Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter F - Page 8
Fantastical (a.) Fanciful; unreal; whimsical; capricious; fantastic.
Fantastical (a.) Existing in fancy only; "fantastic figures with bulbous heads the circumference of a bushel" -- Nathaniel Hawthorne [syn: fantastic, fantastical].
Fantastical (a.) Ludicrously odd; "Hamlet's assumed antic disposition"; "fantastic Halloween costumes"; "a grotesque reflection in the mirror" [syn: antic, fantastic, fantastical, grotesque].
Fantasticality (n.) Fantastically. [Obs.]
Fantastically (adv.) In a fantastic manner.
The letter A, in scarlet, fantastically embroidered with gold thread, upon her bosom. -- Hawthorne.
Fantastically (adv.) Exceedingly; extremely; "she plays fabulously well" [syn: fabulously, fantastically, incredibly].
Fantastic-alness (n.) The quality of being fantastic.
Fantasticism (n.) The quality of being fantastical; fancifulness; whimsicality. -- Ruskin.
Fantasticly (adv.) Fantastically. [Obs.]
Fantasticness (n.) Fantasticalness. [Obs.]
Fantastico (n.) [It.] A fantastic. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Fantasies (n. pl. ) of Fantasy.
Fantasy (n.) [U] [C] 空想；幻想；夢想；空想的產物；幻想作品；【音】幻想曲 Fancy; imagination; especially, a whimsical or fanciful conception; a vagary of the imagination; whim; caprice; humor.
Is not this something more than fantasy ? -- Shak.
A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory. -- Milton.
Fantasy (n.) Fantastic designs.
Embroidered with fantasies and flourishes of gold thread. -- Hawthorne.
Fantasy (v. t.) To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like; to fancy. [Obs.] -- Cavendish.
Which he doth most fantasy. -- Robynson (More's Utopia).
Fantasy (n.) Imagination unrestricted by reality; "a schoolgirl fantasy" [syn: fantasy, phantasy].
Fantasy (n.) Fiction with a large amount of imagination in it; "she made a lot of money writing romantic fantasies" [syn: fantasy, phantasy].
Fantasy (n.) Something many people believe that is false; "they have the illusion that I am very wealthy" [syn: illusion, fantasy, phantasy, fancy].
Fantasy (v.) Indulge in fantasies; "he is fantasizing when he says he plans to start his own company" [syn: fantasy, fantasize, fantasise].
Fantoccini (n. pl.) Puppets caused to perform evolutions or dramatic scenes by means of machinery; also, the representations in which they are used. Fantod
Fantom (n.) See Phantom.
Fantom corn, Phantom corn. -- Grose.
Fap (a.) Fuddled. [Obs.] -- Shak. FAQ list FAQlist
FAP, () Flight Attendant Panel (Airbus, A380, CIDS, LCD)
FAP, () The assembly language for Sperry-Rand 1103 and 1103A.
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Faquir (n.) See Fakir.
Fakir (n.) An Oriental Muslim or Hindu religious ascetic or begging monk who is regarded as a holy man or a wonder worker. [Written also faquir anf fakeer.]
Faquir (n.) A Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man [syn: fakir, fakeer, faqir, faquir].
Far (n.) (Zool.) A young pig, or a litter of pigs.
Far (a.) Distant in any direction; not near; remote; mutually separated by a wide space or extent.
They said, . . . We be come from a far country. -- Josh. ix. 6.
The nations far and near contend in choice. -- Dryden.
Far (a.) Remote from purpose; contrary to design or wishes; as, far be it from me to justify cruelty.
Far (a.) Remote in affection or obedience; at a distance, morally or spiritually; t enmity with; alienated.
They that are far from thee ahsll perish. -- Ps. lxxiii. 27.
Far (a.) Widely different in nature or quality; opposite in character.
He was far from ill looking, though he thought himself still farther. -- F. Anstey.
Far (a.) The more distant of two; as, the far side (called also off side) of a horse, that is, the right side, or the one opposite to the rider when he mounts.
