filmy : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

   fall in
         v 1: break down, literally or metaphorically; "The wall
               collapsed"; "The business collapsed"; "The dam broke"; "The
               roof collapsed"; "The wall gave in"; "The roof finally gave
               under the weight of the ice" [syn: {collapse}, {fall in},
               {cave in}, {give}, {give way}, {break}, {founder}]
         2: to take one's place in a military formation or line; "Troops
            fall in!"
         3: become part of; become a member of a group or organization;
            "He joined the Communist Party as a young man" [syn: {join},
            {fall in}, {get together}]

English Dictionary: filmy	by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fallen adj having dropped by the force of gravity; "fallen leaves covered the forest floor"; "sat on a fallen tree trunk" having fallen in or collapsed; "a fallen building" having lost your chastity; "a fallen woman" killed in battle; "to honor fallen soldiers"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
feline adj of or relating to cats; "feline fur" n any of various lithe-bodied roundheaded fissiped mammals, many with retractile claws Synonym(s): feline, felid
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Fellini n Italian filmmaker (1920-1993) [syn: Fellini, {Federico Fellini}]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
felon n someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime Synonym(s): criminal, felon, crook, outlaw, malefactor a purulent infection at the end of a finger or toe in the area surrounding the nail Synonym(s): felon, whitlow
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
felony n a serious crime (such as murder or arson)
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
file in v enter by marching in a file Antonym(s): file out
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fill in v supply with information on a specific topic; "He filled me in on the latest developments" represent the effect of shade or shadow on Synonym(s): shade, fill in be a substitute; "The young teacher had to substitute for the sick colleague"; "The skim milk substitutes for cream--we are on a strict diet" Synonym(s): substitute, sub, stand in, fill in write all the required information onto a form; "fill out this questionnaire, please!"; "make out a form" Synonym(s): complete, fill out, fill in, make out
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fill-in n someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult); "the star had a stand-in for dangerous scenes"; "we need extra employees for summer fill-ins" Synonym(s): stand-in, substitute, relief, reliever, backup, backup man, fill-in
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
film n a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement; "they went to a movie every Saturday night"; "the film was shot on location" Synonym(s): movie, film, picture, moving picture, moving-picture show, motion picture, motion-picture show, picture show, pic, flick a medium that disseminates moving pictures; "theater pieces transferred to celluloid"; "this story would be good cinema"; "film coverage of sporting events" Synonym(s): film, cinema, celluloid photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion; used to make negatives or transparencies Synonym(s): film, photographic film a thin coating or layer; "the table was covered with a film of dust" a thin sheet of (usually plastic and usually transparent) material used to wrap or cover things Synonym(s): film, plastic film v make a film or photograph of something; "take a scene"; "shoot a movie" Synonym(s): film, shoot, take record in film; "The coronation was filmed"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
filmy adj so thin as to transmit light; "a hat with a diaphanous veil"; "filmy wings of a moth"; "gauzy clouds of dandelion down"; "gossamer cobwebs"; "sheer silk stockings"; "transparent chiffon"; "vaporous silks" Synonym(s): diaphanous, filmy, gauzy, gauze-like, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous, cobwebby
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
filum n a threadlike structure (as a chainlike series of cells) Synonym(s): filament, filum
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
flame n the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke; "fire was one of our ancestors' first discoveries" Synonym(s): fire, flame, flaming v shine with a sudden light; "The night sky flared with the massive bombardment" Synonym(s): flare, flame be in flames or aflame; "The sky seemed to flame in the Hawaiian sunset" criticize harshly, usually via an electronic medium; "the person who posted an inflammatory message got flamed"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
flan n open pastry filled with fruit or custard
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
flume n a narrow gorge with a stream running through it [syn: gulch, flume] watercourse that consists of an open artificial chute filled with water for power or for carrying logs
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fly on v continue flying
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
folium n a thin layer or stratum of (especially metamorphic) rock
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
