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Hollow or unsound at the core; treacherous; deceitful; perfidious. Bacon. -- False"*heart`ed*ness, n. Bp. Stillingfleet.

not. To counterfeit the living image of king in his person exceedeth all falsifications. Bacon.

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

Tenacious; retentive. [Obs.] Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of their smells. Bacon.

Close-handed; close-fisted; covetous; avaricious. [Obs.] Bacon.

hing are fatal and necessary. Tillotson. It was fatal to the king to fight for his money. Bacon.

k not to say that the king cared not to plume his nobility and people to feather himself. Bacon. Dryden.

riends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship which is in less neighborhods. Bacon. Men are made for society and mutual fellowship. Calamy.

revive; -- sometimes with to; as, to fetch a man to. Fetching men again when they swoon. Bacon.

aving an offensive smell; stinking. Most putrefactions . . . smell either fetid or moldy. Bacon.

Held from another on some conditional tenure; as, a feudatory title. Bacon.

Having the tendency to produce fever; as, a feverous disposition of the year. [R.] Bacon.

ttery or to molding in any soft material. Fictile earth is more fragile than crude earth. Bacon. The earliest specimens of Italian fictile art. C. Wordsworth. Fictile ware, ware made of any material which is molded or shaped while soft; hence, pottery of any sort. -- Fic"tile*ness, n. -- Fic*til"i*ty, n.…

Themistocles . . . said he could not fiddle, but he could make a small town a great city. Bacon.

form or figure. Plants are all figurate and determinate, which inanimate bodies are not. Bacon.

The act of giving figure or determinate form; determination to a certain form. Bacon.

The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance. Flowers have all exquisite figures. Bacon.

Composed of threads. Bacon.

to fillso great a multitude Matt. xv. 33. Things that are sweet and fat are more filling. Bacon.

Liable or subject to a fine; as, a finable person or offense. Bacon.