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Fantasticalness
FANTAS'TICALNESS, noun Compliance with fancy; humorousness; whimsicalness; unreasonableness; caprice.
Fantasy
FAN'TASY, noun Now written fancy, which see.
Is not this something more than fantasy?
Fantom
FAN'TOM, noun [Latin phantasma, from the Greek. See Fancy.]
Something that appears to the imagination; also, a specter; a ghost; an apparition. It is generally written phantom, which see.
Fap
FAP, adjective Fuddled. [Not in use.]
Faquir
FAQUIR, [See Fakir.]
Far
F'AR, adjective [Latin porro; Gr. connected with, a way, a passing, to pass or go. See Fare.]
1. Distant, in any direction; separated by a wide space from the place where one is, or from any given place remote.
They said, we are come from a far country. .
The kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country. .
The nation far and near contend in choice.
2. Figuratively, remote from purpose; contrary to design or wishes; as, far be it from me to justify cruelty.
3. Remote in affection or obedience; at enmity with; alienated; in a spiritual sense.
They that are far from thee shall perish. .
4. More or most distant of the two; as the far side of a horse. But the drivers of teams in New England generally use off; as the off side, or off horse or ox.
F'AR, adverb
1. To a great extent or distance of space; as the far extended ocean; we are separated far from each other.
Only ye shall not go very far away. .
2. figuratively, distantly in time from any point; remotely. He pushed his researches very far into antiquity.
3. In interrogatories, to what distance or extent. How far will such reasoning lead us?
4. In great part; as, the day is far spent.
5. In a great proportion; by many degrees; very much.
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. .
For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ, which is far better. .
6. to a certain point, degree or distance. This argument is sound and logical, as far as it goes.
Answer them how far forth you do like their articles.
From far from a great distance; from a remote place.
Far from, at a great distance; as far from home; far from hope.
1. far off, at a great distance.
They tarried in a place that was far off. .
2. To a great distance.
Lo then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. .
3. In a spiritual sense, alienated; at enmity; in a state of ignorance and alienation.
Ye, who were sometime far off, are made nigh by the blood of Christ. .
Far other, very different.
Far-About
FAR-ABOUT', noun A going out of the way. [Not in use.]
Far-Famed
F'AR-FAMED, adjective Widely celebrated.
Far-Fetch
F'AR-FETCH, noun A deep laid stratagem. [Little used.]
Far-Fetched
F'AR-FETCHED, adjective
1. Brought from a remote place.
Whose pains have earned the far-fetched spoil.
2. Studiously sought; not easily or naturally deduced or introduced; forced; strained.
York with all his far-fetched policy.
So we say, far-fetched arguments; far-fetched rhymes; far-fetched analogy. [Far-fet, the same, is not used.]
Far-Piercing
FAR-PIER'CING, adjective Striking or penetrating a great way; as a far-piercing eye.
Far-Shooting
FAR-SHOOT'ING, adjective Shooting to a great distance.
Great love, he said, and the far-shooting god.
F'AR, noun [See Farrow.]
The young of swine; or a littler of pigs. [Local.]
Farce
F'ARCE, verb transitive [Latin farcio.]
1. To stuff; to fill with mingled ingredients. [Little used.]
The first principles of religion should not be forced with school points and private tenets.
2. To extend; to swell out; as the farced title. [Little used.]
F'ARCE, noun f'ars. [Literally, seasoning, stuffing or mixture, like the stuffing of a roasted fowl; force-meat.]
A dramatic composition, originally exhibited by charlatans or buffoons, in the open street, for the amusement of the crowd, but now introduced upon the stage. It is written without regularity, and filled with ludicrous conceits. The dialogue is usually low, the persons of inferior rank, and the fable or action trivial or ridiculous.
Farce is that in poetry which grotesque is in a picture: the persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false.
Farcical
F'ARCICAL, adjective
1. Belonging to a farce; appropriated to farce.
They deny the characters to be farcical because they are actually in nature.
2. Droll; ludicrous; ridiculous.
3. Illusory; deceptive.
Farcically
F'ARCICALLY, adverb In a manner suited to farce; hence, ludicrously.
Farcilite
F'ARCILITE, noun [from farce.] Pudding-stone. The calcarious farcilite called amenla, is formed of rounded calcarious pebbles, agglutinated by a calcarious cement.
Farcin
F'ARCIN,
F'ARCING, noun Stuffing composed of mixed ingredients.
Farcing
F'ARCING, n. Stuffing composed of mixed ingredients.
Farctate
F'ARCTATE, adjective [Latin farctus, stuffed, from farcio.]
In botany, stuffed; crammed, or full; without vacuities; in opposition to tubular or hollow; as a farctate leaf, stem or pericarp.
Farcy
F'ARCY, noun A disease of horses, sometimes of oxen, of the nature of a scabies or mange.
Fard
F'ARD, verb transitive To paint. [Not used.]
