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Flowk
FLOWK,
FLOWN, had fled, in the following phrases, is not good English.
Was reason flown.
Sons of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
In the former passage, flown is used as the participle of fly or flee, both intransitive verbs, and the phrase should have been, had reason flown or fled. In the latter passage, flown is used for blown, inflated, but most improperly. Flown is the participle of the perfect or past tense of fly, but cannot regularly be used in a passive sense.
Flown
FLOWN, had fled, in the following phrases, is not good English. Was reason flown.Sons of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.In the former passage, flown is used as the participle of fly or flee, both intransitive verbs, and the phrase should have been, had reason flown or fled. In the latter passage, flown is used for blown, inflated, but most improperly. Flown is the participle of the perfect or past tense of fly, but cannot regularly be used in a passive sense.
Fluate
FLU'ATE, noun [from fluro, which see.] In chimistry, a salt formed by the fluoric acid combined with a base; as fluate of alumin, or of soda.
Fluctuant
FLUC'TUANT, adjective [Latin fluctuans. See Fluctuate.] Moving like a wave; wavering; unsteady.
Fluctuate
FLUC'TUATE, verb intransitive [Latin fluctuo, from fluctus, a wave, from fluo, to flow.]
1. To move as a wave; to roll hither and thither; to wave; as a fluctuating field of air.
2. To float backward and forward, as on waves.
3. To move now in one direction and now in another; to be wavering or unsteady. Public opinion often fluctuates. Men often fluctuate between different parties and opinions. Hence,
4. To be irresolute or undetermined.
5. To rise and fall; to be in an unsettled state; to experience sudden vicissitudes. The funds or the prices of stocks fluctuate with the events of the day.
Fluctuating
FLUC'TUATING, participle present tense
1. Wavering; rolling as a wave; moving in this and that direction; rising and falling.
2. adjective Unsteady; wavering; changeable. We have little confidence in fluctuating opinions.
3. A rising and falling suddenly; as fluctuations of prices or of the funds.
Fluctuation
FLUCTUA'TION, noun [Latin fluctuatio.]
1. A motion like that of waves; a moving in this and that direction; as the fluctuations of the sea.
2. A wavering; unsteadiness; as fluctuations of opinion.
3. A rising and falling suddenly; as fluctuations of prices or of the funds.
Fludder
FLUD'DER, noun An aquatic fowl of the diver kind, nearly as large as a goose.
Fluder
FLUD'ER,
FLUE, noun [probably contracted from flume, Latin flumen, from fluo.]
A passage for smoke in a chimney, leading from the fireplace to the top of the chinmey, or into another passage; as a chinmey with four flues.
FLUE, noun [Latin pluma.] Soft down or fur; very fine hair. [Local.]
Flue
FLUE, n. [probably contracted from flume, L. flumen, from fluo.] A passage for smoke in a chimney, leading from the fireplace to the top of the chinmey, or into another passage; as a chinmey with four flues. FLUE, n. [L. pluma.] Soft down or fur; very fine hair. [Local.]
Fluellen
FLUEL'LEN, noun The female speedwell, a plant of the genus Antirrhinum, or snapdragon.
Fluence
FLUENCE, for fluency, is not used.
Fluency
FLU'ENCY, noun [Latin fluens, from flue, to flow.]
1. The quality of flowing, applied to speech or language; smoothness; freedom from harshness; as fluency of numbers.
2. Readiness of utterance; facility of words; volubility; as fluency of speech; a speaker of remarkable fluency
3. Affluence; abundance. obsolete
Fluent
FLU'ENT, adjective [See Fluency.
1. Liquid; flowing.
2. Flowing; passing.
Motion being a fluent thing.
3. Ready in the use of words; voluble; copious; having words at command and uttering them with facility and smoothness; as a fluent speaker.
4. Flowing; voluble; smooth; as fluent speech.
FLU'ENT, noun
1. A stream; a current of water. [Little used.]
2. The variable or flowing quantity in fluxions.
Fluently
FLU'ENTLY, adverb With ready flow; volubly; without hesitation or obstruction; as, to speak fluently
Flugelman
FLU'GELMAN, noun
In German, the leader of a file. But with us, a soldier who stands on the wing of a body of men, and marks time for the motions.
Fluid
FLU'ID, adjective [Latin fluidus, from fluo, to flow.] Having parts which easily move and change their relative position without separation, and which easily yield to pressure; that may flow; liquid. Water, spirit, air, are fluid substances. All bodies may be rendered fluid by heat or caloric.
FLU'ID, noun Any substance whose parts easily move and change their relative position without separation, and which yields to the slightest pressure; a substance which flows, or which moves spontaneously on a plane with the least inclination; a liquid; liquor; opposed to a solid. Water, blood, chyle, are fluids.
Fluidity
FLUID'ITY, noun The quality of being capable of flowing; that quality of bodies which renders them impressible to the slightest force, and by which the parts easily move or change their relative position without a separation of the mass; a liquid state; opposed to solidity. fluidity is the effect of heat.
Fluidness
FLU'IDNESS, noun The state of being fluid; fluidity, which see.
