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Fail \Fail\, v. t. 1. To be wanting to; to be insufficient for; to disappoint; to desert. There shall not fail thee a man on the throne. --1 Kings ii. 4. 2. To miss of attaining; to lose. [R.] Though that seat of earthly bliss be failed. --Milton. | |
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Fail \Fail\, n. [OF. faille, from failir. See {Fail}, v. i.] 1. Miscarriage; failure; deficiency; fault; -- mostly superseded by failure or failing, except in the phrase without fail. [bd]His highness' fail of issue.[b8] --Shak. 2. Death; decease. [Obs.] --Shak. | |
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Fail \Fail\v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Failed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Failing}.] [F. failir, fr. L. fallere, falsum, to deceive, akin to E. fall. See {Fail}, and cf. {Fallacy}, {False}, {Fault}.] 1. To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expected manner, or to be altogether cut off from supply; to be lacking; as, streams fail; crops fail. As the waters fail from the sea. --Job xiv. 11. Till Lionel's issue fails, his should not reign. --Shak. 2. To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; -- used with of. If ever they fail of beauty, this failure is not be attributed to their size. --Berke. 3. To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink. When earnestly they seek Such proof, conclude they then begin to fail. --Milton. 4. To deteriorate in respect to vigor, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker; as, a sick man fails. 5. To perish; to die; -- used of a person. [Obs.] Had the king in his last sickness failed. --Shak. 6. To be found wanting with respect to an action or a duty to be performed, a result to be secured, etc.; to miss; not to fulfill expectation. Take heed now that ye fail not to do this. --Ezra iv. 22. Either my eyesight fails, or thou look'st pale. --Shak. 7. To come short of a result or object aimed at or desired; to be baffled or frusrated. Our envious foe hath failed. --Milton. 8. To err in judgment; to be mistaken. Which ofttimes may succeed, so as perhaps Shall grieve him, if I fail not. --Milton. 9. To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent. | |
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Fall \Fall\ (f[add]l), v. i. [imp. {Fell}; p. p. {Fallen}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Falling}.] [AS. feallan; akin to D. vallen, OS. & OHG. fallan, G. fallen, Icel. Falla, Sw. falla, Dan. falde, Lith. pulti, L. fallere to deceive, Gr. sfa`llein to cause to fall, Skr. sphal, sphul, to tremble. Cf. {Fail}, {Fell}, v. t., to cause to fall.] 1. To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; the mercury falls in the barometer. I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. --Luke x. 18. 2. To cease to be erect; to take suddenly a recumbent posture; to become prostrate; to drop; as, a child totters and falls; a tree falls; a worshiper falls on his knees. I fell at his feet to worship him. --Rev. xix. 10. 3. To find a final outlet; to discharge its waters; to empty; -- with into; as, the river Rhone falls into the Mediterranean. 4. To become prostrate and dead; to die; especially, to die by violence, as in battle. A thousand shall fall at thy side. --Ps. xci. 7. He rushed into the field, and, foremost fighting, fell. --Byron. 5. To cease to be active or strong; to die away; to lose strength; to subside; to become less intense; as, the wind falls. 6. To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; -- said of the young of certain animals. --Shak. 7. To decline in power, glory, wealth, or importance; to become insignificant; to lose rank or position; to decline in weight, value, price etc.; to become less; as, the falls; stocks fell two points. I am a poor falle man, unworthy now To be thy lord and master. --Shak. The greatness of these Irish lords suddenly fell and vanished. --Sir J. Davies. 8. To be overthrown or captured; to be destroyed. Heaven and earth will witness, If Rome must fall, that we are innocent. --Addison. 9. To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin; to depart from the faith; to apostatize; to sin. Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. --Heb. iv. 11. 10. To become insnared or embarrassed; to be entrapped; to be worse off than before; asm to fall into error; to fall into difficulties. 11. To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; -- said of the countenance. Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. --Gen. iv. 5. I have observed of late thy looks are fallen. --Addison. 12. To sink; to languish; to become feeble or faint; as, our spirits rise and fall with our fortunes. 13. To pass somewhat suddenly, and passively, into a new state of body or mind; to become; as, to fall asleep; to fall into a passion; to fall in love; to fall into temptation. 14. To happen; to to come to pass; to light; to befall; to issue; to terminate. The Romans fell on this model by chance. --Swift. Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the matter will fall. --Ruth. iii. 18. They do not make laws, they fall into customs. --H. Spencer. 15. To come; to occur; to arrive. The vernal equinox, which at the Nicene Council fell on the 21st of March, falls now [1694] about ten days sooner. --Holder. 16. To begin with haste, ardor, or vehemence; to rush or hurry; as, they fell to blows. They now no longer doubted, but fell to work heart and soul. --Jowett (Thucyd. ). 17. To pass or be transferred by chance, lot, distribution, inheritance, or otherwise; as, the estate fell to his brother; the kingdom fell into the hands of his rivals. 18. To belong or appertain. If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all. --Pope. 19. To be dropped or uttered carelessly; as, an unguarded expression fell from his lips; not a murmur fell from him. {To fall abroad of} (Naut.), to strike against; -- applied to one vessel coming into collision with another. {To fall among}, to come among accidentally or unexpectedly. {To fall astern} (Naut.), to move or be driven backward; to be left behind; as, a ship falls astern by the force of a current, or when outsailed by another. {To fall away}. (a) To lose flesh; to become lean or emaciated; to pine. (b) To renounce or desert allegiance; to revolt or rebel. (c) To renounce or desert the faith; to apostatize. [bd]These . . . for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.[b8] --Luke viii. 13. (d) To perish; to vanish; to be lost. [bd]How . . . can the soul . . . fall away into nothing?[b8] --Addison. (e) To decline gradually; to fade; to languish, or become faint. [bd]One color falls away by just degrees, and another rises insensibly.[b8] --Addison. {To fall back}. (a) To recede or retreat; to give way. (b) To fail of performing a promise or purpose; not to fulfill. {To fall back upon}. (a) (Mil.) To retreat for safety to (a stronger position in the rear, as to a fort or a supporting body of troops). (b) To have recourse to (a reserved fund, or some available expedient or support). {To fall calm}, to cease to blow; to become calm. {To fall down}. (a) To prostrate one's self in worship. [bd]All kings shall fall down before him.[b8] --Ps. lxxii. 11. (b) To sink; to come to the ground. [bd]Down fell the beauteous youth.[b8] --Dryden. (c) To bend or bow, as a suppliant. (d) (Naut.) To sail or drift toward the mouth of a river or other outlet. {To fall flat}, to produce no response or result; to fail of the intended effect; as, his speech fell flat. {To fall foul of}. (a) (Naut.) To have a collision with; to become entangled with (b) To attack; to make an assault upon. {To fall from}, to recede or depart from; not to adhere to; as, to fall from an agreement or engagement; to fall from allegiance or duty. {To fall from grace} (M. E. Ch.), to sin; to withdraw from the faith. {To fall home} (Ship Carp.), to curve inward; -- said of the timbers or upper parts of a ship's side which are much within a perpendicular. {To fall in}. (a) To sink inwards; as, the roof fell in. (b) (Mil.) To take one's proper or assigned place in line; as, to fall in on the right. (c) To come to an end; to terminate; to lapse; as, on the death of Mr. B., the annuuity, which he had so long received, fell in. (d) To become operative. [bd]The reversion, to which he had been nominated twenty years before, fell in.[b8] --Macaulay. {To fall into one's hands}, to pass, often suddenly or unexpectedly, into one's ownership or control; as, to spike cannon when they are likely to fall into the hands of the enemy. {To fall in with}. (a) To meet with accidentally; as, to fall in with a friend. (b) (Naut.) To meet, as a ship; also, to discover or come near, as land. (c) To concur with; to agree with; as, the measure falls in with popular opinion. (d) To comply; to yield to. [bd]You will find it difficult to persuade learned men to fall in with your projects.[b8] --Addison. {To fall off}. (a) To drop; as, fruits fall off when ripe. (b) To withdraw; to separate; to become detached; as, friends fall off in adversity. [bd]Love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide.[b8] --Shak. (c) To perish; to die away; as, words fall off by disuse. (d) To apostatize; to forsake; to withdraw from the faith, or from allegiance or duty. Those captive tribes . . . fell off From God to worship calves. --Milton. (e) To forsake; to abandon; as, his customers fell off. (f) To depreciate; to change for the worse; to deteriorate; to become less valuable, abundant, or interesting; as, a falling off in the wheat crop; the magazine or the review falls off. [bd]O Hamlet, what a falling off was there![b8] --Shak. (g) (Naut.) To deviate or trend to the leeward of the point to which the head of the ship was before directed; to fall to leeward. {To fall on}. (a) To meet with; to light upon; as, we have fallen on evil days. (b) To begin suddenly and eagerly. [bd]Fall on, and try the appetite to eat.[b8] --Dryden. (c) To begin an attack; to assault; to assail. [bd]Fall on, fall on, and hear him not.[b8] --Dryden. (d) To drop on; to descend on. {To fall out}. (a) To quarrel; to begin to contend. A soul exasperated in ills falls out With everything, its friend, itself. --Addison. (b) To happen; to befall; to chance. [bd]There fell out a bloody quarrel betwixt the frogs and the mice.[b8] --L'Estrange. (c) (Mil.) To leave the ranks, as a soldier. {To fall over}. (a) To revolt; to desert from one side to another. (b) To fall beyond. --Shak. {To fall short}, to be deficient; as, the corn falls short; they all fall short in duty. {To fall through}, to come to nothing; to fail; as, the engageent has fallen through. {To fall to}, to begin. [bd]Fall to, with eager joy, on homely food.[b8] --Dryden. {To fall under}. (a) To come under, or within the limits of; to be subjected to; as, they fell under the jurisdiction of the emperor. (b) To come under; to become the subject of; as, this point did not fall under the cognizance or deliberations of the court; these things do not fall under human sight or observation. (c) To come within; to be ranged or reckoned with; to be subordinate to in the way of classification; as, these substances fall under a different class or order. {To fall upon}. (a) To attack. [See {To fall on}.] (b) To attempt; to have recourse to. [bd]I do not intend to fall upon nice disquisitions.[b8] --Holder. (c) To rush against. Note: Fall primarily denotes descending motion, either in a perpendicular or inclined direction, and, in most of its applications, implies, literally or figuratively, velocity, haste, suddenness, or violence. Its use is so various, and so mush diversified by modifying words, that it is not easy to enumerate its senses in all its applications. | |
