Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter F - Page 23
Fiendish (a.) Like a fiend; diabolically wicked or cruel; infernal; malignant; devilish; hellish. -- Fiend"ish*ly, adv. -- Fiend"ish*ness, n.
Fiendish (a.) Extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell; "something demonic in him--something that could be cruel"; "fires lit up a diabolic scene"; "diabolical sorcerers under the influence of devils"; "a fiendish despot"; "hellish torture"; "infernal instruments of war"; "satanic cruelty"; "unholy grimaces" [syn: demonic, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, infernal, satanic, unholy].
Fiendlike (a.) Fiendish; diabolical. -- Longfellow.
Fiendly (a.) Fiendlike; monstrous; devilish. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Fierasfer (n.) A genus of small, slender fishes, remarkable for their habit of living as commensals in other animals. One species inhabits the gill cavity of the pearl oyster near Panama; another lives within an East Indian holothurian.
Fierce (a.) Furious; violent; unrestrained; impetuous; as, a fierce wind.
Fierce (a.) Vehement in anger or cruelty; ready or eager to kill or injure; of a nature to inspire terror; ferocious.
Fierce (a.) Excessively earnest, eager, or ardent.
Fieri facias () A judicial writ that lies for one who has recovered in debt or damages, commanding the sheriff that he cause to be made of the goods, chattels, or real estate of the defendant, the sum claimed.
Fieriness (n.) The quality of being fiery; heat; acrimony; irritability; as, a fieriness of temper.
Fiery (a.) Consisting of, containing, or resembling, fire; as, the fiery gulf of Etna; a fiery appearance.
Fiery (a.) Vehement; ardent; very active; impetuous.
Fiery (a.) Passionate; easily provoked; irritable.
Fiery (a.) Unrestrained; fierce; mettlesome; spirited.
Fiery (a.) heated by fire, or as if by fire; burning hot; parched; feverish.
Fife (n.) A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music.
Fifed (imp. & p. p.) of Fife
Fifing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fife
Fife (v. i.) To play on a fife.
Fifer (n.) One who plays on a fife.
Fifteen (a.) Five and ten; one more than fourteen.
Fifteen (n.) The sum of five and ten; fifteen units or objects.
Fifteen (n.) A symbol representing fifteen units, as 15, or xv.
Fifteenth (a.) Next in order after the fourteenth; -- the ordinal of fifteen.
Fifteenth (a.) Consisting of one of fifteen equal parts or divisions of a thing.
Fifteenth (n.) One of fifteen equal parts or divisions; the quotient of a unit divided by fifteen.
Fifteenth (n.) A species of tax upon personal property formerly laid on towns, boroughs, etc., in England, being one fifteenth part of what the personal property in each town, etc., had been valued at.
Fifteenth (n.) A stop in an organ tuned two octaves above the diaposon.
Fifteenth (n.) An interval consisting of two octaves.
Fifth (a.) Next in order after the fourth; -- the ordinal of five.
Fifth (a.) Consisting of one of five equal divisions of a thing.
Fifth (n.) The quotient of a unit divided by five; one of five equal parts; a fifth part.
Fifth (n.) The interval of three tones and a semitone, embracing five diatonic degrees of the scale; the dominant of any key.
Fifthly (adv.) In the fifth place; as the fifth in order.
Fifth wheel (n.) 第五個輪子；備用輪；【喻】多餘的人（或物） Person who accompanies two (or more) couples in a social situation, who does not have a partner of his or her own. Often the fifth person's attendance is encouraged by one of the well-meaning but ignorant female partners, who may feel sorry for the lonely person, but will inevitably ignore them once the lovemaking starts. It carries the connotation that the fifth person is often an unneccesary and unwelcome addition to the scene in these conditions. Derived from "the fifth wheel of a car", which needing only four wheels to run, has no need of a fifth.
Fiftieth (a.) Next in order after the forty-ninth; -- the ordinal of fifty.
Fiftieth (a.) Consisting of one of fifty equal parts or divisions.
