fader 
fader (fil'der), n. An obsolete or dialectal form 
of father. 
fadge 1 (faj), r. i. [Origin unknown; it is diffi- 
cult to connect it phonetically with AS. //'/. 
join; this word produced tS.E.fegen,feyen, fi-ini. 
mod. E. fay 1 , q. v. (but cf. hedge as related to 
hay'*). Fadge is not found earlier than the 16th 
century, and is rare in literature.] 1 . To suit ; 
fit ; come close, as the parts of things united ; 
heuce, to have one part consistent with ano- 
ther. [Obsolete or provincial.] 
How will tliU/adj/e.' Shale., T. N., il. 2. 
How ill his shape with inward forme doth/nrf.w .' 
Marxton, Scourge of Villnnie, i. 
Clothes I must get ; this fashion will not fadge with me. 
Fletcher, Wit without Money, iii. 4. 
2t. To agree ; live in amity. 
Yet they shall be made, spite of antipathy, to fadge to- 
gether, and combine as they may to their unspeakable 
wearisomeness, and dispair of all sociable delight in the 
ordinance which God established to that very end. 
Milton, Divorce, Pref. 
3f. To succeed; turn out well. 
We will have, if this fadge not, an antic. I beseech you 
follow. Skat., L. L. L., v. 1. 
Though now, if gold but lacke in graines, 
The wedding fadgeth not. 
Warner, Albion's England, iv. 29. 
But the Ethiopian Priest first enters, without whom, 
they say, the miracle will not fadge. 
Sandys, Travatles, p. 184. 
fadge 2 (faj), [E. dial, and Sc. ; origin not 
clear ; it is difficult to connect the form with 
that of fagot. Cf. /ad 2 .] 1. A bundle; a fagot. 
Halliwell; Jamieson. 2. A covering of un- 
dressed leather inclosing a bundle of patent or 
other valuable leather. Simmonds. 
fadge 3 (faj), . [E. dial, and Sc.; origin not 
clear ; perhaps connected with fadge 2 , a bun- 
dle.] A large flat loaf or bannock, commonly 
of barley-meal, baked among ashes. Halliwell; 
Jamieson. 
A Glasgow capon [herringl and a fadge 
Ye thought a feast. Kamsay, Poems, II. 339. 
fadge 4 (faj), . [Sc.,var.of/orf(/e,q.v.] Afat, 
clumsy person. 
I sail hae nothing to mysell, 
Bot a tatfattge by the fyre. 
Lord Thomas and Fair Annet (Child's Ballads, II. 126). 
fadge 5 t, '' * [Cf. feeze, feaze.] To beat or 
thrash. [Prov. Eng.] 
fading 1 (fa'ding), i. [Verbal n. of fade 1 , .] 
Decay ; loss of color, freshness, or vigor. 
fading 2 ! (fad'ing), . [Of Ir. origin.] The 
name of an Irish dance, and the burden of a 
song. 
I will have him dance fading. Fading is a fine jig, 
I'll assure you, gentlemen. 
Beau, and Fl., Knight of Burning Pestle, iii. 5. 
Tish marriage bring over a doshen of our besht inaysh- 
ters, to be merry . . . and daunsh a fading at te vedding. 
/-'. Jonson, Irish Masque. 
Not one amongst a hundred will fall, 
But under her coata the ball will be found, 
With a fading, etc. Shirley, Bird in a Cage. 
fadingness (fa'ding-nes), . Decay; liability 
to decay. W. Montague. 
fadmet, fadomt, fadomet, and . Middle 
English variants of fathom. 
fadoodle (fa-do'dl), ii. [A made word; cf.doo- 
(We 1 , n., flapdoodle.] A trifle; something worth- 
less or foolish. 
And when all the stuff in the letters are scann'd, what 
fadoodles are brought to light ! 
Bp. Hacket, Abp. Williams, li. 131. 
fady (fa'di), a. [</af?ei + -i/ 1 .] Wearing away; 
losing color or strength. [Rare.] 
Survey those walls, in fady texture clad, 
Where wand'ring snails in many a winding path, 
Free, unrestrain d, their various journeys crawl. 
Shenstone, Economy, iii. 
fae (fa), . A Scotch form of foe. 
Your mortal fae is now awa' ! 
Tarn Samson's deid ! 
Rums, Tain Samson's Elegy. 
faecal, fasces, etc. See fecal, etc. 
faem (fam), n. A Scotch form of foam. 
O a' ye mariners, far and near, 
That sail ayont the faem. 
Mary Hamilton (Child's Ballads, III. 327). 
Guid auld Scoteh drink : 
Whether thro' wimplin' worms thou jink, 
Or, richly brown, ream o'er the brink 
In glorious faem. 
Burns, Scotch Drink. 
faerie, faery (fa'e-ri), n. Archaic forms of 
fairy : as, Spenser's Faery (or Faerie) Queene. 
fsex populi (feks pop'u-11). [L.: fcex, dregs 
(see feccs) ; populi, gen. otfOpmtlt, people : see 
people.] The dregs of the people ; the lowest 
classes of society. 
