F, the sixth letter of the English Alphabet., is a labial articulation, formed by placing the upper teeth on the under lip, and accompanied with an emission of breath. Its kindred letter is v, which is chiefly distinguished from f by being more vocal, or accompanied with more sound, as may be perceived by pronouncing ef, ev. This letter may be derived from the Oriental vau. The Latins received the letter from the Eolians in Greece, who wrote it in the form of a double g, f ; whence it has been called most absurdly digamma. It corresponds in power to the Greek phi, and its proper name is ef.

As a Latin numeral, it signifies 40, and with a dash over the top, forty thousand.

In the civil law, two of these letters together ff, signify the pandects.

In English criminal law, this letter is branded on felons, when admitted to the benefit of clergy.

In medical prescriptions, f stands for fiat, let it be made; f S.A. fiat secundum artem.

F stands also for Fellow; f R.S. Fellow of the Royal Society.

F or fa, in music, is the fourth note rising in this order in the gamut, ut, re, mi, fa. It denotes also one of the Greek keys in music, destined for the base.

F in English has one uniform sound, as in father, after.

FABACEOUS, adjective [Low Latin , a bean.] Having the nature of a bean; like a bean. [Little used.]

FABIAN, adjective Delaying; dilatory; avoiding battle, in imitation of Q. Fabius Maximus, a Roman general who conducted military operations against Hannibal, by declining to risk a battle in the open field, but harassing the enemy by marches, countermarches and ambuscades.

FABLE, noun [Latin , Gr. The radical sense is that which is spoken or told.]

1. A feigned story or tale, intended to instruct or amuse; a fictitious narration intended to enforce some useful truth or precept.

Jothams fable of the trees is the oldest extant, and as beautiful as any made since.

2. Fiction in general; as, the story is all a fable

3. An idle story; vicious or vulgar fictions.

But refuse profane and old wives fables. 1 Timothy 4:7.

4. The plot, or connected series of events, in 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.

5. Falsehood; a softer term for a lie.

FABLE, verb intransitive

1. To feign; to write fiction.

Vain now the tales which fabling poets tell.

2. To tell falsehoods; as, he fables not.

FABLE, verb transitive To feign; to invent; to devise and speak of, as true or real.

The hell thou fablest.

FABLED, participle passive

1. Feigned; invented, as stories.

2. adjective Told or celebrated in fables.

Hail, fabled grotto.

FABLER, noun A writer of fables or fictions; a dealer in feigned stories.

FABLING, participle present tense Feigning; devising, as stories; writing or uttering false stories.

FABRIC, noun [Latin , a frame, a workman.]

1. The structure of any thing; the manner in which the parts of a thing are untied by art and labor; workmanship; texture. This is cloth of a beautiful fabric

2. The frame or structure of a building; construction. More generally, the building itself; an edifice; a house; a temple; a church; a bridge, etc. The word is usually applied to a large building.

3. Any system composed of connected parts; as the fabric of the universe.

4. Cloth manufactured.

Silks and other fine fabrics of the east.

FABRIC, verb intransitive To frame; to build; to construct. [Little used.]

FABRICATE, verb transitive [Latin , to frame, supra.]

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

2. To form by art and labor; to manufacture; 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 accommodation to prevailing usages.

4. To coin; as, to fabricate money. [Unusual.]

FABRICATED, participle passive Framed; constructed; built; manufactured; invented; devised falsely; forged.

FABRICATING, participle present tense Framing; constructing; manufacturing; devising falsely; forging.

FABRICATION, noun

1. The act of framing or constructing construction; as the fabrication of a bridge or of a church.

2. The act of manufacturing.

3. The act of devising falsely; forgery.

4. That which is fabricated; a falsehood. The story is doubtless a fabrication

FABRICATOR, noun One that constructs or makes.

FABRILE, adjective [Latin] Pertaining to handicrafts. [Not used.]

FABULIST, noun [from fable.] The inventor or writer of fables.

FABULIZE, verb transitive To invent, compose or relate fables.

FABULOSITY, noun Fabulousness; fullness of fables. [Little used.]

FABULOUS, adjective

1. Feigned, as a story; devised; fictitious; as a fabulous story; a fabulous description.

2. Related in fable; described or celebrated in fables; invented; not real; as a fabulous hero; the fabulous exploits of Hercules.

3. The fabulous age of Greece and Rome, was the early age of those countries, the accounts of which are mostly fabulous or in which the fabulous achievements of their heroes were performed; called also the heroic age.

FABULOUSLY, adverb In a fable or fiction; in a fabulous manner.

FABULOUSNESS, noun The quality of being fabulous or feigned.

FACADE, noun Front.

FACE, noun [Latin , to make.]

1. In a general sense, the surface of a thing, or the side which presents itself to the view of a spectator; as the face of the earth; the face of the waters.

2. A part of the surface of a thing; or the plane surface of a solid. Thus, a cube or die has six faces an octahedron has eight faces.

3. The surface of the fore part of an animals head, particularly of the human head; the visage.

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread. Genesis 3:19.

Joseph bowed himself with his face to the earth. Genesis 48:11.

4. Countenance; cast of features; look; air of the face

We set the best face on it we could.

5. The front of a thing; the forepart; the flat surface that presents itself first to view; as the face of a house. Ezekiel 41:14.

6. Visible state; appearance.

This would produce a new face of things in Europe.

7. Appearance; look.

Nor heaven, nor sea, their former face retained.

His dialogue has the face of probability.

8. State of confrontation. The witnesses were presented face to face

9. Confidence; boldness; impudence; a bold front.

He has the face to charge others with false citations.

10. Presence; sight; as in the phrases, before the face in the face to the face from the face

11. The person.

I had not thought to see thy face Genesis 48:11.

12. In scripture, face is used for anger or favor.

Hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne. Revelations 6.

Make thy face to shine on thy servant. Psalms 31:16.

How long wilt thou hide thy face from me? Psalms 13:1.

Hence, to seek the face that is, to pray to, to seek the favor of.

To set the face against, is to oppose.

To accept ones face is to show him favor or grant his request. So, to entreat the face is to ask favor; but these phrases are nearly obsolete.

13. A distorted form of the face; as in the phrase, to make faces, or to make wry faces.

FACE to face

1. When both parties are present; as, to have accusers face to face Acts 25:16.

2. Nakedly; without the interposition of any other body.

Now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face 1 Corinthians 13:12.

FACE, verb transitive

1. To meet in front; to oppose with firmness; to resist, or to meet for the purpose of stopping or opposing; as, to face an enemy in the field of battle.

I'll face this tempest, and deserve the name of king.

2. To stand opposite to; to stand with the face or front towards. The colleges in New Haven face the public square.

3. To cover with additional superficies; to cover in front; as a fortification faced with marble; to face a garment with silk.

To face down, to oppose boldly or impudently.

FACE, verb intransitive

1. To carry a false appearance; to play the hypocrite.

To lie, to face to forge.

2. To turn the face; as, to face to the right or left.

FA'CECLOTH, noun [face and cloth.] A cloth laid over the face of a corpse.

FA'CED, participle passive Covered in front. In composition, denoting the kind of face; as full-faced.

FA'CELESS, adjective Without a face.

FA'CEPAINTER, noun A painter of portraits; one who draws the likeness of the face.

FA'CEPAINTING, noun The act or art of painting portraits.

FAC'ET, noun

A little face; a small surface; as the facets of a diamond.

FACE'TE, adjective [Latin facetus.] Gay; cheerful. [Not in use.]

FACE'TENESS, noun Wit; pleasant representation. [Not used.]

FACE'TIOUS, adjective [Latin facetus; facetia, or plural ]

1. Merry; sportive; jocular; sprightly with wit and good humor; as a facetious companion.

2. Witty; full of pleasantry playful; exciting laughter; as a facetious story; a facetious reply.

FACE'TIOUSLY, adverb Merrily; gaily; wittily; with pleasantry.

FACE'TIOUSNESS, noun Sportive humor; pleasantry; the quality of exciting laughter or good humor.

FA'CIAL, adjective [Latin facies, face.] Pertaining to the face; as the facial artery, vein or nerve.

Facial angle, in anatomy, is the angle contained by a line drawn horizontally from the middle of the external entrance of the ear to the edge of the nostrils, and another from this latter point to the superciliary ridge of the frontal bone; serving to measure the elevation of the forehead.

FAC'ILE, adjective [Latin facilis, from facio, to make.]

1. Properly, easy to be done or performed; easy; not difficult; performable or attainable with little labor.

Order - will render the work facile and delightful.

2. Easy to be surmounted or removed; easily conquerable.

The facile gates of hell too slightly barred.

3. Easy of access or converse; mild; courteous; not haughty, austere or distant.

I mean she should be courteous, facile sweet.

4. Pliant; flexible; easily persuaded to good or bad; yielding; ductile to a fault.

Since Adam, and his facile consort Eve,

Lost Paradise, deceived by me.

FAC'ILELY, adverb Easily. [Little used.]

FAC'ILENESS, noun Easiness to be persuaded.

FACIL'ITATE, verb transitive [Latin facilitas, from facilis, easy.]

To make easy or less difficult; to free from difficulty or impediment, or to diminish it; to lessen the labor of. Machinery facilitates manual labor and operations. Pioneers may facilitate the march of an army.

FACIL'ITATED, participle passive Made easy or easier.

FACIL'ITATING, participle present tense Rendering easy or easier.

FACILITA'TION, noun The act of making easy.

FACIL'ITIES, noun plural The means by which the performance of anything is rendered easy; convenient opportunities or advantages.

FACIL'ITY, noun [Latin facilitas, from facilis, easy.]

1. Easiness to be performed; freedom from difficulty; ease. He performed the work or operation with great facility

Though facility and hope of success might invite some other choice.

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

3. Pliancy; ductility; easiness to be persuaded; readiness of compliance, usually in a bad sense, implying a disposition to yield to solicitations to evil.

It is a great error to take facility for good nature: tenderness without discretion, is no better than a more pardonable folly.

4. Easiness of access; complaisance; condescension; affability.

He offers himself to the visits of a friend with facility

FA'CING, participle present tense [from face.]

1. Fronting; having the face towards; opposite.

2. Covering the fore part.

3. Turning the face.

FA'CING, noun A covering in front for ornament or defense; as the facing of a fortification or of a garment.

FACIN'OROUS, adjective [Latin facinus.] Atrociously wicked. [Little used.]

FACIN'OROUSNESS, noun Extreme or astrocious wickedness.

FACSIM'ILE, noun [Latin facio, to make, and similis, like. See Simile.]

An exact copy or likeness, as of handwriting.

FACT, noun [Latin factum, from facio, to make or do.]

1. Any thing done, or that comes to pass; an act; a deed; an effect produced or achieved; an event. Witnesses are introduced into court to prove a fact Facts are stubborn things. To deny a fact knowingly is to lie.

2. Reality; truth; as, in fact So we say, indeed.

FAC'TION, noun [Latin factio, from facio, to make or do.]

1. A party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition to the prince, government or state; usually applied to a minority, but it may be applied to a majority. sometimes a state is divided into factions nearly equal. Rome was almost always disturbed by factions. Republics are proverbial for factions, and factions in monarchies have often effected revolutions.

A feeble government produces more factions than an oppressive one.

By a faction I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.

2. Tumult; discord; dissension.

FAC'TIONARY, noun A party man; one of a faction. [Little used.]

FAC'TIONER, noun One of a faction. [Not in use.]

FAC'TIONIST, noun One who promotes faction.

FAC'TIOUS, adjective [Latin factiosus.]

1. Given to faction; addicted to form parties and raise dissensions, in opposition to government; turbulent; prone to clamor against public measures of men. No state is free from factious citizens.

2. Pertaining to faction; proceeding from faction; as factious tumults; factious quarrels.

FAC'TIOUSLY, adverb In a factious manner; by means of faction; in a turbulent or disorderly manner.

FAC'TIOUSNESS, noun Inclination to form parties in opposition to the government, or to the public interest; disposition to clamor and raise opposition; clamorousness for a party.

FACTI'TIOUS, adjective [Latin factitius, from facio.]

Made by art, in distinction from what is produced by nature; artificial; as factitious cinnabar; factitious stones; factitious air.

FAC'TIVE, adjective Making; having power to make. [Not used.]

FAC'TOR, noun [Latin factor; facio.]

1. In commerce, an agent employed by merchants, residing in other places, to buy and sell, and to negotiate bills of exchange, or to transact other business on their account.

2. an agent; a substitute.

3. In arithmetic, the multiplier and multiplicand, from the multiplication of which proceeds the product.

FAC'TORAGE, noun the allowance given to a factor by his employer, as a compensation for his services; called also a commission. This is sometimes a certain sum or rate by the cask or package; more generally it is a certain rate per cent. Of the value of the goods, purchased or sold.

FAC'TORSHIP, noun a factory; or the business of a factor.

FAC'TORY, noun

1. A house or place where factors reside, to transact business for their employers. The English merchants have factories in the East Indies, Turkey, Portugal, Hamburg, etc.

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

3. Contracted frommanufactory, a building or collection of buildings, appropriated to the manufacture of goods; the place where workmen are employed in fabricating goods, wares or utensils.

FACTO'TUM, noun [Latin do every thing.] a servant employed to do all kinds of work.

FAC'TURE, noun The art or manner of making.

FAC'ULTY, noun [Latin facultas, from facio, to make.]

1. That power of the mind or intellect which enables it to receive, revive or modify perceptions; as the faculty of seeing, of hearing, of imagining, of remembering, etc.: or in general, the faculties may be called the powers or capacities of the mind.

2. The power of doing any thing; ability. There is no faculty or power in creatures, which can rightly perform its functions, without the perpetual aid of the Supreme Being.

3. The power of performing any action, natural, vital or animal.

The vital faculty is that by which life is preserved.

4. Facility of performance; the peculiar skill derived from practice, or practice aided by nature; habitual skill or ability; dexterity; adroitness; knack. One man has a remarkable faculty of telling a story; another, of inventing excuses for misconduct; a third, of reasoning; a fourth, of preaching.

