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<p><point26>F.</point26></p>

<p><hw>F</hw> (&ebreve;f). <sn><b>1.</b></sn> <def>F is the sixth
letter of the English alphabet, and a nonvocal consonant. Its form
and sound are from the Latin. The Latin borrowed the form from the
Greek digamma &?;, which probably had the value of English <i>w</i>
consonant. The form and value of Greek letter came from the
Ph&oelig;nician, the ultimate source being probably Egyptian.
Etymologically <i>f</i> is most closely related to <i>p</i>,
<i>k</i>, <i>v</i>, and <i>b</i>; as in E. <i>f</i>ive, Gr.
<grk>pe`nte</grk>; E. wol<i>f</i>, L. lu<i>p</i>us, Gr.
<grk>ly`kos</grk>; E. <i>f</i>ox, <i>v</i>ixen ; <i>f</i>ragile,
<i>b</i>reak; <i>f</i>ruit, <i>b</i>rook, <pos><i>v. t.</i></pos>; E.
<i>b</i>ear, L. <i>f</i>erre. See <i>Guide to Pronunciation</i>,
&sect;&sect; 178, 179, 188, 198, 230.</def></p>

<p><sn><b>2.</b></sn> <i>(Mus.)</i> <def>The name of the fourth tone
of the model scale, or scale of C. F sharp (F &sharp;) is a tone
intermediate between F and G.</def></p>

<p><col><b>F clef</b></col>, <cd>the bass clef. See under
<u>Clef</u>.</cd></p>

<p><hw>Fa</hw> (f&auml;), <pos><i>n.</i></pos> [It.] <i>(Mus.)</i>
<sd><i>(a)</i></sd> <def>A syllable applied to the fourth tone of the
diatonic scale in solmization.</def> <sd><i>(b)</i></sd> <def>The
tone F.</def></p>

<p><hw>Fa*ba"ceous</hw> (f&adot;*b&amacr;"sh&ubreve;s),
<pos><i>a.</i></pos> [L. <i>fabaceus</i>, fr. <i>faba</i> bean.]
<def>Having the nature of a bean; like a bean.</def></p>

<p><hw>||Fa*bel"la</hw> (?), <pos><i>n.</i></pos>; <i>pl.</i>
<plw><b>Fabellae</b></plw> (-l&?;). [NL., dim. of L. <i>faba</i> a
bean.] <i>(Anat.)</i> <def>One of the small sesamoid bones situated
behind the condyles of the femur, in some mammals.</def></p>

<p><hw>Fa"bi*an</hw> (?), <pos><i>a.</i></pos> [L. <i>Fabianus</i>,
<i>Fabius</i>, belonging to Fabius.] <def>Of, pertaining to, or in
the manner of, the Roman general, Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus;
cautious; dilatory; avoiding a decisive contest.</def></p>

<p><col><b>Fabian policy</b></col>, <cd>a policy like that of Fabius
Maximus, who, by carefully avoiding decisive contests, foiled
Hannibal, harassing his army by marches, countermarches, and
ambuscades; a policy of delays and cautions.</cd></p>

<p><hw>Fa"ble</hw> (f&amacr;"b'l), <pos><i>n.</i></pos> [F., fr. L.
<i>fabula</i>, fr. <i>fari</i> to speak, say. See <u>Ban</u>, and cf.
<u>Fabulous</u>, <u>Fame</u>.] <sn><b>1.</b></sn> <def>A Feigned
story or tale, intended to instruct or amuse; a fictitious narration
intended to enforce some useful truth or precept; an apologue. See
the Note under <u>Apologue</u>.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>Jotham's <i>fable</i> of the trees is the oldest
extant.</blockquote> <i>Addison.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>2.</b></sn> <def>The plot, story, or connected series of
events, forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>The moral is the first business of the poet; this
being formed, he contrives such a design or <i>fable</i> as may be
most suitable to the moral.</blockquote> <i>Dryden.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>3.</b></sn> <def>Any story told to excite wonder; common
talk; the theme of talk.</def> "Old wives' <i>fables</i>. "  <i>1
Tim. iv. 7.</i></p>

<p><blockquote>We grew<BR>
The <i>fable</i> of the city where we dwelt.</blockquote>
<i>Tennyson.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>4.</b></sn> <def>Fiction; untruth; falsehood.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>It would look like a <i>fable</i> to report that this
gentleman gives away a great fortune by secret methods.</blockquote>
<i>Addison.</i></p>

<p><hw>Fa"ble</hw>, <pos><i>v. i.</i></pos> [<pos><i>imp. & p.
p.</i></pos> <u>Fabled</u> (?); <pos><i>p. pr. & vb. n.</i></pos>
<u>Fabling</u> (?).] <def>To compose fables; hence, to write or speak
fiction ; to write or utter what is not true.</def> "He <i>Fables</i>
not."  <i>Shak.</i></p>

<p><blockquote>Vain now the tales which <i>fabling</i> poets
tell.</blockquote> <i>Prior.</i></p>

<p><blockquote>He <i>fables</i>, yet speaks truth.</blockquote> <i>M.
Arnold.</i></p>

<p><hw>Fa"ble</hw>, <pos><i>v. t.</i></pos> <def>To feign; to invent;
to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of
falsely.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>The hell thou <i>fablest</i>.</blockquote>
<i>Milton.</i></p>

<p><hw>Fa"bler</hw> (f&amacr;"bl&etilde;r), <pos><i>n.</i></pos>
<def>A writer of fables; a fabulist; a dealer in untruths or
falsehoods.</def>  <i>Bp. Hall.</i></p>

<p><hw>||Fa`bli`au"</hw> (?), <pos><i>n.</i></pos>; <i>pl.</i>
<plw><b>Fabliaux</b></plw> (-&osl;"). [F., fr. OF. <i>fablel</i>,
dim. of <i>fable</i> a fable.] <i>(Fr. Lit.)</i> <def>One of the
metrical tales of the Trouv&egrave;res, or early poets of the north
of France.</def></p>

<p><hw>Fab"ric</hw> (?), <pos><i>n.</i></pos> [L. <i>fabrica</i>
fabric, workshop: cf. F. <i>fabrique</i> fabric. See <u>Forge</u>.]
<sn><b>1.</b></sn> <def>The structure of anything; the manner in
which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship; texture; make; as
cloth of a beautiful <i>fabric</i>.</def></p>

<p><sn><b>2.</b></sn> <def>That which is fabricated</def>; as:
<sd><i>(a)</i></sd> <def>Framework; structure; edifice;
building.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>Anon out of the earth a <i>fabric</i> huge<BR>
Rose like an exhalation.</blockquote> <i>Milton.</i></p>

<p><sd><i>(b)</i></sd> <def>Cloth of any kind that is woven or knit
from fibers, either vegetable or animal; manufactured cloth; as,
silks or other <i>fabrics</i>.</def></p>

<p><sn><b>3.</b></sn> <def>The act of constructing;
construction.</def> [R.]</p>

<p><blockquote>Tithe was received by the bishop, . . . for the
<i>fabric</i> of the churches for the poor.</blockquote>
<i>Milman.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>4.</b></sn> <def>Any system or structure consisting of
connected parts; as, the <i>fabric</i> of the universe.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>The whole vast <i>fabric</i> of society.</blockquote>
<i>Macaulay.</i></p>

<p><hw>Fab"ric</hw>, <pos><i>v. t.</i></pos> [<pos><i>imp. & p.
p.</i></pos> <u>Fabricked</u> (?); <pos><i>p. pr. & vb. n.</i></pos>
<u>Fabricking</u>.] <def>To frame; to build; to construct.</def>
[Obs.] "<i>Fabric</i> their mansions."  <i>J. Philips.</i></p>

<p><hw>Fab"ri*cant</hw> (?), <pos><i>n.</i></pos> [F.] <def>One who
fabricates; a manufacturer.</def>  <i>Simmonds.</i></p>

<p><hw>Fab"ri*cate</hw> (?), <pos><i>v. t.</i></pos> [<pos><i>imp. &
p. p.</i></pos> <u>Fabricated</u> (?); <pos><i>p. pr. & vb.
n.</i></pos> <u>Fabricating</u> (?).] [L. <i>fabricatus</i>, p. p. of
<i>fabricari</i>, <i>fabricare</i>, to frame, build, forge, fr.
<i>fabrica</i>. See <u>Fabric</u>, <u>Farge</u>.] <sn><b>1.</b></sn>
<def>To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to frame; to
construct; to build; as, to <i>fabricate</i> a bridge or
ship.</def></p>

<p><sn><b>2.</b></sn> <def>To form by art and labor; to manufacture;
to produce; as, to <i>fabricate</i> woolens.</def></p>

<p><sn><b>3.</b></sn> <def>To invent and form; to forge; to devise
falsely; as, to <i>fabricate</i> a lie or story.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>Our books were not <i>fabricated</i> with an
accomodation to prevailing usages.</blockquote> <i>Paley.</i></p>

<p><hw>Fab`ri*ca"tion</hw> (?), <pos><i>n.</i></pos> [L.
<i>fabricatio</i>; cf. F. <i>fabrication</i>.] <sn><b>1.</b></sn>
<def>The act of fabricating, framing, or constructing; construction;
manufacture; as, the <i>fabrication</i> of a bridge, a church, or a
government.</def>  <i>Burke.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>2.</b></sn> <def>That which is fabricated; a falsehood; as,
the story is doubtless a <i>fabrication</i>.</def></p>

<p><b>Syn.</b> -- See <u>Fiction</u>.</p>

<p><hw>Fab"ri*ca`tor</hw> (?), <pos><i>n.</i></pos> [L.] <def>One who
fabricates; one who constructs or makes.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>The <i>fabricator</i> of the works of
Ossian.</blockquote> <i>Mason.</i></p>

<p><hw>Fab"ri*ca`tress</hw> (?), <pos><i>n.</i></pos> <def>A woman
who fabricates.</def></p>

<p><hw>Fab"rile</hw> (?), <pos><i>a.</i></pos> [L. <i>fabrilis</i>,
fr. <i>faber</i> workman. See <u>Forge</u>.] <def>Pertaining to a
workman, or to work in stone, metal, wood etc.; as, <i>fabrile</i>
skill.</def></p>

<p><hw>Fab"u*list</hw> (?), <pos><i>n.</i></pos> [Cf. F.
<i>fabuliste</i>, fr. L. <i>fabula</i>. See <u>Fable</u>.] <def>One
who invents or writes fables.</def></p>

<p><hw>Fab"u*lize</hw> (?), <pos><i>v. i.</i></pos> [<pos><i>imp. &
p. p.</i></pos> <u>Fabulized</u> (?); <pos><i>p. pr. & vb.
n.</i></pos> <u>Fabulizing</u> (?).] [Cf. F. <i>fabuliser</i>. See
<u>Fable</u>.] <def>To invent, compose, or relate fables or
fictions.</def>  <i>G. S. Faber.</i></p>

<p><hw>Fab`u*los"i*ty</hw> (?), <pos><i>n.</i></pos> [L.
<i>fabulositas</i>: cf. F. <i>fabulosit&eacute;</i>.]
<sn><b>1.</b></sn> <def>Fabulousness.</def> [R.]  <i>Abp.
Abbot.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>2.</b></sn> <def>A fabulous or fictitious story.</def> [R.]
<i>Sir T. Browne.</i></p>

<p><hw>Fab"u*lous</hw> (f&abreve;b"&usl;*l&ubreve;s),
<pos><i>a.</i></pos> [L. <i>fabulosus</i>; cf. F. <i>fabuleux</i>.
See <u>Fable</u>.] <sn><b>1.</b></sn> <def>Feigned, as a story or
fable; related in fable; devised; invented; not real; fictitious; as,
a <i>fabulous</i> description; a <i>fabulous</i> hero.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>The <i>fabulous</i> birth of Minerva.</blockquote>
<i>Chesterfield.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>2.</b></sn> <def>Passing belief; exceedingly great; as, a
<i>fabulous</i> price.</def>  <i>Macaulay.</i></p>

<p><col><b>Fabulous age</b></col>, <cd>that period in the history of
a nation of which the only accounts are myths and unverified legends;
as, the <i>fabulous</i> age of Greece and Rome.</cd></p>

<p>-- <wf>Fab"u*lous*ly</wf> (#), <pos><i>adv.</i></pos> --
<wf>Fab"u*lous*ness</wf>, <pos><i>n.</i></pos></p>

<p><hw>Fab"ur*den</hw> (f&abreve;b"&ubreve;r*d<i>e</i>n),
<pos><i>n.</i></pos> [F. <i>faux bourdon</i>. See <u>False</u>, and
<u>Burden</u> a verse.] <sn><b>1.</b></sn> <i>(Mus.)</i>
<sd><i>(a)</i></sd> <def>A species of counterpoint with a drone
bass.</def> <sd><i>(b)</i></sd> <def>A succession of chords of the
sixth.</def> [Obs.]</p>

<p><sn><b>2.</b></sn> <def>A monotonous refrain.</def> [Obs.]
<i>Holland.</i></p>

<p><hw>Fac</hw> (f&abreve;k), <pos><i>n.</i></pos> [Abbrev. of
<i>facsimile</i>.] <def>A large ornamental letter used, esp. by the
early printers, at the commencement of the chapters and other
divisions of a book.</def>  <i>Brande & C.</i></p>

<p><hw>||Fa`&ccedil;ade"</hw> (f&adot;`s&adot;d" <i>or</i>
f&adot;`s&amacr;d"), <pos><i>n.</i></pos> [F., fr. It.
<i>facciata</i>, fr. <i>faccia</i> face, L. <i>facies</i>. See
<u>Face</u>.] <i>(Arch.)</i> <def>The front of a building; esp., the
principal front, having some architectural pretensions. Thus a church
is said to have its <i>fa&ccedil;ade</i> unfinished, though the
interior may be in use.</def></p>

<p><hw>Face</hw> (?), <pos><i>n.</i></pos> [F., from L. <i>facies</i>
form, shape, face, perh. from <i>facere</i> to make (see
<u>Fact</u>); or perh. orig. meaning <i>appearance</i>, and from a
root meaning <i>to shine</i>, and akin to E. <i>fancy</i>.  Cf.
<u>Facetious</u>.] <sn><b>1.</b></sn> <def>The exterior form or
appearance of anything; that part which presents itself to the view;
especially, the front or upper part or surface; that which
particularly offers itself to the view of a spectator.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>A mist . . . watered the whole <i>face</i> of the
ground.</blockquote> <i>Gen. ii. 6.</i></p>

<p><blockquote>Lake Leman wooes me with its crystal
<i>face</i>.</blockquote> <i>Byron.</i></p>

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

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

<p><sn><b>4.</b></sn> <i>(Print.)</i> <sd><i>(a)</i></sd> <def>The
upper surface, or the character upon the surface, of a type, plate,
etc.</def> <sd><i>(b)</i></sd> <def>The style or cut of a type or
font of type.</def></p>

<p><sn><b>5.</b></sn> <def>Outside appearance; surface show; look;
external aspect, whether natural, assumed, or acquired.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>To set a <i>face</i> upon their own malignant
design.</blockquote> <i>Milton.</i></p>

<p><blockquote>This would produce a new <i>face</i> of things in
Europe.</blockquote> <i>Addison.</i></p>

<p><blockquote>We wear a <i>face</i> of joy, because<BR>
We have been glad of yore.</blockquote> <i>Wordsworth.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>6.</b></sn> <def>That part of the head, esp. of man, in
which the eyes, cheeks, nose, and mouth are situated; visage;
countenance.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>In the sweat of thy <i>face</i> shalt thou eat
bread.</blockquote> <i>Gen. iii. 19.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>7.</b></sn> <def>Cast of features; expression of
countenance; look; air; appearance.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>We set the best <i>face</i>on it we
could.</blockquote> <i>Dryden.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>8.</b></sn> <i>(Astrol.)</i> <def>Ten degrees in extent of
a sign of the zodiac.</def>  <i>Chaucer.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>9.</b></sn> <def>Maintenance of the countenance free from
abashment or confusion; confidence; boldness; shamelessness;
effrontery.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>This is the man that has the <i>face</i> to charge
others with false citations.</blockquote> <i>Tillotson.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>10.</b></sn> <def>Presence; sight; front; as in the
phrases, <i>before the face of</i>, in the immediate presence of;
<i>in the face of</i>, before, in, or against the front of; as, to
fly <i>in the face of</i> danger; <i>to the face of</i>, directly to;
<i>from the face of</i>, from the presence of.</def></p>

<p><sn><b>11.</b></sn> <def>Mode of regard, whether favorable or
unfavorable; favor or anger; mostly in Scriptural phrases.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>The Lord make his <i>face</i> to shine upon
thee.</blockquote> <i>Num. vi. 25.</i></p>

<p><blockquote>My <i>face</i> [favor] will I turn also from
them.</blockquote> <i>Ezek. vii. 22.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>12.</b></sn> <i>(Mining)</i> <def>The end or wall of the
tunnel, drift, or excavation, at which work is progressing or was
last done.</def></p>

<p><sn><b>13.</b></sn> <i>(Com.)</i> <def>The exact amount expressed
on a bill, note, bond, or other mercantile paper, without any
addition for interest or reduction for discount.</def>
<i>McElrath.</i></p>

<p>&fist; <i>Face</i> is used either adjectively or as part of a
compound; as, <i>face</i> guard or <i>face</i>-guard; <i>face</i>
cloth; <i>face</i> plan or <i>face</i>-plan; <i>face</i> hammer.</p>

<p><col><b>Face ague</b></col> <i>(Med.)</i>, <cd>a form of
neuralgia, characterized by acute lancinating pains returning at
intervals, and by twinges in certain parts of the face, producing
convulsive twitches in the corresponding muscles; -- called also
<i>tic douloureux</i>.</cd> -- <col><b>Face card</b></col>, <cd>one
of a pack of playing cards on which a human face is represented; the
king, queen, or jack.</cd> -- <col><b>Face cloth</b></col>, <cd>a
cloth laid over the face of a corpse.</cd> -- <col><b>Face
guard</b></col>, <cd>a mask with windows for the eyes, worn by
workman exposed to great heat, or to flying particles of metal,
stone, etc., as in glass works, foundries, etc.</cd> -- <col><b>Face
hammer</b></col>, <cd>a hammer having a flat face.</cd> --
<col><b>Face joint</b></col> <i>(Arch.)</i>, <cd>a joint in the face
of a wall or other structure.</cd> -- <col><b>Face mite</b></col>
<i>(Zo&ouml;ll.)</i>, <cd>a small, elongated mite (<i>Demdex
folliculorum</i>), parasitic in the hair follicles of the face.</cd>
-- <col><b>Face mold</b></col>, <cd>the templet or pattern by which
carpenters, ect., outline the forms which are to be cut out from
boards, sheet metal, ect.</cd> -- <col><b>Face plate</b></col>.
<sd><i>(a)</i></sd> <i>(Turning)</i> <cd>A plate attached to the
spindle of a lathe, to which the work to be turned may be
attached.</cd> <sd><i>(b)</i></sd> <cd>A covering plate for an
object, to receive wear or shock.</cd> <sd><i>(c)</i></sd> <cd>A true
plane for testing a dressed surface.</cd> <i>Knight.</i> --
<col><b>Face wheel</b></col>. <i>(Mach.)</i> <sd><i>(a)</i></sd>
<cd>A crown wheel.</cd> <sd><i>(b)</i></sd> <cd>A Wheel whose disk
face is adapted for grinding and polishing; a lap.</cd></p>

<p>   <col><b>Cylinder face</b></col> <i>(Steam Engine)</i>, <cd>the
flat part of a steam cylinder on which a slide valve moves.</cd> --
<col><b>Face of an anvil</b></col>, <cd>its flat upper surface.</cd>
-- <col><b>Face of a bastion</b></col> <i>(Fort.)</i>, <cd>the part
between the salient and the shoulder angle.</cd> -- <col><b>Face of
coal</b></col> <i>(Mining)</i>, <cd>the principal cleavage plane, at
right angles to the stratification.</cd> -- <col><b>Face of a
gun</b></col>, <cd>the surface of metal at the muzzle.</cd> --
<col><b>Face of a place</b></col> <i>(Fort.)</i>, <cd>the front
comprehended between the flanked angles of two neighboring
bastions.</cd> <i>Wilhelm.</i> -- <col><b>Face of a square</b></col>
<i>(Mil.)</i>, <cd>one of the sides of a battalion when formed in a
square.</cd> -- <col><b>Face of a</b></col> <col><b>watch, clock,
compass, card etc.</b></col>, <cd>the dial or graduated surface on
which a pointer indicates the time of day, point of the compass,
etc.</cd> -- <col><b>Face to face</b></col>. <sd><i>(a)</i></sd>
<cd>In the presence of each other; as, to bring the accuser and the
accused <i>face to face</i>.</cd> <sd><i>(b)</i></sd> <cd>Without the
interposition of any body or substance.</cd> "Now we see through a
glass darkly; but then <i>face to face</i>." 1 <i>Cor. xiii. 12.</i>
<sd><i>(c)</i></sd> <cd>With the faces or finished surfaces turned
inward or toward one another; <i>vis &agrave; vis</i>; -- opposed to
<i>back to back</i>.</cd> -- <col><b>To fly in the face of</b></col>,
<cd>to defy; to brave; to withstand.</cd> -- <col><b>To make a
face</b></col>, <cd>to distort the countenance; to make a
grimace.</cd> <i>Shak.</i></p>

<p><hw>Face</hw> (?), <pos><i>v. t.</i></pos> [<pos><i>imp. & p.
p.</i></pos> <u>Faced</u> (?); <pos><i>p. pr. & vb. n.</i></pos>
<u>Facing</u> (?).] <sn><b>1.</b></sn> <def>To meet in front; to
oppose with firmness; to resist, or to meet for the purpose of
stopping or opposing; to confront; to encounter; as, to <i>face</i>
an enemy in the field of battle.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>I'll <i>face</i><BR>
This tempest, and deserve the name of king.</blockquote>
<i>Dryden.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>2.</b></sn> <def>To Confront impudently; to
bully.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>I will neither be <i>faced</i>nor braved.</blockquote>
<i>Shak.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>3.</b></sn> <def>To stand opposite to; to stand with the
face or front toward; to front upon; as, the apartments of the
general <i>faced</i> the park.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>He gained also with his forces that part of Britain
which <i>faces</i> Ireland.</blockquote> <i>Milton.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>4.</b></sn> <def>To cover in front, for ornament,
protection, etc.; to put a facing upon; as, a building <i>faced</i>
with marble.</def></p>

<p><sn><b>5.</b></sn> <def>To line near the edge, esp. with a
different material; as, to <i>face</i> the front of a coat, or the
bottom of a dress.</def></p>

