A small, lenticular, calcareous body, esp. an operculum of a small marine shell of the family Turbinid/, used to remove a foreign substance from the eye. It is put into the inner corner of the eye under the lid, and allowed to work its way out at the outer corner, bringing with it the substance.

The tendon by which the eye is moved.

An island. See Eyot.

A canine tooth of the upper jaw.

See Eyewater.

A wash or lotion for application to the eyes.

A wink; a token.

An eyelash.

One who sees a thing done; one who has ocular view of anything.

Eyes.

An island. See Eyot.

To ail.

See /iliad.

A little island in a river or lake. See Ait.

Air.

A wild cat (Felis eyra) ranging from southern Brazil to Texas. It is reddish yellow and about the size of the domestic cat, but with a more slender body and shorter legs.

A journey in circuit of certain judges called justices in eyre (or in itinere).

See Ey, an egg.

The nest of a bird of prey or other large bird that builds in a lofty place; aerie.

Same as Eisel.

F is the sixth letter of the English alphabet, and a nonvocal consonant. Its form and sound are from the Latin. The Latin borrowed the form from the Greek digamma /, which probably had the value of English w consonant. The form and value of Greek letter came from the Ph/nician, the ultimate source being probably Egyptian. Etymologically f is most closely related to p, k, v, and b; as in E. five, Gr. pe`nte; E. wolf, L. lupus, Gr. ly`kos; E. fox, vixen ; fragile, break; fruit, brook, v. t.; E. bear, L. ferre. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 178, 179, 188, 198, 230.

A syllable applied to the fourth tone of the diatonic scale in solmization. The tone F.

extremely pleasing.

A large natural family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods; divided for convenience into the subfamilies Caesalpiniacea; Mimosaceae; Papilionaceae.

Having the nature of a bean; like a bean.

One of the small sesamoid bones situated behind the condyles of the femur, in some mammals.

A member of, or sympathizer with, the Fabian Society.

a genus of South and Central American heathlike evergreen shrubs.

the principles and beliefs of or similar to those of the Fabian Society, advocating socialism to be established by gradual reforms within the law.

To feign; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely.

A writer of fables; a fabulist; a dealer in untruths or falsehoods.

One of the metrical tales of the Trouv/res, or early poets of the north of France.

To frame; to build; to construct.

One who fabricates; a manufacturer.

To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to frame; to construct; to build; as, to fabricate a bridge or ship.

formed or conceived by the fancy or imagination; as, a fabricated excuse for his absence.

The act of fabricating, framing, or constructing; construction; manufacture; as, the fabrication of a bridge, a church, or a government.

One who fabricates; one who constructs or makes.

A woman who fabricates.

Pertaining to a workman, or to work in stone, metal, wood etc.; as, fabrile skill.

One who invents or writes fables.

To invent, compose, or relate fables or fictions.

Fabulousness.

Feigned, as a story or fable; related in fable; devised; invented; not real; fictitious; as, a fabulous description; a fabulous hero.

A species of counterpoint with a drone bass. A succession of chords of the sixth.

A large ornamental letter used, esp. by the early printers, at the commencement of the chapters and other divisions of a book.

The front of a building; esp., the principal front, having some architectural pretensions. Thus a church is said to have its fa/ade unfinished, though the interior may be in use.

To carry a false appearance; to play the hypocrite.

an operation to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from a person's face.

Time spent speaking with a person face-to-face; -- contrasted with time spent communicating by electronic media, such as telephone or e-mail, or via written communications; as, the chief of staff has the most face time with the president.

to harden (steel) by adding carbon.

to perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face.

allowing one to maintain one's dignity or prestige; designed to avoid admitting something embarrassing; as, a face-saving compromise; -- of actions.

without intervening persons; involving direct communication between persons in each other's presence; -- of conversation or confrontation; as, face-to-face negotiations.

Having (such) a face, or (so many) faces; as, smooth-faced, two-faced.

One who faces; one who puts on a false show; a bold-faced person.

To cut facets or small faces upon; as, to facet a diamond.

Facetious; witty; humorous.

Having facets.

Witty or humorous writings or saying; witticisms; merry conceits.

See Facet, n.

The material of the outside or front side, as of a wall or building; facing.

