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Filly

A female foal or colt; a young mare. Cf. Colt, Foal.

Film

To cover with a thin skin or pellicle.

filmable

readily adaptable to motion picture form; -- of books, plays, and other works of literature.

Filmy

Composed of film or films.

Filoplume

A hairlike feather; a father with a slender scape and without a web in most or all of its length.

Filose

Terminating in a threadlike process.

Filoselle

A kind of silk thread less glossy than floss, and spun from coarser material. It is much used in embroidery instead of floss.

Fils

Son; -- sometimes used after a French proper name to distinguish a son from his father, as, Alexandre Dumas, fils.

filter-tipped

having a tip designed to filter the smoke; -- of a cigarette or cigar; as, filter-tipped cigarettes.

Filth

Foul matter; anything that soils or defiles; dirt; nastiness.

Filthy

Defiled with filth, whether material or moral; nasty; dirty; polluted; foul; impure; obscene.

Filtrate

That which has been filtered; the liquid which has passed through the filter in the process of filtration. Contrasted with retentate, the material remaining on the filter.

Filtration

The act or process of filtering; the mechanical separation of a liquid from the undissolved particles floating in it.

Fimbria

A fringe, or fringed border. A band of white matter bordering the hippocampus in the brain.

Fin

An organ of a fish, consisting of a membrane supported by rays, or little bony or cartilaginous ossicles, and serving to balance and propel it in the water.

Fin-footed

Having palmate feet. Having lobate toes, as the coot and grebe.

Fin-toed

Having toes connected by a membrane; palmiped; palmated; also, lobate.

Finable

Liable or subject to a fine; as, a finable person or offense.

finagle

to achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods.

Final

Pertaining to the end or conclusion; last; terminating; ultimate; as, the final day of a school term.

Finale

Close; termination The last movement of a symphony, sonata, concerto, or any instrumental composition. The last composition performed in any act of an opera. The closing part, piece, or scene in any public performance or exhibition.

Finalist

Any of the players who meet in the final round of a tournament in which the losers in any round do not play again.

Finality

The state of being final, finished, or complete; a final or conclusive arrangement; a settlement.

finalize

to put the last touches on; put into final form.

Finally

At the end or conclusion; ultimately; lastly; as, the contest was long, but the Romans finally conquered.

Finance

To conduct the finances of; to provide for, and manage, the capital for; to financier.

Finative

Conclusive; decisive; definitive; final.

Finback

Any whale of the genera Sibbaldius, Bal/noptera, and allied genera, of the family Bal/nopterid/, characterized by a prominent fin on the back. The common finbacks of the New England coast are Sibbaldius tectirostris and S. tuberosus.

Finch

A small singing bird of many genera and species, belonging to the family Fringillid/.

Finchbacked

Streaked or spotted on the back; -- said of cattle.

Find

Anything found; a discovery of anything valuable; especially, a deposit, discovered by arch/ologists, of objects of prehistoric or unknown origin.

Findable

Capable of being found; discoverable.

Finder

One who, or that which, finds; a small telescope of low power and large field of view, attached to a larger telescope, for the purpose of finding an object more readily, called also a finder telescope or finder scope.

Findfaulting

Apt to censure or cavil; faultfinding; captious.

Finding

That which is found, come upon, or provided; esp. (pl.), that which a journeyman artisan finds or provides for himself; as tools, trimmings, etc.

findy

Full; heavy; firm; solid; substantial.

fine

Finished; brought to perfection; refined; hence, free from impurity; excellent; superior; elegant; worthy of admiration; accomplished; beautiful.

Fine

To become fine (in any one of various senses); as, the ale will fine; the weather fined.

fine-looking

pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion; as, a fine-looking woman.

fine-tune

to adjust carefully and precisely so as to achieve optimum performance or efficiency; as, The mechanic fine-tuned the engine.

fined

subjected to punishment by a fine.

Finedraw

To sew up, so nicely that the seam is not perceived; to renter.

Finedrawn

Drawn out with too much subtilty; overnice; as, finedrawn speculations.

Finely

In a fine or finished manner.

Fineness

The quality or condition of being fine.

Finer

One who fines or purifies.

Finespun

Spun so as to be fine; drawn to a fine thread; attenuated; hence, unsubstantial; visionary; as, finespun theories.

Finesse

To use artifice or stratagem.

Finestill

To distill, as spirit from molasses or some saccharine preparation.

Finfish

A finback whale. True fish, as distinguished from shellfish.

Finfoot

A South American bird (Heliornis fulica) allied to the grebes. The name is also applied to several related species of the genus Podica.

Finger

To use the fingers in playing on an instrument.

finger cot

a close-fitting sheath worn at the end of a finger, for protection of the finger or to avoid soiling the object touched.

finger paint fingerpaint

A type of paint having the consistency of a thin paste or jelly, which is applied to a surface by dipping fingers into the paint and smearing the paint on the surface, usually in artistic patterns. It is used primarily by children.

finger-roll

A shot that rolls off the tips of the fingers into the basket.

fingerboard

a guidepost resembling a hand with a pointing index finger.

fingerbreadth

the length or breadth of a finger used as a linear measure.

Fingering

The act or process of handling or touching with the fingers.

fingerpost

a guidepost resembling a hand with a pointing index finger.

fingerprint

to take an impression of the fingerprints of (a person); as, to fingerprint applicants for a gun permit.

fingerprinting

The procedure of taking inked impressions of a person's fingerprints.

fingerroot

tall leafy European biennial or perennial (Digitalis purpurea) having spectacular clusters of large tubular pink-purple flowers; -- its leaves yield the drug digitalis and are poisonous to livestock.

Fingrigo

A prickly, climbing shrub of the genus Pisonia. The fruit is a kind of berry.

Finial

The knot or bunch of foliage, or foliated ornament, that forms the upper extremity of a pinnacle in Gothic architecture; sometimes, the pinnacle itself.

Finical

Affectedly fine; overnice; unduly particular; fastidious.

Finicality

The quality of being finical; finicalness.

Finicky Finicking

Finical; unduly particular; excessively demanding over minor details.

Finific

A limiting element or quality.

Finify

To make fine; to dress finically.

Finikin

Precise in trifles; idly busy.

Fining

The act of imposing a fin/.

Finis

An end; conclusion. It is often placed at the end of a book.

Finish

That which finishes, puts an end to/ or perfects.

Finished

Polished to the highest degree of excellence; complete; perfect; as, a finished poem; a finished education.

Finisher

One who finishes, puts an end to, completes, or perfects; esp. used in the trades, as in hatting, weaving, etc., for the workman who gives a finishing touch to the work, or any part of it, and brings it to perfection.

Finishing

Tending to complete or to render fit for the market or for use.

Finite

Having a limit; limited in quantity, degree, or capacity; bounded; -- opposed to infinite; as, finite number; finite existence; a finite being; a finite mind; finite duration.

Finjan

In the Levant, a small coffee cup without a handle, such as is held in a cup or stand called a zarf.

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