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<A NAME="fieldwinding">
<B>field winding,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the coils in a generator or motor, connected in series, forming the circuit conducting the electrical current that produces the magnetic field. </DL>
<A NAME="fieldwork">
<B>fieldwork, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B><B>=field work.</B> <DD><B> 2. </B>a temporary fortification for defense made by soldiers in the field. </DL>
<A NAME="fieldwork">
<B>field work,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>scientific or technical work done in the field, as by surveyors, geologists, or naturalists. <DD><B> 2. </B>plowing, planting, or hoeing, or other work on the fields of a farm. </DL>
<A NAME="fieldworker">
<B>fieldworker, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who does field work. </DL>
<A NAME="fiend">
<B>fiend, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an evil spirit; devil. <BR> <I>Ex. The natives thought the explorer was possessed by a fiend.</I> (SYN) demon. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) a very wicked or cruel person. <BR> <I>Ex. a fiend in human form.</I> (SYN) monster. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Informal, Figurative.) a person who gives himself up to some habit, practice, game, or other activity. <BR> <I>Ex. A heroin fiend cannot get along without heroin. The free lunch fiend ... is one who makes a meal off what is really provided as a snack (John S. Farmer).</I> (SYN) addict. <DD><B> 4. </B>(U.S. Slang.) a student devoted to or unusually proficient in some study. <BR><I>expr. <B>the Fiend,</B> </I>the Devil; Satan. <BR> <I>Ex. Gates ... belching outrageous flame ... since the Fiend passed through (Milton).</I> adj. <B>fiendlike.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="fiendish">
<B>fiendish, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> very cruel or wicked; devilish; characteristic of a fiend. <BR> <I>Ex. fiendish tortures, a fiendish yell. The savages took fiendish delight in torturing their prisoners.</I> (SYN) diabolical, demoniacal. adv. <B>fiendishly.</B> noun <B>fiendishness.</B> </DL>
<B>fierce</B> fierce, adjective, <B>fiercer,</B> <B>fiercest.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>savage; wild; ferocious. <BR> <I>Ex. A wounded lion can be fierce.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) raging; violent. <BR> <I>Ex. fierce anger, a fierce attack. A fierce wind blows very hard. Moloch ... the strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair (Milton).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) very eager or active; ardent. <BR> <I>Ex. fierce determination to win, fierce efforts to get ahead.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(Slang, Figurative.) very bad, unpleasant, or harmful. <BR> <I>Ex. This heat is really fierce.</I> adv. <B>fiercely.</B> noun <B>fierceness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="fiericuravit">
<B>fieri curavit,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) (the person specified) caused this to be made (used in inscriptions on monuments and works of art). </DL>
<A NAME="fierifacias">
<B>fieri facias,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a writ issued after the award of a judgment for a sum of money, commanding the sheriff to levy upon the goods or the lands of the debtor for the collection of the amount due. </DL>
<A NAME="fiery">
<B>fiery, </B>adjective, <B>fierier,</B> <B>fieriest.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>containing fire; burning; flaming. <BR> <I>Ex. a burning fiery furnace (Daniel 3:6).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>like fire; very hot; flashing; glowing. <BR> <I>Ex. a fiery red, fiery heat.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) full of feeling or spirit; ardent. <BR> <I>Ex. a fiery speech.</I> (SYN) fervent, fervid, spirited, passionate. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Figurative.) easily aroused or excited. <BR> <I>Ex. a fiery temper.</I> <DD><B> 5a. </B>highly inflammable; liable to take fire, as gas in a mine. <DD><B> b. </B>(especially of a mine) containing large quantities of inflammable gas. <DD><B> 6. </B>inflamed. <BR> <I>Ex. a fiery sore.</I> <DD><B> 7. </B>(Figurative.) producing a burning sensation; pungent. <BR> <I>Ex. the fiery taste of raw whiskey.</I> adv. <B>fierily.</B> noun <B>fieriness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="fierycross">
<B>fiery cross,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(U.S.) a large cross set up and usually fired by Ku Klux Klanners to signal their presence in a locality. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=fire cross.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="fiesta">
<B>fiesta, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a religious festival; saint's day. In Spain and Latin-American countries fiestas are held with colorful ceremonies and festivities. <DD><B> 2. </B>a holiday or festivity. </DL>
<B>fife, </B>noun, verb, <B>fifed,</B> <B>fifing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a small, shrill musical instrument like a flute, played by blowing. Fifes are used with drums to make music for marching. <DD><I>v.t., v.i. </I> to play on a fife. </DL>
<A NAME="fifer">
<B>fifer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who plays the fife. </DL>
<A NAME="fiferail">
