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from greater to lefsvigour; to grow weak ; to languiflt. 
To tend from a brighter toa weaker colour.—The greeri- 
nefs of a leaf ought to pafs for apparent, becaufe foon fad¬ 
ing into a yellow, it fcarce lafls at all, in comparifonof the 
greennefs of an emerald. Boyle on Colours. —To wither, as 
a vegetable.—Ye fhall be as an oak whole leaf fadet'i, and 
as a garden that hath no water. If a. i. 30.—To die away 
gradually ; to vanilh ; to be worn out.—Where either 
through the temper of the body, or fome other default, 
the memory is very weak, ideas in the mind quickly 
fade. Locke. . 
The (tars fltallyWe away, the fun himfejf 
Grow dim with age, and nature (ink in years. Addifon. 
To be naturally not durable ; to be tranfient ; eafily to 
lofe vigour or beauty.—The glorious beauty on the head 
of the fat valley (hall be a fading flower. Ifa. xxviii. 4.— 
The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colours, 
and, if not fometimes refrefned, vanilh and disappear. 
Locke. ^ 
Js'arcifTus’ change to the vain virgin (hows, 
Who trufls to beauty, tru(ls the fading rofe. Gay. 
To FADE, v. a. To wear away ; to reduce to lan¬ 
guor ; to deprive of frefhnefs or vigour; to wither : 
Reftlefs anxiety, forlorn defpair, 
And all the faded family of care. Garth. 
FA'DELESS, adj. Unfading; which cannot fade. 
FA'DEN HOTUN, a town of Afia, in the kingdom of 
Corea, on the river Oula : 460 miles eafl-north-eaft of 
Peking. I.at. 41. 3. N. Ion. 143. 30. E. Ferro. 
To FADGE, v. n. [.gepegan, Sa x. fagen, Ger.] To 
fuit; to fit; to have one part confident with another : 
How will this fadge ? my mafler loves her dearly, 
And I, poor monder, fond as much on him ; 
And (lie, midaken, feems to-doat on me. ' Shakefpeare. 
To agree ; not to quarrel ; to live in amity : 
When they thriv’d they never fudg’d , 
But only by the ears engag’d ; 
Like dogs that fnarl about a bone, 
And play together when they’ve none. Hudibras. 
To fucceed ; to hit.—The fox had a fetch ; and when he 
faw it would nojfidge, away goes he presently. L’ EJlrange. 
—This is a mean word not now ufed, unlefs perhaps in lu¬ 
dicrous and low compofitions. 
FA'DING,yi An old Irifh dance.—I will have him 
danc n fading ; fading is a fine jig. Beaumont and Fletcher. 
See you yond’ motion ? not the old fa-ding , 
Nor captain Pod, nor yet the Elthatn thing. B. Jonfon. 
FADLAL'LAH, or Chodsa Raschid Addin Fad- 
la llah, an oriental hidorian, foil of a phydeian of Ha- 
madan in Perlia. ' He was vizir to the fultan Cazan, a 
defeendant of Genghizcan or Zingis, who reigned at Tau¬ 
rus, when he was enjoined by his fovereign to draw up a 
hidory of the Moguls from the materials collected by an 
old officer named Poulad. He finidied this work A. D. 
1294, to which he gave the title of Tarickli Moubarec Ca- 
zani ; or, The Augud Hidory of Cazam. After the 
death of this fultan, his fuccedbr Mohammed Khoda- 
bendi ordered Fadlallah to complete the work, and add 
to it a civil and geographical defeription of all the terri¬ 
tories and people of the Moguls and Tartars. The fird 
volume of this work, containing the hidory of the Moguls, 
was in the library of the king of France, and was tranllated 
from the Perfian into French, by M. Petis de la Croix, 
jun. for the ufe of his father’s hidory of Genghizcan. 
FZE'CAL, adj. Belonging to the faeces ; belonging to 
the excrements voided by (lool. 
FZE'CES,yi [Latin.] Excrements; Settlings after dif- 
tillation and infufion. Quincy. 
FZEC'ULZE,yi [Latin.] Small dregs ; a kind of dudy 
fediment. 
