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F n.

F is the sixth letter of the English alphabet, and a nonvocal consonant. Its form and sound are from the Latin. The Latin borrowed the form from a Greek digamma, which probably had the value of English w consonant. The form and value of Greek letter came from the Phoenician, the ultimate source being probably Egyptian. Etymologically f is most closely related to p, k, v, and b; as in E. five, Gr. pente; E. wolf, L. lupus, Gr. lykos; E. fox, vixen; fragile, break; fruit, brook, v. t.; E. bear, L. ferre.

(Mus.) The name of the fourth tone of the model scale, or scale of C. F sharp is a tone intermediate between F and G.

F clef, the bass clef. See under Clef.

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— Common Science • Carleton W. Washburne

... climbed out of the Kwanto plain temperature of not far below 100 deg. F. the planting of rice seemed to be almost an enviable occupation. The peasant had his great umbrella-shaped straw hat, sometimes an armful of green stuff tied on his back, and a delicious feeling of being up to the knees in water or mud on ...

— The Foundations of Japan • J.W. Robertson Scott

... "Well—'f I never!" gasped Mrs. Knoxwell, with a sound in her voice as if she had received a blow in the pit ...

— The Other Girls • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney

... will say by A, B, C, &c., who are similar in all respects, except that A acts without recollection, B with recollection of A's action, C with recollection of both B's and A's, while J remembers the course taken by A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, and I—the possession of a memory by B will indeed so change his action, as compared with A's, that it may well be hardly recognisable. We saw this in our example of the clerk who asked the ...

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