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FIND, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive found. [Latin venio; but in sense, with invenio. The primary sense is to come to, to rush, to fall on, to meet, to set on.]
1. Literally, to come to; to meet; hence, to discover by the eye; to gain first sight or knowledge of something lost; to recover either by searching for it or by accident.
Doth she not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it? and when she hath found it -
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2. To meet; to discover something not before seen or known.
He saith to him, we have found the Messiah. .
3. To obtain by seeking.
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find
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4. To meet with.
In woods and forests thou art found.
5. To discover or know by experience.
The torrid zone is now found habitable.
6. To reach; to attain to; to arrive at.
Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth to life, and few there be that find it. .
7. To discover by study, experiment or trial. Air and water are found to be compound substances. Alchimists long attempted to find the philosopher's stone, but it is not yet found.
8. To gain; to have; as, to find leisure for a visit.
9. To perceive; to observe; to learn. I found his opinions to accord with my own.
10. To catch; to detect.
When first found in a lie, talk to him of it as a strange monstrous matter.
In this sense find is usually followed by out.
11. To meet.
In ills their business and their glory find
12. To have; to experience; to enjoy.
Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure. .
13. To select; to choose; to designate.
I have found David my servant. .
14. To discover and declare the truth of disputed facts; to come to a conclusion and decide between parties, as a jury. The jury find a verdict for the plaintiff or defendant. They find the accused to be guilty.
15. To determine and declare by verdict. The jury have found a large sum in damages for the plaintiff.
16. To establish or pronounce charges alleged to be true. The grand jury have found a bill against the accused, or they find a true bill.
17. To supply; to furnish. Who will find the money or provisions for this expedition? We will find ourselves with provisions and clothing.
18. To discover or gain knowledge of by touching or by sounding. We first sounded and found bottom at the depth of ninety five fathoms on the Sole bank.
To find one's self, to be; to fare in regard to ease or pain, health or sickness. Pray, sir, how do you find yourself this morning.
To find in, to supply; to furnish; to provide.
He finds his nephew in money, victuals and clothes.
1. To find out. To invent; to discover something before unknown.
A man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold - and to find out every device. 2Chon. 2.
2. To unriddle; to solve; as, to find out the meaning of a parable of an enigma.
3. To discover; to obtain knowledge of what is hidden; as, to find out a secret.
4. To understand; to comprehend.
Canst thou by searching find out God? .
5. To detect; to discover; to bring to light; as, to find out a thief or a theft; to find out a trick.
To find fault with, to blame; to censure.
Finder
FINDER, noun One who meets or falls on any thing; one that discovers what is lost or is unknown; one who discovers by searching, or by accident.
Findfault
FINDFAULT, noun A censurer; a caviller.
Findfaulting
FINDFAULT'ING, adjective Apt to censure; captious.
Finding
FINDING, participle present tense Discovering.
FINDING, noun
1. Discovery; the act of discovering.
2. In law, the return of a jury to a bill; a verdict.
Findy
FIN'DY, adjective Full; heavy; or firm, solid, substantial. obsolete
A cold May and a windy,
Makes the barn fat and findy
Fine
FINE, adjective
1. Small; thin; slender; minute; of very small diameter; as a fine thread; fine silk; a fine hair. We say also, fine sand, fine particles.
2. Subtil; thin; tenuous; as, fine spirits evaporate; a finer medium opposed to a grosser.
3. Thin; keep; smoothly sharp; as the fine edge of a razor.
4. Made of fine threads; not coarse; as fine linen or cambric.
5. Clear; pure; free from feculence or foreign matter; as fine gold or silver; wine is not good till fine
6. Refined.
Those things were too fine to be fortunate, and succeed in all parts.
7. Nice; delicate; perceiving or discerning minute beauties or deformities; as a fine taste; a fine sense.
8. Subtil; artful; dextrous. [See Finess.]
9. Subtil; sly; fraudulent.
10. Elegant; beautiful in thought.
To call the trumpet by the name of the metal was fine
11. Very handsome; beautiful with dignity.
The lady has a fine person, or a fine face.
12. Accomplished; elegant in manners. He was one of the finest gentlemen of his age.
13. Accomplished in learning; excellent; as a fine scholar.
14. Excellent; superior; brilliant or acute; as a man of fine genius.
15. Amiable; noble; ingenuous; excellent; as a man of a fine mind.
16. Showy; splendid; elegant; as a range of fine buildings; a fine house or garden; a fine view.
17. Ironically, worthy of contemptuous notice; eminent for bad qualities.
That same knave, Ford, her husband, has the finest mad devil of jealousy in him, Master Brook, that ever governed frenzy.
FINE Arts or polite arts, are the arts which depend chiefly on the labors of the mind or imagination, and whose object is pleasure; as poetry, music, painting and sculpture.
The uses of this word are so numerous and indefinite, as to preclude a particular definition of each. In general, fine in popular language, expresses whatever is excellent, showy or magnificent.
FINE, noun [This word is the basis of finance, but I have not found it, in its simple form, in any modern language, except the English. The word seems to be the Latin finis, and the application of it to pecuniary compensation seems to have proceeded from its feudal use, in the transfer of lands, in which a final agreement or concord was made between the lord and his vassal.]
