Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter F - Page 13

Fawner (n.) One who fawns; a sycophant.

Fawningly (adv.) In a fawning manner.

Faxed (a.) Hairy.

Fay (n.) A fairy; an elf.

Fay (n.) Faith; as, by my fay.

fayed (imp. & p. p.) of Fay

Faying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fay

Fay (v. t.) To fit; to join; to unite closely, as two pieces of wood, so as to make the surface fit together.

Fay (v. i.) To lie close together; to fit; to fadge; -- often with in, into, with, or together.

Fayalite (n.) A black, greenish, or brownish mineral of the chrysolite group. It is a silicate of iron.

Fayence (n.) See Fa/ence.

Faytour (n.) See Faitour.

Faze (v. t.) See Feeze.

Fazzolet (n.) A handkerchief.

Feaberry (n.) A gooseberry.

Feague (v. t.) To beat or whip; to drive.

Feal (a.) Faithful; loyal.

Fealty (n.) Fidelity to one's lord; the feudal obligation by which the tenant or vassal was bound to be faithful to his lord; the special oath by which this obligation was assumed; fidelity to a superior power, or to a government; loyality. It is no longer the practice to exact the performance of fealty, as a feudal obligation.

Fealty (n.) Fidelity; constancy; faithfulness, as of a friend to a friend, or of a wife to her husband.

Fear (n.) A variant of Fere, a mate, a companion.

Fear (n.) A painful emotion or passion excited by the expectation of evil, or the apprehension of impending danger; apprehension; anxiety; solicitude; alarm; dread.

Fear (n.) Apprehension of incurring, or solicitude to avoid, God's wrath; the trembling and awful reverence felt toward the Supreme Belng.

Fear (n.) Respectful reverence for men of authority or worth.

Fear (n.) That which causes, or which is the object of, apprehension or alarm; source or occasion of terror; danger; dreadfulness.

Feared (imp. & p. p.) of Fear

Fearing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fear

Fear (n.) To feel a painful apprehension of; to be afraid of; to consider or expect with emotion of alarm or solicitude.

Fear (n.) To have a reverential awe of; to solicitous to avoid the displeasure of.

Fear (n.) To be anxious or solicitous for.

Fear (n.) To suspect; to doubt.

Fear (n.) To affright; to terrify; to drive away or prevent approach of by fear.

Fear (v. i.) To be in apprehension of evil; to be afraid; to feel anxiety on account of some expected evil.

Fearer (n.) One who fars.

Fearful (a.) Full of fear, apprehension, or alarm; afraid; frightened.

Fearful (a.) inclined to fear; easily frightened; without courage; timid.

Fearful (a.) Indicating, or caused by, fear.

Fearful (a.) Inspiring fear or awe; exciting apprehension or terror; terrible; frightful; dreadful.

Fearfully (adv.) In a fearful manner.

Fearfulness (n.) The state of being fearful.

Fearless (a.) Free from fear.

Fearnaught (n.) A fearless person.

Fearnaught (n.) A stout woolen cloth of great thickness; dreadnaught; also, a warm garment.

Fearsome (a.) Frightful; causing fear.

Fearsome (a.) Easily frightened; timid; timorous.

Feasibilities (pl. ) of Feasibility

Feasibility (n.) The quality of being feasible; practicability; also, that which is feasible; as, before we adopt a plan, let us consider its feasibility.

Feasible (a.) Capable of being done, executed, or effected; practicable.

Feasible (a.) Fit to be used or tailed, as land.

Feast (n.) A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary.

Feast (n.) A festive or joyous meal; a grand, ceremonious, or sumptuous entertainment, of which many guests partake; a banquet characterized by tempting variety and abundance of food.

Feast (n.) That which is partaken of, or shared in, with delight; something highly agreeable; entertainment.

Feasted (imp. & p. p.) of Feast

Feasting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Feast

Feast (n.) To eat sumptuously; to dine or sup on rich provisions, particularly in large companies, and on public festivals.

Feast (n.) To be highly gratified or delighted.

Feast (v. t.) To entertain with sumptuous provisions; to treat at the table bountifully; as, he was feasted by the king.

Feast (v. t.) To delight; to gratify; as, to feast the soul.

Feaster (n.) One who fares deliciously.

Feaster (n.) One who entertains magnificently.

Feastful (a.) Festive; festal; joyful; sumptuous; luxurious.

Feat (n.) An act; a deed; an exploit.

Feat (n.) A striking act of strength, skill, or cunning; a trick; as, feats of horsemanship, or of dexterity.

Feat (v. t.) To form; to fashion.

Feat (n.) Dexterous in movements or service; skillful; neat; nice; pretty.

Feat-bodied (a.) Having a feat or trim body.

Feateous (a.) Dexterous; neat.

Feather (n.) One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down.

Feather (n.) Kind; nature; species; -- from the proverbial phrase, "Birds of a feather," that is, of the same species.

Feather (n.) The fringe of long hair on the legs of the setter and some other dogs.

Feather (n.) A tuft of peculiar, long, frizzly hair on a horse.

Feather (n.) One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.

Feather (n.) A longitudinal strip projecting as a fin from an object, to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sidwise but permit motion lengthwise; a spline.

Feather (n.) A thin wedge driven between the two semicylindrical parts of a divided plug in a hole bored in a stone, to rend the stone.

Feather (n.) The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.

Feathered (imp. & p. p.) of Feather

Feathering. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Feather

Feather (v. t.) To furnish with a feather or feathers, as an arrow or a cap.

Feather (v. t.) To adorn, as with feathers; to fringe.

Feather (v. t.) To render light as a feather; to give wings to.

Feather (v. t.) To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.

Feather (v. t.) To tread, as a cock.

Feather (v. i.) To grow or form feathers; to become feathered; -- often with out; as, the birds are feathering out.

Feather (v. i.) To curdle when poured into another liquid, and float about in little flakes or "feathers;" as, the cream feathers

Feather (v. i.) To turn to a horizontal plane; -- said of oars.

Feather (v. i.) To have the appearance of a feather or of feathers; to be or to appear in feathery form.

Feather-brained/ (a.) Giddy; frivolous; feather-headed.

Feathered (a.) Clothed, covered, or fitted with (or as with) feathers or wings; as, a feathered animal; a feathered arrow.

Feathered (a.) Furnished with anything featherlike; ornamented; fringed; as, land feathered with trees.

Feathered (a.) Having a fringe of feathers, as the legs of certian birds; or of hairs, as the legs of a setter dog.

Feathered (a.) Having feathers; -- said of an arrow, when the feathers are of a tincture different from that of the shaft.

Feather-edge/ (n.) The thin, new growth around the edge of a shell, of an oyster.

Feather-edge/ (n.) Any thin, as on a board or a razor.

Feather-edged/ (a.) Having a feather-edge; also, having one edge thinner than the other, as a board; -- in the United States, said only of stuff one edge of which is made as thin as practicable.

Feather-few/ (n.) Feverfew.

Feather-foil (n.) An aquatic plant (Hottonia palustris), having finely divided leaves.

Feather-head (n.) A frivolous or featherbrained person.

Feather-headed (a.) Giddy; frivolous; foolish.

Feather-heeled (a.) Light-heeled; gay; frisky; frolicsome.

Featherness (n.) The state or condition of being feathery.

Feathering (n.) Same as Foliation.

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