fig out : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

   facade
         n 1: the face or front of a building [syn: {facade}, {frontage},
               {frontal}]
         2: a showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something
            unpleasant [syn: {facade}, {window dressing}]

English Dictionary: fig out	by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
faced adj having a face or facing especially of a specified kind or number; often used in combination; "a neatly faced terrace" Antonym(s): faceless
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facet n a distinct feature or element in a problem; "he studied every facet of the question" Synonym(s): aspect, facet a smooth surface (as of a bone or cut gemstone)
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fact n a piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred; "first you must collect all the facts of the case" a statement or assertion of verified information about something that is the case or has happened; "he supported his argument with an impressive array of facts" an event known to have happened or something known to have existed; "your fears have no basis in fact"; "how much of the story is fact and how much fiction is hard to tell" a concept whose truth can be proved; "scientific hypotheses are not facts"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fag out v exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress; "We wore ourselves out on this hike" Synonym(s): tire, wear upon, tire out, wear, weary, jade, wear out, outwear, wear down, fag out, fag, fatigue Antonym(s): freshen, refresh, refreshen
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fagged adj drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted; "the day's shopping left her exhausted"; "he went to bed dog-tired"; "was fagged and sweaty"; "the trembling of his played out limbs"; "felt completely washed-out"; "only worn-out horses and cattle"; "you look worn out" Synonym(s): exhausted, dog- tired, fagged, fatigued, played out, spent, washed-out, worn-out(a), worn out(p)
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
faggot n offensive term for an openly homosexual man [syn: fagot, faggot, fag, fairy, nance, pansy, queen, queer, poof, poove, pouf] a bundle of sticks and branches bound together Synonym(s): fagot, faggot v ornament or join (fabric) by faggot stitch; "He fagotted the blouse for his wife" Synonym(s): faggot, fagot fasten together rods of iron in order to heat or weld them Synonym(s): faggot, fagot bind or tie up in or as if in a faggot; "faggot up the sticks" Synonym(s): faggot, fagot, faggot up
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fagot n offensive term for an openly homosexual man [syn: fagot, faggot, fag, fairy, nance, pansy, queen, queer, poof, poove, pouf] a bundle of sticks and branches bound together Synonym(s): fagot, faggot v ornament or join (fabric) by faggot stitch; "He fagotted the blouse for his wife" Synonym(s): faggot, fagot fasten together rods of iron in order to heat or weld them Synonym(s): faggot, fagot bind or tie up in or as if in a faggot; "faggot up the sticks" Synonym(s): faggot, fagot, faggot up
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fast adv quickly or rapidly (often used as a combining form); "how fast can he get here?"; "ran as fast as he could"; "needs medical help fast"; "fast-running rivers"; "fast-breaking news"; "fast-opening (or fast-closing) shutters" firmly or closely; "held fast to the rope"; "her foot was stuck fast"; "held tight" Synonym(s): fast, tight adj acting or moving or capable of acting or moving quickly; "fast film"; "on the fast track in school"; "set a fast pace"; "a fast car" Antonym(s): slow (used of timepieces) indicating a time ahead of or later than the correct time; "my watch is fast" Antonym(s): slow at a rapid tempo; "the band played a fast fox trot" Antonym(s): slow (of surfaces) conducive to rapid speeds; "a fast road"; "grass courts are faster than clay" resistant to destruction or fading; "fast colors" unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women" Synonym(s): debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, libertine, profligate, riotous, fast hurried and brief; "paid a flying visit"; "took a flying glance at the book"; "a quick inspection"; "a fast visit" Synonym(s): flying, quick, fast securely fixed in place; "the post was still firm after being hit by the car" Synonym(s): fast, firm, immobile unwavering in devotion to friend or vow or cause; "a firm ally"; "loyal supporters"; "the true-hearted soldier...of Tippecanoe"- Campaign song for William Henry Harrison; "fast friends" Synonym(s): firm, loyal, truehearted, fast(a) (of a photographic lens or emulsion) causing a shortening of exposure time; "a fast lens" n abstaining from food Synonym(s): fast, fasting v abstain from certain foods, as for religious or medical reasons; "Catholics sometimes fast during Lent" abstain from eating; "Before the medical exam, you must fast"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fast day n a day designated for fasting
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fast dye v dye with fast colors; "These shirts should be fast-dyed"
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faucet n a regulator for controlling the flow of a liquid from a reservoir Synonym(s): faucet, spigot
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Faust n an alchemist of German legend who sold his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for knowledge Synonym(s): Faust, Faustus
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fazed adj caused to show discomposure; "refused to be fazed by the objections" Synonym(s): bothered, daunted, fazed
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feast n a ceremonial dinner party for many people [syn: banquet, feast] something experienced with great delight; "a feast for the eyes" a meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed; "a banquet for the graduating seniors"; "the Thanksgiving feast"; "they put out quite a spread" Synonym(s): banquet, feast, spread an elaborate party (often outdoors) Synonym(s): fete, feast, fiesta v partake in a feast or banquet [syn: feast, banquet, junket] provide a feast or banquet for Synonym(s): feast, banquet, junket gratify; "feed one's eyes on a gorgeous view" Synonym(s): feed, feast
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
feast day n a day designated for feasting [syn: feast day, {fete day}]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
feist n a nervous belligerent little mongrel dog [syn: feist, fice]
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feisty adj showing courage; "the champion is faced with a feisty challenger" Synonym(s): feisty, plucky, spunky quick to take offense Synonym(s): huffy, thin-skinned, feisty, touchy