1. In a feudal sense, a final agreement between persons concerning lands or rents, or between the lord and his vassal, prescribing the conditions on which the latter should hold his lands.
2. A sum of money paid to the lord by his tenant, for permission to alienate or transfer his lands to another. This in England was exacted only from the king's tenants in capite.
3. A sum of money paid to the king or state by way of penalty for an offense; a mulet; a pecuniary punishment. Fines are usually prescribed by statute, for the several violations of law; or the limit is prescribed, beyond which the judge cannot impose a fine for a particular offense.
In fine [Latin in and finis.] In the end or conclusion; to conclude; to sum up all.
FINE, verb transitive [See fine the adjective.]
1. To clarify; to refine; to purify; to defecate; to free from feculence or foreign matter; as, to fine wine.
[This is the most general use of this word.]
2. To purify, as a metal; as, to fine gold or silver. In this sense, we now generally use refine; but fine is proper.
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3. To make less coarse; as, to fine grass. [Not used.]
4. To decorate; to adorn. [Not in use.]
FINE, verb transitive [See fine the noun.]
1. To impose on one a pecuniary penalty, payable to the government, for a crime or breach of law; to set a fine on by judgment of a court; to punish by fine The trespassers were fined ten dollars and imprisoned a month.
2. verb intransitive To pay a fine [Not used.]
Fined
FI'NED, participle passive
1. Refined; purified; defecated.
2. Subjected to a pecuniary penalty.
Fineddrawing
FI'NEDDRAWING, noun Rentering; a dextrous or nice sewing up the rents of cloths or stuffs.
Finedraw
FI'NEDRAW, verb transitive [find and draw.] To sew up a rent with so much nicety that it is not perceived.
Finedrawer
FI'NEDRAWER, noun One who finedraws.
Finefingered
FI'NEFINGERED, adjective Nice in workmanship; dextrous at fine work.
Fineless
FI'NELESS, adjective Endless; boundless. [Not used.]
Finely
FI'NELY, adverb
1. In minute parts; as a substance finely pulverized.
2. To a thin or sharp edge; as an instrument finely sharpened.
3. Gaily; handsomely; beautifully; with elegance and taste. she was finely attired.
4. With elegance or beauty.
Plutarch says very finely that a man should not allow himself to hate even his enemies; for it you indulge this passion on some occasions, it will rise of itself in others.
5. With advantage; very favorably; as a house or garden finely situated.
6. Nicely; delicately; as a stuff finely wrought.
7. Purely; completely.
8. By way of irony, wretchedly; in a manner deserving of contemptuous notice. He is finely caught in his own snare.
Fineness
FI'NENESS, noun
1. Thinness; smallness; slenderness; as the finances of a thread or silk. Hence.
2. Consisting of fine threads; as fine linen.
3. Smallness; minuteness; as the fineness of sand or particles; the fineness of soil or mold.
4. Clearness; purity; freedom from foreign matter; as the fineness of wine or other liquor; the fineness of gold.
5. Niceness; delicacy; as the fineness of taste.
6. Keenness; sharpness; thinness; as the finances of an edge.
7. Elegance; beauty; as fineness of person.
8. Capacity for delicate or refined conceptions; as the fineness of genius.
9. Show; splendor; gayety of appearance; elegance; as the fineness of clothes or dress.
10. Clearness; as the fineness of complexion.
11. Subtility; artfulness; ingenuity; as the fineness of wit.
12. Smoothness.
Finer
FI'NER, noun
1. One who refines or purifies. .
2. adjective Comparative of fine.
Finery
FI'NERY, noun
1. Show; splendor; gaiety of colors or appearance; as the finery of a dress.
2. Showy articles of dress; gay clothes, jewels, trinkets, etc.
3. In iron-works, the second forge at the iron-mills. [See Finary.]
Finespun
FI'NESPUN, adjective Drawn to a fine thread; minute; subtle.
Finess
FINESS',
FINESSE, noun Artifice; stratagem; subtilty of contrivance to gain a point.
FINESS', verb intransitive To use artifice or stratagem.
Finesse
FINESSE, n. Artifice; stratagem; subtilty of contrivance to gain a point.
Finessing
FINESS'ING, participle present tense Practicing artifice to accomplish a purpose.
Finestill
FI'NESTILL, verb transitive To distill spirit from molasses, treacle or some preparation of saccharine matter.
Finestiller
FI'NESTILLER, noun One who distills spirit from treacle or molasses.
Finestilling
FI'NESTILLING, noun The operation of distilling spirit from molasses or treacle.
Finfish
FIN'FISH, noun A species of slender whale.
Finfooted
FIN'FOOTED, adjective Having palmated feet, or feet with toes connected by a membrane.
Finger
FIN'GER, noun fing'ger.
1. One of the extreme parts of the hand, a small member shooting to a point. The fingers have joints which peculiarly fit them to be the instruments of catching, seizing and holding. When we speak of the fingers generally, we include the thumb; as the five fingers. But we often make a distinction. The fingers and thumb consist of fifteen bones; three to each. The word is applied to some other animals as well as to man.
