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  • FANAL
    Fr. In French marine law. A large lantern, fixed upon the highest part of a vessel's stern.
  • FANATICS
    Persons pretending to be inspired, and being a general name for Quakers, Anabaptists, and all other sectaries, and factious dissenters from the Church of England. (St 13 Car. II. c. 6.) Jacob.
  • FANEGA
    In Spanish law. A measure of land varying in different provinces, but in tbe Spanish settlements in America consisting of 6,400 square varas or yards.
  • FAQUEER OR FAKIR
    A Hindu term for a poor man, mendicant; a religious beggar.
  • FARANDMAN
    In Scotch law. A traveler or merchant stranger. Skene.
  • FARDEL OF LAND
    In old English law. The fourth part of a yard-land. Noy says an eighth only, because, according to him, two fardels make a nook, and four nooks a yard-land. Wharton.
  • FARDELLA
    In old English law. A bundle or pack; a fardel. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 22, | 10.
  • FARDING-DEAL
    The fourth part of an acre of land. Spelman.
  • FARE
    A voyage or passage by water; also the money paid for a passage either by land or by water. Cowell. The price of passage, or the sum paid or to be paid for carrying a passenger. Chase v. New York Cent R. Co., 26 N. Y. 526.
  • FARINAGIUM
    A mill; a toll of meal or flour. Jacob; Spelman.
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