Fagot iron, iron, in bars or masses, manufactured from fagots. -- Fagot
vote, the vote of a person who has been constituted a voter by being
made a landholder, for party purposes. [Political cant, Eng.]
Fag"ot (?) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fagoted; p. pr. & vb. n. Fagoting.] To
make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle; also, to
collect promiscuously. Dryden.
||Fa*got"to (?), n. [It. See Fagot.] (Mus.) The bassoon; -- so called
||from being divided into parts for ease of carriage, making, as it
||were, a small fagot.
||Fa"ham (?), n. The leaves of an orchid (Angraecum fragrans), of the
||islands of Bourbon and Mauritius, used (in France) as a substitute
||for Chinese tea.
||Fahl"band` (?), n. [G., fr. fahl dun-colored + band a band.] (Mining)
||A stratum in crystalline rock, containing metallic sulphides.
||Raymond.
{ Fahl"erz (?), Fahl"band (?), } n. [G. fahlerz; fahl dun-colored,
fallow + erz ore.] (Min.) Same as Tetrahedrite.
Fah"lun*ite (f‰"ln*t), n. [From Fahlun, a place in Sweden.] (Min.) A
hydrated silica of alumina, resulting from the alteration of iolite.
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Fah"ren*heit (?) a. [G.] Conforming to the scale used by Gabriel Daniel
Fahrenheit in the graduation of his thermometer; of or relating to
Fahrenheit's thermometric scale. -- n. The Fahrenheit thermometer or
scale.
The Fahrenheit thermometer is so graduated that the freezing point of
water is at 32 degrees above the zero of its scale, and the boiling
point at 212 degrees above. It is commonly used in the United States
and in England.
||Fa`Ô*ence" (?), n. [F., fr. Faenza, a town in Italy, the original
||place of manufacture.] Glazed earthenware; esp., that which is
||decorated in color.
Fail (fl) v. i. [imp. & p. p. Failed (fld); p. pr. & vb. n. Failing.]
[F. failir, fr. L. fallere, falsum, to deceive, akin to E. fall. See
Fail, and cf. Fallacy, False, Fault.] 1. To be wanting; to fall short;
to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence;
to cease to be furnished in the usual or expected manner, or to be
altogether cut off from supply; to be lacking; as, streams fail; crops
fail.
As the waters fail from the sea.
Job xiv. 11.
Till Lionel's issue fails, his should not reign.
Shak.
2. To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or
unprovided; -- used with of.
If ever they fail of beauty, this failure is not be attributed to
their size.
Berke.