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Fair \Fair\, a. [Compar. {Fairer}; superl. {Fairest}.] [OE. fair, fayer, fager, AS. f[91]ger; akin to OS. & OHG. fagar, Icel. fagr, Sw. fager, Dan. faver, Goth. fagrs fit, also to E. fay, G. f[81]gen, to fit. fegen to sweep, cleanse, and prob. also to E. fang, peace, pact, Cf. {Fang}, {Fain}, {Fay} to fit.] 1. Free from spots, specks, dirt, or imperfection; unblemished; clean; pure. A fair white linen cloth. --Book of Common Prayer. 2. Pleasing to the eye; handsome; beautiful. Who can not see many a fair French city, for one fair French made. --Shak. 3. Without a dark hue; light; clear; as, a fair skin. The northern people large and fair-complexioned. --Sir M. Hale. 4. Not overcast; cloudless; clear; pleasant; propitious; favorable; -- said of the sky, weather, or wind, etc.; as, a fair sky; a fair day. You wish fair winds may waft him over. --Prior. 5. Free from obstacles or hindrances; unobstructed; unincumbered; open; direct; -- said of a road, passage, etc.; as, a fair mark; in fair sight; a fair view. The caliphs obtained a mighty empire, which was in a fair way to have enlarged. --Sir W. Raleigh. 6. (Shipbuilding) Without sudden change of direction or curvature; smooth; fowing; -- said of the figure of a vessel, and of surfaces, water lines, and other lines. 7. Characterized by frankness, honesty, impartiality, or candor; open; upright; free from suspicion or bias; equitable; just; -- said of persons, character, or conduct; as, a fair man; fair dealing; a fair statement. [bd]I would call it fair play.[b8] --Shak. 8. Pleasing; favorable; inspiring hope and confidence; -- said of words, promises, etc. When fair words and good counsel will not prevail on us, we must be frighted into our duty. --L' Estrange. 9. Distinct; legible; as, fair handwriting. 10. Free from any marked characteristic; average; middling; as, a fair specimen. The news is very fair and good, my lord. --Shak. {Fair ball}. (Baseball) (a) A ball passing over the home base at the height called for by the batsman, and delivered by the pitcher while wholly within the lines of his position and facing the batsman. (b) A batted ball that falls inside the foul lines; -- called also a {fair hit}. {Fair maid}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The European pilchard ({Clupea pilchardus}) when dried. (b) The southern scup ({Stenotomus Gardeni}). [Virginia] {Fair one}, a handsome woman; a beauty, {Fair play}, equitable or impartial treatment; a fair or equal chance; justice. {From fair to middling}, passable; tolerable. [Colloq.] {The fair sex}, the female sex. Syn: Candid; open; frank; ingenuous; clear; honest; equitable; impartial; reasonable. See {Candid}. | |
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Faren \Far"en\, obs. p. p. of {Fare}, v. i. --Chaucer. | |
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Farina \Fa*ri"na\, n. [L., meal, flour, fr. far a sort of grain, spelt; akin to E. barley.] 1. A fine flour or meal made from cereal grains or from the starch or fecula of vegetables, extracted by various processes, and used in cookery. 2. (Bot.) Pollen. [R.] --Craig. | |
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Farm \Farm\, n. [OE. ferme rent, lease, F. ferme, LL. firma, fr. L. firmus firm, fast, firmare to make firm or fast. See {Firm}, a. & n.] 1. The rent of land, -- originally paid by reservation of part of its products. [Obs.] 2. The term or tenure of a lease of land for cultivation; a leasehold. [Obs.] It is great willfulness in landlords to make any longer farms to their tenants. --Spenser. 3. The land held under lease and by payment of rent for the purpose of cultivation. 4. Any tract of land devoted to agricultural purposes, under the management of a tenant or the owner. Note: In English the ideas of a lease, a term, and a rent, continue to be in a great degree inseparable, even from the popular meaning of a farm, as they are entirely so from the legal sense. --Burrill. 5. A district of country leased (or farmed) out for the collection of the revenues of government. The province was devided into twelve farms. --Burke. 6. (O. Eng. Law) A lease of the imposts on particular goods; as, the sugar farm, the silk farm. Whereas G. H. held the farm of sugars upon a rent of 10,000 marks per annum. --State Trials (1196). | |
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Farm \Farm\, v. i. To engage in the business of tilling the soil; to labor as a farmer. | |
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Farm \Farm\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Farmed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Farming}.] 1. To lease or let for an equivalent, as land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds. We are enforced to farm our royal realm. --Shak. 2. To give up to another, as an estate, a business, the revenue, etc., on condition of receiving in return a percentage of what it yields; as, to farm the taxes. To farm their subjects and their duties toward these. --Burke. 3. To take at a certain rent or rate. 4. To devote (land) to agriculture; to cultivate, as land; to till, as a farm. {To farm let}, {To let to farm}, to lease on rent. | |
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Ferine \Fe"rine\, a. [L. ferinus, fr. ferus wild. See {Fierce}.] Wild; untamed; savage; as, lions, tigers, wolves, and bears are ferine beasts. --Sir M. Hale. -- n. A wild beast; a beast of prey. -- {Fe"rine*ly}, adv. -- {Fe"rine*ness}, n. | |
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Ferm \Ferm\, Ferme \Ferme\, n.[See {Farm}.] Rent for a farm; a farm; also, an abode; a place of residence; as, he let his land to ferm. [Obs.] Out of her fleshy ferme fled to the place of pain. --Spenser. | |
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Ferm \Ferm\, Ferme \Ferme\, n.[See {Farm}.] Rent for a farm; a farm; also, an abode; a place of residence; as, he let his land to ferm. [Obs.] Out of her fleshy ferme fled to the place of pain. --Spenser. | |
