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- Breach of faith, Confession of faith, etc. See under Breach, Confession, etc. -- Faith cure, a method or practice of treating diseases by prayer and the exercise of faith in God. -- In good faith, with perfect sincerity.

ws himself on his haunches two or three times, bending himself, as it were, in very quick curvets. Harris.

A broad-bladed sword, slightly curved, shorter and lighter than the ordinary sword; -- used in the Middle Ages.

A curved and sharp-pointed claw.

Curved and sharppointed, like a falcula, or claw of a falcon.

nd by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; the mercury falls in the barometer. I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. Luke x. 18.

A curved fold or process of the dura mater or the peritoneum; esp., one of the partitionlike folds of the dura mater which extend into the great fissures of the brain.

"The Jews are generally, when married, most exemplary family men." Mayhew. -- Family of curves or surfaces (Geom.), a group of curves or surfaces derived from a single equation. -- In a family way, like one belonging to the family. "Why don't we ask him and his ladies to come over in a family way, and dine with some…

An instrument used for producing artificial currents of air, by the wafting or revolving motion of a broad surface; as:

Curiously shaped or constructed; as, she wore a fanciful headdress. Gather up all fancifullest shells. Keats.

ining 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.

The treatment with faradic or induced currents of electricity for remedial purposes.

To stimulate with, or subject to, faradic, or inducted, electric currents. --Far"a*diz`er (#), n.

The art of preventing, curing, or mitigating diseases of horses and cattle; the veterinary art.

he fourth of a penny; a small copper coin of Great Britain, being a cent in United States currency.

Established or favored by custom or use; current; prevailing at a particular time; as, the fashionable philosophy; fashionable opinions.

A horse of a favel or dun color. To curry favel. See To curry favor, under Favor, n.

for the advantage of. -- In favor with, favored, countenanced, or encouraged by. -- To curry favor Etym: [see the etymology of Favor, above], to seek to gain favor by flattery, caresses, kindness, or officious civilities. -- With one's favor, or By one's favor, with leave; by kind permission. But, with your favor,…

Short curls dangling over the temples; -- fashionable in the reign of Charles II. [Obs.] Farquhar.

To curdle when poured into another liquid, and float about in little flakes or "feathers;" as, the cream feathers [Colloq.]