Fellow – Few

Fellow

FEL'LOW, noun [Heb. to tie or connect, to be joined or associated.]

1. A companion; an associate.

In youth I had twelve fellows, like myself.

Each on his fellow for assistance calls.

2. One of the same kind.

A shepherd had one favorite dog; he fed him with his own hand, and took more care of him than of his fellows.

3. An equal.

Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow saith Jehovah of hosts. Zechariah 13:7.

4. One of a pair, or of two things used together and suited to each other. Of a pair of gloves, we call one the fellow of the other.

5. One equal or like another. Of an artist we say, this man has not his fellow that is, one of like skill.

6. An appellation of contempt; a man without good breeding or worth; an ignoble man; as a mean fellow

Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow

7. A member of a college that shares its revenues; or a member of any incorporated society.

8. A member of a corporation; a trustee.

FEL'LOW, verb transitive To suit with; to pair with; to match. [Little used.]

In composition, fellow denotes community of nature, station or employment.

Fellow-Citizen

FELLOW-CIT'IZEN, noun A citizen of the same state or nation.

Ephesians 2:19.

Fellow-Commoner

FELLOW-COM'MONER, noun

1. One who has the same right of common.

2. In Cambridge, England, one who dines with the fellows.

Fellow-Counselor

FELLOW-COUN'SELOR, noun An associate in council.

Fellow-Creature

FELLOW-CRE'ATURE, noun One of the same race or kind. Thus men are all called fellow-creatures. Watts uses the word for one made by the same creator. 'Reason by which we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes.' But the word is not now used in this sense.

Fellow-Feeling

FELLOW-FEE'LING, noun

1. Sympathy; a like feeling.

2. Joint interest. [Not in use.]

Fellow-Heir

FELLOW-HEIR, noun A co-heir, or joint-heir; one entitled to a share of the same inheritance.

That the Gentiles should be fellow-heirs. Ephesians 3:1.

Fellow-Helper

FELLOW-HELP'ER, noun A co-adjutor; one who concurs or aids in the same business. John 8:1.

Fellow-Laborer

FELLOW-LA'BORER, noun One who labors in the same business or design.

Fellow-Maiden

FELLOW-MA'IDEN, noun A maiden who is an associate.

Fellow-Member

FELLOW-MEM'BER, noun A member of the same body.

Fellow-Minister

FELLOW-MIN'ISTER, noun One who officiates in the same ministry or calling.

Fellow-Peer

FELLOW-PEE'R, noun One who has the like privileges of nobility.

Fellow-Prisoner

FELLOW-PRIS'ONER, noun One imprisoned in the same place. Romans 16:1.

Fellow-Rake

FELLOW-RA'KE, noun An associate in vice and profligacy.

Fellow-Scholar

FELLOW-SCHOL'AR, noun An associate in studies.

Fellow-Servant

FELLOW-SERV'ANT, noun One who has the same master.

Fellow-Soldier

FELLOW-SO'LDIER, noun One who fights under the same commander, or is engaged in the same service. Officers often address their companions in arms by this appellation.

Fellow-Stream

FELLOW-STRE'AM, noun A stream in the vicinity.

Fellow-Student

FELLOW-STU'DENT, noun One who studies in the same company or class with another, or who belongs to the same school.

Fellow-Subject

FELLOW-SUB'JECT, noun One who is subject to the same government with another.

Fellow-Sufferer

FELLOW-SUF'FERER, noun One who shares in the same evil, or partakes of the same sufferings with another.

Fellow-Traveler

FELLOW-TRAV'ELER, noun One who travels in company with another.

Fellow-Worker

FELLOW-WORK'ER, noun One employed in the same occupation.

Fellow-Writer

FELLOW-WRI'TER, noun One who writes at the same time.

Fellowlike

FEL'LOWLIKE, adjective Like a companion; companionable; on equal terms.

Fellowship

FEL'LOWSHIP, noun

1. Companionship; society; consort; mutual association of persons on equal and friendly terms; familiar intercourse.

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness. Ephesians 5:11.

Men are made for society and mutual fellowship

2. Association; confederacy; combination.

Most of the other christian princes were drawn into the fellowship of that war. [Unusual.]

3. Partnership; joint interest; as fellowship in pain.

4. Company; a state of being together.

The great contention of the sea and skies parted our fellowship

5. Frequency of intercourse.

In a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship which is in less neighborhoods.

6. Fitness and fondness for festive entertainments; with good prefixed.

He had by his good fellowship - made himself popular, with all the officers of the army.

7. Communion; intimate familiarity. 1 John 1:3.

8. In arithmetic, the rule of proportions, by which the accounts of partners in business are adjusted, so that each partner may have a share of gain or sustain a share of loss, in proportion to his part of the stock.

9. An establishment in colleges, for the maintenance of a fellow.

Felly

FEL'LY, adverb [See Fell, cruel.] Cruelly; fiercely; barbarously.

FEL'LY, noun The exterior part or rim of a wheel, supported by the spokes.

Felo de se, in law, one who commits felony by suicide, or deliberately destroys his own life.

Felon

FEL'ON, noun [Low Latin felo.]

1. In law, a person who has committed felony. [See Felony.]

2. A whitlow; a painful swelling formed in the periosteum at the end of the finger.

FEL'ON, adjective

1. Malignant; fierce; malicious; proceeding from a depraved heart.

Vain shows of love to vail his felon hate.

