Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter F - Page 57
Fossette (n.) (Med.) A small, deep-centered ulcer of the transparent cornea.
Fosseway (n.) One of the great military roads constructed by the Romans in England and other parts of Europe; -- so called from the fosse or ditch on each side for keeping it dry.
Fossil (a.) 化石的，成化石的；守舊的，陳腐的 Dug out of the earth; as, fossil coal; fossil salt.
Fossil (a.) Preserved from a previous geological age; as, fossil water from deep wells; -- usually implying that the object so described has had its substance modified by long residence in the ground, but also used (as with fossil water) in cases where chemical composition is not altered.
Fossil (a.) (Paleon.) Like or pertaining to fossils; contained in rocks, whether petrified or not; as, fossil plants, shells.
Fossil copal, A resinous substance, first found in the blue clay at Highgate, near London, and apparently a vegetable resin, partly changed by remaining in the earth.
Fossil cork, Fossil flax, Fossil paper, or Fossil wood, Varieties of amianthus.
Fossil farina, A soft carbonate of lime.
Fossil ore, Fossiliferous red hematite. -- Raymond.
Fossil (n.) [C] 化石；頑固不化的人；守舊的事物 A substance dug from the earth. [Obs.]
Note: Formerly all minerals were called fossils, but the word is now restricted to express the remains of animals and plants found buried in the earth. -- Ure.
Fossil (n.) (Paleon.) The remains of an animal or plant found in stratified rocks. Most fossils belong to extinct species, but many of the later ones belong to species still living.
Fossil (n.) A person whose views and opinions are extremely antiquated; one whose sympathies are with a former time rather than with the present. [Colloq.]
Fossil (a.) Characteristic of a fossil.
Fossil (n.) Someone whose style is out of fashion [syn: dodo, fogy, fogey, fossil].
Fossil (n.) The remains (or an impression) of a plant or animal that existed in a past geological age and that has been excavated from the soil.
Fossiliferous (a.) (Paleon.) Containing or composed of fossils.
Fossiliferous (a.) Bearing or containing fossils; "fossiliferous strata".
Fossilification (n.) The process of becoming fossil.
Fossilism (n.) The science or state of fossils. -- Coleridge.
Fossilism (n.) The state of being extremely antiquated in views and opinions.
Fossilist (n.) One who is versed in the science of fossils; a paleontologist. -- Joseph Black.
Fossilist (n.) A specialist in paleontology [syn: paleontologist, palaeontologist, fossilist].
Fossilization (n.) The process of converting, or of being converted, into a fossil.
Fossilized (imp. & p. p.) of Fossilize.
Fossilizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fossilize.
Fossilize (v. t.) To convert into a fossil; to petrify; as, to fossilize bones or wood.
Fossilize (v. t.) To cause to become antiquated, rigid, or fixed, as by fossilization; to mummify; to deaden.
Fossilize (v. i.) To become fossil.
Fossilize (v. i.) To become antiquated, rigid, or fixed, beyond the influence of change or progress.
Fossilized (a.) Converted into a fossil; antiquated; firmly fixed in views or opinions.
Fossores (n. pl.) A group of hymenopterous insects including the sand wasps. They excavate cells in earth, where they deposit their eggs, with the bodies of other insects for the food of the young when hatched.
Fossoria (n. pl.) See Fossores.
Fossorial (a.) Fitted for digging, adapted for burrowing or digging; as, a fossorial foot; a fossorial animal.
Fossorious (a.) Adapted for digging; -- said of the legs of certain insects.
Fossulate (a.) Having, or surrounded by, long, narrow depressions or furrows.
Fostered (imp. & p. p.) of Foster.
Fostering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Foster.
Foster (v. t.) To feed; to nourish; to support; to bring up.
Foster (v. t.) To cherish; to promote the growth of; to encourage; to sustain and promote; as, to foster genius.
Foster (v. i.) To be nourished or trained up together.
