Old English | sp | English |
Fickle | vb | To puzzle, confuse. |
Fickle | adj | (Of people, things, their attributes, personification, fortune, chance. 2. false, dreadful, treacherous, dangerous. 3. changeable, changeful, inconstant, uncertain, unreliable. |
Fickledom | n | The realm of fickleness or falsehood. |
Fickle-minded | adj | Of a person: prone to casual change; inconstant. |
Fickle-mindedly | adv | Complicated variably, inconstantly, unreliably of manner. 2. in a treacherous manner. |
Fickleness | n | Quality or state of being fickle, changeable, inconstant, variable. |
Fickle-tongued | adj | Given to falsehood, lies. |
Fickle-wise | adv | In a fickle manner or way. |
Fickly | adv | In a fickle manner. 2. variably, inconstantly, deceitfully. |
Fiddle | n | Old English fithele, from Latin vītulārī to celebrate; compare Old High German fidula fiddle; see viola 2. any instrument of the viol or violin family, esp the violin (informal) 3. a violin played as a folk instrument. 3. time-wasting or trifling behaviour; nonsense; triviality. 4. nautical a small railing around the top of a table to prevent objects from falling off it in bad weather. |
Fiddle | n | An illegal or fraudulent transaction or arrangement. 2. a manually delicate or tricky operation 3. at the fiddle , on the fiddle engaged in an illegal or |
Fiddle | vb | To play (a tune) on the fiddle 2. to make restless or aimless movements with the hands 3. to spend (time) or act in a careless or inconsequential manner; waste (time). 4. Often foll by with ) to tamper or interfere (with) 5. to contrive to do (something) by illicit means or deception: he fiddled his way into a position of trust. 6. to falsify (accounts, etc); swindle |
Fiddle | phr | "At the Fiddle" - on the fiddle engaged in an illegal or deceptive undertakings. 2. do something dishonest for gain ('be on the fiddle') |
Fiddle | phr | "Fit as a Fiddle" - in very good health. |
Fiddle | phr | "Fiddle Away" - fritter away, waste foolishly. 2. take liberties with another. |
Fiddle | phr | "Fiddle About" - spend time on trifles, mess about. |
Fiddle | phr | "Fiddle While Rome Burns" - be inactive during an emergency or while something significant is happening. 2. behave frivolously in a situation that calls for concern or corrective action. (as Nero did..) |
Fiddle | phr | "Hang Up One's Fiddle" - to retire from business; give up an undertaking. |
Fiddle | phr | "Hang Up One's Fiddle When One Comes Home" - said of a person entertaining abroad, but not at home. |
Fiddle | phr | "On the Fiddle" - engaged in cheating or swindling. |
Fiddle | phr | Play the First Fiddle" - take the lead. |
Fiddle-back | n | A fiddle-shaped back of a chair or front of a chasuble. |
Fiddle-brained | adj | Foolish, frivolous. |
Fiddle-come | adj | Nonsensical, silly, trumpery. |
Fiddle-fish | n | The Monk fish or Angel fish. |
Fiddle-head | n | A head empty as a fiddle, a fool, dolt, stult. 2. a scroll-like carving at a ship's bow. 3. |
Fiddler | n | One who plays the fiddle, esp. who does for hire and reward. 2. fiddle-player. 3. a swindler or cheat. 4. a small crab. |
Fiddler | phr | "Up and Down Like a Fiddler's Elbow" - move repeatedly (often ineffectively) |
Fiddler crab | n | A small burrowing crab, the male of which flourishes its enlarged claw as if fiddling; found on the Atlantic coast of the United States. |
Fiddler's bidding | n | A last minute invitation. |
Fiddler's Green | n | A sailor's Elysium, in which wine, women and song figure prominently. 2. swindler, cheat. 3. trifler. 4. sixpence. 5. meddlesome or interfering person. |
Fiddlestick | n | A bowfor a fiddle. 2. foolishness, stupidity, |
Fiddlesticks | phr | "The Devil Rides on Fiddlesticks" - here's a fine commotion. |
Fiddlesticks | phr | "Not to Come on Fiddlesticks" - to come not at all. |
Fiddle-wood | n | Citharexylon. |
Fiddliness | n | In a ineffective or awkward action or state. |
Fiddling | n | Playing the fiddle. 2. fuss, trifle, petty adjustment and alteration. 3. cheating, swindling. |
Fiddling | adj | That plays the fiddle. 2. of persons: busy about trifles; addicted to trifles and petty activity. 3. of things: petty, trifling, unimportant, trivial, contemptible, futile. |
Fiddly | adj | Intricate, petty. 2. contemptible; futile. |
Field | n | Land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country. 2. wide, open space used to grow crops or to hold farm animals 3. place where a battle is fought. 4. physics: region affected by a particular force. 5. course of study or domain of knowledge or practice
in mathematics. 6. sports: area reserved for playing a game. 7. geology: region containing a particular mineral. 8. heraldry: background of the shield. 9. computing: area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value. 10. in surgery: that area of a patient's body that is actually being operated on. 11. the 'real world' of want, poverty, violence, deprivation, social inequality, greed and similar variable which define everyday life for the majority and onto which a government or bureaucracy attempts to impose its solutions or plans. |
Field | vb | Intercept or catch. 2. to be the team catching and throwing the ball. 3. place a team. 4. to answer; to address. |
Field | adj | Describing a study is carried out in a real environment rather than done theoretically; (a field worker) |
Field | phr | "A Fair Field" - a fair chance for action. |
Field | phr | "Back the Field" - take advantage of every available opportunity distribute. |
Field | phr | "Be Ahead of the Field" - be better than one's competitors. |
Field | phr | "Be In the Field" - compete for a prize. |
Field | phr | "Faraway Fields Look Greener" - activities of which one has no experience seem much easier than is really the case. |
Field | phr | "Field of Blood" - Aramaic for the 'field of blood is Aceldama; figuratively used for any place of great slaughter. |
Field | phr | "Field of Fire" - the part of the terrain before infantry or machine-guns which their weapons can cover, uninterrupted by contours, woods or other obstruction. |
Field | phr | "Have a Field Day" - derive great pleasure, enjoyment and excitement from doing something. |
Field | phr | "Hold the Field" - to hold ground, not to be displaced or superseded. |
Field | phr | "In the Field" - in an area in which operations are in progress. 2. actively or closely involved in the working on something. |
Field | phr | "Keep in the Field" - to hold one's own against competitors. |
Field | phr | "Lead the Field" - someone who is superior, better or more successful than everyone else in a particular activity. |
Field | phr | "Leave Another the Field" -to give up the argument or contest. |
Field | phr | "Leave the Field Open" - to abstain from interfering. |
Field | phr | "Play the Field" - take advantage of every available opportunity to distribute one's attention among several people or things. |
Field | phr | "Take the Field" - enter a competition or contest. 2. to commence military operations. |
Field | phr | "Win the Field" - to win the battle. |
Field-bed | n | A portable, folding, camping bed. |
Field-book | n | A book in which a land-surveyor notes down the measurements taken in the field. 2. a botanist or naturalist book for preserving collected specimens while in the field. |
Fieldcraft | n | The technology involved in living, traveling or making military or scientific observations in the field, esp. while remaining undetected. |
Field-day | n | A military parade day. 2. a school day for athletic events, a sports day. 3. a day of class taken away from school for a field trip. 4. a great time or a great deal to do at somebody else expense. |
Field-devil | n | Satyr: used by Coverdale in his Bible, on the German calque: feldteuful. |
Field-dew | n | Dew gathering on a field, including sports field. |
Field-dweller | n | A person or animal who lives in a field. 2. the bird Turdus pularis, also known as 'the fieldfare.' |
Fielded | adj | Engaged in a field of battle. 2. fighting in the open field, as opposed to protected by a fort. |
Fielden | adj | Level and open. 2. consisting of fields. 3. pertaining to or characteristic of a field. |
Fieldfare | n | A thrush with grey plumage with speckled breast. |
Field-faring | n | The toiling of workers in the field. |
Field-fight | n | A fight or battle in the open, a pitched. |
Field-free | adj | An area free of fields. |
Fieldful | adj | As much as a field could grow. |
Field-glasses | n | Binoculars for out door use. |
Field-hand | n | An outdopor farm labourer. |
Field-ice | n | Flat masses of ice floating in the sea, as distinct from icebergs. |
Fielding | n | The action of taking the field for fighting. |
Fieldish | adj | Level and open. 2. inhabiting the field. 3. resembling a field or open spaces. |
Field-kirk | n | Late OE: a chapel or church in a field. |
Field-land | n | Level and unenclosed land suitable for cultivation. |
Fieldless | adj | Without open space; enclosed. |
Field-meeter | n | One who attends or frequents field meetings. |
Field-meeting | n | A hostile meeting or encounter in the open air; a duel. 2. a religious meeting held in a field or in the open. |
