# Dictionary

Topic: Flaccid
Definition:
FLAC'CID, a.  [L. flaccidus, from flacceo, to hand down, to flag.]
Soft and weak; limber; lax; drooping; hanging down by its own weight; yielding to pressure for want of firmness and stiffness; as a flaccid muscle; flaccid flesh.


Topic: Flagelet
Definition:
FLAG'ELET, n.  [L. flatus, by corruption or Gr. oblique, and a flute.]
A small flute; a small wind instrument of music.


Topic: Flagellant
Definition:
FLAG'ELLANT, n.  [L. flagellans, from flagello, to flog.]
One who whips himself in religious discipline.  The flagellants were a fanatical sect which arose in Italy, AD. 1260, who maintained that flagellation was of equal virtue with baptism and the sacrament.  They walked in procession with shoulders bare, and whipped themselves till the blood ran down their bodies, to obtain the mercy of God, and appease his wrath against the vices of the age.


Topic: Flagellation
Definition:
FLAGELLA'TION, n.  [L. flagello, to beat or whip, to flog, from flagellum, a whip, scourge or flail.  See Flail and Flog.]
A beating or whipping; a flogging; the discipline of the scourge.


Topic: Flaggy
Definition:
FLAG'GY, a.
1.  Weak; flexible; limber; not stiff.
2.  Weak in taste; insipid; as a flaggy apple.
3.  Abounding with flags, the plant.


Topic: Flagitious
Definition:
FLAGI'TIOUS, a.  [L. flagitium, a scandalous crime, probably from the root of flagrant.]
1.  Deeply criminal; grossly wicked; villainous; atrocious; scandalous; as a flagitious action or crime.
2.  Guilty of enormous crimes; corrupt; wicked; as a flagitious person.
3.  Marked or infected with scandalous crimes or vices; as flagitious times.


Topic: Flagon
Definition:
FLAG'ON, n.  [L. lagena; Gr.]
A vessel with a narrow mouth, used for holding and conveying liquors.
Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples; for I am sick of love.


Topic: Flagrancy
Definition:
FLA'GRANCY, n.  [See Flagrant.]  
1.  A burning; great heat; inflammation.  Obs.
Lust causeth a flagrancy in the eyes.
2.  Excess; enormity; as the flagrancy of a crime.


Topic: Flagrant
Definition:
FLA'GRANT, a.  [L. flagrans, from flagro, to burn; Gr.]
1.  Burning; ardent; eager; as flagrant desires.
2.  Glowing; red; flushed.
See Sapho, at her toilet's greasy task,
Then issuing flagrant to an evening mask.
3.  Red; inflamed.
The beadle's lash still flagrant on their back.
[The foregoing senses are unusual.]
4.  Flaming in notice; glaring; notorious; enormous; as a flagrant crime.


Topic: Flail
Definition:
FLA'IL, n.  [L. flagellum.  We retain the original verb in flog, to strike, to lay on, L. fligo, whence affligo, to afflict; plaga, a stroke, or perhaps from the same root as lick and lay.  Gr.  See Lick.]
An instrument for thrashing or beating corn from the ear.


Topic: Flake
Definition:
FLAKE, n.  [L. floccus; Gr.  Flake and flock are doubtless the same word, varied in orthography, and connected perhaps with L. plico, Gr.  The sense is a complication, a crowd, or a lay.]
1.  A small collection of snow, as it falls from the clouds or from the air; a little bunch or cluster of snowy crystals, such as fall in still moderate weather.  This is a flake, lock or flock of snow.
2.  A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, on which cod-fish is dried.
3.  A layer or stratum; as a flake of flesh or tallow.  
Job. 41.
4.  A collection or little particle of fire, or of combustible matter on fire, separated and flying off.
5.  Any scaly matter in layers; any mass cleaving off in scales.
Little flakes of scurf.
6.  A sort of carnations of two colors only, having large stripes going through the leaves.
White-flake, in painting, is lead corroded by means of the pressing of grapes, or a ceruse prepared by the acid of grapes.  It is brought from Italy, and of a quality superior to common white lead.  It is used in oil and varnished painting, when a clean white is required.
FLAKE, v.t.  To form into flakes.
FLAKE, v.i.  To break or separate in layers; to peel or scale off.  We more usually say, to flake off.


Topic: Flaky
Definition:
FLA'KY, a.
1.  Consisting of flakes or locks; consisting of small loose masses.
2.  Lying in flakes; consisting of layers, or cleaving off in layers.


Topic: Flam
Definition:
FLAM, n.  A freak or whim; also, a falsehood; a lie; an illusory pretext; deception; delusion.
Lies immortalized and consigned over as a perpetual abuse and flam upon posterity.
FLAM, v.t.  To deceive with falsehood; to delude.


Topic: Flambeau
Definition:
FLAM'BEAU, n.  flam'bo.  [L. flamma, flame.]
A light or luminary made of thick wicks covered with wax, and used in the streets at night, at illuminations, and in processions.  Flambeaus are made square, and usually consist of four wicks or branches, near an inch thick, and about three feet long, composed of coarse hempen yarn, half twisted.


Topic: Flame
Definition:
FLAME, n.  [L. flamma.]
1.  A blaze; burning vapor; vapor in combustion; or according to modern chimistry, hydrogen or any inflammable gas, in a state of combustion, and naturally ascending in a stream from burning bodies being specifically lighter than common air.
2.  Fire in general.
3.  Heat of passion; tumult; combustion; blaze; violent contention.  One jealous, tattling mischief-maker will set a whole village in a flame.
4.  Ardor of temper or imagination; brightness of fancy; vigor of thought.
Great are their faults, and glorious is their flame.
5.  Ardor of inclination; warmth of affection.
Smit with the love of kindred arts we came,
And met congenial, mingling flame with flame.
6.  The passion of love; ardent love.
My heart's on flame.
7.  Rage; violence; as the flames of war.
FLAME, v.t.  To inflame; to excite.
FLAME, v.i.
1.  To blaze; to burn in vapor, or in a current; to burn as gas emitted from bodies in combustion.
2.  To shine like burning gas.
In flaming yellow bright.
3.  To break out in violence of passion.


Topic: Flamen
Definition:
FLA'MEN, n.  [L.]  
1.  In ancient Rome, a priest.  Originally there were three priests so called; the Flamen Dialis, consecrated to Jupiter; Flamen Martialis, sacred to Mars; and Flamen Quirinalis, who superintended the rites of Quirinus or Romulus.
2.  A priest.


Topic: Flaming
Definition:
FLA'MING, ppr.  
1.  Burning in flame.
2.  a.  Bright; red.  Also, violent; vehement; as a flaming harangue.
FLA'MING, n.  A bursting out in a flame.


Topic: Flamingo
Definition:
FLAMIN'GO, n.
A fowl constituting the genus Phoenicopterus, of the grallic order.  The beak is naked, toothed, and bent as if broken; the feet palmated and four-toed.  This fowl resembles the heron in shape, but is entirely red, except the quill-fethers.  It is a native of Africa and America.


Topic: Flammability
Definition:
FLAMMABIL'ITY, n.  The quality of admitting to be set on fire, or enkindled into a flame or blaze; inflammability.


Topic: Flammation
Definition:
FLAMMA'TION, n.  The act of setting on flame.
The three last words are little used.  Instead of them are used the compounds, inflammable, inflammability, inflammation.


Topic: Flamy
Definition:
FLA'MY, a.  [from flame.]
1.  Blazing; burning; as flamy breath.
2.  Having the nature of flame; as flamy matter.
3.  Having the color of flame.


Topic: Flank
Definition:
FLANK, n.  [Eng. flag.  Gr. probably connected with lank, and so called from its laxity, or from breadth.]
1.  The fleshy or muscular part of the side of an animal, between the ribs and the hip.  Hence,
2.  The side of an army, or of any division of an army, as of a brigade, regiment or battalion.  To attack an enemy in flank, is to attack them on the side.
3.  In fortification, that part of a bastion which reaches from the curtain to the face, and defends the opposite face, the flank and the curtain; or it is a line drawn from the extremity of the face towards the inside of the work.
FLANK, v.t.
1.  To attack the side or flank of an army or body of troops; or to place troops so as to command or attack the flank.
2.  To post so as to overlook or command on the side; as, to flank a passage.
3.  To secure or guard on the side; as flanked with rocks.
FLANK, v.i.
1.  To border; to touch.
2.  To be posted on the side.


Topic: Flanker
Definition:
FLANK'ER, n.  A fortification projecting so as to command the side of an assailing body.
FLANK'ER, v.t.  
1.  To defend by lateral fortifications.
2.  To attack sideways.


Topic: Flap
Definition:
FLAP, n.  [L. alapa, a slap.  It seems difficult to separate flap from clap, slap, flabby, lap, &c.]
1.  Any thing broad and limber that hangs loose, or is easily moved.
A cartilaginous flap on the opening of the larynx.
We say, the flap of a garment, the flap of the ear, the flap of a hat.
2.  The motion of any thing broad and loose, or a stroke with it.
3.  The flaps, a disease in the lips of horses.
FLAP, v.t.  
1.  To beat with a flap.
Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings.
2.  To move something broad; as, to flap the wings.
3.  To let fall, as the brim of a hat.  [This sense seems to indicate a connection with lap.]
FLAP, v.i.
1.  To move as wings, or as something broad or loose.
2.  To fall, as the brim of a hat, or other broad thing.


Topic: Flapdragon
Definition:
FLAP'DRAGON, n.  
1.  A play in which they catch raisins out of burning brandy, and extinguishing them by closing the mouth, eat them.
2.  The thing eaten.
FLAP'DRAGON, v.t.  To swallow or devour.


Topic: Flapping
Definition:
FLAP'PING, ppr.  Striking; beating; moving something broad; as flapping wings.  The ducks run flapping and fluttering.


Topic: Flare
Definition:
FLARE, v.i.  [If this word is not contracted, it may be allied to clear, glare, glory, L. floreo,  Eng. floor, the primary sense of which is to open, to spread, from parting, departing, or driving apart.]
1.  To waver; to flutter; to burn with an unsteady light; as, the candle flares, that is the light wanders from its natural course.
2.  To flutter with splendid show; to be loose and waving as a showy thing.
With ribbons pendant flaring 'bout her head.
3.  To glitter with transient luster.
But speech alone doth vanish like a flaring thing.
4.  To glitter with painful splendor.
When the sun begins to fling his flaring beams.
5.  To be exposed to too much light.
I cannot stay flaring in sunshine all the day.
6.  To open or spread outward.


Topic: Flaring
Definition:
FLA'RING, ppr. or a.
1.  Burning with a wavering light; fluttering; glittering; showy.
2.  Opening; widening outward; as a flaring fireplace.


Topic: Flash
Definition:
FLASH, n.  
1.  A sudden burst of light; a flood of light instantaneously appearing and disappearing; as a flash of lightning.
2.  A sudden burst of flame and light; as instantaneous blaze; as the flash of a gun.
3.  A sudden burst, as of wit or merriment; as a flash of wit; a flash of joy or mirth.
His companions recollect no instance of premature wit, no striking sentiment, no flash of fancy - 
4.  A short, transient state.
The Persians and Macedonians had it for a flash.
5.  A body of water driven by violence.  [Local.]
6.  A little pool.  [Local.]
FLASH, v.i.  
1.  To break forth, as a sudden flood of light; to burst or open instantly on the sight, as splendor.  It differs from glitter, glisten and gleam in denoting a flood or wide extent of light.  The latter words may express the issuing of light from a small object, or from a pencil of rays.  A diamond may glitter or glisten, but it does not flash.  Flash differs from other words also in denoting suddenness of appearance and disappearance.
2.  To burst or break forth with a flood of flame and light; as, the powder flashed in the pan.  Flashing differs from exploding or disploding, in not being accompanied with a loud report.
3.  To burst out into any kind of violence.
Every hour he flashes into one gross crime or other.
4.  To break out, as a sudden expression of wit, merriment or bright thought.
FLASH, v.t.
1.  To strike up a body of water from the surface.
He rudely flashed the waves.
[In this sense I believe this word is not used in America.]   2. To strike or to throw like a burst of light; as, to flash conviction on the mind.


Topic: Flashing
Definition:
FLASH'ING, ppr.  Bursting forth as a flood of light, or of flame and light, or as wit, mirth or joy.


Topic: Flashy
Definition:
FLASH'Y, a.
1.  Showy, but empty; dazzling for a moment, but not solid; as flashy wit.
2.  Showy; gay; as a flashy dress.
3.  Insipid; vapid; without taste or spirit; as food or drink.
4.  Washy; plashy.  [See Plash.]


Topic: Flask
Definition:
FL'ASK, n.
1.  A kind of bottle; as a flask of wine or oil.
2.  A vessel for powder.
3.  A bed in a gun-carriage.


Topic: Flat
Definition:
FLAT, a.  [L. latus, broad;  Gr.; Eng. blade.]
1.  Having an even surface, without risings or indentures, hills or valleys; as flat land.
2.  Horizontal; level; without inclination; as a flat roof; or with a moderate inclination or slope; for we often apply the word to the roof of a house that is not steep, though inclined.
3.  Prostrate; lying the whole length on the ground.  He fell or lay flat on the ground.
4.  Not elevated or erect; fallen.
Cease t'admire, and beauty's plumes  fall flat.
5.  Level with the ground; totally fallen.
What ruins kingdoms, and lays cities flat.
6.  In painting, wanting relief or prominence of the figures.
7.  Tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as fruit flat to the taste.
8.  Dull; unanimated; frigid; without point or spirit; applied to discourses and compositions.  The sermon was very flat.
9.  Depressed; spiritless; dejected.
I feel - my hopes all flat.
10.  Unpleasing; not affording gratification.
How flat and insipid are all the pleasures of this life!
11.  Peremptory; absolute; positive; downright.  He gave the petitioner a flat denial.
Thus repulsed, our final hope is flat despair.
12.  Not sharp or shrill; not acute; as a flat sound.
13.  Low, as the prices of goods; or dull, as sales.
FLAT, n.  
1.  A level or extended plain.  In America, it is applied particularly to low ground or meadow that is level, but it denotes any land of even surface and of some extent.
2.  A level ground lying at a small depth under the surface of water; a shoal; a shallow; a strand; a sand bank under water.
3.  The broad side of a blade.
4.  Depression of thought or language.
5.  A surface without relief or prominences.
6.  In music, a mark of depression in sound.  A flat denotes a fall or depression of half a tone.
7.  A boat, broad and flat-bottomed.  A flat-bottomed boat is constructed for conveying passengers or troops, horses, carriages and baggage.
FLAT, v.t.  
1.  To level; to depress; to lay smooth or even; to make broad and smooth; to flatten.
2.  To make vapid or tasteless.
3.  To make dull or unanimated.
FLAT, v.i. 
1.  To grow flat; to fall to an even surface.
2.  To become insipid, or dull and unanimated.


Topic: Flatly
Definition:
FLAT'LY, adv.
1.  Horizontally; without inclination.
2.  Evenly; without elevations and depressions.
3.  Without spirit; dully; frigidly.
4.  Peremptorily; positively; downright.
He flatly refused his aid.


Topic: Flatness
Definition:
FLAT'NESS, n.
1.  Evenness of surface; levelness; equality of surface.
2.  Want of relief or prominence; as the flatness of a figure in sculpture.
3.  Deadness; vapidness; insipidity; as the flatness of cider or beer.
4.  Dejection of fortune; low state.
The flatness of my misery.
5.  Dejection of mind; a low state of the spirits; depression; want of life.
6.  Dullness; want of point; insipidity; frigidity.
Some of Homer's translators have swelled into fustian, and others sunk into flatness.
7.  Gravity of sound, as opposed to sharpness, acuteness or shrillness.
Flatness of sound - joined with a harshness.


Topic: Flatten
Definition:
FLAT'TEN, v.t.  flat'n.
1.  To make flat; to reduce to an equal or even surface; to level.
2.  To beat down to the ground; to lay flat.
3.  To make vapid or insipid; to render stale.
4.  To depress; to deject, as the spirits; to dispirit.
5.  In music, to reduce, as sound; to render less acute or sharp.
FLAT'TEN, v.i.  flat'n.  
1.  To grow or become even on the surface.
2.  To become dead, stale, vapid or tasteless.
3.  To become dull or spiritless.


Topic: Flatter
Definition:
FLAT'TER, n.  The person or thing by which any thing is flattened.
FLAT'TER, v.t.  [Flatter may be from the root of flat, that is, to make smooth, to appease, to soothe.  L. plaudo.  Perhaps flat and plaudo are from one root, the radical sense of which must be to extend, strain, stretch.]
1.  To soothe by praise; to gratify self-love by praise or obsequiousness; to please a person by applause or favorable notice, by respectful attention, or by any thing that exalts him in his own estimation, or confirms his good opinion of himself.  We flatter a woman when we praise her children.
A man that flattereth his neighbor, spreadeth a net for his feet.  Prov. 29.
2.  To please; to gratify; as, to flatter one's vanity or pride.
3.  To praise falsely; to encourage by favorable notice; as, to flatter vices or crimes.
4.  To encourage by favorable representations or indications; as, to flatter hopes.  We are flattered with the prospect of peace.
5.  To raise false hopes by representations not well founded; as, to flatter one with a prospect of success; to flatter a patient with the expectation of recovery when his case is desperate.
6.  To please; to soothe.
A concert of voices - makes a harmony that flatters the ears.
7.  To wheedle; to coax; to attempt to win by blandishments, praise or enticements.  How many young and credulous persons are flattered out of their innocence and their property, by seducing arts!


Topic: Flattered
Definition:
FLAT'TERED, pp.  Soothed by praise; pleased by commendation; gratified with hopes, false or well founded; wheedled.


Topic: Flatterer
Definition:
FLAT'TERER, n.  One who flatters; a fawner; a wheedler; one who praises another, with a view to please him, to gain his favor, or to accomplish some purpose.
When I tell him he hates flatterers,
He says he does; being then most flattered.
The most abject flatterers degenerate into the greatest tyrants.


Topic: Flattering
Definition:
FLAT'TERING, ppr.
1.  Gratifying with praise; pleasing by applause; wheedling; coaxing.
2.  a.  Pleasing to pride or vanity; gratifying to self-love; as a flattering eulogy.  The minister gives a flattering account of his reception at court.
3.  Pleasing; favorable; encouraging hope.  We have a flattering prospect of an abundant harvest.  The symptoms of the disease are flattering.
4.  Practicing adulation; uttering false praise; as a flattering tongue.


Topic: Flatteringly
Definition:
FLAT'TERINGLY, adv.
1.  In a flattering manner; in a manner to flatter.
2.  In a manner to favor; with partiality.


Topic: Flattery
Definition:
FLAT'TERY, n.  
1.  False praise; commendation bestowed for the purpose of gaining favor and influence, or to accomplish some purpose.  Direct flattery consists in praising a person himself; indirect flattery consists in praising a person through his works or his connections.
Simple pride for flattery makes demands.
Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
2.  Adulation; obsequiousness; wheedling.
3.  Just commendation which gratifies self-love.


Topic: Flatulent
Definition:
FLAT'ULENT, a.  [L. flatulentus, flatus, from flo, to blow.]
1.  Windy; affected with air generated in the stomach and intestines.
2.  Turgid with air; windy; as a flatulent tumor.
3.  Generating or apt to a generate wind in the stomach.  Pease are a flatulent vegetable.
4.  Empty; vain; big without substance or reality; puffy; as a flatulent writer; flatulent vanity.


Topic: Flatus
Definition:
FLA'TUS, n.  [L. from flo, to blow.]
1.  A breath; a puff of wind.
2.  Wind generated in the stomach or other cavities of the body; flatulence.


Topic: Flatwise
Definition:
FLAT'WISE, a. or adv.  [from flat.]  With the flat side downward or next to another object; not edgewise.


Topic: Flaunt
Definition:
FL'AUNT, v.i.  [I know not whence we have this word.  From the root L. bearing the sense of throwing out, or spreading.  See Flounce.]
1.  To throw or spread out; to flutter; to display ostentatiously; as a flaunting show.
You flaunt about the streets in your new gilt chariot.
One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade.
[This correctly expresses the author's meaning, which is, that the proud often attempt to make a show and parade of their importance, even in poverty.  Johnson's remark on the use of the word seems therefore to be unfounded.]
2.  To carry a pert or saucy appearance.
FL'AUNT, n.  Any thing displayed for show.


Topic: Flavor
Definition:
FLA'VOR, n.
The quality of a substance which affects the taste or smell, in any manner.  We say, the wine has a fine flavor, or a disagreeable flavor; the fruit has a bad flavor; a rose has a sweet flavor.  The word then signifies the quality which is tasted or smelled; taste, odor, fragrance, smell.
FLA'VOR, v.t.  To communicate some quality to a thing, that may affect the taste or smell.


Topic: Flavored
Definition:
FLA'VORED, a.  Having a quality that affects the sense of tasting or smelling; as high-flavored wine, having the quality in a high degree.


Topic: Flaw
Definition:
FLAW, n.  [Gr. seems to be contracted .
1.  A breach; a crack; a defect made by breaking or splitting; a gap or fissure; as a flaw in a scythe, knife or razor; a flaw in a china dish, or in a glass; a flaw in a wall.
2.  A defect; a fault; any defect made by violence, or occasioned by neglect; as a flaw in reputation; a flaw in a will, or in a deed, or in a statute.
3.  A sudden burst of wind; a sudden gust or blast of short duration; a word of common use among seamen.  [This proves the primary sense to be, to burst or rush.]
4.  A sudden burst of noise and disorder; a tumult; uproar.
And deluges of armies from the town
Came pouring in; I heard the mighty flaw.
[In this sense, the word is not used in the United States.]
5.  A sudden commotion of mind.  [Not used.]
FLAW, v.t.
1.  To break; to crack.
The brazen cauldrons with the frosts are flawed.
2.  To break; to violate; as, to flaw a league.  [Little used.]


Topic: Flawy
Definition:
FLAW'Y,
1.  Full of flaws or cracks; broken; defective; faulty.
2.  Subject to sudden gusts of wind.


Topic: Flax
Definition:
FLAX, n.
1.  A plant of the genus Linum, consisting of a single slender stalk, the skin or herl of which is used for making thread and cloth, called linen, cambric, lawn, lace, &c.  The skin consists of fine fibers, which may be so separated as to be spun into threads as fine as silk.
2.  The skin or fibrous part of the plant when broken and cleaned by hatcheling or combing.


Topic: Flaxcomb
Definition:
FLAX'COMB, n.  An instrument with teeth through which flax is drawn for separating from it the tow or coarser part and the shives.  In America, we call it a hatchel.


Topic: Flaxen
Definition:
FLAX'EN, a.
1.  Made of flax; as flaxen thread.
2.  Resembling flax; of the color of flax; fair, long, and flowing; as flaxen hair.


Topic: Flay
Definition:
FLAY, v.t.  [Gr. whence bark, rind; probably a contracted word.]
1.  To skin; to strip off the skin of an animal; as, to flay an ox.
2.  To take off the skin or surface of any thing.  [Not used.]


Topic: Flea
Definition:
FLEA, n.  [See Flee and Fly.]
An insect of the genus Pulex.  It has two eyes and six feet; the feelers are like threads; the rostrum is inflected, setaceous, and armed with a string.  The flea is remarkable for its agility, leaping to a surprising distance, and its bite is very troublesome.


Topic: Fledge
Definition:
FLEDGE, a. flej.
Feathered; furnished with fethers or wings; able to fly.
His locks behind, illustrious on his shoulders, fledge with wings, lay waving round.
FLEDGE, v.t.  To furnish with fethers; to supply with the fethers necessary for flight.
The birds were not yet fledged enough to shift for themselves.


Topic: Flee
Definition:
FLEE, v.i.
1.  To run with rapidity, as from danger; to attempt to escape; to hasten from danger or expected evil.  The enemy fled at the first fire.
Arise, take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt.  Matt. 2.
2.  To depart; to leave; to hasten away.
Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.  James 4.
3.  To avoid; to keep at a distance from.
Flee fornication; flee from idolatry. 1Cor. 6:10.
To flee the question or from the question, in legislation, is said of a legislator who, when a question is to be put to the house, leaves his seat to avoid the dilemma of voting against his conscience, or giving an unpopular vote.  In the phrases in which this verb appears to be transitive, there is really an ellipsis.


Topic: Fleece
Definition:
FLEECE, n.  flees.  [L. vellus, from vello, to pluck or tear off.]
The coat of wool shorn from a sheep at one time.
FLEECE, v.t.
1.  To shear off a covering or growth of wool.
2.  To strip of money or property; to take from, by severe exactions, under color of law or justice, or pretext of necessity, or by virtue of authority.  Arbitrary princes fleece their subjects; and clients complain that they are sometimes fleeced by their lawyers.
This word is rarely or never used for plundering in war by a licentious soldiery; but is properly used to express a stripping by contributions levied on a conquered people.
3.  To spread over as with wool; to make white.


Topic: Fleeced
Definition:
FLEE'CED, pp.  Stripped by severe exactions.
FLEE'CED, a.  Furnished with a fleece or with fleeces; as, a sheep is well fleeced.


Topic: Fleecy
Definition:
FLEE'CY, a.
1.  Covered with wool; woolly; as a fleecy flock.
2.  Resembling wool or a fleece; soft; complicated; as fleecy snow; fleecy locks; fleecy hosiery.


Topic: Fleer
Definition:
FLEER, v.i.  
1.  To deride; to sneer; to mock; to gibe; to make a wry face in contempt, or to grin in scorn; as, to fleer and flout.
Covered with an antic face,
To fleer and scorn at our soleminity.
2.  To leer; to grin with an air of civility.
A teacherous fleer on the face of deceivers.
FLEER, v.t.  to mock; to flout at.
FLEER, n.
1.  Derision or mockery, expressed by words or looks.
And mark the fleers, the gibes, and notable scorns.
2.  A grin of civility.
A treacherous fleer on the face of deceivers.


Topic: Fleet
Definition:
FLEET, in English names, denotes a flood, a creek or inlet, a bay or estuary, or a river; as in Fleet-street, North-flete, Fleet-prison.


Topic: Fleeting
Definition:
FLEE'TING, ppr.
1.  Passing rapidly; flying with velocity.
2.  a.  Transient; not durable; as the fleeting hours or moments.


Topic: Fleetness
Definition:
FLEE'TNESS, n.  Swiftness; rapidity; velocity; celerity; speed; as the fleetness of a horse or a deer.


Topic: Flesh
Definition:
FLESH, n.  [I know not the primary sense; it may be soft.]
1.  A compound substance forming a large part of an animal, consisting of the softer solids, as distinguished from the bones and the fluids.  Under the general appellation of flesh, we include the muscles, fat, glands &c., which invest the bones and are covered with the skin.  It is sometimes restricted to the muscles.
2.  Animal food, in distinction from vegetable.
Flesh without being qualified with acids, is too alkalescent a diet.
3.  The body of beasts and fowls used as food, distinct from fish.  In Lent, the Catholics abstain from flesh, but eat fish.
4.  The body, as distinguished from the soul.
As if this flesh, which walls about our life,
Were brass impregnable.
5.  Animal nature; animals of all kinds.
The end of all flesh is come before me.  Gen. 6.
6.  Men in general; mankind.
My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh.  Gen. 6.
7.  Human nature.
The word was made flesh, and dwelt among us.  John 1.
8.  Carnality; corporeal appetites.
Fasting serves to mortify the flesh.
The flesh lusteth against the spirit.  Gal. 5.
9.  A carnal state; a state of unrenewed nature.
They that are in the flesh cannot please God.  Rom. 8.
10.  The corruptible body of man, or corrupt nature.
Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God.  
1Cor. 15.
11.  The present life; the state of existence in this world.
To abide in the flesh is more needful for you.  Phil. 1.
12.  Legal righteousness, and ceremonial services.
What shall we then say that Abraham, our father as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?  Rom. 4.  Gal. 3.
13.  Kindred; stock; family.
He is our brother, and our flesh.  Gen. 37.
14.  In botany, the soft pulpy substance of fruit; also, that part of a root, fruit, &c., which is fit to be eaten.
One flesh, denotes intimate relation.  To be one flesh is to be closely united, as in marriage.  Gen. 2.  Eph. 5.
After the flesh, according to outward appearances,  John 8:
Or according to the common powers of nature.  Gal. 4.:
Or according to sinful lusts and inclinations.  Rom. 8.
An arm of flesh, human strength or aid.
FLESH, v.t.
1.  To initiate; a sportsman's use of the word, from the practice of training hawks and dogs by feeding them with the first game they take or other flesh.
2.  To harden; to accustom; to establish in any practice, as dogs by often feeding on any thing.  Men fleshed in cruelty; women fleshed in malice.
3.  To glut; to satiate.
The wild dog
Shall flesh his tooth on every innocent.


Topic: Fleshiness
Definition:
FLESH'INESS, n.  [from fleshy.]  Abundance of flesh or fat in animals; plumpness; corpulence; grossness.


Topic: Fleshly
Definition:
FLESH'LY, a.
1.  Pertaining to the flesh; corporeal.
2.  Carnal; worldly; lascivious.
Abstain from fleshly lusts.  1Pet. 2.
3.  Animal; not vegetable.
4.  Human; not celestial; not spiritual or divine.
Vain of fleshly arm.
Fleshly wisdom.  2Cor. 1.


Topic: Fleshy
Definition:
FLESH'Y, a.
1.  Full of flesh; plump; musculous.
The sole of his foot is fleshy.
2.  Fat; gross; corpulent; as a fleshy man.
3.  Corporeal.
4.  Full of pulp; pulpous; plump; as fruit.


Topic: Fletcher
Definition:
FLETCH'ER, n.  An arrow-maker; a manufacturer of bows and arrows.  hence the name of Fletcher.  
But the use of the word as an appellative has ceased with the practice of archery.


Topic: Fletz
Definition:
FLETZ, a.  In geology, the fletz formations, so called, consist of rocks which lie immediately over the transition rocks.  These formations are so called because the rocks usually appear in beds more nearly horizontal than the transition class.  These formations consist of sandstone, limestone, gypsum, calamine, chalk, coal and trap.  They contain abundance of petrifactions, both of animal and vegetable origin.


Topic: Flexibility
Definition:
FLEXIBIL'ITY, n.  [See Flexible.]
1.  The quality of admitting to be bent; pliancy; flexibleness; as the flexibility of rays of light.
2.  Easiness to be persuaded; the quality of yielding to arguments, persuasion or circumstances; ductility of mind; readiness to comply; facility; as flexibility of temper.


Topic: Flexible
Definition:
FLEX'IBLE, a.  [L. flexibilis, from flecto, flexi, to bend, plico.]
1.  That may be bent; capable of being turned or forced from a straight line or form without breaking; pliant; yielding to pressure; not stiff; as a flexible rod; a flexible plant.
2.  Capable of yielding to intreaties, arguments or other moral force; that may be persuaded to compliance; not invincibly rigid; or obstinate; not inexorable.
Phocion was a man of great severity, and no ways flexible to the will of the people.
It often denotes, easy or too easy to yield or comply; wavering; inconstant; not firm.
3.  Ductile; manageable; tractable; as the tender and flexible minds of youth.  Flexible years or time of life, the time when the mind is tractable.
4.  That may be turned or accommodated.
This was a principle more flexible to their purpose.


Topic: Flexibleness
Definition:
FLEX'IBLENESS, n.  
1.  Possibility to be bent or turned from a straight line or form without breaking; easiness to be bent; pliantness; pliancy; flexibility.
2.  Facility of mind; readiness to comply or yield; obsequiousness; as the flexibleness of a courtier.


Topic: Flexile
Definition:
FLEX'ILE, a.  [L. flexilis.]  Pliant; pliable; easily bent; yielding to power, impulse or moral force.


Topic: Flexion
Definition:
FLEX'ION, n.  [L. flexio.]  
1.  The act of bending.
2.  A bending; a part bent; a fold.
3.  A turn; a cast; as a flexion of the eye.


Topic: Flexor
Definition:
FLEX'OR, n.  In anatomy, a muscle whose office is to bend the part to which it belongs, in opposition to the extensors.


Topic: Flexuous
Definition:
FLEX'UOUS, a.  [L. flexuosus.]
1.  Winding; having turns or windings; as a flexuous rivulet.
2.  Bending; winding; wavering; not steady; as a flexuous flame.
3.  In botany, bending or bent; changing its direction in a curve, from joint to joint, from bud to bud, or from flower to flower.


Topic: Flexure
Definition:
FLEX'URE, n.  [L. flexura.]  
1.  A winding or bending; the form of bending; as the flexure of a joint.
2.  The act of bending.
3.  The part bent; a joint.
4.  The bending of the body; obsequious or servile cringe.


Topic: Flicker
Definition:
FLICK'ER, v.i.
1.  To flutter; to flap the wings without flying; to strike rapidly with the wings.
And flickering on her nest made short essays to sing.
2.  To fluctuate.


Topic: Flickering
Definition:
FLICK'ERING, ppr. 
1.  Fluttering; flapping the wings without flight.
2.  a.  With amorous motions of the eye.
The fair Lavinia - looks a little  flickering after Turnus.
FLICK'ERING, n.  A fluttering; short irregular movements.


Topic: Flier
Definition:
FLI'ER, n.  [See Fly.  It ought to be flyer.]
1.  One that flies or flees.
2.  A runaway; a fugitive.
3.  A part of a machine which, by moving rapidly, equalizes and regulates the motion of the whole; as the flier of a jack.


Topic: Flight
Definition:
FLIGHT, n.  [See Fly.]
1.  The act of fleeing; the act of running away, to escape danger or expected evil; hasty departure.
Pray ye that your flight be not in winter.  Matt. 24.
To put to flight, to turn to flight, is to compel to run away; to force to escape.
2.  The act of flying; a passing through the air by the help of wings; volation; as the flight of birds and insects.
3.  The manner of flying.  Every fowl has its particular flight; the flight of the eagle is high; the flight of the swallow is rapid, with sudden turns.
4.  Removal from place to place by flying.
5.  A flock of birds flying in company; as a flight of pigeons or wild geese.
6.  A number of beings flying or moving through the air together; as a flight of angels.
7.  A number of things passing through the air together; a volley; as a flight of arrows.
8.  A periodical flying of birds in flocks; as the spring flight or autumnal flight of ducks or pigeons.
9.  In England, the birds produced in the same season.
10.  The space passed by flying.
11.  A mounting; a soaring; lofty elevation and excursion; as a flight of imagination or fancy; a flight of ambition.
12.  Excursion; wandering; extravagant sally; as a flight of folly.
13.  The power of flying.
14.  In certain lead works, a substance that flies off in smoke.
Flight of stairs, the series of stairs from the floor, or from one platform to another.


Topic: Flighty
Definition:
FLIGHTY, a.
1.  Fleeting; swift.
The flighty purpose never is o'ertook.
2.  Wild; indulging the sallies of imagination.
3.  Disordered in mind; somewhat delirious.


Topic: Flimsiness
Definition:
FLIM'SINESS, n.  State or quality of being flimsy; thin, weak texture; weakness; want of substance or solidity.


Topic: Flimsy
Definition:
FLIM'SY, a.  s as z.  [The word is retained by the common people in New England in limsy, weak, limber, easily bending.]
1.  Weak; feeble; slight; vain; without strength or solid substance; as a flimsy pretext; a flimsy excuse; flimsy objections.
2.  Without strength or force; spiritless.
Proud of a vast extent of flimsy lines.
3.  Thin; of loose texture; as flimsy cloth or stuff.  [Little used.]


Topic: Flinch
Definition:
FLINCH, v.i.  [I have not found this word in any other language; but the sense of it occurs in blench, and not improbably it is from the same root, with a different prefix.]
1.  To shrink; to withdraw from any suffering or undertaking, from pain or danger; to fail of proceeding, or of performing any thing.  Never flinch from duty.  One of the parties flinched from the combat.
A child, by a constant course of kindness, may be accustomed to bear very rough usage without flinching or complaining.
2.  To fail.


Topic: Flinder
Definition:
FLIN'DER, n.  A small piece or splinter; a fragment.
[This seems to be splinter, without the prefix.]


Topic: Fling
Definition:
FLING, v.t.  pret. and pp.  flung.  [L. lego legare.]
1.  To cast, send or throw from the hand; to hurl; as, to fling a stone at a bird.
Tis fate that flings the dice; and as she flings,
Of kings makes peasants, and of peasants, kings.
2.  To dart; to cast with violence; to send forth.
He - like Jove, his lightning flung.
3.  To send forth; to emit; to scatter.
Every beam new transient colors flings.
4.  To throw; to drive by violence.
5.  To throw to the ground; to prostrate.
The wrestler flung his antagonist.
6.  To baffle; to defeat; as, to fling a party in litigation.
To fling away, to reject; to discard.
Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition.
1.  To fling down, to demolish; to ruin.
2.  To throw to the ground.
To fling out, to utter; to speak; as, to fling out hard words against another.
To fling off, to baffle in the chase, to defeat of prey.
To fling in, to throw in; to make an allowance or deduction, or not to charge in an account.  In settling accounts, one party flings in a small sum, or a few days work.
To fling open, to throw open; to open suddenly or with violence; as, to fling open a door.
To fling up, to relinquish; to abandon; as, to fling up a design.
FLING, v.i.  
1.  To flounce; to wince; to fly into violent and irregular motions.  The horse began to kick and fling.
2.  To cast in the teeth; to utter harsh language; to sneer; to upbraid.  The scold began to flout and fling.
To fling out, to grow unruly or outrageous.
FLING, n.  
1.  A throw; a cast from the hand.
2.  A gibe; a sneer; a sarcasm; a severe or contemptuous remark.
I, who love to have a fling,
Both at senate house and king.


Topic: Flint
Definition:
FLINT, n.
1.  In natural history, a sub-species of quartz, of a yellowish or bluish gray, or grayish black color.  It is amorphous, interspersed in other stones, or in nodules or rounded lumps.  Its surface is generally uneven, and covered with a rind or crust, either calcarious or argillaceous.  It is very hard, strikes fire with steel, and is an ingredient in glass.
2.  A piece of the above described stone used in firearms to strike fire.
3.  Any thing proverbially hard; as a heart of flint.


Topic: Flinty
Definition:
FLINT'Y, a.  
1.  Consisting of flint; as a flinty rock.
2.  Like flint; very hard, not impressible; as a flinty heart.
3.  Cruel; unmerciful; inexorable.
4.  Full of flint stones, as flinty ground.
Flinty-slate, a mineral of two kinds, the common and the Lydian stone.


Topic: Flippancy
Definition:
FLIP'PANCY, n.  [See Flippant.]  Smoothness and rapidity of speech; volubility of tongue; fluency of speech.


Topic: Flippant
Definition:
FLIP'PANT, a.  [L. labor, to slide or slip, and to liber, free.]
1.  Of smoother, fluent and rapid speech; speaking with ease and rapidity; having a voluble tongue; talkative.
2.  Pert; petulant; waggish.
Away with flippant epilogues.


Topic: Flippantness
Definition:
FLIP'PANTNESS, n.  fluency of speech; volubility of tongue; flippancy.
[This is not a low, vulgar word, but well authorized and peculiarly expressive.]


Topic: Flirt
Definition:
FLIRT, v.t. flurt.  [This word evidently belongs to the root of L. floreo, or ploro, signifying to throw, and coinciding with blurt.]
1.  To throw with a jerk or sudden effort or exertion.  The boys flirt water in each other's faces.  He flirted a glove or a handkerchief.
2.  To toss or throw; to move suddenly; as, to flirt a fan.
FLIRT, v.i.  
1.  To jeer or gibe; to throw harsh or sarcastic words; to utter contemptuous language, with an air of disdain.
2.  To run and dart about; to be moving hastily from place to place; to be unsteady or fluttering.  The girls flirt about the room or the street.
FLIRT, n.  
1.  A sudden jerk; a quick throw or cast; a darting motion.
In unfurling the fan are several little flirts and vibrations.
2.  A young girl who moves hastily or frequently from place to place; a pert girl.
Several young flirts about town had a design to cast us out of the fashionable world.
FLIRT, a.  Pert; wanton.


Topic: Flirtation
Definition:
FLIRTA'TION, n.  
1.  A flirting; a quick sprightly motion.
2.  Desire of attracting notice.  [A cant word.]


Topic: Flit
Definition:
FLIT, v.i.  [Heb.  It is undoubtedly from the same root as fleet, which see.]
1.  To fly away with a rapid motion; to dart along; to move with celerity through the air.  We say, a bird flits away, or flits in air; a cloud flits along.
2.  To flutter; to rove on the wing.
3.  To remove; to migrate; to pass rapidly, as a light substance, from one place to another.
It became a received opinion, that the souls of men, departing this life, did flit out of one body into some other.
4.  In Scotland, to remove from one habitation to another.
5.  To be unstable; to easily or often moved.
An the free soul to flitting air resigned.
FLIT, a.  Nimble; quick; swift.  Obs.  [See Fleet.]


Topic: Flittermouse
Definition:
FLIT'TERMOUSE, n.  [Flit, flitter and mouse.]
A bat; an animal that has the fur of a mouse, and membranes which answer the purpose of wings, and enable the animal to sustain itself in a fluttering flight.


Topic: Flitting
Definition:
FLIT'TING, ppr.  Flying rapidly; fluttering; moving swiftly.
FLIT'TING, n.  A flying with lightness and celerity; a fluttering.


Topic: Flixweed
Definition:
FLIX'WEED, n.  The Sisymbrium sophia, a species of water-cresses, growing on walls and waste grounds.


Topic: Float
Definition:
FLOAT, n.
1.  That which swims or is borne on water; as a float of weeds and rushes.  But particularly, a body or collection of timber, boards or planks fastened together and conveyed down a stream; a raft.  [The latter word is more generally used in the United States.]
2.  The cork or quill used on an angling line, to support it and discover the bite of a fish.
3.  The act of flowing; flux; flood; the primary sense, but obsolete.
4.  A quantity of earth, eighteen feet square and one deep.
5.  A wave.  [L. fuctus.]
FLOAT, v.i.  [L. fluo, to flow.]
1.  To be borne or sustained on the surface of a fluid; to swim; to be buoyed up; not to sink; not to be aground.  We say, the water is so shallow, the ship will not float.


Topic: Float-board
Definition:
FLO'AT-BOARD, n.  A board of the water-wheel of undershot mills, which receives the impulse of the stream, by which the wheel is driven.


Topic: Floating
Definition:
FLO'ATING, ppr.  
1.  Swimming; conveying on water; overflowing.
2.  Lying flat on the surface of the water; as a floating leaf.


Topic: Floating-bridge
Definition:
FLOAT'ING-BRIDGE, n.
1.  In the United States, a bridge, consisting of logs or timber with a floor of plank, supported wholly by the water.
2.  In war, a kind of double bridge, the upper one projecting beyond the lower one, and capable of being moved forward by pulleys, used for carrying troops over narrow moats in attacking the outworks of a fort.


Topic: Floatstone
Definition:
FLO'ATSTONE, n.  Swimming flint, spungiform quartz, a mineral of a spungy texture, of a whitish gray color, often with a tinge of yellow.  It frequently contains a nucleus of common flint.


Topic: Flocculence
Definition:
FLOC'CULENCE, n.  [L. flocculus, floccus.  See Flock.]
The state of being in locks or flocks; adhesion in small flakes.


Topic: Flocculent
Definition:
FLOC'CULENT, a.  Coalescing and adhering in locks or flakes.
I say the liquor is broken to flocculence, when the particles of herbaceous matter, seized by those of the lime, and coalescing, appear large and flocculent.


Topic: Flock
Definition:
FLOCK, n.  [L. floccus.  It is the same radically as flake, and applied to wool or hair, we write it lock.  See Flake.]
1.  A company or collection; applied to sheep and other small animals.  A flock of sheep answers to a herd of larger cattle.  But the word may sometimes perhaps be applied to larger beasts, and in the plural, flocks may include all kinds of domesticated animals.
2.  A company or collection of fowls of any kind, and when applied to birds on the wing, a flight; as a flock of wild-geese; a flock of ducks; a flock of blackbirds.  in the United States, flocks of wild-pigeons sometimes darken the air.
3.  A body or crowd of people.  [little used.  Gr. a troop.]
4.  A lock of wool or hair.  Hence, a flockbed.
FLOCK, v.i.  To gather in companies or crowds; applied to men or other animals.  People flock together.  They flock to the play-house.
Friends daily flock.


Topic: Flog
Definition:
FLOG, v.t.  [L. figo, to strike, that is, to lay on; L. flagrum, flagellum,  Eng. flail;  Gr.; L. plaga, a stroke,  Eng.  plague, slay.]
To beat or strike with a rod or whip; to whip; to lash; to chastise with repeated blows; a colloquial word, applied to whipping or beating for punishment; as, to flog a schoolboy or a sailor.


Topic: Flood
Definition:
FLOOD, n.  flud.
1.  A great flow of water; a body of moving water; particularly, a body of water, rising, swelling and overflowing land not usually covered with water.  Thus there is a flood, every spring, in the Connecticut, which inundates the adjacent meadows.  There is an annual flood in the Nile, and in the Mississippi.
2.  The flood, by way of eminence, the deluge; the great body of water which inundated the earth in the days of Noah.  Before the flood, men live to a great age.
3.  A river; a sense chiefly poetical.
4.  The flowing of the tide; the semi-diurnal swell or rise of water in the ocean; opposed to ebb.  The ship entered the harbor on the flood.  Hence flood-tide; young flood; high flood.
5.  A great quantity; an inundation; an overflowing; abundance; superabundance; as a flood of bank notes; a flood of paper currency.
6.  A great body or stream of any fluid substance; as a flood of light; a flood of lava.  Hence, figuratively, a flood of vice.
7.  Menstrual discharge.
FLOOD, v.t.  To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, to flood a meadow.


Topic: Floodgate
Definition:
FLOOD'GATE, n.  
1.  A gate to be opened for letter water flow through, or to be shut to prevent it.
2.  An opening or passage; an avenue for a flood or great body.


Topic: Flooding
Definition:
FLOOD'ING, ppr.  Overflowing; inundating.
FLOOD'ING, n.  Any preternatural discharge of blood from the uterus.


Topic: Floor
Definition:
FLOOR, n. flore.  [In early ages, the inhabitants of Europe had no floor in their huts, but the ground.  The sense of the word is probably that which is laid or spread.]
1.  That part of a building or room on which we walk; the bottom or lower part, consisting, in modern houses, of boards, plands or pavement; as the floor of a house, room, bar, stable or outhouse.
2.  A platform of boards or plans laid on timbers, as in a bridge; any similar platform.
3.  A story in a building; as the first or second floor.
4.  A floor or earthen floor is still used in some kinds of business, made of loam, or of lime, sand and iron dust, as in malting.
5.  The bottom of a ship, or that part which is nearly horizontal.
FLOOR, v.t.  To lay a floor; to cover timbers with a floor; to furnish with a floor; as, to floor a house with pine boards.


Topic: Flooring
Definition:
FLOOR'ING, ppr.  Laying a floor; furnishing with a floor.
FLOOR'ING, n.  
1.  A platform; the bottom of a room or building; pavement.
2.  Materials for floors.


Topic: Flop
Definition:
FLOP, v.t.  [A different spelling of flap.]
1.  To clap or strike the wings.
2.  To let down the brim of a hat.


Topic: Flora
Definition:
FLO'RA, n.  [See Floral.]
1.  In antiquity, the goddess of flowers.
2.  In modern usage, a catalogue or account of flowers or plants.


Topic: Floral
Definition:
FLO'RAL, a.  [L. floralis, from flos, a flower, which see.]
1.  Containing the flower, as a floral bud; immediately attending the flower, as a floral leaf.
2.  Pertaining to Flora or to flowers; as floral games; floral play.


Topic: Florescence
Definition:
FLORES'CENCE, n.  [L. florescens, floresco.  See flower.]
In botany, the season when plants expand their flowers.


