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An American Dictionary of the English Language
Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)
Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Fŏh, interj. p. 527An exclamation of abhorrence or contempt; poh; fy.Foī'ble, a. p. 527Weak; feeble. [Obs.] Herbert.Foi'ble, n. p. 527A particular moral weakness; a failing; a weak point; a fault not of a serious character; a frailty. A disposition radically noble and generous, clouded and overshadowed by superficial foibles. De…Foil, v. t. p. 527To beat down with the feet; to trample. [Obs.] Whom he did all to pieces break and foil. In filthy dirt, and left so in the loathely soil. Spenser. 2. To render vain or nugatory, as an effort or…Foil, n. p. 527The failure of success when on the point of being secured; defeat; frustration; miscarriage. Death never won a stake with greater toil, Nor e'er was fate so near a foil. Dryden. 2. A blunt sword, or…Foil, n. p. 527A leaf or thin plate of metal; as, tin foil. 2. A thin leaf of metal, placed under precious stones by jewelers, to increase their brilliancy, or to give them a particular color, since the stone…Foil'a-ble, a. p. 527Capable of being foiled or frustrated. [Obs.] Cotgrave.Foil'er, n. p. 527One who foils or frustrates.Foil'ing, n. p. 527(Hunting.) The slight mark of a passing deer on the grass. Chalmers. 2. (Arch.) A foil. Simmonds.Foin, v. i. p. 527To thrust with a sword or spear; to make passes; to lunge. [Obs.] Spenser. They lash, they foin, they pass, they strive to bore Their corselets, and the thinnest parts explore. Dryden.Foin, v. t. p. 527To prick; to sting. [Obs.] Huloet.Foin, n. p. 527A thrust with a sword or spear; a push. [Obs.] Robinson. 2. A small ferret or weasel. [Obs.] 3. A kind of fur, black at the top on a whitish ground, taken from the ferret or weasel of the same name.…Foin'er-y, n. p. 527Thrusting with the foil; fencing; sword-play. [Obs.] Marston.Fōin'ing-ly, adv. p. 527In a pushing manner.Foi'son, n. p. 527Plenty; abundance. [Obs.] That from the seeding the bare fallow brings To teeming foison. Shak.Foist, v. t. p. 527To insert surreptitiously, wrongfully, or without warrant; to interpolate; to pass off as genuine, true, or worthy; — usually followed by in. Lest negligence or partiality might admit or foist in…Foist, n. p. 528A light and fast-sailing ship. [Obs.] B. & Fl. 2. A foister; a falsifier; a sharper. B. Jonson.Foist'er, n. p. 528One who inserts without authority.Foist'ied, a. p. 528Musty; fusty. [Obs.]Foist'ness, n. p. 528Fustiness; mustiness. [Obs.]Foist'y, a. p. 528Fusty; musty. [Obs.] Gardner.Fōld, n. p. 528A doubling of any flexible substance; a part laid over on another part; a fold; a plication. 2. Times or repetitions;—used with numerals, chiefly in composition, to denote multiplication or increase…Fōld, v. t. p. 528To lap or lay in plaits; to lay one part over another part of; to double; as, to fold a piece of cloth. Folded the writ up in the form of the other. Shak. The scaly horror of his folded tail. Milton.…Fōld, v. i. p. 528To become folded, plaited, or doubled; to close over another of the same kind; as, the leaves of the door fold. 2. To confine sheep in a fold. [Rare.] The star that bids the shepherd fold. Milton.Fōld'age, n. p. 528The right of folding sheep.Fōld'er, n. p. 528One who, or that which, folds; especially, a flat, knife-like instrument used for folding paper.Fōld'ing, n. p. 528A fold; a doubling; a plication. “The lower foldings of the vest.” Addison. 2. (Agr.) The keeping of sheep in inclosures on arable land, &c.Fōld'ing-dōors, n. pl. p. 528Two doors which meet in the middle, and either slide back or turn back on hinges, leaving a communication between two apartments.Fōld'less, a. p. 528Having no fold. Milman.Fōld'yärd, n. p. 528A yard for folding or feeding cattle.Fō'li-ā'ceoŭs, a. p. 528(Bot.) Belonging to, or having the texture or nature of, a leaf; having leaves intermixed with flowers; as, a foliaceous spike. 