Fathomless
Fath″om‐less, a. 1. Incapable of being fathomed; immeasurable; that can not be sounded.And buckle in a waist most fathomless. Shak.2. Incomprehensible.The fathomless absurdity. ...
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.
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Fath″om‐less, a. 1. Incapable of being fathomed; immeasurable; that can not be sounded.And buckle in a waist most fathomless. Shak.2. Incomprehensible.The fathomless absurdity. ...
Fa‐tid″i‐cal (?), a. [L. fatidicus; fatum fate + dicere to say, tell.] Having power to foretell future events; prophetic; fatiloquent; as, the fatidical oak. Howell. — Fa‐tid″i‐...
Fa‐tif″er‐ous (?), a. [L. fatifer; fatum fate + ferre to bear, bring.] Fate-bringing; deadly; mortal; destructive. Johnson.
Fat″i‐ga‐ble (?), a. [L. fatigabilis: cf. F. fatigable. See Fatigue.] Easily tired. Bailey.
Fat″i‐gate (?), a. [L. fatigatus, p. p. of fatigare. See Fatigue.] Wearied; tired; fatigued.Requickened what in flesh was fatigate. Shak.
Fat″i‐gate (?), v. t. To weary; to tire; to fatigue. Sir T. Elyot.
Fat′i‐ga″tion (?), n. [L. fatigatio: cf. OF. fatigation.] Weariness. W. Montaqu.
Fa‐tigue″ (?), n. [F., fr. fatiguer to fatigue, L. fatigare; cf. L. affatim sufficiently.] 1. Weariness from bodily labor or mental exertion; lassitude or exhaustion of strength...
Fa‐tigue″, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Fatigued (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Fatiguing, n.] [Cf. F. fatiguer. See Fatigue, n.] To weary with labor or any bodily or mental exertion; to harass with...
Fa‐til″o‐quent (?), a. [See Fatiloquist.] Prophetic; fatidical. Blount.
Fa‐til″o‐quist (?), n. [L. fatiloquus declaring fate; fatum fate+ Loqui to speak.] A fortune teller.
{ Fat″i‐mite (?), Fat″i‐mide (?) }, a.(Hist.) Descended from Fatima, the daughter and only child of Mohammed. — n. A descendant of Fatima.
Fa‐tis″cence (?), n. [L. fatiscense, p. pr. of fatiscere to gape or crack open.] A gaping or opening; state of being chinky, or having apertures. Kirwan.
Fat″ling (?), n. [Fat + -ling.] A calf, lamb, kid, or other young animal fattened for slaughter; a fat animal; — said of such animals as are used for food.He sacrificed oxen and...
Fat″ly, adv. Grossly; greasily.
Fat″ner (?), n. One who fattens. See Fattener. Arbuthnit.
Fat″ness, n. 1. The quality or state of being fat, plump, or full-fed; corpulency; fullness of flesh.Their eyes stand out with fatness. Ps. lxxiii. 7.2. Hence; Richness; fertili...
Fat″ten (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Fattened (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Fattening (?).] [See Fat, v. t.] 1. To make fat; to feed for slaughter; to make fleshy or plump with fat; to fill fu...
Fat″ten, v. i. To grow fat or corpulent; to grow plump, thick, or fleshy; to be pampered.And villains fatten with the brave man's labor. Otway.
Fat″ten‐er (?), n. One who, or that which, fattens; that which gives fatness or fertility.
Fat″ti‐ness (?), n. State or quality of being fatty.
Fat″tish (?), a. Somewhat fat; inclined to fatness.Coleridge, a puffy, anxious, obstructed-looking, fattish old man. Carlyle.
Fat″ty (?), a. Containing fat, or having the qualities of fat; greasy; gross; as, a fatty substance.Fatty acid(Chem.), any one of the paraffin series of monocarbonic acids, as f...
Fa‐tu″i‐tous (?), a. Stupid; fatuous.
Fa‐tu″i‐ty (?), n. [L. fatuitas, fr. fatuus foolish: cf. F. fatuité Cf. Fatuous.] Weakness or imbecility of mind; stupidity.Those many forms of popular fatuity. I Taylor.
Fat″u‐ous (?), a. [L. fatuus.] 1. Feeble in mind; weak; silly; stupid; foolish; fatuitous. Glanvill.2. Without reality; illusory, like the ignis fatuus.Thence fatuous fires and ...
‖Fau′bourg″ (fō′bo͞or″; E. fō″bo͞org), n. A suburb of a French city; also, a district now within a city, but formerly without its walls.