the quantity of electric charge that, passed though an ionic solution, will cause electrolysis of one equivalent of ions; it is equal to about 96,490 coulombs. The number of univalent metal ions (such as silver in a silver nitrate solution) which would be deposited as free metal by such a current is Avogadro's number, 6.023 x 1023.

Of or pertaining to Michael Faraday, the distinguished electrician; -- applied especially to induced currents of electricity, as produced by certain forms of inductive apparatus, on account of Faraday's investigations of their laws.

The treatment with faradic or induced currents of electricity for remedial purposes.

To stimulate with, or subject to, faradic, or inducted, electric currents.

See Farrand, n.

A fabrik made of silk and wool or hair.

A rapid dance in six-eight time in which a large number join hands and dance in various figures, sometimes moving from room to room. It originated in Provence.

Orderly; comely; respectable.

Stuffing, or mixture of viands, like that used on dressing a fowl; forcemeat.

Stuffing; forcemeat.

Of or pertaining to the disease called farcy. See Farcy, n.

Pudding stone.

Same as Farcy.

Stuffing; forcemeat.

Stuffed; filled solid; as, a farctate leaf, stem, or pericarp; -- opposed to tubular or hollow.

A contagious disease of horses, associated with painful ulcerating enlargements, esp. upon the head and limbs. It is of the same nature as glanders, and is often fatal. Called also farcin, and farcimen.

To paint; -- said esp. of one's face.

See Dunnage.

To make up in fardels.

The upper stomach of a cow, or other ruminant animal; the rumen.

A farthingale.

The fourth part of an acre of land.

A journey; a passage.

state of perfection; the utmost degree; as, they polished the furniture to a fare-thee-well.

p. p. of Fare, v. i.

Parting; valedictory; final; as, a farewell discourse; his farewell bow.

Farfetched.

Anything brought from far, or brought about with studious care; a deep strategem.

Brought from far, or from a remote place.

A fine flour or meal made from cereal grains or from the starch or fecula of vegetables, extracted by various processes, and used in cookery.

Consisting or made of meal or flour; as, a farinaceous diet.

Yielding farina; as, farinose substances.

Same as Furl.

An unusual or unexpected thing; a wonder. See Fearly.

To engage in the business of tilling the soil; to labor as a farmer.

Capable of being farmed.

One who farms One who hires and cultivates a farm; a cultivator of leased ground; a tenant. One who is devoted to the tillage of the soil; one who cultivates a farm; an agriculturist; a husbandman. One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect, either paying a fixed annuual rent for the privilege; as, a farmer of the revenues. The lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown.

A woman who farms.

a woman working on a farm; a farmeress.

Skill in farming.

The buildings and yards necessary for the business of a farm; a homestead.

A dwelling house on a farm; a farmer's residence.

The business of cultivating land.

a rural area where farming is practiced; land actually under cultivation or capable of supporting crops.

Most distant; farthest.

a farm together with its buildings.

A farm with the building upon it; a homestead on a farm.

A farmstead.

The yard or inclosure attached to a barn, or the space inclosed by the farm buildings.

The state of being far off; distance; remoteness.

A gambling game at cards, in which all the other players play against the dealer or banker, staking their money upon the order in which the cards will lie and be dealt from the pack.

An inhabitant, or, collectively, inhabitants, of the Faroe islands.

Formed of various materials; mixed; as, a farraginous mountain.

A mass composed of various materials confusedly mixed; a medley; a mixture.

Manner; custom; fashion; humor.

Same as Confarreation.

To practice as a farrier; to carry on the trade of a farrier.

The art of shoeing horses.

Not producing young in a given season or year; -- said only of cows.

A farrow.

Able to see to a great distance; farsighted.

The language spoken in modern Iran; modern Persian. It is written in the Arabic alphabet.

Seeing to great distance; hence, of good judgment regarding the remote effects of actions; sagacious.

Quality of bbeing farsighted.

To help onward. [R.] See Further.

See Furtherance.

See Furthermore.

Most remote; farthest.

At or to the greatest distance. See Furthest.

The fourth of a penny; a small copper coin of Great Britain, being a cent in United States currency.

A hoop skirt or hoop petticoat, or other light, elastic material, used to extend the petticoat.

A bundle of rods, having among them an ax with the blade projecting, borne before the Roman magistrates as a badge of their authority.

A wire basket on the end of a rod to carry glass bottles, etc., to the annealing furnace; also, an iron rod to be thrust into the mouths of bottles, and used for the same purpose; -- called also pontee and punty.

A band, sash, or fillet; especially, in surgery, a bandage or roller.

Pertaining to the fasces.

Bound with a fillet, sash, or bandage.

The act or manner of binding up; bandage; also, the condition of being fasciated.

A small bundle or collection; a compact cluster; as, a fascicle of fibers; a fascicle of flowers or roots.

Growing in a bundle, tuft, or close cluster; as, the fascicled leaves of the pine or larch; the fascicled roots of the dahlia; fascicled muscle fibers; fascicled tufts of hair.

Pertaining to a fascicle; fascicled; as, a fascicular root.

In a fascicled manner.

Grouped in a fascicle; fascicled.

A small bunch or bundle; a fascicle; as, a fascicule of fibers, hairs, or spines.

A little bundle; a fascicle.

To influence in an uncontrollable manner; to operate on by some powerful or irresistible charm; to bewitch; to enchant.

having the attention fixed by a sense of wonder.

capable of holding the attention; as, a fascinating story.

The act of fascinating, bewitching, or enchanting; enchantment; witchcraft; the exercise of a powerful or irresistible influence on the affections or passions; unseen, inexplicable influence.

A cylindrical bundle of small sticks of wood, bound together, used in raising batteries, filling ditches, strengthening ramparts, and making parapets; also in revetments for river banks, and in mats for dams, jetties, etc.

Caused or acting by witchcraft.

A band of gray matter bordering the fimbria in the brain; the dentate convolution.

A band of minute tubercles, bearing modified spines, on the shells of spatangoid sea urchins. See Spatangoidea.

a political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government; -- opposed to democracy and liberalism.

an adherent of fascism or similar right-wing authoritarian views.

of or pertaining to fascism; resembling fascism; as, fascist propaganda.

Vexation; anxiety; care.

To form; to give shape or figure to; to mold.

One who studies the fashions; a fop; a dandy.

Behaving like a fashion-monger.

A person who conforms to the fashions; -- used chiefly in the plural.

State of being fashionable.

In a fashionable manner.

Having a certain style or fashion; as, old-fashioned; new-fashioned.

One who fashions, forms, ar gives shape to anything.

An obsequious follower of the modes and fashions.

Having no fashion.

A variety of pyroxene, from the valley of Fassa, in the Tyrol.

That which fastens or holds; especially, (Naut.) a mooring rope, hawser, or chain; -- called, according to its position, a bow, head, quarter, breast, or stern fast; also, a post on a pier around which hawsers are passed in mooring.

moving or functioning quickly and energetically; as, a fast-flying messenger.

tending to spread quickly; -- used mostly of plants.

Close-handed; close-fisted; covetous; avaricious.

a baseball thrown with maximum velocity.

a rapid dash to get a shot at one's own basket as soon as possible after taking possession of the ball; -- often occurring after the opposing team has shot at their basket.

To fix one's self; to take firm hold; to clinch; to cling.

affixed. Opposite of unaffixed.

One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.

Anything that binds and makes fast, as a lock, catch, bolt, bar, buckle, etc.

One who abstains from food.

The Roman calendar, which gave the days for festivals, courts, etc., corresponding to a modern almanac.

Fastidiousness; squeamishness.