Fardel
F'ARDEL, noun [Probably from the root of Latin fero, to bear, or of farcio, to stuff.] A bundle or little pace.
F'ARDEL, verb transitive To make up in bundles.
Fare
FARE, verb intransitive [This word may be connected in origin with the Heb. to go, to pass.]
1. To go; to pass; to move forward; to travel.
So on he fares, and to the border comes of Eden.
[In this literal sense the word is not in common use.]
2. To be in any state, good or bad; to be attended with any circumstances or train of events, fortunate or unfortunate.
So fares the stag among th' enraged hounds.
So fared the knight between two foes.
He fared very well; he fared very ill.
Go further and fare worse. The sense is taken from going, having a certain course; hence, being subjected to a certain train of incidents. The rich man fared sumptuously every day. He enjoyed all the pleasure which wealth and luxury could afford. .
3. To feed; to be entertained. We fared well; we had a good table, and courteous treatment.
4. To proceed in a train of consequences, good or bad.
So fares it when with truth falsehood contends.
5. To happen well or ill; with it impersonally. We shall see how it will fare with him.
FARE, noun
1. 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, called also ferriage; the fare for conveyance in a coach; stage-fare. The price of conveyance over the ocean is now usually called the passage, or passage money. fare is never used for the price of conveying goods; this is called freight or transportation.
2. Food; provisions of the table. We lived on coarse fare or we had delicious fare
3. The person conveyed in a vehicle. [Not in use in United States.]
Farewell
FA'REWELL, a compound of fare, in the imperative, and well. Go well; originally applied to a person departing, but by custom now applied both to those who depart and those who remain. It expresses a kind wish, a wish of happiness to those who leave or those who are left.
The verb and adverb are often separated by the pronoun; fare you well; I wish you a happy departure; may you be well in your absence.
It is sometimes an expression of separation only. farewell the year; farewell ye sweet groves; that is, I take my leave of you.
FA'REWELL, noun
1. A wish of happiness or welfare at parting; the parting compliment; adieu.
2. Leave; act of departure.
And takes her farewell of the glorious sun.
Before I take my farewell of the subject.
Farin
FAR'IN,
FARI'NA, noun [Latin farina, meal.]
1. In botany, the pollen, fine dust or powder, contained in the anthers of plants, and which is supposed to fall on the stigma, and fructify the plant.
2. In chimistry, starch or fecula, one of the proximate principles of vegetables.
Fossil farina, a variety of carbonate of lime, in thin white crusts, light as cotton, and easily reducible to powder.
Farina
FARI'NA, n. [L. farina, meal.] 1. In botany, the pollen, fine dust or powder, contained in the anthers of plants, and which is supposed to fall on the stigma, and fructify the plant.2. In chimistry, starch or fecula, one of the proximate principles of vegetables.Fossil farina, a variety of carbonate of lime, in thin white crusts, light as cotton, and easily reducible to powder.
Farinaceous
FARINA'CEOUS, adjective [from Latin farina, meal.]
1. Consisting or made of meal or flour; as a farinaceous diet, which consists of the meal or flour of the various species of corn or grain.
2. Containing meal; as farinaceous seeds.
3. Like meal; mealy; pertaining to meal; as a farinaceous taste or smell.
Farm
F'ARM, noun
1. A tract of land leased on rent reserved; ground let to a tenant on condition of his paying a certain sum annually or otherwise for the use of it. A farm is usually such a portion of land as is cultivated by one man, and includes the buildings and fences. Rents were formerly pain in provisions, or the produce of land; but now they are generally paid in money.
This is the signification of farm in Great Britain, where most of the land is leased to cultivators.
2. In the United States, a portion or tract of land, consisting usually of grass land, meadow, pasture, tillage and woodland, cultivated by one man and usually owned by him in fee. A like tract of land under lease is called a farm; but most cultivators are proprietors of the land, and called farmers.
A tract of new land, covered with forest, if intended to be cultivated by one man as owner, is also called a farm A man goes into the new States, or into the unsettled country, to buy a farm that is, land for a farm
3. The state of land leased on rent reserved; a lease.
It is great wilfulness in landlords to make any longer farms to their tenants.
F'ARM, verb transitive
1. To lease, as land, on rent reserved; to let to a tenant on condition of paying rent.
We are enforced to farm our royal realm.
[In this sense, I believe, the word is not used in America.]
2. To take at a certain rent or rate. [Not used in America.]
3. To lease or let, as taxes, impost or other duties, at a certain sum or rate per cent. It is customary in many countries for the prince or government to farm the revenues, the taxes or rents, the imposts and excise, to individuals, who are to collect and pay them to the government at a certain percentage or rate per cent.
4. To take or hire for a certain rate per cent.
5. To cultivate land.
To farm let, or let to farm is to lease on rent.
Farm-Office
F'ARM-OFFICE, noun Farm-offices, are the out buildings pertaining to a farm.