FLUKE, noun
The part of an anchor which fastens in the ground.
FLUKE,
FLOWK, noun A flounder.
Fluke
FLUKE, noun A flounder.
Fluke-Worm
FLU'KE-WORM, noun The guard-worm, a species of Fasciola.
Flume
FLUME, noun [Latin flumen, from fluo, to flow.]
Literally, a flowing; hence, the passage or channel for the water that drives a mill-wheel.
Fluminating
FLU'MINATING, participle present tense
1. Thundering; crackling; exploding; detonating.
2. Hurling papal denunciations, menaces or censures.
Fulminating powder, a detonating compound of sulphur, carbonate of potash and niter.
Flummery
FLUM'MERY, noun [See Lumber.]
1. A sort of jelly made of flour or meal; pap.
Milk and flummery are very fit for children.
2. In vulgar use, any thing insipid or nothing to the purpose; flattery.
Flung
FLUNG, preterit tense and participle passive of fling.
Several statues the Romans themselves flung into the river.
Fluoborate
FLUOBO'RATE, noun A compound of fluoboric acid with a base.
Fluoboric
FLUOBO'RIC, adjective The fluoboric acid or gas is a compound of fluorine and boron.
Fluor
FLU'OR, noun [Low Latin from fluo, to flow.]
1. A fluid state.
2. Menstrual flux. [Little used in either sense.]
3. In mineralogy, fluate of lime. fluor spar is the foliated fluate of lime. This mineral, though sometimes massive, is almost always regularly crystallized. Its crystals present most frequently the form of a cube, often perfect, sometimes truncated on all its edges by planes, which form with the sides of the cube an angle of 135 degrees. The colors are very numerous and beautiful.
The flutate of lime, fluor was so named from its use as a flux for certain ores.
Fluor-Acid
FLU'OR-ACID, noun The acid of fluor.
Fluorated
FLU'ORATED, adjective Combined with fluoric acid.
Fluoric
FLUOR'IC, adjective Pertaining to fluor; obtained from fluor; as fluoric acid.
Fluorin
FLU'ORIN,
FLU'ORINE, noun The supposed basis of fluoric acid.
Fluorine
FLU'ORINE, n. The supposed basis of fluoric acid.
Fluorous
FLU'OROUS, adjective The fluorous acid is the acid of fluor in its first degree of oxygenation.
Fluosilicate
FLUOSIL'ICATE, noun [fluor and silex or silica.]
In chiminstry, a compound of fluoric acid, containing silex, with some other substance.
Fluosilicic
FLUOSILIC'IC, adjective Composed of or containing fluoric acid with silex.
Flurry
FLUR'RY, noun
1. A sudden blast or gust, or a light temporary breeze; as a flurry of wind. It is never with us applied to a storm of duration.
2. A sudden shower of short duration; as a flurry of snow.
3. Agitation; commotion; bustle; hurry.
FLUR'RY, verb transitive To put in agitation; to excite or alarm.
Flush
FLUSH, verb intransitive
1. To flow and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face.
2. To come in haste; to start.
3. To appear suddenly, as redness or a blush.
A blush rose on their cheeks, flushing and fading like the changeful play of colors on a dolphin.
4. To become suddenly red; to glow; as, the cheeks flush
5. To be gay, splendid or beautiful.
At once, arrayed in all the colors of the flushing year, the garden glows.
FLUSH, verb transitive
1. To redden suddenly; to cause the blood to rush suddenly into the face.
Nor flush with shame the passing virgin's cheek.
2. To elate; to elevate; to excite the spirits; to animate with joy; as, to flush with victory.
FLUSH, adjective
1. Fresh, full of vigor; glowing; bright.
FLUSH as May.
2. Affluent; abounding; well furnished.
Lord Strut was not very flush in ready.
3. Free to spend; liberal; prodigal. He is very flush with his money. This is a popular use of the word in America.
A flush deck, in seamen's language, is a deck without a half-deck or forecastle.
FLUSH, noun
1. A sudden flow of blood to the face; or more generally, the redness of face which proceeds from such an afflux of blood. Hectic constitutions are often known by a frequent flush in the cheeks.
2. Sudden impulse or excitement; sudden flow; as a flush of joy.
3. Bloom; growth; abundance.
4. A run of cards of the same suit.
5. A term for a number of ducks.
Flushed
FLUSH'ED, participle passive
1. Overspread or tinged with a red color from the flowing of blood to the face. We say, the skin, face or cheek is flushed
2. Elated; excited; animated; as flushed with joy or success.
Flusher
FLUSH'ER, noun The lesser butcher-bird.
Flushing
FLUSH'ING, participle present tense Overspreading with red; glowing.
FLUSH'ING, noun A glow of red in the face.
Fluster
FLUS'TER, verb transitive To make hot and rosy, as with drinking; to heat; to hurry; to agitate; to confuse.
FLUS'TER, verb intransitive To be in a heat or bustle; to be agitated.
FLUS'TER, noun Heat; glow; agitation; confusion; disorder.
