<B>faculty adviser,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a member of a college or university faculty who advises students on academic and related matters. </DL>
<A NAME="facultyman">
<B>facultyman, </B>noun, pl. <B>-men.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a member of the faculty of a school, college, or university. </DL>
<A NAME="facultypsychology">
<B>faculty psychology,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the explanation of mental facts by the operation of general powers, especially of attention, memory, and reasoning. </DL>
<A NAME="facultytax">
<B>faculty tax,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a tax based on the ability to pay. The Colonies levied faculty taxes. </DL>
<A NAME="facultytheory">
<B>faculty theory,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a theory of taxation maintaining that every man should help to carry the public burdens according to his ability. </DL>
<B>fad, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> something everybody is very much interested in for a short time; fashion or craze; rage. <BR> <I>Ex. No one plays that game anymore; it was only a fad. Most doctors do not believe in food fads (Sarah R. Riedman).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="fad">
<B>FAD</B> (no periods),<DL COMPACT><DD> flavin adenine dinucleotide. </DL>
<A NAME="fadayeen">
<B>fadayeen, </B>noun. <B>=fedayeen.</B></DL>
<A NAME="faddish">
<B>faddish, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>inclined to follow fads. <DD><B> 2. </B>like a fad. adv. <B>faddishly.</B> noun <B>faddishness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="faddism">
<B>faddism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> devotion to fads. <BR> <I>Ex. environmental faddism, fact and fiction (Electrical World).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="faddist">
<B>faddist, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a person devoted to a fad; person who takes up new fads. <BR> <I>Ex. [He] was a health faddist, and for a time lived on a massive diet of carrots washed down with turnip juice (Time).</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> inclined to follow fads. <BR> <I>Ex. Some of the designers of cars have become increasingly faddist.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="faddle">
<B>faddle, </B>verb, <B>-dled,</B> <B>-dling.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Dialect.) <DD><I>v.i. </I> to trifle. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to dandle. </DL>
<B>fade</B> (1), verb, <B>faded,</B> <B>fading,</B> noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to becomeless bright; lose color; dim. <BR> <I>Ex. Daylight fades when the sun sets. My blue dress faded when it was washed.</I> (SYN) blanch, bleach, pale. <DD><B> 2. </B>to lose freshness or strength; wither. <BR> <I>Ex. The flowers in her garden faded at the end of summer.</I> (SYN) droop. <DD><B> 3. </B>to die away; weaken; disappear little by little. <BR> <I>Ex. The sound of the train faded after it went by. Princes and lords may flourish or may fade (Oliver Goldsmith).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(Sports.) to move or drift to the rear; retreat. <BR> <I>Ex. He faded back to pass.</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to cause to fade. <BR> <I>Ex. Sunlight faded the new curtains.</I> (SYN) bleach. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Slang.) to match all or part of the bet of (the person shooting dice). <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a fading in or out. <BR> <I>Ex. Not since Chaplin's tramp made his great exit, has there been so melancholy a fade (Newsweek).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=brake fade.</B> <BR><I>expr. <B>fade in,</B> </I>(in motion pictures, radio, and television) to become slowly more distinct or louder. <BR> <I>Ex. ... fade in to the much-publicised naked chariot-race sequence where ... Ozymandias is challenging Ambrosius, Emperor of Malta (Punch).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>fade out,</B> </I>(in motion pictures, radio, and television) to diminish in sound or distinctness; become gradually less perceptible. <BR> <I>Ex. As the scene fades out, the hero and the heroine walk away from each other.</I> </DL>
<B>fadeaway, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Baseball.) a slow ball thrown with the motion of a fast pitch, having an inside curve with some drop. </DL>
<A NAME="faded">
<B>faded, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that has lost its color, freshness, or strength. <BR> <I>Ex. faded flowers, faded cheeks, a faded metaphor.</I> adv. <B>fadedly.</B> noun <B>fadedness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="fadein">
<B>fade-in, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (in motion pictures, radio, and television) the gradual brightening of a picture or increasing of a sound. </DL>
<B>fadeometer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an instrument that subjects colored materials to controlled amounts of light to determine their resistance to fading. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>Fade-Ometer.</B> a trademark for this instrument. </DL>
<A NAME="fadeout">
<B>fade-out, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a scene in a motion picture, radio or television show that slowly diminishes in sound and brightness until it is imperceptible. <BR> <I>Ex. To conform with the screen's moral code, I was always repentant at the final fade-out (Tallulah Bankhead).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a gradual disappearance. <BR> <I>Ex. The fade-out of the moderates leaves the foes of integration firmly in control (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="fadeproof">
<B>fadeproof, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> resistant to fading; that will not fade. <BR> <I>Ex. fadeproof colors.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="fadge">
<B>fadge, </B>intransitive verb, <B>fadged,</B> <B>fadging.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Obsolete.) <DD><B> 1. </B>to fit or suit; agree. <DD><B> 2. </B>to get on; thrive; succeed. </DL>
<A NAME="fading">
<B>fading, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>gradual loss of color, freshness, or vigor. <DD><B> 2. </B>the periodic variation in the intensity of the sound of a radio or the picture on a television screen. </DL>
<A NAME="fado">
<B>fado, </B>noun, pl. <B>-dos.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a Portuguese folk song, usually sad. <BR> <I>Ex. The fados are unique in their compelling sour-sweetness; and they are still being freshly composed today in their best tradition, an unusual survival in a jazz-influenced world (Harper's).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a folk dance performed to this music. </DL>
<A NAME="faecal">
<B>faecal, </B>adjective. <B>=fecal.</B></DL>
<A NAME="faeces">
<B>faeces, </B>noun pl. <B>=feces.</B></DL>
<A NAME="faecula">
<B>faecula, </B>noun. <B>=fecula.</B></DL>
<A NAME="faena">
<B>faena, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Spanish.) an outstanding performance during a bullfight, a boxing match, or other contest. </DL>
<A NAME="faenza">
<B>Faenza, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having to do with or designating the type of colorfully decorated, enameled pottery made in Faenza, Italy, in the 1500's. </DL>
<B>faerie, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ies.</B> <B>=faerie.</B></DL>
<A NAME="faeroese">
<B>Faeroese, </B>adjective, noun, pl. <B>-ese.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with the Faeroe Islands, the people living there, or their language. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a native or inhabitant of the Faeroe Islands. <DD><B> 2. </B>the Scandinavian language of the Faeroe Islands. Also, <B>Faroese.</B> </DL>
<B>faery, </B>noun, pl. <B>-eries,</B> adjective. <B>=faerie.</B></DL>
<A NAME="faery">
<B>faery, </B>noun, pl. <B>-eries.</B> <B>=faery.</B></DL>
<A NAME="fafnir">
<B>Fafnir, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Norse Mythology.) the dragon that guarded the Nibelung's treasure until he was slain by Sigurd. </DL>
<A NAME="fag">
<B>fag</B> (1), verb, <B>fagged,</B> <B>fagging,</B> noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to tire by work; weary. <BR> <I>Ex. After climbing to the top of the mountain he was completely fagged. The horse was fagged by the heavy load.</I> (SYN) fatigue, exhaust. <DD><B> 2. </B>(British.) (in certain public schools) to compel to be a fag. <BR> <I>Ex. A curtailment was introduced by the authorities to a monitor's powers of fagging juniors (Observer).</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to work hard or until wearied. <BR> <I>Ex. I fagged away at German (Charlotte Bronte).</I> (SYN) toil. <DD><B> 2. </B>(British.) (in certain public schools) to act as a fag. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>hard, uninteresting work; drudgery. <DD><B> 2. </B>a person who does hard work; drudge. <DD><B> 3. </B>(British.) a student who waits on an older boy in certain public schools. <BR> <I>Ex. His lordship ... talked much of my uncle ... whose fag he had been at Eton (Charles J. Lever).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>fag out,</B> </I>(Informal.) to tire completely; exhaust. <BR> <I>Ex. He really looked fagged out--as if he hadn't slept for a week (John Stephen Strange).</I> noun <B>fagger.</B> </DL>
<B>fag</B> (3), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Slang.) a male homosexual. </DL>
<A NAME="fagaceous">
<B>fagaceous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> belonging to the beech family of trees and shrubs. <BR> <I>Ex. The beech, chestnut, and oak are fagaceous trees.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="fagend">
<B>fag end,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the last part or remnant of anything after the best part has been used. <BR> <I>Ex. the fag end of a cigar.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the coarse, unfinished end of a piece of cloth. <DD><B> 3. </B>an untwisted end of rope. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Informal.) the worse end of a bargain or other arrangement. <BR> <I>Ex. The poor man, as usual, got the fag end of the deal.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>(British Informal.) <DD><B> a. </B>a cigarette or cigar butt. <DD><B> b. </B>a cigarette. </DL>
<A NAME="faggery">
<B>faggery, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the system of fagging at certain English public schools. </DL>
