FPage 21
- English Word Famulate Definition To serve.
- English Word Famulist Definition A collegian of inferior rank or position, corresponding to the sizar at Cambridge.
- English Word Fan Definition An instrument used for producing artificial currents of air, by the wafting or revolving motion of a broad surface
- English Word Fan Definition An instrument for cooling the person, made of feathers, paper, silk, etc., and often mounted on sticks all turning about the same pivot, so as when opened to radiate from the center and assume the figure of a section of a circle.
- English Word Fan Definition Any revolving vane or vanes used for producing currents of air, in winnowing grain, blowing a fire, ventilation, etc., or for checking rapid motion by the resistance of the air; a fan blower; a fan wheel.
- English Word Fan Definition An instrument for winnowing grain, by moving which the grain is tossed and agitated, and the chaff is separated and blown away.
- English Word Fan Definition Something in the form of a fan when spread, as a peacock's tail, a window, etc.
- English Word Fan Definition A small vane or sail, used to keep the large sails of a smock windmill always in the direction of the wind.
- English Word Fan Definition That which produces effects analogous to those of a fan, as in exciting a flame, etc.; that which inflames, heightens, or strengthens; as, it served as a fan to the flame of his passion.
- English Word Fan Definition A quintain; -- from its form.
- English Word Fan Definition To move as with a fan.
- English Word Fan Definition To cool and refresh, by moving the air with a fan; to blow the air on the face of with a fan.
- English Word Fan Definition To ventilate; to blow on; to affect by air put in motion.
- English Word Fan Definition To winnow; to separate chaff from, and drive it away by a current of air; as, to fan wheat.
- English Word Fan Definition To excite or stir up to activity, as a fan axcites a flame; to stimulate; as, this conduct fanned the excitement of the populace.
- English Word Fan palm Definition Any palm tree having fan-shaped or radiate leaves; as the Chamaerops humilis of Southern Europe; the species of Sabal and Thrinax in the West Indies, Florida, etc.; and especially the great talipot tree (Corypha umbraculifera) of Ceylon and Malaya. The leaves of the latter are often eighteen feet long and fourteen wide, and are used for umbrellas, tents, and roofs. When cut up, they are used for books and manuscripts.
- English Word Fan-nerved Definition Having the nerves or veins arranged in a radiating manner; -- said of certain leaves, and of the wings of some insects.
- English Word Fan-tailed Definition Having an expanded, or fan-shaped, tail; as, the fan-tailed pigeon.
- English Word Fanal Definition A lighthouse, or the apparatus placed in it for giving light.
- English Word Fanatic Definition Pertaining to, or indicating, fanaticism; extravagant in opinions; ultra; unreasonable; excessively enthusiastic, especially on religious subjects; as, fanatic zeal; fanatic notions.
- English Word Fanatic Definition A person affected by excessive enthusiasm, particularly on religious subjects; one who indulges wild and extravagant notions of religion.
- English Word Fanatical Definition Characteristic of, or relating to, fanaticism; fanatic.
- English Word Fanaticism Definition Excessive enthusiasm, unreasoning zeal, or wild and extravagant notions, on any subject, especially religion; religious frenzy.
- English Word Fanaticize Definition To cause to become a fanatic.
- English Word Fanaticized Definition of Fanaticize
- English Word Fanaticizing Definition of Fanaticize
- English Word Fanatism Definition Fanaticism.
- English Word Fancied Definition Formed or conceived by the fancy; unreal; as, a fancied wrong.
- English Word Fancied Definition of Fancy
- English Word Fancier Definition One who is governed by fancy.