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.

To use a fescue, or teach with a fescue.

See Phasel.

A band drawn horizontally across the center of an escutcheon, and containing in breadth the third part of it; one of the nine honorable ordinaries.

Weariness.

In the manner of fess.

Of or pertaining to a holiday or a feast; joyous; festive.

Joyously; festively; mirthfully.

A feast.

A fescennine.

A small sore which becomes inflamed and discharges corrupt matter; a pustule.

A festering.

To feast; to entertain.

A time of feasting or celebration; an anniversary day of joy, civil or religious.

Hasty; hurried.

Haste; hurry.

Pertaining to a fest; festive; festal; appropriate to a festival; joyous; mirthful.

Pertaining to, or becoming, a feast; festal; joyous; gay; mirthful; sportive.

The condition of being festive; social joy or exhilaration of spirits at an entertaintment; joyfulness; gayety.

Pertaining to a feast; festive.

Festive; fond of festive occasions.

To form in festoons, or to adorn with festoons.

Pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling, festoons.

Of a straw color; greenish yellow.

Formed or consisting of straw.

A straw; a fescue.

Fetched.

Pertaining to, or connected with, a fetus; as, fetal circulation; fetal membranes.

The formation of a fetus in the womb; pregnancy.

A stratagem by which a thing is indirectly brought to pass, or by which one thing seems intended and another is done; a trick; an artifice.

To bring one's self; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.

One who fetches or brings.

drawing favorable attention; as, a fetching new hat.

Feet.

To feast; to honor with a festival.

The act of killing the fetus in the womb; the offense of procuring an abortion.

See Fetichism.

Having an offensive smell; stinking.

Fetidness.

The quality or state of being fetid.

Producing young, as animals.

Neat; pretty; well made; graceful.

Neatly; gracefully; properly.

A material object supposed among certain African tribes to represent in such a way, or to be so connected with, a supernatural being, that the possession of it gives to the possessor power to control that being.

The doctrine or practice of belief in fetiches.

A believer in fetiches.

Pertaining to, or involving, fetichism.

See Fetich, n., Fetichism, n., Fetichistic, a.

The cushionlike projection, bearing a tuft of long hair, on the back side of the leg above the hoof of the horse and similar animals. Also, the joint of the limb at this point (between the great pastern bone and the metacarpus), or the tuft of hair.

A strong, offensive smell; stench; fetidness.

To fetch.

To put fetters upon; to shackle or confine the feet of with a chain; to bind.

An ornamental evergreen shrub (Pieris floribunda) of the Southeastern U. S. having small white bell-shaped flowers.

Seeming as if fettered, as the feet of certain animals which bend backward, and appear unfit for walking.

One who fetters.

Free from fetters.

The act of fettling.

A mixture of ore, cinders, etc., used to line the hearth of a puddling furnace.

Neat; feat.

The young or embryo of a vertebrate animal in the womb, or in the egg; often restricted to the later stages in the development of viviparous and oviparous animals. showing the main recognizable features of the mature animal, embryo being applied to the earlier stages.

A written decision of a Turkish mufti some point of law; also applied to opinions by certain other Islamic religious authorities on points of Islamic law, such as in Iran.

A free and gratuitous right to lands made to one for service to be performed by him; a tenure where the vassal, in place of military services, makes a return in grain or in money.

One who holds a feu.

A stipendiary estate in land, held of a superior, by service; the right which a vassal or tenant had to the lands or other immovable thing of his lord, to use the same and take the profits thereof hereditarily, rendering to his superior such duties and services as belong to military tenure, etc., the property of the soil always remaining in the lord or superior; a fief; a fee.

Of or pertaining to feuds, fiefs, or fees; as, feudal rights or services; feudal tenures.

The feudal system; a system by which the holding of estates in land is made dependent upon an obligation to render military service to the king or feudal superior; feudal principles and usages.