AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
fanaticism: excessive enthusiasm, unreasoning zeal, or wild and extravagant notions, on any subject, especially religion; religious frenzy.
fancied: formed or conceived by the fancy; unreal; as, a fancied wrong.-of fancy
fancier: one who is governed by fancy.-one who fancies or has a special liking for, or interest in, a particular object or class or objects; hence, one who breeds and keeps for sale birds and animals; as, bird fancier, dog fancier, etc.
fanciful: full of fancy; guided by fancy, rather than by reason and experience; whimsical; as, a fanciful man forms visionary projects.-conceived in the fancy; not consistent with facts or reason; abounding in ideal qualities or figures; as, a fanciful scheme; a fanciful theory.-curiously shaped or constructed; as, she wore a fanciful headdress.
fancy: the faculty by which the mind forms an image or a representation of anything perceived before; the power of combining and modifying such objects into new pictures or images; the power of readily and happily creating and recalling such objects for the purpose of amusement, wit, or embellishment; imagination.-an image or representation of anything formed in the mind; conception; thought; idea; conceit.-an opinion or notion formed without much reflection; caprice; whim; impression.-inclination; liking, formed by caprice rather than reason; as, to strike one's fancy; hence, the object of inclination or liking.-that which pleases or entertains the taste or caprice without much use or value.-a sort of love song or light impromptu ballad.-to figure to one's self; to believe or imagine something without proof.-to love.-to form a conception of; to portray in the mind; to imagine.-to have a fancy for; to like; to be pleased with, particularly on account of external appearance or manners.-to believe without sufficient evidence; to imagine (something which is unreal).-adapted to please the fancy or taste; ornamental; as, fancy goods.-extravagant; above real value.
fancywork: ornamental work with a needle or hook, as embroidery, crocheting, netting, etc.
fandango: a lively dance, in 3-8 or 6-8 time, much practiced in spain and spanish america. also, the tune to which it is danced.-a ball or general dance, as in mexico.
fanega: a dry measure in spain and spanish america, varying from 1/ to 2/ bushels; also, a measure of land.
fanfare: a flourish of trumpets, as in coming into the lists, etc.; also, a short and lively air performed on hunting horns during the chase.
fanfaron: a bully; a hector; a swaggerer; an empty boaster.
fanfaronade: a swaggering; vain boasting; ostentation; a bluster.
fanfoot: a species of gecko having the toes expanded into large lobes for adhesion. the egyptian fanfoot (phyodactylus gecko) is believed, by the natives, to have venomous toes.-any moth of the genus polypogon.
fang: to catch; to seize, as with the teeth; to lay hold of; to gripe; to clutch.-to enable to catch or tear; to furnish with fangs.-the tusk of an animal, by which the prey is seized and held or torn; a long pointed tooth; esp., one of the usually erectile, venomous teeth of serpents. also, one of the falcers of a spider.-any shoot or other thing by which hold is taken.-the root, or one of the branches of the root, of a tooth. see tooth.-a niche in the side of an adit or shaft, for an air course.-a projecting tooth or prong, as in a part of a lock, or the plate of a belt clamp, or the end of a tool, as a chisel, where it enters the handle.-the valve of a pump box.-a bend or loop of a rope.
fanged: having fangs or tusks; as, a fanged adder. also used figuratively.
fangle: something new-fashioned; a foolish innovation; a gewgaw; a trifling ornament.-to fashion.
fangled: new made; hence, gaudy; showy; vainly decorated. [obs., except with the prefix new.] see newfangled.
fangot: a quantity of wares, as raw silk, etc., from one hundred weight.
fanion: a small flag sometimes carried at the head of the baggage of a brigade.-a small flag for marking the stations in surveying.
fanlike: resembling a fan;-folded up like a fan, as certain leaves; plicate.
fanon: a term applied to various articles, as: (a) a peculiar striped scarf worn by the pope at mass, and by eastern bishops. (b) a maniple.
fantail: a variety of the domestic pigeon, so called from the shape of the tail.-any bird of the australian genus rhipidura, in which the tail is spread in the form of a fan during flight. they belong to the family of flycatchers.
fantasia: a continuous composition, not divided into what are called movements, or governed by the ordinary rules of musical design, but in which the author's fancy roves unrestricted by set form.
