Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter F - Page 3

Faded (imp. & p. p.) of Fade

Fading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fade

Fade (a.) To become fade; to grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.

Fade (a.) To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color.

Fade (a.) To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish.

Fade (v. t.) To cause to wither; to deprive of freshness or vigor; to wear away.

Faded (a.) That has lost freshness, color, or brightness; grown dim.

Fadedly (adv.) In a faded manner.

Fadeless (a.) Not liable to fade; unfading.

Fader (n.) Father.

Fadge (a.) To fit; to suit; to agree.

Fadge (n.) A small flat loaf or thick cake; also, a fagot.

Fading (a.) Losing freshness, color, brightness, or vigor.

Fading (n.) Loss of color, freshness, or vigor.

Fading (n.) An Irish dance; also, the burden of a song.

Fadme (n.) A fathom.

Fady (a.) Faded.

Faecal (a.) See Fecal.

Faeces (n.pl.) Excrement; ordure; also, settlings; sediment after infusion or distillation.

Faecula (n.) See Fecula.

Faery (n. & a.) Fairy.

Faffle (v. i.) To stammer.

Fag (n.) A knot or coarse part in cloth.

Fagged (imp. & p. p.) of Fag

Fagging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fag

Fag (v. i.) To become weary; to tire.

Fag (v. i.) To labor to wearness; to work hard; to drudge.

Fag (v. i.) To act as a fag, or perform menial services or drudgery, for another, as in some English schools.

Fag (v. t.) To tire by labor; to exhaust; as, he was almost fagged out.

Fag (v. t.) Anything that fatigues.

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

Fagend (n.) The refuse or meaner part of anything.

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

Fagot (n.) 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.

Fagot (n.) 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.

Fagot (n.) A bassoon. See Fagotto.

Fagot (n.) A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company.

Fagot (n.) An old shriveled woman.

Fagoted (imp. & p. p.) of Fagot

Fagoting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fagot

Fagot (v. t.) To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle; also, to collect promiscuously.

Fagotto (n.) The bassoon; -- so called from being divided into parts for ease of carriage, making, as it were, a small fagot.

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

Fahlband (n.) A stratum in crystalline rock, containing metallic sulphides.

Fahlerz (n.) Alt. of Fahlband

Fahlband (n.) Same as Tetrahedrite.

Fahlunite (n.) A hydration of iolite.

Fahrenheit (a.) Conforming to the scale used by Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit in the graduation of his thermometer; of or relating to Fahrenheit's thermometric scale.

Fahrenheit (n.) The Fahrenheit termometer or scale.

Faience (n.) Glazed earthenware; esp., that which is decorated in color.

Failed (imp. & p. p.) of Fail

Failing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fail

Fail (v. i.) 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.

Fail (v. i.) To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; -- used with of.

Fail (v. i.) To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.

Fail (v. i.) To deteriorate in respect to vigor, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker; as, a sick man fails.

Fail (v. i.) To perish; to die; -- used of a person.

Fail (v. i.) 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.

Fail (v. i.) To come short of a result or object aimed at or desired ; to be baffled or frusrated.

Fail (v. i.) To err in judgment; to be mistaken.

Fail (v. i.) 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.) To be wanting to ; to be insufficient for; to disappoint; to desert.

Fail (v. t.) To miss of attaining; to lose.

Fail (v. i.) Miscarriage; failure; deficiency; fault; -- mostly superseded by failure or failing, except in the phrase without fail.

Fail (v. i.) Death; decease.

Failance (n.) Fault; failure; omission.

Failing (n.) A failing short; a becoming deficient; failure; deficiency; imperfection; weakness; lapse; fault; infirmity; as, a mental failing.

Failing (n.) The act of becoming insolvent of bankrupt.

Faille (n.) A soft silk, heavier than a foulard and not glossy.

Failure (n.) Cessation of supply, or total defect; a failing; deficiency; as, failure of rain; failure of crops.

Failure (n.) Omission; nonperformance; as, the failure to keep a promise.

Failure (n.) Want of success; the state of having failed.

Failure (n.) Decay, or defect from decay; deterioration; as, the failure of memory or of sight.

Failure (n.) A becoming insolvent; bankruptcy; suspension of payment; as, failure in business.

Failure (n.) A failing; a slight fault.

Fain (a.) Well-pleased; glad; apt; wont; fond; inclined.

Fain (a.) Satisfied; contented; also, constrained.

Fain (adv.) With joy; gladly; -- with wold.

Fain (v. t. & i.) To be glad ; to wish or desire.

Faineant (a.) Doing nothing; shiftless.

Faineant (n.) A do-nothing; an idle fellow; a sluggard.

Faint (superl.) Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, faint with fatigue, hunger, or thirst.

Faint (superl.) Wanting in courage, spirit, or energy; timorous; cowardly; dejected; depressed; as, "Faint heart ne'er won fair lady."

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

Faint (superl.) Performed, done, or acted, in a weak or feeble manner; not exhibiting vigor, strength, or energy; slight; as, faint efforts; faint resistance.

Faint (n.) The act of fainting, or the state of one who has fainted; a swoon. [R.] See Fainting, n.

Fainted (imp. & p. p.) of Faint

Fainting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Faint

Faint (v. i.) 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.

Faint (n.) To sink into dejection; to lose courage or spirit; to become depressed or despondent.

Faint (n.) To decay; to disappear; to vanish.

Faint (v. t.) To cause to faint or become dispirited; to depress; to weaken.

Fainthearted (a.) Wanting in courage; depressed by fear; easily discouraged or frightened; cowardly; timorous; dejected.

Fainting (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.

Faintish (a.) Slightly faint; somewhat faint.

Faintling (a.) Timorous; feeble-minded.

Faintly (adv.) In a faint, weak, or timidmanner.

Faintness (n.) The state of being faint; loss of strength, or of consciousness, and self-control.

Faintness (n.) Want of vigor or energy.

Faintness (n.) Feebleness, as of color or light; lack of distinctness; as, faintness of description.

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