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Finsen
- unknown - Niels Ryberg Finsen (15 December 1860 – 24 September 1904) was a Danish-Faroese physician and scientist, the first and currently only Nobel laureate from the country.
In 1903, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology "in recognition
Fiords
- noun - a long narrow inlet of the sea between steep cliffs; common in Norway
Fiorin
- - A species of creeping bent grass (Agrostis alba); -- called also fiorin grass.
Fipple
- noun - a wooden plug forming a flue pipe (as the mouthpiece of a recorder)
Firing
- verb - bake in a kiln so as to harden; "fire pottery"
- call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy"
- cause to go off; "fire a gun"; "fire a bullet"
- destroy by fire; "They burned the house and his diaries"
- drive out or away by or as if by fire; "The soldiers were fired"; "Surrender fires the cold skepticism"
- go off or discharge; "The gun fired"
- provide with fuel; "Oil fires the furnace"
- start firing a weapon
- terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position;
- the act of discharging a gun
- the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy; "hold your fire until you can see the whites of their eyes"; "they retreated in the face of withering enemy fire"
- the act of setting something on fire
- the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
Firkin
- noun - a British unit of capacity equal to 9 imperial gallons
- a small wooden keg
Firlot
- - A dry measure formerly used in Scotland; the fourth part of a boll of grain or meal. The Linlithgow wheat firlot was to the imperial bushel as 998 to 1000; the barley firlot as 1456 to 1000.
Firman
- - In Turkey and some other Oriental countries, a decree or mandate issued by the sovereign; a royal order or grant; -- generally given for special objects, as to a traveler to insure him protection and assistance.
Firmed
- verb - become taut or tauter; "Your muscles will firm when you exercise regularly"; "the rope tautened"
- make taut or tauter; "tauten a rope"
Firmer
- unknown - More emphatic, more resolute, stronger
- More firm
- not soft or yielding when pressed; comparatively solid, hard, stiff, or rigid: firm ground; firm texture.