follow-on n an immediate second innings forced on a cricket team scoring a prescribed number of runs fewer than its opponents in the first innings
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
foul line n a line from which basketball players take penalty shots a line across a bowling alley that a bowler must not cross lines through 1st and 3rd base indicating the boundaries of a baseball field
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fuel line n a pipe that carries gasoline from a tank to a gasoline engine; "the car wouldn't start because dirt clogged the gas line" Synonym(s): fuel line, gas line, petrol line
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Fulani n a member of a pastoral and nomadic people of western Africa; they are traditionally cattle herders of Muslim faith Synonym(s): Fulani, Fula, Fulah, Fellata, Fulbe a family of languages of the Fulani of West Africa and used as a lingua franca in the sub-Saharan regions from Senegal to Chad; the best known of the West African languages Synonym(s): Fula, Ful, Fulani, Peul
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fall \Fall\ (f[add]l), v. i. [imp. {Fell}; p. p. {Fallen}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Falling}.] [AS. feallan; akin to D. vallen, OS. & OHG. fallan, G. fallen, Icel. Falla, Sw. falla, Dan. falde, Lith. pulti, L. fallere to deceive, Gr. sfa`llein to cause to fall, Skr. sphal, sphul, to tremble. Cf. {Fail}, {Fell}, v. t., to cause to fall.] 1. To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; the mercury falls in the barometer. I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. --Luke x. 18. 2. To cease to be erect; to take suddenly a recumbent posture; to become prostrate; to drop; as, a child totters and falls; a tree falls; a worshiper falls on his knees. I fell at his feet to worship him. --Rev. xix. 10. 3. To find a final outlet; to discharge its waters; to empty; -- with into; as, the river Rhone falls into the Mediterranean. 4. To become prostrate and dead; to die; especially, to die by violence, as in battle. A thousand shall fall at thy side. --Ps. xci. 7. He rushed into the field, and, foremost fighting, fell. --Byron. 5. To cease to be active or strong; to die away; to lose strength; to subside; to become less intense; as, the wind falls. 6. To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; -- said of the young of certain animals. --Shak. 7. To decline in power, glory, wealth, or importance; to become insignificant; to lose rank or position; to decline in weight, value, price etc.; to become less; as, the falls; stocks fell two points. I am a poor falle man, unworthy now To be thy lord and master. --Shak. The greatness of these Irish lords suddenly fell and vanished. --Sir J. Davies. 8. To be overthrown or captured; to be destroyed. Heaven and earth will witness, If Rome must fall, that we are innocent. --Addison. 9. To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin; to depart from the faith; to apostatize; to sin. Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. --Heb. iv. 11. 10. To become insnared or embarrassed; to be entrapped; to be worse off than before; asm to fall into error; to fall into difficulties. 11. To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; -- said of the countenance. Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. --Gen. iv. 5. I have observed of late thy looks are fallen. --Addison. 12. To sink; to languish; to become feeble or faint; as, our spirits rise and fall with our fortunes. 13. To pass somewhat suddenly, and passively, into a new state of body or mind; to become; as, to fall asleep; to fall into a passion; to fall in love; to fall into temptation. 14. To happen; to to come to pass; to light; to befall; to issue; to terminate. The Romans fell on this model by chance. --Swift. Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the matter will fall. --Ruth. iii. 18. They do not make laws, they fall into customs. --H. Spencer. 15. To come; to occur; to arrive. The vernal equinox, which at the Nicene Council fell on the 21st of March, falls now [1694] about ten days sooner. --Holder. 16. To begin with haste, ardor, or vehemence; to rush or hurry; as, they fell to blows. They now no longer doubted, but fell to work heart and soul. --Jowett (Thucyd. ). 17. To pass or be transferred by chance, lot, distribution, inheritance, or otherwise; as, the estate fell to his brother; the kingdom fell into the hands of his rivals. 18. To belong or appertain. If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all. --Pope. 19. To be dropped or uttered carelessly; as, an unguarded expression fell from his lips; not a murmur fell from him. {To fall abroad of} (Naut.), to strike against; -- applied to one vessel coming into collision with another. {To fall among}, to come among accidentally or unexpectedly. {To fall astern} (Naut.), to move or be driven backward; to be left behind; as, a ship falls astern by the force of a current, or when outsailed by another. {To fall away}. (a) To lose flesh; to become lean or emaciated; to pine. (b) To renounce or desert allegiance; to revolt or rebel. (c) To renounce or desert the faith; to apostatize. [bd]These . . . for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.[b8] --Luke viii. 13. (d) To perish; to vanish; to be lost. [bd]How . . . can the soul . . . fall away into nothing?