ezra
- n a Jewish priest and scribe sent by the Persian king to restore Jewish law and worship in Jerusalem
- n an Old Testament book telling of a rabbi's efforts in the 5th century BC to reconstitute Jewish law and worship in Jerusalem after the Babylonian Captivity
ezra cornell
- n United States businessman who unified the telegraph system in the United States and who in 1865 (with Andrew D. White) founded Cornell University (1807-1874)
ezra loomis pound
- n United States writer who lived in Europe; strongly influenced the development of modern literature (1885-1972)
ezra pound
- n United States writer who lived in Europe; strongly influenced the development of modern literature (1885-1972)
f
- n a degree on the Fahrenheit scale of temperature
- n a nonmetallic univalent element belonging to the halogens; usually a yellow irritating toxic flammable gas; a powerful oxidizing agent; recovered from fluorite or cryolite or fluorapatite
- n the capacitance of a capacitor that has an equal and opposite charge of 1 coulomb on each plate and a voltage difference of 1 volt between the plates
- n the 6th letter of the Roman alphabet
f. d. roosevelt
- n 32nd President of the United States; elected four times; instituted New Deal to counter the Great Depression and led country during World War II (1882-1945)
f. g. banting
- n Canadian physiologist who discovered insulin with C. H. Best and who used it to treat diabetes(1891-1941)
f. scott fitzgerald
- n United States author whose novels characterized the Jazz Age in the United States (1896-1940)