Fiftieth (n.) One of fifty equal parts; the quotient of a unit divided by fifty.
Fifty (a.) Five times ten; as, fifty men.
Fifties (n. pl. ) of Fifty
Fifty (n.) The sum of five tens; fifty units or objects.
Fifty (n.) A symbol representing fifty units, as 50, or l.
Fig (n.) (Bot.) A small fruit tree ({Ficus Carica) with large leaves, known from the remotest antiquity. It was probably native from Syria westward to the Canary Islands.
Fig (n.) The fruit of a fig tree, which is of round or oblong shape, and of various colors.
Note: The fruit of a fig tree is really the hollow end of a stem, and bears numerous achenia inside the cavity. Many species have little, hard, inedible figs, and in only a few does the fruit become soft and pulpy. The fruit of the cultivated varieties is much prized in its fresh state, and also when dried or preserved. See Caprification.
Fig (n.) A small piece of tobacco. [U.S.]
Fig (n.) The value of a fig, practically nothing; a fico; -- used in scorn or contempt. "A fig for Peter." -- Shak.
Cochineal fig. See Conchineal fig.
Fig dust, A preparation of fine oatmeal for feeding caged birds.
Fig faun, One of a class of rural deities or monsters supposed to live on figs. "Therefore shall dragons dwell there with the fig fauns." -- Jer. i. 39. (Douay version).
Fig gnat (Zool.), A small fly said to be injurious to figs.
Fig leaf, The leaf tree; hence, in allusion to the first clothing of Adam and Eve (Genesis iii.7), a covering for a thing that ought to be concealed; esp., an inadequate covering; a symbol for affected modesty.
Fig marigold (Bot.), The name of several plants of the genus Mesembryanthemum, some of which are prized for the brilliancy and beauty of their flowers.
Fig tree (Bot.), Any tree of the genus Ficus, but especially F. Carica which produces the fig of commerce.
Fig (v. t.) To insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion. See Fico. [Obs.]
When Pistol lies, do this, and fig me like The bragging Spaniard. -- Shak.
Fig (v. t.) To put into the head of, as something useless o? contemptible. [Obs.] -- L'Estrange.
Fig (n.) Figure; dress; array. [Colloq.]
Were they all in full fig, the females with feathers on their heads, the males with chapeaux bras? -- Prof. Wilson.
Fig (n.) A diagram or picture illustrating textual material; "the area covered can be seen from Figure 2" [syn: figure, fig].
Fig (n.) Mediterranean tree widely cultivated for its edible fruit [syn: fig, common fig, common fig tree, Ficus carica].
Fig (n.) A Libyan terrorist group organized in 1995 and aligned with al-Qaeda; seeks to radicalize the Libyan government; attempted to assassinate Qaddafi [syn: Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, FIG, Al-Jama'a al-Islamiyyah al-Muqatilah bi-Libya, Libyan Fighting Group, Libyan Islamic Group].
Fig (n.) Fleshy sweet pear-shaped yellowish or purple multiple fruit eaten fresh or preserved or dried.
FIG, () Forth Interest Group (org., Forth)
Fig, () First mentioned in Gen. 3:7. The fig-tree is mentioned (Deut. 8:8) as one of the valuable products of Palestine. It was a sign of peace and prosperity (1 Kings 4:25; Micah 4:4; Zech. 3:10). Figs were used medicinally (2 Kings 20:7), and pressed together and formed into "cakes" as articles of diet (1 Sam. 30:12; Jer. 24:2).
Our Lord's cursing the fig-tree near Bethany (Mark 11:13) has occasioned much perplexity from the circumstance, as mentioned by the evangelist, that "the time of figs was not yet." The explanation of the words, however, lies in the simple fact that the fruit of the fig-tree appears before the leaves, and hence that if the tree produced leaves it ought also to have had fruit. It ought to have had fruit if it had been true to its "pretensions," in showing its leaves at this particular season. "This tree, so to speak, vaunted itself to be in advance of all the other trees, challenged the passer-by that he should come and refresh himself with its fruit. Yet when the Lord accepted its challenge and drew near, it proved to be but as the others, without fruit as they; for indeed, as the evangelist observes, the time of figs had not yet arrived. Its fault, if one may use the word, lay in its pretensions, in its making a show to run before the rest when it did not so indeed" (Trench, Miracles).