[b8] --Addison. (e) To decline gradually; to fade; to languish, or become faint. [bd]One color falls away by just degrees, and another rises insensibly.[b8] --Addison. {To fall back}. (a) To recede or retreat; to give way. (b) To fail of performing a promise or purpose; not to fulfill. {To fall back upon}. (a) (Mil.) To retreat for safety to (a stronger position in the rear, as to a fort or a supporting body of troops). (b) To have recourse to (a reserved fund, or some available expedient or support). {To fall calm}, to cease to blow; to become calm. {To fall down}. (a) To prostrate one's self in worship. [bd]All kings shall fall down before him.[b8] --Ps. lxxii. 11. (b) To sink; to come to the ground. [bd]Down fell the beauteous youth.[b8] --Dryden. (c) To bend or bow, as a suppliant. (d) (Naut.) To sail or drift toward the mouth of a river or other outlet. {To fall flat}, to produce no response or result; to fail of the intended effect; as, his speech fell flat. {To fall foul of}. (a) (Naut.) To have a collision with; to become entangled with (b) To attack; to make an assault upon. {To fall from}, to recede or depart from; not to adhere to; as, to fall from an agreement or engagement; to fall from allegiance or duty. {To fall from grace} (M. E. Ch.), to sin; to withdraw from the faith. {To fall home} (Ship Carp.), to curve inward; -- said of the timbers or upper parts of a ship's side which are much within a perpendicular. {To fall in}. (a) To sink inwards; as, the roof fell in. (b) (Mil.) To take one's proper or assigned place in line; as, to fall in on the right. (c) To come to an end; to terminate; to lapse; as, on the death of Mr. B., the annuuity, which he had so long received, fell in. (d) To become operative. [bd]The reversion, to which he had been nominated twenty years before, fell in.[b8] --Macaulay. {To fall into one's hands}, to pass, often suddenly or unexpectedly, into one's ownership or control; as, to spike cannon when they are likely to fall into the hands of the enemy. {To fall in with}. (a) To meet with accidentally; as, to fall in with a friend. (b) (Naut.) To meet, as a ship; also, to discover or come near, as land. (c) To concur with; to agree with; as, the measure falls in with popular opinion. (d) To comply; to yield to. [bd]You will find it difficult to persuade learned men to fall in with your projects.[b8] --Addison. {To fall off}. (a) To drop; as, fruits fall off when ripe. (b) To withdraw; to separate; to become detached; as, friends fall off in adversity. [bd]Love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide.[b8] --Shak. (c) To perish; to die away; as, words fall off by disuse. (d) To apostatize; to forsake; to withdraw from the faith, or from allegiance or duty. Those captive tribes . . . fell off From God to worship calves. --Milton. (e) To forsake; to abandon; as, his customers fell off. (f) To depreciate; to change for the worse; to deteriorate; to become less valuable, abundant, or interesting; as, a falling off in the wheat crop; the magazine or the review falls off. [bd]O Hamlet, what a falling off was there![b8] --Shak. (g) (Naut.) To deviate or trend to the leeward of the point to which the head of the ship was before directed; to fall to leeward. {To fall on}. (a) To meet with; to light upon; as, we have fallen on evil days. (b) To begin suddenly and eagerly. [bd]Fall on, and try the appetite to eat.[b8] --Dryden. (c) To begin an attack; to assault; to assail. [bd]Fall on, fall on, and hear him not.[b8] --Dryden. (d) To drop on; to descend on. {To fall out}. (a) To quarrel; to begin to contend. A soul exasperated in ills falls out With everything, its friend, itself. --Addison. (b) To happen; to befall; to chance. [bd]There fell out a bloody quarrel betwixt the frogs and the mice.[b8] --L'Estrange. (c) (Mil.) To leave the ranks, as a soldier. {To fall over}. (a) To revolt; to desert from one side to another. (b) To fall beyond. --Shak. {To fall short}, to be deficient; as, the corn falls short; they all fall short in duty. {To fall through}, to come to nothing; to fail; as, the engageent has fallen through. {To fall to}, to begin. [bd]Fall to, with eager joy, on homely food.[b8] --Dryden. {To fall under}. (a) To come under, or within the limits of; to be subjected to; as, they fell under the jurisdiction of the emperor. (b) To come under; to become the subject of; as, this point did not fall under the cognizance or deliberations of the court; these things do not fall under human sight or observation. (c) To come within; to be ranged or reckoned with; to be subordinate to in the way of classification; as, these substances fall under a different class or order. {To fall upon}. (a) To attack. [See {To fall on}.] (b) To attempt; to have recourse to. [bd]I do not intend to fall upon nice disquisitions.[b8] --Holder. (c) To rush against. Note: Fall primarily denotes descending motion, either in a perpendicular or inclined direction, and, in most of its applications, implies, literally or figuratively, velocity, haste, suddenness, or violence. Its use is so various, and so mush diversified by modifying words, that it is not easy to enumerate its senses in all its applications.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fallen \Fall"en\, a. Dropped; prostrate; degraded; ruined; decreased; dead. Some ruined temple or fallen monument. --Rogers.
