Ferdoʹsi.

A Persian poet, famous for the copious flow of his diction. He wrote in verse the Shah-Nâmch, or history of the Persian kings, which took thirty years, and contains 120,000 verses.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Fencible Regiments
Fenella
Fenians
Fennel
Fenrir or Fenris
Fenton
Feræ Naturæ
Feramorz
Ferdinand
Ferdinando
Ferdosi
Ferguson
Fern
Fern Seed
Fernando Florestan
Ferney
Ferohers
Ferracute [sharp iron]
Ferragus
Ferrara
Ferrau (in Orlando Furioso)