AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
fervor: heat; excessive warmth.-intensity of feeling or expression; glowing ardor; passion; holy zeal; earnestness.
fescennine: pertaining to, or resembling, the fescennines.-a style of low, scurrilous, obscene poetry originating in fescennia.
fescue: a straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read.-an instrument for playing on the harp; a plectrum.-the style of a dial.-a grass of the genus festuca.-to use a fescue, or teach with a fescue.
fesse: a band drawn horizontally across the center of an escutcheon, and containing in breadth the third part of it; one of the nine honorable ordinaries.
festal: of or pertaining to a holiday or a feast; joyous; festive.
fester: to generate pus; to become imflamed and suppurate; as, a sore or a wound festers.-to be inflamed; to grow virulent, or malignant; to grow in intensity; to rankle.-to cause to fester or rankle.-a small sore which becomes inflamed and discharges corrupt matter; a pustule.-a festering or rankling.
festi-val: a time of feasting or celebration; an anniversary day of joy, civil or religious.
festival: pertaining to a fest; festive; festal; appropriate to a festival; joyous; mirthful.
festive: pertaining to, or becoming, a feast; festal; joyous; gay; mirthful; sportive.
festivity: the condition of being festive; social joy or exhilaration of spirits at an entertaintment; joyfulness; gayety.-a festival; a festive celebration.
festoon: a garland or wreath hanging in a depending curve, used in decoration for festivals, etc.; anything arranged in this way.-a carved ornament consisting of flowers, and leaves, intermixed or twisted together, wound with a ribbon, and hanging or depending in a natural curve. see illust. of bucranium.-to form in festoons, or to adorn with festoons.
fetal: pertaining to, or connected with, a fetus; as, fetal circulation; fetal membranes.
fetch: to bear toward the person speaking, or the person or thing from whose point of view the action is contemplated; to go and bring; to get.-to obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.-to recall from a swoon; to revive; -- sometimes with to; as, to fetch a man to.-to reduce; to throw.-to bring to accomplishment; to achieve; to make; to perform, with certain objects; as, to fetch a compass; to fetch a leap; to fetch a sigh.-to bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.-to cause to come; to bring to a particular state.-a stratagem by which a thing is indirectly brought to pass, or by which one thing seems intended and another is done; a trick; an artifice.-the apparation of a living person; a wraith.
feticide: the act of killing the fetus in the womb; the offense of procuring an abortion.
fetish: a material object supposed among certain african tribes to represent in such a way, or to be so connected with, a supernatural being, that the possession of it gives to the possessor power to control that being.-any object to which one is excessively devoted.-alt. of fetishistic
fetishism: the doctrine or practice of belief in fetiches.-excessive devotion to one object or one idea; abject superstition; blind adoration.-alt. of fetishistic
fetishistic: pertaining to, or involving, fetichism.-see fetich, n., fetichism, n., fetichistic, a.
fetlock: the cushionlike projection, bearing a tuft of long hair, on the back side of the leg above the hoof of the horse and similar animals. also, the joint of the limb at this point (between the great pastern bone and the metacarpus), or the tuft of hair.
fetter: a chain or shackle for the feet; a chain by which an animal is confined by the foot, either made fast or disabled from free and rapid motion; a bond; a shackle.-anything that confines or restrains; a restraint.-to put fetters upon; to shackle or confine the feet of with a chain; to bind.-to restrain from motion; to impose restraints on; to confine; to enchain; as, fettered by obligations.
fettered: seeming as if fettered, as the feet of certain animals which bend backward, and appear unfit for walking.
fettle: to repair; to prepare; to put in order.-to cover or line with a mixture of ore, cinders, etc., as the hearth of a puddling furnace.-to make preparations; to put things in order; to do trifling business.-the act of fettling.
fettling: a mixture of ore, cinders, etc., used to line the hearth of a puddling furnace.-the operation of shaving or smoothing the surface of undried clay ware.
fetus: the young or embryo of an animal in the womb, or in the egg; often restricted to the later stages in the development of viviparous and oviparous animals, embryo being applied to the earlier stages.
feu: a free and gratuitous right to lands made to one for service to be performed by him; a tenure where the vassal, in place of military services, makes a return in grain or in money.
