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Fault
FAULT, noun [See Fail.]
1. Properly, an erring or missing; a failing; hence, an error or mistake; a blunder; a defect; a blemish; whatever impairs excellence; applied to things.
2. In morals or deportment, any error or defect; an imperfection; any deviation from propriety; a slight offense; a neglect of duty or propriety, resulting from inattention or want of prudence, rather than from design to injure or offend, but liable to censure or objection.
I do remember my faults this day. .
If a man be overtaken in a fault ye who are spiritual, restore such as one in the spirit of meekness. .
FAULT implies wrong, and often some degree of criminality.
3. Defect; want; absence. [Not now used. See Default.]
I could tell to thee, as to one if pleases me, for fault of a better to call my friend.
4. Puzzle; difficulty.
Among sportsmen, when dogs lose the scent, they are said to be at fault Hence the phrase, the inquirer is at fault
5. In mining, a fissure in strata, causing a dislocation of the same, and thus interrupting the course of veins.
To find fault to express blame; to complain.
Thou wilt say then, why doth he yet find fault? .
To find fault with, to blame; to censure; as, to find fault with the times, or with a neighbor's conduct.
FAULT, verb intransitive To fail; to be wrong. [Not used.]
FAULT, verb transitive To charge with a fault; to accuse.
For that I will not fault thee.
Faulted
FAULT'ED, participle passive Charged with a fault; accused.
Faulter
FAULT'ER, noun An offender; one who commits a fault.
FAULT'-FINDER, noun One who censures or objects.
Faultful
FAULT'FUL, adjective Full of faults or sins.
Faultily
FAULT'ILY, adverb [from faulty.] Defectively; erroneously; imperfectly; improperly; wrongly.
Faultiness
FAULT'INESS, noun [from faulty.]
1. The state of being faulty, defective or erroneous; defect.
2. Badness; viciousness; evil disposition; as the faultiness of a person.
3. Delinquency; actual offenses.
Faulting
FAULT'ING, participle present tense Accusing.
Faultless
FAULT'LESS, adjective
1. Without fault; not defective or imperfect; free from blemish; free from incorrectness; perfect; as a faultless poem or picture.
2. Free from vice or imperfection; as a faultless man.
Faultlessness
FAULT'LESSNESS, noun Freedom from faults or defects.
Faulty
FAULT'Y, adjective
1. Containing faults, blemishes or defects; defective; imperfect; as a faulty composition or book; a faulty plan or design; a faulty picture.
2. Guilty of a fault or of faults; hence, blamable; worthy of censure.
The king doth speak this thing as one who is faulty
.
3. Wrong; erroneous; as a faulty polity.
4. Defective; imperfect; bad; as a faulty helmet.
Faun
FAUN, noun [Latin faunus.] Among the Romans, a kind of demigod, or rural deity, called also sylvan, and differing little from satyr. The fauns are represented as half goat and half man.
Faunist
FAUN'IST, noun One who attends to rural disquisitions; a naturalist.
Fausen
FAU'SEN, noun A large eel.
Fautor
FAU'TOR, noun [Latin See Favor.] A favorer; a patron; one who gives countenance or support. [Little used.]
Fautress
FAU'TRESS, noun A female favorer; a patroness.
Favillous
FAVIL'LOUS, adjective [Latin favilla, ashes.]
1. Consisting of or pertaining to ashes.
2. Resembling ashes.
Favor
FA'VOR, noun [Latin favor faveo.]
1. Kind regard; kindness; countenance; propitious aspect; friendly disposition.
His dreadful navy, and his lovely mind,
Gave him the fear and favor of mankind.
The king's favor is as dew on the grass. .
God gave Joseph favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh. .
Favor is deceitful, and beauty is vain. .
2. Support; defense; vindication; or disposition to aid, befriend, support, promote or justify. To be in favor of a measure, is to have a disposition or inclination to support it or carry it into effect. To be in favor or a party, is to be disposed or inclined to support it, to justify its proceedings, and to promote its interests.
3. A kind act or office; kindness done or granted; benevolence shown by word or deed; any act of grace or good will, as distinguished from acts of justice or renumeration. To pardon the guilty is a favor; to punish them is an act of justice.
4. Lenity; mildness or mitigation of punishment.
I could not discover the lenity and favor of this sentence.
5. Leave; good will; a yielding or concession to another; pardon.
But, with your favor I will treat it here.
6. The object of kind regard; the person or thing favored.
All these his wondrous works, but chiefly man.
His chief delight and favor
7. A gift or present; something bestowed as an evidence of good will; a token of love; a knot of ribbons; something worn as a token of affection.
8. A feature; countenance. [Not used.]
9. Advantage; convenience afforded for success. The enemy approached under favor of the night.
10. Partiality; bias. A challenge to the favor in law, is the challenge of a juror on account of some supposed partiality, by reason of favor or malice, interest or connection.
