English Dictionary: furfuran | by the DICT Development Group |
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Fairy \Fair"y\, a. 1. Of or pertaining to fairies. 2. Given by fairies; as, fairy money. --Dryden. {Fairy bird} (Zo[94]l.), the Euoropean little tern ({Sterna minuta}); -- called also {sea swallow}, and {hooded tern}. {Fairy bluebird}. (Zo[94]l.) See under {Bluebird}. {Fairy martin} (Zo[94]l.), a European swallow ({Hirrundo ariel}) that builds flask-shaped nests of mud on overhanging cliffs. {Fairy} {rings [or] circles}, the circles formed in grassy lawns by certain fungi (as {Marasmius Oreades}), formerly supposed to be caused by fairies in their midnight dances. {Fairy shrimp} (Zo[94]l.), a European fresh-water phyllopod crustacean ({Chirocephalus diaphanus}); -- so called from its delicate colors, transparency, and graceful motions. The name is sometimes applied to similar American species. {Fairy stone} (Paleon.), an echinite. | |
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Ferforth \Fer"forth`\, adv. Far forth. [Obs.] {As ferforth as}, as far as. {So ferforth}, to such a degree. | |
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Ferforthly \Fer"forth`ly\, adv. Ferforth. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Ferriferous \Fer*rif"er*ous\, a. [L. ferrum iron + -ferous: cf. F. ferrif[8a]re.] Producing or yielding iron. | |
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Ferriprussiate \Fer`ri*prus"si*ate\ (? [or] ?; see {Prussiate}, 277), n. [Ferri- + prussiate.] (Chem.) A ferricyanate; a ferricyanide. [R.] | |
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Ferriprussic \Fer`ri*prus"sic\ (? [or] ?; see {Prussik}, 277), a. [Ferri- + prussic.] (Chem.) Ferricyanic. [R.] | |
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Ferroprussiate \Fer`ro*prus"si*ate\ ([?] [or] [?] [or] [?]; see {Prussiate}, 277), n. [Ferro- + prussiate.] (Chem.) A ferrocyanate; a ferocyanide. [R.] | |
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Ferroprussic \Fer`ro*prus"sic\ (? [or] ?; see {Prussic}, 277), a. [Ferro- + prussic.] (Chem.) Ferrocyanic. | |
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Ferry \Fer"ry\, n.; pl. {Ferries}. [OE. feri; akin to Icel. ferja, Sw. f[84]rja, Dan. f[91]rge, G. f[84]hre. See {Ferry}, v. t.] 1. A place where persons or things are carried across a river, arm of the sea, etc., in a ferryboat. It can pass the ferry backward into light. --Milton. To row me o'er the ferry. --Campbell. 2. A vessel in which passengers and goods are conveyed over narrow waters; a ferryboat; a wherry. 3. A franchise or right to maintain a vessel for carrying passengers and freight across a river, bay, etc., charging tolls. {Ferry bridge}, a ferryboat adapted in its structure for the transfer of railroad trains across a river or bay. {Ferry railway}. See under {Railway}. | |
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Fervor \Fer"vor\, n. [Written also {fervour}.] [OF. fervor, fervour, F. ferveur, L. fervor, fr. fervere. See {Fervent}.] 1. Heat; excessive warmth. The fevor of ensuing day. --Waller. 2. Intensity of feeling or expression; glowing ardor; passion; holy zeal; earnestness. --Hooker. Winged with fervor of her love. --Shak. Syn: {Fervor}, {Ardor}. Usage: Fervor is a boiling heat, and ardor is a burning heat. Hence, in metaphor, we commonly use fervor and its derivatives when we conceive of thoughts or emotions under the image of ebullition, or as pouring themselves forth. Thus we speak of the fervor of passion, fervid declamation, fervid importunity, fervent supplication, fervent desires, etc. Ardent is used when we think of anything as springing from a deepseated glow of soul; as, ardent friendship, ardent zeal, ardent devotedness; burning with ardor for the fight. | |
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Fervor \Fer"vor\, n. [Written also {fervour}.] [OF. fervor, fervour, F. ferveur, L. fervor, fr. fervere. See {Fervent}.] 1. Heat; excessive warmth. The fevor of ensuing day. --Waller. 2. Intensity of feeling or expression; glowing ardor; passion; holy zeal; earnestness. --Hooker. Winged with fervor of her love. --Shak. Syn: {Fervor}, {Ardor}. Usage: Fervor is a boiling heat, and ardor is a burning heat. Hence, in metaphor, we commonly use fervor and its derivatives when we conceive of thoughts or emotions under the image of ebullition, or as pouring themselves forth. Thus we speak of the fervor of passion, fervid declamation, fervid importunity, fervent supplication, fervent desires, etc. Ardent is used when we think of anything as springing from a deepseated glow of soul; as, ardent friendship, ardent zeal, ardent devotedness; burning with ardor for the fight. | |
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. (b) A balloon sent up at night with fireworks which ignite at a regulated height. --Simmonds. {Fire bar}, a grate bar. {Fire basket}, a portable grate; a cresset. --Knight. {Fire beetle}. (Zo[94]l.) See in the Vocabulary. {Fire blast}, a disease of plants which causes them to appear as if burnt by fire. {Fire box}, the chamber of a furnace, steam boiler, etc., for the fire. {Fire brick}, a refractory brick, capable of sustaining intense heat without fusion, usually made of fire clay or of siliceous material, with some cementing substance, and used for lining fire boxes, etc. {Fire brigade}, an organized body of men for extinguished fires. {Fire bucket}. See under {Bucket}. {Fire bug}, an incendiary; one who, from malice or through mania, persistently sets fire to property; a pyromaniac. [U.S.] {Fire clay}. See under {Clay}. {Fire company}, a company of men managing an engine in extinguishing fires. {Fire cross}. See {Fiery cross}. [Obs.] --Milton. {Fire damp}. See under {Damp}. {Fire dog}. See {Firedog}, in the Vocabulary. {Fire drill}. (a) A series of evolutions performed by fireman for practice. (b) An apparatus for producing fire by friction, by rapidly twirling a wooden pin in a wooden socket; -- used by the Hindoos during all historic time, and by many savage peoples. {Fire eater}. (a) A juggler who pretends to eat fire. (b) A quarrelsome person who seeks affrays; a hotspur. [Colloq.] {Fire engine}, a portable forcing pump, usually on wheels, for throwing water to extinguish fire. {Fire escape}, a contrivance for facilitating escape from burning buildings. {Fire gilding} (Fine Arts), a mode of gilding with an amalgam of gold and quicksilver, the latter metal being driven off afterward by heat. {Fire gilt} (Fine Arts), gold laid on by the process of fire gilding. {Fire insurance}, the act or system of insuring against fire; also, a contract by which an insurance company undertakes, in consideration of the payment of a premium or small percentage -- usually made periodically -- to indemnify an owner of property from loss by fire during a specified period. {Fire irons}, utensils for a fireplace or grate, as tongs, poker, and shovel. {Fire main}, a pipe for water, to be used in putting out fire. {Fire master} (Mil), an artillery officer who formerly supervised the composition of fireworks. {Fire office}, an office at which to effect insurance against fire. {Fire opal}, a variety of opal giving firelike reflections. {Fire ordeal}, an ancient mode of trial, in which the test was the ability of the accused to handle or tread upon red-hot irons. --Abbot. {Fire pan}, a pan for holding or conveying fire, especially the receptacle for the priming of a gun. {Fire plug}, a plug or hydrant for drawing water from the main pipes in a street, building, etc., for extinguishing fires. {Fire policy}, the writing or instrument expressing the contract of insurance against loss by fire. {Fire pot}. (a) (Mil.) A small earthen pot filled with combustibles, formerly used as a missile in war. (b) The cast iron vessel which holds the fuel or fire in a furnace. (c) A crucible. (d) A solderer's furnace. {Fire raft}, a raft laden with combustibles, used for setting fire to an enemy's ships. {Fire roll}, a peculiar beat of the drum to summon men to their quarters in case of fire. {Fire setting} (Mining), the process of softening or cracking the working face of a lode, to facilitate excavation, by exposing it to the action of fire; -- now generally superseded by the use of explosives. --Raymond. {Fire ship}, a vessel filled with combustibles, for setting fire to an enemy's ships. {Fire shovel}, a shovel for taking up coals of fire. {Fire stink}, the stench from decomposing iron pyrites, caused by the formation of sulphureted hydrogen. --Raymond. {Fire surface}, the surfaces of a steam boiler which are exposed to the direct heat of the fuel and the products of combustion; heating surface. {Fire swab}, a swab saturated with water, for cooling a gun in action and clearing away particles of powder, etc. --Farrow. {Fire teaser}, in England, the fireman of a steam emgine. {Fire water}, ardent spirits; -- so called by the American Indians. {Fire worship}, the worship of fire, which prevails chiefly in Persia, among the followers of Zoroaster, called Chebers, or Guebers, and among the Parsees of India. {Greek fire}. See under {Greek}. {On fire}, burning; hence, ardent; passionate; eager; zealous. {Running fire}, the rapid discharge of firearms in succession by a line of troops. {St. Anthony's fire}, erysipelas; -- an eruptive fever which St. Anthony was supposed to cure miraculously. --Hoblyn. {St. Elmo's fire}. See under {Saint Elmo}. {To set on fire}, to inflame; to kindle. {To take fire}, to begin to burn; to fly into a passion. | |
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. (b) A balloon sent up at night with fireworks which ignite at a regulated height. --Simmonds. {Fire bar}, a grate bar. {Fire basket}, a portable grate; a cresset. --Knight. {Fire beetle}. (Zo[94]l.) See in the Vocabulary. {Fire blast}, a disease of plants which causes them to appear as if burnt by fire. {Fire box}, the chamber of a furnace, steam boiler, etc., for the fire. {Fire brick}, a refractory brick, capable of sustaining intense heat without fusion, usually made of fire clay or of siliceous material, with some cementing substance, and used for lining fire boxes, etc. {Fire brigade}, an organized body of men for extinguished fires. {Fire bucket}. See under {Bucket}. {Fire bug}, an incendiary; one who, from malice or through mania, persistently sets fire to property; a pyromaniac. [U.S.] {Fire clay}. See under {Clay}. {Fire company}, a company of men managing an engine in extinguishing fires. {Fire cross}. See {Fiery cross}. [Obs.] --Milton. {Fire damp}. See under {Damp}. {Fire dog}. See {Firedog}, in the Vocabulary. {Fire drill}. (a) A series of evolutions performed by fireman for practice. (b) An apparatus for producing fire by friction, by rapidly twirling a wooden pin in a wooden socket; -- used by the Hindoos during all historic time, and by many savage peoples. {Fire eater}. (a) A juggler who pretends to eat fire. (b) A quarrelsome person who seeks affrays; a hotspur. [Colloq.] {Fire engine}, a portable forcing pump, usually on wheels, for throwing water to extinguish fire. {Fire escape}, a contrivance for facilitating escape from burning buildings. {Fire gilding} (Fine Arts), a mode of gilding with an amalgam of gold and quicksilver, the latter metal being driven off afterward by heat. {Fire gilt} (Fine Arts), gold laid on by the process of fire gilding. {Fire insurance}, the act or system of insuring against fire; also, a contract by which an insurance company undertakes, in consideration of the payment of a premium or small percentage -- usually made periodically -- to indemnify an owner of property from loss by fire during a specified period. {Fire irons}, utensils for a fireplace or grate, as tongs, poker, and shovel. {Fire main}, a pipe for water, to be used in putting out fire. {Fire master} (Mil), an artillery officer who formerly supervised the composition of fireworks. {Fire office}, an office at which to effect insurance against fire. {Fire opal}, a variety of opal giving firelike reflections. {Fire ordeal}, an ancient mode of trial, in which the test was the ability of the accused to handle or tread upon red-hot irons. --Abbot. {Fire pan}, a pan for holding or conveying fire, especially the receptacle for the priming of a gun. {Fire plug}, a plug or hydrant for drawing water from the main pipes in a street, building, etc., for extinguishing fires. {Fire policy}, the writing or instrument expressing the contract of insurance against loss by fire. {Fire pot}. (a) (Mil.) A small earthen pot filled with combustibles, formerly used as a missile in war. (b) The cast iron vessel which holds the fuel or fire in a furnace. (c) A crucible. (d) A solderer's furnace. {Fire raft}, a raft laden with combustibles, used for setting fire to an enemy's ships. {Fire roll}, a peculiar beat of the drum to summon men to their quarters in case of fire. {Fire setting} (Mining), the process of softening or cracking the working face of a lode, to facilitate excavation, by exposing it to the action of fire; -- now generally superseded by the use of explosives. --Raymond. {Fire ship}, a vessel filled with combustibles, for setting fire to an enemy's ships. {Fire shovel}, a shovel for taking up coals of fire. {Fire stink}, the stench from decomposing iron pyrites, caused by the formation of sulphureted hydrogen. --Raymond. {Fire surface}, the surfaces of a steam boiler which are exposed to the direct heat of the fuel and the products of combustion; heating surface. {Fire swab}, a swab saturated with water, for cooling a gun in action and clearing away particles of powder, etc. --Farrow. {Fire teaser}, in England, the fireman of a steam emgine. {Fire water}, ardent spirits; -- so called by the American Indians. {Fire worship}, the worship of fire, which prevails chiefly in Persia, among the followers of Zoroaster, called Chebers, or Guebers, and among the Parsees of India. {Greek fire}. See under {Greek}. {On fire}, burning; hence, ardent; passionate; eager; zealous. {Running fire}, the rapid discharge of firearms in succession by a line of troops. {St. Anthony's fire}, erysipelas; -- an eruptive fever which St. Anthony was supposed to cure miraculously. --Hoblyn. {St. Elmo's fire}. See under {Saint Elmo}. {To set on fire}, to inflame; to kindle. {To take fire}, to begin to burn; to fly into a passion. | |
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. (b) A balloon sent up at night with fireworks which ignite at a regulated height. --Simmonds. {Fire bar}, a grate bar. {Fire basket}, a portable grate; a cresset. --Knight. {Fire beetle}. (Zo[94]l.) See in the Vocabulary. {Fire blast}, a disease of plants which causes them to appear as if burnt by fire. {Fire box}, the chamber of a furnace, steam boiler, etc., for the fire. {Fire brick}, a refractory brick, capable of sustaining intense heat without fusion, usually made of fire clay or of siliceous material, with some cementing substance, and used for lining fire boxes, etc. {Fire brigade}, an organized body of men for extinguished fires. {Fire bucket}. See under {Bucket}. {Fire bug}, an incendiary; one who, from malice or through mania, persistently sets fire to property; a pyromaniac. [U.S.] {Fire clay}. See under {Clay}. {Fire company}, a company of men managing an engine in extinguishing fires. {Fire cross}. See {Fiery cross}. [Obs.] --Milton. {Fire damp}. See under {Damp}. {Fire dog}. See {Firedog}, in the Vocabulary. {Fire drill}. (a) A series of evolutions performed by fireman for practice. (b) An apparatus for producing fire by friction, by rapidly twirling a wooden pin in a wooden socket; -- used by the Hindoos during all historic time, and by many savage peoples. {Fire eater}. (a) A juggler who pretends to eat fire. (b) A quarrelsome person who seeks affrays; a hotspur. [Colloq.] {Fire engine}, a portable forcing pump, usually on wheels, for throwing water to extinguish fire. {Fire escape}, a contrivance for facilitating escape from burning buildings. {Fire gilding} (Fine Arts), a mode of gilding with an amalgam of gold and quicksilver, the latter metal being driven off afterward by heat. {Fire gilt} (Fine Arts), gold laid on by the process of fire gilding. {Fire insurance}, the act or system of insuring against fire; also, a contract by which an insurance company undertakes, in consideration of the payment of a premium or small percentage -- usually made periodically -- to indemnify an owner of property from loss by fire during a specified period. {Fire irons}, utensils for a fireplace or grate, as tongs, poker, and shovel. {Fire main}, a pipe for water, to be used in putting out fire. {Fire master} (Mil), an artillery officer who formerly supervised the composition of fireworks. {Fire office}, an office at which to effect insurance against fire. {Fire opal}, a variety of opal giving firelike reflections. {Fire ordeal}, an ancient mode of trial, in which the test was the ability of the accused to handle or tread upon red-hot irons. --Abbot. {Fire pan}, a pan for holding or conveying fire, especially the receptacle for the priming of a gun. {Fire plug}, a plug or hydrant for drawing water from the main pipes in a street, building, etc., for extinguishing fires. {Fire policy}, the writing or instrument expressing the contract of insurance against loss by fire. {Fire pot}. (a) (Mil.) A small earthen pot filled with combustibles, formerly used as a missile in war. (b) The cast iron vessel which holds the fuel or fire in a furnace. (c) A crucible. (d) A solderer's