5. Personal quality; disposition or habit, good or ill.

6. Power; authority.

This Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek. [MacBeth, Act I, scene 7, Shakespeare] [Hardly legitimate.]

7. Mechanical power; as the faculty of the wedge. [Not used, nor legitimate.]

8. Natural virtue; efficacy; as the faculty of simples. [Not used, nor legitimate.]

9. Privilege; a right or power granted to a person by favor or indulgence, to do what by law he may not do; as the faculty of marrying without the bans being first published, or of ordaining a deacon under age. The archbishop of Canterbury has a court of faculties, for granting such privileges or dispensations.

10. In colleges, the masters and professors of the several sciences.

One of the members or departments of a university. In most universities there are four faculties; of art, including humanity and philosophy; of theology; of medicine; and of law.

In America, the faculty of a college or university consists of the president, professors and tutors.

The faculty of advocates, in Scotland, is a respectable body of lawyers who plead in all causes before the Courts of Session, Justiciary and Exchequer.

FAC'UND, adjective [Latin facundus, supposed to be from the root of for, fari, to speak. If so the original word was faco, or facor.]

Eloquent. [Little used.]

FACUND'ITY, noun [Latin facunditas.] Eloquence; readiness of speech.

FAD'DLE, verb intransitive To trifle; to toy; to play. [A low word.]

FADE, adjective Weak; slight; faint. [Not in use.]

FADE, verb intransitive

1. To lose color; to tend from a stronger or brighter color to a more faint shade of the same color, or to lose a color entirely. A green leaf fades and becomes less green or yellow. Those colors are deemed the best, which are least apt to fade

2. To wither, as a plant; to decay.

Ye shall be as an oak, whose leaf fadeth. Isaiah 1:1.

3. To lose strength gradually; to vanish.

When the memory is weak, ideas in the mind quickly fade

4. To lose luster; to grow dim.

The stars shall fade away.

5. To decay; to perish gradually.

We all do fade as a leaf. Isaiah 64:6.

An inheritance that fadeth not away. 1 Peter 1:1.

6. To decay; to decline; to become poor and miserable.

The rich man shall fade away in his ways. James 1:11.

7. To lose strength, health or vigor; to decline; to grow weaker.

8. To disappear gradually; to vanish.

FADE, verb transitive To cause to wither; to wear away; to deprive of freshness or vigor.

No winter could his laurels fade

This is a man, old, wrinkled, faded, withered.

FA'DED, participle passive Become less vivid, as color; withered; decayed; vanished.

FADGE, verb intransitive [Latin pango, pegi, pepegi, figo; Gr.]

1. To suit; to fit; to come close, as the parts of things united. Hence, to have one part consistent with another.

2. To agree; to live in amity.

3. To succeed; to hit.

[This word is now vulgar, and improper in elegant writing.]

FA'DING, participle present tense [See Fade.]

1. Losing color; becoming less vivid; decaying; declining; withering.

2. adjective Subject to decay; liable to lose freshness and vigor; liable to perish; not durable; transient; as a fading flower.

FA'DING, noun Decay; loss of color, freshness or vigor.

FA'DINGNESS, noun Decay; liableness to decay.

FA'DY, adjective Wearing away; losing color or strength.

FAECAL, adjective [See Fecal.]

FAE'CES, noun [Latin] Excrement; also, settlings; sediment after infusion or distillation.

FAF'FEL, verb intransitive To stammer. [Not in use.]

FAG, verb transitive To beat. [Not in use.]

FAG, noun A slave; one who works hard. [Not in use.]

FAG, verb intransitive [Heb. to fail, to languish.]

To become weary; to fail in strength; to be faint with weariness.

The Italian began to fag

[A vulgar word.]

FAG, noun A knot in cloth. [Not in use.]

FAGEND', noun [fag and end. See Fag, verb intransitive supra.]

1. The end of a web of cloth, generally of coarser materials.

2. The refuse or meaner part of any thing.

3. Among seamen, the untwisted end of a rope; hence, to fag out, is to become untwisted and loose.

We observe that the use of this word among seamen leads to the true sense of the verb, as well as the noun. The sense is, to open by receding, or to yield and become lax, and hence weak.

FAG'OT, noun [Gr. See Fadge. The sense is a bundle or collection, like pack.]

1. A bundle of sticks, twigs or small branches of trees, used for fuel, or for raising batteries, filling ditches, and other purposes in fortification. The French use fascine, from the Latin fascis, a bundle; a term now adopted in English.

2. A person hired to appear at musters in a company not full and hide the deficiency.

FAG'OT, verb transitive To tie together; to bind in a bundle; to collect promiscuously.

F'AHLERZ, noun Gray copper, or gray copper ore, called by Jameson tetrahedral copper pyrite. This mineral is easily broken, and its fracture usually uneven, but sometimes a little conchoidal. it is found amorphous and in regular crystals.

F'AHLUNITE, noun

Automalite, a subspecies of octahedral corundum.

FAIL, verb intransitive [Latin fallo; Gr. whence; Eng. felony. It seems to be allied to fall, fallow, pale, and many other words.]

1. To become deficient; to be insufficient; to cease to be abundant for supply; or to be entirely wanting. We say, in a dry season, the springs and streams fail or are failing, before they are entirely exhausted. We say also, the springs failed, when they entirely ceased to flow. Crops fail wholly or partially.

2. To decay; to decline; to sink; to be diminished. We say of a sick person, his strength fails daily.

3. To decline; to decay; to sink; to become weaker; as, the patient fails every hour.

4. To be extinct; to cease; to be entirely wanting; to be no longer produced.

Help, Lord, for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men. Psalms 12:1.

5. To be entirely exhausted; to be wanting; to cease from supply.

Money failed in the land of Egypt. Genesis 47:16.

6. To cease; to perish; to be lost.

Lest the remembrance of his grief should fail

7. To die.

They shall all fail together. Isaiah 31:3.

8. To decay; to decline; as, the sight fails in old age.

9. To become deficient or wanting; as, the heart or the courage fails.

10. To miss; not to produce the effect. the experiment was made with care, but failed, or failed to produce the effect, or failed of the effect.

11. To be deficient in duty; to omit or neglect. the debtor failed to fulfil his promise.

12. To miss; to miscarry; to be frustrated or disappointed. The enemy attacked the fort, but failed in his design, or failed of success.

13. To be neglected; to fall short; not to be executed. the promises of a man of probity seldom fail

The soul or the spirit fails, when a person is discouraged. The eyes fail when the desires and expectations are long delayed, and the person is disappointed.

14. To become insolvent or bankrupt. When merchants and traders fail they are said to become bankrupt. When other men fail they are said to become insolvent.

FAIL, verb transitive

1. To desert; to disappoint; to cease or to neglect or omit to afford aid, supply or strength. it is said, fortune never fails the brave. Our friends sometimes fail us, when we most need them. The aged attempt to walk, when their limbs fail them. In bold enterprises, courage should never fail the hero.

2. to omit; not to perform.

The inventive God, who never fails his part.

3. to be wanting to.

There shall never fail thee a man on the throne. 1 Kings 2:4.

[In the transitive use of this verb there is really an ellipsis of from or to, or other word. In strictness, the verb is not transitive, and the passive particple is, I believe, never used.]

FAIL, noun Omission; non-performance.

1. He will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites. Joshua 3:10.

2. Miscarriage; failure; deficience; want; death.

[In these senses little used.]

FA'ILANCE, noun fault; failure. obsolete

FA'ILING, participle present tense Becoming deficient or insufficient; becoming weaker; decaying; declining; omitting; not executing or performing; miscarrying; neglecting; wanting; becoming bankrupt or insolvent.

FA'ILING, noun

1. The act of failing; deficiency; imperfection; lapse; fault. Failings, in a moral sense, are minor faults, proceeding rather from weakness of intellect or from carelessness, than from bad motives. But the word is often abusively applied to vices of a grosser kind.

2. The act of failing or becoming insolvent.

FA'ILURE, noun fa'ilyur.

1. A failing; deficience; cessation of supply, or total defect; as the failure of springs or streams; failure of rain; failure of crops.

2. Omission; non-performance; as the failure of a promise; a man's failure in the execution of a trust.

3. Decay, or defect from decay; as the failure of memory or of sight.

4. A breaking, or becoming insolvent. At the close of a war, the prices of commodities fall, and innumerable failures secceed.

5. A failing; a slight fault. [Little used.]

FAIN, adjective

1. Glad; pleased; rejoiced. but the appropriate sense of the word is, glad or pleased to do something under some kind of necessity; that is, glad to evade evil or secure good. Thus, says Locke, 'The learned Castalio was fain to make trenches at Basil, to keep himself from starving.' this appropriation of the word, which is modern, led Dr. Johnson into a mistake in defining the word. The proper signification is glad, joyful.

FAIN, adverb Gladly; with joy or pleasure.

He would fain flee out of his hand. Job 27:22.

He would fain have filled his belly with husks. Luke 15:16.

FAIN, verb intransitive to wish or desire. [Not used.]

FA'INING, participle present tense wishing; desiring fondly.

In his faining eye.

FAINT, adjective [Latin vanus, whence to vanish. Eng. to wane.]

1. weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, to be rendered faint by excessive evacuations.

2. Weak; feeble; languid; exhausted; as faint with fatigue, hunger or thirst.

3. Weak, as color; not bright or vivid; not strong; as a faint color; a faint red or blue; a faint light.

4. Feeble; weak, as sound; not loud; as a faint sound; a faint voice.

5. Imperfect; feeble; not striking; as a faint resemblance or image.

6. Cowardly; timorous. A faint heart never wins a fair lady.

7. Feeble; not vigorous; not active; as a faint resistance; a faint exertion.

8. Dejected; depressed; dispirited.

My heart is faint Lamentations 1:13.

FAINT, verb intransitive

1. To lose the animal functions; to lose strength and color, and become senseless and motionless; to swoon; sometimes with away. he fainted for loss of blood.

On hearing the honor intended her, she fainted away.

2. To become feeble; to decline or fail in strength and vigor; to be weak.

If I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way. Mark 8:3.

3. To sink into dejection; to lose courage or spirit.

Let not your hearts faint Deuteronomy 20:3.

If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. Proverbs 24:10.

4. To decay; to disappear; to vanish.

Gilded clouds, while we gaze on them, faint before the eye.

FAINT, verb transitive To deject; to depress; to weaken. [Unusual.]

FAINTHEARTED, adjective Cowardly; timorous; dejected; easily depressed, or yielding to fear.

Fear not, neither be fainthearted Isaiah 7:4.

FAINTHEARTEDLY, adverb In a cowardly manner.

FAINTHEARTEDNESS, noun Cowardice; timorousness; want of courage.

FA'INTING, participle present tense Falling into a swoon; failing; losing strength or courage; becoming feeble or timid.

FA'INTING, noun A temporary loss of strength, color and respiration; syncope; deliquium; leipothymy; a swoon.

FA'INTISH, adjective Slightly faint.

FA'INTISHNESS, noun A slight degree of faintness.

FA'INTLING, adjective Timorous; feeble-minded. [Not used.]

FA'INTLY, adverb

1. In a feeble, languid manner; without vigor or activity; as, to attack or defend faintly

2. With a feeble flame; as, a torch burns faintly

3. With a feeble light; as, the candle burns faintly

4. With little force; as, to breathe faintly

5. Without force of representation; imperfectly; as, to describe faintly what we have seen.

6. In a low tone; with a feeble voice; as, to speak faintly

7. Without spirit or courage; timorously.

He faintly now declines the fatal strife.

FA'INTNESS, noun

1. The state of being faint; loss of strength, color and respiration.

2. Feebleness; languor; want of strength.

3. Inactivity; want of vigor.

4. Feebleness, as of color or light.

5. Feebleness of representation; as faintness of description.

6. Feebleness of mind; timorousness; dejection; irresolution.

I will send a faintness into their hearts. Leviticus 26:36.

FAINTS, noun plural the gross fetid oil remaining after distillation, or a weak spirituous liquor that runs from the still in rectifying the low wines after the proof spirit is drawn off; also, the last runnings of all spirits distilled by the alembic.

FA'INTY, adjective weak; feeble; languid.

FAIR, adjective

1. Clear; free from spots; free from a dark hue; white; as a fair skin; a fair complexion. hence,

2. Beautiful; handsome; properly, having a handsome face.

Thou art a fair woman to look upon. Genesis 12:11. Hence,

3. Pleasing to the eye; handsome or beautiful in general.

Thus was be fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches. Ezekiel 31:3.

4. Clear; pure; free from feculence or extraneous matter; as fair water.

5. Clear; not cloudy or overcast; as fair weather; a fair sky.

6. Favorable; prosperous; blowing in a direction towards the place of destination; as a fair wind at sea.

7. Open; direct, as a way or passage. You are in a fair way to promotion. hence, likely to succeed. he stands as fair to succeed as any man.

8. Open to attack or access; unobstructed; as a fair mark; a fair butt; fair in sight; in fair sight; a fair view.

9. Open; frank; hones; hence, equal; just; equitable. My friend is a fair man; his offer is fair; his propositions are fair and honorable.

10. Not effected by insidious or unlawful methods; not foul.

He died a fair and natural death.

11. Frank; candid; not sophistical or insidious; as a fair disputant.

12. Honest; honorable; mild; opposed to insidious and compulsory; as, to accomplish a thing by fair means.

13. Frank; civil; pleasing; not harsh.

When fair words and good counsel will not prevail on us, we must be frighted into our duty.

14. Equitable; just; erited.

His doom is fair

That dust I am, and shall to dust return.

15. Liberal; not narrow; as a fair livelihood.

16. Plain; legible; as, the letter is written in a fair hand.

17. Free from stain or blemish; unspotted; untarnished; as a fair character or fame.

FAIR, adverb

1. Openly; frankly; civilly; complaisantly.

One of the company spoke him fair

2. Candidly; honestly; equitably; He promised fair

3. Happily; successfully.

Now fair befall thee.