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fewest adj (superlative of `few' used with count nouns and usually preceded by `the') quantifier meaning the smallest in number; "the fewest birds in recent memory" Antonym(s): most(a)
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fiesta n an elaborate party (often outdoors) [syn: fete, feast, fiesta]
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fig out v put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive; "She never dresses up, even when she goes to the opera"; "The young girls were all fancied up for the party" Synonym(s): overdress, dress up, fig out, fig up, deck up, gussy up, fancy up, trick up, deck out, trick out, prink, attire, get up, rig out, tog up, tog out Antonym(s): dress down, underdress
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fight n a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war; "Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga"; "he lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement" Synonym(s): battle, conflict, fight, engagement the act of fighting; any contest or struggle; "a fight broke out at the hockey game"; "there was fighting in the streets"; "the unhappy couple got into a terrible scrap" Synonym(s): fight, fighting, combat, scrap an aggressive willingness to compete; "the team was full of fight" Synonym(s): competitiveness, fight an intense verbal dispute; "a violent fight over the bill is expected in the Senate" a boxing or wrestling match; "the fight was on television last night" v be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight; "the tribesmen fought each other"; "Siblings are always fighting"; "Militant groups are contending for control of the country" Synonym(s): contend, fight, struggle fight against or resist strongly; "The senator said he would oppose the bill"; "Don't fight it!" Synonym(s): fight, oppose, fight back, fight down, defend make a strenuous or labored effort; "She struggled for years to survive without welfare"; "He fought for breath" Synonym(s): fight, struggle exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for; "The liberal party pushed for reforms"; "She is crusading for women's rights"; "The Dean is pushing for his favorite candidate" Synonym(s): crusade, fight, press, campaign, push, agitate
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fist n a hand with the fingers clenched in the palm (as for hitting) Synonym(s): fist, clenched fist
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fixate v attach (oneself) to a person or thing in a neurotic way; "He fixates on his mother, even at the age of 40" pay attention to exclusively and obsessively; "The media are fixating on Princess Diana's death" make fixed, stable or stationary; "let's fix the picture to the frame" Synonym(s): fixate, fix become fixed (on); "Her eyes fixated on a point on the horizon" Synonym(s): fixate, settle on
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fixed adj (of a number) having a fixed and unchanging value fixed and unmoving; "with eyes set in a fixed glassy stare"; "his bearded face already has a set hollow look"- Connor Cruise O'Brien; "a face rigid with pain" Synonym(s): fixed, set, rigid securely placed or fastened or set; "a fixed piece of wood"; "a fixed resistor" Antonym(s): unfixed incapable of being changed or moved or undone; e.g. "frozen prices"; "living on fixed incomes" Synonym(s): fixed, frozen
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fixity n the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment Synonym(s): fastness, fixedness, fixity, fixture, secureness Antonym(s): looseness the quality of being incapable of mutation; "Darwin challenged the fixity of species" Synonym(s): immutability, immutableness, fixity Antonym(s): mutability, mutableness
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fogged adj obscured by fog; "he could barely see through the fogged window" Synonym(s): fogged, foggy
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
foist v to force onto another; "He foisted his work on me" insert surreptitiously or without warrant
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fuckhead n a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence Synonym(s): dunce, dunderhead, numskull, blockhead, bonehead, lunkhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, muttonhead, shithead, dumbass, fuckhead
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fucoid n a fossilized cast or impression of algae of the order Fucales any of various algae of the family Fucaceae Synonym(s): fucoid, fucoid algae
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fused adj joined together into a whole; "United Industries"; "the amalgamated colleges constituted a university"; "a consolidated school" Synonym(s): amalgamate, amalgamated, coalesced, consolidated, fused
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fusty adj stale and unclean smelling [syn: fusty, musty, frowsty] old-fashioned and out of date Synonym(s): fusty, standpat(a), unprogressive, nonprogressive
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fuzzed adj covering with fine light hairs; "his head fuzzed like a dandelion gone to seed" Synonym(s): fuzzed, fuzzy
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Face \Face\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Faced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Facing}.] 1. To meet in front; to oppose with firmness; to resist, or to meet for the purpose of stopping or opposing; to confront; to encounter; as, to face an enemy in the field of battle. I'll face This tempest, and deserve the name of king. --Dryden. 2. To Confront impudently; to bully. I will neither be facednor braved. --Shak. 3. To stand opposite to; to stand with the face or front toward; to front upon; as, the apartments of the general faced the park. He gained also with his forces that part of Britain which faces Ireland. --Milton. 4. To cover in front, for ornament, protection, etc.; to put a facing upon; as, a building faced with marble. 5. To line near the edge, esp. with a different material; as, to face the front of a coat, or the bottom of a dress. 6. To cover with better, or better appearing, material than the mass consists of, for purpose of deception, as the surface of a box of tea, a barrel of sugar, etc. 7. (Mach.) To make the surface of (anything) flat or smooth; to dress the face of (a stone, a casting, etc.); esp., in turning, to shape or smooth the flat surface of, as distinguished from the cylindrical surface. 8. To cause to turn or present a face or front, as in a particular direction. {To face down}, to put down by bold or impudent opposition. [bd]He faced men down.[b8] --Prior. {To face (a thing) out}, to persist boldly or impudently in an assertion or in a line of conduct. [bd]That thinks with oaths to face the matter out.