FANCY serve. ! gious sect called the Family of Love which followed by for before the thing for which tions or opinions. 'Fanatic Egypt and her -Superstitious, Credulous, Bigoted, Enthu I arose one morning and found myself famous. siastic, Fanatical. See SUPERSTITIOUS and absolutely absorbed in and identified with Byron. ENTHUSIASTIC. Fanatic (fa-nat’ik), n. A person affected by pure all things are pure, even things for- cendent. excessive enthusiasm, particularly on relibidden.-2. The head of a family; a family Famousedt (fām’ust), a. Renowned. gious subjects; one who indulges wild and extravagant notions of religion. man. (Rare.) The painful warrior famoused for fight. Shak. They are fanaticks . . all atheists being that If you will needs be a familist and marry, muster Famously (fām’us-li), adv. With great re blind goddess Nature's fanaticks. Cudworth not the want of issue among your greatest afflictions. Osborne. There is a new word, coined within few months, Then this land was famously enriched called fanatics, which, by the close stickling thereof, mil-ist'ik-al), a. Pertaining to familists. With politic grave counsel. Seemeth well cut out and proportioned to signify what Shak. is meant thereby, even the sectaries of our age. Family (fa'mi-li), n. [L. familia, froin fam. He had never been praised by Gabriel Harvey for Fuller. 166o. ulus, à servant, a slave, from Oscan famel, his labour, is therein he had not been so famously Fanatically (fa-natʼik-al-li), adv. In a fana absurd. a servant, and that from saama, a house. tical manner; with wild enthusiasm. The Oscan faama is the Skr. dhaman, a Famousness (fām'us-nes), n. Renown; great The liberty they pursued was a liberty from order. froin virtue, from morals, and from religion; and was transition from dh Skr. to f Latin being Famousness, unattended with endearing causes, neither hypocritically nor fanatically followed. Broke. cisin Excessive zer; a household, including parents, chil- Famulatet (fa'mūl-at), v.i. [L. famulor, Fanaticism (fa-nat'i-sizm), n. viren, and servants, and as the case may be, famulatus, from famulus, a servant.] To enthusiasm; wild and extravagant notions bodyers or boarders.--2. The parents and of religion; religious frenzy; fervid zeal. children alone.-3. The children as distin- Famulist (fa'mül-ist), n. In.Oxford univer- Cromwell's troops moved to victory with the preci. cuished from the parents.-4. Those who sity, an inferior member of a college; a ser sion of machines, while burning with the wildest fana. ticism of crusaders. Macaulay. And the very air he breathes should be charged tribe or race; kindred; lineage. Thus the Famulus (fa'mūl-us), 12. (L., a servant. See with that enthusiasm for truth, that fanaticism of Israelites were a branch of the family of FAMILY.] The assistant of a magician. Car- veracity, which is a greater possession than niuch Abraham; and the descendants of Reuben, lyle. learning Huxley. of Manasseh, &c., were called their families; Pan (fan), n. [A. Sax. fann, fan, a collateral Fanaticize (fa-nat'i-sīz), v.t. To make fanathe whole human race constitutes the human form of van, L. vannus, whence Fr. ran, tic. family.-5. Course of descent; genealogy ; a fan. Probably akin to L. ventus, wind, Fanatism (fa'nat-izm), n. Religious frenzy: line of ancestors. and E. winnow.] 1. The name of various fanaticism. (Rare.] Go and complain thy family is instruments for exciting a current of air by Fan-blast (fan'blast), n. In iron-works, the young. Pope. the agitation of a broad surface; as, (a), an 6. Honourable descent; noble or respectable blast produced by a fan, in contradistinction instrument made of palm-leaf, carved wood stock; as, a man of family.-7. A collection to that produced by a blowing engine. or ivory, feathers, or of thin skin, paper, or union of nations or states. Fan-blower (fan'blo-ér), n. A fan or fanner or taffeta, mounted on sticks, &c., used by for producing a current of air by the quick The states of Europe were, by the prevailing ladies to agitate the air and cool the face. maxims of its policy, closely united in one family. revolution of a wheel with vanes. It is espeEverelt. (6) In mach. any contrivance of vanes or cially used to blow air into a furnace. 8. In scientific classifications, a group of in Hat dises, revolving by the aid of machinery, Fancied (fan'sid), p. and a. 1. Portrayed dividuals more comprehensive than a genus, as for winnowing grain, for cooling fluids, or formed by the fancy; imaginary; as, a and less so than an order, based on fewer or urging combustion, assisting ventilation, fancied grievance. - 2. Attracting one's less definite points of resemblance than the &c. (c) A small vane or sail used to keep fancy; liked ; in esteem; sought after; as, the large sails of a smock wind-mill always former, and more or more definite than the this class of goods is more fancied than ever. latter. The word is used by some botanists in the direction of the wind. (a) An appar- Fancier (fan'si-ér), n. 1. One who fancies atus for regulating or checking, by the reas a synonym of order. or has a liking to; also, one who keeps for Family-head (fa'mi-li-hed), n. Naut. an sistance of the air to its rapid motion, the sale; as, a bird-fancier. -2. One who is under old name for the stem of a vessel when it velocity of light machinery, as in a musical the influence of his fancy. Not reasoners was surmounted by several full-length figbox; a fly. (e) An apparatus, called also the but fanciers.' Jacaulay. fan-governor, for regulating the throttle- Fanciful(fan'si-sql),a. (See FANCY.) 1. Guided ures. Family-man (fa'mi-li-man), n. One who valves of steam-engines.-- 2. Something re- by fancy rather than by reason and experihas a family or a household; a man inclined sembling a lady's fan when spread, as the ence; subject to the influence of fancy; to lead a domestic life. wing of a bird, the tail of a peacock, &c. whimsical: applied to persons; as, a fanci As a peacock and crane were in company the pea- ful man forms visionary projects.