4. On good terms; as, to keep fair with the world; to stand fair with one's companions.

To bid fair is to be likely, or to have a fair prospect.

FAIR and square, just dealing; honesty.

FAIR, noun

1. Elliptically, a fair woman; a handsome female. The fair the female sex.

2. Fairness; applied to things or persons. [Not used.]

FAIR, noun [Latin forum, or feriae, a holiday, a day exempt from labor; Gr. to trade, whence, emporium, the primary sense of which is to pass.]

A stated market in a particular town or city; a stated meeting of buyers and sellers for trade. A fair is annual or more frequent. The privilege of holding fairs is granted by the king or supreme power. Among the most celebrated fairs in Europe are those of Frankfort and Leipsic in Germany; of Novi in the Milanese; of Riga and Archangel in Russia; of Lyons and St. Germain in France. In Great Britain many towns enjoy this privilege.

FA'IRING, noun A present given at a fair.

FA'IRLY, adverb

1. Beautifully; handsomely. [Little used.]

2. Commodiously; conveniently; as a town fairly situated for foreign trade.

3. Frankly; honestly; justly; equitably; without disguise, fraud or prevarication. The question was fairly stated and argued. Let us deal fairly with all men.

4. Openly; ingenuously; plainly. Let us deal fairly with ourselves or our own hearts.

5. Candidly.

I interpret fairly your design.

6. Without perversion or violence; as, an inference may be fairly deduced from the premises.

7. Without blots; in plain letters; plainly; legibly; as an instrument or record fairly written.

8. Completely; without deficience. His antagonist fought till he was fairly defeated.

9. Softly; gently.

FA'IRNESS, noun

1. Clearness; freedom from spots or blemishes; whiteness; as the fairness of skin or complexion.

2. Clearness; purity; as the fairness of water.

3. Freedom from stain or blemish; as the fairness of character or reputation.

4. Beauty; elegance; as the fairness of form.

5. Frankness; candor; hence, honesty; ingenuousness; as fairness in trade.

6. Openness; candor; freedom from disguise, insidiousness or prevarication; as the fairness of an argument.

7. Equality of terms; equity; as the fairness of a contract.

8. Distinctness; freedom from blots or obscurity; as the fairness of hand-writing; the fairness of a copy.

FA'IRY, noun

[The origin of this word is not obvious, and the radical letters are uncertain. the conjectures of Baxter, Jamieson and others throw no satisfactory light on the subject.]

1. A fay; an imaginary being or spirit, supposed to assume a human form, dance in meadows, steal infants and play a variety of pranks. [See Elf and Demon.]

2. An enchantress.

Fairy of the mine, an imaginary being supposed to inhabit mines, wandering about in the drifts and chambers, always employed in cutting ore, turning the windlass, etc., yet effecting nothing. The Germans believe in two species; one fierce and malevolent; the other gentle. [See Cobalt.]

Fairy ring or circle, a phenomenon observed in fields, vulgarly supposed to be caused by fairies in their dances. This circle is of two kinds; one about seven yards in diameter, containing a round bare path, a foot broad, with green grass in the middle; the other of different size, encompassed with grass.

FA'IRY, adjective

1. Belonging to fairies; as fairy land

2. Given by fairies; as fairy money or favors.

FA'IRYLIKE, adjective Imitating the manner of fairies.

FA'IRYSTONE, noun A stone found in gravel pits.

The fossil echinite, abundant in chalk pits.

FAITH, noun [Latin fides, fido, to trust; Gr. to persuade, to draw towards any thing, to conciliate; to believe, to obey. In the Greek Lexicon of Hederic it is said, the primitive signification of the verb is to bind and draw or lead, as signifies a rope or cable. But this remark is a little incorrect. The sense of the verb, from which that of rope and binding is derived, is to strain, to draw, and thus to bind or make fast. A rope or cable is that which makes fast. Heb.]

1. Belief; the assent of the mind to the truth of what is declared by another, resting on his authority and veracity, without other evidence; the judgment that what another states or testifies is the truth. I have strong faith or no faith in the testimony of a witness, or in what a historian narrates.

2. The assent of the mind to the truth of a proposition advanced by another; belief, or probable evidence of any kind.

3. In theology, the assent of the mind or understanding to the truth of what God has revealed. Simple belief of the scriptures, of the being and perfections of God, and of the existence, character and doctrines of Christ, founded on the testimony of the sacred writers, is called historical or speculative faith; a faith little distinguished from the belief of the existence and achievements of Alexander or of Cesar.

4. Evangelical, justifying, or saving faith is the assent of the mind to the truth of divine revelation, on the authority of God's testimony, accompanied with a cordial assent of the will or approbation of the heart; an entire confidence or trust in God's character and declarations, and in the character and doctrines of Christ, with an unreserved surrender of the will to his guidance, and dependence on his merits for salvation. In other words, that firm belief of God's testimony, and of the truth of the gospel, which influences the will, and leads to an entire reliance on Christ for salvation.

Being justified by faith Romans 5:1.

Without faith it is impossible to please God. Hebrews 11:1.

For we walk by faith and not by sight. 2 Corinthians 5:7.

With the heart man believeth to righteousness. Romans 10:6.

The faith of the gospel is that emotion of the mind, which is called trust or confidence, exercised towards the moral character of God, and particularly of the Savior.

FAITH is an affectionate practical confidence in the testimony of God.

FAITH is a firm, cordial belief in the veracity of God, in all the declarations of his word; or a full and affectionate confidence in the certainty of those things which God has declared, and because he has declared them.

5. The object of belief; a doctrine or system of doctrines believed; a system of revealed truths received by christians.

They heard only, that he who persecuted us in times past, now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed. Galatians 1:23.

6. The promises of God, or his truth and faithfulness.

shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? Rom 3.

7. An open profession of gospel truth.

Your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world. Rom 1.

8. A persuasion or belief of the lawfulness of things indifferent.

Hast thou faith? Have it to thyself before God. Rom 14.

9. Faithfulness; fidelity; a strict adherence to duty and fulfillment of promises.

Her failing, while her faith to me remains, I would conceal.

Children in whom is no faith Deuteronomy 32:20.

10. Word or honor pledged; promise given; fidelity. He violated his plighted faith

For you alone I broke my faith with injured Palamon.

11. Sincerity; honesty; veracity; faithfulness. We ought in good faith to fulfill all our engagements.

12. Credibility or truth. Unusual.]

The faith of the foregoing narrative.

FA'ITHED, adjective Honest; sincere. [Not used.]

FA'ITHFUL, adjective

1. Firm in adherence to the truth and to the duties of religion.

Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. Revelation 2:10.

2. Firmly adhering to duty; of true fidelity; loyal; true to allegiance; as a faithful subject.

3. constant in the performance of duties or services; exact in attending to commands; as a faithful servant.

4. Observant of compact, treaties, contracts, vows or other engagements; true to one's word. A government should be faithful to its treaties; individuals, to their word.

5. True; exact; in conformity to the letter and spirit; as a faithful execution of a will.

6. True to the marriage covenant; as a faithful wife or husband.

7. Conformable to truth; as a faithful narrative or representation.

8. Constant; not fickle; as a faithful lover or friend.

9. True; worthy of belief. 2 Timothy 2:2.

FA'ITHFULLY, adverb

1. In a faithful manner; with good faith.

2. With strict adherence to allegiance and duty; applied to subjects.

3. With strict observance of promises, vows, covenants or duties; without failure of performance; honestly; exactly. The treaty or contract was faithfully executed.

4. Sincerely; with strong assurances; he faithfully promised.

5. Honestly; truly; without defect, fraud, trick or ambiguity. The battle was faithfully described or represented.

They suppose the nature of things to be faithfully signified by their names.

6. Confidently; steadily.

FA'ITHFULNESS, noun

1. Fidelity; loyalty; firm adherence to allegiance and duty; as the faithfulness of a subject.

2. Truth; veracity; as the faithfulness of God.

3. Strict adherence to injunctions, and to the duties of a station; as the faithfulness of servants or ministers.

4. Strict performance of promises, vows or covenants; constancy in affection; as the faithfulness of a husband or wife.

FA'ITHLESS, adjective

1. Without belief in the revealed truths of religion; unbelieving.

O faithless generation. Math 18.

2. Not believing; not giving credit to.

3. Not adhering to allegiance or duty; disloyal; perfidious; treacherous; as a faithless subject.

4. Not true to a master or employer; neglectful; as a faithless servant.

5. Not true to the marriage covenant; false; as a faithless husband or wife.

6. Not observant of promises.

7. Deceptive.

Yonder faithless phantom.

FA'ITHLESSNESS, noun

1. Unbelief, as to revealed religion.

2. Perfidy; treachery; disloyalty; as in subjects.

3. Violation of promises or covenants; inconstancy; as of husband or wife.

FA'ITOUR, noun [Latin factor.] An evildoer; a scoundrel; a mean fellow. obsolete

FAKE, noun

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

F'AKIR,

F'AQUIR, noun

A monk in India. The fakirs subject themselves to severe austerities and mortifications. Some of them condemn themselves to a standing posture all their lives, supported only by a stick or rope under their arm-pits. Some mangle their bodies with scourges or knives. Others wander about in companies, telling fortunes, and these are said to be arrant villains.

FALCA'DE, noun [Latin falx, a sickle or sythe.]

A horse is said to make a falcade when he throws himself on his haunches two or three times, as in very quick curvets; that is a falcade is a bending very low.

FALC'ATE,

FALC'ATED, adjective [Latin falcatus, from faix, a sickly, sythe or reaping hook.]

Hooked; bent like a sickle or sythe; an epithet applied to the new moon.

FALC'ATED, a. [L. falcatus, from faix, a sickly, sythe or reaping hook.]

FALCA'TION, noun Crookedness; a bending in the form of a sickle.

FAL'CHION, noun fal'chun. a is pronounced as in fall. [Latin falx, a reaping hook.]

A short crooked sword; a cimiter.

FAL'CIFORM adjective [Latin falx, a reaping hook, and form.]

In the shape of a sickle; resembling a reaping hook.

FAL'CON, noun Sometimes pronoun fawcon. [Latin falco, a hawk. The falcon is probably so named from its curving beak or talons.]

1. A hawk; but appropriately, a hawk trained to sport, as in falconry, which see. It is said that this name is, by sportsmen, given to the female alone; for the male is smaller, weaker and less courageous, and is therefore called tircelet or tarsel.

This term, in ornithology, is applied to a division of the genus Falco, with a short hooked beak and very long wings, the strongest armed and most courageous species, and therefore used in falconry.

2. A sort of cannon, whose diameter at the bore is five inches and a quarter, and carrying shot of two pounds and a half.

FAL'CONER, noun A person who breeds and trains hawks for taking wild fowls; one who follows the sport of fowling with hawks.

FAL'CONET, noun A small cannon or piece of ordinance, whose diameter at the bore is four inches and a quarter, and carrying shot of one pound and a quarter.

FAL'CONRY, noun [Latin falco, a hawk.]

1. The art of training hawks to the exercise of hawking.

2. The practice of taking wild fowls by means of hawks.

FALD'AGE, noun a as in all. [Low Latin faldagium.]

In England, a privilege which anciently several lords reserved to themselves of setting up folds for sheep, in any fields within their manors, the better to manure them.

FALD'FEE, noun A fee or composition paid anciently by tenants for the privilege of faldage.

FALD'ING, noun A kind of course cloth. obsolete

FALD'STOOL, noun [fald or fold and stool.]

1. A kind of stool placed at the south side of the altar, at which the kings of England kneel at their coronation.

2. The chair of a bishop inclosed by the railing of the altar.

3. An arm-chair or folding chair.

FALL, verb intransitive preterit tense fell; participle passive fallen. [Latin fallo, to fail, to deceive, Gr.; Heb. to fall Fail agrees better with Heb., but these words may have had one primitive root, the sense of which was to move, to recede, to pass. See Foul.]

1. To drop from a higher place; to descend by the power of gravity alone. Rain falls from the clouds; a man falls from his horse; ripe fruits fall from trees; an ox falls into a pit.

I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. Luke 10:18.

2. To drop from an erect posture.

I fell at his feet to worship him. Revelation 19:1.

3. To disembogue; to pass at the outlet; to flow out of its channel into a pond, lake or sea, as a river. The Rhone falls into the Mediterranean sea. The Danube falls into the Euxine. The Mississippi falls into the gulf of Mexico.

4. To depart from the faith, or from rectitude; to apostatize. Adam fell by eating the forbidden fruit.

Labor to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. Hebrews 4:11.

5. To die; particularly by violence.

Ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. Leviticus 26:7.

A thousand shall fall at thy side. Psalms 91:7.

6. To come to an end suddenly; to vanish; to perish.

The greatness of these Irish lords suddenly fell and vanished.

7. To be degraded; to sink into disrepute or disgrace; to be plunged into misery; as, to fall from an elevated station, or from a prosperous state.

8. To decline in power, wealth or glory; to sink into weakness; to be overthrown or ruined. This is the renowned Tyre; but oh, how fallen.

Heaven and earth will witness, if Rome must fall that we are innocent.

9. To pass into a worse state than the former; to come; as, to fall into difficulties; to fall under censure of imputation; to fall into error or absurdity; to fall into a snare. In these and similar phrases, the sense of suddenness, accident or ignorance is often implied; but not always.

10. To sink; to be lowered. The mercury in a thermometer rises and falls with the increase and diminution of heat. The water of a river rises and falls. The tide falls.

11. To decrease; to be diminished in weight or value. The price of goods falls with plenty and rises with scarcity. Pliny tells us, the as fell from a pound to two ounces in the first Punic war.

12. To sink; not to amount to the full.

The greatness of finances and revenue doth fall under computation.

13. To be rejected; to sink into disrepute.

This book must stand or fall with thee.

14. To decline from violence to calmness from intensity to remission. The wind falls and a calm succeeds.

At length her fury fell.

15. To pass into a new state of body or mind; to become; as, to fall asleep; to fall distracted; to fall sick; to fall into rage or passion; to fall in love; to fall into temptation.

16. To sink into an air of dejection, discontent, anger, sorrow or shame; applied to the countenance or look.

Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. Genesis 4:1.

I have observed of late thy looks are fallen.

17. To happen; to befall; to come.

Since this fortune falls to you.

18. To light on; to come by chance.

The Romans fell on this model by chance.

19. To come; to rush on; to assail.

Fear and dread shall fall on them. Exodus 15:16.

And fear fell on them all. Acts 19:1.

20. To come; to arrive.

The vernal equinox, which at the Nicene council fell on the 21st of March, falls now about ten days sooner.

21. To come unexpectedly.

It happened this evening that we fell into a pleasing walk.

22. To begin with haste, ardor or vehemence; to rush or hurry to. They fell to blows.

The mixt multitude fell to lusting. Numbers 11:31.

23. To pass or be transferred by chance, lot, distribution, inheritance or otherwise, as possession or property. The estate or the province fell to his brother. The kingdom fell into the hands of his rival. A large estate fell to his heirs.

24. To become the property of; to belong or appertain to.

If to her share some female errors fall

Look in her face; and you'll forget them all.

25. To be dropped or uttered carelessly. Some expressions fell from him. An unguarded expression fell from his lips. Not a word fell from him on the subject.

26. To sink; to languish; to become feeble or faint. Our hopes and fears rise and fall with good or ill success.

27. To be brought forth. Take care of lambs when they first fall

28. To issue; to terminate.

Sit still, my daughter, till thou knowest how the matter will fall Ruth 3:18.

To fall aboard of, to strike against another ship.

To fall astern, to move or be driven backward; or to remain behind. A ship falls astern by the force of a current, or when outsailed by another.

1. To fall away, to lose flesh; to become lean or emaciated; to pine.

2. To renounce or desert allegiance; to revolt or rebel.

3. To renounce or desert the faith; to apostatize; to sink into wickedness.

These for awhile believe, and in time of temptation fall away. Luke 8:13.

4. To perish; to be ruined; to be lost.

How can the soul - fall away into nothing.

5. To decline gradually; to fade; to languish, or become faint.

One color falls away by just degrees, and another rises insensibly.

1. To fall back, to recede; to give way.

2. To fail of performing a promise or purpose; not to fulfill.

To fall calm, to cease to blow; to become calm.

1. To fall down, to prostrate one's self in worship.

All nations shall fall down before him. Psalms 72:11.

2. To sink; to come to the ground.

Down fell the beauteous youth.

3. To bend or bow as a suppliant. Isaiah 14:1.

4. To sail or pass towards the mouth of a river, or other outlet.

To fall foul, to attack; to make an assault.

1. To fall from, to recede from; to depart; not to adhere; as, to fall from an agreement or engagement.

2. To depart from allegiance or duty; to revolt.

1. To fall in, to concur; to agree with. The measure falls in with popular opinion.

2. To comply; to yield to.

You will find it difficult to persuade learned men to fall in with your projects.

3. To come in; to join; to enter. fall into the ranks; fall in on the right.

To fall in with, to meet, as a ship; also, to discover or come near, as land.

1. To fall off, to withdraw; to separate; to be broken or detached. friends fall off in adversity.

Love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide.

2. To perish; to die away. Words fall off by disuse.

3. To apostatize; to forsake; to withdraw from the faith, or from allegiance or duty.

Those captive tribes fell off from God to worship calves.

4. To forsake; to abandon. His subscribers fell off.

5. To drop. Fruits fall off when ripe.

6. To depreciate; to depart from former excellence; to become less valuable or interesting. The magazine or the review falls off; it has fallen off.

7. To deviate or depart from the course directed, or to which the head of the ship was before directed; to fall to leeward.

1. To fall on, to begin suddenly and eagerly.

FALL on, and try thy appetite to eat.

2. To begin an attack; to assault; to assail.

FALL on, fall on and hear him not.

3. To drop on; to descend on.

1. To fall out, to quarrel; to begin to contend.

A soul exasperated in ills, falls out with every thing, its friend, itself -

2. To happen; to befall; to chance.

There fell out a bloody quarrel betwixt the frogs and the mice.

1. To fall over, to revolt; to desert from one side to another.

2. To fall beyond.

To fall short, to be deficient. The corn falls short. We all fall short in duty.

1. To fall to, to begin hastily and eagerly.

FALL to, with eager joy, on homely food.

2. To apply one's self to. He will never after fall to labor.

They fell to raising money, under pretense of the relief of Ireland.

1. To fall under, to come under, or within the limits of; to be subjected to. They fell under the jurisdiction of the emperor.

2. To come under; to become the subject of. This point did not fall under the cognizance or deliberations of the court. These things do not fall under human sight or observation.

3. To come within; to be ranged or reckoned with. These substances fall under a different class or order.

1. To upon, to attack. [See to fall on.]

2. To rush against.

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 much diversified by modifying words, that it is not easy to enumerate its senses in all its applications.

FALL, verb transitive

1. To let fall; to drop. And fall thy edgeless sword. I am willing to fall this argument.

[This application is obsolete.]

2. To sink; to depress; as, to raise or fall the voice.

3. To diminish; to lessen or lower; as, to fall the price of commodities. [Little used.]

4. To bring forth; as, to fall lambs. [Little used.]

5. To fell; to cut down; as, to fall a tree. [This use is now common in America, and fell and fall are probably from a common root.]

FALL, noun

1. The act of dropping or descending from a higher to a lower place by gravity; descent; as a fall from a horse or from the yard of a ship.

2. The act of dropping or tumbling from an erect posture. he was walking on ice and had a fall

3. Death; destruction; overthrow.

Our fathers had a great fall before our enemies.

4. Ruin; destruction.

They conspire thy fall

5. Downfall; degradation; loss of greatness or office; as the fall of Cardinal Wolsey.

Behold thee glorious only in thy fall

6. Declension of greatness, power or dominion; ruin; as the fall of the Roman empire.

7. Diminution; decrease of price or value; depreciation; as the fall of prices; the fall of rents; the fall of interest.

8. Declination of sound; a sinking of tone; cadence; as the fall of the voice at the close of a sentence.

9. Declivity; the descent of land or a hill; a slope.

10. Descent of water; a cascade; a cataract; a rush of water down a steep place; usually in the plural; sometimes in the singular; as the falls of Niagara, or the Mohawk; the fall of the Hoosatonuc at Canaan. fall is applied to a perpendicular descent, or to one that is very steep. When the descent is moderate, we name it rapids. Custom, however, sometimes deviates from this rule, and the rapids of rivers are called falls.

11. The outlet or 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.

12. Extent of descent; the distance which any thing falls; as, the water of a pond has a fall of five feet.

13. The fall of the leaf; the season when leaves fall from trees; autumn.

14. That which falls; a falling; as a fall of rain or snow.

15. The act of felling or cutting down; as the fall of timber.

16. fall or the fall by way of distinction, the apostasy; the act of our first parents in eating the forbidden fruit; also, the apostasy of the rebellious angels.

17. Formerly, a kind of vail.

18. In seamen's language, the loose end of a tackle.

19. In Great Britain, a term applied to several measures, linear, superficial and solid.

FALLA'CIOUS, adjective [Latin fallax, from fallo, to deceive. See Fail.]

1. Deceptive; deceiving; deceitful; wearing a false appearance; misleading; producing error or mistake; sophistical; applied to things only; as a fallacious argument or proposition; a fallacious appearance.

2. Deceitful; false; not well founded; producing disappointment; mocking expectation; as a fallacious hope.

FALLA'CIOUSLY, adverb In a fallacious manner; deceitfully; sophistical; with purpose or in a manner to deceive.

We have seen how fallaciously the author has stated the cause.

FALLA'CIOUSNESS, noun Tendency to deceive or mislead; inconclusiveness; as the fallaciousness of an argument, or of appearances.

FAL'LACY, noun [Latin fallacia.]

1. Deceptive or false appearance; deceitfulness; that which misleads the eye or the mind. Detect the fallacy of the argument.

2. Deception; mistake. This appearance may be all a fallacy

I'll entertain the favored fallacy

FALL'EN, participle passive or adjective Dropped; descended; degraded; decreased; ruined.

FAL'LENCY, noun Mistake. obsolete

FALL'ER, noun One that falls.

FALLIBIL'ITY, noun [See Fallible.]

1. Liableness to deceive; the quality of being fallible; uncertainty; possibility of being erroneous, or of leading to mistake; as the fallibility of an argument, of reasoning or of testimony.

2. Liableness to err or to be deceived in one's own judgment; as the fallibility of men.

FAL'LIBLE, adjective [Latin fallo, to deceive.]

1. Liable to fail or mistake; that may err or be deceived in judgment. All men are fallible

2. Liable to error; that may deceive. Our judgments, our faculties, our opinions are fallible; our hopes are fallible

FALL'ING, participle present tense Descending; dropping; disemboguing; apostatizing; declining; decreasing; sinking; coming.

FALL'INGIN, noun An indenting or hollow; opposed to rising or prominence.

Falling away, apostasy.

Falling off, departure from the line or course; declension.

FAL'LOW, adjective [Latin fulvus; qu. helvus, for felvus. This word may be from the root of fail, fallo; so called from the fading color of autumnal leaves, or from failure, withering. Hence also the sense of unoccupied, applied to land.]

1. Pale red or pale yellow; as a fallow deer.

2. Unsowed; not tilled; left to rest after a year or more of tillage; as fallow ground; a fallow field.

Break up your fallow ground. Jeremiah 4:3.

3. Left unsowed after plowing. The word is applied to the land after plowing.

4. Unplowed; uncultivated.

5. Unoccupied; neglected. [Not in use.]

Let the cause lie fallow

FAL'LOW, noun

1. Land that has lain a year or more untilled or unseeded. It is also called fallow when plowed without being sowed.

The plowing of fallows is a benefit to land.

2. The plowing or tilling of land, without sowing it, for a season. Summer fallow properly conducted, has ever been found a sure method of destroying weeds.

By 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.

A green fallow in England, is that where land is rendered mellow and clean from weeks, by means of some green crop, as turnips, potatoes, etc.

FAL'LOW, verb intransitive To fade; to become yellow. obsolete

FAL'LOW, verb transitive To plow, harrow and break land without seeding it, for the purpose of destroying weeds and insects, and rendering it mellow. It is found for the interest of the farmer to fallow cold, strong, clayey land.

FAL'LOWED, participle passive Plowed and harrowed for a season, without being sown.

FAL'LOWING, participle present tense Plowing and harrowing land without sowing it.

FAL'LOWING, noun The operation of plowing and harrowing land without sowing it. fallowing is found to contribute to the destruction of snails and other vermin.

FAL'LOWIST, noun One who favors the practice of fallowing land.

On this subject, a controversy has arisen between two sects, the fallowists and the anti-fallowists. [Unusual.]

FAL'LOWNESS, noun A fallow state; barrenness; exemption from bearing fruit.

FALS'ARY, noun [See False.] A falsifier of evidence. [Not in use.]

FALSEHOOD, noun fols'hood. [false and hood.]

1. Contrariety or inconformity to fact or truth; as the falsehood of a report.

2. Want of truth or veracity; a lie; an untrue assertion.

3. Want of honesty; treachery; deceitfulness; perfidy.

But falsehood is properly applied to things only. [See falseness.]

4. Counterfeit; false appearance; imposture.

FALSELY, adverb fols'ly.

1. In a manner contrary to truth and fact; not truly; as, to speak or swear falsely; to testify falsely

2. Treacherously; perfidiously.

Swear to me - that thou wilt not deal falsely with me.

Genesis 21:23.

3. Erroneously; by mistake.

FALSENESS, noun fols'ness.

1. Want of integrity and veracity, either in principle or in act; as the falseness of a man's heart, or his falseness to his word.

2. Duplicity; deceit; double-dealing.

3. Unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; traitorousness.

The prince is in no danger of being betrayed by the falseness or cheated by the avarice of such a servant.

FALS'ER, noun A deceiver.

FALSET'TO, noun A feigned voice.

FALS'IFIABLE, adjective [from falsify.] That may be falsified, counterfeited or corrupted.

FALSIFICA'TION, noun

1. The act of making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not; as the falsification of words.

2. Confutation.

FALSIFICA'TOR, noun A falsifier.

FALS'IFIED, participle passive Counterfeited.

FALS'IFIER, noun

1. One who counterfeits, or gives to a thing a deceptive appearance; or one who makes false coin.

2. One who invents falsehood; a liar.

3. One who proves a thing to be false.

FALS'IFY, verb transitive

1. To counterfeit; to forge; to make something false, or in imitation of that which is true; as, to falsify coin.

The Irish bards use to falsify every thing.

2. To disprove; to prove to be false; as, to falsify a record.

3. To violate; to break by falsehood; as, to falsify one's faith or word.

4. To show to be unsound, insufficient or not proof. [Not in use.]

His ample shield is falsified.

FALS'IFY, verb intransitive To tell lies; to violate the truth.

It is universally unlawful to lie and falsify

FALS'IFYING, participle present tense Counterfeiting; forging; lying; proving to be false; violating.

FALS'ITY, noun [Latin falsitas.]

1. Contrariety or inconformity to truth; the quality of being false.

Probability does not make any alteration, either in the truth or falsity of things.

2. Falsehood; a lie; a false assertion. [This sense is less proper.]

FAL'TER, verb intransitive [Latin fallo, the primary sense of which is to fall short, or to err, to miss, to deviate.]

1. To hesitate, fail or break in the utterance of words; to speak with a broken or trembling utterance; to stammer. His tongue falters. He speaks with a faltering tongue. He falters at the question.

2. To fail, tremble or yield in exertion; not to be firm and steady. His legs falter

3. To fail in the regular exercise of the understanding. We observe idiots to falter

FAL'TER, verb transitive To sift. [Not in use.]

FAL'TERING, participle present tense Hesitating; speaking with a feeble, broken, trembling utterance; failing.

FAL'TERING, noun Feebleness; deficiency.

FAL'TERINGLY, adverb With hesitation; with a trembling, broken voice; with difficulty or feebleness.

