Feast of Kussapokari
Feast of Kussapokari is a traditional Inrithi holy day marking the summer solstice.

Feather
Chieftain of one of the tribal companies of Scalpoi.

Few
The Few is the term used to refer to those born with the innate ability to sense the onta and work sorcery . Even without training, the Few are able to see the Mark , allowing them to distinguish sorcery from the natural world; hence the oft-repeated phrase, “Only the Few can see the Few.” However, until actually using sorcery themselves, they bear no Mark and can handle Chorae without harm. One way to distinguish the Few from common Men without Marking them is through a Wathi Doll , by having the person speak aloud the artifact's cipher. If the person is of the Few the doll will awaken, however the person will not develop a Mark and should still be able to handle Chorae. Those of the Few who receive training are classified as Qûya , Shamans , Sorcerers , Witches , or Wizards , depending on such factors as race, gender, and whether or not they belong to a School .

fe
-licify
-to make happy; to felicitate.

feaberry
-a gooseberry.

feague
-to beat or whip; to drive.

feal
-faithful; loyal.

fealty
-fidelity to one's lord; the feudal obligation by which the tenant or vassal was bound to be faithful to his lord; the special oath by which this obligation was assumed; fidelity to a superior power, or to a government; loyality. it is no longer the practice to exact the performance of fealty, as a feudal obligation.
-fidelity; constancy; faithfulness, as of a friend to a friend, or of a wife to her husband.

fear
-a variant of fere, a mate, a companion.
-a painful emotion or passion excited by the expectation of evil, or the apprehension of impending danger; apprehension; anxiety; solicitude; alarm; dread.
-apprehension of incurring, or solicitude to avoid, god's wrath; the trembling and awful reverence felt toward the supreme belng.
-respectful reverence for men of authority or worth.
-that which causes, or which is the object of, apprehension or alarm; source or occasion of terror; danger; dreadfulness.
-to feel a painful apprehension of; to be afraid of; to consider or expect with emotion of alarm or solicitude.
-to have a reverential awe of; to solicitous to avoid the displeasure of.
-to be anxious or solicitous for.
-to suspect; to doubt.
-to affright; to terrify; to drive away or prevent approach of by fear.
-to be in apprehension of evil; to be afraid; to feel anxiety on account of some expected evil.

feared
-of fear

fearer
-one who fars.

fearful
-full of fear, apprehension, or alarm; afraid; frightened.
-inclined to fear; easily frightened; without courage; timid.
-indicating, or caused by, fear.
-inspiring fear or awe; exciting apprehension or terror; terrible; frightful; dreadful.

fearfully
-in a fearful manner.

fearfulness
-the state of being fearful.

fearing
-of fear

fearless
-free from fear.

fearnaught
-a fearless person.
-a stout woolen cloth of great thickness; dreadnaught; also, a warm garment.

fearsome
-frightful; causing fear.
-easily frightened; timid; timorous.

feasibilities
-of feasibility

feasibility
-the quality of being feasible; practicability; also, that which is feasible; as, before we adopt a plan, let us consider its feasibility.

feasible
-capable of being done, executed, or effected; practicable.
-fit to be used or tailed, as land.

feast
-a festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary.
-a festive or joyous meal; a grand, ceremonious, or sumptuous entertainment, of which many guests partake; a banquet characterized by tempting variety and abundance of food.
-that which is partaken of, or shared in, with delight; something highly agreeable; entertainment.
-to eat sumptuously; to dine or sup on rich provisions, particularly in large companies, and on public festivals.
-to be highly gratified or delighted.
-to entertain with sumptuous provisions; to treat at the table bountifully; as, he was feasted by the king.
-to delight; to gratify; as, to feast the soul.

feasted
-of feast

feaster
-one who fares deliciously.
-one who entertains magnificently.

feastful
-festive; festal; joyful; sumptuous; luxurious.

feasting
-of feast

feat
-an act; a deed; an exploit.
-a striking act of strength, skill, or cunning; a trick; as, feats of horsemanship, or of dexterity.
-to form; to fashion.
-dexterous in movements or service; skillful; neat; nice; pretty.

feat
-bodied
-having a feat or trim body.

feateous
-dexterous; neat.

feather
-one of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down.
-kind; nature; species;
-- from the proverbial phrase, "birds of a feather," that is, of the same species.
-the fringe of long hair on the legs of the setter and some other dogs.
-a tuft of peculiar, long, frizzly hair on a horse.
-one of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.
-a longitudinal strip projecting as a fin from an object, to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sidwise but permit motion lengthwise; a spline.
-a thin wedge driven between the two semicylindrical parts of a divided plug in a hole bored in a stone, to rend the stone.
-the angular adjustment of an oar or paddle
-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.
-to furnish with a feather or feathers, as an arrow or a cap.
-to adorn, as with feathers; to fringe.
-to render light as a feather; to give wings to.
-to enrich; to exalt; to benefit.
-to tread, as a cock.
-to grow or form feathers; to become feathered;
-- often with out; as, the birds are feathering out.
-to curdle when poured into another liquid, and float about in little flakes or "feathers;" as, the cream feathers
-to turn to a horizontal plane;
-- said of oars.
-to have the appearance of a feather or of feathers; to be or to appear in feathery form.

feather
-brained/
-giddy; frivolous; feather
-headed.

feather
-edge/
-the thin, new growth around the edge of a shell, of an oyster.
-any thin, as on a board or a razor.

feather
-edged/
-having a feather
-edge; also, having one edge thinner than the other, as a board;
-- in the united states, said only of stuff one edge of which is made as thin as practicable.

feather
-few/
-feverfew.

feather
-foil
-an aquatic plant (hottonia palustris), having finely divided leaves.

feather
-head
-a frivolous or featherbrained person.

feather
-headed
-giddy; frivolous; foolish.

feather
-heeled
-light
-heeled; gay; frisky; frolicsome.

feather
-pated
-feather
-headed; frivolous.

feather
-veined
-having the veins (of a leaf) diverging from the two sides of a midrib.

feathered
-of feather
-clothed, covered, or fitted with (or as with) feathers or wings; as, a feathered animal; a feathered arrow.
-furnished with anything featherlike; ornamented; fringed; as, land feathered with trees.
-having a fringe of feathers, as the legs of certian birds; or of hairs, as the legs of a setter dog.
-having feathers;
-- said of an arrow, when the feathers are of a tincture different from that of the shaft.

feathering
-same as foliation.
-the act of turning the blade of the oar, as it rises from the water in rowing, from a vertical to a horizontal position. see to feather an oar, under feather, v. t.
-a covering of feathers.

feathering.
-of feather

featherless
-destitute of feathers.