Flustered
FLUS'TERED, participle passive Heated with liquor; agitated; confused.
Flute
FLUTE, noun [Latin flo, flatus, to blow, or Latin fluta, a lamprey, with the same number of holes.]
1. A small wind instrument; a pipe with lateral holes or stops, played by blowing with the mouth, and by stopping and opening the holes with the fingers.
2. A channel in a column or pillar; a perpendicular furrow or cavity, cut along the shaft of a column or pilaster; so called from its resemblance to a flute It is used chiefly in the Ionic order; sometimes in the Composite and Corinthian; rarely in the Doric and Tuscan. It is called also a reed.
3. A long vessel or boat, with flat ribs or floor timbers, round behind, and swelled in the middle; a different orthography of float, flota.
Armed in flute An armed ship, with her guns of the lower tier and part of those of the upper tier removed, used as a transport, is said to be armed in flute
FLUTE, verb intransitive To play on a flute
FLUTE, verb transitive To form flutes or channels in a column.
Fluted
FLU'TED, participle passive or adjective
1. Channeled; furrowed; as a column.
2. In music, thin; fine; flutelike; as fluted notes.
Fluting
FLU'TING, participle present tense Channeling; cutting furrows; as in a column.
FLU'TING, noun A channel or furrow in a column; fluted work.
Flutist
FLU'TIST, noun A performer on the flute.
Flutter
FLUT'TER, verb intransitive
1. To move or flap the wings rapidly, without flying, or with short flights; to hover.
As an eagle stirreth up her next, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings - .
2. To move about briskly, irregularly or with great bustle and show, without consequence.
No rag, no scrap of all the beau or wit, that once so fluttered, and that once so writ.
3. To move with quick vibrations or undulations; as a fluttering fan; a fluttering sail.
4. To be in agitation; to move irregularly; to fluctuate; to be in uncertainty.
How long we fluttered on the wings of doubtful success.
His thoughts are very fluttering and wandering.
FLUT'TER, verb transitive
1. To drive in disorder. [Little used.]
2. To hurry the mind; to agitate.
3. To disorder; to throw into confusion.
FLUT'TER, noun
1. Quick and irregular motion; vibration; undulation; as the flutter of a fan.
2. Hurry; tumult; agitation of the mind.
3. Confusion; disorder; irregularity in position.
Fluttered
FLUT'TERED, participle passive Agitated; confused; disordered.
Fluttering
FLUT'TERING, participle present tense Flapping the wings without flight or with short flights; hovering; fluctuating; agitating; throwing into confusion.
FLUT'TERING, noun The act of hovering, or flapping the wings without flight; a wavering agitation.
Fluvial
FLU'VIAL, adjective [Latin fluviaticus, from fluvius, a river; fluo, to flow.]
Belonging to rivers; growing or living in streams or ponds; as a fluviatic plant.
Fluviatic
FLUVIAT'IC,
FLU'VIATILE, adjective [Latin fluviatilis.] Belonging to rivers.
[Fluviatic is the preferable word.]
Flux
FLUX, noun [Latin fluxus, fluo, fluxi.]
1. The act of flowing; the motion or passing of a fluid.
2. The moving or passing of any thing in continued succession. Things in this life, are in a continual flux
3. Any flow or issue of matter. In medicine, an extraordinary issue or evacuation from the bowels or other part; as the bloody flux or dysentery, hepatic flux etc.
4. In hydrography, the flow of the tide. The ebb is called reflux.
5. In metallurgy, any substance or mixture used to promote the fusion of metals or minerals, as alkalies, borax, tartar and other saline matter, or in large operations limestone or fluor. Alkaline fluxes are either the crude, the white or the black flux
6. Fusion; a liquid state from the operation of heat.
7. That which flows or is discharged.
8. Concourse; confluence. [Little used.]
FLUX, adjective Flowing; moving; maintained by a constant succession of parts; inconstant; variable. [Not well authorized.]
FLUX, verb transitive
1. To melt; to fuse; to make fluid.
One part of mineral alkali will flux two of siliceous earth with effervescence.
2. To salivate. [Little used.]
Fluxation
FLUXA'TION, noun A flowing or passing away, and giving place to others.
Fluxed
FLUX'ED, participle passive Melted; fused; reduced to a flowing state.
Fluxibility
FLUXIBIL'ITY, noun The quality of admitting fusion.
Fluxible
FLUX'IBLE, adjective [from Low Latin ] Capable of being melted or fused, as a mineral.
Fluxility
FLUXIL'ITY, noun [Low Latin fluxilis.] The quality of admitting fusion; possibility of being fused or liquified.
Fluxion
FLUX'ION noun [Latin fluxio, from fluo, to flow.]
1. The act of flowing.
2. The matter that flows.
3. Fluxions, in mathematics, the analysis of infinitely small variable quantities, or a method of finding an infinitely small quantity, which being taken an infinite number of times, becomes equal to a quantity given.
