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   fad diet
         n 1: a reducing diet that enjoys temporary popularity

English Dictionary: fated by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fade out
v
  1. become weaker; "The sound faded out" [syn: dissolve, fade out, fade away]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
faded
adj
  1. having lost freshness or brilliance of color; "sun- bleached deck chairs"; "faded jeans"; "a very pale washed-out blue"; "washy colors"
    Synonym(s): bleached, faded, washed-out, washy
  2. reduced in strength; "the faded tones of an old recording"
    Synonym(s): attenuate, attenuated, faded, weakened
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fadeout
n
  1. a slow or gradual disappearance [syn: receding, fadeout]
  2. a gradual temporary loss of a transmitted signal due to electrical disturbances
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fated
adj
  1. (usually followed by `to') determined by tragic fate; "doomed to unhappiness"; "fated to be the scene of Kennedy's assassination"
    Synonym(s): doomed, fated
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fathead
n
  1. a man who is a stupid incompetent fool [syn: fathead, goof, goofball, bozo, jackass, goose, cuckoo, twat, zany]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fatuity
n
  1. a ludicrous folly; "the crowd laughed at the absurdity of the clown's behavior"
    Synonym(s): absurdity, fatuity, fatuousness, silliness
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fete day
n
  1. a day designated for feasting [syn: feast day, {fete day}]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fetid
adj
  1. offensively malodorous; "a foul odor"; "the kitchen smelled really funky"
    Synonym(s): fetid, foetid, foul, foul-smelling, funky, noisome, smelly, stinking, ill-scented
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fit out
v
  1. provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose; "The expedition was equipped with proper clothing, food, and other necessities"
    Synonym(s): equip, fit, fit out, outfit
  2. provide with clothes or put clothes on; "Parents must feed and dress their child"
    Synonym(s): dress, clothe, enclothe, garb, raiment, tog, garment, habilitate, fit out, apparel
    Antonym(s): discase, disrobe, peel, strip, strip down, uncase, unclothe, undress
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fitted
adj
  1. being the right size and shape to fit as desired; "a fitted overcoat"; "he quickly assembled the fitted pieces"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
foetid
adj
  1. offensively malodorous; "a foul odor"; "the kitchen smelled really funky"
    Synonym(s): fetid, foetid, foul, foul-smelling, funky, noisome, smelly, stinking, ill-scented
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
footed
adj
  1. having feet; "footed creatures"; "a footed sofa" [ant: footless]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   F88te \F[88]te\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {F[88]ted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {F[88]ting}.] [Cf. F. f[88]ter.]
      To feast; to honor with a festival.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fade \Fade\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Faded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Fading}.] [OE. faden, vaden, prob. fr. fade, a.; cf. Prov.
      D. vadden to fade, wither, vaddigh languid, torpid. Cf.
      {Fade}, a., {Vade}.]
      1. To become fade; to grow weak; to lose strength; to decay;
            to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.
  
                     The earth mourneth and fadeth away.   --Is. xxiv. 4.
  
      2. To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint
            in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color. [bd]Flowers
            that never fade.[b8] --Milton.
  
      3. To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to
            vanish.
  
                     The stars shall fade away.                  --Addison
  
                     He makes a swanlike end, Fading in music. --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Faded \Fad"ed\, a.
      That has lost freshness, color, or brightness; grown dim.
      [bd]His faded cheek.[b8] --Milton.
  
               Where the faded moon Made a dim silver twilight.
                                                                              --Keats.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Faithed \Faithed\, a.
      Having faith or a faith; honest; sincere. [Obs.] [bd]Make thy
      words faithed.[b8] --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fated \Fat"ed\, p. p. & a.
      1. Decreed by fate; destined; doomed; as, he was fated to
            rule a factious people.
  
                     One midnight Fated to the purpose.      --Shak.
  
      2. Invested with the power of determining destiny. [Obs.]
            [bd]The fated sky.[b8] --Shak.
  
      3. Exempted by fate. [Obs. or R.] --Dryden.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Redfish \Red"fish`\ (r[ecr]d"f[icr]sh`), n. (Zo[94]l.)
      (a) The blueback salmon of the North Pacific; -- called also
            {nerka}. See {Blueback}
      (b) .
      (b) The rosefish.
      (c) A large California labroid food fish ({Trochocopus
            pulcher}); -- called also {fathead}.
      (d) The red bass, red drum, or drumfish. See the Note under
            {Drumfish}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fathead \Fat"head`\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A cyprinoid fish of the Mississippi valley
                  ({Pimephales promelas}); -- called also {black-headed
                  minnow}.
            (b) A labroid food fish of California; the redfish.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Redfish \Red"fish`\ (r[ecr]d"f[icr]sh`), n. (Zo[94]l.)
      (a) The blueback salmon of the North Pacific; -- called also
            {nerka}. See {Blueback}
      (b) .
      (b) The rosefish.
      (c) A large California labroid food fish ({Trochocopus
            pulcher}); -- called also {fathead}.
      (d) The red bass, red drum, or drumfish. See the Note under
            {Drumfish}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fathead \Fat"head`\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A cyprinoid fish of the Mississippi valley
                  ({Pimephales promelas}); -- called also {black-headed
                  minnow}.
            (b) A labroid food fish of California; the redfish.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fat \Fat\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fatted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {atting}.] [OE. fatten, AS. f[aemac]ttian. See {Fat}, a., and
      cf. {Fatten}.]
      To make fat; to fatten; to make plump and fleshy with
      abundant food; as, to fat fowls or sheep.
  
               We fat all creatures else to fat us.      --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fatuity \Fa*tu"i*ty\, n. [L. fatuitas, fr. fatuus foolish: cf.
      F. fatuit[82] Cf. {Fatuous}.]
      Weakness or imbecility of mind; stupidity.
  
               Those many forms of popular fatuity.      --I Taylor.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fedity \Fed"i*ty\, n. [L. foeditas, fr. foedus foul, fikthy.]
      Turpitude; vileness. [Obs.] --Bp. Hall.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Feed \Feed\, n.
      1. That which is eaten; esp., food for beasts; fodder;
            pasture; hay; grain, ground or whole; as, the best feed
            for sheep.
  
      2. A grazing or pasture ground. --Shak.
  
      3. An allowance of provender given to a horse, cow, etc.; a
            meal; as, a feed of corn or oats.
  
      4. A meal, or the act of eating. [R.]
  
                     For such pleasure till that hour At feed or fountain
                     never had I found.                              --Milton.
  
      5. The water supplied to steam boilers.
  
      6. (Mach.)
            (a) The motion, or act, of carrying forward the stuff to
                  be operated upon, as cloth to the needle in a sewing
                  machine; or of producing progressive operation upon
                  any material or object in a machine, as, in a turning
                  lathe, by moving the cutting tool along or in the
                  work.
            (b) The supply of material to a machine, as water to a
                  steam boiler, coal to a furnace, or grain to a run of
                  stones.
            (c) The mechanism by which the action of feeding is
                  produced; a feed motion.
  
      {Feed bag}, a nose bag containing feed for a horse or mule.
           
  
      {Feed cloth}, an apron for leading cotton, wool, or other
            fiber, into a machine, as for carding, etc.
  
      {Feed door}, a door to a furnace, by which to supply coal.
  
      {Feed head}.
            (a) A cistern for feeding water by gravity to a steam
                  boiler.
            (b) (Founding) An excess of metal above a mold, which
                  serves to render the casting more compact by its
                  pressure; -- also called a {riser}, {deadhead}, or
                  simply {feed} or {head} --Knight.
  
      {Feed heater}.
            (a) (Steam Engine) A vessel in which the feed water for
                  the boiler is heated, usually by exhaust steam.
            (b) A boiler or kettle in which is heated food for stock.
                 
  
      {Feed motion}, [or] {Feed gear} (Mach.), the train of
            mechanism that gives motion to the part that directly
            produces the feed in a machine.
  
      {Feed pipe}, a pipe for supplying the boiler of a steam
            engine, etc., with water.
  
      {Feed pump}, a force pump for supplying water to a steam
            boiler, etc.
  
      {Feed regulator}, a device for graduating the operation of a
            feeder. --Knight.
  
      {Feed screw}, in lathes, a long screw employed to impart a
            regular motion to a tool rest or tool, or to the work.
  
      {Feed water}, water supplied to a steam boiler, etc.
  
      {Feed wheel} (Mach.), a kind of feeder. See {Feeder}, n., 8.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fetid \Fet"id\ (? [or] ?; 277), a. [L. fetidus, foetidus, fr.
      fetere, foetere, to have an ill smell, to stink: cf. F.
      f[82]tide.]
      Having an offensive smell; stinking.
  
               Most putrefactions . . . smell either fetid or moldy.
                                                                              --Bacon.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fit \Fit\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fitted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Fitting}.]
      1. To make fit or suitable; to adapt to the purpose intended;
            to qualify; to put into a condition of readiness or
            preparation.
  
                     The time is fitted for the duty.         --Burke.
  
                     The very situation for which he was peculiarly
                     fitted by nature.                              --Macaulay.
  
      2. To bring to a required form and size; to shape aright; to
            adapt to a model; to adjust; -- said especially of the
            work of a carpenter, machinist, tailor, etc.
  
                     The carpenter . . . marketh it out with a line; he
                     fitteth it with planes.                     --Is. xliv.
                                                                              13.
  
      3. To supply with something that is suitable or fit, or that
            is shaped and adjusted to the use required.
  
                     No milliner can so fit his customers with gloves.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
      4. To be suitable to; to answer the requirements of; to be
            correctly shaped and adjusted to; as, if the coat fits
            you, put it on.
  
                     That's a bountiful answer that fits all questions.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
                     That time best fits the work.            --Shak.
  
      {To fit out}, to supply with necessaries or means; to
            furnish; to equip; as, to fit out a privateer.
  
      {To fit up}, to firnish with things suitable; to make proper
            for the reception or use of any person; to prepare; as, to
            fit up a room for a guest.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Meridian \Me*rid"i*an\, n. [F. m[82]ridien. See {Meridian}, a.]
      1. Midday; noon.
  
      2. Hence: The highest point, as of success, prosperity, or
            the like; culmination.
  
                     I have touched the highest point of all my
                     greatness, And from that full meridian of my glory I
                     haste now to my setting.                     --Shak.
  
      3. (Astron.) A great circle of the sphere passing through the
            poles of the heavens and the zenith of a given place. It
            is crossed by the sun at midday.
  
      4. (Geog.) A great circle on the surface of the earth,
            passing through the poles and any given place; also, the
            half of such a circle included between the poles.
  
      Note: The planes of the geographical and astronomical
               meridians coincide. Meridians, on a map or globe, are
               lines drawn at certain intervals due north and south,
               or in the direction of the poles.
  
      {Calculated for}, [or] {fitted to}, [or] {adapted to}, {the
      meridian of}, suited to the local circumstances,
            capabilities, or special requirements of.
  
                     All other knowledge merely serves the concerns of
                     this life, and is fitted to the meridian thereof.
                                                                              --Sir M. Hale.
  
      {First meridian}, the meridian from which longitudes are
            reckoned. The meridian of Greenwich is the one commonly
            employed in calculations of longitude by geographers, and
            in actual practice, although in various countries other
            and different meridians, chiefly those which pass through
            the capitals of the countries, are occasionally used; as,
            in France, the meridian of Paris; in the United States,
            the meridian of Washington, etc.
  
      {Guide meridian} (Public Land Survey), a line, marked by
            monuments, running North and South through a section of
            country between other more carefully established meridians
            called principal meridians, used for reference in
            surveying. [U.S.]
  
      {Magnetic meridian}, a great circle, passing through the
            zenith and coinciding in direction with the magnetic
            needle, or a line on the earth's surface having the same
            direction.
  
      {Meridian circle} (Astron.), an instrument consisting of a
            telescope attached to a large graduated circle and so
            mounted that the telescope revolves like the transit
            instrument in a meridian plane. By it the right ascension
            and the declination of a star may be measured in a single
            observation.
  
      {Meridian instrument} (Astron.), any astronomical instrument
            having a telescope that rotates in a meridian plane.
  
      {Meridian of a globe}, [or] {Brass meridian}, a graduated
            circular ring of brass, in which the artificial globe is
            suspended and revolves.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fitweed \Fit"weed`\, n. (Bot.)
      A plant ({Eryngium f[d2]tidum}) supposed to be a remedy for
      fits.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Foot \Foot\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Footed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Footing}.]
      1. To tread to measure or music; to dance; to trip; to skip.
            --Dryden.
  
      2. To walk; -- opposed to ride or fly. --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Footed \Foot"ed\, a.
      1. Having a foot or feet; shaped in the foot. [bd]Footed like
            a goat.[b8] --Grew.
  
      Note: Footed is often used in composition in the sense of
               having (such or so many) feet; as, fourfooted beasts.
  
      2. Having a foothold; established.
  
                     Our king . . . is footed in this land already.
                                                                              --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Foothot \Foot"hot`\, adv.
      Hastily; immediately; instantly; on the spot; hotfloot.
      --Gower.
  
               Custance have they taken anon, foothot.   --Chaucer.
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