Chapter CLXVII: Epilogue: Ep"i*logue, n. Etym: F. épilogue, L. epilogus, fr. Gr. Legend (14)

4. A respectful mode of address to an old man. And Joash the king og Israel came down unto him [Elisha], . . . and said, O my father, my father! 2 Kings xiii. 14.

5. A senator of ancient Rome.

6. A dignitary of the church, a superior of a convent, a confessor (called also father confessor), or a priest; also, the eldest member of a profession, or of a legislative assembly, etc. Bless you, good father friar ! Shak.

7. One of the chief esslesiastical authorities of the first centuries after Christ; -- often spoken of collectively as the Fathers; as, the Latin, Greek, or apostolic Fathers.

8. One who, or that which, gives origin; an originator; a producer, author, or contriver; the first to practice any art, profession, or occupation; a distinguished example or teacher. The father of all such as handle the harp and organ. Gen. iv. 21. Might be the father, Harry, to that thought. Shak. The father of good news. Shak.

9. The Supreme Being and Creator; God; in theology, the first person in the Trinity. Our Father, which art in heaven. Matt. vi. 9. Now had the almighty Father from above . . . Bent down his eye. Milton. Adoptive father, one who adopts the child of another, treating it as his own. -- Apostolic father, Conscript fathers, etc. See under Apostolic, Conscript, etc. -- Father in God, a title given to bishops. -- Father of lies, the Devil. -- Father of the bar, the oldest practitioner at the bar. -- Fathers of the city, the aldermen. -- Father of the Faithful. (a) Abraham. Rom. iv. Gal. iii. 6-9. (b) Mohammed, or one of the sultans, his successors. -- Father of the house, the member of a legislative body who has had the longest continuous service. -- Most Reverend Father in God, a title given to archbishops and metropolitans, as to the archbishops of Canterbury and York. -- Natural father, the father of an illegitimate child. -- Putative father, one who is presumed to be the father of an illegitimate child; the supposed father. -- Spiritual father. (a) A religious teacher or guide, esp. one instrumental in leading a soul to God. (b) (R. C. Ch.) A priest who hears confession in the sacrament of penance. -- The Holy Father (R. C. Ch.), the pope.

FATHER Fa"ther, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fathered; p. pr. & vb. n. Fathering.]

1. To make one's self the father of; to beget. Cowards father cowards, and base things sire base. Shak.

2. To take as one's own child; to adopt; hence, to assume as one's own work; to acknowledge one's self author of or responsible for (a statement, policy, etc.). Men of wit Often fathered what he writ. Swift.

3. To provide with a father. [R.] Think you I am no stronger than my sex, Being so fathered and so husbanded Shak. To father on or upon, to ascribe to, or charge upon, as one's offspring or work; to put or lay upon as being responsible. "Nothing can be so uncouth or extravagant, which may not be fathered on some fetch of wit, or some caprice of humor." Barrow.

FATHERHOOD Fa"ther*hood, n.

Defn: The state of being a father; the character or authority of a father; paternity.

FATHER-IN-LAW Fa"ther-in-law`, n.; pl. Fathers-in-law (.

Defn: The father of one's husband or wife; -- correlative to son-in- law and daughter-in-law.

Note: A man who marries a woman having children already, is sometimes, though erroneously, called their father-in-law.

FATHERLAND Fa"ther*land", n. Etym: [Imitated fr. D. vaderland. See Father, and Land.]

Defn: One's native land; the native land of one's fathers or ancestors.

FATHER-LASHER Fa"ther-lash`er, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A European marine fish (Cottus bubalis), allied to the sculpin; -- called also lucky proach.

FATHERLESS Fa"ther*less, a.

1. Destitute of a living father; as, a fatherless child.

2. Without a known author. Beau. & Fl.

FATHERLESSNESS Fa"ther*less*ness, n.

Defn: The state of being without a father.

FATHERLINESS Fa"ther*li*ness, n. Etym: [From Fatherly.]

Defn: The qualities of a father; parantal kindness, care, etc.

FATHER LONGLEGS Fa"ther long"legs`. (Zoöl.)

Defn: See Daddy longlegs, 2.

FATHERLY Fa"ther*ly, a.

1. Like a father in affection and care; paternal; tender; protecting; careful. You have showed a tender, fatherly regard. Shak.

2. Of or pertaining to a father.

FATHERSHIP Fa"ther*ship, n.

Defn: The state of being a father; fatherhood; paternity.

FATHOM Fath"om, n. [fadme, faedhme, AS. fæedhm fathom, the embracing arms; akin to OS. faedhmos the outstretched arms, D. vadem, vaam, fathom, OHG. fadom, fadum, G. faden fathom, thread, Icel. faedhmr fathom, Sw. famn, Dan. favn; cf. Gr. patere to lie open, extend. Cf. Patent, Petal.]

1. A measure of length, containing six feet; the space to which a man can extend his arms; -- used chiefly in measuring cables, cordage, and the depth of navigable water by soundings.

2. The measure or extant of one's capacity; depth, as of intellect; profundity; reach; penetration. [R.] Another of his fathom they have none To lead their business. Shak.

FATHOM Fath"om, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fathomed; p. pr. & vb. n. Fathoming.]

1. To encompass with the arms extended or encircling; to measure by throwing the arms about; to span. [Obs.] Purchas.

2. The measure by a sounding line; especially, to sound the depth of; to penetrate, measure, and comprehend; to get to the bottom of. Dryden. The page of life that was spread out before me seemed dull and commonplace, only because I had not fathomed its deeper import. Hawthotne.

FATHOMABLE Fath"om*a*ble, a.

Defn: Capable of being fathomed.

FATHOMER Fath"om*er, n.

Defn: One who fathoms.

FATHOMLESS Fath"om*less, a.

1. Incapable of being fathomed; immeasurable; that can not be sounded. And buckle in a waist most fathomless. Shak.

2. Incomprehensible. The fathomless absurdity. Milton.

FATIDICAL Fa*tid"i*cal, a. Etym: [L. fatidicus; fatum fate + dicere to say, tell.]

Defn: Having power to foretell future events; prophetic; fatiloquent; as, the fatidical oak. [R.] Howell. -- Fa*tid"i*cal*ly, adv.

FATIFEROUS Fa*tif"er*ous, a. Etym: [L. fatifer; fatum fate + ferre to bear, bring.]

Defn: Fate-bringing; deadly; mortal; destructive. [R.] Johnson.

FATIGABLE Fat"i*ga*ble, a. Etym: [L. fatigabilis: cf. F. fatigable. See Fatigue.]

Defn: Easily tired. [Obs.] Bailey.

FATIGATE Fat"i*gate, a. Etym: [L. fatigatus, p.p. of fatigare. See Fatigue.]

Defn: Wearied; tired; fatigued. [Obs.] Requickened what in flesh was fatigate. Shak.

FATIGATE Fat"i*gate, v. t.

Defn: To weary; to tire; to fatigue. [Obs.] Sir T. Elyot.

FATIGATION Fat`i*ga"tion, n. Etym: [L. fatigatio: cf. OF. fatigation.]

Defn: Weariness. [Obs.] W. Montaqu.

FATIGUE Fa*tigue", n. Etym: [F., fr. fatiguer to fatigue, L. fatigare; cf. L. affatim sufficiently.]