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Feline \Fe"line\, a. [L. felinus, fr. feles, felis, cat, prob. orig., the fruitful: cf. F. f[82]lin. See {Fetus}.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) Catlike; of or pertaining to the genus Felis, or family {Felid[91]}; as, the feline race; feline voracity. 2. Characteristic of cats; sly; stealthy; treacherous; as, a feline nature; feline manners.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Fellah \[d8]Fel"lah\, n.; pl. Ar. {Fellahin}, E. {Fellahs}. [Ar.] A peasant or cultivator of the soil among the Egyptians, Syrians, etc. --W. M. Thomson.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fulahs \Fu"lahs`\, Foolahs \Foo"lahs`\, n. pl.; sing. {Fulah}, {Foolah}. (Ethnol.) A peculiar African race of uncertain origin, but distinct from the negro tribes, inhabiting an extensive region of Western Soudan. Their color is brown or yellowish bronze. They are Mohammedans. Called also {Fellatahs}, {Foulahs}, and {Fellani}. Fulah is also used adjectively; as, Fulah empire, tribes, language.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fellon \Fel"lon\, n. Variant of {Felon}. [Obs.] Those two were foes the fellonest on ground. --Spenser.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Felon \Fel"on\, n. [OE., adj., cruel, n., villain, ruffian, traitor, whitlow, F. f[82]lon traitor, in OF. also, villain, fr. LL. felo. See Fell, a.] 1. (Law) A person who has committed a felony. 2. A person guilty or capable of heinous crime. 3. (Med.) A kind of whitlow; a painful imflammation of the periosteum of a finger, usually of the last joint. Syn: Criminal; convict; malefactor; culprit.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Felon \Fel"on\, a. Characteristic of a felon; malignant; fierce; malicious; cruel; traitorous; disloyal. Vain shows of love to vail his felon hate. --Pope.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Felony \Fel"o*ny\, n.; pl. {Felonies}. [OE. felonie cruelty, OF. felonie, F. f[82]lonie treachery, malice. See {Felon}, n.] 1. (Feudal Law) An act on the part of the vassal which cost him his fee by forfeiture. --Burrill. 2. (O.Eng.Law) An offense which occasions a total forfeiture either lands or goods, or both, at the common law, and to which capital or other punishment may be added, according to the degree of guilt. 3. A heinous crime; especially, a crime punishable by death or imprisonment. Note: Forfeiture for crime having been generally abolished in the United States, the term felony, in American law, has lost this point of distinction; and its meaning, where not fixed by statute, is somewhat vague and undefined; generally, however, it is used to denote an offense of a high grade, punishable either capitally or by a term of imprisonment. In Massachusetts, by statute, any crime punishable by death or imprisonment in the state prison, and no other, is a felony; so in New York. the tendency now is to obliterate the distinction between felonies and misdemeanors; and this has been done partially in England, and completely in some of the States of the Union. The distinction is purely arbitrary, and its entire abolition is only a question of time. Note: There is no lawyer who would undertake to tell what a felony is, otherwise than by enumerating the various kinds of offenses which are so called. originally, the word felony had a meaning: it denoted all offenses the penalty of which included forfeiture of goods; but subsequent acts of Parliament have declared various offenses to be felonies, without enjoining that penalty, and have taken away the penalty from others, which continue, nevertheless, to be called felonies, insomuch that the acts so called have now no property whatever in common, save that of being unlawful and purnishable. --J. S. Mill.
