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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fillip \Fil"lip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Filliped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Filliping}.] [For filp, flip. Cf. {Flippant}.] 1. To strike with the nail of the finger, first placed against the ball of the thumb, and forced from that position with a sudden spring; to snap with the finger. [bd]You filip me o' the head.[b8] --Shak. 2. To snap; to project quickly. The use of the elastic switch to fillip small missiles with. --Tylor. | |
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Fillip \Fil"lip\, n. 1. A jerk of the finger forced suddenly from the thumb; a smart blow. 2. Something serving to rouse or excite. I take a glass of grog for a filip. --Dickens. | |
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Flabby \Flab"by\, a. [See {Flap}.] Yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; wanting firmness; flaccid; as, flabby flesh. | |
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Flap \Flap\, n. [OE. flappe, flap, blow, bly-flap; cf. D. flap, and E. flap, v.] Anything broad and limber that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved; as, the flap of a garment. A cartilaginous flap upon the opening of the larynx. --Sir T. Browne. 2. A hinged leaf, as of a table or shutter. 3. The motion of anything broad and loose, or a stroke or sound made with it; as, the flap of a sail or of a wing. 4. pl. (Far.) A disease in the lips of horses. {Flap tile}, a tile with a bent up portion, to turn a corner or catch a drip. {Flap valve} (Mech.), a valve which opens and shuts upon one hinged side; a clack valve. | |
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Flap \Flap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Flapped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Flapping}.] [Prob. of imitative origin; cf. D. flappen, E. flap, n., flop, flippant, fillip.] 1. To beat with a flap; to strike. Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings. --Pope. 2. To move, as something broad and flaplike; as, to flap the wings; to let fall, as the brim of a hat. {To flap in the mouth}, to taunt. [Obs.] --W. Cartwright. | |
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Flap \Flap\, v. i. 1. To move as do wings, or as something broad or loose; to fly with wings beating the air. The crows flapped over by twos and threes. --Lowell. 2. To fall and hang like a flap, as the brim of a hat, or other broad thing. --Gay. | |
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Flip \Flip\, n. [Cf. Prov. E. flip nimble, flippant, also, a slight blow. Cf. {Flippant}.] A mixture of beer, spirit, etc., stirred and heated by a hot iron. {Flip dog}, an iron used, when heated, to warm flip. | |
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Flip \Flip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Flipped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Flipping}.] To toss or fillip; as, to flip up a cent. As when your little ones Do 'twixt their fingers flip their cherry stones. --W. Browne. | |
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Flipe \Flipe\, v. t. To turn inside out, or with the leg part back over the foot, as a stocking in pulling off or for putting on. [Scot.] | |
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Flop \Flop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Flopped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Flopping}.] [A variant of flap.] 1. To clap or strike, as a bird its wings, a fish its tail, etc.; to flap. 2. To turn suddenly, as something broad and flat. [Colloq.] --Fielding. | |
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Flop \Flop\, v. i. 1. To strike about with something broad abd flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall; as, the brim of a hat flops. 2. To fall, sink, or throw one's self, heavily, clumsily, and unexpectedly on the ground. [Colloq.] --Dickens. | |
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Flop \Flop\, n. Act of flopping. [Colloq.] --W. H. Russell. | |
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Floppy \Flop"py\, n. Having a tendency to flop or flap; as, a floppy hat brim. --G. Eliot. | |
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Fluff \Fluff\, v. t. & i. To make or become fluffy; to move lightly like fluff. --Holmes. | |
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Fluff \Fluff\, n. [Cf. 2d {Flue}. [root]84.] Nap or down; flue; soft, downy feathers. | |
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Fluffy \Fluff"y\, a. [Compar. {Fluffier}; superl. {Fluffiest}.] Pertaining to, or resembling, fluff or nap; soft and downy. [bd]The carpets were fluffy.[b8] --Thackeray. The present Barnacle . . . had a youthful aspect, and the fluffiest little whisker, perhaps, that ever was seen. --Dickens. -- {Fluff"i*ness}, n. | |
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Fool-happy \Fool"-hap`py\, a. Lucky, without judgment or contrivance. [Obs.] --Spenser. | |
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Foolify \Fool"i*fy\, v. t. [Fool + -fy.] To make a fool of; to befool. [R.] --Holland. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
{Foul anchor}. (Naut.) See under {Anchor}. {Foul ball} (Baseball), a ball that first strikes the ground outside of the foul ball lines, or rolls outside of certain limits. {Foul ball lines} (Baseball), lines from the home base, through the first and third bases, to the boundary of the field. {Foul berth} (Naut.), a berth in which a ship is in danger of fouling another vesel. {Foul bill}, [or] {Foul bill of health}, a certificate, duly authenticated, that a ship has come from a place where a contagious disorder prevails, or that some of the crew are infected. {Foul copy}, a rough draught, with erasures and corrections; -- opposed to fair or clean copy. [bd]Some writers boast of negligence, and others would be ashamed to show their foul copies.[b8] --Cowper. {Foul proof}, an uncorrected proof; a proof containing an excessive quantity of errors. {Foul strike} (Baseball), a strike by the batsman when any part of his person is outside of the lines of his position. {To fall foul}, to fall out; to quarrel. [Obs.] [bd]If they be any ways offended, they fall foul.[b8] --Burton. {To} {fall, [or] run}, {foul of}. See under {Fall}. {To make foul water}, to sail in such shallow water that the ship's keel stirs the mud at the bottom. | |
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Fulbe \Ful"be\, n. (Ethnol.) Same as {Fulahs}. | |
