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Fainting \Faint"ing\, n. Syncope, or loss of consciousness owing to a sudden arrest of the blood supply to the brain, the face becoming pallid, the respiration feeble, and the heat's beat weak. {Fainting fit}, a fainting or swoon; syncope. [Colloq.] | |
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Faint \Faint\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Fainted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fainting}.] 1. To become weak or wanting in vigor; to grow feeble; to lose strength and color, and the control of the bodily or mental functions; to swoon; -- sometimes with away. See {Fainting}, n. Hearing the honor intended her, she fainted away. --Guardian. If I send them away fasting . . . they will faint by the way. --Mark viii. 8. | |
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Fainting \Faint"ing\, n. Syncope, or loss of consciousness owing to a sudden arrest of the blood supply to the brain, the face becoming pallid, the respiration feeble, and the heat's beat weak. {Fainting fit}, a fainting or swoon; syncope. [Colloq.] | |
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Faintness \Faint"ness\, n. 1. The state of being faint; loss of strength, or of consciousness, and self-control. 2. Want of vigor or energy. --Spenser. 3. Feebleness, as of color or light; lack of distinctness; as, faintness of description. 4. Faint-heartedness; timorousness; dejection. I will send a faintness into their hearts. --Lev. xxvi. 36. | |
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Fandango \Fan*dan"go\, n.; pl. {Fandangoes}. [Sp. A name brought, together with the dance, from the West Indies to Spain.] 1. A lively dance, in 3-8 or 6-8 time, much practiced in Spain and Spanish America. Also, the tune to which it is danced. 2. A ball or general dance, as in Mexico. [Colloq.] | |
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Fandango \Fan*dan"go\, n.; pl. {Fandangoes}. [Sp. A name brought, together with the dance, from the West Indies to Spain.] 1. A lively dance, in 3-8 or 6-8 time, much practiced in Spain and Spanish America. Also, the tune to which it is danced. 2. A ball or general dance, as in Mexico. [Colloq.] | |
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Fan-tan \Fan"-tan`\, n. [Chinese (of Canton) in an-tan-kun gambling house.] 1. A Chinese gambling game in which coins or other small objects are placed upon a table, usually under a cap, and the players bet as to what remainder will be left when the sum of the counters is divided by four. 2. A game with playing cards in which the cards are played in sequences upon the table, the one who first gets rid of his cards being the winner. | |
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Fantom \Fan"tom\, n. See {Phantom}. {Fantom corn}, phantom corn. --Grose. | |
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Fantom \Fan"tom\, n. See {Phantom}. {Fantom corn}, phantom corn. --Grose. | |
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Fend \Fend\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fended}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fending}.] [Abbrev. fr. defend.] To keep off; to prevent from entering or hitting; to ward off; to shut out; -- often with off; as, to fend off blows. With fern beneath to fend the bitter cold. --Dryden. {To fend off a} {boat [or] vessel} (Naut.), to prevent its running against anything with too much violence. | |
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Find \Find\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Found}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Finding}.] [AS. findan; akin to D. vinden, OS. & OHG. findan, G. finden, Dan. finde, icel. & Sw. finna, Goth. fin[?]an; and perh. to L. petere to seek, Gr. [?] to fall, Skr. pat to fall, fly, E. petition.] 1. To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a person. Searching the window for a flint, I found This paper, thus sealed up. --Shak. In woods and forests thou art found. --Cowley. 2. To learn by experience or trial; to perceive; to experience; to discover by the intellect or the feelings; to detect; to feel. [bd]I find you passing gentle.[b8] --Shak. The torrid zone is now found habitable. --Cowley. 3. To come upon by seeking; as, to find something lost. (a) To discover by sounding; as, to find bottom. (b) To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end; as, water is found to be a compound substance. (c) To gain, as the object of desire or effort; as, to find leisure; to find means. (d) To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire. Seek, and ye shall find. --Matt. vii. 7. Every mountain now hath found a tongue. --Byron. 4. To provide for; to supply; to furnish; as, to find food for workemen; he finds his nephew in money. Wages [9c]14 and all found. --London Times. Nothing a day and find yourself. --Dickens. | |
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Finding \Find"ing\, n. 1. That which is found, come upon, or provided; esp. (pl.), that which a journeyman artisan finds or provides for himself; as tools, trimmings, etc. When a man hath been laboring . . . in the deep mines of knowledge, hath furnished out his findings in all their equipage. --Milton. 2. Support; maintenance; that which is provided for one; expence; provision. 3. (Law) The result of a judicial examination or inquiry, especially into some matter of fact; a verdict; as, the finding of a jury. --Burrill. After his friends finding and his rent. --Chaucer. | |
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Finiteness \Fi"nite*ness\, n. The state of being finite. | |
