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an blower, a wheel with vanes fixed on a rotating shaft inclosed in a case or chamber, to create a blast of air (fan blast) for forge purposes, or a current for draft and ventilation; a fanner. -- Fan cricket (Zoöl.), a mole cricket. -- Fan light (Arch.), a window over a door; -- so called from the semicircular form…

and modifying such objects into new pictures or images; the power of readily and happily creating and recalling such objects for the purpose of amusement, wit, or embellishment; imagination. In the soul Are many lesser faculties, that serve Reason as chief. Among these fancy next Her office holds. Milton.…

able influence. The Turks hang old rags . . . upon their fairest horses, and other goodly creatures, to secure them against fascination. Waller.

atten; to make plump and fleshy with abundant food; as, to fat fowls or sheep. We fat all creatures else to fat us. Shak.

The Supreme Being and Creator; God; in theology, the first person in the Trinity. Our Father, which art in heaven. Matt. vi. 9. Now had the almighty Father from above . . . Bent down his eye. Milton. Adoptive father, one who adopts the child of another, treating it as his own. -- Apostolic father, Conscript fathers, e…

Containing faults, blemishes, or defects; imperfect; not fit for the use intended. Created once So goodly and erect, though faulty since. Milton.

acteristic; as, one of the features of the landscape. And to her service bind each living creature Through secret understanding of their feature. Spenser.

bringing forth in abundance; fertility; richness of invention; as, the fecundity of God's creative power. Bentley.

ately in the blood. It is insoluble in water, but is readily digestible in gastric and pancreatic juice.

r the state of being fixed. An unalterable fixation of resolution. Killingbeck. To light, created in the first day, God gave no proper place or fixation. Sir W. Raleigh. Marked stiffness or absolute fixation of a joint. Quain. A fixation and confinement of thought to a few objects. Watts.

The creation of an artifical flood by the sudden letting in of a body of water; -- called also flushing.

A company or collection of living creatures; -- especially applied to sheep and birds, rarely to persons or (except in the plural) to cattle and other large animals; as, a flock of ravenous fowl. Milton. The heathen . . . came to Nicanor by flocks. 2 Macc. xiv. 14.

The impression of the foot; a trace or footmark; as, "Footprints of the Creator."

One who forms; a maker; a creator.

Creative; imaginative. [R.] "The formful brain." Thomson.

A contest, physical or mental, according to certain rules, for amusement, recreation, or for winning a stake; as, a game of chance; games of skill; field games, etc. But war's a game, which, were their subject wise, Kings would not play at. Cowper.

To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce (a being similar to the parent); to engender; as, every animal generates its own species.

The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals.

Testament; -- so called by the Greek translators, from its containing the history of the creation of the world and of the human race.

Contributing to, or concerned in, propagation or production; generative; procreative; productive. "The genial bed." Milton. Creator Venus, genial power of love. Dryden.