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Facient
() One who does anything, good or bad; a doer; an agent.
Facient
() One of the variables of a quantic as distinguished from a coefficient.
Facient
() The multiplier.
Facies
() The anterior part of the head; the face.
Facies
() The general aspect or habit of a species, or group of species, esp. with reference to its adaptation to its environment.
Facies
() The face of a bird, or the front of the head, excluding the bill.
Facile
() Easy to be done or performed: not difficult; performable or attainable with little labor.
Facile
() Easy to be surmounted or removed; easily conquerable; readily mastered.
Facile
() Easy of access or converse; mild; courteous; not haughty, austere, or distant; affable; complaisant.
Facile
() Easily persuaded to good or bad; yielding; ductile to a fault; pliant; flexible.
Facile
() Ready; quick; expert; as, he is facile in expedients; he wields a facile pen.
Facilitated
() of Facilitate
Facilitating
() of Facilitate
Facilitate
() To make easy or less difficult; to free from difficulty or impediment; to lessen the labor of; as, to facilitate the execution of a task.
Facilitation
() The act of facilitating or making easy.
Facilities
() of Facility
Facility
() The quality of being easily performed; freedom from difficulty; ease; as, the facility of an operation.
Facility
() Ease in performance; readiness proceeding from skill or use; dexterity; as, practice gives a wonderful facility in executing works of art.
Facility
() Easiness to be persuaded; readiness or compliance; -- usually in a bad sense; pliancy.
Facility
() Easiness of access; complaisance; affability.
Facility
() That which promotes the ease of any action or course of conduct; advantage; aid; assistance; -- usually in the plural; as, special facilities for study.
Facing
() A covering in front, for ornament or other purpose; an exterior covering or sheathing; as, the facing of an earthen slope, sea wall, etc. , to strengthen it or to protect or adorn the exposed surface.
Facing
() A lining placed near the edge of a garment for ornament or protection.
Facing
() 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.
Facing
() 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.
Facing
() The collar and cuffs of a military coat; -- commonly of a color different from that of the coat.
Facing
() The movement of soldiers by turning on their heels to the right, left, or about; -- chiefly in the pl.
Facingly
() In a facing manner or position.
Facinorous
() Atrociously wicked.
Facound
() Speech; eloquence.
Facsimiles
() of Facsimile
Facsimile
() A copy of anything made, either so as to be deceptive or so as to give every part and detail of the original; an exact copy or likeness.
Facsimile
() To make a facsimile of.
Fact
() A doing, making, or preparing.
Fact
() An effect produced or achieved; anything done or that comes to pass; an act; an event; a circumstance.
Fact
() Reality; actuality; truth; as, he, in fact, excelled all the rest; the fact is, he was beaten.
Fact
() The assertion or statement of a thing done or existing; sometimes, even when false, improperly put, by a transfer of meaning, for the thing done, or supposed to be done; a thing supposed or asserted to be done; as, history abounds with false facts.
Faction
() One of the divisions or parties of charioteers (distinguished by their colors) in the games of the circus.
Faction
() A party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition to the government, or state; -- usually applied to a minority, but it may be applied to a majority; a combination or clique of partisans of any kind, acting for their own interests, especially if greedy, clamorous, and reckless of the common good.
Faction
() Tumult; discord; dissension.
Factionary
() Belonging to a faction; being a partisan; taking sides.
Factioner
() One of a faction.
Factionist
() One who promotes faction.
Factious
() Given to faction; addicted to form parties and raise dissensions, in opposition to government or the common good; turbulent; seditious; prone to clamor against public measures or men; -- said of persons.
Factious
() Pertaining to faction; proceeding from faction; indicating, or characterized by, faction; -- said of acts or expressions; as, factious quarrels.
Factitious
() Made by art, in distinction from what is produced by nature; artificial; sham; formed by, or adapted to, an artificial or conventional, in distinction from a natural, standard or rule; not natural; as, factitious cinnabar or jewels; a factitious taste.
Factitive
() Causing; causative.
Factitive
() Pertaining to that relation which is proper when the act, as of a transitive verb, is not merely received by an object, but produces some change in the object, as when we say, He made the water wine.
Factive
() Making; having power to make.
Facto
() In fact; by the act or fact.
