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"Section F, G and H"


Facsimile telegraph, a telegraphic apparatus
reproducing messages in autograph.


Fac*sim"i*le, (&?;), v. t. To make
a facsimile of.


Fact (făkt), n. [L.
factum, fr. facere to make or do. Cf. Feat,
Affair, Benefit, Defect, Fashion, and
-fy.] 1. A doing, making, or
preparing.
[Obs.]


A project for the fact and vending

Of a new kind of fucus, paint for ladies.
B.
Jonson.


2. An effect produced or achieved; anything
done or that comes to pass; an act; an event; a
circumstance.


What might instigate him to this devilish fact,
I am not able to conjecture.
Evelyn.


He who most excels in fact of
arms.
Milton.


3. Reality; actuality; truth; as, he, in
fact, excelled all the rest; the fact is, he was
beaten.


4. The assertion or statement of a thing done
or existing; sometimes, even when false, improperly put, by a
transfer of meaning, for the thing done, or supposed to be done; a
thing supposed or asserted to be done; as, history abounds with false
facts.


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