furnace. {Fire raft}, a raft laden with combustibles, used for setting fire to an enemy's ships. {Fire roll}, a peculiar beat of the drum to summon men to their quarters in case of fire. {Fire setting} (Mining), the process of softening or cracking the working face of a lode, to facilitate excavation, by exposing it to the action of fire; -- now generally superseded by the use of explosives. --Raymond. {Fire ship}, a vessel filled with combustibles, for setting fire to an enemy's ships. {Fire shovel}, a shovel for taking up coals of fire. {Fire stink}, the stench from decomposing iron pyrites, caused by the formation of sulphureted hydrogen. --Raymond. {Fire surface}, the surfaces of a steam boiler which are exposed to the direct heat of the fuel and the products of combustion; heating surface. {Fire swab}, a swab saturated with water, for cooling a gun in action and clearing away particles of powder, etc. --Farrow. {Fire teaser}, in England, the fireman of a steam emgine. {Fire water}, ardent spirits; -- so called by the American Indians. {Fire worship}, the worship of fire, which prevails chiefly in Persia, among the followers of Zoroaster, called Chebers, or Guebers, and among the Parsees of India. {Greek fire}. See under {Greek}. {On fire}, burning; hence, ardent; passionate; eager; zealous. {Running fire}, the rapid discharge of firearms in succession by a line of troops. {St. Anthony's fire}, erysipelas; -- an eruptive fever which St. Anthony was supposed to cure miraculously. --Hoblyn. {St. Elmo's fire}. See under {Saint Elmo}. {To set on fire}, to inflame; to kindle. {To take fire}, to begin to burn; to fly into a passion. | |
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Firebare \Fire"bare`\, n. A beacon. [Obs.] --Burrill. | |
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Firebird \Fire"bird`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) The Baltimore oriole. | |
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Fireboard \Fire"board`\, n. A chimney board or screen to close a fireplace when not in use. | |
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Firebrand \Fire"brand`\, n. 1. A piece of burning wood. --L'Estrange. 2. One who inflames factions, or causes contention and mischief; an incendiary. --Bacon. | |
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Fireproof \Fire"proof`\, a. Proof against fire; incombustible. | |
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Fireprrofing \Fire"prrof`ing\, n. The act or process of rendering anything incombustible; also, the materials used in the process. | |
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Ever \Ev"er\adv. [OE. ever, [91]fre, AS. [91]fre; perh. akin to AS. [be] always. Cf. {Aye}, {Age},{Evry}, {Never}.] [Sometimes contracted into {e'er}.] 1. At any time; at any period or point of time. No man ever yet hated his own flesh. --Eph. v. 29. 2. At all times; through all time; always; forever. He shall ever love, and always be The subject of by scorn and cruelty. --Dryder. 3. Without cessation; continually. Note: Ever is sometimes used as an intensive or a word of enforcement. [bd]His the old man e'er a son?[b8] --Shak. To produce as much as ever they can. --M. Arnold. {Ever and anon}, now and then; often. See under {Anon}. {Ever is one}, continually; constantly. [Obs.] --Chaucer. {Ever so}, in whatever degree; to whatever extent; -- used to intensify indefinitely the meaning of the associated adjective or adverb. See {Never so}, under {Never}. [bd]Let him be ever so rich.[b8] --Emerson. And all the question (wrangle e'er so long), Is only this, if God has placed him wrong. --Pope. You spend ever so much money in entertaining your equals and betters. --Thackeray. {For ever}, eternally. See {Forever}. {For ever and a day}, emphatically forever. --Shak. She [Fortune] soon wheeled away, with scornful laughter, out of sight for ever and day. --Prof. Wilson. {Or ever} (for or ere), before. See {Or}, {ere}. [Archaic] Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven Or ever I had seen that day, Horatio! --Shak. Note: Ever is sometimes joined to its adjective by a hyphen, but in most cases the hyphen is needless; as, ever memorable, ever watchful, ever burning. | |
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For \For\, prep. [AS. for, fore; akin to OS. for, fora, furi, D. voor, OHG. fora, G. vor, OHG. furi, G. f[81]r, Icel. fyrir, Sw. f[94]r, Dan. for, adv. f[94]r, Goth. fa[a3]r, fa[a3]ra, L. pro, Gr. [?], Skr. pra-. [root] 202. Cf. {Fore}, {First}, {Foremost}, {Forth}, {Pro}-.] In the most general sense, indicating that in consideration of, in view of, or with reference to, which anything is done or takes place. 1. Indicating the antecedent cause or occasion of an action; the motive or inducement accompanying and prompting to an act or state; the reason of anything; that on account of which a thing is or is done. With fiery eyes sparkling for very wrath. --Shak. How to choose dogs for scent or speed. --Waller. Now, for so many glorious actions done, For peace at home, and for the public wealth, I mean to crown a bowl for C[91]sar's health. --Dryden. That which we, for our unworthiness, are afraid to crave, our prayer is, that God, for the worthiness of his Son, would, notwithstanding, vouchsafe to grant. --Hooker. 2. Indicating the remoter and indirect object of an act; the end or final cause with reference to which anything is, acts, serves, or is done. The oak for nothing ill, The osier good for twigs, the poplar for the mill. --Spenser. It was young counsel for the persons, and violent counsel for the matters. --Bacon. Shall I think the worls was made for one, And men are born for kings, as beasts for men, Not for protection, but to be devoured? --Dryden. For he writes not for money, nor for praise. --Denham. 3. Indicating that in favor of which, or in promoting which, anything is, or is done; hence, in behalf of; in favor of; on the side of; -- opposed to against. We can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth. --2 Cor. xiii. 8. It is for the general good of human society, and consequently of particular persons, to be true and just; and it is for men's health to be temperate. --Tillotson. Aristotle is for poetical justice. --Dennis. 4. Indicating that toward which the action of anything is directed, or the point toward which motion is made; [?]ntending to go to. We sailed from Peru for China and Japan. --Bacon. 5. Indicating that on place of or instead of which anything acts or serves, or that to which a substitute, an equivalent, a compensation, or the like, is offered or made; instead of, or place of. And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. --Ex. xxi. 23, 24. 6. Indicating that in the character of or as being which anything is regarded or treated; to be, or as being. We take a falling meteor for a star. --Cowley. If a man can be fully assured of anything for a truth, without having examined, what is there that he may not embrace for tru[?]? --Locke. Most of our ingenious young men take up some cried-up English poet for their model. --Dryden. But let her go for an ungrateful woman. --Philips. 7. Indicating that instead of which something else controls in the performing of an action, or that in spite of which anything is done, occurs, or is; hence, equivalent to notwithstanding, in spite of; -- generally followed by all, aught, anything, etc. The writer will do what she please for all me. --Spectator. God's desertion shall, for aught he knows, the next minute supervene. --Dr. H. More. For anything that legally appears to the contrary, it may be a contrivance to fright us. --Swift. 8. Indicating the space or time through which an action or state extends; hence, during; in or through the space or time of. For many miles about There 's scarce a bush. --Shak. Since, hired for life, thy servile muse sing. --prior. To guide the sun's bright chariot for a day. --Garth. 9. Indicating that in prevention of which, or through fear of which, anything is done. [Obs.] We 'll have a bib, for spoiling of thy doublet. --Beau. & Fl. {For}, [or] {As for}, so far as concerns; as regards; with reference to; -- used parenthetically or independently. See under {As}. As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. --Josh. xxiv. 15. For me, my stormy voyage at an end, I to the port of death securely tend. --Dryden. {For all that}, notwithstanding; in spite of. {For all the world}, wholly; exactly. [bd]Whose posy was, for all the world, like cutlers' poetry.[b8] --Shak. {For as much as}, [or] {Forasmuch as}, in consideration that; seeing that; since. {For by}. See {Forby}, adv. {For ever}, eternally; at all times. See {Forever}. {For me}, [or] {For all me}, as far as regards me. {For my life}, [or] {For the life of me}, if my life depended on it. [Colloq.] --T. Hook. {For that}, {For the reason that}, because; since. [Obs.] [bd]For that I love your daughter.[b8] --Shak. {For thy}, [or] {Forthy} [AS. for[?][?].], for this; on this account. [Obs.] [bd]Thomalin, have no care for thy.[b8] --Spenser. {For to}, as sign of infinitive, in order to; to the end of. [Obs., except as sometimes heard in illiterate speech.] -- [bd]What went ye out for to see?[b8] --Luke vii. 25. See {To}, prep., 4. {O for}, would that I had; may there be granted; -- elliptically expressing desire or prayer. [bd]O for a muse of fire.[b8] --Shak. {Were it not for}, [or] {If it were not for}, leaving out of account; but for the presence or action of. [bd]Moral consideration can no way move the sensible appetite, were it not for the will.[b8] --Sir M. Hale. | |
