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To fit; to suit; to agree. They shall be made, spite of antipathy, to fadge together. Milton. Well, Sir, how fadges the new design Wycherley.

] It is such a fag, I came back tired to death. Miss Austen. Brain fag. (Med.) See Cerebropathy.

der As. -- Far off. (a) At a great distance, absolutely or relatively. (b) Distant in sympathy or affection; alienated. "But now, in Christ Jesus, ye who some time were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ." Eph. ii. 13. -- Far other, different by a great degree; not the same; quite unlike. Pope. -- Far and…

athered Mercury. Shak. Nonsense feathered with soft and delicate phrases and pointed with pathetic accent. Dr. J. Scott.

In a feeling manner; pathetically; sympathetically.

Sympathy; a like feeling.

To share through sympathy; to participate in. [R.] D. Rodgers.

Like a companion; companionable; on equal terms; sympathetic. [Obs.] Udall.

To go or come after; to move behind in the same path or direction; hence, to go with (a leader, guide, etc.); to accompany; to attend. It waves me forth again; I'll follow it. Shak.

Worn by, or weared in, the feet; as, a footworn path; a footworn traveler.

A straight path. [Archaic] Here's a maze trod, indeed, Through forthrights and meanders! Shak.

A person whose views and opinions are extremely antiquated; one whose sympathies are with a former time rather than with the present. [Colloq.]

To bring into fellowship or brotherly sympathy. Correspondence for fraternizing the two nations. Burke.

t.), the monkshood. -- Friar's cowl (Bot.), an arumlike plant (Arisarum vulgare) with a spathe or involucral leaf resembling a cowl. -- Friar's lantern, the ignis fatuus or Will-o'-the-wisp. Milton. -- Friar skate (Zoöl.), the European white or sharpnosed skate (Raia alba); -- called also Burton skate, border ray, s…

Cold-hearted; unsympathetic; unyielding. [R.] Be not ever frozen, coy. T. Carew.

Furnished with ganglia; as, the gangliated cords of the sympathetic nervous system.

entrance or of exit. Knowest thou the way to Dover Both stile and gate, horse way and footpath. Shak. Opening a gate for a long war. Knolles.

Contributing to, and sympathizing with, the enjoyment of life; sympathetically cheerful and cheering; jovial and inspiring joy or happiness; exciting pleasure and sympathy; enlivening; kindly; as, she was of a cheerful and genial disposition. So much I feel my genial spirits droop. Milton.

The quality of being genial; sympathetic cheerfulness; warmth of disposition and manners.

construction consisting essentially of one or more aëroplanes for gliding in an inclined path from a height to the ground.