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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fahrenheit \Fah"ren*heit\a. [G.] Conforming to the scale used by Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit in the graduation of his thermometer; of or relating to Fahrenheit's thermometric scale. -- n. The Fahrenheit termometer or scale. Note: The Fahrenheit thermometer is so graduated that the freezing point of water is at 32 degrees above the zero of its scale, and the boiling point at 212 degrees above. It is commonly used in the United States and in England. | |
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Fair \Fair\, adv. Clearly; openly; frankly; civilly; honestly; favorably; auspiciously; agreeably. {Fair and square}, justly; honestly; equitably; impartially. [Colloq.] {To bid fair}. See under {Bid}. {To speak fair}, to address with courtesy and frankness. [Archaic] | |
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Maid \Maid\, n. [Shortened from maiden. [?]. See {Maiden}.] 1. An unmarried woman; usually, a young unmarried woman; esp., a girl; a virgin; a maiden. Would I had died a maid, And never seen thee, never borne thee son. --Shak. Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me. --Jer. ii. 32. 2. A man who has not had sexual intercourse. [Obs.] Christ was a maid and shapen as a man. --Chaucer. 3. A female servant. Spinning amongst her maids. --Shak. Note: Maid is used either adjectively or in composition, signifying female, as in maid child, maidservant. 4. (Zo[94]l.) The female of a ray or skate, esp. of the gray skate ({Raia batis}), and of the thornback ({R. clavata}). [Prov. Eng.] {Fair maid}. (Zo[94]l.) See under {Fair}, a. {Maid of honor}, a female attendant of a queen or royal princess; -- usually of noble family, and having to perform only nominal or honorary duties. {Old maid}. See under {Old}. | |
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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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Fair-natured \Fair"-na`tured\, a. Well-disposed. [bd]A fair-natured prince.[b8] --Ford. | |
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Near \Near\ (n[emac]r), adv. [AS. ne[a0]r, compar. of ne[a0]h nigh. See {Nigh}.] 1. At a little distance, in place, time, manner, or degree; not remote; nigh. My wife! my traitress! let her not come near me. --Milton. 2. Nearly; almost; well-nigh. [bd]Near twenty years ago.[b8] --Shak. [bd]Near a fortnight ago.[b8] --Addison. Near about the yearly value of the land. --Locke. 3. Closely; intimately. --Shak. {Far and near}, at a distance and close by; throughout a whole region. {To come near to}, to want but little of; to approximate to. [bd]Such a sum he found would go near to ruin him.[b8] --Addison. {Near the wind} (Naut.), close to the wind; closehauled. | |
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Far \Far\, adv. 1. To a great extent or distance of space; widely; as, we are separated far from each other. 2. To a great distance in time from any point; remotely; as, he pushed his researches far into antiquity. 3. In great part; as, the day is far spent. 4. In a great proportion; by many degrees; very much; deeply; greatly. Who can find a virtuous woman ? for her price is far above rubies. --Prov. xxxi. 10. {As far as}, to the extent, or degree, that. See {As far as}, under {As}. {Far off}. (a) At a great distance, absolutely or relatively. (b) Distant in sympathy or affection; alienated. [bd]But now, in Christ Jesus, ye who some time were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.[b8] --Eph. ii. 13. {Far other}, different by a great degree; not the same; quite unlike. --Pope. {Far and near}, at a distance and close by; throughout a whole region. {Far and wide}, distantly and broadly; comprehensively. [bd]Far and wide his eye commands.[b8] --Milton. {From far}, from a great distance; from a remote place. Note: Far often occurs in self-explaining compounds, such as far-extended, far-reaching, far-spread. | |
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Wide \Wide\ (w[imac]d), a. [Compar. {Wider} (-[etil]r); superl. {Widest}.] [OE. wid, wyde, AS. w[c6]d; akin to OFries. & OS. w[c6]d, D. wijd, G. weit, OHG. w[c6]t, Icel. v[c6][eb]r, Sw. & Dan. vid; of uncertain origin.] 1. Having considerable distance or extent between the sides; spacious across; much extended in a direction at right angles to that of length; not narrow; broad; as, wide cloth; a wide table; a wide highway; a wide bed; a wide hall or entry. The chambers and the stables weren wyde. --Chaucer. Wide is the gate . . . that leadeth to destruction. --Matt. vii. 18. 2. Having a great extent every way; extended; spacious; broad; vast; extensive; as, a wide plain; the wide ocean; a wide difference. [bd]This wyde world.[b8] --Chaucer. For sceptered cynics earth were far too wide a den. --Byron. When the wide bloom, on earth that lies, Seems of a brighter world than ours. --Bryant. 3. Of large scope; comprehensive; liberal; broad; as, wide views; a wide understanding. Men of strongest head and widest culture. --M. Arnold. 4. Of a certain measure between the sides; measuring in a direction at right angles to that of length; as, a table three feet wide. 5. Remote; distant; far. The contrary being so wide from the truth of Scripture and the attributes of God. --Hammond. 6. Far from truth, from propriety, from necessity, or the like. [bd]Our wide expositors.[b8] --Milton. It is far wide that the people have such judgments. --Latimer. How wide is all this long pretense ! --Herbert. 7. On one side or the other of the mark; too far side-wise from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc. Surely he shoots wide on the bow hand. --Spenser. I was but two bows wide. --Massinger. 8. (Phon.) Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the mouth organs; -- opposed to primary as used by Mr. Bell, and to narrow as used by Mr. Sweet. The effect, as explained by Mr. Bell, is due to the relaxation or tension of the pharynx; as explained by Mr. Sweet and others, it is due to the action of the tongue. The wide of [emac] ([emac]ve) is [icr] ([icr]ll); of [be] ([be]te) is [ecr] ([ecr]nd), etc. See Guide to Pronunciation, [sect] 13-15. Note: Wide is often prefixed to words, esp. to participles and participial adjectives, to form self-explaining compounds; as, wide-beaming, wide-branched, wide-chopped, wide-echoing, wide-extended, wide-mouthed, wide-spread, wide-spreading, and the like. {Far and wide}. See under {Far}. {Wide gauge}. See the Note under {Cauge}, 6. | |
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Far \Far\, adv. 1. To a great extent or distance of space; widely; as, we are separated far from each other. 2. To a great distance in time from any point; remotely; as, he pushed his researches far into antiquity. 3. In great part; as, the day is far spent. 4. In a great proportion; by many degrees; very much; deeply; greatly. Who can find a virtuous woman ? for her price is far above rubies. --Prov. xxxi. 10. {As far as}, to the extent, or degree, that. See {As far as}, under {As}. {Far off}. (a) At a great distance, absolutely or relatively. (b) Distant in sympathy or affection; alienated. [bd]But now, in Christ Jesus, ye who some time were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.[b8] --Eph. ii. 13. {Far other}, different by a great degree; not the same; quite unlike. --Pope. {Far and near}, at a distance and close by; throughout a whole region. {Far and wide}, distantly and broadly; comprehensively. [bd]Far and wide his eye commands.[b8] --Milton. {From far}, from a great distance; from a remote place. Note: Far often occurs in self-explaining compounds, such as far-extended, far-reaching, far-spread. | |
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Farand \Far"and\, n. See {Farrand}, n. | |
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Farrand \Far"rand\, n. [OE. farand beautiful; cf. Gael. farranta neat, stout, stately; or perh. akin to E. fare.] Manner; custom; fashion; humor. [Prov. Eng.] [Written also {farand}.] --Grose. | |
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Farand \Far"and\, n. See {Farrand}, n. | |
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Farrand \Far"rand\, n. [OE. farand beautiful; cf. Gael. farranta neat, stout, stately; or perh. akin to E. fare.] Manner; custom; fashion; humor. [Prov. Eng.] [Written also {farand}.] --Grose. | |
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Farandams \Far"an*dams\, n. A fabrik made of silk and wool or hair. --Simmonds. | |
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Farantly \Far"ant*ly\, a. [See {Farrand}.] Orderly; comely; respectable. [Obs.] --Halliwell. | |
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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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Farrand \Far"rand\, n. [OE. farand beautiful; cf. Gael. farranta neat, stout, stately; or perh. akin to E. fare.] Manner; custom; fashion; humor. [Prov. Eng.] [Written also {farand}.] --Grose. | |
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Fermeture \Fer"me*ture\, n. [F., fr. fermer to close.] (Mil.) The mechanism for closing the breech of a breech-loading firearm, in artillery consisting principally of the breechblock, obturator, and carrier ring. | |
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Fernticle \Fern"ti*cle\, n. A freckle on the skin, resembling the seed of fern. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Ferrandine \Fer*ran"dine\ (? [or] ?), n. [F.; cf. OF. ferrant iron-gray, from L. ferrum iron.] A stuff made of silk and wool. I did buy a colored silk ferrandine. --Pepys. | |
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Ferranti cables \Fer*ran"ti ca"bles\, Ferranti mains \Fer*ran"ti mains"\ (Elec.) A form of conductor, designed by Ferranti, for currents of high potential, and consisting of concentric tubes of copper separated by an insulating material composed of paper saturated with black mineral wax. | |
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Ferranti cables \Fer*ran"ti ca"bles\, Ferranti mains \Fer*ran"ti mains"\ (Elec.) A form of conductor, designed by Ferranti, for currents of high potential, and consisting of concentric tubes of copper separated by an insulating material composed of paper saturated with black mineral wax. | |
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Ferranti phenomenon \Fer*ran"ti phe*nom"e*non\ (Elec.) An increase in the ratio of transformation of an alternating current converter, accompanied by other changes in electrical conditions, occurring when the secondary of the converter is connected with a condenser of moderate capacity; -- so called because first observed in connection with the Ferranti cables in London. | |
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Firmitude \Firm"i*tude\, n. [L. firmitudo. See {Firm}.] Strength; stability. [Obs.] --Bp. Hall. | |
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Firmity \Firm"i*ty\, n. [L. firmitas.] Strength; firmness; stability. [Obs.] --Chillingworth. | |
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Fore \Fore\, adv. [AS. fore, adv. & prep., another form of for. See {For}, and cf. {Former}, {Foremost}.] 1. In the part that precedes or goes first; -- opposed to aft, after, back, behind, etc. 2. Formerly; previously; afore. [Obs. or Colloq.] The eyes, fore duteous, now converted are. --Shak. 3. (Naut.) In or towards the bows of a ship. {Fore and aft} (Naut.), from stem to stern; lengthwise of the vessel; -- in distinction from athwart. --R. H. Dana, Jr. {Fore-and-aft rigged} (Naut.), not rigged with square sails attached to yards, but with sails bent to gaffs or set on stays in the midship line of the vessel. See {Schooner}, {Sloop}, {Cutter}. | |
