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   facsimile
         n 1: an exact copy or reproduction [syn: {facsimile},
               {autotype}]
         2: duplicator that transmits the copy by wire or radio [syn:
            {facsimile}, {facsimile machine}, {fax}]
         v 1: send something via a facsimile machine; "Can you fax me the
               report right away?" [syn: {fax}, {telefax}, {facsimile}]

English Dictionary: Fachanwltin by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
facsimile machine
n
  1. duplicator that transmits the copy by wire or radio [syn: facsimile, facsimile machine, fax]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fish meal
n
  1. ground dried fish used as fertilizer and as feed for domestic livestock
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Winkle \Win"kle\, n. [AS. wincle.] (Zo[94]l.)
      (a) Any periwinkle. --Holland.
      (b) Any one of various marine spiral gastropods, esp., in the
            United States, either of two species of {Fulgar} ({F.
            canaliculata}, and {F. carica}).
  
      Note: These are large mollusks which often destroy large
               numbers of oysters by drilling their shells and sucking
               their blood.
  
      {Sting winkle}, a European spinose marine shell ({Murex
            erinaceus}). See Illust. of {Murex}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Periwinkle \Per"i*win`kle\, n. [From AS. pinewincla a shellfish,
      in which pine- is fr. L. pina, pinna, a kind of mussel, akin
      to Gr. [?]. Cf. {Winkle}.] (Zo[94]l.)
      Any small marine gastropod shell of the genus Littorina. The
      common European species ({Littorina littorea}), in Europe
      extensively used as food, has recently become naturalized
      abundantly on the American coast. See {Littorina}.
  
      Note: In America the name is often applied to several large
               univalves, as {Fulgur carica}, and {F. canaliculata}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   --McElrath.
  
      Note: Face is used either adjectively or as part of a
               compound; as, face guard or face-guard; face cloth;
               face plan or face-plan; face hammer.
  
      {Face ague} (Med.), a form of neuralgia, characterized by
            acute lancinating pains returning at intervals, and by
            twinges in certain parts of the face, producing convulsive
            twitches in the corresponding muscles; -- called also {tic
            douloureux}.
  
      {Face card}, one of a pack of playing cards on which a human
            face is represented; the king, queen, or jack.
  
      {Face cloth}, a cloth laid over the face of a corpse.
  
      {Face guard}, a mask with windows for the eyes, worn by
            workman exposed to great heat, or to flying particles of
            metal, stone, etc., as in glass works, foundries, etc.
  
      {Face hammer}, a hammer having a flat face.
  
      {Face joint} (Arch.), a joint in the face of a wall or other
            structure.
  
      {Face mite} (Zo[94]ll.), a small, elongated mite ({Demdex
            folliculorum}), parasitic in the hair follicles of the
            face.
  
      {Face mold}, the templet or pattern by which carpenters,
            ect., outline the forms which are to be cut out from
            boards, sheet metal, ect.
  
      {Face plate}.
            (a) (Turning) A plate attached to the spindle of a lathe,
                  to which the work to be turned may be attached.
            (b) A covering plate for an object, to receive wear or
                  shock.
            (c) A true plane for testing a dressed surface. --Knight.
  
      {Face wheel}. (Mach.)
            (a) A crown wheel.
            (b) A Wheel whose disk face is adapted for grinding and
                  polishing; a lap.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Facsimile \Fac*sim"i*le\,, v. t.
      To make a facsimile of.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Facsimile \Fac*sim"i*le\, n.; pl. {Facsimiles} (-l[?]z). [L. fac
      simile make like; or an abbreviation of factum simile made
      like; facere to make + similes like. See {Fact}, and
      {Simile}.]
      A copy of anything made, either so as to be deceptive or so
      as to give every part and detail of the original; an exact
      copy or likeness.
  
      {Facsimile telegraph}, a telegraphic apparatus reproducing
            messages in autograph.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Telegraph \Tel"e*graph\, n. [Gr. [?] far, far off (cf. Lith.
      toli) + -graph: cf. F. t[82]l[82]graphe. See {Graphic}.]
      An apparatus, or a process, for communicating intelligence
      rapidly between distant points, especially by means of
      preconcerted visible or audible signals representing words or
      ideas, or by means of words and signs, transmitted by
      electrical action.
  