Farmable
F'ARMABLE, adjective That may be farmed.
Farmed
F'ARMED, participle passive Leased on rent; let out at a certain rate or price.
Farmer
F'ARMER, noun
1. In Great Britain, a tenant; a lessee; one who hires and cultivates a farm; a cultivator of leased ground.
2. One who takes taxes, customs, excise or other duties, to collect for a certain rate per cent; as a farmer of the revenues.
3. One who cultivates a farm; a husbandman; whether a tenant or the proprietor.
4. In mining, the lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the king.
Farmhouse
F'ARMHOUSE, noun A house attached to a farm, and for the residence of a farmer.
Farming
F'ARMING, participle present tense
1. Letting or leasing land on rent reserved, or duties and imposts at a certain rate per cent.
2. Taking on lease.
3. Cultivating land; carrying on the business of agriculture.
F'ARMING, noun The business of cultivating land.
Farmost
F'ARMOST, adjective [far and most.] Most distant or remote.
Farmyard
F'ARMYARD, noun The yard or inclosure attached to a barn; or the inclosure surrounded by the farm buildings.
Farness
F'ARNESS, noun [from far.] Distance; remoteness.
Farraginous
FARRAG'INOUS, adjective [Latin farrago, a mixture, from far, meal.]
Formed of various materials; mixed; as a farraginous mountain.
Farrago
FARRA'GO, noun [Latin from far, meal.] A mass composed of various materials confusedly mixed; a medley.
Farreation
FARREATION. [See Confarreation.]
Farrier
FAR'RIER, noun [Latin ferrarius, from ferrum, iron.]
1. A shoer of horses; a smith who shoes horses.
2. One who professes to cure the diseases of horses.
FAR'RIER, verb intransitive To practice as a farrier
Farriery
FAR'RIERY, noun The art of preventing, curing or mitigating the diseases of horses.
Farrow
FAR'ROW, noun A litter of pigs.
FAR'ROW, verb transitive To bring forth pigs. [Used of swine only.]
FAR'ROW, adjective
Not producing young in a particular season or year; applied to cows only. If a cow has had a calf, but fails in a subsequent year, she is said to be farrow or to go farrow Such a cow may give milk through the year.
Farther
F'ARTHER, adjective comparative
1. More remote; more distant than something else.
Let me add a farther truth.
2. Longer; tending to a greater distance.
Before our farther way the fates allow.
F'ARTHER, adverb
1. At or to a greater distance; more remotely; beyond. Let us rest with what we have, without looking farther
2. Moreover; by way of progression in a subject. farther let us consider the probable event.
F'ARTHER, verb transitive To promote; to advance; to help forward. [little used.]
Fartherance
F'ARTHERANCE, noun A helping forward; promotion. [Not used.]
Farthermore
F'ARTHERMORE, adverb Besides; moreover. [Little used.]
Farthest
F'ARTHEST, adjective superlative [See Furthest.]
Most distant or remote; as the farthest degree.
F'ARTHEST, adverb At or to the greatest distance. [See Furthest.]
Farthing
F'ARTHING, noun
1. The fourth of a penny; a small copper coin of Great Britain, being the fourth of a penny in value. In America we have no coin of this kind. We however use the word to denote the fourth part of a penny in value, but the penny is of different value from the English penny, and different in different states. It is becoming obsolete, with the old denominations of money.
2. Farthings, in the plural, copper coin.
3. Very small price or value. It is not worth a farthing that is, it is of very little worth, or worth nothing.
4. A division of land. [Not now used.]
Thirty acres make a farthing-land; nine farthings a Cornish acre; and four Cornish acres a knight's fee.
Farthingale
F'ARTHINGALE, noun [This is a compound word, but it is not easy to analyze it.]
A hoop petticoat; or circles of hoops, formed of whalebone, used to extend the petticoat.
Farthingsworth
F'ARTHINGSWORTH, noun As much as is sold for a farthing.
Fasces
FAS'CES, noun plural [Latin fascis.]
In Roman antiquity, an ax tied with a bundle of rods, and borne before the Roman magistrates as a badge of their authority.
Fascia
FAS'CIA, noun fash'ia. [Latin a band or sash.]
1. A band, sash or fillet. In architecture, any flat member with a small projecture, as the band of an architrave. Also, in brick buildings, the jutting of the bricks beyond the windows in the several stories except the highest.
2. In astronomy, the belt of a planet.
3. In surgery, a bandage, roller or ligature.
4. In anatomy, a tendinous expansion or aponeurosis; a thin tendinous covering which surrounds the muscles of the limbs, and binds them in their places.
Fascial
FAS'CIAL, a fash'ial. Belonging to the fasces.
Fasciated
FAS'CIATED, adjective fash'iated. Bound with a fillet, sash or bandage.
Fasciation
FASCIA'TION, noun fashia'tion. The act or manner of binding up diseased parts; bandage.
