Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter F

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Flyman (n.) The driver of a fly, or light public carriage.

Flyover (n.) The upper level of a crossing of two highways at different levels; called in the United States an overpass; as, an overpass is called a flyover or a flypast in England. [Brit.]

Syn: overpass, flypast.

Flyover (n.) A low-altitude flight (usually of military aircraft) over spectators on the ground.

Syn: flypast.

Compare: Flypast

Flypast (n.) The upper level of a crossing of two highways at different levels; same as flyover; called in the United States an overpass. [Brit.]

Syn: overpass, flyover.

Flypast (n.) A low-altitude flight (usually of military aircraft) over spectators on the ground.

Syn: flyover.

Flyover (n.) Bridge formed by the upper level of a crossing of two highways at different levels [syn: overpass, flyover].

Flyover (n.) A flight at a low altitude (usually of military aircraft) over spectators on the ground [syn: flyover, fly-by, flypast].

Flysch (n.) (Geol.) A name given to the series of sandstones and schists overlying the true nummulitic formation in the Alps, and included in the Eocene Tertiary.

Flyspeck (n.) A speck or stain made by the excrement of a fly; hence, any insignificant dot.

Flyspeck (v. t.) To soil with flyspecks. flyswat

Flytrap (n.) A trap for catching flies.

Flytrap (n.) (Bot.) A plant (Dion[ae]a muscipula), called also Venus's flytrap, having two-lobed leaves which are fringed with stiff bristles, and fold together when certain sensitive hairs on their upper surface are touched, thus trapping insects that light on them. The insects so caught are afterwards digested by a secretion from the upper surface of the leaves. The plant is native to North and South Carolina, growing in bogs.

Fnese (v. i.) To breathe heavily; to snort. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.

Fo (n.) The Chinese name of Buddha.

Foal (n.) (Zool.) The young of any animal of the Horse family (Equidae); A colt; a filly.

Foal teeth (Zool.), The first set of teeth of a horse.

In foal, With foal, Being with young; pregnant; -- said of a mare or she ass.

Foaled (imp. & p. p.) of Foal.

Foaling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Foal.

Foal (v. t.) To bring forth (a colt); -- said of a mare or a she ass.

Foal (v. i.) To bring forth young, as an animal of the horse kind.

Foalfoot (n.) (Bot.) See Coltsfoot.

Foam (n.) The white substance, consisting of an aggregation of bubbles, which is formed on the surface of liquids, or in the mouth of an animal, by violent agitation or fermentation; froth; spume; scum; as, the foam of the sea.

Foam cock, In steam boilers, a cock at the water level, to blow off impurities.

Foamed (imp. & p. p.) of Foam.

Foaming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Foam.

Foam (v. i.) To gather foam; to froth; as, the billows foam.

He foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth. -- Mark ix. 18.

Foam (v. i.) To form foam, or become filled with foam; -- said of a steam boiler when the water is unduly agitated and frothy, as because of chemical action.

Foam (v. t.) To cause to foam; as,to foam the goblet; also (with out), to throw out with rage or violence, as foam. "Foaming out their own shame." -- Jude 13.

Foamingly (adv.) With foam; frothily.

Foamless (a.) Having no foam.

Foamy (a.) Covered with foam; frothy; spumy.

Behold how high the foamy billows ride! -- Dryden.

Fob (n.) A little pocket for a watch.

Fobbed (imp. & p. p.) of Fob.

Fobbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fob.

Fob (v. t.) To beat; to maul. [Obs.]

Fob (v. t.) To cheat; to trick; to impose on. --Shak.

To fob off, To shift off by an artifice; to put aside; to delude with a trick."A conspiracy of bishops could prostrate and fob off the right of the people." -- Milton.

Focal (a.) Belonging to,or concerning, a focus; as, a focal point.

Focal distance, or length, of a lens or mirror (Opt.), The distance of the focus from the surface of the lens or mirror, or more exactly, in the case of a lens, from its optical center.

Focal distance of a telescope, The distance of the image of an object from the object glass.

Focalization (n.) The act of focalizing or bringing to a focus, or the state of being focalized.

Focalized (imp. & p. p.) of Focalize.

Focalizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Focalize.

Focalize (v. t.) To bring to a focus; to focus; to concentrate.

Light is focalized in the eye, sound in the ear. -- De Quincey.

Focillate (v. t.) To nourish. [Obs.] -- Blount.

Focillation (n.) Comfort; support. [Obs.]

Focimeter (n.) (Photog.) An assisting instrument for focusing an object in or before a camera. -- Knight. fo'c'sle

Focuses (n. pl. ) of Focus.

Foci (n. pl. ) of Focus.

Focus (n.) (Opt.) A point in which the rays of light meet, after being reflected or refrcted, and at which the image is formed; as, the focus of a lens or mirror.

Focus (n.) (Geom.) A point so related to a conic section and certain straight line called the directrix that the ratio of the distace between any point of the curve and the focus to the distance of the same point from the directrix is constant.

Note: Thus, in the ellipse FGHKLM, A is the focus and CD the directrix, when the ratios FA:FE, GA:GD, MA:MC, etc., are all equal. So in the hyperbola, A is the focus and CD the directrix when the ratio HA:HK is constant for all points of the curve; and in the parabola, A is the focus and CD the directrix when the ratio BA:BC is constant. In the ellipse this ratio is less than unity, in the parabola equal to unity, and in the hyperbola greater than unity. The ellipse and hyperbola have each two foci, and two corresponding directrixes, and the parabola has one focus and one directrix. In the ellipse the sum of the two lines from any point of the curve to the two foci is constant; that is: AG + GB = AH + HB; and in the hyperbola the difference of the corresponding lines is constant. The diameter which passes through the foci of the ellipse is the major axis. The diameter which being produced passes through the foci of the hyperbola is the transverse axis. The middle point of the major or the transverse axis is the center of the curve. Certain other curves, as the lemniscate and the Cartesian ovals, have points called foci, possessing properties similar to those of the foci of conic sections. In an ellipse, rays of light coming from one focus, and reflected from the curve, proceed in lines directed toward the other; in an hyperbola, in lines directed from the other; in a parabola, rays from the focus, after reflection at the curve, proceed in lines parallel to the axis. Thus rays from A in the ellipse are reflected to B; rays from A in the hyperbola are reflected toward L and M away from B.

Focus (n.) A central point; a point of concentration.

Aplanatic focus. (Opt.) See under Aplanatic.

Conjugate focus (Opt.), The focus for rays which have a sensible divergence, as from a near object; -- so called because the positions of the object and its image are interchangeable.

Focus tube (Phys.), A vacuum tube for R[oe]ntgen rays in which the cathode rays are focused upon the anticathode, for intensifying the effect.

Principal focus, or Solar focus (Opt.), the focus for parallel rays.

Focused (imp. & p. p.) of Focus.

Focusing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Focus.

Focus (v. t.) To bring to a focus; to focalize; as, to focus a camera. -- R. Hunt.

Fodder (n.) A weight by which lead and some other metals were formerly sold, in England, varying from 19/ to 24 cwt.; a fother. [Obs.]

Fodder (n.) That which is fed out to cattle horses, and sheep, as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc.

Foddered (imp. & p. p.) of Fodder.

Foddering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fodder.

Fodder (v. t.) To feed, as cattle, with dry food or cut grass, etc.;to furnish with hay, straw, oats, etc.

Fodderer (n.) One who fodders cattle.

Fodient (a.) Fitted for, or pertaining to, digging.

Fodient (n.) (Zool.) One of the Fodientia.

Fodientia (n. pl.) (Zool.) A group of African edentates including the aard-vark.

Foe (n.) [C] 敵人，仇敵；敵軍 One who entertains personal enmity, hatred, grudge, or malice, against another; an enemy.

A man's foes shall be they of his own household. -- Matt. x. 36

Foe (n.) An enemy in war; a hostile army.

Foe (n.) One who opposes on principle; an opponent; an adversary; an ill-wisher; as, a foe to religion.

A foe to received doctrines. -- I . Watts.

Foe (v. t.) To treat as an enemy. [Obs.] -- Spenser.

Foe (n.) An armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force); "a soldier must be prepared to kill his enemies" [syn: enemy, foe, foeman, opposition].

