Name Report For First Name FALK:
FALK
First name FALK's origin is German. FALK means "surname relating to falconry". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with FALK below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of falk.(Brown names are of the same origin (German) with FALK and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with FALK - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming FALK
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES FALK AS A WHOLE:
falke falkenNAMES RHYMING WITH FALK (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (alk) - Names That Ends with alk:
Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (lk) - Names That Ends with lk:
selkNAMES RHYMING WITH FALK (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (fal) - Names That Begins with fal:
fala falak falakee falcon falerina faline fallamhain fallon fallyn falon falynRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (fa) - Names That Begins with fa:
faber fabia fabian fabiana fabien fabienne fabio fabion fachnan fadheela fadi fadil fadilah fadl fadwa fae faegan faelen faer faerrleah faerwald faeryn faethe fagan fagen fagin fahad fahd fahesh fahey fahy faiion fain fainche faine faing fairfax fairlie faisal faith faithe faizah fajer fajr fakhir fakhiri fakhry faki fakih fana fanceen fanchon fanchone fane fanetta fanette fang fanni fannia fannie fanny fanous fanta fantina fantine fanuco faodhagan faoiltiama faolan faqueza fara farah faraj faraji faran faras fardoragh fareed fareeda fareeha fareeq farees faren farhan farhana farid faridah fariha farihahNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH FALK:
First Names which starts with 'f' and ends with 'k':
filbuk fitzpatrick frank fredek frederick frederik frick friedrickEnglish Words Rhyming FALK
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES FALK AS A WHOLE:
| falk | noun (n.) The razorbill. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH FALK (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (alk) - English Words That Ends with alk:
| bierbalk | noun (n.) A church road (e. g., a path across fields) for funerals. |
| calk | noun (n.) A sharp-pointed piece of iron or steel projecting downward on the shoe of a horse or an ox, to prevent the animal from slipping; -- called also calker, calkin. |
| noun (n.) An instrument with sharp points, worn on the sole of a shoe or boot, to prevent slipping. | |
| verb (v. t.) To drive tarred oakum into the seams between the planks of (a ship, boat, etc.), to prevent leaking. The calking is completed by smearing the seams with melted pitch. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make an indentation in the edge of a metal plate, as along a seam in a steam boiler or an iron ship, to force the edge of the upper plate hard against the lower and so fill the crevice. | |
| verb (v. t.) To copy, as a drawing, by rubbing the back of it with red or black chalk, and then passing a blunt style or needle over the lines, so as to leave a tracing on the paper or other thing against which it is laid or held. | |
| verb (v. i.) To furnish with calks, to prevent slipping on ice; as, to calk the shoes of a horse or an ox. | |
| verb (v. i.) To wound with a calk; as when a horse injures a leg or a foot with a calk on one of the other feet. |
| chalk | noun (n.) A soft, earthy substance, of a white, grayish, or yellowish white color, consisting of calcium carbonate, and having the same composition as common limestone. |
| noun (n.) Finely prepared chalk, used as a drawing implement; also, by extension, a compound, as of clay and black lead, or the like, used in the same manner. See Crayon. | |
| verb (v. t.) To rub or mark with chalk. | |
| verb (v. t.) To manure with chalk, as land. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make white, as with chalk; to make pale; to bleach. |
| cornstalk | noun (n.) A stalk of Indian corn. |
| eyestalk | noun (n.) One of the movable peduncles which, in the decapod Crustacea, bear the eyes at the tip. |
| footstalk | noun (n.) The stalk of a leaf or of flower; a petiole, pedicel, or reduncle. |
| noun (n.) The peduncle or stem by which various marine animals are attached, as certain brachiopods and goose barnacles. | |
| noun (n.) The stem which supports which supports the eye in decapod Crustacea; eyestalk. | |
| noun (n.) The lower part of a millstone spindle. It rests in a step. |
| halk | noun (n.) A nook; a corner. |