Fieldmouse | n | A small mice or vole living in the field; a wood mouse. |
Field-roomth | n | Open or unobstructed space, vast open spaces. |
Fieldsman | n | One who lives or works in the fields. |
Field-stone(s) | n | Stone or stones found in the field, used esp. for building purposes. |
Field-strength | n | Intensity oof electromagnetic waves. |
Fieldwards | adv | Towards the field(s) or in the direction of the fields. |
Fieldware | n | Products of the field; crops, harvest. |
Field-whore | n | Common prostitute. |
Field-word | n | Battle cry; watchword, buzzword. |
Fieldwork | n | Work done or observations made out in the real world rather than in control conditions. 2. a temporary fortification built by troops. |
Field-worker | n | A person who does fieldwork. |
Fieldy | adj | level and open, exposed. 2. that grows in or inhabits the field. 3. forming a field or fields. |
Fiend | n | An enemy, foe. 2. the arch-enemy of mankind: the devil, satan, old sooty. 3. an evil spirit, generally; a demon, devil, a diabolical being. 4. a person of superhuman wickedness (now only in reference to cruelty and malignity). 5. a grisly monster(eg. a dragon). 6. also baleful influence on agencies personified. |
Fiend | phr | "The Fiend of Hell" - the Devil, Satan, |
Fiendful | adj | Proceeding from a fiendish agency. |
Fiendfully | adv | Full of fiendish spirit or |
Fiendish | adj | Extremely bad, cruel or unpleasant. 2. extremely complicated, diabolical or evilly complex. 3. abstruse, baleful, complicated evil. |
Fiendishly | adv | Of, relating to, or suggestive of a fiend; diabolical. 3. extremely bad, disagreeable, or difficult. |
Fiendishness | n | Disposition to wilfully inflict pain and suffering on others. |
Fiendlike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a fiend. |
Fiendliness | n | The state of being extremely unfriendly, hostile, angrily, diabolical, bad. |
Fiendly | adv | Hostile, unfriendly, in a friendly manner. 2. resembling or befitting a fiend, fiendlike, devilish, diabolical. 3. like an enemy, angrily. |
Fiend-rese | n | Fierce, hostile onset. |
Fiend-scathe | n | A monster. |
Fiendship | n | The personification of a fiend. |
Fiend-slaught | n | The slaughter of foes and enemies. |
Fiend-thews | n | Evil-conduct, behavior. |
Fierily | adv | With passionate fervor. |
Fieriness | n | The state or quality of being fiery. |
Fiery | adj | Ardent; fierce; vehement, irritable. 2. |
Fiery-footed | adj | Fleet of feet; hot-footed. |
Fiery-hot | adj | Reckless. |
Fiery-short | adj | Brief but impassioned. |
Fifteen | n | The cardinal number occurring after fourteen(14)and before sixteen (16). |
Fifth | n | The ordinal form of the number five. |
Fifth | phr | "Be a Fifth Wheel" - to be superfluous. |
Fifth | phr | "Take the Fifth" - in the US exercise the right guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution of refusing to answer questions in order to avoid incriminating oneself. |
Fifth-pathway | n | Means for an individual who has obtained all or most of his/her training outside a country US. etc) to ener post graduate training in the US by fulfilling certain set criteria. |
Fifthly | adv | In the fifth, fifth in a row. |
Fifty | n | The cardinal number immediately following forty (49) and preceding fifty-one (51) |
Fifty | phr | "Go Fifty-fifty" - share and share alike. |
Fifth-fifty | no | The cardinal number immediately following fifty-four (54) and preceding fifty-six (56). |
Fifth-wheel | n | An extra wheel of a coach. 2. a superfluous person or thing. |
Fifty | n | The product of five and ten. |
Fifty | adj | That amounts to fifty. |
Fig | n | A fruit-bearing tree or shrub of the genus Ficus that is native mainly to the tropics. 2. the fruit of the fig tree, pear-shaped and containing many small seeds. 3. small piece of tobacco. 4. the value of a fig, practically nothing; a fico; a whit. |
Fig | vb | To insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion. 2. (obsolete) o put into the head of, as something useless or contemptible. |
Fig | phr | "Would Not Give a Fig For" - regard something as worthless. |
Fight | n | A combat, esp. unpremeditated, between two or more persons, animals, or parties. 2. a conflict or struggle, a vigorous effort in the face of difficulty.. 3. the power or inclination to fight. 4. a battle. 5. a boxing match. |
Fight | vb | To contend in physical conflict. 2. to strive for to conduct or engage 3. to engage in combat. 4. to counteract |
Fight | phr | "Be Fighting Fit" - be in exceptionally good physical condition . 2. fit for energetic action and/or endurance of hardship. 3. in good general health. |
Fight | phr | "Fight Back" - counter attack. 2. suppress one's feelings. |
Fight | phr | "Fight (One's Way) Back" - return, by struggling hard (to a position previously held) |
Fight | phr | "Fight Down" - suppress, control, hold in check. |
Fight | phr | "Fight Fire with Fire" - to encounter a danger situation by making an equally dangerous move. |
Fight | phr | "Fight For" - fight on behalf of. |
Fight | phr | "Fight for One's Own Hand" - to uphold one's own cause; to struggle for one's own interest. |
Fight | phr | "Fight Off" - repel, drive back, not allow to approach. |
Fight | phr | "Fight It Out" - continue (not necessary physical) a contest until there's a winner. 2. fight until a conclusion is reached. |
Fight | phr | "Fight Like Cat and Dog" - quarrel repeatedly and vigorously. |
Fight | phr | "Fight Shy Of" - avoid, be reluctant to. |
Fight | phr | "Fight the Good Fight" - act with strong commitment to something. 2. put up a good fight. |
Fight | phr | "Fight to a Standstill" - take part in a combat until one is totally exhausted. |
Fight | phr | "Fight Tooth and Nail" - to strive very hard to win. |
Fight | phr | "Fight to the Death" - fight till one can not fight anymore. |
Fight | phr | "Fight with the Gloves Off" - to dispute mercilessly without any regard to the courtesies of debate. |
Fight | phr | "Fight with the Gloves On" - figuratively, to spar or dispute without open animosity, to observe the courtesies and to show some consideration for one's opponent. |
Fight | phr | "Free Fight" - a confused struggle with no clearly defined; a brawl. |
Fight | phr | "Have A Fight On One's Hand" - to encounter resistance or opposition to one's proposal. |
Fight | phr | "He Who fights and Runs Away, May Live to Fight Another Day" - sometimes flight is more advantageos to fight a losing battle. |
Fight | phr | "Knock the Fight Out of" - reduce somebody's aggressiveness or will to survive. |
Fight | phr | "Look for A Fight" - actively seek an argument or challenge. |
Fight | phr | "Make A Fight of It" - offer resistance. |
Fight | phr | "Put Up a Good Fight" - react well to a challenge. |
Fight | phr | "Put Up a Fight" - offer resistance. |
Fight | phr | "Running Fight" - contest that continues for a long time. |
Fight | phr | "Show Fight" - react aggressively to a challenge. |
Fight-back | n | An act of retaliation; a rally or recovery. |
Fight-down | vb. | Overcome in battle, settle dispute, drive off, fight back. |
Fighter | n | A person or animal that fights. 2. a fast military aircraft designed for attacking other aircrafts. |
Fighting | n | A fight or battle; an occasion on which people fight. |
Fighting | adj | Engaged in war or other conflict. 2. apt to provide a fight. |
Fighting | phr | "Hand-to-Hand Fighting" - combat not involving weapons. |
Fighting-field | n. | Battlefield; fighting-stead. |
Fighting-fish | n | A freshwater fish; 'Bettens splendeds' a native to Thailand, the males which fit vigorously. |
Fighting-fit | adj | Fit to fight or take part in a fight; fit for battle |
Fightingly | adv | Pugnaciously. |
Fighting-stead | n | Battlefield, fighting-field. |
Fighting-top | n | The gun-turret near top of a warship's mast. |
Fighting-wise | n | The arming of a military force or army; battle array or preparation. |
Fighting-words | n | Defiant statement or challenge; a declaration which will involve one in having to defend, or substantiate,it. |
Fightless | adj | Without a fight or fighting. |
Fight-lock | n | Fighting, battle, conflict. |
Fight-or-Flight | n | Fight or flight All the coordinated physiological responses that the sympathetic nervous system initiates in response to stress or other emergency situations. |
Fight-out | vb. | To fight it out, settle dispute. |
Fight-racked | adj. | Overthrown in battle. |
Fight-shy | adj. | Lacking confidence in battle. |
Fight-wite | n. | Fine for taking part in a fight |
Fighty | adj. | Warlike, pugnacious, aggressive. |
Fig-leaf | n | A covering consisting of anything intended to conceal something regarded as shameful. 2. fig leaf a leaf from a fig tree. 3. the leaf tree; hence, in allusion to the first clothing of Adam and Eve, a covering for a thing that ought to be concealed; esp., an inadequate covering; a symbol for affected modesty. |
Figless | adj | Without figs. |
Fig-tree | n | A tree of the genus Ficus, esp. Ficus carica. |
Figwort | n | Any plant of the genus 'Scrophularia' with dull purplish-brown flowers, once believed to be useful against scrofula. |
Fike | n. | Fig |
