Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter F - Page 31

Fixation (n.) The act of uniting chemically with a solid substance or in a solid form; reduction to a non-volatile condition; -- said of gaseous elements.

Fixation (n.) The act or process of ceasing to be fluid and becoming firm.

Fixation (n.) A state of resistance to evaporation or volatilization by heat; -- said of metals.

Fixative (n.) That which serves to set or fix colors or drawings, as a mordant.

Fixed (a.) Securely placed or fastened; settled; established; firm; imovable; unalterable.

Fixed (a.) Stable; non-volatile.

Fixedly (adv.) In a fixed, stable, or constant manner.

Fixedness (n.) The state or quality of being fixed; stability; steadfastness.

Fixedness (n.) The quality of a body which resists evaporation or volatilization by heat; solidity; cohesion of parts; as, the fixedness of gold.

Fixidity (n.) Fixedness.

Fixing (n.) The act or process of making fixed.

Fixing (n.) That which is fixed; a fixture.

Fixing (n.) Arrangements; embellishments; trimmings; accompaniments.

Fixity (n.) Fixedness; as, fixity of tenure; also, that which is fixed.

Fixity (n.) Coherence of parts.

Fixture (n.) That which is fixed or attached to something as a permanent appendage; as, the fixtures of a pump; the fixtures of a farm or of a dwelling, that is, the articles which a tenant may not take away.

Fixture (n.) State of being fixed; fixedness.

Fixture (n.) Anything of an accessory character annexed to houses and lands, so as to constitute a part of them. This term is, however, quite frequently used in the peculiar sense of personal chattels annexed to lands and tenements, but removable by the person annexing them, or his personal representatives. In this latter sense, the same things may be fixtures under some circumstances, and not fixtures under others.

Fixure (n.) Fixed position; stable condition; firmness.

Fizgig (n.) A fishgig.

Fizgig (n.) A firework, made of damp powder, which makes a fizzing or hissing noise when it explodes.

Fizgig (n.) A gadding, flirting girl.

Fizzed (imp. & p. p.) of Fizz

Fizzing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fizz

Fizz (v. i.) To make a hissing sound, as a burning fuse.

Fizz (n.) A hissing sound; as, the fizz of a fly.

Fizzled (imp. & p. p.) of Fizzle

Fizzling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fizzle

Fizzle (v. i.) To make a hissing sound.

Fizzle (v. i.) To make a ridiculous failure in an undertaking.

Fizzle (n.) A failure or abortive effort.

Fjord (n.) See Fiord.

Flabbergast (v. t.) To astonish; to strike with wonder, esp. by extraordinary statements.

Flabbergastation (n.) The state of being flabbergasted.

Flabbily (adv.) In a flabby manner.

Flabbiness (n.) Quality or state of being flabby.

Flabby (a.) Yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; wanting firmness; flaccid; as, flabby flesh.

Flabel (n.) A fan.

Flabellate (a.) Flabelliform.

Flabellation (n.) The act of keeping fractured limbs cool by the use of a fan or some other contrivance.

Flabelliform (a.) Having the form of a fan; fan-shaped; flabellate.

Flabellinerved (a.) Having many nerves diverging radiately from the base; -- said of a leaf.

Flabellum (n.) A fan; especially, the fan carried before the pope on state occasions, made in ostrich and peacock feathers.

Flabile (a.) Liable to be blown about.

Flaccid (a.) Yielding to pressure for want of firmness and stiffness; soft and weak; limber; lax; drooping; flabby; as, a flaccid muscle; flaccid flesh.

Flaccidity (n.) The state of being flaccid.

Flacker (v. i.) To flutter, as a bird.

Flacket (n.) A barrel-shaped bottle; a flagon.

Flagged (imp. & p. p.) of Flag

Flagging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flag

Flag (v. i.) To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.

Flag (v. i.) To droop; to grow spiritless; to lose vigor; to languish; as, the spirits flag; the streugth flags.

Flag (v. t.) To let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness; as, to flag the wings.

Flag (v. t.) To enervate; to exhaust the vigor or elasticity of.

Flag (n.) That which flags or hangs down loosely.

Flag (n.) A cloth usually bearing a device or devices and used to indicate nationality, party, etc., or to give or ask information; -- commonly attached to a staff to be waved by the wind; a standard; a banner; an ensign; the colors; as, the national flag; a military or a naval flag.

Flag (n.) A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc.

Flag (n.) A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks.

Flag (n.) The bushy tail of a dog, as of a setter.

Flag (v. t.) To signal to with a flag; as, to flag a train.

Flag (v. t.) To convey, as a message, by means of flag signals; as, to flag an order to troops or vessels at a distance.

Flag (n.) An aquatic plant, with long, ensiform leaves, belonging to either of the genera Iris and Acorus.

Flag (v. t.) To furnish or deck out with flags.

Flag (n.) A flat stone used for paving.

Flag (n.) Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.

Flag (v. t.) To lay with flags of flat stones.

Flagellant (n.) One of a fanatical sect which flourished in Europe in the 13th and 14th centuries, and maintained that flagellation was of equal virtue with baptism and the sacrament; -- called also disciplinant.

Flagellata (v. t.) An order of Infusoria, having one or two long, whiplike cilia, at the anterior end. It includes monads. See Infusoria, and Monad.

Flagellated (imp. & p. p.) of Flagellate

Flagellating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flagellate

Flagellate (v. t.) To whip; to scourge; to flog.

Flagellate (a.) Flagelliform.

Flagellate (a.) Of or pertaining to the Flagellata.

Flagellation (n.) A beating or flogging; a whipping; a scourging.

Flagellator (n.) One who practices flagellation; one who whips or scourges.

Flagelliform (a.) Shaped like a whiplash; long, slender, round, flexible, and (comming) tapering.

Flagellums (pl. ) of Flagellum

Flagella (pl. ) of Flagellum

Flagellum (v. t.) A young, flexible shoot of a plant; esp., the long trailing branch of a vine, or a slender branch in certain mosses.

Flagellum (v. t.) A long, whiplike cilium. See Flagellata.

Flagellum (v. t.) An appendage of the reproductive apparatus of the snail.

Flagellum (v. t.) A lashlike appendage of a crustacean, esp. the terminal ortion of the antennae and the epipodite of the maxilipeds. See Maxilliped.

Flageolet (n.) A small wooden pipe, having six or more holes, and a mouthpiece inserted at one end. It produces a shrill sound, softer than of the piccolo flute, and is said to have superseded the old recorder.

Flagginess (n.) The condition of being flaggy; laxity; limberness.

Flagging (n.) A pavement or sidewalk of flagstones; flagstones, collectively.

Flagging (a.) Growing languid, weak, or spiritless; weakening; delaying.

Flaggy (a.) Weak; flexible; limber.

Flaggy (a.) Tasteless; insipid; as, a flaggy apple.

Flaggy (a.) Abounding with the plant called flag; as, a flaggy marsh.

Flagitate (v. t.) To importune; to demand fiercely or with passion.

Flagitation (n.) Importunity; urgent demand.

Flagitious (a.) Disgracefully or shamefully criminal; grossly wicked; scandalous; shameful; -- said of acts, crimes, etc.

Flagitious (a.) Guilty of enormous crimes; corrupt; profligate; -- said of persons.

Flagitious (a.) Characterized by scandalous crimes or vices; as, flagitious times.

Flagmen (pl. ) of Flagman

Flagman (n.) One who makes signals with a flag.

Flagon (n.) A vessel with a narrow mouth, used for holding and conveying liquors. It is generally larger than a bottle, and of leather or stoneware rather than of glass.

Flagrance (n.) Flagrancy.

Flagrancies (pl. ) of Flagrancy

Flagrancy (n.) A burning; great heat; inflammation.

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