faucht (facht)

A Scotch variant of fight. faucial (fa's ial), a. [ You have now a ragged ma of ti ue between the fau cial pillars, full of holes and lodging places for food and secretions. Medical News, LII. 382. faucitis (fa-si'tis), n . [NL., fauces , throat, +-it is.] In pathol ., inflammation about the fauces. IMG:content-1144.png:[blocks in formation] The amount of dis- placement of the strata thus occa- sioned may be a few inches or you sands of feet. Faults of a few feet are, however, the most common. Faults are ocса- A zeolitic mineral occurring in colorle octasioned by move- hedral crystals in the amygdaloid of the Kai- serstuhl in southern Baden. It is a hydrous sil- icate of aluminium, calcium, and sodium. faulchiont, n. An obsolete spelling of falchion . faulcont, n. An obsolete spelling of falcon . fauld (fald), v . A dialectal (Scotch) form of fold1 . fauld (fâld), n. 1. A dialectal (Scotch) form of fold1 . Specifically - 2. The tymp-arch or working-arch of a furnace. E. H. Knight . The dike or fence of fauld-dike (fâld'dik), n . a sheepfold. [Scotch.] He's lifted her over the fauld - dyke , And speer'd at her sma' leave. ments of the crust of the earth, and are a part of the complicated phe- nomena by which mountain chains are built up, and continents elevated and depre ed. See slip1 , slide, break. Along the flank of the Grampians a great fault runs from the North Sea at Stone haven to the estuary of the Clyde, throwing the Old Red Sandstone on end sometimes Section showing displacement of strata by a fault. a and a were once a continuous ma of rock. for a distance of two miles from the line of dislocation. J. Croll , Climate and Cosmology, p. 269. 8. In tennis , a stroke by which the server fails to drive the ball into the proper part of his op- faultert (fâl'ter), n. An offender; one who commits a fault. Then she, Behold the faulter here in sight; This hand committed that supposed offence. And correspondence ev'ry way the same, That no fault - finding eye did ever blame. 9. In teleg ., a new path opened to a current by any accident; a derived current, or derivation. of faults, mistakes, or sins. wall, a tree, or another They are technically called faults . R. S. Culley , Pract. Teleg., p. 43. At a fault, faulty; not as it ought to be; deficient. Nares . At fault. (a) Open to censure; blamable: as, the is not at fault in the matter. (6) In hunting , thrown off the scent or the trail; unable to find the scent, as dogs. Hence-(c) Unable to proceed, by reason of soine embar- ra ment or uncertainty; puzzled; out of bearing; astray. The a ociationist theory is... entirely at fault . Reverse fault, in mining , a dislocation of the rocks by a fault of such a character that a part of the bed or vein faulted is brought under another part of the same vein. IMG:content-1145.png:[blocks in formation] Quoted in Hooker's Eccles. Polity, Pref., ii., note. His [Bacon's] faults were - we write it with pain-cold- ne of heart and meanne of spirit. Macaulay , Lord Bacon. To me Sleeping or waking, must I still prevail, Or will you blame, and lay the fault on me? Shak., 1 Hen. VI., ii. 1. O, let me fly, before a prophet's fault . Greene and Lodge , Looking Gla for Lond. and Eng. 6. The act of losing the scent; a lost scent: said of sporting dogs. Saw'st thou not, boy, how Silver made it good At the hedge corner, in the coldest fault ? I would not lose the dog for twenty pound. ter hades in the direction of the downthrow: this is a normal fault. When the hade is in the direction of the upthrow, the fault is said to be "reversed."- To find fault to discover, or perceive and make known, some de- fect, flaw, or matter of censure; find cause blame, com- plaint, or reproach: absolute or followed by with : as, you are always finding fault ; to find fault with fortune. Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault ? Rom. ix. 19. For changing Course, yet never blame the Wind? Cowley, The Mistre , Called Inconstant. But who art thou, O man, that thus find est fault with thy Maker? Stilling fleet , Sermons, I. ii. =Syn. 2. Flaw.-3. Misdeed, misdemeanor, transgres sion, wrong-doing, delinquency, weakne , slip, indiscre- tion. fault (falt), v. [ fauten , tr., lack; from the noun.] I. trans. 11. To lack. To that shall thay noght faut no-thyng truly, So God thaim aide and our Lady Mary! Thys lady hym said, "We faute that we shold haue," Rom. of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 797. 2. To charge with a fault; find fault with; re- proach. [Now rare, and chiefly colloq.] Whom should I fault ? Bp . Hall , Satires, i. 2. That which is to be faulted in this particular is, when the grief is immoderate and unreasonable. Jer. Taylor, Holy Dying, § 8. Having given my reasons for the act which you fault , I must be permitted to turn my. thoughts to more immediate duties. 3. In geol ., to cause a fault in. An undulation which has overturned the folds and has faulted them in some places. Science , I. 101. 4. To scent or see; find out; discover. [Prov. Eng.] Latimer. had faulted rather with untimely art than Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, iii. Greene, George-a-Greene. If she find fault, I mend that fault; and then she says, I faulted , That I did mend it. Shak., Lucrece, 1. 715. Her great heart thro' all the faultful Past Went sorrowing. Tennyson, Prince , vii. faultily (fal'ti-li), adv . In a faulty manner; defectively; imperfectly; wrongly. faultle (fâlt'les), a . [ fautles , fautle ; fault + -le .] Without fault; not defective or imperfect; free from blemish, flaw, or error; free from vice or offense; perfect in all re- spects: as, a faultle poem or picture. He sez hir so glorious, & gayly atyred, So fautles of hir fetures, & of so fyne hewes, Wizt wallande Ioye warmed his hert. Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1761. Whoever thinks a faultle piece to see Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be. Pope , E ay on Criticism, 1. 253. Many statesmen who have committed great faults ap- pear to us to be deserving of more esteem than the fault- le Temple. Macaulay , Sir William Temple. faultle ly (fâlt'les-li), adv . In a faultle man- faultle ne (fâlt'les-nes), n. Freedom from faults or defects. fault-rock (fâlt'rok), n. See friction - breccia . fault worthy (fâlt'wer"ні), а . Blameworthy; reprehensible. D. Thomas , On Ps. xlvii. [Rare.] faulty (fal'ti), a . [ fauty , fawty , adapted (as if faute , fault, + -y1) faut if , faulty, fault , n.] 1. Containing faults, errors, blemishes, or defects; defective; imperfect: as, a faulty composition; a faulty plan or design. B. Jonson, Every Man out of his Humour, ii. 2. fault-block (fâlt'blok), n. In geol . , a part of the earth's crust comprised between two par- allel or nearly parallel faults, and which has been lifted above or sunk below the general level of the adjacent region, as one of the re- sults of the crust-movement during which the bility were not all of them disposed to bear his yoke. faults originated. faulty His [Warren Hastings's] administration was indeed in many respects faulty; but the Bengalee standard of good government was not high. Macaulay, Warren Hastings. 2158 And tho was he cleped and called nouzt holy Cryst, but Iesu A faunt fyn, ful of witte, filius Marie. Piers Plowman (B), xix. 114. From hence he pa es to enquire wherefore I should blame the vices of the Prelats only, seeing the infer i our Clergy is known to be as faulty . etc.; He has fretyne of folke mo thane fyfe hond red the, And als fele fawntekyns of free borne childyre! Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 845. favor