Folks (n. collect. & pl.) In Anglo-Saxon times, the people of a group of townships or villages; a community; a tribe.
Folks (n. collect. & pl.) People in general, or a separate class of people; -- generally used in the plural form, and often with a qualifying adjective; as, the old folks; poor folks.
Folks (n. collect. & pl.) The persons of one's own family; as, our folks are all well.
Folkland (n.) Land held in villenage, being distributed among the folk, or people, at the pleasure of the lord of the manor, and resumed at his discretion. Not being held by any assurance in writing, it was opposed to bookland or charter land, which was held by deed.
Folklore () Alt. of Folk lore
Folk lore () Tales, legends, or superstitions long current among the people.
Folkmote (n.) An assembly of the people
Folkmote (n.) a general assembly of the people to consider and order matters of the commonwealth; also, a local court.
Folkmoter (n.) One who takes part in a folkmote, or local court.
Follicle (n.) A simple podlike pericarp which contains several seeds and opens along the inner or ventral suture, as in the peony, larkspur and milkweed.
Follicle (n.) A small cavity, tubular depression, or sac; as, a hair follicle.
Follicle (n.) A simple gland or glandular cavity; a crypt.
Follicle (n.) A small mass of adenoid tissue; as, a lymphatic follicle.
Follicular (a.) Like, pertaining to, or consisting of, a follicles or follicles.
Follicular (a.) Affecting the follicles; as, follicular pharyngitis.
Folliculated (a.) Having follicles.
Folliculous (a.) Having or producing follicles.
Folliful (a.) Full of folly.
Followed (imp. & p. p.) of Follow
Following (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Follow
Follow (v. t.) To go or come after; to move behind in the same path or direction; hence, to go with (a leader, guide, etc.); to accompany; to attend.
Follow (v. t.) To endeavor to overtake; to go in pursuit of; to chase; to pursue; to prosecute.
Follow (v. t.) To accept as authority; to adopt the opinions of; to obey; to yield to; to take as a rule of action; as, to follow good advice.
Follow (v. t.) To copy after; to take as an example.
Follow (v. t.) To succeed in order of time, rank, or office.
Follow (v. t.) To result from, as an effect from a cause, or an inference from a premise.
Follow (v. t.) To watch, as a receding object; to keep the eyes fixed upon while in motion; to keep the mind upon while in progress, as a speech, musical performance, etc.; also, to keep up with; to understand the meaning, connection, or force of, as of a course of thought or argument.
Follow (v. t.) To walk in, as a road or course; to attend upon closely, as a profession or calling.
Follow (v. i.) To go or come after; -- used in the various senses of the transitive verb: To pursue; to attend; to accompany; to be a result; to imitate.
Follower (n.) One who follows; a pursuer; an attendant; a disciple; a dependent associate; a retainer.
Follower (n.) A sweetheart; a beau.
Follower (n.) The removable flange, or cover, of a piston. See Illust. of Piston.
Follower (n.) A gland. See Illust. of Stuffing box.
Follower (n.) The part of a machine that receives motion from another part. See Driver.
Follower (n.) Among law stationers, a sheet of parchment or paper which is added to the first sheet of an indenture or other deed.
Following (n.) One's followers, adherents, or dependents, collectively.
Following (n.) Vocation; business; profession.
Following (a.) Next after; succeeding; ensuing; as, the assembly was held on the following day.
Following (a.) (In the field of a telescope) In the direction from which stars are apparently moving (in consequence of the earth's rotation); as, a small star, north following or south following. In the direction toward which stars appear to move is called preceding.
Follies (pl. ) of Folly
Folly (n.) The state of being foolish; want of good sense; levity, weakness, or derangement of mind.
Folly (n.) A foolish act; an inconsiderate or thoughtless procedure; weak or light-minded conduct; foolery.
Folly (n.) Scandalous crime; sin; specifically, as applied to a woman, wantonness.
Folly (n.) The result of a foolish action or enterprise.
Folwe (v. t.) To follow.
Fomalhaut (n.) A star of the first magnitude, in the constellation Piscis Australis, or Southern Fish.