featherly
-like feathers.

featherness
-the state or condition of being feathery.

feathery
-pertaining to, or resembling, feathers; covered with, or as with, feathers; as, feathery spray or snow.

featly
-neatly; dexterously; nimbly.

featness
-skill; adroitness.

feature
-the make, form, or outward appearance of a person; the whole turn or style of the body; esp., good appearance.
-the make, cast, or appearance of the human face, and especially of any single part of the face; a lineament. (pl.) the face, the countenance.
-the cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty, or an essay; any marked peculiarity or characteristic; as, one of the features of the landscape.
-a form; a shape.

featured
-shaped; fashioned.
-having features; formed into features.

featureless
-having no distinct or distinctive features.

featurely
-having features; showing marked peculiarities; handsome.

feaze
-to untwist; to unravel, as the end of a rope.
-to beat; to chastise; also, to humble; to harass; to worry.
-a state of anxious or fretful excitement; worry; vexation.

feazed
-of feaze

feazing
-of feaze

feazings
-the unlaid or ragged end of a rope.

febricitate
-to have a fever.

febriculose
-somewhat feverish.

febrifacient
-febrific.
-that which causes fever.

febriferous
-causing fever; as, a febriferous locality.

febrific
-producing fever.

febrifugal
-having the quality of mitigating or curing fever.

febrifuge
-a medicine serving to mitigate or remove fever.
-antifebrile.

febrile
-pertaining to fever; indicating fever, or derived from it; as, febrile symptoms; febrile action.

february
-the second month in the year, said to have been introduced into the roman calendar by numa. in common years this month contains twenty
-eight days; in the bissextile, or leap year, it has twenty
-nine days.

februation
-purification; a sacrifice.

fecal
-relating to, or containing, dregs, feces, or ordeure; faecal.

fecche
-to fetch.

feces
-dregs; sediment; excrement. see faeces.

fecial
-pertaining to heralds, declarations of war, and treaties of peace; as, fecial law.

fecifork
-the anal fork on which the larvae of certain insects carry their faeces.

feckless
-spiritless; weak; worthless.

fecks
-a corruption of the word faith.

feculae
-of fecula

fecula
-any pulverulent matter obtained from plants by simply breaking down the texture, washing with water, and subsidence.
-the nutritious part of wheat; starch or farina;
-- called also amylaceous fecula.
-the green matter of plants; chlorophyll.

feculence
-the state or quality of being feculent; muddiness; foulness.
-that which is feculent; sediment; lees; dregs.

feculency
-feculence.

feculent
-foul with extraneous or impure substances; abounding with sediment or excrementitious matter; muddy; thick; turbid.

fecund
-fruitful in children; prolific.

fecundate
-to make fruitful or prolific.
-to render fruitful or prolific; to impregnate; as, in flowers the pollen fecundates the ovum through the stigma.

fecundated
-of fecundate

fecundating
-of fecundate

fecundation
-the act by which, either in animals or plants, material prepared by the generative organs the female organism is brought in contact with matter from the organs of the male, so that a new organism results; impregnation; fertilization.

fecundify
-to make fruitful; to fecundate.

fecundity
-the quality or power of producing fruit; fruitfulness; especially (biol.), the quality in female organisms of reproducing rapidly and in great numbers.
-the power of germinating; as in seeds.
-the power of bringing forth in abundance; fertility; richness of invention; as, the fecundity of god's creative power.

fed
-imp. & p. p. of feed.
-of feed

fedaliza/tion
-the act of reducing to feudal tenure.

fedary
-a feodary.

federal
-pertaining to a league or treaty; derived from an agreement or covenant between parties, especially between nations; constituted by a compact between parties, usually governments or their representatives.
-composed of states or districts which retain only a subordinate and limited sovereignty, as the union of the united states, or the sonderbund of switzerland.
-consisting or pertaining to such a government; as, the federal constitution; a federal officer.
-friendly or devoted to such a government; as, the federal party. see federalist.
-see federalist.

federalism
-the principles of federalists or of federal union.

federalist
-an advocate of confederation; specifically (amer. hist.), a friend of the constitution of the united states at its formation and adoption; a member of the political party which favored the administration of president washington.

federalize
-to unite in compact, as different states; to confederate for political purposes; to unite by or under the federal constitution.

federalized
-of federalize

federalizing
-of federalize

federary
-a partner; a confederate; an accomplice.

federate
-united by compact, as sovereignties, states, or nations; joined in confederacy; leagued; confederate; as, federate nations.

federation
-the act of uniting in a league; confederation.
-a league; a confederacy; a federal or confederated government.

federative
-uniting in a league; forming a confederacy; federal.

fedity
-turpitude; vileness.

fee
-property; possession; tenure.
-reward or compensation for services rendered or to be rendered; especially, payment for professional services, of optional amount, or fixed by custom or laws; charge; pay; perquisite; as, the fees of lawyers and physicians; the fees of office; clerk's fees; sheriff's fees; marriage fees, etc.
-a right to the use of a superior's land, as a stipend for services to be performed; also, the land so held; a fief.
-an estate of inheritance supposed to be held either mediately or immediately from the sovereign, and absolutely vested in the owner.
-an estate of inheritance belonging to the owner, and transmissible to his heirs, absolutely and simply, without condition attached to the tenure.
-to reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe.

fee
-faw
-fum
-a nonsensical exclamation attributed to giants and ogres; hence, any expression calculated to impose upon the timid and ignorant.

feeble
-deficient in physical strength; weak; infirm; debilitated.
-wanting force, vigor, or efficiency in action or expression; not full, loud, bright, strong, rapid, etc.; faint; as, a feeble color; feeble motion.
-to make feble; to enfeeble.

feeble
-minded
-weak in intellectual power; wanting firmness or constancy; irresolute; vacilating; imbecile.

feebleness
-the quality or condition of being feeble; debility; infirmity.

feebly
-in a feeble manner.