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faff (faf), r. i. [E. dial.] To move violently. 
fafflet (faf'l), v. i. [E. dial. ; origin obscure, 
and hence usually said to be 'onouiatopoetic." 
Cf. muffle, stammer.] To stammer. Barret. 
fag 1 (fag), v. ; pret. and pp. fagged, ppr. /;/- 
iii nit. [Origin obscure; perhaps the same as 
Jlni/ 1 (which is older), with loss of /, as in fu- 
gleman, G. fliif/elmann, and in E. dial. (Norfolk) 
flags, turfs for burning, called rags ("fags) in 
Devonshire. In intr. sense 3 and tr. 2, < fag 1 , 
.] I. in trims. If. To become weary; fail in 
strength ; be faint with weariness. Levins, 1570. 
2. To labor hard or assiduously; work till 
wearied. 
I am sure I fag more for fear of disgrace than fur hope 
of profit. Mine. D'Arbtay, Diary, I. 235. 
Let us not fag in paltry works which serve our pot and 
bag alone. Emerson, Civilization. 
Margaret, happy, unhappy, fagged up the hill ; she had 
lost her book, she had got the rum ; she was miserable 
herself, she knew her family would be pleased. 
S. Judd, Margaret, i. 6. 
3. To act as a fag; perform menial services 
for another. 
"And I've made up my mind, "broke iu Tom, "that I 
won't fag except for the sixth." 
T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Rugby, i. 8. 
To fag out, in cricket, same as to field. 
This one blacked his shoes, that toasted his bread, oth- 
ers would fag mil and give him balls at cricket during 
whole summer afternoons. Thackeray. 
What is now called " fielding" was formerly "fanning- 
out." N. and Q., 7th er., IV. 426. 
II. tram. 1. To tire by labor ; exhaust: often 
with out. 
The run, though short, had been very sharp, and over 
such awful country that we were completely fagged out, 
and could hardly speak for lack of breath. 
The Century, XXX. 228. 
2. To use or treat as a fag or drudge; compel 
to labor for one's benefit; cause to perform 
menial services for one. 
Oh for that small, small beer anew ! . . . 
The master even ! and that small Turk 
That fagg'd me ! Hood, Retrospective Review. 
3f. To beat. 
fag 1 (fag), n. [</? 1 ,.] 1. A laborious drudge. 
Worse is now my work, 
A fag for all the town. 
Hood, Retrospective Review. 
2. In certain English public schools, as Eton, 
Harrow, and Winchester, a schoolboy of a low- 
er class who performs menial services for an- 
other boy who is in the highest or next highest 
form or class, having to prepare his breakfast, 
carry messages, etc., in return for which pro- 
tection and assistance in various ways are ac- 
corded. The system of fagging is now much 
milder than formerly. 
Krom supper till nine o'clock three fags, taken in order, 
stood in the passages, and answered any pnepostor who 
called Fay, racing to his door, the last comer having to 
do the work. T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Rugby,! 7. 
3. A fatiguing or tiring piece of work ; a weari- 
some task. 
It is such a fag, I come back tired to death. 
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, iii. 
fag 2 (fag), n. [Perhaps < flag 1 , hang loose: 
hence/a<7-eHrf, a loose end : see fag 1 StuAflag^.} 
1. The fringe at the end of a piece of cloth, or 
at the end of a rope. Ash, 1775. 2. The end ; 
fag-end. 
To finish, as it were, and make the fay 
Of all the revels. Middleton, Changeling, iti. 3. 
3. A knot or blemish in the web of cloth ; an 
imperfect or coarse part of such a web. 
fag 2 (fag), v. i. ; pret. and pp. fagged, ppr. fag- 
ging. [< fag%, .] To become untwisted, as 
the end of a rope ; ravel : usually with out. 
fag 3 (fag), n. [E. dial.] Long, coarse grass. 
Wright. 
fag 4 (fag), . A mink. [U. S.] 
They [swans], it is said, fancy themselves in pursuit of 
some animal, as the fag, or mink, by which their young 
are annoyed at their breeding places. 
New Mirror (New York), III. (1843). 
fagaryt, . An obsolete variant of vagary. 
She was stark mad for that young fellow Paris, 
And after him she danc'd the new 
Ovid Travestie (1681), p. 25. 
faget, v. [ME. fagen, later faggen; origin ob- 
scure.] I. intrans. To flatter ; feign ; talk de- 
ceit. 
It is manere of ypocritis and of sophistesto/a.7 and to 
speke plesantli to men, but for yvel entent. 
Wyclif, Select Works (ed. Arnold), I. 44. 
Sir, in faith vs fallith not tofage, 
Thai are t(r]yst men and true that we telle jou. 
York Plays, p. 324. 
fagot 
Anothyr fole with counterfete wesage 
Vs he that falsluy wnl /;" and feyne, 
Whedyr that he be olde or yynge of age, 
Seythe he ys syke, and felythe no mailer payne. 