In fluxions, magnitudes are supposed to be generated by motion; a line by the motion of a point, a surface by the motion of a line, and a solid by the motion of a surface. And some part of a figure is supposed to be generated by a uniform motion, in consequence of which the other parts may increase uniformly, or with an accelerated or retarded motion, or may decrease in any of these ways, and the computations are made by tracing the comparative velocities with which the parts flow.
A fluxion is an infinitely small quantity, an increment; the infinitely small increase of the fluent or flowing quantity.
Fluxionary
FLUX'IONARY, adjective Pertaining to mathematical fluxions.
Fluxionist
FLUX'IONIST, noun One skilled in fluxions.
Fluxive
FLUX'IVE, adjective Flowing; wanting solidity. [Not used.]
Fluxure
FLUX'URE, noun A flowing or fluid matter. [Not used.]
Fly
FLY, verb intransitive
1. To move through air by the aid of wings, as fowls.
2. To pass or move in air, by the force of wind or other impulse; as, clouds and vapors fly before the wind. A ball flies from a cannon, an arrow from a bow.
3. To rise in air, as light substances, by means of a current of air or by having less specific gravity than air, as smoke.
Man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward. .
4. To move or pass with velocity or celerity, either on land or water. He flew to the relief of his distressed friend. The ship flies upon the main.
5. To move rapidly, in any manner; as, a top flies about.
6. To pass away; to depart; with the idea of haste, swiftness or escape. The bird has flown.
7. To pass rapidly, as time. Swift fly the fleeting hours.
8. To part suddenly or with violence; to burst, as a bottle.
9. To spring by an elastic force.
10. To pass swiftly, as rumor or report.
11. To flee; to run away; to attempt to escape; to escape.
I'll fly from shepherds, flocks, and flowery plains.
12. To flutter; to vibrate or play; as a flag in the wind.
To fly at, to spring towards; to rush on; to fall on suddenly. A hen flies at a dog or cat; a dog flies at a man.
1. To fly in the face, to insult.
2. To assail; to resist; to set at defiance; to oppose with violence; to act in direct opposition.
1. To fly off, to separate or depart suddenly.
2. To revolt.
To fly open, to open suddenly or with violence; as, the doors flew open.
1. To fly out, to rush out; also, to burst into a passion.
2. To break out into license.
3. To start or issue with violence from any direction.
1. To let fly to discharge; to throw or drive with violence; as, to let fly a shower of darts.
2. In seamanship, to let go suddenly. Let fly the sheets.
FLY, verb transitive [This is used for flee, and from is understood after fly so that it can hardly be called a transitive verb.]
1. To shun; to avoid; to decline; as, to fly the sight of one we hate. That is, primarily, to flee from
Sleep flies the wretch.
2. To quit by flight.
3. To attack by a bird of prey. [Not used.]
4. To cause to float in the air.
FLY, noun
1. In zoology, a winged insect of various species, whose distinguishing characteristic is that the wings are transparent. By this flies are distinguished from beetles, butterflies, grasshoppers, etc. Of flies, some have two wings and others four.
In common language, fly is the house fly of the genus Musca.
2. In mechanics, a cross with leaden weights at the ends, or a heavy wheel at right angles with the axis of a windlass, jack or the like. The use of this is, to regulate and equalize the motion in all parts of the revolution of the machine.
3. That part of a vane which points and shows which way the wind blows.
4. The extent of an ensign, flag or pendant from the staff to the end that flutters loose in the wind.
Fly-Honeysuckle
FLY-HONEYSUCKLE, noun A plant, the Lonicera. The African fly-honeysuckle is the Halleria.
Flybane
FLY'BANE, noun A plant called catch-fly, of the genus Silene.
Flybitten
FLYBITTEN, adjective Marked by the bite of flies.
Flyblow
FLYBLOW, verb transitive To deposit an egg in any thing, as a fly; to taint with the eggs which produce maggots.
Like a flyblown cake of tallow.
FLYBLOW, noun The egg of a fly.
Flyboat
FLYBOAT, noun A large flat-bottomed Dutch vessel, whose burden is from 600 to 1200 tons, with a stern remarkably high, resembling a Gothic turret, and very broad buttocks below.
Flycatcher
FLYCATCHER, noun
1. One that hunts flies.
2. In zoology, a genus of birds, the Muscicapa, with a bill flatted at the base, almost triangular, notched at the upper mandible, and beset with bristles. These birds are of the order of Passers, and the species are very numerous.
Flyer
FLYER, noun
1. One that flies or flees; usually written flier.
2. One that uses wings.
3. The fly of a jack.
4. In architecture, stairs that do not wind, but are made of an oblong square figure, and whose fore and back sides are parallel to each other, and so are their ends. The second of these flyers stands parallel behind the first, the third behind the second, and so are said to fly off from one another.
5. A performer in Mexico, who flies round an elevated post.
Flyfish
FLYFISH, verb intransitive To angle with flies for bait.
Flyfishing
FLYFISHING, noun Angling; the art or practice of angling for fish with flies, natural or artificial, for bait.
Flyflap
FLYFLAP, noun Something to drive away flies.
Flying
FLYING, participle present tense
1. Moving in air by means of wings; passing rapidly; springing; bursting; avoiding.
2. adjective Floating; waving; as flying colors.