fantastic: existing only in imagination; fanciful; imaginary; not real; chimerical.-having the nature of a phantom; unreal.-indulging the vagaries of imagination; whimsical; full of absurd fancies; capricious; as, fantastic minds; a fantastic mistress.-resembling fantasies in irregularity, caprice, or eccentricity; irregular; oddly shaped; grotesque.-a person given to fantastic dress, manners, etc.; an eccentric person; a fop.
fantastical: fanciful; unreal; whimsical; capricious; fantastic.
fantasticism: the quality of being fantastical; fancifulness; whimsicality.
fantasy: fancy; imagination; especially, a whimsical or fanciful conception; a vagary of the imagination; whim; caprice; humor.-fantastic designs.-to have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like; to fancy.
fantoccini: puppets caused to perform evolutions or dramatic scenes by means of machinery; also, the representations in which they are used.
far: a young pig, or a litter of pigs.-distant in any direction; not near; remote; mutually separated by a wide space or extent.-remote from purpose; contrary to design or wishes; as, far be it from me to justify cruelty.-remote in affection or obedience; at a distance, morally or spiritually; t enmity with; alienated.-widely different in nature or quality; opposite in character.-the more distant of two; as, the far side (called also off side) of a horse, that is, the right side, or the one opposite to the rider when he mounts.-to a great extent or distance of space; widely; as, we are separated far from each other.-to a great distance in time from any point; remotely; as, he pushed his researches far into antiquity.-in great part; as, the day is far spent.-in a great proportion; by many degrees; very much; deeply; greatly.
far-off: remote; as, the far-off distance.  cf. far-off, under far, adv.
farad: the standard unit of electrical capacity; the capacity of a condenser whose charge, having an electro-motive force of one volt, is equal to the amount of electricity which, with the same electromotive force, passes through one ohm in one second; the capacity, which, charged with one coulomb, gives an electro-motive force of one volt.
faradic: of or pertaining to michael faraday, the distinguished electrician; -- applied especially to induced currents of electricity, as produced by certain forms of inductive apparatus, on account of faraday's investigations of their laws.
farce: to stuff with forcemeat; hence, to fill with mingled ingredients; to fill full; to stuff.-to render fat.-to swell out; to render pompous.-stuffing, or mixture of viands, like that used on dressing a fowl; forcemeat.-a low style of comedy; a dramatic composition marked by low humor, generally written with little regard to regularity or method, and abounding with ludicrous incidents and expressions.-ridiculous or empty show; as, a mere farce.
farcical: pertaining to farce; appropriated to farce; ludicrous; unnatural; unreal.-of or pertaining to the disease called farcy. see farcy, n.
farctate: stuffed; filled solid; as, a farctate leaf, stem, or pericarp; -- opposed to tubular or hollow.
farcy: a contagious disease of horses, associated with painful ulcerating enlargements, esp. upon the head and limbs. it is of the same nature as glanders, and is often fatal. called also farcin, and farcimen.
fard: paint used on the face.-to paint; -- said esp. of one's face.
fardel: a bundle or little pack; hence, a burden.-to make up in fardels.
farding-bag: the upper stomach of a cow, or other ruminant animal; the rumen.
fare: to go; to pass; to journey; to travel.-to be in any state, or pass through any experience, good or bad; to be attended with any circummstances or train of events, fortunate or unfortunate; as, he fared well, or ill.-to be treated or entertained at table, or with bodily or social comforts; to live.-to happen well, or ill; -- used impersonally; as, we shall see how it will fare with him.-to behave; to conduct one's self.-a journey; a passage.-the price of passage or going; the sum paid or due for conveying a person by land or water; as, the fare for crossing a river; the fare in a coach or by railway.-ado; bustle; business.-condition or state of things; fortune; hap; cheer.-food; provisions for the table; entertainment; as, coarse fare; delicious fare.-the person or persons conveyed in a vehicle; as, a full fare of passengers.-the catch of fish on a fishing vessel.
farewell: go well; good-by; adieu;  -- originally applied to a person departing, but by custom now applied both to those who depart and those who remain. it is often separated by the pronoun; as, fare you well; and is sometimes used as an expression of separation only; as, farewell the year; farewell, ye sweet groves; that is, i bid you farewell.-a wish of happiness or welfare at parting; the parting compliment; a good-by; adieu.-act of departure; leave-taking; a last look at, or reference to something.-parting; valedictory; final; as, a farewell discourse; his farewell bow.
