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charge or compensation, or for which an additional charge is made; as, at European hotels lights are extras. [Colloq.]

An extravagant flight of sentiment or language.

ct of exulting; lively joy at success or victory, or at any advantage gained; rapturous delight; triumph. His bosom swelled with exultation. Prescott.

Arising; coming to light. [Obs.]

erformable or attainable with little labor. Order . . . will render the work facile and delightful. Evelyn.

ightness; grown dim. "His faded cheek." Milton. Where the faded moon Made a dim silver twilight. Keats.

A failing; a slight fault. [Obs.] Johnson.

, done, or acted, in a weak or feeble manner; not exhibiting vigor, strength, or energy; slight; as, faint efforts; faint resistance. The faint prosecution of the war. Sir J. Davies.

Slightly faint; somewhat faint. -- Faint"ish*ness, n.

Feebleness, as of color or light; lack of distinctness; as, faintness of description.

Without a dark hue; light; clear; as, a fair skin. The northern people large and fair-complexioned. Sir M. Hale.

Having fair or light-colored hair.

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

æ) of raptorial birds, characterized by a short, hooked beak, strong claws, and powerful flight.

s, the apple falls; the tide falls; the mercury falls in the barometer. I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. Luke x. 18.

hiefly for signaling, but sometimes burned for the purpose of deceiving an enemy; also, a light on shore for decoying a vessel to destruction. -- False galena. See Blende. -- False imprisonment (Law), the arrest and imprisonment of a person without warrant or cause, or contrary to law; or the unlawful detaining of a…

Hesitation; trembling; feebleness; an uncertain or broken sound; as, a slight falter in her voice. The falter of an idle shepherd's pipe. Lowell.

ent for draft and ventilation; a fanner. -- Fan cricket (Zoöl.), a mole cricket. -- Fan light (Arch.), a window over a door; -- so called from the semicircular form and radiating sash bars of those windows which are set in the circular heads of arched doorways. -- Fan shell (Zoöl.), any shell of the family Pectinidæ…

A lighthouse, or the apparatus placed in it for giving light.

A sort of love song or light impromptu ballad. [Obs.] Shak. The fancy, all of a class who exhibit and cultivate any peculiar taste or fancy; hence, especially, sporting characters taken collectively, or any specific class of them, as jockeys, gamblers, prize fighters, etc. At a great book sale in London, which had cong…