The act by which, either in animals or plants, material prepared by the generative organs the female organism is brought in contact with matter from the organs of the male, so that a new organism results; impregnation; fertilization.
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To make fruitful; to fecundate.
The quality or power of producing fruit; fruitfulness; especially (Biol.), the quality in female organisms of reproducing rapidly and in great numbers.
imp. p. p. of Feed.
A feodary.
a member of an Arab paramilitary organization, predominantly Palestinian, which performs commando raids, especially against Israel or Israeli targets. Usually used in the plural.
an extremely fine pasta thinner than vermicelli.
See Federalist.
A federally chartered corporation that purchases and resells mortgages.
The principles of Federalists or of federal union.
An advocate of confederation; specifically (Amer. Hist.), a friend of the Constitution of the United States at its formation and adoption; a member of the political party which favored the administration of president Washington.
To unite in compact, as different States; to confederate for political purposes; to unite by or under the Federal Constitution.
A partner; a confederate; an accomplice.
United by compact, as sovereignties, states, or nations; joined in confederacy; leagued; confederate; as, federate nations.
United by compact under a central organization, as governments or commercial organizations.
The act of uniting in a league; confederation.
Uniting in a league; forming a confederacy; federal.
Turpitude; vileness.
A soft felt hat with a crown creased lengthwise.
To reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe.
A nonsensical exclamation attributed to giants and ogres; hence, any expression calculated to impose upon the timid and ignorant.
To make feble; to enfeeble.
Weak in intellectual power; wanting firmness or constancy; irresolute; vacillating; imbecile.
severe mental deficiency.
The quality or condition of being feeble; debility; infirmity.
In a feeble manner.
That which is eaten; esp., food for beasts; fodder; pasture; hay; grain, ground or whole; as, the best feed for sheep.
a canvas bag that is used to feed an animal (such as a horse or mule); animal feed such as oats are placed in the bag, and it is fastened at the top of the head, covering the muzzle. The animal may then eat the contents while thus wearing the feedbag.
the process in which part of the output of a system is returned to its input.
One who, or that which, gives food or supplies nourishment; steward.
the act of eating, or of supplying with food; the process of fattening.
See Fijian.
Feeling; perception.
One who, or that which, feels.
The sense by which the mind, through certain nerves of the body, perceives external objects, or certain states of the body itself; that one of the five senses which resides in the general nerves of sensation distributed over the body, especially in its surface; the sense of touch; nervous sensibility to external objects.
In a feeling manner; pathetically; sympathetically.
A consort, husband or wife; a companion; a fere.
The short run before a leap.
Fact; performance.
Destitute of feet; as, feetless birds.
Fretful excitement. [Obs.] See Feaze.
See Fehling's solution, under Solution.
Same as Vehm, Vehmgericht.
See Vehmic.
To give a mental existence to, as to something not real or actual; to imagine; to invent; hence, to pretend; to form and relate as if true.
Not real or genuine; pretended; counterfeit; insincere; false.
One who feigns or pretends.
That feigns; insincere; not genuine; false.
To feign.
To make a feint, or mock attack.
The Chinese name for a highly prized variety of pale green jade. See Jade.
See Feeze, v. t.
See Filanders.
A name given to a group of minerals, closely related in crystalline form, and all silicates of alumina with either potash, soda, lime, or, in one case, baryta. They occur in crystals and crystalline masses, vitreous in luster, and breaking rather easily in two directions at right angles to each other, or nearly so. The colors are usually white or nearly white, flesh-red, bluish, or greenish.
Pertaining to, or consisting of, feldspar.
Many.
To make happy; to felicitate.
To make very happy; to delight.
The act of felicitating; a wishing of joy or happiness; congratulation.
Characterized by felicity; happy; prosperous; delightful; skillful; successful; happily applied or expressed; appropriate.
a pleasing and appropriate manner or style, especially of expression.
The state of being happy; blessedness; blissfulness; enjoyment of good.
any of various lithe-bodied round-headed fissiped mammals, many with retractile claws; a member of the Felidae.
a natural family of lithe-bodied round-headed fissiped mammals, including the cats; wildcats; lions; leopards; cheetahs; and saber-toothed tigers.
Catlike; of or pertaining to the genus Felis, or family Felid/; as, the feline race; feline voracity.
A genus of mostly small carnivorous mammals, including the domestic cat, puma, ocelot, and margay, which share the inability to roar due to bone structure in the larynx. The lion, tiger, and other large roaring cats were once included in Felis but are now assigned to the genus Panthera. The lynx (Felis lynx) is also called Lynx lynx.
imp. of Fall.
A form of seam joining two pieces of cloth, the edges being folded together and the stitches taken through both thicknesses.
Fit to be felled.
A peasant or cultivator of the soil among the Egyptians, Syrians, etc.
a form of sexual activity between two persons in which the penis of one is stimulated by the other's mouth, especially until orgasm is achieved. It is a form of oral sex. Compare cunnilingus. The act is also called by the slang term blow job.
An appliance to a sewing machine for felling a seam.
The fieldfare.
Flowing with gall.
Of, relating to, or derived from, bile or gall; as, fellinic acid.
A dealer in fells or sheepskins, who separates the wool from the pelts.
The quality or state of being fell or cruel; fierce barbarity.
See Felly.
Variant of Felon.
To suit with; to pair with; to match.
A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table.
One of the same race or kind; one made by the same Creator.
Sympathy; a like feeling.
To share through sympathy; to participate in.
Without fellow or equal; peerless.
Like a companion; companionable; on equal terms; sympathetic.
Fellowlike.
To acknowledge as of good standing, or in communion according to standards of faith and practice; to admit to Christian fellowship.
The exterior wooden rim, or a segment of the rim, of a wheel, supported by the spokes.
One who deliberately puts an end to his own existence, or loses his life while engaged in the commission of an unlawful or malicious act; a suicide.
Characteristic of a felon; malignant; fierce; malicious; cruel; traitorous; disloyal.
Having the quality of felony; malignant; malicious; villainous; traitorous; perfidious; in a legal sense, done with intent to commit a crime; as, felonious homicide.
Wicked; felonious.
A body of felons; specifically, the convict population of a penal colony.
The bittersweet nightshade (Solanum Dulcamara). See Bittersweet.
An act on the part of the vassal which cost him his fee by forfeiture.
A finegrained rock, flintlike in fracture, consisting essentially of orthoclase feldspar with occasional grains of quartz.
relating to, composed of, or containing, felsite.
See Feldspar.
See Feldspathic.
See Felsite.
To make into felt, or a feltike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.
To clot or mat together like felt.
The material of which felt is made; also, felted cloth; also, the process by which it is made.
See Felt, n.
A small, swift-sailing vessel, propelled by oars and lateen sails, -- once common in the Mediterranean.
A European herb (Swertia perennis) of the Gentian family.
Belonging to the sex which conceives and gives birth to young, or (in a wider sense) which produces ova; not male.
A gallant.
To make, or to describe as, female or feminine.
A woman.
See Femerell.
A lantern, or louver covering, placed on a roof, for ventilation or escape of smoke.
Feminine.
Feminity.
Feminine.
Womanliness; femininity.
A woman.
In a feminine manner.
The quality of being feminine; womanliness; womanishness.
The quality or nature of the female sex; womanliness.
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