FAQUIR
FAQUIR, [See Fakir.]
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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FAR
F'AR, adjective [Latin porro; Gr. connected with, a way, a passing, to pass or go. See Fare.]1. Distant, in any direction; separated by a wide space from the place where one is,...
FAR-ABOUT
FAR-ABOUT', noun A going out of the way. [Not in use.]
FAR-FAMED
F'AR-FAMED, adjective Widely celebrated.
FAR-FETCH
F'AR-FETCH, noun A deep laid stratagem. [Little used.]
FAR-FETCHED
F'AR-FETCHED, adjective1. Brought from a remote place.Whose pains have earned the far-fetched spoil.2. Studiously sought; not easily or naturally deduced or introduced; forced; ...
FAR-PIERCING
FAR-PIER'CING, adjective Striking or penetrating a great way; as a far-piercing eye.
FAR-SHOOTING
FAR-SHOOT'ING, adjective Shooting to a great distance.Great love, he said, and the far-shooting god.F'AR, noun [See Farrow.]The young of swine; or a littler of pigs. [Local.]
FARCE
F'ARCE, verb transitive [Latin farcio.]1. To stuff; to fill with mingled ingredients. [Little used.]The first principles of religion should not be forced with school points and ...
FARCICAL
F'ARCICAL, adjective1. Belonging to a farce; appropriated to farce.They deny the characters to be farcical because they are actually in nature.2. Droll; ludicrous; ridiculous.3....
FARCICALLY
F'ARCICALLY, adverb In a manner suited to farce; hence, ludicrously.
FARCILITE
F'ARCILITE, noun [from farce.] Pudding-stone. The calcarious farcilite called amenla, is formed of rounded calcarious pebbles, agglutinated by a calcarious cement.
FARCIN
F'ARCIN,F'ARCING, noun Stuffing composed of mixed ingredients.
FARCING
F'ARCING, n. Stuffing composed of mixed ingredients.
FARCTATE
F'ARCTATE, adjective [Latin farctus, stuffed, from farcio.]In botany, stuffed; crammed, or full; without vacuities; in opposition to tubular or hollow; as a farctate leaf, stem ...
FARCY
F'ARCY, noun A disease of horses, sometimes of oxen, of the nature of a scabies or mange.
FARD
F'ARD, verb transitive To paint. [Not used.]
FARDEL
F'ARDEL, noun [Probably from the root of Latin fero, to bear, or of farcio, to stuff.] A bundle or little pace.F'ARDEL, verb transitive To make up in bundles.
FARE
FARE, verb intransitive [This word may be connected in origin with the Heb. to go, to pass.]1. To go; to pass; to move forward; to travel.So on he fares, and to the border comes...
FAREWELL
FA'REWELL, a compound of fare, in the imperative, and well. Go well; originally applied to a person departing, but by custom now applied both to those who depart and those who r...
FARIN
FAR'IN,FARI'NA, noun [Latin farina, meal.]1. In botany, the pollen, fine dust or powder, contained in the anthers of plants, and which is supposed to fall on the stigma, and fru...
FARINA
FARI'NA, n. [L. farina, meal.]1. In botany, the pollen, fine dust or powder, contained in the anthers of plants, and which is supposed to fall on the stigma, and fructify the pl...
FARINACEOUS
FARINA'CEOUS, adjective [from Latin farina, meal.]1. Consisting or made of meal or flour; as a farinaceous diet, which consists of the meal or flour of the various species of co...
FARM
F'ARM, noun1. A tract of land leased on rent reserved; ground let to a tenant on condition of his paying a certain sum annually or otherwise for the use of it. A farm is usually...
FARM-OFFICE
F'ARM-OFFICE, noun Farm-offices, are the out buildings pertaining to a farm.
FARMABLE
F'ARMABLE, adjective That may be farmed.
FARMED
F'ARMED, participle passive Leased on rent; let out at a certain rate or price.