Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter F - Page 23

Fiendish (a.) Like a fiend; diabolically wicked or cruel; infernal; malignant; devilish; hellish.

Fiendlike (a.) Fiendish; diabolical.

Fiendly (a.) Fiendlike; monstrous; devilish.

Fierasfer (n.) A genus of small, slender fishes, remarkable for their habit of living as commensals in other animals. One species inhabits the gill cavity of the pearl oyster near Panama; another lives within an East Indian holothurian.

Fierce (superl.) Furious; violent; unrestrained; impetuous; as, a fierce wind.

Fierce (superl.) Vehement in anger or cruelty; ready or eager to kill or injure; of a nature to inspire terror; ferocious.

Fierce (superl.) Excessively earnest, eager, or ardent.

Fieri facias () A judicial writ that lies for one who has recovered in debt or damages, commanding the sheriff that he cause to be made of the goods, chattels, or real estate of the defendant, the sum claimed.

Fieriness (n.) The quality of being fiery; heat; acrimony; irritability; as, a fieriness of temper.

Fiery (a.) Consisting of, containing, or resembling, fire; as, the fiery gulf of Etna; a fiery appearance.

Fiery (a.) Vehement; ardent; very active; impetuous.

Fiery (a.) Passionate; easily provoked; irritable.

Fiery (a.) Unrestrained; fierce; mettlesome; spirited.

Fiery (a.) heated by fire, or as if by fire; burning hot; parched; feverish.

Fife (n.) A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music.

Fifed (imp. & p. p.) of Fife

fifing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fife

Fife (v. i.) To play on a fife.

Fifer (n.) One who plays on a fife.

Fifteen (a.) Five and ten; one more than fourteen.

Fifteen (n.) The sum of five and ten; fifteen units or objects.

Fifteen (n.) A symbol representing fifteen units, as 15, or xv.

Fifteenth (a.) Next in order after the fourteenth; -- the ordinal of fifteen.

Fifteenth (a.) Consisting of one of fifteen equal parts or divisions of a thing.

Fifteenth (n.) One of fifteen equal parts or divisions; the quotient of a unit divided by fifteen.

Fifteenth (n.) A species of tax upon personal property formerly laid on towns, boroughs, etc., in England, being one fifteenth part of what the personal property in each town, etc., had been valued at.

Fifteenth (n.) A stop in an organ tuned two octaves above the diaposon.

Fifteenth (n.) An interval consisting of two octaves.

Fifth (a.) Next in order after the fourth; -- the ordinal of five.

Fifth (a.) Consisting of one of five equal divisions of a thing.

Fifth (n.) The quotient of a unit divided by five; one of five equal parts; a fifth part.

Fifth (n.) The interval of three tones and a semitone, embracing five diatonic degrees of the scale; the dominant of any key.

Fifthly (adv.) In the fifth place; as the fifth in order.

Fiftieth (a.) Next in order after the forty-ninth; -- the ordinal of fifty.

Fiftieth (a.) Consisting of one of fifty equal parts or divisions.

Fiftieth (n.) One of fifty equal parts; the quotient of a unit divided by fifty.

Fifty (a.) Five times ten; as, fifty men.

Fifties (pl. ) of Fifty

Fifty (n.) The sum of five tens; fifty units or objects.

Fifty (n.) A symbol representing fifty units, as 50, or l.

Fig (n.) A small fruit tree (Ficus Carica) with large leaves, known from the remotest antiquity. It was probably native from Syria westward to the Canary Islands.

Fig (n.) The fruit of a fig tree, which is of round or oblong shape, and of various colors.

Fig (n.) A small piece of tobacco.

Fig (n.) The value of a fig, practically nothing; a fico; -- used in scorn or contempt.

Fig (n.) To insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion. See Fico.

Fig (n.) To put into the head of, as something useless o/ contemptible.

Fig (n.) Figure; dress; array.

Figaro (n.) An adroit and unscrupulous intriguer.

Figary (n.) A frolic; a vagary; a whim.

Figeater (n.) A large beetle (Allorhina nitida) which in the Southern United States destroys figs. The elytra are velvety green with pale borders.

Figeater (n.) A bird. See Figpecker.

Figent (a.) Fidgety; restless.

Figgum (n.) A juggler's trick; conjuring.

