Fahrenheit
         adj 1: of or relating to a temperature scale proposed by the
                  inventor of the mercury thermometer; "water freezes at 32
                  degrees Fahrenheit under normal conditions"
         n 1: German physicist who invented the mercury thermometer and
               developed the scale of temperature that bears his name
               (1686-1736) [syn: {Fahrenheit}, {Gabriel Daniel
               Fahrenheit}]

English Dictionary: front burner	by the DICT Development Group
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Fahrenheit scale n a temperature scale that defines the freezing point of water as 32 degrees and the boiling point of water a 212 degrees
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Fahrenheit thermometer n a thermometer calibrated in degrees Fahrenheit
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fair-and-square adj just and honest
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fair-maids-of-France n rosette-forming perennial having compact panicles of white flowers; Europe Synonym(s): meadow saxifrage, fair-maids-of- France, Saxifraga granulata
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far and away adv by a considerable margin; "she was by far the smartest student"; "it was far and away the best meal he had ever eaten" Synonym(s): by far, far and away, out and away
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far and near adv over great areas or distances; everywhere; "he traveled far and wide"; "the news spread far and wide"; "people came from far and near"; "searched for the child far and near" Synonym(s): far and wide, far and near
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far and wide adv over great areas or distances; everywhere; "he traveled far and wide"; "the news spread far and wide"; "people came from far and near"; "searched for the child far and near" Synonym(s): far and wide, far and near
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farandole n a lively dance from Provence; all the dancers join hands and execute various figures
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farm out v arranged for contracted work to be done by others [syn: subcontract, farm out, job] grant the services of or the temporary use of, for a fee; "We rent out our apartment to tourists every year"; "He hired himself out as a cook" Synonym(s): hire out, rent out, farm out
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farm team n a minor-league team that is owned by a major-league team (especially in baseball) Synonym(s): farm team, farm club
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Fermat n French mathematician who founded number theory; contributed (with Pascal) to the theory of probability (1601-1665) Synonym(s): Fermat, Pierre de Fermat
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fermata n a musical notation (over a note or chord or rest) that indicates it is to be prolonged by an unspecified amount (music) a prolongation of unspecified length on a note or chord or rest
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Fermi-Dirac statistics n (physics) law obeyed by a systems of particles whose wave function changes when two particles are interchanged (the Pauli exclusion principle applies)
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ferned adj abounding in or covered with ferns; "the ferny undergrowth" Synonym(s): ferned, ferny Antonym(s): fernless
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fire and brimstone n (Old Testament) God's means of destroying sinners; "his sermons were full of fire and brimstone"
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fire ant n omnivorous ant of tropical and subtropical America that can inflict a painful sting
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fire-on-the-mountain n poinsettia of United States and eastern Mexico; often confused with Euphorbia heterophylla Synonym(s): fire-on-the- mountain, painted leaf, Mexican fire plant, Euphorbia cyathophora
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for anything adv under any circumstances; "she wouldn't give up her pets for love or money" Synonym(s): for love or money, for anything, for any price, for all the world
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foray into v enter someone else's territory and take spoils; "The pirates raided the coastal villages regularly" Synonym(s): foray into, raid
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fore-and-aft adj parallel with the keel of a boat or ship
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fore-and-aft rig n rig in which the principal sails are fore-and-aft
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fore-and-aft sail n any sail not set on a yard and whose normal position is in a fore-and-aft direction
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fore-and-aft topsail n a triangular fore-and-aft sail with its foot along the gaff and its luff on the topmast Synonym(s): gaff topsail, fore- and-aft topsail
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fore-and-after n sailing vessel with a fore-and-aft rig
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forehand adj (of racket strokes) made with palm facing direction of stroke Synonym(s): forehand(a), forehanded Antonym(s): backhand(a), backhanded n (sports) a return made with the palm of the hand facing the direction of the stroke (as in tennis or badminton or squash) Synonym(s): forehand, forehand stroke, forehand shot
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forehand drive n (sports) hard straight return made on the forehand side (as in tennis or badminton or squash)
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forehand shot n (sports) a return made with the palm of the hand facing the direction of the stroke (as in tennis or badminton or squash) Synonym(s): forehand, forehand stroke, forehand shot
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forehand stroke n (sports) a return made with the palm of the hand facing the direction of the stroke (as in tennis or badminton or squash) Synonym(s): forehand, forehand stroke, forehand shot
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forehanded adj (of racket strokes) made with palm facing direction of stroke Synonym(s): forehand(a), forehanded Antonym(s): backhand(a), backhanded having provided for the future
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foremother n a woman ancestor
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forint n the basic unit of money in Hungary
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form division n an artificial taxonomic category for organisms of which the true relationships are obscure
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format n the organization of information according to preset specifications (usually for computer processing) Synonym(s): format, formatting, data format, data formatting the general appearance of a publication v set (printed matter) into a specific format; "Format this letter so it can be printed out" Synonym(s): format, arrange determine the arrangement of (data) for storage and display (in computer science) divide (a disk) into marked sectors so that it may store data; "Please format this disk before entering data!" Synonym(s): format, initialize, initialise
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formation n an arrangement of people or things acting as a unit; "a defensive formation"; "a formation of planes" the act of fabricating something in a particular shape Synonym(s): formation, shaping the act of forming or establishing something; "the constitution of a PTA group last year"; "it was the establishment of his reputation"; "he still remembers the organization of the club" Synonym(s): constitution, establishment, formation, organization, organisation (geology) the geological features of the earth Synonym(s): geological formation, formation a particular spatial arrangement natural process that causes something to form; "the formation of gas in the intestine"; "the formation of crystals"; "the formation of pseudopods" creation by mental activity; "the formation of sentences"; "the formation of memories"
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formative adj capable of forming new cells and tissues; "a formative zone in developing bone" forming or capable of forming or molding or fashioning; "a formative influence"; "a formative experience" Synonym(s): formative, shaping, plastic n minimal language unit that has a syntactic (or morphological) function
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formative cell n a cell of an embryo [syn: embryonic cell, {formative cell}]
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formatted capacity n (computer science) the usable capacity of a disk drive; the amount of space that is left after the sector headings and boundary definitions and timing information have been added by formatting the disk
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formatting n the organization of information according to preset specifications (usually for computer processing) Synonym(s): format, formatting, data format, data formatting
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formed adj having or given a form or shape Antonym(s): unformed
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formidability n impressive difficulty Synonym(s): formidability, toughness
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formidable adj extremely impressive in strength or excellence; "a formidable opponent"; "the challenge was formidable"; "had a formidable array of compositions to his credit"; "the formidable army of brains at the Prime Minister's disposal" inspiring fear; "the formidable prospect of major surgery"; "a tougher and more redoubtable adversary than the heel- clicking, jackbooted fanatic"- G.H.Johnston; "something unnerving and prisonlike about high grey wall" Synonym(s): formidable, redoubtable, unnerving
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formidably adv in a formidable manner; "the constant risk that attends the exchanges of human beings formidably armed"
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four hundred adj being one hundred more than three hundred [syn: {four hundred}, 400, cd] n the exclusive social set of a city
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four-hundredth adj the ordinal number of four hundred in counting order Synonym(s): four-hundredth, 400th
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four-needled adj (of conifers) having four needles
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fourhanded adj (of card games) involving or requiring four players
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framed adj provided with a frame; "there were framed snapshots of family and friends on her desk" Antonym(s): unframed
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frantic adj excessively agitated; distraught with fear or other violent emotion; "frantic with anger and frustration"; "frenetic screams followed the accident"; "a frenzied look in his eye" Synonym(s): frantic, frenetic, phrenetic, frenzied marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion; "a crowd of delirious baseball fans"; "something frantic in their gaiety"; "a mad whirl of pleasure" Synonym(s): delirious, excited, frantic, mad, unrestrained
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frantically adv in an uncontrolled manner; "she fought back madly" [syn: madly, frantically]
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free enterprise n an economy that relies chiefly on market forces to allocate goods and resources and to determine prices Synonym(s): market economy, free enterprise, private enterprise, laissez-faire economy Antonym(s): non-market economy
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free hand n freedom to do as you see fit; "many have doubts about giving him a free hand to attack" Synonym(s): free hand, blank check
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free-and-easy adj natural and unstudied; "using their Christian names in a casual way"; "lectured in a free-and-easy style" Synonym(s): free-and-easy, casual
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free-enterprise adj subscribing to capitalistic competition [syn: competitive, free-enterprise(a), private- enterprise(a)]
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freehand adj done by hand without mechanical aids or devices; "a freehand drawing" Synonym(s): freehand, freehanded
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freehanded adj done by hand without mechanical aids or devices; "a freehand drawing" Synonym(s): freehand, freehanded given or giving freely; "was a big tipper"; "the bounteous goodness of God"; "bountiful compliments"; "a freehanded host"; "a handsome allowance"; "Saturday's child is loving and giving"; "a liberal backer of the arts"; "a munificent gift"; "her fond and openhanded grandfather" Synonym(s): big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, handsome, giving, liberal, openhanded
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frenetic adj excessively agitated; distraught with fear or other violent emotion; "frantic with anger and frustration"; "frenetic screams followed the accident"; "a frenzied look in his eye" Synonym(s): frantic, frenetic, phrenetic, frenzied
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frenetically adv in a very agitated manner; as if possessed by an evil spirit Synonym(s): demoniacally, frenetically
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friend n a person you know well and regard with affection and trust; "he was my best friend at the university" an associate who provides cooperation or assistance; "he's a good ally in fight" Synonym(s): ally, friend Antonym(s): enemy, foe a person with whom you are acquainted; "I have trouble remembering the names of all my acquaintances"; "we are friends of the family" Synonym(s): acquaintance, friend Antonym(s): alien, stranger, unknown a person who backs a politician or a team etc.; "all their supporters came out for the game"; "they are friends of the library" Synonym(s): supporter, protagonist, champion, admirer, booster, friend a member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by George Fox (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers) Synonym(s): Friend, Quaker
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friend of the court n an adviser to the court on some matter of law who is not a party to the case; usually someone who wants to influence the outcome of a lawsuit involving matters of wide public interest Synonym(s): amicus curiae, friend of the court
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friendless adj excluded from a society Synonym(s): friendless, outcast
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friendlessness n being without friends
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friendliness n a feeling of liking for another person; enjoyment in their company Antonym(s): unfriendliness a friendly disposition Antonym(s): unfriendliness
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friendly adj characteristic of or befitting a friend; "friendly advice"; "a friendly neighborhood"; "the only friendly person here"; "a friendly host and hostess" Antonym(s): unfriendly inclined to help or support; not antagonistic or hostile; "a government friendly to our interests"; "an amicable agreement" Synonym(s): friendly, favorable, well-disposed easy to understand or use; "user-friendly computers"; "a consumer-friendly policy"; "a reader-friendly novel" Antonym(s): unfriendly of or belonging to your own country's forces or those of an ally; "in friendly territory"; "he was accidentally killed by friendly fire" Antonym(s): hostile n troops belonging to or allied with your own military forces; "friendlies came to their rescue" Antonym(s): hostile
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friendly fire n fire that injures or kills an ally [syn: friendly fire, fratricide]
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Friendly Islands n a monarchy on a Polynesian archipelago in the South Pacific; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1970 Synonym(s): Tonga, Kingdom of Tonga, Friendly Islands
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friendly relationship n the state of being friends (or friendly) [syn: friendship, friendly relationship]
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friendly takeover n a takeover that is welcomed by the management of the target company
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friendship n the state of being friends (or friendly) [syn: friendship, friendly relationship]
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friendship plant n low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers Synonym(s): friendship plant, panamica, panamiga, Pilea involucrata
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from head to toe adv at all points from head to foot; "he was armed cap-a-pie" Synonym(s): cap-a-pie, from head to toe
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from the heart adv very sincerely; "he spoke from the heart"
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from time to time adv now and then or here and there; "he was arrogant and occasionally callous"; "open areas are only occasionally interrupted by clumps of trees"; "they visit New York on occasion"; "now and again she would take her favorite book from the shelf and read to us"; "as we drove along, the beautiful scenery now and then attracted his attention" Synonym(s): occasionally, on occasion, once in a while, now and then, now and again, at times, from time to time
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frond n compound leaf of a fern or palm or cycad
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front adj relating to or located in the front; "the front lines"; "the front porch" Antonym(s): back(a) n the side that is forward or prominent [syn: front, {front end}, forepart] Antonym(s): back end, backside, rear the line along which opposing armies face each other Synonym(s): battlefront, front, front line the outward appearance of a person; "he put up a bold front" the side that is seen or that goes first Antonym(s): back, rear a person used as a cover for some questionable activity Synonym(s): front man, front, figurehead, nominal head, straw man, strawman a sphere of activity involving effort; "the Japanese were active last week on the diplomatic front"; "they advertise on many different fronts" (meteorology) the atmospheric phenomenon created at the boundary between two different air masses the immediate proximity of someone or something; "she blushed in his presence"; "he sensed the presence of danger"; "he was well behaved in front of company" Synonym(s): presence, front the part of something that is nearest to the normal viewer; "he walked to the front of the stage" Antonym(s): back, rear a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals; "he was a charter member of the movement"; "politicians have to respect a mass movement"; "he led the national liberation front" Synonym(s): movement, social movement, front v be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point; be opposite to; "The house looks north"; "My backyard look onto the pond"; "The building faces the park" Synonym(s): front, look, face Antonym(s): back confront bodily; "breast the storm" Synonym(s): front, breast
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front bench n any of the front seats in the House of Commons that are reserved for ministers or former ministers
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front burner n top priority; "the work was moved to the front burner in order to meet deadlines" Antonym(s): back burner
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front crawl n a swimming stroke; arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick Synonym(s): crawl, front crawl, Australian crawl
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front door n exterior door (at the entrance) at the front of a building Synonym(s): front door, front entrance
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front end n the side that is forward or prominent [syn: front, {front end}, forepart] Antonym(s): back end, backside, rear
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front entrance n exterior door (at the entrance) at the front of a building Synonym(s): front door, front entrance
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front line n the line along which opposing armies face each other [syn: battlefront, front, front line]
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front man n a person used as a cover for some questionable activity Synonym(s): front man, front, figurehead, nominal head, straw man, strawman
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front matter n written matter preceding the main text of a book [syn: front matter, prelims]
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front porch n a porch for the front door
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front projector n a projector for digital input
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front room n a room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax Synonym(s): living room, living-room, sitting room, front room, parlor, parlour
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front tooth n a tooth situated at the front of the mouth; "his malocclusion was caused by malposed anteriors" Synonym(s): front tooth, anterior
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front yard n the yard in front of a house; between the house and the street
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front-porch campaign n a campaign in which the candidate makes speeches but does not travel; "William McKinley's dignified front-porch campaign won him the presidency in 1896"; "her approach was the opposite of a passive front-porch campaign" Synonym(s): front-porch campaigning, front-porch campaign
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front-porch campaigning n a campaign in which the candidate makes speeches but does not travel; "William McKinley's dignified front-porch campaign won him the presidency in 1896"; "her approach was the opposite of a passive front-porch campaign" Synonym(s): front-porch campaigning, front-porch campaign
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front-runner n a competitor thought likely to win [syn: front-runner, favorite, favourite]
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front-stall n medieval plate armor to protect a horse's head [syn: chanfron, chamfron, testiere, frontstall, front- stall]
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frontage n the extent of land abutting on a street or water the direction in which something (such as a building) faces the face or front of a building Synonym(s): facade, frontage, frontal
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frontage road n a local road that runs parallel to an expressway and allows local traffic to gain access to property Synonym(s): frontage road, service road
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frontal adj belonging to the front part; "a frontal appendage" of or relating to the front of an advancing mass of air; "frontal rainfall" meeting front to front; "a frontal attack"; "a head-on collision" Synonym(s): frontal, head-on of or adjacent to the forehead or frontal bone; "the frontal lobes" n an adornment worn on the forehead [syn: frontlet, frontal] a drapery that covers the front of an altar the face or front of a building Synonym(s): facade, frontage, frontal
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frontal bone n the large cranial bone forming the front part of the cranium: includes the upper part of the orbits Synonym(s): frontal bone, os frontale, forehead
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frontal cortex n that part of the cerebral cortex in either hemisphere of the brain lying directly behind the forehead Synonym(s): frontal lobe, frontal cortex
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frontal eminence n either prominence of the frontal bone above each orbit
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frontal gyrus n any of the convolutions of the outer surface of the frontal lobe of the cerebrum
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frontal lobe n that part of the cerebral cortex in either hemisphere of the brain lying directly behind the forehead Synonym(s): frontal lobe, frontal cortex
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frontal lobotomy n surgical interruption of nerve tracts to and from the frontal lobe of the brain; often results in marked cognitive and personality changes Synonym(s): lobotomy, leukotomy, leucotomy, prefrontal lobotomy, prefrontal leukotomy, prefrontal leucotomy, frontal lobotomy
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frontal sinus n one of a pair of cavities in the frontal bone
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frontal suture n the suture between two halves of the frontal bone (usually obliterated by the age of 6) Synonym(s): frontal suture, sutura frontalis
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frontally adv in, at, or toward the front
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frontbencher n a member of the House of Commons who is a minister in the government or who holds an official position in an opposition party
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frontier n a wilderness at the edge of a settled area of a country; "the individualism of the frontier in Andrew Jackson's day" an international boundary or the area (often fortified) immediately inside the boundary an undeveloped field of study; a topic inviting research and development; "he worked at the frontier of brain science"
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frontier settlement n a settlement on the frontier of civilization [syn: frontier settlement, outpost]
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frontiersman n a man who lives on the frontier [syn: frontiersman, backwoodsman, mountain man]
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frontierswoman n a woman who lives on the frontier
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frontispiece n an ornamental facade front illustration facing the title page of a book
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frontlet n an adornment worn on the forehead [syn: frontlet, frontal]
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frontmost adj preceding all others in spatial position; "the foremost compartment of the ship" Synonym(s): foremost, frontmost
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frontstall n medieval plate armor to protect a horse's head [syn: chanfron, chamfron, testiere, frontstall, front- stall]
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frontward adv at or to or toward the front; "he faced forward"; "step forward"; "she practiced sewing backward as well as frontward on her new sewing machine"; (`forrad' and `forrard' are dialectal variations) Synonym(s): forward, forwards, frontward, frontwards, forrad, forrard Antonym(s): back, backward, backwards, rearward, rearwards
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frontwards adv at or to or toward the front; "he faced forward"; "step forward"; "she practiced sewing backward as well as frontward on her new sewing machine"; (`forrad' and `forrard' are dialectal variations) Synonym(s): forward, forwards, frontward, frontwards, forrad, forrard Antonym(s): back, backward, backwards, rearward, rearwards
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furniture n furnishings that make a room or other area ready for occupancy; "they had too much furniture for the small apartment"; "there was only one piece of furniture in the room" Synonym(s): furniture, piece of furniture, article of furniture
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furniture company n a company that sells furniture
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furniture maker n a woodworker who specializes in making furniture [syn: cabinetmaker, furniture maker]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fahrenheit \Fah"ren*heit\a. [G.]       Conforming to the scale used by Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit in       the graduation of his thermometer; of or relating to       Fahrenheit's thermometric scale. -- n. The Fahrenheit       termometer or scale.          Note: The Fahrenheit thermometer is so graduated that the                freezing point of water is at 32 degrees above the zero                of its scale, and the boiling point at 212 degrees                above. It is commonly used in the United States and in                England.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fair \Fair\, adv.       Clearly; openly; frankly; civilly; honestly; favorably;       auspiciously; agreeably.          {Fair and square}, justly; honestly; equitably; impartially.             [Colloq.]          {To bid fair}. See under {Bid}.          {To speak fair}, to address with courtesy and frankness.             [Archaic]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Maid \Maid\, n. [Shortened from maiden. [?]. See {Maiden}.]       1. An unmarried woman; usually, a young unmarried woman;             esp., a girl; a virgin; a maiden.                         Would I had died a maid, And never seen thee, never                      borne thee son.                                 --Shak.                         Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her                      attire? Yet my people have forgotten me. --Jer. ii.                                                                               32.          2. A man who has not had sexual intercourse. [Obs.]                         Christ was a maid and shapen as a man. --Chaucer.          3. A female servant.                         Spinning amongst her maids.               --Shak.          Note: Maid is used either adjectively or in composition,                signifying female, as in maid child, maidservant.          4. (Zo[94]l.) The female of a ray or skate, esp. of the gray             skate ({Raia batis}), and of the thornback ({R. clavata}).             [Prov. Eng.]          {Fair maid}. (Zo[94]l.) See under {Fair}, a.          {Maid of honor}, a female attendant of a queen or royal             princess; -- usually of noble family, and having to             perform only nominal or honorary duties.          {Old maid}. See under {Old}.
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Fair \Fair\, a. [Compar. {Fairer}; superl. {Fairest}.] [OE.       fair, fayer, fager, AS. f[91]ger; akin to OS. & OHG. fagar,       Icel. fagr, Sw. fager, Dan. faver, Goth. fagrs fit, also to       E. fay, G. f[81]gen, to fit. fegen to sweep, cleanse, and       prob. also to E. fang, peace, pact, Cf. {Fang}, {Fain}, {Fay}       to fit.]       1. Free from spots, specks, dirt, or imperfection;             unblemished; clean; pure.                         A fair white linen cloth.                  --Book of                                                                               Common Prayer.          2. Pleasing to the eye; handsome; beautiful.                         Who can not see many a fair French city, for one                      fair French made.                              --Shak.          3. Without a dark hue; light; clear; as, a fair skin.                         The northern people large and fair-complexioned.                                                                               --Sir M. Hale.          4. Not overcast; cloudless; clear; pleasant; propitious;             favorable; -- said of the sky, weather, or wind, etc.; as,             a fair sky; a fair day.                         You wish fair winds may waft him over. --Prior.          5. Free from obstacles or hindrances; unobstructed;             unincumbered; open; direct; -- said of a road, passage,             etc.; as, a fair mark; in fair sight; a fair view.                         The caliphs obtained a mighty empire, which was in a                      fair way to have enlarged.                  --Sir W.                                                                               Raleigh.          6. (Shipbuilding) Without sudden change of direction or             curvature; smooth; fowing; -- said of the figure of a             vessel, and of surfaces, water lines, and other lines.          7. Characterized by frankness, honesty, impartiality, or             candor; open; upright; free from suspicion or bias;             equitable; just; -- said of persons, character, or             conduct; as, a fair man; fair dealing; a fair statement.             [bd]I would call it fair play.[b8] --Shak.          8. Pleasing; favorable; inspiring hope and confidence; --             said of words, promises, etc.                         When fair words and good counsel will not prevail on                      us, we must be frighted into our duty. --L'                                                                               Estrange.          9. Distinct; legible; as, fair handwriting.          10. Free from any marked characteristic; average; middling;             as, a fair specimen.                         The news is very fair and good, my lord. --Shak.          {Fair ball}. (Baseball)             (a) A ball passing over the home base at the height                   called for by the batsman, and delivered by the                   pitcher while wholly within the lines of his position                   and facing the batsman.             (b) A batted ball that falls inside the foul lines; --                   called also a {fair hit}.          {Fair maid}. (Zo[94]l.)             (a) The European pilchard ({Clupea pilchardus}) when                   dried.             (b) The southern scup ({Stenotomus Gardeni}). [Virginia]                            {Fair one}, a handsome woman; a beauty,          {Fair play}, equitable or impartial treatment; a fair or             equal chance; justice.          {From fair to middling}, passable; tolerable. [Colloq.]          {The fair sex}, the female sex.          Syn: Candid; open; frank; ingenuous; clear; honest;                equitable; impartial; reasonable. See {Candid}.
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Fair-natured \Fair"-na`tured\, a.       Well-disposed. [bd]A fair-natured prince.[b8] --Ford.
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Near \Near\ (n[emac]r), adv. [AS. ne[a0]r, compar. of ne[a0]h       nigh. See {Nigh}.]       1. At a little distance, in place, time, manner, or degree;             not remote; nigh.                         My wife! my traitress! let her not come near me.                                                                               --Milton.          2. Nearly; almost; well-nigh. [bd]Near twenty years ago.[b8]             --Shak. [bd]Near a fortnight ago.[b8] --Addison.                         Near about the yearly value of the land. --Locke.          3. Closely; intimately. --Shak.          {Far and near}, at a distance and close by; throughout a             whole region.          {To come near to}, to want but little of; to approximate to.             [bd]Such a sum he found would go near to ruin him.[b8]             --Addison.          {Near the wind} (Naut.), close to the wind; closehauled.
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Far \Far\, adv.       1. To a great extent or distance of space; widely; as, we are             separated far from each other.          2. To a great distance in time from any point; remotely; as,             he pushed his researches far into antiquity.          3. In great part; as, the day is far spent.          4. In a great proportion; by many degrees; very much; deeply;             greatly.                         Who can find a virtuous woman ? for her price is far                      above rubies.                                    --Prov. xxxi.                                                                               10.          {As far as}, to the extent, or degree, that. See {As far as},             under {As}.          {Far off}.             (a) At a great distance, absolutely or relatively.             (b) Distant in sympathy or affection; alienated. [bd]But                   now, in Christ Jesus, ye who some time were far off                   are made nigh by the blood of Christ.[b8] --Eph. ii.                   13.          {Far other}, different by a great degree; not the same; quite             unlike. --Pope.          {Far and near}, at a distance and close by; throughout a             whole region.          {Far and wide}, distantly and broadly; comprehensively.             [bd]Far and wide his eye commands.[b8] --Milton.          {From far}, from a great distance; from a remote place.          Note: Far often occurs in self-explaining compounds, such as                far-extended, far-reaching, far-spread.
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Wide \Wide\ (w[imac]d), a. [Compar. {Wider} (-[etil]r); superl.       {Widest}.] [OE. wid, wyde, AS. w[c6]d; akin to OFries. & OS.       w[c6]d, D. wijd, G. weit, OHG. w[c6]t, Icel. v[c6][eb]r, Sw.       & Dan. vid; of uncertain origin.]       1. Having considerable distance or extent between the sides;             spacious across; much extended in a direction at right             angles to that of length; not narrow; broad; as, wide             cloth; a wide table; a wide highway; a wide bed; a wide             hall or entry.                         The chambers and the stables weren wyde. --Chaucer.                         Wide is the gate . . . that leadeth to destruction.                                                                               --Matt. vii.                                                                               18.          2. Having a great extent every way; extended; spacious;             broad; vast; extensive; as, a wide plain; the wide ocean;             a wide difference. [bd]This wyde world.[b8] --Chaucer.                         For sceptered cynics earth were far too wide a den.                                                                               --Byron.                         When the wide bloom, on earth that lies, Seems of a                      brighter world than ours.                  --Bryant.          3. Of large scope; comprehensive; liberal; broad; as, wide             views; a wide understanding.                         Men of strongest head and widest culture. --M.                                                                               Arnold.          4. Of a certain measure between the sides; measuring in a             direction at right angles to that of length; as, a table             three feet wide.          5. Remote; distant; far.                         The contrary being so wide from the truth of                      Scripture and the attributes of God.   --Hammond.          6. Far from truth, from propriety, from necessity, or the             like. [bd]Our wide expositors.[b8] --Milton.                         It is far wide that the people have such judgments.                                                                               --Latimer.                         How wide is all this long pretense !   --Herbert.          7. On one side or the other of the mark; too far side-wise             from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc.                         Surely he shoots wide on the bow hand. --Spenser.                         I was but two bows wide.                     --Massinger.          8. (Phon.) Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open             and relaxed, condition of the mouth organs; -- opposed to             primary as used by Mr. Bell, and to narrow as used by Mr.             Sweet. The effect, as explained by Mr. Bell, is due to the             relaxation or tension of the pharynx; as explained by Mr.             Sweet and others, it is due to the action of the tongue.             The wide of [emac] ([emac]ve) is [icr] ([icr]ll); of [be]             ([be]te) is [ecr] ([ecr]nd), etc. See Guide to             Pronunciation, [sect] 13-15.          Note: Wide is often prefixed to words, esp. to participles                and participial adjectives, to form self-explaining                compounds; as, wide-beaming, wide-branched,                wide-chopped, wide-echoing, wide-extended,                wide-mouthed, wide-spread, wide-spreading, and the                like.          {Far and wide}. See under {Far}.          {Wide gauge}. See the Note under {Cauge}, 6.