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Fondness \Fond"ness\, n. 1. The quality or state of being fond; foolishness. [Obs.] Fondness it were for any, being free, To covet fetters, though they golden be. --Spenser. 2. Doting affection; tender liking; strong appetite, propensity, or relish; as, he had a fondness for truffles. My heart had still some foolish fondness for thee. --Addison. Syn: Attachment; affection; love; kindness. | |
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Fondon \Fon"don\, n. [Cf. F. fondant flux.] (Metal.) A large copper vessel used for hot amalgamation. | |
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Fontanel \Fon"ta*nel`\, n. [F. fontanelle, prop., a little fountain, fr. fontaine fountain. See {Fountain}.] 1. (Med.) An issue or artificial ulcer for the discharge of humors from the body.[Obs.] --Wiseman. 2. (Anat.) One of the membranous intervals between the incompleted angles of the parietal and neighboring bones of a fetal or young skull; -- so called because it exhibits a rhythmical pulsation. Note: In the human fetus there are six fontanels, of which the anterior, or bregmatic, situated at the junction of the coronal and sagittal sutures, is much the largest, and remains open a considerable time after birth. | |
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Found \Found\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Founded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Founding}.] [F. fondre, L. fundere to found, pour.] To form by melting a metal, and pouring it into a mold; to cast. [bd]Whereof to found their engines.[b8] --Milton. | |
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Found \Found\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Founded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Founding}.] [F. fonder, L. fundare, fr. fundus bottom. See 1st {Bottom}, and cf. {Founder}, v. i., {Fund}.] 1. To lay the basis of; to set, or place, as on something solid, for support; to ground; to establish upon a basis, literal or figurative; to fix firmly. I had else been perfect, Whole as the marble, founded as the rock. --Shak. A man that all his time Hath founded his good fortunes on your love. --Shak. It fell not, for it was founded on a rock. --Matt. vii. 25. 2. To take the ffirst steps or measures in erecting or building up; to furnish the materials for beginning; to begin to raise; to originate; as, to found a college; to found a family. There they shall found Their government, and their great senate choose. --Milton. Syn: To base; ground; institute; establish; fix. See {Predicate}. | |
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Founding \Found"ing\, n. The art of smelting and casting metals. | |
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Fountain \Foun"tain\ (foun"t[icr]n), n. [F. fontaine, LL. fontana, fr. L. fons, fontis. See 2d {Fount}.] 1. A spring of water issuing from the earth. 2. An artificially produced jet or stream of water; also, the structure or works in which such a jet or stream rises or flows; a basin built and constantly supplied with pure water for drinking and other useful purposes, or for ornament. 3. A reservoir or chamber to contain a liquid which can be conducted or drawn off as needed for use; as, the ink fountain in a printing press, etc. 4. The source from which anything proceeds, or from which anything is supplied continuously; origin; source. Judea, the fountain of the gospel. --Fuller. Author of all being, Fountain of light, thyself invisible. --Milton. {Air fountain}. See under {Air}. {Fountain heead}, primary source; original; first principle. --Young. {Fountain inkstand}, an inkstand having a continual supply of ink, as from elevated reservoir. {Fountain lamp}, a lamp fed with oil from an elevated reservoir. {Fountain pen}, a pen with a reservoir in the handle which furnishes a supply of ink. {Fountain pump}. (a) A structure for a fountain, having the form of a pump. (b) A portable garden pump which throws a jet, for watering plants, etc. {Fountain shell} (Zo[94]l.), the large West Indian conch shell ({Strombus gigas}). {Fountain of youth}, a mythical fountain whose waters were fabled to have the property of renewing youth. | |
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Fountain \Foun"tain\ (foun"t[icr]n), n. [F. fontaine, LL. fontana, fr. L. fons, fontis. See 2d {Fount}.] 1. A spring of water issuing from the earth. 2. An artificially produced jet or stream of water; also, the structure or works in which such a jet or stream rises or flows; a basin built and constantly supplied with pure water for drinking and other useful purposes, or for ornament. 3. A reservoir or chamber to contain a liquid which can be conducted or drawn off as needed for use; as, the ink fountain in a printing press, etc. 4. The source from which anything proceeds, or from which anything is supplied continuously; origin; source. Judea, the fountain of the gospel. --Fuller. Author of all being, Fountain of light, thyself invisible. --Milton. {Air fountain}. See under {Air}. {Fountain heead}, primary source; original; first principle. --Young. {Fountain inkstand}, an inkstand having a continual supply of ink, as from elevated reservoir. {Fountain lamp}, a lamp fed with oil from an elevated reservoir. {Fountain pen}, a pen with a reservoir in the handle which furnishes a supply of ink. {Fountain pump}. (a) A structure for a fountain, having the form of a pump. (b) A portable garden pump which throws a jet, for watering plants, etc. {Fountain shell} (Zo[94]l.), the large West Indian conch shell ({Strombus gigas}). {Fountain of youth}, a mythical fountain whose waters were fabled to have the property of renewing youth. | |
