Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter F - Page 11
Fatback (n.) (Zool.) The menhaden.
Fatback (n.) Salt pork from the back of a hog carcass.
Fat-brained (a.) Dull of apprehension.
Fate (n.) A fixed decree by which the order of things is prescribed; the immutable law of the universe; inevitable necessity; the force by which all existence is determined and conditioned.
Necessity and chance Approach not me; and what I will is fate. -- Milton.
Beyond and above the Olympian gods lay the silent, brooding, everlasting fate of which victim and tyrant were alike the instruments. -- Froude.
Fate (n.) Appointed lot; allotted life; arranged or predetermined event; destiny; especially, the final lot; doom; ruin; death.
The great, th'important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome. -- Addison.
Our wills and fates do so contrary run That our devices still are overthrown. -- Shak.
The whizzing arrow sings, And bears thy fate, Antinous, on its wings. -- Pope.
Fate (n.) The element of chance in the affairs of life; the unforeseen and unestimated conitions considered as a force shaping events; fortune; esp., opposing circumstances against which it is useless to struggle; as, fate was, or the fates were, against him.
A brave man struggling in the storms of fate. -- Pope.
Sometimes an hour of Fate's serenest weather strikes through our changeful sky its coming beams. -- B. Taylor.
Fate (n.) pl. (Myth.) The three goddesses, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, sometimes called the Destinies, or Parcaewho were supposed to determine the course of human life. They are represented, one as holding the distaff, a second as spinning, and the third as cutting off the thread.
Note: Among all nations it has been common to speak of fate or destiny as a power superior to gods and men -- swaying all things irresistibly. This may be called the fate of poets and mythologists. Philosophical fate is the sum of the laws of the universe, the product of eternal intelligence and the blind properties of matter. Theological fate represents Deity as above the laws of nature, and ordaining all things according to his will -- the expression of that will being the law. -- Krauth-Fleming.
Syn: Destiny; lot; doom; fortune; chance.
Fate (n.) An event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future [syn: destiny, fate].
Fate (n.) The ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events (often personified as a woman); "we are helpless in the face of destiny" [syn: destiny, fate].
Fate (n.) Your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you); "whatever my fortune may be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck of the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that was her portion" [syn: fortune, destiny, fate, luck, lot, circumstances, portion].
Fate (v.) Decree or designate beforehand; "She was destined to become a great pianist" [syn: destine, fate, doom, designate].
Fate, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
Population (2000): 497
Housing Units (2000): 184
Land area (2000): 4.730197 sq. miles (12.251153 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.016616 sq. miles (0.043035 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.746813 sq. miles (12.294188 sq. km)
FIPS code: 25572
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 32.933781 N, 96.384482 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Fate, TX
Fate
Fated (p. p. & a.) Decreed by fate; destined; doomed; as, he was fated to rule a factious people.
One midnight Fated to the purpose. -- Shak.
Fated (p. p. & a.) Invested with the power of determining destiny. [Obs.] "The fated sky." -- Shak.
Fated (p. p. & a.) Exempted by fate. [Obs. or R.] -- Dryden.
Fated (a.) (Usually followed by `to') Determined by tragic fate; "doomed to unhappiness"; "fated to be the scene of Kennedy's assassination" [syn: doomed, fated].
Fateful (a.) Having the power of serving or accomplishing fate. "The fateful steel." -- J. Barlow.
Fateful (a.) Significant of fate; ominous.
The fateful cawings of the crow. -- Longfellow. -- Fate"ful*ly, adv.- Fate"ful*ness, n.
Fateful (a.) Having momentous consequences; of decisive importance; "that fateful meeting of the U.N. when...it declared war on North Korea"- Saturday Rev; "the fatal day of the election finally arrived" [syn: fateful, fatal].
Fateful (a.) Ominously prophetic [syn: fateful, foreboding(a), portentous].
Fateful (a.) (Of events) Having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory" -- Charles Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error" [syn: black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful].
Fateful (a.) Controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined; "a fatal series of events" [syn: fatal, fateful].
Compare: Redfish
Redfish (n.) (Zool.) (a) The blueback salmon of the North Pacific; -- called also nerka. See Blueback (b) .
Redfish (n.) (Zool.) (b) The rosefish.
