| federate | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | to unite or cause to unite in a federal union |
| —adj | |
| 2. | federal; federated |
| 'federative | |
| —adj | |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |