Search the Dictionary

Defect; want; lack; default. One, it pleases me, for fault of a better, to call my friend. Shak.

One who makes a practice off discovering others' faults and censuring them; a scold.

The act of finding fault or blaming; -- used derogatively. Also Adj.

One who commits a fault. [Obs.] Behold the faulter here in sight. Fairfax.

Full of faults or sins. Shak.

In a faulty manner.

Quality or state of being faulty. Round, even to faultiness. Shak.

The state or condition of being faulted; the process by which a fault is produced.

Without fault; not defective or imperfect; free from blemish; free from incorrectness, vice, or offense; perfect; as, a faultless poem. Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be. Pope.

Containing faults, blemishes, or defects; imperfect; not fit for the use intended. Created once So goodly and erect, though faulty since. Milton.

A god of fields and shipherds, diddering little from the satyr. The fauns are usually represented as half goat and half man. Satyr or Faun, or Sylvan. Milton.

The animals of any given area or epoch; as, the fauna of America; fossil fauna; recent fauna.

Relating to fauna.

One who describes the fauna of country; a naturalist. Gilbert White.

See Faun.

A young eel. [Prov. Eng.]

A second raampart, exterior to, and parallel to, the main rampart, and considerably below its level.

An armchair; hence (because the members sit in fauteuils or armchairs), membership in the French Academy.

A favorer; a patron; one who gives countenance or support; an abettor. [Obs.] The king and the fautors of his proceedings. Latimer.

A patroness. [Obs.] Chapman.