FA'VOR, verb transitive
1. To regard with kindness; to support; to aid or have the disposition to aid, or to wish success to; to be propitious to; to countenance; to befriend; to encourage. To favor the cause of a party, may be merely to wish success to it, or it may signify to give it aid, by counsel, or by active exertions. Sometimes men professedly favor one party and secretly favor another.
The lords favor thee not. .
Thou shalt arise, and have mercy on Zion; for the time to favor her, yea, the set time is come. .
O happy youth! and favored of the skies.
2. To afford advantages for success; to facilitate. A weak place in the fort favored the entrance of the enemy; the darkness of the night favored his approach. A fair wind favors a voyage.
3. To resemble in features. The child favors his father.
4. To ease; to spare. A man in walking favors a lame leg.
Favorable
FA'VORABLE, adjective [Latin favorabilis.]
1. Kind; propitious; friendly; affectionate.
Lend favorable ear to our request.
Lord, thou hast been favorable to thy land. .
2. Palliative; tender; averse to censure.
None can have the favorable thought that to obey a tyrant's will they fought.
3. Conducive to; contributing to; tending to promote. A salubrious climate and plenty of food are favorable to population.
4. Convenient; advantageous; affording means to facilitate, or affording facilities. The low price of labor and provisions is favorable to the success of manufactures. The army was drawn up on favorable ground. The ship took a station favorable for attack.
The place was favorable for making levies of men.
5. Beautiful; well favored. obsolete
Favorableness
FA'VORABLENESS, noun
1. Kindness; kind disposition or regard.
2. Convenience; suitableness; that state which affords advantages for success; conduciveness; as the favorableness of a season for crops; the favorableness of the times for the cultivation of the sciences.
Favorably
FA'VORABLY, adverb Kindly; with friendly dispositions; with regard or affection; with an inclination to favor; as, to judge or think favorably of a measure; to think favorably of those we love.
Favored
FA'VORED, participle passive
1. Countenanced; supported; aided; supplied with advantages; eased; spared.
2. adjective Regarded with kindness; as a favored friend.
3. With well or ill prefixed, featured.
Well-favored is well-looking, having a good countenance or appearance, fleshy, plump, handsome.
Ill-favored is ill-looking, having an ugly appearance, lean. See . . etc.
Well-favoredly, with a good appearance. [Little used.]
Ill-favoredly, with a bad appearance. [Little used.]
Favoredness
FA'VOREDNESS, noun Appearance.
Favorer
FA'VORER, noun One who favors; one who regards with kindness or friendship; a wellwisher; one who assists or promotes success or prosperity.
Favoring
FA'VORING, participle present tense Regarding with friendly dispositions; countenancing; wishing well to; contributing to success; facilitating.
Favorite
FA'VORITE, noun
A person or thing regarded with peculiar favor, preference and affection; one greatly beloved. Select favorites from among the discrete and the virtuous. Princes are often misled, and sometimes ruined by favorites. Gaveston and the Spencers, the favorites of Edward II, fell a sacrifice to public indignation.
FA'VORITE, adjective Regarded with particular kindness, affection, esteem or preference; as a favorite walk; a favorite author; a favorite child.
Favoritism
FA'VORITISM, noun
1. The act or practice of favoring, or giving a preference to one over another.
2. The disposition to favor, aid and promote the interest of a favorite, or of one person or family, or of one class of men, to the neglect of others having equal claims.
It has been suggested that the proceeds of the foreign bills were calculated merely to indulge a spirit of favoritism to the bank of the United States.
Which consideration imposes such a necessity on the crown, as hath, in a great measure, subdued the influence of favoritism
3. Exercise of power by favorites.
Favorless
FA'VORLESS, adjective
1. Unfavored; not regarded with favor; having no patronage or countenance.
2. Not favoring; unpropitious.
Favosite
FAV'OSITE, noun [Latin favus, a honey-comb.] A genus of fossil zoophytes.
Fawn
FAWN, noun A young deer; a buck or doe of the first year.
FAWN, verb intransitive To bring forth a fawn
FAWN, verb intransitive [See Fain.]
1. To court favor, or show attachment to, by frisking about one; as, a dog fawns on his master.
2. To soothe; to flatter meanly; to blandish; to court servilely; to cringe and bow to gain favor; as a fawning favorite or minion.
My love, forbear to fawn upon their frowns.
FAWN, noun A servile cringe or bow; mean flattery.
Fawner
FAWN'ER, noun One who fawns; one who cringes and flatters meanly.
Fawning
FAWN'ING, participle present tense Courting servilely; flattering by cringing and meanness; bringing forth a fawn.
FAWN'ING, noun Gross flattery.
Fawningly
FAWN'INGLY, adverb In a cringing servile way; with mean flattery.
