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

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.

a sheath worn to protect a finger.

the end (tip) of a finger.

A trifle.

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

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

Affectedly fine; overnice; unduly particular; fastidious.

The quality of being finical; finicalness.

Finical; unduly particular; excessively demanding over minor details.

A limiting element or quality.

To make fine; to dress finically.

Precise in trifles; idly busy.

The act of imposing a fin/.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Infinite.

In a finite manner or degree.

The state of being finite.

Limitation.

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

A native or inhabitant of Finland.

destitute of fins.

A little fin; one of the parts of a divided fin.

Resembling a fin.

A native of Finland; one of the Finn/ in the ethnological sense. See Finns.

Having a fin, or fins, or anything resembling a fin.

A finback whale.

Of or pertaining to the Finns.

A variety of pigeon, with a crest somewhat resembling the mane of a horse.

Of or pertaining to Finland, to the Finns, or to their language. A Northern Turanian group of languages; the language of the Finns.

Natives of Finland; Finlanders. A branch of the Mongolian race, inhabiting Northern and Eastern Europe, including the Magyars, Bulgarians, Permians, Lapps, and Finlanders.

Having, or abounding in, fins, as fishes; pertaining to fishes.

An umbelliferous plant (F/niculum dulce) having a somewhat tuberous stem; sweet fennel. The blanched stems are used in France and Italy as a culinary vegetable.

Second best wool from Merino sheep.

The bichir. See Crossopterygii.

3d pers. sing. pr. of Find, for findeth.

A narrow inlet of the sea, penetrating between high banks or rocks, as on the coasts of Norway and Alaska.

A species of creeping bent grass (Agrostis alba); -- called also fiorin grass.

A variety of opal occuring in the cavities of volcanic tufa, in smooth and shining globular and botryoidal masses, having a pearly luster; -- so called from Fiora, in Ischia.

Little flowers of ornament introduced into a melody by a singer or player.

A stopper, as in a wind instrument of music.

A genus (Abies) of coniferous trees, often of large size and elegant shape, some of them valued for their timber and others for their resin. The species are distinguished as the balsam fir, the silver fir, the red fir, etc. The Scotch fir is a Pinus.

To take fire; to be kindled; to kindle.

A person whose occupation it is to go to the scene of an unwanted fire and extinguish it; a member of a fire company; a fireman{1} or a woman who fights fires.

an upright hydrant that can supply large volumes of water to use in fighting a fire. They are commonly placed at intervals at the street edge of a sidewalk, spaced for convenience in suppressing fires in towns.

a substance applied or added to materials or objects, so as to reduce combustibility or slow the spread of fire.

a sale of objects damaged by fire, usually at much reduced prices.

Injured as by fire; burned; -- said of manure which has lost its goodness and acquired an ashy hue in consequence of heat generated by decomposition.

Fresh from the forge; bright; quite new; brand-new.

poinsettia (Euphoria cyathophora) of the U. S. and eastern Mexico; often confused with Euphoria heterophylla.

malicious burning to destroy property; arson.

Not able to burn or able to burn only with difficulty.

able to reduce combustibility or slow the spread of fire; -- of substances that are added to combustible materials to make them less combustible.

a price much lower than normal market price; as, the Reagan administration sold off valuable mineral and timber resources at fire-sale prices.

A set of fire irons, including, commonly, tongs, shovel, and poker.

A gun, pistol, or any weapon from which a shot is discharged by the force of an explosive substance, as gunpowder.

One of several species of pheasants of the genus Euplocamus, having the lower back a bright, fiery red. They inhabit Southern Asia and the East Indies.

A ball filled with powder or other combustibles, intended to be thrown among enemies, and to injure by explosion; also, to set fire to their works and light them up, so that movements may be seen.

A beacon.

The Baltimore oriole.

A chimney board or screen to close a fireplace when not in use.

An allowance of fuel. See Bote.

A piece of burning wood.

an insect (Thermobia domestica) which is a type of bristletail that lives in warm moist areas e.g. around furnaces.

a narrow field that has been cleared to check the spread of a prairie fire or forest fire.

a brick made of fire clay, used for lining e.g. furnaces and chimneys.

a criminal who illegaly sets fire to property; an arsonist.

