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EXTORTIONATE
Ex*tor"tion*ate, a.

Defn: Characterized by extortion; oppressive; hard.

EXTORTIONER
Ex*tor"tion*er, n

Defn: , One who practices extortion.

EXTORTIOUS
Ex*tor"tious, a.

Defn: Extortionate. [Obs.] "Extortious cruelties." Bp. Hall —
Ex*tor"tious*ly, adv. [Obs.] Bacon.

EXTRA-
Ex"tra-. Etym: [L., fr. exter. See Exterior.]

Defn: A Latin preposition, denoting beyond, outside of; — often used in composition as a prefix signifying outside of, beyond, besides, or in addition to what is denoted by the word to which it is prefixed.

EXTRA
Ex"tra, a.

Defn: Beyond what is due, usual, expected, or necessary; additional; supernumerary; also, extraordinarily good; superior; as, extra work; extra pay. "By working extra hours." H. Spencer.

EXTRA
Ex"tra, n.; pl. Extras (.

Defn: Something in addition to what is due, expected, or customary; something in addition to the regular charge or compensation, or for which an additional charge is made; as, at European hotels lights are extras. [Colloq.]

EXTRAARTICULAR
Ex`tra*ar*tic"u*lar, a. (Anat.)

Defn: Situated outside of a joint.

EXTRAAXILLAR; EXTRAAXILLARY
Ex`tra*ax"il*lar, Ex`tra*ax"il*la*ry a. (Bot.)

Defn: Growing outside of the axils; as, an extra-axillary bud.

EXTRABRANCHIAL
Ex`tra*bran"chi*al, a. (Anat.)

Defn: Outside of the branchial arches; — said of the cartilages thus placed in some fishes.

EXTRACAPSULAR
Ex`tra*cap"su*lar, a. (Anat.)

Defn: Situated outside of a capsule, esp. outside the capsular ligament of a joint.

EXTRACT
Ex*tract", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Extracted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Extracting.] Etym: [L. extractus, p. p. of extrahere to extract; ex
out + trahere to draw. See Trace, and cf. Estreat.]

1. To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, a splinter from the finger. The bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet. Milton.

2. To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process; as, to extract an essence. Cf. Abstract, v. t., 6. Sunbeams may be extracted from cucumbers, but the process is tedious.

3. To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book. I have extracted out of that pamphlet a few notorious falsehoods. Swift. To extract the root (Math.), to ascertain the root of a number or quantity.

EXTRACT
Ex"tract`, n.

1. That which is extracted or drawn out.

2. A portion of a book or document, separately transcribed; a citation; a quotation.

3. A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue; essence; as, extract of beef; extract of dandelion; also, any substance so extracted, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained; as, quinine is the most important extract of Peruvian bark.

4. (Med.)

Defn: A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant; — distinguished from an abstract. See Abstract, n., 4.

5. (Old Chem.)

Defn: A peculiar principle once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts; — called also the extractive principle. [Obs.]

6. Extraction; descent. [Obs.] South.

7. (Scots Law)

Defn: A draught or copy of writing; certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgement therein, with an order for execution. Tomlins. Fluid extract (Med.), a concentrated liquid preparation, containing a definite proportion of the active principles of a medicinal substance. At present a fluid gram of extract should represent a gram of the crude drug.

EXTRACTABLE; EXTRACTIBLE
Ex*tract"a*ble, Ex*tract"i*ble, a.

Defn: Capable of being extracted.

EXTRACTIFORM
Ex*tract"i*form, a. (Chem.)

Defn: Having the form, appearance, or nature, of an extract.

EXTRACTION
Ex*trac"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. extraction.]

1. The act of extracting, or drawing out; as, the extraction of a tooth, of a bone or an arrow from the body, of a stump from earth, of a passage from a book, of an essence or tincture.

2. Derivation from a stock or family; lineage; descent; birth; the stock from which one has descended. "A family of ancient extraction." Clarendon.

3. That which is extracted; extract; essence. They [books] do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. Milton. The extraction of roots. (Math.) (a) The operation of finding the root of a given number or quantity. (b) The method or rule by which the operation is performed; evolution.

EXTRACTIVE
Ex*tract"ive, a. Etym: [Cf. F. extractif.]

1. Capable of being extracted. "Thirty grains of extractive matter." Kirwan.

2. Tending or serving to extract or draw out. Certain branches of industry are conveniently designated extractive: e.g., agriculture, pastoral and mining pursuits, cutting of lumber, etc. Cairnes.

EXTRACTIVE
Ex*tract"ive, n.

1. Anything extracted; an extract. Extractives, of which the most constant are urea, kreatin, and grape sugar. H. N. Martin.

2. (Chem.) (a) A chemical principle once supposed to exist in all extracts. [Obs.] (b) Any one of a large class of substances obtained by extraction, and consisting largely of nitrogenous hydrocarbons, such as xanthin, hypoxanthin, and creatin extractives from muscle tissue.

EXTRACTOR
Ex*tract"or, n.

Defn: One who, or that which, extracts; as: (a) (Surg.) A forceps or instrument for extracting substances. (b) (Breech-loading Firearms) A device for withdrawing a cartridge or spent cartridge shell from the chamber of the barrel.

EXTRADICTIONARY
Ex`tra*dic"tion*a*ry, a. Etym: [Pref. extra + L. dictio a saying. See
Diction.]

Defn: Consisting not in words, but in realities. [Obs.] Of these extradictionary and real fallacies, Aristotle and logicians make in number six. Sir T. Browne.

EXTRADITABLE
Ex"tra*di`ta*ble, a.

1. Subject, or liable, to extradition, as a fugitive from justice.

2. Making liable to extradition; as, extraditable offenses.

EXTRADITE
Ex"tra*dite, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Extradited; p. pr. & vb. n.
Extraditing.]

Defn: To deliver up by one government to another, as a fugitive from justice. See Extradition.

EXTRADITION
Ex`tra*di"tion, n. Etym: [L. ex out + traditio a delivering up: cf.
F. extradition. See Tradition.]

Defn: The surrender or delivery of an alleged criminal by one State or sovereignty to another having jurisdiction to try charge.

EXTRADOS Ex*tra"dos, n. Etym: [F.; pref. extra outside + dos (L. dorsum) the back.] (Arch.)

Defn: The exterior curve of an arch; esp., the upper curved face of the whole body of voussoirs. See Intrados.

EXTRADOTAL
Ex`tra*do"tal, a. Etym: [Pref. extra.]

Defn: Forming no part of the dowry; as, extradotal property.

EXTRAFOLIACEOUS
Ex`tra*fo`li*a"ceous, a. Etym: [Pref. extra + foliaceous.] (Bot.)

Defn: Away from the leaves, or inserted in a different place from them; as, extrafoliaceous prickles. Loudon.

EXTRAFORANEOUS
Ex`tra*fo*ra"ne*ous, a. Etym: [Pref. extra + L. foras out of doors.]

Defn: Pertaining to that which is out of doors. "Extr occupations."
Cowper.

EXTRAGENEOUS
Ex`tra*ge"ne*ous, a. Etym: [Pref. extra + L. genus race.]

Defn: Belonging to another race or kind.

EXTRAJUDICIAL
Ex`tra*ju*di"cial, a.

Defn: Out of or beyond the proper authority of a court or judge;
beyond jurisdiction; not legally required. "An extrajudicial
opinion." Hallam.
— Ex`tra*ju*di"cial*ly, adv.

EXTRAJUDICIAL CONVEYANCE
Extrajudicial conveyance. (Law)

Defn: A conveyance, as by deed, effected by the act of the parties and not involving, as in the fine and recovery, judicial proceedings.

EXTRALIMITARY
Ex`tra*lim"it*a*ry, a.

Defn: Being beyond the limit or bounds; as, extraliminary land.
Mitford.

EXTRALOGICAL
Ex`tra*log"ic*al, a.

Defn: Lying outside of the domain of logic.
— Ex`tra*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

EXTRAMISSION
Ex`tra*mis"sion, n.

Defn: A sending out; emission. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

EXTRAMUNDANE
Ex`tra*mun"dane, a. Etym: [L. extramundanus; extra + mundus world.]

Defn: Beyond the material world. "An extramundane being." Bp.
Warburton.

EXTRAMURAL
Ex`tra*mu"ral, a.

Defn: Outside of the walls, as of a fortified or walled city.

EXTRANEITY
Ex`tra*ne"i*ty, n.

Defn: State of being without or beyond a thing; foreignness. [Obs.]

EXTRANEOUS
Ex*tra"ne*ous, a. Etym: [L. extraneus, from extra. See Extra,
Strange.]

Defn: Not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing; without or beyond
a thing; not essential or intrinsic; foreign; as, to separate gold
from extraneous matter.
Nothing is admitted extraneous from the indictment. Landor.
— Ex*tra"ne*ous*ly, adv.

EXTRA-OCULAR
Ex`tra-oc"u*lar, a. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Inserted exterior to the eyes; — said of the antennæ of certain insects.

EXTRA-OFFICIAL
Ex`tra-of*fi"cial, a.

Defn: Not prescribed by official duty.

EXTRAORDINARILY
Ex*traor"di*na*ri*ly, adv.

Defn: In an extraordinary manner or degree.

EXTRAORDINARINESS
Ex*traor"di*na*ri*ness, n.

Defn: The quality of being extraordinary. [R.] Gov. of the Tongue.

EXTRAORDINARY Ex*traor"di*na*ry, a. Etym: [L. extraordinarius; extra on the outside + ordinarius: cf. F. extraordinaire. See Ordinary.]

1. Beyond or out of the common order or method; not usual, customary, regular, or ordinary; as, extraordinary evils; extraordinary remedies. Which dispose To something extraordinary my thoughts. Milton.

2. Exceeding the common degree, measure. or condition; hence, remarkable; uncommon; rare; wonderful; as, extraordinary talents or grandeur.

3. Employed or sent upon an unusual or special service; as, an ambassador extraordinary.

EXTRAORDINARY
Ex*traor"di*na*ry, n.; pl. Extraordinaries (.

Defn: That which is extraordinary; — used especially in the plural; as, extraordinaries excepted, there is nothing to prevent success. Their extraordinary did consist especially in the matter of prayers and devotions. Jer. Taylor.

EXTRAPAROCHIAL
Ex`tra*pa*ro"chi*al, a.

Defn: Beyond the limits of a parish.
— Ex`tra*pa*ro"chi*al*ly, adv.

EXTRAPHYSICAL
Ex`tra*phys"i*cal, a.

Defn: Not subject to physical laws or methods.

EXTRAPROFESSIONAL
Ex`tra*pro*fes"sion*al, a.

Defn: Foreign to a profession; not within the ordinary limits of professional duty or business.

EXTRAPROVINCIAL
Ex`tra*pro*vin"cial, a.

Defn: Not within of pertaining to the same province or jurisdiction.
Ayliffe.

EXTRAREGULAR
Ex`tra*reg"u*lar, a.

Defn: Not comprehended within a rule or rules. Jer. Taylor.

EXTRASTAPEDIAL
Ex`tra*sta*pe"di*al, a. (Anat.)

Defn: Pertaining to a part of the columella of the ear, which, in many animals, projects beyond the connection with the stapes. — n.

Defn: The extrastapedial part of columella.

EXTRATERRITORIAL
Ex`tra*ter`ri*to"ri*al, a.

Defn: Beyond the limits of a territory or particular jurisdiction;
exterritorial.
— Ex`tra*ter`ri*to"ri*al*ly(#), adv.

EXTRATERRITORIALITY
Ex`tra*ter`ri*to`ri*al"i*ty, n.

Defn: The state of being beyond the limits of a particular territory; esp. (Internat. Law),

Defn: a fiction by which a public minister, though actually in a foreign country, is supposed still to remain within the territory of his own sovereign or nation. Wheaton.

EXTRATROPICAL
Ex`tra*trop"ic*al, a.

Defn: Beyond or outside of the tropics. Whewell.

EXTRAUGHT
Ex`traught", p. p. of Extract. Etym: [Cf. Distraught.]

Defn: Extracted; descended. [Obs.]
Knowing whence thou art extraught Shak.

EXTRA-UTERINE
Ex`tra-u"ter*ine, a. (Anat. & Med.)

Defn: Outside of the uterus, or womb. Extra-uterine pregnancy (Med.), a condition of pregnancy in which the fetus is not in the uterus, but in the Fallopian tube or in the abdominal cavity.

EXTRAVAGANCE Ex*trav"a*gance, n. Etym: [Cf. F. extravagance. See Extravagant, and cf. Extravaganza.]

1. A wandering beyond proper limits; an excursion or sally from the usual way, course, or limit.

2. The state of being extravagant, wild, or prodigal beyond bounds of propriety or duty; want of moderation; excess; especially, undue expenditure of money; vaid and superfluous expense; prodigality; as, extravagance of anger, love, expression, imagination, demands. Some verses of my own, Maximin and Almanzor, cry vengeance on me for their extravagance. Dryden. The income of three dukes was enough to supply her extravagance. Arbuthnot.

Syn. — Wildness; irregularity; excess; prodigality; profusion; waste; lavishness; unreasonableness; recklessness.

EXTRAVAGANCY
Ex*trav"a*gan*cy, n.; pl. Extravagancies (.

Defn: Extravagance.

EXTRAVAGANT
Ex*trav"a*gant, a. Etym: [F. extravagant, fr. L. extra on the outside
+ vagance, , p. pr. of vagari to wander, from vagus wandering, vague.
See Vague.]

1. Wandering beyond one's bounds; roving; hence, foreign. [Obs.] The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine. Shak.

2. Exceeding due bounds; wild; excessive; unrestrained; as, extravagant acts, wishes, praise, abuse. There appears something nobly wild and extravagant in great natural geniuses. Addison.

3. Profuse in expenditure; prodigal; wasteful; as, an extravagant man. "Extravagant expense." Bancroft.

EXTRAVAGANT
Ex*trav"a*gant, n.

1. One who is confined to no general rule. L'Estrange.

2. pl. (Eccl. Hist.)

Defn: Certain constitutions or decretal epistles, not at first included with others, but subsequently made a part of the canon law.

EXTRAVAGANTLY
Ex*trav"a*gant*ly, adv.

Defn: In an extravagant manner; wildly; excessively; profusely.

EXTRAVAGANTNESS
Ex*trav"a*gant*ness, n.

Defn: The state of being extravagant or in excess; excess; extravagance.

EXTRAVAGANZA
Ex*trav`a*gan"za, n. Etym: [Extravagance with an Italian ending: cf.
It. stravaganza.]

1. A composition, as in music, or in the drama, designed to produce effect by its wild irregularity; esp., a musical caricature.

2. An extravagant flight of sentiment or language.

EXTRAVAGATE Ex*trav"a*gate, v. i. Etym: [Pref. extra + L. vagatus, p. p. of vagari to rove. See Extravagant.]

Defn: To rove. Bp. Warburton.

EXTRAVAGATION
Ex*trav`a*ga"tion, n.

Defn: A wandering beyond limits; excess. [Obs.] Smollett.

EXTRAVASATE
Ex*trav"a*sate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Extravasated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Extravasating.] Etym: [Pref. extra + L. vas vessel: cf. F.
extravaser. See Vase.]

Defn: To force or let out of the proper vessels or arteries, as blood.

EXTRAVASATION
Ex*trav`a*sa"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. extravasation.]

Defn: The act of forcing or letting out of its proper vessels or ducts, as a fluid; effusion; as, an extravasation of blood after a rupture of the vessels.

EXTRAVASCULAR Ex`tra*vas"cu*lar, a. (Anat.) (a) Outside the vessels; — said of the substance of all the tissues. (b) Destitute of vessels; non-vascular.

EXTRAVENATE
Ex*trav"e*nate, a. Etym: [Pref. extra + L. vena vein.]

Defn: Let out of the veins. [Obs.] "Extravenate blood." Glanvill.

EXTRAVERSION Ex`tra*ver"sion, n. Etym: [Pref. extra + L. vertere, versum, to turn: cf. F. extraversion.]

Defn: The act of throwing out; the state of being turned or thrown out. [Obs.] Boyle.

EXTREAT
Ex*treat", n. Etym: [See Estreat, Extract.]

Defn: Extraction. [Obs.] Spenser.

EXTREME Ex*treme", a. Etym: [L. extremus, superl. of exter, extrus, on the outside, outward: cf. F. extrême. See Exterior.]

1. At the utmost point, edge, or border; outermost; utmost; farthest; most remote; at the widest limit.

2. Last; final; conclusive; — said of time; as, the extreme hour of life.

3. The best of worst; most urgent; greatest; highest; immoderate; excessive; most violent; as, an extreme case; extreme folly. "The extremest remedy." Dryden. "Extreme rapidity." Sir W. Scott. Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire. Shak.

4. Radical; ultra; as, extreme opinions. The Puritans or extreme Protestants. Gladstone.

5. (Mus.)

Defn: Extended or contracted as much as possible; — said of intervals; as, an extreme sharp second; an extreme flat forth. Extreme and mean ratio (Geom.), the relation of a line and its segments when the line is so divided that the whole is to the greater segment is to the less. — Extreme distance. (Paint.) See Distance., n., 6. — Extreme unction. See under Unction.

Note: Although this adjective, being superlative in signification, is not properly subject to comparison, the superlative form not unfrequently occurs, especially in the older writers. "Tried in his extremest state." Spenser. "Extremest hardships." Sharp. "Extremest of evils." Bacon. "Extremest verge of the swift brook." Shak. "The sea's extremest borders." Addison.

EXTREME
Ex*treme", n.

1. The utmost point or verge; that part which terminates a body; extremity.

2. Utmost limit or degree that is supposable or tolerable; hence, furthest degree; any undue departure from the mean; — often in the plural: things at an extreme distance from each other, the most widely different states, etc.; as, extremes of heat and cold, of virtue and vice; extremes meet. His parsimony went to the extreme of meanness. Bancroft.

3. An extreme state or condition; hence, calamity, danger, distress, etc. "Resolute in most extremes." Shak.

4. (Logic)

Defn: Either of the extreme terms of a syllogism, the middle term being interposed between them.

5. (Math.)

Defn: The first or the last term of a proportion or series. In the extreme as much as possible. "The position of the Port was difficult in the extreme." J. P. Peters.

EXTREMELESS
Ex*treme"less, a.

Defn: Having no extremes; infinite.

EXTREMELY
Ex*treme"ly, adv.

Defn: In an extreme manner or state; in the utmost degree; to the utmost point; exceedingly; as, extremely hot or cold.

EXTREMIST
Ex*trem"ist, n.

Defn: A supporter of extreme doctrines or practice; one who holds extreme opinions.

EXTREMITY Ex*trem"i*ty, n.; pl. Extremities(. Etym: [L. extremitas: cf. F. extrémité.]

1. The extreme part; the utmost limit; the farthest or remotest point or part; as, the extremities of a country. They sent fleets . . . to the extremities of Ethiopia. Arbuthnot.

2. (Zoöl.)

Defn: One of locomotive appendages of an animal; a limb; a leg or an arm of man.

3. The utmost point; highest degree; most aggravated or intense form. "The extremity of bodily pain." Ray.

4. The highest degree of inconvenience, pain, or suffering; greatest need or peril; extreme need; necessity. Divers evils and extremities that follow upon such a compulsion shall here be set in view. Milton. Upon mere extremity he summoned this last Parliament. Milton.

Syn.
— Verge; border; extreme; end; termination.

EXTRICABLE
Ex"tri*ca*ble, a.

Defn: Capable of being extricated. Sir W. Jones.

EXTRICATE
Ex"tri*cate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Extricated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Extricating.] Etym: [L. extricatus, p. p. of extricare to
extricate; ex out + tricae trifles, impediments, perplexities. Cf.
Intricate.]

1. To free, as from difficulties or perplexities; to disentangle; to disembarrass; as, to extricate a person from debt, peril, etc. We had now extricated ourselves from the various labyrinths and defiles. Eustance.

2. To cause to be emitted or evolved; as, to extricate heat or moisture.

Syn. — To disentangle; disembarrass; disengage; relieve; evolve; set free; liberate.

EXTRICATION
Ex`tri*ca"tion, n.

1. The act or process of extricating or disentangling; a freeing from perplexities; disentanglement.

2. The act of sending out or evolving.

EXTRINSIC
Ex*trin"sic, a. Etym: [L. extrinsecus; exter on the outside + secus
otherwise, beside; akin to E. second: cf. F. extrinsèque. See
Exterior, Second.]

1. Not contained in or belonging to a body; external; outward; unessential; — opposed to intrinsic. The extrinsic aids of education and of artificial culture. I. Taylor.

2. (Anat.)

Defn: Attached partly to an organ or limb and partly to some other partintrinsic.

EXTRINSICAL
Ex*trin"sic*al, a.

Defn: Extrinsic.
— Ex*trin"sic*al*ly(#), adv.

EXTRINSICALITY; EXTRINSICALNESS
Ex*trin`si*cal"i*ty, Ex*trin"sic*al*ness, n.

Defn: The state or quality of being extrinsic.

EXTROITIVE
Ex*tro"i*tive, a. Etym: [L. extra on the outside + ire, itum, to go.]

Defn: Seeking or going out after external objects. [R.]
Their natures being almost wholly extroitive. Coleridge.

EXTRORSAL
Ex*tror"sal, a. (Bot.)

Defn: Extrorse.

EXTRORSE Ex*trorse", a. Etym: [As if from an assumed L. extrorsus, for extroversus; extra on the outside + vertere, versum, to turn: cf. F. extrorse.] (Bot.)

Defn: Facing outwards, or away from the axis of growth; — said esp. of anthers occupying the outer side of the filament.

EXTROVERSION
Ex`tro*ver"sion, n. Etym: [See Extrorse.]

Defn: The condition of being turned wrong side out; as, extroversion of the bladder. Dunglison.

EXTRUCT Ex*truct", v. t. Etym: [L. extructus, exstructus, p. p. of extruere, exstruere, to build up; ex out + struere to build.]

Defn: To construct. [Obs.] Byrom.

EXTRUCTION
Ex*truc"tion, n. Etym: [L. exstructio.]

Defn: A building up; construction. [Obs.] Cockeram.

EXTRUCTIVE
Ex*truct"ive, a.

Defn: Constructive. [Obs.] Fulke.

EXTRUCTOR
Ex*truct"or, n. Etym: [L.]

Defn: A builder. [Obs.] Bailey.

EXTRUDE
Ex*trude", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Extruded; p. pr. & vb. n. Extruding.]
Etym: [L. extrudere, extrusum; ex out + trudere to thrust, akin to E.
threat. See Threat.]

Defn: To thrust out; to force, press, or push out; to expel; to drive off or away. "Parentheses thrown into notes or extruded to the margin." Coleridge.

EXTRUSION
Ex*tru"sion, n.

Defn: The act of thrusting or pushing out; a driving out; expulsion.

EXTRUSIVE
Ex*tru"sive, a. [See Extrude.] (Geol.)

Defn: Forced out at the surface; as, extrusive rocks; — contrasted with intrusive.

EXTUBERANCE
Ex*tu"ber*ance, n.

Defn: A swelling or rising; protuberance. [R.] Moxon.

EXTUBERANCY
Ex*tu"ber*an*cy, n.

Defn: Extuberance. [R.]

EXTUBERANT
Ex*tu"ber*ant, a. Etym: [L. extuberare.]

Defn: Swollen out; protuberant. [R.] "Extuberant lips." Gayton.

EXTUBERATE Ex*tu"ber*ate, v. i. Etym: [L. extuberatus, p. pr. of extuberare to swell; ex out + tuber a swelling.]

Defn: To swell out. [Obs.] Cockeram.

EXTUBERATION
Ex*tu`ber*a"tion, n. Etym: [L. extuberatio.]

Defn: Protuberance. [Obs.] Farindon.

EXTUMESCENCE Ex`tu*mes"cence, n. Etym: [L. ex. + tumescens, p. pr. of tumescere, incho. fr. tumere to swell: cf. F. extumescence.]

Defn: A swelling or rising. [R.] Cotgrave.

EXUBERANCE
Ex*u"ber*ance, n. Etym: [L. exuberantia: cf. F. exubérance.]

Defn: The state of being exuberant; an overflowing quantity; a copious or excessive production or supply; superabundance; richness; as, an exuberance of joy, of fancy, or of foliage.

Syn.
— Abundance; superabundance; excess; plenty; copiousness;
profusion; richness; overflow; overgrowth; rankness; wantonness. See
Abundance.

EXUBERANCY
Ex*u"ber*an*cy

Defn: , . Exuberance.

EXUBERANT Ex*u"ber*ant, a. Etym: [L. exuberans, exuberantis, p. pr. of exuberare to be abundant; ex + uberare to be fruitful, fr. uber fruitful, fertile, uber udder: cf. F. exubérant. See Udder.]

Defn: Characterized by abundance or superabundance; plenteous; rich; overflowing; copious or excessive in production; as, exuberant goodness; an exuberant intellect; exuberant foliage. "Exuberant spring." Thomson. — Ex*u"ber*ant*ly, adv.

EXUBERATE
Ex*u"ber*ate, v. i. Etym: [L. exuberatus, p. p. of exuberare. See
Exuberant, n.]

Defn: To abound; to be in great abundance. [Obs.] Boyle.

EXUCCOUS
Ex*uc"cous, a.

Defn: See Exsuccous. [Obs.]

EXUDATE
Ex*u"date, v. t. & i. Etym: [See Exude.]

Defn: To exude. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

EXUDATION
Ex`u*da"tion, n.

Defn: The act of exuding; sweating; a discharge of humors, moisture, juice, or gum, as through pores or incisions; also, the substance exuded. Resins, a class of proximate principles, existing in almost all plants and appearing on the external surface of many of them in the form of exudations. Am. Cyc.

EXUDE
Ex*ude", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exuded; p. pr. & vb. n. exuding.] Etym:
[L. exudare, exsudare, exudatum, exsudatum, to sweat out; ex out +
sudare to sweat: cf. F. exuder, exsuder. See Sweat.]

Defn: To discharge through pores or incisions, as moisture or other liquid matter; to give out. Our forests exude turpentine in . . . abundance. Dr. T. Dwight.

EXUDE
Ex*ude", v. i.

Defn: To flow from a body through the pores, or by a natural discharge, as juice.

EXULCERATE Ex*ul"cer*ate, v. t. & i. Etym: [L. exulceratus, p. p. of exulcerare to make sore; ex out + ulcerare. See Ulcerate.]

1. To ulcerate. [Obs.] "To exulcerate the lungs." Evelyn.

2. To corrode; to fret; to chafe; to inflame. [Obs.] Minds exulcerated in themselves. Hooker.

EXULCERATE
Ex*ul"cer*ate, a. Etym: [L. exulceratus, p. p.]

Defn: Very sore; ulcerated. [Obs.] Bacon.

EXULCERATION
Ex*ul`cer*a"tion, n. Etym: [L. exulceratio: cf. F. exulcération.]
[Obs. or R.]

1. Ulceration. Quincy.

2. A fretting; a festering; soreness. Hooker.

EXULCERATIVE
Ex*ul"cer*a*tive, a.

Defn: Tending to cause ulcers; exulceratory. Holland.

EXULCERATORY Ex*ul"cer*a*to*ry, a. Etym: [L. exulceratorius: cf. F. exulcératoire.]

Defn: Having a tendency to form ulcers; rendering ulcerous.

EXULT Ex*ult", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Exulted; p. pr. & vb. n. Exulting.] Etym: [L. exultare, exsultare, exultatum, exsultatum, to leap vigorously, to exult, intens. fr. exsilire to spring out or up; ex out + salire to spring, leap: cf. F. exulter. See Salient.]

Defn: To be in high spirits; figuratively, to leap for joy; to rejoice in triumph or exceedingly; to triumph; as, an exulting heart. "An exulting countenance." Bancroft. The dumb shall sing, the lame his crutch forego, And leap exulting like the bounding roe. Pope.

EXULTANCE; EXULTANCY
Ex*ult"ance, Ex*ult"an*cy, n. Etym: [L. exsultantia.]

Defn: Exultation. [Obs.] Burton. Hammond.

EXULTANT
Ex*ult"ant, a. Etym: [L. exsultans, exsultantis, p. pr. of exsultare.
See Exult.]

Defn: Inclined to exult; characterized by, or expressing, exultation; rejoicing triumphantly. Break away, exultant, from every defilement. I. Tay;or.

EXULTATION
Ex`ul*ta"tion, n. Etym: [L. exsultatio: cf. F. exultation.]

Defn: The act of exulting; lively joy at success or victory, or at any advantage gained; rapturous delight; triumph. His bosom swelled with exultation. Prescott.

EXULTING
Ex*ult"ing, a.

Defn: Rejoicing triumphantly or exceedingly; exultant.
— Ex*ult"ing*ly, adv.

EXUNDATE Ex*un"date, v. i. Etym: [L. exundatus, p. p. of exundare to overflow; ex out + undare. See Undated waved.]

Defn: To overflow; to inundate. [Obs.] Bailey.

EXUNDATION
Ex`un*da"tion, n. Etym: [L. exundatio.]

Defn: An overflow, or overflowing abundance. [R.] Ray.

EXUNGULATE
Ex*un"gu*late, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exungulated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Exungulating.] Etym: [L. exungulare to lose the hoof, ex out, from
+ ungula. See Ungula.]

Defn: To pare off, as nails, the hoof, etc. [R.]

EXUPERABLE
Ex*u"per*a*ble, a. Etym: [L. exuperabilis, exsuperabilis. See
Exuperate.]

Defn: Surmountable; superable. [Obs.] Johnson.

EXUPERANCE
Ex*u"per*ance, n. Etym: [L. exuperantia, exsuperantia.]

Defn: Superiority; superfluity. [Obs.] Sir K. Digby.

EXUPERANT
Ex*u"per*ant, a. Etym: [L. exuperans, exsuperans, p. pr.]

Defn: Surpassing; exceeding; surmounting. [Obs.]

EXUPERATE Ex*u"per*ate, v. t. Etym: [L. exuperatus, exsuperatus, p. p. of exuperare, exsuperare to excel; ex out + superare to go over, super above, over.]

Defn: To excel; to surmount. [Obs.]

EXUPERATION
Ex*u`per*a"tion, n. Etym: [See Exurgent.]

Defn: The act of rising or coming into view. [Obs.] Baxter.

EXURGENT Ex*ur"gent, a. Etym: [L. exurgens, exsurgens, p. pr. of exurgere, exsurgere, to rise up; ex out + surgere to rise.]

Defn: Arising; coming to light. [Obs.]

EXUSCITATE
Ex*us"ci*tate, v. t.

Defn: See Exsuscitate [Obs.] T. Adams.

EXUSTION Ex*us"tion, n. Etym: [L. exustio, fr. exurere, exustum, to burn up; ex out + urere to burn.]

Defn: The act or operation of burning up. Bailey.

EXUTORY
Ex*u"to*ry, n. Etym: [Cf. F. exutoire. See Exuv.] (Med.)

Defn: An issue.

EXUVIA
Ex*u"vi*a,

Defn: n. sing. of Exuviæ.

EXUVIABILITY
Ex*u`vi*a*bil"i*ty, n.

Defn: Capability of shedding the skin periodically. Craig.

EXUVIABLE
Ex*u"vi*a*ble, a. Etym: [Cf. F. exuviable.]

Defn: Capable of being cast off in the form of exuviæ.

EXUVIAE Ex*u"vi*æ, n. pl. Etym: [L., fr. exuere to draw out or off, to pull off.]

1. (Zoöl)

Defn: Cast skins, shells, or coverings of animals; any parts of animals which are shed or cast off, as the skins of snakes, the shells of lobsters, etc.

2. (Geol.)

Defn: The fossil shells and other remains which animals have left in the strata of the earth.

EXUVIAL
Ex*u"vi*al, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to exuviæ. "Exuvial layers." "Exuvial deposits."

EXUVIATE
Ex*u"vi*ate, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Exuviated, p. pr. & vb. n.
Exuviating.] ( Etym: [From Exuviae.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: To shed an old covering or condition preliminary to taking on a
new one; to molt.
There is reason to suppose that very old crayfish do not exuviate
every year. Huxley.

EXUVIATION
Ex*u`vi*a"tion, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The rejecting or casting off of some part, more particularly, the outer cuticular layer, as the shells of crustaceans, skins of snakes, etc.; molting; ecdysis.

EX-VOTO Ex`-vo"to, n.;pl. Ex-votos (-töz). Etym: [L. ex out of, in accordance with + voto, abl. of votum a vow.]

Defn: An offering to a church in fulfillment of a vow.

EY
Ey, n.Etym: [AS.ig. Cf.Eyot.]

Defn: An island. [Obs.]

EY
Ey, n.; pl. Eyren (.

Defn: See Egg. [Obs.] Chaucer.

EY
Ey,

Defn: an interj. of wonder or inquiry. [Obs.] Chaucer.

EYALET
E`ya*let", n. Etym: [Turk.,fr. Ar.iyalah.]

Defn: Formerly, one of the administrative divisions or provinces of the Ottoman Empire; — now called a vilayet.

EYAS
Ey`as, n. Etym: [F.niais fresh from the nest, a derivative fr. L.
nidus nest. E. an eyas for a nias. See Nest, and cf. Nias, Jashawk.]
(Zoöl.)

Defn: A nesting or unfledged Lird; in falconry, a young hawk from the nest, not able to pr Shak J. H. Walsh

EYAS
Ey"as, a.

Defn: Unfledged, or newly fledged. [Obs.] Like eyas hawk up mounts unto the skies, His newly budded pinions assay. Spebser.

EYASMUSKET
Ey"as*mus`ket, n. Etym: [Eyas + muske the brid.]

Defn: An unfledged or young male sparrow hawk. [Obs.] Shak.

EYE
Eye, n. Etym: [Prob. fr. nye, an eye being for a nye. See Nye.]
(Zoöl.)

Defn: A brood; as, an eye of pheasants.

EYE Eye, n. Etym: [OE. eghe, eighe, eie, eye, AS. eáge; akin to OFries. age, OS. ga, D. oog, Ohg. ouga, G. auge, Icel. auga, Sw. öga, Dan. öie, Goth. aug; cf. OSlav. oko, Lish. akis, L. okulus, Gr. , eye, , the two eyes, Skr. akshi. Diasy, Ocular, Optic, Eyelet, Ogle.]

1. The organ of sight or vision. In man, and the vertebrates generally, it is properly the movable ball or globe in the orbit, but the term often includes the adjacent parts. In most invertebrates the years are immovable ocelli, or compound eyes made up of numerous ocelli. See Ocellus. Description of illustration: a b Conjunctiva; c Cornea; d Sclerotic; e Choroid; f Cillary Muscle; g Cillary Process; h Iris; i Suspensory Ligament; k Prosterior Aqueous Chamber between h and i; l Anterior Aqueous Chamber; m Crystalline Lens; n Vitreous Humor; o Retina; p Yellow spot; q Center of blind spot; r Artery of Retina in center of the Optic Nerve.

Note: The essential parts of the eye are inclosed in a tough outer coat, the sclerotic, to which the muscles moving it are attached, and which in front changes into the transparent cornea. A little way back of cornea, the crystalline lens is suspended, dividing the eye into two unequal cavities, a smaller one in front filled with a watery fluid, the aqueous humor, and larger one behind filled with a clear jelly, the vitreous humor. The sclerotic is lined with a highly pigmented membrane, the choroid, and this is turn is lined in the back half of the eyeball with the nearly transparent retina, in which the fibers of the optic nerve ramify. The choroid in front is continuous with the iris, which has a contractile opening in the center, the pupil, admitting light to the lens which brings the rays to a focus and forms an image upon the retina, where the light, falling upon delicate structures called rods and cones, causes them to stimulate the fibres of the optic nerve to transmit visual impressions to the brain.

2. The faculty of seeing; power or range of vision; hence, judgment or taste in the use of the eye, and in judging of objects; as, to have the eye of sailor; an eye for the beautiful or picturesque.

3. The action of the organ of sight; sight, look; view; ocular knowledge; judgment; opinion. In my eye, she is the sweetest lady that I looked on. Shak.

4. The space commanded by the organ of sight; scope of vision; hence, face; front; the presence of an object which is directly opposed or confronted; immediate presence. We shell express our duty in his eye. Shak. Her shell your hear disproved to her eyes. Shak.

5. Observation; oversight; watch; inspection; notice; attention; regard. "Keep eyes upon her." Shak. Booksellers . . . have an eye to their own advantage. Addison.

6. That which resembles the organ of sight, in form, position, or appearance; as: (a) (Zoöl.) The spots on a feather, as of peacock. (b) The scar to which the adductor muscle is attached in oysters and other bivalve shells; also, the adductor muscle itself, esp. when used as food, as in the scallop. (c) The bud or sprout of a plant or tuber; as the eye of a potato. (d) The center of a target; the bull's-eye. (e) A small loop to receive a hook; as hooks and eyes on a dress. (f) The hole through the head of a needle. (g) A loop forming part of anything, or a hole through anything, to receive a rope, hook, pin, shaft, etc.; as an eye at the end of a tie bar in a bridge truss; as an eye through a crank; an eye at the end of rope. (h) The hole through the upper millstone.

7. That which resembles the eye in relative importance or beauty. "The very eye of that proverb." Shak. Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts. Milton.

8. Tinge; shade of color. [Obs.]
Red with an eye of blue makes a purple. Boyle.
By the eye, in abundance. [Obs.] Marlowe.
— Elliott eye (Naut.), a loop in a hemp cable made around a thimble
and served.
— Eye agate, a kind of circle agate, the central part of which are
of deeper tints than the rest of the mass. Brande & C.
— Eye animalcule (Zoöl), a flagellate infusorian belonging to
Euglena and related genera; — so called because it has a colored
spot like an eye at one end.
— Eye doctor, an oculist.
— Eye of a volute (Arch.), the circle in the center of volute.
— Eye of day, Eye of the morning, Eye of heaven, the sun. "So
gently shuts the eye day." Mrs. Barbauld.
— Eye of a ship, the foremost part in the bows of a ship, where,
formerly, eyes were painted; also, the hawser holes. Ham. Nav. Encyc.
— Half an eye, very imperfect sight; a careless glance; as, to see
a thing with half an eye; often figuratively. "Those who have but
half an eye. " B. Jonson.
— To catch one's eye, to attract one's notice.
— To find favor in the eyes (of), to be graciously received and
treated.
— To have an eye to, to pay particular attention to; to watch.
"Have an eye to Cinna." Shak.
— To keep an eye on, to watch.
— To set the eyes on, to see; to have a sight of.
— In the eye of the wind (Naut.), in a direction opposed to the
wind; as, a ship sails in the eye of the wind.

EYE
Eye (, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Eyed (; p. pr. & vb. n. Eying or Eyeing.]

Defn: To fix the eye on; to look on; to view; to observe; particularly, to observe or watch narrowly, or with fixed attention; to hold in view. Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial To my proportioned strength. Milton.

EYE
Eye, v. i.

Defn: To appear; to look. [Obs.]
My becomings kill me, when they do not Eye well to you. Shak.

EYEBALL
Eye"ball`, n.

Defn: The ball or globe of the eye.

EYEBAR
Eye"bar`, n. (Engin.)

Defn: A bar with an eye at one or both ends.

EYEBEAM
Eye"beam`, n.

Defn: A glance of the eye. Shak.

EYEBOLT
Eye"bolt`, n. (Mach.)

Defn: A bolt which a looped head, or an opening in the head.

EYEBRIGHT
Eye"bright`, n. (Bot.)

Defn: A small annual plant (Euphrasia officinalis), formerly much used as a remedy for diseases of the eye.

EYEBROW
Eye"brow`, n.

Defn: The brow or hairy arch above the eye. Shak.

EYECUP
Eye"cup`, n.

Defn: A small oval porcelain or glass cup, having a rim curved to fit the orbit of the eye. it is used in the application of liquid remedies to eyes; — called also eyeglass.

EYED
Eyed, a.

Defn: Heaving (such or so many) eyes; — used in composition; as sharp-eyed; dull-eyed; sad-eyed; ox-eyed Juno; myriad-eyed.

EYEDROP
Eye"drop", n.

Defn: A tear. [Poetic] Shak.

EYEFLAP
Eye"flap", n.

Defn: A blinder on a horse's bridle.

EYEFUL
Eye"ful, a.

Defn: Filling or satisfying the eye; visible; remarkable. [Obs.]
"Eyeful trophies." Chapman.

EYEGLANCE
Eye"glance`, n.

Defn: A glance of eye.

EYEGLASS
Eye"glass`, n.

1. A lens of glass to assist the sight. Eyeglasses are used singly or in pairs.

2. Eyepiece of a telescope, microscope, etc.

3. The retina. [Poetic]

4. A glass eyecup. See Eyecup.

EYEHOLE
Eye"hole`, n.

Defn: A circular opening to recive a hook, cord, ring, or rope; an eyelet.

EYELASH
Eye"lash`, n.

1. The fringe of hair that edges the eyelid; — usually in the pl.

2. A hair of the fringe on the edge of the eyelid.

EYELESS
Eye"less`, a.

Defn: Without eyes; blind. "Eyeless rage." Shak.

EYELET
Eye"let`, n. Etym: [F., dim. of oculus. See Eye, and cf. Oillet.]

1. A small hole or perforation to receive a cord or fastener, as in garments, sails, etc.

2. A metal ring or grommet, or short metallic tube, the ends of which can be bent outward and over to fasten it in place; — used to line an eyelet hole. Eyelet hole, a hole made for an eyelet. — Eyelet punch, a machine for punching eyelet holes and fastening eyelets, as in paper or cloth. — Eyelet ring. See Eyelet, 2.

EYELETEER
Eye`let*eer", n.

Defn: A small, sharp-pointed instrument used in piercing eyelet holes; a stiletto.

EYELID
Eye`lid", n. (Anat.)

Defn: The cover of the eye; that portion of movable skin with which an animal covers or uncovers the eyeball at pleasure.

EYE-MINDED
Eye"-mind`ed, a.

Defn: Having one's mental imagery prevailingly of the visual type; having one's thoughts and memories mainly in the form of visual images. — Eye"-mind`ed*ness, n.

EYEN
Ey"en, n. pl.

Defn: Eyes. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.

EYE OPENER
Eye opener.

Defn: That which makes the eyes open, as startling news or occurrence, or (U. S. Slang), a drink of liquor, esp. the first one in the morning.

EYEPIECE
Eye"piece`, n. (Opt.)

Defn: The lens, or combination of lenses, at the eye end of a telescope or other optical instrument, through which the image formed by the mirror or object glass is viewed. Collimating eyepiece. See under Collimate. — Negative, or Huyghenian, eyepiece, an eyepiece consisting of two plano-convex lenses with their curved surfaces turned toward the object glass, and separated from each other by about half the sum of their focal distances, the image viewed by the eye being formed between the two lenses. it was devised by Huyghens, who applied it to the telescope. Campani applied it to the microscope, whence it is sometimes called Campani's eyepiece. — Positive eyepiece, an eyepiece consisting of two plano-convex lenses placed with their curved surfaces toward each other, and separated by a distance somewhat less than the focal distance of the one nearest eye, the image of the object viewed being beyond both lenses; — called also, from the name of the inventor, Ramsden's eyepiece. — terrestrial, or Erecting eyepiece, an eyepiece used in telescopes for viewing terrestrial objects, consisting of three, or usually four, lenses, so arranged as to present the image of the object viewed in an erect position.

EYER
Ey"er, n.

Defn: One who eyes another. Gayton.

EYEREACH
Eye"reach`, n.

Defn: The range or reach of the eye; eyeshot. "A seat in eyereach of him." B. Jonson.

EYESAINT; EYE-SAINT
Eye"*saint`, n.

Defn: An object of interest to the eye; one wirehaired with the eyes.
[Obs.]
That's the eye-saint, I know, Among young gallants. Beau. & Fl.

EYESALVE
Eye"salve`, n.

Defn: Ointment for the eye.

EYESERVANT
Eye"serv`ant, n.

Defn: A servant who attends faithfully to his duty only when watched.

EYESERVICE
Eye"serv`ice, n.

Defn: Service performed only under inspection, or the eye of an
employer.
Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers. Col. iii. 22.

EYESHOT
Eye"shot`, n.

Defn: Range, reach, or glance of the eye; view; sight; as, to be out of eyeshot. Dryden.

EYESIGHT
Eye"sight`, n.

Defn: Sight of the eye; the sense of seeing; view; observation.
Josephus sets this down from his own eyesight. Bp. Wilkins.

EYESORE
Eye"sore`, n.

Defn: Something offensive to the eye or sight; a blemish.
Mordecai was an eyesore to Haman. L'Estrange.

EYESPLICE; EYE-SPLICE
Eye"*splice`, n. (Naut.)

Defn: A splice formed by bending a rope's and back, and fastening it into the rope, forming a loop or eye. See Illust. under Splice.

EYESPOT; EYE-SPOT Eye"*spot`, n. (Zoöl.) (a) A simple visual organ found in many invertebrates, consisting of pigment cells covering a sensory nerve termination. (b) An eyelike spot of color.

EYESPOTTED; EYE-SPOTTED
Eye"*spot`ted, a.

Defn: Marked with spots like eyes.
Junno's bird, in her eye-spotted train. Spenser.

EYESTALK
Eye"stalk`, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: One of the movable peduncles which, in the decapod Crustacea, bear the eyes at the tip.

EYESTONE
Eye"stone`, n.

1. A small, lenticular, calcareous body, esp. an operculum of a small shell of the family Tubinid, used to remove a foreign sub stance from the eye. It is rut into the inner corner of the eye under the lid, and allowed to work its way out at the outer corner, bringing with the substance.

2. (Min.)

Defn: Eye agate. See under Eye.

EYESTRING
Eye"string`, n.

Defn: The tendon by which the eye is moved. Shak.

EYET
Ey"et, n.

Defn: An island. See Eyot.

EYETOOTH
Eye"tooth, n.; pl. Eyeteeth ( (Anat.)

Defn: A canine tooth of the upper jaw. See Teeth. To cut one's eyeteeth, to become acute or knowing. [Colloq.]

EYEWASH
Eye"wash, n.

Defn: See Eyewater.

EYEWATER
Eye"wa`ter, n. (Med.)

Defn: A wash or lotion for application to the eyes.

EYEWINK
Eye"wink`, n.

Defn: A wink; a token. Shak.

EYEWINKER
Eye"wink`er, n.

Defn: An eyelash. [A child's word.]

EYEWITNESS
Eye"wit`ness, n.

Defn: One who sees a thing done; one who has ocular view anything.
We . . . were eyewitnesses of his majesty. 2 Pet. i. 16.

EYGHEN
Ey"ghen, n. pl.

Defn: Eyes. [Obs.] Chaucer.

EYGHT
Eyght, n.

Defn: An island. See Eyot.

EYLE
Eyle v. t.& i.

Defn: To ail. [Obs.] Chaucer.

EYLIAD
Ey"liad, n.

Defn: See Eiliad.

EYNE; EYEN
Eyne, or Ey"en, n.

Defn: Plural of eye; obsolete, or used only in poetry. Shak.
With such a plaintive gaze their eyne Are fastened upwardly on mine.
Mrs. Browning.

EYOT Ey"ot, n. Etym: [Ey (AS. ig or Icel. ey) + F. dim. termination -ot; cf. AS. igeoedt. See Island, and cf. Ait.]

Defn: A little island in a river or lake. See Ait. [Written also ait, ayt, eey, eyet, and eyght.] Blackstone.

EYR
Eyr, n. Etym: [See Air.]

Defn: Air. [Obs.] Chaucer.

EYRA
Ey"ra, n. Etym: [Native South American name.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A wild cat (Felis eyra) ranging from southern Brazil to Texas. It is reddish yellow and about the size of the domestic cat, but with a more slender body and shorter legs.

EYRE
Eyre, n. Etym: [OF. erre journey, march, way, fr. L. iter, itineris,
a going, way, fr. the root of ire to go. Cf. Errant, Itinerant,
Issue.] (O. Eng. Law)

Defn: A journey in circuit of certain judges called justices in eyre (or in itinere).

Note: They were itinerant judges, who rode the circuit, holding courts in the different counties.

EYREN
Ey"ren, n. pl.

Defn: See Ey, an egg.

EYRIE; EYRY
Ey"rie, Ey"ry, n.; pl. Ey"ries. Etym: [See Aerie]

Defn: The nest of a bird of prey or other large bird that builds in a
lofty place; aerie.
The eagle and the stork On cliffs and cedar tops their eyries build.
Milton.

EYSELL
Ey"sell, n.

Defn: Same as Eisel. [Obs.] Shak.

F
F (êf)

Defn: .

1. F is the sixth letter of the English alphabet, and a nonvocal consonant. Its form and sound are from the Latin. The Latin borrowed the form from the Greek digamma w consonant. The form and value of Greek letter came from the Phoenician, the ultimate source being probably Egyptian. Etymologically fis most closely related to p,k,v, and b; as in E. five, Gr. f, L. lupus, Gr. fox, vixen ; fragile, break ; fruit, brook, v. t.; E. bear, L. ferre. See Guide to Pronunciation, sq. root 178, 179, 188, 198, 230.

2. (Mus.)

Defn: The name of the fourth tone of the model scale, or scale of C. F sharp (F #) is a tone intermediate between F and G. F clef, the bass clef. See under Clef.

FA Fa, n. Etym: [It.] (Mus.) (a) A syllable applied to the fourth tone of the diatonic scale in solmization. (b) The tone F.

FABACEOUS
Fa*ba"ceous, a. Etym: [L. fabaceus, fr. faba bean.]

Defn: Having the nature of a bean; like a bean.

FABELLA
Fa*bel"la, n.; pl. Fabellae (-l. Etym: [NL., dim. of L. faba a bean.]
(Anat.)

Defn: One of the small sesamoid bones situated behind the condyles of the femur, in some mammals.

FABIAN
Fa"bi*an, a. Etym: [L. Fabianus, Fabius, belonging to Fabius.]

Defn: Of, pertaining to, or in the manner of, the Roman general, Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus; cautious; dilatory; avoiding a decisive contest. Fabian policy, a policy like that of Fabius Maximus, who, by carefully avoiding decisive contests, foiled Hannibal, harassing his army by marches, countermarches, and ambuscades; a policy of delays and cautions.

FABLE Fa"ble, n. Etym: [F., fr. L. fabula, fr. fari to speak, say. See Ban, and cf. Fabulous, Fame.]

1. A Feigned story or tale, intended to instruct or amuse; a fictitious narration intended to enforce some useful truth or precept; an apologue. See the Note under Apologue. Jotham's fable of the trees is the oldest extant. Addison .

2. The plot, story, or connected series of events, forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem. The moral is the first business of the poet; this being formed, he contrives such a design or fable as may be most suitable to the moral. Dryden.

3. Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk. "Old wives' fables. " 1 Tim. iv. 7. We grew The fable of the city where we dwelt. Tennyson.

4. Fiction; untruth; falsehood. It would look like a fable to report that this gentleman gives away a great fortune by secret methods. Addison.

FABLE
Fa"ble, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fabled; p. pr. & vb. n. Fabling.]

Defn: To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction ; to write
or utter what is not true. "He Fables not." Shak.
Vain now the tales which fabling poets tell. Prior.
He fables, yet speaks truth. M. Arnold.

FABLE
Fa"ble, v. t.

Defn: To fiegn; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real;
to tell of falsely.
The hell thou fablest. Milton.

FABLER
Fa"bler, n.

Defn: A writer of fables; a fabulist; a dealer in untruths or falsehoods. Br. Hall.

FABLIAU Fa`bli`au", n.; pl. Fabliaux . Etym: [F., fr. OF.fablel, dim. of fable a fable.] (Fr. Lit.)

Defn: One of the metrical tales of the Trouvères, or early poets of the north of France.

FABRIC Fab"ric, n. Etym: [L. fabrica fabric, workshop: cf. F. fabrique fabric. See Forge.]

1. The structure of anything; the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship; texture; make; as cloth of a beautiful fabric.

2. That which is fabricated; as : (a) Framework; structure; edifice; building. Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation. Milton.

(b) Cloth of any kind that is woven or knit from fibers, either vegetable or animal; manufactured cloth; as, silks or other fabrics.

3. The act of constructing; construction. [R.] Tithe was received by the bishop, . . . for the fabricof the churches for the poor. Milman.

4. Any system or structure consisting of connected parts; as, the fabric of the universe. The whole vast fabric of society. Macaulay.

FABRIC
Fab"ric, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fabricked; p. pr. & vb. n. Fabricking.]

Defn: To frame; to built; to construct. [Obs.] "Fabric their mansions." J. Philips.

FABRICANT
Fab"ri*cant, n. Etym: [F.]

Defn: One who fabricates; a manufacturer. Simmonds.

FABRICATE
Fab"ri*cate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fabricated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Fabricating.] Etym: [L. fabricatus, p.p. of fabricari, fabricare, to
frame, build, forge, fr. fabrica. See Fabric, Farge.]

1. To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to frame; to construct; to build; as, to fabricate a bridge or ship.

2. To form by art and labor; to manufacture; to produce; as, to fabricate woolens.

3. To invent and form; to forge; to devise falsely; as, to fabricate a lie or story. Our books were not fabricated with an accomodation to prevailing usages. Paley.

FABRICATION
Fab`ri*ca"tion, n. Etym: [L. fabricatio; cf. F. fabrication.]

1. The act of fabricating, framing, or constructing; construction; manufacture; as, the fabrication of a bridge, a church, or a government. Burke.

2. That which is fabricated; a falsehood; as, the story is doubtless a fabrication.

Syn.
— See Fiction.

FABRICATOR
Fab"ri*ca`tor, n. Etym: [L.]

Defn: One who fabricates; one who constructs or makes.
The fabricator of the works of Ossian. Mason.

FABRICATRESS
Fab"ri*ca`tress, n.

Defn: A woman who fabricates.

FABRILE
Fab"rile, a. Etym: [L. fabrilis, fr. faber workman. See Forge.]

Defn: Pertaining to a workman, or to work in stone, metal, wood etc.; as, fabrile skill.

FABULIST
Fab"u*list, n. Etym: [Cf. F. fabuliste, fr. L. fabula. See Fable.]

Defn: One who invents or writes fables.

FABULIZE
Fab"u*lize, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fabulized; p. pr. & vb. n.
Fabulizing.] Etym: [Cf. F. fabuliser. See Fable.]

Defn: To invent, compose, or relate fables or fictions. G. S. Faber.

FABULOSITY
Fab`u*los"i*ty, n. Etym: [L. fabulositas: cf. F. fabulosité.]

1. Fabulousness. [R.] Abp. Abbot.

2. A fabulous or fictitious story. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

FABULOUS
Fab"u*lous, a. Etym: [L. fabulosus; cf. F. fabuleux. See Fable.]

1. Feigned, as a story or fable; related in fable; devised; invented; not real; fictitious; as, a fabulous description; a fabulous hero. The fabulous birth of Minerva. Chesterfield.

2. Passing belief; exceedingly great; as, a fabulous price. Macaulay. Fabulous age, that period in the history of a nation of which the only accounts are myths and unverified legends; as, the fabulous age of Greek and Rome. — Fab"u*lous*ly, adv. — Fab"u*lous*ness, n.

FABURDEN Fab"ur*den, n. Etym: [F. foux bpirdon. See False, and Burden a verse.]

1. (Mus.) (a) A species of counterpoint with a drone bass. (b) A succession of chords of the sixth. [Obs.]

2. A monotonous refrain. [Obs.] Holland.

FAC
Fac, n. Etym: [Abbrev. of facsimile.]

Defn: A large ornamental letter used, esp. by the early printers, at the commencement of the chapters and other divisions of a book. Brande & C.

FACADE
Fa`çade", n. Etym: [F., fr. It. facciata, fr. fassia face, L. facies.
See Face.] (Arch.)

Defn: The front of a building; esp., the principal front, having some architectural pretensions. Thus a church is said to have its facade unfinished, though the interior may be in use.

FACE Face, n. Etym: [F., from L. facies form, shape, face, perh. from facere to make (see Fact); or perh. orig. meaning appearance, and from a root meaning to shine, and akin to E. fancy. Cf. Facetious.]

1. The exterior form or appearance of anything; that part which presents itself to the view; especially, the front or upper part or surface; that which particularly offers itself to the view of a spectator. A mist . . . watered the whole face of the ground. Gen. ii. 6. Lake Leman wooes me with its crystal face. Byron.

2. That part of a body, having several sides, which may be seen from one point, or which is presented toward a certain direction; one of the bounding planes of a solid; as, a cube has six faces.

3. (Mach.) (a) The principal dressed surface of a plate, disk, or pulley; the principal flat surface of a part or object. (b) That part of the acting surface of a cog in a cog wheel, which projects beyond the pitch line. (c) The width of a pulley, or the length of a cog from end to end; as, a pulley or cog wheel of ten inches face.

4. (Print.) (a) The upper surface, or the character upon the surface, of a type, plate, etc. (b) The style or cut of a type or font of type.

5. Outside appearance; surface show; look; external aspect, whether natural, assumed, or acquired. To set a face upon their own malignant design. Milton. This would produce a new face of things in Europe. Addison. We wear a face of joy, because We have been glad of yore. Wordsworth.

6. That part of the head, esp. of man, in which the eyes, cheeks, nose, and mouth are situated; visage; countenance. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread. Gen. iii. 19.

7. Cast of features; expression of countenance; look; air; appearance. We set the best faceon it we could. Dryden.

8. (Astrol.)

Defn: Ten degrees in extent of a sign of the zodiac. Chaucer.

9. Maintenance of the countenance free from abashment or confusion; confidence; boldness; shamelessness; effrontery. This is the man that has the face to charge others with false citations. Tillotson.

10. Presence; sight; front; as in the phrases, before the face of, in the immediate presence of; in the face of, before, in, or against the front of; as, to fly in the face of danger; to the face of, directly to; from the face of, from the presenceof.

11. Mode of regard, whether favorable or unfavorable; favor or anger; mostly in Scriptural phrases. The Lord make his face to shine upon thee. Num. vi. 25. My face [favor] will I turn also from them. Ezek. vii. 22.

12. (Mining)

Defn: The end or wall of the tunnel, drift, or excavation, at which work is progressing or was last done.

13. (Com.)

Defn: The exact amount expressed on a bill, note, bond, or other mercantile paper, without any addition for interest or reduction for discount. McElrath.

Note: Face is used either adjectively or as part of a compound; as, face guard or face-guard; face cloth; face plan or face-plan; face hammer. Face ague (Med.), a form of neuralgia, characterized by acute lancinating pains returning at intervals, and by twinges in certain parts of the face, producing convulsive twitches in the corresponding muscles; — called also tic douloureux. — Face card, one of a pack of playing cards on which a human face is represented; the king, queen, or jack. — Face cloth, a cloth laid over the face of a corpse. — Face guard, a mask with windows for the eyes, worn by workman exposed to great heat, or to flying particles of metal, stone, etc., as in glass works, foundries, etc. — Face hammer, a hammer having a flat face. — Face joint (Arch.), a joint in the face of a wall or other structure. — Face mite (Zoöll.), a small, elongated mite (Demdex folliculorum), parasitic in the hair follicles of the face. — Face mold, the templet or pattern by which carpenters, ect., outline the forms which are to be cut out from boards, sheet metal, ect. — Face plate. (a) (Turning) A plate attached to the spindle of a lathe, to which the work to be turned may be attached. (b) A covering plate for an object, to receive wear or shock. (c) A true plane for testing a dressed surface. Knight. — Face wheel. (Mach.) (a) A crown wheel. (b) A Wheel whose disk face is adapted for grinding and polishing; a lap. Cylinder face (Steam Engine), the flat part of a steam cylinder on which a slide valve moves. — Face of an anvil, its flat upper surface. — Face of a bastion (Fort.), the part between the salient and the shoulder angle. — Face of coal (Mining), the principal cleavage plane, at right angles to the stratification. — Face of a gun, the surface of metal at the muzzle. — Face of a place (Fort.), the front comprehended between the flanked angles of two neighboring bastions. Wilhelm. — Face of a square (Mil.), one of the sides of a battalion when formed in a square. — Face of a watch, clock, compass, card etc., the dial or graduated surface on which a pointer indicates the time of day, point of the compass, etc. — Face to face. (a) In the presence of each other; as, to bring the accuser and the accused face to face. (b) Without the interposition of any body or substance. "Now we see through a glass darkly; but then face to face." 1 Cor. xiii. 12. (c) With the faces or finished surfaces turned inward or toward one another; vis à vis; — opposed to back to back. — To fly in the face of, to defy; to brave; to withstand. — To make a face, to distort the countenance; to make a grimace. Shak.

FACE
Face, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Faced; p. pr. & vb. n. Facing.]

1. To meet in front; to oppose with firmness; to resist, or to meet for the purpose of stopping or opposing; to confront; to encounter; as, to face an enemy in the field of battale. I'll face This tempest, and deserve the name of king. Dryden.

2. To Confront impudently; to bully. I will neither be facednor braved. Shak.

3. To stand opposite to; to stand with the face or front toward; to front upon; as, the apartments of the general faced the park. He gained also with his forces that part of Britain which faces Ireland. Milton.

4. To cover in front, for ornament, protection, etc.; to put a facing upon; as, a building faced with marble.

5. To line near the edge, esp. with a different material; as, to face the front of a coat, or the bottom of a dress.

6. To cover with better, or better appearing, material than the mass consists of, for purpose of deception, as the surface of a box of tea, a barrel of sugar, etc.

7. (Mach.)

Defn: To make the surface of (anything) flat or smooth; to dress the face of (a stone, a casting, etc.); esp., in turning, to shape or smooth the flat surface of, as distinguished from the cylindrical surface.

8. To cause to turn or present a face or front, as in a particular direction. To face down, to put down by bold or impudent opposition. "He faced men down." Prior. — To face (a thing) out, to persist boldly or impudently in an assertion or in a line of conduct. "That thinks with oaths to face the matter out." Shak

FACE
Face, v. i.

1. To carry a false appearance; to play the hypocrite. "To lie, to face, to forge." Spenser.

2. To turn the face; as, to face to the right or left. Face about, man; a soldier, and afraid! Dryden.

3. To present a face or front.

FACED
Faced, a.

Defn: Having (such) a face, or (so many) faces; as, smooth-faced, two-faced.

FACER
Fa"cer, n.

1. One who faces; one who puts on a false show; a bold-faced person. [Obs.] There be no greater talkers, nor boasters, nor fasers. Latimer.

2. A blow in the face, as in boxing; hence, any severe or stunning check or defeat, as in controversy. [Collog.] I should have been a stercoraceous mendicant if I had hollowed when I got a facer. C. Kingsley.

FACET
Fac"et, n. Etym: [F. facette, dim. of face face. See Face.]

1. A little face; a small, plane surface; as, the facets of a diamond. [Written also facette.]

2. (Anat.)

Defn: A smooth circumscribed surface; as, the articular facet of a bone.

3. (Arch.)

Defn: The narrow plane surface between flutings of a column.

4. (Zoöl.)

Defn: One of the numerous small eyes which make up the compound eyes of insects and crustaceans.

FACET
Fac"et, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Faceted; p. pr. & vb. n. Faceting.]

Defn: To cut facets or small faces upon; as, to facet a diamond.

FACETE Fa*cete", a. Etym: [L. facetus elegant, fine, facetious; akin to facies. See Face, and cf. Facetious.]

Defn: Facetious; witty; humorous. [Archaic] "A facete discourse."
Jer. Taylor.
"How to interpose" with a small, smart remark, sentiment facete, or
unctuous anecdote. Prof. Wilson.
— Fa*cete"ly, adv.
— Fa*cete"ness, n.

FACETED
Fac"et*ed, a.

Defn: Having facets.

FACETIAE
Fa*ce"ti*æ (, n. pl. Etym: [L., fr. facetus. See Facete.]

Defn: Witty or humorous writings or saying; witticisms; merry conceits.

FACETIOUS
Fa*ce"tious, a. Etym: [Cf. F. facétieux. See Facetiæ.]

1. Given to wit and good humor; merry; sportive; jocular; as, a facetious companion.

2. Characterized by wit and pleasantry; exciting laughter; as, a
facetious story or reply.
— Fa*ce"tious*ly, adv.
— Fa*ce"tious*ness, n.

FACETTE
Fa*cette", n. Etym: [F.]

Defn: See Facet, n.

FACEWORK
Face"work`, n.

Defn: The material of the outside or front side, as of a wall or building; facing.

FACIA
Fa"ci*a, n. (Arch.)

Defn: See Fascia.

FACIAL
Fa"cial, a. Etym: [LL. facialis, fr. L. facies face : cf. F. facial.]

Defn: Of or pertaining to the face; as, the facial artery, vein, or nerve. — Fa"cial*ly, adv. Facial angle (Anat.), the angle, in a skull, included between a straight line (ab, in the illustrations), from the most prominent part of the forehead to the front efge of the upper jaw bone, and another (cd) from this point to the center of the external auditory opening. See Gnathic index, under Gnathic.

FACIEND Fa"ci*end, n. Etym: [From neut. of L. faciendus, gerundive of facere to do.] (Mach.)

Defn: The multiplicand. See Facient,

2.

FACIENT Fa"cient, n. Etym: [L. faciens, — entis, p. pr. of facere to make, do. See Fact.]

1. One who does anything, good or bad; a doer; an agent. [Obs.] Br. Hacket.

2. (Mach.) (a) One of the variables of a quantic as distinguished from a coefficient. (b) The multiplier.

Note: The terms facient, faciend, and factum, may imply that the multiplication involved is not ordinary multiplication, but is either some specified operation, or, in general, any mathematical operation. See Multiplication.

FACIES
Fa"ci*es, n. Etym: [L., from, face. See Face.]

1. The anterior part of the head; the face.

2. (Biol.)

Defn: The general aspect or habit of a species, or group of species, esp. with reference to its adaptation to its environment.

3. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The face of a bird, or the front of the head, excluding the bill. Facies Hippocratica. (Med.) See Hippocratic.

FACILE Fac"ile a. Etym: [L. facilis, prop., capable of being done or made, hence, facile, easy, fr. facere to make, do: cf. F. facile. Srr Fact, and cf. Faculty.]

1. Easy to be done or performed: not difficult; performable or attainable with little labor. Order . . . will render the work facile and delightful. Evelyn.

2. Easy to be surmounted or removed; easily conquerable; readily mastered. The facile gates of hell too slightly barred. Milton.

3. Easy of access or converse; mild; courteous; not haughty, austere, or distant; affable; complaisant. I meant she should be courteous, facile, sweet. B. Jonson.

4. Easily persuaded to good or bad; yielding; ductile to a fault; pliant; flexible. Since Adam, and his facile consort Eve, Lost Paradise, deceived by me. Milton. This is treating Burns like a child, a person of so facile a disposition as not to be trusted without a keeper on the king's highway. Prof. Wilson.

5. Ready; quick; expert; as, he is facile in expedients; he wields a
facile pen.
— Fac"ile-ly, adv.
— Fac"ile*ness, n.

FACILITATE
Fa*cil"i*tate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Facilitated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Facilitating.] Etym: [Cf. F. faciliter. See Facility.]

Defn: To make easy or less difficult; to free from difficulty or impediment; to lessen the labor of; as, to facilitate the execution of a task. To invite and facilitate that line of proceeding which the times call for. I. Taylor.

FACILITATION
Fa*cil`i*ta"tion, n.

Defn: The act of facilitating or making easy.

FACILITY Fa*cil"i*ty, n.; pl. Facilities. Etym: [L. facilitas, fr. facilis easy: cf. F. facilitFacile.]

1. The quality of being easily performed; freedom from difficulty; ease; as, the facility of an operation. The facility with which government has been overturned in France. Burke .

2. Ease in performance; readiness proceeding from skill or use; dexterity; as, practice gives a wonderful facility in executing works of art.

3. Easiness to be persuaded; readiness or compliance; — usually in a bad sense; pliancy. It is a great error to take facility for good nature. L'Estrange.

4. Easiness of access; complaisance; affability. Offers himself to the visits of a friend with facility. South.

5. That which promotes the ease of any action or course of conduct; advantage; aid; assistance; — usually in the plural; as, special facilities for study.

Syn. — Ease; expertness; readiness; dexterity; complaisance; condescension; affability. — Facility, Expertness, Readiness. These words have in common the idea of performing any act with ease and promptitude. Facility supposes a natural or acquired power of dispatching a task with lightness and ease. Expertness is the kind of facility acquired by long practice. Readiness marks the promptitude with which anything is done. A merchant needs great facility in dispatching business; a bunker, great expertness in casting accounts; both need great readiness in passing from one employment to another. "The facility which we get of doing things by a custom of doing, makes them often pass in us without our notice." Locke. "The army was celebrated for the expertness and valor of the soldiers." "A readiness obey the known will of God is the surest means to enlighten the mind in respect to duty."

FACING
Fa"cing, n.

1. A covering in front, for ornament or other purpose; an exterior covering or sheathing; as, the facing of an earthen slope, sea wall, etc. , to strengthen it or to protect or adorn the exposed surface.

2. A lining placed near the edge of a garment for ornament or protection.

3. (Arch.)

Defn: The finishing of any face of a wall with material different from that of which it is chiefly composed, or the coating or material so used.

4. (Founding)

Defn: A powdered substance, as charcoal, bituminous coal, ect., applied to the face of a mold, or mixed with the sand that forms it, to give a fine smooth surface to the casting.

5. (Mil.) (a) pl.

Defn: The collar and cuffs of a military coat; — commonly of a color different from that of the coat. (b) The movement of soldiers by turning on their heels to the right, left, or about; — chiefly in the pl. Facing brick, front or pressed brick.

FACINGLY
Fa"cing*ly, adv.

Defn: In a facing manner or position.

FACINOROUS Fa*cin"o*rous, a. Etym: [L. facinorous, from facinus deed, bad deed, from facere to make, do.]

Defn: Atrociously wicked. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.
— Fa*cin"o*rous*ness, n. [Obs.]

FACOUND
Fac"ound, n. Etym: [F. faconde, L. facundia. See Facund.]

Defn: Speech; eloquence. [Obs.]
Her facound eke full womanly and plain. Chaucer.

FACSIMILE Fac*sim"i*le, n.; pl. Facsimiles (-l. Etym: [L. fac simile make like; or an abbreviation of factum simile made like; facere to make + similes like. See Fact, and Simile.]

Defn: A copy of anything made, either so as to be deceptive or so as to give every part and detail of the original; an exact copy or likeness. Facsimile telegraph, a telegraphic apparatus reproducing messages in autograph.

FACSIMILE
Fac*sim"i*le

Defn: , (

FACT
Fact, n. Etym: [L. factum, fr. facere to make or do. Cf. Feat,
Affair, Benefit, Defect, Fashion, and -fy.]

1. A doing, making, or preparing. [Obs.] A project for the fact and vending Of a new kind of fucus, paint for ladies. B. Jonson.

2. An effect produced or achieved; anything done or that comes to pass; an act; an event; a circumstance. What might instigate him to this devilish fact, I am not able to conjecture. Evelyn. He who most excels in fact of arms. Milton.

