English Dictionary: focal ratio | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Facular \Fac"u*lar\a. (Astron.) Of or pertaining to the facul[91]. --R. A. Proctor. | |
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Tulip-shell \Tu"lip-shell`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A large, handsomely colored, marine univalve shell ({Fasciolaria tulipa}) native of the Southern United States. The name is sometimes applied also to other species of {Fasciolaria}. | |
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Line \Line\, n. [OE. line, AS. l[c6]ne cable, hawser, prob. from L. linea a linen thread, string, line, fr. linum flax, thread, linen, cable; but the English word was influenced by F. ligne line, from the same L. word linea. See {Linen}.] 1. A linen thread or string; a slender, strong cord; also, a cord of any thickness; a rope; a hawser; as, a fishing line; a line for snaring birds; a clothesline; a towline. Who so layeth lines for to latch fowls. --Piers Plowman. 2. A more or less threadlike mark of pen, pencil, or graver; any long mark; as, a chalk line. 3. The course followed by anything in motion; hence, a road or route; as, the arrow descended in a curved line; the place is remote from lines of travel. 4. Direction; as, the line of sight or vision. 5. A row of letters, words, etc., written or printed; esp., a row of words extending across a page or column. 6. A short letter; a note; as, a line from a friend. 7. (Poet.) A verse, or the words which form a certain number of feet, according to the measure. In the preceding line Ulysses speaks of Nausicaa. --Broome. 8. Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade, or intellectual activity. He is uncommonly powerful in his own line, but it is not the line of a first-rate man. --Coleridge. 9. (Math.) That which has length, but not breadth or thickness. 10. The exterior limit of a figure, plat, or territory; boundary; contour; outline. Eden stretched her line From Auran eastward to the royal towers Of great Seleucia. --Milton. 11. A threadlike crease marking the face or the hand; hence, characteristic mark. Though on his brow were graven lines austere. --Byron. He tipples palmistry, and dines On all her fortune-telling lines. --Cleveland. 12. Lineament; feature; figure. [bd]The lines of my boy's face.[b8] --Shak. 13. A straight row; a continued series or rank; as, a line of houses, or of soldiers; a line of barriers. Unite thy forces and attack their lines. --Dryden. 14. A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; as, the ascending or descending line; the line of descent; the male line; a line of kings. Of his lineage am I, and his offspring By very line, as of the stock real. --Chaucer. 15. A connected series of public conveyances, and hence, an established arrangement for forwarding merchandise, etc.; as, a line of stages; an express line. 16. (Geog.) (a) A circle of latitude or of longitude, as represented on a map. (b) The equator; -- usually called {the line}, or {equinoctial line}; as, to cross the line. 17. A long tape, or a narrow ribbon of steel, etc., marked with subdivisions, as feet and inches, for measuring; a tapeline. 18. (Script.) (a) A measuring line or cord. He marketh it out with a line. --Is. xliv. 13. (b) That which was measured by a line, as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place of abode. The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage. --Ps. xvi. 6. (c) Instruction; doctrine. Their line is gone out through all the earth. --Ps. xix. 4. 19. (Mach.) The proper relative position or adjustment of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with reference to smooth working; as, the engine is in line or out of line. 20. The track and roadbed of a railway; railroad. 21. (Mil.) (a) A row of men who are abreast of one another, whether side by side or some distance apart; -- opposed to {column}. (b) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry, artillery, etc. 22. (Fort.) (a) A trench or rampart. (b) pl. Dispositions made to cover extended positions, and presenting a front in but one direction to an enemy. 23. pl. (Shipbuilding) Form of a vessel as shown by the outlines of vertical, horizontal, and oblique sections. 