feed
-of fee
-to give food to; to supply with nourishment; to satisfy the physical huger of.
-to satisfy; grafity or minister to, as any sense, talent, taste, or desire.
-to fill the wants of; to supply with that which is used or wasted; as, springs feed ponds; the hopper feeds the mill; to feed a furnace with coal.
-to nourish, in a general sense; to foster, strengthen, develop, and guard.
-to graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle; as, if grain is too forward in autumn, feed it with sheep.
-to give for food, especially to animals; to furnish for consumption; as, to feed out turnips to the cows; to feed water to a steam boiler.
-to supply (the material to be operated upon) to a machine; as, to feed paper to a printing press.
-to produce progressive operation upon or with (as in wood and metal working machines, so that the work moves to the cutting tool, or the tool to the work).
-to take food; to eat.
-to subject by eating; to satisfy the appetite; to feed one's self (upon something); to prey;
-- with on or upon.
-to be nourished, strengthened, or satisfied, as if by food.
-to place cattle to feed; to pasture; to graze.
-that which is eaten; esp., food for beasts; fodder; pasture; hay; grain, ground or whole; as, the best feed for sheep.
-a grazing or pasture ground.
-an allowance of provender given to a horse, cow, etc.; a meal; as, a feed of corn or oats.
-a meal, or the act of eating.
-the water supplied to steam boilers.
-the motion, or act, of carrying forward the stuff to be operated upon, as cloth to the needle in a sewing machine; or of producing progressive operation upon any material or object in a machine, as, in a turning lathe, by moving the cutting tool along or in the work.
-the supply of material to a machine, as water to a steam boiler, coal to a furnace, or grain to a run of stones.
-the mechanism by which the action of feeding is produced; a feed motion.

feeder
-one who, or that which, gives food or supplies nourishment; steward.
-one who furnishes incentives; an encourager.
-one who eats or feeds; specifically, an animal to be fed or fattened.
-one who fattens cattle for slaughter.
-a stream that flows into another body of water; a tributary; specifically (hydraulic engin.), a water course which supplies a canal or reservoir by gravitation or natural flow.
-a branch railroad, stage line, or the like; a side line which increases the business of the main line.
-a small lateral lode falling into the main lode or mineral vein.
-a strong discharge of gas from a fissure; a blower.
-an auxiliary part of a machine which supplies or leads along the material operated upon.
-a device for supplying steam boilers with water as needed.

feeding
-of feed
-the act of eating, or of supplying with food; the process of fattening.
-that which is eaten; food.
-that which furnishes or affords food, especially for animals; pasture land.

feeing
-of fee

feejee
-see fijian.

feel
-to 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 (a thing) with the body or limbs.
-to touch; to handle; to examine by touching; as, feel this piece of silk; hence, to make trial of; to test; often with out.
-to perceive by the mind; to have a sense of; to experience; to be affected by; to be sensible of, or sensetive to; as, to feel pleasure; to feel pain.
-to take internal cognizance of; to be conscious of; to have an inward persuasion of.
-to perceive; to observe.
-to have perception by the touch, or by contact of anything with the nerves of sensation, especially those upon the surface of the body.
-to have the sensibilities moved or affected.
-to be conscious of an inward impression, state of mind, persuasion, physical condition, etc.; to perceive one's self to be;
-- followed by an adjective describing the state, etc.; as, to feel assured, grieved, persuaded.
-to know with feeling; to be conscious; hence, to know certainly or without misgiving.
-to appear to the touch; to give a perception; to produce an impression by the nerves of sensation;
-- followed by an adjective describing the kind of sensation.
-feeling; perception.
-a sensation communicated by touching; impression made upon one who touches or handles; as, this leather has a greasy feel.

feeler
-one who, or that which, feels.
-one of the sense organs or certain animals (as insects), which are used in testing objects by touch and in searching for food; an antenna; a palp.
-anything, as a proposal, observation, etc., put forth or thrown out in order to ascertain the views of others; something tentative.

feeling
-of feel
-possessing great sensibility; easily affected or moved; as, a feeling heart.
-expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility; as, he made a feeling representation of his wrongs.
-the 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 sensation distributed over the body, especially in its surface; the sense of touch; nervous sensibility to external objects.
-an act or state of perception by the sense above described; an act of apprehending any object whatever; an act or state of apprehending the state of the soul itself; consciousness.
-the capacity of the soul for emotional states; a high degree of susceptibility to emotions or states of the sensibility not dependent on the body; as, a man of feeling; a man destitute of feeling.
-any state or condition of emotion; the exercise of the capacity for emotion; any mental state whatever; as, a right or a wrong feeling in the heart; our angry or kindly feelings; a feeling of pride or of humility.
-that quality of a work of art which embodies the mental emotion of the artist, and is calculated to affect similarly the spectator.

feelingly
-in a feeling manner; pathetically; sympathetically.

feere
-a consort, husband or wife; a companion; a fere.

feese
-the short run before a leap.

feet
-see foot.
-fact; performance.
-of foot

feetless
-destitute of feet; as, feetless birds.

feeze
-to turn, as a screw.
-to beat; to chastise; to humble; to worry.
-fretful excitement. [obs.] see feaze.

fehling
-see fehling's solution, under solution.

fehmic
-see vehmic.

feign
-to give a mental existence to, as to something not real or actual; to imagine; to invent; hence, to pretend; to form and relate as if true.
-to represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to counterfeit; as, to feign a sickness.
-to dissemble; to conceal.

feigned
-of feign
-not real or genuine; pretended; counterfeit; insincere; false.

feigner
-one who feigns or pretends.

feigning
-of feign
-that feigns; insincere; not genuine; false.

feine
-to feign.

feint
-feigned; counterfeit.
-that which is feigned; an assumed or false appearance; a pretense; a stratagem; a fetch.
-a mock blow or attack on one part when another part is intended to be struck;
-- said of certain movements in fencing, boxing, war, etc.
-to make a feint, or mock attack.

feitsui
-the chinese name for a highly prized variety of pale green jade. see jade.

feize
-see feeze, v. t.

felanders
-see filanders.

feldspar
-alt. of feldspath

feldspath
-a name given to a group of minerals, closely related in crystalline form, and all silicates of alumina with either potash, soda, lime, or, in one case, baryta. they occur in crystals and crystalline masses, vitreous in luster, and breaking rather easily in two directions at right angles to each other, or nearly so. the colors are usually white or nearly white, flesh
-red, bluish, or greenish.

feldspathic
-alt. of feldspathose

feldspathose
-pertaining to, or consisting of, feldspar.

fele
-many.

felicitate
-made very happy.
-to make very happy; to delight.
-to express joy or pleasure to; to wish felicity to; to call or consider (one's self) happy; to congratulate.

felicitated
-of felicitate

felicitation
-the act of felicitating; a wishing of joy or happiness; congratulation.

felicities
-of felicity

felicitous
-characterized by felicity; happy; prosperous; delightful; skilful; successful; happily applied or expressed; appropriate.

felicity
-the state of being happy; blessedness; blissfulness; enjoyment of good.
-that which promotes happiness; a successful or gratifying event; prosperity; blessing.
-a pleasing faculty or accomplishment; as, felicity in painting portraits, or in writing or talking.

feline
-catlike; of or pertaining to the genus felis, or family felidae; as, the feline race; feline voracity.
-characteristic of cats; sly; stealthy; treacherous; as, a feline nature; feline manners.

