English Dictionary: Forequarters | by the DICT Development Group |
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Fairy \Fair"y\, a. 1. Of or pertaining to fairies. 2. Given by fairies; as, fairy money. --Dryden. {Fairy bird} (Zo[94]l.), the Euoropean little tern ({Sterna minuta}); -- called also {sea swallow}, and {hooded tern}. {Fairy bluebird}. (Zo[94]l.) See under {Bluebird}. {Fairy martin} (Zo[94]l.), a European swallow ({Hirrundo ariel}) that builds flask-shaped nests of mud on overhanging cliffs. {Fairy} {rings [or] circles}, the circles formed in grassy lawns by certain fungi (as {Marasmius Oreades}), formerly supposed to be caused by fairies in their midnight dances. {Fairy shrimp} (Zo[94]l.), a European fresh-water phyllopod crustacean ({Chirocephalus diaphanus}); -- so called from its delicate colors, transparency, and graceful motions. The name is sometimes applied to similar American species. {Fairy stone} (Paleon.), an echinite. | |
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d8Unke \[d8]Un"ke\, n. [G. unke.] (Zo[94]l.) A European aquatic toad ({Bombinator igneus}). Its back is dark; its belly is marked with crimson. Called also {feuerkr[94]te}. | |
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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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Fiery \Fi"er*y\ (? [or] ?), a. [Formerly written firy, fr. fire.] 1. Consisting of, containing, or resembling, fire; as, the fiery gulf of Etna; a fiery appearance. And fiery billows roll below. --I. Watts. 2. Vehement; ardent; very active; impetuous. Hath thy fiery heart so parched thine entrails? --Shak. The fiery spirit of his forefathers. --W. Irwing. 3. Passionate; easily provoked; irritable. You know the fiery quality of the duke. --Shak. 4. Unrestrained; fierce; mettlesome; spirited. One curbed the fiery steed. --Dryden. 5. heated by fire, or as if by fire; burning hot; parched; feverish. --Pope. The sword which is made fiery. --Hooker. {Fiery cross}, a cross constructed of two firebrands, and pitched upon the point of a spear; formerly in Scotland borne by a runner as a signal for the clan to take up arms. --Sir W. Scott. | |
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. (b) A balloon sent up at night with fireworks which ignite at a regulated height. --Simmonds. {Fire bar}, a grate bar. {Fire basket}, a portable grate; a cresset. --Knight. {Fire beetle}. (Zo[94]l.) See in the Vocabulary. {Fire blast}, a disease of plants which causes them to appear as if burnt by fire. {Fire box}, the chamber of a furnace, steam boiler, etc., for the fire. {Fire brick}, a refractory brick, capable of sustaining intense heat without fusion, usually made of fire clay or of siliceous material, with some cementing substance, and used for lining fire boxes, etc. {Fire brigade}, an organized body of men for extinguished fires. {Fire bucket}. See under {Bucket}. {Fire bug}, an incendiary; one who, from malice or through mania, persistently sets fire to property; a pyromaniac. [U.S.] {Fire clay}. See under {Clay}. {Fire company}, a company of men managing an engine in extinguishing fires. {Fire cross}. See {Fiery cross}. [Obs.] --Milton. {Fire damp}. See under {Damp}. {Fire dog}. See {Firedog}, in the Vocabulary. {Fire drill}. (a) A series of evolutions performed by fireman for practice. (b) An apparatus for producing fire by friction, by rapidly twirling a wooden pin in a wooden socket; -- used by the Hindoos during all historic time, and by many savage peoples. {Fire eater}. (a) A juggler who pretends to eat fire. (b) A quarrelsome person who seeks affrays; a hotspur. [Colloq.] {Fire engine}, a portable forcing pump, usually on wheels, for throwing water to extinguish fire. {Fire escape}, a contrivance for facilitating escape from burning buildings. {Fire gilding} (Fine Arts), a mode of gilding with an amalgam of gold and quicksilver, the latter metal being driven off afterward by heat. {Fire gilt} (Fine Arts), gold laid on by the process of fire gilding. {Fire insurance}, the act or system of insuring against fire; also, a contract by which an insurance company undertakes, in consideration of the payment of a premium or small percentage -- usually made periodically -- to indemnify an owner of property from loss by fire during a specified period. {Fire irons}, utensils for a fireplace or grate, as tongs, poker, and shovel. {Fire main}, a pipe for water, to be used in putting out fire. {Fire master} (Mil), an artillery officer who formerly supervised the composition of fireworks. {Fire office}, an office at which to effect insurance against fire. {Fire opal}, a variety of opal giving firelike reflections. {Fire ordeal}, an ancient mode of trial, in which the test was the ability of the accused to handle or tread upon red-hot irons. --Abbot. {Fire pan}, a pan for holding or conveying fire, especially the receptacle for the priming of a gun. {Fire plug}, a plug or hydrant for drawing water from the main pipes in a street, building, etc., for extinguishing fires. {Fire policy}, the writing or instrument expressing the contract of insurance against loss by fire. {Fire pot}. (a) (Mil.) A small earthen pot filled with combustibles, formerly used as a missile in war. (b) The cast iron vessel which holds the fuel or fire in a furnace. (c) A crucible. (d) A solderer's furnace. {Fire raft}, a raft laden with combustibles, used for setting fire to an enemy's ships. {Fire roll}, a peculiar beat of the drum to summon men to their quarters in case of fire. {Fire setting} (Mining), the process of softening or cracking the working face of a lode, to facilitate excavation, by exposing it to the action of fire; -- now generally superseded by the use of explosives. --Raymond. {Fire ship}, a vessel filled with combustibles, for setting fire to an enemy's ships. {Fire shovel}, a shovel for taking up coals of fire. {Fire stink}, the stench from decomposing iron pyrites, caused by the formation of sulphureted hydrogen. --Raymond. {Fire surface}, the surfaces of a steam boiler which are exposed to the direct heat of the fuel and the products of combustion; heating surface. {Fire swab}, a swab saturated with water, for cooling a gun in action and clearing away particles of powder, etc. --Farrow. {Fire teaser}, in England, the fireman of a steam emgine. {Fire water}, ardent spirits; -- so called by the American Indians. {Fire worship}, the worship of fire, which prevails chiefly in Persia, among the followers of Zoroaster, called Chebers, or Guebers, and among the Parsees of India. {Greek fire}. See under {Greek}. {On fire}, burning; hence, ardent; passionate; eager; zealous. {Running fire}, the rapid discharge of firearms in succession by a line of troops. {St. Anthony's fire}, erysipelas; -- an eruptive fever which St. Anthony was supposed to cure miraculously. --Hoblyn. {St. Elmo's fire}. See under {Saint Elmo}. {To set on fire}, to inflame; to kindle. {To take fire}, to begin to burn; to fly into a passion. | |
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Grenade \Gre*nade"\, n. [F. grenade a pomegranate, a grenade, or Sp. granada; orig., filled with seeds. So called from the resemblance of its shape to a pomegranate. See {Carnet}, {Grain} a kernel, and cf. {Pomegranate}.] (Min.) A hollow ball or shell of iron filled with powder of other explosive, ignited by means of a fuse, and thrown from the hand among enemies. {Hand grenade}. (a) A small grenade of iron or glass, usually about two and a half inches in diameter, to be thrown from the hand into the head of a sap, trenches, covered way, or upon besiegers mounting a breach. (b) A portable fire extinguisher consisting of a glass bottle containing water and gas. It is thrown into the flames. Called also {fire grenade}. {Rampart grenades}, grenades of various sizes, which, when used, are rolled over the pararapet in a trough. | |
