FELL 260 FELSPAR fall, bad, wicked.] 1. Cruel; barbarous; in- 6. An appellation of contempt; a man with- lowships are confined to graduates of the human; fierce; savage; ravenous; bloody. out good breeding or worth; an ignoble university to which they belong. It seemed fury, discord, madness fell. Fairfax. man; as, a mean fellow. Fellowship (fel’lo-ship), v. t. To associate The very worst and fellest of the crew. 7. Baillie. Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow. with as a fellow or member of the same Pope. 2. [Scotch.) Strong and fiery; keen; biting; church; to admit to fellowship, specifically A parcel of fellows not worth a groat. Murphy. to Christian fellowship; to unite with in sharp; clever; active; as, a fell chield; a doctrine and discipline. Whom he had fell cheese; a fell bodie. 7. A member of a college that shares its 'Biting Boreas fell and doure.' Burns. revenues; or a member of any incorporated openly fellowshipped' Eclec. Rev. Fell (fel), n. [A. Sax. fell, G. fell, D. vel, skin. society. See FELLOWSHIP. --8. One of the Felly (felli), adv. (See FELL, cruel.] In a fell Cog. L. pellis, skin.] 1. A skin or hide of an trustees of a college. (United States. )-9. A manner; cruelly; fiercely; barbarously. animal: used chiefly in composition, as, person; an individual.' 'A fellow of infinite A feeble beast doth felly hím oppress. Spenser. wool-feu. jest.' Shak. She seemed to be a good sort felly (fel'i),n. (A. Sax. felg, felgų, Dan fælge, The good-years shall devour them flesh and fell. of fellow.' Dickens.-10. Used in composi- D. velg. G. felge. So named from 2. A seam or hem sewed down level with or employment; mutual association on equal the cloth.-3. In weaving, the line of termi- or friendly terms; as, fellow-citizen, fellow the pieces of the countryman, fellow-labourer. nation of a web in the process of weaving, rim being put to gether, from A. Sax. formed by the last weft-thread driven up Fellow (fel’ló), v.t. To suit with; to pair by the lay; the line to which the warp is at with; to match. feolan, fiolan, to stick; cog with any instant wefted. Affection, . 0.H.G. felahan. Feli (fel), v.t. (From fell, the skin.] Lit. to With what's unreal thou coactive art, Shak. And fellow'st nothing. level with the skin; in sewing, to lay a to put together." seam or hem and sew it down level with Fellow-commoner (fel'lo-kom-mon-ér), n. Skeat] One of the curved pieces of the cloth. 1. One who has the same right of common. Wheel. Fell (fel), v.t. [Transitive or causative form 2. In Cambridge Uni ity, one who dines wood whích, joined of fall. Comp. sit, set; lie, lay; rise, raise; with the fellows. a, Felly. 6, Spokes. c, Nave. together by dowel&c. A. Sax. fellan, from feallan, to fall.s Fellow-craft (fello-kraft), n. A freemason pins, form the cirTo cause to fall; to prostrate; to bring to of the second rank; one above an entered cumference or circular rim of a cart or carthe ground, either by cutting, as to fell apprentice. Simmonds. riage wheel; the circular rim of a wheel. trees, or by striking, as to fell an ox. Written also Felloe. same Pelly (feli), a,, [See FELL, a.) Fell; cruel. Creator throw, struck on the forehead, and felled him dead. Fortune's felly spite.' Burns. (Scotch. ] Kingsley. Fellow-feelt (fel'lő-fől), v.t. To have a like Felmonger (fei'mung-gėr), n. Same as FeuFell (fel), n. [Icel. fell, a hill, fjall, a moun- feeling with; to feel sympathy with. monger. tain; Dan. fjäld, fjeld, a mountain, a rock; Felnesset (felnes), n. Same as Fellness. We should count her a very tender mother which G. fels, a rock, a cliff.) A barren or stony should bear the pain twice and fellow feel the infant's Felo de se (feʼlo dē sē). (L. L., lit. a felon hill; a precipitous rock; high land not et strivings and wrestlings the second time, rather than upon himself.) In laú, one who commits for pasture. want the child. Rogers. felony by suicide, or deliberately destroys The night-birds all that hour were still, Fellow-feeling (fel'lő-fől-ing), n. 1. Sym his own life. But now they are jubilant anew, pathy; a like feeling. Felon (fel'on), n. [Fr. félon, a traitor; It. From cliff and tower, tu-whoo! tu-whoo! Tu-whool tu-whoo-from wood and fell. Coleridge. A fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind. Garrick. fellone, felonious. The real origin is not known. See FELL, a.] 1. In law, a person Fellt (fel), n. (L. fel, fellis, gall.) Anger; 2. + Joint interest. who has committed felony. - 2. A person gall; melancholy. Spenser. Fellowless (fel'lő-les), a. Without a fellow Fellable (fel'a-bl), a. Capable of being or or equal; peerless. guilty of heinous crimes.-3. A whitlow; a sort of inflammation in animals similar to fit to be felled. Whose well-built walls are rare and fellowless. that of whitlow in the human suliject. Pellah (fel’lä), n. [Ar., a peasant; pl. fel Chapman. lahin) An Egyptian or “Syrian peasant or Fellowlike (fello-lik), a. Like a companion; Felon (fel'on), a. 1. Malignant; fierce; mali Syn. Criminal, convict, malefactor, culprit. agricultural labourer. The word is chiefly companionable; on equal terms. *A good, applied to this class by the Turks in a con- fellowlike, kind, and respectful carriage.' cious; proceeding from a depraved heart. temptuous sense, as 'clown' or 'boor' is Carew. Vain shows of love to vail his felor hate. Pope, with us. Fellowly (fel'lő-li), a. Fellowlike. (Rare.) 2. Traitorous; disloyal. Feller (fel'ér), n. One who fells; one who Mine eyes, even sociable to the show of thine, Felonious (fe-lo'ni-us), a. 1. Malignant; hews or knocks down. Fall fellowly drops. Shak. malicious; indicating or proceeding from a Fellic, Fellinic (fel’lik, fel-lin'ik), a. (L. fel, Fellowship (fello-ship), n. 1. The condi- depraved heart or evil purpose; villanous; fellis, gall.] Epithet of an acid obtained tion or relation of being a fellow or asso- traitorous; perfidious; as, a felonious deed. from bile; as, fellic or fellinic acid. ciate; companionship; society; consort ; 2. In law, done with the deliberate purpose Fellifluous (fel-i'flū-us), a. (L. fel, felis, mutual association of persons on equal and to commit a crime; as, felonious homicide. gall, and fluo, to flow.) Flowing with gall. friendly terms; close intercourse; commu- Feloniously (fe-lo'ni-us-li), adv. In a feloFell-lurking (fel'lerk-ing), a. Lurking with pion. nious manner; with the deliberate intention a fell purpose. Fell-lurking curs.' Shak. Men are made for society and mutual fellowship. to commit a crime. Indictments for capital Calamy. Fellmonger (fel'mung-ger), n. A dealer in 2. Partnership; joint interest; the state or offences must state the fact to be done felofells or hides. niously. Fellness (fel'nes), n. (See FELL, cruel.) condition of having a common share; as, fel. Feloniousness (fe-lo'ni-us-nes), n. The quaCruelty: tierce barbarity; rage; unflinchinglowship in pain.-3. Fitness and fondness for lity of being felonious. ness; ruthlessness. festive entertainments: with good prefixed. Felonoust (fel'on-us), a. See FELLONOUS. For fellness of purpose commend me to an old He had by his good fellowship ... made himself Felonry (fel'on-ri), n. A body of felons; speman. Perhaps the causes of this felloiess are that he popular with all the officers of the army. Clarendon. cifically, the convict population of Australia, has outlived sentiment; has acquired a great dis- 4. A body of companions or fellows; an asso- more particularly those who remained after trust of the world. Sir Arthur Helps. ciation of persons having the same tastes, the expiry of their term of conviction. The Felloe (fello). See FELLY. occupations, or interests; a band; a com- felonry of New South Wales.' James Mudie. Fellon (fel'on), 12. A whitlow. pany Felonwort (fel'on - wert), n. A common Fellont (fel'on), a. (See Felon.) Sharp; The great contention of the sea and skies name of Solanum Dulcamara, or bitterParted our fellowship. Shak. sweet, given to it because it was employed bound together by public and private ties, so re for curing whitlows, called in Latin jurunThose two were foes the fellonest on ground. culi or little felons. Spenser. Fellonous t (fel'on-us), a. Wicked feloni. it had been scattered by calamities inore bitter than Felony (fel'on-i), n. [See FELON.] 1. In the bitterness of death. Macaulay. ous. With fellonous despight and fell in law, a crime which occasions the forfeiture tent.' Spenser. 5. In arith. the rule of proportions, by which of lands or goods, or both, and for which a Fellow (fel'lo), n. [O E. felaghe, felawe, from the accounts of partners in business are ad- capital or other punishment may be inflicted, Icel. félagi, a partner, a sharer in goods, justed, so that each partner may have a share in accordance with the degree of guiltfrom félag, a community of goods, from fé, of gain or sustain a share of loss, in proportion 2. A body of felons. money, fee, and lag, partnership, compact.] to his part of the stock. It proceeds upon Felsite (fel’sit), n. A species of felstone, of 1. A companion; an associate. the principle established in the doctrine of a blue or green colour, found amorphous, proportion, that the sum of all the ante- associated with quartz and mica; in fact In youth I had twelve fellows, like myself. Ascham. cedents of any number of equal ratios is to several felsites of German writers are more 2. One of the same kind. the sum of all the consequents, as any one correctly gneissose rocks. A shepherd had one favourite dog; he fed him with of the antecedents is to its consequent.- Felspar, Feldspar(fel'spär, feld'spår), n. [G. his own hand, and took more care of him than of his 6. An establishment in some college (as feld, field, and spath, spar.) A mineral widely fellows. Sir R. L'Estrange. those in Cambridge and Oxford) which en- distributed, and usually of a foliated struc3. An equal in rank; a peer; a compeer. titles the holder (called a fellow) to a share ture, consisting of silica and alumina, with His fellows late shall be his subjects now.' in their revenues. Fellowships vary in potash, soda, or lime. It is a principal conFairfax. value from about £30 to £250 a year and stituent in all igneous and metamorphic If he be not fellow with the best king, thou shalt upwards, and they all confer upon their rocks, as granite, gneiss, porphyry, greenfind the best hing of good fellows. Shak. holders the right to apartments in the col- stone, trachyte, felstone, &c. When in 4. One of a pair, or of two things used toge- lege, and certain privileges as to commons crystals or crystalline masses it is very susther and suited to each other; thus, of a pair or meals. Though many fellowships are ceptible of mechanical division at natural of gloves we call one the fellow of the other. tenable for life, in general they are forfeited joints. Its hardness is a little inferior to 5. One equal or like another in endowments, by the holder's attaining a certain position that of quartz. There are several varieties, qualifications, or character. in the church or at the bar, or upon mar- as common feldspar or orthoclase, the type With a courage undaunted may I face my last day, riage. In this last case, however, a fellow of an acid group containing from 7 to 16 And when I am dead, may the better sort say, may retain his fellowship by a special vote per cent. of potash; albite and oligoclase, In the morning when sober, in the evening when of the college. Except in the single case of mellow; soda felspars, the quantity of soda exceedHe's gone, and not left behind him his fellow.' Downing College, Oxford, where graduates ing that of lime; labradorite and anorthite, Dr. W. Pope. of Oxford and Cambridge are eligible, fel- lime felspars, the quantity of lime in the FELSPATH 261 FENCE The qua latter amounting to 20 per cent. Compact a young girl, from femina, a woman, one ties which, though they may be proper and fel par is the old term for what is now who brings forth; from the root fe, whence becoming in a woman, are to some extent known as felstone (which see). Called also fetus, fecundus.] 1. Among animals, one of disgraceful in a man. Felixpath, Felxpath, that sex which conceives and brings forth Femininet(fem'in-in), n. A female; a woman; Felspath (fel'spath), n. See FELSPAR. young. female sex. Felspathic, Felspathose (fel-spath'ik, fel- A child of our grandmother Eve, a female; or for And not fill the world at once spath'os), a. Pertaining to felspar or con- thy more sweet understanding, a woman. Shak. With men, as angels, without feminine. Milton. taining it: a term applied to any mineral in 2. Among plants, that which produces fruit; Femininely (fem'in-in-li), adv. In a feminwhich felspar predominates. Written also that which bears the pistil and receives the ine manner. Feldspathic, Feldspathose'. pollen of the male flowers. Feminineness (fem'in-in-nes), n. Felstone (fel'ston), n. (Fel in felspar, and Female (fè'mal), a. 1. Belonging to the sex lity of being feminine. Coleridge. stone.) A name introduced by Professor which produces young; not male; as, a fe- Femininism (fem'in-in-izm), n. State of Sedgwick to design those rocks composed of male bee.