Footpace (n.) A dais, or elevated platform; the highest step of the altar; a landing in a staircase.
Footpad (n.) A highwayman or robber on foot.
Footpaths (pl. ) of Footpath
Footpath (n.) A narrow path or way for pedestrains only; a footway.
Footplate (n.) See Footboard (a).
Foot pound () A unit of energy, or work, being equal to the work done in raising one pound avoirdupois against the force of gravity the height of one foot.
Foot poundal () A unit of energy or work, equal to the work done in moving a body through one foot against the force of one poundal.
Footprint (n.) The impression of the foot; a trace or footmark; as, "Footprints of the Creator."
Footrope (n.) The rope rigged below a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling; -- formerly called a horse.
Footrope (n.) That part of the boltrope to which the lower edge of a sail is sewed.
Foots (n. pl.) The settlings of oil, molasses, etc., at the bottom of a barrel or hogshead.
Foot-sore (a.) Having sore or tender feet, as by reason of much walking; as, foot-sore cattle.
Footstalk (n.) The stalk of a leaf or of flower; a petiole, pedicel, or reduncle.
Footstalk (n.) The peduncle or stem by which various marine animals are attached, as certain brachiopods and goose barnacles.
Footstalk (n.) The stem which supports which supports the eye in decapod Crustacea; eyestalk.
Footstalk (n.) The lower part of a millstone spindle. It rests in a step.
Footstall (n.) The stirrup of a woman's saddle.
Footstall (n.) The plinth or base of a pillar.
Footstep (n.) The mark or impression of the foot; a track; hence, visible sign of a course pursued; token; mark; as, the footsteps of divine wisdom.
Footstep (n.) An inclined plane under a hand printing press.
Footstone (n.) The stone at the foot of a grave; -- opposed to headstone.
Footstool (n.) A low stool to support the feet of one when sitting.
Footway (n.) A passage for pedestrians only.
Footworn (a.) Worn by, or weared in, the feet; as, a footworn path; a footworn traveler.
Footy (a.) Having foots, or settlings; as, footy oil, molasses, etc.
Footy (a.) Poor; mean.
Fop (n.) One whose ambition it is to gain admiration by showy dress; a coxcomb; an inferior dandy.
Fop-doodle (n.) A stupid or insignificant fellow; a fool; a simpleton.
Fopling (n.) A petty fop.
Fopperies (pl. ) of Foppery
Foppery (n.) The behavior, dress, or other indication of a fop; coxcombry; affectation of show; showy folly.
Foppery (n.) Folly; foolery.
Foppish (a.) Foplike; characteristic of a top in dress or manners; making an ostentatious display of gay clothing; affected in manners.
For- () A prefix to verbs, having usually the force of a negative or privative. It often implies also loss, detriment, or destruction, and sometimes it is intensive, meaning utterly, quite thoroughly, as in forbathe.
For (prep.) In the most general sense, indicating that in consideration of, in view of, or with reference to, which anything is done or takes place.
For (prep.) Indicating the antecedent cause or occasion of an action; the motive or inducement accompanying and prompting to an act or state; the reason of anything; that on account of which a thing is or is done.
For (prep.) Indicating the remoter and indirect object of an act; the end or final cause with reference to which anything is, acts, serves, or is done.
For (prep.) Indicating that in favor of which, or in promoting which, anything is, or is done; hence, in behalf of; in favor of; on the side of; -- opposed to against.
For (prep.) Indicating that toward which the action of anything is directed, or the point toward which motion is made; /ntending to go to.
For (prep.) Indicating that on place of or instead of which anything acts or serves, or that to which a substitute, an equivalent, a compensation, or the like, is offered or made; instead of, or place of.
For (prep.) Indicating that in the character of or as being which anything is regarded or treated; to be, or as being.
For (prep.) Indicating that instead of which something else controls in the performing of an action, or that in spite of which anything is done, occurs, or is; hence, equivalent to notwithstanding, in spite of; -- generally followed by all, aught, anything, etc.
