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- English Word Fanega Definition A dry measure in Spain and Spanish America, varying from 1/ to 2/ bushels; also, a measure of land.
- English Word Fanfare Definition A flourish of trumpets, as in coming into the lists, etc.; also, a short and lively air performed on hunting horns during the chase.
- English Word Fanfaron Definition A bully; a hector; a swaggerer; an empty boaster.
- English Word Fanfaronade Definition A swaggering; vain boasting; ostentation; a bluster.
- English Word Fanfoot Definition A species of gecko having the toes expanded into large lobes for adhesion. The Egyptian fanfoot (Phyodactylus gecko) is believed, by the natives, to have venomous toes.
- English Word Fanfoot Definition Any moth of the genus Polypogon.
- English Word Fang Definition To catch; to seize, as with the teeth; to lay hold of; to gripe; to clutch.
- English Word Fang Definition To enable to catch or tear; to furnish with fangs.
- English Word Fang Definition The tusk of an animal, by which the prey is seized and held or torn; a long pointed tooth; esp., one of the usually erectile, venomous teeth of serpents. Also, one of the falcers of a spider.
- English Word Fang Definition Any shoot or other thing by which hold is taken.
- English Word Fang Definition The root, or one of the branches of the root, of a tooth. See Tooth.
- English Word Fang Definition A niche in the side of an adit or shaft, for an air course.
- English Word Fang Definition A projecting tooth or prong, as in a part of a lock, or the plate of a belt clamp, or the end of a tool, as a chisel, where it enters the handle.
- English Word Fang Definition The valve of a pump box.
- English Word Fang Definition A bend or loop of a rope.
- English Word Fanged Definition Having fangs or tusks; as, a fanged adder. Also used figuratively.
- English Word Fangle Definition Something new-fashioned; a foolish innovation; a gewgaw; a trifling ornament.
- English Word Fangle Definition To fashion.
- English Word Fangled Definition New made; hence, gaudy; showy; vainly decorated. [Obs., except with the prefix new.] See Newfangled.
- English Word Fangleness Definition Quality of being fangled.
- English Word Fangless Definition Destitute of fangs or tusks.
- English Word Fangot Definition A quantity of wares, as raw silk, etc., from one hundred weight.
- English Word Fanion Definition A small flag sometimes carried at the head of the baggage of a brigade.
- English Word Fanion Definition A small flag for marking the stations in surveying.
- English Word Fanlike Definition Resembling a fan;
- English Word Fanlike Definition folded up like a fan, as certain leaves; plicate.
- English Word Fanned Definition of Fan
- English Word Fannel Definition Same as Fanon.
- English Word Fanner Definition One who fans.
- English Word Fanner Definition A fan wheel; a fan blower. See under Fan.