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   Fabaceae
         n 1: a large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing
               bean pods; divided for convenience into the subfamilies
               Caesalpiniaceae; Mimosaceae; Papilionaceae [syn:
               {Leguminosae}, {family Leguminosae}, {Fabaceae}, {family
               Fabaceae}, {legume family}, {pea family}]

English Dictionary: Fabaceae by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
favus
n
  1. a contagious fungal infection of the scalp; occurs mainly in Africa and the Middle East
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fives
n
  1. a game resembling handball; played on a court with a front wall and two side walls
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
foppish
adj
  1. affecting extreme elegance in dress and manner [syn: dandified, dandyish, foppish]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Favas \Fa"vas\, n.
      See {Favus}, n., 2. --Fairholt.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Favus \[d8]Fa"vus\, n. [L., honeycomb.]
      1. (Med.) A disease of the scalp, produced by a vegetable
            parasite.
  
      2. A tile or flagstone cut into an hexagonal shape to produce
            a honeycomb pattern, as in a pavement; -- called also
            {favas} and {sectila}. --Mollett.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Favas \Fa"vas\, n.
      See {Favus}, n., 2. --Fairholt.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Favus \[d8]Fa"vus\, n. [L., honeycomb.]
      1. (Med.) A disease of the scalp, produced by a vegetable
            parasite.
  
      2. A tile or flagstone cut into an hexagonal shape to produce
            a honeycomb pattern, as in a pavement; -- called also
            {favas} and {sectila}. --Mollett.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Favose \Fa*vose"\, a. [L. favus honeycomb.]
      1. (Bot.) Honeycombed. See {Faveolate}.
  
      2. (Med.) Of or pertaining to the disease called favus.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fives \Fives\ (f[imac]vz), n. pl.
      A kind of play with a ball against a wall, resembling tennis;
      -- so named because three fives, or fifteen, are counted to
      the game. --Smart.
  
      {Fives court}, a place for playing fives.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fives \Fives\, n. [See {Vives}.]
      A disease of the glands under the ear in horses; the vives.
      --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Foppish \Fop"pish\, a.
      Foplike; characteristic of a top in dress or manners; making
      an ostentatious display of gay clothing; affected in manners.
  
      Syn: Finical; spruce; dandyish. See {Finical}. --
               {Fop"pish*ly}, adv. -- {Fop"pish*ness}, n.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fub \Fub\, Fubs \Fubs\, n. [Cf. {Fob} a pocket.]
      A plump young person or child. [Obs.] --Smart.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fubby \Fub"by\, Fubsy \Fub"sy\a.
      Plump; chubby; short and stuffy; as a fubsy sofa. [Eng.]
  
               A fubsy, good-humored, silly . . . old maid. --Mme.
                                                                              D'Arblay.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Fabius, NY (village, FIPS 24867)
      Location: 42.83548 N, 75.98551 W
      Population (1990): 310 (132 housing units)
      Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 13063

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
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