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ghborhood of the dark spots, and are supposed to be elevated portions of the photosphere. Newcomb.

y shall be made, spite of antipathy, to fadge together. Milton. Well, Sir, how fadges the new design Wycherley.

Free from any marked characteristic; average; middling; as, a fair specimen. The news is very fair and good, my lord. Shak. Fair ball. (Baseball) (a) A ball passing over the home base at the height called for by the batsman, and delivered by the pitcher while wholly within the lines of his position and facing the batsm…

To pass somewha suddenly, and passively, into a new state of body or mind; to become; as, to fall asleep; to fall into a passion; to fall in love; to fall into temptation.

religious subjects; one who indulges wild and extravagant notions of religion. There is a new word, coined within few months, called fanatics, which, by the close stickling thereof, seemeth well cut out and proportioned to signify what is meant thereby, even the sectaries of our age. Fuller (1660). Fanatics are governe…

tion of anything perceived before; the power of combining and modifying such objects into new pictures or images; the power of readily and happily creating and recalling such objects for the purpose of amusement, wit, or embellishment; imagination. In the soul Are many lesser faculties, that serve Reason as chief. Amon…

Something new-fashioned; a foolish innovation; a gewgaw; a trifling ornament.

New made; hence, gaudy; showy; vainly decorated. [Obs., except with the prefix new.] See Newfangled. "Our fangled world." Shak.

Quality of being fangled. [Obs.] He them in new fangleness did pass. Spenser.

Condition or state of things; fortune; hap; cheer. What fare what news abroad Shak.

ape of the stern. -- Fashion plate, a pictorial design showing the prevailing style or a new style of dress. in a sort s.b. of a sort

Having a certain style or fashion; as old-fashioned; new- fashioned.

organ. Gen. iv. 21. Might be the father, Harry, to that thought. Shak. The father of good news. Shak.

lightnings of her eyes, and saps The fealty of our friends. tennyson. Swore fealty to the new government. Macaulay.

The thin, new growth around the edge of a shell, of an oyster.

female organism is brought in contact with matter from the organs of the male, so that a new organism results; impregnation; fertilization.

pression calculated to impose upon the timid and ignorant. "Impudent fee-faw-fums." J. H. Newman.

Corrupted; decayed; moldy. See Vinnewed. [Obs.] Dr. Favour.

yeast; in a wider sense (Physiol. Chem.), the transformation of an organic substance into new compounds by the action of a ferment, either formed or unorganized. It differs in kind according to the nature of the ferment which causes it.

styled the feudatory or vassal. Blackstone. [He] had for feudatories great princes. J. H. Newman.