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