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Fore \Fore\, a. [See {Fore}, adv.] Advanced, as compared with something else; toward the front; being or coming first, in time, place, order, or importance; preceding; anterior; antecedent; earlier; forward; -- opposed to {back} or {behind}; as, the fore part of a garment; the fore part of the day; the fore and of a wagon. The free will of the subject is preserved, while it is directed by the fore purpose of the state. --Southey. Note: Fore is much used adjectively or in composition. {Fore bay}, a reservoir or canal between a mill race and a water wheel; the discharging end of a pond or mill race. {Fore body} (Shipbuilding), the part of a ship forward of the largest cross-section, distinguisched from middle body abd after body. {Fore boot}, a receptacle in the front of a vehicle, for stowing baggage, etc. {Fore bow}, the pommel of a saddle. --Knight. {Fore cabin}, a cabin in the fore part of a ship, usually with inferior accommodations. {Fore carriage}. (a) The forward part of the running gear of a four-wheeled vehicle. (b) A small carriage at the front end of a plow beam. {Fore course} (Naut.), the lowermost sail on the foremost of a square-rigged vessel; the foresail. See Illust. under {Sail}. {Fore door}. Same as {Front door}. {Fore edge}, the front edge of a book or folded sheet, etc. {Fore elder}, an ancestor. [Prov. Eng.] {Fore end}. (a) The end which precedes; the earlier, or the nearer, part; the beginning. I have . . . paid More pious debts to heaven, than in all The fore end of my time. --Shak. (b) In firearms, the wooden stock under the barrel, forward of the trigger guard, or breech frame. {Fore girth}, a girth for the fore part (of a horse, etc.); a martingale. {Fore hammer}, a sledge hammer, working alternately, or in time, with the hand hammer. {Fore leg}, one of the front legs of a quadruped, or multiped, or of a chair, settee, etc. {Fore peak} (Naut.), the angle within a ship's bows; the portion of the hold which is farthest forward. {Fore piece}, a front piece, as the flap in the fore part of a sidesaddle, to guard the rider's dress. {Fore plane}, a carpenter's plane, in size and use between a jack plane and a smoothing plane. --Knight. {Fore reading}, previous perusal. [Obs.] --Hales. {Fore rent}, in Scotland, rent payable before a crop is gathered. {Fore sheets} (Naut.), the forward portion of a rowboat; the space beyond the front thwart. See {Stern sheets}. {Fore shore}. (a) A bank in advance of a sea wall, to break the force of the surf. (b) The seaward projecting, slightly inclined portion of a breakwater. --Knight. (c) The part of the shore between high and low water marks. {Fore sight}, that one of the two sights of a gun which is near the muzzle. {Fore tackle} (Naut.), the tackle on the foremast of a ship. {Fore topmast}. (Naut.) See {Fore-topmast}, in the Vocabulary. {Fore wind}, a favorable wind. [Obs.] Sailed on smooth seas, by fore winds borne. --Sandys. {Fore world}, the antediluvian world. [R.] --Southey. | |
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Fore \Fore\, a. [See {Fore}, adv.] Advanced, as compared with something else; toward the front; being or coming first, in time, place, order, or importance; preceding; anterior; antecedent; earlier; forward; -- opposed to {back} or {behind}; as, the fore part of a garment; the fore part of the day; the fore and of a wagon. The free will of the subject is preserved, while it is directed by the fore purpose of the state. --Southey. Note: Fore is much used adjectively or in composition. {Fore bay}, a reservoir or canal between a mill race and a water wheel; the discharging end of a pond or mill race. {Fore body} (Shipbuilding), the part of a ship forward of the largest cross-section, distinguisched from middle body abd after body. {Fore boot}, a receptacle in the front of a vehicle, for stowing baggage, etc. {Fore bow}, the pommel of a saddle. --Knight. {Fore cabin}, a cabin in the fore part of a ship, usually with inferior accommodations. {Fore carriage}. (a) The forward part of the running gear of a four-wheeled vehicle. (b) A small carriage at the front end of a plow beam. {Fore course} (Naut.), the lowermost sail on the foremost of a square-rigged vessel; the foresail. See Illust. under {Sail}. {Fore door}. Same as {Front door}. {Fore edge}, the front edge of a book or folded sheet, etc. {Fore elder}, an ancestor. [Prov. Eng.] {Fore end}. (a) The end which precedes; the earlier, or the nearer, part; the beginning. I have . . . paid More pious debts to heaven, than in all The fore end of my time. --Shak. (b) In firearms, the wooden stock under the barrel, forward of the trigger guard, or breech frame. {Fore girth}, a girth for the fore part (of a horse, etc.); a martingale. {Fore hammer}, a sledge hammer, working alternately, or in time, with the hand hammer. {Fore leg}, one of the front legs of a quadruped, or multiped, or of a chair, settee, etc. {Fore peak} (Naut.), the angle within a ship's bows; the portion of the hold which is farthest forward. {Fore piece}, a front piece, as the flap in the fore part of a sidesaddle, to guard the rider's dress. {Fore plane}, a carpenter's plane, in size and use between a jack plane and a smoothing plane. --Knight. {Fore reading}, previous perusal. [Obs.] --Hales. {Fore rent}, in Scotland, rent payable before a crop is gathered. {Fore sheets} (Naut.), the forward portion of a rowboat; the space beyond the front thwart. See {Stern sheets}. {Fore shore}. (a) A bank in advance of a sea wall, to break the force of the surf. (b) The seaward projecting, slightly inclined portion of a breakwater. --Knight. (c) The part of the shore between high and low water marks. {Fore sight}, that one of the two sights of a gun which is near the muzzle. {Fore tackle} (Naut.), the tackle on the foremast of a ship. {Fore topmast}. (Naut.) See {Fore-topmast}, in the Vocabulary. {Fore wind}, a favorable wind. [Obs.] Sailed on smooth seas, by fore winds borne. --Sandys. {Fore world}, the antediluvian world. [R.] --Southey. | |
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Fore \Fore\, adv. [AS. fore, adv. & prep., another form of for. See {For}, and cf. {Former}, {Foremost}.] 1. In the part that precedes or goes first; -- opposed to aft, after, back, behind, etc. 2. Formerly; previously; afore. [Obs. or Colloq.] The eyes, fore duteous, now converted are. --Shak. 3. (Naut.) In or towards the bows of a ship. {Fore and aft} (Naut.), from stem to stern; lengthwise of the vessel; -- in distinction from athwart. --R. H. Dana, Jr. {Fore-and-aft rigged} (Naut.), not rigged with square sails attached to yards, but with sails bent to gaffs or set on stays in the midship line of the vessel. See {Schooner}, {Sloop}, {Cutter}. | |
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Sail \Sail\, n. [OE. seil, AS. segel, segl; akin to D. zeil, OHG. segal, G. & Sw. segel, Icel. segl, Dan. seil. [root] 153.] 1. An extent of canvas or other fabric by means of which the wind is made serviceable as a power for propelling vessels through the water. Behoves him now both sail and oar. --Milton. 2. Anything resembling a sail, or regarded as a sail. 3. A wing; a van. [Poetic] Like an eagle soaring To weather his broad sails. --Spenser. 4. The extended surface of the arm of a windmill. 5. A sailing vessel; a vessel of any kind; a craft. Note: In this sense, the plural has usually the same form as the singular; as, twenty sail were in sight. 6. A passage by a sailing vessel; a journey or excursion upon the water. Note: Sails are of two general kinds, {fore-and-aft sails}, and {square sails}. Square sails are always bent to yards, with their foot lying across the line of the vessel. Fore-and-aft sails are set upon stays or gaffs with their foot in line with the keel. A fore-and-aft sail is triangular, or quadrilateral with the after leech longer than the fore leech. Square sails are quadrilateral, but not necessarily square. See Phrases under {Fore}, a., and {Square}, a.; also, {Bark}, {Brig}, {Schooner}, {Ship}, {Stay}. {Sail burton} (Naut.), a purchase for hoisting sails aloft for bending. {Sail fluke} (Zo[94]l.), the whiff. {Sail hook}, a small hook used in making sails, to hold the seams square. {Sail loft}, a loft or room where sails are cut out and made. {Sail room} (Naut.), a room in a vessel where sails are stowed when not in use. {Sail yard} (Naut.), the yard or spar on which a sail is extended. {Shoulder-of-mutton sail} (Naut.), a triangular sail of peculiar form. It is chiefly used to set on a boat's mast. {To crowd sail}. (Naut.) See under {Crowd}. {To loose sails} (Naut.), to unfurl or spread sails. {To make sail} (Naut.), to extend an additional quantity of sail. {To set a sail} (Naut.), to extend or spread a sail to the wind. {To set sail} (Naut.), to unfurl or spread the sails; hence, to begin a voyage. {To shorten sail} (Naut.), to reduce the extent of sail, or take in a part. {To strike sail} (Naut.), to lower the sails suddenly, as in saluting, or in sudden gusts of wind; hence, to acknowledge inferiority; to abate pretension. {Under sail}, having the sails spread. | |
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Forehand \Fore"hand`\, n. 1. All that part of a horse which is before the rider. --Johnson. 2. The chief or most important part. --Shak. 3. Superiority; advantage; start; precedence. And, but for ceremony, such a wretch . . . Had the forehand and vantage of a king. --Shak. | |
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Forehand \Fore"hand`\, a. Done beforehand; anticipative. And so extenuate the forehand sin. --Shak. | |
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Rent \Rent\, n. [F. rente, LL. renta, fr. L. reddita, fem. sing. or neut. pl. of redditus, p. p. of reddere to give back, pay. See {Render}.] 1. Income; revenue. See {Catel}. [Obs.] [bd]Catel had they enough and rent.[b8] --Chaucer. [Bacchus] a waster was and all his rent In wine and bordel he dispent. --Gower. So bought an annual rent or two, And liv'd, just as you see I do. --Pope. 2. Pay; reward; share; toll. [Obs.] Death, that taketh of high and low his rent. --Chaucer. 3. (Law) A certain periodical profit, whether in money, provisions, chattels, or labor, issuing out of lands and tenements in payment for the use; commonly, a certain pecuniary sum agreed upon between a tenant and his landlord, paid at fixed intervals by the lessee to the lessor, for the use of land or its appendages; as, rent for a farm, a house, a park, etc. Note: The term rent is also popularly applied to compensation for the use of certain personal chattels, as a piano, a sewing machine, etc. {Black rent}. See {Blackmail}, 3. {Forehand rent}, rent which is paid in advance; foregift. {Rent arrear}, rent in arrears; unpaid rent. --Blackstone. {Rent charge} (Law), a rent reserved on a conveyance of land in fee simple, or granted out of lands by deed; -- so called because, by a covenant or clause in the deed of conveyance, the land is charged with a distress for the payment of it. --Bouvier. {Rent roll}, a list or account of rents or income; a rental. {Rent seck} (Law), a rent reserved by deed, but without any clause of distress; barren rent. A power of distress was made incident to rent seck by Statute 4 George II. c. 28. {Rent service} (Eng. Law), rent reserved out of land held by fealty or other corporeal service; -- so called from such service being incident to it. {White rent}, a quitrent when paid in silver; -- opposed to black rent. | |