Foster (v. t.) Relating to nourishment; affording, receiving, or sharing nourishment or nurture; -- applied to father, mother, child, brother, etc., to indicate that the person so called stands in the relation of parent, child, brother, etc., as regards sustenance and nurture, but not by tie of blood.
Foster (n.) A forester.
Fosterage (n.) The care of a foster child; the charge of nursing.
Foster (n.) One who, or that which, fosters.
Fosterling (n.) A foster child.
Fosterment (n.) Food; nourishment.
Fostress (n.) A woman who feeds and cherishes; a nurse.
Fother (n.) A wagonload; a load of any sort.
Fother (n.) See Fodder, a unit of weight.
Fothered (imp. & p. p.) of Fother.
Fothering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fother.
Fother (v. t.) To stop (a leak in a ship at sea) by drawing under its bottom a thrummed sail, so that the pressure of the water may force it into the crack.
Fotive (a.) Nourishing.
Fotmal (n.) Seventy pounds of lead.
Fougade (n.) Alt. of Fougasse.
Fougasse (n.) A small mine, in the form of a well sunk from the surface of the ground, charged with explosive and projectiles. It is made in a position likely to be occupied by the enemy.
Fought () imp. & p. p. of Fight.
Foughten () p. p. of Fight.
Foul (n.) A bird. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Foul (a.) 骯髒的，汙濁的；惡臭的；（食物）腐敗的 Covered with, or containing, extraneous matter which is injurious, noxious, offensive, or obstructive; filthy; dirty; not clean; polluted; nasty; defiled; as, a foul cloth; foul hands; a foul chimney; foul air; a ship's bottom is foul when overgrown with barnacles; a gun becomes foul from repeated firing; a well is foul with polluted water.
My face is foul with weeping. -- Job. xvi. 16.
Foul (a.) Scurrilous; obscene or profane; abusive; as, foul words; foul language.
Foul (a.) Hateful; detestable; shameful; odious; wretched. "The foul with Sycorax." -- Shak.
Who first seduced them to that foul revolt? -- Milton.
Foul (a.) Loathsome; disgusting; as, a foul disease.
Foul (a.) Ugly; homely; poor. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Foul (a.) Not favorable; unpropitious; not fair or advantageous; as, a foul wind; a foul road; cloudy or rainy; stormy; not fair; -- said of the weather, sky, etc.
So foul a sky clears not without a storm. -- Shak.
Foul (a.) Not conformed to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.; unfair; dishonest; dishonorable; cheating; as, foul play.
Foul (a.) Having freedom of motion interfered with by collision or entanglement; entangled; -- opposed to clear; as, a rope or cable may get foul while paying it out.
{Foul anchor}. (Naut.) See under {Anchor}.
{Foul ball} (Baseball), a ball that first strikes the ground outside of the foul ball lines, or rolls outside of certain limits.
{Foul ball lines} (Baseball), lines from the home base, through the first and third bases, to the boundary of the field.
{Foul berth} (Naut.), a berth in which a ship is in danger of fouling another vesel.
{Foul bill}, or {Foul bill of health}, a certificate, duly authenticated, that a ship has come from a place where a contagious disorder prevails, or that some of the crew are infected.
{Foul copy}, A rough draught, with erasures and corrections; -- opposed to fair or clean copy. "Some writers boast of negligence, and others would be ashamed to show their foul copies." -- Cowper.
{Foul proof}, An uncorrected proof; a proof containing an excessive quantity of errors.
{Foul strike} (Baseball), A strike by the batsman when any part of his person is outside of the lines of his position.
{To fall foul}, To fall out; to quarrel. [Obs.] "If they be any ways offended, they fall foul." -- Burton.
{To fall foul of} or {To run foul of}. See Under {Fall}.
{To make foul water}, To sail in such shallow water that the ship's keel stirs the mud at the bottom.
Fouled (imp. & p. p.) of Foul.
Fouling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Foul.
Foul (v. t.) 弄髒；汙染；玷汙；使壅塞 To make filthy; to defile; to daub; to dirty; to soil; as, to foul the face or hands with mire.
Foul (v. t.) (Mil.) To incrust (the bore of a gun) with burnt powder in the process of firing.
