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In a fairmanner; clearly; openly; plainly; fully; distinctly; frankly. Even the nature of Mr. Dimmesdale's disease had never fairly been revealed to him. Hawthorne.

The state of being fair, or free form spots or stains, as of the skin; honesty, as of dealing; candor, as of an argument, etc.

The navigable part of a river, bay, etc., through which vessels enter or depart; the part of a harbor or channel ehich is kept open and unobstructed for the passage of vessels. Totten. the rough.

antment; illusion. [Obs.] Chaucer. The God of her has made an end, And fro this worlde's fairy Hath taken her into company. Gower.

The imaginary land or abode of fairies.

Resembling a fairy, or what is made or done be fairies; as, fairylike music.

belief, on probable evidence of any kind, especially in regard to important moral truth. Faith, that is, fidelity, -- the fealty of the finite will and understanding to the reason. Coleridge.

Having faith or a faith; honest; sincere. [Obs.] "Make thy words faithed." Shak.

Full of faith, or having faith; disposed to believe, especially in the declarations and promises of God. You are not faithful, sir. B. Jonson.

Not believing; not giving credit. Be not faithless, but believing. John xx. 27.

A doer or actor; particularly, an evil doer; a scoundrel. [Obs.] Lo! faitour, there thy meed unto thee take. Spenser.

Having an expanded, or fan-shaped, tail; as, the fan-tailed pigeon.

A variety of the domestic pigeon, so called from the shape of the tail.

A variety of pyroxene, from the valley of Fassa, in the Tyrol.

Dull of apprehension.

Giddy; frivolous; feather-headed. [Colloq.]

, the grain of timber which is transverse to the annular rings or plates; the direction of the medullary rays in oak and some other timber. Knight.

A form of conductor, designed by Ferranti, for currents of high potential, and consisting of concentric tubes of copper separated by an insulating material composed of paper saturated with black mineral wax.

Filigree. [Archaic] With her head . . . touches the crown of filigrane. Longfellow.

A European sting ray of the genus Trygon (T. pastinaca); -- called also fireflare and fiery flaw.