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Fountain \Foun"tain\ (foun"t[icr]n), n. [F. fontaine, LL. fontana, fr. L. fons, fontis. See 2d {Fount}.] 1. A spring of water issuing from the earth. 2. An artificially produced jet or stream of water; also, the structure or works in which such a jet or stream rises or flows; a basin built and constantly supplied with pure water for drinking and other useful purposes, or for ornament. 3. A reservoir or chamber to contain a liquid which can be conducted or drawn off as needed for use; as, the ink fountain in a printing press, etc. 4. The source from which anything proceeds, or from which anything is supplied continuously; origin; source. Judea, the fountain of the gospel. --Fuller. Author of all being, Fountain of light, thyself invisible. --Milton. {Air fountain}. See under {Air}. {Fountain heead}, primary source; original; first principle. --Young. {Fountain inkstand}, an inkstand having a continual supply of ink, as from elevated reservoir. {Fountain lamp}, a lamp fed with oil from an elevated reservoir. {Fountain pen}, a pen with a reservoir in the handle which furnishes a supply of ink. {Fountain pump}. (a) A structure for a fountain, having the form of a pump. (b) A portable garden pump which throws a jet, for watering plants, etc. {Fountain shell} (Zo[94]l.), the large West Indian conch shell ({Strombus gigas}). {Fountain of youth}, a mythical fountain whose waters were fabled to have the property of renewing youth. | |
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Fountain \Foun"tain\ (foun"t[icr]n), n. [F. fontaine, LL. fontana, fr. L. fons, fontis. See 2d {Fount}.] 1. A spring of water issuing from the earth. 2. An artificially produced jet or stream of water; also, the structure or works in which such a jet or stream rises or flows; a basin built and constantly supplied with pure water for drinking and other useful purposes, or for ornament. 3. A reservoir or chamber to contain a liquid which can be conducted or drawn off as needed for use; as, the ink fountain in a printing press, etc. 4. The source from which anything proceeds, or from which anything is supplied continuously; origin; source. Judea, the fountain of the gospel. --Fuller. Author of all being, Fountain of light, thyself invisible. --Milton. {Air fountain}. See under {Air}. {Fountain heead}, primary source; original; first principle. --Young. {Fountain inkstand}, an inkstand having a continual supply of ink, as from elevated reservoir. {Fountain lamp}, a lamp fed with oil from an elevated reservoir. {Fountain pen}, a pen with a reservoir in the handle which furnishes a supply of ink. {Fountain pump}. (a) A structure for a fountain, having the form of a pump. (b) A portable garden pump which throws a jet, for watering plants, etc. {Fountain shell} (Zo[94]l.), the large West Indian conch shell ({Strombus gigas}). {Fountain of youth}, a mythical fountain whose waters were fabled to have the property of renewing youth. | |
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Fountain \Foun"tain\ (foun"t[icr]n), n. [F. fontaine, LL. fontana, fr. L. fons, fontis. See 2d {Fount}.] 1. A spring of water issuing from the earth. 2. An artificially produced jet or stream of water; also, the structure or works in which such a jet or stream rises or flows; a basin built and constantly supplied with pure water for drinking and other useful purposes, or for ornament. 3. A reservoir or chamber to contain a liquid which can be conducted or drawn off as needed for use; as, the ink fountain in a printing press, etc. 4. The source from which anything proceeds, or from which anything is supplied continuously; origin; source. Judea, the fountain of the gospel. --Fuller. Author of all being, Fountain of light, thyself invisible. --Milton. {Air fountain}. See under {Air}. {Fountain heead}, primary source; original; first principle. --Young. {Fountain inkstand}, an inkstand having a continual supply of ink, as from elevated reservoir. {Fountain lamp}, a lamp fed with oil from an elevated reservoir. {Fountain pen}, a pen with a reservoir in the handle which furnishes a supply of ink. {Fountain pump}. (a) A structure for a fountain, having the form of a pump. (b) A portable garden pump which throws a jet, for watering plants, etc. {Fountain shell} (Zo[94]l.), the large West Indian conch shell ({Strombus gigas}). {Fountain of youth}, a mythical fountain whose waters were fabled to have the property of renewing youth. | |
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{Bow pen}. See {Bow-pen}. {Dotting pen}, a pen for drawing dotted lines. {Drawing}, [or] {Ruling}, {pen}, a pen for ruling lines having a pair of blades between which the ink is contained. {Fountain pen}, {Geometric pen}. See under {Fountain}, and {Geometric}. {Music pen}, a pen having five points for drawing the five lines of the staff. {Pen and ink}, [or] {pen-and-ink}, executed or done with a pen and ink; as, a pen and ink sketch. {Pen feather}. A pin feather. [Obs.] {Pen name}. See under {Name}. {Sea pen} (Zo[94]l.), a pennatula. [Usually written {sea-pen}.] | |
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Fountain \Foun"tain\ (foun"t[icr]n), n. [F. fontaine, LL. fontana, fr. L. fons, fontis. See 2d {Fount}.] 1. A spring of water issuing from the earth. 2. An artificially produced jet or stream of water; also, the structure or works in which such a jet or stream rises or flows; a basin built and constantly supplied with pure water for drinking and other useful purposes, or for ornament. 3. A reservoir or chamber to contain a liquid which can be conducted or drawn off as needed for use; as, the ink fountain in a printing press, etc. 4. The source from which anything proceeds, or from which anything is supplied continuously; origin; source. Judea, the fountain of the gospel. --Fuller. Author of all being, Fountain of light, thyself invisible. --Milton. {Air fountain}. See under {Air}. {Fountain heead}, primary source; original; first principle. --Young. {Fountain inkstand}, an inkstand having a continual supply of ink, as from elevated reservoir. {Fountain lamp}, a lamp fed with oil from an elevated reservoir. {Fountain pen}, a pen with a reservoir in the handle which furnishes a supply of ink. {Fountain pump}. (a) A structure for a fountain, having the form of a pump. (b) A portable garden pump which throws a jet, for watering plants, etc. {Fountain shell} (Zo[94]l.), the large West Indian conch shell ({Strombus gigas}). {Fountain of youth}, a mythical fountain whose waters were fabled to have the property of renewing youth. | |
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Fountain \Foun"tain\ (foun"t[icr]n), n. [F. fontaine, LL. fontana, fr. L. fons, fontis. See 2d {Fount}.] 1. A spring of water issuing from the earth. 2. An artificially produced jet or stream of water; also, the structure or works in which such a jet or stream rises or flows; a basin built and constantly supplied with pure water for drinking and other useful purposes, or for ornament. 3. A reservoir or chamber to contain a liquid which can be conducted or drawn off as needed for use; as, the ink fountain in a printing press, etc. 4. The source from which anything proceeds, or from which anything is supplied continuously; origin; source. Judea, the fountain of the gospel. --Fuller. Author of all being, Fountain of light, thyself invisible. --Milton. {Air fountain}. See under {Air}. {Fountain heead}, primary source; original; first principle. --Young. {Fountain inkstand}, an inkstand having a continual supply of ink, as from elevated reservoir. {Fountain lamp}, a lamp fed with oil from an elevated reservoir. {Fountain pen}, a pen with a reservoir in the handle which furnishes a supply of ink. {Fountain pump}. (a) A structure for a fountain, having the form of a pump. (b) A portable garden pump which throws a jet, for watering plants, etc. {Fountain shell} (Zo[94]l.), the large West Indian conch shell ({Strombus gigas}). {Fountain of youth}, a mythical fountain whose waters were fabled to have the property of renewing youth. | |
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d8Tridacna \[d8]Tri*dac"na\, n. [L., pl., a kind of oysters, fr. Gr. [?] eaten at three bites, [?] tri- + [?] to bite.] (Zo[94]l.) A genus of very large marine bivalve shells found on the coral reefs of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. One species ({T. gigas}) often weighs four or five hundred pounds, and is sometimes used for baptismal fonts. Called also {paw shell}, and {fountain shell}. | |
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Fountain \Foun"tain\ (foun"t[icr]n), n. [F. fontaine, LL. fontana, fr. L. fons, fontis. See 2d {Fount}.] 1. A spring of water issuing from the earth. 2. An artificially produced jet or stream of water; also, the structure or works in which such a jet or stream rises or flows; a basin built and constantly supplied with pure water for drinking and other useful purposes, or for ornament. 3. A reservoir or chamber to contain a liquid which can be conducted or drawn off as needed for use; as, the ink fountain in a printing press, etc. 4. The source from which anything proceeds, or from which anything is supplied continuously; origin; source. Judea, the fountain of the gospel. --Fuller. Author of all being, Fountain of light, thyself invisible. --Milton. {Air fountain}. See under {Air}. {Fountain heead}, primary source; original; first principle. --Young. {Fountain inkstand}, an inkstand having a continual supply of ink, as from elevated reservoir. {Fountain lamp}, a lamp fed with oil from an elevated reservoir. {Fountain pen}, a pen with a reservoir in the handle which furnishes a supply of ink. {Fountain pump}. (a) A structure for a fountain, having the form of a pump. (b) A portable garden pump which throws a jet, for watering plants, etc. {Fountain shell} (Zo[94]l.), the large West Indian conch shell ({Strombus gigas}). {Fountain of youth}, a mythical fountain whose waters were fabled to have the property of renewing youth. | |
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d8Tridacna \[d8]Tri*dac"na\, n. [L., pl., a kind of oysters, fr. Gr. [?] eaten at three bites, [?] tri- + [?] to bite.] (Zo[94]l.) A genus of very large marine bivalve shells found on the coral reefs of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. One species ({T. gigas}) often weighs four or five hundred pounds, and is sometimes used for baptismal fonts. Called also {paw shell}, and {fountain shell}. | |
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Fountain \Foun"tain\ (foun"t[icr]n), n. [F. fontaine, LL. fontana, fr. L. fons, fontis. See 2d {Fount}.] 1. A spring of water issuing from the earth. 2. An artificially produced jet or stream of water; also, the structure or works in which such a jet or stream rises or flows; a basin built and constantly supplied with pure water for drinking and other useful purposes, or for ornament. 3. A reservoir or chamber to contain a liquid which can be conducted or drawn off as needed for use; as, the ink fountain in a printing press, etc. 4. The source from which anything proceeds, or from which anything is supplied continuously; origin; source. Judea, the fountain of the gospel. --Fuller. Author of all being, Fountain of light, thyself invisible. --Milton. {Air fountain}. See under {Air}. {Fountain heead}, primary source; original; first principle. --Young. {Fountain inkstand}, an inkstand having a continual supply of ink, as from elevated reservoir. {Fountain lamp}, a lamp fed with oil from an elevated reservoir. {Fountain pen}, a pen with a reservoir in the handle which furnishes a supply of ink. {Fountain pump}. (a) A structure for a fountain, having the form of a pump. (b) A portable garden pump which throws a jet, for watering plants, etc. {Fountain shell} (Zo[94]l.), the large West Indian conch shell ({Strombus gigas}). {Fountain of youth}, a mythical fountain whose waters were fabled to have the property of renewing youth. | |