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Far \Far\, adv.       1. To a great extent or distance of space; widely; as, we are             separated far from each other.          2. To a great distance in time from any point; remotely; as,             he pushed his researches far into antiquity.          3. In great part; as, the day is far spent.          4. In a great proportion; by many degrees; very much; deeply;             greatly.                         Who can find a virtuous woman ? for her price is far                      above rubies.                                    --Prov. xxxi.                                                                               10.          {As far as}, to the extent, or degree, that. See {As far as},             under {As}.          {Far off}.             (a) At a great distance, absolutely or relatively.             (b) Distant in sympathy or affection; alienated. [bd]But                   now, in Christ Jesus, ye who some time were far off                   are made nigh by the blood of Christ.[b8] --Eph. ii.                   13.          {Far other}, different by a great degree; not the same; quite             unlike. --Pope.          {Far and near}, at a distance and close by; throughout a             whole region.          {Far and wide}, distantly and broadly; comprehensively.             [bd]Far and wide his eye commands.[b8] --Milton.          {From far}, from a great distance; from a remote place.          Note: Far often occurs in self-explaining compounds, such as                far-extended, far-reaching, far-spread.
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Farand \Far"and\, n.       See {Farrand}, n.
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Farrand \Far"rand\, n. [OE. farand beautiful; cf. Gael. farranta       neat, stout, stately; or perh. akin to E. fare.]       Manner; custom; fashion; humor. [Prov. Eng.] [Written also       {farand}.] --Grose.
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Farand \Far"and\, n.       See {Farrand}, n.
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Farrand \Far"rand\, n. [OE. farand beautiful; cf. Gael. farranta       neat, stout, stately; or perh. akin to E. fare.]       Manner; custom; fashion; humor. [Prov. Eng.] [Written also       {farand}.] --Grose.
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Farandams \Far"an*dams\, n.       A fabrik made of silk and wool or hair. --Simmonds.
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Farantly \Far"ant*ly\, a. [See {Farrand}.]       Orderly; comely; respectable. [Obs.] --Halliwell.
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Farm \Farm\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Farmed}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Farming}.]       1. To lease or let for an equivalent, as land for a rent; to             yield the use of to proceeds.                         We are enforced to farm our royal realm. --Shak.          2. To give up to another, as an estate, a business, the             revenue, etc., on condition of receiving in return a             percentage of what it yields; as, to farm the taxes.                         To farm their subjects and their duties toward                      these.                                                --Burke.          3. To take at a certain rent or rate.          4. To devote (land) to agriculture; to cultivate, as land; to             till, as a farm.          {To farm let}, {To let to farm}, to lease on rent.
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Farrand \Far"rand\, n. [OE. farand beautiful; cf. Gael. farranta       neat, stout, stately; or perh. akin to E. fare.]       Manner; custom; fashion; humor. [Prov. Eng.] [Written also       {farand}.] --Grose.
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Fermeture \Fer"me*ture\, n. [F., fr. fermer to close.] (Mil.)       The mechanism for closing the breech of a breech-loading       firearm, in artillery consisting principally of the       breechblock, obturator, and carrier ring.
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Fernticle \Fern"ti*cle\, n.       A freckle on the skin, resembling the seed of fern. [Prov.       Eng.]
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Ferrandine \Fer*ran"dine\ (? [or] ?), n. [F.; cf. OF. ferrant       iron-gray, from L. ferrum iron.]       A stuff made of silk and wool.                   I did buy a colored silk ferrandine.      --Pepys.
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Ferranti cables \Fer*ran"ti ca"bles\, Ferranti mains \Fer*ran"ti    mains"\ (Elec.)       A form of conductor, designed by Ferranti, for currents of       high potential, and consisting of concentric tubes of copper       separated by an insulating material composed of paper       saturated with black mineral wax.
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Ferranti cables \Fer*ran"ti ca"bles\, Ferranti mains \Fer*ran"ti    mains"\ (Elec.)       A form of conductor, designed by Ferranti, for currents of       high potential, and consisting of concentric tubes of copper       separated by an insulating material composed of paper       saturated with black mineral wax.
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Ferranti phenomenon \Fer*ran"ti phe*nom"e*non\ (Elec.)       An increase in the ratio of transformation of an alternating       current converter, accompanied by other changes in electrical       conditions, occurring when the secondary of the converter is       connected with a condenser of moderate capacity; -- so called       because first observed in connection with the Ferranti cables       in London.
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Firmitude \Firm"i*tude\, n. [L. firmitudo. See {Firm}.]       Strength; stability. [Obs.] --Bp. Hall.
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Firmity \Firm"i*ty\, n. [L. firmitas.]       Strength; firmness; stability. [Obs.] --Chillingworth.
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Fore \Fore\, adv. [AS. fore, adv. & prep., another form of for.       See {For}, and cf. {Former}, {Foremost}.]       1. In the part that precedes or goes first; -- opposed to             aft, after, back, behind, etc.          2. Formerly; previously; afore. [Obs. or Colloq.]                         The eyes, fore duteous, now converted are. --Shak.          3. (Naut.) In or towards the bows of a ship.          {Fore and aft} (Naut.), from stem to stern; lengthwise of the             vessel; -- in distinction from athwart. --R. H. Dana, Jr.          {Fore-and-aft rigged} (Naut.), not rigged with square sails             attached to yards, but with sails bent to gaffs or set on             stays in the midship line of the vessel. See {Schooner},             {Sloop}, {Cutter}.
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Fore \Fore\, a. [See {Fore}, adv.]       Advanced, as compared with something else; toward the front;       being or coming first, in time, place, order, or importance;       preceding; anterior; antecedent; earlier; forward; -- opposed       to {back} or {behind}; as, the fore part of a garment; the       fore part of the day; the fore and of a wagon.                   The free will of the subject is preserved, while it is                directed by the fore purpose of the state. --Southey.          Note: Fore is much used adjectively or in composition.          {Fore bay}, a reservoir or canal between a mill race and a             water wheel; the discharging end of a pond or mill race.                      {Fore body} (Shipbuilding), the part of a ship forward of the             largest cross-section, distinguisched from middle body abd             after body.          {Fore boot}, a receptacle in the front of a vehicle, for             stowing baggage, etc.          {Fore bow}, the pommel of a saddle. --Knight.          {Fore cabin}, a cabin in the fore part of a ship, usually             with inferior accommodations.          {Fore carriage}.       (a) The forward part of the running gear of a four-wheeled             vehicle.       (b) A small carriage at the front end of a plow beam.          {Fore course} (Naut.), the lowermost sail on the foremost of             a square-rigged vessel; the foresail. See Illust. under             {Sail}.          {Fore door}. Same as {Front door}.          {Fore edge}, the front edge of a book or folded sheet, etc.                      {Fore elder}, an ancestor. [Prov. Eng.]          {Fore end}.       (a) The end which precedes; the earlier, or the nearer, part;             the beginning.                         I have . . . paid More pious debts to heaven, than                      in all The fore end of my time.         --Shak.       (b) In firearms, the wooden stock under the barrel, forward             of the trigger guard, or breech frame.          {Fore girth}, a girth for the fore part (of a horse, etc.); a             martingale.          {Fore hammer}, a sledge hammer, working alternately, or in             time, with the hand hammer.          {Fore leg}, one of the front legs of a quadruped, or             multiped, or of a chair, settee, etc.          {Fore peak} (Naut.), the angle within a ship's bows; the             portion of the hold which is farthest forward.          {Fore piece}, a front piece, as the flap in the fore part of             a sidesaddle, to guard the rider's dress.          {Fore plane}, a carpenter's plane, in size and use between a             jack plane and a smoothing plane. --Knight.          {Fore reading}, previous perusal. [Obs.] --Hales.          {Fore rent}, in Scotland, rent payable before a crop is             gathered.          {Fore sheets} (Naut.), the forward portion of a rowboat; the             space beyond the front thwart. See {Stern sheets}.          {Fore shore}.       (a) A bank in advance of a sea wall, to break the force of             the surf.       (b) The seaward projecting, slightly inclined portion of a             breakwater. --Knight.       (c) The part of the shore between high and low water marks.                      {Fore sight}, that one of the two sights of a gun which is             near the muzzle.          {Fore tackle} (Naut.), the tackle on the foremast of a ship.                      {Fore topmast}. (Naut.) See {Fore-topmast}, in the             Vocabulary.          {Fore wind}, a favorable wind. [Obs.]                         Sailed on smooth seas, by fore winds borne.                                                                               --Sandys.          {Fore world}, the antediluvian world. [R.] --Southey.
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Fore \Fore\, a. [See {Fore}, adv.]       Advanced, as compared with something else; toward the front;       being or coming first, in time, place, order, or importance;       preceding; anterior; antecedent; earlier; forward; -- opposed       to {back} or {behind}; as, the fore part of a garment; the       fore part of the day; the fore and of a wagon.                   The free will of the subject is preserved, while it is                directed by the fore purpose of the state. --Southey.          Note: Fore is much used adjectively or in composition.          {Fore bay}, a reservoir or canal between a mill race and a             water wheel; the discharging end of a pond or mill race.                      {Fore body} (Shipbuilding), the part of a ship forward of the             largest cross-section, distinguisched from middle body abd             after body.          {Fore boot}, a receptacle in the front of a vehicle, for             stowing baggage, etc.          {Fore bow}, the pommel of a saddle. --Knight.          {Fore cabin}, a cabin in the fore part of a ship, usually             with inferior accommodations.          {Fore carriage}.       (a) The forward part of the running gear of a four-wheeled             vehicle.       (b) A small carriage at the front end of a plow beam.          {Fore course} (Naut.), the lowermost sail on the foremost of             a square-rigged vessel; the foresail. See Illust. under             {Sail}.          {Fore door}. Same as {Front door}.          {Fore edge}, the front edge of a book or folded sheet, etc.                      {Fore elder}, an ancestor. [Prov. Eng.]          {Fore end}.       (a) The end which precedes; the earlier, or the nearer, part;             the beginning.                         I have . . . paid More pious debts to heaven, than                      in all The fore end of my time.         --Shak.       (b) In firearms, the wooden stock under the barrel, forward             of the trigger guard, or breech frame.          {Fore girth}, a girth for the fore part (of a horse, etc.); a             martingale.          {Fore hammer}, a sledge hammer, working alternately, or in             time, with the hand hammer.          {Fore leg}, one of the front legs of a quadruped, or             multiped, or of a chair, settee, etc.          {Fore peak} (Naut.), the angle within a ship's bows; the             portion of the hold which is farthest forward.          {Fore piece}, a front piece, as the flap in the fore part of             a sidesaddle, to guard the rider's dress.          {Fore plane}, a carpenter's plane, in size and use between a             jack plane and a smoothing plane. --Knight.          {Fore reading}, previous perusal. [Obs.] --Hales.          {Fore rent}, in Scotland, rent payable before a crop is             gathered.          {Fore sheets} (Naut.), the forward portion of a rowboat; the             space beyond the front thwart. See {Stern sheets}.          {Fore shore}.       (a) A bank in advance of a sea wall, to break the force of             the surf.       (b) The seaward projecting, slightly inclined portion of a             breakwater. --Knight.       (c) The part of the shore between high and low water marks.                      {Fore sight}, that one of the two sights of a gun which is             near the muzzle.          {Fore tackle} (Naut.), the tackle on the foremast of a ship.                      {Fore topmast}. (Naut.) See {Fore-topmast}, in the             Vocabulary.          {Fore wind}, a favorable wind. [Obs.]                         Sailed on smooth seas, by fore winds borne.                                                                               --Sandys.          {Fore world}, the antediluvian world. [R.] --Southey.
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Fore \Fore\, adv. [AS. fore, adv. & prep., another form of for.       See {For}, and cf. {Former}, {Foremost}.]       1. In the part that precedes or goes first; -- opposed to             aft, after, back, behind, etc.          2. Formerly; previously; afore. [Obs. or Colloq.]                         The eyes, fore duteous, now converted are. --Shak.          3. (Naut.) In or towards the bows of a ship.          {Fore and aft} (Naut.), from stem to stern; lengthwise of the             vessel; -- in distinction from athwart. --R. H. Dana, Jr.          {Fore-and-aft rigged} (Naut.), not rigged with square sails             attached to yards, but with sails bent to gaffs or set on             stays in the midship line of the vessel. See {Schooner},             {Sloop}, {Cutter}.
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Sail \Sail\, n. [OE. seil, AS. segel, segl; akin to D. zeil,       OHG. segal, G. & Sw. segel, Icel. segl, Dan. seil. [root]       153.]       1. An extent of canvas or other fabric by means of which the             wind is made serviceable as a power for propelling vessels             through the water.                         Behoves him now both sail and oar.      --Milton.          2. Anything resembling a sail, or regarded as a sail.          3. A wing; a van. [Poetic]                         Like an eagle soaring To weather his broad sails.                                                                               --Spenser.          4. The extended surface of the arm of a windmill.          5. A sailing vessel; a vessel of any kind; a craft.          Note: In this sense, the plural has usually the same form as                the singular; as, twenty sail were in sight.          6. A passage by a sailing vessel; a journey or excursion upon             the water.          Note: Sails are of two general kinds, {fore-and-aft sails},                and {square sails}. Square sails are always bent to                yards, with their foot lying across the line of the                vessel. Fore-and-aft sails are set upon stays or gaffs                with their foot in line with the keel. A fore-and-aft                sail is triangular, or quadrilateral with the after                leech longer than the fore leech. Square sails are                quadrilateral, but not necessarily square. See Phrases                under {Fore}, a., and {Square}, a.; also, {Bark},                {Brig}, {Schooner}, {Ship}, {Stay}.          {Sail burton} (Naut.), a purchase for hoisting sails aloft             for bending.          {Sail fluke} (Zo[94]l.), the whiff.          {Sail hook}, a small hook used in making sails, to hold the             seams square.          {Sail loft}, a loft or room where sails are cut out and made.                      {Sail room} (Naut.), a room in a vessel where sails are             stowed when not in use.          {Sail yard} (Naut.), the yard or spar on which a sail is             extended.          {Shoulder-of-mutton sail} (Naut.), a triangular sail of             peculiar form. It is chiefly used to set on a boat's mast.                      {To crowd sail}. (Naut.) See under {Crowd}.          {To loose sails} (Naut.), to unfurl or spread sails.          {To make sail} (Naut.), to extend an additional quantity of             sail.          {To set a sail} (Naut.), to extend or spread a sail to the             wind.          {To set sail} (Naut.), to unfurl or spread the sails; hence,             to begin a voyage.          {To shorten sail} (Naut.), to reduce the extent of sail, or             take in a part.          {To strike sail} (Naut.), to lower the sails suddenly, as in             saluting, or in sudden gusts of wind; hence, to             acknowledge inferiority; to abate pretension.          {Under sail}, having the sails spread.
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Forehand \Fore"hand`\, n.       1. All that part of a horse which is before the rider.             --Johnson.          2. The chief or most important part. --Shak.          3. Superiority; advantage; start; precedence.                         And, but for ceremony, such a wretch . . . Had the                      forehand and vantage of a king.         --Shak.
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Forehand \Fore"hand`\, a.       Done beforehand; anticipative.                   And so extenuate the forehand sin.         --Shak.
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Rent \Rent\, n. [F. rente, LL. renta, fr. L. reddita, fem. sing.       or neut. pl. of redditus, p. p. of reddere to give back, pay.       See {Render}.]       1. Income; revenue. See {Catel}. [Obs.] [bd]Catel had they             enough and rent.[b8] --Chaucer.                         [Bacchus] a waster was and all his rent In wine and                      bordel he dispent.                              --Gower.                         So bought an annual rent or two, And liv'd, just as                      you see I do.                                    --Pope.          2. Pay; reward; share; toll. [Obs.]                         Death, that taketh of high and low his rent.                                                                               --Chaucer.          3. (Law) A certain periodical profit, whether in money,             provisions, chattels, or labor, issuing out of lands and             tenements in payment for the use; commonly, a certain             pecuniary sum agreed upon between a tenant and his             landlord, paid at fixed intervals by the lessee to the             lessor, for the use of land or its appendages; as, rent             for a farm, a house, a park, etc.          Note: The term rent is also popularly applied to compensation                for the use of certain personal chattels, as a piano, a                sewing machine, etc.          {Black rent}. See {Blackmail}, 3.          {Forehand rent}, rent which is paid in advance; foregift.          {Rent arrear}, rent in arrears; unpaid rent. --Blackstone.          {Rent charge} (Law), a rent reserved on a conveyance of land             in fee simple, or granted out of lands by deed; -- so             called because, by a covenant or clause in the deed of             conveyance, the land is charged with a distress for the             payment of it. --Bouvier.          {Rent roll}, a list or account of rents or income; a rental.                      {Rent seck} (Law), a rent reserved by deed, but without any             clause of distress; barren rent. A power of distress was             made incident to rent seck by Statute 4 George II. c. 28.                      {Rent service} (Eng. Law), rent reserved out of land held by             fealty or other corporeal service; -- so called from such             service being incident to it.          {White rent}, a quitrent when paid in silver; -- opposed to             black rent.
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Forehanded \Fore"hand`ed\, a.       1. Early; timely; seasonable. [bd]Forehanded care.[b8] --Jer.             Taylor.          2. Beforehand with one's needs, or having resources in             advance of one's necessities; in easy circumstances; as, a             forehanded farmer. [U.S.]          3. Formed in the forehand or fore parts.                         A substantial, true-bred beast, bravely forehanded.                                                                               --Dryden.
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Forehend \Fore*hend"\, v. t.       See {Forhend}. [Obs.]
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Foremother \Fore"moth`er\, n.       A female ancestor.
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Forenotice \Fore"no`tice\, n.       Notice or information of an event before it happens;       forewarning. [R.] --Rymer.
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Forewend \Fore*wend"\, v. t. [Fore + wend.]       To go before. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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Forego \Fore*go"\, v. t. [imp. {Forewent 2}; p. p. {Foregone}       (?; 115); p. pr. & vb. n. {Foregoing}.] [See {Forgo}.]       1. To quit; to relinquish; to leave.                         Stay at the third cup, or forego the place.                                                                               --Herbert.          2. To relinquish the enjoyment or advantage of; to give up;             to resign; to renounce; -- said of a thing already             enjoyed, or of one within reach, or anticipated.                         All my patrimony,, If need be, I am ready to forego.                                                                               --Milton.                         Thy lovers must their promised heaven forego.                                                                               --Keble.                         [He] never forewent an opportunity of honest profit.                                                                               --R. L.                                                                               Stevenson.          Note: Forgo is the better spelling etymologically, but the                word has been confused with {Forego}, to go before.
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Forhend \For*hend"\, v. t.       To seize upon. [Obs.]
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Formate \For"mate\, n. [See {Formic}.] (Chem.)       A salt of formic acid. [Written also {formiate}.]
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Formation \For*ma"tion\, n. [L. formatio: cf. F. formation.]       1. The act of giving form or shape to anything; a forming; a             shaping. --Beattie.          2. The manner in which a thing is formed; structure;             construction; conformation; form; as, the peculiar             formation of the heart.          3. A substance formed or deposited.          4. (Geol.)             (a) Mineral deposits and rock masses designated with                   reference to their origin; as, the siliceous formation                   about geysers; alluvial formations; marine formations.             (b) A group of beds of the same age or period; as, the                   Eocene formation.          5. (Mil.) The arrangement of a body of troops, as in a             square, column, etc. --Farrow.
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Formative \Form"a*tive\, a. [Cf. F. formatif.]       1. Giving form; having the power of giving form; plastic; as,             the formative arts.                         The meanest plant can not be raised without seed, by                      any formative residing in the soil.   --Bentley.          2. (Gram.) Serving to form; derivative; not radical; as, a             termination merely formative.          3. (Biol.) Capable of growth and development; germinal; as,             living or formative matter.
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Formative \Form"a*tive\, n. (Gram.)             (a) That which serves merely to give form, and is no part                   of the radical, as the prefix or the termination of a                   word.             (b) A word formed in accordance with some rule or usage,                   as from a root.
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Formed \Formed\, a.       1. (Astron.) Arranged, as stars in a constellation; as,             formed stars. [R.]          2. (Biol.) Having structure; capable of growth and             development; organized; as, the formed or organized             ferments. See {Ferment}, n.          {Formed material} (Biol.), a term employed by Beale to denote             the lifeless matter of a cell, that which is             physiologically dead, in distinction from the truly             germinal or living matter.
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Form \Form\ (f[ocir]rm), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Formed}       (f[ocir]rmd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Forming}.] [F. former, L.       formare, fr. forma. See {Form}, n.]       1. To give form or shape to; to frame; to construct; to make;             to fashion.                         God formed man of the dust of the ground. --Gen. ii.                                                                               7.                         The thought that labors in my forming brain. --Rowe.          2. To give a particular shape to; to shape, mold, or fashion             into a certain state or condition; to arrange; to adjust;             also, to model by instruction and discipline; to mold by             influence, etc.; to train.                         'T is education forms the common mind. --Pope.                         Thus formed for speed, he challenges the wind.                                                                               --Dryden.          3. To go to make up; to act as constituent of; to be the             essential or constitutive elements of; to answer for; to             make the shape of; -- said of that out of which anything             is formed or constituted, in whole or in part.                         The diplomatic politicians . . . who formed by far                      the majority.                                    --Burke.          4. To provide with a form, as a hare. See {Form}, n., 9.                         The melancholy hare is formed in brakes and briers.                                                                               --Drayton.          5. (Gram.) To derive by grammatical rules, as by adding the             proper suffixes and affixes.
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Formed \Formed\, a.       1. (Astron.) Arranged, as stars in a constellation; as,             formed stars. [R.]          2. (Biol.) Having structure; capable of growth and             development; organized; as, the formed or organized             ferments. See {Ferment}, n.          {Formed material} (Biol.), a term employed by Beale to denote             the lifeless matter of a cell, that which is             physiologically dead, in distinction from the truly             germinal or living matter.
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Formedon \For"me*don\, n. [OF., fr. Latin. So called because the       plaintiff claimed [bd]by the form of the gift,: L. per formam       doni.] (O. Eng. Law)       A writ of right for a tenant in tail in case of a       discontinuance of the estate tail. This writ has been       abolished.
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Formate \For"mate\, n. [See {Formic}.] (Chem.)       A salt of formic acid. [Written also {formiate}.]
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Formidability \For`mi*da*bil"i*ty\, n.       Formidableness. --Walpole.
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Formidable \For"mi*da*ble\, a. [L. formidabilis, fr. formidare       to fear, dread: cf. F. formidable.]       Exciting fear or apprehension; impressing dread; adapted to       excite fear and deter from approach, encounter, or       undertaking; alarming.                   They seemed to fear the formodable sight. --Dryden.                   I swell my preface into a volume, and make it                formidable, when you see so many pages behind. --Drydn.          Syn: Dreadful; fearful; terrible; frightful; shocking;                horrible; terrific; tremendous.
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Formidableness \For"mi*da*ble*ness\, n.       The quality of being formidable, or adapted to excite dread.       --Boyle.
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Formidably \For"mi*da*bly\, adv.       In a formidable manner.
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Formidolose \For*mid"o*lose\, a. [L. formidolosus, fr. formido       fear.]       Very much afraid. [Obs.] --Bailey.
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Forwander \For*wan"der\, v. i.       To wander away; to go astray; to wander far and to weariness.       [Obs.]
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Forgo \For*go"\, v. t. [imp. {Forwent}; p. p. {Forgone}; p. pr.       & vb. n. {Forgoing}.] [OE. forgan, forgon, forgoon, AS.       forg[be]n, prop., to go past, hence, to abstain from; pref.       for- + g[be]n to go; akin to G. vergehen to pass away, to       transgress. See {Go}, v. i.]       To pass by; to leave. See 1st {Forego}.                   For sith [since] I shall forgoon my liberty At your                request.                                                --Chaucer.                   And four [days] since Florimell the court forwent.                                                                               --Spenser.          Note: This word in spelling has been confused with, and                almost superseded by, forego to go before.                Etymologically the form forgo is correct.
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Fourhanded \Four"hand`ed\, a.       1. Having four hands; quadrumanous. --Goldsmith.          2. Requiring four [bd]hands[b8] or players; as, a fourhanded             game at cards.
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Frame \Frame\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Framed}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Framing}.] [OE. framen, fremen, to execute, build, AS.       fremman to further, perform, effect, fr. fram strong,       valiant; akin to E. foremost, and prob. to AS. fram from,       Icel. fremja, frama, to further, framr forward, G. fromm       worthy, excellent, pious. See {Foremost}, {From}, and cf.       {Furnish}.]       1. (Arch. & Engin.) To construct by fitting and uniting the             several parts of the skeleton of any structure;             specifically, in woodwork, to put together by cutting             parts of one member to fit parts of another. See             {Dovetail}, {Halve}, v. t., {Miter}, {Tenon}, {Tooth},             {Tusk}, {Scarf}, and {Splice}.          2. To originate; to plan; to devise; to contrive; to compose;             in a bad sense, to invent or fabricate, as something             false.                         How many excellent reasonings are framed in the mind                      of a man of wisdom and study in a length of years.                                                                               --I. Watts.          3. To fit to something else, or for some specific end; to             adjust; to regulate; to shape; to conform.                         And frame my face to all occasions.   --Shak.                         We may in some measure frame our minds for the                      reception of happiness.                     --Landor.                         The human mind is framed to be influenced. --I.                                                                               Taylor.          4. To cause; to bring about; to produce. [Obs.]                         Fear frames disorder, and disorder wounds. --Shak.          5. To support. [Obs. & R.]                         That on a staff his feeble steps did frame.                                                                               --Spenser.          6. To provide with a frame, as a picture.
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Frantic \Fran"tic\, a. [OE. frentik, frenetik, F. frentique, L.       phreneticus, from Gr. [?]. See {Frenzy}, and cf. {Frenetic},       {Phrenetic}.]       Mad; raving; furious; violent; wild and disorderly;       distracted.                   Die, frantic wretch, for this accursed deed! --Shak.                   Torrents of frantic abuse.                     --Macaulay.       -- {Fran"tic*al*ly}, adv. -- {Fran"tic*ly}, adv. --Shak. --       {Fran"tic*ness}, n. --Johnson.
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Frantic \Fran"tic\, a. [OE. frentik, frenetik, F. frentique, L.       phreneticus, from Gr. [?]. See {Frenzy}, and cf. {Frenetic},       {Phrenetic}.]       Mad; raving; furious; violent; wild and disorderly;       distracted.                   Die, frantic wretch, for this accursed deed! --Shak.                   Torrents of frantic abuse.                     --Macaulay.       -- {Fran"tic*al*ly}, adv. -- {Fran"tic*ly}, adv. --Shak. --       {Fran"tic*ness}, n. --Johnson.
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Frantic \Fran"tic\, a. [OE. frentik, frenetik, F. frentique, L.       phreneticus, from Gr. [?]. See {Frenzy}, and cf. {Frenetic},       {Phrenetic}.]       Mad; raving; furious; violent; wild and disorderly;       distracted.                   Die, frantic wretch, for this accursed deed! --Shak.                   Torrents of frantic abuse.                     --Macaulay.       -- {Fran"tic*al*ly}, adv. -- {Fran"tic*ly}, adv. --Shak. --       {Fran"tic*ness}, n. --Johnson.
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Frantic \Fran"tic\, a. [OE. frentik, frenetik, F. frentique, L.       phreneticus, from Gr. [?]. See {Frenzy}, and cf. {Frenetic},       {Phrenetic}.]       Mad; raving; furious; violent; wild and disorderly;       distracted.                   Die, frantic wretch, for this accursed deed! --Shak.                   Torrents of frantic abuse.                     --Macaulay.       -- {Fran"tic*al*ly}, adv. -- {Fran"tic*ly}, adv. --Shak. --       {Fran"tic*ness}, n. --Johnson.
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Free \Free\ (fr[emac]), a. [Compar. {Freer} (-[etil]r); superl.       {Freest} (-[ecr]st).] [OE. fre, freo, AS. fre[a2], fr[c6];       akin to D. vrij, OS. & OHG. fr[c6], G. frei, Icel. fr[c6],       Sw. & Dan. fri, Goth. freis, and also to Skr. prija beloved,       dear, fr. pr[c6] to love, Goth. frij[omac]n. Cf. {Affray},       {Belfry}, {Friday}, {Friend}, {Frith} inclosure.]       1. Exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under             restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow one's             own impulses, desires, or inclinations; determining one's             own course of action; not dependent; at liberty.                         That which has the power, or not the power, to                      operate, is that alone which is or is not free.                                                                               --Locke.          2. Not under an arbitrary or despotic government; subject             only to fixed laws regularly and fairly administered, and             defended by them from encroachments upon natural or             acquired rights; enjoying political liberty.          3. Liberated, by arriving at a certain age, from the control             of parents, guardian, or master.          4. Not confined or imprisoned; released from arrest;             liberated; at liberty to go.                         Set an unhappy prisoner free.            --Prior.          5. Not subjected to the laws of physical necessity; capable             of voluntary activity; endowed with moral liberty; -- said             of the will.                         Not free, what proof could they have given sincere                      Of true allegiance, constant faith, or love.                                                                               --Milton.          6. Clear of offense or crime; guiltless; innocent.                         My hands are guilty, but my heart is free. --Dryden.          7. Unconstrained by timidity or distrust; unreserved;             ingenuous; frank; familiar; communicative.                         He was free only with a few.               --Milward.          8. Unrestrained; immoderate; lavish; licentious; -- used in a             bad sense.                         The critics have been very free in their censures.                                                                               --Felton.                         A man may live a free life as to wine or women.                                                                               --Shelley.          9. Not close or parsimonious; liberal; open-handed; lavish;             as, free with his money.          10. Exempt; clear; released; liberated; not encumbered or             troubled with; as, free from pain; free from a burden; --             followed by from, or, rarely, by of.                         Princes declaring themselves free from the                      obligations of their treaties.         --Bp. Burnet.          11. Characteristic of one acting without restraint; charming;             easy.          12. Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping;             spirited; as, a free horse.          13. Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying             certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special             rights; -- followed by of.                         He therefore makes all birds, of every sect, Free                      of his farm.                                    --Dryden.          14. Thrown open, or made accessible, to all; to be enjoyed             without limitations; unrestricted; not obstructed,             engrossed, or appropriated; open; -- said of a thing to             be possessed or enjoyed; as, a free school.                         Why, sir, I pray, are not the streets as free For                      me as for you?                                 --Shak.          15. Not gained by importunity or purchase; gratuitous;             spontaneous; as, free admission; a free gift.          16. Not arbitrary or despotic; assuring liberty; defending             individual rights against encroachment by any person or             class; instituted by a free people; -- said of a             government, institutions, etc.          17. (O. Eng. Law) Certain or honorable; the opposite of base;             as, free service; free socage. --Burrill.          18. (Law) Privileged or individual; the opposite of common;             as, a free fishery; a free warren. --Burrill.          19. Not united or combined with anything else; separated;             dissevered; unattached; at liberty to escape; as, free             carbonic acid gas; free cells.          {Free agency}, the capacity or power of choosing or acting             freely, or without necessity or constraint upon the will.                      {Free bench} (Eng. Law), a widow's right in the copyhold             lands of her husband, corresponding to dower in freeholds.                      {Free board} (Naut.), a vessel's side between water line and             gunwale.          {Free bond} (Chem.), an unsaturated or unemployed unit, or             bond, of affinity or valence, of an atom or radical.          {Free-borough men} (O.Eng. Law). See {Friborg}.          {Free chapel} (Eccles.), a chapel not subject to the             jurisdiction of the ordinary, having been founded by the             king or by a subject specially authorized. [Eng.]             --Bouvier.          {Free charge} (Elec.), a charge of electricity in the free or             statical condition; free electricity.          {Free church}.             (a) A church whose sittings are for all and without                   charge.             (b) An ecclesiastical body that left the Church of                   Scotland, in 1843, to be free from control by the                   government in spiritual matters.          {Free city}, [or] {Free town}, a city or town independent in             its government and franchises, as formerly those of the             Hanseatic league.          {Free cost}, freedom from charges or expenses. --South.          {Free and easy}, unconventional; unrestrained; regardless of             formalities. [Colloq.] [bd]Sal and her free and easy             ways.[b8] --W. Black.          {Free goods}, goods admitted into a country free of duty.          {Free labor}, the labor of freemen, as distinguished from             that of slaves.          {Free port}. (Com.)             (a) A port where goods may be received and shipped free                   of custom duty.             (b) A port where goods of all kinds are received from                   ships of all nations at equal rates of duty.          {Free public house}, in England, a tavern not belonging to a             brewer, so that the landlord is free to brew his own beer             or purchase where he chooses. --Simmonds.          {Free school}.             (a) A school to which pupils are admitted without                   discrimination and on an equal footing.             (b) A school supported by general taxation, by                   endowmants, etc., where pupils pay nothing for                   tuition; a public school.          {Free services} (O.Eng. Law), such feudal services as were             not unbecoming the character of a soldier or a freemen to             perform; as, to serve under his lord in war, to pay a sum             of money, etc. --Burrill.          {Free ships}, ships of neutral nations, which in time of war             are free from capture even though carrying enemy's goods.                      {Free socage} (O.Eng. Law), a feudal tenure held by certain             services which, though honorable, were not military.             --Abbott.          {Free States}, those of the United States before the Civil             War, in which slavery had ceased to exist, or had never             existed.          {Free stuff} (Carp.), timber free from knots; clear stuff.          {Free thought}, that which is thought independently of the             authority of others.          {Free trade}, commerce unrestricted by duties or tariff             regulations.          {Free trader}, one who believes in free trade.          {To make free with}, to take liberties with; to help one's             self to. [Colloq.]          {To sail free} (Naut.), to sail with the yards not braced in             as sharp as when sailing closehauled, or close to the             wind.
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Free-hand \Free"-hand`\, a.       Done by the hand, without support, or the guidance of       instruments; as, free-hand drawing. See under {Drawing}.
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Drawing \Draw"ing\, n.       1. The act of pulling, or attracting.          2. The act or the art of representing any object by means of             lines and shades; especially, such a representation when             in one color, or in tints used not to represent the colors             of natural objects, but for effect only, and produced with             hard material such as pencil, chalk, etc.; delineation;             also, the figure or representation drawn.          3. The process of stretching or spreading metals as by             hammering, or, as in forming wire from rods or tubes and             cups from sheet metal, by pulling them through dies.          4. (Textile Manuf.) The process of pulling out and elongating             the sliver from the carding machine, by revolving rollers,             to prepare it for spinning.          5. The distribution of prizes and blanks in a lottery.          Note: Drawing is used adjectively or as the first part of                compounds in the sense of pertaining to drawing, for                drawing (in the sense of pulling, and of pictorial                representation); as, drawing master or drawing-master,                drawing knife or drawing-knife, drawing machine,                drawing board, drawing paper, drawing pen, drawing                pencil, etc.          {A drawing of tea}, a small portion of tea for steeping.          {Drawing knife}. See in the {Vocabulary}.          {Drawing paper} (Fine Arts), a thick, sized paper for             draughtsman and for water-color painting.          {Drawing slate}, a soft, slaty substance used in crayon             drawing; -- called also {black chalk}, or {drawing chalk}.                      {Free-hand drawing}, a style of drawing made without the use             of guiding or measuring instruments, as distinguished from             mechanical or geometrical drawing; also, a drawing thus             executed.
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Free-handed \Free"-hand`ed\, a.       Open-handed; liberal.
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Fremd \Fremd\, Fremed \Frem"ed\a. [OE., from AS. fremede,       fremde; akin to G. fremd.]       Strange; foreign. [Old Eng. & Scot.] --Chaucer.
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Fremd \Fremd\, Fremed \Frem"ed\a. [OE., from AS. fremede,       fremde; akin to G. fremd.]       Strange; foreign. [Old Eng. & Scot.] --Chaucer.
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Frenetical \Fre*net"ic*al\, a.       Frenetic; frantic; frenzied. -- {Frenet"ic*al*ly}, adv.
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Frenetical \Fre*net"ic*al\, a.       Frenetic; frantic; frenzied. -- {Frenet"ic*al*ly}, adv.
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Frenetir \Fre*net"ir\, a. [See {Frantic}, a.]       Distracted; mad; frantic; phrenetic. --Milton.
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Friend \Friend\ (fr[ecr]nd), n. [OR. frend, freond, AS.       fre[a2]nd, prop. p. pr. of fre[a2]n, fre[a2]gan, to love;       akin to D. vriend friend, OS. friund friend, friohan to love,       OHG. friunt friend, G. freund, Icel. fr[91]ndi kinsman, Sw.       fr[84]nde. Goth. frij[omac]nds friend, frij[omac]n to love.       [root]83. See {Free}, and cf. {Fiend}.]       1. One who entertains for another such sentiments of esteem,             respect, and affection that he seeks his society aud             welfare; a wellwisher; an intimate associate; sometimes,             an attendant.                         Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend.                                                                               --Dryden.                         A friend that sticketh closer than a brother.                                                                               --Prov. xviii.                                                                               24.          2. One not inimical or hostile; one not a foe or enemy; also,             one of the same nation, party, kin, etc., whose friendly             feelings may be assumed. The word is some times used as a             term of friendly address.                         Friend, how camest thou in hither?      --Matt. xxii.                                                                               12.          3. One who looks propitiously on a cause, an institution, a             project, and the like; a favorer; a promoter; as, a friend             to commerce, to poetry, to an institution.          4. One of a religious sect characterized by disuse of outward             rites and an ordained ministry, by simplicity of dress and             speech, and esp. by opposition to war and a desire to live             at peace with all men. They are popularly called Quakers.                         America was first visited by Friends in 1656. --T.                                                                               Chase.          5. A paramour of either sex. [Obs.] --Shak.          {A friend} {at court [or] in court}, one disposed to act as a             friend in a place of special opportunity or influence.          {To be friends with}, to have friendly relations with.             [bd]He's . . . friends with C[91]sar.[b8] --Shak.          {To make friends with}, to become reconciled to or on             friendly terms with. [bd]Having now made friends with the             Athenians.[b8] --Jowett (Thucyd.).
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Friend \Friend\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Friended}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Friending}.]       To act as the friend of; to favor; to countenance; to       befriend. [Obs.]                   Fortune friends the bold.                        --Spenser.
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Friend \Friend\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Friended}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Friending}.]       To act as the friend of; to favor; to countenance; to       befriend. [Obs.]                   Fortune friends the bold.                        --Spenser.
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Friended \Friend"ed\, a.       1. Having friends; [Obs.]          2. Inclined to love; well-disposed. [Obs.] --Shak.
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Friending \Friend"ing\, n.       Friendliness. [Obs.] --Shak.
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Friend \Friend\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Friended}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Friending}.]       To act as the friend of; to favor; to countenance; to       befriend. [Obs.]                   Fortune friends the bold.                        --Spenser.
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Friendless \Friend"less\, a. [AS. fre[a2]ndle[a0]s.]       Destitute of friends; forsaken. -- {Friend"less*ness}, n.
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Friendless \Friend"less\, a. [AS. fre[a2]ndle[a0]s.]       Destitute of friends; forsaken. -- {Friend"less*ness}, n.
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Friendlily \Friend"li*ly\, adv.       In a friendly manner. --Pope.
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Friendliness \Friend"li*ness\, n.       The condition or quality of being friendly. --Sir P. Sidney.
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Friendly \Friend"ly\, n.       A friendly person; -- usually applied to natives friendly to       foreign settlers or invaders.                   These were speedily routed by the friendlies, who                attacked the small force before them in fine style.                                                                               --E. N.                                                                               Bennett.
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Friendly \Friend"ly\, a. [AS. fre[82]ndl[imac]ce.]       1. Having the temper and disposition of a friend; disposed to             promote the good of another; kind; favorable.          2. Appropriate to, or implying, friendship; befitting             friends; amicable.                         In friendly relations with his moderate opponents.                                                                               --Macaulay.          3. Not hostile; as, a friendly power or state.          4. Promoting the good of any person; favorable; propitious;             serviceable; as, a friendly breeze or gale.                         On the first friendly bank he throws him down.                                                                               --Addison.          Syn: Amicable; kind; conciliatory; propitious; favorable. See                {Amicable}.
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Friendly \Friend"ly\, adv.       In the manner of friends; amicably; like friends. [Obs.]       --Shak.                   In whom all graces that can perfect beauty Are friendly                met.                                                      --Beau. & Fl.
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Benefit society \Benefit society\       A society or association formed for mutual insurance, as       among tradesmen or in labor unions, to provide for relief in       sickness, old age, and for the expenses of burial. Usually       called {friendly society} in Great Britain.
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Lorettine \Lo`ret*tine"\, n. (R. C. Ch.)       One of a order of nuns founded in 1812 at Loretto, in       Kentucky. The members of the order (called also {Sisters of       Loretto}, or {Friends of Mary at the Foot of the Cross})       devote themselves to the cause of education and the care of       destitute orphans, their labors being chiefly confined to the       Western United States.
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Friendship \Friend"ship\, n. [AS. fre[a2]ndscipe. See {Friend},       and {-ship}.]       1. The state of being friends; friendly relation, or             attachment, to a person, or between persons; affection             arising from mutual esteem and good will; friendliness;             amity; good will.                         There is little friendship in the world. --Bacon.                         There can be no friendship without confidence, and                      no confidence without integrity.         --Rambler.                         Preferred by friendship, and not chosen by                      sufficiency.                                       --Spenser.          2. Kindly aid; help; assistance, [Obs.]                         Some friendship will it [a hovel] lend you gainst                      the tempest.                                       --Shak.          3. Aptness to unite; conformity; affinity; harmony;             correspondence. [Obs.]                         Those colors . . . have a friendship with each                      other.                                                --Dryden.
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{Anniversary day}. See {Anniversary}, n.          {Astronomical day}, a period equal to the mean solar day, but             beginning at noon instead of at midnight, its twenty-four             hours being numbered from 1 to 24; also, the sidereal day,             as that most used by astronomers.          {Born days}. See under {Born}.          {Canicular days}. See {Dog day}.          {Civil day}, the mean solar day, used in the ordinary             reckoning of time, and among most modern nations beginning             at mean midnight; its hours are usually numbered in two             series, each from 1 to 12. This is the period recognized             by courts as constituting a day. The Babylonians and             Hindoos began their day at sunrise, the Athenians and Jews             at sunset, the ancient Egyptians and Romans at midnight.                      {Day blindness}. (Med.) See {Nyctalopia}.          {Day by day}, or {Day after day}, daily; every day;             continually; without intermission of a day. See under             {By}. [bd]Day by day we magnify thee.[b8] --Book of Common             Prayer.          {Days in bank} (Eng. Law), certain stated days for the return             of writs and the appearance of parties; -- so called             because originally peculiar to the Court of Common Bench,             or Bench (bank) as it was formerly termed. --Burrill.          {Day in court}, a day for the appearance of parties in a             suit.          {Days of devotion} (R. C. Ch.), certain festivals on which             devotion leads the faithful to attend mass. --Shipley.          {Days of grace}. See {Grace}.          {Days of obligation} (R. C. Ch.), festival days when it is             obligatory on the faithful to attend Mass. --Shipley.          {Day owl}, (Zo[94]l.), an owl that flies by day. See {Hawk             owl}.          {Day rule} (Eng. Law), an order of court (now abolished)             allowing a prisoner, under certain circumstances, to go             beyond the prison limits for a single day.          {Day school}, one which the pupils attend only in daytime, in             distinction from a boarding school.          {Day sight}. (Med.) See {Hemeralopia}.          {Day's work} (Naut.), the account or reckoning of a ship's             course for twenty-four hours, from noon to noon.          {From day to day}, as time passes; in the course of time; as,             he improves from day to day.          {Jewish day}, the time between sunset and sunset.          {Mean solar day} (Astron.), the mean or average of all the             apparent solar days of the year.          {One day}, {One of these days}, at an uncertain time, usually             of the future, rarely of the past; sooner or later.             [bd]Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a             husband.[b8] --Shak.          {Only from day to day}, without certainty of continuance;             temporarily. --Bacon.          {Sidereal day}, the interval between two successive transits             of the first point of Aries over the same meridian. The             Sidereal day is 23 h. 56 m. 4.09 s. of mean solar time.          {To win the day}, to gain the victory, to be successful. --S.             Butler.          {Week day}, any day of the week except Sunday; a working day.                      {Working day}.             (a) A day when work may be legally done, in distinction                   from Sundays and legal holidays.             (b) The number of hours, determined by law or custom,                   during which a workman, hired at a stated price per                   day, must work to be entitled to a day's pay.
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Head \Head\, n. [OE. hed, heved, heaved, AS. he[a0]fod; akin to       D. hoofd, OHG. houbit, G. haupt, Icel. h[94]fu[?], Sw.       hufvud, Dan. hoved, Goth. haubip. The word does not       corresponds regularly to L. caput head (cf. E. {Chief},       {Cadet}, {Capital}), and its origin is unknown.]       1. The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the             brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth,             and in the higher animals, the chief sensory organs; poll;             cephalon.          2. The uppermost, foremost, or most important part of an             inanimate object; such a part as may be considered to             resemble the head of an animal; often, also, the larger,             thicker, or heavier part or extremity, in distinction from             the smaller or thinner part, or from the point or edge;             as, the head of a cane, a nail, a spear, an ax, a mast, a             sail, a ship; that which covers and closes the top or the             end of a hollow vessel; as, the head of a cask or a steam             boiler.          3. The place where the head should go; as, the head of a bed,             of a grave, etc.; the head of a carriage, that is, the             hood which covers the head.          4. The most prominent or important member of any organized             body; the chief; the leader; as, the head of a college, a             school, a church, a state, and the like. [bd]Their princes             and heads.[b8] --Robynson (More's Utopia).                         The heads of the chief sects of philosophy.                                                                               --Tillotson.                         Your head I him appoint.                     --Milton.          5. The place or honor, or of command; the most important or             foremost position; the front; as, the head of the table;             the head of a column of soldiers.                         An army of fourscore thousand troops, with the duke                      Marlborough at the head of them.         --Addison.          6. Each one among many; an individual; -- often used in a             plural sense; as, a thousand head of cattle.                         It there be six millions of people, there are about                      four acres for every head.                  --Graunt.          7. The seat of the intellect; the brain; the understanding;             the mental faculties; as, a good head, that is, a good             mind; it never entered his head, it did not occur to him;             of his own head, of his own thought or will.                         Men who had lost both head and heart. --Macaulay.          8. The source, fountain, spring, or beginning, as of a stream             or river; as, the head of the Nile; hence, the altitude of             the source, or the height of the surface, as of water,             above a given place, as above an orifice at which it             issues, and the pressure resulting from the height or from             motion; sometimes also, the quantity in reserve; as, a             mill or reservoir has a good head of water, or ten feet             head; also, that part of a gulf or bay most remote from             the outlet or the sea.          9. A headland; a promontory; as, Gay Head. --Shak.          10. A separate part, or topic, of a discourse; a theme to be             expanded; a subdivision; as, the heads of a sermon.          11. Culminating point or crisis; hence, strength; force;             height.                         Ere foul sin, gathering head, shall break into                      corruption.                                       --Shak.                         The indisposition which has long hung upon me, is                      at last grown to such a head, that it must quickly                      make an end of me or of itself.         --Addison.          12. Power; armed force.                         My lord, my lord, the French have gathered head.                                                                               --Shak.          13. A headdress; a covering of the head; as, a laced head; a             head of hair. --Swift.          14. An ear of wheat, barley, or of one of the other small             cereals.          15. (Bot.)             (a) A dense cluster of flowers, as in clover, daisies,                   thistles; a capitulum.             (b) A dense, compact mass of leaves, as in a cabbage or a                   lettuce plant.          16. The antlers of a deer.          17. A rounded mass of foam which rises on a pot of beer or             other effervescing liquor. --Mortimer.          18. pl. Tiles laid at the eaves of a house. --Knight.          Note: Head is often used adjectively or in self-explaining                combinations; as, head gear or headgear, head rest. Cf.                {Head}, a.          {A buck of the first head}, a male fallow deer in its fifth             year, when it attains its complete set of antlers. --Shak.          {By the head}. (Naut.) See under {By}.          {Elevator head}, {Feed head}, etc. See under {Elevator},             {Feed}, etc.          {From head to foot}, through the whole length of a man;             completely; throughout. [bd]Arm me, audacity, from head to             foot.[b8] --Shak.          {Head and ears}, with the whole person; deeply; completely;             as, he was head and ears in debt or in trouble. [Colloq.]                      {Head fast}. (Naut.) See 5th {Fast}.          {Head kidney} (Anat.), the most anterior of the three pairs             of embryonic renal organs developed in most vertebrates;             the pronephros.          {Head money}, a capitation tax; a poll tax. --Milton.          {Head pence}, a poll tax. [Obs.]          {Head sea}, a sea that meets the head of a vessel or rolls             against her course.          {Head and shoulders}.             (a) By force; violently; as, to drag one, head and                   shoulders. [bd]They bring in every figure of speech,                   head and shoulders.[b8] --Felton.             (b) By the height of the head and shoulders; hence, by a                   great degree or space; by far; much; as, he is head                   and shoulders above them.          {Head or tail}, this side or that side; this thing or that;             -- a phrase used in throwing a coin to decide a choice,             guestion, or stake, head being the side of the coin             bearing the effigy or principal figure (or, in case there             is no head or face on either side, that side which has the             date on it), and tail the other side.          {Neither head nor tail}, neither beginning nor end; neither             this thing nor that; nothing distinct or definite; -- a             phrase used in speaking of what is indefinite or confused;             as, they made neither head nor tail of the matter.             [Colloq.]          {Head wind}, a wind that blows in a direction opposite the             vessel's course.          {Out one's own head}, according to one's own idea; without             advice or co[94]peration of another.          {Over the head of}, beyond the comprehension of. --M. Arnold.
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Jump \Jump\, n.       1. The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound. [bd]To             advance by jumps.[b8] --Locke.          2. An effort; an attempt; a venture. [Obs.]                         Our fortune lies Upon thisjump.         -- Shak.          3. The space traversed by a leap.          4. (Mining) A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.          5. (Arch.) An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of             brickwork or masonry.          {From the jump}, from the start or beginning. [Colloq.]          {Jump joint}.             (a) A butt joint.             (b) A flush joint, as of plank in carvel-built vessels.          {Jump seat}.             (a) A movable carriage seat.             (b) A carriage constructed with a seat which may be                   shifted so as to make room for second or extra seat.                   Also used adjectively; as, a jump-seat wagon.
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Top \Top\, n. (Golf)       (a) A stroke on the top of the ball.       (b) A forward spin given to the ball by hitting it on or near             the top.          {From top to toe}, from head to foot; altogether.
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Frond \Frond\, n. [L. frons, frondis, a leafy branch, foliage.]       (Bot.)       The organ formed by the combination or union into one body of       stem and leaf, and often bearing the fructification; as, the       frond of a fern or of a lichen or seaweed; also, the peculiar       leaf of a palm tree.
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Frondation \Fron*da"tion\, n. [L. frondatio, from frons. See       {Frond}.]       The act of stripping, as trees, of leaves or branches; a kind       of pruning. --Evelyn.
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Fronded \Frond"ed\, a.       Furnished with fronds. [bd]Fronded palms.[b8] --Whittier.
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Frondent \Fron"dent\, a. [L. frondens, p. pr. of frondere to put       forth leaves. See {Frond}.]       Covered with leaves; leafy; as, a frondent tree. [R.]
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Frondesce \Fron*desce"\, v. i. [L. frondescere, inchoative fr.       frondere. See {Frondent}.]       To unfold leaves, as plants.
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Frondescence \Fron*des"cence\, n. (Bot.)       (a) The time at which each species of plants unfolds its             leaves.       (b) The act of bursting into leaf. --Milne. Martyn.
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Frondiferous \Fron*dif"er*ous\, a. [L. frondifer frons a leafy       branch + ferre to bear: cf. F. frondifere.]       Producing fronds.
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Frondlet \Frond"let\, n. (Bot.)       A very small frond, or distinct portion of a compound frond.
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Frondose \Fron*dose"\, a. [L. frondosus leafy.] (Bot.)       (a) Frond bearing; resembling a frond; having a simple             expansion not separable into stem and leaves.       (b) Leafy. --Gray.
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Frondous \Fron"dous\, a. (Bot.)       Frondose. [R.]
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Front \Front\, n.       1. (Fort.) All the works along one side of the polygon             inclosing the site which is fortified.          2. (Phon.) The middle of the upper part of the tongue, -- the             part of the tongue which is more or less raised toward the             palate in the pronunciation of certain sounds, as the             vowel i in machine, e in bed, and consonant y in you. See             Guide to Pronunciation, [sect]10.          3. The call boy whose turn it is to answer the call, which is             often the word [bd]front,[b8] used as an exclamation.             [Hotel Cant]
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Front \Front\, n. [F. frant forehead, L. frons, frontis; perh.       akin to E. brow.]       1. The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes;             sometimes, also, the whole face.                         Bless'd with his father's front, his mother's                      tongue.                                             --Pope.                         Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front.                                                                               --Shak.                         His front yet threatens, and his frowns command.                                                                               --Prior.          2. The forehead, countenance, or personal presence, as             expressive of character or temper, and especially, of             boldness of disposition, sometimes of impudence; seeming;             as, a bold front; a hardened front.                         With smiling fronts encountering.      --Shak.                         The inhabitants showed a bold front.   --Macaulay.          3. The part or surface of anything which seems to look out,             or to be directed forward; the fore or forward part; the             foremost rank; the van; -- the opposite to back or rear;             as, the front of a house; the front of an army.                         Had he his hurts before? Ay, on the front. --Shak.          4. A position directly before the face of a person, or before             the foremost part of a thing; as, in front of un person,             of the troops, or of a house.          5. The most conspicuous part.                         The very head and front of my offending. --Shak.          6. That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front             piece of false hair worn by women.                         Like any plain Miss Smith's, who wears s front.                                                                               --Mrs.                                                                               Browning.          7. The beginning. [bd]Summer's front.[b8] --Shak.          {Bastioned front} (Mil.), a curtain connerting two half             bastions.          {Front door}, the door in the front wall of a building,             usually the principal entrance.          {Front of fortification}, the works constructed upon any one             side of a polygon. --Farrow.          {Front of operations}, all that part of the field of             operations in front of the successive positions occupied             by the army as it moves forward. --Farrow.          {To come to the front}, to attain prominence or leadership.
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Front \Front\, a.       Of or relating to the front or forward part; having a       position in front; foremost; as, a front view.
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Front \Front\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fronted}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Fronting}.]       1. To oppose face to face; to oppose directly; to meet in a             hostile manner.                         You four shall front them in the narrow lane.                                                                               --Shak.          2. To appear before; to meet.                         [Enid] daily fronted him In some fresh splendor.                                                                               --Tennyson.          3. To face toward; to have the front toward; to confront; as,             the house fronts the street.                         And then suddenly front the changed reality. --J.                                                                               Morley.          4. To stand opposed or opposite to, or over against as, his             house fronts the church.          5. To adorn in front; to supply a front to; as, to front a             house with marble; to front a head with laurel.                         Yonder walls, that pertly front your town. --Shak.
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Front \Front\, v. t.       To have or turn the face or front in any direction; as, the       house fronts toward the east.
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Front \Front\, n. [F. frant forehead, L. frons, frontis; perh.       akin to E. brow.]       1. The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes;             sometimes, also, the whole face.                         Bless'd with his father's front, his mother's                      tongue.                                             --Pope.                         Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front.                                                                               --Shak.                         His front yet threatens, and his frowns command.                                                                               --Prior.          2. The forehead, countenance, or personal presence, as             expressive of character or temper, and especially, of             boldness of disposition, sometimes of impudence; seeming;             as, a bold front; a hardened front.                         With smiling fronts encountering.      --Shak.                         The inhabitants showed a bold front.   --Macaulay.          3. The part or surface of anything which seems to look out,             or to be directed forward; the fore or forward part; the             foremost rank; the van; -- the opposite to back or rear;             as, the front of a house; the front of an army.                         Had he his hurts before? Ay, on the front. --Shak.          4. A position directly before the face of a person, or before             the foremost part of a thing; as, in front of un person,             of the troops, or of a house.          5. The most conspicuous part.                         The very head and front of my offending. --Shak.          6. That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front             piece of false hair worn by women.                         Like any plain Miss Smith's, who wears s front.                                                                               --Mrs.                                                                               Browning.          7. The beginning. [bd]Summer's front.[b8] --Shak.          {Bastioned front} (Mil.), a curtain connerting two half             bastions.          {Front door}, the door in the front wall of a building,             usually the principal entrance.          {Front of fortification}, the works constructed upon any one             side of a polygon. --Farrow.          {Front of operations}, all that part of the field of             operations in front of the successive positions occupied             by the army as it moves forward. --Farrow.          {To come to the front}, to attain prominence or leadership.
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Front \Front\, n. [F. frant forehead, L. frons, frontis; perh.       akin to E. brow.]       1. The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes;             sometimes, also, the whole face.                         Bless'd with his father's front, his mother's                      tongue.                                             --Pope.                         Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front.                                                                               --Shak.                         His front yet threatens, and his frowns command.                                                                               --Prior.          2. The forehead, countenance, or personal presence, as             expressive of character or temper, and especially, of             boldness of disposition, sometimes of impudence; seeming;             as, a bold front; a hardened front.                         With smiling fronts encountering.      --Shak.                         The inhabitants showed a bold front.   --Macaulay.          3. The part or surface of anything which seems to look out,             or to be directed forward; the fore or forward part; the             foremost rank; the van; -- the opposite to back or rear;             as, the front of a house; the front of an army.                         Had he his hurts before? Ay, on the front. --Shak.          4. A position directly before the face of a person, or before             the foremost part of a thing; as, in front of un person,             of the troops, or of a house.          5. The most conspicuous part.                         The very head and front of my offending. --Shak.          6. That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front             piece of false hair worn by women.                         Like any plain Miss Smith's, who wears s front.                                                                               --Mrs.                                                                               Browning.          7. The beginning. [bd]Summer's front.[b8] --Shak.          {Bastioned front} (Mil.), a curtain connerting two half             bastions.          {Front door}, the door in the front wall of a building,             usually the principal entrance.          {Front of fortification}, the works constructed upon any one             side of a polygon. --Farrow.          {Front of operations}, all that part of the field of             operations in front of the successive positions occupied             by the army as it moves forward. --Farrow.          {To come to the front}, to attain prominence or leadership.
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Front \Front\, n. [F. frant forehead, L. frons, frontis; perh.       akin to E. brow.]       1. The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes;             sometimes, also, the whole face.                         Bless'd with his father's front, his mother's                      tongue.                                             --Pope.                         Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front.                                                                               --Shak.                         His front yet threatens, and his frowns command.                                                                               --Prior.          2. The forehead, countenance, or personal presence, as             expressive of character or temper, and especially, of             boldness of disposition, sometimes of impudence; seeming;             as, a bold front; a hardened front.                         With smiling fronts encountering.      --Shak.                         The inhabitants showed a bold front.   --Macaulay.          3. The part or surface of anything which seems to look out,             or to be directed forward; the fore or forward part; the             foremost rank; the van; -- the opposite to back or rear;             as, the front of a house; the front of an army.                         Had he his hurts before? Ay, on the front. --Shak.          4. A position directly before the face of a person, or before             the foremost part of a thing; as, in front of un person,             of the troops, or of a house.          5. The most conspicuous part.                         The very head and front of my offending. --Shak.          6. That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front             piece of false hair worn by women.                         Like any plain Miss Smith's, who wears s front.                                                                               --Mrs.                                                                               Browning.          7. The beginning. [bd]Summer's front.[b8] --Shak.          {Bastioned front} (Mil.), a curtain connerting two half             bastions.          {Front door}, the door in the front wall of a building,             usually the principal entrance.          {Front of fortification}, the works constructed upon any one             side of a polygon. --Farrow.          {Front of operations}, all that part of the field of             operations in front of the successive positions occupied             by the army as it moves forward. --Farrow.          {To come to the front}, to attain prominence or leadership.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sight \Sight\, n. [OE. sight, si[?]t, siht, AS. siht, gesiht,       gesih[?], gesieh[?], gesyh[?]; akin to D. gezicht, G. sicht,       gesicht, Dan. sigte, Sw. sigt, from the root of E. see. See       {See}, v. t.]       1. The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view;             as, to gain sight of land.                         A cloud received him out of their sight. --Acts. i.                                                                               9.          2. The power of seeing; the faculty of vision, or of             perceiving objects by the instrumentality of the eyes.                         Thy sight is young, And thou shalt read when mine                      begin to dazzle.                                 --Shak.                         O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! --Milton.          3. The state of admitting unobstructed vision; visibility;             open view; region which the eye at one time surveys; space             through which the power of vision extends; as, an object             within sight.          4. A spectacle; a view; a show; something worth seeing.                         Moses said, I will now turn aside and see this great                      sight, why the bush is not burnt.      --Ex. iii. 3.                         They never saw a sight so fair.         --Spenser.          5. The instrument of seeing; the eye.                         Why cloud they not their sights?         --Shak.          6. Inspection; examination; as, a letter intended for the             sight of only one person.          7. Mental view; opinion; judgment; as, in their sight it was             harmless. --Wake.                         That which is highly esteemed among men is                      abomination in the sight of God.         --Luke xvi.                                                                               15.          8. A small aperture through which objects are to be seen, and             by which their direction is settled or ascertained; as,             the sight of a quadrant.                         Thier eyes of fire sparking through sights of steel.                                                                               --Shak.          9. A small piece of metal, fixed or movable, on the breech,             muzzle, center, or trunnion of a gun, or on the breech and             the muzzle of a rifle, pistol, etc., by means of which the             eye is guided in aiming. --Farrow.          10. In a drawing, picture, etc., that part of the surface, as             of paper or canvas, which is within the frame or the             border or margin. In a frame or the like, the open space,             the opening.          11. A great number, quantity, or sum; as, a sight of money.             [Now colloquial]          Note: Sight in this last sense was formerly employed in the                best usage. [bd]A sight of lawyers.[b8] --Latimer.                            A wonder sight of flowers.            --Gower.          {At sight}, as soon as seen, or presented to sight; as, a             draft payable at sight: to read Greek at sight; to shoot a             person at sight.          {Front sight} (Firearms), the sight nearest the muzzle.          {Open sight}. (Firearms)             (a) A front sight through which the objects aimed at may                   be seen, in distinction from one that hides the                   object.             (b) A rear sight having an open notch instead of an                   aperture.          {Peep sight}, {Rear sight}. See under {Peep}, and {Rear}.          {Sight draft}, an order, or bill of exchange, directing the             payment of money at sight.          {To take sight}, to take aim; to look for the purpose of             directing a piece of artillery, or the like.          Syn: Vision; view; show; spectacle; representation;                exhibition.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Frontage \Front"age\, n.       The front part of an edifice or lot; extent of front.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Frontal \Fron"tal\, a. [Cf. F. frontal.]       Belonging to the front part; being in front; esp. (Anat.), Of       or pertaining to the forehead or the anterior part of the       roof of the brain case; as, the frontal bones.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Frontal \Fron"tal\, n. [F. frontal, fronteau, OF. Frontel,       frontal, L. frontale an ornament for the forehead, frontlet.       See {Front}.]       1. Something worn on the forehead or face; a frontlet; as:             (a) An ornamental band for the hair.             (b) (Mil.) The metal face guard of a soldier.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
2. (Arch.) A little pediment over a door or window.          3. (Eccl.) A movable, decorative member in metal, carved             wood, or, commonly, in rich stuff or in embroidery,             covering the front of the altar. Frontals are usually             changed according to the different ceremonies.          4. (Med.) A medicament or application for the forehead.             [Obs.] --Quincy.          5. (Anat.) The frontal bone, or one of the two frontal bones,             of the cranium.          {Frontal} {hammer [or] helve}, a forge hammer lifted by a             cam, acting upon a [bd]tongue[b8] immediately in front of             the hammer head. --Raymond.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Frontate \Fron"tate\, Fron'tated \Fron'ta*ted\, a.       Growing broader and broader, as a leaf; truncate.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Frontate \Fron"tate\, Fron'tated \Fron'ta*ted\, a.       Growing broader and broader, as a leaf; truncate.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Front \Front\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fronted}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Fronting}.]       1. To oppose face to face; to oppose directly; to meet in a             hostile manner.                         You four shall front them in the narrow lane.                                                                               --Shak.          2. To appear before; to meet.                         [Enid] daily fronted him In some fresh splendor.                                                                               --Tennyson.          3. To face toward; to have the front toward; to confront; as,             the house fronts the street.                         And then suddenly front the changed reality. --J.                                                                               Morley.          4. To stand opposed or opposite to, or over against as, his             house fronts the church.          5. To adorn in front; to supply a front to; as, to front a             house with marble; to front a head with laurel.                         Yonder walls, that pertly front your town. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fronted \Front"ed\, a.       Formed with a front; drawn up in line. [bd]Fronted       brigades.[b8] --Milton.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Frontier \Fron"tier\, n. [F. fronti[8a]re, LL. frontaria. See       {Front}.]       1. That part of a country which fronts or faces another             country or an unsettled region; the marches; the border,             confine, or extreme part of a country, bordering on             another country; the border of the settled and cultivated             part of a country; as, the frontier of civilization.          2. (Fort.) An outwork. [Obs.]                         Palisadoes, frontiers, parapets.         --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Frontier \Fron"tier\, a.       1. Lying on the exterior part; bordering; conterminous; as, a             frontier town.          2. Of or relating to a frontier. [bd]Frontier experience.[b8]             --W. Irving.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Frontier \Fron"tier\, v. i.       To constitute or form a frontier; to have a frontier; -- with       on. [Obs.] --Sir W. Temple.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Frontiered \Fron"tiered\, p. a.       Placed on the frontiers. [R.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Floatiersman \Floa"tiers*man\, n.; pl. {Frontiersmen}.       A man living on the frontier.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Frontignac \[d8]Fron`ti*gnac"\, Frontignan \Fron`ti`gnan"\, n.       [So called from Frontignan, a town in Southern France.]       1. A sweet muscadine wine made in Frontignan (Languedoc),             France.          2. (Bot.) A grape of many varieties and colors.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Front \Front\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fronted}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Fronting}.]       1. To oppose face to face; to oppose directly; to meet in a             hostile manner.                         You four shall front them in the narrow lane.                                                                               --Shak.          2. To appear before; to meet.                         [Enid] daily fronted him In some fresh splendor.                                                                               --Tennyson.          3. To face toward; to have the front toward; to confront; as,             the house fronts the street.                         And then suddenly front the changed reality. --J.                                                                               Morley.          4. To stand opposed or opposite to, or over against as, his             house fronts the church.          5. To adorn in front; to supply a front to; as, to front a             house with marble; to front a head with laurel.                         Yonder walls, that pertly front your town. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Frontingly \Front"ing*ly\, adv.       In a fronting or facing position; opposingly.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Frontiniac \Fron`tin*iac"\, n.       See {Frontignac}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Frontispiece \Fron"tis*piece\, n. [F. frontispice, LL.       frontispicium beginning, front of a church, fr. L. frons       front + spicere, specere, to look at, view: cf. It.       frontispizio. See {Front} and {Spy}.]       The part which first meets the eye; as:       (a) (Arch.) The principal front of a building. [Obs. or R.]       (b) An ornamental figure or illustration fronting the first             page, or titlepage, of a book; formerly, the titlepage             itself.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Frontless \Front"less\, a.       Without face or front; shameless; not diffident; impudent.       [Obs.] [bd]Frontless vice.[b8] --Dryden. [bd]Frontless       flattery.[b8] --Pope.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Frontlessly \Front"less*ly\, adv.       Shamelessly; impudently. [Obs.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Frontlet \Front"let\, n. [OF. frontelet brow band, dim. of       frontel, frontal. See {Frontal}, n.]       1. A frontal or brow band; a fillet or band worn on the             forehead.                         They shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.                                                                               --Deut. vi. 8.          2. A frown (likened to a frontlet). [R. & Poetic]                         What makes that frontlet on? Methinks you are too                      much of late i' the frown.                  --Shak.          3. (Zo[94]l.) The margin of the head, behind the bill of             birds, often bearing rigid bristles.