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.

The fist.

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.

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.

An upholder of feudalism.

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

The act of reducing to feudal tenure.

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

In a feudal manner.

A tenant who holds his lands by feudal service; a feudatory.

See Feudatory.

Held from another on some conditional tenure; as, a feudatory title.

A writer on feuds; a person versed in feudal law.

A reformed branch of the Bernardines, founded in 1577 at Feuillans, near Toulouse, in France.

Having the color of a faded leaf.

A part of a French newspaper (usually the bottom of the page), devoted to light literature, criticism, etc.; also, the article or tale itself, thus printed.

A writer of feuilletons.

To set close; to fix in rest, as a spear.

A dog keeper.

To put into a fever; to affect with fever; as, a fevered lip.

Highly excited; as, a fevered imagination.

A slight fever.

A perennial plant (Pyrethrum Parthenium, or Chrysanthemum Parthenium) allied to camomile, having finely divided leaves and white blossoms; -- so named from its supposed febrifugal qualities.

Having a fever; suffering from, or affected with, a moderate degree of fever; showing increased heat and thirst; as, the patient is feverish.

Affected with fever or ague; feverish.

Feverishly.

See Fever root, under Fever.

Feverish.

Not many; small, limited, or confined in number; -- indicating a small portion of units or individuals constituting a whole; often, by ellipsis of a noun, a few people.

Fuel.

See Fumet.

The state of being few; smallness of number; paucity.

To cleanse; to clean out.

To feign.

A fair or market.

A felt or cloth cap, usually red and having a tassel, -- a variety of the tarboosh. See Tarboosh.

a corporation authorized by Congress to provide a secondary market for residential mortgages. It is called Freddie Mac in the jargon of the finance industry.

A kind of French hackney coach.

A betrothed man; the man to whom one is betrothed.

A betrothed woman; the woman to whom one is betrothed.

The dung of the fox, wolf, boar, or badger.

One in whom the property of an estate is vested, subject to the estate of a life renter.

A complete or ridiculous failure, esp. of a musical performance, or of any pretentious undertaking.

An authoritative command or order to do something; an effectual decree.

Commission; fiat; order; decree.

To tell a fib to.

One who tells fibs.

that branch of optics which studies the transmission of light through thin transparent fibers.

a type of wallboard composed of wood chips or shavings bonded together with resin and compressed into rigid sheets, calle also particle board.

a material made of fine glass fibers woven into a fabric-like form, and used in applications requiring heat resistance; it is also embedded in resins to make a pliable but strong composite material used as the main component of fishing rods and boat hulls, and replacing the sheet metal in some automobile bodies.

an instrument used to examine internal organs.

Same as fiber.

One of the delicate, threadlike portions of which the tissues of plants and animals are in part constituted; as, the fiber of flax or of muscle.