<p><sn><b>6.</b></sn> <def>To cover with better, or better appearing,
material than the mass consists of, for purpose of deception, as the
surface of a box of tea, a barrel of sugar, etc.</def></p>

<p><sn><b>7.</b></sn> <i>(Mach.)</i> <def>To make the surface of
(anything) flat or smooth; to dress the face of (a stone, a casting,
etc.); esp., in turning, to shape or smooth the flat surface of, as
distinguished from the cylindrical surface.</def></p>

<p><sn><b>8.</b></sn> <def>To cause to turn or present a face or
front, as in a particular direction.</def></p>

<p><col><b>To face down</b></col>, <cd>to put down by bold or
impudent opposition.</cd> "He <i>faced</i> men <i>down</i>."
<i>Prior.</i> -- <col><b>To face (a thing) out</b></col>, <cd>to
persist boldly or impudently in an assertion or in a line of
conduct.</cd>  "That thinks with oaths <i>to face</i> the matter
<i>out</i>." <i>Shak.</i></p>

<p><hw>Face</hw>, <pos><i>v. i.</i></pos> <sn><b>1.</b></sn> <def>To
carry a false appearance; to play the hypocrite.</def> "To lie, to
<i>face</i>, to forge."  <i>Spenser.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>2.</b></sn> <def>To turn the face; as, to <i>face</i> to
the right or left.</def></p>

<p><blockquote><i>Face</i> about, man; a soldier, and
afraid!</blockquote> <i>Dryden.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>3.</b></sn> <def>To present a face or front.</def></p>

<p><hw>Faced</hw> (f&amacr;st), <pos><i>a.</i></pos> <def>Having
(such) a face, or (so many) faces; as, smooth-<i>faced</i>, two-
<i>faced</i>.</def></p>

<p><hw>Fa"cer</hw> (f&amacr;"s&etilde;r), <pos><i>n.</i></pos>
<sn><b>1.</b></sn> <def>One who faces; one who puts on a false show;
a bold-faced person.</def> [Obs.]</p>

<p><blockquote>There be no greater talkers, nor boasters, nor
<i>fasers</i>.</blockquote> <i>Latimer.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>2.</b></sn> <def>A blow in the face, as in boxing; hence,
any severe or stunning check or defeat, as in controversy.</def>
[Collog.]</p>

<p><blockquote>I should have been a stercoraceous mendicant if I had
hollowed when I got a <i>facer</i>.</blockquote> <i>C.
Kingsley.</i></p>

<p><! p. 536 !></p>

<p><hw>Fac"et</hw> (?), <pos><i>n.</i></pos> [F. <i>facette</i>, dim.
of <i>face</i> face. See <u>Face</u>.] <sn><b>1.</b></sn> <def>A
little face; a small, plane surface; as, the <i>facets</i> of a
diamond.</def> [Written also <i>facette</i>.]</p>

<p><sn><b>2.</b></sn> <i>(Anat.)</i> <def>A smooth circumscribed
surface; as, the articular <i>facet</i> of a bone.</def></p>

<p><sn><b>3.</b></sn> <i>(Arch.)</i> <def>The narrow plane surface
between flutings of a column.</def></p>

<p><sn><b>4.</b></sn> <i>(Zo&ouml;l.)</i> <def>One of the numerous
small eyes which make up the compound eyes of insects and
crustaceans.</def></p>

<p><hw>Fac"et</hw>, <pos><i>v. t.</i></pos> [<pos><i>imp. & p.
p.</i></pos> <u>Faceted</u>; <pos><i>p. pr. & vb. n.</i></pos>
<u>Faceting</u>.] <def>To cut facets or small faces upon; as, to
<i>facet</i> a diamond.</def></p>

<p><hw>Fa*cete"</hw> (?), <pos><i>a.</i></pos> [L. <i>facetus</i>
elegant, fine, facetious; akin to <i>facies</i>. See <u>Face</u>, and
cf. <u>Facetious</u>.] <def>Facetious; witty; humorous.</def>
[Archaic]  "A <i>facete</i> discourse."  <i>Jer. Taylor.</i></p>

<p><blockquote>"How to interpose" with a small, smart remark,
sentiment <i>facete</i>, or unctuous anecdote.</blockquote> <i>Prof.
Wilson.</i></p>

<p>-- <wf>Fa*cete"ly</wf>, <pos><i>adv.</i></pos> --
<wf>Fa*cete"ness</wf>, <pos><i>n.</i></pos></p>

<p><hw>Fac"et*ed</hw> (?), <pos><i>a.</i></pos> <def>Having
facets.</def></p>

<p><hw>||Fa*ce"ti*&aelig;</hw> (&?;), <pos><i>n. pl.</i></pos> [L.,
fr. <i>facetus</i>. See <u>Facete</u>.] <def>Witty or humorous
writings or saying; witticisms; merry conceits.</def></p>

<p><hw>Fa*ce"tious</hw> (?), <pos><i>a.</i></pos> [Cf. F.
<i>fac&eacute;tieux</i>. See <u>Faceti&aelig;</u>.]
<sn><b>1.</b></sn> <def>Given to wit and good humor; merry; sportive;
jocular; as, a <i>facetious</i> companion.</def></p>

<p><sn><b>2.</b></sn> <def>Characterized by wit and pleasantry;
exciting laughter; as, a <i>facetious</i> story or reply.</def></p>

<p>-- <wf>Fa*ce"tious*ly</wf>, <pos><i>adv.</i></pos> --
<wf>Fa*ce"tious*ness</wf>, <pos><i>n.</i></pos></p>

<p><hw>Fa*cette"</hw> (?), <pos><i>n.</i></pos> [F.] <def>See
<u>Facet</u>, <pos><i>n.</i></pos></def></p>

<p><hw>Face"work`</hw> (?), <pos><i>n.</i></pos> <def>The material of
the outside or front side, as of a wall or building;
facing.</def></p>

<p><hw>Fa"ci*a</hw> (?), <pos><i>n.</i></pos> <i>(Arch.)</i> <def>See
<u>Fascia</u>.</def></p>

<p><hw>Fa"cial</hw> (?), <pos><i>a.</i></pos> [LL. <i>facialis</i>,
fr. L. <i>facies</i> face : cf. F. <i>facial</i>.] <def>Of or
pertaining to the face; as, the <i>facial</i> artery, vein, or
nerve.</def> -- <wf>Fa"cial*ly</wf>, <pos><i>adv.</i></pos></p>

<p><col><b>Facial angle</b></col> <i>(Anat.)</i>, <cd>the angle, in a
skull, included between a straight line (<i>ab</i>, in the
illustrations), from the most prominent part of the forehead to the
front efge of the upper jaw bone, and another (<i>cd</i>) from this
point to the center of the external auditory opening. See <i>Gnathic
index</i>, under <u>Gnathic</u>.</cd></p>

<p><hw>Fa"ci*end</hw> (?), <pos><i>n.</i></pos> [From neut. of L.
<i>faciendus</i>, gerundive of <i>facere</i> to do.] <i>(Mach.)</i>
<def>The multiplicand. See <u>Facient</u>, 2.</def></p>

<p><hw>Fa"cient</hw> (?), <pos><i>n.</i></pos> [L. <i>faciens</i>, --
<i>entis</i>, p. pr. of <i>facere</i> to make, do. See <u>Fact</u>.]
<sn><b>1.</b></sn> <def>One who does anything, good or bad; a doer;
an agent.</def> [Obs.]  <i>Bp. Hacket.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>2.</b></sn> <i>(Mach.)</i> <sd><i>(a)</i></sd> <def>One of
the variables of a quantic as distinguished from a coefficient.</def>
<sd><i>(b)</i></sd> <def>The multiplier.</def></p>

<p>&fist; The terms <i>facient</i>, <i>faciend</i>, and
<i>factum</i>, may imply that the multiplication involved is not
ordinary multiplication, but is either some specified operation, or,
in general, any mathematical operation. See
<u>Multiplication</u>.</p>

<p><hw>||Fa"ci*es</hw> (?), <pos><i>n.</i></pos> [L., from, face. See
<u>Face</u>.]</p>

<p><sn><b>1.</b></sn> <def>The anterior part of the head; the
face.</def></p>

<p><sn><b>2.</b></sn> <i>(Biol.)</i> <def>The general aspect or habit
of a species, or group of species, esp. with reference to its
adaptation to its environment.</def></p>

<p><sn><b>3.</b></sn> <i>(Zo&ouml;l.)</i> <def>The face of a bird, or
the front of the head, excluding the bill.</def></p>

<p><col><b>Facies Hippocratica</b></col>. <i>(Med.)</i> <cd>See
<u>Hippocratic</u>.</cd></p>

<p><hw>Fac"ile</hw> (?) <pos><i>a.</i></pos> [L. <i>facilis</i>,
prop., capable of being done or made, hence, facile, easy, fr.
<i>facere</i> to make, do: cf. F. <i>facile</i>. Srr <u>Fact</u>, and
cf. <u>Faculty</u>.] <sn><b>1.</b></sn> <def>Easy to be done or
performed: not difficult; performable or attainable with little
labor.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>Order . . . will render the work <i>facile</i> and
delightful.</blockquote> <i>Evelyn.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>2.</b></sn> <def>Easy to be surmounted or removed; easily
conquerable; readily mastered.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>The <i>facile</i> gates of hell too slightly
barred.</blockquote> <i>Milton.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>3.</b></sn> <def>Easy of access or converse; mild;
courteous; not haughty, austere, or distant; affable;
complaisant.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>I meant she should be courteous, <i>facile</i>,
sweet.</blockquote> <i>B. Jonson.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>4.</b></sn> <def>Easily persuaded to good or bad; yielding;
ductile to a fault; pliant; flexible.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>Since Adam, and his <i>facile</i> consort Eve,<BR>
Lost Paradise, deceived by me.</blockquote> <i>Milton.</i></p>

<p><blockquote>This is treating Burns like a child, a person of so
<i>facile</i> a disposition as not to be trusted without a keeper on
the king's highway.</blockquote> <i>Prof. Wilson.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>5.</b></sn> <def>Ready; quick; expert; as, he is
<i>facile</i> in expedients; he wields a <i>facile</i> pen.</def></p>

<p>-- <wf>Fac"ile*ly</wf>, <pos><i>adv.</i></pos> --
<wf>Fac"ile*ness</wf>, <pos><i>n.</i></pos></p>

<p><hw>Fa*cil"i*tate</hw> (f&adot;*s&ibreve;l"&ibreve;*t&amacr;t),
<pos><i>v. t.</i></pos> [<pos><i>imp. & p. p.</i></pos>
<u>Facilitated</u> (-t&amacr;`t&ebreve;d); <pos><i>p. pr. & vb.
n.</i></pos> <u>Facilitating</u> (-t&amacr;`t&ibreve;ng).] [Cf. F.
<i>faciliter</i>. See <u>Facility</u>.] <def>To make easy or less
difficult; to free from difficulty or impediment; to lessen the labor
of; as, to <i>facilitate</i> the execution of a task.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>To invite and <i>facilitate</i> that line of
proceeding which the times call for.</blockquote> <i>I.
Taylor.</i></p>

<p><hw>Fa*cil`i*ta"tion</hw> (?), <pos><i>n.</i></pos> <def>The act
of facilitating or making easy.</def></p>