Faxed
FAX'ED, adjective Hairy. [Not in use.]
Fay
FAY, noun A fairy; an elf.
FAY, verb intransitive [See Fadge.]
To fit; to suit; to unite closely with. [This is a contraction of the Teutonic word, and the same as fadge, which see. It is not an elegant word.]
Feague
FEAGUE, verb transitive feeg. To beat or whip. [Not in use.]
Feal
FE'AL, adjective Faithful. [Infra.]
Fealty
FE'ALTY, noun [Latin fidelis.]
Fidelity to a lord; faithful adherence of a tenant or vassal to the superior of whom he holds his lands; loyalty. Under the feudal system of tenures, every vassal or tenant was bound to be true and faithful to his lord, and to defend him against all his enemies. This obligation was called his fidelity or fealty and an oath of fealty was required to be taken by all tenants to their landlords. The tenant was called a liege man; the land, a liege fee; and the superior, liege lord. [See Liege.]
Fear
FEAR, noun [See the Verb.]
1. A painful emotion or passion excited by an expectation of evil, or the apprehension of impending danger. fear expresses less apprehension than dread, and dread less than terror and fright. The force of this passion, beginning with the most moderate degree, may be thus expressed, fear dread, terror, fright. fear is accompanied with a desire to avoid or ward off the expected evil. fear is an uneasiness of mind, upon the thought of future evil likely to befall us.
FEAR is the passion of our nature which excites us to provide for our security, on the approach of evil.
2. Anxiety; solicitude.
The principal fear was for the holy temple.
3. The cause of fear
Thy angel becomes a fear
4. The object of fear
Except the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me. .
5. Something set or hung up to terrify wild animals, by its color or noise. . .
6. In scripture, fear is used to express a filial or a slavish passion. In good men, the fear of God is a holy awe or reverence of God and his laws, which springs from a just view and real love of the divine character, leading the subjects of it to hate and shun every thing that can offend such a holy being, and inclining them to aim at perfect obedience. This is filial fear
I will put my fear in their hearts. .
Slavish fear is the effect or consequence of guilt; it is the painful apprehension of merited punishment. .
The love of God casteth out fear .
7. The worship of God.
I will teach you the fear of the Lord. .
8. The law and word of God.
The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever. .
9. Reverence; respect; due regard.
Render to all their dues; fear to whom fear .
FEAR, verb transitive [Latin vereor.]
1. To feel a painful apprehension of some impending evil; to be afraid of; to consider or expect with emotions of alarm or solicitude. We fear the approach of an enemy or of a storm. We have reason to fear the punishment of our sins.
I will fear no evil, for thou art with me.
2. To reverence; to have a reverential awe; to venerate.
This do, and live:for I fear God. .
3. To affright; to terrify; to drive away or prevent approach by fear or by a scarecrow. [This seems to be the primary meaning, but now obsolete.]
We must not make a scarecrow of the law, setting it up to fear the birds of prey.
FEAR, verb intransitive To be in apprehension of evil; to be afraid; to feel anxiety on account of some expected evil.
But I fear lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtility, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. .
FEAR not, Abram:I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.
FEAR, noun A companion. [Not in use. See Peer.]
Feared
FE'ARED, participle passive Apprehended or expected with painful solicitude; reverenced.
Fearful
FE'ARFUL, adjective
1. Affected by fear; feeling pain in expectation of evil; apprehensive with solicitude; afraid. I am fearful of the consequences of rash conduct. Hence,
2. Timid; timorous; wanting courage.
What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted?
.
3. Terrible; impressing fear; frightful; dreadful.
It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. .
4. Awful; to be reverenced.
O Lord, who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises? .
That thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, Jehovah, thy God. .
Fearfully
FE'ARFULLY, adverb
1. Timorously; in fear.
In such a night did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew.
2. Terribly; dreadfully; in a manner to impress terror.
There is a cliff, whose high and bending head looks fearfully on the confined deep.
3. In a manner to impress admiration and astonishment.
I am fearfully and wonderfully made. .
Fearfulness
FE'ARFULNESS, noun
1. Timorousness; timidity.
2. State of being afraid; awe; dread.
A thing that makes a government despised, is fearfulness of, and mean compliances with, bold popular offenders.
3. Terror; alarm; apprehension of evil.
Fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. .
Fearless
FE'ARLESS, adjective
1. Free from fear; as fearless of death; fearless of consequences.
2. Bold; courageous; intrepid; undaunted; as a fearless hero; a fearless foe.
Fearlessly
FE'ARLESSLY, adverb Without fear; in a bold or courageous manner; intrepidly. Brave men fearlessly expose themselves to the most formidable dangers.
Fearlessness
FE'ARLESSNESS, noun Freedom from fear; courage; boldness; intrepidity.
He gave instances of an invincible courage and fearlessness in danger.