Fike | n. | Flirtation, dalliance. |
Fike | vb | To vex, trouble. 2. flatter, fawn, act or speak with deceit. 3. to deceive, flatter, fawn or act or speak deceitfully. |
Fike | adj | Restless, fidgetty, movey. |
Fikey | adj | Vexatious, troublesome |
Fiking | n | The moving about in a quick way; being constantly in motion. 2. the vexing, perplexing, and giving of trouble. 2. trifling annoyance caused by restlessness and agitation. |
Fikiness | n | The state or condition of moving about in a quick way; and being constantly in motion. 2. the quality of vexing, perplexing, and giving of trouble. |
File | n | A hard steel abrading or smoothing instrument with ridged cutting surfaces. 2. fig. anything used to abrade, smooth or polish. 3. slang: a shrewd or artful person. |
File | vb | To cut, smooth, or sharpen with a file. to remove with a file, as 'file away'. |
Filing | n | The act or process of using a file. 2. a particle removed by a file. |
Fill | n | Occupy fully, take up all of. 2. add contents to, so it is full. 3. enter, making it full. 4. become full of contents. 5. become pervaded with something. 6. satisfy, obey. 7. install someone or be installed in. 8. treat (a tooth) |
Fill | vb | A sufficient or more than sufficient amount (food, money, etc.) 2. an amount that fills a container. 3. the filling of a container or area. 4. inexpensive material used to occupy empty spaces, especially in construction. 5. the ruins of earlier buildings were used as fill for more recent construction. 6. (archaeology) soil and/or human-created debris discovered within a cavity and exposed by excavation; fill soil. 7. an embankment, as in railroad construction, to fill a hollow or ravine; also, the place which is to be filled |
Fill | phr | "Drink One's Fill" - drink as much as one wants. |
Fill | phr | "Fill In" - a person or thing included to fill a gap or omission. 2. to insert something into a blank space. 3. to fill up, as of an excavation. 4. colloq. a summary of facts, often providing missing information, given to compete one's understanding of a situation. 5. enter in writing; write in. |
Fill | phr | "Fill in for" - deputize for. |
Fill | phr | "Fill in Time" - spend the interval between two stages in one's career contemporary job. |
Fill | phr | "Fill One's Hand" - to draw a firearm into one's hand, as in a preparation for a gun fight. 2. (in a biblical sense)to be consecrated or initiated as a person. |
Fill | phr | "Fill Out" - complete something in writing, by supplying the information required. 2. gain weight, to become fuller or rounder. 3. make fuller, more substantial by adding material. |
Fill | phr | "Fill Someone's Shoes" - to be good successor. 2. adequately take the place, or take over the role, function(s), of somebody. |
Fill | phr | "Fill Up" - to make something completely full; to be full. 2. to annoy, displease, by taunting, or by excessive nagging. |
Filler | n | Filler is a substance used for filling cracks or holes, especially in walls, car bodies, or wood. 2. something being used or done because there is a need for something and nothing better is available. 3. something is, for example, a stadium filler or a floor filler, where it is likely to attract crowds to a stadium or onto a dance floor. |
Fill-in | n | "Fill In" - a person or thing included to fill a gap or omission. 2. colloq. a summary of facts given to compete one's understanding of a situation. |
Filling | n | The act of making or becoming full. 2. something used to fill a cavity or vacant space: tooth filling. 3. in weaving, the weft or woof, which crosses the warp. |
Fillingness | n | The state or quality of becoming full. |
Fills | n | Extra material inserted in a story or in a page of news. 2. extra material inserted in a story or in a page of news. |
Fill-up | n | Things that fill something up. 2. an act of filling up a tank of motor vehicle with petrol at a at a bowser. |
Film | n | A membrane, animal or vegetable, as the tongue. 2. a coating or layer. 3. a movie. 4. haze, slight vale. |
Film-broke | adj | Ruptured |
Film-can | n | A light-tight container used to enclose film stock. |
Filmdom | n | The film (movie) industry, the person works in that industry. 2. film-land; film world . |
Filmer | n | One who films; that is, one who copies media to microfilm. |
Film-free | adj | Free from a filmy covering; not obscured, clear. |
Film gate | n | The rectangular opening in the front of a motion picture camera ehere the film is exposed to light. |
Film-goer | n | One who attends the cinema on a regular basis. |
Film-going | n | The act or habit of attending cinemas on a regular basis. |
Filmily | adv | In a filmy manner. |
Filminess | n | The State or quality of being filmy or obscure. |
Filmland | n | The industry of films and film-making. 2. the fictitious world where films are set. |
Film-less | adj | Without film. |
Film-like | adj | Resembling a film. |
Film-maker | n | A producer or director of movies. |
Film shot | n | In film making and video production, a shot is a series of frames, that runs fior an uninterupted period of time. |
Film world | n | The motion picture and Television industry; filmdom. |
Film-worthy | adj | Deserving of being filmed. |
Filmy | adj | Of a membranous structure: like a film : cloudy, obscure; thin. |
Filst | n | Assistance, support, furtherance, aid, help |
Filst | vb | To assist, support, aid, help. 2. to give one's aid to |
Filth | n | An offensive or indecent word or phrase. 2. a state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse. 3. the state of being covered with unclean things. 4. any substance considered disgustingly foul or unpleasant |
Filth | vb | To make foul, defile. |
Filth-hood | n | Uncleanliness, filthiness, squalor (lit & fig.) |
Filth-hood | phr | "To Do One's Filthhood" - to void excrement. |
Filthily | adv | In a filthy manner or way. |
Filthless | adj | Without filth, undefiled |
Filthness | n | The state or condition of being filthy. 2. in a physical sense: foulness, uncleanliness. 3. pus, filthy matter. 4. moral corruption or pollution; obscenity, vileness, wickedness. |
Filth-sodden | adj | Filthy and sodden |
Filthy | adj | Covered with filth; very dirty. 2. obscene or offensive. 3. very unpleasant or disagreeable. |
Filthy-minded | adj | Lecherous, lewd, salacious, prurient. |
Fin | n | Any of the firm appendages that are the organs of locomotion and balance in fishes and some other aquatic animals. Most fishes have paired and unpaired fins, the former corresponding to the limbs of higher vertebrates. 2. a part or appendage that resembles a fin 3. a. British a vertical surface to which the rudder is attached, usually placed at the rear of an aeroplane to give stability about the vertical axis. US name: vertical stabilizer; a tail surface fixed to a rocket or missile to give stability 4. nautical a fixed or adjustable blade projecting under water from the hull of a vessel to give it stability or control. 5. a projecting rib to dissipate heat from the surface of an engine cylinder, motor casing, or radiator |
Finch | n | Any of numerous small songbirds with short stout bills adapted for crushing seeds |
Find | n | The act of finding. 2. something that is found, especially an unexpectedly valuable discovery. |
Find | vb | To come upon, often by accident; meet with. 2. to come upon or discover by searching or making an effort. 3. to discover or ascertain through observation, experience, or study: found a solution; find the product of two numbers; found that it didn't really matter. 4. to perceive to be, after experience or consideration. 5. to recover (something lost). 6. to recover the use of; regain. 7. to succeed in reaching; arrive at. 8. to obtain or acquire by effort. 9. to decide on and make a declaration about. 10. to furnish; supply. 11. to bring (oneself) to an awareness of what one truly wishes to be and do in life.12. to perceive (oneself) to be in a specific place or condition. 13. to come to a legal decision or verdict. |
Find | phr | "Find Against" - find guilty in court of law; decide against. |
Find | phr | "Find a Better Hole" - find a better job, home, situation, etc. which is an improvement on the one you hahave now, or one you held before. |
Find | phr | "Find An Answer" - be able to solve or find a solution to some question, dilemma, or mystery etc. |
Find | phr | "Find Guilty" - convict. |
Find | phr | "Finding is Keeping" - if you find something, then it is rightfully your property |
Find | phr | "Find it in One's Heart" - to be inclined, able or desirous to be kind or understanding of others. |
Find | phr | "Find One's Bearings" - locate, orientate oneself. 2. get to know where one is, what to do, in a new location, social situation, job, etc. |
Find | phr | "Find One's Feet" - gain experience, develop one's skills, and knowledge of what is best to do in new surrounding, a new job. |
Find | phr | "Find Oneself" - be in a particular place. 2. be in a positive or optimistic frame of mind after a prolonged bout of self doubt. |
Find | phr | "Find One's Tongue" - begin talking (after beings shy). |
Find | phr | "Find One's Wanting" - judge that one does not meet a required, or expected, standard. |
Find | phr | "Find One's Way - reach a destination, objective, by search, inquiry, or experiment. 2. (facetious): arrive, be found, somewhere by fortuitous or unexplained means. |
Find | phr | "Find Out" - make a conscious effort to discover something. 2. to ascertain, learn(something), as through learning, study examination or inquiry. 3. to detect the true nature or character of; expose a mistake a wrongdoing. 4. to detect and apprehend; catch. |
Find | phr | "Find Out the Hard way" - learn something without help. |
Find | phr | "Find Something Heavy Going" - have difficulty doing something. |
Find | phr | "Find Something Wanting" - feel that something has not met the required standard of behaviour, efficiency, suitability. |
Find | phr | One Sins will find Out" - (facetious): ne's wrongdoings will ultimately be discovered. |
Find | phr | "Take Us As You Find Us" - accept us as we are if you arrive. |
Findal | n | OE: fyndele - that which is found; an invention. 2. a treasure trove. |
Finder | n | One who or that which finds. 2. a small telescope by the side of a large telescope, used to locate a particular object for astronomical observation. |
Finder | phr | "Finder's Keepers, Losers Weepers" - whoever finds something is entitled to it. |
Finder-out | n | One who detects and discovers information, persons or things in various situations. |
Finding | n | Final issue, latter part, closing, end of life, close, death, 2. a conclusion reached by an inquiry; outcome, result. 3. boundary, extremity. |
Finding | phr | "Finding is Keeping" -see 'find' |
Findings | n | Outcome, result |
Findy | adj | OE: fynd: strength, substance: firm, solid, weighty; 2. (of a harvest): plentiful. |
Findy | n | Final issue, latter part, closing, end of life, close, death, 2. boundary, extremity. 3. outcome, result. |
Finew | adj | Mouldy, musty. Also finewing, finewed, finewness |
Finger | n | The extremity of the hand. 2. a piece of food. 3. anything that does work of a finger. 4. finger pier. 5. small amount of beverage in a glass 6. the breadth of a finger. 7. skill in the use of the fingers, as in playing upon a musical instrument |
Finger | vb | To identify or point out. 2. to poke. 3. to penetrate and sexually stimulate with one's finger. 4. to use specified finger positions to produce notes on a musical instrument. 5. to provide instructions about the use of fingers in music. |
Finger | phr | "All Fingers and Thumbs" - clumsy, awkward in doing things with their hands. |
Finger | phr | "Bite One's Fingernails" to anxiously wait a decision. |
Finger | phr | "Blessing with the Fingers" - blessing with the three fingers is symbolic of the Christian Trinity |
Finger | phr | "Burn One's Fingers" - suffer as result of poor judgement. |
Finger | phr | "Finger and Glove with Another" - to be in close collusion with; be in the closest co-operation. |
Finger | phr | "Finger Out" - to read carefully or with effort, passing the finger along the line of words. 2. to point out with the finger. |
Finger | phr | "Fingers Were Made before Forks" - a saying used especially at mealtimes to imply that ceremony is unnecessary. |
Finger | phr | "Get Upon the Finger's End" - to incur a sharp reprimand. |
Finger | phr | "Gnaw One's Fingers to the Bone" - to fret. |
Finger | phr | "Hang On By One's Fingernails" - make a desperate effort to retain something. 2. have a slender hold on something. |
Finger | phr | "Have a Finger In" - have an interest, be concerned or be involved in something. |
Finger | phr | "Have at One Finger's End" - ready at hand. |
Finger | phr | "Have Green Fingers" - be skillful at gardening. |
Finger | phr | "Have Itchy Fingers" - be very eager, impatient. |
Finger | phr | "Have Light/Sticky Fingers"- an inclination to pilfer or steal; be dishonest. |
Finger | phr | "Have More (of something) in One's Little Finger than Somebody Else Has in their Whole Body" - be much better than somebody else. |
Finger | phr | "Lay A Finger on Somebody" - harm somebody physically. |
Finger | phr | "My Little Finger Told Me That" - I know it, although you did not expect it. 2. a little bird told me that. |
Finger | phr | "Not Lay A Finger on Somebody" - refrain from hurting someone. |
Finger | phr | "One One's Finger's End" - to be thoroughly familiar with a subject or branch of knowledge. |
Finger | phr | "Put One's Finger on" - identify the essential features of something. 2. point out precisely the meaning. 3. detect with complete accuracy. |
Finger | phr | "Pull One's Finger Out" - stir from complacency, inactivity and do something with alacrity. |
Finger | phr | "Put the Finger on" - inform on somebody to the police. |
Finger | phr | "To One's Finger's End" - completely, entirely, totally. |
Finger | phr | "Wave a Finger at someone" - to indicate mild pleasure at another person's actions. |
Finger | phr | "With a Wet Finger on" - easily, directly. the allusion is to spinning, in which th spinner constantly wetted the forefinger with the mouth; and sailors who find the wind by holding up a wet finger for the breeze to cool it, thus finding that side whence it comes. |
Finger | phr | "Work One's Fingers to the Bone" - work very hard. |
Finger beam | n | A set of fingers on a bar which forms part of a mechanism on mowing and reaping machines. |
Finger berry | n | The fruit of a common North American bramble, Rubus allegheniensis. |
Fingerboard | n | A flat strip on the neck of a stringed instrument against which the strings are pressed to create different tones. |
Finger-breadth | n | The width of a finger used as a measure. |
Finger chip | n | A deep fried piece of rectangular potato; a chip. |
Finger-cold | adj | Cold enough to numb the fingers (end of fingers, extremities) |
Fingercomb | n | To comb hair (yours or that of another) with one's fingers. |
Fingercombed | adj | Of hair, combed with the fingers. |
Fingered | adj | Having or provided with fingers. 2. of a leaf or plant: digital, shaped like a finger. |
Fingerer | n | One who "fingers" other people's property; a pilferer, thief, pickpocket. |
Finger-end | n | The end or tip of the finger. |
Finger-fed | adj | Delicately brought up or reared; pampered, cosset. |
Finger food | n | Food that can be eaten with the finger (for convenience); as opposed to requiring utensils; often appetizers and snacks. |
Fingerful | adj | As much as can be held by a finger or between two fingers; hence, a small quantity. |
Finger-hole | n | A hole in the side of a musical instrument such as a flute which, when closed by the finger, modifies the pitch. |
Fingering | n | Work done with the fingers. 2. action of using the fingers when playing an instrument. 3. petty manipulation. |
Fingerish | adj | Of or pertaining to the fingers. |
Fingerless | adj | Without fingers. |
Finger-lessness | n | An absence of fingers of fingers. |
Finger-licking | adj | Delicious, tasty, so much so that one licks their fingers to make sure none is lost or wasted. |
Finger-licking | phr | "Finger-lickin(g)' Good" - extremely tasty. |
Finger-like | n | Resembling a finger, especially in shape. |
Fingerling | n | A finger stall. 2. a very small person. |
Fingerly | adj | Of or pertaining to the fingers. |
Finger mark | n | A mark left on a surface by a finger. |
Finger nail | n | The hard, flat translucent covering near the top of a finger, usually for scratching and fine manipulation. |
Fingernail | phr | "Hang On By One's Fingernails" - make a desperate effort to retain something. 2. have a slender hold on. |
Finger out | vb | To read carefully or with effort, passing the finger along the line of words. 2. to point out with the finger. |
Finger play | n | A rhyme for young children consisting of a set of hand movements coordinated with a song or chant. |
Finger-post | n | Post set up at parting roads, with one or more arms, often terminating in the shape of a finger, to indicate the directions of the several roads or towns, cities, etc. 2. a guide post, sign post. |
Finger-post | vb | To indicate by means of a finger post. |
Finger-ring | n | A ring (often ornamental and sometimes precious)designed to be worn on the finger. |
Finger-shade | n | The action of concealing the mouth with the finger. |
Finger-shield | n | A silver appliance made to fit the first finger on the left hand. |
Finger-smith | n | A midwife. 2. a gynecologist. |
Finger-spelling | n | The practice of representing the letters of the alphabet using just the hands to spell out words. 2. any system for representing the letters of the alphabet using just the hands. 3. a representation of the spelling of a word just using the hands. |
Fingerspelt | adj | etters of Words individually spelt by signing with the fingers. |
Finger-stall | n | A protective cover for the fingers to protect them from injury. 2. A thimble-shaped device constructed of leather, plastic or other material, used to protect one or more fingers exposed to sharp objects. |
Finger stick | n | The pricking of a finger to obtain a small sample of blood. |
Finger-stone | n | A stone sufficiently small to be held by the hand. 2. belemnite. |