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Fountainless \Foun"tain*less\, a. Having no fountain; destitute of springs or sources of water. Barren desert, fountainless and dry. --Milton. | |
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Fumidity \Fu*mid"i*ty\, Fumidness \Fu"mid*ness\n. The state of being fumid; smokiness. | |
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Fundament \Fun"da*ment\, n. [OE. fundament, fundement, fondement, OF. fundement, fondement, F. fondement, fr. L. fundamentum foundation, fr. fundare to lay the bottom, to found, fr. fundus bottom. See {Fund}.] 1. Foundation. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 2. The part of the body on which one sits; the buttocks; specifically (Anat.), the anus. --Hume. | |
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Fundamental \Fun`da*men"tal\, a. [Cf. F. fondamental.] Pertaining to the foundation or basis; serving for the foundation. Hence: Essential, as an element, principle, or law; important; original; elementary; as, a fundamental truth; a fundamental axiom. The fundamental reasons of this war. --Shak. Some fundamental antithesis in nature. --Whewell. {Fundamental bass} (Mus.), the root note of a chord; a bass formed of the roots or fundamental tones of the chords. {Fundamental chord} (Mus.), a chord, the lowest tone of which is its root. {Fundamental colors}, red, green, and violet-blue. See {Primary colors}, under {Color}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fundamental \Fun"da*men`tal\, n. A leading or primary principle, rule, law, or article, which serves as the groundwork of a system; essential part, as, the fundamentals of the Christian faith. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fundamental \Fun`da*men"tal\, a. [Cf. F. fondamental.] Pertaining to the foundation or basis; serving for the foundation. Hence: Essential, as an element, principle, or law; important; original; elementary; as, a fundamental truth; a fundamental axiom. The fundamental reasons of this war. --Shak. Some fundamental antithesis in nature. --Whewell. {Fundamental bass} (Mus.), the root note of a chord; a bass formed of the roots or fundamental tones of the chords. {Fundamental chord} (Mus.), a chord, the lowest tone of which is its root. {Fundamental colors}, red, green, and violet-blue. See {Primary colors}, under {Color}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fundamental \Fun`da*men"tal\, a. [Cf. F. fondamental.] Pertaining to the foundation or basis; serving for the foundation. Hence: Essential, as an element, principle, or law; important; original; elementary; as, a fundamental truth; a fundamental axiom. The fundamental reasons of this war. --Shak. Some fundamental antithesis in nature. --Whewell. {Fundamental bass} (Mus.), the root note of a chord; a bass formed of the roots or fundamental tones of the chords. {Fundamental chord} (Mus.), a chord, the lowest tone of which is its root. {Fundamental colors}, red, green, and violet-blue. See {Primary colors}, under {Color}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fundamental \Fun`da*men"tal\, a. [Cf. F. fondamental.] Pertaining to the foundation or basis; serving for the foundation. Hence: Essential, as an element, principle, or law; important; original; elementary; as, a fundamental truth; a fundamental axiom. The fundamental reasons of this war. --Shak. Some fundamental antithesis in nature. --Whewell. {Fundamental bass} (Mus.), the root note of a chord; a bass formed of the roots or fundamental tones of the chords. {Fundamental chord} (Mus.), a chord, the lowest tone of which is its root. {Fundamental colors}, red, green, and violet-blue. See {Primary colors}, under {Color}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Color \Col"or\, n. [Written also {colour}.] [OF. color, colur, colour, F. couleur, L. color; prob. akin to celare to conceal (the color taken as that which covers). See {Helmet}.] 1. A property depending on the relations of light to the eye, by which individual and specific differences in the hues and tints of objects are apprehended in vision; as, gay colors; sad colors, etc. Note: The sensation of color depends upon a peculiar function of the retina or optic nerve, in consequence of which rays of light produce different effects according to the length of their waves or undulations, waves of a certain length producing the sensation of red, shorter waves green, and those still shorter blue, etc. White, or ordinary, light consists of waves of various lengths so blended as to produce no effect of color, and the color of objects depends upon their power to absorb or reflect a greater or less proportion of the rays which fall upon them. 2. Any hue distinguished from white or black. 3. The hue or color characteristic of good health and spirits; ruddy complexion. Give color to my pale cheek. --Shak. 4. That which is used to give color; a paint; a pigment; as, oil colors or water colors. 5. That which covers or hides the real character of anything; semblance; excuse; disguise; appearance. They had let down the boat into the sea, under color as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship. --Acts xxvii. 