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<p><b>2.</b> <def>Not believing on God or religion; specifically, not believing in the Christian religion.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Not observant of promises or covenants.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Not true to allegiance, duty, or vows; perfidious; trecherous; disloyal; not of true fidelity; inconstant, as a husband or a wife.</def>

<blockquote>A most unnatural and <b>faithless</b> service. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>Serving to disappoint or deceive; delusive; unsatisfying.</def> "Yonder <i>faithless</i> phantom."

<i>Goldsmith.</i>

-- <wordforms><wf>Faith"less*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt><wf>Faith"less*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Faitour</h1> <Xpage=538>

<hw>Fai"tour</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>faitor</ets> a doer, L. <ets>factor</ets>. See <er>Factor</er>.]</ety> <def>A doer or actor; particularly, an evil doer; a scoundrel.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Lo! <b>faitour</b>, there thy meed unto thee take. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Fake</h1> <Xpage=538>

<hw>Fake</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. Scot. <ets>faik</ets> fold, stratum of stone, AS. <ets>f\'91c</ets> space, interval, G. <ets>fach</ets> compartment, partition, row, and E. <ets>fay</ets> to fit.]</ety> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.</def>

<h1>Fake</h1> <Xpage=538>

<hw>Fake</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form,, to prevent twisting when running out.</def>

<cs><col>Faking box</col>, <cd>a box in which a long rope is faked; used in the life-saving service for a line attached to a shot.</cd></cs>

<h1>Fake</h1> <Xpage=538>

<hw>Fake</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[Cf. Gael. <ets>faigh</ets> to get, acquire, reach, or OD. <ets>facken</ets> to catch or gripe.]</ety> <mark>[<it>Slang in all its senses.</it>]</mark> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To make; to construct; to do.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To manipulate fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is; <as>as, to <ex>fake</ex> a bulldog, by burning his upper lip and thus artificially shortening it</as>.</def>

<h1>Fake</h1> <Xpage=538>

<hw>Fake</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A trick; a swindle.</def> <mark>[Slang]</mark>

<h1>Fakir</h1> <Xpage=538>

<hw>Fa"kir</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Ar. <ets>faq\'c6r</ets> poor.]</ety> <def>An Oriental religious ascetic or begging monk.</def> <altsp>[Written also <asp>faquir</asp> anf <asp>fakeer</asp>.]</altsp>

<h1>Falanaka</h1> <Xpage=538>

<hw>Fa"la*na"ka</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Native name.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A viverrine mammal of Madagascar (<spn>Eupleres Goudotii</spn>), allied to the civet; -- called also <altname>Falanouc</altname>.</def>

<h1>Falcade</h1> <Xpage=538>

<hw>Fal*cade"</hw> <tt>(f&acr;l*k&amac;d")</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F., ultimately fr. L. <ets>falx</ets>, <ets>falcis</ets>, a sickle or scythe.]</ety> <fld>(Man.)</fld> <def>The action of a horse, when he throws himself on his haunches two or three times, bending himself, as it were, in very quick curvets.</def>