English Dictionary: fibbing | by the DICT Development Group |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bluebill \Blue"bill`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A duck of the genus {Fuligula}. Two American species ({F. marila} and {F. affinis}) are common. See {Scaup duck}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Feoff \Feoff\ (?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Feoffed}; p. pr. & vb. n.. {Feoffing}.] [OE. feffen, OF. feffer, fieffer, F. fieffer, fr. fief fief; cf. LL. feoffare, fefare. See {Fief}.] (Law) To invest with a fee or feud; to give or grant a corporeal hereditament to; to enfeoff. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fib \Fib\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Fibbed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fibbing}.] To speak falsely. [Colloq.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fife \Fife\, n. [F. fifre, OHG. pf[c6]fa, LL. pipa pipe, pipare to play on the pipe, fr. L. pipire, pipare, to peep, pip, chirp, as a chiken. See {Pipe}.] (Mus.) A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music. {Fife major} (Mil.), a noncommissioned officer who superintends the fifers of a regiment. {Fife rail}. (Naut.) (a) A rail about the mast, at the deck, to hold belaying pins, etc. (b) A railing around the break of a poop deck. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fife \Fife\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Fifed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {fifing}.] To play on a fife. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fob \Fob\, v.t. [imp. & p. p. {Fobbed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fobbing}.] [Cf.Fop.] 1. To beat; to maul. [Obs.] 2. To cheat; to trick; to impose on. --Shak. {To fob off}, to shift off by an artifice; to put aside; to delude with a trick."A conspiracy of bishops could prostrate and fob off the right of the people." --Milton. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Fabens, TX (CDP, FIPS 25032) Location: 31.50800 N, 106.15379 W Population (1990): 5599 (1499 housing units) Area: 10.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
feeping creature n. [from {feeping creaturism}] An unnecessary feature; a bit of {chrome} that, in the speaker's judgment, is the camel's nose for a whole horde of new features. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
feeping creaturism /fee'ping kree`ch*r-izm/ n. A deliberate spoonerism for {creeping featurism}, meant to imply that the system or program in question has become a misshapen creature of hacks. This term isn't really well defined, but it sounds so neat that most hackers have said or heard it. It is probably reinforced by an image of terminals prowling about in the dark making their customary noises. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
feeping creature [{feeping creaturism}] An unnecessary feature; a bit of {chrome} that, in the speaker's judgment, is the camel's nose for a whole horde of new features. [{Jargon File}] | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
feeping creaturism /fee'ping kree"ch*r-izm/ A deliberate spoonerism for {creeping featurism}, meant to imply that the system or program in question has become a misshapen creature of hacks. This term isn"t really well defined, but it sounds so neat that most hackers have said or heard it. It is probably reinforced by an image of terminals prowling about in the dark making their customary noises. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Fibonacci sequence 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, ... in which each term is the sum of the two terms preceding it. The ratio of successive Fibonacci terms tends to the {golden ratio}, namely (1 + sqrt 5)/2. [Why not "Fibonacci {series}"?] (2002-10-15) |