| haystalk | noun (n.) A stalk of hay. |
| leafstalk | noun (n.) The stalk or petiole which supports a leaf. |
| muschelkalk | noun (n.) A kind of shell limestone, whose strata form the middle one of the three divisions of the Triassic formation in Germany. See Chart, under Geology. |
| ropewalk | adjective (a.) A long, covered walk, or a low, level building, where ropes are manufactured. |
| sidewalk | noun (n.) A walk for foot passengers at the side of a street or road; a foot pavement. |
| stalk | noun (n.) The stem or main axis of a plant; as, a stalk of wheat, rye, or oats; the stalks of maize or hemp. |
| noun (n.) The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle, of a plant. | |
| noun (n.) That which resembes the stalk of a plant, as the stem of a quill. | |
| noun (n.) An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring. | |
| noun (n.) One of the two upright pieces of a ladder. | |
| noun (n.) A stem or peduncle, as of certain barnacles and crinoids. | |
| noun (n.) The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect. | |
| noun (n.) The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans. | |
| noun (n.) An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor. | |
| noun (n.) A high, proud, stately step or walk. | |
| noun (n.) The act or process of stalking. | |
| verb (v. i.) To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner; -- sometimes used with a reflexive pronoun. | |
| verb (v. i.) To walk behind something as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under clover. | |
| verb (v. i.) To walk with high and proud steps; usually implying the affectation of dignity, and indicating dislike. The word is used, however, especially by the poets, to express dignity of step. | |
| verb (v. t.) To approach under cover of a screen, or by stealth, for the purpose of killing, as game. |
| talk | noun (n.) To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts. |
| noun (n.) To confer; to reason; to consult. | |
| noun (n.) To prate; to speak impertinently. | |
| noun (n.) The act of talking; especially, familiar converse; mutual discourse; that which is uttered, especially in familiar conversation, or the mutual converse of two or more. | |
| noun (n.) Report; rumor; as, to hear talk of war. | |
| noun (n.) Subject of discourse; as, his achievment is the talk of the town. | |
| verb (v. t.) To speak freely; to use for conversing or communicating; as, to talk French. | |
| verb (v. t.) To deliver in talking; to speak; to utter; to make a subject of conversation; as, to talk nonsense; to talk politics. | |
| verb (v. t.) To consume or spend in talking; -- often followed by away; as, to talk away an evening. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to be or become by talking. |
| walk | noun (n.) The act of walking, or moving on the feet with a slow pace; advance without running or leaping. |
| noun (n.) The act of walking for recreation or exercise; as, a morning walk; an evening walk. | |
| noun (n.) Manner of walking; gait; step; as, we often know a person at a distance by his walk. | |
| noun (n.) That in or through which one walks; place or distance walked over; a place for walking; a path or avenue prepared for foot passengers, or for taking air and exercise; way; road; hence, a place or region in which animals may graze; place of wandering; range; as, a sheep walk. | |
| noun (n.) A frequented track; habitual place of action; sphere; as, the walk of the historian. | |
| noun (n.) Conduct; course of action; behavior. | |
| noun (n.) The route or district regularly served by a vender; as, a milkman's walk. | |
| noun (n.) In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them. | |
| noun (n.) A place for keeping and training puppies. | |
| noun (n.) An inclosed area of some extent to which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting. | |
| verb (v. i.) To move along on foot; to advance by steps; to go on at a moderate pace; specifically, of two-legged creatures, to proceed at a slower or faster rate, but without running, or lifting one foot entirely before the other touches the ground. | |
| verb (v. i.) To move or go on the feet for exercise or amusement; to take one's exercise; to ramble. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; -- said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person; to go about as a somnambulist or a specter. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be in motion; to act; to move; to wag. | |
| verb (v. i.) To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct one's self. | |
| verb (v. i.) To move off; to depart. | |
| verb (v. t.) To pass through, over, or upon; to traverse; to perambulate; as, to walk the streets. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to walk; to lead, drive, or ride with a slow pace; as to walk one's horses. | |
| verb (v. t.) To subject, as cloth or yarn, to the fulling process; to full. | |
| verb (v. t.) To put or keep (a puppy) in a walk; to train (puppies) in a walk. | |
| verb (v. t.) To move in a manner likened to walking. |
| whipstalk | noun (n.) A whipstock. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH FALK (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (fal) - Words That Begins with fal:
| falanaka | noun (n.) A viverrine mammal of Madagascar (Eupleres Goudotii), allied to the civet; -- called also Falanouc. |
| falcade | noun (n.) The action of a horse, when he throws himself on his haunches two or three times, bending himself, as it were, in very quick curvets. |
| falcate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Falcated |
| falcated | adjective (a.) Hooked or bent like a sickle; as, a falcate leaf; a falcate claw; -- said also of the moon, or a planet, when horned or crescent-formed. |
| falcation | noun (n.) The state of being falcate; a bend in the form of a sickle. |
| falcer | noun (n.) One of the mandibles of a spider. |
| falchion | noun (n.) A broad-bladed sword, slightly curved, shorter and lighter than the ordinary sword; -- used in the Middle Ages. |
| noun (n.) A name given generally and poetically to a sword, especially to the swords of Oriental and fabled warriors. |
| falcidian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Publius Falcidius, a Roman tribune. |
| falciform | adjective (a.) Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver. |
| falcon | noun (n.) One of a family (Falconidae) of raptorial birds, characterized by a short, hooked beak, strong claws, and powerful flight. |
| noun (n.) Any species of the genus Falco, distinguished by having a toothlike lobe on the upper mandible; especially, one of this genus trained to the pursuit of other birds, or game. | |
| noun (n.) An ancient form of cannon. |
| falconer | noun (n.) A person who breeds or trains hawks for taking birds or game; one who follows the sport of fowling with hawks. |
| falconet | noun (n.) One of the smaller cannon used in the 15th century and later. |
| noun (n.) One of several very small Asiatic falcons of the genus Microhierax. | |
| noun (n.) One of a group of Australian birds of the genus Falcunculus, resembling shrikes and titmice. |
| falcongentil | noun (n.) The female or young of the goshawk (Astur palumbarius). |
| falconine | adjective (a.) Like a falcon or hawk; belonging to the Falconidae |
| falconry | noun (n.) The art of training falcons or hawks to pursue and attack wild fowl or game. |
| noun (n.) The sport of taking wild fowl or game by means of falcons or hawks. |
| falcula | noun (n.) A curved and sharp-pointed claw. |
| falculate | adjective (a.) Curved and sharppointed, like a falcula, or claw of a falcon. |
| faldage | noun (n.) A privilege of setting up, and moving about, folds for sheep, in any fields within manors, in order to manure them; -- often reserved to himself by the lord of the manor. |
| faldfee | noun (n.) A fee or rent paid by a tenant for the privilege of faldage on his own ground. |
| falding | noun (n.) A frieze or rough-napped cloth. |
| faldistory | noun (n.) The throne or seat of a bishop within the chancel. |
| faldstool | noun (n.) A folding stool, or portable seat, made to fold up in the manner of a camo stool. It was formerly placed in the choir for a bishop, when he offciated in any but his own cathedral church. |
| falernian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Mount Falernus, in Italy; as, Falernianwine. |
| falling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fall |
| noun (a. & n.) from Fall, v. i. |
| fall | noun (n.) The act of falling; a dropping or descending be the force of gravity; descent; as, a fall from a horse, or from the yard of ship. |
| noun (n.) The act of dropping or tumbling from an erect posture; as, he was walking on ice, and had a fall. | |
| noun (n.) Death; destruction; overthrow; ruin. | |