-. Dicplary family-men, Mayhew. cock spread his tail and challenged the other to tated or produced by fancy; appealing to or show him such a fan of feathers. Sir R. L'Estrange. Family-way (fa'mi-li-wa), n. State of preg pleasing the fancy; full of wild images; curi3. Fig. any agency which excites to action nancy. - In the family-way, pregnant. ously shaped: applied to things; as, a fanci or stimulates the activity of a passion or Famine (fa'min), n. (Fr. famine, from L. ful scheme; a fanciful theory. Gather up fames, hunger. For root see FATIGUE.) emotion, producing effects analogous to all fancifullest shells.' Keats. -Syn. Ima those of a fan in exciting flame; as, this was Scarcity of food; dearth; a general want of ginative, ideal, visionary, imaginary, capria fan to rebellion; a fan to a man's ardour. provisions; destitution. cious, chimerical, whimsical, fantastical, wild. Fancifully (fanʼsi-ful-li), ado. In a fanciful The air . . . fanned with unnumbered plumes. manner; wildly; whimsically; according to Alilton. faney; with curious prettiness. lity of being fanciful, or influenced by the food or any of the necessaries of life; to fancy rather than by reason and experience: starve; to kill or destroy with hunger; to She was fanned into slumbers by her slaves. the quality of being dictated or produced Spectator exhaust the strength of, as by hunger or by fancy. thirst; to distress with hunger. 3. To ventilate; to blow on; to affect by air Fanciless (fan'si-les), a. Destitute of fancy; put in motion without ideas or imagination. Calm as the breath which fans our eastern groves. Dryden, A pert or bluff important wight, Whose brain is fanciless, whose blood is white. Armstrong Above the clouds will pine his entrails gross, from, and drive it away by a current of air; Fan-cricket (fan'krik-et), n. An insect And famish himn of breath, if not of bread. Milton. as, to fan wheat.-5. Fu, to produce effects (Gryllotalpa vulgaris). Called also Churr2. To force or compel by famine. He had on, analogous to those of a fan in excit worm, Fen-cricket, or Mole-cricket. famished Paris into a surrender.' Burke. ing flame; to excite; to increase the activity Fancy (fan'si), n. [Contr. for fantasy, phanÉamish (fa'mish), v.i. To die of hunger; to or action of; to stimulate: said of the pas- tasy, from L. and Gr. phantasia, a fancy, suffer extreme hunger or thirst; to be ex- sions and emotions, of designs, plots, &c.; from Gr. phantaző, to make visible-in the hausted through want of food or drink; to as, this fanned the flame of his love; he middle voice, to imagine, from phaino, tu suffer extremity by the deprivation of any fanned the smouldering embers of the revo bring to light, to show.] 1. A term somenecessary lution till they burst into flame. times used as synonymous with imaginaThou wilt famisha dog's death. Shak. Fant (fan), n. A quintain. Chaucer. tion. Generally, however, when used to deYou are all resolved rather to die than to famish. Fanal (fa-näl), n. (Fr.) A lighthouse, or signate the creative faculty, it implies a Shak. more specifically, the apparatus placed in it slighter endowment or exercise of it than imagination. See IMAGINATION. Among them fancy next She forms imaginations, airy shapes. Milton. in the land.' Gen. xlvii. 13 (Matthew's Trans- a. [L. fanaticus, inspired, enthusiastic, from 2. The result or product of the exercise of the lation). (Rare.) fanum, a place dedicated to some deity, a above faculty; a new and pleasing thought Famosity(fa-mos’i-ti), n. Renown. temple. See FANE.) Wild and extrava- or conception; the happy and poetical emFamous (fam'us), a. [L. famosus, Fr. fa- gant in opinions, particularly in religious bodiment of such conception in words or nieu. See FAME.) Celebrated in fame or opinions; excessively enthusiastic; possessed visible representation; a poetical illustrapublic report; renowned; much talked of; or characterized by a kind of frenzy; as, a tion or ornament, as a simile, metaphor, and distinguished in story; notorious: generally fanatic people; fanatic zeal; fanatic no- the like; an ideal image in a picture; as, The qua a fan. FANCY 246 FANTASQUE Suckling's comparison of his mistress's feet From men their cities, and from gods their fanes. solete, except compounded with new. See to mice is a pleasing fancy or conceit. Pope. NEW-PANGLED. 'Our fangled world.' Shak. The state of Of sorriest fancies your conipanions making ? Shak. poetic.] 1. A flourish of trumpets, as on the Fanglenesst (fang'gl-nes), n. being fangled or decorated. 3. An opinion or notion: generally used in approach of some personage, on coming into He them in new fangleness did pass. Spenser. this sense either modestly to indicate that trumpets blown.' Longfellow. -2. A short Fangless (fangʻles), a. Having no fangs or the opinion is not the result of mature contune of a cheerful cast, played with hunt tusks; toothless. sideration, or in a depreciatory manner to ing horns, to inspirit those engaged in the His power like to a sangless lion, indicate that the speaker holds the opinion chase. – 3. An ostentatious parade or boast; Fangot (fangʻgot), n. [It. fangotto, a bundle, May offer but not hold. Shak. to be doubtful; caprice; whim; impression; bravado. supposition; as, that's a mere fancy. Fanfaron (fan'fa-ron), n. (Fr.; from fan a nasal form of fagot.) A quantity of wares, I have always had a fancy that learning might be fare.) A bully; a hector; a swaggerer; an as raw silk, &c., from 1 cwt. to 2 cwts. made a play and recreation to children. Locke. empty boaster; a vain pretender. Fan-governor (fan'gu-vérn-ér), n. In mach. 4. Taste; design; conception. See FAN. There are fanfarons in the trial of wit too, as well The little chapel called the Salutation is very neat, as in feats of arms; and none so forward to engage Faniont (fan'yon), n. (O. Fr. See FANONI and built with a pretty fancy. Addison. in argument or discourse as those that are least able Milit, a small flag carried with the baggay 5. Inclination; liking; fondness; preference; to go through with it. Sir R. L'Estrange. of a brigade. as, take that which suits your fancy; how Fanfaronade (fan-fa'ron-ad"), n. [Fr. See Fan-light (fan'līt), 1. Properly, a window does this strike your fancy? FANFARON.) A swaggering; vain boasting; in form of an open fan situated over a door His fancy lay extremely to travelling, L'Estrange. ostentation; a bluster. in a circular-headed opening, but now used 6. Something that pleases or entertains The compact, clear-seeing, decisive Italian nature for any window over a door. of him Napoleon), strong. genuine, which he once Fan - like (sanlik), a. Resembling a fan; without real use or value. had, has enveloped itself in a turbid atmosphere of specifically, in bot. applied to leaves which London-pride is a pretty fancy for borders. Mortimer. French fanfaronade. Carlyle. are folded up like a fan; plicate. --The fancy, a cant name for sporting char- Fan-foot (fan'fyt), n. 1. A name given to a Fannel (fan'el), n. Same as Fanon (which acters, especially prize-fighters; sometimes North African lizard of the genus Ptyodac- see). used to designate any class of people who tylus (P. Gecko), much dreaded in Egypt for Fanner (fan'ér), n. 1. One who fans.