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. (b) A balloon sent up at night with fireworks which ignite at a regulated height. --Simmonds. {Fire bar}, a grate bar. {Fire basket}, a portable grate; a cresset. --Knight. {Fire beetle}. (Zo[94]l.) See in the Vocabulary. {Fire blast}, a disease of plants which causes them to appear as if burnt by fire. {Fire box}, the chamber of a furnace, steam boiler, etc., for the fire. {Fire brick}, a refractory brick, capable of sustaining intense heat without fusion, usually made of fire clay or of siliceous material, with some cementing substance, and used for lining fire boxes, etc. {Fire brigade}, an organized body of men for extinguished fires. {Fire bucket}. See under {Bucket}. {Fire bug}, an incendiary; one who, from malice or through mania, persistently sets fire to property; a pyromaniac. [U.S.] {Fire clay}. See under {Clay}. {Fire company}, a company of men managing an engine in extinguishing fires. {Fire cross}. See {Fiery cross}. [Obs.] --Milton. {Fire damp}. See under {Damp}. {Fire dog}. See {Firedog}, in the Vocabulary. {Fire drill}. (a) A series of evolutions performed by fireman for practice. (b) An apparatus for producing fire by friction, by rapidly twirling a wooden pin in a wooden socket; -- used by the Hindoos during all historic time, and by many savage peoples. {Fire eater}. (a) A juggler who pretends to eat fire. (b) A quarrelsome person who seeks affrays; a hotspur. [Colloq.] {Fire engine}, a portable forcing pump, usually on wheels, for throwing water to extinguish fire. {Fire escape}, a contrivance for facilitating escape from burning buildings. {Fire gilding} (Fine Arts), a mode of gilding with an amalgam of gold and quicksilver, the latter metal being driven off afterward by heat. {Fire gilt} (Fine Arts), gold laid on by the process of fire gilding. {Fire insurance}, the act or system of insuring against fire; also, a contract by which an insurance company undertakes, in consideration of the payment of a premium or small percentage -- usually made periodically -- to indemnify an owner of property from loss by fire during a specified period. {Fire irons}, utensils for a fireplace or grate, as tongs, poker, and shovel. {Fire main}, a pipe for water, to be used in putting out fire. {Fire master} (Mil), an artillery officer who formerly supervised the composition of fireworks. {Fire office}, an office at which to effect insurance against fire. {Fire opal}, a variety of opal giving firelike reflections. {Fire ordeal}, an ancient mode of trial, in which the test was the ability of the accused to handle or tread upon red-hot irons. --Abbot. {Fire pan}, a pan for holding or conveying fire, especially the receptacle for the priming of a gun. {Fire plug}, a plug or hydrant for drawing water from the main pipes in a street, building, etc., for extinguishing fires. {Fire policy}, the writing or instrument expressing the contract of insurance against loss by fire. {Fire pot}. (a) (Mil.) A small earthen pot filled with combustibles, formerly used as a missile in war. (b) The cast iron vessel which holds the fuel or fire in a furnace. (c) A crucible. (d) A solderer's furnace. {Fire raft}, a raft laden with combustibles, used for setting fire to an enemy's ships. {Fire roll}, a peculiar beat of the drum to summon men to their quarters in case of fire. {Fire setting} (Mining), the process of softening or cracking the working face of a lode, to facilitate excavation, by exposing it to the action of fire; -- now generally superseded by the use of explosives. --Raymond. {Fire ship}, a vessel filled with combustibles, for setting fire to an enemy's ships. {Fire shovel}, a shovel for taking up coals of fire. {Fire stink}, the stench from decomposing iron pyrites, caused by the formation of sulphureted hydrogen. --Raymond. {Fire surface}, the surfaces of a steam boiler which are exposed to the direct heat of the fuel and the products of combustion; heating surface. {Fire swab}, a swab saturated with water, for cooling a gun in action and clearing away particles of powder, etc. --Farrow. {Fire teaser}, in England, the fireman of a steam emgine. {Fire water}, ardent spirits; -- so called by the American Indians. {Fire worship}, the worship of fire, which prevails chiefly in Persia, among the followers of Zoroaster, called Chebers, or Guebers, and among the Parsees of India. {Greek fire}. See under {Greek}. {On fire}, burning; hence, ardent; passionate; eager; zealous. {Running fire}, the rapid discharge of firearms in succession by a line of troops. {St. Anthony's fire}, erysipelas; -- an eruptive fever which St. Anthony was supposed to cure miraculously. --Hoblyn. {St. Elmo's fire}. See under {Saint Elmo}. {To set on fire}, to inflame; to kindle. {To take fire}, to begin to burn; to fly into a passion. | |
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Heating \Heat"ing\, a. That heats or imparts heat; promoting warmth or heat; exciting action; stimulating; as, heating medicines or applications. {Heating surface} (Steam Boilers), the aggregate surface exposed to fire or to the heated products of combustion, esp. of all the plates or sheets that are exposed to water on their opposite surfaces; -- called also {fire surface}. | |
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. (b) A balloon sent up at night with fireworks which ignite at a regulated height. --Simmonds. {Fire bar}, a grate bar. {Fire basket}, a portable grate; a cresset. --Knight. {Fire beetle}. (Zo[94]l.) See in the Vocabulary. {Fire blast}, a disease of plants which causes them to appear as if burnt by fire. {Fire box}, the chamber of a furnace, steam boiler, etc., for the fire. {Fire brick}, a refractory brick, capable of sustaining intense heat without fusion, usually made of fire clay or of siliceous material, with some cementing substance, and used for lining fire boxes, etc. {Fire brigade}, an organized body of men for extinguished fires. {Fire bucket}. See under {Bucket}. {Fire bug}, an incendiary; one who, from malice or through mania, persistently sets fire to property; a pyromaniac. [U.S.] {Fire clay}. See under {Clay}. {Fire company}, a company of men managing an engine in extinguishing fires. {Fire cross}. See {Fiery cross}. [Obs.] --Milton. {Fire damp}. See under {Damp}. {Fire dog}. See {Firedog}, in the Vocabulary. {Fire drill}. (a) A series of evolutions performed by fireman for practice. (b) An apparatus for producing fire by friction, by rapidly twirling a wooden pin in a wooden socket; -- used by the Hindoos during all historic time, and by many savage peoples. {Fire eater}. (a) A juggler who pretends to eat fire. (b) A quarrelsome person who seeks affrays; a hotspur. [Colloq.] {Fire engine}, a portable forcing pump, usually on wheels, for throwing water to extinguish fire. {Fire escape}, a contrivance for facilitating escape from burning buildings. {Fire gilding} (Fine Arts), a mode of gilding with an amalgam of gold and quicksilver, the latter metal being driven off afterward by heat. {Fire gilt} (Fine Arts), gold laid on by the process of fire gilding. {Fire insurance}, the act or system of insuring against fire; also, a contract by which an insurance company undertakes, in consideration of the payment of a premium or small percentage -- usually made periodically -- to indemnify an owner of property from loss by fire during a specified period. {Fire irons}, utensils for a fireplace or grate, as tongs, poker, and shovel. {Fire main}, a pipe for water, to be used in putting out fire. {Fire master} (Mil), an artillery officer who formerly supervised the composition of fireworks. {Fire office}, an office at which to effect insurance against fire. {Fire opal}, a variety of opal giving firelike reflections. {Fire ordeal}, an ancient mode of trial, in which the test was the ability of the accused to handle or tread upon red-hot irons. --Abbot. {Fire pan}, a pan for holding or conveying fire, especially the receptacle for the priming of a gun. {Fire plug}, a plug or hydrant for drawing water from the main pipes in a street, building, etc., for extinguishing fires. {Fire policy}, the writing or instrument expressing the contract of insurance against loss by fire. {Fire pot}. (a) (Mil.) A small earthen pot filled with combustibles, formerly used as a missile in war. (b) The cast iron vessel which holds the fuel or fire in a furnace. (c) A crucible. (d) A solderer's furnace. {Fire raft}, a raft laden with combustibles, used for setting fire to an enemy's ships. {Fire roll}, a peculiar beat of the drum to summon men to their quarters in case of fire. {Fire setting} (Mining), the process of softening or cracking the working face of a lode, to facilitate excavation, by exposing it to the action of fire; -- now generally superseded by the use of explosives. --Raymond. {Fire ship}, a vessel filled with combustibles, for setting fire to an enemy's ships. {Fire shovel}, a shovel for taking up coals of fire. {Fire stink}, the stench from decomposing iron pyrites, caused by the formation of sulphureted hydrogen. --Raymond. {Fire surface}, the surfaces of a steam boiler which are exposed to the direct heat of the fuel and the products of combustion; heating surface. {Fire swab}, a swab saturated with water, for cooling a gun in action and clearing away particles of powder, etc. --Farrow. {Fire teaser}, in England, the fireman of a steam emgine. {Fire water}, ardent spirits; -- so called by the American Indians. {Fire worship}, the worship of fire, which prevails chiefly in Persia, among the followers of Zoroaster, called Chebers, or Guebers, and among the Parsees of India. {Greek fire}. See under {Greek}. {On fire}, burning; hence, ardent; passionate; eager; zealous. {Running fire}, the rapid discharge of firearms in succession by a line of troops. {St. Anthony's fire}, erysipelas; -- an eruptive fever which St. Anthony was supposed to cure miraculously. --Hoblyn. {St. Elmo's fire}. See under {Saint Elmo}. {To set on fire}, to inflame; to kindle. {To take fire}, to begin to burn; to fly into a passion. | |