Finger-talk | n | Deaf language: sign language for the deaf. |
Finger-tight | adj | As tightly screwed as can be made by the strength of one's fingers, without the use of any tools, tat is, without any special equipment. |
Fingerweaving | n | A Native American art form used mostly to create sashes, straps and other similar items through a non-loom weaving process. Unlike loom-based weaving there is no separation between weft and warp strands, with all strands playing both roles. |
Fingerwise | adv | The manner of fingers from a hand, spreading out in several narrow parts. |
Finger work | n | The movement or play of the fingers in executing something, esp. in playing a musical instrument. |
Fingery | adj | Resembling finger in shape. |
Finless | adj | Without or lacking a fin. |
Finned | adj | Having or provided with fins. |
Fin-toed | adj | Web-footed. |
Finny | adj | Having fins. |
Fin whale | n | A large porqual, 'Balaenoptera physalus' with a prominent dorsal fin. |
Fir | n | An evergreen tree of the pine family genus (Abies), cone-bearing and resinous, especially the balsam fir. |
Fire | vb | Bake in a kiln so as to harden. 2. destroy by fire. 3. cause to go off. 4. go off or discharge. 4. start firing a weapon. 5. call forth emotions, feelings, and responses) 6. drive out or away by or as if by fire. 7. provide with fuel. 8. terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position. |
Fire | n | The act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy. 2. a fireplace in which a relatively small fire is burning. 3. intense adverse criticism. 4. the event of something burning (often destructive) 5. a severe trial. 6. feelings of great warmth and intensity. 7. the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke. 8. fuel that is burning and is used as a means for cooking |
Fire | phr | "A Burnt Child Dreads the Fire" - anyone who has a bad experience will be scared and stay away from things connected to the experience. |
Fire | phr | "A Soft Fire Makes Sweet Malt" - a request or recommendation of gentleness or deliberation is more likely succeed in getting a positive outcome. |
Fire | phr | "Be (or Come) Under Fire" - to be in the range of enemy fire. 2. to be in close or imminent danger. |
Fire | phr | "Between Two Fires" - being or subject to attack and critcism from both two sides or directions. |
Fire | phr | "Breathe Fire and Brimstone" - symbolic of punishment and destruction , esp. as inflicted by God's wrath and associated with the Old Testament , and concepts of God, Hell, and the Devil. |
Fire | phr | "Don't Play With Fire" - to do something that can cause great trouble later. |
Fire | phr | "Draw Somebody's Fire" - tactically allow oneself to be attacked |
Fire | phr | "Fat is In the Fire" - the action has caused trouble. |
Fire | phr | "Feed the Fire" - to exacerbate a situation |
Fight | phr | "Fight Fire with Fire" - to encounter a danger situation by making an equally dangerous move. |
Fire | phr | "Fire At Will" - the command given to riflemen or to gun crews to fire independently of each other and of their commanding officer, |
Fire | phr | "Fire Away" - used to give someone permission to begin to begin speaking, typically to ask questioning. |
Fire | phr | "Fire Off" - expend, use up, especially by shooting. |
Fire | phr | "Fire of Heaven" - lightning, lightning flash, thunderbolt, see Heaven's Fire. |
Fire | phr | "Fire the Opening Shot" - make the first move in a contest, quarrel, fight or confrontation. |
Fire | phr | "Fire Up" - to start a fire, as in a furnace. 2. to become enraged. 3. to inflame with enthusiasm, anger, or another strong emotion. |
Fire | phr | "Go Through Fire and Water" - often one must take risk in going through or tackle the greatest dangers or hardest situations to survive and succeed. 2. a brand from out of the fire (fig) |
Fire | phr | "Hang Fire" - be delayed; fail to explode. |
Fire | phr | "Have Fire in One's Belly - to be enthusiastic, ambitious, driving force (towards success), initiative. |
Fire | phr | "Heap Coal of Fire on One's Head" - to melt down one's animosity by acts of kindness. 2. to repay acts of badness with goodness. |
Fire | phr | "In the Line of Fire" - at risk because one is between two opposing forces. |
Fire | phr | "Keep One's Fire Burning" - to stay at home. |
Fire | phr | "Keep the Home Fires Burning" - fig. to keep things going at one's home or other central locations. 2. the name of a World War 1 song supporting the military in war zones. |
Fire | phr | "Like a House on Fire" - very quickly; well. |
Fire | phr | "Line of Fire" - the direction of axis of a firearm. |
Fire | phr | "Men Stand with their Backs to the Fire" - |
Fire | phr | "More Fire in the Bedstraw" - more mischief brewing. (from a time when straw was used as a bed). |
Fire | phr | "On Fire" - burning, ablaze; hence, ardent, zealous. |
Fire | phr | "Open Fire" - to start firing one's weapons at the enemy or foe. 2. (fig.)- to attack another verbally. |
Fire | phr | "Play with Fire" - invite danger through foolish, extreme and unnecessary risky conduct. |
Fire | phr | "Pull Something Out of the Fire" - to salvage something in a seemingly hopeless situation. |
Fire | phr | "Running Fire" - rapid succession of shots. 2. fig. a running commentary or succession of rapi-firee questions etc. |
Fire | phr | "Spread Like Wildfire" - spread rapidly |
Fire | phr | "The Fat is in the Fire" - the matter have come to a crisis; trouble is about to begin. |
Fire | phr | "There's No Fire Without Smoke" - that is, everything has some advantages. |
Fire | phr | "There's No Smoke Without Fire" - a rumor, is usually based, however remotely, on fact. |
Fire | phr | "Under Fire" - exposed to gunshot or artillery; hence, under attack of any kind. 2. be criticized, held responsible. |
Fire ant | n | A destructive, mound-building red ant with a sting very painful to amn and animal. |
Fire arrow | n | One of the earliest forms of weaponized gunpowder, being used from the 9th century onward. Not to be confused with earlier incendiary arrow projectiles, the fire arrow was a gunpowder weapon which receives its name from the translated Chinese term huǒjiàn (火箭), which literally means fire arrow. |
Fire-back | n | The rear wall of a furnace or fireplace. |
Fire-bare | n | A beacon or a lighthouse. |
Fire bird | n | Any of various, small, brilliantly colored birds. |
Fire-blight | n | A serious bacterial disease of various pomaceous fruit caused by Erwina amylovora and attacking blossoms, leaves , twigs, and fruit. |
Fire board | n | A chimney board used to close a fire-place in summmer. |
Firebote | n | The repair or mending of a fire(place). 2. wood used for the repair of a fire-place. 3. fuel granted by the landlord to the tenant. 4. the right of a tenant to take fire-wood from the landlord estate. |
Firebrand | n | One ( a firebrand of Hell) who is doomed (or deserves) to die in the fires of Hell. 2. kindler of strife; one who or a thing which kindles strife or mischief. 3. an inflamer of passion. 4. a box with materials for producing fire (a tinder-box). 5. a kind of fire-work. 6. a brand mark. 7. the redstart (a bird). |
Fire-break | n | An obstacle or clearing to contain the spread of a grass or forest fire. |
Fire-breathing | adj | A fabled animal, such a dragon taht breathes fire or smoke from its nostrils. |
Fire-burning | n | The use of fire to make access easier through thick and prickly vegetation. 2. the use of fire to maintain a pattern of vegetation to encourage new growth and attract game for hunting. 3. the use of fire to encourage the development of useful food plants, for cooking, warmth, signalling and spiritual reasons. |
Fire-burning | adj | Using fire to make access easier through thick and prickly vegetation. 2. using of fire to maintain a pattern of vegetation to encourage new growth and attract game for hunting. 3. using of fire to encourage the development of useful food plants, for cooking, warmth, signalling and spiritual reasons. |
Fire-clay | n | Clay capable of withstanding high temperatures, often used to make firebricks. |
Fired | adj | Dismissed, sacked from a job. 2. of ceramics, pottery fired in a kiln, |
Fire-door | n | A fire resistant door to prevent the spread of fire. 2. a door giving access to the fire in a furnace or kiln. |
Fire-drake | n | A fiery dragon, a mythical creature belonging to Germanic superstition. 3. a fiery meteor. 4. a will-of-the-wisp. 5. a kind of fire-work. |
Fire-eater | n | Those ready to quarrel with anyone; those lookingfor trouble; eager fighters.(the allusion to a juggler who pretends to eat fire. 2. a violent southern partisan in the US civil War. |
Fire-eyed | adj | Fiery |
Fire-eyes | n | Having eyes glowing in fire |
Fire-fang | n | The state of being fire-fanged or overheated, |
Fire-fang | vb | To lay hold of with fire. 2. to singe, scorch. 3. to burn heretics (jocosely) |
Fire-fanged | adj | Caught or overtaken by fire. 2. scorched, burnt. 3. burnt as a heretic (jocose). |
Fire-fanging | n | The action of fire-fanging. |
Fire-fiend | n | Fire personified as an evil spirit of destruction. |
Fire-fight | n | A fight using firearms; a gun battle. |