Topic: Florid
Definition:
FLOR'ID, a.  [L. floridus, from floreo, to flower.]
1.  Literally, flowery; covered or abounding with flowers; but in this sense little used.
2.  Bright in color; flushed with red; of a lively red color; as a florid countenance; a florid cheek.
3.  Embellished with flowers of rhetoric; enriched with lively figures; splendid; brilliant; as a florid style; florid eloquence.


Topic: Floridness
Definition:
FLOR'IDNESS, n.  
1.  Brightness or freshness of color or complexion.
2.  Vigor; spirit.  [Unusual.]
3.  Embellishment; brilliant ornaments; ambitious elegance; applied to style.


Topic: Florin
Definition:
FLOR'IN, n.  A coin, originally made at Florence.  The name is given to different coins of gold or silver, and of different values in different countries.  It is also used as a money of account.


Topic: Florist
Definition:
FLO'RIST, n.
1.  A cultivator of flowers; one skilled in flowers.
2.  One who writes a flora, or an account of plants.


Topic: Flosculous
Definition:
FLOS'CULOUS, a. [infra.] In botany, a flosculous flower is a compound flower, composed entirely of florets with funnel-shaped petals, as in burdock, thistle and artichoke.  This is the term used by Tournefort.  For this Linne used tubulous.


Topic: Flota
Definition:
FLO'TA, n.  [See Fleet.]  A fleet; but appropriately a fleet of Spanish ships which formerly sailed every year from Cadiz to Vera Crus, in Mexico, to transport to Spain the production of Spanish America.


Topic: Flounce
Definition:
FLOUNCE, v.i.  flouns.  [See Flounder.]
1.  To throw the limbs and body one way and the other; to spring, turn or twist with sudden effort or violence; to struggle as a horse in mire.
You neither fume, not fret, not flounce.
2.  To move with jerks or agitation.
FLOUNCE, v.t.  To deck with a flounce; as, to flounce a petticoat or frock.
FLOUNCE, n.  A narrow piece of cloth sewed to a petticoat, frock or gown, with the lower border loose and spreading.  The present is the age of flounces.  1827.


Topic: Flounder
Definition:
FLOUN'DER, n.  A flat fish of the genus Pleuronectes.
FLOUN'DER, v.i.  [This seems to be allied to flaunt and flounce.]
To fling the limbs and body, as in making efforts to move; to struggle as a horse in the mire; to roll, toss and tumble.


Topic: Flour
Definition:
FLOUR, n.  [originally flower;  L. flos, floris, from floreo, to flourish.]
The edible part of corn; meal.  In the United States, the modern practice is to make a distinction between flour and meal; the word flour being more usually applied to the finer part of meal, separated from the bran, as wheat flour, rye flour.  This is a just and useful distinction.
FLOUR, v.t.  
1.  To grind and bolt; to convert into flour.  Wheat used formerly to be sent to market; but now great quantities of it are floured in the interior country.
2.  To sprinkle with flour.


Topic: Flourish
Definition:
FLOURISH, v.i.  flur'ish.  [L. floresco, from floreo.  The primary sense is to open, expand, enlarge, or to shoot out, as in glory, L. ploro.]
1.  To thrive; to grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant.  The beech and the maple flourish best in a deep, rich and moist loam.
2.  To be prosperous; to increase in wealth or honor.
Bad men as frequently prosper and flourish, and that by the means of their wickedness.
When all the workers of iniquity do flourish. Ps. 92.
3.  To grow in grace and in good works; to abound in the consolations of religion.
The righteous shall flourish like the palmtree.  Ps. 92.
4.  To be in a prosperous state; to grow or be augmented.  We say agriculture flourishes, commerce flourishes, manufactures flourish.
5.  To use florid language; to make a display of figures and lofty expressions; to be copious and flowery.
They dilate and flourish long on little incidents.
6.  To make bold strokes in writing; to make large and irregular lines; as, to flourish with the pen.
7.  To move or play in bold and irregular figures.
Impetuous spread the stream, and smoking, flourished o're his head.
8.  In music, to play with bold and irregular notes, or without settled form; as, to flourish on an organ or violin.
9.  To boast; to vaunt; to brag.
FLOURISH, v.t. flur'ish.
1.  To adorn with flowers or beautiful figures, either natural or artificial; to ornament with any thing showy.
2.  To spread out; to enlarge into figures.
3.  To move in bold or irregular figures; to move in circles or vibrations by way of show or triumph; to brandish; as, to flourish a sword.
4.  To embellish with the flowers of diction; to adorn with rhetorical figures; to grace with ostentatious eloquence; to set off with a parade of words.
5.  To adorn; to embellish.
6.  To mark with a flourish or irregular stroke.
The day book and inventory book shall be flourished.
FLOURISH, n. flur'ish.
1.  Beauty; showy splendor.
The flourish of his sober youth.
2.  Ostentatious embellishment; ambitious copiousness or amplification; parade of words and figures; show; as a flourish of rhetoric; a flourish of wit.
He lards with flourishes his long harangue.
3.  Figures formed by bold, irregular lines, or fanciful strokes of the pen or graver; as the flourishes about a great letter.
4.  A brandishing; the waving of a weapon or other thing; as the flourish of a sword.


Topic: Flourished
Definition:
FLOURISHED, pp. flur'ished.  Embellished; adorned with bold and irregular figures or lines; brandished.


Topic: Flourisher
Definition:
FLOURISHER, n.  flur'isher.  
1.  One who flourishes; one who thrives or prospers.
2.  One who brandishes.
3.  One who adorns with fanciful figures.


Topic: Flout
Definition:
FLOUT, v.t.  To mock or insult; to treat with contempt.
Phillida flouts me.
He flouted us downright.
FLOUT, v.i.  To practice mocking; to sneer; to behave with contempt.
Fleer and gibe, and laugh and flout.
FLOUT, n.  A mock; an insult.


Topic: Flow
Definition:
FLOW, v.i.  [L. fluo, contracted from fugo, for it forms fluri, fuctum.  In one case, the word would agree with the root of blow, L. flo; in the other, with the root of fly.]
1.  To move along an inclined plane, or on descending ground, by the operation of gravity, and with a continual change of place among the particles or parts, as a fluid.  A solid body descends or moves in mass, as a ball or a wheel; but in the flowing of liquid substances, and others consisting of very fine particles, there is a constant change of the relative position of some parts of the substance, as in the case with a stream of water, of quicksilver, and of sand.  Particles at the bottom and sides of the stream, being somewhat checked by friction, move slower than those in the middle and near the surface of the current.  Rivers flow from springs and lakes; tears flow from the eyes.
2.  To melt; to become liquid.
That the mountains might flow down at they presence.  
Is. 64.
3. To proceed; to issue.  Evils flow from different sources.  Wealth flows from industry and economy.  All our blessings flow from divine bounty
4.  To abound; to have in abundance.
In that day the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk.  Joel 3.
5.  To be full; to be copious; as flowing cups or goblets.
6.  To glide along smoothly, without harshness or asperity; as a flowing period; flowing numbers.
7.  To be smooth, as composition or utterance.  The orator has a flowing tongue.
Virgil is sweet and flowing in his hexameters.
8.  To hang loose and waving; as a flowing mantle; flowing locks.
The imperial purple flowing in his train.
9.  To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb.  The tide flows twice in twenty four hours.
10.  To move in the arteries and veins of the body; to circulate, as blood.
11.  To issue, as rays or beams of light.
Light flows from the sun.
12.  To move in a stream, as air.
FLOW, v.t.  To cover with water; to overflow; to inundate.  The low grounds along the river are annually flowed.


Topic: Flower
Definition:
FLOW'ER, n.  [L. flos, floris, a flower; floreo, to blossom.  See Flourish.]
1.  In botany, that part of a plant which contains the organs of fructification, with their coverings.  A flower, when complete, consists of a calyx, corol, stamen and pistil; but the essential parts are the anther and stigma, which are sufficient to constitute a flower, either together in hermaphrodite flowers, or separate in male and female flowers.
2.  In vulgar acceptation, a blossom or flower is the flower bud of a plant, when the petals are expanded; open petals being considered as the principal thing in constituting a flower.  But in botany, the petals are now considered as a finer sort of covering, and not at all necessary to constitute a flower.
3.  The early part of life, or rather of manhood; the prime; youthful vigor; youth; as the flower of age or of life.
4.  The best or finest part of a thing; the most valuable part.  The most active and vigorous part of an army are called the flower of the troops.  Young, vigorous and brave men are called the flower of a nation.
5.  The finest part; the essence.
The choice and flower of all things profitable the Psalms do more briefly contain.
6.  He or that which is most distinguished for any thing valuable.  We say, the youth are the flower of the country.
7.  The finest part of grain pulverized.  In this sense, it is now always written flour, which see.
1.  Flowers, in chimistry, fine particles of bodies, especially when raised by fire in sublimation, and adhering to the heads of vessels in the form of a powder or mealy substance; as the flowers of sulphur.
A substance, somewhat similar, formed spontaneously, is called efforescence.
2.  In rhetoric, figures and ornaments of discourse or composition.
3.  Menstrual discharges.
FLOW'ER, v.i.  [from the noun.  The corresponding word in L. is floreo.]
1.  To blossom; to bloom; to expand the petals, as a plant.  In New England peach trees usually flower in April, and apple trees in May.
2.  To be in the prime and spring of life; to flourish; to be youthful, fresh and vigorous.
When flowered my youthful spring.
3.  To froth; to ferment gently; to mantle, as new beer.
The beer did flower a little.
4.  To come as cream from the surface.
FLOW'ER, v.t.  To embellish with figures of flowers; to adorn with imitated flowers.


Topic: Flower-de-lis
Definition:
FLOW'ER-DE-LIS, n.
1.  In heraldry, a bearing representing a lily, the hieroglyphic of royal majesty.
2.  In botany, the Iris, a genus of monogynian trianders, called also flag-flower, and often written incorrectly flower-de-luce.  The species are numerous.


Topic: Flower-fence
Definition:
FLOW'ER-FENCE, n.  The name of certain plants.  The flower-fence of Barbados is of the genus Poinciana.  The bastard flower-fence is the Adenanthera.


Topic: Flower-stalk
Definition:
FLOW'ER-STALK, n.  In botany, the peduncle of a plant, or the stem that supports the flower or fructification.


Topic: Floweriness
Definition:
FLOW'ERINESS, n.  [from flowery.]
1.  The state of being flowery, or of abounding with flowers.
2.  Floridness of speech; abundance of figures.


Topic: Flowering
Definition:
FLOW'ERING, ppr.
1.  Blossoming; blooming; expanding the petals, as plants.
2.  Adorning with artificial flowers, or figures of blossoms.
FLOW'ERING, n.  
1.  The season when plants blossom.
2.  The act of adorning with flowers.


Topic: Flowery
Definition:
FLOW'ERY, a.
1.  Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms; as a flowery field.
2.  Adorned with artificial flowers, or the figures of blossoms.
3.  Richly embellished with figurative language; florid; as a flowery style.


Topic: Flowing
Definition:
FLOWING, ppr.  Moving as a fluid; issuing; proceeding; abounding; smooth, as style; inundating.
FLOWING, n.  The act of running or moving as a fluid; an issuing; an overflowing; rise of water.


Topic: Fluate
Definition:
FLU'ATE, n.  [from fluro, which see.]  In chimistry, a salt formed by the fluoric acid combined with a base; as fluate of alumin, or of soda.


Topic: Fluctuate
Definition:
FLUC'TUATE, v.i.  [L. fluctuo, from fluctus, a wave, from fluo, to flow.]
1.  To move as a wave; to roll hither and thither; to wave; as a fluctuating field of air.
2.  To float backward and forward, as on waves.
3.  To move now in one direction and now in another; to be wavering or unsteady.  Public opinion often fluctuates.  Men often fluctuate between different parties and opinions.  Hence,
4.  To be irresolute or undetermined.
5.  To rise and fall; to be in an unsettled state; to experience sudden vicissitudes.  The funds or the prices of stocks fluctuate with the events of the day.


Topic: Fluctuating
Definition:
FLUC'TUATING, ppr.
1.  Wavering; rolling as a wave; moving in this and that direction; rising and falling.
2.  a.  Unsteady; wavering; changeable.  We have little confidence in fluctuating opinions.
3.  A rising and falling suddenly; as fluctuations of prices or of the funds.


Topic: Fluctuation
Definition:
FLUCTUA'TION, n.  [L. fluctuatio.]
1.  A motion like that of waves; a moving in this and that direction; as the fluctuations of the sea.
2.  A wavering; unsteadiness; as fluctuations of opinion.
3.  A rising and falling suddenly; as fluctuations of prices or of the funds.


Topic: Fluency
Definition:
FLU'ENCY, n.  [L. fluens, from flue, to flow.]
1.  The quality of flowing, applied to speech or language; smoothness; freedom from harshness; as fluency of numbers.
2.  Readiness of utterance; facility of words; volubility; as fluency of speech; a speaker of remarkable fluency.
3.  Affluence; abundance.  Obs.


Topic: Fluent
Definition:
FLU'ENT, a.  [See Fluency.  
1.  Liquid; flowing.
2.  Flowing; passing.
Motion being a fluent thing.
3.  Ready in the use of words; voluble; copious; having words at command and uttering them with facility and smoothness; as a fluent speaker.
4.  Flowing; voluble; smooth; as fluent speech.
FLU'ENT, n.  
1.  A stream; a current of water.  [Little used.]
2.  The variable or flowing quantity in fluxions.


Topic: Fluently
Definition:
FLU'ENTLY, adv.  With ready flow; volubly; without hesitation or obstruction; as, to speak fluently.


Topic: Flugelman
Definition:
FLU'GELMAN, n.  
In German, the leader of a file.  But with us, a soldier who stands on the wing of a body of men, and marks time for the motions.


Topic: Fluid
Definition:
FLU'ID, a.  [L. fluidus, from fluo, to flow.]  Having parts which easily move and change their relative position without separation, and which easily yield to pressure; that may flow; liquid.  Water, spirit, air, are fluid substances.  All bodies may be rendered fluid by heat or caloric.
FLU'ID, n.  Any substance whose parts easily move and change their relative position without separation, and which yields to the slightest pressure; a substance which flows, or which moves spontaneously on a plane with the least inclination; a liquid; liquor; opposed to a solid.  Water, blood, chyle, are fluids.


Topic: Fluidity
Definition:
FLUID'ITY, n.  The quality of being capable of flowing; that quality of bodies which renders them impressible to the slightest force, and by which the parts easily move or change their relative position without a separation of the mass; a liquid state; opposed to solidity.  Fluidity is the effect of heat.


Topic: Flume
Definition:
FLUME, n.  [L. flumen, from fluo, to flow.]
Literally, a flowing; hence, the passage or channel for the water that drives a mill-wheel.


Topic: Fluminating
Definition:
FLU'MINATING, ppr.
1.  Thundering; crackling; exploding; detonating.
2.  Hurling papal denunciations, menaces or censures.
Fulminating powder, a detonating compound of sulphur, carbonate of potash and niter.


Topic: Flummery
Definition:
FLUM'MERY, n.  [See Lumber.]
1.  A sort of jelly made of flour or meal; pap.
Milk and flummery are very fit for children.
2.  In vulgar use, any thing insipid or nothing to the purpose; flattery.


Topic: Fluor
Definition:
FLU'OR, n.  [Low L. from fluo, to flow.]
1.  A fluid state.
2.  Menstrual flux.  [Little used in either sense.]
3.  In mineralogy, fluate of lime.  Fluor spar is the foliated fluate of lime.  This mineral, though sometimes massive, is almost always regularly crystallized.  Its crystals present most frequently the form of a cube, often perfect, sometimes truncated on all its edges by planes, which form with the sides of the cube an angle of 135 degrees.  The colors are very numerous and beautiful.
The flutate of lime, fluor, was so named from its use as a flux for certain ores.


Topic: Fluosilicate
Definition:
FLUOSIL'ICATE, n.  [fluor and silex or silica.]
In chiminstry, a compound of fluoric acid, containing silex, with some other substance.


Topic: Flurry
Definition:
FLUR'RY, n.
1.  A sudden blast or gust, or a light temporary breeze; as a flurry of wind.  It is never with us applied to a storm of duration.
2.  A sudden shower of short duration; as a flurry of snow.
3.  Agitation; commotion; bustle; hurry.
FLUR'RY, v.t.  To put in agitation; to excite or alarm.


Topic: Flush
Definition:
FLUSH, v.i.
1.  To flow and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face.
2.  To come in haste; to start.
3.  To appear suddenly, as redness or a blush.
A blush rose on their cheeks, flushing and fading like the changeful play of colors on a dolphin.
4.  To become suddenly red; to glow; as, the cheeks flush.
5.  To be gay, splendid or beautiful.
At once, arrayed in all the colors of the flushing year, the garden glows.

FLUSH, v.t.
1.  To redden suddenly; to cause the blood to rush suddenly into the face.
Nor flush with shame the passing virgin's cheek.
2.  To elate; to elevate; to excite the spirits; to animate with joy; as, to flush with victory.

FLUSH, a.  
1.  Fresh, full of vigor; glowing; bright.
Flush as May.
2.  Affluent; abounding; well furnished.
Lord Strut was not very flush in ready.
3.  Free to spend; liberal; prodigal.  He is very flush with his money.  This is a popular use of the word in America.
A flush deck, in seamen's language, is a deck without a half-deck or forecastle.

FLUSH, n. 
1.  A sudden flow of blood to the face; or more generally, the redness of face which proceeds from such an afflux of blood.  Hectic constitutions are often known by a frequent flush in the cheeks.
2.  Sudden impulse or excitement; sudden flow; as a flush of joy.
3.  Bloom; growth; abundance.
4.  A run of cards of the same suit.
5.  A term for a number of ducks.


Topic: Flushed
Definition:
FLUSH'ED, pp.  
1.  Overspread or tinged with a red color from the flowing of blood to the face.  We say, the skin, face or cheek is flushed.
2.  Elated; excited; animated; as flushed with joy or success.


Topic: Fluster
Definition:
FLUS'TER, v.t.  To make hot and rosy, as with drinking; to heat; to hurry; to agitate; to confuse.
FLUS'TER, v.i.  To be in a heat or bustle; to be agitated.
FLUS'TER, n.  Heat; glow; agitation; confusion; disorder.


Topic: Flute
Definition:
FLUTE, n.  [L. flo, flatus, to blow, or L. fluta, a lamprey, with the same number of holes.]
1.  A small wind instrument; a pipe with lateral holes or stops, played by blowing with the mouth, and by stopping and opening the holes with the fingers.
2.  A channel in a column or pillar; a perpendicular furrow or cavity, cut along the shaft of a column or pilaster; so called from its resemblance to a flute.  It is used chiefly in the Ionic order; sometimes in the Composite and Corinthian; rarely in the Doric and Tuscan.  It is called also a reed.
3.  A long vessel or boat, with flat ribs or floor timbers, round behind, and swelled in the middle; a different orthography of float, flota.
Armed in flute.  An armed ship, with her guns of the lower tier and part of those of the upper tier removed, used as a transport, is said to be armed in flute.
FLUTE, v.i.  To play on a flute.
FLUTE, v.t.  To form flutes or channels in a column.


Topic: Fluted
Definition:
FLU'TED, pp. or a.  
1.  Channeled; furrowed; as a column.
2.  In music, thin; fine; flutelike; as fluted notes.


Topic: Fluting
Definition:
FLU'TING, ppr.  Channeling; cutting furrows; as in a column.
FLU'TING, n.  A channel or furrow in a column; fluted work.


Topic: Flutter
Definition:
FLUT'TER, v.i.
1.  To move or flap the wings rapidly, without flying, or with short flights; to hover.
As an eagle stirreth up her next, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings - Deut. 32.
2.  To move about briskly, irregularly or with great bustle and show, without consequence.
No rag, no scrap of all the beau or wit, that once so fluttered, and that once so writ.
3.  To move with quick vibrations or undulations; as a fluttering fan; a fluttering sail.
4.  To be in agitation; to move irregularly; to fluctuate; to be in uncertainty.
How long we fluttered on the wings of doubtful success.
His thoughts are very fluttering and wandering.
FLUT'TER, v.t.  
1.  To drive in disorder.  [Little used.]
2.  To hurry the mind; to agitate.
3.  To disorder; to throw into confusion.
FLUT'TER, n.  
1.  Quick and irregular motion; vibration; undulation; as the flutter of a fan.
2.  Hurry; tumult; agitation of the mind.
3.  Confusion; disorder; irregularity in position.


Topic: Fluttering
Definition:
FLUT'TERING, ppr.  Flapping the wings without flight or with short flights; hovering; fluctuating; agitating; throwing into confusion.
FLUT'TERING, n.  The act of hovering, or flapping the wings without flight; a wavering agitation.


Topic: Fluvial
Definition:
FLU'VIAL, a.  [L. fluviaticus, from fluvius, a river; fluo, to flow.]
Belonging to rivers; growing or living in streams or ponds; as a fluviatic plant.


Topic: Flux
Definition:
FLUX, n.  [L. fluxus, fluo, fluxi.]
1.  The act of flowing; the motion or passing of a fluid.
2.  The moving or passing of any thing in continued succession.  Things in this life, are in a continual flux.
3.  Any flow or issue of matter.  In medicine, an extraordinary issue or evacuation from the bowels or other part; as the bloody flux or dysentery, hepatic flux, &c.
4.  In hydrography, the flow of the tide.  The ebb is called reflux.
5.  In metallurgy, any substance or mixture used to promote the fusion of metals or minerals, as alkalies, borax, tartar and other saline matter, or in large operations limestone or fluor.  Alkaline fluxes are either the crude, the white or the black flux.
6.  Fusion; a liquid state from the operation of heat.
7.  That which flows or is discharged.
8.  Concourse; confluence.  [Little used.]
FLUX, a.  Flowing; moving; maintained by a constant succession of parts; inconstant; variable.  [Not well authorized.]

FLUX, v.t. 
1.  To melt; to fuse; to make fluid.
One part of mineral alkali will flux two of siliceous earth with effervescence.
2.  To salivate.  [Little used.]


Topic: Fluxility
Definition:
FLUXIL'ITY, n.  [Low L. fluxilis.]  The quality of admitting fusion; possibility of being fused or liquified.


Topic: Fluxion
Definition:
FLUX'ION n.  [L. fluxio, from fluo, to flow.]
1.  The act of flowing.
2.  The matter that flows.
3.  Fluxions, in mathematics, the analysis of infinitely small variable quantities, or a method of finding an infinitely small quantity, which being taken an infinite number of times, becomes equal to a quantity given.
In fluxions, magnitudes are supposed to be generated by motion; a line by the motion of a point, a surface by the motion of a line, and a solid by the motion of a surface.  And some part of a figure is supposed to be generated by a uniform motion, in consequence of which the other parts may increase uniformly, or with an accelerated or retarded motion, or may decrease in any of these ways, and the computations are made by tracing the comparative velocities with which the parts flow.
A fluxion is an infinitely small quantity, an increment; the infinitely small increase of the fluent or flowing quantity.


Topic: Fly
Definition:
FLY, v.i.
1.  To move through air by the aid of wings, as fowls.
2.  To pass or move in air, by the force of wind or other impulse; as, clouds and vapors fly before the wind.  A ball flies from a cannon, an arrow from a bow.
3.  To rise in air, as light substances, by means of a current of air or by having less specific gravity than air, as smoke.
Man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.  Job. 5.
4.  To move or pass with velocity or celerity, either on land or water.  He flew to the relief of his distressed friend.  The ship flies upon the main.
5.  To move rapidly, in any manner; as, a top flies about.
6.  To pass away; to depart; with the idea of haste, swiftness or escape.  The bird has flown.
7.  To pass rapidly, as time.  Swift fly the fleeting hours.
8.  To part suddenly or with violence; to burst, as a bottle.
9.  To spring by an elastic force.
10.  To pass swiftly, as rumor or report.
11.  To flee; to run away; to attempt to escape; to escape.
I'll fly from shepherds, flocks, and flowery plains.
12.  To flutter; to vibrate or play; as a flag in the wind.
To fly at, to spring towards; to rush on; to fall on suddenly.  A hen flies at a dog or cat; a dog flies at a man.
1.  To fly in the face, to insult.
2.  To assail; to resist; to set at defiance; to oppose with violence; to act in direct opposition.
1.  To fly off, to separate or depart suddenly.
2.  To revolt.
To fly open, to open suddenly or with violence; as, the doors flew open.
1.  To fly out, to rush out; also, to burst into a passion.
2.  To break out into license.
3.  To start or issue with violence from any direction.
1.  To let fly, to discharge; to throw or drive with violence; as, to let fly a shower of darts.
2.  In seamanship, to let go suddenly.  Let fly the sheets.
FLY, v.t.  [This is used for flee, and from is understood after fly, so that it can hardly be called a transitive verb.]
1.  To shun; to avoid; to decline; as, to fly the sight of one we hate.  That is, primarily, to flee from
Sleep flies the wretch.
2.  To quit by flight.
3.  To attack by a bird of prey.  [Not used.]
4.  To cause to float in the air.
FLY, n.
1.  In zoology, a winged insect of various species, whose distinguishing characteristic is that the wings are transparent.  By this flies are distinguished from beetles, butterflies, grasshoppers, &c.  Of flies, some have two wings and others four.
In common language, fly is the house fly, of the genus Musca.
2.  In mechanics, a cross with leaden weights at the ends, or a heavy wheel at right angles with the axis of a windlass, jack or the like.  The use of this is, to regulate and equalize the motion in all parts of the revolution of the machine.
3.  That part of a vane which points and shows which way the wind blows.
4.  The extent of an ensign, flag or pendant from the staff to the end that flutters loose in the wind.


Topic: Flyblow
Definition:
FLYBLOW, v.t.  To deposit an egg in any thing, as a fly; to taint with the eggs which produce maggots.
Like a flyblown cake of tallow.
FLYBLOW, n.  The egg of a fly.


Topic: Flyboat
Definition:
FLYBOAT, n.  A large flat-bottomed Dutch vessel, whose burden is from 600 to 1200 tons, with a stern remarkably high, resembling a Gothic turret, and very broad buttocks below.


Topic: Flycatcher
Definition:
FLYCATCHER, n.
1.  One that hunts flies.
2.  In zoology, a genus of birds, the Muscicapa, with a bill flatted at the base, almost triangular, notched at the upper mandible, and beset with bristles.  These birds are of the order of Passers, and the species are very numerous.


Topic: Flyer
Definition:
FLYER, n.
1.  One that flies or flees; usually written flier.
2.  One that uses wings.
3.  The fly of a jack.
4.  In architecture, stairs that do not wind, but are made of an oblong square figure, and whose fore and back sides are parallel to each other, and so are their ends.  The second of these flyers stands parallel behind the first, the third behind the second, and so are said to fly off from one another.
5.  A performer in Mexico, who flies round an elevated post.


Topic: Flyfishing
Definition:
FLYFISHING, n.  Angling; the art or practice of angling for fish with flies, natural or artificial, for bait.


Topic: Flying
Definition:
FLYING, ppr.  
1.  Moving in air by means of wings; passing rapidly; springing; bursting; avoiding.
2.  a.  Floating; waving; as flying colors.
3.  a.  Moving; light, and suited for prompt motion; as a flying camp.
Flying colors, a phrase expressing triumph.


Topic: Flying-fish
Definition:
FLYING-FISH, n.  A small fish which flies by means of its pectoral fins.  It is of the genus Exocoetus.


Topic: Flying-pinion
Definition:
FLYING-PINION, n.  The part of a clock, having a fly or fan, by which it fathers air, and checks the rapidity of the clock's motion, when the weight descends in the striking part.


Topic: Flytrap
Definition:
FLYTRAP, n.  In botany, a species of sensitive plant, called Venus' Fly-trap, the Dionaea Muscipula; a plant that has the power of seizing insects that light on it.


Topic: Foal
Definition:
FOAL, n.  [L. pullus; Gr.  The primary sense of the verb is to shoot, to cast or throw, to fall.  The same verb in Heb. signifies to unite, to fasten.  The verb belongs probably to the root of Eng. fall and foul with a different prefix.  Foal is literally a shoot, issue, or that which is cast, or which falls.]
The young of the equine genus of quadrupeds and of either sex; a colt; a filly.
FOAL, v.t.  To bring forth a colt or filly; to bring forth young as a mare or a she-ass.


Topic: Foam
Definition:
FOAM, n.  [L. fumo, to smoke, to foam.]
Froth; spume; the substance which is formed on the surface of liquors by fermentation or violent agitation, consisting of bubbles.
FOAM, v.i.  
1.  To froth; to gather foam.  The billows foam.  A horse foams at the mouth when violently heated.
2.  To be in a rage; to be violently agitated. 
He foameth and gnasheth with his teeth.  Mark 9.
FOAM, v.t.  To throw out with rage or violence; with out.
Foaming out their own shame.  Jude 13.


Topic: Fob
Definition:
FOB, n.  A little pocket for a watch.
FOB, v.t.  To cheat; to trick; to impose on.
To fob off, to shift off by an artifice; to put aside; to delude with a trick.  [A low word.]


Topic: Focil
Definition:
FO'CIL, n.  The greater focil is the ulna or tibia, the greater bone of the fore-arm or leg.  The lesser focil is the radius or fibula, the lesser bone of the fore-arm or leg.


Topic: Focus
Definition:
FO'CUS, n. plu. focuses, or foci.  [L. focus, a fire, the hearth.]
1.  In optics, a point in which any number of rays of light meet, after being reflected or refracted; as the focus of a lens.
2.  In geometry and conic sections, a certain point in the parabola, ellipsis and hyperbola, where rays reflected from all parts of these curves, concur or meet.
The focus of an ellipsis, is a point towards each end of the longer axis, from which two right lines drawn to any point in the circumference, shall together be equal to the longer axis.
The focus of a parabola, is a point in the axis within the figure, and distant from the vertex by the fourth part of the parameter.
The focus of a hyperbola, is a point in the principal axis, within the opposite hyperbolas, from which if any two lines are drawn, meeting in either of the opposite hyperbolas, the difference will be equal to the principal axis.
3.  A central point; point of concentration.


Topic: Fodder
Definition:
FOD'DER, n.
1.  Food or dry food for cattle, horses and sheep, as hay, straw and other kinds of vegetables.  The word is never applied to pasture.
2.  In mining, a measure containing 20 hundred, or 22 1/2 hundred.
FOD'DER, v.t.  To feed with dry food, or cut grass, &c.; to furnish with hay, straw, oats, &c.  Farmers fodder their cattle twice or thrice in a day.


Topic: Foe
Definition:
FOE, n. fo.  [See Fiend.]
1.  An enemy; one who entertains personal enmity, hatred, grudge or malice against another.
A man's foes shall be they of his own household.  Matt. 10.
2.  An enemy in war; one of a nation at war with another, whether he entertains enmity against the opposing nation or not; an adversary.
Either three years famine, or three months to be destroyed before they foes.  1Chron. 21.
3.  Foe, like enemy, in the singular, is used to denote an opposing army, or nation at war.
4.  An opponent; an enemy; one who opposes any thing in principle; an ill-wisher; as a foe to religion; a foe to virtue; a foe to the measures of the administration.
FOE, v.t.  To treat as an enemy.  Obs.


Topic: Fog
Definition:
FOG, n.  
1.  A dense watery vapor, exhaled from the earth, or from rivers and lakes, or generated in the atmosphere near the earth.  it differs from mist, which is rain in very small drops.
2.  A cloud of dust or smoke.
FOG, n.  
After-grass; a second growth of grass; but it signifies also long grass that remains on land.
Dead grass, remaining on land during winter, is called in New England, the old tore.


Topic: Fogbank
Definition:
FOG'BANK, n.  At sea, an appearance in hazy weather sometimes resembling land at a distance, but which vanishes as it is approached.


Topic: Fogginess
Definition:
FOG'GINESS,  n.  [from foggy.]  The state of being foggy; a state of the air filled with watery exhalations.


Topic: Foggy
Definition:
FOG'GY, a.  [from fog.]
1.  Filled or abounding with fog or watery exhalations; as a foggy atmosphere; a foggy morning.
2.  Cloudy; misty; damp with humid vapors.
3.  Producing frequent fogs; as a foggy climate.
4.  Dull; stupid; clouded in understanding.


Topic: Foible
Definition:
FOI'BLE, a.  Weak.  [Not used.]
FOI'BLE, n.  [See Feeble.]  A particular moral weakness; a failing.  When we speak of a man's foible, in the singular, which is also called his weak side, we refer to a predominant failing.  We use also the plural, foibles, to denote moral failings or defects.  It is wise in every man to know his own foibles.


Topic: Foil
Definition:
FOIL, v.t.  
1.  To frustrate; to defeat; to render vain or nugatory, as an effort or attempt.  The enemy attempted to pass the river, but was foiled.  He foiled his adversaries.
And by a mortal man at length am foiled.
2.  To blunt; to dull.
When light wing'd toys of feathered cupid foil -
3.  To defeat; to interrupt, or to render imperceptible; as, to foil the scent in a chase.
FOIL, n.  Defeat; frustration; the failure of success when on the point of being secured; miscarriage.
Death never won a stake with greater toil, nor e'er was fate to near a foil.
FOIL, n.  A blunt sword, or one that has a button at the end covered with leather; used in fencing.
Isocrates contended with a foil, against Demosthenes with a sword.
FOIL, n.  [L. folium.  Gr.]
1.  A leaf or thin plate of metal used in gilding.
2.  Among jewelers, a thin leaf of metal placed under precious stones, to make them appear transparent, and to give them a particular color, as the stone appears to be of the color of the foil.  Hence,
3.  Any thing of another color, or of different qualities, which serves to adorn, or set off another thing to advantage.
Hector has a foil to set him off.
4.  A thin coat of tin, with quicksilver, laid on the back of a locking glass, to cause reflection.


Topic: Foiling
Definition:
FOIL'ING, ppr.  Defeating; frustrating; disappointing of success.
FOIL'ING, n.  Among hunters, the slight mark of a passing deer on the grass.


Topic: Foin
Definition:
FOIN, v.t.  [L. pungo.  The sense is to push, thrust, shoot.]
1.  To push in fencing.
2.  To prick; to sting.  [Not in use.]
FOIN, n.  A push; a thrust.


Topic: Foist
Definition:
FOIST, v.t. 
To insert surreptitiously, wrongfully, or without warrant.
Lest negligence or partiality might admit or foist in abuses and corruption.
FOIST, n.  A light and fast sailing ship.  Obs.


Topic: Fold
Definition:
FOLD, n.  [See the verb, to fold.]
1.  A pen or inclosure for sheep; a place where a flock of sheep is kept, whether in the field or under shelter.
2.  A flock of sheep.  Hence in a scriptural sense, the church, the flock of the Shepherd of Israel.
Other sheep I have, which are not of this fold.  John 10.
3.  A limit.  [Not in use.]
FOLD, n.
1.  The doubling of any flexible substance, as cloth; complication; a plait; one part turned or bent and laid on another; as a fold of linen.
2.  In composition, the same quantity added; as two fold, four fold, ten fold, that is, twice as much, four times as much, ten times as much.
FOLD, v.t.  [Heb.  The primary sense is to fall, or to lay, to set, throw or press together.]
1.  To double; to lap or lay in plaits; as, to fold a piece of cloth.
2.  To double and insert one part in another; as, to fold a letter.
3.  To double or lay together, as the arms.  He folds his arms in despair.
4.  To confine sheep in a fold.
FOLD, v.i.  To close over another of the same kind; as, the leaves of the door fold.


Topic: Folding
Definition:
FOLDING, ppr.
1.  Doubling; laying in plaits; keeping in a fold.
2.  a.  Doubling; that may close over another, or that consists of leaves which may close one over another; as a folding door.
FOLDING, n.
1.  A fold; a doubling.
2.  Among farmers, the keeping of sheep in inclosures on arable land, &c.


Topic: Foliaceous
Definition:
FOLIA'CEOUS, a.  [L. foliaceus, from folium, a leaf.  See Foil.]
1.  Leafy; having leaves intermixed with flowers; as a foliaceous spike.  Foliaceous glands are those situated on leaves.
2.  Consisting of leaves or thin lamins; having the form of a leaf or plate; as foliaceous spar.


Topic: Foliage
Definition:
FO'LIAGE, n.  [L. folium, a leaf.  See Foil.]
1.  Leaves in general; as a tree of beautiful foliage.
2.  A cluster of leaves, flowers and branches; particularly, the representation of leaves, flowers and branches, in architecture, intended to ornament and enrich capitals, friezes, pediments, &c.
FO'LIAGE, v.t.  To work or to form into the representation of leaves.


Topic: Foliate
Definition:
FO'LIATE, v.t.  [L. foliatus, from folium, a leaf.  Gr.]
1.  To beat into a leaf, or thin plate or lamin.
2.  To spread over with a thin coat of tin and quicksilver, &c.; as, to foliate a looking-glass.
FO'LIATE, a.  In botany, leafy; furnished with leaves; as a foliate stalk.


Topic: Foliated
Definition:
FO'LIATED, pp.
1.  Spread or covered with a thin plate or foil.
2.  In mineralogy, consisting of plates; resembling or in the form of a plate; lamellar; as a foliated fracture.
Minerals that consist of grains, and are at the same time foliated, are called granularly foliated.


Topic: Foliation
Definition:
FOLIA'TION, n.  [L. foliatio.]
1.  In botany, the leafing of plants; vernation; the disposition of the nascent leaves within the bud.
2.  The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf or foil
3.  The act or operation of spreading foil over the back side of a mirror or looking-glass.


Topic: Folio
Definition:
FO'LIO, n.  [L. folium, a leaf, in folio.]
1.  A book of the largest size, formed by once doubling a sheet of paper.
2.  Among merchants, a page, or rather both the right and left hand pages of an account book, expressed by the same figure.


Topic: Foliole
Definition:
FO'LIOLE, n.  [from L. folium, a leaf.]  A leaflet; one of the single leaves, which together constitute a compound leaf.


Topic: Folious
Definition:
FO'LIOUS, a. 
1.  Leafy; thin; unsubstantial.
2.  In botany, having leaves intermixed with the flowers.


Topic: Folk
Definition:
FOLK, n. foke.  [L. vulgus.  The sense is a crowd, from collecting or pressing, not from following, but from the same root, as to follow is to press toward.  Gr.  Originally and properly it had no plural, being a collective noun; but in modern use, in America, it has lost its singular number, and we hear it only in the plural.  It is a colloquial word, not admissible into elegant style.]
1.  People in general, or any part of them without distinction.  What do folks say respecting the war?  Men love to talk about the affairs of other folks.
2.  Certain people, discriminated from others; as old folks, and young folks.  Children sometimes call their parents, the old folks.  So we say sick folks; poor folks; proud folks.
3.  In scripture, the singular number is used; as a few sick folk; impotent folk.  Mark 6.  John 5.
4.  Animals.
The coneys are but a feeble folk.  Prov. 30.


Topic: Folkland
Definition:
FOLKLAND, n.  In English law, copyhold land; land held by the common people, at the will of the lord.


Topic: Folkmote
Definition:
FOLKMOTE, n.
An assembly of the people, or of bishops, thanes, aldermen and freemen, to consult respecting public affairs; an annual convention of the people, answering in some measure, to a modern parliament; a word used in England before the Norman conquest, after which, the national Council was called a parliament.
But some authors allege that the folkmote was an inferior meeting or court.


Topic: Follicle
Definition:
FOL'LICLE, n.  [L. folliculus, from follis, a bag or bellows.]
1.  In botany, a univalvular pericarp; a seed vessel opening on one side longitudinally, and having the seeds loose in it.
2.  An air bag; a vessel distended with air; as at the root in Utricularia, and on the leaves in Aldrovanda.
3.  A little bag, in animal bodies; a gland; a folding; a cavity.


Topic: Follow
Definition:
FOL'LOW, v.t.
1.  To go after or behind; to walk, ride or move behind, but in the same direction.  Soldiers will usually follow a brave officer.
2.  To pursue; to chase; as an enemy, or as game.
3.  To accompany; to attend in a journey.
And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode on the camels, and followed the man.  Gen. 24.
4.  To accompany; to be of the same company; to attend, for any purpose.  Luke 5.
5.  To succeed in order of time; to come after; as a storm is followed by a calm.
Signs following signs lead on the mighty year.
6.  To be consequential; to result from, as effect from a cause.  Intemperance is often followed by disease or poverty, or by both.
7.  To result from, as an inference or deduction.  It follows from these facts that the accused is guilty.
8.  To pursue with the eye; to keep the eyes fixed on a moving body.  He followed or his eyes followed the ship, till it was beyond sight.
He followed with his eyes the fleeting shade.
9.  To imitate; to copy; as, to follow a pattern or model; to follow fashion.
10.  To embrace; to adopt and maintain; to have or entertain like opinions; to think or believe like another; as, to follow the opinions and tenets of a philsophic sect; to follow Plato.
11.  To obey; to observe; to practice; to act in conformity to.  It is our duty to follow the commands of Christ.  Good soldiers follow the orders of their general; good servants follow the directions of their master.
12.  To pursue as an object of desire; to endeavor to obtain.
Follow peace with all men.  Heb. 12.
13.  To use; to practice; to make the chief business; as, to follow the trade of a carpenter; to follow the profession of law.
14.  To adhere to; to side with.
The house of Judah followed David.  2Sam. 2.
15.  To adhere to; to honor; to worship; to serve.
If the Lord be God, follow him.  1Kings 18.
16.  To be led or guided by.
Wo to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing.  Ezek. 13.
17.  To move on in the same course or direction; to be guided by; as, to follow a track or course.
FOL'LOW, v.i. 
1.  To come after another.
The famine - shall follow close after you.  Jer. 42.
2.  To attend; to accompany.
3.  To be posterior in time; as following ages.
4.  To be consequential, as effect to cause.  From such measures, great mischiefs must follow.
5.  To result, as an inference.  The facts may be admitted, but the inference drawn from them does not follow.
To follow on, to continue pursuit or endeavor; to persevere.
Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord.  
Hosea 6.


Topic: Followed
Definition:
FOL'LOWED, pp.  Pursued; succeeded; accompanied; attended; imitated; obeyed; observed; practiced; adhered to.


Topic: Follower
Definition:
FOL'LOWER, n.
1.  One who comes, goes or moves after another, in the same course.
2.  One that takes another as his guide in doctrines, opinions or example; one who receives the opinions, and imitates the example of another; an adherent; an imitator.
That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who, through faith and patience, inherit the promises.  Heb. 6.
3.  One who obeys, worships and honors.
Be ye followers of God, as dear children.  Eph. 5.
4.  An adherent; a disciple; one who embraces the same system; as a follower of Plato.
5.  An attendant; a companion; an associate or a dependent.  The warrior distributed the plunder among his followers.
No follower, but a friend.
6.  One under the command of another.
7.  One of the same faction or party.


Topic: Following
Definition:
FOL'LOWING, ppr.  Coming or going after or behind; pursuing; attending; imitating; succeeding in time; resulting from as an effect or an inference; adhering to; obeying, observing; using, practicing; proceeding in the same course.


Topic: Folly
Definition:
FOL'LY, n.  [See Fool.]
1.  Weakness of intellect; imbecility of mind. want of understanding.
A fool layeth open his folly.  Prov. 13.
2.  A weak or absurd act not highly criminal; an act which is inconsistent with the dictates of reason, or with the ordinary rules of prudence.  In this sense it may be used in the singular, but is generally in the plural.  Hence we speak of the follies of youth.
3.  An absurd act which is highly sinful; any conduct contrary to the laws of God or man; sin; scandalous crimes; that which violates moral precepts and dishonors the offender.  Shechem wrought folly in Israel.  Achan wrought folly in Israel.  Gen. 34.  Josh. 7.
4.  Criminal weakness; depravity of mind.


Topic: Foment
Definition:
FOMENT', v.t.  [L. fomento, from foveo, to warm.]
1.  To apply warm lotions to; to bathe with warm medicated liquors, or with flannel dipped in warm water.
2.  To cherish with heat; to encourage growth.  [Not usual.]
3.  To encourage; to abet; to cherish and promote by excitements; in a bad sense; as, to foment ill humors.
So we say, to foment troubles or disturbances; to foment intestine broils.


Topic: Fomentation
Definition:
FOMENTA'TION, n.
1.  The act of applying warm liquors to a part of the body, by means of flannels dipped in hot water or medicated decoctions, for the purpose of easing pain, by relaxing the skin, or of discussing tumors.
2.  The lotion applied, or to be applied to a diseased part.
3.  Excitation; instigation, encouragement.


Topic: Fond
Definition:
FOND, a.  
1.  Foolish; silly; weak; indiscreet; imprudent; 
Grant I may never prove so fond
To trust man on his oath or bond.
Fond thoughts may fall into some idle brain.
2.  Foolishly tender and loving; doting; weakly indulgent; as a fond mother or wife.
3.  Much pleased; loving ardently; delighted with.  A child is fond of play; a gentleman is fond of his sports, or of his country seat.  In present usage, fond does not always imply weakness or folly.
4.  Relishing highly.  The epicure is fond of high seasoned food.  Multitudes of men are too fond of strong drink.
5.  Trifling; valued by folly.  [Little used.]
FOND, v.t.  To treat with great indulgence or tenderness; to caress; to cocker.
The Tyrian hugs and fonds thee on her breast.
Fond is thus used by the poets only.  We now use fondle.
FOND, v.i.  To be fond of; to be in love with; to dote on.  [Little used.]


Topic: Fondling
Definition:
FOND'LING, ppr.  Caressing; treating with tenderness.
FOND'LING, n.  A person or thing fondled or caressed.


Topic: Fondly
Definition:
FOND'LY, adv.  
1.  Foolishly; weakly; imprudently; with indiscreet affection.
Fondly we think we merit honor then,
When we but praise ourselves in other men.
2.  With great or extreme affection.  We fondly embrace those who are dear to us.


Topic: Fondness
Definition:
FOND'NESS, n.
1.  Foolishness; weakness; want of sense or judgment.  Obs.
2.  Foolish tenderness.
3.  Tender passion; warm affection.
Her fondness for a certain earl began when I was but a girl.
4.  Strong inclination or propensity; as a fondness for vice or sin.
5.  Strong appetite or relish; as fondness for ardent spirit, or for a particular kind of food.
[It is now used chiefly in the three latter senses.]


Topic: Font
Definition:
FONT, n.  [L. fundo, to pour out.]
A large basin or stone vessel in which water is contained for baptizing children or other persons in the church.
FONT, n.  [L. fundo, to pour out.]
A complete assortment of printing types of one size, including a due proportion of all the letters in the alphabet, large and small, points, accents, and whatever else is necessary for printing with that letter.


Topic: Fontanel
Definition:
FONT'ANEL, n.
1.  An issue for the discharge of humors from the body.
2.  A vacancy in the infant cranium, between the frontal and parietal bones, and also between the parietal and occipital, at the two extremities of the sagittal suture.


