Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter F - Page 18
Feoffment (n.) (Law) The instrument or deed by which corporeal hereditaments are conveyed. [Obs. in the U.S., Rare in Eng.] Feofor
Feoffment, () Conveyancing. A gift of any corporeal hereditaments to another. It operates by transmutation of possession, and it is essential to its completion that the seisin be passed. Watk. Prin. Conv. 183. This term also signifies the instrument or deed by which such hereditament is conveyed.
Feoffment, () This instrument was used as one of the earliest modes of conveyance of the common law. It signified, originally, the grant of a feud or fee; but it came, in time, to signify the grant of a free inheritance in fee, respect being had to the perpetuity of the estate granted, rather than to the feudal tenure. The feoffment was, likewise, accompanied by livery of seisin. The conveyance, by feoffment, with livery of seisin, has become infrequent, if not obsolete, in England; and in this country it has not been used in practice. Cruise, Dig. t. 32, c. 4. s. 3; Touchs. c. 9; 2 Bl. Corn. 20; Co. Litt. 9; 4 Kent, Com. 467; Perk.. c. 3; Com. Dig. h.t.; 12 Vin. Ab. 167; Bac. Ab. h.t. in pr.; Doct. Plac. 271; Dane's Ab. c. 104, a. 3, s. 4. He who gives or enfeoffs is called the feoffor; and the person enfeoffed is denominated the feoffee. 2 Bl. Com. 20. See 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 2045, note.
Feofor (n.) Alt. of Feoffer
Feoffer (n.) (Law) One who enfeoffs or grants a fee.
Fer (a. & adv.) Far. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
FER, () Forward Error Correction (satellite).
Feofor (a.) Fruitful; producing abundantly.
Feofor, Feoffer (n.) [OF. feoour.] (Law) One who enfeoffs or grants a fee.
Feracity (n.) The state of being feracious or fruitful. [Obs.] -- Beattie.
Ferae (n. pl.) (Zool.) A group of mammals which formerly included the Carnivora, Insectivora, Marsupialia, and lemurs, but is now often restricted to the Carnivora.
Ferae. () Wild, savage, not tame.
Ferae naturae () [L.] Of a wild nature; -- applied to animals, as foxes, wild ducks, etc., in which no one can claim property.
Feral (a.) (Bot. & Zool.) Wild; untamed; ferine; not domesticated; -- said of beasts, birds, and plants.
Feral (a.) Funereal; deadly; fatal; dangerous. [R.] "Feral accidents." -- Burton.
Ferde () (Obs.) imp. of Fare. -- Chaucer.
Fer-de-lance (n.) (Zool.) A large, venomous serpent ({Trigonocephalus lanceolatus) of Brazil and the West Indies. It is allied to the rattlesnake, but has no rattle.
Fer-de-lance (n.) Large extremely venomous pit viper of Central America and South America [syn: fer-de-lance, Bothrops atrops].
Ferding (n.) A measure of land mentioned in Domesday Book. It is supposed to have consisted of a few acres only. [Obs.]
Ferdness (n.) Fearfulness. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Fere (n.) A mate or companion; -- often used of a wife. [Obs.] [Written also fear and feere.] -- Chaucer.
And Cambel took Cambrina to his fere. -- Spenser.
In fere, Together; in company. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Fere (a.) Fierce. [Obs.]
Fere (n.) Fire. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Fere (n.) Fear. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Fere (v. t. & i.) To fear. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Feretory (n.) A portable bier or shrine, variously adorned, used for containing relics of saints. -- Mollett.
Ferforth (adv.) Far forth.
Ferforthly (adv.) Ferforth.
Fergusonite (n.) A mineral of a brownish black color, essentially a tantalo-niobate of yttrium, erbium, and cerium; -- so called after Robert Ferguson.
Feriae (n. pl. ) of Feria
Feria (n.) (Eccl.) 【西】（古羅馬的）宗教節日；【宗】（沒有宗教節慶的）週日 A week day, esp. a day which is neither a festival nor a fast. -- Shipley.
Feria (n.) A weekday on which no festival or holiday is celebrated; "in the middle ages feria was used with a prefixed ordinal number to designate the day of the week, so `secunda feria' meant Monday, but Sunday and Saturday were always called by their names, Dominicus and Sabbatum, and so feria came to mean an ordinary weekday".