1. Weariness from bodily labor or mental exertion; lassitude or exhaustion of strength.

2. The cause of weariness; labor; toil; as, the fatigues of war. Dryden.

3. The weakening of a metal when subjected to repeated vibrations or strains. Fatigue call (Mil.), a summons, by bugle or drum, to perform fatigue duties. -- Fatigue dress, the working dress of soldiers. -- Fatigue duty (Mil.), labor exacted from soldiers aside from the use of arms. Farrow. -- Fatigue party, a party of soldiers on fatigue duty.

FATIGUE Fa*tigue", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fatigued; p. pr. & vb. n. Fatiguing, n.] Etym: [Cf. F. fatiguer. See Fatigue, n.]

Defn: To weary with labor or any bodily or mental exertion; to harass with toil; to exhaust the strength or endurance of; to tire.

Syn. -- To jade; tire; weary; bore. See Jade.

FATILOQUENT Fa*til"o*quent, a. Etym: [See Fatiloquist.]

Defn: Prophetic; fatidical. [Obs.] Blount.

FATILOQUIST Fa*til"o*quist, n. Etym: [L. fatiloquus declaring fate; fatum fate+ Loqui to speak.]

Defn: A fortune teller.

FATIMITE; FATIMIDE Fat"i*mite, Fat"i*mide, a. (Hist.)

Defn: Descended from Fatima, the daughter and only child of Mohammed. -- n.

Defn: A descendant of Fatima.

FATISCENCE Fa*tis"cence, n. Etym: [L. fatiscense, p.pr. of fatiscere to gape or crack open.]

Defn: A gaping or opening; state of being chinky, or having apertures. Kirwan.

FAT-KIDNEYED Fat"-kid`neyed, a.

Defn: Gross; lubberly. Peace, ye fat-kidneyed rascal ! Shak.

FATLING Fat"ling, n. Etym: [Fat + -ling.]

Defn: A calf, lamb, kid, or other young animal fattened for slaughter; a fat animal; -- said of such animals as are used for food. He sacrificed oxen and fatlings. 2 Sam. vi. 13.

FATLY Fat"ly, adv.

Defn: Grossly; greasily.

FATNER Fat"ner, n.

Defn: One who fattens. [R.] See Fattener. Arbuthnit.

FATNESS Fat"ness, n.

1. The quality or state of being fat, plump, or full-fed; corpulency; fullness of flesh. Their eyes stand out with fatness. Ps. lxxiii. 7.

2. Hence; Richness; fertility; fruitfulness. Rich in the fatness of her plenteous soil. Rowe.

3. That which makes fat or fertile. The clouds drop fatness. Philips.

FATTEN Fat"ten, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fattened; p. pr. & vb. n. Fattining.] Etym: [See Fat, v. t.]

1. To make fat; to feed for slaughter; to make fleshy or plump with fat; to fill full; to fat.

2. To make fertile and fruitful; to enrich; as, to fatten land; to fatten fields with blood. Dryden.

FATTEN Fat"ten, v. i.

Defn: To grow fat or corpulent; to grow plump, thick, or fleshy; to be pampered. And villains fatten with the brave man's labor. Otway.

FATTENER Fat"ten*er, n.

Defn: One who, or that which, fattens; that which gives fatness or fertility.

FATTINESS Fat"ti*ness, n.

Defn: State or quality of being fatty.

FATTISH Fat"tish, a.

Defn: Somewhat fat; inclined to fatness. Coleridge, a puffy, anxious, obstructed-looking, fattish old man. Carlyle.

FATTY Fat"ty, a.

Defn: Containing fat, or having the qualities of fat; greasy; gross; as, a fatty substance. Fatty acid (Chem.), any one of the paraffin series of monocarbonic acids, as formic acid, acetic, etc.; -- so called because the higher members, as stearic and palmitic acids, occur in the natural fats, and are themselves fatlike substances. -- Fatty clays. See under Clay. -- Fatty degeneration (Med.), a diseased condition, in which the oil globules, naturally present in certain organs, are so multiplied as gradually to destroy and replace the efficient parts of these organs. -- Fatty heart, Fatty liver, etc. (Med.), a heart, liver, etc., which have been the subjects of fatty degeneration or infiltration. -- Fatty infiltration (Med.), a condition in which there is an excessive accumulation of fat in an organ, without destruction of any essential parts of the latter. -- Fatty tumor (Med.), a tumor consisting of fatty or adipose tissue; lipoma.

FATUITOUS Fa*tu"i*tous, a.

Defn: Stupid; fatuous.

FATUITY Fa*tu"i*ty, n. Etym: [L. fatuitas, fr. fatuus foolish: cf. F. fatuité Cf. Fatuous.]

Defn: Weakness or imbecility of mind; stupidity. Those many forms of popular fatuity. I Taylor.

FATUOUS Fat"u*ous, a. Etym: [L. fatuus.]

1. Feeble in mind; weak; silly; stupid; foolish; fatuitous. Glanvill.

2. Without reality; illusory, like the ignis fatuus. Thence fatuous fires and meteors take their birth. Danham.

FAT-WITTED Fat"-wit`ted, a.

Defn: Dull; stupid. Shak.

FAUBOURG Fau`bourg", n. Etym: [F.]

Defn: A suburb of French city; also, a district now within a city, but formerly without its walls.

FAUCAL Fau"cal, a. Etym: [L. fauces throat.]

Defn: Pertaining to the fauces, or opening of the throat; faucial; esp., (Phon.) produced in the fauces, as certain deep guttural sounds found in the Semitic and some other languages. Ayin is the most difficult of the faucals. I. Taylor (The Alphabet).

FAUCES Fau"ces, n.pl. Etym: [L.]

1. (Anat.)

Defn: The narrow passage from the mouth to the pharynx, situated between the soft palate and the base of the tongue; -- called also the isthmus of the fauces. On either side of the passage two membranous folds, called the pillars of the fauces, inclose the tonsils.

2. (Bot.)

Defn: The throat of a calyx, corolla, etc.

3. (Zoöl.)

Defn: That portion of the interior of a spiral shell which can be seen by looking into the aperture.

FAUCET Fau"cet, n. Etym: [F. fausset, perh. fr. L. fauces throat.]

1. A fixture for drawing a liquid, as water, molasses, oil, etc., from a pipe, cask, or other vessel, in such quantities as may be desired; -- called also tap, and cock. It consists of a tubular spout, stopped with a movable plug, spigot, valve, or slide.

2. The enlarged end of a section of pipe which receives the spigot end of the next section.

FAUCHION Fau"chion, n.

Defn: See Falchion. [Obs.]

FAUCIAL Fau"cial, a. (Anat.)

Defn: Pertaining to the fauces; pharyngeal.

FAUGH Faugh, interj. Etym: [Cf. Foh.]

Defn: An exclamation of contempt, disgust, or abhorrence.

FAULCHION Faul"chion, n.

Defn: See Falchion.

FAULCON Faul"con, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: See Falcon.

FAULD Fauld, n.

Defn: The arch over the dam of a blast furnace; the tymp arch.

FAULE Faule, n.

Defn: A fall or falling band. [Obs.] These laces, ribbons, and these faules. Herrick.

FAULT Fault, n. Etym: [OE. faut, faute, F. faute (cf. It., Sp., & Pg. falta), fr. a verb meaning to want, fail, freq., fr. L. fallere to deceive. See Fail, and cf. Default.]