Redfish (n.) (Zool.) (c) A large California labroid food fish ({Trochocopus pulcher); -- called also fathead.
Redfish (n.) (Zool.) (d) The red bass, red drum, or drumfish. See the Note under Drumfish.
Compare: Nerka
Nerka
(n.)
(Zool.) The most important salmon of Alaska ({Oncorhinchus nerka), ascending in
spring most rivers and lakes from Alaska to Oregon,
Redfish (n.) North Atlantic rockfish [syn: redfish,
rosefish, ocean perch].
Redfish (n.) Large edible fish found off coast of United States from Massachusetts to Mexico [syn: red drum, channel bass, redfish, Sciaenops ocellatus].
Redfish (n.) Male salmon that has recently spawned.
Fathead (n.) (Zool.) A cyprinoid
fish of the
Fathead
(n.)
(Zool.) A labroid food fish of
Fathead (n.) A man who is a stupid incompetent fool [syn: fathead, goof, goofball, bozo, jackass, goose, cuckoo, twat, zany].
Father (n.) One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a generator; a male parent.
A wise son maketh a glad father. -- Prov. x. 1.
Father (n.) A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor; a founder of a race or family; -- in the plural, fathers, ancestors.
David slept with his fathers. -- 1 Kings ii. 10.
Abraham, who is the father of us all. -- Rom. iv. 16.
Father (n.) One who performs the offices of a parent by maintenance, affetionate care, counsel, or protection.
I was a father to the poor. -- Job xxix. 16.
He hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house. -- Gen. xiv. 8.
Father (n.) A respectful mode of address to an old man.
And Joash the king of Israel came down unto him [Elisha], . . . and said, O my father, my father! -- 2 Kings xiii. 14.
Father (n.) A senator of ancient
Father (n.) A dignitary of the church, a superior of a convent, a confessor (called also father confessor), or a priest; also, the eldest member of a profession, or of a legislative assembly, etc.
Bless you, good father friar ! -- Shak.
Father (n.) One of the chief esslesiastical authorities of the first centuries after Christ; -- often spoken of collectively as the Fathers; as, the Latin, Greek, or apostolic Fathers.
Father (n.) One who, or that which, gives origin; an originator; a producer, author, or contriver; the first to practice any art, profession, or occupation; a distinguished example or teacher.
The father of all such as handle the harp and organ. -- Gen. iv. 21.
Might be the father, Harry, to that thought. -- Shak.
The father of good news. -- Shak.
Father (n.) The Supreme Being and Creator; God; in theology, the first person in the Trinity.
Our Father, which art in heaven. -- Matt. vi. 9.
Now had the almighty Father from above . . . Bent down his eye. -- Milton.
Adoptive father, One who adopts the child of another, treating it as his own.
Apostolic father, Conscript fathers, etc. See under Apostolic, Conscript, etc.
Father in God, A title given to bishops.
Father of lies, The Devil.
Father of the bar, The oldest practitioner at the bar.
Fathers of the city, The aldermen.
Father of the Faithful. (a) Abraham. -- Rom. iv. -- Gal. iii. 6-9.
Father of the Faithful. (b) Mohammed, or one of the sultans, his successors.
Father of the house, The member of a legislative body who has had the longest continuous service.
Most Reverend Father in God, A title given to archbishops and metropolitans, as to the archbishops of Canterbury and York.
Natural father, The father of an illegitimate child.
Putative father, One who is presumed to be the father of an illegitimate child; the supposed father.
Spiritual father. (a) A religious teacher or guide, esp. one instrumental in leading a soul to God.
Spiritual father. (b) (R. C. Ch.) A priest who hears confession in the sacrament of penance.
The Holy Father (R. C. Ch.), The pope.
Fathered (imp. & p. p.) of Father.
Fathering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Father.
Father (v. t.) To make one's self the father of; to beget.
Cowards father cowards, and base things sire base. -- Shak.
Father (v. t.) To take as one's own child; to adopt; hence, to assume as one's own work; to acknowledge one's self author of or responsible for (a statement, policy, etc.).
Men of wit Often fathered what he writ. -- Swift.
Father (v. t.) To provide with a father. [R.]
Think you I am no stronger than my sex, Being so fathered and so husbanded ? -- Shak.
To father on or To father upon, to ascribe to, or charge upon, as one's offspring or work; to put or lay upon as being responsible. "Nothing can be so uncouth or extravagant, which may not be fathered on some fetch of wit, or some caprice of humor." -- Barrow.
Father (n.) A male parent (also used as a term of address to your father); "his father was born in Atlanta" [syn: father, male parent, begetter] [ant: female parent, mother].
Father (n.) The founder of a family; "keep the faith of our forefathers" [syn: forefather, father, sire].
Father (n.) `Father' is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially the Roman Catholic Church or the Orthodox Catholic Church); `Padre' is frequently used in the military [syn: Father, Padre].
Father (n.) (Christianity) Any of about 70 theologians in the period from the 2nd to the 7th century whose writing established and confirmed official church doctrine; in the Roman Catholic Church some were later declared saints and became Doctor of the Church; the best known Latin Church Fathers are Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Jerome; those who wrote in Greek include Athanasius, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and John Chrysostom [syn: Church Father, Father of the Church, Father].
Father (n.) A person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization; "the tennis fathers ruled in her favor"; "the city fathers endorsed the proposal."
Father (n.) God when considered as the first person in the Trinity; "hear our prayers, Heavenly Father" [syn: Father, Father-God, Fatherhood].
Father (n.) A person who founds or establishes some institution; "George Washington is the father of his country" [syn: founder, beginner, founding father, father].
Father (n.) The head of an organized crime family [syn: don, father].
Father (v.) Make children; "Abraham begot Isaac"; "Men often father children but don't recognize them" [syn: beget, get, engender, father, mother, sire, generate, bring forth].
Fatherhood (n.) The state of being a father; the character or authority of a father; paternity.
Fatherhood (n.) The kinship relation between an offspring and the father [syn: fatherhood, paternity].
Fatherhood (n.) God when considered as the first person in the Trinity; "hear our prayers, Heavenly Father" [syn: Father, Father-God, Fatherhood].
Fatherhood (n.) The status of a religious leader.
Fatherhood (n.) The status of a father.
Fathers-in-law (n. pl. ) of Father-in-law.
Father-in-law (n.) The father of one's husband or wife; -- correlative to son-in-law and daughter-in-law.
Note: A man who marries a woman having children already, is sometimes, though erroneously, called their father-in-law.
Compare: Motherland
Motherland (n.) The country of one's ancestors; -- same as fatherland.
Fatherland (n.) 祖國 [C] One's native land; the native land of one's fathers or ancestors.
Fatherland (n.) The country where you were born [syn: {fatherland}, {homeland}, {motherland}, {mother country}, {country of origin}, {native land}].
Father-lasher (n.) (Zool.) A European marine fish ({Cottus bubalis), allied to the sculpin; -- called also lucky proach.
Fatherless (a.) Destitute of a living father; as, a fatherless child.
Fatherless (a.) Without a known author. -- Beau. & Fl.
Fatherless (a.) Having no living father.
Fatherless (a.) Not having a known or legally responsible father.
Fatherlessness (n.) The state of being without a father.
Fatherliness (n.) The qualities of a father; parantal kindness, care, etc.
Fatherliness (n.) The benignity and protectiveness of or befitting a father; "the gentleness and fatherliness of the strange old man eased her fears" [syn: fatherliness, paternal quality].
Compare: Daddy longlegs
Daddy longlegs, () (Zool.) An arachnidan of the genus Phalangium, and allied genera, having a small body and four pairs of long legs; -- called also harvestman, carter, and grandfather longlegs.
Daddy longlegs, () (Zool.) A name applied to many species of dipterous insects of the genus Tipula, and allied genera, with slender bodies, and very long, slender legs; the crane fly; -- called also father longlegs.
Father longlegs () (Zool.) See Daddy longlegs, 2.
Fatherly (a.) Like a father in affection and care; paternal; tender; protecting; careful.
You have showed a tender, fatherly regard. -- Shak.
Fatherly (a.) Of or pertaining to a father.
Fatherly (a.) Like or befitting a father or fatherhood; kind and protective [syn: fatherly, fatherlike].
Fathership (n.) The state of being a father; fatherhood; paternity.
Fathom (n.) 長度單位 (6尺) A measure of length, containing six feet; the space to which a man can extend his arms; -- used chiefly in measuring cables, cordage, and the depth of navigable water by soundings.
Fathom (n.) The measure or extant of one's capacity; depth, as of intellect; profundity; reach; penetration. [R.]
Another of his fathom they have non To lead their business. -- Shak.
Fathomed (imp. & p. p.) of Fathom.
Fathoming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fathom.
Fathom (v. t.) 測量深度，看穿，徹底瞭解 (v. i.) 測深 To encompass with the arms extended or encircling; to measure by throwing the arms about; to span. [Obs.] -- Purchas.
Fathom (v. t.) The measure by a sounding line; especially, to sound the depth of; to penetrate, measure, and comprehend; to get to the bottom of. -- Dryden.
The page of life that was spread out before me seemed dull and commonplace, only because I had not fathomed its deeper import. -- Hawthotne.
Fathom (n.) A linear unit of measurement (equal to 6 feet) for water depth [syn: {fathom}, {fthm}].
Fathom (n.) (Mining) a unit of volume (equal to 6 cubic feet) used in measuring bodies of ore [syn: {fathom}, {fthm}].
Fathom (v.) come to understand [syn: {penetrate}, {fathom}, {bottom}].
Fathom (v.) measure the depth of (a body of water) with a sounding line [syn: {fathom}, {sound}].
Fathom, () (Old A.S. faethm, "bosom," or the outstretched arms), a span of six feet (Acts 27:28). Gr. orguia (from orego, "I stretch"), the distance between the extremities of both arms fully stretched out.
Fathom. () A measure of length, equal to six feet. The word is probably derived from the Teutonic word fad, which signifies the thread or yarn drawn out in spinning to the length of the arm, before it is run upon the spindle.
Webster; Minshew. See Ell. Vide Measure.
Fathomable (a.) 可測的；看得透的 Capable of being fathomed.
Fathomable (a.) (Of depth) capable of being sounded or measured for depth [syn: {fathomable}, {plumbable}, {soundable}] [ant: {unfathomable}].
Fathomable (a.) (Of meaning) Capable of being penetrated or comprehended.
Fathomer (n.) One who fathoms.
Fathomless (a.) 深不可測的，難理解的，不可思議的 Incapable of being fathomed; immeasurable; that can not be sounded.
And buckle in a waist most fathomless. -- Shak.
Fathomless (a.) Incomprehensible.
The fathomless absurdity. -- Milton.
Compare: Incomprehensible
Incomprehensible () Not capable of being contained within limits.
An infinite and incomprehensible substance. -- Hooker.
Incomprehensible () Not capable of being comprehended or understood; beyond the reach of the human intellect; inconceivable.
And all her numbered stars that seem to roll Spaces incomprehensible. -- Milton. -- In*com`pre*hen"si*ble*ness, n. -- In*com`pre*hen"si*bly, adv.
Incomprehensible (a.) Incapable of being explained or accounted for; "inexplicable errors"; "left the house at three in the morning for inexplicable reasons" [syn: inexplicable, incomprehensible] [ant: explicable].
Incomprehensible (a.) Difficult to understand; "the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible" -- A. Einstein [syn: incomprehensible, uncomprehensible] [ant: comprehendible, comprehensible].
Fatidical (a.) Having power to foretell future events; prophetic; fatiloquent; as, the fatidical oak. [R.] --Howell. -- Fa*tid"i*cal*ly, adv.
Fatiferous (a.) Fate-bringing; deadly; mortal; destructive. [R.] -- Johnson.
Fatigable (a.) Easily tired. [Obs.] -- Bailey.
Fatigate (a.) Wearied; tired; fatigued. [Obs.]
Requickened what in flesh was fatigate. -- Shak.
Fatigate (v. t.) To weary; to tire; to fatigue. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Elyot.
Fatigation (n.) Weariness. [Obs.] -- W. Montaqu.
Fatigued (imp. & p. p.) of Fatigue.
Fatiguing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fatigue.
Fatigue (v. t.) To weary with labor or any bodily or mental exertion; to harass with toil; to exhaust the strength or endurance of; to tire.
Syn: To jade; tire; weary; bore. See Jade.
Fatigue (n.) Weariness from bodily labor or mental exertion; lassitude or exhaustion of strength.
