Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter F - Page 19
Ferrocyanide (n.) (Chem.) 氰亞鐵酸鹽；亞鐵氰化物 One of a series of complex double cyanides of ferrous iron and some other base.
{Potassium ferrocyanide} (Chem.), Yellow prussiate of potash; a tough, yellow, crystalline salt, {K4(CN)6Fe}, the starting point in the manufacture of almost all cyanogen compounds, and the basis of the ferric ferrocyanate, prussian blue. It is obtained by strongly heating together potash, scrap iron, and animal matter containing nitrogen, as horn, leather, blood, etc., in iron pots.
Ferrocyanide (n.) Salt of ferrocyanic acid usually obtained by a reaction of a cyanide with iron sulphate.
Ferrocyanide (n.) The complex ion Fe(CN)6 4-, used in making blue pigments, blueprint paper, and ferricyanide.
Compare: Ferricyanide
Ferricyanide (n.) 【化】鐵氰化物 The complex ion Fe(CN)6 3- or any of various salts containing it, used in making blue pigments.
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.
Ferroprussiate (n.) (Chem.) 鐵氰化物 A ferrocyanate; a ferocyanide. [R.]
Ferroprussic (a.) (Chem.) Ferrocyanic.
Ferroso- () (Chem.) See Ferro-.
Ferrotype (n.) A photographic picture taken on an iron plate by a collodion process; -- familiarly called tintype.
Ferrous (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, iron; -- especially used of compounds of iron in which the iron has its lower valence; as, ferrous sulphate.
Ferrous (a.) Of or relating to or containing iron [syn: ferric, ferrous].
Ferruginated (a.) Having the color or properties of the rust of iron.
Ferrugineous (a.) Ferruginous. [R.]
Ferruginous (a.) Partaking of iron; containing particles of iron. -- Boyle.
Ferruginous (a.) 鐵的；赤褐色的 Resembling iron rust in appearance or color; brownish red, or yellowish red.
Ferrugo (n.) A disease of plants caused by fungi, commonly called the rust, from its resemblance to iron rust in color.
Ferrule (n.) A ring or cap of metal put round a cane, tool, handle, or other similar object, to strengthen it, or prevent splitting and wearing.
Ferrule (n.) (Machinery) Any of various circular or cylindrical metal objects used at joints in a tube, pipe, or rod, especially to assist making a tight seal at a joint.
Ferrule (n.) Hence: (Steam Boilers) A bushing for expanding the end of a flue to fasten it tightly in the tube plate, or for partly filling up its mouth.
Ferrule (n.) Hence: (Chemistry) A bushing used at the joints of metal tubing in HPLC equipment to make a tight seal.
Ferrule (n.) (Fishing) One of several small rings at the top of a casting rod which holds the fishing line. -- RHUD
Ferrule (n.) A metal cap or band placed on a wooden pole to prevent splitting [syn: ferrule, collet].
Ferruminate (v. t.) To solder or unite, as metals. [R.] -- Coleridge.
Ferrumination (n.) The soldering or uniting of metals. [R.] -- Coleridge.
Ferried (imp. & p. p.) of Ferry.
Ferrying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ferry.
Ferry (v. t.) To carry or transport over a river, strait, or other narrow water, in a boat.
Ferry (v. t.) To convey back and forth regularly between two points in a vehicle; as, part of her day was spent ferrying the kids to and from school.
Ferry (v. i.) To pass over water in a boat or by a ferry.
They ferry over this Lethean sound Both to and fro. -- Milton.
Ferries (n. pl. ) of Ferry.
Ferry (n.) A place where persons or things are carried across a river, arm of the sea, etc., in a Ferryboat.
It can pass the ferry backward into light. -- Milton.
To row me o'er the ferry. -- Campbell.
Ferry (n.) A vessel in which passengers and goods are conveyed over narrow waters; a ferryboat; a wherry.
Ferry (n.) A franchise or right to maintain a vessel for carrying passengers and freight across a river, bay, etc., charging tolls.
Ferry bridge, A ferryboat adapted in its structure for the transfer of railroad trains across a river or bay.
Ferry railway. See under Railway.
Ferry (n.) A boat that transports people or vehicles across a body of water and operates on a regular schedule [syn: ferry, ferryboat].
Ferry (n.) Transport by boat or aircraft [syn: ferry, ferrying].
