Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter F - Page 9
Farm (v. t.) To lease or let for an equivalent, as land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds.
We are enforced to farm our royal realm. -- Shak.
Farm (v. t.) To give up to another, as an estate, a business, the revenue, etc., on condition of receiving in return a percentage of what it yields; as, to farm the taxes.
To farm their subjects and their duties toward these. -- Burke.
Farm (v. t.) To take at a certain rent or rate.
Farm (v. t.) To devote (land) to agriculture; to cultivate, as land; to till, as a farm.
To farm let, To let to farm, To lease on rent.
Farm (v. i.) To engage in the business of tilling the soil; to labor as a farmer.
Farm (n.) Workplace consisting of farm buildings and cultivated land as a unit; "it takes several people to work the farm".
Farm (v.) Be a farmer; work as a farmer; "My son is farming in California."
Farm (v.) Collect fees or profits.
Farm (v.) Cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques; "The Bordeaux region produces great red wines"; "They produce good ham in Parma"; "We grow wheat here"; "We raise hogs here" [syn: grow, raise, farm, produce].
Farm (n.) A group of machines, especially a large group of near-identical machines running load-balancing software, dedicated to a single task. Historically the term server farm, used especially for a group of web servers, seems to have been coined by analogy with earlier disk farm in the early 1990s; generalization began with render farm for a group of machines dedicated to rendering computer animations (this term appears to have been popularized by publicity about the pioneering ?Linux render farm? used to produce the movie Titanic). By 2001 other combinations such as ?compile farm? and ? compute farm? were increasingly common, and arguably borderline techspeak. More jargon uses seem likely to arise (and be absorbed into techspeak over time) as new uses are discovered for networked machine clusters. Compare { link farm.
Processor farm
Farm, () A parallel processor where tasks are distributed, or "farmed out", by one "farmer" processor to several "worker" processors, and results are sent back to the farmer. This arrangement is suitable for applications which can be partitioned into many separate, independent tasks, the canonical examples being ray tracing and the Mandelbrot set. In order to be efficient, the extra time spent on communications must be small compared to the time spent processing each task. (2001-05-28)
Farm, () (Matt. 22:5). Every Hebrew had a certain portion of land assigned to him as a possession (Num. 26:33-56). In Egypt the lands all belonged to the king, and the husbandmen were obliged to give him a fifth part of the produce; so in Palestine Jehovah was the sole possessor of the soil, and the people held it by direct tenure from him. By the enactment of Moses, the Hebrews paid a tithe of the produce to Jehovah, which was assigned to the priesthood. Military service when required was also to be rendered by every Hebrew at his own expense. The occuptaion of a husbandman was held in high honour (1 Sam. 11:5-7; 1 Kings 19:19; 2 Chr. 26:10). (See LAND LAWS (n/a); TITHE.)
Farm, () estates. A portion or tract of land, some of which is cultivated. 2 Binn. 238. In parlance, and for the purpose of description in a deed, a farm means: a messuage with out-buildings, gardens, orchard, yard, and land usually occupied with the same for agricultural purposes; Plowd. 195 Touch. 93; 1 Tho. Co. Litt. 208, 209, n. N; but in the English law, and particularly in a description in a declaration in ejectment, it denotes a leasehold interest for years in any real property, and means anything which is held by a person who stands in the relation of tenant to a landlord. 6 T. R. 532; 2 Chit. Pl. 879, n. e.
Farm, () By the conveyance of a farm, will pass a messuage, arable land, meadow, pasture, wood, &c., belonging to or used with it. 1 Inst. 5, a; Touch. 93; 4 Cruise, 321; Bro. Grants, 155; Plowd. 167.
Farm, () In a will, the word farm may pass a freehold, if it appear that such was the intention of the testator. 6 T. R. 345; 9 East, 448. See 6 East, 604, n; 8 East, 339.