[b8] --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Faced \Faced\, a. Having (such) a face, or (so many) faces; as, smooth-faced, two-faced.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Facet \Fac"et\, n. [F. facette, dim. of face face. See {Face}.] 1. A little face; a small, plane surface; as, the facets of a diamond. [Written also {facette}.] 2. (Anat.) A smooth circumscribed surface; as, the articular facet of a bone. 3. (Arch.) The narrow plane surface between flutings of a column. 4. (Zo[94]l.) One of the numerous small eyes which make up the compound eyes of insects and crustaceans.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Facet \Fac"et\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Faceted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Faceting}.] To cut facets or small faces upon; as, to facet a diamond.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Facete \Facete"\, a. [L. facetus elegant, fine, facetious; akin to facies. See {Face}, and cf. {Facetious}.] Facetious; witty; humorous. [Archaic] [bd]A facete discourse.[b8] --Jer. Taylor. [bd]How to interpose[b8] with a small, smart remark, sentiment facete, or unctuous anecdote. --Prof. Wilson. -- {Facete"ly}, adv. -- {Fa*cete"ness}, n.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Facette \Fa*cette"\, n. [F.] See {Facet}, n.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Facet \Fac"et\, n. [F. facette, dim. of face face. See {Face}.] 1. A little face; a small, plane surface; as, the facets of a diamond. [Written also {facette}.] 2. (Anat.) A smooth circumscribed surface; as, the articular facet of a bone. 3. (Arch.) The narrow plane surface between flutings of a column. 4. (Zo[94]l.) One of the numerous small eyes which make up the compound eyes of insects and crustaceans.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Facette \Fa*cette"\, n. [F.] See {Facet}, n.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Facet \Fac"et\, n. [F. facette, dim. of face face. See {Face}.] 1. A little face; a small, plane surface; as, the facets of a diamond. [Written also {facette}.] 2. (Anat.) A smooth circumscribed surface; as, the articular facet of a bone. 3. (Arch.) The narrow plane surface between flutings of a column. 4. (Zo[94]l.) One of the numerous small eyes which make up the compound eyes of insects and crustaceans.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fact \Fact\, n. [L. factum, fr. facere to make or do. Cf. {Feat}, {Affair}, {Benefit}, {Defect}, {Fashion}, and {-fy}.] 1. A doing, making, or preparing. [Obs.] A project for the fact and vending Of a new kind of fucus, paint for ladies. --B. Jonson. 2. An effect produced or achieved; anything done or that comes to pass; an act; an event; a circumstance. What might instigate him to this devilish fact, I am not able to conjecture. --Evelyn. He who most excels in fact of arms. --Milton. 3. Reality; actuality; truth; as, he, in fact, excelled all the rest; the fact is, he was beaten. 4. The assertion or statement of a thing done or existing; sometimes, even when false, improperly put, by a transfer of meaning, for the thing done, or supposed to be done; a thing supposed or asserted to be done; as, history abounds with false facts. I do not grant the fact. --De Foe. This reasoning is founded upon a fact which is not true. --Roger Long. Note: TheTerm fact has in jurisprudence peculiar uses in contrast with low; as, attorney at low, and attorney in fact; issue in low, and issue in fact. There is also a grand distinction between low and fact with reference to the province of the judge and that of the jury, the latter generally determining the fact, the former the low. --Burrill Bouvier. {Accessary before}, [or] {after}, {the fact}. See under {Accessary}. {Matter of fact}, an actual occurrence; a verity; used adjectively: of or pertaining to facts; prosaic; unimaginative; as, a matter-of-fact narration. Syn: Act; deed; performance; event; incident; occurrence; circumstance.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Factum \[d8]Fac"tum\, n.; pl. {Facta}. [L. See {Fact}.] 1. (Law) A man's own act and deed; particularly: (a) (Civil Law) Anything stated and made certain. (b) (Testamentary Law) The due execution of a will, including everything necessary to its validity. 2. (Mach.) The product. See {Facient}, 2.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fag \Fag\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Fagged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fagging}.] [Cf. LG. fakk wearied, weary, vaak slumber, drowsiness, OFries. fai, equiv. to f[be]ch devoted to death, OS. f[?]gi, OHG. feigi, G. feig, feige, cowardly, Icel. feigr fated to die, AS. f[?]ge, Scot. faik, to fail, stop, lower the price; or perh. the same word as E. flag to droop.] 1. To become weary; to tire. Creighton withheld his force till the Italian began to fag. --G. Mackenzie. 2. To labor to wearness; to work hard; to drudge. Read, fag, and subdue this chapter. --Coleridge. 3. To act as a fag, or perform menial services or drudgery, for another, as in some English schools. {To fag out}, to become untwisted or frayed, as the end of a rope, or the edge of canvas.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fagot \Fag"ot\n. [F., prob. aug. of L. fax, facis, torch, perh. orig., a bundle of sticks; cf. Gr. [?][?][?][?][?][?][?] bundle, fagot. Cf. {Fagotto}.] 1. A bundle of sticks, twigs, or small branches of trees, used for fuel, for raising batteries, filling ditches, or other purposes in fortification; a fascine. --Shak. 2. A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a pile. 3. (Mus.) A bassoon. See {Fagotto}. 4. A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company. [Eng.] --Addison. 5. An old shriveled woman. [Slang, Eng.] {Fagot iron}, iron, in bars or masses, manufactured from fagots. {Fagot vote}, the vote of a person who has been constituted a voter by being made a landholder, for party purposes. [Political cant, Eng.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fagot \Fag"ot\v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fagoted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fagoting}.] To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle; also, to collect promiscuously. --Dryden.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fascet \Fas"cet\, n. (Glass Making) A wire basket on the end of a rod to carry glass bottles, etc., to the annealing furnace; also, an iron rod to be thrust into the mouths of bottles, and used for the same purpose; -- called also {pontee} and {punty}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fasciate \Fas"ciate\, Fasciated \Fas"cia`ted\, a. [L. fasciatus, p. p. of fasciare to envelop with bands, fr. fascia band. See {Fasces}.] 