Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary -- Volume FH2. Brevity; conciseness. [Obs.] Shak. Fey (?), a. [AS. f?ga, Icel. feigr, OHG. feigi.] Fated; doomed. [Old Eng. & Scot.] Fey (?), n. [See Fay faith.] Faith. [Obs.] Chaucer. Fey (?), v. t. [Cf. Feague.] To cleanse; to clean out. [Obs.] Tusser. Feyne (?), v. t. To feign. [Obs.] Chaucer. Feyre (?), n. A fair or market. [Obs.] Chaucer. Fez (?), n. [F., fr. the town of Fez in Morocco.] A felt or cloth cap, usually red and having a tassel, -- a variety of the tarboosh. See Tarboosh. B. Taylor. Fia"cre (?), n. [F.] A kind of French hackney coach. Fi"ance (?), v. t. [F. fiancer. See Affiance.] To betroth; to affiance. [Obs.] Harmar. Fi`an`cé" (?), n. [F.] A betrothed man. Fi`an`cée" (?), n. [F.] A betrothed woman. Fi"ants (?), n. [F. fiente dung.] The dung of the fox, wolf, boar, or badger. Fi"ar (? or ?), n. [See Feuar.] 1. (Scots Law) One in whom the property of an estate is vested, subject to the estate of a life renter. I am fiar of the lands; she a life renter. 2. pl. The price of grain, as legally fixed, in the counties of Scotland, for the current year. Fi·as"co (?), n.; pl. Fiascoes (#). [It.] A complete or ridiculous failure, esp. of a musical performance, or of any pretentious undertaking. Fi"at (?), n. [L., let it be done, 3d pers. sing., subj. pres., fr. fieri, used as pass. of facere to make. Cf. Be.] 1. An authoritative command or order to do something; an effectual decree. His fiat laid the corner stone. |