Foe (n.) A personal enemy; "they had been political foes for years" [syn: foe, enemy] [ant: ally, friend].

Foehood (n.) Enmity. -- Bp. Bedell.

Foemen (n. pl. ) of Foeman.

Foeman (n.) An enemy in war.

And the stern joy which warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel. -- Sir W. Scott

Foetal (a.) Same as Fetal.

Foetation (n.) Same as Fetation.

Foeticide (n.) Same as Feticide.

Feticide (n.) [Written also f[oe]ticide.] (Med. & Law) The act of killing the fetus in the womb; the offense of procuring an abortion.

Foetor (n.) Same as Fetor. foetus

Foetus (n.) Same as Fetus.

Fetus (n.; pl. Fetuses) The young or embryo of a vertebrate animal in the womb, or in the egg; often restricted to the later stages in the development of viviparous and oviparous animals. showing the main recognizable features of the mature animal, embryo being applied to the earlier stages. [Written also f[oe]tus.]

Fog (n.) (Agric.) A second growth of grass; aftergrass.

Fog (n.) (Agric.) Dead or decaying grass remaining on land through the winter; -- called also foggage. [Prov.Eng.] -- Halliwell.

Note: Sometimes called, in New England, old tore. In Scotland, fog is a general name for moss.

Fog (v. t.) To pasture cattle on the fog, or aftergrass, of; to eat off the fog from.

Fog (v. i.) To practice in a small or mean way; to pettifog. [Obs.]

Where wouldst thou fog to get a fee? -- Dryden.

Fog (n.) Watery vapor condensed in the lower part of the atmosphere and disturbing its transparency. It differs from cloud only in being near the ground, and from mist in not approaching so nearly to fine rain. See Cloud.

Fog (n.) A state of mental confusion.

Fog (n.) (Photog.) Cloudiness or partial opacity of those parts of a developed film or a photograph which should be clear.

Fog alarm, Fog bell, Fog horn, etc., a bell, horn, whistle or other contrivance that sounds an alarm, often automatically, near places of danger where visible signals would be hidden in thick weather.

Fog bank, A mass of fog resting upon the sea, and resembling distant land.

Fog ring, A bank of fog arranged in a circular form, -- often seen on the coast of Newfoundland.

Compare: Cloud

Cloud (n.) 雲 [C] [U]；（塵埃，煙等）雲狀物 [C] [（+of）] A collection of visible vapor, or watery particles, suspended in the upper atmosphere.

I do set my bow in the cloud. -- Gen. ix. 13.

Note: A classification of clouds according to their chief forms was first proposed by the meteorologist Howard, and this is still substantially employed. The following varieties and subvarieties are recognized:

(a) Cirrus. This is the most elevated of all the forms of clouds; is thin, long-drawn, sometimes looking like carded wool or hair, sometimes like a brush or room, sometimes in curl-like or fleecelike patches. It is the cat's-tail of the sailor, and the mare's-tail of the landsman.

(b) Cumulus. This form appears in large masses of a hemispherical form, or nearly so, above, but flat below, one often piled above another, forming great clouds, common in the summer, and presenting the appearance of gigantic mountains crowned with snow. It often affords rain and thunder gusts.

(d) Nimbus. This form is characterized by its uniform gray tint and ragged edges; it covers the sky in seasons of continued rain, as in easterly storms, and is the proper rain cloud. The name is sometimes used to denote a raining cumulus, or cumulostratus.

(e) Cirro-cumulus. This form consists, like the cirrus, of thin, broken, fleecelice clouds, but the parts are more or less rounded and regulary grouped. It is popularly called mackerel sky.

(f) Cirro-stratus. In this form the patches of cirrus coalesce in long strata, between cirrus and stratus.

(g) Cumulo-stratus. A form between cumulus and stratus, often assuming at the horizon a black or bluish tint. -- Fog, cloud, motionless, or nearly so, lying near or in contact with the earth's surface. -- Storm scud, cloud lying quite low, without form, and driven rapidly with the wind.

Cloud (n.) A mass or volume of smoke, or flying dust, resembling vapor. "A thick cloud of incense." -- Ezek. viii. 11.

Cloud (n.) A dark vein or spot on a lighter material, as in marble; hence, a blemish or defect; as, a cloud upon one's reputation; a cloud on a title.

Cloud (n.) That which has a dark, lowering, or threatening aspect; that which temporarily overshadows, obscures, or depresses; as, a cloud of sorrow; a cloud of war; a cloud upon the intellect.

Cloud (n.) A great crowd or multitude; a vast collection. "So great a cloud of witnesses." -- Heb. xii. 1.

Cloud (n.) A large, loosely-knitted scarf, worn by women about the head.

Cloud on a (or the) title (Law), A defect of title, usually superficial and capable of removal by release, decision in equity, or legislation.

To be under a cloud, To be under suspicion or in disgrace; to be in disfavor.

In the clouds, In the realm of facy and imagination; beyond reason; visionary.

Cloud (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Clouded; p. pr. & vb. n. Clouding.] （雲，煙等）覆蓋，遮蔽；使陰暗；使模糊；使混濁 [（+up）] To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds; as, the sky is clouded.

Cloud (v. t.) To darken or obscure, as if by hiding or enveloping with a cloud; hence, to render gloomy or sullen.

One day too late, I fear me, noble lord, Hath clouded all thy happy days on earth. -- Shak.

Be not disheartened, then, nor cloud those looks. -- Milton.

Nothing clouds men's minds and impairs their honesty like prejudice. -- M. Arnold.

Cloud (v. t.) To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish; to damage; -- esp. used of reputation or character.

I would not be a stander-by to hear My sovereign mistress clouded so, without My present vengeance taken. -- Shak.

Cloud (v. t.) To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors; as, to cloud yarn.

And the nice conduct of a clouded cane. -- Pope.

Cloud (v. i.) 陰雲密布 [（+over/ up）]；變暗；變模糊；變混濁 To grow cloudy; to become obscure with clouds; -- often used with up.

Worthies, away! The scene begins to cloud. -- Shak.

Cloud (n.) Any collection of particles (e.g., smoke or dust) or gases that is visible.

Cloud (n.) A visible mass of water or ice particles suspended at a considerable altitude.

Cloud (n.) Out of touch with reality; "his head was in the clouds."

Cloud (n.) A cause of worry or gloom or trouble; "the only cloud on the horizon was the possibility of dissent by the French."

Cloud (n.) Suspicion affecting your reputation; "after that mistake he was under a cloud."

Cloud (n.) A group of many things in the air or on the ground; "a swarm of insects obscured the light"; "clouds of blossoms"; "it discharged a cloud of spores" [syn: swarm, cloud].

Cloud (v.) Make overcast or cloudy; "Fall weather often overcasts our beaches" [syn: overcast, cloud] [ant: brighten, clear, clear up, light up].

Cloud (v.) Make less visible or unclear; "The stars are obscured by the clouds"; "the big elm tree obscures our view of the valley" [syn: obscure, befog, becloud, obnubilate, haze over, fog, cloud, mist].

Cloud (v.) Billow up in the form of a cloud; "The smoke clouded above the houses."

Cloud (v.) Make gloomy or depressed; "Their faces were clouded with Sadness."

Cloud (v.) Place under suspicion or cast doubt upon; "sully someone's reputation" [syn: defile, sully, corrupt, taint, cloud].

Cloud (v.) Make less clear; "the stroke clouded memories of her youth."

Cloud (v.) Colour with streaks or blotches of different shades [syn: mottle, dapple, cloud].

Cloud (v.) Make milky or dull; "The chemical clouded the liquid to which it was added."

Fogged (imp. & p. p.) of Fog.

Fogging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fog.

Fog (v. t.) To envelop, as with fog; to befog; to overcast; to darken; to obscure.

Fog (v. t.) (Photog.) To render semiopaque or cloudy, as a negative film, by exposure to stray light, too long an exposure to the developer, etc.

Fog (v. i.) (Photog.) To show indistinctly or become indistinct, as the picture on a negative sometimes does in the process of development.

Foge (n.) The Cornish name for a forge used for smelting tin. -- Raymond

Fogy (n.; pl. Fogies.) A dull old fellow; a person behind the times, over-conservative, or slow; -- usually preceded by old; an old fogy. [Written also fogie and fogey.] [Colloq.]

