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Fertigungsfunktion production function Fertigungsgemeinkosten
Fertigungsdiagramm process chart Fertigungsfluß flow of production Fertigungsfunktion production function Fertigungsgemeinkosten factory overheads Fertigungsgemeinkosten indirect production costs Fertigungshöchstgrenze production limit Fertigungsindex production index Fertigungsindustrie manufacturing industry Fertigungskontrolle process inspection Fertigungskontrolle production control Fertigungskosten cost of manufacture Fertigungskosten production costs
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

find proper food for
And he proposed further, “that by employing spiders, the charge of dyeing silks should be wholly saved;” whereof I was fully convinced, when he showed me a vast number of flies most beautifully coloured, wherewith he fed his spiders, assuring us “that the webs would take a tincture from them; and as he had them of all hues, he hoped to fit everybody’s fancy, as soon as he could find proper food for the flies, of certain gums, oils, and other glutinous matter, to give a strength and consistence to the threads.”
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

fundō pour fundere fūdī
With the present stem in a nasalized root followed by -o | e- ( 831 ). fundō , pour fundere fūdī fūsus 945. ( d. )
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

foreign place far from
You refuse to run away and repent of your wickedness in some foreign place, far from the generous gentleman you have deceived and fooled by your false witcheries.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

foreannouncement premonstration foretelling forebodement
SYN: Prophecy, prognostication, vaticination, foreannouncement, premonstration, foretelling, forebodement, presage, augury, foreshowing.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

first put forth from
the stem is smooth celindric, slightly groved on one side erect about half it's hight on the 2 first branches thence reclining backwards from the grooved side; it puts forth it's branches which are in reallyty long footstalks by pares from one side only and near the edges of the groove, these larger footstalks are also grooved cilindric and gradually tapering towards the extremity, puting forth alternate footstalks on either side of the grove near it's edge; these lesser footstalks the same in form as the first put forth from forty to fifty alternate pinate leaves which are sessile, horizontal, multipartite for half their length from the point of insertion and terminating in a long shaped apex, and are also revolute with the upper disk smoth and the lower slightly cottanny.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

From privacy from frequent
only that we enjoy each other and exhaust each other if it must be so;) From the master, the pilot I yield the vessel to, The general commanding me, commanding all, from him permission taking, From time the programme hastening, (I have loiter'd too long as it is,) From sex, from the warp and from the woof, From privacy, from frequent repinings alone, From plenty of persons near and yet the right person not near, From the soft sliding of hands over me and thrusting of fingers through my hair and beard, From the long sustain'd kiss upon the mouth or bosom, From the close pressure that makes me or any man drunk, fainting with excess, From what the divine husband knows, from the work of fatherhood, From exultation, victory and relief, from the bedfellow's embrace in the night, From the act-poems of eyes, hands, hips and bosoms, From the cling of the trembling arm, From the bending curve and the clinch, From side by side the pliant coverlet off-throwing, From the one so unwilling to have me leave, and me just as unwilling to leave, (Yet a moment O tender waiter, and I return,)
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

feather pen fuente fountain
pluma , f. , feather; pen; —— fuente , fountain pen.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

forgiten pp forgetting forgetful
[‘ forgetel ’] forgitelnes (y 2 ) f. forgetfulness, oblivion , LPs . forgiten pp. forgetting : forgetful .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

for patris filia for
In course, answered Yorick, in a tone two parts jest and one part earnest.—But in the case cited, continued Kysarcius, where patriae is put for patris, filia for filii, and so on—as it is a fault only in the declension, and the roots of the words continue untouch'd, the inflections of their branches either this way or that, does not in any sort hinder the baptism, inasmuch as the same sense continues in the words as before.—But then, said Didius, the intention of the priest's pronouncing them grammatically must have been proved to have gone along with it.—Right, answered Kysarcius; and of this, brother Didius, we have an instance in a decree of the decretals of Pope Leo the IIId.—But
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

figurative purposes Fletcher finds
For figurative purposes Fletcher finds material [274] most frequently in the phenomena of winter and storm: 'frosts,' 'nipping frosts,' 'nipping winds,' 'hail,' 'cakes of ice,' 'icicles,' 'thaw,' 'tempests,' 'thunders,' 'billows,' 'mariners' and 'storm-tossed barks,' 'wild overflows' of waters in stream or torrent; in the phenomena of heat and light: 'suns,' the 'icy moon,' the 'Dog-star' or the 'Dog,' the 'Sirian star,' the 'cold Bear' and 'raging Lion,' 'Aetna,' 'fire and flames'; of trees: root and branch, foliage and fruit; of the oak and clinging vine; of the rose or blossom and the 'destroying canker'; of fever and ague; of youth and desire, and of Death 'beating larums to the blood,' of our days that are 'marches to the grave,' and of our lives 'tedious tales soon forgotten.
— from Francis Beaumont: Dramatist A Portrait, with Some Account of His Circle, Elizabethan and Jacobean, And of His Association with John Fletcher by Charles Mills Gayley

faithfully put fresh flowers
[396] But Charles, who had faithfully put fresh flowers, not always garlanded, it is true, but always flowers, every day during the measle interval, had had enough of it, and said so.
— from The Wonderful Garden; or, The Three Cs by E. (Edith) Nesbit

for preparing food for
Models of Boilers, Steam-boilers, &c., for preparing food for cattle that are stall-fed.
— from The Royal Institution: Its Founder and First Professors by Bence Jones

financial panic from failure
Holders of cattle paper have never suffered in times of financial panic from failure to pay at maturity.
— from Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Phillips

Foremen plantation Foulahs Fowler
Driving of slaves to death, question of Dutch, in the slave trade Dutch West India Company Early, Peter, debates the closing of the foreign slave trade East India Company, in the slave trade Eboes, tribal traits of El Mina Elliott, William, planter economic views of Ellsworth, Oliver Emancipation, see manumission Encomiendia system, in the Spanish West Indies England, policy of, toward the slave trade Epitaph of Peyton, a slave Evans, Henry, negro preacher Factorage, in planters' dealings Factorage, in the slave trade, in American ports in Guinea Farmers, free negro white, in the Piedmont in the plantation colonies segregation of in the westward movement Federal Convention Festivities, of slaves Fithian, Philip V., observations by Foremen, plantation Foulahs Fowler, J.W., cotton picking records of plantation rules of Franklin and Armfield, slave-dealers Free negroes, antipathy toward criminality among discriminations against emigration projects of endorsements of kidnapping of legal seizure of, attempts at mob violence against occupations of, in Augusta in Charleston in New Orleans and New York prominent characters among processes of procuring freedom by qualities and status of reënslavement of secret societies among slaveholding by French, in the slave trade Fugitive slaves, see slaves, runaway, rendition, in the Federal Constitution, act of 1793 Funerals, negro Gaboons, tribal traits of Gabriel, insurrection led by Gadsden, Christopher Gambia, slave trade on the Gang system, in plantation work Genoese, in the slave trade Georgia, founding of, free negress visits slave imports forbidden in, permitted in restricted by uplands, development of Gerry, Elbridge Gibson, Arthur H., views of, on the economics of slavery Godkin, Edwin L., on the migration of planters Gold Coast Goodloe, Daniel R., views of, on slavery Gowrie, rice plantation Grandy King George, African chief, wants of Guiana, British, invites free negro immigration cotton culture in Dutch Guinea, coastal explorations of life and institutions in slave exports from, beginnings of, volume of tribal traits in See also negroes and slave trade Hairston, Samuel, planter Hammond, James H., planter and writer Hampton, Wade, planter Harrison, Jesse Burton, views of, on slavery Hawkins, Sir John, adventures of, in the slave trade Hayti (Hispaniola) Hearn, Lafcadio, on sugar-cane harvesting Helper, Hinton R., views of, on slavery Hemp Henry, Patrick Henry, Prince, the Navigator Heyward, Nathaniel, planter Hodgson, W.B., planter Holidays, of slaves, plantation urban Hundley D.R., on slave traders Immigrants, in the South See also
— from American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips

for payment for four
This was the letter: 'Dear Sir, 'Your man called upon me last night, asking for payment for four advertisements of my Passover groceries.
— from The Grandchildren of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill

five pound five for
‘It’s fourteen years ago, by the entry in my book, since a strange man brought him to my place, one autumn night, and left him there; paying five pound five, for his first quarter in advance.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

fāh pl Fais Fayis
Fa, Fay, a foe (A.S. fāh ); pl. , Fais, Fayis; also Famen, foemen Failyhe, v. , to fail, give way, faint, lose Fair, s. , manner, XI. 256; condition, success, XVI.
— from The Bruce by John Barbour

first part four fifths
All the expenses incurred in the said business, including the furnishing of such wardrobes as shall be mutually agreed upon—the individual expenses of both the parties—the musical instruction of the party of the second part, and the expenses of the party of the second part back to New York, are to be paid out of the receipts of such concerts, and the overplus is to be divided between the parties as follows: to the party of the first part four fifths: to the party of the second part one fifth.
— from The Black Swan at Home and Abroad or, A Biographical Sketch of Miss Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield, the American Vocalist by Anonymous


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