Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter F - Page 10

Fash (v. t.) To vex; to tease; to trouble.

Fash (n.) Vexation; anxiety; care.

Fashion (n.) The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; as, the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.; workmanship; execution.

Fashion (n.) The prevailing mode or style, especially of dress; custom or conventional usage in respect of dress, behavior, etiquette, etc.; particularly, the mode or style usual among persons of good breeding; as, to dress, dance, sing, ride, etc., in the fashion.

Fashion (n.) Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding; as, men of fashion.

Fashion (n.) Mode of action; method of conduct; manner; custom; sort; way.

Fashioned (imp. & p. p.) of Fashion

Fashioning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fashion

Fashion (v. t.) To form; to give shape or figure to; to mold.

Fashion (v. t.) To fit; to adapt; to accommodate; -- with to.

Fashion (v. t.) To make according to the rule prescribed by custom.

Fashion (v. t.) To forge or counterfeit.

Fashionable (a.) Conforming to the fashion or established mode; according with the prevailing form or style; as, a fashionable dress.

Fashionable (a.) Established or favored by custom or use; current; prevailing at a particular time; as, the fashionable philosophy; fashionable opinions.

Fashionable (a.) Observant of the fashion or customary mode; dressing or behaving according to the prevailing fashion; as, a fashionable man.

Fashionable (a.) Genteel; well-bred; as, fashionable society.

Fashionable (n.) A person who conforms to the fashions; -- used chiefly in the plural.

Fashionableness (n.) State of being fashionable.

Fashionably (adv.) In a fashionable manner.

Fashioned (a.) Having a certain style or fashion; as old-fashioned; new-fashioned.

Fashioner (n.) One who fashions, forms, ar gives shape to anything.

Fashionist (n.) An obsequious follower of the modes and fashions.

Fashionless (a.) Having no fashion.

Fashion-monger (n.) One who studies the fashions; a fop; a dandy.

Fashion-mongering (a.) Behaving like a fashion-monger.

Fassaite (n.) A variety of pyroxene, from the valley of Fassa, in the Tyrol.

Fasted (imp. & p. p.) of Fast

Fasting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fast

Fast (v. i.) To abstain from food; to omit to take nourishment in whole or in part; to go hungry.

Fast (v. i.) To practice abstinence as a religious exercise or duty; to abstain from food voluntarily for a time, for the mortification of the body or appetites, or as a token of grief, or humiliation and penitence.

Fast (v. i.) Abstinence from food; omission to take nourishment.

Fast (v. i.) Voluntary abstinence from food, for a space of time, as a spiritual discipline, or as a token of religious humiliation.

Fast (v. i.) A time of fasting, whether a day, week, or longer time; a period of abstinence from food or certain kinds of food; as, an annual fast.

Fast (v.) Firmly fixed; closely adhering; made firm; not loose, unstable, or easily moved; immovable; as, to make fast the door.

Fast (v.) Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable; strong.

Fast (v.) Firm in adherence; steadfast; not easily separated or alienated; faithful; as, a fast friend.

Fast (v.) Permanent; not liable to fade by exposure to air or by washing; durable; lasting; as, fast colors.

Fast (v.) Tenacious; retentive.

Fast (v.) Not easily disturbed or broken; deep; sound.

Fast (v.) Moving rapidly; quick in mition; rapid; swift; as, a fast horse.

Fast (v.) Given to pleasure seeking; disregardful of restraint; reckless; wild; dissipated; dissolute; as, a fast man; a fast liver.

Fast (a.) In a fast, fixed, or firmly established manner; fixedly; firmly; immovably.

Fast (a.) In a fast or rapid manner; quickly; swiftly; extravagantly; wildly; as, to run fast; to live fast.

Fast (n.) That which fastens or holds; especially, (Naut.) a mooring rope, hawser, or chain; -- called, according to its position, a bow, head, quarter, breast, or stern fast; also, a post on a pier around which hawsers are passed in mooring.

Fastened (imp. & p. p.) of Fasten

Fastening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fasten

Fasten (a.) To fix firmly; to make fast; to secure, as by a knot, lock, bolt, etc.; as, to fasten a chain to the feet; to fasten a door or window.

