# Dictionary

Topic: Evaporated
Definition:
EVAP'ORATED, pp.  Converted into vapor or steam and dissipated; dissipated in insensible particles, as a fluid.


Topic: Evaporation
Definition:
EVAPORA'TION, n.  The conversion of a fluid into vapor specifically lighter than the atmospheric air.  Evaporation is increased by heat and is followed by cold.  It is now generally considered as a solution in the atmosphere.
1.  The act of flying off in fumes; vent; discharge.
2.  In pharmacy, the operation of drawing off a portion of a fluid in steam, that the remainder may be of a greater consistence, or more concentrated.


Topic: Evaporometer
Definition:
EVAPOROM'ETER, n.  [L. evaporo, and Gr. measure.]
An instrument for ascertaining the quantity of a fluid evaporated in a given time; an atmometer.


Topic: Evasion
Definition:
EVA'SION, n.  s as z.  [L. evasio, from evado, evasi.  See Evade.]
The act of eluding or avoiding, or of escaping, particularly from the pressure of an argument, from an accusation or charge, from an interrogatory and the like; excuse; subterfuge; equivocation; artifice to elude; shift.  Evasion of a direct answer weakens the testimony of a witness.
Thou by evasions thy crime uncover'st more.


Topic: Evasive
Definition:
EVA'SIVE, a.  Using evasion or artifice to avoid; elusive; shuffling; equivocating.
 He--answered evasive of the sly request.
1. Containing evasion; artfully contrived to elude a question, charge or argument; as an evasive answer; an evasive argument or reasoning.


Topic: Evasively
Definition:
EVA'SIVELY, adv.  By evasion or subterfuge; elusively; in a manner to avoid a direct reply or a charge.


Topic: Eve
Definition:
EVE, n.  The consort of Adam, and mother of the human race; so called by Adam, because she was the mother of all living.  In this case,the word would properly belong to the Hebrew.  But the Hebrew name is havah or chavah, coinciding with the verb, to shew, to discover, and Parkhurst hence denominates Eve, the manifester. In the Septuagint, Eve, in Gen.3.20, is rendered life; but in Gen.4.1,
it is rendered Euan or Evan.  The reason of this variation is not obvious, as the Hebrew is the same in both passages.  In Russ. Eve is Evva.  In the Chickasaw language of America, a wife is called awah, says Adair.


Topic: Evection
Definition:
EVEC'TION, n.  [L. eveho, to carry away.]  A carrying out or away; also, a lifting or extolling; exaltation.


Topic: Even-song
Definition:
E'VEN-SONG, n. A song for the evening; a form of worship for the evening.
1.  The evening, or close of the day.


Topic: Even-tide
Definition:
E'VEN-TIDE, n.  Literally, the time of evening; that is, evening.
Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the even-tide. Gen.24.
This word is nearly obsolete; tide being a useless addition to even.


Topic: Evening
Definition:
E'VENING, n.  [See Eve, Even.]  The latter part and close of the day, and the beginning of darkness or night; properly the decline or fall of the day, or of the sun.
The evening and the morning were the first day.  Gen.1.
The precise time when evening begins, or when it ends, is not ascertained by usage.  The word often includes a part at least of the afternoon, and indeed the whole afternoon; as in the phrase, 'The morning and evening service of the sabbath.'  In strictness, evening commences at the setting of the sun, and continues during twilight, and night commences with total darkness.  But in customary language, the evening extends to bed-time, whatever that time may be.  Hence we say, to spend an evening with a friend; an evening visit.
1.  The decline or latter part of life.  We say, the evening of life, or of one's days.
2.  The decline of any thing; as the evening of glory.
E'VENING, a.  Being at the close of day; as the evening sacrifice.


Topic: Evenly
Definition:
E'VENLY, adv. e'vnly.  With an even, level or smooth surface; without roughness, elevations and depressions; as things evenly spread.
1.  Equally; uniformly; in an equipoise; as evenly balanced.
2.  In a level position; horizontally.
The surface of the sea is evenly distant from the center of the earth.
3.  Impartially; without bias from favor or enmity.


Topic: Evenness
Definition:
E'VENNESS, n.  The state of being even, level or smooth; equality of surface.
1. Uniformity; regularity; as evenness of motion.
2.  Freedom from inclination to either side; equal distance from either extreme.
3.  Horizontal position; levelness of surface; as the evenness of a fluid at rest.
4.  Impartiality between parties; equal respect.
5.  Calmness; equality of temper; freedom from perturbation; a state of mind not subject to elevation or depression; equanimity.


Topic: Event
Definition:
EVENT', n.  [L. eventus, evenio; e and venio, to come.]
1.  That which comes, arrives or happens; that which falls out; any incident good or bad.
There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked.  Eccles.9.
2.  The consequence of any thing; the issue; conclusion; end; that in which an action, operation, or series of operations terminates.  The event of the campaign was to being about a negotiation for peace.
EVENT', v.i.  To break forth.  [Not used.]


Topic: Eventful
Definition:
EVENT'FUL, a.  [from event.]  Full of events or incidents; producing numerous or great changes, either in public or private affairs; as an eventful period of history; an eventful period of life.


Topic: Eventual
Definition:
EVENT'UAL, a.  [from event.]  Coming or happening as a consequence or result of any thing; consequential.
1.  Final; terminating; ultimate.
Eventual provision for the payment of the public securities.


Topic: Ever
Definition:
EV'ER, adv.  At any time; at any period or point of time, past or future.  Have you ever seen the city of Paris, or shall you ever see it?
No man ever yet hated his own flesh.  Eph.5.
1.  At all times; always; continually.
He shall ever love, and always be
The subject of my scorn and cruelty.
He will ever by mindful of his covenant.  Ps.111.
Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.  2 Tim.3.
2.  Forever, eternally; to perpetuity; during everlasting continuance.
This is my name forever.  Ex.3.
In a more lax sense, this word signifies continually, for an indefinite period.
His master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him forever. Ex.21.
These words are sometimes repeated, for the sake of emphasis; forever and ever, or forever and forever.
3.  Ever and anon, at one time and another; now and then.
4.  In any degree. No man is ever the richer or happier for injustice.
Let no man fear that creature ever the less, because he sees the apostle safe from his poison.
In modern usage, this word is used for never, but very improperly.
And all the question, wrangle e'er so long,
Is only this, if God has placed him wrong.
This ought to be, ne'er so long, as the phrase is always used in the Anglo-Saxon, and in our version of the scriptures, that is, so long as never, so long as never before, to any length of time indefinitely.  As me never so much dowry.  Charmers, charming never so wisely.  These are the genuine English phrases. Let them charm so wisely as never before.
5.  A word of enforcement or emphasis; thus, as soon as ever he had done it; as like him as ever he can look.
They broke all their bones in pieces or ever they came to the bottom of the den. Dan.6.
The latter phrase is however anomalous; or-ever being equivalent to before, and or may be a mistake for ere.
7.  In poetry, and sometimes in prose, ever is contracted into e'er.
Ever in composition signifies always or continually, without intermission, or to eternity.


Topic: Everburning
Definition:
EVERBURN'ING, a.  [ever and burning.]  Burning continually or without intermission; never extinct; as an everburning lamp; everburning sulphur.


Topic: Evergreen
Definition:
EV'ERGREEN, a.  [ever and green.]  Always green; verdant throughout the year.
The pine is an evergreen tree.
EV'ERGREEN, n.  A plant that retains its verdure through all the seasons; as a garden furnished with evergreens.


Topic: Everlasting
Definition:
EVERL`ASTING, a.  [ever and lasting.]  Lasting or enduring for ever; eternal; existing or continuing without end; immortal.
The everlasting God, or Jehovah. Gen.21.
Everlasting fire; everlasting punishment.  Matt.18.25.
1.  Perpetual; continuing indefinitely, or during the present state of things.
I will give thee, and thy seed after thee, the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession.  Gen.17.
The everlasting hills or mountains.  Genesis. Habakkuk.
2.  In popular usage, endless; continual; unintermitted; as, the family is disturbed with everlasting disputes.
EVERL`ASTING, n.  Eternity; eternal duration, past and future.
From everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. Ps.90.
1.  A plant, the Gnaphalium; also, the Xeranthenum.


Topic: Everliving
Definition:
EVERLIV'ING, a.  [ever and living.]  Living without end; eternal; immortal; having eternal existence; as the everliving God.
1. Continual; incessant; unintermitted.


Topic: Evermore
Definition:
EVERMO'RE, adv.  [ever and more.]  Always; eternally.
Religion prefers the pleasures which flow from the presence of God for evermore.
1.  Always; at all times; as evermore guided by truth.


Topic: Everpleasing
Definition:
EVERPLE'ASING, a.  [ever and pleasing.]  Always pleasing; ever giving delight.
The everpleasing Pamela.


Topic: Eversion
Definition:
EVER'SION, n.  [L. eversio.]  An overthrowing; destruction.
Eversion of the eye-lids, ectropium, a disease in which the eye-lids are turned outward, so as to expose the red internal tunic.


Topic: Evert
Definition:
EVERT', v.t.  [L. everto; e and verto, to turn.]  To overturn; to overthrow; to destroy.  [Little used.]


Topic: Every
Definition:
EV'ERY, a.  [Old Eng. everich.  It is formed from ever.]  Each individual of a whole collection or aggregate number. The word includes the whole number, but each separately stated or considered.
Every man at his best state is altogether vanity.  Ps.39.


Topic: Everyday
Definition:
EV'ERYDAY, a.  [every and day.]  Used or being every day; common; usual; as everyday wit; an everyday suit of clothes.


Topic: Everyoung
Definition:
EVERYOUNG, a.  [ever and young.]  Always young or fresh; not subject to old age or decay; undecaying.
Joys everyoung, unmixed with pain or fear.


Topic: Eves-dropper
Definition:
E'VES-DROPPER, n. One who stands under the eaves or at a window or door, to listen privately to what is said in the house.  [See Eaves-dropper.]


Topic: Evict
Definition:
EVICT', v.t.  [L. evinco, evictum; e and vinco, to conquer.]
1.  To dispossess by a judicial process, or course of legal proceedings; to recover lands or tenements by law.
If either party be evicted for defect of the other's title.
2.  To take away by sentence by law.
3.  To evince; to prove.  [Not used.]


Topic: Evicted
Definition:
EVICT'ED, pp.  Dispossessed by sentence of law; applied to persons. Recovered by legal process; applied to things.


Topic: Eviction
Definition:
EVIC'TION, n.  Dispossession by judicial sentence; the recovery of lands or tenements from another's possession, by due course of law.
1. Proof; conclusive evidence.


Topic: Evidence
Definition:
EV'IDENCE, n.  [L. evidentia, from video, to see.]
1.  That which elucidates and enables the mind to see truth; proof arising from our own perceptions by the senses, or from the testimony of others, or from inductions of reason.  Our senses furnish evidence of the existence of matter, of solidity, of color, of heat and cold, of a difference in the qualities of bodies, of figure , &c.  The declarations of a witness furnish evidence of facts to a court and jury; and reasoning, or the deductions of the mind from facts or arguments, furnish evidence of truth or falsehood.
2.  Any instrument or writing which contains proof.
I delivered the evidence of the purchase to Baruch.  Jer.32.
I subscribed the evidence and sealed it.  Jer.32.
3.  A witness; one who testifies to a fact.  This sense is improper and inelegant, though common, and found even in Johnson's writings.
EV'IDENCE, v.t.  To elucidate; to prove; to make clear to the mind; to show in such a manner that the mind can apprehend the truth, or in a manner to convince it.  The testimony of two witnesses is usually sufficient to evidence the guilt of an offender.  The works of creation clearly evidence the existence of an infinite first cause.


Topic: Evident
Definition:
EV'IDENT, a.  Plain; open to be seen; clear to the mental eye; apparent; manifest.  The figures and colors of bodies are evident to the senses; their qualities may be made evident.  The guilt of an offender cannot always be made evident.


Topic: Evidently
Definition:
EV'IDENTLY, adv.  Clearly; obviously; plainly; in a manner to be seen and understood; in a manner to convince the mind; certainly; manifestly.  The evil of sin may be evidently proved by its mischievous effect.


Topic: Evil
Definition:
E'VIL, a.  e'vl. [Heb. to be unjust or injurious, to defraud.]
1.  Having bad qualities of a natural kind; mischievous; having qualities which tend to injury, or to produce mischief.
Some evil beast hath devoured him.  Gen.37.
2.  Having bad qualities of a moral kind; wicked; corrupt; perverse; wrong; as evil thoughts; evil deeds; evil speaking; an evil generation.
3.  Unfortunate; unhappy; producing sorrow, distress, injury or calamity; as evil tidings; evil arrows; evil days.
E'VIL, n.  Evil is natural or moral.  Natural evil is any thing which produces pain, distress, loss or calamity, or which in any way disturbs the peace, impairs the happiness, or destroys the perfection of natural beings.
Moral evil is any deviation of a moral agent from the rules of conduct prescribed to him by God, or by legitimate human authority; or it is any violation of the plain principles of justice and rectitude.
There are also evils called civil, which affect injuriously the peace or prosperity of a city or state; and political evils, which injure a nation, in its public capacity.
All wickedness, all crimes, all violations of law and right are moral evils.  Diseases are natural evils, but they often proceed from moral evils.
2.  Misfortune; mischief; injury.
There shall no evil befall thee.  Ps.91.
A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself.  Prov.22.
3.  Depravity; corruption of heart, or disposition to commit wickedness; malignity.
The heart of the sons of men is full of evil.  Eccles.9.
4.  Malady; as the king's evil or scrophula.
E'VIL, adv.  [generally contracted to ill.]
1.  Not well; not with justice or propriety; unsuitable.
Evil it beseems thee.
2.  Not virtuously; not innocently.
3.  Not happily; unfortunately.
It went evil with his house.
4.  Injuriously; not kindly.
The Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us.
In composition, evil, denoting something bad or wrong, is often contracted to ill.


Topic: Evil-minded
Definition:
EVIL-MINDED, a. [evil and mind.]  Having evil dispositions or intentions; disposed to mischief or sin; malicious; malignant; wicked.  Slanderous reports are propagated by evil-minded persons.  [This word is in common use.]


Topic: Evildoer
Definition:
EVILDO'ER, n.  [evil and doer, from do.]  One who does evil; one who commits sin, crime, or any moral wrong.
They speak evil against you as evildoers.  l Pet.2.


Topic: Evince
Definition:
EVINCE, v.t.  evins'.  [L. evinco, to vanquish, to prove or show; e and vinco, to conquer.]
1.  To show in a clear manner; to prove beyond any reasonable doubt; to manifest; to make evident.  Nothing evinces the depravity of man more fully than his unwillingness to believe himself depraved.
2.  To conquer.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Eviscerate
Definition:
EVIS'CERATE, v.t.  [L. eviscero; e and viscera, the bowels.]
To embowel or disembowel; to take out the entrails; to search the bowels.


Topic: Evitate
Definition:
EV'ITATE, v.t.  [L. evito; e and vito, from the root of void, wide.]
To shun; to avoid; to escape.  [Little used.]


Topic: Evoke
Definition:
EVO'KE  , v.t.  [L. evoco; e and voco, to call.]  To call forth.
Neptune is a deity who evocates things into progression.
1.  To call from one tribunal to another; to remove.
The cause was evoked to Rome.
[Evoke is the preferable word.]


Topic: Evolution
Definition:
EVOLU'TION, n.  [L. evolutio.]  The act of unfolding or unrolling.
1.  A series of things unrolled or unfolded; as the evolution of ages.
2.  In geometry, the unfolding or opening of a curve,and making it describe an evolvent.  The equable evolution of the periphery of a circle, or other curve, is such a gradual approach of the circumference to rectitude, as that its parts do all concur, and equally evolve or unbend; so that the same line becomes successively a less arc of a reciprocally greater circle, till at last they change into a straight line.
3.  In algebra, evolution is the extraction of roots from powers; the reverse of involution.
4.  In military tactics, the doubling of ranks or files, wheeling, countermarching or other motion by which the disposition of troops is changed, in order to attack or defend with more advantage, or to occupy a different post.


Topic: Evolve
Definition:
EVOLVE, v.t.  evolv'.  [L. evolvo; e and volvo, to roll; Eng. to wallow.]
1.  To unfold; to open and expand.
The animal soul sooner evolves itself to its full orb and extent than the human soul.
2.  To throw out; to emit.
EVOLVE, v.i.  To open itself; to disclose itself.


Topic: Evolvent
Definition:
EVOLV'ENT, n.  In geometry, a curve formed by the evolution of another curve; the curve described from the evolute.


Topic: Evulsion
Definition:
EVUL'SION, n.  [L.  evulsio, from evello; e and vello, to pluck.]
The act of plucking or pulling out by force.


Topic: Ewry
Definition:
EW'RY, n.  yu'ry.  [from ever.]  In England an office in the king's household, where they take care of the linen for the king's table, lay the cloth, and serve up water in ewers after dinner.


Topic: Ex
Definition:
EX.  A Latin preposition or prefix, Gr. signifying out of, out, proceeding from.  Hence in composition, it signifies sometimes out of, as in exhale, exclude; sometimes off, from or out, as in L. excindo, to cut off or out; sometimes beyond, as in excess, exceed, excel. In some words it is merely emphatical; in others it has little effect on the signification.


Topic: Ex-commissary
Definition:
EX-COM'MISSARY, n.  [ex and commissary.]  A commissary dismissed from office; one formerly a commissary.


Topic: Exacerbate
Definition:
EXACERB'ATE, v.t.  [L. exacerbo, to irritate; ex and acerbo, from acerbus, severe, bitter, harsh, sour. See Harvest.]
1.  To irritate; to exasperate; to inflame angry passions; to imbitter; to increase malignant qualities.
2.  To increase the violence of a disease.


Topic: Exacerbation
Definition:
EXACERBA'TION, n.  The act of exasperating; the irritation of angry or malignant passions or qualities; increase of malignity.
1.  Among physicians, the increased violence of a disease; hence, a paroxysm, as in the return of an intermitting fever.
This term is more generally restricted to the periodical increase of remittent and continued fevers, where there is no absolute cessation of the fever.
2.  Increased severity; as violent exacerbations of punishment.  [Unusual.]


Topic: Exacerbescence
Definition:
EXACERBES'CENCE, n.  [L. exacerbesco.]  Increase of irritation or violence, particularly the increase of a fever or disease.


Topic: Exact
Definition:
EXACT', a.  egzact'.  [L. exactus, from exigo, to drive; ex and ago. Gr. to drive, urge or press.]
1.  Closely correct or regular; nice; accurate; conformed to rule; as a man exact in his dealings.
All this, exact to rule, were brought about.
2.  Precise; not different in the least.  This is the exact sum or amount, or the exact time.
We have an exact model for imitation.
3.  Methodical; careful; not negligent; correct; observing strict method, rule or order.  This man is very exact in keeping his accounts.
4.  Punctual.  Every man should be exact in paying his debts when due; he should be exact in attendance on appointments.
5.  Strict.  We should be exact in the performance of duties.
The exactest vigilance cannot maintain a single day of unmingled innocence.
EXACT', v.t. egzact'.  [L. exigo, exactum.  See the Adjective.]
1.  To force or compel to pay or yield; to demand or require authoritatively; to extort by means of authority or without pity or justice. It is an offense for an officer to exact illegal or unreasonable fees.  It is customary for conquerors to exact tribute or contributions from conquered countries.
2.  To demand or right.  Princes exact obedience of their subjects.  The laws of God exact obedience from all men.
3.  To demand of necessity; to enforce a yielding or compliance; or to enjoin with pressing urgency.
Duty,
And justice to my father's soul, exact
This cruel piety.
EXACT', v.i.  To practice extortion.
The enemy shall not exact upon him.  Ps.89.


Topic: Exacting
Definition:
EXACT'ING, ppr.  Demanding and compelling to pay or yield under color of authority; requiring authoritatively; demanding without pity or justice; extorting; compelling by necessity.


Topic: Exaction
Definition:
EXAC'TION, n.  The act of demanding with authority, and compelling to pay or yield; authoritative demand; a levying or drawing from by force; a driving to compliance; as the exaction of tribute or of obedience.
1.  Extortion; a wresting from one unjustly; the taking advantage of one's necessities, to compel him to pay illegal or exorbitant tribute, fees or rewards.
Take away your exactions from my people.  Ezek.45.
2.  That which is exacted; tribute, fees, rewards or contributions demanded or levied with severity or injustice.  Kings may be enriched by exactions, but their power is weakened by the consequent disaffection of their subjects.


Topic: Exactly
Definition:
EXACT'LY, adv.  Precisely according to rule or measure; nicely; accurately.  A tenon should be exactly fitted to the mortise.
1.  Precisely according to fact.  The story exactly accords with the fact or event.
2.  Precisely according to principle, justice or right.


Topic: Exactness
Definition:
EXACT'NESS, n.  Accuracy; nicety; precision; as, to make experiments with exactness.
1.  Regularity; careful conformity to law or rules of propriety; as exactness of deportment.
2.  Careful observance of method and conformity to truth; as exactness in accounts or business.


Topic: Exactor
Definition:
EXACT'OR, n.  One who exacts; an officer who collects tribute, taxes or customs.
I will make thine officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness.  Isa. 60.
1.  An extortioner; one who compels another to pay more than is legal or reasonable; one who demands something without pity or regard to justice.
2.  He that demands by authority; as an exactor of oaths.
3.  One who is unreasonably severe in his injunctions or demands.


Topic: Exaggerate
Definition:
EXAG'GERATE, v.t.  [L. exaggero; ex and aggero, to heap, from agger, a heap.]
1.  To heap on; to accumulate. In this literal sense, it is seldom used; perhaps never.
2.  To highthen; to enlarge beyond the truth; to amplify; to represent as greater than strict truth will warrant.  A friend exaggerates a man's virtues; a enemy exaggerates his vices or faults.
3.  In painting, to highthen in coloring or design.


Topic: Exaggeration
Definition:
EXAGGERA'TION, n.  A heaping together; heap; accumulation.
1.  In rhetoric, amplification; a representation of things beyond the truth; hyperbolical representation, whether of good or evil.
2.  In painting, a method of giving a representation of things too strong for the life.


Topic: Exalt
Definition:
EXALT', v.t.  egzolt'.  [Low L. exalto; ex and altus, high.]
1.  To raise high; to elevate.
2.  To elevate in power, wealth, rank or dignity; as, to exalt one to a throne, to the chief magistracy, to a bishopric.
3.  To elevate with joy or confidence; as, to be exalted with success or victory.  [We now use elate.]
4.  To raise with pride; to make undue pretensions to power, rank or estimation; to elevate too high or above others.
He that exalteth himself shall be abased.  Luke 14.  Matt.23.
5.  To elevate in estimation and praise; to magnify; to praise; to extol.
He is my father's God, and I will exalt him.  Ex. 15.
6.  To raise, as the voice; to raise in opposition.  2 Kings 19.
7.  To elevate in diction or sentiment; to make sublime; as exalted strains.
8.  In physics, to elevate; to purify; to subtilize; to refine; as, to exalt the juices or the qualities of bodies.


Topic: Exaltation
Definition:
EXALTA'TION, n. The act of raising high.
1.  Elevation to power, office, rank, dignity or excellence.
2.  Elevated state; state of greatness or dignity.
I wondered at my flight, and change
To this high exaltation.
3.  In pharmacy, the refinement or subtilization of bodies or their qualities and virtues, or the increase of their strength.
4.  In astrology, the dignity of a planet in which its powers are increased.


Topic: Exalted
Definition:
EXALT'ED, pp.  Raised to a lofty highth; elevated; honored with office or rank; extolled; magnified; refined; dignified; sublime.
Time never fails to bring every exalted reputation to a strict scrutiny.


Topic: Exalting
Definition:
EXALT'ING, ppr.  Elevating; raising to an eminent station; praising; extolling; magnifying; refining.


Topic: Examen
Definition:
EXA'MEN, n. egza'men.  [L. examen, the tongue, needle or beam of a balance.  It signifies also a swarm of bees.]  
Examination; disquisition; enquiry.  [Little used.]


Topic: Examination
Definition:
EXAMINA'TION, n.  [L. examinatio. See Examen.]
1.  The act of examining; a careful search or inquiry, with a view to discover truth or the real state of things; careful and accurate inspection of a thing and its parts; as an examination of a house or a ship.
2.  Mental inquiry; disquisition; careful consideration of the circumstances or facts which relate to a subject or question; a view of qualities and relations, and an estimate of their nature and importance.
3.  Trial by a rule or law.
4. In judicial proceedings, a careful inquiry into facts by testimony; an attempt to ascertain truth by inquiries and interrogatories; as the examination of a witness or the merits of a cause.
5.  In seminaries of learning, an inquiry into the acquisitions of the students, by questioning them in literature and the sciences, and by hearing their recitals.
6.  In chimistry and other sciences, a searching for the nature and qualities of substances, by experiments; the practice or application of the docimastic art.


Topic: Examine
Definition:
EXAM'INE, v.t.  egzam'in.  [L. examino, from examen.]
1. To inspect carefully, with a view to discover truth or the real state of a thing; as, to examine a ship to know whether she is sea-worthy, or a house to know whether repairs are wanted.
 2.  To search or inquire into facts and circumstances by interrogating; as, to examine a witness.
3.  To look into the state of a subject; to view in all its aspects; to weigh arguments and compare facts, with a view to form a correct opinion or judgment.  Let us examine this proposition; let us examine this subject in all its relations and bearing; let us examine into the state of this question.
4.  To inquire into the improvements or qualifications of students, by interrogatories, proposing problems, or by hearing their recitals; as, to examine the classes in college; to examine the candidates for a degree, or for a license to preach or to practice in a profession. 
5.  To try or assay by experiments; as, to examine minerals.
6.  To try by a rule or law.
Examine yourselves whether ye are in the faith. 2 Cor.13.
7.  In general, to search; to scrutinize; to explore, with a view to discover truth; as, to examine ourselves; to examine the extent of human knowledge.


Topic: Examiner
Definition:
EXAM'INER, n.  One who examines, tries or inspects; one who interrogates a witness or an offender.
1. In chancery, in Great Britain, the Examiners are two officers of that court, who examine, on oath, the witnesses for the parties.


Topic: Examining
Definition:
EXAM'INING, ppr.  Inspecting carefully; searching or inquiring into; interrogating; trying or assaying by experiment.


Topic: Examplary
Definition:
EX'AMPLARY, a.  [from example.]  Serving for example or pattern; proposed for imitation.  [It is now written exemplary.]


Topic: Example
Definition:
EXAM'PLE, n.  egzam'pl.  [L. e xemplum.]
1.  A pattern; a copy; a mode; that which is proposed to be imitated.  This word, when applied to material things, is now generally written sample, as a sample of cloth; but example is sometimes used.
2.  A pattern, in morals or manners; a copy, or model; that which is proposed or is proper to be imitated.
I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you.  John 13.
Example is our preceptor before we can reason.
3.  Precedent; a former instance.  Buonaparte furnished many examples of successful bravery.
4.  Precedent or former instance, in a bad sense, intended for caution.
Lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.  Heb.4.
Sodom and Gomorrah--are set forth for an example,suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.  Jude.7.
5.  A person fit to be proposed for a pattern; one whose conduct is worthy of imitation.
Be thou an example of the believers.  1 Tim 4.
6.  Precedent which disposes to imitation.
Example has more effect than precept.
7.  Instance serving for illustration of a rule or precept; or a particular case or proposition illustrating a general rule, position or truth.  The principles of trigonometry and the rules of grammar are illustrated by examples.
8. In logic, or rhetoric, the conclusion of one singular point from another; an induction of what may happen from what has happened.  If civil war has produced calamities of a particular kind in one instance, it is inferred that it will produce like consequences in other cases. This is an example.
EXAM'PLE, v.t.  To exemplify; to set an example.  [Not used.


Topic: Exanimate
Definition:
EXAN'IMATE, a.  egzan'imate.  [L. exanimatus, exanimo; ex and anima, life.]
Lifeless; spiritless; disheartened; depressed in spirits.
EXAN'IMATE, v.t. To dishearten; to discourage.


Topic: Exanthema
Definition:
EXAN'THEMA, n.  plu. exanthem'ata.  [Gr. to blossom; a flower.]
Among physicians, eruption; a breaking out; pustules, petechiae, or vibices; any efflorescence on the skin, as in measles, small pox, scarlatina, &c.
This term is now limited by systematic nosologists, to such eruptions as are accompanied with fever.


Topic: Exarch
Definition:
EX'ARCH, n.  [Gr. a chief.]  A prefect or governor under the eastern emperors. Also, a deputy or legate in the Greek church.


Topic: Exasperate
Definition:
EX`ASPERATE, v.t.  [L. exaspero, to irritate; ex and aspero, from asper, rough, harsh.]
1.  To anger; to irritate to a high degree; to provoke to rage; to enrage; to excite anger, or to inflame it to an extreme degree.  We say, to exasperate a person, or to exasperate the passion of anger or resentment.
2.  To aggravate; to embitter; as, to exasperate enmity.
3.  To augment violence; to increase malignity; to exacerbate; as, to exasperate pain or a part inflamed.


Topic: Exasperated
Definition:
EX`ASPERATED, pp.  Highly angered or irritated; provoked; enraged; embittered; increased in violence.


Topic: Exasperation
Definition:
EXASPERA'TION, n.  Irritation; the act of exciting violent anger; provocation.
1.  Extreme degree of anger; violent passion.
2. Increase of violence or malignity; exacerbation.


Topic: Exauthoration
Definition:
EXAUTHORA'TION, n.  Dismission from service; deprivation; degradation; the removal of a person from an office or dignity in the church.


Topic: Excalceated
Definition:
EXCAL'CEATED, a.  [L. excalceo, to pull off the shoes; ex and calceus, a shoe.]
Deprived of shoes; unshod; barefooted.


Topic: Excandescence
Definition:
EXCANDES'CENCE, n.  [L. excandescentia, excandesco; ex and candesco, candeo, to glow or be hot, from caneo, to be white, to shine.]
1.  A growing hot; or a white heat; glowing heat.
2.  Heat of passion; violent anger; or a growing angry.


Topic: Excantation
Definition:
EXCANTA'TION, n.  [L. excanto, but with an opposite signification.]
Disenchantment by a countercharm. [Little used.]


Topic: Excarnification
Definition:
EXCARNIFICA'TION, n.  [L. excarnifico, to cut in pieces, from caro, flesh.]
The act of cutting off flesh, or of depriving of flesh.


Topic: Excavate
Definition:
EX'CAVATE, v.t.  [L. excavo; ex and cavo, to hollow, cavus, hollow.  See Cave.]
To hollow; to cut, scoop, dig or wear out the inner part of any thing and make it hollow; as, to excavate a ball; to excavate the earth; to excavate the trunk of a tree and form a canoe.


Topic: Excavation
Definition:
EXCAVA'TION, n.  The act of making hollow, by cutting, wearing or scooping out the interior substance or part of a thing.
1.  A hollow or a cavity formed by removing the interior substance.  Many animals burrow in excavations of their own forming.


Topic: Exceed
Definition:
EXCEE'D, v.t.  [L. excedo; ex and cedo, to pass.
1.  To pass or go beyond; to proceed beyond any given or supposed limit, measure or quantity, or beyond any thing else; used equally in a physical or moral sense.  One piece of cloth exceeds the customary length or breadth; one man exceeds another in bulk, stature or weight; one offender exceeds another in villainy.
2.  To surpass; to excel. Homer exceeded all men in epic poetry.  Demosthenes and Cicero exceeded their contemporaries in oratory.
King Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom.  l Kings.10.
EXCEE'D, v.i.  To go too far; to pass the proper bounds; to go over any given limit, number or measure.
Forty stripes may he give him, and not exceed.  Deut.25.
1.  To bear the greater proportion; to be more or larger.
[This verb is intransitive only by ellipsis.]


Topic: Exceeding
Definition:
EXCEE'DING, ppr.  Going beyond; surpassing; excelling; outdoing.
1.  Great in extent, quantity or duration; very extensive.
Cities were built an exceeding space of time before the flood.  [This sense is unusual.]
2.  adv. In a very great degree; unusually; as exceeding rich.
The Genoese were exceeding powerful by sea.
I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.  Gen.15.
EXCEE'DING, n.  Excess; superfluity.


Topic: Exceedingly
Definition:
EXCEE'DINGLY, adv.  To a very great degree; in a degree beyond what is usual; greatly; very much.
Isaac trembled exceedingly.  Gen.27.


Topic: Excel
Definition:
EXCEL', v.t.  [L. excello, the root of which, cello, is not in use.
1.  To go beyond; to exceed; to surpass in good qualities or laudable deeds; to outdo.
Excelling others, these were great;
Thou greater still, must these excel.
Many daughters have done virtuously, but 
thou excellest them all.  Prov.31.
2.  To exceed or go beyond in bad qualities or deeds.
3.  To exceed; to surpass.
EXCEL', v.i. To have good qualities, or to perform meritorious actions, in an unusual degree; to be eminent, illustrious or distinguished.
Bless the Lord, ye his angels, that excel in strength.  Ps.103.
We say, to excel in mathematics; to excel in painting; to excel in heroic achievements.


Topic: Excellent
Definition:
EX'CELLENT, a.  Being of great virtue or worth; eminent or distinguished for what is amiable, valuable or laudable; as an excellent man or citizen; an excellent judge or magistrate.
1.  Being of great value or use, applied to things; remarkable for good properties; as excellent timber; an excellent farm; an excellent horse; excellent fruit.
2.  Distinguished for superior attainments; as an excellent artist.
3.  Consummate; complete; in an ill sense.
Elizabeth was an excellent hypocrite.


Topic: Excellently
Definition:
EX'CELLENTLY, adv.  In an excellent manner; well in a high degree; in an eminent degree; in a manner to please or command esteem, or to be useful.


Topic: Except
Definition:
EXCEPT', v.t. [L. excipio; ex and capio, to take.  See Caption, Capture.]
1.  To take or leave out of any number specified; to exclude; as, of the thirty persons present and concerned in a riot, we must except two.
2.  To take or leave out any particular or particulars, from a general description.
When he saith, all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted who did put all things under him.  1 Cor.14.
EXCEPT', v.i.  To object; to make an objection or objections; usually followed by to; sometimes by against.  I except to a witness, or to his testimony, on account of his interest or partiality.
EXCEPT', pp.  Contracted from excepted.  Taken out; not included.  All were involved in this affair, except one; that is, one excepted, the case absolute or independent clause. Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish; that is, except this fact, that ye repent, or this fact being excepted, removed, taken away, ye shall all likewise perish.  Or except may be considered as the imperative mode.  Except, thou or ye, this fact, ye shall all likewise perish.  Hence except is equivalent to without, unless, and denotes exclusion.


Topic: Excepting
Definition:
EXCEPT'ING, ppr.  Taking or leaving out; excluding.
1.  This word is also used in the sense of except, as above explained.  The prisoners were all condemned, except in three.  This is an anomalous use of the word, unless, in some cases, it may be referred to a pronoun.  Excepted would be better: three excepted; three being excepted.


Topic: Exception
Definition:
EXCEP'TION, n.  The act of excepting, or excluding from a number designated, or from a description; exclusion. All the representatives voted for the bill, with the exception of five.  All the land is in tillage, with an exception of two acres.
1.  Exclusion from what is comprehended in a general rule or proposition.
2.  That which is excepted, excluded, or separated from others in a general description; the person or thing specified as distinct or not included.  Almost every general rule has its exceptions.
3.  An objection; that which is or may be offered in opposition to a rule, proposition, statement or allegation; with to; sometimes with against.  He made some exceptions to the argument.
4.  Objection with dislike; offense; slight anger or resentment; with at, to or against, and commonly used with take; as, to take exception at a severe remark; to take exception to what was said.
Roderigo, thou hast taken against me an exception.
But it is more generally followed by at.
5.  In law, the denial of what is alleged and considered as valid by the other party, either in point of law or in pleading; or an allegation against the sufficiency of an answer. In law, it is a stop or stay to an action, and it is either dilatory or peremptory.
6.  A saving clause in a writing.
Bill of exceptions, in law, is a statement of exceptions to evidence, filed by the party, and which the judge must sign or seal.


Topic: Exceptionable
Definition:
EXCEP'TIONABLE, a.  Liable to objection.
This passage I look upon to be the most exceptionable in the whole poem.


Topic: Exceptive
Definition:
EXCEPT'IVE, a.  Including an exception; as an exceptive preposition.
1.  Making or being an exception.


Topic: Excern
Definition:
EXCERN', v.t.  [L. excerno; ex and cerno; Gr. to separate.]
To separate and emit through the pores, or through small passages of the body; to strain out; to excrete; as, fluids are excerned in perspiration.


Topic: Excerption
Definition:
EXCERP'TION, n.  [L. excerptio.]  A picking out; a gleaning; selection.  [Little used.]
1.  That which is selected or gleaned.  [Little used.]


Topic: Excess
Definition:
EXCESS', n.  [L. excessus, from excedo.  See Exceed.]
1.  Literally, that which exceeds any measure or limit, or which exceeds something else, or a going beyond a just line or point.  Hence, superfluity; that which is beyond necessity or wants; as an excess of provisions; excess of light.
2.  That which is beyond the common measure, proportion, or due quantity; as the excess of a limb; the excess of bile in the system.
3.  Super abundance of any thing.
4.  Any transgression of due limits.
5.  In morals, any indulgence of appetite, passion or exertion, beyond the rules of God's word, or beyond any rule of propriety; intemperance in gratifications; as excess in eating or drinking; excess of joy; excess of grief; excess of love, or of anger; excess of labor.
6.  In arithmetic and geometry, the difference between any two unequal numbers or quantities; that which remains when the lesser number or quantity is taken from the greater.


Topic: Excessive
Definition:
EXCESS'IVE, a.  Beyond any given degree, measure or limit, or beyond the common measure or proportion; as the excessive bulk of a man; excessive labor; excessive wages.
1. Beyond the established laws of morality and religion, or beyond the bounds of justice, fitness, propriety, expedience or utility; as excessive indulgence of any kind.
Excessive bail shall not be required.
2.  Extravagant; unreasonable.  His expenditures of money were excessive.
3.  Vehement; violent; as excessive passion.


Topic: Excessively
Definition:
EXCESS'IVELY, adv.  In an extreme degree; beyond measure; exceedingly; as excessively impatient; excessively grieved.
1.  Vehemently; violently; as, the wind blew excessively.


Topic: Exchange
Definition:
EXCHANGE, v.t.
1. In commerce, to give one thing or commodity for another; to alienate or transfer the property of a thing and receive in compensation for it something of supposed equal value; to barter; and in vulgar language, to swap; to truck.  It differs from sell, only in the kind of compensation.  To sell is to alienate for money; to exchange is to alienate one commodity for another; as, to exchange horses; to exchange oxen for corn.
2.  To lay aside, quit or resign one thing, state or condition, and take another in the place of it; as, to exchange a crown for a cowl; to exchange a throne for a cell or a hermitage; to exchange a life of ease for a life of toil.
3.  To give and receive reciprocally; to give and receive in compensation the same thing.
Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet.
4.  To give and receive the like thing; as to exchange thoughts; to exchange work; to exchange blows; to exchange prisoners.
It has with before the person receiving the thing given, and for before the equivalent.  Will you exchange horses with me?  Will you exchange your horse for mine?
EXCHANGE, n.  In commerce, the act of giving one thing or commodity for another; barter; traffic by permutation, in which the thing received is supposed to be equivalent to the thing given.
Joseph gave them bread in exchange for horses. Gen 47.
1. The act of giving up or resigning one thing or state for another, without contract.
2.  The act of giving and receiving reciprocally; as an exchange of thoughts; an exchange of civilities.
3.  The contract by which one commodity is transferred to another for an equivalent commodity.
4.  The thing given in return for something received; or the thing received in return for what is given.
There's my exchange.
In ordinary business, this is called change.
5.  The form of exchanging one debt or credit for another; or the receiving or paying of money in one place, for an equal sum in another, by order, draft or bill of exchange.  A in London is creditor to B in New York, and C in London owed D in New York a like sum.  A in London draws a bill of exchange on B in New York; C in London purchases the bill, by which A receives his debt due from B in New York.  C transmits the bill to D in New York, who receives the amount from B.
Bills of exchange, drawn on persons in a foreign country, are called foreign bills of exchange; the like bills, drawn on persons in different parts or cities of the same country, are called inland bills of exchange.
A bill of exchange is a mercantile contract in which four persons are primarily concerned.
6.  In mercantile language, a bill drawn for money is called exchange, instead of a bill of exchange.
7.  The course of exchange, is the current price between two places, which is above or below par, or at par.  Exchange is at par, when a bill in New York for the payment of one hundred pounds sterling in London, can be purchased for one hundred pounds.  If it can be purchased for less, exchange is under par.  If the purchases is obliged to give more, exchange is above par.
8.  In law, a mutual grant of equal interest, the one in consideration of the other. Estates exchanged must be equal in quantity, as fee simple for fee simple.
9.  The place where the merchants, brokers and bankers of a city meet to transact business, at certain hours; often contracted into change.


Topic: Exchangeability
Definition:
EXCHANGEABIL'ITY, n.  The quality or state of being exchangeable.
Though the law ought not to be contravened by an express article admitting the exchangeability of such persons.


Topic: Exchangeable
Definition:
EXCHANGEABLE, a.  That may be exchanged; capable of being exchanged; fit or proper to be exchanged.
The officers captured with Burgoyne were exchangeable within the powers of Gen. Howe.
Bank bills exchangeable for gold or silver.
  


Topic: Exchanging
Definition:
EXCHANGING, ppr.  Giving and receiving one commodity for another; giving and receiving mutually; laying aside or relinquishing one thing or state for another.


Topic: Exchequer
Definition:
EXCHEQ'UER, n. exchek'er.
In England, an ancient court of record, intended principally to collect and superintend the king's debts and duties or revenues, and so called from scaccharium, or from the same root, denoting a checkered cloth, which covers the table.  In consists of two divisions: the receipt of the exchequer, which manages the royal revenue; and the judicial part, which is divided into a court of law and a court of equity.  The court of equity is held in the exchequer chamber, before the lord treasurer, the chancellor of the exchequer, the chief baron and three inferior barons.  The common law court is held before the barons, without the treasurer or chancellor.
Exchequer-bills, in England, bills for money, or promissory bills, issued from the exchequer; a species of paper currency emitted under the authority of the government and bearing interest.
EXCHEQ'UER, v.t.  To institute a process against a person in the court of exchequer.


Topic: Excise
Definition:
EXCI'SE, n.  s as z.  [L. excisum, cut off, from excido.]
An inland duty or impost, laid on commodities consumed, or on the retail, which is the last state before consumption; as an excise on coffee, soap, candles, which a person consumes in his family.  But many articles are excised at the manufactories, as spirit at the distillery, printed silks and linens at the printer's, &c.
EXCI'SE, v.t. s as z.  To lay or impose a duty on articles consumed, or in the hands of merchants, manufacturers and retailers; to levy an excise on.


Topic: Excision
Definition:
EXCIS'ION, n.  s as z.  [L. excisio.]  In surgery, a cutting out or cutting off any part of the body; extirpation; amputation.
1.  The cutting off of a person from his people; extirpation; destruction.
The rabbins reckon three kinds of excision.


Topic: Excitability
Definition:
EXCITABIL'ITY, n.  [from excite.]  The quality of being capable of excitement; susceptibility of increased vital action by the force of stimulants.


Topic: Excitable
Definition:
EXCI'TABLE, a.  Having the quality of being susceptible of excitement; capable of increased action by the force of stimulants.
1.  Capable of being excited, or roused into action.


Topic: Excite
Definition:
EXCI'TE, v.t.  [L. excito; ex and cito, to cite, to call or provoke.]
1.  To rouse; to call into action; to animate; to stir up; to cause to act that which is dormant, stupid or inactive; as, to excite the spirits or courage.
2.  To stimulate; to give new or increased action to; as, to excite the human system; to excite the bowels.
3.  To raise; to create; to put in motion; as, to excite a mutiny or insurrection.
4.  To rouse; to inflame; as, to excite the passions.


Topic: Excitement
Definition:
EXCI'TEMENT, n.  The act of exciting; stimulation.
1.  The state of being roused into action, or of having increased action.  Stimulants are intended to produce excitement in the animal system.
2.  Agitation; a state of being roused into action; as an excitement of the people.
3.  That which excites or rouses; that which moves, stirs, or induces action; a motive.


Topic: Exciter
Definition:
EXCI'TER, n.  He or that which excites; he that puts in motion, or the cause which awakens and moves.
1.  In medicine, a stimulant.


Topic: Exciting
Definition:
EXCI'TING, ppr.  Calling or rousing into action; stimulating.
Exciting causes, in medicine, are those which immediately produce disease, or those which excite the action of predisponent causes.
EXCI'TING, n.  Excitation.


Topic: Exclaim
Definition:
EXCLA'IM, v.i.  [L. exclamo; ex and clamo, to cry out. See Claim, Clamor.]
1.  To utter the voice with vehemence; to cry out; to make a loud outcry in words; as, to exclaim against oppression; to exclaim with wonder or astonishment; to exclaim with joy.
2.  To declare with loud vociferation.
That thus you do exclaim you'll go with him.


Topic: Exclaimer
Definition:
EXCLA'IMER, n.  One who cries out with vehemence; one who speaks with heat, passion or much noise; as an exclaimer against tyranny.


Topic: Exclamation
Definition:
EXCLAMA'TION, n.  Outcry; noisy talk; clamor; as exclamations against abuses in government.
1.  Vehement vociferation.
Thus will I drown your exclamations.
2.  Emphatical utterance; a vehement extension or elevation of voice; ecphonesis; as, O dismal night!
3.  A note by which emphatical utterance or outcry is marked: thus!
4.  In grammar, a word expressing outcry; an interjection; a word expressing some passion, as wonder, fear or grief.


Topic: Exclamatory
Definition:
EXCLAM'ATORY, a.  Using exclamation; as an exclamatory speaker.
1.  Containing or expressing exclamation; as an exclamatory phrase.


Topic: Exclude
Definition:
EXCLU'DE, v.t.  [L. excludo; ex and claudo, to shut.]  Properly, to thrust out or eject; but used as synonymous with preclude.
1.  To thrust out; to eject; as, to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs.
2.  To hinder from entering or admission; to shut out; as, one body excludes another from occupying the same space.  The church ought to exclude immoral men from the communion.
3. To debar; to hinder from participation or enjoyment.  European nations, in time of peace, exclude our merchants from the commerce of their colonies. In some of the states, no man who pays taxes is excluded from the privilege of voting for representatives.
4.  To except; not to comprehend or include in a privilege, grant, proposition, argument, description, order, species, genus, &c. in a general sense.


