faithworthiness (fath wer"Thines)

Trustworthine . Quarterly Rev. [Rare.] faithworthy (fath'wer" Thi), a. Worthy of faith or belief; trustworthy. Imp. Dict. [Rare.] faitière (fa-tiar'), n. [F. fattière, faitort, faitourt (fa'tor, -tör), n. [ tery.] A di embler; a deceiver; a hypocrite; a rogue; a vagabond. IMG:content-1040.jpg:[blocks in formation] Spenser, F. Q., V. iii. 38. Down, dogs! down, faitors ! Shak ., 2 Hen. IV., ii. 4. faix (fāks), interj . Same as faiks , facks , etc., variations of faith . fakel (fāk), v. t.; pret. and pp. faked, ppr. fak ing. [ME. faken, fold; formerly also fack, Sc. feck, faik; prob. Sic hauns [hands) as you sud ne'er be faik it , Be hain't [spared] wha like. Burns , Second Epistle to Davie. Specifically-2. Naut . , to coil in fakes, as a cable or a shot-line in a faking-box. See fak ing - box . coblez [cables] Frekes [men] one [on] the fore stayne [prow] fakene theire In floynes [see floygene ], and fercestez [see farcost ], and Flemesche schyppes. Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 742. One man may fake a line, but, having to attend to three operations at the same time, does none of them properly. Farrow , Mil. Encyc., [I. 616. IMG:content-1041.png:[blocks in formation] There the folk are music-bitten, and they molest not beggars, unle they fake to boot, and then they drown us out of hand. C. Reade, Cloister and Hearth, lv. 4. To conceal the defects of by artificial means, usually with intent to deceive: as, to fake a dog or a fowl by coloring the hair or feathers. He supposed it was an old one faked over to last until the end of Lent. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury , April 25, 1886. [Slang in all uses.] fake2 (fak), n. [ fake2 , v.] 1. A swindle; a trick.-2. A swindler; a trickster.-3. Same as faker2 , 3. To call such social lepers actors is as illogical and unfair as it would be to call Uriah Heep a man of honor. Profe ionally considered your fake is as unworthy as he is socially. Weekly Republican (Water bury, Conn.), Oct. 15, 1886. 4. The at., any unused or worn-out and worthle piece of property; hence, any odd bit of merchandise sold by street-venders. [Slang all the above senses.] A man in has derived a large revenue from this and similar fakes gotten up for the use of street venders. Sci. Amer., N. S., LIV. 165. 5. A soft-soldering fluid used by jewelers. Gee, Goldsmith's Handbook, p. 140. fake3 (fāk), v. t.; pret. and pp. faked, ppr. fak ing. [Sc., also faik; perhaps [Scotch in all uses.] fakeer, n. See fakir1 . fakement (fak'ment), n. [ fake2 +-ment.] 1. Any act of deceit, fraud, swindling, or thieving; the act of begging under false pretenses; also, a device by which fraud is effected. I cultivated his acquaintance, examined his affairs, and put him up to the neatest little fakement in the world; just showed him how to raise two hundred pounds and clear himself with everybody, just by signing his father's name. H. Kingsley, Geoffry Hamlyn, v. They bought a couple of old ledgers-useful only as waste-paper-a bag to hold money, two ink-bottles, . Thus equipped, they waited on the farmers of the district, and exhibited a fakement (forged document) setting forth parliamentary authority for imposing a upon geese! H. Mayhew , London Labour and London Poor. 2. Any peculiar or artistic production or piece of workmanship. [Slang in both uses.] faker1 (fa'kėr), n. [ fake1 + -er1.] One who fakes; specifically, in the life-saving service, a surfman whose duty it is to fake the shot lines in a faking-box.