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Fewel
FEW'EL, noun Combustible matter. [See fuel.]
Fewness
FEW'NESS, noun
1. Smallness of number; paucity.
2. Paucity of words; brevity. [Not used.]
Fiance
FI'ANCE, verb transitive To betroth. [See Affiance.]
Fib
FIB, noun [See Fable.] A lie or falsehood; a word used among children and the vulgar, as a softer expression than lie.
FIB, verb intransitive To lie; to speak falsely.
Fibber
FIB'BER, noun One who tells lies or fibs.
Fibbing
FIB'BING, participle present tense Telling fibs; as a noun, the telling of fibs.
Fiber
FI'BER, noun [Latin fibra.]
1. A thread; a fine, slender body which constitutes a part of the frame of animals. Of fibers, some are soft and flexible; others more hard and elastic. Those that are soft are hollow, or spungy and full of little cells, as the nervous and fleshy. Some are so small as scarcely to be visible; others are larger and appear to be composed of still smaller fibers. These fibers constitute the substance of the bones, cartilages, ligaments, membranes, nerves, veins, arteries, and muscles.
2. A filament or slender thread in plants or minerals; the small slender root of a plant.
3. Any fine, slender thread.
Fibril
FI'BRIL, noun A small fiber; the branch of a fiber; a very slender thread.
Fibrin
FI'BRIN, noun [See Fiber.] A peculiar organic compound substance found in animals and vegetables. It is a soft solid, of a greasy appearance, which softens in air, becoming viscid, brown and semitransparent, but is insoluble in water. It is the chief constituent of muscular flesh.
Fibrolite
FIB'ROLITE, noun [from Latin fibra, and Gr.]
A mineral that occurs with corundum, of a white or gray color, composed of minute fibres some of which appear to be rhomboidal prisms.
Fibrous
FI'BROUS, adjective
1. Composed or consisting of fibers; as a fibrous body or substance.
2. Containing fibers. In mineralogy, a fibrous fracture, is that which presents fine threads or slender lines, either straight or curved, parallel, diverging, or stellated, like the rays of a star.
Fibula
FIB'ULA, noun [Latin]
1. The outer and lesser bone of the leg, much smaller than the tibia.
2. A clasp or buckle.
Fickle
FICK'LE, adjective [Latin vacillo; Gr.; Heb. to stagger.]
1. Wavering; inconstant; unstable; of a changeable mind; irresolute; not firm in opinion or purpose; capricious.
They know how fickle common lovers are.
2. Not fixed or firm; liable to change or vicissitude; as a fickle state.
Fickleness
FICK'LENESS, noun
1. A wavering; wavering disposition; inconstancy; instability; unsteadiness in opinion or purpose; as the fickleness of lovers.
2. Instability; changeableness; as the fickleness of fortune.
Fickly
FICK'LY, adverb Without firmness or steadiness.
Fico
FI'CO, noun An act of contempt done with the fingers, expressing a fig for you.
Fictile
FIC'TILE, adjective [Latin fictilis, from fictus, fingo, to feign.]
Molded into form by art; manufactured by the potter.
Fictile earth is more fragile than crude earth.
Fiction
FIC'TION, noun [Latin fictio, from fingo, to feign.]
1. The act of feigning, inventing or imagining; as, by the mere fiction of the mind.
2. That which is feigned, invented or imagined. The story is a fiction
So also was the fiction of those golden apples kept by a dragon, taken from the serpent which tempted Eve.
Fictious
FICTIOUS, for fictitious, not used.
Fictitious
FICTI'TIOUS, adjective [Latin fictifius, from fingo, to feign.]
1. Feigned; imaginary; not real.
The human persons are as fictitious as the airy ones.
2. Counterfeit; false; not genuine; as fictitious fame.
Fictitiously
FICTI'TIOUSLY, adverb By fiction; falsely; counterfeitly.
Fictitiousness
FICTI'TIOUSNESS, noun Feigned representation.
Fictive
FIC'TIVE, adjective Feigned. [Not used.]
Fid
FID, noun
1. A square bar of wood or iron, with a shoulder at one end, used to support the top-mast, when erected at the head of the lower mast.
2. A pin of hard wood or iron, tapering to a point, used to open the strands of a rope in splicing.
Fiddle
FID'DLE, noun [Latin fides, fidicula.] A stringed instrument of music; a violin.
FID'DLE, verb intransitive
1. To play on a fiddle or violin.
Themistocles said he could not fiddle but he could make a small town a great city.
It is said that Nero fiddled, when Rome was in flames.
2. To trifle; to shift the hands often and do nothing, like a fellow that plays on a fiddle
Good cooks cannot abide what they call fiddling work.
FID'DLE, verb transitive To play a tune on a fiddle
Fiddle-Faddle
FID'DLE-FADDLE, noun Trifles. [A low cant word.]
