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An American Dictionary of the English Language
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Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Feed'-pŭmp, n. p. 503The force-pump which supplies the boilers of steam-engines with warmed water, called feed-water, through a feed-pipe.Fee'-es-tāte', n. p. 503(Eng. Law.) Land or tenements held in fee in consideration of some acknowledgment or service rendered to the lord.Fee'-färm, n. p. 503(Law.) Land held of another in fee, in consideration of an annual farm or rent, without homage, fealty, or any other service than that mentioned in the feoffment; an estate in fee-simple, subject to…Feel, v. t. p. 503To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; to have sensation excited by contact of the body or…Feel, v. i. p. 503To have perception by the touch, or by the contact of any substance with the nerves of sensation, especially those upon the surface of the body. 2. To have the sensibilities moved or affected. A…Feel, n. p. 503Feeling; perception. [Rare.] To intercept and have a more kindly feel of its genial warmth. Hurlitt. 2. A sensation communicated by touching; impression made upon one who touches or handles; as, a…Feel'er, n. p. 503One who, or that which, feels. 2. (Nat. Hist.) One of the organs with which certain animals, as insects or polyps, are furnished, for trying by the touch objects with which they come in contact, or…Feel'ing, p. a. p. 503Possessing great sensibility; easily affected or moved; as, a feeling man; a feeling heart. 2. Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility; sensitive; as, he made a feeling…Feel'ing, n. p. 503The sense by which the mind, through certain nerves of the body, perceives external objects, or certain states of the body itself; that one of the five senses which resides in the general nerves of…Feel'ing-ly, adv. p. 503In a feeling manner; with sensibility; affectingly. These are counselors. That feelingly persuade me what I am. Shak.Feere, n. p. 503A consort, husband or wife; a companion; a fere. [Obs.] Shak.Feese, n. p. 503A race; a run. [Obs.] Barret.Fee'-sīm'ple, n. p. 503(Law.) An absolute fee; a fee without conditions or limits. See FEE. Buy the fee-simple of my life for an hour and a quarter. Shak.Feet, n. p. 503pl. of foot.Fee'-tāil, n. p. 503(Law.) An estate of inheritance, limited and restrained to some particular heirs. Burrill.Feet'less, a. p. 503Destitute of feet; wanting feet; as, feetless birds. Camden.Feeze, v. t. p. 503To turn, as a screw. [Scot.] Jamieson. 2. To beat; to chastise; to vex; to rout; to put an end to. [Written also feaze, feize, pheeze, and reze.] H'as given me my “quietus est;” I felt him In my…Feeze, n. p. 503A state of anxious or fretful excitement. See FEAZE.Feign, v. t. p. 503To give a mental existence to, as to something not real or actual; to imagine; to contrive, as an appearance or semblance; hence, to assert by a fiction; to pretend; to form and relate as if true.…Feigned or Feigned issue, p. a. p. 503Pretended; counterfeit; simulating. “A feigned friend.” Shak. Feigned issue (Law), an issue produced in a pretended action between two parties for the purpose of trying before a jury a question of…Feign'ed-ly, adv. p. 503In a feigned or fictitious manner; in pretense; not really. Bacon.Feign'ed-ness, n. p. 503The condition of being feigned; fiction; pretense; deceit. Harmar.Feign'er, n. p. 504One who feigns; an inventor; a deviser of fiction.Feign'ing-ly, adv. p. 504In a feigning manner; with false appearance.Feint, n. p. 504That which is feigned; an assumed or false appearance; a pretense; a mock or pretended attack. Courtesy's letter is but a feint to get off. Spectator. 