Fascicle
FAS'CICLE, noun [Latin fasciculus, from fascis, a bundle.]
In botany, a bundle, or little bundle; a species of inflorescence, or manner of flowering, in which several upright, parallel, fastigiate, approximating flowers are collected together.
Fascicled
FAS'CICLED, adjective [from fasciculus, supra.]
Growing in bundles or bunches from the same point, as the leaves of the Larix or larch.
Fascicular
FASCIC'ULAR, adjective [Latin fascicularis.] United in a bundle; as a fascicular root, a root of the tuberous kind, with the knobs collected in bundles, as in Paeonia.
Fascicularly
FASCIC'ULARLY, adverb In the form of bundles.
Fasciculate
FASCIC'ULATE,
FASCIC'ULATED,
FASCIC'ULITE, noun [supra.] A variety of fibrous hornblend, of a fascicular structure.
Fasciculated
FASCIC'ULATED,
Fasciculite
FASCIC'ULITE, n. [supra.] A variety of fibrous hornblend, of a fascicular structure.
Fascinate
FAS'CINATE, verb transitive [Latin fascino; Gr.]
1. To bewitch; to enchant; to operate on by some powerful or irresistible influence; to influence the passions or affections in an incontrollable manner.
None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch, but love and envy.
2. To charm; to captivate; to excite and allure irresistible or powerfully. The young are fascinated by love; female beauty fascinates the unguarded youth; gaming is a fascinating vice.
Fascinated
FAS'CINATED, participle passive Bewitched; enchanted; charmed.
Fascinating
FAS'CINATING, participle present tense Bewitching; enchanting; charming; captivating.
Fascination
FASCINA'TION, noun The act of bewitching or enchanting; enchantment; witchcraft; a powerful or irresistible influence on the affections or passions; unseen inexplicable influence. The ancients speak of two kinds of fascination; one by the look or eye; the other by words.
The Turks hang old rags on their fairest horses, to secure them against fascination
Fascine
FAS'CINE, noun [Latin fascis, a bundle.] In fortification, a fagot, a bundle of rods or small sticks of wood, bound at both ends and in the middle; used in raising batteries, in filling ditches, in strengthening ramparts, and making parapets. Sometimes being dipped in melted pitch or tar, they are used to set fire to the enemy's lodgments or other works.
Fascinous
FAS'CINOUS, adjective Caused or acting by witchcraft. [Not used.]
Fashion
FASH'ION, noun fash'on. [Latin facio, facies.]
1. The make or form of any thing; the state of any thing with regard to its external appearance; shape; as the fashion of the ark, or of the tabernacle.
Or let me lose the fashion of a man.
The fashion of his countenance was altered. .
2. Form; model to be imitated; pattern.
King Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar. .
3. The form of a garment; the cut or shape of clothes; as the fashion of a coat or of a bonnet. Hence,
4. The prevailing mode of dress or ornament. We import fashions from England, as the English often import them from France. What so changeable as fashion!
5. Manner; sort; way; mode; applied to actions or behavior.
Pluck Casca by the sleeve,
And he will, after his sour fashion tell you
What hath proceeded.
6. Custom; prevailing mode or practice. fashion is an inexorable tyrant, and most of the world its willing slaves.
It was the fashion of the age to call every thing in question.
Few enterprises are so hopeless as a contest with fashion
7. Genteel life or good breeding; as men of fashion
8. Any thing worn. [Not used.]
9. Genteel company.
10. Workmanship.
FASH'ION, verb transitive fash'on.
1. To form; to give shape or figure to; to mold.
Here the loud hammer fashions female toys.
Aaron fashioned the calf with a graving tool. .
Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, what makes thou? .
2. To fit; to adapt; to accommodate; with to.
Laws ought to be fashioned to the manners and conditions of the people.
3. To make according to the rule prescribed by custom.
Fashioned plate sells for more than its weight.
4. To forge or counterfeit. [Not used.]
Fashion-Monger
FASH'ION-MONGER, noun One who studies the fashion; a fop.
Fashion-pieces, in ships, the hindmost timbers which terminate the breadth, and form the shape of the stern.
Fashionable
FASH'IONABLE, adjective
1. Made according to the prevailing form or mode; as a fashionable dress.
2. Established by custom or use; current; prevailing at a particular time; as the fashionable philosophy; fashionable opinions.
3. Observant of the fashion or customary mode; dressing or behaving according to the prevailing fashion; as a fashionable man. Hence,
4. Genteel; well bred; as fashionable company or society.
Fashionableness
FASH'IONABLENESS, noun The state of being fashionable; modish elegance; such appearance as is according to the prevailing custom.
Fashionably
FASH'IONABLY, adverb In a manner according to fashion, custom or prevailing practice; with modish elegance; as, to dress fashionably
Fashioned
FASH'IONED, participle passive Made; formed; shaped; fitted; adapted.
Fashioner
FASH'IONER, noun One who forms or gives shape to.