For (prep.) Indicating the space or time through which an action or state extends; hence, during; in or through the space or time of.
For (prep.) Indicating that in prevention of which, or through fear of which, anything is done.
For (conj.) Because; by reason that; for that; indicating, in Old English, the reason of anything.
For (conj.) Since; because; introducing a reason of something before advanced, a cause, motive, explanation, justification, or the like, of an action related or a statement made. It is logically nearly equivalent to since, or because, but connects less closely, and is sometimes used as a very general introduction to something suggested by what has gone before.
For (n.) One who takes, or that which is said on, the affrimative side; that which is said in favor of some one or something; -- the antithesis of against, and commonly used in connection with it.
Forage (n.) The act of foraging; search for provisions, etc.
Forage (n.) Food of any kind for animals, especially for horses and cattle, as grass, pasture, hay, corn, oats.
Foraged (imp. & p. p.) of Forage
Foraging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Forage
Forage (v. i.) To wander or rove in search of food; to collect food, esp. forage, for horses and cattle by feeding on or stripping the country; to ravage; to feed on spoil.
Forage (v. t.) To strip of provisions; to supply with forage; as, to forage steeds.
Forager (n.) One who forages.
Foralite (n.) A tubelike marking, occuring in sandstone and other strata.
Foramina (pl. ) of Foramen
Foramines (pl. ) of Foramen
Foramen (n.) A small opening, perforation, or orifice; a fenestra.
Foraminated (a.) Having small opening, or foramina.
Foraminifer (n.) One of the foraminifera.
Foraminifera (n. pl.) An extensive order of rhizopods which generally have a chambered calcareous shell formed by several united zooids. Many of them have perforated walls, whence the name. Some species are covered with sand. See Rhizophoda.
Foraminiferous (a.) Having small openings, or foramina.
Foraminiferous (a.) Pertaining to, or composed of, Foraminifera; as, foraminiferous mud.
Foraminous (a.) Having foramina; full of holes; porous.
Forasmuch (conj.) In consideration that; seeing that; since; because that; -- followed by as. See under For, prep.
Foray (n.) A sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid.
Foray (v. t.) To pillage; to ravage.
Forayer (n.) One who makes or joins in a foray.
Forbade () imp. of Forbid.
Forbathe (v. t.) To bathe.
Forbear (n.) An ancestor; a forefather; -- usually in the plural.
Forbore (imp.) of Forbear
Forbare () of Forbear
Forborne (p. p.) of Forbear
Forbearing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Forbear
Forbear (v. i.) To refrain from proceeding; to pause; to delay.
Forbear (v. i.) To refuse; to decline; to give no heed.
Forbear (v. i.) To control one's self when provoked.
Forbear (v. t.) To keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from; to give up; as, to forbear the use of a word of doubdtful propriety.
Forbear (v. t.) To treat with consideration or indulgence.
Forbear (v. t.) To cease from bearing.
Forbearance (n.) The act of forbearing or waiting; the exercise of patience.
Forbearance (n.) The quality of being forbearing; indulgence toward offenders or enemies; long-suffering.
Forbearant (a.) Forbearing.
Forbearer (n.) One who forbears.
Forbearing (a.) Disposed or accustomed to forbear; patient; long-suffering.
Forbade (imp.) of Forbid
Forbidden (p. p.) of Forbid
Forbid () of Forbid
Forbidding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Forbid
Forbid (v. t.) To command against, or contrary to; to prohibit; to interdict.
Forbid (v. t.) To deny, exclude from, or warn off, by express command; to command not to enter.
Forbid (v. t.) To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command; as, an impassable river forbids the approach of the army.
Forbid (v. t.) To accurse; to blast.
Forbid (v. t.) To defy; to challenge.
Forbid (v. i.) To utter a prohibition; to prevent; to hinder.
Forbiddance (n.) The act of forbidding; prohibition; command or edict against a thing.
Forbidden (a.) Prohibited; interdicted.
Forbiddenly (adv.) In a forbidden or unlawful manner.
Forbidder (n.) One who forbids.