Feria (n.) (In Spanish speaking regions) A local festival or fair, usually in honor of some patron saint.
Ferial (n.) 【宗】平日的；假日的 Same as Feria.
Ferial (a.) Of or pertaining to holidays.
Ferial (a.) Belonging to any week day, esp. to a day that is neither a festival nor a fast.
Feriation (n.) The act of keeping holiday; cessation from work.
Ferie (n.) A holiday.
Ferier (a.) compar. of Fere, fierce.
Ferine (a.) Wild; untamed; savage; as, lions, tigers, wolves, and bears are ferine beasts.
Ferine (n.) A wild beast; a beast of prey.
Feringee (n.) The name given to Europeans by the Hindos.
Ferity (n.) Wildness; savageness; fierceness.
Ferly (n.) Singular; wonderful; extraordinary.
Ferly (n.) A wonder; a marvel.
Fermacy (n.) Medicine; pharmacy.
Ferm (n.) Alt. of Ferme
Ferme (n.) Rent for a farm; a farm; also, an abode; a place of residence; as, he let his land to ferm.
Ferment (n.) 酵素，發酵，動亂 That which causes fermentation, as yeast, barm, or fermenting beer.
Ferment (n.) Intestine motion; heat; tumult; agitation.
Ferment (n.) A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation.
Fermented (imp. & p. p.) of Ferment
Fermenting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ferment
Ferment (v. t.) (v. t.)(v. i.) (使) 發酵，(使) 動亂 To cause ferment of fermentation in; to set in motion; to excite internal emotion in; to heat.
Ferment (v. i.) To undergo fermentation; to be in motion, or to be excited into sensible internal motion, as the constituent oarticles of an animal or vegetable fluid; to work; to effervesce.
Ferment (v. i.) To be agitated or excited by violent emotions.
Ferment (n.) A state of agitation or turbulent change or development; "the political ferment produced new leadership"; "social unrest" [syn: {agitation}, {ferment}, {fermentation}, {tempestuousness}, {unrest}].
Ferment (n.) A substance capable of bringing about fermentation.
Ferment (n.) A process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol [syn: {zymosis}, {zymolysis}, {fermentation}, {fermenting}, {ferment}].
Ferment (v.) Be in an agitated or excited state; "The Middle East is fermenting"; "Her mind ferments".
Ferment (v.) Work up into agitation or excitement; "Islam is fermenting Africa".
Ferment (v.) Cause to undergo fermentation; "We ferment the grapes for a very long time to achieve high alcohol content"; "The vintner worked the wine in big oak vats" [syn: {ferment}, {work}].
Ferment (v.) Go sour or spoil; "The milk has soured"; "The wine worked"; "The cream has turned--we have to throw it out" [syn: {sour}, {turn}, {ferment}, {work}].
Fermentability (n.) 發酵能力 Capability of fermentation.
Fermentable (a.) 沸騰的 Capable of fermentation; as, cider and other vegetable liquors are fermentable.
Fermental (a.) 促起發酵的；發酵性的 Fermentative.
Fermentation (n.) [U] 發酵；騷動；動亂 The process of undergoing an effervescent change, as by the action of yeast; in a wider sense (Physiol. Chem.), the transformation of an organic substance into new compounds by the action of a ferment, either formed or unorganized. It differs in kind according to the nature of the ferment which causes it.
Note: In industrial microbiology fermentation usually refers to the production of chemical substances by use of microorganisms.
Fermentation (n.) A state of agitation or excitement, as of the intellect or the feelings.
It puts the soul to fermentation and activity. -- Jer. Taylor.
A univesal fermentation of human thought and faith. -- C. Kingsley.
{Acetous fermentation} or {Acetic fermentation}, A form of oxidation in which alcohol is converted into vinegar or acetic acid by the agency of a specific fungus ({Mycoderma aceti}) or series of enzymes. The process involves two distinct reactions, in which the oxygen of the air is essential. An intermediate product, acetaldehyde, is formed in the first process. 1. C2H6O + O [rarr] H2O + C2H4O
Note: Alcohol. Water. Acetaldehyde. 2. C2H4O + O [rarr] C2H4O2
Note: Acetaldehyde. Acetic acid.
