Webster's Dictionary 1828

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FACTIOUSNESS

FAC'TIOUSNESS, noun Inclination to form parties in opposition to the government, or to the public interest; disposition to clamor and raise opposition; clamorousness for a party.

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FACTITIOUS

FACTI'TIOUS, adjective [Latin factitius, from facio.]Made by art, in distinction from what is produced by nature; artificial; as factitious cinnabar; factitious stones; factitio...

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FACTIVE

FAC'TIVE, adjective Making; having power to make. [Not used.]

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FACTOR

FAC'TOR, noun [Latin factor; facio.]1. In commerce, an agent employed by merchants, residing in other places, to buy and sell, and to negotiate bills of exchange, or to transact...

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FACTORAGE

FAC'TORAGE, noun the allowance given to a factor by his employer, as a compensation for his services; called also a commission. This is sometimes a certain sum or rate by the ca...

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FACTORSHIP

FAC'TORSHIP, noun a factory; or the business of a factor.

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FACTORY

FAC'TORY, noun1. A house or place where factors reside, to transact business for their employers. The English merchants have factories in the East Indies, Turkey, Portugal, Hamb...

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FACTOTUM

FACTO'TUM, noun [Latin do every thing.] a servant employed to do all kinds of work.

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FACTURE

FAC'TURE, noun The art or manner of making.

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FACULTY

FAC'ULTY, noun [Latin facultas, from facio, to make.]1. That power of the mind or intellect which enables it to receive, revive or modify perceptions; as the faculty of seeing, ...

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FACUND

FAC'UND, adjective [Latin facundus, supposed to be from the root of for, fari, to speak. If so the original word was faco, or facor.]Eloquent. [Little used.]

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FACUNDITY

FACUND'ITY, noun [Latin facunditas.] Eloquence; readiness of speech.

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FADDLE

FAD'DLE, verb intransitive To trifle; to toy; to play. [A low word.]

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FADE

FADE, adjective Weak; slight; faint. [Not in use.]FADE, verb intransitive1. To lose color; to tend from a stronger or brighter color to a more faint shade of the same color, or ...

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FADED

FA'DED, participle passive Become less vivid, as color; withered; decayed; vanished.

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FADGE

FADGE, verb intransitive [Latin pango, pegi, pepegi, figo; Gr.]1. To suit; to fit; to come close, as the parts of things united. Hence, to have one part consistent with another....

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FADING

FA'DING, participle present tense [See Fade.]1. Losing color; becoming less vivid; decaying; declining; withering.2.adjective Subject to decay; liable to lose freshness and vigo...

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FADINGNESS

FA'DINGNESS, noun Decay; liableness to decay.

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FADY

FA'DY, adjective Wearing away; losing color or strength.

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FAECAL

FAECAL, adjective [See Fecal.]

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FAECES

FAE'CES, noun [Latin] Excrement; also, settlings; sediment after infusion or distillation.

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FAFFEL

FAF'FEL, verb intransitive To stammer. [Not in use.]

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FAG

FAG, verb transitive To beat. [Not in use.]FAG, noun A slave; one who works hard. [Not in use.]FAG, verb intransitive [Heb. to fail, to languish.]To become weary; to fail in str...

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FAGEND

FAGEND', noun [fag and end. See Fag, verb intransitive supra.]1. The end of a web of cloth, generally of coarser materials.2. The refuse or meaner part of any thing.3. Among sea...

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FAGOT

FAG'OT, noun [Gr. See Fadge. The sense is a bundle or collection, like pack.]1. A bundle of sticks, twigs or small branches of trees, used for fuel, or for raising batteries, fi...

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FAHLERZ

F'AHLERZ, noun Gray copper, or gray copper ore, called by Jameson tetrahedral copper pyrite. This mineral is easily broken, and its fracture usually uneven, but sometimes a litt...

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FAHLUNITE

F'AHLUNITE, nounAutomalite, a subspecies of octahedral corundum.