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Film \Film\, n. (Photog.) The layer, usually of gelatin or collodion, containing the sensitive salts of photographic plates; also, the flexible sheet of celluloid or the like on which this layer is sometimes mounted. {Celluloid film} (Photog.), a thin flexible sheet of celluloid, coated with a sensitized emulsion of gelatin, and used as a substitute for photographic plates. {Cut film} (Photog.), a celluloid film cut into pieces suitable for use in a camera.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Film \Film\, n. [AS. film skin, fr. fell skin; akin to fylmen membrane, OFries. filmene skin. See {Fell} skin.] 1. A thin skin; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity; hence, any thin, slight covering. He from thick films shall purge the visual ray. --Pope. 2. A slender thread, as that of a cobweb. Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of film. --Shak.
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Film \Film\, v. t. To cover with a thin skin or pellicle. It will but skin and film the ulcerous place. --Shak.
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Filmy \Film"y\, a. Composed of film or films. Whose filmy cord should bind the struggling fly. --Dryden.
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Flain \Flain\, obs. p. p. of {Flay}. --Chaucer.
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Flam \Flam\ (fl[acr]m), n. [Cf. AS. {fle[a0]m}, {fl[aemac]m}, flight. [root] 84 . Cf. {Flimflam}.] A freak or whim; also, a falsehood; a lie; an illusory pretext; deception; delusion. [Obs.] A perpetual abuse and flam upon posterity. --South.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Flam \Flam\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Flammed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Flamming}.] To deceive with a falsehood. [Obs.] God is not to be flammed off with lies. --South.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Flame \Flame\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Flamed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Flaming}.] [OE. flamen, flaumben, F. flamber, OF. also, flamer. See {Flame}, n.] 1. To burn with a flame or blaze; to burn as gas emitted from bodies in combustion; to blaze. The main blaze of it is past, but a small thing would make it flame again. --Shak. 2. To burst forth like flame; to break out in violence of passion; to be kindled with zeal or ardor. He flamed with indignation. --Macaulay.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Flame \Flame\ (fl[amac]m), n. [OE. flame, flaume, flaumbe, OF. flame, flambe, F. flamme, fr. L. flamma, fr. flamma, fr. flagrare to burn. See {Flagrant}, and cf. {Flamneau}, {Flamingo}.] 1. A stream of burning vapor or gas, emitting light and heat; darting or streaming fire; a blaze; a fire. 2. Burning zeal or passion; elevated and noble enthusiasm; glowing imagination; passionate excitement or anger. [bd]In a flame of zeal severe.[b8] --Milton. Where flames refin'd in breasts seraphic glow. --Pope. Smit with the love of sister arts we came, And met congenial, mingling flame with flame. --Pope. 3. Ardor of affection; the passion of love. --Coleridge. 4. A person beloved; a sweetheart. --Thackeray. Syn: Blaze; brightness; ardor. See {Blaze}. {Flame bridge}, a bridge wall. See {Bridge}, n., 5. {Flame color}, brilliant orange or yellow. --B. Jonson. {Flame engine}, an early name for the gas engine. {Flame manometer}, an instrument, invented by Koenig, to obtain graphic representation of the action of the human vocal organs. See {Manometer}. {Flame reaction} (Chem.), a method of testing for the presence of certain elements by the characteristic color imparted to a flame; as, sodium colors a flame yellow, potassium violet, lithium crimson, boracic acid green, etc. Cf. {Spectrum analysis}, under {Spectrum}. {Flame tree} (Bot.), a tree with showy scarlet flowers, as the {Rhododendron arboreum} in India, and the {Brachychiton acerifolium} of Australia.
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Flame \Flame\, v. t. To kindle; to inflame; to excite. And flamed with zeal of vengeance inwardly. --Spenser.
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Flamy \Flam"y\, a. [From {Flame}.] Flaming; blazing; flamelike; flame-colored; composed of flame. --Pope.
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Flawn \Flawn\, n. [OF. flaon, F. flan, LL. flado, fr. OHG. flado, G. fladen, a sort of pancake; cf. Gr. [?] broad. See {Place}.] A sort of flat custard or pie. [Obs.] --Tusser.
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Fleam \Fleam\, n. [F. flamme, OF. flieme, fr. LL. flevotomum, phlebotomum; cf. D. vlijm. See {Phlebotomy}.] (Surg. & Far.) A sharp instrument used for opening veins, lancing gums, etc.; a kind of lancet. {Fleam tooth}, a tooth of a saw shaped like an isosceles triangle; a peg tooth. --Knight.