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Forehanded \Fore"hand`ed\, a. 1. Early; timely; seasonable. [bd]Forehanded care.[b8] --Jer. Taylor. 2. Beforehand with one's needs, or having resources in advance of one's necessities; in easy circumstances; as, a forehanded farmer. [U.S.] 3. Formed in the forehand or fore parts. A substantial, true-bred beast, bravely forehanded. --Dryden. | |
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Forehend \Fore*hend"\, v. t. See {Forhend}. [Obs.] | |
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Foremother \Fore"moth`er\, n. A female ancestor. | |
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Forenotice \Fore"no`tice\, n. Notice or information of an event before it happens; forewarning. [R.] --Rymer. | |
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Forewend \Fore*wend"\, v. t. [Fore + wend.] To go before. [Obs.] --Spenser. | |
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Forego \Fore*go"\, v. t. [imp. {Forewent 2}; p. p. {Foregone} (?; 115); p. pr. & vb. n. {Foregoing}.] [See {Forgo}.] 1. To quit; to relinquish; to leave. Stay at the third cup, or forego the place. --Herbert. 2. To relinquish the enjoyment or advantage of; to give up; to resign; to renounce; -- said of a thing already enjoyed, or of one within reach, or anticipated. All my patrimony,, If need be, I am ready to forego. --Milton. Thy lovers must their promised heaven forego. --Keble. [He] never forewent an opportunity of honest profit. --R. L. Stevenson. Note: Forgo is the better spelling etymologically, but the word has been confused with {Forego}, to go before. | |
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Forhend \For*hend"\, v. t. To seize upon. [Obs.] | |
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Formate \For"mate\, n. [See {Formic}.] (Chem.) A salt of formic acid. [Written also {formiate}.] | |
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Formation \For*ma"tion\, n. [L. formatio: cf. F. formation.] 1. The act of giving form or shape to anything; a forming; a shaping. --Beattie. 2. The manner in which a thing is formed; structure; construction; conformation; form; as, the peculiar formation of the heart. 3. A substance formed or deposited. 4. (Geol.) (a) Mineral deposits and rock masses designated with reference to their origin; as, the siliceous formation about geysers; alluvial formations; marine formations. (b) A group of beds of the same age or period; as, the Eocene formation. 5. (Mil.) The arrangement of a body of troops, as in a square, column, etc. --Farrow. | |
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Formative \Form"a*tive\, a. [Cf. F. formatif.] 1. Giving form; having the power of giving form; plastic; as, the formative arts. The meanest plant can not be raised without seed, by any formative residing in the soil. --Bentley. 2. (Gram.) Serving to form; derivative; not radical; as, a termination merely formative. 3. (Biol.) Capable of growth and development; germinal; as, living or formative matter. | |
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Formative \Form"a*tive\, n. (Gram.) (a) That which serves merely to give form, and is no part of the radical, as the prefix or the termination of a word. (b) A word formed in accordance with some rule or usage, as from a root. | |
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Formed \Formed\, a. 1. (Astron.) Arranged, as stars in a constellation; as, formed stars. [R.] 2. (Biol.) Having structure; capable of growth and development; organized; as, the formed or organized ferments. See {Ferment}, n. {Formed material} (Biol.), a term employed by Beale to denote the lifeless matter of a cell, that which is physiologically dead, in distinction from the truly germinal or living matter. | |
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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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Formed \Formed\, a. 1. (Astron.) Arranged, as stars in a constellation; as, formed stars. [R.] 2. (Biol.) Having structure; capable of growth and development; organized; as, the formed or organized ferments. See {Ferment}, n. {Formed material} (Biol.), a term employed by Beale to denote the lifeless matter of a cell, that which is physiologically dead, in distinction from the truly germinal or living matter. | |
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Formedon \For"me*don\, n. [OF., fr. Latin. So called because the plaintiff claimed [bd]by the form of the gift,: L. per formam doni.] (O. Eng. Law) A writ of right for a tenant in tail in case of a discontinuance of the estate tail. This writ has been abolished. | |
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Formate \For"mate\, n. [See {Formic}.] (Chem.) A salt of formic acid. [Written also {formiate}.] | |
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Formidability \For`mi*da*bil"i*ty\, n. Formidableness. --Walpole. | |
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Formidable \For"mi*da*ble\, a. [L. formidabilis, fr. formidare to fear, dread: cf. F. formidable.] Exciting fear or apprehension; impressing dread; adapted to excite fear and deter from approach, encounter, or undertaking; alarming. They seemed to fear the formodable sight. --Dryden. I swell my preface into a volume, and make it formidable, when you see so many pages behind. --Drydn. Syn: Dreadful; fearful; terrible; frightful; shocking; horrible; terrific; tremendous. | |
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Formidableness \For"mi*da*ble*ness\, n. The quality of being formidable, or adapted to excite dread. --Boyle. | |
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Formidably \For"mi*da*bly\, adv. In a formidable manner. | |
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Formidolose \For*mid"o*lose\, a. [L. formidolosus, fr. formido fear.] Very much afraid. [Obs.] --Bailey. | |
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Forwander \For*wan"der\, v. i. To wander away; to go astray; to wander far and to weariness. [Obs.] | |
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Forgo \For*go"\, v. t. [imp. {Forwent}; p. p. {Forgone}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Forgoing}.] [OE. forgan, forgon, forgoon, AS. forg[be]n, prop., to go past, hence, to abstain from; pref. for- + g[be]n to go; akin to G. vergehen to pass away, to transgress. See {Go}, v. i.] To pass by; to leave. See 1st {Forego}. For sith [since] I shall forgoon my liberty At your request. --Chaucer. And four [days] since Florimell the court forwent. --Spenser. Note: This word in spelling has been confused with, and almost superseded by, forego to go before. Etymologically the form forgo is correct. | |
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Fourhanded \Four"hand`ed\, a. 1. Having four hands; quadrumanous. --Goldsmith. 2. Requiring four [bd]hands[b8] or players; as, a fourhanded game at cards. | |
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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. | |
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Frantic \Fran"tic\, a. [OE. frentik, frenetik, F. frentique, L. phreneticus, from Gr. [?]. See {Frenzy}, and cf. {Frenetic}, {Phrenetic}.] Mad; raving; furious; violent; wild and disorderly; distracted. Die, frantic wretch, for this accursed deed! --Shak. Torrents of frantic abuse. --Macaulay. -- {Fran"tic*al*ly}, adv. -- {Fran"tic*ly}, adv. --Shak. -- {Fran"tic*ness}, n. --Johnson. | |
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Frantic \Fran"tic\, a. [OE. frentik, frenetik, F. frentique, L. phreneticus, from Gr. [?]. See {Frenzy}, and cf. {Frenetic}, {Phrenetic}.] Mad; raving; furious; violent; wild and disorderly; distracted. Die, frantic wretch, for this accursed deed! --Shak. Torrents of frantic abuse. --Macaulay. -- {Fran"tic*al*ly}, adv. -- {Fran"tic*ly}, adv. --Shak. -- {Fran"tic*ness}, n. --Johnson. | |
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Frantic \Fran"tic\, a. [OE. frentik, frenetik, F. frentique, L. phreneticus, from Gr. [?]. See {Frenzy}, and cf. {Frenetic}, {Phrenetic}.] Mad; raving; furious; violent; wild and disorderly; distracted. Die, frantic wretch, for this accursed deed! --Shak. Torrents of frantic abuse. --Macaulay. -- {Fran"tic*al*ly}, adv. -- {Fran"tic*ly}, adv. --Shak. -- {Fran"tic*ness}, n. --Johnson. | |
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Frantic \Fran"tic\, a. [OE. frentik, frenetik, F. frentique, L. phreneticus, from Gr. [?]. See {Frenzy}, and cf. {Frenetic}, {Phrenetic}.] Mad; raving; furious; violent; wild and disorderly; distracted. Die, frantic wretch, for this accursed deed! --Shak. Torrents of frantic abuse. --Macaulay. -- {Fran"tic*al*ly}, adv. -- {Fran"tic*ly}, adv. --Shak. -- {Fran"tic*ness}, n. --Johnson. | |
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Free \Free\ (fr[emac]), a. [Compar. {Freer} (-[etil]r); superl. {Freest} (-[ecr]st).] [OE. fre, freo, AS. fre[a2], fr[c6]; akin to D. vrij, OS. & OHG. fr[c6], G. frei, Icel. fr[c6], Sw. & Dan. fri, Goth. freis, and also to Skr. prija beloved, dear, fr. pr[c6] to love, Goth. frij[omac]n. Cf. {Affray}, {Belfry}, {Friday}, {Friend}, {Frith} inclosure.] 1. Exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow one's own impulses, desires, or inclinations; determining one's own course of action; not dependent; at liberty. That which has the power, or not the power, to operate, is that alone which is or is not free. --Locke. 2. Not under an arbitrary or despotic government; subject only to fixed laws regularly and fairly administered, and defended by them from encroachments upon natural or acquired rights; enjoying political liberty. 3. Liberated, by arriving at a certain age, from the control of parents, guardian, or master. 4. Not confined or imprisoned; released from arrest; liberated; at liberty to go. Set an unhappy prisoner free. --Prior. 5. Not subjected to the laws of physical necessity; capable of voluntary activity; endowed with moral liberty; -- said of the will. Not free, what proof could they have given sincere Of true allegiance, constant faith, or love. --Milton. 6. Clear of offense or crime; guiltless; innocent. My hands are guilty, but my heart is free. --Dryden. 7. Unconstrained by timidity or distrust; unreserved; ingenuous; frank; familiar; communicative. He was free only with a few. --Milward. 8. Unrestrained; immoderate; lavish; licentious; -- used in a bad sense. The critics have been very free in their censures. --Felton. A man may live a free life as to wine or women. --Shelley. 9. Not close or parsimonious; liberal; open-handed; lavish; as, free with his money. 10. Exempt; clear; released; liberated; not encumbered or troubled with; as, free from pain; free from a burden; -- followed by from, or, rarely, by of. Princes declaring themselves free from the obligations of their treaties. --Bp. Burnet. 11. Characteristic of one acting without restraint; charming; easy. 12. Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited; as, a free horse. 13. Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special rights; -- followed by of. He therefore makes all birds, of every sect, Free of his farm. --Dryden. 