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"Section F, G and H"

Fairness;
beauty.
[Obs.] Foxe.


Fair"i*ly (?), adv. In the manner
of a fairy.


Numerous as shadows haunting fairily

The brain.
Keats.


Fair"ing, n. A present;
originally, one given or purchased at a fair.
Gay.


Fairing box, a box receiving savings or
small sums of money.
Hannah More.


Fair"ish, a. Tolerably fair.
[Colloq.] W. D. Howells.


Fair"-lead`er (?), n. (Naut.)
A block, or ring, serving as a guide for the running rigging or
for any rope.


Fair"ly, adv. 1.
In a fair manner; clearly; openly; plainly; fully; distinctly;
frankly.


Even the nature of Mr. Dimmesdale's disease had never
fairly been revealed to him.

Hawthorne.


2. Favorably; auspiciously; commodiously; as,
a town fairly situated for foreign trade.


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