Fasten (a.) To cause to hold together or to something else; to attach or unite firmly; to cause to cleave to something , or to cleave together, by any means; as, to fasten boards together with nails or cords; to fasten anything in our thoughts.

Fasten (a.) To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to lay on; as, to fasten a blow.

Fasten (v. i.) To fix one's self; to take firm hold; to clinch; to cling.

Fastener (n.) One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.

Fastening (n.) Anything that binds and makes fast, as a lock, catch, bolt, bar, buckle, etc.

Faster (n.) One who abstains from food.

Fast-handed (a.) Close-handed; close-fisted; covetous; avaricious.

Fasti (n.pl.) The Roman calendar, which gave the days for festivals, courts, etc., corresponding to a modern almanac.

Fasti (n.pl.) Records or registers of important events.

Fastidiosity (n.) Fastidiousness; squeamishness.

Fastidious (a.) Difficult to please; delicate to a fault; suited with difficulty; squeamish; as, a fastidious mind or ear; a fastidious appetite.

Fastigiate (a.) Alt. of Fastigiated

Fastigiated (a.) Narrowing towards the top.

Fastigiated (a.) Clustered, parallel, and upright, as the branches of the Lombardy poplar; pointed.

Fastigiated (a.) United into a conical bundle, or into a bundle with an enlarged head, like a sheaf of wheat.

Fastish (a.) Rather fast; also, somewhat dissipated.

Fastly (adv.) Firmly; surely.

Fastness (a.) The state of being fast and firm; firmness; fixedness; security; faithfulness.

Fastness (a.) A fast place; a stronghold; a fortress or fort; a secure retreat; a castle; as, the enemy retired to their fastnesses in the mountains.

Fastness (a.) Conciseness of style.

Fastness (a.) The state of being fast or swift.

Fastuous (a.) Proud; haughty; disdainful.

Fat (n.) A large tub, cistern, or vessel; a vat.

Fat (n.) A measure of quantity, differing for different commodities.

Fat (superl.) Abounding with fat

Fat (superl.) Fleshy; characterized by fatness; plump; corpulent; not lean; as, a fat man; a fat ox.

Fat (superl.) Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich; -- said of food.

Fat (superl.) Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid.

Fat (superl.) Fertile; productive; as, a fat soil; a fat pasture.

Fat (superl.) Rich; producing a large income; desirable; as, a fat benefice; a fat office; a fat job.

Fat (superl.) Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate.

Fat (superl.) Of a character which enables the compositor to make large wages; -- said of matter containing blank, cuts, or many leads, etc.; as, a fat take; a fat page.

Fat (n.) An oily liquid or greasy substance making up the main bulk of the adipose tissue of animals, and widely distributed in the seeds of plants. See Adipose tissue, under Adipose.

Fat (n.) The best or richest productions; the best part; as, to live on the fat of the land.

Fat (n.) Work. containing much blank, or its equivalent, and, therefore, profitable to the compositor.

Fatted (imp. & p. p.) of Fat

atting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fat

Fat (a.) To make fat; to fatten; to make plump and fleshy with abundant food; as, to fat fowls or sheep.

Fat (v. i.) To grow fat, plump, and fleshy.

Fatal (a.) Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny; necessary; inevitable.

Fatal (a.) Foreboding death or great disaster.

Fatal (a.) Causing death or destruction; deadly; mortal; destructive; calamitous; as, a fatal wound; a fatal disease; a fatal day; a fatal error.

Fatalism (n.) The doctrine that all things are subject to fate, or that they take place by inevitable necessity.

Fatalist (n.) One who maintains that all things happen by inevitable necessity.

Fatalistic (a.) Implying, or partaking of the nature of, fatalism.

Fatalities (pl. ) of Fatality

Fatality (n.) The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.

Fatality (n.) The state of being fatal; tendency to destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate; mortaility.

Fatality (n.) That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event.

Fatally (adv.) In a manner proceeding from, or determined by, fate.

Fatally (adv.) In a manner issuing in death or ruin; mortally; destructively; as, fatally deceived or wounded.

Fatalness (n.) Quality of being fatal.

Fata Morgana () A kind of mirage by which distant objects appear inverted, distorted, displaced, or multiplied. It is noticed particularly at the Straits of Messina, between Calabria and Sicily.

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