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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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15,837 words match “HER”

FEATHERNESS n.
The state or condition of being feathery.
FEATHERSTITCH n.
A kind of embroidery stitch producing a branching zigzag line.
FEATHERY a.
Pertaining to, or resembling, feathers; covered with, or as with, feathers; as, feathery spray or snow. Milton. Ye feathery people of mid air. Barry Cornwall.
FEROHER n.
A symbol of the solar deity, found on monuments exhumed in Babylon, Nineveh, etc.
FETCHER n.
One wo fetches or brings.
FILCHER n.
One who filches; a thief.
FINISHER n. 2 definitions
the work, or any part of it, and brings it to perfection. O prophet of glad tidings, finisher Of utmost hope! Milton.
FISHER n. 2 definitions
One who fishes.
FISHERMAN n. 2 definitions
A ship or vessel employed in the business of taking fish, as in the cod fishery.
FISHERY n. 3 definitions
The business or practice of catching fish; fishing. Addison.
FLACHERIE n.
A bacterial disease of silkworms, supposed to be due to eating contaminated mulberry leaves.
FLASHER n. 4 definitions
The European red-backed shrile (Lanius collurio); -- called also flusher.
FLESHER n. 2 definitions
A butcher. A flesher on a block had laid his whittle down. Macaulay.
FLETCHER n.
One who fletches of feathers arrows; a manufacturer of bows and arrows. [Obs.] Mortimer.
FLINCHER n.
One who flinches or fails.
FLOURISHER n.
One who flourishes.
FLUSHER n. 2 definitions
The red-backed shrike. See Flasher.
FLYCATCHER n.
One of numerous species of birds that feed upon insects, which they take on the wing.
FOREFATHER n.
One who precedes another in the line of genealogy in any degree, but usually in a remote degree; an ancestor. Respecting your forefathers, you would have been taught to respect yourselves. Burke. Forefathers' Day, the anniversary of the day (December 21) on which the Pilgrim Fathers landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts (1…
FOREGATHER v.
Same as Forgather.
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