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n; as, the extermination of inhabitants or tribes, of error or vice, or of weeds from a field.

ous; as, a fabulous description; a fabulous hero. The fabulous birth of Minerva. Chesterfield.

purpose of stopping or opposing; to confront; to encounter; as, to face an enemy in the field of battale. I'll face This tempest, and deserve the name of king. Dryden.

Easily persuaded to good or bad; yielding; ductile to a fault; pliant; flexible. Since Adam, and his facile consort Eve, Lost Paradise, deceived by me. Milton. This is treating Burns like a child, a person of so facile a disposition as not to be trusted without a keeper on the king's highway. Prof. Wilson.…

To become weary; to tire. Creighton withheld his force till the Italian began to fag. G. Mackenzie.

of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a pile.

A privilege of setting up, and moving about, folds for sheep, in any fields within manors, in order to manure them; -- often reserved to himself by the lord of the manor. Spelman.

p; 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 falsifier of evidence. [Obs.] Sheldon.

To report widely or honorably. The field where thou art famed To have wrought such wonders. Milton.

iginating in Holland, and existing in England about 1580, called the Family of Love, who held that religion consists wholly in love.

The tusk of an animal, by which the prey is seized and held or torn; a long pointed tooth; esp., one of the usually erectile, venomous teeth of serpents. Also, one of the falcers of a spider. Since I am a dog, beware my fangs. Shak.

Yielding farina or flour; as, ffarinaceous seeds.

Yielding farinaa; as, farinose substances.

The land held under lease and by payment of rent for the purpose of cultivation.

ncible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control. The Stoics held a fatality, and a fixed, unalterable course of events. South.

superior of a convent, a confessor (called also father confessor), or a priest; also, the eldest member of a profession, or of a legislative assembly, etc. Bless you, good father friar ! Shak.

To make fertile and fruitful; to enrich; as, to fatten land; to fatten fields with blood. Dryden.

A god of fields and shipherds, diddering little from the satyr. The fauns are usually represented as half goat and half man. Satyr or Faun, or Sylvan. Milton.

g feasible in practice. Burke. It was not feasible to gratify so many ambitions. Beaconsfield.