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obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous; perfidious; as, a false friend, lover, or subject; false to promises. I to myself was false, ere thou to me. Milton.

ian sect originating in Holland, and existing in England about 1580, called the Family of Love, who held that religion consists wholly in love.

A sort of love song or light impromptu ballad. [Obs.] Shak. The fancy, all of a class who exhibit and cultivate any peculiar taste or fancy; hence, especially, sporting characters taken collectively, or any specific class of them, as jockeys, gamblers, prize fighters, etc. At a great book sale in London, which had cong…

Free from the power of love. "In maiden meditation, fancy- free." Shak.

Love-sick. Shak.

A lovemonger; a whimsical lover. [Obs.] Shak.

al charms. there be none of the passions that have been noted to fascinate or bewhich but love and envy. Bacon.

A gift or represent; something bestowed as an evidence of good will; a token of love; a knot of ribbons; something worn as a token of affection; as, a marriage favor is a bunch or knot of white ribbons or white flowers worn at a wedding. Wear thou this favor for me, and stick it in thy cap. Shak.

ar favor; one treated with partiality; one preferred above others; especially, one unduly loved, trusted, and enriched with favors by a person of high rank or authority. Committing to a wicked favorite All public cares. Milton.

To be highly gratified or delighted. With my love's picture then my eye doth feast. Shak.

feather; to give wings to.[R.] The Polonian story perhaps may feather some tedions hours. Loveday.

cians; the fees of office; clerk's fees; sheriff's fees; marriage fees, etc. To plead for love deserves more fee than hate. Shak.

Made very happy. [Archaic] I am alone felicitate In your dear highness' love. Shak.

heifers of one year, . . . they are let go to the fellow and breed. Holland. This was my glove; here is the fellow of it. Shak.

stic of a felon; malignant; fierce; malicious; cruel; traitorous; disloyal. Vain shows of love to vail his felon hate. Pope.

ession; glowing ardor; passion; holy zeal; earnestness. Hooker. Winged with fervor of her love. Shak.

Affected with fever or ague; feverish. His heart, love's feverous citadel. Keats.

se; inconstant; capricious; as, Fortune's fickle wheel. Shak. They know how fickle common lovers are. Dryden.

mage of, either palpable or ideal; also, to fashion into a determinate form; to shape. If love, alas! be pain I bear, No thought can figure, and no tongue declare.Prior.

r glass to hold water for rinsing the fingers at table. -- Finger flower (Bot.), the foxglove. -- Finger grass (Bot.), a kind of grass (Panicum sanguinale) with slender radiating spikes; common crab grass. See Crab grass, under Crab. -- Finger nut, a fly nut or thumb nut. -- Finger plate, a strip of metal, glass, e…