<p><hw>Fa*cil"i*ty</hw> (f&adot;*s&ibreve;l"&ibreve;*t&ybreve;),
<pos><i>n.</i></pos>; <i>pl.</i> <plw><b>Facilities</b></plw> (-
t&ibreve;z). [L. <i>facilitas</i>, fr. <i>facilis</i> easy: cf. F.
<i>facilit&eacute;</i>. See <u>Facile</u>.] <sn><b>1.</b></sn>
<def>The quality of being easily performed; freedom from difficulty;
ease; as, the <i>facility</i> of an operation.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>The <i>facility</i> with which government has been
overturned in France.</blockquote> <i>Burke.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>2.</b></sn> <def>Ease in performance; readiness proceeding
from skill or use; dexterity; as, practice gives a wonderful
<i>facility</i> in executing works of art.</def></p>

<p><sn><b>3.</b></sn> <def>Easiness to be persuaded; readiness or
compliance; -- usually in a bad sense; pliancy.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>It is a great error to take <i>facility</i> for good
nature.</blockquote> <i>L'Estrange.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>4.</b></sn> <def>Easiness of access; complaisance;
affability.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>Offers himself to the visits of a friend with
<i>facility</i>.</blockquote> <i>South.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>5.</b></sn> <def>That which promotes the ease of any action
or course of conduct; advantage; aid; assistance; -- usually in the
plural; as, special <i>facilities</i> for study.</def></p>

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

<p><hw>Fa"cing</hw> (?), <pos><i>n.</i></pos> <sn><b>1.</b></sn>
<def>A covering in front, for ornament or other purpose; an exterior
covering or sheathing; as, the <i>facing</i> of an earthen slope, sea
wall, etc. , to strengthen it or to protect or adorn the exposed
surface.</def></p>

<p><sn><b>2.</b></sn> <def>A lining placed near the edge of a garment
for ornament or protection.</def></p>

<p><sn><b>3.</b></sn> <i>(Arch.)</i> <def>The finishing of any face
of a wall with material different from that of which it is chiefly
composed, or the coating or material so used.</def></p>

<p><sn><b>4.</b></sn> <i>(Founding)</i> <def>A powdered substance, as
charcoal, bituminous coal, ect., applied to the face of a mold, or
mixed with the sand that forms it, to give a fine smooth surface to
the casting.</def></p>

<p><sn><b>5.</b></sn> <i>(Mil.)</i> <sd><i>(a)</i></sd> <i>pl.</i>
<def>The collar and cuffs of a military coat; -- commonly of a color
different from that of the coat.</def> <sd><i>(b)</i></sd> <def>The
movement of soldiers by turning on their heels to the right, left, or
about; -- chiefly in the <i>pl.</i></def></p>

<p><col><b>Facing brick</b></col>, <cd>front or pressed
brick.</cd></p>

<p><hw>Fa"cing*ly</hw>, <pos><i>adv.</i></pos> <def>In a facing
manner or position.</def></p>

<p><hw>Fa*cin"o*rous</hw> (?), <pos><i>a.</i></pos> [L.
<i>facinorous</i>, from <i>facinus</i> deed, bad deed, from
<i>facere</i> to make, do.] <def>Atrociously wicked.</def> [Obs.]
<i>Jer. Taylor.</i></p>

<p>-- <wf>Fa*cin"o*rous*ness</wf>, <pos><i>n.</i></pos> [Obs.]</p>

<p><hw>Fac"ound</hw> (?), <pos><i>n.</i></pos> [F. <i>faconde</i>, L.
<i>facundia</i>. See <u>Facund</u>.] <def>Speech; eloquence.</def>
[Obs.]</p>

<p><blockquote>Her <i>facound</i> eke full womanly and
plain.</blockquote> <i>Chaucer.</i></p>

<p><hw>Fac*sim"i*le</hw> (?), <pos><i>n.</i></pos>; <i>pl.</i>
<plw><b>Facsimiles</b></plw> (-l&?;z). [L. <i>fac simile</i> make
like; or an abbreviation of <i>factum simile</i> made like;
<i>facere</i> to make + <i>similes</i> like. See <u>Fact</u>, and
<u>Simile</u>.] <def>A copy of anything made, either so as to be
deceptive or so as to give every part and detail of the original; an
exact copy or likeness.</def></p>

<p><col><b>Facsimile telegraph</b></col>, <cd>a telegraphic apparatus
reproducing messages in autograph.</cd></p>

<p><hw>Fac*sim"i*le</hw>, (&?;), <pos><i>v. t.</i></pos> <def>To make
a facsimile of.</def></p>

<p><hw>Fact</hw> (f&abreve;kt), <pos><i>n.</i></pos> [L.
<i>factum</i>, fr. <i>facere</i> to make or do.  Cf. <u>Feat</u>,
<u>Affair</u>, <u>Benefit</u>, <u>Defect</u>, <u>Fashion</u>, and
<u>-fy</u>.] <sn><b>1.</b></sn> <def>A doing, making, or
preparing.</def> [Obs.]</p>

<p><blockquote>A project for the <i>fact</i> and vending<BR>
Of a new kind of fucus, paint for ladies.</blockquote> <i>B.
Jonson.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>2.</b></sn> <def>An effect produced or achieved; anything
done or that comes to pass; an act; an event; a
circumstance.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>What might instigate him to this devilish <i>fact</i>,
I am not able to conjecture.</blockquote> <i>Evelyn.</i></p>

<p><blockquote>He who most excels in <i>fact</i> of
arms.</blockquote> <i>Milton.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>3.</b></sn> <def>Reality; actuality; truth; as, he, in
<i>fact</i>, excelled all the rest; the <i>fact</i> is, he was
beaten.</def></p>

<p><sn><b>4.</b></sn> <def>The assertion or statement of a thing done
or existing; sometimes, even when false, improperly put, by a
transfer of meaning, for the thing done, or supposed to be done; a
thing supposed or asserted to be done; as, history abounds with false
<i>facts</i>.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>I do not grant the <i>fact</i>.</blockquote> <i>De
Foe.</i></p>

<p><blockquote>This reasoning is founded upon a <i>fact</i> which is
not true.</blockquote> <i>Roger Long.</i></p>

<p>&fist; The term <i>fact</i> has in jurisprudence peculiar uses in
contrast with <i>law</i>; as, attorney at <i>law</i>, and attorney in
<i>fact</i>; issue in <i>law</i>, and issue in <i>fact</i>. There is
also a grand distinction between <i>law</i> and <i>fact</i> with
reference to the province of the judge and that of the jury, the
latter generally determining the <i>fact</i>, the former the
<i>law</i>.  <i>Burrill</i> <i>Bouvier.</i><BR>
[1913 Webster]</p>

<p><col><b>Accessary before</b></col>, or <col><b>after</b></col>,
<col><b>the fact</b></col>. <cd>See under <u>Accessary</u>.</cd> --
<col><b>Matter of fact</b></col>, <cd>an actual occurrence; a verity;
used adjectively: of or pertaining to facts; prosaic; unimaginative;
as, a <i>matter-of-fact</i> narration.</cd></p>

<p><b>Syn.</b> -- Act; deed; performance; event; incident;
occurrence; circumstance.</p>

<p><hw>Fac"tion</hw> (f&abreve;k"sh&ubreve;n), <pos><i>n.</i></pos>
[L. <i>factio</i> a doing, a company of persons acting together, a
faction: cf. F. <i>faction</i> See <u>Fashion</u>.]
<sn><b>1.</b></sn> <i>(Anc. Hist.)</i> <def>One of the divisions or
parties of charioteers (distinguished by their colors) in the games
of the circus.</def></p>

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

<p><sn><b>3.</b></sn> <def>Tumult; discord; dissension.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>They remained at Newbury in great <i>faction</i> among
themselves.</blockquote> <i>Clarendon.</i></p>

<p><b>Syn.</b> -- Combination; clique; junto. See <u>Cabal</u>.</p>

<p><hw>Fac"tion*a*ry</hw> (?), <pos><i>a.</i></pos> [Cf. F.
<i>factionnaire</i>, L. <i>factionarius</i> the head of a company of
charioteers.] <def>Belonging to a faction; being a partisan; taking
sides.</def> [Obs.]</p>

<p><blockquote>Always <i>factionary</i> on the party of your
general.</blockquote> <i>Shak.</i></p>

<p><hw>Fac"tion*er</hw> (-?r), <pos><i>n.</i></pos> <def>One of a
faction.</def>  <i>Abp. Bancroft.</i></p>

<p><hw>Fac"tion*ist</hw>, <pos><i>n.</i></pos> <def>One who promotes
faction.</def></p>

<p><hw>Fac"tious</hw> (?). <pos><i>a.</i></pos> [L. <i>factiosus</i>:
cf. F. <i>factieux</i>.] <sn><b>1.</b></sn> <def>Given to faction;
addicted to form parties and raise dissensions, in opposition to
government or the common good; turbulent; seditious; prone to clamor
against public measures or men; -- said of persons.</def></p>

<p><blockquote><i>Factious</i> for the house of
Lancaster.</blockquote> <i>Shak.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>2.</b></sn> <def>Pertaining to faction; proceeding from
faction; indicating, or characterized by, faction; -- said of acts or
expressions; as, <i>factious</i> quarrels.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>Headlong zeal or <i>factious</i> fury.</blockquote>
<i>Burke.</i></p>

<p>-- <wf>Fac"tious*ly</wf>, <pos><i>adv.</i></pos> -- <wf>Fac"tious-
ness</wf>, <pos><i>n.</i></pos></p>

<p><hw>Fac*ti"tious</hw> (?), <pos><i>a.</i></pos> [L.
<i>factitius</i>, fr. <i>facere</i> to make. See <u>Fact</u>, and cf.
<u>Fetich</u>.] <def>Made by art, in distinction from what is
produced by nature; artificial; sham; formed by, or adapted to, an
artificial or conventional, in distinction from a natural, standard
or rule; not natural; as, <i>factitious</i> cinnabar or jewels; a
<i>factitious</i> taste.</def> -- <wf>Fac-ti"tious*ly</wf>,
<pos><i>adv.</i></pos> -- <wf>Fac*ti"tious-ness</wf>,
<pos><i>n.</i></pos></p>

<p><blockquote>He acquires a <i>factitious</i> propensity, he forms
an incorrigible habit, of desultory reading.</blockquote> <i>De
Quincey.</i></p>

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

<p><hw>Fac"ti*tive</hw> (?). <pos><i>a.</i></pos> [See <u>Fact</u>.]
<sn><b>1.</b></sn> <def>Causing; causative.</def></p>

<p><sn><b>2.</b></sn> <i>(Gram.)</i> <def>Pertaining to that relation
which is proper when the act, as of a transitive verb, is not merely
received by an object, but produces some change in the object, as
when we say, He made the water wine.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>Sometimes the idea of activity in a verb or adjective
involves in it a reference to an effect, in the way of causality, in
the active voice on the immediate objects, and in the passive voice
on the subject of such activity.  This second object is called the
<i>factitive</i> object.</blockquote> <i>J. W. Gibbs.</i></p>

<p><hw>Fac"tive</hw> (?), <pos><i>a.</i></pos> <def>Making; having
power to make.</def> [Obs.] "You are . . . <i>factive</i>, not
destructive."  <i>Bacon.</i></p>

<p><hw>||Fac"to</hw> (?), <pos><i>adv.</i></pos> [L., ablative of
<i>factum</i> deed, fact.] <i>(Law)</i> <def>In fact; by the act or
fact.</def></p>

