Favor

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Love locks.

II. Favor ·noun Partiality; bias.

III. Favor ·noun Appearance; look; countenance; face.

IV. Favor ·noun Mildness or mitigation of punishment; lenity.

V. Favor ·noun The object of regard; person or thing favored.

VI. Favor ·noun Kind regard; propitious aspect; countenance; friendly disposition; kindness; good will.

VII. Favor ·noun To resemble in features; to have the aspect or looks of; as, the child favors his father.

VIII. Favor ·noun A letter or epistle;

— so called in civility or compliment; as, your favor of yesterday is received.

IX. Favor ·noun The act of countenancing, or the condition of being countenanced, or regarded propitiously; support; promotion; befriending.

X. Favor ·noun To afford advantages for success to; to Facilitate; as, a weak place favored the entrance of the enemy.

XI. Favor ·noun A kind act or office; kindness done or granted; benevolence shown by word or deed; an act of grace or good will, as distinct from justice or remuneration.

XII. Favor ·noun A gift or represent; something bestowed as an evidence of good will; a token of love; a knot of ribbons; something worn as a token of affection; as, a marriage favor is a bunch or knot of white ribbons or white flowers worn at a wedding.

XIII. Favor ·noun To regard with kindness; to Support; to aid, or to have the disposition to aid, or to wish success to; to be propitious to; to Countenance; to treat with consideration or tenderness; to show partiality or unfair bias towards.

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