faithless 
2. Without faithfulness or fidelity ; not keep- 
ing faith ; not adhering to allegiance, vows, or 
duty; disloyal: as, a faithless subject; a. faith- 
less servant ; a, faithless husband or wife. 
<}. t'ii<tlt!<'*>i nmanl '. o, dishniifst wretch ! 
Wilt thou lie made a mail out of my vice? 
Shak., M. lor M., Hi. 1. 
Lest I be found nsfaithlrxs in the quest 
As yon proud Prince who left the quest to me. 
yVttm/#0?i, Lancelot and Elaine. 
3. Tending to disappoint or deceive; decep- 
tive ; delusive. 
Yonder faithless phantom flies 
To Inre thee to thy doom. 
Goldsmith, The Hermit. 
Nur/inVM'.-.-.* joint nor yawning seam 
Shall tempt the searching sea ! 
Whittier, Ship-builders. 
= Svn. 2 and 3. False, untruthful, perfidious, treacherous. 
faithlessly (fath'les-li), ado. In a faithless 
manner. 
faithlessness (fath'les-nes), . The character 
or state of being faithless, in any sense of that 
word. 
When the heart is sorely wounded by the ingratitude 
or faithlessness of those on whom it had leaned with the 
whole weight of affection, where shall it turn for relief '! 
Blair, Works, III. xiii. 
Sharp are the pangs that follow faithlessness. 
Edwards, Canons of Criticism, p. 318. 
faithlyt (fath'li), adv. [< ME. faithly, feithly, 
feythly, etc. ; < faith + -fy2.] Faithfully; truly. 
Ac to carpe more of Ci-ist, and how he cam to that name, 
Faithly for to speke, hus furst name was leans. 
Piers Plowman (C), xxii. 70. 
faithworthiness (fath'wer"THi-nes), n. Trust- 
worthiness. Quarterly Rev. [Bare.] 
faithworthy (fath'wer"THi), a. Worthy of faith 
or belief; trustworthy. Imp. Diet. [Rare.] 
faitiere (fa-tiar'), n. [F. faitiere, <faite, ridge, 
roof, pinnacle, < L. fastigium, ridge : see fasti- 
giate.] In arch., a cresting, 
faitort, faitourt (fa'tor, -tor), n. [< ME. fai- 
tino; fay tour, faytur,fatur, future, a dissembler, 
deceiver, hypocrite, < AF. faitour, faitur, OF. 
faiteor, faiture, an evil-doer, a slothful person: 
in this form partly identified with OF. faitour, 
faiteor, later faiteur, a doer, maker (< L. factor, 
a doer, maker: see factor), the neutral term, lit. 
a doer, being taken in a bad sense, just a,nfact 
(formerly) and deed often imply an evil deed ; 
prop, faitard, also written faitear, fetard, fetart, 
improp.festard, festart, sluggish, idle, coward- 
ly, faint-hearted, < OF. faire, do, make, + tard, 
slow, slack, tedious: see fait 2 , fair 8 , and tardy, 
and cf. faineant. Hence faif 2 , faiterous, fai- 
tery.~] A dissembler; a deceiver; a hypocrite; 
a rogue ; a vagabond. 
Fals is nfaytur, a faylere of werkes. 
Piers Plowman (A), ii. 99. 
Wh&tfaitoure, in faithe, that dose sou offende, 
We sail sette hym full sore, that sotte, in youre sight. 
York Plays, p. 124. 
So ought all faytours that true knighthood shame, 
And armes dishonour with base villanie, 
From all brave knights be banisht with defame. 
Spenser, F. Q.,V. iii. 38. 
Down, dogs ! down,/<u(ors/ Shale., 2 Hen. IV., ii. 4. 
faix (faks), ititerj. Same as faiks, facks, etc.. 
variations of faith. 
fake 1 (fak), v. t. ; pret. and pp. faked, ppr. fak- 
ing. [< ME. faken, fold ; formerly also fack, 
Sc. feck, faik ; prob. < Sw. recka, fold. Cf. 
/ofcel, .] 1. To fold; tuck up. 
Sic hauns [hands] as you sud ne'er he f at/fit, 
Be hain't [spared] wha like. 
Burns, Second Epistle to Davie. 
Specifically 2. Naut., to coil in fakes, as a 
cable or a shot-line in a faking-box. See fak- 
ing-box. 
Frekes [men] one [on] the forestayne [prow] /* theire 
coblez [cables] 
In floynes [see jioyrjene], and fercestez [see farcost], and 
Klemesche s'chyppes. 
Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 742. 
One man m&yfake a line, but, having to attend to three 
operations at the 
same time, does none 
of them properly. 
Farnne, Mil. Encyc., 
[I. 616. 
fake 1 (fak), ,,. 
[Formerly also 
fack, Sc. faik, f., 
prob. < Sw. veck, 
a fold. Cf./afre 1 , 
r. The MHG. 
rach, Or. fach, 
fold, is a spe- 
cial sense of a 
general word 
for ' part ' Or A Kep Coiled in Fakes on Deck. 