Fought (imp. & p. p.) of Fight

Fighting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fight

Fight (v. i.) To strive or contend for victory, with armies or in single combat; to attempt to defeat, subdue, or destroy an enemy, either by blows or weapons; to contend in arms; -- followed by with or against.

Fight (v. i.) To act in opposition to anything; to struggle against; to contend; to strive; to make resistance.

Fight (v. t.) To carry on, or wage, as a conflict, or battle; to win or gain by struggle, as one's way; to sustain by fighting, as a cause.

Fight (v. t.) To contend with in battle; to war against; as, they fought the enemy in two pitched battles; the sloop fought the frigate for three hours.

Fight (v. t.) To cause to fight; to manage or maneuver in a fight; as, to fight cocks; to fight one's ship.

Fight (v. i.) A battle; an engagement; a contest in arms; a combat; a violent conflict or struggle for victory, between individuals or between armies, ships, or navies, etc.

Fight (v. i.) A struggle or contest of any kind.

Fight (v. i.) Strength or disposition for fighting; pugnacity; as, he has a great deal of fight in him.

Fight (v. i.) A screen for the combatants in ships.

Fighter (n.) One who fights; a combatant; a warrior.

Fighting (a.) Qualified for war; fit for battle.

Fighting (a.) Occupied in war; being the scene of a battle; as, a fighting field.

Fightingly (adv.) Pugnaciously.

Fightwite (n.) A mulct or fine imposed on a person for making a fight or quarrel to the disturbance of the peace.

Figment (n.) An invention; a fiction; something feigned or imagined.

Pigpecker (n.) The European garden warbler (Sylvia, / Currica, hortensis); -- called also beccafico and greater pettychaps.

Fig-shell (n.) A marine univalve shell of the genus Pyrula, or Ficula, resembling a fig in form.

Figulate (a.) Alt. of Figulated

Figulated (a.) Made of potter's clay; molded; shaped.

Figuline (n.) A piece of pottery ornamented with representations of natural objects.

Figurability (n.) The quality of being figurable.

Figurable (a.) Capable of being brought to a fixed form or shape.

Figural (a.) Represented by figure or delineation; consisting of figures; as, figural ornaments.

Figural (a.) Figurate. See Figurate.

Figurant (n. masc.) One who dances at the opera, not singly, but in groups or figures; an accessory character on the stage, who figures in its scenes, but has nothing to say; hence, one who figures in any scene, without taking a prominent part.

Figurante (n. fem.) A female figurant; esp., a ballet girl.

Figurate (a.) Of a definite form or figure.

Figurate (a.) Figurative; metaphorical.

Figurate (a.) Florid; figurative; involving passing discords by the freer melodic movement of one or more parts or voices in the harmony; as, figurate counterpoint or descant.

Figurated (a.) Having a determinate form.

Figurately (adv.) In a figurate manner.

Figuration (n.) The act of giving figure or determinate form; determination to a certain form.

Figuration (n.) Mixture of concords and discords.

Figurative (a.) Representing by a figure, or by resemblance; typical; representative.

Figurative (a.) Used in a sense that is tropical, as a metaphor; not literal; -- applied to words and expressions.

Figurative (a.) Abounding in figures of speech; flowery; florid; as, a highly figurative description.

Figurative (a.) Relating to the representation of form or figure by drawing, carving, etc. See Figure, n., 2.

Figure (n.) The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance.

Figure (n.) The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modeling, carving, embroidering, etc.; especially, a representation of the human body; as, a figure in bronze; a figure cut in marble.

Figure (n.) A pattern in cloth, paper, or other manufactured article; a design wrought out in a fabric; as, the muslin was of a pretty figure.

Figure (n.) A diagram or drawing; made to represent a magnitude or the relation of two or more magnitudes; a surface or space inclosed on all sides; -- called superficial when inclosed by lines, and solid when inclosed by surface; any arrangement made up of points, lines, angles, surfaces, etc.

Figure (n.) The appearance or impression made by the conduct or carrer of a person; as, a sorry figure.

Figure (n.) Distinguished appearance; magnificence; conspicuous representation; splendor; show.

Figure (n.) A character or symbol representing a number; a numeral; a digit; as, 1, 2,3, etc.

Figure (n.) Value, as expressed in numbers; price; as, the goods are estimated or sold at a low figure.

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