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Heating \Heat"ing\, a. That heats or imparts heat; promoting warmth or heat; exciting action; stimulating; as, heating medicines or applications. {Heating surface} (Steam Boilers), the aggregate surface exposed to fire or to the heated products of combustion, esp. of all the plates or sheets that are exposed to water on their opposite surfaces; -- called also {fire surface}. | |
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Firecracker \Fire"crack`er\, n. See {Cracker}., n., 3. | |
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Cracker \Crack"er\ (kr[acr]k"[etil]r), n. 1. One who, or that which, cracks. 2. A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow. [Obs.] What cracker is this same that deafs our ears? --Shak. 3. A small firework, consisting of a little powder inclosed in a thick paper cylinder with a fuse, and exploding with a sharp noise; -- often called {firecracker}. 4. A thin, dry biscuit, often hard or crisp; as, a Boston cracker; a Graham cracker; a soda cracker; an oyster cracker. 5. A nickname to designate a poor white in some parts of the Southern United States. --Bartlett. 6. (Zo[94]l.) The pintail duck. 7. pl. (Mach.) A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc. --Knight. | |
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Firecracker \Fire"crack`er\, n. See {Cracker}., n., 3. | |
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Cracker \Crack"er\ (kr[acr]k"[etil]r), n. 1. One who, or that which, cracks. 2. A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow. [Obs.] What cracker is this same that deafs our ears? --Shak. 3. A small firework, consisting of a little powder inclosed in a thick paper cylinder with a fuse, and exploding with a sharp noise; -- often called {firecracker}. 4. A thin, dry biscuit, often hard or crisp; as, a Boston cracker; a Graham cracker; a soda cracker; an oyster cracker. 5. A nickname to designate a poor white in some parts of the Southern United States. --Bartlett. 6. (Zo[94]l.) The pintail duck. 7. pl. (Mach.) A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc. --Knight. | |
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Firecrest \Fire"crest`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A small European kinglet ({Regulus ignicapillus}), having a bright red crest; -- called also {fire-crested wren}. | |
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Firecrest \Fire"crest`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A small European kinglet ({Regulus ignicapillus}), having a bright red crest; -- called also {fire-crested wren}. | |
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Certain \Cer"tain\, a. [F. certain, fr. (assumed) LL. certanus, fr. L. certus determined, fixed, certain, orig. p. p. of cernere to perceive, decide, determine; akin to Gr. [?] to decide, separate, and to E. concern, critic, crime, riddle a sieve, rinse, v.] 1. Assured in mind; having no doubts; free from suspicions concerning. To make her certain of the sad event. --Dryden. I myself am certain of you. --Wyclif. 2. Determined; resolved; -- used with an infinitive. However, I with thee have fixed my lot, Certain to undergo like doom. --Milton. 3. Not to be doubted or denied; established as a fact. The dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure. --Dan. ii. 45. 4. Actually existing; sure to happen; inevitable. Virtue that directs our ways Through certain dangers to uncertain praise. --Dryden. Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all. --Shak. 5. Unfailing; infallible. I have often wished that I knew as certain a remedy for any other distemper. --Mead. 6. Fixed or stated; regular; determinate. The people go out and gather a certain rate every day. --Ex. xvi. 4. 7. Not specifically named; indeterminate; indefinite; one or some; -- sometimes used independenty as a noun, and meaning certain persons. It came to pass when he was in a certain city. --Luke. v. 12. About everything he wrote there was a certain natural grace und decorum. --Macaulay. {For certain}, assuredly. {Of a certain}, certainly. Syn: Bound; sure; true; undeniable; unquestionable; undoubted; plain; indubitable; indisputable; incontrovertible; unhesitating; undoubting; fixed; stated. | |
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Forager \For"a*ger\, n. One who forages. | |
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Forcarve \For*carve"\, v. t. To cut completely; to cut off. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Forcer \For"cer\, n. 1. One who, or that which, forces or drives. 2. (Mech.) (a) The solid piston of a force pump; the instrument by which water is forced in a pump. (b) A small hand pump for sinking pits, draining cellars, etc. | |
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Fore \Fore\, a. [See {Fore}, adv.] 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 free will of the subject is preserved, while it is directed by the fore purpose of the state. --Southey. Note: Fore is much used adjectively or in composition. {Fore bay}, a reservoir or canal between a mill race and a water wheel; the discharging end of a pond or mill race. {Fore body} (Shipbuilding), the part of a ship forward of the largest cross-section, distinguisched from middle body abd after body. {Fore boot}, a receptacle in the front of a vehicle, for stowing baggage, etc. {Fore bow}, the pommel of a saddle. --Knight. {Fore cabin}, a cabin in the fore part of a ship, usually with inferior accommodations. {Fore carriage}. (a) The forward part of the running gear of a four-wheeled vehicle. (b) A small carriage at the front end of a plow beam. {Fore course} (Naut.), the lowermost sail on the foremost of a square-rigged vessel; the foresail. See Illust. under {Sail}. {Fore door}. Same as {Front door}. {Fore edge}, the front edge of a book or folded sheet, etc. {Fore elder}, an ancestor. [Prov. Eng.] {Fore end}. (a) The end which precedes; the earlier, or the nearer, part; the beginning. I have . . . paid More pious debts to heaven, than in all The fore end of my time. --Shak. (b) In firearms, the wooden stock under the barrel, forward of the trigger guard, or breech frame. {Fore girth}, a girth for the fore part (of a horse, etc.); a martingale. {Fore hammer}, a sledge hammer, working alternately, or in time, with the hand hammer. {Fore leg}, one of the front legs of a quadruped, or multiped, or of a chair, settee, etc. {Fore peak} (Naut.), the angle within a ship's bows; the portion of the hold which is farthest forward. {Fore piece}, a front piece, as the flap in the fore part of a sidesaddle, to guard the rider's dress. {Fore plane}, a carpenter's plane, in size and use between a jack plane and a smoothing plane. --Knight. {Fore reading}, previous perusal. [Obs.] --Hales. {Fore rent}, in Scotland, rent payable before a crop is gathered. {Fore sheets} (Naut.), the forward portion of a rowboat; the space beyond the front thwart. See {Stern sheets}. {Fore shore}. (a) A bank in advance of a sea wall, to break the force of the surf. (b) The seaward projecting, slightly inclined portion of a breakwater. --Knight. (c) The part of the shore between high and low water marks. {Fore sight}, that one of the two sights of a gun which is near the muzzle. {Fore tackle} (Naut.), the tackle on the foremast of a ship. {Fore topmast}. (Naut.) See {Fore-topmast}, in the Vocabulary. {Fore wind}, a favorable wind. [Obs.] Sailed on smooth seas, by fore winds borne. --Sandys. {Fore world}, the antediluvian world. [R.] --Southey. | |