1. Defect; want; lack; default. One, it pleases me, for fault of a better, to call my friend. Shak.

2. Anything that fails, that is wanting, or that impairs excellence; a failing; a defect; a blemish. As patches set upon a little breach Discredit more in hiding of the fault. Shak.

3. A moral failing; a defect or dereliction from duty; a deviation from propriety; an offense less serious than a crime.

4. (Geol. & Mining) (a) A dislocation of the strata of the vein. (b) In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam; as, slate fault, dirt fault, etc. Raymond.

5. (Hunting)

Defn: A lost scent; act of losing the scent. Ceasing their clamorous cry till they have singled, With much ado, the cold fault cleary out. Shak.

6. (Tennis)

Defn: Failure to serve the ball into the proper court. At fault, unable to find the scent and continue chase; hance, in trouble ot embarrassment, and unable to proceed; puzzled; thhrown off the track. -- To find fault, to find reason for blaming or complaining; to express dissatisfaction; to complain; -- followed by with before the thing complained of; but formerly by at. "Matter to find fault at." Robynson (More's Utopia).

Syn. -- -- Error; blemish; defect; imperfection; weakness; blunder; failing; vice. -- Fault, Failing, Defect, Foible. A fault is positive, something morally wrong; a failing is negative, some weakness or failling short in a man's character, disposition, or habits; a defect is also negative, and as applied to character is the absence of anyything which is necessary to its completeness or perfection; a foible is a less important weakness, which we overlook or smile at. A man may have many failings, and yet commit but few faults; or his faults and failings may be few, while his foibles are obvious to all. The faults of a friend are often palliated or explained away into mere defects, and the defects or foibles of an enemy exaggerated into faults. "I have failings in common with every human being, besides my own peculiar faults; but of avarice I have generally held myself guiltless." Fox. "Presumption and self-applause are the foibles of mankind." Waterland.

FAULT Fault, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Faulted; p. pr. & vb. n. Faulting.]

1. To charge with a fault; to accuse; to find fault with; to blame. [Obs.] For that I will not fault thee. Old Song.

2. (Geol.)

Defn: To interrupt the continuity of (rock strata) by displacement along a plane of fracture; -- chiefly used in the p.p.; as, the coal beds are badly faulted.

FAULT Fault, v. i.

Defn: To err; to blunder, to commit a fault; to do wrong. [Obs.] If after Samuel's death the people had asked of God a king, they had not faulted. Latimer.

FAULTER Fault"er, n.

Defn: One who commits a fault. [Obs.] Behold the faulter here in sight. Fairfax.

FAULT-FINDER Fault"-find`er, n.

Defn: One who makes a practice off discovering others' faults and censuring them; a scold.

FAULT-FINDING Fault"-find`ing, n.

Defn: The act of finding fault or blaming; -- used derogatively. Also Adj.

FAULTFUL Fault"ful, a.

Defn: Full of faults or sins. Shak.

FAULTILY Fault"i*ly, adv.

Defn: In a faulty manner.

FAULTINESS Fault"i*ness, n.

Defn: Quality or state of being faulty. Round, even to faultiness. Shak.

FAULTING Fault"ing, n. (Geol.)

Defn: The state or condition of being faulted; the process by which a fault is produced.

FAULTLESS Fault"less, a.

Defn: Without fault; not defective or imperfect; free from blemish; free from incorrectness, vice, or offense; perfect; as, a faultless poem. Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be. Pope.

Syn. -- Blameless; spotless; perfect. See Blameless. -- Fault"less*ly, adv.-Fault"less*ness, n.

FAULTY Fault"y, a.

1. Containing faults, blemishes, or defects; imperfect; not fit for the use intended. Created once So goodly and erect, though faulty since. Milton.

2. Guilty of a fault, or of faults; hence, blamable; worthy of censure. Shak. The king doth speak . . . as one which is faulty. 2 Sam. xiv. 13.

FAUN Faun, n. Etym: [L. Faunus, fr. favere to be favorable. See Favor.] (Rom. Myth.)

Defn: A god of fields and shipherds, diddering little from the satyr. The fauns are usually represented as half goat and half man. Satyr or Faun, or Sylvan. Milton.

FAUNA Fau"na, n. Etym: [NL.: cf. F. faune. See Faun.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: The animals of any given area or epoch; as, the fauna of America; fossil fauna; recent fauna.

FAUNAL Fau"nal, a.

Defn: Relating to fauna.

FAUNIST Fau"nist, n.

Defn: One who describes the fauna of country; a naturalist. Gilbert White.

FAUNUS Fau"nus, n.;pl. Fauni. Etym: [L.] (Myth.)

Defn: See Faun.

FAUSEN Fau"sen, n. Etym: [Cf. W. llysowen eel, ll sounding in Welsh almost like fl.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A young eel. [Prov. Eng.]

FAUSSE-BRAYE Fausse`-braye", n. Etym: [F. fausse-braie.] (Mil.)

Defn: A second raampart, exterior to, and parallel to, the main rampart, and considerably below its level.

FAUTEUIL Fau`teuil", n. Etym: [F. See Faldistory.]

1. An armchair; hence (because the members sit in fauteuils or armchairs), membership in the French Academy.

2. Chair of a presiding officer.

FAUTOR Fau"tor, n. Etym: [L., contr. fr. favitor, fr. favere to be favorable: cf. F. fauteur. See Favor.]

Defn: A favorer; a patron; one who gives countenance or support; an abettor. [Obs.] The king and the fautors of his proceedings. Latimer.

FAUTRESS Fau"tress, n. Etym: [L. fauutrix: cf. F. fautrice.]

Defn: A patroness. [Obs.] Chapman.

FAUVETTE Fau`vette", n. Etym: [F., dim. fr. fauve fawn-colored.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A small singing bird, as the nightingale and warblers.

FAUX Faux, n.; pl. Fauces. Etym: [L.]

Defn: See Fauces.

FAUX PAS faux` pas". Etym: [F. See False, and Pas.]

Defn: A false step; a mistake or wrong measure.

FAVAGINOUS Fa*vag"i*nous, a. Etym: [L. favus a honeycomb.]

Defn: Formed like, or resembling, a honeycomb.

FAVAS Fa"vas, n.

Defn: See Favus, n., 2. Fairholt.

FAVEL Fa"vel, a. Etym: [OF. fauvel, favel, dim. of F. fauve; of German oigin. See Fallow, a.]

Defn: Yellow; fal [Obs.] Wright.

FAVEL Fa"vel, n.

Defn: A horse of a favel or dun color. To curry favel. See To curry favor, under Favor, n.

FAVEL Fa"vel, n. Etym: [OF. favele, fr. L. fabella short fable, dim. of fabula. See Fable.]

Defn: Flattery; cajolery; deceit. [Obs.] Skeat.

FAVELLA Fa*vel"la, n. Etym: [NL., prob. from L. favus a honeycomb.] (Bot.)

Defn: A group of spores arranged without order and covered with a thin gelatinous envelope, as in certain delicate red algæ.

FAVEOLATE Fa*ve"o*late, a. Etym: [L. favus honeycomb.]

Defn: Honeycomb; having cavities or cells, somewhat resembling those of a honeycomb; alveolate; favose.

FAVIER EXPLOSIVE Fa`vier" ex*plo"sive. [After the inventor, P. A. Favier, a Frenchman.]

Defn: Any of several explosive mixtures, chiefly of ammonium nitrate and a nitrate derivative of naphthalene. They are stable, but require protection from moisture. As prepared it is a compressed cylinder of the explosive, filled with loose powder of the same composition, all inclosed in waterproof wrappers. It is used for mining.

FAVILLOUS Fa*vil"lous, a. Etym: [L. favilla sparkling or glowing asges.]

Defn: Of or pertaining to ashes. [Obs.] Light and favollous particles. Sir T. Browne.

FAVONIAN Fa*vo"ni*an, a. Etym: [L. Favonius the west wind.]

Defn: Pertaining to the west wind; soft; mild; gentle.

FAVOR Fa"vor, n. Etym: [Written also favour.] Etym: [OF. favor, F. faveur, L. favor, fr. favere to be favorable, cf. Skr. bhavaya to further, foster, causative of bhBe. In the phrase to curry favor, favor is prob. for favel a horse. See 2d Favel.]

1. Kind regard; propitious aspect; countenance; friendly disposition; kindness; good will. Hath crawled into the favor of the king. Shak.

2. The act of countenancing, or the condition of being countenanced, or regarded propitiously; support; promotion; befriending. But found no favor in his lady's eyes. Dryden. And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man. Luke ii. 52.

3. A kind act or office; kindness done or granted; benevolence shown by word or deed; an act of grace or good will, as distinct from justice or remuneration. Beg one favor at thy gracious hand. Shak.

4. Mildness or mitigation of punishment; lenity. I could not discover the lenity and fabor of this sentence. Swift.

5. The object of regard; person or thing favored. All these his wondrous works, but chiefly man, His chief delight and favor. Milton.

6. A gift or represent; something bestowed as an evidence of good will; a token of love; a knot of ribbons; something worn as a token of affection; as, a marriage favor is a bunch or knot of white ribbons or white flowers worn at a wedding. Wear thou this favor for me, and stick it in thy cap. Shak.

7. Appearance; look; countenance; face. [Obs.] This boy is fair, of female favor. Shak.

8. (Law)

Defn: Partiality; bias. Bouvier.

9. A letter or epistle; -- so called in civility or compliment; as, your favor of yesterday is received.

10. pl.

Defn: Love locks. [Obs.] Wright. Challenge to the favor or for favor (Law), the challenge of a juror on grounds not sufficient to constitute a principal challenge, but sufficient to give rise to a probable suspicion of favor or bias, such as acquaintance, business relation, etc. See Principal challenge, under Challenge. -- In favor of, upon the side of; favorable to; for the advantage of. -- In favor with, favored, countenanced, or encouraged by. -- To curry favor Etym: [see the etymology of Favor, above], to seek to gain favor by flattery, caresses, kindness, or officious civilities. -- With one's favor, or By one's favor, with leave; by kind permission. But, with your favor, I will treat it here. Dryden.

Syn. -- Kindness; countenance; patronage; support; lenity; grace; gift; present; benefit.

FAVOR Fa"vor, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Favored; p. pr. & vb. n. Favoring.] Etym: [Written also favour.] Etym: [Cf. OF. favorer, favorir. See Favor, n.]

1. To regard with kindness; to support; to aid, or to have the disposition to aid, or to wish success to; to be propitious to; to countenance; to treat with consideration or tenderness; to show partiality or unfair bias towards. O happy youth! and favored of the skies. Pope. He that favoreth Joab, . . . let him go after Joab. 2 Sam. xx. 11. [The painter] has favored her squint admirably. Swift.

2. To afford advantages for success to; to facilitate; as, a weak place favored the entrance of the enemy.

3. To resemble in features; to have the aspect or looks of; as, the child favors his father. The porter owned that the gentleman favored his master. Spectator.

FAVORABLE Fa"vor*a*ble, a. [Written also favourable.] Etym: [F. favorable, L. favorabilis favored, popular, pleasing, fr. favor. See Favor, n.]

1. Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly. Lend favorable ears to our request. Shak. Lord, thou hast been favorable unto thy land. Ps. lxxxv. 1.

2. Conducive; contributing; tending to promote or facilitate; advantageous; convenient. A place very favorable for the making levies of men. Clarendon. The temper of the climate, favorable to generation, health, and long life. Sir W. Temple.

3. Beautiful; well-favored. [Obs.] Spenser. -- Fa"vora*ble*ness, n. -- Fa"vor*a*bly, sdv. The faborableness of the present times to all extertions in the cause of liberty. Burke.

FAVORED Fa"vored, a.

1. Countenanced; aided; regarded with kidness; as, a favored friend.

2. Having a certain favor or appearance; featured; as, well-favored; hard-favored, etc.

FAVOREDLY Fa"vored*ly, adv.

Defn: In a favored or a favorable manner; favorably. [Obs.] Deut. xvii. 1. Arscham.

FAVOREDNESS Fa"vored*ness, n.

Defn: Appearance. [Obs.]

FAVORER Fa"vor*er, n.

Defn: One who favors; one who regards with kindness or friendship; a well-wisher; one who assists or promotes success or prosperity. [Written also favourer.] And come to us as favorers, not as foes. Shak.

FAVORESS Fa"vor*ess, n.

Defn: A woman who favors or gives countenance. [Written also fovouress.]

FAVORING Fa"vor*ing, a.

Defn: That favors. -- Fa"vor*ing*ly, adv.

FAVORITE Fa"vor*ite, n. Etym: [OF. favorit favored, F. favori, fem. favorite, p.p. of OF. favorir, cf. It. favorito, frm. favorita, fr. favorire to favor. See Favor.]

1. A person or thing regarded with peculiar favor; one treated with partiality; one preferred above others; especially, one unduly loved, trusted, and enriched with favors by a person of high rank or authority. Committing to a wicked favorite All public cares. Milton.

2. pl.

Defn: Short curls dangling over the temples; -- fashionable in the reign of Charles II. [Obs.] Farquhar.

3. (Sporting)

Defn: The competitor (as a horse in a race) that is judged most likely to win; the competitor standing highest in the betting.

FAVORITE Fa"vor*ite, a.

Defn: Regarded with particular affection, esteem, or preference; as, a favorite walk; a favorite child. "His favorite argument." Macaulay.

FAVORITISM Fa"vor*it*ism, n. Etym: [Cf. F. favoritisme.]

Defn: The disposition to favor and promote the interest of one person or family, or of one class of men, to the neglect of others having equal claims; partiality. A spirit of favoritism to the Bank of the United States. A. Hamilton.

FAVORLESS Fa"vor*less, a.

1. Unfavored; not regarded with favor; having no countenance or support.

2. Unpropitious; unfavorable. [Obs.] "Fortune favorless." Spenser.

FAVOSE Fa*vose", a. Etym: [L. favus honeycomb.]

1. (Bot.)

Defn: Honeycombed. See Faveolate.

2. (Med.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to the disease called favus.

FAVOSITE Fav"o*site, a. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Like or pertaining to the genus Favosites.

FAVOSITES Fav`o*si"tes, n. Etym: [NL. See Favose.] (Paleon.)

Defn: A genus of fossil corals abundant in the Silurian and Devonian rocks, having polygonal cells with perforated walls.

FAVUS Fa"vus, n. Etym: [L., honeycomb.]

1. (Med.)

Defn: A disease of the scalp, produced by a vegetable parasite.

2. A tile or flagstone cut into an hexagonal shape to produce a honeycomb pattern, as in a pavement; -- called also favas and sectila. Mollett.

FAWE Fawe, a. Etym: [See Fain.]

Defn: Fain; glad; delighted. [Obs.] Chaucer.

FAWKNER Fawk"ner, n. Etym: [See Falconer.]

Defn: A falconer. [Obs.] Donne.

FAWN Fawn, n. Etym: [OF. faon the young one of any beast, a fawn, F. faon a fawn, for fedon, fr. L. fetus. See Fetus.]

1. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A young deer; a buck or doe of the first year. See Buck.

2. The young of an animal; a whelp. [Obs.] [The tigress] . . . followeth . . . after her fawns. Holland.

3. A fawn color.

FAWN Fawn, a.

Defn: Of the color of a fawn; fawn-colored.

FAWN Fawn, v. i. Etym: [Cf. F. faonner.]

Defn: To bring forth a fawn.

FAWN Fawn, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fawned; p. pr. & vb. n. Fawning.] Etym: [OE. fawnen, fainen, fagnien, to rejoice, welcome, flatter, AS. fægnian to rejoice; akin to Icel. fagna to rejoice, welcome. See Fain.]

Defn: To court favor by low cringing, frisking, etc., as a dog; to flatter meanly; -- often followed by on or upon. You showed your teeth like apes, and fawned like hounds. Shak. Thou with trembling fear, Or like a fawning parasite, obeyest. Milton. Courtiers who fawn on a master while they betray him. Macaulay.

FAWN Fawn, n.

Defn: A servile cringe or bow; mean flattery; sycophancy. Shak.

FAWN-COLORED Fawn"-col`ored, a.

Defn: Of the color of a fawn; light yellowish brown.

FAWNER Fawn"er, n.

Defn: One who fawns; a sycophant.

FAWNINGLY Fawn"ing*ly, adv.

Defn: In a fawning manner.

FAXED Faxed, a. Etym: [AS. feaxede haired, fr. feax hair. Cf. Paxwax.]

Defn: Hairy. [Obs.] amden.

FAY Fay, n. Etym: [F. fée. See Fate, and cf. Fairy.]

Defn: A fairy; an elf. "Yellow-skirted fays." Milton.

FAY Fay, n. Etym: [OF. fei, F. foi. See Faith.]

Defn: Faith; as, by my fay. [Obs.] Chaucer.

FAY Fay (fa), v. t. [imp. & p. p. fayed; p. pr. & vb. n. Faying.] Etym: [OE. feien, v.t. & i., AS. fegan to join, unite; akin to OS. fogian, D. voegen, OHG. fuogen, G. fügen, Sw. foga. See Fair, and cf. Fadge.] (Shipbuilding)

Defn: To fit; to join; to unite closely, as two pieces of wood, so as to make the surface fit together.

FAY Fay, v. i. (Shipbuilding)

Defn: To lie close together; to fit; to fadge; -- often with in, into, with, or together. Faying surface, that surface of an object which comes with another object to which it is fastened; -- said of plates, angle irons, etc., that are riveted together in shipwork.

FAYALITE Fay"al*ite, n. Etym: [So called from the island Fayal.] (Min.)

Defn: A black, greenish, or brownish mineral of the chrysolite group. It is a silicate of iron.

FAYENCE Fa`y*ence", n.

Defn: See Fa.

FAYTOUR Fay"tour, n.

Defn: See Faitour. [Obs.] Spenser.

FAZE Faze, v. t.

Defn: See Feeze.

FAZZOLET Faz"zo*let`, n. Etym: [It. fazzoletto.]

Defn: A handkerchief. [R.] percival.

FEABERRY Fea"ber*ry, n. Etym: [Cf. Prov. E. feabe, theabe, thape.] (Bot.)

Defn: A gooseberry. [Prov. Eng.] Prior.

FEAGUE Feague, v. t. Etym: [Cf. G. fegen to sweep, Icel. fægia to cleanse, polish, E. fair, fay, to fit, fey to cleanse.]

Defn: To beat or whip; to drive. [Obs.] Otway.

FEAL Fe"al, a. Etym: [OF. feal, feel, feeil, fedeil, F. fidèle, L. fidelis faithful, fr. fides faith. See Faith.]

Defn: Faithful; loyal. [Obs.] Wright.

FEALTY Fe"al*ty, n. Etym: [OE. faute, OF. fauté, fealté, feelé, feelteit, fr. L. fidelitas, fr. fidelis faithful. See Feal, and cf. Fidelity.]

1. Fidelity to one's lord; the feudal obligation by which the tenant or vassal was bound to be faithful to his lord; the special oath by which this obligation was assumed; fidelity to a superior power, or to a government; loyality. It is no longer the practice to exact the performance of fealty, as a feudal obligation. Wharton (Law Dict. ). Tomlins.

2. Fidelity; constancy; faithfulness, as of a friend to a friend, or of a wife to her husband. He should maintain fealty to God. I. Taylor. Makes wicked lightnings of her eyes, and saps The fealty of our friends. tennyson. Swore fealty to the new government. Macaulay.

Note: Fealty is distinguished from homage, which is an acknowledgment of tenure, while fealty implies an oath. See Homage. Wharton.

Syn. -- Homage; loyality; fidelity; constancy.

FEAR Fear, n.

Defn: A variant of Fere, a mate, a companion. [Obs.] Spenser.

FEAR Fear, n. Etym: [OE. fer, feer, fere, AS. f a coming suddenly upon, fear, danger; akin to D. vaar, OHG. fara danger, G. gefahr, Icel. far harm, mischief, plague, and to E. fare, peril. See Fare.]

1. A painful emotion or passion excited by the expectation of evil, or the apprehension of impending danger; apprehension; anxiety; solicitude; alarm; dread.

Note: The degrees of this passion, beginning with the most moderate, may be thus expressed, -- apprehension, fear, dread, fright, terror. Fear is an uneasiness of the mind, upon the thought of future evil likely to befall us. Locke. Where no hope is left, is left no fear. Milton.

2. (Script.) (a) Apprehension of incurring, or solicitude to avoid, God's wrath; the trembling and awful reverence felt toward the Supreme Belng. (b) Respectful reverence for men of authority or worth. I will put my fear in their hearts. Jer. xxxii. 40. I will teach you the fear of the Lord. Ps. xxxiv. 11. render therefore to all their dues; tribute to whom tribute is due . . . fear to whom fear. Rom. xiii. 7.

3. That which causes, or which is the object of, apprehension or alarm; source or occasion of terror; danger; dreadfulness. There were they in great fear, where no fear was. Ps. liii. 5. The fear of your adventure would counsel you to a more equal enterprise. Shak. For fear, in apprehension lest. "For fear you ne'er see chain nor money more." Shak.

FEAR Fear, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Feared; p. pr. & vb. n. Fearing.] Etym: [OE. feren, faeren, to frighten, to be afraid, AS. fFear, n.]

1. To feel a painful apprehension of; to be afraid of; to consider or expect with emotion of alarm or solicitude. I will fear no evil, for thou art with me. Ps. xxiii. 4.

Note: With subordinate clause. I greatly fear my money is not safe. Shak. I almost fear to quit your hand. D. Jerrold.

