See Feldspar.

See Feldspathic.

See Felsite.

To make into felt, or a feltike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.

To clot or mat together like felt.

The material of which felt is made; also, felted cloth; also, the process by which it is made.

See Felt, n.

A small, swift-sailing vessel, propelled by oars and lateen sails, -- once common in the Mediterranean.

A European herb (Swertia perennis) of the Gentian family.

Belonging to the sex which conceives and gives birth to young, or (in a wider sense) which produces ova; not male.

A gallant.

To make, or to describe as, female or feminine.

A woman.

See Femerell.

A lantern, or louver covering, placed on a roof, for ventilation or escape of smoke.

Feminine.

Feminity.

Feminine.

Womanliness; femininity.

A woman.

In a feminine manner.

The quality of being feminine; womanliness; womanishness.

The quality or nature of the female sex; womanliness.

Womanliness; femininity.

The act of feminizing, or the state of being feminized.

To make womanish or effeminate.

The people called Amazons.

A woman. See Feme, n.

Pertaining to the femur or thigh; as, the femoral artery.

The thigh bone; same as femur.

The thigh bone; -- it is the longest and thickest bone of the human skeleton, which extends from the pelvis to the knee. The proximal segment of the hind limb containing the thigh bone; the thigh. See Coxa.

Low land overflowed, or covered wholly or partially with water, but producing sedge, coarse grasses, or other aquatic plants; boggy land; moor; marsh.

Sucked out of marches.

To make a defense; to guard one's self of anything, as against an attack; to give protection or security, as by a fence.

Affording defense; defensive.

Without a fence; uninclosed; open; unguarded; defenseless.

One who fences; one who teaches or practices the art of fencing with sword or foil.

A soldier enlisted for home service only; -- usually in the pl.

The art or practice of attack and defense with the sword, esp. with the smallsword. See Fence, v. i., 2.

To act on the defensive, or in opposition; to resist; to parry; to shift off.

One who or that which defends or protects by warding off harm A screen to prevent coals or sparks of an open fire from escaping to the floor. Anything serving as a cushion to lessen the shock when a vessel comes in contact with another vessel or a wharf. A screen to protect a carriage from mud thrown off the wheels: also, a splashboard. Anything set up to protect an exposed angle, as of a house, from damage by carriage wheels.

Fiendlike.

To put money to usury; to lend on interest.

The act of fenerating; interest.

Any small windowlike opening or recess, esp. one to show the relics within an altar, or the like.

A small opening; esp., one of the apertures, closed by membranes, between the tympanum and internal ear.

A casement or window sash, closed with cloth or paper instead of glass.

Having numerous openings; irregularly reticulated; as, fenestrate membranes; fenestrate fronds.

Having windows; characterized by windows.

The arrangement and proportioning of windows; -- used by modern writers for the decorating of an architectural composition by means of the window (and door) openings, their ornaments, and proportions.

One of the openings in a fenestrated structure.

A pheasantlike bird of rich plumage and graceful form and movement, fabled to appear in the land on the accession of a sage to the throne, or when right principles are about to prevail. It is often represented on porcelains and other works of art.

A system of spirit influences for good and evil believed by the Chinese to attend the natural features of landscape; also, a kind of geomancy dealing with these influences, used in determining sites for graves, houses, etc.

A kind of marble or alabaster, sometimes used for windows on account of its transparency.

Pertaining to Fenians or to Fenianism.

The principles, purposes, and methods of the Fenians.

The refuse whale blubber, used as a manure, and in the manufacture of Prussian blue.

A small, African, foxlike animal (Vulpes zerda) of a pale fawn color, remarkable for the large size of its ears.

A perennial plant of the genus F/niculum (F/niculum vulgare), having very finely divided leaves. It is cultivated in gardens for the agreeable aromatic flavor of its seeds.

Abounding in fens; fenny.

Corrupted; decayed; moldy. See Vinnewed.

Fencible.

A plant (trigonella F/num Gr/cum) cultivated for its strong-smelling seeds, which are

A feud. See 2d Feud.

Feudal. See Feudal.

