Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter F - Page 2

Faciend (n.) The multiplicand. See Facient, 2.

Facient (n.) One who does anything, good or bad; a doer; an agent.

Facient (n.) One of the variables of a quantic as distinguished from a coefficient.

Facient (n.) The multiplier.

Facies (n.) The anterior part of the head; the face.

Facies (n.) The general aspect or habit of a species, or group of species, esp. with reference to its adaptation to its environment.

Facies (n.) The face of a bird, or the front of the head, excluding the bill.

Facile (a.) Easy to be done or performed: not difficult; performable or attainable with little labor.

Facile (a.) Easy to be surmounted or removed; easily conquerable; readily mastered.

Facile (a.) Easy of access or converse; mild; courteous; not haughty, austere, or distant; affable; complaisant.

Facile (a.) Easily persuaded to good or bad; yielding; ductile to a fault; pliant; flexible.

Facile (a.) Ready; quick; expert; as, he is facile in expedients; he wields a facile pen.

Facilitated (imp. & p. p.) of Facilitate

Facilitating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Facilitate

Facilitate (v. t.) To make easy or less difficult; to free from difficulty or impediment; to lessen the labor of; as, to facilitate the execution of a task.

Facilitation (n.) The act of facilitating or making easy.

Facilities (pl. ) of Facility

Facility (n.) The quality of being easily performed; freedom from difficulty; ease; as, the facility of an operation.

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

Facility (n.) Easiness to be persuaded; readiness or compliance; -- usually in a bad sense; pliancy.

Facility (n.) Easiness of access; complaisance; affability.

Facility (n.) That which promotes the ease of any action or course of conduct; advantage; aid; assistance; -- usually in the plural; as, special facilities for study.

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

Facing (n.) A lining placed near the edge of a garment for ornament or protection.

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

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

Facing (n.) The collar and cuffs of a military coat; -- commonly of a color different from that of the coat.

Facing (n.) The movement of soldiers by turning on their heels to the right, left, or about; -- chiefly in the pl.

Facingly (adv.) In a facing manner or position.

Facinorous (a.) Atrociously wicked.

Facound (n.) Speech; eloquence.

Facsimiles (pl. ) of Facsimile

Facsimile (n.) A copy of anything made, either so as to be deceptive or so as to give every part and detail of the original; an exact copy or likeness.

Facsimile (v. t.) To make a facsimile of.

Fact (n.) A doing, making, or preparing.

Fact (n.) An effect produced or achieved; anything done or that comes to pass; an act; an event; a circumstance.

Fact (n.) Reality; actuality; truth; as, he, in fact, excelled all the rest; the fact is, he was beaten.

Fact (n.) 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.

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

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

Faction (n.) Tumult; discord; dissension.

Factionary (a.) Belonging to a faction; being a partisan; taking sides.

Factioner (n.) One of a faction.

Factionist (n.) One who promotes faction.

Factious (a.) 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 (a.) Pertaining to faction; proceeding from faction; indicating, or characterized by, faction; -- said of acts or expressions; as, factious quarrels.

Factitious (a.) 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.

Factitive (a.) Causing; causative.

Factitive (a.) Pertaining to that relation which is proper when the act, as of a transitive verb, is not merely received by an object, but produces some change in the object, as when we say, He made the water wine.

Factive (a.) Making; having power to make.

Facto (adv.) In fact; by the act or fact.

Factor (n.) One who transacts business for another; an agent; a substitute; especially, a mercantile agent who buys and sells goods and transacts business for others in commission; a commission merchant or consignee. He may be a home factor or a foreign factor. He may buy and sell in his own name, and he is intrusted with the possession and control of the goods; and in these respects he differs from a broker.

Factor (n.) A steward or bailiff of an estate.

Factor (n.) One of the elements or quantities which, when multiplied together, from a product.

Factor (n.) One of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result; a constituent.

Factored (imp. & p. p.) of Factor

Factoring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Factor

Factor (v. t.) To resolve (a quantity) into its factors.

Factorage (n.) The allowance given to a factor, as a compensation for his services; -- called also a commission.

Factoress (n.) A factor who is a woman.

Factorial (a.) Of or pertaining to a factory.

Factorial (a.) Related to factorials.

Factorial (n.) 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.

Factorial (n.) The product of the consecutive numbers from unity up to any given number.

Factoring (n.) The act of resolving into factors.

Factorized (imp. & p. p.) of Factorize

Factorizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Factorize

Factorize (v. t.) 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.

Factorize (v. t.) To attach (the effects of a debtor) in the hands of a third person ; to garnish. See Garnish.

Factorship (n.) The business of a factor.

Factories (pl. ) of Factory

Factory (n.) A house or place where factors, or commercial agents, reside, to transact business for their employers.

Factory (n.) The body of factors in any place; as, a chaplain to a British factory.

Factory (n.) 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.

Factotums (pl. ) of Factotum

Factotum (n.) A person employed to do all kinds of work or business.

Factual (a.) Relating to, or containing, facts.

Facta (pl. ) of Factum

Factum (n.) A man's own act and deed

Factum (n.) Anything stated and made certain.

Factum (n.) The due execution of a will, including everything necessary to its validity.

Factum (n.) The product. See Facient, 2.

Facture (n.) The act or manner of making or doing anything; -- now used of a literary, musical, or pictorial production.

Facture (n.) An invoice or bill of parcels.

Faculae (n. pl.) Groups of small shining spots on the surface of the sun which are brighter than the other parts of the photosphere. They are generally seen in the neighborhood of the dark spots, and are supposed to be elevated portions of the photosphere.

Facular (a.) Of or pertaining to the faculae.

Faculties (pl. ) of Faculty

Faculty (n.) 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.

Faculty (n.) Special mental endowment; characteristic knack.

Faculty (n.) Power; prerogative or attribute of office.

Faculty (n.) Privilege or permission, granted by favor or indulgence, to do a particular thing; authority; license; dispensation.

Faculty (n.) 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.

Faculty (n.) 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.

Facund (a.) Eloquent.

Facundious (a.) Eloquement; full of words.

Facundity (n.) Eloquence; readiness of speech.

Fad (n.) A hobby ; freak; whim.

Faddle (v. i.) To trifle; to toy.

Faddle (v. t. ) To fondle; to dandle.

Fade (a.) Weak; insipid; tasteless; commonplace.

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