Booke of Precedence (E. E. T. S., extra ser.), i. 81. 
I fagge from the trouth (Lydgate); this terine is not in 
our comen use. Palxyra ve. 
II. trans. To deceive. 
Such subtyle meane tofage the kynge be fandv. 
Hardyng, Chron., Ixvi. 
fag-end (fag'end'), H. [< fag''' + end.] I. The 
end of a web of cloth where it is secured to the 
loom and is therefore rough and unfinished and 
disfigured with holes. It is customary to allow 
purchasers to exclude it from the measurement 
of what they buy. 2. The latter or meaner 
part of anything; the very end: used in con- 
tempt. 
The Kitchen and Gutters, and othdr Offices of Noise and 
Drudgery are at the Fag-end. Howetl, Letters, I. ii. 8. 
The account of this is worth more than to be wove into 
the fag-end of the eighth volume of such a work as this. 
Sterne, Tristram Shandy, vii. 85. 
In comes a gentleman in the fag-end of October, drip- 
ping with the fogs of that humid and uncertain season. 
Burke, A Regicide Peace, iv. 
3. Naut., the untwisted end of a rope, 
faggery (fag'er-i), n. [< fag 1 + -ery.'] Fa- 
tiguing labor or drudgery ; specifically, the sys- 
tem of fagging carried on at some English public 
schools. See fag 1 , n., 2. 
Faggery was an abuse too venerable and sacred to be 
touched by profane hands. 
De Quincey, Autobiog. Sketches, I. 210. 
faggot, faggoting. See fagot, fagoting. 
faggy 1 (fag'i), a. [< fagl + -yi.] 1. Weak; 
flaccid. 
Flotehe [V.], /aggie, weak, soft, as a boneless lump of 
flesh. Cotgrave. 
2. Tiring; fatiguing. 
faggy 2 (fag'i), a. [E. dial.] Having long, 
coarse grass or fag: said of fields. Wright. 
Fagopyrum (fag-o-pi'rum), w. [NL., < li.fagiis, 
the beech, T Or. irvpof, wheat: a translation of 
the E. buckwheat.] A small genus of annual 
plants, closely allied to I'olygonum (in which it 
is often included), natives of central Asia. The 
principal species are the common buckwheat, F. esculen- 
tuni, and the Indian or Tatarian buckwheat, /'. Tatari- 
cum, which are cultivated for food. See buckwheat. 
fagot, faggot (fag'ot), n. [< ME. fagott, fagat 
(UL.fagotum,fagatum), < OF . fagot, F . fagot = 
It. fagotto, fangotto, a bundle of sticks; origin 
uncertain. ' The W. ffagod, fagot, is from E.] 1 . 
A bundle of sticks, twigs, or small branches of 
trees, used for fuel or for other purposes, as in 
fortifications ; a fascine ; as a definite amount 
of wood, a bundle 3 feet long and 24 inches 
round. See cut under fascine. 
And hark ye, sirs ; because she is a maid, 
Spare for iiofaguts, let there be enow ; 
Place barrels of pitch upon the fatal stake, 
That so her torture may be shortened. 
Shak., 1 Hen. VI., v. 4. 
2. The punishment of burning alive, as for her- 
esy ; the stake : from the use of fagots of wood 
in making the fire. 
We could not say heaven was kept from us, when we 
might have it for a fagot, and when even our enemies 
helped us to It. Donne, Sermons, xvii. 
3. A bundle of pieces of iron or steel, ready to 
be welded and drawn out into bars; as a defi- 
nite amount of such metal, 120 pounds avoir- 
dupois. 4. A person formerly hired to take 
the place of another at the muster of a mili- 
tary company, or to hide deficiency in its num- 
ber when it was not full. [Eng.] 
There were several counterfeit books . . . which were 
carved in wood, and served only to fill up the number like 
fagott in the muster of a regiment. 
Addison, Spectator, No. 37. 
5. A badge worn in medieval times by those 
who had recanted their heretical opinions. It 
was designed to show what they had merited 
but narrowly escaped. Brewer. 6. A heap 
of fishes piled up for the night on the drying- 
flakes ; a bundle of fish, about 100, taken from 
the flakes and put under shelter at night To 
burn one's fagot, to recant heresy : from the custom 
of obliging one who had escaped the stake by recanting 
his errors to carry a fagot publicly and burn it. A rep- 
resentation of a fagot was worn on the sleeve by repen- 
tant heretics, as a symbol that they had recanted opinions 
worthy of burning. 
fagot, faggot (fag'ot), v. t. [< fagot, n. ; F.fago- 
frr.] 1 . To tie together ; bind in a fagot or bun- 
dle; collect and bind together. 
The philosophies of every one throughout by them- 
selves, and not by titles packed and faggotted up together, 
as hath been done by Plutarch. 
Bacon, Advancement of Learning, ii. 180. 
