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doffer. -- Fancy stocks, a species of stocks which afford great opportunity for stock gambling, since they have no intrinsic value, and the fluctuations in their prices are artificial. -- Fancy store, one where articles of fancy and ornament are sold. -- Fancy woods, the more rare and expensive furniture woods, as m…

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.

A gambling game at cardds, in whiich all the other players play against the dealer or banker, staking their money upon the order in which the cards will lie and be dealt from the pack. Faro bank, the capital which the proprietor of a farotable ventures in the game; also, the place where a game of faro is played. Hoyle.…

Formed like, or resembling, a honeycomb.

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

on or upon. You showed your teeth like apes, and fawned like hounds. Shak. Thou with trembling fear, Or like a fawning parasite, obeyest. Milton. Courtiers who fawn on a master while they betray him. Macaulay.

Apprehension of incurring, or solicitude to avoid, God's wrath; the trembling and awful reverence felt toward the Supreme Belng.

Indicating, or caused by, fear. Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh. Shak.

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.

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

by the nerves of sensation; -- followed by an adjective describing the kind of sensation. Blind men say black feels rough, and white feels smooth. Dryden. To feel after, to search for; to seek to find; to seek as a person groping in the dark. "If haply they might feel after him, and find him." Acts xvii. 27. - To feel…

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.

Excessive devotion to one object or one idea; abject superstition; blind adoration. The real and absolute worship of fire falls into two great divisions, the first belonging rather to fetichism, the second to polytheism proper. Tylor.

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…