Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter F - Page 46
Folks (n. collect. & pl.) (Eng. Hist.) In Anglo-Saxon times, the people of a group of townships or villages; a community; a tribe. [Obs.]
The organization of each folk, as such, sprang mainly from war. -- J. R. Green.
Folks (n. collect. & pl.) People in general, or a separate class of people; -- generally used in the plural form, and often with a qualifying adjective; as, the old folks; poor folks. [Colloq.]
In winter's tedious nights, sit by the fire With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales. -- Shak.
Folks (n. collect. & pl.) The persons of one's own family; as, our folks are all well. [Colloq. New Eng.] -- Bartlett.
Folk song, One of a class of songs long popular with the common people.
Folk speech, The speech of the common people, as distinguished from that of the educated class.
Folk (n.) People in general (often used in the plural); "they're just country folk"; "folks around here drink moonshine"; "the common people determine the group character and preserve its customs from one generation to the next" [syn: folk, folks, common people].
Folk (n.) A social division of (usually preliterate) people [syn: tribe, folk].
Folk (n.) People descended from a common ancestor; "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower" [syn: family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept, phratry].
Folk (n.) The traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community [syn: folk music, ethnic music, folk].
Folkland (n.) (O.Eng. Law) Land held in villenage, being distributed among the folk, or people, at the pleasure of the lord of the manor, and resumed at his discretion. Not being held by any assurance in writing, it was opposed to bookland or charter land, which was held by deed. -- Mozley & W. Folklore
Folk-land, () Eng. law. Land formerly held at the pleasure of the lord, and resumed at his discretion. It was held in villeinage. 2 Bl. Com. 90.
Folklore (n.) 民俗學，民間風俗，民間傳說 Alt. of Folk lore
Folk lore (n.) Tales, legends, or superstitions long current among the people.
Folklore (n.) The unwritten lore (stories and proverbs and riddles and songs) of a culture.
Folkmote (n.) 群眾大會 An assembly of the people; esp. (Sax. Law), a general assembly of the people to consider and order matters of the commonwealth; also, a local court. [Hist.]
Folkmote (n.) a general assembly of the people to consider and order matters of the commonwealth; also, a local court.
Folkmoter (n.) One who takes part in a folkmote, or local court. [Obs.] -- Milton.
Follicle (n.) (Bot.) A simple podlike pericarp which contains several seeds and opens along the inner or ventral suture, as in the peony, larkspur and milkweed.
Follicle (n.) (Anat.) A small cavity, tubular depression, or sac; as, a hair follicle.
Follicle (n.) (Anat.) A simple gland or glandular cavity; a crypt.
Follicle (n.) (Anat.) A small mass of adenoid tissue; as, a lymphatic follicle.
Follicle (n.) Any small spherical group of cells containing a cavity.
Follicular (a.) Like, pertaining to, or consisting of, a follicles or follicles.
Follicular (a.) (Med.) Affecting the follicles; as, follicular pharyngitis.
Follicular (a.) Of or relating to or constituting a follicle.
Folliculated (a.) Having follicles.
Folliculous (a.) Having or producing follicles.
Folliful (a.) Full of folly. [Obs.]
Followed (imp. & p. p.) of Follow.
Following (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Follow.
Follow (v. t.) To go or come after; to move behind in the same path or direction; hence, to go with (a leader, guide, etc.); to accompany; to attend.
It waves me forth again; I'll follow it. -- Shak.
Follow (v. t.) To endeavor to overtake; to go in pursuit of; to chase; to pursue; to prosecute.
I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall follow them. -- Ex. xiv. 17.
Follow (v. t.) To accept as authority; to adopt the opinions of; to obey; to yield to; to take as a rule of action; as, to follow good advice.
Approve the best, and follow what I approve. -- Milton.
Follow peace with all men. -- Heb. xii. 14.
It is most agreeable to some men to follow their reason; and to others to follow their appetites. -- J. Edwards.
Follow (v. t.) To copy after; to take as an example.
We had rather follow the perfections of them whom we like not, than in defects resemble them whom we love. -- Hooker.
Follow (v. t.) To succeed in order of time, rank, or office.
Follow (v. t.) To result from, as an effect from a cause, or an inference from a premise.
Follow (v. t.) To watch, as a receding object; to keep the eyes fixed upon while in motion; to keep the mind upon while in progress, as a speech, musical performance, etc.; also, to keep up with; to understand the meaning, connection, or force of, as of a course of thought or argument.
He followed with his eyes the flitting shade. -- Dryden.
Follow (v. t.) To walk in, as a road or course; to attend upon closely, as a profession or calling.
O, had I but followed the arts! -- Shak.
O Antony! I have followed thee to this. -- Shak.
Follow board (Founding), A board on which the pattern and the flask lie while the sand is rammed into the flask. -- Knight.
To follow the hounds, To hunt with dogs.
To follow suit (Card Playing), To play a card of the same suit as the leading card; hence, colloquially, to follow an example set.
To follow up, To pursue indefatigably.
Syn: -- To pursue; chase; go after; attend; accompany; succeed; imitate; copy; embrace; maintain.
Usage: -- To Follow, Pursue. To follow (v.t.) denotes simply to go after; to pursue denotes to follow with earnestness, and with a view to attain some definite object; as, a hound pursues the deer. So a person follows a companion whom he wishes to overtake on a journey; the officers of justice pursue a felon who has escaped from prison.
Follow (v. i.) To go or come after; -- used in the various senses of the transitive verb: To pursue; to attend; to accompany; to be a result; to imitate.
Syn: To Follow, Succeed, Ensue.
Usage: To follow (v. i.) means simply to come after; as, a crowd followed. To succeed means to come after in some regular series or succession; as, day succeeds to day, and night to night. To ensue means to follow by some established connection or principle of sequence. As wave follows wave, revolution succeeds to revolution; and nothing ensues but accumulated wretchedness.
Follow (n.) The art or process of following; specif., in some games, as billiards, a stroke causing a ball to follow another ball after hitting it. Also used adjectively; as, follow shot.
Follow (v.) To travel behind, go after, come after; "The ducklings followed their mother around the pond"; "Please follow the guide through the museum" [ant: lead, precede].
Follow (v.) Be later in time; "Tuesday always follows Monday" [syn: postdate, follow] [ant: antecede, antedate, forego, forgo, precede, predate].
Follow (v.) Come as a logical consequence; follow logically; "It follows that your assertion is false"; "the theorem falls out nicely" [syn: follow, fall out].
Follow (v.) Travel along a certain course; "follow the road"; "follow the trail" [syn: follow, travel along].
Follow (v.) Act in accordance with someone's rules, commands, or wishes; "He complied with my instructions"; "You must comply or else!"; "Follow these simple rules"; "abide by the rules" [syn: comply, follow, abide by].
Follow (v.) Come after in time, as a result; "A terrible tsunami followed the earthquake" [syn: follow, come after].
Follow (v.) Behave in accordance or in agreement with; "Follow a pattern"; "Follow my example" [syn: follow, conform to].
Follow (v.) Be next; "Mary plays best, with John and Sue following".
Follow (v.) Choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans; "She followed the feminist movement"; "The candidate espouses Republican ideals" [syn: adopt, follow, espouse].
Follow (v.) To bring something about at a later time than; "She followed dinner with a brandy"; "He followed his lecture with a question and answer period".
Follow (v.) Imitate in behavior; take as a model; "Teenagers follow their friends in everything" [syn: take after, follow].
Follow (v.) Follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something; "We must follow closely the economic development is Cuba" ; "trace the student's progress" [syn: trace, follow].
Follow (v.) Follow with the eyes or the mind; "Keep an eye on the baby, please!"; "The world is watching Sarajevo"; "She followed the men with the binoculars" [syn: watch, observe, follow, watch over, keep an eye on].
Follow (v.) Be the successor (of); "Carter followed Ford"; "Will Charles succeed to the throne?" [syn: succeed, come after, follow] [ant: come before, precede].
Follow (v.) Perform an accompaniment to; "The orchestra could barely follow the frequent pitch changes of the soprano" [syn: play along, accompany, follow].
Follow (v.) Keep informed; "He kept up on his country's foreign policies" [syn: keep up, keep abreast, follow].
