Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter F - Page 21
Feu de joie () A fire kindled in a public place in token of joy; a bonfire; a firing of guns in token of joy.
Feudist (n.) A writer on feuds; a person versed in feudal law. -- Spelman.
Feuillants (n. pl.) A reformed branch of the Bernardines, founded in 1577 at Feuillans, near Toulouse, in France.
Feuillemort (a.) Having the color of a faded leaf. -- Locke.
Feuilleton (n.) A part of a French newspaper (usually the bottom of the page), devoted to light literature, criticism, etc.; also, the article or tale itself, thus printed.
Feuilltonist (n.) A writer of feuilletons. -- F. Harrison.
Feuter (v. t.) To set close; to fix in rest, as a spear. -- Spenser.
Feuterer (n.) A dog keeper. [Obs.] -- Massinger.
Fever (n.) (Med.) A diseased state of the system, marked by increased heat, acceleration of the pulse, and a general derangement of the functions, including usually, thirst and loss of appetite. Many diseases, of which fever is the most prominent symptom, are denominated fevers; as, typhoid fever; yellow fever.
Note: Remitting fevers subside or abate at intervals; intermitting fevers intermit or entirely cease at intervals; continued or continual fevers neither remit nor intermit.
Fever (n.) Excessive excitement of the passions in consequence of strong emotion; a condition of great excitement; as, this quarrel has set my blood in a fever.
An envious fever Of pale and bloodless emulation. -- Shak.
After
life's fitful fever he sleeps well. -- Shak.
Brain fever, Continued fever,
etc. See under Brain, Continued, etc.
Fever and ague, A form of fever recurring in paroxysms which are preceded by chills. It is of malarial origin.
Fever blister (Med.), A blister or vesicle often found about the mouth in febrile states; a variety of herpes.
Fever bush (Bot.), The wild allspice or spice bush. See Spicewood.
Fever powder. Same as Jame's powder.
Fever root (Bot.), An American herb of the genus Triosteum+({Triosteum+perfoliatum">Triosteum ({Triosteum perfoliatum); -- called also feverwort and horse gentian..
Fever sore, A carious ulcer or necrosis. -- Miner. Webster]
Fevered (imp. & p. p.) of Fever
Fevering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fever
Fever (v. t.) To put into a fever; to affect with fever; as, a fevered lip. [R.]
The white hand of a lady fever thee. -- Shak.
Fever (n.) A rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection [syn: fever, febrility, febricity, pyrexia, feverishness].
Fever (n.) Intense nervous anticipation; "in a fever of resentment".
Fever (Deut. 28:22; Matt. 8:14; Mark 1:30; John 4:52; Acts 28:8), A burning heat, as the word so rendered denotes, which attends all febrile attacks. In all Eastern countries such diseases are very common. Peter's wife's mother is said to have suffered from a "great fever" (Luke 4:38), an instance of Luke's professional exactitude in describing disease. He adopts here the technical medical distinction, as in those times fevers were divided into the "great" and the "less."
Feveret (n.) A slight fever. [Obs.] -- Ayliffe.
Feverfew (n.) (Bot.) A perennial plant ({Pyrethrum Parthenium, or Chrysanthemum Parthenium) allied to camomile, having finely divided leaves and white blossoms; -- so named from its supposed febrifugal qualities.
Feverfew (n.) Bushy aromatic European perennial herb having clusters of buttonlike white-rayed flower heads; valued traditionally for medicinal uses; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum [syn: feverfew, Tanacetum parthenium, Chrysanthemum parthenium].
Feverish (a.) Having a fever; suffering from, or affected with, a moderate degree of fever; showing increased heat and thirst; as, the patient is feverish.
Feverish (a.) Indicating, or pertaining to, fever; characteristic of a fever; as, feverish symptoms.
Feverish (a.) Hot; sultry. "The feverish north." -- Dryden.
Feverish (a.) Disordered as by fever; excited; restless; as, the feverish condition of the commercial world.
Syn: fevered.
Strive to keep up a frail and feverish being. -- Milton. -- Fe"ver*ish*ly, adv. -- Fe"ver*ish*ness, n.
Feverish (a.) Marked by intense agitation or emotion; "worked at a feverish pace" [syn: feverish, hectic].
Feverish (a.) Of or relating to or characterized by fever; "a febrile reaction caused by an allergen" [syn: febrile, feverish] [ant: afebrile].
Feverish (a.) Having or affected by a fever [syn: feverish, feverous].
Feverous (a.) Affected with fever or ague; feverish.
His heart, love's feverous citadel. -- Keats.
Feverous (a.) Pertaining to, or having the nature of, fever; as, a feverous pulse.
All maladies . . . all feverous kinds. -- Milton.
Feverous (a.) Having the tendency to produce fever; as, a feverous disposition of the year. [R.] -- Bacon.
Feverous (a.) Having or affected by a fever [syn: feverish, feverous].
Feverously (adv.) Feverishly. [Obs.] -- Donne.
Feverwort (n.) See Fever root, under Fever.
Fevery (a.) Feverish. [Obs.] -- B. Jonson.
Few (a.) Not many; small, limited, or confined in number; -- indicating a small portion of units or individuals constituing a whole; often, by ellipsis of a noun, a few people. "Are not my days few?" -- Job x. 20.
Few know and fewer care. -- Proverb.
Note: Few is often used partitively; as, few of them.
A few, A small number.
In few, In a few words; briefly. -- Shak.
No few, Not few; more than a few; many. -- Cowper.
The few, The minority; -- opposed to the many or the majority.
Few (a.) A quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by `a'; a small but indefinite number; "a few weeks ago"; "a few more wagons than usual"; "an invalid's pleasures are few and far between"; "few roses were still blooming"; "few women have led troops in battle" [ant: many].
Few (n.) A small elite group; "it was designed for the discriminating few".
Compare: Fuel
Fuel (n.) [Formerly written also fewel.] Any matter used to produce heat by burning; that which feeds fire; combustible matter used for fires, as wood, coal, peat, etc.
Fuel (n.) Anything that serves to feed or increase passion or excitement.
Artificial fuel, Fuel consisting of small particles, as coal dust, sawdust, etc., consolidated into lumps or blocks.
Fewel (n.) Fuel. [Obs.] -- Hooker.
Compare: Fumet
Fumet (n.) The dung of deer. -- B. Jonson. [Sometimes spelled fewmet.] Fumet
Fewmet (n.) See Fumet. [Obs.] -- B. Jonson.
Fewness (n.) The state of being few; smallness of number; paucity. -- Shak.
Fewness (n.) Brevity; conciseness. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Fewness (n.) The quality of being small in number.
Fey (a.) Fated; doomed.
Fey (n.) Faith.
Fey (v. t.) To cleanse; to clean out.
Feyne (v. t.) To feign.
Feyre (n.) A fair or market.
Fez (n.) A felt or cloth cap, usually red and having a tassel, -- a variety of the tarboosh. See Tarboosh.
Fiacre (n.) A kind of French hackney coach.
Fiance (v. t.) To betroth; to affiance.
Fiance (n.) A betrothed man.
Fiancé (n.) [ C ] 未婚夫 The man who someone is engaged to be married to.
// Have you met Christina's fiancé?
Fiancee (n.) A betrothed woman.
Fiants (n.) The dung of the fox, wolf, boar, or badger.
Fiar (n.) One in whom the property of an estate is vested, subject to the estate of a life renter.
Fiar (n.) The price of grain, as legally fixed, in the counties of Scotland, for the current year.
Fiascoes (n. pl. ) of Fiasco
Fiasco (n.) 慘敗，大失敗 A complete or ridiculous failure, esp. of a musical performance, or of any pretentious undertaking.
Fiat (n.) An authoritative command or order to do something; an effectual decree.
Fiat (n.) A warrant of a judge for certain processes.
Fiat (n.) An authority for certain proceedings given by the Lord Chancellor's signature.
Fiaunt (n.) Commission; fiat; order; decree.
Fib (n.) A falsehood; a lie; -- used euphemistically.
Fibbed (imp. & p. p.) of Fib
Fibbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fib
Fib (v. i.) To speak falsely.
Fib (v. t.) To tell a fib to.
Fibber (n.) One who tells fibs.
Fiber (n.) Alt. of Fibre
Fibre (n.) One of the delicate, threadlike portions of which the tissues of plants and animals are in part constituted; as, the fiber of flax or of muscle.
Fibre (n.) Any fine, slender thread, or threadlike substance; as, a fiber of spun glass; especially, one of the slender rootlets of a plant.
Fibre (n.) Sinew; strength; toughness; as, a man of real fiber.
Fibre (n.) A general name for the raw material, such as cotton, flax, hemp, etc., used in textile manufactures.
Fibered (a.) Alt. of Fibred
Fibred (a.) Having fibers; made up of fibers.
Fiber-faced (a.) Alt. of Fibre-faced
Fibre-faced (a.) Having a visible fiber embodied in the surface of; -- applied esp. to a kind of paper for checks, drafts, etc.
Fiberless (a.) Alt. of Fibreless
Fibreless (a.) Having no fibers; destitute of fibers or fiber.
Fibriform (a.) Having the form of a fiber or fibers; resembling a fiber.
Fibril (n.) A small fiber; the branch of a fiber; a very slender thread; a fibrilla.
FibrillAe (n. pl. ) of Fibrilla
Fibrilla (n.) A minute thread of fiber, as one of the fibrous elements of a muscular fiber; a fibril.
Fibrillar (a.) Of or pertaining to fibrils or fibers; as, fibrillar twitchings.
Fibrillary (a.) Of of pertaining to fibrils.
Fibrillated (a.) Furnished with fibrils; fringed.
Fibrillation (n.) The state of being reduced to fibers.
Fibrillose (a.) Covered with hairlike appendages, as the under surface of some lichens; also, composed of little strings or fibers; as, fibrillose appendages.
Fibrillous (a.) Pertaining to, or composed of, fibers.
Fibrin (n.) A white, albuminous, fibrous substance, formed in the coagulation of the blood either by decomposition of fibrinogen, or from the union of fibrinogen and paraglobulin which exist separately in the blood. It is insoluble in water, but is readily digestible in gastric and pancreatic juice.
Fibrin (n.) The white, albuminous mass remaining after washing lean beef or other meat with water until all coloring matter is removed; the fibrous portion of the muscle tissue; flesh fibrin.
Fibrin (n.) An albuminous body, resembling animal fibrin in composition, found in cereal grains and similar seeds; vegetable fibrin.
Fibrination (n.) The state of acquiring or having an excess of fibrin.
Fibrine (a.) Belonging to the fibers of plants.
Fibrinogen (n.) An albuminous substance existing in the blood, and in other animal fluids, which either alone or with fibrinoplastin or paraglobulin forms fibrin, and thus causes coagulation.
Fibrinogenous (a.) Possessed of properties similar to fibrinogen; capable of forming fibrin.
Fibrinoplastic (a.) Like fibrinoplastin; capable of forming fibrin when brought in contact with fibrinogen.
Fibrinoplastin (n.) An albuminous substance, existing in the blood, which in combination with fibrinogen forms fibrin; -- called also paraglobulin.
Fibrinous (a.) Having, or partaking of the properties of, fibrin; as, fibrious exudation.
Fibrocartilage (n.) A kind of cartilage with a fibrous matrix and approaching fibrous connective tissue in structure.
Fibrochondrosteal (a.) Partly fibrous, partly cartilaginous, and partly osseous.
Fibroid (a.) Resembling or forming fibrous tissue; made up of fibers; as, fibroid tumors.
Fibroid (n.) A fibroid tumor; a fibroma.
Fibroin (n.) A variety of gelatin; the chief ingredient of raw silk, extracted as a white amorphous mass.
Fibrolite (n.) A silicate of alumina, of fibrous or columnar structure. It is like andalusite in composition; -- called also sillimanite, and bucholizite.
Fibroma (n.) A tumor consisting mainly of fibrous tissue, or of same modification of such tissue.
Fibrospongiae (n. pl.) An order of sponges having a fibrous skeleton, including the commercial sponges.
Fibrous (a.) Containing, or consisting of, fibers; as, the fibrous coat of the cocoanut; the fibrous roots of grasses.
Fibrovascular (a.) Containing woody fiber and ducts, as the stems of all flowering plants and ferns; -- opposed to cellular.
Fibster (n.) One who tells fibs.
FibulAe (n. pl. ) of Fibula
Fibula (n.) A brooch, clasp, or buckle.
Mere fibul[ae], without a robe to clasp. -- Wordsworth.
Fibula (n.) (Anat.) The outer and usually the smaller of the two bones of the leg, or hind limb, below the knee.