--2. A cultivate a special taste. its reported venomous properties. The rotatory contrivance made up of vanes or At a great book sale in London, which had con poison is said not to be injected by the flat disks, placed in a window, door, &c., gregated all the fancy. De Quincey. teeth but to exude from the lobules of the and set in motion by the current of air passFancy (fan'si), a. 1. Fine; elegant; ornamen toes, whence the generic name Ptyodacty. ing through it, with a view to purify and tal; adapted to please the taste or fancy; lus, or toe-spitter; but no poison apparatus freshen the atmosphere in the interior of a exists. as, fancy goods or articles.--2. Beyond in It can ascend perpendicular walls, chamber or other inclosed space; a ventitrinsic value; extravagant. from the skin of the under surface of the lator; also, a similar arrangement of vanes This anxiety never degenerated into a monomania, toes forming at the extremities, as in other for blowing fires. - 3. pl. A machine for winlike that which led his (Frederick the Great's) father geckoes, a round disc(whence the name fan- nowing grain; a fan. to pay fancy prices for giants, Maarulay. foot). The claws are retractile. It is so Fan-nerved (fan'nervd), a. In bot and entom. Fancy (fan'si), v.i. pret. & pp. fancied; ppr. much dreaded in Cairo as to be popularly having the nerves or nervures radiating fancying. 1. To imagine; to figure to one's termed Abou-burs, or father of leprosy. - and arranged in the manner of a fan. self; to believe or suppose without proof. 2. A name given by collectors of moths to Fanning-breeze (san'ing-brēz), n Naut. a light gentle breeze sufficient to fill the Fangt (fang), v.t. (See next article. ] 1. To light sails as they extend or collapse by the 2. To love. catch; to seize; to lay hold of; to gripe; to action of the air and the motion of the Never did young man fancy clutch. vessel. With so eternal and so fix'd a soul. Shak. Destruction fang mankind. Shak. Fanning-machine, Fanning -mill (fan'Fancy (fan'si), v.t. 1. To form a conception 2. To pour water into, as a pump, in order ing-ma-shèn, fan'ing-mil), n. A machine for of; to portray in the mind; to imagine.- to restore its power of operation. (Scotch.) cleaning seeds from chaff, husks, &c.; a fan. 2. To like; to be pleased with, particularly Fang (fang), n. (A. Sax. fang, a taking, grasp, Fanon (fan'on), n. (Fr. fanon, from Goth. on account of external appearance or man from fôn, to seize (pret. jeng, pp. fangen), fana, cloth, a banner. Comp. A. Sax. fana, ners. contracted from fahan, or with n inserted, G. fahne, a banner.] 1. Eccles. (a) a headNinus . . . fancied her so strongly, as, neglecting fangan, whence 0.E. fangen and fongen, dress worn by the pope when he celebrated all princely respects, he took her from her husband. meaning to take. Comp. G. fangen, to mass pontifically. (6) The napkin or hand Raleigh catch;. Goth. and O.H.G. fahan, and also kerchief used by the priest during the celeFancy-ball (fan'si-bal), n. A ball in which in respect of inserted n, proy. E. and Sc. bration of the mass to wipe away perspirapersons appear in fancy dresses, imitations gang with go.] 1. The tusk of a boar o uther tion from the face, &c. (c) The white linen of antique costumes, &c. animal by which the prey is seized and held; cloth in which the laity made their oblations Fancy-fair (fan'si-fär), n. A kind of tempo at the altar. (d) The strings or larpets of rary market in which ladies sell various 3 the mitre.-2. A banner; specifically, the light wares, usually of their own make, for church banner carried in processions. some benevolent or charitable purpose; a Fan-palm (fan'päm), n. The taliput-tree or bazaar. Corypha umbraculifera, a native of Ceylon Fancy-free (fan'si-frē), a. Free from the and Malabar. It attains the height of 60 or power of love. 70 feet, with a straight cylindrical trunk, In maiden meditation, fancy-free. Shak, crowned at the summit by a tuft of enorFancy-goods (fan'si-gydz), n. pl. Fabrics of mous leaves. (See TALIPCT.) The other spevarious patterns, as ribbons, silks, satins, cies of the genus Corypha are also called &c., differing from those which are of a fan-palms from the form of their leaves. plain or simple colour. Fan-shaped (fan'shăpt), a. Resembling a Fancy-line (fan'si-lin), n. Naut. (a) a line Fangs of Serpent. fan in shape or form; specifically in bor. used for overhauling the lee topping-lift of plaited like a fan, as the leaf of Borassus 1, Head of Common Viper (Pelias Berus): a. Poisonthe main or spanker boom: often called a fang. 2, Head of Rattlesnake cut open; a, Poison. flabellifornis. - Fan-shaped window in arch. Tripping-line. () A line rove through a fang; , Poison-bagi c, Tube which conveys the a window consisting of rather more than a poison to the fangs. 3. Fang, showing the slit (d) block at the jaws of a gaff, used as a down semicircle, the circumference of which is cut out in circular notches. This window is frequent in the early German style. a long pointed tooth; as, the hollow poison Fan-tail (fan'tāl), n. 1. A genus (Rhipidura) Fancy-sick(fan'si-sik), a. Noting one whose fang of a serpent. of Australian birds belonging to the family imagination is unsound, or whose distemper Since I am a dog, beware my fangs. Shak. Muscicapidæ. They are so named from the is in his own mind. Some creatures have overlong or outgrowing teeth, fan-like shape of their tails.--2. A variety of Shak. All fancy-sick she is, and pale of cheer, which we call fangs or tusks. Bacon. the domestic pigeon, so called from the fanFancy-stocks (fan'si-stoks), n. pl. Among 2. A claw or talon. --3. Any shoot or other like shape of their tails.