. Abounding in frogs. --Sherwood. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Froise \Froise\, n. [OE. froise cf. F. froisser to bruise, E. frush to bruise,] A kind of pancake. See 1st {Fraise}. [Written also {fraise}.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Frouzy \Frou"zy\, a. [Prov. E. frouzy froward, peevish, offensive to the eye or smell; cf. froust a musty smell, frouse to rumple, frouze to curl, and E. frounce, frowy.] Fetid, musty; rank; disordered and offensive to the smell or sight; slovenly; dingy. See {Frowzy}. [bd]Petticoats in frouzy heaps.[b8] --Swift. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Frowzy \Frow"zy\, a. [See {Frouzy}.] Slovenly; unkempt; untidy; frouzy. [bd]With head all frowzy.[b8] --Spenser. The frowzy soldiers' wives hanging out clothes. --W. D. Howells. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Freeze \Freeze\, v. i. [imp. {Froze}; p. p. {Frozen}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Freezing}.] [OE. fresen, freosen, AS. fre[a2]san; akin to D. vriezen, OHG. iosan, G. frieren, Icel. frjsa, Sw. frysa, Dan. fryse, Goth. frius cold, frost, and prob. to L. prurire to itch, E. prurient, cf. L. prna a burning coal, pruina hoarfrost, Skr. prushv[be] ice, prush to spirt. [?] 18. Cf. {Frost}.] 1. To become congealed by cold; to be changed from a liquid to a solid state by the abstraction of heat; to be hardened into ice or a like solid body. Note: Water freezes at 32[deg] above zero by Fahrenheit's thermometer; mercury freezes at 40[deg] below zero. 2. To become chilled with cold, or as with cold; to suffer loss of animation or life by lack of heat; as, the blood freezes in the veins. {To freeze up} (Fig.), to become formal and cold in demeanor. [Colloq.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Froze \Froze\, imp. of {Freeze}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Frush \Frush\, v. t. [F. froisser to bruise. Cf. {Froise}.] To batter; to break in pieces. [Obs.] I like thine armor well; I'll frush it and unlock the rivets all. --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Frush \Frush\, a. Easily broken; brittle; crisp. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Frush \Frush\, n. Noise; clatter; crash. [R.] --Southey. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Frush \Frush\, n. [Cf. OE. frosch, frosk, a frog (the animal), G. frosch frog (the animal), also carney or lampass of horses. See {Frog}, n., 2.] 1. (Far.) The frog of a horse's foot. 2. A discharge of a fetid or ichorous matter from the frog of a horse's foot; -- also caled {thrush.} | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Furies \Fu"ries\, n. pl. See {Fury}, 3. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fury \Fu"ry\, n.; pl. {Furies}. [L. furia, fr. furere to rage: cf. F. furie. Cf. {Furor}.] 1. Violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm. Her wit began to be with a divine fury inspired. --Sir P. Sidney. 2. Violent anger; extreme wrath; rage; -- sometimes applied to inanimate things, as the wind or storms; impetuosity; violence. [bd]Fury of the wind.[b8] --Shak. I do oppose my patience to his fury. --Shak. 3. pl. (Greek Myth.) The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Meg[91]ra; the Erinyes or Eumenides. The Furies, they said, are attendants on justice, and if the sun in heaven should transgress his path would punish him. --Emerson. 4. One of the Parc[91], or Fates, esp. Atropos. [R.] Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. --Milton. 5. A stormy, turbulent violent woman; a hag; a vixen; a virago; a termagant. Syn: Anger; indignation; resentment; wrath; ire; rage; vehemence; violence; fierceness; turbulence; madness; frenzy. See {Anger}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Furious \Fu"ri*ous\, a. [L. furiosus, fr. furia rage, fury: cf. F. furieux. See {Fury}.] 1. Transported with passion or fury; raging; violent; as, a furious animal. 2. Rushing with impetuosity; moving with violence; as, a furious stream; a furious wind or storm. Syn: Impetuous; vehement; boisterous; fierce; turbulent; tumultuous; angry; mad; frantic; frenzied. -- {Fu"ri*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Fu"ri*ous*ness}, n. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Furze \Furze\, n. [OE. firs, As. fyrs.] (Bot.) A thorny evergreen shrub ({Ulex Europ[91]us}), with beautiful yellow flowers, very common upon the plains and hills of Great Britain; -- called also {gorse}, and {whin}. The dwarf furze is {Ulex nanus}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Furzy \Furz"y\, a. a. bounding in, or overgrown with, furze; characterized by furze. --Gay. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Fair Oaks, AR Zip code(s): 72397 Fair Oaks, CA (CDP, FIPS 23294) Location: 38.64850 N, 121.24718 W Population (1990): 26867 (10718 housing units) Area: 25.6 sq km (land), 1.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 95628 Fair Oaks, GA (CDP, FIPS 28520) Location: 33.91970 N, 84.54457 W Population (1990): 6996 (3646 housing units) Area: 5.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Fair Oaks, IN Zip code(s): 47943 Fair Oaks, OK (town, FIPS 25000) Location: 36.14784 N, 95.70807 W Population (1990): 1133 (398 housing units) Area: 39.2 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) | |
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Fairoaks, PA Zip code(s): 15003 | |
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Far Rockaway, NY Zip code(s): 11691, 11692, 11693, 11694, 11697 | |
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Fargo, AR (town, FIPS 23140) Location: 34.95505 N, 91.17705 W Population (1990): 140 (52 housing units) Area: 1.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Fargo, GA Zip code(s): 31631 Fargo, ND (city, FIPS 25700) Location: 46.87663 N, 96.81711 W Population (1990): 74111 (31711 housing units) Area: 77.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 58103 Fargo, OK (town, FIPS 25450) Location: 36.37341 N, 99.62236 W Population (1990): 299 (151 housing units) Area: 0.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 73840 | |
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Farris, OK Zip code(s): 74542 | |
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Ferris, IL (village, FIPS 25895) Location: 40.46949 N, 91.16939 W Population (1990): 177 (80 housing units) Area: 5.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Ferris, TX (city, FIPS 25752) Location: 32.53512 N, 96.66385 W Population (1990): 2212 (794 housing units) Area: 5.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 75125 | |
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Fork, MD Zip code(s): 21051 Fork, SC Zip code(s): 29543 | |
