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   facial
         adj 1: of or concerning the face; "a facial massage"; "facial
                  hair"; "facial expression"
         2: of or pertaining to the outside surface of an object
         n 1: cranial nerve that supplies facial muscles [syn: {facial},
               {facial nerve}, {nervus facialis}, {seventh cranial nerve}]
         2: care for the face that usually involves cleansing and massage
            and the application of cosmetic creams

English Dictionary: foxily	by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
facially adv with respect to the face
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facile adj arrived at without due care or effort; lacking depth; "too facile a solution for so complex a problem" performing adroitly and without effort; "a facile hand" expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively; "able to dazzle with his facile tongue"; "silver speech" Synonym(s): eloquent, facile, fluent, silver, silver-tongued, smooth-spoken
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facula n a bright spot on a planet a large bright spot on the sun's photosphere occurring most frequently in the vicinity of sunspots
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faecal adj of or relating to feces; "fecal matter" [syn: faecal, fecal]
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Faisal n king of Saudi Arabia from 1964 to 1975 (1906-1975) [syn: Faisal, Faisal ibn Abdel Aziz al-Saud]
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Fasciola n a genus of Fasciolidae Synonym(s): Fasciola, genus Fasciola
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faucal adj of or relating to the fauces
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fecal adj of or relating to feces; "fecal matter" [syn: faecal, fecal]
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fecula n excreta (especially of insects)
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Feosol n trade name of a drug rich in iron; used to treat some kinds of anemia
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fickle adj marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments; "fickle friends"; "a flirt's volatile affections" Synonym(s): fickle, volatile liable to sudden unpredictable change; "erratic behavior"; "fickle weather"; "mercurial twists of temperament"; "a quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next" Synonym(s): erratic, fickle, mercurial, quicksilver(a)
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fiscal adj involving financial matters; "fiscal responsibility" Synonym(s): fiscal, financial Antonym(s): nonfinancial
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fiscally adv in financial matters; "fiscally irresponsible" [syn: fiscally, in fiscal matters]
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fish oil n a fatty oil obtained from the livers of various fish [syn: fish-liver oil, fish oil]
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fishily adv in a questionably unusual manner; "this money had been queerly come by" Synonym(s): queerly, fishily
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fissile adj capable of undergoing nuclear fission; "a fissionable nucleous"; "fissionable material" Synonym(s): fissionable, fissile Antonym(s): nonfissionable capable of being split or cleft or divided in the direction of the grain; "fissile crystals"; "fissile wood" Antonym(s): nonfissile
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fizzle n a fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval); "the performers could not be heard over the hissing of the audience" Synonym(s): hiss, hissing, hushing, fizzle, sibilation a complete failure; "the play was a dismal flop" Synonym(s): flop, bust, fizzle v end weakly; "The music just petered out--there was no proper ending" Synonym(s): taper off, peter out, fizzle out, fizzle
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fo'c'sle n living quarters consisting of a superstructure in the bow of a merchant ship where the crew is housed Synonym(s): forecastle, fo'c'sle
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focal adj having or localized centrally at a focus; "focal point"; "focal infection" of or relating to a focus; "focal length"
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focally adv in a focal manner; "the submucosa was focally infiltrated"
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fossil adj characteristic of a fossil n someone whose style is out of fashion [syn: dodo, fogy, fogey, fossil] the remains (or an impression) of a plant or animal that existed in a past geological age and that has been excavated from the soil