Feasibility
FEASIBIL'ITY, noun s as z. [See Feasible.] The quality of being capable of execution; practicability. Before we adopt a plan, let us consider its feasibility
Feasible
FE'ASIBLE, adjective s as z. [Latin facere.]
1. That may be done, performed, executed or effected; practicable. We say a thing is feasible when it can be effected by human means or agency. A thing may be possible, but not feasible
2. That may be used or tilled, as land.
FE'ASIBLE, noun That which is practicable; that which can be performed by human means.
Feasibleness
FE'ASIBLENESS, noun Feasibility; practicability.
Feasibly
FE'ASIBLY, adverb Practicably.
Feast
FEAST, noun [Latin festum.]
1. A sumptuous repast or entertainment, of which a number of guests partake; particularly, a rich or splendid public entertainment.
On Pharaoh's birth day, he made a feast to all his servants. .
2. A rich or delicious repast or meal; something delicious to the palate.
3. A ceremony of feasting; joy and thanksgiving on stated days, in commemoration of some great event, or in honor of some distinguished personage; an anniversary, periodical or stated celebration of some event; a festival; as on occasion of the games in Greece, and the feast of the passover, the feast of Pentecost, and the feast of tabernacles among the Jews.
4. Something delicious and entertaining to the mind or soul; as the dispensation of the gospel is called a feast of fat things. .
5. That which delights and entertains.
He that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast
.
In the English church, feasts are immovable or movable; immovable, when they occur on the same day of the year, as Christmas day, etc.; and movable, when they are not confined to the same day of the year, as Easter, which regulates many others.
FEAST, verb intransitive
1. To eat sumptuously; to dine or sup on rich provisions; particularly in large companies, and on public festivals.
And his sons went and feasted in their houses. .
2. To be highly gratified or delighted.
FEAST, verb transitive
1. To entertain with sumptuous provisions; to treat at the table magnificently; as, he was feasted by the king.
2. To delight; to pamper; to gratify luxuriously; as, to feast the soul.
Whose taste or smell can bless the feasted sense.
Feasted
FE'ASTED, participle passive Entertained sumptuously; delighted.
Feaster
FE'ASTER, noun
1. One who fares deliciously.
2. One who entertains magnificently.
Feastful
FE'ASTFUL, adjective
1. Festive; joyful; as a feastful day or friend.
2. Sumptuous, luxurious; as feastful rites.
Feasting
FE'ASTING, participle present tense
1. Eating luxuriously; faring sumptuously.
2. Delighting; gratifying.
3. Entertaining with a sumptuous table.
FE'ASTING, noun An entertainment.
Feastrite
FE'ASTRITE, noun Custom observed in entertainments.
Feat
FEAT, noun [Latin factum, from facio, to perform.]
1. An act; a deed; an exploit; as a bold feat; a noble feat; feats of prowess.
2. In a subordinate sense, any extraordinary act of strength, skill or cunning, as feats of horsemanship, or of dexterity; a trick.
FEAT, adjective Ready; skilful; ingenious.
Never master had a page - so feat
FEAT, verb transitive To form; to fashion.
Feateous
FE'ATEOUS, adjective Neat; dextrous.
Feateously
FE'ATEOUSLY, adverb Neatly; dextrously. obsolete
Feather
FEATH'ER,
FEATH'ER-BED
FEATH'ER-DRIVER,
FEATH'ER-FEW, A corruption of feverfew.
Feather-Bed
FEATH'ER-BED
Feather-Driver
FEATH'ER-DRIVER,
Feather-Grass
FEATH'ER-GRASS,
FEATH'ER-SELLER, 'ER-SELLER, noun One who sells fethers for beds.
Feathered
FEATH'ERED,
FEATH'EREDGE,
FEATH'EREDGED,
FEATH'ERLESS,
FEATH'ERLY,
FEATH'ERY,
FE'ATLY, adverb [from feat.] Neatly; dextrously; adroitly. [Little used.]
Featheredge
FEATH'EREDGE,
Featheredged
FEATH'EREDGED,
Featherless
FEATH'ERLESS,
Featherly
FEATH'ERLY,
Feathery
FEATH'ERY,
Featly
FE'ATLY, adv. [from feat.] Neatly; dextrously; adroitly. [Little used.]
Featness
FE'ATNESS, noun [from feat.] Dexterity; adroitness; skillfulness. [Little used.]
Feature
FE'ATURE, noun [Latin factura, a making, from facio, to make.]
1. The make, form or cast of any part of the face; any single lineament. We speak of large features or small features. We see a resemblance in the features of a parent and of a child.
2. The make or cast of the face.
Report the feature of Octavia, her years.