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Fleamy \Fleam"y\, a. Bloody; clotted. [Obs. or Prov.] Foamy bubbling of a fleamy brain. --Marston.
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Fleen \Fleen\, n. pl. Obs. pl. of {Flea}. --Chaucer.
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Fleme \Fleme\, v. t. [AS. fl[emac]man, fl[ymac]man.] To banish; to drive out; to expel. [Obs.] [bd]Appetite flemeth discretion.[b8] --Chaucer.
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Flo \Flo\ (fl[omac]), n.; pl. {Flon} (fl[omac]n). [AS. fl[be], fl[be]n.] An arrow. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Flon \Flon\, n. pl. See {Flo}. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Flowen \Flow"en\, obs. imp. pl. of {Fly}, v. i. --Chaucer.
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Flown \Flown\, p. p. of {Fly}; -- often used with the auxiliary verb to be; as, the birds are flown.
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Flown \Flown\, a. Flushed, inflated. Note: [Supposed by some to be a mistake for blown or swoln.] --Pope. Then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. --Milton.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fly \Fly\ (fl[imac]), v. i. [imp. {Flew} (fl[umac]); p. p. {Flown} (fl[omac]n); p. pr. & vb. n. {Flying}.] [OE. fleen, fleen, fleyen, flegen, AS. fle[a2]gan; akin to D. vliegen, OHG. fliogan, G. fliegen, Icel. flj[umac]ga, Sw. flyga, Dan. flyve, Goth. us-flaugjan to cause to fly away, blow about, and perh. to L. pluma feather, E. plume. [root]84. Cf. {Fledge}, {Flight}, {Flock} of animals.] 1. To move in or pass thorugh the air with wings, as a bird. 2. To move through the air or before the wind; esp., to pass or be driven rapidly through the air by any impulse. 3. To float, wave, or rise in the air, as sparks or a flag. Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. --Job v. 7. 4. To move or pass swiftly; to hasten away; to circulate rapidly; as, a ship flies on the deep; a top flies around; rumor flies. Fly, envious Time, till thou run out thy race. --Milton. The dark waves murmured as the ships flew on. --Bryant. 5. To run from danger; to attempt to escape; to flee; as, an enemy or a coward flies. See Note under {Flee}. Fly, ere evil intercept thy flight. --Milton. Whither shall I fly to escape their hands ? --Shak. 6. To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly; -- usually with a qualifying word; as, a door flies open; a bomb flies apart. {To fly about} (Naut.), to change frequently in a short time; -- said of the wind. {To fly around}, to move about in haste. [Colloq.] {To fly at}, to spring toward; to rush on; to attack suddenly. {To fly in the face of}, to insult; to assail; to set at defiance; to oppose with violence; to act in direct opposition to; to resist. {To fly off}, to separate, or become detached suddenly; to revolt. {To fly on}, to attack. {To fly open}, to open suddenly, or with violence. {To fly out}. (a) To rush out. (b) To burst into a passion; to break out into license. {To let fly}. (a) To throw or drive with violence; to discharge. [bd]A man lets fly his arrow without taking any aim.[b8] --Addison. (b) (Naut.) To let go suddenly and entirely; as, to let fly the sheets.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Flume \Flume\, n. [Cf. OE. flum river, OF, flum, fr. L. flumen, fr. fluere to flow. [fb]84. See {Fluent}.] A stream; especially, a passage channel, or conduit for the water that drives a mill wheel; or an artifical channel of water for hydraulic or placer mining; also, a chute for conveying logs or lumber down a declivity.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Folium \Fo"li*um\, n.; pl. E. {Foliums}, L. {Folia}. [L., a leaf.] 1. A leaf, esp. a thin leaf or plate. 2. (Geom.) A curve of the third order, consisting of two infinite branches, which have a common asymptote. The curve has a double point, and a leaf-shaped loop; whence the name. Its equation is x^{3} + y^{3} = axy.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fulham \Ful"ham\, n. [So named because supposed to have been chiefly made at Fulham, in Middlesex, Eng.] A false die. [Cant] [Written also {fullam}.] --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fulham \Ful"ham\, n. [So named because supposed to have been chiefly made at Fulham, in Middlesex, Eng.] A false die. [Cant] [Written also {fullam}.] --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fullam \Ful"lam\, n. A false die. See {Fulham}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fulham \Ful"ham\, n. [So named because supposed to have been chiefly made at Fulham, in Middlesex, Eng.] A false die. [Cant] [Written also {fullam}.] --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fullam \Ful"lam\, n. A false die. See {Fulham}.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Faleniu, AS (village, FIPS 32100) Location: 14.33107 S, 170.74350 W Population (1990): 833 (120 housing units) Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Fallon, MT Zip code(s): 59326 Fallon, NV (city, FIPS 24100) Location: 39.47579 N, 118.77783 W Population (1990): 6438 (2763 housing units) Area: 6.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 89406
