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.

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.

Fuel (v. t.) To feed with fuel. [Obs.]

Never, alas I the dreadful name, That fuels the infernal flame. -- Cowley.

Fuel (v. t.) To store or furnish with fuel or firing. [Obs.]

Well watered and well fueled. -- Sir H. Wotton.

Fuel (n.) A substance that can be consumed to produce energy; "more fuel is needed during the winter months"; "they developed alternative fuels for aircraft."

Fuel (v.) Provide with a combustible substance that provides energy; "fuel aircraft, ships, and cars."

Fuel (v.) Provide with fuel; "Oil fires the furnace" [syn: fuel, fire].

Fuel (v.) Take in fuel, as of a ship; "The tanker fueled in Bahrain."

Fuel (v.) Stimulate; "fuel the debate on creationism."

Fuel, () Almost every kind of combustible matter was used for fuel, such as the withered stalks of herbs (Matt. 6:30), thorns (Ps. 58:9; Eccl. 7:6), animal excrements (Ezek. 4:12-15; 15:4, 6; 21:32). Wood or charcoal is much used still in all the towns of Syria and Egypt. It is largely brought from the region of Hebron to Jerusalem. (See COAL.)

Fewel (n.) Fuel. [Obs.] -- Hooker.

Compare: Fumet

Fumet (n.) The dung of deer. -- B. Jonson. [Sometimes spelled fewmet.] Fumet

Fumet, Fumette (n.) The stench or high flavor of game or other meat when kept long. -- Swift.

Fumet (n.) [F.] A high-flavored substance, such as extract of game, for flavoring dishes of food; less properly, a ragout of partridge and rabbit braised in wine.

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. [Old Eng. & Scot.]

Fey (n.) Faith. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.

Fey (v. t.) To cleanse; to clean out. [Obs.] -- Tusser.

Fey (a.) Slightly insane [syn: fey, touched(p)].

Fey (a.) Suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness; "thunderbolts quivered with elfin flares of heat lightning"; "the fey quality was there, the ability to see the moon at midday"- John Mason Brown [syn: elfin, fey].

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; the woman to whom one is betrothed.

Fiancee (n.) A woman who is engaged to be married [syn: fiancee, bride-to-be].

Fiants (n.) The dung of the fox, wolf, boar, or badger.

Fiar (n.) (Scots Law) One in whom the property of an estate is vested, subject to the estate of a life renter.

I am fiar of the lands; she a life renter. -- Sir W. Scott.

Fiar (n.) pl. The price of grain, as legally fixed, in the counties of Scotland, for the current year.

Fiar, () Scotch law. He whose property is burdened with a life rent. Ersk. Pr. of L. Scot. B. 2, t. 9, s. 23.

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.) The inherent complex of attributes that determine a person's moral and ethical actions and reactions; sinew; strength; toughness; as, a man of real fiber.

Syn: character, fibre.

Yet had no fibers in him, nor no force. -- Chapman.      

Fibre (n.) A general name for the raw material, such as cotton, flax, hemp, etc., used in textile manufactures.

Fibre (n.) (Nutrition) that portion of food composed of carbohydrates which are completely or partly indigestible, such as cellulose or pectin; it may be in an insoluble or a soluble form. It provides bulk to the solid waste and stimulates peristalsis in the intestine. It is found especially in grains, fruits, and vegetables. There is some medical evidence which indicates that diets high in fiber reduce the risk of colon cancer and reduce cholesterol levels in the blood. It is also called dietary fiber, roughage, or bulk.

Fibre (n.) A leatherlike material made by compressing layers of paper or cloth.

Syn: fibre, vulcanized fiber.

Fiber gun, A kind of steam gun for converting, wood, straw, etc., into fiber. The material is shut up in the gun with steam, air, or gas at a very high pressure which is afterward relieved suddenly by letting a lid at the muzzle fly open, when the rapid expansion separates the fibers.

Fiber plants (Bot.), Plants capable of yielding fiber useful in the arts, as hemp, flax, ramie, agave, etc.

Fibre (n.) Same as fiber. [Mostly British usage]

Fibre (n.) A slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn [syn: fiber, fibre].

Fibre (n.) Any of several elongated, threadlike cells (especially a muscle fiber or a nerve fiber) [syn: fiber, fibre].

Fibre (n.) The inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions; "education has for its object the formation of character" -- Herbert Spencer [syn: character, fiber, fibre].

Fibre (n.) A leatherlike material made by compressing layers of paper or cloth [syn: fiber, fibre, vulcanized fiber].

Fibered (a.) Alt. of Fibred.

Fibred (a.) Having fibers; made up of fibers. Fiber-faced

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.) (Biol.) 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. -- Cheyne.

Fibril (n.) A very slender natural or synthetic fiber [syn: fibril, filament, strand].

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.) 原纖維形成過程;【醫】纖維性顫動 The state of being reduced to fibers. -- Carpenter.

Fibrillation (n.) Muscular twitching involving individual muscle fibers acting without coordination.

Fibrillation (n.) Act or process of forming fibrils.

Fibrillose (a.) 生小纖維或鬚狀附屬物的 Covered with hairlike appendages, as the under surface of some lichens; also, composed of little strings or fibers; as, fibrillose appendages.

Fibrillose (a.) Covered with fibrils more or less evenly disposed.

Fibrillous (a.) Pertaining to, or composed of, fibers.

Fibrin (n.) (Physiol. Chem.) [生化] (血)纖維蛋白;穀朊;麩質 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.) (Physiol. Chem.) 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.) (Physiol. Chem.) An albuminous body, resembling animal fibrin in composition, found in cereal grains and similar seeds; vegetable fibrin.

Fibrin factors (Physiol.), The albuminous bodies, paraglobulin and fibrinigen in the blood, which, by the action of the fibrin ferment, are changed into fibrin, in coagulation.

Fibrin ferment (Physiol. Chem.), A ferment which makes its appearance in the blood shortly after it is shed, and is supposed to be the active agent in causing coagulation of the blood, with formation of fibrin.

Fibrin (n.) A white insoluble fibrous protein formed by the action of thrombin on fibrinogen when blood clots; it forms a network that traps red cells and platelets.

Fibrination (n.) (Med.) 【醫】纖維素生成過多 The state of acquiring or having an excess of fibrin.

Fibrine (a.) Belonging to the fibers of plants.

Fibrinogen (n.) (Physiol. Chem.) 纖維素原;纖維蛋白原;血纖維蛋白原 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.

Fibrinogen (n.) A protein present in blood plasma; converts to fibrin when blood clots [syn: fibrinogen, factor I].

Fibrinogenous (a.) (Physiol. Chem.) Possessed of properties similar to fibrinogen; capable of forming fibrin.

Fibrinoplastic (a.) (Physiol.Chem.) Like fibrinoplastin; capable of forming fibrin when brought in contact with fibrinogen.

Fibrinoplastin (n.) (Physiol.Chem.) An albuminous substance, existing in the blood, which in combination with fibrinogen forms fibrin; -- called also paraglobulin.

Fibrinous (a.) 纖維蛋白的 Having, or partaking of the properties of, fibrin; as, fibrious exudation.

Fibrinous (a.) Characterized by the presence of fibrin.

Fibrocartilage (n.) (Anat.) A kind of cartilage with a fibrous matrix and approaching fibrous connective tissue in structure. -- Fi`bro*car`ti*lag"i*nous, a.

Fibrocartilage (n.) Cartilage that is largely composed of fibers like those in ordinary connective tissue.

Fibrochondrosteal (a.) (Anat.) Partly fibrous, partly cartilaginous, and partly osseous. -- St. George Mivart.

Fibroid (a.) (Med.) Resembling or forming fibrous tissue; made up of fibers; as, fibroid tumors.

Fibroid (n.) A fibroid tumor; a fibroma.

Fibroid degeneration, A form of degeneration in which organs or tissues are converted into fibroid tissue.

Fibroid phthists, A form of pulmonary consumption associated with the formation of fibrous tissue in the lungs, and the gradual atrophy of the lungs, from the pressure due to the contraction of this tissue.

Fibroid (n.) Benign tumor containing fibrous tissue (especially in the uterus) [syn: fibroid tumor, fibroid].

Fibroin (n.) (Chem.) A variety of gelatin; the chief ingredient of raw silk, extracted as a white amorphous mass.

Fibrolite (n.) (Min.) A silicate of alumina, of fibrous or columnar structure. It is like andalusite in composition; -- called also sillimanite, and bucholizite.

Fibroma (n.) (Med.) A tumor consisting mainly of fibrous tissue, or of same modification of such tissue.

Fibroma (n.) Nonmalignant tumor of connective tissue.

Fibrospongiae (n. pl.) (Zool.) 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. -- Fi"brous*ness, n.

Fibrous (a.) Having or resembling fibers especially fibers used in making cordage such as those of jute [syn: hempen, fibrous].

Fibrous (a.) (Of meat) Full of sinews; especially impossible to chew [syn: fibrous, sinewy, stringy, unchewable].

Fibrovascular (a.) (Bot.) Containing woody fiber and ducts, as the stems of all flowering plants and ferns; -- opposed to cellular.

Fibster (n.) One who tells fibs. [Jocular]

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.

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