To FARM LET. These words in a lease have the effect of creating a lease for years. Co. Litt. 45 b; 2 Mod. 250.
Compare: Tithe
Tithe (n.) [C] 什一稅；捐稅，捐款 [P1]；十分之一；小部分；一點點 One tenth of annual produce or earnings, formerly taken as a tax for the support of the Church and clergy.
‘They retained only one direct tax, the tithe on agricultural produce (decima).’
Tithe (n.) (In certain religious denominations) A tenth of an individual's income pledged to the Church.
‘That would amount to Pentecostals in Toco being commanded to pay their Christian tithe to a Catholic church in Diego Martin - absolute madness.’
Tithe (n.) [Archaic in singular ] A tenth of a specified thing.
‘He hadn't said a tithe of the prayers he knew.’
Tithe (v. t.) 向……徵收什一稅；把（農產品等的）十分之一交稅 Pay or give as a tithe.
‘He tithes 10 percent of his income to the church.’
Tithe (v. t.) [Historical ] Subject to a tax of one tenth of income or produce.
‘Mosques all over the world not only tithe their followers, they also feed the hungry who come to worship and often find them jobs and places to live.’
Tithe (a.) Tenth. [Obs.]
Every tithe soul, 'mongst many thousand. -- Shak.
Tithe (n.) A tenth; the tenth part of anything; specifically, the tenthpart of the increase arising from the profits of land and stock, allotted to the clergy for their support, as in England, or devoted to religious or charitable uses.
Almost
all the tithes of England and Wales are commuted by law into rent charges.
The tithes of the corn, the new wine, and the oil. -- Neh. xiii. 5.
Note: Tithes are called personal when accuring from labor, art, trade, and navigation; predial, when issuing from the earth, as hay, wood, and fruit; and mixed, when accuring from beaste fed from the ground. -- Blackstone.
Tithe (n.) Hence, a small part or proportion. -- Bacon.
Great tithes, tithes of corn, hay, and wood.
Mixed tithes, tithes of wool, milk, pigs, etc.
Small tithes, personal and mixed tithes.
Tithe
commissioner, one of a board of officers appointed by the government for arranging
propositions for commuting, or compounding for, tithes. [Eng.] --
Simmonds.
Tithe (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Tithed; p. pr. &
vb. n. Tithing.] To levy a tenth part on; to tax to the amount of a
tenth; to pay tithes on.
Ye tithe mint and rue. -- Luke xi. 42.
Tithe (v. i.) Tp pay tithes. [R.] -- Tusser.
Tithe (n.) A levy of one tenth of something.
Tithe (n.) An offering of a tenth part of some personal income.
Tithe (v.) Exact a tithe from; "The church was tithed."
Tithe (v.) Levy a tithe on (produce or a crop); "The wool was tithed."
Tithe (v.) Pay one tenth of; pay tithes on, especially to the church; "He tithed his income to the Church."
Tithe (v.) Pay a tenth of one's income, especially to the church; "Although she left the church officially, she still tithes."
Tithe, () A tenth of the produce of the earth consecrated and set apart for special purposes. The dedication of a tenth to God was recognized as a duty before the time of Moses. Abraham paid tithes to Melchizedek (Gen. 14:20; Heb. 7:6); and Jacob vowed unto the Lord and said, "Of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee."
The first Mosaic law on this subject is recorded in Lev.
27:30-32. Subsequent legislation regulated the destination of the tithes (Num. 18:21-24, 26-28; Deut. 12:5, 6, 11, 17; 14:22, 23). The paying of the tithes was an important part of the Jewish religious worship. In the days of Hezekiah one of the first results of the reformation of religion was the eagerness with which the people brought in their tithes (2 Chr. 31:5, 6).