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Falun, KS Zip code(s): 67442
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Filion, MI Zip code(s): 48432
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
flame [at MIT, orig. from the phrase `flaming asshole'] 1. vi. To post an email message intended to insult and provoke. 2. vi. To speak incessantly and/or rabidly on some relatively uninteresting subject or with a patently ridiculous attitude. 3. vt. Either of senses 1 or 2, directed with hostility at a particular person or people. 4. n. An instance of flaming. When a discussion degenerates into useless controversy, one might tell the participants "Now you're just flaming" or "Stop all that flamage!" to try to get them to cool down (so to speak). The term may have been independently invented at several different places. It has been reported from MIT, Carleton College and RPI (among many other places) from as far back as 1969, and from the University of Virginia in the early 1960s. It is possible that the hackish sense of `flame' is much older than that. The poet Chaucer was also what passed for a wizard hacker in his time; he wrote a treatise on the astrolabe, the most advanced computing device of the day. In Chaucer's "Troilus and Cressida", Cressida laments her inability to grasp the proof of a particular mathematical theorem; her uncle Pandarus then observes that it's called "the fleminge of wrecches." This phrase seems to have been intended in context as "that which puts the wretches to flight" but was probably just as ambiguous in Middle English as "the flaming of wretches" would be today. One suspects that Chaucer would feel right at home on Usenet.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
flame To rant, to speak or write incessantly and/or rabidly on some relatively uninteresting subject or with a patently ridiculous attitude or with hostility toward a particular person or group of people. "Flame" is used as a verb ("Don't flame me for this, but..."), a flame is a single flaming message, and "flamage" /flay'm*j/ the content. Flamage may occur in any medium (e.g. spoken, {electronic mail}, {Usenet} news, {World-Wide Web}). Sometimes a flame will be delimited in text by marks such as " on>...". The term was probably independently invented at several different places. Mark L. Levinson says, "When I joined the Harvard student radio station (WHRB) in 1966, the terms flame and flamer were already well established there to refer to impolite ranting and to those who performed it. Communication among the students who worked at the station was by means of what today you might call a paper-based Usenet group. Everyone wrote comments to one another in a large ledger. Documentary evidence for the early use of flame/flamer is probably still there for anyone fanatical enough to research it." It is reported that "flaming" was in use to mean something like "interminably drawn-out semi-serious discussions" (late-night bull sessions) at Carleton College during 1968-1971. {Usenetter} Marc Ramsey, who was at {WPI} from 1972 to 1976, says: "I am 99% certain that the use of "flame" originated at WPI. Those who made a nuisance of themselves insisting that they needed to use a {TTY} for "real work" came to be known as "flaming asshole lusers". Other particularly annoying people became "flaming asshole ravers", which shortened to "flaming ravers", and ultimately "flamers". I remember someone picking up on the Human Torch pun, but I don't think "flame on/off" was ever much used at WPI." See also {asbestos}. It is possible that the hackish sense of "flame" is much older than that. The poet Chaucer was also what passed for a wizard hacker in his time; he wrote a treatise on the astrolabe, the most advanced computing device of the day. In Chaucer's "Troilus and Cressida", Cressida laments her inability to grasp the proof of a particular mathematical theorem; her uncle Pandarus then observes that it's called "the fleminge of wrecches." This phrase seems to have been intended in context as "that which puts the wretches to flight" but was probably just as ambiguous in Middle English as "the flaming of wretches" would be today. One suspects that Chaucer would feel right at home on {Usenet}. [{Jargon File}] (2001-03-11)