Note: The distinction between the adjectival and adverbial use of far is sometimes not easily discriminated.
By far, By much; by a great difference.
Far between, With a long distance (of space or time) between; at long intervals. "The examinations are few and far between." -- Farrar.
Far (adv.) To a great extent or distance of space; widely; as, we are separated far from each other.
Far (adv.) To a great distance in time from any point; remotely; as, he pushed his researches far into antiquity.
Far (adv.) In great part; as, the day is far spent.
Far (adv.) In a great proportion; by many degrees; very much; deeply; greatly.
Who can find a virtuous woman ? for her price is far above rubies. -- Prov. xxxi. 10.
As far as, To the extent, or degree, that. See As far as, under As.
Far off. (a) At a great distance, absolutely or relatively.
Far off. (b) Distant in sympathy or affection; alienated. "But now, in Christ Jesus, ye who some time were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ." -- Eph. ii. 13.
Far other, Different by a great degree; not the same; quite unlike. -- Pope.
Far and near, At a distance and close by; throughout a whole region.
Far and wide, Distantly and broadly; comprehensively. "Far and wide his eye commands." -- Milton.
From far, () From a great distance; from a remote place.
Note: Far often occurs in self-explaining compounds, such as far-extended, far-reaching, far-spread.
Far (adv.) To a considerable degree; very much; "a far far better thing that I do"; "felt far worse than yesterday"; "eyes far too close together."
Far (adv.) At or to or from a great distance in space; "he traveled far"; "strayed far from home"; "sat far away from each other."
Far (adv.) At or to a certain point or degree; "I can only go so far before I have to give up"; "how far can we get with this kind of argument?"
Far (adv.) Remote in time; "if we could see far into the future"; "all that happened far in the past."
Far (adv.) To an advanced stage or point; "a young man who will go very far."
Far (a.) Located at a great distance in time or space or degree; "we come from a far country"; "far corners of the earth"; "the far future"; "a far journey"; "the far side of the road"; "far from the truth"; "far in the future" [ant: close, near, nigh].
Far (a.) Being of a considerable distance or length; "a far trek."
Far (a.) Being the animal or vehicle on the right or being on the right side of an animal or vehicle; "the horse on the right is the far horse"; "the right side is the far side of the horse."
Far (a.) Beyond a norm in opinion or actions; "the far right."
Far (n.) A terrorist organization that seeks to overthrow the government dominated by Tutsi and to institute Hutu control again; "in 1999 ALIR guerrillas kidnapped and killed eight foreign tourists" [syn: Army for the Liberation of Rwanda, ALIR, Former Armed Forces, FAR, Interahamwe].
FAR, () False Acception Rate.
FAR, () Fixed Alternative Routing (SNI).
FAR, () Flow Admission Request [message] (LFAP).
Farabout (n.) A going out of the way; a digression. [Obs.] -- Fuller.
Farad (n.) (Elec.) The standard unit of electrical capacity; the capacity of a condenser whose charge, having an electro-motive force of one volt, is equal to the amount of electricity which, with the same electromotive force, passes through one ohm in one second; the capacity, which, charged with one coulomb, gives an electro-motive force of one volt.
Farad (n.) The capacitance of a capacitor that has an equal and opposite charge of 1 coulomb on each plate and a voltage difference of 1 volt between the plates [syn: farad, F].
Faradic (a.) Of or pertaining to Michael Faraday, the distinguished electrician; -- applied especially to induced currents of electricity, as produced by certain forms of inductive apparatus, on account of Faraday's investigations of their laws. Faradism
Faradism (n.) Alt. of Faradization.
Faradization (n.) (Med.) The treatment with faradic or induced currents of electricity for remedial purposes.
Farand (n.) See Farrand, n.
Farrand (n.) Manner; custom; fashion; humor. [Prov. Eng.] [Written also farand.] -- Grose.
Farandams (n.) A fabrik made of silk and wool or hair. -- Simmonds.
Farantly (a.) Orderly; comely; respectable. [Obs.] -- Halliwell.