3. The fashion; the make; the whole turn or cast of the body.
4. The make or form of any part of the surface of a thing, as of a country or landscape.
5. Lineament; outline; prominent parts; as the features of a treaty.
Featured
FE'ATURED, adjective Having features or good features; resembling in features.
Feaze
FEAZE, verb transitive To untwist the end of a rope.
Feberary
FEB'ERARY,
FEB'RIFACIENT, adjective [Latin febris, a fever, and facio, to make.] Causing fever.
FEB'RIFACIENT, noun That which produces fever.
Febrific
FEBRIF'IC, adjective [Latin febris, fever, and facio, to make.] Producing fever; feverish.
Febrifuge
FEB'RIFUGE, noun [Latin febris, fever, and fugo, to drive away.]
Any medicine that mitigates or removes fever.
FEB'RIFUGE, adjective Having the quality of mitigating or subduing fever; antifebrile.
Febrile
FE'BRILE, adjective [Latin febrilis, from febris, fever.]
Pertaining to fever; indicating fever, or derived from it; as febrile symptoms; febrile action.
February
FEB'RUARY, noun [Latin Februarius. The Latin word is said to be named from februo, to purify by sacrifice, and thus to signify the month of purification, as the people were, in this month, purified by sacrifices and oblations. The word februo is said to be a Sabine word, connected with ferveo, ferbeo, to boil, as boiling was used in purifications.
This practice bears a resemblance to that of making atonement among the Jews; but the connection between ferveo and february is doubtful.
The name of the second month in the year, introduced into the Roman calendar by Numa. In common years, this month contains 28 days; in the bissextile or leap year, 29 days.
Februation
FEBRUA'TION, noun Purification. [See February.]
Fecal
FE'CAL, adjective [See Feces.] Containing or consisting of dregs, lees, sediment or excrement.
Feces
FE'CES, noun plural [Latin faces.]
1. Dregs; lees; sediment; the matter which subsides in casks of liquor.
2. Excrement.
Fecial
FE'CIAL, adjective [Latin fecialis.] Pertaining to heralds and the denunciation of war to an enemy; as fecial law.
Fecula
FEC'ULA, noun
1. The green matter of plants; chlorophyll.
2. Starch or farina; called also amylaceous fecula
This term is applied to any pulverulent matter obtained from plants by simply breaking down the texture, washing with water, and subsidence. Hence its application to starch and the green fecula though entirely different in chimical properties.
Feculence
FEC'ULENCE,
FEC'ULENCY, noun [Latin faeculentia, from facula, faces, fax, dregs.]
1. Muddiness; foulness; the quality of being foul with extraneous matter or lees.
2. Lees; sediment; dregs; or rather the substances mixed with liquor, or floating in it, which, when separated and lying at the bottom, are called lees, dregs or sediment. The refining or fining of liquor is the separation of it from its feculencies.
Feculency
FEC'ULENCY, n. [L. faeculentia, from facula, faces, fax, dregs.] 1. Muddiness; foulness; the quality of being foul with extraneous matter or lees.2. Lees; sediment; dregs; or rather the substances mixed with liquor, or floating in it, which, when separated and lying at the bottom, are called lees, dregs or sediment. The refining or fining of liquor is the separation of it from its feculencies.
Feculent
FEC'ULENT, adjective Foul with extraneous or impure substances; muddy; thick; turbid; abounding with sediment or excrementitious matter.
Feculum
FEC'ULUM, noun [from faces, supra.] A dry, dusty, tasteless substance obtained from plants. [This should be fecula.]
Fecund
FE'CUND, adjective [Latin facundus, from the root of faetus.] Fruitful in children; prolific.
Fecundate
FE'CUNDATE, verb transitive
1. To make fruitful or prolific.
2. To impregnate; as, the pollen of flowers fecundates the stigma.
Fecundated
FE'CUNDATED, participle passive Rendered prolific or fruitful; impregnated.
Fecundating
FE'CUNDATING, participle present tense Rendering fruitful; impregnating.
Fecundation
FECUNDA'TION, noun The act of making fruitful or prolific; impregnation.
Fecundify
FECUND'IFY, verb transitive To make fruitful; to fecundate. [Little used.]
Fecundity
FECUND'ITY, noun [Latin faecunditas.]
1. Fruitfulness; the quality of producing fruit; particularly, the quality in female animals of producing young in great numbers.
2. The power of producing or bringing forth. It is said that the seeds of some plants retain their fecundity forty years.
3. Fertility; the power of bringing forth in abundance; richness of invention.
Fed
FED, preterit tense and participle passive of feed, which see.
Fedary
FED'ARY, noun A partner; a confederate; an accomplice. [Not used.]
Federal
FED'ERAL, adjective [from Latin faedus, a league, allied perhaps to Eng. wed. Latin vas, vadis, vador, vadimonium. See Heb. to pledge.]
1. Pertaining to a league or contract; derived from an agreement or covenant between parties, particularly between nations.