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Fall \Fall\, n. 1. The act of falling; a dropping or descending be the force of gravity; descent; as, a fall from a horse, or from the yard of ship. 2. The act of dropping or tumbling from an erect posture; as, he was walking on ice, and had a fall. 3. Death; destruction; overthrow; ruin. They thy fall conspire. --Denham. Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. --Prov. xvi. 18. 4. Downfall; degradation; loss of greatness or office; termination of greatness, power, or dominion; ruin; overthrow; as, the fall of the Roman empire. Beholds thee glorious only in thy fall. --Pope. 5. The surrender of a besieged fortress or town; as, the fall of Sebastopol. 6. Diminution or decrease in price or value; depreciation; as, the fall of prices; the fall of rents. 7. A sinking of tone; cadence; as, the fall of the voice at the close of a sentence. 8. Declivity; the descent of land or a hill; a slope. 9. Descent of water; a cascade; a cataract; a rush of water down a precipice or steep; -- usually in the plural, sometimes in the singular; as, the falls of Niagara. 10. The discharge of a river or current of water into the ocean, or into a lake or pond; as, the fall of the Po into the Gulf of Venice. --Addison. 11. Extent of descent; the distance which anything falls; as, the water of a stream has a fall of five feet. 12. The season when leaves fall from trees; autumn. What crowds of patients the town doctor kills, Or how, last fall, he raised the weekly bills. --Dryden. 13. That which falls; a falling; as, a fall of rain; a heavy fall of snow. 14. The act of felling or cutting down. [bd]The fall of timber.[b8] --Johnson. 15. Lapse or declension from innocence or goodness. Specifically: The first apostasy; the act of our first parents in eating the forbidden fruit; also, the apostasy of the rebellious angels. 16. Formerly, a kind of ruff or band for the neck; a falling band; a faule. --B. Jonson. 17. That part (as one of the ropes) of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting. {Fall herring} (Zo[94]l.), a herring of the Atlantic ({Clupea mediocris}); -- also called {tailor herring}, and {hickory shad}. {To try a fall}, to try a bout at wrestling. --Shak. | |
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Fall \Fall\, v. t. 1. To let fall; to drop. [Obs.] For every tear he falls, a Trojan bleeds. --Shak. 2. To sink; to depress; as, to fall the voice. [Obs.] 3. To diminish; to lessen or lower. [Obs.] Upon lessening interest to four per cent, you fall the price of your native commodities. --Locke. 4. To bring forth; as, to fall lambs. [R.] --Shak. 5. To fell; to cut down; as, to fall a tree. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U.S.] | |
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Fallow \Fal"low\, a. [AS. fealu, fealo, pale yellow or red; akin to D. vaal fallow, faded, OHG. falo, G. falb, fahl, Icel. f[94]lr, and prob. to Lith. palvas, OSlav. plav[ucr] white, L. pallidus pale, pallere to be pale, Gr. polio`s gray, Skr. palita. Cf. {Pale}, {Favel}, a., {Favor}.] 1. Pale red or pale yellow; as, a fallow deer or greyhound. --Shak. 2. [Cf. {Fallow}, n.] Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground. {Fallow chat}, {Fallow finch} (Zo[94]l.), a small European bird, the wheatear ({Saxicola [d2]nanthe}). See {Wheatear}. | |
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Fallow \Fal"low\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fallowed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fallowing}.] [From {Fallow}, n.] To plow, harrow, and break up, as land, without seeding, for the purpose of destroying weeds and insects, and rendering it mellow; as, it is profitable to fallow cold, strong, clayey land. | |
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Fallow \Fal"low\, n. [So called from the fallow, or somewhat yellow, color of naked ground; or perh. akin to E. felly, n., cf. MHG. valgen to plow up, OHG. felga felly, harrow.] 1. Plowed land. [Obs.] Who . . . pricketh his blind horse over the fallows. --Chaucer. 2. Land that has lain a year or more untilled or unseeded; land plowed without being sowed for the season. The plowing of fallows is a benefit to land. --Mortimer. 3. The plowing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season; as, summer fallow, properly conducted, has ever been found a sure method of destroying weeds. Be a complete summer fallow, land is rendered tender and mellow. The fallow gives it a better tilth than can be given by a fallow crop. --Sinclair. {Fallow crop}, the crop taken from a green fallow. [Eng.] {Green fallow}, fallow whereby land is rendered mellow and clean from weeds, by cultivating some green crop, as turnips, potatoes, etc. [Eng.] | |
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Falwe \Fal"we\, a. & n. Fallow. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Faule \Faule\, n. A fall or falling band. [Obs.] These laces, ribbons, and these faules. --Herrick. | |
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Feal \Fe"al\, a. [OF. feal, feel, feeil, fedeil, F. fid[8a]le, L. fidelis faithful, fr. fides faith. See {Faith}.] Faithful; loyal. [Obs.] --Wright. | |
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Feel \Feel\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Felt}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Feeling}.] [AS. f[?]lan; akin to OS. gif[?]lian to perceive, D. voelen to feel, OHG. fuolen, G. f[81]hlen, Icel. f[be]lma to grope, and prob. to AS. folm paim of the hand, L. palma. Cf. {Fumble}, {Palm}.] 1. To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; to have sensation excited by contact of (a thing) with the body or limbs. Who feel Those rods of scorpions and those whips of steel. --Creecn. 2. To touch; to handle; to examine by touching; as, feel this piece of silk; hence, to make trial of; to test; often with out. Come near, . . . that I may feel thee, my son. --Gen. xxvii. 21. He hath this to feel my affection to your honor. --Shak. 3. To perceive by the mind; to have a sense of; to experience; to be affected by; to be sensible of, or sensetive to; as, to feel pleasure; to feel pain. Teach me to feel another's woe. --Pope. Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing. --Eccl. viii. 5. He best can paint them who shall feel them most. --Pope. Mankind have felt their strength and made it felt. --Byron. 4. To take internal cognizance of; to be conscious of; to have an inward persuasion of. For then, and not till then, he felt himself. --Shak. 5. To perceive; to observe. [Obs.] --Chaucer. {To feel the helm} (Naut.), to obey it. | |
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Feel \Feel\, v. i. 1. To have perception by the touch, or by contact of anything with the nerves of sensation, especially those upon the surface of the body. 2. To have the sensibilities moved or affected. [She] feels with the dignity of a Roman matron. --Burke. And mine as man, who feel for all mankind. --Pope. 3. To be conscious of an inward impression, state of mind, persuasion, physical condition, etc.; to perceive one's self to be; -- followed by an adjective describing the state, etc.; as, to feel assured, grieved, persuaded. I then did feel full sick. --Shak. 4. To know with feeling; to be conscious; hence, to know certainly or without misgiving. Garlands . . . which I feel I am not worthy yet to wear. --Shak. 5. To appear to the touch; to give a perception; to produce an impression by the nerves of sensation; -- followed by an adjective describing the kind of sensation. Blind men say black feels rough, and white feels smooth. --Dryden. {To feel after}, to search for; to seek to find; to seek as a person groping in the dark. [bd]If haply they might feel after him, and find him.[b8] --Acts xvii. 27. {To feel of}, to examine by touching. | |
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Feel \Feel\, n. 1. Feeling; perception. [R.] To intercept and have a more kindly feel of its genial warmth. --Hazlitt. 2. A sensation communicated by touching; impression made upon one who touches or handles; as, this leather has a greasy feel. The difference between these two tumors will be distinguished by the feel. --S. Sharp. | |
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Fele \Fele\, a. [AS. fela, feola; akin to G. viel, gr. [?]. See {Full}, a.] Many. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Fall \Fall\ (f[add]l), v. i. [imp. {Fell}; p. p. {Fallen}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Falling}.] [AS. feallan; akin to D. vallen, OS. & OHG. fallan, G. fallen, Icel. Falla, Sw. falla, Dan. falde, Lith. pulti, L. fallere to deceive, Gr. sfa`llein to cause to fall, Skr. sphal, sphul, to tremble. Cf. {Fail}, {Fell}, v. t., to cause to fall.] 1. To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; the mercury falls in the barometer. I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. --Luke x. 18. 2. To cease to be erect; to take suddenly a recumbent posture; to become prostrate; to drop; as, a child totters and falls; a tree falls; a worshiper falls on his knees. I fell at his feet to worship him. --Rev. xix. 10. 3. To find a final outlet; to discharge its waters; to empty; -- with into; as, the river Rhone falls into the Mediterranean. 4. To become prostrate and dead; to die; especially, to die by violence, as in battle. A thousand shall fall at thy side. --Ps. xci. 7. He rushed into the field, and, foremost fighting, fell. --Byron. 5. To cease to be active or strong; to die away; to lose strength; to subside; to become less intense; as, the wind falls. 6. To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; -- said of the young of certain animals. --Shak. 7. To decline in power, glory, wealth, or importance; to become insignificant; to lose rank or position; to decline in weight, value, price etc.; to become less; as, the falls; stocks fell two points. I am a poor falle man, unworthy now To be thy lord and master. --Shak. The greatness of these Irish lords suddenly fell and vanished. --Sir J. Davies. 8. To be overthrown or captured; to be destroyed. Heaven and earth will witness, If Rome must fall, that we are innocent. --Addison. 9. To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin; to depart from the faith; to apostatize; to sin. Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. --Heb. iv. 11. 10. To become insnared or embarrassed; to be entrapped; to be worse off than before; asm to fall into error; to fall into difficulties. 11. To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; -- said of the countenance. Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. --Gen. iv. 5. I have observed of late thy looks are fallen. --Addison. 12. To sink; to languish; to become feeble or faint; as, our spirits rise and fall with our fortunes. 13. To pass somewhat suddenly, and passively, into a new state of body or mind; to become; as, to fall asleep; to fall into a passion; to fall in love; to fall into temptation. 14. To happen; to to come to pass; to light; to befall; to issue; to terminate. The Romans fell on this model by chance. --Swift. Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the matter will fall. --Ruth. iii. 18. They do not make laws, they fall into customs. --H. Spencer. 15. To come; to occur; to arrive. The vernal equinox, which at the Nicene Council fell on the 21st of March, falls now [1694] about ten days sooner. --Holder. 