<B>fife rail,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a rail around the foot of a mast in which belaying pins are set. </DL>
<A NAME="fifo">
<B>FIFO, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> first in, first out (a method of valuing inventory which assumes items in stock are those purchased latest and values them at prices charged in most recent orders). </DL>
<A NAME="fifteen">
<B>fifteen, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>five more than ten; 15. <DD><B> 2. </B>a team of fifteen players, such as the team in Rugby. <DD><I>adj. </I> being five more than ten. </DL>
<A NAME="fifteenth">
<B>fifteenth, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>next after the 14th; last in a series of 15. <BR> <I>Ex. Bills must be paid by the fifteenth of the month.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>one, or being one, of 15 equal parts. </DL>
<A NAME="fifth">
<B>fifth, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>next after the fourth; last in a series of 5. <BR> <I>Ex. He is the fifth person to ask me what happened.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>being one of 5 equal parts. <BR> <I>Ex. This is the fifth and last part.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>next after the fourth; last in a series of 5. <DD><B> 2. </B>one of 5 equal parts. <BR> <I>Ex. Twenty cents is a fifth of a dollar.</I> <DD><B> 3a. </B>(U.S.) a unit of liquid measure for alcoholic beverages, equal to one fifth of a gallon. <DD><B> b. </B>a bottle of an alcoholic beverage holding this quantity. <DD><B> 4a. </B>a musical tone five diatonic degrees from a given tone. <DD><B> b. </B>the interval between such tones. <DD><B> c. </B>the harmonic combination of such tones. <DD><B> d. </B>the fifth tone of a diatonic scale, five degrees above the tonic; dominant. </DL>
<A NAME="fifthamendment">
<B>Fifth Amendment,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an amendment to the United States Constitution and a part of the Bill of Rights, containing provision that no person "shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself." </DL>
<A NAME="fifthcolumn">
<B>fifth column,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>persons living within a country who secretly aid its enemies, especially by sabotage or espionage. <DD><B> 2. </B>(originally) the Franco sympathizers within Madrid in the Spanish Civil War, who were said by the insurgent General Mola to constitute a fifth column which would join the four columns he was leading against the city. </DL>
<A NAME="fifthcolumnist">
<B>fifth columnist,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a member of a fifth column. (SYN) quisling. </DL>
<A NAME="fifthdisease">
<B>fifth disease,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a virus disease of children marked by a reddish rash. </DL>
<A NAME="fifthestate">
<B>fifth estate,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any important class or group of people other than the nobility, the clergy, the middle class, and the press. <BR> <I>Ex. Unions were now the fifth estate of the realm (London Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="fifthforce">
<B>fifth force,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Physics.) a hypothetical force in nature intermediate in range between the gravitational and electromagnetic forces, which are infinite in range, and the strong and weak nuclear forces, which do not extend beyond the radius of an atomic nucleus. <BR> <I>Ex. The fifth force ... is quite weak, and is in practice detectable only on scales of about 200 metres, at which it appears as a modification of the usual gravitational force (New Scientist).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="fifthly">
<B>fifthly, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> in the fifth place. </DL>
<A NAME="fifthmonarchy">
<B>fifth monarchy,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the last of the five great kingdoms mentioned in the prophecy of Daniel (in the Bible, Daniel 2:44). </DL>
<A NAME="fifthrepublic">
<B>Fifth Republic,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the government of France established in 1958 under Charles de Gaulle. </DL>
<A NAME="fifthwheel">
<B>fifth wheel,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(Informal.) a person or thing that is not needed. <DD><B> 2. </B>an extra wheel for a four-wheeled vehicle. <DD><B> 3. </B>a horizontal ring, placed above the forward axle of a carriage and designed to support the forepart of the body while allowing it to turn freely in a horizontal plane. </DL>
<A NAME="fiftieth">
<B>fiftieth, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>next after the 49th; last in a series of 50. <BR> <I>Ex. This is our fiftieth customer today.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>one, or being one, of 50 equal parts. <BR> <I>Ex. a fiftieth share in the profit.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="fifty">
<B>fifty, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ties,</B> adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> five times 10; 50. <BR> <I>Ex. I got change of five dimes for my fifty-cent piece.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="fiftyfifty">
<B>fifty-fifty, </B>adjective, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) half-and-half; in two equal parts; with equal shares; even. <BR> <I>Ex. a fifty-fifty chance of winning (adj.), to go fifty-fifty on expenses (adv.).</I> </DL>
