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ropitious; favorable; - - said of the sky, weather, or wind, etc.; as, a fair sky; a fair day. You wish fair winds may waft him over. Prior.

quinox, which at the Nicene Council fell on the 21st of March, falls now [1694] about ten days sooner. Holder.

In great part; as, the day is far spent.

Of or pertaining to Michael Faraday, the distinguished electrician; -- applied especially to induced currents of electricity, as produced by certain forms of inductive apparatus, on account of Faraday's investigations of their laws.

cial comforts; to live. There was a certain rich man wwhich . . . fared sumptuously every day. Luke xvi. 19.

umiliation and penitence. Thou didst fast and weep for the child. 2 Sam. xii. 21. Fasting day, a fast day; a day of fasting.

The Roman calendar, which gave the days for festivals, courts, etc., corresponding to a modern almanac.

ion; deadly; mortal; destructive; calamitous; as, a fatal wound; a fatal disease; a fatal day; a fatal error.

ned event; destiny; especially, the final lot; doom; ruin; death. The great, th'important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome. Addison. Our wills and fates do so contrary run That our devices still are overthrown. Shak. The whizzing arrow sings, And bears thy fate, Antinous, on its wings. Pope.…

A letter or epistle; -- so called in civility or compliment; as, your favor of yesterday is received.

A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary. The seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord. Ex. xiii. 6. Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover. Luke ii. 41.

Festive; festal; joyful; sumptuous; luxurious. "Feastful days." Milton. -- Feast"ful*ly, adv.

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

roduced into the Roman calendar by Numa. In common years this month contains twenty-eight days; in the bissextile, or leap year, it has twenty- nine days.

A measure of land mentioned in Domesday Book. It is supposed to have consisted of a few acres only. [Obs.]

A week day, esp. a day which is neither a festival nor a fast. Shipley.

Of or pertaining to holidays. [Obs.] J. Gregory.

The act of keeping holiday; cessation from work. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A holiday. [Obs.] Bullokar.

Heat; excessive warmth. The fevor of ensuing day. Waller.