Topic: Food
Definition:
FOOD, n.  [See Feed.]
1.  In a general sense, whatever is eaten by animals for nourishment, and whatever supplies nutriment to plants.
2.  Meat; aliment; flesh or vegetables eaten for sustaining  human life; victuals; provisions; whatever is or may be eaten for nourishment.
Feed me with food convenient for me.  Prov. 30.
3.  Whatever supplies nourishment and growth to plants, as water, carbonic acid gas, &c.  Manuring substances furnish plants with food.
4.  Something that sustains, nourishes and augments.  Flattery is the food of vanity.
FOOD, v.t.  To feed.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Fool
Definition:
FOOL, n.  [Heb.]
1.  One who is destitute of reason, or the common powers of understanding; an idiot.  Some persons are born fools, and are called natural fools; others may become fools by some injury done to the brain.
2.  In common language, a person who is somewhat deficient in intellect, but not an idiot; or a person who acts absurdly; one who does not exercise his reason; one who pursues a course contrary to the dictates of wisdom.
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
3.  In scripture, fool is often used for a wicked or depraved person; one who acts contrary to sound wisdom in his moral deportment; one who follows his own inclinations, who prefers trifling and temporary pleasures to the service of God and eternal happiness.
The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God.  Ps. 14.
4.  A weak christian; a godly person who has much remaining sin and unbelief.
O fools, and slow of heart to believe all the prophets have written.  Luke 24.
Also, one who is accounted or called a fool by ungodly men.  1Cor. 4:10.
5.  A term of indignity and reproach.
To be thought knowing, you must first put the fool upon all mankind.
6.  One who counterfeits folly; a buffoon; as a king's fool.
I scorn, although their drudge, to be their fool or jester.
1.  To play the fool, to act the buffoon; to jest; to make sport.
2.  To act like one void of understanding.
To put the fool on, to impose on; to delude.
To make a fool of, to frustrate; to defeat; to disappoint.
FOOL, v.i.  To trifle; to toy; to spend time in idleness, sport or mirth.
Is this a time for fooling?
FOOL, v.t.
1.  To treat with contempt; to disappoint; to defeat; to frustrate; to deceive; to impose on.
When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat;  for fooled with hope, men favor the deceit.
2.  To infatuate; to make foolish.
3.  To cheat; as, to fool one out of his money.
1.  To fool away, to spend in trifles, idleness, folly, or without advantage; as, to fool away time.
2.  To spend for things of no value or use; to expend improvidently; as, to fool away money.


Topic: Foolery
Definition:
FOOL'ERY, n.  
1.  The practice of folly; habitual folly; attention to trifles.
2.  An act of folly or weakness.
3.  Object of folly.


Topic: Foolhardy
Definition:
FOOLH'ARDY, a.  [fool and hardy.]  Daring without judgment; madly rash and adventurous; foolishly bold.


Topic: Foolish
Definition:
FOOL'ISH, a.  
1.  Void of understanding or sound judgment; weak in intellect; applied to general character.
2.  Unwise; imprudent; acting without judgment or discretion in particular things.
3.  Proceeding from folly, or marked with folly; silly; vain; trifling.
But foolish questions avoid.  2Tim. 2.
4.  Ridiculous; despicable.
A foolish figure he must make.
5.  In scripture, wicked; sinful; acting without regard to the divine law and glory, or to one's own eternal happiness.
O foolish Galatians - Ga. 3.
6.  Proceeding from depravity; sinful; as foolish lusts.  1Tim. 6.


Topic: Foolishly
Definition:
FOOL'ISHLY, adv.
1.  Weakly; without understanding or judgment; unwisely; indiscreetly.
2.  Wickedly; sinfully.
I have done very foolishly.  2Sam. 24.


Topic: Foolishness
Definition:
FOOL'ISHNESS, n. 
1.  Folly; want of understanding.
2.  Foolish practice; want of wisdom or good judgment.
3.  In a scriptural sense, absurdity; folly.
The preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness.  1Cor. 1.


Topic: Foot
Definition:
FOOT, n. plu. feet.  [L. pes, pedis.  Probably this word is allied to the Gr. to walk, to tread.  Eng. verb, to tread.]
1.  In animal bodies, the lower extremity of the leg; the part of the leg which treads the earth in standing or walking, and by which the animal is sustained and enabled to step.
2.  That which bears some resemblance to an animal's foot in shape or office; the lower end of any thing that supports a body; as the foot of a table.
3.  The lower part; the base; as the foot of a column or of a mountain.
4.  The lower part; the bottom; as the foot of an account; the foot of a sail.
5.  Foundation; condition; state.  We are not on the same foot with our fellow citizens.  In this sense, it is more common, in America, to use footing; and in this sense the plural is not used.
6.  Plan of establishment; fundamental principles.  Our constitution may hereafter be placed on a better foot.  
[In this sense the plural is not used.]
7.  In military language, soldiers who march and fight on foot; infantry, as distinguished from cavalry.
[In this sense the plural is not used.]
8.  A measure consisting of twelve inches; supposed to be taken from the length of a man's foot.  Geometricians divide the foot into 10 digits, and the digit into 10 lines.
9.  In poetry, a certain number of syllables, constituting part of a verse; as the iambus, the dactyl, and the spondee.
10.  Step; pace.
11.  Level; par.  obs.
12.  The part of a stocking or boot which receives the foot.
By foot, or rather, on foot, by walking, as to go or pass on foot; or by fording, as to pass a stream on foot.  See the next definition.
To set on foot, to originate; to begin; to put in motion; as, to set on foot a subscription.  Hence, to be on foot, is to be in motion, action or process of execution.
FOOT, v.i.
1.  To dance; to tread to measure or music; to skip.
2.  To walk; opposed to ride or fly.  In this sense, the word is commonly followed by it.
If you are for a merry jaunt, I'll try, for once, who can foot it farthest.
FOOT, v.t.
1.  To kick; to strike with the foot; to spurn.
2.  To settle; to begin to fix.  [Little used.]
3.  To tread; as, to foot the green.
4.  To add the numbers in a column, and set the sum at the foot; as, to foot an account.
5.  To seize and hold with the foot.  [Not used.]
6.  To add or make a foot; as, to foot a stocking or boot.


Topic: Football
Definition:
FOOT'BALL, n.  
1.  A ball consisting of an inflated bladder, cased in leather, to be driven by the foot.
2.  The sport or practice of kicking the football.


Topic: Footed
Definition:
FOOT'ED, pp.  Kicked; trod; summed up; furnished with a foot, as a stocking.
FOOT'ED, a.  Shaped in the foot; as footed like a goat.


Topic: Foothalt
Definition:
FOOT'HALT, n.  A disease incident to sheep, and said to proceed from a worm, which enters between the claws.


Topic: Foothold
Definition:
FOOT'HOLD, n.  That which sustains the feet firmly and prevents them from slipping of moving; that on which one may tread or rest securely.


Topic: Footing
Definition:
FOOT'ING, ppr.  Dancing; treading; settling; adding a new foot.
FOOT'ING, n.  
1.  Ground for the foot; that which sustains; firm foundation to stand on
In ascents, every step gained is a footing and help to the next.
2.  Support; root.
3.  Basis; foundation.
4.  Place; stable position.
5.  Permanent settlement.  Let not these evils gain footing.
6.  Tread; step; walk.
7.  Dance; tread to measure.
8.  Steps; road; track.  [Little used.]
9.  State; condition; settlement.  Place both parties on an equal footing.


Topic: Footman
Definition:
FOOT'MAN, n.  
1.  A soldier who marches and fights on foot.
2.  A menial servant; a runner; a servant in livery.


Topic: Footrope
Definition:
FOOT'ROPE, n.  The lower boltrope, to which the lower edge of a sail is sewed.  Also, a horse or rope to support men when reefing, &c.


Topic: Footstalk
Definition:
FOOTSTALK, n. [foot and stalk.] In botany, a petiole; a partial stem supporting the leaf, or connecting it with the stem or branch. Sometimes, but rarely, the same footstalk supports both the leaf and fructification, as in Turnera and Hibiscus.


Topic: Footstep
Definition:
FOOT'STEP, n.
1.  A track; the mark or impression of the foot.
2.  Token; mark; visible sign of a course pursued; as the footsteps of divine wisdom.
1.  Footsteps, plural, example; as, follow the footsteps of good men.
2.  Way; course.  Ps. 78.


Topic: Footstool
Definition:
FOOT'STOOL, n.  A stool for the feet; that which supports the feet of one when sitting.
To make enemies a footstool, is to reduce them to entire subjection.  Ps. 110.


Topic: Fop
Definition:
FOP, n.  [The Latin voppa, a senseless fellow, is evidently from the same root, with the sense of emptiness or lightness.]
A vain man of weak understanding and much ostentation; one whose ambition is to gain admiration by showy dress and pertness; a gay trifling man; a coxcomb.


Topic: Foppery
Definition:
FOP'PERY, n.  
1.  Affectation of show or importance; showy folly; as the foppery of dress or of manners.
2.  Folly; impertinence.
Let not the sound of shallow foppery enter my sober house.
3.  Foolery; vain or idle practice; idle affectation.


Topic: Foppish
Definition:
FOP'PISH, a.
1.  Vain of dress; making an ostentatious display of gay clothing; dressing in the extreme of fashion.
2.  Vain; trifling; affected in manners.


Topic: For
Definition:
FOR, prep.  [L. per.; The English, for; to forbid.  For corresponds in sense with the L. pro, as fore does with proe, but pro and proe are probably contracted from prod, proed.  The Latin por, in composition, as in porrigo, is probably contracted from porro,  Gr. which is the English far.  The Gr. are from the same root.  The radical sense of for is to go, to pass, to advance, to reach or stretch.]
1.  Against; in the place of; as a substitute or equivalent, noting equal value or satisfactory compensation, either in barter and sale, in contract, or in punishment.  'And Joseph gave them bread in exchange for horses, and for flocks, and for the cattle of the herds;' that is, according to the original, he gave them bread against horses like the Gr.  Gen. 48:17.
Buy us and our land for bread.  Gen. 47:19.
And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.  Ex. 21.
2.  In the place of; instead of; noting substitution of persons, or agency of one in the place of another with equivalent authority.  An attorney is empowered to act for his principal.  Will you take a letter and deliver it for me at the post office? that is, in my place, or for my benefit.
3.  In exchange of; noting one thing taken or given in place of another; as, to quit the profession of law for that of a clergyman.
4.  In the place of; instead of; as, to translate a poem line for line.
5.  In the character of; noting resemblance; a sense derived from substitution or standing in the place of, like in the Greek.
If a man can be fully assured of any thing for a truth, without having examined, what is there that he may not embrace for truth?
But let her go for an ungrateful woman.
I hear for certain, and do speak the truth.
He quivered with his feet and lay for dead.
6.  Towards; with the intention of going to.
We sailed directly for Genoa, and had a fair wind.
So we say, a ship is bound for or to France.
7.  In advantage of; for the sake of; on account of; that is, towards, noting use, benefit or purpose.
An ant is a wise creature for itself.  Shall I think the world was made for one, and men are born for kings, as beasts for men, not for protection, but to be devoured.
8.  Conducive to; beneficial to; in favor of.
It is for the general good of human society, and consequently of particular persons, to be true and just; and it is for men's health to be temperate.
9.  Leading or inducing to, as a motive.
There is a natural immutable, and eternal reason for that which we call virtue, and against that which we call vice.
10.  Noting arrival, meeting, coming or possession.  Wait patiently for an expected good.  So in the phrases, looking for, staying for.
11.  Towards the obtaining of; in order to the arrival at or possession of.  After all our exertions, we depend on divine aid for success.
12.  Against; in opposition to; with a tendency to resist and destroy; as a remedy for the headache or toothache.  Alkalies are good for the heartburn.  So we say, to provide clothes or stores for winter, or against winter.
13.  Against or on account of; in prevention of.
She wrapped him close for catching cold.
And, for the time shall not seem tedious - 
This use is nearly obsolete.  The sense however is derived from meeting, opposing, as in number 12.
14.  Because; on account of; by reason of.  He cried out for anguish.  I cannot go for want of time.  For this cause, I cannot believe the report.
That which we for our unworthiness are afraid to crave, our prayer is, that God for the worthiness of his son would notwithstanding vouchsafe to grant.
Edward and Richard, with fiery eyes sparkling for very wrath, are at our backs.
How to choose dogs for scent or speed.
For as much as it is a fundamental law -
15.  With respect or regard to; on the part of.
It was young counsel for the persons, and violent counsel for the matters.
Thus much for the beginning and progress of the deluge.
So we say, for me, for myself, or as for me, I have no anxiety, but for you I have apprehensions; all implying towards or on the side of.
16.  Through a certain space; during a certain time; as, to travel for three days; to sail for seven weeks; he holds his office for life; he traveled on sand for ten miles together.  These senses seem to imply passing, the proper sense of for.
17.  In quest of; in order to obtain; as, to search for arguments; to recur to antiquity for examples.  See number 11.
18.  According to; as far as.
Chimists have not been able, for aught is vulgarly known, by fire alone to separate true sulphur from antimony.
19.  Noting meeting, coming together, or reception.  I am ready for you; that is, I am ready to meet or receive you.
20.  Towards; of tendency to; as an inclination for drink.
21.  In favor of; on the part or side of; that is, towards or inclined to.  One is for a free government; another is for a limited monarchy.
Aristotle is for poetical justice.
22.  With a view to obtain; in order to possess.  He writes for money, or for fame; that is, towards meeting, or to have in return, as a reward.
23.  Towards; with tendency to, or in favor of.  It is for his honor to retire from office.  It is for our quiet to have few intimate connections.
24.  Notwithstanding; against; in opposition to.  The fact may be so, for any thing that has yet appeared.  The task is great, but for all that, I shall not be deterred from undertaking it.  This is a different application of the sense of numbers 1,2,3,4. 
The writer will do what she pleases for all me.
25.  For the use of; to be used in; that is, towards, noting advantage.
The oak for nothing ill, the osier good for twigs, the poplar for the mill.
26.  In recompense of; in return of.
Now, for so many glorious actions done, for peace at home, and for the public wealth, I mean to crown a bowl for Caesar's health.  [See Number 1.]
27.  In proportion to; or rather, looking towards, regarding.  He is tall for one of his years, or tall for his age.
28.  By means of.
Moral consideration can no way move the sensible appetite, were it not for the will.
29.  By the want of.
The inhabitants suffered severely both for provisions and fuel.
30.  For my life or heart, though my life were to be given in exchange, or as the price of purchase.  I cannot, for my life, understand the man.  Number 1.
31.  For to, denoting purpose.  For was anciently placed before the infinitives of verbs, and the use is correct, but now obsolete except in vulgar language.  I came for to see you; pour vous voir.
FOR, con.  
1.  The word by which a reason is introduced of something before advanced.  'That ye may be the children of your father who is in heaven; for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good.'  In such sentences, for has the sense of because, by reason that, as in Number 14; with this difference that in Number 14, the word precedes a single noun, and here it precedes a sentence or clause; but the phrase seems to be elliptical, for this cause or reason, which follows, he maketh his sun to rise, &c.  In Romans 13:6, we find the word in both its applications, 'For, for this cause ye pay tribute also -;' the first for referring to the sentence following; the latter to the noun cause.
2.  Because; on this account that; properly, for that.
For as much, compounded, forasmuch, is equivalent to, in regard to that, in consideration of.  Forasmuch as the thirst is intolerable, the patient may be indulged in a little drink.


Topic: Forage
Definition:
FOR'AGE, n.  [L. voro.]
1.  Food of any kind for horses and cattle, as grass; pasture, hay, corn and oats.
2.  The act of providing forage.
Col. Mawhood completed his forage unmolested.
If the forage is to be made at a distance from the camp - 
3.  Search for provisions; the act of feeding abroad.
FOR'AGE, v.i.
1.  To collect food for horses and cattle, by wandering about and feeding or stripping the country.
2.  To wander far; to rove.  Obs.
3.  To ravage; to feed on spoil.
FOR'AGE, v.t.  To strip of provisions for horses, &c.


Topic: Foraging
Definition:
FOR'AGING, ppr. or a.  Collecting provisions for horses and cattle, or wandering in search of food; ravaging; stripping.  The general sent out a foraging party, with a guard.
FOR'AGING, n.  An inroad or incursion for forage or plunder.


Topic: Foraminous
Definition:
FORAM'INOUS, a.  [L. foramen, a hole, from foro, to bore.]
Full of holes; perforated in many places; porous.  [Little used.]


Topic: Forbear
Definition:
FORBEAR, v.i.  pret. forbore; pp. forborne.
1.  To stop; to cease; to hold from proceeding; as, forbear to repeat these reproachful words.
2.  To pause; to delay; as, forbear a while.
3.  To abstain; to omit; to hold one's self from motion or entering on an affair.
Shall I go against Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall I forbear?  1Kings 22.
4.  To refuse; to decline.
Whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.  
Ezek. 2.
5.  To be patient; to restrain from action or violence.  Prov. 25:15.
FORBEAR, v.t.  
1.  To avoid voluntarily; to decline.
Forbear his presence.
2.  To abstain from; to omit; to avoid doing.  Learn from the scriptures what you ought to do and what to forbear.
Have we not power to forbear working?  1Cor. 9.
3.  To spare; to treat with indulgence and patience.
Forbearing one another in love.  Eph. 4.
4.  To withhold.
Forbear thee from meddling with God, who is with me, that he destroy thee not.  2Chron. 35.


Topic: Forbearance
Definition:
FORBEARANCE, n.
1.  The act of avoiding, shunning or omitting; either the cessation or intermission of an act commenced, or a withholding from beginning an act.  Liberty is the power of doing or forbearing an action, according as the doing or forbearance has a preference in the mind.  The forbearance of sin is followed with satisfaction of mind.
2.  Command of temper; restraint of passions.
3.  The exercise of patience; long suffering; indulgence towards those who injure us; lenity; delay of resentment or punishment.
Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and forbearance, and long suffering?  Rom. 2.


Topic: Forbearing
Definition:
FORBEARING, ppr.  
1.  Ceasing; pausing; withholding from action; exercising patience and indulgence.
2.  a. Patient; long suffering.
FORBEARING, n.  A ceasing or restraining from action; patience; long suffering.


Topic: Forbid
Definition:
FORBID', v.t. pret. forbad; pp. forbid, forbidden.  Literally, to bid or command against.  Hence,
1.  To prohibit; to interdict; to command to forbear or not to do.  The laws of God forbid us to swear.  Good manners also forbid us to use profane language.  All servile labor and idle amusements on the sabbath are forbidden.
2.  To command not to enter; as, I have forbid him my house or presence.  This phrase seems to be elliptical; to forbid from entering or approaching.
3.  To oppose; to hinder; to obstruct.  An impassable river forbids the approach of the army.
A blaze of glory that forbids the sight.
4.  To accurse; to blast.  Obs.
FORBID', v.i.  To utter a prohibition; but in the intransitive form, there is always an ellipsis.  I would go, but my state of health forbids, that is, forbids me to go, or my going.


Topic: Forbidding
Definition:
FORBID'DING, ppr.  
1.  Prohibiting; hindering.
2.  a.  Repelling approach; repulsive; raising abhorrence, aversion or dislike; disagreeable; as a forbidding aspect; a forbidding formality; a forbidding air.
FORBID'DING, n.  Hindrance; opposition.


Topic: Force
Definition:
FORCE, n.  [L. fortis.  All words denoting force, power, strength, are from verbs which express straining, or driving, rushing, and this word has the elements of L. vireo.]
1.  Strength; active power; vigor; might; energy that may be exerted; that physical property in a body which may produce action or motion in another body, or may counteract such motion.  By the force of the muscles we raise a weight, or resist an assault.
2.  Momentum; the quantity of power produced by motion or the action of one body on another; as the force of a cannon ball.
3.  That which causes an operation or moral effect; strength; energy; as the force of the mind, will or understanding.
4.  Violence; power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power.  Let conquerors consider that force alone can keep what force as obtained.
5.  Strength; moral power to convince the mind.  There is great force in an argument.
6.  Virtue; efficacy.  No presumption or hypothesis can be of force enough to overthrow constant experience.
7.  Validity; power to bind or hold.  If the conditions of a covenant are not fulfilled, the contract is of no force.  A testament is of force after the testator is dead.  Heb. 9:17.
8.  Strength or power for war; armament; troops; an army or navy; as a military or naval force: sometimes in the plural; as military forces.
9.  Destiny; necessity; compulsion; any extraneous power to which men are subject; as the force of fate or of divine decrees.
10.  Internal power; as the force of habit.
11.  In law, any unlawful violence to person or property.  This is simple, when no other crime attends it, as the entering into another's possession, without committing any other unlawful act.  It is compound, when some other violence or unlawful act is committed.  The law also implies force, as when a person enters a house or inclosure lawfully, but afterwards does an unlawful act.  In this case, the law supposes the first entrance to be for that purpose, and therefore by force.
Physical force, is the force of material bodies.
Moral force, is the power of acting on the reason in judging and determining.
Mechanical force, is the power that belongs to bodies at rest or in motion.  The pressure or tension of bodies at rest is called a mechanical force, and so is the power of a body in motion.  There is also the force of gravity or attraction, centrifugal and centripetal forces, expansive force, &c.
FORCE, v.t. 
1.  To compel; to constrain to do or to forbear, by the exertion of a power not resistible.  Men are forced to submit to conquerors.  Masters force their slaves to labor.
2.  To overpower by strength.
I should have forced thee soon with other arms.
3.  To impel; to press; to drive; to draw or push by main strength; a sense of very extensive use; as, to force along a wagon or a ship; to force away a man's arms; water forces its way through a narrow channel; a man may be forced out of his possessions.
4.  To enforce; to urge; to press.
Forcing my strength, and gathering to the shore.
5.  To compel by strength of evidence; as, to force conviction on the mind; to force one to acknowledge the truth of a proposition.
6.  To storm; to assault and take by violence; as, to force a town or fort.
7.  To ravish; to violate by force, as a female.
8.  To overstrain; to distort; as a forced conceit.
9.  To cause to produce ripe fruit prematurely, as a tree; or to cause to ripen prematurely, as fruit.
10.  To man; to strengthen by soldiers; to garrison.  Obs.
To force from, to wrest from; to extort.
To force out, to drive out; to compel to issue out or to leave; also, to extort.
To force wine, is to fine it by a short process, or in a short time.
To force plants, is to urge the growth of plants by artificial heat.
To force meat, is to stuff it.
FORCE, v.i.  
1.  To lay stress on.  Obs.
2.  To strive.  Obs.
3.  To use violence.


Topic: Forced
Definition:
FORCED, pp.
1.  Compelled; impelled; driven by violence; urged; stormed; ravished.
2.  a.  Affected; overstrained; unnatural; as a forced style.


Topic: Forceful
Definition:
FORCEFUL, a.  
1.  Impelled by violence; driven with force; acting with power.
Against the steed he threw his forceful spear.
2.  Violent; impetuous.


Topic: Forceps
Definition:
FOR'CEPS, n.  [L.]  Literally, a pair of pinchers or tongs.
In surgery, an instrument for extracting any thing from a wound, and for like purposes.
A pair of scissors for cutting off or dividing the fleshy membranous parts of the body.


Topic: Forcer
Definition:
FORCER, n.
1.  He or that which forces, drives or constrains.
2.  The embolus of a pump; the instrument by which water is driven up a pump.


Topic: Forcible
Definition:
FORCIBLE, a.
1.  Powerful; strong; mighty; as a punishment forcible to bridle sin.
2.  Violent; impetuous; driving forward with force; as a forcible stream.
3.  Efficacious; active; powerful.
Sweet smells are most forcible in dry substances when broken.
4.  Powerful; acting with force; impressive; as forcible words or arguments.
5.  Containing force; acting by violence; as forcible means.
6.  Done by force; suffered by force.  The abdication of James, his advocates hold to have been forcible.
7.  Valid; binding; obligatory.  [Not used.]
8.  In law, forcible entry is an actual violent entry into houses or lands.
Forcible detainer, is a violent withholding of the lands, &c. of another from his possession.
Forcible abduction, is the act of taking away wrongfully, as a child without the consent of the father, a ward without the consent of the guardian, or any person contrary to his or her will.


Topic: Forcibly
Definition:
FORCIBLY, adv.
1.  By violence or force.
2.  Strongly; powerfully; with power or energy; impressively.
The gospel offers such considerations as are fit to work very forcibly on our hopes and fears.
3.  Impetuously; violently; with great strength; as a stream rushing forcibly down a precipice.


Topic: Forcing
Definition:
FORCING, ppr.
1.  Compelling; impelling; driving; storming; ravishing.
2.  Causing to ripen before the natural season, as fruit; or causing to produce ripe fruit prematurely, as a tree.
3.  Fining wine by a speedy process.
FORCING, n.
1.  In gardening, the art of raising plants, flowers, and fruits, at an earlier season than the natural one, by artificial heat.
2.  The operation of fining wines by a speedy process.


Topic: Forcipated
Definition:
FOR'CIPATED, a.  [from forceps.]  Formed like a pair of pinchers to open and inclose; as a forcipated mouth.


Topic: Ford
Definition:
FORD, n.
1.  A place in a river or other water, where it may be passed by man or beast on foot, or by wading.
2.  A stream; a current.
Permit my ghost to pass the Stygian ford.
FORD, v.t.  To pass or cross a river or other water by treading or walking on the bottom; to pass through water by wading; to wade through.
   


Topic: Fore
Definition:
FORE, a.  
1.  Properly, advanced, or being in advance of something in motion or progression; as the fore end of a chain carried in measuring land; the fore oxen or horses in a team.
2.  Advanced in time; coming in advance of something; coming first; anterior; preceding; prior; as the fore part of the last century; the fore part of the day, week or year.
3.  Advanced in order or series; antecedent; as the fore part of a writing or bill.
4.  Being in front or towards the face; opposed to back or behind; as the fore part of a garment.
5.  Going first; usually preceding the other part; as the fore part of a ship, or of a coach.

FORE, adv.  In the part that precedes or goes first.
In seamen's language, fore and aft signifies the whole length of the ship, or from end to end, from stem to stern.
Fore, in composition, denotes, for the most part, priority of time; sometimes, advance in place.
For the etymologies of the compounds of fore, see the principal word.


Topic: Foreadvise
Definition:
FOREADVI'SE, v.t. s as z To advise or counsel before the time of action or before the event; to preadmonish.


Topic: Forebode
Definition:
FOREBO'DE, v.t.
1.  To foretell; to prognosticate.
2.  To foreknow; to be prescient of; to feel a secret sense of something future; as, my heart forebodes a sad reverse.


Topic: Forecast
Definition:
FOREC'AST, v.t.
1.  To foresee; to provide against.
It is wisdom to forecast consequences.
2.  To scheme; to plan before execution.
He shall forecast his devices against the strong holds.  Dan. 11.
3.  To adjust; contrive or appoint beforehand
The time so well forecast.
FOREC'AST, v.i.  To form a scheme previously; to contrive beforehand.
Forecasting how his foe he might annoy.


Topic: Forecastle
Definition:
FO'RECASTLE, n.  A short deck in the forepart of a ship above the upper deck usually terminated in ships of war with a breast-work; the foremost part forming the top of the beak-head, and the hind part reaching to the after part of the fore chains.


Topic: Foreclose
Definition:
FORECLO'SE, v.t. s as z.  To shut up; to preclude; to stop; to prevent.
The embargo with Spain foreclosed this trade.
To foreclose a mortgager, in law, is to cut him off from his equity of redemption, or the power of redeeming the mortgaged premises, by a judgment of court.
[To foreclose a mortgage is not technically correct, but is often used.]


Topic: Foreclosure
Definition:
FORECLO'SURE, n.  s as z.
1.  Prevention.
2.  The act of foreclosing, or depriving a mortgager of the right of redeeming a mortgaged estate.


Topic: Foredoom
Definition:
FOREDOOM', v.t.  To doom beforehand; to predestinate.
Thou art foredoomed to view the Stygian state.
FOREDOOM', n.  Previous doom or sentence.


Topic: Forefather
Definition:
FOREF'ATHER, n.  An ancestor; one who precedes another in the line of genealogy, in any degree; usually in a remote degree.


Topic: Forefend
Definition:
FOREFEND', v.t.  
1.  To hinder; to fend off; to avert; to prevent approach; to forbid or prohibit.
2.  To defend; to guard; to secure.
This word, like the L. arceo, is applied to the thing assailing, and to the thing assailed.  To drive back or resist that which assails, is to hinder its approach, to forbid or avert, and this act defends the thing threatened or assailed.


Topic: Forefinger
Definition:
FOREFIN'GER, n.  The finger next to the thumb; the index; called by our Saxon ancestors, the shoot-finger, from its use in archery.


Topic: Forefoot
Definition:
FOREFOOT, n.
1.  One of the anterior feet of a quadruped or multiped.
2.  A hand, in contempt.
3.  In a ship, a piece of timber which terminates the keel at the fore-end.


Topic: Forefront
Definition:
FOREFRONT', n.  The foremost part.  The forefront of the battle, is the part where the contest is most warm, and where a soldier is most exposed.  2Sam. 11:15.


Topic: Forego
Definition:
FOREGO', v.t.  [See Go.]
1.  To forbear to possess or enjoy; voluntarily to avoid the enjoyment of good.  Let us forego the pleasures of sense, to secure immortal bliss.
2.  To give up; to renounce; to resign.  But this word is usually applied to things not possessed or enjoyed, and which cannot be resigned.
3.  To lose.
4.  To go before; to precede.  Obs.


Topic: Foregoer
Definition:
FOREGO'ER, n.
1.  An ancestor; a progenitor.  [Not used.]
2.  One who goes before another.
3.  One who forbears to enjoy.


Topic: Foregoing
Definition:
FOREGO'ING, ppr.  
1.  Forbearing to have, possess or enjoy.
2.  a.  Preceding; going before, in time or place; antecedent; as a foregoing period of time; a foregoing clause in a writing.


Topic: Foreground
Definition:
FO'REGROUND, n.  The part of the field or expanse of a picture which seems to lie before the figures.


Topic: Forehand
Definition:
FO'REHAND, n.
1.  The part of a horse which is before the rider.
2.  The chief part.
FO'REHAND, a.  Done sooner than is regular.
And so extenuate the forehand sin.


Topic: Forehanded
Definition:
FO'REHANDED, a.
1.  Early; timely; seasonable; as a forehanded care.
2.  In America, in good circumstances as to property; free from debt and possessed of property; as a forehanded farmer.
3.  Formed in the foreparts.
A substantial true-bred beast, bravely forehanded.


Topic: Forehead
Definition:
FOREHEAD, n. for'hed, or rather for'ed.
1.  The part of the face which extends from the hair on the top of the head to the eyes.
2.  Impudence; confidence; assurance; audaciousness.


Topic: Forehook
Definition:
FO'REHOOK, n.  In ships, a breast-hook; a piece of timber placed across the stem to unite the bows and strengthen the forepart of the ship.


Topic: Foreign
Definition:
FOREIGN, a. for'an.  [L. foris, foras.]
1.  Belonging to another nation or country; alien; not of the country in which one resides; extraneous.  We call every country foreign, which is not within the jurisdiction  of our own government.  In this sense, Scotland before the union was foreign to England, and Canada is now foreign to the United States.  More generally foreign is applied to countries more remote than an adjacent territory; as a foreign market; a foreign prince.  In the United States, all transatlantic countries are foreign.
2.  Produced in a distant country or jurisdiction; coming from another country; as foreign goods; goods of foreign manufacture; a foreign minister.
3.  Remote; not belonging; not connected; with to or from.  You dissemble; the sentiments you express are foreign to your heart.  This design is foreign from my thoughts.  [The use of from is preferable and best authorized.]
4.  Impertinent; not pertaining; not to the purpose.  The observation is foreign from the subject under consideration.
5.  Excluded; not admitted; held at a distance.
6.  Extraneous; adventitious; not native or natural.
7.  In law, a foreign attachment is an attachment of the goods of a foreigner within a city or liberty, for the satisfaction of a debt due from the foreigner to a citizen; or an attachment of the money or goods of a debtor, in the hands of another person.
A foreign bill of exchange, is a bill drawn by a person in one country, on his correspondent or agent in another, as distinguished from an inland bill, which is drawn by one person or another in the same jurisdiction or country.
Foreign plea, a plea or objection to a judge as incompetent to try the question, on the ground that it is not within his jurisdiction.


Topic: Foreigner
Definition:
FOR'EIGNER, n.  for'aner.  A person born in a foreign country, or without the country or jurisdiction of which one speaks.  A Spaniard is a foreigner in France and England.  All men not born in the United States are to them foreigners, and they are aliens till naturalized.  A naturalized person is a citizen; but we still call him a foreigner by birth.


Topic: Foreignness
Definition:
FOR'EIGNNESS, n.  for'anness.  Remoteness; want of relation; as the foreignness of a subject from the main business.


Topic: Forejudge
Definition:
FOREJUDGE, v.t. forjuj'.  
1.  To prejudge; to judge beforehand, or before hearing the facts and proof.
2.  In law, to expel from a court, for malpractice or non-appearance.  When an attorney is sued, and called to appear in court, if he declines, he is forejudged, and his name is struck from the rolls.


Topic: Foreknow
Definition:
FOREKNOW, v.t  [See Know.]  To have previous knowledge of; to foresee.
Who would the miseries of man foreknow?
For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son.  Rom. 8.


Topic: Foreknowledge
Definition:
FOREKNOWL'EDGE, n.  Knowledge of a thing before it happens; prescience.
If I foreknew, foreknowledge had no influence on their fault.


Topic: Foreland
Definition:
FO'RELAND, n.  A promontory or cape; a point of land extending into the sea some distance from the line of the shore; a head land; as the North and South Foreland in Kent, in England.


Topic: Forelock
Definition:
FO'RELOCK, n.
1.  The lock or hair that grows from the forepart of the head.
Take time by the forelock.
2.  In sea language, a little flat pointed wedge of iron, used at the end of a bolt, to retain it firmly in its place.


Topic: Foreman
Definition:
FO'REMAN, n.
1.  The first or chief man; particularly, the chief man of a jury, who acts as their speaker.
2.  The chief man in a printing office or other establishment, who conducts the whole work.


Topic: Foremast
Definition:
FO'REMAST, n.  The mast of a ship or other vessel which is placed in the forepart or forecastle, and carries the foresail and foretop-sail yards.
Foremast-men, on board of ships, the men who take in the top-sails, sling the yards, furl the sails, &c.


Topic: Forementioned
Definition:
FOREMEN'TIONED, a.  Mentioned before; recited or written in a former part of the same writing or discourse.


Topic: Foremost
Definition:
FO'REMOST, a.
1.  First in place; most advanced; as the foremost troops of an army.
2.  First in dignity.  In honor he held the foremost rank.


Topic: Forenamed
Definition:
FO'RENAMED, a.  
1.  Named or nominated before.
2.  Mentioned before in the same writing or discourse.


Topic: Forenoon
Definition:
FO'RENOON, n.  The former part of the day, from the morning to meridian or noon.  We usually call the first part of the day, from the dawn to the time of breakfast, or the hour of business, the morning, and from this period to noon, the forenoon.  But the limits are not precisely defined by custom.


Topic: Forensic
Definition:
FOREN'SIC, a.  [from L. forensis, from forum, a court.]
Belonging to courts of judicature; used in courts or legal proceedings; as a forensic term; forensic eloquence or disputes.


Topic: Forepart
Definition:
FO'REPART, n.
1.  The part first in time; as the forepart of the day or week.
2.  The part most advanced in place; the anterior part; as the forepart of any moving body.
3.  The beginning; as the forepart of a series.


Topic: Forerun
Definition:
FORERUN', v.t.
1.  To advance before; to come before as an earnest of something to follow; to introduce as a harbinger.
Heaviness foreruns the good event.
2.  To precede; to have the start of.


Topic: Forerunner
Definition:
FORERUN'NER, n. 
1.  A messenger sent before to give notice of the approach of others; a harbinger.
My elder brothers, my forerunners came.
2.  An ancestor or predecessor.  Obs.
3.  A prognostic; a sign foreshowing something to follow.  Certain pains in the head, back and limbs are the forerunners of a fever.


Topic: Foresee
Definition:
FORESEE', v.t.  To see beforehand; to see or know an event before it happens; to have prescience of; to foreknow.
A prudent man foreseeth the evil and hideth himself.  
Prov. 22.


Topic: Foreshortening
Definition:
FORESHORT'ENING, n.  In painting, the act of shortening figures for the sake of showing those behind.
The art of conveying to the mind the impression of the entire length of an object, when represented as viewed in an oblique or receding position.


Topic: Foreshow
Definition:
FORESHOW, v.t.
1.  To show beforehand; to prognosticate.
Next, like aurora, Spenser rose, whose purple blush the day foreshows.
2.  To predict; to foretell
3.  To represent beforehand, or before it comes.


Topic: Foresight
Definition:
FO'RESIGHT, n.  
1.  Prescience; foreknowledge; prognostication; the act of foreseeing.
2.  Provident care of futurity; foreknowledge accompanied with prudence in guarding against evil.


Topic: Foreslow
Definition:
FORESLOW, v.t. 
1.  To delay; to hinder; to impede; to obstruct.  [Not used.]
No stream, no wood, no mountain could foreshow their hasty pace.
2.  To neglect; to omit.  [Not used.]
FORESLOW, v.i.  To be dilatory; to loiter.  [Not used.]


Topic: Forespeak
Definition:
FORESPE'AK, v.t. 
1.  To foresay; to foreshow; to foretell or predict.
2.  To forbid.  [Not used.]
3.  To bewitch.  [Not used.]


Topic: Forespent
Definition:
FORESPENT', a. 
1.  Wasted in strength; tired; exhausted.
2.  Past; as life forespent.  [Little used.]


Topic: Forest
Definition:
FOR'EST, n.  [L. foris.]
1.  An extensive wood, or a large tract of land covered with trees.  In America, the word is usually applied to a wood of native growth, or a tract of woodland which has never been cultivated.  It differs from wood or woods chiefly in extent.  We read of the Hercynian forest, in Germany, and the forest of Ardennes, in France or Gaul.
2.  In law, in Great Britain, a certain territory of woody grounds and pastures, privileged for wild beasts and fowls of forest, chase and warren, to rest and abide in, under the protection of the king, for his pleasure.  In this sense, the word has no application in America.
Forest laws, laws for governing and regulating forests, and preserving game.
FOR'EST, v.t.  To cover with trees or wood.


Topic: Forestaff
Definition:
FO'REST'AFF, n.  An instrument used at sea, for taking the altitudes of heavenly bodies; called also cross-staff.


Topic: Forestall
Definition:
FORESTALL', v.t.  [See Stall.]
1.  To anticipate; to take beforehand.
Why need a man forestall his date of grief, and run to meet what he would most avoid?
2.  To hinder by preoccupation or prevention.
I will not forestall your judgment of the rest.
3.  In law, to buy or bargain for corn, or provisions of any kind, before they arrive at the market or fair, with intent to sell them at higher prices.  This is a penal offense.
4.  To deprive by something prior.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Forestaller
Definition:
FORESTALL'ER, n.  One who forestalls; a person who purchases provisions before they come to the fair or market, with a view to raise the price.


Topic: Forestalling
Definition:
FORESTALL'ING, ppr.  Anticipating; hindering; buying provisions before they arrive in market, with intent to sell them at high prices.
FORESTALL'ING, n.  Anticipation; prevention; the act of buying provisions before they are offered in market, with intent to sell them at higher prices.


Topic: Forestay
Definition:
FORESTAY, n.  In a ship's rigging, a large strong rope reaching from the foremast head towards the bowsprit end, to support the mast.


Topic: Forester
Definition:
FOR'ESTER, n.  
1.  In England, an officer appointed to watch a forest, preserve the game, and institute suits for trespasses.
2.  An inhabitant of a forest.
3.  A forest tree.


Topic: Foretaste
Definition:
FO'RETASTE, n.  A taste beforehand; anticipation.  The pleasures of piety are a foretaste of heaven.


Topic: Foretell
Definition:
FORETELL', v.t.  
1.  To predict; to tell before an event happens; to prophesy.
2.  To foretoken; to foreshow.
FORETELL', v.i.  To utter prediction or prophecy.
All the prophets from Samuel, and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days.  
Acts 3.


Topic: Forethink
Definition:
FORETHINK', v.t.
1.  To think beforehand; to anticipate in the mind.
The soul of every man perpetually does forethink thy fall.
2.  To contrive beforehand.
FORETHINK', v.i.  To contrive beforehand.


Topic: Foretoken
Definition:
FORETO'KEN, v.t.  To foreshew; to presignify; to prognosticate.
Whilst strange prodigious signs foretoken blood.
FORETO'KEN, n.  Prognostic; previous sign.


Topic: Foretop
Definition:
FO'RETOP, n.  
1.  The hair on the forepart of the head.
2.  That part of a woman's headdress that is forward, or the top of a periwig.
3.  In ships, the platform erected at the head of the foremast.  In this sense, the accent on the two syllables is nearly equal.


Topic: Forewarn
Definition:
FOREWARN', v.t.  forewaurn'.
1.  To admonish beforehand.
I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear.  Luke 12.
2.  To inform previously; to give previous notice.
3.  To caution beforehand.


Topic: Forewarning
Definition:
FOREWARN'ING, ppr.  Previously admonishing or informing.
FOREWARN'ING, n.  Previous admonition, caution or notice.


Topic: Forfeit
Definition:
FOR'FEIT, v.t.  for'fit.  [Low L. forisfacere, from L. foris, out or abroad, and facio, to make.]
To lose or render confiscable, by some fault, offense or crime; to lose the right to some species of property or that which belongs to one; to alienate the right to possess by some neglect or crime; as, to forfeit an estate by a breach of the condition of tenure or by treason.  By the ancient laws of England, a man forfeited his estate by neglecting or refusing to fulfill the conditions on which it was granted to him, or by a breach of fealty.  A man now forfeits his estate by committing treason.  A man forfeits his honor or reputation by a breach of promise, and by any criminal or disgraceful act.  Statutes declare that by certain acts a man shall forfeit a certain sum of money.  Under the feudal system, the right to the land forfeited, vested in the lord or superior.  In modern times, the right to things forfeited is generally regulated by statutes; it is vested in the state, in corporations, or in prosecutors or informers, or partly in the state or a corporation, and partly in an individual.
The duelist, to secure the reputation of bravery, forfeits the esteem of good men, and the favor of heaven.
FOR'FEIT, n.  for'fit.  [Low L. forisfactura.]
1.  That which is forfeited or lost, or the right to which is alienated by a crime, offense, neglect of duty, or breach of contract; hence, a fine; a mulet; a penalty.  He that murders pays the forfeit of his life.  When a statute creates a penalty for a transgression, either in money or in corporal punishment, the offender who, on conviction, pays the money or suffers the punishment, pays the forfeit.
2.  One whose life is forfeited.  [Not in use.]
FOR'FEIT, part. a. used for forfeited.  Lost or alienated for an offense or crime; liable to penal seizure.
And his long toils were forfeit for a look.


Topic: Forfeitable
Definition:
FORFEITABLE, a.  Liable to be forfeited; subject to forfeiture.
For the future, uses shall be subject to the statutes of mortmain, and forfeitable like the lands themselves.


Topic: Forfeiture
Definition:
FOR'FEITURE, n.  
1.  The act of forfeiting; the losing of some right, privilege, estate, honor, office or effects, by an offense, crime, breach of condition or other act.  In regard to property, forfeiture is a loss of the right to possess, but not generally the actual possession, which is to be transferred by some subsequent process.  In the feudal system, a forfeiture of lands gave him in reversion or remainder a right to enter.
2.  That which is forfeited; an estate forfeited; a fine or mulet.  The prince enriched his treasury by fines and forfeitures.


Topic: Forge
Definition:
FORGE, n.  [L. ferrum, iron.]
1.  A furnace in which iron or other metal is heated and hammered into form.  A larger forge is called with us iron-works.  Smaller forges consisting of a bellows so placed as to cast a stream of air upon ignited coals, are of various forms and users.  Armies have travelling forges, for repairing gun-carriages, &c.
2.  Any place where any thing is made or shaped.
3.  The act of beating or working iron or steel; the manufacture of metalline bodies.
In the greater bodies the forge was easy.
FORGE, v.t.
1.  To form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal.
2.  To make by any means.
Names that the schools forged, and put into the mouths of scholars.
3.  To make falsely; to falsify; to counterfeit; to make in the likeness of something else; as, to forge coin; to forge a bill of exchange or a receipt.


Topic: Forgery
Definition:
FORGERY, n.
1.  The act of forging or working metal into shape.  In this sense, rarely or never now used.
2.  The act of falsifying; the crime of counterfeiting; as the forgery of coin, or of bank notes, or of a bond.  Forgery may consist in counterfeiting a writing, or in setting a false name to it, to the prejudice of another person.
3.  That which is forged or counterfeited.  Certain letters, purporting to be written by Gen. Washington, during the revolution, were forgeries.


Topic: Forget
Definition:
FORGET', v.t. pret.  forgot.  [forgat, obs.]
1.  To lose the remembrance of; to let go from the memory.
Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits.  Ps. 103.
2.  To slight; to neglect.
Can a woman forget her sucking child?  Yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.  Is. 49.


Topic: Forgetful
Definition:
FORGET'FUL, a.
1.  Apt to forget; easily losing the remembrance of.  A forgetful man should use helps to strengthen his memory.
2.  Heedless; careless; neglectful; inattentive.
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers.  Heb. 13.
3.  Causing to forget; inducing oblivion; oblivious; as forgetful draughts.


Topic: Forgetfulness
Definition:
FORGET'FULNESS, n.
1.  The quality of losing the remembrance or recollection of a thing; or rather, the quality of being apt to let any thing slip from the mind.
2.  Loss of remembrance or recollection; a ceasing to remember; oblivion.
A sweet forgetfulness of human care.
3.  Neglect; negligence; careless omission; inattention; as forgetfulness of duty.


Topic: Forgetting
Definition:
FORGET'TING, ppr.  Losing the remembrance of.
FORGET'TING, n.  The act of forgetting; forgetfulness; inattention.


Topic: Forgive
Definition:
FORGIVE, v.t.  forgiv'. pret. forgave; pp. forgiven.  [L. remitto.  See Give.]
1.  To pardon; to remit, as an offense or debt; to overlook an offense, and treat the offender as not guilty.  The original and proper phrase is to forgive the offense, to send it away, to reject it, that is, not to impute it, [put it to] the offender.  But by an easy transition, we also use the phrase, to forgive the person offending.
Forgive us our debts.
If we forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly father will also forgive you.  Matt. 6.
As savages never forget a favor, so they never forgive an injury.
It is to be noted that pardon, like forgive, may be followed by the name or person, and by the offense; but remit can be followed by the offense only.  We forgive or pardon the man, but we do not remit him.
2.  To remit as a debt, fine or penalty.


Topic: Forgiveness
Definition:
FORGIV'ENESS, n.  forgiv'ness.  
1.  The act of forgiving; the pardon of an offender, by which he is considered and treated as not guilty.  The forgiveness of enemies is a christian duty.
2.  The pardon or remission of an offense or crime; as the forgiveness of sin or of injuries.
3.  Disposition to pardon; willingness to forgive.
And mild forgiveness intercede to stop the coming blow.
4.  Remission of a debt, fine or penalty.


Topic: Forgiving
Definition:
FORGIV'ING, ppr. 
1.  Pardoning; remitting.
2.  a.  Disposed to forgive; inclined to overlook offenses; mild; merciful; compassionate; as a forgiving temper.


Topic: Forisfamiliate
Definition:
FORISFAMIL'IATE, v.t.  [L. foris, without, and familia, family.]
To renounce a legal title to a further share of paternal inheritance.  Literally, to put one's self out of the family.


Topic: Forisfamiliation
Definition:
FORISFAMILIA'TION, n.  When a child has received a portion of his father's estate, and renounces all title to a further shar, his act is called forisfamiliation, and he is said to be forisfamiliated.


Topic: Fork
Definition:
FORK, n.  [L. furca.]
1.  an instrument consisting of a handle, and a blade of metal, divided into two or more points or prongs, used for lifting or pitching any thing; as a tablefork for feeding; a pitchfork; a dungfork,  &c.  forks are also made of ivory, wood or other material.
2.  A point; as a thunderbolt with three forks.  Shakespeare uses it for the point of an arrow.
3.  Forks, in the plural, the point where a road parts into two; and the point where a river divides, or rather where two rivers meet and unite in one stream.  Each branch is called a fork.
FORK, v.i.  
1.  To shoot into blades, as corn.
2.  to divide into two; as, a road forks.
FORK, v.t.
1.  to raise or pitch with a fork, as hay.
2.  To dig and break ground with a fork.
3.  To make sharp; to point.