3. Reality; actuality; truth; as, he, in fact, excelled all the rest; the fact is, he was beaten.

4. The assertion or statement of a thing done or existing; sometimes, even when false, improperly put, by a transfer of meaning, for the thing done, or supposed to be done; a thing supposed or asserted to be done; as, history abounds with false facts. I do not grant the fact. De Foe. This reasoning is founded upon a fact which is not true. Roger Long.

Note: TheTerm fact has in jurisprudence peculiar uses in contrast with low; as, attorney at low, and attorney in fact; issue in low, and issue in fact. There is also a grand distinction between low and fact with reference to the province of the judge and that of the jury, the latter generally determining the fact, the former the low. Burrill Bouvier. Accessary before, or after, the fact. See under Accessary. — Matter of fact, an actual occurrence; a verity; used adjectively: of or pertaining to facts; prosaic; unimaginative; as, a matter-of- fact narration.

Syn. — Act; deed; performance; event; incident; occurrence; circumstance.

FACTION Fac"tion, n. Etym: [L. factio a doing, a company of persons acting together, a faction: cf. F. faction See Fashion.]

1. (Anc. Hist.)

Defn: One of the divisions or parties of charioteers (distinguished by their colors) in the games of the circus.

2. A party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition to the government, or state; — usually applied to a minority, but it may be applied to a majority; a combination or clique of partisans of any kind, acting for their own interests, especially if greedy, clamorous, and reckless of the common good.

3. Tumult; discord; dissension. They remained at Newbury in great faction among themselves. Clarendon.

Syn.
— Combination; clique; junto. See Cabal.

FACTIONARY Fac"tion*a*ry, a. Etym: [Cf. F. factionnaire, L. factionarius the head of a company of charioteers.]

Defn: Belonging to a faction; being a partisan; taking sides. [Obs.]
Always factionary on the party of your general. Shak.

FACTIONER
Fac"tion*er (-r), n.

Defn: One of a faction. Abp. Bancroft.

FACTIONIST
Fac"tion*ist, n.

Defn: One who promotes faction.

FACTIOUS
Fac"tious. a. Etym: [L. factiosus: cf. F. factieux.]

1. Given to faction; addicted to form parties and raise dissensions, in opposition to government or the common good; turbulent; seditious; prone to clamor against public measures or men; — said of persons. Factious for the house of Lancaster. Shak.

2. Pertaining to faction; proceeding from faction; indicating, or characterized by, faction; — said of acts or expressions; as, factious quarrels. Headlong zeal or factious fury. Burke. — Fac"tious*ly, adv. — Fac"tious-ness, n.

FACTITIOUS Fac*ti"tious, a. Etym: [L. factitius, fr. facere to make. See Fact, and cf. Fetich.]

Defn: Made by art, in distinction from what is produced by nature; artificial; sham; formed by, or adapted to, an artificial or conventional, in distinction from a natural, standard or rule; not natural; as, factitious cinnabar or jewels; a factitious taste. — Fac-ti"tious*ly, adv. — Fac*ti"tious-ness, n. He acquires a factitious propensity, he forms an incorrigible habit, of desultory reading. De Quincey.

Syn. — Unnatural. — Factitious, Unnatural. Anything is unnatural when it departs in any way from its simple or normal state; it is factitious when it is wrought out or wrought up by labor and effort, as, a factitious excitement. An unnatural demand for any article of merchandise is one which exceeds the ordinary rate of consumption; a factitious demand is one created by active exertions for the purpose. An unnatural alarm is one greater than the occasion requires; a factitious alarm is one wrought up with care and effort.

FACTITIVE
Fac"ti*tive. a. Etym: [See Fact.]

1. Causing; causative.

2. (Gram.)

Defn: Pertaining to that relation which is proper when the act, as of a transitive verb, is not merely received by an object, but produces some change in the object, as when we say, He made the water wine. Sometimes the idea of activity in a verb or adjective involves in it a reference to an effect, in the way of causality, in the active voice on the immediate objects, and in the passive voice on the subject of such activity. This second object is called the factitive object. J. W. Gibbs.

FACTIVE
Fac"tive, a.

Defn: Making; having power to make. [Obs.] "You are . . . factive, not destructive." Bacon.

FACTO
Fac"to, adv. Etym: [L., ablative of factum deed, fact.] (Law)

Defn: In fact; by the act or fact. De facto. (Law) See De facto.

FACTOR
Fac"tor, n. Etym: [L. factor a doer: cf. F. facteur a factor. See
Fact.]

1. (Law)

Defn: One who transacts business for another; an agent; a substitute; especially, a mercantile agent who buys and sells goods and transacts business for others in commission; a commission merchant or consignee. He may be a home factor or a foreign factor. He may buy and sell in his own name, and he is intrusted with the possession and control of the goods; and in these respects he differs from a broker. Story. Wharton. My factor sends me word, a merchant's fled That owes me for a hundred tun of wine. Marlowe.

2. A steward or bailiff of an estate. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

3. (Math.)

Defn: One of the elements or quantities which, when multiplied together, from a product.

4. One of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result; a constituent. The materal and dynamical factors of nutrition. H. Spencer.

FACTOR
Fac"tor, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Factored (-trd); p. pr. & vb. n.
Factoring.] (Mach.)

Defn: To resolve (a quantity) into its factors.

FACTORAGE
Fac"tor*age, n. Etym: [Cf. F. factorage.]

Defn: The allowance given to a factor, as a compensation for his services; — called also a commission.

FACTORESS
Fac"tor*ess, n.

Defn: A factor who is a woman. [R.]

FACTORIAL
Fac*to"ri*al, a.

1. Of or pertaining to a factory. Buchanan.

2. (Math.)

Defn: Related to factorials.

FACTORIAL
Fac*to"ri*al, n. (Math.) (a) pl.

Defn: A name given to the factors of a continued product when the former are derivable from one and the same function F(x) by successively imparting a constant increment or decrement h to the independent variable. Thus the product F(x).F(x + h).F(x + 2h) . . . F[x + (n-1)h] is called a factorial term, and its several factors take the name of factorials. Brande & C. (b) The product of the consecutive numbers from unity up to any given number.

FACTORING
Fac"tor*ing, n. (Math.)

Defn: The act of resolving into factors.

FACTORIZE Fac"tor*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Factorized (-zd); p. pr. & vb. n. Factorizing (-"zng).] (Law) (a) To give warning to; — said of a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached, the warning being to the effect that he shall not pay the money or deliver the property of the defendant in his hands to him, but appear and answer the suit of the plaintiff. (b) To attach (the effects of a debtor) in the hands of a third person ; to garnish. See Garnish. [Vt. & Conn.]

FACTORSHIP
Fac"tor*ship, n.

Defn: The business of a factor.

FACTORY
Fac"to*ry, n.; pl. Factories (-r. Etym: [Cf. F. factorerie.]

1. A house or place where factors, or commercial agents, reside, to transact business for their employers. "The Company's factory at Madras." Burke.

2. The body of factors in any place; as, a chaplain to a British factory. W. Guthrie.

3. A building, or collection of buildings, appropriated to the manufacture of goods; the place where workmen are employed in fabricating goods, wares, or utensils; a manufactory; as, a cotton factory. Factory leg (Med.), a variety of bandy leg, associated with partial dislocation of the tibia, produced in young children by working in factories.

FACTOTUM Fac*to"tum, n.; pl. Factotums (-t. Etym: [L., do everything; facere to do + totus all : cf. F. factotum. See Fact, and Total.]

Defn: A person employed to do all kinds of work or business. B.
Jonson.

FACTUAL
Fac"tu*al, a.

Defn: Relating to, or containing, facts. [R.]

FACTUM
Fac"tum, n.; pl. Facta. Etym: [L. See Fact.]

1. (Law)

Defn: A man's own act and deed; particularly: (a) (Civil Law) Anything stated and made certain. (b) (Testamentary Law) The due execution of a will, including everything necessary to its validity.

2. (Mach.)

Defn: The product. See Facient, 2.

FACTURE Fac"ture, n. Etym: [F. facture a making, invoice, L. factura a making. See Fact.]

1. The act or manner of making or doing anything; — now used of a literary, musical, or pictorial production. Bacon.

2. (Com.)

Defn: An invoice or bill of parcels.

FACULAE
Fac"u*læ, n. pl. Etym: [L., pl. of facula a little torch.] (Astron.)

Defn: Groups of small shining spots on the surface of the sun which are brighter than the other parts of the photosphere. They are generally seen in the neighborhood of the dark spots, and are supposed to be elevated portions of the photosphere. Newcomb.

FACULAR
Fac"u*lar a. (Astron.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to the faculæ. R. A. Proctor.

FACULTATIVE
Fac"ul*ta*tive, a. [L. facultas, -atis, faculty: cf. F. facultatif,
G. fakultativ.]

1. Having relation to the grant or exercise faculty, or authority, privilege, license, or the like hence, optional; as, facultative enactments, or those which convey a faculty, or permission; the facultative referendum of Switzerland is one that is optional with the people and is necessary only when demanded by petition; facultative studies; — opposed to obligatory and compulsory, and sometimes used with to.

2. Of such a character as to admit of existing under various forms or conditions, or of happening or not happening, or the like; specif.: (Biol.)

Defn: Having the power to live under different conditions; as, a facultative parasite, a plant which is normally saprophytic, but which may exist wholly or in part as a parasite; — opposed to obligate.

3. (Physiol.) Pertaining to a faculty or faculties.

In short, there is no facultative plurality in the mind; it is a
single organ of true judgment for all purposes, cognitive or
practical.
J. Martineau.

FACULTY Fac"ul*ty, n.; pl. Faculties. Etym: [F. facult, L. facultas, fr. facilis easy (cf. facul easily), fr. fecere to make. See Fact, and cf. Facility.]

1. Ability to act or perform, whether inborn or cultivated; capacity for any natural function; especially, an original mental power or capacity for any of the well-known classes of mental activity; psychical or soul capacity; capacity for any of the leading kinds of soul activity, as knowledge, feeling, volition; intellectual endowment or gift; power; as, faculties of the mind or the soul. But know that in the soul Are many lesser faculties that serve Reason as chief. Milton. What a piece of work is a man ! how noble in reason ! how infinite in faculty ! Shak.

2. Special mental endowment; characteristic knack. He had a ready faculty, indeed, of escaping from any topic that agitated his too sensitive and nervous temperament. Hawthorne.

3. Power; prerogative or attribute of office. [R.] This Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek. Shak.

4. Privilege or permission, granted by favor or indulgence, to do a particular thing; authority; license; dispensation. The pope . . . granted him a faculty to set him free from his promise. Fuller. It had not only faculty to inspect all bishops' dioceses, but to change what laws and statutes they should think fit to alter among the colleges. Evelyn.

5. A body of a men to whom any specific right or privilege is granted; formerly, the graduates in any of the four departments of a university or college (Philosophy, Law, Medicine, or Theology), to whom was granted the right of teaching (profitendi or docendi) in the department in which they had studied; at present, the members of a profession itself; as, the medical faculty; the legal faculty, ect.

6. (Amer. Colleges)

Defn: The body of person to whom are intrusted the government and instruction of a college or university, or of one of its departments; the president, professors, and tutors in a college. Dean of faculty. See under Dean. — Faculty of advocates. (Scot.) See under Advocate.

Syn. — Talent; gift; endowment; dexterity; expertness; cleverness; readiness; ability; knack.

FACUND
Fac"und, a. Etym: [L. facundus, fr. fari to speak.]

Defn: Eloquent. [Archaic]

FACUNDIOUS
Fa*cun"di*ous, a. Etym: [L. facundiosus.]

Defn: Eloquement; full of words. [Archaic]

FACUNDITY
Fa*cun"di*ty, n. Etym: [L. facunditas.]

Defn: Eloquence; readiness of speech. [Archaic]

FAD
Fad, n. Etym: [Cf. Faddle.]

Defn: A hobby ; freak; whim.
— Fad"dist, n.
It is your favorite fad to draw plans. G. Eliot.

FADAISE
Fa`daise", n. [F.]

Defn: A vapid or meaningless remark; a commonplace; nonsense.

FADDLE
Fad"dle, v. i. Etym: [Cf. Fiddle, Fiddle-faddle.]

Defn: To trifle; to toy.
— v. t.

Defn: To fondle; to dandle. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

FADE Fade a. Etym: [F., prob. fr. L. vapidus vapid, or possibly fr,fatuus foolish, insipid.]

Defn: Weak; insipid; tasteless; commonplace. [R.] "Passages that are
somewhat fade." Jeffrey.
His masculine taste gave him a sense of something fade and ludicrous.
De Quincey.

FADE Fade, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Faded; p. pr. & vb. n. Fading.] Etym: [OE. faden, vaden, prob. fr. fade, a.; cf. Prov. D. vadden to fade, wither, vaddigh languid, torpid. Cf. Fade, a., Vade.]

1. To become fade; to grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant. The earth mourneth and fadeth away. Is. xxiv. 4.

2. To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color. "Flowers that never fade." Milton.

3. To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish. The stars shall fade away. Addison He makes a swanlike end, Fading in music. Shak.

FADE
Fade, v. t.

Defn: To cause to wither; to deprive of freshness or vigor; to wear
away.
No winter could his laurels fade. Dryden.

FADED
Fad"ed, a.

Defn: That has lost freshness, color, or brightness; grown dim. "His
faded cheek." Milton.
Where the faded moon Made a dim silver twilight. Keats.

FADEDLY
Fad"ed*ly, adv.

Defn: In a faded manner.
A dull room fadedly furnished. Dickens.

FADELESS
Fade"less, a.

Defn: Not liable to fade; unfading.

FADER
Fa"der, n.

Defn: Father. [Obs.] Chaucer.

FADGE Fadge, v. i. Etym: [Cf. OE. faden to flatter, and AS. f to join, unit, G. fügen, or AS. afægian to depict; all perh. form the same root as E. fair. Cf. Fair, a., Fay to fit.]

Defn: To fit; to suit; to agree.
They shall be made, spite of antipathy, to fadge together. Milton.
Well, Sir, how fadges the new design Wycherley.

FADGE
Fadge, n. Etym: [Etymol. uncertain.]

Defn: A small flat loaf or thick cake; also, a fagot. [Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.

FADING
Fad"ing, a.

Defn: Losing freshness, color, brightness, or vigor.
— n.

Defn: Loss of color, freshness, or vigor.
— Fad"ing*ly, adv.
— Fad"ing*ness, n.

FADING
Fad"ing, n.

Defn: An Irish dance; also, the burden of a song. "Fading is a fine jig." [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

FADME
Fad"me, n.

Defn: A fathom. [Obs.] Chaucer.

FADY
Fad"y, a.

Defn: Faded. [R.] Shenstone.

FAECAL
Fæ"cal, a.

Defn: See Fecal.

FAECES
Fæ"ces, n.pl. Etym: [L. faex, pl. faeces, dregs.]

Defn: Excrement; ordure; also, settlings; sediment after infusion or distillation. [Written also feces.]

FAECULA
Fæc"u*la, n. Etym: [L.]

Defn: See Fecula.

FAERY
Fa"ër*y, n. & a.

Defn: Fairy. [Archaic] Spenser.

FAFFLE
Faf"fle, v. i. Etym: [Cf. Famble, Maffle.]

Defn: To stammer. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

FAG
Fag n.

Defn: A knot or coarse part in cloth. [Obs.]

FAG Fag, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fagged; p. pr. & vb. n. Fagging.] Etym: [Cf. LG. fakk wearied, weary, vaak slumber, drowsiness, OFries. fai, equiv. to fach devoted to death, OS. f, OHG. feigi, G. feig, feige, cowardly, Icel. feigr fated to die, AS. f, Scot. faik, to fail, stop, lower the price; or perh. the same word as E. flag to droop.]

1. To become weary; to tire. Creighton withheld his force till the Italian began to fag. G. Mackenzie.

2. To labor to wearness; to work hard; to drudge. Read, fag, and subdue this chapter. Coleridge.

3. To act as a fag, or perform menial services or drudgery, for another, as in some English schools. To fag out, to become untwisted or frayed, as the end of a rope, or the edge of canvas.

FAG
Fag, v. t.

1. To tire by labor; to exhaust; as, he was almost fagged out.

2. Anything that fatigues. [R.] It is such a fag, I came back tired to death. Miss Austen. Brain fag. (Med.) See Cerebropathy.

FAGEND; FAG-END
Fag"*end", n.

1. An end of poorer quality, or in a spoiled condition, as the coarser end of a web of cloth, the untwisted end of a rope, ect.

2. The refuse or meaner part of anything. The fag-end of business. Collier.

FAGGING
Fag"ging, n.

Defn: Laborious drudgery; esp., the acting as a drudge for another at an English school.

FAGOT Fag"ot n. Etym: [F., prob. aug. of L. fax, facis, torch, perh. orig., a bundle of sticks; cf. Gr. Fagotto.]

1. A bundle of sticks, twigs, or small branches of trees, used for fuel, for raising batteries, filling ditches, or other purposes in fortification; a fascine. Shak.

2. A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a pile.

3. (Mus.)

Defn: A bassoon. See Fagotto.

4. A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company. [Eng.] Addison.

5. An old shriveled woman. [Slang, Eng.] Fagot iron, iron, in bars or masses, manufactured from fagots. — Fagot vote, the vote of a person who has been constituted a voter by being made a landholder, for party purposes. [Political cant, Eng.]

FAGOT
Fag"ot v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fagoted; p. pr. & vb. n. Fagoting.]

Defn: To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle; also, to collect promiscuously. Dryden.

FAGOTTO
Fa*got"to, n. Etym: [It. See Fagot.] (Mus.)

Defn: The bassoon; — so called from being divided into parts for ease of carriage, making, as it were, a small fagot.

FAHAM
Fa"ham, n.

Defn: The leaves of an orchid (Angraecum fragrans), of the islands of Bourbon and Mauritius, used (in France) as a substitute for Chinese tea.

FAHLBAND
Fahl"band`, n. Etym: [G., fr. fahl dun-colored + band a band.]
(Mining)

Defn: A stratum in crystalline rock, containing metallic sulphides.
Raymond.

FAHLERZ; FAHLBAND Fahl"erz, Fahl"band, n. Etym: [G. fahlerz; fahl dun-colored, fallow + erz ore.] (Min.)

Defn: Same as Tetrahedrite.

FAHLUNITE
Fah"lun*ite, n. Etym: [From Falhun, a place in Sweden.] (Min.)

Defn: A hydration of iolite.

FAHRENHEIT
Fah"ren*heit a. Etym: [G.]

Defn: Conforming to the scale used by Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit in the graduation of his thermometer; of or relating to Fahrenheit's thermometric scale. — n.

Defn: The Fahrenheit termometer or scale.

Note: The Fahrenheit thermometer is so graduated that the freezing point of water is at 32 degrees above the zero of its scale, and the boiling point at 212 degrees above. It is commonly used in the United States and in England.

FAIENCE Fa`ï*ence", n. Etym: [F., fr. Faenza, a town in Italy, the original place of manufacture.]

Defn: Glazed earthenware; esp., that which is decorated in color.

FAIL
Fail v. i. [imp. & p. p. Failed; p. pr. & vb. n. Failing.] Etym: [F.
failir, fr. L. fallere, falsum, to deceive, akin to E. fall. See
Fail, and cf. Fallacy, False, Fault.]

1. To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expected manner, or to be altogether cut off from supply; to be lacking; as, streams fail; crops fail. As the waters fail from the sea. Job xiv. 11. Till Lionel's issue fails, his should not reign. Shak.

2. To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; — used with of. If ever they fail of beauty, this failure is not be attributed to their size. Berke.

3. To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink. When earnestly they seek Such proof, conclude they then begin to fail. Milton.

4. To deteriorate in respect to vigor, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker; as, a sick man fails.

5. To perish; to die; — used of a person. [Obs.] Had the king in his last sickness failed. Shak.

6. To be found wanting with respect to an action or a duty to be performed, a result to be secured, etc.; to miss; not to fulfill expectation. Take heed now that ye fail not to do this. Ezra iv. 22. Either my eyesight fails, or thou look'st pale. Shak.

7. To come short of a result or object aimed at or desired ; to be baffled or frusrated. Our envious foe hath failed. Milton.

8. To err in judgment; to be mistaken. Which ofttimes may succeed, so as perhaps Shall grieve him, if I fail not. Milton.

9. To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent.

FAIL
Fail, v. t.

1. To be wanting to ; to be insufficient for; to disappoint; to desert. There shall not fail thee a man on the throne. 1 Kings ii. 4.

2. To miss of attaining; to lose. [R.] Though that seat of earthly bliss be failed. Milton.

FAIL
Fail, n. Etym: [OF. faille, from failir. See Fail, v. i.]

1. Miscarriage; failure; deficiency; fault; — mostly superseded by failure or failing, except in the phrase without fail. "His highness' fail of issue." Shak.

2. Death; decease. [Obs.] Shak.

FAILANCE
Fail"ance, n. Etym: [Of. faillance, fr. faillir.]

Defn: Fault; failure; omission. [Obs.] Bp. Fell.

FAILING
Fail"ing, n.

1. A failing short; a becoming deficient; failure; deficiency; imperfection; weakness; lapse; fault; infirmity; as, a mental failing. And ever in her mind she cas about For that unnoticed failing in herself. Tennyson.

2. The act of becoming insolvent of bankrupt.

Syn.
— See Fault.

FAILLE
Faille, n. Etym: [F.]

Defn: A soft silk, heavier than a foulard and not glossy.

FAILURE
Fail"ure, n. Etym: [From Fail.]

1. Cessation of supply, or total defect; a failing; deficiency; as, failure of rain; failure of crops.

2. Omission; nonperformance; as, the failure to keep a promise.

3. Want of success; the state of having failed.

4. Decau, or defect from decay; deterioration; as, the failure of memory or of sight.

5. A becoming insolvent; bankruptcy; suspension of payment; as, failure in business.

6. A failing; a slight fault. [Obs.] Johnson.

FAIN Fain, a. Etym: [OE. fain, fagen, AS. fægen; akin to OS. fagan, Icel. faginn glad; AS. fægnian to rejoice, OS. faganon, Icel. fagna, Goth. faginon, cf. Goth. faheds joy; and fr. the same root as E. fair. Srr Fair, a., and cf. Fawn to court favor.]

1. Well-pleased; glad; apt; wont; fond; inclined. Men and birds are fain of climbing high. Shak. To a busy man, temptation is fainto climb up together with his business. Jer. Taylor.

2. Satisfied; contented; also, constrained. Shak. The learned Castalio was fain to make trechers at Basle to keep himself from starving. Locke.

FAIN
Fain, adv.

Defn: With joy; gladly; — with wold.
He would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did
eat. Luke xv. 16.
Fain Would I woo her, yet I dare not. Shak.

FAIN
Fain, v. t. & i.

Defn: To be glad ; to wish or desire. [Obs.]
Whoso fair thing does fain to see. Spencer.

FAINEANCE; FAINEANCY
Fai"ne*ance, Fai"ne*an*cy, n. [Cf. OF. faineance. See Fainéant.]

Defn: Do-nothingness; inactivity; indolence.

The mask of sneering faineance was gone.
C. Kingsley.

FAINEANT
Fai`né`ant", a. Etym: [F.; fait he does + néant nothing.]

Defn: Doing nothing; shiftless.
— n.

Defn: A do-nothing; an idle fellow; a sluggard. Sir W. Scott.

FAINEANT DEITY
Fainéant deity.

Defn: A deity recognized as real but conceived as not acting in human affairs, hence not worshiped.

FAINT Faint, a. [Compar. Fainter (-r); superl. Faintest.] Etym: [OE. faint, feint, false, faint, F. feint, p.p. of feindre to feign, suppose, hesitate. See Faign, and cf. Feint.]

1. Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, faint with fatigue, hunger, or thirst.

2. Wanting in courage, spirit, or energy; timorous; cowardly; dejected; depressed; as, "Faint heart ne'er won fair lady." Old Proverb.

3. Lacking distinctness; hardly perceptible; striking the senses feebly; not bright, or loud, or sharp, or forcible; weak; as, a faint color, or sound.

4. Performed, done, or acted, in a weak or feeble manner; not exhibiting vigor, strength, or energy; slight; as, faint efforts; faint resistance. The faint prosecution of the war. Sir J. Davies.

FAINT
Faint, n.

Defn: The act of fainting, or the state of one who has fainted; a swoon. [R.] See Fainting, n. The saint, Who propped the Virgin in her faint. Sir W. Scott.

FAINT
Faint, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fainted; p. pr. & vb. n. Fainting.]

1. To become weak or wanting in vigor; to grow feeble; to lose strength and color, and the control of the bodily or mental functions; to swoon; — sometimes with away. See Fainting, n. Hearing the honor intended her, she fainted away. Guardian. If I send them away fasting . . . they will faint by the way. Mark viii. 8.

2. To sink into dejection; to lose courage or spirit; to become depressed or despondent. If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. Prov. xxiv. 10.

3. To decay; to disappear; to vanish. Gilded clouds, while we gaze upon them, faint before the eye. Pope.

FAINT
Faint, v. t.

Defn: To cause to faint or become dispirited; to depress; to weaken.
[Obs.]
It faints me to think what follows. Shak.

FAINTHEARTED; FAINT-HEARTED
Faint"*heart`ed, a.

Defn: Wanting in courage; depressed by fear; easily discouraged or
frightened; cowardly; timorous; dejected.
Fear not, neither be faint-hearted. Is. vii. 4.
— Faint"*heart`ed*ly, adv.
— Faint"*heart`ed*ness, n.

FAINTING
Faint"ing, n.

Defn: Syncope, or loss of consciousness owing to a sudden arrest of the blood supply to the brain, the face becoming pallid, the respiration feeble, and the heat's beat weak. Fainting fit, a fainting or swoon; syncope. [Colloq.]

FAINTISH
Faint"ish, a.

Defn: Slightly faint; somewhat faint.
— Faint"ish*ness, n.

FAINTLING
Faint"ling, a.

Defn: Timorous; feeble-minded. [Obs.] "A fainting, silly creature."
Arbuthnot.

FAINTLY
Faint"ly, adv.

Defn: In a faint, weak, or timidmanner.

FAINTNESS
Faint"ness, n.

1. The state of being faint; loss of strength, or of consciousness, and self-control.

2. Want of vigor or energy. Spenser.

3. Feebleness, as of color or light; lack of distinctness; as, faintness of description.

4. Faint-heartedness; timorousness; dejection. I will send a faintness into their hearts. Lev. xxvi. 36.

FAINTS
Faints, n.pl.

Defn: The impure spirit which comes over first and last in the distillation of whisky; — the former being called the strong faints, and the latter, which is much more abundant, the weak faints. This crude spirit is much impregnated with fusel oil. Ure.

FAINTY
Faint"y, a.

Defn: Feeble; languid. [R.] Dryden.

FAIR Fair, a. [Compar. Fairer; superl. Fairest.] Etym: [OE. fair, fayer, fager, AS. fæger; akin to OS. & OHG. fagar, Isel. fagr, Sw. fager, Dan. faver, Goth. fagrs fit, also to E. fay, G. fügen, to fit. fegen to sweep, cleanse, and prob. also to E. fang, peace, pact, Cf. Fang, Fain, Fay to fit.]

1. Free from spots, specks, dirt, or imperfection; unblemished; clean; pure. A fair white linen cloth. Book of Common Prayer.

2. Pleasing to the eye; handsome; beautiful. Who can not see many a fair French city, for one fair French made. Shak.

3. Without a dark hue; light; clear; as, a fair skin. The northern people large and fair-complexioned. Sir M. Hale.

4. Not overcast; cloudless; clear; pleasant; propitious; favorable; - - said of the sky, weather, or wind, etc.; as, a fair sky; a fair day. You wish fair winds may waft him over. Prior.

5. Free from obstacles or hindrances; unobstructed; unincumbered; open; direct; — said of a road, passage, etc.; as, a fair mark; in fair sight; a fair view. The caliphs obtained a mighty empire, which was in a fair way to have enlarged. Sir W. Raleigh.

6. (Shipbuilding)

Defn: Without sudden change of direction or curvature; smooth; fowing; — said of the figure of a vessel, and of surfaces, water lines, and other lines.

7. Characterized by frankness, honesty, impartiality, or candor; open; upright; free from suspicion or bias; equitable; just; — said of persons, character, or conduct; as, a fair man; fair dealing; a fair statement. "I would call it fair play." Shak.

8. Pleasing; favorable; inspiring hope and confidence; — said of words, promises, etc. When fair words and good counsel will not prevail on us, we must be frighted into our duty. L' Estrange.

9. Distinct; legible; as, fair handwriting.

10. Free from any marked characteristic; average; middling; as, a fair specimen. The news is very fair and good, my lord. Shak. Fair ball. (Baseball) (a) A ball passing over the home base at the height called for by the batsman, and delivered by the pitcher while wholly within the lines of his position and facing the batsman. (b) A batted ball that falls inside the foul lines; — called also a fair hit. — Fair maid. (Zoöl.) (a) The European pilchard (Clupea pilchardus) when dried. (b) The southern scup (Stenotomus Gardeni). [Virginia] — Fair one, a handsome woman; a beauty, — Fair play, equitable or impartial treatment; a fair or equal chance; justice. — From fair to middling, passable; tolerable. [Colloq.] — The fair sex, the female sex.

Syn. — Candid; open; frank; ingenuous; clear; honest; equitable; impartial; reasonable. See Candid.

FAIR
Fair, adv.

Defn: Clearly; openly; frankly; civilly; honestly; favorably; auspiciously; agreeably. Fair and square, justly; honestly; equitably; impartially. [Colloq.] — To bid fair. See under Bid. — To speak fair, to address with courtesy and frankness. [Archaic]

FAIR
Fair, n.

1. Fairness, beauty. [Obs.] Shak.

2. A fair woman; a sweetheart. I have found out a gift for my fair. Shenstone.

3. Good fortune; good luck. Now fair befall thee ! Shak. The fair, anything beautiful; women, collectively. "For slander's mark was ever yet the fair." Shak.

FAIR
Fair, v. t.

1. To make fair or beautiful. [Obs.] Fairing the foul. Shak.

2. (Shipbuilding)

Defn: To make smooth and flowing, as a vessel's lines.

FAIR Fair, n. Etym: [OE. feire, OF. feire, F. foire, fr. L. fariae, pl., days of rest, holidays, festivals, akin to festus festal. See Feast.]

1. A gathering of buyers and sellers, assembled at a particular place with their merchandise at a stated or regular season, or by special appointment, for trade.

2. A festival, and sale of fancy articles. erc., usually for some charitable object; as, a Grand Army fair.

3. A competitive exhibition of wares, farm products, etc., not primarily for purposes of sale; as, the Mechanics' fair; an agricultural fair. After the fair, Too late. [Colloq.]

FAIR CATCH
Fair catch. (Football)

Defn: A catch made by a player on side who makes a prescribed signal that he will not attempt to advance the ball when caught. He must not then be interfered with.

FAIR-HAIRED
Fair"-haired`, a.

Defn: Having fair or light-colored hair.

FAIRHOOD
Fair"hood, n.

Defn: Fairness; beauty. [Obs.] Foxe.

FAIRILY
Fair"i*ly, adv.

Defn: In the manner of a fairy.
Numerous as shadows haunting fairily The brain. Keats.

FAIRING
Fair"ing, n.

Defn: A present; originally, one given or purchased at a fair. Gay.
Fairing box, a box receiving savings or small sums of money. Hannah
More.

FAIRISH
Fair"ish, a.

Defn: Tolerably fair. [Colloq.] W. D. Howells.

FAIR-LEADER
Fair"-lead`er, n. (Naut.)

Defn: A block, or ring, serving as a guide for the running rigging or for any rope.

FAIRLY
Fair"ly, adv.

1. In a fairmanner; clearly; openly; plainly; fully; distinctly; frankly. Even the nature of Mr. Dimmesdale's disease had never fairly been revealed to him. Hawthorne.

2. Favorably; auspiciously; commodiously; as, a town fairly situated for foreign traade.

3. Honestly; properly. Such means of comfort or even luxury, as lay fairly within their grasp. Hawthorne.

4. Softly; quietly; gently. [Obs.] Milton.

FAIR-MINDED
Fair"-mind`ed, a.

Defn: Unprejudiced; just; judicial; honest.
— Fair"*mind`ed*ness, n.

FAIR-NATURED
Fair"-na`tured, a.

Defn: Well-disposed. "A fair-natured prince." Ford.

FAIRNESS
Fair"ness, n.

Defn: The state of being fair, or free form spots or stains, as of the skin; honesty, as of dealing; candor, as of an argument, etc.

FAIR-SPOKEN
Fair"-spo`ken, a.

Defn: Using fair speech, or uttered with fairness; bland; civil; courteous; plausible. "A marvelous fair-spoken man." Hooker.

FAIRWAY
Fair"way`, n.

Defn: The navigable part of a river, bay, etc., through which vessels enter or depart; the part of a harbor or channel ehich is kept open and unobstructed for the passage of vessels. Totten. the rough.

FAIR-WEATHER
Fair"-weath`er, a.

1. Made or done in pleasant weather, or in circumstances involving but little exposure or sacrifice; as, a fair-weather voyage. Pope.

2. Appearing only when times or circumstances are prosperous; as, a fair-weather friend. Fair-weather sailor, a make-believe or inexperienced sailor; — the nautical equivalent of carpet knight.

FAIR-WORLD
Fair"-world` n.

Defn: State of prosperity. [Obs.]
They think it was never fair-world with them since. Milton.

FAIRY Fair"y, n.; pl. Fairies. Etym: [OE. fairie, faierie, enchantment, fairy folk, fairy, OF. faerie enchantment, F. féer, fr. LL. Fata one of the goddesses of fate. See Fate, and cf. Fay a fairy.] [Written also faëry.]

1. Enchantment; illusion. [Obs.] Chaucer. The God of her has made an end, And fro this worlde's fairy Hath taken her into company. Gower.

2. The country of the fays; land of illusions. [Obs.] He [Arthur] is a king y-crowned in Fairy. Lydgate.

3. An imaginary supernatural being or spirit, supposed to assume a human form (usually diminutive), either male or female, and to meddle for good or evil in the affairs of mankind; a fay. See Elf, and Demon. The fourth kind of spirit [is] called the Fairy. K. James. And now about the caldron sing, Like elves and fairies in a ring. Shak.

5. An enchantress. [Obs.] Shak. Fairy of the mine, an imaginary being supposed to inhabit mines, etc. German folklore tells of two species; one fierce and malevolent, the other gentle, See Kobold. No goblin or swart fairy of the mine Hath hurtful power over true virginity. Milton.

FAIRY
Fair"y, a.

1. Of or pertaining to fairies.

2. Given by fairies; as, fairy money. Dryden. Fairy bird (Zoöl.), the Euoropean little tern (Sterna minuta); — called also sea swallow, and hooded tern. — Fairy bluebird. (Zoöl.) See under Bluebird. — Fairy martin (Zoöl.), a European swallow (Hirrundo ariel) that builds flask-shaped nests of mud on overhanging cliffs. — Fairy rings or circles, the circles formed in grassy lawns by certain fungi (as Marasmius Oreades), formerly supposed to be caused by fairies in their midnight dances. — Fairy shrimp (Zoöl.), a European fresh-water phyllopod crustacean (Chirocephalus diaphanus); — so called from its delicate colors, transparency, and graceful motions. The name is sometimes applied to similar American species. — Fairy stone (Paleon.), an echinite.

FAIRYLAND
Fair"y*land` n.

Defn: The imaginary land or abode of fairies.

FAIRYLIKE
Fair"y*like`, a.

Defn: Resembling a fairy, or what is made or done be fairies; as, fairylike music.

FAITH Faith, n. Etym: [OE. feith, fayth, fay, OF. feid, feit, fei, F. foi, fr. L. fides; akin to fidere to trust, Gr. th is perhaps due to the influence of such words as truth, health, wealth. See Bid, Bide, and cf. Confide, Defy, Fealty.]

