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Webster's 1828 Dictionary
FA'INTING, ppr. Falling into a swoon; failing; losing strength or courage; becoming feeble or timid.
FA'INTING, n. A temporary loss of strength, color and respiration; syncope; deliquium; leipothymy; a swoon.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Fainting Faint"ing, n. Syncope, or loss of consciousness owing to a sudden arrest of the blood supply to the brain, the face becoming pallid, the respiration feeble, and the heat's beat weak. Fainting fit, a fainting or swoon; syncope. [Colloq.]
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Faint Faint, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fainted; p. pr. & vb. n. Fainting.] 1. To become weak or wanting in vigor; to grow feeble; to lose strength and color, and the control of the bodily or mental functions; to swoon; -- sometimes with away. See Fainting, n. Hearing the honor intended her, she fainted away. --Guardian. If I send them away fasting . . . they will faint by the way. --Mark viii. 8.