14. Thrown open, or made accessible, to all; to be enjoyed without limitations; unrestricted; not obstructed, engrossed, or appropriated; open; -- said of a thing to be possessed or enjoyed; as, a free school. Why, sir, I pray, are not the streets as free For me as for you? --Shak. 15. Not gained by importunity or purchase; gratuitous; spontaneous; as, free admission; a free gift. 16. Not arbitrary or despotic; assuring liberty; defending individual rights against encroachment by any person or class; instituted by a free people; -- said of a government, institutions, etc. 17. (O. Eng. Law) Certain or honorable; the opposite of base; as, free service; free socage. --Burrill. 18. (Law) Privileged or individual; the opposite of common; as, a free fishery; a free warren. --Burrill. 19. Not united or combined with anything else; separated; dissevered; unattached; at liberty to escape; as, free carbonic acid gas; free cells. {Free agency}, the capacity or power of choosing or acting freely, or without necessity or constraint upon the will. {Free bench} (Eng. Law), a widow's right in the copyhold lands of her husband, corresponding to dower in freeholds. {Free board} (Naut.), a vessel's side between water line and gunwale. {Free bond} (Chem.), an unsaturated or unemployed unit, or bond, of affinity or valence, of an atom or radical. {Free-borough men} (O.Eng. Law). See {Friborg}. {Free chapel} (Eccles.), a chapel not subject to the jurisdiction of the ordinary, having been founded by the king or by a subject specially authorized. [Eng.] --Bouvier. {Free charge} (Elec.), a charge of electricity in the free or statical condition; free electricity. {Free church}. (a) A church whose sittings are for all and without charge. (b) An ecclesiastical body that left the Church of Scotland, in 1843, to be free from control by the government in spiritual matters. {Free city}, [or] {Free town}, a city or town independent in its government and franchises, as formerly those of the Hanseatic league. {Free cost}, freedom from charges or expenses. --South. {Free and easy}, unconventional; unrestrained; regardless of formalities. [Colloq.] [bd]Sal and her free and easy ways.[b8] --W. Black. {Free goods}, goods admitted into a country free of duty. {Free labor}, the labor of freemen, as distinguished from that of slaves. {Free port}. (Com.) (a) A port where goods may be received and shipped free of custom duty. (b) A port where goods of all kinds are received from ships of all nations at equal rates of duty. {Free public house}, in England, a tavern not belonging to a brewer, so that the landlord is free to brew his own beer or purchase where he chooses. --Simmonds. {Free school}. (a) A school to which pupils are admitted without discrimination and on an equal footing. (b) A school supported by general taxation, by endowmants, etc., where pupils pay nothing for tuition; a public school. {Free services} (O.Eng. Law), such feudal services as were not unbecoming the character of a soldier or a freemen to perform; as, to serve under his lord in war, to pay a sum of money, etc. --Burrill. {Free ships}, ships of neutral nations, which in time of war are free from capture even though carrying enemy's goods. {Free socage} (O.Eng. Law), a feudal tenure held by certain services which, though honorable, were not military. --Abbott. {Free States}, those of the United States before the Civil War, in which slavery had ceased to exist, or had never existed. {Free stuff} (Carp.), timber free from knots; clear stuff. {Free thought}, that which is thought independently of the authority of others. {Free trade}, commerce unrestricted by duties or tariff regulations. {Free trader}, one who believes in free trade. {To make free with}, to take liberties with; to help one's self to. [Colloq.] {To sail free} (Naut.), to sail with the yards not braced in as sharp as when sailing closehauled, or close to the wind. | |
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Free-hand \Free"-hand`\, a. Done by the hand, without support, or the guidance of instruments; as, free-hand drawing. See under {Drawing}. | |
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Drawing \Draw"ing\, n. 1. The act of pulling, or attracting. 2. The act or the art of representing any object by means of lines and shades; especially, such a representation when in one color, or in tints used not to represent the colors of natural objects, but for effect only, and produced with hard material such as pencil, chalk, etc.; delineation; also, the figure or representation drawn. 3. The process of stretching or spreading metals as by hammering, or, as in forming wire from rods or tubes and cups from sheet metal, by pulling them through dies. 4. (Textile Manuf.) The process of pulling out and elongating the sliver from the carding machine, by revolving rollers, to prepare it for spinning. 5. The distribution of prizes and blanks in a lottery. Note: Drawing is used adjectively or as the first part of compounds in the sense of pertaining to drawing, for drawing (in the sense of pulling, and of pictorial representation); as, drawing master or drawing-master, drawing knife or drawing-knife, drawing machine, drawing board, drawing paper, drawing pen, drawing pencil, etc. {A drawing of tea}, a small portion of tea for steeping. {Drawing knife}. See in the {Vocabulary}. {Drawing paper} (Fine Arts), a thick, sized paper for draughtsman and for water-color painting. {Drawing slate}, a soft, slaty substance used in crayon drawing; -- called also {black chalk}, or {drawing chalk}. {Free-hand drawing}, a style of drawing made without the use of guiding or measuring instruments, as distinguished from mechanical or geometrical drawing; also, a drawing thus executed. | |
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Free-handed \Free"-hand`ed\, a. Open-handed; liberal. | |
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Fremd \Fremd\, Fremed \Frem"ed\a. [OE., from AS. fremede, fremde; akin to G. fremd.] Strange; foreign. [Old Eng. & Scot.] --Chaucer. | |
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Fremd \Fremd\, Fremed \Frem"ed\a. [OE., from AS. fremede, fremde; akin to G. fremd.] Strange; foreign. [Old Eng. & Scot.] --Chaucer. | |
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Frenetical \Fre*net"ic*al\, a. Frenetic; frantic; frenzied. -- {Frenet"ic*al*ly}, adv. | |
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Frenetical \Fre*net"ic*al\, a. Frenetic; frantic; frenzied. -- {Frenet"ic*al*ly}, adv. | |
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Frenetir \Fre*net"ir\, a. [See {Frantic}, a.] Distracted; mad; frantic; phrenetic. --Milton. | |
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Friend \Friend\ (fr[ecr]nd), n. [OR. frend, freond, AS. fre[a2]nd, prop. p. pr. of fre[a2]n, fre[a2]gan, to love; akin to D. vriend friend, OS. friund friend, friohan to love, OHG. friunt friend, G. freund, Icel. fr[91]ndi kinsman, Sw. fr[84]nde. Goth. frij[omac]nds friend, frij[omac]n to love. [root]83. See {Free}, and cf. {Fiend}.] 1. One who entertains for another such sentiments of esteem, respect, and affection that he seeks his society aud welfare; a wellwisher; an intimate associate; sometimes, an attendant. Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend. --Dryden. A friend that sticketh closer than a brother. --Prov. xviii. 24. 2. One not inimical or hostile; one not a foe or enemy; also, one of the same nation, party, kin, etc., whose friendly feelings may be assumed. The word is some times used as a term of friendly address. Friend, how camest thou in hither? --Matt. xxii. 12. 3. One who looks propitiously on a cause, an institution, a project, and the like; a favorer; a promoter; as, a friend to commerce, to poetry, to an institution. 4. One of a religious sect characterized by disuse of outward rites and an ordained ministry, by simplicity of dress and speech, and esp. by opposition to war and a desire to live at peace with all men. They are popularly called Quakers. America was first visited by Friends in 1656. --T. Chase. 5. A paramour of either sex. [Obs.] --Shak. {A friend} {at court [or] in court}, one disposed to act as a friend in a place of special opportunity or influence. {To be friends with}, to have friendly relations with. [bd]He's . . . friends with C[91]sar.[b8] --Shak. {To make friends with}, to become reconciled to or on friendly terms with. [bd]Having now made friends with the Athenians.[b8] --Jowett (Thucyd.). | |
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Friend \Friend\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Friended}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Friending}.] To act as the friend of; to favor; to countenance; to befriend. [Obs.] Fortune friends the bold. --Spenser. | |
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Friend \Friend\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Friended}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Friending}.] To act as the friend of; to favor; to countenance; to befriend. [Obs.] Fortune friends the bold. --Spenser. | |
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Friended \Friend"ed\, a. 1. Having friends; [Obs.] 2. Inclined to love; well-disposed. [Obs.] --Shak. | |
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Friending \Friend"ing\, n. Friendliness. [Obs.] --Shak. | |
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Friend \Friend\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Friended}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Friending}.] To act as the friend of; to favor; to countenance; to befriend. [Obs.] Fortune friends the bold. --Spenser. | |
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Friendless \Friend"less\, a. [AS. fre[a2]ndle[a0]s.] Destitute of friends; forsaken. -- {Friend"less*ness}, n. | |
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Friendless \Friend"less\, a. [AS. fre[a2]ndle[a0]s.] Destitute of friends; forsaken. -- {Friend"less*ness}, n. | |
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Friendlily \Friend"li*ly\, adv. In a friendly manner. --Pope. | |
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Friendliness \Friend"li*ness\, n. The condition or quality of being friendly. --Sir P. Sidney. | |
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Friendly \Friend"ly\, n. A friendly person; -- usually applied to natives friendly to foreign settlers or invaders. These were speedily routed by the friendlies, who attacked the small force before them in fine style. --E. N. Bennett. | |
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Friendly \Friend"ly\, a. [AS. fre[82]ndl[imac]ce.] 1. Having the temper and disposition of a friend; disposed to promote the good of another; kind; favorable. 2. Appropriate to, or implying, friendship; befitting friends; amicable. In friendly relations with his moderate opponents. --Macaulay. 3. Not hostile; as, a friendly power or state. 4. Promoting the good of any person; favorable; propitious; serviceable; as, a friendly breeze or gale. On the first friendly bank he throws him down. --Addison. Syn: Amicable; kind; conciliatory; propitious; favorable. See {Amicable}. | |
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Friendly \Friend"ly\, adv. In the manner of friends; amicably; like friends. [Obs.] --Shak. In whom all graces that can perfect beauty Are friendly met. --Beau. & Fl. | |
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Benefit society \Benefit society\ A society or association formed for mutual insurance, as among tradesmen or in labor unions, to provide for relief in sickness, old age, and for the expenses of burial. Usually called {friendly society} in Great Britain. | |
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Lorettine \Lo`ret*tine"\, n. (R. C. Ch.) One of a order of nuns founded in 1812 at Loretto, in Kentucky. The members of the order (called also {Sisters of Loretto}, or {Friends of Mary at the Foot of the Cross}) devote themselves to the cause of education and the care of destitute orphans, their labors being chiefly confined to the Western United States. | |
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Friendship \Friend"ship\, n. [AS. fre[a2]ndscipe. See {Friend}, and {-ship}.] 1. The state of being friends; friendly relation, or attachment, to a person, or between persons; affection arising from mutual esteem and good will; friendliness; amity; good will. There is little friendship in the world. --Bacon. There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity. --Rambler. Preferred by friendship, and not chosen by sufficiency. --Spenser. 2. Kindly aid; help; assistance, [Obs.] Some friendship will it [a hovel] lend you gainst the tempest. --Shak. 3. Aptness to unite; conformity; affinity; harmony; correspondence. [Obs.] Those colors . . . have a friendship with each other. --Dryden. | |
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{Anniversary day}. See {Anniversary}, n. {Astronomical day}, a period equal to the mean solar day, but beginning at noon instead of at midnight, its twenty-four hours being numbered from 1 to 24; also, the sidereal day, as that most used by astronomers. {Born days}. See under {Born}. {Canicular days}. See {Dog day}. {Civil day}, the mean solar day, used in the ordinary reckoning of time, and among most modern nations beginning at mean midnight; its hours are usually numbered in two series, each from 1 to 12. This is the period recognized by courts as constituting a day. The Babylonians and Hindoos began their day at sunrise, the Athenians and Jews at sunset, the ancient Egyptians and Romans at midnight. {Day blindness}. (Med.) See {Nyctalopia}. {Day by day}, or {Day after day}, daily; every day; continually; without intermission of a day. See under {By}. [bd]Day by day we magnify thee.[b8] --Book of Common Prayer. {Days in bank} (Eng. Law), certain stated days for the return of writs and the appearance of parties; -- so called because originally peculiar to the Court of Common Bench, or Bench (bank) as it was formerly termed. --Burrill. {Day in court}, a day for the appearance of parties in a suit. {Days of devotion} (R. C. Ch.), certain festivals on which devotion leads the faithful to attend mass. --Shipley. {Days of grace}. See {Grace}. {Days of obligation} (R. C. Ch.), festival days when it is obligatory on the faithful to attend Mass. --Shipley. {Day owl}, (Zo[94]l.), an owl that flies by day. See {Hawk owl}. {Day rule} (Eng. Law), an order of court (now abolished) allowing a prisoner, under certain circumstances, to go beyond the prison limits for a single day. {Day school}, one which the pupils attend only in daytime, in distinction from a boarding school. {Day sight}. (Med.) See {Hemeralopia}. {Day's work} (Naut.), the account or reckoning of a ship's course for twenty-four hours, from noon to noon. {From day to day}, as time passes; in the course of time; as, he improves from day to day. {Jewish day}, the time between sunset and sunset. {Mean solar day} (Astron.), the mean or average of all the apparent solar days of the year. {One day}, {One of these days}, at an uncertain time, usually of the future, rarely of the past; sooner or later. [bd]Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband.[b8] --Shak. {Only from day to day}, without certainty of continuance; temporarily. --Bacon. {Sidereal day}, the interval between two successive transits of the first point of Aries over the same meridian. The Sidereal day is 23 h. 56 m. 4.09 s. of mean solar time. {To win the day}, to gain the victory, to be successful. --S. Butler. {Week day}, any day of the week except Sunday; a working day. {Working day}. (a) A day when work may be legally done, in distinction from Sundays and legal holidays. (b) The number of hours, determined by law or custom, during which a workman, hired at a stated price per day, must work to be entitled to a day's pay. | |
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Head \Head\, n. [OE. hed, heved, heaved, AS. he[a0]fod; akin to D. hoofd, OHG. houbit, G. haupt, Icel. h[94]fu[?], Sw. hufvud, Dan. hoved, Goth. haubip. The word does not corresponds regularly to L. caput head (cf. E. {Chief}, {Cadet}, {Capital}), and its origin is unknown.] 1. The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the chief sensory organs; poll; cephalon. 2. The uppermost, foremost, or most important part of an inanimate object; such a part as may be considered to resemble the head of an animal; often, also, the larger, thicker, or heavier part or extremity, in distinction from the smaller or thinner part, or from the point or edge; as, the head of a cane, a nail, a spear, an ax, a mast, a sail, a ship; that which covers and closes the top or the end of a hollow vessel; as, the head of a cask or a steam boiler. 3. The place where the head should go; as, the head of a bed, of a grave, etc.; the head of a carriage, that is, the hood which covers the head. 4. The most prominent or important member of any organized body; the chief; the leader; as, the head of a college, a school, a church, a state, and the like. [bd]Their princes and heads.[b8] --Robynson (More's Utopia). The heads of the chief sects of philosophy. --Tillotson. Your head I him appoint. --Milton. 5. The place or honor, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front; as, the head of the table; the head of a column of soldiers. An army of fourscore thousand troops, with the duke Marlborough at the head of them. --Addison. 6. Each one among many; an individual; -- often used in a plural sense; as, a thousand head of cattle. It there be six millions of people, there are about four acres for every head. --Graunt. 7. The seat of the intellect; the brain; the understanding; the mental faculties; as, a good head, that is, a good mind; it never entered his head, it did not occur to him; of his own head, of his own thought or will. Men who had lost both head and heart. --Macaulay. 8. The source, fountain, spring, or beginning, as of a stream or river; as, the head of the Nile; hence, the altitude of the source, or the height of the surface, as of water, above a given place, as above an orifice at which it issues, and the pressure resulting from the height or from motion; sometimes also, the quantity in reserve; as, a mill or reservoir has a good head of water, or ten feet head; also, that part of a gulf or bay most remote from the outlet or the sea. 9. A headland; a promontory; as, Gay Head. --Shak. 10. A separate part, or topic, of a discourse; a theme to be expanded; a subdivision; as, the heads of a sermon. 11. Culminating point or crisis; hence, strength; force; height. Ere foul sin, gathering head, shall break into corruption. --Shak. The indisposition which has long hung upon me, is at last grown to such a head, that it must quickly make an end of me or of itself. --Addison. 12. Power; armed force. My lord, my lord, the French have gathered head. --Shak. 13. A headdress; a covering of the head; as, a laced head; a head of hair. --Swift. 14. An ear of wheat, barley, or of one of the other small cereals. 15. (Bot.) (a) A dense cluster of flowers, as in clover, daisies, thistles; a capitulum. (b) A dense, compact mass of leaves, as in a cabbage or a lettuce plant. 16. The antlers of a deer. 17. A rounded mass of foam which rises on a pot of beer or other effervescing liquor. --Mortimer. 18. pl. Tiles laid at the eaves of a house. --Knight. Note: Head is often used adjectively or in self-explaining combinations; as, head gear or headgear, head rest. Cf. {Head}, a. {A buck of the first head}, a male fallow deer in its fifth year, when it attains its complete set of antlers. --Shak. {By the head}. (Naut.) See under {By}. {Elevator head}, {Feed head}, etc. See under {Elevator}, {Feed}, etc. {From head to foot}, through the whole length of a man; completely; throughout. [bd]Arm me, audacity, from head to foot.[b8] --Shak. {Head and ears}, with the whole person; deeply; completely; as, he was head and ears in debt or in trouble. [Colloq.] {Head fast}. (Naut.) See 5th {Fast}. {Head kidney} (Anat.), the most anterior of the three pairs of embryonic renal organs developed in most vertebrates; the pronephros. {Head money}, a capitation tax; a poll tax. --Milton. {Head pence}, a poll tax. [Obs.] {Head sea}, a sea that meets the head of a vessel or rolls against her course. {Head and shoulders}. (a) By force; violently; as, to drag one, head and shoulders. [bd]They bring in every figure of speech, head and shoulders.[b8] --Felton. (b) By the height of the head and shoulders; hence, by a great degree or space; by far; much; as, he is head and shoulders above them. {Head or tail}, this side or that side; this thing or that; -- a phrase used in throwing a coin to decide a choice, guestion, or stake, head being the side of the coin bearing the effigy or principal figure (or, in case there is no head or face on either side, that side which has the date on it), and tail the other side. {Neither head nor tail}, neither beginning nor end; neither this thing nor that; nothing distinct or definite; -- a phrase used in speaking of what is indefinite or confused; as, they made neither head nor tail of the matter. [Colloq.] {Head wind}, a wind that blows in a direction opposite the vessel's course. {Out one's own head}, according to one's own idea; without advice or co[94]peration of another. {Over the head of}, beyond the comprehension of. --M. Arnold. | |
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Jump \Jump\, n. 1. The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound. [bd]To advance by jumps.[b8] --Locke. 2. An effort; an attempt; a venture. [Obs.] Our fortune lies Upon thisjump. -- Shak. 3. The space traversed by a leap. 4. (Mining) A dislocation in a stratum; a fault. 5. (Arch.) An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry. {From the jump}, from the start or beginning. [Colloq.] {Jump joint}. (a) A butt joint. (b) A flush joint, as of plank in carvel-built vessels. {Jump seat}. (a) A movable carriage seat. (b) A carriage constructed with a seat which may be shifted so as to make room for second or extra seat. Also used adjectively; as, a jump-seat wagon. | |
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Top \Top\, n. (Golf) (a) A stroke on the top of the ball. (b) A forward spin given to the ball by hitting it on or near the top. {From top to toe}, from head to foot; altogether. | |
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Frond \Frond\, n. [L. frons, frondis, a leafy branch, foliage.] (Bot.) The organ formed by the combination or union into one body of stem and leaf, and often bearing the fructification; as, the frond of a fern or of a lichen or seaweed; also, the peculiar leaf of a palm tree. | |
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Frondation \Fron*da"tion\, n. [L. frondatio, from frons. See {Frond}.] The act of stripping, as trees, of leaves or branches; a kind of pruning. --Evelyn. | |
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Fronded \Frond"ed\, a. Furnished with fronds. [bd]Fronded palms.[b8] --Whittier. | |