FID'DLE-FADDLE, adjective Trifling; making a bustle about nothing. [Vulgar.]
Fiddle-Stick
FID'DLE-STICK, noun The bow and string with which a fiddler plays on a violin.
Fiddle-String
FID'DLE-STRING, noun The string of a fiddle, fastened at the ends and elevated in the middle by a bridge.
Fiddle-Wood
FID'DLE-WOOD, noun A plant of the genus Citharexylon.
Fiddler
FID'DLER, noun One who plays on a fiddle or violin.
Fiddling
FID'DLING, participle present tense Playing on a fiddle.
FID'DLING, noun The act of playing on a fiddle.
Fidejussor
FI'DEJUSSOR, noun [Latin] A surety; one bound for another.
Fidelity
FIDEL'ITY, noun [Latin fidelitas, from fides, faith, fido, to trust. See Faith.]
1. Faithfulness; careful and exact observance of duty, or performance of obligations. We expect fidelity in a public minister, in an agent or trustee, in a domestic servant, in a friend.
The best security for the fidelity of men, is to make interest coincide with duty.
2. Firm adherence to a person or party with which one is united, or to which one is bound; loyalty; as the fidelity of subjects to their king or government; the fidelity of a tenant or liege to his lord.
3. Observance of the marriage covenant; as the fidelity of a husband or wife.
4. Honesty; veracity; adherence to truth; as the fidelity of a witness.
Fidge
FIDGE,
FIDG'ET, verb intransitive [allied probably to fickle.] To move one way and the other; to move irregularly or in fits and starts. [A low word.]
FIDG'ET, noun Irregular motion; restlessness. [Vulgar.]
Fidget
FIDG'ET, v.i. [allied probably to fickle.] To move one way and the other; to move irregularly or in fits and starts. [A low word.]
FIDG'ET, n. Irregular motion; restlessness. [Vulgar.]
Fidgety
FIDG'ETY, adjective Restless; uneasy. [Vulgar.]
Fiducial
FIDU'CIAL, adjective [from Latin fiducia, from fido, to trust.]
1. Confident; undoubting; firm; as a fiducial reliance on the promises of the gospel.
2. Having the nature of a trust; as fiducial power.
Fiducially
FIDU'CIALLY, adverb With confidence.
Fiduciary
FIDU'CIARY, adjective [Latin fiduciarius, from fido, to trust.]
1. Confident; steady; undoubting; unwavering; firm.
2. Not to be doubted; as fiduciary obedience.
3. Held in trust.
FIDU'CIARY, noun
1. One who holds a thing in trust; a trustee.
2. One who depends on faith for salvation, without works; an antinomian.
Fie
FIE, pronounced fi, an exclamation denoting comtempt or dislike.
Fief
FIEF, noun [See Fee, Feoff and Feud.]
A fee; a feud; an estate held of a superior on condition of military service.
Field
FIELD, noun
1. A piece of land inclosed for tillage or pasture; any part of a farm, except the garden and appurtenances of the mansion; properly land not covered with wood, and more strictly applicable to tillage land than to mowing land, which is often called meadow. But we say, the master of the house is in the field with his laborers, when he is at a distance from his house on his farm. He is in the field plowing, sowing, reaping or making hay.
2. Ground not inclosed.
3. The ground where a battle is fought.
We say, the field of battle; these veterans are excellent soldiers in the field
4. A battle; action in the field
What though the field be lost.
5. To keep the field is to keep the campaign open; to live in tents, or to be in a state of active operations. At the approach of cold weather, the troops, unable to keep the field were ordered into winter quarters.
6. A wide expanse.
Ask of yonder argent fields above.
7. Open space for action or operation; compass; extent. This subject opens a wide field for contemplation.
8. A piece or tract of land.
The field I give thee and the cave that is therein.
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9. The ground or blank space on which figures are drawn; as the field or ground of a picture.
10. In heraldry, the whole surface of the shield, or the continent.
11. In scripture, field often signifies the open country, ground not inclosed, as it may in some countries in modern times.
12. A field of ice, a large body of floating ice.
Field-Basil
FIE'LD-BASIL, noun A plant of several kinds.
Field-Bed
FIE'LD-BED, noun A bed for the field.
Field-Book
FIE'LD-BOOK, noun A book used in surveying, in which are set down the angles, stations, distances, etc.
Field-Colors
FIE'LD-COLORS, noun plural In war, small flags of about a foot and half square, carried along with the quarter-master general, for marking out the ground for the squadrons and battalions.
Field-Duck
FIE'LD-DUCK, noun A species of bustard, nearly as large as a pheasant; found chiefly in France.
Field-Marshal
FIELD-M'ARSHAL, noun The commander of an army; a military officer of high rank in France and Germany, and the highest military officer in England.
