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An American Dictionary of the English Language
Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)
Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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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.Fēl'lōw-feel, v. t. p. 504To feel with sympathy. [Obs. and rare.] Rogers.Fēl'ōw-feel'ing, n. p. 504Sympathy; a like feeling. 2. Joint interest. [Obs.]Fĕl'lōw-less, a. p. 504Without fellow or equal; peerless. Whose well-built walls are rare and fellowless. Chapman.Fĕl'lōw-like or Fĕl'lōw-ly, a. p. 504Like a companion; companionable; on equal terms; sympathetic. [Obs.] Shak.Fĕl'lōw-ship, n. p. 504The state or relation of being a fellow or associate. 2. Mutual association of persons on equal and friendly terms; frequent and familiar intercourse; companionship. In a great town, friends are…Fĕl'low-ship, v. t. p. 504To acknowledge as of good standing, or in communion; to have fellowship with; to admit to Christian fellowship. Bartlett.Fĕl'ly, adv. p. 504In a fell or cruel manner; fiercely; barbarously; savagely. Spencer.Fĕl'ly, n. p. 504The exterior rim, or a part of the rim, of a wheel supported by the spokes. [Written also felloe.]Fĕl'mōn-ger, n. p. 504A dealer in sheep-skins. See FELLMONGER.Fē'lo-de-sē', n. p. 504(Law.) One who deliberately puts an end to his own existence, or commits any unlawful malicious act, the consequence of which is his own death; a self-murderer; a suicide. Burrill.