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Frondent \Fron"dent\, a. [L. frondens, p. pr. of frondere to put forth leaves. See {Frond}.] Covered with leaves; leafy; as, a frondent tree. [R.] | |
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Frondesce \Fron*desce"\, v. i. [L. frondescere, inchoative fr. frondere. See {Frondent}.] To unfold leaves, as plants. | |
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Frondescence \Fron*des"cence\, n. (Bot.) (a) The time at which each species of plants unfolds its leaves. (b) The act of bursting into leaf. --Milne. Martyn. | |
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Frondiferous \Fron*dif"er*ous\, a. [L. frondifer frons a leafy branch + ferre to bear: cf. F. frondifere.] Producing fronds. | |
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Frondlet \Frond"let\, n. (Bot.) A very small frond, or distinct portion of a compound frond. | |
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Frondose \Fron*dose"\, a. [L. frondosus leafy.] (Bot.) (a) Frond bearing; resembling a frond; having a simple expansion not separable into stem and leaves. (b) Leafy. --Gray. | |
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Frondous \Fron"dous\, a. (Bot.) Frondose. [R.] | |
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Front \Front\, n. 1. (Fort.) All the works along one side of the polygon inclosing the site which is fortified. 2. (Phon.) The middle of the upper part of the tongue, -- the part of the tongue which is more or less raised toward the palate in the pronunciation of certain sounds, as the vowel i in machine, e in bed, and consonant y in you. See Guide to Pronunciation, [sect]10. 3. The call boy whose turn it is to answer the call, which is often the word [bd]front,[b8] used as an exclamation. [Hotel Cant] | |
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Front \Front\, n. [F. frant forehead, L. frons, frontis; perh. akin to E. brow.] 1. The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face. Bless'd with his father's front, his mother's tongue. --Pope. Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front. --Shak. His front yet threatens, and his frowns command. --Prior. 2. The forehead, countenance, or personal presence, as expressive of character or temper, and especially, of boldness of disposition, sometimes of impudence; seeming; as, a bold front; a hardened front. With smiling fronts encountering. --Shak. The inhabitants showed a bold front. --Macaulay. 3. The part or surface of anything which seems to look out, or to be directed forward; the fore or forward part; the foremost rank; the van; -- the opposite to back or rear; as, the front of a house; the front of an army. Had he his hurts before? Ay, on the front. --Shak. 4. A position directly before the face of a person, or before the foremost part of a thing; as, in front of un person, of the troops, or of a house. 5. The most conspicuous part. The very head and front of my offending. --Shak. 6. That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women. Like any plain Miss Smith's, who wears s front. --Mrs. Browning. 7. The beginning. [bd]Summer's front.[b8] --Shak. {Bastioned front} (Mil.), a curtain connerting two half bastions. {Front door}, the door in the front wall of a building, usually the principal entrance. {Front of fortification}, the works constructed upon any one side of a polygon. --Farrow. {Front of operations}, all that part of the field of operations in front of the successive positions occupied by the army as it moves forward. --Farrow. {To come to the front}, to attain prominence or leadership. | |
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Front \Front\, a. Of or relating to the front or forward part; having a position in front; foremost; as, a front view. | |
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Front \Front\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fronted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fronting}.] 1. To oppose face to face; to oppose directly; to meet in a hostile manner. You four shall front them in the narrow lane. --Shak. 2. To appear before; to meet. [Enid] daily fronted him In some fresh splendor. --Tennyson. 3. To face toward; to have the front toward; to confront; as, the house fronts the street. And then suddenly front the changed reality. --J. Morley. 4. To stand opposed or opposite to, or over against as, his house fronts the church. 5. To adorn in front; to supply a front to; as, to front a house with marble; to front a head with laurel. Yonder walls, that pertly front your town. --Shak. | |
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Front \Front\, v. t. To have or turn the face or front in any direction; as, the house fronts toward the east. | |
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Front \Front\, n. [F. frant forehead, L. frons, frontis; perh. akin to E. brow.] 1. The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face. Bless'd with his father's front, his mother's tongue. --Pope. Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front. --Shak. His front yet threatens, and his frowns command. --Prior. 2. The forehead, countenance, or personal presence, as expressive of character or temper, and especially, of boldness of disposition, sometimes of impudence; seeming; as, a bold front; a hardened front. With smiling fronts encountering. --Shak. The inhabitants showed a bold front. --Macaulay. 3. The part or surface of anything which seems to look out, or to be directed forward; the fore or forward part; the foremost rank; the van; -- the opposite to back or rear; as, the front of a house; the front of an army. Had he his hurts before? Ay, on the front. --Shak. 4. A position directly before the face of a person, or before the foremost part of a thing; as, in front of un person, of the troops, or of a house. 5. The most conspicuous part. The very head and front of my offending. --Shak. 6. That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women. Like any plain Miss Smith's, who wears s front. --Mrs. Browning. 7. The beginning. [bd]Summer's front.[b8] --Shak. {Bastioned front} (Mil.), a curtain connerting two half bastions. {Front door}, the door in the front wall of a building, usually the principal entrance. {Front of fortification}, the works constructed upon any one side of a polygon. --Farrow. {Front of operations}, all that part of the field of operations in front of the successive positions occupied by the army as it moves forward. --Farrow. {To come to the front}, to attain prominence or leadership. | |
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Front \Front\, n. [F. frant forehead, L. frons, frontis; perh. akin to E. brow.] 1. The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face. Bless'd with his father's front, his mother's tongue. --Pope. Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front. --Shak. His front yet threatens, and his frowns command. --Prior. 2. The forehead, countenance, or personal presence, as expressive of character or temper, and especially, of boldness of disposition, sometimes of impudence; seeming; as, a bold front; a hardened front. With smiling fronts encountering. --Shak. The inhabitants showed a bold front. --Macaulay. 3. The part or surface of anything which seems to look out, or to be directed forward; the fore or forward part; the foremost rank; the van; -- the opposite to back or rear; as, the front of a house; the front of an army. Had he his hurts before? Ay, on the front. --Shak. 4. A position directly before the face of a person, or before the foremost part of a thing; as, in front of un person, of the troops, or of a house. 5. The most conspicuous part. The very head and front of my offending. --Shak. 6. That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women. Like any plain Miss Smith's, who wears s front. --Mrs. Browning. 7. The beginning. [bd]Summer's front.[b8] --Shak. {Bastioned front} (Mil.), a curtain connerting two half bastions. {Front door}, the door in the front wall of a building, usually the principal entrance. {Front of fortification}, the works constructed upon any one side of a polygon. --Farrow. {Front of operations}, all that part of the field of operations in front of the successive positions occupied by the army as it moves forward. --Farrow. {To come to the front}, to attain prominence or leadership. | |
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Front \Front\, n. [F. frant forehead, L. frons, frontis; perh. akin to E. brow.] 1. The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face. Bless'd with his father's front, his mother's tongue. --Pope. Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front. --Shak. His front yet threatens, and his frowns command. --Prior. 2. The forehead, countenance, or personal presence, as expressive of character or temper, and especially, of boldness of disposition, sometimes of impudence; seeming; as, a bold front; a hardened front. With smiling fronts encountering. --Shak. The inhabitants showed a bold front. --Macaulay. 3. The part or surface of anything which seems to look out, or to be directed forward; the fore or forward part; the foremost rank; the van; -- the opposite to back or rear; as, the front of a house; the front of an army. Had he his hurts before? Ay, on the front. --Shak. 4. A position directly before the face of a person, or before the foremost part of a thing; as, in front of un person, of the troops, or of a house. 5. The most conspicuous part. The very head and front of my offending. --Shak. 6. That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women. Like any plain Miss Smith's, who wears s front. --Mrs. Browning. 7. The beginning. [bd]Summer's front.[b8] --Shak. {Bastioned front} (Mil.), a curtain connerting two half bastions. {Front door}, the door in the front wall of a building, usually the principal entrance. {Front of fortification}, the works constructed upon any one side of a polygon. --Farrow. {Front of operations}, all that part of the field of operations in front of the successive positions occupied by the army as it moves forward. --Farrow. {To come to the front}, to attain prominence or leadership. | |