3. adjective Moving; light, and suited for prompt motion; as a flying camp.
FLYING colors, a phrase expressing triumph.
Flying-Bridge
FLYING-BRIDGE, noun A bridge of pontoons; also, a bridge composed of two boats.
Flying-Fish
FLYING-FISH, noun A small fish which flies by means of its pectoral fins. It is of the genus Exocoetus.
Flying-Party
FLYING-PARTY, noun In military affairs, a detachment of men employed to hover about an enemy.
Flying-Pinion
FLYING-PINION, noun The part of a clock, having a fly or fan, by which it fathers air, and checks the rapidity of the clock's motion, when the weight descends in the striking part.
Flytrap
FLYTRAP, noun In botany, a species of sensitive plant, called Venus' Fly-trap, the Dionaea Muscipula; a plant that has the power of seizing insects that light on it.
Flytree
FLYTREE, noun A tree whose leaves are said to produce flies, from a little bag on the surface.
Fnespoken
F'NESPOKEN, adjective Using fine phrases.
Foal
FOAL, noun [Latin pullus; Gr. The primary sense of the verb is to shoot, to cast or throw, to fall. The same verb in Heb. signifies to unite, to fasten. The verb belongs probably to the root of Eng. fall and foul with a different prefix. foal is literally a shoot, issue, or that which is cast, or which falls.]
The young of the equine genus of quadrupeds and of either sex; a colt; a filly.
FOAL, verb transitive To bring forth a colt or filly; to bring forth young as a mare or a she-ass.
FOAL, verb intransitive To bring forth young, as a mare and certain other beasts.
Foalbit
FOALBIT, noun A plant.
Foalfoot
FOALFOOT, noun The colt's-foot, Tussilago.
Foam
FOAM, noun [Latin fumo, to smoke, to foam ]
Froth; spume; the substance which is formed on the surface of liquors by fermentation or violent agitation, consisting of bubbles.
FOAM, verb intransitive
1. To froth; to gather foam The billows foam A horse foams at the mouth when violently heated.
2. To be in a rage; to be violently agitated.
He foameth and gnasheth with his teeth. .
FOAM, verb transitive To throw out with rage or violence; with out.
FOAMing out their own shame. .
Foaming
FOAMING, participle present tense Frothing; fuming.
Foamingly
FOAMINGLY, adverb Frothily.
Foamy
FOAMY, adjective Covered with foam; frothy.
Behold how high the foamy billows ride!
Fob
FOB, noun A little pocket for a watch.
FOB, verb transitive To cheat; to trick; to impose on.
To fob off, to shift off by an artifice; to put aside; to delude with a trick. [A low word.]
Fobbed
FOB'BED, participle passive Cheated; imposed on.
Fobbing
FOB'BING, participle present tense Cheating; imposing on.
Focal
FO'CAL, adjective [from Latin focus.] Belonging to a focus; as a focal point; focal distance.
Focil
FO'CIL, noun The greater focil is the ulna or tibia, the greater bone of the fore-arm or leg. The lesser focil is the radius or fibula, the lesser bone of the fore-arm or leg.
Focus
FO'CUS, noun plural focuses, or foci. [Latin focus a fire, the hearth.]
1. In optics, a point in which any number of rays of light meet, after being reflected or refracted; as the focus of a lens.
2. In geometry and conic sections, a certain point in the parabola, ellipsis and hyperbola, where rays reflected from all parts of these curves, concur or meet.
The focus of an ellipsis, is a point towards each end of the longer axis, from which two right lines drawn to any point in the circumference, shall together be equal to the longer axis.
The focus of a parabola, is a point in the axis within the figure, and distant from the vertex by the fourth part of the parameter.
The focus of a hyperbola, is a point in the principal axis, within the opposite hyperbolas, from which if any two lines are drawn, meeting in either of the opposite hyperbolas, the difference will be equal to the principal axis.
3. A central point; point of concentration.
Fodder
FOD'DER, noun
1. Food or dry food for cattle, horses and sheep, as hay, straw and other kinds of vegetables. The word is never applied to pasture.
2. In mining, a measure containing 20 hundred, or 22 1/2 hundred.
FOD'DER, verb transitive To feed with dry food, or cut grass, etc.; to furnish with hay, straw, oats, etc. Farmers fodder their cattle twice or thrice in a day.
Foddered
FOD'DERED, participle passive Fed with dry food, or cut grass, etc.; as, to fodder cows.
Fodderer
FOD'DERER, noun He who fodders cattle.
Foddering
FOD'DERING, participle present tense Feeding with dry food, etc.
Fodient
FO'DIENT, adjective [Latin fodio, to dig.] Digging; throwing up with a spade. [Little used.]
Foe
FOE, noun fo. [See Fiend.]
1. An enemy; one who entertains personal enmity, hatred, grudge or malice against another.
A man's foes shall be they of his own household. .
2. An enemy in war; one of a nation at war with another, whether he entertains enmity against the opposing nation or not; an adversary.
Either three years famine, or three months to be destroyed before they foes. .
3. foe like enemy, in the singular, is used to denote an opposing army, or nation at war.
4. An opponent; an enemy; one who opposes any thing in principle; an ill-wisher; as a foe to religion; a foe to virtue; a foe to the measures of the administration.
FOE, verb transitive To treat as an enemy. obsolete
Foehood
FOEHOOD, noun Enmity. [Not in use.]
Foelike
FOELIKE, adjective Like an enemy.
Foeman
FOEMAN, noun An enemy in war. obsolete
Foetus
FOETUS. [See Fetus.]
Fog
FOG, noun
1. A dense watery vapor, exhaled from the earth, or from rivers and lakes, or generated in the atmosphere near the earth. it differs from mist, which is rain in very small drops.
2. A cloud of dust or smoke.
FOG, noun
After-grass; a second growth of grass; but it signifies also long grass that remains on land.
Dead grass, remaining on land during winter, is called in New England, the old tore.
Fogbank
FOG'BANK, noun At sea, an appearance in hazy weather sometimes resembling land at a distance, but which vanishes as it is approached.
Foggage
FOG'GAGE, noun Rank grass not consumed or mowed in summer.
Fogginess
FOG'GINESS, noun [from foggy.] The state of being foggy; a state of the air filled with watery exhalations.
Foggy
FOG'GY, adjective [from fog.]
1. Filled or abounding with fog or watery exhalations; as a foggy atmosphere; a foggy morning.
2. Cloudy; misty; damp with humid vapors.
3. Producing frequent fogs; as a foggy climate.
4. Dull; stupid; clouded in understanding.
Foh
FOH, an exclamation of abhorrence or contempt, the same as poh and fy.
Foible
FOI'BLE, adjective Weak. [Not used.]
FOI'BLE, noun [See Feeble.] A particular moral weakness; a failing. When we speak of a man's foible in the singular, which is also called his weak side, we refer to a predominant failing. We use also the plural, foibles, to denote moral failings or defects. It is wise in every man to know his own foibles.
Foil
FOIL, verb transitive
1. To frustrate; to defeat; to render vain or nugatory, as an effort or attempt. The enemy attempted to pass the river, but was foiled. He foiled his adversaries.
And by a mortal man at length am foiled.
2. To blunt; to dull.
When light wing'd toys of feathered cupid foil -
3. To defeat; to interrupt, or to render imperceptible; as, to foil the scent in a chase.
FOIL, noun Defeat; frustration; the failure of success when on the point of being secured; miscarriage.
Death never won a stake with greater toil, nor e'er was fate to near a foil
FOIL, noun A blunt sword, or one that has a button at the end covered with leather; used in fencing.
Isocrates contended with a foil against Demosthenes with a sword.
FOIL, noun [Latin folium. Gr.]
1. A leaf or thin plate of metal used in gilding.
2. Among jewelers, a thin leaf of metal placed under precious stones, to make them appear transparent, and to give them a particular color, as the stone appears to be of the color of the foil Hence,
3. Any thing of another color, or of different qualities, which serves to adorn, or set off another thing to advantage.
Hector has a foil to set him off.
4. A thin coat of tin, with quicksilver, laid on the back of a locking glass, to cause reflection.
Foiled
FOIL'ED, participle passive Frustrated; defeated.
Foiler
FOIL'ER, noun One who frustrates another, and gains an advantage himself.
Foiling
FOIL'ING, participle present tense Defeating; frustrating; disappointing of success.
FOIL'ING, noun Among hunters, the slight mark of a passing deer on the grass.
Foin
FOIN, verb transitive [Latin pungo. The sense is to push, thrust, shoot.]
1. To push in fencing.
2. To prick; to sting. [Not in use.]
FOIN, noun A push; a thrust.
Foining
FOIN'ING, participle present tense Pushing; thrusting.
Foiningly
FOIN'INGLY, adverb In a pushing manner.
Foison
FOIS'ON, noun [Latin fusio.] Plenty; abundance. [Not used.]
Foist
FOIST, verb transitive
To insert surreptitiously, wrongfully, or without warrant.
Lest negligence or partiality might admit or foist in abuses and corruption.
FOIST, noun A light and fast sailing ship. obsolete
Foisted
FOIST'ED, participle passive Inserted wrongfully.
Foister
FOIST'ER, noun One who inserts without authority.
Foistied
FOIST'IED, a Mustied. [See Fusty.]
Foistiness
FOIST'INESS, noun Fustiness, which see.
Foisting
FOIST'ING, participle present tense Inserting surreptitiously or without authority.
Foisty
FOIST'Y, a Fusty, which see.
Fold
FOLD, noun [See the verb, to fold ]
1. A pen or inclosure for sheep; a place where a flock of sheep is kept, whether in the field or under shelter.
2. A flock of sheep. Hence in a scriptural sense, the church, the flock of the Shepherd of Israel.
Other sheep I have, which are not of this fold .
3. A limit. [Not in use.]
FOLD, noun
1. The doubling of any flexible substance, as cloth; complication; a plait; one part turned or bent and laid on another; as a fold of linen.