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Pay \Pay\, n. 1. Satisfaction; content. --Chaucer. 2. An equivalent or return for money due, goods purchased, or services performed; salary or wages for work or service; compensation; recompense; payment; hire; as, the pay of a clerk; the pay of a soldier. Where only merit constant pay receives. --Pope. There is neither pay nor plunder to be got. --L'Estrange. {Full pay}, the whole amount of wages or salary; maximum pay; especially, the highest pay or allowance to civil or military officers of a certain rank, without deductions. {Half pay}. See under {Half}. {Pay day}, the day of settlement of accounts. {Pay dirt} (Mining), earth which yields a profit to the miner. [Western U.S.] {Pay office}, a place where payment is made. {Pay roll}, a roll or list of persons entitled to payment, with the amounts due. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
flap vt. 1. [obs.] To unload a DECtape (so it goes flap, flap, flap...). Old-time hackers at MIT tell of the days when the disk was device 0 and DEC microtapes were 1, 2,... and attempting to flap device 0 would instead start a motor banging inside a cabinet near the disk. 2. By extension, to unload any magnetic tape. See also {macrotape}. Modern cartridge tapes no longer actually flap, but the usage has remained. (The term could well be re-applied to DEC's TK50 cartridge tape drive, a spectacularly misengineered contraption which makes a loud flapping sound, almost like an old reel-type lawnmower, in one of its many tape-eating failure modes.) | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
flippy /flip'ee/ n. A single-sided floppy disk altered for double-sided use by addition of a second write-notch, so called because it must be flipped over for the second side to be accessible. No longer common. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
followup n. [common] On Usenet, a {posting} generated in response to another posting (as opposed to a {reply}, which goes by email rather than being broadcast). Followups include the ID of the {parent message} in their headers; smart news-readers can use this information to present Usenet news in `conversation' sequence rather than order-of-arrival. See {thread}. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
fuel up vi. To eat or drink hurriedly in order to get back to hacking. "Food-p?" "Yeah, let's fuel up." "Time for a {great-wall}!" See also {{oriental food}}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
flap 1. flap, flap). Old-time {hackers} at {MIT} tell of the days when the disk was device 0 and {microtapes} were 1, 2, etc. and attempting to flap device 0 would instead start a motor banging inside a cabinet near the disk. The term is used, by extension, for unloading any magnetic tape. See also {macrotape}. Modern {cartridge tapes} no longer actually flap, but the usage has remained. The term could well be re-applied to {DEC}'s {TK50} cartridge tape drive, a spectacularly misengineered contraption which makes a loud flapping sound, almost like an old reel-type lawnmower, in one of its many tape-eating failure modes. 2. [{Jargon File}] (1997-06-17) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
FLAP A {symbolic mathematics} package for {IBM 360}. ["FLAP Programmer's Manual", A.H. Morris Jr., TR-2558 (1971) US Naval Weapons Lab]. [Sammet 1969, p. 506]. [{Jargon File}] (1994-10-17) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
flap 1. flap, flap). Old-time {hackers} at {MIT} tell of the days when the disk was device 0 and {microtapes} were 1, 2, etc. and attempting to flap device 0 would instead start a motor banging inside a cabinet near the disk. The term is used, by extension, for unloading any magnetic tape. See also {macrotape}. Modern {cartridge tapes} no longer actually flap, but the usage has remained. The term could well be re-applied to {DEC}'s {TK50} cartridge tape drive, a spectacularly misengineered contraption which makes a loud flapping sound, almost like an old reel-type lawnmower, in one of its many tape-eating failure modes. 2. [{Jargon File}] (1997-06-17) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
FLAP A {symbolic mathematics} package for {IBM 360}. ["FLAP Programmer's Manual", A.H. Morris Jr., TR-2558 (1971) US Naval Weapons Lab]. [Sammet 1969, p. 506]. [{Jargon File}] (1994-10-17) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
flib /flib/ ({WPI}) A meta-number, said to be an integer between 3 and 4. See {grix}, {N}. (1995-01-31) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
FLIP 1. An early {assembly language} on the {G-15}. [Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)]. 2. ["FLIP User's Manual", G. Kahn, TR 5, INRIA 1981]. 3. Formal LIst Processor. An early language for {pattern-matching} on {Lisp} structures, similar to {CONVERT}. ["FLIP, A Format List Processor", W. Teitelman, Memo MAC-M-263, MIT 1966]. (1995-01-31) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
flippy double-sided use by addition of a second write-notch, so called because it must be flipped over for the second side (the "flip side") to be accessible. Used in the {Commodore 1541} and elsewhere. No longer common. [{Jargon File}] (2000-03-07) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
FLOP 1. An early system on the {IBM 701}. [Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)]. (1994-11-14) 2. Erroneous singular of {FLOPS}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Floppy A later version can generate {HTML}. See also {Flow}. ffccc posted to comp.sources.misc volume 12. (1996-08-23) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
floppy {floppy disk} | |
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Floppy A later version can generate {HTML}. See also {Flow}. ffccc posted to comp.sources.misc volume 12. (1996-08-23) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
floppy {floppy disk} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
FLUB {STAGE2}. [Mentioned in Machine Oriented Higher Level Languages, W. van der Poel, N-H 1974, p. 271]. (1995-03-13) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
followup On {Usenet}, a {posting} generated in response to another posting (as opposed to a {reply}, which goes by e-mail rather than being broadcast). Followups include the ID of the {parent message} in their headers; smart news-readers can use this information to present {Usenet} news in "conversation" sequence rather than order-of-arrival. See {thread}. [{Jargon File}] |