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Sight \Sight\, n. [OE. sight, si[?]t, siht, AS. siht, gesiht, gesih[?], gesieh[?], gesyh[?]; akin to D. gezicht, G. sicht, gesicht, Dan. sigte, Sw. sigt, from the root of E. see. See {See}, v. t.] 1. The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view; as, to gain sight of land. A cloud received him out of their sight. --Acts. i. 9. 2. The power of seeing; the faculty of vision, or of perceiving objects by the instrumentality of the eyes. Thy sight is young, And thou shalt read when mine begin to dazzle. --Shak. O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! --Milton. 3. The state of admitting unobstructed vision; visibility; open view; region which the eye at one time surveys; space through which the power of vision extends; as, an object within sight. 4. A spectacle; a view; a show; something worth seeing. Moses said, I will now turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt. --Ex. iii. 3. They never saw a sight so fair. --Spenser. 5. The instrument of seeing; the eye. Why cloud they not their sights? --Shak. 6. Inspection; examination; as, a letter intended for the sight of only one person. 7. Mental view; opinion; judgment; as, in their sight it was harmless. --Wake. That which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God. --Luke xvi. 15. 8. A small aperture through which objects are to be seen, and by which their direction is settled or ascertained; as, the sight of a quadrant. Thier eyes of fire sparking through sights of steel. --Shak. 9. A small piece of metal, fixed or movable, on the breech, muzzle, center, or trunnion of a gun, or on the breech and the muzzle of a rifle, pistol, etc., by means of which the eye is guided in aiming. --Farrow. 10. In a drawing, picture, etc., that part of the surface, as of paper or canvas, which is within the frame or the border or margin. In a frame or the like, the open space, the opening. 11. A great number, quantity, or sum; as, a sight of money. [Now colloquial] Note: Sight in this last sense was formerly employed in the best usage. [bd]A sight of lawyers.[b8] --Latimer. A wonder sight of flowers. --Gower. {At sight}, as soon as seen, or presented to sight; as, a draft payable at sight: to read Greek at sight; to shoot a person at sight. {Front sight} (Firearms), the sight nearest the muzzle. {Open sight}. (Firearms) (a) A front sight through which the objects aimed at may be seen, in distinction from one that hides the object. (b) A rear sight having an open notch instead of an aperture. {Peep sight}, {Rear sight}. See under {Peep}, and {Rear}. {Sight draft}, an order, or bill of exchange, directing the payment of money at sight. {To take sight}, to take aim; to look for the purpose of directing a piece of artillery, or the like. Syn: Vision; view; show; spectacle; representation; exhibition. | |
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Frontage \Front"age\, n. The front part of an edifice or lot; extent of front. | |
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Frontal \Fron"tal\, a. [Cf. F. frontal.] Belonging to the front part; being in front; esp. (Anat.), Of or pertaining to the forehead or the anterior part of the roof of the brain case; as, the frontal bones. | |
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Frontal \Fron"tal\, n. [F. frontal, fronteau, OF. Frontel, frontal, L. frontale an ornament for the forehead, frontlet. See {Front}.] 1. Something worn on the forehead or face; a frontlet; as: (a) An ornamental band for the hair. (b) (Mil.) The metal face guard of a soldier. | |
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2. (Arch.) A little pediment over a door or window. 3. (Eccl.) A movable, decorative member in metal, carved wood, or, commonly, in rich stuff or in embroidery, covering the front of the altar. Frontals are usually changed according to the different ceremonies. 4. (Med.) A medicament or application for the forehead. [Obs.] --Quincy. 5. (Anat.) The frontal bone, or one of the two frontal bones, of the cranium. {Frontal} {hammer [or] helve}, a forge hammer lifted by a cam, acting upon a [bd]tongue[b8] immediately in front of the hammer head. --Raymond. | |
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Frontate \Fron"tate\, Fron'tated \Fron'ta*ted\, a. Growing broader and broader, as a leaf; truncate. | |
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Frontate \Fron"tate\, Fron'tated \Fron'ta*ted\, a. Growing broader and broader, as a leaf; truncate. | |
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Front \Front\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fronted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fronting}.] 1. To oppose face to face; to oppose directly; to meet in a hostile manner. You four shall front them in the narrow lane. --Shak. 2. To appear before; to meet. [Enid] daily fronted him In some fresh splendor. --Tennyson. 3. To face toward; to have the front toward; to confront; as, the house fronts the street. And then suddenly front the changed reality. --J. Morley. 4. To stand opposed or opposite to, or over against as, his house fronts the church. 5. To adorn in front; to supply a front to; as, to front a house with marble; to front a head with laurel. Yonder walls, that pertly front your town. --Shak. | |
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Fronted \Front"ed\, a. Formed with a front; drawn up in line. [bd]Fronted brigades.[b8] --Milton. | |
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Frontier \Fron"tier\, n. [F. fronti[8a]re, LL. frontaria. See {Front}.] 1. That part of a country which fronts or faces another country or an unsettled region; the marches; the border, confine, or extreme part of a country, bordering on another country; the border of the settled and cultivated part of a country; as, the frontier of civilization. 2. (Fort.) An outwork. [Obs.] Palisadoes, frontiers, parapets. --Shak. | |
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Frontier \Fron"tier\, a. 1. Lying on the exterior part; bordering; conterminous; as, a frontier town. 2. Of or relating to a frontier. [bd]Frontier experience.[b8] --W. Irving. | |
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Frontier \Fron"tier\, v. i. To constitute or form a frontier; to have a frontier; -- with on. [Obs.] --Sir W. Temple. | |
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Frontiered \Fron"tiered\, p. a. Placed on the frontiers. [R.] | |
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Floatiersman \Floa"tiers*man\, n.; pl. {Frontiersmen}. A man living on the frontier. | |
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d8Frontignac \[d8]Fron`ti*gnac"\, Frontignan \Fron`ti`gnan"\, n. [So called from Frontignan, a town in Southern France.] 1. A sweet muscadine wine made in Frontignan (Languedoc), France. 2. (Bot.) A grape of many varieties and colors. | |
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Front \Front\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fronted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fronting}.] 1. To oppose face to face; to oppose directly; to meet in a hostile manner. You four shall front them in the narrow lane. --Shak. 2. To appear before; to meet. [Enid] daily fronted him In some fresh splendor. --Tennyson. 3. To face toward; to have the front toward; to confront; as, the house fronts the street. And then suddenly front the changed reality. --J. Morley. 4. To stand opposed or opposite to, or over against as, his house fronts the church. 5. To adorn in front; to supply a front to; as, to front a house with marble; to front a head with laurel. Yonder walls, that pertly front your town. --Shak. | |
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Frontingly \Front"ing*ly\, adv. In a fronting or facing position; opposingly. | |
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Frontiniac \Fron`tin*iac"\, n. See {Frontignac}. | |
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Frontispiece \Fron"tis*piece\, n. [F. frontispice, LL. frontispicium beginning, front of a church, fr. L. frons front + spicere, specere, to look at, view: cf. It. frontispizio. See {Front} and {Spy}.] The part which first meets the eye; as: (a) (Arch.) The principal front of a building. [Obs. or R.] (b) An ornamental figure or illustration fronting the first page, or titlepage, of a book; formerly, the titlepage itself. | |
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Frontless \Front"less\, a. Without face or front; shameless; not diffident; impudent. [Obs.] [bd]Frontless vice.[b8] --Dryden. [bd]Frontless flattery.[b8] --Pope. | |
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Frontlessly \Front"less*ly\, adv. Shamelessly; impudently. [Obs.] | |
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Frontlet \Front"let\, n. [OF. frontelet brow band, dim. of frontel, frontal. See {Frontal}, n.] 1. A frontal or brow band; a fillet or band worn on the forehead. They shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. --Deut. vi. 8. 2. A frown (likened to a frontlet). [R. & Poetic] What makes that frontlet on? Methinks you are too much of late i' the frown. --Shak. 3. (Zo[94]l.) The margin of the head, behind the bill of birds, often bearing rigid bristles. | |
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Fronto- \Fron"to-\ [L. frons, frontis, the forehead.] (Anat.) A combining form signifying relating to the forehead or the frontal bone; as, fronto-parietal, relating to the frontal and the parietal bones; fronto-nasal, etc. | |
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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. | |
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Furmonty \Fur"mon*ty\, Furmity \Fur"mi*ty\n. Same as {Frumenty}. | |
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Frumenty \Fru"men*ty\, n. [OF. froment[82]e, fr. L. frumentum. See {Frumentaceous}.] Food made of hulled wheat boiled in milk, with sugar, plums, etc. [Written also {furmenty} and {furmity}.] --Halliwell. | |
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Furmonty \Fur"mon*ty\, Furmity \Fur"mi*ty\n. Same as {Frumenty}. | |
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Frumenty \Fru"men*ty\, n. [OF. froment[82]e, fr. L. frumentum. See {Frumentaceous}.] Food made of hulled wheat boiled in milk, with sugar, plums, etc. [Written also {furmenty} and {furmity}.] --Halliwell. | |
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Furniture \Fur"ni*ture\, n. [F. fourniture. See {Furnish}, v. t.] 1. That with which anything is furnished or supplied; supplies; outfit; equipment. The form and all the furniture of the earth. --Tillotson. The thoughts which make the furniture of their minds. --M. Arnold. 2. Articles used for convenience or decoration in a house or apartment, as tables, chairs, bedsteads, sofas, carpets, curtains, pictures, vases, etc. 3. The necessary appendages to anything, as to a machine, a carriage, a ship, etc. (a) (Naut.) The masts and rigging of a ship. (b) (Mil.) The mountings of a gun. (c) Builders' hardware such as locks, door and window trimmings. (d) (Print) Pieces of wood or metal of a lesser height than the type, placed around the pages or other matter in a form, and, with the quoins, serving to secure the form in its place in the chase. 4. (Mus.) A mixed or compound stop in an organ; -- sometimes called mixture. | |
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d8Lepisma \[d8]Le*pis"ma\ (l[esl]*p[icr]z"m[adot]), n. [NL., fr. Gr. le`pisma peel, fr. lepi`s -i`dos, a scale.] (Zo[94]l.) A genus of wingless thysanurous insects having an elongated flattened body, covered with shining scales and terminated by seven unequal bristles. A common species ({Lepisma saccharina}) is found in houses, and often injures books and furniture. Called also {shiner}, {silver witch}, {silver moth}, and {furniture bug}. | |
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Mixture \Mix"ture\, n. [L. mixtura, fr. miscere, mixtum, to mix: cf. F. mixture. See {Mix}.] 1. The act of mixing, or the state of being mixed; as, made by a mixture of ingredients. --Hooker. 2. That which results from mixing different ingredients together; a compound; as, to drink a mixture of molasses and water; -- also, a medley. There is also a mixture of good and evil wisely distributed by God, to serve the ends of his providence. --Atterbury. 3. An ingredient entering into a mixed mass; an additional ingredient. Cicero doubts whether it were possible for a community to exist that had not a prevailing mixture of piety in its constitution. --Addison. 4. (Med.) A kind of liquid medicine made up of many ingredients; esp., as opposed to {solution}, a liquid preparation in which the solid ingredients are not completely dissolved. 5. (Physics & Chem.) A mass of two or more ingredients, the particles of which are separable, independent, and uncompounded with each other, no matter how thoroughly and finely commingled; -- contrasted with a compound; thus, gunpowder is a mechanical mixture of carbon, sulphur, and niter. 6. (Mus.) An organ stop, comprising from two to five ranges of pipes, used only in combination with the foundation and compound stops; -- called also {furniture stop}. It consists of high harmonics, or overtones, of the ground tone. Syn: Union; admixture; intermixture; medley. | |
