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Four-wheeler

A vehicle having four wheels; a hackney carriage with four weels.

Fourche

Having the ends forked or branched, and the ends of the branches terminating abruptly as if cut off; -- said of an ordinary, especially of a cross.

Fourdrinier

A machine used in making paper; -- so named from an early inventor of improvements in this class of machinery.

Fourfold

To make four times as much or as many, as an assessment; to quadruple.

Fourfooted

Having four feet; quadruped; as, fourfooted beasts.

Fourgon

An ammunition wagon. A French baggage wagon.

Fourierism

The co/perative socialistic system of Charles Fourier, a Frenchman, who recommended the reorganization of society into small communities, living in common.

Fourling

One of four children born at the same time; a quadruplet.

Fourneau

The chamber of a mine in which the powder is placed.

Fourpence

A British silver coin, worth four pence; a groat.

Fourscore

The product of four times twenty; eighty units or objects.

Foursome

A game between four players, with two on each side and each side playing but one ball, the partners striking alternately. It is called a mixed foursome when each side consists of a man and a woman.

Foursquare

Having four sides and four equal angles.

Fourteen

The sum of ten and four; forteen units or objects.

Fourteenth

One of fourteen equal parts into which one whole may be divided; the quotient of a unit divided by fourteen.

Fourth

One of four equal parts into which one whole may be divided; the quotient of a unit divided by four.

fourth-year

of or pertaining to the fourth and final year in a U. S. high school or college.

Foussa

A viverrine animal of Madagascar (Cryptoprocta ferox). It resembles a cat in size and form, and has retractile claws.

Foutra

A fig; -- a word of contempt.

Fovea

A slight depression or pit; a fossa.

Foveate

Having pits or depressions; pitted.

Foveola

A small depression or pit; a fovea.

Foveolate

Having small pits or depressions, as the receptacle in some composite flowers.

Fovilla

One of the fine granules contained in the protoplasm of a pollen grain.

Fowl

To catch or kill wild fowl, for game or food, as by shooting, or by decoys, nets, etc.

Fowler

A sportsman who pursues wild fowl, or takes or kills for food.

Fowlerite

A variety of rhodonite, from Franklin Furnace, New Jersey, containing some zinc.

Fox

To turn sour; -- said of beer, etc., when it sours in fermenting.

Fox-hunting

Pertaining to or engaged in the hunting of foxes; fond of hunting foxes.

Foxearth

A hole in the earth to which a fox resorts to hide himself.

Foxed

Discolored or stained; -- said of timber, and also of the paper of books or engravings.

Foxery

Behavior like that of a fox; cunning.

Foxfish

The fox shark; -- called also sea fox. See Thrasher shark, under Shark. The european dragonet. See Dragonet.

Foxglove

Any plant of the genus Digitalis. The common English foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) is a handsome perennial or biennial plant, whose leaves are used as a powerful medicine, both as a sedative and diuretic. See Digitalis.

foxhole

a small pit in the ground for individual shelter against enemy fire.

Foxhound

One of a special breed of hounds used for chasing foxes.

Foxiness

The state or quality of being foxy, or foxlike; craftiness; shrewdness.

Foxlike

Resembling a fox in his characteristic qualities; cunning; artful; foxy.

foxtrot fox trot

a ballroom dance for couples in quadruple time, combining short and long and fast and slow steps in fixed sequences.

Foxy

Like or pertaining to the fox; foxlike in disposition or looks; wily; cunning.

Foy

Faith; allegiance; fealty.

Foyer

A lobby in a theater; a greenroom.

Foziness

The state of being fozy; spiritlessness; dullness.

Fozy

Spongy; soft; fat and puffy.

Fra

Brother; -- a title of a monk or friar; as, Fra Angelo.

Frab

To scold; to nag.

Fracas

An uproar; a noisy quarrel; a disturbance; a brawl.

Frache

A shallow iron pan to hold glass ware while being annealed.

Fracid

Rotten from being too ripe; overripe.

Fract

To break; to violate.

Fracted

Having a part displaced, as if broken; -- said of an ordinary.

Fraction

To separate by means of, or to subject to, fractional distillation or crystallization; to fractionate; -- frequently used with out; as, to fraction out a certain grade of oil from pretroleum.

