Part 4202

<hw>Fault"ful</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Full of faults or sins.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Faultily</h1> <Xpage=546>

<hw>Fault"i*ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a faulty manner.</def>

<h1>Faultiness</h1> <Xpage=546>

<hw>Fault"i*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Quality or state of being faulty.</def>

<blockquote>Round, even to <b>faultiness</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Faulting</h1> <Xpage=546>

<hw>Fault"ing</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Geol.)</fld> <def>The state or condition of being faulted; the process by which a fault is produced.</def>

<h1>Faultless</h1> <Xpage=546>

<hw>Fault"less</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Without fault; not defective or imperfect; free from blemish; free from incorrectness, vice, or offense; perfect; <as>as, a <ex>faultless</ex> poem</as>.</def>

<blockquote>Whoever thinks a <i>faultless</i> piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- Blameless; spotless; perfect. See <er>Blameless</er>.</syn>

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

<h1>Faulty</h1> <Xpage=546>

<hw>Fault"y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Containing faults, blemishes, or defects; imperfect; not fit for the use intended.</def>

<blockquote>Created once So goodly and erect, though <b>faulty</b> since. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Guilty of a fault, or of faults; hence, blamable; worthy of censure.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<blockquote>The king doth speak . . . as one which is <b>faulty</b>. <i>2 Sam. xiv. 13.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Faun</h1> <Xpage=546>

<hw>Faun</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>Faunus</ets>, fr. <ets>favere</ets> to be favorable. See <er>Favor</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Rom. Myth.)</fld> <def>A god of fields and shipherds, diddering little from the satyr. The fauns are usually represented as half goat and half man.</def>

<blockquote>Satyr or <b>Faun</b>, or Sylvan. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Fauna</h1> <Xpage=546>

<hw>Fau"na</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL.: cf. F. <ets>faune</ets>. See <er>Faun</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>The animals of any given area or epoch; <as>as, the <ex>fauna</ex> of America; fossil <ex>fauna</ex>; recent <ex>fauna</ex>.</as></def>

<h1>Faunal</h1> <Xpage=546>

<hw>Fau"nal</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Relating to fauna.</def>

<h1>Faunist</h1> <Xpage=546>