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.

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 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.

A person or thing fondled or caressed; one treated with foolish or doting affection.

Foolishly.

The quality or state of being fond; foolishness.

A large copper vessel used for hot amalgamation.

Blended; gradually changing or passing into each other by subtle gradations; -- said of colors or of the surface or material on which the colors are laid.

A dish made of cheese, eggs, butter, etc., often seasoned with kirsch and white wine, melted together, and usually used as a dip for pieces of bread.

Melted.

A style of printing calico, paper hangings, etc., in which the colors are in bands and graduated into each other.

pl. of Foe.

To take; to receive.

Foolishly; fondly.

A fon.

A fountain; a spring; a source.

Pertaining to a font, fountain, source, or origin; original; primitive.

An issue or artificial ulcer for the discharge of humors from the body.

Same as Fontanel, 2.

A kind of tall headdress formerly worn.

To supply with food.

Full of food; supplying food; fruitful; fertile.

Without food; barren.

Eatable; fruitful.

To infatuate; to make foolish.

To waste time in idle pursuits; to fool{2}.

To manipulate (a machine or device) without proper knowledge of its operation; to experiment aimlessly with a device; as, don't fool around with the transit.

Begotten by a fool.

Lucky, without judgment or contrivance.

Foolishly hasty.

Foolishly liberal.

Foolish expenditure; waste.

Same as Fulahs.

The practice of folly; the behavior of a fool; foolish behavior; absurdity.

The orange filefish--clownfish?-->. See Filefish. The winter flounder. See Flounder.

The state of being foolhardy; foolhardiness.

In a foolhardy manner.

Courage without sense or judgment; foolish rashness; recklessness.

Foolhardiness.

Daring without judgment; foolishly adventurous and bold.