| noun (n.) Downfall; degradation; loss of greatness or office; termination of greatness, power, or dominion; ruin; overthrow; as, the fall of the Roman empire. | |
| noun (n.) The surrender of a besieged fortress or town ; as, the fall of Sebastopol. | |
| noun (n.) Diminution or decrease in price or value; depreciation; as, the fall of prices; the fall of rents. | |
| noun (n.) A sinking of tone; cadence; as, the fall of the voice at the close of a sentence. | |
| noun (n.) Declivity; the descent of land or a hill; a slope. | |
| noun (n.) Descent of water; a cascade; a cataract; a rush of water down a precipice or steep; -- usually in the plural, sometimes in the singular; as, the falls of Niagara. | |
| noun (n.) The discharge of a river or current of water into the ocean, or into a lake or pond; as, the fall of the Po into the Gulf of Venice. | |
| noun (n.) Extent of descent; the distance which anything falls; as, the water of a stream has a fall of five feet. | |
| noun (n.) The season when leaves fall from trees; autumn. | |
| noun (n.) That which falls; a falling; as, a fall of rain; a heavy fall of snow. | |
| noun (n.) The act of felling or cutting down. | |
| noun (n.) Lapse or declension from innocence or goodness. Specifically: The first apostasy; the act of our first parents in eating the forbidden fruit; also, the apostasy of the rebellious angels. | |
| noun (n.) Formerly, a kind of ruff or band for the neck; a falling band; a faule. | |
| noun (n.) That part (as one of the ropes) of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting. | |
| verb (v. t.) To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; the mercury falls in the barometer. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cease to be erect; to take suddenly a recumbent posture; to become prostrate; to drop; as, a child totters and falls; a tree falls; a worshiper falls on his knees. | |
| verb (v. t.) To find a final outlet; to discharge its waters; to empty; -- with into; as, the river Rhone falls into the Mediterranean. | |
| verb (v. t.) To become prostrate and dead; to die; especially, to die by violence, as in battle. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cease to be active or strong; to die away; to lose strength; to subside; to become less intense; as, the wind falls. | |
| verb (v. t.) To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; -- said of the young of certain animals. | |
| verb (v. t.) To decline in power, glory, wealth, or importance; to become insignificant; to lose rank or position; to decline in weight, value, price etc.; to become less; as, the falls; stocks fell two points. | |
| verb (v. t.) To be overthrown or captured; to be destroyed. | |
| verb (v. t.) To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin; to depart from the faith; to apostatize; to sin. | |
| verb (v. t.) To become insnared or embarrassed; to be entrapped; to be worse off than before; asm to fall into error; to fall into difficulties. | |
| verb (v. t.) To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; -- said of the countenance. | |
| verb (v. t.) To sink; to languish; to become feeble or faint; as, our spirits rise and fall with our fortunes. | |
| verb (v. t.) To pass somewhat suddenly, and passively, into a new state of body or mind; to become; as, to fall asleep; to fall into a passion; to fall in love; to fall into temptation. | |
| verb (v. t.) To happen; to to come to pass; to light; to befall; to issue; to terminate. | |
| verb (v. t.) To come; to occur; to arrive. | |
| verb (v. t.) To begin with haste, ardor, or vehemence; to rush or hurry; as, they fell to blows. | |
| verb (v. t.) To pass or be transferred by chance, lot, distribution, inheritance, or otherwise; as, the estate fell to his brother; the kingdom fell into the hands of his rivals. | |
| verb (v. t.) To belong or appertain. | |
| verb (v. t.) To be dropped or uttered carelessly; as, an unguarded expression fell from his lips; not a murmur fell from him. | |
| verb (v. t.) To let fall; to drop. | |
| verb (v. t.) To sink; to depress; as, to fall the voice. | |
| verb (v. t.) To diminish; to lessen or lower. | |
| verb (v. t.) To bring forth; as, to fall lambs. | |
| verb (v. t.) To fell; to cut down; as, to fall a tree. |
| fallacious | adjective (a.) Embodying or pertaining to a fallacy; illogical; fitted to deceive; misleading; delusive; as, fallacious arguments or reasoning. |
