Fabaceous
Fa•ba´ceous (fa•ba"shus), a. [L. fabaceus, fr. faba bean.] Having the nature of a bean; like a bean.

Fabella
Fa•bel´la, n. ; pl. Fabellae (-l). [NL., dim. of L. faba a bean.] (Anat.) One of the small sesamoid bones situated behind the condyles of the femur, in some mammals.

Fabian
Fa´bi•an, a. [L. Fabianus, Fabius, belonging to Fabius.] Of, pertaining to, or in the manner of, the Roman general, Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus; cautious; dilatory; avoiding a decisive contest. Fabian policy, a policy like that of Fabius Maximus, who, by carefully avoiding decisive contests, foiled Hannibal, harassing his army by marches, countermarches, and ambuscades; a policy of delays and cautions.

Fabian
Fa´bi•an, n. A member of, or sympathizer with, the Fabian Society.

Fabian
Fa´bi•an, a.
1. Of or pertaining to the Roman gens Fabia.
2. Designating, or pertaining to, a society of socialists, organized in England in 1884 to spread socialistic principles gradually without violent agitation.
"The Fabian Society proposes then to conquer by delay; to carry its programme, not by a hasty rush, but through the slower, but, as it thinks, surer methods of patient discussion, exposition, and political action." William Clarke.

Fable
Fa´ble (fa"b’l), n. [F., fr. L. fabula, fr. fari to speak, say. See Ban, and cf. Fabulous, Fame.]
1. A Feigned story or tale, intended to instruct or amuse; a fictitious narration intended to enforce some useful truth or precept; an apologue. See the Note under Apologue.
"Jotham’s fable of the trees is the oldest extant." Addison.
2. The plot, story, or connected series of events, forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem.
"The moral is the first business of the poet; this being formed, he contrives such a design or fable as may be most suitable to the moral." Dryden.
3. Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk. "Old wives’ fables. " 1 Tim. iv. 7.
"We grew The fable of the city where we dwelt." Tennyson.
4. Fiction; untruth; falsehood.
"It would look like a fable to report that this gentleman gives away a great fortune by secret methods." Addison.

Fable
Fa´ble, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Fabled p. pr. & vb. n. Fabling ] To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction ; to write or utter what is not true. "He Fables not." Shak.
"Vain now the tales which fabling poets tell." Prior.
"He fables, yet speaks truth." M. Arnold.

Fable
Fa´ble, v. t. To feign; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely.
"The hell thou fablest." Milton.

Fabler
Fa´bler (fa"bler), n. A writer of fables; a fabulist; a dealer in untruths or falsehoods. Bp. Hall.

Fabliau
Fa•bli•au´, n. ; pl. Fabliaux (-o"). [F., fr. OF. fablel, dim. of fable a fable.] (Fr. Lit.) One of the metrical tales of the Trouvères, or early poets of the north of France.

Fabric
Fab´ric, n. [L. fabrica fabric, workshop: cf. F. fabrique fabric. See Forge.]
1. The structure of anything; the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship; texture; make; as cloth of a beautiful fabric.
2. That which is fabricated; as: (a) Framework; structure; edifice; building.
"Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation." Milton. (b) Cloth of any kind that is woven or knit from fibers, either vegetable or animal; manufactured cloth; as silks or other fabrics.
3. The act of constructing; construction. [R.]
"Tithe was received by the bishop, … for the fabric of the churches for the poor." Milman.
4. Any system or structure consisting of connected parts; as the fabric of the universe.
"The whole vast fabric of society." Macaulay.

Fabric
Fab´ric, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Fabricked p. pr. & vb. n. Fabricking.] To frame; to build; to construct. [Obs.] "Fabric their mansions." J. Philips.

Fabricate
Fab´ri•cate, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Fabricated p. pr. & vb. n. Fabricating ] [L. fabricatus, p. p. of fabricari, fabricare, to frame, build, forge, fr. fabrica. See Fabric, Farge.]
1. To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to frame; to construct; to build; as to fabricate a bridge or ship.
2. To form by art and labor; to manufacture; to produce; as to fabricate woolens.
3. To invent and form; to forge; to devise falsely; as to fabricate a lie or story.
"Our books were not fabricated with an accomodation to prevailing usages." Paley.

Fabricatress
Fab´ri•ca•tress, n. A woman who fabricates.

Fabrile
Fab´rile, a. [L. fabrilis, fr. faber workman. See Forge.] Pertaining to a workman, or to work in stone, metal, wood etc.; as fabrile skill.

Fabulous
Fab´u•lous (fab"u•lus), a. [L. fabulosus; cf. F. fabuleux. See Fable.]
1. Feigned, as a story or fable; related in fable; devised; invented; not real; fictitious; as a fabulous description; a fabulous hero.
"The fabulous birth of Minerva." Chesterfield.
2. Passing belief; exceedingly great; as a fabulous price. Macaulay. Fabulous age, that period in the history of a nation of which the only accounts are myths and unverified legends; as the fabulous age of Greece and Rome. — Fab´u•lous•ly (#), adv. — Fab´u•lous•ness, n.

Façade
Fa•çade" (fa•sad" or fa•sad"), n. [F., fr. It. facciata, fr. faccia face, L. facies. See Face.] (Arch.) The front of a building; esp., the principal front, having some architectural pretensions. Thus a church is said to have its façade unfinished, though the interior may be in use.

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

Facer
Fa´cer (fa"ser), n.
1. One who faces; one who puts on a false show; a bold-faced person. [Obs.]
"There be no greater talkers, nor boasters, nor fasers." Latimer.
2. A blow in the face, as in boxing; hence, any severe or stunning check or defeat, as in controversy. [Collog.]
"I should have been a stercoraceous mendicant if I had hollowed when I got a facer." C. Kingsley.

Facet
Fac´et, n. [F. facette, dim. of face face. See Face.]
1. A little face; a small, plane surface; as the facets of a diamond. [Written also facette.]
2. (Anat.) A smooth circumscribed surface; as the articular facet of a bone.
3. (Arch.) The narrow plane surface between flutings of a column.
4. (Zoöl.) One of the numerous small eyes which make up the compound eyes of insects and crustaceans.

Facet
Fac´et, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Faceted; p. pr. & vb. n. Faceting.] To cut facets or small faces upon; as to facet a diamond.

Facetiae
Fa•ce´ti•ae, n. pl. [L., fr. facetus. See Facete.] Witty or humorous writings or saying; witticisms; merry conceits.

Facia
Fa´ci•a, n. (Arch.) See Fascia.

Facility
Fa•cil´i•ty (fa•sil"i•ty), n. ; pl. Facilities (- tiz). [L. facilitas, fr. facilis easy: cf. F. facilite. See Facile.]
1. The quality of being easily performed; freedom from difficulty; ease; as the facility of an operation.
"The facility with which government has been overturned in France." Burke.
2. Ease in performance; readiness proceeding from skill or use; dexterity; as practice gives a wonderful facility in executing works of art.
3. Easiness to be persuaded; readiness or compliance; — usually in a bad sense; pliancy.
"It is a great error to take facility for good nature." L’Estrange.
4. Easiness of access; complaisance; affability.
"Offers himself to the visits of a friend with facility." South.
5. That which promotes the ease of any action or course of conduct; advantage; aid; assistance; — usually in the plural; as special facilities for study.
Syn. — Ease; expertness; readiness; dexterity; complaisance; condescension; affability. — Facility, Expertness, Readiness. These words have in common the idea of performing any act with ease and promptitude. Facility supposes a natural or acquired power of dispatching a task with lightness and ease. Expertness is the kind of facility acquired by long practice. Readiness marks the promptitude with which anything is done. A merchant needs great facility in dispatching business; a banker, great expertness in casting accounts; both need great readiness in passing from one employment to another. "The facility which we get of doing things by a custom of doing, makes them often pass in us without our notice." Locke. "The army was celebrated for the expertness and valor of the soldiers." "A readiness to obey the known will of God is the surest means to enlighten the mind in respect to duty."

Facingly
Fa´cing•ly, adv. In a facing manner or position.

Facinorous
Fa•cin´o•rous, a. [L. facinorous, from facinus deed, bad deed, from facere to make, do.] Atrociously wicked. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor. — Fa•cin´o•rous•ness, n. [Obs.]

Facound
Fac´ound, n. [F. faconde, L. facundia. See Facund.] Speech; eloquence. [Obs.]
"Her facound eke full womanly and plain." Chaucer.

Fact (fakt), n. [L. factum, fr. facere to make or do. Cf. Feat, Affair, Benefit, Defect, Fashion, and -fy.]
1. A doing, making, or preparing. [Obs.]
"A project for the fact and vending Of a new kind of fucus, paint for ladies." B. Jonson.
2. An effect produced or achieved; anything done or that comes to pass; an act; an event; a circumstance.
"What might instigate him to this devilish fact, I am not able to conjecture." Evelyn.
"He who most excels in fact of arms." Milton.
3. Reality; actuality; truth; as he, in fact, excelled all the rest; the fact is, he was beaten.
4. The assertion or statement of a thing done or existing; sometimes, even when false, improperly put, by a transfer of meaning, for the thing done, or supposed to be done; a thing supposed or asserted to be done; as history abounds with false facts.
"I do not grant the fact." De Foe.
"This reasoning is founded upon a fact which is not true." Roger Long. The term fact has in jurisprudence peculiar uses in contrast with law; as attorney at law, and attorney in fact; issue in law, and issue in fact. There is also a grand distinction between law and fact with reference to the province of the judge and that of the jury, the latter generally determining the fact, the former the law. Burrill Bouvier. [1913 Webster] Accessary before, or after, the fact. See under Accessary. — Matter of fact, an actual occurrence; a verity; used adjectively: of or pertaining to facts; prosaic; unimaginative; as a matter-of-fact narration.
Syn. — Act; deed; performance; event; incident; occurrence; circumstance.

Factioner
Fac´tion•er (-?r), n. One of a faction. Abp. Bancroft.

Factionist
Fac´tion•ist, n. One who promotes faction.

Factious
Fac´tious a. [L. factiosus: cf. F. factieux.]
1. Given to faction; addicted to form parties and raise dissensions, in opposition to government or the common good; turbulent; seditious; prone to clamor against public measures or men; — said of persons.
"Factious for the house of Lancaster." Shak.
2. Pertaining to faction; proceeding from faction; indicating, or characterized by, faction; — said of acts or expressions; as factious quarrels.
"Headlong zeal or factious fury." Burke. — Fac´tious•ly, adv. — Fac"tious- ness, n.

Factitious
Fac•ti´tious, a. [L. factitius, fr. facere to make. See Fact, and cf. Fetich.] Made by art, in distinction from what is produced by nature; artificial; sham; formed by, or adapted to, an artificial or conventional, in distinction from a natural, standard or rule; not natural; as factitious cinnabar or jewels; a factitious taste. — Fac-ti´tious•ly, adv. — Fac•ti´tious-ness, n.
"He acquires a factitious propensity, he forms an incorrigible habit, of desultory reading." De Quincey.
Syn. — Unnatural. — Factitious, Unnatural. Anything is unnatural when it departs in any way from its simple or normal state; it is factitious when it is wrought out or wrought up by labor and effort, as a factitious excitement. An unnatural demand for any article of merchandise is one which exceeds the ordinary rate of consumption; a factitious demand is one created by active exertions for the purpose. An unnatural alarm is one greater than the occasion requires; a factitious alarm is one wrought up with care and effort.

Facto
Fac´to, adv. [L., ablative of factum deed, fact.] (Law) In fact; by the act or fact. De facto. (Law) See De facto.

Factoress
Fac´tor•ess, n. A factor who is a woman. [R.]

Factorial
Fac•to´ri•al, a.
1. Of or pertaining to a factory. Buchanan.
2. (Math.) Related to factorials.

