Webster's Dictionary 1828

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FIGHTING

FIGHTING, participle present tense1. Contending in battle; striving for victory or conquest.2.adjective Qualified for war; fit for battle.A host of fighting men. 2 Chronicles 26...

839

FIGMENT

FIG'MENT, noun [Latin figmentum, from fingo, to feign.]An invention; a fiction; something feigned or imagined. These assertions are the figments of idle brains.

840

FIGULATE

FIG'ULATE, adjective [Latin figulo, to fashion, from fingo, or rather figo, which appears to be the root of fingo.]Made of potter's clay; molded; shaped. [Little used.]

841

FIGURABILITY

FIGURABIL'ITY, noun The quality of being capable of a certain fixed or stable form.

842

FIGURABLE

FIG'URABLE, adjective [from figure.] Capable of being brought to a certain fixed form or shape. Thus lead is figurable but water is not.

843

FIGURAL

FIG'URAL, adjective Represented by figure or delineation; as figural resemblances.Figural numbers, in geometry, such numbers as do or may represent some geometrical figure, in r...

844

FIGURATE

FIG'URATE, adjective [Latin figuratus.]1. Of a certain determinate form.Plants are all figurate and determinate, which inanimate bodies are not.2. Resembling any thing of a dete...

845

FIGURATED

FIG'URATED, adjective Having a determinate form.

846

FIGURATION

FIGURA'TION, noun1. The act of giving figure or determinate form.2. Determination to a certain form.3. Mixture of concords and discords in music.

847

FIGURATIVE

FIG'URATIVE, adjective1. Representing something else; representing by resemblance; typical.This they will say, was figurative and served by God's appointment but for a time, to ...

848

FIGURATIVELY

FIG'URATIVELY, adverb By a figure; in a manner to exhibit ideas by resemblance; in a sense different from that which words originally imply. Words are used figuratively when the...

849

FIGURE

FIG'URE, noun fig'ur. [Latin figura, from figo, to fix or set. See Feign.]1. The form of any thing as expressed by the outline or terminating extremities. Flowers have exquisite...

850

FIGURE-CASTER

FIG'URE-CASTER,FIG'URE-FLINGER, noun A pretender to astrology.

851

FIGURE-STONE

FIG'URE-STONE, noun A name of the agalmatolite, or bildstein.

852

FIGURED

FIG'URED, participle passive1. Represented by resemblance; adorned with figures; formed into a determinate figure.2. In music, free and florid.

853

FIGURING

FIG'URING, participle present tense Forming into determinate shape; representing by types or resemblances; adorning with figures; making a distinguished appearance.

854

FILACEOUS

FILA'CEOUS, adjective [Latin filum, a thread.] Composed or consisting of threads.

855

FILACER

FIL'ACER, nounAn officer in the English Court of Common Pleas, so called from filing the writs on which he makes process. There are fourteen of them in their several divisions a...

856

FILAMENT

FIL'AMENT, noun [Latin filamenta, threads, from filum.]A thread; a fiber. In anatomy and natural history, a fine thread of which flesh, nerves, skin, plants, roots, etc., and al...

857

FILAMENTOUS

FILAMENT'OUS, adjective Like a thread; consisting of fine filaments.

858

FILANDERS

FIL'ANDERS, nounA disease in hawks, consisting of filaments of coagulated blood; also, small worms wrapped in a thin skin or net, near the reins of a hawk.

859

FILATORY

FIL'ATORY, noun [from Latin filum, a thread.] A machine which forms or spins threads.This manufactory has three filatories, each of 640 reels, which are moved by a water wheel, ...

860

FILBERT

FIL'BERT, noun [Latin avellana, with which the first syllable corresponds; fil, vel.]The fruit of the Corylus or hazel; an egg shaped nut, containing a kernel, that has a mild, ...

861

FILCH

FILCH, verb transitive [This word, like pilfer, is probably from the root of file, or peel, to strip or rub off. But I know not from what source we have received it.]To steal so...

862

FILCHED

FILCH'ED, participle passive Stolen; taken wrongfully from another; pillaged; pilfered.

863

FILCHER

FILCH'ER, noun A thief; one who is guilty of petty theft.

864

FILCHING

FILCH'ING, participle present tense Stealing; taking from another wrongfully; pilfering.