Faraway (a.) [ Before noun ] (C2) (Literary) 遙遠的；遠方的 A long way away.
// They travelled to faraway lands/ places.
Faraway (a.) [ Before noun ] (C2) 出神的；恍惚的；心不在焉的 If you have a faraway expression, you look as though you are not thinking about what is happening around you.
// There was a faraway look in his eyes.
Farce (n.) (Cookery) 笑劇；鬧劇；滑稽戲 [C] [U]；可笑的行為；滑稽荒唐的事情 [C] Stuffing, or mixture of viands, like that used on dressing a fowl; forcemeat.
Farce (n.) A low style of comedy; a dramatic composition marked by low humor, generally written with little regard to regularity or method, and abounding with ludicrous incidents and expressions.
Farce is that in poetry which "grotesque" is in a picture: the persons and action of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false. -- Dryden.
Farce (n.) Ridiculous or empty show; as, a mere farce. "The farce of state." -- Pope.
Farced (imp. & p. p.) of Farce.
Farcing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Farce.
Farce (v. t.) 在（戲劇等中）穿插（笑料等）[（+with）] To stuff with forcemeat; hence, to fill with mingled ingredients; to fill full; to stuff. [Obs.]
The first principles of religion should not be farced with school points and private tenets. -- Bp. Sanderson.
His tippet was aye farsed full of knives. -- Chaucer.
Farce (v. t.) To render fat. [Obs.]
If thou wouldst farce thy lean ribs. -- B. Jonson.
Farce (v. t.) To swell out; to render pompous. [Obs.]
Farcing his letter with fustian. -- Sandys.
Farce (n.) A comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations [syn: {farce}, {farce comedy}, {travesty}].
Farce (n.) Mixture of ground raw chicken and mushrooms with pistachios and truffles and onions and parsley and lots of butter and bound with eggs [syn: {forcemeat}, {farce}].
Farce (v.) Fill with a stuffing while cooking; "Have you stuffed the turkey yet?" [syn: {farce}, {stuff}].
Farcement (n.) Stuffing; forcemeat. [Obs.]
They spoil a good dish with . . . unsavory farcements. -- Feltham.
Farceur (n.) 滑稽演員；滑稽劇作者；好詼諧的人 Joker, wag.
Farceur (n.) A writer or actor of farce.
Farcical (a.) Pertaining to farce; appropriated to farce; ludicrous; unnatural; unreal.
Farcical (a.) Of or pertaining to the disease called farcy. See Farcy, n.
Farcicality (n.) (Uncountable) The property of being farcical.
Farcilite (n.) Pudding stone.
Farcimen (n.) Alt. of Farcin.
Farcin (n.) Same as Farcy.
Farcing (n.) (Cookery) Stuffing; forcemeat.
Farctate (a.) (Bot.) Stuffed; filled solid; as, a farctate leaf, stem, or pericarp; -- opposed to tubular or hollow. [Obs.]
Farcy (n.) A contagious disease of horses, associated with painful ulcerating enlargements, esp. upon the head and limbs. It is of the same nature as glanders, and is often fatal. Called also farcin, and farcimen.
Fard (n.) Paint used on the face. [Obs.] "Painted with French fard." -- J. Whitaker.
Fard (v. t.) To paint; -- said esp. of one's face. [Obs.] -- Shenstone.
Fardage (n.) (Naut.) See Dunnage.
Fardel (n.) A bundle or little pack; hence, a burden. [Obs.] -- Shak.
A fardel of never-ending misery and suspense. -- Marryat.
Fardel (v. t.) To make up in fardels. [Obs.] -- Fuller.
Fardel (n.) A burden (figuratively in the form of a bundle).
Farding-bag (n.) The upper stomach of a cow, or other ruminant animal; the rumen.
Fardingdale (n.) A farthingale. [Obs.]
Fardingdeal (n.) The fourth part of an acre of land. [Obs.] [Written also farding dale, fardingale, etc.]
Fared (imp. & p. p.) of Fare.
Faring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fare.
Fare (v. i.) To go; to pass; to journey; to travel.