2. A certain measure. We say a finger's breadth, or the breadth of the four fingers, or of three fingers.
3. The hand.
Who teacheth my fingers to fight. .
4. The finger or fingers of God, in scripture, signify his power, strength or operation.
The magicians said to Pharaoh, this is the finger of God.
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5. In music, ability; skill in playing on a keyed instrument. She has a good finger
FIN'GER, verb transitive
1. To handle with the fingers; to touch lightly; to toy. The covetous man delights to finger money.
2. To touch or take thievishly; to pilfer.
3. To touch an instrument of music; to play on an instrument.
4. To perform work with the fingers; to execute delicate work.
5. To handle without violence.
FIN'GER, verb intransitive To dispose the fingers aptly in playing on an instrument.
Finger-Board
FIN'GER-BOARD, noun The board at the neck of a violin, guitar or the like, where the fingers act on the strings.
Finger-Fern
FIN'GER-FERN, noun A plant, asplenium.
Finger-Shell
FIN'GER-SHELL, noun A marine shell resembling a finger.
Finger-Stone
FIN'GER-STONE, noun A fossil resembling an arrow.
Fingered
FIN'GERED, participle passive
1. Played on; handled; touched.
2. adjective Having fingers. In botany, digitate; having leaflets like fingers.
Fingering
FIN'GERING, participle present tense Handling; touching lightly.
FIN'GERING, noun
1. The act of touching lightly or handling.
2. The manner of touching an instrument of music.
3. Delicate work made with the fingers.
Fingle-Fangle
FIN'GLE-FANGLE, noun A trifle. [Vulgar.]
Fingrigo
FIN'GRIGO, noun A plant, of the genus Pisonia. The fruit is a kind of berry or plum.
Finical
FIN'ICAL, adjective [from fine.]
1. Nice; spruce; foppish; pretending to a great nicety or superfluous elegance; as a finical fellow.
2. Affectedly nice or showy; as a finical dress.
Finically
FIN'ICALLY, adverb With great nicety or spruceness; foppishly.
Finicalness
FIN'ICALNESS, noun Extreme nicety in dress or manners; foppishness.
Fining
FI'NING, participle present tense [See Fine, the verb.]
1. Clarifying; refining; purifying; defecating; separating from extraneous matter.
2. [See Fine, the noun.] Imposing a fine or pecuniary penalty.
Fining-Pot
FIN'ING-POT, noun A vessel in which metals are refined.
Finis
FI'NIS, noun [Latin] An end; conclusion.
Finish
FIN'ISH, verb transitive [Latin finio, from finis, an end.]
1. To arrive at the end of, in performance; to complete; as, to finish a house; to finish a journey.
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished. .
2. To make perfect.
Episodes, taken separately, finish nothing.
3. To bring to an end; to end; to put an end to.
Seventy weeks are determined on thy people, and on thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and make an end of sins.
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4. To perfect; to accomplish; to polish to the degree of excellence intended. In this sense it is frequently used in the participle of the perfect tense as an adjective. It is a finished performance. He is a finished scholar.
Finished
FIN'ISHED, participle passive
1. Completed; ended; done; perfected.
2. adjective Complete; perfect; polished to the highest degree of excellence; as a finished poem; a finished education.
Finisher
FIN'ISHER, noun
1. One who finishes; one who completely performs.
2. One who puts an end to.
3. One who completes or perfects.
Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. .
Finishing
FIN'ISHING, participle present tense Completing; perfecting; bringing to an end.
FIN'ISHING or FIN'ISH, noun Completion; completeness; perfection; last polish.
Finite
FI'NITE, adjective [Latin finitus, from finio, to finish, from finis, limit.]
Having a limit; limited; bounded; opposed to infinite, as finite number, finite existence; applied to this life, we say, a finite being, finite duration.
Finitely
FI'NITELY, adverb Within limits; to a certain degree only.
Finiteness
FI'NITENESS, noun Limitation; confinement within certain boundaries; as the finiteness of our natural powers.
Finitude
FIN'ITUDE, noun Limitation. [Not used.]
Finless
FIN'LESS, adjective [from fin.] Destitute of fins; as finless fish.
Finlike
FIN'LIKE, adjective Resembling a fin; as a finlike oar.
Finn
FINN, noun A native of Finland, in Europe.
Finned
FIN'NED, adjective Having broad edges on either side; applied to a plow.
Finnikin
FIN'NIKIN, noun A sort of pigeon, with a crest somewhat resembling the mane of a horse.
Finny
FIN'NY, adjective Furnished with fins; as finny fish; finny tribes; finny prey.
FIN'-TOED, adjective [fin and toe.] Palmiped; palmated; having toes connected by a membrane, as aquatic fowls.
Finochio
FINO'CHIO, noun A variety of fennel.
Finscale
FIN'SCALE, noun A river fish, called the rudd.
Fipple
FIP'PLE, noun [Latin fibula.] A stopper. [Not in use.]
