Faintness (n.) Faint-heartedness; timorousness; dejection.
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.
Fainty (a.) Feeble; languid.
Fair (superl.) Free from spots, specks, dirt, or imperfection; unblemished; clean; pure.
Fair (superl.) Pleasing to the eye; handsome; beautiful.
Fair (superl.) Without a dark hue; light; clear; as, a fair skin.
Fair (superl.) Not overcast; cloudless; clear; pleasant; propitious; favorable; -- said of the sky, weather, or wind, etc.; as, a fair sky; a fair day.
Fair (superl.) 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.
Fair (superl.) Without sudden change of direction or curvature; smooth; fowing; -- said of the figure of a vessel, and of surfaces, water lines, and other lines.
Fair (superl.) 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.
Fair (superl.) Pleasing; favorable; inspiring hope and confidence; -- said of words, promises, etc.
Fair (superl.) Distinct; legible; as, fair handwriting.
Fair (superl.) Free from any marked characteristic; average; middling; as, a fair specimen.
Fair (adv.) Clearly; openly; frankly; civilly; honestly; favorably; auspiciously; agreeably.
Fair (n.) Fairness, beauty.
Fair (n.) A fair woman; a sweetheart.
Fair (n.) Good fortune; good luck.
Fair (v. t.) To make fair or beautiful.
Fair (v. t.) To make smooth and flowing, as a vessel's lines.
Fair (n.) 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.
Fair (n.) A festival, and sale of fancy articles. erc., usually for some charitable object; as, a Grand Army fair.
Fair (n.) A competitive exhibition of wares, farm products, etc., not primarily for purposes of sale; as, the Mechanics' fair; an agricultural fair.
Fair-haired (a.) Having fair or light-colored hair.
Fairhood (n.) Fairness; beauty.
Fairily (adv.) In the manner of a fairy.
Fairing (n.) A present; originally, one given or purchased at a fair.
Fairish (a.) Tolerably fair.
Fair-leader (n.) A block, or ring, serving as a guide for the running rigging or for any rope.
Fairly (adv.) In a fair manner; clearly; openly; plainly; fully; distinctly; frankly.
Fairly (adv.) Favorably; auspiciously; commodiously; as, a town fairly situated for foreign traade.
Fairly (adv.) Honestly; properly.
Fairly (adv.) Softly; quietly; gently.
Fair-minded (a.) Unprejudiced; just; judicial; honest.
Fair-natured (a.) Well-disposed.
Fairness (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.
Faair-spoken (a.) Using fair speech, or uttered with fairness; bland; civil; courteous; plausible.
Fairway (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.
Fair-weather (a.) Made or done in pleasant weather, or in circumstances involving but little exposure or sacrifice; as, a fair-weather voyage.
Fair-weather (a.) Appearing only when times or circumstances are prosperous; as, a fair-weather friend.
Fair-world (n.) State of prosperity.
Fairies (pl. ) of Fairy
Fairy (n.) Enchantment; illusion.
Fairy (n.) The country of the fays; land of illusions.
Fairy (n.) 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.
Fairy (n.) An enchantress.
Fairy (a.) Of or pertaining to fairies.
Fairy (a.) Given by fairies; as, fairy money.
Fairyland (n.) The imaginary land or abode of fairies.
Fairylike (a.) Resembling a fairy, or what is made or done be fairies; as, fairylike music.
Faith (n.) 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.
Faith (n.) 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 (n.) The belief in the historic truthfulness of the Scripture narrative, and the supernatural origin of its teachings, sometimes called historical and speculative faith.
Faith (n.) 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.
Faith (n.) 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.
Faith (n.) Fidelity to one's promises, or allegiance to duty, or to a person honored and beloved; loyalty.
Faith (n.) Word or honor pledged; promise given; fidelity; as, he violated his faith.
Faith (n.) Credibility or truth.
Faith (interj.) By my faith; in truth; verily.
Faithed (a.) Having faith or a faith; honest; sincere.
Faithful (a.) Full of faith, or having faith; disposed to believe, especially in the declarations and promises of God.
Faithful (a.) Firm in adherence to promises, oaths, contracts, treaties, or other engagements.
Faithful (a.) True and constant in affection or allegiance to a person to whom one is bound by a vow, be 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.
Faithful (a.) Worthy of confidence and belief; conformable to truth ot fact; exact; accurate; as, a faithful narrative or representation.
Faithless (a.) Not believing; not giving credit.
Faithless (a.) Not believing on God or religion; specifically, not believing in the Christian religion.
Faithless (a.) Not observant of promises or covenants.
Faithless (a.) Not true to allegiance, duty, or vows; perfidious; trecherous; disloyal; not of true fidelity; inconstant, as a husband or a wife.
Faithless (a.) Serving to disappoint or deceive; delusive; unsatisfying.
Faitour (n.) A doer or actor; particularly, an evil doer; a scoundrel.
Fake (n.) One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.
Fake (v. t.) To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form,, to prevent twisting when running out.
Fake (v. t.) To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.
Fake (v. t.) To make; to construct; to do.
Fake (v. t.) To manipulate fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is; as, to fake a bulldog, by burning his upper lip and thus artificially shortening it.
Fake (n.) A trick; a swindle.
Fakir (n.) An Oriental religious ascetic or begging monk.
Falanaka (n.) A viverrine mammal of Madagascar (Eupleres Goudotii), allied to the civet; -- called also Falanouc.
Falcade (n.) 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.
Falcate (a.) Alt. of Falcated
Falcated (a.) 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 (n.) The state of being falcate; a bend in the form of a sickle.
Falcer (n.) One of the mandibles of a spider.
Falchion (n.) A broad-bladed sword, slightly curved, shorter and lighter than the ordinary sword; -- used in the Middle Ages.
Falchion (n.) A name given generally and poetically to a sword, especially to the swords of Oriental and fabled warriors.
Falcidian (a.) Of or pertaining to Publius Falcidius, a Roman tribune.
Falciform (a.) Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver.
Falcon (n.) One of a family (Falconidae) of raptorial birds, characterized by a short, hooked beak, strong claws, and powerful flight.
Falcon (n.) 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.
Falcon (n.) An ancient form of cannon.
Falconer (n.) A person who breeds or trains hawks for taking birds or game; one who follows the sport of fowling with hawks.
Falconet (n.) One of the smaller cannon used in the 15th century and later.
Falconet (n.) One of several very small Asiatic falcons of the genus Microhierax.
Falconet (n.) One of a group of Australian birds of the genus Falcunculus, resembling shrikes and titmice.
Falcongentil (n.) The female or young of the goshawk (Astur palumbarius).
Falconine (a.) Like a falcon or hawk; belonging to the Falconidae
Falconry (n.) The art of training falcons or hawks to pursue and attack wild fowl or game.
Falconry (n.) The sport of taking wild fowl or game by means of falcons or hawks.
Falcula (n.) A curved and sharp-pointed claw.
Falculate (a.) Curved and sharppointed, like a falcula, or claw of a falcon.
Faldage (n.) 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.