{Alcoholic fermentation}, The fermentation which saccharine bodies undergo when brought in contact with the yeast plant or Torula. The sugar is converted, either directly or indirectly, into alcohol and carbonic acid, the rate of action being dependent on the rapidity with which the Torul[ae] develop.
{Ammoniacal fermentation}, The conversion of the urea of the urine into ammonium carbonate, through the growth of the special urea ferment. CON2H4 + 2H2O = (NH4)2CO3.
Note: Urea. Water. Ammonium carbonate.
Note: Whenever urine is exposed to the air in open vessels for several days it undergoes this alkaline fermentation.
{Butyric fermentation}, The decomposition of various forms of organic matter, through the agency of a peculiar worm-shaped vibrio, with formation of more or less butyric acid. It is one of the many forms of fermentation that collectively constitute putrefaction. See {Lactic fermentation}.
{Enzymatic fermentation} or {Fermentation by an unorganized ferment}. Fermentations of this class are purely chemical reactions, in which the enzyme acts as a simple catalytic agent. Of this nature are the decomposition or inversion of cane sugar into levulose and dextrose by boiling with dilute acids, the conversion of starch into dextrin and sugar by similar treatment, the conversion of starch into like products by the action of diastase of malt or ptyalin of saliva, the conversion of albuminous food into peptones and other like products by the action of pepsin-hydrochloric acid of the gastric juice or by the ferment of the pancreatic juice.
{Fermentation theory of disease} (Biol. & Med.), The theory that most if not all, infectious or zymotic disease are caused by the introduction into the organism of the living germs of ferments, or ferments already developed (organized ferments), by which processes of fermentation are set up injurious to health. See {Germ theory}.
{Glycerin fermentation}, The fermentation which occurs on mixing a dilute solution of glycerin with a peculiar species of schizomycetes and some carbonate of lime, and other matter favorable to the growth of the plant, the glycerin being changed into butyric acid, caproic acid, butyl, and ethyl alcohol. With another form of bacterium ({Bacillus subtilis}) ethyl alcohol and butyric acid are mainly formed.
{Lactic fermentation}, The transformation of milk sugar or other saccharine body into lactic acid, as in the souring of milk, through the agency of a special bacterium ({Bacterium lactis} of Lister). In this change the milk sugar, before assuming the form of lactic acid, presumably passes through the stage of glucose. C12H22O11.H2O --> 4C3H6O3.
Note: Hydrated milk sugar. Lactic acid.
Note: In the lactic fermentation of dextrose or glucose, the lactic acid which is formed is very prone to undergo butyric fermentation after the manner indicated in the following equation: 2C3H6O3 (lactic acid) --> C4H8O2 (butyric acid) + 2CO2 (carbonic acid) + 2H2 (hydrogen gas).
{Putrefactive fermentation}. See {Putrefaction}.
Fermentation (n.) A state of agitation or turbulent change or development; "the political ferment produced new leadership"; "social unrest" [syn: {agitation}, {ferment}, {fermentation}, {tempestuousness}, {unrest}].
Fermentation (n.) A process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol [syn: {zymosis}, {zymolysis}, {fermentation}, {fermenting}, {ferment}].
Fermentative (a.) 促起發酵的；發酵性的 Causing, or having power to cause, fermentation; produced by fermentation; fermenting; as, a fermentative process. -- {Fer*ment"a*tive*ly}, adv. -- {Fer*ment"a*tive*ness}, n.
Fermerere (n.) (Obsolete) The officer in a religious house who had the care of the infirmary. [Obs.]
Fermerere (n.) (pl. Fermereres) (Obsolete) The officer in charge of the infirmary in a religious house.
Fermillet (n.) A buckle or clasp. [Obs.] -- Donne.
Fern (adv.) Long ago. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Fern (a.) Ancient; old. [Obs.] "Pilgrimages to . . . ferne halwes." [saints]. -- Chaucer.
