English Dictionary: Fenusa pusilla | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fanciful \Fan"ci*ful\, a. 1. Full of fancy; guided by fancy, rather than by reason and experience; whimsical; as, a fanciful man forms visionary projects. 2. Conceived in the fancy; not consistent with facts or reason; abounding in ideal qualities or figures; as, a fanciful scheme; a fanciful theory. 3. Curiously shaped or constructed; as, she wore a fanciful headdress. Gather up all fancifullest shells. --Keats. Syn: Imaginative; ideal; visionary; capricious; chimerical; whimsical; fantastical; wild. Usage: {Fanciful}, {Fantastical}, {Visionary}. We speak of that as fanciful which is irregular in taste and judgment; we speak of it as fantastical when it becomes grotesque and extravagant as well as irregular; we speak of it as visionary when it is wholly unfounded in the nature of things. Fanciful notions are the product of a heated fancy, without any tems are made up of oddly assorted fancies, aften of the most whimsical kind; visionary expectations are those which can never be realized in fact. -- {Fan"ci*ful*ly}, adv. -{Fan"ci*ful*ness}, n. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fanciful \Fan"ci*ful\, a. 1. Full of fancy; guided by fancy, rather than by reason and experience; whimsical; as, a fanciful man forms visionary projects. 2. Conceived in the fancy; not consistent with facts or reason; abounding in ideal qualities or figures; as, a fanciful scheme; a fanciful theory. 3. Curiously shaped or constructed; as, she wore a fanciful headdress. Gather up all fancifullest shells. --Keats. Syn: Imaginative; ideal; visionary; capricious; chimerical; whimsical; fantastical; wild. Usage: {Fanciful}, {Fantastical}, {Visionary}. We speak of that as fanciful which is irregular in taste and judgment; we speak of it as fantastical when it becomes grotesque and extravagant as well as irregular; we speak of it as visionary when it is wholly unfounded in the nature of things. Fanciful notions are the product of a heated fancy, without any tems are made up of oddly assorted fancies, aften of the most whimsical kind; visionary expectations are those which can never be realized in fact. -- {Fan"ci*ful*ly}, adv. -{Fan"ci*ful*ness}, n. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fanciful \Fan"ci*ful\, a. 1. Full of fancy; guided by fancy, rather than by reason and experience; whimsical; as, a fanciful man forms visionary projects. 2. Conceived in the fancy; not consistent with facts or reason; abounding in ideal qualities or figures; as, a fanciful scheme; a fanciful theory. 3. Curiously shaped or constructed; as, she wore a fanciful headdress. Gather up all fancifullest shells. --Keats. Syn: Imaginative; ideal; visionary; capricious; chimerical; whimsical; fantastical; wild. Usage: {Fanciful}, {Fantastical}, {Visionary}. We speak of that as fanciful which is irregular in taste and judgment; we speak of it as fantastical when it becomes grotesque and extravagant as well as irregular; we speak of it as visionary when it is wholly unfounded in the nature of things. Fanciful notions are the product of a heated fancy, without any tems are made up of oddly assorted fancies, aften of the most whimsical kind; visionary expectations are those which can never be realized in fact. -- {Fan"ci*ful*ly}, adv. -{Fan"ci*ful*ness}, n. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fancy \Fan"cy\, a. 1. Adapted to please the fancy or taste; ornamental; as, fancy goods. 2. Extravagant; above real value. This anxiety never degenerated into a monomania, like that which led his [Frederick the Great's] father to pay fancy prices for giants. --Macaulay. {Fancy ball}, a ball in which porsons appear in fanciful dresses in imitation of the costumes of different persons and nations. {Fancy fair}, a fair at which articles of fancy and ornament are sold, generally for some charitable purpose. {Fancy goods}, fabrics of various colors, patterns, etc., as ribbons, silks, laces, etc., in distinction from those of a simple or plain color or make. {Fancy line} (Naut.), a line rove through a block at the jaws of a gaff; -- used to haul it down. {Fancy roller} (Carding Machine), a clothed cylinder (usually having straight teeth) in front of the doffer. {Fancy stocks}, a species of stocks which afford great opportunity for stock gambling, since they have no intrinsic value, and the fluctuations in their prices are artificial. {Fancy store}, one where articles of fancy and ornament are sold. {Fancy woods}, the more rare and expensive furniture woods, as mahogany, satinwood, rosewood, etc. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fancy \Fan"cy\, a. 1. Adapted to please the fancy or taste; ornamental; as, fancy goods. 2. Extravagant; above real value. This anxiety never degenerated into a monomania, like that which led his [Frederick the Great's] father to pay fancy prices for giants. --Macaulay. {Fancy ball}, a ball in which porsons appear in fanciful dresses in imitation of the costumes of different persons and nations. {Fancy fair}, a fair at which articles of fancy and ornament are sold, generally for some charitable purpose. {Fancy goods}, fabrics of various colors, patterns, etc., as ribbons, silks, laces, etc., in distinction from those of a simple or plain color or make. {Fancy line} (Naut.), a line rove through a block at the jaws of a gaff; -- used to haul it down. {Fancy roller} (Carding Machine), a clothed cylinder (usually having straight teeth) in front of the doffer. {Fancy stocks}, a species of stocks which afford great opportunity for stock gambling, since they have no intrinsic value, and the fluctuations in their prices are artificial. {Fancy store}, one where articles of fancy and ornament are sold. {Fancy woods}, the more rare and expensive furniture woods, as mahogany, satinwood, rosewood, etc. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fancy-free \Fan"cy-free`\, a. Free from the power of love. [bd]In maiden meditation, fancy-free.[b8] --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Feme \[d8]Feme\ (? [or] ?), n. [OF. feme, F. femme.] (Old Law) A woman. --Burrill. {Feme covert} (Law), a married woman. See {Covert}, a., 3. {Feme sole} (Law), a single or unmarried woman; a woman who has never been married, or who has been divorced, or whose husband is dead. {Feme sole} {trader [or] merchant} (Eng. Law), a married woman, who, by the custom of London, engages in business on her own account, inpendently of her husband. | |
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Fenceful \Fence"ful\, a. Affording defense; defensive. [Obs.] --Congreve. | |
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Fenci-ble \Fen"ci-ble\, a. Capable of being defended, or of making or affording defense. [Obs.] No fort so fencible, nor walls so strong. --Spenser. | |
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Fencible \Fen"ci*ble\, n. (Mil.) A soldier enlisted for home service only; -- usually in the pl. | |
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Fenci-ble \Fen"ci-ble\, a. Capable of being defended, or of making or affording defense. [Obs.] No fort so fencible, nor walls so strong. --Spenser. | |
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Fencible \Fen"ci*ble\, n. (Mil.) A soldier enlisted for home service only; -- usually in the pl. | |
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Fensi-ble \Fen"si-ble\, a. Fencible. [Obs.] --Spenser. | |
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Finch \Finch\, n.; pl. {Fishes}. [AS. finc; akin to D. vink, OHG. fincho, G. fink; cf. W. pinc a finch; also E. spink.] (Zo[94]l.) A small singing bird of many genera and species, belonging to the family {Fringillid[91]}. Note: The word is often used in composition, as in chaffinch, goldfinch, grassfinch, pinefinch, etc. {Bramble finch}. See {Brambling}. {Canary finch}, the canary bird. {Copper finch}. See {Chaffinch}. {Diamond finch}. See under {Diamond}. {Finch falcon} (Zo[94]l.), one of several very small East Indian falcons of the genus {Hierax}. {To pull a finch}, to swindle an ignorant or unsuspecting person. [Obs.] [bd]Privily a finch eke could he pull.[b8] --Chaucer. | |
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Finchbacked \Finch"backed`\, a. Streaked or spotted on the back; -- said of cattle. | |
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Finespun \Fine"spun`\, a. Spun so as to be fine; drawn to a fine thread; attenuated; hence, unsubstantial; visionary; as, finespun theories. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fungibles \Fun"gi*bles\, n. pl. [LL. (res) fungibiles, probably fr. L. fungi to discharge. [bd]A barbarous term, supposed to have originated in the use of the words functionem recipere in the Digeste.[b8] Bouvier. [bd]Called fungibiles, quia una alterius vice fungitur.[b8] John Taylor (1755). Cf. {Function}.] 1. (Civ. Law) Things which may be furnished or restored in kind, as distinguished from specific things; -- called also {fungible things}. --Burrill. 