2. In composition, the same quantity added; as two fold four fold ten fold that is, twice as much, four times as much, ten times as much.
FOLD, verb transitive [Heb. The primary sense is to fall, or to lay, to set, throw or press together.]
1. To double; to lap or lay in plaits; as, to fold a piece of cloth.
2. To double and insert one part in another; as, to fold a letter.
3. To double or lay together, as the arms. He folds his arms in despair.
4. To confine sheep in a fold
FOLD, verb intransitive To close over another of the same kind; as, the leaves of the door fold
Foldage
FOLDAGE, noun The right of folding sheep.
Folded
FOLDED, participle passive Doubled; laid in plaits; complicated; kept in a fold.
Folder
FOLDER, noun
1. An instrument used in folding paper.
2. One that folds.
Folding
FOLDING, participle present tense
1. Doubling; laying in plaits; keeping in a fold.
2. adjective Doubling; that may close over another, or that consists of leaves which may close one over another; as a folding door.
FOLDING, noun
1. A fold; a doubling.
2. Among farmers, the keeping of sheep in inclosures on arable land, etc.
Foliaceous
FOLIA'CEOUS, adjective [Latin foliaceus, from folium, a leaf. See Foil.]
1. Leafy; having leaves intermixed with flowers; as a foliaceous spike. foliaceous glands are those situated on leaves.
2. Consisting of leaves or thin lamins; having the form of a leaf or plate; as foliaceous spar.
Foliage
FO'LIAGE, noun [Latin folium, a leaf. See Foil.]
1. Leaves in general; as a tree of beautiful foliage
2. A cluster of leaves, flowers and branches; particularly, the representation of leaves, flowers and branches, in architecture, intended to ornament and enrich capitals, friezes, pediments, etc.
FO'LIAGE, verb transitive To work or to form into the representation of leaves.
Foliaged
FO'LIAGED, adjective Furnished with foliage.
Foliate
FO'LIATE, verb transitive [Latin foliatus, from folium, a leaf. Gr.]
1. To beat into a leaf, or thin plate or lamin.
2. To spread over with a thin coat of tin and quicksilver, etc.; as, to foliate a looking-glass.
FO'LIATE, adjective In botany, leafy; furnished with leaves; as a foliate stalk.
Foliated
FO'LIATED, participle passive
1. Spread or covered with a thin plate or foil.
2. In mineralogy, consisting of plates; resembling or in the form of a plate; lamellar; as a foliated fracture.
Minerals that consist of grains, and are at the same time foliated are called granularly foliated
Foliating
FO'LIATING, participle present tense Covering with a leaf or foil.
Foliation
FOLIA'TION, noun [Latin foliatio.]
1. In botany, the leafing of plants; vernation; the disposition of the nascent leaves within the bud.
2. The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf or foil
3. The act or operation of spreading foil over the back side of a mirror or looking-glass.
Foliature
FO'LIATURE, noun The state of being beaten into foil.
Folier
FO'LIER, noun Goldsmith's foil.
Foliferous
FOLIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin folium, leaf, and fero, to bear.] Producing leaves.
Folio
FO'LIO, noun [Latin folium, a leaf, in folio ]
1. A book of the largest size, formed by once doubling a sheet of paper.
2. Among merchants, a page, or rather both the right and left hand pages of an account book, expressed by the same figure.
Foliole
FO'LIOLE, noun [from Latin folium, a leaf.] A leaflet; one of the single leaves, which together constitute a compound leaf.
Foliomort
FO'LIOMORT, adjective [Latin folium mortuum.] Of a dark yellow color, or that of a faded leaf; filemot.
Folious
FO'LIOUS, adjective
1. Leafy; thin; unsubstantial.
2. In botany, having leaves intermixed with the flowers.
Folk
FOLK, noun foke. [Latin vulgus. The sense is a crowd, from collecting or pressing, not from following, but from the same root, as to follow is to press toward. Gr. Originally and properly it had no plural, being a collective noun; but in modern use, in America, it has lost its singular number, and we hear it only in the plural. It is a colloquial word, not admissible into elegant style.]
1. People in general, or any part of them without distinction. What do folks say respecting the war? Men love to talk about the affairs of other folks.
2. Certain people, discriminated from others; as old folks, and young folks. Children sometimes call their parents, the old folks. So we say sick folks; poor folks; proud folks.
3. In scripture, the singular number is used; as a few sick folk; impotent folk . .
4. Animals.
The coneys are but a feeble folk .
Folkland
FOLKLAND, noun In English law, copyhold land; land held by the common people, at the will of the lord.
Folkmote
FOLKMOTE, noun
An assembly of the people, or of bishops, thanes, aldermen and freemen, to consult respecting public affairs; an annual convention of the people, answering in some measure, to a modern parliament; a word used in England before the Norman conquest, after which, the national Council was called a parliament.
But some authors allege that the folkmote was an inferior meeting or court.
Follicle
FOL'LICLE, noun [Latin folliculus, from follis, a bag or bellows.]