Fire-fighter | n | A person whose task is to extinguish fires. |
Fire-fighting | n | The extinguishing of a fire. 2. the profession of being a fighter of fire. 3. (by extension) solving an urgent problem. |
Fire-flaught | n | Lightning; a flash of lightning. 2. a storm of thunder and lightning. 3. the northern lights: Aurora borealis. 4. a fiery glance. |
Fire-flaw | n | Lightning, a flash of lightning, a storm of thunder and lightning, fire-slaught, fulmination; also: fire-flaught. |
Fire-float | n | A floating fire-brigade ship. |
Fire-fly | n | Any soft-bodied beetle of the glow-worm family 'Lamppyridae' emitting phosphorescent light, usually in flashes. |
Fire-foam | n | A thick foam like substance, formed by the chemical union of aluminium sulphate and sodium bicarbonate with other materials, which smother a fire. |
Fire-hearth | n | A pavement of bricks or stones on which a fine is made. 2. the hearth in front of the fire place. 3. a kind of cooking store, esp for ships. |
Fire-hot | adj | Of material things: hot as fire, red hot. 2. inflamed with zeal, passion or lust. |
Firehouse | n | In the US : a fire station. |
Fire-hunt | n | Use of fire to drive out game from a forest, etc. |
Fire-iland | n | Volcano. |
Fire-iron | n | One of a set of metal tools kept beside the fireplace, used to keep the fire burning as required. the set usually consist of fire tongs, as a poker, a spade, and a brush for the ashes. |
Firelane | n | A lane in a parking lot that is reserved for fire trucks. |
Fireless | adj | Devoid of fire, without a fire. 2. unlit, not flaming. 2. of a tribe having no knowledge of fire or means of procuring fire. |
Fire-light | n | Lightning. |
Fire-lighter | n | A piece ofinflammable material to help start a fire in a grate. |
Fire-like | adj | Resembling a fire; fiery. |
Fire-lily | n | A gens of lily Gloriosa, natve to tropical and southern Asia to Africa. |
Firelock | n | An old form of the gun lock, as the flintlock, which ignites by priming by a spark. |
Firely | adv | Ardent, furious, ardently, with fierce eagerness. |
Fireman | n | A man who fights fires, usually a public employee or trained volunteer. Gender-neutral form: firefighter. 2. (on steam locomotives) the man who stokes the fire and controls the injectors feeding water to the boiler; (on diesel and electric locomotives) the driver's assistant. 3. a man who tends furnaces; stoker. 4. a mine official responsible for safety precautions. In US: fire boss5. 6. US navy a junior rating who works on marine engineering equipment6. informal any employee who is dispatched to deal with trouble at short notice |
Fire-manship | n | The skill of fire safer, fire prevention, etc. |
Firen | Adj | Consisting of or containing fire; flaming in fire. |
Fire-new | adj | Brand new; fresh from the fire. |
Fire of Heaven | n | Lightning, lightning flash, thunderbolt, see Heaven's Fire. |
Fire-pan | n | A pan or brazier for heating food liquors over fire. 2. a kind of fireworks. |
Fire-pit | n | A pit dug into the ground or constructed from stones, in which a fire, is made principally for cooking. |
Fire-pot | n | A crucible, furnace; in ancient warfare, a vessel containing combustible fluid. |
Firer | n | One who sets anything on fire. 2. incendiary devices, in general. |
Fire-red | adj | Red hot, fire-hot, red like fire; reddened by fire. |
Fire-room | n | The stokehold of a ship. |
Fire-sale | n | A sale of goods reduced because of slight damage in a fire. |
Fire-ship | n | A vessel loaded with combustibles and explosives and sent among enemy ships in order to destroy them. |
Fire-side | n | The side of a fire-place. 2. space about a fire, the hearth. 3. (transfig.) - a symbol of home and life or one's household . 4. those who sit around one fire or hearth. 5. informal talks by the leaders broadcast to the nations. |
Fire-sideship | n | The personality of one who sits by the fireside: homely, staunch, steadfast. |
Fire stick | n | One of two sticks which early people used to for producing fire by friction. 2. a piece of wood kindled at the fire. |
Fire-stink | n | The smell noticeable when the charred remains of fire are still smouldering or has just burnt out. |
Firestone | n | A flint, a stone capable of being used in striking fire. 2. a hearth stone. |
Firestorm | n | A very intensive and destructive fire, often caused by bombings, in which strong currents of air are drawn int the blaze from surrounding areas. |
Firestorm | n | "Run into a Firestorm" - be faced with many protests. |
Fire-swart | adj | Blackened by fire |
Fire-tongs | n | Tongs used for handling ignited combustibles. |
Fire-walker | n | One who walks over hot coal. |
Firewall | n | A fireproof barrier to prevent the spread of the spread of fire between or through building or other structures, aircrfts or vehicles. |
Firewalled | adj | Having or furnished with a firewall to prevent fire through spreading. 2. installing of a firewall to prevent a computer from being hacked. |
Firewalling | n | The act of installing a firewall to prebvent fire from spreading or from a computer system from bring hacked. |
Fireward | n | A fire chief; a fire-warden. 2. a fireman. |
Fireward | adj | Which faces a fire. 2. which lies in the direction of a fire,etc. |
Fireward | adv | Towards. |
Fire-warden | n | A fire chief; a fire-warden. 2. a fireman. |
Firewatch | n | In time of war or danger, the task of looking out for signs of fire caused by the dropping of incendiary devices etc. The act of watching for the occurrence of fires. This is usually done with the intent of detecting fires early so that they can be extinguished quickly and damage to land and/or property can be prevented or make minimal. Fire watches are often employed in forested areas where the risk of fires is high (dry conditions, hot weather, etc) or in industrial settings where hot work (welding, metal grinding, etc) is occurring. |
Fire-watcher | n | The name given to those volunteers in Britian who kept watch for fires started by enemy raids during Worls War 11. |
Fire-watching | n | The act of watching for the occurrence of fires. |
Fire-water | n | Any strong, cheap liquor. |
Fireweed | n | A perennial herbaceous plant (Epilobium angustifolium) in the family Ongraceae. |
Firewire | n | A high speed digital link standard. 2. a system of wires or tubes designed to detect fire and triggers an automatic fire extinguishers. |
Fire-wit | n | "Fyr-wit" - curiosity (witfire) |
Fire-wood | n | Wood, fuel used for burning. |
Firework | n | A device containing combustible chemicals that cause explosions or spectacular effects; fireworks display or an event where fireworks are set off. 2. a boisterous or violent situations or event. 3. an outburst of passion or anger. 4. a dispaly of wit or brilliance. |
Fire-worker | n | A person who works to help prevent destructive wild fires. |
Fire worm | n | A glow worm. |
Fire-worship | n | The worship or adoration of fire. |
Fire-worshipper | n | One who worships fire. 2. a follower of Zoraster. |
Firing | n | The action of setting something on fire or alight. 2. action of catching fire or becoming ignited. 3. ignition of fuel in a cylinder. |
Firing line | n | The front line in battle. 2. the leading part in an activityetc. |
Firk | n | Sharp or sudden blow or stroke, esp. with a whip. 2. flip, flick, cut or thrust with a sword. 2. a trick, dodge, subterfuge. 3. a freak, prank, caprice. |
Firk | vb | To bring, carry, conduct. 2. help forward in some way, urge, press, drive away, move briskly |
Firk | phr | "To Firk Up" - stir up, rouse up. 2. to move briskly, dance, jig. 3. to be lively, frisky. 4. to beat, whip, lash. |
Firk | phr | "To Firk to Death" - put to death. |
Firless | adj | Without fir trees. |
Fire-like | adj | Resembling fire; fiery. |
Fir-needle | n | The sharp-pointed leaf of a fir tree. |
Firry | adj | Abounding in firs. |
First | n | The ordinal number matching the number one in a series. 2. the one coming, occurring, or ranking before or above all others. 3. the beginning; the outset: from the first; at first. 4. music the voice or instrument highest in pitch or carrying the principal part. 5. the transmission gear or corresponding gear ratio used to produce the range of lowest drive speeds in a motor vehicle. 6. the winning position in a contest: finished the season in first. |
First | adj | Corresponding in order to the number one. 2. coming before all others in order or location: the first house on your left. 3. occurring or acting before all others in time; earliest: the first day of spring.4. ranking above all others, as in importance or quality; foremost: was first in the class. 5. (in music) being highest in pitch or carrying the principal part: first trumpet. 6. of, relating to, or being the transmission gear or corresponding gear ratio used to produce the range of lowest drive speeds in a motor vehicle. 7. of, related to, or being a member of the US president's household: first daughter; first lady. |
First | adv | Before or above all others in time, order, rank, or importance: arrived first. 2. for the first time. 3. rather; preferably: would die first.