Ferry (v.) Transport from one place to another.
Ferry (v.) Transport by ferry.
Ferry (v.) Travel by ferry.
Ferry -- U.S. County in Washington
Population (2000): 7260
Housing Units (2000): 3775
Land area (2000): 2203.982146 sq. miles (5708.287311 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 53.478622 sq. miles (138.508988 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2257.460768 sq. miles (5846.796299 sq. km)
Located within: Washington (WA), FIPS 53
Location: 48.495464 N, 118.523636 W
Headwords:
Ferry
Ferry, WA
Ferry County
Ferry County, WA
Ferry, AK -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Alaska
Population (2000): 29
Housing Units (2000): 33
Land area (2000): 68.440336 sq. miles (177.259648 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 68.440336 sq. miles (177.259648 sq. km)
FIPS code: 25220
Located within: Alaska (AK), FIPS 02
Location: 64.064392 N, 148.997000 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Ferry, AK
Ferry
Ferryboat (n.) 渡船 A vessel for conveying passengers, merchandise, etc., across streams and other narrow waters.
Syn: ferry [2].
Ferryboat (n.) A boat that transports people or vehicles across a body of water and operates on a regular schedule [syn: ferry, ferryboat].
Ferrymen (n. pl. ) of Ferryman.
Ferryman (n.) 渡船夫，渡船業者 One who maintains or attends a ferry.
Ferryman (n.) A man who operates a ferry.
Fers (a.) Fierce.
Ferthe (a.) Fourth.
Fertile (a.) Producing fruit or vegetation in abundance; fruitful; able to produce abundantly; prolific; fecund; productive; rich; inventive; as, fertile land or fields; a fertile mind or imagination.
Though he in a fertile climate dwell. -- Shak.
Fertile (a.) (Bot.) Capable of producing fruit; fruit-bearing; as, fertile flowers.
Fertile (a.) (Bot.) Containing pollen; -- said of anthers.
Fertile (a.) produced in abundance; plenteous; ample.
Henceforth, my early care . . . Shall tend thee, and the fertile burden ease Of thy full branches. -- Milton.
Syn: Fertile, Fruitful.
Usage: Fertile implies the inherent power of production; fruitful, the act. The prairies of the West are fertile by nature, and are turned by cultivation into fruitful fields. The same distinction prevails when these words are used figuratively. A man of fertile genius has by nature great readiness of invention; one whose mind is fruitful has resources of thought and a readiness of application which enable him to think and act effectively.
Fertile (a.) Capable of reproducing [ant: infertile, sterile, unfertile].
Fertile (a.) Intellectually productive; "a prolific writer"; "a fecund imagination" [syn: fecund, fertile, prolific].
Fertile (a.) Bearing in abundance especially offspring; "flying foxes are extremely prolific"; "a prolific pear tree" [syn: prolific, fertile].
Fertile (a.) Marked by great fruitfulness; "fertile farmland"; "a fat land"; "a productive vineyard"; "rich soil" [syn: fat, fertile, productive, rich].
Fertile, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa
Population (2000): 360
Housing Units (2000): 161
Land area (2000): 0.940131 sq. miles (2.434927 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.940131 sq. miles (2.434927 sq. km)
FIPS code: 27390
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 43.264704 N, 93.421176 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 50434
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Fertile, IA
Fertile
Fertile, MN -- U.S. city in Minnesota
Population (2000): 893
Housing Units (2000): 433
Land area (2000): 1.892536 sq. miles (4.901645 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.892536 sq. miles (4.901645 sq. km)
FIPS code: 20978
Located within: Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27
Location: 47.533529 N, 96.283303 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 56540
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Fertile, MN
Fertile
Fertilely (adv.) In a fertile or fruitful manner.
Fertileness (n.) Fertility. -- Sir P. Sidney.
Fertilitate (v. t.) To fertilize; to fecundate. -- Sir T. Browne.
Fertility (n.) [U]（土地的）肥沃；【生】繁殖力；（思想等的）豐富 The state or quality of being fertile or fruitful; fruitfulness; productiveness; fecundity; richness; abundance of resources; fertile invention; quickness; readiness; as, the fertility of soil, or of imagination. "fertility of resource." -- E. Everett.
And all her husbandry doth lie on heaps Corrupting in its own fertility. -- Shak.
