A doing, making, or preparing.

designed to find information or ascertain facts; as, a fact-finding committee.

One of the divisions or parties of charioteers (distinguished by their colors) in the games of the circus.

Belonging to a faction; being a partisan; taking sides.

One of a faction.

One who promotes faction.

Given to faction; addicted to form parties and raise dissensions, in opposition to government or the common good; turbulent; seditious; prone to clamor against public measures or men; -- said of persons.

Made by art, in distinction from what is produced by nature; artificial; sham; contrived; formed by, or adapted to, an artificial or conventional, in distinction from a natural, standard or rule; not natural; as, factitious cinnabar or jewels; a factitious taste.

Causing; causative.

Making; having power to make.

In fact; by the act or fact.

To resolve (a quantity) into its factors.

The allowance given to a factor, as a compensation for his services; -- called also a commission.

A factor who is a woman.

A name given to the factors of a continued product when the former are derivable from one and the same function F(x) by successively imparting a constant increment or decrement h to the independent variable. Thus the product F(x).F(x + h).F(x + 2h) . . . F[x + (n-1)h] is called a factorial term, and its several factors take the name of factorials.

The act of resolving into factors.

to resolve into factors, as of a polynomial; same as factorize.

To give warning to; -- said of a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached, the warning being to the effect that he shall not pay the money or deliver the property of the defendant in his hands to him, but appear and answer the suit of the plaintiff. To attach (the effects of a debtor) in the hands of a third person; to garnish. See Garnish.

The business of a factor.

A house or place where factors, or commercial agents, reside, to transact business for their employers.

made in a factory. Contrasted with homemade.

A person employed to do all kinds of work or business; a person with many different responsibilities.

of or pertaining to facts; as, factual inaccuracies.

A man's own act and deed Anything stated and made certain. The due execution of a will, including everything necessary to its validity.

The act or manner of making or doing anything; -- now used of a literary, musical, or pictorial production.

Groups of small shining spots on the surface of the sun which are brighter than the other parts of the photosphere. They are generally seen in the neighborhood of the dark spots, and are supposed to be elevated portions of the photosphere.

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.

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 state of being faint; loss of strength, or of consciousness, and self-control.

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.