felis
-a genus of carnivorous mammals, including the domestic cat, the lion, tiger, panther, and similar animals.

fell
-of fall
-imp. of fall.
-cruel; barbarous; inhuman; fierce; savage; ravenous.
-eager; earnest; intent.
-gall; anger; melancholy.
-a skin or hide of a beast with the wool or hair on; a pelt;
-- used chiefly in composition, as woolfell.
-a barren or rocky hill.
-a wild field; a moor.
-to cause to fall; to prostrate; to bring down or to the ground; to cut down.
-the finer portions of ore which go through the meshes, when the ore is sorted by sifting.
-to sew or hem;
-- said of seams.
-a form of seam joining two pieces of cloth, the edges being folded together and the stitches taken through both thicknesses.
-the end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft.

fellable
-fit to be felled.

fellah
-a peasant or cultivator of the soil among the egyptians, syrians, etc.

fellahin
-of fellah

fellahs
-of fellah

felled
-of fell

feller
-one who, or that which, fells, knocks or cuts down; a machine for felling trees.
-an appliance to a sewing machine for felling a seam.

fellies
-of felly

felliflu
-ous
-flowing with gall.

felling
-of fell

fellinic
-of, relating to, or derived from, bile or gall; as, fellinic acid.

fellmonger
-a dealer in fells or sheepskins, who separates the wool from the pelts.

fellness
-the quality or state of being fell or cruel; fierce barbarity.

felloe
-see felly.

fellon
-variant of felon.

fellow
-a companion; a comrade; an associate; a partner; a sharer.
-a man without good breeding or worth; an ignoble or mean man.
-an equal in power, rank, character, etc.
-one of a pair, or of two things used together or suited to each other; a mate; the male.
-a person; an individual.
-in the english universities, a scholar who is appointed to a foundation called a fellowship, which gives a title to certain perquisites and privileges.
-in an american college or university, a member of the corporation which manages its business interests; also, a graduate appointed to a fellowship, who receives the income of the foundation.
-a member of a literary or scientific society; as, a fellow of the royal society.
-to suit with; to pair with; to match.

fellow
-commoner
-a student at cambridge university, england, who commons, or dines, at the fellow's table.

fellow
-creature
-one of the same race or kind; one made by the same creator.

fellow
-feeling
-sympathy; a like feeling.
-joint interest.

fellowfeel
-to share through sympathy; to participate in.

fellowless
-without fellow or equal; peerless.

fellowlike
-like a companion; companionable; on equal terms; sympathetic.

fellowly
-fellowlike.

fellowship
-the state or relation of being or associate.
-companionship of persons on equal and friendly terms; frequent and familiar intercourse.
-a state of being together; companionship; partnership; association; hence, confederation; joint interest.
-those associated with one, as in a family, or a society; a company.
-a foundation for the maintenance, on certain conditions, of a scholar called a fellow, who usually resides at the university.
-the rule for dividing profit and loss among partners;
-- called also partnership, company, and distributive proportion.
-to acknowledge as of good standing, or in communion according to standards of faith and practice; to admit to christian fellowship.

fellowshiped
-of fellowship

fellowshiping
-of fellowship

felltare
-the fieldfare.

felly
-in a fell or cruel manner; fiercely; barbarously; savagely.
-the exterior wooden rim, or a segment of the rim, of a wheel, supported by the spokes.

felo
-de
-se
-one who deliberately puts an end to his own existence, or loses his life while engaged in the commission of an unlawful or malicious act; a suicide.

felon
-a person who has committed a felony.
-a person guilty or capable of heinous crime.
-a kind of whitlow; a painful imflammation of the periosteum of a finger, usually of the last joint.
-characteristic of a felon; malignant; fierce; malicious; cruel; traitorous; disloyal.

felonies
-of felony

felonious
-having the quality of felony; malignant; malicious; villainous; traitorous; perfidious; in a legal sense, done with intent to commit a crime; as, felonious homicide.

felonous
-wicked; felonious.

felonry
-a body of felons; specifically, the convict population of a penal colony.

felonwort
-the bittersweet nightshade (solanum dulcamara). see bittersweet.

felony
-an act on the part of the vassal which cost him his fee by forfeiture.
-an offense which occasions a total forfeiture either lands or goods, or both, at the common law, and to which capital or other punishment may be added, according to the degree of guilt.
-a heinous crime; especially, a crime punishable by death or imprisonment.

felos
-de
-se
-of felo
-de
-se

felsite
-a finegrained rock, flintlike in fracture, consisting essentially of orthoclase feldspar with occasional grains of quartz.

felsitic
-relating to, composed of, or containing, felsite.

felspar
-alt. of felspath

felspath
-see feldspar.

felspathic
-see feldspathic.

felstone
-see felsite.

felt
-of feel
-imp. & p. p. / a. from feel.
-a cloth or stuff made of matted fibers of wool, or wool and fur, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving.
-a hat made of felt.
-a skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.
-to make into felt, or a feltike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.
-to cover with, or as with, felt; as, to felt the cylinder of a steam emgine.

felted
-of felt

felter
-to clot or mat together like felt.

felting
-of felt
-the material of which felt is made; also, felted cloth; also, the process by which it is made.
-the act of splitting timber by the felt grain.

feltry
-see felt, n.

felucca
-a small, swift
-sailing vessel, propelled by oars and lateen sails,
-- once common in the mediterranean.

felwort
-a european herb (swertia perennis) of the gentian family.

female
-an individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or (in a wider sense) which has an ovary and produces ova.
-a plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant.
-belonging to the sex which conceives and gives birth to young, or (in a wider sense) which produces ova; not male.
-belonging to an individual of the female sex; characteristic of woman; feminine; as, female tenderness.
-having pistils and no stamens; pistillate; or, in cryptogamous plants, capable of receiving fertilization.

female fern
-a common species of fern with large decompound fronds (asplenium filixfaemina), growing in many countries; lady fern.

female rhymes
-double rhymes, or rhymes (called in french feminine rhymes because they end in e weak, or feminine) in which two syllables, an accented and an unaccented one, correspond at the end of each line.

femalist
-a gallant.

femalize
-to make, or to describe as, female or feminine.

feme
-a woman.

femeral
-see femerell.

femerell
-a lantern, or louver covering, placed on a roof, for ventilation or escape of smoke.

feminal
-feminine.

feminality
-feminity.

feminate
-feminine.

femineity
-womanliness; femininity.

