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Fatherhood (?), n. The state of being a father; the character or authority of a father; paternity.
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Father-in-law (?), n.; pl. Fathers-in-law (�). The father of one's husband or wife; -- correlative to son-in-law and daughter-in-law.
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☞ A man who marries a woman having children already, is sometimes, though erroneously, called their father-in-law.
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Fatherland (?), n. [Imitated fr. D. vaderland. See , and .] One's native land; the native land of one's fathers or ancestors.
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Father-lasher (?), n. (Zoöl.) A European marine fish (Cottus bubalis), allied to the sculpin; -- called also lucky proach.
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Fatherless, a. 1. Destitute of a living father; as, a fatherless child.
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2. Without a known author. Beau. & Fl.
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Fatherlessness, n. The state of being without a father.
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Fatherliness (?), n. [From .] The qualities of a father; parantal kindness, care, etc.
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Father longlegs (?). (Zoöl.) See , 2.
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Fatherly, a. 1. Like a father in affection and care; paternal; tender; protecting; careful.
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You have showed a tender, fatherly regard. Shak.
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2. Of or pertaining to a father.
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Fathership, n. The state of being a father; fatherhood; paternity.
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Fathom (fă�ŭm), n. [OE. fadme, faðme, AS. fæðm fathom, the embracing arms; akin to OS. faðmos the outstretched arms, D. vadem, vaam, fathom, OHG. fadom, fadum, G. faden fathom, thread, Icel. faðmr fathom, Sw. famn, Dan. favn; cf. Gr. ���������� to spread out, ������� outspread, flat, L. patere to lie open, extend. Cf. , .] 1. A measure of length, containing six feet; the space to which a man can extend his arms; -- used chiefly in measuring cables, cordage, and the depth of navigable water by soundings.
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2. The measure or extant of one's capacity; depth, as of intellect; profundity; reach; penetration. [R.]
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Another of his fathom they have none
To lead their business. Shak.
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Fathom, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fathomed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Fathoming.] 1. To encompass with the arms extended or encircling; to measure by throwing the arms about; to span. [Obs.] Purchas.
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2. To measure by a sounding line; especially, to sound the depth of; to penetrate, measure, and comprehend; to get to the bottom of. Dryden.
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The page of life that was spread out before me seemed dull and commonplace, only because I had not fathomed its deeper import. Hawthotne.
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Fathomable (?), a. Capable of being fathomed.
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Fathomer (?), n. One who fathoms.
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Fathomless, a. 1. Incapable of being fathomed; immeasurable; that can not be sounded.
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And buckle in a waist most fathomless. Shak.
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2. Incomprehensible.
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The fathomless absurdity. Milton.
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Fatidical (?), a. [L. fatidicus; fatum fate + dicere to say, tell.] Having power to foretell future events; prophetic; fatiloquent; as, the fatidical oak. [R.] Howell. -- Fatidically, adv.
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Fatiferous (?), a. [L. fatifer; fatum fate + ferre to bear, bring.] Fate-bringing; deadly; mortal; destructive. [R.] Johnson.
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Fatigable (?), a. [L. fatigabilis: cf. F. fatigable. See .] Easily tired. [Obs.] Bailey.
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Fatigate (?), a. [L. fatigatus, p. p. of fatigare. See Fatigue.] Wearied; tired; fatigued. [Obs.]
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Requickened what in flesh was fatigate. Shak.
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Fatigate (?), v. t. To weary; to tire; to fatigue. [Obs.] Sir T. Elyot.
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Fatigation (?), n. [L. fatigatio: cf. OF. fatigation.] Weariness. [Obs.] W. Montaqu.
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Fatigue (?), n. [F., fr. fatiguer to fatigue, L. fatigare; cf. L. affatim sufficiently.] 1. Weariness from bodily labor or mental exertion; lassitude or exhaustion of strength.
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2. The cause of weariness; labor; toil; as, the fatigues of war. Dryden.
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3. The weakening of a metal when subjected to repeated vibrations or strains.
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Coloq. Fatigue call (Mil.), a summons, by bugle or drum, to perform fatigue duties. -- Coloq. Fatigue dress , the working dress of soldiers. -- Coloq. Fatigue duty (Mil.), labor exacted from soldiers aside from the use of arms. Farrow. -- Coloq. Fatigue party , a party of soldiers on fatigue duty.