Foul (v. t.) To cover (a ship's bottom) with anything that impered its sailing; as, a bottom fouled with barnacles.
Foul (v. t.) To entangle, so as to impede motion; as, to foul a rope or cable in paying it out; to come into collision with; as, one boat fouled the other in a race.
Foul (v. i.) 腐敗，腐爛；（管道等）壅塞 [（+up）] To become clogged with burnt powder in the process of firing, as a gun.
Foul (v. i.) To become entagled, as ropes; to come into collision with something; as, the two boats fouled.
Foul (n.) An entanglement; a collision, as in a boat race.
Foul (n.) (Baseball) See {Foul ball}, under {Foul}, a.
Foul (n.) （比賽中）犯規 [C] [（+against/on）] In various games or sports, an act done contrary to the rules; a foul stroke, hit, play, or the like.
Foul (a.) Highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; "a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench" [syn: {disgusting}, {disgustful}, {distasteful}, {foul}, {loathly}, {loathsome}, {repellent}, {repellant}, {repelling}, {revolting}, {skanky}, {wicked}, {yucky}].
Foul (a.) Offensively malodorous; "a foul odor"; "the kitchen smelled really funky" [syn: {fetid}, {foetid}, {foul}, {foul- smelling}, {funky}, {noisome}, {smelly}, {stinking}, {ill- scented}].
Foul (a.) Violating accepted standards or rules; "a dirty fighter"; "used foul means to gain power"; "a nasty unsporting serve"; "fined for unsportsmanlike behavior" [syn: {cheating(a)}, {dirty}, {foul}, {unsporting}, {unsportsmanlike}].
Foul (a.) (of a baseball) Not hit between the foul lines [ant: {fair}].
Foul (a.) (of a manuscript) Defaced with changes; "foul (or dirty) copy" [syn: {dirty}, {foul}, {marked-up}].
Foul (a.) Characterized by obscenity; "had a filthy mouth"; "foul language"; "smutty jokes" [syn: {cruddy}, {filthy}, {foul}, {nasty}, {smutty}].
Foul (a.) Disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter; "as filthy as a pigsty"; "a foul pond"; "a nasty pigsty of a room" [syn: {filthy}, {foul}, {nasty}].
Foul (a.) Especially of a ship's lines etc; "with its sails afoul"; "a foul anchor" [syn: {afoul(ip)}, {foul}, {fouled}].
Foul (adv.) 違反規則地；不正當地 In a foul manner.
Foul (n.) An act that violates the rules of a sport.
Foul (v.) Hit a foul ball.
Foul (v.) Make impure; "The industrial wastes polluted the lake" [syn: {pollute}, {foul}, {contaminate}].
Foul (v.) Become or cause to become obstructed; "The leaves clog our drains in the Fall"; "The water pipe is backed up" [syn: {clog}, {choke off}, {clog up}, {back up}, {congest}, {choke}, {foul}] [ant: {unclog}].
Foul (v.) Commit a foul; break the rules.
Foul (v.) Spot, stain, or pollute; "The townspeople defiled the river by emptying raw sewage into it" [syn: {foul}, {befoul}, {defile}, {maculate}].
Foul (v.) Make unclean; "foul the water".
Foul (v.) Become soiled and dirty.
Foulard (n.) A thin, washable material of silk, or silk and cotton, originally imported from India, but now also made elsewhere.
Foulder (v. i.) To flash, as lightning; to lighten; to gleam; to thunder.
Foule (adv.) Foully.
Foully (v.) In a foul manner; filthily; nastily; shamefully; unfairly; dishonorably.
Foul-mouthed (a.) Using language scurrilous, opprobrious, obscene, or profane; abusive.
Foulness (n.) The quality or condition of being foul.
Foul-spoken (a.) Using profane, scurrilous, slanderous, or obscene language.
Foumart (a.) The European polecat; -- called also European ferret, and fitchew. See Polecat.
Found () imp. & p. p. of Find.
Founded (imp. & p. p.) of Found.
