Word Meanings - FAULTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One who commits a fault. Behold the faulter here in sight. Fairfax.
Related words: (words related to FAULTER)
- FAULTINESS
Quality or state of being faulty. Round, even to faultiness. Shak. - BEHOLDER
One who beholds; a spectator. - SIGHTLY
1. Pleasing to the sight; comely. "Many brave, sightly horses." L'Estrange. 2. Open to sight; conspicuous; as, a house stands in a sightly place. - BEHOLDING
Obliged; beholden. I was much bound and beholding to the right reverend father. Robynson So much hath Oxford been beholding to her nephews, or sister's children. Fuller. - BEHOLDINGNESS
, The state of being obliged or beholden. Sir P. Sidney. - SIGHT-HOLE
A hole for looking through; a peephole. "Stop all sight-holes." Shak. - FAULT
A lost scent; act of losing the scent. Ceasing their clamorous cry till they have singled, With much ado, the cold fault cleary out. Shak. (more info) falta), fr. a verb meaning to want, fail, freq., fr. L. fallere to 1. Defect; want; - FAULTING
The state or condition of being faulted; the process by which a fault is produced. - SIGHTED
Having sight, or seeing, in a particular manner; -- used in composition; as, long-sighted, short-sighted, quick-sighted, sharp- sighted, and the like. - SIGHTING
from Sight, v. t. Sighting shot, a shot made to ascertain whether the sights of a firearm are properly adjusted; a trial shot. - BEHOLD
To have in sight; to see clearly; to look at; to regard with the eyes. When he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived. Num. xxi. 9. Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. John. i. 29. Syn. -- To scan; gaze; regard; descry; - FAULT-FINDING
The act of finding fault or blaming; -- used derogatively. Also Adj. - SIGHTLESS
1. Wanting sight; without sight; blind. Of all who blindly creep or sightless soar. Pope. 2. That can not be seen; invisible. The sightless couriers of the air. Shak. 3. Offensive or unpleasing to the eye; unsightly; as, sightless stains. Shak. - SIGHT-SEER
One given to seeing sights or noted things, or eager for novelties or curiosities. - SIGHTFUL
Easily or clearly seen; distinctly visible; perspicuous. Testament of Love. - BEHOLDEN
Obliged; bound in gratitude; indebted. But being so beholden to the Prince. Tennyson. - SIGHTPROOF
Undiscoverable to sight. Hidden in their own sightproof bush. Lowell. - SIGHT-SHOT
Distance to which the sight can reach or be thrown. Cowley. - SIGHTFULNESS
The state of being sightful; perspicuity. Sir P. Sidney. - FAULTLESS
Without fault; not defective or imperfect; free from blemish; free from incorrectness, vice, or offense; perfect; as, a faultless poem. Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be. Pope. Syn. - PEEP SIGHT
An adjustable piece, pierced with a small hole to peep through in aiming, attached to a rifle or other firearm near the breech; -- distinguished from an open sight. - PICK-FAULT
One who seeks out faults. - HALF-SIGHTED
Seeing imperfectly; having weak discernment. Bacon. - HIGH-SIGHTED
Looking upward; supercilious. Shak. - CLEAR-SIGHTEDNESS
Acute discernment. - DULL-SIGHTED
Having poor eyesight. - SECOND-SIGHT
The power of discerning what is not visible to the physical eye, or of foreseeing future events, esp. such as are of a disastrous kind; the capacity of a seer; prophetic vision. he was seized with a fit of second-sight. Addison. Nor less availed - NEARSIGHTED; NEARSIGHTEDNESS
Seeing distinctly at short distances only; shortsighted. -- Near"sight`ed*ness, n. - FINDFAULTING
Apt to censure or cavil; faultfinding; captious. Whitlock.