fag4 (fag)

A mink. [U. S.] They [swans], it is said, fancy themselves in pursuit of some animal, as the fag , or mink, by which their young are annoyed at their breeding places. New Mirror (New York), III. (1843). fagaryt, n. An obsolete variant of vagary . She was stark mad for that young fellow Paris, And after him she danc'd the new fagaries . Ovid Traves tie (1681), p. 25. faget, v. [ME. fagen, later faggen; origin obscure.] I. in trans. To flatter; feign; talk deceit. It is manere of ypocritis and of sophistes to fage and to speke plesantli to men, but for yvel entent. Wyclif , Select Works (ed. Arnold), I. 44. Sir, in faith vs fallith not to fage , Thai are t[r]yst men and true that we telle zou. York Plays , р. 324. = fagot, faggot (fag'ot), n. [ fagott , fag at (ML. fagotum , fagatum ), fagot , It. fagotto , fan got to , a bundle of sticks; origin fagot , F. fagot A bundle of sticks, twigs, or small branches of ffagod , fagot, is from E.] 1. trees, used for fuel or for other purposes, as in fortifications; a fascine; as a definite amount of wood, a bundle 3 feet long and 24 inches round. See cut under fascine . And hark ye, sirs; because she is a maid, Spare for no fagots , let there be enow; Place barrels of pitch upon the fatal stake, That so her torture may be shortened. Shak., 1 Hen. VI., v. 4. 2. The punishment of burning alive, as for heresy; the stake: from the use of fagots of wood in making the fire. We could not say heaven was kept from us, when we might have it for a fagot, and when even our enemies helped us to it. Donne, Sermons, xvii. 3. A bundle of pieces of iron or steel, ready to be welded and drawn out into bars; as a definite amount of such metal, 120 pounds avoirdupois.-4. A person formerly hired to take the place of another at the muster of a military company, or to hide deficiency in its number when it was not full. [Eng.] There were several counterfeit books which were carved in wood, and served only to fill up the number like fagots in the muster of a regiment. Add is on , Spectator, No. 37. 5. A badge worn in medieval times by those who had recanted their heretical opinions. It was designed to show what they had merited but narrowly escaped. Brewer .-6. A heap of fishes piled up for the night on the drying flakes; a bundle of fish, about 100, taken from the flakes and put under shelter at night.- To burn one's fagot, to recant heresy: from the custom of obliging one who had escaped the stake by recanting his errors to carry a fagot publicly and burn it. A representation of a fagot was worn on the sleeve by repentant heretics, as a symbol that they had recanted opinions worthy of burning. fagot, faggot (fag'ot), v. t. [ The philosophies of every one throughout by themselves, and not by titles packed and faggot ted up together, as hath been done by Plutarch. Bacon, Advancement of Learning, ii. 180. tied together in the middle. This is continued until all the threads are tied into fagots. The term is also ap- fagot-stickt (fag'ot-stik), n. A staff. Brave Brag a doc i a, whom the world doth threaten, Was lately with a faggot - sticke sore beaten. fahl-ore (fäl'or), n. Same as fahlerz . fahlunite (fä'lun-it), n. [ Fahlun in Sweden +-ite2.] A hydrated silicate of aluminium, of a greenish color and micaceous structure. It occurs in prisms often six or twelve-sided, having the form of the iolite crystals from which it has been derived by pseudomorphism. Fahr. An abbreviation of Fahrenheit . Fahrenheit (far'en-hit), a. [After Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit , a native of Dantzic, who first made the instrument in Amsterdam, about 1720.] The name distinguishing the kind of thermometer-scale in most common use in Great Britain and the United States, in which the space between the freezing and the boiling point of water, under the standard pre ure of the atmosphere, is divided into 180°, the freez- ing-point being marked 32°, and the boiling point 212°: as, a temperature of 60° Fahrenheit (that is, according to the Fahrenheit scale). Each degree of the centigrade scale equals 1.8 degrees Fahren- he it, the centigrade zero being at the freezing-point, or 32° Fahrenheit. Abbreviated F. and Fahr . See thermometer and centigrade. faience (F. pron. fa-yons'), n. [= G. faience = Dan. fajence = Sw. fajans , faïence , faenza , i. e., por cell an a di Faenza , earthen ware of Faenza, a city in Italy. The L. name of Faenza was Faventia , faven ( t- ) s , ppr. of fa- vere , be well disposed, be favorable: see favor .] A fine kind of pottery or earthenware, glazed, and painted with designs, said to have been invented in Faenza, Italy, in 1299. The term is loosely used for any ware between porcelain and common unglazed pottery, especially any such ware of French ori- gin, as Moustiers faience, Rouen faience, etc. Common or Italian faience has a soft body and a thin glaze, and re- ceives two firings. A fine faience, also called English fai- ence, was invented by Josiah Wedgwood in 1763, and is known as Wedgwood ware . Also spelled fayence . - Faïence d'Oiron [F.], the fine pottery of Oiron, near Thouars, in France. - Faïence fine [F., fine earthenware), pottery made of pipe-clay, or generally of any paste so fine as to need no enamel. It is usually finished with a very thin transparent glaze, serving merely to heighten the colors. The pottery of Oiron is a notable instance of this, and much of the fine English pottery of the eighteenth cen- tury is of the same character. See Wedgwood ware, un- der ware2 .-Faïence Henri II., another name for Oiron pottery.