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.

Caused or acting by witchcraft.

A band of gray matter bordering the fimbria in the brain; the dentate convolution.

A band of minute tubercles, bearing modified spines, on the shells of spatangoid sea urchins. See Spatangoidea.

a political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government; -- opposed to democracy and liberalism.

an adherent of fascism or similar right-wing authoritarian views.

of or pertaining to fascism; resembling fascism; as, fascist propaganda.

Vexation; anxiety; care.

To form; to give shape or figure to; to mold.

One who studies the fashions; a fop; a dandy.

Behaving like a fashion-monger.

A person who conforms to the fashions; -- used chiefly in the plural.

State of being fashionable.

In a fashionable manner.

Having a certain style or fashion; as, old-fashioned; new-fashioned.

One who fashions, forms, ar gives shape to anything.

An obsequious follower of the modes and fashions.

Having no fashion.

A variety of pyroxene, from the valley of Fassa, in the Tyrol.

That which fastens or holds; especially, (Naut.) a mooring rope, hawser, or chain; -- called, according to its position, a bow, head, quarter, breast, or stern fast; also, a post on a pier around which hawsers are passed in mooring.

moving or functioning quickly and energetically; as, a fast-flying messenger.

tending to spread quickly; -- used mostly of plants.

Close-handed; close-fisted; covetous; avaricious.

a baseball thrown with maximum velocity.

a rapid dash to get a shot at one's own basket as soon as possible after taking possession of the ball; -- often occurring after the opposing team has shot at their basket.

To fix one's self; to take firm hold; to clinch; to cling.

affixed. Opposite of unaffixed.

Anything that binds and makes fast, as a lock, catch, bolt, bar, buckle, etc.

One who abstains from food.

The Roman calendar, which gave the days for festivals, courts, etc., corresponding to a modern almanac.

Fastidiousness; squeamishness.

Difficult to please; delicate to a fault; suited with difficulty; squeamish; as, a fastidious mind or ear; a fastidious appetite.

Narrowing towards the top.

Rather fast; also, somewhat dissipated.

Firmly; surely.

The state of being fast and firm; firmness; fixedness; security; faithfulness.

Proud; haughty; disdainful.

To grow fat, plump, and fleshy.

Dull of apprehension.

containing no fat; -- of foods. Opposite of fat-containing.

Gross; lubberly.

Dull; stupid.

Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny; necessary; inevitable.

The doctrine that all things are subject to fate, or that they take place by inevitable necessity.

One who maintains that all things happen by inevitable necessity.

Implying, or partaking of the nature of, fatalism.

The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.

In a manner proceeding from, or determined by, fate.

Quality of being fatal.

The menhaden.

A fixed decree by which the order of things is prescribed; the immutable law of the universe; inevitable necessity; the force by which all existence is determined and conditioned.

Decreed by fate; destined; doomed; as, he was fated to rule a factious people.

Having the power of serving or accomplishing fate.

A cyprinoid fish of the Mississippi valley (Pimephales promelas); -- called also black-headed minnow. A labroid food fish of California; the redfish.

same as stupid. Opposite of smart.

To make one's self the father of; to beget.

God, when considered as the first person in the Trinity.

The father of one's husband or wife; -- correlative to son-in-law and daughter-in-law.

A European marine fish (Cottus bubalis), allied to the sculpin; -- called also lucky proach.

The state of being a father; the character or authority of a father; paternity.

One's native land; the native land of one's fathers or ancestors.

Destitute of a living father; as, a fatherless child.

The state of being without a father.

The qualities of a father; parantal kindness, care, etc.

Like a father in affection and care; paternal; tender; protecting; careful.

The state of being a father; fatherhood; paternity.

To encompass with the arms extended or encircling; to measure by throwing the arms about; to span.

Capable of being fathomed.

One who fathoms.

Incapable of being fathomed; immeasurable; that can not be sounded.

Having power to foretell future events; prophetic; fatiloquent; as, the fatidical oak.

Fate-bringing; deadly; mortal; destructive.

Easily tired.

To weary; to tire; to fatigue.

Weariness.

To weary with labor or any bodily or mental exertion; to harass with toil; to exhaust the strength or endurance of; to tire.

Prophetic; fatidical.

A fortune teller.

Descended from Fatima, the daughter and only child of Mohammed. A descendant of Fatima.

A gaping or opening; state of being chinky, or having apertures.

A calf, lamb, kid, or other young animal fattened for slaughter; a fat animal; -- said of such animals as are used for food.

Grossly; greasily.

One who fattens. [R.] See Fattener.

The quality or state of being fat, plump, or full-fed; corpulency; fullness of flesh.

a rotund, obese individual.

To grow fat or corpulent; to grow plump, thick, or fleshy; to be pampered.

fed until grown and ready for slaughter or for sale in the market; -- of market animals.