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.
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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.
A species of kangaroo (Macropus Brunii), inhabiting New Guinea.
A disease in hawks, characterized by the presence of small threadlike worms, also of filaments of coagulated blood, from the rupture of a vein; -- called also backworm.
Of or pertaining to a thread or line; characterized by threads stretched across the field of view; as, a filar microscope; a filar micrometer.
a former genus comprised of certain nematodes, now classed as belonging to several genera within the family Onchocercidae. See Onchocerca and Guinea worm.
Of, pertaining to, or caused by, filari/ and allied parasitic worms.
the presence of filariae within the body of an organism; infection with filariae. It is mostly found in tropical and subtropical regions.
of or pertaining to family Filariidae.
a natural family consisting of threadlike roundworms, called filariae.
Vegetable fiber, as jute or ramie, prepared for manufacture.
A machine for forming threads.
A drawing out into threads; hence, the reeling of silk from cocoons.
The fruit of the Corylus Avellana or Corylus maxima, also called the hazel; the hazelnut. It is an oval nut, containing a kernel that has a mild, farinaceous, oily taste, agreeable to the palate.
To steal or take privily (commonly, that which is of little value); to pilfer.
One who filches; a thief.
By pilfering or petty stealing.
To make foul; to defile.
Any plectognath fish of the genera Monacanthus, Alutera, balistes, and allied genera; -- so called on account of the roughly granulated skin, which is sometimes used in place of sandpaper.
See Feullemort.
One who works with a file.
Of or pertaining to a son or daughter; becoming to a child in relation to his parents; as, filial obedience.
In a filial manner.
To adopt as son or daughter; to establish filiation between.
The relationship of a son or child to a parent, esp. to a father.
Same as Kilt.
To act as a filibuster, or military freebooter.
The characteristics or practices of a filibuster.
Belonging to the Filices, r ferns.
Pertaining to, or derived from, ferns; as, filicic acid.
The act of murdering a son or a daughter; also, parent who commits such a murder.
Shaped like a fern or like the parts of a fern leaf.
A fernlike plant.
The relation of a son to a father; sonship; -- the correlative of paternity.
Producing threads.
Having the shape of a thread or filament; as, the filiform papill/ of the tongue; a filiform style or peduncle. See Illust. of Antenn/.
Filigree.
See Filigreed.
Relating to, composed of, or resembling, work in filigree; as, a filigree basket. Hence: Fanciful; unsubstantial; merely decorative.
Adorned with filigree.
A fragment or particle rubbed off by the act of filing; as, iron filings.
The Latin for, /and from the Son,/ equivalent to et filio, inserted by the third council of Toledo (a. d. 589) in the clause qui ex Patre procedit (who proceedeth from the Father) of the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed (a. d. 381), which makes a creed state that the Holy Ghost proceeds from the Son as well as from the Father. Hence, the doctrine itself (not admitted by the Eastern Church).
Suspended by, or strung upon, a thread; -- said of tuberous swellings in the middle or at the extremities of slender, threadlike rootlets.
A native or inhabitant of the Philippine Islands, specif. one of Spanish descent or of mixed blood.
A full supply, as much as supplies want; as much as gives complete satisfaction.
variant spelling of filigree.
a young unmarried woman.
containing as much or as many as is possible or normal; as, filled to overflowing. Opposite of empty.
A thill horse.
To bind, furnish, or adorn with a fillet.
The protecting of a joint, as between roof and parapet wall, with mortar, or cement, where flashing is employed in better work.
A kilt. See Filibeg.
See Filibuster.
That which is used to fill a cavity or any empty space, or to supply a deficiency; as, filling for a cavity in a tooth, a depression in a roadbed, the space between exterior and interior walls of masonry, the pores of open-grained wood, the space between the outer and inner planks of a vessel, etc.
A jerk of the finger forced suddenly from the thumb; a smart blow.
See Philopena.
The rabbet on the outer edge of a sash bar to hold the glass and the putty.
A female foal or colt; a young mare. Cf. Colt, Foal.
To cover with a thin skin or pellicle.
readily adaptable to motion picture form; -- of books, plays, and other works of literature.
recorded on film.
State of being filmy.
to make films; be a film maker.
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