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fox hole n a small dugout with a pit for individual shelter against enemy fire Synonym(s): foxhole, fox hole
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foxhole n a small dugout with a pit for individual shelter against enemy fire Synonym(s): foxhole, fox hole
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foxily adv in an artful manner; "he craftily arranged to be there when the decision was announced"; "had ever circumstances conspired so cunningly?" Synonym(s): craftily, cunningly, foxily, knavishly, slyly, trickily, artfully
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fuck all n little or nothing at all; "I asked for a raise and they gave me bugger-all"; "I know sweet Fanny Adams about surgery" Synonym(s): bugger all, fuck all, Fanny Adams, sweet Fanny Adams
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fugal adj of or relating to or in the style of a musical fugue
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fugally adv in a fugal style
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fugly adj (slang) extremely ugly
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fusil n a light flintlock musket
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fussily adv in a fussy manner; "he spoke to her fussily"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Frigate \Frig"ate\, n. [F. fr[82]gate, It. fregata, prob. contracted fr. L. fabricata something constructed or. built. See {Fabricate}.] 1. Originally, a vessel of the Mediterranean propelled by sails and by oars. The French, about 1650, transferred the name to larger vessels, and by 1750 it had been appropriated for a class of war vessels intermediate between corvettes and ships of the line. Frigates, from about 1750 to 1850, had one full battery deck and, often, a spar deck with a lighter battery. They carried sometimes as many as fifty guns. After the application of steam to navigation steam frigates of largely increased size and power were built, and formed the main part of the navies of the world till about 1870, when the introduction of ironclads superseded them. [Formerly spelled {frigat} and {friggot}.] 2. Any small vessel on the water. [Obs.] --Spenser. {Frigate bird} (Zo[94]l.), a web-footed rapacious bird, of the genus {Fregata}; -- called also {man-of-war bird}, and {frigate pelican}. Two species are known; that of the Southern United States and West Indies is {F. aquila}. They are remarkable for their long wings and powerful flight. Their food consists of fish which they obtain by robbing gulls, terns, and other birds, of their prey. They are related to the pelicans. {Frigate mackerel} (Zo[94]l.), an oceanic fish ({Auxis Rochei}) of little or no value as food, often very abundant off the coast of the United States. {Frigate pelican}. (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Frigate bird}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
F91cal \F[91]"cal\, a. See {Fecal}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
--McElrath. Note: Face is used either adjectively or as part of a compound; as, face guard or face-guard; face cloth; face plan or face-plan; face hammer. {Face ague} (Med.), a form of neuralgia, characterized by acute lancinating pains returning at intervals, and by twinges in certain parts of the face, producing convulsive twitches in the corresponding muscles; -- called also {tic douloureux}. {Face card}, one of a pack of playing cards on which a human face is represented; the king, queen, or jack. {Face cloth}, a cloth laid over the face of a corpse. {Face guard}, a mask with windows for the eyes, worn by workman exposed to great heat, or to flying particles of metal, stone, etc., as in glass works, foundries, etc. {Face hammer}, a hammer having a flat face. {Face joint} (Arch.), a joint in the face of a wall or other structure. {Face mite} (Zo[94]ll.), a small, elongated mite ({Demdex folliculorum}), parasitic in the hair follicles of the face. {Face mold}, the templet or pattern by which carpenters, ect., outline the forms which are to be cut out from boards, sheet metal, ect. {Face plate}. (a) (Turning) A plate attached to the spindle of a lathe, to which the work to be turned may be attached. (b) A covering plate for an object, to receive wear or shock. (c) A true plane for testing a dressed surface. --Knight. {Face wheel}. (Mach.) (a) A crown wheel. (b) A Wheel whose disk face is adapted for grinding and polishing; a lap.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Crown wheel \Crown" wheel`\ (hw?l`). [Named from its resemblance to a crown.] (Mach.) A wheel with cogs or teeth set at right angles to its plane; -- called also a {contrate wheel} or {face wheel}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