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Fore \Fore\, a. [See {Fore}, adv.] 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 free will of the subject is preserved, while it is directed by the fore purpose of the state. --Southey. Note: Fore is much used adjectively or in composition. {Fore bay}, a reservoir or canal between a mill race and a water wheel; the discharging end of a pond or mill race. {Fore body} (Shipbuilding), the part of a ship forward of the largest cross-section, distinguisched from middle body abd after body. {Fore boot}, a receptacle in the front of a vehicle, for stowing baggage, etc. {Fore bow}, the pommel of a saddle. --Knight. {Fore cabin}, a cabin in the fore part of a ship, usually with inferior accommodations. {Fore carriage}. (a) The forward part of the running gear of a four-wheeled vehicle. (b) A small carriage at the front end of a plow beam. {Fore course} (Naut.), the lowermost sail on the foremost of a square-rigged vessel; the foresail. See Illust. under {Sail}. {Fore door}. Same as {Front door}. {Fore edge}, the front edge of a book or folded sheet, etc. {Fore elder}, an ancestor. [Prov. Eng.] {Fore end}. (a) The end which precedes; the earlier, or the nearer, part; the beginning. I have . . . paid More pious debts to heaven, than in all The fore end of my time. --Shak. (b) In firearms, the wooden stock under the barrel, forward of the trigger guard, or breech frame. {Fore girth}, a girth for the fore part (of a horse, etc.); a martingale. {Fore hammer}, a sledge hammer, working alternately, or in time, with the hand hammer. {Fore leg}, one of the front legs of a quadruped, or multiped, or of a chair, settee, etc. {Fore peak} (Naut.), the angle within a ship's bows; the portion of the hold which is farthest forward. {Fore piece}, a front piece, as the flap in the fore part of a sidesaddle, to guard the rider's dress. {Fore plane}, a carpenter's plane, in size and use between a jack plane and a smoothing plane. --Knight. {Fore reading}, previous perusal. [Obs.] --Hales. {Fore rent}, in Scotland, rent payable before a crop is gathered. {Fore sheets} (Naut.), the forward portion of a rowboat; the space beyond the front thwart. See {Stern sheets}. {Fore shore}. (a) A bank in advance of a sea wall, to break the force of the surf. (b) The seaward projecting, slightly inclined portion of a breakwater. --Knight. (c) The part of the shore between high and low water marks. {Fore sight}, that one of the two sights of a gun which is near the muzzle. {Fore tackle} (Naut.), the tackle on the foremast of a ship. {Fore topmast}. (Naut.) See {Fore-topmast}, in the Vocabulary. {Fore wind}, a favorable wind. [Obs.] Sailed on smooth seas, by fore winds borne. --Sandys. {Fore world}, the antediluvian world. [R.] --Southey. | |
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Fore \Fore\, a. [See {Fore}, adv.] 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 free will of the subject is preserved, while it is directed by the fore purpose of the state. --Southey. Note: Fore is much used adjectively or in composition. {Fore bay}, a reservoir or canal between a mill race and a water wheel; the discharging end of a pond or mill race. {Fore body} (Shipbuilding), the part of a ship forward of the largest cross-section, distinguisched from middle body abd after body. {Fore boot}, a receptacle in the front of a vehicle, for stowing baggage, etc. {Fore bow}, the pommel of a saddle. --Knight. {Fore cabin}, a cabin in the fore part of a ship, usually with inferior accommodations. {Fore carriage}. (a) The forward part of the running gear of a four-wheeled vehicle. (b) A small carriage at the front end of a plow beam. {Fore course} (Naut.), the lowermost sail on the foremost of a square-rigged vessel; the foresail. See Illust. under {Sail}. {Fore door}. Same as {Front door}. {Fore edge}, the front edge of a book or folded sheet, etc. {Fore elder}, an ancestor. [Prov. Eng.] {Fore end}. (a) The end which precedes; the earlier, or the nearer, part; the beginning. I have . . . paid More pious debts to heaven, than in all The fore end of my time. --Shak. (b) In firearms, the wooden stock under the barrel, forward of the trigger guard, or breech frame. {Fore girth}, a girth for the fore part (of a horse, etc.); a martingale. {Fore hammer}, a sledge hammer, working alternately, or in time, with the hand hammer. {Fore leg}, one of the front legs of a quadruped, or multiped, or of a chair, settee, etc. {Fore peak} (Naut.), the angle within a ship's bows; the portion of the hold which is farthest forward. {Fore piece}, a front piece, as the flap in the fore part of a sidesaddle, to guard the rider's dress. {Fore plane}, a carpenter's plane, in size and use between a jack plane and a smoothing plane. --Knight. {Fore reading}, previous perusal. [Obs.] --Hales. {Fore rent}, in Scotland, rent payable before a crop is gathered. {Fore sheets} (Naut.), the forward portion of a rowboat; the space beyond the front thwart. See {Stern sheets}. {Fore shore}. (a) A bank in advance of a sea wall, to break the force of the surf. (b) The seaward projecting, slightly inclined portion of a breakwater. --Knight. (c) The part of the shore between high and low water marks. {Fore sight}, that one of the two sights of a gun which is near the muzzle. {Fore tackle} (Naut.), the tackle on the foremast of a ship. {Fore topmast}. (Naut.) See {Fore-topmast}, in the Vocabulary. {Fore wind}, a favorable wind. [Obs.] Sailed on smooth seas, by fore winds borne. --Sandys. {Fore world}, the antediluvian world. [R.] --Southey. | |
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Fore \Fore\, a. [See {Fore}, adv.] 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 free will of the subject is preserved, while it is directed by the fore purpose of the state. --Southey. Note: Fore is much used adjectively or in composition. {Fore bay}, a reservoir or canal between a mill race and a water wheel; the discharging end of a pond or mill race. {Fore body} (Shipbuilding), the part of a ship forward of the largest cross-section, distinguisched from middle body abd after body. {Fore boot}, a receptacle in the front of a vehicle, for stowing baggage, etc. {Fore bow}, the pommel of a saddle. --Knight. {Fore cabin}, a cabin in the fore part of a ship, usually with inferior accommodations. {Fore carriage}. (a) The forward part of the running gear of a four-wheeled vehicle. (b) A small carriage at the front end of a plow beam. {Fore course} (Naut.), the lowermost sail on the foremost of a square-rigged vessel; the foresail. See Illust. under {Sail}. {Fore door}. Same as {Front door}. {Fore edge}, the front edge of a book or folded sheet, etc. {Fore elder}, an ancestor. [Prov. Eng.] {Fore end}. (a) The end which precedes; the earlier, or the nearer, part; the beginning. I have . . . paid More pious debts to heaven, than in all The fore end of my time. --Shak. (b) In firearms, the wooden stock under the barrel, forward of the trigger guard, or breech frame. {Fore girth}, a girth for the fore part (of a horse, etc.); a martingale. {Fore hammer}, a sledge hammer, working alternately, or in time, with the hand hammer. {Fore leg}, one of the front legs of a quadruped, or multiped, or of a chair, settee, etc. {Fore peak} (Naut.), the angle within a ship's bows; the portion of the hold which is farthest forward. {Fore piece}, a front piece, as the flap in the fore part of a sidesaddle, to guard the rider's dress. {Fore plane}, a carpenter's plane, in size and use between a jack plane and a smoothing plane. --Knight. {Fore reading}, previous perusal. [Obs.] --Hales. {Fore rent}, in Scotland, rent payable before a crop is gathered. {Fore sheets} (Naut.), the forward portion of a rowboat; the space beyond the front thwart. See {Stern sheets}. {Fore shore}. (a) A bank in advance of a sea wall, to break the force of the surf. (b) The seaward projecting, slightly inclined portion of a breakwater. --Knight. (c) The part of the shore between high and low water marks. {Fore sight}, that one of the two sights of a gun which is near the muzzle. {Fore tackle} (Naut.), the tackle on the foremast of a ship. {Fore topmast}. (Naut.) See {Fore-topmast}, in the Vocabulary. {Fore wind}, a favorable wind. [Obs.] Sailed on smooth seas, by fore winds borne. --Sandys. {Fore world}, the antediluvian world. [R.] --Southey. | |
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Foregoer \Fore*go"er\, n. 1. One who goes before another; a predecessor; hence, an ancestor' a progenitor. 2. A purveyor of the king; -- so called, formerly, from going before to provide for his household. [Obs.] | |
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Foregoer \Fore*go"er\, n. [Etymologically forgoer.] One who forbears to enjoy. | |
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Foreground \Fore"ground`\, n. 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. | |
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Foreseer \Fore*se"er\, n. One who foresees or foreknows. | |
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Foreshorten \Fore*short"en\, v. t. 1. (Fine Art) To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective. 2. Fig.: To represent pictorially to the imagination. Songs, and deeds, and lives that lie Foreshortened in the tract of time. --Tennyson. | |
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Foreshortening \Fore*short"en*ing\, n. (Fine Arts) Representation in a foreshortened mode or way. | |
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Foreshower \Fore*show"er\, n. One who predicts. | |
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Foreskirt \Fore"skirt`\, n. The front skirt of a garment, in distinction from the train. Honor's train Is longer than his foreskirt. --Shak. | |
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Foreswart \Fore"swart`\, Foreswart \Fore"swart`\, a. [Obs.] See {Forswat}. | |
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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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Forger \For"ger\, n.[Cf. F. forgeur metal worker, L. fabricator artificer. See {Forge}, n. & v. t., and cf. {Fabricator}.] One who forges, makes, of forms; a fabricator; a falsifier. 2. Especially: One guilty of forgery; one who makes or issues a counterfeit document. | |