Topic: Excluded
Definition:
EXCLU'DED, pp.  Thrust out; shut out; hindered or prohibited from entrance or admission; debarred; not included or comprehended.


Topic: Exclusion
Definition:
EXCLU'SION, n. s as z.  The act of excluding, or of thrusting out; ejection; as the exclusion of a fetus.
1.  The act of denying entrance or admission; a shutting out.
2.  The act of debarring from participation in a privilege, benefit, use or enjoyment.
3.  Rejection; non-reception or admission, in a general sense.
4.  Exception.
5.  Ejection; that which is emitted or thrown out.


Topic: Exclusive
Definition:
EXCLU'SIVE, a. Having the power of preventing entrance; as exclusive bars.
1.  Debarring from participation; possessed and enjoyed to the exclusion of others; as an exclusive privilege.
2.  Not taking into the account; not including or comprehending; as, the general had five thousand troops, exclusive of artillery and cavalry.  He sent me all the numbers from 78 to 94 exclusive; that is, all the numbers between 78 and 94, but these numbers, the first and last, are excepted or not included.


Topic: Exclusively
Definition:
EXCLU'SIVELY,  adv.  Without admission of others to participation; with the exclusion of all others; as, to enjoy a privilege exclusively.
1.  Without comprehension in an account or number; not inclusively.


Topic: Excogitate
Definition:
EXCOG'ITATE, v.t.  [L. excogito; ex and cogito, to think.]
To invent; to strike out by thinking; to contrive.


Topic: Excommunicate
Definition:
EXCOMMU'NICATE, v.t.  [L. ex and communico.]  To expel from communion; to eject from the communion of the church, by an ecclesiastical sentence, and deprive of spiritual advantages; as, to excommunicate notorious offenders.


Topic: Excommunicated
Definition:
EXCOMMU'NICATED, pp.  Expelled or separated from communion with a church, and a participation of its ordinances, rights and privileges.


Topic: Excommunicating
Definition:
EXCOMMU'NICATING, ppr.  Expelling from the communion of a church, and depriving of spiritual advantages, by an ecclesiastical sentence or decree.


Topic: Excommunication
Definition:
EXCOMMUNICA'TION, n.  The act of ejecting from a church; expulsion from the communion of a church, and deprivation of its rights, privileges and advantages; an ecclesiastical penalty or punishment inflicted on offenders. Excommunication is an ecclesiastical interdict, of two kinds, the lesser and the greater; the lesser excommunication is a separation or suspension of the offender from partaking of the eucharist; the greater, is an absolute separation and exclusion of the offender from the church and all its rites and advantages.


Topic: Excoriate
Definition:
EXCO'RIATE, v.t.  [Low L. excorio; ex and corium, skin, hide.]
To flay; to strip or wear off the skin; to abrade; to gall; to break and remove the cuticle in any manner, as by rubbing, beating, or by the action of acrid substances.


Topic: Excoriation
Definition:
EXCORIA'TION, n. The act of flaying, or the operation of wearing off the skin or cuticle; a galling; abrasion; the state of being galled or stripped of skin.
1.  Plunder; the act of stripping of possessions. [Little used.]


Topic: Excreate
Definition:
EX'CREATE, v.t.  [L. excreo, exscreo, to hawk and spit.]
To hawk and spit; to discharge from the throat by hawking and spitting.


Topic: Excrement
Definition:
EX'CREMENT, n. [L. excrementum, from excerno, excretus; ex and cerno, to separate.]
Matter excreted and ejected; that which is discharged from the animal body after digestion; alvine discharges.


Topic: Excrementitious
Definition:
EXCREMENTI'TIOUS, a.  Pertaining to excrement; containing excrement; consisting in matter evacuated or proper to be evacuated from the animal body.


Topic: Excrescence
Definition:
EXCRES'CENCE, n.  [L. excrescens, from excresco; ex and cresco, to grow.]  In surgery, a preternatural protuberance growing on any part of the body, as a wart or a tubercle; a superfluous part.
1.  Any preternatural enlargement of a plant, like a wart or tumor; or something growing out from a plant.
2.  A preternatural production.


Topic: Excrescent
Definition:
EXCRES'CENT, a.  Growing out of something else, in a preternatural manner; superfluous; as a wart or tumor.
Expunge the whole or lop the excrescent parts.


Topic: Excrete
Definition:
EXCRE'TE, v.t.  [L. excretus, infra.]  To separate and throw off; to discharge; as, to excrete urine.


Topic: Excretion
Definition:
EXCRE'TION, n.  [L. excretio, from excerno, to separate.]
1.  A separation of some fluid from the blood, by means of the glands; a throwing off or discharge of animal fluids from the body.
2.  That which is excreted; fluids separated from the body by the glands and called excrement.
The term excretion is more usually applied to those secretions which are directly discharged from the body.  It is also applied to the discharges from the bowels, which are called alvine excretions.


Topic: Excretive
Definition:
EX'CRETIVE, a.  Having the power of separating and ejecting fluid matter from the body.
Excretive faculty.


Topic: Excretory
Definition:
EX'CRETORY, a.  Having the quality of excreting or throwing off excrementitious matter by the glands.
EX'CRETORY, n. A little duct or vessel, destined to receive secreted fluids, and to excrete them; also, a secretory vessel.
The excretories are nothing but slender slips of the arteries, deriving an appropriated juice from the blood.


Topic: Excruciate
Definition:
EXCRU'CIATE, v.t.  [L. excrucio; ex and crucio, to torment, from crux, a cross.]  To torture; to torment; to inflict most severe pain on; as, to excruciate the heart or the body.


Topic: Excruciating
Definition:
EXCRU'CIATING, ppr.  Torturing; tormenting; putting to most severe pain.
1.  Extremely painful; distressing; as excruciating fears.


Topic: Exculpate
Definition:
EXCUL'PATE, v.t.  [L. ex and culpo, to blame, culpa, fault.]
To clear by words from a charge or imputation of fault or guilt; to excuse.  How naturally are we inclined to exculpate ourselves and throw the blame on others.  Eve endeavored to exculpate herself for eating the forbidden fruit,and throw the blame on the serpent; Adam attempted to exculpate himself and throw the blame on Eve.


Topic: Excursion
Definition:
EXCUR'SION, n.  [L. excursio, excurso, from cursus, from curro, to run.]
1.  A rambling; a deviating from a stated or settled path.
She in low numbers short excursions tries.
2.  Progression beyond fixed limits; as, the excursions of the seasons into the extremes of heat and cold.
3.  Digression; a wandering from a subject or main design.
4.  An expedition or journey into a distant part; any rambling from a point or place, and return to the same point or place.


Topic: Excusable
Definition:
EXCU'SABLE, a.  s as z.  [See Excuse.]  That may be excused; pardonable; as, the man is excusable.
1.  Admitting of excuse or justification; as an excusable action.


Topic: Excusableness
Definition:
EXCU'SABLENESS, n. s as z.  The state of being excusable; pardonableness; the quality of admitting of excuse.


Topic: Excusatory
Definition:
EXCU'SATORY, a.  s as z.  Making excuse; containing excuse or apology; apologetical; as an excusatory plea.


Topic: Excuse
Definition:
EXCU'SE, v.t.  s as z.  [L. excuso; ex and causor, to blame.  See Cause.]
1.  To pardon; to free from the imputation of fault or blame; to acquit of guilt.  We excuse a person in our own minds, when we acquit him of guilt or blame; or we excuse him by a declaration of that acquital.
2.  To pardon, as a fault; to forgive entirely, or to admit to be little censurable, and to overlook. We excuse a fault, which admits of apology or extenuation; and we excuse irregular conduct, when extraordinary circumstances appear to justify it.
3.  To free from an obligation or duty.
I pray thee have me excused.  Luke 14.
4.  To remit; not to exact; as, to excuse a forfeiture.
5.  To pardon; to admit an apology for.
Excuse some courtly strains.
6.  To throw off an imputation by apology.
Think you that we excuse ourselves to you?  2 cor.12.
7.  To justify; to vindicate.
Their thoughts accusing or else excusing one another. Rom.2.
EXCU'SE, n.  A plea offered in extenuation of a fault or irregular deportment; apology.  Every man has an excuse to offer for his neglect of duty; the debtor makes excuses for delay of payment.
1.  The act of excusing or apologizing.
2.  That which excuses; that which extenuates or justifies a fault. His inability to comply with the request must be his excuse.


Topic: Excuseless
Definition:
EXCU'SELESS, a.  Having no excuse; that for which no excuse or apology can be offered.  [Little used.]


Topic: Excuser
Definition:
EXCU'SER, n.  s as z.  One who offers excuses or pleads for another.
1.  One who excuses or forgives another.


Topic: Execrable
Definition:
EX'ECRABLE, a.  [L. execrabilis.  See Execrate.]
Deserving to be cursed; very hateful; destable; abominable; as an execrable wretch.


Topic: Execrate
Definition:
EX'ECRATE, v.t.  [L. execror, from ex and sacer, the primary sense of which is to separate.  See Sacred.]
Literally, to curse; to denounce evil agianst, or to imprecate evil on; hence, to detest utterly; to abhor; to abominate.


Topic: Execration
Definition:
EXECRA'TION, n.  The act of cursing; a curse pronounced; imprecation of evil; utter detestation expressed.
Cease, gentle queen, these execrations:


Topic: Execute
Definition:
EX'ECUTE, v.t.  [L. exequor, for exsequor; ex and sequor, to follow. See Seek.]
1.  Literally, to follow out or through.  Hence, to perform; to do; to effect; to carry into complete effect; to complete; to finish.  We execute a purpose, a plan, design or scheme; we execute a work undertaken, that is, we pursue it to the end.
2.  To perform; to inflict; as, to execute judgment or vengeance.
3.  To carry into effect; as, to execute law or justice.
4.  To carry into effect the law, or the judgment or sentence on a person; to inflict capital punishment on; to put to death; as, to execute a traitor.
5.  To kill.
6.  To complete, as a legal instrument; to perform what is required to give validity to a writing, as by signing and sealing; as, to execute a deed or lease.
EX'ECUTE, v.i.  To perform the proper office; to produce an effect.


Topic: Execution
Definition:
EXECU'TION, n.  Performance; the act of completing or accomplishing.
The excellence of the subject contributed much to the happiness of the execution.
1.  In law, the carrying into effect a sentence or judgment of court; the last act of the law in completing the process by which justice is to be done, by which the possession of land or debt, damages or cost, is obtained, or by which judicial punishment is inflicted.
2.  The instrument, warrant or official order, by which an officer is empowered to carry a judgment into effect.  An execution issues from the clerk of a court, and is levied by a sheriff, his deputy or a constable, on the estate, goods or body of the debtor.
3.  The act of signing and sealing a legal instrument, or giving it the forms required to render it a valid act; as the execution of a deed.
4.  The last act of the law in the punishment of criminals; capital punishment; death inflicted according to the forms of law.
5.  Effect; something done or accomplished.
Every shot did execution.
6.  Destruction; slaughter.
It is used after do, to do execution; never after make.
7.  Performance, as in music or other art.


Topic: Executioner
Definition:
EXECU'TIONER, n. One who executes; one who carries into effect a judgment of death; one who inflicts a capital punishment in pursuance of a legal warrant. It is chiefly used in this sense.
1.  He that kills; he that murders.
2.  The instrument by which any thing is performed.


Topic: Executive
Definition:
EXEC'UTIVE, a.  egzec'utive.  Having the quality of executing or performing; as executive power or authority; an executive officer.  Hence, in government, executive is used in distinction from legislative and judicial. The body that deliberates and enacts laws, is legislative; the body that judges, or applies the laws to particular cases, is judicial; the body or person who carries the laws into effect, or superintends the enforcement of them, is executive.
It is of the nature of war to increase the executive, at the expense of the legislative authority.
EXEC'UTIVE, n.  The officer, whether king, president or other chief magistrate, who superintends the execution of the laws; the person who administers the government; executive power or authority in government.
Men most desirous of places in the executive gift, will not expect to be gratified, except by their support of the executive.


Topic: Executor
Definition:
EXEC'UTOR, n. The person appointed by a testator to execute his will, or to see it carried into effect.


Topic: Executory
Definition:
EXEC'UTORY, a.  Performing official duties.
1.  In law, to be executed or carried into effect in future; to take effect on a future contingency; as an executory devise or remainder.


Topic: Exegesis
Definition:
EXEGE'SIS, n.  [Gr. to explain, to lead.]
1.  Exposition; explanation; interpretation.
2.  A discourse intended to explain or illustrate a subject.


Topic: Exemplar
Definition:
EXEM'PLAR, n.  egzem'plar.  [L. See Example.]
1.  A model, original or pattern, to be copies or imitated.
2.  The idea or image of a thing, formed in the mind or an artist, by which he conducts his work; the ideal model which he attempts to imitate.


Topic: Exemplarily
Definition:
EX'EMPLARILY, adv.  In a manner to deserve imitation; in a worthy or excellent manner.
She is exemplarily loyal.
1. In a manner that may warn others, by way of terror; in such
a manner that others may be cautioned to avoid an evil; or in a manner intended to warn others.
Some he punished exemplarily in this world.


Topic: Exemplary
Definition:
EX'EMPLARY, a.  [from exemplar.]  Serving for a pattern or model for imitation; worthy of imitation.  The christian should be exemplary in his life, as well as correct in his doctrines.
1.  Such as may serve for a warning to others; such as may deter from crimes or vices; as exemplary justice; exemplary punishment.
2.  Such as may attract notice and imitation.
When any duty has fallen into general neglect, the most visible and exemplary performance is required.
3.  Illustrating.


Topic: Exemplification
Definition:
EXEMPLIFICA'TION, n.  [from exemplify.]
1.  The act of exemplifying; a showing or illustrating by example.
2.  A copy; a transcript; an attested copy; as an exemplification of a deed, or of letters patent.


Topic: Exemplify
Definition:
EXEM'PLIFY, v.t.  egzem'plify.  [from exemplar; Low L. exemplo.]
1.  To show or illustrate by example. The life and conversation of our Savior exemplified his doctrines and precepts.
2.  To copy; to transcribe; to take an attested copy.
3.  To prove or show by an attested copy.


Topic: Exemplifying
Definition:
EXEM'PLIFYING, ppr.  Illustrating by example; transcribing; taking an attested copy; proving by an attested copy.


Topic: Exempt
Definition:
EXEMPT', v.t.  egzemt'  [L. eximo, exemptus; ex and emo, to take.]
Literally, to take out or from; hence, to free, or permit to be free, from any charge, burden, restraint,duty, evil or requisition, to which others are subject; to privilege; to grant immunity from. Officers and students of colleges are exempted from military duty. No man is exempted from pain and suffering.  The laws of God exempt no man from the obligation to obedience.
Certain abbeys claimed to be exempted from the jurisdiction of their bishops.
EXEMPT', a.  Free from any service, charge, burden, tax, duty, evil or requisition, to which others are subject; not subject; not liable to; as, to be exempt from military duty, or from a poll tax; to be exempt from pain or fear.  Peers in G. Britain are exempt from serving on inquests.
1.  Free by privilege; as exempt from the jurisdiction of a lord or of a court.
2.  Free; clear; not included.
3.  Cut off from.  [Not used.]
EXEMPT', n. One who is exempted or freed from duty; one not subject.


Topic: Exempted
Definition:
EXEMPT'ED, pp.  Freed from charge, duty, tax or evils, to which others are subject; privileged; not subjected.


Topic: Exemption
Definition:
EXEMP'TION, n.  The act of exempting; the state of being exempt.
1.  Freedom from any service, charge, burden, tax, evil or requisition, to which others are subject; immunity; privilege.  Many cities of Europe purchased or obtained exemptions from feudal servitude. No man can claim an exemption from pain, sorrow or death.


Topic: Exenterate
Definition:
EXEN'TERATE, v.t.  [L. exentero; ex and Gr. entrails.]
To take out the bowels or entrails; to embowel.


Topic: Exequatur
Definition:
EXEQUA'TUR, n.  [L.]  A written recognition of a person in the character of consul or commercial agent, issued by the government, and authorizing him to exercise his powers in the country.


Topic: Exequies
Definition:
EX'EQUIES, n.  plu.  [L.exequioe, from exequor, that is, exsequor, to follow.]
Funeral rites; the ceremonies of burial; funeral procession.


Topic: Exercent
Definition:
EXER'CENT, a. [L.exercens.  See Exercise.]  Using; practicing; following; as a calling or profession.  [Little used.]


Topic: Exercise
Definition:
EX'ERCISE, n.  s as z.  [L. exercitium, from exerceo;  Eng. work.]
In a general sense, any kind of work, labor or exertion of body.  Hence,
1.  Use; practice; the exertions and movements customary in the performance of business; as the exercise of an art, trade, occupation, or profession.
2.  Practice; performance; as the exercise of religion.
3.  Use; employment; exertion; as the exercise of the eyes or of the senses, or of any power of body or mind.
4.  Exertion of the body, as conducive to health; action; motion, by labor, walking, riding, or other exertion.
The wise for cure on exercise depend.
5.  Exertion of the body for amusement, or for instruction; the habitual use of the limbs for acquiring an art, dexterity, or grace, as in fencing, dancing, riding; or the exertion of the muscles for invigorating the body.
6.  Exertion of the body and mind or faculties for improvement, as in oratory, in painting or statuary.
7.  Use or practice to acquire skill; preparatory practice.  Military exercises consist in using arms, in motions, marches and evolutions.  Naval exercise consists in the use or management of artillery, and in the evolutions of fleets.
8.  Exertion of the mind; application of the mental powers.
9.  Task; that which is appointed for one to perform.
    10. Act of divine worship.
    11. A lesson or example for practice.
EX'ERCISE, v.t.  [L. exerceo.]
1. In a general sense, to move; to exert; to cause to act, in any manner; as, to exercise the body or the hands; to exercise the mind, the powers of the mind, the reason or judgment.
2.  To use; to exert; as, to exercise authority or power.
3.  To use for improvement in skill; as, to exercise arms.
4.  To exert one's powers or strength; to practice habitually; as, to exercise one's self in speaking or music.
5.  To practice; to perform the duties of; as, to exercise an office.
6.  To train to use; to discipline; to cause to perform certain acts, as preparatory to service; as, to exercise troops.
7.  To task; to keep employed; to use efforts.
Herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offense towards God and men.  Acts.24.
8.  To use; to employ.
9.  To busy; to keep busy in action, exertion or employment.
    10. To pain or afflict; to give anxiety to; to make uneasy.
EX'ERCISE, v.i. To use action or exertion; as, to exercise for health or amusement.


Topic: Exercised
Definition:
EX'ERCISED, pp. Exerted; used; trained; disciplined; accustomed; made skillful by use; employed; practiced; pained; afflicted; rendered uneasy.


Topic: Exergue
Definition:
EXER'GUE, n.  [Gr. work.]  A little space around or without the figures of a medal, left for the inscription, cipher, device, date, &c.


Topic: Exert
Definition:
EXERT', v.t.  egzert'.  [L. exero, for exsero; ex and sero, to throw, to thrust, for this is the radical sense of sero.]
1.  Literally, to thrust forth; to emit; to push out.
Before the gems exert
Their feeble heads.
    [An unusual application.]
2.  To bring out; to cause to come forth; to produce.  But more generally,
3.  To put or thrust forth, as strength, force or ability; to strain; to put in action; to bring into active operation; as, to exert the strength of the body or limbs; to exert efforts; to exert powers or faculties; to exert the mind.
4.  To put forth; to do or perform.
When the will has exerted an act of command 
on any faculty of the soul.
To exert one's self, is to use efforts; to strive.


Topic: Exertion
Definition:
EXER'TION, n.  The act of exerting or straining; the act of putting into motion or action; effort; a striving or struggling; as an exertion of strength or power; an exertion of the limbs, of the mind or faculties.  The ship was saved by great exertions of the crew. No exertions will suppress a vice which great men countenance.


Topic: Exesion
Definition:
EXE'SION, n.  s as z.  [L. exesus, exedo; ex and edo, to eat.]
The act of eating out or through.  [Little used.]


Topic: Exestuation
Definition:
EXESTUA'TION, n.  [L. exoestuatio; ex and oestuo, to boil.]
A boiling; ebullition; agitation caused by heat; effervescence.


Topic: Exfoliate
Definition:
EXFO'LIATE, v.i.  [L. exfolio; ex and folium, a leaf.]
In surgery and mineralogy, to separate and come off in scales, as pieces of carious bone; to scale off, as the lamins of a mineral.


Topic: Exfoliation
Definition:
EXFOLIA'TION, n.  The scaling of a bone; the process of separating, as pieces of unsound bone from the sound part; desquamation.


Topic: Exfoliative
Definition:
EXFO'LIATIVE, a. That has the power of causing exfoliation or the desquamation of a bone.
EXFO'LIATIVE, n. That which has the power or quality of procuring exfoliation.


Topic: Exhalation
Definition:
EXHALA'TION, n.  [L. exhalatio.  See Exhale.]
1. The act or process of exhaling, or sending forth fluids in the form of steam or vapor; evaporation.
2.  That which is exhaled; that which is emitted, or which rises in the form of vapor; fume or steam; effluvia.  Exhalations are visible or invisible. The earth is often dried by evaporation, without visible exhalations. The smell of fragrant plants is caused by invisible exhalations.


Topic: Exhale
Definition:
EXHA'LE, v.t. egzha'le.  [L. exhalo; ex and halo, to breathe, to send forth vapor.]
1.  To send out; to emit; as vapor, or minute particles of a fluid or other substance.  The rose exhales a fragrant odor.  The earth exhales vapor.  Marshes exhale noxious effluvia.
2.  To draw out; to cause to be emitted in vapor or minute particles; to evaporate.  The sun exhales the moisture of the earth.


Topic: Exhaust
Definition:
EXHAUST', v.t.  egzhaust'.  [L. exhaurio, exhaustum; ex and haurio, to draw.]
1.  To draw out or drain off the whole of any thing; to draw out, till nothing of the matter drawn is left.  We exhaust the water in a well, by drawing or pumping; the water of a marsh is exhausted by draining; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.
2.  To empty by drawing out the contents.  Venesection may exhaust the veins and arteries.
3.  To draw out or to use and expend the whole; to consume. The treasures of the prince were exhausted; his means or his resources were exhausted. The strength or fertility of land may be exhausted.
4.  To use or expend the whole by exertion; as, to exhaust the strength or spirits; to exhaust one's patience.  Hence this phrase is equivalent to tire, weary, fatigue.
EXHAUST', a.  Drained; exhausted.  [Little used.]


Topic: Exhausted
Definition:
EXHAUST'ED, pp.  Drawn out; drained off; emptied by drawing, draining or evaporation; wholly used or expended; consumed.


Topic: Exhausting
Definition:
EXHAUST'ING, ppr.  Drawing out; draining off; emptying; using or expending the whole; consuming.
1.  Tending to exhaust; as exhausting labor.


Topic: Exhaustion
Definition:
EXHAUST'ION, n.  The act of drawing out or draining off; the act of emptying completely of the contents.
1.  The state of being exhausted or emptied; the state of being deprived of strength or spirits.
2.  In mathematics, a method of proving the equality of two magnitudes by a reductio ad absurdum, or showing that if one is supposed either greater or less than the other, there will arise a contradiction.


Topic: Exhaustless
Definition:
EXHAUST'LESS, a. Not to be exhausted; not to be wholly drawn off or emptied; inexhaustible; as an exhaustless fund or store.


Topic: Exheredation
Definition:
EXHEREDA'TION, n.  [L. exhoeredatio, exhoeredo; ex and hoeres, an heir.]
In the civil law, a disinheriting; a father's excluding a child from inheriting any part of his estate.


Topic: Exhibit
Definition:
EXHIBIT, v.t.  egzhib'it.  [L. e xhibeo; ex and habeo, to have or hold, as we say, to hold out or forth.]
1.  To offer or present to view; to present for inspection; to show; as, to exhibit painting or other specimens of art; to exhibit papers or documents in court.
2.  To show; to display; to manifest publicly; as, to exhibit a noble example of bravery or generosity.
3.  To present; to offer publicly or officially; as, to exhibit a charge of high treason.


Topic: Exhibition
Definition:
EXHIBI'TION, n.  [L. exhibitio.]  The act of exhibiting for inspection; a showing or presenting to view; display.
1.  The offering, producing or showing of titles, authorities or papers of any kind before a tribunal, in proof of facts.
2.  Public show; representation of feats or actions in public; display of oratory in public; any public show.
3.  Allowance of meat and drink; pension; salary; benefaction settled for the maintenance of scholars in universities, not depending on the foundation.
4.  Payment; recompense.


Topic: Exhibitioner
Definition:
EXHIBI'TIONER, n.  In English universities; one who has a pension or allowance, granted for the encouragement of learning.


Topic: Exhilarate
Definition:
EXHIL'ARATE, v.t. egzhil'arate.  [L. exhilaro; ex and hilaro, to make merry, hilaris, merry, jovial.]
To make cheerful or merry; to enliven; to make glad or joyous; to gladden; to cheer.  Good news exhilarates the mind, as good wine exhilarates the animal spirits.
EXHIL'ARATE, v.i.  To become cheerful or joyous.


Topic: Exhilaration
Definition:
EXHILARA'TION, n.  The act of enlivening the spirits; the act of making glad or cheerful.
1.  The state of being enlivened or cheerful. Exhilaration usually expresses less than joy or mirth, but it may be used to express both.


Topic: Exhort
Definition:
EXHORT', v.t.  egzhort'.  [L. exhortor; ex and hortor, to encourage, to embolden, to cheer, to advise.  The primary sense seems to be to excite or to give strength, spirit or courage.]
1.  To incite by words or advice; to animate or urge by arguments to a good deed or to any laudable conduct or course of action.
I exhort you to be of good cheer. Acts. 27.
Young men also exhort to be sober minded.
Exhort servants to be obedient to their masters.  Tit.2.
2.  To advise; to warn; to caution.
3.  To incite or stimulate to exertion.
EXHORT', v.i.  To deliver exhortation; to use words or arguments to incite to good deeds.
And with many other words did he testify and exhort.  Acts.2.


Topic: Exhortation
Definition:
EXHORTA'TION, n. The act or practice of exhorting; the act of inciting to laudable deeds; incitement to that which is good or commendable.
1.  The form of words intended to incite and encourage.
2.  Advice; counsel.


Topic: Exhumation
Definition:
EXHUMA'TION, n.  [L. ex and humus, ground.]
1. The digging up a dead body interred; the disinterring of a corpse.
2. The digging up of any thing buried.


Topic: Exigent
Definition:
EXI'GENT, n.  Pressing business; occasion that calls for immediate help.  [Not used.]  See Exigence.]
1. In law, a writ which lies where the defendant is not to be found, or after a return of non est inventus on former writs; the exigent or exigi facias then issues, which requires the sheriff to cause the defendant to be proclaimed or exacted, in five county courts successively, to render himself; and if he does not, he is outlawed.
2.  End; extremity.  [Not used.]


Topic: Exigenter
Definition:
EX'IGENTER, n.  An officer in the court of Common Pleas in England who makes out exigents and proclamations, in cases of outlawry.


Topic: Exile
Definition:
EX'ILE, n.  eg'zile.  [L. exilium, exul;  The word is probably compounded of ex and a root in Sl, signifying to depart, or cut off, to separate, or the thrust away, perhaps L. salio.]
1.  Banishment; the state of being expelled from one's native country or place of residence by authority, and forbid to return, either for a limited time or for perpetuity.
2.  An abandonment of one's country, or removal to a foreign country for residence, through fear, disgust or resentment, or for any cause distinct from business, is called a voluntary exile, as is also a separation from one's country and friends by distress or necessity.
3.  The person banished, or expelled from his country by authority; also, one who abandons his country and resides in another; or one who is separated from his country and friends by necessity.
EX'ILE, v.t.  To banish, as a person from his country or from a particular jurisdiction by authority, with a prohibition of return; to drive away, expel or transport from one's country.
1.  To drive from one's country by misfortune, necessity or distress.
 To exile one's self, is to quit one's country with a view not to return
EX'ILE, a. eg'zil, [L. exilis.]  Slender; thin; fine.


Topic: Exiling
Definition:
EX'ILING, ppr.  Banishing; expelling from one's country by law, edict or sentence; voluntarily departing from one's country, and residing in another.


Topic: Exilition
Definition:
EXILI'TION, n.  [L. exilio, for exsalio, to leap out.]
A sudden springing or leaping out.  [Little used.]


Topic: Exinanition
Definition:
EXINANI'TION, n.  [L. exinanitio, from exinanio, to empty or evacuate; ex and inanio, to empty, inanis, empty, void.]
An emptying or evacuation; hence, privation; loss; destitution.  [Little used.]


Topic: Exist
Definition:
EXIST', v.i.  egzist'.  [L. existo; ex and sisto, or more directly from Gr. to set, place or fix; L. sto, to stand.  The primary sense is to set, fix or be fixed, whence the sense of permanence, continuance.]
1.  To be; to have an essence or real being; applicable to matter or body, and to spiritual substances.  A supreme being and first cause of all other beings must have existed from eternity, for no being can have created himself.
2.  To live; to have life or animation.  Men cannot exist in water, nor fishes on land.
3.  To remain; to endure; to continue in being.  How long shall national enmities exist?


Topic: Existence
Definition:
EXIST'ENCE, n.  The state of being or having essence; as the existence of body and of soul in union; the separate existence of the soul; immortal existence; temporal existence.
1.  Life; animation.
2.  Continued being; duration; continuation.  We speak of the existence of troubles or calamities, or of happiness.  During the existence of national calamities, our pious ancestors always had recourse to prayer for divine aid.


Topic: Existent
Definition:
EXIST'ENT, a.  Being; having being, essence or existence.
 The eyes and mind are fastened on objects which have no real being, as if they were truly existent.


Topic: Exit
Definition:
EX'IT, n.  [L. the 3d person of exeo, to go out.]  Literally, he goes out or departs.  Hence,
1.  The departure of a player from the state, when he has performed his part.  This is also a term set in a play, to mark the time of an actor's quitting the state.
2.  Any departure; the act of quitting the state of action or of life; death; decease.
3.  A way of departure; passage out of a place.
4.  A going out; departure.


Topic: Exode
Definition:
EX'ODE, n.  [Gr.  See Exodus.]  In the Greek drama, the concluding part of a play, or the part which comprehends all that is said after the last interlude.


Topic: Exogloss
Definition:
EX'OGLOSS, n.  [Gr. tongue.]  A genus of fishes found in the American seas, whose lower jaw is trilobed, and the middle lobe protruded performs the office of a tongue.


Topic: Exonerate
Definition:
EXON'ERATE, v.t.  egzon'erate.  [L. exonero; ex and onero, to load, onus, a load.]
1.  To unload; to disburden.
The vessels exonerate themselves into a common duct.
But more generally, in a figurative sense.
2.  To cast off, as a charge or as blame resting on one; to clear of something that lies upon the character as an imputation; as, to exonerate one's self from blame, or from the charge of avarice.
3.  To cast off, as an obligation, debt or duty; to discharge of responsibility or liability; as, a surety exonerates himself by producing a man in court.


Topic: Exoneration
Definition:
EXONERA'TION, n.  The act of disburdening or discharging; the act of freeing from a charge or imputation.


Topic: Exorable
Definition:
EX'ORABLE, a.  [L. exorabilis, from exoro; ex and oro, to pray.]
That may be moved or persuaded by entreaty.


Topic: Exorbitant
Definition:
EXORB'ITANT, a.  [L. exorbitans.]  Literally, departing from an orbit or usual track.  Hence, deviating from the usual course; going beyond the appointed rules or established limits of right or propriety; hence, excessive; extravagant; enormous.  We speak of exorbitant appetites and passions; exorbitant demands or claims; exorbitant taxes.
1.  Anomalous; not comprehended in a settled rule or method.
The Jews were inured with causes exorbitant.


Topic: Exorcise
Definition:
EX'ORCISE, v.i.  s as z.  [Gr. to adjure, to bind by oath, an oath.]
1.  To adjure by some holy name; but chiefly, to expel evil spirits by conjurations, prayers and ceremonies.  To exorcise a person, is to expel from him the evil spirit supposed to possess him.  To exorcise a demon or evil spirit, is to cast him out or drive him from a person, by prayers or other ceremonies.
2.  To purify from unclean spirits by adjurations and ceremonies; to deliver from the influence of malignant spirits or demons; as, to exorcise a bed or a house.


Topic: Exorcised
Definition:
EX'ORCISED, pp.  Expelled from a person or place by conjurations and prayers; freed from demons in like manner.


Topic: Exorcism
Definition:
EX'ORCISM, n.  [L. exorcismus.] The expulsion of evil spirits from persons or places by certain adjurations and ceremonies.  Exorcism was common among the Jews, and still makes a part of the superstitions of some churches.


Topic: Exorcist
Definition:
EX'ORCIST, n.  One who pretends to expel evil spirits by conjuration, prayers, and ceremonies.  Acts.14.


Topic: Exordium
Definition:
EXORD'IUM, n.  plu. exordiums.  [L. from exodior; ex and ordior, to begin.  See Order.]  In oratory, the beginning; the introductory part of a discourse, which prepares the audience for the main subject; the preface or proemial part of a composition.  The exordium may be formal and deliberate, or abrupt and vehement, according to the nature of the subject and occasion.


Topic: Exornation
Definition:
EXORNA'TION, n.  [L. exornatio, from exorno; ex and orno, to adorn.]
Ornament; decoration; embellishment.


Topic: Exoteric
Definition:
EXOT'ERIC, a.  [Gr. exterior.]  External; public; opposed to esoteric or secret.  The exoteric doctrines of the ancient philosophers were those which were openly professed and taught.  The esoteric were secret, or taught only to a few chosen disciples.


Topic: Exotic
Definition:
EXOT'IC, a.  [Gr. without.]  Foreign; pertaining to or produced in a foreign country; not native; extraneous; as an exotic plant; an exotic term or word.
EXOT'IC, n.  A plant, shrub or tree not native; a plant produced in a foreign country.
1.  A word of foreign origin.


Topic: Expand
Definition:
EXPAND', v.t.  [L. expando; es and pando, to open or spread; Eng. span.  The primary sense is to strain or stretch, and this seems to be the sense of bend, L. pandus.]
1.  To open; to spread; as, a flower expands its leaves.
2.  To spread; to enlarge a surface; to diffuse; as, a stream expands its waters over a plain.
3.  To dilate; to enlarge in bulk; to distend; as, to expand the chest by inspiration; heat expands all bodies; air is expanded by rarefaction.
4.  To enlarge; to extend; as, to expand the sphere of benevolence; to expand the heart or affections.


Topic: Expanse
Definition:
EXPANSE, n.  expans'.  [L. expansum.]  A spreading; extend; a wide extent of space or body; as the expanse of heave.
The smooth expanse of crystal lakes.


Topic: Expansibility
Definition:
EXPANSIBIL'ITY, n.  [from expansible.]  The capacity of being expanded; capacity of extension in surface or bulk; as the expansibility of air.


Topic: Expansible
Definition:
EXPANS'IBLE, a.  Capable of being expanded or spread; capable of being extended, dilated or diffused.
Bodies are not expansible in proportion to their weight.


Topic: Expansion
Definition:
EXPAN'SION, n.  [L. expansio.]  The act of expanding or spreading out.
1.  The state of being expanded; the enlargement of surface or bulk; dilatation.  We apply expansion to surface, as the expansion of a sheet or of a lake, and to bulk, as the expansion of fluids or metals by heat; but not to a line or length without breadth.
2.  Extent; space to which any thing is enlarged; also, pure space or distance between remote bodies.
3.  Enlargement; as the expansion of the heart or affections.


Topic: Expansive
Definition:
EXPANS'IVE, a.  Having the power to expand, to spread, or to dilate; as the expansive force of heat or fire.
1.  Having the capacity of being expanded; as the expansive quality of air; the expansive atmosphere.
2.  Widely extended; as expansive benevolence.


Topic: Expansiveness
Definition:
EXPANS'IVENESS, n.  The quality of being expansive.
Ex parte, [L.]  On one part; as a hearing or a council ex parte, on one side only.


Topic: Expatiate
Definition:
EXPA'TIATE, v.i.  [L. expatior; ex and spatior, to wander, to enlarge in discourse, spatium, space, probably allied to pateo, to open.
1.  To open at large; to rove without prescribed limits; to wander in space without restraint.
He bids his soul expatiate in the skies.
Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man.
2.  To enlarge in discourse or writing; to be copious in argument or discussion.  On important topics the orator thinks himself at liberty to expatiate.


Topic: Expatiating
Definition:
EXPA'TIATING, ppr.  Roving at large; moving in space without certain limits or restraint; enlarging in discourse or writing.


Topic: Expatriate
Definition:
EXPAT'RIATE, v.t.  [L. ex and patria, country.]
In a general sense, to banish.
To expatriate one's self, is to quit one's country, renouncing citizenship and allegiance in that country, to take residence and become a citizen in another country.  The right to expatriate one's self is denied in feudal countries, and much controverted in the U. States.


Topic: Expatriated
Definition:
EXPAT'RIATED, pp.  Banished; removed from one's native country, with renunciation of citizenship and allegiance.


Topic: Expatriation
Definition:
EXPATRIA'TION, n.  Banishment.  More generally, the forsaking one's own country, with a renunciation of allegiance, and with the view of becoming a permanent resident and citizen in another country.


Topic: Expect
Definition:
EXPECT', v.t. [L. expecto; ex and specto, to look, that is, to reach forward, or to fix the eyes.]
1.  To wait for.
The guards,
By me encamp'd on yonder hill, expect
Their motion.
[This sense, though often used by Gibbon, seems to be obsolescent.]
2. To look for; to have a previous apprehension of something future, whether good or evil; to entertain at least a slight belief that an event will happen.  We expect a visit that has been promised.  We expect money will be paid at the time it is due, though we are often disappointed.
Expect, in its legitimate sense, always refers to a future event.  The common phrase, I expect it was, is a vulgar as it is improper.


Topic: Expectant
Definition:
EXPECT'ANT, a.  Waiting; looking for.
1. An expectant estate, is one which is suspended till the determination of a particular estate.
EXPECT'ANT, n. One who expects; one who waits in expectation; one held in dependence by his belief or hope of receiving some good.  Those who have the gift of offices are usually surrounded by expectants.


Topic: Expectation
Definition:
EXPECTA'TION, n.  [L. expectatio.]  The act of expecting or looking forward to a future event with at least some reason to believe the event will happen.  Expectation differs from hope.  Hope originates in desire,and may exist with little or no ground of belief that the desired event will arrive.  Expectation is founded on some reasons which render the event probably.  Hope is directed to some good; expectation is directed to good or evil.
The same weakness of mind which indulges absurd expectations, produces petulance in disappointment.
1.  The state of expecting, either with hope or fear.
2.  Prospect of good to come.
My soul, wait thou only on God, for my expectation is from him. Ps.62,
3.  The object of expectation; the expected Messiah.
4.  A state or qualities in a person which excite  expectations in others of some future excellence; as a youth of expectation.
We now more generally say, a youth of promise.
5. In chances, expectation is applied to contingent events, and is reducible to computation.  A sum of money in expectation, when an event happens, has a determinate value before that event happens.  If the chances of receiving or not receiving a hundred dollars, when an event arrives, are equal; then, before the arrival of the event, the expectation is worth half the money.


Topic: Expectorant
Definition:
EXPEC'TORANT, a.  [See Expectorate.]  Having the quality of promoting discharges from the lungs.
EXPEC'TORANT, n.  A medicine which promotes discharges from the lungs.


Topic: Expectorate
Definition:
EXPEC'TORATE, v.t.  [L. expectoro; ex and pectus, the breast.]
To eject from the trachea or lungs; to discharge phlegm or other matter, by coughing, hawking and spitting.


Topic: Expectoration
Definition:
EXPECTORA'TION, n.  The act of discharging phlegm or mucus from the lungs, by coughing, hawking and spitting.


Topic: Expedient
Definition:
EXPE'DIENT, a.  [L. expediens; expedio, to hasten; Eng. speed.]
1.  Literally, hastening; urging forward.  Hence, tending to promote the object proposed; fit or suitable for the purpose; proper under the circumstances.  Many things may be lawful, which are not expedient.
2.  Useful; profitable.
3.  Quick; expeditious.  [Not used.]
EXPE'DIENT, n.  That which serves to promote or advance; any means which may be employed to accomplish an end. Let every expedient be employed to effect an important object, nor let exertions cease till all expedients fail of producing the effect.
1.  Shift; means devised or employed in an exigency.


Topic: Expeditate
Definition:
EXPED'ITATE, v.t.  [L. ex and pes, foot.]  In the forest laws of England, to cut out the balls or claws of a dog's fore feet, for the preservation of the king's game.


Topic: Expedite
Definition:
EX'PEDITE, v.t.  [L. expedio; Eng. speed.  Expedio is compound.  We see the same root in impedio, to hinder to send against, to move in opposition.]
1.  To hasten; to quicken; to accelerate motion or progress. The general sent orders to expedite the march of the army.  Artificial heat may expedite the growth of plants.
2.  To dispatch; to send from.
Such charters are expedited of course.
3.  To hasten by rendering easy.
EX'PEDITE, a.  [L. expeditus.]  Quick; speedy; expeditious; as expedite execution.  [Little used.]
1.  Easy; clear of impediments; unencumbered; as, to make a way plain and expedite.  [Unusual.]
2.  Active; nimble; ready; prompt.
The more expedite will be the soul in its operations.  [Unusual.]
3.  Light-armed.  [Not used.]


Topic: Expedition
Definition:
EXPEDI'TION, n.  [L. expeditio.]  Haste; speed; quickness; dispatch.  The mail is conveyed with expedition.
1.  The march of an army, or the voyage of a fleet, to a distant place, for hostile purposes; as the expedition of the French to Egypt; the expedition of Xerxes into Greece.
2.  Any enterprize, undertaking or attempt by a number of persons; or the collective body which undertakes.  We say, our government sent an expedition to the Pacific; the expedition has arrived.


Topic: Expeditious
Definition:
EXPEDI'TIOUS, a.  Quick; hasty; speedy; as an expeditious march.
1.  Nimble; active; swift; acting with celerity; as an expeditious messenger or runner.


Topic: Expel
Definition:
EXPEL', v.t.  [L. expello; ex and pello, to drive; from the L. participle.]
1.  To drive or force out from any inclosed place; as, to expel wind from the stomach, or air from a bellows.  [The word is  applicable to any force, physical or moral.]
2.  To drive out; to force to leave; as, to expel the inhabitants of a country; to expel wild beasts from a forest.
3.  To eject; to throw out.
4.  To banish; to exile.
5.  To reject; to refuse.  [Little used.]
And would you not poor fellowship expel?
6.  To exclude; to keep out or off.
7.  In college government, to command to leave; to dissolve the connection of a student; to interdict him from further connection.


Topic: Expend
Definition:
EXPEND', v.t.  [L. expendo; ex and pendo, to weigh, from L. dispendo.]
1.  To lay out; to disburse; to spend;  to deliver or distribute, either in payment or in donations.  We expend money for food, drink and clothing.  We expend a little in charity, and a great deal in idle amusements.
2.  To lay out; to use; to employ; to consume; as, to expend time and labor.  I hope the time, labor and money expended on this book will not be wholly misemployed.
3.  To use and consume; as, to expend hay in feeding cattle.
4.  To consume; to dissipate; to waste; as, the oil of a lamp is expended to burning; water is expended in mechanical operations.
EXPEND', v.i. To be laid out, used or consumed.


Topic: Expenditure
Definition:
EXPEND'ITURE, n.  The act of expending; a laying out, as of money; disbursement.  A corrupt administration is known by extravagant expenditures of public money.
National income and expenditure.
1.  Money expended; expense.
The receipts and expenditures of this extensive country.


Topic: Expense
Definition:
EXPENSE, n.  expens'. [L. expensum.]  A laying out or expending; the disbursing of money, or the employment and consumption, as of time or labor.  Great enterprises are accomplished only by a great expense of money, time and labor.
1.  Money expended; cost; charge; that which is disbursed in payment or in charity.  A prudent man limits his expenses by his income.  The expenses of war are rarely or never reimbursed by the acquisition either of goods or territory.
2. That which is used, employed, laid out or consumed; as the expense of time or labor.


Topic: Expensive
Definition:
EXPENS'IVE, a.  Costly; requiring much expense; as an expensive dress or equipment; an expensive family.  Vices are usually more expensive than virtues.
1.  Given to expense; free in the use of money; extravagant; lavish; applied to persons.  Of men, some are frugal and industrious; others, idle land expensive.
2.  Liberal; generous in the distribution of property.
This requires an active, expensive, indefatigable goodness.


Topic: Expensiveness
Definition:
EXPENS'IVENESS, n.  Costliness; the quality of incurring or requiring great expenditures of money.  The expensiveness of war is not its greatest evil.
1.  Addictedness to expense; extravagance; applied to persons.


Topic: Experience
Definition:
EXPE'RIENCE, n.  [L. experientia, from experior, to try; ex and ant. perior; Gr. to attempt, whence pirate. Eng. to fare.The L. periculum, Eng. peril, are from the same root.  We see the root of these words is to go, to fare, to drive, urge or press, to strain or stretch forward.
1.  Trial, or a series of trials or experiments; active effort or attempt to do or to prove something, or repeated efforts.  A man attempts to  raise wheat on moist or clayey ground; his attempt fails of success; experience proves that wheat will not flourish on such a soil. He repeats the trial, and his experience proves the same fact.  A single trial is usually denominated an experiment; experience may be a series of trials, or the result of such trials.
2.  Observation of a fact or of the same facts or events happening under like circumstances.
3.  Trial from suffering or enjoyment; suffering itself; the use of the senses; as the experience we have of pain or sickness.  We know the effect of light, of smell or of taste by experience.  We learn the instability of human affairs by observation or by experience.  We learn the value of integrity by experience.  Hence,
4.  Knowledge derived from trials, use, practice, or from a series of observations.
EXPE'RIENCE, v.t.  To try by use, by suffering or by enjoyment. Thus we all experience pain, sorrow and pleasure; we experience good and evil; we often experience a change of sentiments and views.
1.  To know by practice or trial; to gain knowledge or skill by practice or by a series of observations.


Topic: Experienced
Definition:
EXPE'RIENCED, pp.  Tried; used; practiced.
1.  Taught by practice or by repeated observations; skillful or wise by means of trials, use or observation; as an experienced artist; an experienced physician.