16. To begin with haste, ardor, or vehemence; to rush or hurry; as, they fell to blows. They now no longer doubted, but fell to work heart and soul. --Jowett (Thucyd. ). 17. To pass or be transferred by chance, lot, distribution, inheritance, or otherwise; as, the estate fell to his brother; the kingdom fell into the hands of his rivals. 18. To belong or appertain. If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all. --Pope. 19. To be dropped or uttered carelessly; as, an unguarded expression fell from his lips; not a murmur fell from him. {To fall abroad of} (Naut.), to strike against; -- applied to one vessel coming into collision with another. {To fall among}, to come among accidentally or unexpectedly. {To fall astern} (Naut.), to move or be driven backward; to be left behind; as, a ship falls astern by the force of a current, or when outsailed by another. {To fall away}. (a) To lose flesh; to become lean or emaciated; to pine. (b) To renounce or desert allegiance; to revolt or rebel. (c) To renounce or desert the faith; to apostatize. [bd]These . . . for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.[b8] --Luke viii. 13. (d) To perish; to vanish; to be lost. [bd]How . . . can the soul . . . fall away into nothing?[b8] --Addison. (e) To decline gradually; to fade; to languish, or become faint. [bd]One color falls away by just degrees, and another rises insensibly.[b8] --Addison. {To fall back}. (a) To recede or retreat; to give way. (b) To fail of performing a promise or purpose; not to fulfill. {To fall back upon}. (a) (Mil.) To retreat for safety to (a stronger position in the rear, as to a fort or a supporting body of troops). (b) To have recourse to (a reserved fund, or some available expedient or support). {To fall calm}, to cease to blow; to become calm. {To fall down}. (a) To prostrate one's self in worship. [bd]All kings shall fall down before him.[b8] --Ps. lxxii. 11. (b) To sink; to come to the ground. [bd]Down fell the beauteous youth.[b8] --Dryden. (c) To bend or bow, as a suppliant. (d) (Naut.) To sail or drift toward the mouth of a river or other outlet. {To fall flat}, to produce no response or result; to fail of the intended effect; as, his speech fell flat. {To fall foul of}. (a) (Naut.) To have a collision with; to become entangled with (b) To attack; to make an assault upon. {To fall from}, to recede or depart from; not to adhere to; as, to fall from an agreement or engagement; to fall from allegiance or duty. {To fall from grace} (M. E. Ch.), to sin; to withdraw from the faith. {To fall home} (Ship Carp.), to curve inward; -- said of the timbers or upper parts of a ship's side which are much within a perpendicular. {To fall in}. (a) To sink inwards; as, the roof fell in. (b) (Mil.) To take one's proper or assigned place in line; as, to fall in on the right. (c) To come to an end; to terminate; to lapse; as, on the death of Mr. B., the annuuity, which he had so long received, fell in. (d) To become operative. [bd]The reversion, to which he had been nominated twenty years before, fell in.[b8] --Macaulay. {To fall into one's hands}, to pass, often suddenly or unexpectedly, into one's ownership or control; as, to spike cannon when they are likely to fall into the hands of the enemy. {To fall in with}. (a) To meet with accidentally; as, to fall in with a friend. (b) (Naut.) To meet, as a ship; also, to discover or come near, as land. (c) To concur with; to agree with; as, the measure falls in with popular opinion. (d) To comply; to yield to. [bd]You will find it difficult to persuade learned men to fall in with your projects.[b8] --Addison. {To fall off}. (a) To drop; as, fruits fall off when ripe. (b) To withdraw; to separate; to become detached; as, friends fall off in adversity. [bd]Love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide.[b8] --Shak. (c) To perish; to die away; as, words fall off by disuse. (d) To apostatize; to forsake; to withdraw from the faith, or from allegiance or duty. Those captive tribes . . . fell off From God to worship calves. --Milton. (e) To forsake; to abandon; as, his customers fell off. (f) To depreciate; to change for the worse; to deteriorate; to become less valuable, abundant, or interesting; as, a falling off in the wheat crop; the magazine or the review falls off. [bd]O Hamlet, what a falling off was there![b8] --Shak. (g) (Naut.) To deviate or trend to the leeward of the point to which the head of the ship was before directed; to fall to leeward. {To fall on}. (a) To meet with; to light upon; as, we have fallen on evil days. (b) To begin suddenly and eagerly. [bd]Fall on, and try the appetite to eat.[b8] --Dryden. (c) To begin an attack; to assault; to assail. [bd]Fall on, fall on, and hear him not.[b8] --Dryden. (d) To drop on; to descend on. {To fall out}. (a) To quarrel; to begin to contend. A soul exasperated in ills falls out With everything, its friend, itself. --Addison. (b) To happen; to befall; to chance. [bd]There fell out a bloody quarrel betwixt the frogs and the mice.[b8] --L'Estrange. (c) (Mil.) To leave the ranks, as a soldier. {To fall over}. (a) To revolt; to desert from one side to another. (b) To fall beyond. --Shak. {To fall short}, to be deficient; as, the corn falls short; they all fall short in duty. {To fall through}, to come to nothing; to fail; as, the engageent has fallen through. {To fall to}, to begin. [bd]Fall to, with eager joy, on homely food.[b8] --Dryden. {To fall under}. (a) To come under, or within the limits of; to be subjected to; as, they fell under the jurisdiction of the emperor. (b) To come under; to become the subject of; as, this point did not fall under the cognizance or deliberations of the court; these things do not fall under human sight or observation. (c) To come within; to be ranged or reckoned with; to be subordinate to in the way of classification; as, these substances fall under a different class or order. {To fall upon}. (a) To attack. [See {To fall on}.] (b) To attempt; to have recourse to. [bd]I do not intend to fall upon nice disquisitions.[b8] --Holder. (c) To rush against. Note: Fall primarily denotes descending motion, either in a perpendicular or inclined direction, and, in most of its applications, implies, literally or figuratively, velocity, haste, suddenness, or violence. Its use is so various, and so mush diversified by modifying words, that it is not easy to enumerate its senses in all its applications. | |
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Fell \Fell\, a. [OE. fel, OF. fel cruel, fierce, perfidious; cf. AS. fel (only in comp.) OF. fel, as a noun also accus. felon, is fr. LL. felo, of unknown origin; cf. Arm fall evil, Ir. feal, Arm. falloni treachery, Ir. & Gael. feall to betray; or cf. OHG. fillan to flay, torment, akin to E. fell skin. Cf. {Felon}.] 1. Cruel; barbarous; inhuman; fierce; savage; ravenous. While we devise fell tortures for thy faults. --Shak. 2. Eager; earnest; intent. [Obs.] I am so fell to my business. --Pepys. | |
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Fell \Fell\, n. [Cf. L. fel gall, bile, or E. fell, a.] Gall; anger; melancholy. [Obs.] Untroubled of vile fear or bitter fell. --Spenser. | |
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Fell \Fell\, n. [AS. fell; akin to D. vel, OHG. fel, G. fell, Icel. fell (in comp.), Goth fill in [ed]rutsfill leprosy, L. pellis skin, G. [?]. Cf. {Film}, {Peel}, {Pell}, n.] A skin or hide of a beast with the wool or hair on; a pelt; -- used chiefly in composition, as woolfell. We are still handling our ewes, and their fells, you know, are greasy. --Shak. | |
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Fell \Fell\, n. [Icel. fell, fjally; akin to Sw. fj[84]ll a ridge or chain of mountains, Dan. fjeld mountain, rock and prob. to G. fels rock, or perh. to feld field, E. field.] 1. A barren or rocky hill. --T. Gray. 2. A wild field; a moor. --Dryton. | |
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Fell \Fell\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Felled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Felling}.] [AS. fellan, a causative verb fr. feallan to fall; akin to D. vellen, G. f[84]llen, Icel. fella, Sw. f[84]lla, Dan. f[91]lde. See {Fall}, v. i.] To cause to fall; to prostrate; to bring down or to the ground; to cut down. Stand, or I'll fell thee down. --Shak. | |
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Fell \Fell\, n. (Mining) The finer portions of ore which go through the meshes, when the ore is sorted by sifting. | |
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Fell \Fell\, v. t. [Cf. Gael. fill to fold, plait, Sw. f[86]ll a hem.] To sew or hem; -- said of seams. | |
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Fell \Fell\, n. 1. (Sewing) A form of seam joining two pieces of cloth, the edges being folded together and the stitches taken through both thicknesses. 2. (Weaving) The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft. | |
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Felloe \Fel"loe\, n. See {Felly}. | |
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Felly \Fel"ly\, n.; pl. {Fellies}. [OE. feli, felwe, felow, AS. felg, felge; akin to D. velg, G. felge, OHG. felga felly (also, a harrow, but prob. a different word), Dan. felge.] The exterior wooden rim, or a segment of the rim, of a wheel, supported by the spokes. [Written also {felloe}.] Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel. --Shak. | |
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Felloe \Fel"loe\, n. See {Felly}. | |
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Felly \Fel"ly\, n.; pl. {Fellies}. [OE. feli, felwe, felow, AS. felg, felge; akin to D. velg, G. felge, OHG. felga felly (also, a harrow, but prob. a different word), Dan. felge.] The exterior wooden rim, or a segment of the rim, of a wheel, supported by the spokes. [Written also {felloe}.] Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel. --Shak. | |
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Fellow \Fel"low\, n. [OE. felawe, felaghe, Icel. f[c7]lagi, fr. f[c7]lag companionship, prop., a laying together of property; f[c7] property + lag a laying, pl. l[94]g law, akin to liggja to lie. See {Fee}, and {Law}, {Lie} to be low.] 1. A companion; a comrade; an associate; a partner; a sharer. The fellows of his crime. --Milton. We are fellows still, Serving alike in sorrow. --Shak. That enormous engine was flanked by two fellows almost of equal magnitude. --Gibbon. Note: Commonly used of men, but sometimes of women. --Judges xi. 37. 2. A man without good breeding or worth; an ignoble or mean man. Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow. --Pope. 3. An equal in power, rank, character, etc. It is impossible that ever Rome Should breed thy fellow. --Shak. 4. One of a pair, or of two things used together or suited to each other; a mate; the male. When they be but heifers of one year, . . . they are let go to the fellow and breed. --Holland. This was my glove; here is the fellow of it. --Shak. 5. A person; an individual. She seemed to be a good sort of fellow. --Dickens. 6. In the English universities, a scholar who is appointed to a foundation called a fellowship, which gives a title to certain perquisites and privileges. 7. In an American college or university, a member of the corporation which manages its business interests; also, a graduate appointed to a fellowship, who receives the income of the foundation. 8. A member of a literary or scientific society; as, a Fellow of the Royal Society. Note: Fellow is often used in compound words, or adjectively, signifying associate, companion, or sometimes equal. Usually, such compounds or phrases are self-explanatory; as, fellow-citizen, or fellow citizen; fellow-student, or fellow student; fellow-workman, or fellow workman; fellow-mortal, or fellow mortal; fellow-sufferer; bedfellow; playfellow; workfellow. Were the great duke himself here, and would lift up My head to fellow pomp amongst his nobles. --Ford. | |