-3. A form of gas burner American brokers, stocks which, having no thing by which hold is taken. Fan-tailed (fan'tāld), a. Having a tail ex determinate value from any fixed probable The protuberant fangs of the yuca. Evelyn. panding like a fan; as, a fan-tailed pigeon income, fluctuate in price according to the 4. In mining, a notch cut out in the Fantasia (fan-ta'ze-a), n. [It.) In musie, il fancy of speculators. side of an adit to serve as an air-course. -- species of composition in which the auther Fancy-work (fan'si-wėrk), n. Ornamental 5. Capture; act or power of apprehending. ties himself to no particular theme, ranging knitting, crocheting, tatting, embroidery, 6. The thing that is seized or carried off, as his fancy leads him amidst various airs &c., performed by ladies. as booty, stolen goods.--7. [Scotch.] The coil and movements. Some authorities limit the Fancy-woven (fan'si-wov-n), a. Formed hy or bend of a rope; hence also, noose; trap. application of this term to certain extem. the imagination. Fanged (fangd), p. and a. Furnished with poraneous fights of fancy, and say that Veil'd in Fable's fancy-woven vest. Warton. fangs, tusks, or something resembling these; the moment they are written or repeated Fandt (fand), old pret. of find. as, a fanged adder. “Chariots fanged with they cease to be fantasias. Fandango (fan-dang'go), n. [Sp., from the scythes.' Philips. Fantasied (fan’ta-zid), a. (From fantasy. African name.) A lively dance, universally Fanging-pipes (fang'ing-pips), n. pl, In fancy.) Filled with fancies or imaginations; practised in Spain and Spanish America. mining, a main of wooden pipes used as air- whimsical, A dream. 50 Jantasied," It was originally a dance of the Moors. It is conductors. Keats. (Rare and poetical. ] danced by two persons, male and female, Fanglet (fang'gl), n. (Probably dim. from Fantasm (fan'tazm), ?. (Gr. phantasma. and the music for it is written in triple fang, to take ) A new attempt; a trifling from phantaző, from phainā, to show.) That time. scheme; a silly fancy; a gewgaw. A hatred which appears to the imagination. Usually Fane (fān), n. [L. fanum, a place dedicated to fangles and the French fooleries of his written Phantasi. to a deity, from fari, to speak. For root time.' Wood. Fantasque (fan'task), a. Fantastic. 'Fansee FAME.] A temple; a place consecrated | Fangled (fang'gld), a. New made; hence, tasque apposition.' E. B. Bruuning. (Rare to religion; a church: used in poetry. gaudy; showy; vainly decorated. Now ob- and poetical.) FANTAST 247 FARDIN-GALE In a Fantast (fan'tast), n. One whose mind is fan.-Fan-tracery vaulting, the very com- farcio, to stuff. Farce in its dramatic sense full of fantastic notions; a man of fantastic plicated mode of roofing much used in the means a comedy stuffed with wit.] 1. Lit. manners. Perpendicular style, in which the vault is seasoning, stuffing, or mixture, like the He (Sir T. Browne) is a quiet and sublime enthu. covered by ribs and veins of tracery, of stuffing of a roasted fowl; force-meat.-2. A siast, with a strong tinge of the fantast; the humor. which all the principal lines diverge from dramatic composition of a broadly comic ist constantly iningling with, and Aashing across, the a point, as in Henry VII.'s Chapel, West- character, differing from a comedy chiefly philosopher, as the darting colours in shot-silk play minster. Coleridge. upon the main dye. in the grotesqueness, extravagance, and Fan-veined (fan'vānd), a. In bot. applied improbability of its characters and inciFantastic, Fantastical (fan-tas'tik, fan to a leaf whose veins or ribs are disposed dents. Farce is that in poetry which grotesque is in a pictico, from Gr. phantasia, vision, fancy, from Fan-wheel (fan'whēl), n. A fan-blower ture; the persons and actions of a farce are all unphaino, to show.) 1. Fanciful; produced natural, and the manners false. Dryden. (which see). or existing only in imagination; imaginary; Fap † (fap), a. Fuddled. 3. Ridiculous parade; empty pageantry; not real; chimerical. The gentleman had drunk himself out of his five mere show; as, it was all a solemn farce. The melancholy of Dante was no fantastic caprice. senses; and being fap, sir, was, as they say, cashiered. The farce of state.' Pope. Shak. Farcet v.t. To paint. Farce not thy visage in no wise. Chaucer. rent only. Far (fär), a. (A. Sax. feor; Goth. fairra; 4. Farcementt (färs'ment), n. Stuffing of fern, far-allied to fore, ferry, for, fare, to meat; force-meat. They spoil a good dish with ... unsavoury farce3. Whimsical; capricious; fanciful; indulg- beyond; Skr. para, other, distant.] 1. Dis- ments. Feliham. ing the vagaries of imagination; as, fantas- tant, in any direction; separated by a wide Farceur (fär-sér), n. (Fr.) A writer or player tic minds; a fantastic mistress.-4. Sugges- space from the place where one is, or from of farces; a joker. Gent. Mag. tive of fantasies through oddness of figure any given place remote. Farcical (färs'ik-al), a. Belonging to a farce; or appearance or through an air of unreality; We be come from a far country. Josh. ix. 6. appropriated to farce; droll; ludicrous; ridiwhimsically shaped; grotesque. The nations far and near contend in choice. culous. Dryden. They deny the characters to be farcical, because Gay. Fantastic (fan-tas'tik), n. A whimsical per design or wishes; as, far be it from me to Farcical (fär'sik-al), a. Of or pertaining to the disease called Farcy. Sterne. In a manner suited to farce; hence, ludicrously. Fantasticality (fan-tas-tik-al'i-ti), n. Fan They that are far from thee shall perish. Farcicalness (färs'ik-al-nes), n. Quality of Ps. lxxiii. 27. being ludicrous. [From E. farce, of a horse, that is, the right side, as the fantastic manner; capriciously; whimsi force-meat, and Gr. lithos, a stone.) Pudcally; unsteadily. rider always mounts, and carters, &c., walk ding-stone. Kirwan. on the left side of the horse. Farcimen (fär'si-men), n. Same as Farcy. mized ingredients; force-meat. State of being fantastical; humorousness; we are separated far from each other. Farctate (färktāt), a. (L. farctus, stuffed, whimsicalness; unreasonableness; caprice. Only ye shall not go very far away. Ex. viii. 28. from farcio, to stuff.] In bot. stuffed ; Fantasticism (fan-tas'ti-sizm), n. The qua And the king went forth, ... and tarried in a crammed or full; without vacuities: in oplity of being fantastic; fantasticalness. place that was far off. 2 Sam. XY. 17. position to tubular or hollow; as, a farctate Not only does the introduction of these imaginary 2. Fig. distantly, in time, from any point; leaf, stem, or pericarp. [This epithet is beings perinit greater fantasticism of incident, but infinite fantasticism of treatment. found only in old works on botany.) Ruskin. remotely; as, he pushed his researches very Fantasticlyt (fan-tas'tik-li), adv. In a fan far into antiquity.