Field-Officer
FIE'LD-OFFICER, noun A military officer above the rank of captain, as a major or colonel.
Field-Piece
FIE'LD-PIECE, noun A small cannon which is carried along with armies, and used in the field of battle.
Field-Preacher
FIE'LD-PREACHER, noun One who preaches in the open air.
Field-Preaching
FIE'LD-PREACHING, noun A preaching in the field or open air.
Field-Sports
FIE'LD-SPORTS, noun plural Diversions of the field, as shooting and hunting.
Field-Staff
FIE'LD-STAFF, noun A weapon carried by gunners, about the length of a halbert, with a spear at the end; having on each side ears screwed on, like the cock of a match-lock, where the gunners screw in lighted matches, when they are on command.
Field-Works
FIE'LD-WORKS, noun In the military art, works thrown up by an army in besieging a fortress, or by the besieged to defend the place.
Fielded
FIE'LDED, adjective Being in the field of battle; encamped.
Fieldfare
FIE'LDFARE, noun [field and fare, wandering in the field.]
A bird of the genus Turdus or thrush, about ten inches in length, the head ash-colored, the back and greater coverts of the wings, of a fine deep chestnut, and the tail black. These birds pass the summer in the northern parts of Europe, but visit Great Britain in winter.
Fieldmouse
FIE'LDMOUSE, noun A species of mouse that lives in the field, burrowing in banks, etc.
Fieldroom
FIE'LDROOM, noun Open space. [Not in use.]
Fieldy
FIE'LDY, adjective Open like a field. [Not in use.]
Fiend
FIEND, noun [See Feud, contention.]
An enemy in the worst sense; an implacable or malicious foe; the devil; an infernal being.
O woman! woman! when to ill thy mind is bent, all hell contains no fouler fiend
Fiendful
FIE'NDFUL, adjective Full of evil or malignant practices.
Fiendlike
FIE'NDLIKE, adjective Resembling a field; maliciously wicked; diabolical.
Fierce
FIERCE, noun fers. [Latin ferus, ferox, the primary sense of which is wild, running, rushing.]
1. Vehement; violent; furious; rushing; impetuous; as a fierce wind.
2. Savage; ravenous; easily enraged; as a fierce lion.
3. Vehement in rage; eager of mischief; as a fierce tyrant; a monster fierce for blood.
4. Violent; outrageous; not to be restrained.
Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce .
5. Passionate; angry; furious.
6. Wild; staring; ferocious; as a fierce countenance.
7. Very eager; ardent; vehement; as a man fierce for his party.
Fierce-Minded
FIERCE-MINDED, adjective Vehement; of a furious temper.
Fiercely
FIERCELY, adverb fers'ly.
1. Violently; furiously; with rage; as, both sides fiercely fought.
2. With a wild aspect; as, to look fiercely
Fierceness
FIERCENESS, noun fers'ness.
1. Ferocity; savageness.
The defect of heat which gives fierceness to our natures.
2. Eagerness for blood; fury; as the fierceness of a lion or bear.
3. Quickness to attack; keenness in anger and resentment.
The Greeks are strong, and skilful to their strength,
Fierce to their skill, and to their fierceness valiant.
4. Violence; outrageous passion.
His pride and brutal fierceness I abhor.
5. Vehemence; fury; impetuosity; as the fierceness of a tempest.
FIERI FA'CIAS, noun [Latin] In law, a judicial writ that lies for him who has recovered in debt or damages, commanding the sheriff to levy the same on the goods of him against whom the recovery was had.
Fieriness
FI'ERINESS, noun [See Fiery, Fire.]
1. The quality of being fiery; hear; acrimony; the quality of a substance that excites a sensation of heat.
2. Heat of temper; irritability; as fieriness of temper.
Fiery
FI'ERY, adjective [from fire.]
1. Consisting of fire; as the fiery gulf of Etna.
And fiery billows roll below.
2. Hot like fire; as a fiery heart.
3. Vehement; ardent; very active; impetuous; as a fiery spirit.
4. Passionate; easily provoked; irritable.
You know the fiery quality of the duke.
5. Unrestrained; fierce; as a fiery steed.
6. Heated by fire.
The sword which is made fiery
7. Like fire; bright; glaring; as a fiery appearance.
Fife
FIFE, noun [Latin pipio, to pip or peep, as a chicken. The word may have received its name from a hollow stalk, or from its sound.]
A small pipe, used as a wind instrument, chiefly in martial music with drums.
FIFE, verb transitive To play on a fife
Fifer
FI'FER, noun One who plays on a fife.
Fifteen
FIFTEE'N, adjective Five and ten.
Fifteenth
FIFTEE'NTH, adjective
1. The ordinal of fifteen; the fifth after the tenth.
2. Containing one part in fifteen.
FIFTEE'NTH, noun A fifteenth part.
Fifth
FIFTH, adjective [See Five.]