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Fellow \Fel"low\, v. t. To suit with; to pair with; to match. [Obs.] --Shak. | |
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Felly \Fel"ly\, adv. In a fell or cruel manner; fiercely; barbarously; savagely. --Spenser. | |
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Felly \Fel"ly\, n.; pl. {Fellies}. [OE. feli, felwe, felow, AS. felg, felge; akin to D. velg, G. felge, OHG. felga felly (also, a harrow, but prob. a different word), Dan. felge.] The exterior wooden rim, or a segment of the rim, of a wheel, supported by the spokes. [Written also {felloe}.] Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel. --Shak. | |
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Fewel \Fe"wel\, n. [See {Fuel}.] Fuel. [Obs.] --Hooker. | |
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Fuel \Fu"el\, n. [OF. fouail, fuail, or fouaille, fuaille, LL. focalium, focale, fr. L. focus hearth, fireplace, in LL., fire. See {Focus}.] [Formerly written also {fewel.}] 1. Any matter used to produce heat by burning; that which feeds fire; combustible matter used for fires, as wood, coal, peat, etc. 2. Anything that serves to feed or increase passion or excitement. {Artificial fuel}, fuel consisting of small particles, as coal dust, sawdust, etc., consolidated into lumps or blocks. | |
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Fewel \Fe"wel\, n. [See {Fuel}.] Fuel. [Obs.] --Hooker. | |
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Fuel \Fu"el\, n. [OF. fouail, fuail, or fouaille, fuaille, LL. focalium, focale, fr. L. focus hearth, fireplace, in LL., fire. See {Focus}.] [Formerly written also {fewel.}] 1. Any matter used to produce heat by burning; that which feeds fire; combustible matter used for fires, as wood, coal, peat, etc. 2. Anything that serves to feed or increase passion or excitement. {Artificial fuel}, fuel consisting of small particles, as coal dust, sawdust, etc., consolidated into lumps or blocks. | |
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Fil \Fil\, obs. imp. of {Fall}, v. i. Fell. --Chaucer. | |
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File \File\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Filed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Filing}.] 1. To set in order; to arrange, or lay away, esp. as papers in a methodical manner for preservation and reverence; to place on file; to insert in its proper place in an arranged body of papers. I would have my several courses and my dishes well filed. --Beau. & Fl. 2. To bring before a court or legislative body by presenting proper papers in a regular way; as, to file a petition or bill. --Burrill. 3. (Law) To put upon the files or among the records of a court; to note on (a paper) the fact date of its reception in court. To file a paper, on the part of a party, is to place it in the official custody of the clerk. To file, on the part of the clerk, is to indorse upon the paper the date of its reception, and retain it in his office, subject to inspection by whomsoever it may concern. --Burrill. | |
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File \File\ (f[imac]l), n. [F. file row (cf. Pr., Sp., Pg., & It. fila), LL. fila, fr. L. filum a thread. Cf. {Enfilade}, {Filament}, {Fillet}.] 1. An orderly succession; a line; a row; as: (a) (Mil) A row of soldiers ranged one behind another; -- in contradistinction to {rank}, which designates a row of soldiers standing abreast; a number consisting the depth of a body of troops, which, in the ordinary modern formation, consists of two men, the battalion standing two deep, or in two ranks. Note: The number of files in a company describes its width, as the number of ranks does its depth; thus, 100 men in [bd]fours deep[b8] would be spoken of as 25 files in 4 ranks. --Farrow. (b) An orderly collection of papers, arranged in sequence or classified for preservation and reference; as, files of letters or of newspapers; this mail brings English files to the 15th instant. (c) The line, wire, or other contrivance, by which papers are put and kept in order. It is upon a file with the duke's other letters. --Shak. (d) A roll or list. [bd]A file of all the gentry.[b8] --Shak. | |
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File \File\, v. i. [Cf. F. filer.] (Mil.) To march in a file or line, as soldiers, not abreast, but one after another; -- generally with off. {To file with}, to follow closely, as one soldier after another in file; to keep pace. My endeavors Have ever come too short of my desires, Yet filed with my abilities. --Shak. | |
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File \File\, v. t. 1. To rub, smooth, or cut away, with a file; to sharpen with a file; as, to file a saw or a tooth. 2. To smooth or polish as with a file. --Shak. File your tongue to a little more courtesy. --Sir W. Scott. | |
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File \File\, n. [AS. fe[a2]l; akin to D. viji, OHG. f[c6]la, f[c6]hala, G. feile, Sw. fil, Dan. fiil, cf. Icel. [?][?]l, Russ. pila, and Skr. pi[?] to cut out, adorn; perh. akin to E. paint.] 1. A steel instrument, having cutting ridges or teeth, made by indentation with a chisel, used for abrading or smoothing other substances, as metals, wood, etc. Note: A file differs from a rasp in having the furrows made by straight cuts of a chisel, either single or crossed, while the rasp has coarse, single teeth, raised by the pyramidal end of a triangular punch. 2. Anything employed to smooth, polish, or rasp, literally or figuratively. Mock the nice touches of the critic's file. --Akenside. 3. A shrewd or artful person. [Slang] --Fielding. Will is an old file in spite of his smooth face. --Thackeray. {Bastard file}, {Cross file}, etc. See under {Bastard}, {Cross}, etc. {Cross-cut file}, a file having two sets of teeth crossing obliquely. {File blank}, a steel blank shaped and ground ready for cutting to form a file. {File cutter}, a maker of files. {Second-cut file}, a file having teeth of a grade next finer than bastard. {Single-cut file}, a file having only one set of parallel teeth; a float. {Smooth file}, a file having teeth so fine as to make an almost smooth surface. | |
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File \File\, v. t. [OE. fulen, filen, foulen, AS. f[?]lan, fr. f[?]l foul. See {Foul}, and cf. {Defile}, v. t.] To make foul; to defile. [Obs.] All his hairy breast with blood was filed. --Spenser. For Banquo's issue have I filed my mind. --Shak. | |
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Fill \Fill\, n. That which fills; filling; specif., an embankment, as in railroad construction, to fill a hollow or ravine; also, the place which is to be filled. | |
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Fill \Fill\, v. i. 1. To become full; to have the whole capacity occupied; to have an abundant supply; to be satiated; as, corn fills well in a warm season; the sail fills with the wind. 2. To fill a cup or glass for drinking. Give me some wine; fill full. --Shak. {To back and fill}. See under {Back}, v. i. {To fill up}, to grow or become quite full; as, the channel of the river fills up with sand. | |
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Fill \Fill\, n. [AS. fyllo. See {Fill}, v. t.] A full supply, as much as supplies want; as much as gives complete satisfaction. [bd]Ye shall eat your fill.[b8] --Lev. xxv. 19. I'll bear thee hence, where I may weep my fill. --Shak. | |
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Fill \Fill\, n. [See {Thill}.] One of the thills or shafts of a carriage. --Mortimer. {Fill horse}, a thill horse. --Shak. | |
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Fill \Fill\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Filled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Filling}.] [OE. fillen, fullen, AS. fyllan, fr. full full; akin to D. vullen, G. f[81]llen, Icel. fylla, Sw. fylla, Dan. fylde, Goth. fulljan. See {Full}, a.] 1. To make full; to supply with as much as can be held or contained; to put or pour into, till no more can be received; to occupy the whole capacity of. The rain also filleth the pools. --Ps. lxxxiv. 6. Jesus saith unto them, Fill the waterpots with water. Anf they filled them up to the brim. --John ii. 7. 2. To furnish an abudant supply to; to furnish with as mush as is desired or desirable; to occupy the whole of; to swarm in or overrun. And God blessed them, saying. Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas. --Gen. i. 22. The Syrians filled the country. --1 Kings xx. 27. 3. To fill or supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy. Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fillso great a multitude? --Matt. xv. 33. Things that are sweet and fat are more filling. --Bacon. 4. To possess and perform the duties of; to officiate in, as an incumbent; to occupy; to hold; as, a king fills a throne; the president fills the office of chief magistrate; the speaker of the House fills the chair. 5. To supply with an incumbent; as, to fill an office or a vacancy. --A. Hamilton. 6. (Naut.) (a) To press and dilate, as a sail; as, the wind filled the sails. (b) To trim (a yard) so that the wind shall blow on the after side of the sails. 7. (Civil Engineering) To make an embankment in, or raise the level of (a low place), with earth or gravel. {To fill in}, to insert; as, he filled in the figures. {To fill out}, to extend or enlarge to the desired limit; to make complete; as, to fill out a bill. {To fill up}, to make quite full; to fill to the brim or entirely; to occupy completely; to complete. [bd]The bliss that fills up all the mind.[b8] --Pope. [bd]And fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ.[b8] --Col. i. 24. | |
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Filly \Fil"ly\, n.; pl. {Fillies}. [Cf. Icel. fylia, fr. foli foal. See {Foal}.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) A female foal or colt; a young mare. Cf. {Colt}, {Foal}. Neighing in likeness of a filly foal. --Shak. 2. A lively, spirited young girl. [Colloq.] --Addison. | |
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Flaw \Flaw\, n. [OE. flai, flaw flake; cf. Sw. flaga flaw, crack, breach, flake, D. vlaag gust of wind, Norw. flage, flaag, and E. flag a flat stone.] 1. A crack or breach; a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion; as, a flaw in a knife or a vase. This heart Shall break into a hundered thousand flaws. --Shak. 2. A defect; a fault; as, a flaw in reputation; a flaw in a will, in a deed, or in a statute. Has not this also its flaws and its dark side? --South. 3. A sudden burst of noise and disorder; a tumult; uproar; a quarrel. [Obs.] And deluges of armies from the town Came pouring in; I heard the mighty flaw. --Dryden. 4. A sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration. Snow, and hail, and stormy gust and flaw. --Milton. Like flaws in summer laying lusty corn. --Tennyson. Syn: Blemish; fault; imperfection; spot; speck. | |
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Flaw \Flaw\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Flawed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Flawing}.] 1. To crack; to make flaws in. The brazen caldrons with the frosts are flawed. --Dryden. 2. To break; to violate; to make of no effect. [Obs.] France hath flawed the league. --Shak. | |
