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To make happy; to felicitate. [Obs.] Quarles.

Flowing with gall. [R.] Johnson.

Producing or yielding iron.

Producing young, as animals.

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

ipe, 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 poop deck.…

One who plays on a fife.

The sum of five and ten; fifteen units or objects.

Next in order after the fourteenth; -- the ordinal of fifteen.

Consisting of one of five equal divisions of a thing. Fifth monarchy men (Hist.), a fanatical sect in England, of the time of the commonwealth, who maintained that there would be a fifth universal monarchy, during which Christ would reign on earth a thousand years. -- Fifth wheel, a horizontal wheel or segment above t…

In the fifth place; as the fifth in order.

Next in order after the forty-ninth; -- the ordinal of fifty.

Five times ten; as, fifty men.

Shaped like a fern or like the parts of a fern leaf. Smart.

Producing threads. Carpenter.

Having the shape of a thread or filament; as, the filiform papillæ of the tongue; a filiform style or peduncle. See Illust. of AntennÆ.

A limiting element or quality. [R.] The essential finific in the form of the finite. Coleridge.

To make fine; to dress finically. [Obs.] Hath so pared and finified them [his feet.] B. Jonson.

To change to fish. [R.] Shak.

A fishwoman.