2. Traitorous; disloyal.

Felon-Wort

FEL'ON-WORT, noun A plant of the genus Solanum.

Felonious

FELO'NIOUS, adjective

1. Malignant; malicious; indicating or proceeding from a depraved heart or evil purpose; villainous; traitorous; perfidious; as a felonious deed.

2. In law, proceeding from an evil heart or purpose; done with the deliberate purpose to commit a crime; as felonious homicide.

Felonniously

FELON'NIOUSLY, adverb In a felonious manner; with the deliberate intention to commit a crime. Indictments for capital offenses must state the fact to be done feloniously.

Felony

FEL'ONY, noun [See Felon.] In common law, any crime which incurs the forfeiture of lands or goods. Treason was formerly comprised under the name of felony but is now distinguished from crimes thus denominated, although it is really a felony All offenses punishable with death are felonies; and so are some crimes not thus punished, as suicide, homicide by chance-medley, or in self-defense, and petty larceny. Capital punishment therefore does not necessarily enter into the true idea or definition of felony; the true criterion of felony being forfeiture of lands or goods. But the idea of felony has been so generally connected with that of capital punishment, that law and usage now confirm that connection. Thus if a statute makes any new offense a felony it is understood to mean a crime punishable with death.

Felsite

FEL'SITE, noun [See Feldspar.] A species of compact feldspar, of an azure blue or green color, found amorphous associated with quartz and mica.

Felspar

FEL'SPAR,

FEL'SPATH, noun A mineral widely distributed and usually of a foliated structure. When in crystals or crystalline masses, it is very susceptible of mechanical division at natural joints. its hardness is a little inferior to that of quartz. There are several varieties, as common feldspar, the adularia, the siliceous, the glassy, the ice-spar, the opalescent, aventurine feldspar, petuntze, the granular, and the compact.

Felt

FELT, preterit tense of feel.

FELT, noun [Latin pellis, Eng. fell, a skin from plucking or stripping, Latin vello, vellus, Eng. wool.]

1. A cloth or stuff made of wool, or wool and hair, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure with lees or size.

2. A hat made of wool.

3. Skin.

To know whether sheep are sound or not, see that the felt be loose.

FELT, verb transitive To make cloth or stuff of wool, or wool and hair, by fulling.

Felter

FELT'ER, verb transitive To clot or meet together like felt.

Feltmaker

FELT'MAKER, noun One whose occupation is to make felt.

Felucca

FELUC'CA, noun

A boat or vessel, with oars and lateen sails, used in the Mediterranean. It has this peculiarity, that the helm may be applied to the head or stern, as occasion requires.

Felwort

FEL'WORT, noun A plant, a species of Gentian.

Female

FE'MALE, noun [Latin femella. See Feminine.]

1. Among animals, one of that sex which conceives and brings forth young.

2. Among plants, that which produces fruit; that which bears the pistil and receives the pollen of the male flowers.

FE'MALE, adjective

1. Noting the sex which produces young; not male; as a female bee.

2. Pertaining to females; as a female hand or heart; female tenderness.

To the generous decision of a female mind, we owe the discovery of America.

3. Feminine; soft; delicate; weak.

Female rhymes, double rhymes, so called from the French, in which language they end in e feminine.

Female-Flower

FEMALE-FLOWER, noun In botany, a flower which is furnished with the pistil, pointal, or female organs.

Female-Plant

FEMALE-PLANT, noun A plant which produces female flowers.

Female-Screw

FEMALE-SCREW, noun A screw with grooves or channels.

Feme-Covert

FEME-COVERT,

FEME-SOLE,

FEMINAL'ITY, noun The female nature.

Feme-Sole

FEME-SOLE,

Feminate

FEM'INATE, adjective Feminine. [Not in use.]

Feminine

FEM'ININE, adjective [Latin femininus, from femina, woman. The first syllable may be and probably is from wemb or womb, by the use of f for w; the b not being radical. The last part of the word is probably from man, quasi, femman, womb-man.]

1. Pertaining to a woman, or to women, or to females; as the female sex.

2. soft; tender; delicate.

Her heavenly form angelic, but more soft and feminine

3. Effeminate; destitute of manly qualities.

4. In grammar, denoting the gender or words which signify females, or the terminations of such words. words are said to be of the feminine gender, when they denote females, or have the terminations proper to express females in any given language. Thus in Latin dominus, a lord, is masculine; but domina, is mistress, a female.

Milton uses feminine as a noun, for female.

Feminity

FEMIN'ITY, noun The quality of the female sex. [Not used.]

Feminize

FEM'INIZE, verb transitive To make womanish. [Not used.]

Femme-Covert

FEMME-COVERT, noun A married woman, who is under covert of her baron or husband.

Femme-Sole

FEMME-SOLE, noun An unmarried woman.

FEMME-SOLE merchant, a woman who uses a trade alone, or without her husband.

Femoral

FEM'ORAL, adjective [Latin femoralis, from femur, the thigh.]

Belonging to the thigh; as the femoral artery.

Fen

FEN, noun [Latin fons, Eng. fountain.]

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

A long canal the muddy fen divides.

FEN'-BERRY, noun A kind of blackberry.

FEN'-BORN, adjective Born or produced in a fen

FEN'-CRESS, noun Cress growing in fens.

FEN'-CRICKET, noun an insect that digs for itself a little hole in the ground.

FEN'-DUCK, noun a species of wild duck.

FEN'-FOWL, noun any fowl that frequents fens.

FEN'-LAND, noun Marshy land.

Fen-Sucked

FEN'-SUCKED, adjective Sucked out of marshes; as fen-sucked fogs.

Fence

FENCE, noun fens. [See Fend.]

1. A wall, hedge, ditch, bank, or line of posts and rails, or of boards or pickets, intended to confine beasts from straying, and to guard a field from being entered by cattle, or from other encroachment. A good farmer has good fences about his farm; an insufficient fence is evidence of bad management. Broken windows and poor fences are evidences of idleness or poverty or of both.

2. A guard; any thing to restrain entrance; that which defends from attack, approach or injury; security; defense.

A fence betwixt us and the victor's wrath.

3. Fencing, or the art of fencing; defense.

4. Skill in fencing or defense.

FENCE, verb transitive fens.

1. To inclose with a hedge, wall, or any thing that prevents the escape or entrance of cattle; to secure by an inclosure. In New England, farmers, for the most part, fence their lands with posts and rails, or with stone walls. In England, lands are usually fenced with hedges and ditches.

He hath fenced my way that I cannot pass. Job 19:8.

2. To guard; to fortify.

So much of adder's wisdom I have learnt, to fence my ear against thy sorceries.

FENCE, verb intransitive

1. To practice the art of fencing; to use a sword or foil, for the purpose of learning the art of attack and defense. To fence well is deemed a useful accomplishment for military gentlemen.

2. To fight and defend by giving and avoiding blows or thrusts.

They fence and push, and pushing, loudly roar, their dewlaps and their sides are bathed in gore.

3. To raise a fence; to guard. It is difficult to fence against unruly cattle.

Fence-Month

FENCE-MONTH, noun The month in which hunting in any forest is prohibited.

Fenced

FEN'CED, participle passive Inclosed with a fence; guarded; fortified.

Fenceful

FENCEFUL, adjective fens'ful. Affording defense.

Fenceless

FENCELESS, adjective fens'less.

1. Without a fence; uninclosed; unguarded.

2. Open; not inclosed; as the fenceless ocean.

Fencer

FEN'CER, noun One who fences; one who teaches or practices the art of fencing with sword or foil.

Fencible

FEN'CIBLE, adjective

1. Capable of defense.

2. noun A soldier for defense of the country; as a regiment of fencibles.

Fencing

FEN'CING, participle present tense Inclosing with fence; guarding; fortifying.

FEN'CING, noun

1. The art of using skillfully a sword or foil in attack or defense; an art taught in schools.

2. The materials of fences for farms.

Fencing-Master

FEN'CING-MASTER, noun One who teaches the art of attack and defense with sword or foil.

Fencing-School

FEN'CING-SCHOOL, noun A school in which the art of fencing is taught.

Fend

FEND, verb transitive [The root of defend and offend. The primary sense is to fall on, or to strike, to repel.]

To keep off; to prevent from entering; to ward off; to shut out.

With fern beneath to fend the bitter cold.

It is usually followed by off; as, to fend off blows.

To fend off a boat or vessel, is to prevent its running against another, or against a wharf, etc., with too much violence.

FEND, verb intransitive To act in opposition; to resist; to parry; to shift off.

Fended

FEND'ED, participle passive Kept off; warded off; shut out.

Fender

FEND'ER, noun

1. That which defends; an utensil employed to hinder coals of fire from rolling forward to the floor.

2. A piece of timber or other thing hung over the side of a vessel to prevent it from striking or rubbing against a wharf, also to preserve a small vessel from being injured by a large one.

Fending

FEND'ING, participle present tense Keeping or warding off.

Fenerate

FEN'ERATE, verb intransitive [Latin fenero.] To put to use; to lend on interest. [Not used.]

Feneration

FENERA'TION, noun The act of lending on use; or the interest or gain of that which is lent.

Fenestral

FENES'TRAL, adjective [Latin fenestralis, from fenestra, a window.] Pertaining to a window.

Fennel

FEN'NEL, noun [Latin faeiculum, from faenum, hay.]

A fragrant plant of the genus Anethum, cultivated in gardens.

Fennel-Flower

FEN'NEL-FLOWER, noun A plant of the genus Nigella.

Fennel-Giant

FEN'NEL-GIANT, noun A plant of the genus Ferula.

Fenny

FEN'NY, adjective [from fen.]

1. Boggy; marshy; moorish.

2. Growing in fens; as fenny brake.

3. Inhabiting marshy ground; as a fenny snake.

Fennystones

FENNYSTONES, noun A plant.

Fenowed

FEN'OWED, adjective Corrupted; decayed. [Not in use.]

Fenugreek

FEN'UGREEK, noun [Latin faenum graecum.] A plant of the genus Trigonella.

Feod

FE'OD, noun A feud. So written by Blackstone and other authors; but more generally, feud, which see.

Feodal

FE'ODAL, adjective Feudal, which see.

Feodality

FEODAL'ITY, noun Feudal tenures; the feudal system.

Feodary

FE'ODARY, noun One who holds lands of a superior, on condition of suit and service. [Little used. See Feudatory.]

Feodatory

FEODATORY. [See Feudatory.]