Fatigue (n.) The cause of weariness; labor; toil; as, the fatigues of war. -- Dryden.
Fatigue (n.) The weakening of a metal when subjected to repeated vibrations or strains.
Fatigue call (Mil.), A summons, by bugle or drum, to perform fatigue duties.
Fatigue dress, The working dress of soldiers.
Fatigue duty (Mil.), Labor exacted from soldiers aside from the use of arms. -- Farrow.
Fatigue party, A party of soldiers on fatigue duty.
Fatigue (n.) Temporary loss of strength and energy resulting from hard physical or mental work; "he was hospitalized for extreme fatigue"; "growing fatigue was apparent from the decline in the execution of their athletic skills"; "weariness overcame her after twelve hours and she fell asleep" [syn: fatigue, weariness, tiredness].
Fatigue (n.) Used of materials (especially metals) in a weakened state caused by long stress; "metal fatigue."
Fatigue (n.) (Always used with a modifier) boredom resulting from overexposure to something; "he was suffering from museum fatigue"; "after watching TV with her husband she had a bad case of football fatigue"; "the American public is experiencing scandal fatigue"; "political fatigue."
Fatigue (n.) Labor of a nonmilitary kind done by soldiers (cleaning or digging or draining or so on); "the soldiers were put on fatigue to teach them a lesson"; "they were assigned to kitchen fatigues" [syn: fatigue duty, fatigue].
Fatigue (v.) Lose interest or become bored with something or somebody; "I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food" [syn: tire, pall, weary, fatigue, jade].
Fatigue (v.) Exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress; "We wore ourselves out on this hike" [syn: tire, wear upon, tire out, wear, weary, jade, wear out, outwear, wear down, fag out, fag, fatigue] [ant: freshen, refresh, refreshen].
Fatiloquent (a.) Prophetic; fatidical. [Obs.] -- Blount.
Fatiloquist (n.) A fortune teller. Fatimite
Fatimite (a.) Alt. of Fatimide.
Fatimide (a.) (Hist.) Descended from Fatima, the daughter and only child of Mohammed.
Fatimide (n.) A descendant of Fatima.
Fatiscence (n.) A gaping or opening; state of being chinky, or having apertures. -- Kirwan.
Fat-kidneyed (a.) Gross; lubberly.
Peace, ye fat-kidneyed rascal ! -- Shak.
Fatling (n.) A calf, lamb, kid, or other young animal fattened for slaughter; a fat animal; -- said of such animals as are used for food.
He sacrificed oxen and fatlings. -- 2 Sam. vi. 13.
Fatling (1.) A fatted animal for slaughter (2 Sam. 6:13; Isa. 11:6; Ezek. 39:18. Comp. Matt. 22:4, where the word used in the original, sitistos, means literally "corn-fed;" i.e., installed, fat). (2.) Ps. 66:15 (Heb. meah, meaning "marrowy," "fat," a species of sheep). (3.) 1 Sam. 15:9 (Heb. mishneh, meaning "the second," and hence probably "cattle of a second quality," or lambs of the second birth, i.e., autmnal lambs, and therfore of less value).
Fatly (adv.) Grossly; greasily.
Fatner (n.) One who fattens. [R.] See Fattener. -- Arbuthnit.
Fatness (n.) The quality or state of being fat, plump, or full-fed; corpulency; fullness of flesh.
Fatness (n.) Hence; Richness; fertility; fruitfulness.
Rich in the fatness of her plenteous soil. -- Rowe.
Fatness (n.) That which makes fat or fertile.
The clouds drop fatness. -- Philips.
Fatness (n.) Excess bodily weight; "she disliked fatness in herself as well as in others" [syn: fatness, fat, blubber, avoirdupois] [ant: leanness, spareness, thinness].
Fattened (imp. & p. p.) of Fatten.
Fattining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fatten.
Fatten (v. t.) To make fat; to feed for slaughter; to make fleshy or plump with fat; to fill full; to fat.
Fatten (v. t.) To make fertile and fruitful; to enrich; as, to fatten land; to fatten fields with blood. -- Dryden.
Fatten (v. i.) To grow fat or corpulent; to grow plump, thick, or fleshy; to be pampered.
And villains fatten with the brave man's labor. -- Otway.