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Fern \Fern\, n. [AS. fearn; akin to D. varen, G. farn, farnkraut; cf. Skr. par[c9]a wing, feather, leaf, sort of plant, or Lith. papartis fern.] (Bot.) An order of cryptogamous plants, the {Filices}, which have their fructification on the back of the fronds or leaves. They are usually found in humid soil, sometimes grow epiphytically on trees, and in tropical climates often attain a gigantic size. Note: The plants are asexual, and bear clustered sporangia, containing minute spores, which germinate and form prothalli, on which are borne the true organs of reproduction. The brake or bracken, the maidenhair, and the polypody are all well known ferns. {Christmas fern}. See under {Christmas}. {Climbing fern} (Bot.), a delicate North American fern ({Lygodium palmatum}), which climbs several feet high over bushes, etc., and is much sought for purposes of decoration. {Fern owl}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The European goatsucker. (b) The short-eared owl. [Prov. Eng.] -- {Fern shaw}, a fern thicket. [Eng.] --R. Browning. | |
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Fern \Fern\, adv. Long ago. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Fern \Fern\, a. [AS. fyrn.] Ancient; old. [Obs.] [bd]Pilgrimages to . . . ferne halwes.[b8] [saints]. --Chaucer. | |
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Ferny \Fern"y\, a. Abounding in ferns. | |
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Fiorin \Fi"o*rin\, n. [Cf. Ir. fiothran a sort of grass.] (Bot.) A species of creeping bent grass ({Agrostis alba}); -- called also {fiorin grass}. | |
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Fire-new \Fire"-new`\, a. Fresh from the forge; bright; quite new; brand-new. --Charles reade. Your fire-new stamp of honor is scarce current. --Shak. | |
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Firm \Firm\, n. [It. firma the (firm, sure, or confirming) signature or subscription, or Pg. firma signature, firm, cf. Sp. firma signature; all fr. L. firmus, adj., firm. See {Firm}, a.] The name, title, or style, under which a company transacts business; a partnership of two or more persons; a commercial house; as, the firm of Hope & Co. | |
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Firm \Firm\, v. t. [OE. fermen to make firm, F. fermer, fr. L. firmare to make firm. See {Firm}, a.] 1. To fix; to settle; to confirm; to establish. [Obs.] And Jove has firmed it with an awful nod. --Dryden. 2. To fix or direct with firmness. [Obs.] He on his card and compass firms his eye. --Spenser. | |
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Firm \Firm\, a. [Compar. {Firmer}; superl. {Firmest}.] [OE. ferme, F. ferme, fr.L. firmus; cf. Skr. dharman support, law, order, dh[?] to hold fast, carry. Cf. {Farm}, {Throne}.] 1. Fixed; hence, closely compressed; compact; substantial; hard; solid; -- applied to the matter of bodies; as, firm flesh; firm muscles, firm wood. 2. Not easily excited or disturbed; unchanging in purpose; fixed; steady; constant; stable; unshaken; not easily changed in feelings or will; strong; as, a firm believer; a firm friend; a firm adherent. Under spread ensigns, moving nigh, in slow But firm battalion. --Milton. By one man's firm obediency fully tried. --Milton. 3. Solid; -- opposed to fluid; as, firm land. 4. Indicating firmness; as, a firm tread; a firm countenance. Syn: Compact; dense; hard; solid; stanch; robust; strong; sturdly; fixed; steady; resolute; constant. | |
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For \For\, prep. [AS. for, fore; akin to OS. for, fora, furi, D. voor, OHG. fora, G. vor, OHG. furi, G. f[81]r, Icel. fyrir, Sw. f[94]r, Dan. for, adv. f[94]r, Goth. fa[a3]r, fa[a3]ra, L. pro, Gr. [?], Skr. pra-. [root] 202. Cf. {Fore}, {First}, {Foremost}, {Forth}, {Pro}-.] In the most general sense, indicating that in consideration of, in view of, or with reference to, which anything is done or takes place. 1. Indicating the antecedent cause or occasion of an action; the motive or inducement accompanying and prompting to an act or state; the reason of anything; that on account of which a thing is or is done. With fiery eyes sparkling for very wrath. --Shak. How to choose dogs for scent or speed. --Waller. Now, for so many glorious actions done, For peace at home, and for the public wealth, I mean to crown a bowl for C[91]sar's health. --Dryden. That which we, for our unworthiness, are afraid to crave, our prayer is, that God, for the worthiness of his Son, would, notwithstanding, vouchsafe to grant. --Hooker. 2. Indicating the remoter and indirect object of an act; the end or final cause with reference to which anything is, acts, serves, or is done. The oak for nothing ill, The osier good for twigs, the poplar for the mill. --Spenser. It was young counsel for the persons, and violent counsel for the matters. --Bacon. Shall I think the worls was made for one, And men are born for kings, as beasts for men, Not for protection, but to be devoured? --Dryden. For he writes not for money, nor for praise. --Denham. 3. Indicating that in favor of which, or in promoting which, anything is, or is done; hence, in behalf of; in favor of; on the side of; -- opposed to against. We can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth. --2 Cor. xiii. 8. It is for the general good of human society, and consequently of particular persons, to be true and just; and it is for men's health to be temperate. --Tillotson. Aristotle is for poetical justice. --Dennis. 4. Indicating that toward which the action of anything is directed, or the point toward which motion is made; [?]ntending to go to. We sailed from Peru for China and Japan. --Bacon. 5. Indicating that on place of or instead of which anything acts or serves, or that to which a substitute, an equivalent, a compensation, or the like, is offered or made; instead of, or place of. And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. --Ex. xxi. 23, 24. 