One day Holmes and Watson are flying a dirigible balloon. It is foggy around, they have lost their way. Suddenly they see - a shepherd is grazing sheep below. The men are very glad and shout:
- The dear, tell us, please, where we are now?
- You are in the dirigible balloon.
- I understand... - Holmes says. - We are flying over Russia.
- But why? - Watson is surprised.
- It’s elementary, Buddy! Only a programmer could give such an exact and useless answer at the same time. And only in Russia programmers can look after sheep.
—n. Small polecat used in catching rabbits, rats, etc. —v. - hunt with ferrets.
- (often foll. By out, about, etc.) Rummage; search out (secrets, criminals, etc.). [latin fur thief]
FERRIC
adj. - of iron.
- containing iron in a trivalent form. [latin ferrum iron]
FERRIS
wheel n. Tall revolving vertical wheel with passenger cars in fairgrounds etc. [ferris, name of its inventor]
FERVID
adj. Ardent, intense. fervidly adv. [latin: related to *fervent]
FERVOR
n. (brit. Fervour) passion, zeal. [latin: related to *fervent]
FESCUE
n. A pasture and fodder grass. [latin festuca stalk, straw]
FESTAL
adj. - joyous, merry.
- of a feast or festival. festally adv. [latin: related to *feast]
FESTER
v. - make or become septic.
- cause continuing anger or bitterness.
- rot, stagnate. [latin *fistula]
FETISH
n. - psychol. Abnormal object of sexual desire.
- a object worshipped by primitive peoples. B obsessional cause (makes a fetish of punctuality). fetishism n. Fetishist n. Fetishistic adj. [portuguese feitiço charm]
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A dog"s sense of smell is one of the keenest in nature. If a pot of stew was cooking on a stove, a human would smell the stew, while the dog could smell the beef, carrots, peas, potatoes, spices, and all the other individual ingredients in the stew.