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To be glad ; to wish or desire. [Obs.] Whoso fair thing does fain to see. Spencer.

A doer or actor; particularly, an evil doer; a scoundrel. [Obs.] Lo! faitour, there thy meed unto thee take. Spenser.

The quality of being false; coutrariety or want of conformity to truth. Probability does not make any alteration, either in the truth or falsity of things. South.

A young deer; a buck or doe of the first year. See Buck.

That which causes fever. Beddoes.

he process of fermentation, and attributes them to the organized ferments in the body. It does not differ materially from the accepted germ theory (which see).

To drive or hunt out of a lurking place, as a ferret does the cony; to search out by patient and sagacious efforts; -- often used with out; as, to ferret out a secret. Master Fer! I'll fer him, and firk him, and ferret him. Shak.

To keep the hands and fingers actively moving as a fiddler does; to move the hands and fingers restlessy or in busy idleness; to trifle. Talking, and fiddling with their hats and feathers. Pepys.

Anything that does work of a finger; as, the pointer of a clock, watch, or other registering machine; especially (Mech.) a small projecting rod, wire, or piece, which is brought into contact with an object to effect, direct, or restrain a motion.

Detached from substance. [Obs.] Does passion still the firmless mind control Pope.

y; peremptori;y; positively, plainly. "He flatly refused his aid." Sir P. Sidney. He that does the works of religion slowly, flatly, and without appetite. Jer. Taylor.

ions; to blandish; to cajole; to wheedle. When I tell him he hates flatterers, He says he does, being then most flattered. Shak. A man that flattereth his neighbor, spreadeth a net for his feet. Prov. xxix. 5. Others he flattered by asking their advice. Prescott.

To deposit eggs upon, as a flesh fly does on meat; to cause to be maggoty; hence, to taint or contaminate, as if with flyblows. Bp. Srillingfleet.

To show indistinctly or become indistinct, as the picture on a negative sometimes does in the process of development.

To destroy; to undo; to ruin. [Obs.] This is the night That either makes me or fordoes me quite. Shak.

t. Story. -- Foreign body (Med.), a substance occurring in any part of the body where it does not belong, and usually introduced from without. -- Foreign office, that department of the government of Great Britain which has charge British interests in foreign countries.

unmarried person; the act of such illicit sexual intercourse between a man and a woman as does not by law amount to adultery.

fracture. -- Simple fracture (Surg.), a fracture in which the bone only is ruptured. It does not communicate with the surface by an open wound.

To tease; to irritate; to vex. Fret not thyself because of evil doers. Ps. xxxvii. 1.

An outwork. [Obs.] Palisadoes, frontiers, parapets. Shak.