Topic: Experiment
Definition:
EXPER'IMENT, n.  [L. experimentum, from experior, as in experience, which see.]
A trial; an act or operation designed to discover some unknown truth, principle or effect, or to establish it when discovered.  Experiments in chimistry disclose the qualities of natural bodies.  A series of experiments proves the uniformity of the laws of matter.  It is not always safe to trust to a single experiment.  It is not expedient to try many experiments in legislation.
A political experiment cannot be made in a laboratory, nor determined in a few hours.
EXPER'IMENT, v.i.  To make trial; to make an experiment; to operate on a body in such a manner as to discover some unknown fact, or to establish it when known.  Philosophers experiment on natural bodies for the discovery of their qualities and combinations.
1.  To try; to search by trial.
2.  To experience.  [Not used.]
EXPER'IMENT, v.t.  To try; to know by trial. [Little used.]


Topic: Experimental
Definition:
EXPERIMENT'AL, a.  Pertaining to experiment. 
1.  Known by experiment or trial; derived from experiment.  Experimental knowledge is the most valuable, because it is most certain, and most safely to be trusted.
2.  Built on experiments; founded on trial and observations, or on a series of results, the effects of operations; as experimental philosophy.
3.  Taught by experience; having personal experience.
Admit to the holy communion such only as profess and appear to be regenerated, and experimental christians.
4.  Known by experience; derived from experience; as experimental religion.


Topic: Experimentally
Definition:
EXPERIMENT'ALLY, adv.  By experiment; by trial; by operation and observation of results.
1. By experience; by suffering or enjoyment.  We are all experimentally acquainted with pain and pleasure.


Topic: Expert
Definition:
EXPERT', a.  [L. expertus, from experior, to try.  See Experience.]
1.  Properly, experienced; taught by use, practice or experience; hence, skillful; well instructed; having familiar knowledge of; as an expert philosopher.
2.  Dextrous; adroit; ready; prompt; having a facility of operation or performance from practice; as an expert operator in surgery.  It is usually followed by in; as expert in surgery; expert in performance on a musical instrument.  Pope uses expert of arms, but improperly.


Topic: Expertness
Definition:
EXPERT'NESS, n.  Skill derived from practice; readiness; dexterity; adroitness; as expertness in musical performance; expertness in war or in seamanship; expertness in reasoning.


Topic: Expiable
Definition:
EX'PIABLE, a.  [L. expiabilis.  See Expiate.]
That may be expiated; that may be atoned for and done away; as an expiable offense; expiable guilt.


Topic: Expiate
Definition:
EX'PIATE, v.t.  [L. expio; ex and pio, to worship, to atone; pius, pious, mild.  The primary sense is probably to appease, to pacify, to allay resentment, which is the usual sense of atone in most languages which I have examined.  Pio is probably contracted from pico, and from the root of paco, the radical sense of which is to lay, set or fix; the primary sense of peach, pax. Hence the sense of mild in pius.  But this opinion is offered only as probable.
1.  To atone for; to make satisfaction for; to extinguish the guilt of a crime by subsequent acts of piety or worship, by which the obligation to punish the crime is canceled. To expiate guilt or a crime, is to perform some act which is supposed to purify the person guilty; or some act which is accepted by the offended party as satisfaction for the injury; that is, some act by which his wrath is appeased,and his forgiveness procured.
2.  To make reparation for; as, to expiate an injury.
3.  To avert the threats of prodigies.


Topic: Expiating
Definition:
EX'PIATING, ppr.  Making atonement or satisfaction for; destroying or removing guilt, and canceling the obligation to punish.


Topic: Expiation
Definition:
EXPIA'TION, n.  [L. expiatio.]  The act of atoning for a crime; the act of making satisfaction for an offense,by which the guilt is done away, and the obligation of the offended person to punish the crime is canceled; atonement; satisfaction.  Among pagans and Jews, expiation was made chiefly by sacrifices, or washings and purification.  Among christians, expiation for the sins of men is usually considered as made only be the obedience and sufferings of Christ.
1.  The means by which atonement for crimes is made; atonement; as sacrifices and purification among heathens, and the obedience and death of Christ among christians.
2.  Among ancient heathens, an act by which the threats of prodigies were averted.


Topic: Expilation
Definition:
EXPILA'TION, n.  [L. expilatio, from expilo, to strip; ex and pilo, to peel.]  A stripping; the act of committing waste on land; waste.  [Little used.]


Topic: Expiration
Definition:
EXPIRA'TION, n.  [L. expiratio, from expiro.  See Expire.]
1.  The act of breathing out, or forcing the air from the lungs.  Respiration consists of expiration and inspiration.
2.  The last emission of breath; death.
3.  The emission of volatile matter from any substance; evaporation; exhalation; as the expiration of warm air from the earth.
4.  Matter expired; exhalation; vapor; fume.
5.  Cessation; close; end; conclusion; termination of a limited time; as the expiration of a month or year; the expiration of a term of years; the expiration of a lease; the expiration of a contract or agreement.


Topic: Expire
Definition:
EXPI'RE, v.t. [L. expiro, for exspiro; ex and spiro, to breathe.]
1.  To breathe out; to throw out the breath from the lungs; opposed to inspire.  We expire air at every breath.
2.  To exhale; to emit in minute particles, as a fluid or volatile matter. The earth expires a damp or warm vapor; the body expires fluid matter from the pores; plants expire odors.
3.  To conclude.
EXPI'RE, v.i.  To emit the last breath, as an animal; to die; to breathe the last.
1.  To perish; to end; to fail or be destroyed; to come to nothing; to be frustrated.  
With the loss of battle all his hopes of empire expired.
2.  To fly out; to be thrown out with force.  [Unusual.]
The ponderous ball expires.
3.  To come to an end; to cease; to terminate; to close or conclude,as a given period.  A lease will expire on the first of May. The year expires on Monday.  The contract will expire at Michaelmas.  The days had not expired.
When forty years had expired.  Act 7.


Topic: Expiring
Definition:
EXPI'RING, ppr.  Breathing out air from the lungs; emitting fluid or volatile matter; exhaling; breathing the last breath; dying; ending; terminating.
1.  Pertaining to or uttered at the time of dying; as expiring words; expiring groans.


Topic: Explain
Definition:
EXPLA'IN, v.t.  [L. explano; ex and planus, plain, open, smooth.]
To make plain,manifest or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to expound; to illustrate by discourse, or by notes.  The first business of a preacher is to explain his text.  Notes and comments are intended to explain the scriptures.
EXPLA'IN, v.i.  To give explanations.


Topic: Explainable
Definition:
EXPLA'INABLE, a. That may be cleared of obscurity; capable of being made plain to the understanding; capable of being interpreted.


Topic: Explained
Definition:
EXPLA'INED, pp.  Made clear or obvious to the understanding; cleared of doubt, ambiguity or obscurity; expounded; illustrated.


Topic: Explaining
Definition:
EXPLA'INING, ppr.  Expounding; illustrating; interpreting; opening to the understanding; clearing of obscurity.


Topic: Explanation
Definition:
EXPLANA'TION, n.  [L. explanatio.]  The act of explaining, expounding or interpreting; exposition; illustration; interpretation; the act of clearing from obscurity and making intelligible; as the explanation of a passage in scripture, or of a contract or treaty.
1.  The sense given by an expounder or interpreter.
2.  A mutual exposition of terms, meaning or motives, with a view to adjust a misunderstanding and reconcile differences.  Hence, reconciliation, agreement or good understanding of parties who have been at variance.  The parties have come to an explanation.


Topic: Expletive
Definition:
EX'PLETIVE, a.  [L. expleo, to fill.]  Filling; added for supply or ornament.
EX'PLETIVE, n. In language, a word or syllable inserted to fill a vacancy, or for ornament.  The Greek language abounds with expletives.


Topic: Explicable
Definition:
EX'PLICABLE, a.  [L. explicabilis.  See Explicate.]
1.  Explainable; that may be unfolded to the mind; that may be made intelligible. Many difficulties in old authors are not explicable.
2.  That may be accounted for.  The conduct and measures of the administration are not explicable, by the usual rules of judging.


Topic: Explicate
Definition:
EX'PLICATE, v.t.  [L. explico, to unfold; ex and plico, to fold.
1.  To unfold; to expand; to open.  'They explicate the leaves.'  [In this sense, the word is not common, and hardly admissible.]
2.  To unfold the meaning or sense; to explain; to clear of difficulties or obscurity; to interpret.
The last verse of his last satyr is not yet sufficiently explicated.


Topic: Explication
Definition:
EXPLICA'TION, n.  The act of opening or unfolding.
1.  The act of explaining; explanation; exposition; interpretation; as the explication of the parables of our Savior.
2.  The sense given by an expositor or interpreter.


Topic: Explicit
Definition:
EXPLIC'IT, a.  [L. explicitus, part of explico, to unfold.]
1.  Literally, unfolded. Hence, plain in language; open to the understanding; clear, not obscure or ambiguous; express, not merely implied.  An explicit proposition or declaration is that in which the words, in their common acceptation, express the true meaning of the person who utters them, and in which there is no ambiguity or disguise.
2.  Plain; open; clear; unreserved; having no disguised meaning or reservation; applied to persons.  He was explicit in his terms.


Topic: Explicitly
Definition:
EXPLIC'ITLY, adv.  Plainly; expressly; without duplicity; without disguise or reservation of meaning; not by inference or implication.  He explicitly avows his intention.


Topic: Explicitness
Definition:
EXPLIC'ITNESS, n.  Plainness of language or expression; clearness; direct expression of ideas or intention, without reserve or ambiguity.


Topic: Explode
Definition:
EXPLO'DE, v.i.  [L. explodo; ex and plaudo, to utter a burst of sound, from the root of loud.]
Properly, to burst forth, as sound; to utter a report with sudden violence.  Hence, to burst and expand with force and a violent report, as an elastic fluid.  We say, gun powder explodes, on the application of fire; a volcano explodes; a meteor explodes.
EXPLO'DE, v.t.  To decry or reject with noise; to express disapprobation of, with noise or marks of contempt; as, to explode a play on the state.  Hence,
1.  To reject with any marks of disapprobation or disdain; to treat with contempt, and drive from notice; to drive into disrepute; or in general, to condemn; to reject; to cry down.  Astrology is now exploded.
2.  To drive out with violence and noise.  [Little used.]
The kindled powder exploded the ball.


Topic: Exploded
Definition:
EXPLO'DED, pp.  Driven away by hisses or noise; rejected with disapprobation or contempt; condemned; cried down.


Topic: Exploding
Definition:
EXPLO'DING, ppr.  Bursting and expanding with force and a violent report; rejecting with marks of disapprobation or contempt; rejecting; condemning.


Topic: Exploit
Definition:
EXPLOIT', n.
1.  A deed or act; more especially, a heroic act; a deed of renown; a great or noble achievement; as the exploits of Alexander, of Caesar, of Washington.  [Exploiture, in a like sense, is not in use.]
2.  In a ludicrous sense, a great act of wickedness.
EXPLOIT', v.t.  To achieve.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Exploration
Definition:
EXPLORA'TION, n.  [See Explore.]  The act of exploring; close search; strict or careful examination.


Topic: Explore
Definition:
EXPLO'RE, v.t.  [L. exploro; ex and ploro, to cry out, to wail, to bawl. The compound appears to convey a very different sense from the simple verb ploro; but the primary sense is to stretch, strain, drive; applied to the voice, it is to strain or press out sounds or words; applied to the eyes, it is to stretch or reach, as in prying curiosity.]
1.  To search for making discovery; to view with care; to examine closely by the eye.  
Moses sent spies to explore the land of Canaan.
2.  To search by any means; to try; as, to explore the deep by a plummet or lead.
3.  To search or pry into; to scrutinize; to inquire with care; to examine closely with a view to discover truth; as, to explore the depths of science.


Topic: Explosion
Definition:
EXPLO'SION, n.  s as z.  [from explode.]
1.  A bursting with noise; a bursting or sudden expansion of any elastic fluid,with force and a loud report; as the explosion of powder.
2.  The discharge of a piece of ordnance with a loud report.
3.  The sudden burst of sound in a volcano, &c.


Topic: Explosive
Definition:
EXPLO'SIVE, a.  Driving or bursting out with violence and noise; causing explosion; as the explosive force of gun-powder.


Topic: Exponent
Definition:
EXPO'NENT, n.  [L. exponens; expono, to expose or set forth; ex and pono, to place.]
1.  In algebra, the number or figure which, placed above a root at the right hand, denotes how often that root is repeated, or how many multiplications are necessary to produce the power.  Thus a[2] denotes the second power of the root a, or aa: a[4] denotes the fourth power. The figure is the exponent or index of the power.
2.  The exponent of the ratio or proportion between two numbers or quantities, is the quotient arising when the antecedent is divided by the consequent. Thus six is the exponent of the ratio of thirty to five.


Topic: Exponential
Definition:
EXPONEN'TIAL, a.  Exponential curves are such as partake both of the nature of algebraic and transcendental ones.  They partake of the former, because they consist of a finite number of terms, though these terms themselves are indeterminate; and they are in some measure transcendental, because they cannot be algebraically constructed.


Topic: Export
Definition:
EXPO'RT, v.t.  [L. exporto; ex and porto, to carry.  Porto seems allied to fero, and Eng. bear.]
To carry out; but appropriately, and perhaps exclusively, to convey or transport, in traffic, produce and goods from one country to another, or from one state or jurisdiction to another, either by water or land.  We export wares and merchandize from the United States to Europe.  The Northern States export manufactures to South Carolina and Georgia.  Goods are exported from Persia to Syria and Egypt on camels.


Topic: Exportation
Definition:
EXPORTA'TION, n.  The act of exporting; the act of conveying goods and productions from one country or state to another in the course of commerce.  A country is benefited or enriched by the exportation of its surplus productions.
1.  The act of carrying out.


Topic: Exporter
Definition:
EXPO'RTER, n.  The person who exports; the person who ships goods, wares and merchandize of any kind to a foreign country, or who sends them to market in a distant country or state; opposed to importer.


Topic: Exporting
Definition:
EXPO'RTING, ppr.  Conveying to a foreign country or to another state, as goods, produce or manufactures.


Topic: Expose
Definition:
EXPO'SE, v.t.  s as z.  [L. expositum, from expono; ex and pono, to place.  The radical sense of pono is to set or place, or rather to throw or thrust down. To expose is to set or throw open, or to thrust forth.]
1.  To lay open; to set to public view; to disclose; to uncover or draw from concealment; as, to expose the secret artifices of a court; to expose a plan or design.
2.  To make bare; to uncover; to remove from any thing that which guards or protects; as, to expose the head or the breast to the air.
3.  To remove from shelter; to place in a situation to be affected or acted on; as, to expose one's self to violent heat.
4.  To lay open to attack, by any means; as, to expose an army or garrison.
5.  To make liable; to subject; as, to expose one's self to pain, grief or toil; to expose one's self to insult.
6.  To put in the power of; as, to expose one's self to the seas.
7.  To lay open to censure, ridicule or contempt.
A fool might once himself alone expose.
8.  To lay open, in almost any manner; as, to expose one's self to examination or scrutiny.
9.  To put in danger.  The good soldier never shrinks from exposing himself, when duty requires it.
    10. To cast out to chance; to place abroad, or in a situation unprotected. Some nations expose their children.
    11. To lay open; to make public. Be careful not unnecessarily to expose the faults of a neighbor.
    12. To offer; to place in a situation to invite purchasers; as, to expose goods to sale.
    13. To offer to inspection; as, to expose paintings in a gallery.


Topic: Exposed
Definition:
EXPO'SED, pp.  Laid open; laid bare;uncovered; unprotected; made liable to attack; offered for sale; disclosed; made public; offered to view.


Topic: Exposedness
Definition:
EXPO'SEDNESS, n.  A state of being exposed, open to attack, or unprotected; as an exposedness to sin or temptation.


Topic: Exposing
Definition:
EXPO'SING, ppr.  Lying or laying open; making bare; putting in danger; disclosing; placing in any situation without protection; offering to inspection or to sale.


Topic: Exposition
Definition:
EXPOSI'TION, n.  A laying open; a setting to public view.
1.  A situation in which a thing is exposed or laid open, or in which it has an unobstructed view, or in which a free passage to it is open; as, a house has an easterly exposition, an exposition to the south or to a southern prospect.  The exposition gives a free access to the air or to the sun's rays. 
2.  Explanation; interpretation; a laying open the sense or meaning of an author or of any passage in a writing.


Topic: Expositor
Definition:
EXPOS'ITOR, n.  [L.]  One who expounds or explains; an interpreter.
1. A dictionary_webster1828 or vocabulary which explains words.


Topic: Expostulate
Definition:
EXPOS'TULATE, v.i.  [L. expostulo; ex and postulo, to require, probably from the root of posco.]
To reason earnestly with a person, on some impropriety of his conduct, representing the wrong he has done or intends, and urging him to desist, or to make redress; followed by with.
The emperor's embassador expostulated with the king, that he had broken the league with the emperor.
EXPOS'TULATE, v.t.  To discuss; to examine.  [Not used.]


Topic: Expostulation
Definition:
EXPOSTULA'TION, n.  Reasoning with a person in opposition to his conduct; the act of pressing on a person reasons or arguments against the impropriety of his conduct,and in some cases, demanding redress or urging reformation.
1.  In rhetoric, an address containing expostulation.


Topic: Exposure
Definition:
EXPO'SURE, n.  s as z.  [from expose.]  The act of exposing or laying open.
1.  The state of being laid open to view, to danger or to any inconvenience; as exposure to observation; exposure to cold, or to the air; exposure to censure.
2.  The situation of a place in regard to points of compass, or to a free access of air or light.  We say, a building or a garden or a wall has a northern or a southern exposure.  We speak of its exposure or exposition to a free current of air, or to the access of light.


Topic: Expound
Definition:
EXPOUND', v.t.  [L. expono; ex and pono, to set.]
1.  To explain; to lay open the meaning; to clear of obscurity; to interpret; as, to expound a text of scripture; to expound a law.
2.  To lay open; to examine; as, to expound the pocket.  [Not used.]


Topic: Express
Definition:
EXPRESS', v.t.  [L. expressum, exprimo; ex and premo, to press.  See Press.]
1.  To press or squeeze out; to force out by pressure; as, to express the juice of grapes or of apples. 
2.  To utter; to declare in words; to speak.  He expressed his ideas or his meaning with precision.  His views were expressed in very intelligible terms.
3.  To write or engrave; to represent in written words or language.  The covenants in the deed are well expressed.
4.  To represent; to exhibit by copy or resemblance.
So kids and whelps their sires and dams express.
5.  To represent or show by imitation or the imitative arts; to form a likeness; as in painting or sculpture.
Each skilful artist shall express thy form.
6.  To show or make known; to indicate.  
A downcast eye or look may express humility, shame or guilt.
7.  To denote; to designate.
Moses and Aaron took these men, who are expressed by their names.  Num.1.
8.  To extort; to elicit.  [Little used.]
EXPRESS', a.  Plain; clear; expressed; direct not ambiguous.  We are informed in express terms or words.  The terms of the contract are express.
1.  Given in direct terms; not implied or left to inference.  This is the express covenant or agreement.  We have his express consent.  We have an express law on the subject.  Express warranty; express malice.
2.  Copied; resembling; bearing an exact representation.
His face express.
3.  Intended or sent for a particular purpose, or on a particular errand; as, to send a messenger express.
EXPRESS', n.  A messenger sent on a particular errand or occasion; usually, a courier sent to communicate information of an important event, or to deliver; important dispatches.  It is applied also to boats or vessels sent to convey important information.
1.  A message sent.
2.  A declaration in plain terms.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Expressed
Definition:
EXPRESS'ED, pp.  Squeezed or forced out, as juice or liquor; uttered in words; set down in writing or letters; declared; represented; shown.


Topic: Expressible
Definition:
EXPRESS'IBLE, a.  That may be expressed; that may be uttered, declared, shown or represented.
1.  That may be squeezed out.


Topic: Expression
Definition:
EXPRES'SION, n.  The act of expressing; the act of forcing out by pressure, as juices and oils from plants.
1.  The act of uttering, declaring or representing; utterance; declaration; representation; as an expression of the public will.
2.  A phrase, or mode of speech; as an old expression; an odd expression.
3.  In rhetoric, elocution; diction; the peculiar manner of utterance, suited to the subject and sentiment.
No adequate description can be given of the nameless and ever varying shades of expression which real pathos gives to the voice.
4.  In painting, a natural and lively representation of the subject; as the expression of the eye, of the countenance, or of a particular action or passion.
5.  In music, the tone, grace or modulation of voice or sound suited to any particular subject; that manner which gives life and reality to ideas and sentiments.
6.  Theatrical expression, is a distinct, sonorous and pleasing pronunciation, accompanied with action suited to the subject.


Topic: Expressive
Definition:
EXPRESS'IVE, a.  Serving to express; serving to utter or represent; followed by of.  He sent a letter couched in terms expressive of his gratitude.
Each verse so swells expressive of her woes.
1.  Representing with force; emphatical.
These words are very expressive.
2.  Showing; representing; as an expressive sign.


Topic: Expressiveness
Definition:
EXPRESS'IVENESS, n.  The quality of being expressive; the power of expression or representation by words.
1.  The power or force of representation; the quality of presenting a subject strongly to the senses or to the mind; as the expressiveness of the eye, or of the features, or of sounds.


Topic: Exprobrate
Definition:
EX'PROBRATE, v.t.  [L.  exprobro; ex and probrum, deformity, a shameful act.]
To upbraid; to censure as reproachful; to blame; to condemn.


Topic: Exprobration
Definition:
EXPROBRA'TION, n.  The act of charging or censuring reproachfully; reproachful accusation; the act of upbraiding.
No need such boasts, or exprobrations false
Of cowardice.


Topic: Expropriate
Definition:
EXPRO'PRIATE, v.t.  [L. ex and proprius, own.]
To disengage from appropriation; to hold no longer as one's own; to give up a claim to exclusive property.


Topic: Expropriation
Definition:
EXPROPRIA'TION, n.  The act of discarding appropriation, or declining to hold as one's own; the surrender of a claim to exclusive property.


Topic: Expulse
Definition:
EXPULSE, v.t. expuls'. [L. expulsus, expello; ex and pello, to drive.]   To drive out; to expel. [Little used.]


Topic: Expulsion
Definition:
EXPUL'SION, n.  The act of driving out or expelling; a driving away by violence; as the expulsion of the thirty tyrants from Athens, or of Adam from paradise.
1.  The state of being driven out or away.


Topic: Expunge
Definition:
EXPUNGE, v.t.  expunj'.  [L. expungo; ex and pungo, to thrust, to prick.]
1.  To blot out, as with a pen; to rub out; to efface, as words; to obliterate.  We expunge single words or whole lines or sentences.
2.  To efface; to strike out; to wipe out or destroy; to annihilate; as, to expunge an offense.
Expunge the whole, or lop the excrescent parts.


Topic: Expurgate
Definition:
EX'PURGATE, v.t.  [L. expurgo; ex and purgo, to cleanse.]
To purge; to cleanse; to purify from any thing noxious, offensive or erroneous.


Topic: Expurgation
Definition:
EXPURGA'TION, n.  The act of purging or cleansing; evacuation.
1.  A cleansing; purification from any thing noxious, offensive, sinful or erroneous.


Topic: Expurgatory
Definition:
EXPURG'ATORY, a. Cleansing; purifying; serving to purify from any thing noxious or erroneous; as the expurgatory index of the Romanists, which directs the expunction of passages of authors contrary to their creed or principles.
Expurgatory animadversions.


Topic: Exquisite
Definition:
EX'QUISITE, a.  s as z.  [L. e xquisitus, from exquiro; ex and quaero, to seek.]  Literally, sought out or searched for with care; whence, choice; select. Hence,
1.  Nice; exact; very excellent; complete; as a vase of exquisite workmanship.
2.  Nice; accurate; capable of nice perception; as exquisite sensibility.
3.  Nice; accurate; capable of nice discrimination; as exquisite judgment, taste or discernment.
4.  Being in the highest degree; extreme; as, to relish pleasure in an exquisite degree.  So we say, exquisite pleasure or pain.
The most exquisite of human satisfactions flows from an approving conscience.
5.  Very sensibly felt; as a painful and exquisite impression on the nerves.


Topic: Exquisitely
Definition:
EX'QUISITELY, adv.  Nicely; accurately; with great perfection; as a work exquisitely finished; exquisitely written.
1.  With keen sensation or with nice perception.  We feel pain more exquisitely when nothing diverts our attention from it.
We see more exquisitely with one eye shut.


Topic: Exquisiteness
Definition:
EX'QUISITENESS, n.  Nicety; exactness; accuracy; completeness; perfecton; as the exquisiteness of workmanship.
1.  Keenness; sharpness; extremity; as the exquisiteness of pain or grief.


Topic: Exsanguious
Definition:
EXSAN'GUIOUS, a.  [L. exsanguis; ex and sanguis, blood.]
Destitute of blood, or rather of red blood, as an animal.


Topic: Exsudation
Definition:
EXSUDA'TION, n.  [L. exudo, for exsudo.]  A sweating; a discharge of humors or moisture from animal bodies by sweat or extillation through the pores.
1.  The discharge of the juices of a plant, moisture from the earth. &c.


Topic: Exsude
Definition:
EXSU'DE, v.t.  [supra.]  To discharge the moisture or juices of a living body through the pores; also, to discharge the liquid matter of a plant by incisions.
Our forests exude turpentine in the greatest abundance.
EXSU'DE, v.i.  To flow from a living body through the pores or by a natural discharge, as juice.


Topic: Exsufflation
Definition:
EXSUFFLA'TION, n.  [L. ex and sufflo, to blow.]
1.  A blowing or blast from beneath.  [Little used.]
2.  A kind of exorcism.


Topic: Extancy
Definition:
EX'TANCY, n.  [L. exstans, extans, standing out, from exsto; ex and sto, to stand.]
1.  The state of rising above others.
2.  Parts rising above the rest; opposed to depression.  [Little used.]


Topic: Extant
Definition:
EX'TANT, a.  [L. exstans, extans, supra.]  Standing out or above any surface; protruded.
That part of the teeth which is extant above the gums.
A body partly immersed in a fluid and partly extant.
1.  In being; not subsisting; not suppressed, destroyed, or lost.  A part only of the history of Livy, and of the writings of Cicero, is now extant.  Socrates wrote much, but none of his writings are extant.  The extant works of orators and philosophers.


Topic: Extemporal
Definition:
EXTEM'PORAL, a.  [L. extemporalis; ex and tempus, time.]  Made or uttered at the moment, without premeditation; as an extemporal discourse.
1.  Speaking without premeditation.
Instead of this word, extemporaneous and extemporary are now used.


Topic: Extemporaneous
Definition:
EXTEMPORA'NEOUS, a. [L. extemporaneus; ex and tempus, time.]
Composed, performed or uttered at the time the subject occurs, without previous study; unpremeditated; as an extemporaneous address; an extemporaneous production; an extemporaneous prescription.


Topic: Extemporary
Definition:
EXTEM'PORARY, a.  [L. ex and temporius, from tempus, time.]
Composed, performed or uttered without previous study or preparation. See Extemporaneous.]


Topic: Extempore
Definition:
EXTEM'PORE, adv.  extem'pory.  [L. abl.]
1.  Without previous study or meditation; without preparation; suddenly; as, to write or speak extempore.
2.  It is used as an adjective, improperly, at least without necessity; as an extempore dissertation.


Topic: Extemporiizing
Definition:
EXTEM'PORIIZING, ppr.  Speaking without previous study, or preparation by writing.
The extemporizing faculty is never more out of its element than in the pulpit.


Topic: Extemporiness
Definition:
EXTEM'PORINESS, n. The state of being unpremeditated; the state of being composed, performed or uttered without previous study.


Topic: Extemporize
Definition:
EXTEM'PORIZE, v.i.  To speak extempore; to speak without previous study or preparation.  To extemporize well requires a ready mind well furnished with knowledge.
1.  To discourse without notes or written composition.


Topic: Extend
Definition:
EXTEND', v.t.  [L. extendo; ex and tendo, teneo.]
1.  To stretch in any direction; to carry forward, or continue in length, as a line; to spread in breadth; to expand or dilate in size.  The word is particularly applied to length and breadth.  We extend lines in surveying; we extend roads, limits, bounds; we extend metal plates by hammering.
2.  To stretch; to reach forth; as, to extend the arm of hand.
3.  To spread; to expand; to enlarge; to widen; as, to extend the capacities, or intellectual powers; to extend the sphere of usefulness; to extend commerce.
4.  To continue; to prolong; as, to extend the time of payment; to extend the season of trial.
5.  To communicate; to bestow on; to use or exercise towards.
He hath extended mercy to me before the king.  Ezra 7.
6.  To impart; to yield or give.
I will extend peace to her like a river.  Is.66.
7.  In law, to value lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; or to levy on lands, as an execution.
The execution was delivered to the sheriff, who extended the same on certain real estate.
EXTEND', v.i.  To stretch; to reach; to be continued in length or breadth. The state of Massachusetts extends west to the border of the state of New York. Connecticut river extends from Canada to the sound.  How far will your argument or proposition extend?  Let our charities extend to the heathen.


Topic: Extended
Definition:
EXTEND'ED, pp.  Stretched; spread; expanded; enlarged; bestowed on; communicated; valued under a writ of extendi facias; levied.


Topic: Extendible
Definition:
EXTEND'IBLE, a.  Capable of being extended; that may be stretched, extended, enlarged, widened or expanded.
1.  That may be taken by a writ of extent and valued.


Topic: Extensibility
Definition:
EXTENS'IBILITY, a. [from extensible.]  The capacity of being extended, or of suffering extension; as the extensibility of a fiber, or of a plate of metal.


Topic: Extensible
Definition:
EXTENS'IBLE, a.  [from L. extensus.]  That may be extended; capable of being stretched in length or breadth; susceptible of enlargement.


Topic: Extension
Definition:
EXTEN'SION, n.  [L. extension.]  The act of extending; a stretching.
1. The state of being extended; enlargement in breadth, or continuation of length.
2.  In philosophy, that property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space.


Topic: Extensive
Definition:
EXTENS'IVE, a.  Wide; large; having great enlargement or extent; as an extensive farm; an extensive field; an extensive lake; and extensive sphere of operations; extensive benevolence.
1.  That may be extended. [Not used.]


Topic: Extensiveness
Definition:
EXTENS'IVENESS,n. Wideness; largeness; extent; as the extensiveness of the ocean.
1. Extent; diffusiveness; as the extensiveness of a man's charities or benevolence.
2.  Capacity of being extended.  [Little used.]


Topic: Extensor
Definition:
EXTENS'OR, n. In anatomy, a muscle which serves to extend or straighten any part of the body, as an arm or a finger; opposed to flexor.


Topic: Extent
Definition:
EXTENT', a.  Extended.
EXTENT', n.  [L. extentus.  It is frequently accented on the first syllable.]
1.  Space or degree to which a thing is extended; hence, compass; bulk; size; as a great extent of country, or of body.
2.  Length; as an extent of line.
3. Communication; distribution.
The extent of equal justice.
4.  In law, a writ of execution or extendi facias, commanding a sheriff to value the lands of a debtor; or extent is the act of the sheriff or commissioner in making the valuation.


Topic: Extenuate
Definition:
EXTEN'UATE, v.t.  [L. extenuo; ex and tenuo, to make thin.]
1.  To make thin, lean or slender.  Sickness extenuates the body.
2.  To lessen; to diminish; as a crime or guilt.
But fortune there extenuates the crime.
3.  To lessen in representation; to palliate; opposed to aggravate.
4.  To lessen or diminish in honor.  [Little used.]
5.  To make thin or rare; opposed to condense.  [Little used.]
EXTEN'UATE, a.  Thin; slender.  [Not used.]


Topic: Extenuated
Definition:
EXTEN'UATED, pp. Made thin, lean or slender; made smaller; lessened; diminished; palliated; made rare.


Topic: Extenuation
Definition:
EXTENUA'TION, n.  The act of making thin; the process of growing thin or lean; the losing of flesh.
1.  The act representing any thing less wrong, faulty or criminal than it is in fact; palliation; opposed to aggravation; as the extenuation of faults, injuries or crimes.
2.  Mitigation; alleviation; as the extenuation of punishment.
[Not common.]


Topic: Exterior
Definition:
EXTE'RIOR, a.  [L. from exterus, foreign.]
1.  External; outward; applied to the outside or outer surface of a body, and opposed to interior. We speak of the exterior and interior surfaces of a concavo-convex lens.
2.  External; on the outside, with reference to a person; extrinsic.  We speak of an object exterior to a man, as opposed to that which is within or in his mind.
EXTE'RIOR, n. The outward surface; that which is external.
1.  Outward or visible deportment; appearance.


Topic: Exteriors
Definition:
EXTE'RIORS, n.  plu.  The outward parts of a thing.
1.  Outward or external deportment, or forms and ceremonies; visible acts; as the exteriors of religion.


Topic: Exterminate
Definition:
EXTERM'INATE, v.t.  [L. extermino; ex and terminus, limit.]
Literally, to drive from within the limits or borders.  Hence,
1.  To destroy utterly; to drive away; to extirpate; as, to exterminate a colony, a tribe or a nation; to exterminate inhabitants or a race of men.
2.  To eradicate; to root out; to extirpate; as, to exterminate error, heresy, infidelity or atheism; to exterminate vice.
3.  To root out, as plants; to extirpate; as, to exterminate weeds.
4.  In algebra, to take away; as, to exterminate surds or unknown quantities.


Topic: Extermination
Definition:
EXTERMINA'TION, n. The act of exterminating; total expulsion or destruction; eradication; extirpation; excision; as the extermination of inhabitants or tribes, of error or vice, or of weeds from a field.
1. In algebra, a taking away.


Topic: Extern
Definition:
EXTERN', a.  [L. externus.  External; outward; visible.
1. Without itself; not inherent; not intrinsic.  [Little used.]


Topic: External
Definition:
EXTERN'AL, a.  [L. externus.]
1. Outward; exterior; as the external surface of a body; opposed to internal.
2. Outward; not intrinsic; not being within; as external objects; external causes or effects.
3.  Exterior; visible; apparent; as external deportment.
4.  Foreign; relating to or connected with foreign nations; as external trade or commerce; the external relations of a state or kingdom.
External taxes, are duties or imposts laid on goods imported into a country.


Topic: Externals
Definition:
EXTERN'ALS, n. plu.  The outward parts; exterior form.
Adam was no less glorious in his externals; he had a beautiful body, as well as an immortal soul.
1.  Outward rites and ceremonies; visible forms; as the externals of religion.


Topic: Exterraneous
Definition:
EXTERRA'NEOUS, a.  [L. exterraneus; ex and terra, a land.]
Foreign; belonging to or coming from abroad.


Topic: Extersion
Definition:
EXTER'SION, n. [L. extersio, from extergeo; ex and tergeo, to wipe.]    The act of wiping or rubbing out.


Topic: Extinct
Definition:
EXTINCT', a.  [L. extinctus. See Extinguish.
1.  Extinguished; put out; quenched; as, fire, light or a lamp is extinct.
2.  Being at an end; having no survivor; as, a family or race is extinct.
3.  Being at an end; having ceased.  The enmity between the families is extinct.
My days are extinct.  Job.17.
4.  Being at an end, by abolition or disuse; having no force; as, the law is extinct.


Topic: Extinction
Definition:
EXTINC'TION, n.  [L. extinctio.  See Extinguish.]
1.  The act of putting out or destroying light or fire, by quenching, suffocation or otherwise.
2.  The state of being extinguished, quenched or suffocated; as the extinction of fire or of a candle.
3.  Destruction; excision; as the extinction of nations.
4.  Destruction; suppression; a putting an end to; as the extinction of life, or of a family; the extinction of feuds, jealousies or enmity; the extinction of a claim.


Topic: Extinguish
Definition:
EXTIN'GUISH, v.t.  [L. extinguo; ex and stingo, stinguo, or the latter may be a contraction; Gr. to prick, that is, to thrust; or more directly from tingo, to dip, to stain; both probably allied to tango, for tago, to touch.
1.  To put out; to quench; to suffocate; to destroy; as, to extinguish fire or flame.
2.  To destroy; to put an end to; as, to extinguish love or hatred in the breast; to extinguish desire or hope; to extinguish a claim or title.
3.  To cloud or obscure by superior splendor.
4.  To put an end to, by union or consolidation.  [See Extinguishment.]


Topic: Extinguisher
Definition:
EXTIN'GUISHER, n.  He or that which extinguishes.
1.  A hollow conical utensil to be put on a candle to extinguish it.


Topic: Extinguishment
Definition:
EXTIN'GUISHMENT, n.  The act of putting out or quenching; extinction; suppression; destruction; as the extinguishment of fire or flame; of discord, enmity or jealousy; or of love or affection.
1.  Abolition; nullification.
Divine laws of christian church policy may not be altered by extinguishment.
2.  Extinction; a putting an end to, or a coming to an end; termination; as the extinguishment of a race or tribe.
3.  The putting an end to a right or estate, by consolidation or union.
If my tenant for life makes a lease to A for life, remainder to B and his heirs, and I release to A; this release operates as an extinguishment of my right to the reversion.


Topic: Extirpate
Definition:
EX'TIRPATE, v.t.  [L. extirpo; ex and stirps, root.]
1.  To pull or pluck up by the roots; to root out; to eradicate; to destroy totally; as, to extirpate weeds or noxious plants from a field.
2.  To eradicate; to root out; to destroy wholly; as, to extirpate error or heresy; to extirpate a sect.
3.  In surgery, to cut out; to cut off; to eat out; to remove; as, to extirpate a wen.


Topic: Extirpation
Definition:
EXTIRPA'TION, n.  The act of rooting out; eradication; excision; total destruction; as the extirpation of weeds from land; the extirpation of evil principles from the heart; the extirpation of a race of men; the extirpation of heresy.


Topic: Extol
Definition:
EXTOL', v.t.  [L. extollo; ex and tollo, to raise.]
To raise in words or eulogy; to praise; to exalt in commendation; to magnify.  We extol virtues, noble exploits, and heroism.  Men are too much disposed to extol the rich and despise the poor.
Extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name Jah. Ps. 68.


Topic: Extort
Definition:
EXTORT', v.t.  [L. extortus, from extorqueo, to wrest from; ex and torqueo, to twist.]
1.  To draw from by force or compulsion; to wrest or wring from by physical force, by menace, duress, violence, authority, or by an illegal means.  Conquerors extort contributions from the vanquished; tyrannical princes extort money from their subjects; officers often extort illegal fees; confessions of guilt are extorted by the rack.  A promise extorted by duress is not binding.
2.  To gain by violence or oppression.
EXTORT', v.i.  To practice extortion.


Topic: Extortion
Definition:
EXTOR'TION, n.  The act of extorting; the act or practice of wresting any thing from a person by force,duress, menaces, authority,or by any undue exercise of power; illegal exaction; illegal compulsion to pay money, or to do some other act.  Extortion is an offense punishable at common law.
1.  Force or illegal compulsion by which any thing is taken from a person.


Topic: Extortioner
Definition:
EXTOR'TIONER, n.  One who practices extortion.
Extortioners shall not inherit the kingdom of God. 1 Cor.6.


Topic: Extra
Definition:
EXTRA, A Latin preposition, denoting beyond or excess; as extra-work, extra-pay, work or pay beyond what is usual or agreed on. 


Topic: Extract
Definition:
EXTRACT', v.t.  [L. extractus, from extraho; ex and traho, to draw.]
1.  To draw out; as, to extract a tooth.
2.  To draw out, as the juices or essence of a substance, by distillation, solution or other means; as, to extract spirit from the juice of the cane; to extract salts from ashes.
3.  To take out; to take from.
Woman is her name, of man
Extracted.
4.  To take out or select a part; to take a passage or passages from a book or writing.
I have extracted from the pamphlet a few notorious falsehoods.
5.  In a general sense, to draw from by any means or operation.


Topic: Extraction
Definition:
EXTRAC'TION, n.  [L. extractio.]  The act of drawing out; as the extraction of a tooth; the extraction of a bone or an arrow from the body; the extraction of a fetus or child in midwifery.
1.  Descent; lineage; birth; derivation of persons from a stock or family.  Hence,the stock or family from which one has descended.  We say, a man is of a noble extraction.
2. In pharmacy, the operation of drawing essences, tinctures, &c.  from a substance.
3.  In arithmetic and algebra, the extraction of roots is the operation of finding the root of a given number of quantity; also, the method or rule by which the operation is performed.


Topic: Extractive
Definition:
EXTRACT'IVE, a.  That may be extracted.
EXTRACT'IVE, n.  The proximate principle of vegetable extracts.


Topic: Extradictionary
Definition:
EXTRADIC'TIONARY, adjective [Latin extra and dictio.] Consisting not in words, but in realities. [Not used.]


Topic: Extrafoliaceous
Definition:
EXTRAFOLIA'CEOUS, a.  [L. extra, on the outside, and folium, a leaf.]
In botany, growing on the outside of a leaf; as extrafoliaceous stipules.


Topic: Extrajudicial
Definition:
EXTRAJUDI'CIAL, a.  [extra, without, and judicial.]of the proper court, or the ordinary course of legal procedures.


Topic: Extraneous
Definition:
EXTRA'NEOUS, a.  [L. extraneus.]  Foreign; not belonging to a thing; existing without; not intrinsic; as, to separate gold from extraneous matter.
Relation is not contained in the real existence of things, but is extraneous and superinduced.
Extraneous fossils, organic remains; exuviae of organized beings, imbedded in the strata of the earth.


Topic: Extraordinaries
Definition:
EXTRAOR'DINARIES, n.  plu.  Things which exceed the usual order, kind or method.  Rarely used in the singular.


Topic: Extraordinarily
Definition:
EXTRAOR'DINARILY, adv.  extror'dinarily.  [See Extraordinary.]
In a manner out of the ordinary or usual method; beyond the common course,  limits or order; in an uncommon degree; remarkably; particularly; eminently.
The temple of Solomon was extraordinarily magnificent.


Topic: Extraordinary
Definition:
EXTRAOR'DINARY, a.  extror'dinary.  [L. extraordinarius; extra and ordinarius, usual, from ordo, order.]
1.  Beyond or out of the common order or method; not in the usual, customary or regular course; not ordinary. Extraordinary evils require extraordinary remedies.
2.  Exceeding the common degree or measure; hence, remarkable; uncommon; rare; wonderful; as the extraordinary talents of Shakespeare; the extraordinary powers of Newton; an edifice of extraordinary grandeur.
3.  Special; particular; sent for a special purpose, or on a particular occasion; as an extraordinary courier or messenger; an embassador extraordinary; a gazette extraordinary.


Topic: Extraprofessional
Definition:
EXTRAPROFES'SIONAL, a.  [extra and professional.]  Foreign to a profession; not within the ordinary limits of professional duty or business.
Molina was an ecclesiastic,and these studies were extraprofessional.


Topic: Extraprovincial
Definition:
EXTRAPROVIN'CIAL, a.  [extra and provincial.]  Not within the same province; not within the jurisdiction of the same archbishop.


Topic: Extraterritorial
Definition:
EXTRATERRITO'RIAL, a.  Being beyond or without the limits of a territory or particular jurisdiction.


Topic: Extravagant
Definition:
EXTRAV'AGANT, a.  Literally, wandering beyond limits.
1.  Excessive; exceeding due bounds; unreasonable.  The wishes, demands, desires and passions of men are often extravagant.
2.  Irregular; wild; not within ordinary limits of truth or probability, or other usual bounds; as extravagant flights of fancy.
There is something nobly wild and extravagant in great geniuses.
3.  Exceeding necessity or propriety; wasteful; prodigal; as extravagant expenses; an extravagant mode of living.
4.  Prodigal; profuse in expenses; as an extravagant man.
He that is extravagant will quickly become poor, and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.
EXTRAV'AGANT, n.  One who is confined to no general rule.


Topic: Extravagantly
Definition:
EXTRAV'AGANTLY, adv.  In an extravagant manner; wildly; not within the limits of truth or probability.  Men often write and talk extravagantly.
1.  Unreasonably; excessively.  It is prudent not to praise or censure extravagantly.
2. In a manner to use property without necessity or propriety, or to no good purpose; expensively, or profusely to an unjustifiable degree; as, to live, eat, drink, or dress extravagantly.


Topic: Extravagants
Definition:
EXTRAV'AGANTS, n.  In church history, certain decretal epistles,or constitutions of the popes,which were published after the Clementines, and not at first arranged and digested with the other papal constitutions.  They were afterward inserted in the body of the canon law.


Topic: Extravasated
Definition:
EXTRAV'ASATED, a.  [L. extra and vasa, vessels.]  Forced or let out of its proper vessels; as extravasated blood.


Topic: Extravasation
Definition:
EXTRAVASA'TION, n.  The act of forcing or letting out of its proper vessels or ducts, as a fluid; the state of being forced or let out of its containing vessels; effusion; as an extravasation of blood after a rupture of the vessels.


Topic: Extraversion
Definition:
EXTRAVER'SION, n.  [L. extra and versio, a turning.]  The act of throwing out; the state of being turned or thrown out.  [Little used.]


Topic: Extreme
Definition:
EXTRE'ME, a.  [L. extremus, last.]  Outermost; utmost; farthest; at the utmost point, edge or border; as the extreme verge or point of a thing.
1.  Greatest; most violent; utmost; as extreme pain, grief, or suffering; extreme joy or pleasure.
2.  Last; beyond which there is none; as an extreme remedy.
3.  Utmost; worst or best that can exist or be supposed; as an extreme case.
4.  Most pressing; as extreme necessity.
Extreme unction, among the Romanists, is the anointing of a sick person with oil, when decrepit with age or affected with some mortal disease, and usually just before death.  It is applied to the eyes, ears, nostrils, mouth, hands, feet and reins of penitents, and is supposed to represent the grace of God poured into the soul.
Extreme and mean proportion, in geometry, is when a line is so divided, that the whole line is to the greater segment, as the segment is to the less; or when a line is so divided, that the rectangle under the whole line and the lesser segment is equal to the square of the greater segment.
EXTRE'ME, n.  The utmost point or verge of a thing; that part which terminates a body; extremity.
1.  Utmost point; furthest degree; as the extremes of heat and cold; the extremes of virtue and vice.  Avoid extremes.  Extremes naturally beget each other.
There is a natural progression from the extreme of anarchy to the extreme of tyranny.
2.  In logic, the extremes or extreme terms of a syllogism are the predicate and subject.  Thus, 'man is an animal:  Peter is a man, therefore Peter is an animal;' the word animal is the greater extreme, and man the medium.
3.  In mathematics, the extremes are the first and last terms of a proportion; as, when three magnitudes are proportional, the rectangle contained by the extremes is equal contained by the extremes is equal to the square of the mean.


Topic: Extremely
Definition:
EXTRE'MELY, adv.  In the utmost degree; to the utmost point.  It is extremely hot or cold; it is extremely painful.
1. In familiar language, very much; greatly.


Topic: Extremity
Definition:
EXTREM'ITY, n.  [L. extremitas.]  The utmost point or side; the verge; the point or border that terminates a thing; as the extremities of a country.
1.  The utmost parts. The extremities of the body, in painting and sculpture, are the head, hands and feet; but in anatomy, the term is applied to the limbs only.
 2.  The utmost point; the highest or furthest degree; as the extremity of pain or suffering; the extremity of cruelty.  Even charity and forbearance may be carried to extremity.
3.  Extreme or utmost distress, straits or difficulties; as a city besieged and reduced to extremity.
4.  The utmost rigor or violence.  The Greeks have endured oppression in its utmost extremity.
5.  The most aggravated state.
The world is running after farce,the extremity of bad poetry.


Topic: Extricate
Definition:
EX'TRICATE, v.t.  [L. extrico.  The primary verb trico is not in the Latin.  We probably see its affinities in the Gr. hair, or a bush of hair, from interweaving, entangling.  I suspect that three is contracted from this root; three for threg, folded, or a plexus.  The same word occurs in intricate and intrigue; Eng. trick.
 1.  Properly, to disentangle; hence, to free from difficulties or perplexities; to disembarrass; as, to extricate one from complicated business, from troublesome alliances or other connections; to extricate one's self from debt.
2.  To set out; to cause to be emitted or evolved.


Topic: Extrication
Definition:
EXTRICA'TION, n. The act of disentangling; a freeing from perplexities; disentanglement.
1.  The act of sending out or evolving; as the extrication of heat or moisture from a substance.


Topic: Extrude
Definition:
EXTRU'DE, v.t.  [L. extrudo; ex and trudo, to thrust.
1.  To thrust out; to urge, force or press out; to expel; as, to extrude a fetus.
2.  To drive away; to drive off.


Topic: Extumescence
Definition:
EXTUMES'CENCE, n. [L. extumescens, extumesco; ex and tumesco, tumeo, to swell.]   A swelling or rising. [Little used.]


Topic: Exuberant
Definition:
EXU'BERANT, a.  Abundant; plenteous; rich; as exuberant fertility; exuberant goodness.
1.  Over-abundant; superfluous; luxuriant.
2.  Pouring forth abundance; producing in plenty; as exuberant spring.


Topic: Exuberantly
Definition:
EXU'BERANTLY, adv.  Abundantly; very copiously; in great plenty; to a superfluous degree.  The earth has produced exuberantly.


Topic: Exulcerate
Definition:
EXUL'CERATE, v.t.  [L. exulcero; ex and ulcero, to ulcerate, ulcus, an ulcer.]
1.  To cause or produce an ulcer or ulcers.
2.  To afflict; to corrode; to fret or anger.
EXUL'CERATE, v.i.  To become an ulcer or ulcerous.


Topic: Exulceration
Definition:
EXULCERA'TION, n.  The act of causing ulcers on a body, or the process of becoming ulcerous; the beginning erosion which wears away the substance and forms an ulcer..
1.  A fretting; exacerbation; corrosion.


Topic: Exult
Definition:
EXULT', v.i.  egzult'.  [L. exulto; ex and salto, salio, to leap.]
Properly, to leap for joy; hence, to rejoice in triumph; to rejoice exceedingly, at success or victory; to be glad above measure; to triumph.  It is natural to man to exult at the success of his schemes, and to exult over a fallen adversary.


Topic: Exultation
Definition:
EXULTA'TION, n.  The act of exulting; lively joy at success or victory, or at any advantage gained; great gladness; rapturous delight; triumph.  Exultation usually springs from the gratification of our desire of some good;  particularly of distinction or superiority, or of that which confers distinction.  It often springs from the gratification of pride or ambition. But exultation may be a lively joy springing from laudable causes.


Topic: Exundation
Definition:
EXUNDA'TION, n.  [L. exundatio, from exundo, to overflow; ex and undo, to rise in waves, unda, a wave.]
An overflowing abundance.  [Little used.


Topic: Exuvlae
Definition:
EXU'VLAE, n.  plu.  [L.]  Cast skins, shells or coverings of animals; any parts of animals which are shed or cast off, as the skins of serpents and caterpillars,the shells of lobsters. &c.
1.  The spoils or remains of animals found in the earth, supposed to be deposited there at the deluge, or in some great convulsion or change which the earth has undergone, in past periods.


Topic: Eyas
Definition:
EY'AS, n.  A young hawk just taken from the nest, not able to prey for itself.
EY'AS, a.  Unfledged.  [Not used.]


Topic: Eye
Definition:
EYE, n.  pronounced as I. [L. oculus, a diminutive.  The old English plural was eyen, or eyne.]
1.  The organ of sight or vision; properly, the globe or ball movable in the orbit.  The eye is nearly of a spherical figure, and composed of coats or tunics.  But in the term eye, we often or usually include the ball and the parts adjacent.
2.  Sight; view; ocular knowledge; as, I have a man now in my eye.  In this sense, the plural is more generally used.
Before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you. Gal.3.
3.  Look; countenance.
I'll say yon gray is not the morning's eye.
4.  Front; face.
Her shall you hear disproved to your eyes.
5.  Direct opposition; as, to sail in the wind's eye.
6.  Aspect; regard; respect; view.
Booksellers mention with respect the authors they have printed, and consequently have an eye to their own advantage.
7.  Notice; observation; vigilance; watch.
After this jealousy, he kept a strict eye upon him.
8.  View of the mind; opinion formed by observation or contemplation.
It hath, in their eye, no great affinity with the form of the church of Rome.
9.  Sight; view, either in a literal or figurative sense.
    10. Something resembling the eye in form; as the eye of a peacock's feather.
    11. A small hole or aperture; a perforation; as the eye of a needle.
    12. A small catch for a hook; as we say, hooks and eyes. in nearly the same sense, the word is applied to certain fastenings in the cordage of ships.
    13. The bud of a plant; a shoot.
    14. A small shade of color. [Little used.]
Red with an eye of blue makes a purple.
    15. The power of perception.
The eyes of your understanding being enlightened.  Eph.1.
    16. Oversight; inspection.
The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
The eyes of a ship, are the parts which lie near the hawse-holes, particularly in the lower apartments.
To set the eyes on, is to see; to have a sight of.
To find favor in the eyes, is to be graciously received and treated.
EYE, n.  A brood; as an eye of pheasants.
EYE, v.t. To fix the eye on; to look on; to view; to observe; particularly, to observe or watch narrowly, or with fixed attention.
Eye nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies.
EYE, v.i.  To appear; to have an appearance.


Topic: Eye-servant
Definition:
EY'E-SERVANT, n.  A servant who attends to his duty only when watched, or under the eye of his master or employer.


Topic: Eye-service
Definition:
EY'E-SERVICE, n.  Service performed only under inspection or the eye of an employer.
Not with eye-service, as men-pleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God. Col.3.


Topic: Eye-witness
Definition:
EY'E-WITNESS, n.  One who sees a thing done; one who has ocular view of any thing.
We were eye-witnesses of his majesty.  2 Pet.1.


Topic: Eyebolt
Definition:
EY'EBOLT, n.  In ships, a bar or iron or bolt, with an eye, formed to be driven into the deck or sides, for the purpose of hooking tackles to.


Topic: Eyed
Definition:
EY'ED, pp.  Viewed; observed; watched.
1.  Having eyes; used in composition, as a dull-eyed man, ox-eyed Juno.


Topic: Eyeglass
Definition:
EY'EGLASS, n.  A glass to assist the sight; spectacles.
In telescopes, the glass next the eye; and where there are several, all except the object glass are called eye-glasses.


Topic: Eyelet
Definition:
EY'ELET, n.  A small hole or perforation, to receive a lace or small rope or cord.  We usually say, eyelet-hole.


Topic: Eyelid
Definition:
EY'ELID, n.  The cover of the eye; that portion of movable skin with which an animal covers the eyeball, or uncovers it, at pleasure.


Topic: Eyesight
Definition:
EY'ESIGHT, n.  The sight of the eye; view; observation.  Ps.18.
Josephus sets this down from his own eyesight.
1.  The sense of seeing.  His eyesight fails.


Topic: Eyestone
Definition:
EYESTONE, n. A small calcarious stone used for taking substance from between the lid and ball of the eye.


Topic: Eyetooth
Definition:
EY'ETOOTH, n.  A tooth under the eye; a pointed tooth in the upper jaw next to the grinders, called also a canine tooth; a fang.


Topic: Eyre
Definition:
EYRE, n.  ire. [L. iter.]  Literally, a journey or circuit.  In England, the justices in eyre were itinerant judges, who rode the circuit to hold courts in the different counties.
1.  A court of itinerant justices.


Topic: Eyry
Definition:
EY'RY,n.  The place where birds of prey construct their nests and hatch.  It is written also eyrie.  [See Aerie.]
The eagle and the stork
On cliffs and cedar-tops their eyries build.


Topic: F
Definition:
F, the sixth letter of the English Alphabet., is a labial articulation, formed by placing the upper teeth on the under lip, and accompanied with an emission of breath. Its kindred letter is v, which is chiefly distinguished from f by being more vocal, or accompanied with more sound, as may be perceived by pronouncing ef, ev. This letter may be derived from the Oriental vau. The Latins received the letter from the Eolians in Greece, who wrote it in the form of a double g, F,; whence it has been called most absurdly digamma. It corresponds in power to the Greek phi, and its proper name is ef.
As a Latin numeral, it signifies 40, and with a dash over the top, forty thousand.
In the civil law, two of these letters together ff, signify the pandects.
In English criminal law, this letter is branded on felons, when admitted to the benefit of clergy.
In medical prescriptions, F stands for fiat, let it be made; F.S.A. fiat secundum artem.
F stands also for Fellow; F.R.S. Fellow of the Royal Society.
F or fa, in music, is the fourth note rising in this order in the gamut, ut, re, mi, fa. It denotes also one of the Greek keys in music, destined for the base.
F in English has one uniform sound, as in father, after.


Topic: Fabian
Definition:
FABIAN, a. Delaying; dilatory; avoiding battle, in imitation of Q. Fabius Maximus, a Roman general who conducted military operations against Hannibal, by declining to risk a battle in the open field, but harassing the enemy by marches, countermarches and ambuscades.


Topic: Fable
Definition:
FABLE, n. [L., Gr. The radical sense is that which is spoken or told.]
1. A feigned story or tale, intended to instruct or amuse; a fictitious narration intended to enforce some useful truth or precept.
Jothams fable of the trees is the oldest extant, and as beautiful as any made since.
2. Fiction in general; as, the story is all a fable.
3. An idle story; vicious or vulgar fictions. 
But refuse profane and old wives fables. 1 Timothy 4.
4. The plot, or connected series of events, in an epic or dramatic poem.
The moral is the first business of the poet; this being formed, he contrives such a design or fable as may be most suitable to the moral.
5. Falsehood; a softer term for a lie.
FABLE, v.i.
1. To feign; to write fiction.
Vain now the tales which fabling poets tell.
2. To tell falsehoods; as, he fables not.
FABLE, v.t. To feign; to invent; to devise and speak of, as true or real.
The hell thou fablest.


Topic: Fabled
Definition:
FABLED, pp. 
1. Feigned; invented, as stories.
2. a. Told or celebrated in fables.
Hail, fabled grotto.


Topic: Fabric
Definition:
FABRIC, n. [L., a frame, a workman.]
1. The structure of any thing; the manner in which the parts of a thing are untied by art and labor; workmanship; texture. This is cloth of a beautiful fabric.
2. The frame or structure of a building; construction. More generally, the building itself; an edifice; a house; a temple; a church; a bridge, &c. The word is usually applied to a large building.
3. Any system composed of connected parts; as the fabric of the universe.
4. Cloth manufactured.
Silks and other fine fabrics of the east.
FABRIC, v.t To frame; to build; to construct. [Little used.]


Topic: Fabricate
Definition:
FABRICATE, v.t. [L., to frame, supra.]
1. To frame; to build; to construct; to form a whole by connecting its parts; as, to fabricate a bridge or ship.
2. To form by art and labor; to manufacture; as, to fabricate woolens.
3. To invent and form; to forge; to devise falsely; as, to fabricate a lie or story.
Our books were not fabricated with an accommodation to prevailing usages.
4. To coin; as, to fabricate money. [Unusual.]


Topic: Fabrication
Definition:
FABRICATION, n. 
1. The act of framing or constructing construction; as the fabrication of a bridge or of a church.
2. The act of manufacturing.
3. The act of devising falsely; forgery.
4. That which is fabricated; a falsehood. The story is doubtless a fabrication.


Topic: Fabulous
Definition:
FABULOUS, a. 
1. Feigned, as a story; devised; fictitious; as a fabulous story; a fabulous description.
2. Related in fable; described or celebrated in fables; invented; not real; as a fabulous hero; the fabulous exploits of Hercules.
3. The fabulous age of Greece and Rome, was the early age of those countries, the accounts of which are mostly fabulous, or in which the fabulous achievements of their heroes were performed; called also the heroic age.


Topic: Face
Definition:
FACE, n. [L., to make.] 
1. In a general sense, the surface of a thing, or the side which presents itself to the view of a spectator; as the face of the earth; the face of the waters.
2. A part of the surface of a thing; or the plane surface of a solid. Thus, a cube or die has six faces an octahedron has eight faces.
3. The surface of the fore part of an animals head, particularly of the human head; the visage.
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread. Genesis 3.
Joseph bowed himself with his face to the earth. Genesis 48.
4. Countenance; cast of features; look; air of the face.
We set the best face on it we could.
5. The front of a thing; the forepart; the flat surface that presents itself first to view; as the face of a house. Ezekiel 41.
6. Visible state; appearance.
This would produce a new face of things in Europe.
7. Appearance; look.
Nor heaven, nor sea, their former face retained.
His dialogue has the face of probability.
8. State of confrontation. The witnesses were presented face to face.
9. Confidence; boldness; impudence; a bold front.
He has the face to charge others with false citations.
10. Presence; sight; as in the phrases, before the face, in the face, to the face, from the face.
11. The person.
I had not thought to see thy face. Genesis 48.
12. In scripture, face is used for anger or favor.
Hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne. Revelations 6.
Make thy face to shine on thy servant. Psalm 31.
How long wilt thou hide thy face from me? Psalm 8.
Hence, to seek the face, that is, to pray to, to seek the favor of.
To set the face against, is to oppose.
To accept ones face, is to show him favor or grant his request. So, to entreat the face, is to ask favor; but these phrases are nearly obsolete.
13. A distorted form of the face; as in the phrase, to make faces, or to make wry faces.
Face to face
1. When both parties are present; as, to have accusers face to face. Acts 25.
2. Nakedly; without the interposition of any other body.
Now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face. 1 Corinthians 13.


Topic: Facetious
Definition:
FACE'TIOUS, a.  [L. facetus; facetia, or plu.]
1.  Merry; sportive; jocular; sprightly with wit and good humor; as a facetious companion.
2.  Witty; full of pleasantry playful; exciting laughter; as a facetious story; a facetious reply.


Topic: Facial
Definition:
FA'CIAL, a.  [L. facies, face.]  Pertaining to the face; as the facial artery, vein or nerve.
Facial angle, in anatomy, is the angle contained by a line drawn horizontally from the middle of the external entrance of the ear to the edge of the nostrils, and another from this latter point to the superciliary ridge of the frontal bone; serving to measure the elevation of the forehead.


Topic: Facile
Definition:
FAC'ILE, a.  [L. facilis, from facio, to make.]
1.  Properly, easy to be done or performed; easy; not difficult; performable or attainable with little labor.
Order - will render the work facile and delightful.
2.  Easy to be surmounted or removed; easily conquerable.
The facile gates of hell too slightly barred.
3.  Easy of access or converse; mild; courteous; not haughty, austere or distant.
I mean she should be courteous, facile, sweet.
4.  Pliant; flexible; easily persuaded to good or bad; yielding; ductile to a fault.
Since Adam, and his facile consort Eve,
Lost Paradise, deceived by me.


Topic: Facilitate
Definition:
FACIL'ITATE, v.t.  [L. facilitas, from facilis, easy.]
To make easy or less difficult; to free from difficulty or impediment, or to diminish it; to lessen the labor of.  Machinery facilitates manual labor and operations.  Pioneers may facilitate the march of an army.


Topic: Facilities
Definition:
FACIL'ITIES, n. plu.  The means by which the performance of anything is rendered easy; convenient opportunities or advantages.


Topic: Facility
Definition:
FACIL'ITY, n.  [L. facilitas, from facilis, easy.]
1.  Easiness to be performed; freedom from difficulty; ease.  He performed the work or operation with great facility.
Though facility and hope of success might invite some other choice.
2.  Ease of performance; readiness proceeding from skill or use; dexterity.  Practice gives a wonderful facility in executing works of art.
3.  Pliancy; ductility; easiness to be persuaded; readiness of compliance, usually in a bad sense, implying a disposition to yield to solicitations to evil.
It is a great error to take facility for good nature: tenderness without discretion, is no better than a more pardonable folly.
4.  Easiness of access; complaisance; condescension; affability.
He offers himself to the visits of a friend with facility.


Topic: Facing
Definition:
FA'CING, ppr.  [from face.]  
1.  Fronting; having the face towards; opposite.
2.  Covering the fore part.
3.  Turning the face.
FA'CING, n.  A covering in front for ornament or defense; as the facing of a fortification or of a garment.


Topic: Facsimile
Definition:
FACSIM'ILE, n.  [L. facio, to make, and similis, like.  See Simile.]
An exact copy or likeness, as of handwriting.


Topic: Fact
Definition:
FACT, n.  [L. factum, from facio, to make or do.]
1.  Any thing done, or that comes to pass; an act; a deed; an effect produced or achieved; an event.  Witnesses are introduced into court to prove a fact.  Facts are stubborn things.  To deny a fact knowingly is to lie.
2.  Reality; truth; as, in fact.  So we say, indeed.


Topic: Faction
Definition:
FAC'TION, n.  [L. factio, from facio, to make or do.]
1.  A party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition to the prince, government or state; usually applied to a minority, but it may be applied to a majority.  sometimes a state is divided into factions nearly equal.  Rome was almost always disturbed by factions.  Republics are proverbial for factions, and factions in monarchies have often effected revolutions.
A feeble government produces more factions than an oppressive one.
By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.
2.  Tumult; discord; dissension.


Topic: Factious
Definition:
FAC'TIOUS, a.  [L. factiosus.]
1.  Given to faction; addicted to form parties and raise dissensions, in opposition to government; turbulent; prone to clamor against public measures of men.  No state is free from factious citizens.
2.  Pertaining to faction; proceeding from faction; as factious tumults; factious quarrels.


Topic: Factiousness
Definition:
FAC'TIOUSNESS, n.  Inclination to form parties in opposition to the government, or to the public interest; disposition to clamor and raise opposition; clamorousness for a party.


Topic: Factitious
Definition:
FACTI'TIOUS, a.  [L. factitius, from facio.]
Made by art, in distinction from what is produced by nature; artificial; as factitious cinnabar; factitious stones; factitious air.


Topic: Factor
Definition:
FAC'TOR, n.  [L. factor; facio.]
1.  In commerce, an agent employed by merchants, residing in other places, to buy and sell, and to negotiate bills of exchange, or to transact other business on their account.
2.  an agent; a substitute.
3.  In arithmetic, the multiplier and multiplicand, from the multiplication of which proceeds the product.


Topic: Factorage
Definition:
FAC'TORAGE, n.  the allowance given to a factor by his employer, as a compensation for his services; called also a commission.  This is sometimes a certain sum or rate by the cask or package; more generally it is a certain rate per cent.  Of the value of the goods, purchased or sold.


Topic: Factory
Definition:
FAC'TORY, n.
1.  A house or place where factors reside, to transact business for their employers.  The English merchants have factories in the East Indies, Turkey, Portugal, Hamburg, &c.
2.  The body of factors in any place; as a chaplain to a British factory.
3.  Contracted frommanufactory, a building or collection of buildings, appropriated to the manufacture of goods; the place where workmen are employed in fabricating goods, wares or utensils.


Topic: Faculty
Definition:
FAC'ULTY, n.  [L. facultas, from facio, to make.]
1.  That power of the mind or intellect which enables it to receive, revive or modify perceptions; as the faculty of seeing, of hearing, of imagining, of remembering, &c.: or in general, the faculties may be called the powers or capacities of the mind.
2.  The power of doing any thing; ability.  There is no faculty or power in creatures, which can rightly perform its functions, without the perpetual aid of the Supreme Being.
3.  The power of performing any action, natural, vital or animal.
The vital faculty is that by which life is preserved.
4.  Facility of performance; the peculiar skill derived from practice, or practice aided by nature; habitual skill or ability; dexterity; adroitness; knack.  One man has a remarkable faculty of telling a story; another, of inventing excuses for misconduct; a third, of reasoning; a fourth, of preaching.
5.  Personal quality; disposition or habit, good or ill.
6.  Power; authority.
Hath borne his faculties so meek. [Hardly legitimate.]
7.  Mechanical power; as the faculty of the wedge.  [Not used, nor legitimate.]
8.  Natural virtue; efficacy; as the faculty of simples.  [Not used, nor legitimate.]
9.  Privilege; a right or power granted to a person by favor or indulgence, to do what by law he may not do; as the faculty of marrying without the bans being first published, or of ordaining a deacon under age.  The archbishop of Canterbury has a court of faculties, for granting such privileges or dispensations.
10.  In colleges, the masters and professors of the several sciences.
One of the members or departments of a university.  In most universities there are four faculties; of art, including humanity and philosophy; of theology; of medicine; and of law.
In America, the faculty of a college or university consists of the president, professors and tutors.
The faculty of advocates, in Scotland, is a respectable body of lawyers who plead in all causes before the Courts of Session, Justiciary and Exchequer.


Topic: Facund
Definition:
FAC'UND, a.  [L. facundus, supposed to be from the root of for, fari, to speak.  If so the original word was faco, or facor.]
Eloquent.  [Little used.]


Topic: Fade
Definition:
FADE, a.  Weak; slight; faint.  [Not in use.]
FADE, v.i.
1.  To lose color; to tend from a stronger or brighter color to a more faint shade of the same color, or to lose a color entirely.  A green leaf fades and becomes less green or yellow.  Those colors are deemed the best, which are least apt to fade.
2.  To wither, as a plant; to decay.
Ye shall be as an oak, whose leaf fadeth.  Is. 1.
3.  To lose strength gradually; to vanish.
When the memory is weak, ideas in the mind quickly fade.
4.  To lose luster; to grow dim.
The stars shall fade away.
5.  To decay; to perish gradually.
We all do fade as a leaf.  Is. 64.
An inheritance that fadeth not away.  1Pet. 1.
6.  To decay; to decline; to become poor and miserable.
The rich man shall fade away in his ways.  James 1.
7.  To lose strength, health or vigor; to decline; to grow weaker.
8.  To disappear gradually; to vanish.
FADE, v.t.  To cause to wither; to wear away; to deprive of freshness or vigor.
No winter could his laurels fade.
This is a man, old, wrinkled, faded, withered.


Topic: Fadge
Definition:
FADGE, v.i.  [L. pango, pegi, pepegi, figo;  Gr.]
1.  To suit; to fit; to come close, as the parts of things united.  Hence, to have one part consistent with another.
2.  To agree; to live in amity.
3.  To succeed; to hit.
[This word is now vulgar, and improper in elegant writing.]


Topic: Fading
Definition:
FA'DING, ppr.  [See Fade.]
1.  Losing color; becoming less vivid; decaying; declining; withering.
2.  a.  Subject to decay; liable to lose freshness and vigor; liable to perish; not durable; transient; as a fading flower.
FA'DING, n.  Decay; loss of color, freshness or vigor.


Topic: Fag
Definition:
FAG, v.t.  To beat.  [Not in use.]
FAG, n.  A slave; one who works hard.  [Not in use.]
FAG, v.i.  [Heb. to fail, to languish.]
To become weary; to fail in strength; to be faint with weariness.
The Italian began to fag.
[A vulgar word.]
FAG, n.  A knot in cloth.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Fagend
Definition:
FAGEND', n.  [fag and end.  See Fag, v.i.  supra.]
1.  The end of a web of cloth, generally of coarser materials.
2.  The refuse or meaner part of any thing.
3.  Among seamen, the untwisted end of a rope; hence, to fag out, is to become untwisted and loose.
We observe that the use of this word among seamen leads to the true sense of the verb, as well as the noun.  The sense is, to open by receding, or to yield and become lax, and hence weak.


Topic: Fagot
Definition:
FAG'OT, n.  [Gr.  See Fadge.  The sense is a bundle or collection, like pack.]
1.  A bundle of sticks, twigs or small branches of trees, used for fuel, or for raising batteries, filling ditches, and other purposes in fortification.  The French use fascine, from the L. fascis, a bundle; a term now adopted in English.
2.  A person hired to appear at musters in a company not full and hide the deficiency.
FAG'OT, v.t.  To tie together; to bind in a bundle; to collect promiscuously.


Topic: Fahlerz
Definition:
F'AHLERZ, n.  Gray copper, or gray copper ore, called by Jameson tetrahedral copper pyrite.  This mineral is easily broken, and its fracture usually uneven, but sometimes a little conchoidal.  it is found amorphous and in regular crystals.


Topic: Fail
Definition:
FAIL, v.i.  [L. fallo; Gr. whence;  Eng. felony.  It seems to be allied to fall, fallow, pale, and many other words.]
1.  To become deficient; to be insufficient; to cease to be abundant for supply; or to be entirely wanting.  We say, in a dry season, the springs and streams fail, or are failing, before they are entirely exhausted.  We say also, the springs failed, when they entirely ceased to flow.  Crops fail wholly or partially.
2.  To decay; to decline; to sink; to be diminished.  We say of a sick person, his strength fails daily.
3.  To decline; to decay; to sink; to become weaker; as, the patient fails every hour.
4.  To be extinct; to cease; to be entirely wanting; to be no longer produced.
Help, Lord, for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.  Ps. 12.
5.  To be entirely exhausted; to be wanting; to cease from supply.
Money failed in the land of Egypt.  Gen. 47.
6.  To cease; to perish; to be lost.
Lest the remembrance of his grief should fail.
7.  To die.
They shall all fail together.  Isaiah 31.
8.  To decay; to decline; as, the sight fails in old age.
9.  To become deficient or wanting; as, the heart or the courage fails.
10.  To miss; not to produce the effect.  the experiment was made with care, but failed, or failed to produce the effect, or failed of the effect.
11.  To be deficient in duty; to omit or neglect.  the debtor failed to fulfil his promise.
12.  To miss; to miscarry; to be frustrated or disappointed.  The enemy attacked the fort, but failed in his design, or failed of success.
13.  To be neglected; to fall short; not to be executed.  the promises of a man of probity seldom fail.
The soul or the spirit fails, when a person is discouraged.  The eyes fail, when the desires and expectations are long delayed, and the person is disappointed.
14.  To become insolvent or bankrupt.  When merchants and traders fail, they are said to become bankrupt.  When other men fail, they are said to become insolvent.
FAIL, v.t.  
1.  To desert; to disappoint; to cease or to neglect or omit to afford aid, supply or strength.  it is said, fortune never fails the brave.  Our friends sometimes fail us, when we most need them.  The aged attempt to walk, when their limbs fail them.  In bold enterprises, courage should never fail the hero.
2.  to omit; not to perform.
The inventive God, who never fails his part.
3.  to be wanting to.
There shall never fail thee a man on the throne.  1Kings 2.
[In the transitive use of this verb there is really an ellipsis of from or to, or other word.  In strictness, the verb is not transitive, and the passive particple is, I believe, never used.]
FAIL, n.  Omission; non-performance.
1.  He will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites.  Josh. 3.
2.  Miscarriage; failure; deficience; want; death.  
[In these senses little used.]


Topic: Failing
Definition:
FA'ILING, ppr.  Becoming deficient or insufficient; becoming weaker; decaying; declining; omitting; not executing or performing; miscarrying; neglecting; wanting; becoming bankrupt or insolvent.
FA'ILING, n.  
1.  The act of failing; deficiency; imperfection; lapse; fault.  Failings, in a moral sense, are minor faults, proceeding rather from weakness of intellect or from carelessness, than from bad motives.  But the word is often abusively applied to vices of a grosser kind.
2.  The act of failing or becoming insolvent.


Topic: Failure
Definition:
FA'ILURE, n.  fa'ilyur.
1.  A failing; deficience; cessation of supply, or total defect; as the failure of springs or streams; failure of rain; failure of crops.
2.  Omission; non-performance; as the failure of a promise; a man's failure in the execution of a trust.
3.  Decay, or defect from decay; as the failure of memory or of sight.
4.  A breaking, or becoming insolvent.  At the close of a war, the prices of commodities fall, and innumerable failures secceed.
5.  A failing; a slight fault.  [Little used.]


Topic: Fain
Definition:
FAIN, a.
1.  Glad; pleased; rejoiced.  but the appropriate sense of the word is, glad or pleased to do something under some kind of necessity; that is, glad to evade evil or secure good.  Thus, says Locke, 'The learned Castalio was fain to make trenches at Basil, to keep himself from starving.'  this appropriation of the word, which is modern, led Dr. Johnson into a mistake in defining the word.  The proper signification is glad, joyful.
FAIN, adv.  Gladly; with joy or pleasure.
He would fain flee out of his hand.  Job 28.
He would fain have filled his belly with husks.  Luke 15.
FAIN, v.i.  to wish or desire.  [Not used.]


Topic: Faint
Definition:
FAINT, a.  [L. vanus, whence to vanish.  Eng. to wane.]
1.  weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, to be rendered faint by excessive evacuations.
2.  Weak; feeble; languid; exhausted; as faint with fatigue, hunger or thirst.
3.  Weak, as color; not bright or vivid; not strong; as a faint color; a faint red or blue; a faint light.
4.  Feeble; weak, as sound; not loud; as a faint sound; a faint voice.
5.  Imperfect; feeble; not striking; as a faint resemblance or image.
6.  Cowardly; timorous.  A faint heart never wins a fair lady.
7.  Feeble; not vigorous; not active; as a faint resistance; a faint exertion.
8.  Dejected; depressed; dispirited.
My heart is faint.  Lam. 1.
FAINT, v.i.
1.  To lose the animal functions; to lose strength and color, and become senseless and motionless; to swoon; sometimes with away.  he fainted for loss of blood.
On hearing the honor intended her, she fainted away.
2.  To become feeble; to decline or fail in strength and vigor; to be weak.
If I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way.  Mark 8.
3.  To sink into dejection; to lose courage or spirit.
Let not your hearts faint.  Deut. 20.
If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.  Prov. 24.
4.  To decay; to disappear; to vanish.
Gilded clouds, while we gaze on them, faint before the eye.
FAINT, v.t.  To deject; to depress; to weaken.  [Unusual.]


Topic: Fainthearted
Definition:
FAINTHEARTED, a.  Cowardly; timorous; dejected; easily depressed, or yielding to fear.
Fear not, neither be fainthearted.  Is. 7.


Topic: Fainting
Definition:
FA'INTING, ppr.  Falling into a swoon; failing; losing strength or courage; becoming feeble or timid.
FA'INTING, n.  A temporary loss of strength, color and respiration; syncope; deliquium; leipothymy; a swoon.


Topic: Faintly
Definition:
FA'INTLY, adv.
1.  In a feeble, languid manner; without vigor or activity; as, to attack or defend faintly.
2.  With a feeble flame; as, a torch burns faintly.
3.  With a feeble light; as, the candle burns faintly.
4.  With little force; as, to breathe faintly.
5.  Without force of representation; imperfectly; as, to describe faintly what we have seen.
6.  In a low tone; with a feeble voice; as, to speak faintly.
7.  Without spirit or courage; timorously.
He faintly now declines the fatal strife.


Topic: Faintness
Definition:
FA'INTNESS, n.
1.  The state of being faint; loss of strength, color and respiration.
2.  Feebleness; languor; want of strength.
3.  Inactivity; want of vigor.
4.  Feebleness, as of color or light.
5.  Feebleness of representation; as faintness of description.
6.  Feebleness of mind; timorousness; dejection; irresolution.
I will send a faintness into their hearts.  Lev. 26.


Topic: Faints
Definition:
FAINTS, n.  plu.  the gross fetid oil remaining after distillation, or a weak spirituous liquor that runs from the still in rectifying the low wines after the proof spirit is drawn off; also, the last runnings of all spirits distilled by the alembic.


Topic: Fair
Definition:
FAIR, a.
1.  Clear; free from spots; free from a dark hue; white; as a fair skin; a fair complexion.  hence,
2.  Beautiful; handsome; properly, having a handsome face.
Thou art a fair woman to look upon.  Gen. 12.  Hence,
3.  Pleasing to the eye; handsome or beautiful in general.
Thus was be fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches.  Ezek. 31.
4.  Clear; pure; free from feculence or extraneous matter; as fair water.
5.  Clear; not cloudy or overcast; as fair weather; a fair sky.
6.  Favorable; prosperous; blowing in a direction towards the place of destination; as a fair wind at sea.
7.  Open; direct, as a way or passage.  You are in a fair way to promotion.  hence, likely to succeed.  he stands as fair to succeed as any man.
8.  Open to attack or access; unobstructed; as a fair mark; a fair butt; fair in sight; in fair sight; a fair view.
9.  Open; frank; hones; hence, equal; just; equitable.  My friend is a fair man; his offer is fair; his propositions are fair and honorable.
10.  Not effected by insidious or unlawful methods; not foul.
He died a fair and natural death.
11.  Frank; candid; not sophistical or insidious; as a fair disputant.
12.  Honest; honorable; mild; opposed to insidious and compulsory; as, to accomplish a thing by fair means.
13.  Frank; civil; pleasing; not harsh.
When fair words and good counsel will not prevail on us, we must be frighted into our duty.
14.  Equitable; just; erited.
His doom is fair,
That dust I am, and shall to dust return.
15.  Liberal; not narrow; as a fair livelihood.
16.  Plain; legible; as, the letter is written in a fair hand.
17.  Free from stain or blemish; unspotted; untarnished; as a fair character or fame.
FAIR,  adv.  
1.  Openly; frankly; civilly; complaisantly.
One of the company spoke him fair.
2.  Candidly; honestly; equitably;  He promised fair.
3.  Happily; successfully.
Now fair befall thee.
4.  On good terms; as, to keep fair with the world; to stand fair with one's companions.
To bid fair, is to be likely, or to have a fair prospect.
Fair and square, just dealing; honesty.
FAIR, n.  
1.  Elliptically, a fair woman; a handsome female.  The fair, the female sex.
2.  Fairness; applied to things or persons.  [Not used.]
FAIR, n.  [L. forum, or feriae, a holiday, a day exempt from labor;  Gr. to trade, whence, emporium, the primary sense of which is to pass.]
A stated market in a particular town or city; a stated meeting of buyers and sellers for trade.  A fair is annual or more frequent.  The privilege of holding fairs is granted by the king or supreme power.  Among the most celebrated fairs in Europe are those of Frankfort and Leipsic in Germany; of Novi in the Milanese; of Riga and Archangel in Russia; of Lyons and St. Germain in France.  In Great Britain many towns enjoy this privilege.


Topic: Fairly
Definition:
FA'IRLY, adv.
1.  Beautifully; handsomely.  [Little used.]
2.  Commodiously; conveniently; as a town fairly situated for foreign trade.
3.  Frankly; honestly; justly; equitably; without disguise, fraud or prevarication.  The question was fairly stated and argued.  Let us deal fairly with all men.
4.  Openly; ingenuously; plainly.  Let us deal fairly with ourselves or our own hearts.
5.  Candidly.
I interpret fairly your design.
6.  Without perversion or violence; as, an inference may be fairly deduced from the premises.
7.  Without blots; in plain letters; plainly; legibly; as an instrument or record fairly written.
8.  Completely; without deficience.  His antagonist fought till he was fairly defeated.
9.  Softly; gently.


Topic: Fairness
Definition:
FA'IRNESS, n. 
1.  Clearness; freedom from spots or blemishes; whiteness; as the fairness of skin or complexion.
2.  Clearness; purity; as the fairness of water.
3.  Freedom from stain or blemish; as the fairness of character or reputation.
4.  Beauty; elegance; as the fairness of form.
5.  Frankness; candor; hence, honesty; ingenuousness; as fairness in trade.
6.  Openness; candor; freedom from disguise, insidiousness or prevarication; as the fairness of an argument.
7.  Equality of terms; equity; as the fairness of a contract.
8.  Distinctness; freedom from blots or obscurity; as the fairness of hand-writing; the fairness of a copy.


Topic: Fairy
Definition:
FA'IRY, n.  
[The origin of this word is not obvious, and the radical letters are uncertain.  the conjectures of Baxter, Jamieson and others throw no satisfactory light on the subject.]
1.  A fay; an imaginary being or spirit, supposed to assume a human form, dance in meadows, steal infants and play a variety of pranks.  [See Elf and Demon.]
2.  An enchantress.
Fairy of the mine, an imaginary being supposed to inhabit mines, wandering about in the drifts and chambers, always employed in cutting ore, turning the windlass, &c., yet effecting nothing.  The Germans believe in two species; one fierce and malevolent; the other gentle.  [See Cobalt.]
Fairy ring or circle, a phenomenon observed in fields, vulgarly supposed to be caused by fairies in their dances.  This circle is of two kinds; one about seven yards in diameter, containing a round bare path, a foot broad, with green grass in the middle; the other of different size, encompassed with grass.
FA'IRY, a.
1.  Belonging to fairies; as fairy land
2.  Given by fairies; as fairy money or favors.


Topic: Faith
Definition:
FAITH, n.  [L. fides, fido, to trust; Gr. to persuade, to draw towards any thing, to conciliate; to believe, to obey.  In the Greek Lexicon of Hederic it is said, the primitive signification of the verb is to bind and draw or lead, as signifies a rope or cable.  But this remark is a little incorrect.  The sense of the verb, from which that of rope and binding is derived, is to strain, to draw, and thus to bind or make fast.  A rope or cable is that which makes fast.  Heb.]
1.  Belief; the assent of the mind to the truth of what is declared by another, resting on his authority and veracity, without other evidence; the judgment that what another states or testifies is the truth.  I have strong faith or no faith in the testimony of a witness, or in what a historian narrates.
2.  The assent of the mind to the truth of a proposition advanced by another; belief, or probable evidence of any kind.
3.  In theology, the assent of the mind or understanding to the truth of what God has revealed.  Simple belief of the scriptures, of the being and perfections of God, and of the existence, character and doctrines of Christ, founded on the testimony of the sacred writers, is called historical or speculative faith; a faith little distinguished from the belief of the existence and achievements of Alexander or of Cesar.
4.  Evangelical, justifying, or saving faith, is the assent of the mind to the truth of divine revelation, on the authority of God's testimony, accompanied with a cordial assent of the will or approbation of the heart; an entire confidence or trust in God's character and declarations, and in the character and doctrines of Christ, with an unreserved surrender of the will to his guidance, and dependence on his merits for salvation.  In other words, that firm belief of God's testimony, and of the truth of the gospel, which influences the will, and leads to an entire reliance on Christ for salvation.
Being justified by faith.  Rom. 5.
Without faith it is impossible to please God.  Heb. 11.
For we walk by faith, and not by sight.  2Cor. 5.
With the heart man believeth to righteousness.  Rom. 10.
The faith of the gospel is that emotion of the mind, which is called trust or confidence, exercised towards the moral character of God, and particularly of the Savior.
Faith is an affectionate practical confidence in the testimony of God.
Faith is an affectionate practical confidence in the testimony of God.
Faith is a firm, cordial belief in the veracity of God, in all the declarations of his word; or a full and affectionate confidence in the certainty of those things which God has declared, and because he has declared them.
5.  The object of belief; a doctrine or system of doctrines believed; a system of revealed truths received by christians.
They heard only, that he who persecuted us in times past, now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed.  Gal. 1.
6.  The promises of God, or his truth and faithfulness.
shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?  Rom. 3.
7.  An open profession of gospel truth.
Your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.  Rom. 1.
8.  A persuasion or belief of the lawfulness of things indifferent.
Hast thou faith?  Have it to thyself before God.  Rom 14.
9.  Faithfulness; fidelity; a strict adherence to duty and fulfillment of promises.
Her failing, while her faith to me remains, I would conceal.
Children in whom is no faith.  Deut. 32.
10.  Word or honor pledged; promise given; fidelity.  He violated his plighted faith.
For you alone I broke my faith with injured Palamon.
11.  Sincerity; honesty; veracity; faithfulness.  We ought in good faith, to fulfill all our engagements.
12.  Credibility or truth.  Unusual.]
The faith of the foregoing narrative.


Topic: Faithful
Definition:
FA'ITHFUL, a.
1.  Firm in adherence to the truth and to the duties of religion.
Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.  Rev. 2.
2.  Firmly adhering to duty; of true fidelity; loyal; true to allegiance; as a faithful subject.
3.  constant in the performance of duties or services; exact in attending to commands; as a faithful servant.
4.  Observant of compact, treaties, contracts, vows or other engagements; true to one's word.  A government should be faithful to its treaties; individuals, to their word.  
5.  True; exact; in conformity to the letter and spirit; as a faithful execution of a will.
6.  True to the marriage covenant; as a faithful wife or husband.
7.  Conformable to truth; as a faithful narrative or representation.
8.  Constant; not fickle; as a faithful lover or friend.
9.  True; worthy of belief.  2Tim. 2.


Topic: Faithfully
Definition:
FA'ITHFULLY, adv. 
1.  In a faithful manner; with good faith.
2.  With strict adherence to allegiance and duty; applied to subjects.
3.  With strict observance of promises, vows, covenants or duties; without failure of performance; honestly; exactly.  The treaty or contract was faithfully executed.
4.  Sincerely; with strong assurances; he faithfully promised.
5.  Honestly; truly; without defect, fraud, trick or ambiguity.  The battle was faithfully described or represented.
They suppose the nature of things to be faithfully signified by their names.
6.  Confidently; steadily.


Topic: Faithfulness
Definition:
FA'ITHFULNESS, n.  
1.  Fidelity; loyalty; firm adherence to allegiance and duty; as the faithfulness of a subject.
2.  Truth; veracity; as the faithfulness of God.
3.  Strict adherence to injunctions, and to the duties of a station; as the faithfulness of servants or ministers.
4.  Strict performance of promises, vows or covenants; constancy in affection; as the faithfulness of a husband or wife.


Topic: Faithless
Definition:
FA'ITHLESS, a.
1.  Without belief in the revealed truths of religion; unbelieving.
O faithless generation.  Math 18.
2.  Not believing; not giving credit to.
3.  Not adhering to allegiance or duty; disloyal; perfidious; treacherous; as a faithless subject.
4.  Not true to a master or employer; neglectful; as a faithless servant.
5.  Not true to the marriage covenant; false; as a faithless husband or wife.
6.  Not observant of promises.
7.  Deceptive.
Yonder faithless phantom.


Topic: Faithlessness
Definition:
FA'ITHLESSNESS, n.
1.  Unbelief, as to revealed religion.
2.  Perfidy; treachery; disloyalty; as in subjects.
3.  Violation of promises or covenants; inconstancy; as of husband or wife.


Topic: Falcade
Definition:
FALCA'DE, n.  [L. falx, a sickle or sythe.]
A horse is said to make a falcade, when he throws himself on his haunches two or three times, as in very quick curvets; that is a falcade is a bending very low.


Topic: Falchion
Definition:
FAL'CHION, n.  fal'chun. a is pronounced as in fall.  [L. falx, a reaping hook.]
A short crooked sword; a cimiter.


Topic: Falciform
Definition:
FAL'CIFORM a.  [L. falx, a reaping hook, and form.]
In the shape of a sickle; resembling a reaping hook.


Topic: Falcon
Definition:
FAL'CON, n.  Sometimes pron. fawcon.  [L. falco, a hawk.  The falcon is probably so named from its curving beak or talons.]
1.  A hawk; but appropriately, a hawk trained to sport, as in falconry, which see.  It is said that this name is, by sportsmen, given to the female alone; for the male is smaller, weaker and less courageous, and is therefore called tircelet or tarsel.
This term, in ornithology, is applied to a division of the genus Falco, with a short hooked beak and very long wings, the strongest armed and most courageous species, and therefore used in falconry.
2.  A sort of cannon, whose diameter at the bore is five inches and a quarter, and carrying shot of two pounds and a half.


Topic: Falconer
Definition:
FAL'CONER, n.  A person who breeds and trains hawks for taking wild fowls; one who follows the sport of fowling with hawks.


Topic: Falconet
Definition:
FAL'CONET, n.  A small cannon or piece of ordinance, whose diameter at the bore is four inches and a quarter, and carrying shot of one pound and a quarter.


Topic: Falconry
Definition:
FAL'CONRY, n.  [L. falco, a hawk.]
1.  The art of training hawks to the exercise of hawking.
2.  The practice of taking wild fowls by means of hawks.


Topic: Faldage
Definition:
FALD'AGE, n. a as in all.  [Low L. faldagium.]
In England, a privilege which anciently several lords reserved to themselves of setting up folds for sheep, in any  fields within their manors, the better to manure them.


Topic: Faldstool
Definition:
FALD'STOOL, n.  [fald or fold and stool.]
1.  A kind of stool placed at the south side of the altar, at which the kings of England kneel at their coronation.
2.  The chair of a bishop inclosed by the railing of the altar.
3.  An arm-chair or folding chair.


Topic: Fall
Definition:
FALL, v.i.  pret. fell; pp. fallen.  [L. fallo, to fail, to deceive,  Gr.; Heb. to fall.  Fail agrees better with Heb., but these words may have had one primitive root, the sense of which was to move, to recede, to pass.  See Foul.]
1.  To drop from a higher place; to descend by the power of gravity alone.  Rain falls from the clouds; a man falls from his horse; ripe fruits fall from trees; an ox falls into a pit.
I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.  Luke 10.
2.  To drop from an erect posture.
I fell at his feet to worship him.  Rev. 19.
3.  To disembogue; to pass at the outlet; to flow out of its channel into a pond, lake or sea, as a river.  The Rhone falls into the Mediterranean sea.  The Danube falls into the Euxine.  The Mississippi falls into the gulf of Mexico.
4.  To depart from the faith, or from rectitude; to apostatize.  Adam fell by eating the forbidden fruit.
Labor to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.  Heb. 4.
5.  To die; particularly by violence.
Ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.  Lev. 26.
A thousand shall fall at thy side.  Ps. 91.
6.  To come to an end suddenly; to vanish; to perish.
The greatness of these Irish lords suddenly fell and vanished.
7.  To be degraded; to sink into disrepute or disgrace; to be plunged into misery; as, to fall from an elevated station, or from a prosperous state.
8.  To decline in power, wealth or glory; to sink into weakness; to be overthrown or ruined.  This is the renowned Tyre; but oh, how fallen.
Heaven and earth will witness, if Rome must fall, that we are innocent.
9.  To pass into a worse state than the former; to come; as, to fall into difficulties; to fall under censure of imputation; to fall into error or absurdity; to fall into a snare.  In these and similar phrases, the sense of suddenness, accident or ignorance is often implied; but not always.
10.  To sink; to be lowered.  The mercury in a thermometer rises and falls with the increase and diminution of heat.  The water of a river rises and falls.  The tide falls.
11.  To decrease; to be diminished in weight or value.  The price of goods falls with plenty and rises with scarcity.  Pliny tells us, the as fell from a pound to two ounces in the first Punic war.
12.  To sink; not to amount to the full.
The greatness of finances and revenue doth fall under computation.
13.  To be rejected; to sink into disrepute.
This book must stand or fall with thee.
14.  To decline from violence to calmness from intensity to remission.  The wind falls and a calm succeeds.
At length her fury fell.
15.  To pass into a new state of body or mind; to become; as, to fall asleep; to fall distracted; to fall sick; to fall into rage or passion; to fall in love; to fall into temptation.
16.  To sink into an air of dejection, discontent, anger, sorrow or shame; applied to the countenance or look.
Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.  Gen. 4.
I have observed of late thy looks are fallen.
17.  To happen; to befall; to come.
Since this fortune falls to you.
18.  To light on; to come by chance.
The Romans fell on this model by chance.
19.  To come; to rush on; to assail.
Fear and dread shall fall on them.  Ex. 15.
And fear fell on them all.  Act. 19.
20.  To come; to arrive.
The vernal equinox, which at the Nicene council fell on the 21st of March, falls now about ten days sooner.
21.  To come unexpectedly.
It happened this evening that we fell into a pleasing walk.
22.  To begin with haste, ardor or vehemence; to rush or hurry to.  They fell to blows.
The mixt multitude fell to lusting.  Num. 11.
23.  To pass or be transferred by chance, lot, distribution, inheritance or otherwise, as possession or property.  The estate or the province fell to his brother.  The kingdom fell into the hands of his rival.  A large estate fell to his heirs.
24.  To become the property of; to belong or appertain to.
If to her share some female errors fall.
Look in her face; and you'll forget them all.
25.  To be dropped or uttered carelessly.  Some expressions fell from him.  An unguarded expression fell from his lips.  Not a word fell from him on the subject.
26.  To sink; to languish; to become feeble or faint.  Our hopes and fears rise and fall with good or ill success.
27.  To be brought forth.  Take care of lambs when they first fall.
28.  To issue; to terminate.
Sit still, my daughter, till thou knowest how the matter will fall.  Ruth 3.
To fall aboard of, to strike against another ship.
To fall astern, to move or be driven backward; or to remain behind.  A ship falls astern by the force of a current, or when outsailed by another.
1.  To fall away, to lose flesh; to become lean or emaciated; to pine.
2.  To renounce or desert allegiance; to revolt or rebel.
3.  To renounce or desert the faith; to apostatize; to sink into wickedness.
These for awhile believe, and in time of temptation fall away.  Luke 8.
4.  To perish; to be ruined; to be lost.
How can the soul - fall away into nothing.
5.  To decline gradually; to fade; to languish, or become faint.
One color falls away by just degrees, and another rises insensibly.
1.  To fall back, to recede; to give way.
2.  To fail of performing a promise or purpose; not to fulfill.
To fall calm, to cease to blow; to become calm.
1.  To fall down, to prostrate one's self in worship.
All nations shall fall down before him.  Ps. 72.
2.  To sink; to come to the ground.
Down fell the beauteous youth.
3.  To bend or bow as a suppliant.  Isaiah 14.
4.  To sail or pass towards the mouth of a river, or other outlet.
To fall foul, to attack; to make an assault.
1.  To fall from, to recede from; to depart; not to adhere; as, to fall from an agreement or engagement.
2.  To depart from allegiance or duty; to revolt.
1.  To fall in, to concur; to agree with.  The measure falls in with popular opinion.
2.  To comply; to yield to.
You will find it difficult to persuade learned men to fall in with your projects.
3.  To come in; to join; to enter.  Fall into the ranks; fall in on the right.
To fall in with, to meet, as a ship; also, to discover or come near, as land.
1.  To fall off, to withdraw; to separate; to be broken or detached.  friends fall off in adversity.
Love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide.
2.  To perish; to die away.  Words fall off by disuse.
3.  To apostatize; to forsake; to withdraw from the faith, or from allegiance or duty.
Those captive tribes fell off from God to worship calves.
4.  To forsake; to abandon.  His subscribers fell off.
5.  To drop.  Fruits fall off when ripe.
6.  To depreciate; to depart from former excellence; to become less valuable or interesting.  The magazine or the review falls off; it has fallen off.
7.  To deviate or depart from the course directed, or to which the head of the ship was before directed; to fall to leeward.
1.  To fall on, to begin suddenly and eagerly.
Fall on, and try thy appetite to eat.
2.  To begin an attack; to assault; to assail. 
Fall on, fall on and hear him not.
3.  To drop on; to descend on.
1.  To fall out, to quarrel; to begin to contend.
A soul exasperated in ills, falls out with every thing, its friend, itself - 
2.  To happen; to befall; to chance.
There fell out a bloody quarrel betwixt the frogs and the mice.
1.  To fall over, to revolt; to desert from one side to another.
2.  To fall beyond.
To fall short, to be deficient.  The corn falls short.  We all fall short in duty.
1.  To fall to, to begin hastily and eagerly.
Fall to, with eager joy, on homely food.
2.  To apply one's self to.  He will never after fall to labor.
They fell to raising money, under pretense of the relief of Ireland.
1.  To fall under, to come under, or within the limits of; to be subjected to.  They fell under the jurisdiction of the emperor.
2.  To come under; to become the subject of.  This point did not fall under the cognizance or deliberations of the court.  These things do not fall under human sight or observation.
3.  To come within; to be ranged or reckoned with.  These substances fall under a different class or order.
1.  To upon, to attack.  [See to fall on.]
2.  To rush against.
Fall primarily denotes descending motion, either in a perpendicular or inclined direction, and in most of its applications, implies literally or figuratively velocity, haste, suddenness or violence.  Its use is so various and so much diversified by modifying words, that it is not easy to enumerate its senses in all its applications.
FALL, v.t.
1.  To let fall; to drop.  And fall thy edgeless sword.  I am willing to fall this argument.
[This application is obsolete.]
2.  To sink; to depress; as, to raise or fall the voice.
3.  To diminish; to lessen or lower; as, to fall the price of commodities.  [Little used.]
4.  To bring forth; as, to fall lambs.  [Little used.]
5.  To fell; to cut down; as, to fall a tree.  [This use is now common in America, and fell and fall are probably from a common root.]
FALL, n.  
1.  The act of dropping or descending from a higher to a lower place by gravity; descent; as a fall from a horse or from the yard of a ship.
2.  The act of dropping or tumbling from an erect posture.  he was walking on ice and had a fall.
3.  Death; destruction; overthrow.
Our fathers had a great fall before our enemies.
4.  Ruin; destruction.
They conspire thy fall.
5.  Downfall; degradation; loss of greatness or office; as the fall of Cardinal Wolsey.
Behold thee glorious only in thy fall.
6.  Declension of greatness, power or dominion; ruin; as the fall of the Roman empire.
7.  Diminution; decrease of price or value; depreciation; as the fall of prices; the fall of rents; the fall of interest.
8.  Declination of sound; a sinking of tone; cadence; as the fall of the voice at the close of a sentence.
9.  Declivity; the descent of land or a hill; a slope.
10.  Descent of water; a cascade; a cataract; a rush of water down a steep place; usually in the plural; sometimes in the singular; as the falls of Niagara, or the Mohawk; the fall of the Hoosatonuc at Canaan.  Fall is applied to a perpendicular descent, or to one that is very steep.  When the descent is moderate, we name it rapids.  Custom, however, sometimes deviates from this rule, and the rapids of rivers are called falls.
11.  The outlet or discharge of a river or current of water into the ocean, or into a lake or pond; as the fall of the Po into the gulf of Venice.
12.  Extent of descent; the distance which any thing falls; as, the water of a pond has a fall of five feet.
13.  The fall of the leaf; the season when leaves fall from trees; autumn.
14.  That which falls; a falling; as a fall of rain or snow.
15.  The act of felling or cutting down; as the fall of timber.
16.  Fall, or the fall, by way of distinction, the apostasy; the act of our first parents in eating the forbidden fruit; also, the apostasy of the rebellious angels.
17.  Formerly, a kind of vail.
18.  In seamen's language, the loose end of a tackle.
19.  In Great Britain, a term applied to several measures, linear, superficial and solid.


Topic: Fallacious
Definition:
FALLA'CIOUS, a.  [L. fallax, from fallo, to deceive.  See Fail.]
1.  Deceptive; deceiving; deceitful; wearing a false appearance; misleading; producing error or mistake; sophistical; applied to things only; as a fallacious argument or proposition; a fallacious appearance.
2.  Deceitful; false; not well founded; producing disappointment; mocking expectation; as a fallacious hope.


Topic: Fallaciously
Definition:
FALLA'CIOUSLY, adv.  In a fallacious manner; deceitfully; sophistical; with purpose or in a manner to deceive.
We have seen how fallaciously the author has stated the cause.


Topic: Fallaciousness
Definition:
FALLA'CIOUSNESS, n.  Tendency to deceive or mislead; inconclusiveness; as the fallaciousness of an argument, or of appearances.


Topic: Fallacy
Definition:
FAL'LACY, n.  [L. fallacia.]  
1.  Deceptive or false appearance; deceitfulness; that which misleads the eye or the mind.  Detect the fallacy of the argument.
2.  Deception; mistake.  This appearance may be all a fallacy.
I'll entertain the favored fallacy.


Topic: Fallibility
Definition:
FALLIBIL'ITY, n.  [See Fallible.]
1.  Liableness to deceive; the quality of being fallible; uncertainty; possibility of being erroneous, or of leading to mistake; as the fallibility of an argument, of reasoning or of testimony.
2.  Liableness to err or to be deceived in one's own judgment; as the fallibility of men.


Topic: Fallible
Definition:
FAL'LIBLE, a.  [L. fallo, to deceive.]
1.  Liable to fail or mistake; that may err or be deceived in judgment.  All men are fallible.
2.  Liable to error; that may deceive.  Our judgments, our faculties, our opinions are fallible; our hopes are fallible.


Topic: Falling
Definition:
FALL'ING,  ppr.  Descending; dropping; disemboguing; apostatizing; declining; decreasing; sinking; coming.
FALL'ING,


Topic: Falling-sickness
Definition:
FALL'ING-SICKNESS, n.  The epilepsy; a disease in which the patient suddenly loses his senses and falls.


Topic: Fallingin
Definition:
FALL'INGIN, n.  An indenting or hollow; opposed to rising or prominence.
Falling away, apostasy.
Falling off, departure from the line or course; declension.


Topic: Fallow
Definition:
FAL'LOW, a.  [L. fulvus; qu. helvus, for felvus.  This word may be from the root of fail, fallo; so called from the fading color of autumnal leaves, or from failure, withering.  Hence also the sense of unoccupied, applied to land.]
1.  Pale red or pale yellow; as a fallow deer.
2.  Unsowed; not tilled; left to rest after a year or more of tillage; as fallow ground; a fallow field.
Break up your fallow ground.  Jer. 4.
3.  Left unsowed after plowing.  The word is applied to the land after plowing.
4.  Unplowed; uncultivated.
5.  Unoccupied; neglected.  [Not in use.]
Let the cause lie fallow.
FAL'LOW, n.  
1.  Land that has lain a year or more untilled or unseeded.  It is also called fallow when plowed without being sowed.
The plowing of fallows is a benefit to land.
2.  The plowing or tilling of land, without sowing it, for a season.  Summer fallow, properly conducted, has ever been found a sure method of destroying weeds.
By a complete summer fallow, land is rendered tender and mellow.  The fallow gives it a better tilth, than can be given by a fallow crop.
A green fallow, in England, is that where land is rendered mellow and clean from weeks, by means of some green crop, as turnips, potatoes, &c.
FAL'LOW, v.i.  To fade; to become yellow.  Obs.
FAL'LOW, v.t.  To plow, harrow and break land without seeding it, for the purpose of destroying weeds and insects, and rendering it mellow.  It is found for the interest of the farmer to fallow cold, strong, clayey land.


Topic: Fallowing
Definition:
FAL'LOWING, ppr.  Plowing and harrowing land without sowing it.
FAL'LOWING, n.  The operation of plowing and harrowing land without sowing it.  Fallowing is found to contribute to the destruction of snails and other vermin.


Topic: Fallowist
Definition:
FAL'LOWIST, n.  One who favors the practice of fallowing land.
On this subject, a controversy has arisen between two sects, the fallowists and the anti-fallowists.  [Unusual.]


Topic: False
Definition:
FALSE, a.  [L. falsus, from fallo, to deceive.  See Fall and Fail.]
1.  Not true; not conformable to fact; expressing what is contrary to that which exists, is done, said or thought.  A false report communicates what is not done or said.  A false accusation imputes to a person what he has not done or said.  A false witness testifies what is not true.  A false opinion is not according to truth or fact.  The word is applicable to any subject, physical or moral.
2.  Not well founded; as a false claim.
3.  Not true; not according to the lawful standard; as a false weight or measure.
4.  Substituted for another; succedaneous; supposititious; as a false bottom.
5.  Counterfeit; forged; not genuine; as false coin; a false bill or note.
6.  Not solid or sound; deceiving expectations; as a false foundation
False and slippery ground.
7.  Not agreeable to rule or propriety; as false construction in language.
8.  Not honest or just; not fair; as false play.
9.  Not faithful or loyal; treacherous; perfidious; deceitful.  The king's subjects may prove false to him. So we say, a false heart.
10.  Unfaithful; inconstant; as a false friend; a false lover; false to promises and vows.
The husband and wife proved false to each other.
11.  Deceitful; treacherous; betraying secrets.
12.  Counterfeit; not genuine or real; as a false diamond.
13.  Hypocritical; feigned; made or assumed for the purpose of deception; as false tears; false modesty.  The man appears in false colors.  The advocate gave the subject a false coloring.
False fire, a blue flame, made by the burning of certain combustibles, in a wooden tube; used as a signal during the night.
False imprisonment, the arrest and imprisonment of a person without warrant or cause, or contrary to law; or the unlawful detaining of a person in custody.
FALSE, adv.  Not truly; not honestly; falsely.
FALSE, v.t.  
1.  To violate by failure of veracity; to deceive.  Obs.
2.  To defeat; to balk; to evade.  Obs.


Topic: Falsehood
Definition:
FALSEHOOD, n.  fols'hood.  [false and hood.]
1.  Contrariety or inconformity to fact or truth; as the falsehood of a report.
2.  Want of truth or veracity; a lie; an untrue assertion.
3.  Want of honesty; treachery; deceitfulness; perfidy.
But falsehood is properly applied to things only.  [See falseness.]
4.  Counterfeit; false appearance; imposture.


Topic: Falsely
Definition:
FALSELY, adv.  fols'ly.
1.  In a manner contrary to truth and fact; not truly; as, to speak or swear falsely; to testify falsely.
2.  Treacherously; perfidiously.
Swear to me - that thou wilt not deal falsely with me.  
Gen. 21.
3.  Erroneously; by mistake.


Topic: Falseness
Definition:
FALSENESS, n.  fols'ness.
1.  Want of integrity and veracity, either in principle or in act; as the falseness of a man's heart, or his falseness to his word.
2.  Duplicity; deceit; double-dealing.
3.  Unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; traitorousness.
The prince is in no danger of being betrayed by the falseness, or cheated by the avarice of such a servant.
 


Topic: Falsification
Definition:
FALSIFICA'TION, n.  
1.  The act of making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not; as the falsification of words.
2.  Confutation.


Topic: Falsifier
Definition:
FALS'IFIER, n.
1.  One who counterfeits, or gives to a thing a deceptive appearance; or one who makes false coin.
2.  One who invents falsehood; a liar.
3.  One who proves a thing to be false.


Topic: Falsify
Definition:
FALS'IFY, v.t.
1.  To counterfeit; to forge; to make something false, or in imitation of that which is true; as, to falsify coin.
The Irish bards use to falsify every thing.
2.  To disprove; to prove to be false; as, to falsify a record.
3.  To violate; to break by falsehood; as, to falsify one's faith or word.
4.  To show to be unsound, insufficient or not proof.  [Not in use.]
His ample shield is falsified.
FALS'IFY, v.i.  To tell lies; to violate the truth.
It is universally unlawful to lie and falsify.


Topic: Falsity
Definition:
FALS'ITY, n.  [L. falsitas.]  
1.  Contrariety or inconformity to truth; the quality of being false.
Probability does not make any alteration, either in the truth or falsity of things.
2.  Falsehood; a lie; a false assertion.  [This sense is less proper.]


Topic: Falter
Definition:
FAL'TER, v.i.  [L. fallo, the primary sense of which is to fall short, or to err, to miss, to deviate.]
1.  To hesitate, fail or break in the utterance of words; to speak with a broken or trembling utterance; to stammer.  His tongue falters.  He speaks with a faltering tongue.  He falters at the question.
2.  To fail, tremble or yield in exertion; not to be firm and steady.  His legs falter.
3.  To fail in the regular exercise of the understanding.  We observe idiots to falter.
FAL'TER, v.t.  To sift.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Faltering
Definition:
FAL'TERING, ppr.  Hesitating; speaking with a feeble, broken, trembling utterance; failing.
FAL'TERING, n.  Feebleness; deficiency.


Topic: Fame
Definition:
FAME, n.  [L. fama; Gr. from to speak.]
1.  Public report or rumor.
The fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's brethren are come.  Gen. 14.
2.  Favorable report; report of good or great actions; report that exalts the character; celebrity; renown; as the fame of Howard or of Washington; the fame of Solomon.
And the fame of Jesus went throughout all Syria.  Matt. 4.
FAME, v.t.  
1.  To make famous.
2.  To report.


Topic: Famed
Definition:
FA'MED, a.  Much talked of; renowned; celebrated; distinguished and exalted by favorable reports.  Aristides was famed for learning and wisdom, and Cicero for eloquence.
He is famed for mildness, peace and prayer.


Topic: Familiar
Definition:
FAMIL'IAR, a.  famil'yar.  [L. familiaris, familia, family, which see.]
1.  Pertaining to a family; domestic.
2.  Accustomed by frequent converse; well acquainted with; intimate; close; as a familiar friend or companion.
3.  Affable; not formal or distant; easy in conversation.
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
4.  Well acquainted with; knowing by frequent use.  Be familiar with the scriptures.
5.  Well known; learned or well understood by frequent use.  Let the scriptures be familiar to us.
6.  Unceremonious; free; unconstrained; easy.  The emperor conversed with the gentleman in the most familiar manner.
7.  Common; frequent and intimate.  By familiar intercourse, strong attachments are soon formed.
8.  Easy; unconstrained; not formal.  His letters are written in a familiar style.
He sports in loose familiar strains.
9.  Intimate in an unlawful degree.
A poor man found a priest familiar with his wife.
FAMIL'IAR, n.
1.  An intimate; a close companion; one long acquainted; one accustomed to another by free, unreserved converse.
All my familiars watched for my halting.  Jer. 20.
2.  A demon or evil spirit supposed to attend at a call.  But in general we say, a familiar spirit.
3.  In the court of Inquisition, a person who assists in apprehending and imprisoning the accused.


Topic: Familiarity
Definition:
FAMILIAR'ITY, n.
1.  Intimate and frequent converse, or association in company.  The gentlemen lived in remarkable familiarity.  Hence,
2.  Easiness of conversation; affability; freedom from ceremony.
3.  Intimacy; intimate acquaintance; unconstrained intercourse.


Topic: Familiarize
Definition:
FAMIL'IARIZE, v.t.
1.  To make familiar or intimate; to habituate; to accustom; to make well known, by practice or converse; as, to familiarize one's self to scenes of distress.
2.  To make easy by practice or customary use, or by intercourse.
3.  To bring down from a state of distant superiority.
The genius smiled on me with a look of compassion and affability that familiarized him to my imagination.


Topic: Familiarly
Definition:
FAMIL'IARLY, adv.
1.  In a familiar manner; unceremoniously; without constraint; without formality.
2.  Commonly; frequently; with the ease and unconcern that arises from long custom or acquaintance.


Topic: Family
Definition:
FAM'ILY, n. [L. familia.]
1.  The collective body of persons who live in one house and under one head or manager; a household, including parents, children and servants, and as the case may be, lodgers or boarders.
2.  Those who descend from one common progenitor; a tribe or race; kindred; lineage.  Thus the Israelites were a branch of the family of Abraham; and the descendants of Reuben, of Manasseh, &c., were called their families.  The whole human race are the family of Adam, the human family.
3.  Course of descent; genealogy; line of ancestors. 
Go and complain thy family is young.
4.  Honorable descent; noble or respectable stock.  He is a man of family.
5.  A collection or union of nations or states.
The states of Europe were, by the prevailing maxims of its policy, closely united in one family.
6.  In popular language, an order, class or genus of animals or of other natural productions, having something in common, by which they are distinguished from others; as, quadrupeds constitute a family of animals, and we speak of the family or families of plants.


Topic: Famine
Definition:
FAM'INE, n.  [L. fames.]
1.  Scarcity of food; dearth; a general want of provisions sufficient for the inhabitants of a country or besieged place.
There was a famine in the land.  Gen. 26.
2.  Want; destitution; as a famine of the word of life.


Topic: Famish
Definition:
FAM'ISH, v.t.  [L. fames.]
1.  To starve; to kill or destroy with hunger.
2.  To exhaust the strength of, by hunger or thirst; to distress with hunger.
The pains of famished Tantalus he'll feel.
3.  To kill by deprivation or denial of any thing necessary for life.
FAM'ISH, v.i.
1.  To die of hunger.  More generally,
2.  To suffer extreme hunger or thirst; to be exhausted in strength, or to come near to perish, for want of food or drink.
You are all resolved rather to die, than to famish.
3.  To be distressed with want; to come near to perish by destitution.
The Lord will not suffer the righteous to famish.  Prov. 10.


Topic: Famous
Definition:
FA'MOUS, a.  [L. famosus.  See Fame.]
1.  Celebrated in fame or public report; renowned; much talked of and praised; distinguished in story.
Two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation.  Num. 16.
It is followed by for.  One man is famous for erudition; another, for eloquence; and another, for military skill.
2.  sometimes in a bad sense; as a famous counterfeiter; a famous pirate.


Topic: Famously
Definition:
FA'MOUSLY, adv.  With great renown or celebration.
Then this land was famously enriched with politic grave counsel.


Topic: Fan
Definition:
FAN, n.  [L. vannus.]
1.  An instrument used by ladies to agitate the air and cool the face in warm weather.  It is made of feathers, or of thin skin, paper or taffety mounted on sticks, &c.
2.  Something in the form of a woman's fan when spread, as a peacoc's tail, a window, &c.
3.  An instrument for winnowing grain, by moving which the grain is thrown up and agitated, and the chaff is separated and blown away.
4.  something by which the air is moved; a wing.
5.  An instrument to raise the fire or flame; as a fan to inflame love.


Topic: Fanciful
Definition:
FAN'CIFUL, a.  [See Fancy.]
1.  Guided by the imagination, rather than by reason and experience; subject to the influence of fancy; whimsical; applied to persons.  A fanciful man forms visionary projects.
2.  Dictated by the imagination; full of wild images; chimerical; whimsical; ideal; visionary; applied to things; as a fanciful scheme; a fanciful theory.


Topic: Fancifulness
Definition:
FAN'CIFULNESS, n.  
1.  The quality of being fanciful, or influenced by the imagination, rather than by reason and experience; the habit of following fancy; applied to persons.
2.  The quality of being dictated by imagination; applied to things.


Topic: Fancy
Definition:
FAN'CY, n.  [contracted from fantasy, L. phantasia.  Gr. from to cause to appear, to seem, to imagine, from to show, to appear, to shine.  The primary sense seems to be to open, or to shoot forth.]
1.  The faculty by which the mind forms images or representations of things at pleasure.  It is often used as synonymous with imagination; but imagination is rather the power of combining and modifying our conceptions.
2.  An opinion or notion.
I have always had a fancy, that learning might be made a play and recreation to children.
3.  Taste; conception.
The little chapel called the salutation in very neat, and built with a pretty fancy.
4.  Image; conception; thought.
How now, my lord, why do you keep alone; 
Of sorriest fancies your companions making?
5.  Inclination; liking.  Take that which suits your fancy.  How does this strike your fancy?
His fancy lay to traveling.
6.  Love.
Tell me where is fancy bred.
7.  Caprice; humor; whim; as an odd or strange fancy.
True worth shall gain me, that it may be said,
Desert, not fancy, once a woman led.
8.  False notion.
9.  Something that pleases or entertains without real use or value.
London-pride is a pretty fancy for borders.


Topic: Fane
Definition:
FANE, n.  [L. fanum.]  a temple; a place consecrated to religion; a church; used in poetry.
From men their cities, and from gods their fanes.


Topic: Fang
Definition:
FANG, v.t.  [See Finger.]
To catch; to seize; to lay hold; to gripe; to clutch.  Obs.
FANG, n.
1.  The tusk of a boar or other animal by which the prey is seized and held; a pointed tooth.
2.  A claw or talon.
3.  Any shoot or other thing by which hold is taken.
The protuberant fangs of the Yuca.


Topic: Fanged
Definition:
FANG'ED, a.  Furnished with fangs, tusks, or something long and pointed; as a fanged adder.
Chariots fanged with sythes.


Topic: Fangled
Definition:
FAN'GLED, a.  Properly, begun, new made; hence, gaudy; showy; vainly decorated.  [Seldom used, except with new.  See New-fangled.]


Topic: Fangot
Definition:
FAN'GOT, n.  A quantity of wares, as raw silk, &c., from one to two hundred weight and three quarters.


Topic: Fanon
Definition:
FAN'ON,  n.  A sort of ornament like a scarf, worn about the left arm of a mass-priest, when he officiates.


Topic: Fantasied
Definition:
FAN'TASIED, a.  [from fantasy, fancy.]  Filled with fancies or imaginations; whimsical.  [Not used.]


Topic: Fantasm
Definition:
FAN'TASM, n.  [Gr. from to appear.  Usually written phantasm.]
That which appears to the imagination; a phantom; something not real.


Topic: Fantastically
Definition:
FANTAS'TICALLY, adv.
1.  By the power of imagination.
2.  In a fantastic manner; capriciously; unsteadily.
Her scepter so fantastically home.
3.  Whimsically; in compliance with fancy.


Topic: Fantasticalness
Definition:
FANTAS'TICALNESS, n.  Compliance with fancy; humorousness; whimsicalness; unreasonableness; caprice.


Topic: Fantom
Definition:
FAN'TOM, n.  [L. phantasma, from the Greek.  See Fancy.]
Something that appears to the imagination; also, a specter; a ghost; an apparition.  It is generally written phantom, which see.


Topic: Far
Definition:
F'AR, a.  [L. porro;  Gr. connected with, a way, a passing, to pass or go.  See Fare.]
1.  Distant, in any direction; separated by a wide space from the place where one is, or from any given place remote.
They said, we are come from a far country.  Jos. 9.
The kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country.  Matt. 25.
The nation far and near contend in choice.
2.  Figuratively, remote from purpose; contrary to design or wishes; as, far be it from me to justify cruelty.
3.  Remote in affection or obedience; at enmity with; alienated; in a spiritual sense.
They that are far from thee shall perish.  Ps. 123.
4.  More or most distant of the two; as the far side of a horse.  But the drivers of teams in New England generally use off; as the off side, or off horse or ox.

F'AR, adv.
1.  To a great extent or distance of space; as the far extended ocean; we are separated far from each other.
Only ye shall not go very far away.  Ex. 8.
2.  figuratively, distantly in time from any point; remotely.  He pushed his researches very far into antiquity.
3.  In interrogatories, to what distance or extent.  How far will such reasoning lead us?
4.  In great part; as, the day is far spent.
5.  In a great proportion; by many degrees; very much.
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.  Prov. 31.
For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ, which is far better.  Phil. 1.
6.  to a certain point, degree or distance.  This argument is sound and logical, as far as it goes.
Answer them  how far forth you do like their articles.
From far, from a great distance; from a remote place.
Far from, at a great distance; as far from home; far from hope.
1.  Far off, at a great distance.
They tarried in a place that was far off.  2Sam. 15.
2.  To a great distance.
Lo then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness.  Ps. 105.
3.  In a spiritual sense, alienated; at enmity; in a state of ignorance and alienation.
Ye, who were sometime far off, are made nigh by the blood of Christ.  Eph. 2.
Far other, very different.


Topic: Far-fetched
Definition:
F'AR-FETCHED, a.
1.  Brought from a remote place.
Whose pains have earned the far-fetched spoil.
2.  Studiously sought; not easily or naturally deduced or introduced; forced; strained.
York with all his far-fetched policy.
So we say, far-fetched arguments; far-fetched rhymes; far-fetched analogy.  [Far-fet, the same, is not used.]


Topic: Farce
Definition:
F'ARCE, v.t.  [L. farcio.]
1.  To stuff; to fill with mingled ingredients.  [Little used.]
The first principles of religion should not be forced with school points and private tenets.
2.  To extend; to swell out; as the farced title.  [Little used.]
F'ARCE, n. f'ars.  [Literally, seasoning, stuffing or mixture, like the stuffing of a roasted fowl; force-meat.]
A dramatic composition, originally exhibited by charlatans or buffoons, in the open street, for the amusement of the crowd, but now introduced upon the stage.  It is written without regularity, and filled with ludicrous conceits.  The dialogue is usually low, the persons of inferior rank, and the fable or action trivial or ridiculous.
Farce is that in poetry which grotesque is in a picture: the persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false.


Topic: Farcical
Definition:
F'ARCICAL, a.  
1.  Belonging to a farce; appropriated to farce.
They deny the characters to be farcical, because they are actually in nature.
2.  Droll; ludicrous; ridiculous.
3.  Illusory; deceptive.


Topic: Farcilite
Definition:
F'ARCILITE, n.  [from farce.]  Pudding-stone.  The calcarious farcilite, called amenla, is formed of rounded calcarious pebbles, agglutinated by a calcarious cement.


Topic: Farctate
Definition:
F'ARCTATE, a.  [L. farctus, stuffed, from farcio.]
In botany, stuffed; crammed, or full; without vacuities; in opposition to tubular or hollow; as a farctate leaf, stem or pericarp.


Topic: Fardel
Definition:
F'ARDEL, n.  [Probably from the root of L. fero, to bear, or of farcio, to stuff.]  A bundle or little pace.
F'ARDEL, v.t.  To make up in bundles.


Topic: Fare
Definition:
FARE, v.i.  [This word may be connected in origin with the Heb. to go, to pass.]
1.  To go; to pass; to move forward; to travel.
So on he fares, and to the border comes of Eden.
[In this literal sense the word is not in common use.]
2.  To be in any state, good or bad; to be attended with any circumstances or train of events, fortunate or unfortunate.
So fares the stag among th' enraged hounds.
So fared the knight between two foes.
He fared very well; he fared very ill.  
Go further and fare worse.  The sense is taken from going, having a certain course; hence, being subjected to a certain train of incidents.  The rich man fared sumptuously every day.  He enjoyed all the pleasure which wealth and luxury could afford.  Luke 16.
3.  To feed; to be entertained.  We fared well; we had a good table, and courteous treatment.
4.  To proceed in a train of consequences, good or bad.
So fares it when with truth falsehood contends.
5.  To happen well or ill; with it impersonally.  We shall see how it will fare with him.
FARE, n.  
1.  The price of passage or going; the sum paid or due, for conveying a person by land or water; as the fare for crossing a river, called also ferriage; the fare for conveyance in a coach; stage-fare.  The price of conveyance over the ocean is now usually called the passage, or passage money.  Fare is never used for the price of conveying goods; this is called freight or transportation.
2.  Food; provisions of the table.  We lived on coarse fare, or we had delicious fare.
3.  The person conveyed in a vehicle.  [Not in use in United States.]


Topic: Farewell
Definition:
FA'REWELL,  a compound of fare, in the imperative, and well.  Go well; originally applied to a person departing, but by custom now applied both to those who depart and those who remain.  It expresses a kind wish, a wish of happiness to those who leave or those who are left.
The verb and adverb are often separated by the pronoun; fare you well; I wish you a happy departure; may you be well in your absence.
It is sometimes an expression of separation only.  Farewell the year; farewell ye sweet groves; that is, I take my leave of you.
FA'REWELL, n.  
1.  A wish of happiness or welfare at parting; the parting compliment; adieu.
2.  Leave; act of departure.
And takes her farewell of the glorious sun.
Before I take my farewell of the subject.


Topic: Farinaceous
Definition:
FARINA'CEOUS, a.  [from L. farina, meal.]
1.  Consisting or made of meal or flour; as a farinaceous diet, which consists of the meal or flour of the various species of corn or grain.
2.  Containing meal; as farinaceous seeds.
3.  Like meal; mealy; pertaining to meal; as a farinaceous taste or smell.


Topic: Farm
Definition:
F'ARM,  n.  
1.  A tract of land leased on rent reserved; ground let to a tenant on condition of his paying a certain sum annually or otherwise for the use of it.  A farm is usually such a portion of land as is cultivated by one man, and includes the buildings and fences.  Rents were formerly pain in provisions, or the produce of land; but now they are generally paid in money.
This is the signification of farm in Great Britain, where most of the land is leased to cultivators.
2.  In the United States, a portion or tract of land, consisting usually of grass land, meadow, pasture, tillage and woodland, cultivated by one man and usually owned by him in fee.  A like tract of land under lease is called a farm; but most cultivators are proprietors of the land, and called farmers.
A tract of new land, covered with forest, if intended to be cultivated by one man as owner, is also called a farm.  A man goes into the new States, or into the unsettled country, to buy a farm, that is, land for a farm.
3.  The state of land leased on rent reserved; a lease.
It is great wilfulness in landlords to make any longer farms to their tenants.
F'ARM, v.t.  
1.  To lease, as land, on rent reserved; to let to a tenant on condition of paying rent.
We are enforced to farm our royal realm.
[In this sense, I believe, the word is not used in America.]
2.  To take at a certain rent or rate.  [Not used in America.]
3.  To lease or let, as taxes, impost or other duties, at a certain sum or rate per cent.  It is customary in many countries for the prince or government to farm the revenues, the taxes or rents, the imposts and excise, to individuals, who are to collect and pay them to the government at a certain percentage or rate per cent.
4.  To take or hire for a certain rate per cent.
5.  To cultivate land.
To farm let, or let to farm, is to lease on rent.


Topic: Farmer
Definition:
F'ARMER, n.
1.  In Great Britain, a tenant; a lessee; one who hires and cultivates a farm; a cultivator of leased ground.
2.  One who takes taxes, customs, excise or other duties, to collect for a certain rate per cent; as a farmer of the revenues.
3.  One who cultivates a farm; a husbandman; whether a tenant or the proprietor.
4.  In mining, the lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the king.


Topic: Farming
Definition:
F'ARMING, ppr. 
1.  Letting or leasing land on rent reserved, or duties and imposts at a certain rate per cent.
2.  Taking on lease.
3.  Cultivating land; carrying on the business of agriculture.
F'ARMING, n.  The business of cultivating land.


Topic: Farmyard
Definition:
F'ARMYARD, n.  The yard or inclosure attached to a barn; or the inclosure surrounded by the farm buildings.


Topic: Farraginous
Definition:
FARRAG'INOUS, a.  [L. farrago, a mixture, from far, meal.]
Formed of various materials; mixed; as a farraginous mountain.


Topic: Farrago
Definition:
FARRA'GO, n.  [L. from far, meal.]  A mass composed of various materials confusedly mixed; a medley.


Topic: Farrier
Definition:
FAR'RIER, n.  [L. ferrarius, from ferrum, iron.]
1.  A shoer of horses; a smith who shoes horses.
2.  One who professes to cure the diseases of horses.
FAR'RIER, v.i.  To practice as a farrier.


Topic: Farrow
Definition:
FAR'ROW, n.  A litter of pigs.
FAR'ROW, v.t.  To bring forth pigs.  [Used of swine only.]
FAR'ROW, a.
Not producing young in a particular season or year; applied to cows only.  If a cow has had a calf, but fails in a subsequent year, she is said to be farrow, or to go farrow.  Such a cow may give milk through the year.


Topic: Farther
Definition:
F'ARTHER, a. comp.
1.  More remote; more distant than something else.
Let me add a farther truth.
2.  Longer; tending to a greater distance.
Before our farther way the fates allow.
F'ARTHER, adv.
1.  At or to a greater distance; more remotely; beyond.  Let us rest with what we have, without looking farther.
2.  Moreover; by way of progression in a subject.  Farther, let us consider the probable event.
F'ARTHER, v.t.  To promote; to advance; to help forward.  [little used.]


Topic: Farthest
Definition:
F'ARTHEST, a.  superl.  [See Furthest.]
Most distant or remote; as the farthest degree.
F'ARTHEST, adv.  At or to the greatest distance.  [See Furthest.]


Topic: Farthing
Definition:
F'ARTHING, n.
1.  The fourth of a penny; a small copper coin of Great Britain, being the fourth of a penny in value.  In America we have no coin of this kind.  We however use the word to denote the fourth part of a penny in value, but the penny is of different value from the English penny, and different in different states.  It is becoming obsolete, with the old denominations of money.
2.  Farthings, in the plural, copper coin.
3.  Very small price or value.  It is not worth a farthing, that is, it is of very little worth, or worth nothing.
4.  A division of land.  [Not now used.]
Thirty acres make a farthing-land; nine farthings a Cornish acre; and four Cornish acres a knight's fee.


Topic: Farthingale
Definition:
F'ARTHINGALE, n.  [This is a compound word, but it is not easy to analyze it.]
A hoop petticoat; or circles of hoops, formed of whalebone, used to extend the petticoat.


Topic: Fasces
Definition:
FAS'CES, n.  plu.  [L. fascis.]
In Roman antiquity, an ax tied with a bundle of rods, and borne before the Roman magistrates as a badge of their authority.


Topic: Fascia
Definition:
FAS'CIA, n.  fash'ia.  [L. a band or sash.]
1.  A band, sash or fillet.  In architecture, any flat member with a small projecture, as the band of an architrave.  Also, in brick buildings, the jutting of the bricks beyond the windows in the several stories except the highest.
2.  In astronomy, the belt of a planet.
3.  In surgery, a bandage, roller or ligature.
4.  In anatomy, a tendinous expansion or aponeurosis; a thin tendinous covering which surrounds the muscles of the limbs, and binds them in their places.


Topic: Fascicle
Definition:
FAS'CICLE, n.  [L. fasciculus, from fascis, a bundle.]
In botany, a bundle, or little bundle; a species of inflorescence, or manner of flowering, in which several upright, parallel, fastigiate, approximating flowers are collected together.


Topic: Fascicled
Definition:
FAS'CICLED,  a.  [from fasciculus, supra.]
Growing in bundles or bunches from the same point, as the leaves of the Larix or larch.


Topic: Fascicular
Definition:
FASCIC'ULAR, a.  [L. fascicularis.]  United in a bundle; as a fascicular root, a root of the tuberous kind, with the knobs collected in bundles, as in Paeonia.


Topic: Fascinate
Definition:
FAS'CINATE, v.t.  [L. fascino; Gr.]
1.  To bewitch; to enchant; to operate on by some powerful or irresistible influence; to influence the passions or affections in an incontrollable manner.
None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch, but love and envy.
2.  To charm; to captivate; to excite and allure irresistible or powerfully.  The young are fascinated by love; female beauty fascinates the unguarded youth; gaming is a fascinating vice.


Topic: Fascination
Definition:
FASCINA'TION, n.  The act of bewitching or enchanting; enchantment; witchcraft; a powerful or irresistible influence on the affections or passions; unseen inexplicable influence.  The ancients speak of two kinds of fascination; one by the look or eye; the other by words.
The Turks hang old rags on their fairest horses, to secure them against fascination.


Topic: Fascine
Definition:
FAS'CINE, n.  [L. fascis, a bundle.]  In fortification, a fagot, a bundle of rods or small sticks of wood, bound at both ends and in the middle; used in raising batteries, in filling ditches, in strengthening ramparts, and making parapets.  Sometimes being dipped in melted pitch or tar, they are used to set fire to the enemy's lodgments or other works.


Topic: Fashion
Definition:
FASH'ION, n.  fash'on.  [L. facio, facies.]
1.  The make or form of any thing; the state of any thing with regard to its external appearance; shape; as the fashion of the ark, or of the tabernacle.
Or let me lose the fashion of a man.
The fashion of his countenance was altered.  Luke 9.
2.  Form; model to be imitated; pattern.  
King Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar.  2Kings 16.
3.  The form of a garment; the cut or shape of clothes; as the fashion of a coat or of a bonnet.  Hence,
4.  The prevailing mode of dress or ornament.  We import fashions from England, as the English often import them from France.  What so changeable as fashion!
5.  Manner; sort; way; mode; applied to actions or behavior.
Pluck Casca by the sleeve,
And he will, after his sour fashion, tell you
What hath proceeded.
6.  Custom; prevailing mode or practice.  fashion is an inexorable tyrant, and most of the world its willing slaves.
It was the fashion of the age to call every thing in question.
Few enterprises are so hopeless as a contest with fashion.
7.  Genteel life or good breeding; as men of fashion.
8.  Any thing worn.  [Not used.]
9.  Genteel company.
10.  Workmanship.
FASH'ION, v.t. fash'on.
1.  To form; to give shape or figure to; to mold.
Here the loud hammer fashions female toys.
Aaron fashioned the calf with a graving tool.  Ex. 32.
Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, what makes thou?  Is. 14.
2.  To fit; to adapt; to accommodate; with to.
Laws ought to be fashioned to the manners and conditions of the people.
3.  To make according to the rule prescribed by custom.
Fashioned plate sells for more than its weight.
4.  To forge or counterfeit.  [Not used.]


Topic: Fashion-monger
Definition:
FASH'ION-MONGER, n.  One who studies the fashion; a fop.
Fashion-pieces, in ships, the hindmost timbers which terminate the breadth, and form the shape of the stern.


Topic: Fashionable
Definition:
FASH'IONABLE, a.
1.  Made according to the prevailing form or mode; as a fashionable dress.
2.  Established by custom or use; current; prevailing at a particular time; as the fashionable philosophy; fashionable opinions.
3.  Observant of the fashion or customary mode; dressing or behaving according to the prevailing fashion; as a fashionable man.  Hence,
4.  Genteel; well bred; as fashionable company or society.


Topic: Fashionableness
Definition:
FASH'IONABLENESS, n.  The state of being fashionable; modish elegance; such appearance as is according to the prevailing custom.


Topic: Fashionably
Definition:
FASH'IONABLY, adv.  In a manner according to fashion, custom or prevailing practice; with modish elegance; as, to dress fashionably.


Topic: Fast
Definition:
F'AST, a.  
1.  Literally, set, stopped, fixed, or pressed close.  Hence, close; tight; as, make fast the door; take fast hold.
2.  Firm; immovable.
Who by his strength, setteth fast the mountains.  Ps. 115.
3.  Close; strong.
Robbers and outlaws - lurking in woods and fast places.
4.  Firmly fixed; closely adhering; as, to stick fast in more; to make fast a rope.
5.  Close, as sleep; deep; sound; as a fast sleep.
6.  Firm in adherence; as a fast friend.
Fast and loose, variable; inconstant; as, to play fast and loose.
F'AST, adv.  Firmly; immovably.
We will bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand.  Judges 15.
F'AST, a.  [L. festino.  The sense is to press, drive, urge, and it may be from the same root as the preceding word, with a different application.]
Swift; moving rapidly; quick in motion; as a fast horse.
F'AST, adv.  Swiftly; rapidly; with quick steps or progression; as, to run fast; to move fast through the water, as a ship; the work goes on fast.
F'AST, v.i.
1.  To abstain from food, beyond the usual time; to omit to take the usual meals, for a time; as, to fast a day or a week.
2.  To abstain from food voluntarily, for the mortification of the body or appetites, or as a token of grief, sorrow and affliction.
Thou didst fast and weep for the child.  2Sam. 12.
When ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance.  Matt. 6.
3.  To abstain from food partially, or from particular kinds of food; as, the Catholics fast in Lent.
F'AST, n.
1.  Abstinence from food; properly a total abstinence, but it is used also for an abstinence from particular kinds of food, for a certain time.
Happy were our forefathers, who broke their fasts with herbs.
2.  Voluntary abstinence from food, as a religious mortification or humiliation; either total or partial abstinence from customary food, with a view to mortify the appetites, or to express grief and affliction on account of some calamity, or to deprecate an expected evil.
3.  The time of fasting, whether a day, week or longer time.  An annual fast is kept in New England, usually one day in the spring.
The fast was now already past.  Act. 27.
F'AST, n.  That which fastens or holds.


Topic: Fasten
Definition:
F'ASTEN, v.t.  f'asn.
1.  To fix firmly; to make fast or close; as, to fasten a chain to the feet, or to fasten the feet with fetters.
2.  To lock, bolt or bar; to secure; as, to fasten a door or window.
3.  To hold together; to cement or to link; to unite closely in any manner and by any means, as by cement, hooks, pins, nails, cords, &c.
4.  To affix or conjoin.
The words Whig and Tory have been pressed to the service of many successions of parties, with different ideas fastened to them.  [Not common.]
5.  To fix; to impress.
Thinking, by this face,
To fasten in our thoughts that they have courage.
6.  To lay on with strength.
Could he fasten a blow, or make a thrust, when not suffered to approach?
F'ASTEN, v.i.  To fasten on, is to fix one's self; to seize and hold on; to clinch.
The leech will hardly fasten on a fish.


Topic: Fastening
Definition:
F'ASTENING, ppr.  Making fast.
F'ASTENING, n.  Any thing that binds and makes fast; or that which is intended for that purpose.


Topic: Fastidious
Definition:
FASTID'IOUS, a.  [L. fastidiousus, from fastidio, to disdain from fastus, haughtiness.  See Heb.]
1.  Disdainful; squeamish; delicate to a fault; over nice; difficult to please; as a fastidious mind or taste.
2.  Squeamish; rejecting what is common or not very nice; suited with difficulty; as a fastidious appetite.


Topic: Fastidiously
Definition:
FASTID'IOUSLY, adv.  Disdainfully; squeamishly; contemptuously.  they look fastidiously and speak disdainfully.


Topic: Fastness
Definition:
F'ASTNESS, n.
1.  The state of being fast and firm; firm adherence.
2.  Strength; security.
The places of fastness are laid open.
3.  A strong hold; a fortress or fort; a place fortified; a castle.  The enemy retired to their fastnesses.
4.  Closeness; conciseness of style.  [Not used.]


