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Conforming to the scale used by Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit in the graduation of his thermometer; of or relating to Fahrenheit's thermometric scale. -- n.

Glazed earthenware; esp., that which is decorated in color.

To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expected manner, or to be altogether cut off from supply; to be lacking; as, streams fail; crops fail. As the waters fail from the sea. Job xiv. 11. Till Lionel's issue fails, h…

Fault; failure; omission. [Obs.] Bp. Fell.

A failing short; a becoming deficient; failure; deficiency; imperfection; weakness; lapse; fault; infirmity; as, a mental failing. And ever in her mind she cas about For that unnoticed failing in herself. Tennyson.

A soft silk, heavier than a foulard and not glossy.

Cessation of supply, or total defect; a failing; deficiency; as, failure of rain; failure of crops.

Well-pleased; glad; apt; wont; fond; inclined. Men and birds are fain of climbing high. Shak. To a busy man, temptation is fainto climb up together with his business. Jer. Taylor.

Do-nothingness; inactivity; indolence.

Doing nothing; shiftless. -- n.

A deity recognized as real but conceived as not acting in human affairs, hence not worshiped.

Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, faint with fatigue, hunger, or thirst.

ear; 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.

, or loss of consciousness owing to a sudden arrest of the blood supply to the brain, the face becoming pallid, the respiration feeble, and the heat's beat weak. Fainting fit, a fainting or swoon; syncope. [Colloq.]

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

Timorous; feeble-minded. [Obs.] "A fainting, silly creature." Arbuthnot.

In a faint, weak, or timidmanner.

The state of being faint; loss of strength, or of consciousness, and self-control.

over first and last in the distillation of whisky; -- the former being called the strong faints, and the latter, which is much more abundant, the weak faints. This crude spirit is much impregnated with fusel oil. Ure.

Feeble; languid. [R.] Dryden.