24. (Mus.) One of the straight horizontal and parallel prolonged strokes on and between which the notes are placed. 25. (Stock Exchange) A number of shares taken by a jobber. 26. (Trade) A series of various qualities and values of the same general class of articles; as, a full line of hosiery; a line of merinos, etc. --McElrath. 27. The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, or the whole of a system of telegraph wires under one management and name. 28. pl. The reins with which a horse is guided by his driver. [U. S.] 29. A measure of length; one twelfth of an inch. {Hard lines}, hard lot. --C. Kingsley. [See Def. 18.] {Line breeding} (Stockbreeding), breeding by a certain family line of descent, especially in the selection of the dam or mother. {Line conch} (Zo[94]l.), a spiral marine shell ({Fasciolaria distans}), of Florida and the West Indies. It is marked by narrow, dark, revolving lines. {Line engraving}. (a) Engraving in which the effects are produced by lines of different width and closeness, cut with the burin upon copper or similar material; also, a plate so engraved. (b) A picture produced by printing from such an engraving. {Line of battle}. (a) (Mil. Tactics) The position of troops drawn up in their usual order without any determined maneuver. (b) (Naval) The line or arrangement formed by vessels of war in an engagement. {Line of battle ship}. See {Ship of the line}, below. {Line of beauty} (Fine Arts),an abstract line supposed to be beautiful in itself and absolutely; -- differently represented by different authors, often as a kind of elongated S (like the one drawn by Hogarth). {Line of centers}. (Mach.) (a) A line joining two centers, or fulcra, as of wheels or levers. (b) A line which determines a dead center. See {Dead center}, under {Dead}. {Line of dip} (Geol.), a line in the plane of a stratum, or part of a stratum, perpendicular to its intersection with a horizontal plane; the line of greatest inclination of a stratum to the horizon. {Line of fire} (Mil.), the direction of fire. {Line of force} (Physics), any line in a space in which forces are acting, so drawn that at every point of the line its tangent is the direction of the resultant of all the forces. It cuts at right angles every equipotential surface which it meets. Specifically (Magnetism), a line in proximity to a magnet so drawn that any point in it is tangential with the direction of a short compass needle held at that point. --Faraday. {Line of life} (Palmistry), a line on the inside of the hand, curving about the base of the thumb, supposed to indicate, by its form or position, the length of a person's life. {Line of lines}. See {Gunter's line}. {Line of march}. (Mil.) (a) Arrangement of troops for marching. (b) Course or direction taken by an army or body of troops in marching. {Line of operations}, that portion of a theater of war which an army passes over in attaining its object. --H. W. Halleck. {Line of sight} (Firearms), the line which passes through the front and rear sight, at any elevation, when they are sighted at an object. {Line tub} (Naut.), a tub in which the line carried by a whaleboat is coiled. {Mason and Dixon's line} | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Tulip-shell \Tu"lip-shell`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A large, handsomely colored, marine univalve shell ({Fasciolaria tulipa}) native of the Southern United States. The name is sometimes applied also to other species of {Fasciolaria}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Year \Year\, n. [OE. yer, yeer, [f4]er, AS. ge[a0]r; akin to OFries. i[?]r, g[?]r, D. jaar, OHG. j[be]r, G. jahr, Icel. [be]r, Dan. aar, Sw. [86]r, Goth. j[?]r, Gr. [?] a season of the year, springtime, a part of the day, an hour, [?] a year, Zend y[be]re year. [root]4, 279. Cf. {Hour}, {Yore}.] 1. The time of the apparent revolution of the sun trough the ecliptic; the period occupied by the earth in making its revolution around the sun, called the astronomical year; also, a period more or less nearly agreeing with this, adopted by various nations as a measure of time, and called the civil year; as, the common lunar year of 354 days, still in use among the Mohammedans; the year of 360 days, etc. In common usage, the year consists of 365 days, and every fourth year (called bissextile, or leap year) of 366 days, a day being added to February on that year, on account of the excess above 365 days (see {Bissextile}). Of twenty year of age he was, I guess. --Chaucer. Note: The civil, or legal, year, in England, formerly commenced on the 25th of March. This practice continued throughout the British dominions till the year 1752. 2. The time in which any planet completes a revolution about the sun; as, the year of Jupiter or of Saturn. 3. pl. Age, or old age; as, a man in years. --Shak. {Anomalistic year}, the time of the earth's revolution from perihelion to perihelion again, which is 365 days, 6 hours, 13 minutes, and 48 seconds. {A year's mind} (Eccl.), a commemoration of a deceased person, as by a Mass, a year after his death. Cf. {A month's mind}, under {Month}. {Bissextile year}. See {Bissextile}. {Canicular year}. See under {Canicular}. {Civil year}, the year adopted by any nation for the computation of time. {Common lunar year}, the period of 12 lunar months, or 354 days. {Common year}, each year of 365 days, as distinguished from leap year. {Embolismic year}, [or] {Intercalary lunar year}, the period of 13 lunar months, or 384 days. {Fiscal year} (Com.), the year by which accounts are reckoned, or the year between one annual time of settlement, or balancing of accounts, and another. {Great year}. See {Platonic year}, under {Platonic}. {Gregorian year}, {Julian year}. See under {Gregorian}, and {Julian}. {Leap year}. See {Leap year}, in the Vocabulary. {Lunar astronomical year}, the period of 12 lunar synodical months, or 354 days, 8 hours, 48 minutes, 36 seconds. {Lunisolar year}. See under {Lunisolar}. {Periodical year}. See {Anomalistic year}, above. {Platonic year}, {Sabbatical year}. See under {Platonic}, and {Sabbatical}. {Sidereal year}, the time in which the sun, departing from any fixed star, returns to the same. This is 365 days, 6 hours, 9 minutes, and 9.3 seconds. {Tropical year}. See under {Tropical}. {Year and a day} (O. Eng. Law), a time to be allowed for an act or an event, in order that an entire year might be secured beyond all question. --Abbott. {Year of grace}, any year of the Christian era; Anno Domini; A. D. or a. d. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fog \Fog\ n. [Dan. sneefog snow falling thick, drift of snow, driving snow, cf. Icel. fok spray, snowdrift, fj[umac]k snowstorm, fj[umac]ka to drift.] 1. Watery vapor condensed in the lower part of the atmosphere and disturbing its transparency. It differs from cloud only in being near the ground, and from mist in not approaching so nearly to fine rain. See {Cloud}. 2. A state of mental confusion. {Fog alarm}, {Fog bell}, {Fog horn}, etc., a bell, horn, whistle or other contrivance that sounds an alarm, often automatically, near places of danger where visible signals would be hidden in thick weather. {Fog bank}, a mass of fog resting upon the sea, and resembling distant land. {Fog ring}, a bank of fog arranged in a circular form, -- often seen on the coast of Newfoundland. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fossil \Fos"sil\, a. [L. fossilis, fr. fodere to dig: cf. F. fossile. See {Fosse}.] 1. Dug out of the earth; as, fossil coal; fossil salt. 2. (Paleon.) Like or pertaining to fossils; contained in rocks, whether petrified or not; as, fossil plants, shells. {Fossil copal}, a resinous substance, first found in the blue clay at Highgate, near London, and apparently a vegetable resin, partly changed by remaining in the earth. {Fossil cork}, {flax}, {paper}, [or] {wood}, varieties of amianthus. {Fossil farina}, a soft carbonate of lime. {Fossil ore}, fossiliferous red hematite. --Raymond. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fusileer \Fu"sil*eer"\, Fusilier \Fu"sil*ier"\, n. [F. fusilier, fr. fusil.] (Mil.) (a) Formerly, a soldier armed with a fusil. Hence, in the plural: (b) A title now borne by some regiments and companies; as, [bd]The Royal Fusiliers,[b8] etc. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fusileer \Fu"sil*eer"\, Fusilier \Fu"sil*ier"\, n. [F. fusilier, fr. fusil.] (Mil.) (a) Formerly, a soldier armed with a fusil. Hence, in the plural: (b) A title now borne by some regiments and companies; as, [bd]The Royal Fusiliers,[b8] etc. | |
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