Falsettos (pl. ) of Falsetto
Falsetto (n.) A false or artificial voice; that voice in a man which lies above his natural voice; the male counter tenor or alto voice. See Head voice, under Voice.
Falsicrimen () The crime of falsifying.
Falsifiable (a.) Capable of being falsified, counterfeited, or corrupted.
Falsification (n.) The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not.
Falsification (n.) Willful misstatement or misrepresentation.
Falsification (n.) The showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong.
Falsificator (n.) A falsifier.
Falsifier (n.) One who falsifies, or gives to a thing a deceptive appearance; a liar.
Falsified (imp. & p. p.) of Falsify
Falsifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Falsify
Falsify (a.) To make false; to represent falsely.
Falsify (a.) To counterfeit; to forge; as, to falsify coin.
Falsify (a.) To prove to be false, or untrustworthy; to confute; to disprove; to nullify; to make to appear false.
Falsify (a.) To violate; to break by falsehood; as, to falsify one's faith or word.
Falsify (a.) To baffle or escape; as, to falsify a blow.
Falsify (a.) To avoid or defeat; to prove false, as a judgment.
Falsify (a.) To show, in accounting, (an inem of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong.
Falsify (a.) To make false by multilation or addition; to tamper with; as, to falsify a record or document.
Falsify (v. i.) To tell lies; to violate the truth.
Falsism (n.) That which is evidently false; an assertion or statement the falsity of which is plainly apparent; -- opposed to truism.
Falsities (pl. ) of Falsity
Falsity (a.) The quality of being false; coutrariety or want of conformity to truth.
Falsity (a.) That which is false; falsehood; a lie; a false assertion.
Falter (v. t.) To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley.
Faltered (imp. & p. p.) of Falter
Faltering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Falter
Falter (v. & n.) To hesitate; to speak brokenly or weakly; to stammer; as, his tongue falters.
Falter (v. & n.) To tremble; to totter; to be unsteady.
Falter (v. & n.) To hesitate in purpose or action.
Falter (v. & n.) To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; -- said of the mind or of thought.
Falter (v. t.) To utter with hesitation, or in a broken, trembling, or weak manner.
Falter (v. i.) Hesitation; trembling; feebleness; an uncertain or broken sound; as, a slight falter in her voice.
Faltering (a.) Hesitating; trembling.
Faltering (n.) Falter; halting; hesitation.
Faluns (n.) A series of strata, of the Middle Tertiary period, of France, abounding in shells, and used by Lyell as the type of his Miocene subdivision.
Falwe (a. & n.) Fallow.
Falx (n.) A curved fold or process of the dura mater or the peritoneum; esp., one of the partitionlike folds of the dura mater which extend into the great fissures of the brain.
Famble (v. i.) To stammer.
Famble (v.) A hand.
Fame (n.) Public report or rumor.
Fame (n.) Report or opinion generally diffused; renown; public estimation; celebrity, either favorable or unfavorable; as, the fame of Washington.
Famed (imp. & p. p.) of Fame
Faming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fame
Fame (v. t.) To report widely or honorably.
Fame (v. t.) To make famous or renowned.
Fameless (a.) Without fame or renown.
Familiar (a.) Of or pertaining to a family; domestic.
Familiar (a.) Closely acquainted or intimate, as a friend or companion; well versed in, as any subject of study; as, familiar with the Scriptures.
Familiar (a.) Characterized by, or exhibiting, the manner of an intimate friend; not formal; unconstrained; easy; accessible.
Familiar (a.) Well known; well understood; common; frequent; as, a familiar illustration.
Familiar (a.) Improperly acquainted; wrongly intimate.
Familiar (n.) An intimate; a companion.
Familiar (n.) An attendant demon or evil spirit.
Familiar (n.) A confidential officer employed in the service of the tribunal, especially in apprehending and imprisoning the accused.
Familiarities (pl. ) of Familiarity
Familiarity (n.) The state of being familiar; intimate and frequent converse, or association; unconstrained intercourse; freedom from ceremony and constraint; intimacy; as, to live in remarkable familiarity.
Familiarity (n.) Anything said or done by one person to another unceremoniously and without constraint; esp., in the pl., such actions and words as propriety and courtesy do not warrant; liberties.
Familiarization (n.) The act or process of making familiar; the result of becoming familiar; as, familiarization with scenes of blood.
Familiarized (imp. & p. p.) of Familiarize
Familiarizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Familiarize
Familiarize (v. t.) To make familiar or intimate; to habituate; to accustom; to make well known by practice or converse; as, to familiarize one's self with scenes of distress.
Familiarize (v. t.) To make acquainted, or skilled, by practice or study; as, to familiarize one's self with a business, a book, or a science.
Familiarly (adv.) In a familiar manner.
Familiarness (n.) Familiarity.
Familiary (a.) Of or pertaining to a family or household; domestic.
Familism (n.) The tenets of the Familists.
Familist (n.) One of afanatical Antinomian sect originating in Holland, and existing in England about 1580, called the Family of Love, who held that religion consists wholly in love.
Familisteries (pl. ) of Familistery
Familistery (n.) A community in which many persons unite as in one family, and are regulated by certain communistic laws and customs.
Familistic (a.) Alt. of Familistical
Familistical (a.) Pertaining to Familists.
Families (pl. ) of Family
Family (v. t.) The collective body of persons who live in one house, and under one head or manager; a household, including parents, children, and servants, and, as the case may be, lodgers or boarders.
Family (v. t.) The group comprising a husband and wife and their dependent children, constituting a fundamental unit in the organization of society.
Family (v. t.) Those who descend from one common progenitor; a tribe, clan, or race; kindred; house; as, the human family; the family of Abraham; the father of a family.
Family (v. t.) Course of descent; genealogy; line of ancestors; lineage.
Family (v. t.) Honorable descent; noble or respectable stock; as, a man of family.
Family (v. t.) A group of kindred or closely related individuals; as, a family of languages; a family of States; the chlorine family.
Family (v. t.) A group of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoology a family is less comprehesive than an order; in botany it is often considered the same thing as an order.
Famine (n.) General scarcity of food; dearth; a want of provisions; destitution.
Famished (imp. & p. p.) of Famish
Famishing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Famish
Famish (v. t.) To starve, kill, or destroy with hunger.
Famish (v. t.) To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to distress with hanger.
Famish (v. t.) To kill, or to cause to suffer extremity, by deprivation or denial of anything necessary.
Famish (v. t.) To force or constrain by famine.
Famish (v. i.) To die of hunger; to starve.
Famish (v. i.) To suffer extreme hunger or thirst, so as to be exhausted in strength, or to come near to perish.
Famish (v. i.) To suffer extremity from deprivation of anything essential or necessary.
Famishment (n.) State of being famished.
Famosity (n.) The state or quality of being famous.
Famous (a.) Celebrated in fame or public report; renowned; mach talked of; distinguished in story; -- used in either a good or a bad sense, chiefly the former; often followed by for; as, famous for erudition, for eloquence, for military skill; a famous pirate.
Famoused (a.) Renowned.
Famously (adv.) In a famous manner; in a distinguished degree; greatly; splendidly.
Famousness (n.) The state of being famous.
Famular (n.) Domestic; familiar.
Famulate (v. i.) To serve.
Famulist (n.) A collegian of inferior rank or position, corresponding to the sizar at Cambridge.
Fan (n.) An instrument used for producing artificial currents of air, by the wafting or revolving motion of a broad surface