Faulcon (n.) See Falcon.
Fauld (n.) The arch over the dam of a blast furnace; the tymp arch.
Faule (n.) A fall or falling band.
Fault (n.) Defect; want; lack; default.
Fault (n.) Anything that fails, that is wanting, or that impairs excellence; a failing; a defect; a blemish.
Fault (n.) A moral failing; a defect or dereliction from duty; a deviation from propriety; an offense less serious than a crime.
Fault (n.) A dislocation of the strata of the vein.
Fault (n.) In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam; as, slate fault, dirt fault, etc.
Fault (n.) A lost scent; act of losing the scent.
Fault (n.) Failure to serve the ball into the proper court.
Faulted (imp. & p. p.) of Fault
Faulting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fault
Fault (v. t.) To charge with a fault; to accuse; to find fault with; to blame.
Fault (v. t.) To interrupt the continuity of (rock strata) by displacement along a plane of fracture; -- chiefly used in the p. p.; as, the coal beds are badly faulted.
Fault (v. i.) To err; to blunder, to commit a fault; to do wrong.
Faulter (n.) One who commits a fault.
Fault-finder (n.) One who makes a practice of discovering others' faults and censuring them; a scold.
Fault-finding (n.) The act of finding fault or blaming; -- used derogatively. Also Adj.
Faultful (a.) Full of faults or sins.
Faultily (adv.) In a faulty manner.
Faultiness (n.) Quality or state of being faulty.
Faulting (n.) The state or condition of being faulted; the process by which a fault is produced.
Faultless (a.) Without fault; not defective or imperfect; free from blemish; free from incorrectness, vice, or offense; perfect; as, a faultless poem.
Faulty (a.) Containing faults, blemishes, or defects; imperfect; not fit for the use intended.
Faulty (a.) Guilty of a fault, or of faults; hence, blamable; worthy of censure.
Faun (n.) A god of fields and shipherds, diddering little from the satyr. The fauns are usually represented as half goat and half man.
Fauna (n.) The animals of any given area or epoch; as, the fauna of America; fossil fauna; recent fauna.
Faunal (a.) Relating to fauna.
Faunist (n.) One who describes the fauna of country; a naturalist.
Fauni (pl. ) of Faunus
Faunus (n.) See Faun.
Fausen (n.) A young eel.
Fausse-braye (n.) A second raampart, exterior to, and parallel to, the main rampart, and considerably below its level.
Fauteuil (n.) An armchair; hence (because the members sit in fauteuils or armchairs), membership in the French Academy.
Fauteuil (n.) Chair of a presiding officer.
Fautor (n.) A favorer; a patron; one who gives countenance or support; an abettor.
Fautress (n.) A patroness.
Fauvette (n.) A small singing bird, as the nightingale and warblers.
Fauces (pl. ) of Faux
Faux (n.) See Fauces.
faux pas () A false step; a mistake or wrong measure.
Favaginous (a.) Formed like, or resembling, a honeycomb.
Favas (n.) See Favus, n., 2.
Favel (a.) Yellow; fal/ow; dun.
Favel (n.) A horse of a favel or dun color.
Favel (n.) Flattery; cajolery; deceit.
Favella (n.) A group of spores arranged without order and covered with a thin gelatinous envelope, as in certain delicate red algae.
Faveolate (a.) Honeycomb; having cavities or cells, somewhat resembling those of a honeycomb; alveolate; favose.
Favillous (a.) Of or pertaining to ashes.
Favonian (a.) Pertaining to the west wind; soft; mild; gentle.
Favor (n.) Kind regard; propitious aspect; countenance; friendly disposition; kindness; good will.
Favor (n.) The act of countenancing, or the condition of being countenanced, or regarded propitiously; support; promotion; befriending.
Favor (n.) A kind act or office; kindness done or granted; benevolence shown by word or deed; an act of grace or good will, as distinct from justice or remuneration.
Favor (n.) Mildness or mitigation of punishment; lenity.
Favor (n.) The object of regard; person or thing favored.
Favor (n.) A gift or represent; something bestowed as an evidence of good will; a token of love; a knot of ribbons; something worn as a token of affection; as, a marriage favor is a bunch or knot of white ribbons or white flowers worn at a wedding.
Favor (n.) Appearance; look; countenance; face.
Favor (n.) Partiality; bias.
Favor (n.) A letter or epistle; -- so called in civility or compliment; as, your favor of yesterday is received.
Favor (n.) Love locks.
Favored (imp. & p. p.) of Favor
Favoring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Favor
Favor (n.) To regard with kindness; to support; to aid, or to have the disposition to aid, or to wish success to; to be propitious to; to countenance; to treat with consideration or tenderness; to show partiality or unfair bias towards.
Favor (n.) To afford advantages for success to; to facilitate; as, a weak place favored the entrance of the enemy.
Favor (n.) To resemble in features; to have the aspect or looks of; as, the child favors his father.
Favorable (n.) Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly.
Favorable (n.) Conducive; contributing; tending to promote or facilitate; advantageous; convenient.
Favorable (n.) Beautiful; well-favored.
Favored (a.) Countenanced; aided; regarded with kidness; as, a favored friend.
Favored (a.) Having a certain favor or appearance; featured; as, well-favored; hard-favored, etc.
Favoredly (adv.) In a favored or a favorable manner; favorably.
Favoredness (n.) Appearance.
Favorer (n.) One who favors; one who regards with kindness or friendship; a well-wisher; one who assists or promotes success or prosperity.
Favoress (n.) A woman who favors or gives countenance.
Favoring (a.) That favors.
Favorite (n.) A person or thing regarded with peculiar favor; one treated with partiality; one preferred above others; especially, one unduly loved, trusted, and enriched with favors by a person of high rank or authority.
Favorite (n.) Short curls dangling over the temples; -- fashionable in the reign of Charles II.
Favorite (n.) The competitor (as a horse in a race) that is judged most likely to win; the competitor standing highest in the betting.
Favorite (a.) Regarded with particular affection, esteem, or preference; as, a favorite walk; a favorite child.
Favoritism (n.) The disposition to favor and promote the interest of one person or family, or of one class of men, to the neglect of others having equal claims; partiality.
Favorless (a.) Unfavored; not regarded with favor; having no countenance or support.
Favorless (a.) Unpropitious; unfavorable.
Favose (a.) Honeycombed. See Faveolate.
Favose (a.) Of or pertaining to the disease called favus.
Favosite (a.) Like or pertaining to the genus Favosites.
Favosites (n.) A genus of fossil corals abundant in the Silurian and Devonian rocks, having polygonal cells with perforated walls.
Favus (n.) A disease of the scalp, produced by a vegetable parasite.
Favus (n.) A tile or flagstone cut into an hexagonal shape to produce a honeycomb pattern, as in a pavement; -- called also favas and sectila.
Fawe (a.) Fain; glad; delighted.
Fawkner (n.) A falconer.
Fawn (n.) A young deer; a buck or doe of the first year. See Buck.
Fawn (n.) The young of an animal; a whelp.
Fawn (n.) A fawn color.
Fawn (a.) Of the color of a fawn; fawn-colored.
Fawn (v. i.) To bring forth a fawn.
Fawned (imp. & p. p.) of Fawn
Fawning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fawn
Fawn (v. i.) To court favor by low cringing, frisking, etc., as a dog; to flatter meanly; -- often followed by on or upon.
Fawn (n.) A servile cringe or bow; mean flattery; sycophancy.
Fawn-colored (a.) Of the color of a fawn; light yellowish brown.