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Not liable to fade; unfading.

Father. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To fit; to suit; to agree. They shall be made, spite of antipathy, to fadge together. Milton. Well, Sir, how fadges the new design Wycherley.

Loss of color, freshness, or vigor. -- Fad"ing*ly, adv. -- Fad"ing*ness, n.

A fathom. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Faded. [R.] Shenstone.

See Fecal.

Excrement; ordure; also, settlings; sediment after infusion or distillation. [Written also feces.]

See Fecula.

Fairy. [Archaic] Spenser.

To stammer. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

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

The refuse or meaner part of anything. The fag-end of business. Collier.

Laborious drudgery; esp., the acting as a drudge for another at an English school.

d for fuel, for raising batteries, filling ditches, or other purposes in fortification; a fascine. Shak.

so called from being divided into parts for ease of carriage, making, as it were, a small fagot.

The leaves of an orchid (Angraecum fragrans), of the islands of Bourbon and Mauritius, used (in France) as a substitute for Chinese tea.

A stratum in crystalline rock, containing metallic sulphides. Raymond.

Same as Tetrahedrite.

A hydration of iolite.