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An American Dictionary of the English Language

by Noah Webster

Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)

Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865

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  1. Fēr'vent, a.p. 506Hot; ardent; glowing; boiling; as, a fervent summer; fervent heat; fervent blood. 2. Warm in feeling; ardent in temperament; earnest; excited; vehement; animated; glowing with religious feelings. “So…
  2. Fêr'vent-ly, adv.p. 507In a fervent manner; with devotional ardor; with religious zeal. Epaphras... laboring fervently for you in prayers. Col. iv. 12.
  3. Fĕr'vent-ness, n.p. 507The quality or condition of being fervent; fervency.
  4. Fer-vés'cent, a.p. 507Growing hot.
  5. Fêr'vid, a.p. 507Very hot; burning; boiling. The mounted sun Shot down direct his fervid rays. Milton. 2. Ardent; vehement; zealous. “The fervid wishes, holy fires.” Parnell.
  6. Fĕr'vid-ly, adv.p. 507In a fervid manner; with glowing warmth.
  7. Fēr'vid-ness, n.p. 507The quality or condition of being fervid; glowing heat; ardor; zeal. Bentley.
  8. Fĕr'vor, n.p. 507Heat; excessive warmth. “The fervor of ensuing day.” Waller. 2. Intensity of feeling; glowing ardor; warm or animated zeal and earnestness in religious feeling or worship. “Winged with the fervor of…
  9. Fĕs'cen-nīne, a.p. 507Pertaining to, or resembling, the Fescennines; licentious. Kennett.
  10. Fēs'cen-nīne, n.p. 507A song of a rude or licentious kind prevalent in ancient Italy.
  11. Fès'cue, n.p. 507A straw, wire, stick, or the like, used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read. “Pedantic fescue.” Sterne. Escaped the ferula to come under the fescue of an imprimatur.…
  12. Fēs'cue, v. t.p. 507To assist in reading by a fescue. Milton.
  13. Fĕs'cue-grāss, n.p. 507(Bot.) The Festuca, a genus of grasses containing several species of importance in agriculture. Lee.
  14. Fē'sels, n.p. 507A kind of base grain. May.
  15. Fĕsse or Fĕss, n.p. 507(Her.) A band drawn horizontally across the center of an escutcheon, and containing in breadth the third part of it; one of the nine honorable ordinaries.
  16. Fèsse'-point, n.p. 507(Her.) The exact center of the escutcheon. See ESCUTCHEON.
  17. Fĕs'si-tūde, n.p. 507Weariness. [Obs.] Bailey.
  18. Fĕs'tal, a.p. 507Pertaining to a holiday, joyful anniversary, or feast; joyous; gay; mirthful. You bless with choicer wine the festal day. Francis.
  19. Fĕs'tal-ly, adv.p. 507Joyously; mirthfully.
  20. Fés'ten-nîne, n.p. 507A marriage song or serenade; a fescennine. Cartwright.
  21. Fĕs'ter, v. i.p. 507To grow virulent; to corrupt; to rankle;—said of wounds and of a person wounded. Wounds immedicable Rankle, and fester, and gangrene. Milton. 2. To become malignant and invincible;—said of passions.
  22. Fĕs'ter, v. t.p. 507To cause to fester; to nurse, as something that rankles. And festered rankling malice in my breast. Marston.
  23. Fĕs'ter, n.p. 507A sore which rankles and discharges corrupt matter; a pustule. 2. A festering or rankling. The fester of the chain upon their necks. J. Taylor.
  24. Fĕs'ter-ment, n.p. 507A festering. Chalmers.
  25. Fē'sti-nate, a.p. 507Hasty; hurried. [Obs.] Shak.
  26. Fĕs'ti-nate-ly, adv.p. 507Hastily. [Obs.] Shak.
  27. Fĕs'ti-nā'tion, n.p. 507Haste; hurry. [Obs.] Browne.
  28. Fĕs'ti-val, a.p. 507Pertaining to a feast; festive; festal; appropriate to a festival; joyous; mirthful. “I can not woo in festival terms.” Shak.
  29. Fĕs'ti-val, n.p. 507A time of feasting or celebration; an anniversary day of joy, civil or religious; a festive celebration. The morning trumpets festival proclaimed. Milton. Syn.—Feast; banquet; carousal. See FEAST.