Fir
FIR, noun
The name of several species of the genus Pinus; as the Scotch fir the silver fir spruce fir hemlock fir and oriental fir
Fir-Tree
FIR-TREE. [See fir.]
Fire
FIRE, noun [The radical sense of fire is usually, to rush, to rage, to be violently agitated; and if this is the sense of fire in coincides with Latin furo. It may be from shining or consuming.]
1. Heat and light emanating visibly, perceptibly and simultaneously from any body; caloric; the unknown cause of the sensation of heat and of the retrocession of the homogeneous particles of bodies from one another, producing expansion, and thus enlarging all their dimensions; one of the causes of magnetism, as evinced by Dr. Hare's calorimotor.
In the popular acceptation of the word, fire is the effect of combustion. The combustible body ignited or heated to redness we call fire; and when ascending in a stream or body, we call it flame. A piece of charcoal in combustion, is of a red color and very hot. In this state it is said to be on fire or to contain fire When combustion ceases, it loses its redness and extreme heat, and we say, the fire is extinct.
2. The burning of fuel on a hearth, or in any other place. We kindle a fire in the morning, and at night we rake up the fire Anthracite will maintain fire during the night.
3. The burning of a house or town; a conflagration. Newburyport and Savannah have suffered immense losses by fire The great fire in Boston in 1711 consumed a large part of the town.
4. Light; luster; splendor.
Stars, hide your fires!
5. Torture by burning.
6. The instrument of punishment; or the punishment of the impenitent in another state.
Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? .
7. That which inflames or irritates the passions.
What fire is in my ears?
8. Ardor of temper; violence of passion.
He had fire in his temper.
9. Liveliness of imagination; vigor of fancy; intellectual activity; animation; force of sentiment or expression.
And warm the critic with a poet's fire
10. The passion of love; ardent affection.
The God of love retires; dim are his torches, and extinct his fires.
11. Ardor; heat; as the fire of zeal or of love.
12. Combustion; tumult; rage; contention.
13. Trouble; affliction.
When thou walkest through the fire thou shalt not be burnt. .
To set on fire to kindle; to inflame; to excite violent action.
St. Anthony's fire a disease marked by an eruption on the skin, or a diffused inflammation, with fever; the Erysipelas.
Wild fire an artificial or factitious fire which burns even under water. it is made by a composition of sulphur, naphtha, pitch, gum and bitumen. It is called also Greek fire
FIRE, verb transitive
1. To set on fire; to kindle; as, to fire a house or chimney; to fire a pile.
2. To inflame; to irritate the passions; as, to fire with anger or revenge.
3. To animate; to give life or spirit; as, to fire the genius.
4. To drive by fire [Little used.]
5. To cause to explode; to discharge; as, to fire a musket or cannon.
6. To cauterize; a term in farriery.
FIRE, verb intransitive
1. To take fire; to be kindled.
2. To be irritated or inflamed with passion.
3. To discharge artillery or firearms. They fired on the town.
Fire-Arrow
FI'RE-ARROW, noun A small iron dart, furnished with a match impregnated with powder and sulphur, used to fire the sails of ships.
Fire-Company
FI'RE-COMPANY, noun A company of men for managing an engine to extinguish fires.
Fire-Engine
FI'RE-ENGINE, noun An engine for throwing water to extinguish fire and save buildings.
Fire-Escape
FIRE-ESCA'PE, noun A machine for escaping from windows, when houses are on fire.
Fire-Office
FI'RE-OFFICE, noun An office for making insurance against fire.
Fire-Ordeal
FIRE-ORDEAL, noun [See Ordeal.]
Firearms
FI'REARMS, noun plural Arms or weapons which expel their charge by the combustion of powder, as pistols, muskets, etc.
Fireball
FI'REBALL, noun
1. A grenade; a ball filled with powder or other combustibles, intended to be thrown among enemies, and to injure by explosion.
2. A meteor which passes rapidly through the air and displodes.
Firebare
FI'REBARE, noun In old writers, a beacon.
Firebarrel
FI'REBARREL, noun A hollow cylinder used in fireships, to convey the fire to the shrouds.
Firebavin
FI'REBAVIN, noun A bundle of brush-wood, used in fireships.
Fireblast
FI'REBL'AST, noun A disease in hops, chiefly towards the later periods of their growth.
Firebote
FI'REBOTE, noun Allowance of fuel, to which a tenant is entitled.
Firebrand
FI'REBRAND, noun
1. A piece of wood kindled or on fire.
2. An incendiary; one who inflames factions, or causes contention and mischief.
Firebrick
FI'REBRICK, noun A brick that will sustain intense heat without fusion.
Firebrush
FI'REBRUSH, noun A brush used to sweep the hearth.
Firebucket
FI'REBUCKET, noun A bucket to convey water to engines for extinguishing fire.
Fireclay
FI'RECLAY, noun A kind of clay that will sustain intense heat, used in making firebricks.
Firecock
FI'RECOCK, noun A cock or spout to let out water for extinguishing fire.
Firecross
FI'RECROSS, noun Something used in Scotland as a signal to take arms; the ends being burnt black, and in some parts smeared with blood.
Fired
FI'RED, participle passive Set on fire; inflamed; kindled; animated; irritated.
Firedamp
FI'REDAMP. [See Damp.]
Firedrake
FI'REDRAKE, noun
1. A fiery serpent.
2. An ignis fatuus.
Fireflair
FI'REFLAIR, noun A species of ray-fish or Raja.
Firefly
FI'REFLY, noun A species of fly which has on its belly a spot which shines; and another species which emits light from under its wings, as it flies.
Firehook
FI'REHOOK, noun A large hook for pulling down building in conflagrations.
Firelock
FI'RELOCK, noun A musket, or other gun, with a lock, which is discharged by striking fire with flint and steel.
Fireman
FI'REMAN, noun
1. A man whose business is to extinguish fires in towns.
2. A man of violent passions. [Not used.]
Firemaster
FI'REM'ASTER, noun An officer of artillery who superintends the composition of fireworks.
Firenew
FI'RENEW, adjective Fresh from the forge; bright.
Firepan
FI'REPAN, noun A pan for holding or conveying fire. .
Fireplace
FI'REPLACE, noun The part of a chimney appropriated to the fire; a hearth.
Fireplug
FI'REPLUG, noun A plug for drawing water from a pipe to extinguish fire.
Firepot
FI'REPOT, noun A small earthen pot filled with combustibles, used in military operations.
Firer
FI'RER, noun One who sets fire to any thing; an incendiary.
Fireship
FI'RESHIP, noun A vessel filled with combustibles and furnished with grappling irons to hook and set fire to an enemy's ships.
Fireshovel
FI'RESHOVEL, noun A shovel or instrument for taking up or removing coals of fire.
Fireside
FIRESIDE, noun A place near the fire or hearth; home; domestic life or retirement.
Firestick
FI'RESTICK, noun A lighted stick or brand.
Firestone
FI'RESTONE, noun
1. A fossil, the pyrite. [See Pyrite.]
2. A kind of freestone which bears a high degree of heat.
Fireward
FIREWARD,
FIREWARDEN, noun An officer who has authority to direct others in the extinguishing of fires.
Firewarden
FIREWARDEN, n. An officer who has authority to direct others in the extinguishing of fires.
Firewood
FI'REWOOD, noun Wood for fuel.
Firework
FI'REWORK, noun Usually in the plural, fireworks.
Preparations of gun-powder, sulphur and other inflammable materials, used for making explosions in the air, on occasions of public rejoicing; pyrotechnical exhibitions. This word is applied also to various combustible preparations used in war.
Fireworker
FI'REWORKER, noun An officer of artillery subordinate to the firemaster.
Firing
FI'RING, participle present tense Setting fire to; kindling; animating; exciting; inflaming; discharging firearms.
FI'RING, noun
1. The act of discharging firearms.
2. Fuel; firewood or coal.
Firing-Iron
FI'RING-IRON, noun An instrument used in farriery to discuss swellings and knots.
Firk
FIRK, verb transitive To beat; to whip; to chastise. [Not used.]
Firkin
FIRKIN, noun fur'kin.
A measure of capacity, being the fourth part of a barrel. It is nine gallons of beer, or eight gallons of ale, soap or herrings. In America, the firkin is rarely used, except for butter or lard, and signifies a small vessel or cask of indeterminate size, or of different sizes, regulated by the statutes of the different states.
Firlot
FIR'LOT, noun A dry measure used in Scotland. The oat firlot contains 21 1/4 pints of that country; the wheat firlot 224 cubic inches; the barley firlot 21 standard pints.
Firm
FIRM, adjective ferm. [Latin firmus. This is the root of Latin ferrum, iron.]
1. Properly, fixed; hence, applied to the matter of bodies, it signifies closely compressed; compact; hard; solid; as firm flesh; firm muscles; some species of wood are more firm than others; a cloth of firm texture.
2. Fixed; steady; constant; stable; unshaken; not easily moved; as a firm believer; a firm friend; a firm adherent or supporter; a firm man, or a man of firm resolution.
3. Solid; not giving way; opposed to fluid; as firm land.
FIRM, noun ferm. A partnership or house; or the name or title under which a company transact business; as the firm of Hope _ Co.
FIRM, verb transitive ferm. [Latin firmo.] To fix; to settle; to confirm; to establish.
And Jove has firm'd it with an awful nod.
This word is rarely used, except in poetry. In prose, we use confirm.
Firmament
FIRMAMENT, noun ferm'ament. [Latin firmamentum, from firmus, firmo.]
The region of the air; the sky or heavens. In scripture, the word denotes an expanse, a wide extent; for such is the signification of the Hebrew word, coinciding with regio, region, and reach. The original therefore does not convey the sense of solidity, but of stretching, extension; the great arch or expanse over our heads, in which are placed the atmosphere and the clouds, and in which the stars appear to be placed, and are really seen.
And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. .
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament .
Firmamental
FIRMAMENT'AL, adjective Pertaining to the firmament; celestial; being of the upper regions.
Firman
FIR'MAN, noun An Asiatic word, denoting a passport, permit, license, or grant of privileges.