Fashioning
FASH'IONING, participle present tense Forming; giving shape to; fitting; adapting.
Fassaite
FAS'SAITE, noun A mineral, a variety of augite, found in the valley of Fassa, in the Tyrol.
Fast
F'AST, adjective
1. Literally, set, stopped, fixed, or pressed close. Hence, close; tight; as, make fast the door; take fast hold.
2. Firm; immovable.
Who by his strength, setteth fast the mountains. .
3. Close; strong.
Robbers and outlaws - lurking in woods and fast places.
4. Firmly fixed; closely adhering; as, to stick fast in more; to make fast a rope.
5. Close, as sleep; deep; sound; as a fast sleep.
6. Firm in adherence; as a fast friend.
Fast and loose, variable; inconstant; as, to play fast and loose.
F'AST, adverb Firmly; immovably.
We will bind thee fast and deliver thee into their hand. .
F'AST, adjective [Latin festino. The sense is to press, drive, urge, and it may be from the same root as the preceding word, with a different application.]
Swift; moving rapidly; quick in motion; as a fast horse.
F'AST, adverb Swiftly; rapidly; with quick steps or progression; as, to run fast; to move fast through the water, as a ship; the work goes on fast
F'AST, verb intransitive
1. To abstain from food, beyond the usual time; to omit to take the usual meals, for a time; as, to fast a day or a week.
2. To abstain from food voluntarily, for the mortification of the body or appetites, or as a token of grief, sorrow and affliction.
Thou didst fast and weep for the child. .
When ye fast be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance. .
3. To abstain from food partially, or from particular kinds of food; as, the Catholics fast in Lent.
F'AST, noun
1. Abstinence from food; properly a total abstinence, but it is used also for an abstinence from particular kinds of food, for a certain time.
Happy were our forefathers, who broke their fasts with herbs.
2. Voluntary abstinence from food, as a religious mortification or humiliation; either total or partial abstinence from customary food, with a view to mortify the appetites, or to express grief and affliction on account of some calamity, or to deprecate an expected evil.
3. The time of fasting, whether a day, week or longer time. An annual fast is kept in New England, usually one day in the spring.
The fast was now already past. .
F'AST, noun That which fastens or holds.
Fast-Day
F'AST-DAY, noun The day on which fasting is observed.
Fast-Handed
F'AST-HANDED, adjective Closehanded; covetous; closefisted; avaricious.
Fasten
F'ASTEN, verb transitive f'asn.
1. To fix firmly; to make fast or close; as, to fasten a chain to the feet, or to fasten the feet with fetters.
2. To lock, bolt or bar; to secure; as, to fasten a door or window.
3. To hold together; to cement or to link; to unite closely in any manner and by any means, as by cement, hooks, pins, nails, cords, etc.
4. To affix or conjoin.
The words Whig and Tory have been pressed to the service of many successions of parties, with different ideas fastened to them. [Not common.]
5. To fix; to impress.
Thinking, by this face,
To fasten in our thoughts that they have courage.
6. To lay on with strength.
Could he fasten a blow, or make a thrust, when not suffered to approach?
F'ASTEN, verb intransitive To fasten on, is to fix one's self; to seize and hold on; to clinch.
The leech will hardly fasten on a fish.
Fastened
F'ASTENED, participle passive Made firm or fast; fixed firmly; impressed.
Fastener
F'ASTENER, noun One that makes fast or firm.
Fastening
F'ASTENING, participle present tense Making fast.
F'ASTENING, noun Any thing that binds and makes fast; or that which is intended for that purpose.
Faster
F'ASTER, noun One who abstains from food.
Fastidiosity
FASTIDIOS'ITY, noun Fastidiousness. [Not used.]
Fastidious
FASTID'IOUS, adjective [Latin fastidiousus, from fastidio, to disdain from fastus, haughtiness. See Heb.]
1. Disdainful; squeamish; delicate to a fault; over nice; difficult to please; as a fastidious mind or taste.
2. Squeamish; rejecting what is common or not very nice; suited with difficulty; as a fastidious appetite.
Fastidiously
FASTID'IOUSLY, adverb Disdainfully; squeamishly; contemptuously. they look fastidiously and speak disdainfully.
Fastidiousness
FASTID'IOUSNESS, noun Disdainfulness; contemptuousness; squeamishness of mind, taste or appetite.
Fastigiate
FASTIG'IATE,
FASTIG'IATED, adjective [Latin fastigiatus, pointed, from fastigio, to point, fastigium, a top or peak.]
1. In botany, a fastigiate stem is one whose branches are of an equal height. Peduncles are fastigiate when they elevate the fructifications in a bunch, so as to be equally high, or when they form an even surface at the top.