The neglect of this duty was sternly rebuked by the prophets (Amos 4:4; Mal. 3:8-10). It cannot be affirmed that the Old Testament law of tithes is binding on the Christian Church, nevertheless the principle of this law remains, and is incorporated in the gospel (1 Cor. 9:13, 14); and if, as is the case, the motive that ought to prompt to liberality in the cause of religion and of the service of God be greater now than in Old Testament times, then Christians outght to go beyond the ancient Hebrew in consecrating both themselves and their substance to God.
Every Jew was required by the Levitical law to pay three tithes of his property (1) one tithe for the Levites; (2) one for the use of the temple and the great feasts; and (3) one for the poor of the land.
Farmable (a.) Capable of being farmed.
Farmer (n.) One who farms; as;
Farmer (n.) One who hires and cultivates a farm; a cultivator of leased ground; a tenant. -- Smart.
Farmer (n.) One who is devoted to the tillage of the soil; one who cultivates a farm; an agriculturist; a husbandman.
Farmer (n.) One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect, either paying a fixed annuual rent for the privilege; as, a farmer of the revenues.
Farmer (n.) (Mining) The lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown.
Farmer-general [F. fermier-general], One to whom the right of levying certain taxes, in a particular district, was farmed out, under the former French monarchy, for a given sum paid down.
Farmers' satin, A light material of cotton and worsted, used for coat linings. -- McElrath.
The king's farmer (O. Eng. Law), One to whom the collection of a royal revenue was farmed out. -- Burrill.
Farmer (n.) A person who operates a farm [syn: farmer, husbandman, granger, sodbuster].
Farmer (n.) United States civil rights leader who in 1942 founded the Congress of Racial Equality (born in 1920) [syn: Farmer, James Leonard Farmer].
Farmer (n.) An expert on cooking whose cookbook has undergone many editions (1857-1915) [syn: Farmer, Fannie Farmer, Fannie Merritt Farmer].
Farmer, () One who is lessee of a farm. it is said that every lessee for life or years, although it be but of a small house and land, is called farmer. This word implies no mystery except it be that of husbandman. Cunn. Dict. h.t. In common parlance, a farmer is one who cultivates a farm, whether he be the owner of it or not.
Farmer, SD -- U.S. town in South Dakota
Population (2000): 18
Housing Units (2000): 10
Land area (2000): 0.063721 sq. miles (0.165037 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.063721 sq. miles (0.165037 sq. km)
FIPS code: 21060
Located within: South Dakota (SD), FIPS 46
Location: 43.724747 N, 97.688492 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 57311
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Farmer, SD
Farmer
Farmeress (n.) A woman who farms.
Farmership (n.) Skill in farming.
Compare: Steading
Steading (n.) The barns, stables, cattle-yards, etc., of a farm; -- called also onstead, farmstead, farm offices, or farmery. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Farmery (n.) The buildings and yards necessary for the business of a farm; a homestead. [Eng.]
Farmhouse (n.) A dwelling house on a farm; a farmer's residence.
Farmhouse (n.) House for a farmer and family.
Farming (a.) Pertaining to agriculture; devoted to, adapted to, or engaged in, farming; as, farming tools; farming land; a farming community.
Farming (n.) The business of cultivating land.
Farming (a.) Relating to rural matters; "an agrarian (or agricultural) society"; "farming communities" [syn: agrarian, agricultural, farming(a)].
Farming (n.) The practice of cultivating the land or raising stock [syn: farming, agriculture, husbandry].
Farming (n.) Agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life; "farming is a strenuous life"; "there's no work on the land any more" [syn: farming, land].
Farmost (a.) Most distant; farthest.
A spacious cave within its farmost part. -- Dryden.
Compare: Steading
Steading (n.) The barns, stables, cattle-yards, etc., of a farm; -- called also onstead, farmstead, farm offices, or farmery. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Farmstead (n.) A farm with the building upon it; a homestead on a farm. -- Tennyson.
With its pleasant groves and farmsteads. -- Carlyle.
Farmstead (n.) The buildings and adjacent grounds of a farm.
Farmstead (n.) A farm together with its buildings [syn: farmplace, farm-place, farmstead].
Farmsteading (n.) A farmstead. [Scot.] -- Black.
Farmyard (n.) The yard or inclosure attached to a barn, or the space inclosed by the farm buildings.
Farmyard (n.) An area adjacent to farm buildings.
Farness (n.) The state of being far off; distance; remoteness. [R.] -- Grew.
Farness (n.) The property of being remote [syn: farness, remoteness, farawayness] [ant: closeness, nearness].
Faro (n.) A gambling game at cardds, in whiich all the other players play against the dealer or banker, staking their money upon the order in which the cards will lie and be dealt from the pack.
Faro bank, The capital which the proprietor of a faro table ventures in the game; also, the place where a game of faro is played. -- Hoyle.
Faro (n.) A card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box.
FARO, () crim. law. There is a species of game called faro-table, or faro-bank, which is forbidden by law in many states; and the persons who keep it for the purpose of playing for money or other valuable thing, may generally be indicted at common law for a nuisance. 1 Roger's Rec. 66. It is played with cards in this manner: a pack of cards is displayed on the table so that the face of each card may be seen by the spectators. The man who keeps the bank, as it is termed, and who is called the banker, sits by the table with another pack of cards, and a bag containing money, some of which is displayed, or sometimes instead of money, chips, or small pieces of ivory or other substance are used. The parties who play with the banker, are called punters or pointeurs. Suppose the banker and A, a punter, wish to play for five dollars, the banker shuffles the pack which he holds in his hand, while A lays his money intended to be bet, say five dollars, on any card he may choose as aforesaid. The banker then runs the cards alternately into two piles, one on the right the other on the left, until he reaches, in the pack, the card corresponding to that on which A has laid his money. If, in this alternative, the card chosen comes on the right hand, the banker takes up the money. If on the other, A is entitled to five dollars from the banker. Several persons are usually engaged at the same table with the banker. 1 Rog. Rec. 66, note; Encycl. Amer. h.t.
Faroese (n. sing. & pl.) An inhabitant, or, collectively, inhabitants, of the Faroe islands.
Faroese (n.) A Scandinavian language (closely related to Icelandic) that is spoken on the Faroe Islands [syn: Faroese, Faeroese].
Far-off (a.) Remote; as, the far-off distance. Cf. Far-off, under Far, adv.
Syn: faraway.
Far-off (n.) Remote in time; as, far-off happier times.
Syn: remote, removed.
Far-off (a.) Very far away in space or time; "faraway
mountains"; "the faraway future"; "troops landing
on far-off shores"; "far-off happier times" [syn:
faraway, far-off].
Farraginous (a.) Formed of various
materials; mixed; as, a farraginous mountain. [R.] -- Kirwan.
A farraginous concurrence of all conditions, tempers, sexes, and ages. -- Sir T. Browne.
Farraginous (a.) Consisting of a farrago.
Farraginous (a.) Consisting of a confused mixture : formed of various materials in no fixed order or arrangement.
Farrago (n.) A mass composed of various materials confusedly mixed; a medley; a mixture.
A confounded farrago of doubts, fears, hopes, wishes, and all the flimsy furniture of a country miss's brain. -- Sheridan.
Farrago (n.) A motley assortment of things [syn: odds and ends, oddments, melange, farrago, ragbag, mishmash, mingle-mangle, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, gallimaufry, omnium-gatherum].
Farrand (n.) Manner; custom; fashion; humor. [Prov. Eng.] [Written also farand.] -- Grose.
Farreation (n.) Same as Confarreation.
Farrier (v. i.) To practice as a farrier; to carry on the trade of a farrier. [Obs.] -- Mortimer.
Farrier (n.) 蹄鐵匠；獸醫 A shoer of horses; a veterinary surgeon.
Farrier (n.) A person who shoes horses [syn: farrier, horseshoer].
Farriery (n.) The art of shoeing horses.