Fractional

Of or pertaining to fractions or a fraction; constituting a fraction; as, fractional numbers.

Fractionally

By fractions or separate portions; as, to distill a liquid fractionally, that is, so as to separate different portions.

Fractionate

To separate (a mixture of chemical substances) into different portions or fractions, as in the distillation of liquids.

fractionation

the act or process of separating a mixture into portions of different composition, as in distillation or fractional crystallization.

Fractious

Apt to break out into a passion; apt to scold; cross; snappish; ugly; unruly; as, a fractious man; a fractious horse.

Fractural

Pertaining to, or consequent on, a fracture.

Fracture

To cause a fracture or fractures in; to break; to burst asunder; to crack; to separate the continuous parts of; as, to fracture a bone; to fracture the skull.

frag

To assault, especially to kill or wound, with a fragmentation grenade.

Fragaria

a genus of plants comprising the strawberry plants.

Fragile

Easily broken; brittle; frail; delicate; easily destroyed.

Fragility

The condition or quality of being fragile; brittleness; frangibility.

Fragment

A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part; as, a fragment of an ancient writing.

Fragmentariness

The quality or property of being in fragments, or broken pieces; incompleteness; want of continuity.

Fragmentary

Composed of fragments, or broken pieces; disconnected; not complete or entire.

fragmentation

the act or process of separating something into small pieces or fine particles.

fragmentation grenade

A type of hand grenade designed to burst into multiple fragments upon detonation of the explosive charge; the fragments fly away at high velocity, killing or wounding persons nearby. Contrasted to concussion grenade. The common type of fragmentation grenade used by the American military was sometimes jocosely referred to as a pineapple from its reticulated surface appearance, resembling that of the fruit.

Fragmentist

A writer of fragments; as, the fragmentist of Wolfenb/ttel.

Fragor

A loud and sudden sound; the report of anything bursting; a crash.

Fragrancy Fragrance

The quality of being fragrant; sweetness of smell; a sweet smell; a pleasing odor; perfume.

Fragrant

Affecting the olfactory nerves agreeably; sweet of smell; odorous; having or emitting an agreeable perfume.

frail

Easily broken; fragile; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish; easily destroyed; not tenacious of life; weak; infirm.

frailty

The condition or quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally; frailness; infirmity; weakness of resolution; liableness to be deceived or seduced.

Fraise

To protect, as a line of troops, against an onset of cavalry, by opposing bayonets raised obliquely forward.

Frame

Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure; esp., the constructional system, whether of timber or metal, that gives to a building, vessel, etc., its model and strength; the skeleton of a structure.

Frame of mind

mood; mental attitude; mental disposition; same as frame{6}.

Frame of reference

an arbitrary set of spatial coordinates used to describe the position or motion of objects. The coordinates may be fixed or moving; as, a rotating frame of reference.

Frame-up

A conspiracy or plot for a malicious or evil purpose; an act that incriminates a person on false evidence.

framed

provided with a frame; as, there were framed snapshots of family and friends on her desk. Opposite of unframed.

Framer

One who frames; as, the framer of a building; the framers of the Constitution.

frameshift

of, pertaining to, or causing a type of mutation consisting of the insertion or deletion of one or more nucleotides in the nucleic acid structure of a gene, when the number of base pairs inserted or deleted is not a multiple of three. If the addition or deletion occurs in multiples of three, the unaffected nucleotides in the genome remain in the proper order ("frame") to be correctly translated into protein; in such cases of insertions or deletions not causing a frame shift, a functional though altered protein may be produced by the organism. Frameshift mutations cause more profound changes in the composition of the protein resulting from translation of the mutated gene.

Framework

The work of framing, or the completed work; the frame or constructional part of anything; as, the framework of society.

Framing

The act, process, or style of putting together a frame, or of constructing anything; a frame; that which frames.

Franc

A silver coin of France, and since 1795 the unit of the French monetary system. It has been adopted by Belgium and Swizerland. In 1913 it was equivalent to about nineteen cents American, or ten pence British, and is divided into 100 centimes.

Franchise

To make free; to enfranchise; to give liberty to.

Francic

Pertaining to the Franks, or their language; Frankish.

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