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Flawy \Flaw"y\, a. 1. Full of flaws or cracks; broken; defective; faulty. --Johnson. 2. Subject to sudden flaws or gusts of wind. | |
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Flay \Flay\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Flayed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Flaying}.] [OE. flean, flan, AS. fle[a0]n; akin to D. vlaen, Icel. fl[be], Sw. fl[86], Dan. flaae, cf. Lith. ples[?] to tear, plyszti, v.i., to burst tear; perh. akin to E. flag to flat stone, flaw.] To skin; to strip off the skin or surface of; as, to flay an ox; to flay the green earth. With her nails She 'll flay thy wolfish visage. --Shak. | |
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Flea \Flea\, v. t. [See {Flay}.] To flay. [Obs.] He will be fleaced first And horse collars made of's skin. --J. Fletcher. | |
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Flea \Flea\, n. [OE. fle, flee, AS. fle[a0], fle[a0]h; akin to D. [?], OHG. fl[?]h, G. floh, Icel. fl[?], Russ. blocha; prob. from the root of E. flee. [?] 84. See {Flee}.] (Zo[94]l.) An insect belonging to the genus Pulex, of the order Aphaniptera. Fleas are destitute of wings, but have the power of leaping energetically. The bite is poisonous to most persons. The human flea ({Pulex irritans}), abundant in Europe, is rare in America, where the dog flea ({P. canis}) takes its place. See {Aphaniptera}, and {Dog flea}. See Illustration in Appendix. {A flea in the ear}, an unwelcome hint or unexpected reply, annoying like a flea; an irritating repulse; as, to put a flea in one's ear; to go away with a flea in one's ear. {Beach flea}, {Black flea}, etc. See under {Beach}, etc. | |
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Flee \Flee\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Fled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fleeing}.] [OE. fleon, fleen, AS. fle[a2]n (imperf. fle[a0]h); akin to D. vlieden, OHG. & OS. fliohan, G. fliehen, Icel. fl[?]ja (imperf. fl[?][?]i), Dan. flye, Sw. fly (imperf. flydde), Goth. pliuhan. ([?]) 84. Cf. {Flight}.] To run away, as from danger or evil; to avoid in an alarmed or cowardly manner; to hasten off; -- usually with from. This is sometimes omitted, making the verb transitive. [He] cowardly fled, not having struck one stroke. --Shak. Flee fornication. --1 Cor. vi. 18. So fled his enemies my warlike father. --Shak. Note: When great speed is to be indicated, we commonly use fly, not flee; as, fly hence to France with the utmost speed. [bd]Whither shall I fly to 'scape their hands?[b8] --Shak. See {Fly}, v. i., 5. | |
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Flew \Flew\, imp. of {Fly}. | |
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Fly \Fly\ (fl[imac]), v. i. [imp. {Flew} (fl[umac]); p. p. {Flown} (fl[omac]n); p. pr. & vb. n. {Flying}.] [OE. fleen, fleen, fleyen, flegen, AS. fle[a2]gan; akin to D. vliegen, OHG. fliogan, G. fliegen, Icel. flj[umac]ga, Sw. flyga, Dan. flyve, Goth. us-flaugjan to cause to fly away, blow about, and perh. to L. pluma feather, E. plume. [root]84. Cf. {Fledge}, {Flight}, {Flock} of animals.] 1. To move in or pass thorugh the air with wings, as a bird. 2. To move through the air or before the wind; esp., to pass or be driven rapidly through the air by any impulse. 3. To float, wave, or rise in the air, as sparks or a flag. Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. --Job v. 7. 4. To move or pass swiftly; to hasten away; to circulate rapidly; as, a ship flies on the deep; a top flies around; rumor flies. Fly, envious Time, till thou run out thy race. --Milton. The dark waves murmured as the ships flew on. --Bryant. 5. To run from danger; to attempt to escape; to flee; as, an enemy or a coward flies. See Note under {Flee}. Fly, ere evil intercept thy flight. --Milton. Whither shall I fly to escape their hands ? --Shak. 6. To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly; -- usually with a qualifying word; as, a door flies open; a bomb flies apart. {To fly about} (Naut.), to change frequently in a short time; -- said of the wind. {To fly around}, to move about in haste. [Colloq.] {To fly at}, to spring toward; to rush on; to attack suddenly. {To fly in the face of}, to insult; to assail; to set at defiance; to oppose with violence; to act in direct opposition to; to resist. {To fly off}, to separate, or become detached suddenly; to revolt. {To fly on}, to attack. {To fly open}, to open suddenly, or with violence. {To fly out}. (a) To rush out. (b) To burst into a passion; to break out into license. {To let fly}. (a) To throw or drive with violence; to discharge. [bd]A man lets fly his arrow without taking any aim.[b8] --Addison. (b) (Naut.) To let go suddenly and entirely; as, to let fly the sheets. | |
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Flo \Flo\ (fl[omac]), n.; pl. {Flon} (fl[omac]n). [AS. fl[be], fl[be]n.] An arrow. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Floe \Floe\ (fl[omac]), n. [Cf. Dan. flag af iis, iisflage, Sw. flaga, flake, isflaga, isflake. See {Flag} a flat stone.] A low, flat mass of floating ice. {Floe rat} (Zo[94]l.), a seal ({Phoca f[d2]tida}). | |
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Flow \Flow\ (fl[omac]), obs. imp. sing. of {Fly}, v. i. --Chaucer. | |
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Flow \Flow\ (fl[omac]), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Flowed} (fl[omac]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Flowing}.] [AS. fl[d3]wan; akin to D. vloeijen, OHG. flawen to wash, Icel. fl[d3]a to deluge, Gr. plw`ein to float, sail, and prob. ultimately to E. float, fleet. [fb]80. Cf. {Flood}.] 1. To move with a continual change of place among the particles or parts, as a fluid; to change place or circulate, as a liquid; as, rivers flow from springs and lakes; tears flow from the eyes. 2. To become liquid; to melt. The mountains flowed down at thy presence. --Is. lxiv. 3. 3. To proceed; to issue forth; as, wealth flows from industry and economy. Those thousand decencies that daily flow From all her words and actions. --Milton. 4. To glide along smoothly, without harshness or asperties; as, a flowing period; flowing numbers; to sound smoothly to the ear; to be uttered easily. Virgil is sweet and flowingin his hexameters. --Dryden. 5. To have or be in abundance; to abound; to full, so as to run or flow over; to be copious. In that day . . . the hills shall flow with milk. --Joel iii. 18. The exhilaration of a night that needed not the influence of the flowing bowl. --Prof. Wilson. 6. To hang loose and waving; as, a flowing mantle; flowing locks. The imperial purple flowing in his train. --A. Hamilton. 7. To rise, as the tide; -- opposed to ebb; as, the tide flows twice in twenty-four hours. The river hath thrice flowed, no ebb between. --Shak. 8. To discharge blood in excess from the uterus. | |
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Flow \Flow\, v. t. 1. To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood. 2. To cover with varnish. | |
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Flow \Flow\, n. 1. A stream of water or other fluid; a current; as, a flow of water; a flow of blood. 2. A continuous movement of something abundant; as, a flow of words. 3. Any gentle, gradual movement or procedure of thought, diction, music, or the like, resembling the quiet, steady movement of a river; a stream. The feast of reason and the flow of soul. --Pope. 4. The tidal setting in of the water from the ocean to the shore. See {Ebb and flow}, under {Ebb}. 5. A low-lying piece of watery land; -- called also {flow moss} and {flow bog}. [Scot.] --Jamieson. | |
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Flue \Flue\, n. In an organ flue pipe, the opening between the lower lip and the languet. | |
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Flue \Flue\, n. [Cf. OF. flue a flowing, fr. fluer to flow, fr. L. fluere (cf. {Fluent}); a perh. a corruption of E. flute.] An inclosed passage way for establishing and directing a current of air, gases, etc.; an air passage; esp.: (a) A compartment or division of a chimney for conveying flame and smoke to the outer air. (b) A passage way for conducting a current of fresh, foul, or heated air from one place to another. (c) (Steam Boiler) A pipe or passage for conveying flame and hot gases through surrounding water in a boiler; -- distinguished from a tube which holds water and is surrounded by fire. Small flues are called fire tubes or simply tubes. {Flue boiler}. See under {Boiler}. {Flue bridge}, the separating low wall between the flues and the laboratory of a reverberatory furnace. {Flue plate} (Steam Boiler), a plate to which the ends of the flues are fastened; -- called also {flue sheet}, {tube sheet}, and {tube plate}. {Flue surface} (Steam Boiler), the aggregate surface of flues exposed to flame or the hot gases. | |
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Flue \Flue\, n. [Cf. F. flou light, tender, G. flau weak, W. llwch dust. [root]84.] Light down, such as rises from cotton, fur, etc.; very fine lint or hair. --Dickens. | |
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Fluey \Flue"y\, a. [2d {Flue}.] Downy; fluffy. [R.] | |
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Fluo- \Flu"o-\ (Chem.) A combining form indicating fluorine as an ingredient; as in fluosilicate, fluobenzene. | |
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Fly \Fly\, v. t. To manage (an aircraft) in flight; as, to fly an a[89]roplane. | |
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Fly \Fly\, n. (Cotton Manuf.) Waste cotton. | |
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Fly \Fly\, v. t. 1. To cause to fly or to float in the air, as a bird, a kite, a flag, etc. The brave black flag I fly. --W. S. Gilbert. 2. To fly or flee from; to shun; to avoid. Sleep flies the wretch. --Dryden. To fly the favors of so good a king. --Shak. 3. To hunt with a hawk. [Obs.] --Bacon. {To fly a kite} (Com.), to raise money on commercial notes. [Cant or Slang] | |
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Fly \Fly\ (fl[imac]), v. i. [imp. {Flew} (fl[umac]); p. p. {Flown} (fl[omac]n); p. pr. & vb. n. {Flying}.] [OE. fleen, fleen, fleyen, flegen, AS. fle[a2]gan; akin to D. vliegen, OHG. fliogan, G. fliegen, Icel. flj[umac]ga, Sw. flyga, Dan. flyve, Goth. us-flaugjan to cause to fly away, blow about, and perh. to L. pluma feather, E. plume. [root]84. Cf. {Fledge}, {Flight}, {Flock} of animals.] 1. To move in or pass thorugh the air with wings, as a bird. 2. To move through the air or before the wind; esp., to pass or be driven rapidly through the air by any impulse. 3. To float, wave, or rise in the air, as sparks or a flag. Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. --Job v. 7. 4. To move or pass swiftly; to hasten away; to circulate rapidly; as, a ship flies on the deep; a top flies around; rumor flies. Fly, envious Time, till thou run out thy race. --Milton. The dark waves murmured as the ships flew on. --Bryant. 5. To run from danger; to attempt to escape; to flee; as, an enemy or a coward flies. See Note under {Flee}. Fly, ere evil intercept thy flight. --Milton. Whither shall I fly to escape their hands ? --Shak. 6. To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly; -- usually with a qualifying word; as, a door flies open; a bomb flies apart. {To fly about} (Naut.), to change frequently in a short time; -- said of the wind. {To fly around}, to move about in haste. [Colloq.] {To fly at}, to spring toward; to rush on; to attack suddenly. {To fly in the face of}, to insult; to assail; to set at defiance; to oppose with violence; to act in direct opposition to; to resist. {To fly off}, to separate, or become detached suddenly; to revolt. {To fly on}, to attack. {To fly open}, to open suddenly, or with violence. {To fly out}. (a) To rush out. (b) To burst into a passion; to break out into license. {To let fly}. (a) To throw or drive with violence; to discharge. [bd]A man lets fly his arrow without taking any aim.[b8] --Addison. (b) (Naut.) To let go suddenly and entirely; as, to let fly the sheets. | |