Topic: Forked
Definition:
FORK'ED, pp.  
1.  Raised, pitched or dug with a fork.
2.  a.  Opening into two or more parts, points or shoots; as a forked tongue; the forked lightning.
3.  Having two or more meanings.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Forlorn
Definition:
FORLORN', a.  
1.  Deserted; destitute; stripped or deprived; forsaken.  Hence, lost; helpless; wretched; solitary.
Of fortune and of hope at once forlorn.
To live again in these wild woods forlorn.
For here forlorn and lost I tread.
2.  Taken away.  Obs.
When as night hath us of light forlorn.
3.  Small; despicable; in a ludicrous sense.
Forlorn hope, properly, a desperate case; hence in military affairs, a detachment of men appointed to lead in an assault, to storm a counterscarp, enter a breach, or perform other service attended with uncommon peril.
FORLORN', n.  A lost, forsaken, solitary person.


Topic: Form
Definition:
FORM, n.  [L. forma.]
1.  The shape or external appearance of a body; the figure, as defined by lines and angles; that manner of being peculiar to each body, which exhibits it to the eye as distinct from every other body.  Thus we speak of the form of a circle, the form of a square or triangle, a circular form, the form of the head or of the human body, a handsome form, an ugly form, a frightful form.
Matter is the basis or substratum of bodies, form is the particular disposition of matter in each body which distinguishes its appearance from that of every other body.
The form of his visage was changed.  Dan. 3.
After that he appeared in another form to two of them, as they walked.  Mark 16.
2.  Manner of arranging particulars; disposition of particular things; as a form of words or expressions.
3.  Model; draught; pattern.
Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me.  2Tim. 1.
4.  Beauty; elegance; splendor; dignity.
He hath no form nor comeliness.  Isa. 53.
5.  Regularity; method; order.  This is a rough draught to be reduced to form.
6.  External appearance without the essential qualities; empty show.
7.  Stated method; established practice; ritual or prescribed mode; as the forms of public worship; the forms of judicial proceeding; forms of civility.
8.  Ceremony; as, it is a mere matter of form.
9.  Determinate shape.
The earth was without form, and void.  Gen. 1.


Topic: Formal
Definition:
FORM'AL, a.  
1.  According to form; agreeable to established mode; regular; methodical.
2.  Strictly ceremonious; precise; exact to affectation; as a man formal in his dress, his gait or deportment.
3.  Done in due form, or with solemnity; express; according to regular method; not incidental, sudden or irregular.  He gave his formal consent to the treaty.
4.  Regular; methodical; as the formal stars.
5.  Having the form or appearance without the substance or essence; external; as formal duty; formal worship.
6.  Depending on customary forms.
Still in constraint your suffering sex remains, or bound in formal or in real chains.
7.  Having the power of making a thing what it is; constituent; essential.
Of letters the material part is breath and voice; the formal is constituted by the motions and figure of the organs of speech.
8.  Retaining its proper and essential characteristic; regular; proper.
To make of him a formal man again.


Topic: Formalist
Definition:
FORM'ALIST, n.
1.  One who observes forms, or practices external ceremonies.  More generally,
2.  One who regards appearances only, or observes the forms of worship, without possessing the life and spirit of religion; a hypocrite.  A grave face and the regular practice of ceremonies have often gained to a formalist the reputation of piety.


Topic: Formality
Definition:
FORMAL'ITY, n.
1.  The practice or observance of forms.
Formalities of extraordinary zeal and piety are never more studied and elaborate then in desperate designs.
2.  Ceremony; mere conformity to customary modes.
Nor was his attendance on divine offices a matter of formality and custom, but of conscience.
3.  Established order; rule of proceeding; mode; method; as the formalities of judicial process; formalities of law.
4.  Order; decorum to be observed; customary mode of behavior.
5.  Customary mode of dress; habit; robe.
6.  External appearance.
7.  Essence; the quality which constitutes a thing what it is.
The formality of the vow lies in the promise made to God.
8.  In the schools, the manner in which a thing is conceived; or a manner in an object, importing a relation to the understanding, by which it may be distinguished from another object.  Thus animality and rationality are formalities.


Topic: Formally
Definition:
FORM'ALLY, adv.
1.  According to established form, rule, order, rite or ceremony.  A treaty was concluded and formally ratified by both parties.
2.  Ceremoniously; stiffly; precisely; as, to be stiff and formally reserved.
3.  In open appearance; in a visible and apparent state.
You and your followers do stand formally divided against the authorized guides of the church, and the rest of the people.
4.  Essentially; characteristically.
That which formally makes this [charity] a christian grace, is the spring from which it flows.


Topic: Formation
Definition:
FORMA'TION, n.  [L. formatio.]
1.  The act of forming or making; the act of creating or causing to exist; or more generally, the operation of composing, by bringing materials together, or of shaping and giving form; as the formation of the earth; the formation of a state or constitution.
2.  Generation; production; as the formation of ideas.
3.  The manner in which a thing is formed.  Examine the peculiar formation of the heart.
4.  In grammar, the act or manner of forming one word from another, as controller from control.
5.  In geology, formation may signify a single mass of one kind of rock, more or less extensive, or a collection of mineral substances, formed by the same agent, under the same or similar circumstances; or it may convey the idea, that certain masses or collections of minerals were formed not only by the same agent, but also at the same time.  In this latter sense the term is almost always employed.


Topic: Formative
Definition:
FORM'ATIVE, a.
1.  Giving form; having the power of giving form; plastic.
The meanest plant cannot be raised without seeds, by any formative power residing in the soil.
2.  In grammar, serving to form; derivative; not radical; as a termination merely formative.


Topic: Formerly
Definition:
FOR'MERLY, adv.  In time past, either in time immediately preceding, or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.  We formerly imported slaves from Africa.  Nations formerly made slaves of prisoners taken in war.


Topic: Formication
Definition:
FORMICA'TION, n.  [L. formicatio, from formico, or formica, an ant.]
A sensation of the body resembling that made by the creeping of ants on the skin.


Topic: Formidable
Definition:
FORM'IDABLE, a.  [L. formidabilis, from formido, fear.]
Exciting fear or apprehension; impressing dread; adapted to excite fear and deter from approach, encounter or undertaking.  It expresses less than terrible, terrific, tremendous, horrible, and frightful.
They seemed to fear the formidable sight.
I swell my preface into a volume, and make it formidable, when you see so many pages behind.


Topic: Formula
Definition:
FORM'ULA,'ULE, n.  [L.]  
1.  A prescribed form; a rule or model.
2.  In medicine, a prescription.
3.  In church affairs, a confession of faith.
4.  In mathematics, a general expression for resolving certain cases or problems.


Topic: Formulary
Definition:
FORM'ULARY, n.  [from L. formula.]
1.  A book containing stated and prescribed forms, as of oaths, declarations, prayers and the like; a book of precedents.
2.  Prescribed form.
FORM'ULARY, a.  Stated; prescribed; ritual.


Topic: Fornication
Definition:
FORNICA'TION, n.  [L. fornicatio.]  
1.  The incontinence or lewdness of unmarried persons, male or female; also, the criminal conversation of a married man with an unmarried woman.
2.  Adultery.  Matt. 5.
3.  Incest.  1Cor. 5.
4.  Idolatry; a forsaking of the true God, and worshipping of idols.  2Chron. 21.  Rev. 19.


Topic: Fornicator
Definition:
FORN'ICATOR, n.  
1.  An unmarried person, male or female, who has criminal conversation with the other sex; also, a married man who has sexual commerce with an unmarried woman.  [See Adultery.]
2.  A lewd person.
3.  An idolater.


Topic: Forsake
Definition:
FORSA'KE, v.t. pret. forsook; pp. forsaken.  See Seek .]
1.  To quit or leave entirely; to desert; to abandon; to depart from.  Friends and flatterers forsake us in adversity.
Forsake the foolish, and live.  Prov. 9.
2.  To abandon; to renounce; to reject.
If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments - Ps. 89.
Cease from anger, and forsake wrath.  Ps. 37.
3.  To leave; to withdraw from; to fail.  In anger, the color forsakes the cheeks.  In severe trials, let not fortitude forsake you.
4.  In scripture, God forsakes his people, when he withdraws his aid, or the light of his countenance.


Topic: Forsooth
Definition:
FORSOOTH', adv.
In truth; in fact; certainly; very well.
A fit man, forsooth, to govern a realm.
It is generally used in an ironical or contemptuous sense.


Topic: Forswear
Definition:
FORSWEAR, v.t. pret. forswore; pp. forsworn.  See Swear and Answer.]
1.  To reject or renounce upon oath.
2.  To deny upon oath.
Like innocence, and as serenely bold as truth, how loudly he forswears thy gold.
To forswear one's self, is to swear falsely; to perjure one's self.
Thou shalt not forswear thyself.  Matt. 5.
FORSWEAR, v.i.  To swear falsely; to commit perjury.


Topic: Fort
Definition:
FORT, n.  [L. fortis, strong.]
1.  A fortified place; usually, a small fortified place; a place surrounded with a ditch, rampart, and parapet, or with palisades, stockades, or other means of defense; also, any building or place fortified for security against an enemy; a castle.
2.  A strong side, opposed to weak side or foible.


Topic: Forth
Definition:
FORTH, adv.  
1.  Forward; onward in time; in advance; as from that day forth; from that time forth.
2.  Forward in place or order; as one, two, three, and so forth.
3.  Out; aboard; noting progression or advance from a state of confinement; as, the plants in spring put forth leaves.
When winter past, and summer scarce begun, invites them forth to labor in the sun.
4.  Out; away; beyond the boundary of a place; as, send him forth of France.  [Little used.]
5.  Out into public view, or public character.  Your country calls you forth into its service.
6.  Thoroughly; from beginning to end.  Obs.
7.  On to the end.  obs.
FORTH, prep.  Out of.
From forth the streets of Pomfret.
Some forth their cabins peep.


Topic: Forth-coming
Definition:
FORTH-COM'ING, a.  [See Come.]  Ready to appear; making appearance.  Let the prisoner be forth-coming.


Topic: Forthright
Definition:
FORTHRIGHT, adv.  [See Right.]  Straight forward; in a straight direction.  Obs.
FORTHRIGHT, n.  A straight path.  Obs.


Topic: Forthwith
Definition:
FORTHWITH', adv.  [forth and with.]  Immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales; and he received his sight forthwith.  Acts. 9.


Topic: Fortification
Definition:
FORTIFICA'TION, n.  [See Fortify.]  
1.  The act of fortifying.
2.  The art or science of fortifying places to defend them against an enemy, by means of moats, ramparts, parapets and other bulwarks.
3.  The works erected to defend a place against attack.
4.  A fortified place; a fort; a castle.
5.  Additional strength.


Topic: Fortifier
Definition:
FOR'TIFIER, n.  
1.  One who erects works for defense.
2.  One who strengthens, supports and upholds; that which strengthens.


Topic: Fortify
Definition:
FOR'TIFY, v.t.
1.  To surround with a wall, ditch, palisades or other works, with a view to defend against the attacks of an enemy; to strengthen and secure by forts, batteries and other works of art; as, to fortify a city, town or harbor.
2.  To strengthen against any attack; as, to fortify the mind against sudden calamity.
3.  To confirm; to add strength and firmness to; as, to fortify an opinion or resolution; to fortify hope or desire.
4.  To furnish with strength or means of resisting force, violence or assault.
FOR'TIFY, v.i.  To raise strong places.


Topic: Fortitude
Definition:
FOR'TITUDE, n.  [L. fortitudo, from fortis, strong.]
That strength or firmness of mind or soul which enables a person to encounter danger with coolness and courage, or to bear pain or adversity without murmuring, depression or despondency.  Fortitude is the basis or source of genuine courage or intrepidity in danger, of patience in suffering, of forbearance under injuries, and of magnanimity in all conditions of life.  We sometimes confound the effect with the cause, and use fortitude as synonymous with courage or patience; but courage is an active virtue or vice, and patience is the effect of fortitude.
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.


Topic: Fortress
Definition:
FOR'TRESS, n.
1.  Any fortified place; a fort; a castle; a strong hold; a place of defense or security.  The English have a strong fortress on the rock of Gibraltar, or that rock is a fortress.
2.  Defense; safety; security; 
The Lord is my rock, and my fortress.  Ps. 18.
FOR'TRESS, v.t.  To furnish with fortresses; to guard; to fortify.


Topic: Fortuitous
Definition:
FORTU'ITOUS, a.  [L. fortuitus, from the root of fors, forte, fortuna.  The primary sense is to come, to fall, to happen.  See Fare.]
Accidental; casual; happening by chance; coming or occurring unexpectedly, or without any known cause.  We speak of fortuitous events, when they occur without our foreseeing or expecting them, and of a fortuitous concourse of atoms, when we suppose the concourse not to result from the design and power of a controlling agent.  But an event cannot be in fact fortuitous.  [See Accidental and Casual.]


Topic: Fortunate
Definition:
FOR'TUNATE, a.  [L. fortunatus.  See Fortune.
1.  Coming by good luck or favorable chance; bringing some unexpected good; as a fortunate event; a fortunate concurrence of circumstances; a fortunate ticket in a lottery.
2.  Lucky; successful; receiving some unforeseen or unexpected good, or some good which was not dependent on one's own skill or efforts; as a fortunate adventurer in a lottery.  I was most fortunate thus unexpectedly to meet my friend.
3.  Successful; happy; prosperous; receiving or enjoying some good in consequence of efforts, but where the event was uncertain, and not absolutely in one's power.  The brave man is usually fortunate.  We say, a fortunate competitor for a fair lady, or for a crown.


Topic: Fortune
Definition:
FOR'TUNE, n.  [L. fortuna, fero or porto, tempestivus.  See Hour and Time.]
1.  Properly, chance; accident; luck; the arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner.  Hence the heathens deified chance, and consecrated temples and altars to the goddess.  Hence the modern use of the word, for a power supposed to distribute the lots of life, according to her own humor.
Though fortune's malice overthrow my state.
2.  The good or ill that befalls man.
In you the fortune of Great Britain lies.
3.  Success, good or bad; event.
Our equal crimes shall equal fortune give.
4.  The chance of life; means of living; wealth.
His father dying, he was driven to London to seek his fortune.
5.  Estate; possessions, as a gentleman of small fortune.
6.  A large estate; great wealth.  This is often the sense of the word standing alone or unqualified; as a gentleman or lady of fortune.  To the ladies we say, beware of fortune-hunters.
7.  The portion of a man or woman; generally of a woman.
8.  Futurity; future state or events; destiny.  The young are anxious to have their fortunes told.
You who men's fortunes in their faces read.
FOR'TUNE, v.t.  
1.  To make fortunate.  [Not used.]
2.  To dispose fortunately or not; also, to presage.  Obs.
FOR'TUNE, v.i.  To befall; to fall out; to happen; to come casually to pass.
It fortuned the same night that a christian serving a Turk in the camp, secretly gave the watchmen warning.


Topic: Fortune-hunter
Definition:
FOR'TUNE-HUNTER, n.  A man who seeks to marry a woman with a large portion, with a view to enrich himself.


Topic: Fortuneteller
Definition:
FOR'TUNETELLER, n.  One who tells or pretends to foretell the events of one's life; an impostor who deceives people by pretending to a knowledge of future events.


Topic: Fortunetelling
Definition:
FOR'TUNETELLING, ppr.  Telling the future events of one's life.
FOR'TUNETELLING, n.  The act or practice of foretelling the future fortune or events of one's life, which is a punishable crime.


Topic: Forty
Definition:
FOR'TY, a.  [See Four.]
1.  Four times ten.
2.  An indefinite number; a colloquial use.  A, B and C, and forty more.


Topic: Forum
Definition:
FO'RUM, n.  [L.  See Fair.]
1.  In Rome, a public place, where causes were judicially tried, and orations delivered to the people; also, a market place.  Hence,
2.  A tribunal; a court; any assembly empowered to hear and decide causes; also, jurisdiction.


Topic: Forward
Definition:
FOR'WARD, adv.  [  L. versus; directed to the forepart.  Forwards is also used, but it is a corruption.]
Toward a part or place before or in front; onward; progressively; opposed to backward.  Go forward; move forward.  He ran backward and forward.
In a ship, forward denotes toward the forepart.
FOR'WARD, a.
1.  Near or at the forepart; in advance of something else; as the forward gun in a ship, or the forward ship in a fleet; the forward horse in a team.
2.  Ready; prompt; strongly inclined.
Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do.  Gal. 2.
3.  Ardent; eager; earnest; violent.
Or lead the forward youth to noble war.
4.  Bold; confident; less reserved or modest than is proper; in an ill sense; as, the boy is too forward for his years.
5.  Advanced beyond the usual degree; advanced for the season.  The grass or the grain is forward, or forward for the season; we have a forward spring.
6.  Quick; hasty; too ready.  Be not forward to speak in public.  Prudence directs that we be not too forward to believe current reports.
7.  Anterior; fore.
Let us take the instant by the forward top.
8.  Advanced; not behindhand.
FOR'WARD, v.t.
1.  To advance; to help onward; to promote; as, to forward a good design.
2.  To accelerate; to quicken; to hasten; as, to forward the growth of a plant; to forward one in improvement.
3.  To send forward; to send towards the place of destination; to transmit; as, to forward a letter or dispatches.


Topic: Forwarding
Definition:
FOR'WARDING, ppr.  Advancing; promoting; aiding in progress; accelerating in growth; sending onwards; transmitting.


Topic: Forwardness
Definition:
FOR'WARDNESS, n.
1.  Cheerful readiness; promptness.  It expresses more than willingness.  We admire the forwardness of christians in propagating the gospel.
2.  Eagerness; ardor.  It is sometimes difficult to restrain the forwardness of youth.
3.  Boldness; confidence; assurance; want of due reserve or modesty.
In France it is usual to bring children into company, and cherish in them, from their infancy, a kind of forwardness and assurance.
4.  A state of advance beyond the usual degree; as the forwardness of spring or of corn.


Topic: Foss
Definition:
FOSS, n.  [L. fossa; from fossus, fodio, to dig.]
1.  A ditch or moat; a word used in fortification.
2.  In anatomy, a kind of cavity in a bone, with a large aperture.


Topic: Fossil
Definition:
FOS'SIL, a.  [L. fossitis, from fodio, fossius, to dig.]
1.  Dug out of the earth; as fossil coal; fossil salt.  The term fossil is now usually appropriated to those inorganic substances, which have become penetrated by earthy or metallic particles.  Thus we say, fossil shells, fossil bones, fossil wood.
2.  That may be taken from the earth by digging.
FOS'SIL, n.  A substance dug from the earth, or penetrated with earthy or metallic particles.
Fossils are native or extraneous.  Native fossils are minerals, properly so called, as earth, salts, combustibles and metallic bodies.  Extraneous fossils are bodies of vegetable or animal origin accidentally buried in the early, as plants, shells, bones and other substances, many of which are petrified.


Topic: Fossil-copal
Definition:
FOSSIL-COPAL, n.  Highgate resin; a resinous substance found in perforating the bed of blue clay at Highgate, near London.  It appears to be a true vegetable gum or resin, partly changed by remaining in the earth.


Topic: Fossilist
Definition:
FOS'SILIST, n.  One who studies the nature and properties of fossils; one who is versed in the science of fossils.


Topic: Fossilize
Definition:
FOS'SILIZE, v.t.  To convert into a fossil; as, to fossilize bones or wood.
FOS'SILIZE, v.i.  To become or be changed into a fossil.


Topic: Fossilogy
Definition:
FOSSIL'OGY, n.  [fossil, and Gr. discourse.]
A discourse or treatise on fossils; also, the science of fossils.


Topic: Foster
Definition:
FOS'TER, v.t.
1.  To feed; to nourish; to support; to being up.
Some say that ravens foster forlorn children.
2.  To cherish; to forward; to promote growth.  The genial warmth of spring fosters the plants.
3.  To cherish; to encourage; to sustain and promote; as, to foster passion or genius.
FOS'TER, v.i.  To be nourished or trained up together.


Topic: Fostering
Definition:
FOS'TERING, ppr.  Nursing; cherishing; bringing up.
FOS'TERING, n.  
1.  The act of nursing, nourishing and cherishing.
2.  Nourishment.


Topic: Fother
Definition:
FOTH'ER, n.  [See Food.]
A weight of lead containing eight pigs, and every pig twenty one stone and a half.  But the fother is of different weights.  With the plumbers in London it is nineteen hundred and a half, and at the mines, it is twenty two hundred and a half.
FOTH'ER, v.t.  [from stuffing.  See the preceding word.]
To endeavor to stop a leak in the bottom of a ship, while afloat, by letting down a sail by the corners, and putting chopped yarn, oakum, wool, cotton, &c.  Between it and the ship's sides.  These substances are sometimes sucked into the cracks and the leak stopped.


Topic: Fothering
Definition:
FOTH'ERING, ppr.  Stopping leaks, as above.
FOTH'ERING, n.  The operation of stopping leaks in a ship, as above.


Topic: Fougade
Definition:
FOUG'ADE, n.  [L. focus.]
In the art of war, a little mine, in the form of a well, 8 or 10 feet wide, and 10 or 12 deep, dug under some work, fortification or post, charged with sacks of powder and covered with stones or earth, for destroying the works by explosion.


Topic: Foul
Definition:
FOUL, a.
1.  Covered with or containing extraneous matter which is injurious, noxious or offensive; filthy; dirty; not clean; as a foul cloth; foul hands; a foul chimney.
My face is foul with weeping.  Job. 16.
2.  Turbid; thick; muddy; as foul water; a foul stream.
3.  Impure; polluted; as a foul mouth.
4.  Impure; scurrilous; obscene or profane; as foul words; foul language.
5.  Cloudy and stormy; rainy or tempestuous; as foul weather.
6.  Impure; defiling; as a foul disease.
7.  Wicked; detestable; abominable; as a foul deed; a foul spirit.
Babylon - the hold of every foul spirit.  Rev. 18.
8.  Unfair; not honest; not lawful or according to established rules or customs; as foul play.
9.  Hateful; ugly; loathsome.
Hast thou forgot the foul witch Sycorax.
10.  Disgraceful; shameful; as a foul defeat.
Who first seduced them to that foul revolt?
11.  Coarse; gross.
They are all for rank and foul feeding.
12.  Full of gross humors or impurities.
You perceive the body of our kingdom, how foul it is.
13.  Full of weeds; as, the garden is very foul.
14.  Among seamen, entangled; hindered from motion; opposed to clear; as, a rope is foul.
15.  Covered with weeds or barnacles; as, the ship has a foul bottom.
16.  Not fair; contrary; as a foul wind.
17.  Not favorable or safe; dangerous; as a foul road or bay.
1.  To fall foul, is to rush on with haste, rough force and unseasonable violence.
2.  To run against; as, the ship fell foul of her consort.

FOUL, v.t.  To make filthy; to defile; to daub;  to dirty; to bemire; to soil; as, to foul the clothes; to foul the face or hands.  Ezek. 34:18.


Topic: Foully
Definition:
FOUL'LY, adv.  
1.  Filthily; nastily; hatefully; scandalously; disgracefully; shamefully.
I foully wronged him; do, forgive me, do.
2.  Unfairly; not honestly.
Thou play'dst most foully for it.


Topic: Foulmouthed
Definition:
FOUL'MOUTHED, a.  Using language scurrilous, opprobrious, obscene or profane; uttering abuse, or profane or obscene words; accustomed to use bad language.
So foulmouthed a witness never appeared in any cause.


Topic: Foulness
Definition:
FOUL'NESS, n.
1.  The quality of being foul or filthy; filthiness; defilement.
2.  The quality or state of containing or being covered with any thing extraneous which is noxious or offensive; as the foulness of a cellar, or of a well; the foulness of a musket; the foulness of a ship's bottom.
3.  Pollution; impurity.
There is not so chaste a nation as this, nor so free from all pollution or foulness.
4.  Hatefulness; atrociousness; as the foulness of a deed.
5.  Ugliness; deformity.
The foulness of the' infernal form to hide.
6.  Unfairness; dishonesty; want of candor.
Piety is opposed to hypocrisy and insincerity, and all falseness or foulness of intentions.


Topic: Found
Definition:
FOUND, pret. and pp. of find.
I am found of them that sought me not.  Is. 65.
FOUND, v.t.  [L. fundo, fundare; Heb. to build, that is, to set, found, erect.]
1.  To lay the basis of any thing; to set, or place, as on something solid for support.
It fell not, for it was founded on a rock.  Matt. 7.
2.  To begin and build; to lay the foundation, and raise a superstructure; as, to found a city.
3.  To set or place; to establish, as on something solid or durable; as, to found a government on principles of liberty.
4.  To begin; to form or lay the basis; as, to found a college or a library.  Sometimes to endow is equivalent to found.
5.  To give birth to; to originate; as, to found an art or a family.
6.  To set; to place; to establish on a basis.  Christianity is founded on the rock of ages.  Dominion is sometimes founded on conquest; sometimes on choice or voluntary consent.
Power, founded on contract, can descend only to him who has right by that contract.
7.  To fix firmly.
I had else been perfect, whole as the marble, founded as the rock.
FOUND, v.t.  [L. fundo, fudi, fusum.]
To cast; to form by melting a metal and pouring it into a mold.
[This verb is seldom used, but the derivative foundry is in common use.  for found we use cast.]


Topic: Foundation
Definition:
FOUNDA'TION, n.  [L. fundatio, fundo.]
1.  The basis of an edifice; that part of a building which lies on the ground; usually a wall of stone which supports the edifice.
2.  The act of fixing the basis.
3.  The basis or ground work, or any thing; that on which any thing stands, and by which it is supported.  A free government has its foundation in the choice and consent of the people to be governed.  Christ is the foundation of the church.
Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation, a stone - a precious cornerstone.  Is. 28.
Other foundation can no man lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.  1Cor. 3.
4.  Original; rise; as the foundation of the world.
5.  Endowment; a donation or legacy appropriated to support an institution, and constituting a permanent fund, usually for a charitable purpose.
6.  Establishment; settlement.


Topic: Founder
Definition:
FOUND'ER, n
1.  One that founds, establishes and erects; one that lays a foundation; as the founder of a temple or city.
2.  One who begins; an author; one from whom any thing originates; as the founder of a sect of philosophers; the founder of a family or race.
3.  One who endows; one who furnishes a permanent fund for the support of an institution; as the founder of a college or hospital.
4.  A caster; one who casts metals in various forms; as a founder of cannon, belles, hardware, printing types, &c.
FOUND'ER, v.i.
1.  In seamen's language, to fill or be filled and sink, as a ship.
2.  To fail; to miscarry.
3.  To trip; to fell.
FOUND'ER, v.t.  To cause internal inflammation and great soreness in the feet of a horse, so as to disable or lame him.


Topic: Foundery
Definition:
FOUND'ERY, n.
1.  The art of casting metals into various forms for use; the casting of statues.
2.  The house and works occupied in casting metals; as a foundery of bells, of hollow ware, of cannon, of types, &c.


Topic: Foundling
Definition:
FOUND'LING, n.  [from found, find.]  A deserted or exposed infant; a child found without a parent or owner.  A hospital for such children is called a foundling hospital.


Topic: Fountain-tree
Definition:
FOUNT'AIN-TREE, n.  In the Canary isles, a tree which distills water from its leaves, in sufficient abundance for the inhabitants near it.


Topic: Four
Definition:
FOUR, a.  [L. petoritum, petorritum, a carriage with four wheels, petor-rota.]
Twice two; denoting the sum or two and two.


Topic: Fourfold
Definition:
FOURFOLD, a.  Four double; quadruple; four times told; as a fourfold division.
He shall restore the lamb fourfold.  2Sam. 12.
FOURFOLD, n.  Four times as much.


Topic: Fourscore
Definition:
FOURSCORE, a.  [See Score.]  Four times twenty; eighty.  It is used elliptically for fourscore years; as a man of fourscore.


Topic: Fourth
Definition:
FOURTH, a.  The ordinal of four; the next after the third.
FOURTH, n.  In music, an interval composed of two tones and a semitone.  Three full tones compose a triton, or fourth redundant.


Topic: Fovilla
Definition:
FOVIL'LA, n.  [L. foveo.]  A fine substance, imperceptible to the naked eye, emitted from the pollen of flowers.


Topic: Fowl
Definition:
FOWL, n.  [L. fugio, fugo, Gr. and signifying the flying animal.]
A flying or winged animal; the generic name of certain animals that move through the air by the aid of wings.  Fowls have two feet, are covered with feathers, and have wings for flight.  Bird is a young fowl or chicken, and may well be applied to the smaller species of fowls.  But it has usurped the place of fowl, and is used improperly as the generic term.
Fowl is used as a collective noun.  We dined on fish and fowl.
Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air.  Gen. 1.
But this use in America is not frequent.  We generally use the plural, fowls.  The word is colloquially used for poultry, or rather, in a more limited sense, for barn door fowls.
FOWL, v.i.  To catch or kill wild fowls for game or food; as by means of bird-lime, decoys, nets and snares, or by pursuing them with hawks, or by shooting.


Topic: Fowling
Definition:
FOWL'ING, ppr.  Pursuing or taking wild fowls.
FOWL'ING, n.  The art or practice of catching or shooting fowls; also, falconry.


Topic: Fox
Definition:
FOX. n.  
1.  An animal of the genus Canis, with a straight tail, yellowish or straw-colored hair, and erect ears.  This animal burrows in the earth, is remarkable for his cunning, and preys on lambs, geese, hens or other small animals.
2.  A sly, cunning fellow.
3.  In seaman's language, a seizing made by twisting several rope-yarns together.
4.  Formerly, a cant expression for a sword.


Topic: Fraction
Definition:
FRAC'TION, n.  [L. fractio, frango, fractus, to break.  See Break.]
1.  The act of breaking or state of being broken, especially by violence.
2.  In arithmetic and algebra, a broken part of an integral or integer; any division of a whole number or unit, as 2/5, two fifths, 1/4, one fourth, which are called vulgar fractions.  In these, the figure above the line is called the numerator, and the figure below the line the denominator.  In decimal fractions, the denominator is a unit, or 1, with as many cyphers annexed, as the numerator has places.  They are commonly expressed by writing the numerator only, with a point before it by which it is separated from the whole number; thus .5, which denotes five tenths, 5/10, or half the whole number; .25, that is 25/100, or a fourth part of the whole number.


Topic: Fractional
Definition:
FRAC'TIONAL, a.  Belonging to a broken number; comprising a part or the parts of a unit; as fractional numbers.


Topic: Fractious
Definition:
FRAC'TIOUS, a.  Apt to break out into a passion; apt to quarrel; cross; snappish; as a fractious man.


Topic: Fracture
Definition:
FRAC'TURE, n.  [L. fractura.  See Break.]
1.  A breach in any body, especially a breach caused by violence; a rupture of a solid body.
2.  In surgery, the rupture or disruption of a bone.  A fracture is simple or compound; simple, when the bone only is divided; compound, when the bone is broken, with a laceration of the integuments.
3.  In mineralogy, the manner in which a mineral breaks, and by which its texture is displayed; as a compact fracture; a fibrous fracture; foliated, striated or conchoidal fracture, &c.
FRAC'TURE, v.t.  To break; to burst asunder; to crack; to separate continuous parts; as, to fracture a bone; to fracture the skull.


Topic: Fragile
Definition:
FRAG'ILE, a.  [L. fragilis, from frango, to break.]
1.  Brittle; easily broken.
The stalk of ivy is tough, and not fragile.
2.  Weak; liable to fail; easily destroyed; as fragile arms.


Topic: Fragility
Definition:
FRAGIL'ITY, n.
1.  Brittleness; easiness to be broken.
2.  Weakness; liableness to fail.
3.  Frailty; liableness to fault.


Topic: Fragment
Definition:
FRAG'MENT, n.  [L. fragmentum, from frango, to break.]
1.  A part broken off; a piece separated from any thing by breaking.
Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing is lost.  John 6.
2.  A part separated from the rest; an imperfect part; as fragments of ancient writings.
3.  A small detached portion; as fragments of time.


Topic: Fragor
Definition:
FRA'GOR, n.  [L. See Break.]
1.  A loud and sudden sound; the report of any thing bursting; a loud harsh sound; a crash.
2.  A strong or sweet scent.  obs.


Topic: Fragrance
Definition:
FRA'GRANCE,'GRANCY, n.  [L. fragrantia, from fragro, to smell strong.]
Sweetness of smell; that quality of bodies which affects the olfactory nerves with an agreeable sensation; pleasing scent; grateful odor.
Eve separate he spies, vailed in a cloud of fragrance -
The goblet crown'd, breathed aromatic fragrances around.


Topic: Frail
Definition:
FRAIL, a.  [L. fragilis, or from a different root.]
1.  Weak; infirm; liable to fail and decay; subject to casualties; easily destroyed; perishable; not firm or durable.
That I may know how frail I am.  Ps. 39.
2.  Weak in mind or resolution; liable to error deception.
Man is frail, and prone to evil.
3.  Weak; easily broken or overset; as a frail bark.
FRAIL, n.  
1.  A basket made of rushes.
2.  A rush for weaving baskets.
3.  A certain quantity of raisins, about 75 pounds.


Topic: Frailty
Definition:
FRA'ILTY, n.
1.  Weakness of resolution; infirmity; liableness to be deceived or seduced.
God knows our frailty, and pities our weakness.
2.  Frailness; infirmity of body.
3.  Fault proceeding from weakness; foible; sin of infirmity; in this sense it has a plural.


Topic: Fraise
Definition:
FRAISE, n.
1.  In fortification, a defense consisting of pointed stakes driven into the retrenchments, parallel to the horizon.
2.  A pancake with bacon in it.  Obs.


Topic: Frame
Definition:
FRAME, v.t.  [L. armus, Eng. arm.]
1.  To fit or prepare and unite several parts in a regular structure or entire thing; to fabricate by orderly construction and union of various parts; as, to frame a house or other building.
2.  To fit one thing to another; to adjust; to make suitable.
3.  To make; to compose; as, to frame a law.
For thou art framed of the firm truth of valor.
4.  To regulate; to adjust; to shape; to conform; as, to frame our lives according to the rules of the gospel.
5.  To form and digest by thought; as, to frame ideas in the mind.
How many excellent reasonings are framed in the mind of a man of wisdom and study in a length of years!
6.  To contrive; to plan; to devise; as, to frame a project or design.
7.  To invent; to fabricate, in a bad sense; as, to frame a story or lie.
FRAME, v.i.  To contrive.  Judges 12:6.
FRAME, n.
1.  The timbers of an edifice fitted and joined in the form proposed, for the purpose of supporting the covering; as the frame of a house, barn, bridge or ship.
2.  Any fabric or structure composed of parts united; as the frame of an ox or horse.  So we say, the frame of the heavenly arch; the frame of the world.
3.  Any kind of case or structure made for admitting, inclosing or supporting things; as the frame of a window, door, picture or looking glass.
4.  Among printers, a stand to support the cases in which the types are distributed.
5.  Among founders, a kind of ledge, inclosing a board, which being filled with wet sand, serves as a mold for castings.
6.  A sort of loom on which linen, silk, &c. is stretched for quilting or embroidering.
7.  Order; regularity; adjusted series or composition of parts.  We say, a person is out of frame; the mind is not in a good frame.
Your steady soul preserves her frame.
8.  Form; scheme; structure; constitution; system; as a frame of government.
9.  Contrivance; projection.
John the bastard, whose spirits toil in frame of villainies.
10.  Shape; form; proportion.


Topic: Framing
Definition:
FRA'MING, ppr.  Fitting and joining in due construction; making; fabricating; composing; adjusting; inventing; contriving.


Topic: Franc
Definition:
FRANC, n.  
1.  An ancient coin of France.  The value of the gold frank was something more than that of the gold crown.  The silver franc was in value a third of the gold one.  The gold coin is no longer in circulation.  The present franc or frank, is a silver coin of the value nearly of nineteen cents, or ten pence sterling.
2.  A letter which is exempted from postage; or the writing which renders it free.
3.  A sty for swine.  [Not used.]


Topic: Franchise
Definition:
FRAN'CHISE, n. fran'chiz.  [See Frank.]  Properly, liberty, freedom.  Hence,
1.  A particular privilege or right granted by a prince or sovereign to an individual or to a number of persons; as the right to be a body corporate with perpetual succession; the right to hold a court leet or other court; to have waifs, wrecks, treasure-treve, or forfeitures.  So the right to vote for governor, senators and representatives, is a franchise belonging to citizens, and not enjoyed by aliens.  The right to establish a bank, is a franchise.
2.  Exemption from a burden or duty to which others are subject.
3.  The district or jurisdiction to which a particular privilege extends; the limits of an immunity.
4.  An asylum or sanctuary, where persons are secure from arrest.
Churches and monasteries in Spain are franchises for criminals.
FRAN'CHISE, v.t.  To make free; but enfranchise is more generally used.


Topic: Franciscan
Definition:
FRANCIS'CAN, a.  Belonging to the order of St. Francis.
FRANCIS'CAN, n.  One of the order of St. Francis; an order of monks founded by him in 1209.  They are called also Gray Friars.


Topic: Frank
Definition:
FRANK, a.
1.  Open; ingenuous; candid; free in uttering real sentiments; not reserved; using no disguise.  Young persons are usually frank; old persons are more reserved.
2.  Open; ingenuous; as a frank disposition or heart.
3.  Liberal; generous; not niggardly.  [This sense is now rare.]
4.  Free; without conditions or compensation; as a frank gift.
5.  Licentious; unrestrained.  [Not used.]
FRANK,


Topic: Frankalmoigne
Definition:
FRANKALMOIGNE, n.  frankalmoin'.
Free alms; in English law, a tenure by which a religious corporation holds lands to them and their successors forever, on condition of praying for the souls of the donor.


Topic: Frankchase
Definition:
FRANK'CHASE, n.  A liberty of free chase, whereby persons having lands within the compass of the same, are prohibited to cut down any wood, &c. out of the view of the forester.
Free chase, is the liberty of keeping beasts of chase or royal game therein, protected even from the owner of the land himself, with a power of hunting them thereon.


Topic: Frankincense
Definition:
FRANKIN'CENSE, n.  [frank and incense.]  A dry resinous substance in pieces or drops, of a pale yellowish white color, of a bitterish acrid taste, and very inflammable; used as a perfume.


Topic: Franklinite
Definition:
FRANK'LINITE, n.  A mineral compound of iron, zinc and manganese, found in New Jersey, and named from Dr. Franklin.


Topic: Frankly
Definition:
FRANK'LY, adv.  
1.  Openly; freely; ingenuously; without reserve, constraint or disguise; as, to confess one's faults frankly.
2.  Liberally; freely; readily.  Luke 7.


Topic: Frankmarriage
Definition:
FRANK'MARRIAGE, n.  A tenure in tail special; or an estate of inheritance given to a person, together with a wife, and descendible to the heirs of their two bodies begotten.


Topic: Frankness
Definition:
FRANK'NESS, n. 
1.  Plainness of speech; candor; freedom in communication; openness; ingenuousness.  He told me his opinions with frankness.
2.  Fairness; freedom from art or craft; as frankness of dealing.
3.  Liberality; bounteousness.  [Little used.]


Topic: Frankpledge
Definition:
FRANK'PLEDGE, n.  A pledge or surety for the good behavior of freemen.  Anciently in England, a number of neighbors who were bound for each other's good behavior.


Topic: Frantic
Definition:
FRAN'TIC, a.  [L. phreneticus;  Gr. from delirium or raving, from mind, the radical sense of which is to rush, to drive forward.]
1.  Mad; raving; furious; outrageous; wild and disorderly; distracted; as a frantic person; frantic with fear or grief.
2.  Characterized by violence, fury and disorder; noisy; mad; wild; irregular; as the frantic rites of Bacchus.


Topic: Frap
Definition:
FRAP, v.t.  In seamen's language, to cross and draw together the several parts of a tackle to increase the tension.


Topic: Fraternal
Definition:
FRATERN'AL, a.  [L. fraternus, from frater, brother.]
Brotherly; pertaining to brethren; becoming brothers; as fraternal love or affection; a fraternal embrace.


Topic: Fraternity
Definition:
FRATERN'ITY, n.  [L. fraternitas.]
1.  The state or quality of a brother; brotherhood.
2.  A body of men associated for their common interest or pleasure; a company; a brotherhood; a society; as the fraternity of free masons.
3.  Men of the same class, profession, occupation or character.
With what terms of respect knaves and sots will speak of their own fraternity.


Topic: Fraternize
Definition:
FRATERN'IZE, v.i.  To associate or hold fellowship as brothers, or as men of like occupation or character.


Topic: Fratricide
Definition:
FRAT'RICIDE, n.  [L. fratricidium; frater, brother, and caedo, to kill.]
1.  The crime of murdering a brother.
2.  One who murders or kills a brother.


Topic: Fraud
Definition:
FRAUD, n.  [L. fraus.]
Deceit; deception; trick; artifice by which the right or interest of another is injured; a stratagem intended to obtain some undue advantage; an attempt to gain or the obtaining of an advantage over another by imposition or immoral means, particularly deception in contracts, or bargain and sale, either by stating falsehoods, or suppressing truth.
If success a lover's toil attends, who asks if force or fraud obtained his ends.


Topic: Fraudful
Definition:
FRAUD'FUL, a.  
1.  Deceitful in making bargains; trickish; treacherous; applied to persons.
2.  Containing fraud or deceit; applied to things.


Topic: Fraudfully
Definition:
FRAUD'FULLY, adv.  Deceitfully; with intention to deceive and gain an undue advantage; trickishly; treacherously; by stratagem.


Topic: Fraudulent
Definition:
FRAUD'ULENT, a.
1.  Deceitful in making contracts; trickish; applied to persons.
2.  Containing fraud; founded on fraud; proceeding from fraud; as a fraudulent bargain.
3.  Deceitful; treacherous; obtained or performed by artifice.


Topic: Fraught
Definition:
FRAUGHT, a. fraut.
1.  Laden; loaded; charged; as a vessel richly fraught with goods from India.  This sense is used in poetry; but in common business, freighted only is used.
2.  Filled; stored; full; as a scheme fraught with mischief; the scriptures are fraught with excellent precepts.
FRAUGHT, n.  A freight; a cargo.  [Not now used.]
FRAUGHT, v.t.  To load; to fill; to crowd.  Obs.


Topic: Fray
Definition:
FRAY, n.  [L. fractura, from frango, frico.]
1.  A boil, quarrel or violent riot, that puts men in fear.  This is the vulgar word for affray, and the sense seems to refer the word to Fr. effrayer.
2.  A combat; a battle; also, a single combat or duel.
3.  A contest; contention.
4.  A rub; a fret or chafe in cloth; a place injured by rubbing.
FRAY, v.t.  To fright; to terrify.  Obs.


Topic: Freak
Definition:
FREAK, n.
1.  Literally, a sudden starting or change of place.  Hence,
2.  A sudden causeless change or turn of the mind; a whim or fancy; a capricious prank.
She is restless and peevish, and sometimes in a freak will instantly change her habitation.
FREAK, v.t.  [Heb. to divide.]
To variegate; to checker.
Freaked with many a mingled hue.


Topic: Freakish
Definition:
FRE'AKISH, a.  Apt to change the mind suddenly; whimsical; capricious.
It may be a question, whether the wife or the woman was the more freakish of the two.


Topic: Freckle
Definition:
FRECK'LE, n.
1.  A spot of a yellowish color in the skin, particularly on the face, neck and hands.  Freckles may be natural or produced by the action of the sun on the skin, or from the jaundice.
2.  Any small spot or discoloration.


Topic: Freckled
Definition:
FRECK'LED, a.
1.  Spotted; having small yellowish spots on the skin or surface; as a freckled face or neck.
2.  Spotted; as a freckled cowslip.


Topic: Free
Definition:
FREE, n.  [Heb.  See Frank.]
1.  Being at liberty; not being under necessity or restraint, physical or moral; a word of general application to the body, the will or mind, and to corporations.
2.  In government, not enslaved; not in a state of vassalage or dependence; subject only to fixed laws, made by consent, and to a regular administration of such laws; not subject to the arbitrary will of a sovereign or lord; as a free state, nation or people.
3.  Instituted by a free people, or by consent or choice of those who are to be subjects, and securing private rights and privileges by fixed laws and principles; not arbitrary or despotic; as a free constitution or government.
There can be no free government without a democratical branch in the constitution.
4.  Not imprisoned, confined or under arrest; as, the prisoner is set free.
5.  Unconstrained; unrestrained; not under compulsion or control.  A man is free to pursue his own choice; he enjoys free will.
6.  Permitted; allowed; open; not appropriated; as, places of honor and confidence are free to all; we seldom hear of a commerce perfectly free.
7.  Not obstructed; as, the water has a free passage or channel; the house is open to a free current of air.
8.  Licentious; unrestrained.  The reviewer is very free in his censures.
9.  Open; candid; frank; ingenuous; unreserved; as, we had a free conversation together.
Will you be free and candid to your friend?
10.  Liberal in expenses; not parsimonious; as a free purse; a man is free to give to all useful institutions.  
11.  Gratuitous; not gained by importunity or purchase.  He made him a free offer of his services.  It is a free gift.  The salvation of men is of free grace.
12.  Clear of crime or offense; guiltless; innocent.
My hands are guilty, but my heart is free.
13.  Not having feeling or suffering; clear; exempt; with from; as free from pain or disease; free from remorse.
14.  Not encumbered with; as free from a burden.
15.  Open to all, without restriction or without expense; as a free school.
16.  Invested with franchises; enjoying certain immunities; with of; as a man free of the city of London.
17.  Possessing without vassalage or slavish conditions; as free of his farm.
18.  Liberated from the government or control of parents, or of a guardian or master.  A son or an apprentice, when of age, is free.
19.  Ready; eager; not dull; acting without spurring or shipping; as a free horse.
20.  Genteel; charming.  [Not in use.]
FREE, v.t.
1.  To remove from a thing any encumbrance or obstruction; to disengage from; to rid; to strip; to clear; as, to free the body from clothes; to free the feet from fetters; to free a channel from sand.
2.  To set at liberty; to rescue or release from slavery, captivity or confinement; to loose.  The prisoner is freed from arrest.
3.  To disentangle; to disengage.
4.  To exempt.
He that is dead is freed from sin.  Rom. 6.
5.  To manumit; to release from bondage; as, to free a slave.
6.  To clear from water, as a ship by pumping.
7.  To release from obligation or duty.
To free from or free of, is to rid of, by removing, in any manner.


Topic: Freebooter
Definition:
FREE'BOOTER, n.  [  See Booty.]
One who wanders about for plunder; a robber; a pillager; a plunderer.


Topic: Freechapel
Definition:
FREECHAP'EL, n.  In England, a chapel founded by the king and not subject to the jurisdiction of the ordinary.  The kind may also grant license to a subject to found such a chapel.
Free city, in Germany, an imperial city, not subject to a prince, but governed by its own magistrates.


Topic: Freedom
Definition:
FREE'DOM, n.  
1.  A state of exemption from the power or control of another; liberty; exemption from slavery, servitude or confinement.  Freedom is personal, civil, political, and religious.  [See Liberty.]
2.  Particular privileges; franchise; immunity; as the freedom of a city.
3.  Power of enjoying franchises.
4.  Exemption from fate, necessity, or any constraint in consequence of predetermination or otherwise; as the freedom of the will.
5.  Any exemption from constraint or control.
6.  Ease or facility of doing any thing.  He speaks or acts with freedom.
7.  Frankness; boldness.  He addressed his audience with freedom.
8.  License; improper familiarity; violation of the rules of decorum; with a plural.  Beware of what are called innocent freedoms.


Topic: Freehold
Definition:
FREE'HOLD, a.  That land or tenement which is held in fee-simple, fee-tail, or for term of life.  It is of two kinds; in deed, and in law.  The first is the real possession of such land or tenement; the last is the right a man has to such land or tenement, before his entry or seizure.
Freehold is also extended to such offices as a man holds in fee or for life.  It is also taken in opposition to villenage.
In the United States, a freehold is an estate which a man holds in his own right, subject to no superior nor to conditions.


Topic: Freeholder
Definition:
FREE'HOLDER, n.  One who owns an estate in fee-simple, fee-tail or for life; the possessor of a freehold.  Every juryman must be a freeholder.