<p><col><b>De facto</b></col>. <i>(Law)</i> <cd>See <u>De
facto</u>.</cd></p>

<p><hw>Fac"tor</hw> (?), <pos><i>n.</i></pos> [L. <i>factor</i> a
doer: cf. F. <i>facteur</i> a factor. See <u>Fact</u>.]
<sn><b>1.</b></sn> <i>(Law)</i> <def>One who transacts business for
another; an agent; a substitute; especially, a mercantile agent who
buys and sells goods and transacts business for others in commission;
a commission merchant or consignee. He may be a home factor or a
foreign factor. He may buy and sell in his own name, and he is
intrusted with the possession and control of the goods; and in these
respects he differs from a broker.</def>  <i>Story.</i>
<i>Wharton.</i></p>

<p><blockquote>My <i>factor</i> sends me word, a merchant's fled<BR>
That owes me for a hundred tun of wine.</blockquote>
<i>Marlowe.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>2.</b></sn> <def>A steward or bailiff of an estate.</def>
[Scot.]  <i>Sir W. Scott.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>3.</b></sn> <i>(Math.)</i> <def>One of the elements or
quantities which, when multiplied together, form a product.</def></p>

<p><sn><b>4.</b></sn> <def>One of the elements, circumstances, or
influences which contribute to produce a result; a
constituent.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>The materal and dynamical <i>factors</i> of
nutrition.</blockquote> <i>H. Spencer.</i></p>

<p><hw>Fac"tor</hw>, <pos><i>v. t.</i></pos> [<pos><i>imp. & p.
p.</i></pos> <u>Factored</u> (-t?rd); <pos><i>p. pr. & vb.
n.</i></pos> <u>Factoring</u>.] <i>(Mach.)</i> <def>To resolve (a
quantity) into its factors.</def></p>

<p><hw>Fac"tor*age</hw> (?), <pos><i>n.</i></pos> [Cf. F.
<i>factorage</i>.] <def>The allowance given to a factor, as a
compensation for his services; -- called also a
<i>commission</i>.</def></p>

<p><hw>Fac"tor*ess</hw> (?), <pos><i>n.</i></pos> <def>A factor who
is a woman.</def> [R.]</p>

<p><hw>Fac*to"ri*al</hw> (?), <pos><i>a.</i></pos> <sn><b>1.</b></sn>
<def>Of or pertaining to a factory.</def>  <i>Buchanan.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>2.</b></sn> <i>(Math.)</i> <def>Related to
factorials.</def></p>

<p><hw>Fac*to"ri*al</hw>, <pos><i>n.</i></pos> <i>(Math.)</i>
<sd><i>(a)</i></sd> <i>pl.</i> <def>A name given to the factors of a
continued product when the former are derivable from one and the same
function F(x) by successively imparting a constant increment or
decrement <i>h</i> to the independent variable. Thus the product
<i>F(x).F(x + h).F(x + 2h) . . . F[x + (n-1)h]</i> is called a
<i>factorial term</i>, and its several factors take the name of
<i>factorials</i>.</def>  <i>Brande & C.</i></p>

<p><sd><i>(b)</i></sd> <def>The product of the consecutive numbers
from unity up to any given number.</def></p>

<p><hw>Fac"tor*ing</hw> (?), <pos><i>n.</i></pos> <i>(Math.)</i>
<def>The act of resolving into factors.</def></p>

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

<p><hw>Fac"tor*ship</hw>, <pos><i>n.</i></pos> <def>The business of a
factor.</def></p>

<p><hw>Fac"to*ry</hw> (?), <pos><i>n.</i></pos>; <i>pl.</i>
<plw><b>Factories</b></plw> (-r&?;z). [Cf. F. <i>factorerie</i>.]
<sn><b>1.</b></sn> <def>A house or place where factors, or commercial
agents, reside, to transact business for their employers.</def> "The
Company's <i>factory</i> at Madras."  <i>Burke.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>2.</b></sn> <def>The body of factors in any place; as, a
chaplain to a British <i>factory</i>.</def>  <i>W. Guthrie.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>3.</b></sn> <def>A building, or collection of buildings,
appropriated to the manufacture of goods; the place where workmen are
employed in fabricating goods, wares, or utensils; a manufactory; as,
a cotton <i>factory</i>.</def></p>

<p><col><b>Factory leg</b></col> <i>(Med.)</i>, <cd>a variety of
bandy leg, associated with partial dislocation of the tibia, produced
in young children by working in factories.</cd></p>

<p><hw>Fac*to"tum</hw> (f&abreve;k*t&omacr;"t&ubreve;m),
<pos><i>n.</i></pos>; <i>pl.</i> <plw><b>Factotums</b></plw> (-
t&ubreve;mz). [L., do everything; <i>facere</i> to do + <i>totus</i>
all : cf. F. <i>factotum</i>. See <u>Fact</u>, and <u>Total</u>.]
<def>A person employed to do all kinds of work or business.</def>
<i>B. Jonson.</i></p>

<p><hw>Fac"tu*al</hw> (f&abreve;k*t&usl;"<i>a</i>l),
<pos><i>a.</i></pos> <def>Relating to, or containing, facts.</def>
[R.]</p>

<p><! p. 537 !></p>

<p><hw>||Fac"tum</hw> (f&abreve;k"t&ubreve;m), <pos><i>n.</i></pos>;
<i>pl.</i> <plw><b>Facta</b></plw> (#). [L. See <u>Fact</u>.]
<sn><b>1.</b></sn> <i>(Law)</i> <def>A man's own act and deed</def>;
particularly: <sd><i>(a)</i></sd> <i>(Civil Law)</i> <def>Anything
stated and made certain.</def> <sd><i>(b)</i></sd> <i>(Testamentary
Law)</i> <def>The due execution of a will, including everything
necessary to its validity.</def></p>

<p><sn><b>2.</b></sn> <i>(Mach.)</i> <def>The product. See
<u>Facient</u>, 2.</def></p>

<p><hw>Fac"ture</hw> (?), <pos><i>n.</i></pos> [F. <i>facture</i> a
making, invoice, L. <i>factura</i> a making. See <u>Fact</u>.]
<sn><b>1.</b></sn> <def>The act or manner of making or doing
anything; -- now used of a literary, musical, or pictorial
production.</def>  <i>Bacon.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>2.</b></sn> <i>(Com.)</i> <def>An invoice or bill of
parcels.</def></p>

<p><hw>||Fac"u*l&aelig;</hw> (?), <pos><i>n. pl.</i></pos> [L., pl.
<i>of facula</i> a little torch.] <i>(Astron.)</i> <def>Groups of
small shining spots on the surface of the sun which are brighter than
the other parts of the photosphere. They are generally seen in the
neighborhood of the dark spots, and are supposed to be elevated
portions of the photosphere.</def>  <i>Newcomb.</i></p>

<p><hw>Fac"u*lar</hw> (?) <pos><i>a.</i></pos> <i>(Astron.)</i>
<def>Of or pertaining to the facul&aelig;.</def>  <i>R. A.
Proctor.</i></p>

<p><hw>Fac"ul*ty</hw> (?), <pos><i>n.</i></pos>; <i>pl.</i>
<plw><b>Faculties</b></plw> (#). [F. <i>facult&?;</i>, L.
<i>facultas</i>, fr. <i>facilis</i> easy (cf. <i>facul</i> easily),
fr. <i>fecere</i> to make. See <u>Fact</u>, and cf. <u>Facility</u>.]
<sn><b>1.</b></sn> <def>Ability to act or perform, whether inborn or
cultivated; capacity for any natural function; especially, an
original mental power or capacity for any of the well-known classes
of mental activity; psychical or soul capacity; capacity for any of
the leading kinds of soul activity, as knowledge, feeling, volition;
intellectual endowment or gift; power; as, <i>faculties</i> of the
mind or the soul.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>But know that in the soul<BR>
Are many lesser <i>faculties</i> that serve<BR>
Reason as chief.</blockquote> <i>Milton.</i></p>

<p><blockquote>What a piece of work is a man ! how noble in reason !
how infinite in <i>faculty</i> !</blockquote> <i>Shak.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>2.</b></sn> <def>Special mental endowment; characteristic
knack.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>He had a ready <i>faculty</i>, indeed, of escaping
from any topic that agitated his too sensitive and nervous
temperament.</blockquote> <i>Hawthorne.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>3.</b></sn> <def>Power; prerogative or attribute of
office.</def> [R.]</p>

<p><blockquote>This Duncan<BR>
Hath borne his <i>faculties</i> so meek.</blockquote>
<i>Shak.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>4.</b></sn> <def>Privilege or permission, granted by favor
or indulgence, to do a particular thing; authority; license;
dispensation.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>The pope . . . granted him a <i>faculty</i> to set him
free from his promise.</blockquote> <i>Fuller.</i></p>

<p><blockquote>It had not only <i>faculty</i> to inspect all bishops'
dioceses, but to change what laws and statutes they should think fit
to alter among the colleges.</blockquote> <i>Evelyn.</i></p>

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

<p><sn><b>6.</b></sn> <i>(Amer. Colleges)</i> <def>The body of person
to whom are intrusted the government and instruction of a college or
university, or of one of its departments; the president, professors,
and tutors in a college.</def></p>

<p><col><b>Dean of faculty</b></col>. <cd>See under <u>Dean</u>.</cd>
-- <col><b>Faculty of advocates</b></col>. <i>(Scot.)</i> <cd>See
under <u>Advocate</u>.</cd></p>

<p><b>Syn.</b> -- Talent; gift; endowment; dexterity; expertness;
cleverness; readiness; ability; knack.</p>

<p><hw>Fac"und</hw> (?), <pos><i>a.</i></pos> [L. <i>facundus</i>,
fr. <i>fari</i> to speak.] <def>Eloquent.</def> [Archaic]</p>

<p><hw>Fa*cun"di*ous</hw> (?), <pos><i>a.</i></pos> [L.
<i>facundiosus</i>.] <def>Eloquement; full of words.</def>
[Archaic]</p>

<p><hw>Fa*cun"di*ty</hw> (?), <pos><i>n.</i></pos> [L.
<i>facunditas</i>.] <def>Eloquence; readiness of speech.</def>
[Archaic]</p>

<p><hw>Fad</hw> (?), <pos><i>n.</i></pos> [Cf. <u>Faddle</u>.] <def>A
hobby ; freak; whim.</def> -- <wf>Fad"dist</wf>,
<pos><i>n.</i></pos></p>

<p><blockquote>It is your favorite <i>fad</i> to draw
plans.</blockquote> <i>G. Eliot.</i></p>

<p><hw>Fad"dle</hw> (?), <pos><i>v. i.</i></pos> [Cf. <u>Fiddle</u>,
<u>Fiddle-faddle</u>.] <def>To trifle; to toy.</def> -- <pos><i>v.
t.</i></pos> <def>To fondle; to dandle.</def> [Prov. Eng.]
<i>Halliwell.</i></p>

<p><hw>Fade</hw> (?) <pos><i>a.</i></pos> [F., prob. fr. L.
<i>vapidus</i> vapid, or possibly fr,<i>fatuus</i> foolish, insipid.]
<def>Weak; insipid; tasteless; commonplace.</def> [R.] "Passages that
are somewhat <i>fade</i>."  <i>Jeffrey.</i></p>

<p><blockquote>His masculine taste gave him a sense of something
<i>fade</i> and ludicrous.</blockquote> <i>De Quincey.</i></p>

