Fox (n.) A sly, cunning fellow.
Fox (n.) Rope yarn twisted together, and rubbed with tar; -- used for seizings or mats.
Fox (n.) A sword; -- so called from the stamp of a fox on the blade, or perhaps of a wolf taken for a fox.
Fox (n.) A tribe of Indians which, with the Sacs, formerly occupied the region about Green Bay, Wisconsin; -- called also Outagamies.
Foxed (imp. & p. p.) of Fox
Foxing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fox
Fox (n.) To intoxicate; to stupefy with drink.
Fox (n.) To make sour, as beer, by causing it to ferment.
Fox (n.) To repair the feet of, as of boots, with new front upper leather, or to piece the upper fronts of.
Fox (v. i.) To turn sour; -- said of beer, etc., when it sours in fermenting.
Foxearth (n.) A hole in the earth to which a fox resorts to hide himself.
Fracas (v. t.) An uproar; a noisy quarrel; a disturbance; a brawl.
Fracho (n.) A shallow iron pan to hold glass ware while being annealed.
Fracid (a.) Rotten from being too ripe; overripe.
Fract (v. t.) To break; to violate.
Fracted (a.) Having a part displaced, as if broken; -- said of an ordinary.
Foxed (a.) Discolored or stained; -- said of timber, and also of the paper of books or engravings.
Foxed (a.) Repaired by foxing; as, foxed boots.
Foxery (n.) Behavior like that of a fox; cunning.
Foxes (n. pl.) See Fox, n., 7.
Foxfish (n.) The fox shark; -- called also sea fox. See Thrasher shark, under Shark.
Foxfish (n.) The european dragonet. See Dragonet.
Foxglove (n.) Any plant of the genus Digitalis. The common English foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) is a handsome perennial or biennial plant, whose leaves are used as a powerful medicine, both as a sedative and diuretic. See Digitalis.
Foxhound (n.) One of a special breed of hounds used for chasing foxes.
Fox-hunting (a.) Pertaining to or engaged in the hunting of foxes; fond of hunting foxes.
Foxiness (n.) The state or quality of being foxy, or foxlike; craftiness; shrewdness.
Foxiness (n.) The state of being foxed or discolored, as books; decay; deterioration.
Foxiness (n.) A coarse and sour taste in grapes.
Foxish (a.) Foxlike.
Foxlike (a.) Resembling a fox in his characteristic qualities; cunning; artful; foxy.
Foxly (a.) Foxlike.
Foxship (n.) Foxiness; craftiness.
Foxtail (n.) The tail or brush of a fox.
Foxtail (n.) The name of several kinds of grass having a soft dense head of flowers, mostly the species of Alopecurus and Setaria.
Foxtail (n.) The last cinders obtained in the fining process.
Foxy (a.) Like or pertaining to the fox; foxlike in disposition or looks; wily.
Foxy (a.) Having the color of a fox; of a yellowish or reddish brown color; -- applied sometimes to paintings when they have too much of this color.
Foxy (a.) Having the odor of a fox; rank; strong smeelling.
Foxy (a.) Sour; unpleasant in taste; -- said of wine, beer, etc., not properly fermented; -- also of grapes which have the coarse flavor of the fox grape.
Foy (n.) Faith; allegiance; fealty.
Foy (n.) A feast given by one about to leave a place.
Foyer (n.) A lobby in a theater; a greenroom.
Foyer (n.) The crucible or basin in a furnace which receives the molten metal.
Foyson (n.) See Foison.
Foziness (n.) The state of being fozy; spiritlessness; dullness.
Fozy (a.) Spongy; soft; fat and puffy.
Fra (adv. & prep.) Fro.
Fra (n.) Brother; -- a title of a monk of friar; as, Fra Angelo.
Frab (v. i. & t.) To scold; to nag.
Frabbit (a.) Crabbed; peevish.
Fraction (n.) The act of breaking, or state of being broken, especially by violence.