Notorious old bore; regular old fogy. -- Thackeray.

Note: The word is said to be connected with the German vogt, a guard or protector. By others it is regarded as a diminutive of folk (cf. D. volkje). It is defined by Jamieson, in his Scottish Dictionary, as "an invalid or garrison soldier," and is applied to the old soldiers of the Royal Hospital at Dublin, which is called the Fogies' Hospital. In the fixed habits of such persons we see the origin of the present use of the term. -- Sir F. Head.

Fogy (n.; pl. Fogies.) (Mil.) In the United States service, extra pay granted to officers for length of service. [Colloq.]

Fo'gey (n.) See Fogy.

Fog'gage (n.) (Agric.) See 1st Fog.

Fog'ger (n.) One who fogs; a pettifogger. [Obs.]

A beggarly fogger. -- Terence in English(1614)

Foggily (adv.) In a foggy manner; obscurely. -- Johnson.

Fogginess (n.) The state of being foggy. -- Johnson.

Foggy (a.) 有霧的；多霧的；模糊的；朦朧的 Filled or abounding with fog, or watery exhalations; misty; as, a foggy atmosphere; a foggy morning. -- Shak.

Foggy (a.) Beclouded; dull; obscure; as, foggy ideas.

Your coarse, foggy, drowsy conceit. -- Hayward.

Foggy (a.) Stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion) [syn: dazed, foggy, groggy, logy, stuporous].

Foggy (a.) Indistinct or hazy in outline; "a landscape of blurred outlines"; "the trees were just blurry shapes" [syn: bleary, blurred, blurry, foggy, fuzzy, hazy, muzzy].

Foggy (a.) Filled or abounding with fog or mist; "a brumous October morning" [syn: brumous, foggy, hazy, misty].

Foggy (a.) Obscured by fog; "he could barely see through the fogged window" [syn: fogged, foggy].

Fogie (n.) See Fogy.

Fogless (a.) Without fog; clear. -- Kane.

Fogies (n. pl. ) of Fogy.

Fogy (n.) A dull old fellow; a person behind the times, over-conservative, or slow; -- usually preceded by old ; an old fogy. [Written also fogie and fogey.] [Colloq.]

Notorious old bore; regular old fogy. -- Thackeray.

Fogy (n.) (Mil.) In the United States service, extra pay granted to

officers for length of service. [Colloq.]

Fogyism (n.) The principles and conduct of a fogy. [Colloq.]

Foh (interj.) An exclamation of abhorrence or contempt; poh; fle. -- Shak.

Fohist (n.) A Buddhist priest. See Fo.

Foible (a.) Weak; feeble. [Obs.] -- Lord Herbert.

Foible (n.) A moral weakness; a failing; a weak point; a frailty.

A disposition radically noble and generous, clouded and overshadowed by superficial foibles. -- De Quincey.

Foible (n.) The half of a sword blade or foil blade nearest the point; -- opposed to forte. [Written also faible.]

Syn: Fault; imperfection; failing; weakness; infirmity; frailty; defect. See Fault.

Foible (n.) A behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual [syn: idiosyncrasy, foible, mannerism].

Foible (n.) The weaker part of a sword's blade from the forte to the tip.

Foiled (imp. & p. p.) of Foil.

Foiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Foil.

Foil (v. t.) To tread under foot; to trample.

King Richard . . . caused the ensigns of Leopold to be pulled down and foiled under foot. -- Knoless.

Whom he did all to pieces breake and foyle, In filthy durt, and left so in the loathely soyle. -- Spenser.

Foil (v. t.) To render (an effort or attempt) vain or nugatory; to baffle; to outwit; to balk; to frustrate; to defeat.

And by ? mortal man at length am foiled. -- Dryden.

Her long locks that foil the painter's power. -- Byron.

Foil (v. t.) To blunt; to dull; to spoil; as, to foil the scent in chase. -- Addison.

Foil (v. t.) To defile; to soil. [Obs.]

Foil (n.) Failure of success when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage. -- Milton.

Nor e'er was fate so near a foil. -- Dryden.

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