Feoff

FEOFF, verb transitive feff.

To invest with a fee or feud; to give or grant to one any corporeal hereditament. The compound infeoff is more generally used.

FEOFF, a fief. [See Fief.]

Feoffee

FEOFFEE, noun feffee'. A person who is infeoffed, that is, invested with a fee or corporeal hereditament.

Feoffer

FEOFFER,

FEOFFMENT, noun feff'ment. [Law Latin feoffamentum.] The gift or grant of a fee or corporeal hereditament, as land, castles, honors, or other immovable thing; a grant in fee simple, to a man and his heirs forever. When in writing, it is called a deed of feoffment. The primary sense is the grant of a feud or an estate in trust. [See Feud.]

Feoffor

FEOFFOR, noun feff'er. One who infeoff's or grants a fee.

Feracious

FERA'CIOUS, adjective [Latin ferax, from fero, to bear.] Fruitful; producing abundantly.

Feracity

FERAC'ITY, noun [Latin feracitas.] Fruitfulness. [Little used.]

Feral

FE'RAL, adjective [Latin feralis.] Funeral; pertaining to funerals; mournful.

Ferciously

FER'CIOUSLY, adverb Fiercely; with savage cruelty.

Fere

FERE, noun A fellow; a mate; a peer. obsolete

Feretory

FER'ETORY, noun [Latin feretrum, a bier.] A place in a church for a bier.

Ferial

FE'RIAL, adjective [Latin ferialis.] Pertaining to holidays, or to common days.

Feriation

FERIA'TION, noun [Latin feriatio, from feriae, vacant days, holidays.]

The act of keeping holiday; cessation from work.

Ferine

FE'RINE, adjective [Latin ferinus, from ferus, wild.]

Wild; untamed; savage. Lions, tigers, wolves and bears are ferine beasts.

Ferineness

FE'RINENESS, noun Wildness; savageness.

Ferity

FER'ITY, noun [Latin feritas, from ferus, wild.]

Wildness, savageness; cruelty.

Ferm

FERM, noun A farm or rent; a lodging-house. obsolete [See Farm.]

Ferment

FER'MENT, noun [Latin fermentum, from fervo, to boil. See Fervent.]

1. A gentle boiling; or the internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid.

[In this sense it is rarely used. See Fermentation.]

2. Intestine motion; heat; tumult; agitation; as, to put the passions in a ferment; the state of people are in a ferment

Subdue and cool the ferment of desire.

3. That which causes fermentation, as yeast, barm, or fermenting beer.

FERMENT', verb transitive [Latin fermento.]

To set in motion; to excite internal motion; to heat; to raise by intestine motion.

While youth ferments the blood.

FERMENT', verb intransitive To work; to effervesce; to be in motion, or to be excited into sensible internal motion, as the constituent particles of an animal or vegetable fluid. To the vinous fermentation we apply the term, work. We say that new cider, beer or wine ferments or works. But work is not applied to the other kinds of fermentation.

Fermentable

FERMENT'ABLE, adjective Capable of fermentation; thus, cider, beer of all kinds, wine, and other vegetable liquors, are fermentable

Fermentation

FERMENTA'TION, noun [Latin fermentatio.] The sensible internal motion of the constituent particles of animal and vegetable substances, occasioned by a certain degree of heat and moisture, and accompanied by an extrication of gas and heat. fermentation is followed by a change of properties in the substances fermented, arising from new combinations of their principles. It may be defined, in its most general sense, any spontaneous change which takes place in animal or vegetable substances, after life has ceased. It is of three kinds, vinous, acetous, and putrefactive. The term is also applied to other processes, as the panary fermentation or the raising of bread; but it is limited, by some authors, to the vinous and acetous fermentations, which terminate in the production of alcohol or vinegar. fermentation differs from effervescence. The former is confined to animal and vegetable substances; the latter is applicable to mineral substances. The former is spontaneous; the latter produced by the mixture of bodies.

Fermentative

FERMENT'ATIVE, adjective

1. Causing or having power to cause fermentation; as fermentative heat.

2. Consisting in fermentation; as fermentative process.

Fermentativeness

FERMENT'ATIVENESS, noun The state of being fermentative.

Fermented

FERMENT'ED, participle passive Worked; having undergone the process of fermentation.

Fermenting

FERMENT'ING, participle present tense Working; effervesing.

Fern

FERN, noun

A plant of several species constituting the tribe or family of Filices, which have their fructification on the back of the fronds or leaves, or in which the flowers are borne on footstalks which overtop the leaves. The stem is the common footstalk or rather the middle rib of the leaves, so that most ferns want the stem altogether. The ferns constitute the first order of cryptogams, in the sexual system.

Fern-Owl

FERN-OWL, noun The goatsucker.

Ferny

FERN'Y, a Abounding or overgrown with fern.

Ferocious

FERO'CIOUS, adjective [Latin ferox; allied to ferus, wild, fera, a wild animal.]

1. Fierce; savage; wild; indicating cruelty; as a ferocious look, countenance or features.

2. Ravenous; rapacious; as a ferocious lion.

3. Fierce; barbarous; cruel; as ferocious savages.

Ferociousness

FERO'CIOUSNESS, noun Savage fierceness; cruelty; ferocity.

Ferocity

FEROC'ITY, noun [Latin ferocitas.]