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Ever \Ev"er\adv. [OE. ever, [91]fre, AS. [91]fre; perh. akin to AS. [be] always. Cf. {Aye}, {Age},{Evry}, {Never}.] [Sometimes contracted into {e'er}.] 1. At any time; at any period or point of time. No man ever yet hated his own flesh. --Eph. v. 29. 2. At all times; through all time; always; forever. He shall ever love, and always be The subject of by scorn and cruelty. --Dryder. 3. Without cessation; continually. Note: Ever is sometimes used as an intensive or a word of enforcement. [bd]His the old man e'er a son?[b8] --Shak. To produce as much as ever they can. --M. Arnold. {Ever and anon}, now and then; often. See under {Anon}. {Ever is one}, continually; constantly. [Obs.] --Chaucer. {Ever so}, in whatever degree; to whatever extent; -- used to intensify indefinitely the meaning of the associated adjective or adverb. See {Never so}, under {Never}. [bd]Let him be ever so rich.[b8] --Emerson. And all the question (wrangle e'er so long), Is only this, if God has placed him wrong. --Pope. You spend ever so much money in entertaining your equals and betters. --Thackeray. {For ever}, eternally. See {Forever}. {For ever and a day}, emphatically forever. --Shak. She [Fortune] soon wheeled away, with scornful laughter, out of sight for ever and day. --Prof. Wilson. {Or ever} (for or ere), before. See {Or}, {ere}. [Archaic] Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven Or ever I had seen that day, Horatio! --Shak. Note: Ever is sometimes joined to its adjective by a hyphen, but in most cases the hyphen is needless; as, ever memorable, ever watchful, ever burning. | |
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Fear \Fear\, n. [OE. fer, feer, fere, AS. f[?]r a coming suddenly upon, fear, danger; akin to D. vaar, OHG. f[be]ra danger, G. gefahr, Icel. f[be]r harm, mischief, plague, and to E. fare, peril. See {Fare}.] 1. A painful emotion or passion excited by the expectation of evil, or the apprehension of impending danger; apprehension; anxiety; solicitude; alarm; dread. Note: The degrees of this passion, beginning with the most moderate, may be thus expressed, -- apprehension, fear, dread, fright, terror. Fear is an uneasiness of the mind, upon the thought of future evil likely to befall us. --Locke. Where no hope is left, is left no fear. --Milton. 2. (Script.) (a) Apprehension of incurring, or solicitude to avoid, God's wrath; the trembling and awful reverence felt toward the Supreme Belng. (b) Respectful reverence for men of authority or worth. I will put my fear in their hearts. --Jer. xxxii. 40. I will teach you the fear of the Lord. --Ps. xxxiv. 11. render therefore to all their dues; tribute to whom tribute is due . . . fear to whom fear. --Rom. xiii. 7. 3. That which causes, or which is the object of, apprehension or alarm; source or occasion of terror; danger; dreadfulness. There were they in great fear, where no fear was. --Ps. liii. 5. The fear of your adventure would counsel you to a more equal enterprise. --Shak. {For fear}, in apprehension lest. [bd]For fear you ne'er see chain nor money more.[b8] --Shak. | |
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Forbear \For*bear"\, v. i. [imp. {Forbore}({Forbare}, [Obs.]); p. p. {Forborne}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Forbearing}.] [OE. forberen, AS. forberan; pref. for- + beran to bear. See {Bear} to support.] 1. To refrain from proceeding; to pause; to delay. Shall I go against Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? --1 Kinds xxii. 6. 2. To refuse; to decline; to give no heed. Thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear. --Ezek. ii. 7. 3. To control one's self when provoked. The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear. --Cowper. Both bear and forbear. --Old Proverb. | |
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Forbear \For*bear"\, n. [See {Fore}, and {Bear} to produce.] An ancestor; a forefather; -- usually in the plural. [Scot.] [bd]Your forbears of old.[b8] --Sir W. Scott. | |
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Forbear \For*bear"\, v. i. [imp. {Forbore}({Forbare}, [Obs.]); p. p. {Forborne}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Forbearing}.] [OE. forberen, AS. forberan; pref. for- + beran to bear. See {Bear} to support.] 1. To refrain from proceeding; to pause; to delay. Shall I go against Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? --1 Kinds xxii. 6. 2. To refuse; to decline; to give no heed. Thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear. --Ezek. ii. 7. 3. To control one's self when provoked. The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear. --Cowper. Both bear and forbear. --Old Proverb. | |
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Forbear \For*bear"\, v. t. 1. To keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from; to give up; as, to forbear the use of a word of doubdtful propriety. But let me that plunder forbear. --Shenstone. The King In open battle or the tilting field Forbore his own advantage. --Tennyson. 2. To treat with consideration or indulgence. Forbearing one another in love. --Eph. iv. 2. 3. To cease from bearing. [Obs.] Whenas my womb her burden would forbear. --Spenser. | |
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Forbearance \For*bear"ance\, n. The act of forbearing or waiting; the exercise of patience. He soon shall findForbearance no acquittance ere day end. --Milton. 2. The quality of being forbearing; indulgence toward offenders or enemies; long-suffering. Have a continent forbearance, till the speed of his rage goe[?] slower. --Shak. Syn: Abstinence; refraining; lenity; mildness. | |
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Forbearant \For*bear"ant\, a. Forbearing. [R.] --Carlyle. | |
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Forbearer \For*bear"er\, n. One who forbears. --Tusser. | |
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Forbear \For*bear"\, v. i. [imp. {Forbore}({Forbare}, [Obs.]); p. p. {Forborne}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Forbearing}.] [OE. forberen, AS. forberan; pref. for- + beran to bear. See {Bear} to support.] 1. To refrain from proceeding; to pause; to delay. Shall I go against Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? --1 Kinds xxii. 6. 2. To refuse; to decline; to give no heed. Thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear. --Ezek. ii. 7. 3. To control one's self when provoked. The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear. --Cowper. Both bear and forbear. --Old Proverb. | |
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Forbearing \For*bear"ing\, a. Disposed or accustomed to forbear; patient; long-suffering. -- {For*bear"ing*ly}, adv. | |
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Forbearing \For*bear"ing\, a. Disposed or accustomed to forbear; patient; long-suffering. -- {For*bear"ing*ly}, adv. | |
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Forbear \For*bear"\, v. i. [imp. {Forbore}({Forbare}, [Obs.]); p. p. {Forborne}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Forbearing}.] [OE. forberen, AS. forberan; pref. for- + beran to bear. See {Bear} to support.] 1. To refrain from proceeding; to pause; to delay. Shall I go against Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? --1 Kinds xxii. 6. 2. To refuse; to decline; to give no heed. Thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear. --Ezek. ii. 7. 3. To control one's self when provoked. The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear. --Cowper. Both bear and forbear. --Old Proverb. | |
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Forbore \For*bore"\, imp. of {Forbear}. | |
