With patient angle trolls the finny deep.
Goldsmoth.
||Fi*no"chi*o (?; 277), n. [It. finocchio fennel, LL. fenuclum. See
||Fennel.] (Bot.) An umbelliferous plant (Fúniculum dulce) having a
||somewhat tuberous stem; sweet fennel. The blanched stems are used in
||France and Italy as a culinary vegetable.
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||Fi"nos (?), n. pl. [Sp., pl., fr. fino fine.] Second best wool from
||Merino sheep. Gardner.
Fin"pike` (?), n. (Zoˆl.) The bichir. See Crossopterygii.
Fint (?), 3d pers. sing. pr. of Find, for findeth. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Fin"-toed` (?), a. (Zoˆl.) Having toes connected by a membrane;
palmiped; palmated; also, lobate.
||Fiord (fy&?;rd; i or y consonant, ß 272), n. [Dan. & Norw. fiord. See
||Frith.] A narrow inlet of the sea, penetrating between high banks or
||rocks, as on the coasts of Norway and Alaska. [Written also fjord.]
Fi"o*rin (?), n. [Cf. Ir. fiothran a sort of grass.] (Bot.) A species
of creeping bent grass (Agrostis alba); -- called also fiorin grass.
Fi"o*rite (?), n. (Min.) A variety of opal occuring in the cavities of
volcanic tufa, in smooth and shining globular and botryoidal masses,
having a pearly luster; - - so called from Fiora, in Ischia.
||Fio`ri*tu"re (?), n. pl. [It., pl. of fioritura a flowering.] (Mus.)
||Little flowers of ornament introduced into a melody by a singer or
||player.
Fip"pen*ny bit` (? or ?). [Corruption of five penny bit.] The Spanish
half real, or one sixteenth of a dollar, - - so called in Pennsylvania
and the adjacent States. [Obs.]
Before the act of Congress, Feb. 21, 1857, caused the adoption of
decimal coins and the withdrawal of foreign coinage from circulation,
this coin passed currently for 6º cents, and was called in New England
a fourpence ha'penny or fourpence; in New York a sixpence; in
Pennsylvania, Virginia, etc., a fip; and in Louisiana, a picayune.
Fip"ple (fr), n. [perh. fr. L. fibula a clasp, a pin; cf. Prov. E.
fible a stick used to stir pottage.] A stopper, as in a wind instrument
of music. [Obs.] Bacon.
Fir (fr), n. [Dan. fyr, fyrr; akin to Sw. furu, Icel. fura, AS. furh in
furhwudu fir wood, G. fˆhre, OHG. forha pine, vereheih a sort of oak,
L. quercus oak.] (Bot.) A genus (Abies) of coniferous trees, often of
large size and elegant shape, some of them valued for their timber and
others for their resin. The species are distinguished as the balsam
fir, the silver fir, the red fir, etc. The Scotch fir is a Pinus.
Fir in the Bible means any one of several coniferous trees, including,
cedar, cypress, and probably three species of pine. J. D. Hooker.
Fire (fr), n. [OE. fir, fyr, fur AS. fr; akin to D. vuur, OS. & OHG.
fiur, G. feuer, Icel. fri, frr, Gr. py^r, and perh. to L. purus pure,
E. pure Cf. Empyrean, Pyre.] 1. The evolution of light and heat in the
combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.
The form of fire exhibited in the combustion of gases in an ascending
stream or current is called flame. Anciently, fire, air, earth, and
water were regarded as the four elements of which all things are
composed.
2. Fuel in a state of combustion, as on a hearth, or in a stove or a
furnace.