Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FADE, a. [Fr.]

Weak; slight; faint. [Not in use.] Berkeley.

FADE, v.i. [Fr. fade, insipid, tasteless. Qu. L. vado, or Ar. نَفِدَ nafeeda, to vanish, Syr. to fail, to err. See Class Bd, No. 48, 39, 44.]

1. To lose color; to tend from a stronger or brighter color to a more faint shade of the same color, or to lose a color entirely. A green leaf fades and becomes less green or yellow. Those colors are deemed the best, which are least apt to fade.
2. To wither, as a plant; to decay. Ye shall be as art oak, whose leaf fadeth. Is. i.
3. To lose strength gradually; to vanish. When the memory is weak, ideas in the mind quickly fade. Locke.
4. To lose luster; to grow dim. The stars shall fade away. Addison.
5. To decay; to perish gradually. We all do fade as a leaf. Is. lxiv. An inheritance that fadeth not away. 1 Pet. l.
6. To decay; to decline; to become poor and miserable. The rich man shall fade away in his ways. James i.
7. To lose strength, health or vigor; to decline; to grow weaker. South To disappear gradually; to vanish.

FADE, v.t.

To cause to wither; to wear away; to deprive of freshness or vigor. No winter could his laurels fade. Dryden. This is a man, old, wrinkled, faded, withered. Shak.

FADED, pp.

Become less vivid, as color; withered; decayed; vanished.

FADE'LESS, a.

Unfading. Coleridge.

FADGE, v.i. [faj; Sax. fægen, gefegen, to unite, to fit together; G. fügen; D. voegen; Sw. foga; Dan. fuge, a seam or joint; W. fag, a meeting in a point. It coincides with L. pango, pegi, pepigi, Gr. πηγω, πηγνυω, L. figo. See רבק, Class Bg, No. 33. See also No. 34, 35. Of this word fay is a contraction.]

1. To suit; to fit; to come close, as the parts of things united. Hence, to have one part consistent with another. Shak.
2. To agree; to live in amity. [Ludicrous.] Hudibras.
3. To succeed; to hit. L'Estrange. [This word is now vulgar, and improper in elegant writing.].

FAD-ING, a.

Subject to decay; liable to lose freshness and vigor; liable to perish; not durable; transient; as, a fading flower.

FAD-ING, n.

Decay; loss of color, freshness or vigor. Sherwood.

FAD-ING, ppr. [See Fade.]

Losing color; becoming less vivid; decaying; declining; withering.

FA'DING-LY, adv.

In a fading manner.

FAD-ING-NESS, n.

Decay; liableness to decay. Mountagu.

FAD-Y, a.

Wearing away; losing color or strength. Shenstone.

FAE'CAL, a. [FÆ'CAL. See FECAL.]

FAE'CES, n. [FÆ'CES. L.]

Excrement; also, settlings; sediment after infusion or distillation. Quincy.

FA'E-RY, a.

Pertaining to fairies.

FAF'FEL, v.i.

To stammer. [Not in use.] Barret.

FAG, n.

A knot in cloth. [Not in use.]

FAG, n.

A slave; one who works hard. [Not in use.]

FAG, v.i. [Scot. faik. Qu. Heb. Ch. Syr. פוג, to fail, to languish. See Class Bg, No. 44, 60, 76.]

To become weary; to fail in strength; to be faint with weariness. The Italians began to fag. Mackenzie. [A vulgar word.]

FAG, v.t.

To beat. [Not in use.]

FAG-END', a. [fag and end. See Fag, v. i. supra.]

1. The end of a web of cloth, generally of coarser materials. Johnson.
2. The refuse or meaner part of any thing. Collier.
3. Among seamen, the untwisted end of a rope; hence, to fag out, is to become untwisted and loose. Mar. Dict. We observe that the use of this word among seamen leads to the true sense of the verb, as well as the noun. The sense is, to open by receding, or to yield and become lax, and hence weak.

FAG'GOT, n. [W. fagod; Gr. φακελλος, connected with W. fag, that which unites or meets; fagiad, a gathering round a point; Scot. faik, to fold, to grasp; fake, in seamen's language, a coil; allied to Sax. fægan, gefegan, to unite. See Fadge. The sense is a bundle or collection, like pack.]

1. A bundle of sticks, twigs or small branches of trees, used for fuel, or for raising batteries, filling ditches, and other purposes in fortification. The French use fascine, from the L. fascis, a bundle; a term now adopted in English.
2. A person hired to appear at musters in a company not full and hide the deficiency. Encyc.

FAG'OT, v.t.

To tie together; to bind in a bundle; to collect promiscuously. Dryden.

FAG'OT-ED, pp.

Bound together; tied in bundles.

FAG'OT-ING, ppr.

Binding together.