--McElrath. Note: Face is used either adjectively or as part of a compound; as, face guard or face-guard; face cloth; face plan or face-plan; face hammer. {Face ague} (Med.), a form of neuralgia, characterized by acute lancinating pains returning at intervals, and by twinges in certain parts of the face, producing convulsive twitches in the corresponding muscles; -- called also {tic douloureux}. {Face card}, one of a pack of playing cards on which a human face is represented; the king, queen, or jack. {Face cloth}, a cloth laid over the face of a corpse. {Face guard}, a mask with windows for the eyes, worn by workman exposed to great heat, or to flying particles of metal, stone, etc., as in glass works, foundries, etc. {Face hammer}, a hammer having a flat face. {Face joint} (Arch.), a joint in the face of a wall or other structure. {Face mite} (Zo[94]ll.), a small, elongated mite ({Demdex folliculorum}), parasitic in the hair follicles of the face. {Face mold}, the templet or pattern by which carpenters, ect., outline the forms which are to be cut out from boards, sheet metal, ect. {Face plate}. (a) (Turning) A plate attached to the spindle of a lathe, to which the work to be turned may be attached. (b) A covering plate for an object, to receive wear or shock. (c) A true plane for testing a dressed surface. --Knight. {Face wheel}. (Mach.) (a) A crown wheel. (b) A Wheel whose disk face is adapted for grinding and polishing; a lap.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Crown wheel \Crown" wheel`\ (hw?l`). [Named from its resemblance to a crown.] (Mach.) A wheel with cogs or teeth set at right angles to its plane; -- called also a {contrate wheel} or {face wheel}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Facial \Fa"cial\, a. [LL. facialis, fr. L. facies face : cf. F. facial.] Of or pertaining to the face; as, the facial artery, vein, or nerve. -- {Fa"cial*ly}, adv. {Facial angle} (Anat.), the angle, in a skull, included between a straight line (ab, in the illustrations), from the most prominent part of the forehead to the front efge of the upper jaw bone, and another (cd) from this point to the center of the external auditory opening. See {Gnathic index}, under {Gnathic}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Facial \Fa"cial\, a. [LL. facialis, fr. L. facies face : cf. F. facial.] Of or pertaining to the face; as, the facial artery, vein, or nerve. -- {Fa"cial*ly}, adv. {Facial angle} (Anat.), the angle, in a skull, included between a straight line (ab, in the illustrations), from the most prominent part of the forehead to the front efge of the upper jaw bone, and another (cd) from this point to the center of the external auditory opening. See {Gnathic index}, under {Gnathic}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Facile \Fac"ile\a. [L. facilis, prop., capable of being done or made, hence, facile, easy, fr. facere to make, do: cf. F. facile. Srr {Fact}, and cf. {Faculty}.] 1. Easy to be done or performed: not difficult; performable or attainable with little labor. Order . . . will render the work facile and delightful. --Evelyn. 2. Easy to be surmounted or removed; easily conquerable; readily mastered. The facile gates of hell too slightly barred. --Milton. 3. Easy of access or converse; mild; courteous; not haughty, austere, or distant; affable; complaisant. I meant she should be courteous, facile, sweet. --B. Jonson. 4. Easily persuaded to good or bad; yielding; ductile to a fault; pliant; flexible. Since Adam, and his facile consort Eve, Lost Paradise, deceived by me. --Milton. This is treating Burns like a child, a person of so facile a disposition as not to be trusted without a keeper on the king's highway. --Prof. Wilson. 5. Ready; quick; expert; as, he is facile in expedients; he wields a facile pen. -- {Fac"ile-ly}, adv. -- {Fac"ile*ness}, n.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fascial \Fas"ci*al\, a. 1. Pertaining to the fasces. 2. (Anat.) Relating to a fascia.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Fasciola \[d8]Fasci"ola\, n.;pl. {Fasciol[91]}. [See {Fasciole}.] (Anat.) A band of gray matter bordering the fimbria in the brain; the dentate convolution. --Wilder.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fasciole \Fas"ci*ole\, n. [L. fasciola a little bandage. See {Fascia}.] (Zo[94]l.) A band of minute tubercles, bearing modified spines, on the shells of spatangoid sea urchins. See {Spatangoidea}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Faucal \Fau"cal\, a. [L. fauces throat.] Pertaining to the fauces, or opening of the throat; faucial; esp., (Phon.) produced in the fauces, as certain deep guttural sounds found in the Semitic and some other languages. Ayin is the most difficult of the faucals. --I. Taylor (The Alphabet).