1. The ordinal of five; the next to the fourth.
2. Elliptically, a fifth part; or the word may be considered as a noun, as to give a fifth or two fifths.
FIFTH, noun In music, an interval consisting of three tones and a semitone.
Fifthly
FIFTH'LY, adverb In the fifth place.
Fiftieth
FIF'TIETH, adjective
The ordinal of fifty; as the fiftieth part of a foot. This may be used elliptically, as a fiftieth of his goods, part being understood; or in this case, the word may be treated in grammars as a noun, admitting a plural, as two fiftieths.
Fifty
FIF'TY, adjective
Five tens; five times ten; as fifty men. It may be used as a noun in the plural.
And they sat down by fifties. .
Fig
FIG, noun [Latin ficus; Heb.]
1. The fruit of the fig tree, which is of a round or oblong shape, and a dark purplish color, with a pulp of a sweet taste. But the varieties are numerous; some being blue, others red, and others of a dark brown color.
2. The fig tree.
FIG, verb transitive
1. To insult with ficoes or contemptuous motions of the fingers. [Little used.]
2. To put something useless into one's head. [Not used.]
FIG'-APPLE, noun A species of apple.
FIG'-GNAT, noun An insect of the fly kind.
FIG'-LEAF, noun The leaf of a fig tree; also, a thin covering in allusion to the first covering of Adam and Eve.
Fig-Marigold
FIG-MAR'IGOLD, noun The Mesembryanthemum, a succulent plant, resembling houseleek; the leaves grow opposite by pairs.
Fig-Pecker
FIG'-PECKER, noun [Latin ficedula.] A bird.
Fig-Tree
FIG'-TREE, noun A tree of the genus Ficus, growing in warm climates. The receptacle is common, turbinated, carnous and connivent, inclosing the florets either in the same or in a distinct one. The male calyx is tripartite; no corol; three stamens. The female calyx is quinquepartite; no corol; one pistil; one seed.
To dwell under our vine and fig tree, is to live in peace and safety. .
FIG'-WORT, noun A plant of the genus Scrophularia.
Figary, for vagary, is not English.
Fight
FIGHT, verb intransitive
1. To strive or contend for victory, in battle or in single combat; to attempt to defeat, subdue or destroy an enemy, either by blows or weapons; to contend in arms.
Come and be our captain, that we may fight with the children of Ammon. .
When two persons or parties contend in person, fight is usually followed by with. But when we speak of carrying on war, in any other form, we may say, to fight against.
Saul took the kingdom over Israel, and fought against all his enemies on every side. .
Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath.
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It is treason for a man to join an enemy to fight against his country.
To fight against, is to act in opposition; to oppose; to strive to conquer or resist.
The stars in their courses fought against Sisera. .
2. To contend; to strive; to struggle to resist or check.
3. To act as a soldier.
FIGHT, verb transitive
1. To carry on contention; to maintain a struggle for victory over enemies.
I have fought a good fight .
2. To contend with in battle; to war against. They fought the enemy in two pitched battles. The captain fought the frigate seven glasses. [Elliptical; with being understood.]
FIGHT, noun
1. A battle; an engagement; a contest in arms; a struggle for victory, either between individuals, or between armies, ships or navies. A duel is called a single fight or combat.
2. Something to screen the combatants in ships.
Up with your fights and your nettings prepare.
Fighter
FIGHTER, noun One that fights; a combatant; a warrior.
Fighting
FIGHTING, participle present tense
1. Contending in battle; striving for victory or conquest.
2. adjective Qualified for war; fit for battle.
A host of fighting men. .
3. Occupied in war; being the scene of war; as a fighting field.
FIGHTING, noun Contention; strife; quarrel.
Without were fightings, within were fears. .
Figment
FIG'MENT, noun [Latin figmentum, from fingo, to feign.]
An invention; a fiction; something feigned or imagined. These assertions are the figments of idle brains.
Figulate
FIG'ULATE, adjective [Latin figulo, to fashion, from fingo, or rather figo, which appears to be the root of fingo.]
Made of potter's clay; molded; shaped. [Little used.]
Figurability
FIGURABIL'ITY, noun The quality of being capable of a certain fixed or stable form.
Figurable
FIG'URABLE, adjective [from figure.] Capable of being brought to a certain fixed form or shape. Thus lead is figurable but water is not.
Figural
FIG'URAL, adjective Represented by figure or delineation; as figural resemblances.
Figural numbers, in geometry, such numbers as do or may represent some geometrical figure, in relation to which they are always considered, and are either lineary, superficial or solid.
Figurate
FIG'URATE, adjective [Latin figuratus.]
1. Of a certain determinate form.
Plants are all figurate and determinate, which inanimate bodies are not.
