fair ball | (baseball) a ball struck with the bat so that it stays between the lines (the foul lines) that define the width of the playing field |
fair catch | (American football) a catch of a punt on the fly by a defensive player who has signalled that he will not run and so should not be tackled |
carnival fair funfair | a traveling show, having sideshows and rides and games of skill etc. |
fair trade | trade that is conducted legally |
fair trade | trade that satisfies certain criteria on the supply chain of the goods involved, usually including fair payment for producers, often with other social and environmental considerations |
bazaar fair | a sale of miscellany, often for charity, the church bazaar |
book fair bookfair | bazaar at which books are sold or auctioned off in order to raise funds for a worthy cause |
craft fair | a fair at which objects made by craftsmen are offered for sale |
fair hearing | a hearing that is granted in extraordinary situations where the normal judicial process would be inadequate to secure due process because the person would be harmed or denied their rights before a judicial remedy became available (as in deportation or loss of welfare benefits) |
Christmas stocking | a stocking that is filled with small Christmas presents |
Christmas tree | an ornamented evergreen used as a Christmas decoration |
vanity fair | a vain and frivolous lifestyle especially in large cities |
fair chance sporting chance | a reasonable probability of success |
fair use | the conditions under which you can use material that is copyrighted by someone else without paying royalties |
fairness fair-mindedness candor candour | ability to make judgments free from discrimination or dishonesty |
fair copy | a clean copy of a corrected draft |
fair-trade agreement | an agreement (illegal in the United States) between the manufacturer of a trademarked item of merchandise and its retail distributors to sell the item at a price at or above the price set by the manufacturer |
fair-trade act | formerly a state law that protected manufacturers from priceutting by allowing them to set minimum retail prices for their merchandise, eliminated by the United States Congress in |
Christmas card | a card expressing a Christmas greeting |
carol Christmas carol | joyful religious song celebrating the birth of Christ |
fair deal square deal | fair treatment |
plum pudding Christmas pudding | a rich steamed or boiled pudding that resembles cake |
Christmas cake | a rich fruitcake (usually covered with icing and marzipan) and eaten at Christmas |
fair | a competitive exhibition of farm products, she won a blue ribbon for her baking at the county fair |
book fair bookfair | fair organized by publishers or booksellers to promote the sale of books |
fair | gathering of producers to promote business, world fair, trade fair, book fair |
womanhood woman fair sex | women as a class, it's an insult to American womanhood, woman is the glory of creation, the fair sex gathered on the veranda |
prey quarry target fair game | a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence, he fell prey to muggers, everyone was fair game, the target of a manhunt |
Santa Claus Santa Kriss Kringle Father Christmas Saint Nicholas Saint Nick St. Nick | the legendary patron saint of children, an imaginary being who is thought to bring presents to children at Christmas |
fair weather sunshine temperateness | moderate weather, suitable for outdoor activities |
amabilis fir white fir Pacific silver fir red silver fir Christmas tree Abies amabilis | medium to tall fir of western North America having a conic crown and branches in tiers, leaves smell of orange when crushed |
European silver fir Christmas tree Abies alba | tall timber tree of central and southern Europe having a regular crown and grey bark |
Christmas rose winter rose black hellebore Helleborus niger | European evergreen plant with white or purplish rose-like winter-blooming flowers |
Christmas cactus Schlumbergera buckleyi Schlumbergera baridgesii | epiphytic cactus of Brazilian ancestry widely cultivated as a houseplant having jointed flat segments and usually rose-purple flowers that bloom in winter |
Christmas begonia blooming-fool begonia Begonia cheimantha | hybrid winter-blooming begonia grown for its many large pink flowers |
Christmas bells | any of several plants of the genus Blandfordia having large orange or crimson flowers |
toyon tollon Christmasberry Christmas berry Heteromeles arbutifolia Photinia arbutifolia | ornamental evergreen treelike shrub of the Pacific coast of the United States having large white flowers and red berrylike fruits, often placed in genus Photinia |
flame tree fire tree Christmas tree Nuytsia floribunda | a terrestrial evergreen shrub or small tree of western Australia having brilliant yellow-orange flowers, parasitic on roots of grasses |
American holly Christmas holly | an evergreen tree |
Christmas bush Christmas tree Ceratopetalum gummiferum | Australian tree or shrub with red flowers, often used in Christmas decoration |
meadow saxifrage fair-maids-of-France Saxifraga granulata | rosette-forming perennial having compact panicles of white flowers, Europe |
Christmasberry Christmas berry Lycium carolinianum | spiny evergreen shrub of southeastern United States having spreading branches usually blue or mauve flowers and red berries |
poinsettia Christmas star Christmas flower lobster plant Mexican flameleaf painted leaf Euphorbia pulcherrima | tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers |
Christmas fern canker brake dagger fern evergreen wood fern Polystichum acrostichoides | North American evergreen fern having pinnate leaves and dense clusters of lance-shaped fronds |
ground pine Christmas green | any of several club mosses having long creeping stems and erect branches |
Christmas present Christmas gift | a present given at Christmas time |
Christmas box | a present given at Christmas for services during the year |
hemophilia B haemophilia B Christmas disease | a clotting disorder similar to hemophilia A but caused by a congenital deficiency of factor IX |
Christmas factor factor IX | coagulation factor whose absence is associated with hemophilia B |
Christmas Christmas Day Xmas Dec | a Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ, a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland |