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Fabliau
One of the metrical tales of the Trouvres, or early poets of the north of France.
Fag
To become weary; to tire.
Fahr.
an abbreviation of ; -- used in designating temperatures; Used as an alternative to .
Faintish
Slightly faint; somewhat faint.
fairgrounds
same as .
Fairylike
Resembling a fairy, or what is made or done be fairies; .
Falcade
The action of a horse, when he throws himself on his haunches two or three times, bending himself, as it were, in very quick curvets.
Falsifier
One who falsifies, or gives to a thing a deceptive appearance; a liar.
Fanciful
Full of fancy; guided by fancy, rather than by reason and experience; whimsical; .
Fantasm
Same as .
Farfet
Farfetched.
Farthest
Most distant or remote; . See .
Fault-finder
One who makes a practice of discovering others' faults and censuring them; a scold.
Favorite
A person or thing regarded with peculiar favor; one treated with partiality; one preferred above others; especially, one unduly loved, trusted, and enriched with favors by a person of high rank or authority.
Feline
Catlike; of or pertaining to the genus , or family ;
Fertilitate
To fertilize; to fecundate.
Fet
A piece.
Feudatary
See .
Fichu
A light cape, usually of lace, worn by women, to cover the neck and throat, and extending to the shoulders.
Fiduciary
One who holds a thing in trust for another; a trustee.
Field
To catch, stop, throw, etc. (the ball), as a fielder.
Figaro
An adroit and unscrupulous intriguer.
Figment
An invention; a fiction; something feigned or imagined.
Fig-shell
A marine univalve shell of the genus , or , resembling a fig in form.
Finance
The income of a ruler or of a state; revenue; public money; sometimes, the income of an individual; often used in the plural for funds; available money; resources.
Fingerer
One who fingers; a pilferer.
Firm
Fixed; hence, closely compressed; compact; substantial; hard; solid; -- applied to the matter of bodies;
Firstling
Firstborn.
Fissiparity
Quality of being fissiparous; fissiparism.
Fissiped
One of the .
Fissirostral
Having the bill cleft beyond the horny part, as in the case of swallows and goatsuckers.
Fitly
In a fit manner; suitably; properly; conveniently; .
Flagitate
To importune; to demand fiercely or with passion.
Flagrate
To burn.
Flameless
Destitute of flame.
Flaundrish
Flemish.
Fleet-foot
Swift of foot.
Flexor
A muscle which bends or flexes any part; ; -- opposed to .
Flibbergib
A sycophant.
Floss
The slender styles of the pistillate flowers of maize; also called .
Fluent
Flowing or capable of flowing; liquid; glodding; easily moving.
Flung
of .
Fluorated
Combined with fluorine; subjected to the action of fluoride.
Fly-case
The covering of an insect, esp. the elytra of beetles.
Fodder
A weight by which lead and some other metals were formerly sold, in England, varying from 19 to 24 cwt.; a fother.
Foil
To defile; to soil.
follow-on
an immediate second innings forced on a cricket team scoring a prescribed number of runs fewer than its opponents in the first innings.
Foppish
Foplike; characteristic of a top in dress or manners; making an ostentatious display of gay clothing; affected in manners.
Foray
To pillage; to ravage.
Forbearant
Forbearing.
Forceless
Having little or no force; feeble.
Foreappointment
Previous appointment; preordinantion.
Forelook
To look beforehand or forward.
Foreordain
To ordain or appoint beforehand; to preordain; to predestinate; to predetermine.
Formative
That which serves merely to give form, and is no part of the radical, as the prefix or the termination of a word.
Forzando
See .
Fossil
A substance dug from the earth.
Fozy
Spongy; soft; fat and puffy.
franc-tireur
a sharpshooter (in the French army).
Frater
A monk; also, a frater house.
Freely
In a free manner; without restraint or compulsion; abundantly; gratuitously.
Friend
To act as the friend of; to favor; to countenance; to befriend.
Frontiniac
See .
Frostless
Free from frost; .
Frostweed
An American species of rockrose (), sometimes used in medicine as an astringent or aromatic tonic.
Frounceless
Without frounces.
Fughetta
a short, condensed fugue.
Fumitory
The common uame of several species of the genus Fumaria, annual herbs of the Old World, with finely dissected leaves and small flowers in dense racemes or spikes. is a common species, and was formerly used as an antiscorbutic.
Fungate
A salt of fungic acid.