Farriery (n.) The art of preventing, curing, or mitigating diseases of horses and cattle; the veterinary art.
Farriery (n.) The place where a smith shoes horses.
Farrow (n.) A little of pigs. -- Shak.
Farrowed (imp. & p. p.) of Farfow.
Farrowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Farfow.
Farfow (v. t. & i.) To bring forth (young); -- said only of swine. -- Tusser.
Farrow (a.) Not producing young in a given season or year; -- said only of cows.
Note: If a cow has had a calf, but fails in a subsequent year, she is said to be farrow, or to go farrow.
Farrow (n.) The production of a litter of pigs [syn: farrow, farrowing].
Farrow (v.) Give birth; "sows farrow" [syn: farrow, pig].
Farry (n.) A farrow. [Obs.] -- Perry.
Farse (n.) (Eccl.) An addition to, or a paraphrase of, some part of the Latin service in the vernacular; -- common in English before the Reformation.
Farseeing (a.) Able to see to a great distance; farsighted.
Farseeing (a.) Having foresight as regards the future.
Farseeing (a.) Capable of seeing to a great distance [syn: eagle-eyed, keen-sighted, farseeing, longsighted].
Farseeing (a.) Planning prudently for the future; "large goals that required farsighted policies"; "took a long view of the geopolitical issues" [syn: farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, foresightful, prospicient, long, longsighted].
Farsighted (a.) Seeing to great distance; hence, of good judgment regarding the remote effects of actions; sagacious.
Farsighted (a.) (Med.) Hypermetropic.
Farsighted (a.) Able to see distant objects clearly [syn: farsighted, presbyopic] [ant: myopic, nearsighted, shortsighted].
Farsighted (a.) Planning prudently for the future; "large goals that required farsighted policies"; "took a long view of the geopolitical issues" [syn: farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, foresightful, prospicient, long, longsighted].
Farsightedness (n.) Quality of bbeing farsighted.
Farsightedness (n.) (Med.) Hypermetropia.
Farsightedness (n.) A reduced ability to focus on near objects caused by loss of elasticity of the crystalline lens after age 45 [syn: presbyopia, farsightedness].
Farsightedness (n.) Abnormal condition in which vision for distant objects is better than for near objects [syn: hyperopia, hypermetropia, hypermetropy, farsightedness, longsightedness] [ant: myopia, nearsightedness, shortsightedness].
Farsightedness (n.) Seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing [syn: prevision, foresight, farsightedness, prospicience].
Farstretched (a.) Streatched beyond ordinary limits.
Farther (a.) More remote; more distant than something else.
Farther (a.) Tending to a greater distance; beyond a certain point; additional; further.
Before our farther way the fates allow. -- Dryden.
Let me add a farther Truth. -- Dryden.
Some farther change awaits us. -- MIlton.
Farther (adv.) At or to a greater distance; more remotely; beyond; as, let us rest with what we have, without looking farther.
Farther (adv.) Moreover; by way of progress in treating a subject; as, farther, let us consider the probable event.
No farther, (used elliptically for) Go no farther; say no more, etc.
It will be dangerous to go on. No farther ! -- Shak.
Farther (v. t.) To help onward. [R.] See Further.
Farther (adv.) To or at a greater extent or degree or a more advanced stage (`further' is used more often than `farther' in this abstract sense); "further complicated by uncertainty about the future"; "let's not discuss it further"; "nothing could be further from the truth"; "they are further along in their research than we expected"; "the application of the law was extended farther"; "he is going no farther in his studies" [syn: further, farther].
Farther (adv.) To or at a greater distance in time or space (`farther' is used more frequently than `further' in this physical sense); "farther north"; "moved farther away"; "farther down the corridor"; "the practice may go back still farther to the Druids"; "went only three miles further"; "further in the future" [syn: farther, further].
Farther (a.) More distant in especially space or time; "they live in the farther house."