2. Resembling any thing of a determinate form; as figurate stones, stones or fossils resembling shells.
3. Figurative. [Not used.]
Figurate counterpoint, in music, that wherein there is a mixture of discords with concords.
Figurate descant, that in which discords are concerned, though not so much as concords. It may be called the ornament or rhetorical part of music, containing all the varieties of points, figures, syncopes, and diversities of measure.
Figurated
FIG'URATED, adjective Having a determinate form.
Figuration
FIGURA'TION, noun
1. The act of giving figure or determinate form.
2. Determination to a certain form.
3. Mixture of concords and discords in music.
Figurative
FIG'URATIVE, adjective
1. Representing something else; representing by resemblance; typical.
This they will say, was figurative and served by God's appointment but for a time, to shadow out the true glory of a more divine sanctity.
2. Representing by resemblance; not literal or direct. A figurative expression, is one in which the words are used in a sense different from that in which they are ordinarily used as,
Slander, whose edge is sharper than the sword.
3. Abounding with figures of speech; as a description highly figurative
Figuratively
FIG'URATIVELY, adverb By a figure; in a manner to exhibit ideas by resemblance; in a sense different from that which words originally imply. Words are used figuratively when they express something different from their usual meaning.
Figure
FIG'URE, noun fig'ur. [Latin figura, from figo, to fix or set. See Feign.]
1. The form of any thing as expressed by the outline or terminating extremities. Flowers have exquisite figures. A triangle is a figure of three sides. A square is a figure of four equal sides and equal angles.
2. Shape; form; person; as a lady of elegant figure
A good figure or person, in man or woman, gives credit at first sight to the choice of either.
3. Distinguished appearance; eminence; distinction; remarkable character. Ames made a figure in Congress; Hamilton, in the cabinet.
4. Appearance of any kind; as an ill figure; a mean figure
5. Magnificence; splendor; as, to live in figure and indulgence.
6. A statue; an image; that which is formed in resemblance of something else; as the figure of a man in plaster.
7. Representation in painting; the lines and colors which represent an animal, particularly a person; as the principal figures of a picture; a subordinate figure
8. In manufactures, a design or representation wrought on damask, velvet and other stuffs.
9. In logic, the order or disposition of the middle term in a syllogism with the parts of the question.
10. In arithmetic, a character denoting a number; as 2. 7. 9.
11. In astrology, the horoscope; the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses.
12. In theology, type; representative.
Who was the figure of him that was to come. .
13. In rhetoric, a mode of speaking or writing in which words are deflected from their ordinary signification, or a mode more beautiful and emphatical than the ordinary way of expressing the sense; the language of the imagination and passions; as, knowledge is the light of the mind; the soul mounts on the wings of faith; youth is the morning of life. In strictness, the change of a word is a trope, and any affection of a sentence a figure; but these terms are often confounded.
14. In grammar, any deviation from the rules of analogy or syntax.
15. In dancing, the several steps which the dancer makes in order and cadence, considered as they form certain figures on the floor.
FIG'URE, verb transitive fig'ur.
1. To form or mold into any determinate shape.
Accept this goblet, rough with figured gold.
2. To show by a corporeal resemblance, as in picture or statuary.
3. To cover or adorn with figures or images; to mark with figures; to form figures in by art; as, to figure velvet or muslin.
4. To diversify; to variegate with adventitious forms of matter.
5. To represent by a typical or figurative resemblance.
The matter of the sacraments figureth their end.
6. To imagine; to image in the mind.
7. To prefigure; to foreshow.
8. To form figuratively; to use in a sense not literal; as figured expressions. [Little used.]
9. To note by characters.
As though a crystal glass the figured hours are seen.
10. In music, to pass several notes for one; to form runnings or variations.
FIG'URE, verb intransitive To make a figure; to be distinguished. The envoy figured at the court of St. Cloud.
Figure-Caster
FIG'URE-CASTER,
FIG'URE-FLINGER, noun A pretender to astrology.
Figure-Stone
FIG'URE-STONE, noun A name of the agalmatolite, or bildstein.
Figured
FIG'URED, participle passive
1. Represented by resemblance; adorned with figures; formed into a determinate figure.
2. In music, free and florid.
Figuring
FIG'URING, participle present tense Forming into determinate shape; representing by types or resemblances; adorning with figures; making a distinguished appearance.
Filaceous
FILA'CEOUS, adjective [Latin filum, a thread.] Composed or consisting of threads.
Filacer
FIL'ACER, noun
An officer in the English Court of Common Pleas, so called from filing the writs on which he makes process. There are fourteen of them in their several divisions and counties. They make out all original processes, real, personal and mixed.
Filament
FIL'AMENT, noun [Latin filamenta, threads, from filum.]
A thread; a fiber. In anatomy and natural history, a fine thread of which flesh, nerves, skin, plants, roots, etc., and also some minerals, are composed. So the spider's web is composed of filaments. The threadlike part of the stamens of plants, is called the filament
Filamentous
FILAMENT'OUS, adjective Like a thread; consisting of fine filaments.