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Forbear \For*bear"\, v. i. [imp. {Forbore}({Forbare}, [Obs.]); p. p. {Forborne}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Forbearing}.] [OE. forberen, AS. forberan; pref. for- + beran to bear. See {Bear} to support.] 1. To refrain from proceeding; to pause; to delay. Shall I go against Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? --1 Kinds xxii. 6. 2. To refuse; to decline; to give no heed. Thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear. --Ezek. ii. 7. 3. To control one's self when provoked. The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear. --Cowper. Both bear and forbear. --Old Proverb. | |
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Forborne \For*borne"\, p. p. of {Forbear}. | |
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Forbruise \For*bruise"\, v. t. To bruise sorely or exceedingly. [Obs.] All forbrosed, both back and side. --Chaucer. | |
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Fore part \Fore" part`\, [or] Forepart \Fore"part`\, n. The part most advanced, or first in time or in place; the beginning. | |
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Forebear \Fore*bear"\, n. An ancestor. See {Forbear}. | |
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Forebrace \Fore"brace`\, n. (Naut.) A rope applied to the fore yardarm, to change the position of the foresail. | |
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Forebrain \Fore"brain`\, n. (Anat.) The anterior of the three principal divisions of the brain, including the prosencephalon and thalamencephalon. Sometimes restricted to the prosencephalon only. See {Brain}. | |
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Foreefront \Foree"front`\, n. Foremost part or place. Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle. --2 Sam. xi. 15. Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, standing in the forefront for all time, the masters of those who know. --J. C. Shairp. | |
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Fore part \Fore" part`\, [or] Forepart \Fore"part`\, n. The part most advanced, or first in time or in place; the beginning. | |
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Foreprize \Fore*prize"\, v. t. To prize or rate beforehand. [Obs.] --Hooker. | |
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Forepromised \Fore`prom"ised\, a. Promised beforehand; pre[89]ngaged. --Bp. Hall. | |
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Forever \For*ev"er\, adv. [For, prep. + ever.] 1. Through eternity; through endless ages, eternally. 2. At all times; always. Note: In England, for and ever are usually written and printed as two separate words; but, in the United States, the general practice is to make but a single word of them. {Forever and ever}, an emphatic [bd]forever.[b8] Syn: Constantly; continually; invariably; unchangeably; incessantly; always; perpetually; unceasingly; ceaselessly; interminably; everlastingly; endlessly; eternally. | |
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Forever \For*ev"er\, adv. [For, prep. + ever.] 1. Through eternity; through endless ages, eternally. 2. At all times; always. Note: In England, for and ever are usually written and printed as two separate words; but, in the United States, the general practice is to make but a single word of them. {Forever and ever}, an emphatic [bd]forever.[b8] Syn: Constantly; continually; invariably; unchangeably; incessantly; always; perpetually; unceasingly; ceaselessly; interminably; everlastingly; endlessly; eternally. | |
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Forfered \For*fer"ed\, p. p. & a. [See {For-}, and {Fear}.] Excessively alarmed; in great fear. [Obs.] [bd]Forfered of his death.[b8] --Chaucer. | |
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Free \Free\ (fr[emac]), a. [Compar. {Freer} (-[etil]r); superl. {Freest} (-[ecr]st).] [OE. fre, freo, AS. fre[a2], fr[c6]; akin to D. vrij, OS. & OHG. fr[c6], G. frei, Icel. fr[c6], Sw. & Dan. fri, Goth. freis, and also to Skr. prija beloved, dear, fr. pr[c6] to love, Goth. frij[omac]n. Cf. {Affray}, {Belfry}, {Friday}, {Friend}, {Frith} inclosure.] 1. Exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow one's own impulses, desires, or inclinations; determining one's own course of action; not dependent; at liberty. That which has the power, or not the power, to operate, is that alone which is or is not free. --Locke. 2. Not under an arbitrary or despotic government; subject only to fixed laws regularly and fairly administered, and defended by them from encroachments upon natural or acquired rights; enjoying political liberty. 3. Liberated, by arriving at a certain age, from the control of parents, guardian, or master. 4. Not confined or imprisoned; released from arrest; liberated; at liberty to go. Set an unhappy prisoner free. --Prior. 5. Not subjected to the laws of physical necessity; capable of voluntary activity; endowed with moral liberty; -- said of the will. Not free, what proof could they have given sincere Of true allegiance, constant faith, or love. --Milton. 6. Clear of offense or crime; guiltless; innocent. My hands are guilty, but my heart is free. --Dryden. 7. Unconstrained by timidity or distrust; unreserved; ingenuous; frank; familiar; communicative. He was free only with a few. --Milward. 8. Unrestrained; immoderate; lavish; licentious; -- used in a bad sense. The critics have been very free in their censures. --Felton. A man may live a free life as to wine or women. --Shelley. 9. Not close or parsimonious; liberal; open-handed; lavish; as, free with his money. 10. Exempt; clear; released; liberated; not encumbered or troubled with; as, free from pain; free from a burden; -- followed by from, or, rarely, by of. Princes declaring themselves free from the obligations of their treaties. --Bp. Burnet. 11. Characteristic of one acting without restraint; charming; easy. 12. Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited; as, a free horse. 13. Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special rights; -- followed by of. He therefore makes all birds, of every sect, Free of his farm. --Dryden. 14. Thrown open, or made accessible, to all; to be enjoyed without limitations; unrestricted; not obstructed, engrossed, or appropriated; open; -- said of a thing to be possessed or enjoyed; as, a free school. Why, sir, I pray, are not the streets as free For me as for you? --Shak. 15. Not gained by importunity or purchase; gratuitous; spontaneous; as, free admission; a free gift. 16. Not arbitrary or despotic; assuring liberty; defending individual rights against encroachment by any person or class; instituted by a free people; -- said of a government, institutions, etc. 17. (O. Eng. Law) Certain or honorable; the opposite of base; as, free service; free socage. --Burrill. 18. (Law) Privileged or individual; the opposite of common; as, a free fishery; a free warren. --Burrill. 19. Not united or combined with anything else; separated; dissevered; unattached; at liberty to escape; as, free carbonic acid gas; free cells. {Free agency}, the capacity or power of choosing or acting freely, or without necessity or constraint upon the will. {Free bench} (Eng. Law), a widow's right in the copyhold lands of her husband, corresponding to dower in freeholds. {Free board} (Naut.), a vessel's side between water line and gunwale. {Free bond} (Chem.), an unsaturated or unemployed unit, or bond, of affinity or valence, of an atom or radical. {Free-borough men} (O.Eng. Law). See {Friborg}. {Free chapel} (Eccles.), a chapel not subject to the jurisdiction of the ordinary, having been founded by the king or by a subject specially authorized. [Eng.] --Bouvier. {Free charge} (Elec.), a charge of electricity in the free or statical condition; free electricity. {Free church}. (a) A church whose sittings are for all and without charge. (b) An ecclesiastical body that left the Church of Scotland, in 1843, to be free from control by the government in spiritual matters. {Free city}, [or] {Free town}, a city or town independent in its government and franchises, as formerly those of the Hanseatic league. {Free cost}, freedom from charges or expenses. --South. {Free and easy}, unconventional; unrestrained; regardless of formalities. [Colloq.] [bd]Sal and her free and easy ways.[b8] --W. Black. {Free goods}, goods admitted into a country free of duty. {Free labor}, the labor of freemen, as distinguished from that of slaves. {Free port}. (Com.) (a) A port where goods may be received and shipped free of custom duty. (b) A port where goods of all kinds are received from ships of all nations at equal rates of duty. {Free public house}, in England, a tavern not belonging to a brewer, so that the landlord is free to brew his own beer or purchase where he chooses. --Simmonds. {Free school}. (a) A school to which pupils are admitted without discrimination and on an equal footing. (b) A school supported by general taxation, by endowmants, etc., where pupils pay nothing for tuition; a public school. {Free services} (O.Eng. Law), such feudal services as were not unbecoming the character of a soldier or a freemen to perform; as, to serve under his lord in war, to pay a sum of money, etc. --Burrill. {Free ships}, ships of neutral nations, which in time of war are free from capture even though carrying enemy's goods. {Free socage} (O.Eng. Law), a feudal tenure held by certain services which, though honorable, were not military. --Abbott. {Free States}, those of the United States before the Civil War, in which slavery had ceased to exist, or had never existed. {Free stuff} (Carp.), timber free from knots; clear stuff. {Free thought}, that which is thought independently of the authority of others. {Free trade}, commerce unrestricted by duties or tariff regulations. {Free trader}, one who believes in free trade. {To make free with}, to take liberties with; to help one's self to. [Colloq.] {To sail free} (Naut.), to sail with the yards not braced in as sharp as when sailing closehauled, or close to the wind. | |
