| foretaste | 1. To taste before full possession; to have previous enjoyment or experience of; to anticipate. 2. To taste before another. "Foretasted fruit." Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| foretoken | To foreshow; to presignify; to prognosticate. "Whilst strange prodigious signs foretoken blood." (Daniel) Origin: AS. Foretacnian; fore + tacnian. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| forewaters | Colloquialism for the bulging fluid-filled amniotic membrane presenting in front of the foetal head. (05 Mar 2000) |
| forewomen | A woman who is chief; a woman who has charge of the work or workers in a shop or other place; a head woman. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| forficate | <ornithology, zoology> Deeply forked, as the tail of certain birds. Origin: L. Forfex, forficis, shears. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| forficula | <entomology> A genus of insects including the earwigs. Origin: L, small shears, scissors, dim. Of forfex shears. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| forgather | To convene; to gossip; to meet accidentally. "Within that circle he forgathered with many a fool." (Wilson) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| forge | 1. A place or establishment where iron or other metals are wrought by heating and hammering; especially, a furnace, or a shop with its furnace, etc, where iron is heated and wrought; a smithy. "In the quick forge and working house of thought." (Shak) 2. The works where wrought iron is produced directly from the ore, or where iron is rendered malleable by puddling and shingling; a shingling mill. 3. The act of beating or working iron or steel; the manufacture of metalic bodies. "In the greater bodies the forge was easy." (Bacon) American forge, a forge for the direct production of wrought iron, differing from the old Catalan forge mainly in using finely crushed ore and working continuously. Catalan forge. A wagon fitted up for transporting a blackmith's forge and tools. Portable forge, a light and compact blacksmith's forge, with bellows, etc, that may be moved from place to place. Origin: F. Forge, fr. L. Fabrica the workshop of an artisan who works in hard materials, fr. Faber artisan, smith, as adj, skillful, ingenious; cf. Gr. Soft, tender. Cf. Fabric. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| forget | 1. To lose the remembrance of; to let go from the memory; to cease to have in mind; not to think of; also, to lose the power of; to cease from doing. "Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits." (Ps. Ciii. 2) "Let y right hand forget her cunning." (Ps. Cxxxvii. 5) "Hath thy knee forget to bow?" (Shak) 2. To treat with inattention or disregard; to slight; to neglect. "Can a woman forget her sucking child? . . . Yes, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee." (Is. Xlix. 15) To forget one's self. To become unmindful of one's own personality; to be lost in thought. To be entirely unselfish. To be guilty of what is unworthy of one; to lose one's dignity, temper, or self-control. Origin: Forgot (Forgat,); Forgotten, Forgot; Forgetting] [OE. Forgeten, foryeten, AS. Forgietan, forgitan; pref. For- + gietan, gitan (only in comp), to get; cf. D. Vergeten, G. Vergessen, Sw. Forgata, Dan. Forgiette. See For-, and Get. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| forget-me-not | <botany> A small herb, of the genus Myosotis (M. Palustris, incespitosa, etc), bearing a beautiful blue flower, and extensively considered the emblem of fidelity. Formerly the name was given to the Ajuga Chamaepitus. Origin: G. Vergissmeinnicht. (04 Apr 1998) |
| forgetting | Being unable to retrieve or recall information that was once registered, learned, and stored in short-or long-term memory. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fork | 1. An instrument consisting consisting of a handle with a shank terminating in two or more prongs or tines, which are usually of metal, parallel and slightly curved; used from piercing, holding, taking up, or pitching anything. 2. Anything furcate or like of a fork in shape, or furcate at the extremity; as, a tuning fork. 3. One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow. "Let it fall . . . Though the fork invade The region of my heart." (Shak) "A thunderbolt with three forks." (Addison) 4. The place where a division or a union occurs; the angle or opening between two branches or limbs; as, the fork of a river, a tree, or a road. 5. The gibbet. Fork beam A mine is said to be in fork, or an engine to "have the water in fork," when all the water is drawn out of the mine. The forks of a river or a road, the branches into which it divides, or which come together to form it; the place where separation or union takes place. 6. To shoot into blades, as corn. "The corn beginneth to fork." Origin: AS. Forc, fr. L. Furca. Cf. Fourch, Furcate. (04 Apr 1998) |
| fork-tailed | <ornithology> Having the outer tail feathers longer than the median ones; swallow-tailed; said of many birds. Fork-tailed flycatcher, a graceful American kite (Elanoides forficatus). Synonym: swallow-tailed kite. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| forkbeard | <zoology> A European fish (Raniceps raninus), having a large flat head; also called tadpole fish, and lesser forked beard. The European forked hake or hake's-dame (Phycis blennoides); also called great forked beard. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| forked | 1. Formed into a forklike shape; having a fork; dividing into two or more prongs or branches; furcated; bifurcated; zigzag; as, the forked lighting. "A serpent seen, with forked tongue." (Shak) 2. Having a double meaning; ambiguous; equivocal. Cross forked, a cross, the ends of whose arms are divided into two sharp points; called also cross double fitche. A cross forked of three points is a cross, each of whose arms terminates in three sharp points. Forked counsel, advice pointing more than one way; ambiguous advice. Fork"edly, Fork"edness. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| formation |
In geology and related fields, a stratum (plural: strata) is a layer of rock or soil with internally consistent characteristics that distinguishes it from contiguous layers. Each layer is generally one of a number of parallel layers that lie one upon another, laid down by natural forces. They may extend over hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of the Earth's surface. ...
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| forced expiratory volume |
Spirometry, the most common of the Pulmonary Function Tests (PFTs), is the measurement of lung function, specifically the measurement of the amount (volume) and speed (flow) of air that can be inhaled and exhaled. Spirometry is an important tool used for assessing lung diseases such as asthma, cystic fibrosis, and COPD. ...
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| forced vital capacity |
Spirometry, the most common of the Pulmonary Function Tests (PFTs), is the measurement of lung function, specifically the measurement of the amount (volume) and speed (flow) of air that can be inhaled and exhaled. Spirometry is an important tool used for assessing lung diseases such as asthma, cystic fibrosis, and COPD. ...
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| forehead |
The forehead is right where you'd think it'd be: directly above the bill, on the front part of the bird's head. It is rarely patterned unusually but is often used when referring to the beak. Some birds, such as southern quail, may have a featherlike projection protruding from their foreheads, but most eastern birds have no outstanding plumage characteristics in this region.
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| fork |
Simultaneously attacking two enemy pieces at one time with one piece.
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| For | a prediction about how something (as the weather) will develop |
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| For | judge to be probable |
| For | indicate by signs |
| For | predict in advance |
| For | someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge) |
| For | a statement made about the future |
| For | living quarters consisting of a superstructure in the bow of a merchant ship where the crew is housed |
| For | subject to foreclosing procedures |
| For | keep from happening or arising |
| For | the legal proceedings initiated by a creditor to repossess the collateral for loan that is in default |
| For | the outer or front court of a building or of a group of buildings |
| For | establish something as being earlier relative to something else |