English Dictionary: faker | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fakir \Fa"kir\, n. [Ar. faq[c6]r poor.] An Oriental religious ascetic or begging monk. [Written also {faquir} anf {fakeer}.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Faker \Fak"er\, n. [Often erroneously with fakir.] One who fakes something, as a thief, a peddler of petty things, a workman who dresses things up, etc. [Slang] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fakir \Fa"kir\, n. [Prob. confused with {Fakir} an oriental ascetic.] See {Faker}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fakir \Fa"kir\, n. [Ar. faq[c6]r poor.] An Oriental religious ascetic or begging monk. [Written also {faquir} anf {fakeer}.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fakir \Fa"kir\, n. [Ar. faq[c6]r poor.] An Oriental religious ascetic or begging monk. [Written also {faquir} anf {fakeer}.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Faquir \Fa*quir"\, n. See {Fakir}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fakir \Fa"kir\, n. [Ar. faq[c6]r poor.] An Oriental religious ascetic or begging monk. [Written also {faquir} anf {fakeer}.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Faquir \Fa*quir"\, n. See {Fakir}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Faser \Fa"ser\, n. 1. One who faces; one who puts on a false show; a bold-faced person. [Obs.] There be no greater talkers, nor boasters, nor fasers. --Latimer. 2. A blow in the face, as in boxing; hence, any severe or stunning check or defeat, as in controversy. [Collog.] I should have been a stercoraceous mendicant if I had hollowed when I got a facer. --C. Kingsley. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Figary \Fig"a*ry\, n. [Corrupted fr. vagary.] A frolic; a vagary; a whim. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Figure \Fig"ure\ (?; 135), n. [F., figure, L. figura; akin to fingere to form, shape, feign. See {Feign}.] 1. The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance. Flowers have all exquisite figures. --Bacon. 2. The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modeling, carving, embroidering, etc.; especially, a representation of the human body; as, a figure in bronze; a figure cut in marble. A coin that bears the figure of an angel. --Shak. 3. A pattern in cloth, paper, or other manufactured article; a design wrought out in a fabric; as, the muslin was of a pretty figure. 4. (Geom.) A diagram or drawing; made to represent a magnitude or the relation of two or more magnitudes; a surface or space inclosed on all sides; -- called superficial when inclosed by lines, and solid when inclosed by surface; any arrangement made up of points, lines, angles, surfaces, etc. 5. The appearance or impression made by the conduct or carrer of a person; as, a sorry figure. I made some figure there. --Dryden. Gentlemen of the best figure in the county. --Blackstone. 6. Distinguished appearance; magnificence; conspicuous representation; splendor; show. That he may live in figure and indulgence. --Law. 7. A character or symbol representing a number; a numeral; a digit; as, 1, 2,3, etc. 8. Value, as expressed in numbers; price; as, the goods are estimated or sold at a low figure. [Colloq.] With nineteen thousand a year at the very lowest figure. --Thackeray. 9. A person, thing, or action, conceived of as analogous to another person, thing, or action, of which it thus becomes a type or representative. Who is the figure of Him that was to come. --Rom. v. 14. 10. (Rhet.) A mode of expressing abstract or immaterial ideas by words which suggest pictures or images from the physical world; pictorial language; a trope; hence, any deviation from the plainest form of statement. To represent the imagination under the figure of a wing. --Macaulay. 11. (Logic) The form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term. 12. (Dancing) Any one of the several regular steps or movements made by a dancer. 13. (Astrol.) A horoscope; the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses. --Johnson. 14. (Music) (a) Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression. --Grove. (b) A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a musical or motive; a florid embellishment. Note: Figures are often written upon the staff in music to denote the kind of measure. They are usually in the form of a fraction, the upper figure showing how many notes of the kind indicated by the lower are contained in one measure or bar. Thus, 2/4 signifies that the measure contains two quarter notes. The following are the principal figures used for this purpose: | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Figure \Fig"ure\, v. t. 1. To make a figure; to be distinguished or conspicious; as, the envoy figured at court. Sociable, hospitable, eloquent, admired, figuring away brilliantly. --M. Arnold. 2. To calculate; to contrive; to scheme; as, he is figuring to secure the nomination. [Colloq.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Figure \Fig"ure\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Figured}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Figuring}.] [F. figurer, L. figurare, fr. figura. See {Figure}, n.] 1. To represent by a figure, as to form or mold; to make an image of, either palpable or ideal; also, to fashion into a determinate form; to shape. If love, alas! be pain I bear, No thought can figure, and no tongue declare.Prior. 2. To embellish with design; to adorn with figures. The vaulty top of heaven Figured quite o'er with burning meteors. --Shak. 3. To indicate by numerals; also, to compute. As through a crystal glass the figured hours are seen. --Dryden. 4. To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize. Whose white vestments figure innocence. --Shak. 5. To prefigure; to foreshow. In this the heaven figures some event. --Shak. 6. (Mus.) (a) To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords. (b) To embellish. {To figure out}, to solve; to compute or find the result of. {To figure up}, to add; to reckon; to compute the amount of. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fisher \Fish"er\, n. [AS. fiscere.] 1. One who fishes. 2. (Zo[94]l.) A carnivorous animal of the Weasel family ({Mustela Canadensis}); the pekan; the [bd]black cat.[b8] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fishery \Fish"er*y\, n.; pl. {Fisheries}. 1. The business or practice of catching fish; fishing. --Addison. 2. A place for catching fish. 3. (Law) The right to take fish at a certain place, or in particular waters. --Abbott. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fissure \Fis"sure\, n. [L. fissura, fr. findere, fissum, to cleave, split; akin to E. bite: cf. F. fissure.] A narrow opening, made by the parting of any substance; a cleft; as, the fissure of a rock. {Cerebral fissures} (Anat.), the furrows or clefts by which the surface of the cerebrum is divided; esp., the furrows first formed by the infolding of the whole wall of the cerebrum. {Fissure needle} (Surg.), a spiral needle for catching together the gaping lips of wounds. --Knight. {Fissure of rolando} (Anat.), the furrow separating the frontal from the parietal lobe in the cerebrum. {Fissure of Sylvius} (Anat.), a deep cerebral fissure separating the frontal from the temporal lobe. See Illust. under {Brain}. {Fissure vein} (Mining), a crack in the earth's surface filled with mineral matter. --Raymond. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fissure \Fis"sure\, v. t. To cleave; to divide; to crack or fracture. | |
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Fixure \Fix"ure\ (-[usl]r), n. [L. fixura a fastening, fr. figere to fix. See {Fix}, and cf. {Fixture}.] Fixed position; stable condition; firmness. [Obs.] --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fog'ger \Fog'ger\, n. One who fogs; a pettifogger. [Obs.] A beggarly fogger. --Terence in English(1614) | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Foggy \Fog"gy\, a. [Compar. {Foggier}; superl. {Foggiest}.] [From 4th {Fog}.] 1. Filled or abounding with fog, or watery exhalations; misty; as, a foggy atmosphere; a foggy morning. --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Fossores \[d8]Fos*so"res\, n. pl. [NL., fr. L. fossor[?] digger, fr. fodere to dig.] (Zo[94]l.) A group of hymenopterous insects including the sand wasps. They excavate cells in earth, where they deposit their eggs, with the bodies of other insects for the food of the young when hatched. [Written also {Fossoria}.] | |
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Foxery \Fox"e*ry\, n. Behavior like that of a fox; cunning. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Fussy \Fuss"y\, a. [Compar. {Fussier}; superl {Fussiest}.] Making a fuss; disposed to make an unnecessary ado about trifles; overnice; fidgety. Not at all fussy about his personal appearance. --R. G. White. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fussure \Fus"sure\, n. [L. fusura, fr. fundere, fusum. See {Fuse}, v. t.] Act of fusing; fusion. [R.] | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Fischer, TX Zip code(s): 78623 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Fisher, AR (town, FIPS 23800) Location: 35.49147 N, 90.97218 W Population (1990): 245 (118 housing units) Area: 0.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 72429 Fisher, IL (village, FIPS 26194) Location: 40.31578 N, 88.34855 W Population (1990): 1526 (622 housing units) Area: 2.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 61843 Fisher, LA (village, FIPS 25615) Location: 31.49441 N, 93.46026 W Population (1990): 277 (106 housing units) Area: 1.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 71426 Fisher, MN (city, FIPS 21158) Location: 47.79928 N, 96.79962 W Population (1990): 413 (172 housing units) Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 56723 Fisher, PA Zip code(s): 16225 Fisher, WV Zip code(s): 26818 | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Fisher Besides its literal sense (Luke 5:2), this word is also applied by our Lord to his disciples in a figurative sense (Matt. 4:19; Mark 1:17). |