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To commit fornication; to have unlawful sexual intercourse.

Vaulted like an oven or furnace; arched.

Unlawful sexual intercourse on the part of an unmarried person; the act of such illicit sexual intercourse between a man and a woman as does not by law amount to adultery.

rson, male or female, who has criminal intercourse with the other sex; one guilty of fornication.

A woman guilty of fornication. Shak.

to defend a place against attack; a fortified place; a fortress; a fort; a castle. Fortification agate, Scotch pebble.

The process of becoming fossil.

Friction. [Obs.] Bacon.

A fricative consonant letter or sound. See Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 197-206, etc.

A lewd woman; a harlot. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

act of fructifying, or rendering productive of fruit; fecundation. The prevalent fructification of plants. Sir T. Brown.

Painted; disguised with paint, or with false show.

Forked; branching like a fork; as, furcate twigs.

A branching like a. fork.

A darkening; obscurity; obfuscation. [R.] Blount.

The act or process of converting into gas.

The formation of gelatin.

The production of a bud or gem.

The act or process of generalizing. Out of this the universal is elaborated by generification. Sir W. Hamilton.

A male cat, esp. an old one. See lst Gib. n. [Obs.] Shak.