Vocabulary : Faucet to Faulted

Faucet : A fixture for drawing a liquid, as water, molasses, oil, etc., from a pipe, cask, or other vessel, in such quantities as may be desired; -- called also tap, and cock. It consists of a tubular spout, stopped with a movable plug, spigot, valve, or slide. ;; The enlarged end of a section of pipe which receives the spigot end of the next section.
Fauchion : See Falchion.
Faucial : Pertaining to the fauces; pharyngeal.
Faugh : An exclamation of contempt, disgust, or abhorrence.
Faulchion : See Falchion.

Faulcon : See Falcon.
Fauld : The arch over the dam of a blast furnace; the tymp arch.
Faule : A fall or falling band.
Fault : Defect; want; lack; default. ;; Anything that fails, that is wanting, or that impairs excellence; a failing; a defect; a blemish. ;; A moral failing; a defect or dereliction from duty; a deviation from propriety; an offense less serious than a crime. ;; A dislocation of the strata of the vein. ;; In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam; as, slate fault, dirt fault, etc. ;; A lost scent; act of losing the scent. ;; Failure to serve the ball into the proper court. ;; To charge with a fault; to accuse; to find fault with; to blame. ;; To interrupt the continuity of (rock strata) by displacement along a plane of fracture; -- chiefly used in the p. p.; as, the coal beds are badly faulted. ;; To err; to blunder, to commit a fault; to do wrong. ;; A defective point in an electric circuit due to a crossing of the parts of the conductor, or to contact with another conductor or the earth, or to a break in the circuit. ;; A dislocation caused by a slipping of rock masses along a plane of facture
Faulted : of Fault

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