—2. Pertaining to or characteristic being feminine. Phrenolog Jour. felspar and quartz. It may be compact and of females; as, a female hand or heart; fe- Femininity (fem-in-in'i-ti), n. Feminity amorphous or vitreous, as pitchstone. It is, male tenderness. (Rare.) among the older strata, what trachyte is in The loved perfections of a female mind. Collins. Feminismt (fem'in-izm), n. The qualities the later tertiary or recent deposits. If to her share some fernale errors fall, of females. Felt (ielt), pret. & pp. of feel. Look in her face, and you'll forget thein all. Pope. Feminiteet (fem-in'i-ti), n. The quality of Felt (felt), n. (A. Sax. felt, G. filz, D. vilt, the female sex. 3. Feminine ; soft; delicate; weak. – 4. In • Trained up in trew femi. felt; allied to Gr. pilos, wool wrought into mitee.' Spenser. bot. pistil-bearing: pistillate; producing pisfelt, and to L. pileus, a felt hat or cap. tillate flowers. - Female joint, the socket or To make wo Feminizet (fem'in-iz), v.t. From the Teut, was derived the L. L. filtrum, manish. Sir T. More. facet-piece of a spigot-and-facet joint. - F'ewhence Fr. feutre, felt, and E. filter.) 1. A male rhymes, double rhymes, such as mo Femme-de-chambre (fam-de-shän-br), n. cloth or stuff made of wool, or wool and tion, notion, the second syllable being short; (Fr.) A chambermaid. hair or fur, matted or wrought into a com so called from the French, in which lan: Femoral (fem'o-ral), a. [L. femoralis, from pact substance by rolling, beating, and presguage they end in e feminine. - Female femur, the thigh.) Belonging to the thigh; sure, generally with lees or size.-2. A hat screw, a screw with grooves or channels; a as, the femoral artery: femoral bone. made of wool felted. concave screw having a helical groove in it, Femur (fē'mér), n. (L., the thigh.) 1. In The youth with joy unfeigned corresponding to the thread of the convex vertebrate animals, the first bone of the leg Regained the felt, and felt what he regained, Wlule to the applauding galleries grateful Pat or male screw, which works in it; the nut of or pelvic extremity.--2. In entom. the third joint of the leg, which is long, and usually Mads a low bow, and touched the ransoined hat. a screw. Fames Smith. Femalist (fē'mâl-ist), n. One devoted to the compressed. -- 3. In arch, the interstitial 3. Skin; fell. female sex; a courter of women; a gallant. space between the channels in the triglyph of the Doric order. To know whether sheep are sound or not, see that Courting her smoothly like a femalist. Marston. the felt be loose. Mortimer. Fen (fen), n. (A. Sax. fen or fenn, marsh, Femalize (fë'māl-iz), v.t. To make female Felt (felt), v.1. 1. To make cloth or stuff of mud, dirt. Comp. D. veen, G. fenne, Icel. or feminine. 'Femalized virtues' (virtues wool, or wool and hair or fur, by matting fen, fen, peat-bog, Goth. fani, mud, clay.) expressed by nouns of the feninine gender). 1. Low land overtlowed or covered wholly or the fibres together. -2. To cover with felt, Shaftesbury. as the cylinder of a steam-engine. partially with water, but producing sedge, Feme-covert, Femme-covert (fem-ku'Felt-cloth (felt'kloth), n. Cloth made of coarse grasses, or other aquatic plants; wool united without weaving. vert,) n. {Norm. Fr.) A married woman boggy land; a moor or marsh, as the Dogs in who is under covert of her husband. Felter (felt'er), v.t. or i. To clot or mat to- Femerell, Fomerell (fem'é-rel, fom'é-rel), Ireland, the fens in Lincolnshire, Kent, gether like felt. and Cambridgeshire. n. (Fr. fumerelle, from fumer, to smoke, A long canal the nuddy sen divides. Addison. His felt red locks, that on his bosom fell. Fairfax. from L fumus, smoke.) In arch. a lantern, Felt-grain (felt'grán), n. In carp. the grain dome, or cover, placed on the roof of a kit 2. A disease affecting hops, caused by a of cut timber that runs transversely to the chen, hall, &c., for the purpose of ventila quick-growing moss or mould. annular rings or plates. It is opposed to A kind of blacktion, or the escape of smoke. Fenberry (fenbe-ri), n. berry. the grain that follows as near as may be the Feme-sole, Femme-sole (fem-sol'), n. An Fen-boat (fen böt), n. unmarried woman.-Femme-sole merchant, course of the annular rings, and which is A species of boat used on fens or marshes. called quarter-grain. a woman who, by the custom of London, Fence (fens), n. (Abbrev. from defence. See Felt-hat (felt'hat), n. A hat made of wool carries on a trade on her own account. FEND.) 1. That which fends off; a wall, or felt. Femgerichte, n. See VEHMGERICHTE. Felting (felt'ing), n. 1. The process by which Femicide (fem'i-sid), n. The killing of a hedge, ditch, bank, or line of posts and rails, or of boards or pickets, intended to contine felt is made.--2. The materials of which felt woman. is made or the felt itself; felt-cloth.-3. In Feminacy (feni'in-a-si), n. Female nature; beasts from straying, and to guard a field carp. the splitting or sawing of timber by feminality: Bulwer. (Rare. ) from being entered by cattle, or from other the selt-grain. Feminal (fem'in-al), a. Female; belonging encroachments.-2. Anything to restrain enFeltmaker (felt'māk-ér), n. One whose oc trance; that which defends from attack, apto a woman. cupation is to make felt. For worth or fame, or honour feminal West. proach, or injury; security; defence; guard. Feltre (fel'ter), n. [0. Fr. (Fr. feutre), from Let us be back'd with God and with the seas, Feminality (fem-in-al'i-ti), n. The female Which he hath given for fence impregnable. Shak. L. filtrum. See FELT.) An ancient sort of nature. Coleridge. A fence betwixt us and the victor's wrath. Addison. cuirass made of wool or felt. Feminatet (fem'in-át), a. Feminine. Ford. Felucca (fe-luk'a), n. [It. Felucca, feluca, from Femineity (fem-in-e'i-ti), n. Female nature: 3. The art of self-defence, especially by the Ar. felakah, from fulk, a ship.) A long, feminality. Coleridge." (Rare.) sword; fencing; skill in fencing or swordFeminescence (fem-in-es'sens), n. play; hence, rig. skill in argument and re. [From L. fæmina, a female.] The partee, especially adroitness in exonerating possession or assumption of cer one's self and baffling an opponent's at tacks. I bruised my shin th'other day with playing at sword and dagger with a master of fence, Shak. Feminie,t n. The country of the Enjoy your dear wit, and gay rhetoric, That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence. Milton. 4. A purchaser or receiver of stolen goods. Chancer. 5. In tools, mach. &c., a guard, guide, or Feminine (fem'in-in), a. (L. fem. gauge, to regulate or restrict movement. ininus, feminine, from femina, a Ring fence, a fence which encircles a large woman. See FEMALE.) 1. Per- area, as that of a whole estate. taining to a woman or to women, Fence (fens), v.t. pret. & pp. fenced; ppr. or to the female sex; having the fencing. 1. To inclose with a hedge, wall, or 9 CITII qualities belonging to a woman; anything that prevents the escape or enas, feminine grace; the feminine trance of cattle; to secure by an inclosure. sex. He hath fenced my way that I cannot pass. Her letters are remarkably deficient in Job xix. 8. feminine ease and grace. 