1. Bound with a fillet, sash, or bandage. 2. (Bot.) (a) Banded or compacted together. (b) Flattened and laterally widened, as are often the stems of the garden cockscomb. 3. (Zo[94]l.) Broadly banded with color.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fash \Fash\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fashed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fashing}.] [OF. faschier, F. f[?]cher, to anger, vex; cf. Pr. fasticar, fastigar, fr. L. fastidium dilike. See {Fastidious}.] To vex; to tease; to trouble. [Scot.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pyrgom \Pyr"gom\, n. [Gr. [?] a place furnished with towers, fr. [?] a tower.] (Min.) A variety of pyroxene; -- called also {fassaite}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fassaite \Fas"sa*ite\, n. (Min.) A variety of pyroxene, from the valley of Fassa, in the Tyrol.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pyrgom \Pyr"gom\, n. [Gr. [?] a place furnished with towers, fr. [?] a tower.] (Min.) A variety of pyroxene; -- called also {fassaite}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fassaite \Fas"sa*ite\, n. (Min.) A variety of pyroxene, from the valley of Fassa, in the Tyrol.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fast \Fast\, a. In such a condition, as to resilience, etc., as to make possible unusual rapidity of play or action; as, a fast racket, or tennis court; a fast track; a fast billiard table, etc.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fast \Fast\, a. [Compar. {Faster}; superl. {Fastest}.] [OE., firm, strong, not loose, AS. f[?]st; akin to OS. fast, D. vast, OHG. fasti, festi, G. fest, Icel. fastr, Sw. & Dan. fast, and perh. to E. fetter. The sense swift comes from the idea of keeping close to what is pursued; a Scandinavian use. Cf. {Fast}, adv., {Fast}, v., {Avast}.] 1. Firmly fixed; closely adhering; made firm; not loose, unstable, or easily moved; immovable; as, to make fast the door. There is an order that keeps things fast. --Burke. 2. Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable; strong. Outlaws . . . lurking in woods and fast places. --Spenser. 3. Firm in adherence; steadfast; not easily separated or alienated; faithful; as, a fast friend. 4. Permanent; not liable to fade by exposure to air or by washing; durable; lasting; as, fast colors. 5. Tenacious; retentive. [Obs.] Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of their smells. --Bacon. 6. Not easily disturbed or broken; deep; sound. All this while in a most fast sleep. --Shak. 7. Moving rapidly; quick in mition; rapid; swift; as, a fast horse. 8. Given to pleasure seeking; disregardful of restraint; reckless; wild; dissipated; dissolute; as, a fast man; a fast liver. --Thackeray. {Fast and loose}, now cohering, now disjoined; inconstant, esp. in the phrases to play at fast and loose, to play fast and loose, to act with giddy or reckless inconstancy or in a tricky manner; to say one thing and do another. [bd]Play fast and loose with faith.[b8] --Shak. {Fast and loose pulleys} (Mach.), two pulleys placed side by side on a revolving shaft, which is driven from another shaft by a band, and arranged to disengage and re[89]ngage the machinery driven thereby. When the machinery is to be stopped, the band is transferred from the pulley fixed to the shaft to the pulley which revolves freely upon it, and vice versa. {Hard and fast} (Naut.), so completely aground as to be immovable. {To make fast} (Naut.), to make secure; to fasten firmly, as a vessel, a rope, or a door.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fast \Fast\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Fasted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fasting}.] [AS. f[ae]stan; akin to D. vasten, OHG. fast[emac]n, G. fasten, Icel. & Sw. fasta, Dan. faste, Goth. fastan to keep, observe, fast, and prob. to E. fast firm.] 1. To abstain from food; to omit to take nourishment in whole or in part; to go hungry. Fasting he went to sleep, and fasting waked. --Milton. 2. To practice abstinence as a religious exercise or duty; to abstain from food voluntarily for a time, for the mortification of the body or appetites, or as a token of grief, or humiliation and penitence. Thou didst fast and weep for the child. --2 Sam. xii. 21. {Fasting day}, a fast day; a day of fasting.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fast \Fast\, n. [OE. faste, fast; cf. AS. f[91]sten, OHG. fasta, G. faste. See {Fast}, v. i.] 1. Abstinence from food; omission to take nourishment. Surfeit is the father of much fast. --Shak. 2. Voluntary abstinence from food, for a space of time, as a spiritual discipline, or as a token of religious humiliation. 3. A time of fasting, whether a day, week, or longer time; a period of abstinence from food or certain kinds of food; as, an annual fast. {Fast day}, a day appointed for fasting, humiliation, and religious offices as a means of invoking the favor of God. {To break one's fast}, to put an end to a period of abstinence by taking food; especially, to take one's morning meal; to breakfast. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fast \Fast\, adv. [OE. faste firmly, strongly, quickly, AS. f[91]ste. See {Fast}, a.] 1. In a fast, fixed, or firmly established manner; fixedly; firmly; immovably. We will bind thee fast. --Judg. xv. 13. 2. In a fast or rapid manner; quickly; swiftly; extravagantly; wildly; as, to run fast; to live fast. {Fast by}, [or] {Fast beside}, close or near to; near at hand. He, after Eve seduced, unminded slunk Into the wood fast by. --Milton. Fast by the throne obsequious Fame resides. --Pope.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fast \Fast\, n. That which fastens or holds; especially, (Naut.) a mooring rope, hawser, or chain; -- called, according to its position, a bow, head, quarter, breast, or stern fast; also, a post on a pier around which hawsers are passed in mooring.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fast \Fast\, n. [OF. fust, F. f[?]t, fr. L. fustis stick staff.] (Arch.) The shaft of a column, or trunk of pilaster. --Gwilt.
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Fast \Fast\, n. [OE. faste, fast; cf. AS. f[91]sten, OHG. fasta, G. faste. See {Fast}, v. i.] 1. Abstinence from food; omission to take nourishment. Surfeit is the father of much fast. --Shak. 2. Voluntary abstinence from food, for a space of time, as a spiritual discipline, or as a token of religious humiliation. 3. A time of fasting, whether a day, week, or longer time; a period of abstinence from food or certain kinds of food; as, an annual fast. {Fast day}, a day appointed for fasting, humiliation, and religious offices as a means of invoking the favor of God. {To break one's fast}, to put an end to a period of abstinence by taking food; especially, to take one's morning meal; to breakfast. --Shak.
