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ous aspect; countenance; friendly disposition; kindness; good will. Hath crawled into the favor of the king. Shak.

Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly. Lend favorable ears to our request. Shak. Lord, thou hast been favorable unto thy land. Ps. lxxxv. 1.

Countenanced; aided; regarded with kidness; as, a favored friend.

In a favored or a favorable manner; favorably. [Obs.] Deut. xvii. 1. Arscham.

Appearance. [Obs.]

One who favors; one who regards with kindness or friendship; a well-wisher; one who assists or promotes success or prosperity. [Written also favourer.] And come to us as favorers, not as foes. Shak.

A woman who favors or gives countenance. [Written also fovouress.]

That favors. -- Fa"vor*ing*ly, adv.

A person or thing regarded with peculiar favor; one treated with partiality; one preferred above others; especially, one unduly loved, trusted, and enriched with favors by a person of high rank or authority. Committing to a wicked favorite All public cares. Milton.

The disposition to favor and promote the interest of one person or family, or of one class of men, to the neglect of others having equal claims; partiality. A spirit of favoritism to the Bank of the United States. A. Hamilton.

Unfavored; not regarded with favor; having no countenance or support.

In French games, a pair royal composed of 2 cards in the hand and the card turned.

Want of favor of favorable regard; disesteem; disregard. The people that deserved my disfavor. Is. x. 6 (1551). Sentiment of disfavor against its ally. Gladstone.

Unfavorable. [Obs.] Stow.

Unpropitiously. [Obs.]

One who disfavors. Bacon.

Having a bad countenance or appearance; ill-favored; blemished; deformed. Bacon. -- E"vil-fa`vored*ness, n. Deut. xvi. 1.

Hard-featured; ill-looking; as, Vulcan was hard-favored. Dryden.

Coarseness of features.

Coarseness of features.