See Fascia.

Of or pertaining to the face; as, the facial artery, vein, or nerve.

The multiplicand. See Facient, 2.

One who does anything, good or bad; a doer; an agent.

Easy to be done or performed: not difficult; performable or attainable with little labor.

To make easy or less difficult; to free from difficulty or impediment; to lessen the labor of; as, to facilitate the execution of a task.

freed from difficulty or impediment. Contrasted with delayed.

The act of facilitating or making easy.

freeing from difficulty or impediment; as, facilitative changes in the economic structure.

someone who makes progress easier.

inducing or aiding in facilitating neural activity.

The quality of being easily performed; freedom from difficulty; ease; as, the facility of an operation.

A covering in front, for ornament or other purpose; an exterior covering or sheathing; as, the facing of an earthen slope, sea wall, etc. , to strengthen it or to protect or adorn the exposed surface.

In a facing manner or position.

Atrociously wicked.

Speech; eloquence.

To make a facsimile of.

A doing, making, or preparing.

designed to find information or ascertain facts; as, a fact-finding committee.

One of the divisions or parties of charioteers (distinguished by their colors) in the games of the circus.

Belonging to a faction; being a partisan; taking sides.

One of a faction.

One who promotes faction.

Given to faction; addicted to form parties and raise dissensions, in opposition to government or the common good; turbulent; seditious; prone to clamor against public measures or men; -- said of persons.

Made by art, in distinction from what is produced by nature; artificial; sham; contrived; formed by, or adapted to, an artificial or conventional, in distinction from a natural, standard or rule; not natural; as, factitious cinnabar or jewels; a factitious taste.

Causing; causative.

Making; having power to make.

In fact; by the act or fact.

To resolve (a quantity) into its factors.

The allowance given to a factor, as a compensation for his services; -- called also a commission.

A factor who is a woman.

A name given to the factors of a continued product when the former are derivable from one and the same function F(x) by successively imparting a constant increment or decrement h to the independent variable. Thus the product F(x).F(x + h).F(x + 2h) . . . F[x + (n-1)h] is called a factorial term, and its several factors take the name of factorials.

The act of resolving into factors.

to resolve into factors, as of a polynomial; same as factorize.

To give warning to; -- said of a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached, the warning being to the effect that he shall not pay the money or deliver the property of the defendant in his hands to him, but appear and answer the suit of the plaintiff. To attach (the effects of a debtor) in the hands of a third person; to garnish. See Garnish.

The business of a factor.

A house or place where factors, or commercial agents, reside, to transact business for their employers.

made in a factory. Contrasted with homemade.

A person employed to do all kinds of work or business; a person with many different responsibilities.

of or pertaining to facts; as, factual inaccuracies.

A man's own act and deed Anything stated and made certain. The due execution of a will, including everything necessary to its validity.

The act or manner of making or doing anything; -- now used of a literary, musical, or pictorial production.

Groups of small shining spots on the surface of the sun which are brighter than the other parts of the photosphere. They are generally seen in the neighborhood of the dark spots, and are supposed to be elevated portions of the photosphere.

Of or pertaining to the facul/.

Having relation to the grant or exercise faculty, or authority, privilege, license, or the like hence, optional; as, facultative enactments, or those which convey a faculty, or permission; the facultative referendum of Switzerland is one that is optional with the people and is necessary only when demanded by petition; facultative studies; -- opposed to obligatory and compulsory, and sometimes used with to.

Ability to act or perform, whether inborn or cultivated; capacity for any natural function; especially, an original mental power or capacity for any of the well-known classes of mental activity; psychical or soul capacity; capacity for any of the leading kinds of soul activity, as knowledge, feeling, volition; intellectual endowment or gift; power; as, faculties of the mind or the soul.

Eloquent.

Eloquement; full of words.

Eloquence; readiness of speech.

A hobby ; freak; whim.

A vapid or meaningless remark; a commonplace; nonsense.

a person who subscribes to a variety of fads.

To trifle; to toy. To fondle; to dandle.

intensely fashionable for a short time.

To cause to wither; to deprive of freshness or vigor; to wear away.

That has lost freshness, color, or brightness; grown dim.

In a faded manner.

Not liable to fade; unfading.