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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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8,154 words match “LIT”

FLITTINGLY adv.
In a flitting manner.
FLITTY a.
Unstable; fluttering. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.
FLUCTUABILITY n.
The capacity or ability to fluctuate. [R.] H. Walpole.
FLUXIBILITY n.
The quality of being fluxible. Hammond.
FLUXILITY n.
State of being fluxible.[Obs.]
FORALITE n.
A tubelike marking, occuring in sandstone and other strata.
FORMALITY n. 8 definitions
The condition or quality of being formal, strictly ceremonious, precise, etc.
FORMIDABILITY n.
Formidableness. Walpole.
FRAGILITY n. 3 definitions
The condition or quality of being fragile; brittleness; frangibility. Bacon.
FRANCOLITE n.
A variety of apatite from Wheal Franco in Devonshire.
FRANGIBILITY n.
The state or quality of being frangible. Fox.
FRIVOLITY n.
The condition or quality of being frivolous; also, acts or habits of trifling; unbecoming levity of disposition.
FROST-BLITE n. 2 definitions
A plant of the genus Atriplex; orache. Gray.
FRUGALITY n. 2 definitions
The quality of being frugal; prudent economy; that careful management of anything valuable which expends nothing unnecessarily, and applies what is used to a profitable purpose; thrift; --- opposed to extravagance. Frugality is founded on the principle that all riches have limits. Burke.
FUSIBILITY n.
The quality of being fusible.
FUTILITY n. 2 definitions
The quality of being talkative; talkativeness; loquaciousness; loquacity. [Obs.]
GARRULITY n.
Talkativeness; loquacity.
GASTROLITH n.
See Crab's eyes, under Crab.
GENERABILITY n.
Capability of being generated. Johnstone.
GENERALITY n. 3 definitions
The state of being general; the quality of including species or particulars. Hooker.
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