4. in the first place; to begin with; firstly |
First | phr | "At First Hand" - directly from the source. 2. personally. |
First | phr | "At First Sight" - as seen initially. |
First | phr | "Draw First Blood" - to get an advantage. |
First | phr | "First and Foremost" - before any other consideration. 2. firstly and most importantly. 3. taking precedence as a consideration, procedure, function or role. |
First | phr | "First and Last" - altogether, completely when everything has been taken into account. 2. in all respects and circumstances. 3. all the time; in all, with what thing and another. |
First | phr | "First Blood" - first success, win. |
First | phr | "First in First Out" - an asset-management and valuation method in which the assets produced or acquired first are sold, used or disposed of first. |
First | phr | "First Light" - dawn; sunrise. |
First | phr | "First Man Through the Door" - the leading villain in a film. |
First | phr | "First of All" - the one who takes the initiative will do better than those who act slower. 2. before doing anything else; in the first place, to begin with, in the first incidence. |
First | phr | "First Off" - before something else; at first, first of all. |
First | phr | "First Off the Mark" - start ahead of all others. |
First | phr | "First One Has Heard of This" - the first time one learns about something |
First | phr | "First or Last" - sooner or last. |
First | phr | "First or Opening Shot" - make the first move in a contest, quarrel, fight, or confrontation. |
First | phr | "First Saw The Light Of Day" - when born. 2. of a thing: moment of creation. |
First | phr | "First Step Towards" - the first stage in a process or progress. |
First | phr | "First Thing" - as early as possible in the day. |
First | phr | "First Things First" - the most important before any others. |
First | phr | "First Thing In the Morning" - early in the morning; soon after one wakes up or rises. |
First | phr | "First Thing One Knows" - then; next; after that. |
First | phr | "First Things First" - put things in the correct order of priority. |
First | phr | "First Thing That Comes Into Ones Head" - a hasty or unconsidered opinion, remark, reply. |
First | phr | "First Up" - first of all. |
First | phr | "From First to Last" - completely. |
First | phr | "From the First" - from the beginning. |
First | phr | "Get a First" - win first prize, or be awarded a first class degree at a university. |
First | phr | "Head First" - precipitately. |
First | phr | "Of the First Water" - of the best quality. |
First | phr | "Shed First Blood" - the first shedding of blood, as in a boxing match etc. |
First | phr | "The First Step (Towards)" - the first stage in a process or progress; |
First-begotten | adj | The eldest child; a born first. |
First-born | n | The child first born; an heir, also the first product or result. |
Firstborn | adj | first brought forth; eldest, best or preeminent. |
Firstcomer | n | One who comes first. 2. a person or entity being the first to arrive, or the first in sequence. |
First day | n | The calends. 2. sunday. |
First day | adj | In philately, a letter or card with a new stamp posted on the day that the stamp was first issued. |
First-fiddle | phr | "Play the First Fiddle" - play the lead or primary role in an orchestra or ensemble. |
First finger | n | The finger next to the thumb. |
First-fleet | n | The first expedition of eleven ships under captain Arthur Philip, bringing convicts to establish a penal settlement in Australia. 2. the 11 ships that departed from Portsmouth, England, on 13 May 1787 to found New South Wales, the penal colony that became the first European settlement in Australia |
First-floor | n | The floor of a building at the level of the street or surrounding ground; the ground floor. 2. the floor of a building one above the ground floor. |
First-foot | n | In Scottish and Northern English folklore, the first-foot, also known in Manx Gaelic as quaaltagh or qualtagh, is the first person to enter the home of a household on New Year's Day and a bringer of good fortune for the coming year |
First-footer | n | The first visitor at a house after midnight on New Year's Eve. |
First footing | n | The "First Footing" is a tradition celebrated on Hogmanay, a Scottish New Year's celebration. It is supposed to bring luck and prosperity to the household for the new year. It is a ritual involving the first person to step into a household from the outside in a new year. Similar traditions exist in Greece and Georgia. If you are of Scottish heritage or would simply like to expand your own celebration and add new experiences, here's how you can go about it. |
First half | n | First half of two halves of play |
First-hand | adj | Obtained from the first source of origin, original |
First-handness | n | The quality or condition of being first, original, authentic in character. |
Firsthood | n | The position of one who is first, primary,firstship |
First house | n | The first of two performances given in one evening at a theatre. |
First Lady | n | The wife of the President of the US or other head of state. 2. the leading woman in a particular activity or profession. |
First light | n | The time in the morning when the first light appears. 2. in the military forces 'first light' denotes the earliest time (roughly dawn) at which military operations can begin. (see 'last light'). |
Firstling | n | The first of its kind to be produced, come into being, appear. 2. first product or result of anything. 2. the first off-spring of an animal. 4. the first turn of spring. |
First love | n | One's first feeling of romantic love 2. object of one's first romantic affection. 3. one's most fundamental interest or attachment. |
Firstly | adv | In the beginning, originally. |
First-most | adj | The first in time, most notable, best, chief, prominent, foremost |
First Mother | n | "Our First Mother" - Eve, the first female ancestor, African mother. 2. Dawn-woman, Earth-mother. |
First name | n | Personal orchristian name. |
Firstness | n | Equality of state. 2. the quality or state of being first. |
First-night | n | The opening performances of films and plays. |
First-nighter | n | One who makes a practice of attending opening performances of films and theatre play. |
First-reading | n | An occasion when a Bill is presented to a legislature to permit its introduction. |
Firstship | n | Firsthood: the position of being first. |
First strike | adj | An aggressive attack with a nuclear weapons before their use by the enemy; first-strike. |
First string | n | A regular member as distinguished from a substitute (as on a team) |
First string | adj | First-rate. |
First thing | n | Even the most elementary fact or principle, know the first thing about. |
First time | n | The first instance of sexual intercourse |
First water | n | Of highest quality (used of precious stone, ireespective of size) flawless; a paragon. |
Fish | n | A name loosely applied in popular usage to many animals of diverse characteristics, living in the water. 2. an oviparous, vertebrate animal usually having fins and a covering scales or plates. It breathes by means of gills, and lives almost entirely in the water. 3. the flesh of fish, used as food. 4. the twelfth sign of the zodiac. 5. piece of timber, somewhat in the form of a fish, used to strengthen a mast or yard. |
Fish | vb | To attempt to catch fish; to be employed in taking fish, by any means, as by angling or drawing a net. 2. to catch; to draw out or up; as, to fish up an anchor. 3. to search by raking or sweeping. 4. to seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments. 5. to strengthen (a beam, mast, etc.), or unite end to end (two timbers, railroad rails, etc.) by bolting a plank, timber, or plate to the beam, mast, or timbers, lengthwise on one or both sides. 6. to try with a fishing rod; to catch fish in; as, to fish a stream. |
Fish | phr | "All is Fish that Comes to My Net" - of one who turns everything to his/her own use and profit. |
Fish | phr | "Be in a Goldfish Bowl" - be very open to view. |