2. To guard; to fortify. Macaulay. Her heavenly form During the whole course of James' reign, all the venerable associations by which the throne had long Angelic, but more soft and feminine, Milton. Macaulay. narrow vessel, rigged with two lateen sails 2. Effeminate; destitute of manly qualities. 3. To ward off or parry by argument or reaborne on masts which have an inclination Ninus was no an of war at all, but altogether fe. soning. forward, and capable of being propelled also Minne. kalcih. Reasoning of a very similar character is, however, by oars, of which it carries from eight to 3. In gram. denoting the gender of words nearly as common now as it was in his time, and does twelve on each side. Feluccas are seldom which signify females, or the terminations duty largely as a means of fencing off disagreeable decked; but in the stern they have an awn- of such words. Words are said to be of the conclusions. 3. S. Jull. ing or little house for shelter. The cutwater feminine gender when they denote females, -- To fence a court, in the phraseology of the terminates in a long beak. Feluccas are or have the terminations used to denote ancient law of Scotland, is to open the parused where great speed is required, as for females in any given language. Thus in liament or a court of law. This was done in carrying despatches. They were once very Latin, dominus, a lord, is masculine; but his majesty's name by the use of a particucommon in the Mediterranean, but are domina, a mistress, is feminine.---- Feminine, lar form of words. - To fence the tables, a rapiilly disappearing. Effeminate. The former is usually applied phrase used in the Church of Scotland to Felwort (fel' wért), 11. [Perhaps a corrup- to females only, in whom the qualities ex- signify the delivery of a solemn address to tion of fieldıcort.) A common name for the pressed by it are natural and commendable; intending communicants at the Lord's table species of gentian (which see). while the latter is applied to the male sex immediately before dispensing the comFemale (fe'mäl), 12. (Fr. femelle, L. femella, only, as a term of censure, implying quali- munion, admonishing them of the feelings FENCE 262 FEOFFMENT a appropriate to the occasion, and of the of lending on interest. -2. The interest or Canada with equally little success. The danger they incur by partaking of the gain of that which is lent. last was made in 1871, since which date elements unworthily. Fenestella (fe-nes-tel'la), n. [L., dim. of Fenianism has quietly collapsed. Fence (fens), v.i. 1. To practise the art of fenestra, a window.) 1. In R. Cath. Ch. Fenian (fē’ni-an), a. of or belonging to fencing; to use a sword or foil for the pur- the niche on the south side of an altar, con- Fenianism or the Fenians; as, a Fenian pose of learning the art of attack and de outrage; a Fenian invasion. fence.-2. To fight and defend by giving and Fenianism (fe'ni-an-izn), n. The principles avoiding blows or thrusts. or politics of the Fenians. They fence and push, and pushing, loudly roar. Fenks (fengks), n. The ultimate refuse of Their de wlaps and their sides are bathed in gore. whale-blubber. It is valued as a manure, Dryden. and it has been proposed to use it for mak3. To raise a fence; to guard. - 4. Fig. to ing Prussian blue, as also for the production parry arguments; to strive by equivocation of ammonia. to baffle an examiner and conceal the truth: Fen-land (fen'land), n. Marshy land. said of a dishonest witness. Fenman (fen'man), n. One who lives in Fenced (fenst), p. and a. Inclosed with a fens or marshes. fence; guarded; fortified. Fennec (fen'nek), n. [Moorish name. ) A digiAnd our little ones shall dwell in the fenced cities be. tigrade carnivore (Megalotis), forming a subcause of the inhabitants of the land. Num. xxxii, 17. genus of the genus Canis in the section with Fenceful (fens'fyl), a. Affording defence. round pupils. It is found in North Africa. Fenceless (fens'les), a. 1. Without a fence; Called also Zerda (which see). uninclosed; unguarded; open; as, the fence Fennel (fen'nel), n. [A. Sax. finol, finugl, less ocean. like G. Jenchel, borrowed from the L fænieThis now senceless world ulum, fennel, dim. from fænum, hay.) A Forfeit to Death. Milton. fragrant plant, Foeniculum vulgare, culFence-month (fens'munth), n. A month in tivated in gardens, belonging to the nat. which hunting in a forest is prohibited. order t'mbellifera. It bears umbels of Pencer (fens'ér), n. 1. One who fences; one small yellow flowers, and has finely-divided who teaches or practises the art of fencing leaves. The fruit, or, in common language, with sword or foil. -2. A horse good at leap the seeds, are carminative, and frequently ing fences: said generally of a hunter. Fencstella with Piscina. employed in medicine, and the leaves when Fence-roof (fens’röf), n. A roof or covering boiled are in some parts of England served intended as a defence. Holland taining the piscina, and frequently also the with mackerel.-Giant fennel, a popular Fencible (fens'i-bl), a. Capable of being credence. -2. In zool. an extinct genus of name for Ferula comununis, which attains defended or of making defence. No fort fan-like polyzoa, very abundant in palæozoic sometimes a height of 15 feet. so fencible, nor walls so strong.' Spenser. rocks. Fennel - flower (fen'nel- flou-er), n. The Let fencible men, each party in its own range of Fenestra (fē-nes'tra), n. (L.) 1. A window; English name of plants of the genus Nigella, streets, keep watch and ward all night. Carlyle. an aperture; an entry into any place.-2. In given on account of their finely-cut leaves, Pencible (fens'i-bl), n. A soldier for defence anat. the same as Foramen. resembling those of fennel. of the country against invasion, and not Fenestral (fe-nes'tral), n. [From It. fenes- Fennel-giant (fen'nel-ji-ant), n. Giant fenliable to serve abroad; as, a regiment of trella, dim. of fenestra, a window.) A small nel. See FENNEL fencibles. window; also, the framed blinds of cloth Fennel-water (fen'nel-wa-ter), n. A spirituFencing (fens'ing), n. 1. The art of using or canvas that supplied the place of glass ous liquor prepared from fennel-seed. skilfully a sword or foil in attack or defence. previous to the introduction of that mate- Fennish (fen'ish), a. Full of fens; fenny: 2. Material used in making fences.-3. That rial. marshy. which fences; especially, a protection put Fenestral, Fenestrate (fë-nes'tral, fē-nes'. Fenny (fen'i), a. 1. Having the character of round a dangerous piece of machinery; brat trat), a. (L fenestralis, from fenestra, a a fen; boggy; marshy; moorish. tishing window.) 1. Pertaining to a window.