1. In botany, a univalvular pericarp; a seed vessel opening on one side longitudinally, and having the seeds loose in it.
2. An air bag; a vessel distended with air; as at the root in Utricularia, and on the leaves in Aldrovanda.
3. A little bag, in animal bodies; a gland; a folding; a cavity.
Folliculous
FOLLIC'ULOUS, adjective Having or producing follicles.
Folliful
FOL'LIFUL, adjective Full of folly. [Not used.]
Follow
FOL'LOW, verb transitive
1. To go after or behind; to walk, ride or move behind, but in the same direction. Soldiers will usually follow a brave officer.
2. To pursue; to chase; as an enemy, or as game.
3. To accompany; to attend in a journey.
And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode on the camels, and followed the man. .
4. To accompany; to be of the same company; to attend, for any purpose. .
5. To succeed in order of time; to come after; as a storm is followed by a calm.
Signs following signs lead on the mighty year.
6. To be consequential; to result from, as effect from a cause. Intemperance is often followed by disease or poverty, or by both.
7. To result from, as an inference or deduction. It follows from these facts that the accused is guilty.
8. To pursue with the eye; to keep the eyes fixed on a moving body. He followed or his eyes followed the ship, till it was beyond sight.
He followed with his eyes the fleeting shade.
9. To imitate; to copy; as, to follow a pattern or model; to follow fashion.
10. To embrace; to adopt and maintain; to have or entertain like opinions; to think or believe like another; as, to follow the opinions and tenets of a philsophic sect; to follow Plato.
11. To obey; to observe; to practice; to act in conformity to. It is our duty to follow the commands of Christ. Good soldiers follow the orders of their general; good servants follow the directions of their master.
12. To pursue as an object of desire; to endeavor to obtain.
Follow peace with all men. .
13. To use; to practice; to make the chief business; as, to follow the trade of a carpenter; to follow the profession of law.
14. To adhere to; to side with.
The house of Judah followed David. .
15. To adhere to; to honor; to worship; to serve.
If the Lord be God, follow him. .
16. To be led or guided by.
Wo to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing. .
17. To move on in the same course or direction; to be guided by; as, to follow a track or course.
FOL'LOW, verb intransitive
1. To come after another.
The famine - shall follow close after you. .
2. To attend; to accompany.
3. To be posterior in time; as following ages.
4. To be consequential, as effect to cause. From such measures, great mischiefs must follow
5. To result, as an inference. The facts may be admitted, but the inference drawn from them does not follow
To follow on, to continue pursuit or endeavor; to persevere.
Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord.
Followed
FOL'LOWED, participle passive Pursued; succeeded; accompanied; attended; imitated; obeyed; observed; practiced; adhered to.
Follower
FOL'LOWER, noun
1. One who comes, goes or moves after another, in the same course.
2. One that takes another as his guide in doctrines, opinions or example; one who receives the opinions, and imitates the example of another; an adherent; an imitator.
That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who, through faith and patience, inherit the promises. .
3. One who obeys, worships and honors.
Be ye followers of God, as dear children. .
4. An adherent; a disciple; one who embraces the same system; as a follower of Plato.
5. An attendant; a companion; an associate or a dependent. The warrior distributed the plunder among his followers.
No follower but a friend.
6. One under the command of another.
7. One of the same faction or party.
Following
FOL'LOWING, participle present tense Coming or going after or behind; pursuing; attending; imitating; succeeding in time; resulting from as an effect or an inference; adhering to; obeying, observing; using, practicing; proceeding in the same course.
Folly
FOL'LY, noun [See Fool.]
1. Weakness of intellect; imbecility of mind. want of understanding.
A fool layeth open his folly .
2. A weak or absurd act not highly criminal; an act which is inconsistent with the dictates of reason, or with the ordinary rules of prudence. In this sense it may be used in the singular, but is generally in the plural. Hence we speak of the follies of youth.
3. An absurd act which is highly sinful; any conduct contrary to the laws of God or man; sin; scandalous crimes; that which violates moral precepts and dishonors the offender. Shechem wrought folly in Israel. Achan wrought folly in Israel. . .
4. Criminal weakness; depravity of mind.
Fomahant
FO'MAHANT, noun A star of the first magnitude, in the constellation Aquarius.
Foment
FOMENT', verb transitive [Latin fomento, from foveo, to warm.]
1. To apply warm lotions to; to bathe with warm medicated liquors, or with flannel dipped in warm water.
2. To cherish with heat; to encourage growth. [Not usual.]
3. To encourage; to abet; to cherish and promote by excitements; in a bad sense; as, to foment ill humors.
So we say, to foment troubles or disturbances; to foment intestine broils.
Fomentation
FOMENTA'TION, noun
1. The act of applying warm liquors to a part of the body, by means of flannels dipped in hot water or medicated decoctions, for the purpose of easing pain, by relaxing the skin, or of discussing tumors.
2. The lotion applied, or to be applied to a diseased part.
3. Excitation; instigation, encouragement.
Fomented
FOMENT'ED, participle passive Bathed with warm lotions; encouraged.
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.