1. Belief; the assent of the mind to the truth of what is declared by another, resting solely and implicitly on his authority and veracity; reliance on testimony.

2. The assent of the mind to the statement or proposition of another, on the ground of the manifest truth of what he utters; firm and earnest belief, on probable evidence of any kind, especially in regard to important moral truth. Faith, that is, fidelity, — the fealty of the finite will and understanding to the reason. Coleridge.

3. (Theol.) (a) The belief in the historic truthfulness of the Scripture narrative, and the supernatural origin of its teachings, sometimes called historical and speculative faith. (b) The belief in the facts and truth of the Scriptures, with a practical love of them; especially, that confiding and affectionate belief in the person and work of Christ, which affects the character and life, and makes a man a true Christian, — called a practical, evangelical, or saving faith. Without faith it is impossible to please him [God]. Heb. xi. 6. The faith of the gospel is that emotion of the mind which is called "trust" or "confidence" exercised toward the moral character of God, and particularly of the Savior. Dr. T. Dwight. Faith is an affectionate, practical confidence in the testimony of God. J. Hawes.

4. That which is believed on any subject, whether in science, politics, or religion; especially (Theol.), a system of religious belief of any kind; as, the Jewish or Mohammedan faith; and especially, the system of truth taught by Christ; as, the Christian faith; also, the creed or belief of a Christian society or church. Which to believe of her, Must be a faith that reason without miracle Could never plant in me. Shak. Now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed. Gal. i. 23.

5. Fidelity to one's promises, or allegiance to duty, or to a person honored and beloved; loyalty. Children in whom is no faith. Deut. xxvii. 20. Whose failing, while her faith to me remains, I should conceal. Milton.

6. Word or honor pledged; promise given; fidelity; as, he violated his faith. For you alone I broke me faith with injured Palamon. Dryden.

7. Credibility or truth. [R.]
The faith of the foregoing narrative. Mitford.
Act of faith. See Auto-da-fé.
— Breach of faith, Confession of faith, etc. See under Breach,
Confession, etc.
— Faith cure, a method or practice of treating diseases by prayer
and the exercise of faith in God.
— In good faith, with perfect sincerity.

FAITH
Faith, interj.

Defn: By my faith; in truth; verily.

FAITHED
Faithed, a.

Defn: Having faith or a faith; honest; sincere. [Obs.] "Make thy words faithed." Shak.

FAITHFUL
Faith"ful, a.

1. Full of faith, or having faith; disposed to believe, especially in the declarations and promises of God. You are not faithful, sir. B. Jonson.

2. Firm in adherence to promises, oaths, contracts, treaties, or other engagements. The faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him. Deut. vii. 9.

3. True and constant in affection or allegiance to a person to whom one is bound by a vow, be ties of love, gratitude, or honor, as to a husband, a prince, a friend; firm in the observance of duty; loyal; of true fidelity; as, a faithful husband or servant. So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless, faithful only he. Milton.

4. Worthy of confidence and belief; conformable to truth ot fact; exact; accurate; as, a faithful narrative or representation. It is a faithful saying. 2 Tim. ii. 11. The Faithful, the adherents of any system of religious belief; esp. used as an epithet of the followers of Mohammed.

Syn.
— Trusty; honest; upright; sincere; veracious; trustworthy.
— Faith"ful*ly, adv. -Faith"ful*ness, n.

FAITHLESS
Faith"less, a.

1. Not believing; not giving credit. Be not faithless, but believing. John xx. 27.

2. Not believing on God or religion; specifically, not believing in the Christian religion. Shak.

3. Not observant of promises or covenants.

4. Not true to allegiance, duty, or vows; perfidious; trecherous; disloyal; not of true fidelity; inconstant, as a husband or a wife. A most unnatural and faithless service. Shak.

5. Serving to disappoint or deceive; delusive; unsatisfying. "Yonder faithless phantom." Goldsmith. — Faith"less*ly, adv.Faith"less*ness, n.

FAITOUR
Fai"tour, n. Etym: [OF. faitor a doer, L. factor. See Factor.]

Defn: A doer or actor; particularly, an evil doer; a scoundrel.
[Obs.]
Lo! faitour, there thy meed unto thee take. Spenser.

FAKE
Fake, n. Etym: [Cf. Scot. faik fold, stratum of stone, AS. fæc space,
interval, G. fach compartment, partition, row, and E. fay to fit.]
(Naut.)

Defn: One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.

FAKE
Fake, v. t. (Naut.)

Defn: To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form,, to prevent twisting when running out. Faking box, a box in which a long rope is faked; used in the life-saving service for a line attached to a shot.

FAKE Fake, v. t. Etym: [Cf. Gael. faigh to get, acquire, reach, or OD. facken to catch or gripe.] [Slang in all its senses.]

1. To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.

2. To make; to construct; to do.

3. To manipulate fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is; as, to fake a bulldog, by burning his upper lip and thus artificially shortening it.

FAKE
Fake, n.

Defn: A trick; a swindle. [Slang]

FAKER
Fak"er, n. [Often erroneously written fakir.]

Defn: One who fakes something, as a thief, a peddler of petty things, a workman who dresses things up, etc. [Slang]

FAKIR
Fa"kir, n. Etym: [Ar. faqir poor.]

Defn: An Oriental religious ascetic or begging monk. [Written also faquir anf fakeer.]

FALANAKA
Fa"la*na"ka, n. Etym: [Native name.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A viverrine mammal of Madagascar (Eupleres Goudotii), allied to the civet; — called also Falanouc.

FALCADE Fal*cade" (fâl*kad"), n. Etym: [F., ultimately fr. L. falx, falcis, a sickle or scythe.] (Man.)

Defn: The action of a horse, when he throws himself on his haunches two or three times, bending himself, as it were, in very quick curvets. Harris.

FALCATE; FALCATED Fal"cate, Fal"ca*ted, a. Etym: [L. falcatus, fr. falx, falcis, a sickle or scythe.]

Defn: Hooked or bent like a sickle; as, a falcate leaf; a falcate claw; — said also of the moon, or a planet, when horned or crescent- formed.

FALCATION
Fal*ca"tion, n.

Defn: The state of being falcate; a bend in the form of a sickle. Sir
T. Browne.

FALCER
Fal"cer, n. Etym: [From L. falx, falcis, a sickle.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: One of the mandibles of a spider.

FALCHION
Fal"chion, n. Etym: [OE. fauchon, OF. fauchon, LL. fälcio, fr. L.
falx, falcis, a sickle, cf. Gr. falcon; cf. It. falcione. Cf.
Defalcation.]

1. A broad-bladed sword, slightly curved, shorter and lighter than the ordinary sword; — used in the Middle Ages.

2. A name given generally and poetically to a sword, especially to the swords of Oriental and fabled warriors.

FALCIDIAN
Fal*cid"i*an, a. Etym: [L. Falcidius.]

Defn: Of or pertaining to Publius Falcidius, a Roman tribune. Falcidian law (Civil Law), a law by which a testator was obliged to leave at least a fourth of his estate to the heir. Burrill.

FALCIFORM Fal"ci*form, a. Etym: [L. falx, falcis, a sickle + -form: cf. F. falciforme.]

Defn: Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver.

FALCON Fal"con, n. Etym: [OE. faucon, faucoun, OF. faucon, falcon, faucon, fr. LL. falco, perh. from L. falx, falcis, a sickle or scythe, and named from its curving talons. Cf. Falchion.]

1. (Zoöl.) (a) One of a family (Falconidæ) of raptorial birds, characterized by a short, hooked beak, strong claws, and powerful flight. (b) Any species of the genus Falco, distinguished by having a toothlike lobe on the upper mandible; especially, one of this genus trained to the pursuit of other birds, or game. In the language of falconry, the female peregrine (Falco peregrinus) is exclusively called the falcon. Yarrell.

2. (Gun.)

Defn: An ancient form of cannon. Chanting falcon. (Zoöl.) See under
Chanting.

FALCONER Fal"con*er, n. Etym: [OE. fauconer, OF. falconier, fauconier, F. fauconnier. See Falcon.]

Defn: A person who breeds or trains hawks for taking birds or game; one who follows the sport of fowling with hawks. Johnson.

FALCONET Fal"co*net, n. Etym: [Dim. of falcon: cf. F. fauconneau, LL. falconeta, properly, a young falcon.]

1. One of the smaller cannon used in the 15th century and later.

2. (Zoöl.) (a) One of several very small Asiatic falcons of the genus Microhierax. (b) One of a group of Australian birds of the genus Falcunculus, resembling shrikes and titmice.

FALCONGENTIL
Fal"con*gen`til, n. Etym: [F. faucon-gentil. See Falcon, and
Genteel.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: The female or young of the goshawk (Astur palumbarius).

FALCONINE
Fal"co*nine, a. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Like a falcon or hawk; belonging to the Falconidæ

FALCONRY
Fal"con*ry, n. Etym: [Cf. F. fauconnerie. See Falcon.]

1. The art of training falcons or hawks to pursue and attack wild fowl or game.

2. The sport of taking wild fowl or game by means of falcons or hawks.

FALCULA
Fal"cu*la, n. Etym: [L., a small sickle, a billhook.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A curved and sharp-pointed claw.

FALCULATE
Fal"cu*late, a. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Curved and sharppointed, like a falcula, or claw of a falcon.

FALDAGE
Fald"age, n. Etym: [LL. faldagium, fr. AS. fald, E. fold. Cf.
Foldage.] (O. Eng. Law)

Defn: A privilege of setting up, and moving about, folds for sheep, in any fields within manors, in order to manure them; — often reserved to himself by the lord of the manor. Spelman.

FALDFEE
Fald"fee`, n. Etym: [AS. fald (E.fold) + E. fee. See Faldage.] (O.
Eng. Law)

Defn: A fee or rent paid by a tenant for the privilege of faldage on his own ground. Blount.

FALDING
Fald"ing, n.

Defn: A frieze or rough-napped cloth. [Obs.]

FALDISTORY Fal"dis*to*ry, n. Etym: [LL. faldistorium, faldestorium, from OHG. faldstuol; faldan, faltan, to fold (G. falten) + stuol stool. So called because it could be folded or laid together. See Fold, and Stool, and cf. Faldstool, Fauteuil.]

Defn: The throne or seat of a bishop within the chancel. [Obs.]

FALDSTOOL
Fald"stool`, n. Etym: [See Faldistory.]

Defn: A folding stool, or portable seat, made to fold up in the manner of a camo stool. It was formerly placed in the choir for a bishop, when he offciated in any but his own cathedral church. Fairholt.

Note: In the modern practice of the Church of England, the term faldstool is given to the reading desk from which the litany is read. This esage is a relic of the ancient use of a lectern folding like a camp stool.

FALERNIAN
Fa*ler"ni*an, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to Mount Falernus, in Italy; as,
Falernianwine.

FALK
Falk (falk), n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The razorbill. [Written also falc, and faik.] [Prov. Eng.]

FALL Fall (fall), v. i. [imp. Fell; p. p. Fallen; p. pr. & vb. n. Falling.] Etym: [AS. feallan; akin to D. vallen, OS. & OHG. fallan, G. fallen, Icel. Falla, Sw. falla, Dan. falde, Lith. pulti, L. fallere to deceive, Gr. sfa`llein to cause to fall, Skr. sphal, sphul, to tremble. Cf. Fail, Fell, v. t., to cause to fall.]

1. To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; the mercury falls in the barometer. I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. Luke x. 18.

2. To cease to be erect; to take suddenly a recumbent posture; to become prostrate; to drop; as, a child totters and falls; a tree falls; a worshiper falls on his knees. I fell at his feet to worship him. Rev. xix. 10.

3. To find a final outlet; to discharge its waters; to empty; — with into; as, the river Rhone falls into the Mediterranean.

4. To become prostrate and dead; to die; especially, to die by violence, as in battle. A thousand shall fall at thy side. Ps. xci. 7. He rushed into the field, and, foremost fighting, fell. Byron.

5. To cease to be active or strong; to die away; to lose strength; to subside; to become less intense; as, the wind falls.

6. To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; — said of the young of certain animals. Shak.

7. To decline in power, glory, wealth, or importance; to become insignificant; to lose rank or position; to decline in weight, value, price etc.; to become less; as, the falls; stocks fell two points. I am a poor falle man, unworthy now To be thy lord and master. Shak. The greatness of these Irish lords suddenly fell and vanished. Sir J. Davies.

8. To be overthrown or captured; to be destroyed. Heaven and earth will witness, If Rome must fall, that we are innocent. Addison.

9. To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin; to depart from the faith; to apostatize; to sin. Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. Heb. iv. 11.

10. To become insnared or embarrassed; to be entrapped; to be worse off than before; asm to fall into error; to fall into difficulties.

11. To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; — said of the countenance. Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. Gen. iv. 5. I have observed of late thy looks are fallen. Addison.

12. To sink; to languish; to become feeble or faint; as, our spirits rise and fall with our fortunes.

13. To pass somewha suddenly, and passively, into a new state of body or mind; to become; as, to fall asleep; to fall into a passion; to fall in love; to fall into temptation.

14. To happen; to to come to pass; to light; to befall; to issue; to
terminate.
The Romans fell on this model by chance. Swift.
Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the matter will fall.
Ruth. iii. 18.
They do not make laws, they fall into customs. H. Spencer.

15. To come; to occur; to arrive. The vernal equinox, which at the Nicene Council fell on the 21st of March, falls now [1694] about ten days sooner. Holder.

16. To begin with haste, ardor, or vehemence; to rush or hurry; as,
they fell to blows.
They now no longer doubted, but fell to work heart and soul. Jowett
(Thucyd. ).

17. To pass or be transferred by chance, lot, distribution, inheritance, or otherwise; as, the estate fell to his brother; the kingdom fell into the hands of his rivals.

18. To belong or appertain. If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all. Pope.

19. To be dropped or uttered carelessly; as, an unguarded expression fell from his lips; not a murmur fell from him. To fall abroad of (Naut.), to strike against; — applied to one vessel coming into collision with another. — To fall among, to come among accidentally or unexpectedly. — To fall astern (Naut.), to move or be driven backward; to be left behind; as, a ship falls astern by the force of a current, or when outsailed by another. — To fall away. (a) To lose flesh; to become lean or emaciated; to pine. (b) To renounce or desert allegiance; to revolt or rebel. (c) To renounce or desert the faith; to apostatize. "These . . . for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away." Luke viii. 13. (d) To perish; to vanish; to be lost. "How . . . can the soul . . . fall away into nothing" Addison. (e) To decline gradually; to fade; to languish, or become faint. "One color falls away by just degrees, and another rises insensibly." Addison. — To fall back. (a) To recede or retreat; to give way. (b) To fail of performing a promise or purpose; not to fulfill. — To fall back upon. (a) (Mil.) To retreat for safety to (a stronger position in the rear, as to a fort or a supporting body of troops). (b) To have recourse to (a reserved fund, or some available expedient or support). — To fall calm, to cease to blow; to become calm. — To fall down. (a) To prostrate one's self in worship. "All kings shall fall down before him." Ps. lxxii. 11. (b) To sink; to come to the ground. "Down fell the beauteous youth." Dryden. (c) To bend or bow, as a suppliant. (d) (Naut.) To sail or drift toward the mouth of a river or other outlet. — To fall flat, to produce no response or result; to fail of the intended effect; as, his speech fell flat. — To fall foul of. (a) (Naut.) To have a collision with; to become entangled with (b) To attack; to make an assault upon. — To fall from, to recede or depart from; not to adhere to; as, to fall from an agreement or engagement; to fall from allegiance or duty. — To fall from grace (M. E. Ch.), to sin; to withdraw from the faith. — To fall home (Ship Carp.), to curve inward; — said of the timbers or upper parts of a ship's side which are much within a perpendicular. — To fall in. (a) To sink inwards; as, the roof fell in. (b) (Mil.) To take one's proper or assigned place in line; as, to fall in on the right. (c) To come to an end; to terminate; to lapse; as, on the death of Mr. B., the annuuity, which he had so long received, fell in. (d) To become operative. "The reversion, to which he had been nominated twenty years before, fell in." Macaulay. — To fall into one's hands, to pass, often suddenly or unexpectedly, into one's ownership or control; as, to spike cannon when they are likely to fall into the hands of the enemy. — To fall in with. (a) To meet with accidentally; as, to fall in with a friend. (b) (Naut.) To meet, as a ship; also, to discover or come near, as land. (c) To concur with; to agree with; as, the measure falls in with popular opinion. (d) To comply; to yield to. "You will find it difficult to persuade learned men to fall in with your projects." Addison. — To fall off. (a) To drop; as, fruits fall off when ripe. (b) To withdraw; to separate; to become detached; as, friends fall off in adversity. "Love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide." Shak. (c) To perish; to die away; as, words fall off by disuse. (d) To apostatize; to forsake; to withdraw from the faith, or from allegiance or duty. Those captive tribes . . . fell off From God to worship calves. Milton. (e) To forsake; to abandon; as, his customers fell off. (f) To depreciate; to change for the worse; to deteriorate; to become less valuable, abundant, or interesting; as, a falling off in the wheat crop; the magazine or the review falls off. "O Hamlet, what a falling off was there!" Shak. (g) (Naut.) To deviate or trend to the leeward of the point to which the head of the ship was before directed; to fall to leeward. — To fall on. (a) To meet with; to light upon; as, we have fallen on evil days. (b) To begin suddenly and eagerly. "Fall on, and try the appetite to eat." Dryden. (c) To begin an attack; to assault; to assail. "Fall on, fall on, and hear him not." Dryden. (d) To drop on; to descend on. — To fall out. (a) To quarrel; to begin to contend. A soul exasperated in ills falls out With everything, its friend, itself. Addison. (b) To happen; to befall; to chance. "There fell out a bloody quarrel betwixt the frogs and the mice." L'Estrange. (c) (Mil.) To leave the ranks, as a soldier. — To fall over. (a) To revolt; to desert from one side to another. (b) To fall beyond. Shak. — To fall short, to be deficient; as, the corn falls short; they all fall short in duty. — To fall through, to come to nothing; to fail; as, the engageent has fallen through. — To fall to, to begin. "Fall to, with eager joy, on homely food." Dryden. — To fall under. (a) To come under, or within the limits of; to be subjected to; as, they fell under the jurisdiction of the emperor. (b) To come under; to become the subject of; as, this point did not fall under the cognizance or deliberations of the court; these things do not fall under human sight or observation. (c) To come within; to be ranged or reckoned with; to be subordinate to in the way of classification; as, these substances fall under a different class or order. — To fall upon. (a) To attack. [See To fall on.] (b) To attempt; to have recourse to. "I do not intend to fall upon nice disquisitions." Holder. (c) To rush against.

Note: Fall primarily denotes descending motion, either in a perpendicular or inclined direction, and, in most of its applications, implies, literally or figuratively, velocity, haste, suddenness, or violence. Its use is so various, and so mush diversified by modifying words, that it is not easy to enumerate its senses in all its applications.

FALL
Fall, v. t.

1. To let fall; to drop. [Obs.] For every tear he falls, a Trojan bleeds. Shak.

2. To sink; to depress; as, to fall the voice. [Obs.]

3. To diminish; to lessen or lower. [Obs.] Upon lessening interest to four per cent, you fall the price of your native commodities. Locke.

4. To bring forth; as, to fall lambs. [R.] Shak.

5. To fell; to cut down; as, to fall a tree. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U.S.]

FALL
Fall, n.

1. The act of falling; a dropping or descending be the force of gravity; descent; as, a fall from a horse, or from the yard of ship.

2. The act of dropping or tumbling from an erect posture; as, he was walking on ice, and had a fall.

3. Death; destruction; overthrow; ruin.
They thy fall conspire. Denham.
Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Prov. xvi. 18.

4. Downfall; degradation; loss of greatness or office; termination of greatness, power, or dominion; ruin; overthrow; as, the fall of the Roman empire. Beholds thee glorious only in thy fall. Pope.

5. The surrender of a besieged fortress or town ; as, the fall of Sebastopol.

6. Diminution or decrease in price or value; depreciation; as, the fall of prices; the fall of rents.

7. A sinking of tone; cadence; as, the fall of the voice at the close of a sentence.

8. Declivity; the descent of land or a hill; a slope.

9. Descent of water; a cascade; a cataract; a rush of water down a precipice or steep; — usually in the plural, sometimes in the singular; as, the falls of Niagara.

10. The discharge of a river or current of water into the ocean, or into a lake or pond; as, the fall of the Po into the Gulf of Venice. Addison.

11. Extent of descent; the distance which anything falls; as, the water of a stream has a fall of five feet.

12. The season when leaves fall from trees; autumn. What crowds of patients the town doctor kills, Or how, last fall, he raised the weekly bills. Dryden.

13. That which falls; a falling; as, a fall of rain; a heavy fall of snow.

14. The act of felling or cutting down. "The fall of timber." Johnson.

15. Lapse or declinsion from innocence or goodness. Specifically: The first apostasy; the act of our first parents in eating the forbidden fruit; also, the apostasy of the rebellious angels.

16. Formerly, a kind of ruff or band for the neck; a falling band; a faule. B. Jonson.

17. That part (as one of the ropes) of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting. Fall herring (Zoöl.), a herring of the Atlantic (Clupea mediocris); — also called tailor herring, and hickory shad. — To try a fall, to try a bout at wrestling. Shak.

FALLACIOUS Fal*la"cious, a. Etym: [L. fallaciosus, fr. fallacia: cf. F. fallacieux. See Fallacy.]

Defn: Embodying or pertaining to a fallacy; illogical; fitted to deceive; misleading; delusive; as, fallacious arguments or reasoning. — Fal*la"cious*ly, adv. -Fal*la"cious*ness, n.

FALLACY
Fal"la*cy, n.; pl. Fallacies. Etym: [OE. fallace, fallas, deception,
F. fallace, fr. L. fallacia, fr. fallax deceitful, deceptive, fr.
fallere to deceive. See Fail.]

1. Deceptive or false appearance; deceitfulness; that which misleads the eye or the mind; deception. Winning by conquest what the first man lost, By fallacy surprised. Milton.

2. (Logic)

Defn: An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it is not; a sophism.

Syn. — Deception; deceit; mistake. — Fallacy, Sophistry. A fallacy is an argument which professes to be decisive, but in reality is not; sophistry is also false reasoning, but of so specious and subtle a kind as to render it difficult to expose its fallacy. Many fallacies are obvious, but the evil of sophistry lies in its consummate art. "Men are apt to suffer their minds to be misled by fallacies which gratify their passions. Many persons have obscured and confounded the nature of things by their wretched sophistry; though an act be never so sinful, they will strip it of its guilt." South.

FALLALS; FAL-LALS
Fal"*lals`, n.pl.

Defn: Gay ornaments; frippery; gewgaws. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

FALLAX
Fal"lax, n. Etym: [L. fallax deceptive. See Fallacy.]

Defn: Cavillation; a caviling. [Obs.] Cranmer.

FALLEN
Fall"en, a.

Defn: Dropped; prostrate; degraded; ruined; decreased; dead.
Some ruined temple or fallen monument. Rogers.

FALLENCY
Fal"len*cy, n. Etym: [LL. fallentia, L. fallens p.pr of fallere.]

Defn: An exception. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

FALLER
Fall"er, n.

1. One who, or that which, falls.

2. (Mach.)

Defn: A part which acts by falling, as a stamp in a fulling mill, or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread breaks.

FALLFISH
Fall"fish`, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A fresh-water fish of the United States (Semotilus bullaris); - - called also silver chub, and Shiner. The name is also applied to other allied species.

FALLIBILITY
Fal`li*bil"i*ty, n.

Defn: The state of being fallible; liability to deceive or to be deceived; as, the fallibity of an argument or of an adviser.

FALLIBLE
Fal"li*ble, a. Etym: [LL. fallibilis, fr. L. fallere to deceive: cf.
F. faillible. See Fail.]

Defn: Liable to fail, mistake, or err; liable to deceive or to be deceived; as, all men are fallible; our opinions and hopes are fallible.

FALLIBLY
Fal"li*bly, adv.

Defn: In a fallible manner.

FALLING
Fall"ing, a. & n.

Defn: from Fall, v. i. Falling away, Falling off, etc. See To fall
away, To fall off, etc., under Fall, v. i.
— Falling band, the plain, broad, linen collar turning down over
the doublet, worn in the early part of the 17th century.
— Falling sickness (Med.), epilepsy. Shak.
— Falling star. (Astron.) See Shooting star.
— Falling stone, a stone falling through the atmosphere; a
meteorite; an aërolite.
— Falling tide, the ebb tide.
— Falling weather, a rainy season. [Colloq.] Bartlett.

FALLOPIAN
Fal*lo"pi*an, a. Etym: [From Fallopius, or Fallopio, a physician of
Modena, who died in 1562.] (Anat.)

Defn: Pertaining to, or discovered by, Fallopius; as, the Fallopian tubes or oviducts, the ducts or canals which conduct the ova from the ovaries to the uterus.

FALLOW Fal"low, a. Etym: [AS. fealu, fealo, pale yellow or red; akin to D. vaal fallow, faded, OHG. falo, G. falb, fahl, Icel. fölr, and prob. to Lith. palvas, OSlav. plavpallidus pale, pallere to be pale, Gr. palita. Cf. Pale, Favel, a., Favor.]

1. Pale red or pale yellow; as, a fallow deer or greyhound. Shak.

2. Etym: [Cf. Fallow, n.]

Defn: Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground. Fallow chat, Fallow finch (Zoöl.), a small European bird, the wheatear (Saxicola ænanthe). See Wheatear.

FALLOW Fal"low, n. Etym: [So called from the fallow, or somewhat yellow, color of naked ground; or perh. akin to E. felly, n., cf. MHG. valgen to plow up, OHG. felga felly, harrow.]

1. Plowed land. [Obs.] Who . . . pricketh his blind horse over the fallows. Chaucer.

2. Land that has lain a year or more untilled or unseeded; land plowed without being sowed for the season. The plowing of fallows is a benefit to land. Mortimer.

3. The plowing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season; as, summer fallow, properly conducted, has ever been found a sure method of destroying weeds. Be a complete summer fallow, land is rendered tender and mellow. The fallow gives it a better tilth than can be given by a fallow crop. Sinclair. Fallow crop, the crop taken from a green fallow. [Eng.] — Green fallow, fallow whereby land is rendered mellow and clean from weeds, by cultivating some green crop, as turnips, potatoes, etc. [Eng.]

FALLOW
Fal"low, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fallowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Fallowing.]
Etym: [From Fallow, n.]

Defn: To plow, harrow, and break up, as land, without seeding, for the purpose of destroying weeds and insects, and rendering it mellow; as, it is profitable to fallow cold, strong, clayey land.

FALLOW DEER Fal"low deer`. Etym: [So called from its fallow or pale yellow color.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A European species of deer (Cervus dama), much smaller than the red deer. In summer both sexes are spotted with white. It is common in England, where it is often domesticated in the parks.

FALLOWIST
Fal"low*ist, n.

Defn: One who favors the practice of fallowing land. [R.] Sinclair.

FALLOWNESS
Fal"low*ness, n.

Defn: A well or opening, through the successive floors of a warehouse or manufactory, through which goods are raised or lowered. [U.S.] Bartlett.

FALSARY
Fal"sa*ry, n. Etym: [L. falsarius, fr. falsus. See False, a.]

Defn: A falsifier of evidence. [Obs.] Sheldon.

FALSE False, a. [Compar. Falser; superl. Falsest.] Etym: [L. falsus, p.p. of fallere to deceive; cf. OF. faus, fals, F. faux, and AS. fals fraud. See Fail, Fall.]

1. Uttering falsehood; unveracious; given to deceit; dishnest; as, a false witness.

2. Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous; perfidious; as, a false friend, lover, or subject; false to promises. I to myself was false, ere thou to me. Milton.

3. Not according with truth or reality; not true; fitted or likely to deceive or disappoint; as, a false statement.

4. Not genuine or real; assumed or designed to deceive; counterfeit; hypocritical; as, false tears; false modesty; false colors; false jewelry. False face must hide what the false heart doth know. Shak.

5. Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous; as, a false claim; a false conclusion; a false construction in grammar. Whose false foundation waves have swept away. Spenser.

6. Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.

7. (Mus.)

Defn: Not in tune. False arch (Arch.), a member having the appearance of an arch, though not of arch construction. — False attic, an architectural erection above the main cornice, concealing a roof, but not having windows or inclosing rooms. — False bearing, any bearing which is not directly upon a vertical support; thus, the weight carried by a corbel has a false bearing. — False cadence, an imperfect or interrupted cadence. — False conception (Med.), an abnormal conception in which a mole, or misshapen fleshy mass, is produced instead of a properly organized fetus. — False croup (Med.), a spasmodic affection of the larynx attended with the symptoms of membranous croup, but unassociated with the deposit of a fibrinous membrane. — False door or window (Arch.), the representation of a door or window, inserted to complete a series of doors or windows or to give symmetry. — False fire, a combustible carried by vessels of war, chiefly for signaling, but sometimes burned for the purpose of deceiving an enemy; also, a light on shore for decoying a vessel to destruction. — False galena. See Blende. — False imprisonment (Law), the arrest and imprisonment of a person without warrant or cause, or contrary to law; or the unlawful detaining of a person in custody. — False keel (Naut.), the timber below the main keel, used to serve both as a protection and to increase the shio's lateral resistance. — False key, a picklock. — False leg. (Zoöl.) See Proleg. — False membrane (Med.), the fibrinous deposit formed in croup and diphtheria, and resembling in appearance an animal membrane. — False papers (Naut.), documents carried by a ship giving false representations respecting her cargo, destination, ect., for the purpose of deceiving. — False passage (Surg.), an unnatural passage leading off from a natural canal, such as the urethra, and produced usually by the unskillful introduction of instruments. — False personation (Law), the intentional false assumption of the name and personality of another. — False pretenses (Law), false representations concerning past or present facts and events, for the purpose of defrauding another. — False rail (Naut.), a thin piece of timber placed on top of the head rail to strengthen it. — False relation (Mus.), a progression in harmony, in which a certain note in a chord appears in the next chord prefixed by a flat or sharp. — False return (Law), an untrue return made to a process by the officer to whom it was delivered for execution. — False ribs (Anat.), the asternal rebs, of which there are five pairs in man. — False roof (Arch.), the space between the upper ceiling and the roof. Oxford Gloss. — False token, a false mark or other symbol, used for fraudulent purposes. — False scorpion (Zoöl.), any arachnid of the genus Chelifer. See Book scorpion. — False tack (Naut.), a coming up into the wind and filling away again on the same tack. — False vampire (Zoöl.), the Vampyrus spectrum of South America, formerly erroneously supposed to have blood-sucking habits; — called also vampire, and ghost vampire. The genuine blood-sucking bats belong to the genera Desmodus and Diphylla. See Vampire. — False window. (Arch.) See False door, above. — False wing. (Zoöl.) See Alula, and Bastard wing, under Bastard. — False works (Civil Engin.), construction works to facilitate the erection of the main work, as scaffolding, bridge centering, etc.

FALSE
False, adv.

Defn: Not truly; not honestly; falsely. "You play me false." Shak.

FALSE False, v. t. Etym: [L. falsare to falsify, fr. falsus: cf. F. fausser. See False, a.]

1. To report falsely; to falsify. [Obs.] Chaucer.

2. To betray; to falsify. [Obs.] [He] hath his truthe falsed in this wise. Chaucer.

3. To mislead by want of truth; to deceive. [Obs.] In his falsed fancy. Spenser.

4. To feign; to pretend to make. [Obs.] "And falsed oft his blows." Spenser.

FALSE-FACED
False"-faced`, a.

Defn: Hypocritical. Shak.

FALSE-HEART
False"-heart`, a.

Defn: False-hearted. Shak.

FALSE-HEARTED
False"-heart`ed, a.

Defn: Hollow or unsound at the core; treacherous; deceitful;
perfidious. Bacon.
— False"*heart`ed*ness, n. Bp. Stillingfleet.

FALSEHOOD
False"hood, n. Etym: [False + -hood]

1. Want of truth or accuracy; an untrue assertion or representation; error; misrepresentation; falsity. Though it be a lie in the clock, it is but a falsehood in the hand of the dial when pointing at a wrong hour, if rightly following the direction of the wheel which moveth it. Fuller.

2. A deliberate intentional assertion of what is known to be untrue; a departure from moral integrity; a lie.

3. Treachery; deceit; perfidy; unfaithfulness. Betrayed by falsehood of his guard. Shak.

4. A counterfeit; a false appearance; an imposture. For his molten image is falsehood. Jer. x. 14. No falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper. Milton.

Syn.
— Falsity; lie; untruth; fiction; fabrication. See Falsity.

FALSELY
False"ly, adv.

Defn: In a false manner; erroneously; not truly; perfidiously or
treacherously. "O falsely, falsely murdered." Shak.
Oppositions of science, falsely so called. 1 Tim. vi. 20.
Will ye steal, murder . . . and swear falsely Jer. vii. 9.

FALSENESS
False"ness, n.

Defn: The state of being false; contrariety to the fact; inaccuracy; want of integrity or uprightness; double dealing; unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as, the falseness of a report, a drawing, or a singer's notes; the falseness of a man, or of his word.

FALSER
Fals"er, n.

Defn: A deceiver. [Obs.] Spenser.

FALSETTO Fal*set"to, n.; pl. Falsettos. Etym: [It. falsetto, dim. fr. L. falsus. See False.]

Defn: A false or artificial voice; that voice in a man which lies above his natural voice; the male counter tenor or alto voice. See Head voice, under Voice.

FALSICRIMEN
Fal"si*cri"men. Etym: [L.] (Civ. Law)

Defn: The crime of falsifying.

Note: This term in the Roman law included not only forgery, but every species of fraud and deceit. It never has been used in so extensive a sense in modern common law, in which its predominant significance is forgery, though it also includes perjury and offenses of a like character. Burrill. Greenleaf.

FALSIFIABLE
Fal"si*fi`a*ble, a. Etym: [Cf. OF. falsifiable.]

Defn: Capable of being falsified, counterfeited, or corrupted.
Johnson.

FALSIFICATION
Fal`si*fi*ca"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. falsification.]

1. The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not. To counterfeit the living image of king in his person exceedeth all falsifications. Bacon.

2. Willful misstatement or misrepresentation. Extreme necessity . . . forced him upon this bold and violent falsification of the doctrine of the alliance. Bp. Warburton.

3. (Equity)

Defn: The showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong. Story.

FALSIFICATOR
Fal"si*fi*ca`tor, n. Etym: [Cf. F. falsificateur.]

Defn: A falsifier. Bp. Morton.

FALSIFIER
Fal"si*fi`er, n.

Defn: One who falsifies, or gives to a thing a deceptive appearance; a liar.

FALSIFY
Fal"si*fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Falsified; p. pr. & vb. n.
Falsifying.] Etym: [L. falsus false + -ly: cf. F. falsifier. See
False, a.]

1. To make false; to represent falsely. The Irish bards use to forge and falsify everything as they list, to please or displease any man. Spenser.

2. To counterfeit; to forge; as, to falsify coin.

3. To prove to be false, or untrustworthy; to confute; to disprove; to nullify; to make to appear false. By how much better than my word I am, By so much shall I falsify men's hope. Shak. Jews and Pagans united all their endeavors, under Julian the apostate, to baffie and falsify the prediction. Addison.

4. To violate; to break by falsehood; as, to falsify one's faith or word. Sir P. Sidney.

5. To baffie or escape; as, to falsify a blow. Bulter.

6. (Law)

Defn: To avoid or defeat; to prove false, as a judgment. Blackstone.