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Fatigue, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fatigued (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Fatiguing, n.] [Cf. F. fatiguer. See , n.] To weary with labor or any bodily or mental exertion; to harass with toil; to exhaust the strength or endurance of; to tire.

Syn. -- To jade; tire; weary; bore. See .
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Fatiloquent (?), a. [See .] Prophetic; fatidical. [Obs.] Blount.
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Fatiloquist (?), n. [L. fatiloquus declaring fate; fatum fate+ Loqui to speak.] A fortune teller.

{ Fatimite (?), Fatimide (?) }, a. (Hist.) Descended from Fatima, the daughter and only child of Mohammed. -- n. A descendant of Fatima.
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Fatiscence (?), n. [L. fatiscense, p. pr. of fatiscere to gape or crack open.] A gaping or opening; state of being chinky, or having apertures. Kirwan.
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Fat-kidneyed (?), a. Gross; lubberly.
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Peace, ye fat-kidneyed rascal ! Shak.
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Fatling (?), n. [Fat + -ling.] A calf, lamb, kid, or other young animal fattened for slaughter; a fat animal; -- said of such animals as are used for food.
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He sacrificed oxen and fatlings. 2 Sam. vi. 13.
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Fatly, adv. Grossly; greasily.
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Fatner (?), n. One who fattens. [R.] See . Arbuthnit.
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Fatness, n. 1. The quality or state of being fat, plump, or full-fed; corpulency; fullness of flesh.
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Their eyes stand out with fatness. Ps. lxxiii. 7.
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2. Hence; Richness; fertility; fruitfulness.
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Rich in the fatness of her plenteous soil. Rowe.
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3. That which makes fat or fertile.
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The clouds drop fatness. Philips.
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fatso n. a rotund, obese individual.
Syn. -- fatty, fat person, roly-poly.
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Fatten (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fattened (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Fattening (?).] [See , v. t.] 1. To make fat; to feed for slaughter; to make fleshy or plump with fat; to fill full; to fat.
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2. To make fertile and fruitful; to enrich; as, to fatten land; to fatten fields with blood. Dryden.
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Fatten, v. i. To grow fat or corpulent; to grow plump, thick, or fleshy; to be pampered.
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And villains fatten with the brave man's labor. Otway.
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fattened adj. fed until grown and ready for slaughter or for sale in the market; -- of market animals.
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Fattener (?), n. One who, or that which, fattens; that which gives fatness or fertility.
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Fattiness (?), n. State or quality of being fatty.
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Fattish (?), a. Somewhat fat; inclined to fatness.
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Coleridge, a puffy, anxious, obstructed-looking, fattish old man. Carlyle.
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fattism n. discrimination against people who are overweight.
Syn. -- fatism.
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Fatty (?), a. Containing fat, or having the qualities of fat; greasy; gross; as, a fatty substance.
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Coloq. Fatty acid (Chem.), any one of the paraffin series of monocarbonic acids, as formic acid, acetic, etc.; -- so called because the higher members, as stearic and palmitic acids, occur in the natural fats, and are themselves fatlike substances. -- Coloq. Fatty clays . See under . -- Coloq. Fatty degeneration (Med.), a diseased condition, in which the oil globules, naturally present in certain organs, are so multiplied as gradually to destroy and replace the efficient parts of these organs. -- Coloq. Fatty heart , Coloq. Fatty liver , etc. (Med.), a heart, liver, etc., which have been the subjects of fatty degeneration or infiltration. -- Coloq. Fatty infiltration (Med.), a condition in which there is an excessive accumulation of fat in an organ, without destruction of any essential parts of the latter. -- Coloq. Fatty tumor (Med.), a tumor consisting of fatty or adipose tissue; lipoma.
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Fatuitous (?), a. Stupid; fatuous.
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Fatuity (?), n. [L. fatuitas, fr. fatuus foolish: cf. F. fatuité Cf. .] Weakness or imbecility of mind; stupidity.
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Those many forms of popular fatuity. I Taylor.
