Vocabulary : Fanega to Fangleness

Fanega : A dry measure in Spain and Spanish America, varying from 1/ to 2/ bushels; also, a measure of land.
Fanfare : A flourish of trumpets, as in coming into the lists, etc.; also, a short and lively air performed on hunting horns during the chase.
Fanfaron : A bully; a hector; a swaggerer; an empty boaster.
Fanfaronade : A swaggering; vain boasting; ostentation; a bluster.
Fanfoot : A species of gecko having the toes expanded into large lobes for adhesion. The Egyptian fanfoot (Phyodactylus gecko) is believed, by the natives, to have venomous toes. ;; Any moth of the genus Polypogon.

Fang : To catch; to seize, as with the teeth; to lay hold of; to gripe; to clutch. ;; To enable to catch or tear; to furnish with fangs. ;; The tusk of an animal, by which the prey is seized and held or torn; a long pointed tooth; esp., one of the usually erectile, venomous teeth of serpents. Also, one of the falcers of a spider. ;; Any shoot or other thing by which hold is taken. ;; The root, or one of the branches of the root, of a tooth. See Tooth. ;; A niche in the side of an adit or shaft, for an air course. ;; A projecting tooth or prong, as in a part of a lock, or the plate of a belt clamp, or the end of a tool, as a chisel, where it enters the handle. ;; The valve of a pump box. ;; A bend or loop of a rope.
Fanged : Having fangs or tusks; as, a fanged adder. Also used figuratively.
Fangle : Something new-fashioned; a foolish innovation; a gewgaw; a trifling ornament. ;; To fashion.
Fangled : New made; hence, gaudy; showy; vainly decorated. [Obs., except with the prefix new.] See Newfangled.
Fangleness : Quality of being fangled.

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