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Faucial \Fau"cial\, a. (Anat.) Pertaining to the fauces; pharyngeal.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fecal \Fe"cal\, a. [Cf. F. f[82]cal. See {Feces}.] relating to, or containing, dregs, feces, or ordeure; f[91]cal.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fecial \Fe"cial\, a. [L. fetialis belonging to the fetiales, the Roman priests who sanctioned treaties and demanded satisfaction from the enemy before a formal declaration of war.] Pertaining to heralds, declarations of war, and treaties of peace; as, fecial law. --Kent.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fecula \Fec"u*la\, n.; pl. {Fecul[92]} [L. faecula burnt tartar or salt of tartar, dim. of faex, faecis, sediment, dregs: cf. F. f[82]cule.] Any pulverulent matter obtained from plants by simply breaking down the texture, washing with water, and subsidence. Especially: (a) The nutritious part of wheat; starch or farina; -- called also {amylaceous fecula}. (b) The green matter of plants; chlorophyll.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fecula \Fec"u*la\, n.; pl. {Fecul[92]} [L. faecula burnt tartar or salt of tartar, dim. of faex, faecis, sediment, dregs: cf. F. f[82]cule.] Any pulverulent matter obtained from plants by simply breaking down the texture, washing with water, and subsidence. Especially: (a) The nutritious part of wheat; starch or farina; -- called also {amylaceous fecula}. (b) The green matter of plants; chlorophyll.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fickle \Fic"kle\, a. [OE. fikel untrustworthy, deceitful, AS. ficol, fr. fic, gefic, fraud, deceit; cf. f[be]cen deceit, OS. f[?]kn, OHG. feichan, Icel. feikn portent. Cf. {Fidget}.] Not fixed or firm; liable to change; unstable; of a changeable mind; not firm in opinion or purpose; inconstant; capricious; as, Fortune's fickle wheel. --Shak. They know how fickle common lovers are. --Dryden. Syn: Wavering; irresolute; unsettled; vacillating; unstable; inconsonant; unsteady; variable; mutable; changeful; capricious; veering; shifting.
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Fickly \Fic"kly\, adv. In a fickle manner. [Obs.] --Pepys.
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Fig-shell \Fig"-shell`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A marine univalve shell of the genus {Pyrula}, or {Ficula}, resembling a fig in form.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fiscal \Fis"cal\, a. [F. fiscal, L. fiscalis, fr. fiscus. See {Fisc}.] Pertaining to the public treasury or revenue. The fiscal arreangements of government. --A[3e]Hamilton.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fiscal \Fis"cal\, n. 1. The income of a prince or a state; revenue; exhequer. [Obs.] --Bacon. 2. A treasurer. --H. Swinburne. 3. A public officer in Scotland who prosecutes in petty criminal cases; -- called also {procurator fiscal}. 4. The solicitor in Spain and Portugal; the attorney-general.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fissile \Fis"sile\, a. [L. fissilis, fr. fissus, p. p. of findere to split. See {Fissure}.] Capable of being split, cleft, or divided in the direction of the grain, like wood, or along natural planes of cleavage, like crystals. This crystal is a pellucid, fissile stone. --Sir I. Newton.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fizzle \Fiz"zle\, n. A failure or abortive effort. [Colloq.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fizzle \Fiz"zle\ (f[icr]z"z'l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Fizzled} (-z'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. {Fizzling} (-zl[icr]ng).] [See {Fizz}.] 1. To make a hissing sound. It is the easiest thing, sir, to be done, As plain as fizzling. --B. Jonson. 2. To make a ridiculous failure in an undertaking. [Colloq. or Low] {To fizzle out}, to burn with a hissing noise and then go out, like wet gunpowder; hence, to fail completely and ridiculously; to prove a failure. [Colloq.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Focal \Fo"cal\, a. [Cf. F. focal. See {Focus}.] Belonging to,or concerning, a focus; as, a focal point. {Focal distance, or length, of a lens or mirror} (Opt.), the distance of the focus from the surface of the lens or mirror, or more exactly, in the case of a lens, from its optical center. {Focal distance of a telescope}, the distance of the image of an object from the object glass.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Foggily \Fog"gi*ly\, adv. In a foggy manner; obscurely. --Johnson.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Foozle \Foo"zle\, n. 1. A stupid fellow; a fogy. [Colloq.] 2. Act of foozling; a bungling stroke, as in golf.