7. (Equity)

Defn: To show, in accounting, (an inem of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong. Story. Daniell.

8. To make false by multilation or addition; to tamper with; as, to falsify a record or document.

FALSIFY
Fal"si*fy, v. i.

Defn: To tell lies; to violate the truth.
It is absolutely and universally unlawful to lie and falsify.
South.

FALSISM
Fals"ism, n.

Defn: That which is evidently false; an assertion or statement the falsity of which is plainly apparent; — opposed to truism.

FALSITY Fal"si*ty, n.;pl. Falsities. Etym: [L. falsitas: cf. F. fausseté, OF. also, falsité. See False, a.]

1. The quality of being false; coutrariety or want of conformity to truth. Probability does not make any alteration, either in the truth or falsity of things. South.

2. That which is false; falsehood; a lie; a false assertion. Men often swallow falsities for truths. Sir T. Brown.

Syn. — Falsehood; lie; deceit. — Falsity, Falsehood, Lie. Falsity denotes the state or quality of being false. A falsehood is a false declaration designedly made. A lie is a gross, unblushing falsehood. The falsity of a person's assertion may be proved by the evidence of others and thus the charge of falsehood be fastened upon him.

FALTER
Fal"ter, v. t.

Defn: To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley.
[Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

FALTER
Fal"ter, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Faltered; p. pr. & vb. n. Faltering.]
Etym: [OE. falteren, faltren, prob. from fault. See Fault, v. & n.]

1. To hesitate; to speak brokenly or weakly; to stammer; as, his tongue falters. With faltering speech and visage incomposed. Milton.

2. To tremble; to totter; to be unsteady. "He found his legs falter." Wiseman.

3. To hesitate in purpose or action. Ere her native king Shall falter under foul rebellion's arms. Shak.

4. To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; — said of the mind or of thought. Here indeed the power of disinct conception of space and distance falters. I. Taylor.

FALTER
Fal"ter, v. t.

Defn: To utter with hesitation, or in a broken, trembling, or weak
manner.
And here he faltered forth his last farewell. Byron.
Mde me most happy, faltering "I am thine." Tennyson.

FALTER
Fal"ter, n. Etym: [See Falter, v. i.]

Defn: Hesitation; trembling; feebleness; an uncertain or broken sound; as, a slight falter in her voice. The falter of an idle shepherd's pipe. Lowell.

FALTERING
Fal"ter*ing, a.

Defn: Hesitating; trembling. "With faltering speech." Milton.
— n.

Defn: Falter; halting; hesitation.
— Fal"ter*ing*ly, adv.

FALUNS
Fa`luns", n. Etym: [F.] (Geol.)

Defn: A series of strata, of the Middle Tertiary period, of France, abounding in shells, and used by Lyell as the type of his Miocene subdivision.

FALWE
Fal"we, a. & n.

Defn: Fallow. [Obs.] Chaucer.

FALX
Falx, n. Etym: [L., a sickle.] (Anat.)

Defn: A curved fold or process of the dura mater or the peritoneum; esp., one of the partitionlike folds of the dura mater which extend into the great fissures of the brain.

FAMBLE Fam"ble, v. i. Etym: [OE. falmelen; cf. SW. famla to grope, Dan. famle to grope, falter, hesitate, Isel. falma to grope. Cf. Famble.]

Defn: To stammer. [Obs.] Nares.

FAMBLE
Fam"ble, n. Etym: [Cf. Famble, v.]

Defn: A hand [Slang & Obs.] "We clap our fambles." Beau. & Fl.

FAME
Fame, n. Etym: [OF. fame, L. fama, fr. fari to speak, akin to Gr.
Ban, and cf. Fable, Fate, Euphony, Blame.]

1. Public report or rumor. The fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house. Gen. xlv. 16.

2. Report or opinion generally diffused; renown; public estimation; celebrity, either favorable or unfavorable; as, the fame of Washington. I find thou art no less than fame hath bruited. Shak.

Syn.
— Notoriety; celebrity; renown; reputation.

FAME
Fame, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Famed,; p. pr. & vb. n. Faming.]

1. To report widely or honorably. The field where thou art famed To have wrought such wonders. Milton.

2. To make famous or renowned. Those Hesperian gardens famed of old. Milton.

FAMELESS
Fame"less, a.

Defn: Without fame or renown.
— Fame"less*ly, adv.

FAMILIAR Fa*mil`iar, a. Etym: [OE. familer, familier, F. familier, fr. L. familiaris, fr. familia family. See Family.]

1. Of or pertaining to a family; domestic. "Familiar feuds." Byron.

2. Closely acquainted or intimate, as a friend or companion; well versed in, as any subject of study; as, familiar with the Scriptures.

3. Characterized by, or exhibiting, the manner of an intimate friend; not formal; unconstrained; easy; accessible. "In loose, familiar strains." Addison. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. Shak.

4. Well known; well understood; common; frequent; as, a familiar illustration. That war, or peace, or both at once, may be As things acquainted and familiar to us. Shak. There is nothing more familiar than this. Locke.

5. Improperly acquainted; wrongly intimate. Camden. Familiar spirit, a demon or evil spirit supposed to attend at call. 1 Sam. xxviii. 3, 7-9.

FAMILIAR
Fa*mil"iar, n.

1. An intimate; a companion. All my familiars watched for my halting. Jer. xx. 10.

2. An attendant demon or evil spirit. Shak.

3. (Court of Inquisition)

Defn: A confidential officer employed in the service of the tribunal, especially in apprehending and imprisoning the accused.

FAMILIARITY Fa*mil`iar"i*ty, n.; pl. Familiarities. Etym: [OE. familarite, F. familiaritéfr. L. faniliaritas. See Familiar.]

1. The state of being familiar; intimate and frequent converse, or association; unconstrained intercourse; freedom from ceremony and constraint; intimacy; as, to live in remarkable familiarity.

2. Anything said or done by one person to another unceremoniously and without constraint; esp., in the pl., such actions and words as propriety and courtesy do not warrant; liberties.

Syn.
— Acquaintance; fellowship; affability; intimacy. See Acquaintance.

FAMILIARIZATION
Fa*mil`iar*i*za"tion, n.

Defn: The act or process of making familiar; the result of becoming familiar; as, familiarization with scenes of blood.

FAMILIARIZE
Fa*mil"iar*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Familiarized; p. pr. & vb. n.
Familiarizing.] Etym: [Cf. F. familiariser.]

1. To make familiar or intimate; to habituate; to accustom; to make well known by practice or converse; as, to familiarize one's self with scenes of distress.

2. To make acquainted, or skilled, by practice or study; as, to familiarize one's self with a business, a book, or a science.

FAMILIARLY
Fa"mil"iar*ly, adv.

Defn: In a familiar manner.

FAMILIARNESS
Fa*mil"iar*ness, n.

Defn: Familiarity. [R.]

FAMILIARY
Fa*mil"ia*ry, a. Etym: [L. familiaris. See Familiar.]

Defn: Of or pertaining to a family or household; domestic. [Obs.]
Milton.

FAMILISM
Fam"i*lism, n.

Defn: The tenets of the Familists. Milton.

FAMILIST
Fam"i*list, n. Etym: [From Family.] (Eccl. Hist.)

Defn: One of afanatical Antinomian sect originating in Holland, and existing in England about 1580, called the Family of Love, who held that religion consists wholly in love.

FAMILISTERY
Fam"i*lis*ter*y, n.; pl. Familisteries (. Etym: [F. familistère.]

Defn: A community in which many persons unite as in one family, and are regulated by certain communistic laws and customs.

FAMILISTIC; FAMILISTICAL
Fam`i*listic, Fam`i*lis"tic*al, a.

Defn: Pertaining to Familists. Baxter.

FAMILY Fam"i*ly, n.; pl. Families. Etym: [L. familia, fr. famulus servant; akin to Oscan famel servant, cf. faamat he dwells, Skr. dhaman house, fr. dhato set, make, do: cf. F. famille. Cf. Do, v. t., Doom, Fact, Feat.]

1. The collective body of persons who live in one house, and under one head or manager; a household, including parents, children, and servants, and, as the case may be, lodgers or boarders.

2. The group comprising a husband and wife and their dependent children, constituting a fundamental unit in the organization of society. The welfare of the family underlies the welfare of society. H. Spencer.

3. Those who descend from one common progenitor; a tribe, clan, or race; kindred; house; as, the human family; the family of Abraham; the father of a family. Go ! and pretennd your family is young. Pope.

4. Course of descent; genealogy; line of ancestors; lineage.

5. Honorable descent; noble or respectable stock; as, a man of family.

6. A groupe of kindred or closely related individuals; as, a family of languages; a family of States; the chlorine family.

7. (Biol.)

Defn: A groupe of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoölogy a family is less comprehesive than an order; in botany it is often considered the same thing as an order. Family circle. See under Circle. — Family man. (a) A man who has a family; esp., one who has a wife and children living with him andd dependent upon him. (b) A man of domestic habits. "The Jews are generally, when married, most exemplary family men." Mayhew. — Family of curves or surfaces (Geom.), a group of curves or surfaces derived from a single equation. — In a family way, like one belonging to the family. "Why don't we ask him and his ladies to come over in a family way, and dine with some other plain country gentlefolks" Thackeray. — In the family way, pregnant. [Colloq.]

FAMINE Fam"ine, n. Etym: [F. famine, fr. L. fames hunger; cf. Gr. hani loss, lack, ha to leave.]

Defn: General scarcity of food; dearth; a want of provisions;
destitution. "Worn with famine." Milton.
There was a famine in the land. Gen. xxvi. 1.
Famine fever (Med.), typhus fever.

FAMISH
Fam"ish, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Famished; p. pr. & vb. n. Famishing.]
Etym: [OE. famen; cf. OF. afamer, L. fames. See Famine, and cf.
Affamish.]

1. To starve, kill, or destroy with hunger. Shak.

2. To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to distress
with hanger.
And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to
Pharaoh for bread. Cen. xli. 55.
The pains of famished Tantalus he'll feel. Dryden.

3. To kill, or to cause to suffer extremity, by deprivation or denial of anything necessary. And famish him of breath, if not of bread. Milton.

4. To force or constrain by famine. He had famished Paris into a surrender. Burke.

FAMISH
Fam"ish, v. i.

1. To die of hunger; to starve.

2. To suffer extreme hunger or thirst, so as to be exhausted in strength, or to come near to perish. You are all resolved rather to die than to famish Shak.

3. To suffer extremity from deprivation of anything essential or necessary. The Lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish. Prov. x. 3.

FAMISHMENT
Fam"ish*ment, n.

Defn: State of being famished.

FAMOSITY
Fa*mos"i*ty, n. Etym: [L. famositas infamy: cf. F. famosité. See
Famous.]

Defn: The state or quality of being famous. [Obs.] Johnson.

FAMOUS
Fa"mous, a. Etym: [L. famosus, fr. fama fame: cf. F. fameux. See
Fame.]

Defn: Celebrated in fame or public report; renowned; mach talked of; distinguished in story; — used in either a good or a bad sense, chiefly the former; often followed by for; as, famous for erudition, for eloquence, for military skill; a famous pirate. Famous for a scolding tongue. Shak.

Syn. — Noted; remarkable; signal; conspicuous; celebrated; renowned; illustrious; eminent; transcendent; excellent. — Famous, Renowned, Illustrious. Famous is applied to a person or thing widely spoken of as extraordinary; renowned is applied to those who are named again and again with honor; illustrious, to those who have dazzled the world by the splendor of their deeds or their virtues. See Distinguished.

FAMOUSED
Fa"moused, a.

Defn: Renowned. [Obs.] Shak.

FAMOUSLY
Fa"mous*ly, adv.

Defn: In a famous manner; in a distinguished degree; greatly;
splendidly.
Then this land was famously enriched With politic grave counsel.
Shak.

FAMOUSNESS
Fa"mous*ness, n.

Defn: The state of being famous.

FAMULAR
Fam"u*lar, n. Etym: [Cf. L. famularis of servants.]

Defn: Domestic; familiar. [Obs.] Chaucer.

FAMULATE Fam"u*late, v. i. Etym: [L. famulatus, p.p. of famulari to serve, fr. famulus servant.]

Defn: To serve. [Obs.]

FAMULIST
Fam"u*list, n. Etym: [L. famulus servant.]

Defn: A collegian of inferior rank or position, corresponding to the sizar at Cambridge. [Oxford Univ., Eng.]

FAN Fan, n. Etym: [AS. fann, fr. L. vannus fan, van for winnowing grain; cf. F. van. Cf. Van a winnowing machine, Winnow.]

1. An instrument used for producing artificial currents of air, by the wafting or revolving motion of a broad surface; as: (a) An instrument for cooling the person, made of feathers, paper, silk, etc., and often mounted on sticks all turning about the same pivot, so as when opened to radiate from the center and assume the figure of a section of a circle. (b) (Mach.) Any revolving vane or vanes used for producing currents of air, in winnowing grain, blowing a fire, ventilation, etc., or for checking rapid motion by the resistance of the air; a fan blower; a fan wheel. (c) An instrument for winnowing grain, by moving which the grain is tossed and agitated, and the chaff is separated and blown away. (d) Something in the form of a fan when spread, as a peacock's tail, a window, etc. (e) A small vane or sail, used to keep the large sails of a smock windmill always in the direction of the wind. Clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan. Is. xxx. 24.

2. That which produces effects analogous to those of a fan, as in exciting a flame, etc.; that which inflames, heightens, or strengthens; as, it served as a fan to the flame of his passion.

3. A quintain; — from its form. [Obs.] Chaucer. Fan blower, a wheel with vanes fixed on a rotating shaft inclosed in a case or chamber, to create a blast of air (fan blast) for forge purposes, or a current for draft and ventilation; a fanner. — Fan cricket (Zoöl.), a mole cricket. — Fan light (Arch.), a window over a door; — so called from the semicircular form and radiating sash bars of those windows which are set in the circular heads of arched doorways. — Fan shell (Zoöl.), any shell of the family Pectinidæ. See Scallop, n., 1. — Fan tracery (Arch.), the decorative tracery on the surface of fan vaulting. — Fan vaulting (Arch.), an elaborate system of vaulting, in which the ribs diverge somewhat like the rays of a fan, as in Henry VII.'s chapel in Westminster Abbey. It is peculiar to English Gothic. — Fan wheel, the wheel of a fan blower. — Fan window. Same as Fan light (above).

FAN
Fan, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fanned; p. pr. & vb. n. Fanning.] Etym: [Cf.
OF. vanner, L. vannere. See Fan, n., Van a winnowing machine.]

1. To move as with a fan. The air . . . fanned with unnumbered plumes. Milton.

2. To cool and refresh, by moving the air with a fan; to blow the air on the face of with a fan.

3. To ventilate; to blow on; to affect by air put in motion. Calm as the breath which fans our eastern groves. Dryden.

4. To winnow; to separate chaff from, and drive it away by a current of air; as, to fan wheat. Jer. li. 2.

5. To excite or stir up to activity, as a fan axcites a flame; to stimulate; as, this conduct fanned the excitement of the populace. Fanning machine, or Fanning mill, a machine for separating seed from chaff, etc., by a blast of air; a fanner.

FANAL
Fa`nal", n. Etym: [F.]

Defn: A lighthouse, or the apparatus placed in it for giving light.

FANATIC Fa*nat"ic, a. Etym: [L. fanaticus inspired by divinity, enthusiastic, frantic, fr. fanum fane: cf. F. fanatique. See Fane.]

Defn: Pertaining to, or indicating, fanaticism; extravagant in opinions; ultra; unreasonable; excessively enthusiastic, especially on religious subjects; as, fanatic zeal; fanatic notions. But Faith, fanatic Faith, once wedded fast To some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last. T. Moore.

FANATIC
Fa*nat"ic, n.

Defn: A person affected by excessive enthusiasm, particularly on religious subjects; one who indulges wild and extravagant notions of religion. There is a new word, coined within few months, called fanatics, which, by the close stickling thereof, seemeth well cut out and proportioned to signify what is meant thereby, even the sectaries of our age. Fuller (1660). Fanatics are governed rather by imagination than by judgment. Stowe.

FANATICAL
Fa*nat"ic*al, a.

Defn: Characteristic of, or relating to, fanaticism; fanatic. -
Fa*nat"ic*al*ly, adv.
— Fa*nat"ic*al*ness, n.

FANATICISM
Fa*nat"i*cism, n. Etym: [Cf. Fanatism.]

Defn: Excessive enthusiasm, unreasoning zeal, or wild and extravagant notions, on any subject, especially religion; religious frenzy.

Syn.
— See Superstition.

FANATICIZE
Fa*nat"i*cize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fanaticized; p. pr. & vb. n.
Fanaticizing.]

Defn: To cause to become a fanatic.

FANATISM
Fan"a*tism, n. Etym: [Cf. F. fanatisme. Cf. Fanaticism.]

Defn: Fanaticism. [R.] Gibbon.

FANCIED
Fan"cied, a. Etym: [From Fancy, v. t.]

Defn: Formed or conceived by the fancy; unreal; as, a fancied wrong.

FANCIER
Fan"ci*er, n.

1. One who is governed by fancy. "Not reasoners, but fanciers." Macaulay.

2. One who fancies or has a special liking for, or interest in, a particular object or class or objects; hence, one who breeds and keeps for sale birds and animals; as, bird fancier, dog fancier, etc.

FANCIFUL
Fan"ci*ful, a.

1. Full of fancy; guided by fancy, rather than by reason and experience; whimsical; as, a fanciful man forms visionary projects.

2. Conceived in the fancy; not consistent with facts or reason; abounding in ideal qualities or figures; as, a fanciful scheme; a fanciful theory.

3. Curiously shaped or constructed; as, she wore a fanciful headdress. Gather up all fancifullest shells. Keats.

Syn. — Imaginative; ideal; visionary; capricious; chimerical; whimsical; fantastical; wild. — Fanciful, Fantastical, Visionary. We speak of that as fanciful which is irregular in taste and judgment; we speak of it as fantastical when it becomes grotesque and extravagant as well as irregular; we speak of it as visionary when it is wholly unfounded in the nature of things. Fanciful notions are the product of a heated fancy, without any tems are made up of oddly assorted fancies, aften of the most whimsical kind; visionary expectations are those which can never be realized in fact. — Fan"ci*ful*ly, adv. -Fan"ci*ful*ness, n.

FANCILESS
Fan"*ci*less, a.

Defn: Having no fancy; without ideas or imagination. [R.] A pert or bluff important wight, Whose brain is fanciless, whose blood is white. Armstrong.

FANCY
Fan"cy, n.; pl. Fancies. Etym: [Contr. fr. fantasy, OF. fantasie,
fantaisie, F. fantaisie, L. phantasia, fr. Gr. bhato shine. Cf.
Fantasy, Fantasia, Epiphany, Phantom.]

1. The faculty by which the mind forms an image or a representation of anything perceived before; the power of combining and modifying such objects into new pictures or images; the power of readily and happily creating and recalling such objects for the purpose of amusement, wit, or embellishment; imagination. In the soul Are many lesser faculties, that serve Reason as chief. Among these fancy next Her office holds. Milton.

2. An image or representation of anything formed in the mind; conception; thought; idea; conceit. How now, my lord ! why do you keep alone, Of sorriest fancies your companoins making Shak.

3. An opinion or notion formed without much reflection; caprice; whim; impression. I have always had a fancy that learning might be made a play and recreation to children. Locke.

4. Inclination; liking, formed by caprice rather than reason; as, to strike one's fancy; hence, the object of inclination or liking. To fit your fancies to your father's will. Shak.

5. That which pleases or entertains the taste or caprice without much use or value. London pride is a pretty fancy for borders. Mortimer.

6. A sort of love song or light impromptu ballad. [Obs.] Shak. The fancy, all of a class who exhibit and cultivate any peculiar taste or fancy; hence, especially, sporting characters taken collectively, or any specific class of them, as jockeys, gamblers, prize fighters, etc. At a great book sale in London, which had congregated all the fancy. De Quincey.

Syn.
— Imagination; conceit; taste; humor; inclination; whim; liking.
See Imagination.

FANCY
Fan"cy, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fancied, p. pr. & vb. n. Fancying (.]

1. To figure to one's self; to believe or imagine something without proof. If our search has reached no farther than simile and metaphor, we rather fancy than know. Locke.

2. To love. [Obs.] Shak.

FANCY
Fan"cy, v. t.

1. To form a conception of; to portray in the mind; to imagine. He whom I fancy, but can ne'er express. Dryden.

2. To have a fancy for; to like; to be pleased with, particularly on account of external appearance or manners. "We fancy not the cardinal." Shak.

3. To believe without sufficient evidence; to imagine (something which is unreal). He fancied he was welcome, because those arounde him were his kinsmen. Thackeray.

FANCY
Fan"cy, a.

1. Adapted to please the fancy or taste; ornamental; as, fancy goods.

2. Extravagant; above real value. This anxiety never degenerated into a monomania, like that which led his [Frederick the Great's] father to pay fancy prices for giants. Macaulay. Fancy ball, a ball in which porsons appear in fanciful dresses in imitation of the costumes of different persons and nations. — Fancy fair, a fair at which articles of fancy and ornament are sold, generally for some charitable purpose. — Fancy goods, fabrics of various colors, patterns, etc., as ribbons, silks, laces, etc., in distinction from those of a simple or plain color or make. — Fancy line (Naut.), a line rove through a block at the jaws of a gaff; — used to haul it down. Fancy roller (Carding Machine), a clothed cylinder (usually having straight teeth) in front of the doffer. — Fancy stocks, a species of stocks which afford great opportunity for stock gambling, since they have no intrinsic value, and the fluctuations in their prices are artificial. — Fancy store, one where articles of fancy and ornament are sold. — Fancy woods, the more rare and expensive furniture woods, as mahogany, satinwood, rosewood, etc.

FANCY-FREE
Fan"cy-free`, a.

Defn: Free from the power of love. "In maiden meditation, fancy- free." Shak.

FANCYMONGER
Fan"cy*mon`ger, n.

Defn: A lovemonger; a whimsical lover. [Obs.] Shak.

FANCY-SICK
Fan"cy-sick`, a.

Defn: Love-sick. Shak.

FANCYWORK
Fan"cy*work`, n.

Defn: Ornamental work with a needle or hook, as embroidery, crocheting, netting, etc.

FAND
Fand, obs.

Defn: imp. of Find. Spenser.

FANDANGO Fan*dan"go, n.; pl. Fandangoes. Etym: [Sp. A name brought, together with the dance, from the West Indies to Spain.]

1. A lively dance, in 3-8 or 6-8 time, much practiced in Spain and Spanish America. Also, the tune to which it is danced.

2. A ball or general dance, as in Mexico. [Colloq.]

FANE Fane, n. Etym: [L. fanum a place dedicated to some deity, a sanctuary, fr. fari to speak. See Fame.]

Defn: A temple; a place consecrated to religion; a church. [Poet.]
Such to this British Isle, her Christian fanes. Wordsworth.

FANE
Fane, n. Etym: [See Vane.]

Defn: A weathercock. [Obs.]

FANEGA
Fa*ne"ga, n. Etym: [Sp.]

Defn: A dry measure in Spain and Spanish America, varying from 1 De
Colange.

FANFARE
Fan"fare`, n. Etym: [F. Cf. Fanfaron.]

Defn: A flourish of trumpets, as in coming into the lists, etc.;
also, a short and lively air performed on hunting horns during the
chase.
The fanfare announcing the arrival of the various Christian princes.
Sir W. Scott.

FANFARON
Fan"fa*ron, n. Etym: [F., fr. Sp. fanfarron; cf. It. fanfano, and
OSp. fanfa swaggering, boasting, also Ar. farfar talkative.]

Defn: A bully; a hector; a swaggerer; an empty boaster. [R.] Dryden.

FANFARONADE
Fan*far`on*ade", n. Etym: [F. fanfaronnade, fr. Sp. fanfarronada. See
Fanfaron.]

Defn: A swaggering; vain boasting; ostentation; a bluster. Swift.

FANFOOT Fan"foot`, n. (Zoöl.) (a) A species of gecko having the toes expanded into large lobes for adhesion. The Egyptian fanfoot (Phyodactylus gecko) is believed, by the natives, to have venomous toes. (b) Any moth of the genus Polypogon.

FANG Fang, v. t. Etym: [OE. fangen, fongen, fon (g orig. only in p.p. and imp. tense), AS. f; akin to D. vangen, OHG. fahan, G. fahen, fangen, Isel. fa, Sw. f, f, Dan. fange, faae, Goth. fahan, and prob. to E. fair, peace, pact. Cf. Fair, a.]

1. To catch; to seize, as with the teeth; to lay hold of; to gripe; to clutch. [Obs.] Shak. He's in the law's clutches; you see he's fanged. J. Webster.

2. To enable to catch or tear; to furnish with fangs. "Chariots fanged with scythes." Philips.

FANG Fang, n. Etym: [From Fang, v. t.; cf. AS. fang a taking, booty, G. fang.]

1. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The tusk of an animal, by which the prey is seized and held or torn; a long pointed tooth; esp., one of the usually erectile, venomous teeth of serpents. Also, one of the falcers of a spider. Since I am a dog, beware my fangs. Shak.

2. Any shoot or other thing by which hold is taken. The protuberant fangs of the yucca. Evelyn.

3. (Anat.)

Defn: The root, or one of the branches of the root, of a tooth. See
Tooth.

4. (Mining)

Defn: A niche in the side of an adit or shaft, for an air course.
Knight.

5. (Mech.)

Defn: A projecting tooth or prong, as in a part of a lock, or the plate of a belt clamp, or the end of a tool, as a chisel, where it enters the handle.

6. (Naut.) (a) The valve of a pump box. (b) A bend or loop of a rope. In a fang, fast entangled. — To lose the fang, said of a pump when the water has gone out; hence: To fang a pump, to supply it with the water necessary to make it operate. [Scot.]

FANGED
Fanged, a.

Defn: Having fangs or tusks; as, a fanged adder. Also used figuratively.

FANGLE Fan"gle, n. Etym: [From Fang, v. t.; hence, prop., a taking up a new thing.]

Defn: Something new-fashioned; a foolish innovation; a gewgaw; a trifling ornament.

FANGLE
Fan"gle, v. t.

Defn: To fashion. [Obs.]
To control and new fangle the Scripture. Milton.

FANGLED
Fan"gled, a.

Defn: New made; hence, gaudy; showy; vainly decorated. [Obs., except with the prefix new.] See Newfangled. "Our fangled world." Shak.

FANGLENESS
Fan"gle*ness, n.

Defn: Quality of being fangled. [Obs.]
He them in new fangleness did pass. Spenser.

FANGLESS
Fang"less, a.

Defn: Destitute of fangs or tusks. "A fangless lion." Shak.

FANGOT
Fan"got, n. Etym: [Cf. It. fagotto, fangotto, a bundle. Cf. Fagot.]

Defn: A quantity of wares, as raw silk, etc., from one hundred weight.

FANION
Fan"ion, n. Etym: [See Fanon.]

1. (Mil.)

Defn: A small flag sometimes carried at the head of the baggage of a brigade. [Obs.]

2. A small flag for marking the stations in surveying.

FANLIKE
Fan"like`, a.

Defn: Resembling a fan; — specifically (Bot.), folded up like a fan, as certain leaves; plicate.

FANNEL
Fan"nel, n. Etym: [Dim., from same source as fanon.]

Defn: Same as Fanon.

FANNER
Fan"ner, n.

1. One who fans. Jer. li. 2.

2. A fan wheel; a fan blower. See under Fan.

FAN-NERVED
Fan"-*nerved`, a. (Bot. & Zoöl.)

Defn: Having the nerves or veins arranged in a radiating manner; — said of certain leaves, and of the winfs of some insects.

FANON Fan"on, n. Etym: [F. fanon, LL. fano, fr. OHG. fano banner cloth, G. fahne banner. See Vane, and cf. Fanion, Confalon.] (Eccl.)

Defn: A term applied to various articles, as: (a) A peculiar striped scarf worn by the pope at mass, and by eastern bishops. (b) A maniple. [Written also fannel, phanon, etc.]

FAN PALM
Fan" palm`. (Bot.)

Defn: Any palm tree having fan-shaped or radiate leaves; as the Chamærops humilis of Southern Europe; the species of Sabal and Thrinax in the West Indies, Florida, etc.; and especially the great talipot tree (Corypha umbraculifera) of Ceylon and Malaya. The leaves of the latter are often eighteen feet long and fourteen wide, and are used for umbrellas, tents, and roofs. When cut up, they are used for books and manuscripts.

FANTAIL Fan"tail`, n. (Zool.) (a) A variety of the domestic pigeon, so called from the shape of the tail. (b) Any bird of the Australian genus Rhipidura, in which the tail is spread in the form of a fan during flight. They belong to the family of flycatchers.

FAN-TAILED
Fan"-tailed`, a. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Having an expanded, or fan-shaped, tail; as, the fan-tailed pigeon.

FAN-TAN Fan"-tan` (fan"tan`), n. [Chinese (of Canton) in an-tan-kun gambling house.]

1. A Chinese gambling game in which coins or other small objects are placed upon a table, usually under a cup, and the players bet as to what remainder will be left when the sum of the counters is divided by four.

2. A game with playing cards in which the cards are played in sequences upon the table, the one who first gets rid of his cards being the winner.

FANTASIA
Fan*ta"si*a, n. Etym: [It. See Fancy.] (Mus.)

Defn: A continuous composition, not divided into what are called movements, or governed by the ordinary rules of musical design, but in which the author's fancy roves unrestricted by set form.

FANTASIED
Fan"ta*sied, a. Etym: [From Fantasy.]

Defn: Filled with fancies or imaginations. [Obs.] Shak.

FANTASM
Fan"tasm, n. Etym: [See Phantasm, Fancy.]

Defn: Same as Phantasm.

FANTAST
Fan"tast, n.

Defn: One whose manners or ideas are fantastic. [R.] Coleridge.

FANTASTIC
Fan*tas"tic, a. Etym: [F. fantastique, fr. Gr. Fancy.]

1. Existing only in imagination; fanciful; imaginary; not real; chimerical.

2. Having the nature of a phantom; unreal. Shak.

3. Indulging the vagaries of imagination; whimsical; full of absurd fancies; capricious; as, fantastic minds; a fantastic mistress.

4. Resembling fantasies in irregularity, caprice, or eccentricity; irregular; oddly shaped; grotesque. There at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high. T. Gray.

Syn. — Fanciful; imaginative; ideal; visionary; capricious; chimerical; whimsical; queer. See Fanciful.

FANTASTIC
Fan*tas"tic, n.

Defn: A person given to fantastic dress, manners, etc.; an eccentric
person; a fop. Milton.
Our fantastics, who, having a fine watch, take all ocasions to drow
it out to be seen. Fuller.

FANTASTICAL
Fan*tas"tic*al, a.

Defn: Fanciful; unreal; whimsical; capricious; fantastic.

FANTASTICALITY
Fan*tas`ti*cal"i*ty, n.

Defn: Fantastically. [Obs.]

FANTASTICALLY
Fan*tas"tic*al*ly, adv.

Defn: In a fantastic manner. the letter A, in scarlet, fantastically embroidered with gold thread, upon her bosom. Hawthorne.

FANTASTIC-ALNESS
Fan*tas"tic-al*ness, n.

Defn: The quality of being fantastic.

FANTASTICISM
Fan*tas"ti*cism, n.

Defn: The quality of being fantastical; fancifulness; whimsicality.
Ruskin.

FANTASTICLY
Fan*tas"tic*ly, adv.

Defn: Fantastically. [Obs.]

FANTASTICNESS
Fan*tas"tic*ness, n.

Defn: Fantasticalness. [Obs.]

FANTASTICO
Fan*tas"tic*o, n. Etym: [It.]

Defn: A fantastic. [Obs.] Shak.

FANTASY
Fan"ta*sy, n.; pl. Fantasies. Etym: [See Fancy.]

1. Fancy; imagination; especially, a whimsical or fanciful conception; a vagary of the imagination; whim; caprice; humor. Is not this something more than fantasy Shak. A thousand fantasies Being to throng into my memory. Milton.

2. Fantastic designs. Embroidered with fantasies and flourishes of gold thread. Hawthorne.

FANTASY
Fan"ta*sy, v. t.

Defn: To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like; to fancy.
[Obs.] Cavendish.
Which he doth most fantasy. Robynson (More's Utopia).

FANTIGUE; FANTIQUE
Fan*tigue", Fan*tique", n. [Written also fanteague, fanteeg, etc.]
[Cf. Fantod.]

Defn: State of worry or excitment; fidget; ill humor. [Prov. Eng.]
Dickens.

FANTOCCINI
Fan`toc*ci"ni, n. pl. Etym: [It., dim. fr. fante child.]

Defn: Puppets caused to perform evolutions or dramatic scenes by means of machinery; also, the representations in which they are used.

FANTOD; FANTAD
Fan"tod, Fan"tad, n. [Cf. Fantigue.]

Defn: State of worry or excitement; fidget; fuss; also, indisposition; pet; sulks. [Slang]

FANTOM
Fan"tom, n.

Defn: See Phantom. Fantom corn, phantom corn. Grose.

FAP
Fap, a.

Defn: Fuddled. [Obs.] Shak.

FAQUIR
Fa*quir", n.

Defn: See Fakir.

FAR
Far, n. Etym: [See Farrow.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A young pig, or a litter of pigs.

FAR Far, a. [Farther and Farthest are used as the compar. and superl. of far, although they are corruptions arising from confusion with further and furthest. See Further.] Etym: [OE. fer, feor, AS. feor; akin to OS. fer, D. ver, OHG. ferro, adv., G. fern, a., Icel. fjarri, Dan. fjirn, Sw. fjerran, adv., Goth. fairra, adv., Gr. paras, adv., far, and prob. to L. per through, and E. prefix for-, as in forgive, and also to fare. CF. Farther, Farthest.]

1. Distant in any direction; not near; remote; mutually separated by
a wide space or extent.
They said, . . . We be come from a far country. Josh. ix. 6.
The nations far and near contend in choice. Dryden.

2. Remote from purpose; contrary to design or wishes; as, far be it from me to justify cruelty.

3. Remote in affection or obedience; at a distance, morally or spiritually; t enmity with; alienated. They that are far from thee ahsll perish. Ps. lxxiii. 27.

4. Widely different in nature or quality; opposite in character. He was far from ill looking, though he thought himself still farther. F. Anstey.

5. The more distant of two; as, the far side (called also off side) of a horse, that is, the right side, or the one opposite to the rider when he mounts.

Note: The distinction between the adjectival and adverbial use of far is sometimes not easily discriminated. By far, by much; by a great difference. — Far between, with a long distance (of space or time) between; at long intervals. "The examinations are few and far between." Farrar.

FAR
Far, adv.

1. To a great extent or distance of space; widely; as, we are separated far from each other.

2. To a great distance in time from any point; remotely; as, he pushed his researches far into antiquity.

3. In great part; as, the day is far spent.

4. In a great proportion; by many degrees; very much; deeply;
greatly.
Who can find a virtuous woman for her price is far above rubies.
Prov. xxxi. 10.
As far as, to the extent, or degree, that. See As far as, under As.
— Far off. (a) At a great distance, absolutely or relatively. (b)
Distant in sympathy or affection; alienated. "But now, in Christ
Jesus, ye who some time were far off are made nigh by the blood of
Christ." Eph. ii. 13.
— Far other, different by a great degree; not the same; quite
unlike. Pope.
— Far and near, at a distance and close by; throughout a whole
region.
— Far and wide, distantly and broadly; comprehensively. "Far and
wide his eye commands." Milton.
— From far, from a great distance; from a remote place.

Note: Far often occurs in self-explaining compounds, such as far- extended, far-reaching, far-spread.

