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431 words match “FEST”

EXULCERATION n.
A fretting; a festering; soreness. Hooker.
FAIR n.
A festival, and sale of fancy articles. erc., usually for some charitable object; as, a Grand Army fair.
FAITH n.
e assent of the mind to the statement or proposition of another, on the ground of the manifest truth of what he utters; firm and earnest belief, on probable evidence of any kind, especially in regard to important moral truth. Faith, that is, fidelity, -- the fealty of the finite will and understanding to the reason. Co…
FASTI n.
The Roman calendar, which gave the days for festivals, courts, etc., corresponding to a modern almanac.
FAVORABLE a.
Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly. Lend favorable ears to our request. Shak. Lord, thou hast been favorable unto thy land. Ps. lxxxv. 1.
FEAST n. 3 definitions
A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary. The seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord. Ex. xiii. 6. Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover. Luke ii. 41.
FEASTFUL a.
Festive; festal; joyful; sumptuous; luxurious. "Feastful days." Milton. -- Feast"ful*ly, adv.
FERIA n.
A week day, esp. a day which is neither a festival nor a fast. Shipley.
FERIAL a.
Belonging to any week day, esp. to a day that is neither a festival nor a fast.
FESCUE n.
A grass of the genus Festuca. Fescue grass (Bot.), a genus of grasses (Festuca) containing several species of importance in agriculture. Festuca ovina is sheep's fescue; F. elatior is meadow fescue.
FETE n. 2 definitions
A festival. Fête champêtre ( Etym: [F.], a festival or entertainment in the open air; a rural festival.
FIDGET n.
A general nervous restlessness, manifested by incessant changes of position; dysphoria. Dunglison.
FIESTA n.
Among Spanish, a religious festival; a saint's day or holiday; also, a holiday or festivity.
FILIBUSTER n.
, especially one in quest of plunder; a freebooter; -- originally applied to buccaneers infesting the Spanish American coasts, but introduced into common English to designate the followers of Lopez in his expedition to Cuba in 1851, and those of Walker in his expedition to Nicaragua, in 1855.
FLAG n.
spect. -- To hang out the white flag, to ask truce or quarter, or, in some cases, to manifest a friendly design by exhibiting a white flag. -- To hang the flag half-mast high or half-staff, to raise it only half way to the mast or staff, as a token or sign of mourning. -- To strike, or lower, the flag, to haul it do…
FONDLING n.
The act of caressing; manifestation of tenderness. Cyrus made no . . . amorous fondling To fan her pride, or melt her guardless heart. Mickle.
FORM n.
Mode of acting or manifestation to the senses, or the intellect; as, water assumes the form of ice or snow. In modern usage, the elements of a conception furnished by the mind's own activity, as contrasted with its object or condition, which is called the matter; subjectively, a mode of apprehension or belief conceived…
FROUNCE v.
To form wrinkles in the forehead; to manifest displeasure; to frown. [Obs.] The Commons frounced and stormed. Holland.
FROWN v.
To manifest displeasure or disapprobation; to look with disfavor or threateningly; to lower; as, polite society frowns upon rudeness. The sky doth frown and lower upon our army. Shak.
FRUTAGE n.
ure of fruit; decoration by representation of fruit. The cornices consist of frutages and festoons. Evelyn.
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