2. To have a reverential awe of; to solicitous to avoid the displeasure of. Leave them to God above; him serve and fear. Milton.

3. To be anxious or solicitous for. [R.] The sins of the father are to be laid upon the children, therefore . . . I fear you. Shak.

4. To suspect; to doubt. [Obs.] Ay what else, fear you not her courage Shak.

5. To affright; to terrify; to drive away or prevent approach of by fear. z2 fera their people from doing evil. Robynsin (More's utopia). Tush, tush! fear boys with bugs. Shak.

Syn. -- To apprehend; drad; reverence; venerate.

FEAR Fear, v. i.

Defn: To be in apprehension of evil; to be afraid; to feel anxiety on account of some expected evil. I exceedingly fear and quake. Heb. xii. 21.

FEARER Fear"er, n.

Defn: One who fars. Sir P. Sidney.

FEARFUL Fear"ful, a.

1. Full of fera, apprehension, or alarm; afraid; frightened. Anxious amidst all their success, and fearful amidat all their power. Bp. Warburton.

2. inclined to fear; easily frightened; without courage; timid. What man is there that is fearful and fain-hearted Deut. xx. 8.

3. Indicating, or caused by, fear. Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh. Shak.

4. Inspiring fear or awe; exciting apprehension or terror; terrible; frightful; dreadful. This glorious and fearful name, The Lord thy God. Deut. xxviii. 58. Death is a fearful thing. Shak. In dreams they fearful precipices tread. Dryden.

Syn. -- Apprehensive; afraid; timid; timorous; ho

FEARFULLY Fear"ful*ly, adv.

Defn: In a fearful manner.

FEARFULNESS Fear"ful*ness, n.

Defn: The state of being fearful.

FEARLESS Fear"less, a.

Defn: Free from fear.

Syn. -- Bold; courageous; interpid; valor -- Fear"less*ly, adv. -- Fera"less*ness, n.

FEARNAUGHT Fear"naught`, n.

1. A fearless person.

2. A stout woolen cloth of great thickness; dreadnaught; also, a warm garment.

FEARSOME Fear"some a.

1. Frightful; causing fear [Scotch] "This fearsome wind." Sir W. Scott

2

Defn: . Easily frightened; timid; timorous. "A silly fearsome thing." B. Taylor

FEASIBILITY Fea"si*bil*ity n.; pl. Feasibilities (-tiz). Etym: [from Feasible]

Defn: The quality of being feasible; practicability; also, that which is feasible; as, before we adopt a plan, let us consider its feasibility. Men often swallow falsities for truths, dubiosities for certainties, possibilities for feasibilities. Sir T. Browne.

FEASIBLE Fea"si*ble a. Etym: [F. faisable, fr. faire to make or do, fr. L. facere. See Fact, Feat.]

1. Capable of being done, executed, or effected; practicable. Always existing before their eyes as a thing feasible in practice. Burke. It was not feasible to gratify so many ambitions. Beaconsfield.

2. Fit to be used or tailed, as land. [R.] R. Trumbull. Fea"si*ble*ness, n. --Fea"si*bly, adv.

FEAST Feast, n. Etym: [OE. feste festival, holiday, feast, OF. feste festival, F. fête, fr. L. festum, pl. festa, fr. festus joyful, festal; of uncertain origin. Cf. Fair, n., Festal, F.]

1. A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary. The seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord. Ex. xiii. 6. Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover. Luke ii. 41.

Note: Ecclesiastical fasts are called immovable when they always occur on the same day of the year; otherwise they are called movable.

2. A festive or joyous meal; a grand, ceremonious, or sumptuous entertainment, of which many guests partake; a banquet characterized by tempting variety and abundance of food. Enough is as good as a feast. Old Proverb. Belshazzar the King made a great feast to a thousand of his lords. Dan. v. 1.

3. That which is partaken of, or shared in, with delight; something highly agreeable; entertainment. The feast of reason, and the flow of soul. Pope. Feast day, a holiday; a day set as a solemn commemo

Syn. -- Entertainment; regale; banquet; treat; carousal; festivity; festival. -- Feast, Banquet, Festival, Carousal. A feast sets before us viands superior in quantity, variety, and abudance; a banquet is a luxurious feast; a festival is the joyful celebration by good cheer of some agreeable event. Carousal is unrestrained indulgence in frolic and drink.

FEAST Feast, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Feasted; p. pr. & vb. n. Feasting.] Etym: [OE. festen, cf. OF. fester to rest from work, F. fêter to celebrate a holiday. See Feast, n.]

1. To eat sumptuously; to dine or sup on rich provisions, particularly in large companies, and on public festivals. And his sons went and feasted in their houses. Job. i. 4.

2. To be highly gratified or delighted. With my love's picture then my eye doth feast. Shak.

FEAST Feast, v. t.

1. To entertain with sumptuous provisions; to treat at the table bountifully; as, he was feasted by the king. Hayward.

2. To delight; to gratify; as, to feast the soul. Feast your ears with the music a while. Shak.

FEASTER Feast"er, n.

1. One who fares deliciously.

2. One who entertains magnificently. Johnson.

FEASTFUL Feast"ful, a.

Defn: Festive; festal; joyful; sumptuous; luxurious. "Feastful days." Milton. -- Feast"ful*ly, adv.

FEAT Feat, n. Etym: [OE. fet, OF. fet, fait, F. fait, factum, fr. L. facere, factum, to make or do. Cf. Fact, Feasible, Do.]

1. An act; a deed; an exploit. The warlike feats I have done. Shak.

2. A striking act of strength, skill, or cunning; a trick; as, feats of horsemanship, or of dexterity.

FEAT Feat, v. t.

Defn: To form; to fashion. [Obs.] To the more mature, A glass that feated them. Shak.

FEAT Feat, a. [Compar. Feater; superl. Featest.] Etym: [F. fait made, shaped, fit, p.p. of faire to make or do. See Feat, n.]

Defn: Dexterous in movements or service; skillful; neat; nice; pretty. [Archaic] Never master had a page . . . so feat. Shak. And look how well my garments sit upon me --Much feater than before. Shak.

FEAT-BODIED Feat"-bod`ied, a.

Defn: Having a feat or trim body. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

FEATEOUS Feat"e*ous, a. Etym: [Cf. OF. faitis, faitice, fetis, well made, fine, L. facticius made by art.]

Defn: Dexterous; neat. [Obs.] Johnson. -- Feat"e*ous*ly, adv.

FEATHER Feath"er, n. Etym: [OE. fether, AS. fe; akin to D. veder, OHG. fedara, G. feder, Icel. fjö, Sw. fjäder, Dan. fjæder, Gr. pattra wing, feathr, pat to fly, and prob. to L. penna feather, wing. sq. root76, 248. Cf. Pen a feather.]

1. One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down.

Note: An ordinary feather consists of the quill or hollow basal part of the stem; the shaft or rachis, forming the upper, solid part of the stem; the vanes or webs, implanted on the rachis and consisting of a series of slender laminæ or barbs, which usually bear barbicels and interlocking hooks by which they are fastened together. See Down, Quill, Plumage.

2. Kind; nature; species; -- from the proverbial phrase, "Birds of a feather," that is, of the same species. [R.] I am not of that feather to shake off My friend when he must need me. Shak.

3. The fringe of long hair on the legs of the setter and some other dogs.

4. A tuft of peculiar, long, frizzly hair on a horse.

5. One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.

6. (Mach. & Carp.)