-2. In But a hov'ring vapour Fen-cress (fen'kres), n. Cress growing in entom. a term applied to the naked hyaline That covers for a while the fenný pool. 7. Baillie. fens. transparent spots on the wings of butterflies. 2. Inhabiting fens or growing in fens; Fen-cricket (fen' krik-et), n. Gryllotalpa 3. In bot. applied to leaves in which the abounding in fens; as, fenny brake. Balmy vulgaris, an insect that digs for itself a cellular tissue does not completely fill up fern, and rushes fenny.' Keats. “A senny little hole in the ground; the mole-cricket. the interstices between the veins, thus snake.' Shak. Fend (fend), v. t. [Contr. from defend, from leaving openings. Fennystones (fen'i-stönz), n. A plant. de, and obs. 1 fendo, to thrust, to strike; Fenestrated (fe-nes'trāt-ed), a. In arch. Fenowed + (fen'õd), a. [A. Sax. finie, gefineseen also in offendo, infensus. The root fen having windows; windowed; characterized god, decayed; D. vinnig, rancid, mouldy. is the same with Skr. root kan for dhan, by windows. — Fenestrated membrane, in Wedgwood suggests a connection with Gael to strike.) To keep off ; to prevent from anat. a term applied to that form of the fineag, fionag, a cheese-mite.) Corrupted; entering; to ward off; to shut out: usually elastic tissue of the middle or contractile decayed; mouldy: another form of Vinnewed. followed by off; as, to fend off blows. coat of the arteries, in which it presents a Dr. Favour, 1619. With fern beneath to fend the bitter cold. Dryden. homogeneous membrane, the meshes of Fensiblet (fens'i-bl), a. Fencible. Spenser. Fend (fend), v.i. 1. To act in opposition; to Fenestration (fe-nes-tra'shon), n. 1. The which appear as simple perforations. Fent (fent), n. [Fr. fente, a slit.] The open ing left in an article of dress, as in the resist; to party; to shift off. Locke. -2. To act of making windows.-2. In arch. a design sleeve of a shirt, at the top of the skirt in a provide or shift for one's self. [Scotch. ] in which the windows are arranged to form gown, &c., for the convenience of putting it But gie them guid cow-inilk their fill, the principal feature; the series or arrange- on; a placket. Till they be fit to send themsel'. Burns. ment of windows in a building. Fenugreek (fē'nū-grēk), n. [L fænum Fend (fend), n. The shift which one makes Fenestrule (fë-nes'tröl), n. (L. fenestrula, græcum, Greek hay] A plant, Trigonella for one's self, whether for sustenance or in dim. of fenestra, a window.) In zool. one fænum græcum, whose bitter and mucilany other respect. [Scotch.) of the spaces inclosed by the intersecting aginous seeds are used in veterinary pracI'm thinking wi' sic a braw fallow, branches of polyzoa. tice. In poortith I inight mak' a fen'. Burns. Fen-fowl (fen'soul), n. Any fowl that fre- Feod (fūd), n. A feud (which see). Fendt (fend), n. A fiend; an enemy; the quents fens. Feodal (fūd'al), a. Feudal (which see). devil. Chaucer. Fengeld + (fen'geld), n. (E. fend, to ward Feodality (fūd-al'i-ti), n. Feudal tenure; Fendacet (fend'ās), n. A protection for the off, and O. E. geld, money.) În old law, an the feudal system. See FEUDALITY. throat, afterwards replaced by the gorget. impost or tax for the repelling of enemies. Feodary (fūd'a-ri), n. 1. One who holds Fender (fend'ér), n. He who or that which Fengite (fen'jit), n. A kind of transparent lands of a superior, on condition of suit and fends or wards off; especially, (a) a utensil alabaster or marble, sometimes used for service. (Rare.) See FEUDATORY.-2.1 A employed to hinder coals of fire from rolling windows. confederate. Shak.-3. An ancient officer forward to the floor. (6) Naut. a piece of Fen-goose (fen'gös), n. A species of wild of the court of wards, who was present with timber, bundle of rope, or something else, goose that frequents fens, the Anser ferus, the escheator in every county at the finding hung over the side of a vessel to prevent it or gray-lag goose. of offices of lands, and who gave evidence from being injured by rubbing against any Fenian (fe'ni-an), n. [A name assumed from for the king both as to the value and tenure body. Ir. Fionna, a race of superhuman heroes in of the land Fender-bolt (fend'ér-bõlt), n. Naut. a pin Irish legendary history. See FION.) A per- Feodatory (fūd'a-to-ri), n. Same as Feudaor bolt with a long and thick head, stuck son belonging to an association, which had tory into the outermost bends or wales of a ship its origin in America among the refugees Feoff (fef), v.t. [L.L. feoffare; Fr. fieffer. to protect her from injury. from Ireland after the outbreak of 1848, See FEE) To invest with a fee or feud; to Fender-pile (fend'ér-pil), n. One of a series and the object of which was the erec- give or grant to one any corporeal hereditaof piles driven to protect works either on tion of Ireland into an independent repub- ment; to enfeoff. land or water from the concussion of moy- lic. Fenianism rapidly spread itself over Feoff (fef), 1. A fief. See FIEF. ing bodies. the United States, the Irish disaffected to Feoffee (fef'fë), n. A person who is infeoffed, Fendliche, t a. Fiend-like; devilish. Chau- Britain forming themselves into district that is, invested with a fee or corporeal clubs, called 'circles,' each presided over hereditament. Fen-duck (fen'duk),n. A species of wild duck by a centre,' the whole organization being Feoffer, Feoffor (fef'ér), n. One who eninhabiting marshy ground; the shoveller. directed by a 'senate,' whose president was feoffs or grants a fee. Fendy. (fend'i), a. Clever in providing. the head centre.' This association pro- Feoffment (fef' ment), 1. (L.L feoffa[Scotch.) pagated itself rapidly over Ireland also, as mentum, from feoffare. See FEE.) In law, Feneratet (fen'er-āt), v.i. (L. fenero, fener- well as in the large towns of Britain having (a) the grant of a feud or an estate in trust. atum, to lend on interest, from fenus, what a considerable Irish element. In 1865, 1866, See FEUD. (6) That mode of conveying the is produced or gained from anything, from and 1867 the Fenians made several abortive property in lands, or corporeal hereditafe, root of fetus, fecundus, &c. See FE- attempts at risings, chiefly under the leader- ments in possession, where the land passes CUND.) To put to use; to lend on interest. ship of Irish Americans. From America by livery in deed, that is, actual delivery of a Feneration (fen-er-a'shon), n. 1. The act two or three raids were attempted upon portion of the land, as a twig or a turf; or cer. FER 263 FERMILLET Plagues and Ferie,+ n. ness. when the parties, being on the land, the Fergusonite (férʻgus-on-it), n. (After Mr. to boil up, to foam. See FERVENT.] 1. Any feoffer expressly gives it to the feoffee. As Ferguson of Raith.) A brownish black ore substance, as a fungus, whose presence in the statute of uses has introduced a more consisting mainly of columbic acid and another body produces the phenomena of convenient mode of conveyance, feoffments yttria. It occurs in quartz near Cape Fare- fermentation. See FERMENTATION.