A white crystallized mineral resin from the Fichtelgebirge, Bavaria.
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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.
Fictitious.
Feigned; imaginary; not real; fabulous; counterfeit; false; not genuine; as, fictitious fame.
Feigned; counterfeit.
An artist who models or forms statues and reliefs in any plastic material.
A genus of trees or shrubs, one species of which (F. Carica) produces the figs of commerce; the fig tree.
A square bar of wood or iron, used to support the topmast, being passed through a hole or mortise at its heel, and resting on the trestle trees.
The lowest title of nobility in Portugal, corresponding to that of Hidalgo in Spain.
To play (a tune) on a fiddle.
To talk nonsense.
shaped like a fiddle; -- of a leaf shape.
Inversely ovate, with a deep hollow on each side.
An exclamatory word or phrase, equivalent to nonsense!
any of several tall ferns of northern temperate regions having graceful arched fronds and sporophylls resembling ostrich plumes.
hairy annual plant (Phacelia tanacetifolia) of California to Mexico with crowded cymes of small blue to lilac or mauve flowers.
One who plays on a fiddle or violin.
The bow, strung with horsehair, used in playing the fiddle; a fiddle bow.
One of the catgut strings of a fiddle.
The wood of several West Indian trees, mostly of the genus Citharexylum.
The act or state of being bound as surety for another; suretyship.
A surety; one bound for another, conjointly with him; a guarantor.
Faithfulness; adherence to right; careful and exact observance of duty, or discharge of obligations. Adherence to a person or party to which one is bound; loyalty.
Faith personified as a goddess; the goddess of faith.
See Fidget.
Uneasiness; restlessness.
Quality of being fidgety.
Restless; uneasy.
A genus of small beetles, of which one species (the grapevine Fidia, F. longipes) is very injurious to vines in America.
Of or pertaining to a stringed instrument.
Having faith or trust; confident; undoubting; firm.
With confidence.
One who holds a thing in trust for another; a trustee.
An exclamation denoting contempt or dislike. See Fy.
An estate held of a superior on condition of military service; a fee; a feud. See under Benefice, n., 2.
Cleared land; land suitable for tillage or pasture; cultivated ground; the open country.
To catch, stop, throw, etc. (the ball), as a fielder.
any nocturnal Old World mouse of the genus Apodemus inhabing woods and fields and gardens.
to test something in the field, i. e. under the actual conditions under which it will be used; as, The Army field-tested the new tanks. Used in contrast with testing in a laboratory or under controlled conditions.
Engaged in the field; encamped.
Consisting of fields.
A ball payer who stands out in the field to catch or stop balls.
a small thrush (Turdus pilaris) which breeds in northern Europe and winters in Great Britain. The head, nape, and lower part of the back are ash-colored; the upper part of the back and wing coverts, chestnut; -- called also fellfare.
The act of playing as a fielder.
A cannon mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army; a piece of field artillery; -- called also field gun.
a member of the cricket team that is fielding rather than batting.
Any temporary fortification thrown up by an army in the field; -- commonly in the plural.
Open, like a field.
An implacable or malicious foe; one who is diabolically wicked or cruel; an infernal being; -- applied specifically to the devil or a demon.
Full of fiendish spirit or arts.
Like a fiend; diabolically wicked or cruel; infernal; malignant; devilish; hellish.
Fiendish; diabolical.
Fiendlike; monstrous; devilish.
A genus of small, slender fishes, remarkable for their habit of living as commensals in other animals. One species inhabits the gill cavity of the pearl oyster near Panama; another lives within an East Indian holothurian.
Furious; violent; unrestrained; impetuous; as, a fierce wind.
the quality of being fierce; ferocity; fury; vehemence.
The quality of being fiery; heat; acrimony; irritability; as, a fieriness of temper.
Consisting of, containing, or resembling, fire; as, the fiery gulf of Etna; a fiery appearance.
Among Spanish, a religious festival; a saint's day or holiday; also, a holiday or festivity.
To play on a fife.
One who plays on a fife.
an accounting method in which goods in inventory are valued at the price of the most recent acquisition of each type of goods, and those used up from inventory are valued at the cost of those first acquired.
The sum of five and ten; fifteen units or objects.
One of fifteen equal parts or divisions; the quotient of a unit divided by fifteen.
The quotient of a unit divided by five; one of five equal parts; a fifth part.
a group of persons inside the battle lines of a territory engaged in a conflict, who secretly sympathize with the enemy, and who engage in espionage or sabotage; -- sometimes also referred to as a trojan horse.
In the fifth place; as the fifth in order.
the decade from 1950 to 1959.
One of fifty equal parts; the quotient of a unit divided by fifty.
The sum of five tens; fifty units or objects.
a lottery in which the organizers retain fifty percent of the money wagered, and distribute fifty percent of the wagered money to the winner.
Figure; dress; array.
A marine univalve shell of the genus Pyrula, or Ficula, resembling a fig in form.
An adroit and unscrupulous intriguer.
A frolic; a vagary; a whim.
A large beetle (Allorhina nitida) which in the Southern United States destroys figs. The elytra are velvety green with pale borders. A bird. See Figpecker.
Fidgety; restless.
A juggler's trick; conjuring.
A battle; an engagement; a contest in arms; a combat; a violent conflict or struggle for victory, between individuals or between armies, ships, or navies, etc.
One who fights; a combatant; a warrior.
Qualified for war; fit for battle.
Pugnaciously.
A mulct or fine imposed on a person for making a fight or quarrel to the disturbance of the peace.
An invention; a fiction; something feigned or imagined.
The European garden warbler (Sylvia hortensis or Currica, hortensis); -- called also beccafico and greater pettychaps.
Made of potter's clay; molded; shaped.
Suitable for the making of pottery; fictile; -- said of clay.
The quality of being figurable.
Capable of being brought to a fixed form or shape.
Represented by figure or delineation; consisting of figures; as, figural ornaments.
One who dances at the opera, not singly, but in groups or figures; an accessory character on the stage, who figures in its scenes, but has nothing to say; hence, one who figures in any scene, without taking a prominent part.
A female figurant; esp., a ballet girl.
Of a definite form or figure.
Having a determinate form.
In a figurate manner.
The act of giving figure or determinate form; determination to a certain form.
Representing by a figure, or by resemblance; typical; representative.
To make a figure; to be distinguished or conspicious; as, the envoy figured at court.
Adorned with figures; marked with figures; as, figured muslin.
The figure, statue, or bust, on the prow of a ship.
Represented by figure or delineation.
A very small figure, whether human or of an animal; especially, one in terra cotta or the like; -- distinguished from statuette, which is applied to small figures in bronze, marble, etc.
One who uses or interprets figurative expressions.
A genus of herbaceous plants (Scrophularia), mostly found in the north temperate zones. See Brownwort.
Of or pertaining to the Fiji islands or their inhabitants. A native of the Fiji islands.
See Fyke.
imp. of Fall, v. i. Fell.
Composed of threads.
A former officer in the English Court of Common Pleas; -- so called because he filed the writs on which he made out process.
A thread or threadlike object or appendage; a fiber; the threadlike part of the stamen supporting the anther.
Having the character of, or formed by, a filament.
Like a filament.
Like a thread; consisting of threads or filaments.
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