So on he fares, and to the border comes Of Eden. -- Milton.
Fare (v. i.) To be in any state, or pass through any experience, good or bad; to be attended with any circummstances or train of events, fortunate or unfortunate; as, he fared well, or ill.
So fares the stag among the enraged hounds. -- Denham.
I bid you most heartily well to fare. -- Robynson (More's Utopia).
So fared the knight between two foes. -- Hudibras.
Fare (v. t.) To be treated or entertained at table, or with bodily or social comforts; to live.
There was a certain rich man which . . . fared sumptuously every day. -- Luke xvi. 19.
Fare (v. t.) To happen well, or ill; -- used impersonally; as, we shall see how it will fare with him.
So fares it when with truth falsehood contends. -- Milton.
Fare (v. t.) To behave; to conduct one's self. [Obs.]
She ferde [fared] as she would die. -- Chaucer.
Fare (n.) A journey; a passage. [Obs.]
That nought might stay his fare. -- Spenser.
Fare (n.) The price of passage or going; the sum paid or due for conveying a person by land or water; as, the fare for crossing a river; the fare in a coach or by railway.
Fare (n.) Ado; bustle; business. [Obs.]
The warder chid and made fare. -- Chaucer.
Fare (n.) Condition or state of things; fortune; hap; cheer.
What fare? what news abroad ? -- Shak.
Fare (n.) Food; provisions for the table; entertainment; as, coarse fare; delicious fare. "Philosophic fare." -- Dryden.
Fare (n.) The person or persons conveyed in a vehicle; as, a full fare of passengers. -- A. Drummond.
Fare (n.) The catch of fish on a fishing vessel.
Bill of fare. See under Bill.
Fare indicator or {Fare register"> Fare indicator or { Fare register, a device for recording the number of passengers on a street car, etc.
Fare wicket. (a) A gate or turnstile at the entrance of toll bridges, exhibition grounds, etc., for registering the number of persons passing it.
Fare wicket. (b) An opening in the door of a street car for purchasing tickets of the driver or passing fares to the conductor. -- Knight.
Fare (n.) An agenda of things to do; "they worked rapidly down the menu of reports" [syn: menu, fare].
Fare (n.) The sum charged for riding in a public conveyance [syn: fare, transportation].
Fare (n.) A paying (taxi) passenger.
Fare (n.) The food and drink that are regularly served or consumed.
Fare (v.) Proceed or get along; "How is she doing in her new job?"; "How are you making out in graduate school?"; "He's come a long way" [syn: do, fare, make out, come, get along].
Fare (v.) Eat well.
Faren () p. p. of Fare, v. i.
Farewell (interj.) 再會！別了！ Go well; good-by; adieu; -- originally applied to a person departing, but by custom now applied both to those who depart and those who remain. It is often separated by the pronoun; as, fare you well; and is sometimes used as an expression of separation only; as, farewell the year; farewell, ye sweet groves; that is, I bid you farewell.
So farewell hope, and with hope, farewell fear. -- Milton.
Fare thee well! and if forever, Still forever fare thee well. -- Byron.
Note: The primary accent is sometimes placed on the first syllable, especially in poetry.
Farewell (n.) 告別；告別辭 [U] [C]；送別會；（歡送退休藝人的）送別演出 [C] A wish of happiness or welfare at parting; the parting compliment; a good-by; adieu.
Farewell (n.) Act of departure; leave-taking; a last look at, or reference to something.
And takes her farewell of the glorious sun. -- Shak.
Before I take my farewell of the subject. -- Addison.
Farewell (a.) Parting; valedictory; final; as, a farewell discourse; his farewell bow.
Leans in his spear to take his farewell view. -- Tickell.
{Farewell rock} (Mining), the Millstone grit; -- so called because no coal is found worth working below this stratum.
It is used for hearths of furnaces, having power to resist intense heat. -- Ure.
Farewell (n.) An acknowledgment or expression of goodwill at parting [syn: {farewell}, {word of farewell}].
