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A syllable applied to the fourth tone of the diatonic scale in solmization.

To form by art and labor; to manufacture; to produce; as, to fabricate woolens.

Easy to be done or performed: not difficult; performable or attainable with little labor. Order . . . will render the work facile and delightful. Evelyn.

To make easy or less difficult; to free from difficulty or impediment; to lessen the labor of; as, to facilitate the execution of a task. To invite and facilitate that line of proceeding which the times call for. I. Taylor.

To labor to wearness; to work hard; to drudge. Read, fag, and subdue this chapter. Coleridge.

Laborious drudgery; esp., the acting as a drudge for another at an English school.

to sink into vice, error, or sin; to depart from the faith; to apostatize; to sin. Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. Heb. iv. 11.

h.), the decorative tracery on the surface of fan vaulting. -- Fan vaulting (Arch.), an elaborate system of vaulting, in which the ribs diverge somewhat like the rays of a fan, as in Henry VII.'s chapel in Westminster Abbey. It is peculiar to English Gothic. -- Fan wheel, the wheel of a fan blower. -- Fan window. Sa…

To engage in the business of tilling the soil; to labor as a farmer.

To influence in an uncontrollable manner; to operate on by some powerful or irresistible charm; to bewitch; to enchant. It has been almost universally believed that . . . serpents can stupefy and fascinate the prey which they are desirous to obtain. Griffith (Cuvier).

displaced, or multiplied. It is noticed particularly at the Straits of Messina, between Calabria and Sicily.

A labroid food fish of California; the redfish.

Weariness from bodily labor or mental exertion; lassitude or exhaustion of strength.

to grow plump, thick, or fleshy; to be pampered. And villains fatten with the brave man's labor. Otway.

called in French feminine rhymes because they end in e weak, or feminine) in which two syllables, an accented and an unaccented one, correspond at the end of each line.

A kind of marble or alabaster, sometimes used for windows on account of its transparency.

to promote the happiness of mankind. Macaulay. -- Fer"vent*ly, adv. -- Fer"vent*ness, n. Laboring fervently for you in prayers. Col. iv. 12.

ic money; sometimes, the income of an individual; often used in the plural for funds; available money; resources. All the finances or revenues of the imperial crown. Bacon.

man artisan finds or provides for himself; as tools, trimmings, etc. When a man hath been laboring . . . in the deep mines of knowledge, hath furnished out his findings in all their equipage. Milton.

To bestow the last required labor upon; to complete; to bestow the utmost possible labor upon; to perfect; to accomplish; to polish.