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.

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.

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.

Having a visible fiber embodied in the surface of; -- applied esp. to a kind of paper for checks, drafts, etc.

Same as fiberboard.

Having fibers; made up of fibers.

Same as fiberglass.

Having no fibers; destitute of fibers or fiber.

Having the form of a fiber or fibers; resembling a fiber.

A small fiber; the branch of a fiber; a very slender thread; a fibrilla.

A minute thread or fiber, as one of the fibrous elements of a muscular fiber; a fibril.

Of or pertaining to fibrils or fibers; as, fibrillar twitchings.

Of of pertaining to fibrils.

Furnished with fibrils; fringed.

The state of being reduced to fibers.

Covered with hairlike appendages, as the under surface of some lichens; also, composed of little strings or fibers; as, fibrillose appendages.

Pertaining to, or composed of, fibers.

A white, albuminous, fibrous substance, formed in the coagulation of the blood either by decomposition of fibrinogen, or from the union of fibrinogen and paraglobulin which exist separately in the blood. It is insoluble in water, but is readily digestible in gastric and pancreatic juice.

The state of acquiring or having an excess of fibrin.

Belonging to the fibers of plants.

An albuminous substance existing in the blood, and in other animal fluids, which either alone or with fibrinoplastin or paraglobulin forms fibrin, and thus causes coagulation.

Possessed of properties similar to fibrinogen; capable of forming fibrin.

Like fibrinoplastin; capable of forming fibrin when brought in contact with fibrinogen.

An albuminous substance, existing in the blood, which in combination with fibrinogen forms fibrin; -- called also paraglobulin.

Having, or partaking of the properties of, fibrin; as, fibrious exudation.

A kind of cartilage with a fibrous matrix and approaching fibrous connective tissue in structure.

Partly fibrous, partly cartilaginous, and partly osseous.

Resembling or forming fibrous tissue; made up of fibers; as, fibroid tumors. A fibroid tumor; a fibroma.

A variety of gelatin; the chief ingredient of raw silk, extracted as a white amorphous mass.

A silicate of alumina, of fibrous or columnar structure. It is like andalusite in composition; -- called also sillimanite, and bucholzite.

A tumor consisting mainly of fibrous tissue, or of same modification of such tissue.

An order of sponges having a fibrous skeleton, including the commercial sponges.

Containing, or consisting of, fibers; as, the fibrous coat of the cocoanut; the fibrous roots of grasses.

Containing woody fiber and ducts, as the stems of all flowering plants and ferns; -- opposed to cellular.

One who tells fibs.

A brooch, clasp, or buckle.

Pertaining to the fibula.

The bone or cartilage of the tarsus, which articulates with the fibula, and corresponds to the calcaneum in man and most mammals.

A small dog; -- written also fise, fyce, fiste, etc.

See Fitch/.

A white crystallized mineral resin from the Fichtelgebirge, Bavaria.

A light cape, usually of lace, worn by women, to cover the neck and throat, and extending to the shoulders.

Not fixed or firm; liable to change; unstable; of a changeable mind; not firm in opinion or purpose; inconstant; capricious; as, Fortune's fickle wheel.

The quality of being fickle; instability; inconsonancy.

In a fickle manner.

A fig; an insignificant trifle, no more than the snap of one's thumb; a sign of contempt made by the fingers, expressing. A fig for you.

Molded, or capable of being molded, into form by art; relating to pottery or to molding in any soft material.

The act of feigning, inventing, or imagining; as, by a mere fiction of the mind.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, fiction; fictitious; romantic.

A writer of fiction.