Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FAU'CET, n. [Fr. fausset, probably contracted from falset.]

A pipe to be inserted in a cask for drawing liquor, and stopped with a peg or spigot. These are called tap and faucet.

FAU'CHION, n.

See FALCHION.

FAU'FEL, n. [said to be Sanscrit.]

The fruit of a species of the palm-tree.

FAUGH, exclam. [foh.]

Exclamation of contempt or abhorrence.

FAULT, n. [Fr. faute for faulte; Sp. falta; Port. id.; It. fallo; from fail. See Fail.]

1. Properly, an erring or missing; a failing; hence, an error or mistake; a blunder; a defect; a blemish; whatever impairs excellence: applied to things.
2. In morals or deportment, any error or defect; an imperfection; any deviation from propriety; a slight offense; a neglect of duty or propriety, resulting from inattention or want of prudence, rather than from design to injure or offend, but liable to censure or objection. I do remember my faults this day. Gen. xii. If a man be overtaken in a fault, ye, who are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness. Gat. vi. Fault implies wrong, and often some degree of criminality.
3. Defect; want; absence. [Not now used. See Default.] I could tell to thee, as to one it pleases me, for fault of a better, to call my friend. Shak.
4. Puzzle; difficulty. Among sportsmen, when dogs lose the scent, they are said to be at fault. Hence the phrase, the inquirer is at fault.
5. In mining, a fissure in strata, causing a dislocation of the same, and thus interrupting the course of veins. Cyc. To find fault, to express blame; to complain. Thou wilt say then, why doth he yet find fault? Rom. ix. To find fault with, to blame; to censure; as, to find fault with the times, or with a neighbor's conduct.

FAULT, v.i.

To fail; to be wrong. [Not used.] Spenser.

FAULT, v.t.

To charge with a fault; to accuse. For that I will not fault thee. Old Song.

FAULT'ED, pp.

Charged with a fault; accused.

FAULT'ER, n.

An offender; one who commits a fault. Fairfax.

FAULT'-FIND-ER, n.

One who censures or objects.

FAULT'FUL, a.

Full of faults or sins. Shak.

FAULT'I-LY, adv. [from faulty.]

Defectively; erroneously; imperfectly; improperly; wrongly.

FAUL'TI-NESS, n. [from faulty.]

1. The state of being faulty, defective or erroneous; defect.
2. Badness; vitiousness; evil disposition; as, the faultiness of a person.
3. Delinquency; actual offenses. Hooker.

FAULT'ING, ppr.

Accusing.

FAULT'LESS, a.

1. Without fault; not defective or imperfect; free from blemish; free from incorrectness; perfect; as, a faultless poem or picture.
2. Free from vice or imperfection; as, a faultless man.

FAULT'LESS-LY, adv.

Without being guilty of a fault.

FAULT'LESS-NESS, n.

Freedom from faults or defects.

FAULT'Y, a.

1. Containing faults, blemishes or defects; defective; imperfect; as, a faulty composition or book; a faulty plan or design; a faulty picture.
2. Guilty of a fault or of faults: hence, blamable; worthy of censure. The king doth speak this thing as one who is faulty. 2 Sam. xiv.
3. Wrong; erroneous; as, a faulty polity. Hooker.
4. Defective; imperfect; bad; as, a faulty helmet. Bacon.

FAUN, n. [L. faunus.]

Among the Romans, a kind of demigod, or rural deity, called also sylvan, and differing little from satyr. The fauns are represented as half goat and half man. Encyc.

FAU'NA, n.

The zoology of a particular country. Mantell.

FAUN'IST, n.

One who attends to rural disquisitions; a naturalist. White.

FAU'SEN, n.

A large eel. Chapman.

FAUSSE'BRAYE, n. [Fr.]

A small mount of earth thrown up about a rampart.

FAU'TOR, n. [L. See Favor.]

A favorer; a patron; one who gives countenance or support. [Little used.] B. Jonson.

FAU'TRESS, n.

A female favorer; a patroness. Chapman.