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English Dictionary: fetidness by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fetidness
n
  1. the attribute of having a strong offensive smell [syn: malodorousness, stinkiness, foulness, rankness, fetidness]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
footedness
n
  1. the property of favoring one foot over the other (as in kicking a ball)
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tumor \Tu"mor\, n. [L., fr. tumere to swell: cf. F. tume[a3]r.
      See {Tumid}.]
      1. (Med.) A morbid swelling, prominence, or growth, on any
            part of the body; especially, a growth produced by
            deposition of new tissue; a neoplasm.
  
      2. Affected pomp; bombast; swelling words or expressions;
            false magnificence or sublimity. [R.]
  
                     Better, however, to be a flippant, than, by a
                     revolting form of tumor and perplexity, to lead men
                     into habits of intellect such as result from the
                     modern vice of English style.            --De Quincey.
  
      {Encysted tumor}, a tumor which is inclosed in a membrane
            called a cyst, connected with the surrounding parts by the
            neighboring cellular substance.
  
      {Fatty tumor}. See under {Fatty}.
  
      {Innocent tumor}, [or] {Benign tumor}, one which does not of
            itself threaten life, and does not usually tend to recur
            after extirpation.
  
      {Malignant tumor}, a tumor which tends continually to spread,
            to become generalized in different parts of the body, and
            to recur after extirpation, and which, if left to itself,
            causes death.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fatty \Fat"ty\, a.
      Containing fat, or having the qualities of fat; greasy;
      gross; as, a fatty substance.
  
      {Fatty acid} (Chem.), any one of the paraffin series of
            monocarbonic acids, as formic acid, acetic, etc.; -- so
            called because the higher members, as stearic and palmitic
            acids, occur in the natural fats, and are themselves
            fatlike substances.
  
      {Fatty clays}. See under {Clay}.
  
      {Fatty degeneration} (Med.), a diseased condition, in which
            the oil globules, naturally present in certain organs, are
            so multiplied as gradually to destroy and replace the
            efficient parts of these organs.
  
      {Fatty heart}, {Fatty liver}, etc. (Med.), a heart, liver,
            etc., which have been the subjects of fatty degeneration
            or infiltration.
  
      {Fatty infiltration} (Med.), a condition in which there is an
            excessive accumulation of fat in an organ, without
            destruction of any essential parts of the latter.
  
      {Fatty tumor} (Med.), a tumor consisting of fatty or adipose
            tissue; lipoma.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fd2tation \F[d2]*ta"tion\, n.
      Same as {Fetation}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Stinkwood \Stink"wood`\, n. (Bot.)
      A name given to several kinds of wood with an unpleasant
      smell, as that of the {F[d2]tidia Mauritiana} of the
      Mauritius, and that of the South African {Ocotea bullata}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fetation \Fe*ta"tion\, n.
      The formation of a fetus in the womb; pregnancy.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fetidness \Fet"id*ness\, n.
      The quality or state of being fetid.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fittedness \Fit"ted*ness\, n.
      The state or quality of being fitted; adaptation. [Obs.]
      --Dr. H. More.
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