Hesitation; trembling; feebleness; an uncertain or broken sound; as, a slight falter in her voice.

Hesitating; trembling. Falter; halting; hesitation.

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.

Fallow.

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.

A hand.

To report widely or honorably.

Without fame or renown.

relating to or having the characteristics of a family; as, children of the same familial background; familial aggregation.

An intimate; a companion.

to make familiar or acquainted; same as familiarize.

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.

The act or process of making familiar; the result of becoming familiar; as, familiarization with scenes of blood.

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; we familiarized ourselves with the new surroundings.

having become familiar.

serving to familiarize.

In a familiar manner.

Familiarity.

Of or pertaining to a family or household; domestic.

The tenets of the Familists.

One of a fanatical Antinomian sect originating in Holland, and existing in England about 1580, called the Family of Love, who held that religion consists wholly in love.

A community in which many persons unite as in one family, and are regulated by certain communistic laws and customs.

Pertaining to Familists.

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.

General scarcity of food; dearth; a want of provisions; destitution.

To die of hunger; to starve.

State of being famished.

The state or quality of being famous.

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.

Renowned.

In a famous manner; in a distinguished degree; greatly; splendidly.

The state of being famous.

Domestic; familiar.

To serve.

A collegian of inferior rank or position, corresponding to the sizar at Cambridge.

To move as with a fan.

Having the nerves or veins arranged in a radiating manner; -- said of certain leaves, and of the wings of some insects.

Having an expanded, or fan-shaped, tail; as, the fan-tailed pigeon.

A Chinese gambling game in which coins or other small objects are placed upon a table, usually under a cup, and the players bet as to what remainder will be left when the sum of the counters is divided by four.

A lighthouse, or the apparatus placed in it for giving light.

A person affected by excessive enthusiasm, particularly on religious subjects; one who indulges wild and extravagant notions of religion.

Characteristic of, or relating to, fanaticism; fanatic.

Excessive enthusiasm, unreasoning zeal, or wild and extravagant notions, on any subject, especially religion, politics or ideology; religious frenzy.

To cause to become a fanatic.

Fanaticism.

Formed or conceived by the fancy; unreal; as, a fancied wrong.

One who is governed by fancy.

Full of fancy; guided by fancy, rather than by reason and experience; whimsical; as, a fanciful man forms visionary projects.

Having no fancy; without ideas or imagination.

Adapted to please the fancy or taste, especially when of high quality or unusually appealing; ornamental; as, fancy goods; fancy clothes.

Free from the power of love.

Love-sick.

A lovemonger; a whimsical lover.

Ornamental work with a needle or hook, as embroidery, crocheting, netting, etc.

imp. of Find.

A lively dance, in 3-8 or 6-8 time, much practiced in Spain and Spanish America. Also, the tune to which it is danced.

A weathercock.

A dry measure in Spain and Spanish America, varying from 1/ to 2/ bushels; also, a measure of land.

A flourish of trumpets, as in coming into the lists, etc.; also, a short and lively air performed on hunting horns during the chase.

A bully; a hector; a swaggerer; an empty boaster.

A species of gecko having the toes expanded into large lobes for adhesion. The Egyptian fanfoot (Phyodactylus gecko) is believed, by the natives, to have venomous toes. Any moth of the genus Polypogon.

The tusk of an animal, by which the prey is seized and held or torn; a long pointed tooth; esp., one of the usually erectile, venomous teeth of serpents. Also, one of the falcers of a spider.

Having fangs or tusks; as, a fanged adder. Also used figuratively.

To fashion.

New made; hence, gaudy; showy; vainly decorated. [Obs., except with the prefix new.] See Newfangled.

Quality of being fangled.

Destitute of fangs or tusks.

A quantity of wares, as raw silk, etc., from one hundred weight.

A small flag sometimes carried at the head of the baggage of a brigade.

Resembling a fan; folded up like a fan, as certain leaves; plicate.

Same as Fanon.

One who fans.

A term applied to various articles, A peculiar striped scarf worn by the pope at mass, and by eastern bishops. A maniple.

see fantod.

State of worry or excitement; fidget; fuss; also, indisposition; pet; sulks.

A variety of the domestic pigeon, so called from the shape of the tail. Any bird of the Australian genus Rhipidura, in which the tail is spread in the form of a fan during flight. They belong to the family of flycatchers. the fantail goldfish.

a type of goldfish bred artificially, having a realtively short oval body and a tail with four lobes arrayed somewhat like a folding fan, as though forming a part of the surface of a cone. Called also fantail.

A continuous composition, not divided into what are called movements, or governed by the ordinary rules of musical design, but in which the author's fancy roves unrestricted by set form.

Filled with fancies or imaginations.

Same as Phantasm.

One whose manners or ideas are fantastic.

A person given to fantastic dress, manners, etc.; an eccentric person; a fop.

The quality of being fantastic.

Fanciful; unreal; whimsical; capricious; fantastic.

Fantastically.

In a fantastic manner.

The quality of being fantastical; fancifulness; whimsicality.

Fantastically.

Fantasticalness.

A fantastic.

To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like; to fancy.

State of worry or excitment; fidget; ill humor.

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

See Phantom.

a common aquatic plant (Cabomba caroliniana) of eastern North America having floating and submerged leaves and white yellow-spotted flowers.

Fuddled.

A list of questions and answers concerning a specific topic, such as how to use a particular computer program. Many such lists contain answers to the most commonly asked questions about that topic, however the questions need not derive from actual queries. Such lists are often maintained in electronic form and made available on the World Wide Web.

See Fakir.

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

A going out of the way; a digression.

widely spread or distributed; as, the far-flung corners of the Empire.

Remote; as, the far-off distance; troops landing on far-off shores. Cf. Far-off, under Far, adv.

strikingly unconventional.

having a wide range or effect; as, far-reaching (or extensive) forests; a far-reaching reform.

extremely conservative politically.

Stretched beyond ordinary limits.

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.

the quantity of electric charge that, passed though an ionic solution, will cause electrolysis of one equivalent of ions; it is equal to about 96,490 coulombs. The number of univalent metal ions (such as silver in a silver nitrate solution) which would be deposited as free metal by such a current is Avogadro's number, 6.023 x 1023.

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.

The treatment with faradic or induced currents of electricity for remedial purposes.

To stimulate with, or subject to, faradic, or inducted, electric currents.

See Farrand, n.

A fabrik made of silk and wool or hair.

A rapid dance in six-eight time in which a large number join hands and dance in various figures, sometimes moving from room to room. It originated in Provence.

Orderly; comely; respectable.

Stuffing, or mixture of viands, like that used on dressing a fowl; forcemeat.

Stuffing; forcemeat.

Of or pertaining to the disease called farcy. See Farcy, n.

Pudding stone.

Same as Farcy.