Topic: Freeing
Definition:
FREE'ING, ppr.  Delivering from restraint; releasing from confinement; removing incumbrances or hinderances from any thing; clearing.


Topic: Freely
Definition:
FREE'LY, adv.
1.  At liberty; without vassalage, slavery or dependence.
2.  Without restraint, constraint or compulsion; voluntarily.  To render a moral agent accountable, he must act freely.
3.  Plentifully; in abundance; as, to eat or drink freely.
4.  Without scruple or reserve; as, to censure freely.
5.  Without impediment or hinderance.
Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat.  Gen. 2.
6.  Without necessity, or compulsion from divine predetermination.
Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell.
7.  Without obstruction; largely; copiously.  The patient bled freely.
8.  Spontaneously; without constraint or persuasion.
9.  Liberally; generously; as, to give freely to the poor.
10.  Gratuitously; of free will or grace, with out purchase or consideration.
Freely ye have received, freely give.  Matt. 10.


Topic: Freeman
Definition:
FREE'MAN, n.  [free and man.]
1.  One who enjoys liberty, or who is not subject to the will of another; one not a slave or vassal.
2.  One who enjoys or is entitled to a franchise or peculiar privilege; as the freemen of a city or state.


Topic: Freeness
Definition:
FREE'NESS, n.
1.  The state or quality of being free, unconstrained, unconfined, unincumbered, or unobstructed.
2.  Openness; unreservedness; frankness; ingenuousness; candor; as the freeness of a confession.
3.  Liberality; generosity; as freeness in giving.
4.  Gratuitousness; as the freeness of divine grace.


Topic: Freeschool
Definition:
FREE'SCHOOL, n.
1.  A school supported by funds, &c., in which pupils are taught without paying for tuition.
2.  A school open to admit pupils without restriction.


Topic: Freestone
Definition:
FREE'STONE, n.  Any species of stone composed of sand or grit, so called because it is easily cut or wrought.


Topic: Freewarren
Definition:
FREEWAR'REN, n.  A royal franchise or exclusive right of killing beasts and fowls of warren within certain limits.


Topic: Freewill
Definition:
FREEWILL', n.
1.  The power of directing our own actions without restraint by necessity or fate.
2.  Voluntariness; spontaneousness.


Topic: Freeze
Definition:
FREEZE, v.i. pret. froze; pp. frozen, or froze. [Gr. had for its radical letters.]
1.  To be congealed by cold; to be changed from a liquid to a solid state by the abstraction of heat; to be hardened into ice or a like solid body.  Water freezes at the temperature of 32 degrees above zero by Fahrenheit's thermometer.  Mercury freezes at 40 degrees below zero.
2.  To be of that degree of cold at which water congeals.
3.  To chill; to stagnate, or to retire from the extreme vessels; as, the blood freezes in the veins.
4.  To be chilled; to shiver with cold.
5.  To die by means of cold.  We say a man freezes to death.
FREEZE, v.t.
1.  To congeal; to harden into ice; to change from a fluid to a solid form by cold or abstraction of heat.  This weather will freeze the rivers and lakes.
2.  To kill by cold; but we often add the words to death.  this air will freeze you, or freeze you to death.
3.  To chill; to give the sensation of cold and shivering.  This horrid tale freezes my blood.
FREEZE, in architecture.  [See Frieze.]


Topic: Freight
Definition:
FREIGHT, n. frate.  [L. fero; formed like bright.]
1.  The cargo, or any part of the cargo of a ship; lading; that which is carried by water.  The freight of a ship consists of cotton; the ship has not a full freight; the owners have advertised for freight; freight will be paid for by the ton.
2.  Transportation of goods.  We paid four dollars a ton for the freight from London to Barcelona.
3.  The hire of a ship, or money charged or paid for the transportation of goods.  After paying freight and charges, the profit is trifling.
FREIGHT, v.t.
1.  To load with goods, as a ship or vessel of any kind, for transporting them from one place to another.  We freighted the ship for Amsterdam; the ship was freighted with flour for Havana.
2.  To load as the burden.


Topic: French
Definition:
FRENCH, a.  Pertaining to France or its inhabitants.
French Chalk, scaly talc, a variety of indurated talc, in masses composed of small scales; its color is pearly white or grayish.
FRENCH, n.  The language spoken by the people of France.


Topic: Frenzy
Definition:
FREN'ZY, n.  [L. phrenitis, Gr. from mind, which is from moving, rushing.  See Frantic.]
Madness; distraction; rage; or any violent agitation of the mind approaching to distraction.
All else is towering frenzy and distraction.


Topic: Frequency
Definition:
FRE'QUENCY, n.
1.  A return or occurrence of a thing often repeated at short intervals.  The frequency of crimes abates our horror at the commission; the frequency of capital punishments tends to destroy their proper effect.
2.  A crowd; a throng.  [Not used.]


Topic: Frequent
Definition:
FRE'QUENT, a.  [L. frequens.]
1.  Often seen or done; often happening at short intervals; often repeated or occurring.  We made frequent visits to the hospital.
2.  Used often to practice any thing.  He was frequent and loud in his declamations against the revolution.
3.  Full; crowded; thronged.  [Not used.]
FRE'QUENT, v.t.  [L. frequento.]
To visit often; to resort to often or habitually.  The man who frequents a dram-shop, an ale house, or a gaming table, is in the road to poverty, disgrace and ruin.
He frequented the court of Augustus.


Topic: Frequentative
Definition:
FREQUENT'ATIVE, a.
In grammar, signifying the frequent repetition of an action; as a frequentative verb.


Topic: Fresco
Definition:
FRES'CO, n.
1.  Coolness; shade; a cool refreshing state of the air; duskiness.
2.  A picture not drawn in glaring light, but in dusk.
3.  A method of painting in relief on walls, performed with water-colors on fresh plaster, or on a wall laid with mortar not yet dry.  the colors, incorporating with the mortar, and drying with it, become very durable.  It is called fesco, either because it is done on fresh plaster, or because it is used on walls and buildings in the open air.
4.  A cool refreshing liquor.


Topic: Fresh
Definition:
FRESH, a. [Eng. rush, which gives the radical sense, though it may not be the same word.]
1.  Moving with celerity; brisk; strong; somewhat vehement; as a fresh breeze; fresh wind; the primary sense.
2.  Having the color and appearance of young thrifty plants; lively; not impaired or faded; as when we say, the fields look fresh and green.
3.  Having the appearance of a healthy youth; florid; ruddy; as a fresh-colored young man.
4.  New; recently grown; as fresh vegetables.
5.  New; recently made or obtained.  We have a fresh supply of goods from the manufactory, or from India; fresh tea; fresh raisins.
6.  Not impaired by time; not forgotten or obliterated.  The story is fresh in my mind; the ideas are fresh in my recollection.
7.  Not salt; as fresh water; fresh meat.
8.  Recently from the well or spring; pure and cool; not warm or vapid.  Bring a glass of fresh water.
9.  In a state like that of recent growth or recentness; as, to preserve flowers and fruit fresh.
Fresh as April, sweet as May.
10.  Repaired from loss or diminution; having new vigor.  He rose fresh for the combat.
11.  New; that has lately come or arrived; as fresh news; fresh dispatches.
12.  Sweet; in a good state; not stale.
13.  Unpracticed; unused; not before employed; as a fresh hand on board of a ship.
14.  Moderately rapid; as, the ship makes fresh way.
FRESH, n.  A freshet.


Topic: Freshen
Definition:
FRESH'EN, v.t.  fresh'n.
1.  To make fresh; to dulcify; to separate, as water from saline particles; to take saltiness from any thing; as, to freshen water, fish or flesh.
2.  To refresh; to revive.  [Not used.]
3.  In seaman's language, to apply new service to a cable; as, to freshen hawse.
FRESH'EN, v.i.
1.  To grow fresh; to lose salt or saltiness.
2.  To grow brisk or strong; as, the wind freshens.


Topic: Freshes
Definition:
FRESH'ES, n.
1.  The mingling of fresh water with salt water in rivers or bays, or the increased current of an ebb tide by means of a flood of fresh water, flowing towards or into the sea, and discoloring the water.
2.  A flood; an overflowing; an inundation; a freshet.


Topic: Freshet
Definition:
FRESH'ET, n
1.  A flood or overflowing of a river, by means of heavy rains or melted snow; an inundation.
2.  A stream of fresh water.


Topic: Freshly
Definition:
FRESH'LY, adv.
1.  Newly; in the former state renewed; in a new or fresh state.
2.  With a healthy look; ruddily.
3.  Briskly; strongly.
4.  Coolly.


Topic: Freshman
Definition:
FRESH'MAN, n.  
1.  A novice; one in the rudiments of knowledge.
2.  In colleges, one of the youngest class of students.


Topic: Freshness
Definition:
FRESH'NESS, n.
1.  Newness; vigor; spirit; the contrary to vapidness; as the freshness of liquors or odors.
2.  Vigor; liveliness; the contrary to a faded state; as the freshness of plants or of green fields.
3.  Newness of strength; renewed vigor; opposed to weariness or fatigue.
The Scots had the advantage both for number and freshness of men.
4.  Coolness; invigorating quality or state.
And breathe the freshness of the open air.
5.  Color of youth and health; ruddiness.
Her cheeks their freshness lose and wonted grace.
6.  Freedom from saltiness; as the freshness of water or flesh.
7.  A new or recent state or quality; rawness.
8.  Briskness, as of wind.


Topic: Freshwater
Definition:
FRESH'WATER, a.
1.  Accustomed to sail on freshwater only, or in the coasting trade; as a freshwater sailor.
2.  Raw; unskilled.


Topic: Fret
Definition:
FRET, v.t.  [L. rodo, rosi, rado, to scrape.  To fret or gnaw gives the sense of unevenness, roughness, in substances; the like appearance is given to fluids by agitation.]
1.  To rub; to wear away a substance by friction; as, to fret cloth; to fret a piece of gold or other metal.
2.  To corrode; to gnaw; to ear away; as, a worm frets the planks of a ship.
3.  To impair; to wear away.
By starts, his fretted fortunes give him hope and fear.
4.  To form into raised work.
5.  To variegate; to diversify.
Yon gray lines that fret the clouds are messengers of day.
6.  To agitate violently.
7.  To agitate; to disturb; to make rough; to cause to ripple; as, to fret the surface of water.
8.  To tease; to irritate; to vex; to make angry.
Fret not thyself because of evil doers.  Ps. 38.
9.  To wear away; to chafe; to gall.  Let not a saddle or harness fret the skin of your horse.
FRET, v.i.
1.  To be worn away; to be corroded.  Any substance will in time fret away by friction.
2.  To eat or wear in; to make way of attrition or corrosion.
Many wheels arose, and fretted one into another with great excoriation.
3.  To be agitated; to be in violent commotion; as the rancor that frets in the malignant breast.
4.  To be vexed; to be chafed or irritated; to be angry; to utter peevish expressions.
He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground.
FRET, n.  
1.  The agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or other cause; a rippling on the surface of water; small undulations continually repeated.
2.  Work raised in protuberances; or a kind of knot consisting of two lists or small fillets interlaced, used as an ornament in architecture.
3.  Agitation of mind; commotion of temper; irritation; as, he keeps his mind in a continual fret.
Yet then did Dennis rave in furious fret.
4.  A short piece of wire fixed on the fingerboard of a guitar, &c., which being pressed against the strings varies the tone.
5.  In heraldry, a bearing composed of bars crossed and interlaced.
FRET, v.t.  To furnish with frets, as an instrument of music.
FRET, n.  [L. fretum.]  A frith, which see.


Topic: Fretful
Definition:
FRET'FUL, a.  Disposed to fret; ill-humored; peevish; angry; in a state of vexation; as a fretful temper.


Topic: Fretted
Definition:
FRET'TED, pp.  Eaten; corroded; rubbed or worn away; agitated; vexed; made rough on the surface; variegated; ornamented with fretwork; furnished with frets.


Topic: Fretting
Definition:
FRET'TING, ppr.  Corroding; wearing away; agitating; vexing; making rough on the surface; variegating.
FRET'TING, n.  Agitation; commotion.


Topic: Friableness
Definition:
FRI'ABLENESS, n.  [See Friable.]  The quality of being easily broken, crumbled and reduced to powder.


Topic: Friar
Definition:
FRI'AR, n.  [L. frater.  See Brother.]
1.  An appellation common to the monks of all orders; those who enter religious orders considering themselves as a fraternity or brotherhood.  Friars are generally distinguished into four principal branches, viz: 1.  Minors, gray friars or Franciscans; 2.  Augustines;  3.  Dominicans or black friars;  4.  White Friars or Carmelites.
2.  In a restricted sense, a monk who is not a priest; those friars who are in orders being called fathers.


Topic: Fribble
Definition:
FRIB'BLE, a.  [L. frivolus.]  Frivolous; trifling; silly.
FRIB'BLE, n.  A frivolous, trifling, contemptible fellow.
FRIB'BLE, v.i.  To trifle; also, to totter.


Topic: Fricace
Definition:
FRIC'ACE, n.  [See Fricassee.]  Meat sliced and dressed with strong sauce; also, an unguent prepared by frying things together.  Obs.


Topic: Fricassee
Definition:
FRICASSEE', n.  [L. frigo.]
A dish of food made by cutting chickens, rabbits or other small animals into pieces, and dressing them in a frying pan, or a like utensil.
FRICASSEE', v.t.  To dress in fricassee.


Topic: Friction
Definition:
FRIC'TION, n.  [L. frictio, frico, to rub.]
1.  The act of rubbing the surface of one body against that of another; attrition.  Many bodies by friction emit light, and friction generates or evolves heat.
2.  In mechanics, the effect of rubbing, or the resistance which a moving body meets with from the surface on which it moves.
3.  In medicine, the rubbing of the body with the hand, or with a brush, flannel, &c.; or the rubbing of a diseased part with oil, unguent or other medicament.


Topic: Friend
Definition:
FRIEND, n. frend.
1.  One who is attached to another by affection; one who entertains for another sentiments of esteem, respect and affection, which lead him to desire his company,  and to seek to promote his happiness and prosperity; opposed to foe or enemy.
A friend loveth at all times.  Prov. 17.
2.  One not hostile; opposed to an enemy in war.
3.  One reconciled after enmity.  Let us be friends again.
4.  An attendant; a companion.
5.  A favorer; one who is propitious; as a friend to commerce; a friend to poetry; a friend to charitable institution.
6.  A favorite.  Hushai was David's friend.
7.  A term of salutation; a familiar compellation.
Friend, how camest thou in hither?  Matt. 22.
So Christ calls Judas his friend, though a traitor.  
Matt. 26.
8.  Formerly, a paramour.
9.  A friend at court, one who has sufficient interest to serve another.
FRIEND, v.t. frend.  To favor; to countenance; to befriend; to support or aid.  [But we now use befriend.]


Topic: Friendliness
Definition:
FRIEND'LINESS, n. frend'liness.
1.  A disposition to friendship; friendly disposition.
2.  Exertion of benevolence or kindness.


Topic: Friendly
Definition:
FRIEND'LY, a.  frend'ly.
1.  Having the temper and disposition of a friend; kind; favorable; disposed to promote the good of another.
Thou to mankind be good and friendly still, and oft return.
2.  Disposed to peace.
3.  Amicable.  We are on friendly terms.
4.  Not hostile; as a friendly power or state.
5.  Favorable; propitious; salutary; promoting the good of; as a friendly breeze or gale.  Excessive rains are not friendly to the ripening fruits.  Temperance is friendly to longevity.
FRIEND'LY, adv. frend'ly.  In the manner of friends; amicably.  [Not much used.]


Topic: Friendship
Definition:
FRIEND'SHIP, n.  frend'ship.  
1.  An attachment to a person, proceeding from intimate acquaintance, and a reciprocation of kind offices, or from a favorable opinion of the amiable and respectable qualities of his mind.  Friendship differs from benevolence, which is good will to mankind in general, and from that love which springs from animal appetite.  True friendship is a noble and virtuous attachment, springing from a pure source, a respect for worth or amiable qualities.  False friendship may subsist between bad men, as between thieves and pirates.  This is a temporary attachment springing from interest, and may change in a moment to enmity and rancor.
There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
There is little friendship in the world.
The first law of friendship is sincerity.
2.  Mutual attachment; intimacy.
If not in friendship, live at least in peace.
3.  Favor; personal kindness.
His friendships, still a few confined, were always of the middling kind.
4.  Friendly aid; help; assistance.
5.  Conformity; affinity; correspondence; aptness to unite.
We know those colors which have a friendship with each other.
[Not common and hardly legitimate.]


Topic: Frieze
Definition:
FRIEZE,, n. freez.  [Gr. to shiver or tremble with fear, whose elements are frg or frk.]
1.  Properly, the nap on woolen cloth; hence, a kind of coarse woolen cloth or stuff, with a nap on one side.
2.  In architecture, that part of the entablature of a column which is between the architrave and cornice.  It is a flat member or face, usually enriched with figures of animals or other ornaments of sculpture, whence its name.
Cornice or frieze with bossy sculptures graven.


Topic: Frigate
Definition:
FRIG'ATE, n. [Gr. signifies not fortified. L. aphractum, an open ship or vessel.]
1.  A ship of war, of a size larger than a sloop or brig, and less than a ship of the line; usually having two decks and carrying from thirty to forty four guns.  But ships mounting a less number than thirty guns are sometimes called frigates; as are ships carrying a larger number.
2.  Any small vessel on the water.  [Not used.]


Topic: Frigatoon
Definition:
FRIGATOON', n.  A Venetian vessel with a square stern, without a foremast, having only a mainmast and mizenmast.


Topic: Fright
Definition:
FRIGHT, n. frite.  [Gr. to fear, that is, to shrink or shiver.]
Sudden and violent fear; terror; a passion excited by the sudden appearance of danger.  It expresses more than fear, and is distinguished from fear and dread, by its sudden invasion and temporary existence; fright being usually of short duration, whereas fear and dread may be long continued.
FRIGHT,


Topic: Frightful
Definition:
FRIGHTFUL, a.  Terrible; dreadful; exciting alarm; impressing terror; as a frightful chasm or precipice; a frightful tempest.


Topic: Frightfully
Definition:
FRIGHTFULLY, adv.
1.  Terribly; dreadfully; in a manner to impress terror and alarm; horribly.
2.  Very disagreeably; shockingly.  She looks frightfully to day.


Topic: Frigid
Definition:
FRIG'ID, a.  [L. frigidus, from frigeo, to be or to grow cold; rigeo, to be stiff or frozen.  Gr.]
1.  Cold; wanting heat or warmth; as the frigid zone.
2.  Wanting warmth of affection; unfeeling; as a frigid temper or constitution.
3.  Wanting natural heat or vigor sufficient to excite the generative power; impotent.
4.  Dull; jejune; unanimated; wanting the fire of genius or fancy; as a frigid style; frigid rhymes.
5.  Stiff; formal; forbidding; as a frigid look or manner.
6.  Wanting zeal; dull; formal; lifeless; as frigid services.


Topic: Frigidity
Definition:
FRIGID'ITY, n.
1.  Coldness; want of warmth.  But not applied to the air or weather.
2.  Want of natural heat, life and vigor of body; impotency; imbecility; as the frigidity of old age.
3.  Coldness of affection.
4.  Dullness; want of animation or intellectual fire; as the frigidity of sentiments or style.


Topic: Frigorific
Definition:
FRIGORIF'IC, a.  [L. frigorificus; frigus, cold, and facio, to make.]
Causing cold; producing or generating cold.


Topic: Frill
Definition:
FRILL, n.  [infra.]  An edging of fine linen on the bosom of a shirt or other similar thing; a ruffle.
FRILL, v.i.
To shake; to quake; to shiver as with cold; as, the hawk frills.


Topic: Fringe
Definition:
FRINGE, n.  frinj.  [L. frango, to break.]
1.  An ornamental appendage to the borders of garments or furniture, consisting of loose threads.
The golden fringe ev'n set the ground on flame.
2.  Something resembling fringe; an open broken border.
FRINGE, v.t.  To adorn or border with fringe or a loose edging.


Topic: Frippery
Definition:
FRIP'PERY, n.  
1.  Old clothes; cast dresses; clothes thrown aside, after wearing.  Hence, waste matter; useless things; trifles; as the frippery of wit.
2.  The place where old clothes are sold.
3.  The trade or traffic in old clothes.


Topic: Frisk
Definition:
FRISK, v.i. 
1.  To leap; to skip; to spring suddenly one way and the other.
The fish fell a frisking in the net.
2.  To dance, skip and gambol in frolic and gaiety.
The frisking satyrs on the summits danced.
In vain to frisk or climb he tries.
FRISK, a.  Lively; brisk; blithe.
FRISK, n.  A frolic; a fit of wanton gaiety.


Topic: Frisket
Definition:
FRISK'ET, n.  [See Frisk.]
In printing, the light frame in which a sheet of paper is confined to be laid on the form for impression.


Topic: Friskiness
Definition:
FRISK'INESS, n.  Briskness and frequency of motion; gaiety; liveliness; a dancing or leaping in frolic.


Topic: Frit
Definition:
FRIT, n.  [L. frictus, frigo,  Eng. to fry.]
In the manufacture of glass, the matter of which glass is made after it has been calcined or baked in a furnace.  It is a composition of silex and fixed alkali, occasionally with other ingredients.


Topic: Frith
Definition:
FRITH, n.  [L. freetum;  Gr. from to pass over, or to pass; properly, a passage, a narrow channel that is passable or passed.]
1.  A narrow passage of the sea; a strait.  It is used for the opening of a river into the sea; as the frith of Forth, or of Clyde.
2.  A kind of wear for catching fish.
FRITH, n.  
1.  A forest; a woody place.
2.  A small field taken out of a common.
[Not used in America.]


Topic: Fritillary
Definition:
FRIT'ILLARY, n.  [L. fritillus, a dice-box.]
The crown imperial, a genus of plants, called in the Spanish dictionary_webster1828 checkered lily.


Topic: Fritter
Definition:
FRIT'TER, n.  [L. frictus, fried.]
1.  A small pancake; also, a small piece of meat fried.
2.  A fragment; a shred; a small piece.
And cut whole giants into fritters.
FRIT'TER, v.t.
1.  To cut meat into small pieces to be fried.
2.  To break into small pieces or fragments.
Break all their nerves, and fritter all their sense.
To fritter away, is to diminish; to pare off; to reduce to nothing by taking away a little at a time.


Topic: Frivolous
Definition:
FRIV'OLOUS, a.  [L. frivlus, from the root of frio, to break into small pieces, to crumble; tero, trivi, to rub or wear out.]
Slight; trifling; trivial; of little weight, worth or importance; not worth notice; as a frivolous argument; a frivolous objection or pretext.


Topic: Frivolousness
Definition:
FRIV'OLOUSNESS, n.  The quality of being trifling or of very little worth or importance; want of consequence.


Topic: Friz
Definition:
FRIZ, v.t.  [See Frieze.]
1.  To curl; to crisp to form into small curls with a crisping-pin.
2.  To form the nap of cloth into little hard burs, prominences or knobs.


Topic: Fro
Definition:
FRO, adv.  [In some languages it is a prefix, having the force of a negative.]
From; away; back or backward; as in the phrase, to and fro, that is, to and from, forward or toward and backward, hither and thither.


Topic: Frock
Definition:
FROCK, n.  
An upper coat, or an outer garment.  The word is now used for a loose garment or shirt worn by men over their other clothes, and for a kind of gown open behind, worn by females.  The frock was formerly a garment worn by monks.


Topic: Frog
Definition:
FROG, n.  [L. rana, from the root of rend, from its broken shape, or from leaping, or its fragor or hoarse voice.]
1.  An amphibious animal of the genus Rana, with four feet, a naked body, and without a tail.  It is remarkable for swimming with rapidity, and for taking large leaps on land.  Frogs lie torpid during winter.
2.  In farriery.  [See Frush.]


Topic: Frogfish
Definition:
FROG'FISH, n.  
1.  An animal of surinam, which is said to change from a fish to a frog and then to a fish again.  It is cartilaginous, and exquisite food.
2.  The Lophius, or fishing frog.


Topic: Frolick
Definition:
FROL'ICK, a.  
Gay; merry; full of levity; dancing, playing or frisking about; full of pranks.
The frolick wind that breathes the spring.
The gay, the frolick, and the loud.
[This adjective is seldom used except in poetry.  As a noun and a verb, its use is common.]
FROL'ICK, n.
1.  A wild prank; a flight of levity, or gaiety and mirth.
He would be at his frolick once again.
2.  A scene of gaiety and mirth, as in dancing or play.  [This is a popular use of the word in America.]
FROL'ICK, v.i.  To play wild pranks; to play tricks of levity, mirth and gaiety.
The buzzing insects frolick in the air.


Topic: From
Definition:
FROM, prep.
The sense of from may be expressed by the noun distance, or by the adjective distant, or by the participles, departing, removing to a distance.  Thus it is one hundred miles from Boston to Hartford.  He took his sword from his side.  Light proceeds from the sun.  Water issues from the earth in springs.  Separate the coarse wool from the fine.  Men have all sprung from Adam.  Men often go from good to bad, and from bad to worse.  The merit of an action depends on the principle from which it proceeds.  Men judge of facts from personal knowledge, or from testimony.  We should aim to judge from undeniable premises.
The sense of from is literal or figurative, but it is uniformly the same.
In certain phrases, generally or always elliptical, from is followed by certain adverbs, denoting place, region or position, indefinitely, no precise point being expressed; as,
From above, from the upper regions.
From afar, from a distance.
From beneath, from a place or region below.
From below, from a lower place.
From behind, from a place or position in the rear.
From far, from a distant place.
From high, from on high, from a high place, from an upper region, or from heaven.
From hence, from this place; but from is superfluous before hence.  The phrase however is common.
From thence, from that place; from being superfluous.
From whence, from which place; from being superfluous.
From where, from which place.
From within, from the interior or inside.
From without, from the outside, from abroad.
From precedes another preposition, followed by its proper object or case.
From amidst, as from amidst the waves.
From among, as from among the trees.
From beneath, as from beneath my head.
From beyond, as from beyond the river.
From forth, as from forth his bridal bower.  But this is an inverted order of the words; forth from his bower.
From off, as from off the mercy seat, that is, from the top or surface.
From out, as from out a window, that is, through an opening or from the inside.
From out of, is an ill combination of words and not to be used.
From under, as from under the bed, from under the ashes, that is, from beneath or the lower side.
From within, as from within the house, that is, from the inner part or interior.


Topic: Frond
Definition:
FROND, n.  [L. frons, frondis.  the sense is a shoot or shooting forward, as in frons, frontis.]
In botany, a term which Linne applies to the peculiar leafing of palms and ferns.  He defines it, a kind of stem which has the branch united with the leaf and frequently with the fructification.  The term seems to import the union of a leaf and a branch.


Topic: Frondescence
Definition:
FRONDES'CENCE, n.  [L. frondesco, from frons.]
In botany, the precise time of the year and month in which each species of plants unfolds its leaves.


Topic: Frondous
Definition:
FROND'OUS, a.  A frondous flower is one which is leafy, one which produces branches charged with both leaves and flowers.  Instances of this luxuriance sometimes occur in the rose and anemone.


Topic: Front
Definition:
FRONT, n.  [L. frons, frontis; Gr. the nose.]
1.  Properly, the forehead, or part of the face above the eyes; hence, the whole face.
His front yet threatens, and his frowns command.
2.  The forehead or face, as expressive of the temper or disposition; as a fold front, equivalent to boldness or impudence.  So a hardened front is shamelessness.
3.  The forepart of any thing; as the front of a house, the principal face or side.
4.  The forepart or van of an army or a body of troops.
5.  The part or place before the face, or opposed to it, or to the forepart of a thing.  He stood in front of his troops.  The road passes in front of his house.
6.  The most conspicuous part or particular.
7.  Impudence; as men of front.
FRONT, v.t.  
1.  To oppose face to face; to oppose directly.
I shall front thee, like some staring ghost, with all my wrongs about me.
2.  To stand opposed or opposite, or over against any thing; as, his house fronts the church.
FRONT, v.i.
1.  To stand foremost.
2.  To have the face or front towards any point of compass.


Topic: Frontal
Definition:
FRONT'AL, n.  [L. frontale., frons.]
1.  In medicine, a medicament or preparation to be applied to the forehead.
2.  In architecture, a little pediment or frontpiece, over a small door or window.
3.  In Jewish ceremonies, a frontlet or browband, consisting of four pieces of vellum, laid on leather, and tied round the forehead in the synagogue; each piece containing some text of scripture.


Topic: Frontier
Definition:
FRONTIE'R, n.  
The marches; the border, confine, or extreme part of a country, bordering on another country; that is, the part furthest advanced, or the part that fronts an enemy, or which an invading enemy meets in front, or which fronts another country.
FRONTIE'R, a.  Lying on the exterior part; bordering; conterminous; as a frontier town.


Topic: Frontispiece
Definition:
FRONT'ISPIECE, n.  [L. frontispicium; frons and specio, to view.]
1.  In architecture, the principal face of a building; the face that directly presents itself to the eye.
2.  An ornamental figure or engraving fronting the first page of a book, or at the beginning.


Topic: Frontlet
Definition:
FRONT'LET, n.  [from front.]  A frontal or browband; a fillet or band worn on the forehead.  Deut. 6.


Topic: Frost
Definition:
FROST, n.  
1.  A fluid congealed by cold into ice or crystals; as hoar-frost, which is dew or vapor congealed.
He scattereth the hoar-frost like ashes.  Ps. 147.
2.  The act of freezing; congelation of fluids.
The third day comes a frost, a killing frost.
3.  In physiology, that state or temperature of the air which occasions freezing or the coagelation of water.
4.  The appearance of plants sparkling with icy crystals.
FROST, v.t.
1.  In cookery, to cover or sprinkle with a composition of sugar, resembling hoar-frost; as, to frost cake.
2.  To cover with any thing resembling hoarfrost.


Topic: Frosted
Definition:
FROST'ED, pp.
1.  Covered with a composition like white frost.
2.  a.  Having hair changed to a gray or white color, as if covered with hoar-frost; as a head frosted by age.


Topic: Frosting
Definition:
FROST'ING, ppr.  covering with something resembling hoar-frost.
FROST'ING, n.  the composition resembling hoar-frost, used to cover cake, &c.


Topic: Frostnail
Definition:
FROST'NAIL, n.  a nail driven into a horse-shoe, to prevent the horse from slipping on ice.  In some of the United States, the ends of the shoe are pointed for this purpose, and these points are called calks.


Topic: Frosty
Definition:
FROST'Y, a.
1.  Producing frost; having power to congeal water; as a frosty night; frosty weather.
2.  Containing frost; as, the grass is frosty.
3.  Chill in affection; without warmth of affection or courage.
4.  Resembling hoar-frost; white gray-haired; as a frosty head.


Topic: Froth
Definition:
FROTH, n. frauth.  [Gr.]
1.  Spume; foam; the bubbles causes in  liquors by fermentation or agitation.
2.  Any empty, senseless show of wit or eloquence.
3.  Light, unsubstantial matter.
FROTH, v.t.  To cause to foam.
FROTH, v.i.  To foam; to throw up spume; to throw out foam or bubbles.  Beer froths in fermentation.  The sea froths when violently agitated.  A horse froths at the mouth when heated.


Topic: Frothy
Definition:
FROTH'Y, a.
1.  Full of foam or froth, or consisting of froth or light bubbles.
2.  Soft; not firm or solid.
3.  Vain; light; empty; unsubstantial; as a vain frothy speaker; a frothy harangue.


Topic: Frounce
Definition:
FROUNCE, n.  A distemper of hawks, in which white spittle gathers about the bill.  [See the Verb.]
FROUNCE, v.t.
To curl or frizzle the hair about the face.
Not tricked and frounced as she was wont.
FROUNCE, n.  A wrinkle, plait or curl; an ornament of dress.


Topic: Froward
Definition:
FRO'WARD, a.  [L. versus: turned or looking from.]
Perverse, that is, turning from, with aversion or reluctance; not willing to yield or comply with what is required; unyielding; ungovernable; refractory; disobedient; peevish; as a froward child.
They are a very froward generation, children in whom is no fair.  Deut. 32.


Topic: Frown
Definition:
FROWN, v.i.
1.  To express displeasure by contracting the brow, and looking grim or surly; to look stern; followed by on or at; as, to frown on a profligate man, or to frown at his vices.  
Heroes in animated marble frown.
2.  To manifest, displeasure in any manner.  When providence frowns on our labors, let us be humble and submissive.
3.  To lower; to look threatening.
FROWN, v.t.  To repel by expressing displeasure; to rebuke.  Frown the impudent fellow into silence.
FROWN, n.
1.  A wrinkled look, particularly expressing dislike; a sour,severe or stern look, expressive of displeasure.
His front yet threatens and his frowns command.
2.  Any expression of displeasure; as the frowns of providence; the frown of fortune.


Topic: Frowning
Definition:
FROWN'ING, ppr.  Knitting the brow in anger or displeasure; expressing displeasure by a surly, stern or angry look; lowering; threatening.


Topic: Frozen
Definition:
FRO'ZEN, pp. of freeze. 
1.  Congealed by cold. 
2.  Cold; frosty; chill; as the frozen climates of the north.
3.  Chill or cold in affection.
4.  Void of natural heat or vigor.


Topic: Fructescence
Definition:
FRUCTES'CENCE, n.  [from L. fructus, fruit.  See Fruit.]
In botany, the precise time when the fruit of a plant arrives at maturity, and its seeds are dispersed; the fruiting season.


Topic: Fructification
Definition:
FRUCTIFICA'TION, n.  [See Fructify.]
1.  The act of fructifying, or rendering productive of fruit; fecundation.
2.  In botany, the temporary part of a plant appropriated to generation, terminating the old vegetable and beginning the new.  It consists of seven parts, the calyx, impalement or flower-cup, the corol or petals, the stamens, and the pistil, which belong to the flower, the pericarp and seed, which pertain to the fruit, and the receptacle or base, on which the other parts are seated.  The receptacle belongs both to the flower and fruit.


Topic: Fructify
Definition:
FRUC'TIFY, v.t.  [Low L. fructifico.]
To make fruitful; to render productive; to fertilize; as, to fructify the earth.
FRUC'TIFY, v.i.  To bear fruit.  [Unusual.]


Topic: Frugal
Definition:
FRU'GAL, a.  [L. frugalis.  See Fruit.]
Economical in the use or appropriation of money, goods or provisions of any kind; saving unnecessary expense, either of money or of any thing else which is to be used or consumed; sparing; not profuse, prodigal or lavish.  We ought to be frugal not only in the expenditure of money and of goods, but in the employment of time.  It is followed by of, before the thing saved; as frugal of time.  It is not synonymous with parsimonious, nor with thrifty, as now used.


Topic: Frugality
Definition:
FRUGAL'ITY, n.  
1.  Prudent economy; good husbandry or housewifery; a sparing use or appropriation of money or commodities; a judicious use of any thing to be expended or employed; that careful management of money or goods which expends nothing unnecessarily, and applies what is used to a profitable purpose; that use in which nothing is wasted.  It is not equivalent to parsimony, the latter being an excess of frugality, and a fault.  Frugality is always a virtue.  Nor is it synonymous with thrift, in its proper sense; for thrift is the effect of frugality.
Without frugality none can become rich, and with it few would be poor.
2.  A prudent and sparing use or appropriation of any thing; as frugality of praise.


Topic: Frugally
Definition:
FRU'GALLY, adv.  With economy; with good management; in a saving manner.  He seldom lives frugally, that lives by chance.


Topic: Frugivorous
Definition:
FRUGIV'OROUS, a.  [L. fruges, corn and voro, to eat.]
Feeding on fruits, seeds or corn, as birds and other animals.


Topic: Fruit
Definition:
FRUIT, n.  [L. fructus.  The Latin word is the participle of fruor, contracted from frugor, or frucor, to use, to take the profit of.]
1.  In a general sense, whatever the earth produces for the nourishment of animals, or for clothing or profit.  Among the fruits of the earth are included not only corn of all kinds, but grass, cotton, flax, grapes and all cultivated plants.  In this comprehensive sense, the word is generally used in the plural.
2.  In a more limited sense, the produce of a tree or other plant; the last production for the propagation or multiplication of its kind; the seed of plants, or the part that contains the seeds; as wheat, rye, oats, apples, quinces, pears, cherries, acorns, melons, &c.
3.  In botany, the seed of a plant, or the seed with the pericarp.
4.  Production; that which is produced.
The fruit of the spirit is in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth.  Eph. 5.
5.  The produce of animals; offspring; young; as the fruit of the womb, of the loins, of the body.
6.  Effect or consequence.
They shall eat the fruit of their doings.  Is. 3.
7.  Advantage; profit; good derived.
What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed?  Rom 6.
8.  Production, effect or consequence; in an ill sense; as the fruits of sin; the fruits of intemperance.
FRUIT, v.i.  To produce fruit.  [Not well authorized.]


Topic: Fruit-tree
Definition:
FRUIT-TREE, n.  A tree cultivated for its fruit, or a tree whose principal value consists in the fruit it produces, as the cherry tree, apple tree, pear tree.  The oak and beech produce valuable fruit, but the fruit is not their principal value.


Topic: Fruitful
Definition:
FRUITFUL, a.
1.  Very productive; producing fruit in abundance; as fruitful soil; a fruitful tree; a fruitful season.
2.  Prolific; bearing children; not barren.
Be fruitful, and multiply - Gen. 1.
3.  Plenteous; abounding in any thing.
4.  Productive of any thing; fertile; as fruitful in expedients.
5.  Producing in abundance; generating; as fruitful in crimes.


Topic: Fruitfulness
Definition:
FRUITFULNESS, n.
1.  The quality of producing fruit in abundance; productiveness; fertility; as the fruitfulness of land.
2.  Fecundity; the quality of being prolific, or producing many young; applied to animals.
3.  Productiveness of the intellect; as the fruitfulness of the brain.
4.  Exuberant abundance.


Topic: Fruition
Definition:
FRUI'TION, n.  [from L. fruor, to use or enjoy.]
Use accompanied with pleasure, corporeal or intellectual; enjoyment; the pleasure derived from use or possession.
If the affliction is on his body, his appetites are weakened, and capacity of fruition destroyed.


Topic: Fruitless
Definition:
FRUITLESS, a.
1.  Not bearing fruit; barren; destitute of fruit; as a fruitless plant.
2.  Productive of no advantage or good effect; vain; idle; useless; unprofitable; as a fruitless attempt; a fruitless controversy.
3.  Having no offspring.


Topic: Frumentaceous
Definition:
FRUMENTA'CEOUS, a.  [L. frumentaceus.]
1.  Made of wheat, or like grain.
2.  Resembling wheat, in respect to leaves, ears, fruit, and the like.


Topic: Frumentation
Definition:
FRUMENTA'TION, n.  [L. frumentatio.]  Among the Romans, a largess of grain bestowed on the people to quiet them when uneasy or turbulent.


Topic: Frush
Definition:
FRUSH, v.t.  To bruise; to crush.  Obs.
FRUSH, n.  In farriery, a sort of tender horn that grows in the middle of the sole of a horse, at some distance from the toe, dividing into two branches, and running toward the heel in the form of a fork.


Topic: Frustrate
Definition:
FRUS'TRATE, v.t.  [L. frustro.]
1.  Literally, to break or interrupt; hence, to defeat; to disappoint; to balk; to bring to nothing; as, to frustrate a plan, design or attempt; to frustrate the will or purpose.
2.  To disappoint; applied to persons.
3.  To make null; to nullify; to render of no effect; as, to frustrate a conveyance or deed.
FRUS'TRATE, part. a.  Vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable; null; void; of no effect.


Topic: Frustration
Definition:
FRUSTRA'TION, n.  The act of frustrating; disappointment; defeat; as the frustration of one's attempt or design.


Topic: Frustum
Definition:
FRUS'TUM, n.  [L.  See Frustrate.]  a piece or part of a solid body separated from the rest.  The frustum of a cone, is the part that remains after the top is cut off by a plane parallel to the base; called otherwise a truncated cone.


Topic: Frutescent
Definition:
FRUTES'CENT, a.  [L. frutex, a shrub.]  In botany, from herbaceous becoming shrubby; as a frutescent stem.


Topic: Fry
Definition:
FRY, v.t.  [L. frigo.  Gr.]
To dress with fat by heating or roasting in a pan over a fire; to cook and prepare for eating in a fryingpan; as, to fry meat or vegetables.
FRY, v.i.
1.  To be heated and agitated; to suffer the action of fire or extreme heat.
2.  To ferment, as in the stomach.
3.  To be agitated; to boil.
FRY, n.  
1.  A swarm or crowd of little fish; so called from their crowding, tumbling and agitation.  [L. ferveo.]
2.  A dish of any thing fried.
3.  A kind of sieve.  [Not used in America.]


Topic: Fub
Definition:
FUB, n.  a plump boy; a woman.  [Not in use.]
FUB, v.t.  to put off; to delay; to cheat.  [See Fob.]


Topic: Fucus
Definition:
FU'CUS, n.  [L. See Feign.]  
1.  A paint; a dye; also, false show.
2.  plu. fucuses.  In botany, a genus of Algae, or seaweed; the sea-wrack, &c.


Topic: Fuel
Definition:
FU'EL, n.  [L. focus.]
1.  Any matter which serves as aliment to fire; that which feeds fire; combustible matter, as wood, coal, peat, &c.
2.  Any thing that serves to feed or increase flame, heat or excitement.
FU'EL, v.t.
1.  To feed with combustible matter.
Never, alas! the dreadful name, that fuels the infernal flame.
2.  To store with fuel or firing.


Topic: Fugacious
Definition:
FUGA'CIOUS, a.  [L. fugax, from fugo, to chase, or fugio, to flee.]  Flying or fleeing away; volatile.


Topic: Fugacity
Definition:
FUGAC'ITY, n.  [L. fugax, supra.]
1.  Volatility; the quality of flying away; as the fugacity of spires.
2.  Uncertainty; instability.


Topic: Fugitive
Definition:
FU'GITIVE, a.  [L. fugitivus, from fugio, to flee.  Gr.]
1.  Volatile; apt to flee away; readily wafted by the wind.
The more tender and fugitive parts - 
2.  Not tenable; not to be held or detained; readily escaping; as a fugitive idea.
3.  Unstable; unsteady; fleeting; not fixed or durable.
4.  Fleeing; running from danger or pursuit.
5.  Fleeing from duty; eloping; escaping.
Can a fugitive daughter enjoy herself, while her parents are in tears?
6.  Wandering; vagabond; as a fugitive physician.
7.  In literature, fugitive compositions are such as are short and occasional, written in haste or at intervals, and considered to be fleeting and temporary.
FU'GITIVE, n.
1.  One who fees from his station or duty; a deserter; one who flees from danger.
2.  One who has fled or deserted and taken refuge under another power, or one who has fled from punishment.
3.  One hard to be caught or detained.
Or catch that airy fugitive, called wit.


Topic: Fugitiveness
Definition:
FU'GITIVENESS, n.  
1.  Volatility; fugacity; an aptness to fly away.
2.  Instability; unsteadiness.


Topic: Fugue
Definition:
FUGUE, n.  [L. fuga.]
In music, a chase or succession in the parts; that which expresses the capital thought or sentiment of the piece, in causing it to pass successively and alternately from one part to another.


Topic: Fulciment
Definition:
FUL'CIMENT, n.  [L. fulcimentum, from fulcio, to prop.]
A prop; a fulcrum; that on which a balance or lever rests.  [Little used.]


Topic: Fulcrate
Definition:
FUL'CRATE, a.  [from L. fulcrum, a prop.]
1.  In botany, a fulcrate stem is one whose branches descend to the earth, as in Ficus.
2.  Furnished with fulcres.


Topic: Fulcre
Definition:
FUL'CRE, n.  [L.]
1.  A prop or support.
2.  In mechanics, that by which a lever is sustained.
3.  In botany, the part of a plant which serves to support or defend it, or to facilitate some necessary secretion, as a stipule, a bracte, a tendril, a gland, &c.


Topic: Fulgency
Definition:
FUL'GENCY, n.  [L. fulgens, from fulgeo, to shine.  See Effulgence.]  Brightness; splendor; glitter.


Topic: Fulguration
Definition:
FULGURA'TION, n.  [L. fulguratio, from fulgur, lightning.]
Lightning; the act of lightening.  [Little used or not at all.]


Topic: Fuliginosity
Definition:
FULIGINOS'ITY, n.  [L. fuligo, soot, probably from the root of foul.]
Sootiness; matter deposited by smoke.


Topic: Fuliginous
Definition:
FULIG'INOUS, a.  [L. fuligineus, fuliginosus, from fuligo, soot.]
1.  Pertaining to soot; sooty; dark; dusky.
2.  Pertaining to smoke; resembling smoke; dusky.


Topic: Full
Definition:
FULL, a.
1.  Replete; having within its limits all that it can contain; as a vessel full of liquor. 
2.  Abounding with; having a large quantity or abundance; as a house full of furniture; life is full of cares and perplexities.
3.  Supplied; not vacant.
Had the throne been full, their meeting would not have been regular.
4.  Plump; fat; as a full body.
5.  Saturated; sated.
I am full of the burnt offerings of rams.  Is. 1.
6.  Crowded, with regard to the imagination or memory.
Every one is full of the miracles done by cold baths on decayed and weak constitutions.
7.  Large; entire; not partial; that fills; as a full meal.
8.  Complete; entire; not defective or partial; as the full accomplishment of a prophecy.
9.  Complete; entire; without abatement.
It came to pass, at the end of two full years, that Pharoah dreamed - Gen 41.
10.  Containing the whole matter; expressing the whole; as a full narration or description.
11.  Strong; not faint or attenuated; loud; clear; distinct; as a full voice or sound.
12.  Mature; perfect; as a person of full age.
13.  Entire; complete; denoting the completion of a sentence; as a full stop or point.
14.  Spread to view in all dimensions; as a head drawn with a full face.
15.  Exhibiting the whole disk or surface illuminated; as the full moon.
16.  Abundant; plenteous; sufficient.  We have a full supply of provisions for the year.
17.  Adequate; equal; as a full compensation or reward for labor.
18.  Well fed.
19.  Well supplied or furnished; abounding.
20.  Copious; ample.  The speaker or the writer was full upon that point.
A full band, in music, is when all the voices and instruments are employed.
A full organ, is when all or most of the stops are out.
FULL, n.
1.  Complete measure; utmost extent.  this instrument answers to the full.
2.  The highest state or degree.
The swan's down feather, that stands upon the swell at full of tide -
3.  The whole; the total; in the phrase, at full.
4.  The state of satiety; as fed to the full.
The full of the moon, is the time when it presents to the spectator its whole face illuminated, as it always does when in opposition to the sun.

FULL, adv.  
1.  Quite; to the same degree; without abatement or diminution.
The pawn I proffer shall be full as good.
2.  With the whole effect.
The diapason closing full in man.
3.  Exactly.
Full in the center of the sacred wood.
4.  Directly; as, he looked him full in the face.
It is placed before adjectives and adverbs to heighten or strengthen their signification; as full sad.
Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.  Mark 7.
Full is prefixed to other words, chiefly participles,  to express utmost extent or degree.


Topic: Fullers-earth
Definition:
FULL'ER'S-EARTH, n.  A variety of clay, compact, but friable, unctuous to the touch, and of various colors, usually with a shade of green.  It is useful in scouring and cleansing cloth, as it imbibes the grease and oil used in preparing wool.


Topic: Fulling
Definition:
FULL'ING, ppr.  Thickening cloth in a mill; making compact.
FULL'ING, n.  The art or practice of thickening cloth and making it compact and firm in a mill, at the same time the cloth is cleansed of oily matter.


Topic: Fullingmill
Definition:
FULL'INGMILL, n.  A mill for fulling cloth by means of pestles or stampers, which beat and press it to a close or compact state and cleanse it.


