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An American Dictionary of the English Language
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Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Făc'tion·er, n. p. 490One of a faction. [Obs.] The factioners had entered into a conspiracy. Bp. Bancroft.Făc'tion-ist, n. p. 490One who promotes faction.Făc'tious, a. p. 490Given to faction; addicted to form parties and raise dissensions, in opposition to government or the common good; turbulent; prone to clamor against public measures or men; — said of persons.…Făc'tiōūs-ly, adv. p. 490In a factious manner; by means of faction.Făc'tiòus-ness, n. p. 490The state of being factious; inclination to form parties in opposition to the government, or to the public interest. “Friendly without factiousness.” Sidney.Fac-tĭ'tious, a. p. 490Made by art, in distinction from what is produced by nature; artificial; formed by, or adapted to, an artificial or conventional, in distinction from a natural, standard or rule; unnatural; as…Fac-tĭ'tiōus-ly, adv. p. 490In an artificial manner.Fac-tī'tious-ness, n. p. 490The quality of being factitious or artificial.Făc'ti·tive, a. p. 490(Gram.) Pertaining to that relation which is proper when the act, as of a transitive verb, is not merely received by an object, but produces some change in the object; as, he made the water wine.…Făc'tive, a. p. 490Making; having power to make. [Obs.] Bacon.Făc'to, adv. p. 490(Law.) In fact; by the act or fact.Făc'tor, n. p. 490(Com.) One who transacts business for another; an agent; a substitute: especially, a mercantile agent who buys and sells goods and transacts business for others on commission; a commission merchant…Făc'tor-age, n. p. 490The allowance given to a factor by his employer, as a compensation for his services; — called also a commission.Făc'tor-ess, n. p. 490A female factor. Your factoress hath been tampering for my misery. Ford.Fac-tō’ri-al, a. p. 490Pertaining to a factory; consisting in a factory. Buchanan.Fâc'tor-ing, n. p. 490(Math.) The act of resolving into factors. Math. Dict.Făc'tor-ize, v. i. p. 490(Law.) (a.) 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 nor deliver the property of the…Fâc'tor-ship, n. p. 490A factory, or the business of a factor. Sherwood.Făc'to-ry, n. p. 490A house or place where factors, or commercial agents, reside, to transact business for their employers. “The Company's factory at Madras.” Burke. 2. The body of factors in any place; as, a chaplain…Fac-tō'tum, n. p. 490A person employed to do all kinds of work. B. Jonson.Făct'ū-al, a. p. 490Relating to, consisting of, or containing, facts. [Rare.]Făc'tum, n. p. 490(Law.) A man's own act and deed; particularly, (a.) (Civil Law.) Any thing stated and made certain. (b.) (Testamentary Law.) The due execution of a will, including every thing necessary to its…Fāct′ūre, n. p. 490The act or manner of making. [Obs.] Bacon. 2. (Com.) An invoice. Simmonds.Făc'ŭ-læ, n. pl. p. 490(Astron.) Certain bright spots on the sun’s disk, as distinguished from darker ones, called maculæ.Făc'ul-ty, n. p. 490Ability to act or perform, whether inborn or cultivated; capacity for any natural function; especially, an original mental power or capacity for the well-known classes of mental activity; psychical…Fă'cund, a. p. 491Eloquent; persuasive; rhetorical. [Obs.] Chaucer.Fa-cūn'di-ōūs, a. p. 491Eloquent; full of words. [Obs.] Bailey.Fa-cūn'di-ty, n. p. 491Eloquence; readiness of speech. [Obs.]Fād'dle, v. i. p. 491To trifle; to toy; to play; to fiddle. [Low.] Halliwell.Fāde, a. p. 491Weak; slight; faint. [Rare.] “Passages somewhat fade.” Jeffrey. His masculine taste gave him a sense of something fade and ludicrous. De Quincey.Fāde, v. i. p. 491To become fade; to grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant. “We all do fade as a leaf.” Isa. lxiv. 6. “Flowers that never fade.” Milton. 