6. Indicating that in the character of or as being which anything is regarded or treated; to be, or as being. We take a falling meteor for a star. --Cowley. If a man can be fully assured of anything for a truth, without having examined, what is there that he may not embrace for tru[?]? --Locke. Most of our ingenious young men take up some cried-up English poet for their model. --Dryden. But let her go for an ungrateful woman. --Philips. 7. Indicating that instead of which something else controls in the performing of an action, or that in spite of which anything is done, occurs, or is; hence, equivalent to notwithstanding, in spite of; -- generally followed by all, aught, anything, etc. The writer will do what she please for all me. --Spectator. God's desertion shall, for aught he knows, the next minute supervene. --Dr. H. More. For anything that legally appears to the contrary, it may be a contrivance to fright us. --Swift. 8. Indicating the space or time through which an action or state extends; hence, during; in or through the space or time of. For many miles about There 's scarce a bush. --Shak. Since, hired for life, thy servile muse sing. --prior. To guide the sun's bright chariot for a day. --Garth. 9. Indicating that in prevention of which, or through fear of which, anything is done. [Obs.] We 'll have a bib, for spoiling of thy doublet. --Beau. & Fl. {For}, [or] {As for}, so far as concerns; as regards; with reference to; -- used parenthetically or independently. See under {As}. As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. --Josh. xxiv. 15. For me, my stormy voyage at an end, I to the port of death securely tend. --Dryden. {For all that}, notwithstanding; in spite of. {For all the world}, wholly; exactly. [bd]Whose posy was, for all the world, like cutlers' poetry.[b8] --Shak. {For as much as}, [or] {Forasmuch as}, in consideration that; seeing that; since. {For by}. See {Forby}, adv. {For ever}, eternally; at all times. See {Forever}. {For me}, [or] {For all me}, as far as regards me. {For my life}, [or] {For the life of me}, if my life depended on it. [Colloq.] --T. Hook. {For that}, {For the reason that}, because; since. [Obs.] [bd]For that I love your daughter.[b8] --Shak. {For thy}, [or] {Forthy} [AS. for[?][?].], for this; on this account. [Obs.] [bd]Thomalin, have no care for thy.[b8] --Spenser. {For to}, as sign of infinitive, in order to; to the end of. [Obs., except as sometimes heard in illiterate speech.] -- [bd]What went ye out for to see?[b8] --Luke vii. 25. See {To}, prep., 4. {O for}, would that I had; may there be granted; -- elliptically expressing desire or prayer. [bd]O for a muse of fire.[b8] --Shak. {Were it not for}, [or] {If it were not for}, leaving out of account; but for the presence or action of. [bd]Moral consideration can no way move the sensible appetite, were it not for the will.[b8] --Sir M. Hale. | |
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Forein \For"ein\, a. Foreign. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Form \Form\, v. t. (Elec.) To treat (plates) so as to bring them to fit condition for introduction into a storage battery, causing one plate to be composed more or less of spongy lead, and the other of lead peroxide. This was formerly done by repeated slow alternations of the charging current, but now the plates or grids are coated or filled, one with a paste of red lead and the other with litharge, introduced into the cell, and formed by a direct charging current. | |
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form \form\ [See {Form}, n.] A suffix used to denote in the form [or] shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform. | |
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Form \Form\ (f[d3]rm; in senses 8 & 9, often f[d3]rm in England), n. [OE. & F. forme, fr. L. forma; cf. Skr. dhariman. Cf. {Firm}.] 1. The shape and structure of anything, as distinguished from the material of which it is composed; particular disposition or arrangement of matter, giving it individuality or distinctive character; configuration; figure; external appearance. The form of his visage was changed. --Dan. iii. 19. And woven close close, both matter, form, and style. --Milton. 2. Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system; as, a republican form of government. 3. Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula; as, a form of prayer. Those whom form of laws Condemned to die. --Dryden. 4. Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality; as, a matter of mere form. Though well we may not pass upon his life Without the form of justice. --Shak. 5. Orderly arrangement; shapeliness; also, comeliness; elegance; beauty. The earth was without form and void. --Gen. i. 2. He hath no form nor comeliness. --Is. liii. 2. 6. A shape; an image; a phantom. 7. That by which shape is given or determined; mold; pattern; model. 8. A long seat; a bench; hence, a rank of students in a school; a class; also, a class or rank in society. [bd]Ladies of a high form.[b8] --Bp. Burnet. 9. The seat or bed of a hare. As in a form sitteth a weary hare. --Chaucer. 10. (Print.) The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase. 11. (Fine Arts) The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body. 12. (Gram.) The particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech; as, participial forms; verbal forms. 13. (Crystallog.) The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid. 14. (Metaph.) That assemblage or disposition of qualities which makes a conception, or that internal constitution which makes an existing thing to be what it is; -- called essential or substantial form, and contradistinguished from matter; hence, active or formative nature; law of being or activity; subjectively viewed, an idea; objectively, a law. 15. Mode of acting or manifestation to the senses, or the intellect; as, water assumes the form of ice or snow. In modern usage, the elements of a conception furnished by the mind's own activity, as contrasted with its object or condition, which is called the matter; subjectively, a mode of apprehension or belief conceived as dependent on the constitution of the mind; objectively, universal and necessary accompaniments or elements of every object known or thought of. 16. (Biol.) The peculiar characteristics of an organism as a type of others; also, the structure of the parts of an animal or plant. | |
