Part 4128

<h1>Facilitation</h1> <Xpage=536>

<hw>Fa*cil`i*ta"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The act of facilitating or making easy.</def>

<h1>Facility</h1> <Xpage=536>

<hw>Fa*cil"i*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Facilities</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[L. <ets>facilitas</ets>, fr. <ets>facilis</ets> easy: cf. F. <ets>facilit</ets><?/. See <er>Facile</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The quality of being easily performed; freedom from difficulty; ease; <as>as, the <ex>facility</ex> of an operation</as>.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>facility</b> with which government has been overturned in France. <i>Burke</i></blockquote>.

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Ease in performance; readiness proceeding from skill or use; dexterity; <as>as, practice gives a wonderful <ex>facility</ex> in executing works of art</as></def>.

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Easiness to be persuaded; readiness or compliance; -- usually in a bad sense; pliancy.</def>

<blockquote>It is a great error to take <b>facility</b> for good nature. <i>L'Estrange.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Easiness of access; complaisance; affability.</def>

<blockquote>Offers himself to the visits of a friend with <b>facility</b>. <i>South.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>That which promotes the ease of any action or course of conduct; advantage; aid; assistance; -- usually in the plural; <as>as, special <ex>facilities</ex> for study</as>.</def>

<syn>Syn. -- Ease; expertness; readiness; dexterity; complaisance; condescension; affability.</syn> <usage> -- <er>Facility</er>, <er>Expertness</er>, <er>Readiness</er>. These words have in common the idea of performing any act with ease and promptitude. <i>Facility</i> supposes a natural or acquired power of dispatching a task with lightness and ease. <i>Expertness</i> is the kind of facility acquired by long practice. <i>Readiness</i> marks the promptitude with which anything is done. A merchant needs great <i>facility</i> in dispatching business; a bunker, great <i>expertness</i> in casting accounts; both need great <i>readiness</i> in passing from one employment to another. "The <i>facility</i> which we get of doing things by a custom of doing, makes them often pass in us without our notice." <i>Locke</i>. "The army was celebrated for the <i>expertness</i> and valor of the soldiers." "A <i>readiness</i> obey the known will of God is the surest means to enlighten the mind in respect to duty."</usage>

<h1>Facing</h1> <Xpage=536>

<hw>Fa"cing</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A covering in front, for ornament or other purpose; an exterior covering or sheathing; <as>as, the <ex>facing</ex> of an earthen slope, sea wall, etc.</as> , to strengthen it or to protect or adorn the exposed surface.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A lining placed near the edge of a garment for ornament or protection.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Arch.)</fld> <def>The finishing of any face of a wall with material different from that of which it is chiefly composed, or the coating or material so used.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Founding)</fld> <def>A powdered substance, as charcoal, bituminous coal, ect., applied to the face of a mold, or mixed with the sand that forms it, to give a fine smooth surface to the casting.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <fld>(Mil.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <pluf>pl.</pluf> <def>The collar and cuffs of a military coat; -- commonly of a color different from that of the coat.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>The movement of soldiers by turning on their heels to the right, left, or about; -- chiefly in the <pluf>pl.</pluf></def>

<cs><col>Facing brick</col>, <cd>front or pressed brick.</cd></cs>

<h1>Facingly</h1> <Xpage=536>

<hw>Fa"cing*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a facing manner or position.</def>

<h1>Facinorous</h1> <Xpage=536>

<hw>Fa*cin"o*rous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>facinorous</ets>, from <ets>facinus</ets> deed, bad deed, from <ets>facere</ets> to make, do.]</ety> <def>Atrociously wicked.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Jer. Taylor.</i>

-- <wordforms><wf>Fa*cin"o*rous*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt> <mark>[Obs.]</mark></wordforms>

<h1>Facound</h1> <Xpage=536>

<hw>Fac"ound</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>faconde</ets>, L. <ets>facundia</ets>. See <er>Facund</er>.]</ety> <def>Speech; eloquence.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Her <b>facound</b> eke full womanly and plain. <i>Chaucer.</i></blockquote>