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g. -- False membrane (Med.), the fibrinous deposit formed in croup and diphtheria, and resembling in appearance an animal membrane. -- False papers (Naut.), documents carried by a ship giving false representations respecting her cargo, destination, ect., for the purpose of deceiving. -- False passage (Surg.), an unn…

Resembling a fan; -- specifically (Bot.), folded up like a fan, as certain leaves; plicate.

Resembling fantasies in irregularity, caprice, or eccentricity; irregular; oddly shaped; grotesque. There at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high. T. Gray.

Formed like, or resembling, a honeycomb.

Honeycomb; having cavities or cells, somewhat resembling those of a honeycomb; alveolate; favose.

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.

ood appearance. What needeth it his feature to descrive Chaucer. Cheated of feature by dissembling nature. Shak.

Disputing or debating in a manner resembling the art of fencers. Shak.

A freckle on the skin, resembling the seed of fern. [Prov. Eng.]

Resembling iron rust in appearance or color; brownish red, or yellowish red.

Pertaining to, or resembling, the Fescennines. -- n.

Pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling, festoons. Sir J. Herschel.

Having the form of a fiber or fibers; resembling a fiber.

An albuminous body, resembling animal fibrin in composition, found in cereal grains and similar seeds; vegetable fibrin. Fibrin factors (Physiol.), the albuminous bodies, paraglobulin and fibrinigen in the blood, which, by the action of the fibrin ferment, are changed into fibrin, in coagulation. -- Fibrin ferment (Ph…

Resembling or forming fibrous tissue; made up of fibers; as, fibroid tumors. -- n.

Consisting of, containing, or resembling, fire; as, the fiery gulf of Etna; a fiery appearance. And fiery billows roll below. I. Watts.

A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music. Fife major (Mil.), a noncommissioned officer who superintends the fifers of a regiment. -- Fife rail. (Naut.) (a) A rail about the mast, at the deck, to hold belaying pins, etc. (b) A railing around the break of a…

A marine univalve shell of the genus Pyrula, or Ficula, resembling a fig in form.

Relating to, composed of, or resembling, work in filigree; as, a filigree basket. Hence: Fanciful; unsubstantial; merely decorative. You ask for reality, not fiction and filigree work. J. C. Shairp.

A projection downward from the keel of a yacht, resembling in shape the fin of a fish, though often with a cigar-shaped bulb of lead at the bottom, and generally made of metal. Its use is to ballast the boat and also to enable her to sail close to the wind and to make the least possible leeway by offering great resista…