2. Roofed; narrowed to the top.
Fastigiated
FASTIG'IATED, a. [L. fastigiatus, pointed, from fastigio, to point, fastigium, a top or peak.] 1. In botany, a fastigiate stem is one whose branches are of an equal height. Peduncles are fastigiate, when they elevate the fructifications in a bunch, so as to be equally high, or when they form an even surface at the top.2. Roofed; narrowed to the top.
Fasting
F'ASTING, participle present tense Abstaining from food.
F'ASTING, noun The act of abstaining from food.
Fasting-Day
F'ASTING-DAY, noun A day of fasting; a fast-day; a day of religious mortification and humiliation.
Fastness
F'ASTNESS, noun
1. The state of being fast and firm; firm adherence.
2. Strength; security.
The places of fastness are laid open.
3. A strong hold; a fortress or fort; a place fortified; a castle. The enemy retired to their fastnesses.
4. Closeness; conciseness of style. [Not used.]
Fastuous
FAS'TUOUS, adjective [Latin fastuosus, from fastus, haughtiness.]
Proud; haughty; disdainful.
Fat
FAT, adjective
1. Fleshy; plump; corpulent; abounding with an oily concrete substance, as an animal body; the contrary to lean; as a fat man; a fat ox.
2. Coarse; gross.
Nay, added fat pollutions of our own.
3. Dull; heavy; stupid; unteachable.
Make the heart of this people fat .
4. Rich; wealthy; affluent.
These are terrible alarms to persons grown fat and wealthy.
5. Rich; producing a large income; as a fat benefice.
6. Rich; fertile; as a fat soil; or rich; nourishing; as fat pasture.
7. Abounding in spiritual grace and comfort.
They [the righteous] shall be fat and flourishing. .
FAT, noun
1. An oily concrete substance, deposited in the cells of the adipose or cellular membrane of animal bodies. In most parts of the body, the fat lies immediately under the skin. fat is of various degrees of consistence, as in tallow, lard and oil. It has been recently ascertained to consist of two substances, stearine and elaine, the former of which is solid, the latter liquid, at common temperatures, and on the different proportions of which its degree of consistence depends.
2. The best or richest part of a thing.
Abel brought of the fat of his flock. .
FAT, verb transitive To make fat; to fatten; to make plump and fleshy with abundant food; as, to fat fowls or sheep.
FAT, verb intransitive To grow fat plump and fleshy.
An old ox fats as well, and is as good, as a young one.
FAT,
VAT, noun
A large tub, cistern or vessel used for various purposes, as by brewers to run their wort in, by tanners for holding their bark and hides, etc. It is also a wooden vessel containing a quarter or eight bushels of grain, and a pan for containing water in salt-works, a vessel for wine, etc.
The fats shall overflow with wine and oil. .
FAT, noun A measure of capacity, but indefinite.
Fatal
FA'TAL, adjective [Latin fatalis. See Fate.]
1. Proceeding from fate or destiny; necessary; inevitable.
These things are fatal and necessary.
2. Appointed by fate or destiny.
It was fatal to the king to fight for his money.
In the foregoing senses the word is now little used.
3. Causing death or destruction; deadly; mortal; as a fatal wound; a fatal disease.
4. Destructive; calamitous; as a fatal day; a fatal event.
Fatalism
FA'TALISM, noun The doctrine that all things are subject to fate, or that they take place by inevitable necessity.
Fatalist
FA'TALIST, noun One who maintains that all things happen by inevitable necessity.
Fatality
FATAL'ITY, noun
1. A fixed unalterable course of things, independent of God or any controlling cause; an invincible necessity existing in things themselves; a doctrine of the Stoics.
2. Decree of fate.
3. Tendency to danger, or to some great or hazardous event.
4. Mortality.
Fatally
FA'TALLY, adverb
1. By a decree of fate or destiny; by inevitable necessity or determination.
2. Mortally; destructively; in death or ruin. This encounter ended fatally The prince was fatally deceived.
Fatalness
FA'TALNESS, noun Invincible necessity.
Fatbrained
FAT'BRAINED, adjective Dull of apprehension.
Fate
FATE, noun [Latin fatum, from for, fari, to speak, whence fatus.]
1. Primarily, a decree or word pronounced by God; or a fixed sentence by which the order of things is prescribed. Hence, inevitable necessity; destiny depending on a superior cause and uncontrollable. According to the Stoics, every event is determined by fate
Necessity or chancenot me; and what I will is fate
2. Event predetermined; lot; destiny. It is our fate to meet with disappointments.
It is the fate of mortals.
Tell me what fates attend the duke of Suffolk?
3. Final event; death; destruction.
Yet still he chose the longest way to fate
The whizzing arrow sings,
And bears thy fate Antinous, on its wings.
4. Cause of death. Dryden calls an arrow a feathered fate
Divine fate the order or determination of God; providence.
Fated
FA'TED, adjective
1. Decreed by fate; doomed; destined. He was fated to rule over a factious people.
2. Modelled or regulated by fate.
Her awkward love indeed was oddly fated
3. Endued with any quality by fate.
4. Invested with the power of fatal determination.
The fated sky gives us free scope.