| fallacy | noun (n.) Deceptive or false appearance; deceitfulness; that which misleads the eye or the mind; deception. |
| noun (n.) An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it is not; a sophism. |
| fallals | noun (n.pl.) Gay ornaments; frippery; gewgaws. |
| fallax | noun (n.) Cavillation; a caviling. |
| fallen | adjective (a.) Dropped; prostrate; degraded; ruined; decreased; dead. |
| (p. p.) of Fall |
| fallency | noun (n.) An exception. |
| faller | noun (n.) One who, or that which, falls. |
| noun (n.) A part which acts by falling, as a stamp in a fulling mill, or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread breaks. |
| fallfish | noun (n.) A fresh-water fish of the United States (Semotilus bullaris); -- called also silver chub, and Shiner. The name is also applied to other allied species. |
| fallibility | noun (n.) The state of being fallible; liability to deceive or to be deceived; as, the fallibity of an argument or of an adviser. |
| fallible | adjective (a.) Liable to fail, mistake, or err; liable to deceive or to be deceived; as, all men are fallible; our opinions and hopes are fallible. |
| fallopian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or discovered by, Fallopius; as, the Fallopian tubes or oviducts, the ducts or canals which conduct the ova from the ovaries to the uterus. |
| fallow | noun (n.) Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground. |
| noun (n.) Plowed land. | |
| noun (n.) Land that has lain a year or more untilled or unseeded; land plowed without being sowed for the season. | |
| noun (n.) The plowing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season; as, summer fallow, properly conducted, has ever been found a sure method of destroying weeds. | |
| noun (n.) To plow, harrow, and break up, as land, without seeding, for the purpose of destroying weeds and insects, and rendering it mellow; as, it is profitable to fallow cold, strong, clayey land. | |
| adjective (a.) Pale red or pale yellow; as, a fallow deer or greyhound. |
| fallowing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fallow |
| fallowist | noun (n.) One who favors the practice of fallowing land. |
| fallowness | noun (n.) A well or opening, through the successive floors of a warehouse or manufactory, through which goods are raised or lowered. |
| falsary | adjective (a.) A falsifier of evidence. |
| false | adjective (a.) To report falsely; to falsify. |
| adjective (a.) To betray; to falsify. | |
| adjective (a.) To mislead by want of truth; to deceive. | |
| adjective (a.) To feign; to pretend to make. | |
| superlative (superl.) Uttering falsehood; unveracious; given to deceit; dishnest; as, a false witness. | |
| superlative (superl.) Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous; perfidious; as, a false friend, lover, or subject; false to promises. | |
| superlative (superl.) Not according with truth or reality; not true; fitted or likely to deceive or disappoint; as, a false statement. | |
| superlative (superl.) Not genuine or real; assumed or designed to deceive; counterfeit; hypocritical; as, false tears; false modesty; false colors; false jewelry. | |
| superlative (superl.) Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous; as, a false claim; a false conclusion; a false construction in grammar. | |
| superlative (superl.) Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental. | |
| superlative (superl.) Not in tune. | |
| adverb (adv.) Not truly; not honestly; falsely. |
| falsehood | noun (n.) Want of truth or accuracy; an untrue assertion or representation; error; misrepresentation; falsity. |
| noun (n.) A deliberate intentional assertion of what is known to be untrue; a departure from moral integrity; a lie. | |
| noun (n.) Treachery; deceit; perfidy; unfaithfulness. | |
| noun (n.) A counterfeit; a false appearance; an imposture. |
| falseness | noun (n.) The state of being false; contrariety to the fact; inaccuracy; want of integrity or uprightness; double dealing; unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as, the falseness of a report, a drawing, or a singer's notes; the falseness of a man, or of his word. |
| falser | noun (n.) A deceiver. |
| falsetto | noun (n.) A false or artificial voice; that voice in a man which lies above his natural voice; the male counter tenor or alto voice. See Head voice, under Voice. |
| falsifiable | adjective (a.) Capable of being falsified, counterfeited, or corrupted. |
| falsification | noun (n.) The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not. |
| noun (n.) Willful misstatement or misrepresentation. | |
| noun (n.) The showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong. |
| falsificator | noun (n.) A falsifier. |
| falsifier | noun (n.) One who falsifies, or gives to a thing a deceptive appearance; a liar. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH FALK:
English Words which starts with 'f' and ends with 'k':
| facework | noun (n.) The material of the outside or front side, as of a wall or building; facing. |
| fancywork | noun (n.) Ornamental work with a needle or hook, as embroidery, crocheting, netting, etc. |
| fatback | noun (n.) The menhaden. |
| fecifork | noun (n.) The anal fork on which the larvae of certain insects carry their faeces. |
| fenugreek | noun (n.) A plant (trigonella Foenum Graecum) cultivated for its strong-smelling seeds, which are |
| fetlock | noun (n.) The cushionlike projection, bearing a tuft of long hair, on the back side of the leg above the hoof of the horse and similar animals. Also, the joint of the limb at this point (between the great pastern bone and the metacarpus), or the tuft of hair. |
| fiddlestick | noun (n.) The bow, strung with horsehair, used in playing the fiddle; a fiddle bow. |
| fieldwork | noun (n.) Any temporary fortification thrown up by an army in the field; -- commonly in the plural. |
| finback | noun (n.) Any whale of the genera Sibbaldius, Balaenoptera, and allied genera, of the family Balaenopteridae, characterized by a prominent fin on the back. The common finbacks of the New England coast are Sibbaldius tectirostris and S. tuberosus. |
| fireback | noun (n.) One of several species of pheasants of the genus Euplocamus, having the lower back a bright, fiery red. They inhabit Southern Asia and the East Indies. |
| firelock | noun (n.) An old form of gunlock, as the flintlock, which ignites the priming by a spark; perhaps originally, a matchlock. Hence, a gun having such a lock. |
| firework | noun (n.) A device for producing a striking display of light, or a figure or figures in plain or colored fire, by the combustion of materials that burn in some peculiar manner, as gunpowder, sulphur, metallic filings, and various salts. The most common feature of fireworks is a paper or pasteboard tube filled with the combustible material. A number of these tubes or cases are often combined so as to make, when kindled, a great variety of figures in fire, often variously colored. The skyrocket is a common form of firework. The name is also given to various combustible preparations used in war. |
| noun (n.) A pyrotechnic exhibition. |
| firk | noun (n.) A freak; trick; quirk. |
| verb (v. t.) To beat; to strike; to chastise. | |
| verb (v. i.) To fly out; to turn out; to go off. |
| fishhawk | noun (n.) The osprey (Pandion haliaetus), found both in Europe and America; -- so called because it plunges into the water and seizes fishes in its talons. Called also fishing eagle, and bald buzzard. |
| fishhook | noun (n.) A hook for catching fish. |
| noun (n.) A hook with a pendant, to the end of which the fish-tackle is hooked. |
| flank | noun (n.) The fleshy or muscular part of the side of an animal, between the ribs and the hip. See Illust. of Beef. |
| noun (n.) The side of an army, or of any division of an army, as of a brigade, regiment, or battalion; the extreme right or left; as, to attack an enemy in flank is to attack him on the side. | |
| noun (n.) That part of a bastion which reaches from the curtain to the face, and defends the curtain, the flank and face of the opposite bastion; any part of a work defending another by a fire along the outside of its parapet. | |
| noun (n.) The side of any building. | |
| noun (n.) That part of the acting surface of a gear wheel tooth that lies within the pitch line. | |
| verb (v. t.) To stand at the flank or side of; to border upon. | |
| verb (v. t.) To overlook or command the flank of; to secure or guard the flank of; to pass around or turn the flank of; to attack, or threaten to attack; the flank of. | |
| verb (v. i.) To border; to touch. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be posted on the side. |
| flapjack | noun (n.) A fklat cake turned on the griddle while cooking; a griddlecake or pacake. |
| noun (n.) A fried dough cake containing fruit; a turnover. |
| flask | noun (n.) A small bottle-shaped vessel for holding fluids; as, a flask of oil or wine. |