farfetch: to bring from far; to seek out studiously.-anything brought from far, or brought about with studious care; a deep strategem.
farfetched: brought from far, or from a remote place.-studiously sought; not easily or naturally deduced or introduced; forced; strained.
farina: a fine flour or meal made from cereal grains or from the starch or fecula of vegetables, extracted by various processes, and used in cookery.-pollen.
farinaceous: consisting or made of meal or flour; as, a farinaceous diet.-yielding farina or flour; as, ffarinaceous seeds.-like meal; mealy; pertainiing to meal; as, a farinaceous taste, smell, or appearance.
farinose: yielding farinaa; as, farinose substances.-civered with a sort of white, mealy powder, as the leaves of some poplars, and the body of certain insects; mealy.
farm: the rent of land, -- originally paid by reservation of part of its products.-the term or tenure of a lease of land for cultivation; a leasehold.-the land held under lease and by payment of rent for the purpose of cultivation.-any tract of land devoted to agricultural purposes, under the management of a tenant or the owner.-a district of country leased (or farmed) out for the collection of the revenues of government.-a lease of the imposts on particular goods; as, the sugar farm, the silk farm.-to lease or let for an equivalent, as land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds.-to give up to another, as an estate, a business, the revenue, etc., on condition of receiving in return a percentage of what it yields; as, to farm the taxes.-to take at a certain rent or rate.-to devote (land) to agriculture; to cultivate, as land; to till, as a farm.-to engage in the business of tilling the soil; to labor as a farmer.
farmer: one who farms-one who hires and cultivates a farm; a cultivator of leased ground; a tenant.-one who is devoted to the tillage of the soil; one who cultivates a farm; an agriculturist; a husbandman.-one who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect, either paying a fixed annuual rent for the privilege; as, a farmer of the revenues.-the lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown.
farming: of farm-pertaining to agriculture; devoted to, adapted to, or engaged in, farming; as, farming tools; farming land; a farming community.-the business of cultivating land.
farmyard: the yard or inclosure attached to a barn, or the space inclosed by the farm buildings.
faro: a gambling game at cardds, in whiich all the other players play against the dealer or banker, staking their money upon the order in which the cards will lie and be dealt from the pack.
farraginous: formed of various materials; mixed; as, a farraginous mountain.
farrago: a mass composed of various materials confusedly mixed; a medley; a mixture.
farrier: a shoer of horses; a veterinary surgeon.-to practice as a farrier; to carry on the trade of a farrier.
farriery: the art of shoeing horses.-the art of preventing, curing, or mitigating diseases of horses and cattle; the veterinary art.-the place where a smith shoes horses.
farrow: a little of pigs.-not producing young in a given season or year; -- said only of cows.
farse: an addition to, or a paraphrase of, some part of the latin service in the vernacular; -- common in english before the reformation.
farseeing: able to see to a great distance; farsighted.-having foresight as regards the future.
farsighted: seeing to great distance; hence, of good judgment regarding the remote effects of actions; sagacious.-hypermetropic.
farther: more remote; more distant than something else.-tending to a greater distance; beyond a certain point; additional; further.-at or to a greater distance; more remotely; beyond; as, let us rest with what we have, without looking farther.-moreover; by way of progress in treating a subject; as, farther, let us consider the probable event.-to help onward. [r.] see further.
farthest: most distant or remote; as, the farthest degree.  see furthest.-at or to the greatest distance. see furthest.
farthing: the fourth of a penny; a small copper coin of great britain, being a cent in united states currency.-a very small quantity or value.-a division of land.
farthingale: a hoop skirt or hoop petticoat, or other light, elastic material, used to extend the petticoat.
faruncular: of or pertaining to a furuncle; marked by the presence of furuncles.
fasces: a bundle of rods, having among them an ax with the blade projecting, borne before the roman magistrates as a badge of their authority.
fascet: a wire basket on the end of a rod to carry glass bottles, etc., to the annealing furnace; also, an iron rod to be thrust into the mouths of bottles, and used for the same purpose; -- called also pontee and punty.