The two last senses are hardly legitimate.
Fateful
FA'TEFUL, adjective Bearing fatal power; producing fatal events.
The fateful steel.
Fates
FATES, noun plural In mythology, the destinies or parcae; goddesses supposed to preside over the birth and life of men. They were three in number, Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos.
Father
F'ATHER, noun [Latin pater. The primary sense is obvious.]
1. He who begets a child; in Latin genitor or generator.
The father of a fool hath no joy. .
2. The first ancestor; the progenitor of a race or family. Adam was the father of the human race. Abraham was the father of the Israelites.
3. The appellation of an old man, and a term of respect.
The king of Israel said to Elisha, my father shall I smite them? .
The servants of Naaman call him father Elderly men are called fathers; as the fathers of a town or city. In the church, men venerable for age, learning and piety are called fathers, or reverend fathers.
4. The grandfather or more remote ancestor. Nebuchadnezzar is called the father of Belshazzar, though he was his grandfather. .
5. One who feeds and supports or exercises paternal care over another. God is called the father of the fatherless.
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6. He who creates, invents, makes or composes any thing; the author, former or contriver; a founder, director or instructor. God as creator is the father of all men. . Jabal was the father of such as dwell in tents; and Jubal of musicians. . God is the father of spirits and of lights. Homer is considered as the father of epic poetry. Washington, as a defender and an affectionate and wise counselor, is called the father of his country. And see . . . Satan is called the father of lies; he introduced sin, and instigates men to sin. . Abraham is called the father of believers. He was an early believer, and a pattern of faith and obedience. .
7. Fathers, in the plural, ancestors.
David slept with his fathers. .
8. A father in law. So Heli is called the father of Joseph. .
9. The appellation of the first person in the adorable Trinity.
Go ye, therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the father and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. .
10. The title given to dignitaries of the church, superiors of convents, and to popish confessors.
11. The appellation of the ecclesiastical writers of the first centuries, as Polycarp, Jerome, etc.
12. The title of a senator in ancient Rome; as conscript fathers.
Adoptive father he who adopts the children of another, and acknowledges them as his own.
Natural father the father of illegitimate children.
Putative father one who is only reputed to be the father; the supposed father
Father-In-Law
F'ATHER-IN-LAW, noun The father of one's husband or wife; and a man who marries a woman who has children by a former husband is called the father in law or step-father of those children.
F'ATHER, verb transitive
1. To adopt; to take the child of another as one's own.
2. To adopt any thing as one's own; to profess to be the author.
Men of wit often father'd what he writ.
3. To ascribe or charge to one as his offspring or production; with on.
My name was made use of by several persons, one of whom was pleased to father on me a new set of productions.
Fathered
F'ATHERED, participle passive
1. Adopted; taken as one's own; ascribed to one as the author.
2. Having had a father of particular qualities.
I am no stronger than my sex, being so father'd and so husbanded. [Unusual.]
Fatherhood
F'ATHERHOOD, noun The state of being a father, or the character or authority of a father.
We might have had an entire notion of this fatherhood or fatherly authority.
Fathering
F'ATHERING, participle present tense Adopting; taking or acknowledging as one's own; ascribing to the father or author.
Fatherlasher
F'ATHERLASHER, noun A fish of the genus Cottus or bull-head, called scorpius or scolping. The head is large and its spines formidable. It is found on the rocky coasts of Britain, and near Newfoundland and Greenland. In the latter country it is a great article of food.
Fatherless
F'ATHERLESS, adjective
1. Destitute of a living father; as a fatherless child.
3. Without a known author.
Fatherlessness
F'ATHERLESSNESS, noun The state of being without a father.
Fatherliness
F'ATHERLINESS, noun [See Fatherly.] The qualities of a father; parental kindness, care and tenderness.
Fatherly
F'ATHERLY, adjective [father and like.]
1. Like a father in affection and care; tender; paternal; protecting; careful; as fatherly care or affection.
2. Pertaining to a father.
F'ATHERLY, adverb In the manner of a father.
Thus Adam, fatherly displeased. [Not proper.]
Fathom
FATH'OM, noun
1. A measure of length containing six feet, the space to which a man may extend his arms; used chiefly at sea for measuring cables, cordage, and the depth of the sea is sounding by a line and lead.
2. Reach; penetration; depth of thought or contrivance.
FATH'OM, verb transitive
1. To encompass with the arms extended or encircling.
2. To reach; to master; to comprehend.
Leave to fathom such high points as these.
3. To reach in depth; to sound; to try the depth.
Our depths who fathoms.
4. To penetrate; to find the bottom or extent. I cannot fathom his design.
Fathomed
FATH'OMED, participle passive Encompassed with the arms; reached; comprehended.
Fathomer
FATH'OMER, noun One who fathoms.