1. Savage wildness or fierceness; fury; cruelty; as the ferocity of barbarians.

2. Fierceness indicating a savage heart; as ferocity of countenance.

Ferreous

FER'REOUS, adjective [Latin ferreus, from ferrum, iron.]

Partaking of iron; pertaining to iron; like iron; made of iron.

Ferret

FER'RET, noun

1. An animal of the genus Mustela, or Weasel kind, about 14 inches in length, of a pale yellow color with red eyes. It is a native of Africa, but has been introduced into Europe. It cannot however bear cold, and cannot subsist even in France, except in a domestic state. Ferrets are used to catch rabbits.

2. A kind of narrow woolen tape.

3. Among glass makers, the iron used to try the melted matter, to see if it is fit to work, and to make the rings at the mouths of bottles.

FER'RET, verb transitive To drive out of a lurking place, as a ferret does the coney.

Ferreted

FER'RETED, participle passive Driven from a burrow or lurking place.

Ferreter

FER'RETER, noun One that hunts another in his private retreat.

Ferreting

FER'RETING, participle present tense Driving from a lurking place.

Ferri-Calcite

FERRI-CAL'CITE, noun [Latin ferrum, iron, and calx, lime.]

A species of calcarious earth or limestone combined with a large portion of iron, from 7 to 14 per cent.

Ferriage

FER'RIAGE, noun [See Ferry.] The price or fare to be paid at a ferry; the compensation established or paid for conveyance over a river or lake in a boat.

Ferric

FER'RIC, adjective Pertaining to or extracted from iron. ferric acid is the acid of iron saturated with oxygen.

Ferriferous

FERRIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin ferrum and fer.] Producing or yielding iron.

Ferrilite

FER'RILITE, noun [Latin ferrum, iron and Gr. a stone.]

Rowley ragg; a variety of trap, containing iron in the state of oxyd.

Ferro-Cyanate

FERRO-CY'ANATE, noun A compound of the ferro-cyanic acid with a base.

Ferro-Cyanic

FERRO-CYAN'IC, adjective [Latin ferrum, iron and cyanic, which see.] The same as ferroprussic.

Ferro-Prussiate

FERRO-PRUS'SIATE, noun A compound of the ferro-silicic acid with a base, forming a substance analogous to a salt.

Ferro-Prussic

FERRO-PRUS'SIC, adjective [Latin ferrum, iron, and prussic.] Designating a peculiar acid, formed of prussic acid and protoxyd of iron.

Ferro-Silicate

FERRO-SIL'ICATE, noun A compound of ferro-silicic acid with a base, forming a substance analogous to a salt.

Ferro-Silicic

FERRO-SILIC'IC, adjective [Latin ferrum, iron, and silex.] Designating a compound of iron and silex.

Ferruginated

FERRU'GINATED, adjective [infra.] Having the color or properties of the rust of iron.

Ferruginous

FERRU'GINOUS, adjective [Latin ferrugo, rust of iron, from ferrum, iron.]

1. Partaking of iron; containing particles of iron.

2. Of the color of the rust or oxyd of iron. [Ferrugineous is less used.]

Ferrule

FER'RULE, noun

A ring of metal put round a cane or other thing to strengthen it.

Ferry

FER'RY, verb transitive [Latin fero; allied to bear.]

To carry or transport over a river, strait or other water, in a boat. We ferry men, horses, carriages, over rivers, for a moderate fee or price called fare or ferriage.

FER'RY, verb intransitive To pass over water in a boat.

FER'RY, noun

1. A boat or small vessel in which passengers and goods are conveyed over rivers or other narrow waters; sometimes called a wherry. This application of the word is, I believe, entirely obsolete, at least in America.

2. The place or passage where boats pass over water to convey passengers.

3. The right of transporting passengers over a lake or stream. adjective B. owns the ferry at Windsor. [In New England, this word is used in the two latter senses.]

Ferryboat

FER'RYBOAT, noun A boat for conveying passengers over streams and other narrow waters.

Ferryman

FER'RYMAN, noun One who keeps a ferry, and transports passengers over a river.

Fertile

FER'TILE, adjective [Latin fertilis, from fero, to bear.]

1. Fruitful; rich; producing fruit in abundance; as fertile land, ground, soil, fields or meadows. This word in America is rarely applied to trees, or to animals, but to land. It formerly had of before the thing producing; as fertile of all kinds of grain: but in is now used; fertile in grain.

2. Rich; having abundant resources; prolific; productive; inventive; able to produce abundantly; as a fertile genius, mind or imagination.

Fertileness

FER'TILENESS, noun [See Fertility.]

Fertility

FERTIL'ITY, noun [Latin fertilitas.]

1. Fruitfulness; the quality of producing fruit in abundance; as the fertility of land, ground, soil, fields and meadows.

2. Richness; abundant resources; fertile invention; as the fertility of genius, of fancy or imagination.

Fertilize

FER'TILIZE, verb transitive To enrich; to supply with the pabulum of plants; to make fruitful or productive; as, to fertilize land, soil, ground and meadows. [Fertilitate is not used.]

Fertilized

FER'TILIZED, participle passive Enriched; rendered fruitful.

Fertilizing

FER'TILIZING, participle present tense

1. Enriching; making fruitful or productive. The Connecticut overflows the adjacent meadows, fertilizing them by depositing fine particles of earth or vegetable substances.