Fern (n.) An order of cryptogamous plants, the Filices, which have their fructification on the back of the fronds or leaves. They are usually found in humid soil, sometimes grow epiphytically on trees, and in tropical climates often attain a gigantic size.
Note: The plants are asexual, and bear clustered sporangia, containing minute spores, which germinate and form prothalli, on which are borne the true organs of reproduction. The brake or bracken, the maidenhair, and the polypody are all well known ferns.
{Christmas fern}. See under {Christmas}.
{Climbing fern} (Bot.), a delicate North American fern ({Lygodium palmatum}), which climbs several feet high over bushes, etc., and is much sought for purposes of decoration.
{Fern owl}. (Zool.) The European goatsucker.
{Fern owl}. (Zool.) The short-eared owl. [Prov. Eng.] -- {Fern shaw}, a fern thicket. [Eng.] -- R. Browning.
Fern (n.) Any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores.
Fernery (n.) A place for rearing ferns.
Fernticle (n.) A freckle on the skin, resembling the seed of fern. [Prov. Eng.]
Ferny (a.) Abounding in ferns.
Ferny (a.) Resembling a fern; fernlike.
Ferny (a.) Abounding in or covered with ferns; "the ferny undergrowth" [syn: {ferned}, {ferny}] [ant: {fernless}].
Ferny (a.) Resembling ferns especially in leaf shape; "the ferny shadows of locust leaves" [syn: {fernlike}, {ferny}].
Ferocious (a.) 兇猛的；殘忍的；【口】非常的；驚人的 Fierce; savage; wild; indicating cruelty; ravenous; rapacious; as, ferocious look or features; a ferocious lion.
The humbled power of a ferocious enemy. -- Lowth.
Syn: {Ferocious}, {Fierce}, {Savage}, {Barbarous}.
Usage: When these words are applied to human feelings or conduct, ferocious describes the disposition; fierce, the haste and violence of an act; barbarous, the coarseness and brutality by which it was marked; savage, the cruel and unfeeling spirit which it showed. A man is ferocious in his temper, fierce in his actions, barbarous in the manner of carrying out his purposes, savage in the spirit and feelings expressed in his words or deeds. -- {Fe*ro"cious*ly}, adv. -- {Fe*ro"cious*ness}, n.
Ferocious (a.) Marked by extreme and violent energy; "a ferocious beating"; "fierce fighting"; "a furious battle" [syn: {ferocious}, {fierce}, {furious}, {savage}].
Ferocity (n.) Savage wildness or fierceness; fury; cruelty; as, ferocity of countenance.
The pride and ferocity of a Highland chief. --Macaulay.
Ferocity (n.) The property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's violence" [syn: {ferocity}, {fierceness}, {furiousness}, {fury}, {vehemence}, {violence}, {wildness}].
Feroher (n.) A symbol of the solar deity, found on monuments exhumed in Babylon, Nineveh, etc.
Ferous (a.) Wild; savage.
-ferous () A suffix signifying bearing, producing, yielding; as, auriferous, yielding gold; chyliferous, producing chyle.
Ferrandine (n.) A stuff made of silk and wool.
Ferrara (n.) A sword bearing the mark of one of the Ferrara family of Italy. These swords were highly esteemed in England and Scotland in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Ferrarese (a.) Pertaining to Ferrara, in Italy.
Ferrarese (n., sing. & pl.) A citizen of Ferrara; collectively, the inhabitants of Ferrara.
Ferrary (n.) The art of working in iron.
Ferrate (n.) A salt of ferric acid.
Ferre (a. & adv.) Alt. of Ferrer
Ferrer (a. & adv.) compar. of Fer.
Ferreous (a.) Partaking of, made of, or pertaining to, iron; like iron.
Ferrest (a. & adv.) superl. of Fer.
Ferret (n.) The iron used for trying the melted glass to see if is fit to work, and for shaping the rings at the mouths of bottles.
Ferret (n.) (Zool.) An animal of the Weasel family ({Mustela furo} syn. {Putorius furo}), about fourteen inches in length, of a pale yellow or white color, with red eyes. It is a native of Africa, but has been domesticated in Europe. Ferrets are used to drive rabbits and rats out of their holes. They are sometimes kept as pets.