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Forgery \For"ger*y\, n.; pl. {Forgeries}. [Cf. F. forgerie.] 1. The act of forging metal into shape. [Obs.] Useless the forgery Of brazen shield and spear. --Milton. 2. 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. --Bouvier. 3. That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised, or counterfeited. These are the forgeries of jealously. --Shak. The writings going under the name of Aristobulus were a forgery of the second century. --Waterland. Syn: {Counterfeit}; {Forgery}. Usage: Counterfeit is chiefly used of imitations of coin, or of paper money, or of securities depending upon pictorial devices and engraved designs for identity or assurance of genuineness. Forgery is more properly applied to making a false imitation of an instrument depending on signatures to show genuineness and validity. --Abbott. | |
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Forgery \For"ger*y\, n.; pl. {Forgeries}. [Cf. F. forgerie.] 1. The act of forging metal into shape. [Obs.] Useless the forgery Of brazen shield and spear. --Milton. 2. 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. --Bouvier. 3. That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised, or counterfeited. These are the forgeries of jealously. --Shak. The writings going under the name of Aristobulus were a forgery of the second century. --Waterland. Syn: {Counterfeit}; {Forgery}. Usage: Counterfeit is chiefly used of imitations of coin, or of paper money, or of securities depending upon pictorial devices and engraved designs for identity or assurance of genuineness. Forgery is more properly applied to making a false imitation of an instrument depending on signatures to show genuineness and validity. --Abbott. | |
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Forkerve \For*kerve\, v. t. [Obs.] See {Forcarve}, v. t. | |
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Forswear \For*swear"\, v. i. To swear falsely; to commit perjury. --Shak. | |
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Forswear \For*swear"\, v. t. [imp. {Forswore}; p. p. {Forsworn}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Forswearing}.] [OE. forsweren, forswerien, AS. forswerian; pref. for- + swerian to swear. See {For-}, and {Swear}, v. i.] 1. To reject or renounce upon oath; hence, to renounce earnestly, determinedly, or with protestations. I . . . do forswear her. --Shak. 2. To deny upon oath. Like innocence, and as serenely bold As truth, how loudly he forswears thy gold! --Dryden. {To forswear one's self}, to swear falsely; to perjure one's self. [bd]Thou shalt not forswear thyself.[b8] --Matt. v. 33. Syn: See {Perjure}. | |
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Forswearer \For*swear"er\, n. One who rejects of renounces upon oath; one who swears a false oath. | |
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Forswear \For*swear"\, v. t. [imp. {Forswore}; p. p. {Forsworn}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Forswearing}.] [OE. forsweren, forswerien, AS. forswerian; pref. for- + swerian to swear. See {For-}, and {Swear}, v. i.] 1. To reject or renounce upon oath; hence, to renounce earnestly, determinedly, or with protestations. I . . . do forswear her. --Shak. 2. To deny upon oath. Like innocence, and as serenely bold As truth, how loudly he forswears thy gold! --Dryden. {To forswear one's self}, to swear falsely; to perjure one's self. [bd]Thou shalt not forswear thyself.[b8] --Matt. v. 33. Syn: See {Perjure}. | |
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Forswear \For*swear"\, v. t. [imp. {Forswore}; p. p. {Forsworn}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Forswearing}.] [OE. forsweren, forswerien, AS. forswerian; pref. for- + swerian to swear. See {For-}, and {Swear}, v. i.] 1. To reject or renounce upon oath; hence, to renounce earnestly, determinedly, or with protestations. I . . . do forswear her. --Shak. 2. To deny upon oath. Like innocence, and as serenely bold As truth, how loudly he forswears thy gold! --Dryden. {To forswear one's self}, to swear falsely; to perjure one's self. [bd]Thou shalt not forswear thyself.[b8] --Matt. v. 33. Syn: See {Perjure}. | |
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Forswore \For*swore"\, imp. of {Forswear}. | |
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Forswear \For*swear"\, v. t. [imp. {Forswore}; p. p. {Forsworn}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Forswearing}.] [OE. forsweren, forswerien, AS. forswerian; pref. for- + swerian to swear. See {For-}, and {Swear}, v. i.] 1. To reject or renounce upon oath; hence, to renounce earnestly, determinedly, or with protestations. I . . . do forswear her. --Shak. 2. To deny upon oath. Like innocence, and as serenely bold As truth, how loudly he forswears thy gold! --Dryden. {To forswear one's self}, to swear falsely; to perjure one's self. [bd]Thou shalt not forswear thyself.[b8] --Matt. v. 33. Syn: See {Perjure}. | |
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Forsworn \For*sworn"\, p. p. of {Forswear}. | |
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Forswornness \For*sworn"ness\, n. State of being forsworn. [R.] | |
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Four-cornered \Four"-cor`nered\, a. Having four corners or angles. | |
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Fourscore \Four"score`\, a. [Four + core, n.] Four times twenty; eighty. | |
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Fourscore \Four"score`\, n. The product of four times twenty; eighty units or objects. | |
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Foursquare \Four"square`\, a. Having four sides and four equal angles. --Sir W. Raleigh. | |
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Hautboy \Haut"boy\, n. [F. hautbois, lit., high wood; haut high + bois wood. So called on account of its high tone. See {Haughty}, {Bush}; and cf. {Oboe}.] 1. (Mus.) A wind instrument, sounded through a reed, and similar in shape to the clarinet, but with a thinner tone. Now more commonly called {oboe}. See Illust. of {Oboe}. 2. (Bot.) A sort of strawberry ({Fragaria elatior}). | |
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Strawberry \Straw"ber*ry\, n. [AS. stre[a0]wberige; stre[a0]w straw + berie berry; perhaps from the resemblance of the runners of the plant to straws.] (Bot.) A fragrant edible berry, of a delicious taste and commonly of a red color, the fruit of a plant of the genus {Fragaria}, of which there are many varieties. Also, the plant bearing the fruit. The common American strawberry is {Fragaria virginiana}; the European, {F. vesca}. There are also other less common species. {Strawberry bass}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Calico bass}, under {Calico}. {Strawberry blite}. (Bot.) See under {Blite}. {Strawberry borer} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of insects whose larv[91] burrow in the crown or roots of the strawberry vine. Especially: (a) The root borer ({Anarsia lineatella}), a very small dark gray moth whose larv[91] burrow both in the larger roots and crown, often doing great damage. (b) The crown borer ({Tyloderma fragari[91]}), a small brown weevil whose larva burrows in the crown and kills the plant. {Strawberry bush} (Bot.), an American shrub ({Euonymus Americanus}), a kind of spindle tree having crimson pods and the seeds covered with a scarlet aril. {Strawberry crab} (Zo[94]l.), a small European spider crab ({Eurynome aspera}); -- so called because the back is covered with pink tubercles. {Strawberry fish} (Zo[94]l.), the amadavat. {Strawberry geranium} (Bot.), a kind of saxifrage ({Saxifraga sarmentosa}) having reniform leaves, and producing long runners like those of the strawberry. {Strawberry leaf}. (a) The leaf of the strawberry. (b) The symbol of the rank or estate of a duke, because the ducal coronet is twined with strawberry leaves. [bd]The strawberry leaves on her chariot panels are engraved on her ladyship's heart.[b8] --Thackeray. {Strawberry-leaf roller} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of moths whose larv[91] roll up, and feed upon, the leaves of the strawberry vine; especially, {Phoxopteris fragari[91]}, and {Eccopsis permundana}. {Strawberry moth} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of moth whose larv[91] feed on the strawberry vines; as: (a) The smeared dagger ({Apatela oblinita}), whose large hairy larva is velvety black with two rows of bright yellow spots on each side. (b) A geometrid ({Angerona crocataria}) which is yellow with dusky spots on the wings. Called also {currant moth}. {Strawberry pear} (Bot.), the red ovoid fruit of a West Indian plant of the genus Cereus ({C. triangularia}). It has a sweetish flavor, and is slightly acid, pleasant, and cooling. Also, the plant bearing the fruit. {Strawberry sawfly} (Zo[94]l.), a small black sawfly ({Emphytus maculatus}) whose larva eats the leaves of the strawberry vine. {Strawberry tomato}. (Bot.) See {Alkekengi}. {Strawberry tree}. (Bot.) See {Arbutus}. {Strawberry vine} (Bot.), the plant which yields the strawberry. {Strawberry worm} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of any moth which feeds on the strawberry vine. | |