2. A seeming aim at one part when another is…Feint, p. a. p. 504Feigned; counterfeit. [Obs.] Locke.Feint, v. i. p. 504To make a feint, or mock attack.Fēize, v. t. p. 504See FEEZE.Fēl'and-ers, n. p. 504See FILANDERS. Ainsworth.Fēld'spār or Fēld'spath, n. p. 504(Min.) A mineral occurring in crystals and crystalline masses, somewhat vitreous in luster, and breaking rather easily in two directions, with smooth surfaces. The colors are usually white or…Feld-spāth'ic or Feld-spāth'ose, a. p. 504Pertaining to, or consisting of, feldspar.Fe-lĭç'i-fy, v. t. p. 504To make happy; to felicitate. [Obs. and rare.] Quarles.Fe-lĭc'i-tāte, v. t. p. 504To make very happy; to delight. A glorious entertainment and pleasure would fill and felicitate his spirit. Watts. 2. To express joy or pleasure to; to congratulate. Every true heart must felicitate…Fe-lĭç'i-tate, a. p. 504Made very happy. I am alone Felicitate in your dear highness' love. Shak.Fe-lĭc'i-tā'tion, n. p. 504The act of felicitating; the act of wishing happiness; congratulation.Fe-lĭç'i-tōŭs, a. p. 504Happy; prosperous; delightful; skillful; successful; well applied or expressed; appropriate. “Felicitous words and images.” M. Arnold.Fe-lĭc'i-tōŭs-ly, adv. p. 504In a felicitous and happy manner.Fe-lĭç'i-tōŭs-ness, n. p. 504State of being very happy.Fe-lĭç'i-ty, n. p. 504The state of being happy; blessedness; blissfulness; enjoyment of good. Mind . . . immortal in power and in felicity. I. Taylor. 2. That which promotes happiness; a successful or gratifying event or…Fē'line, a. p. 504Pertaining to a cat, or to cats; as, the feline race; feline rapacity.Fē'lis, n. p. 504(Zoöl.) A genus of quadrupeds, including the lion, tiger, panther, cat, and similar animals.Fell, imp. p. 504of fall.Fĕll, a. p. 504Cruel; barbarous; inhuman; fierce; savage; ravenous; bloody. For Oberon is passing fell and wrath. Shak. While we devise fell tortures for thy faults. Shak.Fĕll, n. p. 504A skin or hide of a beast;—used chiefly in composition, as wool-fell. We are still handling our ewes, and their fells, you know, are greasy. Shak.Fĕll, n. p. 504A barren or stony hill. [Prov. Eng.] Gray. 2. A field. [Obs.] Drayton.Fĕll, n. p. 504Gall; anger; melancholy. [Obs.] “Untroubled of vile fear or bitter fell.” Spenser.Féll, n. p. 504(Weaving.) The line which terminates a web in process of weaving, formed by the last weft thread. Ogilvie.Fĕll, v. t. p. 504To cause to fall; to prostrate; to bring down or to the ground. Stand, or I'll fell thee down. Shak. 2. To sew or hem;—said of seams only.Fell'a-ble, a. p. 504Capable of being felled, or fit to be felled. Ogilvie.Fell'lah, n. p. 504A peasant or cultivator of the soil among the Egyptians, Syrians, &c. W. M. Thomson.Fĕll'er, n. p. 504One who fells or knocks down.Fel-lif'lu-oüs, a. p. 504Flowing with gall. [Obs.]Fĕll'-mōng'er, n. p. 504A dealer in fells or sheepskins, who separates the wool from the pelts.Fĕll'ness, n. p. 504The state of being fell or cruel; fierce barbarity. Spencer.Fĕl'lōe, n. p. 504See FELLY.Fĕl'lo-nest, a., superl. p. 504of fell. [Obs.] Spenser.Fĕl'lōw, n. p. 504One who follows; an adherent; a companion; a comrade; an associate; a sharer. “The fellows of his crime.” Milton. We are fellows still, Serving alike in sorrow. Shak. 2. A man without good breeding…Fēl'lōw, v. t. p. 504To suit with; to pair with; to match. [Obs.] Shak.Fĕl'lōw-cŏm'mon-er, n. p. 504A student in an English university who commons, or dines, with the fellows.Fĕl'lōw-erēat/ūre, n. p. 504One of the same race or kind; one made by the same Creator. Reason, by which we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes. Watts.