| noun (n.) A narrow-necked vessel of metal or glass, used for various purposes; as of sheet metal, to carry gunpowder in; or of wrought iron, to contain quicksilver; or of glass, to heat water in, etc. | |
| noun (n.) A bed in a gun carriage. | |
| noun (n.) The wooden or iron frame which holds the sand, etc., forming the mold used in a foundry; it consists of two or more parts; viz., the cope or top; sometimes, the cheeks, or middle part; and the drag, or bottom part. When there are one or more cheeks, the flask is called a three part flask, four part flask, etc. |
| fleak | noun (n.) A flake; a thread or twist. |
| fleck | noun (n.) A flake; also, a lock, as of wool. |
| noun (n.) A spot; a streak; a speckle. | |
| noun (n.) To spot; to streak or stripe; to variegate; to dapple. |
| flick | noun (n.) A flitch; as, a flick of bacon. |
| verb (v. t.) To whip lightly or with a quick jerk; to flap; as, to flick a horse; to flick the dirt from boots. | |
| verb (v. t.) To throw, snap, or toss with a jerk; to flirt; as, to flick a whiplash. | |
| verb (v. t.) A light quick stroke or blow, esp. with something pliant; a flirt; also, the sound made by such a blow. |
| flintlock | noun (n.) A lock for a gun or pistol, having a flint fixed in the hammer, which on striking the steel ignites the priming. |
| noun (n.) A hand firearm fitted with a flintlock; esp., the old-fashioned musket of European and other armies. |
| flisk | noun (n.) A caper; a spring; a whim. |
| verb (v. i.) To frisk; to skip; to caper. |
| flock | noun (n.) A company or collection of living creatures; -- especially applied to sheep and birds, rarely to persons or (except in the plural) to cattle and other large animals; as, a flock of ravenous fowl. |
| noun (n.) A Christian church or congregation; considered in their relation to the pastor, or minister in charge. | |
| noun (n.) A lock of wool or hair. | |
| noun (n.) Woolen or cotton refuse (sing. / pl.), old rags, etc., reduced to a degree of fineness by machinery, and used for stuffing unpholstered furniture. | |
| verb (v. i.) To gather in companies or crowds. | |
| verb (v. t.) To flock to; to crowd. | |
| verb (v. t.) To coat with flock, as wall paper; to roughen the surface of (as glass) so as to give an appearance of being covered with fine flock. | |
| (sing. / pl.) Very fine, sifted, woolen refuse, especially that from shearing the nap of cloths, used as a coating for wall paper to give it a velvety or clothlike appearance; also, the dust of vegetable fiber used for a similar purpose. |
| flook | noun (n.) A fluke of an anchor. |
| flowk | noun (n.) See 1st Fluke. |
| fluework | noun (n.) A general name for organ stops in which the sound is caused by wind passing through a flue or fissure and striking an edge above; -- in distinction from reedwork. |
| flunk | noun (n.) A failure or backing out |
| noun (n.) a total failure in a recitation. | |
| verb (v. i.) To fail, as on a lesson; to back out, as from an undertaking, through fear. | |
| verb (v. t.) To fail in; to shirk, as a task or duty. |
| flyspeck | noun (n.) A speck or stain made by the excrement of a fly; hence, any insignificant dot. |
| verb (v. t.) To soil with flyspecks. |
| folk | noun (n. collect. & pl.) Alt. of Folks |
| foothook | noun (n.) See Futtock. |
| footmark | noun (n.) A footprint; a track or vestige. |
| forblack | adjective (a.) Very black. |
| foredeck | noun (n.) The fore part of a deck, or of a ship. |
| forehook | noun (n.) A piece of timber placed across the stem, to unite the bows and strengthen the fore part of the ship; a breast hook. |
| forelock | noun (n.) The lock of hair that grows from the forepart of the head. |
| noun (n.) A cotter or split pin, as in a slot in a bolt, to prevent retraction; a linchpin; a pin fastening the cap-square of a gun. |
| foremilk | noun (n.) The milk secreted just before, or directly after, the birth of a child or of the young of an animal; colostrum. |
| forerank | noun (n.) The first rank; the front. |
| forestick | noun (n.) Front stick of a hearth fire. |
| fork | noun (n.) An instrument consisting of a handle with a shank terminating in two or more prongs or tines, which are usually of metal, parallel and slightly curved; -- used from piercing, holding, taking up, or pitching anything. |
| noun (n.) Anything furcate or like a fork in shape, or furcate at the extremity; as, a tuning fork. | |
