fabrile

[Lat. fabrilis, from faber =a workman; Sp. fabril; Ital. fabbrile. Pertaining or relating to workmen or to handicraft, as in wood, stone, metal, . *fab-u-lar, a . [Lat. fabular is =legendary, fabalous.] Relating to the construction of a story or dramatic plot. the meaning of the falso and faux seems a more rational derivation than that sometimes given from falsetto and falsette , as implying the combination of the high voices with the low in Falso Bordone harmony. ( Grove .)] [FAUX-BOURDON.] A. As substantive: 1. Literally: Music : One of the early systems of harmonizing a given portion of plain-song or a canto fermo. It was afterward used as a term for a sort of harmony consisting of thirds and sixths added to a canto diaphony and descant, the term faburden was fermo. When counterpoint had superseded both applied to a certain species of counterpoint, some times, but not always, note against note. ( Stainer & Barrett.) as still "Descant i, prycksonge, counterpoint, and faburden." Bale: Image, pt. iii. face (2) The aspect or expre ion of the visage, as indicative of pleasure or displeasure, favor of anger. "The Lord make his face to shine upon thee."-Numbers vi. 25. (3) That part of anything which presents itself to the view; as ( a ) The surface of anything. "Thou hast driven me from the face of the earth."Genesis iv. 14. (b) The front, the forepart of anything. "Also the breadth of the face of the house and of the separate place toward the east an hundred cubits."Ezekiel xli. 14. (c) A plane surface of a solid; one of the sides bounding a solid: thus a cube has six faces , an octahedron eight. (4) The dial of a watch, clock, compa -card, . (5) The edge of a cutting instrument. 2. Figuratively: IMG:content-1329.png:[blocks in formation] *(4) An outward show, appearance, or cover; surface show. "They took him to set a face upon their own malignant designs."- Milton . (5) A distortion of the features; as, He made a wry face . "Why, what's the matter, Doll? You are making faces now."-Dickens: Barnaby Rudge , ch. iv. (6) Confidence, boldne ; effrontery, a urance. "A chaplain of Cortes had the face to a ert that in one engagement against the Indians St. James had appeared on a gray horse at the head of the Castilian adventurers." -Macaulay : Battle of the Lake Regillus . (Introd.) *(7) Favor. "Seek ye my face ."- Psalm xxvii. 8. IMG:content-1330.png:[blocks in formation] (1) The working portion of a hammer-head. (2) The flat part of an anvil. 1. Fort.: One of the parts which form a salient angle projecting toward the country. [BASTION.] 8. Gearing: That part of the acting surface of a cog which projects beyond the pitch-line. The portion within that limit is the flank. 9. Grinding: That portion of a lap or wheel, whether the edge or the disc, which is employed in grinding. 10. Mining : That portion of a coal-seam which is 2. Fig .: A monotonous refrain. "To sing, as it were, the faburden of a song."- P . Hol . in proce of removal. land: Plutarch, p. 735. B. As adj .: High-sounding. "Mirabile, miraculoso, stupendo, and such faburthen words."-Lodge: Wit's Miserie (1596).