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

Factoring
Fac´tor•ing, n. (Math.) The act of resolving into factors.

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

Factory
Fac´to•ry, n. ; pl. Factories (-rz). [Cf. F. factorerie.]
1. A house or place where factors, or commercial agents, reside, to transact business for their employers. "The Company’s factory at Madras." Burke.
2. The body of factors in any place; as a chaplain to a British factory. W. Guthrie.
3. A building, or collection of buildings, appropriated to the manufacture of goods; the place where workmen are employed in fabricating goods, wares, or utensils; a manufactory; as a cotton factory. Factory leg (Med.), a variety of bandy leg, associated with partial dislocation of the tibia, produced in young children by working in factories.

Factotum
Fac•to´tum (fak•to"tum), n. ; pl. Factotums (- tumz). [L., do everything; facere to do + totus all : cf. F. factotum. See Fact, and Total.] A person employed to do all kinds of work or business. B. Jonson.

Factum
Fac´tum (fak"tum), n. ; pl. Facta (#). [L. See Fact.]
1. (Law) A man’s own act and deed; particularly: (a) (Civil Law) Anything stated and made certain. (b) (Testamentary Law) The due execution of a will, including everything necessary to its validity.
2. (Mach.) The product. See Facient, 2.

Facular
Fac´u•lar a. (Astron.) Of or pertaining to the faculae. R. A. Proctor.

Facultative
Fac´ul•ta•tive, a. [L. facultas, -atis, faculty: cf. F. facultatif, G. fakultativ.]
1. Having relation to the grant or exercise faculty, or authority, privilege, license, or the like hence, optional; as facultative enactments, or those which convey a faculty, or permission; the facultative referendum of Switzerland is one that is optional with the people and is necessary only when demanded by petition; facultative studies; — opposed to obligatory and compulsory, and sometimes used with to.
2. Of such a character as to admit of existing under various forms or conditions, or of happening or not happening, or the like; specif.: (Biol.) Having the power to live under different conditions; as a facultative parasite, a plant which is normally saprophytic, but which may exist wholly or in part as a parasite; — opposed to obligate.
3. (Physiol.) Pertaining to a faculty or faculties.
"In short, there is no facultative plurality in the mind; it is a single organ of true judgment for all purposes, cognitive or practical." J. Martineau.

Faculty
Fac´ul•ty, n. ; pl. Faculties (#). [F. facult, L. facultas, fr. facilis easy (cf. facul easily), fr. fecere to make. See Fact, and cf. Facility.]
1. Ability to act or perform, whether inborn or cultivated; capacity for any natural function; especially, an original mental power or capacity for any of the well-known classes of mental activity; psychical or soul capacity; capacity for any of the leading kinds of soul activity, as knowledge, feeling, volition; intellectual endowment or gift; power; as faculties of the mind or the soul.
"But know that in the soul Are many lesser faculties that serve Reason as chief." Milton.
"What a piece of work is a man ! how noble in reason ! how infinite in faculty !" Shak.
2. Special mental endowment; characteristic knack.
"He had a ready faculty, indeed, of escaping from any topic that agitated his too sensitive and nervous temperament." Hawthorne.
3. Power; prerogative or attribute of office. [R.]
"This Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek." Shak.
4. Privilege or permission, granted by favor or indulgence, to do a particular thing; authority; license; dispensation.
"The pope … granted him a faculty to set him free from his promise." Fuller.
"It had not only faculty to inspect all bishops’ dioceses, but to change what laws and statutes they should think fit to alter among the colleges." Evelyn.
5. A body of a men to whom any specific right or privilege is granted; formerly, the graduates in any of the four departments of a university or college (Philosophy, Law, Medicine, or Theology), to whom was granted the right of teaching ( profitendi or docendi) in the department in which they had studied; at present, the members of a profession itself; as the medical faculty; the legal faculty, ect.
6. (Amer. Colleges) The body of person to whom are intrusted the government and instruction of a college or university, or of one of its departments; the president, professors, and tutors in a college. Dean of faculty. See under Dean. — Faculty of advocates. (Scot.) See under Advocate.
Syn. — Talent; gift; endowment; dexterity; expertness; cleverness; readiness; ability; knack.

Facundious
Fa•cun´di•ous, a. [L. facundiosus.] Eloquement; full of words. [Archaic]

Facundity
Fa•cun´di•ty, n. [L. facunditas.] Eloquence; readiness of speech. [Archaic]

Fad, n. [Cf. Faddle.] A hobby ; freak; whim. — Fad´dist, n.
"It is your favorite fad to draw plans." G. Eliot.

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

Fadedly
Fad´ed•ly, adv. In a faded manner.
"A dull room fadedly furnished." Dickens.

Fadeless
Fade´less, a. Not liable to fade; unfading.

Fader
Fa´der, n. Father. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Fadge, v. i. [Cf. OE. faden to flatter, and AS. fgan to join, unit, G. fügen, or AS. afaegian to depict; all perh. form the same root as E. fair. Cf. Fair, a. , Fay to fit.] To fit; to suit; to agree.
"They shall be made, spite of antipathy, to fadge together." Milton.
"Well, Sir, how fadges the new design ?" Wycherley.

Fadge, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] A small flat loaf or thick cake; also a fagot. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Fading
Fad´ing, a. Losing freshness, color, brightness, or vigor. — n. Loss of color, freshness, or vigor. — Fad´ing•ly, adv. — Fad´ing•ness, n.

Fading
Fad´ing, n. An Irish dance; also the burden of a song. "Fading is a fine jig." [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Fadme
Fad´me, n. A fathom. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Fady
Fad´y, a. Faded. [R.] Shenstone.

Faecal
Fae´cal, a. See Fecal.

Faecula
Faec´u•la, n. [L.] See Fecula.

Faffle
Faf´fle, v. i. [Cf. Famble, Maffle.] To stammer. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Fagging
Fag´ging (fag"ging), n. Laborious drudgery; esp., the acting as a drudge for another at an English school.

Fagot
Fag´ot (fag"ut) n. [F., prob. aug. of L. fax, facis, torch, perh. orig., a bundle of sticks; cf. Gr. fa•kelos bundle, fagot. Cf. Fagotto.]
1. A bundle of sticks, twigs, or small branches of trees, used for fuel, for raising batteries, filling ditches, or other purposes in fortification; a fascine. Shak.
2. A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a pile.
3. (Mus.) A bassoon. See Fagotto.
4. A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company. [Eng.] Addison.
5. An old shriveled woman. [Slang, Eng.] Fagot iron, iron, in bars or masses, manufactured from fagots. — Fagot vote, the vote of a person who has been constituted a voter by being made a landholder, for party purposes. [Political cant, Eng.]

Fagot
Fag´ot v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Fagoted; p. pr. & vb. n. Fagoting.] To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle; also to collect promiscuously. Dryden.

Fahlband
Fahl´band, n. [G., fr. fahl dun-colored + band a band.] (Mining) A stratum in crystalline rock, containing metallic sulphides. Raymond. { Fahl´erz, Fahl´band } n. [G. fahlerz; fahl dun-colored, fallow + erz ore.] (Min.) Same as Tetrahedrite.

Fahrenheit
Fah´ren•heit a. [G.] Conforming to the scale used by Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit in the graduation of his thermometer; of or relating to Fahrenheit’s thermometric scale. — n. The Fahrenheit thermometer or scale. The Fahrenheit thermometer is so graduated that the freezing point of water is at 32 degrees above the zero of its scale, and the boiling point at 212 degrees above. It is commonly used in the United States and in England.

Faïence
Fa•ï•ence", n. [F., fr. Faenza, a town in Italy, the original place of manufacture.] Glazed earthenware; esp., that which is decorated in color.

Fail (fal) v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Failed (fald); p. pr. & vb. n. Failing.] [F. failir, fr. L. fallere, falsum, to deceive, akin to E. fall. See Fail, and cf. Fallacy, False, Fault.]
1. To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expected manner, or to be altogether cut off from supply; to be lacking; as streams fail; crops fail.
"As the waters fail from the sea." Job xiv. 11.
"Till Lionel’s issue fails, his should not reign." Shak.
2. To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; — used with of.
"If ever they fail of beauty, this failure is not be attributed to their size." Berke.
3. To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.
"When earnestly they seek Such proof, conclude they then begin to fail." Milton.
4. To deteriorate in respect to vigor, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker; as a sick man fails.
5. To perish; to die; — used of a person. [Obs.]
"Had the king in his last sickness failed." Shak.
6. To be found wanting with respect to an action or a duty to be performed, a result to be secured, etc.; to miss; not to fulfill expectation.
"Take heed now that ye fail not to do this." Ezra iv. 22.
"Either my eyesight fails, or thou look’st pale." Shak.
7. To come short of a result or object aimed at or desired ; to be baffled or frusrated.
"Our envious foe hath failed." Milton.
8. To err in judgment; to be mistaken.
"Which ofttimes may succeed, so as perhaps Shall grieve him, if I fail not." Milton.
9. To become unable to meet one’s engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one’s debts or discharge one’s business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent.

Fail, v. t.
1. To be wanting to ; to be insufficient for; to disappoint; to desert.
"There shall not fail thee a man on the throne." 1 Kings ii. 4.
2. To miss of attaining; to lose. [R.]
"Though that seat of earthly bliss be failed." Milton.

Fail, n. [OF. faille, from failir. See Fail, v. i.]
1. Miscarriage; failure; deficiency; fault; — mostly superseded by failure or failing, except in the phrase without fail. "His highness’ fail of issue." Shak.
2. Death; decease. [Obs.] Shak.

Failing
Fail´ing, n.
1. A failing short; a becoming deficient; failure; deficiency; imperfection; weakness; lapse; fault; infirmity; as a mental failing.
"And ever in her mind she cast about For that unnoticed failing in herself." Tennyson.
2. The act of becoming insolvent of bankrupt.
Syn. — See Fault.

Failure
Fail´ure, n. [From Fail.]
1. Cessation of supply, or total defect; a failing; deficiency; as failure of rain; failure of crops.
2. Omission; nonperformance; as the failure to keep a promise.
3. Want of success; the state of having failed.
4. Decay, or defect from decay; deterioration; as the failure of memory or of sight.
5. A becoming insolvent; bankruptcy; suspension of payment; as failure in business.
6. A failing; a slight fault. [Obs.] Johnson.

Faineant
Fai•ne•ant´ (fa•na•äN"), a. [F.; fait he does + neant nothing.] Doing nothing; shiftless. — n. A do-nothing; an idle fellow; a sluggard. Sir W. Scott.

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

Faint (fant), a. [ Compar. Fainter (-er); superl. Faintest.] [OE. feint, faint, false, faint, F. feint, p. p. of feindre to feign, suppose, hesitate. See Feign, and cf. Feint.]
1. Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as faint with fatigue, hunger, or thirst.
2. Wanting in courage, spirit, or energy; timorous; cowardly; dejected; depressed; as "Faint heart ne’er won fair lady." Old Proverb.
3. Lacking distinctness; hardly perceptible; striking the senses feebly; not bright, or loud, or sharp, or forcible; weak; as a faint color, or sound.
4. Performed, done, or acted, in a weak or feeble manner; not exhibiting vigor, strength, or energy; slight; as faint efforts; faint resistance.
"The faint prosecution of the war." Sir J. Davies.

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

Faint, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Fainted; p. pr. & vb. n. Fainting.]
1. To become weak or wanting in vigor; to grow feeble; to lose strength and color, and the control of the bodily or mental functions; to swoon; — sometimes with away. See Fainting, n.
"Hearing the honor intended her, she fainted away." Guardian.
"If I send them away fasting … they will faint by the way." Mark viii. 8.
2. To sink into dejection; to lose courage or spirit; to become depressed or despondent.
"If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small." Prov. xxiv. 10.
3. To decay; to disappear; to vanish.
"Gilded clouds, while we gaze upon them, faint before the eye." Pope.

Faint, v. t. To cause to faint or become dispirited; to depress; to weaken. [Obs.]
"It faints me to think what follows." Shak.

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

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

Faintish
Faint´ish, a. Slightly faint; somewhat faint. — Faint´ish•ness, n.

Faintling
Faint´ling, a. Timorous; feeble-minded. [Obs.] "A fainting, silly creature." Arbuthnot.

Faintly
Faint´ly, adv. In a faint, weak, or timidmanner.

Faintness
Faint´ness, n.
1. The state of being faint; loss of strength, or of consciousness, and self-control.
2. Want of vigor or energy. Spenser.
3. Feebleness, as of color or light; lack of distinctness; as faintness of description.
4. Faint-heartedness; timorousness; dejection.
"I will send a faintness into their hearts." Lev. xxvi. 36.

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

Fainty
Faint´y, a. Feeble; languid. [R.] Dryden.

Fair (fâr), a. [ Compar. Fairer superl. Fairest.] [OE. fair, fayer, fager, AS. faeger; akin to OS. & OHG. fagar, Icel. fagr, Sw. fager, Dan. faver, Goth. fagrs fit, also to E. fay, G. fügen, to fit. fegen to sweep, cleanse, and prob. also to E. fang, peace, pact, Cf. Fang, Fain, Fay to fit.]
1. Free from spots, specks, dirt, or imperfection; unblemished; clean; pure.
"A fair white linen cloth." Book of Common Prayer.
2. Pleasing to the eye; handsome; beautiful.
"Who can not see many a fair French city, for one fair French made." Shak.
3. Without a dark hue; light; clear; as a fair skin.
"The northern people large and fair- complexioned." Sir M. Hale.
4. Not overcast; cloudless; clear; pleasant; propitious; favorable; — said of the sky, weather, or wind, etc.; as a fair sky; a fair day.
"You wish fair winds may waft him over." Prior.
5. Free from obstacles or hindrances; unobstructed; unincumbered; open; direct; — said of a road, passage, etc.; as a fair mark; in fair sight; a fair view.
"The caliphs obtained a mighty empire, which was in a fair way to have enlarged." Sir W. Raleigh.
6. (Shipbuilding) Without sudden change of direction or curvature; smooth; flowing; — said of the figure of a vessel, and of surfaces, water lines, and other lines.
7. Characterized by frankness, honesty, impartiality, or candor; open; upright; free from suspicion or bias; equitable; just; — said of persons, character, or conduct; as a fair man; fair dealing; a fair statement. "I would call it fair play." Shak.
8. Pleasing; favorable; inspiring hope and confidence; — said of words, promises, etc.
"When fair words and good counsel will not prevail on us, we must be frighted into our duty." L’ Estrange.
9. Distinct; legible; as fair handwriting.
10. Free from any marked characteristic; average; middling; so-so; as a fair specimen.
"The news is very fair and good, my lord." Shak. Fair ball. (Baseball) (a) A ball passing over the home base at the height called for by the batsman, and delivered by the pitcher while wholly within the lines of his position and facing the batsman. (b) A batted ball that falls inside the foul lines; — called also a fair hit. — Fair maid. (Zoöl.) (a) The European pilchard ( Clupea pilchardus) when dried. (b) The southern scup ( Stenotomus Gardeni). [Virginia] — Fair one, a handsome woman; a beauty, — Fair play, equitable or impartial treatment; a fair or equal chance; justice. — From fair to middling, passable; tolerable. [Colloq.] — The fair sex, the female sex.
Syn. — Candid; open; frank; ingenuous; clear; honest; equitable; impartial; reasonable. See Candid.

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

Fair, n.
1. Fairness, beauty. [Obs.] Shak.
2. A fair woman; a sweetheart.
"I have found out a gift for my fair." Shenstone.
3. Good fortune; good luck.
"Now fair befall thee !" Shak. The fair, anything beautiful; women, collectively. "For slander’s mark was ever yet the fair." Shak.

Fair, v. t.
1. To make fair or beautiful. [Obs.]
"Fairing the foul." Shak.
2. (Shipbuilding) To make smooth and flowing, as a vessel’s lines.

Fair, n. [OE. feire, OF. feire, F. foire, fr. L. fariae, pl., days of rest, holidays, festivals, akin to festus festal. See Feast.]
1. A gathering of buyers and sellers, assembled at a particular place with their merchandise at a stated or regular season, or by special appointment, for trade.
2. A festival, and sale of fancy articles. erc., usually for some charitable object; as a Grand Army fair.
3. A competitive exhibition of wares, farm products, etc., not primarily for purposes of sale; as the Mechanics’ fair; an agricultural fair. After the fair, Too late. [Colloq.]

Fair-haired
Fair´-haired, a. Having fair or light-colored hair.

Fairhood
Fair´hood, n. Fairness; beauty. [Obs.] Foxe.

Fairily
Fair´i•ly, adv. In the manner of a fairy.
"Numerous as shadows haunting fairily The brain." Keats.

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

Fairish
Fair´ish, a. Tolerably fair. [Colloq.] W. D. Howells.

Fair-leader
Fair´-lead•er, n. (Naut.) A block, or ring, serving as a guide for the running rigging or for any rope.

Fairly
Fair´ly, adv.
1. In a fair manner; clearly; openly; plainly; fully; distinctly; frankly.
"Even the nature of Mr. Dimmesdale’s disease had never fairly been revealed to him." Hawthorne.
2. Favorably; auspiciously; commodiously; as a town fairly situated for foreign trade.
3. Honestly; properly.
"Such means of comfort or even luxury, as lay fairly within their grasp." Hawthorne.
4. Softly; quietly; gently. [Obs.] Milton.

Fair-minded
Fair´-mind•ed, a. Unprejudiced; just; judicial; honest. — Fair"- mind•ed•ness, n.

Fair-natured
Fair´-na•tured, a. Well- disposed. "A fair-natured prince." Ford.

Fairness
Fair´ness, n. The state of being fair, or free form spots or stains, as of the skin; honesty, as of dealing; candor, as of an argument, etc.

Fair-spoken
Fair´-spo•ken, a. Using fair speech, or uttered with fairness; bland; civil; courteous; plausible. "A marvelous fair-spoken man." Hooker.

Fairway
Fair´way, n. The navigable part of a river, bay, etc., through which vessels enter or depart; the part of a harbor or channel ehich is kept open and unobstructed for the passage of vessels. Totten.

Fair-weather
Fair´-weath•er, a.
1. Made or done in pleasant weather, or in circumstances involving but little exposure or sacrifice; as a fair-weather voyage. Pope.
2. Appearing only when times or circumstances are prosperous; as a fair-weather friend. Fair-weather sailor, a make-believe or inexperienced sailor; — the nautical equivalent of carpet knight.

Fair-world
Fair´-world n. State of prosperity. [Obs.]
"They think it was never fair-world with them since." Milton.

Fairy
Fair´y, n. ; pl. Fairies (#). [OE. fairie, faierie, enchantment, fairy folk, fairy, OF. faerie enchantment, F. feer, fr. LL. Fata one of the goddesses of fate. See Fate, and cf. Fay a fairy.] [Written also faëry.]
1. Enchantment; illusion. [Obs.] Chaucer.
"The God of her has made an end, And fro this worlde’s fairy Hath taken her into company." Gower.
2. The country of the fays; land of illusions. [Obs.]
"He [Arthur] is a king y-crowned in Fairy." Lydgate.
3. An imaginary supernatural being or spirit, supposed to assume a human form (usually diminutive), either male or female, and to meddle for good or evil in the affairs of mankind; a fay. See Elf, and Demon.
"The fourth kind of spirit [is] called the Fairy." K. James.
"And now about the caldron sing, Like elves and fairies in a ring." Shak.
5. An enchantress. [Obs.] Shak. Fairy of the mine, an imaginary being supposed to inhabit mines, etc. German folklore tells of two species; one fierce and malevolent, the other gentle, See Kobold.
"No goblin or swart fairy of the mine Hath hurtful power over true virginity." Milton.

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

Fairylike
Fair´y•like, a. Resembling a fairy, or what is made or done be fairies; as fairylike music.

Faith (fath), n. [OE. feith, fayth, fay, OF. feid, feit, fei, F. foi, fr. L. fides; akin to fidere to trust, Gr. pei•qein to persuade. The ending th is perhaps due to the influence of such words as truth, health, wealth. See Bid, Bide, and cf. Confide, Defy, Fealty.]
1. Belief; the assent of the mind to the truth of what is declared by another, resting solely and implicitly on his authority and veracity; reliance on testimony.
2. The assent of the mind to the statement or proposition of another, on the ground of the manifest truth of what he utters; firm and earnest belief, on probable evidence of any kind, especially in regard to important moral truth.
"Faith, that is, fidelity, — the fealty of the finite will and understanding to the reason." Coleridge.
3. (Theol.) (a) The belief in the historic truthfulness of the Scripture narrative, and the supernatural origin of its teachings, sometimes called historical and speculative faith. (b) The belief in the facts and truth of the Scriptures, with a practical love of them; especially, that confiding and affectionate belief in the person and work of Christ, which affects the character and life, and makes a man a true Christian, — called a practical, evangelical, or saving faith.
"Without faith it is impossible to please him [God]." Heb. xi. 6.
"The faith of the gospel is that emotion of the mind which is called "trust" or "confidence" exercised toward the moral character of God, and particularly of the Savior." Dr. T. Dwight.
"Faith is an affectionate, practical confidence in the testimony of God." J. Hawes.
4. That which is believed on any subject, whether in science, politics, or religion; especially (Theol.), a system of religious belief of any kind; as the Jewish or Mohammedan faith; and especially, the system of truth taught by Christ; as the Christian faith; also the creed or belief of a Christian society or church.
"Which to believe of her, Must be a faith that reason without miracle Could never plant in me." Shak.
"Now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed." Gal. i. 23.
5. Fidelity to one’s promises, or allegiance to duty, or to a person honored and beloved; loyalty.
"Children in whom is no faith." Deut. xxvii. 20.
"Whose failing, while her faith to me remains, I should conceal." Milton.
6. Word or honor pledged; promise given; fidelity; as he violated his faith.
"For you alone I broke me faith with injured Palamon." Dryden.
7. Credibility or truth. [R.]
"The faith of the foregoing narrative." Mitford. Act of faith. See Auto-da- fe. — Breach of faith, Confession of faith, etc. See under Breach, Confession, etc. — Faith cure, a method or practice of treating diseases by prayer and the exercise of faith in God. — In good faith, with perfect sincerity.

Faith, interj. By my faith; in truth; verily.

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

Faithful
Faith´ful, a.
1. Full of faith, or having faith; disposed to believe, especially in the declarations and promises of God.
"You are not faithful, sir." B. Jonson.
2. Firm in adherence to promises, oaths, contracts, treaties, or other engagements.
"The faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him." Deut. vii. 9.
3. True and constant in affection or allegiance to a person to whom one is bound by a vow, by ties of love, gratitude, or honor, as to a husband, a prince, a friend; firm in the observance of duty; loyal; of true fidelity; as a faithful husband or servant.
"So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless, faithful only he." Milton.
4. Worthy of confidence and belief; conformable to truth ot fact; exact; accurate; as a faithful narrative or representation.
"It is a faithful saying." 2 Tim. ii. 11.The Faithful, the adherents of any system of religious belief; esp. used as an epithet of the followers of Mohammed.
Syn. — Trusty; honest; upright; sincere; veracious; trustworthy. — Faith´ful•ly, adv. - Faith´ful•ness, n.