      Note: The instruments used are classed as indicator,
               type-printing, symbol-printing, or chemical-printing
               telegraphs, according as the intelligence is given by
               the movements of a pointer or indicator, as in Cooke &
               Wheatstone's (the form commonly used in England), or by
               impressing, on a fillet of paper, letters from types,
               as in House's and Hughe's, or dots and marks from a
               sharp point moved by a magnet, as in Morse's, or
               symbols produced by electro-chemical action, as in
               Bain's. In the offices in the United States the
               recording instrument is now little used, the receiving
               operator reading by ear the combinations of long and
               short intervals of sound produced by the armature of an
               electro-magnet as it is put in motion by the opening
               and breaking of the circuit, which motion, in
               registering instruments, traces upon a ribbon of paper
               the lines and dots used to represent the letters of the
               alphabet. See Illustration in Appendix.
  
      {Acoustic telegraph}. See under {Acoustic}.
  
      {Dial telegraph}, a telegraph in which letters of the
            alphabet and numbers or other symbols are placed upon the
            border of a circular dial plate at each station, the
            apparatus being so arranged that the needle or index of
            the dial at the receiving station accurately copies the
            movements of that at the sending station.
  
      {Electric telegraph}, [or] {Electro-magnetic telegraph}, a
            telegraph in which an operator at one station causes words
            or signs to be made at another by means of a current of
            electricity, generated by a battery and transmitted over
            an intervening wire.
  
      {Facsimile telegraph}. See under {Facsimile}.
  
      {Indicator telegraph}. See under {Indicator}.
  
      {Pan-telegraph}, an electric telegraph by means of which a
            drawing or writing, as an autographic message, may be
            exactly reproduced at a distant station.
  
      {Printing telegraph}, an electric telegraph which
            automatically prints the message as it is received at a
            distant station, in letters, not signs.
  
      {Signal telegraph}, a telegraph in which preconcerted
            signals, made by a machine, or otherwise, at one station,
            are seen or heard and interpreted at another; a semaphore.
           
  
      {Submarine telegraph cable}, a telegraph cable laid under
            water to connect stations separated by a body of water.
  
      {Telegraph cable}, a telegraphic cable consisting of several
            conducting wires, inclosed by an insulating and protecting
            material, so as to bring the wires into compact compass
            for use on poles, or to form a strong cable impervious to
            water, to be laid under ground, as in a town or city, or
            under water, as in the ocean.
  
      {Telegraph plant} (Bot.), a leguminous plant ({Desmodium
            gyrans}) native of the East Indies. The leaflets move up
            and down like the signals of a semaphore.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Facsimile \Fac*sim"i*le\, n.; pl. {Facsimiles} (-l[?]z). [L. fac
      simile make like; or an abbreviation of factum simile made
      like; facere to make + similes like. See {Fact}, and
      {Simile}.]
      A copy of anything made, either so as to be deceptive or so
      as to give every part and detail of the original; an exact
      copy or likeness.
  
      {Facsimile telegraph}, a telegraphic apparatus reproducing
            messages in autograph.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Facsimile \Fac*sim"i*le\, n.; pl. {Facsimiles} (-l[?]z). [L. fac
      simile make like; or an abbreviation of factum simile made
      like; facere to make + similes like. See {Fact}, and
      {Simile}.]
      A copy of anything made, either so as to be deceptive or so
      as to give every part and detail of the original; an exact
      copy or likeness.
  
      {Facsimile telegraph}, a telegraphic apparatus reproducing
            messages in autograph.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fashionless \Fash"ion*less\, a.
      Having no fashion.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fish \Fish\, n.; pl. {Fishes}, or collectively, {Fish}. [OE.
      fisch, fisc, fis, AS. fisc; akin to D. visch, OS. & OHG.
      fisk, G. fisch, Icel. fiskr, Sw. & Dan. fisk, Goth. fisks, L.
      piscis, Ir. iasg. Cf. {Piscatorial}. In some cases, such as
      fish joint, fish plate, this word has prob. been confused
      with fish, fr. F. fichea peg.]
      1. A name loosely applied in popular usage to many animals of
            diverse characteristics, living in the water.
  
      2. (Zo[94]l.) An oviparous, vertebrate animal usually having
            fins and a covering scales or plates. It breathes by means
            of gills, and lives almost entirely in the water. See
            {Pisces}.
  
      Note: The true fishes include the Teleostei (bony fishes),
               Ganoidei, Dipnoi, and Elasmobranchii or Selachians
               (sharks and skates). Formerly the leptocardia and
               Marsipobranciata were also included, but these are now
               generally regarded as two distinct classes, below the
               fishes.
  
      3. pl. The twelfth sign of the zodiac; Pisces.
  
