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.

A little pocket for a watch; -- callled also a watch pocket.

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.

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.

The act of making a fold or folds; also, a fold; a doubling; a plication.

Having no fold.

Belonging to, or having the texture or nature of, a leaf; having leaves intermixed with flowers; as, a foliaceous spike.

To adorn with foliage or the imitation of foliage; to form into the representation of leaves.

Furnished with foliage; leaved; as, the variously foliaged mulberry.

Consisting of, or pertaining to, leaves; as, foliar appendages.

To beat into a leaf, or thin plate.

Having leaves, or leaflike projections; as, a foliated shell.

The process of forming into a leaf or leaves.

Foliage; leafage.

Goldsmith's foil.

Producing leaves.

Foolishly.

Formed of sheets each folded once, making two leaves, or four pages; as, a folio volume. See Folio, n., 3.

Of or pertaining to leaflets; -- used in composition; as, bi-foliolate.

One of the distinct parts of a compound leaf; a leaflet.

See Feuillemort.

Having many leaves; leafy.

The ponderousness or bulk of a folio; voluminousness.

Like a leaf; thin; unsubstantial.

A leaf, esp. a thin leaf or plate.

Tales, legends, or superstitions long current among the people; the unwritten literature of a culture, such as stories, proverbs, riddles and songs.

a tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk, especially one forming part of the tradition of a culture.

The lower house of the Danish Rigsdag, or Parliament. See Legislature, below.

Land held in villenage, being distributed among the folk, or people, at the pleasure of the lord of the manor, and resumed at his discretion. Not being held by any assurance in writing, it was opposed to bookland or charter land, which was held by deed.

An assembly of the people a general assembly of the people to consider and order matters of the commonwealth; also, a local court.

One who takes part in a folkmote, or local court.

In Anglo-Saxon times, the people of a group of townships or villages; a community; a tribe.

same as cracker-barrel.

A simple podlike pericarp which contains several seeds and opens along the inner or ventral suture, as in the peony, larkspur and milkweed.

Like, pertaining to, or consisting of, a follicles or follicles.

Having follicles.

Having or producing follicles.

Full of folly.

The art or process of following; specif., in some games, as billiards, a stroke causing a ball to follow another ball after hitting it. Also used adjectively; as, follow shot.

Following as a logical consequence or next step in a process; -- used mostly of voluntary actions.

Carrying a process, plan, or project to full completion; as, I appreciated his follow-through on his promise. The term usually is used in reference to the period after some point in time at which the actor is given freedom to pursue the project.

a second (or subsequent) action to increase the effectiveness of an initial action. Also used attributively; as a follow-up visit.

One who follows; a pursuer; an attendant; a disciple; a dependent associate; a retainer.

Next after; succeeding; ensuing; as, the assembly was held on the following day.

The state of being foolish; want of good sense; levity, weakness, or derangement of mind.

To follow.

A star of the first magnitude, in the constellation Piscis Australis, or Southern Fish.

Fomentation.

The act of fomenting; the application of warm, soft, medicinal substances, as for the purpose of easing pain, by relaxing the skin, or of discussing tumors. The lotion applied to a diseased part.

One who foments; one who encourages or instigates; as, a fomenter of sedition.

Any substance supposed to be capable of absorbing, retaining, and transporting contagious or infectious germs; as, woolen clothes are said to be active fomites.

(Irish) one of a group of sea demons sometimes associated with the hostile power of nature.

(Irish) one of a group of sea demons sometimes associated with the hostile power of nature.

A fool; an idiot.

Foundation; bottom; groundwork; The ground. The broth or juice from braised flesh or fish, usually served as a sauce.

A kind of soft candy, made of a thick creamy sugar paste by boiling solutions to the point of crystallization, and usually molded; as, cherry fondant.

To endeavor; to strive; to try.

To treat or handle with tenderness or in a loving manner; to caress; as, a nurse fondles a child.

One who fondles.