Feudal tenure; the feudal system. See Feudality.

An accomplice.

See Feudatory.

A fief. See Fief.

The person to whom a feoffment is made; the person enfeoffed.

One who enfeoffs or grants a fee.

The grant of a feud or fee. A gift or conveyance in fee of land or other corporeal hereditaments, accompanied by actual delivery of possession.

Far.

A large, venomous serpent (Trigonocephalus lanceolatus-- now Bothrops atrox-->) of Brazil and the West Indies. It is allied to the rattlesnake, but has no rattle.

Fruitful; producing abundantly.

The state of being feracious or fruitful.

A group of mammals which formerly included the Carnivora, Insectivora, Marsupialia, and lemurs, but is now often restricted to the Carnivora.

Wild; untamed; ferine; not domesticated; -- said of beasts, birds, and plants.

Funereal; deadly; fatal; dangerous.

A child not raised in the company of humans; a child raised by wild animals. Romulus and Remus in Roman mythology were feral children. Authenticated examples of children raised by beasts are rare or nonexistent, though there are stories of children being raised from infancy in isolation from adults, or in the presence of deaf and dumb adults, resulting in an inability to speak human language.

imp. of Fare.

A measure of land mentioned in Domesday Book. It is supposed to have consisted of a few acres only.

Fearfulness.

To fear.

A portable bier or shrine, variously adorned, used for containing relics of saints.

Far forth.

Ferforth.

A mineral of a brownish black color, essentially a tantalo-niobate of yttrium, erbium, and cerium; -- so called after Robert Ferguson.

A week day, esp. a day which is neither a festival nor a fast.

Of or pertaining to holidays.

The act of keeping holiday; cessation from work.

A holiday.

compar. of Fere, fierce.

Wild; untamed; savage; as, lions, tigers, wolves, and bears are ferine beasts. A wild beast; a beast of prey.

The name given to Europeans by the Hindus.

Wildness; savageness; fierceness.

Singular; wonderful; extraordinary. A wonder; a marvel.

Medicine; pharmacy.

Rent for a farm; a farm; also, an abode; a place of residence; as, he let his land to ferm.

To undergo fermentation; to be in motion, or to be excited into sensible internal motion, as the constituent particles of an animal or vegetable fluid; to work; to effervesce.

Capability of fermentation.

Capable of fermentation; as, cider and other vegetable liquors are fermentable.

Fermentative.

The process of undergoing an effervescent change, as by the action of yeast; the transformation of an organic substance into new compounds by the action of a ferment{1}, whether in the form of living organisms or enzymes. It differs in kind according to the nature of the ferment which causes it.

Causing, or having power to cause, fermentation; produced by fermentation; fermenting; as, a fermentative process.

an apparatus for carrying out fermentation by a liquid suspension of microorganisms; a fermentation tank; as, an industrial fermenter.

The officer in a religious house who had the care of the infirmary.

The mechanism for closing the breech of a breech-loading firearm, in artillery consisting principally of the breechblock, obturator, and carrier ring.

A buckle or clasp.

any particle that obeys Fermi-Dirac statistcs and is subject to the Pauli exclusion principle.

the transuranic element of atomic number 100; symbol Fm. The atomic weight of the most stable isotope, having a half-life of about 80 days, is 257. The first isotope, Fm255 was discovered in 1952 in the debris of a thermonuclear explosion. Other istopes have been produced in nuclear reactors and by decay of other transuranic elements.

An order of cryptogamous plants, the Filices, which have their fructification on the back of the fronds or leaves. They are usually found in humid soil, sometimes grow epiphytically on trees, and in tropical climates often attain a gigantic size.

abounding in or covered with ferns.

A place for rearing ferns.

devoid of ferns. Opposite of ferned.

resembling ferns especially in leaf shape; as, the fernlike shadows of locust leaves.

A freckle on the skin, resembling the seed of fern.

Abounding in ferns.

a genus of nearly globular cacti of Mexico and Southwestern U. S., including some of the barrel cacti.

Fierce; savage; wild; indicating cruelty; ravenous; rapacious; as, ferocious look or features; a ferocious lion.