FAR-ABOUT
Far"-*a*bout`, n.

Defn: A going out of the way; a digression. [Obs.] Fuller.

FARAD
Far"ad, n. Etym: [From Michael Faraday, the English electrician.]
(Elec.)

Defn: The standard unit of electrical capacity; the capacity of a condenser whose charge, having an electro-motive force of one volt, is equal to the amount of electricity which, with the same electromotive force, passes through one ohm in one second; the capacity, which, charged with one coulomb, gives an electro-motive force of one volt.

FARADIC
Far*ad"ic, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to Michael Faraday, the distinguished electrician; — applied especially to induced currents of electricity, as produced by certain forms of inductive apparatus, on account of Faraday's investigations of their laws.

FARADISM; FARADIZATION
Far"a*dism, Far`a*di*za"tion, n. (Med.)

Defn: The treatment with faradic or induced currents of electricity for remedial purposes.

FARADIZE
Far"a*dize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Faradized; p. pr. & vb. n.
Faradizing.] (Med.)

Defn: To stimulate with, or subject to, faradic, or inducted, electric currents. —Far"a*diz`er (#), n.

FARAND
Far"and, n.

Defn: See Farrand, n.

FARANDAMS
Far"an*dams, n.

Defn: A fabrik made of silk and wool or hair. Simmonds.

FARANDOLE
Fa`ran`dole", n. [F. farandole, Pr. farandoulo.]

Defn: A rapid dance in six-eight time in which a large number join hands and dance in various figures, sometimes moving from room to room. It originated in Provence.

I have pictured them dancing a sort of farandole.
W. D. Howells.

FARANTLY
Far"ant*ly, a. Etym: [See Farrand.]

Defn: Orderly; comely; respectable. [Obs.] Halliwell.

FARCE
Farce, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Farced, p. pr. & vb. n. Farcing (.] Etym:
[F. Farcir, L. farcire; akin to Gr. Force to stuff, Diaphragm,
Frequent, Farcy, Farse.]

1. To stuff with forcemeat; hence, to fill with mingled ingredients; to fill full; to stuff. [Obs.] The first principles of religion should not be farced with school points and private tenets. Bp. Sanderson. His tippet was aye farsed full of knives. Chaucer.

2. To render fat. [Obs.] If thou wouldst farce thy lean ribs. B. Jonson.

3. To swell out; to render pompous. [Obs.] Farcing his letter with fustian. Sandys.

FARCE Farce, n. Etym: [F. farce, from L. farsus (also sometimes farctus), p.p. pf farcire. See Farce, v. t.]

1. (Cookery)

Defn: Stuffing, or mixture of viands, like that used on dressing a fowl; forcemeat.

2. A low style of comedy; a dramatic composition marked by low humor, generally written with little regard to regularity or method, and abounding with ludicrous incidents and expressions. Farce is that in poetry which "grotesque" is in a picture: the persons and action of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false. Dryden.

3. Ridiculous or empty show; as, a mere farce. "The farce of state." Pope.

FARCEMENT
Farce"ment, n.

Defn: Stuffing; forcemeat. [Obs.]
They spoil a good dish with . . . unsavory farcements. Feltham.

FARCICAL
Far"ci*cal, a.

Defn: Pertaining to farce; appropriated to farce; ludicrous;
unnatural; unreal.
They deny the characters to be farcical, because they are Gay.
— Far"ci*cal*ly, adv. -Far"ci*cal*ness, n.

FARCICAL
Far"ci*cal, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to the disease called farcy. See Farcy, n.

FARCILITE
Far"ci*lite, n. Etym: [Farce+-lite.] (Min.)

Defn: Pudding stone. [Obs.] Kirwan.

FARCIMEN; FARCIN
Far"ci*men, Far"cin, n. (Far.)

Defn: Same as Farcy.

FARCING
Far"cing, n. (Cookery)

Defn: Stuffing; forcemeat.

FARCTATE
Farc"tate, a. Etym: [L. farctus, p.p. of farcire. See Farce, v. t.]
(Bot.)

Defn: Stuffed; filled solid; as, a farctate leaf, stem, or pericarp; — opposed to tubular or hollow. [Obs.]

FARCY Far"cy, n. Etym: [F. farcin; cf. L. farciminum a disease of horses, fr. farcire. See Farce.] (Far.)

Defn: A contagious disease of horses, associated with painful ulcerating enlargements, esp. upon the head and limbs. It is of the same nature as glanders, and is often fatal. Called also farcin, and farcimen.

Note: Farcy, although more common in horses, is communicable to other animals and to human beings. Farcy bud, a hard, prominent swelling occurrinng upon the cutaneous surface in farcy, due to the obstruction and inflammation of the lymphatic vessels, and followed by ulceration. Youatt.

FARD Fard, n. Etym: [F., prob. fr. OHG. gifarit, gifarwit p.p. of farwjan to color, tinge, fr. farawa color, G. farbe.]

Defn: Paint used on the face. [Obs.] "Painted with French fard." J.
Whitaker.

FARD
Fard, v. t. Etym: [F. farder to paint one's face.]

Defn: To paint; — said esp. of one's face. [Obs.] Shenstone.

FARDAGE
Far`dage", n. Etym: [F. See Fardel.] (Naut.)

Defn: See Dunnage.

FARDEL Far"del, n. Etym: [OF. fardel, F. fardeau; cf. Sp. fardel, fardillo, fardo, LL. fardellus; prob. fr. Ar. fard one of the two parts of an object divisible into two, hence, one of the two parts of a camel's load. Cf. Furl.]

Defn: A bundle or little pack; hence, a burden. [Obs.] Shak.
A fardel of never-ending misery and suspense. Marryat.

FARDEL
Far"del, v. t.

Defn: To make up in fardels. [Obs.] Fuller.

FARDING-BAG
Far"ding-bag`, n. Etym: [Of uncertain origin; cf. Fardel.]

Defn: The upper stomach of a cow, or other ruminant animal; the rumen.

FARDINGDALE
Far"ding*dale, n.

Defn: A farthingale. [Obs.]

FARDINGDEAL
Far"ding*deal, n. Etym: [See Farthing, and Deal a part.]

Defn: The fourth part of an acre of land. [Obs.] [Written also farding dale, fardingale, etc.]

FARE Fare, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fared; p. pr. & vb. n. Faring.] Etym: [AS. faran to travel, fare; akin to OS., Goth., & OHG. faran to travel, go, D. varen, G. fahren, OFries., Isel., & Sw. fara, Dan. fare, Gr. peritus experienced, portus port, Skr. par to bring over. sq. root78. Cf Chaffer, Emporium, Far, Ferry, Ford, Peril, Port a harbor, Pore, n.]

1. To go; to pass; to journey; to travel. So on he fares, and to the border comes Of Eden. Milton.

2. To be in any state, or pass through any experience, good or bad; to be attended with any circummstances or train of events, fortunate or unfortunate; as, he fared well, or ill. So fares the stag among the enraged hounds. Denham. I bid you most heartily well to fare. Robynson (More's Utopia). So fared the knight between two foes. Hudibras.

3. To be treated or entertained at table, or with bodily or social comforts; to live. There was a certain rich man wwhich . . . fared sumptuously every day. Luke xvi. 19.

4. To happen well, or ill; — used impersonally; as, we shall see how it will fare with him. Sso fares it when with truth falsehood contends. Milton.

5. To behave; to conduct one's self. [Obs.] She ferde [fared] as she would die. Chaucer.

FARE
Fare, n. Etym: [AS. faru journey, fr. faran. See Fare, v.]

1. A journey; a passage. [Obs.] That nought might stay his fare. Spenser.

2. The price of passage or going; the sum paid or due for conveying a person by land or water; as, the fare for crossing a river; the fare in a coach or by railway.

3. Ado; bustle; business. [Obs.] The warder chid and made fare. Chaucer.

4. Condition or state of things; fortune; hap; cheer. What fare what news abroad Shak.

5. Food; provisions for the table; entertainment; as, coarse fare; delicious fare. "Philosophic fare." Dryden.

6. The person or persons conveyed in a vehicle; as, a full fare of passengers. A. Drummond.

7. The catch of fish on a fishing vessel. Bill of fare. See under Bill. — Fare indicator or register, a device for recording the number of passengers on a street car, etc. — Fare wicket. (a) A gate or turnstile at the entrance of toll bridges, exhibition grounds, etc., for registering the number of persons passing it. (b) An opening in the door of a street car for purchasing tickets of the driver or passing fares to the conductor. Knight.

FAREN
Far"en, obs.

Defn: p. p. of Fare, v. i. Chaucer.

FAREWELL
Fare`well", interj. Etym: [Fare (thou, you) + well.]

Defn: Go well; good-by; adieu; — originally applied to a person departing, but by custom now applied both to those who depart and those who remain. It is often separated by the pronoun; as, fare you well; and is sometimes used as an expression of separation only; as, farewell the year; farewell, ye sweet groves; that is, I bid you farewell. So farewell hope, and with hope, farewell fear. Milton. Fare thee well! and if forever, Still forever fare thee well. Byron.

Note: The primary accent is sometimes placed on the first syllable, especially in poetry.

FAREWELL
Fare`well", n.

1. A wish of happiness or welfare at parting; the parting compliment; a good-by; adieu.

2. Act of departure; leave-taking; a last look at, or reference to
something.
And takes her farewell of the glorious sun. Shak.
Before I take my farewell of the subject. Addison.

FAREWELL
Fare"well`, a.

Defn: Parting; valedictory; final; as, a farewell discourse; his farewell bow. Leans in his spear to take his farewell view. Tickell. Farewell rock (Mining), the Millstone grit; — so called because no coal is found worth working below this stratum. It is used for hearths of furnaces, having power to resist intense heat. Ure.

FARFET
Far"fet`, a. Etym: [Far + fet, p. p. of Fette.]

Defn: Farfetched. [Obs.]
York with his farfet policy. Shak.

FARFETCH
Far"fetch`, v. t. Etym: [Far + fetch.]

Defn: To bring from far; to seek out studiously. [Obs.]
To farfetch the name of Tartar from a Hebrew word. Fuller.

FARFETCH
Far"fetch`, n.

Defn: Anything brought from far, or brought about with studious care; a deep strategem. [Obs.] "Politic farfetches." Hudibras.

FARFETCHED
Far"fetched`, a.

1. Brought from far, or from a remote place. Every remedy contained a multitude of farfetched and heterogeneous ingredients. Hawthorne.

2. Studiously sought; not easily or naturally deduced or introduced; forced; strained.

FARINA Fa*ri"na, n. Etym: [L., meal, flour, fr. far a sort of grain, spelt; akin to E. barley.]

1. A fine flour or meal made from cereal grains or from the starch or fecula of vegetables, extracted by various processes, and used in cookery.

2. (Bot.)

Defn: Pollen. [R.] Craig.

FARINACEOUS
Far`i*na"ceous, a. Etym: [L. farinaceus.]

1. Consisting or made of meal or flour; as, a farinaceous diet.

2. Yielding farina or flour; as, ffarinaceous seeds.

3. Like meal; mealy; pertainiing to meal; as, a farinaceous taste, smell, or appearance.

FARINOSE
Far`i*nose", a. Etym: [L. farinosus: cf. F. farineux.]

1. Yielding farinaa; as, farinose substances.

2. (Bot. & Zoöl.)

Defn: Civered with a sort of white, mealy powder, as the leaves of some poplars, and the body of certain insects; mealy.

FARL
Farl, v. t.

Defn: Same as Furl. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

FARLIE Far"lie, n. Etym: [OE. ferlish wonder, as adj., strange, sudden, fearful, AS. færlic sudden. See Fear.]

Defn: An unusual or unexpected thing; a wonder. See Fearly. [Obs. or
Prov. Eng.] Drayton.

FARM Farm, n. Etym: [OE. ferme rent, lease, F. ferme, LL. firma, fr. L. firmus firm, fast, firmare to make firm or fast. See Firm, a. & n.]

1. The rent of land, — originally paid by reservation of part of its products. [Obs.]

2. The term or tenure of a lease of land for cultivation; a leasehold. [Obs.] It is great willfulness in landlords to make any longer farms to their tenants. Spenser.

3. The land held under lease and by payment of rent for the purpose of cultivation.

4. Any tract of land devoted to agricultural purposes, under the management of a tenant or the owner.

Note: In English the ideas of a lease, a term, and a rent, continue to be in a great degree inseparable, even from the popular meaning of a farm, as they are entirely so from the legal sense. Burrill.

5. A district of country leased (or farmed) out for the collection of the revenues of government. The province was devided into twelve farms. Burke.

6. (O. Eng. Law)

Defn: A lease of the imposts on particular goods; as, the sugar farm,
the silk farm.
Whereas G. H. held the farm of sugars upon a rent of 10,000 marks per
annum. State Trials (1196).

FARM
Farm, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Farmed; p. pr. & vb. n. Farming.]

1. To lease or let for an equivalent, as land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds. We are enforced to farm our royal realm. Shak.

2. To give up to another, as an estate, a business, the revenue, etc., on condition of receiving in return a percentage of what it yields; as, to farm the taxes. To farm their subjects and their duties toward these. Burke.

3. To take at a certain rent or rate.

4. To devote (land) to agriculture; to cultivate, as land; to till, as a farm. To farm let, To let to farm, to lease on rent.

FARM
Farm, v. i.

Defn: To engage in the business of tilling the soil; to labor as a farmer.

FARMABLE
Farm"a*ble, a.

Defn: Capable of being farmed.

FARMER
Farm"er, n. Etym: [Cf. F. fermier.]

Defn: One who farms; as: (a) One who hires and cultivates a farm; a cultivator of leased ground; a tenant. Smart. (b) One who is devoted to the tillage of the soil; one who cultivates a farm; an agriculturist; a husbandman. (c) One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect, either paying a fixed annuual rent for the privilege; as, a farmer of the revenues. (d) (Mining) The lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown. Farmer-general Etym: [F. fermier-general], one to whom the right of levying certain taxes, in a particular district, was farmed out, under the former French monarchy, for a given sum paid down. — Farmers' satin, a light material of cotton and worsted, used for coat linings. McElrath. — The king's farmer (O. Eng. Law), one to whom the collection of a royal revenue was farmed out. Burrill.

FARMERESS
Farm"er*ess, n.

Defn: A woman who farms.

FARMERSHIP
Farm"er*ship, n.

Defn: Skill in farming.

FARMERY
Farm"er*y, n.

Defn: The buildings and yards necessary for the business of a farm; a homestead. [Eng.]

FARMHOUSE
Farm"house`, n.

Defn: A dwelling house on a farm; a farmer's residence.

FARMING
Farm"ing, a.

Defn: Pertaining to agriculture; devoted to, adapted to, or engaged in, farming; as, farming tools; farming land; a farming community.

FARMING
Farm"ing, n.

Defn: The business of cultivating land.

FARMOST
Far"most`, a.

Defn: Most distant; farthest.
A spacious cave within its farmost part. Dryden.

FARMSTEAD
Farm"stead, n.

Defn: A farm with the building upon it; a homestead on a farm.
Tennyson.
With its pleasant groves and farmsteads. Carlyle.

FARMSTEADING
Farm"stead*ing, n.

Defn: A farmstead. [Scot.] Black.

FARMYARD
Farm"yard`, n.

Defn: The yard or inclosure attached to a barn, or the space inclosed by the farm buildings.

FARNESS
Far"ness, n. Etym: [From Far, a.]

Defn: The state of being far off; distance; remoteness. [R.] Grew.

FARO
Far"o, n. Etym: [Said to be so called because the Egyptian king
Pharaoh was formerly represented upon one of the cards.]

Defn: A gambling game at cardds, in whiich all the other players play against the dealer or banker, staking their money upon the order in which the cards will lie and be dealt from the pack. Faro bank, the capital which the proprietor of a farotable ventures in the game; also, the place where a game of faro is played. Hoyle.

FAROESE
Fa`ro*ese`, n. sing. & pl.

Defn: An inhabitant, or, collectively, inhabitants, of the Faroe islands.

FAR-OFF
Far"-*off`, a.

Defn: Remote; as, the far-off distance. Cf. Far-off, under Far, adv.

FARRAGINOUS
Far*rag*i*nous, a. Etym: [See Farrago.]

Defn: Formed of various materials; mixed; as, a farraginous mountain.
[R.] Kirwan.
AA farraginous concurrence of all conditions, tempers, sexes, and
ages. Sir T. Browne.

FARRAGO Far*ra"go, n. Etym: [L. farrago, -aginis, mi8xed fodder for cattle, mash, medley, fr. far a sort of grain. See Farina.]

Defn: A mass ccomposed of various materials confusedly mixed; a
medley; a mixture.
A confounded farrago of doubts, fears, hopes, wishes, and all the
flimsy furniture of a country miss's brain. Sheridan.

FARRAND Far"rand, n. Etym: [OE. farand beautiful; cf. Gael. farranta neat, stout, stately; or perh. akin to E. fare.]

Defn: Manner; custom; fashion; humor. [Prov. Eng.] [Written also farand.] Grose.

FARREATION
Far`re*a"tion, n. Etym: [L. farreatio.]

Defn: Same as Confarreation.

FARRIER
Far"ri*er, n. Etym: [OE. farrour, ferrer, OF. ferreor, ferrier, LL.
Ferrator, ferrarius equorum, from ferrare to shoe a horse, ferrum a
horseshoe, fr. L. ferrum iron. Cf. Ferreous.]

Defn:

1. A shoer of horses

Defn: 2. a veterinary surgeon.

FARRIER
Far"ri*er, v. i.

Defn: To practice as a farrier; to carry on the trade of a farrier.
[Obs.] Mortimer.

FARRIERY
Far"ri*er*y, n.

1. The art of shoeing horses.

2. The art of preventing, curing, or mitigating diseases of horses and cattle; the veterinary art.

3. The place where a smith shoes horses.

FARROW Far"row, n. Etym: [AS. fearh a little pig; a akin to OHG. farh, farah, pig, dim. farheli little pig, G. fercel, D. varken pig, Lith. parszas OIr. orc,L. porcus, Gr. Pork.]

Defn: A little of pigs. Shak.

FARROW
Far"row, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Farrowed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Farrowing.]

Defn: To bring forth (young); — said only of swine. Tusser.

FARROW
Far"row, a. Etym: [Cf. Scot. ferry cow a cow that is not with calf,
D. vaarkoe, vaars, heifer, G. färse, AS. fearr bull, G. farre. Cf.
Heifer.]

Defn: Not producing young in a given season or year; — said only of cows.

Note: If a cow has had a calf, but fails in a subsequent year, she is said to be farrow, or to go farrow.

FARRY
Far"ry, n.

Defn: A farrow. [Obs.] Perry.

FARSE
Farse, n. Etym: [See Farce, n.] (Eccl.)

Defn: An addition to, or a paraphrase of, some part of the Latin service in the vernacular; — common in English before the Reformation.

FARSEEING
Far"see`ing, a.

1. Able to see to a great distance; farsighted.

2. Having foresight as regards the future.

FARSIGHTED
Far"sight`ed, a.

1. Seeing to great distance; hence, of good judgment regarding the remote effects of actions; sagacious.

2. (Med.)

Defn: Hypermetropic.

FARSIGHTEDNESS
Far"sight`ed*ness, n.

1. Quality of bbeing farsighted.

2. (Med.)

Defn: Hypermetropia.

FAR-STRETCHED; FARSTRETCHED
Far"-*stretched`, a.

Defn: Stretched beyond ordinary limits.

FAR-STRETCHED
Far"-stretched`, a.

Defn: Stretched beyond ordinary limits.

FARTHER
Far"ther, a., compar. of Far. [superl. Farthest (. See Further.]
Etym: [For farrer, OE. ferrer, compar. of far; confused with further.
Cf. Farthest.]

1. More remote; more distant than something else.

2. Tending to a greater distance; beyond a certain point; additional;
further.
Before our farther way the fates allow. Dryden.
Let me add a farther Truth. Dryden.
Some farther change awaits us. MIlton.

FARTHER
Far"ther, adv.

1. At or to a greater distance; more renotely; beyond; as, let us rest with what we have, without looking farther.

2. Moreover; by way of progress in treating a subject; as, farther, let us consider the probable event. No farther, (used elliptically for) go no farther; say no more, etc. It will be dangerous to go on. No farther ! Shak.

FARTHER
Far"ther, v. t.

Defn: To help onward. [R.] See Further.

FARTHERANCE
Far"ther*ance, n. [Obs.]

Defn: See Furtherence.

FARTHERMORE
Far"ther*more*", adv. [Obs.]

Defn: See Furthermore.

FARTHERMOST
Far"ther*most`, a.

Defn: Most distant or remote; as, the farthest degree. See Furthest.

FARTHEST
Far"thest (fär"thest), a. Superl. of far. [See Farther and cf.
Furthest]

Defn: Most distant or remote; as, the farthest degree. See Furthest.

FARTHEST
Far"thest adv.

Defn: At or to the greatest distance. See Furthest.

FARTHING Far"thing, n. Etym: [OE. furthing, AS. feór, fr. feór fourth, feór, feówer, four. See Four.]

1. The fourth of a penny; a small copper coin of Great Britain, being a cent in United States currency.

2. A very small quantity or value. [Obs.] In her cup was no farthing seen of grease. Chaucer.

3. A division of hand. [Obs.] Thirty acres make a farthing land; nine farthings a Cornish acre; and four Cornish acres a knight's fee. R. Carew.

FARTHINGALE Far"thin*gale, n. Etym: [OE. vardingale, fardingale, fr. OF. vertugale, verdugade, F. vertugade, vertugadin, from Sp. verdugado, being named from its hoops, fr. verdugo a young shoot of tree, fr. verde green, fr. L. viridis. See Verdant.]

Defn: A hoop skirt or hoop petticoat, or other light, elastic material, used to extend the petticoat. We'll revel it as bravely as the best, . . . With ruffs and cuffs, and farthingales and things. Shak.

FASCES Fas"ces, n. pl. Etym: [L., pl. of fascis bundle; cf. fascia a band, and Gr. , (Rom. Antiq.)

Defn: A bundle of rods, having among them an ax with the blade projecting, borne before the Roman magistrates as a badge of their authority.

FASCET
Fas"cet, n. (Glass Making)

Defn: A wire basket on the end of a rod to carry glass bottles, etc., to the annealing furnace; also, an iron rod to be thrust into the mouths of bottles, and used for the same purpose; — calles also pontee and punty.

FASCIA
Fas"ci*a, n.; pl. Fasciæ. Etym: [L., a band: cf. It. fascia. See
Fasces, and cf. Fess.]

1. A band, sash, or fillet; especially, in surgery, a bandage or roller.

2. (Arch.)

Defn: A flat member of an order or building, like a flat band or broad fillet; especially, one of the three bands which make up the architrave, in the Ionic order. See Illust. of Column.

3. (Anat.)

Defn: The layer of loose tissue, often containing fat, immediately beneath the skin; the stronger layer of connective tissue covering and investing all muscles; an aponeurosis.

4. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A broad well-defined band of color.

FASCIAL
Fas"ci*al, a.

1. Pertaining to the fasces.

2. (Anat.)

Defn: Relating to a fascia.

FASCIATE; FASCIATED Fas"ci*ate, Fas"ci*a`ted, a. Etym: [L. fasciatus, p.p. of fasciare to envelop with bands, fr. fascia band. See Fasces.]

1. Bound with a fillet, sash, or bandage.

2. (Bot.) (a) Banded or compacted together. (b) Flattened and laterally widened, as are often the stems of the garden cockscomb.

3. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Broadly banded with color.

FASCIATION
Fas`ci*a"tion, n.

Defn: The act or manner of binding up; bandage; also, the condition of being fasciated.

FASCICLE
Fas"ci*cle, n. Etym: [L. fasciculus, dim. of fascis. See Fasces.]

Defn: A small bundle or collection; a compact cluster; as, a fascicle of fibers; a fascicle of flowers or roots.

FASCICLED
Fas"ci*cled, a.

Defn: Growing in a bundle, tuft, or close cluster; as, the fascicled leaves of the pine or larch; the fascicled roots of the dahlia; fascicled muscle fibers; fascicled tufts of hair.

FASCICULAR
Fas*cic"u*lar, a.

Defn: Pertaining to a fascicle; fascicled; as, a fascicular root.

FASCICULARLY
Fas*cic"u*lar*ly, adv.

Defn: In a fascicled manner. Kirwan.

FASCICULATE; FASCICULATED
Fas*cic"u*late, Fas*cic"u*la`ted, a.

Defn: Grouped in a fascicle; fascicled.

FASCICULE
Fas"ci*cule, n. [See Fascicle.]

Defn: A small bunch or bundle; a fascicle; as, a fascicule of fibers, hairs, or spines.

FASCICULUS
Fas*cic"u*lus, n.; pl. Fasciculi. Etym: [L. See Fascicle.]

1. A little bundle; a fascicle.

2. A division of a book.

FASCINATE
Fas"ci*nate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fascinated, p. pr. & vb. n..
Fascinating (.] Etym: [L. fascinare; cf. Gr.

1. To influence in an uncontrollable manner; to operate on by some powerful or irresistible charm; to bewitch; to enchant. It has been almost universally believed that . . . serpents can stupefy and fascinate the prey which they are desirous to obtain. Griffith (Cuvier).

2. To excite and allure irresistibly or powerfully; to charm; to captivate, as by physical or mental charms. there be none of the passions that have been noted to fascinate or bewhich but love and envy. Bacon.

Syn.
— To charm; enrapture; captivate; enchant; bewitch; attract.

FASCINATION
Fas`ci*na"tion, n. Etym: [L. fascinatio; cf. F. fascination.]

1. The act of fascinating, bewhiching, or enchanting; enchantment; witchcraft; the exercise of a powerful or irresistible influence on the affections or passions; unseen, inexplicable influence. The Turks hang old rags . . . upon their fairest horses, and other goodly creatures, to secure them against fascination. Waller.

2. The state or condition of being fascinated.

3. That which fascinates; a charm; a spell. There is a certain bewitchery or fascination in words. South.

FASCINE Fas*cine", n. Etym: [F., fr. L. fascina a bundle of sticks, fr. fascis. See Fasces.] (Fort. & Engin.)

Defn: A cylindrical bundle of small sticks of wood, bound together, used in raising batteries, filling ditches, strengthening ramparts, and making parapets; also in revetments for river banks, and in mats for dams, jetties, etc.

FASCINOUS
Fas"ci*nous, a. Etym: [L. fascinum witchcraft, akin to fascinare. See
Fascinate.]

Defn: Caused or acting by witchcraft. [Obs.] "Fascinous diseases."
Harvey.

FASCIOLA
Fas*ci"o*la, n.;pl. Fasciolæ. Etym: [See Fasciole.] (Anat.)

Defn: A band of gray matter bordering the fimbria in the brain; the dentate convolution. Wilder.

FASCIOLE
Fas"ci*ole, n. Etym: [L. fasciola a little bandage. See Fascia.]
(Zoöl.)

Defn: A band of minute tubercles, bearing modified spines, on the shells of spatangoid sea urchins. See Spatangoidea.

FASH
Fash, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fashed; p. pr. & vb. n. Fashing.] Etym:
[OF. faschier, F. f, to anger, vex; cf. Pr. fasticar, fastigar, fr.
L. fastidium dilike. See Fastidious.]

Defn: To vex; to tease; to trouble. [Scot.]

FASH
Fash, n.

Defn: Vexation; anxiety; care. [Scot.]
Without further fash on my part. De Quincey.

FASHION
Fash"ion, n. Etym: [OE. fasoun, facioun, shape, manner, F. facon,
orig., a making, fr. L. factio a making, fr. facere to make. See
Fact, Feat, and cf. Faction.]

1. The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; as, the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc. ; workmanship; execution. The fashion of his countenance was altered. Luke ix. 29. I do not like the fashion of your garments. Shak.

2. The prevailing mode or style, especially of dress; custom or conventional usage in respect of dress, behavior, etiquette, etc.; particularly, the mode or style usual among persons of good breeding; as, to dress, dance, sing, ride, etc., in the fashion. The innocent diversions in fashion. Locke. As now existing, fashion is a form of social regulation analogous to constitutional government as a form of political regulation. H. Spencer.

3. Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding; as, men of fashion.

4. Mode of action; method of conduct; manner; custom; sort; way. "After his sour fashion." Shak. After a fashion, to a certain extent; in a sort. — Fashion piece (Naut.), one of the timbers which terminate the transom, and define the shape of the stern. — Fashion plate, a pictorial design showing the prevailing style or a new style of dress. in a sort s.b. of a sort

FASHION
Fash"ion, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fashioned; p. pr. & vb. n. Fashioning.]
Etym: [Cf. F. faconner.]

1. To form; to give shape or figure to; to mold.
Here the loud hammer fashions female toys. Gay.
Ingenious art . . . Steps forth to fashion and refine the age.
Cowper.

2. To fit; to adapt; to accommodate; — with to. Laws ought to be fashioned to the manners and conditions of the people. Spenser.

3. To make according to the rule prescribed by custom. Fashioned plate sells for more than its weight. Locke.

4. To forge or counterfeit. [Obs.] Shak. Fashioning needle (Knitting Machine), a needle used for widening or narrowing the work and thus shaping it.

FASHIONABLE
Fash"ion*a*ble, a.

1. Conforming to the fashion or established mode; according with the prevailing form or style; as, a fashionable dress.

2. Established or favored by custom or use; current; prevailing at a particular time; as, the fashionable philosophy; fashionable opinions.

3. Observant of the fashion or customary mode; dressing or behaving according to the prevailing fashion; as, a fashionable man.

4. Genteel; well-bred; as, fashionable society. Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand. Shak.

FASHIONABLE
Fash"ion*a*ble, n.

Defn: A person who conforms to the fashions; — used chiefly in the plural.

FASHIONABLENESS
Fash"ion*a*ble*ness, n.

Defn: State of being fashionable.

FASHIONABLY
Fash"ion*a*bly, adv.

Defn: In a fashionable manner.

FASHIONED
Fash"ioned, a.

Defn: Having a certain style or fashion; as old-fashioned; new- fashioned.

FASHIONER
Fash"ion*er, n.

Defn: One who fashions, forms, ar gives shape to anything. [R.] The fashioner had accomplished his task, and the dresses were brought home. Sir W. Scott.

FASHIONIST
Fash"ion*ist, n.

Defn: An obsequious follower of the modes and fashions. [R.] Fuller.

FASHIONLESS
Fash"ion*less, a.

Defn: Having no fashion.

FASHION-MONGER
Fash"ion-mon`ger, n.

Defn: One who studies the fashions; a fop; a dandy. Marston.

FASHION-MONGERING
Fash"ion-mon`ger*ing, a.

Defn: Behaving like a fashion-monger. [R.] Shak.

FASSAITE
Fas"sa*ite, n. (Min.)

Defn: A variety of pyroxene, from the valley of Fassa, in the Tyrol.

FAST
Fast, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fasted; p. pr. & vb. n. Fasting.] Etym:
[AS. fæstan; akin to D. vasten, OHG. fasten, G. fasten, Icel. & Sw.
fasta, Dan. faste, Goth. fastan to keep, observe, fast, and prob. to
E. fast firm.]

1. To abstain from food; to omit to take nourishment in whole or in part; to go hungry. Fasting he went to sleep, and fasting waked. Milton.

2. To practice abstinence as a religious exercise or duty; to abstain from food voluntarily for a time, for the mortification of the body or appetites, or as a token of grief, or humiliation and penitence. Thou didst fast and weep for the child. 2 Sam. xii. 21. Fasting day, a fast day; a day of fasting.

FAST
Fast, n. Etym: [OE. faste, fast; cf. AS. f, OHG. fasta, G. faste. See
Fast, v. i.]

1. Abstinence from food; omission to take nounrishment. Surfeit is the father of much fast. Shak.

2. Voluntary abstinence from food, for a space of time, as a spiritual discipline, or as a token of religious humiliation.

3. A time of fasting, whether a day, week, or longer time; a period of abstinence from food or certain kinds of food; as, an annual fast. Fast day, a day appointed for fasting, humiliation, and religious offices as a means of invoking the favor of God. — To break one's fast, to put an end to a period of abstinence by taking food; especially, to take one's morning meal; to breakfast. Shak.

FAST Fast, a. [Compar. Faster; superl. Fastest.] Etym: [OE., firm, strong, not loose, AS. f; akin to OS. fast, D. vast, OHG. fasti, festi, G. fest, Isel. fastr, Sw. & Dan. fast, and perh. to E. fetter. The sense swift comes from the idea of keeping close to what is pursued; a Scandinavian use. Cf. Fast, adv., Fast, v., Avast.]

1. Firmly fixed; closely adhering; made firm; not loose, unstable, or easily moved; immovable; as, to make fast the door. There is an order that keeps things fast. Burke.

2. Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable; strong. Outlaws . . . lurking in woods and fast places. Spenser.

3. Firm in adherence; steadfast; not easily separated or alienated; faithful; as, a fast friend.

4. Permanent; not liable to fade by exposure to air or by washing; durable; lasting; as, fast colors.

5. Tenacious; retentive. [Obs.] Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of their smells. Bacon.

6. Not easily disturbed or broken; deep; sound. All this while in a most fast sleep. Shak.

7. Moving rapidly; quick in mition; rapid; swift; as, a fast horse.

8. Given to pleasure seeking; disregardful of restraint; reckless; wild; dissipated; dissolute; as, a fast man; a fast liver. Thackeray. Fast and loose, now cohering, now disjoined; inconstant, esp. in the phrases to play at fast and loose, to play fast and loose, to act with giddy or reckless inconstancy or in a tricky manner; to say one thing and do another "Play fast and loose with faith." Shak. Fast and loose pulleys (Mach.), two pulleys placed side by side on a revolving shaft, which is driven from another shaft by a band, and arranged to disengage and reëngage the machinery driven thereby. When the machinery is to be stopped, the band is transferred from the pulley fixed to the shaft to the pulley which revolves freely upon it, and vice versa. — Hard and fast (Naut.), so completely aground as to be immovable. — To make fast (Naut.), to make secure; to fasten firmly, as a vessel, a rope, or a door.

FAST
Fast, adv. Etym: [OE. Faste firmly, strongly, quickly, AS. f. See
Fast, a.]

1. In a fast, fixed, or firmly established manner; fixedly; firmly; immovably. We will bind thee fast. Judg. xv. 13.

2. In a fast or rapid manner; quickly; swiftly; extravagantly; wildly; as, to run fast; to live fast. Fast by, or Fast beside, close or near to; near at hand. He, after Eve seduced, unminded slunk Into the wood fast by. Milton. Fast by the throne obsequious Fame resides. Pope.

FAST
Fast, n.

Defn: That which fastens or holds; especially, (Naut.) a mooring rope, hawser, or chain; — called, according to its position, a bow, head, quarter, breast, or stern fast; also, a post on a pier around which hawsers are passed in mooring.

FASTEN
Fas"ten, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fastened; p. pr. & vb. n. Fastening.]
Etym: [AS. fæstnian; akin to OHG. festinon. See Fast, a.]

1. To fix firmly; to make fast; to secure, as by a knot, lock, bolt, etc.; as, to fasten a chain to the feet; to fasten a door or window.

2. To cause to hold together or to something else; to attach or unite firmly; to cause to cleave to something , or to cleave together, by any means; as, to fasten boards together with nails or cords; to fasten anything in our thoughts. The words Whig and Tory have been pressed to the service of many successions of parties, with very different ideas fastened to them. Swift.

3. To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to lay on; as, to fasten a blow. [Obs.] Dryden. If I can fasten but one cup upon him. Shak. To fasten a charge, or a crime, upon, to make his guilt certain, or so probable as to be generally believed. — To fasten one's eyes upon, to look upon steadily without cessation. Acts iii. 4.

