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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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2,949 words match “QUALITY”

FIRST-RATE a.
Of the highest excellence; preëminent in quality, size, or estimation. Our only first-rate body of contemporary poetry is the German. M. Arnold. Hermocrates . . . a man of first-rate ability. Jowett (Thucyd).
FISHINESS n.
The state or quality of being fishy or fishlike. Pennant.
FISSILITY n.
Quality of being fissile.
FISSIPARITY n.
Quality of being fissiparous; fissiparism.
FIT n.
The quality of being fit; adjustment; adaptedness; as of dress to the person of the wearer.
FITNESS n.
The state or quality of being fit; as, the fitness of measures or laws; a person's fitness for office.
FITTEDNESS n.
The state or quality of being fitted; adaptation. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.
FIXEDNESS n. 2 definitions
The state or quality of being fixed; stability; steadfastness.
FLABBINESS n.
Quality or state of being flabby.
FLAGRANCY n.
The condition or quality of being flagrant; atrocity; heiniousness; enormity; excess. Steele.
FLAMMABILITY n.
The quality of being flammable; inflammability. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
FLASHINESS n.
The quality of being flashy.
FLATNESS n.
The quality or state of being flat.
FLATULENCE; FLATULENCY n.
The state or quality of being flatulent.
FLAVOR n. 3 definitions
That quality of anything which affects the smell; odor; fragrances; as, the flavor of a rose.
FLEXIBILITY n.
The state or quality of being flexible; flexibleness; pliancy; pliability; as, the flexibility of strips of hemlock, hickory, whalebone or metal, or of rays of light. Sir I. Newton. All the flexibility of a veteran courtier. Macaulay.
FLIGHTINESS n.
The state or quality of being flighty. The flightness of her temper. Hawthorne.
FLIMSINESS n.
The state or quality of being flimsy.
FLINTINESS n.
The state or quality of being flinty; hardness; cruelty. Beau. & Fl.
FLIPPANCY n.
The state or quality of being flippant. This flippancy of language. Bp. Hurd.
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