Topic: Fat
Definition:
FAT, a.  
1.  Fleshy; plump; corpulent; abounding with an oily concrete substance, as an animal body; the contrary to lean; as a fat man; a fat ox.
2.  Coarse; gross.
Nay, added fat pollutions of our own.
3.  Dull; heavy; stupid; unteachable.
Make the heart of this people fat.  Is. 6.
4.  Rich; wealthy; affluent.
These are terrible alarms to persons grown fat and wealthy.
5.  Rich; producing a large income; as a fat benefice.
6.  Rich; fertile; as a fat soil; or rich; nourishing; as fat pasture.
7.  Abounding in spiritual grace and comfort.
They [the righteous] shall be fat and flourishing.  Ps. 42.
FAT, n.  
1.  An oily concrete substance, deposited in the cells of the adipose or cellular membrane of animal bodies.  In most parts of the body, the fat lies immediately under the skin.  Fat is of various degrees of consistence, as in tallow, lard and oil.  It has been recently ascertained to consist of two substances, stearine and elaine, the former of which is solid, the latter liquid, at common temperatures, and on the different proportions of which its degree of consistence depends.
2.  The best or richest part of a thing.
Abel brought of the fat of his flock.  Gen 4.
FAT, v.t.  To make fat; to fatten; to make plump and fleshy with abundant food; as, to fat fowls or sheep.
FAT, v.i.  To grow fat, plump and fleshy.
An old ox fats as well, and is as good, as a young one.
FAT,


Topic: Fatal
Definition:
FA'TAL, a.  [L. fatalis.  See Fate.]  
1.  Proceeding from fate or destiny; necessary; inevitable.
These things are fatal and necessary.
2.  Appointed by fate or destiny.
It was fatal to the king to fight for his money.
In the foregoing senses the word is now little used.
3.  Causing death or destruction; deadly; mortal; as a fatal wound; a fatal disease. 
4.  Destructive; calamitous; as a fatal day; a fatal event.


Topic: Fatalism
Definition:
FA'TALISM, n.  The doctrine that all things are subject to fate, or that they take place by inevitable necessity.


Topic: Fatality
Definition:
FATAL'ITY, n.
1.  A fixed unalterable course of things, independent of God or any controlling cause; an invincible necessity existing in things themselves; a doctrine of the Stoics.
2.  Decree of fate.
3.  Tendency to danger, or to some great or hazardous event.
4.  Mortality.


Topic: Fatally
Definition:
FA'TALLY, adv.  
1.  By a decree of fate or destiny; by inevitable necessity or determination.
2.  Mortally; destructively; in death or ruin.  This encounter ended fatally.  The prince was fatally deceived.


Topic: Fate
Definition:
FATE, n.  [L. fatum, from for, fari, to speak, whence fatus.]
1.  Primarily, a decree or word pronounced by God; or a fixed sentence by which the order of things is prescribed.  Hence, inevitable necessity; destiny depending on a superior cause and uncontrollable.  According to the Stoics, every event is determined by fate.
Necessity or chancenot me; and what I will is fate.
2.  Event predetermined; lot; destiny.  It is our fate to meet with disappointments.  
It is the fate of mortals.
Tell me what fates attend the duke of Suffolk?
3.  Final event; death; destruction.
Yet still he chose the longest way to fate.
The whizzing arrow sings,
And bears thy fate, Antinous, on its wings.
4.  Cause of death.  Dryden calls an arrow a feathered fate.
Divine fate, the order or determination of God; providence.


Topic: Fated
Definition:
FA'TED, a.
1.  Decreed by fate; doomed; destined.  He was fated to rule over a factious people.
2.  Modelled or regulated by fate.
Her awkward love indeed was oddly fated.
3.  Endued with any quality by fate.
4.  Invested with the power of fatal determination.
The fated sky gives us free scope.
The two last senses are hardly legitimate.


Topic: Fates
Definition:
FATES, n. plu.  In mythology, the destinies or parcae; goddesses supposed to preside over the birth and life of men.  They were three in number, Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos.


Topic: Father
Definition:
F'ATHER, n.  [L. pater.  The primary sense is obvious.]
1.  He who begets a child; in L. genitor or generator.
The father of a fool hath no joy.  Prov. 17.
2.  The first ancestor; the progenitor of a race or family.  Adam was the father of the human race.  Abraham was the father of the Israelites.
3.  The appellation of an old man, and a term of respect.
The king of Israel said to Elisha, my father shall I smite them?  2Kings 6.
The servants of Naaman call him father.  Elderly men are called fathers; as the fathers of a town or city.  In the church, men venerable for age, learning and piety are called fathers, or reverend fathers.
4.  The grandfather or more remote ancestor.  Nebuchadnezzar is called the father of Belshazzar, though he was his grandfather.  Dan. 5.


Topic: Father-in-law
Definition:
F'ATHER-IN-LAW, n.  The father of one's husband or wife; and a man who marries a woman who has children by a former husband is called the father in law or step-father of those children.


Topic: Fathered
Definition:
F'ATHERED, pp.
1.  Adopted; taken as one's own; ascribed to one as the author.
2.  Having had a father of particular qualities.
I am no stronger than my sex, being so father'd and so husbanded.  [Unusual.]


Topic: Fatherhood
Definition:
F'ATHERHOOD, n.  The state of being a father, or the character or authority of a father.
We might have had an entire notion of this fatherhood, or fatherly authority.


Topic: Fathering
Definition:
F'ATHERING, ppr.  Adopting; taking or acknowledging as one's own; ascribing to the father or author.


Topic: Fatherlasher
Definition:
F'ATHERLASHER,  n.  A fish of the genus Cottus or bull-head, called scorpius or scolping.  The head is large and its spines formidable.  It is found on the rocky coasts of Britain, and near Newfoundland and Greenland.  In the latter country it is a great article of food.


Topic: Fatherless
Definition:
F'ATHERLESS, a.
1.  Destitute of a living father; as a fatherless child.
3.  Without a known author.


Topic: Fatherliness
Definition:
F'ATHERLINESS, n.  [See Fatherly.]  The qualities of a father; parental kindness, care and tenderness.


Topic: Fatherly
Definition:
F'ATHERLY, a.  [father and like.]  
1.  Like a father in affection and care; tender; paternal; protecting; careful; as fatherly care or affection.
2.  Pertaining to a father.
F'ATHERLY, adv.  In the manner of a father.
Thus Adam, fatherly displeased.  [Not proper.]


Topic: Fathom
Definition:
FATH'OM, n. 
1.  A measure of length containing six feet, the space to which a man may extend his arms; used chiefly at sea for measuring cables, cordage, and the depth of the sea is sounding by a line and lead.
2.  Reach; penetration; depth of thought or contrivance.
FATH'OM, v.t. 
1.  To encompass with the arms extended or encircling.
2.  To reach; to master; to comprehend.
Leave to fathom such high points as these.
3.  To reach in depth; to sound; to try the depth.
Our depths who fathoms.
4.  To penetrate; to find the bottom or extent.  I cannot fathom his design.


Topic: Fathomless
Definition:
FATH'OMLESS, a. 
1.  That of which no bottom can be found; bottomless.
2.  That cannot be embraced, or encompassed with the arms.
3.  Not to be penetrated or comprehended.


Topic: Fatigate
Definition:
FAT'IGATE, v.t.  [L. fatigo.]  To weary; to tire.  [Little used.]
FAT'IGATE, a.  Wearied; tired.  [Little used.]


Topic: Fatigue
Definition:
FATIGUE, n.  fatee'g.  [L. fatigo.  it seems to be allied to fatisco; if so, the sense is a yielding or relaxing.]
1.  Weariness with bodily labor or mental exertion; lassitude or exhaustion of strength.  We suffer fatigue of the mind as well as of the body.
2.  The cause of weariness; labor; toil; as the fatigues of war.
3.  The labors of military men, distinct from the use of arms; as a party of men on fatigue.
FATIGUE, v.t.  fatee'g.  [L. fatigo.]
1.  To tire; to weary with labor or any bodily or mental exertion; to harass with toil; to exhaust the strength by severe or long continued exertion.
2.  To weary by importunity; to harass.


Topic: Fatiguing
Definition:
FATIGUING, ppr.  fatee'ging.  
1.  Tiring; wearying; harassing.
2.  a.  Inducing weariness or lassitude; as fatiguing services or labors.


Topic: Fatling
Definition:
FAT'LING, n.  [from fat.]  A lamb, kid or other young animal fattened for slaughter; a fat animal; applied to quadrupeds whose flesh is used for food.
David sacrificed oxen and fatlings.  2Sam. 6.


Topic: Fatness
Definition:
FAT'NESS, n.  [from fat.]
1.  The quality of being fat, plump, or full fed; corpulency; fullness of flesh.
Their eyes stand out with fatness.  Ps. 73.
2.  Unctuous or greasy matter.
3.  Unctuousness; sliminess; applied to earth: hence richness; fertility; fruitfulness.
God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine.  Gen. 27.
4.  That which gives fertility.
Thy paths drop fatness.  Ps. 65.
The clouds drop fatness.
5.  The privileges and pleasures of religion; abundant blessings.
Let your soul delight itself in fatness.  Is. 55.


Topic: Fatten
Definition:
FAT'TEN, v.t.  fat'n.  
1.  To make fat; to feed for slaughter; to make fleshy, or plump with fat.
2.  To make fertile and fruitful; to enrich; as, to fatten land; to fatten fields with blood.
3.  To feed grossly; to fill.
FAT'TEN, v.i.  fat'n.  to grow fat or corpulent; to grow plump, thick or fleshy; to be pampered.
And villains fatten with the brave man's labor.
Tigers and wolves shall in the ocean breed.
The whale and dolphin fatten on the mead.


Topic: Fatuous
Definition:
FAT'UOUS, a.  [L. fatuus.]
1.  Feeble in mind; weak; silly; stupid; foolish.
2.  Impotent; without force or fire; illusory; alluding to the ignis fatuus.
Thence fatuous fires and meteors take their birth.


Topic: Faucet
Definition:
FAU'CET, n.  A pipe to be inserted in a cask for drawing liquor, and stopped with a peg or spigot.  These are called tap and faucet.


Topic: Fault
Definition:
FAULT, n.  [See Fail.]
1.  Properly, an erring or missing; a failing; hence, an error or mistake; a blunder; a defect; a blemish; whatever impairs excellence; applied to things.
2.  In morals or deportment, any error or defect; an imperfection; any deviation from propriety; a slight offense; a neglect of duty or propriety, resulting from inattention or want of prudence, rather than from design to injure or offend, but liable to censure or objection.
I do remember my faults this day.  Gen. 41.
If a man be overtaken in a fault, ye who are spiritual, restore such as one in the spirit of meekness.  Gal. 6.
Fault implies wrong, and often some degree of criminality.
3.  Defect; want; absence.  [Not now used.  See Default.]
I could tell to thee, as to one if pleases me, for fault of a better to call my friend.
4.  Puzzle; difficulty.
Among sportsmen, when dogs lose the scent, they are said to be at fault.  Hence the phrase, the inquirer is at fault.
5.  In mining, a fissure in strata, causing a dislocation of the same, and thus interrupting the course of veins.
To find fault, to express blame; to complain.
Thou wilt say then, why doth he yet find fault?  Rom 9.
To find fault with, to blame; to censure; as, to find fault with the times, or with a neighbor's conduct.
FAULT, v.i.  To fail; to be wrong.  [Not used.]

FAULT, v.t.  To charge with a fault; to accuse.
For that I will not fault thee.


Topic: Faultiness
Definition:
FAULT'INESS, n.  [from faulty.]  
1.  The state of being faulty, defective or erroneous; defect.
2.  Badness; viciousness; evil disposition; as the faultiness of a person.
3.  Delinquency; actual offenses.


Topic: Faultless
Definition:
FAULT'LESS, a.  
1.  Without fault; not defective or imperfect; free from blemish; free from incorrectness; perfect; as a faultless poem or picture.
2.  Free from vice or imperfection; as a faultless man.


Topic: Faulty
Definition:
FAULT'Y, a.  
1.  Containing faults, blemishes or defects; defective; imperfect; as a faulty composition or book; a faulty plan or design; a faulty picture.
2.  Guilty of a fault or of faults; hence, blamable; worthy of censure.
The king doth speak this thing as one who is faulty.  
1Sam. 14.
3.  Wrong; erroneous; as a faulty polity.
4.  Defective; imperfect; bad; as a faulty helmet.


Topic: Faun
Definition:
FAUN, n.  [L. faunus.]  Among the Romans, a kind of demigod, or rural deity, called also sylvan, and differing little from satyr.  The fauns are represented as half goat and half man.


Topic: Fautor
Definition:
FAU'TOR, n.  [L. See Favor.]  A favorer; a patron; one who gives countenance or support.  [Little used.]


Topic: Favillous
Definition:
FAVIL'LOUS, a.  [L. favilla, ashes.]
1.  Consisting of or pertaining to ashes.
2.  Resembling ashes.


Topic: Favor
Definition:
FA'VOR, n.  [L. favor, faveo.]
1.  Kind regard; kindness; countenance; propitious aspect; friendly disposition.
His dreadful navy, and his lovely mind,
Gave him the fear and favor of mankind.
The king's favor is as dew on the grass.  Prov. 19.
God gave Joseph favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh.  Acts 7.
Favor is deceitful, and beauty is vain.  Prov.  31.
2.  Support; defense; vindication; or disposition to aid, befriend, support, promote or justify.  To be in favor of a measure, is to have a disposition or inclination to support it or carry it into effect.  To be in favor or a party, is to be disposed or inclined to support it, to justify its proceedings, and to promote its interests.
3.  A kind act or office; kindness done or granted; benevolence shown by word or deed; any act of grace or good will, as distinguished from acts of justice or renumeration.  To pardon the guilty is a favor; to punish them is an act of justice.
4.  Lenity; mildness or mitigation of punishment.
I could not discover the lenity and favor of this sentence.
5.  Leave; good will; a yielding or concession to another; pardon.
But, with your favor, I will treat it here.
6.  The object of kind regard; the person or thing favored.
All these his wondrous works, but chiefly man.
His chief delight and favor.
7.  A gift or present; something bestowed as an evidence of good will; a token of love; a knot of ribbons; something worn as a token of affection.
8.  A feature; countenance.  [Not used.]
9.  Advantage; convenience afforded for success.  The enemy approached under favor of the night.
10.  Partiality; bias.  A challenge to the favor, in law, is the challenge of a juror on account of some supposed partiality, by reason of favor or malice, interest or connection.
FA'VOR, v.t.  
1.  To regard with kindness; to support; to aid or have the disposition to aid, or to wish success to; to be propitious to; to countenance; to befriend; to encourage.  To favor the cause of a party, may be merely to wish success to it, or it may signify to give it aid, by counsel, or by active exertions.  Sometimes men professedly favor one party and secretly favor another.
The lords favor thee not.  1Sam. 29.
Thou shalt arise, and have mercy on Zion; for the time to favor her, yea, the set time is come.  Ps. 102.
O happy youth! and favored of the skies.
2.  To afford advantages for success; to facilitate.  A weak place in the fort favored the entrance of the enemy; the darkness of the night favored his approach.  A fair wind favors a voyage.
3.  To resemble in features.  The child favors his father.
4.  To ease; to spare.  A man in walking favors a lame leg.


Topic: Favorable
Definition:
FA'VORABLE, a.  [L. favorabilis.]
1.  Kind; propitious; friendly; affectionate.
Lend favorable ear to our request.
Lord, thou hast been favorable to thy land. Ps. 85.
2.  Palliative; tender; averse to censure.
None can have the favorable thought that to obey a tyrant's will they fought.
3.  Conducive to; contributing to; tending to promote.  A salubrious climate and plenty of food are favorable to population.
4.  Convenient; advantageous; affording means to facilitate, or affording facilities.  The low price of labor and provisions is favorable to the success of manufactures.  The army was drawn up on favorable ground.  The ship took a station favorable for attack.
The place was favorable for making levies of men.
5.  Beautiful; well favored.  obs.


Topic: Favorableness
Definition:
FA'VORABLENESS, n.  
1.  Kindness; kind disposition or regard.
2.  Convenience; suitableness; that state which affords advantages for success; conduciveness; as the favorableness of a season for crops; the favorableness of the times for the cultivation of the sciences.


Topic: Favorably
Definition:
FA'VORABLY, adv.  Kindly; with friendly dispositions; with regard or affection; with an inclination to favor; as, to judge or think favorably of a measure; to think favorably of those we love.


Topic: Favored
Definition:
FA'VORED, pp.  
1.  Countenanced; supported; aided; supplied with advantages; eased; spared.
2.  a.  Regarded with kindness; as a favored friend.
3.  With well or ill prefixed, featured.
Well-favored is well-looking, having a good countenance or appearance, fleshy, plump, handsome.
Ill-favored  is ill-looking, having an ugly appearance, lean.  See Gen. 39.  Gen 41. &c.
Well-favoredly, with a good appearance.  [Little used.]
Ill-favoredly, with a bad appearance.  [Little used.]


Topic: Favorer
Definition:
FA'VORER, n.  One who favors; one who regards with kindness or friendship; a wellwisher; one who assists or promotes success or prosperity.


Topic: Favoring
Definition:
FA'VORING, ppr.  Regarding with friendly dispositions; countenancing; wishing well to; contributing to success; facilitating.


Topic: Favorite
Definition:
FA'VORITE, n.  
A person or thing regarded with peculiar favor, preference and affection; one greatly beloved.  Select favorites from among the discrete and the virtuous.  Princes are often misled, and sometimes ruined by favorites.  Gaveston and the Spencers, the favorites of Edward II, fell a sacrifice to public indignation.
FA'VORITE, a.  Regarded with particular kindness, affection, esteem or preference; as a favorite walk; a favorite author; a favorite child.


Topic: Favoritism
Definition:
FA'VORITISM, n.  
1.  The act or practice of favoring, or giving a preference to one over another.
2.  The disposition to favor, aid and promote the interest of a favorite, or of one person or family, or of one class of men, to the neglect of others having equal claims.
It has been suggested that the proceeds of the foreign bills were calculated merely to indulge a spirit of favoritism to the bank of the United States.
Which consideration imposes such a necessity on the crown, as hath, in a great measure, subdued the influence of favoritism.
3.  Exercise of power by favorites.


Topic: Favorless
Definition:
FA'VORLESS, a.  
1.  Unfavored; not regarded with favor; having no patronage or countenance.
2.  Not favoring; unpropitious.


Topic: Fawn
Definition:
FAWN, n.  A young deer; a buck or doe of the first year.
FAWN, v.i.  To bring forth a fawn.
FAWN, v.i.  [See Fain.]
1.  To court favor, or show attachment to, by frisking about one; as, a dog fawns on his master.
2.  To soothe; to flatter meanly; to blandish; to court servilely; to cringe and bow to gain favor; as a fawning favorite or minion.
My love, forbear to fawn upon their frowns.
FAWN, n.  A servile cringe or bow; mean flattery.


Topic: Fawning
Definition:
FAWN'ING, ppr.  Courting servilely; flattering by cringing and meanness; bringing forth a fawn.
FAWN'ING, n.  Gross flattery.


Topic: Fay
Definition:
FAY, n.  A fairy; an elf.
FAY, v.i.  [See Fadge.]
To fit; to suit; to unite closely with.  [This is a contraction of the Teutonic word, and the same as fadge, which see.  It is not an elegant word.]


Topic: Fealty
Definition:
FE'ALTY, n.  [L. fidelis.]
Fidelity to a lord; faithful adherence of a tenant or vassal to the superior of whom he holds his lands; loyalty.  Under the feudal system of tenures, every vassal or tenant was bound to be true and faithful to his lord, and to defend him against all his enemies.  This obligation was called his fidelity or fealty, and an oath of fealty was required to be taken by all tenants to their landlords.  The tenant was called a liege man; the land, a liege fee; and the superior, liege lord.  [See Liege.]


Topic: Fear
Definition:
FEAR, n.  [See the Verb.]  
1.  A painful emotion or passion excited by an expectation of evil, or the apprehension of impending danger.  Fear expresses less apprehension than dread, and dread less than terror and fright.  The force of this passion, beginning with the most moderate degree, may be thus expressed, fear, dread, terror, fright.  Fear is accompanied with a desire to avoid or ward off the expected evil.  Fear is an uneasiness of mind, upon the thought of future evil likely to befall us.
Fear is the passion of our nature which excites us to provide for our security, on the approach of evil.
2.  Anxiety; solicitude.
The principal fear was for the holy temple.
3.  The cause of fear.
Thy angel becomes a fear.
4.  The object of fear.
Except the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me.  Gen 31.
5.  Something set or hung up to terrify wild animals, by its color or noise.  Is. 24.  Jer. 48.
6.  In scripture, fear is used to express a filial or a slavish passion.  In good men, the fear of God is a holy awe or reverence of God and his laws, which springs from a just view and real love of the divine character, leading the subjects of it to hate and shun every thing that can offend such a holy being, and inclining them to aim at perfect obedience.  This is filial fear.
I will put my fear in their hearts.  Jer. 32.
Slavish fear is the effect or consequence of guilt; it is the painful apprehension of merited punishment.  Rom. 8.
The love of God casteth out fear.  1John 4.
7.  The worship of God.
I will teach you the fear of the Lord.  Ps. 34.
8.  The law and word of God.
The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever.  Ps. 19.
9.  Reverence; respect; due regard.
Render to all their dues; fear to whom fear.  Rom. 13.
FEAR, v.t.  [L. vereor.]
1.  To feel a painful apprehension of some impending evil; to be afraid of; to consider or expect with emotions of alarm or solicitude.  We fear the approach of an enemy or of a storm.  We have reason to fear the punishment of our sins.
I will fear no evil, for thou art with me.  Ps. 23.
2.  To reverence; to have a reverential awe; to venerate.
This do, and live: for I fear God.  Gen. 42.
3.  To affright; to terrify; to drive away or prevent approach by fear, or by a scarecrow.  [This seems to be the primary meaning, but now obsolete.]
We must not make a scarecrow of the law, setting it up to fear the birds of prey.
FEAR, v.i.  To be in apprehension of evil; to be afraid; to feel anxiety on account of some expected evil.
But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtility, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.  2Cor. 11.
Fear not, Abram:  I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.  Gen.  15.
FEAR, n.  A companion.  [Not in use.  See Peer.]


Topic: Fearful
Definition:
FE'ARFUL, a.
1.  Affected by fear; feeling pain in expectation of evil; apprehensive with solicitude; afraid.  I am fearful of the consequences of rash conduct.  Hence,
2.  Timid; timorous; wanting courage. 
What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted?  
Deut. 20.
3.  Terrible; impressing fear; frightful; dreadful.
It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.  Heb. 10.
4.  Awful; to be reverenced.
O Lord, who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises?  Ex. 15.
That thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, Jehovah, thy God.  Deut. 28.


Topic: Fearfully
Definition:
FE'ARFULLY, adv.  
1.  Timorously; in fear.
In such a night did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew.
2.  Terribly; dreadfully; in a manner to impress terror.
There is a cliff, whose high and bending head looks fearfully on the confined deep.
3.  In a manner to impress admiration and astonishment.
I am fearfully and wonderfully made.  Ps. 139.


Topic: Fearfulness
Definition:
FE'ARFULNESS, n.  
1.  Timorousness; timidity.
2.  State of being afraid; awe; dread.
A thing that makes a government despised, is fearfulness of, and mean compliances with, bold popular offenders.
3.  Terror; alarm; apprehension of evil.
Fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites.  Is. 33.


Topic: Fearless
Definition:
FE'ARLESS, a.
1.  Free from fear; as fearless of death; fearless of consequences.
2.  Bold; courageous; intrepid; undaunted; as a fearless hero; a fearless foe.


Topic: Fearlessly
Definition:
FE'ARLESSLY, adv.  Without fear; in a bold or courageous manner; intrepidly.  Brave men fearlessly expose themselves to the most formidable dangers.


Topic: Fearlessness
Definition:
FE'ARLESSNESS, n.  Freedom from fear; courage; boldness; intrepidity.
He gave instances of an invincible courage and fearlessness in danger.


Topic: Feasibility
Definition:
FEASIBIL'ITY, n.  s as z.  [See Feasible.]  The quality of being capable of execution; practicability.  Before we adopt a plan, let us consider its feasibility.


Topic: Feasible
Definition:
FE'ASIBLE, a.  s as z.  [L. facere.]
1.  That may be done, performed, executed or effected; practicable.  We say a thing is feasible, when it can be effected by human means or agency.  A thing may be possible, but not feasible.
2.  That may be used or tilled, as land.
FE'ASIBLE, n.  That which is practicable; that which can be performed by human means.


Topic: Feast
Definition:
FEAST, n.  [L. festum.]
1.  A sumptuous repast or entertainment, of which a number of guests partake; particularly, a rich or splendid public entertainment.
On Pharaoh's birth day, he made a feast to all his servants.  Gen. 40.
2.  A rich or delicious repast or meal; something delicious to the palate.
3.  A ceremony of feasting; joy and thanksgiving on stated days, in commemoration of some great event, or in honor of some distinguished personage; an anniversary, periodical or stated celebration of some event; a festival; as on occasion of the games in Greece, and the feast of the passover, the feast of Pentecost, and the feast of tabernacles among the Jews.
4.  Something delicious and entertaining to the mind or soul; as the dispensation of the gospel is called a feast of fat things.  Is. 25.
5.  That which delights and entertains.
He that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.  
Prov. 15.
In the English church, feasts are immovable or movable; immovable, when they occur on the same day of the year, as Christmas day, &c.; and movable, when they are not confined to the same day of the year, as Easter, which regulates many others.
FEAST, v.i.
1.  To eat sumptuously; to dine or sup on rich provisions; particularly in large companies, and on public festivals.
And his sons went and feasted in their houses.  Job 1.
2.  To be highly gratified or delighted.
FEAST, v.t.
1.  To entertain with sumptuous provisions; to treat at the table magnificently; as, he was feasted by the king.
2.  To delight; to pamper; to gratify luxuriously; as, to feast the soul.
Whose taste or smell can bless the feasted sense.


Topic: Feastful
Definition:
FE'ASTFUL, a.
1.  Festive; joyful; as a feastful day or friend.
2.  Sumptuous, luxurious; as feastful rites.


Topic: Feasting
Definition:
FE'ASTING, ppr.  
1.  Eating luxuriously; faring sumptuously.
2.  Delighting; gratifying.
3.  Entertaining with a sumptuous table.
FE'ASTING, n.  An entertainment.


Topic: Feat
Definition:
FEAT, n.  [L. factum, from facio, to perform.]
1.  An act; a deed; an exploit; as a bold feat; a noble feat; feats of prowess.
2.  In a subordinate sense, any extraordinary act of strength, skill or cunning, as feats of horsemanship, or of dexterity; a trick.
FEAT, a.  Ready; skilful; ingenious.
Never master had a page - so feat.
FEAT, v.t.  To form; to fashion.


Topic: Feature
Definition:
FE'ATURE, n.  [L. factura, a making, from facio, to make.]
1.  The make, form or cast of any part of the face; any single lineament.  We speak of large features or small features.  We see a resemblance in the features of a parent and of a child.
2.  The make or cast of the face.
Report the feature of Octavia, her years.
3.  The fashion; the make; the whole turn or cast of the body.
4.  The make or form of any part of the surface of a thing, as of a country or landscape.
5.  Lineament; outline; prominent parts; as the features of a treaty.


Topic: Febrifuge
Definition:
FEB'RIFUGE, n.  [L. febris, fever, and fugo, to drive away.]
Any medicine that mitigates or removes fever.
FEB'RIFUGE, a.  Having the quality of mitigating or subduing fever; antifebrile.


Topic: Febrile
Definition:
FE'BRILE, a.  [L. febrilis, from febris, fever.]
Pertaining to fever; indicating fever, or derived from it; as febrile symptoms; febrile action.


Topic: February
Definition:
FEB'RUARY, n.  [L. Februarius.  The Latin word is said to be named from februo, to purify by sacrifice, and thus to signify the month of purification, as the people were, in this month, purified by sacrifices and oblations.  The word februo is said to be a Sabine word, connected with ferveo, ferbeo, to boil, as boiling was used in purifications.
This practice bears a resemblance to that of making atonement among the Jews; but the connection between ferveo and February is doubtful.
The name of the second month in the year, introduced into the Roman calendar by Numa.  In common years, this month contains 28 days; in the bissextile or leap year, 29 days.


Topic: Feces
Definition:
FE'CES, n. plu.  [L. faces.]  
1.  Dregs; lees; sediment; the matter which subsides in casks of liquor.
2.  Excrement.


Topic: Fecial
Definition:
FE'CIAL, a.  [L. fecialis.]  Pertaining to heralds and the denunciation of war to an enemy; as fecial law.


Topic: Fecula
Definition:
FEC'ULA, n.
1.  The green matter of plants; chlorophyll.
2.  Starch or farina; called also amylaceous fecula.
This term is applied to any pulverulent matter obtained from plants by simply breaking down the texture, washing with water, and subsidence.  Hence its application to starch and the green fecula, though entirely different in chimical properties.


Topic: Feculent
Definition:
FEC'ULENT, a.  Foul with extraneous or impure substances; muddy; thick; turbid; abounding with sediment or excrementitious matter.


Topic: Feculum
Definition:
FEC'ULUM, n.  [from faces, supra.]  A dry, dusty, tasteless substance obtained from plants.  [This should be fecula.]


Topic: Fecundate
Definition:
FE'CUNDATE, v.t.
1.  To make fruitful or prolific.
2.  To impregnate; as, the pollen of flowers fecundates the stigma.


Topic: Fecundity
Definition:
FECUND'ITY, n.  [L. faecunditas.]
1.  Fruitfulness; the quality of producing fruit; particularly, the quality in female animals of producing young in great numbers.
2.  The power of producing or bringing forth.  It is said that the seeds of some plants retain their fecundity forty years.
3.  Fertility; the power of bringing forth in abundance; richness of invention.


Topic: Federal
Definition:
FED'ERAL, a.  [from L. faedus, a league, allied perhaps to Eng. wed. L. vas, vadis, vador, vadimonium.  See Heb. to pledge.]
1.  Pertaining to a league or contract; derived from an agreement or covenant between parties, particularly between nations.
The Romans, contrary to federal right, compelled them to part with Sardinia.
2.  Consisting in a compact between parties, particularly and chiefly between states or nations; founded on alliance by contract or mutual agreement; as a federal government, such as that of the United States.
3.  Friendly to the constitution of the United States.  [See the Noun.]
FED'ERAL,


Topic: Federalist
Definition:
FED'ERALIST,  n.  an appellation in America, given to the friends of the constitution of the United States, at its formation and adoption, and to the political party which favored the administration of President Washington.


Topic: Federate
Definition:
FED'ERATE, a.  [L. faederatus.]  Leagued; united by compact, as sovereignties, states or nations; joined in confederacy; as federate nations or powers.


Topic: Fee
Definition:
FEE, n. [L. pecu, pecus.  From the use of cattle in transferring property, or from barter and payments in cattle, the word came to signify money; it signified also goods, substance in general.  The word belongs to Class Bg, but the primary sense is not obvious.]
A reward or compensation for services; recompense, either gratuitous, or established by law and claimed of right.  It is applied particularly to the reward of professional services; as the fees of lawyers and physicians; the fees of office; clerk's fees; sheriff's fees; marriage fees, &c.  Many of these are fixed by law; but gratuities to professional men are also called fees.
FEE, n.  [In English, is loan.  This word, fee, inland, or an estate in trust, originated among the descendants of the northern conquerors of Italy, but it originated in the south of Europe.  See Feud.]
Primarily, a loan of land, an estate in trust, granted by a prince or lord, to be held by the grantee on condition of personal service, or other condition; and if the grantee or tenant failed to perform the conditions, the land reverted to the lord or donor, called the landlord, or lend-lord, the lord of the loan.  A fee then is any land or tenement held of a superior on certain conditions.  It is synonymous with fief and feud.  All the land in England, except the crown land, is of this kind.  Fees are absolute or limited.  An absolute fee or fee-simple is land which a man holds to himself and his heirs forever, who are called tenants in fee simple.  Hence in modern times, the term fee or fee simple denotes an estate of inheritance; and in America, where lands are not generally held of a superior, a fee or fee simple is an estate in which the owner has the whole property without any condition annexed to the tenure.  A limited fee is an estate limited or clogged with certain conditions; as a qualified or base fee, which ceases with the existence of certain conditions; and a conditional fee, which is limited to particular heirs.
In the United States, an estate in fee or fee simple is what is called in English law an allodial estate, an estate held by a person in his own right, and descendible to the heirs in general.


Topic: Feeble
Definition:
FEE'BLE, a.  [I know not the origin of the first syllable.]
1.  Weak; destitute of much physical strength; as, infants are feeble at their birth.
2.  Infirm; sickly; debilitated by disease.
3.  Debilitated by age or decline of life.
4.  Not full or loud; as a feeble voice or sound.
5.  Wanting force or vigor; as feeble efforts.
6.  Not bright or strong; faint; imperfect; as feeble light; feeble colors.
7.  Not strong or vigorous; as feeble powers of mind.
8.  Not vehement or rapid; slow; as feeble motion.
FEE'BLE, v.t.  To weaken.  [Not used.  See Enfeeble.]


Topic: Feeble-minded
Definition:
FEE'BLE-MINDED, a.  Weak in mind; wanting firmness or constancy; irresolute.  
Comfort the feeble-minded.  1Thess. 5.


Topic: Feebleness
Definition:
FEE'BLENESS, n.
1.  Weakness of body or mind, from any cause; imbecility; infirmity; want of strength, physical or intellectual; as feebleness of the body or limbs; feebleness of the mind or understanding.
2.  Want of fullness or loudness; as feebleness of voice.
3.  Want of vigor or force; as feebleness of exertion, or of operation.
4.  Defect of brightness; as feebleness of light or color.


Topic: Feed
Definition:
FEED, v.t.  pret. and pp. [See Father.]
1.  To give food to; as, to feed an infant; to feed horses and oxen.
2.  To supply with provisions.  We have flour and meat enough to feed the army a month.
3.  To supply; to furnish with any thing of which there is constant consumption, waste or use.  Springs, feed ponds, lakes and rivers; ponds and streams feed canals.  Mills are fed from hoppers.
4.  To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle  If grain is too forward in autumn, feed it with sheep.
5.  To nourish; to cherish; to supply with nutriment; as, to feed hope or expectation; to feed vanity.
6.  To keep in hope or expectation; as, to feed one with hope.
7.  To supply fuel; as, to feed a fire.
8.  To delight; to supply with something desirable; to entertain; as, to feed the eye with the beauties of a landscape.
9.  To give food or fodder for fattening; to fatten.  The county of Hampshire, in Massachusetts, feeds a great number of cattle for slaughter.
10.  To supply with food, and to lead, guard and protect; a scriptural sense.
He shall feed his flock like a shepherd.  Is. 40.
FEED, v.i.  
1.  To take food; to eat.
2.  To subsist by eating; to prey.  Some birds feed on seeds and berries, others on flesh.
3.  To pasture; to graze; to place cattle to feed.  Ex. 22.
4.  To grow fat.
FEED, n.  
1.  Food; that which is eaten; pasture; fodder; applied to that which is eaten by beasts, not to the food of men.  The hills of our country furnish the best feed for sheep.
2.  Meal, or act of eating.
For such pleasure till that hour at feed or fountain never had I found.


Topic: Feeder
Definition:
FEE'DER, n.
1.  One that gives food, or supplies nourishment.
2.  One who furnishes incentives; an encourager.
The feeder of my riots.
3.  One that eats or subsists; as, small birds are feeders on grain or seeds.
4.  One that fattens cattle for slaughter.
5.  A fountain, stream or channel that supplies a main canal with water.
Feeder of a vein, in mining, a short cross vein.


Topic: Feeding
Definition:
FEE'DING, ppr.  Giving food or nutriment; furnishing provisions; eating; taking food or nourishment; grazing; supplying water or that which is constantly consumed; nourishing; supplying fuel or incentives.
FEE'DING, n.  Rich pasture.


Topic: Feel
Definition:
FEEL, v.t. pret. and pp. felt.  [L. palpo.  the primary sense is to touch, to pat, to strike gently, or to press, as is evident from the L. palpito, and other derivatives of palp.  If so, the word seems to be allied to L. pello.]
1.  To perceive by the touch; to have sensation excited by contact of a thing with the body or limbs.
Suffer me that I may feel the pillars.  Judges 16.
Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son.  
Gen. 27.
2.  To have the sense of; to suffer or enjoy; as, to feel pain; to feel pleasure.
3.  To experience; to suffer.
Whoso keepeth the commandments shall feel no evil thing.  Eccles. 8.
4.  To be affected by; to perceive mentally; as, to feel grief or woe.
Would I had never trod this English earth, or felt the flatteies that grow upon it.
5.  To know; to be acquainted with; to have a real and just view of.
For then, and not till then, he felt himself.
6.  To touch; to handle; with or without of.
Feel this piece of silk, or feel of it.
To feel, or to feel out, is to try; to sound; to search for; to explore; as, to feel or feel out one's opinions or designs.
To feel after, to search for; to seek to find; to seek as a person groping in the dark.
If haply they might feel after him, and find him.  Acts 18.
FEEL, v.i.
1.  To have perception by the touch, or by the contact of any substance with the body.
2.  To have the sensibility or the passions moved or excited.  The good man feels for the woes of others.
3.  To give perception; to excite sensation.
Blind men say black feels rough, and white feels smooth.
So, we say, a thing feels soft or hard, or it feels hot or cold.
4.  To have perception mentally; as, to feel hurt; to feel grieved; to feel unwilling.
FEEL, n.  The sense of feeling, or the perception caused by the touch.  The difference of tumors may be ascertained by the feel.  Argillaceous stones may sometimes be known by the feel.  [In America, feeling is more generally used; but the use of feel is not uncommon.]


Topic: Feeler
Definition:
FEE'LER, n.  
1.  One who feels.
2.  One of the palpi of insects.  The feelers of insects are usually four or six, and situated near the mouth.  They are filiform and resemble articulated, movable antennae.  They are distinguished from antennae or horns, by being short, naked and placed near the mouth.  They are used in searching for food.
This tern is also applied to the antennae or horns of insects.


Topic: Feeling
Definition:
FEE'LING, ppr.  
1.  Perceiving by the touch; having perception.
2.  a.  Expressive of great sensibility; affecting; tending to excite the passions.  He made a feeling representation of his wrongs.  He spoke with feeling eloquence.
3.  Possessing great sensibility; easily affected or moved; as a feeling man; a feeling heart.
4.  Sensibly or deeply affected; as, I had a feeling sense of his favors.  [This use is not analogical, but common.]
FEE'LING, n.  
1.  The sense of touch; the sense by which we perceive external objects which come in contact with the body, and obtain ideas of their tangible qualities; one of the five senses.  It is by feeling we know that a body is hard or soft, hot or cold, wet or dry, rough or smooth.
2.  Sensation; the effect of perception.
The apprehension of the good gives but the greater feeling to the worse.
3.  Faculty or power of perception; sensibility.
Their king, out of a princely feeling, was sparing and compassionate towards his subjects.
4.  Nice sensibility; as a man of feeling.
5.  Excitement; emotion.


Topic: Feelingly
Definition:
FEE'LINGLY, adv.
1.  With expression of great sensibility; tenderly; as, to speak feelingly.
2.  So as to be sensibly felt.
These are counselors, that feelingly persuade me what I am.


Topic: Feign
Definition:
FEIGN, v.t. fane.  [L. fingo.  The Latin forms fictum, fictus, whence figura, figure, also fucus.]
1.  To invent or imagine; to form an idea or conception of something not real.
There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.  Neh. 6.
2.  To make a show of; to pretend; to assume a false appearance; to counterfeit.
I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner.  2Sam. 14.
She feigns a laugh.
3.  To represent falsely; to pretend; to form and relate a fictitious tale.
The poet did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods.
4.  To dissemble; to conceal.  Obs.


Topic: Feigning
Definition:
FEIGNING, ppr.  Imagining; inventing; pretending; making a false show.
FEIGNING, n.  A false appearance; artful contrivance.


Topic: Feint
Definition:
FEINT, n.  
1.  An assumed or false appearance; a pretense of doing something not intended to be done.
Courtley's letter is but a feint to get off.
2.  A mock attack; an appearance of aiming at one part when another is intended to be struck.  In fencing, a show of making a thrust at one part, to deceive an antagonist, when the intention is to strike another part.
FEINT, a. or pp.  Counterfeit; seeming.  [Not used.]


Topic: Felicitate
Definition:
FELIC'ITATE, v.t.  [L. felicito, from felix, happy.]
1.  To make very happy.
What a glorious entertainment and pleasure would fill and felicitate his spirit, if he could grasp all in a single survey.
More generally,
2.  To congratulate; to express joy or pleasure to.  We felicitate our friends on the acquisition of good, or an escape from evil.
FELIC'ITATE, a.  Made very happy.


Topic: Felicity
Definition:
FELIC'ITY, n.  [L. felicitas, from felix, happy.]
1.  Happiness, or rather great happiness; blessedness; blissfulness; appropriately, the joys of heaven.
2.  Prosperity; blessing; enjoyment of good. 
The felicities of her wonderful reign may be complete.
Females - who confer on life its finest felicities.


Topic: Feline
Definition:
FE'LINE, a.  [L. felinus, from felis, a cat.]
Pertaining to cats, or to their species; like a cat; noting the cat kind or the genus Felis.  We say, the feline race; feline rapacity.


Topic: Fell
Definition:
FELL, pret. of fall.
FELL, a.
1.  Cruel; barbarous; inhuman.
It seemed fury, discord, madness fell.
2.  Fierce; savage; ravenous; bloody.
More fell than tigers on the Libyan plain.
FELL, n.  [L. pellis.]  A skin or hide of a beast; used chiefly in composition, as wool-fell.
FELL, n.  A barren or stony hill.  [Local.]
FELL, v.t.  To cause to fall; to prostrate; to bring to the ground, either by cutting, as to fell trees, or by striking, as to fell an ox.


Topic: Fellow
Definition:
FEL'LOW, n.  [Heb. to tie or connect, to be joined or associated.]
1.  A companion; an associate.
In youth I had twelve fellows, like myself.
Each on his fellow for assistance calls.
2.  One of the same kind.
A shepherd had one favorite dog; he fed him with his own hand, and took more care of him than of his fellows.
3.  An equal.
Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith Jehovah of hosts.  Zech. 13.
4.  One of a pair, or of two things used together and suited to each other.  Of a pair of gloves, we call one the fellow of the other.
5.  One equal or like another.  Of an artist we say, this man has not his fellow, that is, one of like skill.
6.  An appellation of contempt; a man without good breeding or worth; an ignoble man; as a mean fellow.
Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow.
7.  A member of a college that shares its revenues; or a member of any incorporated society.
8.  A member of a corporation; a trustee.
FEL'LOW, v.t.  To suit with; to pair with; to match.  [Little used.]  
In composition, fellow denotes community of nature, station or employment.


Topic: Fellow-commoner
Definition:
FELLOW-COM'MONER, n.  
1.  One who has the same right of common.
2.  In Cambridge, England, one who dines with the fellows.


Topic: Fellow-creature
Definition:
FELLOW-CRE'ATURE, n.  One of the same race or kind.  Thus men are all called fellow-creatures.  Watts uses the word for one made by the same creator.  'Reason by which we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes.'  But the word is not now used in this sense.


Topic: Fellow-heir
Definition:
FELLOW-HEIR, n.  A co-heir, or joint-heir; one entitled to a share of the same inheritance.
That the Gentiles should be fellow-heirs.  Eph. 3.


Topic: Fellow-soldier
Definition:
FELLOW-SO'LDIER, n.  One who fights under the same commander, or is engaged in the same service.  Officers often address their companions in arms by this appellation.


Topic: Fellow-student
Definition:
FELLOW-STU'DENT, n.  One who studies in the same company or class with another, or who belongs to the same school.


Topic: Fellow-sufferer
Definition:
FELLOW-SUF'FERER, n.  One who shares in the same evil, or partakes of the same sufferings with another.


Topic: Fellowship
Definition:
FEL'LOWSHIP, n.
1.  Companionship; society; consort; mutual association of persons on equal and friendly terms; familiar intercourse.
Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness.  Eph. 5.
Men are made for society and mutual fellowship.
2.  Association; confederacy; combination.
Most of the other christian princes were drawn into the fellowship of that war.  [Unusual.]
3.  Partnership; joint interest; as fellowship in pain.
4.  Company; a state of being together.
The great contention of the sea and skies parted our fellowship.
5.  Frequency of intercourse.
In a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship which is in less neighborhoods.
6.  Fitness and fondness for festive entertainments; with good prefixed.
He had by his good fellowship - made himself popular, with all the officers of the army.
7.  Communion; intimate familiarity.  1John 1.
8.  In arithmetic, the rule of proportions, by which the accounts of partners in business are adjusted, so that each partner may have a share of gain or sustain a share of loss, in proportion to his part of the stock.
9.  An establishment in colleges, for the maintenance of a fellow.


Topic: Felly
Definition:
FEL'LY, adv.  [See Fell, cruel.]  Cruelly; fiercely; barbarously.
FEL'LY, n.  The exterior part or rim of a wheel, supported by the spokes.
Felo de se, in law, one who commits felony by suicide, or deliberately destroys his own life.


Topic: Felon
Definition:
FEL'ON, n.  [Low L. felo.]
1.  In law, a person who has committed felony.  [See Felony.]
2.  A whitlow; a painful swelling formed in the periosteum at the end of the finger.
FEL'ON, a.  
1.  Malignant; fierce; malicious; proceeding from a depraved heart.
Vain shows of love to vail his felon hate.
2.  Traitorous; disloyal.


Topic: Felonious
Definition:
FELO'NIOUS, a.
1.  Malignant; malicious; indicating or proceeding from a depraved heart or evil purpose; villainous; traitorous; perfidious; as a felonious deed.
2.  In law, proceeding from an evil heart or purpose; done with the deliberate purpose to commit a crime; as felonious homicide.


Topic: Felonniously
Definition:
FELON'NIOUSLY, adv.  In a felonious manner; with the deliberate intention to commit a crime.  Indictments for capital offenses must state the fact to be done feloniously.


Topic: Felony
Definition:
FEL'ONY, n.  [See Felon.]  In common law, any crime which incurs the forfeiture of lands or goods.  Treason was formerly comprised under the name of felony, but is now distinguished from crimes thus denominated, although it is really a felony.  All offenses punishable with death are felonies; and so are some crimes not thus punished, as suicide, homicide by chance-medley, or in self-defense, and petty larceny.  Capital punishment therefore does not necessarily enter into the true idea or definition of felony; the true criterion of felony being forfeiture of lands or goods.  But the idea of felony has been so generally connected with that of capital punishment, that law and usage now confirm that connection.  Thus if a statute makes any new offense a felony, it is understood to mean a crime punishable with death.