Fatten (v.) Make fat or plump; "We will plump out that poor starving child" [syn: fatten, fat, flesh out, fill out, plump, plump out, fatten out, fatten up].
Fattener (n.) One who, or that which, fattens; that which gives fatness or fertility.
Fattiness (n.) State or quality of being fatty.
Fattiness (n.) Having the property of containing fat; "he recommended exercise to reduce my adiposity" [syn: adiposity, adiposeness, fattiness].
Fattish (a.) Somewhat fat; inclined to fatness.
Coleridge, a puffy, anxious, obstructed-looking, fattish old man. -- Carlyle.
Fattish (a.) Somewhat fat.
Fatty (a.) Containing fat, or having the qualities of fat; greasy; gross; as, a fatty substance.
Fatty acid (Chem.), Any one of the paraffin series of monocarbonic acids, as formic acid, acetic, etc.; -- so called because the higher members, as stearic and palmitic acids, occur in the natural fats, and are themselves fatlike substances.
Fatty clays. See under Clay.
Fatty degeneration (Med.), A diseased condition, in which the oil globules, naturally present in certain organs, are so multiplied as gradually to destroy and replace the efficient parts of these organs.
Fatty heart, Fatty liver, etc. (Med.), a heart, liver, etc., which have been the subjects of fatty degeneration or infiltration.
Fatty infiltration (Med.), A condition in which there is an excessive accumulation of fat in an organ, without destruction of any essential parts of the latter.
Fatty tumor (Med.), A tumor consisting of fatty or adipose tissue; lipoma.
Fatty (a.) Containing or composed of fat; "fatty food"; "fat tissue" [syn: fatty, fat] [ant: fat-free, fatless, nonfat].
Fatty (n.) A rotund individual [syn: fatso, fatty, fat person, roly-poly, butterball] [ant: scrag, skin and bones, thin person].
Fatuitous (a.) Stupid; fatuous.
Fatuity (n.) Weakness or imbecility of mind; stupidity.
Those many forms of popular fatuity. -- I Taylor.
Fatuity (n.) A ludicrous folly; "the crowd laughed at the absurdity of the clown's behavior" [syn: absurdity, fatuity, fatuousness, silliness].
Fatuous (a.) Feeble in mind; weak; silly; stupid; foolish; fatuitous. -- Glanvill.
Fatuous (a.) Without reality; illusory, like the ignis fatuus. Thence fatuous fires and meteors take their birth. -- Danham.
Fatuous (a.) Devoid of intelligence [syn: asinine, fatuous, inane, mindless, vacuous].
Fat-witted (a.) Dull; stupid. -- Shak.
Faubourg (n.) A suburb of French city; also, a district now within a city, but formerly without its walls.
Faucal (a.) Pertaining to the fauces, or opening of the throat; faucial; esp., (Phon.) produced in the fauces, as certain deep guttural sounds found in the Semitic and some other languages.
Ayin is the most difficult of the faucals. -- I. Taylor (The Alphabet).
Fauces (n. pl.) (Anat.) The narrow passage from the mouth to the pharynx, situated between the soft palate and the base of the tongue; -- called also the isthmus of the fauces. On either side of the passage two membranous folds, called the pillars of the fauces, inclose the tonsils.
Fauces (n. pl.) (Bot.) The throat of a calyx, corolla, etc.
Fauces (n. pl.) (Zool.) That portion of the interior of a spiral shell which can be seen by looking into the aperture.
Compare: Faux
Faux (n.; pl. fauces) [L.] See Fauces.
Fauces (n.) The passage between the back of the mouth and the pharynx.
Faucet (n.) A fixture for drawing a liquid, as water, molasses, oil, etc., from a pipe, cask, or other vessel, in such quantities as may be desired; -- called also tap, and cock. It consists of a tubular spout, stopped with a movable plug, spigot, valve, or slide.
Faucet (n.) The enlarged end of a section of pipe which receives the spigot end of the next section.
Faucet (n.) A regulator for controlling the flow of a liquid from a reservoir [syn: faucet, spigot].
Fauchion (n.) See Falchion. [Obs.]
Faucial (a.) (Anat.) Pertaining to the fauces; pharyngeal.
Faugh (interj.) An exclamation of contempt, disgust, or abhorrence.
Faulchion (n.) See Falchion.