Firmed
FIRMED, participle passive ferm'ed. Established; confirmed.
Firming
FIRMING, participle present tense ferm'ing, Settling; making firm and stable.
Firmitude
FIRMITUDE, noun ferm'itude. Strength; solidity. [Not in use.]
Firmity
FIRMITY, noun ferm'ity. Strength; firmness. [Not used.]
Firmless
FIRMLESS, adjective ferm'less. Detached from substance.
Does passion still the firmless mind control.
Firmly
FIRMLY, ad. ferm'ly.
1. Solidly; compactly; closely; as particles of matter firmly cohering.
2. Steadily; with constancy or fixedness; immovably; steadfastly. He firmly believes in the divine origin of the scriptures. His resolution is firmly fixed. He firmly adheres to his party.
Firmness
FIRM'NESS, noun ferm'ness.
1. Closeness or denseness of texture or structure; compactness; hardness; solidity; as the firmness of wood, stone, cloth or other substance.
2. Stability; strength; as the firmness of a union, or of a confederacy.
3. Steadfastness; constancy; fixedness; as the firmness of a purpose or resolution; the firmness of a man, or of his courage; firmness of mind or soul.
4. Certainty; soundness; as the firmness of notions or opinions.
First
FIRST, adjective furst. [See fare and for.]
1. Advanced before or further than any other in progression; foremost in place; as the first man in a marching company or troop is the man that precedes all the rest. Hence,
2. Preceding all others in the order of time. Adam was the first man. Cain was the first murderer. Monday was the first day of January.
3. Preceding all others in numbers or a progressive series; the ordinal of one; as, 1 is the first number.
4. Preceding all others in rank, dignity or excellence. Demosthenes was the first orator of Greece. Burke was one of the first geniuses of his age. Give God the first place in your affections.
FIRST, adverb furst.
1. Before any thing else in the order of time.
Adam was first formed, then Eve. .
2. Before all others in place or progression.
Let the officers enter the gate first
3. Before any thing else in order of proceeding or consideration. first let us attend to the examination of the witnesses.
4. Before all others in rank. He stands or ranks first in public estimation.
At first at the first as the beginning or origin.
FIRST or last, at one time or another; at the beginning or end.
And all fools and lovers first or last.
First-Begotten
FIRST-BEGOT'TEN, adjective First produced; the eldest of children.
First-Born
FIRST'-BORN, adjective
1. First brought forth; first in the order of nativity; eldest; as the first-born son.
2. Most excellent; most distinguished or exalted. Christ is called the first-born of every creature. .
FIRST'-BORN, noun The eldest child; the first in the order of birth.
The first-born of the poor are the most wretched. .
The first-born of death is the most terrible death.
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First-Created
FIRST-CREA'TED, adjective Created before any other.
First-Fruit
FIRST-FRUIT,
FIRST-FRUITS, noun
1. The fruit or produce first matured and collected in any season. Of these the Jews made an oblation to God, as an acknowledgment of his sovereign dominion.
2. The first profits of any thing. In the church of England, the profits of every spiritual benefice for the first year.
3. The first or earliest effect of any thing, in a good or bad sense; as the first-fruits of grace in the heart, or the first-fruits of vice.
First-Fruits
FIRST-FRUITS, n. 1. The fruit or produce first matured and collected in any season. Of these the Jews made an oblation to God, as an acknowledgment of his sovereign dominion.2. The first profits of any thing. In the church of England, the profits of every spiritual benefice for the first year.3. The first or earliest effect of any thing, in a good or bad sense; as the first-fruits of grace in the heart, or the first-fruits of vice.
First-Rate
FIRST'-RATE, adjective
1. Of the highest excellence; preeminent; as a first-rate scholar or painter.
2. Being of the largest size; as a first-rate ship.
Firstling
FIRST'LING, adjective First produced; as firstling males. .
FIRST'LING, noun
1. The first produce or offspring; applied to beasts; as the firstlings of cattle.
2. The thing first thought or done. [Not used.]
The very firstlings of my heart shall be the firstlings of my hand.
Fisc
FISC, noun [Latin fiscus. Fiscus, signifies a basket or hanaper, probably from the twigs which composed the first baskets. Eng. whisk. The word coincides in elements with basket, and Latin fascia, twigs being the primitive bands.]
The treasury of a prince or state; hence to confiscate to take the good of a criminal and appropriate then to the public treasure.
Fiscal
FISC'AL, adjective Pertaining to the public treasury or revenue.
The fiscal arrangement of government.
FISC'AL, noun
1. Revenue; the income of a prince or state.
2. A treasurer.
Fish
FISH, noun [Latin piscis.]
1. An animal that lives in water. fish is a general name for a class of animals subsisting in water, which were distributed by Linne into six orders. They breathe by means of gills, swim by the aid of fins, and are oviparous. Some of them have the skeleton bony, and others cartilaginous. Most of the former have the opening of the gills closed by a peculiar covering, called the gill-lid; many of the latter have no gill-lid, and are hence said to breathe through apertures. Cetaceous animals, as the whale and dolphin, are, in popular language, called fishes, and have been so classed by some naturalists; but they breathe by lungs, and are viviparous, like quadrupeds. The term fish has been also extended to other aquatic animals, such as shell-fish, lobsters, etc. We use fish in the singular, for fishes in general or the whole race.
2. The flesh of fish used as food. But we usually apply flesh to land animals.
FISH, verb intransitive
1. To attempt to catch fish; to be employed in taking fish by any means, as by angling or drawing nets.
2. To attempt or seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments.
FISH, verb transitive
1. To search by raking or sweeping; as, to fish the jakes for papers.
2. In seamanship, to strengthen, as a mast or yard, with a piece of timber.
3. To catch; draw out or up; as, to fish up a human body when sunk; to fish an anchor.
FISH, noun
1. In ships, a machine to hoist and draw up the flukes of an anchor, towards the top of the bow.
2. A long piece of timber, used to strengthen a lower mast or a yard, when sprung or damaged.
Fisher
FISH'ER, n
1. One who is employed in catching fish.
2. A species of weasel.
Fisherboat
FISH'ERBOAT, noun A boat employed in catching fish.
Fisherman
FISH'ERMAN, noun
1. One whose occupation is to catch fish.
2. A ship or vessel employed in the business of taking fish, as in the cod and whale fishery.
Fishertown
FISH'ERTOWN, noun A town inhabited by fishermen.
Fishery
FISH'ERY, noun
1. The business of catching fish.
2. A place for catching fish with nets or hooks, as the banks of Newfoundland, the coast of England or Scotland, or on the banks of rivers.
Fishful
FISH'FUL, adjective Abounding with fish; as a fishful pond.
Fishgig
FISH'GIG,
FISH'HOOK, noun A hook for catching fish.
Fishing
FISH'ING, participle present tense Attempting to catch fish; searching; seeking to draw forth by artifice or indirectly; adding a piece of timber to a mast or spar to strengthen it.
FISH'ING, noun
1. The art or practice of catching fish.
2. A fishery.
Fishing-Frog
FISH'ING-FROG, noun The toad-fish, or Lophius, whose head is larger than the body.
Fishing-Place
FISH'ING-PLACE, noun A place where fishes are caught with seines; a convenient place for fishing; a fishery.
Fishkettle
FISH'KETTLE, noun A kettle made long for boiling fish whole.
Fishlike
FISH'LIKE, adjective Resembling fish.
Fishmarket
FISH'MARKET, noun A place where fish are exposed for sale.
Fishmeal
FISH'MEAL, noun A meal of fish; diet on fish; abstemious diet.
Fishmonger
FISH'MONGER, noun A seller of fish; a dealer in fish.
Fishpond
FISH'POND, noun A pond in which fishes are bred and kept.
Fishroom
FISH'ROOM, noun An apartment in a ship between the after-hold and the spirit room.
Fishspear
FISH'SPEAR, noun A spear for taking fish by stabbing them.
Fishwife
FISH'WIFE, noun A woman that cries fish for sale.
Fishwoman
FISH'WOMAN, noun A woman who sells fish.
Fishy
FISH'Y, adjective
1. Consisting of fish.
2. Inhabited by fish; as the fishy flood.
3. Having the qualities of fish; like fish; as a fishy form; a fishy taste or smell.
Fissile
FIS'SILE, adjective [Latin fissilis, from fissus, divided, from findo, to split.]
That may be split, cleft or divided in the direction of the grain, or of natural joints.
This crystal is a pellucid fissile stone.
Fissility
FISSIL'ITY, noun The quality of admitting to be cleft.
Fissiped
FIS'SIPED, adjective [Latin fissus, divided, and pes, foot.] Having separate toes.
FIS'SIPED, noun An animal whose toes are separate, or not connected by a membrane.
Fissure
FIS'SURE, noun fish'ure. [Latin fissura, from findo, to split.]
1. A cleft; a narrow chasm made by the parting of any substance; a longitudinal opening; as the fissure of a rock.
2. In surgery, a crack or slit in a bone, either transversely or longitudinally, by means of external force.
3. In anatomy, a deep, narrow sulcus, or depression, dividing the anterior and middle lobes of the cerebrum on each side.
FIS'SURE, verb transitive To cleave; to divide; to crack or fracture.
Fissured
FIS'SURED, participle passive Cleft; divided; cracked.
Fist
FIST, noun
The hand clinched; the hand with the fingers doubled into the palm.
FIST, verb transitive
1. To strike with the fist
2. To gripe with the fist
Fisticuffs
FIST'ICUFFS, noun [fist and cuff.] Blows or a combat with the fist; a boxing.
Fistula
FIS'TULA, noun [Latin ; Eng. whistle.]
1. Properly, a pipe; a wind instrument of music, originally a reed.
2. A surgery, a deep, narrow and callous ulcer, generally arising from abscesses. It differs from a sinus, in being callous.
Fistula lachrymalis, a fistula of the lachrymal sac, a disorder accompanied with a flowing of tears.
Fistular
FIS'TULAR, adjective Hollow, like a pipe or reed.
Fistulate
FIS'TULATE, verb intransitive To become a pipe or fistula.