2. To lose…Fāde, v. t. p. 491To cause to wither; to deprive of freshness or vigor; to wear away. No winter could his laurels fade. Dryden.Fād'ed-ly, adv. p. 491In a faded manner; decayedly; poorly. “A dull room fadedly furnished.” Dickens.Fāde'less, a. p. 491Not liable to fade; unfading.Fădġe, v. i. p. 491To come close, as the parts of things united; to fit; to suit; to agree. They shall be made, in spite of antipathy, to fadge together. Milton. Who says his numbers do not fadge aright. Swift.Făd'ge, n. p. 491A sack or pack-sheet; a small flat loaf or thick cake; a fagot. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.Fād'ing, n. p. 491Loss of color, freshness, or vigor; decay; weakness. Sherwood. 2. A variety of dance. [Obs.] “Fading is a fine jig.” Beau. & Fl.Fād'ing-ly, adv. p. 491In a fading manner.Fād'ing-ness, n. p. 491Liability to fade. Mountagu.Fād'y, a. p. 491Losing color or strength. Shenstone.Fæ'cal, a. p. 491See FECAL.Fæ'çes, n. pl. p. 491Excrement; ordure; also, settling; sediment after infusion or distillation.Fæ'c'ū-lā, n. p. 491See FECULA.Fā'er-y, a. or n. p. 491The same as FAIRY. Spenser.Fāf'fle, v. i. p. 491To stammer. [Obs.] Barret.Fāg, n. p. 491One who performs low or menial services for another; a laborious drudge; especially, a school-boy who does menial services for another boy of a higher form or class in English schools. Edgeworth.Fāg, v. i. p. 491To act as a fag; to labor to weariness; to drudge. Read, fag, and subdue this chapter. Coleridge. 2. To become weary; to tire. Creighton withheld his force till the Italian began to fag. Mackenzie.Făg, v. t. p. 491To use or treat as a fag; to beat; to compel to drudge. [Colloq.] Smart. 2. To cause to labor diligently, or like a drudge; to tire by labor; to cause to become exhausted by hard work.Făg, n. p. 491A knot or coarse part in cloth. [Obs.]Făg'-ĕnd', n. p. 491An end of poorer quality, or in a spoiled condition, as the coarser end of a web of cloth, the untwisted end of a rope, and the like. 2. The refuse or meaner part of any thing. “The fag-end of…Făg'ging, n. p. 491Laborious drudgery; especially, the acting as a drudge for another at an English school.Fāg'ot, n. p. 491A bundle of sticks, twigs, or small branches of trees, used for fuel, for raising batteries, filling ditches, or other purposes in fortification; a fascine; also, a single stick, suitable or designed…Fāg'ot, v. t. p. 491To make a fagot of; to tie or bundle together; to bind in a bundle; to collect promiscuously. Dryden.Fa-gōt'to, n. p. 491(Mus.) The bassoon;—so called from being divided into parts for convenience of carriage, making, as it were, a small fagot. Moore.Fäh'lerz, n. p. 491(Min.) Gray copper, or gray copper ore. It contains copper, antimony, arsenic, and sulphur;—called also fahlore.Fāh' lun-ite, n. p. 491(Min.) A mineral formed from iolite by hydration. It consists for the most part of hydrated silicate of alumina, and derives its name from Fahlun, in Sweden, where it is found.Fāhr'en-heit, a. p. 491Pertaining to, or measured by means of, a thermometer commonly used in America and England, having the zero of its scale marked at 32 degrees below the freezing-point of water, and the boiling-point…Faience, n. p. 491A kind of earthen-ware;— a collective name for all the various kinds of glazed earthen-ware and porcelain. Fairholt.Fāil, v. i. p. 491To be wanting; to fall short; to be 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…Fāil, v. t. p. 491To be wanting to; not to supply, or be supplied to, the want, need, call, &c., of; not to be sufficient for; to disappoint; to desert. The inventive god, who never fails his part. Dryden. There shall…