Defn: A longitudinal strip projecting as a fin from an object, to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sidwise but permit motion lengthwise; a spline.

7. A thin wedge driven between the two semicylindrical parts of a divided plug in a hole bored in a stone, to rend the stone. Knight.

8. The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.

Note: Feather is used adjectively or in combination, meaning composed of, or resembling, a feather or feathers; as, feather fan, feather- heeled, feather duster. Feather alum (Min.), a hydrous sulphate of alumina, resulting from volcanic action, and from the decomposition of iron pyrites; -- called also halotrichite. Ure. -- Feather bed, a bed filled with feathers. -- Feather driver, one who prepares feathers by beating. -- Feather duster, a dusting brush of feathers. -- Feather flower, an artifical flower made of feathers, for ladies' headdresses, and other ornamental purposes. -- Feather grass (Bot.), a kind of grass (Stipa pennata) which has a long feathery awn rising from one of the chaffy scales which inclose the grain. -- Feather maker, one who makes plumes, etc., of feathers, real or artificial. -- Feather ore (Min.), a sulphide of antimony and lead, sometimes found in capillary forms and like a cobweb, but also massive. It is a variety of Jamesonite. -- Feather shot, or Feathered shot (Metal.), copper granulated by pouring into cold water. Raymond. -- Feather spray (Naut.), the spray thrown up, like pairs of feathers, by the cutwater of a fast-moving vessel. -- Feather star. (Zoöl.) See Comatula. -- Feather weight. (Racing) (a) Scrupulously exact weight, so that a feather would turn the scale, when a jockey is weighed or weighted. (b) The lightest weight that can be put on the back of a horse in racing. Youatt. (c) In wrestling, boxing, etc., a term applied to the lightest of the classes into which contestants are divided; -- in contradistinction to light weight, middle weight, and heavy weight. A feather in the cap an honour, trophy, or mark of distinction. [Colloq.] -- To be in full feather, to be in full dress or in one's best clothes. [Collog.] -- To be in high feather, to be in high spirits. [Collog.] -- To cut a feather. (a) (Naut.) To make the water foam in moving; in allusion to the ripple which a ship throws off from her bows. (b) To make one's self conspicuous.[Colloq.] -- To show the white feather, to betray cowardice, -- a white feather in the tail of a cock being considered an indication that he is not of the true game breed.

FEATHER Feath"er, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Feathered; p. pr. & vb. n. Feathering.]

1. To furnish with a feather or feathers, as an arrow or a cap. An eagle had the ill hap to be struck with an arrow feathered from her own wing. L'Estrange.

2. To adorn, as with feathers; to fringe. A few birches and oaks still feathered the narrow ravines. Sir W. Scott.

3. To render light as a feather; to give wings to.[R.] The Polonian story perhaps may feather some tedions hours. Loveday.

4. To enrich; to exalt; to benefit. They stuck not to say that the king cared not to plume his nobility and people to feather himself. Bacon. Dryden.

5. To tread, as a cock. Dryden. To feather one's nest, to provide for one's self especially from property belonging to another, confided to one's care; -- an expression taken from the practice of birds which collect feathers for the lining of their nests. -- To feather an oar (Naut), to turn it when it leaves the water so that the blade will be horizontal and offer the least resistance to air while reaching for another stroke. -- To tar and feather a person, to smear him with tar and cover him with feathers, as a punishment or an indignity.

FEATHER Feath"er, v. i.

1. To grow or form feathers; to become feathered; -- often with out; as, the birds are feathering out.

2. To curdle when poured into another liquid, and float about in little flakes or "feathers;" as, the cream feathers [Colloq.]

3. To turn to a horizontal plane; -- said of oars. The feathering oar returns the gleam. Tickell. Stopping his sculls in the air to feather accurately. Macmillan's Mag.

4. To have the appearance of a feather or of feathers; to be or to appear in feathery form. A clump of ancient cedars feathering in evergreen beauty down to the ground. Warren. The ripple feathering from her bows. Tennyson.

FEATHERBONE Feath"er*bone`, n.

Defn: A substitute for whalebone, made from the quills of geese and turkeys.

FEATHER-BRAINED Feath"er-brained, a.

Defn: Giddy; frivolous; feather-headed. [Colloq.]

FEATHERED Feath"ered, a.

1. Clothed, covered, or fitted with (or as with) feathers or wings; as, a feathered animal; a feathered arrow. Rise from the ground like feathered Mercury. Shak. Nonsense feathered with soft and delicate phrases and pointed with pathetic accent. Dr. J. Scott.

2. Furnished with anything featherlike; ornamented; fringed; as, land feathered with trees.

3. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Having a fringe of feathers, as the legs of certian birds; or of hairs, as the legs of a setter dog.

4. (Her.)

Defn: Having feathers; -- said of an arrow, when the feathers are of a tincture different from that of the shaft.

FEATHER-EDGE Feath"er-edge, n.

1. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The thin, new growth around the edge of a shell, of an oyster.

2. Any thin, as on a board or a razor.

FEATHER-EDGED Feath"er-edged, a.

Defn: Having a feather-edge; also, having one edge thinner than the other, as a board; -- in the United States, said only of stuff one edge of which is made as thin as practicable.

FEATHER-FEW Feath"er-few, n. (Bot.)

Defn: Feverfew.

FEATHER-FOIL Feath"er-foil`, n. Etym: [Feather + foil a leaf.] (Bot.)

Defn: An aquatic plant (Hottonia palustris), having finely divided leaves.

FEATHER-HEAD Feath"er-head`, n.

Defn: A frivolous or featherbrained person. [Colloq.] H. James.

FEATHER-HEADED Feath"er-head`ed, a.

Defn: Giddy; frivolous; foolish. [Colloq.] G. Eliot.

FEATHER-HEELED Feath"er-heeled`, a.

Defn: Light-heeled; gay; frisky; frolicsome. [Colloq.]

FEATHERINESS Feath"er*i*ness, n.

Defn: The state or condition of being feathery.

FEATHERING Feath"er*ing, n.

1. (Arch.)

Defn: Same as Foliation.

2. The act of turning the blade of the oar, as it rises from the water in rowing, from a vertical to a horizontal position. See To feather an oar, under Feather, v. t.

3. A covering of feathers. Feathering float (Naut.), the float or paddle of a feathering wheel. -- Feathering screw (Naut.), a screw propeller, of which the blades may be turned so as to move edgewise through the water when the vessel is moving under sail alone. -- Feathering wheel (Naut.), a paddle wheel whose floats turn automatically so as to dip about perpendicularly into the water and leave in it the same way, avoiding beating on the water in the descent and lifting water in the ascent.

FEATHERLESS Feath"er*less, a.

Defn: Destitute of feathers.

FEATHERLY Feath"er*ly, a.

Defn: Like feathers. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

FEATHERNESS Feath"er*ness, n.

Defn: The state or condition of being feathery.

FEATHER-PATED Feath"er-pat"ed, a.

Defn: Feather-headed; frivolous. [Colloq.] Sir W. Scott.

FEATHERSTITCH Feath"er*stitch`, n.

Defn: A kind of embroidery stitch producing a branching zigzag line.

FEATHER-VEINED Feath"er-veined`, a. (Bot.)

Defn: Having the veins (of a leaf) diverging from the two sides of a midrib.