feu de joie: a fire kindled in a public place in token of joy; a bonfire; a firing of guns in token of joy.
feud: a combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race.-a contention or quarrel; especially, an inveterate strife between families, clans, or parties; deadly hatred; contention satisfied only by bloodshed.-a stipendiary estate in land, held of superior, by service; the right which a vassal or tenant had to the lands or other immovable thing of his lord, to use the same and take the profists thereof hereditarily, rendering to his superior such duties and services as belong to military tenure, etc., the property of the soil always remaining in the lord or superior; a fief; a fee.
feudal: of or pertaining to feuds, fiefs, or feels; as, feudal rights or services; feudal tenures.-consisting of, or founded upon, feuds or fiefs; embracing tenures by military services; as, the feudal system.
feudalism: the feudal system; a system by which the holding of estates in land is made dependent upon an obligation to render military service to the kind or feudal superior; feudal principles and usages.
feudary: held by, or pertaining to, feudal tenure.-a tenant who holds his lands by feudal service; a feudatory.-a feodary. see feodary.
feudatory: a tenant or vassal who held his lands of a superior on condition of feudal service; the tenant of a feud or fief.
feuillants: a reformed branch of the bernardines, founded in 1577 at feuillans, near toulouse, in france.
feuilleton: a part of a french newspaper (usually the bottom of the page), devoted to light literature, criticism, etc.; also, the article or tale itself, thus printed.
fever: a diseased state of the system, marked by increased heat, acceleration of the pulse, and a general derangement of the functions, including usually, thirst and loss of appetite.  many diseases, of which fever is the most prominent symptom, are denominated fevers; as, typhoid fever; yellow fever.-excessive excitement of the passions in consequence of strong emotion; a condition of great excitement; as, this quarrel has set my blood in a fever.-to put into a fever; to affect with fever; as, a fevered lip.
feverfew: a perennial plant (pyrethrum, / chrysanthemum, parthenium) allied to camomile, having finely divided leaves and white blossoms; -- so named from its supposed febrifugal qualities.
feverish: having a fever; suffering from, or affected with, a moderate degree of fever; showing increased heat and thirst; as, the patient is feverish.-indicating, or pertaining to, fever; characteristic of a fever; as, feverish symptoms.-hot; sultry.-disordered as by fever; excited; restless; as, the feverish condition of the commercial world.
feverous: affected with fever or ague; feverish.-pertaining to, or having the nature of, fever; as, a feverous pulse.-having the tendency to produce fever; as, a feverous disposition of the year.
few: not many; small, limited, or confined in number; -- indicating a small portion of units or individuals constituing a whole; often, by ellipsis of a noun, a few people.
fewness: the state of being few; smallness of number; paucity.-brevity; conciseness.
fez: a felt or cloth cap, usually red and having a tassel, -- a variety of the tarboosh. see tarboosh.
fiar: one in whom the property of an estate is vested, subject to the estate of a life renter.-the price of grain, as legally fixed, in the counties of scotland, for the current year.
fiasco: a complete or ridiculous failure, esp. of a musical performance, or of any pretentious undertaking.
fiat: an authoritative command or order to do something; an effectual decree.-a warrant of a judge for certain processes.-an authority for certain proceedings given by the lord chancellor's signature.
fib: a falsehood; a lie; -- used euphemistically.-to speak falsely.-to tell a fib to.
fibre: one of the delicate, threadlike portions of which the tissues of plants and animals are in part constituted; as, the fiber of flax or of muscle.-any fine, slender thread, or threadlike substance; as, a fiber of spun glass; especially, one of the slender rootlets of a plant.-sinew; strength; toughness; as, a man of real fiber.-a general name for the raw material, such as cotton, flax, hemp, etc., used in textile manufactures.
fibre-faced: having a visible fiber embodied in the surface of; -- applied esp. to a kind of paper for checks, drafts, etc.
fibril: a small fiber; the branch of a fiber; a very slender thread; a fibrilla.
fibrilla: a minute thread of fiber, as one of the fibrous elements of a muscular fiber; a fibril.
fibrillar: of or pertaining to fibrils or fibers; as, fibrillar twitchings.
fibrillose: covered with hairlike appendages, as the under surface of some lichens; also, composed of little strings or fibers; as, fibrillose appendages.
fibrin: a white, albuminous, fibrous substance, formed in the coagulation of the blood either by decomposition of fibrinogen, or from the union of fibrinogen and paraglobulin which exist separately in the blood. it is insoluble in water, but is readily digestible in gastric and pancreatic juice.-the white, albuminous mass remaining after washing lean beef or other meat with water until all coloring matter is removed; the fibrous portion of the muscle tissue; flesh fibrin.-an albuminous body, resembling animal fibrin in composition, found in cereal grains and similar seeds; vegetable fibrin.
fibrinogen: an albuminous substance existing in the blood, and in other animal fluids, which either alone or with fibrinoplastin or paraglobulin forms fibrin, and thus causes coagulation.
fibrinoplastic: like fibrinoplastin; capable of forming fibrin when brought in contact with fibrinogen.
fibrinoplastin: an albuminous substance, existing in the blood, which in combination with fibrinogen forms fibrin; -- called also paraglobulin.
fibrinous: having, or partaking of the properties of, fibrin; as, fibrious exudation.
fibrocartilage: a kind of cartilage with a fibrous matrix and approaching fibrous connective tissue in structure.
fibrochondrosteal: partly fibrous, partly cartilaginous, and partly osseous.
fibroid: resembling or forming fibrous tissue; made up of fibers; as, fibroid tumors.-a fibroid tumor; a fibroma.
fibroin: a variety of gelatin; the chief ingredient of raw silk, extracted as a white amorphous mass.
fibrolite: a silicate of alumina, of fibrous or columnar structure. it is like andalusite in composition; -- called also sillimanite, and bucholizite.
fibrospongiae: an order of sponges having a fibrous skeleton, including the commercial sponges.
fibrous: containing, or consisting of, fibers; as, the fibrous coat of the cocoanut; the fibrous roots of grasses.
fibrovascular: containing woody fiber and ducts, as the stems of all flowering plants and ferns; -- opposed to cellular.
fibula: a brooch, clasp, or buckle.-the outer and usually the smaller of the two bones of the leg, or hind limb, below the knee.-a needle for sewing up wounds.
fibulare: the bone or cartilage of the tarsus, which articulates with the fibula, and corresponds to the calcaneum in man and most mammals.
fice: a small dog; -- written also fise, fyce, fiste, etc.
fichu: a light cape, usually of lace, worn by women, to cover the neck and throat, and extending to the shoulders.
fickle: not fixed or firm; liable to change; unstable; of a changeable mind; not firm in opinion or purpose; inconstant; capricious; as, fortune's fickle wheel.
fico: a fig; an insignificant trifle, no more than the snap of one's thumb; a sign of contempt made by the fingers, expressing. a fig for you.
fictile: molded, or capable of being molded, into form by art; relating to pottery or to molding in any soft material.
fiction: the act of feigning, inventing, or imagining; as, by a mere fiction of the mind.-that which is feigned, invented, or imagined; especially, a feigned or invented story, whether oral or written. hence: a story told in order to deceive; a fabrication; -- opposed to fact, or reality.-fictitious literature; comprehensively, all works of imagination; specifically, novels and romances.-an assumption of a possible thing as a fact, irrespective of the question of its truth.-any like assumption made for convenience, as for passing more rapidly over what is not disputed, and arriving at points really at issue.
fictitious: feigned; imaginary; not real; fabulous; counterfeit; false; not genuine; as, fictitious fame.
ficttelite: a white crystallized mineral resin from the fichtelgebirge, bavaria.
ficus: a genus of trees or shrubs, one species of which (f. carica) produces the figs of commerce; the fig tree.
fid: a square bar of wood or iron, used to support the topmast, being passed through a hole or mortise at its heel, and resting on the trestle trees.-a wooden or metal bar or pin, used to support or steady anything.-a pin of hard wood, tapering to a point, used to open the strands of a rope in splicing.-a block of wood used in mounting and dismounting heavy guns.
fidalgo: the lowest title of nobility in portugal, corresponding to that of hidalgo in spain.