Fathoming
FATH'OMING, participle present tense Encompassing with the arms; reaching; comprehending; sounding; penetrating.
Fathomless
FATH'OMLESS, adjective
1. That of which no bottom can be found; bottomless.
2. That cannot be embraced, or encompassed with the arms.
3. Not to be penetrated or comprehended.
Fatidical
FATID'ICAL, adjective [Latin fatidicus; fatum and dico.] Having power to foretell future events; prophetic.
Fatiferous
FATIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin fatifer; futum and fero. Deadly; mortal, destructive.
Fatigable
FAT'IGABLE, adjective [See Fatigue.] That may be wearied; easily tired.
Fatigate
FAT'IGATE, verb transitive [Latin fatigo.] To weary; to tire. [Little used.]
FAT'IGATE, adjective Wearied; tired. [Little used.]
Fatigation
FATIGA'TION noun Weariness
Fatigue
FATIGUE, noun fatee'g. [Latin fatigo. it seems to be allied to fatisco; if so, the sense is a yielding or relaxing.]
1. Weariness with bodily labor or mental exertion; lassitude or exhaustion of strength. We suffer fatigue of the mind as well as of the body.
2. The cause of weariness; labor; toil; as the fatigues of war.
3. The labors of military men, distinct from the use of arms; as a party of men on fatigue
FATIGUE, verb transitive fatee'g. [Latin fatigo.]
1. To tire; to weary with labor or any bodily or mental exertion; to harass with toil; to exhaust the strength by severe or long continued exertion.
2. To weary by importunity; to harass.
Fatigued
FATIGUED, participle passive fatee'ged. Wearied; tired; harassed.
Fatiguing
FATIGUING, participle present tense fatee'ging.
1. Tiring; wearying; harassing.
2. adjective Inducing weariness or lassitude; as fatiguing services or labors.
Fatiscence
FATIS'CENCE, noun [Latin fatisco, to open, to gape. A gaping or opining; a state of being chinky.
Fatkidneyed
FATKID'NEYED, noun [fat and kidney.] Fat; gross; a word used in contempt.
Fatling
FAT'LING, noun [from fat.] A lamb, kid or other young animal fattened for slaughter; a fat animal; applied to quadrupeds whose flesh is used for food.
David sacrificed oxen and fatlings. .
Fatly
FAT'LY, adverb Grossly; greasily.
Fatner
FAT'NER, noun That which fattens; that which gives fatness or richness and fertility.
Fatness
FAT'NESS, noun [from fat.]
1. The quality of being fat, plump, or full fed; corpulency; fullness of flesh.
Their eyes stand out with fatness .
2. Unctuous or greasy matter.
3. Unctuousness; sliminess; applied to earth:hence richness; fertility; fruitfulness.
God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine. .
4. That which gives fertility.
Thy paths drop fatness .
The clouds drop fatness
5. The privileges and pleasures of religion; abundant blessings.
Let your soul delight itself in fatness .
Fatten
FAT'TEN, verb transitive fat'n.
1. To make fat; to feed for slaughter; to make fleshy, or plump with fat.
2. To make fertile and fruitful; to enrich; as, to fatten land; to fatten fields with blood.
3. To feed grossly; to fill.
FAT'TEN, verb intransitive fat'n. to grow fat or corpulent; to grow plump, thick or fleshy; to be pampered.
And villains fatten with the brave man's labor.
Tigers and wolves shall in the ocean breed.
The whale and dolphin fatten on the mead.
Fattened
FAT'TENED, participle passive fat'nd. Made fat, plump or fleshy.
Fattener
FAT'TENER, noun [See Fatner.]
Fattening
FAT'TENING, participle present tense fat'ning. Making fat; growing fat; making or growing rich and fruitful.
Fattiness
FAT'TINESS, noun [from fatty.] The state of being fat; grossness; greasiness.
Fattish
FAT'TISH, adjective Somewhat fat.
Fatty
FAT'TY, adjective Having the qualities of fat; greasy; as a fatty substance.
Fatuity
FATU'ITY, noun [Latin fatuitas.] Weakness or imbecility of mind; feebleness of intellect; foolishness.
Fatuous
FAT'UOUS, adjective [Latin fatuus.]
1. Feeble in mind; weak; silly; stupid; foolish.
2. Impotent; without force or fire; illusory; alluding to the ignis fatuus.
Thence fatuous fires and meteors take their birth.
Fatwitted
FAT'WITTED, adjective [fat and wit.] Heavy; dull; stupid.
Faucet
FAU'CET, noun A pipe to be inserted in a cask for drawing liquor, and stopped with a peg or spigot. These are called tap and faucet
Fauchion
FAUCHION. [See Falchion.]
Faufel
FAU'FEL, noun [said to be Sanscrit.] The fruit of a species of the palm tree.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828); edition by akaitsurugi (github.com/akaitsurugi/webster1828). Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text from the CrossWire Bible Society.