English Dictionary: fief | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fap \Fap\, a. Fuddled. [Obs.] --Shak. | |
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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. | |
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Feoff \Feoff\, n. (Law) A fief. See {Fief}. | |
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Feoffee \Feof*fee"\ (?; 277), n. [OF. feoff[82].] (Law) The person to whom a feoffment is made; the person enfeoffed. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fib \Fib\, n. [Prob. fr. fable; cf. Prov. E. fibble-fabble nonsense.] A falsehood; a lie; -- used euphemistically. They are very serious; they don't tell fibs. --H. James. | |
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Fib \Fib\, v. t. To tell a fib to. [R.] --De Quincey. | |
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Fib \Fib\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Fibbed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fibbing}.] To speak falsely. [Colloq.] | |
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Fief \Fief\, n. [F. fief; of German origin, and the same word as E. fee. See {Fee}, and cf. {Feud}, a tief.] (Law) An estate held of a superior on condition of military service; a fee; a feud. See under {Benefice}, n., 2. | |
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]: | |
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]: | |
Five \Five\ (f[imac]v), n. 1. The number next greater than four, and less than six; five units or objects. Five of them were wise, and five were foolish. --Matt. xxv. 2. 2. A symbol representing this number, as 5, or V. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Five \Five\, a. [OE. fif, five, AS. f[c6]f, f[c6]fe; akin to D. vijf, OS. f[c6]f, OHG. finf, funf, G. f[81]nf, Icel. fimm, Sw. & Sw. Dan. fem, Goth. fimf, Lith. penki, W. pump, OIr. c[a2]ic, L. quinque, Gr. [?], [92]ol. [?], Skr. pa[?]can. [root]303. Cf. {Fifth}, {Cinque}, {Pentagon}, {Punch} the drink, {Quinary}.] Four and one added; one more than four. | |
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Fob \Fob\, n. [Cf. Prov. G. fuppe pocket.] A little pocket for a watch. {Fob chain}, a short watch chain worn a watch carried in the fob. | |
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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. | |
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Fop \Fop\, n. [OE. foppe, fop, fool; cf. E. fob to cheat, G. foppen to make a fool of one, jeer, D. foppen.] One whose ambition it is to gain admiration by showy dress; a coxcomb; an inferior dandy. | |
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d8Fovea \[d8]Fo"ve*a\, n.; pl. {Fove[91]}. [L., a small pit.] A slight depression or pit; a fossa. | |
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Fub \Fub\, Fubs \Fubs\, n. [Cf. {Fob} a pocket.] A plump young person or child. [Obs.] --Smart. | |
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Fub \Fub\, v. t. [The same word as fob to cheat.] To put off by trickery; to cheat. [Obs.] I have been fubbed off, and fubbed off, and fabbed off, from this day to that day. --Shak. | |
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Fubby \Fub"by\, Fubsy \Fub"sy\a. Plump; chubby; short and stuffy; as a fubsy sofa. [Eng.] A fubsy, good-humored, silly . . . old maid. --Mme. D'Arblay. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fuff \Fuff\, v. t. & i. [Of imitative origin. Cf. {Puff}.] To puff. [Prov. Eng. A Local, U. S.] --Halliwel. | |
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Fuffy \Fuff"y\, a. Light; puffy. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U. S.] | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Fife, TX Zip code(s): 76825 Fife, WA (city, FIPS 23795) Location: 47.23995 N, 122.36136 W Population (1990): 3864 (2152 housing units) Area: 7.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 98424 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Fyffe, AL (town, FIPS 28672) Location: 34.45098 N, 85.90636 W Population (1990): 1094 (455 housing units) Area: 13.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 35971 | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
feep /feep/ 1. n. The soft electronic `bell' sound of a display terminal (except for a VT-52); a beep (in fact, the microcomputer world seems to prefer {beep}). 2. vi. To cause the display to make a feep sound. ASR-33s (the original TTYs) do not feep; they have mechanical bells that ring. Alternate forms: {beep}, `bleep', or just about anything suitably onomatopoeic. (Jeff MacNelly, in his comic strip "Shoe", uses the word `eep' for sounds made by computer terminals and video games; this is perhaps the closest written approximation yet.) The term `breedle' was sometimes heard at SAIL, where the terminal bleepers are not particularly soft (they sound more like the musical equivalent of a raspberry or Bronx cheer; for a close approximation, imagine the sound of a Star Trek communicator's beep lasting for five seconds). The `feeper' on a VT-52 has been compared to the sound of a '52 Chevy stripping its gears. See also {ding}. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
FOAF // n. [Usenet; common] Acronym for `Friend Of A Friend'. The source of an unverified, possibly untrue story. This term was not originated by hackers (it is used in Jan Brunvand's books on urban folklore), but is much better recognized on Usenet and elsewhere than in mainstream English. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
FAP The {assembly language} for {Sperry-Rand 1103} and 1103A. [Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)]. (1994-12-16) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
feep /feep/ 1. The soft electronic "bell" sound of a display terminal (except for a VT-52); a beep (in fact, the microcomputer world seems to prefer {beep}). 2. To cause the display to make a feep sound. ASR-33s (the original TTYs) do not feep; they have mechanical bells that ring. Alternate forms: {beep}, "bleep", or just about anything suitably onomatopoeic. (Jeff MacNelly, in his comic strip "Shoe", uses the word "eep" for sounds made by computer terminals and video games; this is perhaps the closest written approximation yet.) The term "breedle" was sometimes heard at SAIL, where the terminal bleepers are not particularly soft (they sound more like the musical equivalent of a raspberry or Bronx cheer; for a close approximation, imagine the sound of a Star Trek communicator's beep lasting for five seconds). The "feeper" on a VT-52 has been compared to the sound of a '52 Chevy stripping its gears. See also {ding}. [{Jargon File}] | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
FIFO {first-in first-out} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
FOAF [{Usenet}] Friend Of A Friend. The source of an unverified, possibly untrue story. This term was not originated by hackers (it is used in Jan Brunvand's books on urban folklore), but is much better recognised on {Usenet} and elsewhere than in mainstream English. [{Jargon File}] | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
FoIP {Fax over IP} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
FOOP OBJ2 plus object-orientation. "Extensions and Foundations for Object-Oriented Programming", J. Goguen et al, in Research Directions in Object-Oriented Programming, B. Shriver et al eds, MIT Press 1987. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
fweep ({WPI}) One step below a {gweep}, a person who uses the system solely to play games and use {electronic mail}. Compare {dweeb}, {twink}, {terminal junkie}, {tourist}, {weenie}. (1995-01-31) |