2. (Scots Law) Movable goods which may be valued by weight or measure, in contradistinction from those which must be judged of individually. --Jamieson. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fungibles \Fun"gi*bles\, n. pl. [LL. (res) fungibiles, probably fr. L. fungi to discharge. [bd]A barbarous term, supposed to have originated in the use of the words functionem recipere in the Digeste.[b8] Bouvier. [bd]Called fungibiles, quia una alterius vice fungitur.[b8] John Taylor (1755). Cf. {Function}.] 1. (Civ. Law) Things which may be furnished or restored in kind, as distinguished from specific things; -- called also {fungible things}. --Burrill. 2. (Scots Law) Movable goods which may be valued by weight or measure, in contradistinction from those which must be judged of individually. --Jamieson. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fungiform \Fun"gi*form\, a. [Eungus + -form: cf. F. fongiforme.] Shaped like a fungus or mushroom. {Fungiform papill[91]} (Anat.), numerous small, rounded eminences on the upper surface of the tongue. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fungiform \Fun"gi*form\, a. [Eungus + -form: cf. F. fongiforme.] Shaped like a fungus or mushroom. {Fungiform papill[91]} (Anat.), numerous small, rounded eminences on the upper surface of the tongue. | |
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Fungivorous \Fun*giv"o*rous\, a. [L. fungus + vorare to eat freedily: cf. F. fangivore.] (Zo[94]l.) Eating fungi; -- said of certain insects and snails. | |
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Fancy Farm, KY Zip code(s): 42039 | |
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Fancy Prairie, IL Zip code(s): 62613 | |
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Finchville, KY Zip code(s): 40022 | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
fencepost error n. 1. [common] A problem with the discrete equivalent of a boundary condition, often exhibited in programs by iterative loops. From the following problem: "If you build a fence 100 feet long with posts 10 feet apart, how many posts do you need?" (Either 9 or 11 is a better answer than the obvious 10.) For example, suppose you have a long list or array of items, and want to process items m through n; how many items are there? The obvious answer is n - m, but that is off by one; the right answer is n - m + 1. A program that used the `obvious' formula would have a fencepost error in it. See also {zeroth} and {off-by-one error}, and note that not all off-by-one errors are fencepost errors. The game of Musical Chairs involves a catastrophic off-by-one error where N people try to sit in N - 1 chairs, but it's not a fencepost error. Fencepost errors come from counting things rather than the spaces between them, or vice versa, or by neglecting to consider whether one should count one or both ends of a row. 2. [rare] An error induced by unexpected regularities in input values, which can (for instance) completely thwart a theoretically efficient binary tree or hash table implementation. (The error here involves the difference between expected and worst case behaviors of an algorithm.) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
fencepost error 1. (Rarely "lamp-post error") A problem with the discrete equivalent of a {boundary condition}, often exhibited in programs by iterative loops. From the following problem: "If you build a fence 100 feet long with posts 10 feet apart, how many posts do you need?" (Either 9 or 11 is a better answer than the obvious 10). For example, suppose you have a long list or array of items, and want to process items m through n; how many items are there? The obvious answer is n - m, but that is off by one; the right answer is n - m + 1. The "obvious" formula exhibits a fencepost error. See also {zeroth} and note that not all {off-by-one errors} are fencepost errors. The game of Musical Chairs involves a catastrophic off-by-one error where N people try to sit in N - 1 chairs, but it's not a fencepost error. Fencepost errors come from counting things rather than the spaces between them, or vice versa, or by neglecting to consider whether one should count one or both ends of a row. 2. (Rare) An error induced by unexpected regularities in input values, which can (for instance) completely thwart a theoretically efficient {binary tree} or {hash coding} implementation. The error here involves the difference between expected and worst case behaviours of an {algorithm}. [{Jargon File}] (1994-12-01) |