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Fandangoes
() of Fandango
Fandango
() A lively dance, in 3-8 or 6-8 time, much practiced in Spain and Spanish America. Also, the tune to which it is danced.
Fandango
() A ball or general dance, as in Mexico.
Fane
() A temple; a place consecrated to religion; a church.
Fane
() A weathercock.
Fanega
() A dry measure in Spain and Spanish America, varying from 1/ to 2/ bushels; also, a measure of land.
Fanfare
() A flourish of trumpets, as in coming into the lists, etc.; also, a short and lively air performed on hunting horns during the chase.
Fanfaron
() A bully; a hector; a swaggerer; an empty boaster.
Fanfaronade
() A swaggering; vain boasting; ostentation; a bluster.
Fanfoot
() A species of gecko having the toes expanded into large lobes for adhesion. The Egyptian fanfoot (Phyodactylus gecko) is believed, by the natives, to have venomous toes.
Fanfoot
() Any moth of the genus Polypogon.
Fang
() To catch; to seize, as with the teeth; to lay hold of; to gripe; to clutch.
Fang
() To enable to catch or tear; to furnish with fangs.
Fang
() The tusk of an animal, by which the prey is seized and held or torn; a long pointed tooth; esp., one of the usually erectile, venomous teeth of serpents. Also, one of the falcers of a spider.
Fang
() Any shoot or other thing by which hold is taken.
Fang
() The root, or one of the branches of the root, of a tooth. See Tooth.
Fang
() A niche in the side of an adit or shaft, for an air course.
Fang
() A projecting tooth or prong, as in a part of a lock, or the plate of a belt clamp, or the end of a tool, as a chisel, where it enters the handle.
Fang
() The valve of a pump box.
Fang
() A bend or loop of a rope.
Fanged
() Having fangs or tusks; as, a fanged adder. Also used figuratively.
Fangle
() Something new-fashioned; a foolish innovation; a gewgaw; a trifling ornament.
Fangle
() To fashion.
Fangled
() New made; hence, gaudy; showy; vainly decorated. [Obs., except with the prefix new.] See Newfangled.
Fangleness
() Quality of being fangled.
Fangless
() Destitute of fangs or tusks.
Fangot
() A quantity of wares, as raw silk, etc., from one hundred weight.
Fanion
() A small flag sometimes carried at the head of the baggage of a brigade.
Fanion
() A small flag for marking the stations in surveying.
Fanlike
() Resembling a fan;
Fanlike
() folded up like a fan, as certain leaves; plicate.
Fannel
() Same as Fanon.
Fanner
() One who fans.
Fanner
() A fan wheel; a fan blower. See under Fan.
Fan-nerved
() Having the nerves or veins arranged in a radiating manner; -- said of certain leaves, and of the wings of some insects.
Fanon
() A term applied to various articles, as: (a) A peculiar striped scarf worn by the pope at mass, and by eastern bishops. (b) A maniple.
Fan palm
() Any palm tree having fan-shaped or radiate leaves; as the Chamaerops humilis of Southern Europe; the species of Sabal and Thrinax in the West Indies, Florida, etc.; and especially the great talipot tree (Corypha umbraculifera) of Ceylon and Malaya. The leaves of the latter are often eighteen feet long and fourteen wide, and are used for umbrellas, tents, and roofs. When cut up, they are used for books and manuscripts.
Fantail
() A variety of the domestic pigeon, so called from the shape of the tail.
Fantail
() Any bird of the Australian genus Rhipidura, in which the tail is spread in the form of a fan during flight. They belong to the family of flycatchers.
Fan-tailed
() Having an expanded, or fan-shaped, tail; as, the fan-tailed pigeon.
Fantasia
() A continuous composition, not divided into what are called movements, or governed by the ordinary rules of musical design, but in which the author's fancy roves unrestricted by set form.
Fantasied
() Filled with fancies or imaginations.
Fantasm
() Same as Phantasm.
Fantast
() One whose manners or ideas are fantastic.
Fantastic
() Existing only in imagination; fanciful; imaginary; not real; chimerical.
Fantastic
() Having the nature of a phantom; unreal.
Fantastic
() Indulging the vagaries of imagination; whimsical; full of absurd fancies; capricious; as, fantastic minds; a fantastic mistress.
Fantastic
() Resembling fantasies in irregularity, caprice, or eccentricity; irregular; oddly shaped; grotesque.
Fantastic
() A person given to fantastic dress, manners, etc.; an eccentric person; a fop.
Fantastical
() Fanciful; unreal; whimsical; capricious; fantastic.