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.

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.

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.

A young eel.

A second rampart, exterior to, and parallel to, the main rampart, and considerably below its level.

Doctor Johann Faust, a person born at Kundling (Knittlingen), W/rtemberg, or at Roda, near Weimar, and said to have died in 1538. He was a man of licentious character, a magician, astrologer, alchemist, and soothsayer, who boasted of performing the miracles of Christ. German legend has it that he sold his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge. It was believed that he was carried off at last by the devil, who had lived with him in the form of a black dog.

Pertainnig to or resembling or befitting Faust especially in insatiable striving for worldly knowledge and power even at the price of spiritual values; as, a Faustian pact with the devil..

An armchair; hence (because the members sit in fauteuils or armchairs), membership in the French Academy.

A favorer; a patron; one who gives countenance or support; an abettor.

A patroness.

A small singing bird, as the nightingale and warblers.

See Fauces.

Formed like, or resembling, a honeycomb.

See Favus, n., 2.

Flattery; cajolery; deceit.

A group of spores arranged without order and covered with a thin gelatinous envelope, as in certain delicate red alg/.

Honeycomb; having cavities or cells, somewhat resembling those of a honeycomb; alveolate; favose.

Any of several explosive mixtures, chiefly of ammonium nitrate and a nitrate derivative of naphthalene. They are stable, but require protection from moisture. As prepared it is a compressed cylinder of the explosive, filled with loose powder of the same composition, all inclosed in waterproof wrappers. It is used for mining.

Of or pertaining to ashes.

Pertaining to the west wind; soft; mild; gentle.

Kind regard; propitious aspect; countenance; friendly disposition; kindness; good will.

To regard with kindness; to support; to aid, or to have the disposition to aid, or to wish success to; to be propitious to; to treat with consideration or tenderness; to show partiality or unfair bias towards.

Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly.

Countenanced; aided; regarded with kindness; as, a favored friend.

In a favored or a favorable manner; favorably.

Appearance.

One who favors; one who regards with kindness or friendship; a well-wisher; one who assists or promotes success or prosperity.

A woman who favors or gives countenance.

That favors.

Regarded with particular affection, esteem, or preference; as, a favorite walk; a favorite child.

The disposition to favor and promote the interest of one person or family, or of one class of men, to the neglect of others having equal claims; partiality.

Unfavored; not regarded with favor; having no countenance or support.

Honeycombed. See Faveolate.

Like or pertaining to the genus Favosites.

A genus of fossil corals abundant in the Silurian and Devonian rocks, having polygonal cells with perforated walls.

A disease of the scalp, produced by a vegetable parasite.

Fain; glad; delighted.

A falconer.

A servile cringe or bow; mean flattery; sycophancy.

Of the color of a fawn; light yellowish brown.

One who fawns; a sycophant.

In a fawning manner.

To transmit a copy of a document (a fax) over a telephone line using facsimile devices or the telefax protocol at both ends. See fax, n., and facsimile{2}, n.

A device which is designed to transmit and receive images by the facsimile{2} process. Such a device may also be able to perform other functions, such as scanning an image or copying an image; a telefax device.

Hairy.

To lie close together; to fit; to fadge; -- often with in, into, with, or together.

A black, greenish, or brownish mineral of the chrysolite group. It is a silicate of iron.

See Fa/ence.

See Faitour.

To cause to become disconcerted or disturbed. A variant form of Feeze.

A handkerchief.

A gooseberry.

To beat or whip; to drive.

Faithful; loyal.

Fidelity to one's lord; the feudal obligation by which the tenant or vassal was bound to be faithful to his lord; the special oath by which this obligation was assumed; fidelity to a superior power, or to a government; loyalty. It is no longer the practice to exact the performance of fealty, as a feudal obligation.

To be in apprehension of evil; to be afraid; to feel anxiety on account of some expected evil.

One who fears.

Full of fear, apprehension, or alarm; afraid; frightened.