FAME, noun [Latin fama; Gr. from to speak.]

1. Public report or rumor.

The fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's brethren are come. Genesis 14:1.

2. Favorable report; report of good or great actions; report that exalts the character; celebrity; renown; as the fame of Howard or of Washington; the fame of Solomon.

And the fame of Jesus went throughout all Syria. Matthew 4:24.

FAME, verb transitive

1. To make famous.

2. To report.

FA'MED, adjective Much talked of; renowned; celebrated; distinguished and exalted by favorable reports. Aristides was famed for learning and wisdom, and Cicero for eloquence.

He is famed for mildness, peace and prayer.

FA'MELESS, adjective Without renown.

FAMIL'IAR, adjective famil'yar. [Latin familiaris, familia, family, which see.]

1. Pertaining to a family; domestic.

2. Accustomed by frequent converse; well acquainted with; intimate; close; as a familiar friend or companion.

3. Affable; not formal or distant; easy in conversation.

Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar.

4. Well acquainted with; knowing by frequent use. Be familiar with the scriptures.

5. Well known; learned or well understood by frequent use. Let the scriptures be familiar to us.

6. Unceremonious; free; unconstrained; easy. The emperor conversed with the gentleman in the most familiar manner.

7. Common; frequent and intimate. By familiar intercourse, strong attachments are soon formed.

8. Easy; unconstrained; not formal. His letters are written in a familiar style.

He sports in loose familiar strains.

9. Intimate in an unlawful degree.

A poor man found a priest familiar with his wife.

FAMIL'IAR, noun

1. An intimate; a close companion; one long acquainted; one accustomed to another by free, unreserved converse.

All my familiars watched for my halting. Jeremiah 20:10.

2. A demon or evil spirit supposed to attend at a call. But in general we say, a familiar spirit.

3. In the court of Inquisition, a person who assists in apprehending and imprisoning the accused.

FAMILIAR'ITY, noun

1. Intimate and frequent converse, or association in company. The gentlemen lived in remarkable familiarity Hence,

2. Easiness of conversation; affability; freedom from ceremony.

3. Intimacy; intimate acquaintance; unconstrained intercourse.

FAMIL'IARIZE, verb transitive

1. To make familiar or intimate; to habituate; to accustom; to make well known, by practice or converse; as, to familiarize one's self to scenes of distress.

2. To make easy by practice or customary use, or by intercourse.

3. To bring down from a state of distant superiority.

The genius smiled on me with a look of compassion and affability that familiarized him to my imagination.

FAMIL'IARIZED, participle passive Accustomed; habituated; made easy by practice, custom or use.

FAMIL'IARIZING, participle present tense Accustoming; rendering easy by practice, custom or use.

FAMIL'IARLY, adverb

1. In a familiar manner; unceremoniously; without constraint; without formality.

2. Commonly; frequently; with the ease and unconcern that arises from long custom or acquaintance.

FAM'ILISM, noun The tenets of the familists.

FAM'ILIST, noun [from family.] One of the religious sect called the family of love.

FAM'ILY, noun [Latin familia.]

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. Those who descend from one common progenitor; a tribe or race; kindred; lineage. Thus the Israelites were a branch of the family of Abraham; and the descendants of Reuben, of Manasseh, etc., were called their families. The whole human race are the family of Adam, the human family

3. Course of descent; genealogy; line of ancestors.

Go and complain thy family is young.

4. Honorable descent; noble or respectable stock. He is a man of family

5. A collection or union of nations or states.

The states of Europe were, by the prevailing maxims of its policy, closely united in one family

6. In popular language, an order, class or genus of animals or of other natural productions, having something in common, by which they are distinguished from others; as, quadrupeds constitute a family of animals, and we speak of the family or families of plants.

FAM'INE, noun [Latin fames.]

1. Scarcity of food; dearth; a general want of provisions sufficient for the inhabitants of a country or besieged place.

There was a famine in the land. Genesis 26:1.

2. Want; destitution; as a famine of the word of life.

FAM'ISH, verb transitive [Latin fames.]

1. To starve; to kill or destroy with hunger.

2. To exhaust the strength of, by hunger or thirst; to distress with hunger.

The pains of famished Tantalus he'll feel.

3. To kill by deprivation or denial of any thing necessary for life.

FAM'ISH, verb intransitive

1. To die of hunger. More generally,

2. To suffer extreme hunger or thirst; to be exhausted in strength, or to come near to perish, for want of food or drink.

You are all resolved rather to die, than to famish

3. To be distressed with want; to come near to perish by destitution.

The Lord will not suffer the righteous to famish Proverbs 10:3.

FAM'ISHED, participle passive Starved; exhausted by want of sustenance.

FAM'ISHING, participle present tense Starving; killing; perishing by want of food.

FAM'ISHMENT, noun The pain of extreme hunger or thirst; extreme want of sustenance.

FA'MOUS, adjective [Latin famosus. See Fame.]

1. Celebrated in fame or public report; renowned; much talked of and praised; distinguished in story.

Two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation. Numbers 16:2.

It is followed by for. One man is famous for erudition; another, for eloquence; and another, for military skill.

2. sometimes in a bad sense; as a famous counterfeiter; a famous pirate.

FA'MOUSED, adjective Renowned. [An ill formed word.]

FA'MOUSLY, adverb With great renown or celebration.

Then this land was famously enriched with politic grave counsel.

FA'MOUSNESS, noun Renown; great fame; celebrity.

FAN, noun [Latin vannus.]

1. An instrument used by ladies to agitate the air and cool the face in warm weather. It is made of feathers, or of thin skin, paper or taffety mounted on sticks, etc.

2. Something in the form of a woman's fan when spread, as a peacoc's tail, a window, etc.

3. An instrument for winnowing grain, by moving which the grain is thrown up and agitated, and the chaff is separated and blown away.

4. something by which the air is moved; a wing.

5. An instrument to raise the fire or flame; as a fan to inflame love.

FANAT'IC,

FANAT'ICAL, adjective [Latin fanaticus, phanaticus.]

Wild and extravagant in opinions, particularly in religious opinions; excessively enthusiastic; possessed by a kind of frenzy. Hence we say, fanatic zeal; fanatic notions or opinions.

FANAT'IC,

FANAT'ICAL, noun A person affected by excessive enthusiasm, particularly on religious subjects; one who indulges wild and extravagant notions of religion, and sometimes exhibits strange motions and postures, and vehement vociferation in religious worship. Fanatics sometimes affect to be inspired or to have intercourse with superior beings.

FANAT'ICAL, a. [L. fanaticus, phanaticus.]

FANAT'ICALLY, adverb With wild enthusiasm.

FANAT'ICALNESS, noun Fanaticism.

FANAT'ICISM, noun Excessive enthusiasm; wild and extravagant notions of religion; religious frenzy.

FANAT'ICIZE, verb transitive To make fanatic.

FAN'CIED, participle passive [See Fancy.] Imagined; conceived; liked.

FAN'CIFUL, adjective [See Fancy.]

1. Guided by the imagination, rather than by reason and experience; subject to the influence of fancy; whimsical; applied to persons. A fanciful man forms visionary projects.

2. Dictated by the imagination; full of wild images; chimerical; whimsical; ideal; visionary; applied to things; as a fanciful scheme; a fanciful theory.

FAN'CIFULLY, adverb

1. In a fanciful manner; wildly; whimsically.

2. According to fancy.

FAN'CIFULNESS, noun

1. The quality of being fanciful, or influenced by the imagination, rather than by reason and experience; the habit of following fancy; applied to persons.

2. The quality of being dictated by imagination; applied to things.

FAN'CY, noun [contracted from fantasy, Latin phantasia. Gr. from to cause to appear, to seem, to imagine, from to show, to appear, to shine. The primary sense seems to be to open, or to shoot forth.]

1. The faculty by which the mind forms images or representations of things at pleasure. It is often used as synonymous with imagination; but imagination is rather the power of combining and modifying our conceptions.

2. An opinion or notion.

I have always had a fancy that learning might be made a play and recreation to children.

3. Taste; conception.

The little chapel called the salutation in very neat, and built with a pretty fancy

4. Image; conception; thought.

How now, my lord, why do you keep alone;

Of sorriest fancies your companions making?

5. Inclination; liking. Take that which suits your fancy

How does this strike your fancy?

His fancy lay to traveling.

6. Love.

Tell me where is fancy bred.

7. Caprice; humor; whim; as an odd or strange fancy

True worth shall gain me, that it may be said,

Desert, not fancy once a woman led.

8. False notion.

9. Something that pleases or entertains without real use or value.

London-pride is a pretty fancy for borders.

FAN'CY, verb intransitive To imagine; to figure to one's self; to believe or suppose without proof. All may not be our enemies whom we fancy to be so.

If our search has reached no farther than simile and metaphor, we rather fancy than know.

FAN'CY, verb transitive

1. To form a conception of; to portray in the mind; to imagine.

He whom I fancy but can ne'er express.

2. To like; to be pleased with, particularly on account of external appearance or manners. We fancy a person for beauty and accomplishment. We sometimes fancy a lady at first sight, whom, on acquaintance, we cannot esteem.

FAN'CYFRAMED, adjective Created by the fancy.

FAN'CYFREE, adjective Free from the power of love.

FAN'CYING, participle present tense Imagining; conceiving; liking.

FAN'CYMONGER, noun One who deals in tricks of imagination.

FAN'CYSICK, adjective One whose imagination is unsound, or whose distemper is in his own mind.

FAND, old preterit tense of find. obsolete

FANDAN'GO, noun A lively dance.

FANE, noun [Latin fanum.] a temple; a place consecrated to religion; a church; used in poetry.

From men their cities, and from gods their fanes.

FAN'FARE, noun A coming into the lists with sound of trumpets; a flourish of trumpets.

FAN'FARON, noun A bully; a hector; a swaggerer; an empty boaster; a vain pretender.

FANFARONA'DE, noun A swaggering; vain boasting; ostentation; a bluster.

FANG, verb transitive [See Finger.]

To catch; to seize; to lay hold; to gripe; to clutch. obsolete

FANG, noun

1. The tusk of a boar or other animal by which the prey is seized and held; a pointed tooth.

2. A claw or talon.

3. Any shoot or other thing by which hold is taken.

The protuberant fangs of the Yuca.

FANG'ED, adjective Furnished with fangs, tusks, or something long and pointed; as a fanged adder.

Chariots fanged with sythes.

FAN'GLE, noun fang'gl.

A new attempt; a trifling scheme. [Not used.]

FAN'GLED, adjective Properly, begun, new made; hence, gaudy; showy; vainly decorated. [Seldom used, except with new. See New-fangled.]

FANG'LESS, adjective Having no fangs or tusks; toothless; as a fangless lion.

FAN'GOT, noun A quantity of wares, as raw silk, etc., from one to two hundred weight and three quarters.

FAN'ION, noun fan'yon. [Latin pannus.]

In armies, a small flag carried with the baggage.

FAN'NED, participle passive Blown with a fan; winnowed; ventilated.

FAN'NEL,

FAN'NER, noun One who fans.

FAN'NER, n. One who fans.

FAN'NING, participle present tense Blowing; ventilating.

FAN'ON, noun A sort of ornament like a scarf, worn about the left arm of a mass-priest, when he officiates.

FAN'TASIED, adjective [from fantasy, fancy.] Filled with fancies or imaginations; whimsical. [Not used.]

FAN'TASM, noun [Gr. from to appear. Usually written phantasm.]

That which appears to the imagination; a phantom; something not real.

FANTAS'TIC,

FANTAS'TICAL, adjective [Gr. vision, fancy, from to appear.]

1. Fanciful; produced or existing only in imagination; imaginary; not real; chimerical.

2. Having the nature of phantom; apparent only.

3. Unsteady; irregular.

4. Whimsical; capricious; fanciful; indulging the vagaries of imagination; as fantastic minds; a fantastic mistress.

5. Whimsical; odd.

FANTAS'TICAL, a. [Gr. vision, fancy, from to appear.]

FANTAS'TICALLY, adverb

1. By the power of imagination.

2. In a fantastic manner; capriciously; unsteadily.

Her scepter so fantastically home.

3. Whimsically; in compliance with fancy.

FANTAS'TICALNESS, noun Compliance with fancy; humorousness; whimsicalness; unreasonableness; caprice.

FAN'TASY, noun Now written fancy, which see.

Is not this something more than fantasy?

FAN'TOM, noun [Latin phantasma, from the Greek. See Fancy.]

Something that appears to the imagination; also, a specter; a ghost; an apparition. It is generally written phantom, which see.

FAP, adjective Fuddled. [Not in use.]

FAQUIR, [See Fakir.]

F'AR, adjective [Latin porro; Gr. connected with, a way, a passing, to pass or go. See Fare.]

1. Distant, in any direction; separated by a wide space from the place where one is, or from any given place remote.

They said, we are come from a far country. Joshua 9:6.

The kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country. Matthew 25:14.

The nation far and near contend in choice.

2. Figuratively, remote from purpose; contrary to design or wishes; as, far be it from me to justify cruelty.

3. Remote in affection or obedience; at enmity with; alienated; in a spiritual sense.

They that are far from thee shall perish. Psalms 123:1.

4. More or most distant of the two; as the far side of a horse. But the drivers of teams in New England generally use off; as the off side, or off horse or ox.

F'AR, adverb

1. To a great extent or distance of space; as the far extended ocean; we are separated far from each other.

Only ye shall not go very far away. Exodus 8:28.

2. figuratively, distantly in time from any point; remotely. He pushed his researches very far into antiquity.

3. In interrogatories, to what distance or extent. How far will such reasoning lead us?

4. In great part; as, the day is far spent.

5. In a great proportion; by many degrees; very much.

Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. Proverbs 31:10.

For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ, which is far better. Philippians 1:23.

6. to a certain point, degree or distance. This argument is sound and logical, as far as it goes.

Answer them how far forth you do like their articles.

From far from a great distance; from a remote place.

Far from, at a great distance; as far from home; far from hope.

