Vocabulary : Fatalness to Fathered

Fatalness : Quality of being fatal.
Fatback : The menhaden.
Fat-brained : Dull of apprehension.
Fate : A fixed decree by which the order of things is prescribed; the immutable law of the universe; inevitable necessity; the force by which all existence is determined and conditioned. ;; Appointed lot; allotted life; arranged or predetermined event; destiny; especially, the final lot; doom; ruin; death. ;; The element of chance in the affairs of life; the unforeseen and unestimated conitions considered as a force shaping events; fortune; esp., opposing circumstances against which it is useless to struggle; as, fate was, or the fates were, against him. ;; The three goddesses, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, sometimes called the Destinies, or Parcaewho were supposed to determine the course of human life. They are represented, one as holding the distaff, a second as spinning, and the third as cutting off the thread.
Fated : Decreed by fate; destined; doomed; as, he was fated to rule a factious people. ;; Invested with the power of determining destiny. ;; Exempted by fate.
Fateful : Having the power of serving or accomplishing fate. ;; Significant of fate; ominous.
Fathead : A cyprinoid fish of the Mississippi valley (Pimephales promelas); -- called also black-headed minnow. ;; A labroid food fish of California; the redfish.
Father : One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a generator; a male parent. ;; A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor; a founder of a race or family; -- in the plural, fathers, ancestors. ;; One who performs the offices of a parent by maintenance, affetionate care, counsel, or protection. ;; A respectful mode of address to an old man. ;; A senator of ancient Rome. ;; A dignitary of the church, a superior of a convent, a confessor (called also father confessor), or a priest; also, the eldest member of a profession, or of a legislative assembly, etc. ;; One of the chief esslesiastical authorities of the first centuries after Christ; -- often spoken of collectively as the Fathers; as, the Latin, Greek, or apostolic Fathers. ;; One who, or that which, gives origin; an originator; a producer, author, or contriver; the first to practice any art, profession, or occupation; a distinguished example or teacher. ;; The Supreme Being and Creator; God; in theology, the
Father longlegs : See Daddy longlegs, 2.
Fathered : of Father
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