Ferreted (imp. & p. p.) of Ferret
Ferreting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ferret
Ferret (v. t.) To drive or hunt out of a lurking place, as a ferret does the cony; to search out by patient and sagacious efforts; -- often used with out; as, to ferret out a secret.
Master Fer! I'll fer him, and firk him, and ferret him. -- Shak.
Ferret (n.) A kind of narrow tape, usually made of woolen; sometimes of cotton or silk; -- called also {ferreting}.
Ferret (n.) Musteline mammal of prairie regions of United States; nearly extinct [syn: {black-footed ferret}, {ferret}, {Mustela nigripes}]
Ferret (n.) Domesticated albino variety of the European polecat bred for hunting rats and rabbits.
Ferret (v.) Hound or harry relentlessly.
Ferret (v.) Hunt with ferrets.
Ferret (v.) Search and discover through persistent investigation; "She ferreted out the truth" [syn: {ferret out}, {ferret}].
Ferret (n.) Lev. 11:30 (R.V., "gecko"), One of the unclean creeping things. It was perhaps the Lacerta gecko which was intended by the Hebrew word (anakah, a cry, "mourning," the creature which groans) here used, i.e., the "fan-footed" lizard, the gecko which makes a mournful wail. The LXX. translate it by a word meaning "shrew-mouse," of which there are three species in Palestine. The Rabbinical writers regard it as the hedgehog. The translation of the Revised Version is to be preferred.
Ferreter (n.) One who ferrets. -- Johnson.
Ferret-eye (n.) (Zool.) The spur-winged goose; -- so called from the red circle around the eyes.
Ferretto (n.) Copper sulphide, used to color glass. -- Hebert.
Ferri- () (Chem.) A combining form indicating ferric iron as an ingredient; as, ferricyanide.
Ferriage (n.) The price or fare to be paid for passage at a ferry.
Ferric (a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing iron. Specifically (Chem.), denoting those compounds in which iron has a higher valence than in the ferrous compounds; as, ferric oxide; ferric acid.
Ferric acid (Chem.), An acid, H2FeO4, which is not known in the free state, but forms definite salts, analogous to the chromates and sulphates.
Ferric oxide (Chem.), Sesquioxide of iron, Fe2O3; hematite. See Hematite.
Ferric (a.) Of or relating to or containing iron [syn: ferric, ferrous].
Ferricyanate (n.) (Chem.) A salt of ferricyanic acid; a ferricyanide.
Ferricyanic (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, a ferricyanide.
Ferricyanic acid (Chem.), A brown crystalline substance, H6(CN)12Fe2, obtained from potassium ferricyanide, and regarded as the type of the ferricyanides; -- called also hydro-ferricyanic acid, hydrogen ferricyanide, etc.
Ferricyanide (n.) (Chem.) One of a complex series of double cyanides of ferric iron and some other base.
{Potassium ferricyanide} (Chem.), Red prussiate of potash; a dark, red, crystalline salt, {K6(CN)12Fe2}, consisting of the double cyanide of potassium and ferric iron. From it is derived the ferrous ferricyanate, Turnbull's blue.
Ferricyanide (n.) Salt of ferricyanic acid obtained by oxidation of a ferrocyanide.
Ferrier (n.) A ferryman. -- Calthrop.
Ferriferous (a.) Producing or yielding iron.
Ferriprussiate (n.) (Chem.) A ferricyanate; a ferricyanide. [R.]
Ferriprussic (a.) (Chem.) Ferricyanic. [R.]
Ferro- () (Chem.) A prefix, or combining form, indicating ferrous iron as an ingredient; as, ferrocyanide.
Ferrocalcite (n.) Limestone containing a large percentage of iron carbonate, and hence turning brown on exposure.
Ferrocyanate (n.) (Chem.) A salt of ferrocyanic acid; a ferrocyanide.
Ferrocyanic (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, a ferrocyanide.
{Ferrocyanic acid} (Chem.), (ph.) 【化】硫氰化鐵 A white crystalline substance, {H4(CN)6Fe}, of strong acid properties, obtained from potassium ferrocyanide, and regarded as the type of the ferrocyanides; -- called also {hydro-ferrocyanic acid}, {hydrogen ferrocyanide}. etc.