-Faïence patriot i que [F., patriotic earthen- ware], plates, dishes, and other articles of głazed pottery, decorated with revolutionary emblems, battle-scenes, etc., during the early years of the French revolution. Much of this ware was made at Nevers. It is generally of coarse material and rudely decorated. - Faïences à la croix [F., earthenware with the cro ], the enameled pottery of Va- rages in France, from the mark, which is a cro . See Va- rages pottery, under pottery . - Faïence translucide [F.], translucent earthenware, such as the white ware of Per- sia. Such ware is often called porcelain, and is confound- ed with true Oriental porcelain, but is not kaolinic. It may be similar in its composition to soft porcelain. faik1 (fāk), v. and n. faik2 (fak), v . [Sc., prob. vika = Dan. vige , give way, yield, = AS. wican , give way, whence ult. E. weak and wick1 : see weak and IMG:content-1015.png:[blocks in formation] I would wis both you and him to ken that I'm no in your reverence; and likewise, too, Mr. Keelivin, that I'll no Galt , The Entail, I. 169. faik a farthing o' my right. faiks (faks), interj . Same as fack2 . faill (fal), v . [Early mod. E. also faile , fayle; failen , faylen (= D. feilen , falen = MHG. velen, vælen , G. fehlen ) = Sw. fela = Dan. feile = Icel. feila , fail, faillir , fallir , falir , F. faillir = Pr. falhir = OSp. fallir , Sp. fallecer Pg. fallecer , fallir = It. fallire , fail, mi , omit, deceive, fallere , pp. falsus , tr. deceive, dis- appoint, pa . (with mid. force) deceive oneself, be deceived, err, be mistaken, prob. orig. * sfal- lere = Gr. σφάλλειν , cause to fall, overthrow, dis- appoint, pa . be baffled or foiled; = AS. feal- lan , etc., E. falll : see falll , v. From the same L. source are E. fault , falter1 , false , fallible , etc., defail, default, etc.] I. in trans. 1. To be or become deficient or lacking, as something ex- pected or desired; fall short, cease, disappear, or be wanting, either wholly or partially; be insufficient or absent: as, the stream fails in summer; our supplies failed . Often time it fallethe, that where Men fynden Watre at o tyme in a Place, it faylethe another tyme. He sawe that the daye fayled and myght fynde no lodg- Holy Rood (E. E. T. S.), p. 167. ynge. Having so said, his [Wolsey's] Speech failed , and inc on- tinent the Clock struck eight, and then he gave up the Ghost. Baker , Chronicles, p. 280. Failing this chance, it would seem as if Antivari was doomed utterly to perish. E. A. Freeman , Venice, p. 394. 2. To decline; sink; grow faint; become weaker. IMG:content-1016.png:[blocks in formation] Thyng countirfet wyl faile at a ay. Political Poems , etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 45. God never fails to hear the faithful prayers of his church. Peter Martyr , in Bradford's Works (Parker Soc., 1853), [II. 405. Did the martyrs fail , when with their precious blood they sowed the seed of the Church? Sumner , Against Slave Power, June 28, 1848. = Syn. 1. To fall short, come fade, weaken.-3. To come to naught, prove abortive.- 4. To break, suspend payment. II. trans. 1. To be wanting to; disappoint; desert; leave in the lurch. [Not now used in the pa ive.] For-thi lerne we lawe of loue as oure lord tauhte; The poure peuple faile we nat whil eny peny ous lasteth. Piers Plowman (C), xiii. 120. That good sword that never fail'd thee; prithee, come. Beau , and Fl ., Knight of Malta, iv. 2. IMG:content-1017.png:[blocks in formation] 2. To omit; leave unbestowed or unperform- ed; neglect to keep or observe: as, to fail an appointment. [Rare.] I haue myn hoope soo sure and soo stedfaste That suche a lady shulde not faile pyte. So lively and so like that living sence it fayld . Spenser, F. Q., III. xi. 46. faill (fal), n. [ fayle , feyle (only in the frequent phrase withouten fayle , without fail, which also appears in the OF. form, sanz ( sauns , sauntz, saun) faile ( fayle , feyle )); faille , faile = Pr. falha , failla = It. fallo (cf. D. LG. feil = MHG. væle, G. fehl = Dan. feil = Sw. IMG:content-1018.png:[blocks in formation] To morow I shall be ther withoute faile , And speke with hir as touching this mater, And what she seith ye shall haue pleyne answer. Generydes (E. E. T. S.), 1. 782. He will without fail drive out from before you the Ca- naanites. Josh. iii. 10. Their freinds did intend for to send over to Ley- den, for a competente number of them to be hear the next year without fayle. Bradford , Plymouth Plantation, p. 232. Music's a child of mirth: when griefs a ail fail2 (fal), n. [Sc., also feal , prob. vall , The troubled soul, both voice and fingers fail . Quaries, Emblems, iv. 15. a sward, a pasture, appar. a special use of vall , it a criminal offense for a bank officer to receive deposits II. n. A do-nothing; a lazy, shiftle fellow. when he knows his bank to be insolvent . Failure is the fainheadt, n. [ME. jaynhed ; fain1 + -head . ] popular and common name indicating the ce ation of busine on account of insolvency , especially if produced by the actual lack of money to meet some demand. Bank- ruptcy is often in popular use the same as insolvency , but it is more often used of the legal state of those who have surrendered their property to their creditors on account fail a coast, also a dam, dike, rampart, = E. wall: see walll.] A piece cut off from the rest of the sward; a turf; a sod. The varyant vesture of the venust vale Schrowdis the scherand fur, and euery fale Ouerfrett wyth fulzeis, and figuris ful dyners. Gavin Douglas , tr. of Virgil, Prol. to xii., 1. 38. Fail, or feal, and divot, in Scots law, a servitude consisting in a right to lift fails or divots from a servient tenement, and to use them for the purposes of the dominant tenement, as for building, roofing, dikes, etc.