Fraction (n.) A portion; a fragment.
Fraction (n.) One or more aliquot parts of a unit or whole number; an expression for a definite portion of a unit or magnitude.
Fraction (v. t.) To separate by means of, or to subject to, fractional distillation or crystallization; to fractionate; -- frequently used with out; as, to fraction out a certain grade of oil from pretroleum.
Fractional (a.) Of or pertaining to fractions or a fraction; constituting a fraction; as, fractional numbers.
Fractional (a.) Relatively small; inconsiderable; insignificant; as, a fractional part of the population.
Fractionally (adv.) By fractions or separate portions; as, to distill a liquid fractionally, that is, so as to separate different portions.
Fractionary (a.) Fractional.
Fractionate (v. t.) To separate into different portions or fractions, as in the distillation of liquids.
Fractious (a.) Apt to break out into a passion; apt to scold; cross; snappish; ugly; unruly; as, a fractious man; a fractious horse.
Fractural (a.) Pertaining to, or consequent on, a fracture.
Fracture (n.) The act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach.
Fracture (n.) The breaking of a bone.
Fracture (n.) The texture of a freshly broken surface; as, a compact fracture; an even, hackly, or conchoidal fracture.
Fractured (imp. & p. p.) of Fracture
Fracturing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fracture
Fracture (v. t.) To cause a fracture or fractures in; to break; to burst asunder; to crack; to separate the continuous parts of; as, to fracture a bone; to fracture the skull.
Fraenula (pl. ) of Fraenulum
Fraenulum (n.) A fraenum.
Fraenums (pl. ) of Frenum
Fraena (pl. ) of Frenum
Fraenum (n.) Alt. of Frenum
Frenum (n.) A connecting fold of membrane serving to support or restrain any part; as, the fraenum of the tongue.
Fragile (a.) Easily broken; brittle; frail; delicate; easily destroyed.
Fragility (n.) The condition or quality of being fragile; brittleness; frangibility.
Fragility (n.) Weakness; feebleness.
Fragility (n.) Liability to error and sin; frailty.
Fragment (v. t.) A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part; as, a fragment of an ancient writing.
Fragmentak (a.) Fragmentary.
Fragmentak (a.) Consisting of the pulverized or fragmentary material of rock, as conglomerate, shale, etc.
Fragmental (n.) A fragmentary rock.
Fragmentarily (adv.) In a fragmentary manner; piecemeal.
Fragmentariness (n.) The quality or property of being in fragnebts, or broken pieces, incompleteness; want of continuity.
Fragmentary (a.) Composed of fragments, or broken pieces; disconnected; not complete or entire.
Fragmentary (a.) Composed of the fragments of other rocks.
Fragmented (a.) Broken into fragments.
Fragmentist (n.) A writer of fragments; as, the fragmentist of Wolfenbuttel.
Fragor (n.) A loud and sudden sound; the report of anything bursting; a crash.
Fragor (n.) A strong or sweet scent.
Fragrance (n.) Alt. of Fragrancy
Fragrancy (n.) The quality of being fragrant; sweetness of smell; a sweet smell; a pleasing odor; perfume.
Fragrant (a.) Affecting the olfactory nerves agreeably; sweet of smell; odorous; having or emitting an agreeable perfume.
Fraight (a.) Same as Fraught.
Frail (n.) A basket made of rushes, used chiefly for containing figs and raisins.
Frail (n.) The quantity of raisins -- about thirty-two, fifty-six, or seventy-five pounds, -- contained in a frail.
Frail (n.) A rush for weaving baskets.
Frail (superl) Easily broken; fragile; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish; easily destroyed; not tenacious of life; weak; infirm.
Frail (superl) Tender.
Frail (superl) Liable to fall from virtue or be led into sin; not strong against temptation; weak in resolution; also, unchaste; -- often applied to fallen women.
Frailly (adv.) Weakly; infirmly.