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Peering in maps for ports and piers and roads. --Shak. We are in port if we have Thee. --Keble. 2. In law and commercial usage, a harbor where vessels are admitted to discharge and receive cargoes, from whence they depart and where they finish their voyages. {Free port}. See under {Free}. {Port bar}. (Naut,) (a) A boom. See {Boom}, 4, also {Bar}, 3. (b) A bar, as of sand, at the mouth of, or in, a port. {Port charges} (Com.), charges, as wharfage, etc., to which a ship or its cargo is subjected in a harbor. {Port of entry}, a harbor where a customhouse is established for the legal entry of merchandise. {Port toll} (Law), a payment made for the privilege of bringing goods into port. {Port warden}, the officer in charge of a port; a harbor master. | |
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Free \Free\ (fr[emac]), a. [Compar. {Freer} (-[etil]r); superl. {Freest} (-[ecr]st).] [OE. fre, freo, AS. fre[a2], fr[c6]; akin to D. vrij, OS. & OHG. fr[c6], G. frei, Icel. fr[c6], Sw. & Dan. fri, Goth. freis, and also to Skr. prija beloved, dear, fr. pr[c6] to love, Goth. frij[omac]n. Cf. {Affray}, {Belfry}, {Friday}, {Friend}, {Frith} inclosure.] 1. Exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow one's own impulses, desires, or inclinations; determining one's own course of action; not dependent; at liberty. That which has the power, or not the power, to operate, is that alone which is or is not free. --Locke. 2. Not under an arbitrary or despotic government; subject only to fixed laws regularly and fairly administered, and defended by them from encroachments upon natural or acquired rights; enjoying political liberty. 3. Liberated, by arriving at a certain age, from the control of parents, guardian, or master. 4. Not confined or imprisoned; released from arrest; liberated; at liberty to go. Set an unhappy prisoner free. --Prior. 5. Not subjected to the laws of physical necessity; capable of voluntary activity; endowed with moral liberty; -- said of the will. Not free, what proof could they have given sincere Of true allegiance, constant faith, or love. --Milton. 6. Clear of offense or crime; guiltless; innocent. My hands are guilty, but my heart is free. --Dryden. 7. Unconstrained by timidity or distrust; unreserved; ingenuous; frank; familiar; communicative. He was free only with a few. --Milward. 8. Unrestrained; immoderate; lavish; licentious; -- used in a bad sense. The critics have been very free in their censures. --Felton. A man may live a free life as to wine or women. --Shelley. 9. Not close or parsimonious; liberal; open-handed; lavish; as, free with his money. 10. Exempt; clear; released; liberated; not encumbered or troubled with; as, free from pain; free from a burden; -- followed by from, or, rarely, by of. Princes declaring themselves free from the obligations of their treaties. --Bp. Burnet. 11. Characteristic of one acting without restraint; charming; easy. 12. Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited; as, a free horse. 13. Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special rights; -- followed by of. He therefore makes all birds, of every sect, Free of his farm. --Dryden. 14. Thrown open, or made accessible, to all; to be enjoyed without limitations; unrestricted; not obstructed, engrossed, or appropriated; open; -- said of a thing to be possessed or enjoyed; as, a free school. Why, sir, I pray, are not the streets as free For me as for you? --Shak. 15. Not gained by importunity or purchase; gratuitous; spontaneous; as, free admission; a free gift. 16. Not arbitrary or despotic; assuring liberty; defending individual rights against encroachment by any person or class; instituted by a free people; -- said of a government, institutions, etc. 17. (O. Eng. Law) Certain or honorable; the opposite of base; as, free service; free socage. --Burrill. 18. (Law) Privileged or individual; the opposite of common; as, a free fishery; a free warren. --Burrill. 19. Not united or combined with anything else; separated; dissevered; unattached; at liberty to escape; as, free carbonic acid gas; free cells. {Free agency}, the capacity or power of choosing or acting freely, or without necessity or constraint upon the will. {Free bench} (Eng. Law), a widow's right in the copyhold lands of her husband, corresponding to dower in freeholds. {Free board} (Naut.), a vessel's side between water line and gunwale. {Free bond} (Chem.), an unsaturated or unemployed unit, or bond, of affinity or valence, of an atom or radical. {Free-borough men} (O.Eng. Law). See {Friborg}. {Free chapel} (Eccles.), a chapel not subject to the jurisdiction of the ordinary, having been founded by the king or by a subject specially authorized. [Eng.] --Bouvier. {Free charge} (Elec.), a charge of electricity in the free or statical condition; free electricity. {Free church}. (a) A church whose sittings are for all and without charge. (b) An ecclesiastical body that left the Church of Scotland, in 1843, to be free from control by the government in spiritual matters. {Free city}, [or] {Free town}, a city or town independent in its government and franchises, as formerly those of the Hanseatic league. {Free cost}, freedom from charges or expenses. --South. {Free and easy}, unconventional; unrestrained; regardless of formalities. [Colloq.] [bd]Sal and her free and easy ways.[b8] --W. Black. {Free goods}, goods admitted into a country free of duty. {Free labor}, the labor of freemen, as distinguished from that of slaves. {Free port}. (Com.) (a) A port where goods may be received and shipped free of custom duty. (b) A port where goods of all kinds are received from ships of all nations at equal rates of duty. {Free public house}, in England, a tavern not belonging to a brewer, so that the landlord is free to brew his own beer or purchase where he chooses. --Simmonds. {Free school}. (a) A school to which pupils are admitted without discrimination and on an equal footing. (b) A school supported by general taxation, by endowmants, etc., where pupils pay nothing for tuition; a public school. {Free services} (O.Eng. Law), such feudal services as were not unbecoming the character of a soldier or a freemen to perform; as, to serve under his lord in war, to pay a sum of money, etc. --Burrill. {Free ships}, ships of neutral nations, which in time of war are free from capture even though carrying enemy's goods. {Free socage} (O.Eng. Law), a feudal tenure held by certain services which, though honorable, were not military. --Abbott. {Free States}, those of the United States before the Civil War, in which slavery had ceased to exist, or had never existed. {Free stuff} (Carp.), timber free from knots; clear stuff. {Free thought}, that which is thought independently of the authority of others. {Free trade}, commerce unrestricted by duties or tariff regulations. {Free trader}, one who believes in free trade. {To make free with}, to take liberties with; to help one's self to. [Colloq.] {To sail free} (Naut.), to sail with the yards not braced in as sharp as when sailing closehauled, or close to the wind. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Freeborn \Free"born`\, a. Born free; not born in vassalage; inheriting freedom. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Free \Free\ (fr[emac]), a. [Compar. {Freer} (-[etil]r); superl. {Freest} (-[ecr]st).] [OE. fre, freo, AS. fre[a2], fr[c6]; akin to D. vrij, OS. & OHG. fr[c6], G. frei, Icel. fr[c6], Sw. & Dan. fri, Goth. freis, and also to Skr. prija beloved, dear, fr. pr[c6] to love, Goth. frij[omac]n. Cf. {Affray}, {Belfry}, {Friday}, {Friend}, {Frith} inclosure.] 1. Exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow one's own impulses, desires, or inclinations; determining one's own course of action; not dependent; at liberty. That which has the power, or not the power, to operate, is that alone which is or is not free. --Locke. 2. Not under an arbitrary or despotic government; subject only to fixed laws regularly and fairly administered, and defended by them from encroachments upon natural or acquired rights; enjoying political liberty. 3. Liberated, by arriving at a certain age, from the control of parents, guardian, or master. 4. Not confined or imprisoned; released from arrest; liberated; at liberty to go. Set an unhappy prisoner free. --Prior. 5. Not subjected to the laws of physical necessity; capable of voluntary activity; endowed with moral liberty; -- said of the will. Not free, what proof could they have given sincere Of true allegiance, constant faith, or love. --Milton. 6. Clear of offense or crime; guiltless; innocent. My hands are guilty, but my heart is free. --Dryden. 7. Unconstrained by timidity or distrust; unreserved; ingenuous; frank; familiar; communicative. He was free only with a few. --Milward. 8. Unrestrained; immoderate; lavish; licentious; -- used in a bad sense. The critics have been very free in their censures. --Felton. A man may live a free life as to wine or women. --Shelley. 9. Not close or parsimonious; liberal; open-handed; lavish; as, free with his money. 10. Exempt; clear; released; liberated; not encumbered or troubled with; as, free from pain; free from a burden; -- followed by from, or, rarely, by of. Princes declaring themselves free from the obligations of their treaties. --Bp. Burnet. 11. Characteristic of one acting without restraint; charming; easy. 12. Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited; as, a free horse. 13. Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special rights; -- followed by of. He therefore makes all birds, of every sect, Free of his farm. --Dryden. 14. Thrown open, or made accessible, to all; to be enjoyed without limitations; unrestricted; not obstructed, engrossed, or appropriated; open; -- said of a thing to be possessed or enjoyed; as, a free school. Why, sir, I pray, are not the streets as free For me as for you? --Shak. 15. Not gained by importunity or purchase; gratuitous; spontaneous; as, free admission; a free gift. 16. Not arbitrary or despotic; assuring liberty; defending individual rights against encroachment by any person or class; instituted by a free people; -- said of a government, institutions, etc. 17. (O. Eng. Law) Certain or honorable; the opposite of base; as, free service; free socage. --Burrill. 18. (Law) Privileged or individual; the opposite of common; as, a free fishery; a free warren. --Burrill. 19. Not united or combined with anything else; separated; dissevered; unattached; at liberty to escape; as, free carbonic acid gas; free cells. {Free agency}, the capacity or power of choosing or acting freely, or without necessity or constraint upon the will. {Free bench} (Eng. Law), a widow's right in the copyhold lands of her husband, corresponding to dower in freeholds. {Free board} (Naut.), a vessel's side between water line and gunwale. {Free bond} (Chem.), an unsaturated or unemployed unit, or bond, of affinity or valence, of an atom or radical. {Free-borough men} (O.Eng. Law). See {Friborg}. {Free chapel} (Eccles.), a chapel not subject to the jurisdiction of the ordinary, having been founded by the king or by a subject specially authorized. [Eng.] --Bouvier. {Free charge} (Elec.), a charge of electricity in the free or statical condition; free electricity. {Free church}. (a) A church whose sittings are for all and without charge. (b) An ecclesiastical body that left the Church of Scotland, in 1843, to be free from control by the government in spiritual matters. {Free city}, [or] {Free town}, a city or town independent in its government and franchises, as formerly those of the Hanseatic league. {Free cost}, freedom from charges or expenses. --South. {Free and easy}, unconventional; unrestrained; regardless of formalities. [Colloq.] [bd]Sal and her free and easy ways.[b8] --W. Black. {Free goods}, goods admitted into a country free of duty. {Free labor}, the labor of freemen, as distinguished from that of slaves. {Free port}. (Com.) (a) A port where goods may be received and shipped free of custom duty. (b) A port where goods of all kinds are received from ships of all nations at equal rates of duty. {Free public house}, in England, a tavern not belonging to a brewer, so that the landlord is free to brew his own beer or purchase where he chooses. --Simmonds. {Free school}. (a) A school to which pupils are admitted without discrimination and on an equal footing. (b) A school supported by general taxation, by endowmants, etc., where pupils pay nothing for tuition; a public school. {Free services} (O.Eng. Law), such feudal services as were not unbecoming the character of a soldier or a freemen to perform; as, to serve under his lord in war, to pay a sum of money, etc. --Burrill. {Free ships}, ships of neutral nations, which in time of war are free from capture even though carrying enemy's goods. {Free socage} (O.Eng. Law), a feudal tenure held by certain services which, though honorable, were not military. --Abbott. {Free States}, those of the United States before the Civil War, in which slavery had ceased to exist, or had never existed. {Free stuff} (Carp.), timber free from knots; clear stuff. {Free thought}, that which is thought independently of the authority of others. {Free trade}, commerce unrestricted by duties or tariff regulations. {Free trader}, one who believes in free trade. {To make free with}, to take liberties with; to help one's self to. [Colloq.] {To sail free} (Naut.), to sail with the yards not braced in as sharp as when sailing closehauled, or close to the wind. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Friborg \Fri"borg\, Friborgh \Fri"borgh\, n. [AS. fri[?]borh, lit., peace PLAGE; fri[?] peace + borh, borg, pledge, akin to E. borrow. The first part of the word was confused with free, the last part, with borough.] (Old Eng. Law) The pledge and tithing, afterwards called by the Normans frankpledge. See {Frankpledge}. [Written also {friburgh} and {fribourg}.] --Burril. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Friborg \Fri"borg\, Friborgh \Fri"borgh\, n. [AS. fri[?]borh, lit., peace PLAGE; fri[?] peace + borh, borg, pledge, akin to E. borrow. The first part of the word was confused with free, the last part, with borough.] (Old Eng. Law) The pledge and tithing, afterwards called by the Normans frankpledge. See {Frankpledge}. [Written also {friburgh} and {fribourg}.] --Burril. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Friborg \Fri"borg\, Friborgh \Fri"borgh\, n. [AS. fri[?]borh, lit., peace PLAGE; fri[?] peace + borh, borg, pledge, akin to E. borrow. The first part of the word was confused with free, the last part, with borough.] (Old Eng. Law) The pledge and tithing, afterwards called by the Normans frankpledge. See {Frankpledge}. [Written also {friburgh} and {fribourg}.] --Burril. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Friborg \Fri"borg\, Friborgh \Fri"borgh\, n. [AS. fri[?]borh, lit., peace PLAGE; fri[?] peace + borh, borg, pledge, akin to E. borrow. The first part of the word was confused with free, the last part, with borough.] (Old Eng. Law) The pledge and tithing, afterwards called by the Normans frankpledge. See {Frankpledge}. [Written also {friburgh} and {fribourg}.] --Burril. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fripper \Frip"per\, n. [F. fripier, fr. friper to rumple, fumble, waste.] One who deals in frippery or in old clothes. [Obs.] --Bacon. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fripperer \Frip"per*er\, n. A fripper. [Obs.] --Johnson. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Frippery \Frip"per*y\, n. [F. friperie, fr. fruper. See {Fripper}.] 1. Coast-off clothes. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. 2. Hence: Secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance. Fond of gauze and French frippery. --Goldsmith. The gauzy frippery of a French translation. --Sir W. Scott. 3. A place where old clothes are sold. --Shak. 4. The trade or traffic in old clothes. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Frippery \Frip"per*y\, a. Trifling; contemptible. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Furfuraceous \Fur"fu*ra"ceous\, a. [L. furfuraceus.] Made of bran; like bran; scurfy. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Furfurol \Fur"fu*rol\, n. [L. furfur bran + oleum oil.] (Chem.) A colorless oily liquid, {C4H3O.CHO}, of a pleasant odor, obtained by the distillation of bran, sugar, etc., and regarded as an aldehyde derivative of furfuran; -- called also {furfural}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Furfuran \Fur"fu*ran\, n. [L. furfur bran.] (Chem.) A colorless, oily substance, {C4H4O}, obtained by distilling certain organic substances, as pine wood, salts of pyromucic acid, etc.; -- called also {tetraphenol}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Furfuration \Fur"fu*ra"tion\, n. [L. furfur bran, scurf.] Falling of scurf from the head; desquamation. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Furfurine \Fur"fu*rine\, n. (Chem.) A white, crystalline base, obtained indirectly from furfurol. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Furfurol \Fur"fu*rol\, n. [L. furfur bran + oleum oil.] (Chem.) A colorless oily liquid, {C4H3O.CHO}, of a pleasant odor, obtained by the distillation of bran, sugar, etc., and regarded as an aldehyde derivative of furfuran; -- called also {furfural}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Furfurous \Fur"fu*rous\, a. Made of bran; furfuraceous. [R.] [bd]Furfurous bread.[b8] --Sydney Smith. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Fairborn, OH (city, FIPS 25914) Location: 39.80445 N, 84.01750 W Population (1990): 31300 (13288 housing units) Area: 29.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 45324 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Fairburn, GA (city, FIPS 28380) Location: 33.56545 N, 84.58355 W Population (1990): 4013 (1593 housing units) Area: 11.6 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 30213 Fairburn, SD (town, FIPS 20340) Location: 43.68675 N, 103.20821 W Population (1990): 62 (34 housing units) Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 57738 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Fairbury, IL (city, FIPS 24764) Location: 40.74659 N, 88.51243 W Population (1990): 3643 (1426 housing units) Area: 3.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 61739 Fairbury, NE (city, FIPS 16410) Location: 40.14091 N, 97.17723 W Population (1990): 4335 (2216 housing units) Area: 4.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 68352 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Fairport, NY (village, FIPS 25076) Location: 43.10015 N, 77.44330 W Population (1990): 5943 (2367 housing units) Area: 4.1 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 14450 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Fairport Harbor, OH (village, FIPS 26306) Location: 41.74750 N, 81.27330 W Population (1990): 2978 (1337 housing units) Area: 2.7 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 44077 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Farber, MO (city, FIPS 23662) Location: 39.27407 N, 91.57640 W Population (1990): 418 (172 housing units) Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 63345 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Firebrick, KY Zip code(s): 41137 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Four Bears Village, ND (CDP, FIPS 27950) Location: 47.98936 N, 102.59708 W Population (1990): 309 (87 housing units) Area: 2.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Freeborn, MN (city, FIPS 22526) Location: 43.76639 N, 93.56318 W Population (1990): 301 (133 housing units) Area: 0.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 56032 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Freeborn County, MN (county, FIPS 47) Location: 43.67069 N, 93.35026 W Population (1990): 33060 (13783 housing units) Area: 1832.9 sq km (land), 38.8 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Freeburg, IL (village, FIPS 27806) Location: 38.42785 N, 89.90812 W Population (1990): 3115 (1157 housing units) Area: 4.5 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 62243 Freeburg, MO (village, FIPS 25822) Location: 38.31547 N, 91.92247 W Population (1990): 446 (199 housing units) Area: 2.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 65035 Freeburg, PA (borough, FIPS 27696) Location: 40.76281 N, 76.94122 W Population (1990): 640 (252 housing units) Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 17827 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Freeburn, KY Zip code(s): 41528 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Freeport, FL (city, FIPS 24825) Location: 30.50009 N, 86.13524 W Population (1990): 843 (396 housing units) Area: 15.8 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 32439 Freeport, IL (city, FIPS 27884) Location: 42.29015 N, 89.63469 W Population (1990): 25840 (11722 housing units) Area: 26.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 61032 Freeport, KS (city, FIPS 24725) Location: 37.19866 N, 97.85417 W Population (1990): 8 (4 housing units) Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 67049 Freeport, ME (CDP, FIPS 26490) Location: 43.85686 N, 70.10025 W Population (1990): 1829 (843 housing units) Area: 6.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 04032 Freeport, MI (village, FIPS 30580) Location: 42.76353 N, 85.31445 W Population (1990): 458 (157 housing units) Area: 2.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 49325 Freeport, MN (city, FIPS 22652) Location: 45.66298 N, 94.68716 W Population (1990): 556 (218 housing units) Area: 2.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 56331 Freeport, NY (village, FIPS 27485) Location: 40.65080 N, 73.58498 W Population (1990): 39894 (13660 housing units) Area: 11.9 sq km (land), 0.6 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 11520 Freeport, OH (village, FIPS 28798) Location: 40.21081 N, 81.26827 W Population (1990): 475 (212 housing units) Area: 1.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 43973 Freeport, PA (borough, FIPS 27784) Location: 40.68263 N, 79.68281 W Population (1990): 1983 (925 housing units) Area: 3.0 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 16229 Freeport, TX (city, FIPS 27420) Location: 28.95136 N, 95.36428 W Population (1990): 11389 (4835 housing units) Area: 29.7 sq km (land), 3.4 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Fryburg, ND Zip code(s): 58622 Fryburg, PA Zip code(s): 16326 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Fryeburg, ME (CDP, FIPS 26875) Location: 44.01892 N, 70.97446 W Population (1990): 1580 (761 housing units) Area: 7.9 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 04037 | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
for free adj. [common] Said of a capability of a programming language or hardware that is available by its design without needing cleverness to implement: "In APL, we get the matrix operations for free." "And owing to the way revisions are stored in this system, you get revision trees for free." The term usually refers to a serendipitous feature of doing things a certain way (compare {big win}), but it may refer to an intentional but secondary feature. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
for free Said of a capability of a programming language or hardware equipment that is available by its design without needing cleverness to implement: "In APL, we get the matrix operations for free." "And owing to the way revisions are stored in this system, you get revision trees for free." The term usually refers to a serendipitous feature of doing things a certain way (compare {big win}), but it may refer to an intentional but secondary feature. [{Jargon File}] (1994-12-14) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
free variable 1. A variable referred to in a function, which is not an argument of the function. In {lambda-calculus}, x is a {bound variable} in the term M = \ x . T, and a free variable of T. We say x is bound in M and free in T. If T contains a subterm \ x . U then x is rebound in this term. This nested, inner binding of x is said to "shadow" the outer binding. Occurrences of x in U are free occurrences of the new x. Variables bound at the top level of a program are technically free variables within the terms to which they are bound but are often treated specially because they can be compiled as fixed addresses. Similarly, an identifier bound to a recursive function is also technically a free variable within its own body but is treated specially. A {closed term} is one containing no free variables. See also {closure}, {lambda lifting}, {scope}. 2. In {logic}, a variable which is not quantified (see {quantifier}). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Firebrand Isa. 7:4, Amos 4:11, Zech. 3:2, denotes the burnt end of a stick (Heb. 'ud); in Judg. 15:4, a lamp or torch, a flambeau (Heb. lappid); in Prov. 26:18 (comp. Eph. 6:16), burning darts or arrows (Heb. zikkim). |