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Faucet \Fau"cet\, n. [F. fausset, perh. fr. L. fauces throat.] 1. A fixture for drawing a liquid, as water, molasses, oil, etc., from a pipe, cask, or other vessel, in such quantities as may be desired; -- called also {tap}, and {cock}. It consists of a tubular spout, stopped with a movable plug, spigot, valve, or slide. 2. The enlarged end of a section of pipe which receives the spigot end of the next section.
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Faxed \Faxed\, a. [AS. feaxede haired, fr. feax hair. Cf. {Paxwax}.] Hairy. [Obs.] --amden.
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Feast \Feast\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Feasted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Feasting}.] [OE. festen, cf. OF. fester to rest from work, F. f[88]ter to celebrate a holiday. See {Feast}, n.] 1. To eat sumptuously; to dine or sup on rich provisions, particularly in large companies, and on public festivals. And his sons went and feasted in their houses. --Job. i. 4. 2. To be highly gratified or delighted. With my love's picture then my eye doth feast. --Shak.
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Feast \Feast\ (f[emac]st), n. [OE. feste festival, holiday, feast, OF. feste festival, F. f[88]te, fr. L. festum, pl. festa, fr. festus joyful, festal; of uncertain origin. Cf. {Fair}, n., {Festal}, {F[ecir]te}.] 1. A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary. The seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord. --Ex. xiii. 6. Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover. --Luke ii. 41. Note: Ecclesiastical fasts are called immovable when they always occur on the same day of the year; otherwise they are called movable. 2. A festive or joyous meal; a grand, ceremonious, or sumptuous entertainment, of which many guests partake; a banquet characterized by tempting variety and abundance of food. Enough is as good as a feast. --Old Proverb. Belshazzar the King made a great feast to a thousand of his lords. --Dan. v. 1. 3. That which is partaken of, or shared in, with delight; something highly agreeable; entertainment. The feast of reason, and the flow of soul. --Pope. {Feast day}, a holiday; a day set as a solemn commemo[?]ative festival. Syn: Entertainment; regale; banquet; treat; carousal; festivity; festival. Usage: {Feast}, {Banquet}, {Festival}, {Carousal}. A feast sets before us viands superior in quantity, variety, and abudance; a banquet is a luxurious feast; a festival is the joyful celebration by good cheer of some agreeable event. Carousal is unrestrained indulgence in frolic and drink.
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Feast \Feast\, v. t. 1. To entertain with sumptuous provisions; to treat at the table bountifully; as, he was feasted by the king. --Hayward. 2. To delight; to gratify; as, to feast the soul. Feast your ears with the music a while. --Shak.
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Feast \Feast\ (f[emac]st), n. [OE. feste festival, holiday, feast, OF. feste festival, F. f[88]te, fr. L. festum, pl. festa, fr. festus joyful, festal; of uncertain origin. Cf. {Fair}, n., {Festal}, {F[ecir]te}.] 1. A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary. The seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord. --Ex. xiii. 6. Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover. --Luke ii. 41. Note: Ecclesiastical fasts are called immovable when they always occur on the same day of the year; otherwise they are called movable. 2. A festive or joyous meal; a grand, ceremonious, or sumptuous entertainment, of which many guests partake; a banquet characterized by tempting variety and abundance of food. Enough is as good as a feast. --Old Proverb. Belshazzar the King made a great feast to a thousand of his lords. --Dan. v. 1. 3. That which is partaken of, or shared in, with delight; something highly agreeable; entertainment. The feast of reason, and the flow of soul. --Pope. {Feast day}, a holiday; a day set as a solemn commemo[?]ative festival. Syn: Entertainment; regale; banquet; treat; carousal; festivity; festival. Usage: {Feast}, {Banquet}, {Festival}, {Carousal}. A feast sets before us viands superior in quantity, variety, and abudance; a banquet is a luxurious feast; a festival is the joyful celebration by good cheer of some agreeable event. Carousal is unrestrained indulgence in frolic and drink.
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Feaze \Feaze\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Feazed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Feazing}.] [Cf. OE. faseln to ravel, fr. AS. f[91]s fringe; akin to G. fasen to separate fibers or threads, fasen, faser, thread, filament, OHG. faso.] To untwist; to unravel, as the end of a rope. --Johnson.
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Fescue \Fes"cue\ (f[ecr]s"k[usl]), v. i. & t. [imp. & p. p. {Fescued}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fescuing}.] To use a fescue, or teach with a fescue. --Milton.
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Fest \Fest\, n. [See {Fist}.] The fist. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Fest \Fest\, Feste \Fes"te\, n. A feast. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Fest \Fest\, Feste \Fes"te\, n. A feast. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Festeye \Fest"eye\, v. t. [OF. festier, festeer, F. festoyer.] To feast; to entertain. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Festue \Fes"tue\, n. [See {Fescue}.] A straw; a fescue. [Obs.] --Holland.
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Few \Few\ (f[umac]), a. [Compar. {Fewer}; superl. {Fewest}.] [OE. fewe, feawe, AS. fe[a0], pl. fe[a0]we; akin to OS. f[be]h, OHG. f[omac] fao, Icel. f[be]r, Sw. f[86], pl., Dan. faa, pl., Goth. faus, L. paucus, cf. Gr. pay^ros. Cf. {Paucity}.] Not many; small, limited, or confined in number; -- indicating a small portion of units or individuals constituing a whole; often, by ellipsis of a noun, a few people. [bd]Are not my days few?[b8] --Job x. 20. Few know and fewer care. --Proverb. Note: Few is often used partitively; as, few of them. {A few}, a small number. {In few}, in a few words; briefly. --Shak. {No few}, not few; more than a few; many. --Cowper. {The few}, the minority; -- opposed to the many or the majority.
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Fitched \Fitched\, a. (her.) Fitch[82]. [Also {fiched}.]
