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Fierce; savage; wild; indicating cruelty; ravenous; rapacious; as, ferocious look or features; a ferocious lion. The humbled power of a ferocious enemy. Lowth.

Savage wildness or fierceness; fury; cruelty; as, ferocity of countenance. The pride and ferocity of a Highland chief. Macaulay.

A symbol of the solar deity, found on monuments exhumed in Babylon, Nineveh, etc.

A suffix signifying bearing, producing, yielding; as, auriferous, yielding gold; chyliferous, producing chyle.

A stuff made of silk and wool. I did buy a colored silk ferrandine. Pepys.

A form of conductor, designed by Ferranti, for currents of high potential, and consisting of concentric tubes of copper separated by an insulating material composed of paper saturated with black mineral wax.

ondenser of moderate capacity; -- so called because first observed in connection with the Ferranti cables in London.

A sword bearing the mark of one of the Ferrara family of Italy. These swords were highly esteemed in England and Scotland in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Pertaining to Ferrara, in Italy. -- n., sing. & pl.

The art of working in iron. [Obs.] Chapman.

A salt of ferric acid.

compar. of Fer.

Partaking of, made of, or pertaining to, iron; like iron. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

superl. of Fer. Chaucer.

hite color, with red eyes. It is a native of Africa, but has been domesticated in Europe. Ferrets are used to drive rabbits and rats out of their holes.

The spur-winged goose; -- so called from the red circle around the eyes.

One who ferrets. Johnson.

Copper sulphide, used to color glass. Hebert.

A combining form indicating ferric iron as an ingredient; as, ferricyanide.

The price or fare to be paid for passage at a ferry.