feminine
-of or pertaining to a woman, or to women; characteristic of a woman; womanish; womanly.
-having the qualities of a woman; becoming or appropriate to the female sex; as, in a good sense, modest, graceful, affectionate, confiding; or, in a bad sense, weak, nerveless, timid, pleasure
-loving, effeminate.
-a woman.
-any one of those words which are the appellations of females, or which have the terminations usually found in such words; as, actress, songstress, abbess, executrix.

feminine rhyme
-see female rhyme, under female, a.

femininely
-in a feminine manner.

feminineness
-the quality of being feminine; womanliness; womanishness.

femininity
-the quality or nature of the female sex; womanliness.
-the female form.

feminity
-womanliness; femininity.

feminization
-the act of feminizing, or the state of being feminized.

feminize
-to make womanish or effeminate.

feminye
-the people called amazons.

femme
-a woman. see feme, n.

femora
-of femur

femoral
-pertaining to the femur or thigh; as, the femoral artery.

femur
-the thigh bone.
-the proximal segment of the hind limb containing the thigh bone; the thigh. see coxa.

fen
-low land overflowed, or covered wholly or partially with water, but producing sedge, coarse grasses, or other aquatic plants; boggy land; moor; marsh.

fen cricket
-the mole cricket.

fen
-sucked
-sucked out of marches.

fence
-that which fends off attack or danger; a defense; a protection; a cover; security; shield.
-an inclosure about a field or other space, or about any object; especially, an inclosing structure of wood, iron, or other material, intended to prevent intrusion from without or straying from within.
-a projection on the bolt, which passes through the tumbler gates in locking and unlocking.
-self
-defense by the use of the sword; the art and practice of fencing and sword play; hence, skill in debate and repartee. see fencing.
-a receiver of stolen goods, or a place where they are received.
-to fend off danger from; to give security to; to protect; to guard.
-to inclose with a fence or other protection; to secure by an inclosure.
-to make a defense; to guard one's self of anything, as against an attack; to give protection or security, as by a fence.
-to practice the art of attack and defense with the sword or with the foil, esp. with the smallsword, using the point only.
-hence, to fight or dispute in the manner of fencers, that is, by thrusting, guarding, parrying, etc.

fenceful
-affording defense; defensive.

fenceless
-without a fence; uninclosed; open; unguarded; defenseless.

fencer
-one who fences; one who teaches or practices the art of fencing with sword or foil.

fenci
-ble
-capable of being defended, or of making or affording defense.

fencible
-a soldier enlisted for home service only;
-- usually in the pl.

fencing
-of fence
-the art or practice of attack and defense with the sword, esp. with the smallsword. see fence, v. i., 2.
-disputing or debating in a manner resembling the art of fencers.
-the materials used for building fences.
-the act of building a fence.
-the aggregate of the fences put up for inclosure or protection; as, the fencing of a farm.

fend
-a fiend.
-to keep off; to prevent from entering or hitting; to ward off; to shut out;
-- often with off; as, to fend off blows.
-to act on the defensive, or in opposition; to resist; to parry; to shift off.

fended
-of fend

fender
-one who or that which defends or protects by warding off harm
-a screen to prevent coals or sparks of an open fire from escaping to the floor.
-anything serving as a cushion to lessen the shock when a vessel comes in contact with another vessel or a wharf.
-a screen to protect a carriage from mud thrown off the wheels: also, a splashboard.
-anything set up to protect an exposed angle, as of a house, from damage by carriage wheels.

fending
-of fend

fendliche
-fiendlike.

fenerate
-to put money to usury; to lend on interest.

feneration
-the act of fenerating; interest.

fenes
-tella
-any small windowlike opening or recess, esp. one to show the relics within an altar, or the like.

fenestra
-a small opening; esp., one of the apertures, closed by membranes, between the tympanum and internal ear.

fenestrae
-of fenestra

fenestral
-pertaining to a window or to windows.
-of or pertaining to a fenestra.
-a casement or window sash, closed with cloth or paper instead of glass.

fenestrate
-having numerous openings; irregularly reticulated; as, fenestrate membranes; fenestrate fronds.
-having transparent spots, as the wings of certain butterflies.

fenestrated
-having windows; characterized by windows.
-same as fenestrate.

fenestration
-the arrangement and proportioning of windows;
-- used by modern writers for the decorating of an architectural composition by means of the window (and door) openings, their ornaments, and proportions.
-the state or condition of being fenestrated.

fenestrule
-one of the openings in a fenestrated structure.

fengite
-a kind of marble or alabaster, sometimes used for windows on account of its transparency.

fenian
-a member of a secret organization, consisting mainly of irishment, having for its aim the overthrow of english rule in ireland.
-pertaining to fenians or to fenianism.

fenianism
-the principles, purposes, and methods of the fenians.

fenks
-the refuse whale blubber, used as a manure, and in the manufacture of prussian blue.

fennec
-a small, african, foxlike animal (vulpes zerda) of a pale fawn color, remarkable for the large size of its ears.

fennel
-a perennial plant of the genus faeniculum (f. vulgare), having very finely divided leaves. it is cultivated in gardens for the agreeable aromatic flavor of its seeds.

fennish
-abounding in fens; fenny.

fenny
-pertaining to, or inhabiting, a fen; abounding in fens; swampy; boggy.

fenowed
-corrupted; decayed; moldy. see vinnewed.

fensi
-ble
-fencible.

fenugreek
-a plant (trigonella foenum graecum) cultivated for its strong
-smelling seeds, which are

feod
-a feud. see 2d feud.

feodal
-feudal. see feudal.

feodality
-feudal tenure; the feudal system. see feudality.

feodary
-an accomplice.
-an ancient officer of the court of wards.

feodatory
-see feudatory.

feoff
-to invest with a fee or feud; to give or grant a corporeal hereditament to; to enfeoff.
-a fief. see fief.

feoffed
-of feoff

feoffee
-the person to whom a feoffment is made; the person enfeoffed.

feoffer
-one who enfeoffs or grants a fee.

feoffing
-of feoff

feoffment
-the grant of a feud or fee.
-a gift or conveyance in fee of land or other corporeal hereditaments, accompanied by actual delivery of possession.
-the instrument or deed by which corporeal hereditaments are conveyed.

feofor
-alt. of feoffer

fer
-far.

fer
-de
-lance
-a large, venomous serpent (trigonocephalus lanceolatus) of brazil and the west indies. it is allied to the rattlesnake, but has no rattle.

feracious
-fruitful; producing abundantly.

feracity
-the state of being feracious or fruitful.

ferae
-a group of mammals which formerly included the carnivora, insectivora, marsupialia, and lemurs, but is now often restricted to the carnivora.

ferae naturae
-of a wild nature;
-- applied to animals, as foxes, wild ducks, etc., in which no one can claim property.

