The act of dividing or opening; the state of being fissured.

To cleave; to divide; to crack or fracture.

A genus of marine gastropod mollusks, having a conical or limpetlike shell, with an opening at the apex; -- called also keyhole limpet.

a natural family of marine limpets.

To strike with the fist.

Pertaining to boxing, or to encounters with the fists; puglistic; as, fistic exploits; fistic heroes.

A cuff or blow with the fist or hand a fight with the fists; boxing.

A pistachio nut.

An instrument used by the ancients in driving piles.

A reed; a pipe.

Hollow and cylindrical, like a pipe or reed.

A genus of fishes, having the head prolonged into a tube, with the mouth at the extremity.

Like or pertaining to the genus Fistularia.

To make hollow or become hollow like a fistula, or pipe.

A fistula.

Of a fistular form; tubular; pipe-shaped.

Formed like a fistula; hollow; reedlike.

Having the form or nature of a fistula; as, a fistulous ulcer.

A stroke or blow.

The European polecat; also, its fur.

Sharpened to a point; pointed.

Fitch/.

The European polecat (Putorius f/tidus). See Polecat.

Fitch/.

Full of fits; irregularly variable; impulsive and unstable.

A fiddle.

In a fit manner; suitably; properly; conveniently; as, a maxim fitly applied.

The act of fitting; that which is proper or becoming; equipment.

The state or quality of being fit; as, the fitness of measures or laws; a person's fitness for office.

See 2d Fit.

Suitable; fit.

same as outfitted, 1.

The state or quality of being fitted; adaptation.

A little piece; a flitter; a flinder.

Fit; appropriate; suitable; proper.

A plant (Eryngium f/tidum) supposed to be a remedy for fits.

A son; -- used in compound names, to indicate paternity, esp. of the illegitimate sons of kings and princes of the blood; as, Fitzroy, the son of the king; Fitzclarence, the son of the duke of Clarence.

The number next greater than four, and less than six; five units or objects.

See Cinquefoil.

A game in which a pitcher allows the opposing team 5 hits.

Cinquefoil; five-finger.

Having five leaflets, as the Virginia creeper.

A California annual (Nemophila maculata) having white flowers with a deep purple blotch on each petal.

Five-twenty bonds of the United States (bearing six per cent interest), issued in 1862, '64, and '65, redeemable after five and payable in twenty years.

In fives; consisting of five in one; five repeated; quintuple.

A compound or twin crystal consisting of five individuals.

A disease of the glands under the ear in horses; the vives.

A position of difficulty or embarassment; predicament; dilemma.

Capable of being fixed.

The act of fixing, or the state of being fixed.

That which serves to set or fix colors or drawings, as a mordant.

Securely placed or fastened; settled; established; firm; imovable; unalterable.

In a fixed, stable, or constant manner.

The state or quality of being fixed; stability; steadfastness.

Fixedness.

The act or process of making fixed.

Fixedness; as, fixity of tenure; also, that which is fixed.

That which is fixed or attached to something as a permanent appendage; as, the fixtures of a pump; the fixtures of a farm or of a dwelling, that is, the articles which a tenant may not take away.

Fixed position; stable condition; firmness.

A gadding, flirting girl.

A hissing sound; as, the fizz of a fly.

A failure or abortive effort; a fiasco.

Hissing and bubbling, like a carbonated beverage.

See Fiord.

Loose or flaccid body fat.

To astonish; to strike with wonder, esp. by extraordinary statements.

The state of being flabbergasted.

In a flabby manner.

Quality or state of being flabby.

Yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; wanting firmness; flaccid; as, flabby flesh.

A fan.

Flabelliform.

The act of keeping fractured limbs cool by the use of a fan or some other contrivance.

Having the form of a fan; fan-shaped; flabellate.

Having many nerves diverging radiately from the base; -- said of a leaf.

A fan; especially, the fan carried before the pope on state occasions, made in ostrich and peacock feathers.

Liable to be blown about.

Yielding to pressure for want of firmness and stiffness; soft and weak; limber; lax; drooping; flabby; as, a flaccid muscle; flaccid flesh.

The state of being flaccid.

A bacterial disease of silkworms, supposed to be due to eating contaminated mulberry leaves.

To flutter, as a bird.

A barrel-shaped bottle; a flagon.

A small glass bottle with a stopper; as, a flacon for perfume.

A natural family of chiefly tropical trees and shrubs.

To lay with flags of flat stones.

an extreme bellicose nationalist.

fanatically patriotic; same as chauvinistic.

One of a fanatical sect which flourished in Europe in the 13th and 14th centuries, and maintained that flagellation was of equal virtue with baptism and the sacrament; -- called also disciplinant.

An order of Infusoria, having one or two long, whiplike cilia, at the anterior end. It includes monads. See Infusoria, and Monad.

Flagelliform.

resembling a flagellum or flagella.

A beating or flogging; a whipping; a scourging.

One who practices flagellation; one who whips or scourges.

Shaped like a whiplash; long, slender, round, flexible, and (comming) tapering.

A young, flexible shoot of a plant; esp., the long trailing branch of a vine, or a slender branch in certain mosses.

A small wooden pipe, having six or more holes, and a mouthpiece inserted at one end. It produces a shrill sound, softer than of the piccolo flute, and is said to have superseded the old recorder.

The condition of being flaggy; laxity; limberness.

Growing languid, weak, or spiritless; weakening; delaying.

Abounding with the plant called flag; as, a flaggy marsh.

To importune; to demand fiercely or with passion.

Importunity; urgent demand.

Disgracefully or shamefully criminal; grossly wicked; scandalous; shameful; -- said of acts, crimes, etc.

One who makes signals with a flag.

A vessel with a narrow mouth, used for holding and conveying liquors. It is generally larger than a bottle, and of leather or stoneware rather than of glass.

A pole used to display a flag.

A person who sits for an extended period of time on top of a flagpole or other high column; -- a publicity stunt performed for various reasons.

Flagrancy.

A burning; great heat; inflammation.

Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent.

In a flagrant manner.

To burn.

A conflagration.

The vessel which carries the commanding officer of a fleet or squadron and flies his distinctive flag or pennant.

A staff{4} on which a flag is hoisted.

A flat stone used in paving, or any rock which will split into such stones. See Flag, a stone.

A worm or grub found among flags and sedge.

An instrument for threshing or beating grain from the ear by hand, consisting of a wooden staff or handle, at the end of which a stouter and shorter pole or club, called a swipe, is so hung as to swing freely.

Acting like a flail.

p. p. of Flay.

Smell; odor.