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The quality of being easily performed; freedom from difficulty; ease; as, the facility of an operation. The facility with which government has been overturned in France. Burke .

ering in front, for ornament or other purpose; an exterior covering or sheathing; as, the facing of an earthen slope, sea wall, etc. , to strengthen it or to protect or adorn the exposed surface.

In a facing manner or position.

Atrociously wicked. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor. -- Fa*cin"o*rous*ness, n. [Obs.]

Speech; eloquence. [Obs.] Her facound eke full womanly and plain. Chaucer.

eptive or so as to give every part and detail of the original; an exact copy or likeness. Facsimile telegraph, a telegraphic apparatus reproducing messages in autograph.

A doing, making, or preparing. [Obs.] A project for the fact and vending Of a new kind of fucus, paint for ladies. B. Jonson.

Tumult; discord; dissension. They remained at Newbury in great faction among themselves. Clarendon.

Belonging to a faction; being a partisan; taking sides. [Obs.] Always factionary on the party of your general. Shak.

One of a faction. Abp. Bancroft.

One who promotes faction.

Given to faction; addicted to form parties and raise dissensions, in opposition to government or the common good; turbulent; seditious; prone to clamor against public measures or men; -- said of persons. Factious for the house of Lancaster. Shak.

ficial or conventional, in distinction from a natural, standard or rule; not natural; as, factitious cinnabar or jewels; a factitious taste. -- Fac-ti"tious*ly, adv. -- Fac*ti"tious-ness, n. He acquires a factitious propensity, he forms an incorrigible habit, of desultory reading. De Quincey.

nd in the passive voice on the subject of such activity. This second object is called the factitive object. J. W. Gibbs.

Making; having power to make. [Obs.] "You are . . . factive, not destructive." Bacon.

In fact; by the act or fact. De facto. (Law) See De facto.

s business for others in commission; a commission merchant or consignee. He may be a home factor or a foreign factor. He may buy and sell in his own name, and he is intrusted with the possession and control of the goods; and in these respects he differs from a broker. Story. Wharton. My factor sends me word, a merchant…

The allowance given to a factor, as a compensation for his services; -- called also a commission.

A factor who is a woman. [R.]

Of or pertaining to a factory. Buchanan.