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Weak :: Weak (v. i.) Lacking force of utterance or sound; not sonorous; low; small; feeble; faint.

Droop :: Droop (v. i.) To grow weak or faint with disappointment, grief, or like causes; to be dispirited or depressed; to languish; as, her spirits drooped..

Ghost :: Ghost (n.) Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering; as, not a ghost of a chance; the ghost of an idea..

Twilight :: Twilight (n.) faint light; a dubious or uncertain medium through which anything is viewed.

Faint :: Faint (superl.) Lacking distinctness; hardly perceptible; striking the senses feebly; not bright, or loud, or sharp, or forcible; weak; as, a faint color, or sound..

Overtone :: Overtone (n.) One of the harmonics faintly heard with and above a tone as it dies away, produced by some aliquot portion of the vibrating sting or column of air which yields the fundamental tone; one of the natural harmonic scale of tones, as the octave, twelfth, fifteenth, etc.; an aliquot or partial tone; a harmonic. See Harmonic, and Tone..

Fall :: Fall (v. t.) To sink; to languish; to become feeble or faint; as, our spirits rise and fall with our fortunes..

Fain :: Fain (adv.) With joy; gladly; -- with wold.

Evanid :: Evanid (a.) Liable to vanish or disappear; faint; weak; evanescent; as, evanid color..

Glimmer :: Glimmer (v. i.) To give feeble or scattered rays of light; to shine faintly; to show a faint, unsteady light; as, the glimmering dawn; a glimmering lamp..

Umbra :: Umbra (n.) The fainter part of a sun spot; -- now more commonly called penumbra.

Swooning :: Swoon (n.) A fainting fit; syncope.

Nyctalopia :: Nyctalopia (n.) A disease of the eye, in consequence of which the patient can see well in a faint light or at twilight, but is unable to see during the day or in a strong light; day blindness..

Glimpse :: Glimpse (n.) A faint idea; an inkling.

Weak-hearted :: Weak-hearted (a.) Having little courage; of feeble spirit; dispirited; faint-hearted.

Faint :: Faint (superl.) Wanting in courage, spirit, or energy; timorous; cowardly; dejected; depressed; as, Faint heart ne'er won fair lady..

Syncope :: Syncope (n.) A fainting, or swooning. See Fainting..

Fain :: Fain (v. t. & i.) To be glad ; to wish or desire.

Courage :: Courage (n.) That quality of mind which enables one to encounter danger and difficulties with firmness, or without fear, or fainting of heart; valor; boldness; resolution..

Goneness :: Goneness (n.) A state of exhaustion; faintness, especially as resulting from hunger..

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