| noun (n.) One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow. | |
| noun (n.) The place where a division or a union occurs; the angle or opening between two branches or limbs; as, the fork of a river, a tree, or a road. | |
| noun (n.) The gibbet. | |
| verb (v. i.) To shoot into blades, as corn. | |
| verb (v. i.) To divide into two or more branches; as, a road, a tree, or a stream forks. | |
| verb (v. t.) To raise, or pitch with a fork, as hay; to dig or turn over with a fork, as the soil. |
| forswonk | adjective (a.) Overlabored; exhausted; worn out. |
| fragmentak | adjective (a.) Fragmentary. |
| adjective (a.) Consisting of the pulverized or fragmentary material of rock, as conglomerate, shale, etc. |
| framework | noun (n.) The work of framing, or the completed work; the frame or constructional part of anything; as, the framework of society. |
| noun (n.) Work done in, or by means of, a frame or loom. |
| frank | noun (n.) A pigsty. |
| noun (n.) The common heron; -- so called from its note. | |
| noun (n.) Unbounded by restrictions, limitations, etc.; free. | |
| noun (n.) Free in uttering one's real sentiments; not reserved; using no disguise; candid; ingenuous; as, a frank nature, conversation, manner, etc. | |
| noun (n.) Liberal; generous; profuse. | |
| noun (n.) Unrestrained; loose; licentious; -- used in a bad sense. | |
| adjective (a.) The privilege of sending letters or other mail matter, free of postage, or without charge; also, the sign, mark, or signature denoting that a letter or other mail matter is to free of postage. | |
| adjective (a.) A member of one of the German tribes that in the fifth century overran and conquered Gaul, and established the kingdom of France. | |
| adjective (a.) A native or inhabitant of Western Europe; a European; -- a term used in the Levant. | |
| adjective (a.) A French coin. See Franc. | |
| verb (v. t.) To shut up in a frank or sty; to pen up; hence, to cram; to fatten. | |
| verb (v. t.) To send by public conveyance free of expense. | |
| verb (v. t.) To extempt from charge for postage, as a letter, package, or packet, etc. |
| freak | noun (n.) A sudden causeless change or turn of the mind; a whim of fancy; a capricious prank; a vagary or caprice. |
| verb (v. t.) To variegate; to checker; to streak. |
| fretwork | noun (n.) Work adorned with frets; ornamental openwork or work in relief, esp. when elaborate and minute in its parts. Hence, any minute play of light and shade, dark and light, or the like. |
| frisk | adjective (a.) Lively; brisk; frolicsome; frisky. |
| adjective (a.) A frolic; a fit of wanton gayety; a gambol: a little playful skip or leap. | |
| verb (v. i.) To leap, skip, dance, or gambol, in fronc and gayety. |
| frock | noun (n.) A loose outer garment; especially, a gown forming a part of European modern costume for women and children; also, a coarse shirtlike garment worn by some workmen over their other clothes; a smock frock; as, a marketman's frock. |
| noun (n.) A coarse gown worn by monks or friars, and supposed to take the place of all, or nearly all, other garments. It has a hood which can be drawn over the head at pleasure, and is girded by a cord. | |
| verb (v. t.) To clothe in a frock. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make a monk of. Cf. Unfrock. |
| frostwork | noun (n.) The figurework, often fantastic and delicate, which moisture sometimes forms in freezing, as upon a window pane or a flagstone. |
| funk | noun (n.) An offensive smell; a stench. |
| noun (n.) Alt. of Funking | |
| noun (n.) One who funks; a shirk; a coward. | |
| verb (v. t.) To envelop with an offensive smell or smoke. | |
| verb (v. i.) To emit an offensive smell; to stink. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be frightened, and shrink back; to flinch; as, to funk at the edge of a precipice. | |
| verb (v. t.) To funk at; to flinch at; to shrink from (a thing or person); as, to funk a task. | |
| verb (v. t.) To frighten; to cause to flinch. |
| futtock | noun (n.) One of the crooked timbers which are scarfed together to form the lower part of the compound rib of a vessel; one of the crooked transverse timbers passing across and over the keel. |
| feck | noun (n.) Effect. |
| noun (n.) Efficacy; force; value. | |
| noun (n.) Amount; quantity. |
| futhork | noun (n.) The Runic alphabet; -- so called from the six letters f, u, / (th), o (or a), r, c (=k). |
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