Follow (v.) To be the product or result; "Melons come from a vine"; "Understanding comes from experience" [syn: come, follow].
Follow (v.) Accept and follow the leadership or command or guidance of; "Let's follow our great helmsman!"; "She followed a guru for years".
Follow (v.) Adhere to or practice; "These people still follow the laws of their ancient religion".
Follow (v.) Work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function; "He is a herpetologist"; "She is our resident philosopher" [syn: be, follow].
Follow (v.) Keep under surveillance; "The police had been following him for weeks but they could not prove his involvement in the bombing" [syn: surveil, follow, survey].
Follow (v.) Follow in or as if in pursuit; "The police car pursued the suspected attacker"; "Her bad deed followed her and haunted her dreams all her life" [syn: pursue, follow].
Follow (v.) Grasp the meaning; "Can you follow her argument?"; "When he lectures, I cannot follow".
Follow (v.) Keep to; "Stick to your principles"; "stick to the diet" [syn: stick to, stick with, follow].
Follower (n.) One who follows; a pursuer; an attendant; a disciple; a dependent associate; a retainer.
Follower (n.) A sweetheart; a beau. [Colloq.] -- A. Trollope.
Follower (n.) (Steam Engine) The removable flange, or cover, of a piston. See Illust. of Piston.
Follower (n.) (Steam Engine) A gland. See Illust. of Stuffing box.
Follower (n.) (Mach.) The part of a machine that receives motion from another part. See Driver.
Follower (n.) Among law stationers, a sheet of parchment or paper which is added to the first sheet of an indenture or other deed.
Syn: Imitator; copier; disciple; adherent; partisan; dependent; attendant.
Compare: Gland
Gland (n.) (Anat.) (a) An organ for secreting something to be used in, or eliminated from, the body; as, the sebaceous glands of the skin; the salivary glands of the mouth.
Gland (n.) (Anat.) (b) An organ or part which resembles a secreting, or true, gland, as the ductless, lymphatic, pineal, and pituitary glands, the functions of which are very imperfectly known.
Note: The true secreting glands are, in principle, narrow pouches of the mucous membranes, or of the integument, lined with a continuation of the epithelium, or of the epidermis, the cells of which produce the secretion from the blood. In the larger glands, the pouches are tubular, greatly elongated, and coiled, as in the sweat glands, or subdivided and branched, making compound and racemose glands, such as the pancreas.
Gland (n.) (Bot.) (a) A special organ of plants, usually minute and globular, which often secretes some kind of resinous, gummy, or aromatic product.
Gland (n.) (Bot.) (b) Any very small prominence.
Gland (n.) (Steam Mach.) The movable part of a stuffing box by which the packing is compressed; -- sometimes called a follower. See Illust. of Stuffing box, under Stuffing.
Gland (n.) (Mach.) The crosspiece of a bayonet clutch.
Follower (n.) A person who accepts the leadership of another [ant: leader].
Follower (n.) Someone who travels behind or pursues another
Following (n.) One's followers, adherents, or dependents, collectively. -- Macaulay.
Following (n.) Vocation; business; profession.
Following (a.) Next after; succeeding; ensuing; as, the assembly was held on the following day.
Following (a.) (Astron.) (In the field of a telescope) In the direction from which stars are apparently moving (in consequence of the earth's rotation); as, a small star, north following or south following. In the direction toward which stars appear to move is called preceding.
Note: The four principal directions in the field of a telescope are north, south, following, preceding.
Following (a.) About to be mentioned or specified; "the following items" [syn: following(a), undermentioned].
Following (a.) Immediately following in time or order; "the following day"; "next in line"; "the next president"; "the next item on the list" [syn: following, next].
Following (a.) Going or proceeding or coming after in the same direction; "the crowd of following cars made the occasion seem like a parade"; "tried to outrun the following footsteps" [ant: leading].
Following (a.) In the desired direction; "a following wind".
Following (n.) A group of followers or enthusiasts [syn: following, followers].
Following (n.) The act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture; "the culprit started to run and the cop took off in pursuit" [syn: pursuit, chase, pursual, following].
