adj
Beautiful, of a pleasing appearance, with a pure and fresh quality.
Monday's child is fair of face.
There was once a knight who wooed a fair young maid.
Unblemished (figuratively or literally); clean and pure; innocent.
one's fair name
After scratching out and replacing various words in the manuscript, he scribed a fair copy to send to the publisher.
Light in color, pale, particularly with regard to skin tone but also referring to blond and red hair.
She had fair hair and blue eyes.
the northern people large and fair-complexioned
Just.
He must be given a fair trial.
“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
Adequate, reasonable, or decent, but not excellent.
Their performance has been only fair.
The patient was in a fair condition after some treatment.
noun
Something which is fair (in various senses of the adjective).
When will we learn to distinguish between the fair and the foul?
A woman, a member of the ‘fair sex’; also as a collective singular, women.
Love and Hymen, hand in hand, Come, restore the nuptial band! And sincere delights prepare To crown the hero and the fair.
Here Jones, having ordered a servant to show a room above stairs, was ascending, when the dishevelled fair, hastily following, was laid hold on by the master of the house, who cried, “Heyday, where is that beggar wench going? Stay below stairs, I desire you.”
Fairness, beauty.
My decayed fair
A fair woman; a sweetheart.
I have found out a gift for my fair.
Good fortune; good luck.
Now, fair befall thee, good Petruchio!
verb
To smoothen or even a surface (especially a connection or junction on a surface).
To bring into perfect alignment (especially about rivet holes when connecting structural members).
To make an animation smooth, removing any jerkiness.
Since the sequence of data contain sampling noises, the captured motion is not smooth and wiggles along the moving path. There are well-known fairing algorithms in Euclidean space based on difference geometry.
To construct or design with the aim of producing a smooth outline or reducing air drag or water resistance.
Two forward cars were provided with the model. One of these (shown detached in Fig. 1) was faired at its after end, with a view to possible reduction of head resistance, and to induce a better flow of air to the propeller.
To make fair or beautiful.
Fairing the foul with art’s false borrow’d face