Soft and clear in tone, like a flute.

Belonging to rivers; growing or living in streams or ponds; as, a fluvial plant.

One who exlpains geological phenomena by the action of streams.

Belonging to rivers or streams; fluviatile.

Belonging to rivers or streams; existing in or about rivers; produced by river action; fluvial; as, fluviatile starta, plants.

Formed by the joint action of a river and the sea, as deposits at the mouths of rivers.

An instrument for measuring and recording automatically the rise and fall of a river.

An instrument for measuring the height of water in a river; a river gauge.

To affect, or bring to a certain state, by flux.

The act of fluxing.

The quality of being fluxible.

Capable of being melted or fused, as a mineral.

Fluxible.

State of being fluxible.

The act of flowing.

Pertaining to, or having the nature of, fluxion or fluxions; variable; inconstant.

Fluxional.

One skilled in fluxions.

See Fluxion, 6(b).

Flowing; also, wanting solidity.

The quality of being fluid.

Knowing; wide awake; fully understanding another's meaning.

Marked by, or as if by, the bite of flies.

The covering of an insect, esp. the elytra of beetles.

Having the habit of catching insects on the wing.

To angle, using flies for bait.

Disposed to fly away; flighty; unrestrained; light and free; -- used of both persons and things. A flyaway person or thing.

A kind of catchfly of the genus Silene; also, a poisonous mushroom (Agaricus muscarius); fly agaric.

One of the eggs or young larv/ deposited by a flesh fly, or blowfly.

Tainted or contaminated with flyblows; damaged; foul.

A large Dutch coasting vessel.

One of numerous species of birds that feed upon insects, which they take on the wing.

One that uses wings.

A California scorp/noid fish (Sebastichthys rhodochloris), having brilliant colors.

Moving in the air with, or as with, wings; moving lightly or rapidly; intended for rapid movement.

A blank leaf in the front of back or a book.

The driver of a fly, or light public carriage.

the upper level of a crossing of two highways at different levels; called in the United States an overpass; as, an overpass is called a flyover or a flypast in England.

A strip of paper that is coated with a sticky substance and suspended from an overhead object to trap and kill flies; also, a similar paper poisoned so as to kill flies on contact.

the upper level of a crossing of two highways at different levels; same as flyover; called in the United States an overpass.

A name given to the series of sandstones and schists overlying the true nummulitic formation in the Alps, and included in the Eocene Tertiary.

To soil with flyspecks.

An implement with a flat part (a mesh of metal or plastic) and a long handle, used to kill insects by striking them. The handle is typically about one foot long and the flat mesh at the end (usually of plastic) is about 5 inces square.

Strife; dispute; abusive or upbraiding talk, as in fliting; wrangling.

A trap for catching flies.

Contention; strife; scolding; specif., a kind of metrical contest between two persons, popular in Scotland in the 16th century.

A heavy wheel or disk which stores kinetic energy by rotating on a shaft, and by its momentum smoothes the operation of a reciprocating engine by reducing fluctuations of speed. It is used in certain types of machinery, such as automobiles.

The chemical symbol for Fermium, a transuranic element.

A method of transmitting radio signals by modulating the frequency of the carrier wave; -- opposed to AM (amplitude modulation), in which the signal modulates the amplitude, rather than the frequency of the carrier wave.

To breathe heavily; to snort.

The Federal National Mortgage Association a federally chartered corporation that purchases and resells mortgages.

The Chinese name of Buddha.

The forecastle, a superstructure in the bow of a merchant ship where the crew is housed; -- the spelling is intended to reflect the common pronunciation among seamen.

To bring forth young, as an animal of the horse kind.

See Coltsfoot.

To cause to foam; as, to foam the goblet; also (with out), to throw out with rage or violence, as foam.

Giving off bubbles and developing a head of foam; as, a foaming glass of beer.

With foam; frothily.

Having no foam.

Covered with foam; frothy; spumy.

Belonging to,or concerning, a focus; as, a focal point.

The act of focalizing or bringing to a focus, or the state of being focalized.

To bring to a focus; to focus; to concentrate.

To nourish.

Comfort; support.

An assisting instrument for focusing an object in or before a camera.

To bring to a focus; to focalize; as, to focus a camera.

being in focus or brought into focus; clearly delineated; -- of an image. Opposite of unfocused.

same as focused (in all senses).

the concentration of attention or energy on something.

To feed, as cattle, with dry food or cut grass, etc.; to furnish with hay, straw, oats, etc.

One who fodders cattle.

One of the Fodientia.

A group of African edentates including the aard-vark.

To treat as an enemy.

A warm dry wind that often blows in the northern valleys of the Alps, due to the indraught of a storm center passing over Central Europe. The wind, heated by compression in its descent from the mountains, reaches the base, particularly in winter, dry and warm. Any similar wind, as the chinook, in other parts of the world.

Enmity.

An enemy in war.

Same as fetal.

Same as Fetation.

Same as Feticide.

Same as Fetor.

Same as Fetus.

To show indistinctly or become indistinct, as the picture on a negative sometimes does in the process of development.

a loud low warning sound that can be heard by fog-bound ships; a foghorn.

A nebulous arch, or bow, of white or yellowish light sometimes seen in fog, etc.

The Cornish name for a forge used for smelting tin.

See Fogy.

See 1st Fog.

One who fogs; a pettifogger.

In a foggy manner; obscurely.

The state of being foggy.

Filled or abounding with fog, or watery exhalations; misty; as, a foggy atmosphere; a foggy morning.

A horn that emits a loud low-pitched sound, used on ships navigating in a fog, to warn other ships of their presence.

See Fogy.

Without fog; clear.

A dull old fellow; a person behind the times, over-conservative, or slow; -- usually preceded by old; an old fogy.

The principles and conduct of a fogy.

An exclamation of abhorrence or contempt; poh; fie.

A Buddhist priest. See Fo.

A moral weakness; a failing; a weak point; a frailty.

A leaf or very thin sheet of metal; as, brass foil; tin foil; gold foil.

Capable of being foiled.

One who foils or frustrates.

The track of game (as deer) in the grass.

A pass in fencing; a lunge.

Thrusting with the foil; fencing with the point, as distinguished from broadsword play.

With a push or thrust.

Rich harvest; plenty; abundance.

A foister; a sharper.

One who foists something surreptitiously; a falsifier.

Fusty.

Fustiness; mustiness.

Fusty; musty.

To confine sheep in a fold.

See Faldage.

Capable of being folded into a more compact form.

made compact by bending or doubling over.

One who, or that which, folds; esp., a flat, knifelike instrument used for folding paper.

Nonsense; foolish talk.