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Fault-finding; teasing; persistently annoying; as, a nagging toothache. [Colloq.]

To find fault; to be peevish. [Prov. Eng. or Scot.]

Default of apperance, as in court, to prosecute or defend; failure to appear.

no legal or binding force or validity; of no efficacy; invalid; void; nugatory; useless. Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, Dead perfection; no more. Tennyson.

ed and interested schemes of ...obnoxious authors." Bp. Fell. All are obnoxious, and this faulty land, Like fainting Hester, does before you stand Watching your scepter. Waller.

Defect; imperfection; fault. [Obs.] Holland.

To exceed in name, fame, or degree. [Obs.] And found out one to outname thy other faults. Beau. & Fl.

ey overlook truth in the judgments they pass. Atterbury. The pardoning and overlooking of faults. Addison.

rom behind; to discover; to surprise; to capture; to overcome. If a man be overtaken in a fault. Gal. vi. 1 I shall see The winged vengeance overtake such children. Shak.

To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve; as a child's faults pain his parents. I am pained at mJer. iv. 19. To pain one's self, to exert or trouble one's self; to take pains; to be solicitous. [Obs.] "She pained her to do all that she might." Chaucer.

uses; to conceal the enormity of, by excuses and apologies; to extenuate; as, to palliate faults. They never hide or palliate their vices. Swift.

ct of palliating, or state of being palliated; extenuation; excuse; as, the palliation of faults, offenses, vices.

To absolve from the consequences of a fault or the punishment of crime; to free from penalty; -- applied to the offender. In this thing the Lord pardon thy servant. 2 Kings v. 18. I pray you, pardon me; pray heartily, pardom me. Shak.

enalty; venial; excusable; -- applied to the offense or to the offender; as, a pardonable fault, or culprit.

lse eloquence passeth only where true is not understood. Felton. This will not pass for a fault in him. Atterbury.

A slight trespass or offense; a petty crime or fault. Sir W. Scott.

Wrong; defective; faulty. [R.] Ayliffe.

quality or condition of being penitent; the disposition of a penitent; sorrow for sins or faults; repentance; contrition. "Penitence of his old guilt." Chaucer. Death is deferred, and penitenance has room To mitigate, if not reverse, the doom. Dryden.

affected by a sense of guilt, and resolved on amendment of life. Be penitent, and for thy fault contrite. Milton. The pound he tamed, the penitent he cheered. Dryden.

t; having all the properties or qualities requisite to its nature and kind; without flaw, fault, or blemish; without error; mature; whole; pure; sound; right; correct. My strength is made perfect in weakness. 2 Cor. xii. 9. Three glorious suns, each one a perfect sun. Shak. I fear I am not in my perfect mind. Shak. O m…