-3. In great part; as, the Farcy, Farcin (fär'si, fär'sin), n. A disease day is far spent. -4. In a great proportion; of horses intimately connected with glantastic manner; whimsically; capriciously. by many degrees; very much. ders, the two diseases generally running He is neither too fantasticly melancholy, or too into each other. It is supposed to have its Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is Prov. xxxi. 10. seat in the absorbents of the skin, and its For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to Arst indication is generally the appearance ticalness. (Rare.) depart, and to be with Christ, which is far better. of little tumours, called farcy-buds, on the Phil. i. 23 face, neck, or inside of the thigh. Beau. FL. This argument is sound and logical, as far Farcy-bud (färssi-bud), n. A tumour which Fantastico (fan-tas'ti-ko), n. [It.) A man as it goes. appears early in the disease called Farcy. See FARCY. full of fantastic notions; a fantastical cox Answer them How far forth you do like their articles. Shak. Fardt (färd), v.t. (Fr. farder, to paint, to put a gloss upon.) To paint, as the cheeks. * The farded fop. Shenstone. From far, from a great distance; from a Fard (färd), n. Colour. [Old English and See FARROW.) The young of swine, or a Fantasy 1 (fan’ta-si), v.t. To fancy; to take Far-about + (far"a-bout), n. A going out of litter of pigs. (Local. ] Naut. loose wood or other substances, as horns, rattan, coir, &c., stowed among cargo a liking to. the way: used literally or figuratively. to prevent its motion, or placed below dry Fantoccini (fan-to-che'nē), n. pl. (It.) What need these far-abouts ! cargo to keep it from bilge-water; dunnage. Fuller, 1. Puppets which are made to go through Far-dayt (fär dā), n. The advanced part of evolutions by concealed wires or strings.- Faradisation (far'a-diz-ā"shon), n. The the day. 2. Dramatical representations in which medical application of the magneto-electric The manna was not good puppets are substituted for human per- currents, which Faraday discovered in 1837. After sun-rising; far-day sullies flowers. formers. Parand, Farant (fa'rand, fa'rant), a. [Pos H. Vaughan. Fantom (fan’tom), n. Same as Phantom. sibly a corruption for favorand, old ppr. of Fardel (får del), n. [0. Fr. fardel, 1r. farFantom-corn (fan'tom-korn), n. Same as favour, in sense of to seem like-we speak deau, a bundle, from 0. Fr. fardes, vestPhantom-corn. of a son favouring his father. Comp. Sc. ments, clothing, of which bundles are often Fan-tracery (fan'trās-er-i), n. Elaborate fa'ard for favoured; Sc. sa'arle88, tasteless, made. Origin unknown.) A bundle or pack; a geometrical carved work, which spreads with savourless) Seeming; having the ap burden; hence, anything cumbersome, irkpearance of: generally used in composition; some, or inconvenient. Who would fardels bear, as, auld-farrand, that is, seeming like an To grunt and sweat under a weary life? Shak. old person, sagacious, prudent: usually applied to children when they discover more Fardelt (fär'del), v.t. To make up in bunsagacity than could be expected at their dles. time of life. (Scotch.) Things orderly fardled up under heads are most Farandams (far'an-damz), n. A mixed fabric Fardelt (får'del), n. [A contr. of farding; . Fuller. of silk and wool. Siminonds. deal (which see). ] A fourth part. -Fardel Parantly! (fa'rant-li), a. 1. Orderly; decent. 2. Comely; handsome. of land, the fourth part of a yard-land. See Far-awa (får'a-wa), a. Distant; remote; Fardel-bound (färdel-bound), a. YARD-LAND. In ret. far-off; foreign; as, far-awa' fowls hae fair feathers. (Scotch.) surg. a term applied to cattle and sheep affected with a disease caused by the rePate's a farawa' cousin o' mine. Sir W. Scott. tention of food in the maniplus or thi:d Far-brought (fär'brąt), a. Brought from stomach, between the numerous plaits of far; far-fetched : used literally or figura- which it is firmly impacted. When the tively; as, far-brought conclusions. food is of a narcotic character, or unusually Farce (fars), v.t. pret. & pp. farced; ppr. dry, tough, or indigestible, the stomach farcing. (L. farcio, Fr. farcir, to stuff.] cannot moisten and reduce it with sufficient 1. To stuff; to stuff with force-meat; to fill rapidity; and as fresh quantities continue with mingled ingredients. to be received, the organ becomes overThe first principles of religion should not be farced gorged, and ultimately paralyzed and af with school points and private tenets. Sanderson. fected with chronic inflammation. Over-rije Fan-tracery Vaulting, Beauchamp Chapel, Warwick. 2. To extend; to swell out. The farced clover, vetches, or rye-grass are liable to title.' Shak. – 3. To fatten. If thou produce the disease. over the surface of a vaulting, rising from would'st farce thy lean ribs.' B. Jonson. Fardin-gale, Farding-gale_(färd'in-gal, a corbel and diverging like the folds of a Farce (färs), n. (Fr. farce, It. farsa, from färd'ing-gál), n. The same as Farding-deal. FARDING-BAG 248 FARROW Farding-bag (fard'ing-bag), n. The first Far-fetched (farfecht), p. or a. 1. Brought Farmable (farm-a-bl), a. That may be stomach of a cow or other ruminant animal, from a remote place. farmee where green food lies until it be chewed Whose pains have earned the far.fetched spoil. Farm-bailiff (färm'bā-lif), n. An overseer over again; the rumen. appointed by the possessor or proprietor of Farding-deal,t Farding-dalet (far'ding- 2. Studiously sought; not easily or naturally a farm to direct and superintend the farm. dél, far ding-dal), n. (A Sax. feorthung, a deduced or introduced, forced; elaborately ing operations. fourth part, and dæl, a part or portion.) A strained; as, far-fetched conceits far-fetched Farme, t n. (See FARM, n.) Food; a meal measure of land not well ascertained, but similes. This hasty farme had bene a feast. Chancer. by some supposed to be the fourth part of Farforth (fär'förth), adv. In a great meaan acre, by others the fourth part of a yardsure. Farmer (farm'ér), n. One who farms; as, land. See YARI-LAND. So long these knights discourse diversly (a) one who cultivates a farm; a cultivator Fare (fär), v.i. pret. & pp. fared; ppr. faring. Of straunge affairs, and noble harriment, of the fields; an agriculturist; a husband. That