30. That he should die is worthy policy; But yet we want a color for his death. --Shak. 6. Shade or variety of character; kind; species. Boys and women are for the most part cattle of this color. --Shak. 7. A distinguishing badge, as a flag or similar symbol (usually in the plural); as, the colors or color of a ship or regiment; the colors of a race horse (that is, of the cap and jacket worn by the jockey). In the United States each regiment of infantry and artillery has two colors, one national and one regimental. --Farrow. 8. (Law) An apparent right; as where the defendant in trespass gave to the plaintiff an appearance of title, by stating his title specially, thus removing the cause from the jury to the court. --Blackstone. Note: Color is express when it is averred in the pleading, and implied when it is implied in the pleading. {Body color}. See under {Body}. {Color blindness}, total or partial inability to distinguish or recognize colors. See {Daltonism}. {Complementary color}, one of two colors so related to each other that when blended together they produce white light; -- so called because each color makes up to the other what it lacks to make it white. Artificial or pigment colors, when mixed, produce effects differing from those of the primary colors, in consequence of partial absorption. {Of color} (as persons, races, etc.), not of the white race; -- commonly meaning, esp. in the United States, of negro blood, pure or mixed. {Primary colors}, those developed from the solar beam by the prism, viz., red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet, which are reduced by some authors to three, -- red, green, and violet-blue. These three are sometimes called {fundamental colors}. {Subjective} [or] {Accidental color}, a false or spurious color seen in some instances, owing to the persistence of the luminous impression upon the retina, and a gradual change of its character, as where a wheel perfectly white, and with a circumference regularly subdivided, is made to revolve rapidly over a dark object, the teeth of the wheel appear to the eye of different shades of color varying with the rapidity of rotation. See {Accidental colors}, under {Accidental}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fundamental \Fun`da*men"tal\, a. [Cf. F. fondamental.] Pertaining to the foundation or basis; serving for the foundation. Hence: Essential, as an element, principle, or law; important; original; elementary; as, a fundamental truth; a fundamental axiom. The fundamental reasons of this war. --Shak. Some fundamental antithesis in nature. --Whewell. {Fundamental bass} (Mus.), the root note of a chord; a bass formed of the roots or fundamental tones of the chords. {Fundamental chord} (Mus.), a chord, the lowest tone of which is its root. {Fundamental colors}, red, green, and violet-blue. See {Primary colors}, under {Color}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Color \Col"or\, n. [Written also {colour}.] [OF. color, colur, colour, F. couleur, L. color; prob. akin to celare to conceal (the color taken as that which covers). See {Helmet}.] 1. A property depending on the relations of light to the eye, by which individual and specific differences in the hues and tints of objects are apprehended in vision; as, gay colors; sad colors, etc. Note: The sensation of color depends upon a peculiar function of the retina or optic nerve, in consequence of which rays of light produce different effects according to the length of their waves or undulations, waves of a certain length producing the sensation of red, shorter waves green, and those still shorter blue, etc. White, or ordinary, light consists of waves of various lengths so blended as to produce no effect of color, and the color of objects depends upon their power to absorb or reflect a greater or less proportion of the rays which fall upon them. 2. Any hue distinguished from white or black. 3. The hue or color characteristic of good health and spirits; ruddy complexion. Give color to my pale cheek. --Shak. 4. That which is used to give color; a paint; a pigment; as, oil colors or water colors. 5. That which covers or hides the real character of anything; semblance; excuse; disguise; appearance. They had let down the boat into the sea, under color as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship. --Acts xxvii. 30. That he should die is worthy policy; But yet we want a color for his death. --Shak. 6. Shade or variety of character; kind; species. Boys and women are for the most part cattle of this color. --Shak. 7. A distinguishing badge, as a flag or similar symbol (usually in the plural); as, the colors or color of a ship or regiment; the colors of a race horse (that is, of the cap and jacket worn by the jockey). In the United States each regiment of infantry and artillery has two colors, one national and one regimental. --Farrow. 