Index of English words, starting with "fa"

(1) - Fail (v. i.) Death; decease.
(2) - Fail (v. i.) Miscarriage; failure; deficiency; fault; -- mostly superseded by failure or failing, except in the phrase without fail.
(3) - Fail (v. t.) To miss of attaining; to lose.
(4) - Fail (v. t.) To be wanting to ; to be insufficient for; to disappoint; to desert.
(5) - Fail (v. i.) To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent.
(6) - Fail (v. i.) To err in judgment; to be mistaken.
(7) - Fail (v. i.) To come short of a result or object aimed at or desired ; to be baffled or frusrated.
(8) - Fail (v. i.) To be found wanting with respect to an action or a duty to be performed, a result to be secured, etc.; to miss; not to fulfill expectation.
(9) - Fail (v. i.) To perish; to die; -- used of a person.
(10) - Fail (v. i.) To deteriorate in respect to vigor, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker; as, a sick man fails.
(11) - Fail (v. i.) To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.
(12) - Fail (v. i.) To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; -- used with of.
(13) - Fail (v. i.) To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expected manner, or to be altogether cut off from supply; to be lacking; as, streams fail; crops fail.

(1) - Failing (n.) The act of becoming insolvent of bankrupt.
(2) - Failing (n.) A failing short; a becoming deficient; failure; deficiency; imperfection; weakness; lapse; fault; infirmity; as, a mental failing.
(3) - Failing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fail

(1) - Faille (n.) A soft silk, heavier than a foulard and not glossy.

(1) - Failure (n.) A failing; a slight fault.
(2) - Failure (n.) A becoming insolvent; bankruptcy; suspension of payment; as, failure in business.
(3) - Failure (n.) Decay, or defect from decay; deterioration; as, the failure of memory or of sight.
(4) - Failure (n.) Want of success; the state of having failed.
(5) - Failure (n.) Omission; nonperformance; as, the failure to keep a promise.
(6) - Failure (n.) Cessation of supply, or total defect; a failing; deficiency; as, failure of rain; failure of crops.