The fig-tree of Palestine (Ficus carica) produces two and sometimes three crops of figs in a year, (1) the bikkurah, or "early-ripe fig" (Micah 7:1; Isa. 28:4; Hos. 9:10, R.V.), which is ripe about the end of June, dropping off as soon as it is ripe (Nah. 3:12); (2) the kermus, or "summer fig," then begins to be formed, and is ripe about August; and (3) the pag (plural "green figs," Cant. 2:13; Gr. olynthos, Rev. 6:13, "the untimely fig"), or "winter fig," which ripens in sheltered spots in spring.
Figaro (n.) An adroit and unscrupulous intriguer.
Figary (n.) A frolic; a vagary; a whim.
Figeater (n.) A large beetle (Allorhina nitida) which in the Southern United States destroys figs. The elytra are velvety green with pale borders.
Figeater (n.) A bird. See Figpecker.
Figent (a.) Fidgety; restless.
Figgum (n.) A juggler's trick; conjuring.
Fought (imp. & p. p.) of Fight
Fighting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fight
Fight (v. i.) To strive or contend for victory, with armies or in single combat; to attempt to defeat, subdue, or destroy an enemy, either by blows or weapons; to contend in arms; -- followed by with or against.
You do fight against your country's foes. -- Shak.
To fight with thee no man of arms will deign. -- Milton.
Fight (v. i.) To act in opposition to anything; to struggle against; to contend; to strive; to make resistance.
To fight shy, To avoid meeting fairly or at close quarters; to keep out of reach.
Fight (v. t.) To carry on, or wage, as a conflict, or battle; to win or gain by struggle, as one's way; to sustain by fighting, as a cause.
He had to fight his way through the world. -- Macaulay.
I have fought a good fight. -- 2 Tim. iv. 7.
Fight (v. t.) To contend with in battle; to war against; as, they fought the enemy in two pitched battles; the sloop fought the frigate for three hours.
Fight (v. t.) To cause to fight; to manage or maneuver in a fight; as, to fight cocks; to fight one's ship.
To fight it out, To fight until a decisive and conclusive result is reached.
Fight (n.) A battle; an engagement; a contest in arms; a combat; a violent conflict or struggle for victory, between individuals or between armies, ships, or navies, etc.
Who now defies thee thrice to single fight. -- Milton.
Fight (n.) A struggle or contest of any kind.
Fight (n.) Strength or disposition for fighting; pugnacity; as, he has a great deal of fight in him. [Colloq.]
Fight (n.) A screen for the combatants in ships. [Obs.]
Up with your fights, and your nettings prepare. -- Dryden.
Running fight, A fight in which the enemy is continually chased; also, one which continues without definite end or result.
Syn: Combat; engagement; contest; struggle; encounter; fray; affray; action; conflict. See Battle.
Fight (n.) A hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war; "Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga"; "he lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement" [syn: battle, conflict, fight, engagement].
Fight (n.) The act of fighting; any contest or struggle; "a fight broke out at the hockey game"; "there was fighting in the streets"; "the unhappy couple got into a terrible scrap" [syn: fight, fighting, combat, scrap].
Fight (n.) An aggressive willingness to compete; "the team was full of fight" [syn: competitiveness, fight].
Fight (n.) An intense verbal dispute; "a violent fight over the bill is expected in the Senate".
Fight (n.) A boxing or wrestling match; "the fight was on television last night".
Fight (v.) Be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight; "the tribesmen fought each other"; "Siblings are always fighting"; "Militant groups are contending for control of the country" [syn: contend, fight, struggle].
Fight (v.) Fight against or resist strongly; "The senator said he would oppose the bill"; "Don't fight it!" [syn: fight, oppose, fight back, fight down, defend].
