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.

The razorbill.

The act of falling; a dropping or descending be the force of gravity; descent; as, a fall from a horse, or from the yard of ship.

The larva of any moth of the genus Hyphantria, which spins a web around the foliage on which it feeds.

result of a fallacy or error in reasoning.

Deceptive or false appearance; deceitfulness; that which misleads the eye or the mind; deception.

Cavillation; a caviling.

The act or process of falling back.

Dropped; prostrate; degraded; ruined; decreased; dead.

An exception.

One who, or that which, falls.

A fresh-water fish of the United States (Semotilus bullaris); -- called also silver chub, and Shiner. The name is also applied to other allied species.

The state of being fallible; liability to deceive or to be deceived; as, the fallibity of an argument or of an adviser.

Liable to fail, mistake, or err; liable to deceive or to be deceived; as, all men are fallible; our opinions and hopes are fallible.

In a fallible manner.

from Fall, v. i.

a noticeable decline in performance; as, a falloff in automobile sales.

Pertaining to, or discovered by, Fallopius; as, the Fallopian tubes or oviducts, the ducts or canals which conduct the ova from the ovaries to the uterus.

the radioactive particles that settle to the ground after a nuclear explosion.

To plow, harrow, and break up, as land, without seeding, for the purpose of destroying weeds and insects, and rendering it mellow; as, it is profitable to fallow cold, strong, clayey land.

One who favors the practice of fallowing land.

A well or opening, through the successive floors of a warehouse or manufactory, through which goods are raised or lowered.

A falsifier of evidence.

To report falsely; to falsify.

Hypocritical.

False-hearted.

Hollow or unsound at the core; treacherous; deceitful; perfidious.

Want of truth or accuracy; an untrue assertion or representation; error; misrepresentation; falsity.

In a false manner; erroneously; not truly; perfidiously or treacherously.

The state of being false; contrariety to the fact; inaccuracy; want of integrity or uprightness; double dealing; unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as, the falseness of a report, a drawing, or a singer's notes; the falseness of a man, or of his word.

A deceiver.

A false or artificial voice; that voice in a man which lies above his natural voice; the male counter tenor or alto voice. See Head voice, under Voice.

Capable of being falsified, counterfeited, or corrupted.

The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not.

A falsifier.

One who falsifies, or gives to a thing a deceptive appearance; a liar.

To tell lies; to violate the truth.

That which is evidently false; an assertion or statement the falsity of which is plainly apparent; -- opposed to truism.

The quality of being false; coutrariety or want of conformity to truth.

Sir John Falstaff, a celebrated character in Shakespeare's historical play " Henry IV." (1st and 2d parts), and also in " The Merry Wives of Windsor." He is a very fat, sensual, and witty old knight; a swindler, drunkard, and good-tempered liar; and something of a coward. Falstaff was originally called Sir John Oldcastle. The first actor of the part was John Heminge.

Of or pertaining to Falstaff, a character in Shakespeare's plays.

Hesitation; trembling; feebleness; an uncertain or broken sound; as, a slight falter in her voice.

Hesitating; trembling. Falter; halting; hesitation.

A series of strata, of the Middle Tertiary period, of France, abounding in shells, and used by Lyell as the type of his Miocene subdivision.

Fallow.

A curved fold or process of the dura mater or the peritoneum; esp., one of the partitionlike folds of the dura mater which extend into the great fissures of the brain.

A hand.

To report widely or honorably.

Without fame or renown.

relating to or having the characteristics of a family; as, children of the same familial background; familial aggregation.

An intimate; a companion.

to make familiar or acquainted; same as familiarize.

The state of being familiar; intimate and frequent converse, or association; unconstrained intercourse; freedom from ceremony and constraint; intimacy; as, to live in remarkable familiarity.

The act or process of making familiar; the result of becoming familiar; as, familiarization with scenes of blood.

To make familiar or intimate; to habituate; to accustom; to make well known by practice or converse; as, to familiarize one's self with scenes of distress; we familiarized ourselves with the new surroundings.

having become familiar.

serving to familiarize.

In a familiar manner.

Familiarity.

Of or pertaining to a family or household; domestic.

The tenets of the Familists.

One of a fanatical Antinomian sect originating in Holland, and existing in England about 1580, called the Family of Love, who held that religion consists wholly in love.

A community in which many persons unite as in one family, and are regulated by certain communistic laws and customs.

Pertaining to Familists.