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Fight \Fight\, n. [OE. fight, feht, AS. feoht. See {Fight}, v. i.] 1. A battle; an engagement; a contest in arms; a combat; a violent conflict or struggle for victory, between individuals or between armies, ships, or navies, etc. Who now defies thee thrice to single fight. --Milton. 2. A struggle or contest of any kind. 3. Strength or disposition for fighting; pugnacity; as, he has a great deal of fight in him. [Colloq.] 4. A screen for the combatants in ships. [Obs.] Up with your fights, and your nettings prepare. --Dryden. {Running fight}, a fight in which the enemy is continually chased; also, one which continues without definite end or result. Syn: Combat; engagement; contest; struggle; encounter; fray; affray; action; conflict. See {Battle}.
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Fight \Fight\ (f[imac]t), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Fought} (f[add]t); p. pr. & vb. n. {Fighting}.] [OE. fihten, fehten, AS. feohtan; akin to D. vechten, OHG. fehtan, G. fechten, Sw. f[84]kta, Dan. fegte, and perh. to E. fist; cf. L. pugnare to fight, pugnus fist.] 1. To strive or contend for victory, with armies or in single combat; to attempt to defeat, subdue, or destroy an enemy, either by blows or weapons; to contend in arms; -- followed by with or against. You do fight against your country's foes. --Shak. To fight with thee no man of arms will deign. --Milton. 2. To act in opposition to anything; to struggle against; to contend; to strive; to make resistance. {To fight shy}, to avoid meeting fairly or at close quarters; to keep out of reach.
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Fight \Fight\, v. t. 1. To carry on, or wage, as a conflict, or battle; to win or gain by struggle, as one's way; to sustain by fighting, as a cause. He had to fight his way through the world. --Macaulay. I have fought a good fight. --2 Tim. iv. 7. 2. To contend with in battle; to war against; as, they fought the enemy in two pitched battles; the sloop fought the frigate for three hours. 3. To cause to fight; to manage or maneuver in a fight; as, to fight cocks; to fight one's ship. {To fight it out}, to fight until a decisive and conclusive result is reached.
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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.
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Fish \Fish\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Fished}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fishing}.] 1. To attempt to catch fish; to be employed in taking fish, by any means, as by angling or drawing a net. 2. To seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments. Any other fishing question. --Sir W. Scott.
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Index \In"dex\, n.; pl. E. {Indexes}, L. {Indices}([?]). [L.: cf. F. index. See {Indicate}, {Diction}.] 1. That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses. Tastes are the indexes of the different qualities of plants. --Arbuthnot. 2. That which guides, points out, informs, or directs; a pointer or a hand that directs to anything, as the hand of a watch, a movable finger on a gauge, scale, or other graduated instrument. In printing, a sign [[b5]] used to direct particular attention to a note or paragraph; -- called also {fist}.
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Fist \Fist\, n. [OE. fist, fust, AS. f[?]st; akin to D. vuist, OHG. f[?]st, G. faust, and prob. to L. pugnus, Gr. [?] fist, [?] with the fist. Cf. {Pugnacious}, {Pigmy}.] 1. The hand with the fingers doubled into the palm; the closed hand, especially as clinched tightly for the purpose of striking a blow. Who grasp the earth and heaven with my fist. --Herbert. 2. The talons of a bird of prey. [Obs.] More light than culver in the falcon's fist. --Spenser. 3. (print.) the index mark [[hand]], used to direct special attention to the passage which follows. {Hand over fist} (Naut.), rapidly; hand over hand.
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Fist \Fist\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fisted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fisting}.] 1. To strike with the fist. --Dryden. 2. To gripe with the fist. [Obs.] --Shak.
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Index \In"dex\, n.; pl. E. {Indexes}, L. {Indices}([?]). [L.: cf. F. index. See {Indicate}, {Diction}.] 1. That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses. Tastes are the indexes of the different qualities of plants. --Arbuthnot. 2. That which guides, points out, informs, or directs; a pointer or a hand that directs to anything, as the hand of a watch, a movable finger on a gauge, scale, or other graduated instrument. In printing, a sign [[b5]] used to direct particular attention to a note or paragraph; -- called also {fist}.
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Fist \Fist\, n. [OE. fist, fust, AS. f[?]st; akin to D. vuist, OHG. f[?]st, G. faust, and prob. to L. pugnus, Gr. [?] fist, [?] with the fist. Cf. {Pugnacious}, {Pigmy}.] 1. The hand with the fingers doubled into the palm; the closed hand, especially as clinched tightly for the purpose of striking a blow. Who grasp the earth and heaven with my fist. --Herbert. 2. The talons of a bird of prey. [Obs.] More light than culver in the falcon's fist. --Spenser. 3. (print.) the index mark [[hand]], used to direct special attention to the passage which follows. {Hand over fist} (Naut.), rapidly; hand over hand.
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Fist \Fist\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fisted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fisting}.] 1. To strike with the fist. --Dryden. 2. To gripe with the fist. [Obs.] --Shak.
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Fixed \Fixed\ (f[icr]kst), a. 1. Securely placed or fastened; settled; established; firm; imovable; unalterable. 2. (Chem.) Stable; non-volatile. {Fixed air} (Old Chem.), carbonic acid or carbon dioxide; -- so called by Dr. Black because it can be absorbed or fixed by strong bases. See {Carbonic acid}, under {Carbonic}. {Fixed alkali} (Old Chem.), a non-volatile base, as soda, or potash, in distinction from the volatile alkali ammonia. {Fixed ammunition} (Mil.), a projectile and powder inclosed together in a case ready for loading. {Fixed battery} (Mil.), a battery which contains heavy guns and mortars intended to remain stationary; -- distinguished from movable battery. {Fixed bodies}, those which can not be volatilized or separated by a common menstruum, without great difficulty, as gold, platinum, lime, etc. {Fixed capital}. See the Note under {Capital}, n., 4. {Fixed fact}, a well established fact. [Colloq.] {Fixed light}, one which emits constant beams; -- distinguished from a flashing, revolving, or intermittent light. {Fixed oils} (Chem.), non-volatile, oily substances, as stearine and olein, which leave a permanent greasy stain, and which can not be distilled unchanged; -- distinguished from volatile or {essential oils}. {Fixed pivot} (Mil.), the fixed point about which any line of troops wheels. {Fixed stars} (Astron.), such stars as always retain nearly the same apparent position and distance with respect to each other, thus distinguished from planets and comets.