Syn.
— To fix; cement; stick; link; affix; annex.

FASTEN
Fas"ten, v. i.

Defn: To fix one's self; to take firm hold; to clinch; to cling.
A horse leech will hardly fasten on a fish. Sir T. Browne.

FASTENER
Fas"ten*er, n.

Defn: One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.

FASTENING
Fas"ten*ing, n.

Defn: Anything that binds and makes fast, as a lock, catch, bolt, bar, buckle, etc.

FASTER
Fast"er, n.

Defn: One who abstains from food.

FAST-HANDED
Fast"-hand`ed, a.

Defn: Close-handed; close-fisted; covetous; avaricious. [Obs.] Bacon.

FASTI
Fas"ti, n.pl. Etym: [L.]

1. The Roman calendar, which gave the days for festivals, courts, etc., corresponding to a modern almanac.

2. Records or registers of important events.

FASTIDIOSITY
Fas*tid`i*os"i*ty, n.

Defn: Fastidiousness; squeamishness. [Obs.] Swift.

FASTIDIOUS Fas*tid"i*ous, a. Etym: [L. fastidiosus disdainful, fr. fastidium loathing, aversion, perh. fr. fastus arrogance (of uncertain origin) + taedium loathing. Cf. Tedious, Fash.]

Defn: Difficult to please; delicate to fault; suited with difficulty; squeamish; as, a fastidious mind or ear; a fastidious appetite. Proud youth ! fastidious of the lower world. Young.

Syn. — Squeamish; critical; overnice; difficult; punctilious. — Fastidious, Squeamish. We call a person fastidious when his taste or feelings are offended by trifling defects or errors; we call him squeamish when he is excessively nice or critical on minor points, and also when he is overscrupulous as to questions of duty. "Whoever examines his own imperfections will cease to be fastidious; whoever restrains his caprice and scrupulosity will cease to be squeamish." Crabb. — Fas*tid"i*ous*ly, adv. — Fas*tid"i*ous*ness, n.

FASTIGIATE; FASTIGIATED Fas*tig"i*ate, Fas*tig"i*a`ted, a. Etym: [L. fastigium gable end, top, height, summit.]

1. Narrowing towards the top.

2. (Bot.)

Defn: Clustered, parallel, and upright, as the branches of the
Lombardy poplar; pointed.

3. (Zoöl.)

Defn: United into a conical bundle, or into a bundle with an enlarged head, like a sheaf of wheat.

FASTISH
Fast"ish, a.

Defn: Rather fast; also, somewhat dissipated. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

FASTLY
Fast"ly, adv.

Defn: Firmly; surely.

FASTNESS
Fast"ness, n. Etym: [AS. fæstnes, fr. fæst fast. See Fast, a.]

1. The state of being fast and firm; firmness; fixedness; security; faithfulness. All . . . places of fastness [are] laid open. Sir J. Davies.

2. A fast place; a stronghold; a fortress or fort; a secure retreat; a castle; as, the enemy retired to their fastnesses in the mountains.

3. Conciseness of style. [Obs.] Ascham.

4. The state of being fast or swift.

FASTUOUS Fas"tu*ous, a. Etym: [L. fastuosus, from fastus haughtiness, pride: cf. F. fastueux.]

Defn: Proud; haughty; disdainful. [Obs.] Barrow. Fas"tu*ous*ness, n.
[Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

FAT
Fat, n. Etym: [See Vat, n.]

1. A large tub, cistern, or vessel; a vat. [Obs.] The fats shall overflow with wine and oil. Joel ii. 24.

2. A measure of quantity, differing for different commodities. [Obs.] Hebert.

FAT
Fat, a. [Compar. Fatter; superl. Fattest.] Etym: [AS. fætt; akin to
D. vet, G. fett, feist, Icel. feitr, Sw. fet, Dan. fed, and perh. to
Gr. pi^dax spring, fountain, pidy`ein to gush forth, pi`wn fat, Skr.
pi to swell.]

1. Abounding with fat; as: (a) Fleshy; characterized by fatness; plump; corpulent; not lean; as, a fat man; a fat ox. (b) Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich; — said of food.

2. Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross;
dull; stupid.
Making our western wits fat and mean. Emerson.
Make the heart of this people fat. Is. vi. 10.

3. Fertile; productive; as, a fat soil; a fat pasture.

4. Rich; producing a large income; desirable; as, a fat benefice; a fat office; a fat job. Now parson of Troston, a fat living in Suffolk. Carlyle.

5. Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate. [Obs.] Persons grown fat and wealthy by long impostures. Swift.

6. (Typog.)

Defn: Of a character which enables the compositor to make large wages; — said of matter containing blank, cuts, or many leads, etc.; as, a fat take; a fat page. Fat lute, a mixture of pipe clay and oil for filling joints.

FAT
Fat, n.

1. (Physiol. Chem.)

Defn: An oily liquid or greasy substance making up the main bulk of the adipose tissue of animals, and widely distributed in the seeds of plants. See Adipose tissue, under Adipose.

Note: Animal fats are composed mainly of three distinct fats, tristearin, tripalmitin, and triolein, mixed in varying proportions. As olein is liquid at ordinary temperatures, while the other two fats are solid, it follows that the consistency or hardness of fats depends upon the relative proportion of the three individual fats. During the life of an animal, the fat is mainly in a liquid state in the fat cells, owing to the solubility of the two solid fats in the more liquid olein at the body temperature. Chemically, fats are composed of fatty acid, as stearic, palmitic, oleic, etc., united with glyceryl. In butter fat, olein and palmitin predominate, mixed with another fat characteristic of butter, butyrin. In the vegetable kingdom many other fats or glycerides are to be found, as myristin from nutmegs, a glyceride of lauric acid in the fat of the bay tree, etc.

2. The best or richest productions; the best part; as, to live on the fat of the land.

3. (Typog.)

Defn: Work. containing much blank, or its equivalent, and, therefore, profitable to the compositor. Fat acid. (Chem.) See Sebacic acid, under Sebacic. — Fat series, Fatty series (Chem.), the series of the paraffine hydrocarbons and their derivatives; the marsh gas or methane series. — Natural fats (Chem.), the group of oily substances of natural occurrence, as butter, lard, tallow, etc., as distinguished from certain fatlike substance of artificial production, as paraffin. Most natural fats are essentially mixtures of triglycerides of fatty acids.

FAT Fat, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fatted; p. pr. & vb. n. atting.] Etym: [OE. fatten, AS. f. See Fat, a., and cf. Fatten.]

Defn: To make fat; to fatten; to make plump and fleshy with abundant food; as, to fat fowls or sheep. We fat all creatures else to fat us. Shak.

FAT
Fat, v. i.

Defn: To grow fat, plump, and fleshy.
An old ox fats as well, and is as good, as a young one. Mortimer.

FATAL
Fa"tal, a. Etym: [L. fatalis, fr. fatum: cf. F. fatal. See Fate.]

1. Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny; necessary;
inevitable. [R.]
These thing are fatal and necessary. Tillotson.
It was fatal to the king to fight for his money. Bacon.

2. Foreboding death or great disaster. [R.] That fatal screech owl to our house That nothing sung but death to us and ours. Shak.

3. Causing death or destruction; deadly; mortal; destructive; calamitous; as, a fatal wound; a fatal disease; a fatal day; a fatal error.

FATALISM
Fa"tal*ism, n. Etym: [Cf. F. fatalisme.]

Defn: The doctrine that all things are subject to fate, or that they take place by inevitable necessity.

FATALIST
Fa"tal*ist, n. Etym: [Cf. F. fataliste.]

Defn: One who maintains that all things happen by inevitable necessity.

FATALISTIC
Fa`tal*is"tic, a.

Defn: Implying, or partaking of the nature of, fatalism.

FATALITY
Fa*tal"i*ty, n.;pl. Fatalities. Etym: [L. fatalitas: cf. F. fatalité]

1. The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control. The Stoics held a fatality, and a fixed, unalterable course of events. South.

2. The state of being fatal; tendency to destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate; mortaility. The year sixty-three is conceived to carry with it the most considerable fatality. Ser T. Browne. By a strange fatality men suffer their dissenting. Eikon Basilike.

3. That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event. Dryden.

FATALLY
Fa"tal*ly, adv.

1. In a manner proceeding from, or determined by, fate. Bentley.

2. In a manner issuing in death or ruin; mortally; destructively; as, fatally deceived or wounded.

FATALNESS
Fa"tal*ness

Defn: , . Quality of being fatal. Johnson.

FATA MORGANA
Fa"ta Mor*ga"na. Etym: [It.; — so called because this phenomenon was
looked upon as the work of a fairy (It. fata) of the name of Morgána.
See Fairy.]

Defn: A kind of mirage by which distant objects appear inverted, distorted, displaced, or multiplied. It is noticed particularly at the Straits of Messina, between Calabria and Sicily.

FATBACK
Fat"back`, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The menhaden.

FAT-BRAINED
Fat"-brained`, a.

Defn: Dull of apprehension.

FATE
Fate, n. Etym: [L. fatum a prophetic declaration, oracle, what is
ordained by the gods, destiny, fate, fr. fari to speak: cf. OF. fat.
See Fame, Fable, Ban, and cf. 1st Fay, Fairy.]

1. A fixed decree by which the order of things is prescribed; the immutable law of the universe; inevitable necessity; the force by which all existence is determined and conditioned. Necessity and chance Approach not me; and what I will is fate. Milton. Beyond and above the Olympian gods lay the silent, brooding, everlasting fate of which victim and tyrant were alike the instruments. Froude.

2. Appointed lot; allotted life; arranged or predetermined event;
destiny; especially, the final lot; doom; ruin; death.
The great, th'important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome.
Addison.
Our wills and fates do so contrary run That our devices still are
overthrown. Shak.
The whizzing arrow sings, And bears thy fate, Antinous, on its wings.
Pope.

3. The element of chance in the affairs of life; the unforeseen and unestimated conitions considered as a force shaping events; fortune; esp., opposing circumstances against which it is useless to struggle; as, fate was, or the fates were, against him. A brave man struggling in the storms of fate. Pope. Sometimes an hour of Fate's serenest weather strikes through our changeful sky its coming beams. B. Taylor.

4. pl. Etym: [L. Fata, pl. of fatum.] (Myth.)

Defn: The three goddesses, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, sometimes called the Destinies, or Parcæwho were supposed to determine the course of human life. They are represented, one as holding the distaff, a second as spinning, and the third as cutting off the thread.

Note: Among all nations it has been common to speak of fate or destiny as a power superior to gods and men — swaying all things irresistibly. This may be called the fate of poets and mythologists. Philosophical fate is the sum of the laws of the universe, the product of eternal intelligence and the blind properties of matter. Theological fate represents Deity as above the laws of nature, and ordaining all things according to his will — the expression of that will being the law. Krauth-Fleming.

Syn.
— Destiny; lot; doom; fortune; chance.

FATED
Fat"ed, p. p. & a.

1. Decreed by fate; destined; doomed; as, he was fated to rule a factious people. One midnight Fated to the purpose. Shak.

2. Invested with the power of determining destiny. [Obs.] "The fated sky." Shak.

3. Exempted by fate. [Obs. or R.] Dryden.

FATEFUL
Fate"ful, a. .

Defn: Having the power of serving or accomplishing fate. "The fateful steel." J. Barlow.

2. Significant of fate; ominous. The fateful cawings of the crow. Longfellow. — Fate"ful*ly, adv.- Fate"ful*ness, n.

FATHEAD Fat"head`, n. (Zoöl.) (a) A cyprinoid fish of the Mississippi valley (Pimephales promelas); — called also black-headed minnow. (b) A labroid food fish of California; the redfish.

FATHER
Fa"ther, n. Etym: [OE. fader, AS. fæder; akin to OS. fadar, D. vader,
OHG. fatar, G. vater, Icel. Fa Sw. & Dan. fader, OIr. athir, L.
pater, Gr. pitr, perh. fr. Skr. pa protect. Papa, Paternal, Patriot,
Potential, Pablum.]

1. One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a generator; a male parent. A wise son maketh a glad father. Prov. x. 1.

2. A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor; a founder of a race or family; — in the plural, fathers, ancestors. David slept with his fathers. 1 Kings ii. 10. Abraham, who is the father of us all. Rom. iv. 16.

3. One who performs the offices of a parent by maintenance, affetionate care, counsel, or protection. I was a father to the poor. Job xxix. 16. He hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house. Gen. xiv. 8.

4. A respectful mode of address to an old man. And Joash the king og Israel came down unto him [Elisha], . . . and said, O my father, my father! 2 Kings xiii. 14.

5. A senator of ancient Rome.

6. A dignitary of the church, a superior of a convent, a confessor (called also father confessor), or a priest; also, the eldest member of a profession, or of a legislative assembly, etc. Bless you, good father friar ! Shak.

7. One of the chief esslesiastical authorities of the first centuries after Christ; — often spoken of collectively as the Fathers; as, the Latin, Greek, or apostolic Fathers.

8. One who, or that which, gives origin; an originator; a producer, author, or contriver; the first to practice any art, profession, or occupation; a distinguished example or teacher. The father of all such as handle the harp and organ. Gen. iv. 21. Might be the father, Harry, to that thought. Shak. The father of good news. Shak.

9. The Supreme Being and Creator; God; in theology, the first person
in the Trinity.
Our Father, which art in heaven. Matt. vi. 9.
Now had the almighty Father from above . . . Bent down his eye.
Milton.
Adoptive father, one who adopts the child of another, treating it as
his own.
— Apostolic father, Conscript fathers, etc. See under Apostolic,
Conscript, etc.
— Father in God, a title given to bishops.
— Father of lies, the Devil.
— Father of the bar, the oldest practitioner at the bar.
— Fathers of the city, the aldermen.
— Father of the Faithful. (a) Abraham. Rom. iv. Gal. iii. 6-9. (b)
Mohammed, or one of the sultans, his successors.
— Father of the house, the member of a legislative body who has had
the longest continuous service.
— Most Reverend Father in God, a title given to archbishops and
metropolitans, as to the archbishops of Canterbury and York.
— Natural father, the father of an illegitimate child.
— Putative father, one who is presumed to be the father of an
illegitimate child; the supposed father.
— Spiritual father. (a) A religious teacher or guide, esp. one
instrumental in leading a soul to God. (b) (R. C. Ch.) A priest who
hears confession in the sacrament of penance.
— The Holy Father (R. C. Ch.), the pope.

FATHER
Fa"ther, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fathered; p. pr. & vb. n. Fathering.]

1. To make one's self the father of; to beget. Cowards father cowards, and base things sire base. Shak.

2. To take as one's own child; to adopt; hence, to assume as one's own work; to acknowledge one's self author of or responsible for (a statement, policy, etc.). Men of wit Often fathered what he writ. Swift.

3. To provide with a father. [R.] Think you I am no stronger than my sex, Being so fathered and so husbanded Shak. To father on or upon, to ascribe to, or charge upon, as one's offspring or work; to put or lay upon as being responsible. "Nothing can be so uncouth or extravagant, which may not be fathered on some fetch of wit, or some caprice of humor." Barrow.

FATHERHOOD
Fa"ther*hood, n.

Defn: The state of being a father; the character or authority of a father; paternity.

FATHER-IN-LAW
Fa"ther-in-law`, n.; pl. Fathers-in-law (.

Defn: The father of one's husband or wife; — correlative to son-in- law and daughter-in-law.

Note: A man who marries a woman having children already, is sometimes, though erroneously, called their father-in-law.

FATHERLAND
Fa"ther*land", n. Etym: [Imitated fr. D. vaderland. See Father, and
Land.]

Defn: One's native land; the native land of one's fathers or ancestors.

FATHER-LASHER
Fa"ther-lash`er, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A European marine fish (Cottus bubalis), allied to the sculpin; — called also lucky proach.

FATHERLESS
Fa"ther*less, a.

1. Destitute of a living father; as, a fatherless child.

2. Without a known author. Beau. & Fl.

FATHERLESSNESS
Fa"ther*less*ness, n.

Defn: The state of being without a father.

FATHERLINESS
Fa"ther*li*ness, n. Etym: [From Fatherly.]

Defn: The qualities of a father; parantal kindness, care, etc.

FATHER LONGLEGS
Fa"ther long"legs`. (Zoöl.)

Defn: See Daddy longlegs, 2.

FATHERLY
Fa"ther*ly, a.

1. Like a father in affection and care; paternal; tender; protecting; careful. You have showed a tender, fatherly regard. Shak.

2. Of or pertaining to a father.

FATHERSHIP
Fa"ther*ship, n.

Defn: The state of being a father; fatherhood; paternity.

FATHOM Fath"om, n. [fadme, faedhme, AS. fæedhm fathom, the embracing arms; akin to OS. faedhmos the outstretched arms, D. vadem, vaam, fathom, OHG. fadom, fadum, G. faden fathom, thread, Icel. faedhmr fathom, Sw. famn, Dan. favn; cf. Gr. patere to lie open, extend. Cf. Patent, Petal.]

1. A measure of length, containing six feet; the space to which a man can extend his arms; — used chiefly in measuring cables, cordage, and the depth of navigable water by soundings.

2. The measure or extant of one's capacity; depth, as of intellect; profundity; reach; penetration. [R.] Another of his fathom they have none To lead their business. Shak.

FATHOM
Fath"om, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fathomed; p. pr. & vb. n. Fathoming.]

1. To encompass with the arms extended or encircling; to measure by throwing the arms about; to span. [Obs.] Purchas.

2. The measure by a sounding line; especially, to sound the depth of; to penetrate, measure, and comprehend; to get to the bottom of. Dryden. The page of life that was spread out before me seemed dull and commonplace, only because I had not fathomed its deeper import. Hawthotne.

FATHOMABLE
Fath"om*a*ble, a.

Defn: Capable of being fathomed.

FATHOMER
Fath"om*er, n.

Defn: One who fathoms.

FATHOMLESS
Fath"om*less, a.

1. Incapable of being fathomed; immeasurable; that can not be sounded. And buckle in a waist most fathomless. Shak.

2. Incomprehensible. The fathomless absurdity. Milton.

FATIDICAL Fa*tid"i*cal, a. Etym: [L. fatidicus; fatum fate + dicere to say, tell.]

Defn: Having power to foretell future events; prophetic; fatiloquent; as, the fatidical oak. [R.] Howell. — Fa*tid"i*cal*ly, adv.

FATIFEROUS Fa*tif"er*ous, a. Etym: [L. fatifer; fatum fate + ferre to bear, bring.]

Defn: Fate-bringing; deadly; mortal; destructive. [R.] Johnson.

FATIGABLE
Fat"i*ga*ble, a. Etym: [L. fatigabilis: cf. F. fatigable. See
Fatigue.]

Defn: Easily tired. [Obs.] Bailey.

FATIGATE
Fat"i*gate, a. Etym: [L. fatigatus, p.p. of fatigare. See Fatigue.]

Defn: Wearied; tired; fatigued. [Obs.]
Requickened what in flesh was fatigate. Shak.

FATIGATE
Fat"i*gate, v. t.

Defn: To weary; to tire; to fatigue. [Obs.] Sir T. Elyot.

FATIGATION
Fat`i*ga"tion, n. Etym: [L. fatigatio: cf. OF. fatigation.]

Defn: Weariness. [Obs.] W. Montaqu.

FATIGUE Fa*tigue", n. Etym: [F., fr. fatiguer to fatigue, L. fatigare; cf. L. affatim sufficiently.]

1. Weariness from bodily labor or mental exertion; lassitude or exhaustion of strength.

2. The cause of weariness; labor; toil; as, the fatigues of war. Dryden.

3. The weakening of a metal when subjected to repeated vibrations or strains. Fatigue call (Mil.), a summons, by bugle or drum, to perform fatigue duties. — Fatigue dress, the working dress of soldiers. — Fatigue duty (Mil.), labor exacted from soldiers aside from the use of arms. Farrow. — Fatigue party, a party of soldiers on fatigue duty.

FATIGUE Fa*tigue", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fatigued; p. pr. & vb. n. Fatiguing, n.] Etym: [Cf. F. fatiguer. See Fatigue, n.]

Defn: To weary with labor or any bodily or mental exertion; to harass with toil; to exhaust the strength or endurance of; to tire.

Syn.
— To jade; tire; weary; bore. See Jade.

FATILOQUENT
Fa*til"o*quent, a. Etym: [See Fatiloquist.]

Defn: Prophetic; fatidical. [Obs.] Blount.

FATILOQUIST
Fa*til"o*quist, n. Etym: [L. fatiloquus declaring fate; fatum fate+
Loqui to speak.]

Defn: A fortune teller.

FATIMITE; FATIMIDE
Fat"i*mite, Fat"i*mide, a. (Hist.)

Defn: Descended from Fatima, the daughter and only child of Mohammed.
— n.

Defn: A descendant of Fatima.

FATISCENCE Fa*tis"cence, n. Etym: [L. fatiscense, p.pr. of fatiscere to gape or crack open.]

Defn: A gaping or opening; state of being chinky, or having apertures. Kirwan.

FAT-KIDNEYED
Fat"-kid`neyed, a.

Defn: Gross; lubberly.
Peace, ye fat-kidneyed rascal ! Shak.

FATLING
Fat"ling, n. Etym: [Fat + -ling.]

Defn: A calf, lamb, kid, or other young animal fattened for
slaughter; a fat animal; — said of such animals as are used for
food.
He sacrificed oxen and fatlings. 2 Sam. vi. 13.

FATLY
Fat"ly, adv.

Defn: Grossly; greasily.

FATNER
Fat"ner, n.

Defn: One who fattens. [R.] See Fattener. Arbuthnit.

FATNESS
Fat"ness, n.

1. The quality or state of being fat, plump, or full-fed; corpulency; fullness of flesh. Their eyes stand out with fatness. Ps. lxxiii. 7.

2. Hence; Richness; fertility; fruitfulness. Rich in the fatness of her plenteous soil. Rowe.

3. That which makes fat or fertile. The clouds drop fatness. Philips.

FATTEN
Fat"ten, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fattened; p. pr. & vb. n. Fattining.]
Etym: [See Fat, v. t.]

1. To make fat; to feed for slaughter; to make fleshy or plump with fat; to fill full; to fat.

2. To make fertile and fruitful; to enrich; as, to fatten land; to fatten fields with blood. Dryden.

FATTEN
Fat"ten, v. i.

Defn: To grow fat or corpulent; to grow plump, thick, or fleshy; to
be pampered.
And villains fatten with the brave man's labor. Otway.

FATTENER
Fat"ten*er, n.

Defn: One who, or that which, fattens; that which gives fatness or fertility.

FATTINESS
Fat"ti*ness, n.

Defn: State or quality of being fatty.

FATTISH
Fat"tish, a.

Defn: Somewhat fat; inclined to fatness.
Coleridge, a puffy, anxious, obstructed-looking, fattish old man.
Carlyle.

FATTY
Fat"ty, a.

Defn: Containing fat, or having the qualities of fat; greasy; gross; as, a fatty substance. Fatty acid (Chem.), any one of the paraffin series of monocarbonic acids, as formic acid, acetic, etc.; — so called because the higher members, as stearic and palmitic acids, occur in the natural fats, and are themselves fatlike substances. — Fatty clays. See under Clay. — Fatty degeneration (Med.), a diseased condition, in which the oil globules, naturally present in certain organs, are so multiplied as gradually to destroy and replace the efficient parts of these organs. — Fatty heart, Fatty liver, etc. (Med.), a heart, liver, etc., which have been the subjects of fatty degeneration or infiltration. — Fatty infiltration (Med.), a condition in which there is an excessive accumulation of fat in an organ, without destruction of any essential parts of the latter. — Fatty tumor (Med.), a tumor consisting of fatty or adipose tissue; lipoma.

FATUITOUS
Fa*tu"i*tous, a.

Defn: Stupid; fatuous.

FATUITY
Fa*tu"i*ty, n. Etym: [L. fatuitas, fr. fatuus foolish: cf. F. fatuité
Cf. Fatuous.]

Defn: Weakness or imbecility of mind; stupidity.
Those many forms of popular fatuity. I Taylor.

FATUOUS
Fat"u*ous, a. Etym: [L. fatuus.]

1. Feeble in mind; weak; silly; stupid; foolish; fatuitous. Glanvill.

2. Without reality; illusory, like the ignis fatuus. Thence fatuous fires and meteors take their birth. Danham.

FAT-WITTED
Fat"-wit`ted, a.

Defn: Dull; stupid. Shak.

FAUBOURG
Fau`bourg", n. Etym: [F.]

Defn: A suburb of French city; also, a district now within a city, but formerly without its walls.

FAUCAL
Fau"cal, a. Etym: [L. fauces throat.]

Defn: Pertaining to the fauces, or opening of the throat; faucial; esp., (Phon.) produced in the fauces, as certain deep guttural sounds found in the Semitic and some other languages. Ayin is the most difficult of the faucals. I. Taylor (The Alphabet).

FAUCES
Fau"ces, n.pl. Etym: [L.]

1. (Anat.)

Defn: The narrow passage from the mouth to the pharynx, situated between the soft palate and the base of the tongue; — called also the isthmus of the fauces. On either side of the passage two membranous folds, called the pillars of the fauces, inclose the tonsils.

2. (Bot.)

Defn: The throat of a calyx, corolla, etc.

3. (Zoöl.)

Defn: That portion of the interior of a spiral shell which can be seen by looking into the aperture.

FAUCET
Fau"cet, n. Etym: [F. fausset, perh. fr. L. fauces throat.]

1. A fixture for drawing a liquid, as water, molasses, oil, etc., from a pipe, cask, or other vessel, in such quantities as may be desired; — called also tap, and cock. It consists of a tubular spout, stopped with a movable plug, spigot, valve, or slide.

2. The enlarged end of a section of pipe which receives the spigot end of the next section.

FAUCHION
Fau"chion, n.

Defn: See Falchion. [Obs.]

FAUCIAL
Fau"cial, a. (Anat.)

Defn: Pertaining to the fauces; pharyngeal.

FAUGH
Faugh, interj. Etym: [Cf. Foh.]

Defn: An exclamation of contempt, disgust, or abhorrence.

FAULCHION
Faul"chion, n.

Defn: See Falchion.

FAULCON
Faul"con, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: See Falcon.

FAULD
Fauld, n.

Defn: The arch over the dam of a blast furnace; the tymp arch.

FAULE
Faule, n.

Defn: A fall or falling band. [Obs.]
These laces, ribbons, and these faules. Herrick.

FAULT Fault, n. Etym: [OE. faut, faute, F. faute (cf. It., Sp., & Pg. falta), fr. a verb meaning to want, fail, freq., fr. L. fallere to deceive. See Fail, and cf. Default.]

1. Defect; want; lack; default. One, it pleases me, for fault of a better, to call my friend. Shak.

2. Anything that fails, that is wanting, or that impairs excellence; a failing; a defect; a blemish. As patches set upon a little breach Discredit more in hiding of the fault. Shak.

3. A moral failing; a defect or dereliction from duty; a deviation from propriety; an offense less serious than a crime.

4. (Geol. & Mining) (a) A dislocation of the strata of the vein. (b) In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam; as, slate fault, dirt fault, etc. Raymond.

5. (Hunting)

Defn: A lost scent; act of losing the scent. Ceasing their clamorous cry till they have singled, With much ado, the cold fault cleary out. Shak.

6. (Tennis)

Defn: Failure to serve the ball into the proper court. At fault, unable to find the scent and continue chase; hance, in trouble ot embarrassment, and unable to proceed; puzzled; thhrown off the track. — To find fault, to find reason for blaming or complaining; to express dissatisfaction; to complain; — followed by with before the thing complained of; but formerly by at. "Matter to find fault at." Robynson (More's Utopia).

Syn. — — Error; blemish; defect; imperfection; weakness; blunder; failing; vice. — Fault, Failing, Defect, Foible. A fault is positive, something morally wrong; a failing is negative, some weakness or failling short in a man's character, disposition, or habits; a defect is also negative, and as applied to character is the absence of anyything which is necessary to its completeness or perfection; a foible is a less important weakness, which we overlook or smile at. A man may have many failings, and yet commit but few faults; or his faults and failings may be few, while his foibles are obvious to all. The faults of a friend are often palliated or explained away into mere defects, and the defects or foibles of an enemy exaggerated into faults. "I have failings in common with every human being, besides my own peculiar faults; but of avarice I have generally held myself guiltless." Fox. "Presumption and self-applause are the foibles of mankind." Waterland.

FAULT
Fault, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Faulted; p. pr. & vb. n. Faulting.]

1. To charge with a fault; to accuse; to find fault with; to blame. [Obs.] For that I will not fault thee. Old Song.

2. (Geol.)

Defn: To interrupt the continuity of (rock strata) by displacement along a plane of fracture; — chiefly used in the p.p.; as, the coal beds are badly faulted.

FAULT
Fault, v. i.

Defn: To err; to blunder, to commit a fault; to do wrong. [Obs.] If after Samuel's death the people had asked of God a king, they had not faulted. Latimer.

FAULTER
Fault"er, n.

Defn: One who commits a fault. [Obs.]
Behold the faulter here in sight. Fairfax.

FAULT-FINDER
Fault"-find`er, n.

Defn: One who makes a practice off discovering others' faults and censuring them; a scold.

FAULT-FINDING
Fault"-find`ing, n.

Defn: The act of finding fault or blaming; — used derogatively. Also
Adj.

FAULTFUL
Fault"ful, a.

Defn: Full of faults or sins. Shak.

FAULTILY
Fault"i*ly, adv.

Defn: In a faulty manner.

FAULTINESS
Fault"i*ness, n.

Defn: Quality or state of being faulty.
Round, even to faultiness. Shak.

FAULTING
Fault"ing, n. (Geol.)

Defn: The state or condition of being faulted; the process by which a fault is produced.

FAULTLESS
Fault"less, a.

Defn: Without fault; not defective or imperfect; free from blemish; free from incorrectness, vice, or offense; perfect; as, a faultless poem. Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be. Pope.

Syn.
— Blameless; spotless; perfect. See Blameless.
— Fault"less*ly, adv.-Fault"less*ness, n.

FAULTY
Fault"y, a.

1. Containing faults, blemishes, or defects; imperfect; not fit for the use intended. Created once So goodly and erect, though faulty since. Milton.

2. Guilty of a fault, or of faults; hence, blamable; worthy of censure. Shak. The king doth speak . . . as one which is faulty. 2 Sam. xiv. 13.

FAUN
Faun, n. Etym: [L. Faunus, fr. favere to be favorable. See Favor.]
(Rom. Myth.)

Defn: A god of fields and shipherds, diddering little from the satyr.
The fauns are usually represented as half goat and half man.
Satyr or Faun, or Sylvan. Milton.

FAUNA
Fau"na, n. Etym: [NL.: cf. F. faune. See Faun.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: The animals of any given area or epoch; as, the fauna of
America; fossil fauna; recent fauna.

FAUNAL
Fau"nal, a.

Defn: Relating to fauna.

FAUNIST
Fau"nist, n.

Defn: One who describes the fauna of country; a naturalist. Gilbert
White.

FAUNUS
Fau"nus, n.;pl. Fauni. Etym: [L.] (Myth.)

Defn: See Faun.

FAUSEN Fau"sen, n. Etym: [Cf. W. llysowen eel, ll sounding in Welsh almost like fl.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A young eel. [Prov. Eng.]

FAUSSE-BRAYE
Fausse`-braye", n. Etym: [F. fausse-braie.] (Mil.)

Defn: A second raampart, exterior to, and parallel to, the main rampart, and considerably below its level.

FAUTEUIL
Fau`teuil", n. Etym: [F. See Faldistory.]

1. An armchair; hence (because the members sit in fauteuils or armchairs), membership in the French Academy.

2. Chair of a presiding officer.

FAUTOR Fau"tor, n. Etym: [L., contr. fr. favitor, fr. favere to be favorable: cf. F. fauteur. See Favor.]

Defn: A favorer; a patron; one who gives countenance or support; an
abettor. [Obs.]
The king and the fautors of his proceedings. Latimer.

FAUTRESS
Fau"tress, n. Etym: [L. fauutrix: cf. F. fautrice.]

Defn: A patroness. [Obs.] Chapman.

FAUVETTE
Fau`vette", n. Etym: [F., dim. fr. fauve fawn-colored.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A small singing bird, as the nightingale and warblers.

FAUX
Faux, n.; pl. Fauces. Etym: [L.]

Defn: See Fauces.

FAUX PAS faux` pas". Etym: [F. See False, and Pas.]

Defn: A false step; a mistake or wrong measure.

FAVAGINOUS
Fa*vag"i*nous, a. Etym: [L. favus a honeycomb.]

Defn: Formed like, or resembling, a honeycomb.

FAVAS
Fa"vas, n.

Defn: See Favus, n., 2. Fairholt.

FAVEL Fa"vel, a. Etym: [OF. fauvel, favel, dim. of F. fauve; of German oigin. See Fallow, a.]

Defn: Yellow; fal [Obs.] Wright.

FAVEL
Fa"vel, n.

Defn: A horse of a favel or dun color. To curry favel. See To curry favor, under Favor, n.

FAVEL Fa"vel, n. Etym: [OF. favele, fr. L. fabella short fable, dim. of fabula. See Fable.]

Defn: Flattery; cajolery; deceit. [Obs.] Skeat.

FAVELLA
Fa*vel"la, n. Etym: [NL., prob. from L. favus a honeycomb.] (Bot.)

Defn: A group of spores arranged without order and covered with a thin gelatinous envelope, as in certain delicate red algæ.

FAVEOLATE
Fa*ve"o*late, a. Etym: [L. favus honeycomb.]

Defn: Honeycomb; having cavities or cells, somewhat resembling those of a honeycomb; alveolate; favose.

FAVIER EXPLOSIVE
Fa`vier" ex*plo"sive. [After the inventor, P. A. Favier, a
Frenchman.]

Defn: Any of several explosive mixtures, chiefly of ammonium nitrate and a nitrate derivative of naphthalene. They are stable, but require protection from moisture. As prepared it is a compressed cylinder of the explosive, filled with loose powder of the same composition, all inclosed in waterproof wrappers. It is used for mining.

FAVILLOUS
Fa*vil"lous, a. Etym: [L. favilla sparkling or glowing asges.]

Defn: Of or pertaining to ashes. [Obs.]
Light and favollous particles. Sir T. Browne.

FAVONIAN
Fa*vo"ni*an, a. Etym: [L. Favonius the west wind.]

Defn: Pertaining to the west wind; soft; mild; gentle.

FAVOR Fa"vor, n. Etym: [Written also favour.] Etym: [OF. favor, F. faveur, L. favor, fr. favere to be favorable, cf. Skr. bhavaya to further, foster, causative of bhBe. In the phrase to curry favor, favor is prob. for favel a horse. See 2d Favel.]

1. Kind regard; propitious aspect; countenance; friendly disposition; kindness; good will. Hath crawled into the favor of the king. Shak.

2. The act of countenancing, or the condition of being countenanced, or regarded propitiously; support; promotion; befriending. But found no favor in his lady's eyes. Dryden. And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man. Luke ii. 52.

3. A kind act or office; kindness done or granted; benevolence shown by word or deed; an act of grace or good will, as distinct from justice or remuneration. Beg one favor at thy gracious hand. Shak.

4. Mildness or mitigation of punishment; lenity. I could not discover the lenity and fabor of this sentence. Swift.

5. The object of regard; person or thing favored. All these his wondrous works, but chiefly man, His chief delight and favor. Milton.

6. A gift or represent; something bestowed as an evidence of good will; a token of love; a knot of ribbons; something worn as a token of affection; as, a marriage favor is a bunch or knot of white ribbons or white flowers worn at a wedding. Wear thou this favor for me, and stick it in thy cap. Shak.

