Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter F - Page 3
Faded (imp. & p. p.) of Fade.
Fading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fade.
Fade (v. i.) To become fade; to grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.
The earth mourneth and fadeth away. -- Is. xxiv. 4.
Fade (v. i.) To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color. "Flowers that never fade." -- Milton.
Fade (v. i.) To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish.
The stars shall fade away. -- Addison.
He makes a swanlike end, Fading in music. -- Shak.
Fade (v. t.) To cause to wither; to deprive of freshness or vigor; to wear away.
No winter could his laurels fade. -- Dryden.
Fade (n.) A golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer; "he took lessons to cure his slicing" [syn: slice, fade, slicing].
Fade (n.) Gradually ceasing to be visible [syn: fade, disappearance].
Fade (v.) Become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly; "The scene begins to fade"; "The tree trunks are melting into the forest at dusk" [syn: fade, melt].
Fade (v.) Lose freshness, vigor, or vitality; "Her bloom was fading" [syn: fade, wither].
Fade (v.) Disappear gradually; "The pain eventually passed off" [syn: evanesce, fade, blow over, pass off, fleet, pass].
Fade (v.) Become feeble; "The prisoner has be languishing for years in the dungeon" [syn: languish, fade].
Faded (a.) That has lost freshness, color, or brightness; grown dim. "His faded cheek." -- Milton.
Where the faded moon Made a dim silver twilight. -- Keats.
Faded (a.) Having lost freshness or brilliance of color; "sun-bleached deck chairs"; "faded jeans"; "a very pale washed-out blue"; "washy colors" [syn: bleached, faded, washed-out, washy].
Faded (a.) Reduced in strength; "the faded tones of an old recording" [syn: attenuate, attenuated, faded, weakened].
Fadedly (adv.) In a faded manner.
A dull room fadedly furnished. -- Dickens.
Fadeless (a.) Not liable to fade; unfading.
Fader (n.) Father. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Fadge (v. i.) 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.) A small flat loaf or thick cake; also, a fagot. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Fading (a.) Losing freshness, color, brightness, or vigor.
Fading (n.) Loss of color, freshness, or vigor. -- Fad"ing*ly, adv. -- Fad"ing*ness, n.
Fading (n.) An Irish dance; also, the burden of a song. "Fading is a fine jig." [Obs.] -- Beau. & Fl.
Fading (n.) Weakening in force or intensity; "attenuation in the volume of the sound" [syn: attenuation, fading].
Fadme (n.) A fathom. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Fady (a.) Faded. [R.] -- Shenstone.
Faecal (a.) See Fecal.
Faecal (a.) Of or relating to feces; "fecal matter" [syn: faecal, fecal].
Faeces (n. pl.) Excrement; ordure; also, settlings; sediment after infusion or distillation. [Written also feces.]
Faeces (n.) Solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels [syn: fecal matter, faecal matter, feces, faeces, BM, stool, ordure, dejection].
Faecula (n.) [L.] See Fecula.
Fairy (n.; pl. Fairies.) [Written also fa["e]ry.] Enchantment; illusion. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
The God of her has made an end, And fro this worlde's fairy Hath taken her into company. -- Gower.
Fairy (n.; pl. Fairies.) The country of the fays; land of illusions. [Obs.]
He [Arthur] is a king y-crowned in Fairy. -- Lydgate.
Fairy (n.; pl. Fairies.) 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.
Fairy (n.; pl. Fairies.) 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.
Faery (n. & a.) Fairy. [Archaic] -- Spenser.
Faery (n.) A small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers [syn: fairy, faery, faerie, fay, sprite].
Faery (n.) The enchanted realm of fairies [syn: fairyland, faerie, faery].
Faffle (v. i.) To stammer. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Fag (n.) A knot or coarse part in cloth ; a flaw. [Obs.]
Fag (n.) A cigarette. [slang]
Fag (n.) A fag end in a cloth.
Fag (n.) A drudge.
Fag (n.) A male homosexual; -- always used disparagingly and considered offensive. Shortened form of faggot. [Slang, disparaging.]
Syn: faggot.
Fagged (imp. & p. p.) of Fag.
Fagging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fag.
Fag (v. i.) To become weary; to tire.
Creighton withheld his force till the Italian began to fag. -- G. Mackenzie.
Fag (v. i.) To labor to wearness; to work hard; to drudge.
Read, fag, and subdue this chapter. -- Coleridge.
Fag (v. i.) To act as a fag, or perform menial services or drudgery, for another, as in some English schools.
To fag out, to become untwisted or frayed, as the end of a rope, or the edge of canvas.
Fag (v. t.) To tire by labor; to exhaust; as, he was almost fagged out.
Fag (v. t.) Anything that fatigues. [R.]
It is such a fag, I came back tired to death. -- Miss Austen.
Brain
fag. (Med.) See
Cerebropathy.
Fag (n.) Offensive term for an openly homosexual man [syn:
fagot, faggot, fag, fairy, nance, pansy, queen, queer, poof, poove, pouf].
Fag (n.) Finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking [syn: cigarette, cigaret, coffin nail, butt, fag].
Fag (v.) Act as a servant for older boys, in British public schools.
Fag (v.) Work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long" [syn: labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil].
Fag (v.) Exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress; "We wore ourselves out on this hike" [syn: tire, wear upon, tire out, wear, weary, jade, wear out, outwear, wear down, fag out, fag, fatigue] [ant: freshen, refresh, refreshen].
FAG, () FernmeldeAnlagenGesetz telecommunication, Germany.
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.
The fag-end of business. -- Collier.
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. -- Shak.
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.) (Mus.) A bassoon.
See Fagotto.
Fagot
(n.) A person hired to take the place of another at the
muster of a company. [Eng.] -- Addison.
Fagot (n.) 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.]
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. -- Dryden.
Fagot (n.) Offensive term for an openly homosexual man [syn: fagot, faggot, fag, fairy, nance, pansy, queen, queer, poof, poove, pouf].
Fagot (n.) A bundle of sticks and branches bound together [syn: fagot, faggot].
Fagot (v.) Ornament or join (fabric) by faggot stitch; "He fagotted the blouse for his wife" [syn: faggot, fagot].
Fagot (v.) Fasten together rods of iron in order to heat or weld them [syn: faggot, fagot].
Fagot (v.) Bind or tie up in or as if in a faggot; "faggot up the sticks" [syn: faggot, fagot, faggot up].
Fagotto (n.) (Mus.) 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.) (Mining) A stratum in crystalline rock, containing metallic sulphides. -- Raymond. Fahlerz
Fahlerz (n.) Alt. of Fahlband.
Fahlband (n.) (Min.) Same as Tetrahedrite.
Fahlunite (n.) (Min.) A hydrated silica of alumina, resulting from the alteration of iolite.
Fahlunite (n.) A hydration of iolite.
Fahlunite (n.) (pl. -s) An altered form of cordierite.
Fahrenheit (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. Used as an alternative to celsius. -- n. The Fahrenheit thermometer or scale.
Note: 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 one atmosphere of pressure is 212 degrees. It is commonly used in the United States and in England. faience
Fahrenheit (a.) Of or relating to a temperature scale proposed by the inventor of the mercury thermometer; "water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit under normal conditions".
Fahrenheit (n.) German physicist who invented the mercury thermometer and developed the scale of temperature that bears his name (1686-1736) [syn: Fahrenheit, Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit].
Faience (n.) Glazed earthenware; esp., a fine variety that which is decorated with colorful designs in an opaque glaze.
Faience (n.) Glazed earthenware decorated with opaque colors.
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.
As the waters fail from the sea. -- Job xiv. 11.
Till Lionel's issue fails, his should not reign. -- Shak.
Fail (v. i.) 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.
Fail (v. i.) 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.
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. [Obs.]
Had the king in his last sickness failed. -- Shak.
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.
Take heed now that ye fail not to do this. -- Ezra iv. 22.
Either my eyesight fails, or thou look'st pale. -- Shak.
Fail (v. i.) To come short of a result or object aimed at or desired ; to be baffled or frusrated.
Our envious foe hath failed. -- Milton.
Fail (v. i.) To err in judgment; to be mistaken.
Which ofttimes may succeed, so as perhaps Shall grieve him, if I fail not. -- Milton.
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 ; as, many credit unions failed in the late 1980's.
Fail (v. t.) 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.
Fail (v. t.) To miss of attaining; to lose. [R.]
Though that seat of earthly bliss be failed. -- Milton.
Fail (n.) Miscarriage; failure; deficiency; fault; -- mostly superseded by failure or failing, except in the phrase without fail. "His highness' fail of issue." -- Shak.
Fail (n.) Death; decease. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Fail (v.) Fail to do something; leave something undone; "She failed to notice that her child was no longer in his crib"; "The secretary failed to call the customer and the company lost the account" [syn: fail, neglect].
