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 swaggering; vain boasting; ostentation; a bluster.

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.

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.

Stuffing; forcemeat.

Stuffed; filled solid; as, a farctate leaf, stem, or pericarp; -- opposed to tubular or hollow.

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.

To paint; -- said esp. of one's face.

See Dunnage.

To make up in fardels.

The upper stomach of a cow, or other ruminant animal; the rumen.

A farthingale.

The fourth part of an acre of land.

A journey; a passage.

state of perfection; the utmost degree; as, they polished the furniture to a fare-thee-well.

p. p. of Fare, v. i.

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

Farfetched.

Anything brought from far, or brought about with studious care; a deep strategem.

Brought from far, or from a remote place.

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.

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

Yielding farina; as, farinose substances.

Same as Furl.

An unusual or unexpected thing; a wonder. See Fearly.

To engage in the business of tilling the soil; to labor as a farmer.

Capable of being farmed.

One who farms One who hires and cultivates a farm; a cultivator of leased ground; a tenant. One who is devoted to the tillage of the soil; one who cultivates a farm; an agriculturist; a husbandman. One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect, either paying a fixed annuual rent for the privilege; as, a farmer of the revenues. The lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown.

A woman who farms.

a woman working on a farm; a farmeress.

Skill in farming.

The buildings and yards necessary for the business of a farm; a homestead.

A dwelling house on a farm; a farmer's residence.

The business of cultivating land.

a rural area where farming is practiced; land actually under cultivation or capable of supporting crops.

Most distant; farthest.

a farm together with its buildings.

A farm with the building upon it; a homestead on a farm.

A farmstead.

The yard or inclosure attached to a barn, or the space inclosed by the farm buildings.

The state of being far off; distance; remoteness.

A gambling game at cards, in which all the other players play against the dealer or banker, staking their money upon the order in which the cards will lie and be dealt from the pack.

An inhabitant, or, collectively, inhabitants, of the Faroe islands.