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Forks, WA (city, FIPS 24810) Location: 47.94705 N, 124.38993 W Population (1990): 2862 (1042 housing units) Area: 3.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 98331 | |
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Four Oaks, NC (town, FIPS 24520) Location: 35.44771 N, 78.42505 W Population (1990): 1308 (598 housing units) Area: 2.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 27524 | |
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Fourche, AR (town, FIPS 24760) Location: 34.99310 N, 92.61881 W Population (1990): 55 (20 housing units) Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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Frazee, MN (city, FIPS 22472) Location: 46.72700 N, 95.69957 W Population (1990): 1176 (485 housing units) Area: 2.1 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 56544 | |
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Fries, VA (town, FIPS 29920) Location: 36.71541 N, 80.97605 W Population (1990): 690 (328 housing units) Area: 1.7 sq km (land), 0.4 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 24330 | |
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Frisco, CO (town, FIPS 28690) Location: 39.57906 N, 106.09604 W Population (1990): 1601 (1628 housing units) Area: 3.1 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Frisco, TX (city, FIPS 27684) Location: 33.14450 N, 96.81296 W Population (1990): 6141 (2263 housing units) Area: 88.5 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 75034 | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
frag n.,v. [from Vietnam-era U.S. military slang via the games Doom and Quake] 1. To kill another player's {avatar} in a multiuser game. "I hold the office Quake record with 40 frags." 2. To completely ruin something. "Forget that power supply, the lightning strike fragged it. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
freeze v. To lock an evolving software distribution or document against changes so it can be released with some hope of stability. Carries the strong implication that the item in question will `unfreeze' at some future date. "OK, fix that bug and we'll freeze for release." There are more specific constructions on this term. A `feature freeze', for example, locks out modifications intended to introduce new features but still allows bugfixes and completion of existing features; a `code freeze' connotes no more changes at all. At Sun Microsystems and elsewhere, one may also hear references to `code slush' -- that is, an almost-but-not-quite frozen state. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
frog alt. `phrog' 1. interj. Term of disgust (we seem to have a lot of them). 2. Used as a name for just about anything. See {foo}. 3. n. Of things, a crock. 4. n. Of people, somewhere in between a turkey and a toad. 5. `froggy': adj. Similar to {bagbiting}, but milder. "This froggy program is taking forever to run!" | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
FRS // n.,obs. Abbreviation for "Freely Redistributable Software" which entered general use on the Internet in 1995 after years of low-level confusion over what exactly to call software written to be passed around and shared (contending terms including {freeware}, {shareware}, and `sourceware' were never universally felt to be satisfactory for various subtle reasons). The first formal conference on freely redistributable software was held in Cambridge, Massachussetts, in February 1996 (sponsored by the Free Software Foundation). The conference organizers used the FRS abbreviation heavily in its calls for papers and other literature during 1995. The term was in steady though not common use until 1998 and the invention of {open source}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
FORC Early system on IBM 704. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959). | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Force A {dBASE} dialect for {MS-DOS}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
fork (the "parent") to make a copy (the "child") of itself. The child process is identical to the parent except it has a different {process identifier} and a zero return value from the fork call. It is assumed to have used no resources. A fork followed by an {exec} can be used to start a different process but this can be inefficient and some later Unix variants provide {vfork} as an alternative mechanism for this. See also {fork bomb}. (1996-12-08) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
FORWISS Bayerische Forschungszentrum fuer Wissensbasierte Systeme (Bavarian research centre for knowledge-based systems) in Passau. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
freeze To lock an evolving software distribution or document against changes so it can be released with some hope of stability. Carries the strong implication that the item in question will "unfreeze" at some future date. There are more specific constructions on this term. A "feature freeze", for example, locks out modifications intended to introduce new features but still allows bugfixes and completion of existing features; a "code freeze" connotes no more changes at all. At {Sun Microsystems} and elsewhere, one may also hear references to "code slush" - that is, an almost-but-not-quite frozen state. [{Jargon File}] | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Fresco 1. {graphical user interface}s, under development by the {X Consortium} as an open, multi-vendor {standard}. 2. {specification language}. ["Refinement in Fresco", in Object Oriented Specification Case Studies, K. Lano et al eds, P-H 1993]. (1996-04-28) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Fresh ["Fresh: A Higher-Order Language Based on Unification", G. Smolka, in Logic Programming: Functions, Relations and Equations", D. DeGroot et al, P-H 1986, pp. 469-524]. (1996-04-28) | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Fairs (Heb. 'izabhonim), found seven times in Ezek. 27, and nowhere else. The Authorized Version renders the word thus in all these instances, except in verse 33, where "wares" is used. The Revised Version uniformly renders by "wares," which is the correct rendering of the Hebrew word. It never means "fairs" in the modern sense of the word. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Frog (Heb. tsepharde'a, meaning a "marsh-leaper"). This reptile is mentioned in the Old Testament only in connection with one of the plagues which fell on the land of Egypt (Ex. 8:2-14; Ps. 78:45; 105:30). In the New Testament this word occurs only in Rev. 16:13, where it is referred to as a symbol of uncleanness. The only species of frog existing in Palestine is the green frog (Rana esculenta), the well-known edible frog of the Continent. |