fascia: a band, sash, or fillet; especially, in surgery, a bandage or roller.-a flat member of an order or building, like a flat band or broad fillet; especially, one of the three bands which make up the architrave, in the ionic order. see illust. of column.-the layer of loose tissue, often containing fat, immediately beneath the skin; the stronger layer of connective tissue covering and investing all muscles; an aponeurosis.-a broad well-defined band of color.
fasciated: bound with a fillet, sash, or bandage.-banded or compacted together.-flattened and laterally widened, as are often the stems of the garden cockscomb.-broadly banded with color.
fasciation: the act or manner of binding up; bandage; also, the condition of being fasciated.
fascicle: a small bundle or collection; a compact cluster; as, a fascicle of fibers; a fascicle of flowers or roots.
fascicled: growing in a bundle, tuft, or close cluster; as, the fascicled leaves of the pine or larch; the fascicled roots of the dahlia; fascicled muscle fibers; fascicled tufts of hair.
fascicular: pertaining to a fascicle; fascicled; as, a fascicular root.
fascinate: to influence in an uncontrollable manner; to operate on by some powerful or irresistible charm; to bewitch; to enchant.-to excite and allure irresistibly or powerfully; to charm; to captivate, as by physical or mental charms.
fascination: the act of fascinating, bewhiching, or enchanting; enchantment; witchcraft; the exercise of a powerful or irresistible influence on the affections or passions; unseen, inexplicable influence.-the state or condition of being fascinated.-that which fascinates; a charm; a spell.
fascine: a cylindrical bundle of small sticks of wood, bound together, used in raising batteries, filling ditches, strengthening ramparts, and making parapets; also in revetments for river banks, and in mats for dams, jetties, etc.
fasciola: a band of gray matter bordering the fimbria in the brain; the dentate convolution.
fasciole: a band of minute tubercles, bearing modified spines, on the shells of spatangoid sea urchins. see spatangoidea.
faser: one who faces; one who puts on a false show; a bold-faced person.-a blow in the face, as in boxing; hence, any severe or stunning check or defeat, as in controversy.
fash: to vex; to tease; to trouble.-vexation; anxiety; care.
fashion: the make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; as, the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.; workmanship; execution.-the prevailing mode or style, especially of dress; custom or conventional usage in respect of dress, behavior, etiquette, etc.; particularly, the mode or style usual among persons of good breeding; as, to dress, dance, sing, ride, etc., in the fashion.-polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding; as, men of fashion.-mode of action; method of conduct; manner; custom; sort; way.-to form; to give shape or figure to; to mold.-to fit; to adapt; to accommodate; -- with to.-to make according to the rule prescribed by custom.-to forge or counterfeit.
fashionable: conforming to the fashion or established mode; according with the prevailing form or style; as, a fashionable dress.-established or favored by custom or use; current; prevailing at a particular time; as, the fashionable philosophy; fashionable opinions.-observant of the fashion or customary mode; dressing or behaving according to the prevailing fashion; as, a fashionable man.-genteel; well-bred; as, fashionable society.-a person who conforms to the fashions; -- used chiefly in the plural.
fashioned: of fashion-having a certain style or fashion; as old-fashioned; new-fashioned.
fassaite: a variety of pyroxene, from the valley of fassa, in the tyrol.
fast: to abstain from food; to omit to take nourishment in whole or in part; to go hungry.-to practice abstinence as a religious exercise or duty; to abstain from food voluntarily for a time, for the mortification of the body or appetites, or as a token of grief, or humiliation and penitence.-abstinence from food; omission to take nourishment.-voluntary abstinence from food, for a space of time, as a spiritual discipline, or as a token of religious humiliation.-a time of fasting, whether a day, week, or longer time; a period of abstinence from food or certain kinds of food; as, an annual fast.-firmly fixed; closely adhering; made firm; not loose, unstable, or easily moved; immovable; as, to make fast the door.-firm against attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable; strong.-firm in adherence; steadfast; not easily separated or alienated; faithful; as, a fast friend.-permanent; not liable to fade by exposure to air or by washing; durable; lasting; as, fast colors.-tenacious; retentive.-not easily disturbed or broken; deep; sound.-moving rapidly; quick in mition; rapid; swift; as, a fast horse.-given to pleasure seeking; disregardful of restraint; reckless; wild; dissipated; dissolute; as, a fast man; a fast liver.-in a fast, fixed, or firmly established manner; fixedly; firmly; immovably.-in a fast or rapid manner; quickly; swiftly; extravagantly; wildly; as, to run fast; to live fast.-that which fastens or holds; especially, (naut.) a mooring rope, hawser, or chain; -- called, according to its position, a bow, head, quarter, breast, or stern fast; also, a post on a pier around which hawsers are passed in mooring.-the shaft of a column, or trunk of pilaster.