-2. A are now rarely used except by corporations. well, Greenland. gentle boiling, or the internal motion of the See LIVERY, SEIZIN, SASINE. Feriæ (fē'ri-e), n. pl. [L] In Rom. antiq. constituent parts of a fluid. (Rare.)-3. ComCould his grants, if not in themselves null, avail holidays, during which free Romans sus- motion; heat; tumult; agitation; as, to put against his posterity, heirs like himself under the pended their political transactions and law- the passions in a ferment; the state or great feod'ment of creation? Hallam. suits, and slaves enjoyed a cessation from people are in a ferment. “The nation is in (c) The instrument or deed by which cor labour. The feriæ were thus dies nefasti. too high a ferment. Dryden. poreal hereditaments are conveyed. They were divided into two classes, feria Ferment (fér-ment'), v.t. (L. fermento, from Fer, t ade. Far. Chaucer. publicæ and privatæ. The latter were ob. fermentum. See the noun.) To cause ferFeracious (fé-ra'shus), a. (L. ferax, from served by single families or individuals in mentation or agitation in; to set in motion; lero, to bear.) Fruitful; producing abuncommemoration of some particular event to warm; to excite. While youth ferments dantly. (Rare.) of consequence to themselves or their ances the blood.' Pope. Ferment (fér-ment'), v.i. 1. To effervesce; Nursd on feracious Algidum, Thomson. secrated to any deity, and consequently all to undergo fermentation; to be excited into Feracity (fé-ras'i-ti), n. [L. feracitas, from days on which public festivals were held. sensible internal motion, as the constituent ferax, fruitful.] Fruitfulness. Beattie. [Rare.) The manner in which the public feriæ were particles of an animal or vegetable fuid; to Feræ (feʼrë), n. pl. [L.] The third order kept bears great analogy to our observance work. -- 2. Fig. to be in agitation; to be exof Mammalia according to Linnæus, placed of Sunday, the people visiting the temples cited, as by violent emotions or passions between the orders Bruta and Glires. The of the gods and offering prayers and sacri. or great problems. But finding no redress, fices. order is distinguished as follows: upper in ferment and rage. Milton. cisor teeth, six, rather acute; canine teeth, Ferial (feʼri-al), a. [L. ferialis, from feriæ, The intellect of the age was a fermenting intellect. solitary. It contains ten genera, and correholidays.) Pertaining to holidays or to De Quincey. common days: specifically, in Scotland, for. Fermentability (fer-ment'a-bil''li-ti), n. sponds to the Insectivora, Carnivora, Diarsupialia, and Lenures. merly applied to those days in which it was Feræ naturæ (fe' ré na-tū're). [L] Of a not lawful for courts to be held or any judi. Fermentable (fer-ment'a-bl), a. Capability of being fermented. Capable wild nature: applied in law to animals living Feriation+ (fe-ri-a'shon), n. [L. ferior, fericial step to be taken of fermentation; thus, cider, beer of all in a wild state, such as the hare, deer, or kinds, wine, and other vegetable liquors, pheasants, as distinguished from domestiatus, to keep holiday, from ferice, holidays. are fermentable. See Fair, a market.] The act of keeping Fermentalt (fér-mental), a. Having power cated animals, as the cow, horse, sheep, poultry, &c. holiday; cessation from work. "As though to cause fermentation. * The vital acidity Feral (fé'ral), a. (L. feralis, pertaining to there were any feriation in nature.' Dug. and fermental activity of the stomach.' Sir dale. the dead, deadly. ) Funereal; pertaining to T. Browne funerals; mournful; fatal. [0. Fr. ferie, from L. feria, a Fermentation (fér-ment-a'shon), 11. (L. L. many feral diseases.' Burton. holiday. ] 1. A holiday. Bullokar. -- 2. A fermentatio, from L. fermento, fermen. Feral (fé'ral), a. week-day. Wycliffe. (L. sera, a wild beast.) tatum. ) 1. The conversion of an organic A term applied to wild animals descended Feriert (fē'ri-er), a. Fierier; fiercer. ‘Rhenus substance into new compounds in prefrom tame stocks, or to animals having beferier than the cataract.' Marston. sence of a ferment. Fermentation differs come wild from a state of domestication, or Ferine (fê'rin), a. (L. ferinus, from fera, a in ind according to the nature of the plants from a state of cultivation; as, feral wild beast.] Wild; untamed; savage. Lions, substance which promotes it. Sugar in pigs. “Darwin's feral rabbits.' Edin. Rev. tigers, wolves, and bears are ferine beasts.' solution is liable to two principal kinds Hale. Ferd, Pered, pp. of fere. Terrified. of fermentation (vinous and lactic), both Chaucer. Ferine (fé'rin), n. A wild beast; a beast of of which are probably due to the growth Ferde, pret. of fare. Fared. Chaucer. prey. in the liquid of a mould or fungus. Fer In the manner of Per-de-lance (fer-de-läns), n. [Fr., iron of Perinely (feʼrin-li), adv. mentation may be checked or altogether wild beasts. a lance, lance-head. ] The lance - headed prevented by anything which prevents the viper or Craspedocephalus (Bothrops) lan. Ferineness (fē'rīn-nes), n. Wildness; savage growth of the fungus, as by keeping away ceolatus, a serpent common in Brazil and from the liquid the spores or germs from some of the West Indian Islands, and one Feringee, Feringhee (fe-ring'gē), n2. [Pro which the fungus springs, by the liquid of the most terrible members of the rattlebably a corruption of Frank.] The name being either too hot or too cold for its snake family (Crotalidae). It is 5 to 7 given to Englishmen by the Hindus. development, by its containing too much feet in length, and is capable of execut The first instalment of these notorious cartridges sugar, or by the presence of a substance ing considerable springs when in pursuit ... were without doubt abundantly offensive to the (called an antiseptic) which acts as a Feringhees as well as to the Faithful. of prey or of some object which has irri Capt. Mowbray Thomson. poison on the fungus. Vinous fermentatatel it. Its bite is almost certainly fatal, Ferio (fē'ri-6), n. [A mnemonic word.). In tion is produced by the growth of the the only antidoto of any avail being said to yeast-plant (see YEAST); lactic fermenta. logic, a mode in the first figure of syllogisms be ardent spirits. When a person is bit tion is due to the presence in the liquid of consisting of a universal negative, a partihe is kept in a continual state of semi Penicillium glaucum (common blue mould). intoxication, with the view of counteracting Periso, Ferison (fé- ris'o, fë-ris'on), n. cular affirmative, and a particular negative. In vinous fermentation the sugar is conthe paralyzing effeet of the