Offers himself to the visits of a friend with facility.
South.
5. That which promotes the ease of any action or course of conduct;
advantage; aid; assistance; -- usually in the plural; as, special
facilities for study.
Syn. -- Ease; expertness; readiness; dexterity; complaisance;
condescension; affability. -- Facility, Expertness, Readiness. These
words have in common the idea of performing any act with ease and
promptitude. Facility supposes a natural or acquired power of
dispatching a task with lightness and ease. Expertness is the kind of
facility acquired by long practice. Readiness marks the promptitude
with which anything is done. A merchant needs great facility in
dispatching business; a banker, great expertness in casting accounts;
both need great readiness in passing from one employment to another.
"The facility which we get of doing things by a custom of doing, makes
them often pass in us without our notice." Locke. "The army was
celebrated for the expertness and valor of the soldiers." "A readiness
to obey the known will of God is the surest means to enlighten the mind
in respect to duty."
Fa"cing (?), n. 1. A covering in front, for ornament or other purpose;
an exterior covering or sheathing; as, the facing of an earthen slope,
sea wall, etc. , to strengthen it or to protect or adorn the exposed
surface.
2. A lining placed near the edge of a garment for ornament or
protection.
3. (Arch.) The finishing of any face of a wall with material different
from that of which it is chiefly composed, or the coating or material
so used.
4. (Founding) A powdered substance, as charcoal, bituminous coal, ect.,
applied to the face of a mold, or mixed with the sand that forms it, to
give a fine smooth surface to the casting.
5. (Mil.) (a) pl. The collar and cuffs of a military coat; -- commonly
of a color different from that of the coat. (b) The movement of
soldiers by turning on their heels to the right, left, or about; --
chiefly in the pl.
Facing brick, front or pressed brick.
Fa"cing*ly, adv. In a facing manner or position.
Fa*cin"o*rous (?), a. [L. facinorous, from facinus deed, bad deed, from
facere to make, do.] Atrociously wicked. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.
-- Fa*cin"o*rous*ness, n. [Obs.]
Fac"ound (?), n. [F. faconde, L. facundia. See Facund.] Speech;
eloquence. [Obs.]
Her facound eke full womanly and plain.
Chaucer.
Fac*sim"i*le (?), n.; pl. Facsimiles (-l&?;z). [L. fac simile make
like; or an abbreviation of factum simile made like; facere to make +
similes like. See Fact, and Simile.] A copy of anything made, either so
as to be deceptive or so as to give every part and detail of the
original; an exact copy or likeness.
Facsimile telegraph, a telegraphic apparatus reproducing messages in
autograph.
Fac*sim"i*le, (&?;), v. t. To make a facsimile of.
Fact (fkt), n. [L. factum, fr. facere to make or do. Cf. Feat, Affair,
Benefit, Defect, Fashion, and -fy.] 1. A doing, making, or preparing.
[Obs.]
A project for the fact and vending Of a new kind of fucus, paint
for ladies.
B. Jonson.
2. An effect produced or achieved; anything done or that comes to pass;
an act; an event; a circumstance.
What might instigate him to this devilish fact, I am not able to
conjecture.
Evelyn.
He who most excels in fact of arms.
Milton.
3. Reality; actuality; truth; as, he, in fact, excelled all the rest;
the fact is, he was beaten.
4. The assertion or statement of a thing done or existing; sometimes,
even when false, improperly put, by a transfer of meaning, for the
thing done, or supposed to be done; a thing supposed or asserted to be
done; as, history abounds with false facts.