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fronto- \Fron"to-\ [L. frons, frontis, the forehead.] (Anat.)       A combining form signifying relating to the forehead or the       frontal bone; as, fronto-parietal, relating to the frontal       and the parietal bones; fronto-nasal, etc.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Frown \Frown\, v. i. [imp. &, p. p. {Frowned}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Frowning}.] [OF. froignier, F. frogner, in se refrogner, se       renfrogner, to knit the brow, to frown; perh. of Teutonic       origin; cf. It. in frigno wrinkled, frowning, Prov. It.       frignare to cringe the face, to make a wry face, dial. Sw.       fryna to make a wry face,]       1. To contract the brow in displeasure, severity, or             sternness; to scowl; to put on a stern, grim, or surly             look.                         The frowning wrinkle of her brow.      --Shak.          2. To manifest displeasure or disapprobation; to look with             disfavor or threateningly; to lower; as, polite society             frowns upon rudeness.                         The sky doth frown and lower upon our army. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Furmonty \Fur"mon*ty\, Furmity \Fur"mi*ty\n.       Same as {Frumenty}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Frumenty \Fru"men*ty\, n. [OF. froment[82]e, fr. L. frumentum.       See {Frumentaceous}.]       Food made of hulled wheat boiled in milk, with sugar, plums,       etc. [Written also {furmenty} and {furmity}.] --Halliwell.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Furmonty \Fur"mon*ty\, Furmity \Fur"mi*ty\n.       Same as {Frumenty}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Frumenty \Fru"men*ty\, n. [OF. froment[82]e, fr. L. frumentum.       See {Frumentaceous}.]       Food made of hulled wheat boiled in milk, with sugar, plums,       etc. [Written also {furmenty} and {furmity}.] --Halliwell.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Furniture \Fur"ni*ture\, n. [F. fourniture. See {Furnish}, v.       t.]       1. That with which anything is furnished or supplied;             supplies; outfit; equipment.                         The form and all the furniture of the earth.                                                                               --Tillotson.                         The thoughts which make the furniture of their                      minds.                                                --M. Arnold.          2. Articles used for convenience or decoration in a house or             apartment, as tables, chairs, bedsteads, sofas, carpets,             curtains, pictures, vases, etc.          3. The necessary appendages to anything, as to a machine, a             carriage, a ship, etc.             (a) (Naut.) The masts and rigging of a ship.             (b) (Mil.) The mountings of a gun.             (c) Builders' hardware such as locks, door and window                   trimmings.             (d) (Print) Pieces of wood or metal of a lesser height                   than the type, placed around the pages or other matter                   in a form, and, with the quoins, serving to secure the                   form in its place in the chase.          4. (Mus.) A mixed or compound stop in an organ; -- sometimes             called mixture.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Lepisma \[d8]Le*pis"ma\ (l[esl]*p[icr]z"m[adot]), n. [NL., fr.       Gr. le`pisma peel, fr. lepi`s -i`dos, a scale.] (Zo[94]l.)       A genus of wingless thysanurous insects having an elongated       flattened body, covered with shining scales and terminated by       seven unequal bristles. A common species ({Lepisma       saccharina}) is found in houses, and often injures books and       furniture. Called also {shiner}, {silver witch}, {silver       moth}, and {furniture bug}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mixture \Mix"ture\, n. [L. mixtura, fr. miscere, mixtum, to mix:       cf. F. mixture. See {Mix}.]       1. The act of mixing, or the state of being mixed; as, made             by a mixture of ingredients. --Hooker.          2. That which results from mixing different ingredients             together; a compound; as, to drink a mixture of molasses             and water; -- also, a medley.                         There is also a mixture of good and evil wisely                      distributed by God, to serve the ends of his                      providence.                                       --Atterbury.          3. An ingredient entering into a mixed mass; an additional             ingredient.                         Cicero doubts whether it were possible for a                      community to exist that had not a prevailing mixture                      of piety in its constitution.            --Addison.          4. (Med.) A kind of liquid medicine made up of many             ingredients; esp., as opposed to {solution}, a liquid             preparation in which the solid ingredients are not             completely dissolved.          5. (Physics & Chem.) A mass of two or more ingredients, the             particles of which are separable, independent, and             uncompounded with each other, no matter how thoroughly and             finely commingled; -- contrasted with a compound; thus,             gunpowder is a mechanical mixture of carbon, sulphur, and             niter.          6. (Mus.) An organ stop, comprising from two to five ranges             of pipes, used only in combination with the foundation and             compound stops; -- called also {furniture stop}. It             consists of high harmonics, or overtones, of the ground             tone.          Syn: Union; admixture; intermixture; medley.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Fairmeade, KY (city, FIPS 26074)       Location: 38.24940 N, 85.63530 W       Population (1990): 280 (116 housing units)       Area: 0.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
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Farmdale, OH       Zip code(s): 44417
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Ferndale, AR       Zip code(s): 72208    Ferndale, CA (city, FIPS 23910)       Location: 40.57949 N, 124.26063 W       Population (1990): 1331 (595 housing units)       Area: 2.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)       Zip code(s): 95536    Ferndale, MD (CDP, FIPS 28075)       Location: 39.18650 N, 76.63438 W       Population (1990): 16355 (6346 housing units)       Area: 10.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)    Ferndale, MI (city, FIPS 27880)       Location: 42.45930 N, 83.13098 W       Population (1990): 25084 (10207 housing units)       Area: 10.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)       Zip code(s): 48220    Ferndale, PA (borough, FIPS 25680)       Location: 40.28835 N, 78.91721 W       Population (1990): 2020 (883 housing units)       Area: 0.9 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)    Ferndale, WA (city, FIPS 23620)       Location: 48.85094 N, 122.58722 W       Population (1990): 5398 (2057 housing units)       Area: 11.8 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)       Zip code(s): 98248
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Fernwood, ID       Zip code(s): 83830
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Friant, CA       Zip code(s): 93626
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Friend, KS       Zip code(s): 67871    Friend, NE (city, FIPS 17775)       Location: 40.65107 N, 97.28405 W       Population (1990): 1111 (483 housing units)       Area: 2.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)       Zip code(s): 68359    Friend, OR       Zip code(s): 97021
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Friendly, MD (CDP, FIPS 30575)       Location: 38.75640 N, 76.96578 W       Population (1990): 9028 (2780 housing units)       Area: 17.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)    Friendly, WV (town, FIPS 29404)       Location: 39.51290 N, 81.06207 W       Population (1990): 146 (73 housing units)       Area: 0.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)       Zip code(s): 26146
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Friendship, AR (town, FIPS 25180)       Location: 34.22375 N, 93.00301 W       Population (1990): 160 (69 housing units)       Area: 1.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)       Zip code(s): 71942    Friendship, IN       Zip code(s): 47021    Friendship, MD       Zip code(s): 20758    Friendship, ME       Zip code(s): 04547    Friendship, NY (CDP, FIPS 27694)       Location: 42.20544 N, 78.14240 W       Population (1990): 1423 (544 housing units)       Area: 7.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)       Zip code(s): 14739    Friendship, TN (city, FIPS 27960)       Location: 35.91030 N, 89.24176 W       Population (1990): 467 (210 housing units)       Area: 1.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)       Zip code(s): 38034    Friendship, WI (village, FIPS 27950)       Location: 43.97179 N, 89.81999 W       Population (1990): 728 (298 housing units)       Area: 2.3 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)       Zip code(s): 53934
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Friendsville, MD (town, FIPS 30850)       Location: 39.66298 N, 79.40518 W       Population (1990): 577 (254 housing units)       Area: 2.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)       Zip code(s): 21531    Friendsville, PA (borough, FIPS 27968)       Location: 41.91791 N, 76.04731 W       Population (1990): 102 (42 housing units)       Area: 3.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)       Zip code(s): 18818    Friendsville, TN (city, FIPS 28060)       Location: 35.75723 N, 84.13044 W       Population (1990): 792 (337 housing units)       Area: 7.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)       Zip code(s): 37737
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Friendswood, TX (city, FIPS 27648)       Location: 29.51230 N, 95.19772 W       Population (1990): 22814 (8048 housing units)       Area: 53.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)       Zip code(s): 77546
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Front Royal, VA (town, FIPS 29968)       Location: 38.92484 N, 78.18470 W       Population (1990): 11880 (4983 housing units)       Area: 24.0 sq km (land), 0.6 sq km (water)       Zip code(s): 22630
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Frontenac, KS (city, FIPS 24850)       Location: 37.45612 N, 94.69625 W       Population (1990): 2588 (1134 housing units)       Area: 8.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)    Frontenac, MN       Zip code(s): 55026    Frontenac, MO (city, FIPS 26110)       Location: 38.63080 N, 90.41598 W       Population (1990): 3374 (1283 housing units)       Area: 7.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)    Frontenac, NY       Zip code(s): 13624
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Frontier, ND (city, FIPS 28720)       Location: 46.80038 N, 96.83301 W       Population (1990): 218 (57 housing units)       Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
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Frontier County, NE (county, FIPS 63)       Location: 40.52695 N, 100.38810 W       Population (1990): 3101 (1565 housing units)       Area: 2524.2 sq km (land), 14.3 sq km (water)
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
fear and loathing n.   [from Hunter S. Thompson] A state    inspired by the prospect of dealing with certain real-world systems    and standards that are totally {brain-damaged} but ubiquitous --    Intel 8086s, or {COBOL}, or {{EBCDIC}}, or any {IBM} machine bigger    than a workstation.   "Ack!   They want PCs to be able to talk to the    AI machine.   Fear and loathing time!"
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
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From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
front end n.   1. An intermediary computer that does set-up and    filtering for another (usually more powerful but less friendly)    machine (a `back end').   2. What you're talking to when you have a    conversation with someone who is making replies without paying    attention.   "Look at the dancing elephants!"   "Uh-huh."   "Do you    know what I just said?"   "Sorry, you were talking to the front end."    3. Software that provides an interface to another program `behind'    it, which may not be as user-friendly.   Probably from analogy with    hardware front-ends (see sense 1) that interfaced with mainframes.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
FARNET          A non-profit corporation, established in 1987, whose mission       is to advance the use of computer networks to improve research       and education.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
fear and loathing          (Hunter S. Thompson) A state inspired by the prospect of       dealing with certain real-world systems and standards that are       totally {brain-damaged} but ubiquitous - {Intel 8086}s,       {COBOL}, {EBCDIC}, or any {IBM} machine except the {Rios}       (also known as the {RS/6000}).          [{Jargon File}]          (1994-12-06)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Fermat prime          A {prime number} of the form 2^2^n + 1.   Any       prime number of the form 2^n+1 must be a Fermat prime.       {Fermat} conjectured in a letter to someone or other that all       numbers 2^2^n+1 are prime, having noticed that this is true       for n=0,1,2,3,4.          {Euler} proved that 641 is a factor of 2^2^5+1.   Of course       nowadays we would just ask a computer, but at the time it was       an impressive achievement (and his proof is very elegant).          No further Fermat primes are known; several have been       factorised, and several more have been proved composite       without finding explicit factorisations.          {Gauss} proved that a regular N-sided {polygon} can be       constructed with ruler and compasses if and only if N is a       power of 2 times a product of distinct Fermat primes.          (1995-04-10)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Ferranti F100-L          An 8-bit processor, with 16-bit addressing, but which could       only access 32K of memory (1-bit for indirection).   The       Ferranti F100-L was designed by a British company for the       British Military.          The unique feature of the F100-L was that it had a complete       control bus available for a {coprocessor}.   Any instruction       the F100-L couldn't decode was sent directly to the       coprocessor for processing.   Applications for coprocessors at       the time were limited, but the design is still used in modern       processors, such as the {National Semiconductor} {320xx}       series.          (1994-11-17)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
FORMAT-Fortran          {Fortran Matrix Abstraction Technique Fortran}
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Formatting Output Specification Instance          (FOSI) An old {SGML} {DTD} {standard} for       {document management} in the US military, to be replaced (soon       after Oct 1996?) by the {ISO} standard {DSSSL}.          (1996-10-07)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
fprintf          Variant of the {C} library routine {printf} which       prints to a given {stream}.   E.g.          fprintf(stderr, "%s: can't open file \"%s\".",       argv[0], argv[1]);          which prints to the "{standard error}" output stream.          (1995-04-25)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Frame Technology Corporation          The company which developed {FrameMaker}, taken over       by {Adobe Systems, Inc.} in late 1995/early 1996.          (1995-01-30)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Freenet          Community-based bulletin board system with e-mail, information       services, interactive communications, and conferencing.       Freenets are funded and operated by individuals and volunteers       - in one sense, like public television.   They are part of the       National Public Telecomputing Network (NPTN), an organisation       based in Cleveland, Ohio, devoted to making computer       telecommunication and networking services as freely available       as public libraries.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Friend          Relationship between classes in the language C++.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
FRMT-FTRN          Scientific language.   1976.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
front end          1. An intermediary computer that does set-up and filtering for       another (usually more powerful but less friendly) machine (a       "back end").          2. Software that provides an interface to another program       "behind" it, which may not be as {user-friendly}.   Probably       from analogy with hardware front-ends that interfaced with       {mainframe}s.          [{Jargon File}]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
front side bus          (FSB) The {bus} via which a {processor}       communicates with its {RAM} and {chipset}; one half of the       {Dual Independent Bus}, the other half being the {backside       bus}.   The {L2 cache} is usually on the FSB, unless it is on       the same chip as the processor [example?].          In {PCI} systems, the PCI bus runs at half the FSB speed.          {Intel}'s {Pentium 60} processor used a bus speed and       processor speed of 60 {MHz}.   All later processors have used       multipliers to increase the internal {clock} speed while       maintaining the same external clock speed, e.g. the {Pentium       90} used a 1.5x multiplier.   Modern {Socket 370}       {motherboards} support multipliers from 4.5x to 8.0x, and FSB       speeds from 50 MHz to a proposed 83 MHz standard.   These       higher speeds may cause problems with some PCI hardware.          Altering the FSB speed and the multiplier ratio are the two       main ways of {overclocking} processors.          {Toms Hardware - The Bus Speed Guide       (http://www.tomshardware.com/busspeed.html)}.          {Toms Hardware - The Overclocking Guide       (http://www.tomshardware.com/overclock.html)}.          (2002-02-21)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
front-end processor          (FEP) 1. A small computer necessary to enable an {IBM}       {mainframe} using {SNA} to communicate beyond the limits of       the {dinosaur pen}.          2. A small computer controlling the screen and keyboard of a       {Symbolics 3600} {LISP Machine}.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Frontlets       occurs only in Ex. 13:16; Deut. 6:8, and 11:18. The meaning of       the injunction to the Israelites, with regard to the statues and       precepts given them, that they should "bind them for a sign upon       their hand, and have them as frontlets between their eyes," was       that they should keep them distinctly in view and carefully       attend to them. But soon after their return from Babylon they       began to interpret this injunction literally, and had       accordingly portions of the law written out and worn about their       person. These they called tephillin, i.e., "prayers." The       passages so written out on strips of parchment were these, Ex.       12:2-10; 13:11-21; Deut. 6:4-9; 11:18-21. They were then "rolled       up in a case of black calfskin, which was attached to a stiffer       piece of leather, having a thong one finger broad and one cubit       and a half long. Those worn on the forehead were written on four       strips of parchment, and put into four little cells within a       square case, which had on it the Hebrew letter called shin, the       three points of which were regarded as an emblem of God." This       case tied around the forehead in a particular way was called       "the tephillah on the head." (See {PHYLACTERY}.)