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Fix \Fix\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fixed} (f[icr]kst); p. pr. & vb. n. {Fixing}.] [Cf. F. fixer.] 1. To make firm, stable, or fast; to set or place permanently; to fasten immovably; to establish; to implant; to secure; to make definite. An ass's nole I fixed on his head. --Shak. O, fix thy chair of grace, that all my powers May also fix their reverence. --Herbert. His heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord. --Ps. cxii. 7. And fix far deeper in his head their stings. --Milton. 2. To hold steadily; to direct unwaveringly; to fasten, as the eye on an object, the attention on a speaker. Sat fixed in thought the mighty Stagirite. --Pope. One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven. --Young. 3. To transfix; to pierce. [Obs.] --Sandys. 4. (Photog.) To render (an impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensible to the action of light. --Abney. 5. To put in order; to arrange; to dispose of; to adjust; to set to rights; to set or place in the manner desired or most suitable; hence, to repair; as, to fix the clothes; to fix the furniture of a room. [Colloq. U.S.] 6. (Iron Manuf.) To line the hearth of (a puddling furnace) with fettling. Syn: To arrange; prepare; adjust; place; establish; settle; determine.
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Fixity \Fix"ity\ (-[icr]t[ycr]), n. [Cf. F. fixit[82].] 1. Fixedness; as, fixity of tenure; also, that which is fixed. 2. Coherence of parts. --Sir I. Newton.
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Fizz \Fizz\ (f[icr]z), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Fizzed} (f[icr]zd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Fizzing}.] [Cf. Icel. f[c6]sa to break wind, Dan. fise to foist, fizzle, OSw. fisa, G. fisten, feisten. Cf. {Foist}.] To make a hissing sound, as a burning fuse.
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Fog \Fog\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fogged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fogging}.] To envelop, as with fog; to befog; to overcast; to darken; to obscure.
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Fohist \Fo"hist\, n. A Buddhist priest. See {Fo}.
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Foist \Foist\ (foist), n. [OF. fuste stick, boat, fr. L. fustis cudgel. Cf. 1st {Fust}.] A light and fast-sailing ship. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl.
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Foist \Foist\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Foisted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Foisting}.] [Cf. OD. vysten to fizzle, D. veesten, E. fizz, fitchet, bullfist.] To insert surreptitiously, wrongfully, or without warrant; to interpolate; to pass off (something spurious or counterfeit) as genuine, true, or worthy; -- usually followed by in. Lest negligence or partiality might admit or foist in abuses and corruption. --R. Carew. When a scripture has been corrupted . . . by a supposititious foisting of some words in. --South.
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Foist \Foist\, n. 1. A foister; a sharper. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. 2. A trick or fraud; a swindle. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
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Foisty \Foist"y\, a. Fusty; musty. [Obs.] --Johnson.
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Fosset \Fos"set\, n. A faucet. [Obs.] --Shak.
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Fight \Fight\ (f[imac]t), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Fought} (f[add]t); p. pr. & vb. n. {Fighting}.] [OE. fihten, fehten, AS. feohtan; akin to D. vechten, OHG. fehtan, G. fechten, Sw. f[84]kta, Dan. fegte, and perh. to E. fist; cf. L. pugnare to fight, pugnus fist.] 1. To strive or contend for victory, with armies or in single combat; to attempt to defeat, subdue, or destroy an enemy, either by blows or weapons; to contend in arms; -- followed by with or against. You do fight against your country's foes. --Shak. To fight with thee no man of arms will deign. --Milton. 2. To act in opposition to anything; to struggle against; to contend; to strive; to make resistance. {To fight shy}, to avoid meeting fairly or at close quarters; to keep out of reach.
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Fought \Fought\, imp. & p. p. of {Fight}.
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Foxed \Foxed\, a. 1. Discolored or stained; -- said of timber, and also of the paper of books or engravings. 2. Repaired by foxing; as, foxed boots.
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Fox \Fox\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Foxed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Foxing}.] [See {Fox}, n., cf. Icel. fox imposture.] 1. To intoxicate; to stupefy with drink. I drank . . . so much wine that I was almost foxed. --Pepys. 2. To make sour, as beer, by causing it to ferment. 3. To repair the feet of, as of boots, with new front upper leather, or to piece the upper fronts of.
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Fucate \Fu"cate\, Fucated \Fu"ca*ted\a. [L. fucatus, p. p. of fucare to color, paint, fr. fucus.] Painted; disguised with paint, or with false show.
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Fucoid \Fu"coid\, a. [Fucus + -oid.] (Bot.) (a) Properly, belonging to an order of alga: ({Fucoide[91]}) which are blackish in color, and produce o[94]spores which are not fertilized until they have escaped from the conceptacle. The common rockweeds and the gulfweed ({Sargassum}) are fucoid in character. (b) In a vague sense, resembling seaweeds, or of the nature of seaweeds.
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Fucoid \Fu"coid\, n. (Bot.) A plant, whether recent or fossil, which resembles a seaweed. See {Fucoid}, a.
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Fuse \Fuse\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fused} (fuzd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Fusing}.] [L. fusus, p. p. of fundere to pour, melt, cast. See {Foundo} to cast, and cf. Futile.] 1. To liquefy by heat; to render fiuid; to dissolve; to melt. 2. To unite or blend, as if melted together. Whose fancy fuses old and new. --Tennyson.