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Form \Form\ (f[ocir]rm), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Formed} (f[ocir]rmd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Forming}.] [F. former, L. formare, fr. forma. See {Form}, n.] 1. To give form or shape to; to frame; to construct; to make; to fashion. God formed man of the dust of the ground. --Gen. ii. 7. The thought that labors in my forming brain. --Rowe. 2. To give a particular shape to; to shape, mold, or fashion into a certain state or condition; to arrange; to adjust; also, to model by instruction and discipline; to mold by influence, etc.; to train. 'T is education forms the common mind. --Pope. Thus formed for speed, he challenges the wind. --Dryden. 3. To go to make up; to act as constituent of; to be the essential or constitutive elements of; to answer for; to make the shape of; -- said of that out of which anything is formed or constituted, in whole or in part. The diplomatic politicians . . . who formed by far the majority. --Burke. 4. To provide with a form, as a hare. See {Form}, n., 9. The melancholy hare is formed in brakes and briers. --Drayton. 5. (Gram.) To derive by grammatical rules, as by adding the proper suffixes and affixes. | |
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Form \Form\, v. i. 1. To take a form, definite shape, or arrangement; as, the infantry should form in column. 2. To run to a form, as a hare. --B. Jonson. {To form on} (Mil.), to form a lengthened line with reference to (any given object) as a basis. | |
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Form \Form\, v. t. (Elec.) To treat (plates) so as to bring them to fit condition for introduction into a storage battery, causing one plate to be composed more or less of spongy lead, and the other of lead peroxide. This was formerly done by repeated slow alternations of the charging current, but now the plates or grids are coated or filled, one with a paste of red lead and the other with litharge, introduced into the cell, and formed by a direct charging current. | |
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form \form\ [See {Form}, n.] A suffix used to denote in the form [or] shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform. | |
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Form \Form\ (f[d3]rm; in senses 8 & 9, often f[d3]rm in England), n. [OE. & F. forme, fr. L. forma; cf. Skr. dhariman. Cf. {Firm}.] 1. The shape and structure of anything, as distinguished from the material of which it is composed; particular disposition or arrangement of matter, giving it individuality or distinctive character; configuration; figure; external appearance. The form of his visage was changed. --Dan. iii. 19. And woven close close, both matter, form, and style. --Milton. 2. Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system; as, a republican form of government. 3. Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula; as, a form of prayer. Those whom form of laws Condemned to die. --Dryden. 4. Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality; as, a matter of mere form. Though well we may not pass upon his life Without the form of justice. --Shak. 5. Orderly arrangement; shapeliness; also, comeliness; elegance; beauty. The earth was without form and void. --Gen. i. 2. He hath no form nor comeliness. --Is. liii. 2. 6. A shape; an image; a phantom. 7. That by which shape is given or determined; mold; pattern; model. 8. A long seat; a bench; hence, a rank of students in a school; a class; also, a class or rank in society. [bd]Ladies of a high form.[b8] --Bp. Burnet. 9. The seat or bed of a hare. As in a form sitteth a weary hare. --Chaucer. 10. (Print.) The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase. 11. (Fine Arts) The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body. 12. (Gram.) The particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech; as, participial forms; verbal forms. 13. (Crystallog.) The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid. 14. (Metaph.) That assemblage or disposition of qualities which makes a conception, or that internal constitution which makes an existing thing to be what it is; -- called essential or substantial form, and contradistinguished from matter; hence, active or formative nature; law of being or activity; subjectively viewed, an idea; objectively, a law. 15. Mode of acting or manifestation to the senses, or the intellect; as, water assumes the form of ice or snow. In modern usage, the elements of a conception furnished by the mind's own activity, as contrasted with its object or condition, which is called the matter; subjectively, a mode of apprehension or belief conceived as dependent on the constitution of the mind; objectively, universal and necessary accompaniments or elements of every object known or thought of. 16. (Biol.) The peculiar characteristics of an organism as a type of others; also, the structure of the parts of an animal or plant. | |
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Form \Form\ (f[ocir]rm), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Formed} (f[ocir]rmd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Forming}.] [F. former, L. formare, fr. forma. See {Form}, n.] 1. To give form or shape to; to frame; to construct; to make; to fashion. God formed man of the dust of the ground. --Gen. ii. 7. The thought that labors in my forming brain. --Rowe. 2. To give a particular shape to; to shape, mold, or fashion into a certain state or condition; to arrange; to adjust; also, to model by instruction and discipline; to mold by influence, etc.; to train. 'T is education forms the common mind. --Pope. Thus formed for speed, he challenges the wind. --Dryden. 3. To go to make up; to act as constituent of; to be the essential or constitutive elements of; to answer for; to make the shape of; -- said of that out of which anything is formed or constituted, in whole or in part. The diplomatic politicians . . . who formed by far the majority. --Burke. 4. To provide with a form, as a hare. See {Form}, n., 9. The melancholy hare is formed in brakes and briers. --Drayton. 5. (Gram.) To derive by grammatical rules, as by adding the proper suffixes and affixes. | |
