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   face-amount certificate company
         n 1: a regulated investment company that pays a stated amount to
               certificate holders on a stated maturity date

English Dictionary: feigning by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fashion industry
n
  1. makers and sellers of fashionable clothing [syn: {apparel industry}, garment industry, fashion industry, fashion business, rag trade]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fashioning
n
  1. the act that results in something coming to be; "the devising of plans"; "the fashioning of pots and pans"; "the making of measurements"; "it was already in the making"
    Synonym(s): devising, fashioning, making
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fashionmonger
n
  1. someone who advises you about fashionable clothing [syn: fashion consultant, fashionmonger]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
feigning
n
  1. pretending with intention to deceive [syn: pretense, pretence, feigning, dissembling]
  2. the act of giving a false appearance; "his conformity was only pretending"
    Synonym(s): pretense, pretence, pretending, simulation, feigning
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
figment
n
  1. a contrived or fantastic idea; "a figment of the imagination"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fishmonger
n
  1. someone who sells fish
    Synonym(s): fishmonger, fishwife
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Fujinoyama
n
  1. an extinct volcano in south central Honshu that is the highest peak in Japan; last erupted in 1707; famous for its symmetrical snow-capped peak; a sacred mountain and site for pilgrimages
    Synonym(s): Fuji, Mount Fuji, Fujiyama, Fujinoyama, Fuji-san
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fashion \Fash"ion\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fashioned}; p. pr. &
      vb. n. {Fashioning}.] [Cf. F. faconner.]
      1. To form; to give shape or figure to; to mold.
  
                     Here the loud hammer fashions female toys. --Gay.
  
                     Ingenious art . . . Steps forth to fashion and
                     refine the age.                                 --Cowper.
  
      2. To fit; to adapt; to accommodate; -- with to.
  
                     Laws ought to be fashioned to the manners and
                     conditions of the people.                  --Spenser.
  
      3. To make according to the rule prescribed by custom.
  
                     Fashioned plate sells for more than its weight.
                                                                              --Locke.
  
      4. To forge or counterfeit. [Obs.] --Shak.
  
      {Fashioning needle} (Knitting Machine), a needle used for
            widening or narrowing the work and thus shaping it.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fashion \Fash"ion\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fashioned}; p. pr. &
      vb. n. {Fashioning}.] [Cf. F. faconner.]
      1. To form; to give shape or figure to; to mold.
  
                     Here the loud hammer fashions female toys. --Gay.
  
                     Ingenious art . . . Steps forth to fashion and
                     refine the age.                                 --Cowper.
  
      2. To fit; to adapt; to accommodate; -- with to.
  
                     Laws ought to be fashioned to the manners and
                     conditions of the people.                  --Spenser.
  
      3. To make according to the rule prescribed by custom.
  
                     Fashioned plate sells for more than its weight.
                                                                              --Locke.
  
      4. To forge or counterfeit. [Obs.] --Shak.
  
      {Fashioning needle} (Knitting Machine), a needle used for
            widening or narrowing the work and thus shaping it.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fashion-monger \Fash"ion-mon`ger\, n.
      One who studies the fashions; a fop; a dandy. --Marston.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fashion-mongering \Fash"ion-mon`ger*ing\, a.
      Behaving like a fashion-monger. [R.] --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Feign \Feign\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Feigned}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Feigning}.] [OE. feinen, F. feindre (p. pr. feignant), fr.
      L. fingere; akin to L. figura figure,and E. dough. See
      {Dough}, and cf. {Figure}, {Faint}, {Effigy}, {Fiction}.]
      1. To give a mental existence to, as to something not real or
            actual; to imagine; to invent; hence, to pretend; to form
            and relate as if true.
  
                     There are no such things done as thou sayest, but
                     thou feignest them out of thine own heart. --Neh.
                                                                              vi. 8.
  
                     The poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones,
                     and floods.                                       --Shak.
  
      2. To represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to
            counterfeit; as, to feign a sickness. --Shak.
  
      3. To dissemble; to conceal. [Obs.] --Spenser.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Feigning \Feign"ing\, a.
      That feigns; insincere; not genuine; false. --
      {Feign"ing*ly}, adv.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Feigning \Feign"ing\, a.
      That feigns; insincere; not genuine; false. --
      {Feign"ing*ly}, adv.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fescennine \Fes"cen*nine\, a. [L. Fescenninus, fr. Fescennia, a
      city of Etruria.]
      Pertaining to, or resembling, the Fescennines. -- n. A style
      of low, scurrilous, obscene poetry originating in fescennia.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Figment \Fig"ment\, n. [L. figmentum, fr. fingere to form,
      shape, invent, feign. See {Feign}.]
      An invention; a fiction; something feigned or imagined.
  
               Social figments, feints, and formalism.   --Mrs.
                                                                              Browning.
  
               It carried rather an appearance of figment and
               invention . . . than of truth and reality. --Woodward.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fishmonger \Fish"mon`ger\, n.
      A dealer in fish.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fishwoman \Fish"wom`an\, n.; pl. {Fishwomen}.
      A woman who retails fish.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fishwoman \Fish"wom`an\, n.; pl. {Fishwomen}.
      A woman who retails fish.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Faganeanea, AS (village, FIPS 26500)
      Location: 14.30558 S, 170.69310 W
      Population (1990): 168 (25 housing units)
      Area: 1.3 sq km (land), 0.4 sq km (water)
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