FEATHERY Feath"er*y, a.

Defn: Pertaining to, or resembling, feathers; covered with, or as with, feathers; as, feathery spray or snow. Milton. Ye feathery people of mid air. Barry Cornwall.

FEATLY Feat"ly, adv. Etym: [From Feat, a.]

Defn: Neatly; dexterously; nimbly. [Archaic] Foot featly here and there. Shak.

FEATNESS Feat"ness, n.

Defn: Skill; adroitness. [Archaic] Johnson.

FEATURE Fea"ture, n. Etym: [OE. feture form, shape, feature, OF. faiture fashion, make, fr. L. factura a making, formation, fr. facere, factum, to make. See Feat, Fact, and cf. Facture.]

1. The make, form, or outward appearance of a person; the whole turn or style of the body; esp., good appearance. What needeth it his feature to descrive Chaucer. Cheated of feature by dissembling nature. Shak.

2. The make, cast, or appearance of the human face, and especially of any single part of the face; a lineament. (pl.) The face, the countenance. It is for homely features to keep home. Milton.

3. The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty, or an essay; any marked peculiarity or characteristic; as, one of the features of the landscape. And to her service bind each living creature Through secret understanding of their feature. Spenser.

4. A form; a shape. [R.] So scented the grim feature, and upturned His nostril wide into the murky air. Milton.

FEATURED Fea"tured, a.

1. Shaped; fashioned. How noble, young, how rarely featured! Shak.

2. Having features; formed into features. The well-stained canvas or the featured stone. Young.

FEATURELESS Fea"ture*less, a.

Defn: Having no distinct or distinctive features.

FEATURELY Fea"ture*ly, a.

Defn: Having features; showing marked peculiarities; handsome. [R.] Featurely warriors of Christian chivalry. Coleridge.

FEAZE Feaze, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Feazed; p. pr. & vb. n. Feazing.] Etym: [Cf. OE. faseln to ravel, fr. AS. fæs fringe; akin to G. fasen to separate fibers or threads, fasen, faser, thread, filament, OHG. faso.]

Defn: To untwist; to unravel, as the end of a rope. Johnson.

FEAZE Feaze, v. t. Etym: [See Feese.faze]

Defn: To beat; to chastise; also, to humble; to harass; to worry. [Obs.] insworth.

FEAZE Feaze, n.

Defn: A state of anxious or fretful excitement; worry; vexation. [Obs.]

FEAZINGS Feaz"ings, n. pl. Etym: [See Feaze, v. t.] (Naut.)

Defn: The unlaid or ragged end of a rope. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

FEBRICITATE Fe*bric"i*tate, v. i. Etym: [L. febricitare, fr. febris. See Febrile.]

Defn: To have a fever. [Obs.] Bailey.

FEBRICULOSE Fe*bric"u*lose`, a. Etym: [L. febriculosus.]

Defn: Somewhat feverish. [Obs.] Johnson.

FEBRIFACIENT Feb`ri*fa"cient, a. Etym: [L. febris fever + faciens, p.pr. of facere to make.]

Defn: Febrific. Dunglison. -- n.

Defn: That which causes fever. Beddoes.

FEBRIFEROUS Fe*brif"er*ous, a. Etym: [L. febris fever + -ferous.]

Defn: Causing fever; as, a febriferous locality.

FEBRIFIC Fe*brif"ic, a. Etym: [L. febris fever + ficare (in comp.) to make. See fy-.]

Defn: Producing fever. Dunglison.

FEBRIFUGAL Fe*brif"u*gal ( or ), a. Etym: [See Febrifuge.]

Defn: Having the quality of mitigating or curing fever. Boyle.

FEBRIFUGE Feb"ri*fuge, n. Etym: [L. febris fever + fugare to put to flight, from fugere to flee: cf. F. fébrifuge. see Febrile, Feverfew.] (Med.)

Defn: A medicine serving to mitigate or remove fever. -- a.

Defn: Antifebrile.

FEBRILE Fe"brile, a. Etym: [F. fébrile, from L. febris fever. See Fever.]

Defn: Pertaining to fever; indicating fever, or derived from it; as, febrile symptoms; febrile action. Dunglison.

FEBRUARY Feb"ru*a*ry, n. Etym: [L. Februarius, orig., the month of expiation, because on the fifteenth of this month the great feast of expiation and purification was held, fr. februa, pl., the Roman festival or purification; akin to februare to purify, expiate.]

Defn: The second month in the year, said to have been introduced into the Roman calendar by Numa. In common years this month contains twenty-eight days; in the bissextile, or leap year, it has twenty- nine days.

FEBRUATION Feb`ru*a"tion, n. Etym: [L. februatio. See february.]

Defn: Purification; a sacrifice. [Obs.] Spenser.

FECAL Fe"cal, a. Etym: [Cf. F. fécal. See Feces.]

Defn: relating to, or containing, dregs, feces, or ordeure; fæcal.

FECCHE Fec"che, v. t.

Defn: To fetch. [Obs.] Chaucer.

FECES Fe"ces, n. pl.

Defn: dregs; sediment; excrement. See FÆces.

FECIAL Fe"cial, a. Etym: [L. fetialis belonging to the fetiales, the Roman priests who sanctioned treaties and demanded satisfaction from the enemy before a formal declaration of war.]

Defn: Pertaining to heralds, declarations of war, and treaties of peace; as, fecial law. Kent.

FECIFORK Fe"ci*fork`, n. Etym: [Feces + fork.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: The anal fork on which the larvæ of certain insects carry their fæces.

FECK Feck, n. [Abbrev. fr. effect.]

1. Effect. [Obs.]

2. Efficacy; force; value. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]

3. Amount; quantity. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]

He had a feck o' books wi' him. R. L. Stevenson.

The most feck, or The feck, the greater or larger part. "The feck o' my life." Burns.

FECKLESS Feck"less, a. Etym: [Perh. a corruption of effectless.]

Defn: Spiritless; weak; worthless. [Scot]

FECKLESSNESS feck"less*ness n.

Defn: absence of merit. [WordNet 1.5]

FECKS Fecks, n.

Defn: A corruption of the word faith. Shak.

FECULA Fec"u*la, n.; pl. FeculÆ Etym: [L.fae burnt tartar or salt of tartar, dim. of faex, faecis, sediment, dregs: cf. F. fécule.]

Defn: Any pulverulent matter obtained from plants by simply breaking down the texture, washing with water, and subsidence. Especially: (a) The nutritious part of wheat; starch or farina; -- called also amylaceous fecula. (b) The green matter of plants; chlorophyll.

FECULENCE Fec"u*lence, n. Etym: [L. faeculentia dregs, filth: cf. F. féculence.]

1. The state or quality of being feculent; muddiness; foulness.

2. That which is feculent; sediment; lees; dregs.

FECULENCY Fec"u*len*cy, n.

Defn: Feculence.

FECULENT Fec"u*lent, a. Etym: [L. faeculentus, fr. faecula: cf. F. féculent. See Fecula.]

Defn: Foul with extraneous or impure substances; abounding with sediment or excrementitious matter; muddy; thick; turbid. Both his hands most filthy feculent. Spenser.

FECUND Fec"und, a. Etym: [L. fecundus, from the root of fetus: cf. F. fécond. see Fetus.]

Defn: Fruitful in children; prolific. Graunt.