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face-harden
to harden (steel) by adding carbon.
Factitious
Made by art, in distinction from what is produced by nature; artificial; sham; contrived; formed by, or adapted to, an artificial or conventional, in distinction from a natural, standard or rule; not natural;
Falsify
To tell lies; to violate the truth.
Fanaticism
Excessive enthusiasm, unreasoning zeal, or wild and extravagant notions, on any subject, especially religion, politics or ideology; religious frenzy.
Fantast
One whose manners or ideas are fantastic.
Farctate
Stuffed; filled solid; ; -- opposed to or .
far-flung
widely spread or distributed; .
Farm
To lease or let for an equivalent, as land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds.
Fatalist
One who maintains that all things happen by inevitable necessity.
Featurely
Having features; showing marked peculiarities; handsome.
Feazings
The unlaid or ragged end of a rope.
Federalist
An advocate of confederation; specifically , a friend of the Constitution of the United States at its formation and adoption; a member of the political party which favored the administration of president Washington.
Fellow-creature
One of the same race or kind; one made by the same Creator.
Felly
The exterior wooden rim, or a segment of the rim, of a wheel, supported by the spokes.
Felspathic
See .
Fenny
Pertaining to, or inhabiting, a fen; abounding in fens; swampy; boggy.
Feoff
To invest with a fee or feud; to give or grant a corporeal hereditament to; to enfeoff.
Ferryman
One who maintains or attends a ferry.
Fertility
The state or quality of being fertile or fruitful; fruitfulness; productiveness; fecundity; richness; abundance of resources; fertile invention; quickness; readiness; .
Fibrillary
Of of pertaining to fibrils.
Fictitious
Feigned; imaginary; not real; fabulous; counterfeit; false; not genuine; .
Fielded
Engaged in the field; encamped.
Filanders
A disease in hawks, characterized by the presence of small threadlike worms, also of filaments of coagulated blood, from the rupture of a vein; -- called also .
Filarial
Of, pertaining to, or caused by, filari and allied parasitic worms.
Filatory
A machine for forming threads.
Filch
To steal or take privily (commonly, that which is of little value); to pilfer.
File
A steel instrument, having cutting ridges or teeth, made by indentation with a chisel, used for abrading or smoothing other substances, as metals, wood, etc.
Filminess
State of being filmy.
fingerroot
tall leafy European biennial or perennial () having spectacular clusters of large tubular pink-purple flowers; -- its leaves yield the drug digitalis and are poisonous to livestock.
fire-sale price
a price much lower than normal market price; .
Fixing
The act or process of making fixed.
Flatter
To treat with praise or blandishments; to gratify or attempt to gratify the self-love or vanity of, esp. by artful and interested commendation or attentions; to blandish; to cajole; to wheedle.
Flea
To flay.
Fledge
Feathered; furnished with feathers or wings; able to fly.
fledgeless
not equipped with feathers; -- of an arrow.
Flier
One who flies or flees; a runaway; a fugitive.
Flip-flap
With repeated strokes and noise, as of something long and loose.
Flooding
The filling or covering with water or other fluid; overflow; inundation; the filling anything to excess.
Floppy
Having a tendency to flop or flap; .
Floriculturist
One skilled in the cultivation of flowers; a florist.
Flotten
Skimmed.
Flounder
To fling the limbs and body, as in making efforts to move; to struggle, as a horse in the mire, or as a fish on land; to roll, toss, and tumble; to flounce.
Flower-de-luce
A genus of perennial herbs () with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem.
Fluctuate
To move as a wave; to roll hither and thither; to wave; to float backward and forward, as on waves; .
Fluke
To get or score by a fluke; .
Flush
To flow and spread suddenly; to rush; .
Flusteration
The act of flustering, or the state of being flustered; fluster.
Fluvial
Belonging to rivers; growing or living in streams or ponds; .
footling
small and of little importance; .
Foremeant
Intended beforehand; premeditated.
Forewot
of .
Forger
One who forges, makes, of forms; a fabricator; a falsifier.
format
to set into a specific format; -- of printed matter or data recorded on a data soorage medium.
Formulary
A book containing stated and prescribed forms, as of oaths, declarations, prayers, medical formula, etc.; a book of precedents.
Fortitudinous
Having fortitude; courageous.
Fotive
Nourishing.
Frame
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 , , , , , , , , and .
Frangent
Causing fracture; breaking.
Frau
In Germany, a woman; a married woman; a wife; -- as a title, equivalent to , .
free-associate
to express one's thoughts, ideas, impressions, etc. in an unplanned and unstructured way, allowing each thought or idea to prompt recollection of the next one. It is a process used in psychotherapy.
Freely
In a free manner; without restraint or compulsion; abundantly; gratuitously.
Freethinker
One who speculates or forms opinions independently of the authority of others; esp., in the sphere or religion, one who forms opinions independently of the authority of revelation or of the church; an unbeliever; -- a term assumed by deists and skeptics in the eighteenth century.
Freightage
The charge for transportation; the expense of carriage.
Front
To have or turn the face or front in any direction; .
Frowey
Working smoothly, or without splitting; -- said of timber.
Frying
The process denoted by the verb .
Fubbery
Cheating; deception.
Fugato
in the gugue style, but not strictly like a fugue.
Fughetta
a short, condensed fugue.
fullback
an offensive football player who plays farther behind the line of scrimmage than the half-back. They are used primarily for blocking and line plunges.
Full-manned
Completely furnished wiith men, as a ship.
full-scale
using all available resources; -- of actions; .
Functionally
In a functional manner; as regards normal or appropriate activity.
Furlough
Leave of absence; especially, leave given to an officer or soldier to be absent from service for a certain time; also, the document granting leave of absence.
furnished
provided with necessary furnishings; -- used especially of rented apartments having furniture included in the rental price; . Opposite of .