8. (Law) An apparent right; as where the defendant in trespass gave to the plaintiff an appearance of title, by stating his title specially, thus removing the cause from the jury to the court. --Blackstone. Note: Color is express when it is averred in the pleading, and implied when it is implied in the pleading. {Body color}. See under {Body}. {Color blindness}, total or partial inability to distinguish or recognize colors. See {Daltonism}. {Complementary color}, one of two colors so related to each other that when blended together they produce white light; -- so called because each color makes up to the other what it lacks to make it white. Artificial or pigment colors, when mixed, produce effects differing from those of the primary colors, in consequence of partial absorption. {Of color} (as persons, races, etc.), not of the white race; -- commonly meaning, esp. in the United States, of negro blood, pure or mixed. {Primary colors}, those developed from the solar beam by the prism, viz., red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet, which are reduced by some authors to three, -- red, green, and violet-blue. These three are sometimes called {fundamental colors}. {Subjective} [or] {Accidental color}, a false or spurious color seen in some instances, owing to the persistence of the luminous impression upon the retina, and a gradual change of its character, as where a wheel perfectly white, and with a circumference regularly subdivided, is made to revolve rapidly over a dark object, the teeth of the wheel appear to the eye of different shades of color varying with the rapidity of rotation. See {Accidental colors}, under {Accidental}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fundamentally \Fun`da*men"tal*ly\, adv. Primarily; originally; essentially; radically; at the foundation; in origin or constituents. [bd]Fundamentally defective.[b8] --Burke. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fund \Fund\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Funded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Funding}.] 1. To provide and appropriate a fund or permanent revenue for the payment of the interest of; to make permanent provision of resources (as by a pledge of revenue from customs) for discharging the interest of or principal of; as, to fund government notes. 2. To place in a fund, as money. 3. To put into the form of bonds or stocks bearing regular interest; as, to fund the floating debt. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Funding \Fund"ing\, a. 1. Providing a fund for the payment of the interest or principal of a debt. 2. Investing in the public funds. {Funding system}, a system or scheme of finance or revenue by which provision is made for paying the interest or principal of a public debt. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Funding \Fund"ing\, a. 1. Providing a fund for the payment of the interest or principal of a debt. 2. Investing in the public funds. {Funding system}, a system or scheme of finance or revenue by which provision is made for paying the interest or principal of a public debt. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Fenton, IA (city, FIPS 27210) Location: 43.21826 N, 94.42768 W Population (1990): 346 (179 housing units) Area: 0.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 50539 Fenton, IL Zip code(s): 61251 Fenton, LA (village, FIPS 25335) Location: 30.36347 N, 92.91676 W Population (1990): 265 (110 housing units) Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Fenton, MI (city, FIPS 27760) Location: 42.80002 N, 83.71425 W Population (1990): 8444 (3395 housing units) Area: 17.0 sq km (land), 0.8 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 48430 Fenton, MO (city, FIPS 23950) Location: 38.53610 N, 90.45136 W Population (1990): 3346 (1143 housing units) Area: 12.9 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 63026 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Finneytown, OH (CDP, FIPS 27104) Location: 39.21670 N, 84.51422 W Population (1990): 13096 (4877 housing units) Area: 10.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Fontana, CA (city, FIPS 24680) Location: 34.09773 N, 117.45734 W Population (1990): 87535 (29383 housing units) Area: 92.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 92335, 92336 Fontana, KS (city, FIPS 23650) Location: 38.42586 N, 94.83785 W Population (1990): 131 (56 housing units) Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 66026 Fontana, WI Zip code(s): 53125 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Fontana Dam, NC Zip code(s): 28733 | |
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Fontana-on-Geneva Lake, WI (village, FIPS 26350) Location: 42.54534 N, 88.56643 W Population (1990): 1635 (1987 housing units) Area: 7.5 sq km (land), 2.9 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Fontanelle, IA (city, FIPS 28290) Location: 41.28996 N, 94.56065 W Population (1990): 712 (326 housing units) Area: 2.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 50846 | |
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Fountain, CO (city, FIPS 27865) Location: 38.66689 N, 104.69329 W Population (1990): 9984 (3789 housing units) Area: 36.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 80817 Fountain, FL Zip code(s): 32438 Fountain, MI (village, FIPS 29940) Location: 44.04778 N, 86.17949 W Population (1990): 165 (79 housing units) Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 49410 Fountain, MN (city, FIPS 22094) Location: 43.74073 N, 92.13400 W Population (1990): 327 (132 housing units) Area: 2.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 55935 Fountain, NC (town, FIPS 24440) Location: 35.67414 N, 77.63708 W Population (1990): 445 (216 housing units) Area: 1.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 27829 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Fountain City, IN (town, FIPS 25090) Location: 39.95587 N, 84.91785 W Population (1990): 766 (303 housing units) Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 47341 Fountain City, WI (city, FIPS 26850) Location: 44.11975 N, 91.69777 W Population (1990): 938 (417 housing units) Area: 11.5 sq km (land), 2.9 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 54629 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Fountain County, IN (county, FIPS 45) Location: 40.12273 N, 87.24440 W Population (1990): 17808 (7344 housing units) Area: 1024.9 sq km (land), 5.8 sq km (water) | |