Faithless
Faith´less, a.
1. Not believing; not giving credit.
"Be not faithless, but believing." John xx. 27.
2. Not believing on God or religion; specifically, not believing in the Christian religion. Shak.
3. Not observant of promises or covenants.
4. Not true to allegiance, duty, or vows; perfidious; trecherous; disloyal; not of true fidelity; inconstant, as a husband or a wife.
"A most unnatural and faithless service." Shak.
5. Serving to disappoint or deceive; delusive; unsatisfying. "Yonder faithless phantom." Goldsmith. — Faith´less•ly, adv. Faith´less•ness, n.

Faitour
Fai´tour, n. [OF. faitor a doer, L. factor. See Factor.] A doer or actor; particularly, an evil doer; a scoundrel. [Obs.]
"Lo! faitour, there thy meed unto thee take." Spenser.

Faker
Fak´er, n. [Often erroneously written fakir.] One who fakes something, as a thief, a peddler of petty things, a workman who dresses things up, etc. [Slang]

Fakir
Fa´kir, n. [Ar. faqir poor.] An Oriental religious ascetic or begging monk. [Written also faquir anf fakeer.]

Fakir
Fa´kir, n. [Prob. confused with Fakir an oriental ascetic.] See Faker.

Falcade
Fal•cade´ (fal•kad"), n. [F., ultimately fr. L. falx, falcis, a sickle or scythe.] (Man.) The action of a horse, when he throws himself on his haunches two or three times, bending himself, as it were, in very quick curvets. Harris. { Fal´cate, Fal´ca•ted } a. [L. falcatus, fr. falx, falcis, a sickle or scythe.] Hooked or bent like a sickle; as a falcate leaf; a falcate claw; — said also of the moon, or a planet, when horned or crescent- formed.

Falcation
Fal•ca´tion, n. The state of being falcate; a bend in the form of a sickle. Sir T. Browne.

Falcer
Fal´cer, n. [From L. falx, falcis, a sickle.] (Zoöl.) One of the mandibles of a spider.

Falchion
Fal´chion, n. [OE. fauchon, OF. fauchon, LL. fälcio, fr. L. falx, falcis, a sickle, cf. Gr. a ship’s rib, bandy-legged; perh, akin to E. falcon; cf. It. falcione. Cf. Defalcation.]
1. A broad-bladed sword, slightly curved, shorter and lighter than the ordinary sword; — used in the Middle Ages.
2. A name given generally and poetically to a sword, especially to the swords of Oriental and fabled warriors.

Falciform
Fal´ci•form, a. [L. falx, falcis, a sickle + -form: cf. F. falciforme.] Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as the falciform ligatment of the liver.

Falcon
Fal´con, n. [OE. faucon, faucoun, OF. faucon, falcon, . faucon, fr. LL. falco, perh. from L. falx, falcis, a sickle or scythe, and named from its curving talons. Cf. Falchion.]
1. (Zoöl.) (a) One of a family ( Falconidae) of raptorial birds, characterized by a short, hooked beak, strong claws, and powerful flight. (b) Any species of the genus Falco, distinguished by having a toothlike lobe on the upper mandible; especially, one of this genus trained to the pursuit of other birds, or game.
"In the language of falconry, the female peregrine ( Falco peregrinus) is exclusively called the falcon." Yarrell.
2. (Gun.) An ancient form of cannon. Chanting falcon. (Zoöl.) See under Chanting.

Falcongentil
Fal´con•gen•til, n. [F. faucon- gentil. See Falcon, and Genteel.] (Zoöl.) The female or young of the goshawk ( Astur palumbarius).

Falconry
Fal´con•ry, n. [Cf. F. fauconnerie. See Falcon.]
1. The art of training falcons or hawks to pursue and attack wild fowl or game.
2. The sport of taking wild fowl or game by means of falcons or hawks.

Falculate
Fal´cu•late, a. (Zoöl.) Curved and sharppointed, like a falcula, or claw of a falcon.

Faldage
Fald´age, n. [LL. faldagium, fr. AS. fald, E. fold. Cf. Foldage.] (O. Eng. Law) A privilege of setting up, and moving about, folds for sheep, in any fields within manors, in order to manure them; — often reserved to himself by the lord of the manor. Spelman.

Faldistory
Fal´dis•to•ry, n. [LL. faldistorium, faldestorium, from OHG. faldstuol; faldan, faltan, to fold (G. falten) + stuol stool. So called because it could be folded or laid together. See Fold, and Stool, and cf. Faldstool, Fauteuil.] The throne or seat of a bishop within the chancel. [Obs.]

Falk (fak), n. (Zoöl.) The razorbill. [Written also falc, and faik.] [Prov. Eng.]

Fall (fal), v. i. [ imp. Fell (fel); p. p. Fallen p. pr. & vb. n. Falling.] [AS. feallan; akin to D. vallen, OS. & OHG. fallan, G. fallen, Icel. Falla, Sw. falla, Dan. falde, Lith. pulti, L. fallere to deceive, Gr. sfa•llein to cause to fall, Skr. sphal, sphul, to tremble. Cf. Fail, Fell, v. t., to cause to fall.]
1. To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as the apple falls; the tide falls; the mercury falls in the barometer.
"I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven." Luke x. 18.
2. To cease to be erect; to take suddenly a recumbent posture; to become prostrate; to drop; as a child totters and falls; a tree falls; a worshiper falls on his knees.
"I fell at his feet to worship him." Rev. xix. 10.
3. To find a final outlet; to discharge its waters; to empty; — with into; as the river Rhone falls into the Mediterranean.
4. To become prostrate and dead; to die; especially, to die by violence, as in battle.
"A thousand shall fall at thy side." Ps. xci. 7.
"He rushed into the field, and, foremost fighting, fell." Byron.
5. To cease to be active or strong; to die away; to lose strength; to subside; to become less intense; as the wind falls.
6. To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; — said of the young of certain animals. Shak.
7. To decline in power, glory, wealth, or importance; to become insignificant; to lose rank or position; to decline in weight, value, price etc.; to become less; as the price falls; stocks fell two points.
"I am a poor fallen man, unworthy now To be thy lord and master." Shak.
"The greatness of these Irish lords suddenly fell and vanished." Sir J. Davies.
8. To be overthrown or captured; to be destroyed.
"Heaven and earth will witness, If Rome must fall, that we are innocent." Addison.
9. To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin; to depart from the faith; to apostatize; to sin.
"Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief." Heb. iv. 11.
10. To become insnared or embarrassed; to be entrapped; to be worse off than before; as to fall into error; to fall into difficulties.
11. To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; — said of the countenance.
"Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell." Gen. iv. 5.
"I have observed of late thy looks are fallen." Addison.
12. To sink; to languish; to become feeble or faint; as our spirits rise and fall with our fortunes.
13. To pass somewhat suddenly, and passively, into a new state of body or mind; to become; as to fall asleep; to fall into a passion; to fall in love; to fall into temptation.
14. To happen; to to come to pass; to light; to befall; to issue; to terminate.
"The Romans fell on this model by chance." Swift.
"Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the matter will fall." Ruth. iii. 18.
"They do not make laws, they fall into customs." H. Spencer.
15. To come; to occur; to arrive.
"The vernal equinox, which at the Nicene Council fell on the 21st of March, falls now [1694] about ten days sooner." Holder.
16. To begin with haste, ardor, or vehemence; to rush or hurry; as they fell to blows.
"They now no longer doubted, but fell to work heart and soul." Jowett (Thucyd. ).
17. To pass or be transferred by chance, lot, distribution, inheritance, or otherwise; as the estate fell to his brother; the kingdom fell into the hands of his rivals.
18. To belong or appertain.
"If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you’ll forget them all." Pope.
19. To be dropped or uttered carelessly; as an unguarded expression fell from his lips; not a murmur fell from him. To fall abroad of (Naut.), to strike against; — applied to one vessel coming into collision with another. — To fall among, to come among accidentally or unexpectedly. — To fall astern (Naut.), to move or be driven backward; to be left behind; as a ship falls astern by the force of a current, or when outsailed by another. — To fall away. (a) To lose flesh; to become lean or emaciated; to pine. (b) To renounce or desert allegiance; to revolt or rebel. (c) To renounce or desert the faith; to apostatize. "These … for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away." Luke viii. 13. (d) To perish; to vanish; to be lost. "How … can the soul … fall away into nothing?" Addison. (e) To decline gradually; to fade; to languish, or become faint. "One color falls away by just degrees, and another rises insensibly." Addison. — To fall back. (a) To recede or retreat; to give way. (b) To fail of performing a promise or purpose; not to fulfill. — To fall back upon. (a) (Mil.) To retreat for safety to (a stronger position in the rear, as to a fort or a supporting body of troops). (b) To have recourse to (a reserved fund, or some available expedient or support). — To fall calm, to cease to blow; to become calm. — To fall down. (a) To prostrate one’s self in worship. "All kings shall fall down before him." Ps. lxxii. 11. (b) To sink; to come to the ground. "Down fell the beauteous youth." Dryden. (c) To bend or bow, as a suppliant. (d) (Naut.) To sail or drift toward the mouth of a river or other outlet. — To fall flat, to produce no response or result; to fail of the intended effect; as his speech fell flat. — To fall foul of. (a) (Naut.) To have a collision with; to become entangled with (b) To attack; to make an assault upon. — To fall from, to recede or depart from; not to adhere to; as to fall from an agreement or engagement; to fall from allegiance or duty. — To fall from grace (M. E. Ch.), to sin; to withdraw from the faith. — To fall home (Ship Carp.), to curve inward; — said of the timbers or upper parts of a ship’s side which are much within a perpendicular. — To fall in. (a) To sink inwards; as the roof fell in. (b) (Mil.) To take one’s proper or assigned place in line; as to fall in on the right. (c) To come to an end; to terminate; to lapse; as on the death of Mr. B., the annuuity, which he had so long received, fell in. (d) To become operative. "The reversion, to which he had been nominated twenty years before, fell in." Macaulay. — To fall into one’s hands, to pass, often suddenly or unexpectedly, into one’s ownership or control; as to spike cannon when they are likely to fall into the hands of the enemy. — To fall in with. (a) To meet with accidentally; as to fall in with a friend. (b) (Naut.) To meet, as a ship; also to discover or come near, as land. (c) To concur with; to agree with; as the measure falls in with popular opinion. (d) To comply; to yield to. "You will find it difficult to persuade learned men to fall in with your projects." Addison. — To fall off. (a) To drop; as fruits fall off when ripe. (b) To withdraw; to separate; to become detached; as friends fall off in adversity. "Love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide." Shak. (c) To perish; to die away; as words fall off by disuse. (d) To apostatize; to forsake; to withdraw from the faith, or from allegiance or duty.
"Those captive tribes … fell off From God to worship calves." Milton. (e) To forsake; to abandon; as his customers fell off. (f) To depreciate; to change for the worse; to deteriorate; to become less valuable, abundant, or interesting; as a falling off in the wheat crop; the magazine or the review falls off. "O Hamlet, what a falling off was there!" Shak. (g) (Naut.) To deviate or trend to the leeward of the point to which the head of the ship was before directed; to fall to leeward. — To fall on. (a) To meet with; to light upon; as we have fallen on evil days. (b) To begin suddenly and eagerly. "Fall on, and try the appetite to eat." Dryden. (c) To begin an attack; to assault; to assail. "Fall on, fall on, and hear him not." Dryden. (d) To drop on; to descend on. — To fall out. (a) To quarrel; to begin to contend.
"A soul exasperated in ills falls out With everything, its friend, itself." Addison. (b) To happen; to befall; to chance. "There fell out a bloody quarrel betwixt the frogs and the mice." L’Estrange. (c) (Mil.) To leave the ranks, as a soldier. — To fall over. (a) To revolt; to desert from one side to another. (b) To fall beyond. Shak. — To fall short, to be deficient; as the corn falls short; they all fall short in duty. — To fall through, to come to nothing; to fail; as the engageent has fallen through. - - To fall to, to begin. "Fall to, with eager joy, on homely food." Dryden. — To fall under. (a) To come under, or within the limits of; to be subjected to; as they fell under the jurisdiction of the emperor. (b) To come under; to become the subject of; as this point did not fall under the cognizance or deliberations of the court; these things do not fall under human sight or observation. (c) To come within; to be ranged or reckoned with; to be subordinate to in the way of classification; as these substances fall under a different class or order. — To fall upon. (a) To attack. [See To fall on.] (b) To attempt; to have recourse to. "I do not intend to fall upon nice disquisitions." Holder. (c) To rush against. Fall primarily denotes descending motion, either in a perpendicular or inclined direction, and, in most of its applications, implies, literally or figuratively, velocity, haste, suddenness, or violence. Its use is so various, and so mush diversified by modifying words, that it is not easy to enumerate its senses in all its applications.