<p><hw>Fade</hw> (?), <pos><i>v. i.</i></pos> [<pos><i>imp. & p.
p.</i></pos> <u>Faded</u>; <pos><i>p. pr. & vb. n.</i></pos>
<u>Fading</u>.] [OE. <i>faden</i>, <i>vaden</i>, prob. fr.
<i>fade</i>, <pos><i>a.</i></pos>; cf. Prov. D. <i>vadden</i> to
fade, wither, <i>vaddigh languid</i>, <i>torpid</i>.  Cf.
<u>Fade</u>, <pos><i>a.</i></pos>, <u>Vade</u>.] <sn><b>1.</b></sn>
<def>To become fade; to grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to
perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>The earth mourneth and <i>fadeth</i>
away.</blockquote> <i>Is. xxiv. 4.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>2.</b></sn> <def>To lose freshness, color, or brightness;
to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color.</def>
"Flowers that never <i>fade</i>."  <i>Milton.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>3.</b></sn> <def>To sink away; to disappear gradually; to
grow dim; to vanish.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>The stars shall <i>fade</i> away.</blockquote>
<i>Addison</i></p>

<p><blockquote>He makes a swanlike end,<BR>
<i>Fading</i> in music.</blockquote> <i>Shak.</i></p>

<p><hw>Fade</hw>, <pos><i>v. t.</i></pos> <def>To cause to wither; to
deprive of freshness or vigor; to wear away.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>No winter could his laurels <i>fade</i>.</blockquote>
<i>Dryden.</i></p>

<p><hw>Fad"ed</hw> (?), <pos><i>a.</i></pos> <def>That has lost
freshness, color, or brightness; grown dim.</def> "His <i>faded</i>
cheek."  <i>Milton.</i></p>

<p><blockquote>Where the <i>faded</i> moon<BR>
Made a dim silver twilight.</blockquote> <i>Keats.</i></p>

<p><hw>Fad"ed*ly</hw>, <pos><i>adv.</i></pos> <def>In a faded
manner.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>A dull room <i>fadedly</i> furnished.</blockquote>
<i>Dickens.</i></p>

<p><hw>Fade"less</hw>, <pos><i>a.</i></pos> <def>Not liable to fade;
unfading.</def></p>

<p><hw>Fa"der</hw> (?), <pos><i>n.</i></pos> <def>Father.</def>
[Obs.]  <i>Chaucer.</i></p>

<p><hw>Fadge</hw> (?), <pos><i>v. i.</i></pos> [Cf. OE. <i>faden</i>
to flatter, and AS. <i>f&?;gan</i> to join, unit, G.
<i>f&uuml;gen</i>, or AS. <i>&amacr;f&aelig;gian</i> to depict; all
perh. form the same root as E. <i>fair</i>.  Cf. <u>Fair</u>,
<pos><i>a.</i></pos>, <u>Fay</u> to fit.] <def>To fit; to suit; to
agree.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>They shall be made, spite of antipathy, to
<i>fadge</i> together.</blockquote> <i>Milton.</i></p>

<p><blockquote>Well, Sir, how <i>fadges</i> the new design
?</blockquote> <i>Wycherley.</i></p>

<p><hw>Fadge</hw> (?), <pos><i>n.</i></pos> [Etymol. uncertain.]
<def>A small flat loaf or thick cake; also, a fagot.</def> [Prov.
Eng.]  <i>Halliwell.</i></p>

<p><hw>Fad"ing</hw> (?), <pos><i>a.</i></pos> <def>Losing freshness,
color, brightness, or vigor.</def> -- <pos><i>n.</i></pos> <def>Loss
of color, freshness, or vigor.</def> -- <wf>Fad"ing*ly</wf>,
<pos><i>adv.</i></pos> -- <wf>Fad"ing*ness</wf>,
<pos><i>n.</i></pos></p>

<p><hw>Fad"ing</hw>, <pos><i>n.</i></pos> <def>An Irish dance; also,
the burden of a song.</def> "<i>Fading</i> is a fine jig." [Obs.]
<i>Beau. & Fl.</i></p>

<p><hw>Fad"me</hw> (?), <pos><i>n.</i></pos> <def>A fathom.</def>
[Obs.]  <i>Chaucer.</i></p>

<p><hw>Fad"y</hw> (?), <pos><i>a.</i></pos> <def>Faded.</def> [R.]
<i>Shenstone.</i></p>

<p><hw>F&aelig;"cal</hw> (?), <pos><i>a.</i></pos> <def>See
<u>Fecal</u>.</def></p>

<p><hw>||F&aelig;"ces</hw> (?), <pos><i>n. pl.</i></pos> [L.
<i>faex</i>, pl. <i>faeces</i>, dregs.] <def>Excrement; ordure; also,
settlings; sediment after infusion or distillation.</def> [Written
also <i>feces</i>.]</p>

<p><hw>||F&aelig;c"u*la</hw> (?), <pos><i>n.</i></pos> [L.] <def>See
<u>Fecula</u>.</def></p>

<p><hw>Fa"&euml;r*y</hw> (?), <pos><i>n. & a.</i></pos>
<def>Fairy.</def> [Archaic]  <i>Spenser.</i></p>

<p><hw>Faf"fle</hw> (?), <pos><i>v. i.</i></pos> [Cf. <u>Famble</u>,
<u>Maffle</u>.] <def>To stammer.</def> [Prov. Eng.]
<i>Halliwell.</i></p>

<p><hw>Fag</hw> (f&abreve;g) <pos><i>n.</i></pos> <def>A knot or
coarse part in cloth.</def> [Obs.]</p>

<p><hw>Fag</hw>, <pos><i>v. i.</i></pos> [<pos><i>imp. & p.
p.</i></pos> <u>Fagged</u> (f&abreve;gd); <pos><i>p. pr. & vb.
n.</i></pos> <u>Fagging</u> (f&abreve;g"g&ibreve;ng).] [Cf. LG.
<i>fakk</i> wearied, weary, <i>vaak</i> slumber, drowsiness, OFries.
<i>fai</i>, equiv. to <i>f&amacr;ch</i> devoted to death, OS.
<i>f&emacr;gi</i>, OHG. <i>feigi</i>, G. <i>feig</i>, <i>feige</i>,
cowardly, Icel. <i>feigr</i> fated to die, AS. <i>f&aemacr;ge</i>,
Scot. <i>faik</i>, to fail, stop, lower the price; or perh. the same
word as E. <i>flag</i> to droop.] <sn><b>1.</b></sn> <def>To become
weary; to tire.</def><BR>
[1913 Webster]</p>

<p><blockquote>Creighton withheld his force till the Italian began to
<i>fag</i>.</blockquote> <i>G. Mackenzie.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>2.</b></sn> <def>To labor to wearness; to work hard; to
drudge.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>Read, <i>fag</i>, and subdue this
chapter.</blockquote> <i>Coleridge.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>3.</b></sn> <def>To act as a fag, or perform menial
services or drudgery, for another, as in some English
schools.</def></p>

<p><col><b>To fag out</b></col>, <cd>to become untwisted or frayed,
as the end of a rope, or the edge of canvas.</cd></p>

<p><hw>Fag</hw>, <pos><i>v. t.</i></pos> <sn><b>1.</b></sn> <def>To
tire by labor; to exhaust; as, he was almost <i>fagged</i>
out.</def></p>

<p><sn><b>2.</b></sn> <def>Anything that fatigues.</def> [R.]</p>

<p><blockquote>It is such a <i>fag</i>, I came back tired to
death.</blockquote> <i>Miss Austen.</i></p>

<p><col><b>Brain fag</b></col>. <i>(Med.)</i> <cd>See
<u>Cerebropathy</u>.</cd></p>

<p><hw>Fag"-end"</hw> (?), <pos><i>n.</i></pos> <sn><b>1.</b></sn>
<def>An end of poorer quality, or in a spoiled condition, as the
coarser end of a web of cloth, the untwisted end of a rope,
ect.</def></p>

<p><sn><b>2.</b></sn> <def>The refuse or meaner part of
anything.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>The <i>fag-end</i> of business.</blockquote>
<i>Collier.</i></p>

<p><hw>Fag"ging</hw> (f&abreve;g"g&ibreve;ng), <pos><i>n.</i></pos>
<def>Laborious drudgery; esp., the acting as a drudge for another at
an English school.</def></p>

<p><hw>Fag"ot</hw> (f&abreve;g"&ubreve;t) <pos><i>n.</i></pos> [F.,
prob. aug. of L. <i>fax</i>, <i>facis</i>, torch, perh. orig., a
bundle of sticks; cf. Gr. <grk>fa`kelos</grk> bundle, fagot.  Cf.
<u>Fagotto</u>.] <sn><b>1.</b></sn> <def>A bundle of sticks, twigs,
or small branches of trees, used for fuel, for raising batteries,
filling ditches, or other purposes in fortification; a fascine.</def>
<i>Shak.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>2.</b></sn> <def>A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be
worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a
welding heat; a pile.</def></p>

<p><sn><b>3.</b></sn> <i>(Mus.)</i> <def>A bassoon. See
<u>Fagotto</u>.</def></p>

<p><sn><b>4.</b></sn> <def>A person hired to take the place of
another at the muster of a company.</def> [Eng.]  <i>Addison.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>5.</b></sn> <def>An old shriveled woman.</def> [Slang,
Eng.]</p>

<p><col><b>Fagot iron</b></col>, <cd>iron, in bars or masses,
manufactured from fagots.</cd> -- <col><b>Fagot vote</b></col>,
<cd>the vote of a person who has been constituted a voter by being
made a landholder, for party purposes.</cd> [Political cant,
Eng.]</p>

<p><hw>Fag"ot</hw> (?) <pos><i>v. t.</i></pos> [<pos><i>imp. & p.
p.</i></pos> <u>Fagoted</u>; <pos><i>p. pr. & vb. n.</i></pos>
<u>Fagoting</u>.] <def>To make a fagot of; to bind together in a
fagot or bundle; also, to collect promiscuously.</def>
<i>Dryden.</i></p>

<p><hw>||Fa*got"to</hw> (?), <pos><i>n.</i></pos> [It. See
<u>Fagot</u>.] <i>(Mus.)</i> <def>The bassoon; -- so called from
being divided into parts for ease of carriage, making, as it were, a
small fagot.</def></p>

<p><hw>||Fa"ham</hw> (?), <pos><i>n.</i></pos> <def>The leaves of an
orchid (<i>Angraecum fragrans</i>), of the islands of Bourbon and
Mauritius, used (in France) as a substitute for Chinese
tea.</def></p>

<p><hw>||Fahl"band`</hw> (?), <pos><i>n.</i></pos> [G., fr.
<i>fahl</i> dun-colored + <i>band</i> a band.] <i>(Mining)</i> <def>A
stratum in crystalline rock, containing metallic sulphides.</def>
<i>Raymond.</i></p>

<p>{ <hw>Fahl"erz</hw> (?), <hw>Fahl"band</hw> (?), }
<pos><i>n.</i></pos> [G. <i>fahlerz</i>; <i>fahl</i> dun-colored,
fallow + <i>erz</i> ore.] <i>(Min.)</i> <def>Same as
<u>Tetrahedrite</u>.</def></p>

<p><hw>Fah"lun*ite</hw> (f&auml;"l&ubreve;n*&imacr;t),
<pos><i>n.</i></pos> [From <i>Fahlun</i>, a place in Sweden.]
<i>(Min.)</i> <def>A hydrated silica of alumina, resulting from the
alteration of iolite.</def><BR>
[1913 Webster]</p>

