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.

One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.

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 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.

One who, or that which, fattens; that which gives fatness or fertility.

State or quality of being fatty.

Somewhat fat; inclined to fatness.

discrimination against people who are overweight.

Containing fat, or having the qualities of fat; greasy; gross; as, a fatty substance.

Stupid; fatuous.

Weakness or imbecility of mind; stupidity.

Feeble in mind; weak; silly; stupid; foolish; fatuitous.

a ludicrous folly.

Same as fetwah.

A suburb of a French city; also, a district now within a city, but formerly without its walls.

Pertaining to the fauces, or opening of the throat; faucial; produced in the fauces, as certain deep guttural sounds found in the Semitic and some other languages.

The narrow passage from the mouth to the pharynx, situated between the soft palate and the base of the tongue; -- called also the isthmus of the fauces. On either side of the passage two membranous folds, called the pillars of the fauces, inclose the tonsils.

A fixture for drawing a liquid, as water, molasses, oil, etc., from a pipe, cask, or other vessel, in such quantities as may be desired; -- called also tap, and cock. It consists of a tubular spout, stopped with a movable plug, spigot, valve, or slide.

See Falchion.

Pertaining to the fauces; pharyngeal.

An exclamation of contempt, disgust, or abhorrence.

See Falchion.

See Falcon.

The arch over the dam of a blast furnace; the tymp arch.

A fall or falling band.

To err; to blunder, to commit a fault; to do wrong.

One who makes a practice of discovering others' faults and censuring them; a scold.

The act of finding fault or blaming; -- used derogatively. Also Adj.

One who commits a fault.

Full of faults or sins.

In a faulty manner.

Quality or state of being faulty.

The state or condition of being faulted; the process by which a fault is produced.

Without fault; not defective or imperfect; free from blemish; free from incorrectness, vice, or offense; perfect; as, a faultless poem.

Containing faults, blemishes, or defects; imperfect; not fit for the use intended.

A god of fields and shepherds, differing little from the satyr. The fauns are usually represented as half goat and half man.

The animals of any given area or epoch; as, the fauna of America; fossil fauna; recent fauna.

Relating to fauna.

One who describes the fauna of country; a naturalist.

See Faun.