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An amusement device consisting of a giant power-driven steel wheel, revolvable on its stationary axle, and carrying a number of balanced passenger cars around its rim; -- so called after G. W. G. Ferris, American engineer, who erected the first of its kind for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893.…

A carved ornament consisting of flowers, and leaves, intermixed or twisted together, wound with a ribbon, and hanging or depending in a natural curve. See Illust. of Bucranium.

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

Formed or consisting of straw. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Consisting of, or founded upon, feuds or fiefs; embracing tenures by military services; as, the feudal system.

A tumor consisting mainly of fibrous tissue, or of same modification of such tissue.

Containing, or consisting of, fibers; as, the fibrous coat of the cocoanut; the fibrous roots of grasses. -- Fi"brous*ness, n.

Consisting of fields. [Obs.] The fielden country also and plains. Holland.

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

Consisting of one of fifteen equal parts or divisions of a thing.

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…

Consisting of one of fifty equal parts or divisions.

Represented by figure or delineation; consisting of figures; as, figural ornaments. Sir T. Browne.

Like a thread; consisting of threads or filaments. Gray.

An organ of a fish, consisting of a membrane supported by rays, or little bony or cartilaginous ossicles, and serving to balance and propel it in the water.

pider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Pope. The nicest and most delicate touches of satire consist in fine raillery. Dryden. He has as fine a hand at picking a pocket as a woman. T. Gray.

ne; overnice; unduly particular; fastidious. "Finical taste." Wordsworth. The gross style consists in giving no detail, the finical in giving nothing else. Hazlitt.

Consisting of fish; fishlike; having the qualities or taste of fish; abounding in fish. Pope.

oduction among the lowest (unicellular) organisms by means of a process of self-division, consisting of gradual division or cleavage of the into two parts, each of which then becomes a separate and independent organisms; as when a cell in an animal or plant, or its germ, undergoes a spontaneous division, and the parts…

In fives; consisting of five in one; five repeated; quintuple.