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Fountain Green, UT (city, FIPS 26720) Location: 39.62769 N, 111.63856 W Population (1990): 578 (223 housing units) Area: 3.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Fountain Hill, AR (town, FIPS 24670) Location: 33.35693 N, 91.85086 W Population (1990): 195 (86 housing units) Area: 1.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 71642 Fountain Hill, PA (borough, FIPS 27008) Location: 40.60255 N, 75.39667 W Population (1990): 4637 (1936 housing units) Area: 1.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Fountain Hills, AZ (town, FIPS 25300) Location: 33.60535 N, 111.74111 W Population (1990): 10030 (5061 housing units) Area: 43.3 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 85268 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Fountain Inn, SC (town, FIPS 27070) Location: 34.69352 N, 82.20061 W Population (1990): 4388 (1687 housing units) Area: 12.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 29644 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Fountain Run, KY (city, FIPS 28666) Location: 36.72215 N, 85.96045 W Population (1990): 259 (128 housing units) Area: 2.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 42133 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Fountain Valley, CA (city, FIPS 25380) Location: 33.71090 N, 117.95032 W Population (1990): 53691 (18019 housing units) Area: 23.1 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 92708 | |
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Fountaintown, IN Zip code(s): 46130 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Fountainville, PA Zip code(s): 18923 | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
fandango on core n. [Unix/C hackers, from the Iberian dance] In C, a wild pointer that runs out of bounds, causing a {core dump}, or corrupts the `malloc(3)' {arena} in such a way as to cause mysterious failures later on, is sometimes said to have `done a fandango on core'. On low-end personal machines without an MMU (or Windows boxes, which have an MMU but use it incompetently), this can corrupt the OS itself, causing massive lossage. Other frenetic dances such as the cha-cha or the watusi, may be substituted. See {aliasing bug}, {precedence lossage}, {smash the stack}, {memory leak}, {memory smash}, {overrun screw}, {core}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
fandango on core a wild pointer that runs out of bounds, causing a {core dump}, or corrupts the {malloc} {arena} in such a way as to cause mysterious failures later on, is sometimes said to have "done a fandango on core". On low-end personal machines without an {MMU}, this can corrupt the {operating system} itself, causing massive lossage. Other frenetic dances such as the rhumba, cha-cha, or watusi, may be substituted. See {aliasing bug}, {precedence lossage}, {smash the stack}, {memory leak}, {memory smash}, {overrun screw}, {core}. [{Jargon File}] (1994-12-16) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Finite Impulse Response in which every {sample} of output is the weighted sum of past and current samples of input, using only some finite number of past samples. (2001-06-06) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
FN tunnelling {Fowler-Nordheim tunnelling} | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Fountain (Heb. 'ain; i.e., "eye" of the water desert), a natural source of living water. Palestine was a "land of brooks of water, of fountains, and depths that spring out of valleys and hills" (Deut. 8:7; 11:11). These fountains, bright sparkling "eyes" of the desert, are remarkable for their abundance and their beauty, especially on the west of Jordan. All the perennial rivers and streams of the country are supplied from fountains, and depend comparatively little on surface water. "Palestine is a country of mountains and hills, and it abounds in fountains of water. The murmur of these waters is heard in every dell, and the luxuriant foliage which surrounds them is seen in every plain." Besides its rain-water, its cisterns and fountains, Jerusalem had also an abundant supply of water in the magnificent reservoir called "Solomon's Pools" (q.v.), at the head of the Urtas valley, whence it was conveyed to the city by subterrean channels some 10 miles in length. These have all been long ago destroyed, so that no water from the "Pools" now reaches Jerusalem. Only one fountain has been discovered at Jerusalem, the so-called "Virgins's Fountains," in the valley of Kidron; and only one well (Heb. beer), the Bir Eyub, also in the valley of Kidron, south of the King's Gardens, which has been dug through the solid rock. The inhabitants of Jerusalem are now mainly dependent on the winter rains, which they store in cisterns. (See {WELL}.) | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Fountain of the Virgin the perennial source from which the Pool of Siloam (q.v.) is supplied, the waters flowing in a copious stream to it through a tunnel cut through the rock, the actual length of which is 1,750 feet. The spring rises in a cave 20 feet by 7. A serpentine tunnel 67 feet long runs from it toward the left, off which the tunnel to the Pool of Siloam branches. It is the only unfailing fountain in Jerusalem. The fountain received its name from the "fantastic legend" that here the virgin washed the swaddling-clothes of our Lord. This spring has the singular characteristic of being intermittent, flowing from three to five times daily in winter, twice daily in summer, and only once daily in autumn. This peculiarity is accounted for by the supposition that the outlet from the reservoir is by a passage in the form of a siphon. |