Part 4436

<h1>Foamingly</h1> <Xpage=577>

<hw>Foam"ing*ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>With foam; frothily.</def>

<h1>Foamless</h1> <Xpage=577>

<hw>Foam"less</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Having no foam.</def>

<h1>Foamy</h1> <Xpage=577>

<hw>Foam"y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Covered with foam; frothy; spumy.</def>

<blockquote>Behold how high the <b>foamy</b> billows ride! <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Fob</h1> <Xpage=577>

<hw>Fob</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf.Prov. G. fuppe pocket.]</ety> <def>A little pocket for a watch.</def>

<cs><col>Fob chain</col>, <cd>a short watch chain worn a watch carried in the fob.</cd></cs>

<h1>Fob</h1> <Xpage=577>

<hw>Fob</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v.t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Fobbed</er> <tt>(#)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Fobbing</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Cf.Fop.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To beat; to maul</def>. <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To cheat; to trick; to impose on</def>.

<i>Shak.</i>

<cs><col>To fob off</col>, <cd>to shift off by an artifice; to put aside; to delude with a trick."A conspiracy of bishops could prostrate and fob off the right of the people."</cd></cs>

<i>Milton.</i>

<h1>Focal</h1> <Xpage=577>

<hw>Fo"cal</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf.F. <ets>focal</ets>. See <er>Focus</er>.]</ety> <def>Belonging to,or concerning, a focus; as, a focal point.</def>

<cs><col>Focal distance, or length,of a lens or mirror</col> <fld>(Opt.)</fld>, <cd>the distance of the focus from the surface of the lens or mirror, or more exactly, in the case of a lens, from its optical center.</cd> --<col>Focal distance of a telescope</col>, <cd>the distance of the image of an object from the object glass.</cd></cs>

<h1>Focalization</h1> <Xpage=577>

<hw>Fo`cal*i*za"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The act of focalizing or bringing to a focus, or the state of being focalized.</def>

<h1>Focalize</h1> <Xpage=577>

<hw>Fo"cal*ize</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp.& p. p. </tt> <er>Focalized</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Focalizing</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <def>To bring to a focus; to focus; to concentrate.</def>

<blockquote>Light is focalized in the eye, sound in the ear. <i>De Quincey.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Focillate</h1> <Xpage=577>

<hw>Foc"il*late</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[L. focilatus,p.p. of focillare.]</ety> <def>To nourish.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Blount.</i></blockquote>