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Fatuous (?), a. [L. fatuus.] 1. Feeble in mind; weak; silly; stupid; foolish; fatuitous. Glanvill.
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2. Without reality; illusory, like the ignis fatuus.
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Thence fatuous fires and meteors take their birth. Danham.
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fatuousness n. a ludicrous folly.
Syn. -- absurdity, fatuity, silliness.
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fatwa, fatwah (?), n. Same as .
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Fat-witted (?), a. Dull; stupid. Shak.
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Faubourg (fōb�r; E. fōb�rg), n. [F.] A suburb of a French city; also, a district now within a city, but formerly without its walls.
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Faucal (?), a. [L. fauces throat.] Pertaining to the fauces, or opening of the throat; faucial; esp., (Phon.) produced in the fauces, as certain deep guttural sounds found in the Semitic and some other languages.
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Ayin is the most difficult of the faucals. I. Taylor (The Alphabet).
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Fauces (?), n. pl. [L.] 1. (Anat.) The narrow passage from the mouth to the pharynx, situated between the soft palate and the base of the tongue; -- called also the isthmus of the fauces. On either side of the passage two membranous folds, called the pillars of the fauces, inclose the tonsils.
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2. (Bot.) The throat of a calyx, corolla, etc.
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3. (Zoöl.) That portion of the interior of a spiral shell which can be seen by looking into the aperture.
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Faucet (?), n. [F. fausset, perh. fr. L. fauces throat.] 1. A fixture for drawing a liquid, as water, molasses, oil, etc., from a pipe, cask, or other vessel, in such quantities as may be desired; -- called also tap, and cock. It consists of a tubular spout, stopped with a movable plug, spigot, valve, or slide.
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2. The enlarged end of a section of pipe which receives the spigot end of the next section.
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Fauchion (?), n. See . [Obs.]
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Faucial (?), a. (Anat.) Pertaining to the fauces; pharyngeal.
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Faugh (?), interj. [Cf. .] An exclamation of contempt, disgust, or abhorrence.
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Faulchion (?), n. See .
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Faulcon (?), n. (Zoöl.) See .
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Fauld (?), n. The arch over the dam of a blast furnace; the tymp arch.
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Faule (?), n. A fall or falling band. [Obs.]
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These laces, ribbons, and these faules. Herrick.
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Fault (?), n. [OE. faut, faute, F. faute (cf. It., Sp., & Pg. falta), fr. a verb meaning to want, fail, freq., fr. L. fallere to deceive. See , and cf. .] 1. Defect; want; lack; default.
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One, it pleases me, for fault of a better, to call my friend. Shak.
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2. Anything that fails, that is wanting, or that impairs excellence; a failing; a defect; a blemish.
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As patches set upon a little breach
Discredit more in hiding of the fault. Shak.
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3. A moral failing; a defect or dereliction from duty; a deviation from propriety; an offense less serious than a crime.
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4. (Geol. & Mining) (a) A dislocation of the strata of the vein. (b) In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam; as, slate fault, dirt fault, etc. Raymond.
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5. (Hunting) A lost scent; act of losing the scent.
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Ceasing their clamorous cry till they have singled,
With much ado, the cold fault cleary out. Shak.
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6. (Tennis) Failure to serve the ball into the proper court.
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7. (Elec.) A defective point in an electric circuit due to a crossing of the parts of the conductor, or to contact with another conductor or the earth, or to a break in the circuit.
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8. (Geol. & Mining) A dislocation caused by a slipping of rock masses along a plane of facture; also, the dislocated structure resulting from such slipping.