2. (Min.) Consisting of leaves or thin laminæ; having the form of a…Fō'li-age, n. p. 528A collection of leaves as produced or arranged by nature; as, a tree of beautiful foliage. 2. A cluster of leaves, flowers, and branches; especially, the representation of leaves, flowers, and…Fō'li-age, v. t. p. 528To work or to form into the representation of leaves; to furnish with leaves, or work in imitation of leaves. Drummond.Fō'li-ar, a. p. 528(Bot.) Consisting of, or pertaining to, leaves; as, foliar appendages. Henslow.Fō'li-āte, v. t. p. 528To beat into a leaf, or thin plate or lamina. [Obs.] Bacon. 2. To spread over with a thin coat of tin and quicksilver; as, to foliate a looking-glass.Fō'li-āte, a. p. 528(Bot.) Furnished with leaves; leafy; as, a foliate stalk.Foliate curve p. 528a curve of the third order, consisting of two infinite branches, which have a common asymptote, and which intersect each other, forming a leaf-shaped branch,—whence the name. Its equation is x³ + y³…Fō'li-ā'ted, a. p. 528Having leaves, or leaf-like projections; as, a foliated shell. 2. (Arch.) Containing foils; as, a foliated arch. 3. (Geol.) Laminated, but restricted to the variety of laminated structure found in…Fō'li-ā'tion, n. p. 528The act of forming into leaves; the method of disposing leaves within the bud. The ...foliation must be in relation to the stem. De Quincey. 2. The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf…Fō'li-a-tūre, n. p. 528The state of being beaten into foil. Shackford.Fō'li-er, n. p. 528Goldsmith's foil. [Rare.] Hist. Royal Soc.Fo-līf'er-oŭs, a. p. 528Producing leaves.Fō'li-o, n. p. 528A sheet of paper once folded. 2. A book made of sheets of paper each folded once. 3. A page in an account-book; sometimes, two opposite pages bearing the same serial number. 4. (Law.) A leaf…Fō'li-o, a. p. 528Formed of sheets folded so as to make two leaves; of, or equal to, the size of one fold of a sheet of printing paper, when doubled so as to make two leaves; as, a folio volume.Fō'li-o-late, a. p. 528Of, or pertaining to, leaflets. Gray.Fō'li-ōle, n. p. 528(Bot.) One of the single leaves which together constitute a compound leaf; a leaflet. Lee.Fō'li-o-môrt', a. p. 528Of a dark-yellow color, or that of a faded leaf; filemot. Woodward.Fō'li-ōse', a. p. 528(Bot.) Having, or abounding in, leaves; leafy; folious. Gray.Fō'li-ŏs'i-ty, n. p. 528The ponderousness or bulk of a folio; voluminousness; copiousness; diffuseness. It is exactly because he is not tedious, because he does not shoot into German foliosity, that Schlosser finds him…Fō'li-oŭs, a. p. 528Like a leaf; thin; unsubstantial. Browne. 2. (Bot.) Foliose.Fōlk, n. p. 528People in general, or a separate class of people;—generally used in the plural, and often with a qualifying adjective; as, the old folks, the young folks, poor folks. [Colloq.] In winter’s tedious…Fōlk'lānd, n. p. 528(O. Eng. Law.) Land of the people, or public; land belonging to the whole community, but which might be held by freemen of all ranks, but without written agreements. Wharton.Fōlk'-lōre, n. p. 528Rural tales, legends, or superstitions. [Recent.] Trench.Fōlk'mōte, n. p. 528An assembly of the people; especially (Sax. Law), a general assembly of the people to consider and order matters of the commonwealth; also, a local court. [Obs.] Burrill. To which folk-mote they all…Fōlk′mōt′er, n. p. 528One who takes part in a folk-mote, or local court. [Obs.] Milton.Fōl'li-cle, n. p. 528(Bot.) (a.) A simple pod opening down the inner suture; a univalvular pericarp. Gray. (b.) A vessel distended with air; an air-bag, as at the root in Utricularia, and on the leaves in Aldrovanda.…Fol-lĭc'ū-lar, a. p. 528Like, pertaining to, or consisting of, follicles; as, a follicular structure.Fol-lic'ū-lā'ted, a. p. 528Having follicles; follicular.Fol·lic'ū·lous, a. p. 528Having, or producing, follicles.Fōl'li-fūl, a. p. 528Full of folly. [Obs.] Shenstone.