Fish | phr | "Drink Like a Fish" - drink excessively. |
Fish | phr | "Feed the Fishes" - to drown. 2. to be sea-sick. |
Fish | phr | "Fish for" - try to obtain by indirect method; angle for. 2. hunt for treasure. |
Fish | phr | "Fish Out" extract, raise out of. 2. deplete the supply of fish in an specific area. |
Fish | phr | "Have Other Fish To Fry" - have alternative/ more important matters to attend to. |
Fish | phr | "He/She Eats No Fish" - in the time of Elizabeth 1 monarchy, a way of saying she/he is an honest woman/man and one to be trusted, because she/he is not a Papist. Roman Catholics were naturally suspect at this time, and Protestants refused to adopt their custom of eating fish, instead of meat, on a Friday |
Fish | phr | "Land One's Fish" - succeed in deluding someone. |
Fish | phr | "Like a Cold Fish" - someone who is unemotional/ unsympathetic. |
Fish | phr | "Like a Fish Out of Water" - someone in a situation that they are unfamiliar with or unsuited for. |
Fish | phr | "Neither Fowl nor Fish" - neither one thing nor the other: unclassifiable. |
Fish | phr | "Small Fish" - somebody who is relatively unimportant. |
Fish | phr | "Smell Something Fishy" - be suspicious. |
Fish | phr | "The Best Fish are Near the Bottom" - what is most valuable is not to be found near the surface, nor is anything really worth having to be obtained without effort and trouble. |
Fish | phr | "There Are Many Fish in the Sea" - there are many more people to meet. |
Fish | phr | "You Must Not Make Fish of One and Flesh of Other" - you must treat both alike. 2. you must not discriminate. |
Fish-berry | n | Cocculus indicus, the fruit of the plant anamirta cooculus. |
Fishbone | n | A bone of a fish. |
Fish day | n | The day fish is eaten instead of meat: Friday. |
Fisher | n | A fisherman. |
Fisherfolk | n | A person who fishes for a living. 2. a culture that is th e domain of fishermen. |
Fisherman | n | A fisher; a person who works in the fishing industry. 2. a person who attempts to catch fish. 3. a boat used for commercial fishing. |
Fisherman's Ring | n | A seal-ring with which the Pope is invested at his election, bearing the device of St Peter fishing from a boat. It is used for sealing papal briefs, and is officially broken up at the Pope's death by the Chamberlain of the Roman Church. |
Fish eye | n | An un-friendly or suspicious glance. 2. an undesirable effect in paint; particularly automotive finishes, normally caused by oil or other contaminantson the painted surface. |
Fish-eye-stone | n | Apophyllite. |
Fishfinder | n | An electronic device that uses sonar to measure water depth and shows outlines of fish and bottom features on a LCD or CRT screen |
Fish finger | n | A stick of processed fish covered by bread crumbs that is cooked by grilling or frying. |
Fishful | adj | Aboounding in fish. |
Fish god | n | A deity in the form of a fish; as 'Dagon' (of the Philistines). |
Fish hawk | n | The Osprey. |
Fish hook | n | A barbed hook for catching fish by a hook. |
Fishiness | n | An absence of fish. |
Fishing | n | The act of someone who fishes as a diversion. 2. the occupation of catching fish for a living |
Fishing-line | n | A long thread of silk etc. with a baited hook, sinker, float used for catching fish. |
Fishish | adj | Resembling a fish; fishy. |
Fish-knife | n | A knife for eating or serving fish. |
Fish-ladder | n | A structure built on or around dams or locks to facilitate the migration of fish. 2. fishway, fish steps. |
Fishless | adj | Without fish, devoid of fish. |
Fishlessness | n | The state of being without fish. |
Fishlife | n | The fish, (of an area) collectively. |
Fishlike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of fish, in some aspect. |
Fish-meal | n | Ground dried fish used as a fertilizer or animal meal. |
Fishmonger | n | One deals retail or sells fish. |
Fish-net | n | An open-meshed fabric net. |
Fish-pot | n | A wicker trap for eels, lobsters etc. |
Fish-spear | n | A harpoon. |
Fish-tail | n | Anything resembling a fish's tail in shape or movement. |
Fishtail | vb | To move the tail of a vehicle from side to side. |
Fishtail burner | n | A kind of gas burner producing a broadening jet of flame. |
Fish-way | n | A series of steps enabling fish to ascend a waterfall; a fish-ladder. |
Fish-well | n | A compartment, as in the hold of a fishing smack , open to the water beneath, used for storing live fish. |
Fishwife | n | A woman who sells or works in a fishmonger. 2. a vulgar, abusive or nagging woman with a loud, unpleasant voice. 3. a term of abuse directed at women, implying a lack of hygeine. |
Fishy | adj | Of, from or similar to fish. 2. suspicious; inspiring doubt. |
Fishy-wishy | adj | Puerile. |
Fisk | vb | OE: fysan: to move briskly, scamper about, to hurry. |
Fist | n | A breaking wind; flatulence, a foul smell. 2. a fungus know as puff-ball (lycoperdon bovista) |
Fist | vb | To break wind, to have flatulence. |
Fist | phr | "Hand Over Fist" - quickly, or in quantity. |
Fist | phr | "Make a Good Fist Of" - do something well or successfully. |
First | phr | "Shake One's Fist" - express anger, threaten by waving one's fists. |
Fister | n | One who breaks wind, farts. |
Fist fight | n | A fight with bare fists. |
Fistfighter | n | A boxer; pugilist. |
Fistful | n | As much as the fist can hold; a handful. |
Fist-like | adj | Reembling a fist (a clenched fist). |
Fistmeal | n | The breadth of the fist. |
Fist-wise | adj | Like a fish (also adverb). |
Fisty | adj | Resembling or like a fist. 2. prone to fighting with one's fists. |
Fit | n | A song, ballad, poem or story. 2. a division or part of a poem, song, canto, ballad or story. 3. a strain of music, stave. |
Fit | n | A conflict, struggle, strife. 2. a position of hardship. 3. a deeper or intense excitement. 4. a painful, terrible or exciting experience. 5. a mortal crisis; a bodily state (whether painful) that betokens death. 6. paroxysm. 7. a contest. |
Fit | phr | "A Fit of Laughter" - unrestrained or helpless laughter. 2. be in, dissolve in, or collapse in. |
Fitful | adj | Intermittently, stopping and starting. |
Fitfully | adv | In a fitful manner. |
Fitfulness | n | The quality of being spasmodic and irregular. |
Five | n | The cardinal number following four and preceding six, or any of the symbols used to represent it. 2. anything made up of five units or members, as a basketball team, or representing five, as a playing card having five spots, or a five dollar note. |
Five | n | "The Five Wits" - the five senses, usually the five bodily senses; often vaguely, the perceptions or mental faculties generally. |
Five | phr | "Know How Many Beans Make Five" - to have common sense, |
Five-boroughs | n | In English history, the Danish confederation of 'The Five Boroughs' : Derby, Leicester, Lincoln, Nottingham, and Stanford in the 9th and 10th centuries. |
Five-by-five | n | A radio communication meaning 'loud and clear' |
Five-fingers | n | A fisherman's name for the starfish. |
Fivefold | adj | Five times as great or numerous. |
Five-fold | adv | By five times; to five times the number or amount |
Five-foldness | n | The property of being five-fold. |
Five hundred | n | A product of fice and a hundred. |
Fiveish | adj | Any time around five o'clock. 2. approximately five in number. |
Five-leaf | n | The plant Cinquefoil - "potenilla replans" |
Fivesome | adj | Five in all, five together. |
Five-star | adj | Having five stars in a grading system in which it denoted having five stars. 2. having or denoting the highest rank, distinguished in US Armed Forces by five stars on their uniform. |
Five-stones | n | The game of jacks. |
Five wits | n | The five senses, usually the five bodily senses; often vaguely, the perceptions or mental faculties generally: sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. 2. common sense, imagnation, fantasy, estimation, and memory; in general, thefaculties of the mind; also an alternative expression for the five senses. |
Five W's | n | The words who, what, when, where, and why. |
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