The surface along which the dislocated masses have moved is called the Coloq. fault plane . When this plane is vertical, the fault is a Coloq. vertical fault ; when its inclination is such that the present relative position of the two masses could have been produced by the sliding down, along the fault plane, of the mass on its upper side, the fault is a Coloq. normal fault , or Coloq. gravity fault . When the fault plane is so inclined that the mass on its upper side has moved up relatively, the fault is then called a Coloq. reverse fault (or Coloq. reversed fault ), Coloq. thrust fault , or Coloq. overthrust fault . If no vertical displacement has resulted, the fault is then called a Coloq. horizontal fault . The linear extent of the dislocation measured on the fault plane and in the direction of movement is the Coloq. displacement ; the vertical displacement is the Coloq. throw ; the horizontal displacement is the Coloq. heave . The direction of the line of intersection of the fault plane with a horizontal plane is the Coloq. trend of the fault. A fault is a Coloq. strike fault when its trend coincides approximately with the strike of associated strata (i.e., the line of intersection of the plane of the strata with a horizontal plane); it is a Coloq. dip fault when its trend is at right angles to the strike; an Coloq. oblique fault when its trend is oblique to the strike. Oblique faults and dip faults are sometimes called Coloq. cross faults . A series of closely associated parallel faults are sometimes called Coloq. step faults and sometimes Coloq. distributive faults .
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Coloq. At fault , unable to find the scent and continue chase; hence, in trouble or embarrassment, and unable to proceed; puzzled; thrown off the track. -- Coloq. To find fault , to find reason for blaming or complaining; to express dissatisfaction; to complain; -- followed by with before the thing complained of; but formerly by at. “Matter to find fault at.” Robynson (More's Utopia).

Syn. -- -- Error; blemish; defect; imperfection; weakness; blunder; failing; vice. -- , , , . A fault is positive, something morally wrong; a failing is negative, some weakness or falling short in a man's character, disposition, or habits; a defect is also negative, and as applied to character is the absence of anything which is necessary to its completeness or perfection; a foible is a less important weakness, which we overlook or smile at. A man may have many failings, and yet commit but few faults; or his faults and failings may be few, while his foibles are obvious to all. The faults of a friend are often palliated or explained away into mere defects, and the defects or foibles of an enemy exaggerated into faults. “I have failings in common with every human being, besides my own peculiar faults; but of avarice I have generally held myself guiltless.” Fox. “Presumption and self-applause are the foibles of mankind.” Waterland.
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Fault (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Faulted; p. pr. & vb. n. Faulting.] 1. To charge with a fault; to accuse; to find fault with; to blame. [Obs.]
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For that I will not fault thee. Old Song.
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2. (Geol.) 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.
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Fault, v. i. To err; to blunder, to commit a fault; to do wrong. [Obs.]
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If after Samuel's death the people had asked of God a king, they had not faulted. Latimer.
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Faulter (?), n. One who commits a fault. [Obs.]
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Behold the faulter here in sight. Fairfax.
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Fault-finder (?), n. One who makes a practice of discovering others' faults and censuring them; a scold.
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Fault-finding, n. The act of finding fault or blaming; -- used derogatively. Also Adj.
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Faultful (?), a. Full of faults or sins. Shak.
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Faultily (?), adv. In a faulty manner.
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Faultiness, n. Quality or state of being faulty.
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Round, even to faultiness. Shak.
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Faulting, n. (Geol.) The state or condition of being faulted; the process by which a fault is produced.
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Faultless, a. Without fault; not defective or imperfect; free from blemish; free from incorrectness, vice, or offense; perfect; as, a faultless poem.
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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see,
Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be. Pope.

Syn. -- Blameless; spotless; perfect. See .

-- Faultlessly, adv.-Faultlessness, n.
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Faulty (?), a. 1. Containing faults, blemishes, or defects; imperfect; not fit for the use intended.
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Created once
So goodly and erect, though faulty since. Milton.
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2. Guilty of a fault, or of faults; hence, blamable; worthy of censure. Shak.
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The king doth speak . . . as one which is faulty. 2 Sam. xiv. 13.
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Faun (?), n. [L. Faunus, fr. favere to be favorable. See .] (Rom. Myth.) A god of fields and shipherds, diddering little from the satyr. The fauns are usually represented as half goat and half man.
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Satyr or Faun, or Sylvan. Milton.
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Fauna (?), n. [NL.: cf. F. faune. See .] (Zoöl.) The animals of any given area or epoch; as, the fauna of America; fossil fauna; recent fauna.
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Faunal (?), a. Relating to fauna.
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Faunist (?), n. One who describes the fauna of country; a naturalist. Gilbert White.
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Faunus (?), n.;pl. Fauni (#). [L.] (Myth.) See .
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Fausen (?), n. [Cf. W. llysowen eel, ll sounding in Welsh almost like fl.] (Zoöl.) A young eel. [Prov. Eng.]
