Fatigue call(Mil.), a summons, by bugle or drum, to perform fatigue duties.Fatigue dress, the working dress of soldiers.Fatigue duty(Mil.), labor exacted from soldiers aside from the use of arms. Farrow.Fatigue party, a party of soldiers on fatigue duty.

Fatigue
(Fa*tigue"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fatigued ; p. pr. & vb. n. Fatiguing, n.] [Cf. F. fatiguer. See Fatigue, n.] To weary with labor or any bodily or mental exertion; to harass with toil; to exhaust the strength or endurance of; to tire.

Syn. — To jade; tire; weary; bore. See Jade.

Fatiloquent
(Fa*til"o*quent) a. [See Fatiloquist.] Prophetic; fatidical. [Obs.] Blount.

Fatiloquist
(Fa*til"o*quist) n. [L. fatiloquus declaring fate; fatum fate+ Loqui to speak.] A fortune teller.

Fatimite
(Fat"i*mite Fat"i*mide) , a. (Hist.) Descended from Fatima, the daughter and only child of Mohammed.n. A descendant of Fatima.

Fatiscence
(Fa*tis"cence) n. [L. fatiscense, p. pr. of fatiscere to gape or crack open.] A gaping or opening; state of being chinky, or having apertures. Kirwan.

Fatigue
(Fa*tigue") n. [F., fr. fatiguer to fatigue, L. fatigare; cf. L. affatim sufficiently.]

1. Weariness from bodily labor or mental exertion; lassitude or exhaustion of strength.

2. The cause of weariness; labor; toil; as, the fatigues of war. Dryden.

3. The weakening of a metal when subjected to repeated vibrations or strains.


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