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Foozle \Foo"zle\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Foozled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Foozling}.] [Cf. G. fuseln to work badly or slowly.] To bungle; to manage awkwardly; to treat or play unskillfully; as, to foozle a stroke in golf. She foozles all along the course. --Century Mag.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fossil \Fos"sil\, a. [L. fossilis, fr. fodere to dig: cf. F. fossile. See {Fosse}.] 1. Dug out of the earth; as, fossil coal; fossil salt. 2. (Paleon.) Like or pertaining to fossils; contained in rocks, whether petrified or not; as, fossil plants, shells. {Fossil copal}, a resinous substance, first found in the blue clay at Highgate, near London, and apparently a vegetable resin, partly changed by remaining in the earth. {Fossil cork}, {flax}, {paper}, [or] {wood}, varieties of amianthus. {Fossil farina}, a soft carbonate of lime. {Fossil ore}, fossiliferous red hematite. --Raymond.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fossil \Fos"sil\, n. 1. A substance dug from the earth. [Obs.] Note: Formerly all minerals were called fossils, but the word is now restricted to express the remains of animals and plants found buried in the earth. --Ure. 2. (Paleon.) The remains of an animal or plant found in stratified rocks. Most fossils belong to extinct species, but many of the later ones belong to species still living. 3. A person whose views and opinions are extremely antiquated; one whose sympathies are with a former time rather than with the present. [Colloq.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Foxly \Fox"ly\, a. Foxlike. [Obs.] [bd]Foxly craft.[b8] --Latimer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fugle \Fu"gle\, v. i. To maneuver; to move hither and thither. [Colloq.] Wooden arms with elbow joints jerking and fugling in the air. --Carlyle.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fuse \Fuse\, n. [For fusee, fusil. See 2d {Fusil}.] (Gunnery, Mining, etc.) A tube or casing filled with combustible matter, by means of which a charge of powder is ignited, as in blasting; -- called also {fuzee}. See {Fuze}. {Fuse hole}, the hole in a shell prepared for the reception of the fuse. --Farrow.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fusel \Fu"sel\, n., Fusel oil \Fu"sel oil\ [G. fusel bad liquor.] (Chem.) A hot, acrid, oily liquid, accompanying many alcoholic liquors (as potato whisky, corn whisky, etc.), as an undesirable ingredient, and consisting of several of the higher alcohols and compound ethers, but particularly of amyl alcohol; hence, specifically applied to amyl alcohol.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fusil \Fu"sil\, a. [L. fusilis molten, fluid, fr. fundere, fusum, to pour, cast. See {Fuse}, v. t.] 1. Capable of being melted or rendered fluid by heat; fusible. [R.] [bd]A kind of fusil marble[b8] --Woodward. 2. Running or flowing, as a liquid. [R.] [bd]A fusil sea.[b8] --J. Philips. 3. Formed by melting and pouring into a mold; cast; founded. [Obs.] --Milton.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fusil \Fu"sil\, n. [F. fusil, LL. fosile a steel for kindling fire, from L. focus hearth, fireplace, in LLL. fire. See {Focus}, and cf. {Fusee} a firelock.] A light kind of flintlock musket, formerly in use.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fusil \Fu"sil\, n. [See 3d {Fusee}.] (Her.) A bearing of a rhomboidal figure; -- named from its shape, which resembles that of a spindle. Note: It differs from a lozenge in being longer in proportion to its width.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fusile \Fu"sile\, a. Same as {Fusil}, a.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fussily \Fuss"i*ly\, adv. In a fussy manner. --Byron.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fuzzle \Fuz"zle\, v. t. [Cf. LG. fuseln to drink common liquor, fr. fusel bad liquor.] To make drunk; to intoxicate; to fuddle. [Obs.] --Burton.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Faga'alu, AS (village, FIPS 22500) Location: 14.29425 S, 170.68056 W Population (1990): 1006 (153 housing units) Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 1.1 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Fagali'i, AS (village, FIPS 24900) Location: 14.31006 S, 170.82683 W Population (1990): 206 (23 housing units) Area: 1.7 sq km (land), 2.4 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Fossil, OR (city, FIPS 26650) Location: 44.99841 N, 120.21319 W Population (1990): 399 (224 housing units) Area: 2.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
FAQL /fa'kl/ n. Syn. {FAQ list}.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