      4. The flesh of fish, used as food.
  
      5. (Naut.)
            (a) A purchase used to fish the anchor.
            (b) A piece of timber, somewhat in the form of a fish,
                  used to strengthen a mast or yard.
  
      Note: Fish is used adjectively or as part of a compound word;
               as, fish line, fish pole, fish spear, fish-bellied.
  
      {Age of Fishes}. See under {Age}, n., 8.
  
      {Fish ball}, fish (usually salted codfish) shared fine, mixed
            with mashed potato, and made into the form of a small,
            round cake. [U.S.]
  
      {Fish bar}. Same as {Fish plate} (below).
  
      {Fish beam} (Mech.), a beam one of whose sides (commonly the
            under one) swells out like the belly of a fish. --Francis.
  
      {Fish crow} (Zo[94]l.), a species of crow ({Corvus
            ossifragus}), found on the Atlantic coast of the United
            States. It feeds largely on fish.
  
      {Fish culture}, the artifical breeding and rearing of fish;
            pisciculture.
  
      {Fish davit}. See {Davit}.
  
      {Fish day}, a day on which fish is eaten; a fast day.
  
      {Fish duck} (Zo[94]l.), any species of merganser.
  
      {Fish fall}, the tackle depending from the fish davit, used
            in hauling up the anchor to the gunwale of a ship.
  
      {Fish garth}, a dam or weir in a river for keeping fish or
            taking them easily.
  
      {Fish glue}. See {Isinglass}.
  
      {Fish joint}, a joint formed by a plate or pair of plates
            fastened upon two meeting beams, plates, etc., at their
            junction; -- used largely in connecting the rails of
            railroads.
  
      {Fish kettle}, a long kettle for boiling fish whole.
  
      {Fish ladder}, a dam with a series of steps which fish can
            leap in order to ascend falls in a river.
  
      {Fish line}, [or] {Fishing line}, a line made of twisted
            hair, silk, etc., used in angling.
  
      {Fish louse} (Zo[94]l.), any crustacean parasitic on fishes,
            esp. the parasitic Copepoda, belonging to {Caligus},
            {Argulus}, and other related genera. See {Branchiura}.
  
      {Fish maw} (Zo[94]l.), the stomach of a fish; also, the air
            bladder, or sound.
  
      {Fish meal}, fish desiccated and ground fine, for use in
            soups, etc.
  
      {Fish oil}, oil obtained from the bodies of fish and marine
            animals, as whales, seals, sharks, from cods' livers, etc.
           
  
      {Fish owl} (Zo[94]l.), a fish-eating owl of the Old World
            genera {Scotopelia} and {Ketupa}, esp. a large East Indian
            species ({K. Ceylonensis}).
  
      {Fish plate}, one of the plates of a fish joint.
  
      {Fish pot}, a wicker basket, sunk, with a float attached, for
            catching crabs, lobsters, etc.
  
      {Fish pound}, a net attached to stakes, for entrapping and
            catching fish; a weir. [Local, U.S.] --Bartlett.
  
      {Fish slice}, a broad knife for dividing fish at table; a
            fish trowel.
  
      {Fish slide}, an inclined box set in a stream at a small
            fall, or ripple, to catch fish descending the current.
            --Knight.
  
      {Fish sound}, the air bladder of certain fishes, esp. those
            that are dried and used as food, or in the arts, as for
            the preparation of isinglass.
  
      {Fish story}, a story which taxes credulity; an extravagant
            or incredible narration. [Colloq. U.S.] --Bartlett.
  
      {Fish strainer}.
            (a) A metal colander, with handles, for taking fish from a
                  boiler.
            (b) A perforated earthenware slab at the bottom of a dish,
                  to drain the water from a boiled fish.
  
      {Fish trowel}, a fish slice.
  
      {Fish} {weir [or] wear}, a weir set in a stream, for catching
            fish.
  
      {Neither fish nor flesh} (Fig.), neither one thing nor the
            other.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Fagamalo, AS (village, FIPS 25700)
      Location: 14.27537 S, 170.82799 W
      Population (1990): 92 (10 housing units)
      Area: 3.9 sq km (land), 29.8 sq km (water)

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   facsimile
  
      ("fax") A process by which fixed graphic
      material including pictures, text, or images is scanned and
      the information converted into electrical signals which are
      transmitted via telephone to produce a paper copy of the
      graphics on the receiving fax machine.
  
      Some {modems} can be used to send and receive fax data.
  
      [Details?   Standards?]
  
      (1995-11-15)
  
  
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