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Fausse-braye (?), n. [F. fausse-braie.] (Mil.) A second rampart, exterior to, and parallel to, the main rampart, and considerably below its level.
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Faust (foust). 1. A tragedy by Goethe, commenced in 1772, and published. as “Faust, ein Fragment” in 1790. Part 1, complete, was published as Faust, eine Tragödie in 1808; part 2, finished in 1831, was published in 1833. It has been translated into English by Bayard Taylor, Blackie, Anster, Hayward, Martin, and others (nearly 40 in all). Goethe accomplished the transformation of Faust from a common necromancer and conjurer into a personification of humanity, tempted and disquieted, but at length groping its way to the light. See .
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2. An opera by Gounod (words, after Goethe, by Carré and Barbier) represented at the Théâtre Lyrique, Paris, March 19, 1859.
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3. An opera by Spohr, first produced at Frankfurt in 1818. The words, which do not follow Goethe's play, are by Bernhard.
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Faust, Faustus n. an alchemist of German legend who sold his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge.
Syn. -- Faust.
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Faust, or Faustus (fâstus)., Doctor Johann Faust, a person born at Kundling (Knittlingen), Würtemberg, or at Roda, near Weimar, and said to have died in 1588. He was a man of licentious character, a magician, astrologer, and soothsayer, who boasted of performing the miracles of Christ. It was believed that he was carried off at last by the devil, who had lived with him in the form of a black dog.
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☞ The legends of Faust were gathered from the then recent traditions concerning him in a book which appeared at the book-fair at Frankfurt-on-the-Main in 1587. It was called The History of Dr. Faustus, the Notorious Magician and Master of the Black Art, etc. Soon after its appearance it became known in England.

A metrical version of it into English was licensed by Aylmer, Bishop of London, before the end of the year. In 1588 there was a rimed version of it into German, also a translation into low German, and a new edition of the original with some slight changes. In 1689 there appeared a version of the first German Faust book into, French, by Victor Palma Cayet. The English prose version was made from the second edition of the original, that of 1588, and is undated, but probably was made at once. There was a revised edition of it in 1592. In 1592 there was a Dutch translation from the second German edition. This gives the time of the carrying off of Faustus by the devil as the night between the twenty-third and twenty-fourth of October, 1538. The English version also gives 1538 as the year, and it is a date, as we have seen, consistent with trustworthy references to his actual life. Marlowe's play (' The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus ') was probably written in 1588, soon after the original story had found its way to England. He treated the legend as a poet, bringing out with all his power its central thought -- man in the pride of knowledge turning from his God. (Morley, Eng. Writers, IX. 254.)

This play was brought to Germany about the beginning of the 17th century, and, after passing through various developments on the stage, finally became a puppet-play, which is still in existence. Lessing wrote parts of two versions of the story. Müller, the painter, published two fragments of his dramatized life of Faust in 1778. Goethe's tragedy (which see) was not published till 1808. Klinger published a romance Faust's Leben, Thaten und Höllenfahrt (1791: Borrow translated it in 1826). Klingemann published a tragedy on the subject (1815), Heine a ballet Der Doctor Faust, ein Tanzpoem (1851), and Lenau an epic Faust (1836). W. G. Wills adapted a play from Goethe's Faust, which Henry Irving produced in 1885. Calderon's play El Magico Prodigioso strongly resembles Goethe's and Marlowe's plays, though founded on the legend of St. Cyprian.
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Fauteuil (?), n. [F. See .] 1. An armchair; hence (because the members sit in fauteuils or armchairs), membership in the French Academy.
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2. Chair of a presiding officer.
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Fautor (?), n. [L., contr. fr. favitor, fr. favere to be favorable: cf. F. fauteur. See .] A favorer; a patron; one who gives countenance or support; an abettor. [Obs.]
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The king and the fautors of his proceedings. Latimer.
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Fautress (?), n. [L. fauutrix: cf. F. fautrice.] A patroness. [Obs.] Chapman.
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Fauvette (fōvĕt), n. [F., dim. fr. fauve fawn-colored.] (Zoöl.) A small singing bird, as the nightingale and warblers.
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