poison upon the verted into carbonic acid and alcohol, the nerves. [Mnemonic word.] In logic, a mode in the It infests sugar plantations, and is nitrogenous element being assimilated by dreaded alike by man and beast. The tail third figure of syllogism, closely allied to the rapidly developing ova of the ferment. ferio (which see). ends in a horny spine, which scrapes harshly Ferityt (fèri-ti), n. [L. feritas, from ferus, Lactic fermentation takes place in milk in against rough objects, but does not rattle. wild.] Wildness; savageness; cruelty. the process of becoming sour, when the Ferden,t pret. pl. of fare. Fared. Chaucer. sugar of the milk is converted into lactic Ferlie, Ferely (fér'li), n. (A. Sax, færlic, Ferdigéwt (fér'di-gū), n. [See FARTHIN. acid. (See under LACTIC.) Acetous fersudden, mexpected--fær, sudden, fearful, GALE) A farthingale. Udall. and lic, like.) A wonder; a strange event or mentation occurs in liquids which have Ferdness,t n. The state of being afraid; already undergone vinous fermentation. object. [Old and Provincial English and fearfulness. Chaucer. When exposed to the atmosphere such Scotch.) Ferdwitt (férd'wit), n. (A. Sax. ferd, an liquids become sour, and vinegar is pro Whare ye gaun, ye crawlin' ferlie! Burns. army, an expedition, and wite, punishment.] duced. This change is probably due to the 1. Aquitment for manslaughter in the army. Ferlie,+ Ferlyt (fér' li), a. Wonderful; growth of a fungus, Mycoderma aceti (the 2. A fine imposed on persons for not going strange. vinegar-plant). Other kinds of fermentation forth in a military expedition. Ferlie, Ferly (fér’li), v.i. To wonder. are benzoic fermentation, in which, amongst Feret (fér), n. [A. Sax fera or gefera, a com- [Scotch.) other matters, the essential oil of bitter panion.] A fellow; a mate; a peer; a hus Tell what new taxation's comin', almonds is formed; and sinapic fermentaband; a wife. Chaucer. An' ferlie at the folk in Lon'on. Burus tion, occurring in mustard moistened with water, during which oil of mustard is proWas linked, and by him had many pledges dere. the fourth part of anything.) In old law, a duced. For an explanation of fermentation, Spenser. fourth; a fourth part; a farthing. in relation to the origin and spread of conFere, t n. Fear. Chaucer. Ferling-noble (fèrʻling-nõ'bl), n. [See FER- tagious diseases, see GERM THEORY.-2. Fig. Fere,+ v.t. To fear; to terrify. Chaucer. LING and NOBLE.] The quarter-noble, an the state of being in high activity or comFere, n. Fire. Chaucer. English gold coin of the reign of Edward III. motion; agitation; excitement, as of the Feretɔry (fe're-to-ri), n. [L. feretrum, a bier of the value of 20d. It bore on the obverse intellect or feelings, a society, &c. or litter, from an escutcheon with the arms of France and The founders of the English Church wrote and sero, bear, England, quarterly, within a rose, and on acted in an age of violent intellectual fermentation formed on and of constant action and reaction. the reverse the cross and lions, without the Macaulay. model of Gr. crowns, and a fleur-de-lis within the lesser Fermentative(fér-ment'a-tiv), a. 1. Causing pheretron, from rose in the centre. or having power to cause fermentation; as, phero, to bear, to Ferly,t n. and a. See FERLIE. fermentatire heat. ---2. Consisting in or procarry.) A shrine Ferm, Fermet (fèrm), n. 1. A farm or rent. duced by fermentation; as, fermentative made of gold or 2. A lodging; a place of abode. See FARM. process. The liquor experiences no ferother metal, or mentative change. Ure. His sinfull sowle with desperate disdaine of wood, various Out of her fleshly ferme tied to the place of pain. Fermentativeness (fér-ment'a-tiv-nes), n. ly adorned, and Spenser The state of being fermentative. usually in the Fermacie, t n. (See PHARMACY.) A medi- Fermentescible (fér-ment-es'si-bl), n. A shape of a ridy. Feretory. body capable of being fermented. ed chest, with a Fermata (fer-ma'tä), n. In music, a pause Fermerere,t n. [See INFIRMARY.) The roof - like top, for containing the relics of at the close of an air, usually accompanied officer in a religious house who had the saints. It is borne in processions. by an extempore embellishment. care of the infirmary Chaucer. Ferforth,t Ferforthly, adv. Far forth. Ferment (ferment), n. (L. fermentum, for Fermillet (fér'mil-let). n. (O. Fr. dim. of Chaucer | fercimentum, from fervo or ferveo, to boil, ferincil, a clasp, from fermer, to make fast, to the FERN 264 FERRUGO race. to fasten, from ferme, fast; L. firmus, firm, Nineveh and Babylon, at Persepolis, &c. to drive them out of their holes.-2. In stable.) A buckle or clasp. Sometimes it simply appears as a winged glass manuf. the iron used to try the melted Fern (férn ), n. [A. Sax. fearn, O.H.G. circle; at others it consists of the demi-figure matter to see if it is fit to work and to make faram, farm, faren, farn, G. farn, far- of the god, with expanded wings, and in the the rings at the mouths of bottles. ren, D. varen-fern; perhaps allied to Gr. act of discharging an arrow from his bow; Ferret (fe'ret), v.t. 1. To drive out of a lurking pteris, a kind of fern, pteron, a feather, and this is the highest or most æsthetical place, as a ferret does the rabbit. Hence wing.) One of a large group of vascular of its various developments. A similar 2. Fig. to search out by perseverance and cryptogamous plants, constituting the nat. figure or symbol has also been found on cunning: followed by out; as, to ferret out a order Filices. They monuments in Mexico and Central America. secret. are herbaceous,rare Fer Oligiste (fer ol-e-zhëst), n. (Fr.) (Fe,02.) The Inquisition ferreted out and drove into banish. ly shrubby or arbor The mineralogical name of that variety of ment some considerable remnants of that unfortunate escent plants, someanhydrous red oxide of iron, otherwise H. Swinburne. times with long called Specular Iron Ore, from which the 'Ferret (fe'ret) n. [By loss of ! from Fr. creeping rhizomes. well-known Swedish, Russian, and Elba irons fleuret, coarse ferret-silk.) A kind of narrow The leaves, called are prepared. It occurs in primary rocks. tape, made of woollen thread, sometimes of fronds, are simple or Feronia (fé-ro'ni-a), n. The name of an cotton or silk. more or less divided, ancient Italian goddess.] 1. In zool. according Ferreter (fe'ret-ér), n. One who ferrets or and bear on their to Latreille, an extensive genus of coleop- hunts another in his private retreat. under surface or edge terous insects, belonging to the section Ferretto (fe-ret'to), n. [It ferretto (di the capsules con Pentamera and family Carabidæ, mostly ! Spagna), dim. of ferro= L. ferrum, iron.) taining the minute of obscure colour.