FIS'TULATE, verb transitive To make hollow like a pipe. [Little used.]
Fistuliform
FIS'TULIFORM, adjective [fistula and form.] Being in round hollow columns, as a mineral.
Stalactite often occurs fistuliform
Fistulous
FIS'TULOUS, adjective Having the form or nature of a fistula; as a fistulous ulcer.
Fit
FIT, noun [Latin peto, impeto, to assult, or to Eng. pet, and primarily to denote a rushing on or attach, or a start. See fit suitable.]
1. The invasion, exacerbation or paroxysm of a disease. We apply the word to the return of an ague, after intermission, as a cold fit We apply it to the first attack, or to the return of other diseases, as a fit of the gout or stone; and in general, to a disease however continued, as a fit of sickness.
2. A sudden and violent attack of disorder, in which the body is often convulsed, and sometimes senseless; as a fit of apoplexy or epilepsy; hysteric fits.
3. Any short return after intermission; a turn; a period or interval. He moves by fits and starts.
By fits my swelling grief appears.
4. A temporary affection or attack; as a fit of melancholy, or of grief; a fit of pleasure.
5. Disorder; distemperature.
6. Anciently, a song, or part of a song; a strain; a canto.
FIT, adjective [This is from the root of Eng. pass; pat. In Latin competo, whence compatible, signifies properly to meet or to fall on, hence to suit or be fit from peto. This is probably the same word. The primary sense is to come to, to fall on, hence to meet, to extend to, to be close, to suit. To come or fall, is the primary sense of time or season.]
1. Suitable; convenient; meet; becoming.
Is it fit to say to a king, thou art wicked? .
Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. .
2. Qualified; as men of valor fit for war.
No man having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God. .
FIT, verb transitive
1. To adapt; to suit; to make suitable.
The carpenter - marketh it out like a line, he fitteth it with planes. .
2. To accommodate a person with any thing; as, the tailor fits his customer with a coat. The original phrase is, he fits a coat to his customer. But the phrase implies also furnishing, providing a thing suitable for another.
3. To prepare; to put in order for; to furnish with things proper or necessary; as, to fit a ship for a long voyage. fit yourself for action or defense.
4. To qualify; to prepare; as, to fit a student for college.
To fit out, to furnish; to equip; to supply with necessaries or means; as, to fit out a privateer.
To fit up, to prepare; to furnish with things suitable; to make proper for the reception or use of any person; as, to fit up a house for a guest.
FIT, verb intransitive
1. To be proper or becoming.
Nor fits it to prolong the feast.
2. To suit or be suitable; to be adapted. His coat fits very well. But this is an elliptical phrase.
Fitch
FITCH, noun A chick-pea.
Fitchet
FITCH'ET,
FITCH'EW, noun A polecat; a foumart.
Fitchew
FITCH'EW, n. A polecat; a foumart.
Fitful
FIT'FUL, adjective Varied by paroxysms; full of fits.
Fitly
FIT'LY, adverb
1. Suitably; properly; with propriety. A maxim fitly applied.
2. Commodiously; conveniently.
Fitment
FIT'MENT, noun Something adapted to a purpose. [Not used.]
Fitness
FIT'NESS, noun
1. Suitableness; adaptedness; adaptation; as the fitness of things to their use.
2. Propriety; meetness; justness; reasonableness; as the fitness of measures or laws.
3. Preparation; qualification; as a student's fitness for college.
4. Convenience; the state of being fit.
Fitted
FIT'TED, participle passive Made suitable; adapted; prepared; qualified.
Fitter
FIT'TER, noun One who makes fit or suitable; one who adapts; one who prepares.
Fitting
FIT'TING, participle present tense Making suitable; adapting; preparing; qualifying; providing with.
Fittingly
FIT'TINGLY, adverb Suitably.
Fitz
FITZ, Norm. fites, fuz or fiz, a son, is used in names, as in Fitzherbert, Fitzroy, Carlovitz.
Five
FIVE, adjective
Four and one added; the half of ten; as five men; five loaves. Like other adjectives, it is often used as a noun.
FIVE of them were wise, and five were foolish. .
Fivebar
FI'VEBAR,
FI'VEBARRED, adjective Having five bars; as a fivebarred gate.
Fivebarred
FI'VEBARRED, a. Having five bars; as a fivebarred gate.
Fivecleft
FI'VECLEFT, adjective Quinquefid; divided into five segments.
Fivefold
FI'VEFOLD, adjective In fives; consisting of five in one; five-double; five times repeated.
Fiveleaf
FI'VELEAF, noun Cinquefoil.
Fiveleafed
FI'VELEAFED, adjective Having five leaves; as fiveleafed clover, or cinquefoil.
Fivelobed
FI'VELOBED, adjective Consisting of five lobes.
Fiveparted
FI'VEPARTED, adjective Divided into five parts.
Fives
FIVES, noun A kind of play with a ball.
FIVES or VIVES, noun A disease of horses, resembling the strangles.
Fivetoothed
FI'VETOOTHED, adjective Having five teeth.
Fivevalved
FI'VEVALVED, adjective Having five valves.
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.