Fib"u-lar (?), a. Pertaining to the fibula.
||Fib`u*la"re (?), n.; pl. Fibularia (#). [NL. See Fibula.] (Anat.) The
||bone or cartilage of the tarsus, which articulates with the fibula,
||and corresponds to the calcaneum in man and most mammals.
Fice (?), n. A small dog; -- written also fise, fyce, fiste, etc.
[Southern U.S.]
Fi*chÈ (?), a. (Her.) See Fitch….
Fich"tel*ite (?), n. (Min.) A white crystallized mineral resin from the
Fichtelgebirge, Bavaria.
Fich"u (?), n. [F., neckerchief.] A light cape, usually of lace, worn
by women, to cover the neck and throat, and extending to the shoulders.
Fic"kle (?), a. [OE. fikel untrustworthy, deceitful, AS. ficol, fr.
fic, gefic, fraud, deceit; cf. fcen deceit, OS. f&?;kn, OHG. feichan,
Icel. feikn portent. Cf. Fidget.] Not fixed or firm; liable to change;
unstable; of a changeable mind; not firm in opinion or purpose;
inconstant; capricious; as, Fortune's fickle wheel. Shak.
They know how fickle common lovers are.
Dryden.
Syn. -- Wavering; irresolute; unsettled; vacillating; unstable;
inconsonant; unsteady; variable; mutable; changeful; capricious;
veering; shifting.
Fic"kle*ness (?), n. The quality of being fickle; instability;
inconsonancy. Shak.
Fic"kly (?), adv. In a fickle manner. [Obs.] Pepys.
||Fi"co (?), n.; pl. Ficoes (#). [It., a fig, fr. L. ficus. See Fig.] A
||fig; an insignificant trifle, no more than the snap of one's thumb; a
||sign of contempt made by the fingers, expressing. A fig for you.
Steal! foh, a fico for the phrase.
Shak.
Fic"tile (?), a. [L. fictilis. See Fiction.] Molded, or capable of
being molded, into form by art; relating to pottery or to molding in
any soft material.
Fictile earth is more fragile than crude earth.
Bacon.
The earliest specimens of Italian fictile art.