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Fanciless

Having no fancy; without ideas or imagination.

Fancy

Adapted to please the fancy or taste, especially when of high quality or unusually appealing; ornamental; as, fancy goods; fancy clothes.

Fancywork

Ornamental work with a needle or hook, as embroidery, crocheting, netting, etc.

Fandango

A lively dance, in 3-8 or 6-8 time, much practiced in Spain and Spanish America. Also, the tune to which it is danced.

Fanega

A dry measure in Spain and Spanish America, varying from 1/ to 2/ bushels; also, a measure of land.

Fanfare

A flourish of trumpets, as in coming into the lists, etc.; also, a short and lively air performed on hunting horns during the chase.

Fanfaron

A bully; a hector; a swaggerer; an empty boaster.

Fanfaronade

A swaggering; vain boasting; ostentation; a bluster.

Fanfoot

A species of gecko having the toes expanded into large lobes for adhesion. The Egyptian fanfoot (Phyodactylus gecko) is believed, by the natives, to have venomous toes. Any moth of the genus Polypogon.

Fang

The tusk of an animal, by which the prey is seized and held or torn; a long pointed tooth; esp., one of the usually erectile, venomous teeth of serpents. Also, one of the falcers of a spider.

Fanged

Having fangs or tusks; as, a fanged adder. Also used figuratively.

Fangled

New made; hence, gaudy; showy; vainly decorated. [Obs., except with the prefix new.] See Newfangled.

Fangot

A quantity of wares, as raw silk, etc., from one hundred weight.

Fanion

A small flag sometimes carried at the head of the baggage of a brigade.

Fanlike

Resembling a fan; folded up like a fan, as certain leaves; plicate.

Fanon

A term applied to various articles, A peculiar striped scarf worn by the pope at mass, and by eastern bishops. A maniple.

Fantad Fantod

State of worry or excitement; fidget; fuss; also, indisposition; pet; sulks.

Fantail

A variety of the domestic pigeon, so called from the shape of the tail. Any bird of the Australian genus Rhipidura, in which the tail is spread in the form of a fan during flight. They belong to the family of flycatchers. the fantail goldfish.

fantail goldfish

a type of goldfish bred artificially, having a realtively short oval body and a tail with four lobes arrayed somewhat like a folding fan, as though forming a part of the surface of a cone. Called also fantail.

Fantasia

A continuous composition, not divided into what are called movements, or governed by the ordinary rules of musical design, but in which the author's fancy roves unrestricted by set form.

Fantasied

Filled with fancies or imaginations.

Fantast

One whose manners or ideas are fantastic.

Fantastic

A person given to fantastic dress, manners, etc.; an eccentric person; a fop.

Fantastical

Fanciful; unreal; whimsical; capricious; fantastic.

Fantasticism

The quality of being fantastical; fancifulness; whimsicality.

Fantasy

To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like; to fancy.

Fantoccini

Puppets caused to perform evolutions or dramatic scenes by means of machinery; also, the representations in which they are used.

fanwort

a common aquatic plant (Cabomba caroliniana) of eastern North America having floating and submerged leaves and white yellow-spotted flowers.

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Far

To a great extent or distance of space; widely; as, we are separated far from each other.

Far-about

A going out of the way; a digression.

far-flung

widely spread or distributed; as, the far-flung corners of the Empire.

Far-off

Remote; as, the far-off distance; troops landing on far-off shores. Cf. Far-off, under Far, adv.

far-reaching

having a wide range or effect; as, far-reaching (or extensive) forests; a far-reaching reform.

Farad

The standard unit of electrical capacity; the capacity of a condenser whose charge, having an electro-motive force of one volt, is equal to the amount of electricity which, with the same electromotive force, passes through one ohm in one second; the capacity, which, charged with one coulomb, gives an electro-motive force of one volt.

faraday

the quantity of electric charge that, passed though an ionic solution, will cause electrolysis of one equivalent of ions; it is equal to about 96,490 coulombs. The number of univalent metal ions (such as silver in a silver nitrate solution) which would be deposited as free metal by such a current is Avogadro's number, 6.023 x 1023.

Faradic

Of or pertaining to Michael Faraday, the distinguished electrician; -- applied especially to induced currents of electricity, as produced by certain forms of inductive apparatus, on account of Faraday's investigations of their laws.

Faradization Faradism

The treatment with faradic or induced currents of electricity for remedial purposes.

Faradize

To stimulate with, or subject to, faradic, or inducted, electric currents.

Farandams

A fabrik made of silk and wool or hair.

Farandole

A rapid dance in six-eight time in which a large number join hands and dance in various figures, sometimes moving from room to room. It originated in Provence.

Farce

Stuffing, or mixture of viands, like that used on dressing a fowl; forcemeat.

Farcical

Of or pertaining to the disease called farcy. See Farcy, n.

Farctate

Stuffed; filled solid; as, a farctate leaf, stem, or pericarp; -- opposed to tubular or hollow.

Farcy

A contagious disease of horses, associated with painful ulcerating enlargements, esp. upon the head and limbs. It is of the same nature as glanders, and is often fatal. Called also farcin, and farcimen.

Fard

To paint; -- said esp. of one's face.

Farding-bag

The upper stomach of a cow, or other ruminant animal; the rumen.

Fare

A journey; a passage.

fare-thee-well

state of perfection; the utmost degree; as, they polished the furniture to a fare-thee-well.

Faren

p. p. of Fare, v. i.

Farewell

Parting; valedictory; final; as, a farewell discourse; his farewell bow.

Farfetch

Anything brought from far, or brought about with studious care; a deep strategem.

Farfetched

Brought from far, or from a remote place.

Farina

A fine flour or meal made from cereal grains or from the starch or fecula of vegetables, extracted by various processes, and used in cookery.

Farinaceous

Consisting or made of meal or flour; as, a farinaceous diet.

Farinose

Yielding farina; as, farinose substances.

Farlie

An unusual or unexpected thing; a wonder. See Fearly.

Farm

To engage in the business of tilling the soil; to labor as a farmer.

Farmer

One who farms One who hires and cultivates a farm; a cultivator of leased ground; a tenant. One who is devoted to the tillage of the soil; one who cultivates a farm; an agriculturist; a husbandman. One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect, either paying a fixed annuual rent for the privilege; as, a farmer of the revenues. The lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown.

Farmery

The buildings and yards necessary for the business of a farm; a homestead.

Farmhouse

A dwelling house on a farm; a farmer's residence.

Farming

The business of cultivating land.

farmland

a rural area where farming is practiced; land actually under cultivation or capable of supporting crops.

Farmstead

A farm with the building upon it; a homestead on a farm.

Farmyard

The yard or inclosure attached to a barn, or the space inclosed by the farm buildings.

Farness

The state of being far off; distance; remoteness.

Faro

A gambling game at cards, in which all the other players play against the dealer or banker, staking their money upon the order in which the cards will lie and be dealt from the pack.

Faroese

An inhabitant, or, collectively, inhabitants, of the Faroe islands.

Farraginous

Formed of various materials; mixed; as, a farraginous mountain.

Farrago

A mass composed of various materials confusedly mixed; a medley; a mixture.

Farrand

Manner; custom; fashion; humor.

Farrier

To practice as a farrier; to carry on the trade of a farrier.

Farrow

Not producing young in a given season or year; -- said only of cows.

Farse

An addition to, or a paraphrase of, some part of the Latin service in the vernacular; -- common in English before the Reformation.

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