The Romans, contrary to federal right, compelled them to part with Sardinia.
2. Consisting in a compact between parties, particularly and chiefly between states or nations; founded on alliance by contract or mutual agreement; as a federal government, such as that of the United States.
3. Friendly to the constitution of the United States. [See the Noun.]
Federalist
FED'ERALIST, noun an appellation in America, given to the friends of the constitution of the United States, at its formation and adoption, and to the political party which favored the administration of President Washington.
Federate
FED'ERATE, adjective [Latin faederatus.] Leagued; united by compact, as sovereignties, states or nations; joined in confederacy; as federate nations or powers.
Federation
FEDERA'TION, noun
1. The act of uniting in a league.
2. A league; a confederacy.
Federative
FED'ERATIVE, adjective uniting; joining in a league; forming a confederacy.
Fedity
FE'DITY, noun [Latin faditas.] Turpitude; vileness. [Not in use.]
Fee
FEE, noun [Latin pecu, pecus. From the use of cattle in transferring property, or from barter and payments in cattle, the word came to signify money; it signified also goods, substance in general. The word belongs to Class Bg, but the primary sense is not obvious.]
A reward or compensation for services; recompense, either gratuitous, or established by law and claimed of right. It is applied particularly to the reward of professional services; as the fees of lawyers and physicians; the fees of office; clerk's fees; sheriff's fees; marriage fees, etc. Many of these are fixed by law; but gratuities to professional men are also called fees.
FEE, noun [In English, is loan. This word, fee inland, or an estate in trust, originated among the descendants of the northern conquerors of Italy, but it originated in the south of Europe. See Feud.]
Primarily, a loan of land, an estate in trust, granted by a prince or lord, to be held by the grantee on condition of personal service, or other condition; and if the grantee or tenant failed to perform the conditions, the land reverted to the lord or donor, called the landlord, or lend-lord, the lord of the loan. A fee then is any land or tenement held of a superior on certain conditions. It is synonymous with fief and feud. All the land in England, except the crown land, is of this kind. Fees are absolute or limited. An absolute fee or fee-simple is land which a man holds to himself and his heirs forever, who are called tenants in fee simple. Hence in modern times, the term fee or fee simple denotes an estate of inheritance; and in America, where lands are not generally held of a superior, a fee or fee simple is an estate in which the owner has the whole property without any condition annexed to the tenure. A limited fee is an estate limited or clogged with certain conditions; as a qualified or base fee which ceases with the existence of certain conditions; and a conditional fee which is limited to particular heirs.
In the United States, an estate in fee or fee simple is what is called in English law an allodial estate, an estate held by a person in his own right, and descendible to the heirs in general.
FEE'-FARM, noun [fee and farm.] A kind of tenure of estates without homage, fealty or other service, except that mentioned in the feoffment, which is usually the full rent. The nature of this tenure is, that if the rent is in arrear or unpaid for two years, the feoffer and his heirs may have an action for the recovery of the lands.
Fee-Tail
FEE'-TAIL, noun An estate entailed; a conditional fee.
FEE, verb transitive
1. To pay a fee to; to reward. Hence,
2. To engage in one's service by advancing a fee or sum of money to; as, to fee a lawyer.
3. To hire; to bribe.
4. To keep in hire.
Feeble
FEE'BLE, adjective [I know not the origin of the first syllable.]
1. Weak; destitute of much physical strength; as, infants are feeble at their birth.
2. Infirm; sickly; debilitated by disease.
3. Debilitated by age or decline of life.
4. Not full or loud; as a feeble voice or sound.
5. Wanting force or vigor; as feeble efforts.
6. Not bright or strong; faint; imperfect; as feeble light; feeble colors.
7. Not strong or vigorous; as feeble powers of mind.
8. Not vehement or rapid; slow; as feeble motion.
FEE'BLE, verb transitive To weaken. [Not used. See Enfeeble.]
Feeble-Minded
FEE'BLE-MINDED, adjective Weak in mind; wanting firmness or constancy; irresolute.
Comfort the feeble-minded .
Feebleness
FEE'BLENESS, noun
1. Weakness of body or mind, from any cause; imbecility; infirmity; want of strength, physical or intellectual; as feebleness of the body or limbs; feebleness of the mind or understanding.
2. Want of fullness or loudness; as feebleness of voice.
3. Want of vigor or force; as feebleness of exertion, or of operation.
4. Defect of brightness; as feebleness of light or color.
Feebly
FEE'BLY, adverb Weakly; without strength; as, to move feebly
Thy gentle numbers feebly creep.
Feed
FEED, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive [See Father.]
1. To give food to; as, to feed an infant; to feed horses and oxen.
2. To supply with provisions. We have flour and meat enough to feed the army a month.
3. To supply; to furnish with any thing of which there is constant consumption, waste or use. Springs, feed ponds, lakes and rivers; ponds and streams feed canals. Mills are fed from hoppers.