<p><hw>Fah"ren*heit</hw> (?) <pos><i>a.</i></pos> [G.]
<def>Conforming to the scale used by Gabriel Daniel <i>Fahrenheit</i>
in the graduation of his thermometer; of or relating to Fahrenheit's
thermometric scale.</def> -- <pos><i>n.</i></pos> <def>The Fahrenheit
thermometer or scale.</def></p>

<p>&fist; The <i>Fahrenheit thermometer</i> is so graduated that the
freezing point of water is at 32 degrees above the zero of its scale,
and the boiling point at 212 degrees above. It is commonly used in
the United States and in England.</p>

<p><hw>||Fa`&iuml;*ence"</hw> (?), <pos><i>n.</i></pos> [F., fr.
<i>Faenza</i>, a town in Italy, the original place of manufacture.]
<def>Glazed earthenware; esp., that which is decorated in
color.</def></p>

<p><hw>Fail</hw> (f&amacr;l) <pos><i>v. i.</i></pos> [<pos><i>imp. &
p. p.</i></pos> <u>Failed</u> (f&amacr;ld); <pos><i>p. pr. & vb.
n.</i></pos> <u>Failing</u>.] [F. <i>failir</i>, fr. L.
<i>fallere</i>, <i>falsum</i>, to deceive, akin to E. <i>fall</i>.
See <u>Fail</u>, and cf. <u>Fallacy</u>, <u>False</u>, <u>Fault</u>.]
<sn><b>1.</b></sn> <def>To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become
deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to
be furnished in the usual or expected manner, or to be altogether cut
off from supply; to be lacking; as, streams <i>fail</i>; crops
<i>fail</i>.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>As the waters <i>fail</i> from the sea.</blockquote>
<i>Job xiv. 11.</i></p>

<p><blockquote>Till Lionel's issue <i>fails</i>, his should not
reign.</blockquote> <i>Shak.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>2.</b></sn> <def>To be affected with want; to come short;
to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; -- used with
<i>of</i>.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>If ever they <i>fail</i> of beauty, this failure is
not be attributed to their size.</blockquote> <i>Berke.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>3.</b></sn> <def>To fall away; to become diminished; to
decline; to decay; to sink.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>When earnestly they seek<BR>
Such proof, conclude they then begin to <i>fail</i>.</blockquote>
<i>Milton.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>4.</b></sn> <def>To deteriorate in respect to vigor,
activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker; as, a sick man
<i>fails</i>.</def></p>

<p><sn><b>5.</b></sn> <def>To perish; to die; -- used of a
person.</def> [Obs.]</p>

<p><blockquote>Had the king in his last sickness
<i>failed</i>.</blockquote> <i>Shak.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>6.</b></sn> <def>To be found wanting with respect to an
action or a duty to be performed, a result to be secured, etc.; to
miss; not to fulfill expectation.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>Take heed now that ye <i>fail</i> not to do
this.</blockquote> <i>Ezra iv. 22.</i></p>

<p><blockquote>Either my eyesight <i>fails</i>, or thou look'st
pale.</blockquote> <i>Shak.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>7.</b></sn> <def>To come short of a result or object aimed
at or desired ; to be baffled or frusrated.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>Our envious foe hath <i>failed</i>.</blockquote>
<i>Milton.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>8.</b></sn> <def>To err in judgment; to be
mistaken.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>Which ofttimes may succeed, so as perhaps<BR>
Shall grieve him, if I <i>fail</i> not.</blockquote>
<i>Milton.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>9.</b></sn> <def>To become unable to meet one's
engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge
one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent.</def></p>

<p><hw>Fail</hw> (?), <pos><i>v. t.</i></pos> <sn><b>1.</b></sn>
<def>To be wanting to ; to be insufficient for; to disappoint; to
desert.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>There shall not <i>fail</i> thee a man on the
throne.</blockquote> <i>1 Kings ii. 4.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>2.</b></sn> <def>To miss of attaining; to lose.</def>
[R.]</p>

<p><blockquote>Though that seat of earthly bliss be
<i>failed</i>.</blockquote> <i>Milton.</i></p>

<p><hw>Fail</hw>, <pos><i>n.</i></pos> [OF. <i>faille</i>, from
<i>failir</i>. See <u>Fail</u>, <pos><i>v. i.</i></pos>]
<sn><b>1.</b></sn> <def>Miscarriage; failure; deficiency; fault; --
mostly superseded by <i>failure</i> or <i>failing</i>, except in the
phrase <i>without fail</i>.</def> "His highness' <i>fail</i> of
issue."  <i>Shak.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>2.</b></sn> <def>Death; decease.</def> [Obs.]
<i>Shak.</i></p>

<p><hw>Fail"ance</hw> (?), <pos><i>n.</i></pos> [Of.
<i>faillance</i>, fr. <i>faillir</i>.] <def>Fault; failure;
omission.</def> [Obs.]  <i>Bp. Fell.</i></p>

<p><hw>Fail"ing</hw>, <pos><i>n.</i></pos> <sn><b>1.</b></sn> <def>A
failing short; a becoming deficient; failure; deficiency;
imperfection; weakness; lapse; fault; infirmity; as, a mental
<i>failing</i>.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>And ever in her mind she cast about<BR>
For that unnoticed <i>failing</i> in herself.</blockquote>
<i>Tennyson.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>2.</b></sn> <def>The act of becoming insolvent of
bankrupt.</def></p>

<p><b>Syn.</b> -- See <u>Fault</u>.</p>

<p><hw>||Faille</hw> (?), <pos><i>n.</i></pos> [F.] <def>A soft silk,
heavier than a foulard and not glossy.</def></p>

<p><hw>Fail"ure</hw> (?), <pos><i>n.</i></pos> [From <u>Fail</u>.]
<sn><b>1.</b></sn> <def>Cessation of supply, or total defect; a
failing; deficiency; as, <i>failure</i> of rain; <i>failure</i> of
crops.</def></p>

<p><sn><b>2.</b></sn> <def>Omission; nonperformance; as, the
<i>failure</i> to keep a promise.</def></p>

<p><sn><b>3.</b></sn> <def>Want of success; the state of having
failed.</def></p>

<p><sn><b>4.</b></sn> <def>Decay, or defect from decay;
deterioration; as, the <i>failure</i> of memory or of
sight.</def></p>

<p><sn><b>5.</b></sn> <def>A becoming insolvent; bankruptcy;
suspension of payment; as, <i>failure</i> in business.</def></p>

<p><sn><b>6.</b></sn> <def>A failing; a slight fault.</def> [Obs.]
<i>Johnson.</i></p>

<p><hw>Fain</hw> (?), <pos><i>a.</i></pos> [OE. <i>fain</i>,
<i>fagen</i>, AS. <i>f&aelig;gen</i>; akin to OS. <i>fagan</i>, Icel.
<i>faginn</i> glad; AS. <i>f&aelig;gnian</i> to rejoice, OS.
<i>fagan&omacr;n</i>, Icel. <i>fagna</i>, Goth. <i>fagin&omacr;n</i>,
cf. Goth. <i>fah&emacr;ds</i> joy; and fr. the same root as E.
<i>fair</i>. Srr <u>Fair</u>, <pos><i>a.</i></pos>, and cf.
<u>Fawn</u> to court favor.] <sn><b>1.</b></sn> <def>Well-pleased;
glad; apt; wont; fond; inclined.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>Men and birds are <i>fain</i> of climbing
high.</blockquote> <i>Shak.</i></p>

<p><blockquote>To a busy man, temptation is <i>fain</i>to climb up
together with his business.</blockquote> <i>Jer. Taylor.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>2.</b></sn> <def>Satisfied; contented; also,
constrained.</def>  <i>Shak.</i></p>

<p><blockquote>The learned Castalio was <i>fain</i> to make trechers
at Basle to keep himself from starving.</blockquote>
<i>Locke.</i></p>

<p><hw>Fain</hw>, <pos><i>adv.</i></pos> <def>With joy; gladly; --
with <i>wold</i>.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>He would <i>fain</i> have filled his belly with the
husks that the swine did eat.</blockquote> <i>Luke xv. 16.</i></p>

<p><blockquote><i>Fain</i> Would I woo her, yet I dare
not.</blockquote> <i>Shak.</i></p>

<p><hw>Fain</hw>, <pos><i>v. t. & i.</i></pos> <def>To be glad ; to
wish or desire.</def> [Obs.]</p>

<p><blockquote>Whoso fair thing does <i>fain</i> to see.</blockquote>
<i>Spencer.</i></p>

<p><hw>||Fai`n&eacute;`ant"</hw> (f&asl;`n&asl;`&auml;N"),
<pos><i>a.</i></pos> [F.; <i>fait</i> he does + <i>n&eacute;ant</i>
nothing.] <def>Doing nothing; shiftless.</def> --
<pos><i>n.</i></pos> <def>A do-nothing; an idle fellow; a
sluggard.</def>  <i>Sir W. Scott.</i></p>

<p><hw>Faint</hw> (f&amacr;nt), <pos><i>a.</i></pos>
[<pos><i>Compar.</i></pos> <u>Fainter</u> (-&etilde;r);
<pos><i>superl.</i></pos> <u>Faintest</u>.] [OE. <i>feint</i>,
<i>faint</i>, false, faint, F. <i>feint</i>, p. p. of <i>feindre</i>
to feign, suppose, hesitate. See <u>Feign</u>, and cf. <u>Feint</u>.]
<sn><b>1.</b></sn> <def>Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to
swoon; as, <i>faint</i> with fatigue, hunger, or thirst.</def></p>

<p><sn><b>2.</b></sn> <def>Wanting in courage, spirit, or energy;
timorous; cowardly; dejected; depressed; as, "<i>Faint</i> heart
ne'er won fair lady."</def>  <i>Old Proverb.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>3.</b></sn> <def>Lacking distinctness; hardly perceptible;
striking the senses feebly; not bright, or loud, or sharp, or
forcible; weak; as, a <i>faint</i> color, or sound.</def></p>

<p><sn><b>4.</b></sn> <def>Performed, done, or acted, in a weak or
feeble manner; not exhibiting vigor, strength, or energy; slight; as,
<i>faint</i> efforts; <i>faint</i> resistance.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>The <i>faint</i> prosecution of the war.</blockquote>
<i>Sir J. Davies.</i></p>

<p><hw>Faint</hw>, <pos><i>n.</i></pos> <def>The act of fainting, or
the state of one who has fainted; a swoon. [R.] See <u>Fainting</u>,
<pos><i>n.</i></pos></def></p>

<p><blockquote>The saint,<BR>
Who propped the Virgin in her <i>faint</i>.</blockquote> <i>Sir W.
Scott.</i></p>

<p><hw>Faint</hw>, <pos><i>v. i.</i></pos> [<pos><i>imp. & p.
p.</i></pos> <u>Fainted</u>; <pos><i>p. pr. & vb. n.</i></pos>
<u>Fainting</u>.] <sn><b>1.</b></sn> <def>To become weak or wanting
in vigor; to grow feeble; to lose strength and color, and the control
of the bodily or mental functions; to swoon; -- sometimes with
<i>away</i>. See <u>Fainting</u>, <pos><i>n.</i></pos></def></p>

<p><blockquote>Hearing the honor intended her, she <i>fainted</i>
away.</blockquote> <i>Guardian.</i></p>

<p><blockquote>If I send them away fasting . . . they will
<i>faint</i> by the way.</blockquote> <i>Mark viii. 8.</i></p>