Follies (n. pl. ) of Folly.
Folly (n.) The state of being foolish; want of good sense; levity, weakness, or derangement of mind.
Folly (n.) A foolish act; an inconsiderate or thoughtless procedure; weak or light-minded conduct; foolery.
What folly 'tis to hazard life for ill. -- Shak.
Folly (n.) Scandalous crime; sin; specifically, as applied to a woman, wantonness.
[Achan] wrought folly in Israel. -- Josh. vii. 15.
When lovely woman stoops to folly. -- Goldsmith.
Folly (n.) The result of a foolish action or enterprise.
It is called this man's or that man's "folly," and name of the foolish builder is thus kept alive for long after years. -- Trench.
Folly (n.) The trait of acting stupidly or rashly [syn: folly, foolishness, unwiseness] [ant: wisdom, wiseness].
Folly (n.) A stupid mistake [syn: stupidity, betise, folly, foolishness, imbecility].
Folly (n.) The quality of being rash and foolish; "trying to drive through a blizzard is the height of folly"; "adjusting to an insane society is total foolishness" [syn: folly, foolishness, craziness, madness].
Folly (n.) Foolish or senseless behavior [syn: folly, foolery, tomfoolery, craziness, lunacy, indulgence].
Folly, (n.) That "gift and faculty divine" whose creative and controlling energy inspires Man's mind, guides his actions and adorns his life.
Folly! although Erasmus praised thee once In a thick volume, and all authors known, If not thy glory yet thy power have shown, Deign to take homage from thy son who hunts Through all thy maze his brothers, fool and dunce, To mend their lives and to sustain his own, However feebly be his arrows thrown, Howe'er each hide the flying weapons blunts.
All-Father Folly! be it mine to raise, With lusty lung, here on his western strand With all thine offspring thronged from every land, Thyself inspiring me, the song of praise.
And if too weak, I'll hire, to help me bawl, Dick Watson Gilder, gravest of us all. Aramis Loto Frope
Folly (n.) (Stupidity) [ C or U ] (Formal) 愚蠢；愚蠢的行為（或念頭等） The fact of being stupid, or a stupid action, idea, etc..
// She said that the idea was folly.
// [ + to infinitive ] It would be folly for the country to become involved in the war.
Folly (n.) (Building) UK [ C ] 裝飾性建築（尤指見於英國花園或公園內的小型城堡、殿堂等） A building in the form of a small castle, temple, etc., that has been built as a decoration in a large garden or park.
// A Gothic garden folly.
Folwe
(v. t.)
To follow. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Fomalhaut (n.) (Astron.) A star of the first magnitude, in
the constellation Piscis Australis, or Southern Fish.
Foment (n.) Fomentation.
Foment (n.) State of excitation; -- perh. confused with ferment.
He came in no conciliatory mood, and the foment was kept up. -- Julian Ralph.
Fomented (imp. & p. p.) of Foment.
Fomenting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Foment.
Foment (v. t.) To apply a warm lotion to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge wet with warm water or medicated liquid.
Foment (v. t.) To cherish with heat; to foster. [Obs.]
Which these soft fires . . . foment and warm. -- Milton.
Foment (v. t.) To nurse to life or activity; to cherish and promote by excitements; to encourage; to abet; to instigate; -- used often in a bad sense; as, to foment ill humors. -- Locke.
But quench the choler you foment in vain. -- Dryden.
Exciting and fomenting a religious rebellion. -- Southey.
Foment (v.) Try to stir up public opinion [syn: agitate, foment, stir up].
Foment (v.) Bathe with warm water or medicated lotions; "His legs should be fomented".
Fomentation (n.) (Med.) The act of fomenting; the application of warm, soft, medicinal substances, as for the purpose of easing pain, by relaxing the skin, or of discussing tumors.
Fomentation (n.) (Med.) The lotion applied to a diseased part.
Fomentation (n.) Excitation; instigation; encouragement.
Dishonest fomentation of your pride. -- Young.
Fomentation (n.) A substance used as a warm moist medicinal compress or poultice.
Fomentation (n.) Application of warm wet coverings to a part of the body to relieve pain and inflammation.