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Fragrance \Fra"grance\, Fragrancy \Fra"gran*cy\, n. [L. fragrantia: cf. OF. fragrance.] The quality of being fragrant; sweetness of smell; a sweet smell; a pleasing odor; perfume. Eve separate he spies, Veiled in a cloud of fragrance. --Milton. The goblet crowned, Breathed aromatic fragrancies around. --Pope. | |
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Fragrance \Fra"grance\, Fragrancy \Fra"gran*cy\, n. [L. fragrantia: cf. OF. fragrance.] The quality of being fragrant; sweetness of smell; a sweet smell; a pleasing odor; perfume. Eve separate he spies, Veiled in a cloud of fragrance. --Milton. The goblet crowned, Breathed aromatic fragrancies around. --Pope. | |
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Fragrant \Fra"grant\, a. [L. fragrans. -antis, p. pr. of fragrare to emit a smell of fragrance: cf. OF. fragrant.] Affecting the olfactory nerves agreeably; sweet of smell; odorous; having or emitting an agreeable perfume. Fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers. --Milton. Syn: Sweet-smelling; odorous; odoriferous; sweet-scented; redolent; ambrosial; balmy; spicy; aromatic. -- {Fra"grant*ly}, adv. | |
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Fragrant \Fra"grant\, a. [L. fragrans. -antis, p. pr. of fragrare to emit a smell of fragrance: cf. OF. fragrant.] Affecting the olfactory nerves agreeably; sweet of smell; odorous; having or emitting an agreeable perfume. Fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers. --Milton. Syn: Sweet-smelling; odorous; odoriferous; sweet-scented; redolent; ambrosial; balmy; spicy; aromatic. -- {Fra"grant*ly}, adv. | |
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Calumba \Ca*lum"ba\, n. [from kalumb, its native name in Mozambique.] (Med.) The root of a plant ({Jateorrhiza Calumba}, and probably {Cocculus palmatus}), indigenous in Mozambique. It has an unpleasantly bitter taste, and is used as a tonic and antiseptic. [Written also {colombo}, {columbo}, and {calombo}.] {American calumba}, the {Frasera Carolinensis}, also called {American gentian}. Its root has been used in medicine as bitter tonic in place of calumba. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Free \Free\ (fr[emac]), a. [Compar. {Freer} (-[etil]r); superl. {Freest} (-[ecr]st).] [OE. fre, freo, AS. fre[a2], fr[c6]; akin to D. vrij, OS. & OHG. fr[c6], G. frei, Icel. fr[c6], Sw. & Dan. fri, Goth. freis, and also to Skr. prija beloved, dear, fr. pr[c6] to love, Goth. frij[omac]n. Cf. {Affray}, {Belfry}, {Friday}, {Friend}, {Frith} inclosure.] 1. Exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow one's own impulses, desires, or inclinations; determining one's own course of action; not dependent; at liberty. That which has the power, or not the power, to operate, is that alone which is or is not free. --Locke. 2. Not under an arbitrary or despotic government; subject only to fixed laws regularly and fairly administered, and defended by them from encroachments upon natural or acquired rights; enjoying political liberty. 3. Liberated, by arriving at a certain age, from the control of parents, guardian, or master. 4. Not confined or imprisoned; released from arrest; liberated; at liberty to go. Set an unhappy prisoner free. --Prior. 5. Not subjected to the laws of physical necessity; capable of voluntary activity; endowed with moral liberty; -- said of the will. Not free, what proof could they have given sincere Of true allegiance, constant faith, or love. --Milton. 6. Clear of offense or crime; guiltless; innocent. My hands are guilty, but my heart is free. --Dryden. 7. Unconstrained by timidity or distrust; unreserved; ingenuous; frank; familiar; communicative. He was free only with a few. --Milward. 8. Unrestrained; immoderate; lavish; licentious; -- used in a bad sense. The critics have been very free in their censures. --Felton. A man may live a free life as to wine or women. --Shelley. 9. Not close or parsimonious; liberal; open-handed; lavish; as, free with his money. 10. Exempt; clear; released; liberated; not encumbered or troubled with; as, free from pain; free from a burden; -- followed by from, or, rarely, by of. Princes declaring themselves free from the obligations of their treaties. --Bp. Burnet. 11. Characteristic of one acting without restraint; charming; easy. 12. Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited; as, a free horse. 13. Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special rights; -- followed by of. He therefore makes all birds, of every sect, Free of his farm. --Dryden. 14. Thrown open, or made accessible, to all; to be enjoyed without limitations; unrestricted; not obstructed, engrossed, or appropriated; open; -- said of a thing to be possessed or enjoyed; as, a free school. Why, sir, I pray, are not the streets as free For me as for you? --Shak. 15. Not gained by importunity or purchase; gratuitous; spontaneous; as, free admission; a free gift. 16. Not arbitrary or despotic; assuring liberty; defending individual rights against encroachment by any person or class; instituted by a free people; -- said of a government, institutions, etc. 17. (O. Eng. Law) Certain or honorable; the opposite of base; as, free service; free socage. --Burrill. 18. (Law) Privileged or individual; the opposite of common; as, a free fishery; a free warren. --Burrill. 19. Not united or combined with anything else; separated; dissevered; unattached; at liberty to escape; as, free carbonic acid gas; free cells. {Free agency}, the capacity or power of choosing or acting freely, or without necessity or constraint upon the will. {Free bench} (Eng. Law), a widow's right in the copyhold lands of her husband, corresponding to dower in freeholds. {Free board} (Naut.), a vessel's side between water line and gunwale. {Free bond} (Chem.), an unsaturated or unemployed unit, or bond, of affinity or valence, of an atom or radical. {Free-borough men} (O.Eng. Law). See {Friborg}. {Free chapel} (Eccles.), a chapel not subject to the jurisdiction of the ordinary, having been founded by the king or by a subject specially authorized. [Eng.] --Bouvier. {Free charge} (Elec.), a charge of electricity in the free or statical condition; free electricity. {Free church}. (a) A church whose sittings are for all and without charge. (b) An ecclesiastical body that left the Church of Scotland, in 1843, to be free from control by the government in spiritual matters. {Free city}, [or] {Free town}, a city or town independent in its government and franchises, as formerly those of the Hanseatic league. {Free cost}, freedom from charges or expenses. --South. {Free and easy}, unconventional; unrestrained; regardless of formalities. [Colloq.] [bd]Sal and her free and easy ways.[b8] --W. Black. {Free goods}, goods admitted into a country free of duty. {Free labor}, the labor of freemen, as distinguished from that of slaves. {Free port}. (Com.) (a) A port where goods may be received and shipped free of custom duty. (b) A port where goods of all kinds are received from ships of all nations at equal rates of duty. {Free public house}, in England, a tavern not belonging to a brewer, so that the landlord is free to brew his own beer or purchase where he chooses. --Simmonds. {Free school}. (a) A school to which pupils are admitted without discrimination and on an equal footing. (b) A school supported by general taxation, by endowmants, etc., where pupils pay nothing for tuition; a public school. {Free services} (O.Eng. Law), such feudal services as were not unbecoming the character of a soldier or a freemen to perform; as, to serve under his lord in war, to pay a sum of money, etc. --Burrill. {Free ships}, ships of neutral nations, which in time of war are free from capture even though carrying enemy's goods. {Free socage} (O.Eng. Law), a feudal tenure held by certain services which, though honorable, were not military. --Abbott. {Free States}, those of the United States before the Civil War, in which slavery had ceased to exist, or had never existed. {Free stuff} (Carp.), timber free from knots; clear stuff. {Free thought}, that which is thought independently of the authority of others. {Free trade}, commerce unrestricted by duties or tariff regulations. {Free trader}, one who believes in free trade. {To make free with}, to take liberties with; to help one's self to. [Colloq.] {To sail free} (Naut.), to sail with the yards not braced in as sharp as when sailing closehauled, or close to the wind. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Free \Free\ (fr[emac]), a. [Compar. {Freer} (-[etil]r); superl. {Freest} (-[ecr]st).] [OE. fre, freo, AS. fre[a2], fr[c6]; akin to D. vrij, OS. & OHG. fr[c6], G. frei, Icel. fr[c6], Sw. & Dan. fri, Goth. freis, and also to Skr. prija beloved, dear, fr. pr[c6] to love, Goth. frij[omac]n. Cf. {Affray}, {Belfry}, {Friday}, {Friend}, {Frith} inclosure.] 1. Exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow one's own impulses, desires, or inclinations; determining one's own course of action; not dependent; at liberty. That which has the power, or not the power, to operate, is that alone which is or is not free. --Locke. 2. Not under an arbitrary or despotic government; subject only to fixed laws regularly and fairly administered, and defended by them from encroachments upon natural or acquired rights; enjoying political liberty. 3. Liberated, by arriving at a certain age, from the control of parents, guardian, or master. 4. Not confined or imprisoned; released from arrest; liberated; at liberty to go. Set an unhappy prisoner free. --Prior. 5. Not subjected to the laws of physical necessity; capable of voluntary activity; endowed with moral liberty; -- said of the will. Not free, what proof could they have given sincere Of true allegiance, constant faith, or love. --Milton. 6. Clear of offense or crime; guiltless; innocent. My hands are guilty, but my heart is free. --Dryden. 7. Unconstrained by timidity or distrust; unreserved; ingenuous; frank; familiar; communicative. He was free only with a few. --Milward. 8. Unrestrained; immoderate; lavish; licentious; -- used in a bad sense. The critics have been very free in their censures. --Felton. A man may live a free life as to wine or women. --Shelley. 9. Not close or parsimonious; liberal; open-handed; lavish; as, free with his money. 10. Exempt; clear; released; liberated; not encumbered or troubled with; as, free from pain; free from a burden; -- followed by from, or, rarely, by of. Princes declaring themselves free from the obligations of their treaties. --Bp. Burnet. 11. Characteristic of one acting without restraint; charming; easy. 12. Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited; as, a free horse. 13. Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special rights; -- followed by of. He therefore makes all birds, of every sect, Free of his farm. --Dryden. 14. Thrown open, or made accessible, to all; to be enjoyed without limitations; unrestricted; not obstructed, engrossed, or appropriated; open; -- said of a thing to be possessed or enjoyed; as, a free school. Why, sir, I pray, are not the streets as free For me as for you? --Shak. 15. Not gained by importunity or purchase; gratuitous; spontaneous; as, free admission; a free gift. 16. Not arbitrary or despotic; assuring liberty; defending individual rights against encroachment by any person or class; instituted by a free people; -- said of a government, institutions, etc. 17. (O. Eng. Law) Certain or honorable; the opposite of base; as, free service; free socage. --Burrill. 18. (Law) Privileged or individual; the opposite of common; as, a free fishery; a free warren. --Burrill. 19. Not united or combined with anything else; separated; dissevered; unattached; at liberty to escape; as, free carbonic acid gas; free cells. {Free agency}, the capacity or power of choosing or acting freely, or without necessity or constraint upon the will. {Free bench} (Eng. Law), a widow's right in the copyhold lands of her husband, corresponding to dower in freeholds. {Free board} (Naut.), a vessel's side between water line and gunwale. {Free bond} (Chem.), an unsaturated or unemployed unit, or bond, of affinity or valence, of an atom or radical. {Free-borough men} (O.Eng. Law). See {Friborg}. {Free chapel} (Eccles.), a chapel not subject to the jurisdiction of the ordinary, having been founded by the king or by a subject specially authorized. [Eng.] --Bouvier. {Free charge} (Elec.), a charge of electricity in the free or statical condition; free electricity. {Free church}. (a) A church whose sittings are for all and without charge. (b) An ecclesiastical body that left the Church of Scotland, in 1843, to be free from control by the government in spiritual matters. {Free city}, [or] {Free town}, a city or town independent in its government and franchises, as formerly those of the Hanseatic league. {Free cost}, freedom from charges or expenses. --South. {Free and easy}, unconventional; unrestrained; regardless of formalities. [Colloq.] [bd]Sal and her free and easy ways.[b8] --W. Black. {Free goods}, goods admitted into a country free of duty. {Free labor}, the labor of freemen, as distinguished from that of slaves. {Free port}. (Com.) (a) A port where goods may be received and shipped free of custom duty. (b) A port where goods of all kinds are received from ships of all nations at equal rates of duty. {Free public house}, in England, a tavern not belonging to a brewer, so that the landlord is free to brew his own beer or purchase where he chooses. --Simmonds. {Free school}. (a) A school to which pupils are admitted without discrimination and on an equal footing. (b) A school supported by general taxation, by endowmants, etc., where pupils pay nothing for tuition; a public school. {Free services} (O.Eng. Law), such feudal services as were not unbecoming the character of a soldier or a freemen to perform; as, to serve under his lord in war, to pay a sum of money, etc. --Burrill. {Free ships}, ships of neutral nations, which in time of war are free from capture even though carrying enemy's goods. {Free socage} (O.Eng. Law), a feudal tenure held by certain services which, though honorable, were not military. --Abbott. {Free States}, those of the United States before the Civil War, in which slavery had ceased to exist, or had never existed. {Free stuff} (Carp.), timber free from knots; clear stuff. {Free thought}, that which is thought independently of the authority of others. {Free trade}, commerce unrestricted by duties or tariff regulations. {Free trader}, one who believes in free trade. {To make free with}, to take liberties with; to help one's self to. [Colloq.] {To sail free} (Naut.), to sail with the yards not braced in as sharp as when sailing closehauled, or close to the wind. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Free \Free\ (fr[emac]), a. [Compar. {Freer} (-[etil]r); superl. {Freest} (-[ecr]st).] [OE. fre, freo, AS. fre[a2], fr[c6]; akin to D. vrij, OS. & OHG. fr[c6], G. frei, Icel. fr[c6], Sw. & Dan. fri, Goth. freis, and also to Skr. prija beloved, dear, fr. pr[c6] to love, Goth. frij[omac]n. Cf. {Affray}, {Belfry}, {Friday}, {Friend}, {Frith} inclosure.] 1. Exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow one's own impulses, desires, or inclinations; determining one's own course of action; not dependent; at liberty. That which has the power, or not the power, to operate, is that alone which is or is not free. --Locke. 2. Not under an arbitrary or despotic government; subject only to fixed laws regularly and fairly administered, and defended by them from encroachments upon natural or acquired rights; enjoying political liberty. 3. Liberated, by arriving at a certain age, from the control of parents, guardian, or master. 4. Not confined or imprisoned; released from arrest; liberated; at liberty to go. Set an unhappy prisoner free. --Prior. 5. Not subjected to the laws of physical necessity; capable of voluntary activity; endowed with moral liberty; -- said of the will. Not free, what proof could they have given sincere Of true allegiance, constant faith, or love. --Milton. 6. Clear of offense or crime; guiltless; innocent. My hands are guilty, but my heart is free. --Dryden. 7. Unconstrained by timidity or distrust; unreserved; ingenuous; frank; familiar; communicative. He was free only with a few. --Milward. 8. Unrestrained; immoderate; lavish; licentious; -- used in a bad sense. The critics have been very free in their censures. --Felton. A man may live a free life as to wine or women. --Shelley. 9. Not close or parsimonious; liberal; open-handed; lavish; as, free with his money. 10. Exempt; clear; released; liberated; not encumbered or troubled with; as, free from pain; free from a burden; -- followed by from, or, rarely, by of. Princes declaring themselves free from the obligations of their treaties. --Bp. Burnet. 11. Characteristic of one acting without restraint; charming; easy. 12. Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited; as, a free horse. 13. Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special rights; -- followed by of. He therefore makes all birds, of every sect, Free of his farm. --Dryden. 