Fall, v. t.
1. To let fall; to drop. [Obs.]
"For every tear he falls, a Trojan bleeds." Shak.
2. To sink; to depress; as to fall the voice. [Obs.]
3. To diminish; to lessen or lower. [Obs.]
"Upon lessening interest to four per cent, you fall the price of your native commodities." Locke.
4. To bring forth; as to fall lambs. [R.] Shak.
5. To fell; to cut down; as to fall a tree. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U.S.]

Fall, n.
1. The act of falling; a dropping or descending be the force of gravity; descent; as a fall from a horse, or from the yard of ship.
2. The act of dropping or tumbling from an erect posture; as he was walking on ice, and had a fall.
3. Death; destruction; overthrow; ruin.
"They thy fall conspire." Denham.
"Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall." Prov. xvi. 18.
4. Downfall; degradation; loss of greatness or office; termination of greatness, power, or dominion; ruin; overthrow; as the fall of the Roman empire.
"Beholds thee glorious only in thy fall." Pope.
5. The surrender of a besieged fortress or town ; as the fall of Sebastopol.
6. Diminution or decrease in price or value; depreciation; as the fall of prices; the fall of rents.
7. A sinking of tone; cadence; as the fall of the voice at the close of a sentence.
8. Declivity; the descent of land or a hill; a slope.
9. Descent of water; a cascade; a cataract; a rush of water down a precipice or steep; — usually in the plural, sometimes in the singular; as the falls of Niagara.
10. The discharge of a river or current of water into the ocean, or into a lake or pond; as the fall of the Po into the Gulf of Venice. Addison.
11. Extent of descent; the distance which anything falls; as the water of a stream has a fall of five feet.
12. The season when leaves fall from trees; autumn.
"What crowds of patients the town doctor kills, Or how, last fall, he raised the weekly bills." Dryden.
13. That which falls; a falling; as a fall of rain; a heavy fall of snow.
14. The act of felling or cutting down. "The fall of timber." Johnson.
15. Lapse or declension from innocence or goodness. Specifically: The first apostasy; the act of our first parents in eating the forbidden fruit; also the apostasy of the rebellious angels.
16. Formerly, a kind of ruff or band for the neck; a falling band; a faule. B. Jonson.
17. That part (as one of the ropes) of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting. Fall herring (Zoöl.), a herring of the Atlantic ( Clupea mediocris); — also called tailor herring, and hickory shad. — To try a fall, to try a bout at wrestling. Shak.

Fallacious
Fal•la´cious, a. [L. fallaciosus, fr. fallacia: cf. F. fallacieux. See Fallacy.] Embodying or pertaining to a fallacy; illogical; fitted to deceive; misleading; delusive; as fallacious arguments or reasoning. — Fal•la´cious•ly, adv. - Fal•la´cious•ness, n.

Fallax
Fal´lax, n. [L. fallax deceptive. See Fallacy.] Cavillation; a caviling. [Obs.] Cranmer.

Fallency
Fal´len•cy, n. [LL. fallentia, L. fallens p. pr of fallere.] An exception. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

Faller
Fall´er, n.
1. One who, or that which, falls.
2. (Mach.) A part which acts by falling, as a stamp in a fulling mill, or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread breaks.

Fallfish
Fall´fish, n. (Zoöl.) A fresh-water fish of the United States ( Semotilus bullaris); — called also silver chub, and Shiner. The name is also applied to other allied species.

Fallibility
Fal•li•bil´i•ty, n. The state of being fallible; liability to deceive or to be deceived; as the fallibity of an argument or of an adviser.

Fallible
Fal´li•ble, a. [LL. fallibilis, fr. L. fallere to deceive: cf. F. faillible. See Fail.] Liable to fail, mistake, or err; liable to deceive or to be deceived; as all men are fallible; our opinions and hopes are fallible.

Falling
Fall´ing, a. & n. from Fall, v. i.Falling away, Falling off, etc. See To fall away, To fall off, etc., under Fall, v. i. — Falling band, the plain, broad, linen collar turning down over the doublet, worn in the early part of the 17th century. — Falling sickness (Med.), epilepsy. Shak. — Falling star. (Astron.) See Shooting star. — Falling stone, a stone falling through the atmosphere; a meteorite; an aërolite. — Falling tide, the ebb tide. — Falling weather, a rainy season. [Colloq.] Bartlett.

Fallow
Fal´low, a. [AS. fealu, fealo, pale yellow or red; akin to D. vaal fallow, faded, OHG. falo, G. falb, fahl, Icel. fölr, and prob. to Lith. palvas, OSlav. plavu white, L. pallidus pale, pallere to be pale, Gr. polio•s gray, Skr. palita. Cf. Pale, Favel, a. , Favor.]
1. Pale red or pale yellow; as a fallow deer or greyhound. Shak.
2. [Cf. Fallow, n. ] Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as fallow ground. Fallow chat, Fallow finch (Zoöl.), a small European bird, the wheatear ( Saxicola œnanthe). See Wheatear.

Fallow
Fal´low, n. [So called from the fallow, or somewhat yellow, color of naked ground; or perh. akin to E. felly, n. , cf. MHG. valgen to plow up, OHG. felga felly, harrow.]
1. Plowed land. [Obs.]
"Who … pricketh his blind horse over the fallows." Chaucer.
2. Land that has lain a year or more untilled or unseeded; land plowed without being sowed for the season.
"The plowing of fallows is a benefit to land." Mortimer.
3. The plowing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season; as summer fallow, properly conducted, has ever been found a sure method of destroying weeds.
"Be a complete summer fallow, land is rendered tender and mellow. The fallow gives it a better tilth than can be given by a fallow crop." Sinclair. Fallow crop, the crop taken from a green fallow. [Eng.] — Green fallow, fallow whereby land is rendered mellow and clean from weeds, by cultivating some green crop, as turnips, potatoes, etc. [Eng.]

Fallow
Fal´low, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Fallowed p. pr. & vb. n. Fallowing.] [From Fallow, n. ] To plow, harrow, and break up, as land, without seeding, for the purpose of destroying weeds and insects, and rendering it mellow; as it is profitable to fallow cold, strong, clayey land.

Fallowist
Fal´low•ist, n. One who favors the practice of fallowing land. [R.] Sinclair.

Fallowness
Fal´low•ness, n. A well or opening, through the successive floors of a warehouse or manufactory, through which goods are raised or lowered. [U.S.] Bartlett.

Falsary
Fal´sa•ry, n. [L. falsarius, fr. falsus. See False, a. ] A falsifier of evidence. [Obs.] Sheldon.

False-heart
False´-heart, a. False- hearted. Shak.

False-hearted
False´-heart•ed, a. Hollow or unsound at the core; treacherous; deceitful; perfidious. Bacon. — False´-heart•ed•ness, n. Bp. Stillingfleet.

Falsehood
False´hood, n. [ False + - hood]
1. Want of truth or accuracy; an untrue assertion or representation; error; misrepresentation; falsity.
"Though it be a lie in the clock, it is but a falsehood in the hand of the dial when pointing at a wrong hour, if rightly following the direction of the wheel which moveth it." Fuller.
2. A deliberate intentional assertion of what is known to be untrue; a departure from moral integrity; a lie.
3. Treachery; deceit; perfidy; unfaithfulness.
"Betrayed by falsehood of his guard." Shak.
4. A counterfeit; a false appearance; an imposture.
"For his molten image is falsehood." Jer. x. 14.
"No falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper." Milton.
Syn. — Falsity; lie; untruth; fiction; fabrication. See Falsity.

Falseness
False´ness, n. The state of being false; contrariety to the fact; inaccuracy; want of integrity or uprightness; double dealing; unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as the falseness of a report, a drawing, or a singer’s notes; the falseness of a man, or of his word.

Falser
Fals´er, n. A deceiver. [Obs.] Spenser.

Falsetto
Fal•set´to, n. ; pl. Falsettos (#). [It. falsetto, dim. fr. L. falsus. See False.] A false or artificial voice; that voice in a man which lies above his natural voice; the male counter tenor or alto voice. See Head voice, under Voice.

Falsifiable
Fal´si•fi•a•ble, a. [Cf. OF. falsifiable.] Capable of being falsified, counterfeited, or corrupted. Johnson.

Falsification
Fal•si•fi•ca´tion, n. [Cf. F. falsification.]
1. The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not.
"To counterfeit the living image of king in his person exceedeth all falsifications." Bacon.
2. Willful misstatement or misrepresentation.
"Extreme necessity … forced him upon this bold and violent falsification of the doctrine of the alliance." Bp. Warburton.
3. (Equity) The showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong. Story.

Falsificator
Fal´si•fi•ca•tor, n. [Cf. F. falsificateur.] A falsifier. Bp. Morton.

Falsifier
Fal´si•fi•er, n. One who falsifies, or gives to a thing a deceptive appearance; a liar.

Falsify
Fal´si•fy, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Falsified p. pr. & vb. n. Falsifying.] [L. falsus false + -ly: cf. F. falsifier. See False, a. ]
1. To make false; to represent falsely.
"The Irish bards use to forge and falsify everything as they list, to please or displease any man." Spenser.
2. To counterfeit; to forge; as to falsify coin.
3. To prove to be false, or untrustworthy; to confute; to disprove; to nullify; to make to appear false.
"By how much better than my word I am, By so much shall I falsify men’s hope." Shak.
"Jews and Pagans united all their endeavors, under Julian the apostate, to baffie and falsify the prediction." Addison.
4. To violate; to break by falsehood; as to falsify one’s faith or word. Sir P. Sidney.
5. To baffle or escape; as to falsify a blow. Butler.
6. (Law) To avoid or defeat; to prove false, as a judgment. Blackstone.
7. (Equity) To show, in accounting, (an inem of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong. Story. Daniell.
8. To make false by multilation or addition; to tamper with; as to falsify a record or document.

Falsify
Fal´si•fy, v. i. To tell lies; to violate the truth.
"It is absolutely and universally unlawful to lie and falsify."
"South."

Falsism
Fals´ism, n. That which is evidently false; an assertion or statement the falsity of which is plainly apparent; — opposed to truism.

Falsity
Fal´si•ty, n. ; pl. Falsities (#). [L. falsitas: cf. F. faussete, OF. also falsite. See False, a. ]
1. The quality of being false; coutrariety or want of conformity to truth.
"Probability does not make any alteration, either in the truth or falsity of things." South.
2. That which is false; falsehood; a lie; a false assertion.
"Men often swallow falsities for truths." Sir T. Brown.
Syn. — Falsehood; lie; deceit. — Falsity, Falsehood, Lie. Falsity denotes the state or quality of being false. A falsehood is a false declaration designedly made. A lie is a gross, unblushing falsehood. The falsity of a person’s assertion may be proved by the evidence of others and thus the charge of falsehood be fastened upon him.

Faluns
Fa•luns´, n. [F.] (Geol.) A series of strata, of the Middle Tertiary period, of France, abounding in shells, and used by Lyell as the type of his Miocene subdivision.

Falwe
Fal´we, a. & n. Fallow. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Falx, n. [L., a sickle.] (Anat.) A curved fold or process of the dura mater or the peritoneum; esp., one of the partitionlike folds of the dura mater which extend into the great fissures of the brain.

Famble
Fam´ble, v. i. [OE. falmelen; cf. SW. famla to grope, Dan. famle to grope, falter, hesitate, Icel. falma to grope. Cf. Famble.] To stammer. [Obs.] Nares.

Famble
Fam´ble, n. [Cf. Famble, v. ] A hand. [Slang & Obs.] "We clap our fambles." Beau. & Fl.

Familiar
Fa•mil•iar, a. [OE. familer, familier, F. familier, fr. L. familiaris, fr. familia family. See Family.]
1. Of or pertaining to a family; domestic. "Familiar feuds." Byron.
2. Closely acquainted or intimate, as a friend or companion; well versed in, as any subject of study; as familiar with the Scriptures.
3. Characterized by, or exhibiting, the manner of an intimate friend; not formal; unconstrained; easy; accessible. "In loose, familiar strains." Addison.
"Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar." Shak.
4. Well known; well understood; common; frequent; as a familiar illustration.
"That war, or peace, or both at once, may be As things acquainted and familiar to us." Shak.
"There is nothing more familiar than this." Locke.
5. Improperly acquainted; wrongly intimate. Camden. Familiar spirit, a demon or evil spirit supposed to attend at call. 1 Sam. xxviii. 3, 7-9.

Familiar
Fa•mil´iar, n.
1. An intimate; a companion.
"All my familiars watched for my halting." Jer. xx. 10.
2. An attendant demon or evil spirit. Shak.
3. (Court of Inquisition) A confidential officer employed in the service of the tribunal, especially in apprehending and imprisoning the accused.

Familiarity
Fa•mil•iar´i•ty, n. ; pl. Familiarities (#). [OE. familarite, F. familiaritefr. L. faniliaritas. See Familiar.]
1. The state of being familiar; intimate and frequent converse, or association; unconstrained intercourse; freedom from ceremony and constraint; intimacy; as to live in remarkable familiarity.
2. Anything said or done by one person to another unceremoniously and without constraint; esp., in the pl. , such actions and words as propriety and courtesy do not warrant; liberties.
Syn. — Acquaintance; fellowship; affability; intimacy. See Acquaintance.

Familiarize
Fa•mil´iar•ize, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Familiarized p. pr. & vb. n. Familiarizing ] [Cf. F. familiariser.]
1. To make familiar or intimate; to habituate; to accustom; to make well known by practice or converse; as to familiarize one’s self with scenes of distress.
2. To make acquainted, or skilled, by practice or study; as to familiarize one’s self with a business, a book, or a science.

Familiarness
Fa•mil´iar•ness, n. Familiarity. [R.]

Familiary
Fa•mil´ia•ry, a. [L. familiaris. See Familiar.] Of or pertaining to a family or household; domestic. [Obs.] Milton.

Familist
Fam´i•list, n. [From Family.] (Eccl. Hist.) One of afanatical Antinomian sect originating in Holland, and existing in England about 1580, called the Family of Love, who held that religion consists wholly in love.

Family
Fam´i•ly, n. ; pl. Families (#). [L. familia, fr. famulus servant; akin to Oscan famel servant, cf. faamat he dwells, Skr. dhaman house, fr. dhato set, make, do: cf. F. famille. Cf. Do, v. t., Doom, Fact, Feat.]
1. The collective body of persons who live in one house, and under one head or manager; a household, including parents, children, and servants, and, as the case may be, lodgers or boarders.
2. The group comprising a husband and wife and their dependent children, constituting a fundamental unit in the organization of society.
"The welfare of the family underlies the welfare of society." H. Spencer.
3. Those who descend from one common progenitor; a tribe, clan, or race; kindred; house; as the human family; the family of Abraham; the father of a family.
"Go ! and pretend your family is young." Pope.
4. Course of descent; genealogy; line of ancestors; lineage.
5. Honorable descent; noble or respectable stock; as a man of family.
6. A group of kindred or closely related individuals; as a family of languages; a family of States; the chlorine family.
7. (Biol.) A group of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoölogy a family is less comprehesive than an order; in botany it is often considered the same thing as an order. Family circle. See under Circle. — Family man. (a) A man who has a family; esp., one who has a wife and children living with him andd dependent upon him. (b) A man of domestic habits. "The Jews are generally, when married, most exemplary family men." Mayhew. — Family ofcurves or surfaces (Geom.), a group of curves or surfaces derived from a single equation. — In a family way, like one belonging to the family. "Why don’t we ask him and his ladies to come over in a family way, and dine with some other plain country gentlefolks?" Thackeray. — In the family way, pregnant. [Colloq.]

Famish
Fam´ish, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Famished p. pr. & vb. n. Famishing.] [OE. famen; cf. OF. afamer, L. fames. See Famine, and cf. Affamish.]
1. To starve, kill, or destroy with hunger. Shak.
2. To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to distress with hanger.
"And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread." Cen. xli. 55.
"The pains of famished Tantalus he’ll feel." Dryden.
3. To kill, or to cause to suffer extremity, by deprivation or denial of anything necessary.
"And famish him of breath, if not of bread." Milton.
4. To force or constrain by famine.
"He had famished Paris into a surrender." Burke.

Famish
Fam´ish, v. i.
1. To die of hunger; to starve.
2. To suffer extreme hunger or thirst, so as to be exhausted in strength, or to come near to perish.
"You are all resolved rather to die than to famish?" Shak.
3. To suffer extremity from deprivation of anything essential or necessary.
"The Lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish." Prov. x. 3.

Famishment
Fam´ish•ment, n. State of being famished.

Famosity
Fa•mos´i•ty, n. [L. famositas infamy: cf. F. famosite. See Famous.] The state or quality of being famous. [Obs.] Johnson.

Famously
Fa´mous•ly, adv. In a famous manner; in a distinguished degree; greatly; splendidly.
"Then this land was famously enriched With politic grave counsel." Shak.

Famousness
Fa´mous•ness, n. The state of being famous.

Famular
Fam´u•lar, n. [Cf. L. famularis of servants.] Domestic; familiar. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Famulate
Fam´u•late, v. i. [L. famulatus, p. p. of famulari to serve, fr. famulus servant.] To serve. [Obs.]

Famulist
Fam´u•list, n. [L. famulus servant.] A collegian of inferior rank or position, corresponding to the sizar at Cambridge. [Oxford Univ., Eng.]

Fan, n. [AS. fann, fr. L. vannus fan, van for winnowing grain; cf. F. van. Cf. Van a winnowing machine, Winnow.]
1. An instrument used for producing artificial currents of air, by the wafting or revolving motion of a broad surface; as: (a) An instrument for cooling the person, made of feathers, paper, silk, etc., and often mounted on sticks all turning about the same pivot, so as when opened to radiate from the center and assume the figure of a section of a circle. (b) (Mach.) Any revolving vane or vanes used for producing currents of air, in winnowing grain, blowing a fire, ventilation, etc., or for checking rapid motion by the resistance of the air; a fan blower; a fan wheel. (c) An instrument for winnowing grain, by moving which the grain is tossed and agitated, and the chaff is separated and blown away. (d) Something in the form of a fan when spread, as a peacock’s tail, a window, etc. (e) A small vane or sail, used to keep the large sails of a smock windmill always in the direction of the wind.
"Clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan." Is. xxx. 24.
2. That which produces effects analogous to those of a fan, as in exciting a flame, etc.; that which inflames, heightens, or strengthens; as it served as a fan to the flame of his passion.
3. A quintain; — from its form. [Obs.] Chaucer. Fan blower, a wheel with vanes fixed on a rotating shaft inclosed in a case or chamber, to create a blast of air ( fan blast) for forge purposes, or a current for draft and ventilation; a fanner. — Fan cricket (Zoöl.), a mole cricket. — Fan light (Arch.), a window over a door; — so called from the semicircular form and radiating sash bars of those windows which are set in the circular heads of arched doorways. — Fan shell (Zoöl.), any shell of the family Pectinidae. See Scallop, n. , 1. — Fan tracery (Arch.), the decorative tracery on the surface of fan vaulting. — Fan vaulting (Arch.), an elaborate system of vaulting, in which the ribs diverge somewhat like the rays of a fan, as in Henry VII.’s chapel in Westminster Abbey. It is peculiar to English Gothic. — Fan wheel, the wheel of a fan blower. — Fan window. Same as Fan light (above).

Fan, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Fanned p. pr. & vb. n. Fanning ] [Cf. OF. vanner, L. vannere. See Fan, n. , Van a winnowing machine.]
1. To move as with a fan.
"The air … fanned with unnumbered plumes." Milton.
2. To cool and refresh, by moving the air with a fan; to blow the air on the face of with a fan.
3. To ventilate; to blow on; to affect by air put in motion.
"Calm as the breath which fans our eastern groves." Dryden.
4. To winnow; to separate chaff from, and drive it away by a current of air; as to fan wheat. Jer. li. 2.
5. To excite or stir up to activity, as a fan excites a flame; to stimulate; as this conduct fanned the excitement of the populace. Fanning machine, orFanning mill, a machine for separating seed from chaff, etc., by a blast of air; a fanner.

Fanal
Fa•nal´, n. [F.] A lighthouse, or the apparatus placed in it for giving light.

Fanatic
Fa•nat´ic, a. [L. fanaticus inspired by divinity, enthusiastic, frantic, fr. fanum fane: cf. F. fanatique. See Fane.] Pertaining to, or indicating, fanaticism; extravagant in opinions; ultra; unreasonable; excessively enthusiastic, especially on religious subjects; as fanatic zeal; fanatic notions.
"But Faith, fanatic Faith, once wedded fast To some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last." T. Moore.

Fanatic
Fa•nat´ic, n. A person affected by excessive enthusiasm, particularly on religious subjects; one who indulges wild and extravagant notions of religion.
"There is a new word, coined within few months, called fanatics, which, by the close stickling thereof, seemeth well cut out and proportioned to signify what is meant thereby, even the sectaries of our age." Fuller (1660).
"Fanatics are governed rather by imagination than by judgment." Stowe.

Fanatical
Fa•nat´ic•al, a. Characteristic of, or relating to, fanaticism; fanatic. - Fa•nat´ic•al•ly, adv. — Fa•nat´ic•al•ness, n.

Fanaticism
Fa•nat´i•cism, n. [Cf. Fanatism.] Excessive enthusiasm, unreasoning zeal, or wild and extravagant notions, on any subject, especially religion; religious frenzy.
Syn. — See Superstition.

Fanciful
Fan´ci•ful, a.
1. Full of fancy; guided by fancy, rather than by reason and experience; whimsical; as a fanciful man forms visionary projects.
2. Conceived in the fancy; not consistent with facts or reason; abounding in ideal qualities or figures; as a fanciful scheme; a fanciful theory.
3. Curiously shaped or constructed; as she wore a fanciful headdress.
"Gather up all fancifullest shells." Keats.
Syn. — Imaginative; ideal; visionary; capricious; chimerical; whimsical; fantastical; wild. — Fanciful, Fantastical, Visionary. We speak of that as fanciful which is irregular in taste and judgment; we speak of it as fantastical when it becomes grotesque and extravagant as well as irregular; we speak of it as visionary when it is wholly unfounded in the nature of things. Fanciful notions are the product of a heated fancy, without any tems are made up of oddly assorted fancies, aften of the most whimsical kind; visionary expectations are those which can never be realized in fact. — Fan´ci•ful•ly, adv. - Fan´ci•ful•ness, n.

