Of or pertaining to the facul/.

Having relation to the grant or exercise faculty, or authority, privilege, license, or the like hence, optional; as, facultative enactments, or those which convey a faculty, or permission; the facultative referendum of Switzerland is one that is optional with the people and is necessary only when demanded by petition; facultative studies; -- opposed to obligatory and compulsory, and sometimes used with to.

Ability to act or perform, whether inborn or cultivated; capacity for any natural function; especially, an original mental power or capacity for any of the well-known classes of mental activity; psychical or soul capacity; capacity for any of the leading kinds of soul activity, as knowledge, feeling, volition; intellectual endowment or gift; power; as, faculties of the mind or the soul.

Eloquent.

Eloquement; full of words.

Eloquence; readiness of speech.

A hobby ; freak; whim.

A vapid or meaningless remark; a commonplace; nonsense.

a person who subscribes to a variety of fads.

To trifle; to toy. To fondle; to dandle.

intensely fashionable for a short time.

To cause to wither; to deprive of freshness or vigor; to wear away.

That has lost freshness, color, or brightness; grown dim.

In a faded manner.

Not liable to fade; unfading.

Father.

A small flat loaf or thick cake; also, a fagot.

An Irish dance; also, the burden of a song.

A fathom.

Faded.

See Fecal.

Excrement; ordure; also, settlings; sediment after infusion or distillation.

See Fecula.

A fairy.

Fairy.

To stammer.

To tire by labor; to exhaust; as, he was almost fagged out.

A male homosexual; -- always used disparagingly and considered offensive. Shortened form of faggot.

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, etc.

a natural family of chiefly monoecious trees and shrubs, including beeches, chestnuts, and oaks; it includes the genera Castanea; Castanopsis; Chrysolepis; Fagus; Lithocarpus; Nothofagus; and Quercus.

same as burned-out, 1.

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

a male homosexual; -- always used disparagingly and considered offensive.

a genus of plants of the buckwheat family, including the buckwheat Fagopyrum esculentum; in some classifications included in the genus Polygonum.

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.

To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle; also, to collect promiscuously.

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

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

A stratum in crystalline rock, containing metallic sulphides.

Same as Tetrahedrite.

A hydrated silica of alumina, resulting from the alteration of iolite.

an abbreviation of Fahrenheit; -- used in designating temperatures; as, 72/ Fahr. Used as an alternative to celsius.

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. The Fahrenheit thermometer or scale.

Glazed earthenware; esp., a fine variety that which is decorated with colorful designs in an opaque glaze.

Miscarriage; failure; deficiency; fault; -- mostly superseded by failure or failing, except in the phrase without fail.

Fault; failure; omission.

unsuccessful. Opposite of successful.

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

A soft silk, heavier than a foulard and not glossy.

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

To be glad ; to wish or desire.

Do-nothingness; inactivity; indolence.

Doing nothing; shiftless; disinclined to work or exertion.

A do-nothing; an idle fellow; a sluggard.

To cause to faint or become dispirited; to depress; to weaken.

Wanting in courage; depressed by fear; easily discouraged or frightened; cowardly; timorous; dejected.

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.

Slightly faint; somewhat faint.

Timorous; feeble-minded.

In a faint, weak, or timidmanner.

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.

Feeble; languid.

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.

justly; honestly; equitably; impartially. Opposite of unfairly.

fair and honest; just. Opposite of unfair.

Having fair or light-colored hair.

A block, or ring, serving as a guide for the running rigging or for any rope.

Unprejudiced; just; judicial; honest.

Well-disposed.

Using fair speech, or uttered with fairness; bland; civil; courteous; plausible.

Made or done in pleasant weather, or in circumstances involving but little exposure or sacrifice; as, a fair-weather voyage.

State of prosperity.

an open area for holding fairs or exhibitions or circuses. Often used in plural.

same as fairground.

Fairness; beauty.

In the manner of a fairy.

A present; originally, one given or purchased at a fair.

Tolerably fair.

In a fair manner; clearly; openly; plainly; fully; distinctly; frankly.

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.

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.

Of or pertaining to fairies.

a story about magical or mythological creatures, such as fairies, elves, goblins, trolls, orcs, unicorns, wizards, dragons, etc., usually composed for the amusement of children; called also a fairy story.

a rare north temperate bog orchid (Calypso bulbosa) bearing a solitary white to pink flower marked with purple at the tip of an erect reddish stalk above one basal leaf.

The imaginary land or abode of fairies.

Resembling a fairy, or what is made or done be fairies; as, fairylike music.

By my faith; in truth; verily.

Having faith or a faith; honest; sincere.

Full of faith, or having faith; disposed to believe, especially in the declarations and promises of God.

the trait of being faithful.

Not believing; not giving credit.

A doer or actor; particularly, an evil doer; a scoundrel.

A trick; a swindle.

same as fakir.

One who fakes something; a thief. a peddler of petty things. a workman who dresses things up.

See Faker.

Gay ornaments; frippery; gewgaws.

A viverrine mammal of Madagascar (Eupleres Goudotii), allied to the civet; -- called also Falanouc.

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.

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.

The state of being falcate; a bend in the form of a sickle.

One of the mandibles of a spider.

A broad-bladed sword, slightly curved, shorter and lighter than the ordinary sword; -- used in the Middle Ages.

Of or pertaining to Publius Falcidius, a Roman tribune.

Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver.

One of a family (Falconid/) of raptorial birds, characterized by a short, hooked beak, strong claws, and powerful flight. 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.

any female falcon;

A person who breeds or trains hawks for taking birds or game; one who follows the sport of fowling with hawks.

One of the smaller cannon used in the 15th century and later.

Like a falcon or hawk; belonging to the Falconid/

The art of training falcons or hawks to pursue and attack wild fowl or game.

A curved and sharp-pointed claw.

Curved and sharppointed, like a falcula, or claw of a falcon.

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.

Nonsense; foolish talk.

A fee or rent paid by a tenant for the privilege of faldage on his own ground.

A frieze or rough-napped cloth.

The throne or seat of a bishop within the chancel.

A folding stool, or portable seat, made to fold up in the manner of a camo stool. It was formerly placed in the choir for a bishop, when he offciated in any but his own cathedral church.

Of or pertaining to Mount Falernus, in Italy; as, Falernianwine.