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Form \Form\, v. i. 1. To take a form, definite shape, or arrangement; as, the infantry should form in column. 2. To run to a form, as a hare. --B. Jonson. {To form on} (Mil.), to form a lengthened line with reference to (any given object) as a basis. | |
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Form \Form\, v. t. (Elec.) To treat (plates) so as to bring them to fit condition for introduction into a storage battery, causing one plate to be composed more or less of spongy lead, and the other of lead peroxide. This was formerly done by repeated slow alternations of the charging current, but now the plates or grids are coated or filled, one with a paste of red lead and the other with litharge, introduced into the cell, and formed by a direct charging current. | |
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form \form\ [See {Form}, n.] A suffix used to denote in the form [or] shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform. | |
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Form \Form\ (f[d3]rm; in senses 8 & 9, often f[d3]rm in England), n. [OE. & F. forme, fr. L. forma; cf. Skr. dhariman. Cf. {Firm}.] 1. The shape and structure of anything, as distinguished from the material of which it is composed; particular disposition or arrangement of matter, giving it individuality or distinctive character; configuration; figure; external appearance. The form of his visage was changed. --Dan. iii. 19. And woven close close, both matter, form, and style. --Milton. 2. Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system; as, a republican form of government. 3. Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula; as, a form of prayer. Those whom form of laws Condemned to die. --Dryden. 4. Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality; as, a matter of mere form. Though well we may not pass upon his life Without the form of justice. --Shak. 5. Orderly arrangement; shapeliness; also, comeliness; elegance; beauty. The earth was without form and void. --Gen. i. 2. He hath no form nor comeliness. --Is. liii. 2. 6. A shape; an image; a phantom. 7. That by which shape is given or determined; mold; pattern; model. 8. A long seat; a bench; hence, a rank of students in a school; a class; also, a class or rank in society. [bd]Ladies of a high form.[b8] --Bp. Burnet. 9. The seat or bed of a hare. As in a form sitteth a weary hare. --Chaucer. 10. (Print.) The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase. 11. (Fine Arts) The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body. 12. (Gram.) The particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech; as, participial forms; verbal forms. 13. (Crystallog.) The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid. 14. (Metaph.) That assemblage or disposition of qualities which makes a conception, or that internal constitution which makes an existing thing to be what it is; -- called essential or substantial form, and contradistinguished from matter; hence, active or formative nature; law of being or activity; subjectively viewed, an idea; objectively, a law. 15. Mode of acting or manifestation to the senses, or the intellect; as, water assumes the form of ice or snow. In modern usage, the elements of a conception furnished by the mind's own activity, as contrasted with its object or condition, which is called the matter; subjectively, a mode of apprehension or belief conceived as dependent on the constitution of the mind; objectively, universal and necessary accompaniments or elements of every object known or thought of. 16. (Biol.) The peculiar characteristics of an organism as a type of others; also, the structure of the parts of an animal or plant. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Form \Form\ (f[ocir]rm), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Formed} (f[ocir]rmd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Forming}.] [F. former, L. formare, fr. forma. See {Form}, n.] 1. To give form or shape to; to frame; to construct; to make; to fashion. God formed man of the dust of the ground. --Gen. ii. 7. The thought that labors in my forming brain. --Rowe. 2. To give a particular shape to; to shape, mold, or fashion into a certain state or condition; to arrange; to adjust; also, to model by instruction and discipline; to mold by influence, etc.; to train. 'T is education forms the common mind. --Pope. Thus formed for speed, he challenges the wind. --Dryden. 3. To go to make up; to act as constituent of; to be the essential or constitutive elements of; to answer for; to make the shape of; -- said of that out of which anything is formed or constituted, in whole or in part. The diplomatic politicians . . . who formed by far the majority. --Burke. 4. To provide with a form, as a hare. See {Form}, n., 9. The melancholy hare is formed in brakes and briers. --Drayton. 5. (Gram.) To derive by grammatical rules, as by adding the proper suffixes and affixes. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Form \Form\, v. i. 1. To take a form, definite shape, or arrangement; as, the infantry should form in column. 2. To run to a form, as a hare. --B. Jonson. {To form on} (Mil.), to form a lengthened line with reference to (any given object) as a basis. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Form82 \For`m[82]"\, a. (Her.) Same as {Pat[82]} or {Patt[82]}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Forme \For"me\, a. [OE., fr. AS. forma. See {Foremost}.] First. [Obs.] [bd]Adam our forme father.[b8] --Chaucer. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Forum \Fo"rum\, n.; pl. E. {Forums}, L. {Fora}. [L.; akin to foris, foras, out of doors. See {Foreign}.] 