Usually means: Mythical being, fairy; also trust.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. fay: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. fay: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fay, fay, fay: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fay: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fay: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fay, fay: Wordnik
  7. Fay, fay: Wiktionary
  8. fay: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. fay: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. fay: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Fay, fay: Dictionary.com
  12. fay: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Fay (TV series), Fay (disambiguation), Fay (given name), Fay (surname), Fay: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Fay: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. fay: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. Fay: Rhymezone
  17. Fay: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. fay: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. Fay: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  20. fay: Free Dictionary
  21. fay: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. fay: Dictionary/thesaurus

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fay: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. FAY: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. FAY: Acronym Finder

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fay: Botanical Name listing of Plants

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. fay: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Fay: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Fay)

verb:  (obsolete) To fit.
verb:  (shipbuilding, transitive) To join (pieces of timber) tightly. The long edges of the staves of a barrel have to be fayed so that when it is assembled it will not leak.
verb:  (shipbuilding, intransitive) Of pieces of timber: to lie close together.
verb:  (obsolete) To fadge.
adjective:  Fitted closely together.
noun:  A fairy.
adjective:  Fairy like.
verb:  (dialectal) To cleanse; clean out.
noun:  (US slang) A white person.
adjective:  (US slang) White; white-skinned.
noun:  An Anglo-Irish surname transferred from the nickname, Anglicized from de Fae a Norman family that settled in Ireland.
noun:  A surname from Irish, anglicized from Ó Fiaich and Ó Fathaigh. (see Fahey.)
noun:  A female given name, pet form of Faith or Frances; often used as a middle name.
noun:  A place name:
noun:  A commune in Orne department, Normandy, France.
noun:  A commune in Sarthe department, Pays de la Loire, France.
noun:  A commune in Somme department, Hauts-de-France, France.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Ozark County, Missouri, United States.
noun:  A census-designated place in Dewey County, Oklahoma, United States.

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