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It stands for the bass-clef, and frequently 

 for forte, as ff does for forte forte. F is 

 also the nominal of the fourth note in the 

 natural diatonic scale of C. In medical 

 prescription, F. or ft stands for fiat orfiant, 

 let it, or them, be made. 



FA. In music, one of the syllables in- 

 vented by Guido Aretine to mark the 

 fourth note of the modern scale, which 

 rises thus, ut, re, mi, fa. It is either flat 

 or sharp, the flat marked thus \), the 

 sharp thus $, and the natural thus, ij, and 

 called biquadro. 



FA'BA, the bean. The Falisci, a people 

 of Hetruria, called itNaba, whence Latin 

 faba. 



FABA'CI.U, Faba the type; an extensive 

 natural order of plants. 



FA'BIAN, an epithet signifying that line 

 of military tactics which declines the 

 risking of a battle in the open field, but 

 seeks every opportunity of harassing the 

 enemy by counter-marches, ambuscades, 

 &c., as was practised by Q,. Fabius 

 Maximus, a Roman general, opposed to 

 Hannibal. 



FAB'LIAUX. In French literature, the 

 metrical tales of the Trouvires or early 

 poets of the north of France. 



FABRA'RCM A'QUA, the pharmaceutical 

 name for forge-water, a mild chalybeate 

 formed by quenching red-hot iron in 

 water. 



FAB'ULOUS AGE, that period in the his- 

 tory of every nation in which supernatural 

 events are represented as having hap- 

 pened : sometimes called the heroic age. 



FACA'DE, a French term for front, used 

 to denote the whole exterior side of a 

 building that can be seen at one view. 



FACE, the visage, Lat. fades, whence 

 the epithet facial. The edge of a cutting 

 instrument is vulgarly called the face ; 

 and when one side of an object is flat and 

 the others not, the smooth or flat side is 

 called the face. " Stones are faced in the 

 opposite direction of their splitting grain." 

 A cube has six faces, and a polyhedron 

 has many faces. Small faces are facets. 



FACE MOULD, the name given by work- 

 men to the pattern for making the plank 

 or board out of which ornamental hand- 

 railings for stairs or other works are to 

 be cut. 



FA'CET, T?r.facette, the face. A little face 

 or small plane, as the facets of a brilliant 

 or rose diamond. The facets of a column 

 are the flat projections between the flut- 

 niirs. Multiplying glasses have many 

 facets. 



FA'CIAT,, appertaining to the face, as the 

 facial artery, otherwise called the labial 

 or angular artery. The facial angle is that 

 contained between two lines, one drawn 

 from the most prominent part of the 

 forehead to the alveolar edge of the upper 



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jaw, opposite to the incisor teeth, and the 

 other from the external auditory foramen 

 to the same point. 



FA'CIES HIPPOCRATICA, that state of the 

 countenance which immediately precedes 

 death; so called from particular attention 

 being directed to it by Hippocrates in his 

 prognostics. 



FA'CINO. In hydraulic earth-work, a 

 layer of common materials or soil, laid 

 over the lining or puddle, and upon the 

 bottom and sloping sides of a canal, reser- 

 voir, &c. In carpentry, facings are the 

 wooden coverings of the sides of windows 

 and door-places in the insides of rooms. 

 In architecture, that part of the work seen 

 by a spectator, but usually a better sort 

 of work which masks the inferior one in- 

 ternally. 



FAC SIM'ILE (Lat.), an exact copy. 



FAC'TION (Lat.), anciently, an appella- 

 tion given to the different troops or com- 

 panies of combatants in the games of the 

 circus. At present the term faction is 

 bandied about by the three great parties 

 of the country, the "Whigs, Tories, and 

 Radicals, and applied to one another. 



FAC'TOR, Lat. from facio. 1. In com- 

 merce, an agent employed by merchants 

 at a distance (usually in some other coun- 

 try), to transact business on their account. 

 He is usually paid a per centage on the 

 goods he sells or buys, and if he acts under 

 what is termed a del credere commission, 

 i. e. if he guarantee the price of the goods 

 sold on account of his principal, he re- 

 ceives an additional per centage, to in- 

 demnify him for his additional responsi- 

 bility. 2. In arithmetic, the numbers 



employed in forming a product or factum 

 are called factors. Thus 7 and 3 are the 

 factors of 21. 



FAC'TORAGE, the allowance, per centage, 

 or commission, given to factors by the mer- 

 chants, &c., who employ them. See FACTOR. 



FAC'TOR Y, a place where factors meet to 

 transact business for their employer. The 

 English merchants have/rtrfories in China, 

 Turkey, Portugal, Hamburg, Russia, &c. 

 The word factory is now also used for a 

 building or collection of buildings appro- 

 priated to the manufacture of goods ; but 

 in this sense it is a contraction of manu- 

 factory. 



FAC'TUM (Lat.), something made. In 

 arithmetic, a product. In law, a man's 

 own act. 



FAC'ULJZ, Lat. dim. plu. of fax, a torch ; 

 bright spot generally : used to denote cer- 

 tain liquid spots on the sun's disc, brighter 

 than the rest of the body. 



FAC'ULTT, Lat. factdtas, ability. 1. In> 

 logic, the power of the mind, imagination, 



reason, and memory. 2. In physiology, 



a power or ability to perform any action, 



natural, vital, or animal. 3. In schortt t 



one of the departments or a university. 