1. A market place or public place in Rome, where causes were judicially tried, and orations delivered to the people. 2. A tribunal; a court; an assembly empowered to hear and decide causes. He [Lord Camden] was . . . more eminent in the senate than in the forum. --Brougham. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fr91num \Fr[91]"num\, [or] Frenum \Fre"num\, n.; pl. E. {Fr[91]nums}, L. {Fr[91]na}. [L., a bridle.] (Anat.) A connecting fold of membrane serving to support or restrain any part; as, the fr[91]num of the tongue. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Frame \Frame\, n. In games: (a) In pool, the triangular form used in setting up the balls; also, the balls as set up, or the round of playing required to pocket them all; as, to play six frames in a game of 50 points. (b) In bowling, as in tenpins, one of the several innings forming a game. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Frame \Frame\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Framed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Framing}.] [OE. framen, fremen, to execute, build, AS. fremman to further, perform, effect, fr. fram strong, valiant; akin to E. foremost, and prob. to AS. fram from, Icel. fremja, frama, to further, framr forward, G. fromm worthy, excellent, pious. See {Foremost}, {From}, and cf. {Furnish}.] 1. (Arch. & Engin.) To construct by fitting and uniting the several parts of the skeleton of any structure; specifically, in woodwork, to put together by cutting parts of one member to fit parts of another. See {Dovetail}, {Halve}, v. t., {Miter}, {Tenon}, {Tooth}, {Tusk}, {Scarf}, and {Splice}. 2. To originate; to plan; to devise; to contrive; to compose; in a bad sense, to invent or fabricate, as something false. How many excellent reasonings are framed in the mind of a man of wisdom and study in a length of years. --I. Watts. 3. To fit to something else, or for some specific end; to adjust; to regulate; to shape; to conform. And frame my face to all occasions. --Shak. We may in some measure frame our minds for the reception of happiness. --Landor. The human mind is framed to be influenced. --I. Taylor. 4. To cause; to bring about; to produce. [Obs.] Fear frames disorder, and disorder wounds. --Shak. 5. To support. [Obs. & R.] That on a staff his feeble steps did frame. --Spenser. 6. To provide with a frame, as a picture. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Frame \Frame\, v. i. 1. To shape; to arrange, as the organs of speech. [Obs.] --Judg. xii. 6. 2. To proceed; to go. [Obs.] The bauty of this sinful dame Made many princes thither frame. --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Frame \Frame\, n. 1. Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure; esp., the constructional system, whether of timber or metal, that gives to a building, vessel, etc., its model and strength; the skeleton of a structure. These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty! thine this universal frame. --Milton. 2. The bodily structure; physical constitution; make or build of a person. Some bloody passion shakes your very frame. --Shak. No frames could be strong enough to endure it. --Prescott. 3. A kind of open case or structure made for admitting, inclosing, or supporting things, as that which incloses or contains a window, door, picture, etc.; that on which anything is held or stretched; as: (a) The skeleton structure which supports the boiler and machinery of a locomotive upon its wheels. (b) (Founding) A molding box or flask, which being filled with sand serves as a mold for castings. (c) The ribs and stretchers of an umbrella or other structure with a fabric covering. (d) A structure of four bars, adjustable in size, on which cloth, etc., is stretched for quilting, embroidery, etc. (e) (Hort.) A glazed portable structure for protecting young plants from frost. (f) (Print.) A stand to support the type cases for use by the compositor. 4. (Mach.) A term applied, especially in England, to certain machines built upon or within framework; as, a stocking frame; lace frame; spinning frame, etc. 5. Form; shape; proportion; scheme; structure; constitution; system; as, a frameof government. She that hath a heart of that fine frame To pay this debt of love but to a brother. --Shak. Put your discourse into some frame. --Shak. 6. Particular state or disposition, as of the mind; humor; temper; mood; as, to be always in a happy frame. 7. Contrivance; the act of devising or scheming. [Obs.] John the bastard Whose spirits toil in frame of villainies. --Shak. {Balloon frame}, {Cant frames}, etc. See under {Balloon}, {Cant}, etc. {Frame} {building [or] house}, a building of which the form and support is made of framed timbers. [U.S.] -- {Frame level}, a mason's level. {Frame saw}, a thin saw stretched in a frame to give it rigidity. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Frau \[d8]Frau\, n.; pl. {Frauen}. [G. Cf. 1st {Frow}.] In Germany, a woman; a married woman; a wife; -- as a title, equivalent to Mrs., Madam. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fren \Fren\ (fr[ecr]n), n. [OE. frenne, contr. fr. forrene foreign. See {Foreign}, a.] A stranger. [Obs.] --Spenser. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Frenum \Fre"num\, n.; pl. E. {Frenums}, L. {Frena}. [L., a bridle.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) A cheek stripe of color. 2. (Anat.) Same as {Fr[91]num}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Frim \Frim\, a. [Cf. AS. freme good, bold, and E. frame.] Flourishing; thriving; fresh; in good case; vigorous. [Obs.] [bd]Frim pastures.[b8] --Drayton. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Thrust \Thrust\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Thrust}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Thrusting}.] [OE. [?]rusten, [?]risten, [?]resten, Icel. [?]r[?]st[?] to thrust, press, force, compel; perhaps akin to E. threat.] 1. To push or drive with force; to drive, force, or impel; to shove; as, to thrust anything with the hand or foot, or with an instrument. Into a dungeon thrust, to work with slaves. --Milton. 2. To stab; to pierce; -- usually with through. {To thrust away} [or] {from}, to push away; to reject. {To thrust in}, to push or drive in. {To thrust off}, to push away. {To thrust on}, to impel; to urge. {To thrust one's self in} [or] {into}, to obtrude upon, to intrude, as into a room; to enter (a place) where one is not invited or not welcome. {To thrust out}, to drive out or away; to expel. {To thrust through}, to pierce; to stab. [bd]I am eight times thrust through the doublet.[b8] --Shak. {To thrust together}, to compress. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
