A fair white linen cloth. Book of Common Prayer.

Who can not see many a fair French city, for one fair French made. Shak.

The northern people large and fair- complexioned. Sir M. Hale.

You wish fair winds may waft him over. Prior.

The caliphs obtained a mighty empire, which was in a fair way to have enlarged. Sir W. Raleigh.

When fair words and good counsel will not prevail on us, we must be frighted into our duty. L' Estrange.

The news is very fair and good, my lord. Shak.

Fair ball. (Baseball) (a) A ball passing over the home base at the height called for by the batsman, and delivered by the pitcher while wholly within the lines of his position and facing the batsman. (b) A batted ball that falls inside the foul lines; -- called also a fair hit. -- Fair maid. (Zoöl.) (a) The European pilchard (Clupea pilchardus) when dried. (b) The southern scup (Stenotomus Gardeni). [Virginia] -- Fair one, a handsome woman; a beauty, -- Fair play, equitable or impartial treatment; a fair or equal chance; justice. -- From fair to middling, passable; tolerable. [Colloq.] -- The fair sex, the female sex.

Syn. -- Candid; open; frank; ingenuous; clear; honest; equitable; impartial; reasonable. See Candid.

Fair and square, justly; honestly; equitably; impartially. [Colloq.] -- To bid fair. See under Bid. -- To speak fair, to address with courtesy and frankness. [Archaic]

I have found out a gift for my fair. Shenstone.

Now fair befall thee ! Shak.

The fair, anything beautiful; women, collectively. "For slander's mark was ever yet the fair." Shak.

Fairing the foul. Shak.

After the fair, Too late. [Colloq.]