4. To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle If grain is too forward in autumn, feed it with sheep.
5. To nourish; to cherish; to supply with nutriment; as, to feed hope or expectation; to feed vanity.
6. To keep in hope or expectation; as, to feed one with hope.
7. To supply fuel; as, to feed a fire.
8. To delight; to supply with something desirable; to entertain; as, to feed the eye with the beauties of a landscape.
9. To give food or fodder for fattening; to fatten. The county of Hampshire, in Massachusetts, feeds a great number of cattle for slaughter.
10. To supply with food, and to lead, guard and protect; a scriptural sense.
He shall feed his flock like a shepherd. .
FEED, verb intransitive
1. To take food; to eat.
2. To subsist by eating; to prey. Some birds feed on seeds and berries, others on flesh.
3. To pasture; to graze; to place cattle to feed .
4. To grow fat.
FEED, noun
1. Food; that which is eaten; pasture; fodder; applied to that which is eaten by beasts, not to the food of men. The hills of our country furnish the best feed for sheep.
2. Meal, or act of eating.
For such pleasure till that hour at feed or fountain never had I found.
Feeder
FEE'DER, noun
1. One that gives food, or supplies nourishment.
2. One who furnishes incentives; an encourager.
The feeder of my riots.
3. One that eats or subsists; as, small birds are feeders on grain or seeds.
4. One that fattens cattle for slaughter.
5. A fountain, stream or channel that supplies a main canal with water.
Feeder of a vein, in mining, a short cross vein.
Feeding
FEE'DING, participle present tense Giving food or nutriment; furnishing provisions; eating; taking food or nourishment; grazing; supplying water or that which is constantly consumed; nourishing; supplying fuel or incentives.
FEE'DING, noun Rich pasture.
Feel
FEEL, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive felt. [Latin palpo. the primary sense is to touch, to pat, to strike gently, or to press, as is evident from the Latin palpito, and other derivatives of palp. If so, the word seems to be allied to Latin pello.]
1. To perceive by the touch; to have sensation excited by contact of a thing with the body or limbs.
Suffer me that I may feel the pillars. .
Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son.
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2. To have the sense of; to suffer or enjoy; as, to feel pain; to feel pleasure.
3. To experience; to suffer.
Whoso keepeth the commandments shall feel no evil thing. .
4. To be affected by; to perceive mentally; as, to feel grief or woe.
Would I had never trod this English earth, or felt the flatteies that grow upon it.
5. To know; to be acquainted with; to have a real and just view of.
For then, and not till then, he felt himself.
6. To touch; to handle; with or without of.
FEEL this piece of silk, or feel of it.
To feel or to feel out, is to try; to sound; to search for; to explore; as, to feel or feel out one's opinions or designs.
To feel after, to search for; to seek to find; to seek as a person groping in the dark.
If haply they might feel after him, and find him. .
FEEL, verb intransitive
1. To have perception by the touch, or by the contact of any substance with the body.
2. To have the sensibility or the passions moved or excited. The good man feels for the woes of others.
3. To give perception; to excite sensation.
Blind men say black feels rough, and white feels smooth.
So, we say, a thing feels soft or hard, or it feels hot or cold.
4. To have perception mentally; as, to feel hurt; to feel grieved; to feel unwilling.
FEEL, noun The sense of feeling, or the perception caused by the touch. The difference of tumors may be ascertained by the feel Argillaceous stones may sometimes be known by the feel [In America, feeling is more generally used; but the use of feel is not uncommon.]
Feeler
FEE'LER, noun
1. One who feels.
2. One of the palpi of insects. The feelers of insects are usually four or six, and situated near the mouth. They are filiform and resemble articulated, movable antennae. They are distinguished from antennae or horns, by being short, naked and placed near the mouth. They are used in searching for food.
This tern is also applied to the antennae or horns of insects.
Feeling
FEE'LING, participle present tense
1. Perceiving by the touch; having perception.
2. adjective Expressive of great sensibility; affecting; tending to excite the passions. He made a feeling representation of his wrongs. He spoke with feeling eloquence.
3. Possessing great sensibility; easily affected or moved; as a feeling man; a feeling heart.
4. Sensibly or deeply affected; as, I had a feeling sense of his favors. [This use is not analogical, but common.]
FEE'LING, noun
1. The sense of touch; the sense by which we perceive external objects which come in contact with the body, and obtain ideas of their tangible qualities; one of the five senses. It is by feeling we know that a body is hard or soft, hot or cold, wet or dry, rough or smooth.
2. Sensation; the effect of perception.
The apprehension of the good gives but the greater feeling to the worse.
3. Faculty or power of perception; sensibility.
Their king, out of a princely feeling was sparing and compassionate towards his subjects.