Fail (v.) Be unsuccessful; "Where do today's public schools fail?"; "The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably" [syn: fail, go wrong, miscarry] [ant: bring home the bacon, come through, deliver the goods, succeed, win].
Fail (v.) Disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake; "His sense of smell failed him this time"; "His strength finally failed him"; "His children failed him in the crisis" [syn: fail, betray].
Fail (v.) Stop operating or functioning; "The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident" [syn: fail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break down].
Fail (v.) Be unable; "I fail to understand your motives" [ant: bring off, carry off, manage, negociate, pull off].
Fail (v.) Judge unacceptable; "The teacher failed six students" [ant: pass].
Fail (v.) Fail to get a passing grade; "She studied hard but failed nevertheless"; "Did I fail the test?" [syn: fail, flunk, bomb, flush it] [ant: make it, pass].
Fail (v.) Fall short in what is expected; "She failed in her obligations as a good daughter-in-law"; "We must not fail his obligation to the victims of the Holocaust".
Fail (v.) Become bankrupt or insolvent; fail financially and close; "The toy company went bankrupt after the competition hired cheap Mexican labor"; "A number of banks failed that year".
Fail (v.) Prove insufficient; "The water supply for the town failed after a long drought" [syn: fail, run out, give out].
Fail (v.) Get worse; "Her health is declining".
Failance (n.) Fault; failure; omission. [Obs.] -- Bp. Fell
Failing (n.) 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.
Failing (n.) The act of becoming insolvent of bankrupt.
Syn: See Fault.
Failing (a.) Below acceptable in performance; "received failing grades".
Failing (n.) A flaw or weak point; "he was quick to point out his wife's failings" [syn: failing, weakness].
Failing (n.) Failure to reach a minimum required performance; "his failing the course led to his disqualification"; "he got two flunks on his report" [syn: failing, flunk] [ant: pass, passing, qualifying].
Faille (n.) [F.] A soft silk, heavier than a foulard and not glossy.
Faille (n.) A ribbed woven fabric of silk or rayon or cotton.
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. [Obs.] -- Johnson.
Failure (n.) An act that fails; "his failure to pass the test".
Failure (n.) An event that does not accomplish its intended purpose; "the surprise party was a complete failure" [ant: success].
Failure (n.) Lack of success; "he felt that his entire life had been a failure"; "that year there was a crop failure" [ant: success].
Failure (n.) A person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently [syn: failure, loser, nonstarter, unsuccessful person] [ant: achiever, succeeder, success, winner].
Failure (n.) An unexpected omission; "he resented my failure to return his call"; "the mechanic's failure to check the brakes".
Failure (n.) Inability to discharge all your debts as they come due; "the company had to declare bankruptcy"; "fraudulent loans led to the failure of many banks" [syn: bankruptcy, failure].
Failure (n.) Loss of ability to function normally; "kidney failure".
Failure, () The inability of a system or system component to perform a required function within specified limits. A failure may be produced when a fault is encountered. (1996-05-13)
Failure. () A total defect; an omission; a non-performance. Failure also signifies a stoppage of payment; as, there has been a failure today, some one has stopped payment.
Failure. () According to the French code of commerce, art. 437, every merchant or trader who suspends payment is in a state of failure. Vide Bankruptcy; Insolvency.
FAILURE, OF ISSUE. () When there is a want of issue to take an estate limited over by an executory devise.
FAILURE, OF ISSUE. () Failure of issue is definite or indefinite. When the precise time for the failure of issue is fixed by the will, as is the case of a devise to Peter, but if he dies without issue living at the time of his death, then to another, this is a failure of issue definite. An indefinite failure of issue is the very converse or opposite of this, and it signifies a general failure of issue, whenever it may happen, without fixing any time, or a certain or definite period, within which it must happen. 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1849.
Fain (a.) Well-pleased; glad; apt; wont; fond; inclined.
Men and birds are fain of climbing high. -- Shak.
To a busy man, temptation is fainto climb up together with his business. -- Jer. Taylor.
Fain (a.) Satisfied; contented; also, constrained. -- Shak.
The learned Castalio was fain to make trechers at
Basle to keep himself from starving. -- Locke.
Fain (adv.) With joy; gladly; -- with wold.
He would fain have filled his belly with the husks that
the swine did eat. -- Luke xv. 16.
Fain Would I woo her, yet I dare not. -- Shak.
Fain (v. t. & i.) To be glad ; to wish or desire. [Obs.]
Whoso fair thing does fain to see. -- Spencer. Faineance
Fain (adv.) In a willing manner; "this was gladly agreed to"; "I would fain do it" [syn: gladly, lief, fain].
Fain (a.) Having made preparations; "prepared to take risks" [syn: disposed(p), fain, inclined(p), prepared].
Faineant (a.) Doing nothing; shiftless ; disinclined to work or exertion.
Syn: bone-idle, bone-lazy, do-nothing (prenominal), indolent, lazy, otiose, shiftless, slothful, workshy, work-shy. faineant
Faineant (n.) A do-nothing; an idle fellow; a sluggard. -- Sir W. Scott.
Faineant (a.) Disinclined to work or exertion; "faineant kings under whose rule the country languished"; "an indolent hanger-on"; "too lazy to wash the dishes"; "shiftless idle youth"; "slothful employees"; "the unemployed are not necessarily work-shy" [syn: faineant, indolent, lazy, otiose, slothful, work-shy].
Faint (a.) 頭暈的，行將昏厥的 [F] [（+for/ from/ with）]；微弱的，暗淡的，模糊的；虛弱的，衰弱的 Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, faint with fatigue, hunger, or thirst.
Faint (a.) Wanting in courage, spirit, or energy; timorous; cowardly; dejected; depressed; as, "Faint heart ne'er won fair lady." -- Old Proverb.
Faint (a.) Lacking distinctness; hardly perceptible; striking the senses feebly; not bright, or loud, or sharp, or forcible; weak; as, a faint color, or sound.
Faint (a.) 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.
Fainted (imp. & p. p.) of Faint.
Fainting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Faint.
Faint (v. i.) 昏厥，暈倒 [（+with/ from）]；變得沒氣力；變得微弱 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.
Faint (v. i.) 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.
Faint (v. i.) 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 (a.) Deficient in magnitude; barely perceptible; lacking clarity or brightness or loudness etc; "a faint outline"; "the wan sun cast faint shadows"; "the faint light of a distant candle"; "weak colors"; "a faint hissing sound"; "a faint aroma"; "a weak pulse" [syn: faint, weak].
Faint (a.) Lacking clarity or distinctness; "a dim figure in the distance"; "only a faint recollection"; "shadowy figures in the gloom"; "saw a vague outline of a building through the fog"; "a few wispy memories of childhood" [syn: dim, faint, shadowy, vague, wispy].
Faint (a.) Lacking strength or vigor; "damning with faint praise"; "faint resistance"; "feeble efforts"; "a feeble voice" [syn: faint, feeble].
Faint (a.) Weak and likely to lose consciousness; "suddenly felt faint from the pain"; "was sick and faint from hunger"; "felt light in the head"; "a swooning fit"; "light-headed with wine"; "light-headed from lack of sleep" [syn: faint, light, swooning, light-headed, lightheaded].
Faint (a.) Indistinctly understood or felt or perceived; "a faint clue to the origin of the mystery"; "haven't the faintest idea".
Faint (a.) Lacking conviction or boldness or courage; "faint heart ne'er won fair lady" [syn: faint, fainthearted, timid, faint-hearted].
Faint (n.) A spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain [syn: faint, swoon, syncope, deliquium].
Faint (v.) Pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain [syn: faint, conk, swoon, pass out].
Faintest (a.) （用於否定句，加強語氣）一點也（不）的；極小的；faint的形容詞最高級 Used for emphasizing that something is very slight or very small.
// There wasn’t the faintest trace of pity on his face.
Fainthearted (a.) 怯懦的 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.
Fainthearted (a.) Lacking conviction or boldness or courage; "faint heart never won fair lady" 懦夫難贏美人心 [syn: {faint}, {fainthearted}, {timid}, {faint-hearted}].
Fainting (n.) 昏暈；faint的動詞現在分詞、動名詞 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 (a.) 較弱的；略為模糊的 Slightly faint; somewhat faint. -- Faint"ish*ness, n.
Faintling (a.) Timorous; feeble-minded. [Obs.] "A fainting, silly creature." -- Arbuthnot.
Faintly (adv.) In a faint, weak, or timidmanner.
Faintly (adv.) To a faint degree or weakly perceived; "between him and the dim light a form was outlined faintly"; "stars shining faintly through the overcast"; "could hear his distant shouts only faintly"; "the rumors weren't even faintly true".
Faintness (n.) The state of being faint; loss of strength, or of consciousness, and self-control.
Faintness (n.) Want of vigor or energy. -- Spenser.
Faintness (n.) Feebleness, as of color or light; lack of distinctness; as, faintness of description.