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Fly \Fly\, n.; pl. {Flies} (fl[imac]z). [OE. flie, flege, AS. fl[ymac]ge, fle[a2]ge, fr. fle[a2]gan to fly; akin to D. vlieg, OHG. flioga, G. fliege, Icel. & Sw. fluga, Dan. flue. [root] 84. See {Fly}, v. i.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) (a) Any winged insect; esp., one with transparent wings; as, the Spanish fly; firefly; gall fly; dragon fly. (b) Any dipterous insect; as, the house fly; flesh fly; black fly. See {Diptera}, and Illust. in Append. 2. A hook dressed in imitation of a fly, -- used for fishing. [bd]The fur-wrought fly.[b8] --Gay. | |
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Fly \Fly\, a. Knowing; wide awake; fully understanding another's meaning. [Slang] --Dickens. | |
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Flyaway \Fly"a*way`\, a. Disposed to fly away; flighty; unrestrained; light and free; -- used of both persons and things. -- n. A flyaway person or thing. [bd]Truth is such a flyaway.[b8] --Emerson. | |
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Foal \Foal\, v.t. [imp. & p. p. {Foaled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Foaling}.] To bring forth (a colt); -- said of a mare or a she ass. | |
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Foal \Foal\, v.i. To bring forth young, as an animal of the horse kind. | |
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Foal \Foal\, n. [OE. fole, AS. fola; akin to OHG. folo, G. fohlen, Goth. fula, Icel. foli, Sw Lf?le, Gr. [?], L. pullus a young animal. Cf. {Filly}, {Poultry}, {Pullet}.] (Zo[94].) The young of any animal of the Horse family {(Equid[91])}; a colt; a filly. {Foal teeth} (Zo[94]l.), the first set of teeth of a horse. {In foal}, {With foal}, being with young; pregnant; -- said of a mare or she ass. | |
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Foil \Foil\ (foil), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Foiled} (foild); p. pr. & vb. n. {Foiling}.] [F. fouler to tread or trample under one's feet, to press, oppress. See {Full}, v. t.] 1. To tread under foot; to trample. King Richard . . . caused the ensigns of Leopold to be pulled down and foiled under foot. --Knoless. Whom he did all to pieces breake and foyle, In filthy durt, and left so in the loathely soyle. --Spenser. 2. To render (an effort or attempt) vain or nugatory; to baffle; to outwit; to balk; to frustrate; to defeat. And by [?] mortal man at length am foiled. --Dryden. Her long locks that foil the painter's power. --Byron. 3. To blunt; to dull; to spoil; as, to foil the scent in chase. --Addison. | |
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Foil \Foil\, n. [OE. foil leaf, OF. foil, fuil, fueil, foille, fueille, F. feuille, fr. L. folium, pl. folia; akin to Gr. [?], and perh. to E. blade. Cf. {Foliage}, {Folio}.] 1. A leaf or very thin sheet of metal; as, brass foil; tin foil; gold foil. 2. (Jewelry) A thin leaf of sheet copper silvered and burnished, and afterwards coated with transparent colors mixed with isinglass; -- employed by jewelers to give color or brilliancy to pastes and inferior stones. --Ure. 3. Anything that serves by contrast of color or quality to adorn or set off another thing to advantage. As she a black silk cap on him began To set, for foil of his milk-white to serve. --Sir P. Sidney. Hector has a foil to set him off. --Broome. 4. A thin coat of tin, with quicksilver, laid on the back of a looking-glass, to cause reflection. 5. (Arch.) The space between the cusps in Gothic architecture; a rounded or leaflike ornament, in windows, niches, etc. A group of foils is called trefoil, quatrefoil, quinquefoil, etc., according to the number of arcs of which it is composed. {Foil stone}, an imitation of a jewel or precious stone. | |
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Foil \Foil\, v. t. [See 6th {File}.] To defile; to soil. [Obs.] | |
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Foil \Foil\, n. 1. Failure of success when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage. --Milton. Nor e'er was fate so near a foil. --Dryden. 2. A blunt weapon used in fencing, resembling a smallsword in the main, but usually lighter and having a button at the point. Blunt as the fencer's foils, which hit, but hurt not. --Shak. Isocrates contended with a foil against Demosthenes with a word. --Mitford. 3. The track or trail of an animal. {To run a foil},to lead astray; to puzzle; -- alluding to the habits of some animals of running back over the same track to mislead their pursuers. --Brewer. | |
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Folium \Fo"li*um\, n.; pl. E. {Foliums}, L. {Folia}. [L., a leaf.] 1. A leaf, esp. a thin leaf or plate. 2. (Geom.) A curve of the third order, consisting of two infinite branches, which have a common asymptote. The curve has a double point, and a leaf-shaped loop; whence the name. Its equation is x^{3} + y^{3} = axy. | |
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Fol'io \Fol'io\, v. t. To put a serial number on each folio or page of (a book); to page. | |
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Fol'io \Fol'io\, a. Formed of sheets each folded once, making two leaves, or four pages; as, a folio volume. See {Folio}, n., 3. | |
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Folio \Fol"io\, n.; pl. {Folios}. [Ablative of L. folium leaf. See 4th {Foil}.] 1. A leaf of a book or manuscript. 2. A sheet of paper once folded. 3. A book made of sheets of paper each folded once (four pages to the sheet); hence, a book of the largest kind. See Note under {Paper}. 4. (Print.) The page number. The even folios are on the left-hand pages and the odd folios on the right-hand. 5. A page of a book; (Bookkeeping) a page in an account book; sometimes, two opposite pages bearing the same serial number. 6. (Law) A leaf containing a certain number of words, hence, a certain number of words in a writing, as in England, in law proceedings 72, and in chancery, 90; in New York, 100 words. {Folio post}, a flat writing paper, usually 17 by 24 inches. | |
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Fol'io \Fol'io\, v. t. To put a serial number on each folio or page of (a book); to page. | |
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Fol'io \Fol'io\, a. Formed of sheets each folded once, making two leaves, or four pages; as, a folio volume. See {Folio}, n., 3. | |
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Folio \Fol"io\, n.; pl. {Folios}. [Ablative of L. folium leaf. See 4th {Foil}.] 1. A leaf of a book or manuscript. 2. A sheet of paper once folded. 3. A book made of sheets of paper each folded once (four pages to the sheet); hence, a book of the largest kind. See Note under {Paper}. 4. (Print.) The page number. The even folios are on the left-hand pages and the odd folios on the right-hand. 5. A page of a book; (Bookkeeping) a page in an account book; sometimes, two opposite pages bearing the same serial number. 6. (Law) A leaf containing a certain number of words, hence, a certain number of words in a writing, as in England, in law proceedings 72, and in chancery, 90; in New York, 100 words. {Folio post}, a flat writing paper, usually 17 by 24 inches. | |
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Follow \Fol"low\, n. The art or process of following; specif., in some games, as billiards, a stroke causing a ball to follow another ball after hitting it. Also used adjectively; as, follow shot. | |
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Follow \Fol"low\, v. i. To go or come after; -- used in the various senses of the transitive verb: To pursue; to attend; to accompany; to be a result; to imitate. Syn: Syn.- To {Follow}, {Succeed}, {Ensue}. Usage: To follow (v.i.) means simply to come after; as, a crowd followed. To succeed means to come after in some regular series or succession; as, day succeeds to day, and night to night. To ensue means to follow by some established connection or principle of sequence. As wave follows wave, revolution succeeds to revolution; and nothing ensues but accumulated wretchedness. | |
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Follow \Fol"low\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Followed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Following}.][OE. foluwen, folwen, folgen, AS. folgian, fylgean, fylgan; akin to D. volgen, OHG. folg[?]n, G. folgen, Icel. fylgja, Sw. f[94]lja, Dan. f[94]lge, and perh. to E. folk.] 1. To go or come after; to move behind in the same path or direction; hence, to go with (a leader, guide, etc.); to accompany; to attend. It waves me forth again; I'll follow it. --Shak. 2. To endeavor to overtake; to go in pursuit of; to chase; to pursue; to prosecute. I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall follow them. --Ex. xiv. 17. 3. To accept as authority; to adopt the opinions of; to obey; to yield to; to take as a rule of action; as, to follow good advice. Approve the best, and follow what I approve. --Milton. Follow peace with all men. --Heb. xii. 14. It is most agreeable to some men to follow their reason; and to others to follow their appetites. --J. Edwards. 4. To copy after; to take as an example. We had rather follow the perfections of them whom we like not, than in defects resemble them whom we love. --Hooker. 5. To succeed in order of time, rank, or office. 6. To result from, as an effect from a cause, or an inference from a premise. 7. To watch, as a receding object; to keep the eyes fixed upon while in motion; to keep the mind upon while in progress, as a speech, musical performance, etc.; also, to keep up with; to understand the meaning, connection, or force of, as of a course of thought or argument. He followed with his eyes the flitting shade. --Dryden. 8. To walk in, as a road or course; to attend upon closely, as a profession or calling. O, had I but followed the arts! --Shak. O Antony! I have followed thee to this. --Shak. {Follow board} (Founding), a board on which the pattern and the flask lie while the sand is rammed into the flask. --Knight. {To follow the hounds}, to hunt with dogs. {To follow suit} (Card Playing), to play a card of the same suit as the leading card; hence, colloquially, to follow an example set. {To follow up}, to pursue indefatigably. Syn: Syn.- To pursue; chase; go after; attend; accompany; succeed; imitate; copy; embrace; maintain. Usage: - To {Follow}, {Pursue}. To follow (v.t.) denotes simply to go after; to pursue denotes to follow with earnestness, and with a view to attain some definite object; as, a hound pursues the deer. So a person follows a companion whom he wishes to overtake on a journey; the officers of justice pursue a felon who has escaped from prison. | |
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Folly \Fol"ly\, n.; pl. {Follies}. [OE. folie, foli, F. folie, fr. fol, fou, foolish, mad. See {Fool}.] 1. The state of being foolish; want of good sense; levity, weakness, or derangement of mind. 2. A foolish act; an inconsiderate or thoughtless procedure; weak or light-minded conduct; foolery. What folly 'tis to hazard life for ill. --Shak. 3. Scandalous crime; sin; specifically, as applied to a woman, wantonness. [Achan] wrought folly in Israel. --Josh. vii. 15. When lovely woman stoops to folly. --Goldsmith. 4. The result of a foolish action or enterprise. It is called this man's or that man's [bd]folly,[b8] and name of the foolish builder is thus kept alive for long after years. --Trench. | |
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Folwe \Fol"we\, v. t. To follow. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Fool \Fool\, n. [Cf. F. fouler to tread, crush. Cf. 1st {Foil}.] A compound of gooseberries scalded and crushed, with cream; -- commonly called gooseberry fool. | |
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Fool \Fool\, n. [OE. fol, n. & adj., F. fol, fou, foolish, mad; a fool, prob. fr. L. follis a bellows, wind bag, an inflated ball; perh. akin to E. bellows. Cf. {Folly}, {Follicle}.] 1. One destitute of reason, or of the common powers of understanding; an idiot; a natural. 2. A person deficient in intellect; one who acts absurdly, or pursues a course contrary to the dictates of wisdom; one without judgment; a simpleton; a dolt. Extol not riches, then, the toil of fools. --Milton. Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. --Franklin. 3. (Script.) One who acts contrary to moral and religious wisdom; a wicked person. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. --Ps. xiv. 1. 4. One who counterfeits folly; a professional jester or buffoon; a retainer formerly kept to make sport, dressed fantastically in motley, with ridiculous accouterments. Can they think me . . . their fool or jester? --Milton. {April fool}, {Court fool}, etc. See under {April}, {Court}, etc. {Fool's cap}, a cap or hood to which bells were usually attached, formerly worn by professional jesters. {Fool's errand}, an unreasonable, silly, profitless adventure or undertaking. {Fool's gold}, iron or copper pyrites, resembling gold in color. {Fool's paradise}, a name applied to a limbo (see under {Limbo}) popularly believed to be the region of vanity and nonsense. Hence, any foolish pleasure or condition of vain self-satistaction. {Fool's parsley} (Bot.), an annual umbelliferous plant ({[92]thusa Cynapium}) resembling parsley, but nauseous and poisonous. {To make a fool of}, to render ridiculous; to outwit; to shame. [Colloq.] {To play the fool}, to act the buffoon; to act a foolish part. [bd]I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.[b8] --1 Sam. xxvi. 21. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fool \Fool\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Fooled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fooling}.] To play the fool; to trifle; to toy; to spend time in idle sport or mirth. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fool \Fool\, v. t. 1. To infatuate; to make foolish. --Shak. For, fooled with hope, men favor the deceit. --Dryden. 2. To use as a fool; to deceive in a shameful or mortifying manner; to impose upon; to cheat by inspiring foolish confidence; as, to fool one out of his money. You are fooled, discarded, and shook off By him for whom these shames ye underwent. --Shak. {To fool away}, to get rid of foolishly; to spend in trifles, idleness, folly, or without advantage. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Foolahs \Foo"lahs`\, n. pl.; sing. {Foolah}. (Ethnol.) Same as {Fulahs}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fulahs \Fu"lahs`\, Foolahs \Foo"lahs`\, n. pl.; sing. {Fulah}, {Foolah}. (Ethnol.) A peculiar African race of uncertain origin, but distinct from the negro tribes, inhabiting an extensive region of Western Soudan. Their color is brown or yellowish bronze. They are Mohammedans. Called also {Fellatahs}, {Foulahs}, and {Fellani}. Fulah is also used adjectively; as, Fulah empire, tribes, language. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Foul \Foul\, n. In various games or sports, an act done contrary to the rules; a foul stroke, hit, play, or the like. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Foul \Foul\ (foul), n. [See {Fowl}.] A bird. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Foul \Foul\ (foul), a. [Compar. Fouler (-[etil]r); superl. {Foulest}.] [OE. foul, ful, AS. f[umac]l; akin to D. vuil, G. faul rotten, OHG. f[umac]l, Icel. f[umac]l foul, fetid; Dan. fuul, Sw. ful foul, Goth. f[umac]ls fetid, Lith. puti to be putrid, L. putere to stink, be putrid, pus pus, Gr. py`on pus, to cause to rot, Skr. p[umac]y to stink. [fb]82. Cf. {Defile} to foul, {File} to foul, {Filth}, {Pus}, {Putrid}.] 1. Covered with, or containing, extraneous matter which is injurious, noxious, offensive, or obstructive; filthy; dirty; not clean; polluted; nasty; defiled; as, a foul cloth; foul hands; a foul chimney; foul air; a ship's bottom is foul when overgrown with barnacles; a gun becomes foul from repeated firing; a well is foul with polluted water. My face is foul with weeping. --Job. xvi. 16. 2. Scurrilous; obscene or profane; abusive; as, foul words; foul language. 3. Hateful; detestable; shameful; odious; wretched. [bd]The foul with Sycorax.[b8] --Shak. Who first seduced them to that foul revolt? --Milton. 4. Loathsome; disgusting; as, a foul disease. 5. Ugly; homely; poor. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Let us, like merchants, show our foulest wares. --Shak. 6. Not favorable; unpropitious; not fair or advantageous; as, a foul wind; a foul road; cloudy or rainy; stormy; not fair; -- said of the weather, sky, etc. So foul a sky clears not without a storm. --Shak. 7. Not conformed to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.; unfair; dishonest; dishonorable; cheating; as, foul play. 8. Having freedom of motion interfered with by collision or entanglement; entangled; -- opposed to clear; as, a rope or cable may get foul while paying it out. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Foul \Foul\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fouled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fouling}.] 1. To make filthy; to defile; to daub; to dirty; to soil; as, to foul the face or hands with mire. 2. (Mil.) To incrust (the bore of a gun) with burnt powder in the process of firing. 3. To cover (a ship's bottom) with anything that impered its sailing; as, a bottom fouled with barnacles. 4. To entangle, so as to impede motion; as, to foul a rope or cable in paying it out; to come into collision with; as, one boat fouled the other in a race. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Foul \Foul\, v. i. 1. To become clogged with burnt powder in the process of firing, as a gun. 2. To become entagled, as ropes; to come into collision with something; as, the two boats fouled. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Foul \Foul\, n. 1. An entanglement; a collision, as in a boat race. 2. (Baseball) See {Foul ball}, under {Foul}, a. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Foule \Foul"e\, adv. Foully. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Foully \Foul"ly\, v. In a foul manner; filthily; nastily; shamefully; unfairly; dishonorably. I foully wronged him; do forgive me, do. --Gay. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fowl \Fowl\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Fowled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fowling}.] To catch or kill wild fowl, for game or food, as by shooting, or by decoys, nets, etc. Such persons as may lawfully hunt, fish, or fowl. --Blackstone. {Fowling piece}, a light gun with smooth bore, adapted for the use of small shot in killing birds or small quadrupeds. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fowl \Fowl\, n. Note: Instead of the pl. {Fowls} the singular is often used collectively. [OE. foul, fowel, foghel, fuhel, fugel, AS. fugol; akin to OS. fugal D. & G. vogel, OHG. fogal, Icel. & Dan. fugl, Sw. fogel, f[86]gel, Goth. fugls; of unknown origin, possibly by loss of l, from the root of E. fly, or akin to E. fox, as being a tailed animal.] 1. Any bird; esp., any large edible bird. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air. --Gen. i. 26. Behold the fowls of the air; for they sow not. --Matt. vi. 26. Like a flight of fowl Scattered by winds and high tempestuous gusts. --Shak. 2. Any domesticated bird used as food, as a hen, turkey, duck; in a more restricted sense, the common domestic cock or hen ({Gallus domesticus}). {Barndoor fowl}, [or] {Barnyard fowl}, a fowl that frequents the barnyard; the common domestic cock or hen. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fuel \Fu"el\, n. [OF. fouail, fuail, or fouaille, fuaille, LL. focalium, focale, fr. L. focus hearth, fireplace, in LL., fire. See {Focus}.] [Formerly written also {fewel.}] 1. Any matter used to produce heat by burning; that which feeds fire; combustible matter used for fires, as wood, coal, peat, etc. 2. Anything that serves to feed or increase passion or excitement. {Artificial fuel}, fuel consisting of small particles, as coal dust, sawdust, etc., consolidated into lumps or blocks. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fuel \Fu"el\, v. t. 1. To feed with fuel. [Obs.] Never, alas I the dreadful name, That fuels the infernal flame. --Cowley. 2. To store or furnish with fuel or firing. [Obs.] Well watered and well fueled. --Sir H. Wotton. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
-ful \-ful\ [See {Full}, a.] A suffix signifying full of, abounding with; as, boastful, harmful, woeful. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fulahs \Fu"lahs`\, Foolahs \Foo"lahs`\, n. pl.; sing. {Fulah}, {Foolah}. (Ethnol.) A peculiar African race of uncertain origin, but distinct from the negro tribes, inhabiting an extensive region of Western Soudan. Their color is brown or yellowish bronze. They are Mohammedans. Called also {Fellatahs}, {Foulahs}, and {Fellani}. Fulah is also used adjectively; as, Fulah empire, tribes, language. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Full \Full\, a. [Compar. {Fuller}; superl. {Fullest}.] [OE. & AS. ful; akin to OS. ful, D. vol, OHG. fol, G. voll, Icel. fullr, Sw. full, Dan. fuld, Goth. fulls, L. plenus, Gr. [?], Skr. p[?]rna full, pr[?] to fill, also to Gr. [?] much, E. poly-, pref., G. viel, AS. fela. [root]80. Cf. {Complete}, {Fill}, {Plenary}, {Plenty}.] 1. Filled up, having within its limits all that it can contain; supplied; not empty or vacant; -- said primarily of hollow vessels, and hence of anything else; as, a cup full of water; a house full of people. Had the throne been full, their meeting would not have been regular. --Blackstone. 2. Abundantly furnished or provided; sufficient in. quantity, quality, or degree; copious; plenteous; ample; adequate; as, a full meal; a full supply; a full voice; a full compensation; a house full of furniture. 3. Not wanting in any essential quality; complete, entire; perfect; adequate; as, a full narrative; a person of full age; a full stop; a full face; the full moon. It came to pass, at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed. --Gen. xii. 1. The man commands Like a full soldier. --Shak. I can not Request a fuller satisfaction Than you have freely granted. --Ford. 4. Sated; surfeited. I am full of the burnt offerings of rams. --Is. i. 11. 5. Having the mind filled with ideas; stocked with knowledge; stored with information. Reading maketh a full man. --Bacon. 6. Having the attention, thoughts, etc., absorbed in any matter, and the feelings more or less excited by it, as, to be full of some project. Every one is full of the miracles done by cold baths on decayed and weak constitutions. --Locke. 