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Fuss \Fuss\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Fussed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fussing}.] To be overbusy or unduly anxious about trifles; to make a bustle or ado. --Sir W. Scott.
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Fust \Fust\, n. [OF. fust cask, F. f[?]t cask, taste or smell of the caak, fustiness, cf. sentir le f[?]t to taste of the cask. See {1st Fust}.] A strong, musty smell; mustiness.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fust \Fust\, v. i. To become moldy; to smell ill. [Obs.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fusty \Fusty\, a. [Compar. {Fustier}; superl {Fustiest}.] [See {2d Fust}.] 1. Moldy; musty; ill-smelling; rank. [bd]A fusty plebeians.[b8] --Shak. 2. Moping. [Archaic] A melancholy, fusty humor. --Pepys.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Faga'itua, AS (village, FIPS 23300) Location: 14.27893 S, 170.61429 W Population (1990): 455 (77 housing units) Area: 1.4 sq km (land), 2.2 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Faucett, MO Zip code(s): 64448
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Fisty, KY Zip code(s): 41743
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Fuget, KY Zip code(s): 41220, 41266
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
FACT {Fully Automated Compiling Technique}
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
fact The kind of {clause} used in {logic programming} which has no {subgoals} and so is always true (always succeeds). E.g. wet(water). male(denis). This is in contrast to a {rule} which only succeeds if all its subgoals do. Rules usually contain {logic variables}, facts rarely do, except for oddities like "equal(X,X).". (1996-10-20)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
FACT {Fully Automated Compiling Technique}
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
fact The kind of {clause} used in {logic programming} which has no {subgoals} and so is always true (always succeeds). E.g. wet(water). male(denis). This is in contrast to a {rule} which only succeeds if all its subgoals do. Rules usually contain {logic variables}, facts rarely do, except for oddities like "equal(X,X).". (1996-10-20)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
FAST 1. {Federation Against Software Theft}. 2. {Fortran Automatic Symbol Translator}. (1996-05-19)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
F-code The code for the {FP/M} {abstract machine}. ["FP/M Abstract Syntax Description", Roger Bailey, Dept Computing, Imperial College, U London, 1985]1w. (1994-12-01)
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Fast The sole fast required by the law of Moses was that of the great Day of Atonement (q.v.), Lev. 23:26-32. It is called "the fast" (Acts 27:9). The only other mention of a periodical fast in the Old Testament is in Zech. 7:1-7; 8:19, from which it appears that during their captivity the Jews observed four annual fasts. (1.) The fast of the fourth month, kept on the seventeenth day of Tammuz, the anniversary of the capture of Jerusalem by the Chaldeans; to commemorate also the incident recorded Ex. 32:19. (Comp. Jer. 52:6, 7.) (2.) The fast of the fifth month, kept on the ninth of Ab (comp. Num. 14:27), to commemorate the burning of the city and temple (Jer. 52:12, 13). (3.) The fast of the seventh month, kept on the third of Tisri (comp. 2 Kings 25), the anniversary of the murder of Gedaliah (Jer. 41:1, 2). (4.) The fast of the tenth month (comp. Jer. 52:4; Ezek. 33:21; 2 Kings 25:1), to commemorate the beginning of the siege of the holy city by Nebuchadnezzar. There was in addition to these the fast appointed by Esther (4:16). Public national fasts on account of sin or to supplicate divine favour were sometimes held. (1.) 1 Sam. 7:6; (2.) 2 Chr. 20:3; (3.) Jer. 36:6-10; (4.) Neh. 9:1. There were also local fasts. (1.) Judg. 20:26; (2.) 2 Sam. 1:12; (3.) 1 Sam. 31:13; (4.) 1 Kings 21:9-12; (5.) Ezra 8:21-23: (6.) Jonah 3:5-9. There are many instances of private occasional fasting (1 Sam. 1:7: 20:34; 2 Sam. 3:35; 12:16; 1 Kings 21:27; Ezra 10:6; Neh. 1:4; Dan. 10:2,3). Moses fasted forty days (Ex. 24:18; 34:28), and so also did Elijah (1 Kings 19:8). Our Lord fasted forty days in the wilderness (Matt. 4:2). In the lapse of time the practice of fasting was lamentably abused (Isa. 58:4; Jer. 14:12; Zech. 7:5). Our Lord rebuked the Pharisees for their hypocritical pretences in fasting (Matt. 6:16). He himself appointed no fast. The early Christians, however, observed the ordinary fasts according to the law of their fathers (Acts 13:3; 14:23; 2 Cor. 6:5).
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Feast as a mark of hospitality (Gen. 19:3; 2 Sam. 3:20; 2 Kings 6:23); on occasions of domestic joy (Luke 15:23; Gen. 21:8); on birthdays (Gen. 40:20; Job 1:4; Matt. 14:6); and on the occasion of a marriage (Judg. 14:10; Gen. 29:22). Feasting was a part of the observances connected with the offering up of sacrifices (Deut. 12:6, 7; 1 Sam. 9:19; 16:3, 5), and with the annual festivals (Deut. 16:11). "It was one of the designs of the greater solemnities, which required the attendance of the people at the sacred tent, that the oneness of the nation might be maintained and cemented together, by statedly congregating in one place, and with one soul taking part in the same religious services. But that oneness was primarily and chiefly a religious and not merely a political one; the people were not merely to meet as among themselves, but with Jehovah, and to present themselves before him as one body; the meeting was in its own nature a binding of themselves in fellowship with Jehovah; so that it was not politics and commerce that had here to do, but the soul of the Mosaic dispensation, the foundation of the religious and political existence of Israel, the covenant with Jehovah. To keep the people's consciousness alive to this, to revive, strengthen, and perpetuate it, nothing could be so well adapated as these annual feasts." (See {FESTIVALS}.)