Founding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Found.
Found (v. t.) To form by melting a metal, and pouring it into a mold; to cast.
Found (n.) A thin, single-cut file for combmakers.
Founded (imp. & p. p.) of Found.
Founding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Found.
Found (v. i.) To lay the basis of; to set, or place, as on something solid, for support; to ground; to establish upon a basis, literal or figurative; to fix firmly.
Found (v. i.) To take the ffirst steps or measures in erecting or building up; to furnish the materials for beginning; to begin to raise; to originate; as, to found a college; to found a family.
Found object (n.) A natural object or an artifact not originally intended as art, found and considered to have aesthetic value. Also called objet trouve.
Found object (n.) A natural or discarded object found by chance and held to have aesthetic value. Also called objet trouve.
Foundation (n.) The axiom of foundation states that the membership relation is well founded, i.e. that any non-empty collection Y of sets has a member y which is disjoint from Y. This rules out sets which contain themselves (directly or indirectly).
Foundation (n.) 建立，創辦 [U]；基礎；基本原則；根據 [C] [U] The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.
Foundation (n.) That upon which anything is founded; that on which anything stands, and by which it is supported; the lowest and supporting layer of a superstructure; groundwork; basis.
Behold, I lay in Zion, for a foundation, a stone . . . a precious corner stone, a sure foundation. -- Is. xxviii. 16.
The foundation of a free common wealth. -- Motley.
Foundation (n.) (Arch.) The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course (see Base course (a), under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry.
Foundation (n.) A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, and constituting a permanent fund; endowment.
He was entered on the foundation of Westminster. -- Macaulay.
Foundation (n.) That which is founded, or established by endowment; an endowed institution or charity.
Against the canon laws of our foundation. -- Milton.
{Foundation course}. See {Base course}, under {Base}, n.
{Foundation muslin}, An open-worked gummed fabric used for stiffening dresses, bonnets, etc.
{Foundation school}, In England, An endowed school.
{To be on a foundation}, To be entitled to a support from the proceeds of an endowment, as a scholar or a fellow of a college.
Foundation (n.) The basis on which something is grounded; "there is little foundation for his objections".
Foundation (n.) An institution supported by an endowment.
Foundation (n.) Lowest support of a structure; "it was built on a base of solid rock"; "he stood at the foot of the tower" [syn: {foundation}, {base}, {fundament}, {foot}, {groundwork}, {substructure}, {understructure}].
Foundation (n.) Education or instruction in the fundamentals of a field of knowledge; "he lacks the foundation necessary for advanced study"; "a good grounding in mathematics" [syn: {foundation}, {grounding}].
Foundation (n.) The fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained; "the whole argument rested on a basis of conjecture" [syn: {basis}, {base}, {foundation}, {fundament}, {groundwork}, {cornerstone}].
Foundation (n.) A woman's undergarment worn to give shape to the contours of the body [syn: {foundation garment}, {foundation}].
Foundation (n.) The act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new; "she looked forward to her initiation as an adult"; "the foundation of a new scientific society" [syn: {initiation}, {founding}, {foundation}, {institution}, {origination}, {creation}, {innovation}, {introduction}, {instauration}].
Foundation (n.) This word, in the English law, is taken in two senses, fundatio incipiens, and fundatio perficiens. As to its political capacity, an act of incorporation is metaphorically called its foundation but as to its dotation, the first gift of revenues is called the foundation. 10 Co. 23, a.
Foundationer (n.) One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school.
Foundationless (a.) Having no foundation.
Founder (n.) One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.
Founder (n.) One who founds; one who casts metals in various forms; a caster; as, a founder of cannon, bells, hardware, or types.
Foundered (imp. & p. p.) of Founder.
Foundering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Founder.
Founder (v. i.) To become filled with water, and sink, as a ship.
Founder (v. i.) To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse.
Founder (v. i.) To fail; to miscarry.
Founder (v. t.) To cause internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs of (a horse), so as to disable or lame him.
Founder (n.) A lameness in the foot of a horse, occasioned by inflammation; closh.