2. adjective Enriching; furnishing the nutriment of plants.

Ferulaceous

FERULA'CEOUS, adjective [Latin ferula.] Pertaining to reeds or canes; having a stalk like a reed; or resembling the Ferula, as ferulaceous plants.

Ferule

FER'ULE, noun [Latin ferula, from ferio, to strike, or from the use of stalks of the Ferula.]

1. A little wooden pallet or slice, used to punish children in school, by striking them on the palm of the hand. [Ferular is not used.]

2. Under the Eastern empire, the ferula was the emperor's scepter. It was a long stem or shank, with a flat square head.

FER'ULE, verb transitive To punish with a ferule

Fervency

FERV'ENCY, noun [See fervent.]

1. Heat of mind; ardor; eagerness.

2. Pious ardor; animated zeal; warmth of devotion.

When you pray, let it be with attention, with fervency and with perseverance.

Fervent

FERV'ENT, adjective [Latin fervens, from ferveo, to be hot, to boil, to glow.]

1. Hot; boiling; as a fervent summer; fervent blood.

2. Hot in temper; vehement.

They are fervent to dispute.

3. Ardent; very warm; earnest; excited; animated; glowing; as fervent zeal; fervent piety.

Fervent in spirit. Romans 12:11.

Fervently

FERV'ENTLY, adverb

1. Earnestly; eagerly; vehemently; with great warmth.

2. With pious ardor; with earnest zeal; ardently.

Epaphras - saluteth you, laboring fervently for you in prayers. Colossians 4:12.

Fervid

FERV'ID, adjective [Latin fervidus.]

1. Very hot; burning; boiling; as fervid heat.

2. Very warm in zeal; vehement; eager; earnest; as fervid zeal.

Fervidly

FERV'IDLY, adverb Very hotly; with glowing warmth.

Fervidness

FERV'IDNESS, noun Glowing heat; ardor of mind; warm zeal.

Fervor

FERV'OR, noun [Latin fervor ]

1. Heat or warmth; as the fervor of a summer's day.

2. Heat of mind; ardor; warm or animated zeal and earnestness in the duties of religion, particularly in prayer.

Fescennine

FES'CENNINE, adjective Pertaining to Fescennium in Italy; licentious.

FES'CENNINE, noun A nuptial song, or a licentious song.

Fescue

FES'CUE, noun [Latin festuca, a shoot or stalk of a tree, a rod.]

A small wire used to point out letters to children when learning to read.

Fescue-Grass

FES'CUE-GRASS, noun The Festuca, a genus of grasses.

Fesels

FE'SELS, noun A kind of base grain.

Fesse

FESSE, noun fess. [Latin fascia, a band.] In heraldry, a bank or girdle, possessing the third part of the escutcheon; one of the nine honorable ordinaries.

Fesse-Point

FESSE-POINT, noun The exact center of the escutcheon.

Festal

FES'TAL, adjective [Latin festus, festive. See Feast.]

Pertaining to a feast; joyous; gay; mirthful.

Fester

FES'TER, verb intransitive [Latin pestis, pus, or pustula.]

To rankle; to corrupt; to grow virulent.

We say of a sore or wound, it festers.

Passion and unkindness may give a wound that shall bleed and smart; but it is treachery that makes it fester

Festering

FES'TERING, participle present tense Rankling; growing virulent.

Festinate

FES'TINATE, adjective [Latin festino, festinatus.] Hasty; hurried. [Not in use.]

Festination

FESTINA'TION, noun Haste. [Not used.]

Festival

FES'TIVAL, adjective [Latin festivus, from festus, or festum or fasti. See Feast.]

Pertaining to a feast; joyous; mirthful; as a festival entertainment.

FES'TIVAL, noun The time of feasting; an anniversary day of joy, civil or religious.

The morning trumpets festival proclaimed.

Festive

FES'TIVE, adjective [Latin festivus.] Pertaining to or becoming a feast; joyous; gay; mirthful.

The glad circle round them yield their souls to festive mirth and wit that knows no gall.

Festivity

FESTIV'ITY, noun [Latin festivitas.]

1. Primarily, the mirth of a feast; hence, joyfulness; gaiety; social joy or exhilaration of spirits at an entertainment.

2. A festival. [Not in use.]

Festoon

FESTOON', noun

Something in imitation of a garland or wreath. In architecture and sculpture, an ornament of carved work in the form of a wreath of flowers, fruits and leaves intermixed or twisted together. It is in the form of a string or collar, somewhat largest in the middle, where it falls down in an arch, being suspended by the ends, the extremities of which hang down perpendicularly.

Festucine

FES'TUCINE, adjective [Latin festuca.] Being of a straw-color.

Festucous

FES'TUCOUS, adjective Formed of straw.

Fet

FET, noun A piece. [Not used.]

FET, verb transitive or i. To fetch; to come to. [Not used.]

Fetal

FE'TAL, adjective [from fetus.] Pertaining to a fetus.

Fetch

FETCH, verb transitive

1. To go and bring, or simply to bring, that is, to bear a thing towards or to a person.

We will take men to fetch victuals for the people.

Judges 20:10.

Go to the flock, and fetch me from thence two kids of the goats. Genesis 27:9.

In the latter passage, fetch signifies only to bring.

2. To derive; to draw, as from a source.

On you noblest English, whose blood is fetched from fathers of war-proof.