Topic: Felsite
Definition:
FEL'SITE, n.  [See Feldspar.]  A species of compact feldspar, of an azure blue or green color, found amorphous associated with quartz and mica.


Topic: Felt
Definition:
FELT, pret. of feel.
FELT, n.  [L. pellis, Eng. fell, a skin from plucking or stripping, L. vello, vellus, Eng. wool.]
1.  A cloth or stuff made of wool, or wool and hair, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure with lees or size.
2.  A hat made of wool.
3.  Skin.
To know whether sheep are sound or not, see that the felt be loose.
FELT, v.t.  To make cloth or stuff of wool, or wool and hair, by fulling.


Topic: Felucca
Definition:
FELUC'CA, n.  
A boat or vessel, with oars and lateen sails, used in the Mediterranean.  It has this peculiarity, that the helm may be applied to the head or stern, as occasion requires.


Topic: Female
Definition:
FE'MALE, n.  [L. femella.  See Feminine.]
1.  Among animals, one of that sex which conceives and brings forth young.
2.  Among plants, that which produces fruit; that which bears the pistil and receives the pollen of the male flowers.
FE'MALE, a. 
1.  Noting the sex which produces young; not male; as a female bee.
2.  Pertaining to females; as a female hand or heart; female tenderness.
To the generous decision of a female mind, we owe the discovery of America.
3.  Feminine; soft; delicate; weak.
Female rhymes, double rhymes, so called from the French, in which language they end in e feminine.


Topic: Female-flower
Definition:
FEMALE-FLOWER, n.  In botany, a flower which is furnished with the pistil, pointal, or female organs.


Topic: Feminine
Definition:
FEM'ININE, a.  [L. femininus, from femina, woman.  The first syllable may be and probably is from wemb or womb, by the use of f for w; the b not being radical.  The last part of the word is probably from man, quasi, femman, womb-man.]
1.  Pertaining to a woman, or to women, or to females; as the female sex.
2. soft; tender; delicate.
Her heavenly form angelic, but more soft and feminine.
3.  Effeminate; destitute of manly qualities.
4.  In grammar, denoting the gender or words which signify females, or the terminations of such words.  words are said to be of the feminine gender, when they denote females, or have the terminations proper to express females in any given language.  Thus in L. dominus, a lord, is masculine; but domina, is mistress, a female.
Milton uses feminine as a noun, for female.


Topic: Femme-sole
Definition:
FEMME-SOLE, n.  An unmarried woman.
Femme-sole merchant, a woman who uses a trade alone, or without her husband.


Topic: Fen
Definition:
FEN, n.  [L. fons, Eng. fountain.]
Low land overflowed, or covered wholly or partially with water, but producing sedge, coarse grasses, or other aquatic plants; boggy land; a moor or marsh.
A long canal the muddy fen divides.


Topic: Fence
Definition:
FENCE, n.  fens.  [See Fend.]
1.  A wall, hedge, ditch, bank, or line of posts and rails, or of boards or pickets, intended to confine beasts from straying, and to guard a field from being entered by cattle, or from other encroachment.  A good farmer has good fences about his farm; an insufficient fence is evidence of bad management.  Broken windows and poor fences are evidences of idleness or poverty or of both.
2.  A guard; any thing to restrain entrance; that which defends from attack, approach or injury; security; defense.
A fence betwixt us and the victor's wrath.
3.  Fencing, or the art of fencing; defense.
4.  Skill in fencing or defense.
FENCE, v.t. fens.  
1.  To inclose with a hedge, wall, or any thing that prevents the escape or entrance of cattle; to secure by an inclosure.  In New England, farmers, for the most part, fence their lands with posts and rails, or with stone walls.  In England, lands are usually fenced with hedges and ditches.
He hath fenced my way that I cannot pass.  Job. 19.
2.  To guard; to fortify.
So much of adder's wisdom I have learnt, to fence my ear against thy sorceries.
FENCE, v.i.
1.  To practice the art of fencing; to use a sword or foil, for the purpose of learning the art of attack and defense.  To fence well is deemed a useful accomplishment for military gentlemen.
2.  To fight and defend by giving and avoiding blows or thrusts.
They fence and push, and pushing, loudly roar,  their dewlaps and their sides are bathed in gore.
3.  To raise a fence; to guard.  It is difficult to fence against unruly cattle.


Topic: Fenceless
Definition:
FENCELESS, a. fens'less.  
1.  Without a fence; uninclosed; unguarded.
2.  Open; not inclosed; as the fenceless ocean.


Topic: Fencible
Definition:
FEN'CIBLE, a.
1.  Capable of defense.
2.  n.  A soldier for defense of the country; as a regiment of fencibles.


Topic: Fencing
Definition:
FEN'CING, ppr.  Inclosing with fence; guarding; fortifying.
FEN'CING, n.  
1.  The art of using skillfully a sword or foil in attack or defense; an art taught in schools.
2.  The materials of fences for farms.


Topic: Fend
Definition:
FEND, v.t. [The root of defend and offend.  The primary sense is to fall on, or to strike, to repel.]  
To keep off; to prevent from entering; to ward off; to shut out.
With fern beneath to fend the bitter cold.
It is usually followed by off; as, to fend off blows.
To fend off a boat or vessel, is to prevent its running against another, or against a wharf, &c., with too much violence.
FEND, v.i.  To act in opposition; to resist; to parry; to shift off.


Topic: Fender
Definition:
FEND'ER, n.
1.  That which defends; an utensil employed to hinder coals of fire from rolling forward to the floor.
2.  A piece of timber or other thing hung over the side of a vessel to prevent it from striking or rubbing against a wharf, also to preserve a small vessel from being injured by a large one.


Topic: Fennel
Definition:
FEN'NEL, n.  [L. faeiculum, from faenum, hay.]
A fragrant plant of the genus Anethum, cultivated in gardens.


Topic: Fenny
Definition:
FEN'NY, a.  [from fen.]
1.  Boggy; marshy; moorish.
2.  Growing in fens; as fenny brake.
3.  Inhabiting marshy ground; as a fenny snake.


Topic: Feod
Definition:
FE'OD, n.  A feud.  So written by Blackstone and other authors; but more generally, feud, which see.


Topic: Feodary
Definition:
FE'ODARY, n.  One who holds lands of a superior, on condition of suit and service.  [Little used.  See Feudatory.]


Topic: Feoff
Definition:
FEOFF, v.t.  feff.
To invest with a fee or feud; to give or grant to one any corporeal hereditament.  The compound infeoff is more generally used.
FEOFF, a fief.  [See Fief.]


Topic: Feoffee
Definition:
FEOFFEE, n.  feffee'.  A person who is infeoffed, that is, invested with a fee or corporeal hereditament.


Topic: Feriation
Definition:
FERIA'TION, n.  [L. feriatio, from feriae, vacant days, holidays.]
The act of keeping holiday; cessation from work.


Topic: Ferine
Definition:
FE'RINE, a.  [L. ferinus, from ferus, wild.]
Wild; untamed; savage.  Lions, tigers, wolves and bears are ferine beasts.


Topic: Ferment
Definition:
FER'MENT, n.  [L. fermentum, from fervo, to boil.  See Fervent.]
1.  A gentle boiling; or the internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid.
[In this sense it is rarely used.  See Fermentation.]
2.  Intestine motion; heat; tumult; agitation; as, to put the passions in a ferment; the state of people are in a ferment.
Subdue and cool the ferment of desire.
3.  That which causes fermentation, as yeast, barm, or fermenting beer.


Topic: Fermentable
Definition:
FERMENT'ABLE, a.  Capable of fermentation; thus, cider, beer of all kinds, wine, and other vegetable liquors, are fermentable.


Topic: Fermentation
Definition:
FERMENTA'TION, n.  [L. fermentatio.]  The sensible internal motion of the constituent particles of animal and vegetable substances, occasioned by a certain degree of heat and moisture, and accompanied by an extrication of gas and heat.  Fermentation is followed by a change of properties in the substances fermented, arising from new combinations of their principles.  It may be defined, in its most general sense, any spontaneous change which takes place in animal or vegetable substances, after life has ceased.  It is of three kinds, vinous, acetous, and putrefactive.  The term is also applied to other processes, as the panary fermentation, or the raising of bread; but it is limited, by some authors, to the vinous and acetous fermentations, which terminate in the production of alcohol or vinegar.  Fermentation differs from effervescence.  The former is confined to animal and vegetable substances; the latter is applicable to mineral substances.  The former is spontaneous; the latter produced by the mixture of bodies.


Topic: Fermentative
Definition:
FERMENT'ATIVE, a.  
1.  Causing or having power to cause fermentation; as fermentative heat.
2.  Consisting in fermentation; as fermentative process.


Topic: Fern
Definition:
FERN, n.  
A plant of several species constituting the tribe or family of Filices, which have their fructification on the back of the fronds or leaves, or in which the flowers are borne on footstalks which overtop the leaves.  The stem is the common footstalk or rather the middle rib of the leaves, so that most ferns want the stem altogether.  The ferns constitute the first order of cryptogams, in the sexual system.


Topic: Ferocious
Definition:
FERO'CIOUS, a.  [L. ferox; allied to ferus, wild, fera, a wild animal.]
1.  Fierce; savage; wild; indicating cruelty; as a ferocious look, countenance or features.
2.  Ravenous; rapacious; as a ferocious lion.
3.  Fierce; barbarous; cruel; as ferocious savages.


Topic: Ferocity
Definition:
FEROC'ITY, n.  [L. ferocitas.]  
1.  Savage wildness or fierceness; fury; cruelty; as the ferocity of barbarians.
2.  Fierceness indicating a savage heart; as ferocity of countenance.


Topic: Ferreous
Definition:
FER'REOUS, a.  [L. ferreus, from ferrum, iron.]
Partaking of iron; pertaining to iron; like iron; made of iron.


Topic: Ferret
Definition:
FER'RET, n.  
1.  An animal of the genus Mustela, or Weasel kind, about 14 inches in length, of a pale yellow color with red eyes.  It is a native of Africa, but has been introduced into Europe.  It cannot however bear cold, and cannot subsist even in France, except in a domestic state.  Ferrets are used to catch rabbits.
2.  A kind of narrow woolen tape.
3.  Among glass makers, the iron used to try the melted matter, to see if it is fit to work, and to make the rings at the mouths of bottles.
FER'RET, v.t.  To drive out of a lurking place, as a ferret does the coney.


Topic: Ferri-calcite
Definition:
FERRI-CAL'CITE, n.  [L. ferrum, iron, and calx, lime.]
A species of calcarious earth or limestone combined with a large portion of iron, from 7 to 14 per cent.


Topic: Ferriage
Definition:
FER'RIAGE, n.  [See Ferry.]  The price or fare to be paid at a ferry; the compensation established or paid for conveyance over a river or lake in a boat.


Topic: Ferric
Definition:
FER'RIC, a.  Pertaining to or extracted from iron.  Ferric acid is the acid of iron saturated with oxygen.


Topic: Ferrilite
Definition:
FER'RILITE, n.  [L. ferrum, iron and Gr. a stone.]
Rowley ragg; a variety of trap, containing iron in the state of oxyd.


Topic: Ferro-prussiate
Definition:
FERRO-PRUS'SIATE, n.  A compound of the ferro-silicic acid with a base, forming a substance analogous to a salt.


Topic: Ferro-prussic
Definition:
FERRO-PRUS'SIC, a.  [L. ferrum, iron, and prussic.]  Designating a peculiar acid, formed of prussic acid and protoxyd of iron.


Topic: Ferro-silicate
Definition:
FERRO-SIL'ICATE, n.  A compound of ferro-silicic acid with a base, forming a substance analogous to a salt.


Topic: Ferruginous
Definition:
FERRU'GINOUS, a.  [L. ferrugo, rust of iron, from ferrum, iron.]
1.  Partaking of iron; containing particles of iron.
2.  Of the color of the rust or oxyd of iron.  [Ferrugineous is less used.]


Topic: Ferry
Definition:
FER'RY, v.t.  [L. fero; allied to bear.]
To carry or transport over a river, strait or other water, in a boat.  We ferry men, horses, carriages, over rivers, for a moderate fee or price called fare or ferriage.
FER'RY, v.i.  To pass over water in a boat.
FER'RY, n.
1.  A boat or small vessel in which passengers and goods are conveyed over rivers or other narrow waters; sometimes called a wherry.  This application of the word is, I believe, entirely obsolete, at least in America.
2.  The place or passage where boats pass over water to convey passengers.
3.  The right of transporting passengers over a lake or stream.  A.B. owns the ferry at Windsor.  [In New England, this word is used in the two latter senses.]


Topic: Fertile
Definition:
FER'TILE, a.  [L. fertilis, from fero, to bear.]
1.  Fruitful; rich; producing fruit in abundance; as fertile land, ground, soil, fields or meadows.  This word in America is rarely applied to trees, or to animals, but to land.  It formerly had of before the thing producing; as fertile of all kinds of grain: but in is now used; fertile in grain.
2.  Rich; having abundant resources; prolific; productive; inventive; able to produce abundantly; as a fertile genius, mind or imagination.


Topic: Fertility
Definition:
FERTIL'ITY, n.  [L. fertilitas.]  
1.  Fruitfulness; the quality of producing fruit in abundance; as the fertility of land, ground, soil, fields and meadows.
2.  Richness; abundant resources; fertile invention; as the fertility of genius, of fancy or imagination.


Topic: Fertilize
Definition:
FER'TILIZE, v.t.  To enrich; to supply with the pabulum of plants; to make fruitful or productive; as, to fertilize land, soil, ground and meadows.  [Fertilitate is not used.]


Topic: Fertilizing
Definition:
FER'TILIZING, ppr.
1.  Enriching; making fruitful or productive.  The Connecticut overflows the adjacent meadows, fertilizing them by depositing fine particles of earth or vegetable substances.
2.  a.  Enriching; furnishing the nutriment of plants.


Topic: Ferulaceous
Definition:
FERULA'CEOUS, a.  [L. ferula.]  Pertaining to reeds or canes; having a stalk like a reed; or resembling the Ferula, as ferulaceous plants.


Topic: Ferule
Definition:
FER'ULE, n.  [L. ferula, from ferio, to strike, or from the use of stalks of the Ferula.]
1.  A little wooden pallet or slice, used to punish children in school, by striking them on the palm of the hand.  [Ferular is not used.]
2.  Under the Eastern empire, the ferula was the emperor's scepter.  It was a long stem or shank, with a flat square head.
FER'ULE, v.t.  To punish with a ferule.


Topic: Fervency
Definition:
FERV'ENCY, n.  [See fervent.]
1.  Heat of mind; ardor; eagerness.
2.  Pious ardor; animated zeal; warmth of devotion.
When you pray, let it be with attention, with fervency, and with perseverance.


Topic: Fervent
Definition:
FERV'ENT, a.  [L. fervens, from ferveo, to be hot, to boil, to glow.]
1.  Hot; boiling; as a fervent summer; fervent blood.
2.  Hot in temper; vehement.
They are fervent to dispute.
3.  Ardent; very warm; earnest; excited; animated; glowing; as fervent zeal; fervent piety.
Fervent in spirit.  Rom 12.


Topic: Fervently
Definition:
FERV'ENTLY, adv.
1.  Earnestly; eagerly; vehemently; with great warmth.
2.  With pious ardor; with earnest zeal; ardently.
Epaphras - saluteth you, laboring fervently for you in prayers.  Col. 4.


Topic: Fervid
Definition:
FERV'ID, a.  [L. fervidus.]  
1.  Very hot; burning; boiling; as fervid heat.
2.  Very warm in zeal; vehement; eager; earnest; as fervid zeal.


Topic: Fervor
Definition:
FERV'OR, n.  [L. fervor.]
1.  Heat or warmth; as the fervor of a summer's day.
2.  Heat of mind; ardor; warm or animated zeal and earnestness in the duties of religion, particularly in prayer.


Topic: Fescennine
Definition:
FES'CENNINE, a.  Pertaining to Fescennium in Italy; licentious.
FES'CENNINE, n.  A nuptial song, or a licentious song.


Topic: Fescue
Definition:
FES'CUE, n.  [L. festuca, a shoot or stalk of a tree, a rod.]
A small wire used to point out letters to children when learning to read.


Topic: Fesse
Definition:
FESSE, n.  fess.  [L. fascia, a band.]  In heraldry, a bank or girdle, possessing the third part of the escutcheon; one of the nine honorable ordinaries.


Topic: Fester
Definition:
FES'TER, v.i.  [L. pestis, pus, or pustula.]
To rankle; to corrupt; to grow virulent. 
We say of a sore or wound, it festers.
Passion and unkindness may give a wound that shall bleed and smart; but it is treachery that makes it fester.


Topic: Festival
Definition:
FES'TIVAL, a.  [L. festivus, from festus, or festum or fasti.  See Feast.]
Pertaining to a feast; joyous; mirthful; as a festival entertainment.
FES'TIVAL, n.  The time of feasting; an anniversary day of joy, civil or religious.
The morning trumpets festival proclaimed.


Topic: Festive
Definition:
FES'TIVE, a.  [L. festivus.]  Pertaining to or becoming a feast; joyous; gay; mirthful.
The glad circle round them yield their souls to festive mirth and wit that knows no gall.


Topic: Festivity
Definition:
FESTIV'ITY, n.  [L. festivitas.]  
1.  Primarily, the mirth of a feast; hence, joyfulness; gaiety; social joy or exhilaration of spirits at an entertainment.
2.  A festival.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Festoon
Definition:
FESTOON', n.  
Something in imitation of a garland or wreath.  In architecture and sculpture, an ornament of carved work in the form of a wreath of flowers, fruits and leaves intermixed or twisted together.  It is in the form of a string or collar, somewhat largest in the middle, where it falls down in an arch, being suspended by the ends, the extremities of which hang down perpendicularly.


Topic: Fetch
Definition:
FETCH, v.t.
1.  To go and bring, or simply to bring, that is, to bear a thing towards or to a person.
We will take men to fetch victuals for the people.  
Judges 20.
Go to the flock, and fetch me from thence two kids of the goats.  Gen. 27.
In the latter passage, fetch signifies only to bring.
2.  To derive; to draw, as from a source.
On you noblest English, whose blood is fetched from fathers of war-proof.
[In this sense, the use is neither common nor elegant.]
3.  To strike at a distance.  [Not used.]
The conditions and improvements of weapons are the fetching afar off.
4.  To bring back; to recall; to bring to any state.  [Not used or vulgar.]
In smells we see their great and sudden effect in fetching men again, when they swoon.
5.  To bring or draw; as, to fetch a thing within a certain compass.
6.  To make; to perform; as, to fetch a turn; to fetch a leap or bound.
Fetch a compass behind them.  2Sam. 5.
7.  To draw; to heave; as, to fetch a sigh.
8.  To reach; to attain or come to; to arrive at.
We fetched the syren's isle.
9.  To bring; to obtain its price.  Wheat fetches only 75 cents the bushel.  A commodity is worth what it will fetch.
To fetch out, to bring or draw out; to cause to appear.
To fetch to, to restore, to revive, as from a swoon.
To fetch up, to bring up; to cause to come up or forth.
To fetch a pump, to pour water into it to make it draw water.
FETCH, v.i.  To move or turn; as, to fetch about.
FETCH, n.  A stratagem, by which a thing is indirectly brought to pass, or by which one thing seems intended and another is done; a trick; an artifice; as a fetch of wit.
Straight cast about to over-reach 
Th' unwary conqueror with a fetch.


Topic: Fetching
Definition:
FETCH'ING, ppr.  Bringing; going and bringing; deriving; drawing; making; reaching; obtaining as price.


Topic: Fether
Definition:
FETH'ER,  n.
1.  A plume; a general name of the covering of fowls.  The smaller fethers are used for the filling of beds; the larger ones, called quills, are used for ornaments of the head, for writing pens, &c.  The fether consists of a shaft or stem, corneous, round, strong and hollow at the lower part, and at the upper part, filled with pith.  On each side of the shaft are the vanes, broad on one side and narrow on the other, consisting of thin lamins.  The fethers which cover the body are called the plumage; the fethers of the wings are adapted to flight.
2.  Kind; nature; species; from the proverbial phrase, 'Birds of a fether,' that is, of the same species.  [Unusual.]
I am not of that feather to shake off my friend, when he most needs me.
3.  An ornament; an empty title.
4.  On a horse, a sort of natural frizzling of the hair, which, in some places, rises above the lying hair, and there makes a figure resembling the tip of an ear of wheat.
A fether in the cap, is an honor, or mark of distinction.


Topic: Fethered
Definition:
FETH'ERED, pp.
1.  Covered with fethers; enriched.
2.  a. Clothed or covered with fethers.  A fowl or bird is a fethered animal
Rise from the ground like feathered Mercury.
3.  Fitted or furnished with fethers; as a fethered arrow.
4.  Smoothed, like down or fethers.
5.  Covered with things growing from the substance; as land fethered with trees.


Topic: Fetheredge
Definition:
FETH'EREDGE, n.  An edge like a fether.
A board that has one edge thinner than the other, is called featheredge stuff.


Topic: Fetid
Definition:
FET'ID, a.  [L. faetidus, from faetco, to have an ill scent.]
Having an offensive smell; having a strong or rancid scent.
Most putrefactions smell either fetid or moldy.


Topic: Fetlock
Definition:
FET'LOCK, n.  [foot or feet and lock.]  A tuft of hair growing behind the pastern joint of many horses.  Horses of low size have scarce any such tuft.


Topic: Fetter
Definition:
FET'TER, n.
1.  A chain for the feet; a chain by which an animal is confined by the foot, either made fast or fixed, as a prisoner, or impeded in motion and hindered from leaping, as a horse whose fore and hind feet are confined by a chain.
The Philistines bound Samson with fetters of brass.  
Judges 16.
2.  Any thing that confines or restrains from motion.
Passions too fierce to be in fetters bound.
FET'TER, v.t.
1.  To put on fetters; to shackle or confine the feet with a chain.
2.  To bind; to enchain; to confine; to restrain motion; to impose restraints on.
Fetter strong madness in a silken thread.


Topic: Fetus
Definition:
FE'TUS, n.  plu. fetuses.  [L. faetus.]  The young of viviparous animals in the womb, and of oviparous animals in the egg, after it is perfectly formed; before which time it is called embryo.  A young animal then is called a fetus from the time its parts are distinctly formed, till its birth.
Feu de joie, fire of joy, a French phrase for a bonfire, or a firing of guns in token of joy.


Topic: Feud
Definition:
FEUD, n.  
1.  Primarily, a deadly quarrel; hatred and contention that was to be terminated only by death.  Among our rude ancestors, these quarrels, though originating in the murder of an individual, involved the whole tribe or family of the injured and of the aggressing parties.  Hence in modern usage,
2.  A contention or quarrel; particularly, an inveterate quarrel between families or parties in a state; the discord and animosities which prevail among the citizens of a state or city, sometimes accompanied with civil war.  In the north of Great Britain, the word is still used in its original sense; denoting a combination of kindred to revenge the death of any of their blood, on the offender and all his race, or any other great enemy.  We say, it is the policy of our enemies to raise and cherish intestine feuds.
The word is not strictly applicable to wars between different nations, but to intestine wars, and to quarrels and animosities between families or small tribes.
FEUD, n.  [L. fides; Eng. loan.]
A fief; a fee; a right to lands or hereditaments held in trust, or on the terms of performing certain conditions; the right which a vassal or tenant has to the lands or other immovable thing of his lord, to use the same and take the profits thereof hereditarily, rendering to his superior such duties and services as belong to military tenure, &c., the property of the soil always remaining in the lord or superior.
From the foregoing explanation of the origin of the word, result very naturally the definition of the term, and the doctrine of forfeiture, upon non-performance of the conditions of the trust or loan.


Topic: Feudal
Definition:
FEU'DAL, a.  
1.  Pertaining to feuds, fiefs or fees; as feudal rights or services; feudal tenures.
2.  Consisting of feuds or fiefs; embracing tenures by military services; as the feudal system.


Topic: Feudalism
Definition:
FEU'DALISM, n.  The feudal system; the principles and constitution of feuds, or lands held by military services.


Topic: Feudatory
Definition:
FEU'DATORY, n.
A tenant or vassal who holds his lands of a superior, on condition of military service; the tenant of a feud or fief.


Topic: Fever
Definition:
FE'VER, n.  [L. febris, supposed to be so written by transposition for ferbis, or fervis, from ferbeo, ferveo, to be hot.]
1.  A disease, characterized by an accelerated pulse, with increase of heat, impaired functions, diminished strength, and often with preternatural thirst.  This order of diseases is called by Cullen pyrexy, Gr.  Fevers are often or generally preceded by chills or rigors, called the cold stage of the disease.  Fevers are of various kinds, but the principal division of fevers is into remitting fevers, which subside or abate at intervals; intermitting fevers, which intermit or entirely cease at intervals; and continued or continual fevers, which neither remit nor intermit.
2.  Heat; agitation; excitement by any thing that strongly affects the passions.  This news has given me a fever.  This quarrel has set my blood in a fever .
FE'VER, v.t.  To put in a fever.


Topic: Feverfew
Definition:
FE'VERFEW, n.  [L. febris and fugo.]
A plant, or rather a genus of plants, the Matricaria, so named from supposed febrifuge qualities.  The common feverfew grows to the height of two or three feet with compound leaves and compound radiated white flowers, with a yellow disk.


Topic: Feverish
Definition:
FE'VERISH, a.
1.  Having a slight fever; as the patient is feverish.
2.  Diseased with fever or heat; as feverish nature.
3.  Uncertain; inconstant; fickle; now hot, now cold.
We toss and turn about our feverish will.
4.  Hot; sultry; burning; as the feverish north.


Topic: Feverous
Definition:
FE'VEROUS, a.
1.  Affected with fever or ague.
2.  Having the nature of fever.
All feverous kinds.
3.  Having a tendency to produce fever; as a feverous disposition of the year.  [This word is little used.]


Topic: Few
Definition:
FEW, a.  [L. pauci.  The senses of few and small are often united.]
Not many; small in number.  Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few; but few men, in times of party, regard the maxim.


Topic: Fib
Definition:
FIB, n.  [See Fable.]  A lie or falsehood; a word used among children and the vulgar, as a softer expression than lie.
FIB, v.i.  To lie; to speak falsely.


Topic: Fiber
Definition:
FI'BER, n.  [L. fibra.]
1.  A thread; a fine, slender body which constitutes a part of the frame of animals.  Of fibers, some are soft and flexible; others more hard and elastic.  Those that are soft are hollow, or spungy and full of little cells, as the nervous and fleshy.  Some are so small as scarcely to be visible; others are larger and appear to be composed of still smaller fibers.  These fibers constitute the substance of the bones, cartilages, ligaments, membranes, nerves, veins, arteries, and muscles.
2.  A filament or slender thread in plants or minerals; the small slender root of a plant.
3.  Any fine, slender thread.


Topic: Fibrin
Definition:
FI'BRIN, n.  [See Fiber.]  A peculiar organic compound substance found in animals and vegetables.  It is a soft solid, of a greasy appearance, which softens in air, becoming viscid, brown and semitransparent, but is insoluble in water.  It is the chief constituent of muscular flesh.


Topic: Fibrolite
Definition:
FIB'ROLITE, n.  [from L. fibra, and Gr.]
A mineral that occurs with corundum, of a white or gray color, composed of minute fibres some of which appear to be rhomboidal prisms.


Topic: Fibrous
Definition:
FI'BROUS, a.
1.  Composed or consisting of fibers; as a fibrous body or substance.
2.  Containing fibers.  In mineralogy, a fibrous fracture, is that which presents fine threads or slender lines, either straight or curved, parallel, diverging, or stellated, like the rays of a star.


Topic: Fibula
Definition:
FIB'ULA, n.  [L.]  
1.  The outer and lesser bone of the leg, much smaller than the tibia.
2.  A clasp or buckle.


Topic: Fickle
Definition:
FICK'LE, a.  [L. vacillo; Gr.; Heb. to stagger.]
1.  Wavering; inconstant; unstable; of a changeable mind; irresolute; not firm in opinion or purpose; capricious.
They know how fickle common lovers are.
2.  Not fixed or firm; liable to change or vicissitude; as a fickle state.


Topic: Fickleness
Definition:
FICK'LENESS, n.  
1.  A wavering; wavering disposition; inconstancy; instability; unsteadiness in opinion or purpose; as the fickleness of lovers.
2.  Instability; changeableness; as the fickleness of fortune.


Topic: Fictile
Definition:
FIC'TILE, a.  [L. fictilis, from fictus, fingo, to feign.]
Molded into form by art; manufactured by the potter.
Fictile earth is more fragile than crude earth.


Topic: Fiction
Definition:
FIC'TION, n.  [L. fictio, from fingo, to feign.]
1.  The act of feigning, inventing or imagining; as, by the mere fiction of the mind.
2.  That which is feigned, invented or imagined.  The story is a fiction.
So also was the fiction of those golden apples kept by a dragon, taken from the serpent which tempted Eve.


Topic: Fictitious
Definition:
FICTI'TIOUS, a.  [L. fictifius, from fingo, to feign.]
1.  Feigned; imaginary; not real.
The human persons are as fictitious as the airy ones.
2.  Counterfeit; false; not genuine; as fictitious fame.


Topic: Fid
Definition:
FID, n.
1.  A square bar of wood or iron, with a shoulder at one end, used to support the top-mast, when erected at the head of the lower mast.
2.  A pin of hard wood or iron, tapering to a point, used to open the strands of a rope in splicing.


Topic: Fiddle
Definition:
FID'DLE, n.  [L. fides, fidicula.]  A stringed instrument of music; a violin.
FID'DLE, v.i. 
1.  To play on a fiddle or violin.
Themistocles said he could not fiddle, but he could make a small town a great city.
It is said that Nero fiddled, when Rome was in flames.
2.  To trifle; to shift the hands often and do nothing, like a fellow that plays on a fiddle.
Good cooks cannot abide what they call fiddling work.
FID'DLE, v.t.  To play a tune on a fiddle.


Topic: Fiddle-faddle
Definition:
FID'DLE-FADDLE, n.  Trifles.  [A low cant word.]
FID'DLE-FADDLE, a.  Trifling; making a bustle about nothing.  [Vulgar.]


Topic: Fiddle-string
Definition:
FID'DLE-STRING, n.  The string of a fiddle, fastened at the ends and elevated in the middle by a bridge.


Topic: Fidelity
Definition:
FIDEL'ITY, n.  [L. fidelitas, from fides, faith, fido, to trust.  See Faith.]
1.  Faithfulness; careful and exact observance of duty, or performance of obligations.  We expect fidelity in a public minister, in an agent or trustee, in a domestic servant, in a friend.
The best security for the fidelity of men, is to make interest coincide with duty.
2.  Firm adherence to a person or party with which one is united, or to which one is bound; loyalty; as the fidelity of subjects to their king or government; the fidelity of a tenant or liege to his lord.
3.  Observance of the marriage covenant; as the fidelity of a husband or wife.
4.  Honesty; veracity; adherence to truth; as the fidelity of a witness.


Topic: Fiducial
Definition:
FIDU'CIAL, a.  [from L. fiducia, from fido, to trust.]
1.  Confident; undoubting; firm; as a fiducial reliance on the promises of the gospel.
2.  Having the nature of a trust; as fiducial power.


Topic: Fiduciary
Definition:
FIDU'CIARY, a.  [L. fiduciarius, from fido, to trust.]
1.  Confident; steady; undoubting; unwavering; firm.
2.  Not to be doubted; as fiduciary obedience.
3.  Held in trust.
FIDU'CIARY, n.
1.  One who holds a thing in trust; a trustee.
2.  One who depends on faith for salvation, without works; an antinomian.


Topic: Fief
Definition:
FIEF, n.  [See Fee, Feoff and Feud.]
A fee; a feud; an estate held of a superior on condition of military service.


Topic: Field
Definition:
FIELD, n.
1.  A piece of land inclosed for tillage or pasture; any part of a farm, except the garden and appurtenances of the mansion; properly land not covered with wood, and more strictly applicable to tillage land than to mowing land, which is often called meadow.  But we say, the master of the house is in the field with his laborers, when he is at a distance from his house on his farm.  He is in the field, plowing, sowing, reaping or making hay.
2.  Ground not inclosed.
3.  The ground where a battle is fought.
We say, the field of battle; these veterans are excellent soldiers in the field.
4.  A battle; action in the field.
What though the field be lost.
5.  To keep the field, is to keep the campaign open; to live in tents, or to be in a state of active operations.  At the approach of cold weather, the troops, unable to keep the field, were ordered into winter quarters.
6.  A wide expanse.
Ask of yonder argent fields above.
7.  Open space for action or operation; compass; extent.  This subject opens a wide field for contemplation.
8.  A piece or tract of land.
The field I give thee and the cave that is therein.  
Gen. 23.
9.  The ground or blank space on which figures are drawn; as the field or ground of a picture.
10.  In heraldry, the whole surface of the shield, or the continent.
11.  In scripture, field often signifies the open country, ground not inclosed, as it may in some countries in modern times.
12.  A field of ice, a large body of floating ice.


Topic: Field-book
Definition:
FIE'LD-BOOK, n.  A book used in surveying, in which are set down the angles, stations, distances, &c.


Topic: Field-colors
Definition:
FIE'LD-COLORS, n. plu.  In war, small flags of about a foot and half square, carried along with the quarter-master general, for marking out the ground for the squadrons and battalions.


Topic: Field-marshal
Definition:
FIELD-M'ARSHAL, n.  The commander of an army; a military officer of high rank in France and Germany, and the highest military officer in England.


Topic: Field-piece
Definition:
FIE'LD-PIECE, n.  A small cannon which is carried along with armies, and used in the field of battle.


Topic: Field-staff
Definition:
FIE'LD-STAFF, n.  A weapon carried by gunners, about the length of a halbert, with a spear at the end; having on each side ears screwed on, like the cock of a match-lock, where the gunners screw in lighted matches, when they are on command.


Topic: Field-works
Definition:
FIE'LD-WORKS, n.  In the military art, works thrown up by an army in besieging a fortress, or by the besieged to defend the place.


Topic: Fieldfare
Definition:
FIE'LDFARE, n.  [field and fare, wandering in the field.]
A bird of the genus Turdus or thrush, about ten inches in length, the head ash-colored, the back and greater coverts of the wings, of a fine deep chestnut, and the tail black.  These birds pass the summer in the northern parts of Europe, but visit Great Britain in winter.


Topic: Fiend
Definition:
FIEND, n.  [See Feud, contention.]
An enemy in the worst sense; an implacable or malicious foe; the devil; an infernal being.
O woman! woman! when to ill thy mind is bent, all hell contains no fouler fiend.


Topic: Fierce
Definition:
FIERCE, n. fers.  [L. ferus, ferox, the primary sense of which is wild, running, rushing.]
1.  Vehement; violent; furious; rushing; impetuous; as a fierce wind.
2.  Savage; ravenous; easily enraged; as a fierce lion.
3.  Vehement in rage; eager of mischief; as a fierce tyrant; a monster fierce for blood.
4.  Violent; outrageous; not to be restrained.
Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce.  Gen. 49.
5.  Passionate; angry; furious.
6.  Wild; staring; ferocious; as a fierce countenance.
7.  Very eager; ardent; vehement; as a man fierce for his party.


Topic: Fiercely
Definition:
FIERCELY, adv.  fers'ly.  
1.  Violently; furiously; with rage; as, both sides fiercely fought.
2.  With a wild aspect; as, to look fiercely.


Topic: Fierceness
Definition:
FIERCENESS, n.  fers'ness.  
1.  Ferocity; savageness.
The defect of heat which gives fierceness to our natures.
2.  Eagerness for blood; fury; as the fierceness of a lion or bear.
3.  Quickness to attack; keenness in anger and resentment.
The Greeks are strong, and skilful to their strength,
Fierce to their skill, and to their fierceness valiant.
4.  Violence; outrageous passion.
His pride and brutal fierceness I abhor.
5.  Vehemence; fury; impetuosity; as the fierceness of a tempest.


Topic: Fieriness
Definition:
FI'ERINESS, n.  [See Fiery, Fire.]  
1.  The quality of being fiery; hear; acrimony; the quality of a substance that excites a sensation of heat.
2.  Heat of temper; irritability; as fieriness of temper.


Topic: Fiery
Definition:
FI'ERY, a.  [from fire.]
1.  Consisting of fire; as the fiery gulf of Etna.
And fiery billows roll below.
2.  Hot like fire; as a fiery heart.
3.  Vehement; ardent; very active; impetuous; as a fiery spirit.
4.  Passionate; easily provoked; irritable.
You know the fiery quality of the duke.
5.  Unrestrained; fierce; as a fiery steed.
6.  Heated by fire.
The sword which is made fiery.
7.  Like fire; bright; glaring; as a fiery appearance.


Topic: Fife
Definition:
FIFE, n.  [L. pipio, to pip or peep, as a chicken.  The word may have received its name from a hollow stalk, or from its sound.]
A small pipe, used as a wind instrument, chiefly in martial music with drums.
FIFE, v.t.  To play on a fife.


Topic: Fifteenth
Definition:
FIFTEE'NTH, a.  
1.  The ordinal of fifteen; the fifth after the tenth.
2.  Containing one part in fifteen.


Topic: Fifth
Definition:
FIFTH, a.  [See Five.]  
1.  The ordinal of five; the next to the fourth.
2.  Elliptically, a fifth part; or the word may be considered as a noun, as to give a fifth or two fifths.
FIFTH, n.  In music, an interval consisting of three tones and a semitone.


Topic: Fiftieth
Definition:
FIF'TIETH, a.  
The ordinal of fifty; as the fiftieth part of a foot.  This may be used elliptically, as a fiftieth of his goods, part being understood; or in this case, the word may be treated in grammars as a noun, admitting a plural, as two fiftieths.


Topic: Fifty
Definition:
FIF'TY, a.
Five tens; five times ten; as fifty men.  It may be used as a noun in the plural.
And they sat down by fifties.  Mark 6.


Topic: Fig
Definition:
FIG, n.  [L. ficus; Heb.]
1.  The fruit of the fig tree, which is of a round or oblong shape, and a dark purplish color, with a pulp of a sweet taste.  But the varieties are numerous; some being blue, others red, and others of a dark brown color.
2.  The fig tree.
FIG, v.t.
1.  To insult with ficoes or contemptuous motions of the fingers.  [Little used.]
2.  To put something useless into one's head.  [Not used.]


Topic: Fig-marigold
Definition:
FIG-MAR'IGOLD, n.  The Mesembryanthemum, a succulent plant, resembling houseleek; the leaves grow opposite by pairs.


Topic: Fig-tree
Definition:
FIG'-TREE, n.  A tree of the genus Ficus, growing in warm climates.  The receptacle is common, turbinated, carnous and connivent, inclosing the florets either in the same or in a distinct one.  The male calyx is tripartite; no corol; three stamens.  The female calyx is quinquepartite; no corol; one pistil; one seed.
To dwell under our vine and fig tree, is to live in peace and safety.  1Kings 4.


Topic: Fight
Definition:
FIGHT, v.i.
1.  To strive or contend for victory, in battle or in single combat; to attempt to defeat, subdue or destroy an enemy, either by blows or weapons; to contend in arms.
Come and be our captain, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.  Judges. 11.
When two persons or parties contend in person, fight is usually followed by with.  But when we speak of carrying on war, in any other form, we may say, to fight against.
Saul took the kingdom over Israel, and fought against all his enemies on every side.  1Sam. 14.
Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath.
2Kings 12.
It is treason for a man to join an enemy to fight against his country.
To fight against, is to act in opposition; to oppose; to strive to conquer or resist.
The stars in their courses fought against Sisera.  Judges 5.
2.  To contend; to strive; to struggle to resist or check.
3.  To act as a soldier.
FIGHT, v.t.
1.  To carry on contention; to maintain a struggle for victory over enemies.
I have fought a good fight.  2Tim. 4.
2.  To contend with in battle; to war against.  They fought the enemy in two pitched battles.  The captain fought the frigate seven glasses.  [Elliptical; with being understood.]
FIGHT, n.
1.  A battle; an engagement; a contest in arms; a struggle for victory, either between individuals, or between armies, ships or navies.  A duel is called a single fight or combat.
2.  Something to screen the combatants in ships.
Up with your fights and your nettings prepare.


Topic: Fighting
Definition:
FIGHTING, ppr.
1.  Contending in battle; striving for victory or conquest.
2.  a.  Qualified for war; fit for battle.
A host of fighting men.  2Chron. 26.
3.  Occupied in war; being the scene of war; as a fighting field.
FIGHTING, n.  Contention; strife; quarrel.
Without were fightings, within were fears.  2Cor. 7.


Topic: Figment
Definition:
FIG'MENT, n.  [L. figmentum, from fingo, to feign.]
An invention; a fiction; something feigned or imagined.  These assertions are the figments of idle brains.


Topic: Figulate
Definition:
FIG'ULATE, a.  [L. figulo, to fashion, from fingo, or rather figo, which appears to be the root of fingo.]
Made of potter's clay; molded; shaped.  [Little used.]


Topic: Figurable
Definition:
FIG'URABLE, a.  [from figure.]  Capable of being brought to a certain fixed form or shape.  Thus lead is figurable, but water is not.


Topic: Figural
Definition:
FIG'URAL, a.  Represented by figure or delineation; as figural resemblances.
Figural numbers, in geometry, such numbers as do or may represent some geometrical figure, in relation to which they are always considered, and are either lineary, superficial or solid.


Topic: Figurate
Definition:
FIG'URATE, a.  [L. figuratus.]  
1.  Of a certain determinate form.
Plants are all figurate and determinate, which inanimate bodies are not.
2.  Resembling any thing of a determinate form; as figurate stones, stones or fossils resembling shells.
3.  Figurative.  [Not used.]
Figurate counterpoint, in music, that wherein there is a mixture of discords with concords.
Figurate descant, that in which discords are concerned, though not so much as concords.  It may be called the ornament or rhetorical part of music, containing all the varieties of points, figures, syncopes, and diversities of measure.


Topic: Figuration
Definition:
FIGURA'TION, n.
1.  The act of giving figure or determinate form.
2.  Determination to a certain form.
3.  Mixture of concords and discords in music.


Topic: Figurative
Definition:
FIG'URATIVE, a.
1.  Representing something else; representing by resemblance; typical.
This they will say, was figurative, and served by God's appointment but for a time, to shadow out the true glory of a more divine sanctity.
2.  Representing by resemblance; not literal or direct.  A figurative expression, is one in which the words are used in a sense different from that in which they are ordinarily used as,
Slander, whose edge is sharper than the sword.
3.  Abounding with figures of speech; as a description highly figurative.


Topic: Figuratively
Definition:
FIG'URATIVELY, adv.  By a figure; in a manner to exhibit ideas by resemblance; in a sense different from that which words originally imply.  Words are used figuratively, when they express something different from their usual meaning.


Topic: Figure
Definition:
FIG'URE, n. fig'ur.  [L. figura, from figo, to fix or set.  See Feign.]
1.  The form of any thing as expressed by the outline or terminating extremities.  Flowers have exquisite figures.  A triangle is a figure of three sides.  A square is a figure of four equal sides and equal angles.
2.  Shape; form; person; as a lady of elegant figure.
A good figure, or person, in man or woman, gives credit at first sight to the choice of either.
3.  Distinguished appearance; eminence; distinction; remarkable character.  Ames made a figure in Congress; Hamilton, in the cabinet.
4.  Appearance of any kind; as an ill figure; a mean figure.
5.  Magnificence; splendor; as, to live in figure and indulgence.
6.  A statue; an image; that which is formed in resemblance of something else; as the figure of a man in plaster.
7.  Representation in painting; the lines and colors which represent an animal, particularly a person; as the principal figures of a picture; a subordinate figure.
8.  In manufactures, a design or representation wrought on damask, velvet and other stuffs.
9.  In logic, the order or disposition of the middle term in a syllogism with the parts of the question.
10.  In arithmetic, a character denoting a number; as 2. 7. 9. 
11.  In astrology, the horoscope; the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses.
12.  In theology, type; representative.
Who was the figure of him that was to come.  Rom. 5.
13.  In rhetoric, a mode of speaking or writing in which words are deflected from their ordinary signification, or a mode more beautiful and emphatical than the ordinary way of expressing the sense; the language of the imagination and passions; as, knowledge is the light of the mind; the soul mounts on the wings of faith; youth is the morning of life.  In strictness, the change of a word is a trope, and any affection of a sentence a figure; but these terms are often confounded.
14.  In grammar, any deviation from the rules of analogy or syntax.
15.  In dancing, the several steps which the dancer makes in order and cadence, considered as they form certain figures on the floor.
FIG'URE, v.t.  fig'ur.  
1.  To form or mold into any determinate shape.
Accept this goblet, rough with figured gold.
2.  To show by a corporeal resemblance, as in picture or statuary.
3.  To cover or adorn with figures or images; to mark with figures; to form figures in by art; as, to figure velvet or muslin.
4.  To diversify; to variegate with adventitious forms of matter.
5.  To represent by a typical or figurative resemblance.
The matter of the sacraments figureth their end.
6.  To imagine; to image in the mind.
7.  To prefigure; to foreshow.
8.  To form figuratively; to use in a sense not literal; as figured expressions.  [Little used.]
9.  To note by characters.
As though a crystal glass the figured hours are seen.
10.  In music, to pass several notes for one; to form runnings or variations.
FIG'URE, v.i.  To make a figure; to be distinguished.  The envoy figured at the court of St. Cloud.


Topic: Figured
Definition:
FIG'URED, pp.  
1.  Represented by resemblance; adorned with figures; formed into a determinate figure.
2.  In music, free and florid.


Topic: Figuring
Definition:
FIG'URING, ppr.  Forming into determinate shape; representing by types or resemblances; adorning with figures; making a distinguished appearance.


Topic: Filacer
Definition:
FIL'ACER, n.  
An officer in the English Court of Common Pleas, so called from filing the writs on which he makes process.  There are fourteen of them in their several divisions and counties.  They make out all original processes, real, personal and mixed.


Topic: Filament
Definition:
FIL'AMENT, n.  [L. filamenta, threads, from filum.]
A thread; a fiber.  In anatomy and natural history, a fine thread of which flesh, nerves, skin, plants, roots, &c., and also some minerals, are composed.  So the spider's web is composed of filaments.  The threadlike part of the stamens of plants, is called the filament.


Topic: Filanders
Definition:
FIL'ANDERS, n.
A disease in hawks, consisting of filaments of coagulated blood; also, small worms wrapped in a thin skin or net, near the reins of a hawk.