Topic: Fullness
Definition:
FULL'NESS, n.  [from full.]
1.  The state of being filled, so as to leave no part vacant.
2.  The state of abounding or being in great plenty; abundance.
3.  Completeness; the state of a thing in which nothing is wanted; perfection.
In thy presence is fullness of joy.  Ps. 16.
4.  Repletion; satiety; as from intemperance.
5.  Repletion of vessels; as fullness of blood.
6.  Plenty; wealth; affluence.
7.  Struggling perturbation; swelling; as the fullness of the heart.
8.  Largeness; extent.
There wanted the fullness of a plot, and variety of characters to form it as it ought.
9.  Loudness; force of sound, such as fills the ear.


Topic: Fullsomeness
Definition:
FULL'SOMENESS, n.  Offensive grossness, as of praise.
[These are the senses of this word and the only senses used in New England, as far as my knowledge extends.]


Topic: Fully
Definition:
FUL'LY, adv.
1.  Completely; entirely; without lack or defect; in a manner to give satisfaction; to the extent desired; as, to be fully persuaded of the truth of a proposition.
2.  Completely; perfectly.  Things partially known in this life will be hereafter fully disclosed.


Topic: Fulmar
Definition:
FUL'MAR, n.  
1.  A fowl of the genus Procellaria, or petrel kind, larger than a gull, possessing the singular faculty of spouting from its bill a quantity of pure oil against its adversary.  It is an inhabitant of the Hebrides; it feeds on the fat of whales, and when one of them is taken, will perch on it even when alive and pick out pieces of flesh.
2.  The foulemart or fulimart.  [See Foumart.]


Topic: Fulminate
Definition:
FUL'MINATE, v.i.  [L. fulmino, from fulmen, thunder, from a root in Bl, which signifies to throw or to burst forth.]
1.  To thunder.
2.  To make a loud sudden noise, or a sudden sharp crack; to detonate; as fulminating gold.
3.  To hurl papal thunder; to issue forth ecclesiastical censures, as the pope.
FUL'MINATE, v.t.  
1.  To utter or send out, as a denunciation or censure; to send out, as a menace or censure by ecclesiastical authority.
2.  To cause to explode.


Topic: Fulmination
Definition:
FULMINA'TION, n.
1.  A thundering.
2.  Denunciation of censure or threats, as by papal authority.
The fulminations from the Vatican were turned into ridicule.
3.  The explosion of certain chimical preparations; detonation.


Topic: Fulsome
Definition:
FUL'SOME, a.  
1.  Nauseous; offensive.
He that brings fulsome objects to my view, with nauseous images my fancy fills.
2.  Rank; offensive to the smell; as a rank and fulsome smell.
3.  Lustful; as fulsome ewes.
4.  Tending to obscenity; as a fulsome epigram.
These are the English definitions of fulsome, but I have never witnessed such applications of the word in the United States.  It seems then that full and foul are radically the same word, the primary sense of which is stuffed, crowded, from the sense of putting on or in.  In the United States, the compound fullsome takes its signification from full, in the sense of cloying or satiating, and in England, fulsome takes its predominant sense from foulness.


Topic: Fumble
Definition:
FUM'BLE, v.i.
1.  To feel or grope about; to attempt awkwardly.
2.  To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly; as, to fumble for an excuse.
3.  To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over.
I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers.
FUM'BLE, v.t.  To manage awkwardly; to crowd or tumble together.


Topic: Fume
Definition:
FUME, n.  [L. fumus.]
1.  Smoke; vapor from combustion, as from burning wood or tobacco.
2.  Vapor; volatile matter ascending in a dense body.
3.  Exhalation from the stomach; as the fumes of wine.
4.  Rage; heat; as the fumes of passion.
5.  Any thing unsubstantial or fleeting.
6.  Idle conceit; vain imagination.
FUME, v.i.  [L. fumo.]
1.  To smoke; to throw off vapor, as in combustion.
Where the golden altar fumed.
2.  To yield vapor or visible exhalations.
Silenus lay, whose constant cups lay fuming to his brain.
3.  To pass off in vapors.
Their parts are kept from fuming away by their fixity.
4.  To be in a rage; to be hot with anger.
He fret, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground.
FUME, v.t.
1.  To smoke; to dry in smoke.
2.  To perfume,
She fumed the temples with an od'rous flame.
3.  To disperse or drive away in vapors.
The heat will fume away most of the scent.


Topic: Fumigate
Definition:
FU'MIGATE, v.t.  [L. fumigo.]
1.  To smoke; to perfume.
2.  To apply smoke to; to expose to smoke; as in chimistry, or in medicine by inhaling it, or in cleansing infected apartments.


Topic: Fumigation
Definition:
FUMIGA'TION, n.  [L. fumigatio.]  
1.  The act of smoking or applying smoke, as in chimistry for softening a metal, or in the healing art by inhaling the smoke of certain substances.  Expectoration is often assisted and sometimes ulcers of the lungs healed by fumigation.  Fumigation is also used in cleansing infected rooms.
2.  Vapors; scent raised by fire.


Topic: Function
Definition:
FUNC'TION, n.  [L. functio, from fungor, to perform.]
1.  In a general sense, the doing, executing or performing of any thing; discharge; performance; as the function of a calling or office.  More generally,
2.  Office or employment, or any duty or business belonging to a particular station or character, or required of a person in the station or character.  Thus we speak of the functions of a chancellor, judge or bishop; the functions of a parent or guardian.
3.  Trade; occupation.  [Less proper.]
4.  The office of any particular part of animal bodies; the peculiar or appropriate action of a member or part of the body, by which the animal economy is carried on.  Thus we speak of the functions of the brain and nerves, of the heart, of the liver, of the muscles, &c.
5.  Power; faculty, animal or intellectual.
As the mind opens, and its functions spread.
6.  In mathematics, the function of a variable quantity, is any algebraic expression into which that quantity enters, mixed with other quantities that have invariable values.


Topic: Fund
Definition:
FUND, n.  [L. fundus, ground bottom, foundation; connected with L. fundo, to found, the sense of which is to throw down, to set, to lay.  Heb. to build.  L. funda, a sling, a casting net or purse.]
1.  A stock or capital; a sum of money appropriated as the foundation of some commercial or other operation, undertaken with a view to profit, and by means of which expenses and credit are supported.  Thus the capital stock of a banking institution is called its fund; the joint stock of a commercial or manufacturing house constitutes its fund or funds; and hence the word is applied to the money which an individual may possess, or the means he can employ for carrying on any enterprise or operation.  No prudent man undertakes an expensive business without funds.
2.  Money lent to government, constituting a national debt; or the stock of a national debt.  Thus we say, a man is interested in the funds or public funds, when he owns the stock or the evidences of the public debt; and the funds are said to rise or fall, when a given amount of that debt sells for more or less in the market.
3.  Money or income destined to the payment of the interest of a debt.
4.  A sinking fund is a sum of money appropriated to the purchase of the public stocks or the payment of the public debt.
5.  A stock or capital to afford supplies of any kind; as a fund of wisdom or good sense; a fund of wit.  Hence.
6.  Abundance; ample stock or store.
FUND, v.t.
1.  To provide and appropriate a fund or permanent revenue for the payment of the interest of; to make permanent provision of resources for discharging the annual interest of; as, to fund exchequer bills or government notes; to fund a national debt.
2.  To place money in a fund.


Topic: Fundament
Definition:
FUND'AMENT, n.  [L. fundamentum, from fundo, to set.]
1.  The seat; the lower part of the body or of the intestinum rectum.
2.  Foundation.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Fundamental
Definition:
FUNDAMENT'AL, a.  Pertaining to the foundation or basis; serving for the foundation.  Hence, essential; important; as a fundamental truth or principle; a fundamental law; a fundamental sound or chord in music.
FUNDAMENT'AL, n.  A leading or primary principle, rule, law or article, which serves as the ground work of a system; essential part; as the fundamentals of the christian faith.


Topic: Fundamentally
Definition:
FUNDAMENT'ALLY, n.  Primarily; originally; essentially; at the foundation.  All power is fundamentally in the citizens of a state.


Topic: Funeral
Definition:
FU'NERAL, n.  [L. funus, from funale, a cord, a torch, from funis, a rope or cord, as torches were made of cords, and were used in burials among the Romans.]
1.  Burial; the ceremony of buying a dead body;  the solemnization of interment; obsequies.
2.  The procession of persons attending the burial of the dead.
3.  Burial; interment.
FU'NERAL, a.  Pertaining to burial; used at the interment of the dead; as funeral rites, honors or ceremonies; a funeral torch; funeral feast or games; funeral oration.


Topic: Fungiform
Definition:
FUN'GIFORM a.  [fungus and form.]  In mineralogy, having a termination similar to the head of a fungus.


Topic: Fungous
Definition:
FUN'GOUS, a.  [See Fungus.]
1.  Like fungus or a mushroom; excrescent; spungy; soft.
2.  Growing suddenly, but not substantial or durable.


Topic: Fungus
Definition:
FUN'GUS, n.  [L.]  
1.  A mushroom, vulgarly called a toadstool.  The Fungi constitute an order of plants of a peculiar organization and manner of growth.  The word is also applied to excrescences on plants.
2.  A spungy excrescence in animal bodies as proud flesh formed in wounds.
The term is particularly applied to any morbid excrescence, whether in wounds or arising spontaneously.


Topic: Funnel
Definition:
FUN'NEL, n.
1.  A passage or avenue for a fluid or flowing substance, particularly the shaft or hollow channel of a chimney through which smoke ascends.
2.  A vessel for conveying fluids into close vessels; a kind of hollow cone with a pipe; a tunnel.


Topic: Fur
Definition:
FUR, n.  
1.  The short, fine, soft hair of certain animals, growing thick on the skin, and distinguished from the hair, which is longer and coarser.  Fur is one of the most perfect non-conductors of heat, and serves to keep animals warm in cold climates.
2.  The skins of certain wild animals with the fur; peltry; as a cargo of furs.
3.  Strips of skin with fur, used on garments for lining or for ornament.  Garments are lined or faced with fur.
4.  Hair in general; a loose application of the word.
5.  A coat of morbid matter collected on the tongue in persons affected with fever.
FUR, v.t.
1.  To line, face or cover with fur; as a furred robe.
2.  To cover with morbid matter, as the tongue.
3.  To line with a board, as in carpentry.


Topic: Furacious
Definition:
FURA'CIOUS, a.  [L. furax, from furer, to steal.]
Given to theft; inclined to steal; thievish.  [Little used.]


Topic: Furbelow
Definition:
FUR'BELOW, n.  A piece of stuff plaited and puckered, on a gown or petticoat; a flounce; the plaited border of a petticoat or gown.
FUR'BELOW, v.t.  To put on a furbelow; to furnish with an ornamental appendage of dress.


Topic: Furbish
Definition:
FUR'BISH, v.t.  
To rub or scour to brightness; to polish; to burnish; as, to furbish a sword or spear; to furbish arms.


Topic: Furious
Definition:
FU'RIOUS, a.  [See Fury.]
1.  Rushing with impetuosity; moving with violence; as a furious stream; a furious wind or storm.
2.  Raging; violent; transported with passion; as a furious animal.
3.  Mad; phrenetic.


Topic: Furiously
Definition:
FU'RIOUSLY, adv.  With impetuous motion or agitation; violently; vehemently; as, to run furiously; to attack one furiously.


Topic: Furl
Definition:
FURL, v.t.  
To draw up; to contract; to wrap or roll a sail close to the yard, stay or mast, and fasten it by a gasket or cord.


Topic: Furlow
Definition:
FUR'LOW, n.  [See Fare and Leave.]
Leave of absence; a word used only in military affairs.  Leave or license given by a commanding officer to an officer or soldier to be absent from service for a certain time.
FUR'LOW, v.t.  To furnish with a furlow; to grant leave of absence to an officer or soldier.


Topic: Furnace
Definition:
FUR'NACE, n.  [L. fornax, furnus, either from burning, or the sense is an arch.]
1.  A place where a vehement fire and heat may be made and maintained, for melting ores or metals, &c.  A furnace for casting cannon and other large operations is inclosed with walls through which a current of air is blown from a large bellows.  In smaller operations a vessel is constructed with a chamber or cavity, with a door and a grate.
2.  In scripture, a place of cruel bondage and affliction.  Deut. 4.
3.  Grievous afflictions by which men are tried.  Ezek. 22.
4.  A place of temporal torment.  Dan. 3.
5.  Hell; the place of endless torment.  Matt. 13.
FUR'NACE, v.t.  To throw out sparks as a furnace.


Topic: Furnish
Definition:
FUR'NISH, v.t.  [There is a close affinity, in sense and elements, between furnish, garnish, and the L. orno, which may have been forno or horno.  We see in furlow, above the f is lost in three of the languages, and it may be so in orno.  The primary sense is to put on, or to set on.]
1.  To supply with any thing wanted or necessary; as, to furnish a family with provisions; to furnish arms for defense; to furnish a table; to furnish a library; to furnish one with money or implements.
2.  To supply; to store; as, to furnish the mind with ideas; to furnish one with knowledge or principles.
3.  To fit up; to supply with the proper goods, vessels or ornamental appendages; as, to furnish a house or a room.
4.  To equip; to fit for an expedition; to supply.


Topic: Furniture
Definition:
FUR'NITURE, n.
1.  Goods, vessels, utensils and other appendages necessary or convenient for housekeeping; whatever is added to the interior of a house or apartment, for use or convenience.
2.  Appendages; that which is added for use or ornament; as the earth with all its furniture.
3.  Equipage; ornaments; decorations; in a very general sense.


Topic: Furrow
Definition:
FUR'ROW, n.  [Gr. to plow.]
1.  A trench in the earth made by a plow.
2.  A long narrow trench or channel in wood or metal; a groove.
3.  A hollow made by wrinkles in the face.
FUR'ROW, v.t. 
1.  To cut a furrow; to make furrows in; to plow.
2.  To make long narrow channels or grooves in.
3.  To cut; to make channels in; to plow; as, to furrow the deep.
4.  To make hollows in by wrinkles.  Sorrow furrows the brow.


Topic: Furry
Definition:
FUR'RY, a.  [from fur.]  
1.  Covered with fur; dressed in fur.
2.  Consisting of fur or skins; as furry spoils.


Topic: Further
Definition:
FUR'THER, a.
1.  More or most distant; as the further end of the field.
2.  Additional.  We have a further reason for this opinion.  We have nothing further to suggest.
What further need have we of witnesses?  Matt. 26.
FUR'THER, adv.  To a greater distance.  He went further.
FUR'THER, v.t.
To help forward; to promote; to advance onward; to forward; hence, to help or assist.
This binds thee then to further my design.


Topic: Furtherance
Definition:
FUR'THERANCE, n.  A helping forward; promotion; advancement.
I know that I shall abide and continue with you all, for your furtherance and joy of faith.  Phil. 1.


Topic: Furuncle
Definition:
FU'RUNCLE, n.  [L. furunculus, furia, furo.]
A small tumor or boil, with inflammation and pain, arising under the skin in the adipose membrane.


Topic: Fury
Definition:
FU'RY, n.  [L. furor, furia, furo, to rage.]
1.  A violent rushing; impetuous motion; as the fury of the winds.
2.  Rage; a storm of anger; madness; turbulence.
I do oppose my patience to his fury.
3.  Enthusiasm; heat of the mind.
4.  In mythology, a deity; a goddess of vengeance; hence, a stormy turbulent, violent woman.


Topic: Fuse
Definition:
FUSE, v.t.  s as z.  [L. fundo, fusum, to pour out.]
To melt; to liquefy by heat; to render fluid; to dissolve.
FUSE, v.i.  To be melted; to be reduced from a solid to a fluid state by heat.


Topic: Fusee
Definition:
FUSEE', n.  s as z.  [L. fusus, a spindle, from fundo, fudi, fusum.]
The cone or conical part of a watch or clock, round which is wound the chain or cord.
FUSEE', n.  s as z.
1.  A small neat musket or firelock.  But we now use fusil.
2.  Fusee or fuse of a bomb or granade, a small pipe filled with combustible matter by which fire is communicated to the powder in the bomb; but as the matter burns slowly, time is given before the charge takes fire, for the bomb to reach its destination.
3.  The track of a buck.


Topic: Fusibility
Definition:
FUSIBIL'ITY, n.  [See fusible.]  The quality of being fusible, or of being convertible from a solid to a fluid state by heat.


Topic: Fusible
Definition:
FU'SIBLE, a s as z.  [L. fusus, from fundo.]
That may be melted or liquefied.  The earths are found to be fusible.


Topic: Fusil
Definition:
FU'SIL, a,  s as z.  [L. fusilis, from fusus,fundo.]
1.  Capable of being melted or rendered fluid by heat.
2.  Running; flowing, as a liquid.
FU'SIL, n. s as z.  [L. fusus, fundo.]
1.  A light musket or firelock.
2.  A bearing in heraldry of a rhomboidal figure, named from its shape, which resembles that of a spindle.


Topic: Fusileer
Definition:
FUSILEE'R,n.  [from fusil.]  Properly, a soldier armed with a fusil;but in modern times, a soldier armed like others of the infantry, and distinguished by wearing a cap like a grenadier, but somewhat shorter.


Topic: Fusion
Definition:
FU'SION, n.  s as z.  [L. fusio, from fundo, fusum.]
1.  The act or operation of melting or rendering fluid by heat,without the aid of a solvent; as the fusion of ice or of metals.
2.  The state of being melted or dissolved by heat; a state of fluidity or flowing in consequence of heat; as metals in fusion.
Watery fusion, the melting of certain crystals by heat in their own water of crystallization.


Topic: Fustian
Definition:
FUS'TIAN, n.
1.  A kind of cotton stuff, or stuff of cotton and linen.
2. An inflated style of writing; a kind of writing in which high sounding words are used, above the dignity of the thoughts or subject; a swelling style; bombast.
 Fustian is thoughts and words ill sorted.
FUS'TIAN, a. Made of fustian.
1.  In style, swelling above the dignity of the thoughts or subject; too pompous; ridiculously tumid; bombastic.


Topic: Fustic
Definition:
FUS'TIC, n.  [L. fustis.]  The wood of the Morus tinctoria, a tree growing in the West Indies, imported and used in dyeing yellow.


Topic: Fustigation
Definition:
FUSTIGA'TION, n.  [L. fustigatio, from fustigo, to beat with a cudgel, from fustis, a stick or club.]  Among the Ancient Romans, a punishment by beating with a stick or club, inflicted on freemen.


Topic: Futile
Definition:
FU'TILE, a.  [L. futilis, from futio, to pour out; effutio, to prate or babble; Heb. to utter rashly or foolishly.]
1.  Talkative; loquacious; tattling.
2.  Trifling; of no weight or importance; answering no valuable purpose; worthless.
3.  Of no effect.


Topic: Futility
Definition:
FUTIL'ITY, n.  Talkativeness; loquaciousness; loquacity.  [In this sense, not now used.]
1.  Triflingness; unimportance; want of weight or effect; as, to expose the futility of arguments.
2.  The quality of producing no valuable effect, or of coming to nothing; as the futility of measures or schemes.


Topic: Futtock
Definition:
FUT'TOCK, n.  It is more probably corrupted from foot-lock.]
In a ship, the futtocks are the middle timbers, between the floor and the upper timbers, or the timbers raised over the keel which form the breadth of the ship.


Topic: Future
Definition:
FU'TURE, a.  [L. futurus.]  That is to be or come hereafter; that will exist at any time after the present, indefinitely.  The next moment is future to the present.
1.  The future tense, in grammar, is the modification of a verb which expresses a future act or event.
FU'TURE, n.  Time to come; a time subsequent to the present; as, the future shall be as the present; in future; for the future.  In such phrases, time or season is implied.


Topic: Futurity
Definition:
FUTU'RITY, n.  Future time; time to come.
1.  Event to come.
All futurities are naked before the all-seeing eye.
2.  The state of being yet to come, or to come hereafter.


Topic: Fuzzball
Definition:
FUZZ'BALL, n.  A kind of fungus or mushroom, which when pressed bursts and scatters a fine dust.
1.  A puff.


Topic: Fy
Definition:
FY, exclam.  A word which expresses blame, dislike, disapprobation, abhorrence or contempt.
 Fy, my lord, fy! a solider, and afraid!


Topic: G
Definition:
G, the seventh letter and the fifth articulation of the English Alphabet, is derived to us, through the Latin and Greek, from the Assyrian languages; it being found in the Chaldee, Syriac, Hebrew, Samaritan, Phenician, Ethiopic and Arabic.  In the latter language, it is called giim or jim; ;but in the others, gimel, gomal or gamal, that is camel, from its shape. which resembles the neck of that animal, at least in the Chaldee and Hebrew.  It is the third letter in the Chaldee, Syriac, Hebrew, Samaritan and Greek; the fifth in the Arabic, and the twentieth in the Ethiopic.  The early Latins used C for the Greek gamma, and hence C came to hold the third place in the order of the Alphabet; the place which gimel holds in the oriental languages.  The two letters are primarily palatals, and so nearly allied in sound that they are easily convertible; and they have been reciprocally used the one for the other.  But in the Assyrian languages; gimel had two sounds; one hard or close, as we pronounce the letter in gave, good; the other soft, or rather compound, as the English j or as ch in chase.  In the Arabic, this letter has the sound of the English j or dzh, and this sound it has in many English words, as in genius, gem, ginger.  It retains its hard sound in all cases, before a, o and u; but before e, i and y, its sound is hard or soft, as custom has dictated,and its different sounds are not reducible to rules.  It is silent in some words before n, as in benign, condign, malign, campaign; but it resumes its sound inbenignityand malignity.  G is mute before n in gnash; it is silent also in many words when united with h, as in bright, might,night, nigh,high.  The Saxon g has in many words been softened or liquefied into y or ow; as Sax. daeg, gear, Eng. day, year; Sax. bugan, Eng. to Bow.
The Celtic nations had a peculiar manner of beginning the sound of u or w with the articulation g, or rather prefixing this articulation to that vowel.  Thus guard for ward,gwain for wain, guerre for war, gwell for well.  Whether this g has been added by the Celtic races, or whether the Teutonic nations have lost it, is a question I have not examined with particular attention.  As a numeral G was anciently used to denote 400, and with a dash over it G, 40,000.  As an abbreviation, it stands for Gaius, Geelius, &c.  In music, it is the mark of the treble cliff, and from its being placed at the head or marking the first sound in Guido's scale, the whole scale took the name, Gammut, from the Greek name of the letter. 


Topic: Ga
Definition:
GA, in Gothic, is a prefix, answering to ge in Saxon and other Teutonic languages.  It sometimes has the force of the Latin cum or con, as in gawithan, to conjoin.  But in most words it appears to have no use,and in modern English it is entirely lost.  Y-cleped, in which ge is changed into y, is the last word in which the English retained this prefix.


Topic: Gab
Definition:
GAB, n.  The mouth; as in the phrase, the gift of the gab, that is, loquaciousness.  But the word is so vulgar as rarely to be used.


Topic: Gabble
Definition:
GAB'BLE, v.i.  [Eng. to gibe.]
1.  To prate; to talk fast, or to talk without meaning.
 Such a rout, and such a rabble,
 Run to hear Jack Pudding gabble.
2.  To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity; as gabbling fowls.
GAB'BLE, n. Loud or rapid talk with meaning.
1.  Inarticulate sounds rapidly uttered, as of fowls.


Topic: Gabbro
Definition:
GAB'BRO, n.  In mineralogy, the name given by the Italians to the aggregate of diallage and saussurite.  It is the euphotide of the French, and the verde di Corcisa duro of artists.


Topic: Gabion
Definition:
GA'BION, n.  In fortification, a large basket of wickerwork, of a cylindrical form; filled with earth, and serving to shelter men from an enemy's fire.


Topic: Gable
Definition:
GA'BLE, n.  The triangular end of a house or other building, from the cornice or eaves to the top.  In America, it is usually called the gable-end. 


Topic: Gabrielites
Definition:
GA'BRIELITES, n.  In ecclesiastical history, a sect of anabaptists in Pomerania, so called from one Gabriel Scherling.


Topic: Gabronite
Definition:
GA'BRONITE, n. A mineral, supposed to be a variety of fettstein.  It occurs in masses,whose structure is more or less foliated, or sometimes compact.  Its colors are gray, bluish or greenish gray, and sometimes red.


Topic: Gad
Definition:
GAD, n.
1.  A wedge or ingot of steel.
2.  A style or graver.
3.  A punch of iron with a wooden handle, used by miners.
GAD, v.i.  
1.  To walk about; to rove or ramble idly or without any fixed purpose.
 Give the water no passage, neither a wicked woman liberty to gad abroad.
2.  To ramble in growth; as the gadding vine.


Topic: Gadfly
Definition:
GAD'FLY, n.  An insect of the genus Oestrus, which stings cattle, and deposits its eggs in their skin; called also the breeze.


Topic: Gadolinite
Definition:
GADO'LINITE, n.  A mineral, so called from Professor Gadolin, usually in amorphous masses of a blackish color,and having the appearance of vitreous lava.  It contains a new earth called yttria.


Topic: Gaffer
Definition:
GAF'FER, n. [Heb. gebar, a man, vir.]   A word or respect, which seems to have degenerated into a term of familiarity or contempt. [Little used.]


Topic: Gaffle
Definition:
GAF'FLE, n.
1.  An artificial spur put on cocks when the are set to fight.
2.  A steel lever to bend cross-bows.


Topic: Gag
Definition:
GAG, v.t.  
1.  To stop the mouth by thrusting something into the throat, so as to hinder speaking.
2.  To keck; to heave with nausea.
GAG, n.  Something thrust into the mouth and throat to hinder speaking.


Topic: Gage
Definition:
GAGE, n.  
1.  A box or inclosure, made of boards, or with lattice work of wood, wicker or wire, for confining birds or beasts.  For the confinement of the more strong and ferocious beasts, a cage is sometimes made of iron.
2.  An inclosure made with pallisades for confining wild beasts.
3.  A prison for petty criminals.
4.  In carpentry, an outer work of timber, inclosing another within it; as the cage of a wind mill or of a stair case.


Topic: Gahnite
Definition:
G'AHNITE, n.  [from Gahn, the discoverer.]  A mineral, called also automalite and octahedral corundum.  It is always crystallized in regular octahedrons, or in tetrahedrons with truncated angles.


Topic: Gaily
Definition:
GA'ILY, adv.  [from gay, and better written gayly.]
1.  Splendidly; with finery or showiness.
2.  Joyfully; merrily.


Topic: Gain
Definition:
GAIN, v.t.  [Heb. to gain, to possess.]
1.  To obtain by industry or the employment of capital; to get as profit or advantage; to acquire. Any industrious person may gain a good living in America; but it is less difficult to gain property, than it is to use it with prudence.  Money at interest may gain five, six, or seven per cent.
 What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world,and lose his own soul?  Matt.16.
2.  To win; to obtain by superiority or success; as, to gain a battle or a victory; to gain a prize; to gain a cause in law.
3.  To obtain; to acquire; to procure; to receive; as, to gain favor; to gain reputation.
 For fame with toil we gain, but lose with ease.
4.  To obtain an increase of anything; as, to gain time.
5.  To obtain or receive anything, good or bad; as, to gain harm and loss.  Acts. 27.
6.  To draw into any interest or party; to win to one's side; to conciliate.
 To gratify the queen,and gain the court.
 If he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.  Matt.18.
7.  To obtain as a suitor.
8.  To reach; to attain to; to arrive at; as, to gain the top of a mountain; to gain a good harbor.
To gain into, to draw or persuade to join in.
 He gained Lepidus into his measures.
To gain over, to draw to another party or interest; to win over.
To gain ground, to advance in any undertaking; to prevail; to acquire strength or extent; to increase.
GAIN, v.i.  To have advantage or profit; to grow rich; to advance in interest or happiness.
 Thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbors by extortion.  Ezek. 22.
1.  To encroach; to advance on; to come forward by degrees; with on; as, the ocean or river gains on the land.
2.  To advance nearer; to gain ground on; with on; as, a fleet horse gains on his competitor.
3.  To get ground; to prevail against or have the advantage.
 The English have not only gained upon the Venetians in the Levant, but have their cloth in Venice itself.
4.  To obtain influence with.
 My good behavior had so far gained on the emperor,that I began to conceive hopes of liberty.
To gain the wind, in sea language, is to arrive on the windward side of another ship.
GAIN, n.  Profit; interest; something obtained as an advantage.
 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.  Phil.3.
1.  Unlawful advantage.  2 Cor.12.
2.  Overplus in computation; any thing opposed to loss.
GAIN, n.  In architecture, a beveling shoulder; a lapping of timbers, or the cut that is made for receiving a timber.
GAIN, a.  Handy; dexterous.


Topic: Gainage
Definition:
GA'INAGE,n.  In old laws,the same as wainage, that is, guainage; the horses,oxen and furniture of the wain, or the instruments for carrying on tillage,which,when a villain was amerced, were left free, that cultivation might not be interrupted.  The word signifies also the land itself, or the profit made by cultivation.


Topic: Gainful
Definition:
GA'INFUL, a.  Producing profit or advantage; profitable; advantageous; advancing interest or happiness.
1.  Lucrative; productive of money; adding to the wealth or estate.


Topic: Gaingiving
Definition:
GA'INGIVING, n. [from the root of again, against, and give. See Gainsay.]   A misgiving; a giving against or away. [Not used.]


Topic: Gainsay
Definition:
GAINSA'Y, v.t.  [Eng. against.]  To contradict; to oppose in words; to deny or declare not to be true what another says; to controvert; to dispute; applied to persons, or to propositions, declarations or facts.
 I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.  Luke.21.


Topic: Gairish
Definition:
GA'IRISH, a.  [Gr. proud, boasting.]
1.  Gaudy; showy; fine; affectedly fine; tawdry.
 Monstrous hats and gairish colors.
2.  Extravagantly gay; flighty.
 Fame and glory transport a man out of himself; it makes the mind loose and gairish.


Topic: Gairishness
Definition:
GA'IRISHNESS, n.  Gaudiness; finery; affected or ostentatious show.
1.  Flighty or extravagant joy, or ostentation.


Topic: Gait
Definition:
GAIT, n.  [This word is probably connected with go or gad.]
1.  A going; a walk; a march; a way.
2.  Manner of walking or stepping.  Every man has his peculiar gait.


Topic: Gala
Definition:
GA'LA, n.  A gala day is a day of pomp, show or festivity, when persons appear in their best apparel.


Topic: Galactite
Definition:
GALAC'TITE, n.  [Gr. milk.]  A fossil substance resembling the morochthus or French chalk in many respects,but different in color.  Immersed or triturated in water, it gives it the color of milk.


Topic: Galanga
Definition:
GALAN'GA, n.  A plant, species of the Maranta or Indian Arrow-Root, so called because the root is used to extract the virus communicated by poisoned arrows.  This plant has thick, knotty, creeping roots, crowned with long, broad, arundinaceous leaves, with stalks half a yard high, terminated by bunches of monopetalous, ringent flowers.


Topic: Galangal
Definition:
GALAN'GAL, n.  Zedoary, a species of Kaempferia.  It has tuberous,thick, oblong,fleshy roots, crowned with oval close-sitting leaves, by pairs,without footstalks.


Topic: Galatians
Definition:
GALA'TIANS, n.  Inhabitants of Galatia, in the Lesser Asia, said to be descendants of the Gauls.  [See Paul's epistle to them.]


Topic: Galaxy
Definition:
GAL'AXY, n.  [Gr. milk; fair.]
1.  The milky way; that long, white, luminous track which seems to encompass the heavens like a girdle.  This luminous appearance is found by the telescope to be occasioned by a multitude of stars, so small as not to be distinguished by the naked eye.
2.  An assemblage of splendid persons or things.


Topic: Gale
Definition:
GALE, n.  A current of air; a strong wind.  The sense of this word is very indefinite.  The poets use it in the sense of a moderate breeze of current of air, as a gentle gale.  A stronger wind is called a fresh gale.
In the language of seamen, the word gale,unaccompanied by an epithet, signifies a vehement wind, a storm or tempest.  They say, the ship carried away her top-mast in a gale, or gale of wind; the ship rode out the gale. But the word is often qualified, as a hard or strong gale, a violent gale.  A current of wind somewhat less violent is denominated a stiff gale.  A less vehement wind is called a fresh gale, which is a wind not too strong for a ship to carry single reefed top-sails, when close hauled. When the wind is not so violent but that a ship will carry her top-sails a-trip or full spread, it is called a loom-gale.
GALE, v.i.  In seamen's language, to sail, or sail fast.


Topic: Galeated
Definition:
GA'LEATED, a.  [L. galeatus, from galea, a helmet.]
1.  Covered as with a helmet.
2.  In botany, having a flower like a helmet, as the monk's-hood.


Topic: Galeeto
Definition:
GALEE'TO, n.  A fish of the genus Blennius, of a greenish color, sometimes variegated with blue transverse lines, and like the eel, living many hours after being taken from the water.


Topic: Galena
Definition:
GALE'NA, n.  [Gr. tranquillity, so named from its supposed effects in mitigating the violence of disease.]  Originally, the name of the theriaca.
1.  Sulphuret of lead; its common color is that shining bluish gray, usually called lead gray; sometimes it is nearly steel gray. Its streak has a metallic luster, but its fine powder is nearly black.  Its structure is commonly foliated, sometimes granular or compact, and sometimes striated or fibrous.  It occurs in regular crystals, or more frequently massive.


Topic: Galic
Definition:
GA'LIC, a.  [from Gael, Gaul, Gallia.]  An epithet denoting what belongs to the Gaels, tribes of Celtic origin inhabiting the highlands of Scotland; as the Gaelic language.


Topic: Galilean
Definition:
GALILE'AN, n.  A native or inhabitant of Galilee, in Judea. Also, one of a sect among the Jews, who opposed the payment of tribute to the Romans.


Topic: Galiot
Definition:
GAL'IOT, n.  [L. galea.]
1.  A small galley, or sort of brigantine, built for chase.  It is moved both by sails and oars, having one mast and sixteen or twenty seats for rowers.
2.  Galiot or galliott, a Dutch vessel, carrying a main-mast and a mizen-mast, and a large gaff main-sail.


Topic: Galipot
Definition:
GAL'IPOT, n.  A white resin or resinous juice which flows by incision from the pine tree, especially the maritime pine.  Galipot encrusts the wounds of fir trees during winter.  It consists of resin and oil.


Topic: Gall
Definition:
GALL, n.  [Gr. probably from its color.]
1.  In the animal economy, the bile, a bitter, a yellowish green fluid, secreted in the glandular substance of the liver.  It is glutinous or imperfectly fluid, like oil.
2.  Any thing extremely bitter.
3.  Rancor; malignity.
4.  Anger; bitterness of mind.


Topic: Gallant
Definition:
GAL'LANT, a.  [Eng. could; L. gallus, a cock.]
1.  Gay; well dressed; showy; splendid; magnificent.
 Neither shall gallant ships pass thereby. Is.33.
 The gay, the wise, the gallant, and the grave.
 [This sense is obsolete.]
2.  Brave; high-spirited; courageous; heroic; magnanimous; as a gallant youth; a gallant officer.
3.  Fine; noble.
4.  Courtly; civil; polite and attentive to ladies; courteous.


Topic: Gallantly
Definition:
GAL'LANTLY, adv.  Gaily; splendidly.
1.  Bravely; nobly; heroically; generously; as, to fight gallantly; to defend a place gallantly.


Topic: Gallantry
Definition:
GAL'LANTRY, n.
1.  Splendor of appearance; show; magnificence; ostentatious finery.  [Obsolete or obsolescent.]
2.  Bravery; courageousness; heroism; intrepidity.  The troops entered the fort with great gallantry.
3.  Nobleness; generosity.
4.  Civility or polite attentions to ladies.
5.  Vicious love or pretensions to love; civilities paid to females for the purpose of winning favors; hence, lewdness; debauchery.


Topic: Gallbladder
Definition:
GALLBLADDER, n.  A small membranous sack, shaped like a pear, which receives the bile from the liver by the cystic duct.


Topic: Galled
Definition:
GALL'ED, pp.  [See Gall, the verb.]  Having the skin or surface worn or torn by wearing or rubbing; fretted; teased;injured; vexed.


Topic: Galleon
Definition:
GAL'LEON, n.  A large ship formerly used by the Spaniards, in their commerce with South America, usually furnished with four decks.


Topic: Gallery
Definition:
GAL'LERY,n.  
1.  In architecture, a covered part of a building, commonly in the wings, used as an ambulatory or place for walking.
2.  An ornamental walk or apartment in gardens, formed by trees.
3.  In churches, a floor elevated on columns and furnished with pews or seats; usually ranged on three sides of the edifice.  A similar structure in a play-house.
4.  In fortification, a covered walk across the ditch of a town, made of beams covered with planks and loaded with earth.
5.  In a mine, a narrow passage or branch of the mine carried under ground to a work designed to be blown up.
6.  In a ship, a frame like a balcony projecting from the stern or quarter of a ship of war or of a large merchantman.  That part at the stern, is called the stern-gallery; that at the quarters,the quarter-gallery.


Topic: Galley
Definition:
GAL'LEY, n.  plu. galleys.  [L. galea. The Latin word signifies a helmet,the top of a mast, and a galley; and the name of this vessel seems to have been derived from the head-piece, or kind of basket-work, at mast-head.]
1.  A low flat-built vessel, with one deck, and navigated with sails and oars; used in the Mediterranean.  The largest sort of galleys, employed by the Venetians, are 162 feet in length, or 133 feet keel.  They have three masts and thirty two banks of oars; each bank containing two oars, and each oar managed by six or seven slaves.  In the fore-part they carry three small batteries of cannon.
2.  A place of toil and misery.
3.  An open boat used on the Thames by custom-house officers, press-gangs, and for pleasure.
4.  The cook room or kitchen of a ship of war; answering to the caboose of a merchantman.
5.  An oblong reverberatory furnace, with a row of retorts whose necks protrude through lateral openings.


Topic: Gallic
Definition:
GAL'LIC, a. [From Gallia, Gaul.]   Now pertaining to Gaul or France.
GAL'LIC, a.  [from gall.]  Belonging to galls or oak apples; derived from galls; as the gallic acid.


Topic: Gallican
Definition:
GAL'LICAN, a.  [L. gallicus, from Gallia, Gaul.]  Pertaining to Gaul or France; as the Gallican church or clergy.


Topic: Gallicism
Definition:
GAL'LICISM, n.  A mode of speech peculiar to the French nation; an idiomatic manner of using words in the French language.


Topic: Gallimaufry
Definition:
GAL'LIMAUFRY, n.  A hash; a medley; a hodge-podge.  [Little used.]
1.  Any inconsistent or ridiculous medley.
2.  A woman.  [Not in used.]


Topic: Gallinaceous
Definition:
GALLINA'CEOUS, a.  [L. gallinaceus, from gallina, a hen, gallus, a cock, whose name is from crowing; Eng. to call.]
1.  Designating that order of fowls called gallinoe, including the domestic fowls or those of the pheasant kind.
Gallinaceus Lapis, a glossy substance produced by volcanic fires; the lapis obsidianus of the ancients.  A kind of it brought from Peru is of a beautiful black, or crow-color, like the gallinaco.


Topic: Galling
Definition:
GALL'ING, ppr.  [See Gall, the verb.]
1.  Fretting the skin; excoriating.
2.  Adapted to fret or chagrin; vexing.


Topic: Gallinule
Definition:
GAL'LINULE, n.  [L. gallinula, dim. of gallina, a hen.]
A tribe of fowls of the grallic order, included under the genus Fulica, with the coot.


Topic: Gallon
Definition:
GAL'LON, n.  [Law L. galona.]  A measure of capacity for dry or liquid things, but usually for liquids, containing four quarts.  But the gallon is not in all cases of uniform contents or dimensions.  The gallon of wine contains 231 cubic inches, or eight pounds avordupois of pure water.  The gallon of beer and ale contains 281 cubic inches, or ten pounds three ounces and a quarter avordupois of water; and the gallon of corn, meal, &c., 272 1/4 cubic inches, or nine pounds thirteen ounces of pure water.


Topic: Gallop
Definition:
GAL'LOP, v.i.  
1.  To move or run with leaps, as a horse to run or move with speed. 
 But gallop lively down the western hill.
2.  To ride with a galloping pace.  
 We galloped towards the enemy.
3.  To move very fast; to run over.
 Such superficial ideas he may collect in galloping over it.
GAL'LOP, n.  The movement or pace of a quadruped, particularly of a horse,by springs, reaches or leaps.  The animal lifts his fore feet nearly at the same time, and as these descend and are just ready to touch the ground, the hind feet are lifted at once.  The gallop is the swiftest pace of a horse, but it is also a moderate pace, at the pleasure of a rider.


Topic: Galloper
Definition:
GAL'LOPER, n.  A horse that gallops; also, a man that gallops or makes haste.
1.  In artillery, a carriage which bears a gun of a pound and a half ball.  It has shafts so as to be drawn without a limbon, and it may serve for light three and six pounders.


Topic: Gallows
Definition:
GAL'LOWS, n.  singular. [Gallows is in the singular number and should be preceded by a, a gallows.  The plural is gallowses.]
1.  An instrument of punishment whereon criminals are executed by hanging.  It consists of two posts and a cross beam on the top, to which the criminal is suspended by a rope fastened round his neck.
2.  A wretch that deserves the gallows. [Not used.]


Topic: Galoche
Definition:
GALO'CHE, n.  A patten, clog or wooden shoe, or a shoe to be worn over another shoe to keep the foot dry.  It is written also galoshe.


Topic: Galvanism
Definition:
GAL'VANISM, n.  [from Galvani of Bologna, the discover.]
Electrical phenomena in which the electricity is developed without the aid of friction, and in which a chimical action takes place between certain bodies.
Galvanism is heat, light, electricity and magnetism, united in combination or in simultaneous action; sometimes one and sometimes another of them predominating, and thus producing more or less all the effects of each: usual means of excitement, contact of dissimilar bodies, especially of metals and fluids.


Topic: Galvanology
Definition:
GALVANOL'OGY, n.  [galvanism, and Gr. discourse.]
A treatise on galvanism, or a description of its phenomena.


Topic: Galvanometer
Definition:
GALVANOM'ETER, n.  [galvanism, and Gr. measure.]
An instrument or apparatus for measuring minute quantities of electricity, or the operations of galvanism.


Topic: Gambet
Definition:
GAM'BET, n.  A bird of the size of the greenshank, found in the Arctic sea, and in Scandinavia and Iceland.


Topic: Gamble
Definition:
GAM'BLE, v.i.  [from game.]  To play or game for money or other stake.
GAM'BLE, v.t.  To gamble away, is to squander by gaming.
 Bankrupts or sots who have gambled or slept away their estates.


Topic: Gambler
Definition:
GAM'BLER, n.  One who games or plays for money or other stake.  Gamblers often or usually become cheats and knaves.


Topic: Gamboge
Definition:
GAMBO'GE, n.  A concrete vegetable juice or gum-resin.  It is brought in orbicular masses or cylindrical rolls, from Cambaja, Cambodja, or Cambogia, in the E. Indies, whence its name.  It is of a dense, compact texture, and of a beautiful reddish yellow.  It is used chiefly as a pigment.  Taken internally, it is a strong and harsh cathartic and emetic.


Topic: Gambol
Definition:
GAM'BOL, v.i.
1.  To dance and skip about in sport; to frisk; to leap; to play in frolic,like boys and lambs.
2.  To leap; to start.
GAM'BOL, n. A skipping or leaping about in frolic; a skip; a hop; a leap; a sportive prank.


Topic: Gambrel
Definition:
GAM'BREL, n.  The hind leg of a horse.  Hence, in America, a crooked stick used by butchers.  A hipped roof is called a gambrel-roof.
GAM'BREL, v.t.  To tie by the leg.


Topic: Game
Definition:
GAME, n.  
1.  Sport of any kind.
2.  Jest; opposed to earnest; as, betwixt earnest and game.  [Not used.]
3.  An exercise or play for amusement or winning a stake; as a game of cricket; a game of chess; a game of whist.  Some games depend on skill; others on hazard.
4.  A single match at play.
5.  Advantage in play; as, to play the game into another's hand.
6.  Scheme pursued; measures planned.
 This seems to be the present game of that crown.
7.  Field sports; the chase, falconry, &c.
8.  Animals pursued or taken in the chase, or in the sports of the field; animals appropriated in England to legal sportsmen; as deer, hares, &c.
9.  In antiquity, games were public diversions or contests exhibited as spectacles for the gratification of the people.  These games consisted of running, leaping, wrestling, riding, &c. Such were the Olympic games, the Pythian, the Isthmian, the Nemean, &c, among the Greeks; and among the Romans, the Apollinarian, the Circensian, the Capitoline, &c.
    10. Mockery; sport; derision; as, to make game of a person.
GAME, v.i.  To play at any sport or diversion.
1.  To play for a stake or prize; to use cards, dice, billiards or other instruments, according to certain rules, with a view to win money or other thing waged upon the issue of the contest.
2.  To practice gaming.


Topic: Gamekeeper
Definition:
GA'MEKEEPER, n.  One who has the care of game; one who is authorized to preserve beasts of the chase, or animals kept for sport.


Topic: Gamester
Definition:
GA'MESTER, n.
1.  A person addicted to gaming; one who is accustomed to play for money or other stake, at cards, dice, billiards and the like; a gambler; one skilled in games.
 It is as easy to be a scholar as a gamester.
2.  One engaged at play.
3.  A merry, frolicsome person.  [Not used.]
4.  A prostitute.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Gaming
Definition:
GA'MING, ppr.  Playing; sporting; playing for money.
GA'MING, n.  The act or art of playing any game in a context for a victory, or for a prize or stake.
1.  The practice of using cards, dice, billiards and the like, according to certain rules, for winning money, &c.


Topic: Gammon
Definition:
GAM'MON, n.
1.  The buttock or thigh of a hog, pickled and smoked or dried; a smoked ham.
2.  A game, called usually back-gammon, which see.
GAM'MON, v.t.  To make bacon; to pickle and dry in smoke.
1.  To fasten a bowsprit to the stem of a ship by several turns of a rope.
GAM'MON, v.t.  In the game of back-gammon, the party that, by fortunate throws of the dice or by superior skill in moving, withdraws all his men from the board, before his antagonist has been able to get his men home and withdraw any of them from his table, gammons his antagonist.


Topic: Gammut
Definition:
GAM'MUT, n.  [from the Greek letter so named.]
1.  A scale on which notes in music are written or printed, consisting of lines and spaces, which are named after the seven first letters of the alphabet.
2.  The first or gravest note in Guido's scale of music, the modern scale.


Topic: Gang
Definition:
GANG, v.i.  To go; to walk.  [Local, or used only in ludicrous language.]
GANG, n. [G., a metallic vein, a streak in a mine.]  
1. Properly, a going; hence, a number of going in company; hence, a company, or a number of persons associated for a particular purpose; as a gang of thieves.
2.  In seamen's language, a select number of a ship's crew appointed on a particular service, under a suitable officer.
3. In mining, literally a course or vein, but appropriately the earthy, stony, saline or combustible substance which contains the ore of metals, or is only mingled with it, without being chemically combined. This is called the gang or matrix of the ore. It differs from a mineralizer, in not being combined with the metal. 
[ This word, in the latter sense, is most unwarrantably and erroneously written gangue.]


Topic: Ganglion
Definition:
GANG'LION, n.  In anatomy, a small circumscribed tumor, found in certain parts of the nervous system.
1.  In surgery, a movable tumor formed on the tendons, generally about the wrist.


Topic: Gangrene
Definition:
GAN'GRENE, n.  [L. gangroena.]  A mortification of living flesh, or of some part of a living animal body.  It is particularly applied to the first state of mortification, before the life of the part is completely extinct.  When the part is completely dead, it is called sphacelus.
GAN'GRENE, v.t.  To mortify, or to begin mortification in.
GAN'GRENE, v.i.  To become mortified.


