FAITH
FAITH, noun [Latin fides, fido, to trust; Gr. to persuade, to draw towards any thing, to conciliate; to believe, to obey. In the Greek Lexicon of Hederic it is said, the primiti...
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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FAITH-BREACH
FA'ITH-BREACH, noun Breach of fidelity; disloyalty; perfidy.
FAITHED
FA'ITHED, adjective Honest; sincere. [Not used.]
FAITHFUL
FA'ITHFUL, adjective1. Firm in adherence to the truth and to the duties of religion.Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. Revelation 2:10.2. Firmly ...
FAITHFULLY
FA'ITHFULLY, adverb1. In a faithful manner; with good faith.2. With strict adherence to allegiance and duty; applied to subjects.3. With strict observance of promises, vows, cov...
FAITHFULNESS
FA'ITHFULNESS, noun1. Fidelity; loyalty; firm adherence to allegiance and duty; as the faithfulness of a subject.2. Truth; veracity; as the faithfulness of God.3. Strict adheren...
FAITHLESS
FA'ITHLESS, adjective1. Without belief in the revealed truths of religion; unbelieving.O faithless generation. Math 18.2. Not believing; not giving credit to.3. Not adhering to ...
FAITHLESSNESS
FA'ITHLESSNESS, noun1. Unbelief, as to revealed religion.2. Perfidy; treachery; disloyalty; as in subjects.3. Violation of promises or covenants; inconstancy; as of husband or w...
FAITOUR
FA'ITOUR, noun [Latin factor.] An evildoer; a scoundrel; a mean fellow. obsolete
FAKE
FAKE, nounOne of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn.
FAKIR
F'AKIR,F'AQUIR, nounA monk in India. The fakirs subject themselves to severe austerities and mortifications. Some of them condemn themselves to a standing posture all their live...
FALCADE
FALCA'DE, noun [Latin falx, a sickle or sythe.]A horse is said to make a falcade when he throws himself on his haunches two or three times, as in very quick curvets; that is a f...
FALCATE
FALC'ATE,FALC'ATED, adjective [Latin falcatus, from faix, a sickly, sythe or reaping hook.]Hooked; bent like a sickle or sythe; an epithet applied to the new moon.
FALCATED
FALC'ATED, a. [L. falcatus, from faix, a sickly, sythe or reaping hook.]Hooked; bent like a sickle or sythe; an epithet applied to the new moon.
FALCATION
FALCA'TION, noun Crookedness; a bending in the form of a sickle.
FALCHION
FAL'CHION, noun fal'chun. a is pronounced as in fall. [Latin falx, a reaping hook.]A short crooked sword; a cimiter.
FALCIFORM
FAL'CIFORMadjective [Latin falx, a reaping hook, and form.]In the shape of a sickle; resembling a reaping hook.
FALCON
FAL'CON, noun Sometimes pronoun fawcon. [Latin falco, a hawk. The falcon is probably so named from its curving beak or talons.]1. A hawk; but appropriately, a hawk trained to sp...
FALCONER
FAL'CONER, noun A person who breeds and trains hawks for taking wild fowls; one who follows the sport of fowling with hawks.
FALCONET
FAL'CONET, noun A small cannon or piece of ordinance, whose diameter at the bore is four inches and a quarter, and carrying shot of one pound and a quarter.
FALCONRY
FAL'CONRY, noun [Latin falco, a hawk.]1. The art of training hawks to the exercise of hawking.2. The practice of taking wild fowls by means of hawks.
FALDAGE
FALD'AGE, noun a as in all. [Low Latin faldagium.]In England, a privilege which anciently several lords reserved to themselves of setting up folds for sheep, in any fields withi...
FALDFEE
FALD'FEE, noun A fee or composition paid anciently by tenants for the privilege of faldage.
FALDING
FALD'ING, noun A kind of course cloth. obsolete
FALDSTOOL
FALD'STOOL, noun [fald or fold and stool.]1. A kind of stool placed at the south side of the altar, at which the kings of England kneel at their coronation.2. The chair of a bis...
FALL
FALL, verb intransitivepreterit tense fell; participle passive fallen. [Latin fallo, to fail, to deceive, Gr.; Heb. to fall Fail agrees better with Heb., but these words may hav...
FALLACIOUS
FALLA'CIOUS, adjective [Latin fallax, from fallo, to deceive. See Fail.]1. Deceptive; deceiving; deceitful; wearing a false appearance; misleading; producing error or mistake; s...