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.

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.

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.

Formed of various materials; mixed; as, a farraginous mountain.

A mass composed of various materials confusedly mixed; a medley; a mixture.

Manner; custom; fashion; humor.

Same as Confarreation.

To practice as a farrier; to carry on the trade of a farrier.

The art of shoeing horses.

Not producing young in a given season or year; -- said only of cows.

A farrow.

An addition to, or a paraphrase of, some part of the Latin service in the vernacular; -- common in English before the Reformation.

Able to see to a great distance; farsighted.

The language spoken in modern Iran; modern Persian. It is written in the Arabic alphabet.

Seeing to great distance; hence, of good judgment regarding the remote effects of actions; sagacious.

Quality of bbeing farsighted.

To help onward. [R.] See Further.

See Furtherance.

See Furthermore.

Most remote; farthest.

At or to the greatest distance. See Furthest.

The fourth of a penny; a small copper coin of Great Britain, being a cent in United States currency.

A hoop skirt or hoop petticoat, or other light, elastic material, used to extend the petticoat.

A bundle of rods, having among them an ax with the blade projecting, borne before the Roman magistrates as a badge of their authority.

A wire basket on the end of a rod to carry glass bottles, etc., to the annealing furnace; also, an iron rod to be thrust into the mouths of bottles, and used for the same purpose; -- called also pontee and punty.

A band, sash, or fillet; especially, in surgery, a bandage or roller.

Pertaining to the fasces.

Bound with a fillet, sash, or bandage.

The act or manner of binding up; bandage; also, the condition of being fasciated.

A small bundle or collection; a compact cluster; as, a fascicle of fibers; a fascicle of flowers or roots.

Growing in a bundle, tuft, or close cluster; as, the fascicled leaves of the pine or larch; the fascicled roots of the dahlia; fascicled muscle fibers; fascicled tufts of hair.

Pertaining to a fascicle; fascicled; as, a fascicular root.

In a fascicled manner.

Grouped in a fascicle; fascicled.

A small bunch or bundle; a fascicle; as, a fascicule of fibers, hairs, or spines.

A little bundle; a fascicle.

To influence in an uncontrollable manner; to operate on by some powerful or irresistible charm; to bewitch; to enchant.

having the attention fixed by a sense of wonder.

capable of holding the attention; as, a fascinating story.

The act of fascinating, bewitching, or enchanting; enchantment; witchcraft; the exercise of a powerful or irresistible influence on the affections or passions; unseen, inexplicable influence.

A cylindrical bundle of small sticks of wood, bound together, used in raising batteries, filling ditches, strengthening ramparts, and making parapets; also in revetments for river banks, and in mats for dams, jetties, etc.