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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.
the trait of extreme cruelty.
Savage wildness or fierceness; fury; cruelty; as, ferocity of countenance.
A symbol of the solar deity, found on monuments exhumed in Babylon, Nineveh, etc.
Wild; savage.
A stuff made of silk and wool.
A sword bearing the mark of one of the Ferrara family of Italy. These swords were highly esteemed in England and Scotland in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Pertaining to Ferrara, in Italy. A citizen of Ferrara; collectively, the inhabitants of Ferrara.
Geraldine Anne Ferraro, a United States politician. Born in 1935, she was a congresswoman from New York in the United States Congress from 1978 to 1984, and ran unsuccessfully in 1984 a candidate for Vice President of the United States, with Walter Mondale as the Presidential candidate. She was the first woman to be nominated by a major U. S. political party for the office of Vice President.
The art of working in iron.
A salt of ferric acid.
Partaking of, made of, or pertaining to, iron; like iron.
compar. of Fer.
superl. of Fer.
The iron used for trying the melted glass to see if is fit to work, and for shaping the rings at the mouths of bottles.
The spur-winged goose; -- so called from the red circle around the eyes.
One who ferrets.
Copper sulphide, used to color glass.
The price or fare to be paid for passage at a ferry.
Pertaining to, derived from, or containing iron. Specifically (Chem.), denoting those compounds in which iron has a higher valence than in the ferrous compounds; as, ferric oxide; ferric acid.
A salt of ferricyanic acid; a ferricyanide.
Pertaining to, or derived from, a ferricyanide.
One of a complex series of double cyanides of ferric iron and some other base.
A ferryman.
Producing or yielding iron.
A ferricyanate; a ferricyanide.
Ferricyanic.
Concrete strengthened by a core or foundation skeleton of iron or steel bars, strips, etc. Floors, columns, piles, water pipes, etc., have been successfully made of it. Called also armored concrete steel, and most commonly reenforced concrete.
Limestone containing a large percentage of iron carbonate, and hence turning brown on exposure.
A salt of ferrocyanic acid; a ferrocyanide.
Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, a ferrocyanide.
One of a series of complex double cyanides of ferrous iron and some other base.
A ferrocyanate; a ferocyanide.
Ferrocyanic.
A photographic picture taken on an iron plate by a collodion process; -- familiarly called tintype.
Pertaining to, or derived from, iron; -- especially used of compounds of iron in which the iron has its lower valence of two; as, ferrous sulphate.
Having the color or properties of the rust of iron.
Ferruginous.
Partaking of iron; containing particles of iron.
A disease of plants caused by fungi, commonly called the rust, from its resemblance to iron rust in color.
A ring or cap of metal put round a cane, tool, handle, or other similar object, to strengthen it, or prevent splitting and wearing.
To solder or unite, as metals.
The soldering or uniting of metals.
A place where persons or things are carried across a river, arm of the sea, etc., in a ferryboat.
A vessel for conveying passengers, merchandise, etc., usually across streams, rivers, bays, and other narrow waters.
One who maintains or attends a ferry.
Fierce.
Fourth.
Producing fruit or vegetation in abundance; fruitful; able to produce abundantly; prolific; fecund; productive; rich; inventive; as, fertile land or fields; a fertile mind or imagination.
In a fertile or fruitful manner.
Fertility.
To fertilize; to fecundate.
The state or quality of being fertile or fruitful; fruitfulness; productiveness; fecundity; richness; abundance of resources; fertile invention; quickness; readiness; as, the fertility of soil, or of imagination.
The act or process of rendering fertile.
To make fertile or enrich; to supply with nourishment for plants; to make fruitful or productive; as, to fertilize land, soil, ground, and meadows.
united with a male gamete to begin the development of an individual embryo; -- of female gametes.
One who fertilizes; the agent that carries the fertilizing principle, as a moth to an orchid.
A ferule.
Pertaining to reeds and canes; having a stalk like a reed; as, ferulaceous plants.
A ferule.
To punish with a ferule.
Pertaining to, or derived from, asafetida (Ferula asaf/tida); as, ferulic acid.
Heat; fervency.
The state of being fervent or warm; ardor; warmth of feeling or devotion; eagerness.
Hot; glowing; boiling; burning; as, a fervent summer.
Growing hot.
Very hot; burning; boiling.
Heat; excessive warmth.
Pertaining to, or resembling, the Fescennines. A style of low, scurrilous, obscene poetry originating in fescennia.
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