fossil n. 1. In software, a misfeature that becomes understandable only in historical context, as a remnant of times past retained so as not to break compatibility. Example: the retention of octal as default base for string escapes in {C}, in spite of the better match of hexadecimal to ASCII and modern byte-addressable architectures. See {dusty deck}. 2. More restrictively, a feature with past but no present utility. Example: the force-all-caps (LCASE) bits in the V7 and {BSD} Unix tty driver, designed for use with monocase terminals. (In a perversion of the usual backward-compatibility goal, this functionality has actually been expanded and renamed in some later {USG Unix} releases as the IUCLC and OLCUC bits.) 3. The FOSSIL (Fido/Opus/Seadog Standard Interface Level) driver specification for serial-port access to replace the {brain-dead} routines in the IBM PC ROMs. Fossils are used by most MS-DOS {BBS} software in preference to the `supported' ROM routines, which do not support interrupt-driven operation or setting speeds above 9600; the use of a semistandard FOSSIL library is preferable to the {bare metal} serial port programming otherwise required. Since the FOSSIL specification allows additional functionality to be hooked in, drivers that use the {hook} but do not provide serial-port access themselves are named with a modifier, as in `video fossil'.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Facile A {concurrent} extension of {ML} from {ECRC}. {(http://www.ecrc.de/facile/facile_home.html)}. ["Facile: A Symmetric Integration of Concurrent and Functional Programming", A. Giacalone et al, Intl J Parallel Prog 18(2):121-160, Apr 1989]. (1994-12-01)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
FAQL {frequently asked question}
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
FC-AL {Fibre Channel-Arbitrated Loop}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
FGL 1. Flow Graph Lisp. A distributed dataflow language for AMPS (Applicative Multi-Processing System). "A Loosely-Coupled Applicative Multi-Processing System", R. Keller et al, NCC, AFIPS June 1979, pp.613- 622. 2. Function Graph Language. Related to FEL.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
FOCAL 1. FOrmula CALculator. An interactive system written by Rick Merrill of {DEC} in 1969 for {PDP-5} and {PDP-8}. It was a descendant of {AID}/{JOSS}. Versions: FOCAL-69, FOCAL-1971, FOCAL-11 (for {PDP-11} under {RT-11}). (1994-12-21) 2. Forty-One CAlculator Language. The programming language of the HP-41 calculator line. (1994-12-21)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
FOCL An {expert system shell} and {backward chaining} rule {interpreter} for the {Macintosh}. {(ftp://ics.uci.edu/pub/machine-learning-programs/KR-FOCL-ES.cpt.hqx)}. E-mail: . (1994-12-21)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
foogol A tiny {ALGOL}-like language by Per Lindberg, based on the {VALGOL} I compiler, G.A. Edgar, DDJ May 1985. Runs on {vaxen}. Posted to comp.sources.Unix archive volume 8. {(ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/systems/amiga/fish/fish/ff066)}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
FOSIL {Fredette's Operating System Interface Language}
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
fossil 1. In software, a misfeature that becomes understandable only in historical context, as a remnant of times past retained so as not to break compatibility. Example: the retention of {octal} as default base for string escapes in {C}, in spite of the better match of {hexadecimal} to ASCII and modern byte-addressable architectures. See {dusty deck}. 2. More restrictively, a feature with past but no present utility. Example: the force-all-caps (LCASE) bits in the V7 and {BSD} Unix tty driver, designed for use with monocase terminals. (In a perversion of the usual backward-compatibility goal, this functionality has actually been expanded and renamed in some later {USG Unix} releases as the IUCLC and OLCUC bits.) 3. The FOSSIL (Fido/Opus/Seadog Standard Interface Level) driver specification for serial-port access to replace the {brain-dead} routines in the IBM PC ROMs. Fossils are used by most {MS-DOS} {BBS} software in preference to the "supported" ROM routines, which do not support interrupt-driven operation or setting speeds above 9600; the use of a semistandard FOSSIL library is preferable to the {bare metal} serial port programming otherwise required. Since the FOSSIL specification allows additional functionality to be hooked in, drivers that use the {hook} but do not provide serial-port access themselves are named with a modifier, as in "video fossil". [{Jargon File}]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
FQL A {functional database} language. ["An Implementation Technique for Database Query Languages", O.P. Buneman et al, ACM Trans Database Sys 7(2):164-186 (June 1982)]. (1995-04-27)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
FSL Formal Semantics Language. A language for {compiler} writing. ["A Formal Semantics for Computer Languages and its Application in a Compiler-Compiler", J.A. Feldman, CACM 9(1) (Jan 1966)]. [Sammet 1969, p. 641]. (1995-01-23)