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[ The Kitchen and Gutters, and other Offices of Noise and Drudgery are at the Fag - end. Howell, Letters, I. ii. 8. The account of this is worth more than to be wove into the fag - end of the eighth volume of such a work as this. Sterne, Tristram Shandy, vii. 35. In comes a gentleman in the fag - end of October, dripping with the fogs of that humid and uncertain season. Burke, A Regicide Peace, iv. 3. Naut., the untwisted end of a rope. faggery (fag'er-i), n. [ Faggery was an abuse too venerable and sacred to be touched by profane hands. De Quincey , Autobiog. Sketches, I. 210. faggot, faggoting. See fagot , fagoting . faggyl (fag'i), a. [ fag1 + -yl.] 1. Weak; The run, though short, had been very sharp, and over such awful country that we were completely fagged out , \ flaccid. and could hardly speak for lack of breath. The Century, XXX. 228. IMG:content-1013.png:[blocks in formation] Hood, Retrospective Review. 2. In certain English public schools, as Eton, Harrow, and Winchester, a schoolboy of a low er cla who performs menial services for an Flosche [F.], faggie , weak, soft, as a bonele lump of flesh. Cotgrave. 2. Tiring; fatiguing. faggy2 (fag'i), a. [E. dial.] Having long, coarse gra or fag: said of fields. Wright . Fagopyrum (fag-o-pīrum), n. [NL., fag us , the beech, + Gr. πυρός , wheat: a translation of the E. buckwheat .] A small genus of annual plants, closely allied to Polygonum (in which it is often included), natives of central Asia. The principal species are the common buckwheat, F. esculentum, and the Indian or Tatarian buckwheat, F. Tatari cum , which are cultivated for food. See buckwheat . name of an Irish dance, and the burden of a song. I will have him dance fading .- Fading is a fine jig, I'll a ure you, gentlemen. Beau . and Fl ., Knight of Burning Pestle, iii. 5. Tish marriage bring over a doshen of our besht mayshters, to be merry.. and daunsh a fading at te vedding. B. Jonson, Irish Masque. Not one amongst a hundred will fall, But under her coats the ball will be found, With a fading , etc. Shirley , Bird in a Cage. fading ne (fa'ding-nes), n. Decay; liability to decay. W. Montague.