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Friend, KS Zip code(s): 67871 Friend, NE (city, FIPS 17775) Location: 40.65107 N, 97.28405 W Population (1990): 1111 (483 housing units) Area: 2.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 68359 Friend, OR Zip code(s): 97021 | |
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Friendly, MD (CDP, FIPS 30575) Location: 38.75640 N, 76.96578 W Population (1990): 9028 (2780 housing units) Area: 17.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Friendly, WV (town, FIPS 29404) Location: 39.51290 N, 81.06207 W Population (1990): 146 (73 housing units) Area: 0.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 26146 | |
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Friendship, AR (town, FIPS 25180) Location: 34.22375 N, 93.00301 W Population (1990): 160 (69 housing units) Area: 1.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 71942 Friendship, IN Zip code(s): 47021 Friendship, MD Zip code(s): 20758 Friendship, ME Zip code(s): 04547 Friendship, NY (CDP, FIPS 27694) Location: 42.20544 N, 78.14240 W Population (1990): 1423 (544 housing units) Area: 7.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 14739 Friendship, TN (city, FIPS 27960) Location: 35.91030 N, 89.24176 W Population (1990): 467 (210 housing units) Area: 1.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 38034 Friendship, WI (village, FIPS 27950) Location: 43.97179 N, 89.81999 W Population (1990): 728 (298 housing units) Area: 2.3 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 53934 | |
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Friendsville, MD (town, FIPS 30850) Location: 39.66298 N, 79.40518 W Population (1990): 577 (254 housing units) Area: 2.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 21531 Friendsville, PA (borough, FIPS 27968) Location: 41.91791 N, 76.04731 W Population (1990): 102 (42 housing units) Area: 3.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 18818 Friendsville, TN (city, FIPS 28060) Location: 35.75723 N, 84.13044 W Population (1990): 792 (337 housing units) Area: 7.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 37737 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Friendswood, TX (city, FIPS 27648) Location: 29.51230 N, 95.19772 W Population (1990): 22814 (8048 housing units) Area: 53.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 77546 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Front Royal, VA (town, FIPS 29968) Location: 38.92484 N, 78.18470 W Population (1990): 11880 (4983 housing units) Area: 24.0 sq km (land), 0.6 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 22630 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Frontenac, KS (city, FIPS 24850) Location: 37.45612 N, 94.69625 W Population (1990): 2588 (1134 housing units) Area: 8.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Frontenac, MN Zip code(s): 55026 Frontenac, MO (city, FIPS 26110) Location: 38.63080 N, 90.41598 W Population (1990): 3374 (1283 housing units) Area: 7.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Frontenac, NY Zip code(s): 13624 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Frontier, ND (city, FIPS 28720) Location: 46.80038 N, 96.83301 W Population (1990): 218 (57 housing units) Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Frontier County, NE (county, FIPS 63) Location: 40.52695 N, 100.38810 W Population (1990): 3101 (1565 housing units) Area: 2524.2 sq km (land), 14.3 sq km (water) | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
fear and loathing n. [from Hunter S. Thompson] A state inspired by the prospect of dealing with certain real-world systems and standards that are totally {brain-damaged} but ubiquitous -- Intel 8086s, or {COBOL}, or {{EBCDIC}}, or any {IBM} machine bigger than a workstation. "Ack! They want PCs to be able to talk to the AI machine. Fear and loathing time!" | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
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From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
front end n. 1. An intermediary computer that does set-up and filtering for another (usually more powerful but less friendly) machine (a `back end'). 2. What you're talking to when you have a conversation with someone who is making replies without paying attention. "Look at the dancing elephants!" "Uh-huh." "Do you know what I just said?" "Sorry, you were talking to the front end." 3. Software that provides an interface to another program `behind' it, which may not be as user-friendly. Probably from analogy with hardware front-ends (see sense 1) that interfaced with mainframes. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
FARNET A non-profit corporation, established in 1987, whose mission is to advance the use of computer networks to improve research and education. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
fear and loathing (Hunter S. Thompson) A state inspired by the prospect of dealing with certain real-world systems and standards that are totally {brain-damaged} but ubiquitous - {Intel 8086}s, {COBOL}, {EBCDIC}, or any {IBM} machine except the {Rios} (also known as the {RS/6000}). [{Jargon File}] (1994-12-06) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Fermat prime prime number of the form 2^n+1 must be a Fermat prime. {Fermat} conjectured in a letter to someone or other that all numbers 2^2^n+1 are prime, having noticed that this is true for n=0,1,2,3,4. {Euler} proved that 641 is a factor of 2^2^5+1. Of course nowadays we would just ask a computer, but at the time it was an impressive achievement (and his proof is very elegant). No further Fermat primes are known; several have been factorised, and several more have been proved composite without finding explicit factorisations. {Gauss} proved that a regular N-sided {polygon} can be constructed with ruler and compasses if and only if N is a power of 2 times a product of distinct Fermat primes. (1995-04-10) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Ferranti F100-L An 8-bit processor, with 16-bit addressing, but which could only access 32K of memory (1-bit for indirection). The Ferranti F100-L was designed by a British company for the British Military. The unique feature of the F100-L was that it had a complete control bus available for a {coprocessor}. Any instruction the F100-L couldn't decode was sent directly to the coprocessor for processing. Applications for coprocessors at the time were limited, but the design is still used in modern processors, such as the {National Semiconductor} {320xx} series. (1994-11-17) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
FORMAT-Fortran {Fortran Matrix Abstraction Technique Fortran} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Formatting Output Specification Instance {document management} in the US military, to be replaced (soon after Oct 1996?) by the {ISO} standard {DSSSL}. (1996-10-07) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
fprintf prints to a given {stream}. E.g. fprintf(stderr, "%s: can't open file \"%s\".", argv[0], argv[1]); which prints to the "{standard error}" output stream. (1995-04-25) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Frame Technology Corporation by {Adobe Systems, Inc.} in late 1995/early 1996. (1995-01-30) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Freenet Community-based bulletin board system with e-mail, information services, interactive communications, and conferencing. Freenets are funded and operated by individuals and volunteers - in one sense, like public television. They are part of the National Public Telecomputing Network (NPTN), an organisation based in Cleveland, Ohio, devoted to making computer telecommunication and networking services as freely available as public libraries. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Friend Relationship between classes in the language C++. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
FRMT-FTRN Scientific language. 1976. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
front end 1. An intermediary computer that does set-up and filtering for another (usually more powerful but less friendly) machine (a "back end"). 2. Software that provides an interface to another program "behind" it, which may not be as {user-friendly}. Probably from analogy with hardware front-ends that interfaced with {mainframe}s. [{Jargon File}] | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
front side bus communicates with its {RAM} and {chipset}; one half of the {Dual Independent Bus}, the other half being the {backside bus}. The {L2 cache} is usually on the FSB, unless it is on the same chip as the processor [example?]. In {PCI} systems, the PCI bus runs at half the FSB speed. {Intel}'s {Pentium 60} processor used a bus speed and processor speed of 60 {MHz}. All later processors have used multipliers to increase the internal {clock} speed while maintaining the same external clock speed, e.g. the {Pentium 90} used a 1.5x multiplier. Modern {Socket 370} {motherboards} support multipliers from 4.5x to 8.0x, and FSB speeds from 50 MHz to a proposed 83 MHz standard. These higher speeds may cause problems with some PCI hardware. Altering the FSB speed and the multiplier ratio are the two main ways of {overclocking} processors. {Toms Hardware - The Bus Speed Guide (http://www.tomshardware.com/busspeed.html)}. {Toms Hardware - The Overclocking Guide (http://www.tomshardware.com/overclock.html)}. (2002-02-21) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
front-end processor (FEP) 1. A small computer necessary to enable an {IBM} {mainframe} using {SNA} to communicate beyond the limits of the {dinosaur pen}. 2. A small computer controlling the screen and keyboard of a {Symbolics 3600} {LISP Machine}. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Frontlets occurs only in Ex. 13:16; Deut. 6:8, and 11:18. The meaning of the injunction to the Israelites, with regard to the statues and precepts given them, that they should "bind them for a sign upon their hand, and have them as frontlets between their eyes," was that they should keep them distinctly in view and carefully attend to them. But soon after their return from Babylon they began to interpret this injunction literally, and had accordingly portions of the law written out and worn about their person. These they called tephillin, i.e., "prayers." The passages so written out on strips of parchment were these, Ex. 12:2-10; 13:11-21; Deut. 6:4-9; 11:18-21. They were then "rolled up in a case of black calfskin, which was attached to a stiffer piece of leather, having a thong one finger broad and one cubit and a half long. Those worn on the forehead were written on four strips of parchment, and put into four little cells within a square case, which had on it the Hebrew letter called shin, the three points of which were regarded as an emblem of God." This case tied around the forehead in a particular way was called "the tephillah on the head." (See {PHYLACTERY}.) |