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use of the eye, and in judging of objects; as, to have the eye of sailor; an eye for the beautiful or picturesque.

one wirehaired with the eyes. [Obs.] That's the eye-saint, I know, Among young gallants. Beau. & Fl.

anner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship; texture; make; as cloth of a beautiful fabric.

An Irish dance; also, the burden of a song. "Fading is a fine jig." [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

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.

Pleasing to the eye; handsome; beautiful. Who can not see many a fair French city, for one fair French made. Shak.

Fairness; beauty. [Obs.] Foxe.

fall down before him." Ps. lxxii. 11. (b) To sink; to come to the ground. "Down fell the beauteous youth." Dryden. (c) To bend or bow, as a suppliant. (d) (Naut.) To sail or drift toward the mouth of a river or other outlet. -- To fall flat, to produce no response or result; to fail of the intended effect; as, his sp…

A hand [Slang & Obs.] "We clap our fambles." Beau. & Fl.

Same as Furl. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Without a known author. Beau. & Fl.

Beautiful; well-favored. [Obs.] Spenser. -- Fa"vora*ble*ness, n. -- Fa"vor*a*bly, sdv. The faborableness of the present times to all extertions in the cause of liberty. Burke.

Having a feat or trim body. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

s; to be or to appear in feathery form. A clump of ancient cedars feathering in evergreen beauty down to the ground. Warren. The ripple feathering from her bows. Tennyson.

To beat; to chastise; to humble; to worry. [Obs.] [Written also feaze, feize, pheese.] Beau. & Fl. To feeze up, to work into a passion. [Obs.]

her husbandry doth lie on heaps Corrupting in its own fertility. Shak. Thy very weeds are beautiful; thy waste More rich than other climes' fertility. Byron.

A ferule. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

ral plants of the genus Mesembryanthemum, some of which are prized for the brilliancy and beauty of their flowers. -- Fig tree (Bot.), any tree of the genus Ficus, but especially F. Carica which produces the fig of commerce.

A frolic; a vagary; a whim. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Fidgety; restless. [Obs.] Such a little figent thing. Beau. & Fl.