Fancy
Fan´cy, n. ; pl. Fancies (#). [Contr. fr. fantasy, OF. fantasie, fantaisie, F. fantaisie, L. phantasia, fr. Gr. appearance, imagination, the power of perception and presentation in the mind, fr. to make visible, to place before one’s mind, fr. to show; akin to,, light, Skr. bhato shine. Cf. Fantasy, Fantasia, Epiphany, Phantom.]
1. The faculty by which the mind forms an image or a representation of anything perceived before; the power of combining and modifying such objects into new pictures or images; the power of readily and happily creating and recalling such objects for the purpose of amusement, wit, or embellishment; imagination.
"In the soul Are many lesser faculties, that serve Reason as chief. Among these fancy next Her office holds." Milton.
2. An image or representation of anything formed in the mind; conception; thought; idea; conceit.
"How now, my lord ! why do you keep alone, Of sorriest fancies your companoins making ?" Shak.
3. An opinion or notion formed without much reflection; caprice; whim; impression.
"I have always had a fancy that learning might be made a play and recreation to children." Locke.
4. Inclination; liking, formed by caprice rather than reason; as to strike one’s fancy; hence, the object of inclination or liking.
"To fit your fancies to your father’s will." Shak.
5. That which pleases or entertains the taste or caprice without much use or value.
"London pride is a pretty fancy for borders." Mortimer.
6. A sort of love song or light impromptu ballad. [Obs.] Shak. The fancy, all of a class who exhibit and cultivate any peculiar taste or fancy; hence, especially, sporting characters taken collectively, or any specific class of them, as jockeys, gamblers, prize fighters, etc.
"At a great book sale in London, which had congregated all the fancy." De Quincey.
Syn. — Imagination; conceit; taste; humor; inclination; whim; liking. See Imagination.

Fancy
Fan´cy, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Fancied, p. pr. & vb. n. Fancying .]
1. To figure to one’s self; to believe or imagine something without proof.
"If our search has reached no farther than simile and metaphor, we rather fancy than know." Locke.
2. To love. [Obs.] Shak.

Fancy
Fan´cy, v. t.
1. To form a conception of; to portray in the mind; to imagine.
"He whom I fancy, but can ne’er express." Dryden.
2. To have a fancy for; to like; to be pleased with, particularly on account of external appearance or manners. "We fancy not the cardinal." Shak.
3. To believe without sufficient evidence; to imagine (something which is unreal).
"He fancied he was welcome, because those arounde him were his kinsmen." Thackeray.

Fancy
Fan´cy, a.
1. Adapted to please the fancy or taste; ornamental; as fancy goods.
2. Extravagant; above real value.
"This anxiety never degenerated into a monomania, like that which led his [Frederick the Great’s] father to pay fancy prices for giants." Macaulay. Fancy ball, a ball in which porsons appear in fanciful dresses in imitation of the costumes of different persons and nations. — Fancy fair, a fair at which articles of fancy and ornament are sold, generally for some charitable purpose. — Fancy goods, fabrics of various colors, patterns, etc., as ribbons, silks, laces, etc., in distinction from those of a simple or plain color or make. — Fancy line (Naut.), a line rove through a block at the jaws of a gaff; — used to haul it down. — Fancy roller (Carding Machine), a clothed cylinder (usually having straight teeth) in front of the doffer. — Fancy stocks, a species of stocks which afford great opportunity for stock gambling, since they have no intrinsic value, and the fluctuations in their prices are artificial. — Fancy store, one where articles of fancy and ornament are sold. — Fancy woods, the more rare and expensive furniture woods, as mahogany, satinwood, rosewood, etc.

Fancy-free
Fan´cy-free, a. Free from the power of love. "In maiden meditation, fancy-free." Shak.

Fancymonger
Fan´cy•mon•ger, n. A lovemonger; a whimsical lover. [Obs.] Shak.

Fancy-sick
Fan´cy-sick, a. Love- sick. Shak.

Fancywork
Fan´cy•work, n. Ornamental work with a needle or hook, as embroidery, crocheting, netting, etc.

Fand, obs. imp. of Find. Spenser.

Fane, n. [L. fanum a place dedicated to some deity, a sanctuary, fr. fari to speak. See Fame.] A temple; a place consecrated to religion; a church. [Poet.]
"Such to this British Isle, her Christian fanes." Wordsworth.

Fane, n. [See Vane.] A weathercock. [Obs.]

Fanfare
Fan´fare, n. [F. Cf. Fanfaron.] A flourish of trumpets, as in coming into the lists, etc.; also a short and lively air performed on hunting horns during the chase.
"The fanfare announcing the arrival of the various Christian princes." Sir W. Scott.

Fanfaronade
Fan•far•on•ade´, n. [F. fanfaronnade, fr. Sp. fanfarronada. See Fanfaron.] A swaggering; vain boasting; ostentation; a bluster. Swift.

Fang (fang), v. t. [OE. fangen, fongen, fon ( g orig. only in p. p. and imp. tense), AS. fon; akin to D. vangen, OHG. fahan, G. fahen, fangen, Icel. fa, Sw. få, fånga, Dan. fange, faae, Goth. fahan, and prob. to E. fair, peace, pact. Cf. Fair, a. ]
1. To catch; to seize, as with the teeth; to lay hold of; to gripe; to clutch. [Obs.] Shak.
"He’s in the law’s clutches; you see he’s fanged." J. Webster.
2. To enable to catch or tear; to furnish with fangs. "Chariots fanged with scythes." Philips.

Fang, n. [From Fang, v. t.; cf. AS. fang a taking, booty, G. fang.]
1. (Zoöl.) The tusk of an animal, by which the prey is seized and held or torn; a long pointed tooth; esp., one of the usually erectile, venomous teeth of serpents. also one of the falcers of a spider.
"Since I am a dog, beware my fangs." Shak.
2. Any shoot or other thing by which hold is taken.
"The protuberant fangs of the yucca." Evelyn.
3. (Anat.) The root, or one of the branches of the root, of a tooth. See Tooth.
4. (Mining) A niche in the side of an adit or shaft, for an air course. Knight.
5. (Mech.) A projecting tooth or prong, as in a part of a lock, or the plate of a belt clamp, or the end of a tool, as a chisel, where it enters the handle.
6. (Naut.) (a) The valve of a pump box. (b) A bend or loop of a rope. In a fang, fast entangled. — To lose the fang, said of a pump when the water has gone out; hence: To fang a pump, to supply it with the water necessary to make it operate. [Scot.]

Fangle
Fan´gle, n. [From Fang, v. t.; hence, prop., a taking up a new thing.] Something new-fashioned; a foolish innovation; a gewgaw; a trifling ornament.

Fangle
Fan´gle, v. t. To fashion. [Obs.]
"To control and new fangle the Scripture." Milton.

Fangled
Fan´gled, a. New made; hence, gaudy; showy; vainly decorated. [Obs., except with the prefix new.] See Newfangled. "Our fangled world." Shak.

Fangless
Fang´less, a. Destitute of fangs or tusks. "A fangless lion." Shak.

Fangot
Fan´got, n. [Cf. It. fagotto, fangotto, a bundle. Cf. Fagot.] A quantity of wares, as raw silk, etc., from one hundred weight.

Fannel
Fan´nel, n. [Dim., from same source as fanon.] Same as Fanon.

Fanon
Fan´on, n. [F. fanon, LL. fano, fr. OHG. fano banner cloth, G. fahne banner. See Vane, and cf. Fanion, Gonfalon.] (Eccl.) A term applied to various articles, as: (a) A peculiar striped scarf worn by the pope at mass, and by eastern bishops. (b) A maniple. [Written also fannel, phanon, etc.]

Fan-tailed
Fan´-tailed, a. (Zoöl.) Having an expanded, or fan-shaped, tail; as the fan-tailed pigeon.

Fan-tan
Fan´-tan (fan"tan•), n. [Chinese (of Canton) in an-tan-kun gambling house.]
1. A Chinese gambling game in which coins or other small objects are placed upon a table, usually under a cup, and the players bet as to what remainder will be left when the sum of the counters is divided by four.
2. A game with playing cards in which the cards are played in sequences upon the table, the one who first gets rid of his cards being the winner. { Fan•tigue´, Fan•tique´ }, n. [Written also fanteague, fanteeg, etc.] [Cf. Fantod.] State of worry or excitment; fidget; ill humor. [Prov. Eng.] Dickens. { Fan´tod, Fan´tad } n. [Cf. Fantigue.] State of worry or excitement; fidget; fuss; also indisposition; pet; sulks. [Slang]

Fantastic
Fan•tas´tic, a. [F. fantastique, fr. Gr. able to represent, fr. to make visible. See Fancy.]
1. Existing only in imagination; fanciful; imaginary; not real; chimerical.
2. Having the nature of a phantom; unreal. Shak.
3. Indulging the vagaries of imagination; whimsical; full of absurd fancies; capricious; as fantastic minds; a fantastic mistress.
4. Resembling fantasies in irregularity, caprice, or eccentricity; irregular; oddly shaped; grotesque.
"There at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high." T. Gray.
Syn. — Fanciful; imaginative; ideal; visionary; capricious; chimerical; whimsical; queer. See Fanciful.

Fantastic
Fan•tas´tic, n. A person given to fantastic dress, manners, etc.; an eccentric person; a fop. Milton.
"Our fantastics, who, having a fine watch, take all ocasions to draw it out to be seen." Fuller.

Fantastical
Fan•tas´tic•al, a. Fanciful; unreal; whimsical; capricious; fantastic.

Fantasticality
Fan•tas•ti•cal´i•ty, n. Fantastically. [Obs.]

Fantastically
Fan•tas´tic•al•ly, adv. In a fantastic manner.
"the letter A, in scarlet, fantastically embroidered with gold thread, upon her bosom." Hawthorne.

Fantastic-alness
Fan•tas´tic-al•ness, n. The quality of being fantastic.

Fantasticism
Fan•tas´ti•cism, n. The quality of being fantastical; fancifulness; whimsicality. Ruskin.

Fantasticly
Fan•tas´tic•ly, adv. Fantastically. [Obs.]

Fantasticness
Fan•tas´tic•ness, n. Fantasticalness. [Obs.]

Fantastico
Fan•tas´ti•co, n. [It.] A fantastic. [Obs.] Shak.

Fantasy
Fan´ta•sy, n. ; pl. Fantasies (#). [See Fancy.]
1. Fancy; imagination; especially, a whimsical or fanciful conception; a vagary of the imagination; whim; caprice; humor.
"Is not this something more than fantasy ?" Shak.
"A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory." Milton.
2. Fantastic designs.
"Embroidered with fantasies and flourishes of gold thread." Hawthorne.

Fantasy
Fan´ta•sy, v. t. To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like; to fancy. [Obs.] Cavendish.
"Which he doth most fantasy." Robynson (More’s Utopia).

Fantoccini
Fan•toc•ci´ni, n. pl. [It., dim. fr. fante child.] Puppets caused to perform evolutions or dramatic scenes by means of machinery; also the representations in which they are used.

Fantom
Fan´tom, n. See Phantom. Fantom corn, phantom corn. Grose.

Faquir
Fa•quir´, n. See Fakir.

Farad
Far´ad, n. [From Michael Faraday, the English electrician.] (Elec.) The standard unit of electrical capacity; the capacity of a condenser whose charge, having an electro-motive force of one volt, is equal to the amount of electricity which, with the same electromotive force, passes through one ohm in one second; the capacity, which, charged with one coulomb, gives an electro-motive force of one volt.

Faradic
Far•ad´ic, a. Of or pertaining to Michael Faraday, the distinguished electrician; — applied especially to induced currents of electricity, as produced by certain forms of inductive apparatus, on account of Faraday’s investigations of their laws. { Far´a•dism, Far•a•di•za´tion } n. (Med.) The treatment with faradic or induced currents of electricity for remedial purposes.