From \From\, prep. [AS. fram, from; akin to OS. fram out, OHG. & Icel. fram forward, Sw. fram, Dan. frem, Goth. fram from, prob. akin to E. forth. [?]202. Cf. {Fro}, {Foremost}.] Out of the neighborhood of; lessening or losing proximity to; leaving behind; by reason of; out of; by aid of; -- used whenever departure, setting out, commencement of action, being, state, occurrence, etc., or procedure, emanation, absence, separation, etc., are to be expressed. It is construed with, and indicates, the point of space or time at which the action, state, etc., are regarded as setting out or beginning; also, less frequently, the source, the cause, the occasion, out of which anything proceeds; -- the aritithesis and correlative of to; as, it, is one hundred miles from Boston to Springfield; he took his sword from his side; light proceeds from the sun; separate the coarse wool from the fine; men have all sprung from Adam, and often go from good to bad, and from bad to worse; the merit of an action depends on the principle from which it proceeds; men judge of facts from personal knowledge, or from testimony. Experience from the time past to the time present. --Bacon. The song began from Jove. --Drpden. From high M[91]onia's rocky shores I came. --Addison. If the wind blow any way from shore. --Shak. Note: From sometimes denotes away from, remote from, inconsistent with. [bd]Anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing.[b8] --Shak. From, when joined with another preposition or an adverb, gives an opportunity for abbreviating the sentence. [bd]There followed him great multitudes of people . . . from [the land] beyond Jordan.[b8] --Math. iv. 25. In certain constructions, as from forth, from out, etc., the ordinary and more obvious arrangment is inverted, the sense being more distinctly forth from, out from -- from being virtually the governing preposition, and the word the adverb. See {From off}, under {Off}, adv., and {From afar}, under {Afar}, adv. Sudden partings such as press The life from out young hearts. --Byron. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Thrust \Thrust\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Thrust}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Thrusting}.] [OE. [?]rusten, [?]risten, [?]resten, Icel. [?]r[?]st[?] to thrust, press, force, compel; perhaps akin to E. threat.] 1. To push or drive with force; to drive, force, or impel; to shove; as, to thrust anything with the hand or foot, or with an instrument. Into a dungeon thrust, to work with slaves. --Milton. 2. To stab; to pierce; -- usually with through. {To thrust away} [or] {from}, to push away; to reject. {To thrust in}, to push or drive in. {To thrust off}, to push away. {To thrust on}, to impel; to urge. {To thrust one's self in} [or] {into}, to obtrude upon, to intrude, as into a room; to enter (a place) where one is not invited or not welcome. {To thrust out}, to drive out or away; to expel. {To thrust through}, to pierce; to stab. [bd]I am eight times thrust through the doublet.[b8] --Shak. {To thrust together}, to compress. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
From \From\, prep. [AS. fram, from; akin to OS. fram out, OHG. & Icel. fram forward, Sw. fram, Dan. frem, Goth. fram from, prob. akin to E. forth. [?]202. Cf. {Fro}, {Foremost}.] Out of the neighborhood of; lessening or losing proximity to; leaving behind; by reason of; out of; by aid of; -- used whenever departure, setting out, commencement of action, being, state, occurrence, etc., or procedure, emanation, absence, separation, etc., are to be expressed. It is construed with, and indicates, the point of space or time at which the action, state, etc., are regarded as setting out or beginning; also, less frequently, the source, the cause, the occasion, out of which anything proceeds; -- the aritithesis and correlative of to; as, it, is one hundred miles from Boston to Springfield; he took his sword from his side; light proceeds from the sun; separate the coarse wool from the fine; men have all sprung from Adam, and often go from good to bad, and from bad to worse; the merit of an action depends on the principle from which it proceeds; men judge of facts from personal knowledge, or from testimony. Experience from the time past to the time present. --Bacon. The song began from Jove. --Drpden. From high M[91]onia's rocky shores I came. --Addison. If the wind blow any way from shore. --Shak. Note: From sometimes denotes away from, remote from, inconsistent with. [bd]Anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing.[b8] --Shak. From, when joined with another preposition or an adverb, gives an opportunity for abbreviating the sentence. [bd]There followed him great multitudes of people . . . from [the land] beyond Jordan.[b8] --Math. iv. 25. In certain constructions, as from forth, from out, etc., the ordinary and more obvious arrangment is inverted, the sense being more distinctly forth from, out from -- from being virtually the governing preposition, and the word the adverb. See {From off}, under {Off}, adv., and {From afar}, under {Afar}, adv. Sudden partings such as press The life from out young hearts. --Byron. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Frown \Frown\, v. i. [imp. &, p. p. {Frowned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Frowning}.] [OF. froignier, F. frogner, in se refrogner, se renfrogner, to knit the brow, to frown; perh. of Teutonic origin; cf. It. in frigno wrinkled, frowning, Prov. It. frignare to cringe the face, to make a wry face, dial. Sw. fryna to make a wry face,] 1. To contract the brow in displeasure, severity, or sternness; to scowl; to put on a stern, grim, or surly look. The frowning wrinkle of her brow. --Shak. 2. To manifest displeasure or disapprobation; to look with disfavor or threateningly; to lower; as, polite society frowns upon rudeness. The sky doth frown and lower upon our army. --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Frown \Frown\, v. t. To repress or repel by expressing displeasure or disapproval; to rebuke with a look; as, frown the impudent fellow into silence. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Frown \Frown\, n. 1. A wrinkling of the face in displeasure, rebuke, etc.; a sour, severe, or stere look; a scowl. His front yet threatens, and his frowns command. --Prior. Her very frowns are fairer far Than smiles of other maidens are. --H. Coleridge. 2. Any expression of displeasure; as, the frowns of Providence; the frowns of Fortune. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Frowny \Frown"y\, a. Frowning; scowling. [Obs.] Her frowny mother's ragged shoulder. --Sir F. Palgrave. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Furoin \Fu"ro*in\, n. [See {Furfurol}.] (Chem.) A colorless, crystalline substance, {C10H8O4}, from furfurol. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Farina, IL (village, FIPS 25375) Location: 38.83170 N, 88.77784 W Population (1990): 575 (254 housing units) Area: 3.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 62838 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Fernway, PA (CDP, FIPS 25752) Location: 40.69466 N, 80.13098 W Population (1990): 9072 (3130 housing units) Area: 13.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Ferron, UT (city, FIPS 25180) Location: 39.09075 N, 111.13228 W Population (1990): 1606 (541 housing units) Area: 5.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 84523 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Ferrum, VA (CDP, FIPS 27712) Location: 36.92933 N, 80.02185 W Population (1990): 1514 (205 housing units) Area: 10.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 24088 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Forney, TX (town, FIPS 26604) Location: 32.75269 N, 96.46612 W Population (1990): 4070 (1567 housing units) Area: 19.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 75126 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Frame, WV Zip code(s): 25071 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Frannie, WY (town, FIPS 29825) Location: 44.97085 N, 108.61969 W Population (1990): 148 (72 housing units) Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Friona, TX (city, FIPS 27660) Location: 34.63892 N, 102.72233 W Population (1990): 3688 (1315 housing units) Area: 3.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Frohna, MO (city, FIPS 26092) Location: 37.63650 N, 89.62047 W Population (1990): 162 (74 housing units) Area: 1.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 63748 | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
firmy /fer'mee/ n. Syn. {stiffy} (a 3.5-inch floppy disk). | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
forum n. [Usenet, GEnie, CI$; pl. `fora' or `forums'] Any discussion group accessible through a dial-in {BBS}, a {mailing list}, or a {newsgroup} (see {the network}). A forum functions much like a bulletin board; users submit {posting}s for all to read and discussion ensues. Contrast real-time chat via {talk mode} or point-to-point personal {email}. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
frowney n. (alt. `frowney face') See {emoticon}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
farm {processor farm} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
firmy {stiffy} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
FORM large-scale {symbolic mathematics} problems. FORM is a descendant of {Schoonschip} and is available for many {personal computer}s and {workstation}s. {(ftp://acm.princeton.edu/)}, {(ftp://nikhefh.nikhef.nl/)}. Mailing list: | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
forum accessible through a dial-in {BBS} (e.g. {GEnie}, {CI$}), a {mailing list}, or a {Usenet} {newsgroup} (see {network, the}). A forum functions much like a {bulletin board}; users submit {postings} for all to read and discussion ensues. Contrast real-time {chat} or point-to-point personal {e-mail}. [{Jargon File}] (1998-01-18) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
FRAM {Ferroelectric Random Access Memory} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
frame 1. header and trailer information required by the physical medium. That is, {network layer} {packets} are encapsulated to become frames. See also {datagram}, {encapsulation}, {packet}, {Maximum Transmission Unit}. 2. record}. 3. {display screen}. Each frame consists of a number N of horizontal {scan lines}, each of which, on a computer display, consists of a number M of {pixels}. N is the {vertical resolution} of the display and M is the {horizontal resolution}. The rate at which the displayed image is updated is the {refresh rate} in frames per second. (2000-10-07) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
frowney (Or "frowney face") See {emoticon}. [{Jargon File}] | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Farm (Matt. 22:5). Every Hebrew had a certain portion of land assigned to him as a possession (Num. 26:33-56). In Egypt the lands all belonged to the king, and the husbandmen were obliged to give him a fifth part of the produce; so in Palestine Jehovah was the sole possessor of the soil, and the people held it by direct tenure from him. By the enactment of Moses, the Hebrews paid a tithe of the produce to Jehovah, which was assigned to the priesthood. Military service when required was also to be rendered by every Hebrew at his own expense. The occuptaion of a husbandman was held in high honour (1 Sam. 11:5-7; 1 Kings 19:19; 2 Chr. 26:10). (See LAND LAWS ¯(n/a); {TITHE}.) |