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FAEN'ZA, or Faventta, a fortified town of the Ita¬ 
lian republic, on the Amone, or Lamone, out of which 
river runsa canal, which, after palling through the town, 
rejoins the Lamone. On this canal is built a done-bridge 
with turrets, which leads to a fuburb partly fortified. It 
is the capital of the department of Lamone, and tire fee of 
a bifiiop ; and has, exclufive of the cathedral, tivepty- 
eight parirti-churches, a market-place decorated with .t 
fine marble fountain, and 20,000 fouls, who make a great 
quantity of faience porcelain, of which they were the in¬ 
ventors, and with which they carry on a confiderable 
trade. On the 21 d of July, 1796, the French entered this 
place, declaring the inhabitants free republicans, who, 
as a mark of gratitude, erefted a fplendid triumphal arch, 
with a Latin infeription, in honour of Bonaparte. 
FAER'NO, or Faernus (Gabriel), a Latin poet 
and philologid, native of Cremona. He early aiftin- 
guidied himfelf in polite literature, and obtained the em¬ 
ploy of corrector and revifor of the books in the Vatican 
library. Becoming known to cardinal Charles Borromeo, 
he was by him introduced to his uncle, the cardinal de 
Medicis, who became his friend arid protedlor. When 
that cardinal was raifed to the popedom by the name of 
Pius IV. Faerno continued it) great favour with him, 
which he employed to ferve men of worth and learning. 
He did not, however, long enjoy a dation in which he 
would have acquired riches and honours ; being carried 
od' by difeafe in the prime of life, in 1561. Of his works, 
that for which he is bed known is his fables, fird printed 
at Rome in 1364, under the title of Tabula; centum ex anti.- 
quis auEloribus delc 8 .ce. They are a poetical verfion in dif¬ 
ferent meafures of a hundred fables from ZEfop and other 
authors, much admired for its purity and elegance, and ac¬ 
counted one of the happied imitations of the cladical 
manner. He gave amended editions of the Philippics of 
Cicero, and the comedies of Terence. He left in MS. 
numerous corrections of Livy and Plautus, from which 
lias been publiffied his Cenfura emendationum Livianiaruni 
Sigonii. 
FJE'SULZE, now Fiesale, a town of Hetruria, fa¬ 
mous for its augurs. Cicero. 
To FAG, v.a. [fatigo, Lat.] To grow weary ; to faint 
with wearinefs. To beat. 
FAGA'GO, f. in botany. See Zvgophyli.um. 
FAG'ARA, f. [from tpzyu, Gr. to eat.] In botany, a 
genus of the dafs tetranaria, order monogynia, natural or¬ 
der of dmnofae, (rerebintaceae, fuff. ) The generic charac¬ 
ters are—Calyx: peiianth.ium four-cleft, very fmall; leaf¬ 
lets concave, permanent. Corolla: petals four, oblong- 
i(h, concave, fpreading. Stamina : filaments three to 
eight, longer than the corolla ; anthers ovate. Piflil- 
lum : germ ovate ; fiyle filiform, length of the corolla ; 
digma two-lobed, obtufifli, (four-cleft in F. euodia.) 
Pericarpium : capfule globular, one or two-celled, two- 
valved. Seed: Tingle, round, bright.— Effential Charac¬ 
ter. Calyx four-cleft ; corolla four-petalled ; capfules 
two-valved, with one feed. 
Species. Fagaraeuodia, or fweet-feented fagara :. leaves 
fimple, lanceolate, elongated, oppodte; racemes branched, 
axillary, folitary. Forder made a new genus of this fpe- 
cies, under the title of Euodia, from its fine fmell ; but it 
has no didined marks, except that the digma is four-cleft, 
whereas in fagara it is two-cleft ; and that it has four cap¬ 
fules, whereas fagara has but one. Native of the Friendly 
Ides, and the New Hebrides. 
2. Fagara trifoliata, or three-leaved fagara : leaves ter- 
nate ; leaflets obovate, fubemarginate, entire, (hiding, 
dotted underneath. This is a native of the illand ot Do¬ 
minique. 
3. Fagara pterota, or lentifeus-leaved fagara, or badavd 
iron-wood : leaflets emarginate. A flirub with wrinkled 
branches. According to Browne, it riles by a branched 
and fpmewhat prickly dalk frequently to the height of 
eight or ten feet ; the wood is very hard, and the branches 
are abundantly furniflted with little leaves and (mail while 
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