fiddle: a stringed instrument of music played with a bow; a violin; a kit.-a kind of dock (rumex pulcher) with fiddle-shaped leaves; -- called also fiddle dock.-a rack or frame of bars connected by strings, to keep table furniture in place on the cabin table in bad weather.-to play on a fiddle.-to keep the hands and fingers actively moving as a fiddler does; to move the hands and fingers restlessy or in busy idleness; to trifle.-to play (a tune) on a fiddle.
fiddler: one who plays on a fiddle or violin.-a burrowing crab of the genus gelasimus, of many species. the male has one claw very much enlarged, and often holds it in a position similar to that in which a musician holds a fiddle, hence the name; -- called also calling crab, soldier crab, and fighting crab.-the common european sandpiper (tringoides hypoleucus); -- so called because it continually oscillates its body.
fiddlestick: the bow, strung with horsehair, used in playing the fiddle; a fiddle bow.
fiddlewood: the wood of several west indian trees, mostly of the genus citharexylum.
fidejussion: the act or state of being bound as surety for another; suretyship.
fidejussor: a surety; one bound for another, conjointly with him; a guarantor.
fidelity: faithfulness; adherence to right; careful and exact observance of duty, or discharge of obligations.-adherence to a person or party to which one is bound; loyalty.-adherence to the marriage contract.-adherence to truth; veracity; honesty.
fidget: to move uneasily one way and the other; to move irregularly, or by fits and starts.-uneasiness; restlessness.-a general nervous restlessness, manifested by incessant changes of position; dysphoria.
fidia: a genus of small beetles, of which one species (the grapevine fidia, f. longipes) is very injurious to vines in america.
fidiciary: involving confidence or trust; confident; undoubting; faithful; firm; as, in a fiduciary capacity.-holding, held, or founded, in trust.
fiducial: having faith or trust; confident; undoubting; firm.-having the nature of a trust; fiduciary; as, fiducial power.
fiduciary: one who holds a thing in trust for another; a trustee.-one who depends for salvation on faith, without works; an antinomian.
fief: an estate held of a superior on condition of military service; a fee; a feud. see under benefice, n., 2.
field: cleared land; land suitable for tillage or pasture; cultivated ground; the open country.-a piece of land of considerable size; esp., a piece inclosed for tillage or pasture.-a place where a battle is fought; also, the battle itself.-an open space; an extent; an expanse.-any blank space or ground on which figures are drawn or projected.-the space covered by an optical instrument at one view.-the whole surface of an escutcheon; also, so much of it is shown unconcealed by the different bearings upon it. see illust. of fess, where the field is represented as gules (red), while the fess is argent (silver).-an unresticted or favorable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement; province; room.-a collective term for all the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or for all except the favorites in the betting.-that part of the grounds reserved for the players which is outside of the diamond; -- called also outfield.-to take the field.-to stand out in the field, ready to catch, stop, or throw the ball.-to catch, stop, throw, etc. (the ball), as a fielder.
fieldfare: a small thrush (turdus pilaris) which breeds in northern europe and winters in great britain. the head, nape, and lower part of the back are ash-colored; the upper part of the back and wing coverts, chestnut; -- called also fellfare.
fieldpiece: a cannon mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army; a piece of field artillery; -- called also field gun.
fieldwork: any temporary fortification thrown up by an army in the field; -- commonly in the plural.
fiend: an implacable or malicious foe; one who is diabolically wicked or cruel; an infernal being; -- applied specifically to the devil or a demon.
fiendish: like a fiend; diabolically wicked or cruel; infernal; malignant; devilish; hellish.
fierasfer: a genus of small, slender fishes, remarkable for their habit of living as commensals in other animals. one species inhabits the gill cavity of the pearl oyster near panama; another lives within an east indian holothurian.
fierce: furious; violent; unrestrained; impetuous; as, a fierce wind.-vehement in anger or cruelty; ready or eager to kill or injure; of a nature to inspire terror; ferocious.-excessively earnest, eager, or ardent.
fieri facias: a judicial writ that lies for one who has recovered in debt or damages, commanding the sheriff that he cause to be made of the goods, chattels, or real estate of the defendant, the sum claimed.
fieriness: the quality of being fiery; heat; acrimony; irritability; as, a fieriness of temper.
fiery: consisting of, containing, or resembling, fire; as, the fiery gulf of etna; a fiery appearance.-vehement; ardent; very active; impetuous.-passionate; easily provoked; irritable.-unrestrained; fierce; mettlesome; spirited.-heated by fire, or as if by fire; burning hot; parched; feverish.
fife: a small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music.-to play on a fife.
fifteen: five and ten; one more than fourteen.-the sum of five and ten; fifteen units or objects.-a symbol representing fifteen units, as 15, or xv.
fifteenth: next in order after the fourteenth; -- the ordinal of fifteen.-consisting of one of fifteen equal parts or divisions of a thing.-one of fifteen equal parts or divisions; the quotient of a unit divided by fifteen.-a species of tax upon personal property formerly laid on towns, boroughs, etc., in england, being one fifteenth part of what the personal property in each town, etc., had been valued at.-a stop in an organ tuned two octaves above the diaposon.-an interval consisting of two octaves.
fifth: next in order after the fourth; -- the ordinal of five.-consisting of one of five equal divisions of a thing.-the quotient of a unit divided by five; one of five equal parts; a fifth part.-the interval of three tones and a semitone, embracing five diatonic degrees of the scale; the dominant of any key.
fiftieth: next in order after the forty-ninth; -- the ordinal of fifty.-consisting of one of fifty equal parts or divisions.-one of fifty equal parts; the quotient of a unit divided by fifty.
fifty: five times ten; as, fifty men.-the sum of five tens; fifty units or objects.-a symbol representing fifty units, as 50, or l.
fig: a small fruit tree (ficus carica) with large leaves, known from the remotest antiquity. it was probably native from syria westward to the canary islands.-the fruit of a fig tree, which is of round or oblong shape, and of various colors.-a small piece of tobacco.-the value of a fig, practically nothing; a fico; -- used in scorn or contempt.-to insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion. see fico.-to put into the head of, as something useless o/ contemptible.-figure; dress; array.
fig-shell: a marine univalve shell of the genus pyrula, or ficula, resembling a fig in form.
figeater: a large beetle (allorhina nitida) which in the southern united states destroys figs.  the elytra are velvety green with pale borders.-a bird. see figpecker.
fight: to strive or contend for victory, with armies or in single combat; to attempt to defeat, subdue, or destroy an enemy, either by blows or weapons; to contend in arms; -- followed by with or against.-to act in opposition to anything; to struggle against; to contend; to strive; to make resistance.-to carry on, or wage, as a conflict, or battle; to win or gain by struggle, as one's way; to sustain by fighting, as a cause.-to contend with in battle; to war against; as, they fought the enemy in two pitched battles; the sloop fought the frigate for three hours.-to cause to fight; to manage or maneuver in a fight; as, to fight cocks; to fight one's ship.-a battle; an engagement; a contest in arms; a combat; a violent conflict or struggle for victory, between individuals or between armies, ships, or navies, etc.-a struggle or contest of any kind.-strength or disposition for fighting; pugnacity; as, he has a great deal of fight in him.-a screen for the combatants in ships.
fighting: of fight-qualified for war; fit for battle.-occupied in war; being the scene of a battle; as, a fighting field.
fightwite: a mulct or fine imposed on a person for making a fight or quarrel to the disturbance of the peace.
figural: represented by figure or delineation; consisting of figures; as, figural ornaments.-figurate. see figurate.
figurant: one who dances at the opera, not singly, but in groups or figures; an accessory character on the stage, who figures in its scenes, but has nothing to say; hence, one who figures in any scene, without taking a prominent part.
figurate: of a definite form or figure.-figurative; metaphorical.-florid; figurative; involving passing discords by the freer melodic movement of one or more parts or voices in the harmony; as, figurate counterpoint or descant.
figuration: the act of giving figure or determinate form; determination to a certain form.-mixture of concords and discords.
figurative: representing by a figure, or by resemblance; typical; representative.-used in a sense that is tropical, as a metaphor; not literal; -- applied to words and expressions.-abounding in figures of speech; flowery; florid; as, a highly figurative description.-relating to the representation of form or figure by drawing, carving, etc. see figure, n., 2.