feral
-wild; untamed; ferine; not domesticated;
-- said of beasts, birds, and plants.
-funereal; deadly; fatal; dangerous.

ferde
-imp. of fare.

ferding
-a measure of land mentioned in domesday book. it is supposed to have consisted of a few acres only.

ferdness
-fearfulness.

fere
-a mate or companion;
-- often used of a wife.
-fierce.
-fire.
-fear.
-to fear.

feretory
-a portable bier or shrine, variously adorned, used for containing relics of saints.

ferforth
-far forth.

ferforthly
-ferforth.

fergusonite
-a mineral of a brownish black color, essentially a tantalo
-niobate of yttrium, erbium, and cerium;
-- so called after robert ferguson.

feria
-a week day, esp. a day which is neither a festival nor a fast.

feriae
-of feria

ferial
-same as feria.
-of or pertaining to holidays.
-belonging to any week day, esp. to a day that is neither a festival nor a fast.

feriation
-the act of keeping holiday; cessation from work.

ferie
-a holiday.

ferier
-compar. of fere, fierce.

ferine
-wild; untamed; savage; as, lions, tigers, wolves, and bears are ferine beasts.
-a wild beast; a beast of prey.

feringee
-the name given to europeans by the hindos.

ferity
-wildness; savageness; fierceness.

ferly
-singular; wonderful; extraordinary.
-a wonder; a marvel.

ferm
-alt. of ferme

fermacy
-medicine; pharmacy.

ferme
-rent for a farm; a farm; also, an abode; a place of residence; as, he let his land to ferm.

ferment
-that which causes fermentation, as yeast, barm, or fermenting beer.
-intestine motion; heat; tumult; agitation.
-a gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation.
-to cause ferment of fermentation in; to set in motion; to excite internal emotion in; to heat.
-to undergo fermentation; to be in motion, or to be excited into sensible internal motion, as the constituent oarticles of an animal or vegetable fluid; to work; to effervesce.
-to be agitated or excited by violent emotions.

fermentability
-capability of fermentation.

fermentable
-capable of fermentation; as, cider and other vegetable liquors are fermentable.

fermental
-fermentative.

fermentation
-the process of undergoing an effervescent change, as by the action of yeast; in a wider sense (physiol. chem.), the transformation of an organic substance into new compounds by the action of a ferment, either formed or unorganized. it differs in kind according to the nature of the ferment which causes it.
-a state of agitation or excitement, as of the intellect or the feelings.

fermentative
-causing, or having power to cause, fermentation; produced by fermentation; fermenting; as, a fermentative process.

fermented
-of ferment

fermenting
-of ferment

fermerere
-the officer in a religious house who had the care of the infirmary.

fermillet
-a buckle or clasp.

fern
-long ago.
-ancient; old. [obs.] "pilgrimages to . . . ferne halwes." [saints].
-an order of cryptogamous plants, the filices, which have their fructification on the back of the fronds or leaves. they are usually found in humid soil, sometimes grow epiphytically on trees, and in tropical climates often attain a gigantic size.

fernery
-a place for rearing ferns.

fernticle
-a freckle on the skin, resembling the seed of fern.

ferny
-abounding in ferns.

ferocious
-fierce; savage; wild; indicating cruelty; ravenous; rapacious; as, ferocious look or features; a ferocious lion.

ferocity
-savage wildness or fierceness; fury; cruelty; as, ferocity of countenance.

feroher
-a symbol of the solar deity, found on monuments exhumed in babylon, nineveh, etc.

ferous
-wild; savage.

ferrandine
-a stuff made of silk and wool.

ferrara
-a sword bearing the mark of one of the ferrara family of italy. these swords were highly esteemed in england and scotland in the 16th and 17th centuries.

ferrarese
-pertaining to ferrara, in italy.
-a citizen of ferrara; collectively, the inhabitants of ferrara.

ferrary
-the art of working in iron.

ferrate
-a salt of ferric acid.

ferre
-alt. of ferrer

ferreous
-partaking of, made of, or pertaining to, iron; like iron.

ferrer
-compar. of fer.

ferrest
-superl. of fer.

ferret
-an animal of the weasel family (mustela / putorius furo), about fourteen inches in length, of a pale yellow or white color, with red eyes. it is a native of africa, but has been domesticated in europe. ferrets are used to drive rabbits and rats out of their holes.
-to drive or hunt out of a lurking place, as a ferret does the cony; to search out by patient and sagacious efforts;
-- often used with out; as, to ferret out a secret.
-a kind of narrow tape, usually made of woolen; sometimes of cotton or silk;
-- called also ferreting.
-the iron used for trying the melted glass to see if is fit to work, and for shaping the rings at the mouths of bottles.

ferret
-eye
-the spur
-winged goose;
-- so called from the red circle around the eyes.

ferreted
-of ferret

ferreter
-one who ferrets.

ferreting
-of ferret

ferretto
-copper sulphide, used to color glass.

ferri
-
-a combining form indicating ferric iron as an ingredient; as, ferricyanide.

ferriage
-the price or fare to be paid for passage at a ferry.

ferric
-pertaining to, derived from, or containing iron. specifically (chem.), denoting those compounds in which iron has a higher valence than in the ferrous compounds; as, ferric oxide; ferric acid.

ferricyanate
-a salt of ferricyanic acid; a ferricyanide.

ferricyanic
-pertaining to, or derived from, a ferricyanide.

ferricyanide
-one of a complex series of double cyanides of ferric iron and some other base.

ferried
-of ferry

ferrier
-a ferryman.

ferries
-of ferry

ferriferous
-producing or yielding iron.

ferriprussiate
-a ferricyanate; a ferricyanide.

ferriprussic
-ferricyanic.

ferro
-
-a prefix, or combining form, indicating ferrous iron as an ingredient; as, ferrocyanide.

ferrocalcite
-limestone containing a large percentage of iron carbonate, and hence turning brown on exposure.

ferrocyanate
-a salt of ferrocyanic acid; a ferrocyanide.

ferrocyanic
-pertaining to, derived from, or designating, a ferrocyanide.

ferrocyanide
-one of a series of complex double cyanides of ferrous iron and some other base.

ferroprussiate
-a ferrocyanate; a ferocyanide.

ferroprussic
-ferrocyanic.

ferroso
-
-see ferro
-.

ferrotype
-a photographic picture taken on an iron plate by a collodion process;
-- familiarly called tintype.

ferrous
-pertaining to, or derived from, iron;
-- especially used of compounds of iron in which the iron has its lower valence; as, ferrous sulphate.

ferruginated
-having the color or properties of the rust of iron.

ferrugineous
-ferruginous.