[In this sense, the use is neither common nor elegant.]

3. To strike at a distance. [Not used.]

The conditions and improvements of weapons are the fetching afar off.

4. To bring back; to recall; to bring to any state. [Not used or vulgar.]

In smells we see their great and sudden effect in fetching men again, when they swoon.

5. To bring or draw; as, to fetch a thing within a certain compass.

6. To make; to perform; as, to fetch a turn; to fetch a leap or bound.

FETCH a compass behind them. 2 Samuel 5:23.

7. To draw; to heave; as, to fetch a sigh.

8. To reach; to attain or come to; to arrive at.

We fetched the syren's isle.

9. To bring; to obtain its price. Wheat fetches only 75 cents the bushel. A commodity is worth what it will fetch

To fetch out, to bring or draw out; to cause to appear.

To fetch to, to restore, to revive, as from a swoon.

To fetch up, to bring up; to cause to come up or forth.

To fetch a pump, to pour water into it to make it draw water.

FETCH, verb intransitive To move or turn; as, to fetch about.

FETCH, noun 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; as a fetch of wit.

Straight cast about to over-reach

Th' unwary conqueror with a fetch

Fetcher

FETCH'ER, noun One that brings.

Fetching

FETCH'ING, participle present tense Bringing; going and bringing; deriving; drawing; making; reaching; obtaining as price.

Fether

FETH'ER, noun

1. A plume; a general name of the covering of fowls. The smaller fethers are used for the filling of beds; the larger ones, called quills, are used for ornaments of the head, for writing pens, etc. The fether consists of a shaft or stem, corneous, round, strong and hollow at the lower part, and at the upper part, filled with pith. On each side of the shaft are the vanes, broad on one side and narrow on the other, consisting of thin lamins. The fethers which cover the body are called the plumage; the fethers of the wings are adapted to flight.

2. Kind; nature; species; from the proverbial phrase, 'Birds of a fether ' that is, of the same species. [Unusual.]

I am not of that feather to shake off my friend, when he most needs me.

3. An ornament; an empty title.

4. On a horse, a sort of natural frizzling of the hair, which, in some places, rises above the lying hair, and there makes a figure resembling the tip of an ear of wheat.

A fether in the cap, is an honor, or mark of distinction.

FEATH'ER,

FETH'ER, verb transitive

1. To dress in fethers; to fit with fethers, or to cover with fethers.

2. To tread as a cock.

3. To enrich; to adorn; to exalt.

The king cared not to plume his nobility and people, to feather himself.

To fether one's nest, to collect wealth, particularly from emoluments derived from agencies for others; a proverb taken from birds which collect fethers for their nests.

Fether-Bed

FETH'ER-BED, noun A bed filled with fethers; a soft bed.

Fether-Driver

FETH'ER-DRIVER, noun One who beats fethers to make them light or loose.

Fether-Grass

FETH'ER-GRASS, noun A plant, gramen plumosum.

Fethered

FETH'ERED, participle passive

1. Covered with fethers; enriched.

2. adjective Clothed or covered with fethers. A fowl or bird is a fethered animal

Rise from the ground like feathered Mercury.

3. Fitted or furnished with fethers; as a fethered arrow.

4. Smoothed, like down or fethers.

5. Covered with things growing from the substance; as land fethered with trees.

Fetheredge

FETH'EREDGE, noun An edge like a fether.

A board that has one edge thinner than the other, is called featheredge stuff.

Fetheredged

FETH'EREDGED, adjective Having a thin edge.

Fetherless

FETH'ERLESS, adjective Destitute of fethers; unfledged.

Fetherly

FETH'ERLY, adjective Resembling fethers. [Not used.]

Fethery

FETH'ERY, adjective

1. Clothed or covered with fethers.

2. Resembling fethers.

Fetichism

FET'ICHISM,

FET'ICISM, noun The worship of idols among the negroes of Africa, among whom fetch is an idol, any tree, stone or other thing worshipped.

Fetid

FET'ID, adjective [Latin faetidus, from faetco, to have an ill scent.]

Having an offensive smell; having a strong or rancid scent.

Most putrefactions smell either fetid or moldy.

Fetidness

FET'IDNESS, noun The quality of smelling offensively; a fetid quality.

Fetiferous

FETIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin faetifer; faetus and fero, to bear.] Producing young, as animals.

Fetlock

FET'LOCK, noun [foot or feet and lock.] A tuft of hair growing behind the pastern joint of many horses. Horses of low size have scarce any such tuft.

Fetor

FE'TOR, noun [Latin faetor.] Any strong offensive smell; stench.

Fetter

FET'TER, noun

1. A chain for the feet; a chain by which an animal is confined by the foot, either made fast or fixed, as a prisoner, or impeded in motion and hindered from leaping, as a horse whose fore and hind feet are confined by a chain.

The Philistines bound Samson with fetters of brass.

Judges 16:21.

2. Any thing that confines or restrains from motion.

Passions too fierce to be in fetters bound.

FET'TER, verb transitive

1. To put on fetters; to shackle or confine the feet with a chain.

2. To bind; to enchain; to confine; to restrain motion; to impose restraints on.

Fetter strong madness in a silken thread.

Fettered

FET'TERED, participle passive Bound or confined by fetters; enchained.