Filanders
FIL'ANDERS, noun
A disease in hawks, consisting of filaments of coagulated blood; also, small worms wrapped in a thin skin or net, near the reins of a hawk.
Filatory
FIL'ATORY, noun [from Latin filum, a thread.] A machine which forms or spins threads.
This manufactory has three filatories, each of 640 reels, which are moved by a water wheel, and besides a small filatory turned by men.
Filbert
FIL'BERT, noun [Latin avellana, with which the first syllable corresponds; fil, vel.]
The fruit of the Corylus or hazel; an egg shaped nut, containing a kernel, that has a mild, farinaceous, oily taste, which is agreeable to the palate. The oil is said to be little inferior to the oil of almonds.
Filch
FILCH, verb transitive [This word, like pilfer, is probably from the root of file, or peel, to strip or rub off. But I know not from what source we have received it.]
To steal something of little value; to pilfer; to steal; to pillage; to take wrongfully from another.
Fain would they filch that little food away.
But he that filches from me my good name,
Robs me of that which not enriches him,
And makes me poor indeed.
Filched
FILCH'ED, participle passive Stolen; taken wrongfully from another; pillaged; pilfered.
Filcher
FILCH'ER, noun A thief; one who is guilty of petty theft.
Filching
FILCH'ING, participle present tense Stealing; taking from another wrongfully; pilfering.
Filchingly
FILCH'INGLY, adverb By pilfering; in a thievish manner.
File
FILE, noun [Latin filum. The primary sense is probably to draw out or extend, or to twist.]
1. A thread, string of line; particularly, a line or wire on which papers are strung in due order for preservation, and for conveniently finding them when wanted. Documents are kept on file
2. The whole number of papers strung on a line or wire; as a file of writs. A file is a record of court.
3. A bundle of papers tied together, with the title of each indorsed; the mode of arranging and keeping papers being changed, without a change of names.
4. A roll, list or catalogue.
5. A row of soldiers ranged one behind another, from front to rear; the number of men constituting the depth of the battalion or squadron.
FILE, verb transitive
1. To string; to fasten, as papers, on a line or wire for preservation. Declarations and affidavits must be filed. An original writ may be filed after judgment.
2. To arrange or insert in a bundle, as papers, indorsing the title on each paper. This is now the more common mode of filing papers in public and private offices.
3. To present or exhibit officially, or for trial; as, to file a bill in chancery.
FILE, verb intransitive To march in a file or line, as soldiers, not abreast, but one after another.
FILE, noun
An instrument used in smoothing and polishing metals, formed of iron or steel, and cut in little furrows.
FILE, verb transitive
1. To rub and smooth with a file; to polish.
2. To cut as with a file; to wear off or away by friction; as, to file off a tooth.
3. [from defile.] To foul or defile. [Not used.]
File-Cutter
FI'LE-CUTTER, noun A maker of files.
File-Leader
FILE-LE'ADER, noun The soldier placed in the front of a file.
Filed
FI'LED, participle passive Placed on a line or wire; placed in a bundle and indorsed; smoothed or polished with a file.
Filemot
FI'LEMOT, noun A yellowish brown color; the color of a faded leaf.
Filer
FI'LER, noun One who uses a file in smoothing and polishing.
Filial
FIL'IAL, adjective [Latin filius, a son, flia, a daughter.]
1. Pertaining to a son or daughter; becoming a child in relation to his parents. filial love is such an affection as a child naturally bears to his parents. filial duty or obedience is such duty or obedience as the child owes to his parents.
2. Bearing the relation of a son.
Springs of like leaf erect their filial heads.
Filiation
FILIA'TION, noun [Latin filius, a son.]
1. The relation of a son or child to a father; correlative to paternity.
2. Adoption.
Filiform
FIL'IFORM, noun [Latin filum, a thread, and form.]
Having the form of a thread or filament; of equal thickness from top to bottom; as a filiform style or peduncle.
Filigrane
FIL'IGRANE, noun sometimes written filigree. [Latin filum, a thread, and granum, a grain.]
A kind of enrichment on gold and silver, wrought delicately in the manner of little threads or grains, or of both intermixed.
Filigraned
FIL'IGRANED, or FIL'IGREED, adjective Ornamented with filigrane.
Filigreed
FIL'IGRANED, or FIL'IGREED, adjective Ornamented with filigrane.
Filing
FI'LING, participle present tense Placing on a string or wire, or in a bundle of papers; presenting for trial; marching in a file; smoothing with a file.
Filings
FI'LINGS, noun plural Fragments or particles rubbed off by the act of filing; as filings of iron.