Farther (a.) More distant in especially degree; "nothing could be further from the truth"; "further from our expectations"; "farther from the truth"; "farther from our expectations" [syn: further, farther].
Fartherance (n.) See Furtherance.
Farthermore (adv.) See Furthermore.
Farthermost (a.) Most remote; farthest.
Farthest (adv.) At or to the greatest distance. See Furthest.
Farthest (a.) Most distant or remote; as, the farthest degree. See Furthest.
Farthest (adv.) To the greatest distance in space or time (`farthest' is used more often than `furthest' in this physical sense); "see who could jump the farthest"; "chose the farthest seat from the door"; "he swam the furthest" [syn: farthest, furthest].
Farthest (adv.) To the greatest degree or extent or most advanced stage (`furthest' is used more often than `farthest' in this abstract sense); "went the furthest of all the children in her education"; "furthest removed from reality"; "she goes farthest in helping us" [syn: furthest, farthest].
Farthest (a.) (Comparatives of `far') most remote in space or time or order; "had traveled to the farthest frontier"; "don't go beyond the farthermost (or furthermost) tree"; "explored the furthest reaches of space"; "the utmost tip of the peninsula" [syn: farthermost, farthest, furthermost, furthest, utmost, uttermost].
Farthing (n.) The fourth of a penny; a small copper coin of Great Britain, being a cent in United States currency.
Farthing (n.) A very small quantity or value.
Farthing (n.) A division of land.
Farthingale (n.) A hoop skirt or hoop petticoat, or other light, elastic material, used to extend the petticoat.
Fasces (n. pl.) A bundle of rods, having among them an ax with the blade projecting, borne before the Roman magistrates as a badge of their authority.
Fascet (n.) A wire basket on the end of a rod to carry glass bottles, etc., to the annealing furnace; also, an iron rod to be thrust into the mouths of bottles, and used for the same purpose; -- called also pontee and punty.
Fasciae (n. pl. ) of Fascia.
Fascia (n.) A band, sash, or fillet; especially, in surgery, a bandage or roller.
Fascia (n.) A flat member of an order or building, like a flat band or broad fillet; especially, one of the three bands which make up the architrave, in the Ionic order. See Illust. of Column.
Fascia (n.) The layer of loose tissue, often containing fat, immediately beneath the skin; the stronger layer of connective tissue covering and investing all muscles; an aponeurosis.
Fascia (n.) A broad well-defined band of color.
Fascial (a.) Pertaining to the fasces.
Fascial (a.) Relating to a fascia.
Fasciate (a.) Alt. of Fasciated.
Fasciated (a.) Bound with a fillet, sash, or bandage.
Fasciated (a.) Banded or compacted together.
Fasciated (a.) Flattened and laterally widened, as are often the stems of the garden cockscomb.
Fasciated (a.) Broadly banded with color.
Fasciation (n.) The act or manner of binding up; bandage; also, the condition of being fasciated.
Fascicle (n.) A small bundle or collection; a compact cluster; as, a fascicle of fibers; a fascicle of flowers or roots.
Fascicled (a.) Growing in a bundle, tuft, or close cluster; as, the fascicled leaves of the pine or larch; the fascicled roots of the dahlia; fascicled muscle fibers; fascicled tufts of hair.
Fascicular (a.) Pertaining to a fascicle; fascicled; as, a fascicular root.
Fascicularly (adv.) In a fascicled manner.
Fasciculate (a.) Alt. of Fasciculated.
Fasciculated (a.) Grouped in a fascicle; fascicled.
Fasciculi (n. pl. ) of Fasciculus.
Fasciculus (n.) A little bundle; a fascicle.
Fasciculus (n.) A division of a book.
Fascinated (imp. & p. p.) of Fascinate.
Fascinating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fascinate.
