=Fan´teries= (3 _syl._), foot-soldiers, infantry. Five other bandes of English fanteries. G. Gascoigne, 1535-1577, _The Fruites of Warre_ (1575) =Fantine=. Parisian girl, deserted by her lover and left to support her child as best she can. Her heroic self-devotion is one of the most interesting episodes of _Les Miserables_, a romance by Victor Hugo. =Faquir´=, a religious anchorite, whose life is spent in the severest austerities and mortification. He diverted himself, however ... especially with the Brahmins, faquirs, and other enthusiasts who had travelled from the heart of India, and halted on their way with the emir.—W. Beckford, _Vathek_ (1786). =Farçeur= (_The_), Angelo Beolco, the Italian farce-writer. Called _Ruzzante_ in Italian, from _ruzzare_, “to play the fool” (1502-1542). =Farina´ta= [DEGLI UBERTI], a noble Florentine, leader of the Ghibeline faction, and driven from his country in 1250 by the Guelfs (1 _syl._). Some ten years later by the aid of Manfred of Naples, he beat the Guelfs, and took all the towns of Tuscany and Florence. Danté conversed with him in the city of Dis, and represents him as lying in a fiery tomb yet open, and not to be closed till the last judgment day. When the council agreed to raze Florence to the ground, Farinata opposed the measure, and saved the city. Dantê refers to this: Lo! Farinata ... his brow Somewhat uplifted, cried ... “In that affray [i.e. _at Montaperto, near the river Arbia_] I stood not singly ... But singly there I stood, when by consent Of all, Florence had to the ground been razed,— The one who openly forbade the deed.” Dante, _Inferno_, x. (1300). Like Farinata from his fiery tomb. Longfellow, _Dante_. =Farm-boy.= “Over the hill the farm-boy goes, His shadow lengthens along the land, A giant staff in a giant hand. In the poplar tree above the spring The katydid begins to sing; The early dews are falling. * * * * * And home to the woodland fly the crows, While over the hill the farm-boy goes, Cheerily calling, ‘Co’ boss! co’ boss! co’! co’! co’!’” J.T. Trowbridge, _Evening at the Farm_ (1857). =Farmer Finch=, girl who works her invalid father’s farm for him and makes it pay.—Sarah Orne Jewett, _Farmer Finch_. =Farm-house= (_The_). Modely and Heartwell, two gentlemen of fashion, come into the country and receive hospitality from old Farmer Freehold. Here they make love to his daughter Aura and his niece Flora. The girls, being high-principled, convert the flirtation of the two guests into love, and Heartwell marries the niece, while Modely proposes to Aura, who accepts him, provided he will wait two months and remain constant to her.—John Philip Kemble.