ferruginous
-partaking of iron; containing particles of iron.
-resembling iron rust in appearance or color; brownish red, or yellowish red.

ferrugo
-a disease of plants caused by fungi, commonly called the rust, from its resemblance to iron rust in color.

ferrule
-a ring or cap of metal put round a cane, tool, handle, or other similar object, to strengthen it, or prevent splitting and wearing.
-a bushing for expanding the end of a flue to fasten it tightly in the tube plate, or for partly filling up its mouth.

ferruminate
-to solder or unite, as metals.

ferrumination
-the soldering ir uniting of me/ als.

ferry
-to carry or transport over a river, strait, or other narrow water, in a boat.
-to pass over water in a boat or by a ferry.
-a place where persons or things are carried across a river, arm of the sea, etc., in a ferryboat.
-a vessel in which passengers and goods are conveyed over narrow waters; a ferryboat; a wherry.
-a franchise or right to maintain a vessel for carrying passengers and freight across a river, bay, etc., charging tolls.

ferryboat
-a vessel for conveying passengers, merchandise, etc., across streams and other narrow waters.

ferrying
-of ferry

ferryman
-one who maintains or attends a ferry.

ferrymen
-of ferryman

fers
-fierce.

ferthe
-fourth.

fertile
-producing fruit or vegetation in abundance; fruitful; able to produce abundantly; prolific; fecund; productive; rich; inventive; as, fertile land or fields; a fertile mind or imagination.
-capable of producing fruit; fruit
-bearing; as, fertile flowers.
-containing pollen;
-- said of anthers.
-produced in abundance; plenteous; ample.

fertilely
-in a fertile or fruitful manner.

fertilitate
-to fertilize; to fecundate.

fertility
-the state or quality of being fertile or fruitful; fruitfulness; productiveness; fecundity; richness; abundance of resources; fertile invention; quickness; readiness; as, the fertility of soil, or of imagination.

fertilization
-the act or process of rendering fertile.
-the act of fecundating or impregnating animal or vegetable germs; esp., the process by which in flowers the pollen renders the ovule fertile, or an analogous process in flowerless plants; fecundation; impregnation.

fertilize
-to make fertile or enrich; to supply with nourishment for plants; to make fruitful or productive; as, to fertilize land, soil, ground, and meadows.
-to fecundate; as, to fertilize flower.

fertilized
-of fertilize

fertilizer
-one who fertilizes; the agent that carries the fertilizing principle, as a moth to an orchid.
-that which renders fertile; a general name for commercial manures, as guano, phosphate of lime, etc.

fertilizing
-of fertilize

ferula
-a ferule.
-the imperial scepter in the byzantine or eastern empire.

ferulaceous
-pertaining to reeds and canes; having a stalk like a reed; as, ferulaceous plants.

ferular
-a ferule.

ferule
-a flat piece of wood, used for striking, children, esp. on the hand, in punishment.
-to punish with a ferule.

feruled
-of ferule

ferulic
-pertaining to, or derived from, asafetida (ferula asafoetida); as, ferulic acid.

feruling
-of ferule

fervence
-heat; fervency.

fervency
-the state of being fervent or warm; ardor; warmth of feeling or devotion; eagerness.

fervent
-hot; glowing; boiling; burning; as, a fervent summer.
-warm in feeling; ardent in temperament; earnest; full of fervor; zealous; glowing.

fervescent
-growing hot.

fervid
-very hot; burning; boiling.
-ardent; vehement; zealous.

fervor
-heat; excessive warmth.
-intensity of feeling or expression; glowing ardor; passion; holy zeal; earnestness.

fescennine
-pertaining to, or resembling, the fescennines.
-a style of low, scurrilous, obscene poetry originating in fescennia.

fescue
-a straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read.
-an instrument for playing on the harp; a plectrum.
-the style of a dial.
-a grass of the genus festuca.
-to use a fescue, or teach with a fescue.

fescued
-of fescue

fescuing
-of fescue

fesels
-see phasel.

fess
-alt. of fesse

fesse
-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.

fessitude
-weariness.

fesswise
-in the manner of fess.

fest
-the fist.
-alt. of feste

festal
-of or pertaining to a holiday or a feast; joyous; festive.

festally
-joyously; festively; mirthfully.

feste
-a feast.

festennine
-a fescennine.

fester
-to generate pus; to become imflamed and suppurate; as, a sore or a wound festers.
-to be inflamed; to grow virulent, or malignant; to grow in intensity; to rankle.
-to cause to fester or rankle.
-a small sore which becomes inflamed and discharges corrupt matter; a pustule.
-a festering or rankling.

festered
-of fester

festering
-of fester

festerment
-a festering.

festeye
-to feast; to entertain.

festi
-val
-a time of feasting or celebration; an anniversary day of joy, civil or religious.

festinate
-hasty; hurried.

festination
-haste; hurry.

festival
-pertaining to a fest; festive; festal; appropriate to a festival; joyous; mirthful.

festive
-pertaining to, or becoming, a feast; festal; joyous; gay; mirthful; sportive.

festivities
-of festivity

festivity
-the condition of being festive; social joy or exhilaration of spirits at an entertaintment; joyfulness; gayety.
-a festival; a festive celebration.

festivous
-pertaining to a feast; festive.

festlich
-festive; fond of festive occasions.

festoon
-a garland or wreath hanging in a depending curve, used in decoration for festivals, etc.; anything arranged in this way.
-a carved ornament consisting of flowers, and leaves, intermixed or twisted together, wound with a ribbon, and hanging or depending in a natural curve. see illust. of bucranium.
-to form in festoons, or to adorn with festoons.

festooned
-of festoon

festooning
-of festoon

festoony
-pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling, festoons.

festucine
-of a straw color; greenish yellow.

festucous
-formed or consisting of straw.

festue
-a straw; a fescue.

fet
-a piece.
-to fetch.
-fetched.
-of fette

fetal
-pertaining to, or connected with, a fetus; as, fetal circulation; fetal membranes.

fetation
-the formation of a fetus in the womb; pregnancy.

fetch
-to bear toward the person speaking, or the person or thing from whose point of view the action is contemplated; to go and bring; to get.
-to obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
-to recall from a swoon; to revive;
-- sometimes with to; as, to fetch a man to.
-to reduce; to throw.
-to bring to accomplishment; to achieve; to make; to perform, with certain objects; as, to fetch a compass; to fetch a leap; to fetch a sigh.
-to bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
-to cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
-a 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.
-the apparation of a living person; a wraith.

fetched
-of fetch

fetching
-of fetch

fete
-a feat.
-feet.
-a festival.
-to feast; to honor with a festival.

feted
-of fete

fethcer
-one wo fetches or brings.