now the humid night was farforth spent. [A. Sax. 0. Sax. 0.G. and Goth. faran, G. man. (6) One who takes taxes, customs, Spenser. fahren, to go, to pass; of allied origin to L. Farin (fa'rin), n. Farina excise, or other duties, to collect for a cer. per, through, porta, gate, Gr. poros, pas- Farina (fa-ri'na), n. (L. farina, ground tain rate per cent.; as, a farmer of the resage, peiro, to pierce; akin E. far, for, &c.] corn, from far, a sort of grain, spelt --- the venues. (c) In mining. the lord of the field, 1. To go; to pass; to move forward; to travel. earliest food of the Romans.) In a general or one who farms the lot and cope of the So on he fares, and to the border comes, sense, meal or tlour. Specitically-1. A term crown. - Farmer-general, in France, under Of Eden. Milton. the old monarchy, a member of a privileged association which farmed certain branches And silent market place, and lonely square, the seeds of cereal and leguminous plants, of the revenue, that is, contracted with the Armed with the mighty curse, behold him fare. and of some roots, as the potato. It con government to pay into the treasury a fixed Soutney. 2. To be in any state, good or bad; to be sists of gluten, starch, and mucilage.-2. In yearly sum, taking upon itself the collection attended with any circumstances or train bot, a name formerly given to the pollen of certain taxes as an equivalent. This sys. of events, fortunate or unfortunate; specificontained in the anthers of Howers. - Fossil tem was swept away at the revolution, farina, a variety of carbonate of lime, in Farmeress (farni'èr-es), n. cally, to be in a certain condition as regards A woman who bodily or social comforts; to be entertained thin white crusts, light as cotton, and easily Farmership (farm'èr-ship), n. farms; a farmer's wife. with food. reducible to powder. Skill in farming. Il fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Farinaceous (fa-rin-a'shus), a. (From L. farmyard. There was a certain rich man ... which fared consists of the meal or flour of the various Farmhouse (farm'hous). n. A house atsumptuously every day. Luke xvi. 19. species of corn or grain. - 2. Containing tached to a farm, and for the residence of a farmer 3. To happen; to turn out or result; to be: or yielding farina or tlour; as, farinaceous with it impersonally. * How fares it with seeds. -—3. Like meal; mealy; pertaining to Parming (farm’ing), a. Pertaining to agrithe happy dead?' Tennyson. meal; as, a farinaceous taste or smell. culture; as, the farming interest Farming (färm'ing), n. 1. The business of cultivating land, or employing it for the [Compare farewell, which is simply this Farinose (fa'rin-os), a. 1. Yielding farina; purposes of husbandry.-2. The practice of verb in the imperative combined with well.] as, farinose plants. -2. Having the surface letting or leasing taxes for collection Fare (fär), n. (A. Sax. for, faru; 0. E. fare, a covered with dust resembling flour, as the Farm - meal (farm'měl), n. In Scotland, ourney, a passage. See preceding article.) wings of certain insects and the leaves of meal paid as part of the rent of a farm. 1. The price of passage or going; the sum some poplars The practice of paying rent in kind is rapaid or due for conveying a person by land Farinosely (fa'rin-Ōs-li), adv. In a meal pidly becoming obsolete. or water; as, the fare for crossing a river; like manner; farinaceously. Farm-office (farm'of-fis), n. One of the outthe fure for conveyance in a railway train, Farlt (färl), v.t. The same as Furl. Beau. buildings pertaining to a farmı: generally cab, omnibus, &c.-2. Food; provisions of d Fl. used in the plural as a collective name for the table. Farl, Farthel (färl, farthel, n. [A. Sax all the buildings on a farm beyond the My lord, eat also, though the fare is coarse. feorth dæl.] The fourth part of a thin cake dwelling-house. Tennyson. of flour or oatmeal. 'Farls baked wi' butter. Farmost(farmöst), a. (Far and most.) Most 3. Condition; experience; treatment by cir- Burns. (Scotch.) distant or remote. cumstances: fortune; as, what fare, bro- Farleu, n. In law, money paid by tenants A spacious cave within its farmast part. Dryden ther? What fare? What news abroad?' in lieu of a heriot: often applied to the best Farmstead (färm'sted), 11. The system of Shak.-4. The person or persons conveyed in chattel, as distinguished from heriot, the buildings connected with a farm; a homea vehicle; as, he had not driven far when he best beast stead. was stopped by his fare.-5. The quantity of Farlie (far'li), n. A strange, unusual, or Farm-stock (farm'stok), n. 1. Generally fish taken in a fishing vessel. -6.7 Ado; unexpected thing. (Old English and Scotch.) all the stock on a farm, including bestial, bustle; unusual display; entertainment; ad- See FERLIE. poultry, implements, &c. [For this the venture, &c. Farm (farm), n. (A. Sax. farma, fearm, or word Stocking is more commonly used. ] What amounteth all this fare! Chaucer. seorm, food, a meal, supper; jeunnian, ge- Specifically - 2. Farm animals; live-stock. Faren,t Fare,t pp. from fare. feormian, to supply with food. The mean- Farmyard (farm'yard), n. The yard or ing of farm’ arose from the original prac- inclosure surroun led by or connected with Ful oft tice of letting lands on condition that the the farm buildings. tenant should supply his lord's household Farness (far'nes), ". The state of being far Farewell (fär'wel). (From fare, in the im with so many nights' entertainment. This off; distance; remoteness. per., and well.) Go well: originally applied mode of reckoning constantly appears in Faro (fā'ro), 12. (Said to be from Pharaoh to a person departing, but by custom now applied both to those who depart and those Doomsday Book -Residet firmam trium having formerly been depicted on one of the who remain. noctium, i.e. 100 libr.;' he will supply three cards) A game at cards in which a person It expresses a kind wish, a wish of happiness to those who leave or nights' entertainment, that is, a hundred plays against the bank. It is one of the most those who are left: I wish you a happy de pounds. The L.L. firma (from L. firmus, common of all games of hazard played in strong, established), Fr. and 0. E. ferme, Europe. Called also Pharaon, Pharao. parture: may you be well in your absence. farm, rent, no doubt exercis d a certain in- Faro-bank (fa'ro-bangk), n. A bank or It sometimes has the pronoun inserted