<p><! p. 538 !></p>

<p><sn><b>2.</b></sn> <def>To sink into dejection; to lose courage or
spirit; to become depressed or despondent.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>If thou <i>faint</i> in the day of adversity, thy
strength is small.</blockquote> <i>Prov. xxiv. 10.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>3.</b></sn> <def>To decay; to disappear; to
vanish.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>Gilded clouds, while we gaze upon them, <i>faint</i>
before the eye.</blockquote> <i>Pope.</i></p>

<p><hw>Faint</hw> (?), <pos><i>v. t.</i></pos> <def>To cause to faint
or become dispirited; to depress; to weaken.</def> [Obs.]</p>

<p><blockquote>It <i>faints</i> me to think what
follows.</blockquote> <i>Shak.</i></p>

<p><hw>Faint"-heart`ed</hw> (?), <pos><i>a.</i></pos> <def>Wanting in
courage; depressed by fear; easily discouraged or frightened;
cowardly; timorous; dejected.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>Fear not, neither be <i>faint-
hearted</i>.</blockquote> <i>Is. vii. 4.</i></p>

<p>-- <wf>Faint"-heart`ed*ly</wf>, <pos><i>adv.</i></pos> --
<wf>Faint"-heart`ed*ness</wf>, <pos><i>n.</i></pos></p>

<p><hw>Faint"ing</hw> (?), <pos><i>n.</i></pos> <def>Syncope, or loss
of consciousness owing to a sudden arrest of the blood supply to the
brain, the face becoming pallid, the respiration feeble, and the
heat's beat weak.</def></p>

<p><col><b>Fainting fit</b></col>, <cd>a fainting or swoon;
syncope.</cd> [Colloq.]</p>

<p><hw>Faint"ish</hw>, <pos><i>a.</i></pos> <def>Slightly faint;
somewhat faint.</def> -- <wf>Faint"ish*ness</wf>,
<pos><i>n.</i></pos></p>

<p><hw>Faint"ling</hw> (?), <pos><i>a.</i></pos> <def>Timorous;
feeble-minded.</def> [Obs.] "A <i>fainting</i>, silly creature."
<i>Arbuthnot.</i></p>

<p><hw>Faint"ly</hw>, <pos><i>adv.</i></pos> <def>In a faint, weak,
or timidmanner.</def></p>

<p><hw>Faint"ness</hw>, <pos><i>n.</i></pos> <sn><b>1.</b></sn>
<def>The state of being faint; loss of strength, or of consciousness,
and self-control.</def></p>

<p><sn><b>2.</b></sn> <def>Want of vigor or energy.</def>
<i>Spenser.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>3.</b></sn> <def>Feebleness, as of color or light; lack of
distinctness; as, <i>faintness</i> of description.</def></p>

<p><sn><b>4.</b></sn> <def>Faint-heartedness; timorousness;
dejection.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>I will send a <i>faintness</i> into their
hearts.</blockquote> <i>Lev. xxvi. 36.</i></p>

<p><hw>Faints</hw> (?), <pos><i>n. pl.</i></pos> <def>The impure
spirit which comes over first and last in the distillation of whisky;
-- the former being called the <i>strong faints</i>, and the latter,
which is much more abundant, the <i>weak faints</i>. This crude
spirit is much impregnated with fusel oil.</def>  <i>Ure.</i></p>

<p><hw>Faint"y</hw> (?), <pos><i>a.</i></pos> <def>Feeble;
languid.</def> [R.]  <i>Dryden.</i></p>

<p><hw>Fair</hw> (f&acirc;r), <pos><i>a.</i></pos>
[<pos><i>Compar.</i></pos> <u>Fairer</u> (?);
<pos><i>superl.</i></pos> <u>Fairest</u>.] [OE. <i>fair</i>,
<i>fayer</i>, <i>fager</i>, AS. <i>f&aelig;ger</i>; akin to OS. &
OHG. <i>fagar</i>, Icel. <i>fagr</i>, Sw. <i>fager</i>, Dan.
<i>faver</i>, Goth. <i>fagrs</i> fit, also to E. <i>fay</i>, G.
<i>f&uuml;gen</i>, to fit. <i>fegen</i> to sweep, cleanse, and prob.
also to E. <i>fang</i>, <i>peace</i>, <i>pact</i>, Cf. <u>Fang</u>,
<u>Fain</u>, <u>Fay</u> to fit.] <sn><b>1.</b></sn> <def>Free from
spots, specks, dirt, or imperfection; unblemished; clean;
pure.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>A <i>fair</i> white linen cloth.</blockquote> <i>Book
of Common Prayer.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>2.</b></sn> <def>Pleasing to the eye; handsome;
beautiful.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>Who can not see many a <i>fair</i> French city, for
one <i>fair</i> French made.</blockquote> <i>Shak.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>3.</b></sn> <def>Without a dark hue; light; clear; as, a
<i>fair</i> skin.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>The northern people large and <i>fair</i>-
complexioned.</blockquote> <i>Sir M. Hale.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>4.</b></sn> <def>Not overcast; cloudless; clear; pleasant;
propitious; favorable; -- said of the sky, weather, or wind, etc.;
as, a <i>fair</i> sky; a <i>fair</i> day.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>You wish <i>fair</i> winds may waft him
over.</blockquote> <i>Prior.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>5.</b></sn> <def>Free from obstacles or hindrances;
unobstructed; unincumbered; open; direct; -- said of a road, passage,
etc.; as, a <i>fair</i> mark; in <i>fair</i> sight; a <i>fair</i>
view.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>The caliphs obtained a mighty empire, which was in a
<i>fair</i> way to have enlarged.</blockquote> <i>Sir W.
Raleigh.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>6.</b></sn> <i>(Shipbuilding)</i> <def>Without sudden
change of direction or curvature; smooth; flowing; -- said of the
figure of a vessel, and of surfaces, water lines, and other
lines.</def></p>

<p><sn><b>7.</b></sn> <def>Characterized by frankness, honesty,
impartiality, or candor; open; upright; free from suspicion or bias;
equitable; just; -- said of persons, character, or conduct; as, a
<i>fair</i> man; <i>fair</i> dealing; a <i>fair</i> statement.</def>
"I would call it <i>fair</i> play."  <i>Shak.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>8.</b></sn> <def>Pleasing; favorable; inspiring hope and
confidence; -- said of words, promises, etc.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>When <i>fair</i> words and good counsel will not
prevail on us, we must be frighted into our duty.</blockquote> <i>L'
Estrange.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>9.</b></sn> <def>Distinct; legible; as, <i>fair</i>
handwriting.</def></p>

<p><sn><b>10.</b></sn> <def>Free from any marked characteristic;
average; middling; so-so; as, a <i>fair</i> specimen.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>The news is very <i>fair</i> and good, my
lord.</blockquote> <i>Shak.</i></p>

<p><col><b>Fair ball</b></col>. <i>(Baseball)</i> <sd><i>(a)</i></sd>
<cd>A ball passing over the home base at the height called for by the
batsman, and delivered by the pitcher while wholly within the lines
of his position and facing the batsman.</cd> <sd><i>(b)</i></sd>
<cd>A batted ball that falls inside the foul lines; -- called also a
<i>fair hit</i>.</cd> -- <col><b>Fair maid</b></col>.
<i>(Zo&ouml;l.)</i> <sd><i>(a)</i></sd> <cd>The European pilchard
(<i>Clupea pilchardus</i>) when dried.</cd> <sd><i>(b)</i></sd>
<cd>The southern scup (<i>Stenotomus Gardeni</i>).</cd> [Virginia] --
<col><b>Fair one</b></col>, <cd>a handsome woman; a beauty,</cd> --
<col><b>Fair play</b></col>, <cd>equitable or impartial treatment; a
fair or equal chance; justice.</cd> -- <col><b>From fair to
middling</b></col>, <cd>passable; tolerable.</cd> [Colloq.] --
<col><b>The fair sex</b></col>, <cd>the female sex.</cd></p>

<p><b>Syn.</b> -- Candid; open; frank; ingenuous; clear; honest;
equitable; impartial; reasonable. See <u>Candid</u>.</p>

<p><hw>Fair</hw>, <pos><i>adv.</i></pos> <def>Clearly; openly;
frankly; civilly; honestly; favorably; auspiciously;
agreeably.</def></p>

<p><col><b>Fair and square</b></col>, <cd>justly; honestly;
equitably; impartially.</cd> [Colloq.] -- <col><b>To bid
fair</b></col>. <cd>See under <u>Bid</u>.</cd> -- <col><b>To speak
fair</b></col>, <cd>to address with courtesy and frankness.</cd>
[Archaic]</p>

<p><hw>Fair</hw>, <pos><i>n.</i></pos> <sn><b>1.</b></sn>
<def>Fairness, beauty.</def> [Obs.]  <i>Shak.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>2.</b></sn> <def>A fair woman; a sweetheart.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>I have found out a gift for my
<i>fair</i>.</blockquote> <i>Shenstone.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>3.</b></sn> <def>Good fortune; good luck.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>Now <i>fair</i> befall thee !</blockquote>
<i>Shak.</i></p>

<p><col><b>The fair</b></col>, <cd>anything beautiful; women,
collectively.</cd> "For slander's mark was ever yet <i>the fair</i>."
<i>Shak.</i></p>

<p><hw>Fair</hw>, <pos><i>v. t.</i></pos> <sn><b>1.</b></sn> <def>To
make fair or beautiful.</def> [Obs.]</p>

<p><blockquote><i>Fairing</i> the foul.</blockquote> <i>Shak.</i></p>

<p><sn><b>2.</b></sn> <i>(Shipbuilding)</i> <def>To make smooth and
flowing, as a vessel's lines.</def></p>

<p><hw>Fair</hw>, <pos><i>n.</i></pos> [OE. <i>feire</i>, OF.
<i>feire</i>, F. <i>foire</i>, fr. L. <i>fariae</i>, pl., days of
rest, holidays, festivals, akin to <i>festus</i> festal. See
<u>Feast</u>.] <sn><b>1.</b></sn> <def>A gathering of buyers and
sellers, assembled at a particular place with their merchandise at a
stated or regular season, or by special appointment, for
trade.</def></p>

<p><sn><b>2.</b></sn> <def>A festival, and sale of fancy articles.
erc., usually for some charitable object; as, a Grand Army
<i>fair</i>.</def></p>

<p><sn><b>3.</b></sn> <def>A competitive exhibition of wares, farm
products, etc., not primarily for purposes of sale; as, the
Mechanics' <i>fair</i>; an agricultural <i>fair</i>.</def></p>

<p><col><b>After the fair</b></col>, <cd>Too late.</cd> [Colloq.]</p>

<p><hw>Fair"-haired`</hw> (?), <pos><i>a.</i></pos> <def>Having fair
or light-colored hair.</def></p>

<p><hw>Fair"hood</hw> (?), <pos><i>n.</i></pos> <def>Fairness;
beauty.</def> [Obs.]  <i>Foxe.</i></p>

<p><hw>Fair"i*ly</hw> (?), <pos><i>adv.</i></pos> <def>In the manner
of a fairy.</def></p>

<p><blockquote>Numerous as shadows haunting <i>fairily</i><BR>
<i>The brain</i>.</blockquote> <i>Keats.</i></p>

<p><hw>Fair"ing</hw>, <pos><i>n.</i></pos> <def>A present;
originally, one given or purchased at a fair.</def>  <i>Gay.</i></p>

<p><col><b>Fairing box</b></col>, <cd>a box receiving savings or
small sums of money.</cd>  <i>Hannah More.</i></p>

<p><hw>Fair"ish</hw>, <pos><i>a.</i></pos> <def>Tolera