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Facet
To cut facets or small faces upon; .
Faddle
To trifle; to toy.
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.
Faldistory
The throne or seat of a bishop within the chancel.
Familiar
An intimate; a companion.
Fanfaronade
A swaggering; vain boasting; ostentation; a bluster.
Fan palm
Any palm tree having fan-shaped or radiate leaves; as the of Southern Europe; the species of and in the West Indies, Florida, etc.; and especially the great talipot tree () of Ceylon and Malaya. The leaves of the latter are often eighteen feet long and fourteen wide, and are used for umbrellas, tents, and roofs. When cut up, they are used for books and manuscripts.
Father-God
God, when considered as the first person in the Trinity.
fattened
fed until grown and ready for slaughter or for sale in the market; -- of market animals.
Fauchion
See .
Faunal
Relating to fauna.
favel
Yellow; fallow; dun.
Favoress
A woman who favors or gives countenance.
Fay
To fit; to join; to unite closely, as two pieces of wood, so as to make the surface fit together.
Feast
To entertain with sumptuous provisions; to treat at the table bountifully; .
Felanders
See .
Fellow-creature
One of the same race or kind; one made by the same Creator.
Feracity
The state of being feracious or fruitful.
Ferrocyanide
One of a series of complex double cyanides of ferrous iron and some other base.
Ferrotype
A photographic picture taken on an iron plate by a collodion process; -- familiarly called .
Fertile
Producing fruit or vegetation in abundance; fruitful; able to produce abundantly; prolific; fecund; productive; rich; inventive;
Feudality
The state or quality of being feudal; feudal form or constitution.
Feudalize
To reduce to a feudal tenure; to conform to feudalism.
Fibulare
The bone or cartilage of the tarsus, which articulates with the fibula, and corresponds to the calcaneum in man and most mammals.
Fidia
A genus of small beetles, of which one species (the grapevine Fidia, ) is very injurious to vines in America.
Fig
Figure; dress; array.
Fineness
The quality or condition of being fine.
fingerprint
to take an impression of the fingerprints of (a person); .
Flinch
The act of flinching.
Flindermouse
A bat; a flittermouse.
Flix
The flux; dysentery.
Flocculus
A small lobe in the under surface of the cerebellum, near the middle peduncle; the subpeduncular lobe.
Floriated
Having floral ornaments; .
Florist
A cultivator of, or dealer in, flowers.
Flosculous
Consisting of many gamopetalous florets.
Flotery
Wavy; flowing.
Fluuml;gel
A grand piano or a harpsichord, both being wing-shaped.
Fluxions
See , 6.
Flyboat
A large Dutch coasting vessel.
Follow
To go or come after; -- used in the various senses of the transitive verb: To pursue; to attend; to accompany; to be a result; to imitate.
forecasting
The process of calculating and predicting future events, usually based on extrapolation from past experience, and with varying degress of uncertainty.
Formicaroid
Like or pertaining to the family or ant thrushes.
Forwardness
The quality of being forward; cheerful readiness; promtness; .
foul-smelling
emitting an unpleasasnt odor.
Frankpledge
A pledge or surety for the good behavior of freemen, -- each freeman who was a member of an ancient decennary, tithing, or friborg, in England, being a pledge for the good conduct of the others, for the preservation of the public peace; a free surety.
Frazzle
To fray; to wear or pull into tatters or tag ends; to tatter; -- used literally and figuratively.
Freck
To checker; to diversify.
Freebooty
Freebootery.
Freeze
The act of congealing, or the state of being congealed.
Freight
To load with goods, as a ship, or vehicle of any kind, for transporting them from one place to another; to furnish with freight;
Friday
The sixth day of the week, following Thursday and preceding Saturday.
Froth
To throw up or out spume, foam, or bubbles; to foam; as beer ; a horse .
Frow
A woman; especially, a Dutch or German woman.
Frowey
Working smoothly, or without splitting; -- said of timber.
Fruiteress
A woman who sells fruit.
fudge factor
a term or factor inserted into a calculation to compensate for anticipated errors, or to arbitrarily make the result conform to some desired conclusion.
Fulgency
Brightness; splendor; glitter; effulgence.
Fulgurite
A vitrified sand tube produced by the striking of lightning on sand; a lightning tube; also, the portion of rock surface fused by a lightning discharge.
Fulminuric
Pertaining to fulminic and cyanuric acids, and designating an acid so called.
Fumet
A high-flavored substance, such as extract of game, for flavoring dishes of food; less properly, a ragout of partridge and rabbit braised in wine.
Fumetere
Fumitory.
Funambulate
To walk or to dance on a rope.
Fungia
A genus of simple, stony corals; -- so called because they are usually flat and circular, with radiating plates, like the gills of a mushroom. Some of them are eighteen inches in diameter.
Furthersome
Tending to further, advance, or promote; helpful; advantageous.
Fusile
Same as ,