An evergreen South American shrub *Streptosolen jamesonii) having showy trumpet-shaped orange flowers; grown as an ornamental or houseplant.

a heat-resistant clay.

A small explosive device consisting of a paper or cardboard cylinder having only sufficient explosive mixture to make a loud bang, ignited by a short fuse, and used mostly as an entertainment or in celebrations. Same as Cracker., n., 3.

A small European kinglet (Regulus ignicapillus), having a bright red crest; -- called also fire-crested wren.

a mixture of gases (mostly methane) that forms in coal mines and becomes explosive when mixed with air. It is a source of serious hazard in coal mining operations.

A support for wood in a fireplace; an andiron.

A fiery dragon.

A singular marine fish of the genus Pterois, family Scorp/nid/, of several species, inhabiting the Indo-Pacific region. They are usually red, and have very large spinose pectoral and dorsal fins.

A European sting ray of the genus Trygon (T. pastinaca); -- called also fireflare and fiery flaw.

The European band fish (Cepola rubescens).

Any luminous winged insect, esp. luminous beetles of the family Lampyrid/.

a type of luciferin produced by the firefly Photinus pyralis.

a building housing firemen and the apparatus they use to extinguish fires.

Destitute of fire.

the light of a fire (especially in a fireplace); as, lovers sitting together in the firelight.

(a piece of) a substance that burns easily and can be used to start a coal or coke fire.

An old form of gunlock, as the flintlock, which ignites the priming by a spark; perhaps originally, a matchlock. Hence, a gun having such a lock.

A man whose business is to extinguish fires in towns; a member of a fire company.

The part a chimney appropriated to the fire; a hearth; -- usually an open recess in a wall, in which a fire may be built.

an upright hydrant that can supply large volumes of water to use in fighting a fire. They are commonly placed at intervals at the street edge of a sidewalk for convenience in suppressing fires in towns.

The relative capacity for delivering weapons fire on a target; as, the battleship has more firepower than a cruiser.

Proof against fire; incombustible.

The act or process of rendering anything incombustible; also, the materials used in the process.

One who fires or sets fire to anything; an incendiary.

Same as Stokehold, below.

A place near the fire or hearth; home; domestic life or retirement.

Iron pyrites, formerly used for striking fire; also, a flint.

The European redstart; -- called also fireflirt.

An officer who has authority to direct in the extinguishing of fires, or to order what precautions shall be taken against fires; -- called also fireward.

An American plant (Erechthites hiercifolia), very troublesome in spots where brushwood has been burned. The great willow-herb (Epilobium spicatum).

An annual of the central U. S. (Gaillardia pulchella) having showy long-stalked yellow flower heads marked with scarlet or purple in the center.

Wood for fuel.

A device for producing a striking display of light, or a figure or figures in plain or colored fire, by the combustion of materials that burn in some peculiar manner, as gunpowder, sulphur, metallic filings, and various salts; also called a pyrotechnic device. The most common feature of fireworks is a paper or pasteboard tube filled with the combustible material. A number of these tubes or cases are often combined so as to make, when kindled, a great variety of figures in fire, often variously colored. The skyrocket is a common form of firework. The art of designing fireworks for purposes of entertainment is called pyrotechnics. The name firework is also given to various combustible preparations used in war.

The larva of a small tortricid moth which eats the leaves of the cranberry, so that the vines look as if burned; -- called also cranberry worm.

The act of discharging firearms.

A freak; trick; quirk.

A varying measure of capacity, usually being the fourth part of a barrel; specifically, a measure equal to nine imperial gallons.

A dry measure formerly used in Scotland; the fourth part of a boll of grain or meal. The Linlithgow wheat firlot was to the imperial bushel as 998 to 1000; the barley firlot as 1456 to 1000.

To fix; to settle; to confirm; to establish.

Fixed foundation; established basis.

Pertaining to the firmament; celestial; being of the upper regions.

In Turkey and some other Oriental countries, a decree or mandate issued by the sovereign; a royal order or grant; -- generally given for special objects, as to a traveler to insure him protection and assistance.

A chisel, thin in proportion to its width. It has a tang to enter the handle instead of a socket for receiving it.

Strength; stability.

Strength; firmness; stability.

Detached from substance.

In a firm manner.

The state or quality of being firm.