Faded (imp. & p. p.) of Fade
Fading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fade
Fade (a.) To become fade; to grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.
Fade (a.) To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color.
Fade (a.) To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish.
Fade (v. t.) To cause to wither; to deprive of freshness or vigor; to wear away.
Faded (a.) That has lost freshness, color, or brightness; grown dim.
Fadedly (adv.) In a faded manner.
Fadeless (a.) Not liable to fade; unfading.
Fader (n.) Father.
Fadge (a.) To fit; to suit; to agree.
Fadge (n.) A small flat loaf or thick cake; also, a fagot.
Fading (a.) Losing freshness, color, brightness, or vigor.
Fading (n.) Loss of color, freshness, or vigor.
Fading (n.) An Irish dance; also, the burden of a song.
Fadme (n.) A fathom.
Fady (a.) Faded.
Faecal (a.) See Fecal.
Faeces (n.pl.) Excrement; ordure; also, settlings; sediment after infusion or distillation.
Faecula (n.) See Fecula.
Faery (n. & a.) Fairy.
Faffle (v. i.) To stammer.
Fag (n.) A knot or coarse part in cloth.
Fagged (imp. & p. p.) of Fag
Fagging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fag
Fag (v. i.) To become weary; to tire.
Fag (v. i.) To labor to wearness; to work hard; to drudge.
Fag (v. i.) To act as a fag, or perform menial services or drudgery, for another, as in some English schools.
Fag (v. t.) To tire by labor; to exhaust; as, he was almost fagged out.
Fag (v. t.) Anything that fatigues.
Fagend (n.) 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, ect.
Fagend (n.) The refuse or meaner part of anything.
Fagging (n.) Laborious drudgery; esp., the acting as a drudge for another at an English school.
Fagot (n.) A bundle of sticks, twigs, or small branches of trees, used for fuel, for raising batteries, filling ditches, or other purposes in fortification; a fascine.
Fagot (n.) A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a pile.
Fagot (n.) A bassoon. See Fagotto.
Fagot (n.) A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company.
Fagot (n.) An old shriveled woman.
Fagoted (imp. & p. p.) of Fagot
Fagoting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fagot
Fagot (v. t.) To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle; also, to collect promiscuously.
Fagotto (n.) The bassoon; -- so called from being divided into parts for ease of carriage, making, as it were, a small fagot.
Faham (n.) The leaves of an orchid (Angraecum fragrans), of the islands of Bourbon and Mauritius, used (in France) as a substitute for Chinese tea.
Fahlband (n.) A stratum in crystalline rock, containing metallic sulphides.
Fahlerz (n.) Alt. of Fahlband
Fahlband (n.) Same as Tetrahedrite.
Fahlunite (n.) A hydration of iolite.
Fahrenheit (a.) Conforming to the scale used by Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit in the graduation of his thermometer; of or relating to Fahrenheit's thermometric scale.
Fahrenheit (n.) The Fahrenheit termometer or scale.
Faience (n.) Glazed earthenware; esp., that which is decorated in color.
Failed (imp. & p. p.) of Fail
Failing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fail
Fail (v. i.) To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expected manner, or to be altogether cut off from supply; to be lacking; as, streams fail; crops fail.
Fail (v. i.) To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; -- used with of.
Fail (v. i.) To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.
Fail (v. i.) To deteriorate in respect to vigor, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker; as, a sick man fails.
Fail (v. i.) To perish; to die; -- used of a person.
Fail (v. i.) To be found wanting with respect to an action or a duty to be performed, a result to be secured, etc.; to miss; not to fulfill expectation.
Fail (v. i.) To come short of a result or object aimed at or desired ; to be baffled or frusrated.
Fail (v. i.) To err in judgment; to be mistaken.
Fail (v. i.) To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent.
Fail (v. t.) To be wanting to ; to be insufficient for; to disappoint; to desert.
Fail (v. t.) To miss of attaining; to lose.
Fail (v. i.) Miscarriage; failure; deficiency; fault; -- mostly superseded by failure or failing, except in the phrase without fail.
Fail (v. i.) Death; decease.
Failance (n.) Fault; failure; omission.
Failing (n.) A failing short; a becoming deficient; failure; deficiency; imperfection; weakness; lapse; fault; infirmity; as, a mental failing.
Failing (n.) The act of becoming insolvent of bankrupt.
Faille (n.) A soft silk, heavier than a foulard and not glossy.
Failure (n.) Cessation of supply, or total defect; a failing; deficiency; as, failure of rain; failure of crops.
Failure (n.) Omission; nonperformance; as, the failure to keep a promise.
Failure (n.) Want of success; the state of having failed.
Failure (n.) Decay, or defect from decay; deterioration; as, the failure of memory or of sight.
Failure (n.) A becoming insolvent; bankruptcy; suspension of payment; as, failure in business.
Failure (n.) A failing; a slight fault.
Fain (a.) Well-pleased; glad; apt; wont; fond; inclined.
Fain (a.) Satisfied; contented; also, constrained.
Fain (adv.) With joy; gladly; -- with wold.
Fain (v. t. & i.) To be glad ; to wish or desire.
Faineant (a.) Doing nothing; shiftless.
Faineant (n.) A do-nothing; an idle fellow; a sluggard.
Faint (superl.) Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, faint with fatigue, hunger, or thirst.
Faint (superl.) Wanting in courage, spirit, or energy; timorous; cowardly; dejected; depressed; as, "Faint heart ne'er won fair lady."
Faint (superl.) Lacking distinctness; hardly perceptible; striking the senses feebly; not bright, or loud, or sharp, or forcible; weak; as, a faint color, or sound.
Faint (superl.) Performed, done, or acted, in a weak or feeble manner; not exhibiting vigor, strength, or energy; slight; as, faint efforts; faint resistance.
Faint (n.) The act of fainting, or the state of one who has fainted; a swoon. [R.] See Fainting, n.
Fainted (imp. & p. p.) of Faint
Fainting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Faint
Faint (v. i.) To become weak or wanting in vigor; to grow feeble; to lose strength and color, and the control of the bodily or mental functions; to swoon; -- sometimes with away. See Fainting, n.
Faint (n.) To sink into dejection; to lose courage or spirit; to become depressed or despondent.
Faint (n.) To decay; to disappear; to vanish.
Faint (v. t.) To cause to faint or become dispirited; to depress; to weaken.
Fainthearted (a.) Wanting in courage; depressed by fear; easily discouraged or frightened; cowardly; timorous; dejected.
Fainting (n.) 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.
Faintish (a.) Slightly faint; somewhat faint.
Faintling (a.) Timorous; feeble-minded.
Faintly (adv.) In a faint, weak, or timidmanner.
Faintness (n.) The state of being faint; loss of strength, or of consciousness, and self-control.
Faintness (n.) Want of vigor or energy.
Faintness (n.) Feebleness, as of color or light; lack of distinctness; as, faintness of description.