F clef,
n. <font color='#AEB5C0'>[ It. ]font> (Mus.)
adj. <font color='#AEB5C0'>[ shortened form of fabulous. ]font> extremely pleasing. <font color='#AEB5C0'>[ Colloq. ]font>
prop. n. A large natural family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods; divided for convenience into the subfamilies <fam>Caesalpiniaceafam>; <fam>Mimosaceaefam>; <fam>Papilionaceaefam>.
a. <font color='#AEB5C0'>[ L. fabaceus, fr. faba bean. ]font> Having the nature of a bean; like a bean. <font color='#AEB5C0'>[ 1913 Webster ]font>
‖n.;
a. <font color='#AEB5C0'>[ L. Fabianus, Fabius, belonging to Fabius. ]font> Of, pertaining to, or in the manner of, the Roman general,
Fabian policy,
a.
The Fabian Society proposes then to conquer by delay; to carry its programme, not by a hasty rush, but through the slower, but, as it thinks, surer methods of patient discussion, exposition, and political action. William Clarke. <font color='#AEB5C0'>[ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]font>
n. A member of, or sympathizer with, the Fabian Society. <font color='#AEB5C0'>[ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]font>
n. a genus of South and Central American heathlike evergreen shrubs.