Fascinate (v. t.) 迷住，使神魂顛倒；強烈地吸引 [（+by/ with）]；懾住……使動彈不得，使呆住；(v. i.) 有吸引力；迷人 To influence in an uncontrollable manner; to operate on by some powerful or irresistible charm; to bewitch; to enchant.
It has been almost universally believed that . . . serpents can stupefy and fascinate the prey which they are desirous to obtain. -- Griffith (Cuvier).
Fascinate (v. t.) To excite and allure irresistibly or powerfully; to charm; to captivate, as by physical or mental charms.
There be none of the passions that have been noted to fascinate or bewitch but love and envy. -- Bacon.
Syn: To charm; enrapture; captivate; enchant; bewitch; attract.
Fascinate (v.) Cause to be interested or curious [syn: {intrigue}, {fascinate}].
Fascinate (v.) To render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe; "The snake charmer fascinates the cobra" [syn: {fascinate}, {transfix}, {grip}, {spellbind}].
Fascinate (v.) Attract; cause to be enamored; "She captured all the men's hearts" [syn: {capture}, {enamour}, {trance}, {catch}, {becharm}, {enamor}, {captivate}, {beguile}, {charm}, {fascinate}, {bewitch}, {entrance}, {enchant}].
Fascinated (a.) （用作表語）著迷的 Having the attention fixed by a sense of wonder.
Syn: hypnotized, hypnotised, mesmerized, mesmerised, spellbound, transfixed.
Fascinated (a.) Intensely interested in or attracted by; as, I'm very interested in birds; in fact I'm fascinated by them.
Fascinated (a.) Having your attention fixated as though by a spell [syn: {fascinated}, {hypnotized}, {hypnotised}, {mesmerized}, {mesmerised}, {spellbound}, {spell-bound}, {transfixed}].
Fascinating (a.) 迷人的；極美的；極好的；fascinate 的動詞現在分詞、動名詞fascinating; Capable of holding the attention; as, a fascinating story.
Syn: absorbing, engrossing, gripping, riveting, spellbinding.
Fascinating (a.) Capturing interest as if by a spell; as, a fascinating woman.
Syn: bewitching, captivating, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing.
Fascination (n.) 魔力，入迷，魅力 The act of fascinating, bewhiching, or enchanting; enchantment; witchcraft; the exercise of a powerful or irresistible influence on the affections or passions; unseen, inexplicable influence.
The Turks hang old rags . . . upon their fairest horses, and other goodly creatures, to secure them against fascination. -- Waller.
Fascination (n.) The state or condition of being fascinated.
Fascination (n.) That which fascinates; a charm; a spell.
There is a certain bewitchery or fascination in words. -- South.
Fascination (n.) The state of being intensely interested (as by awe or terror) [syn: {fascination}, {captivation}].
Fascination (n.) A feeling of great liking for something wonderful and unusual [syn: {captivation}, {enchantment}, {enthrallment}, {fascination}].
Fascination (n.) The capacity to attract intense interest; "he held the children spellbound with magic tricks and other fascinations."
Fascine (n.) (Fort. & Engin.) 柴捆 A cylindrical bundle of small sticks of wood, bound together, used in raising batteries, filling ditches, strengthening ramparts, and making parapets; also in revetments for river banks, and in mats for dams, jetties, etc.
Fascinous (a.) Caused or acting by witchcraft. [Obs.] "Fascinous diseases." -- Harvey.
Fascinous (a.) 1660s, "caused by witchcraft," from Latin fascinum "charm, enchantment, witchcraft" (see fascinate) + -ous.
Compare: Witchcraft
Witchcraft (n.) 巫術，魔法，魔力 The practices or art of witches.
Witchcraft (n.) Hence: Sorcery; enchantments; intercourse with evil spirits.
Witchcraft (n.) Power more than natural; irresistible influence.
He hath a witchcraft Over the king in 's tongue. -- Shak.
Witchcraft (n.) Adherence to or the practice of {Wicca}. In this sense the term does not necessarily include attempts at practice of magic, other than by prayers to the deities.
