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Having faith or a faith; honest; sincere. [Obs.] "Make thy words faithed." Shak.

Full of faith, or having faith; disposed to believe, especially in the declarations and promises of God. You are not faithful, sir. B. Jonson.

Not believing; not giving credit. Be not faithless, but believing. John xx. 27.

A doer or actor; particularly, an evil doer; a scoundrel. [Obs.] Lo! faitour, there thy meed unto thee take. Spenser.

A variety of pyroxene, from the valley of Fassa, in the Tyrol.

A going; a walk; a march; a way. Good gentleman, go your gait, and let poor folks pass. Shak.

Having (such) a gait; -- used in composition; as, slow-gaited; heavy-gaited.

To dress with gaiters.

The dogwood tree. [Obs.] Chaucer.

See Greith. Chaucer.

See Haytian.

. In faith; indeed; truly. Shak.

A silicate of iron and lime occurring in black prismatic crystals and columnar masses.

A sect of Jews who adhere closely to the letter of the Scriptures, rejecting the oral law, and allowing the Talmud no binding authority; -- opposed to the Rabbinists.

Same as Coaita.

A very venomous snake of India (Bungarus coeruleus), allied to the cobra. Its upper parts are bluish or brownish black, often with narrow white streaks; the belly is whitish.

distinguished from the clergy; the body of the people not in orders. A rising up of the laity against the sacerdotal caste. Macaulay.

One who believes in Lamaism.

See Landing waiter, under Landing, a.

Same as Maghet.