Fomented (imp. & p. p.) of Foment
Fomenting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Foment
Foment (v. t.) To apply a warm lotion to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge wet with warm water or medicated liquid.
Foment (v. t.) To cherish with heat; to foster.
Foment (v. t.) To nurse to life or activity; to cherish and promote by excitements; to encourage; to abet; to instigate; -- used often in a bad sense; as, to foment ill humors.
Fomentation (n.) The act of fomenting; the application of warm, soft, medicinal substances, as for the purpose of easing pain, by relaxing the skin, or of discussing tumors.
Fomentation (n.) The lotion applied to a diseased part.
Fomentation (n.) Excitation; instigation; encouragement.
Fomenter (n.) One who foments; one who encourages or instigates; as, a fomenter of sedition.
Fomites (pl. ) of Fomes
Fomes (n.) Any substance supposed to be capable of absorbing, retaining, and transporting contagious or infectious germs; as, woolen clothes are said to be active fomites.
Fon (a.) A fool; an idiot.
Fond () imp. of Find. Found.
Fond (superl.) Foolish; silly; simple; weak.
Fond (superl.) Foolishly tender and loving; weakly indulgent; over-affectionate.
Fond (superl.) Affectionate; loving; tender; -- in a good sense; as, a fond mother or wife.
Fond (superl.) Loving; much pleased; affectionately regardful, indulgent, or desirous; longing or yearning; -- followed by of (formerly also by on).
Fond (superl.) Doted on; regarded with affection.
Fond (superl.) Trifling; valued by folly; trivial.
Fond (v. t.) To caress; to fondle.
Fond (v. i.) To be fond; to dote.
Fonde (v. t. & i.) To endeavor; to strive; to try.
Fondled (imp. & p. p.) of Fondle
Fondling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fondle
Fondle (v.) To treat or handle with tenderness or in a loving manner; to caress; as, a nurse fondles a child.
Fondler (n.) One who fondles.
Fondling (n.) The act of caressing; manifestation of tenderness.
Fondling (n.) A person or thing fondled or caressed; one treated with foolish or doting affection.
Fondling (n.) A fool; a simpleton; a ninny.
Fondly (adv.) Foolishly.
Fondly (adv.) In a fond manner; affectionately; tenderly.
Fondness (n.) The quality or state of being fond; foolishness.
Fondness (n.) Doting affection; tender liking; strong appetite, propensity, or relish; as, he had a fondness for truffles.
Fondon (n.) A large copper vessel used for hot amalgamation.
Fondus (n.) A style of printing calico, paper hangings, etc., in which the colors are in bands and graduated into each other.
Fone (n.) pl. of Foe.
Fonge (v. t.) To take; to receive.
Fonly (adv.) Foolishly; fondly.
Fonne (n.) A fon.
Font (n.) A complete assortment of printing type of one size, including a due proportion of all the letters in the alphabet, large and small, points, accents, and whatever else is necessary for printing with that variety of types; a fount.
Font (n.) A fountain; a spring; a source.
Font (n.) A basin or stone vessel in which water is contained for baptizing.
Fontal (a.) Pertaining to a font, fountain, source, or origin; original; primitive.
Fontanel (n.) An issue or artificial ulcer for the discharge of humors from the body.
Fontanel (n.) One of the membranous intervals between the incompleted angles of the parietal and neighboring bones of a fetal or young skull; -- so called because it exhibits a rhythmical pulsation.
Fontanelle (n.) Same as Fontanel, 2.
Fontange (n.) A kind of tall headdress formerly worn.
Food (n.) What is fed upon; that which goes to support life by being received within, and assimilated by, the organism of an animal or a plant; nutriment; aliment; especially, what is eaten by animals for nourishment.
Food (n.) Anything that instructs the intellect, excites the feelings, or molds habits of character; that which nourishes.
Food (v. t.) To supply with food.
Foodful (a.) Full of food; supplying food; fruitful; fertile.
Foodless (a.) Without food; barren.
Foody (a.) Eatable; fruitful.
Fool (n.) A compound of gooseberries scalded and crushed, with cream; -- commonly called gooseberry fool.