Fadge
(Fadge) v. i. [Cf. OE. faden to flatter, and AS. fgan to join, unit, G. fügen, or AS. afægian to
depict; all perh. form the same root as E. fair. Cf. Fair, a., Fay to fit.] To fit; to suit; to agree.
They shall be made, spite of antipathy, to fadge together.
Milton.
Well, Sir, how fadges the new design ?
Wycherley. Fadge
(Fadge) n. [Etymol. uncertain.] A small flat loaf or thick cake; also, a fagot. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
Fading
(Fad"ing) a. Losing freshness, color, brightness, or vigor. — n. Loss of color, freshness, or
vigor. — Fad"ing*ly, adv. — Fad"ing*ness, n.
Fading
(Fad"ing), n. An Irish dance; also, the burden of a song. "Fading is a fine jig." [Obs.] Beau. &
Fl.
Fadme
(Fad"me) n. A fathom. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Fady
(Fad"y) a. Faded. [R.] Shenstone.
Fæcal
(Fæ"cal) a. See Fecal.
Fæces
(||Fæ"ces) n. pl. [L. faex, pl. faeces, dregs.] Excrement; ordure; also, settlings; sediment after infusion
or distillation. [Written also feces.]
Fæcula
(||Fæc"u*la) n. [L.] See Fecula.
Faëry
(Fa"ër*y) n. & a. Fairy. [Archaic] Spenser.
Faffle
(Faf"fle) v. i. [Cf. Famble, Maffle.] To stammer. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
Fag
(Fag) (fag) n. A knot or coarse part in cloth. [Obs.]
Fag
(Fag), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fagged (fagd); p. pr. & vb. n. Fagging ] [Cf. LG. fakk wearied, weary,
vaak slumber, drowsiness, OFries. fai, equiv. to fach devoted to death, OS. fegi, OHG. feigi, G. feig,
feige, cowardly, Icel. feigr fated to die, AS. f&aemacrge, Scot. faik, to fail, stop, lower the price; or
perh. the same word as E. flag to droop.]
1. To become weary; to tire.
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Creighton withheld his force till the Italian began to fag.
G. Mackenzie. 2. To labor to wearness; to work hard; to drudge.
Read, fag, and subdue this chapter.
Coleridge. 3. To act as a fag, or perform menial services or drudgery, for another, as in some English schools.
To fag out, to become untwisted or frayed, as the end of a rope, or the edge of canvas.
Fag
(Fag), v. t.
1. To tire by labor; to exhaust; as, he was almost fagged out.
2. Anything that fatigues. [R.]
It is such a fag, I came back tired to death.
Miss Austen.
