faik (2), falk

[Etym. doubtful.] The Razorbill. ( Scotch.) f āik, fāiks, i'faiks, int. (A corrupt. of faith.] An oath in faith. marine; gō, pot, *6. To neglect; to omit to keep, observe, or per failure to keep a promise or engagement. form. "He failed his presence at the tyrant's feast." Shakesp.: Macbeth , iii. 6. 7. To come short of; to fail of; not to attain or reach to. "Though that seat of earthly bli be failed ." Milton: P. R. , iv. 612. *8. To be deficient in. "Though the steeds (your large supplies unknown) Might fail of forage in the straitened town." Pope : Homer's Iliad , v. 255. "In the lexicon of youth, which Fate reserves For a bright manhood, there is no such word As fail !" Lytton: Richelieu , ii. 2. 8. To be deficient in duty. "Sir Lowys failed nouht, his help was him redie." Robert de Brunne , p. 99. *2. Specif., a failure or want of i ue; extinction. "How grounded he his title to the crown? Upon our fail !" Shakesp.: Henry VIII . , i. 2. 3. Failure, omi ion, neglect. "The fail Of any point in it shall not only be Death to thyself, but to thy lewd-tongued wife." Shakesp.: Winter's Tale, ii. 3. *4. A failing, an imperfection, a slight fault. "The honest man will rather be a grave to his neigh. bor's fails than any way uncurtain them."- Feltham : Re solves, p. 80. II. Scots Law : A legal subjection to a penalty in consequence of non-fulfillment of an engagement or duty. (1) Sans faille , *sauns fayle: Without fail, certainly. (2) Without fail : Without doubt, a uredly, cer- tainly. "[He] think eth, here cometh my mortal enemy, Withouten faille , he must be ded or I." Chaucer: C. Т. , 1,646. *fail-ançe, s. [Fr. fail lance , from faillir .] *fail-er, s . [Eng. fail ; -er .] Failure. *9. To go wrong; to err, to blunder. "Yef he faileth at his rekeninge, God nele naght faly Failure, neglect, omi ion. IMG:content-1355.png:[blocks in formation] *13. To become extinct; to cease to be. "The faithful fail from among the children of men."- besides my own peculiar faults."-Fox: Speech on East Psalm xii. 1. 14. To come to an end; to be annihilated. "This empyreal substance cannot fail ." "Foreward he huld this monekes, and ne faillede hem noght." St. Edmund Confe or , 592. Crabb thus discriminates between failing and failure: "The failure bespeaks the action, or the result of the action; the failing is the habit, or the habitual failure : the former is said of our under tak ings, the latter of our moral character. The failure is opposed to the succe ; the failing to the perfec- tion. The merchant must be prepared for failures in his speculations; the statesman for failures in his projects, the result of which depends upon contingencies that are above human control. With our failings , however, it is somewhat different; we must never rest satisfied that we are without them, nor contented with the mere consciousne that we have them." (Crabb: Eng . Synon .) *fail-ing-ly, adv . [Eng. failing ; -ly.] By fail- ing or failure. IMG:content-1356.png:[blocks in formation] "And wast thou fain , poor father, To hovel thee with swine, and rogues forlorn?" Shakesp.. Lear, iv. 7. *3. Ambitious, desirous. "Man and birds are fain of climbing high." Shakesp.: Henry VI., Pt. II . , ii. 1. B. As adv .: Gladly, readily, with pleasure or joy. "I would very fain speak with you." Shakesp.: Othello , iv. 1. *C. As subst.: Joy, pleasure, delight, gladne . "Syr Garcy went crowland for fayne." IMG:content-1357.png:[blocks in formation] "He faynede here with milde mod." Genesis and Exodus , 1,441 *fain (2), *fayn, v. [FEIGN.] *fai-nê-ânçe, s. (Fr.) Sloth, indolence, slug- gishne . I. Ordinary Language : *1. Feigned. IMG:content-1358.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Ord. Lang.: A swoon; a fainting-fit. 2. Distill . (pl.): The later results of distillation of wash, of low specific gravity, and reserved for redistillation, in consequence of its being strongly impregnated with fusel oil. "Is it not a great fault among distillers to allow any of the faints to run among their pure goods? These faints are of a bluish, and sometimes of a whitish color; whereas the right spirits are as pure and limpid as rock-water." Maxwell : Sel . Trans., p. 295. Crabb thus discriminates between faint and languor: " Faint is le than languid ; faintne is in fact in the physical application the commencement of languor ; we may be faint for a short time, and if continued and extended through the limbs it becomes languor ; thus we say to speak with a faint tone, and have a languid frame. In the figurative application, to make a faint resistance, to move with a languid air; to form a faint idea, to make a languid offort." (Crabb: Eng. Synon.) faint-action, s. Law: A sham, feigned, or collusive action. *faint-draw, v. t. To draw or delineate lightly. faint-pleader, s. Eng . Law : A fraudulent, false or collusive manner of pleading to the deception of a third person. faint, *feynte, *feynt-yn, v. i . & t. [FAINT, a.] A. Intransitive : 1. To become weak or feeble; to lose strength or vigor. "Lift up thy hands toward him for the life of the young children that faint for hunger."- Lamentations xiv. 19. 2. To become feeble or languid. "The imagination cannot be always alike constant and strong; speedily it will faint and lose strength."-Bacon: Natural History. 3. To lose courage or spirit; to sink into dejection. "And Jacob's heart fainted , for he believed them not." -Genesis xlv. 26. IMG:content-1359.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1360.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Pleasing to the mind; excellent, admirable. 3. Clear; free from spots or any dark color; not dark. "The color of beautiful bodies must not be dusky or Beautiful , pt. iii., § 17. C. As substantive: