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as are defigned for removal when large trees, mull again 
be tranfplanted in rows five feet afunder, and two feetdif- 
tance in the rows, to remain in good ground three, in poor 
four, years. From this remove them again into rows eight 
feet afunder, and fix feet in the rows, to remain four years. 
If required of a flill larger fize, plant them ten feet afun- 
der every way. Mr. Young informs us, in his Irifli tour, 
that Mr. Mahon made a plantation of all forts of foreft 
trees in his park, in order to fee how far the deer would 
let them efcape. They devoured every tree except the 
beech, not one of which they touched, either leaf, branch, 
or bark. Many of his beeches, not more than thirty yeais 
growth, were three or four feet in girth, and from thirty 
to forty feet high. See Carpinus and Tetracera. 
FAHALFAHA'RA, a town of Perfia, in the province 
of Mecran : too miles north-weft of Kidge. 
FA'HEU, one of the Carolina or New Philippine 
Ifiands, in the Pacific Ocean. 
FAH'LUN, a town of Sweden, in the province of Da- 
lecarlia, (ituated in the midft of rocks and hills, and be¬ 
tween two large lakes, near fome celebrated copper-mines, 
whence the town is fometimes called Copperjberg. It con¬ 
tains 1200 houfes, two churches roofed with copper, and 
about 7000 inhabitants, many of whom are employed in 
the mines: feventy miles north of Stroemftiolm, Lat. 60. 
52. N. Ion. 15. 32. E. Greenwich. 
FAH'RAG, a town of Perfia, in the province of Far- 
fiftan : 180 miles north-eaft of Schiras. 
FAH'RENHEIT (Gabriel Daniel), native of Ham¬ 
burgh. He was originally defigned for a commercial life ; 
but a tafte for natural philofophy caufed him to turn his 
attention to the conftrmftion of barometers and thermo¬ 
meters, in which art he became diftinguifhed. In the 
latter inftrument he introduced, about the year 1720, the 
improvement of ufing mercury inftead of fpirit of wine, 
which has greatly contributed to its accuracy. He made 
various journeys in the north of Europe for the pur- 
pofes of fcience ; and in 1724 he publithed A Differtation 
on Thermometers. The fcale he employed, in which the 
freezing point is placed at thirty-two degrees, and the 
boiling point at two hundred and twelve, is ftill in ufe in 
various parts of the continent and in England, though ap¬ 
parently an inconvenient one. Fahrenheit was living in 
1740 ; the time of his death is uncertain. 
FAID, a town of Arabia Felix : 140 miles north-eaft 
of Hagiaz. 
FAI'DO, a town of Swifterland, in the canton of Uri, 
on the Tefino ; the refidence of a bailiff: twelve miles 
north of Bellinzona. 
To FAIL, v. n. \_faillir, Fr .faeln, Welfh. Pezron.'] To 
be deficient ; to ceafe from former plenty ; to fall fliort ; 
not to be equal to demand or ufe.—The waters fail from 
the fea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up. Jobx iv. 11. 
Wherefore fhould not ftrength and might 
There fail where virtue fails, or weakeft prove 
Where boldeft, though to fight unconquerable ? Milton. 
To be extindl ; to ceafe ; to be no longer produced.— 
Help, Lord, for the godly man ceafeth ; for the faithful 
fail from among the children of men. Pf. xii. 1.—To 
• ceafe ; to perifh ; to be loft : 
By fate, the ftrength of Gods 
And this empyreal fubftance cannot fail. Milton, 
To die ; to lofe life.—Both he that helpeth (hall fall, 
and he that is holpen (hall fall down, and they (hall all 
fail together. Ifa. xxxi. 3.—To fink ; to be borne down ; 
to come to an end.—Neither will I be always wroth ; for 
the fpirit ftiould fail before me. Ifa. lvii. 16.—To decay ; 
to decline ; to languifti : 
I perceive 
Thy mortal fight to fail: objefts divine 
Mull needs impair and weary human fenfe. Milton, 
To mifs ; not to produce its effeiSh—A perfuafion that 
we (hall overcome any difficulties that we meet within the 
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fciences, feldom fails to carry us through them. Locke. — 
He-does not remember whether every grain came up or 
not ; but he thinks that very few failed. Mortimer. —To 
mifs; not to fucceed in a defign ; to mifearry.—In diffi¬ 
culties of date, the true reafon of failing proceeds from 
failings in the adminiftraiion. L’Ff range. —To be defi¬ 
cient in duty. — Endeavour to fulfil God’s commands, to 
repent as often as you fail of it, and to hope for pardon 
of him. Wake. 
To FAIL, v. a. To defert ; not to continue to affift or 
fupply ; to difappoint.—There (hall be figns in the fun, 
the moon, and the ftars; men’s hezris failing them for 
fear. Luke xxi. 25, 26.—Not to affift ; tonegledbj to omit 
to help : 
Since nature fails 11s in no needful thing, 
Why want I means my inward felf to fee? Davies. 
To omit; not to perform : 
The inventive God who never fails his part, 
Infpires the wit when once he warms the heart. Drydcn. 
To bewantingto.—There (hall not fail thee a man on the 
throne, t Kings. 
FAIL,/ - . Mifcarriage ; mifs; unfuccefsfulnefs. Omif- 
fion ; non performance.—He will withoutyW drive out 
from beforeyou the Canaanites. Jof. iii. 10.—Deficience 3 
want. Death ; extinction : 
How grounded he his title to the crown 
Upon our fail. Skakefpeare. 
FAIL'D A, a town of Portugal, in the province of 
Tra-los-Montes : feven miles weft of Outeria. 
FAIL'ING, f. Deficiency; imperfection; fault not 
atrocious ; lapfe.—Even good men have many tempta-- 
tionsto fubdue, many conflicts with thofe enemies which- 
war againft the foul, and many failings and lapfes to la~ 
ment and recover. Rogers. 
To failings mild, but zealous for defert 
The cleared head and the fincereftheart.- Pope . 
FAIL'URE, f. Deficience ; ceffation.—-There mult: 
have been an univerfal failure and want of fprings and 
rivers all the fummer feafon. Woodward. —Omiftion ; non¬ 
performance; llip.—He that being fubjeCt to an apo¬ 
plexy, ufed ftill to carry his remedy about him ! but upon 
a time (liifting his clothes, and not taking that with him,, 
chanced upon that very day to be furprifed with a fit : he 
owed his death to a mere accident, to a little inadvertency 
and failure of memory. South. —A lapfe ; a flight fault. 
FAIL'URE of RECORD, is when an aftion is - 
brought againft a man, who alleges in his plea matter of 
record in bar of the.aCtion, and avers to prove it by the 
record ; but the plaintiff faith, Nul tid record, viz. denies 
there is any fuch record : upon which, the defendant hath 
day given him by the court to bring it in ; and if he fails 
to do it, then he is faid to fail of his record, and the plain¬ 
tiff (hall have judgment to recover. Terms de Ley. In for¬ 
me don for the manor of Isfcld, the defendant pleaded in bar 
a common recovery of the (aid manor againft the donee in 
tail, who replied Nul tid record, and the defendant having 
brought in the record, it appeared that the recovery was 
of the manor of Iffield ; and adjudged, that this being in a . 
common recovery, (hall be no failure of record for this - 
fmall variance, but (hall be amended, beingthe mifprifion 
of the clerk. 5 Rep. 46. And where a fine with procla¬ 
mations was levied, and upon an iffue of Nul tid record, on 
which it was brought in at the day, though the year of the 
king was left out in the proclamations made in one term, 
as it was exprelfed in the proclamations of the other two 
terms, they were held to be right, and the omiftion no 
failure of record. Dyer, 234. If a judgment, See. be re- 
verfed for error, Nul del record may be pleaded. And 
where the tenor only of a record, &c. is brought in, it is 
a failure of record. Dyer, 187. 
FAIN, adj. [peagn, Saxon.] Glad; merry; cheer¬ 
ful; fond. It iaitiU retained in Scotlandin this fenfe.—- 
My 