Fomentation (n.) Deliberate and intentional triggering (of trouble or discord) [syn: fomentation, instigation].
Fomenter (n.) One who foments; one who encourages or instigates; as, a fomenter of sedition.
Fomenter (n.) One who agitates; a political troublemaker [syn: agitator, fomenter].
Fomites (n. pl. ) of Fomes.
Fomes (n.) (Med.) Any substance supposed to be capable of absorbing, retaining, and transporting contagious or infectious germs; as, woolen clothes are said to be active fomites.
Fomes (n.) Genus of bracket fungi forming corky or woody perennial shelflike sporophores often of large size; includes some that cause destructive heartrot in trees [syn: Fomes, genus Fomes].
Fon (a.) A fool; an idiot. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
FON, () Fiber Optics Network.
Fond () imp. of Find. Found. -- Chaucer.
Fond (a.) Foolish; silly; simple; weak. [Archaic]
Grant I may never prove so fond To trust man on his oath or bond. -- Shak.
Fond (a.) Foolishly tender and loving; weakly indulgent; over-affectionate.
Fond (a.) Affectionate; loving; tender; -- in a good sense; as, a fond mother or wife. -- Addison.
Fond (a.) Loving; much pleased; affectionately regardful, indulgent, or desirous; longing or yearning; -- followed by of (formerly also by on).
More fond on her than she upon her love. -- Shak.
You are as fond of grief as of your child. -- Shak.
A great traveler, and fond of telling his adventures. -- Irving.
Fond (a.) Doted on; regarded with affection. [R.]
Nor fix on fond abodes to circumscribe thy prayer. -- Byron.
Fond (a.) Trifling; valued by folly; trivial. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Fond (v. t.) To caress; to fondle. [Obs.]
The Tyrian hugs and fonds thee on her breast. -- Dryden.
Fond (v. i.) To be fond; to dote. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Fond (n.) Foundation; bottom; groundwork; specif.:
Fond (n.) (a) (Lace Making) The ground.
Fond (n.) (b) (Cookery) The broth or juice from braised flesh or fish, usually served as a sauce.
Fond (n.) Fund, stock, or store.
Fond (Obs.) imp. of Find. Found. -- Chaucer.
Fond (a.) Having or displaying warmth or affection; "affectionate children"; "a fond embrace"; "fond of his nephew"; "a tender glance"; "a warm embrace" [syn: affectionate, fond, lovesome, tender, warm].
Fond (a.) Extravagantly or foolishly loving and indulgent; "adoring grandparents"; "deceiving her preoccupied and doting husband with a young captain"; "hopelessly spoiled by a fond mother" [syn: adoring, doting, fond].
Fond (a.) (Followed by `of' or `to') Having a strong preference or liking for; "fond of chocolate"; "partial to horror movies" [syn: fond(p), partial(p)].
Fond (a.) Absurd or silly because unlikely; "fond hopes of becoming President"; "fond fancies".
Fonde (v. t. & i.) To endeavor; to strive; to try. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Fondled (imp. & p. p.) of Fondle.
Fondling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fondle.
Fondle (v. t.) To treat or handle with tenderness or in a loving manner; to caress; as, a nurse fondles a child.
Syn: -- See Caress.
Fondle (v.) Touch or stroke lightly in a loving or endearing manner; "He caressed her face"; "They fondled in the back seat of the taxi" [syn: caress, fondle].
Fondler (n.) One who fondles. -- Johnson.
Fondler (n.) A lover who gently fondles and caresses the loved one; "they are heavy petters" [syn: petter, fondler].
Fondler (n.) A molester who touches the intimate parts of the victim; "the woman charged that her jailer was a fondler"; "not all fondlers are sexual perverts".
Fondling (n.) The act of caressing; manifestation of tenderness.
Cyrus made no . . . amorous fondling To fan her pride, or melt her guardless heart. -- Mickle.
Fondling (n.) A person or thing fondled or caressed; one treated with foolish or doting affection.
Fondlings are in danger to be made fools. -- L'Estrange.
Fondling (n.) A fool; a simpleton; a ninny. [Obs.] -- Chapman.
Fondling (n.) Affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs) [syn: caressing, cuddling, fondling, hugging, kissing, necking, petting, smooching, snuggling].
Fondly (adv.) Foolishly. [Archaic] -- Verstegan (1673).
Make him speak fondly like a frantic man. -- Shak.
Fondly (adv.) In a fond manner; affectionately; tenderly.
My heart, untraveled, fondly turns to thee. -- Goldsmith.
Fondly (adv.) With fondness; with love; "she spoke to her children fondly" [syn: fondly, lovingly].
Fondness (n.) The quality or state of being fond; foolishness. [Obs.]
Fondness it were for any, being free, To covet fetters, though they golden be. -- Spenser.
Fondness (n.) Doting affection; tender liking; strong appetite, propensity, or relish; as, he had a fondness for truffles.
My heart had still some foolish fondness for thee. -- Addison.
Syn: Attachment; affection; love; kindness.
Fondness (n.) A predisposition to like something; "he had a fondness for whiskey" [syn: fondness, fancy, partiality].
Fondness (n.) A positive feeling of liking; "he had trouble expressing the affection he felt"; "the child won everyone's heart"; "the warmness of his welcome made us feel right at home" [syn: affection, affectionateness, fondness, tenderness, heart, warmness, warmheartedness, philia].
Fondness (n.) A quality proceeding from feelings of affection or love [syn: affectionateness, fondness, lovingness, warmth].
Fondon (n.) (Metal.) A large copper vessel used for hot amalgamation.
Fondus (n.) A style of printing calico, paper hangings, etc., in which the colors are in bands and graduated into each other.
Fone (n.) pl. of Foe. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Fonge (v. t.) To take; to receive. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Fonly (adv.) Foolishly; fondly. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Fonne
(n.) A
fon. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Font (n.) (Print.) A complete assortment of printing
type of one size, including a due proportion of all the letters in the
alphabet, large and small, points, accents, and whatever else is necessary for
printing with that variety of types; a fount.
Font (n.) A fountain; a spring; a source.
Bathing forever in the font of bliss. -- Young.
Font (n.) A basin or stone vessel in which water is contained for baptizing.
That name was given me at the font. -- Shak.
Font (n.) A specific size and style of type within a type family [syn: font, fount, typeface, face, case].
Font (n.) Bowl for baptismal water [syn: baptismal font, baptistry, baptistery, font].
Font, () Glyphs ({images"> A set of glyphs ({images) representing the characters from some particular character set in a particular size and typeface. The image of each character may be encoded either as a bitmap (in a bitmap font) or by a higher-level description in terms of lines and areas (an outline font).
There are several different computer representations for fonts, the most widely known are Adobe Systems, Inc.'s PostScript font definitions and Apple's TrueType.
Window systems can display different fonts on the screen and print them.
[Other types of font?]
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Fontal (a.) Pertaining to a font, fountain, source, or origin; original; primitive. [R.]
From the fontal light of ideas only can a man draw intellectual power. -- Coleridge.
Fontanel (n.) (Med.) An issue or artificial ulcer for the discharge of humors from the body. [Obs.] --Wiseman.
Fontanel (n.) (Anat.) One of the membranous intervals between the incompleted angles of the parietal and neighboring bones of a fetal or young skull; -- so called because it exhibits a rhythmical pulsation.
Note: In the human fetus there are six fontanels, of which the anterior, or bregmatic, situated at the junction of the coronal and sagittal sutures, is much the largest, and remains open a considerable time after birth.
Fontanel (n.) Any membranous gap between the bones of the cranium in an infant or fetus [syn: fontanelle, fontanel, soft spot].
Fontanelle (n.) [F.] (Anat.) Same as Fontanel, 2.
Fontanelle (n.) Any membranous gap between the bones of the cranium in an infant or fetus [syn: fontanelle, fontanel, soft spot].
Fontanelle, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa
Population (2000): 692
Housing Units (2000): 328
Land area (2000): 0.892258 sq. miles (2.310938 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.892258 sq. miles (2.310938 sq. km)
FIPS code: 28290
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 41.289995 N, 94.562230 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 50846
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Fontanelle, IA
Fontanelle
Fontange (n.) A kind of tall headdress formerly worn. -- Addison.
Food (n.) What is fed upon; that which goes to support life by being received within, and assimilated by, the organism of an animal or a plant; nutriment; aliment; especially, what is eaten by animals for nourishment.
Note: In a physiological sense, true aliment is to be distinguished as that portion of the food which is capable of being digested and absorbed into the blood, thus furnishing nourishment, in distinction from the indigestible matter which passes out through the alimentary canal as f[ae]ces.
Note: Foods are divided into two main groups: nitrogenous, or proteid, foods, i.e., those which contain nitrogen, and nonnitrogenous, i.e., those which do not contain nitrogen. The latter group embraces the fats and carbohydrates, which collectively are sometimes termed heat producers or respiratory foods, since by oxidation in the body they especially subserve the production of heat. The proteids, on the other hand, are known as plastic foods or tissue formers, since no tissue can be formed without them. These latter terms, however, are misleading, since proteid foods may also give rise to heat both directly and indirectly, and the fats and carbohydrates are useful in other ways than in producing heat.
Food (n.) Anything that instructs the intellect, excites the feelings, or molds habits of character; that which nourishes.
This may prove food to my displeasure. -- Shak.
In this moment there is life and food For future years. -- Wordsworth.
Note: Food is often used adjectively or in self-explaining compounds, as in food fish or food-fish, food supply.
Food vacuole (Zool.), One of the spaces in the interior of a protozoan in which food is contained, during digestion.
Food yolk. (Biol.) See under Yolk.
Syn: Aliment; sustenance; nutriment; feed; fare; victuals; provisions; meat.
Food (v. t.) To supply with food. [Obs.] -- Baret.
Food (n.) Any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue [syn: food, nutrient].
Food (n.) Any solid substance (as opposed to liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment; "food and drink" [syn: food, solid food].
Food (n.) Anything that provides mental stimulus for thinking [syn: food, food for thought, intellectual nourishment].
Food, () Originally the Creator granted the use of the vegetable world for food to man (Gen. 1:29), with the exception mentioned (2:17). The use of animal food was probably not unknown to the antediluvians. There is, however, a distinct law on the subject given to Noah after the Deluge (Gen. 9:2-5). Various articles of food used in the patriarchal age are mentioned in Gen. 18:6-8; 25:34; 27:3, 4; 43:11. Regarding the food of the Israelites in Egypt, see Ex. 16:3; Num. 11:5. In the wilderness their ordinary food was miraculously supplied in the manna. They had also quails (Ex. 16:11-13; Num. 11:31).
In the law of Moses there are special regulations as to the animals to be used for food (Lev. 11; Deut. 14:3-21). The Jews were also forbidden to use as food anything that had been consecrated to idols (Ex. 34:15), or animals that had died of disease or had been torn by wild beasts (Ex. 22:31; Lev. 22:8). (See also for other restrictions Ex. 23:19; 29:13-22; Lev. 3:4-9; 9:18, 19; 22:8; Deut. 14:21.) But beyond these restrictions they had a large grant from God (Deut. 14:26; 32:13, 14).
Food was prepared for use in various ways. The cereals were sometimes eaten without any preparation (Lev. 23:14; Deut. 23:25; 2 Kings 4:42). Vegetables were cooked by boiling (Gen. 25:30, 34; 2 Kings 4:38, 39), and thus also other articles of food were prepared for use (Gen. 27:4; Prov. 23:3; Ezek. 24:10; Luke 24:42; John 21:9). Food was also prepared by roasting (Ex. 12:8; Lev. 2:14). (See COOK.)
Foodful (a.) Full of food; supplying food; fruitful; fertile. "The foodful earth." -- Dryden.
Bent by its foodful burden [the corn]. -- Glover.
Foodless (a.) Without food; barren. -- Sandys.
Compare: Malnourished
Malnourished (a.) Not getting adequate food; suffering from malnutrition; underfed. [Narrower terms: starved, starving; unfed; foodless].
Foodless (a.) Being without food.
Foody (a.) Eatable; fruitful. [R.] -- Chapman.
Fool (n.) A compound of gooseberries scalded and crushed, with cream; -- commonly called gooseberry fool.