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.

Embodying or pertaining to a fallacy; illogical; fitted to deceive; misleading; delusive; as, fallacious arguments or reasoning.

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.

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.

The collective body of persons who live in one house, and under one head or manager; a household, including parents, children, and servants, and, as the case may be, lodgers or boarders.

General scarcity of food; dearth; a want of provisions; destitution.

To die of hunger; to starve.

State of being famished.

The state or quality of being famous.

Celebrated in fame or public report; renowned; mach talked of; distinguished in story; -- used in either a good or a bad sense, chiefly the former; often followed by for; as, famous for erudition, for eloquence, for military skill; a famous pirate.

Renowned.

In a famous manner; in a distinguished degree; greatly; splendidly.

The state of being famous.

Domestic; familiar.

To serve.

A collegian of inferior rank or position, corresponding to the sizar at Cambridge.

To move as with a fan.

Having the nerves or veins arranged in a radiating manner; -- said of certain leaves, and of the wings of some insects.

Having an expanded, or fan-shaped, tail; as, the fan-tailed pigeon.

A Chinese gambling game in which coins or other small objects are placed upon a table, usually under a cup, and the players bet as to what remainder will be left when the sum of the counters is divided by four.