  30. Fĕs'tive, a.p. 507Pertaining to, or becoming, a feast; festal; joyous; gay; mirthful. The glad circle round them yield their souls To festive mirth and wit that knows no gall. Thomson.
  31. Fĕs'tive-ly, adv.p. 507In a festive manner.
  32. Fes-tĭv'i-ty, n.p. 507The condition of being festive; social joy or exhilaration of spirits at an entertainment; joyfulness; gayety. The unrestrained festivity of the rustic youth. Hurd. 2. A festival; a festive…
  33. Fĕs'ti-voŭs, a.p. 507Pertaining to a feast; joyous; festival; festive. [Rare.]
  34. Fes-tōon',, n.p. 507A garland or wreath hanging in a depending curve; any thing arranged in this way. Festoon, (2.) 2. (Arch. & Sculp.) An ornament of carved work, in the form of a wreath of flowers, fruits, and leaves…
  35. Fes-tōon’, v. t.p. 507To form in festoons, or to adorn with festoons.
  36. Fes-tōon'y, a.p. 507Consisting of, pertaining to, or resembling, festoons. Sir J. Herschel.
  37. Fes'tu-çine, a.p. 507Of a straw color. [Obs.] “A little insect of a festucine or pale green.” Browne.
  38. Fĕs'tu-cōus, a.p. 507Formed of straw. [Obs.] Browne.
  39. Fes'tue, n.p. 507A straw; a fescue. [Obs.] Holland.
  40. Fēt, n.p. 507A piece. [Obs.] Dryden.
  41. Fĕt, v. t.p. 507To fetch. [Obs.] And from the other fifty soon the prisoner fet. Spenser.
  42. Fē'tal, a.p. 507Pertaining to a fetus.
  43. Fe-tā’tion, n.p. 507The formation of a fetus in the womb; pregnancy. [Obs.] Dunglison.
  44. Fĕtch, v. t.p. 507To bear toward the person speaking, or the person or thing from whose point of view the action is contemplated; to go and bring; to bring; to get. Time will run back and fetch the age of gold.…
  45. Fĕtch, v. i.p. 507To bring one's self; to move; to arrive; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward. Totten.
  46. Fĕtch, n.p. 507A stratagem, by which a thing is indirectly brought to pass, or by which one thing seems intended and another is done; a trick; an artifice. “Every little fetch of wit and criticism.” South. Straight…
  47. Fĕtch'er, n.p. 507One who fetches or brings.
  48. Fête, n.p. 507A festival, holiday, celebration, or festivity.
  49. Fête, v. t.p. 507To feast; to honor with a festive entertainment.
  50. Fête-champêtre, n.p. 507A festival or entertainment in the open air; a rural festival.
  51. Fē'tich, n.p. 507A material thing, living or dead, which is made the object of brutish and superstitious worship, as among certain African tribes. Marryatt.
  52. Fĕt'i-chĭsm or Fĕt'i-cĭsm, n.p. 507One of the lowest and grossest forms of superstition, consisting in the worship of some material object, as a stone, a tree, or an animal, often casually selected;—practiced among tribes of lowest…
  53. Fē'ti-cide, n.p. 507(Med.) The act or process of killing the fetus in the womb. Dunglison. 2. (Law.) The act by which criminal abortion is produced.
  54. Fĕt'id, a.p. 507Having an offensive smell; stinking. Most putrefactions smell either fetid or moldy. Bacon.
  55. Fēt'id-ness, n.p. 507The quality of smelling offensively; a fetid quality; fetor.
  56. Fe-tif'er-oûs, a.p. 507Producing young, as animals.
  57. Fē'tish, n.p. 507The same as FETICH.
  58. Fĕt'lŏck, n.p. 507The part of the leg where the tuft of hair grows behind the pastern joint in horses. Their wounded steeds Fret fetlock deep in gore. Shak.
  59. Fē'tôr, n.p. 507A strong, offensive smell; stench; fetidness. Arbuthnot.
  60. Fēt'ter, n.p. 507A chain for the feet; a chain by which an animal is confined by the foot, either made fast or disabled from free and rapid motion; a bond; a shackle. The Philistines . . . bound him with fetters of…