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A hobby ; freak; whim. -- Fad"dist, n. It is your favorite fad to draw plans. G. Eliot.

A vapid or meaningless remark; a commonplace; nonsense.

To trifle; to toy. -- v. t.

Weak; insipid; tasteless; commonplace. [R.] "Passages that are somewhat fade." Jeffrey. His masculine taste gave him a sense of something fade and ludicrous. De Quincey.

That has lost freshness, color, or brightness; grown dim. "His faded cheek." Milton. Where the faded moon Made a dim silver twilight. Keats.

In a faded manner. A dull room fadedly furnished. Dickens.

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.

A trifle; trifling talk; nonsense. [Colloq.] Spectator.

A material object (vaguely designated). A certain affair of fine red cloth much worn and faded. Hawthorne.

An imaginary flower supposed never to fade. [Poetic]

Unfading, as the poetic amaranth; undying. They only amaranthine flower on earth Is virtue. Cowper.

From a state or condition of being; out of existence. Be near me when I fade away. Tennyson.

To put forth or have a blade. As sweet a plant, as fair a flower, is faded As ever in the Muses' garden bladed. P. Fletcher.

Made of boxwood; pertaining to, or resembling, the box (Buxus). [R.] The faded hue of sapless boxen leaves. Dryden.

foliage, etc.; -- also applied to other stuffs thus wrought and enriched. A gala suit of faded brocade. W. Irving.