Faradize
Far´a•dize, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Faradized p. pr. & vb. n. Faradizing ] (Med.) To stimulate with, or subject to, faradic, or inducted, electric currents. — Far´a•diz•er (#), n.

Farandole
Fa•ran•dole´, n. [F. farandole, Pr. farandoulo.] A rapid dance in six- eight time in which a large number join hands and dance in various figures, sometimes moving from room to room. It originated in Provence.
"I have pictured them dancing a sort of farandole." W. D. Howells.

Farantly
Far´ant•ly, a. [See Farrand.] Orderly; comely; respectable. [Obs.] Halliwell.

Farcical
Far´ci•cal, a. Pertaining to farce; appropriated to farce; ludicrous; unnatural; unreal.
"They deny the characters to be farcical, because they are tually in in nature." Gay. — Far´ci•cal•ly, adv. - Far´ci•cal•ness, n.

Farcical
Far´ci•cal, a. Of or pertaining to the disease called farcy. See Farcy, n.

Farctate
Farc´tate, a. [L. farctus, p. p. of farcire. See Farce, v. t.] (Bot.) Stuffed; filled solid; as a farctate leaf, stem, or pericarp; — opposed to tubular or hollow. [Obs.]

Fardage
Far•dage´, n. [F. See Fardel.] (Naut.) See Dunnage.

Farding-bag
Far´ding-bag, n. [Of uncertain origin; cf. Fardel.] The upper stomach of a cow, or other ruminant animal; the rumen.

Fardingdeal
Far´ding•deal, n. [See Farthing, and Deal a part.] The fourth part of an acre of land. [Obs.] [Written also farding dale, fardingale, etc.]

Farfet
Far´fet, a. [ Far + fet, p. p. of Fette.] Farfetched. [Obs.]
"York with his farfet policy." Shak.

Farfetched
Far´fetched, a.
1. Brought from far, or from a remote place.
"Every remedy contained a multitude of farfetched and heterogeneous ingredients." Hawthorne.
2. Studiously sought; not easily or naturally deduced or introduced; forced; strained.

Farina
Fa•ri´na (fa•ri"na or fa•re"na), n. [L., meal, flour, fr. far a sort of grain, spelt; akin to E. barley.]
1. A fine flour or meal made from cereal grains or from the starch or fecula of vegetables, extracted by various processes, and used in cookery.
2. (Bot.) Pollen. [R.] Craig.

Farinaceous
Far•i•na´ceous, a. [L. farinaceus.]
1. Consisting or made of meal or flour; as a farinaceous diet.
2. Yielding farina or flour; as ffarinaceous seeds.
3. Like meal; mealy; pertaining to meal; as a farinaceous taste, smell, or appearance.

Farinose
Far•i•nose´, a. [L. farinosus: cf. F. farineux.]
1. Yielding farina; as farinose substances.
2. (Bot. & Zoöl.) Covered with a sort of white, mealy powder, as the leaves of some poplars, and the body of certain insects; mealy.

Farl, v. t. Same as Furl. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Farmable
Farm´a•ble, a. Capable of being farmed.

Farmer
Farm´er, n. [Cf. F. fermier.] One who farms; as: (a) One who hires and cultivates a farm; a cultivator of leased ground; a tenant. Smart. (b) One who is devoted to the tillage of the soil; one who cultivates a farm; an agriculturist; a husbandman. (c) One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect, either paying a fixed annuual rent for the privilege; as a farmer of the revenues. (d) (Mining) The lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown. Farmer-general [F. fermier-general], one to whom the right of levying certain taxes, in a particular district, was farmed out, under the former French monarchy, for a given sum paid down. — Farmers’ satin, a light material of cotton and worsted, used for coat linings. McElrath. — The king’s farmer (O. Eng. Law), one to whom the collection of a royal revenue was farmed out. Burrill.

Farmeress
Farm´er•ess, n. A woman who farms.

Farmership
Farm´er•ship, n. Skill in farming.

Farmery
Farm´er•y, n. The buildings and yards necessary for the business of a farm; a homestead. [Eng.]

Farmhouse
Farm´house, n. A dwelling house on a farm; a farmer’s residence.

Farming
Farm´ing, a. Pertaining to agriculture; devoted to, adapted to, or engaged in, farming; as farming tools; farming land; a farming community.

Farming
Farm´ing, n. The business of cultivating land.

Farmost
Far´most, a. Most distant; farthest.
"A spacious cave within its farmost part." Dryden.

Farmstead
Farm´stead, n. A farm with the building upon it; a homestead on a farm. Tennyson.
"With its pleasant groves and farmsteads." Carlyle.

Farmsteading
Farm´stead•ing, n. A farmstead. [Scot.] Black.

Farmyard
Farm´yard, n. The yard or inclosure attached to a barn, or the space inclosed by the farm buildings.

Farness
Far´ness, n. [From Far, a. ] The state of being far off; distance; remoteness. [R.] Grew.

Faroese
Fa•ro•ese, n. sing. & pl. An inhabitant, or, collectively, inhabitants, of the Faroe islands.

Far-off
Far´-off, a. Remote; as the far-off distance. Cf. Far-off, under Far, adv.

Farreation
Far•re•a´tion, n. [L. farreatio.] Same as Confarreation.

Farriery
Far´ri•er•y, n.
1. The art of shoeing horses.
2. The art of preventing, curing, or mitigating diseases of horses and cattle; the veterinary art.
3. The place where a smith shoes horses.

Farrow
Far´row (far"ro), n. [AS. fearh a little pig; a akin to OHG. farh, farah, pig, dim. farheli little pig, G. fercel, D. varken pig, Lith. parszas OIr. orc, L. porcus, Gr. po•rkos. Cf. Pork.] A litter of pigs. Shak.

Farrow
Far´row, v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. Farrowed p. pr. & vb. n. Farrowing.] To bring forth (young); — said only of swine. Tusser.

Farrow
Far´row, a. [Cf. Scot. ferry cow a cow that is not with calf, D. vaarkoe, vaars, heifer, G. färse, AS. fearr bull, G. farre. Cf. Heifer.] Not producing young in a given season or year; - - said only of cows. If a cow has had a calf, but fails in a subsequent year, she is said to be farrow, or to go farrow.

Farse, n. [See Farce, n. ] (Eccl.) An addition to, or a paraphrase of, some part of the Latin service in the vernacular; — common in English before the Reformation.

Farsighted
Far´sight•ed, a.
1. Seeing to great distance; hence, of good judgment regarding the remote effects of actions; sagacious.
2. (Med.) Hypermetropic.

Farsightedness
Far´sight•ed•ness, n.
1. Quality of bbeing farsighted.
2. (Med.) Hypermetropia.

Far-stretched
Far´-stretched, a. Stretched beyond ordinary limits.

Farther
Far´ther (fär"ther), a. , compar. of Far. [ superl. Farthest (-thest). See Further.] [For farrer, OE. ferrer, compar. of far; confused with further. Cf. Farthest.]
1. More remote; more distant than something else.
2. Tending to a greater distance; beyond a certain point; additional; further.
"Before our farther way the fates allow." Dryden.
"Let me add a farther Truth." Dryden.
"Some farther change awaits us." MIlton.

Farther
Far´ther, adv.
1. At or to a greater distance; more remotely; beyond; as let us rest with what we have, without looking farther.
2. Moreover; by way of progress in treating a subject; as farther, let us consider the probable event. No farther, (used elliptically for) go no farther; say no more, etc.
"It will be dangerous to go on. No farther !" Shak.

Farther
Far´ther, v. t. To help onward. [R.] See Further.

Farthest
Far´thest (fär"thest), a. Superl. of far. [See Farther and cf. Furthest] Most distant or remote; as the farthest degree. See Furthest.

Farthest
Far´thest adv. At or to the greatest distance. See Furthest.

Fascet
Fas´cet, n. (Glass Making) A wire basket on the end of a rod to carry glass bottles, etc., to the annealing furnace; also an iron rod to be thrust into the mouths of bottles, and used for the same purpose; — called also pontee and punty.

Fascia
Fas´ci•a, n. ; pl. Fasciae (#). [L., a band: cf. It. fascia. See Fasces, and cf. Fess.]
1. A band, sash, or fillet; especially, in surgery, a bandage or roller.
2. (Arch.) A flat member of an order or building, like a flat band or broad fillet; especially, one of the three bands which make up the architrave, in the Ionic order. See Illust. of Column.
3. (Anat.) The layer of loose tissue, often containing fat, immediately beneath the skin; the stronger layer of connective tissue covering and investing all muscles; an aponeurosis.
4. (Zoöl.) A broad well-defined band of color.

Fascicle
Fas´ci•cle, n. [L. fasciculus, dim. of fascis. See Fasces.] A small bundle or collection; a compact cluster; as a fascicle of fibers; a fascicle of flowers or roots.

Fascicle
Fas´ci•cle, n. One of the divisions of a book published in parts; fasciculus.

Fascicled
Fas´ci•cled, a. Growing in a bundle, tuft, or close cluster; as the fascicled leaves of the pine or larch; the fascicled roots of the dahlia; fascicled muscle fibers; fascicled tufts of hair.

Fascicular
Fas•cic´u•lar, a. Pertaining to a fascicle; fascicled; as a fascicular root.

Fascicularly
Fas•cic´u•lar•ly, adv. In a fascicled manner. Kirwan. { Fas•cic´u•late, Fas•cic´u•la•ted,} a. Grouped in a fascicle; fascicled.

Fascicule
Fas´ci•cule, n. [See Fascicle.] A small bunch or bundle; a fascicle; as a fascicule of fibers, hairs, or spines.

Fascine
Fas•cine´, n. [F., fr. L. fascina a bundle of sticks, fr. fascis. See Fasces.] (Fort. & Engin.) A cylindrical bundle of small sticks of wood, bound together, used in raising batteries, filling ditches, strengthening ramparts, and making parapets; also in revetments for river banks, and in mats for dams, jetties, etc.

Fashion
Fash´ion, n. [OE. fasoun, facioun, shape, manner, F. facon, orig., a making, fr. L. factio a making, fr. facere to make. See Fact, Feat, and cf. Faction.]
1. The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; as the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.; workmanship; execution.
"The fashion of his countenance was altered." Luke ix. 29.
"I do not like the fashion of your garments." Shak.
2. The prevailing mode or style, especially of dress; custom or conventional usage in respect of dress, behavior, etiquette, etc.; particularly, the mode or style usual among persons of good breeding; as to dress, dance, sing, ride, etc., in the fashion.
"The innocent diversions in fashion." Locke.
"As now existing, fashion is a form of social regulation analogous to constitutional government as a form of political regulation." H. Spencer.
3. Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding; as men of fashion.
4. Mode of action; method of conduct; manner; custom; sort; way. "After his sour fashion." Shak. After a fashion, to a certain extent; in a sort. — Fashion piece (Naut.), one of the timbers which terminate the transom, and define the shape of the stern. — Fashion plate, a pictorial design showing the prevailing style or a new style of dress.

Fashion
Fash´ion, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Fashioned p. pr. & vb. n. Fashioning.] [Cf. F. faconner.]
1. To form; to give shape or figure to; to mold.
"Here the loud hammer fashions female toys." Gay.
"Ingenious art … Steps forth to fashion and refine the age." Cowper.
2. To fit; to adapt; to accommodate; — with to.
"Laws ought to be fashioned to the manners and conditions of the people." Spenser.
3. To make according to the rule prescribed by custom.
"Fashioned plate sells for more than its weight." Locke.
4. To forge or counterfeit. [Obs.] Shak. Fashioning needle (Knitting Machine), a needle used for widening or narrowing the work and thus shaping it.