fag some ness, fagsumness

[English fagsome; -ne .] The quality of being tiring or fatiguing. cific gravity 2-6-2-8; hardne 3.5-5. Hard Fahlunite : Min.: The same as IOLITE (q. v.). Fah-ren-he it, s. & a. [See A.] A. As subst.: Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, a philosophical instrument maker of Amsterdam, who was born at Danzig, toward the end of the seventeenth century, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1724, and died in 1740. B. As adj .: According to the scale introduced by Fahrenheit for the graduation of his thermometers. This numbers the freezing point of water at 32°, i. e., at 32° above zero (q. v.), and the boiling point of water at 212°, leaving 180° between them. Fah renheit introduced his scale in A. D. 1714. It is still used in this country, England, and Holland, though the Centigrade thermometer, which is much employed on the continent of Europe, is gradually displacing it, at least among scientific men. [THERMOMETER.] *faie, v . i . [A.S.fégan.] [FADGE.] To prosper, to succeed.