Fill
FILL, verb transitive [Gr. allied perhaps to fold and felt; to stuff; Latin pilus, pileus. We are told that the Gr. to approach, signified originally to thrust or drive, Latin pello, and contracted, it is rendered to fill and is full.]
1. Properly, to press; to crowd; to stuff. Hence, to put or pour in, till the thing will hold no more; as, to fill a basket, a bottle, a vessel.
FILL the water pots with water:and they filled them to the brim. .
2. To store; to supply with abundance.
Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas. .
3. To cause to abound; to make universally prevalent.
The earth was filled with violence. .
4. To satisfy; to content.
Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude? .
5. To glut; to surfeit.
Things that are sweet and fat are more filing.
6. To make plump; as, in a good season the grain is well filled. In the summer of 1816, the driest and coldest which the oldest man remembered, the rye was so well filled, that the grain protruded beyond the husk, and a shock yielded a peck more than in common years.
7. To press and dilate on all sides or to the extremities; as, the sails were filled.
8. To supply with liquor; to pour into; as, to fill a glass for a guest.
9. To supply with an incumbent; as, to fill an office or vacancy.
10. To hold; to possess and perform the duties of; to officiate in, as an incumbent; as, a king fills a throne; the president fills the office of chief magistrate; the speaker of the house fills the chair.
11. In seamanship, to brace the sails so that the wind will bear upon them and dilate them.
To fill out, to extend or enlarge to the desired limit.
1. To fill up, to make full.
It pours the bliss that fills up all the mind.
But in this and many other cases, the use of up weakens the force of the phrase.
2. To occupy; to fill Seek to fill up life with useful employments.
3. To fill; to occupy the whole extent; as, to fill up a given space.
4. To engage or employ; as, to fill up time.
5. To complete; as, to fill up the measure of sin. .
6. To complete; to accomplish.
And fill up what is behind of the afflictions of Christ.
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FILL, verb intransitive
1. To fill a cup or glass for drinking; to give to drink.
In the cup which she hath filled, fill to her double.
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2. To grow or become full. corn fills well in a warm season. A mill pond fills during the night.
3. To glut; to satiate.
To fill up, to grow or become full. The channel of the river fills up with sand, every spring.
FILL, noun Fullness; as much as supplies want; as much as gives complete satisfaction. Eat and drink to the fill take your fill of joy.
The land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill and dwell therein in safety. .
Fillagree
FILLAGREE. [See Filigrane.]
Filled
FILL'ED, participle passive Made full; supplied with abundance.
Filler
FILL'ER, noun
1. One who fills; one whose employment is to fill vessels.
They have six diggers to four fillers, so as to keep the fillers always at work.
2. That which fills any space.
3. One that supplies abundantly.
Fillet
FIL'LET, noun [Latin filum.]
1. A little band to tie about the hair of the head.
A belt her waist, a fillet binds her hair.
2. The fleshy part of the thigh; applied to veal; as a fillet of veal.
3. Meat rolled together and tied round.
4. In architecture, a little square member or ornament used in divers places, but generally as a corona over a greater molding; called also listel.
5. In heraldry, a kind of orle or bordure, containing only the third or fourth part of the breadth of the common bordure. it runs quite round near the edge, as a lace over a cloke.
6. Among painters and gilders, a little rule or reglet of leaf-gold, drawn over certain moldings, or on the edges of frames, pannels, etc., especially when painted white, by way of enrichment.
7. In the manege, the loins of a horse, beginning at the place where the hinder part of the saddle rests.
FIL'LET, verb transitive
1. to bind with a fillet or little band.
2. To adorn with an astragal. .
Fillibeg
FIL'LIBEG, noun A little plaid; a dress reaching only to the knees, worn in the highlands of Scotland.
Filling
FILL'ING, participle present tense Making full; supplying abundantly; growing full.
FILL'ING, noun
1. A making full; supply.
2. The woof in weaving.
Fillip
FIL'LIP, verb transitive [probably from the root of Latin pello, like pelt. See Filly.]
To strike with the nail of the finger, first placed against the ball of the thumb, and forced from that position with some violence.
FIL'LIP, noun a jerk of the finger forced suddenly from the thumb.
Filly
FIL'LY, noun [Latin filia, Eng. foal, a shoot, issue.]
1. A female or mare colt; a young mare.
2. A young horse. [Not used.]
3. A wanton girl.
Film
FILM, noun [Latin velamen, or from Latin pellis.]
A thin skin; a pellicle, as on the eye. In plants, it denotes the thin skin which separates the seeds in pods.
FILM, verb transitive To cover with a thin skin or pellicle.
Filmy
FILM'Y, adjective Composed of thin membranes or pellicles.
Whose filmy cord should bind the struggling fly.