Fight (v.) Make a strenuous or labored effort; "She struggled for years to survive without welfare"; "He fought for breath" [syn: fight, struggle].
Fight (v.) Exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for; "The liberal party pushed for reforms"; "She is crusading for women's rights"; "The Dean is pushing for his favorite candidate" [syn: crusade, fight, press, campaign, push, agitate].
Fighter (n.) One who fights; a combatant; a warrior. -- Shak.
Fighter (n.) A boxer; a pugilist.
Fighter (n.) A person with the determination and will to persist through great difficulty to achieve a goal; one with the courage to fight and resist an opponent, and to struggle with all one's powers.
Fighter (n.) (Mil.) A military aircraft designed to seek out and destroy enemy aircraft; it is usually smaller and more maneuvarable than aircraft designed specifically for bombing. However, hybrid fighter-bomber aircraft that perform both functions also are used.
Fighter (n.) Someone who fights (or is fighting) [syn: combatant, battler, belligerent, fighter, scrapper].
Fighter (n.) A high-speed military or naval airplane designed to destroy enemy aircraft in the air [syn: fighter, fighter aircraft, attack aircraft].
Fighter (n.) Someone who fights for a cause [syn: champion, fighter, hero, paladin].
Fighting (a.) Qualified for war; fit for battle.
An host of fighting men. -- 2 Chron. xxvi. 11.
Fighting (a.) Occupied in war; being the scene of a battle; as, a fighting field. -- Pope.
A fighting chance, one dependent upon the issue of a struggle. [Colloq.]
Fighting crab (Zool.), The fiddler crab.
Fighting fish (Zool.), A remarkably pugnacious East Indian fish ({Betta pugnax), reared by the Siamese for spectacular fish fights.
Fighting (a.) Engaged in or ready for military or naval operations; "on active duty"; "the platoon is combat-ready"; "review the fighting forces" [syn: active, combat-ready, fighting(a)].
Fighting (n.) The act of fighting; any contest or struggle; "a fight broke out at the hockey game"; "there was fighting in the streets"; "the unhappy couple got into a terrible scrap" [syn: fight, fighting, combat, scrap].
Fightingly (adv.) Pugnaciously.
Fightwite (n.) A mulct or fine imposed on a person for making a fight or quarrel to the disturbance of the peace.
Figment (n.) An invention; a fiction; something feigned or imagined.
Social figments, feints, and formalism. -- Mrs. Browning.
It carried rather an appearance of figment and invention . . . than of truth and reality. -- Woodward.
Figment (n.) A contrived or fantastic idea; "a figment of the imagination".
Figpecker (n.) (Zool.) The European garden warbler ({Sylvia hortensis or Currica, hortensis); -- called also beccafico and greater pettychaps.
Fig-shell (n.) (Zool.) A marine univalve shell of the genus Pyrula, or Ficula, resembling a fig in form. Figulate
Figulate (a.) Alt. of Figulated
Figulated (a.) Made of potter's clay; molded; shaped. [R.] -- Johnson.
Figuline (n.) A piece of pottery ornamented with representations of natural objects.
Whose figulines and rustic wares Scarce find him bread from day to day. -- Longfellow.
Figuline (a.) Suitable for the making of pottery; fictile; -- said of clay.
Figuline (a.) Made of clay, as by the potter; -- said of vessels, ornamental figures, or the like; as, figuline ware.
Figurability (n.) The quality of being figurable. -- Johnson.
Figurable (a.) Capable of being brought to a fixed form or shape.
Lead is figurable, but water is not. -- Johnson.
Figurate (a.) Of a definite
form or figure.
Plants are all figurate and determinate, which inanimate bodies
are not. -- Bacon.
Figurate (a.) Figurative;
metaphorical. [Obs.] -- Bale.
Figurate (a.) (Mus.) Florid; figurative; involving passing discords by the freer melodic movement of one or more parts or voices in the harmony; as, figurate counterpoint or descant.
Figurate counterpoint or Figurate descant (Mus.), That which is not simple, or in which the parts do not move together tone for tone, but in which freer movement of one or more parts mingles passing discords with the harmony; -- called also figural, figurative, and figured counterpoint or descant (although the term figured is more commonly applied to a bass with numerals written above or below to indicate the other notes of the harmony).