14. Thrown open, or made accessible, to all; to be enjoyed without limitations; unrestricted; not obstructed, engrossed, or appropriated; open; -- said of a thing to be possessed or enjoyed; as, a free school. Why, sir, I pray, are not the streets as free For me as for you? --Shak. 15. Not gained by importunity or purchase; gratuitous; spontaneous; as, free admission; a free gift. 16. Not arbitrary or despotic; assuring liberty; defending individual rights against encroachment by any person or class; instituted by a free people; -- said of a government, institutions, etc. 17. (O. Eng. Law) Certain or honorable; the opposite of base; as, free service; free socage. --Burrill. 18. (Law) Privileged or individual; the opposite of common; as, a free fishery; a free warren. --Burrill. 19. Not united or combined with anything else; separated; dissevered; unattached; at liberty to escape; as, free carbonic acid gas; free cells. {Free agency}, the capacity or power of choosing or acting freely, or without necessity or constraint upon the will. {Free bench} (Eng. Law), a widow's right in the copyhold lands of her husband, corresponding to dower in freeholds. {Free board} (Naut.), a vessel's side between water line and gunwale. {Free bond} (Chem.), an unsaturated or unemployed unit, or bond, of affinity or valence, of an atom or radical. {Free-borough men} (O.Eng. Law). See {Friborg}. {Free chapel} (Eccles.), a chapel not subject to the jurisdiction of the ordinary, having been founded by the king or by a subject specially authorized. [Eng.] --Bouvier. {Free charge} (Elec.), a charge of electricity in the free or statical condition; free electricity. {Free church}. (a) A church whose sittings are for all and without charge. (b) An ecclesiastical body that left the Church of Scotland, in 1843, to be free from control by the government in spiritual matters. {Free city}, [or] {Free town}, a city or town independent in its government and franchises, as formerly those of the Hanseatic league. {Free cost}, freedom from charges or expenses. --South. {Free and easy}, unconventional; unrestrained; regardless of formalities. [Colloq.] [bd]Sal and her free and easy ways.[b8] --W. Black. {Free goods}, goods admitted into a country free of duty. {Free labor}, the labor of freemen, as distinguished from that of slaves. {Free port}. (Com.) (a) A port where goods may be received and shipped free of custom duty. (b) A port where goods of all kinds are received from ships of all nations at equal rates of duty. {Free public house}, in England, a tavern not belonging to a brewer, so that the landlord is free to brew his own beer or purchase where he chooses. --Simmonds. {Free school}. (a) A school to which pupils are admitted without discrimination and on an equal footing. (b) A school supported by general taxation, by endowmants, etc., where pupils pay nothing for tuition; a public school. {Free services} (O.Eng. Law), such feudal services as were not unbecoming the character of a soldier or a freemen to perform; as, to serve under his lord in war, to pay a sum of money, etc. --Burrill. {Free ships}, ships of neutral nations, which in time of war are free from capture even though carrying enemy's goods. {Free socage} (O.Eng. Law), a feudal tenure held by certain services which, though honorable, were not military. --Abbott. {Free States}, those of the United States before the Civil War, in which slavery had ceased to exist, or had never existed. {Free stuff} (Carp.), timber free from knots; clear stuff. {Free thought}, that which is thought independently of the authority of others. {Free trade}, commerce unrestricted by duties or tariff regulations. {Free trader}, one who believes in free trade. {To make free with}, to take liberties with; to help one's self to. [Colloq.] {To sail free} (Naut.), to sail with the yards not braced in as sharp as when sailing closehauled, or close to the wind. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Freezer \Freez"er\, n. One who, or that which, cools or freezes, as a refrigerator, or the tub and can used in the process of freezing ice cream. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Friezer \Frie"zer\, n. One who, or that which, friezes or frizzes. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Frigerate \Frig"er*ate\, e. t. [L. frigerare, fr. frigus cold.] To make cool. [Obs.] --Blount. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Frigorific \Frig"o*rif"ic\, Frigorifical \Frig"o*rif`ic*al\a. [L. frigorificus; frigus, frigoris, cold + facere to make: cf. F. frigorifique.] Causing cold; producing or generating cold. --Quincy. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Frigorific \Frig"o*rif"ic\, Frigorifical \Frig"o*rif`ic*al\a. [L. frigorificus; frigus, frigoris, cold + facere to make: cf. F. frigorifique.] Causing cold; producing or generating cold. --Quincy. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Frisker \Frisker\, n. One who frisks; one who leaps of dances in gayety; a wanton; an inconstant or unsettled person. --Camden. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Furzeling \Furze"ling\, n. (Zo[94]l.) An English warbler ({Melizophilus provincialis}); -- called also {furze wren}, and {Dartford warbler}. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Fair Grove, MO (city, FIPS 23338) Location: 37.38259 N, 93.15138 W Population (1990): 919 (371 housing units) Area: 7.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 65648 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Fair Oaks Ranch, TX (city, FIPS 25168) Location: 29.73607 N, 98.63564 W Population (1990): 1860 (719 housing units) Area: 15.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Fairgrove, MI (village, FIPS 27080) Location: 43.52402 N, 83.54165 W Population (1990): 592 (233 housing units) Area: 2.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 48733 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Fircrest, WA (town, FIPS 23970) Location: 47.23115 N, 122.51297 W Population (1990): 5258 (2224 housing units) Area: 2.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 98466 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Foraker, IN Zip code(s): 46526 Foraker, OK (town, FIPS 26750) Location: 36.87259 N, 96.56896 W Population (1990): 25 (14 housing units) Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 74652 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Four Corners, OR (CDP, FIPS 26750) Location: 44.92900 N, 122.96987 W Population (1990): 12156 (4840 housing units) Area: 7.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Four Corners, WY Zip code(s): 82715 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Fraser, CO (town, FIPS 28305) Location: 39.93700 N, 105.79445 W Population (1990): 575 (557 housing units) Area: 3.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Fraser, IA (city, FIPS 28920) Location: 42.12685 N, 93.97367 W Population (1990): 120 (67 housing units) Area: 2.2 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Fraser, MI (city, FIPS 30420) Location: 42.53975 N, 82.94860 W Population (1990): 13899 (5342 housing units) Area: 10.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 48026 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Frazer, MT (CDP, FIPS 29275) Location: 48.05248 N, 106.04987 W Population (1990): 403 (130 housing units) Area: 4.3 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Frazer, PA Zip code(s): 19355 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Frazier Park, CA (CDP, FIPS 25534) Location: 34.82212 N, 118.94531 W Population (1990): 2201 (1200 housing units) Area: 2.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 93225 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Fraziers Bottom, WV Zip code(s): 25082 | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
foreground vt. [Unix; common] To bring a task to the top of one's {stack} for immediate processing, and hackers often use it in this sense for non-computer tasks. "If your presentation is due next week, I guess I'd better foreground writing up the design document." Technically, on a time-sharing system, a task executing in foreground is one able to accept input from and return output to the user; oppose {background}. Nowadays this term is primarily associated with {{Unix}}, but it appears first to have been used in this sense on OS/360. Normally, there is only one foreground task per terminal (or terminal window); having multiple processes simultaneously reading the keyboard is a good way to {lose}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
foreground (Unix) On a {time-sharing} system, a task executing in foreground is one able to accept input from and return output to the user in contrast to one running in the {background}. Nowadays this term is primarily associated with {Unix}, but it appears first to have been used in this sense on {OS/360}. Normally, there is only one foreground task per terminal (or terminal window). Having multiple processes simultaneously reading the keyboard is confusing. [{Jargon File}] (1994-10-24) |