4. Nice sensibility; as a man of feeling
5. Excitement; emotion.
Feelingly
FEE'LINGLY, adverb
1. With expression of great sensibility; tenderly; as, to speak feelingly
2. So as to be sensibly felt.
These are counselors, that feelingly persuade me what I am.
Feese
FEESE, noun A race. [Not in use.]
Feet
FEET, noun plu of foot. [See Foot.]
Feetless
FEE'TLESS, adjective Destitute of feet; as feetless birds.
Feign
FEIGN, verb transitive fane. [Latin fingo. The Latin forms fictum, fictus, whence figura, figure, also fucus.]
1. To invent or imagine; to form an idea or conception of something not real.
There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart. .
2. To make a show of; to pretend; to assume a false appearance; to counterfeit.
I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner. .
She feigns a laugh.
3. To represent falsely; to pretend; to form and relate a fictitious tale.
The poet did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods.
4. To dissemble; to conceal. obsolete
Feigned
FEIGNED, participle passive Invented; devised; imagined; assumed.
Feignedly
FEIGNEDLY, adverb In fiction; in pretense; not really.
Feignedness
FEIGNEDNESS, noun Fiction; pretense; deceit.
Feigner
FEIGNER, noun One who feigns; an inventor; a deviser of fiction.
Feigning
FEIGNING, participle present tense Imagining; inventing; pretending; making a false show.
FEIGNING, noun A false appearance; artful contrivance.
Feigningly
FEIGNINGLY, adverb With false appearance.
Feint
FEINT, noun
1. An assumed or false appearance; a pretense of doing something not intended to be done.
Courtley's letter is but a feint to get off.
2. A mock attack; an appearance of aiming at one part when another is intended to be struck. In fencing, a show of making a thrust at one part, to deceive an antagonist, when the intention is to strike another part.
FEINT, adjective or participle passive Counterfeit; seeming. [Not used.]
Felanders
FE'LANDERS, noun [See Filanders.]
Feldspar
FELD'SPAR,
FELD'SPATH,
FELDSPATH'IC, adjective Pertaining to feldspar or consisting of it.
Feldspath
FELD'SPATH,
Feldspathic
FELDSPATH'IC, a. Pertaining to feldspar, or consisting of it.
Felicitate
FELIC'ITATE, verb transitive [Latin felicito, from felix, happy.]
1. To make very happy.
What a glorious entertainment and pleasure would fill and felicitate his spirit, if he could grasp all in a single survey.
More generally,
2. To congratulate; to express joy or pleasure to. We felicitate our friends on the acquisition of good, or an escape from evil.
FELIC'ITATE, adjective Made very happy.
Felicitated
FELIC'ITATED, participle passive Made very happy; congratulated.
Felicitating
FELIC'ITATING, participle present tense Making very happy; congratulating.
Felicitation
FELICITA'TION, noun Congratulation.
Felicitous
FELIC'ITOUS, adjective Very happy; prosperous; delightful.
Felicitously
FELIC'ITOUSLY, adverb Happily.
Felicity
FELIC'ITY, noun [Latin felicitas, from felix, happy.]
1. Happiness, or rather great happiness; blessedness; blissfulness; appropriately, the joys of heaven.
2. Prosperity; blessing; enjoyment of good.
The felicities of her wonderful reign may be complete.
Females - who confer on life its finest felicities.
Feline
FE'LINE, adjective [Latin felinus, from felis, a cat.]
Pertaining to cats, or to their species; like a cat; noting the cat kind or the genus Felis. We say, the feline race; feline rapacity.
Fell
FELL, preterit tense of fall.
FELL, adjective
1. Cruel; barbarous; inhuman.
It seemed fury, discord, madness fell
2. Fierce; savage; ravenous; bloody.
More fell than tigers on the Libyan plain.
FELL, noun [Latin pellis.] A skin or hide of a beast; used chiefly in composition, as wool-fell.
FELL, noun A barren or stony hill. [Local.]
FELL, verb transitive To cause to fall; to prostrate; to bring to the ground, either by cutting, as to fell trees, or by striking, as to fell an ox.
Felled
FELL'ED, participle passive Knocked or cut down.
Feller
FELL'ER, noun One who hews or knocks down. .
Fellifluous
FELLIF'LUOUS, adjective [Latin fel, gall, and fluo, to flow.] Flowing with gall.
Felling
FELL'ING, participle present tense Cutting or beating to the ground.
Fellmonger
FELL'MONGER, noun [fell and monger.] A dealer in hides.
Fellness
FELL'NESS, noun [See Fell, cruel.] Cruelty; fierce barbarity; rage.
Felloe
FELL'OE, [See Felly.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828); edition by akaitsurugi (github.com/akaitsurugi/webster1828). Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text from the CrossWire Bible Society.