Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Favus

Favus (fā"vus) , noun

[Latin, honeycomb.]

1.
(Medicine) A disease of the scalp, produced by a vegetable parasite.
2.
A tile or flagstone cut into an hexagonal shape to produce a honeycomb pattern, as in a pavement; -- called also favas and sectila. — Mollett