Thy very weeds are beautiful; thy waste More rich than other climes' fertility. -- Byron.
Fertility (n.) The ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year [syn: {birthrate}, {birth rate}, {fertility}, {fertility rate}, {natality}].
Fertility (n.) The state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring [syn: {fertility}, {fecundity}] [ant: {infertility}, {sterility}].
Fertility (n.) The property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth; "he praised the richness of the soil"; "weeds lovely in their rankness" [syn: {richness}, {rankness}, {prolificacy}, {fertility}].
Fertilization (n.) 肥沃；施肥；【生】受精（作用） The act or process of rendering fertile.
Fertilization (n.) (Biol.) The act of fecundating or impregnating animal or vegetable germs; esp., the process by which in flowers the pollen renders the ovule fertile, or an analogous process in flowerless plants; fecundation; impregnation.
{Close fertilization} (Bot.), The fertilization of pistils by pollen derived from the stamens of the same blossom.
{Cross fertilization}, Fertilization by pollen from some other blossom. See under {Cross}, a.
Fertilization (n.) Creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant [syn: {fertilization}, {fertilisation}, {fecundation}, {impregnation}].
Fertilization (n.) Making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure [syn: {fertilization}, {fertilisation}, {fecundation}, {dressing}].
Fertilized (imp. & p. p.) of Fertilize.
Fertilizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fertilize.
Fertilize (v. t.) 使肥沃；施肥；使受精 To make fertile or enrich; to supply with nourishment for plants; to make fruitful or productive; as, to fertilize land, soil, ground, and meadows.
And fertilize the field that each pretends to gain. -- Byron.
Fertilize (v. t.) To fecundate; as, to fertilize flower. -- A. R. Wallace.
Fertilize (v.) Provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to; "We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants" [syn: {fertilize}, {fertilise}, {feed}].
Fertilize (v.) Make fertile or productive; "The course fertilized her imagination" [syn: {fertilize}, {fecundate}, {fertilise}].
Fertilize (v.) Introduce semen into (a female) [syn: {inseminate}, {fecundate}, {fertilize}, {fertilise}].
Fertilizer (n.) 肥料；促進發展者；受精媒介物 One who fertilizes; the agent that carries the fertilizing principle, as a moth to an orchid.
Fertilizer (n.) That which renders fertile; a general name for commercial manures, as guano, phosphate of lime, etc.
Fertilizer (n.) Any substance such as manure or a mixture of nitrates used to make soil more fertile [syn: {fertilizer}, {fertiliser}, {plant food}].
Ferula (n.) A ferule. [Obs.] -- Beau. & Fl.
Ferula (n.) The imperial scepter in the Byzantine or Eastern Empire.
Ferula (n.) [capitalized] A genus of plants of the parsley family Apiaceae (of the order Umbelliferae), including some yielding asafetida. Members include Ferula asafoetida ({Ferula foetida), the giant fennel ({Ferula communis)}, and Ferula orientalis.
Ferulaceous (a.) Pertaining to reeds and canes; having a stalk like a reed; as, ferulaceous plants.
Ferular (n.) A ferule. [Obs.] -- Milton.
Ferule (n.) A flat piece of wood, used for striking, children, esp. on the hand, in punishment.
Ferule (n.) A ferrule. [R.]
Feruled (imp. & p. p.) of Ferule.
Feruling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ferule.
Ferule (v. t.) To punish with a ferule.
Ferule (n.) A switch (a stick or cane or flat paddle) used to punish children.
Ferulic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, asafetida (Ferula asafoetida); as, ferulic acid.
Fervence (n.) Heat; fervency.
Fervency (n.) The state of being fervent or warm; ardor; warmth of feeling or devotion; eagerness.
Fervent (a.) 熱的，炎熱的，熱心的 Hot; glowing; boiling; burning; as, a fervent summer.
Fervent (a.) Warm in feeling; ardent in temperament; earnest; full of fervor; zealous; glowing.
Fervescent (a.) Growing hot.
Fervid (a.) 熱的，熱心的 Very hot; burning; boiling.
Fervid (a.) Ardent; vehement; zealous.
Fervor (n.) 熱情，熱心，熾熱 Heat; excessive warmth.
Fervor (n.) Intensity of feeling or expression; glowing ardor; passion; holy zeal; earnestness.
Fescennine (a.) 淫穢的；下流的 Pertaining to, or resembling, the Fescennines.
Fescennine (n.) A style of low, scurrilous, obscene poetry originating in fescennia.
Fescue (n.) A straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read.
Fescue (n.) An instrument for playing on the harp; a plectrum.
Fescue (n.) The style of a dial.
Fescue (n.) A grass of the genus Festuca.
Fescued (imp. & p. p.) of Fescue.
Fescuing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fescue.
Fescue (v. i. & t.) To use a fescue, or teach with a fescue.
Fesels (n. pl.) See Phasel.
Fess (n.) Alt. of Fesse.
Fesse (n.) A band drawn horizontally across the center of an escutcheon, and containing in breadth the third part of it; one of the nine honorable ordinaries.
Fessitude (n.) Weariness.
Fesswise (adv.) In the manner of fess.
Fest (n.) The fist. [Obs.] -- Chaucer. Fest
Fest (n.) Alt. of Feste.
Feste (n.) A feast. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Festal (a.) Of or pertaining to a holiday or a feast; joyous; festive.
You bless with choicer wine the festal day. -- Francis.
Festal (a.) Offering fun and gaiety; "a festive (or festal) occasion"; "gay and exciting night life"; "a merry evening" [syn: gay, festal, festive, merry].
Festally (adv.) Joyously; festively; mirthfully.
Festennine (n.) A fescennine.
Festered (imp. & p. p.) of Fester.
Festering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fester.
Fester (v. i.) 潰爛，化膿 To generate pus; to become imflamed and suppurate; as, a sore or a wound festers.
Wounds immedicable Rankle, and fester, and gangrene. -- Milton.
Unkindness may give a wound that shall bleed and smart, but it is treachery that makes it fester. -- South.
Hatred . . . festered in the hearts of the children of the soil. -- Macaulay.
Fester (v. i.) To be inflamed; to grow virulent, or malignant; to grow in intensity; to rankle.
Fester (v. t.) 使潰爛，使化膿 To cause to fester or rankle.
For which I burnt in inward, swelt'ring hate, And festered ranking malice in my breast. -- Marston.
Fester (n.) 【醫】淺潰瘍；膿瘡 A small sore which becomes inflamed and discharges corrupt matter; a pustule.
Fester (n.) A festering or rankling.
The fester of the chain their necks. -- I. Taylor.
Fester (n.) A sore that has become inflamed and formed pus [syn: fester, suppurating sore].
Fester (v.) Ripen and generate pus; "her wounds are festering" [syn: fester, maturate, suppurate].
Fester (v.) [ I ] (Injury) （傷口）化膿，潰爛 If a cut or other injury festers, it becomes infected and produces pus.
// A festering sore.
Fester (v.) [ I ] (Feeling) （爭論或不快的感覺）加劇，惡化 If an argument or bad feeling festers, it continues so that feelings of hate or lack of satisfaction increase.
// It's better to express your anger than let it fester inside you.
// A festering argument/ dispute.
Festerment (n.) A festering. [R.] -- Chalmers.
Festeye (v. t.) To feast; to entertain. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Festinate (a.) Hasty; hurried. [Obs.] -- Fes"ti*nate*ly, adv. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Festinate (v.) Act or move at high speed; "We have to rush!"; "hurry--it's late!" [syn: rush, hasten, hurry, look sharp, festinate].
Festination (n.) Haste; hurry.
Festival (a.) 節日的；喜慶的 Pertaining to a fest; festive; festal; appropriate to a festival; joyous; mirthful.
Festival (n.) 節日，喜慶日 [C]；（定期舉行的）音樂節，戲劇節 [C]；慶祝活動；紀念活動 [C]；歡樂，喜慶 [U] A time of feasting or celebration; an anniversary day of joy, civil or religious.
Festive (a.) 慶祝的，喜慶的，歡樂的 Pertaining to, or becoming, a feast; festal; joyous; gay; mirthful; sportive.
Festivities (n. pl. ) of Festivity.
Festivity (n.) 歡宴，歡慶 The condition of being festive; social joy or exhilaration of spirits at an entertaintment; joyfulness; gayety.
Festivity (n.) A festival; a festive celebration.
Festivous (a.) (= Festive) 節日的，歡愉的Pertaining to a feast; festive.