Topic: Gangue
Definition:
GANGUE, n. gang.  [See Gang.]  In mining, the earthy, stony, saline, or combustible substance, which contains the ore of metals, or is only mingled with it without being chimically combined,is called the gangue or matrix of the ore.  It differs from a mineralizer, in not being combined with the metal.


Topic: Gangway
Definition:
GANG'WAY, n.  A passage, way or avenue into or out of any inclosed place, especially a passage into or out of a ship, or from one part of a ship to another; also, a narrow platform of planks laid horizontally along the upper part of a ship's side, from the quarter deck to the forecastle.
To bring to the gangway, in the discipline of ships, is to punish a seaman by seizing him up and flogging him.


Topic: Gangweek
Definition:
GANG'WEEK, n.  Rogation week, when processions are made to lustrate or survey the bounds of parishes.


Topic: Gannet
Definition:
GAN'NET, n.  The Solan Goose, a fowl of the genus Pelicanus, about seven pounds in weight, with a straight bill, six inches long, and palmated feet.  These fowls frequent the isles of Scotland in summer, and feed chiefly on herrings.


Topic: Gant
Definition:
GANT, a.  gant.  Vacant; hollow; empty, as an animal after long fasting; hence, lean; meager; thin; slender.


Topic: Ganza
Definition:
GAN'ZA, n.  A kind of wold goose, by a flock of which a virtuoso was fabled to be carried to the lunar world.


Topic: Gaol
Definition:
GAOL, n. A prison; a place for the confinement of debtors and criminals.
GAOL, v.t. To imprison; to confine in prison.


Topic: Gaoldelivery
Definition:
GAOLDELIV'ERY, n.  A judicial process for clearing jails of criminals, by trial and condemnation or acquittal.


Topic: Gap
Definition:
GAP, n.  [See Gape and Gab.]
1.  An opening in any thing made by breaking or parting; as a gap in a fence or wall.
2.  A breach.
 Manifold miseries ensued by the opening of that gap to all that side of christendom.
3.  Any avenue or passage; way of entrance or departure.
4.  A breach; a defect; a flaw; as a gap in honor or reputation.
5.  An interstice; a vacuity.
 A third can fill the gap with laughing.
6.  A  hiatus; a chasm; as a gap between words.
To stop a gap, to secure a weak point; to repair a defect.
To stand in the gap, to expose one's self for the protection of something; to make defense against any assailing danger.  Ezek. 22.


Topic: Gape
Definition:
G`APE, v.i.  
1.  To open the mouth wide, from sleepiness, drowsiness or dullness; to yawn.
2.  To open the mouth for food, as young birds.
3.  To gape for or after, to desire earnestly; to crave; to look and long for; as, men often gape after court favor.
 The hungry grave for her due tribute gapes.
 To gape at, in a like sense, is hardly correct.
4.  To open in fissures or crevices; as a gaping rock.
 May that ground gape, and swallow me alive.
5.  To have a hiatus; as one vowel gaping on another.
6.  To open the mouth in wonder or surprise; as the gaping fool; the gaping crowd.
7.  To utter sound with open throat.
8.  To open the mouth with hope or expectation.
9.  To open the mouth with a desire to injure or devour.
 They have gaped upon me with their mouth.  Job.16.


Topic: Gaper
Definition:
G`APER, n.  One who gapes; a yawner.
1.  One who opens his mouth for wonder and stares foolishly.
2.  One who longs or craves.
3.  A fish with six or seven bands and tail undivided.


Topic: Gaping
Definition:
G`APING, ppr.  Opening the mouth wide from sleepiness, dullness, wonder or admiration; yawning; opening in fissures; craving.


Topic: Garb
Definition:
G`ARB, n.  
1.  Dress; clothes; habit; as the garb of a clergyman or judge.
2.  Fashion or mode of dress.
3.  Exterior appearance; looks.
4. In heraldry, a sheaf of corn.


Topic: Garbage
Definition:
G`ARBAGE, n.  [I know not the component parts of this word.]  The bowels of an animal; refuse parts of flesh; offal.


Topic: Garble
Definition:
G`ARBLE, v.t.  [L. cribro, cribello.]
1.  Properly, to sift or bolt; to separate the fine or valuabale parts of a substance from the coarse and useless parts,or from dross or dirt; as, to garble spices.
2.  To separate; to pick; to cull out.


Topic: Garbler
Definition:
G`ARBLER, n.  One who garbles, sifts or separates.  A garbler of spices, is an officer of great antiquity in London.
1.  One who picks out, culls or selects.


Topic: Garboard
Definition:
G`ARBOARD, n. The garboard plank, in a ship, is the first plank fastened on the keel on the outside.
Garboard-streak, in a ship, is the first range or streak of planks laid on a ship's bottom, next the keel.


Topic: Garden
Definition:
G`ARDEN, n.  [Eng. yard, an inclosed place; L. hortus.]
1.  A piece of ground appropriated to the cultivation of herbs, or plants, fruits and flowers; usually near a mansion-house. Land appropriated to the raising of culinary herbs and roots for domestic use, is called a kitchen-garden; that appropriated to flowers and shrubs is called a flower garden; and that to fruits, is called a fruit garden.  But these uses are sometimes blended.
2.  A rich, well cultivated spot or tract of country; a delightful spot. The intervals on the river Connecticut are all a garden.  Lombardy is the garden of Italy.
Garden, in composition, is used adjectively, as garden-mold, a rich fine mold or soil; garden-tillage,the tillage used in cultivating gardens.
G`ARDEN, v.i.  To layout and to cultivate a garden; to prepare ground to plant and till it, for the purpose of producing plants, shrubs, flowers and fruits.


Topic: Gardening
Definition:
G`ARDENING, ppr.  Cultivating or tilling a garden.
G`ARDENING, n.  The act of laying out and cultivating gardens; horticulture.


Topic: Gargarism
Definition:
G`ARGARISM, n.  [L. gargarismus; Gr. to wash the mouth; allied probably to gorge, the throat.]
A gargle; any liquid preparation used to wash the mouth and throat, to cure inflammations or ulcers, &c.


Topic: Garget
Definition:
G`ARGET, n.  [See Gorge.]  A distemper in cattle, consisting in a swelling of the throat and the neighboring parts.


Topic: Gargle
Definition:
G`ARGLE, v.t.  [Eng. to gurgle.]
1.  To wash the throat and mouth with a liquid preparation, which is kept from descending into the stomach by a gentle expiration of air.
2.  To warble; to play in the throat.  [Unusual.]


Topic: Garland
Definition:
G`ARLAND, n.  [L. gyrus.  It seems to denote something round or twisted, for in Spanish it is used for a wreath or cordage or puddening.]
1.  A wreath or chaplet made of branches, flowers, fethers and sometimes of precious stones, to be worn on the head like a crown.
2.  A ornament of flowers, fruits and leaves intermixed, anciently used at the gates of temples where feasts and solemn rejoicings were held.
3.  The top; the principal thing, or thing most prized.
4.  A collection of little printed pieces.
5.  In ships, a sort of net used by sailors instead of a locker or cupboard.
G`ARLAND, v.t.  To deck with a garland.


Topic: Garlic
Definition:
G`ARLIC, n.  A plant of the genus Allium, having a bulbous root, a very strong smell, and an acrid, pungent taste.  Each root is composed of several lesser bulbs, called cloves of garlic, inclosed in a common membranous coat and easily separable.


Topic: Garlicpear-tree
Definition:
G`ARLICPEAR-TREE, n.  A tree in Jamaica, the Crateva, bearing a fruit which has a strong scent of garlic.  


Topic: Garment
Definition:
G`ARMENT, n.  Any article of clothing, as a coat, a gown, &c.  Garments, in the plural, denotes clothing in general; dress.
No man putteth a piece of new cloth to an old garment.  Matt.9.


Topic: Garner
Definition:
G`ARNER, n.  A granary; a building or place where grain is stored for preservation.
G`ARNER, v.t.  To store in a granary.


Topic: Garnet
Definition:
G`ARNET, n.  [L. granatus, from granum, or granatum, the pomegranate.]
1.  A mineral usually occurring in crystals more or less regular.  The crystals have numerous sides, from twelve to sixty or even eighty four. Its prevailing color is red of various shades, but often brown, and sometimes green, yellow or black.  It sometimes resembles the hyacinth, the leucite,and the idocrase.  Of this gem there are several varieties, as the precious or oriental, the pyrope, the topazolite,the succinite,the common garnet, the melanite, the pyreneite, the grossular, the allochroite,and the colophonite.
2.  In ships, a sort of tackle fixed to the main stay, and used to hoist in and out the cargo.


Topic: Garnish
Definition:
G`ARNISH, v.t.  
1.  To adorn; to decorate with appendages; to set off.
 All within with flowers was garnished.
2.  To fit with fetters; a cant term.
3.  To furnish; to supply; as a fort garnished with troops.
4.  In law, to warn; to give notice.  [See Garnishee.]
G`ARNISH, n.  Ornament; something added for embellishment; decoration.
 Matter and figure they produce;
 For garnish this, and that for use.
1.  In jails, fetters; a cant term.
2.  Pensiuncula carceraria; a fee; an acknowledgment in money when first a prisoner goes to jail.


Topic: Garnishee
Definition:
GARNISHEE', n.  In law, one in whose hands the property of an absconding or absent debtor is attached, who is warned or notified of the demand or suit, and who may appear and defend in the suit, in the place of the principal.


Topic: Garnishment
Definition:
G`ARNISHMENT, n.  Ornament; embellishment.
1.  Warning; legal notice to the agent or attorney of an absconding debtor.
2.  A fee.


Topic: Garrison
Definition:
GAR'RISON, n.  [English, garnish; warren, and from this root we have warrant and guaranty, as well as guard and regard, all from one source.
1.  A body of troops stationed in a fort or fortified town, to defend it against an enemy, or to keep the inhabitants in subjection.
2.  A fort, castle or fortified town, furnished with troops to defend it.
3.  The state of being placed in a fortification for its defense; as troops laid in garrison.
GAR'RISON, v.t.  To place troops in a fortress for its defense; to furnish with soldiers; as, to garrison a fort or town.
1.  To secure or defend by fortresses manned with troops; as, to garrison a conquered territory.


Topic: Garrulity
Definition:
GARRU'LITY, n.  [L. garrulitas, from garrio, to prate.]
Talkativeness; loquacity; the practice or habit of talking much; a babbling or tattling.


Topic: Garter
Definition:
G`ARTER, n.
1.  A string or band used to tie a stocking to the leg.
2.  The badge of an order of knighthood in Great Britain, called the order of the garter, instituted by Edward III.  This order is a college or corporation.
3.  The principal king at arms.
4.  The term in heraldry, signifying the half of a bend.
G`ARTER, v.t.  To bind with a garter.
1.  To invest with the order of the garter.


Topic: Garth
Definition:
GARTH, n.
1.  A dam or wear for catching fish.
2.  A close; a little backside; a yard; a croft; a garden.  [Not used.]


Topic: Gas
Definition:
GAS, n.
In chimistry, a permanently elastic aeriform fluid, or a substance reduced to the state of an aeriform fluid by its permanent combination with caloric.
Gases are invisible except when colored, which happens in two or three instances.


Topic: Gash
Definition:
GASH, n.  [I know not through what channel we have received this word.  It may be allied to chisel.]
A deep and long cut; an incision of considerable length, particularly in flesh.
GASH, v.i. To make a gash, or long, deep incision; applied chiefly to incisions in flesh.


Topic: Gasify
Definition:
GAS'IFY, v.t. [gas and L. facio, to make.]   To convert into gas or an aeriform fluid by combination with caloric.


Topic: Gasket
Definition:
GAS'KET, n.  A plaited cord fastened to the sail-yard of a ship,and used to furl or tie the sail to the yard.


Topic: Gaslight
Definition:
GAS'LIGHT, n.  Light produced by the combustion of carbureted hydrogen gas.  Gaslights are now substituted for oil lights, in illuminating streets and apartments in houses.


Topic: Gasometer
Definition:
GASOM'ETER, n.  [gas]  In chimistry, an instrument or apparatus, intended to measure, collect, preserve or mix different gases.
An instrument for measuring the quantity of gas employed in an experiment; also, the place where gas is prepared for lighting streets.


Topic: Gasometry
Definition:
GASOM'ETRY, n. The science, art or practice of measuring gases.  It teaches also the nature and properties of these elastic fluids.


Topic: Gasp
Definition:
G`ASP, v.i.
1.  To open the mouth wide in catching the breath or in laborious respiration; particularly in dying.
2.  To long for.  [Not in use.]
G`ASP, v.t.  To emit breath by opening wide the mouth.
 And with short sobs he gasps away his breath.
G`ASP, n.  The act of opening the mouth to catch the breath.
1.  The short catch of the breath in the agonies of death.


Topic: Gastric
Definition:
GAS'TRIC, a.  [from Gr. the belly or stomach.]
Belonging to the belly, or rather to the stomach.  The gastric juice is a thin, pellucid liquor, separated by the capillary exhaling arteries of the stomach, which open upon its internal tunic.  It is the principal agent in digestion.


Topic: Gastriloquist
Definition:
GASTRIL'OQUIST, n.  [Gr. belly, and L. loquor, to speak.]
Literally, one who speaks from his belly or stomach; hence, one who so modified his voice that it seems to come from another person or place.


Topic: Gastromancy
Definition:
GAS'TROMANCY, n.  [Gr. belly, and divination.]
A kind of divination among the ancients by means of words seeming to be uttered from the belly.


Topic: Gastroraphy
Definition:
GASTROR'APHY, n.  [Gr. belly, and a sewing or suture.]
The operation of sewing of wounds of the abdomen.


Topic: Gate
Definition:
GATE, n.
1.  A large door which gives entrance into a walled city, a castle, a temple, palace or other large edifice.  It differs from door chiefly in being larger.  Gate signifies both the opening or passage, and the frame of boards, planks or timber which closes the passage.
2. A frame of timber which opens or closes a passage into any court, garden or other inclosed ground; also, the passage.
3.  The frame which shuts or stops the passage of water through a dam into a flume.
4.  An avenue; an opening; a way.
In scripture, figuratively, power, dominion.  'Thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;'  that is, towns and fortresses.  Gen.22.
The gates of hell, are the power and dominion of the devil and his instruments. Matt.16.
The gates of death, are the brink of the grave. Ps.9.


Topic: Gatevein
Definition:
GA'TEVEIN, n. The vena portae, a large vein which conveys the blood from the abdominal viscera into the liver.


Topic: Gateway
Definition:
GA'TEWAY, n.  A way through the gate of some inclosure.
1.  A building to be passed at the entrance of the area before a mansion.


Topic: Gather
Definition:
GATH'ER, v.t.  
1.  To bring together; to collect a number of separate things into one place or into one aggregate body.
 Gather stones; and they took stones,and made a heap. Gen.31.
2.  To get in harvest; to reap or cut and bring into barns or stores.  Levit. 25.20. 
3.  To pick up; to glean; to get in small parcels and bring together.
 Gather out the stones. Is.62.
 He must gather up money by degrees.
4.  To pluck; to collect by cropping, picking or plucking.
 Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Matt.7.
5.  To assemble; to congregate; to bring persons into one place.  Ezek. 22.19.
6.  To collect in abundance; to accumulate; to amass.
 I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings.  Eccles.2.
7.  To select and take; to separate from others and bring together.
 Save us, O Lord our God, and gather us from among the heathen.  Ps.106.
8.  To sweep together.
 The kingdom of heaven is like a net that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind.  Matt.13.
9.  To bring into one body or interest.
 Yet will I gather others to him.  Is.56.
    10. To draw together from a state of expansion or diffusion; to contract.
 Gathering his flowing robe he seemed to stand,
 In act to speak, and graceful stretch'd his hand.
    11. To gain.
 He gathers ground upon her in the chase.
    12. To pucker; to plait.
    13. To deduce by inference; to collect or learn by reasoning. From what I hear I gather that he was present.
 After he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavored to go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord had called us to preach the gospel to them.  Acts.16.
    14. To coil as a serpent.
 To gather breath, to have respite.
GATH'ER, v.i.  To collect; to unite; to increase; to be condensed.  The clouds gather in the west.
1.  To increase; to grow larger by accretion of like matter.
 Their snow ball did not gather as it went.
2.  To assemble.  The people gather fast.
3.  To generate pus or matter.  [See Gathering.]


Topic: Gathering
Definition:
GATH'ERING, ppr. Collecting; assembling; drawing together; plaiting; wrinkling.
GATH'ERING, n.  The act of collecting or assembling.
1.  Collection; a crowd; an assembly.
2.  Charitable contribution.  1 Cor.16.
3.  A tumor suppurated or maturated; a collection of pus; an abscess.


Topic: Gaud
Definition:
GAUD, v.i.  [L. gaudeo, to rejoice.]  To exult; to rejoice.
GAUD, n.  [L. gaudium.]  An ornament; something worn for adorning the person; a fine thing.


Topic: Gaudy
Definition:
GAUD'Y, a.  Showy; splendid; gay.
 A goldfinch there I saw, with gaudy pride
 Of painted plumes--
1.  Ostentatiously fine; gay beyond the simplicity of nature or good taste.
 Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
 But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy.
GAUD'Y, n.  A feast or festival; a word in the university.


Topic: Gauge
Definition:
GAUGE, v.t. gage.
1.  To measure or to ascertain the contents of a cask or vessel, as a pipe, puncheon, hogshead, barrel, tierce or keg.
2.  To measure in respect to proportion.
 The vanes nicely gauged on each side--
GAUGE, n.  gage.  A measure; a standard of measure.
1.  Measure; dimensions.


Topic: Gauging
Definition:
GA'UGING, ppr.  Measuring a cask; ascertaining dimensions or proportions of quantity.
GA'UGING, n. The art of measuring the contents or capacities of vessels of any form.


Topic: Gavel
Definition:
GAV'EL, n.  In law, tribute; toll; custom. [See Gable.]
GAV'EL, n.
1.  A small parcel of wheat, rye or other grain, laid together by reapers, consisting of two, three or more handfuls.
2.  In England, a provincial word for ground.
GAV'EL, for gable or gable-end.  [See Gable.]


Topic: Gavelet
Definition:
GAV'ELET, n.  An ancient and special cessavit in Kent, in England, where the custom of gavelkind continues, by which the tenant, if he withdraws his rent and services due to his lord, forfeits his lands and tenements.
1.  In London, a writ used in the hustings, given to lords or rents in the city.


Topic: Gavelkind
Definition:
GAV'ELKIND, n.  A tenure in England, by which land descended from the father to all his sons in equal portions, and the land of a brother, dying without issue, descended equally to his brothers.  This species of tenure prevailed in England before the Norman conquest, in many parts of the kingdom, perhaps in the whole realm; but particularly in Kent, where it still exists.


Topic: Gavilan
Definition:
GAV'ILAN, n.  A species of hawk in the Philippine isles; the back and wings yellow; the belly white.


Topic: Gavot
Definition:
GAV'OT, n.  A kind of dance,the air of which has two brisk and lively strains in common time, each of which is played twice over.  The first has usually four or eight bars, and the second contains eight, twelve or more.


Topic: Gawky
Definition:
GAWK'Y, a.  Foolish; awkward; clumsy; clownish.  [In this sense it is retained in vulgar use in America.]
GAWK'Y, n.  A stupid, ignorant, awkward fellow.


Topic: Gay
Definition:
GAY, a.  
1.  Merry; airy; jovial; sportive; frolicksome.  It denotes more life and animation than cheerful.
 Belinda smiled, and all the world was gay.
2.  Fine; showy; as a gay dress.
3.  Inflamed or merry with liquor; intoxicated; a vulgar use of the word in America.
GAY, n.  An ornament.  [Not used.]


Topic: Gayety
Definition:
GA'YETY, n.
1. Merriment; mirth; airiness; as a company full of gayety.
2.  Act of juvenile pleasure; the gayeties of youth.
3.  Finery; show; as the gayety of dress.


Topic: Gayly
Definition:
GA'YLY, adv.  Merrily; with mirth and frolick.
1.  Finely; splendidly; pompously; as ladies gayly dressed; a flower gayly blooming.


Topic: Gaze
Definition:
GAZE, v.i.  [Gr. to be astonished, and Heb. to see or look, that is, to fix the eye or to reach with the eye.]
To fix the eyes and look steadily and earnestly; to look with eagerness or curiosity; as in admiration, astonishment, or in study.
 A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind.
 Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into 
 heaven?  Acts.1.
GAZE, v.t.  To view with fixed attention.
 And gazed awhile the ample sky.
[It is little used as a transitive verb.]
GAZE, n.  A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder or admiration; a continued look of attention.
 With secret gaze,
 Or open admiration, him behold--
1.  The object gazed on; that which causes one to gaze.
 Made of my enemies the scorn and gaze.


Topic: Gazel
Definition:
GAZ'EL, n.  An animal of Africa and India, of the genus Antilope.  It partakes of the nature of the goat and the deer.  Like the goat, the gazel has hollow permanent horns, and it feeds on shrubs; but in size and delicacy, and in the nature and color of its hair, it resembles the roe-buck.  It has cylindrical horns, most frequently annulated at the base, and bunches of hair on its fore legs.  It has a most brilliant, beautiful eye.


Topic: Gazette
Definition:
GAZETTE, n.  gazet'.  A newspaper; a sheet or half sheet of paper containing an account of transactions and events of public or private concern, which are deemed important and interesting.  The first gazette in England was published at Oxford in 1665.  On the removal of the court to London, the title was changed to the London Gazette.  It is now the official newspaper, and published on Tuesdays and Saturdays.
GAZETTE, v.t. gazet'.  To insert in a gazette; to announce or publish in a gazette.


Topic: Gazetteer
Definition:
GAZETTEE'R, n.  A writer of news, or an officer appointed to publish news by authority.
1.  The title of a newspaper.
2.  A book containing a brief description of empires, kingdoms, cities, towns and rivers, in a country or in the whole world, alphabetically arranged; a book of topographical descriptions.


Topic: Gear
Definition:
GEAR, n.
1.  Apparatus; whatever is prepared; hence, habit; dress; ornaments.
 Array thyself in her most gorgeous gear.
2.  More generally, the harness or furniture of beasts; whatever is used in equipping horses or cattle for draught; tackle.
3.  In Scotland, warlike accouterments; also, goods, riches.
4.  Business; matters.
5.  By seamen pronounced jears, which see.
GEAR, v.t.  To dress; to put on gear; to harness.


Topic: Gehenna
Definition:
GEHEN'NA,n.  [Heb. ge-hinom, the valley of Hinom, in which was Tophet, where the Israelites sacrificed their children to Moloch.  2 Kings 23.10.]
This word has been used by the Jews as equivalent to hell, place of fire or torment and punishment, and the Greek word is rendered by our translators by hell and hell-fire.  Matt.18.9. 23.15.


Topic: Gehlenite
Definition:
GEHLENITE, n.  [from Gehlen, the chimist.]
A mineral recently discovered, in the description of which authors are not perfectly agreed.  According to the description and analysis of Fuchs, it appears to be a variety of idocrase; but according to the observations of Prof. Clarke, it is probably a new species.


Topic: Gelable
Definition:
GEL'ABLE, a.  [from L. gelu, frost, or gelo, to congeal.]
That may or can be congealed; capable of being converted into jelly.


Topic: Gelatin
Definition:
GEL'ATIN, n.  [L. gelo,to congeal, to freeze.]
A concrete animal substance, transparent, and soluble slowly in cold water, but rapidly in warm water.  With tannin, a yellowish white precipitate is thrown down from a solution of gelatin, which forms and elastic adhesive mass, not unlike vegetable gluten, and is a compound of tannin and gelatin.
GEL'ATIN


Topic: Gelatinate
Definition:
GELAT'INATE, v.i.  To be converted into gelatin or into a substance like jelly.
 Lapis lazuli, if calcined, does not effervesce, but gelatinates with the mineral acids.
GELAT'INATE, v.t.  To convert into gelatin or into a substance resembling jelly.


Topic: Gelatination
Definition:
GELATINA'TION, n.  The act or process of converting or being turned into gelatin, or into a substance like jelly.


Topic: Gelatinous
Definition:
GELAT'INOUS, a.  Of the nature and consistence of gelatin; resembling jelly; viscous; moderately stiff and cohesive.


Topic: Geld
Definition:
GELD, n.  Money; tribute; compensation.  This word is obsolete in English,but it occurs in old laws and law books in composition; as in Danegeld, or Danegelt, a tax imposed by the Danes; Weregeld, compensation for the life of a man, &c.
GELD. v.t.  pret. gelded or gelt; pp. gelded or gelt.
1.  To castrate; to emasculate.
2.  To deprive of any essential part.
3.  To deprive of any thing immodest or exceptionable.


Topic: Gelly
Definition:
GEL'LY, n.  [L. gelo, gelatus.  It is now more generally written jelly.]
1.  The inspissated juice of fruit boiled with sugar.
2.  A viscous or glutinous substance; a gluey substance, soft, but cohesive.  [See Jelly.]


Topic: Gem
Definition:
GEM, n.  [L. gemma.]
1.  A bud.  In botany, the bud or compendium of a plant, covered with scales to protect the rudiments from the cold of winter and other injuries; called the hybernacle or winter quarters of a plant.
2.  A precious stone of any kind, as the ruby, topaz, emerald, &c.
GEM, v.t.  To adorn with gems, jewels or precious stones.
1.  To bespangle; as foliage gemmed with dew drops.
2.  To embellish with detached beauties.
 England is studded and gemmed with castles and palaces.
GEM, v.i.  To bud; to germinate.


Topic: Gemini
Definition:
GEM'INI, n. plu. [L.]  Twins.  In astronomy, a constellation or sign of the zodiac, representing Castor and Pollux.  In the Britannic catalogue, it contains 85 stars.


Topic: Gemmation
Definition:
GEMMA'TION, n.  [L. gemmatio, from gemma.]
In botany, budding; the state, form or construction of the bud of plants, of the leaves, stipules, petioles or scales.


Topic: Gendarm
Definition:
GEND`ARM, n.  In France, gens d`armes is the denomination given to a select body of troops, destined to watch over the interior public safety.  In the singular, gendarme, as written by Lunier,is properly anglicized gendarm.


Topic: Gender
Definition:
GEN'DER, n.  [L. genus, from geno, gigno; Gr.to beget, or to be born; Eng. kind.  Gr. a woman, a wife; Sans. gena, a wife, and genaga, a father.  We have begin from the same root.  See Begin and Can.]
1.  Properly, kind; sort.
2.  A sex, male or female.  Hence,
3.  In grammar, a difference in words to express distinction of sex; usually a difference of termination in nouns, adjectives and participles, to express the distinction of male and female. But although this was the original design of different terminations, yet in the progress of language, other words having no relation to one sex or the other, came to have genders assigned them by custom. Words expressing males are said to be of the masculine gender; those expressing females, of the feminine gender; and in some languages, words expressing things having no sex, are of the neuter or neither gender.
GEN'DER, v.t.  To beget; but engender is more generally used.
GEN'DER, v.i.  To copulate; to breed.  Levit. 19.


Topic: Genealogical
Definition:
GENEALOG'ICAL, a.  [from genealogy.]
1.  Pertaining to the descent of persons or families; exhibiting the succession of families from a progenitor; as a genealogical table.
2.  According to the descent of a person or family from an ancestor; as genealogical order.


Topic: Genealogy
Definition:
GENEAL'OGY, n.  [L. genealogia; Gr. race, and discourse; Eng. kind.]
1.  An account or history of the descent of a person or family from an ancestor; enumeration of ancestors and their children in the natural order of succession.
2.  Pedigree; lineage; regular descent of a person or family from a progenitor.


Topic: General
Definition:
GEN'ERAL, a.  [L. generalis, from genus, a kind.]
1.  Properly, relating to a whole genus or kind; and hence, relating to a whole class or order.  Thus we speak of a general law of the animal or vegetable economy.  This word, though from genus, kind, is used to express whatever is common to an order, class, kind, sort or species, or to any company or association of individuals.
2.  Comprehending many species or individuals; not special or particular; as, it is not logical to draw a general inference or conclusion from a particular fact.
3.  Lax in signification; not restrained or limited to a particular import; not specific; as a loose and general expression.
4.  Public; common; relating to or comprehending the whole community; as the general interest or safety of a nation.
5.  Common to many or the greatest number; as a general opinion; a general custom.
6.  Not directed to a single object.
 If the same thing be peculiarly evil, that general aversion will be turned into a particular hatred against it.
7.  Having a relation to all; common to the whole. Adam, our general sire.
8.  Extensive, though not universal; common; usual.
This word is prefixed or annexed to words, to express the extent of their application.  Thus a general assembly is an assembly of a whole body, in fact or by representation.  In Scotland, it is the whole church convened by its representatives.  In America, a legislature is sometimes called a general assembly.
In logic, a general term is a term which is the sign of a general idea.
An attorney general, and a solicitor general, is an officer who conducts suits and prosecutions for the king or for a nation or state, and whose authority is general in the state or kingdom.
A vicar general has authority as vicar or substitute over a whole territory or jurisdiction.
An adjutant general assists the general of an army, distributes orders, receives returns, &c.
The word general thus annexed to a name of office, denotes chief or superior; as a commissary general, quarter-master general.
In the line, a general officer is one who commands an army, a division or a brigade.
GEN'ERAL, n.  The whole; the total; that which comprehends all or the chief part; opposed to particular.
 In particulars our knowledge begins, and so spreads itself by degrees to generals.
 A history painter paints man in general.
1. In general, in the main; for the most part; not always or universally.
 I have shown that he excels, in general,under each of these heads.
2.  The chief commander of an army.  But to distinguish this officer from other generals, he is often called general in chief.  The officer second in rank is called lieutenant general.
3.  The commander of a division of an army or militia, usually called a major general.
4.  The commander of a brigade, called a brigadier general.
5.  A particular beat of drum or march, being that which, in the morning, gives notice for the infantry to be in readiness to march.
6.  The chief of an order of monks, or of all the houses or congregations established under the same rule.
7.  The public; the interest of the whole; the vulgar. [Not in use.]


Topic: Generalissimo
Definition:
GENERALIS'SIMO, n.  The chief commander of an army or military force.
1.  The supreme commander; sometimes a title of honor; as Alexander generalissimo of Greece.


Topic: Generality
Definition:
GENERAL'ITY, n.
1.  The state of being general; the quality of including species or particulars.
2.  The main body; the bulk; the greatest part; as the generality of a nation or of mankind.


Topic: Generalize
Definition:
GEN'ERALIZE, v.t.  To extend from particulars or species to genera, or to whole kinds or classes; to make general, or common to a number.
 Copernicus generalized the celestial motions, by merely referring them to the moon's motion.  Newton generalized them still more, by referring this last to the motion of a stone through the air.
1.  To reduce to a genus.


Topic: Generally
Definition:
GEN'ERALLY, adv.  In general; commonly; extensively, though not universally; most frequently, but not without exceptions.  A  hot summer generally follows a cold winter.  Men are generally more disposed to censure than to praise,as they generally suppose it easier to depress excellence in others than to equal or surpass it by elevating themselves.
1.  In the main; without detail; in the whole taken together.
 Generally speaking, they live very quietly.


Topic: Generalship
Definition:
GEN'ERALSHIP, n.  The skill and conduct of a general officer; military skill in a commander, exhibited in the judicious arrangements of troops, or the operations of war.


Topic: Generate
Definition:
GEN'ERATE, v.t.  [L. genero.  See Gender.]
1.  To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce a being similar to the parent.  Every animal generates his own species.
2.  To produce; to cause to be; to bring into life; as great whales which the waters generated.
3.  To cause; to produce; to form.
 Sounds are generated where there is no air at all.
 Whatever generates a quantity of good chyle, must likewise generate milk.
 In music, any given sound generates with itself its octave and two other sounds extremely sharp, viz, its twelfth above or the octave of its fifth, and the seventeenth above.


Topic: Generation
Definition:
GENERA'TION, n.  The act of begetting; procreation, as of animals.
1.  Production; formation; as the generation of sounds or of curves or equations.
2.  A single succession in natural descent, as the children of the same parents; hence, an age.  Thus we say, the third, the fourth, or the tenth generation.  Gen.15.16.
3.  The people of the same period, or living at the same time.
 O faithless and perverse generation. Luke 9.
4.  Genealogy; a series of children or descendants from the same stock.
 This is the book of the generations of Adam. Gen.5.
5.  A family; a race.
6.  Progeny; offspring.


Topic: Generative
Definition:
GEN'ERATIVE, a.  Having the power of generating or propagating its own species.
1.  Having the power of producing.
2.  Prolific.


Topic: Generator
Definition:
GEN'ERATOR, n.  He or that which begets, causes or produces.
1.  In music, the principal sound or sounds by which others are produced.  Thus the lowest C for the treble of the harpsichord, besides its octave, will strike an attentive ear with its twelfth above, or G in alt., and with its seventeenth above, or E in alt.  Hence C is called their generator, the G and E its products or harmonics.
2.  A vessel in which steam is generated.


Topic: Generically
Definition:
GENER'ICALLY, adv.  With regard to genus; as an animal generically distinct from another, or two animals generically allied.


Topic: Generosity
Definition:
GENEROS'ITY, n.  [L. generositas, from genus, race, kind, with reference to birth, blood, family.]
1.  The quality of being generous; liberality in principle; a disposition to give liberally or to bestow favors; a quality of the heart or mind opposed to meanness or parsimony.
2.  Liberality in act; bounty.
3.  Nobleness of soul; magnanimity.  [This is the primary sense, but is now little used.]


Topic: Generous
Definition:
GEN'EROUS, a.  [L. generosus.  See Gender.]
1.  Primarily, being of honorable birth or origin; hence, noble; honorable; magnanimous; applied to persons; as a generous foe; a generous critic.
2.  Noble; honorable; applied to things; as a generous virtue; generous boldness.  It is used also to denote like qualities in irrational animals; as a generous pack of hounds.
3.  Liberal; bountiful; munificent; free to give; as a generous friend; a generous father.
4.  Strong; full of spirit; as generous wine.
5.  Full; overflowing; abundant; as a generous cup; a generous table.
6.  Sprightly; courageous; as a generous steed.


Topic: Generousness
Definition:
GEN'EROUSNESS, n.  The quality of being generous; magnanimity; nobleness of mind.
1.  Liberality; munificence; generosity.


Topic: Genesis
Definition:
GEN'ESIS, n.  [See Gender.]
1.  The first book of the sacred scriptures of the Old Testament, containing the history of the creation, of the apostasy of man, of the deluge, and of the first patriarchs, to the death of Joseph. In the original Hebrew, this book has no title; the present title was prefixed to it by those who translated it into Greek.
2.  In geometry, the formation of a line, plane or solid, by the motion or flux of a point, line or surface.


Topic: Genet
Definition:
GEN'ET, n. A small-sized, well-proportioned Spanish horse.
1.  An animal of the weasel kind, less than the martin.


Topic: Genethliac
Definition:
GENETH'LIAC  , a.  [Gr. to be born.]
Pertaining to nativities as calculated by astrologers; showing the positions of the stars at the birth of any person.  [Little used.]


Topic: Geneva
Definition:
GENE'VA, n.  A spirit distilled from grain or malt, with the addition of juniper berries.  But instead of these berries,the spirit is now flavored with the oil of turpentine. The word is usually contracted and pronounced gin.


Topic: Genial
Definition:
GE'NIAL, a.  [L. genialis, from geno, gigno,]
1.  Contributing to propagation or production; that causes to produce.
 Creator, Venus, genial power of love.
2.  Gay; merry.
3.  Enlivening; contributing to life and cheerfulness; supporting life.
 So much I feel my genial spirits droop.
4.  Native; natural. [Not usual.]
 The genial gods, in pagan antiquity, were supposed to preside over generation, as earth, air, fire and water.


Topic: Geniculated
Definition:
GENIC'ULATED, a.  [L. geniculatus, from geniculum, a knot or joint, from the root of genu, the knee.  See Knee.]
Kneed; knee-jointed; having joints like the knee a little bent; as a geniculated stem or peduncle.


Topic: Genii
Definition:
GE'NII, n.  [L. plu.]  A sort of imaginary intermediate beings between men and angels; some good and some bad.


Topic: Genital
Definition:
GEN'ITAL, a.  [L. genitalis, from the root of gigno; Gr. to beget.]
Pertaining to generation or the act of begetting.


Topic: Genitive
Definition:
GEN'ITIVE, a.  [L. genitivus, from the root of gender.]
In grammar, an epithet given to a case in the declension of nouns, expressing primarily the thing from which something else proceeds; as filius patris, the son of a father; aqua fontis, the water of a fountain.  But by custom this case expresses other relations, particularly possession or ownership; as animi magnitudo, greatness of mind, greatness possessed by or inherent in the mind.  This case often expresses also that which proceeds from something else; as pater septem filiorum, the father of seven sons.


Topic: Genius
Definition:
GE'NIUS, n.  [L. from the root of gigno; Gr. to beget.]
1.  Among the ancients, a good or evil spirit or demon supposed to preside over a man's destiny in life, that is, to direct his birth and actions and be his guard and guide; a tutelary deity; the ruling and protecting power of men, places or things.  This seems to be merely a personification or deification of the particular structure or bent of mind which a man receives from nature,which is the primary signification of the word.
2.  The peculiar structure of mind which is given by nature to an individual, or that disposition or bent of mind which is peculiar to every man, and which qualifies him for a particular employment; a particular natural talent or aptitude of mind for a particular study or course of life; as a genius for history, for poetry or painting.
3.  Strength of mind; uncommon powers of intellect, particularly the power of invention.  In this sense we say, Homer was a man of genius.  Hence,
4.  A man endowed with uncommon vigor of mind; a man of superior intellectual faculties.  Shakespeare was a rare-genius.
5.  Mental powers or faculties.  [See No.2.]
6.  Nature; disposition; peculiar character; as the genius of the times.


Topic: Genteel
Definition:
GENTEE'L, a.  [L. gentilis, from gens, race, stock, family, and with the sense of noble or at least respectable birth,as we use birth and family.]
1.  Polite; well bred; easy and graceful in manners or behavior; having the manners of well bred people; as genteel company; genteel guests.
2.  Polite; easy and graceful; becoming well bred persons; as genteel manners or behavior; a genteel address.
3.  Graceful in mein or form; elegant; as the lady has a genteel person.
4.  Elegantly dressed.
5.  Decorous; refined; free from any thing low or vulgar; as genteel comedy.


Topic: Genteelness
Definition:
GENTEE'LNESS, a.  Gracefulness of manners or person; elegance; politeness. We speak of the genteelness of a person or of his deportment.
1.  Qualities befitting a person of rank.


Topic: Gentian
Definition:
GEN'TIAN, n.  [L. gentiana.]  A genus of plants, of many species.  The common gentian is a native of the mountainous parts of Germany.  The root,the only part used, has a yellowish brown color and a very bitter taste, and is used as an ingredient in stomachic bitters.  It is sometimes called felwort.


Topic: Gentile
Definition:
GEN'TILE, n.  [L. gentilis; from L. gens, nation, race; applied to pagans.]
In the scriptures, a pagan; a worshipper of false gods; any person not a Jew or a christian; a heathen.  The Hebrews included in the term goim or nations, all the tribes of men who had not received the true faith,and were not circumcised.  The christians translated goim by the L. gentes, and imitated the Jews in giving the name gentiles to all nations who were not Jews nor christians. In civil affairs, the denomination was given to all nations who were not Romans.
GEN'TILE, a.  Pertaining to pagans or heathens.


Topic: Gentilitious
Definition:
GENTILI'TIOUS, a.  [L. gentilitius, from gens.]
1.  Peculiar to a people or nation; national.
2.  Hereditary; entailed on a family.


Topic: Gentility
Definition:
GENTIL'ITY, n.
1.  Politeness of manners; easy, graceful behavior; the manners of well bred people; genteelness.
2.  Good extraction; dignity of birth.
3.  Gracefulness of mien.
4.  Gentry.  [Not in use.]
5.  Paganism; heathenism.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Gentle
Definition:
GEN'TLE, a.  [See Genteel.]  Well born; of a good family or respectable birth, though not noble; as the studies of noble and gentle youth; gentle blood.
1.  Mild; meek; soft; bland; not rough, harsh or severe; as a gentle nature, temper or disposition; a gentle manner; a gentle address; a gentle voice.  1 Thess. 27.  2 Tim.2.
2. Tame; peaceable; not wild, turbulent or refractory; as a gentle horse or beast.
3.  Soothing; pacific.
4.  Treating with mildness; not violent.
 A gentle hand may lead the elephant with a hair.
GEN'TLE, n.  A gentleman.
1.  A kind of worm.
GEN'TLE, v.t.  To make genteel; to raise from the vulgar.


Topic: Gentlefolk
Definition:
GEN'TLEFOLK, n.  [gentle and folk.]  Persons of good breeding and family.  It is now used only in the plural, gentlefolks, and this use is vulgar.


Topic: Gentleman
Definition:
GEN'TLEMAN, a.  [gentle, that is, genteel, and man.  See Genteel.]
1.  In its most extensive sense, in Great Britain, every man above the rank of yeomen, comprehending noblemen.  In a more limited sense, a man, who without a title,bears a coat of arms, or whose ancestors have been freemen.  In this sense, gentlemen hold a middle rank between the nobility and yeomanry.
2.  In the United States, where titles and distinctions of rank do not exist, the term is applied to men of education and of good breeding, of every occupation.  Indeed this is also the popular practice in Great Britain.  Hence,
3.  A man of good breeding, politeness, and civil manners, as distinguished from the vulgar and clownish.
 A plowman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.
4.  A term of complaisance.  In the plural,the appellation by which men are addressed in popular assemblies,whatever may be their condition or character.
5.  In Great Britain, the servant of a man of rank, who attends his person.


Topic: Gentlemanly
Definition:
GEN'TLEMANLY  , a.  Pertaining to or becoming a gentleman, or a man of good family and breeding; polite; complaisant; as gentlemanly manners.
1.  Like a man of birth and good breeding; as a gentlemanly officer.


Topic: Gentleness
Definition:
GEN'TLENESS, n.  [See Gentle.]  Dignity of birth.  [Little used.]
1.  Genteel behavior.
2.  Softness of manners; mildness of temper; sweetness of disposition; meekness.
 The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith.  Gal.5.
3.  Kindness; benevolence.
4.  Tenderness; mild treatment.


Topic: Gentlewoman
Definition:
GEN'TLEWOMAN, n.  [gentle and woman.]  A woman of good family or of good breeding; a woman above the vulgar.
1.  A woman who waits about the person of one of high rank.
2.  A term of civility to a female, sometimes ironical.


Topic: Gently
Definition:
GEN'TLY, adv.  Softly; meekly; mildly; with tenderness.
 My mistress gently chides the fault I made.
1.  Without violence, roughness or asperity.


Topic: Gentry
Definition:
GEN'TRY, n. Birth; condition; rank by birth.
1.  People of education and good breeding.  In Great Britain, the classes of people between the nobility and the vulgar.
2.  A term of civility; civility; complaisance.


Topic: Genuflection
Definition:
GENUFLEC'TION, n.  [L. genu,the knee, and flectio, a bending.]
The act of bending the knee, particularly in worship.


Topic: Genuine
Definition:
GEN'UINE, a.  [L. genuinus, from enus, or its root.  See Gender.]
Native; belonging to the original stock; hence, real; natural; true; pure; not spurious, false or adulterated. The Gaels are supposed to be genuine descendants of the Celts. Vices and crimes are the genuine effects of depravity, as virtue and piety are the genuine fruits of holiness.  It is supposed we have the genuine text of Homer.


Topic: Genuineness
Definition:
GEN'UINENESS, n.  The state of being native, or of the true original; hence, freedom from adulteration or foreign admixture; freedom from any thing false or counterfeit; purity; reality; as the genuineness of Livy's history; the genuineness of faith or repentance.


Topic: Genus
Definition:
GE'NUS, n.  plu. genuses or genera.  [L. genus.  See Gender.]
1.  In logic, that which has several species under it; a class of a greater extent than species; a universal which is predicable of several things of different species.
2.  In natural history, an assemblage of species possessing certain characters in common, by which they are distinguished from all others.  It is subordinate to class and order,and some arrangements, to tribe and family.  A single species, possessing certain peculiar characters,which belong to no other species, may also constitute a genus; as the camelopard,and the flamingo.
3. In botany, a genus is a subdivision containing plants of the same class and order, which agree in their parts of fructification.


Topic: Geocentric
Definition:
GEOCEN'TRIC, a.  [Gr. earth, and center.]  Having the earth for its center, or the same center with the earth.  The word is applied to a planet or its orbit.


Topic: Geode
Definition:
GE'ODE,n.  [Gr. earth.]  In mineralogy, a round or roundish lump of agate or other mineral, or a mere incrustation.  Its interior is sometimes empty, and in this case the sides of its cavity are lined with crystals, as in agate balls.  Sometimes it contains a solid movable nucleus; and sometimes it is filled with an earthy matter different from the envelop.


Topic: Geodesy
Definition:
GE'ODESY, n. [Gr. the earth, and to divide.]   That part of geometry which respects the doctrine of measuring surfaces,and finding the contents of all plain figures.


Topic: Geognosy
Definition:
GE'OGNOSY, n.  [Gr. the earth, and knowledge.]  That part of natural history which treats of the structure of the earth.  It is the science of the substances which compose the earth or its crust, their structure, position, relative situation, and properties.
[This word originated among the German mineralogists, and is nearly synonymous with geology. But some writers consider geognosy as only a branch of geology; including in the latter, hydrography, geogony, meteorology and even geography.]


Topic: Geographer
Definition:
GEOG'RAPHER, n. [See Geography.]   One who describes that part of this globe or earth, which is exhibited upon the surface, as the continents, isles, ocean, seas, lakes, rivers, mountains, countries, &c. One who is versed in geography, or one who compiles a treatise on the subject.


Topic: Geographically
Definition:
GEOGRAPH'ICALLY, adv. In a geographical manner; according to the usual practice of describing the surface of the earth.


Topic: Geography
Definition:
GEOG'RAPHY, n.  [Gr. the earth, and to write, to describe.]
1.  Properly, a description of the earth or terrestrial globe, particularly of the divisions of its surface,natural and artificial, and of the position of the several countries, kingdoms, states,cities, &c.  As a science, geography includes the doctrine or knowledge of the astronomical circles or divisions of the sphere, by which the relative position of places on the globe may be ascertained,and usually treatises of geography contain some account of the inhabitants of the earth, of their government, manners, &c., and an account of the principal animals, plants and minerals.
2.  A book containing a description of the earth.


Topic: Geological
Definition:
GEOLOG'ICAL, a. [See Geology.]   Pertaining to geology; relating to the science of the earth or terraqueous globe.


Topic: Geology
Definition:
GEOL'OGY, n.  [Gr. the earth, and discourse.]
The doctrine or science of the structure of the earth or terraqueous globe, and of the substances which compose it; or the science of the compound minerals or aggregate substances which compose the earth, the relations which the several constituent masses bear to each other, their formation, structure, position and direction:  it extends also to the various alterations and decompositions to which minerals are subject.


Topic: Geomancer
Definition:
GE'OMANCER, n.  [See Geomancy.]  One who foretells or divines, by means of lines, figures or points on the ground or on paper.


Topic: Geomancy
Definition:
GE'OMANCY, n. [Gr. the earth, and divination.]   A kind of divination by means of figures or lines, formed by little dots or points, originally on the earth and afterwards on paper.


Topic: Geometer
Definition:
GEOM'ETER, n. [See Geometry.]   One skilled in geometry. [See Geometrician, which is generally used.]


Topic: Geometry
Definition:
GEOM'ETRY, n. [Gr. the earth, and measure.]   Originally and properly, the art of measuring the earth, or any distances or dimensions on it. But geometry now denotes the science of magnitude in general, comprehending the doctrine and relations of whatever is susceptible of augmentation and diminution; as the mensuration of lines, surfaces, solids, velocity, weight, &c., with their various relations.