7. Appearance; look; countenance; face. [Obs.] This boy is fair, of female favor. Shak.

8. (Law)

Defn: Partiality; bias. Bouvier.

9. A letter or epistle; — so called in civility or compliment; as, your favor of yesterday is received.

10. pl.

Defn: Love locks. [Obs.] Wright. Challenge to the favor or for favor (Law), the challenge of a juror on grounds not sufficient to constitute a principal challenge, but sufficient to give rise to a probable suspicion of favor or bias, such as acquaintance, business relation, etc. See Principal challenge, under Challenge. — In favor of, upon the side of; favorable to; for the advantage of. — In favor with, favored, countenanced, or encouraged by. — To curry favor Etym: [see the etymology of Favor, above], to seek to gain favor by flattery, caresses, kindness, or officious civilities. — With one's favor, or By one's favor, with leave; by kind permission. But, with your favor, I will treat it here. Dryden.

Syn. — Kindness; countenance; patronage; support; lenity; grace; gift; present; benefit.

FAVOR
Fa"vor, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Favored; p. pr. & vb. n. Favoring.] Etym:
[Written also favour.] Etym: [Cf. OF. favorer, favorir. See Favor,
n.]

1. To regard with kindness; to support; to aid, or to have the disposition to aid, or to wish success to; to be propitious to; to countenance; to treat with consideration or tenderness; to show partiality or unfair bias towards. O happy youth! and favored of the skies. Pope. He that favoreth Joab, . . . let him go after Joab. 2 Sam. xx. 11. [The painter] has favored her squint admirably. Swift.

2. To afford advantages for success to; to facilitate; as, a weak place favored the entrance of the enemy.

3. To resemble in features; to have the aspect or looks of; as, the child favors his father. The porter owned that the gentleman favored his master. Spectator.

FAVORABLE Fa"vor*a*ble, a. [Written also favourable.] Etym: [F. favorable, L. favorabilis favored, popular, pleasing, fr. favor. See Favor, n.]

1. Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious;
friendly.
Lend favorable ears to our request. Shak.
Lord, thou hast been favorable unto thy land. Ps. lxxxv. 1.

2. Conducive; contributing; tending to promote or facilitate; advantageous; convenient. A place very favorable for the making levies of men. Clarendon. The temper of the climate, favorable to generation, health, and long life. Sir W. Temple.

3. Beautiful; well-favored. [Obs.] Spenser. — Fa"vora*ble*ness, n. — Fa"vor*a*bly, sdv. The faborableness of the present times to all extertions in the cause of liberty. Burke.

FAVORED
Fa"vored, a.

1. Countenanced; aided; regarded with kidness; as, a favored friend.

2. Having a certain favor or appearance; featured; as, well-favored; hard-favored, etc.

FAVOREDLY
Fa"vored*ly, adv.

Defn: In a favored or a favorable manner; favorably. [Obs.] Deut. xvii. 1. Arscham.

FAVOREDNESS
Fa"vored*ness, n.

Defn: Appearance. [Obs.]

FAVORER
Fa"vor*er, n.

Defn: One who favors; one who regards with kindness or friendship; a
well-wisher; one who assists or promotes success or prosperity.
[Written also favourer.]
And come to us as favorers, not as foes. Shak.

FAVORESS
Fa"vor*ess, n.

Defn: A woman who favors or gives countenance. [Written also fovouress.]

FAVORING
Fa"vor*ing, a.

Defn: That favors.
— Fa"vor*ing*ly, adv.

FAVORITE Fa"vor*ite, n. Etym: [OF. favorit favored, F. favori, fem. favorite, p.p. of OF. favorir, cf. It. favorito, frm. favorita, fr. favorire to favor. See Favor.]

1. A person or thing regarded with peculiar favor; one treated with partiality; one preferred above others; especially, one unduly loved, trusted, and enriched with favors by a person of high rank or authority. Committing to a wicked favorite All public cares. Milton.

2. pl.

Defn: Short curls dangling over the temples; — fashionable in the reign of Charles II. [Obs.] Farquhar.

3. (Sporting)

Defn: The competitor (as a horse in a race) that is judged most likely to win; the competitor standing highest in the betting.

FAVORITE
Fa"vor*ite, a.

Defn: Regarded with particular affection, esteem, or preference; as, a favorite walk; a favorite child. "His favorite argument." Macaulay.

FAVORITISM
Fa"vor*it*ism, n. Etym: [Cf. F. favoritisme.]

Defn: The disposition to favor and promote the interest of one person
or family, or of one class of men, to the neglect of others having
equal claims; partiality.
A spirit of favoritism to the Bank of the United States. A. Hamilton.

FAVORLESS
Fa"vor*less, a.

1. Unfavored; not regarded with favor; having no countenance or support.

2. Unpropitious; unfavorable. [Obs.] "Fortune favorless." Spenser.

FAVOSE
Fa*vose", a. Etym: [L. favus honeycomb.]

1. (Bot.)

Defn: Honeycombed. See Faveolate.

2. (Med.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to the disease called favus.

FAVOSITE
Fav"o*site, a. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Like or pertaining to the genus Favosites.

FAVOSITES
Fav`o*si"tes, n. Etym: [NL. See Favose.] (Paleon.)

Defn: A genus of fossil corals abundant in the Silurian and Devonian rocks, having polygonal cells with perforated walls.

FAVUS
Fa"vus, n. Etym: [L., honeycomb.]

1. (Med.)

Defn: A disease of the scalp, produced by a vegetable parasite.

2. A tile or flagstone cut into an hexagonal shape to produce a honeycomb pattern, as in a pavement; — called also favas and sectila. Mollett.

FAWE
Fawe, a. Etym: [See Fain.]

Defn: Fain; glad; delighted. [Obs.] Chaucer.

FAWKNER
Fawk"ner, n. Etym: [See Falconer.]

Defn: A falconer. [Obs.] Donne.

FAWN Fawn, n. Etym: [OF. faon the young one of any beast, a fawn, F. faon a fawn, for fedon, fr. L. fetus. See Fetus.]

1. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A young deer; a buck or doe of the first year. See Buck.

2. The young of an animal; a whelp. [Obs.] [The tigress] . . . followeth . . . after her fawns. Holland.

3. A fawn color.

FAWN
Fawn, a.

Defn: Of the color of a fawn; fawn-colored.

FAWN
Fawn, v. i. Etym: [Cf. F. faonner.]

Defn: To bring forth a fawn.

FAWN
Fawn, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fawned; p. pr. & vb. n. Fawning.] Etym:
[OE. fawnen, fainen, fagnien, to rejoice, welcome, flatter, AS.
fægnian to rejoice; akin to Icel. fagna to rejoice, welcome. See
Fain.]

Defn: To court favor by low cringing, frisking, etc., as a dog; to
flatter meanly; — often followed by on or upon.
You showed your teeth like apes, and fawned like hounds. Shak.
Thou with trembling fear, Or like a fawning parasite, obeyest.
Milton.
Courtiers who fawn on a master while they betray him. Macaulay.

FAWN
Fawn, n.

Defn: A servile cringe or bow; mean flattery; sycophancy. Shak.

FAWN-COLORED
Fawn"-col`ored, a.

Defn: Of the color of a fawn; light yellowish brown.

FAWNER
Fawn"er, n.

Defn: One who fawns; a sycophant.

FAWNINGLY
Fawn"ing*ly, adv.

Defn: In a fawning manner.

FAXED
Faxed, a. Etym: [AS. feaxede haired, fr. feax hair. Cf. Paxwax.]

Defn: Hairy. [Obs.] amden.

FAY
Fay, n. Etym: [F. fée. See Fate, and cf. Fairy.]

Defn: A fairy; an elf. "Yellow-skirted fays." Milton.

FAY
Fay, n. Etym: [OF. fei, F. foi. See Faith.]

Defn: Faith; as, by my fay. [Obs.] Chaucer.

FAY
Fay (fa), v. t. [imp. & p. p. fayed; p. pr. & vb. n. Faying.] Etym:
[OE. feien, v.t. & i., AS. fegan to join, unite; akin to OS. fogian,
D. voegen, OHG. fuogen, G. fügen, Sw. foga. See Fair, and cf. Fadge.]
(Shipbuilding)

Defn: To fit; to join; to unite closely, as two pieces of wood, so as to make the surface fit together.

FAY
Fay, v. i. (Shipbuilding)

Defn: To lie close together; to fit; to fadge; — often with in, into, with, or together. Faying surface, that surface of an object which comes with another object to which it is fastened; — said of plates, angle irons, etc., that are riveted together in shipwork.

FAYALITE
Fay"al*ite, n. Etym: [So called from the island Fayal.] (Min.)

Defn: A black, greenish, or brownish mineral of the chrysolite group.
It is a silicate of iron.

FAYENCE
Fa`y*ence", n.

Defn: See Fa.

FAYTOUR
Fay"tour, n.

Defn: See Faitour. [Obs.] Spenser.

FAZE
Faze, v. t.

Defn: See Feeze.

FAZZOLET
Faz"zo*let`, n. Etym: [It. fazzoletto.]

Defn: A handkerchief. [R.] percival.

FEABERRY
Fea"ber*ry, n. Etym: [Cf. Prov. E. feabe, theabe, thape.] (Bot.)

Defn: A gooseberry. [Prov. Eng.] Prior.

FEAGUE Feague, v. t. Etym: [Cf. G. fegen to sweep, Icel. fægia to cleanse, polish, E. fair, fay, to fit, fey to cleanse.]

Defn: To beat or whip; to drive. [Obs.] Otway.

FEAL Fe"al, a. Etym: [OF. feal, feel, feeil, fedeil, F. fidèle, L. fidelis faithful, fr. fides faith. See Faith.]

Defn: Faithful; loyal. [Obs.] Wright.

FEALTY Fe"al*ty, n. Etym: [OE. faute, OF. fauté, fealté, feelé, feelteit, fr. L. fidelitas, fr. fidelis faithful. See Feal, and cf. Fidelity.]

1. Fidelity to one's lord; the feudal obligation by which the tenant or vassal was bound to be faithful to his lord; the special oath by which this obligation was assumed; fidelity to a superior power, or to a government; loyality. It is no longer the practice to exact the performance of fealty, as a feudal obligation. Wharton (Law Dict. ). Tomlins.

2. Fidelity; constancy; faithfulness, as of a friend to a friend, or of a wife to her husband. He should maintain fealty to God. I. Taylor. Makes wicked lightnings of her eyes, and saps The fealty of our friends. tennyson. Swore fealty to the new government. Macaulay.

Note: Fealty is distinguished from homage, which is an acknowledgment of tenure, while fealty implies an oath. See Homage. Wharton.

Syn.
— Homage; loyality; fidelity; constancy.

FEAR
Fear, n.

Defn: A variant of Fere, a mate, a companion. [Obs.] Spenser.

FEAR Fear, n. Etym: [OE. fer, feer, fere, AS. f a coming suddenly upon, fear, danger; akin to D. vaar, OHG. fara danger, G. gefahr, Icel. far harm, mischief, plague, and to E. fare, peril. See Fare.]

1. A painful emotion or passion excited by the expectation of evil, or the apprehension of impending danger; apprehension; anxiety; solicitude; alarm; dread.

Note: The degrees of this passion, beginning with the most moderate,
may be thus expressed, — apprehension, fear, dread, fright, terror.
Fear is an uneasiness of the mind, upon the thought of future evil
likely to befall us. Locke.
Where no hope is left, is left no fear. Milton.

2. (Script.) (a) Apprehension of incurring, or solicitude to avoid, God's wrath; the trembling and awful reverence felt toward the Supreme Belng. (b) Respectful reverence for men of authority or worth. I will put my fear in their hearts. Jer. xxxii. 40. I will teach you the fear of the Lord. Ps. xxxiv. 11. render therefore to all their dues; tribute to whom tribute is due . . . fear to whom fear. Rom. xiii. 7.

3. That which causes, or which is the object of, apprehension or alarm; source or occasion of terror; danger; dreadfulness. There were they in great fear, where no fear was. Ps. liii. 5. The fear of your adventure would counsel you to a more equal enterprise. Shak. For fear, in apprehension lest. "For fear you ne'er see chain nor money more." Shak.

FEAR
Fear, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Feared; p. pr. & vb. n. Fearing.] Etym:
[OE. feren, faeren, to frighten, to be afraid, AS. fFear, n.]

1. To feel a painful apprehension of; to be afraid of; to consider or expect with emotion of alarm or solicitude. I will fear no evil, for thou art with me. Ps. xxiii. 4.

Note: With subordinate clause.
I greatly fear my money is not safe. Shak.
I almost fear to quit your hand. D. Jerrold.

2. To have a reverential awe of; to solicitous to avoid the displeasure of. Leave them to God above; him serve and fear. Milton.

3. To be anxious or solicitous for. [R.] The sins of the father are to be laid upon the children, therefore . . . I fear you. Shak.

4. To suspect; to doubt. [Obs.] Ay what else, fear you not her courage Shak.

5. To affright; to terrify; to drive away or prevent approach of by fear. z2 fera their people from doing evil. Robynsin (More's utopia). Tush, tush! fear boys with bugs. Shak.

Syn.
— To apprehend; drad; reverence; venerate.

FEAR
Fear, v. i.

Defn: To be in apprehension of evil; to be afraid; to feel anxiety on account of some expected evil. I exceedingly fear and quake. Heb. xii. 21.

FEARER
Fear"er, n.

Defn: One who fars. Sir P. Sidney.

FEARFUL
Fear"ful, a.

1. Full of fera, apprehension, or alarm; afraid; frightened. Anxious amidst all their success, and fearful amidat all their power. Bp. Warburton.

2. inclined to fear; easily frightened; without courage; timid. What man is there that is fearful and fain-hearted Deut. xx. 8.

3. Indicating, or caused by, fear. Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh. Shak.

4. Inspiring fear or awe; exciting apprehension or terror; terrible;
frightful; dreadful.
This glorious and fearful name, The Lord thy God. Deut. xxviii. 58.
Death is a fearful thing. Shak.
In dreams they fearful precipices tread. Dryden.

Syn.
— Apprehensive; afraid; timid; timorous; ho

FEARFULLY
Fear"ful*ly, adv.

Defn: In a fearful manner.

FEARFULNESS
Fear"ful*ness, n.

Defn: The state of being fearful.

FEARLESS
Fear"less, a.

Defn: Free from fear.

Syn.
— Bold; courageous; interpid; valor — Fear"less*ly, adv.
— Fera"less*ness, n.

FEARNAUGHT
Fear"naught`, n.

1. A fearless person.

2. A stout woolen cloth of great thickness; dreadnaught; also, a warm garment.

FEARSOME
Fear"some a.

1. Frightful; causing fear [Scotch] "This fearsome wind." Sir W. Scott

2

Defn: . Easily frightened; timid; timorous. "A silly fearsome thing."
B. Taylor

FEASIBILITY
Fea"si*bil*ity n.; pl. Feasibilities (-tiz). Etym: [from Feasible]

Defn: The quality of being feasible; practicability; also, that which is feasible; as, before we adopt a plan, let us consider its feasibility. Men often swallow falsities for truths, dubiosities for certainties, possibilities for feasibilities. Sir T. Browne.

FEASIBLE Fea"si*ble a. Etym: [F. faisable, fr. faire to make or do, fr. L. facere. See Fact, Feat.]

1. Capable of being done, executed, or effected; practicable.
Always existing before their eyes as a thing feasible in practice.
Burke.
It was not feasible to gratify so many ambitions. Beaconsfield.

2. Fit to be used or tailed, as land. [R.] R. Trumbull. Fea"si*ble*ness, n. —Fea"si*bly, adv.

FEAST Feast, n. Etym: [OE. feste festival, holiday, feast, OF. feste festival, F. fête, fr. L. festum, pl. festa, fr. festus joyful, festal; of uncertain origin. Cf. Fair, n., Festal, F.]

1. A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary. The seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord. Ex. xiii. 6. Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover. Luke ii. 41.

Note: Ecclesiastical fasts are called immovable when they always occur on the same day of the year; otherwise they are called movable.

2. A festive or joyous meal; a grand, ceremonious, or sumptuous entertainment, of which many guests partake; a banquet characterized by tempting variety and abundance of food. Enough is as good as a feast. Old Proverb. Belshazzar the King made a great feast to a thousand of his lords. Dan. v. 1.

3. That which is partaken of, or shared in, with delight; something highly agreeable; entertainment. The feast of reason, and the flow of soul. Pope. Feast day, a holiday; a day set as a solemn commemo

Syn. — Entertainment; regale; banquet; treat; carousal; festivity; festival. — Feast, Banquet, Festival, Carousal. A feast sets before us viands superior in quantity, variety, and abudance; a banquet is a luxurious feast; a festival is the joyful celebration by good cheer of some agreeable event. Carousal is unrestrained indulgence in frolic and drink.

FEAST
Feast, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Feasted; p. pr. & vb. n. Feasting.] Etym:
[OE. festen, cf. OF. fester to rest from work, F. fêter to celebrate
a holiday. See Feast, n.]

1. To eat sumptuously; to dine or sup on rich provisions, particularly in large companies, and on public festivals. And his sons went and feasted in their houses. Job. i. 4.

2. To be highly gratified or delighted. With my love's picture then my eye doth feast. Shak.

FEAST
Feast, v. t.

1. To entertain with sumptuous provisions; to treat at the table bountifully; as, he was feasted by the king. Hayward.

2. To delight; to gratify; as, to feast the soul. Feast your ears with the music a while. Shak.

FEASTER
Feast"er, n.

1. One who fares deliciously.

2. One who entertains magnificently. Johnson.

FEASTFUL
Feast"ful, a.

Defn: Festive; festal; joyful; sumptuous; luxurious. "Feastful days."
Milton.
— Feast"ful*ly, adv.

FEAT Feat, n. Etym: [OE. fet, OF. fet, fait, F. fait, factum, fr. L. facere, factum, to make or do. Cf. Fact, Feasible, Do.]

1. An act; a deed; an exploit. The warlike feats I have done. Shak.

2. A striking act of strength, skill, or cunning; a trick; as, feats of horsemanship, or of dexterity.

FEAT
Feat, v. t.

Defn: To form; to fashion. [Obs.]
To the more mature, A glass that feated them. Shak.

FEAT Feat, a. [Compar. Feater; superl. Featest.] Etym: [F. fait made, shaped, fit, p.p. of faire to make or do. See Feat, n.]

Defn: Dexterous in movements or service; skillful; neat; nice;
pretty. [Archaic]
Never master had a page . . . so feat. Shak.
And look how well my garments sit upon me —Much feater than before.
Shak.

FEAT-BODIED
Feat"-bod`ied, a.

Defn: Having a feat or trim body. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

FEATEOUS Feat"e*ous, a. Etym: [Cf. OF. faitis, faitice, fetis, well made, fine, L. facticius made by art.]

Defn: Dexterous; neat. [Obs.] Johnson.
— Feat"e*ous*ly, adv.

FEATHER Feath"er, n. Etym: [OE. fether, AS. fe; akin to D. veder, OHG. fedara, G. feder, Icel. fjö, Sw. fjäder, Dan. fjæder, Gr. pattra wing, feathr, pat to fly, and prob. to L. penna feather, wing. sq. root76, 248. Cf. Pen a feather.]

1. One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down.

Note: An ordinary feather consists of the quill or hollow basal part of the stem; the shaft or rachis, forming the upper, solid part of the stem; the vanes or webs, implanted on the rachis and consisting of a series of slender laminæ or barbs, which usually bear barbicels and interlocking hooks by which they are fastened together. See Down, Quill, Plumage.

2. Kind; nature; species; — from the proverbial phrase, "Birds of a feather," that is, of the same species. [R.] I am not of that feather to shake off My friend when he must need me. Shak.

3. The fringe of long hair on the legs of the setter and some other dogs.

4. A tuft of peculiar, long, frizzly hair on a horse.

5. One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.

6. (Mach. & Carp.)

Defn: A longitudinal strip projecting as a fin from an object, to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sidwise but permit motion lengthwise; a spline.

7. A thin wedge driven between the two semicylindrical parts of a divided plug in a hole bored in a stone, to rend the stone. Knight.

8. The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.

Note: Feather is used adjectively or in combination, meaning composed of, or resembling, a feather or feathers; as, feather fan, feather- heeled, feather duster. Feather alum (Min.), a hydrous sulphate of alumina, resulting from volcanic action, and from the decomposition of iron pyrites; — called also halotrichite. Ure. — Feather bed, a bed filled with feathers. — Feather driver, one who prepares feathers by beating. — Feather duster, a dusting brush of feathers. — Feather flower, an artifical flower made of feathers, for ladies' headdresses, and other ornamental purposes. — Feather grass (Bot.), a kind of grass (Stipa pennata) which has a long feathery awn rising from one of the chaffy scales which inclose the grain. — Feather maker, one who makes plumes, etc., of feathers, real or artificial. — Feather ore (Min.), a sulphide of antimony and lead, sometimes found in capillary forms and like a cobweb, but also massive. It is a variety of Jamesonite. — Feather shot, or Feathered shot (Metal.), copper granulated by pouring into cold water. Raymond. — Feather spray (Naut.), the spray thrown up, like pairs of feathers, by the cutwater of a fast-moving vessel. — Feather star. (Zoöl.) See Comatula. — Feather weight. (Racing) (a) Scrupulously exact weight, so that a feather would turn the scale, when a jockey is weighed or weighted. (b) The lightest weight that can be put on the back of a horse in racing. Youatt. (c) In wrestling, boxing, etc., a term applied to the lightest of the classes into which contestants are divided; — in contradistinction to light weight, middle weight, and heavy weight. A feather in the cap an honour, trophy, or mark of distinction. [Colloq.] — To be in full feather, to be in full dress or in one's best clothes. [Collog.] — To be in high feather, to be in high spirits. [Collog.] — To cut a feather. (a) (Naut.) To make the water foam in moving; in allusion to the ripple which a ship throws off from her bows. (b) To make one's self conspicuous.[Colloq.] — To show the white feather, to betray cowardice, — a white feather in the tail of a cock being considered an indication that he is not of the true game breed.

FEATHER
Feath"er, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Feathered; p. pr. & vb. n. Feathering.]

1. To furnish with a feather or feathers, as an arrow or a cap. An eagle had the ill hap to be struck with an arrow feathered from her own wing. L'Estrange.

2. To adorn, as with feathers; to fringe. A few birches and oaks still feathered the narrow ravines. Sir W. Scott.

3. To render light as a feather; to give wings to.[R.] The Polonian story perhaps may feather some tedions hours. Loveday.

4. To enrich; to exalt; to benefit. They stuck not to say that the king cared not to plume his nobility and people to feather himself. Bacon. Dryden.

5. To tread, as a cock. Dryden. To feather one's nest, to provide for one's self especially from property belonging to another, confided to one's care; — an expression taken from the practice of birds which collect feathers for the lining of their nests. — To feather an oar (Naut), to turn it when it leaves the water so that the blade will be horizontal and offer the least resistance to air while reaching for another stroke. — To tar and feather a person, to smear him with tar and cover him with feathers, as a punishment or an indignity.

FEATHER
Feath"er, v. i.

1. To grow or form feathers; to become feathered; — often with out; as, the birds are feathering out.

2. To curdle when poured into another liquid, and float about in little flakes or "feathers;" as, the cream feathers [Colloq.]

3. To turn to a horizontal plane; — said of oars.
The feathering oar returns the gleam. Tickell.
Stopping his sculls in the air to feather accurately. Macmillan's
Mag.

4. To have the appearance of a feather or of feathers; to be or to appear in feathery form. A clump of ancient cedars feathering in evergreen beauty down to the ground. Warren. The ripple feathering from her bows. Tennyson.

FEATHERBONE
Feath"er*bone`, n.

Defn: A substitute for whalebone, made from the quills of geese and turkeys.

FEATHER-BRAINED
Feath"er-brained, a.

Defn: Giddy; frivolous; feather-headed. [Colloq.]

FEATHERED
Feath"ered, a.

1. Clothed, covered, or fitted with (or as with) feathers or wings; as, a feathered animal; a feathered arrow. Rise from the ground like feathered Mercury. Shak. Nonsense feathered with soft and delicate phrases and pointed with pathetic accent. Dr. J. Scott.

2. Furnished with anything featherlike; ornamented; fringed; as, land feathered with trees.

3. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Having a fringe of feathers, as the legs of certian birds; or of hairs, as the legs of a setter dog.

4. (Her.)

Defn: Having feathers; — said of an arrow, when the feathers are of a tincture different from that of the shaft.

FEATHER-EDGE
Feath"er-edge, n.

1. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The thin, new growth around the edge of a shell, of an oyster.

2. Any thin, as on a board or a razor.

FEATHER-EDGED
Feath"er-edged, a.

Defn: Having a feather-edge; also, having one edge thinner than the other, as a board; — in the United States, said only of stuff one edge of which is made as thin as practicable.

FEATHER-FEW
Feath"er-few, n. (Bot.)

Defn: Feverfew.

FEATHER-FOIL
Feath"er-foil`, n. Etym: [Feather + foil a leaf.] (Bot.)

Defn: An aquatic plant (Hottonia palustris), having finely divided leaves.

FEATHER-HEAD
Feath"er-head`, n.

Defn: A frivolous or featherbrained person. [Colloq.] H. James.

FEATHER-HEADED
Feath"er-head`ed, a.

Defn: Giddy; frivolous; foolish. [Colloq.] G. Eliot.

FEATHER-HEELED
Feath"er-heeled`, a.

Defn: Light-heeled; gay; frisky; frolicsome. [Colloq.]

FEATHERINESS
Feath"er*i*ness, n.

Defn: The state or condition of being feathery.

FEATHERING
Feath"er*ing, n.

1. (Arch.)

Defn: Same as Foliation.

2. The act of turning the blade of the oar, as it rises from the water in rowing, from a vertical to a horizontal position. See To feather an oar, under Feather, v. t.

3. A covering of feathers. Feathering float (Naut.), the float or paddle of a feathering wheel. — Feathering screw (Naut.), a screw propeller, of which the blades may be turned so as to move edgewise through the water when the vessel is moving under sail alone. — Feathering wheel (Naut.), a paddle wheel whose floats turn automatically so as to dip about perpendicularly into the water and leave in it the same way, avoiding beating on the water in the descent and lifting water in the ascent.

FEATHERLESS
Feath"er*less, a.

Defn: Destitute of feathers.

FEATHERLY
Feath"er*ly, a.

Defn: Like feathers. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

FEATHERNESS
Feath"er*ness, n.

Defn: The state or condition of being feathery.

FEATHER-PATED
Feath"er-pat"ed, a.

Defn: Feather-headed; frivolous. [Colloq.] Sir W. Scott.

FEATHERSTITCH
Feath"er*stitch`, n.

Defn: A kind of embroidery stitch producing a branching zigzag line.

FEATHER-VEINED
Feath"er-veined`, a. (Bot.)

Defn: Having the veins (of a leaf) diverging from the two sides of a midrib.

FEATHERY
Feath"er*y, a.

Defn: Pertaining to, or resembling, feathers; covered with, or as with, feathers; as, feathery spray or snow. Milton. Ye feathery people of mid air. Barry Cornwall.

FEATLY
Feat"ly, adv. Etym: [From Feat, a.]

Defn: Neatly; dexterously; nimbly. [Archaic]
Foot featly here and there. Shak.

FEATNESS
Feat"ness, n.

Defn: Skill; adroitness. [Archaic] Johnson.

FEATURE Fea"ture, n. Etym: [OE. feture form, shape, feature, OF. faiture fashion, make, fr. L. factura a making, formation, fr. facere, factum, to make. See Feat, Fact, and cf. Facture.]

1. The make, form, or outward appearance of a person; the whole turn or style of the body; esp., good appearance. What needeth it his feature to descrive Chaucer. Cheated of feature by dissembling nature. Shak.

2. The make, cast, or appearance of the human face, and especially of any single part of the face; a lineament. (pl.) The face, the countenance. It is for homely features to keep home. Milton.

3. The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty, or an essay; any marked peculiarity or characteristic; as, one of the features of the landscape. And to her service bind each living creature Through secret understanding of their feature. Spenser.

4. A form; a shape. [R.] So scented the grim feature, and upturned His nostril wide into the murky air. Milton.

FEATURED
Fea"tured, a.

1. Shaped; fashioned. How noble, young, how rarely featured! Shak.

2. Having features; formed into features. The well-stained canvas or the featured stone. Young.

FEATURELESS
Fea"ture*less, a.

Defn: Having no distinct or distinctive features.

FEATURELY
Fea"ture*ly, a.

Defn: Having features; showing marked peculiarities; handsome. [R.]
Featurely warriors of Christian chivalry. Coleridge.

FEAZE Feaze, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Feazed; p. pr. & vb. n. Feazing.] Etym: [Cf. OE. faseln to ravel, fr. AS. fæs fringe; akin to G. fasen to separate fibers or threads, fasen, faser, thread, filament, OHG. faso.]

Defn: To untwist; to unravel, as the end of a rope. Johnson.

FEAZE
Feaze, v. t. Etym: [See Feese.faze]

Defn: To beat; to chastise; also, to humble; to harass; to worry.
[Obs.] insworth.

FEAZE
Feaze, n.

Defn: A state of anxious or fretful excitement; worry; vexation.
[Obs.]

FEAZINGS
Feaz"ings, n. pl. Etym: [See Feaze, v. t.] (Naut.)

Defn: The unlaid or ragged end of a rope. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

FEBRICITATE
Fe*bric"i*tate, v. i. Etym: [L. febricitare, fr. febris. See
Febrile.]

Defn: To have a fever. [Obs.] Bailey.

FEBRICULOSE
Fe*bric"u*lose`, a. Etym: [L. febriculosus.]

Defn: Somewhat feverish. [Obs.] Johnson.

FEBRIFACIENT Feb`ri*fa"cient, a. Etym: [L. febris fever + faciens, p.pr. of facere to make.]

Defn: Febrific. Dunglison. — n.

Defn: That which causes fever. Beddoes.

FEBRIFEROUS
Fe*brif"er*ous, a. Etym: [L. febris fever + -ferous.]

Defn: Causing fever; as, a febriferous locality.

FEBRIFIC
Fe*brif"ic, a. Etym: [L. febris fever + ficare (in comp.) to make.
See fy-.]

Defn: Producing fever. Dunglison.

FEBRIFUGAL
Fe*brif"u*gal ( or ), a. Etym: [See Febrifuge.]

Defn: Having the quality of mitigating or curing fever. Boyle.

FEBRIFUGE Feb"ri*fuge, n. Etym: [L. febris fever + fugare to put to flight, from fugere to flee: cf. F. fébrifuge. see Febrile, Feverfew.] (Med.)

Defn: A medicine serving to mitigate or remove fever. — a.

Defn: Antifebrile.

FEBRILE
Fe"brile, a. Etym: [F. fébrile, from L. febris fever. See Fever.]

Defn: Pertaining to fever; indicating fever, or derived from it; as, febrile symptoms; febrile action. Dunglison.

FEBRUARY Feb"ru*a*ry, n. Etym: [L. Februarius, orig., the month of expiation, because on the fifteenth of this month the great feast of expiation and purification was held, fr. februa, pl., the Roman festival or purification; akin to februare to purify, expiate.]

Defn: The second month in the year, said to have been introduced into the Roman calendar by Numa. In common years this month contains twenty-eight days; in the bissextile, or leap year, it has twenty- nine days.

FEBRUATION
Feb`ru*a"tion, n. Etym: [L. februatio. See february.]

Defn: Purification; a sacrifice. [Obs.] Spenser.

FECAL
Fe"cal, a. Etym: [Cf. F. fécal. See Feces.]

Defn: relating to, or containing, dregs, feces, or ordeure; fæcal.

FECCHE
Fec"che, v. t.

Defn: To fetch. [Obs.] Chaucer.

FECES
Fe"ces, n. pl.

Defn: dregs; sediment; excrement. See FÆces.

FECIAL Fe"cial, a. Etym: [L. fetialis belonging to the fetiales, the Roman priests who sanctioned treaties and demanded satisfaction from the enemy before a formal declaration of war.]

Defn: Pertaining to heralds, declarations of war, and treaties of peace; as, fecial law. Kent.

FECIFORK
Fe"ci*fork`, n. Etym: [Feces + fork.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: The anal fork on which the larvæ of certain insects carry their fæces.

FECK
Feck, n. [Abbrev. fr. effect.]

1. Effect. [Obs.]

2. Efficacy; force; value. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]

3. Amount; quantity. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]

He had a feck o' books wi' him.
R. L. Stevenson.

The most feck, or The feck, the greater or larger part. "The feck o' my life." Burns.

FECKLESS
Feck"less, a. Etym: [Perh. a corruption of effectless.]

Defn: Spiritless; weak; worthless. [Scot]

FECKLESSNESS feck"less*ness n.

Defn: absence of merit.
[WordNet 1.5]

FECKS
Fecks, n.

Defn: A corruption of the word faith. Shak.

FECULA Fec"u*la, n.; pl. FeculÆ Etym: [L.fae burnt tartar or salt of tartar, dim. of faex, faecis, sediment, dregs: cf. F. fécule.]

Defn: Any pulverulent matter obtained from plants by simply breaking down the texture, washing with water, and subsidence. Especially: (a) The nutritious part of wheat; starch or farina; — called also amylaceous fecula. (b) The green matter of plants; chlorophyll.

FECULENCE Fec"u*lence, n. Etym: [L. faeculentia dregs, filth: cf. F. féculence.]

1. The state or quality of being feculent; muddiness; foulness.

2. That which is feculent; sediment; lees; dregs.

FECULENCY
Fec"u*len*cy, n.

Defn: Feculence.

FECULENT
Fec"u*lent, a. Etym: [L. faeculentus, fr. faecula: cf. F. féculent.
See Fecula.]

Defn: Foul with extraneous or impure substances; abounding with sediment or excrementitious matter; muddy; thick; turbid. Both his hands most filthy feculent. Spenser.

FECUND Fec"und, a. Etym: [L. fecundus, from the root of fetus: cf. F. fécond. see Fetus.]

Defn: Fruitful in children; prolific. Graunt.

FECUNDATE
Fec"un*date, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fecundated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Fecundating.] Etym: [L. fecundare, fr. fecundus. See Fecund.]

1. To make fruitful or prolific. W. Montagu.

2. (Biol.)

Defn: To render fruitful or prolific; to impregnate; as, in flowers the pollen fecundates the ovum through the stigma.

FECUNDATION
Fec`un*da"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. fécondation.] (Biol.)

Defn: The act by which, either in animals or plants, material prepared by the generative organs the female organism is brought in contact with matter from the organs of the male, so that a new organism results; impregnation; fertilization.

FECUNDIFY
Fe*cun"di*fy, v. t. Etym: [Fecund + -fy.]

Defn: To make fruitful; to fecundate. Johnson.

FECUNDITY
Fe*cun"di*ty, n. Etym: [L. fecunditas: cf. F. fécondité. See Fecund.]

1. The quality or power of producing fruit; fruitfulness; especially (Biol.), the quality in female organisms of reproducing rapidly and in great numbers.

2. The power of germinating; as in seeds.

3. The power of bringing forth in abundance; fertility; richness of invention; as, the fecundity of God's creative power. Bentley.

FED
Fed,

Defn: imp. & p. p. of Feed.

FEDARY
Fed"a*ry, n.

Defn: A feodary. [Obs.] Shak.

FEDERAL Fed"er*al, a. Etym: [L. foedus league, treaty, compact; akin to fides faith: cf. F. fédéral. see Faith.]

1. Pertaining to a league or treaty; derived from an agreement or covenant between parties, especially between nations; constituted by a compact between parties, usually governments or their representatives. The Romans compelled them, contrary to all federal right, . . . to part with Sardinia. Grew.