Fady

Losing color or strength. Fad Loch, a lake of Scotland, in the island of Bute, 6 m. from Rothesay. Fæ'cal, a. See FECAL. Fæ'ces, n. pl. [Lat.] ( Physiol.) The excrementitious contents of the bowels - the refuse of the food and aliment, from which all the nutritious particles have been extracted by digestion and absorption in their pa age along the intestines; and sometimes called alvine discharges, or the egesta. -Sediments; dregs; lees; settlings after distillation and infusion. Fæc'ula, n . See FECULA. Faenza, ( fa - aint'sa ,) a city of Italy, 20 m. from Ravenna. Manuf . Earthenware, paper, silk twist, and fabrics. F. , the ancient Faventia , was at one period a town of the Boii, was afterwards a municipium under the Romans, and was annexed to the States of the Church in the 15th cent., by Pope Alexander VI., in which condition it remained till 1860, when, with the Emilian provinces, it was annexed to the kingdom of Italy. Pop . 22,641. Faë'rie, a . and n . Same as FAIRY, q. v. Fag, v. a. [Sax. fæge; Ger. feig , fearful, timorous.] Το cause any one to labor very severely and constantly; to make one act as a fag or drudge. -v. n. To have a sensation of dread, as one about to die. -To grow weary; to tire. -To labor to wearine ; to drudge. -n. A menial drudge; a school-boy who discharges ma nial services for another, or a higher cla or form, at the great Englisn schools. Fag-end,. The end of a web of cloth; the intertwisted ends of a rope; the worse or meaner part of a Caing.