Fettering

FET'TERING, participle present tense Binding or fastening by the feet with a chain; confining; restraining motion.

Fetterless

FET'TERLESS, adjective Free from fetters or restraint.

Fettstein

FETT'STEIN, noun A mineral of a greenish or bluish gray color or flesh red, called also elaolite.

Fetus

FE'TUS, noun plural fetuses. [Latin faetus.] The young of viviparous animals in the womb, and of oviparous animals in the egg, after it is perfectly formed; before which time it is called embryo. A young animal then is called a fetus from the time its parts are distinctly formed, till its birth.

Feu de joie, fire of joy, a French phrase for a bonfire, or a firing of guns in token of joy.

Feud

FEUD, noun

1. Primarily, a deadly quarrel; hatred and contention that was to be terminated only by death. Among our rude ancestors, these quarrels, though originating in the murder of an individual, involved the whole tribe or family of the injured and of the aggressing parties. Hence in modern usage,

2. A contention or quarrel; particularly, an inveterate quarrel between families or parties in a state; the discord and animosities which prevail among the citizens of a state or city, sometimes accompanied with civil war. In the north of Great Britain, the word is still used in its original sense; denoting a combination of kindred to revenge the death of any of their blood, on the offender and all his race, or any other great enemy. We say, it is the policy of our enemies to raise and cherish intestine feuds.

The word is not strictly applicable to wars between different nations, but to intestine wars, and to quarrels and animosities between families or small tribes.

FEUD, noun [Latin fides; Eng. loan.]

A fief; a fee; a right to lands or hereditaments held in trust, or on the terms of performing certain conditions; the right which a vassal or tenant has to the lands or other immovable thing of his lord, to use the same and take the profits 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.

From the foregoing explanation of the origin of the word, result very naturally the definition of the term, and the doctrine of forfeiture, upon non-performance of the conditions of the trust or loan.

Feudal

FEU'DAL, adjective

1. Pertaining to feuds, fiefs or fees; as feudal rights or services; feudal tenures.

2. Consisting of feuds or fiefs; embracing tenures by military services; as the feudal system.

Feudalism

FEU'DALISM, noun The feudal system; the principles and constitution of feuds, or lands held by military services.

Feudality

FEUDAL'ITY, noun The state or quality of being feudal; feudal form or constitution.

Feudary

FEU'DARY, adjective Holding land of a superior.

Feudatary

FEU'DATARY, noun A feudatory, which see.

Feudatory

FEU'DATORY, noun

A tenant or vassal who holds his lands of a superior, on condition of military service; the tenant of a feud or fief.

Feudist

FEU'DIST, noun A writer on feuds.

Feuillage

FEUILLAGE, noun A bunch or row of leaves.

Feuillemort

FEUILLEMORT, The color of a faded leaf.

Feuter

FEU'TER, verb transitive To make ready. [Not in use.]

Feuterer

FEU'TERER, noun A dog keeper. [Not used.]

Fever

FE'VER, noun [Latin febris, supposed to be so written by transposition for ferbis, or fervis, from ferbeo, ferveo, to be hot.]

1. A disease, characterized by an accelerated pulse, with increase of heat, impaired functions, diminished strength, and often with preternatural thirst. This order of diseases is called by Cullen pyrexy, Gr. Fevers are often or generally preceded by chills or rigors, called the cold stage of the disease. Fevers are of various kinds, but the principal division of fevers is into remitting fevers, which subside or abate at intervals; intermitting fevers, which intermit or entirely cease at intervals; and continued or continual fevers, which neither remit nor intermit.

2. Heat; agitation; excitement by any thing that strongly affects the passions. This news has given me a fever This quarrel has set my blood in a fever .

FE'VER, verb transitive To put in a fever

Fever-Cooling

FE'VER-COOLING, adjective Allaying febrile heat.

Fever-Root

FE'VER-ROOT, noun A plant of the genus Triosteum.

Fever-Sick

FE'VER-SICK, adjective Diseased with fever.

Fever-Weakened

FE'VER-WEAKENED, adjective Debilitated by fever.

Fever-Weed

FE'VER-WEED, noun A plant of the genus Eryngium.

Fever-Wort

FE'VER-WORT, noun [See Fever-root.]

Feveret

FE'VERET, noun A slight fever. [Not used.]

Feverfew

FE'VERFEW, noun [Latin febris and fugo.]

A plant, or rather a genus of plants, the Matricaria, so named from supposed febrifuge qualities. The common feverfew grows to the height of two or three feet with compound leaves and compound radiated white flowers, with a yellow disk.

Feverish

FE'VERISH, adjective

1. Having a slight fever; as the patient is feverish

2. Diseased with fever or heat; as feverish nature.

3. Uncertain; inconstant; fickle; now hot, now cold.

We toss and turn about our feverish will.

4. Hot; sultry; burning; as the feverish north.

Feverishness

FE'VERISHNESS, noun The state of being feverish; a slight febrile affection.

Feverous

FE'VEROUS, adjective

1. Affected with fever or ague.

2. Having the nature of fever.

All feverous kinds.

3. Having a tendency to produce fever; as a feverous disposition of the year. [This word is little used.]

Fevery

FE'VERY, adjective Affected with fever.

Few

FEW, adjective [Latin pauci. The senses of few and small are often united.]

Not many; small in number. Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few; but few men, in times of party, regard the maxim.