hetween its two elements; as, fare you well. Auence on the meaning of the word.] 1. A establishment, against which persons play Sometimes it is an expression of mere separ tract of land cultivated by a single indivi. at the game of faro; a house or room for dual, whether the owner of the land or a gambling ation; as, farewell the year; farewell, ye tenant. -2. The state of land leased on rent Far-off (fär'of), a. Far-away; distant; resweet groves; that is, I bid you farewell. reserved; a lease. mote in space or time. * The far-oj cur Fare thee Tvelll and if for ever, few' Milton. longer farms to their tenants. Srenser. Farraginous (fa-raj'in-us), a. [L. farrago, Fare thee well, may be equivalent to 'I bid 3. A district farmed out for the collection a mixture, from far, meal.) Formed or thee, I wish thee to fare well.' of revenue. (Rare.] various materials; mixed; as, a farraginous Farewell (fär'wel), n. 1. Good-bye; adieu. The province was divided into twelve farms. mountain. Fareweli, a long farewell, to all my greatness! Burke. Farrago (fa-rā'go), n. [L., from far, meal.] Farm (farm), v. t. 1. To lease, as land, on A mass composed of various materials con A book like this is not a collection of pamphlets the glorious sun.' Shak. Before I take We are enforced to farm our royal realm. Shak. bound into one volume; or the farrago of a few kinmy farewell of the subject.' Addison. dred minds. l'esioninster Kee. It is customary in some countries for the farieation. to individuals, who are to collect and pay fer, from L. ferrum, iron.) A shoer of generally now, one who combines the art of Jesuits have deeper reaches To farm their subjects and their duties towards horse-shoeing with the profession of veterIn all their politic far.fetches. Hudibras. these. Burke. inary surgery Far-fetch (far fech), v.t. To bring from 4. To cultivate, as land; to devote to agri- Farrier (fa’ri-er), r. i. To practise as a farrier far; to draw conclusions remote from or culture. ---To farm let, or let to farm, to Farriery (fa'ri-e-ri), n. The art of shoeing little justified by the premises; to search lease on rent. horses; the art of preventing, curing, or miti. out studiously. Farm (farm), c.i. To be employed in agri- gating the diseases of horses: now called To far-fetch the name of Tartar from a Hebrew culture; to cultivate the soil; as, I would Veterinary Surgery. word. Fuller. rather farin than engage in commerce. Farrow (fa'ro), n. (A. Sax. fearh, a little pig FARROW 249 FASCINE as Cog. O.H.G. farah; G. ferkel; D. varken, from the Peninsula, and the name finds or manner of binding up diseased parts; a little pig, a farrow; L. porcus, Gr. porkos, a satisfactory explanation in Sp. and Pg. bandage. a piy ] A litter of pigs. verdugo, a rod or shoot of a tree, in Pg. Three especial sorts of fasciation or rowling have Farrow (fa'ro), v.t. and i. To bring forth, as applied to a long plait or fold in a garment. the worthies of our profession commended to pos Wedgwood. Comp. It. faldiglia, & hooped terity. pigs: said only of swine. Wiseman Farrow (fa'ro), a. [Allied to A. Sax. fear, petticoat, from falda, a fold.] A hoop Fascicle (fas'si-kl), n. (L. fasciculus, from an ox; D. vaar, var, an ox or bullock, vaar. fascis, a bundle.) 1. A bundle; a collection. koe, a heifer; G. farre, a bull, a steer.] Not 2. In bot, a form of cyme in which the flowers producing young in a particular season or have the foot-sta or peduncles very short, year: applied to cows only. If a cow has so that the flowers are clustered together in a had a calf, but fails in a subsequent year, more or less compact bundle, as in sweetshe is said to be farrow or to go farrow. william. (Scotch or provincial English.] Fascicled, Fascicular (fas'si-kld, fas-sik'üFarry + (fa'ri), n. A farrow. lér), a. Same as Fasciculate. Farsang (far'sang), n. The same Fascicularia (fas-sik'ü-la"ri-a), n. [L. Parasang. fasciculus, a cluster or little bundle.) A Farse, t v.t. See FARCE. Chaucer. genus of extinct polyzoa, of the family Farse (fars), n. (L. farcio, to stuff.] Eccles. Tubuliporidie, occurring in the coralline an explanation or paraphrase in English of crag of Suffolk : so named from its clusthe text of the epistle read in Latin, adopted tered form. in some English churches before the Refor Fascicularly (fas-sik'ü-ler-li), adv. Same as mation, the sub-deacon repeating each verse Fasciculately. in Latin and two choristers singing the farse Fasciculate, Fascicuor explanation in English. lated (fas-sik'ū-lāt, fas. Far-seen (fär'sēn), a. (Scotch.) 1. Looking sik'ü-lāt-ed), a. [From far before one; far-sighted; as, a far-seen fasciculus, a little bunman. – 2. Well-versed; accomplished; as, dle.) Growing in bunfar-seen in medicine. dles or bunches from Far-sighted (fär'sit-ed), a. 1. Seeing to a the same point, as the great distance; looking far before one; cal leaves of the Larix 01 culating carefully the distant results of larch. It is also applied present conduct or action; as, a far-sighted to the stems and roots Farthingale, time of Queen Elizabeth. statesman; far-sighted policy. -2. Not capa Fasciculate Root (Ra- of plants, and in anable of perceiving objects near at hand dis petticoat, or circles of hoops, formed of nunculus Ficaria) tomy to the nerves. tinctly. whalebone, used to extend the petticoat. Fasciculately (fas-sik'. Far-sightedness (färsit-ed-nes), n. The The hoop, the last remain of the farthingale, ü-lāt-li), adv. In a fasciculated manner. state or quality of being far-sighted. was used in court-dress up to the reign of Fasciculato-ramose (fas-sik - ů - la'tó-ra Far-sought (far'sạt), a. Sought at a George IV., and revived, after a form, in mos), a. In bot. noting branches or roots distance; forced. * Far-sought learning.' the use of crinoline, in the reign of Queen which are drawn closely together so as to Johnson. Victoria. Sometimes written Fardingale. be almost parallel. Fart (fart), n. [A. Sax. feort.) A discharge Fascicule (fas'si-kūl), n. A little bundle; a And revel it as bravely as the best of wind through the anus. With ruffs and cuffs and fardingales and things. fascicle. Fart (fart), v.i. To discharge or expel wind Slak. Fasciculite (fas-sik'ü-līt), n. (E. fascicie, through the anus; to break wind. Swift. Farthing-dale (farthing-dăl), n. Same as and Gr. lithos, a stone.) A variety of fibrous Farther, Further (fär'fhér, férfiér), a. Farding-deal. hornblende of a fascicular structure. compar. [Farther is a compar. of far, on the Farthing's-worth (far’Thingz-werth), n. As Fasciculus (fas-sik’ū-lus), n. [L.] 1. A little model of further, which is = A. Sax forthor, much as is sold for a farthing; a thing worth bundle; a fascicle.