Figurate numbers (Math.), Numbers, or series of numbers, formed from any arithmetical progression in which the first term is a unit, and the difference a whole number, by taking the first term, and the sums of the first two, first three, first four, etc., as the successive terms of a new series, from which another may be formed in the same manner, and so on, the numbers in the resulting series being such that points representing them are capable of symmetrical arrangement in different geometrical figures, as triangles, squares, pentagons, etc.
Note: In the following example, the two lower lines are composed of figurate numbers, those in the second line being triangular, and represented thus: . 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. . . . 1, 3, 6, 10, etc. . . . . . . . etc. 1, 4, 10, 20, etc .
Figural (a.) 具有人（或動物）的形象的；比喻的 Represented by figure or delineation; consisting of figures; as, figural ornaments. -- Sir T. Browne.
Figural (a.) (Mus.) Figurate. See {Figurate}.
Figural numbers. See Figurate numbers, under Figurate.
Figural (a.) Consisting of or forming human or animal figures; "a figural design"; "the figurative art of the humanistic tradition"- Herbert Read [syn: {figural}, {figurative}].
Figurant (n. masc.) 【法】男芭蕾舞配角 One who dances at the opera, not singly, but in groups or figures; an accessory character on the stage, who figures in its scenes, but has nothing to say; hence, one who figures in any scene, without taking a prominent part.
Figurante (n. fem.) 【法】（芭蕾舞）女配角；女群眾角色 A female figurant; esp., a ballet girl.
Figurate (a.) 有一定形狀的 Of a definite form or figure.
Figurate (a.) Figurative; metaphorical.
Figurate (a.) Florid; figurative; involving passing discords by the freer melodic movement of one or more parts or voices in the harmony; as, figurate counterpoint or descant.
Figurated (a.) Having a determinate form.
Figurately (adv.) In a figurate manner.
Figuration (n.) The act of giving figure or determinate form; determination to a certain form.
Figuration (n.) Mixture of concords and discords.
Figurative (a.) 比喻的，形容多的，修飾豐富的 Representing by a figure, or by resemblance; typical; representative.
Figurative (a.) Used in a sense that is tropical, as a metaphor; not literal; -- applied to words and expressions.
Figurative (a.) Abounding in figures of speech; flowery; florid; as, a highly figurative description.
Figurative (a.) Relating to the representation of form or figure by drawing, carving, etc. See Figure, n., 2.
Figuratively (adv.) 比喻地 In a figurative sense; "figuratively speaking,..." [ant: {literally}].
Figure (n.) [C] 外形；體形；人影；體態；風姿 The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance. Flowers have all exquisite figures. -- Bacon.
Figure (n.) The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modeling, carving, embroidering, etc.; especially, a representation of the human body; as, a figure in bronze; a figure cut in marble.
A coin that bears the figure of an angel. -- Shak.
Figure (n.) A pattern in cloth, paper, or other manufactured article; a design wrought out in a fabric; as, the muslin was of a pretty figure.
Figure (n.) (Geom.) A diagram or drawing; made to represent a magnitude or the relation of two or more magnitudes; a surface or space inclosed on all sides; -- called superficial when inclosed by lines, and solid when inclosed by surface; any arrangement made up of points, lines, angles, surfaces, etc.
Figure (n.) The appearance or impression made by the conduct or carrer of a person; as, a sorry figure.
I made some figure there. -- Dryden.
Gentlemen of the best figure in the county. -- Blackstone.
Figure (n.) Distinguished appearance; magnificence; conspicuous representation; splendor; show.
That he may live in figure and indulgence. -- Law.
Figure (n.) A character or symbol representing a number; a numeral; a digit; as, 1, 2,3, etc.
Figure (n.) Value, as expressed in numbers; price; as, the goods are estimated or sold at a low figure. [Colloq.]
With nineteen thousand a year at the very lowest figure. -- Thackeray.