Topic: Filatory
Definition:
FIL'ATORY, n.  [from L. filum, a thread.]  A machine which forms or spins threads.
This manufactory has three filatories, each of 640 reels, which are moved by a water wheel, and besides a small filatory turned by men.


Topic: Filbert
Definition:
FIL'BERT, n.  [L. avellana, with which the first syllable corresponds; fil, vel.]
The fruit of the Corylus or hazel; an egg shaped nut, containing a kernel, that has a mild, farinaceous, oily taste, which is agreeable to the palate.  The oil is said to be little inferior to the oil of almonds.


Topic: Filch
Definition:
FILCH, v.t.  [This word, like pilfer, is probably from the root of file, or peel, to strip or rub off.  But I know not from what source we have received it.]
To steal something of little value; to pilfer; to steal; to pillage; to take wrongfully from another.
Fain would they filch that little food away.
But he that filches from me my good name, 
Robs me of that which not enriches him,
And makes me poor indeed.


Topic: File
Definition:
FILE, n.  [L. filum.  The primary sense is probably to draw out or extend, or to twist.]
1.  A thread, string of line; particularly, a line or wire on which papers are strung in due order for preservation, and for conveniently finding them when wanted.  Documents are kept on file.
2.  The whole number of papers strung on a line or wire; as a file of writs.  A file is a record of court.
3.  A bundle of papers tied together, with the title of each indorsed; the mode of arranging and keeping papers being changed, without a change of names.
4.  A roll, list or catalogue.
5.  A row of soldiers ranged one behind another, from front to rear; the number of men constituting the depth of the battalion or squadron.
FILE, v.t.
1.  To string; to fasten, as papers, on a line or wire for preservation.  Declarations and affidavits must be filed.  An original writ may be filed after judgment.
2.  To arrange or insert in a bundle, as papers, indorsing the title on each paper.  This is now the more common mode of filing papers in public and private offices.
3.  To present or exhibit officially, or for trial; as, to file a bill in chancery.
FILE, v.i.  To march in a file or line, as soldiers, not abreast, but one after another.
FILE, n.
An instrument used in smoothing and polishing metals, formed of iron or steel, and cut in little furrows.
FILE, v.t.
1.  To rub and smooth with a file; to polish.
2.  To cut as with a file; to wear off or away by friction; as, to file off a tooth.
3.  [from defile.]  To foul or defile.  [Not used.]


Topic: Filed
Definition:
FI'LED, pp.  Placed on a line or wire; placed in a bundle and indorsed; smoothed or polished with a file.


Topic: Filial
Definition:
FIL'IAL, a.  [L. filius, a son, flia, a daughter.]
1.  Pertaining to a son or daughter; becoming a child in relation to his parents.  Filial love is such an affection as a child naturally bears to his parents.  Filial duty or obedience is such duty or obedience as the child owes to his parents.
2.  Bearing the relation of a son.
Springs of like leaf erect their filial heads.


Topic: Filiation
Definition:
FILIA'TION, n.  [L. filius, a son.]
1.  The relation of a son or child to a father; correlative to paternity.
2.  Adoption.


Topic: Filiform
Definition:
FIL'IFORM, n.  [L. filum, a thread, and form.]
Having the form of a thread or filament; of equal thickness from top to bottom; as a filiform style or peduncle.


Topic: Filigrane
Definition:
FIL'IGRANE, n. sometimes written filigree. [L. filum, a thread, and granum, a grain.]
A kind of enrichment on gold and silver, wrought delicately in the manner of little threads or grains, or of both intermixed.


Topic: Filing
Definition:
FI'LING, ppr.  Placing on a string or wire, or in a bundle of papers; presenting for trial; marching in a file; smoothing with a file.


Topic: Fill
Definition:
FILL, v.t.  [Gr. allied perhaps to fold and felt; to stuff; L. pilus, pileus.  We are told that the Gr. to approach, signified originally to thrust or drive, L. pello, and contracted, it is rendered to fill, and is full.]
1.  Properly, to press; to crowd; to stuff.  Hence, to put or pour in, till the thing will hold no more; as, to fill a basket, a bottle, a vessel.
Fill the water pots with water: and they filled them to the brim.  John 2.
2.  To store; to supply with abundance.
Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas.  Gen. 1.
3.  To cause to abound; to make universally prevalent.
The earth was filled with violence.  Gen. 6.
4.  To satisfy; to content.
Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude?  Matt. 15.
5.  To glut; to surfeit.
Things that are sweet and fat are more filing.
6.  To make plump; as, in a good season the grain is well filled.  In the summer of 1816, the driest and coldest which the oldest man remembered, the rye was so well filled, that the grain protruded beyond the husk, and a shock yielded a peck more than in common years.
7.  To press and dilate on all sides or to the extremities; as, the sails were filled.
8.  To supply with liquor; to pour into; as, to fill a glass for a guest.
9.  To supply with an incumbent; as, to fill an office or vacancy.
10.  To hold; to possess and perform the duties of; to officiate in, as an incumbent; as, a king fills a throne; the president fills the office of chief magistrate; the speaker of the house fills the chair.
11.  In seamanship, to brace the sails so that the wind will bear upon them and dilate them.
To fill out, to extend or enlarge to the desired limit.
1.  To fill up, to make full.
It pours the bliss that fills up all the mind.
But in this and many other cases, the use of up weakens the force of the phrase.
2.  To occupy; to fill.  Seek to fill up life with useful employments.
3.  To fill; to occupy the whole extent; as, to fill up a given space.
4.  To engage or employ; as, to fill up time.
5.  To complete; as, to fill up the measure of sin.  Matt. 23.
6.  To complete; to accomplish.
And fill up what is behind of the afflictions of Christ.  
Col. 1.
FILL, v.i.
1.  To fill a cup or glass for drinking; to give to drink.
In the cup which she hath filled, fill to her double.  
Rev. 18.
2.  To grow or become full.  corn fills well in a warm season.  A mill pond fills during the night.
3.  To glut; to satiate.
To fill up, to grow or become full.  The channel of the river fills up with sand, every spring.
FILL, n.  Fullness; as much as supplies want; as much as gives complete satisfaction.  Eat and drink to the fill.  take your fill of joy.
The land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.  Lev. 25.


Topic: Filler
Definition:
FILL'ER, n.  
1.  One who fills; one whose employment is to fill vessels.
They have six diggers to four fillers, so as to keep the fillers always at work.
2.  That which fills any space.
3.  One that supplies abundantly.


Topic: Fillet
Definition:
FIL'LET, n.  [L. filum.]
1.  A little band to tie about the hair of the head.
A belt her waist, a fillet binds her hair.
2.  The fleshy part of the thigh; applied to veal; as a fillet of veal.
3.  Meat rolled together and tied round.
4.  In architecture, a little square member or ornament used in divers places, but generally as a corona over a greater molding; called also listel.
5.  In heraldry, a kind of orle or bordure, containing only the third or fourth part of the breadth of the common bordure.  it runs quite round near the edge, as a lace over a cloke.
6.  Among painters and gilders, a little rule or reglet of leaf-gold, drawn over certain moldings, or on the edges of frames, pannels, &c., especially when painted white, by way of enrichment.
7.  In the manege, the loins of a horse, beginning at the place where the hinder part of the saddle rests.
FIL'LET, v.t.  
1.  to bind with a fillet or little band.
2.  To adorn with an astragal.  Ex. 38.


Topic: Fillibeg
Definition:
FIL'LIBEG, n.  A little plaid; a dress reaching only to the knees, worn in the highlands of Scotland.


Topic: Filling
Definition:
FILL'ING, ppr.  Making full; supplying abundantly; growing full.
FILL'ING, n.
1.  A making full; supply.
2.  The woof in weaving.


Topic: Fillip
Definition:
FIL'LIP, v.t.  [probably from the root of L. pello, like pelt.  See Filly.]
To strike with the nail of the finger, first placed against the ball of the thumb, and forced from that position with some violence.
FIL'LIP, n.  a jerk of the finger forced suddenly from the thumb.


Topic: Filly
Definition:
FIL'LY, n.  [L. filia, Eng. foal, a shoot, issue.]
1.  A female or mare colt; a young mare.
2.  A young horse.  [Not used.]
3.  A wanton girl.


Topic: Film
Definition:
FILM, n.  [L. velamen, or from L. pellis.]
A thin skin; a pellicle, as on the eye.  In plants, it denotes the thin skin which separates the seeds in pods.
FILM, v.t.  To cover with a thin skin or pellicle.


Topic: Filmy
Definition:
FILM'Y, a.  Composed of thin membranes or pellicles.
Whose filmy cord should bind the struggling fly.


Topic: Filter
Definition:
FIL'TER, n.
A strainer; a piece of woolen cloth, paper or other substance, through which liquors are passed for defecation.  A filter may be made in the form of a hollow inverted cone, or by a twist of thread or yarn, being wetted and one end put in the liquor and the other suffered to hand out below the surface of the liquor.  Porous stone is often used as a filter.
FIL'TER, v.t.  To purify or defecate liquor, by passing it through a filter, or causing it to pass through a porous substance that retains any feculent matter.
FIL'TER, v.i.  To percolate; to pass through a filter.
FIL'TER, n.  [See Philter.]


Topic: Filth
Definition:
FILTH, n.  [See Foul and Defile.]
1.  Dirt; any foul matter; any thing that soils or defiles; waste matter; nastiness.
2.  Corruption; pollution; any thing that sullies or defiles the moral character.
To purify the soul from the dross and filth of sensual delights.


Topic: Filthiness
Definition:
FILTH'INESS, n.
1.  The state of being filthy.
2.  Foulness; dirtiness; filth; nastiness.
Carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place.  
2Chron. 29.
3.  Corruption; pollution; defilement by sin; impurity.
Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.  2Cor. 7.


Topic: Filthy
Definition:
FILTH'Y, a.
1.  Dirty; foul; unclean; nasty.
2.  Polluted; defiled by sinful practices; morally impure.
He that is filthy, let him be filthy still.  Rev. 22.
3.  Obtained by base and dishonest means; as filthy lucre.  Titus 1.


Topic: Filtration
Definition:
FILTRA'TION, n.  The act or process of filtering; defecation by passing liquors through woolen cloth, brown paper, or other porous substance, as certain kinds of stone, which permit the liquor to pass, but retain the foreign matter.


Topic: Fimbriate
Definition:
FIM'BRIATE, a.  [L. fimbria, a border or fringe.]
In botany, fringed; having the edge surrounded by hairs or bristles.
FIM'BRIATE, v.t.  To hem; to fringe.


Topic: Fimbriated
Definition:
FIM'BRIATED, a.  In heraldry, ornamented, as an ordinary, with a narrow border or hem of another tincture.


Topic: Fin
Definition:
FIN, n.  [L. pinna or penna.  The sense is probably a shoot, or it is from diminishing.  See Fine.]
The fin of a fish consists of a membrane supported by rays, or little bony or cartilaginous ossicles.  The fins of fish serve to keep their bodies upright, and to prevent wavering or vacillation.  The fins, except the caudal, do not assist in progressive motion; the tail being the instrument of swimming.
FIN, v.t.  To carve or cut up a chub.


Topic: Finable
Definition:
FI'NABLE, a.  [See Fine.]  
1.  That admits a fine.
2.  Subject to a fine or penalty; as a finable person or offense.


Topic: Final
Definition:
FI'NAL, a.  [L. finalis.  See fine.]
1.  Pertaining to the end or conclusion; last ultimate; as the final issue or event of things; final hope; final salvation.
2.  Conclusive; decisive; ultimate; as a final judgment.  The battle of Waterloo was final to the power of Buonaparte; it brought the contest to a final issue.
3.  Respecting the end or object to be gained; respecting the purpose or ultimate end in view.  The efficient cause is that which produces the event or effect; the final cause is that for which any thing is done.


Topic: Finally
Definition:
FI'NALLY, adv.
1.  At the end or conclusion; ultimately; lastly.  The cause is expensive, but we shall finally recover.  The contest was long, but the Romans finally conquered.
2.  Completely; beyond recovery.
The enemy was finally exterminated.


Topic: Finance
Definition:
FINANCE, n.  finans'.  [See Fine.]
Revenue; income of a king or state.
The United States, near the close of the revolution, appointed a superintendent of finance.
[It is more generally used in the plural.]


Topic: Finances
Definition:
FINAN'CES, n. plu.  
1.  Revenue; funds in the public treasury, or accruing to it; public resources of money.  The finances of the king or government were in a low condition.  The finances were exhausted.
2.  The income or resources of individuals.
[But the word is most properly applicable to public revenue.]


Topic: Financially
Definition:
FINAN'CIALLY, adv.  In relation to finances or public revenue; in a manner to produce revenue.
We should be careful not to consider as financially effective exports, all the goods and produce which have been sent abroad.


Topic: Financier
Definition:
FINANCIE'R, n.  
1.  An officer who receives and manages the public revenues; a treasurer.
2.  One who is skilled in the principles or system of public revenue; one who understands the mode of raising money by imposts, excise or taxes, and the economical management and application of public money.
3.  One who is entrusted with the collection and management of the revenues of a corporation.
4.  One skilled in banking operations.


Topic: Finch
Definition:
FINCH, n.  
A bird.  But finch is used chiefly in composition; as chaffinch, goldfinch.  These belong to the genus Fringilla.


Topic: Find
Definition:
FIND, v.t.  pret. and pp. found.  [L. venio; but in sense, with invenio.  The primary sense is to come to, to rush, to fall on, to meet, to set on.]
1.  Literally, to come to; to meet; hence, to discover by the eye; to gain first sight or knowledge of something lost; to recover either by searching for it or by accident.
Doth she not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it? and when she hath found it - 
Luke 15.
2.  To meet; to discover something not before seen or known.
He saith to him, we have found the Messiah.  John 1.
3.  To obtain by seeking.
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find.  
Matt. 7.
4.  To meet with.
In woods and forests thou art found.
5.  To discover or know by experience.
The torrid zone is now found habitable.
6.  To reach; to attain to; to arrive at.
Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth to life, and few there be that find it.  Matt. 7.
7.  To discover by study, experiment or trial.  Air and water are found to be compound substances.  Alchimists long attempted to find the philosopher's stone, but it is not yet found.
8.  To gain; to have; as, to find leisure for a visit.
9.  To perceive; to observe; to learn.  I found his opinions to accord with my own.
10.  To catch; to detect.
When first found in a lie, talk to him of it as a strange monstrous matter.
In this sense find is usually followed by out.
11.  To meet.
In ills their business and their glory find.
12.  To have; to experience; to enjoy.
Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure.  Is. 58.
13.  To select; to choose; to designate.
I have found David my servant.  Ps. 89.
14.  To discover and declare the truth of disputed facts; to come to a conclusion and decide between parties, as a jury.  The jury find a verdict for the plaintiff or defendant.  They find the accused to be guilty.
15.  To determine and declare by verdict.  The jury have found a large sum in damages for the plaintiff.
16.  To establish or pronounce charges alleged to be true.  The grand jury have found a bill against the accused, or they find a true bill.
17.  To supply; to furnish.  Who will find the money or provisions for this expedition?  We will find ourselves with provisions and clothing.
18.  To discover or gain knowledge of by touching or by sounding.  We first sounded and found bottom at the depth of ninety five fathoms on the Sole bank.
To find one's self, to be; to fare in regard to ease or pain, health or sickness.  Pray, sir, how do you find yourself this morning.
To find in, to supply; to furnish; to provide.  
He finds his nephew in money, victuals and clothes.
1.  To find out.  To invent; to discover something before unknown.
A man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold - and to find out every device.  2Chon. 2.
2.  To unriddle; to solve; as, to find out the meaning of a parable of an enigma.
3.  To discover; to obtain knowledge of what is hidden; as, to find out a secret.
4.  To understand; to comprehend.
Canst thou by searching find out God?  Job 11.
5.  To detect; to discover; to bring to light; as, to find out a thief or a theft; to find out a trick.
To find fault with, to blame; to censure.


Topic: Finder
Definition:
FINDER, n.  One who meets or falls on any thing; one that discovers what is lost or is unknown; one who discovers by searching, or by accident.


Topic: Finding
Definition:
FINDING, ppr.  Discovering.
FINDING, n.
1.  Discovery; the act of discovering.
2.  In law, the return of a jury to a bill; a verdict.


Topic: Findy
Definition:
FIN'DY, a.  Full; heavy; or firm, solid, substantial.  Obs.
A cold May and a windy,
Makes the barn fat and findy.


Topic: Fine
Definition:
FINE, a.  
1.  Small; thin; slender; minute; of very small diameter; as a fine thread; fine silk; a fine hair.  We say also, fine sand, fine particles.
2.  Subtil; thin; tenuous; as, fine spirits evaporate; a finer medium opposed to a grosser.
3.  Thin; keep; smoothly sharp; as the fine edge of a razor.
4.  Made of fine threads; not coarse; as fine linen or cambric.
5.  Clear; pure; free from feculence or foreign matter; as fine gold or silver; wine is not good till fine.
6.  Refined.
Those things were too fine to be fortunate, and succeed in all parts.
7.  Nice; delicate; perceiving or discerning minute beauties or deformities; as a fine taste; a fine sense.
8.  Subtil; artful; dextrous.  [See Finess.]
9.  Subtil; sly; fraudulent.
10.  Elegant; beautiful in thought.
To call the trumpet by the name of the metal was fine.
11.  Very handsome; beautiful with dignity.
The lady has a fine person, or a fine face.
12.  Accomplished; elegant in manners.  He was one of the finest gentlemen of his age.
13.  Accomplished in learning; excellent; as a fine scholar.
14.  Excellent; superior; brilliant or acute; as a man of fine genius.
15.  Amiable; noble; ingenuous; excellent; as a man of a fine mind.
16.  Showy; splendid; elegant; as a range of fine buildings; a fine house or garden; a fine view.
17.  Ironically, worthy of contemptuous notice; eminent for bad qualities.
That same knave, Ford, her husband, has the finest mad devil of jealousy in him, Master Brook, that ever governed frenzy.
Fine Arts or polite arts, are the arts which depend chiefly on the labors of the mind or imagination, and whose object is pleasure; as poetry, music, painting and sculpture.
The uses of this word are so numerous and indefinite, as to preclude a particular definition of each.  In general, fine, in popular language, expresses whatever is excellent, showy or magnificent.
FINE, n.  [This word is the basis of finance, but I have not found it, in its simple form, in any modern language, except the English.  The word seems to be the L. finis, and the application of it to pecuniary compensation seems to have proceeded from its feudal use, in the transfer of lands, in which a final agreement or concord was made between the lord and his vassal.]
1.  In a feudal sense, a final agreement between persons concerning lands or rents, or between the lord and his vassal, prescribing the conditions on which the latter should hold his lands.
2.  A sum of money paid to the lord by his tenant, for permission to alienate or transfer his lands to another.  This in England was exacted only from the king's tenants in capite.
3.  A sum of money paid to the king or state by way of penalty for an offense; a mulet; a pecuniary punishment.  Fines are usually prescribed by statute, for the several violations of law; or the limit is prescribed, beyond which the judge cannot impose a fine for a particular offense.
In fine.  [L. in and finis.]  In the end or conclusion; to conclude; to sum up all.
FINE, v.t.  [See Fine, the adjective.]  
1.  To clarify; to refine; to purify; to defecate; to free from feculence or foreign matter; as, to fine wine.
[This is the most general use of this word.]
2.  To purify, as a metal; as, to fine gold or silver.  In this sense, we now generally use refine; but fine is proper.  
Job 28.  Prov. 17.
3.  To make less coarse; as, to fine grass.  [Not used.]
4.  To decorate; to adorn.  [Not in use.]
FINE, v.t.  [See Fine, the noun.]
1.  To impose on one a pecuniary penalty, payable to the government, for a crime or breach of law; to set a fine on by judgment of a court; to punish by fine.  The trespassers were fined ten dollars and imprisoned a month.
2.  v.i.  To pay a fine.  [Not used.] 


Topic: Finely
Definition:
FI'NELY, adv.
1.  In minute parts; as a substance finely pulverized.
2.  To a thin or sharp edge; as an instrument finely sharpened.
3.  Gaily; handsomely; beautifully; with elegance and taste.  she was finely attired.
4.  With elegance or beauty.
Plutarch says very finely, that a man should not allow himself to hate even his enemies; for it you indulge this passion on some occasions, it will rise of itself in others.
5.  With advantage; very favorably; as a house or garden finely situated.
6.  Nicely; delicately; as a stuff finely wrought.
7.  Purely; completely.
8.  By way of irony, wretchedly; in a manner deserving of contemptuous notice.  He is finely caught in his own snare.


Topic: Fineness
Definition:
FI'NENESS, n.  
1.  Thinness; smallness; slenderness; as the finances of a thread or silk.  Hence.
2.  Consisting of fine threads; as fine linen.
3.  Smallness; minuteness; as the fineness of sand or particles; the fineness of soil or mold.
4.  Clearness; purity; freedom from foreign matter; as the fineness of wine or other liquor; the fineness of gold.
5.  Niceness; delicacy; as the fineness of taste.
6.  Keenness; sharpness; thinness; as the finances of an edge.
7.  Elegance; beauty; as fineness of person.
8.  Capacity for delicate or refined conceptions; as the fineness of genius.
9.  Show; splendor; gayety of appearance; elegance; as the fineness of clothes or dress.
10.  Clearness; as the fineness of complexion.
11.  Subtility; artfulness; ingenuity; as the fineness of wit.
12.  Smoothness.


Topic: Finery
Definition:
FI'NERY, n.  
1.  Show; splendor; gaiety of colors or appearance; as the finery of a dress.
2.  Showy articles of dress; gay clothes, jewels, trinkets, &c.
3.  In iron-works, the second forge at the iron-mills.  [See Finary.]


Topic: Finger
Definition:
FIN'GER, n. fing'ger.
1.  One of the extreme parts of the hand, a small member shooting to a point.  The fingers have joints which peculiarly fit them to be the instruments of catching, seizing and holding.  When we speak of the fingers generally, we include the thumb; as the five fingers.  But we often make a distinction.  The fingers and thumb consist of fifteen bones; three to each.  The word is applied to some other animals as well as to man.
2.  A certain measure.  We say a finger's breadth, or the breadth of the four fingers, or of three fingers.
3.  The hand.
Who teacheth my fingers to fight.  Ps. 146.
4.  The finger or fingers of God, in scripture, signify his power, strength or operation.
The magicians said to Pharaoh, this is the finger of God. 
Ex. 8.
5.  In music, ability; skill in playing on a keyed instrument.  She has a good finger.
FIN'GER, v.t. 
1.  To handle with the fingers; to touch lightly; to toy.  The covetous man delights to finger money.
2.  To touch or take thievishly; to pilfer.
3.  To touch an instrument of music; to play on an instrument.
4.  To perform work with the fingers; to execute delicate work.
5.  To handle without violence.
FIN'GER, v.i.  To dispose the fingers aptly in playing on an instrument.


Topic: Finger-board
Definition:
FIN'GER-BOARD, n.  The board at the neck of a violin, guitar or the like, where the fingers act on the strings.


Topic: Fingered
Definition:
FIN'GERED, pp.
1.  Played on; handled; touched.
2.  a.  Having fingers.  In botany, digitate; having leaflets like fingers.


Topic: Fingering
Definition:
FIN'GERING, ppr.  Handling; touching lightly.
FIN'GERING, n.
1.  The act of touching lightly or handling.
2.  The manner of touching an instrument of music.
3.  Delicate work made with the fingers.


Topic: Finical
Definition:
FIN'ICAL, a. [from fine.]
1.  Nice; spruce; foppish; pretending to a great nicety or superfluous elegance; as a finical fellow.
2.  Affectedly nice or showy; as a finical dress.


Topic: Fining
Definition:
FI'NING, ppr.  [See Fine, the verb.]
1.  Clarifying; refining; purifying; defecating; separating from extraneous matter.
2.  [See Fine, the noun.]  Imposing a fine or pecuniary penalty.


Topic: Finish
Definition:
FIN'ISH, v.t.  [L. finio, from finis, an end.]
1.  To arrive at the end of, in performance; to complete; as, to finish a house; to finish a journey.
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished.  Gen. 2.
2.  To make perfect.
Episodes, taken separately, finish nothing.
3.  To bring to an end; to end; to put an end to.
Seventy weeks are determined on thy people, and on thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and make an end of sins.  
Dan. 9.
4.  To perfect; to accomplish; to polish to the degree of excellence intended.  In this sense it is frequently used in the participle of the perfect tense as an adjective.  It is a finished performance.  He is a finished scholar.


Topic: Finished
Definition:
FIN'ISHED, pp.
1.  Completed; ended; done; perfected.
2.  a.  Complete; perfect; polished to the highest degree of excellence; as a finished poem; a finished education.


Topic: Finisher
Definition:
FIN'ISHER, n.  
1.  One who finishes; one who completely performs.
2.  One who puts an end to.
3.  One who completes or perfects.
Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith.  Heb. 12.


Topic: Finite
Definition:
FI'NITE, a.  [L. finitus, from finio, to finish, from finis, limit.]
Having a limit; limited; bounded; opposed to infinite, as finite number, finite existence; applied to this life, we say, a finite being, finite duration.


Topic: Finiteness
Definition:
FI'NITENESS, n.  Limitation; confinement within certain boundaries; as the finiteness of our natural powers.


Topic: Fir
Definition:
FIR, n.
The name of several species of the genus Pinus; as the Scotch fir, the silver fir, spruce fir, hemlock fir, and oriental fir.


Topic: Fire
Definition:
FIRE, n.  [The radical sense of fire is usually, to rush, to rage, to be violently agitated; and if this is the sense of fire, in coincides with L. furo.  It may be from shining or consuming.]
1.  Heat and light emanating visibly, perceptibly and simultaneously from any body; caloric; the unknown cause of the sensation of heat and of the retrocession of the homogeneous particles of bodies from one another, producing expansion, and thus enlarging all their dimensions; one of the causes of magnetism, as evinced by Dr. Hare's calorimotor.
In the popular acceptation of the word, fire is the effect of combustion.  The combustible body ignited or heated to redness we call fire; and when ascending in a stream or body, we call it flame.  A piece of charcoal in combustion, is of a red color and very hot.  In this state it is said to be on fire, or to contain fire.  When combustion ceases, it loses its redness and extreme heat, and we say, the fire is extinct.
2.  The burning of fuel on a hearth, or in any other place.  We kindle a fire in the morning, and at night we rake up the fire.  Anthracite will maintain fire during the night.
3.  The burning of a house or town; a conflagration.  Newburyport and Savannah have suffered immense losses by fire.  The great fire in Boston in 1711 consumed a large part of the town.
4.  Light; luster; splendor.
Stars, hide your fires!
5.  Torture by burning.
6.  The instrument of punishment; or the punishment of the impenitent in another state.
Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire?  Is. 33.
7.  That which inflames or irritates the passions.
What fire is in my ears?
8.  Ardor of temper; violence of passion.
He had fire in his temper.
9.  Liveliness of imagination; vigor of fancy; intellectual activity; animation; force of sentiment or expression.
And warm the critic with a poet's fire.
10.  The passion of love; ardent affection.
The God of love retires; dim are his torches, and extinct his fires.
11.  Ardor; heat; as the fire of zeal or of love.
12.  Combustion; tumult; rage; contention.
13.  Trouble; affliction.
When thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burnt.  Is. 43.
To set on fire, to kindle; to inflame; to excite violent action.
St. Anthony's fire, a disease marked by an eruption on the skin, or a diffused inflammation, with fever; the Erysipelas.
Wild fire, an artificial or factitious fire, which burns even under water.  it is made by a composition of sulphur, naphtha, pitch, gum and bitumen.  It is called also Greek fire.
FIRE, v.t.
1.  To set on fire; to kindle; as, to fire a house or chimney; to fire a pile.
2.  To inflame; to irritate the passions; as, to fire with anger or revenge.
3.  To animate; to give life or spirit; as, to fire the genius.
4.  To drive by fire.  [Little used.]
5.  To cause to explode; to discharge; as, to fire a musket or cannon.
6.  To cauterize; a term in farriery.
FIRE, v.i.
1.  To take fire; to be kindled.
2.  To be irritated or inflamed with passion.
3.  To discharge artillery or firearms.  They fired on the town.


Topic: Fire-arrow
Definition:
FI'RE-ARROW, n.  A small iron dart, furnished with a match impregnated with powder and sulphur, used to fire the sails of ships.


Topic: Firearms
Definition:
FI'REARMS, n.  plu.  Arms or weapons which expel their charge by the combustion of powder, as pistols, muskets, &c.


Topic: Fireball
Definition:
FI'REBALL, n.
1.  A grenade; a ball filled with powder or other combustibles, intended to be thrown among enemies, and to injure by explosion.
2.  A meteor which passes rapidly through the air and displodes.


Topic: Firebrand
Definition:
FI'REBRAND, n.  
1.  A piece of wood kindled or on fire.
2.  An incendiary; one who inflames factions, or causes contention and mischief.


Topic: Firecross
Definition:
FI'RECROSS, n.  Something used in Scotland as a signal to take arms; the ends being burnt black, and in some parts smeared with blood.


Topic: Firefly
Definition:
FI'REFLY, n.  A species of fly which has on its belly a spot which shines; and another species which emits light from under its wings, as it flies.


Topic: Firelock
Definition:
FI'RELOCK, n.  A musket, or other gun, with a lock, which is discharged by striking fire with flint and steel.


Topic: Fireman
Definition:
FI'REMAN, n.
1.  A man whose business is to extinguish fires in towns.
2.  A man of violent passions.  [Not used.]


Topic: Fireship
Definition:
FI'RESHIP, n.  A vessel filled with combustibles and furnished with grappling irons to hook and set fire to an enemy's ships.


Topic: Firestone
Definition:
FI'RESTONE, n.
1.  A fossil, the pyrite.  [See Pyrite.]
2.  A kind of freestone which bears a high degree of heat.


Topic: Firework
Definition:
FI'REWORK, n.  Usually in the plural, fireworks.
Preparations of gun-powder, sulphur and other inflammable materials, used for making explosions in the air, on occasions of public rejoicing; pyrotechnical exhibitions.  This word is applied also to various combustible preparations used in war.


Topic: Firing
Definition:
FI'RING, ppr.  Setting fire to; kindling; animating; exciting; inflaming; discharging firearms.
FI'RING, n.
1.  The act of discharging firearms.
2.  Fuel; firewood or coal.


Topic: Firkin
Definition:
FIRKIN, n.  fur'kin.
A measure of capacity, being the fourth part of a barrel.  It is nine gallons of beer, or eight gallons of ale, soap or herrings.  In America, the firkin is rarely used, except for butter or lard, and signifies a small vessel or cask of indeterminate size, or of different sizes, regulated by the statutes of the different states.


Topic: Firlot
Definition:
FIR'LOT, n.  A dry measure used in Scotland.  The oat firlot contains 21 1/4 pints of that country; the wheat firlot 224 cubic inches; the barley firlot 21 standard pints.


Topic: Firm
Definition:
FIRM, a.  ferm.  [L. firmus.  This is the root of L. ferrum, iron.]
1.  Properly, fixed; hence, applied to the matter of bodies, it signifies closely compressed; compact; hard; solid; as firm flesh; firm muscles; some species of wood are more firm than others; a cloth of firm texture.
2.  Fixed; steady; constant; stable; unshaken; not easily moved; as a firm believer; a firm friend; a firm adherent or supporter; a firm man, or a man of firm resolution.
3.  Solid; not giving way; opposed to fluid; as firm land.
FIRM, n.  ferm.  A partnership or house; or the name or title under which a company transact business; as the firm of Hope & Co.
FIRM, v.t.  ferm.  [L. firmo.]  To fix; to settle; to confirm; to establish.
And Jove has firm'd it with an awful nod.
This word is rarely used, except in poetry.  In prose, we use confirm.


Topic: Firmament
Definition:
FIRMAMENT, n.  ferm'ament.  [L. firmamentum, from firmus, firmo.]
The region of the air; the sky or heavens.  In scripture, the word denotes an expanse, a wide extent; for such is the signification of the Hebrew word, coinciding with regio, region, and reach.  The original therefore does not convey the sense of solidity, but of stretching, extension; the great arch or expanse over our heads, in which are placed the atmosphere and the clouds, and in which the stars appear to be placed, and are really seen.
And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.  Gen. 1:6.
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament.  
Ibum. 1:14.


Topic: Firmly
Definition:
FIRMLY, ad.  ferm'ly.
1.  Solidly; compactly; closely; as particles of matter firmly cohering.
2.  Steadily; with constancy or fixedness; immovably; steadfastly.  He firmly believes in the divine origin of the scriptures.  His resolution is firmly fixed.  He firmly adheres to his party.


Topic: Firmness
Definition:
FIRM'NESS, n. ferm'ness.
1.  Closeness or denseness of texture or structure; compactness; hardness; solidity; as the firmness of wood, stone, cloth or other substance.
2.  Stability; strength; as the firmness of a union, or of a confederacy.
3.  Steadfastness; constancy; fixedness; as the firmness of a purpose or resolution; the firmness of a man, or of his courage; firmness of mind or soul.
4.  Certainty; soundness; as the firmness of notions or opinions.


Topic: First
Definition:
FIRST, a. furst.  [See fare and for.]
1.  Advanced before or further than any other in progression; foremost in place; as the first man in a marching company or troop is the man that precedes all the rest.  Hence,
2.  Preceding all others in the order of time.  Adam was the first man.  Cain was the first murderer.  Monday was the first day of January.
3.  Preceding all others in numbers or a progressive series; the ordinal of one; as, 1 is the first number.
4.  Preceding all others in rank, dignity or excellence.  Demosthenes was the first orator of Greece.  Burke was one of the first geniuses of his age.  Give God the first place in your affections.
FIRST, adv. furst.
1.  Before any thing else in the order of time.
Adam was first formed, then Eve.  1Tim. 2.
2.  Before all others in place or progression.
Let the officers enter the gate first.
3.  Before any thing else in order of proceeding or consideration.  First, let us attend to the examination of the witnesses.
4.  Before all others in rank.  He stands or ranks first in public estimation.
At first, at the first, as the beginning or origin.
First or last, at one time or another; at the beginning or end.
And all fools and lovers first or last.


Topic: First-born
Definition:
FIRST'-BORN, a.
1.  First brought forth; first in the order of nativity; eldest; as the first-born son.
2.  Most excellent; most distinguished or exalted.  Christ is called the first-born of every creature.  Col. 1.
FIRST'-BORN, n.  The eldest child; the first in the order of birth.
The first-born of the poor are the most wretched.  Is. 14.
The first-born of death is the most terrible death.  
Job. 18.


Topic: First-rate
Definition:
FIRST'-RATE, a.  
1.  Of the highest excellence; preeminent; as a first-rate scholar or painter.
2.  Being of the largest size; as a first-rate ship.


Topic: Firstling
Definition:
FIRST'LING, a.  First produced; as firstling males.  Deut. 15.
FIRST'LING, n.  
1.  The first produce or offspring; applied to beasts; as the firstlings of cattle.
2.  The thing first thought or done.  [Not used.]
The very firstlings of my heart shall be the firstlings of my hand.


Topic: Fisc
Definition:
FISC, n.  [L. fiscus.  Fiscus, signifies a basket or hanaper, probably from the twigs which composed the first baskets.  Eng. whisk.  The word coincides in elements with basket, and L. fascia, twigs being the primitive bands.]
The treasury of a prince or state; hence to confiscate to take the good of a criminal and appropriate then to the public treasure.


Topic: Fiscal
Definition:
FISC'AL, a.  Pertaining to the public treasury or revenue.
The fiscal arrangement of government.
FISC'AL, n.
1.  Revenue; the income of a prince or state.
2.  A treasurer.


Topic: Fish
Definition:
FISH, n.  [L. piscis.]
1.  An animal that lives in water.  Fish is a general name for a class of animals subsisting in water, which were distributed by Linne into six orders.  They breathe by means of gills, swim by the aid of fins, and are oviparous.  Some of them have the skeleton bony, and others cartilaginous.  Most of the former have the opening of the gills closed by a peculiar covering, called the gill-lid; many of the latter have no gill-lid, and are hence said to breathe through apertures.  Cetaceous animals, as the whale and dolphin, are, in popular language, called fishes, and have been so classed by some naturalists; but they breathe by lungs, and are viviparous, like quadrupeds.  The term fish has been also extended to other aquatic animals, such as shell-fish, lobsters, &c.  We use fish, in the singular, for fishes in general or the whole race.
2.  The flesh of fish, used as food.  But we usually apply flesh to land animals.
FISH, v.i. 
1.  To attempt to catch fish; to be employed in taking fish, by any means, as by angling or drawing nets.
2.  To attempt or seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments.
FISH, v.t.
1.  To search by raking or sweeping; as, to fish the jakes for papers.
2.  In seamanship, to strengthen, as a mast or yard, with a piece of timber.
3.  To catch; draw out or up; as, to fish up a human body when sunk; to fish an anchor.
FISH, n.
1.  In ships, a machine to hoist and draw up the flukes of an anchor, towards the top of the bow.
2.  A long piece of timber, used to strengthen a lower mast or a yard, when sprung or damaged.


Topic: Fisherman
Definition:
FISH'ERMAN, n.
1.  One whose occupation is to catch fish.
2.  A ship or vessel employed in the business of taking fish, as in the cod and whale fishery.


Topic: Fishery
Definition:
FISH'ERY, n.
1.  The business of catching fish.
2.  A place for catching fish with nets or hooks, as the banks of Newfoundland, the coast of England or Scotland, or on the banks of rivers.


Topic: Fishing
Definition:
FISH'ING, ppr.  Attempting to catch fish; searching; seeking to draw forth by artifice or indirectly; adding a piece of timber to a mast or spar to strengthen it.
FISH'ING, n.
1.  The art or practice of catching fish.
2.  A fishery.


Topic: Fishing-place
Definition:
FISH'ING-PLACE, n.  A place where fishes are caught with seines; a convenient place for fishing; a fishery.


Topic: Fishy
Definition:
FISH'Y, a.
1.  Consisting of fish.
2.  Inhabited by fish; as the fishy flood.
3.  Having the qualities of fish; like fish; as a fishy form; a fishy taste or smell.


Topic: Fissile
Definition:
FIS'SILE, a.  [L. fissilis, from fissus, divided, from findo, to split.]
That may be split, cleft or divided in the direction of the grain, or of natural joints.
This crystal is a pellucid fissile stone.


Topic: Fissiped
Definition:
FIS'SIPED, a.  [L. fissus, divided, and pes, foot.]  Having separate toes.
FIS'SIPED, n.  An animal whose toes are separate, or not connected by a membrane.


Topic: Fissure
Definition:
FIS'SURE, n.  fish'ure.  [L. fissura, from findo, to split.]
1. A cleft; a narrow chasm made by the parting of any substance; a longitudinal opening; as the fissure of a rock.
2.  In surgery, a crack or slit in a bone, either transversely or longitudinally, by means of external force.
3.  In anatomy, a deep, narrow sulcus, or depression, dividing the anterior and middle lobes of the cerebrum on each side.
FIS'SURE, v.t.  To cleave; to divide; to crack or fracture.


Topic: Fist
Definition:
FIST, n.  
The hand clinched; the hand with the fingers doubled into the palm.
FIST, v.t.
1.  To strike with the fist.
2.  To gripe with the fist.


Topic: Fistula
Definition:
FIS'TULA, n.  [L.; Eng. whistle.]
1.  Properly, a pipe; a wind instrument of music, originally a reed.
2.  A surgery, a deep, narrow and callous ulcer, generally arising from abscesses.  It differs from a sinus, in being callous.
Fistula lachrymalis, a fistula of the lachrymal sac, a disorder accompanied with a flowing of tears.


Topic: Fistuliform
Definition:
FIS'TULIFORM, a.  [fistula and form.]  Being in round hollow columns, as a mineral.
Stalactite often occurs fistuliform.


Topic: Fit
Definition:
FIT, n.  [L. peto, impeto, to assult, or to Eng. pet, and primarily to denote a rushing on or attach, or a start.  See fit, suitable.]
1.  The invasion, exacerbation or paroxysm of a disease.  We apply the word to the return of an ague, after intermission, as a cold fit.  We apply it to the first attack, or to the return of other diseases, as a fit of the gout or stone; and in general, to a disease however continued, as a fit of sickness.
2.  A sudden and violent attack of disorder, in which the body is often convulsed, and sometimes senseless; as a fit of apoplexy or epilepsy; hysteric fits.
3.  Any short return after intermission; a turn; a period or interval.  He moves by fits and starts.
By fits my swelling grief appears.
4.  A temporary affection or attack; as a fit of melancholy, or of grief; a fit of pleasure.
5.  Disorder; distemperature.
6.  Anciently, a song, or part of a song; a strain; a canto.
FIT, a.  [This is from the root of Eng. pass; pat.  In L. competo, whence compatible, signifies properly to meet or to fall on, hence to suit or be fit, from peto. This is probably the same word.  The primary sense is to come to, to fall on, hence to meet, to extend to, to be close, to suit.  To come or fall, is the primary sense of time or season.]
1.  Suitable; convenient; meet; becoming.
Is it fit to say to a king, thou art wicked?  Job 34.
Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.  Col. 3.
2.  Qualified; as men of valor fit for war.
No man having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.  Luke 9.
FIT, v.t.
1.  To adapt; to suit; to make suitable.
The carpenter - marketh it out like a line, he fitteth it with planes.  Is. 44.
2.  To accommodate a person with any thing; as, the tailor fits his customer with a coat.  The original phrase is, he fits a coat to his customer.  But the phrase implies also furnishing, providing a thing suitable for another.
3.  To prepare; to put in order for; to furnish with things proper or necessary; as, to fit a ship for a long voyage.  Fit yourself for action or defense.
4.  To qualify; to prepare; as, to fit a student for college.
To fit out, to furnish; to equip; to supply with necessaries or means; as, to fit out a privateer.
To fit up, to prepare; to furnish with things suitable; to make proper for the reception or use of any person; as, to fit up a house for a guest.
FIT, v.i.
1.  To be proper or becoming.
Nor fits it to prolong the feast.
2.  To suit or be suitable; to be adapted.  His coat fits very well.  But this is an elliptical phrase.


Topic: Fitly
Definition:
FIT'LY, adv.  
1.  Suitably; properly; with propriety.  A maxim fitly applied.
2.  Commodiously; conveniently.


Topic: Fitness
Definition:
FIT'NESS, n.
1.  Suitableness; adaptedness; adaptation; as the fitness of things to their use.
2.  Propriety; meetness; justness; reasonableness; as the fitness of measures or laws.
3.  Preparation; qualification; as a student's fitness for college.
4.  Convenience; the state of being fit.


Topic: Five
Definition:
FIVE, a.
Four and one added; the half of ten; as five men; five loaves.  Like other adjectives, it is often used as a noun.
Five of them were wise, and five were foolish.  Matt. 25.


Topic: Fix
Definition:
FIX, v.t.  [L. firus, figo.]
1.  To make stable; to set or establish immovably.  The universe is governed by fixed laws.
2.  To set or place permanently; to establish.  The prince fixed his residence at York.  The seat of our government is fixed at Washington in the district of Columbia.  Some men have no fixed opinions.
3.  To make fast; to fasten; to attach firmly; as, to fix a cord or line to a hook.
4.  To set or place steadily; to direct, as the eye, without moving it; to fasten.  The gentleman fixed his eyes on the speaker, and addressed him with firmness.
5.  To set or direct steadily, without wandering; as, to fix the attention.  The preacher fixes the attention of his audience, or the hearers fix their attention on the preacher.
6.  To set or make firm, so as to bear a high degree of heat without evaporating; to deprive of volatility.  Gold, diamonds, silver, platina, are among the most fixed bodies.
7.  To transfix; to pierce.  [Little used.]
8.  To withhold from motion.
9.  In popular use, to put in order; to prepare; to adjust; to set or place in the manner desired or most suitable; as, to fix clothes or dress; to fix the furniture of a room.  this use is analogous to that of set, in the phrase, to set a razor.
FIX, v.i.
1.  To rest; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering.
Your kindness banishes your fear, resolved to fix forever here.
2.  To become firm, so as to resist volatilization.
3.  To cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable; as a metallic substance.
To fix on, to settle the opinion or resolution on any thing; to determine on.  The contracting parties have fixed on certain leading points.  the legislature fixed on Wethersfield as the place for a State Prison.


Topic: Fixation
Definition:
FIXA'TION, n. 
1.  The act of fixing.
2.  Stability; firmness; steadiness; a state of being established; as fixation in matters of religion.
3.  Residence in a certain place; or a place of residence.  [Little used.]
To light, created in the first day, God gave no certain place or fixation.
4.  That firm state of a body which resists evaporation or volatilization by heat; as the fixation of gold or other metals.
5.  The act or process of ceasing to be fluid and becoming firm; state of being fixed.


Topic: Fixed
Definition:
FIX'ED, pp.  Settled; established; firm; fast; stable.
Fixed air, an invisible and permanently elastic fluid, heavier than common air and fatal to animal life, produced from the combustion of carbonaceous bodies, as wood or charcoal, and by artificial processes; called also aerial acid, cretaceous acid, and more generally, carbonic acid.
Fixed bodies, are those which bear a high heat without evaporation or volatilization.
Fixed stars, are such stars as always retain the same apparent position and distance with respect to each other, and are thus distinguished from planets and comets, which are revolving bodies.
Fixed oils, such as are obtained by simple pressure, and are not readily volatilized; so called in distinction from volatile or essential oils.


Topic: Fixedness
Definition:
FIX'EDNESS, n.  
1.  A state of being fixed; stability; firmness; steadfastness; as a fixedness in religion or politics; fixedness of opinion on any subject.
2.  The state of a body which resists evaporation or volatilization by heat; as the fixedness of gold.
3.  Firm coherence of parts; solidity.


Topic: Fixity
Definition:
FIX'ITY, n.  Fixedness; coherence of parts; that property of bodies by which they resist dissipation by heat.


Topic: Fixture
Definition:
FIX'TURE, n.
1.  Position.
2.  Fixedness; firm pressure; as the fixture of the foot.
3.  Firmness; stable state.
4.  That which is fixed to a building; any appendage or part of the furniture of a house which is fixed to it, as by nails, screws, &c., and which the tenant cannot legally take away, when he removes to another house.


Topic: Fizgig
Definition:
FIZ'GIG, n.  An instrument used for striking fish at sea, consisting of a staff with barbed prongs, and a line fastened just above the prongs.


Topic: Flabbiness
Definition:
FLAB'BINESS, n.  [See Flabby.]  A soft, flexible state of a substance, which renders it easily movable and yielding to pressure.


Topic: Flabby
Definition:
FLAB'BY, a.
Soft; yielding to the touch and easily moved or shaken; easily bent; hanging loose by its own weight; as flabby flesh.