Topic: Geoponic
Definition:
GEOPON'IC, a. [Gr. the earth, and labor.]   Pertaining to tillage of the earth, or agriculture. [Not little used.]


Topic: Georama
Definition:
GE'ORAMA, n. [Gr. the earth, and view.]   An instrument or machine which exhibits a very complete view of the earth, lately invented in Paris. It is a hollow sphere of forty feet diameter, formed by thirty six bars of iron representing the parallels and meridians, and covered with a bluish cloth, intended to represent seas and lakes. The land, mountains and rivers are painted on paper and pasted on this cover.


Topic: Georgic
Definition:
GEOR'GIC, n. [Gr. rustic; and labor.]   A rural poem; a poetical composition on the subject of husbandry, containing rules for cultivating lands, in a poetical dress; as the Georgics of Virgil.
GEOR'GIC, a.  Relating to the doctrine of agriculture and rural affairs.


Topic: Geranium
Definition:
GERA'NIUM, n. [L. from Gr. a crane.]    Crane's-bill, a genus of plants, of numerous species, some of which are cultivated for their fragrance or the beauty of their flowers.


Topic: Germ
Definition:
GERM, n. [L. germen.]   In botany, the ovary or seed-bud of a plant, the rudiment of fruit yet in embryo. It is the base or lower part of the pistil, which, in the progress of vegetation, swells and becomes the seed-vessel.
1.  Origin; first principle; that from which any thing springs; as the germ of civil liberty, or of prosperity.


Topic: German
Definition:
GER'MAN, a.  [L. germanus, a brother.]
1.  Cousins german, are the sons or daughters of brothers or sisters; first cousins.
2.  Related.
GER'MAN, a.  Belonging to Germany.
GER'MAN, n.  A native of Germany; and by ellipsis, the German language.


Topic: Germander
Definition:
GERMAN'DER, n.  A plant, or rather the name of several plants, as the rock germander, of the genus Veronica, and the common and water germander, of the genus Teucrium.


Topic: Germinate
Definition:
GERM'INATE, v.i. [L. germino, from germen.]   To sprout; to bud; to shoot; to begin to vegetate, as a plant or its seed.
GERM'INATE, v.t. To cause to sprout. [Unusual.]


Topic: Germination
Definition:
GERMINA'TION, n.  The act of sprouting; the first beginning of vegetation in a seed or plant.
1.  The time in which seeds vegetate, after being planted or sown.


Topic: Gerund
Definition:
GER'UND, n. [L. gerundium, from gero, to bear.]   In the Latin grammar, a kind of verbal noun, partaking of the nature of a participle.


Topic: Gest
Definition:
GEST, n.  [L. gestum, from gero, to carry, to do.]
1.  A deed, action or achievement.
2.  Show; representation.
3.  A state in travelling; so much of a journey as is made without resting; or properly, a rest; a stop.
4.  A roll or journal of the several days and stages prefixed, in the journeys of the English kings, many of which are extant in the herald's office.


Topic: Gestation
Definition:
GESTA'TION,n.  [L. gestatio, from gero, to carry.]
1. The act of carrying young in the womb from conception to delivery; pregnancy.
2.  The act of wearing, as clothes or ornaments.
3.  The act of carrying sick persons in carriages, as a salutary exercise, by which fevers have often been cured.


Topic: Gesticulate
Definition:
GESTIC'ULATE, v.i.  [L. gesticulor, from gestum, gero, to bear or carry, or gestio.]
To make gestures or motions, as in speaking; to use postures.
GESTIC'ULATE, v.t.  To imitate; to act.


Topic: Gesticulation
Definition:
GESTICULA'TION, n.  [L. gesticulatio.]
1.  The act of making gestures, to express passion or enforce sentiments.
2.  Gesture; a motion of the body or limbs in speaking, or in representing action or passion, and enforcing arguments and sentiments.
3.  Antic tricks or motions.


Topic: Gesture
Definition:
GES'TURE, n.  [L. gestus, from gero, to bear, to do.]
1.  A motion of the body or limbs, expressive of sentiment or passion; any action or posture intended to express an idea or a passion, or to enforce an argument or opinion.  It consists chiefly in the actions or movements of the hands and face, and should be suited to the subject.
2.  Movement of the body or limbs.
 Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye,
 In every gesture dignity and love.
GES'TURE, v.t.  To accompany with gesture or action.


Topic: Get
Definition:
GET, v.t.  pret. got. [gat, obs.] pp. got, gotten.
1.  To procure; to obtain; to gain possession of, by almost any means.  We get favor by kindness; we get wealth by industry and economy; we get land by purchase; we get praise by good conduct; and we get blame by doing injustice.  The merchant should get a profit on his goods; the laborer should get a due reward for his labor; most men get what they can for their goods or for their services.  Get differs from acquire, as it does not always express permanence of possession, which is the appropriate sense of acquire.  We get a book or a loaf of bread by borrowing, we do not acquire it; but we get or acquire an estate.
2.  To have.
 Thou hast got the face of a man.
This is a most common, but gross abuse of this word.  We constantly hear it said, I have got no corn, I have got no money, she has got a fair complexion, when the person means only, I have no corn, I have no money, she has a fair complexion.
3.  To beget; to procreate; to generate.
4.  To learn; as, to get a lesson.
5.  To prevail on; to induce; to persuade.
 Though the king could not get him to engage in a life of business.  [This is not elegant.]
6.  To procure to be.  We could not get the work done.  [Not elegant.]
To get off, to put off; to take or pull off; as, to get off a garment: also,to remove; as, to get off a ship from shoals.
To sell; to dispose of; as, to get off goods.
To get on, to put on; to draw or pull on; as, to get on a coat; to get on boots.
To get in, to collect and shelter; to bring under cover; as, to get in corn.
To get out, to draw forth; as, to get out a secret.
To draw out; to disengage.
To get the day, to win; to conquer; to gain the victory.
To get together, to collect; to amass.
To get over, to surmount; to conquer; to pass without being obstructed; as, to get over difficulties: also, to recover; as, to get over sickness.
To get above, to surmount; to surpass.
To get up, to prepare and introduce upon the stage; to bring forward.
With a pronoun following, it signifies to betake; to remove; to go; as, get you to bed; get thee out of the land.  But this mode of expression can hardly be deemed elegant.
GET, v.i.  To arrive at any place or state; followed by some modifying word,and sometimes implying difficulty or labor; as,
To get away or away from, to depart; to quit; to leave; or to disengage one's self from.
To get among, to arrive in the midst of; to become one of a number.
To get before, to arrive in front, or more forward.
To get behind, to fall in the rear; to lag.
To get back, to arrive at the place from which one departed; to return.
To get clear, to disengage one's self; to be released, as from confinement, obligation or burden; also, to be freed from danger or embarrassment.
To get down, to descend; to come from an elevation.
To get home, to arrive at one's dwelling.
To get in or into, to arrive within an inclosure, or a mixed body; to pass in; to insinuate one's self.
To get loose or free, to disengage one's self; to be released from confinement.
To get off, to escape; to depart; to get clear; also, to alight; to descend from.
To get out, to depart from an inclosed place or from confinement; to escape; to free one's self from embarrassment.
To get along, to proceed; to advance.
To get rid of, to disengage one's self from; also, to shift off; to remove.
To get together, to meet; to assemble; to convene.
To get up, to arise; to rise from a bed or a seat; also, to ascend; to climb.
To get through, to pass through and reach a point beyond any thing; also, to finish; to accomplish.
To get quit of, to get rid of; to shift off, or to disengage one's self from.
To get forward, to proceed; to advance; also, to prosper; to advance in wealth.
To get near, to approach within a small distance.
To get ahead, to advance; to prosper.
To get on, to proceed; to advance.
To get a mile or other distance, to pass over it in traveling.
To get at, to reach; to make way to.
To get asleep, to fall asleep.
To get drunk, to become intoxicated.
To get between, to arrive between.
To get to, to reach; to arrive.


Topic: Getting
Definition:
GET'TING, ppr.  Obtaining; procuring; gaining; winning; begetting.
GET'TING, n.  The act of obtaining, gaining or acquiring; acquisition.
 Get wisdom; and with all thy getting, get
 understanding.  Prov.4.
1.  Gain; profit.


Topic: Gewgaw
Definition:
GEW'GAW, n.  A showy trifle; a pretty thing of little worth; a toy; a bauble; a splendid plaything.
 A heavy gewgaw, called a crown.
GEW'GAW, a.  Showy without value.


Topic: Ghastliness
Definition:
GH`ASTLINESS, n.  [from ghastly.]  Horror of countenance; a deathlike look; resemblance of a ghost; paleness.


Topic: Ghastly
Definition:
GH`ASTLY, a. [Eng. gush, gust.]
 1.  Like a ghost in appearance; deathlike; pale; dismal; as a ghastly face; ghastly smiles.
2.  Horrible; shocking; dreadful.
 Mangled with ghastly wounds.


Topic: Ghost
Definition:
GHOST, n.  [See Ghastly.]
1.  Spirit; the soul of man.
 In this sense seldom used.  But hence,
2.  The soul of a deceased person; the soul or spirit separate from the body; an apparition.
 The mighty ghosts of our great Harrys rose.
To give up the ghost, is to die; to yield up the breath or spirit; to expire.
The Holy Ghost, is the third person in the adorable Trinity.
GHOST, v.i.  To die; to expire.
GHOST, v.t.  To haunt with an apparition.


Topic: Ghostly
Definition:
GHOSTLY, a.  Spiritual; relating to the soul; not carnal or secular.
 Save and defend us from our ghostly enemies.
1.  Spiritual; having a character from religion; as a ghostly father.
2.  Pertaining to apparitions.


Topic: Giant
Definition:
GI'ANT, n.  [L. gigas; Gr. probably from the earth.  The word originally signified earth-born, terrigena.  The ancients believed the first inhabitants of the earth to be produced from the ground and to be of enormous size.]
1.  A man of extraordinary bulk and stature.
 Giants of mighty bone, and bold emprise.
2.  A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.  The judge is a giant in his profession.
Giants-causey, a vast collection of basaltic pillars in the county of Antrim, in Ireland.
GI'ANT, a.  Like a giant; extraordinary in size or strength; as giant brothers; a giant son.


Topic: Giantship
Definition:
GI'ANTSHIP, n.  The state, quality or character of a giant.
 His giantship is gone somewhat crestfallen.


Topic: Gibber
Definition:
GIB'BER, v.i. [See Gabble. It is probably allied to gabble, and to jabber.]    To speak rapidly and inarticulately. [Not used.]


Topic: Gibberish
Definition:
GIB'BERISH, n. [from gibber.]   Rapid and inarticulate talk; unintelligible language; unmeaning words.
GIB'BERISH, a.  Unmeaning, as words.


Topic: Gibbet
Definition:
GIB'BET, n.  A gallows; a post or machine in form of a gallows, on which notorious malefactors are hanged in chains, and on which their bodies are suffered to remain, as spectacles in terrorem.
1.  Any traverse beam.
GIB'BET, v.t.  To hang and expose on a gibbet or gallows.
1.  To hang or expose on anything going travers, as the beam of a gibbet.


Topic: Gibbosity
Definition:
GIBBOS'ITY, n.  [L. gibbosus.  See Gibbous.]
Protuberance; a round or swelling prominence; convexity.


Topic: Gibbous
Definition:
GIB'BOUS, a.  [L. gibbus; Gr. to bend.]
1.  Swelling; protuberant; convex.  The moon is gibbous between the quarters and the full moon; the enlightened part being then convex.
 The bones will rise, and make a gibbous member.
2. Hunched; hump-backed; crook-backed.


Topic: Gibbousness
Definition:
GIB'BOUSNESS, n. Protuberance; a round prominence; convexity.  [This word is preferable to gibbosity.]


Topic: Gibbsite
Definition:
GIBBS'ITE, n.  A mineral found at Richmond, in Massachusetts, and named in honor of George Gibbs, Esq.  It occurs in irregular stalactical masses, which present an aggregation of elongated,tuberous branches, parallel and united.  Its structure is fibrous,the fibers radiating from an axis.  Its colors are a dirty white, greenish white and grayish.


Topic: Gibe
Definition:
GIBE, v.i.  To cast reproaches and sneering expressions; to rail at; to utter taunting, sarcastic words; to flout; to fleer; to scoff.
 Fleer and gibe, and laugh and flout.
GIBE, v.t.  To reproach with contemptuous words; to deride; to scoff at; to treat with sarcastic reflections; to taunt.
 Draw the beasts as I describe them,
 From their features, while I gibe them.
GIBE, n.  An expression of censure mingled with contempt; a scoff; a railing; an expression of sarcastic scorn.
 Mark the fleers, the gibes, and the notable scorns,
 That dwell in every region of his face.


Topic: Gibeline
Definition:
GIB'ELINE, n.  The Gibelines were a faction in Italy, that opposed another faction called Guelfs, in the 13th century.


Topic: Giber
Definition:
GI'BER, n. One who utters reproachful, censorious and contemptuous expressions, or who casts cutting, sarcastic reflections; one who derides; a scoffer.


Topic: Giblets
Definition:
GIB'LETS, n.  The entrails of a goose or other fowl, as the heart, liver, gizzard, &c.; a considerable article in cookery; as, to boil or stew giblets.  It is used only in the plural, except in composition; as a giblet-pie.


Topic: Gibstaff
Definition:
GIB'STAFF, n.  A staff to gauge water or to push a boat; formerly, a staff used in fighting beasts on the stage.


Topic: Giddily
Definition:
GID'DILY, adv.  [See Giddy.]  With the head seeming to turn or reel.
1.  Inconstantly; unsteadily; with various turnings; as, to roam about giddily.
2.  Carelessly; heedlessly; negligently.


Topic: Giddiness
Definition:
GID'DINESS, n.  The state of being giddy or vertiginous; vertigo; a sensation of reeling or whirling, when the body loses the power of preserving its balance or a steady attitude, or when objects at rest appear to reel, tremble or whirl; a swimming of the head.
1.  Inconstancy; unsteadiness; mutability.
2.  Frolic; wantonness; levity.


Topic: Giddy
Definition:
GID'DY, a.  Vertiginous; reeling; whirling; having in the head a sensation of a circular motion or swimming; or having lost the power of preserving the balance of the body, and therefore wavering and inclined to fall, as in the case of some diseases and of drunkenness.  In walking on timber aloft, or looking down a precipice, we are apt to be giddy.
1.  That renders giddy; that induces giddiness; as a giddy highth; a giddy precipice.
2.  Rotary; whirling; running round with celerity.
 The giddy motion of the whirling mill.
3.  Inconstant; unstable; changeable.
 You are as giddy and volatile as ever.
4.  Heedless; thoughtless; wild; roving.
5.  Tottering; unfixed.
 As we have paced along
 Upon the giddy footing of the hatches.
6.  Intoxicated; elated to thoughtlessness; rendered wild by excitement or joy.
 Art thou not giddy with the fashion too?
GID'DY, v.i. To turn quick.
GID'DY, v.t.  To make reeling or unsteady.


Topic: Gieseckite
Definition:
GIE'SECKITE, n.  A mineral of a rhomboidal form and compact texture, of a gray or brown color, and nearly as hard as calcarious spar.


Topic: Gift
Definition:
GIFT, n.  [from give.]  A present; any thing given or bestowed; any thing, the property of which is voluntarily transferred by one person to another without compensation; a donation.  It is applicable to any thing movable or immovable.
1.  The act of giving or conferring.
2.  The right or power of giving or bestowing.  The prince has the gift of many lucrative offices.
3.  An offering or oblation.
 If thou bring thy gift to the altar.  Matt.5.
4.  A reward.
 Let thy gifts be to thyself. Dan.5.
5.  A bribe; any thing given to corrupt the judgment.
 Neither take a gift; for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise. Deut.16.
6.  Power; faculty; some quality or endowment conferred by the author of our nature; as the gift of wit; the gift of ridicule.
GIFT, v.t.  To endow with any power or faculty.


Topic: Gifted
Definition:
GIFT'ED, pp. or a.  Endowed by nature with any power or faculty; furnished with any particular talent.


Topic: Gig
Definition:
GIG, v.t.  [L. gigno.]  To engender.  [Not in use.]
1.  To fish with a gig or fishgig.
GIG, n.
1.  Any little thing that is whirled round in play.
2.  A light carriage with one pair of wheels, drawn by one horse; a chair or chaise.
3.  A fiddle.
4.  A dart or harpoon.  [See Fishgig.]
5.  A ship's boat.
6.  A wanton girl.


Topic: Gigantic
Definition:
GIGAN'TIC, a.  [L. giganticus.]  Of extraordinary size; very large; huge; like a giant.  A man of gigantic stature.
1.  Enormous; very great or mighty; as gigantic deeds; gigantic wickedness.
Gigantical and gigantine, for gigantic, rarely or never used.


Topic: Giggle
Definition:
GIG'GLE, n.  A kind of laugh, with short catches of the voice or breath.
GIG'GLE, v.i.  To laugh with short catches of the breath or voice; to laugh in a silly, puerile manner; to titter; to grin with childish levity or mirth.


Topic: Gilbertine
Definition:
GIL'BERTINE, n.  One of a religious order, so named from Gilbert, lord of Sempringham, in Lincolnshire, England.
GIL'BERTINE, a.  Belonging to the monastic order, mentioned above.


Topic: Gild
Definition:
GILD, v.t.  pret. and pp. gilded or gilt.
1.  To overlay with gold, either in leaf or powder, or in amalgam with quicksilver; to overspread with a thin covering of gold; as the gilt frame of a mirror.
 Her joy in gilded chariots when alive,
 And love of ombre after death survive.
2.  To cover with any yellow matter.
3.  To adorn with luster; to render bright.
 No more the rising sun shall gild the morn.
4.  To illuminate; to brighten.
 Let oft good humor, mild and gay,
 Gild the calm evening of your day.
5.  To give a fair and agreeable external appearance; to recommend to favor and reception by superficial decoration; as, to gild flattery or falsehood.


Topic: Gilder
Definition:
GILD'ER, n.  One who gilds; one whose occupation is to overlay things with gold.
1.  A Dutch coin of the value of 20 stivers, about 38 cents, or one shilling and ninepence sterling.  It is usually written guilder.


Topic: Gilding
Definition:
GILD'ING, ppr.  Overlaying with gold; giving a fair external appearance.
GILD'ING, n.  The art or practice of overlaying things with gold leaf or liquid.
1.  That which is laid on in overlaying with gold.


Topic: Gill
Definition:
GILL, n.  
1.  The organ of respiration in fishes, consisting of a cartilaginous or bony arch, attached to the bones of the head, and furnished on the exterior convex side with a multitude of fleshy leaves, or fringed vascular fibrils, resembling plumes, and of a red color in a healthy state.  The water is admitted by the gill-opening, and acts upon the blood as it circulates in the fibrils.  Other animals also breathe by gills, as frogs in their tadpole state, lobsters, &c.
 Fishes perform respiration under water by the gills.
2.  The flap that hangs below the beak of a fowl.
3.  The flesh under the chin.
4.  In England, a pair of wheels and a frame on which timber is conveyed.  [Local.]


Topic: Gill-flap
Definition:
GILL-FLAP, n.  A membrane attached to the posterior edge of the gill-lid, immediately closing the gill-opening.


Topic: Gillyflower
Definition:
GIL'LYFLOWER, n.  [supposed to be a corruption of July-flower.]
The name of certain plants.  The clove gilly-flower is of the genus Dianthus, or carnation pink; the stock gillyflower is the Cheiranthus; the queen's gillyflower is the Hesperis.


Topic: Gilt
Definition:
GILT, pp.  of gild.  Overlaid with gold leaf, or washed with gold; illuminated; adorned.
GILT, n.  Gold laid on the surface of a thing; gilding.
1.  In England, a young female pig.


Topic: Gilthead
Definition:
GILT'HEAD, n.  [gilt and head.]  In ichthyology, a fish or a genus of fishes, the Sparus, of many species; so named from their color, or from a golden spot between the eyes.
1.  A bird.


Topic: Gimbal
Definition:
GIM'BAL, n.  A brass ring by which a sea compass is suspended in its box, by means of which the card is kept in a horizontal position, notwithstanding the rolling of the ship.


Topic: Gimblet
Definition:
GIMB'LET, n.  A borer; small instrument with a pointed screw at the end, for boring holes in wood by turning.  It is applied only to small instruments; a large instrument of the like kind is called an auger.
GIMB'LET, v.t.  In seamen's language, to turn round an anchor by the stock; a motion resembling that of the turning of a gimblet.


Topic: Gimp
Definition:
GIMP, n. [ Eng. to whip.]  A kind of silk twist or edging.
GIMP, a.  Smart; spruce; trim; nice. [Not in use.]


Topic: Gin
Definition:
GIN, n.  A contraction of Geneva, a distilled spirit.  [See Geneva.]
GIN, n.  [A contraction of engine.]  A machine or instrument by which the mechanical powers are employed in aid of human strength.  The word is applied to various engines, as a machine for driving piles, another for raising weights, &c., and a machine for separating the seeds from cotton, invented by E.Whitney, is called a cotton-gin.  It is also the name given to an engine of torture, and to a pump moved by rotary sails.
1.  A trap; a snare.
GIN, v.t.  To clear cotton of its seeds by a machine which separates them with expedition.
1.  To catch in a trap.
GIN, v.i.  To begin.


Topic: Ginger
Definition:
GIN'GER, n.  [L. zinziber.]  A plant, or the root of a species of Amomum, a native of the East and West Indies.  The roots are jointed, and the stalks rise two or three feet, with narrow leaves.  The flower stems arise by the side of these, immediately from the root, naked and ending in an oblong scaly spike.  The dried roots are used for various purposes,in the kitchen and in medicine.


Topic: Gingerbreaad
Definition:
GIN'GERBREAAD, n.  [ginger and bread.]  A kind or cake, composed of flour with an admixture of butter, pearlash and ginger, sweetened.


Topic: Ginging
Definition:
GIN'GING, n.  In mining, the lining of a mine-shaft with stones or bricks for its support, called steining or staining, which I suppose is from Sax. stan, stone.


Topic: Ginglymus
Definition:
GIN'GLYMUS, n.  [Gr.]  In anatomy, a species of articulation resembling a hinge.  That species of articulation in which each bone partly receives and is partly received by the other, so as to admit only of flexion and extension, is called angular ginglymus.


Topic: Ginseng
Definition:
GIN'SENG, n.  [This word is probably Chinese, and it is said by Grosier, to signify the resemblance of a man, or man's thigh.  He observes also that the root in the language of the Iroquois is called garentoquen, which signifies legs and thighs separated.]
A plant, of the genus Panax, the root of which is in great demand among the Chinese.  It is found in the Northern parts of Asia and America, and is an article of export from America to China.  It has a jointed, fleshy, taper root, as large as a man's finger, which when dry is of a yellowish white color, with a mucilaginous sweetness in the taste, somewhat resembling that of liquorice, accompanied with a slight bitterness.


Topic: Gipsey
Definition:
GIP'SEY, n.  The Gipseys are a race of vagabonds which infest Europe, Africa and Asia, strolling about and subsisting mostly by theft, robbery and fortune-telling.  The name is supposed to be corrupted from Egyptian, as they were thought to have come from Egypt.  But their language indicates that they originated in Hindoostan.
1.  A reproachful name for a dark complexion.
2.  A name of slight reproach to a woman; sometimes implying artifice or cunning.
 A slave I am to Clara's eyes:
 The gipsey knows her power and flies.
GIP'SEY, n.  The language of the gipseys.


Topic: Gipseyism
Definition:
GIP'SEYISM, n.  The arts and practices of gipseys; deception; cheating; flattery.
1.  The state of a gipsey.


Topic: Girasol
Definition:
GIR'ASOL, n.  [L. gyrus, a turn; L. sol, the sun.]
1.  The turnsole, a plant of the genus Heliotropium.
2.  A mineral usually milk white, bluish white or sky blue, but when turned towards the sun or any bright light, it constantly reflects a reddish color; hence its name. It sometimes resembles a translucid jelly.


Topic: Gird
Definition:
GIRD, n.  gurd. [Eng. a yard.]
1.  A twitch or pang; a sudden spasm, which resembles the stroke of a rod or the pressure of a band.
2.  In popular language, a severe stroke of a stick or whip. 
GIRD, v.t.  gurd. pret. and pp. girded or girt.
1.  To bind by surrounding with any flexible substance, as with a twig, a cord, bandage or cloth; as, to gird the loins with sackcloth.
2.  To make fast by binding; to put on; usually with on; as, to gird on a harness; to gird on a sword.
3.  To invest; to surround.
 The Son appeared,
 Girt with omnipotence.
4.  To clothe; to dress; to habit.
 I girded thee about with fine linen.  Ezek. 16.
5.  To furnish; to equip.
 Girded with snaky wiles.
6.  To surround; to encircle; to inclose; to encompass.
 The Nyseian isle,
 Girt with the river Triton.
7.  To gibe; to reproach severly; to lash.
GIRD, v.i.  To gibe; to sneer; to break a scornful jest; to utter severe sarcasms.
 Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me.


Topic: Girder
Definition:
GIRD'ER, n.  In architecture, the principal piece of timber in a floor.  Its end is usually fastened into the summers or breast summers,and the joists are framed in it at one end.  In buildings entirely of timber, the girder is fastened by tenons into the posts.
1.  A satirist.


Topic: Girdle
Definition:
GIRD'LE, n.  
1.  A band or belt; something drawn round the waist of a person, and tied or buckled; as a girdle of fine lines; a leathern girdle.
2.  Inclosure; circumference.
3.  The zodiac.
4.  A round iron plate for baking.
5.  Among jewelers,the line which encompasses the stone, parallel to the horizon.
GIRD'LE, v.t.  To bind with a belt or sash; to gird.
1.  To inclose; to enrivon; to shut in.
2.  In America, to make a circular incision, like a belt, through the bark and alburnum of a tree to kill it.


Topic: Girl
Definition:
GIRL, n.  gerl. [Low L. gerula, a young woman employed in tending children and carrying them about, from gero, to carry; a word probably received from the Romans while in England.]
1.  A female child, or young woman.  In familiar language, any young unmarried woman.
2.  Among sportsmen, a roebuck of two years old.


Topic: Girlish
Definition:
GIRL'ISH, a.  Like a young woman or child; befitting a girl.
1.  Pertaining to the youth of a female.


Topic: Girt
Definition:
GIRT, pret. and pp. of gird.
GIRT, v.t.  To gird; to surround.
[This verb, if derived from the noun, girt, may be proper.]
GIRT


Topic: Girth
Definition:
GIRTH, n.  The band or strap by which a saddle or any burden on a horse's back is made fast, by passing under his belly.
1.  A circular bandage.
2.  The compass measured by a firth or inclosing bandage.
 He's a lusty, jolly fellow, that lives well, at least three yards in the girth.
GIRTH, v.t.  To bind with a girth.


Topic: Give
Definition:
GIVE, v.t.  pret. gave; pp. given. [Heb. to give.  The sense of give is generally to pass, or to transfer, that is, to send or throw.]
1.  To bestow; to confer; to pass or transfer the title or property of a thing to another person without an equivalent or compensation.
 For generous lords had rather give than pay.
2.  To transmit from himself to another by hand, speech or writing; to deliver.
 The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.  Gen.3.
3.  To import; to bestow.
 Give us of your oil, for our lamps are gone out. Matt.25.
4.  To communicate; as, to give an opinion; to give counsel or advice; to give notice.
5.  To pass or deliver the property of a thing to another for an equivalent; to pay.  We give the full value of all we purchase.  A dollar is given for a day's labor.
 What shall a man give in exchange for this soul? Matt.16.
6.  To yield; to lend; in the phrase to give ear, which signifies to listen; to hear.
7.  To quit;in the phrase to give place, which signifies to 
withdraw, or retire to make room for another.
8.  To confer; to grant.
 What wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless? Gen 15.
9.  To expose; to yield to the power of.
 Give to the wanton winds their flowing hair.
    10. To grant; to allow; to permit.
 It is given me once again to behold my friend.
    11. To afford; to supply; to furnish.
 Thou must give us also sacrifices and burnt offerings. Ex.10.
    12. To empower; to license; to commission.
 Then give thy friend to shed the sacred wine.
But this and similar phrases are probably elliptical; give for give power or license.  So in the phrases,give me to understand, give me to know, give the flowers to blow, that is, to give power, to enable.
    13. To pay or render; as, to give praise, applause or approbation.
    14. To render; to pronounce; as, to give sentence or judgment; to give the word of command.
   15. To utter; to vent; as, to give a shout.
    16. To produce; to show; to exhibit as a product or result; as, the number of men divided by the number of ships, gives four hundred to each ship.
    17. To cause to exist; to excite in another; as, to give offense or umbrage; to give pleasure.
    18. To send forth; to emit; as, a stone gives sparks with steel.
    19. To addict; to apply; to devote one's self, followed by the reciprocal pronoun. The soldiers give themselves to plunder. The passive participle is much used in this sense; as, the people are given to luxury and pleasure; the youth is given to study.
 Give thyself wholly to them.  1 Tim.4.
    20. To resign; to yield up; often followed by up.
 Who say, I care not, those I give for lost.
    21. To pledge; as, I give my word that the debt shall be paid.
    22. To present for taking or acceptance; as, I give you my hand.
    23. To allow or admit by way of supposition.
To give away, to alienate the title or property of a thing; to make over to another; to transfer.
 Whatsoever we employ in charitable uses, during our lives, is given away from ourselves.
To give back, to return; to restore.
To give forth, to publish; to tell; to report publicly.
To give the hand, to yield preeminence, as being subordinate or inferior.
To give in, to allow by way of abatement or deduction from a claim; to yield what may be justly demanded.
To give over, to leave; to quit; to cease; to abandon; as, to give over a pursuit.
1.  To addict; to attach to; to abandon.
 When the Babylonians had given themselves over to all manner of vice.
2.  To despair of recovery; to believe to be lost, or past recovery. The physician had given over the patient, or given the patient over.
3.  To abandon.
To give out, to utter publicly; to report; to proclaim; to publish.  It was given out that parliament would assemble in November.
1.  To issue; to send forth; to publish.
 The night was distinguished by the orders which he gave out to his army.
2.  To show; to exhibit in false appearance.
3.  To send out; to emit; as, a substance gives out steam or odors.
To give up, to resign; to quit; to yield as hopeless; as, to give up a cause; to give up the argument.
1.  To surrender; as, to give up a fortress to an enemy.
2.  To relinquish, to cede.  In this treaty the Spaniards gave up Louisiana.
3.  To abandon; as, to give up all hope.  They are given up to believe a lie.
4.  To deliver.
 And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people to the king. 2 Sam. 24.
To give one's self up, to despair of one's recovery; to conclude to be lost.
1.  To resign or devote.
 Let us give ourselves wholly up to Christ in heart and desire.
2.  To addict; to abandon.  He gave himself up to intemperance.
To give way, to yield; to withdraw to make room for.  Inferiors should give way to superiors.
1.  To fail; to yield or force; to break or fall.  The ice gave way and the horses were drowned.  The scaffolding gave way.  The wheels or axletree gave way.
2.  To recede; to make room for.
3.  In seamen's language, give way is an order to a boat's crew to row after ceasing, or to increase their exertions.
GIVE, v.i. giv.  To yield to pressure.  The earth gives under the feet.
1.  To begin to melt; to thaw; to grow soft, so as to yield to pressure.
2.  To move; to recede.
 Now back he gives,then rushes on amain.
To give in, to be back; to give way.  [Not in use.]
To give into, to yield assent; to adopt.
 This consideration may induce a translator to give in to those general phrases.
To give off, to cease; to forbear.  [Little used.
To give on, to rush; to fall on.  [Not in use.]
To give out, to publish; to proclaim.
1.  To cease from exertion; to yield; applied to persons.  He labored hard, but gave out at last.
To give over, to cease; to act no more; to desert.
 It would be well for all authors, if they knew when to give over, and to desist from any further pursuits after fame.


Topic: Giver
Definition:
GIV'ER, n.  One who gives a donor; a bestower; a grantor; one who imparts or distributes.
 It is the giver, and not the gift, that engrosses the heart of the christian.


Topic: Giving
Definition:
GIV'ING, ppr.  Bestowing; conferring; imparting; granting; delivering.
GIV'ING,n.  The act of conferring.
1.  An alleging of what is not real.


Topic: Gizzard
Definition:
GIZ'ZARD, n.  The strong musculus stomach of a fowl.
To fret the gizzard, to harass; to vex one's self, or to be vexed.


Topic: Glacier
Definition:
GLA'CIER, n.  A field or immense mass of ice, formed in deep but elevated valleys, or on the sides of the Alps or other mountains.  These masses of ice extend many miles in length and breadth, and remain undissolved by the heat of summer.


Topic: Glacis
Definition:
GLA'CIS, n.  In building, or gardening, an easy, insensible slope.
1.  In fortification, a sloping bank; that mass of earth which serves as a parapet to the covered way, having an easy slope or declivity towards the champaign or field.


Topic: Glad
Definition:
GLAD, a.  [L. loetus, without a prefix.]
1.  Pleased; affected with pleasure or moderate joy; moderately happy.
 A wise son maketh a glad father. Prov.10.
It is usually followed by of.  I am glad of an opportunity to oblige my friend.
It is sometimes followed by at.
 He that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished. Prov.17.
It is sometimes followed by with.
 The Trojan, glad with sight of hostile blood--
With, after glad, is unusual, and in this passage at would have been preferable.
2.  Cheerful; joyous.
 They blessed the king, and went to their tents, joyful and glad of heart. 1 Kings 8.
3.  Cheerful; wearing the appearance of joy; as a glad countenance.
4.  Wearing a gay appearance; showy; bright.
 The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them. Is.35.
 Glad evening and glad morn crown'd the fourth day.
5.  Pleasing; exhilarating.
 Her conversation
 More glad to me than to a miser money is.
6.  Expressing gladness or joy; exciting joy.  
 Hark! a glad voice the lonely desert cheers.
GLAD, v.t.  [The pret. and pp. gladed is not used.  See Gladden.]
To make glad; to affect with pleasure; to cheer; to gladden; to exhilarate.
 Each drinks the juice that glads the heart of man.


Topic: Gladden
Definition:
GLAD'DEN, v.t. glad'n.  To make glad; to cheer; to please; to exhilarate.  The news of peace gladdens our hearts.
 Churches will every where gladden his eye, 
 and hymns of praise vibrate upon his ear.
GLAD'DEN, v.i. glad'n.  To become glad; to rejoice.
 So shall your country ever gladden at the sound of your voice.


Topic: Glade
Definition:
GLADE, n.  An opening or passage made through a wood by lopping off the branches of the trees.  Locally, in the U. States, a natural opening or open place in a forest.
 There interspersed in lawns and opening glades.
1.  In New England, an opening in the ice of rivers or lakes, or a place left unfrozen.
GLADE, n.  Smooth ice.


Topic: Gladiate
Definition:
GLA'DIATE, a.  [L. gladius, a sword.]  Sword-shaped; resembling the form of a sword; as the legume of a plant.


Topic: Gladiator
Definition:
GLADIA'TOR, n.  [L. from gladius, a sword.]
A sword-player; a prize-fighter.  The gladiators, in Rome, were men who fought in the arena, for the entertainment of the people.


Topic: Gladiatorial
Definition:
GLADIATO'RIAL, a.  Pertaining to gladiators, or to combats for the entertainment of the Roman people.


Topic: Gladiole
Definition:
GLAD'IOLE, n. [L. gladiolus, a dagger.]   A plant, the sword-lily, of the genus Gladiolus. The water gladiole is of the genus Butomus or flowering rush, and also of the genus Lobelia or cardinal flower.


Topic: Gladly
Definition:
GLAD'LY, adv.  [See Glad.]  With pleasure; joyfully; cheerfully.
 The common people heard him gladly.  Mark 12.


Topic: Gladness
Definition:
GLAD'NESS, n.  [See Glad.]  Joy, or a moderate degree of joy and exhilaration; pleasure of mind; cheerfulness.
 They--did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart.  Act.2.
[Gladness is rarely or never equivalent to mirth, merriment, gayety and triumph, and it usually expresses less than delight.  It sometimes expresses great joy.  Esther 8.9.]


Topic: Gladsome
Definition:
GLAD'SOME, a.  Pleased; joyful; cheerful.
1.  Causing joy, pleasure or cheerfulness; having the appearance of gayety; pleasing.
 Of opening heaven they sung, and gladsome day.


Topic: Glair
Definition:
GLAIR, n.  [Eng. clear, L. clarus, and with Eng. glare, and L. gloria; perhaps with L. glarea, gravel,or pieces of quartz.]
1.  The white of an egg.  It is used as a varnish for preserving paintings.
2.  Any viscous transparent substance, resembling the white of an egg.
3.  A  kind of halbert.
GLAIR, v.t.  To smear with the white of an egg; to varnish.


Topic: Glance
Definition:
GL`ANCE, n.  [The primary sense is to shoot, to throw, to dart.]
1.  A sudden shoot of light or splendor.
2.  A shoot or darting of sight; a rapid or momentary view or cast; a snatch of sight; as a sudden glance; a glance of the eye.
GL`ANCE, v.i.  To shoot or dart a ray of light or splendor.
 When through the gloom the glancing lightnings fly.
1.  To fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside.  The arrow struck the shield and glanced.  So we say, a glancing ball or shot.
2.  To look with a sudden rapid cast of the eye; to snatch a momentary or hasty view.
 Then sit again, and sigh and glance.
3.  To hint; to cast a word or reflection; as to glance at a different subject.
4.  To censure by oblique hints.
GL`ANCE, v.t.  To shoot or dart suddenly or obliquely; to cast for a moment; as, to glance the eye.


Topic: Gland
Definition:
GLAND, n.  [L. glans, a nut; glandula, a gland.]
1.  In anatomy, a distinct soft body, formed by the convolution of a great number of vessels, either constituting a part of the lymphatic system, or destined to secrete some fluid from the blood.  Glands have been divided into conglobate and conglomerate, from their structure; but a more proper division is into lymphatic and secretory.  The former are found in the course of the lymphatic vessels, and are conglobate.  The latter are of various structure.  They include the mucous follicles, the conglomerate glands, properly so called, such as the parotid glands and the pancreas, the liver, kidneys, &c.  The term has also been applied to other bodies of a similar appearance, neither lymphatic nor secretory; such as the thymus and thyroid glands, whose use is not certainly known, certain portions of the brain, as the pineal
and pituitary glands, &c.  [See Conglobate and Conglomerate.]
2.  In botany, a gland or glandule is an excretory or secretory duct or vessel in a plant.  Glands are found on the leaves, petioles, peduncles and stipules.


Topic: Glanders
Definition:
GLAND'ERS, n.  [from gland.]  In farriery, the running of corrupt slimy matter from the nose of a horse.


Topic: Glandiferous
Definition:
GLANDIF'EROUS, a.  [L. glandifer; glans,an acorn, and fero, to bear.]
Bearing acorns or other nuts; producing nuts or mast.  The beech and the oak are glandiferous trees.


Topic: Glandulation
Definition:
GLANDULA'TION, n.  In botany, the situation and structure of the secretory vessels in plants.
 Glandulation respects the secretory vessels, which are either glandules, follicles or utricles.


Topic: Glandulous
Definition:
GLAND'ULOUS, a.  [L. glandulosus.]  Containing glands; consisting of glands; pertaining to glands; resembling glands.


Topic: Glare
Definition:
GLARE, n.  
1.  A bright dazzling light; clear, brilliant luster or splendor, that dazzles the eyes.
 The frame of burnished steel that cast a glare.
2.  A fierce, piercing look.
 --About them round,
 A lion now he stalks with fiery glare.
3.  A viscous transparent substance.  [See Glair.]
GLARE, v.i.  To shine with a clear, bright, dazzling light; as glaring light.
 The cavern glares with new admitted light.
1.  To look with fierce, piercing eyes.
 They glared, like angry lions.
2.  To shine with excessive luster; to be ostentatiously splendid; as a glaring dress.
 She glares in balls, front boxes and the ring.
GLARE, v.t.  To shoot a dazzling light.


Topic: Glaring
Definition:
GLA'RING, ppr.  Emitting a clear and brilliant light; shining with dazzling luster.
1.  Clear; notorious; open and bold; barefaced; as a glaring crime.


Topic: Glass
Definition:
GL`ASS, n.  [L. glastum; glesid, blueness.  Greenness is usually named from vegetation or growing, as L. viridis, from vireo.]
1.  A hard, brittle, transparent, factitious substance, formed by fusing sand with fixed alkalies.
In chimistry, a substance or mixture, earthy, saline or metallic, brought by fusion to the state of a hard, brittle, transparent mass, whose fracture is conchoidal.
2.  A glass vessel of any kind; as a drinking glass.
3. A mirror; a looking-glass.
4.  A vessel to be filled with sand for measuring time; as an hour-glass.
5.  The destined time of man's life.  His glass is run.
6.  The quantity of liquor that a glass vessel contains.  Drink a glass of wine with me.
7.  A vessel that shows the weight of the air.
8.  A perspective glass; as an optic glass.
9.  The time which a glass runs, or in which it is exhausted of sand.  The seamen's watch-glass is half an hour.  We say, a ship fought three glasses.
    10. Glasses, in the plural, spectacles.
GL`ASS, a.  Made of glass; vitreous; as a glass bottle.
GL`ASS, v.t.  To see as in a glass.  [Not used.]
1.  To case in glass.  [Little used.]
2.  To cover with glass; to glaze.
[In the latter sense, glaze is generally used.]


Topic: Glasswort
Definition:
GL`ASSWORT, n.  A plant, the Salsola, of several species, all which may be used in the manufacture of glass.  The Barilla of commerce, is the semifused ashes of the Salsola soda, which is largely cultivated on the Mediterranean in Spain.


Topic: Glassy
Definition:
GL`ASSY, a.  Made of glass; vitreous; as a glassy substance.
1.  Resembling glass in its properties, as in smoothness, brittleness, or transparency; as a glassy stream; a glassy surface; the glassy deep.


Topic: Glauberite
Definition:
GLAUB'ERITE, n.  A mineral of a grayish white or yellowish color, consisting of dry sulphate of lime and dry sulphate of soda.


Topic: Glaucoma
Definition:
GLAUCO'MA, n.  [Gr.]  A fault in the eye, in which the crystalline humor becomes gray, but without injury to the sight.
A disease in the eye, in which the crystalline humor becomes of a bluish or greenish color,and its transparency is diminished.
 An opacity of the vitreous humor.
According to Sharp, the glaucoma of the Greeks is the same as the cataract; and according to St. Yves and others, it is a cataract with amaurosis.


Topic: Glaver
Definition:
GLAV'ER, v.i.  [L. glaber, lavis, or lubricus; Eng. glib.]
To flatter; to wheedle.  [Little used and vulgar.]


Topic: Glaze
Definition:
GLAZE, v.t.  [from glass.]  To furnish with windows of glass; as, to glaze a house.
1.  To incrust with a vitreous substance, the basis of which is lead, but combined with silex, pearl-ashes and common salt; as, to glaze earthen ware.
2.  To cover with any thing smooth and shining; or to render the exterior of a thing smooth, bright and showy.
 Though with other ornaments he may glaze and brandish the weapons.
3.  To give a glass surface; to make glossy; as, to glaze cloth.


Topic: Glazed
Definition:
GLA'ZED, pp.  Furnished with glass windows; incrusted with a substance resembling glass; rendered smooth and shining.


Topic: Glazier
Definition:
GLA'ZIER, n.  gla'zhur.  [from glaze or glass.]
One whose business is to set window glass, or to fix panes of glass to the sashes of windows, to pictures,&c.


Topic: Glazing
Definition:
GLA'ZING, ppr.  Furnishing with window glass.
1.  Crusting with a vitreous substance, as potter's ware.
2.  Giving a smooth, glossy, shining surface, as to cloth.
GLA'ZING, n.  The vitreous substance with which potter's ware is incrusted.


Topic: Gleam
Definition:
GLEAM, n. [L. flamma.]   The radical sense is to throw, to shoot or dart, and it may be of the same family as clamo,clamor, a shoot of the voice.
1.  A shoot of light; a beam; a ray; a small stream of light.  A gleam of dawning light, metaphorically, a gleam of hope.
2.  Brightness; splendor.
 In the clear azure gleam the flocks are seen.
GLEAM, v.i.  To shoot or dart, as rays of light.  At the dawn light gleams in the east.
1.  To shine; to cast light.
2.  To flash; to spread a flood of light.  [Less common.]
3.  Among falconers, to disgorge filth, as a hawk.


Topic: Gleamy
Definition:
GLE'AMY, a.  Darting beams of light; casting light in rays.
 In brazen arms, that cast a gleamy ray,
 Swift through the town the warrior bends his way.


Topic: Glean
Definition:
GLEAN, v.t.
1.  To gather the stalks and ears of grain which reapers leave behind them.
 Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of
 corn---Ruth 2.
2.  To collect things thinly scattered; to gather what is left in small parcels or numbers, or what is found in detached parcels; as, to glean a few passages from an author.
 They gleaned of them in the highways five thousand 
 men.  Judges 20.
GLEAN, v.i.  To gather stalks or ears of grain left by reapers.
 And she went, and came and gleaned in the field after the reapers. Ruth 2.
GLEAN, n.  A collection made by gleaning, or by gathering here and there a little.
 The gleans of yellow thyme distend his thighs.


Topic: Gleaned
Definition:
GLE'ANED, pp.  Gathered after reapers; collected from small detached parcels; as grain gleaned from the field.
1.  Cleared of what is left; as, the field is gleaned.
2.  Having suffered a gleaning.  The public prints have been gleaned.


Topic: Gleaner
Definition:
GLE'ANER, n.  One who gathers after reapers.
1. One who collects detached parts or numbers,or who gathers slowly with labor.


Topic: Gleaning
Definition:
GLE'ANING, ppr.  Gathering what reapers leave; collecting in small detached parcels.
GLE'ANING, n.  The act of gathering after reapers.
1. That which is collected by gleaning.


Topic: Glebe
Definition:
GLEBE, n.  [L. gleba, a clod or clump of earth.]
1.  Turf; soil; ground.
 Till the glad summons of a genial ray
 Unbinds the glebe---
2.  The land belonging to a parish church or ecclesiastical benefice.
3.  A crystal.
4.  Among miners, a piece of earth in which is contained some mineral ore.


Topic: Glede
Definition:
GLEDE, n.  A fowl of the rapacious kind, the kite, a species of Falco.  The word is used in Deut.14.13. but the same Hebrew word, Lev.11.14. is rendered a vulture.


Topic: Glee
Definition:
GLEE, n.
1.  Joy; merriment; mirth; gayety; particularly, the mirth enjoyed at a feast.
2.  A sort of catch or song sung in parts.


Topic: Gleek
Definition:
GLEEK, n. [See Glee.]   Music, or a musician.
1.  A scoff; a game at cards.
GLEEK, v.i.  To make sport of; to gibe; to sneer; to spend time idly.


Topic: Gleet
Definition:
GLEET, n. The flux of a thin humor from the urethra; a thin ichor running from a sore.
GLEET, v.i.  To flow in a thin limpid humor; to ooze.
1.  To flow slowly, as water.


Topic: Glene
Definition:
GLENE, n.  [Gr.]  In anatomy, the cavity or socket of the eye, and the pupil; any slight depression or cavity receiving a bone in articulation.


Topic: Gliadine
Definition:
GLI'ADINE, n. [Gr. glue.]   One of the constituents of gluten, a slightly transparent, brittle substance, of a straw-yellow color, having a slight smell, similar to that of honeycomb.


Topic: Glib
Definition:
GLIB, a.  [L. glaber, smooth; labor, to slide. This word contains the elements of slip. Qu. L. glubo.]
1.  Smooth; slippery; admitting a body to slide easily on the surface; as, ice is glib.
2.  Smooth; voluble; easily moving; as a glib tongue.
GLIB, n.  A thick curled bush of hair hanging down over the eyes.  [Not in use.]
GLIB, v.t.  To castrate.
1.  To make smooth.


