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Wanting in courage; depressed by fear; easily discouraged or frightened; cowardly; timorous; dejected. Fear not, neither be faint-hearted. Is. vii. 4. -- Faint"*heart`ed*ly, adv. -- Faint"*heart`ed*ness, n.

Studiously sought; not easily or naturally deduced or introduced; forced; strained.

Firmly fixed; closely adhering; made firm; not loose, unstable, or easily moved; immovable; as, to make fast the door. There is an order that keeps things fast. Burke.

Easily tired. [Obs.] Bailey.

Grossly; greasily.

inclined to fear; easily frightened; without courage; timid. What man is there that is fearful and fain-hearted Deut. xx. 8.

. Easily frightened; timid; timorous. "A silly fearsome thing." B. Taylor

Possessing great sensibility; easily affected or moved; as, a feeling heart.

a. They occur in crystals and crystalline masses, vitreous in luster, and breaking rather easily in two directions at right angles to each other, or nearly so. The colors are usually white or nearly white, flesh-red, bluish, or greenish.

To move uneasily one way and the other; to move irregularly, or by fits and starts. Moore.

Passionate; easily provoked; irritable. You kniw the fiery quality of the duke. Shak.

Not easily excited or disturbed; unchanging in purpose; fixed; steady; constant; stable; unshaken; not easily changed in feelings or will; strong; as, a firm believer; a firm friend; a firm adherent. Under spread ensigns, moving nigh, in slow But firm battalion. Milton. By one man's firm obediency fully tried. Milton.…

Yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; wanting firmness; flaccid; as, flabby flesh.

Anything broad and limber that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved; as, the flap of a garment. A cartilaginous flap upon the opening of the larynx. Sir T. Browne.

Flexible; pliant; pliable; easily bent; plastic; tractable. Wordsworth.

To be unstable; to be easily or often moved. And the free soul to flitting air resigned. Dryden.

rties; as, a flowing period; flowing numbers; to sound smoothly to the ear; to be uttered easily. Virgil is sweet and flowingin his hexameters. Dryden.

Flowing or capable of flowing; liquid; glodding; easily moving.

Having particles which easily move and change their relative position without a separation of the mass, and which easily yield to pressure; capable of flowing; liquid or gaseous.

One easily deceived in buying stocks; an inexperienced and unwary jobber. [Cant, U.S.]