Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter F - Page 8

Fantastical (a.) Fanciful; unreal; whimsical; capricious; fantastic.

Fantasticality (n.) Fantastically.

Fantastically (adv.) In a fantastic manner.

Fantastic-alness (n.) The quality of being fantastic.

Fantasticism (n.) The quality of being fantastical; fancifulness; whimsicality.

Fantasticly (adv.) Fantastically.

Fantasticness (n.) Fantasticalness.

Fantasticco (n.) A fantastic.

Fantasies (pl. ) of Fantasy

Fantasy (n.) Fancy; imagination; especially, a whimsical or fanciful conception; a vagary of the imagination; whim; caprice; humor.

Fantasy (n.) Fantastic designs.

Fantasy (v. t.) To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like; to fancy.

Fantoccini (n. pl.) Puppets caused to perform evolutions or dramatic scenes by means of machinery; also, the representations in which they are used.

Fantom (n.) See Phantom.

Fap (a.) Fuddled.

Faquir (n.) See Fakir.

Far (n.) A young pig, or a litter of pigs.

Far (a.) Distant in any direction; not near; remote; mutually separated by a wide space or extent.

Far (a.) Remote from purpose; contrary to design or wishes; as, far be it from me to justify cruelty.

Far (a.) Remote in affection or obedience; at a distance, morally or spiritually; t enmity with; alienated.

Far (a.) Widely different in nature or quality; opposite in character.

Far (a.) The more distant of two; as, the far side (called also off side) of a horse, that is, the right side, or the one opposite to the rider when he mounts.

Far (adv.) To a great extent or distance of space; widely; as, we are separated far from each other.

Far (adv.) To a great distance in time from any point; remotely; as, he pushed his researches far into antiquity.

Far (adv.) In great part; as, the day is far spent.

Far (adv.) In a great proportion; by many degrees; very much; deeply; greatly.

Farabout (n.) A going out of the way; a digression.

Farad (n.) The standard unit of electrical capacity; the capacity of a condenser whose charge, having an electro-motive force of one volt, is equal to the amount of electricity which, with the same electromotive force, passes through one ohm in one second; the capacity, which, charged with one coulomb, gives an electro-motive force of one volt.

Faradic (a.) Of or pertaining to Michael Faraday, the distinguished electrician; -- applied especially to induced currents of electricity, as produced by certain forms of inductive apparatus, on account of Faraday's investigations of their laws.

Faradism (n.) Alt. of Faradization

Faradization (n.) The treatment with faradic or induced currents of electricity for remedial purposes.

Farand (n.) See Farrand, n.

Farandams (n.) A fabrik made of silk and wool or hair.

Farantly (a.) Orderly; comely; respectable.

Farced (imp. & p. p.) of Farce

Farcing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Farce

Farce (v. t.) To stuff with forcemeat; hence, to fill with mingled ingredients; to fill full; to stuff.

Farce (v. t.) To render fat.

Farce (v. t.) To swell out; to render pompous.

Farce (v. t.) Stuffing, or mixture of viands, like that used on dressing a fowl; forcemeat.

Farce (v. t.) A low style of comedy; a dramatic composition marked by low humor, generally written with little regard to regularity or method, and abounding with ludicrous incidents and expressions.

Farce (v. t.) Ridiculous or empty show; as, a mere farce.

Farcement (n.) Stuffing; forcemeat.

Farcical (a.) Pertaining to farce; appropriated to farce; ludicrous; unnatural; unreal.

Farcical (a.) Of or pertaining to the disease called farcy. See Farcy, n.

Farcilite (n.) Pudding stone.

Farcimen (n.) Alt. of Farcin

Farcin (n.) Same as Farcy.

Farcing (n.) Stuffing; forcemeat.

Farctate (v. t.) Stuffed; filled solid; as, a farctate leaf, stem, or pericarp; -- opposed to tubular or hollow.