-2. A division of a book. furthor, from forth. From the root of faran, little or nothing; a matter of no consequence; 3. A nosegay.-4. In bot, same as Fascicle, 2. to go ] 1. More remote; more distant than as, it is not a farthing's-worth to me whether Fascinate (fas'sin-át), v. t. pret. & pp. fassomething else. you do it or not. cinated; ppr. fascinating. (L. fascino; Gr. Since he went from Egypt 'tis Far-West (fär'west), n. That portion of the baskaino, to enchant, to bewitch.] 1. To A space for further travel. Shak. United States lying beyond the Mississippi. bewitch; to enchant; to operate on by some 2. Longer; tending to a greater distance. Far-West (fär'west), a. Pertaining to the powerful or irresistible influence; to intu Far - West, the Before our farther way the Fates allow. Dryden. ence the passions or affections in an unconUnited States west of trollable manner. 3. Additional. the Mississippi. It has been almost universally believed that Let me add a farther truth, Dryden. Fasces (fas'sēz), n. pl. serpents can stupefy and firsciate the prey which Farther, Further (fär'fhér, fer'fhér), adv. (Lat. pl. of fascis, a they are desirous to obtain. Griffith's Cuvier. 1. Ator to a greater distance; more remotely: bundle.] In Roman James, while his fate was under discussion, remained beyond; as, let us rest with what we have at Whitehall, fascinated, as it seemed, by the great. antiq bundles of rods, ness and nearness of the danger, and unequal to the without looking farther.-2. Moreover; by usually of birch, with exertion of either struggling or flying. Alacaulay. way of progression in a subject; as, further, an axe bound in along 2. To charm; to captivate; to excite and let us consider the probable event. with them, borne by Farther (fär' Thér), v.t. To promote; to lictors before the su allure irresistibly or powerfully; as, female advance; to help forward. (Rare.] See beauty fascinates youth.-SYN. To charm, perior Roman magisFURTHER enrapture, captivate, enchant, bewitch. trates as a badge of Fascinate (fas'sin-át), v.i. To exercise a He had farthered or hindered the taking of the their power over life bewitching or captivating power. Dryden. and limb. None of the affections have been noted to fascin. Fartherance (får'fhér-ans), n. A helping Fascet (fas'set), n. In ate and bewitch, but love and envy. Bacon forward; promotion; furtherance. (Rare.) glass-making, an iron Farthermore (far'Thér-mör), adv. Besides; rod thrust into the Fascinating (fas'sin-āt-ing), p. and a. Be Fasces. moreover; furthermore. mouths of bottles to witching; enchanting; charming; captivatFarthermost (far' Thér-most), a. superl. convey them to the annealing tower. Called ing; as, a most fascinating poem. Being at the greatest distance. also Puntyj, Pontee, Punty-rod, and Puntil. Fascination (fas-sin-a'shon), n. 1. The act of Farthest, Furthest (farthest, fér'rhest), Fascia (fa'shi-a), n. [L., a band, sash, fillet.) bewitching or enchanting; enchantment : a. superl. (Superlative formed from farther. 1. A band, sash, or fillet worn by the women witchcraft; the exercise of a powerful irreSee FURTHEST.) Most distant or remote: of ancient Rome next to the skin to make sistible influence on the affections or pas. as, the farthest degree. the waist appear slender.-2. In arch, any sions; unseen inexplicable influence. It was Farthest, Furthest (far'Tilest, férthest), flat member with a little projection, as believed in superstitious times, that magiAt or to the greatest distance. the band of an architrave; also, in brick cians had the power of inflicting various FURTHEST. buildings, the jutting of the bricks be diseases and evils on individuals by using Farthing (får Thing), n. [A. Sax. feorthung, yond the windows in the several stories certain words or spells, or by a look, without the fourth part of a thing, from feorth, except the highest.-3. In astron, the belt coming in contact with them, or adminisfourth, from feower, four.] 1. The fourth of a planet.-4. In surg, a bandage, roller, tering anything to them; this was called of a penny; a small copper coin of Great or ligature.-5. In anat. a tendinous ex fascination, and divers medicines, amulets. Britain, being the fourth of a penny in pansion or aponeurosis; a thin tendinous and ceremonies were put in operation value. covering which surrounds the muscles of against it. The notion of the evil-eye, which Our churchwardens the limbs and binds them in their places. in some places is not yet entirely extinct, Feed on the silver, and give us the farthings. Gay. Fascial (fas'si-al or fash'i-al), a. Belonging is a vestige of this superstition. 2. + A division of land. to the fasces. The Turks hang old rags on their fairest horses, to Thirty acres make a farthing-land; nine far. А Il'aller. Fascialis (fas-si-a'lis or fash'i-a'lis), n. secure them against fascination. tåtings a Cornish acre; and four Cornish acres a long, small, and flattened muscle situate at 2. That which fascinates. knight's fee. Carew. the anterior part of the thigh. Called also Fascine (fas-sen'), n. [Fr., from L. fascis, a 3. + Anything very small; a small quantity. Sartorius. bundle.) In fort a • Vo farthing of grease. Chaucer. - Far. faggot, a bundle of thing damages, in law, nominal, as opposed Fasciated. (6) Banded or compacted to rods, or small sticks to substantial damages - a very common gether. of wood, bound at award, where a jury finds that in law, Fasciated (fa'shi-āt-ed), a. 1. Bound with a both ends and in the though not in fact, injury has been done to fillet, sash, or bandage. -2. In bot. applied middle, used in raisthe plaintiff. The question of such damages to those peculiar flattened stems which ing batteries, in filling carrying expenses is matter for the judges. occur occasionally in trees, and which are Fascines. ditches, in strength. Farthingale (fårThin-găl), n. (O. Fr. ver- supposed to be formed by the union of ening ramparts, and tugalle, vertugade; Fr. vertugadin, a far- several stems. making parapets. Sometimes being dipped thingale. “The fashion seems to have come Fasciation (fa-shi - ā'shon), n. The act in melted pitch or tar, they are used to or town See |