English Dictionary: fine art | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fenerate \Fen"er*ate\, v. i. [L. faeneratus, p. p. of faenerari lend on interest, fr. faenus interest.] To put money to usury; to lend on interest. [Obs.] --Cockeram. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Feneration \Fen`er*a"tion\, n. [L. faeneratio.] The act of fenerating; interest. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fine \Fine\, a. [Compar. {Finer}; superl. {Finest}.] [F. fin, LL. finus fine, pure, fr. L. finire to finish; cf. finitus, p. p., finished, completed (hence the sense accomplished, perfect.) See {Finish}, and cf. {Finite}.] 1. Finished; brought to perfection; refined; hence, free from impurity; excellent; superior; elegant; worthy of admiration; accomplished; beautiful. The gain thereof [is better] than fine gold. --Prov. iii. 14. A cup of wine that's brisk and fine. --Shak. Not only the finest gentleman of his time, but one of the finest scholars. --Felton. To soothe the sick bed of so fine a being [Keats]. --Leigh Hunt. 2. Aiming at show or effect; loaded with ornament; overdressed or overdecorated; showy. He gratified them with occasional . . . fine writing. --M. Arnold. 3. Nice; delicate; subtle; exquisite; artful; skillful; dexterous. The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! --Pope. The nicest and most delicate touches of satire consist in fine raillery. --Dryden. He has as fine a hand at picking a pocket as a woman. --T. Gray. 4. Not coarse, gross, or heavy; as: (a) Not gross; subtile; thin; tenous. The eye standeth in the finer medium and the object in the grosser. --Bacon. (b) Not coarse; comminuted; in small particles; as, fine sand or flour. (c) Not thick or heavy; slender; filmy; as, a fine thread. (d) Thin; attenuate; keen; as, a fine edge. (e) Made of fine materials; light; delicate; as, fine linen or silk. 5. Having (such) a proportion of pure metal in its composition; as, coins nine tenths fine. 6. (Used ironically.) Ye have made a fine hand, fellows. --Shak. Note: Fine is often compounded with participles and adjectives, modifying them adverbially; a, fine-drawn, fine-featured, fine-grained, fine-spoken, fine-spun, etc. {Fine arch} (Glass Making), the smaller fritting furnace of a glasshouse. --Knight. {Fine arts}. See the Note under {Art}. {Fine cut}, fine cut tobacco; a kind of chewing tobacco cut up into shreds. {Fine goods}, woven fabrics of fine texture and quality. --McElrath. {Fine stuff}, lime, or a mixture of lime, plaster, etc., used as material for the finishing coat in plastering. {To sail fine} (Naut.), to sail as close to the wind as possible. Syn: {Fine}, {Beautiful}. Usage: When used as a word of praise, fine (being opposed to coarse) denotes no [bd]ordinary thing of its kind.[b8] It is not as strong as beautiful, in reference to the single attribute implied in the latter term; but when we speak of a fine woman, we include a greater variety of particulars, viz., all the qualities which become a woman, -- breeding, sentiment, tact, etc. The term is equally comprehensive when we speak of a fine garden, landscape, horse, poem, etc.; and, though applied to a great variety of objects, the word has still a very definite sense, denoting a high degree of characteristic excellence. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Foumart \Fou"mart`\, n. [OE. folmard, fulmard; AS. f[?]l foul + mear[?], meard, marten: cf. F. marte, martre. See {Foul}, a., and {Marten} the quadruped.] (Zo[94]l.) The European polecat; -- called also {European ferret}, and {fitchew}. See {Polecat}. [Written also {foulmart}, {foulimart}, and {fulimart}.] | |
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Fumarate \Fu"ma*rate\, n. (Chem.) A salt of fumaric acid. | |
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Funerate \Fu"ner*ate\, v. t. [L. funeratus, p. p. of funerare to funerate, fr. funus. See {Funeral}.] To bury with funeral rites. [Obs.] --Cockeram. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Funeration \Fu`ner*a"tion\, n. [L. funeratio.] The act of burying with funeral rites. [Obs.] --Knatchbull. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
fnord n. [from the "Illuminatus Trilogy"] 1. A word used in email and news postings to tag utterances as surrealist mind-play or humor, esp. in connection with {Discordianism} and elaborate conspiracy theories. "I heard that David Koresh is sharing an apartment in Argentina with Hitler. (Fnord.)" "Where can I fnord get the Principia Discordia from?" 2. A {metasyntactic variable}, commonly used by hackers with ties to {Discordianism} or the {Church of the SubGenius}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
fnord 1. messages to tag utterances as surrealist mind-play or humour, especially in connection with {Discordianism} and elaborate conspiracy theories. "I heard that David Koresh is sharing an apartment in Argentina with Hitler. (Fnord.)" "Where can I fnord get the Principia Discordia from?" 2. hackers with ties to {Discordianism} or the {Church of the SubGenius}. The word "fnord" was invented in the "Illuminatus!" trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson. [{Jargon File}] (1995-02-28) |