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- English Word Fibrolite Definition A silicate of alumina, of fibrous or columnar structure. It is like andalusite in composition; -- called also sillimanite, and bucholizite.
- English Word Fibroma Definition A tumor consisting mainly of fibrous tissue, or of same modification of such tissue.
- English Word Fibrospongiae Definition An order of sponges having a fibrous skeleton, including the commercial sponges.
- English Word Fibrous Definition Containing, or consisting of, fibers; as, the fibrous coat of the cocoanut; the fibrous roots of grasses.
- English Word Fibrovascular Definition Containing woody fiber and ducts, as the stems of all flowering plants and ferns; -- opposed to cellular.
- English Word Fibster Definition One who tells fibs.
- English Word Fibu-lar Definition Pertaining to the fibula.
- English Word Fibula Definition A brooch, clasp, or buckle.
- English Word Fibula Definition The outer and usually the smaller of the two bones of the leg, or hind limb, below the knee.
- English Word Fibula Definition A needle for sewing up wounds.
- English Word FibulAe Definition of Fibula
- English Word Fibulare Definition The bone or cartilage of the tarsus, which articulates with the fibula, and corresponds to the calcaneum in man and most mammals.
- English Word Fibularia Definition of Fibulare
- English Word Fice Definition A small dog; -- written also fise, fyce, fiste, etc.
- English Word Fiche Definition See FitchE.
- English Word Fichu Definition A light cape, usually of lace, worn by women, to cover the neck and throat, and extending to the shoulders.
- English Word Fickle Definition Not fixed or firm; liable to change; unstable; of a changeable mind; not firm in opinion or purpose; inconstant; capricious; as, Fortune's fickle wheel.
- English Word Fickleness Definition The quality of being fickle; instability; inconsonancy.
- English Word Fickly Definition In a fickle manner.
- English Word Fico Definition A fig; an insignificant trifle, no more than the snap of one's thumb; a sign of contempt made by the fingers, expressing. A fig for you.
- English Word Ficoes Definition of Fico
- English Word Fictile Definition Molded, or capable of being molded, into form by art; relating to pottery or to molding in any soft material.
- English Word Fiction Definition The act of feigning, inventing, or imagining; as, by a mere fiction of the mind.
- English Word Fiction Definition That which is feigned, invented, or imagined; especially, a feigned or invented story, whether oral or written. Hence: A story told in order to deceive; a fabrication; -- opposed to fact, or reality.
- English Word Fiction Definition Fictitious literature; comprehensively, all works of imagination; specifically, novels and romances.
- English Word Fiction Definition An assumption of a possible thing as a fact, irrespective of the question of its truth.
- English Word Fiction Definition Any like assumption made for convenience, as for passing more rapidly over what is not disputed, and arriving at points really at issue.
- English Word Fictional Definition Pertaining to, or characterized by, fiction; fictitious; romantic.
- English Word Fictionist Definition A writer of fiction.
- English Word Fictious Definition Fictitious.