Farcy (n.) A contagious disease of horses, associated with painful ulcerating enlargements, esp. upon the head and limbs. It is of the same nature as glanders, and is often fatal. Called also farcin, and farcimen.

Fard (n.) Paint used on the face.

Fard (v. t.) To paint; -- said esp. of one's face.

Fardage (n.) See Dunnage.

Fardel (n.) A bundle or little pack; hence, a burden.

Fardel (v. t.) To make up in fardels.

Farding-bag (n.) The upper stomach of a cow, or other ruminant animal; the rumen.

Fardingdale (n.) A farthingale.

Fardingdeal (n.) The fourth part of an acre of land.

Fared (imp. & p. p.) of Fare

Faring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fare

Fare (n.) To go; to pass; to journey; to travel.

Fare (n.) To be in any state, or pass through any experience, good or bad; to be attended with any circummstances or train of events, fortunate or unfortunate; as, he fared well, or ill.

Fare (n.) To be treated or entertained at table, or with bodily or social comforts; to live.

Fare (n.) To happen well, or ill; -- used impersonally; as, we shall see how it will fare with him.

Fare (n.) To behave; to conduct one's self.

Fare (v.) A journey; a passage.

Fare (v.) The price of passage or going; the sum paid or due for conveying a person by land or water; as, the fare for crossing a river; the fare in a coach or by railway.

Fare (v.) Ado; bustle; business.

Fare (v.) Condition or state of things; fortune; hap; cheer.

Fare (v.) Food; provisions for the table; entertainment; as, coarse fare; delicious fare.

Fare (v.) The person or persons conveyed in a vehicle; as, a full fare of passengers.

Fare (v.) The catch of fish on a fishing vessel.

Faren () p. p. of Fare, v. i.

Farewell (interj.) Go well; good-by; adieu; -- originally applied to a person departing, but by custom now applied both to those who depart and those who remain. It is often separated by the pronoun; as, fare you well; and is sometimes used as an expression of separation only; as, farewell the year; farewell, ye sweet groves; that is, I bid you farewell.

Farewell (n.) A wish of happiness or welfare at parting; the parting compliment; a good-by; adieu.

Farewell (n.) Act of departure; leave-taking; a last look at, or reference to something.

Farewell (a.) Parting; valedictory; final; as, a farewell discourse; his farewell bow.

Farfet (p. p.) Farfetched.

Farfetch (v. t.) To bring from far; to seek out studiously.

Farfetch (n.) Anything brought from far, or brought about with studious care; a deep strategem.

Farfetched (a.) Brought from far, or from a remote place.

Farfetched (a.) Studiously sought; not easily or naturally deduced or introduced; forced; strained.

Farina (n.) A fine flour or meal made from cereal grains or from the starch or fecula of vegetables, extracted by various processes, and used in cookery.

Farina (n.) Pollen.

Farinaceous (a.) Consisting or made of meal or flour; as, a farinaceous diet.

Farinaceous (a.) Yielding farina or flour; as, ffarinaceous seeds.

Farinaceous (a.) Like meal; mealy; pertainiing to meal; as, a farinaceous taste, smell, or appearance.

Farinose (a.) Yielding farinaa; as, farinose substances.

Farinose (a.) Civered with a sort of white, mealy powder, as the leaves of some poplars, and the body of certain insects; mealy.

Farl (v. t.) Same as Furl.

Farlie (n.) An unusual or unexpected thing; a wonder. See Fearly.

Farm (a. & n.) The rent of land, -- originally paid by reservation of part of its products.

Farm (a. & n.) The term or tenure of a lease of land for cultivation; a leasehold.

Farm (a. & n.) The land held under lease and by payment of rent for the purpose of cultivation.

Farm (a. & n.) Any tract of land devoted to agricultural purposes, under the management of a tenant or the owner.

Farm (a. & n.) A district of country leased (or farmed) out for the collection of the revenues of government.

Farm (a. & n.) A lease of the imposts on particular goods; as, the sugar farm, the silk farm.

Farmed (imp. & p. p.) of Farm

Farming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Farm

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