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EXTRADICTIONARY a.
e extradictionary and real fallacies, Aristotle and logicians make in number six. Sir T. Browne.
EXTRAMISSION n.
A sending out; emission. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
EXTRAVERSION n.
The act of throwing out; the state of being turned or thrown out. [Obs.] Boyle.
EXTRUDE v.
thrust out; to force, press, or push out; to expel; to drive off or away. "Parentheses thrown into notes or extruded to the margin." Coleridge.
EXUDATE v.
To exude. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
EYNE; EYEN n.
poetry. Shak. With such a plaintive gaze their eyne Are fastened upwardly on mine. Mrs. Browning.
FABULOSITY n.
A fabulous or fictitious story. [R.] Sir T. Browne.
FADED a.
That has lost freshness, color, or brightness; grown dim. "His faded cheek." Milton. Where the faded moon Made a dim silver twilight. Keats.
FAIRY n.
The country of the fays; land of illusions. [Obs.] He [Arthur] is a king y-crowned in Fairy. Lydgate.
FALCATION n.
The state of being falcate; a bend in the form of a sickle. Sir T. Browne.
FALL v.
To be overthrown or captured; to be destroyed. Heaven and earth will witness, If Rome must fall, that we are innocent. Addison.
FALSITY n.
lse; falsehood; a lie; a false assertion. Men often swallow falsities for truths. Sir T. Brown.
FARRAGINOUS a.
] Kirwan. AA farraginous concurrence of all conditions, tempers, sexes, and ages. Sir T. Browne.
FASTEN v.
take firm hold; to clinch; to cling. A horse leech will hardly fasten on a fish. Sir T. Browne.
FAT a.
Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate. [Obs.] Persons grown fat and wealthy by long impostures. Swift.
FATALITY n.
he year sixty-three is conceived to carry with it the most considerable fatality. Ser T. Browne. By a strange fatality men suffer their dissenting. Eikon Basilike.
FATE n.
of Rome. Addison. Our wills and fates do so contrary run That our devices still are overthrown. Shak. The whizzing arrow sings, And bears thy fate, Antinous, on its wings. Pope.
FAULT n.
nd continue chase; hance, in trouble ot embarrassment, and unable to proceed; puzzled; thhrown off the track. -- To find fault, to find reason for blaming or complaining; to express dissatisfaction; to complain; -- followed by with before the thing complained of; but formerly by at. "Matter to find fault at." Robynson…
FAVILLOUS a.
Of or pertaining to ashes. [Obs.] Light and favollous particles. Sir T. Browne.
FAWN-COLORED a.
Of the color of a fawn; light yellowish brown.
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