7. Filled with emotions. The heart is so full that a drop overfills it. --Lowell. 8. Impregnated; made pregnant. [Obs.] Ilia, the fair, . . . full of Mars. --Dryden. {At full}, when full or complete. --Shak. {Full age} (Law) the age at which one attains full personal rights; majority; -- in England and the United States the age of 21 years. --Abbott. {Full and by} (Naut.), sailing closehauled, having all the sails full, and lying as near the wind as poesible. {Full band} (Mus.), a band in which all the instruments are employed. {Full binding}, the binding of a book when made wholly of leather, as distinguished from half binding. {Full bottom}, a kind of wig full and large at the bottom. {Full} {brother [or] sister}, a brother or sister having the same parents as another. {Full cry} (Hunting), eager chase; -- said of hounds that have caught the scent, and give tongue together. {Full dress}, the dress prescribed by authority or by etiquette to be worn on occasions of ceremony. {Full hand} (Poker), three of a kind and a pair. {Full moon}. (a) The moon with its whole disk illuminated, as when opposite to the sun. (b) The time when the moon is full. {Full organ} (Mus.), the organ when all or most stops are out. {Full score} (Mus.), a score in which all the parts for voices and instruments are given. {Full sea}, high water. {Full swing}, free course; unrestrained liberty; [bd]Leaving corrupt nature to . . . the full swing and freedom of its own extravagant actings.[b8] South (Colloq.) {In full}, at length; uncontracted; unabridged; written out in words, and not indicated by figures. {In full blast}. See under {Blast}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Full \Full\, v. i. To become fulled or thickened; as, this material fulls well. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Full \Full\, n. Complete measure; utmost extent; the highest state or degree. The swan's-down feather, That stands upon the swell at full of tide. --Shak. {Full of the moon}, the time of full moon. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Full \Full\, adv. Quite; to the same degree; without abatement or diminution; with the whole force or effect; thoroughly; completely; exactly; entirely. The pawn I proffer shall be full as good. --Dryden. The diapason closing full in man. --Dryden. Full in the center of the sacred wood. --Addison. Note: Full is placed before adjectives and adverbs to heighten or strengthen their signification. [bd]Full sad.[b8] --Milton. [bd]Master of a full poor cell.[b8] --Shak. [bd]Full many a gem of purest ray serene.[b8] --T. Gray. Full is also prefixed to participles to express utmost extent or degree; as, full-bloomed, full-blown, full-crammed full-grown, full-laden, full-stuffed, etc. Such compounds, for the most part, are self-defining. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Full \Full\, v. i. To become full or wholly illuminated; as, the moon fulls at midnight. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Full \Full\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fulled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fulling}.] [OE. fullen, OF. fuler, fouler, F. fouler, LL. fullare, fr. L. fullo fuller, cloth fuller, cf. Gr. [?] shining, white, AS. fullian to whiten as a fuller, to baptize, fullere a fuller. Cf. {Defile} to foul, {Foil} to frustrate, {Fuller}. n. ] To thicken by moistening, heating, and pressing, as cloth; to mill; to make compact; to scour, cleanse, and thicken in a mill. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fully \Ful"ly\, adv. In a full manner or degree; completely; entirely; without lack or defect; adequately; satisfactorily; as, to be fully persuaded of the truth of a proposition. {Fully committed} (Law), committed to prison for trial, in distinction from being detained for examination. Syn: Completely; entirely; maturely; plentifuly; abundantly; plenteously; copiously; largely; amply; sufficiently; perfectly. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Filley, NE (village, FIPS 16830) Location: 40.28542 N, 96.53379 W Population (1990): 157 (69 housing units) Area: 0.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 68357 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Floe, WV Zip code(s): 25235 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Fola, WV Zip code(s): 25019 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Foley, AL (city, FIPS 26992) Location: 30.40566 N, 87.68423 W Population (1990): 4937 (2127 housing units) Area: 21.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 36535 Foley, MN (city, FIPS 21536) Location: 45.66322 N, 93.90941 W Population (1990): 1854 (702 housing units) Area: 4.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 56329 Foley, MO (city, FIPS 24886) Location: 39.04568 N, 90.74134 W Population (1990): 209 (109 housing units) Area: 0.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 63347 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Foyil, OK (town, FIPS 27600) Location: 36.43370 N, 95.52045 W Population (1990): 86 (45 housing units) Area: 0.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
fool n. As used by hackers, specifically describes a person who habitually reasons from obviously or demonstrably incorrect premises and cannot be persuaded by evidence to do otherwise; it is not generally used in its other senses, i.e., to describe a person with a native incapacity to reason correctly, or a clown. Indeed, in hackish experience many fools are capable of reasoning all too effectively in executing their errors. See also {cretin}, {loser}, {fool file}. The Algol 68-R compiler used to initialize its storage to the character string "F00LF00LF00LF00L..." because as a pointer or as a floating point number it caused a crash, and as an integer or a character string it was very recognizable in a dump. Sadly, one day a very senior professor at Nottingham University wrote a program that called him a fool. He proceeded to demonstrate the correctness of this assertion by lobbying the university (not quite successfully) to forbid the use of Algol on its computers. See also {DEADBEEF}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Feel (Free and Eventually Eulisp) An initial implementation of an {EuLisp} {interpreter} by Pete Broadbery {object} system, {modules}, {parallelism}, interfaces to {PVM} library, {TCP/IP} {socket}s, {future}s, {Linda} and {CSP}. Portable to most {Unix} systems. Can use {shared memory} and {thread}s if available. {(ftp://ftp.bath.ac.uk/pub/eulisp/)}. (1992-09-14) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
FEL Function Equation Language. Programs are sets of definitions. Sequences are lists stored in consecutive memory. "FEL Programmer's Guide", R. M. Keller, AMPS TR 7, U Utah, March 1982. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
file The history of computing is rich in varied kinds of files and {file systems}, whether ornate (e.g., {Macintosh file system} for a well-known case) or deficient (e.g., many simple pre-1980s file systems don't allow {directories}). However, the prototypical file has these characteristics: * It is a single sequence of bytes (but consider {Macintosh} {resource forks}). * It has a finite length, unlike, e.g. a {Unix} {device}. * It is stored in a {non-volatile storage} medium (but see {ramdrive}). * It exists (nominally) in a {directory}. * It has a name that it can be referred to by in file operations, possibly in combination with its {path}. Additionally, a file system may associate other information with a file, such as {permission} bits or other {file attributes}; timestamps for file creation, last revision, and last access; revision numbers (a` la VMS), and other kinds of {magic}. Compare: {document}. (1997-04-08) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
FILO {stack} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
F+L function definitions to solve for {logic variable} bindings. ["Functions plus Logic in Theory and Practice", R.B. Kieburtz, Feb 1987, unpublished]. (1994-10-20) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
FL John Backus's successor to {FP}, developed ca. 1985. FL is {dynamically typed} and adds {higher-order function}s, {exception}s, {user-defined type}s and other features. ["FL Language Manual, Parts 1 & 2", J. Backus et al, IBM Research Report RJ 7100 (1989)]. (1994-10-20) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
F+L function definitions to solve for {logic variable} bindings. ["Functions plus Logic in Theory and Practice", R.B. Kieburtz, Feb 1987, unpublished]. (1994-10-20) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
FL John Backus's successor to {FP}, developed ca. 1985. FL is {dynamically typed} and adds {higher-order function}s, {exception}s, {user-defined type}s and other features. ["FL Language Manual, Parts 1 & 2", J. Backus et al, IBM Research Report RJ 7100 (1989)]. (1994-10-20) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Flow various reports on the structure of {Fortran 77} code, such as {flow diagram}s and common block tables. It runs under {VMS}, {Unix}, {CMS}. Posted to comp.sources.misc volume 31. (1995-03-14) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
FOIL File Oriented Interpretive Language. CAI language. ["FOIL - A File Oriented Interpretive Language", J.C. Hesselbart, Proc ACM 23rd National Conf (1968)]. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
FOOL Fool's Lisp. A small {Scheme} {interpreter}. {(ftp://scam.berkeley.edu/src/local/fools.tar.Z)}. (1994-10-04) | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Flea David at the cave of Adullam thus addressed his persecutor Saul (1 Sam. 24:14): "After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea?" He thus speaks of himself as the poor, contemptible object of the monarch's pursuit, a "worthy object truly for an expedition of the king of Israel with his picked troops!" This insect is in Eastern language the popular emblem of insignificance. In 1 Sam. 26:20 the LXX. read "come out to seek my life" instead of "to seek a flea." | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Fly Heb. zebub, (Eccl. 10:1; Isa. 7:18). This fly was so grievous a pest that the Phoenicians invoked against it the aid of their god Baal-zebub (q.v.). The prophet Isaiah (7:18) alludes to some poisonous fly which was believed to be found on the confines of Egypt, and which would be called by the Lord. Poisonous flies exist in many parts of Africa, for instance, the different kinds of tsetse. Heb. 'arob, the name given to the insects sent as a plague on the land of Egypt (Ex. 8:21-31; Ps. 78:45; 105:31). The LXX. render this by a word which means the "dog-fly," the cynomuia. The Jewish commentators regarded the Hebrew word here as connected with the word _'arab_, which means "mingled;" and they accordingly supposed the plague to consist of a mixed multitude of animals, beasts, reptiles, and insects. But there is no doubt that "the _'arab_" denotes a single definite species. Some interpreters regard it as the Blatta orientalis, the cockroach, a species of beetle. These insects "inflict very painful bites with their jaws; gnaw and destroy clothes, household furniture, leather, and articles of every kind, and either consume or render unavailable all eatables." | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Fuel Almost every kind of combustible matter was used for fuel, such as the withered stalks of herbs (Matt. 6:30), thorns (Ps. 58:9; Eccl. 7:6), animal excrements (Ezek. 4:12-15; 15:4, 6; 21:32). Wood or charcoal is much used still in all the towns of Syria and Egypt. It is largely brought from the region of Hebron to Jerusalem. (See {COAL}.) |