Filter
FIL'TER, noun
A strainer; a piece of woolen cloth, paper or other substance, through which liquors are passed for defecation. A filter may be made in the form of a hollow inverted cone, or by a twist of thread or yarn, being wetted and one end put in the liquor and the other suffered to hand out below the surface of the liquor. Porous stone is often used as a filter
FIL'TER, verb transitive To purify or defecate liquor, by passing it through a filter or causing it to pass through a porous substance that retains any feculent matter.
FIL'TER, verb intransitive To percolate; to pass through a filter
FIL'TER, noun [See Philter.]
Filtered
FIL'TERED, participle passive Strained; defecated by a filter.
Filtering
FIL'TERING, participle present tense Straining; defecating.
Filth
FILTH, noun [See Foul and Defile.]
1. Dirt; any foul matter; any thing that soils or defiles; waste matter; nastiness.
2. Corruption; pollution; any thing that sullies or defiles the moral character.
To purify the soul from the dross and filth of sensual delights.
Filthily
FILTH'ILY, adverb In a filthy manner; foully; grossly.
Filthiness
FILTH'INESS, noun
1. The state of being filthy.
2. Foulness; dirtiness; filth; nastiness.
Carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place. .
3. Corruption; pollution; defilement by sin; impurity.
Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. .
Filthy
FILTH'Y, adjective
1. Dirty; foul; unclean; nasty.
2. Polluted; defiled by sinful practices; morally impure.
He that is filthy let him be filthy still. .
3. Obtained by base and dishonest means; as filthy lucre. .
Filtrate
FIL'TRATE, verb transitive [See Filter.]
To filter; to defecate, as liquor, by straining or percolation.
Filtration
FILTRA'TION, noun The act or process of filtering; defecation by passing liquors through woolen cloth, brown paper, or other porous substance, as certain kinds of stone, which permit the liquor to pass, but retain the foreign matter.
Fimble-Hemp
FIMBLE-HEMP, noun [Female-hemp.] Light summer hemp that bears no seed.
Fimbriate
FIM'BRIATE, adjective [Latin fimbria, a border or fringe.]
In botany, fringed; having the edge surrounded by hairs or bristles.
FIM'BRIATE, verb transitive To hem; to fringe.
Fimbriated
FIM'BRIATED, adjective In heraldry, ornamented, as an ordinary, with a narrow border or hem of another tincture.
Fin
FIN, noun [Latin pinna or penna. The sense is probably a shoot, or it is from diminishing. See Fine.]
The fin of a fish consists of a membrane supported by rays, or little bony or cartilaginous ossicles. The fins of fish serve to keep their bodies upright, and to prevent wavering or vacillation. The fins, except the caudal, do not assist in progressive motion; the tail being the instrument of swimming.
FIN, verb transitive To carve or cut up a chub.
Finable
FI'NABLE, adjective [See Fine.]
1. That admits a fine.
2. Subject to a fine or penalty; as a finable person or offense.
Final
FI'NAL, adjective [Latin finalis. See fine.]
1. Pertaining to the end or conclusion; last ultimate; as the final issue or event of things; final hope; final salvation.
2. Conclusive; decisive; ultimate; as a final judgment. The battle of Waterloo was final to the power of Buonaparte; it brought the contest to a final issue.
3. Respecting the end or object to be gained; respecting the purpose or ultimate end in view. The efficient cause is that which produces the event or effect; the final cause is that for which any thing is done.
Finally
FI'NALLY, adverb
1. At the end or conclusion; ultimately; lastly. The cause is expensive, but we shall finally recover. The contest was long, but the Romans finally conquered.
2. Completely; beyond recovery.
The enemy was finally exterminated.
Finance
FINANCE, noun finans'. [See Fine.]
Revenue; income of a king or state.
The United States, near the close of the revolution, appointed a superintendent of finance
[It is more generally used in the plural.]
Finances
FINAN'CES, noun plural
1. Revenue; funds in the public treasury, or accruing to it; public resources of money. The finances of the king or government were in a low condition. The finances were exhausted.
2. The income or resources of individuals.
[But the word is most properly applicable to public revenue.]
Financial
FINAN'CIAL, adjective Pertaining to public revenue; as financial concerns or operations.
Financially
FINAN'CIALLY, adverb In relation to finances or public revenue; in a manner to produce revenue.
We should be careful not to consider as financially effective exports, all the goods and produce which have been sent abroad.
Financier
FINANCIE'R, noun
1. An officer who receives and manages the public revenues; a treasurer.
2. One who is skilled in the principles or system of public revenue; one who understands the mode of raising money by imposts, excise or taxes, and the economical management and application of public money.
3. One who is entrusted with the collection and management of the revenues of a corporation.
4. One skilled in banking operations.
Finary
FI'NARY, noun [from fine, refine.] In iron works, the second forge at the iron mill. [See Finery.]
Finch
FINCH, noun
A bird. But finch is used chiefly in composition; as chaffinch, goldfinch. These belong to the genus Fringilla.
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.