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  • English Word For Definition Indicating that in favor of which, or in promoting which, anything is, or is done; hence, in behalf of; in favor of; on the side of; -- opposed to against.
  • English Word For Definition Indicating that toward which the action of anything is directed, or the point toward which motion is made; /ntending to go to.
  • English Word For Definition Indicating that on place of or instead of which anything acts or serves, or that to which a substitute, an equivalent, a compensation, or the like, is offered or made; instead of, or place of.
  • English Word For Definition Indicating that in the character of or as being which anything is regarded or treated; to be, or as being.
  • English Word For Definition Indicating that instead of which something else controls in the performing of an action, or that in spite of which anything is done, occurs, or is; hence, equivalent to notwithstanding, in spite of; -- generally followed by all, aught, anything, etc.
  • English Word For Definition Indicating the space or time through which an action or state extends; hence, during; in or through the space or time of.
  • English Word For Definition Indicating that in prevention of which, or through fear of which, anything is done.
  • English Word For Definition Because; by reason that; for that; indicating, in Old English, the reason of anything.
  • English Word For Definition Since; because; introducing a reason of something before advanced, a cause, motive, explanation, justification, or the like, of an action related or a statement made. It is logically nearly equivalent to since, or because, but connects less closely, and is sometimes used as a very general introduction to something suggested by what has gone before.
  • English Word For Definition One who takes, or that which is said on, the affrimative side; that which is said in favor of some one or something; -- the antithesis of against, and commonly used in connection with it.
  • English Word For- Definition A prefix to verbs, having usually the force of a negative or privative. It often implies also loss, detriment, or destruction, and sometimes it is intensive, meaning utterly, quite thoroughly, as in forbathe.
  • English Word Fora Definition of Forum
  • English Word Forage Definition The act of foraging; search for provisions, etc.
  • English Word Forage Definition Food of any kind for animals, especially for horses and cattle, as grass, pasture, hay, corn, oats.
  • English Word Forage Definition To wander or rove in search of food; to collect food, esp. forage, for horses and cattle by feeding on or stripping the country; to ravage; to feed on spoil.
  • English Word Forage Definition To strip of provisions; to supply with forage; as, to forage steeds.
  • English Word Foraged Definition of Forage
  • English Word Forager Definition One who forages.
  • English Word Foraging Definition of Forage
  • English Word Foralite Definition A tubelike marking, occuring in sandstone and other strata.
  • English Word Foramen Definition A small opening, perforation, or orifice; a fenestra.
  • English Word Foramina Definition of Foramen
  • English Word Foraminated Definition Having small opening, or foramina.
  • English Word Foramines Definition of Foramen
  • English Word Foraminifer Definition One of the foraminifera.
  • English Word Foraminifera Definition An extensive order of rhizopods which generally have a chambered calcareous shell formed by several united zooids. Many of them have perforated walls, whence the name. Some species are covered with sand. See Rhizophoda.
  • English Word Foraminiferous Definition Having small openings, or foramina.
  • English Word Foraminiferous Definition Pertaining to, or composed of, Foraminifera; as, foraminiferous mud.
  • English Word Foraminous Definition Having foramina; full of holes; porous.
  • English Word Forasmuch Definition In consideration that; seeing that; since; because that; -- followed by as. See under For, prep.