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Ferric

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.

Ferricyanic

Pertaining to, or derived from, a ferricyanide.

Ferricyanide

One of a complex series of double cyanides of ferric iron and some other base.

Ferro-concrete

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.

Ferrocalcite

Limestone containing a large percentage of iron carbonate, and hence turning brown on exposure.

Ferrocyanic

Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, a ferrocyanide.

Ferrocyanide

One of a series of complex double cyanides of ferrous iron and some other base.

Ferrotype

A photographic picture taken on an iron plate by a collodion process; -- familiarly called tintype.

Ferrous

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.

Ferruginated

Having the color or properties of the rust of iron.

Ferruginous

Partaking of iron; containing particles of iron.

Ferrugo

A disease of plants caused by fungi, commonly called the rust, from its resemblance to iron rust in color.

Ferrule

A ring or cap of metal put round a cane, tool, handle, or other similar object, to strengthen it, or prevent splitting and wearing.

Ferry

A place where persons or things are carried across a river, arm of the sea, etc., in a ferryboat.

Ferryboat

A vessel for conveying passengers, merchandise, etc., usually across streams, rivers, bays, and other narrow waters.

Ferryman

One who maintains or attends a ferry.

Fertile

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.

Fertility

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.

Fertilize

To make fertile or enrich; to supply with nourishment for plants; to make fruitful or productive; as, to fertilize land, soil, ground, and meadows.

fertilized

united with a male gamete to begin the development of an individual embryo; -- of female gametes.

Fertilizer

One who fertilizes; the agent that carries the fertilizing principle, as a moth to an orchid.

Ferulaceous

Pertaining to reeds and canes; having a stalk like a reed; as, ferulaceous plants.

Ferule

To punish with a ferule.

Ferulic

Pertaining to, or derived from, asafetida (Ferula asaf/tida); as, ferulic acid.

Fervency

The state of being fervent or warm; ardor; warmth of feeling or devotion; eagerness.

Fervent

Hot; glowing; boiling; burning; as, a fervent summer.

Fervid

Very hot; burning; boiling.

Fescennine

Pertaining to, or resembling, the Fescennines. A style of low, scurrilous, obscene poetry originating in fescennia.

Fescue

To use a fescue, or teach with a fescue.

Fesse Fess

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.

Festal

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

Festally

Joyously; festively; mirthfully.

Fester

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

Festi-val

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

Festival

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

Festive

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

Festivity

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

Festlich

Festive; fond of festive occasions.

Festoon

To form in festoons, or to adorn with festoons.

Festoony

Pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling, festoons.

Fetal

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

Fetation

The formation of a fetus in the womb; pregnancy.

Fetch

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.

fetch

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

fetching

drawing favorable attention; as, a fetching new hat.

fete

To feast; to honor with a festival.

Feticide

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

Fetid

Having an offensive smell; stinking.

Fetidness

The quality or state of being fetid.

Fetis

Neat; pretty; well made; graceful.

Fetish Fetich

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.

Fetlock

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.

Fetor

A strong, offensive smell; stench; fetidness.

Fetter

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

fetterbush

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

Fettered

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

Fettling

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

Fetus

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.

Fetwah

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.

Feu

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.

Feuar

One who holds a feu.

Feud

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.

feudal

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

Feudalism

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.

Feudality

The state or quality of being feudal; feudal form or constitution.

Feudalize

To reduce to a feudal tenure; to conform to feudalism.

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