fetich
-alt. of fetish

fetichist
-alt. of fetishist

fetichistic
-alt. of fetishistic

feticide
-the act of killing the fetus in the womb; the offense of procuring an abortion.

feticism
-see fetichism.

fetid
-having an offensive smell; stinking.

fetidity
-fetidness.

fetidness
-the quality or state of being fetid.

fetiferous
-producing young, as animals.

feting
-of fete

fetis
-neat; pretty; well made; graceful.

fetisely
-neatly; gracefully; properly.

fetish
-a material object supposed among certain african tribes to represent in such a way, or to be so connected with, a supernatural being, that the possession of it gives to the possessor power to control that being.
-any object to which one is excessively devoted.
-alt. of fetishistic

fetishism
-the doctrine or practice of belief in fetiches.
-excessive devotion to one object or one idea; abject superstition; blind adoration.
-alt. of fetishistic

fetishist
-a believer in fetiches.

fetishistic
-pertaining to, or involving, fetichism.
-see fetich, n., fetichism, n., fetichistic, a.

fetlock
-the cushionlike projection, bearing a tuft of long hair, on the back side of the leg above the hoof of the horse and similar animals. also, the joint of the limb at this point (between the great pastern bone and the metacarpus), or the tuft of hair.

fetor
-a strong, offensive smell; stench; fetidness.

fette
-of fette
-to fetch.

fetter
-a chain or shackle 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.
-anything that confines or restrains; a restraint.
-to put fetters upon; to shackle or confine the feet of with a chain; to bind.
-to restrain from motion; to impose restraints on; to confine; to enchain; as, fettered by obligations.

fettered
-seeming as if fettered, as the feet of certain animals which bend backward, and appear unfit for walking.

fetterer
-one who fetters.

fetterless
-free from fetters.

fettle
-to repair; to prepare; to put in order.
-to cover or line with a mixture of ore, cinders, etc., as the hearth of a puddling furnace.
-to make preparations; to put things in order; to do trifling business.
-the act of fettling.

fettling
-a mixture of ore, cinders, etc., used to line the hearth of a puddling furnace.
-the operation of shaving or smoothing the surface of undried clay ware.

fetuous
-neat; feat.

fetus
-the young or embryo of an animal in the womb, or in the egg; often restricted to the later stages in the development of viviparous and oviparous animals, embryo being applied to the earlier stages.

fetuses
-of fetus

fetwah
-a written decision of a turkish mufti on some point of law.

feu
-a free and gratuitous right to lands made to one for service to be performed by him; a tenure where the vassal, in place of military services, makes a return in grain or in money.

feu de joie
-a fire kindled in a public place in token of joy; a bonfire; a firing of guns in token of joy.

feuar
-one who holds a feu.

feud
-a combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race.
-a contention or quarrel; especially, an inveterate strife between families, clans, or parties; deadly hatred; contention satisfied only by bloodshed.
-a stipendiary estate in land, held of superior, by service; the right which a vassal or tenant had to the lands or other immovable thing of his lord, to use the same and take the profists thereof hereditarily, rendering to his superior such duties and services as belong to military tenure, etc., the property of the soil always remaining in the lord or superior; a fief; a fee.

feudal
-of or pertaining to feuds, fiefs, or feels; as, feudal rights or services; feudal tenures.
-consisting of, or founded upon, feuds or fiefs; embracing tenures by military services; as, the feudal system.

feudalism
-the feudal system; a system by which the holding of estates in land is made dependent upon an obligation to render military service to the kind or feudal superior; feudal principles and usages.

feudalist
-an upholder of feudalism.

feudality
-the state or quality of being feudal; feudal form or constitution.

feudalize
-to reduce toa feudal tenure; to conform to feudalism.

feudalized
-of feudalize

feudalizing
-of feudalize

feudally
-in a feudal manner.

feudary
-held by, or pertaining to, feudal tenure.
-a tenant who holds his lands by feudal service; a feudatory.
-a feodary. see feodary.

feudataty
-see feudatory.

feudatories
-of feudatory

feudatory
-a tenant or vassal who held his lands of a superior on condition of feudal service; the tenant of a feud or fief.

feudist
-a writer on feuds; a person versed in feudal law.

feudtory
-held from another on some conditional tenure; as, a feudatory title.

feuillants
-a reformed branch of the bernardines, founded in 1577 at feuillans, near toulouse, in france.

feuillemort
-having the color of a faded leaf.

feuilleton
-a part of a french newspaper (usually the bottom of the page), devoted to light literature, criticism, etc.; also, the article or tale itself, thus printed.

feuilltonist
-a writer of feuilletons.

feuterer
-a dog keeper.

fever
-a diseased state of the system, marked by increased heat, acceleration of the pulse, and a general derangement of the functions, including usually, thirst and loss of appetite. many diseases, of which fever is the most prominent symptom, are denominated fevers; as, typhoid fever; yellow fever.
-excessive excitement of the passions in consequence of strong emotion; a condition of great excitement; as, this quarrel has set my blood in a fever.
-to put into a fever; to affect with fever; as, a fevered lip.

fevered
-of fever

feveret
-a slight fever.

feverfew
-a perennial plant (pyrethrum, / chrysanthemum, parthenium) allied to camomile, having finely divided leaves and white blossoms;
-- so named from its supposed febrifugal qualities.

fevering
-of fever

feverish
-having a fever; suffering from, or affected with, a moderate degree of fever; showing increased heat and thirst; as, the patient is feverish.
-indicating, or pertaining to, fever; characteristic of a fever; as, feverish symptoms.
-hot; sultry.
-disordered as by fever; excited; restless; as, the feverish condition of the commercial world.

feverous
-affected with fever or ague; feverish.
-pertaining to, or having the nature of, fever; as, a feverous pulse.
-having the tendency to produce fever; as, a feverous disposition of the year.

feverously
-feverishly.

feverwort
-see fever root, under fever.

fevery
-feverish.

few
-not many; small, limited, or confined in number;
-- indicating a small portion of units or individuals constituing a whole; often, by ellipsis of a noun, a few people.

fewel
-fuel.

fewmet
-see fumet.

fewness
-the state of being few; smallness of number; paucity.
-brevity; conciseness.

fey
-fated; doomed.
-faith.
-to cleanse; to clean out.

feyne
-to feign.

feyre
-a fair or market.

fez
-a felt or cloth cap, usually red and having a tassel,
-- a variety of the tarboosh. see tarboosh.

felicitating
-of felicitate

fertileness
-fertility.

fetch
-to bring one's self; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.

fetichism
-alt. of fetishism

fetters
-of fetter

feuter
-to set close; to fix in rest, as a spear.