2123 
'division': see fetch 1 , etym.] 1. A fold or ply 
of anything, as a garment. Jamieson. 
He ... takis a faik 
Betwixt his dowblett and his jackett. 
Kannatyne Poems, p. 171. 
Specifically 2. Naut., one of the circles or 
windings of a cable or hawser as it lies in a coil ; 
a single turn or coil, as one of the oblong loops 
into which a shot-line is wound in being placed 
in a faking-box. 
There were enough fakes in the coil of the mainroyal 
halliards to make me guess the yard that rope belonged to 
was hoisted. W. C. Russell, Jack's Courtship, xxxiv. 
3. A plaid. Also in diminutive form fakie, 
faikie. Jamieson. 
I had nae mair claise but a spraing'd [striped] faikie. 
Journal from London, p. 8. 
4. /)(. A miners' term in Scotland and the north 
of England for fissile sandy shales, or shaly 
sandstones, as distinct from the dark bitumi- 
nous shales known as blaes. French fake (naut.). 
a peculiar mode of coiling a rope by running it backward 
ami forward in parallel bends so that it may run readily 
and freely, generally adopted in rocket-lines intended for 
use in establishing communication with stranded vessels, 
etc., or in other cases where great expedition in uncoiling 
is essential. 
fake 2 (fak), v. t.; pret. and pp. faked, ppr. 
faking. [It is not impossible that this may be 
a perversion of ME. faiten, dissemble, go about 
shamming, beg (said of beggars and tramps) ; 
so faker' 2 (q. v. ) may represent ME. faitour: see 
faitor. But thieves' slang is shifting and has 
usually no history.] 1. To make or do. 2. To 
cheat or deceive. 3. To steal or filch; pick, as 
a pocket. 
There the folk are music-bitten, and they molest not 
beggars, unless they fake to boot, and then they drown us 
out of hand. C. Reade, Cloister and Hearth, Iv. 
4. To conceal the defects of by artificial means, 
usually with intent to deceive : as, to fake a dog 
or a fowl by coloring the hair or feathers. 
He supposed it was an old one faked over to last until 
the end of Lent. 
Philadelphia Sunday Mercury, April 25, 1886. 
[Slang in all uses.] 
fake 2 (fak), n. [<fakel, .] 1. A swindle; a 
trick. 2. A swindler; a trickster. 3. Same 
To call such social lepers actors is as illogical and un- 
fair as it would be to callUriah Keep a man of honor. . . . 
Professionally considered your fake is as unworthy as he 
is socially. 
Weekly Republican (Waterbury, Conn.), Oct. 15, 1S86. 
4. Theat., any unused or worn-out and worth- 
less piece of property; hence, any odd bit of 
merchandise sold by street-venders. [Slang in 
all the above senses.] 
A man . . . has derived a large revenue from this and 
similar fakes gotten up for the use of street venders. 
Sci. Amer., N. S., LIV. 165. 
5. A soft-soldering fluid used by jewelers. Gee, 
Goldsmith's Handbook, p. 140. 
fake 3 (fak), v. t.; pret. and pp. faked, ppr. fak- 
ing. [Sc., also faik; perhaps < MD. facken, 
seize, apprehend.] If. To grasp. 2. To give 
heed to. 3. To believe; credit. 
[Scotch in all uses.] 
fakeer, . Seefakiri. 
fakement (fak'ment),. [< fake z + -ment.'] 1. 
Any act of deceit, fraud, swindling, or thiev- 
ing ; the act of begging under false pretenses ; 
also, a device by which fraud is effected. 
I cultivated his acquaintance, examined his affairs, and 
put him up to the neatest little fakement in the world ; 
just showed him how to raise two hundred pounds and 
clear himself with everybody, just by signing his father's 
name. H. Kingsley, Geoffry Hamlyn, v. 
They bought a couple of old ledgers useful only as 
waste-paper a bag to hold money, two ink-bottles, &c. 
Thus equipped, they waited on the farmers of the dis- 
trict, and exhibited a fakement (forged document) setting 
forth parliamentary authority for imposing a tax upon the 
geese f //. Maifhew, London Labour and London Poor. 
2. Any peculiar or artistic production or piece 
of workmanship. 
[Slang in both uses.] 
faker 1 (fa'kr), n. [< fakei + -er 1 .] One who 
fakes ; specifically, in the life-saving service, 
a surfman whose duty it is to fake the shot- 
lines in a faking-box. 
faker'-* (fa'ker), n. [</afce2 + -!.] 1. A pick- 
pocket ; a thief. 2. One who sells or deals 
in fakes; specifically, a street-vender. 3. A 
hanger-on of the theatrical profession. 
[Slang in all uses.] 
faking 1 (fa'king), n. [Verbal n. of fakel, .] 
The act or method of stowing a shot-line around 
the pins of a faking-box. or of coiling a cable. 
faking- (fa'king), H. [Verbal n. of fake?, .] 
The art or practice of concealing the defects 
falcate 
ol' animals by artificial means; swindling. 
[Slang.] 
faking-box (fa'king-boks), . A peculiarly con- 
structed box used in the life-saving service for 
coiling linos attached to shot in such a way as 
to prevent tangling or knotting in transporta- 
tion or in firing. 
fakir 1 (fa-ker'), . [Also written fakeer, and 
sometimes (after F.) faquir, Anglo-Ind. fakir, 
fnqeer, etc., < Ar. (whence Hind., etc.)/a*r, 
faqir (the guttural is qdf), a poor man, one 
of an order of religious mendicants (equiv. 
to the Pers. darvesh: see dervish), < fakr,faqr, 
poverty. The name has a special reference to 
a saying of Mohammed, el fakr fakhri, ' ipover- 
ty is my pride.'] 1. A Mohammedan religious 
mendicant or ascetic "who is in need of mercy, 
and poor in the sight of God, rather than in need 
of worldly assistance" (Hughes, Diet, of Islam). 
Fakirs are of two great classes: (1) those who are "with 
the law, "and govern their conduct according to the prin- 
ciples of Islam, and (2) those who are "without the law," 
and do not rule their lives according to the principles of 
any religious creed, though they call themselves Mussul- 
mans. The former usually enter one of the various reli- 
gious orders, and are then commonly known as dervishes. 
Hughes. See dervish. 
The character of a fakir is held in great estimation in 
this country. Bogle, in Markham's Tibet, I. 49. 
He is & fakeer, or holy man, from Timbuctoo. 
B. Taylor, Lands of the Saracen, p. 22. 
2. A Hindu devotee or ascetic ; a yogi. 
fakir 2 , . A misspelling offaker^. 
fakirism (fa-ker'izm), n. [< fakir 1 + -ism.'] 
1. Religious mendicancy, especially as prac- 
tised among Mohammedan dervishes. 2. The 
peculiar austerities and ascetic practices of the 
Hindu devotees popularly called fakirs, who are 
represented as subjecting themselves to the 
severest tortures and self-mortifications. 
Christianity felt the influence of the various currents of 
thought and tendency Hellenic, Roman, Alexandrian, 
and Oriental nor did it escape that of the fakirism which 
had been generated in the mud of the Ganges. 
Pop. Sci. Mo., XX. 777. 
fa-la (fa'la/), n. In music, a kind of part-song 
or madrigal which originated in the latter half 
of the sixteenth century, the text consisting 
wholly or in part of the syllables fa la. Also 
spelled fal-la. 
Others wrote rhythmical songs of four or more parts, or 
ballets, orfal-las, all of which, being for unaccompanied 
voices, or for viols instead of voices, are often erroneous- 
ly ranked as madrigals, though differing entirely in struc- 
ture from them. Encyc. Brit., XV. 192. 
falanaka (fa-la-na'ka), w. The native name 
of a viverrine carnivorous quadruped of Mada- 
gascar, Eupleres goudoti. See Eupleres. 
falbalat, falbelot, . [= D. falbala = G. fal- 
bel = Dan. falbelade = Sw. falbolan, < F. fal- 
bala, dial, farbala = Sp. falbald,farfald, farala 
= Pg. It. falbala, a flounce, furbelow. Hence, 
by corruption, the present form furbelow."] A 
flounce. See furbelow. 
A street there is thro' Britain's isle renowned, 
In upper Holborn, near St. Giles's pound, 
Ten thousand habits here attract the eyes, 
Mixed with hoop-petticoats tmAfalbeloes. 
New Crazy Tales (1783), p. 25. 
falcade (fal-kad'), n. [< "F.falcade, < It. *fal- 
cata, prop. pp. fern, of falcare, bend, crook, < 
L. 'falcare, pp. only as adj. falcatus, bent, 
curved, hooked: see falcate.'] In the manege, 
the action of a horse when he throws himself 
on his haunches two or three times, as in a very 
quick curvet. 
falcarious (fal-ka'ri-us), o. [< L. falcarius, 
only as a noun, a sickle- or scythe-maker, < 
falx (falc-), sickle : see falcate."] Same &s fal- 
cate. [Rare.] 
falcata, . Plural offalcatum. 
falcate (fal'kat), a. and. [< li.falcatus, bent, 
curved, hooked, sickle-shaped, (.falx (falc-), a 
sickle, akin to Gr. ^d/lK^f, a crooked piece of 
ship-timber, a rib; cf. f/u-^a?jSf', clasp around, 
<t>6%Ko<; , bow-legged. From L. falx are also E. 
falcon, falchion, falculatf, etc., defalk, defal- 
cate.] I. a. Hooked ; curved like a scythe or 
sickle ; falciform : specifically applied in anat- 
omy, zoology, and botany to a falciform part 
or organ having two sharp and nearly parallel 
edges, curved in one plane and meeting at a 
point. 
The arched costa and falcate form of wing is generally 
supposed to give increased powers of flight. 
A. R. Wallace, Nat. Select., p. 175. 
Falcate wings, in entom., wings which have the tips 
somewhat attenuate, curved away from the costal margin, 
and generally acute. 
II. n. A figure resembling a sickle, formed 
by two curves bending the same way and meet- 