fast-handed: close-handed; close-fisted; covetous; avaricious.
fasten: to fix firmly; to make fast; to secure, as by a knot, lock, bolt, etc.; as, to fasten a chain to the feet; to fasten a door or window.-to cause to hold together or to something else; to attach or unite firmly; to cause to cleave to something , or to cleave together, by any means; as, to fasten boards together with nails or cords; to fasten anything in our thoughts.-to cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to lay on; as, to fasten a blow.-to fix one's self; to take firm hold; to clinch; to cling.
fastening: of fasten-anything that binds and makes fast, as a lock, catch, bolt, bar, buckle, etc.
fasti: the roman calendar, which gave the days for festivals, courts, etc., corresponding to a modern almanac.-records or registers of important events.
fastidious: difficult to please; delicate to a fault; suited with difficulty; squeamish; as, a fastidious mind or ear; a fastidious appetite.
fastigiated: narrowing towards the top.-clustered, parallel, and upright, as the branches of the lombardy poplar; pointed.-united into a conical bundle, or into a bundle with an enlarged head, like a sheaf of wheat.
fastness: the state of being fast and firm; firmness; fixedness; security; faithfulness.-a fast place; a stronghold; a fortress or fort; a secure retreat; a castle; as, the enemy retired to their fastnesses in the mountains.-conciseness of style.-the state of being fast or swift.
fat: a large tub, cistern, or vessel; a vat.-a measure of quantity, differing for different commodities.-abounding with fat-fleshy; characterized by fatness; plump; corpulent; not lean; as, a fat man; a fat ox.-oily; greasy; unctuous; rich; -- said of food.-exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid.-fertile; productive; as, a fat soil; a fat pasture.-rich; producing a large income; desirable; as, a fat benefice; a fat office; a fat job.-abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate.-of a character which enables the compositor to make large wages; -- said of matter containing blank, cuts, or many leads, etc.; as, a fat take; a fat page.-an oily liquid or greasy substance making up the main bulk of the adipose tissue of animals, and widely distributed in the seeds of plants. see adipose tissue, under adipose.-the best or richest productions; the best part; as, to live on the fat of the land.-work. containing much blank, or its equivalent, and, therefore, profitable to the compositor.-to make fat; to fatten; to make plump and fleshy with abundant food; as, to fat fowls or sheep.-to grow fat, plump, and fleshy.
fata morgana: a kind of mirage by which distant objects appear inverted, distorted, displaced, or multiplied. it is noticed particularly at the straits of messina, between calabria and sicily.
fatal: proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny; necessary; inevitable.-foreboding death or great disaster.-causing death or destruction; deadly; mortal; destructive; calamitous; as, a fatal wound; a fatal disease; a fatal day; a fatal error.
fatalism: the doctrine that all things are subject to fate, or that they take place by inevitable necessity.
fatality: the state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.-the state of being fatal; tendency to destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate; mortaility.-that which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event.
fatally: in a manner proceeding from, or determined by, fate.-in a manner issuing in death or ruin; mortally; destructively; as, fatally deceived or wounded.
fate: a fixed decree by which the order of things is prescribed; the immutable law of the universe; inevitable necessity; the force by which all existence is determined and conditioned.-appointed lot; allotted life; arranged or predetermined event; destiny; especially, the final lot; doom; ruin; death.-the element of chance in the affairs of life; the unforeseen and unestimated conitions considered as a force shaping events; fortune; esp., opposing circumstances against which it is useless to struggle; as, fate was, or the fates were, against him.-the three goddesses, clotho, lachesis, and atropos, sometimes called the destinies, or parcaewho were supposed to determine the course of human life. they are represented, one as holding the distaff, a second as spinning, and the third as cutting off the thread.