1. far off, at a great distance.

They tarried in a place that was far off. 2 Samuel 15:17.

2. To a great distance.

Lo then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Psalms 55:7.

3. In a spiritual sense, alienated; at enmity; in a state of ignorance and alienation.

Ye, who were sometime far off, are made nigh by the blood of Christ. Ephesians 2:13.

Far other, very different.

F'ARCE, verb transitive [Latin farcio.]

1. To stuff; to fill with mingled ingredients. [Little used.]

The first principles of religion should not be forced with school points and private tenets.

2. To extend; to swell out; as the farced title. [Little used.]

F'ARCE, noun f'ars. [Literally, seasoning, stuffing or mixture, like the stuffing of a roasted fowl; force-meat.]

A dramatic composition, originally exhibited by charlatans or buffoons, in the open street, for the amusement of the crowd, but now introduced upon the stage. It is written without regularity, and filled with ludicrous conceits. The dialogue is usually low, the persons of inferior rank, and the fable or action trivial or ridiculous.

Farce is that in poetry which grotesque is in a picture: the persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false.

F'ARCICAL, adjective

1. Belonging to a farce; appropriated to farce.

They deny the characters to be farcical because they are actually in nature.

2. Droll; ludicrous; ridiculous.

3. Illusory; deceptive.

F'ARCICALLY, adverb In a manner suited to farce; hence, ludicrously.

F'ARCILITE, noun [from farce.] Pudding-stone. The calcarious farcilite called amenla, is formed of rounded calcarious pebbles, agglutinated by a calcarious cement.

F'ARCIN,

F'ARCING, noun Stuffing composed of mixed ingredients.

F'ARCING, n. Stuffing composed of mixed ingredients.

F'ARCTATE, adjective [Latin farctus, stuffed, from farcio.]

In botany, stuffed; crammed, or full; without vacuities; in opposition to tubular or hollow; as a farctate leaf, stem or pericarp.

F'ARCY, noun A disease of horses, sometimes of oxen, of the nature of a scabies or mange.

F'ARD, verb transitive To paint. [Not used.]

F'ARDEL, noun [Probably from the root of Latin fero, to bear, or of farcio, to stuff.] A bundle or little pace.

F'ARDEL, verb transitive To make up in bundles.

FARE, verb intransitive [This word may be connected in origin with the Heb. to go, to pass.]

1. To go; to pass; to move forward; to travel.

So on he fares, and to the border comes of Eden.

[In this literal sense the word is not in common use.]

2. To be in any state, good or bad; to be attended with any circumstances or train of events, fortunate or unfortunate.

So fares the stag among th' enraged hounds.

So fared the knight between two foes.

He fared very well; he fared very ill.

Go further and fare worse. The sense is taken from going, having a certain course; hence, being subjected to a certain train of incidents. The rich man fared sumptuously every day. He enjoyed all the pleasure which wealth and luxury could afford. Luke 16:19.

3. To feed; to be entertained. We fared well; we had a good table, and courteous treatment.

4. To proceed in a train of consequences, good or bad.

So fares it when with truth falsehood contends.

5. To happen well or ill; with it impersonally. We shall see how it will fare with him.

FARE, noun

1. 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, called also ferriage; the fare for conveyance in a coach; stage-fare. The price of conveyance over the ocean is now usually called the passage, or passage money. fare is never used for the price of conveying goods; this is called freight or transportation.

2. Food; provisions of the table. We lived on coarse fare or we had delicious fare

3. The person conveyed in a vehicle. [Not in use in United States.]

FA'REWELL, a compound of fare, in the imperative, and well. Go well; originally applied to a person departing, but by custom now applied both to those who depart and those who remain. It expresses a kind wish, a wish of happiness to those who leave or those who are left.

The verb and adverb are often separated by the pronoun; fare you well; I wish you a happy departure; may you be well in your absence.

It is sometimes an expression of separation only. farewell the year; farewell ye sweet groves; that is, I take my leave of you.

FA'REWELL, noun

1. A wish of happiness or welfare at parting; the parting compliment; adieu.

2. Leave; act of departure.

And takes her farewell of the glorious sun.

Before I take my farewell of the subject.

FAR'IN,

FARI'NA, noun [Latin farina, meal.]

1. In botany, the pollen, fine dust or powder, contained in the anthers of plants, and which is supposed to fall on the stigma, and fructify the plant.

2. In chimistry, starch or fecula, one of the proximate principles of vegetables.

Fossil farina, a variety of carbonate of lime, in thin white crusts, light as cotton, and easily reducible to powder.

FARI'NA, n. [L. farina, meal.]

FARINA'CEOUS, adjective [from Latin farina, meal.]

1. Consisting or made of meal or flour; as a farinaceous diet, which consists of the meal or flour of the various species of corn or grain.

2. Containing meal; as farinaceous seeds.

3. Like meal; mealy; pertaining to meal; as a farinaceous taste or smell.

F'ARM, noun

1. A tract of land leased on rent reserved; ground let to a tenant on condition of his paying a certain sum annually or otherwise for the use of it. A farm is usually such a portion of land as is cultivated by one man, and includes the buildings and fences. Rents were formerly pain in provisions, or the produce of land; but now they are generally paid in money.

This is the signification of farm in Great Britain, where most of the land is leased to cultivators.

2. In the United States, a portion or tract of land, consisting usually of grass land, meadow, pasture, tillage and woodland, cultivated by one man and usually owned by him in fee. A like tract of land under lease is called a farm; but most cultivators are proprietors of the land, and called farmers.

A tract of new land, covered with forest, if intended to be cultivated by one man as owner, is also called a farm A man goes into the new States, or into the unsettled country, to buy a farm that is, land for a farm

3. The state of land leased on rent reserved; a lease.

It is great wilfulness in landlords to make any longer farms to their tenants.

F'ARM, verb transitive

1. To lease, as land, on rent reserved; to let to a tenant on condition of paying rent.

We are enforced to farm our royal realm.

[In this sense, I believe, the word is not used in America.]

2. To take at a certain rent or rate. [Not used in America.]

3. To lease or let, as taxes, impost or other duties, at a certain sum or rate per cent. It is customary in many countries for the prince or government to farm the revenues, the taxes or rents, the imposts and excise, to individuals, who are to collect and pay them to the government at a certain percentage or rate per cent.

4. To take or hire for a certain rate per cent.

5. To cultivate land.

To farm let, or let to farm is to lease on rent.

F'ARMABLE, adjective That may be farmed.

F'ARMED, participle passive Leased on rent; let out at a certain rate or price.

F'ARMER, noun

1. In Great Britain, a tenant; a lessee; one who hires and cultivates a farm; a cultivator of leased ground.

2. One who takes taxes, customs, excise or other duties, to collect for a certain rate per cent; as a farmer of the revenues.

3. One who cultivates a farm; a husbandman; whether a tenant or the proprietor.

4. In mining, the lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the king.

F'ARMHOUSE, noun A house attached to a farm, and for the residence of a farmer.

F'ARMING, participle present tense

1. Letting or leasing land on rent reserved, or duties and imposts at a certain rate per cent.

2. Taking on lease.

3. Cultivating land; carrying on the business of agriculture.

F'ARMING, noun The business of cultivating land.

F'ARMOST, adjective [far and most.] Most distant or remote.

F'ARMYARD, noun The yard or inclosure attached to a barn; or the inclosure surrounded by the farm buildings.

F'ARNESS, noun [from far.] Distance; remoteness.

FARRAG'INOUS, adjective [Latin farrago, a mixture, from far, meal.]

Formed of various materials; mixed; as a farraginous mountain.

FARRA'GO, noun [Latin from far, meal.] A mass composed of various materials confusedly mixed; a medley.

FARREATION. [See Confarreation.]

FAR'RIER, noun [Latin ferrarius, from ferrum, iron.]

1. A shoer of horses; a smith who shoes horses.

2. One who professes to cure the diseases of horses.

FAR'RIER, verb intransitive To practice as a farrier

FAR'RIERY, noun The art of preventing, curing or mitigating the diseases of horses.

FAR'ROW, noun A litter of pigs.

FAR'ROW, verb transitive To bring forth pigs. [Used of swine only.]

FAR'ROW, adjective

Not producing young in a particular season or year; applied to cows only. If a cow has had a calf, but fails in a subsequent year, she is said to be farrow or to go farrow Such a cow may give milk through the year.

F'ARTHER, adjective comparative

1. More remote; more distant than something else.

Let me add a farther truth.

2. Longer; tending to a greater distance.

Before our farther way the fates allow.

F'ARTHER, adverb

1. At or to a greater distance; more remotely; beyond. Let us rest with what we have, without looking farther

2. Moreover; by way of progression in a subject. farther let us consider the probable event.

F'ARTHER, verb transitive To promote; to advance; to help forward. [little used.]

F'ARTHERANCE, noun A helping forward; promotion. [Not used.]

F'ARTHERMORE, adverb Besides; moreover. [Little used.]

F'ARTHEST, adjective superlative [See Furthest.]

Most distant or remote; as the farthest degree.

F'ARTHEST, adverb At or to the greatest distance. [See Furthest.]

F'ARTHING, noun

1. The fourth of a penny; a small copper coin of Great Britain, being the fourth of a penny in value. In America we have no coin of this kind. We however use the word to denote the fourth part of a penny in value, but the penny is of different value from the English penny, and different in different states. It is becoming obsolete, with the old denominations of money.

2. Farthings, in the plural, copper coin.

3. Very small price or value. It is not worth a farthing that is, it is of very little worth, or worth nothing.

4. A division of land. [Not now used.]

Thirty acres make a farthing-land; nine farthings a Cornish acre; and four Cornish acres a knight's fee.

F'ARTHINGALE, noun [This is a compound word, but it is not easy to analyze it.]

A hoop petticoat; or circles of hoops, formed of whalebone, used to extend the petticoat.

F'ARTHINGSWORTH, noun As much as is sold for a farthing.

FAS'CES, noun plural [Latin fascis.]

In Roman antiquity, an ax tied with a bundle of rods, and borne before the Roman magistrates as a badge of their authority.

FAS'CIA, noun fash'ia. [Latin a band or sash.]

1. A band, sash or fillet. In architecture, any flat member with a small projecture, as the band of an architrave. Also, in brick buildings, the jutting of the bricks beyond the windows in the several stories except the highest.

2. In astronomy, the belt of a planet.

3. In surgery, a bandage, roller or ligature.

4. In anatomy, a tendinous expansion or aponeurosis; a thin tendinous covering which surrounds the muscles of the limbs, and binds them in their places.

FAS'CIAL, a fash'ial. Belonging to the fasces.

FAS'CIATED, adjective fash'iated. Bound with a fillet, sash or bandage.

FASCIA'TION, noun fashia'tion. The act or manner of binding up diseased parts; bandage.

FAS'CICLE, noun [Latin fasciculus, from fascis, a bundle.]

In botany, a bundle, or little bundle; a species of inflorescence, or manner of flowering, in which several upright, parallel, fastigiate, approximating flowers are collected together.

FAS'CICLED, adjective [from fasciculus, supra.]

Growing in bundles or bunches from the same point, as the leaves of the Larix or larch.

FASCIC'ULAR, adjective [Latin fascicularis.] United in a bundle; as a fascicular root, a root of the tuberous kind, with the knobs collected in bundles, as in Paeonia.

FASCIC'ULARLY, adverb In the form of bundles.

FASCIC'ULATE,

FASCIC'ULATED,

FASCIC'ULITE, noun [supra.] A variety of fibrous hornblend, of a fascicular structure.

FASCIC'ULATED,

FASCIC'ULITE, n. [supra.] A variety of fibrous hornblend, of a fascicular structure.

FAS'CINATE, verb transitive [Latin fascino; Gr.]

1. To bewitch; to enchant; to operate on by some powerful or irresistible influence; to influence the passions or affections in an incontrollable manner.

None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch, but love and envy.

2. To charm; to captivate; to excite and allure irresistible or powerfully. The young are fascinated by love; female beauty fascinates the unguarded youth; gaming is a fascinating vice.

FAS'CINATED, participle passive Bewitched; enchanted; charmed.

FAS'CINATING, participle present tense Bewitching; enchanting; charming; captivating.

FASCINA'TION, noun The act of bewitching or enchanting; enchantment; witchcraft; a powerful or irresistible influence on the affections or passions; unseen inexplicable influence. The ancients speak of two kinds of fascination; one by the look or eye; the other by words.

The Turks hang old rags on their fairest horses, to secure them against fascination

FAS'CINE, noun [Latin fascis, a bundle.] In fortification, a fagot, a bundle of rods or small sticks of wood, bound at both ends and in the middle; used in raising batteries, in filling ditches, in strengthening ramparts, and making parapets. Sometimes being dipped in melted pitch or tar, they are used to set fire to the enemy's lodgments or other works.

FAS'CINOUS, adjective Caused or acting by witchcraft. [Not used.]

FASH'ION, noun fash'on. [Latin facio, facies.]

1. The make or form of any thing; the state of any thing with regard to its external appearance; shape; as the fashion of the ark, or of the tabernacle.

Or let me lose the fashion of a man.

The fashion of his countenance was altered. Luke 9:29.

2. Form; model to be imitated; pattern.

King Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar. 2 Kings 16:10.

3. The form of a garment; the cut or shape of clothes; as the fashion of a coat or of a bonnet. Hence,

4. The prevailing mode of dress or ornament. We import fashions from England, as the English often import them from France. What so changeable as fashion!

5. Manner; sort; way; mode; applied to actions or behavior.

Pluck Casca by the sleeve,

And he will, after his sour fashion tell you

What hath proceeded.

6. Custom; prevailing mode or practice. fashion is an inexorable tyrant, and most of the world its willing slaves.

It was the fashion of the age to call every thing in question.

Few enterprises are so hopeless as a contest with fashion

7. Genteel life or good breeding; as men of fashion

8. Any thing worn. [Not used.]

9. Genteel company.

10. Workmanship.

FASH'ION, verb transitive fash'on.

1. To form; to give shape or figure to; to mold.

Here the loud hammer fashions female toys.

Aaron fashioned the calf with a graving tool. Exodus 32:4.

Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, what makes thou? Isaiah 14:1.

2. To fit; to adapt; to accommodate; with to.

Laws ought to be fashioned to the manners and conditions of the people.

3. To make according to the rule prescribed by custom.

Fashioned plate sells for more than its weight.

4. To forge or counterfeit. [Not used.]

FASH'IONABLE, adjective

1. Made according to the prevailing form or mode; as a fashionable dress.

2. Established 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. Hence,

4. Genteel; well bred; as fashionable company or society.

FASH'IONABLENESS, noun The state of being fashionable; modish elegance; such appearance as is according to the prevailing custom.

FASH'IONABLY, adverb In a manner according to fashion, custom or prevailing practice; with modish elegance; as, to dress fashionably

FASH'IONED, participle passive Made; formed; shaped; fitted; adapted.

FASH'IONER, noun One who forms or gives shape to.

FASH'IONING, participle present tense Forming; giving shape to; fitting; adapting.

FAS'SAITE, noun A mineral, a variety of augite, found in the valley of Fassa, in the Tyrol.

F'AST, adjective

1. Literally, set, stopped, fixed, or pressed close. Hence, close; tight; as, make fast the door; take fast hold.

2. Firm; immovable.

Who by his strength, setteth fast the mountains. Psalms 115:1.

3. Close; strong.

Robbers and outlaws - lurking in woods and fast places.

4. Firmly fixed; closely adhering; as, to stick fast in more; to make fast a rope.

5. Close, as sleep; deep; sound; as a fast sleep.

6. Firm in adherence; as a fast friend.

Fast and loose, variable; inconstant; as, to play fast and loose.

F'AST, adverb Firmly; immovably.

We will bind thee fast and deliver thee into their hand. Judges 15:13.

F'AST, adjective [Latin festino. The sense is to press, drive, urge, and it may be from the same root as the preceding word, with a different application.]

Swift; moving rapidly; quick in motion; as a fast horse.

F'AST, adverb Swiftly; rapidly; with quick steps or progression; as, to run fast; to move fast through the water, as a ship; the work goes on fast

F'AST, verb intransitive

1. To abstain from food, beyond the usual time; to omit to take the usual meals, for a time; as, to fast a day or a week.

2. To abstain from food voluntarily, for the mortification of the body or appetites, or as a token of grief, sorrow and affliction.

Thou didst fast and weep for the child. 2 Samuel 12:21.

When ye fast be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance. Matthew 6:16.

3. To abstain from food partially, or from particular kinds of food; as, the Catholics fast in Lent.

F'AST, noun

1. Abstinence from food; properly a total abstinence, but it is used also for an abstinence from particular kinds of food, for a certain time.

Happy were our forefathers, who broke their fasts with herbs.

2. Voluntary abstinence from food, as a religious mortification or humiliation; either total or partial abstinence from customary food, with a view to mortify the appetites, or to express grief and affliction on account of some calamity, or to deprecate an expected evil.

3. The time of fasting, whether a day, week or longer time. An annual fast is kept in New England, usually one day in the spring.

The fast was now already past. Acts 27:9.

F'AST, noun That which fastens or holds.

F'ASTEN, verb transitive f'asn.

1. To fix firmly; to make fast or close; as, to fasten a chain to the feet, or to fasten the feet with fetters.

2. To lock, bolt or bar; to secure; as, to fasten a door or window.

3. To hold together; to cement or to link; to unite closely in any manner and by any means, as by cement, hooks, pins, nails, cords, etc.

4. To affix or conjoin.

The words Whig and Tory have been pressed to the service of many successions of parties, with different ideas fastened to them. [Not common.]

5. To fix; to impress.

Thinking, by this face,

To fasten in our thoughts that they have courage.

6. To lay on with strength.

Could he fasten a blow, or make a thrust, when not suffered to approach?

F'ASTEN, verb intransitive To fasten on, is to fix one's self; to seize and hold on; to clinch.

The leech will hardly fasten on a fish.

F'ASTENED, participle passive Made firm or fast; fixed firmly; impressed.

F'ASTENER, noun One that makes fast or firm.

F'ASTENING, participle present tense Making fast.

F'ASTENING, noun Any thing that binds and makes fast; or that which is intended for that purpose.

F'ASTER, noun One who abstains from food.

FASTIDIOS'ITY, noun Fastidiousness. [Not used.]

FASTID'IOUS, adjective [Latin fastidiousus, from fastidio, to disdain from fastus, haughtiness. See Heb.]

1. Disdainful; squeamish; delicate to a fault; over nice; difficult to please; as a fastidious mind or taste.

2. Squeamish; rejecting what is common or not very nice; suited with difficulty; as a fastidious appetite.

FASTID'IOUSLY, adverb Disdainfully; squeamishly; contemptuously. they look fastidiously and speak disdainfully.

FASTID'IOUSNESS, noun Disdainfulness; contemptuousness; squeamishness of mind, taste or appetite.

FASTIG'IATE,

FASTIG'IATED, adjective [Latin fastigiatus, pointed, from fastigio, to point, fastigium, a top or peak.]

1. In botany, a fastigiate stem is one whose branches are of an equal height. Peduncles are fastigiate when they elevate the fructifications in a bunch, so as to be equally high, or when they form an even surface at the top.

2. Roofed; narrowed to the top.

FASTIG'IATED, a. [L. fastigiatus, pointed, from fastigio, to point, fastigium, a top or peak.]

F'ASTING, participle present tense Abstaining from food.

F'ASTING, noun The act of abstaining from food.

F'ASTNESS, noun

1. The state of being fast and firm; firm adherence.

2. Strength; security.

The places of fastness are laid open.

3. A strong hold; a fortress or fort; a place fortified; a castle. The enemy retired to their fastnesses.

4. Closeness; conciseness of style. [Not used.]

FAS'TUOUS, adjective [Latin fastuosus, from fastus, haughtiness.]

Proud; haughty; disdainful.

FAT, adjective

1. Fleshy; plump; corpulent; abounding with an oily concrete substance, as an animal body; the contrary to lean; as a fat man; a fat ox.

2. Coarse; gross.

Nay, added fat pollutions of our own.

3. Dull; heavy; stupid; unteachable.

Make the heart of this people fat Isaiah 6:10.

4. Rich; wealthy; affluent.

These are terrible alarms to persons grown fat and wealthy.

5. Rich; producing a large income; as a fat benefice.

6. Rich; fertile; as a fat soil; or rich; nourishing; as fat pasture.

7. Abounding in spiritual grace and comfort.

They [the righteous] shall be fat and flourishing. Psalms 42:1.

FAT, noun

1. An oily concrete substance, deposited in the cells of the adipose or cellular membrane of animal bodies. In most parts of the body, the fat lies immediately under the skin. fat is of various degrees of consistence, as in tallow, lard and oil. It has been recently ascertained to consist of two substances, stearine and elaine, the former of which is solid, the latter liquid, at common temperatures, and on the different proportions of which its degree of consistence depends.

2. The best or richest part of a thing.

Abel brought of the fat of his flock. Genesis 4:4.

FAT, verb transitive To make fat; to fatten; to make plump and fleshy with abundant food; as, to fat fowls or sheep.

FAT, verb intransitive To grow fat plump and fleshy.

An old ox fats as well, and is as good, as a young one.

FAT,

VAT, noun

A large tub, cistern or vessel used for various purposes, as by brewers to run their wort in, by tanners for holding their bark and hides, etc. It is also a wooden vessel containing a quarter or eight bushels of grain, and a pan for containing water in salt-works, a vessel for wine, etc.

The fats shall overflow with wine and oil. Joel 2:24.

FAT, noun A measure of capacity, but indefinite.

FA'TAL, adjective [Latin fatalis. See Fate.]

1. Proceeding from fate or destiny; necessary; inevitable.

These things are fatal and necessary.

2. Appointed by fate or destiny.

It was fatal to the king to fight for his money.

In the foregoing senses the word is now little used.

3. Causing death or destruction; deadly; mortal; as a fatal wound; a fatal disease.

4. Destructive; calamitous; as a fatal day; a fatal event.

FA'TALISM, noun The doctrine that all things are subject to fate, or that they take place by inevitable necessity.

FA'TALIST, noun One who maintains that all things happen by inevitable necessity.

FATAL'ITY, noun

1. A fixed unalterable course of things, independent of God or any controlling cause; an invincible necessity existing in things themselves; a doctrine of the Stoics.

2. Decree of fate.

3. Tendency to danger, or to some great or hazardous event.

4. Mortality.

FA'TALLY, adverb

1. By a decree of fate or destiny; by inevitable necessity or determination.

2. Mortally; destructively; in death or ruin. This encounter ended fatally The prince was fatally deceived.

FA'TALNESS, noun Invincible necessity.

FAT'BRAINED, adjective Dull of apprehension.

FATE, noun [Latin fatum, from for, fari, to speak, whence fatus.]

1. Primarily, a decree or word pronounced by God; or a fixed sentence by which the order of things is prescribed. Hence, inevitable necessity; destiny depending on a superior cause and uncontrollable. According to the Stoics, every event is determined by fate

Necessity or chancenot me; and what I will is fate

2. Event predetermined; lot; destiny. It is our fate to meet with disappointments.

It is the fate of mortals.

Tell me what fates attend the duke of Suffolk?

3. Final event; death; destruction.

Yet still he chose the longest way to fate

The whizzing arrow sings,

And bears thy fate Antinous, on its wings.

4. Cause of death. Dryden calls an arrow a feathered fate

Divine fate the order or determination of God; providence.

FA'TED, adjective

1. Decreed by fate; doomed; destined. He was fated to rule over a factious people.

2. Modelled or regulated by fate.

Her awkward love indeed was oddly fated

3. Endued with any quality by fate.

4. Invested with the power of fatal determination.

The fated sky gives us free scope.

The two last senses are hardly legitimate.

FA'TEFUL, adjective Bearing fatal power; producing fatal events.

The fateful steel.

FATES, noun plural In mythology, the destinies or parcae; goddesses supposed to preside over the birth and life of men. They were three in number, Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos.

F'ATHER, noun [Latin pater. The primary sense is obvious.]

1. He who begets a child; in Latin genitor or generator.

The father of a fool hath no joy. Proverbs 17:21.

2. The first ancestor; the progenitor of a race or family. Adam was the father of the human race. Abraham was the father of the Israelites.

3. The appellation of an old man, and a term of respect.

The king of Israel said to Elisha, my father shall I smite them? 2 Kings 6:21.

The servants of Naaman call him father Elderly men are called fathers; as the fathers of a town or city. In the church, men venerable for age, learning and piety are called fathers, or reverend fathers.

4. The grandfather or more remote ancestor. Nebuchadnezzar is called the father of Belshazzar, though he was his grandfather. Daniel 5:2.

5. One who feeds and supports or exercises paternal care over another. God is called the father of the fatherless.

Psalms 118:1.

6. He who creates, invents, makes or composes any thing; the author, former or contriver; a founder, director or instructor. God as creator is the father of all men. John 8:16. Jabal was the father of such as dwell in tents; and Jubal of musicians. Genesis 4:20. God is the father of spirits and of lights. Homer is considered as the father of epic poetry. Washington, as a defender and an affectionate and wise counselor, is called the father of his country. And see 1 Chronicles 2:51. 1 Chronicles 4:14. 1 Chr 9:35. Satan is called the father of lies; he introduced sin, and instigates men to sin. John 8:16. Abraham is called the father of believers. He was an early believer, and a pattern of faith and obedience. Romans 4:1.

7. Fathers, in the plural, ancestors.

David slept with his fathers. 1 Kings 2:12.

8. A father in law. So Heli is called the father of Joseph. Luke 3:8.

9. The appellation of the first person in the adorable Trinity.

Go ye, therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the father and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Matthew 28:19.

10. The title given to dignitaries of the church, superiors of convents, and to popish confessors.

11. The appellation of the ecclesiastical writers of the first centuries, as Polycarp, Jerome, etc.

12. The title of a senator in ancient Rome; as conscript fathers.

Adoptive father he who adopts the children of another, and acknowledges them as his own.

Natural father the father of illegitimate children.

Putative father one who is only reputed to be the father; the supposed father

F'ATHERED, participle passive

1. Adopted; taken as one's own; ascribed to one as the author.

2. Having had a father of particular qualities.

I am no stronger than my sex, being so father'd and so husbanded. [Unusual.]

F'ATHERHOOD, noun The state of being a father, or the character or authority of a father.

We might have had an entire notion of this fatherhood or fatherly authority.

F'ATHERING, participle present tense Adopting; taking or acknowledging as one's own; ascribing to the father or author.

F'ATHERLASHER, noun A fish of the genus Cottus or bull-head, called scorpius or scolping. The head is large and its spines formidable. It is found on the rocky coasts of Britain, and near Newfoundland and Greenland. In the latter country it is a great article of food.

F'ATHERLESS, adjective

1. Destitute of a living father; as a fatherless child.

3. Without a known author.

F'ATHERLESSNESS, noun The state of being without a father.

F'ATHERLINESS, noun [See Fatherly.] The qualities of a father; parental kindness, care and tenderness.

F'ATHERLY, adjective [father and like.]

1. Like a father in affection and care; tender; paternal; protecting; careful; as fatherly care or affection.

2. Pertaining to a father.

F'ATHERLY, adverb In the manner of a father.

Thus Adam, fatherly displeased. [Not proper.]

FATH'OM, noun

1. A measure of length containing six feet, the space to which a man may extend his arms; used chiefly at sea for measuring cables, cordage, and the depth of the sea is sounding by a line and lead.

2. Reach; penetration; depth of thought or contrivance.

FATH'OM, verb transitive

1. To encompass with the arms extended or encircling.

2. To reach; to master; to comprehend.

Leave to fathom such high points as these.

3. To reach in depth; to sound; to try the depth.

Our depths who fathoms.

4. To penetrate; to find the bottom or extent. I cannot fathom his design.

FATH'OMED, participle passive Encompassed with the arms; reached; comprehended.

FATH'OMER, noun One who fathoms.

FATH'OMING, participle present tense Encompassing with the arms; reaching; comprehending; sounding; penetrating.

FATH'OMLESS, adjective

1. That of which no bottom can be found; bottomless.

2. That cannot be embraced, or encompassed with the arms.

3. Not to be penetrated or comprehended.

FATID'ICAL, adjective [Latin fatidicus; fatum and dico.] Having power to foretell future events; prophetic.

FATIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin fatifer; futum and fero. Deadly; mortal, destructive.

FAT'IGABLE, adjective [See Fatigue.] That may be wearied; easily tired.

FAT'IGATE, verb transitive [Latin fatigo.] To weary; to tire. [Little used.]

FAT'IGATE, adjective Wearied; tired. [Little used.]

FATIGA'TION noun Weariness

FATIGUE, noun fatee'g. [Latin fatigo. it seems to be allied to fatisco; if so, the sense is a yielding or relaxing.]

1. Weariness with bodily labor or mental exertion; lassitude or exhaustion of strength. We suffer fatigue of the mind as well as of the body.

2. The cause of weariness; labor; toil; as the fatigues of war.

3. The labors of military men, distinct from the use of arms; as a party of men on fatigue

FATIGUE, verb transitive fatee'g. [Latin fatigo.]

1. To tire; to weary with labor or any bodily or mental exertion; to harass with toil; to exhaust the strength by severe or long continued exertion.

2. To weary by importunity; to harass.

FATIGUED, participle passive fatee'ged. Wearied; tired; harassed.

FATIGUING, participle present tense fatee'ging.

1. Tiring; wearying; harassing.

2. adjective Inducing weariness or lassitude; as fatiguing services or labors.

FATIS'CENCE, noun [Latin fatisco, to open, to gape. A gaping or opining; a state of being chinky.

FATKID'NEYED, noun [fat and kidney.] Fat; gross; a word used in contempt.

FAT'LING, noun [from fat.] A lamb, kid or other young animal fattened for slaughter; a fat animal; applied to quadrupeds whose flesh is used for food.

David sacrificed oxen and fatlings. 2 Samuel 6:13.

FAT'LY, adverb Grossly; greasily.

FAT'NER, noun That which fattens; that which gives fatness or richness and fertility.

FAT'NESS, noun [from fat.]

1. The quality of being fat, plump, or full fed; corpulency; fullness of flesh.

Their eyes stand out with fatness Psalms 73:7.

2. Unctuous or greasy matter.

3. Unctuousness; sliminess; applied to earth:hence richness; fertility; fruitfulness.

God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine. Genesis 27:28.

4. That which gives fertility.

Thy paths drop fatness Psalms 65:11.

The clouds drop fatness

5. The privileges and pleasures of religion; abundant blessings.

Let your soul delight itself in fatness Isaiah 55:2.

FAT'TEN, verb transitive fat'n.

1. To make fat; to feed for slaughter; to make fleshy, or plump with fat.

2. To make fertile and fruitful; to enrich; as, to fatten land; to fatten fields with blood.

3. To feed grossly; to fill.

FAT'TEN, verb intransitive fat'n. to grow fat or corpulent; to grow plump, thick or fleshy; to be pampered.

And villains fatten with the brave man's labor.

Tigers and wolves shall in the ocean breed.

The whale and dolphin fatten on the mead.

FAT'TENED, participle passive fat'nd. Made fat, plump or fleshy.

FAT'TENER, noun [See Fatner.]

FAT'TENING, participle present tense fat'ning. Making fat; growing fat; making or growing rich and fruitful.

FAT'TINESS, noun [from fatty.] The state of being fat; grossness; greasiness.

FAT'TISH, adjective Somewhat fat.

FAT'TY, adjective Having the qualities of fat; greasy; as a fatty substance.

FATU'ITY, noun [Latin fatuitas.] Weakness or imbecility of mind; feebleness of intellect; foolishness.

FAT'UOUS, adjective [Latin fatuus.]

1. Feeble in mind; weak; silly; stupid; foolish.

2. Impotent; without force or fire; illusory; alluding to the ignis fatuus.

Thence fatuous fires and meteors take their birth.

FAT'WITTED, adjective [fat and wit.] Heavy; dull; stupid.

FAU'CET, noun A pipe to be inserted in a cask for drawing liquor, and stopped with a peg or spigot. These are called tap and faucet

FAUCHION. [See Falchion.]

FAU'FEL, noun [said to be Sanscrit.] The fruit of a species of the palm tree.

FAULT, noun [See Fail.]

1. Properly, an erring or missing; a failing; hence, an error or mistake; a blunder; a defect; a blemish; whatever impairs excellence; applied to things.

2. In morals or deportment, any error or defect; an imperfection; any deviation from propriety; a slight offense; a neglect of duty or propriety, resulting from inattention or want of prudence, rather than from design to injure or offend, but liable to censure or objection.

I do remember my faults this day. Genesis 41:9.

If a man be overtaken in a fault ye who are spiritual, restore such as one in the spirit of meekness. Galatians 6:1.

FAULT implies wrong, and often some degree of criminality.

3. Defect; want; absence. [Not now used. See Default.]

I could tell to thee, as to one if pleases me, for fault of a better to call my friend.

4. Puzzle; difficulty.

Among sportsmen, when dogs lose the scent, they are said to be at fault Hence the phrase, the inquirer is at fault

5. In mining, a fissure in strata, causing a dislocation of the same, and thus interrupting the course of veins.

To find fault to express blame; to complain.

Thou wilt say then, why doth he yet find fault? Romans 9:19.

To find fault with, to blame; to censure; as, to find fault with the times, or with a neighbor's conduct.

FAULT, verb intransitive To fail; to be wrong. [Not used.]

FAULT, verb transitive To charge with a fault; to accuse.

For that I will not fault thee.

FAULT'ED, participle passive Charged with a fault; accused.

FAULT'ER, noun An offender; one who commits a fault.

FAULT'-FINDER, noun One who censures or objects.

FAULT'FUL, adjective Full of faults or sins.

FAULT'ILY, adverb [from faulty.] Defectively; erroneously; imperfectly; improperly; wrongly.

FAULT'INESS, noun [from faulty.]

1. The state of being faulty, defective or erroneous; defect.

2. Badness; viciousness; evil disposition; as the faultiness of a person.

3. Delinquency; actual offenses.

FAULT'ING, participle present tense Accusing.

FAULT'LESS, adjective

1. Without fault; not defective or imperfect; free from blemish; free from incorrectness; perfect; as a faultless poem or picture.

2. Free from vice or imperfection; as a faultless man.

FAULT'LESSNESS, noun Freedom from faults or defects.

FAULT'Y, adjective

1. Containing faults, blemishes or defects; defective; imperfect; as a faulty composition or book; a faulty plan or design; a faulty picture.

2. Guilty of a fault or of faults; hence, blamable; worthy of censure.

The king doth speak this thing as one who is faulty

1 Samuel 14:1.

3. Wrong; erroneous; as a faulty polity.

4. Defective; imperfect; bad; as a faulty helmet.

FAUN, noun [Latin faunus.] Among the Romans, a kind of demigod, or rural deity, called also sylvan, and differing little from satyr. The fauns are represented as half goat and half man.

FAUN'IST, noun One who attends to rural disquisitions; a naturalist.

FAU'SEN, noun A large eel.

FAU'TOR, noun [Latin See Favor.] A favorer; a patron; one who gives countenance or support. [Little used.]

FAU'TRESS, noun A female favorer; a patroness.

FAVIL'LOUS, adjective [Latin favilla, ashes.]

1. Consisting of or pertaining to ashes.

2. Resembling ashes.

FA'VOR, noun [Latin favor faveo.]

1. Kind regard; kindness; countenance; propitious aspect; friendly disposition.

His dreadful navy, and his lovely mind,

Gave him the fear and favor of mankind.

The king's favor is as dew on the grass. Proverbs 19:1.

God gave Joseph favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh. Acts 7:1.

Favor is deceitful, and beauty is vain. Proverbs 31:30.

2. Support; defense; vindication; or disposition to aid, befriend, support, promote or justify. To be in favor of a measure, is to have a disposition or inclination to support it or carry it into effect. To be in favor or a party, is to be disposed or inclined to support it, to justify its proceedings, and to promote its interests.

3. A kind act or office; kindness done or granted; benevolence shown by word or deed; any act of grace or good will, as distinguished from acts of justice or renumeration. To pardon the guilty is a favor; to punish them is an act of justice.

4. Lenity; mildness or mitigation of punishment.

I could not discover the lenity and favor of this sentence.

5. Leave; good will; a yielding or concession to another; pardon.

But, with your favor I will treat it here.

6. The object of kind regard; the person or thing favored.

All these his wondrous works, but chiefly man.

His chief delight and favor

7. A gift or present; something bestowed as an evidence of good will; a token of love; a knot of ribbons; something worn as a token of affection.

8. A feature; countenance. [Not used.]

9. Advantage; convenience afforded for success. The enemy approached under favor of the night.

10. Partiality; bias. A challenge to the favor in law, is the challenge of a juror on account of some supposed partiality, by reason of favor or malice, interest or connection.

FA'VOR, verb transitive

1. To regard with kindness; to support; to aid or have the disposition to aid, or to wish success to; to be propitious to; to countenance; to befriend; to encourage. To favor the cause of a party, may be merely to wish success to it, or it may signify to give it aid, by counsel, or by active exertions. Sometimes men professedly favor one party and secretly favor another.

The lords favor thee not. 1 Samuel 29:1.

Thou shalt arise, and have mercy on Zion; for the time to favor her, yea, the set time is come. Psalms 102:1.

O happy youth! and favored of the skies.

2. To afford advantages for success; to facilitate. A weak place in the fort favored the entrance of the enemy; the darkness of the night favored his approach. A fair wind favors a voyage.

3. To resemble in features. The child favors his father.

4. To ease; to spare. A man in walking favors a lame leg.

FA'VORABLE, adjective [Latin favorabilis.]

1. Kind; propitious; friendly; affectionate.

Lend favorable ear to our request.

Lord, thou hast been favorable to thy land. Psalms 85:1.

2. Palliative; tender; averse to censure.

None can have the favorable thought that to obey a tyrant's will they fought.

3. Conducive to; contributing to; tending to promote. A salubrious climate and plenty of food are favorable to population.

4. Convenient; advantageous; affording means to facilitate, or affording facilities. The low price of labor and provisions is favorable to the success of manufactures. The army was drawn up on favorable ground. The ship took a station favorable for attack.

The place was favorable for making levies of men.

5. Beautiful; well favored. obsolete

FA'VORABLENESS, noun

1. Kindness; kind disposition or regard.

2. Convenience; suitableness; that state which affords advantages for success; conduciveness; as the favorableness of a season for crops; the favorableness of the times for the cultivation of the sciences.

FA'VORABLY, adverb Kindly; with friendly dispositions; with regard or affection; with an inclination to favor; as, to judge or think favorably of a measure; to think favorably of those we love.

FA'VORED, participle passive

1. Countenanced; supported; aided; supplied with advantages; eased; spared.

2. adjective Regarded with kindness; as a favored friend.

3. With well or ill prefixed, featured.

Well-favored is well-looking, having a good countenance or appearance, fleshy, plump, handsome.

Ill-favored is ill-looking, having an ugly appearance, lean. See Genesis 39:1. Genesis 41:3. etc.

Well-favoredly, with a good appearance. [Little used.]

Ill-favoredly, with a bad appearance. [Little used.]

FA'VOREDNESS, noun Appearance.

FA'VORER, noun One who favors; one who regards with kindness or friendship; a wellwisher; one who assists or promotes success or prosperity.

FA'VORING, participle present tense Regarding with friendly dispositions; countenancing; wishing well to; contributing to success; facilitating.

FA'VORITE, noun

A person or thing regarded with peculiar favor, preference and affection; one greatly beloved. Select favorites from among the discrete and the virtuous. Princes are often misled, and sometimes ruined by favorites. Gaveston and the Spencers, the favorites of Edward II, fell a sacrifice to public indignation.

FA'VORITE, adjective Regarded with particular kindness, affection, esteem or preference; as a favorite walk; a favorite author; a favorite child.

FA'VORITISM, noun

1. The act or practice of favoring, or giving a preference to one over another.

2. The disposition to favor, aid and promote the interest of a favorite, or of one person or family, or of one class of men, to the neglect of others having equal claims.

It has been suggested that the proceeds of the foreign bills were calculated merely to indulge a spirit of favoritism to the bank of the United States.

Which consideration imposes such a necessity on the crown, as hath, in a great measure, subdued the influence of favoritism

3. Exercise of power by favorites.

FA'VORLESS, adjective

1. Unfavored; not regarded with favor; having no patronage or countenance.

2. Not favoring; unpropitious.

FAV'OSITE, noun [Latin favus, a honey-comb.] A genus of fossil zoophytes.

FAWN, noun A young deer; a buck or doe of the first year.

FAWN, verb intransitive To bring forth a fawn

FAWN, verb intransitive [See Fain.]

1. To court favor, or show attachment to, by frisking about one; as, a dog fawns on his master.

2. To soothe; to flatter meanly; to blandish; to court servilely; to cringe and bow to gain favor; as a fawning favorite or minion.

My love, forbear to fawn upon their frowns.

FAWN, noun A servile cringe or bow; mean flattery.

FAWN'ER, noun One who fawns; one who cringes and flatters meanly.

FAWN'ING, participle present tense Courting servilely; flattering by cringing and meanness; bringing forth a fawn.

FAWN'ING, noun Gross flattery.

FAWN'INGLY, adverb In a cringing servile way; with mean flattery.

FAX'ED, adjective Hairy. [Not in use.]

FAY, noun A fairy; an elf.

FAY, verb intransitive [See Fadge.]

To fit; to suit; to unite closely with. [This is a contraction of the Teutonic word, and the same as fadge, which see. It is not an elegant word.]