Farewell (n.) The act of departing politely; "he disliked long farewells"; "he took his leave"; "parting is such sweet sorrow" [syn: {farewell}, {leave}, {leave-taking}, {parting}].
Farewell (Exclamation) (Old-fashioned or formal) 再見，再會 Goodbye.
Farewell (n.) [ C ] (Formal) 告別；辭行 An occasion when someone says goodbye.
// We said our sad farewells and got on the bus.
// He bid us both a fond (= affectionate) farewell.
// A farewell party.
Farfet (p. p.) Farfetched. [Obs.]
York with his farfet policy. -- Shak.
Farfetch (v. t.) To bring from far; to seek out studiously. [Obs.]
To farfetch the name of Tartar from a Hebrew word. -- Fuller.
Farfetch (n.) Anything brought from far, or brought about with studious care; a deep strategem. [Obs.] "Politic farfetches." -- Hudibras.
Farfetched (a.) Brought from far, or from a remote place.
Every remedy contained a multitude of farfetched and heterogeneous ingredients. -- Hawthorne.
Farfetched (a.) Studiously sought; not easily or naturally deduced or introduced; forced; strained; hence, implausible or improbable.
Farfetched (a.) Highly imaginative but unlikely; "a farfetched excuse"; "an implausible explanation" [syn: farfetched, implausible].
Farina (n.) A fine flour or meal made from cereal grains or from the starch or fecula of vegetables, extracted by various processes, and used in cookery.
Farina (n.) (Bot.) Pollen. [R.] -- Craig.
Farina (n.) Fine meal made from cereal grain especially wheat; often used as a cooked cereal or in puddings.
Farina, IL -- U.S. village in Illinois
Population (2000): 558
Housing Units (2000): 267
Land area (2000): 1.439631 sq. miles (3.728628 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.006989 sq. miles (0.018101 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.446620 sq. miles (3.746729 sq. km)
FIPS code: 25375
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 38.833008 N, 88.775786 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 62838
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Farina, IL
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Farinaceous (a.) Consisting or made of meal or flour; as, a farinaceous diet.
Farinaceous (a.) Yielding farina or flour; as, ffarinaceous seeds.
Farinaceous (a.) Like meal; mealy; pertainiing to meal; as, a farinaceous taste, smell, or appearance.
Farinaceous (a.) Resembling starch [syn: starchlike, amylaceous, amyloid, amyloidal, farinaceous].
Farinaceous (a.) Composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency; "granular sugar"; "the photographs were grainy and indistinct"; "it left a mealy residue" [syn: farinaceous, coarse-grained, grainy, granular, granulose, gritty, mealy].
Farinose (a.) Yielding farinaa; as, farinose substances.
Farinose (a.) (Bot. & Zool.) Covered with a sort of white, mealy powder, as the leaves of some poplars, and the body of certain insects; mealy.
Farl (v. t.) Same as Furl. [Obs.] -- Beau. & Fl.
Farlie (n.) An unusual or unexpected thing; a wonder. See Fearly. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] -- Drayton.
Farm (n.) The rent of land, -- originally paid by reservation of part of its products. [Obs.]
Farm (n.) The term or tenure of a lease of land for cultivation; a leasehold. [Obs.]
It is great willfulness in landlords to make any longer farms to their tenants. -- Spenser.
Farm (n.) The land held under lease and by payment of rent for the purpose of cultivation.
Farm (n.) Any tract of land devoted to agricultural purposes, under the management of a tenant or the owner.
Note: In English the ideas of a lease, a term, and a rent, continue to be in a great degree inseparable, even from the popular meaning of a farm, as they are entirely so from the legal sense. -- Burrill.
Farm (n.) A district of country leased (or farmed) out for the collection of the revenues of government.
The province was devided into twelve farms. -- Burke.
Farm (n.) (O. Eng. Law) A lease of the imposts on particular goods; as, the sugar farm, the silk farm.
Whereas G. H. held the farm of sugars upon a rent of 10,000 marks per annum. -- State Trials (1196).
Farmed (imp. & p. p.) of Farm.
Farming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Farm.