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finicky, a. (Colloq.) finical, fastidious, squeamish, dainty.
finish, v. complete, elaborate.
finish, n. completion, elaboration.
fire, v. ignite, kindle; (Slang) discharge, dismiss; inflame, irritate, arouse, excite, incite; animate, quicken, vitalize, enthuse, inspirit; stoke; bake, burn, torrefy.
fire, n. combustion, ignition, burning; phlogiston; conflagration, holocaust, deflagration; flame, blaze; bonfire, balefire, _feu de joie_, beacon. a.s.sociated Words: pyrology, pyrography, pyromania, pyrophobia, incendiary, incendiarism, arson, lurid, Moloch, fuel, combustible, pyroleter, smolder, _ignis fatuus_, Vulcan, Hephaestus.
fire-arm, n. See gun.
fire-arms, n. pl. guns, gunnery, artillery.
firebug, n. incendiary, pyromaniac.
fire-damp, n. carbureted hydrogen.
firedog, n. andiron.
fireman, n. fire-tender, stoker.
fireproof, a. incombustible, asbestic.
fireside, n. hearth, ingleside.
fireworks, n. pl. a.s.sociated Words: pyrotechnics, pyrotechnist, pyrotechnician, pyrotechnic, pyrotechny.
fire-wors.h.i.+p, n. pyrolatry, Pa.r.s.eeism, Mazdeism, Magianism, Zoroastrianism.
fire-wors.h.i.+per, n. pyrolater, Gheber, Pa.r.s.ee, Magian, Zoroastrian.
firm, a. fast, immovable, secure; compact, solid, dense, compressed; fixed, resolute, constant, unwavering, unshaken, steadfast, stanch, determined, invincible, inflexible, incompliant. Antonyms: flaccid, soft, vacillating, irresolute, lax, yielding, facile, inconstant.
first, a. earliest; foremost, leading, chief, premier; primary, primal, primordial, primitive, primeval, pristine, original, aboriginal, primogenial; elementary, rudimentary, initial.
first, adv. primarily, originally.
firstborn, n. a.s.sociated Words: primogeniture, primogenial, primogenitures.h.i.+p.
first-formed, a. original, protoplastic.
first installment. earnest, handsel.
first principles. rudiments, principia.
first produce or offspring. firstling.
first-rate, a. excellent, first-cla.s.s.
fish, n. fry, alevin (young fish); ichthyolite, monilife, (fossil fish). See fishes.
fish, v. angle, trawl, troll; poach (fish unlawfully).
fish eggs. sp.a.w.n, roe.
fisherman, n. fisher, piscator, angler.
fishes, n. pl. Pisces; Piscifauna (fishes of a region), a.s.sociated words: ichthyology, ichthyologist, ichthyophagy, ichthyophagist, ichthyography, ichthyolatry, piscatology, pisciculturist, piscary, piscine, shoal, kench, minnow, aquarium, piscivorous, piscatorial, warren, sp.a.w.n, cauf, creel, kibblings, bait, pisciform, piscinal.
fish culture. pisciculture.
fish glue. isingla.s.s, ichthyocoll; carlock.
fish hawk, n. osprey.
fis.h.i.+ng, n. angling, trawling, trolling, whiffing, spillet fis.h.i.+ng, bultow fis.h.i.+ng.
fishlike, a. pisciform, ichthyic.
fish line. a.s.sociated Words: snell, snood, leader, sinker, bob, float, boulter.
fishskin, n. ichthyosis.
fish soup. chowder.
fishy, a. fishlike; (Colloq.) extravagant, exaggerated, improbable.
fistic, a. pugilistic.
fisticuffs, n. pl. boxing, pugilism.
fit, n. spasm, paroxysm, convulsion; access, outburst, attack; epilepsy, catalepsy; humor, whim, caprice, fancy.
fit, a. meet, becoming, suitable, proper, appropriate, congruous, adequate, expedient, congruent, apposite, qualified, eligible, competent, befitting, apt, convenient.
fit, v. adapt, qualify, prepare, equip, accommodate, shape, adjust, trim.
fitful, a. variable, capricious, unstable, inconstant, spasmodic, changeable.
fitness, n. becomingness, appropriateness, competency, qualification, congruity, eligibility.
fitting, a. suitable, proper, fit, befitting.
five, n. cinque, quintuplet, quintette; quintuplets. a.s.sociated words: quinary, quintuple, quintuplicate, quincunx.
five-angled, a. pentagonal.
five-angled figure. pentagon, pentahedron.