Witchcraft (n.) The art of sorcery [syn: {witchcraft}, {witchery}].
Witchcraft, () (1 Sam. 15:23; 2 Kings 9:22; 2 Chr. 33:6; Micah 5:12; Nahum 3:4; Gal. 5:20). In the popular sense of the word no mention is made either of witches or of witchcraft in Scripture.
The "witch of En-dor" (1 Sam. 28) was a necromancer, i.e., one who feigned to hold converse with the dead. The damsel with "a spirit of divination" (Acts 16:16) was possessed by an evil spirit, or, as the words are literally rendered, "having a spirit, a pithon." The reference is to the heathen god Apollo, who was regarded as the god of prophecy.
Fasciolae (n. pl. ) of Fasciola.
Fasciola (n.) (Anat.) A band of gray matter bordering the fimbria in the brain; the dentate convolution. -- Wilder.
Fasciola (n.) A genus of Fasciolidae [syn: Fasciola, genus Fasciola].
Fasciole (n.) (Zool.) A band of minute tubercles, bearing modified spines, on the shells of spatangoid sea urchins. See Spatangoidea.
Fascism (n.) A political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government; -- opposed to democracy and liberalism.
Fascism (n.) An authoritarian system of government under absolute control of a single dictator, allowing no political opposition, forcibly suppressing dissent, and rigidly controlling most industrial and economic activities. Such regimes usually try to achieve popularity by a strongly nationalistic appeal, often mixed with racism.
Fascism (n.) Specifically, the Fascist movement led by Benito Mussolini in Italy from 1922 to 1943.
Fascism (n.) Broadly, a tendency toward or support of a strongly authoritarian or dictatorial control of government or other organizations; -- often used pejoratively in this sense.
Fascism (n.) A political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government (as opposed to democracy or liberalism).
Fascism (n.) [ U ] A political system based on a very powerful leader, state control, and being extremely proud of country and race, and in which political opposition is not allowed.
Fascist (n.) An adherent of fascism or similar right-wing authoritarian views. fascist
Fascist; fascistic (a.) Of or pertaining to fascism; resembling fascism; as, fascist propaganda.
Fascist (a.) Relating to or characteristic of fascism; "fascist propaganda" [syn: fascist, fascistic].
Fascist (n.) An adherent of fascism or other right-wing authoritarian views.
Fascist (a.) [common] Said of a computer system with excessive or annoying security barriers, usage limits, or access policies. The implication is that said policies are preventing hackers from getting interesting work done. The variant fascistic seems to have been preferred at MIT, poss. by analogy with touristic (see tourist or under the influence of German/ Yiddish faschistisch).
Fascist (a.) In the design of languages and other software tools, the fascist alternative is the most restrictive and structured way of capturing a particular function; the implication is that this may be desirable in order to simplify the implementation or provide tighter error checking. Compare {bondage-and-discipline language, although that term is global rather than local.
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Fascist security strikes again.
Fascist, ()
Said of a computer system with excessive or annoying security barriers, usage limits, or access policies. The implication is that said policies are preventing hackers from getting interesting work done. The variant "fascistic" seems to have been preferred at MIT.
In the design of languages and other software tools, "the fascist alternative" is the most restrictive and structured way of capturing a particular function; the implication is that this may be desirable in order to simplify the implementation or provide tighter error checking. Compare bondage-and-discipline language, although that term is global rather than local.
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Fascist (a.) Based on or supporting fascism.
// Fascist groups.
// A fascist dictator/ regime.
Fascist (n.) [ C ] (Politics) Someone who supports fascism.
Fascist (n.) [ C ] (Politics) A person of the far right in politics.
Fascist (n.) [ C ] (Disapproving) Someone who does not allow any opposition.
// He thinks all policemen are fascists and bullies.
Fashed (imp. & p. p.) of Fash.
Fashing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fash.