-2. In bot. a genus of Copper calcined with brimstone or white spores. Sometimes plants, nat. order Aurantiaceæ, containing vitriol, used in colouring glass. the spores are borne a single species, F. elephantum, the ele- Ferriage (fe'ri-āj), n. (See FERRY.) The on separate fronds phant or wood apple of India and Java, price or fare to be paid at a ferry; the conor parts of the frond. where the fruit is very generally eaten. It pensation established or paid for conveyThe number of spe is a spinous tree, with imparipinnate leaves, ance over a river or lake in a boat. cies is variously est: white flowers in loose racemes, with a Ferric (fe'rik), a. (Fr. ferrique, from L. mated at from 2500 fleshy fruit, having a hard, rough, woody' ferrum, iron.) Pertaining to or extracted to more than twice rind. A transparent oily fluid exudes from from iron. - Ferric acid, an acid of iron as many. They are Lady.fern (Athyrium the trunk of the tree when an incision is (H,Fe0), never obtained in the free states. found all over the filix femina). made into it, and is used by painters for A few salts of this acid are known and are world, but abound in mixing their colours. The tree also yields called ferrates. – Ferric oxide (Fe 03), humid temperate and tropical regions. About a clear white gum, and the wood is valuable sesquioxide of iron : this substance occurs fifty species are natives of Britain. Ferns are for its durability, whiteness, and hardness. as hæmatite, specular iron ore, &c. very abundant as fossil plants. The earli- Ferosh (fe'rosh), n. An Indian servant Ferricalcite (fe-ri-kal'sīt), n. [L. ferrum, est known forms occur in Devonian rocks, who has the care of tents, furniture, &c. iron, and calx, lime.) A species of calcareand their remains contribute largely to Simmonds. ous earth or limestone combined with a the formation of the beds of coal. Male Ferous (fē'rus), a. (L. ferus, wild.) Wild; large portion of iron, from 7 to 14 per cent. fern is Lastrea filix-mas; lady-fern, Athy- savage. (Rare.) Ferricyanic (fe'ri-si-an"ik). a. (L. ferrum, rium filix-femina; flowering-fern, Osmunda Ferrandine (ferʻran-din), n. (Fr. ferrandine, iron, and E. cyanogen.) Pertaining to or regalis ; stone or parsley - fern, Allosorus possibly from an 0. Fr. word, ferrand, an iron- derived from iron and cyanogen. Ferricrispus; bladder-fern, Cystopteris fragilis; gray horse, and transferred to the cloth from cyanic acid (H, FeCe Nc), an acid obtained bristle-fern, Trichomanes radicans, filmy- its colour.] A stuff made of wool and silk. by decomposing ferricyanide of lead with fern, the species of Hymenophyllum; hard. Ferrara (fér-rä'ra), n. A claymore or broad- sulphuric acid. fern, Blechnum boreale; holly-fern, Poly- sword of peculiarly excellent quality, named Ferricyanide (fe-ri-si'an-id), n. A salt of stichum Lonchitis ; maiden-hair fern, Adi- after a famous swordsmith of the name of ferricyanic acid. Potassium ferricyanide or antum capillus-veneris; oak-fern, Polypo- Andrea Ferrara, but whether he was a Span- red prussiate of potash is the most impordium Dryopteris; beech-fern, Polypodium iard or Italian is not determined. Genuine tant of the series. Phegopteris. Andrea Ferraras have a crown mark on the Ferriert (fe'ri-ėr), n. A ferryman. If any Fernandina (fér-nan-dē'na), n. Ferrandine blade. boteman or ferrier be dwelling in the ward.' (which see). We'll put in bail, boy; old Andrew Ferrara shall Calthrop. Fernet (férn), adv. Before. Chaucer. lodge his security. Sir IV. Scott. Ferriery (fe'ri-er-i), n. Farriery. Bp. Lowth. Fernery (férn'é-ri), n. A place where ferns Ferraria (fe-rā'ri-a), n. [In honour of J. B. Ferriferous (fe-rifér-us), a. [L. ferrum, are artificially grown. Ferrari, an Italian botanist.) A genus of iron, and fero, to produce.] Producing or Fern-owl (férn'oul), n. The common bulbous plants, nat. order Iridaceæ. They yielding iron. - Ferriferous rocks, rocks con goatsucker (Caprimulgus europaeus); the have been introduced into Europe from the taining abundance of iron ore, comprising night-jar. Cape of Good Hope. clay iron ore and iron pyrites. Fern-seed (férn'sēd), n. The or spores Ferrary + (fe'ra-ri), n. The art of working Ferril (fe'ril), n. Same as Ferrule (which of fern, formerly supposed to possess won- in iron. see). derful virtues, such as rendering a person So took she chamber, which her son, the god of Ferrilite (fe'ril-īt), n. [L. ferrum, iron, and invisible. ferrary, Gr. lithos, a stone. ] Rowley ragg, a variety Fernticle (fèrn’tik-l), n. A freckle on the With firm doors made. Chapman. of trap, containing iron in the state of oxide. skin resemhling the seed of a fern. [Provin- Ferrate (feʼrāt), n. In chem. a salt formed Ferrocyanic (fe'ro-si-an"ik), a. Pertaining cial English and Scotch.) by the union of ferric acid with a base. to or derived from iron and cyanogenFerny (iérn'i), a. Abounding or overgrown Ferre, t adv. compar. Further. Chaucer. Ferrocyanic acid (H.FeCeNe), an acid obwith fern. Ferrean, Ferreous (fe're-an, fe'rē-us), a. tained by decomposed ferrocyanide of Ferocify (fē-ros'i-fī), v.t. (L. ferox, ferocis, (L. ferreus, from ferrum, iron.] Partaking barium with sulphuric acid. fierce, and facio,' to make.) To make of, pertaining to, or made of iron; like iron. Ferrocyanide (ie-ro-si'an-id), n. A salt of ferocious. [Rare.) Ferrest, t adv. superl. Furthest. Chaucer. ferrocyanic acid. Potassium ferrocyanide Ferocious (fé-ro'shus), a. (Fr. féroce; L. Ferret (fe'ret), n. (Probably, like the G. or yellow prussiate of potash is well known. ferox, fierce, allied to ferus, wild.) 1. Fierce; frett, frettchen, 0.G. frette, furette, ferret, Ferroprussiate (fe - ro-pru'shi-át), n. A savage; wild; barbarous; ravenous; rapa compound of ferroprussic or ferrocyanic cious; as, ferocious savages; a ferocious lion. acid with a base. 2. Indicating, or expressive of, ferocity; as, Ferroprussic (fe-rõ-pru'sik), a. (L. ferrum, a ferocious look. iron, and E. prussic.) Same as Ferrocyanic. Ferociously (fő-ro'shus-li), adv. Fiercely; Ferrosoferric (fe-ro'ső-fe"rik), a. [As if from with savage cruelty. L. adjective ferrosus, from ferrum, iron, Ferociousness (fé-ro'shus-nes), n. State of and E. ferric.] In chem. a term applied to being ferocious; savage fierceness; cruelty; black or magnetic oxide (Fe,04). It occurs ferocity. in the mineral kingdom under the name of Ferocity (fē-ros'i-ti), n. (Fr. férocité; L. magnetic iron ore or native loadstone. ferocitas, ferocity, from ferox, fierce, cruel. ] Ferrotype (fe'ro-tip), n. [L. ferrum, iron, State of being ferocious; savage wildness or and Gr. typos, type.) In photog. (a) a term fierceness; fury; cruelty; as, the ferocity of applied by Mr. Robert Hunt, the discoverer, barbarians. The pride and ferocity of a to some photographic processes in which Highland chief.' Macaulay. An uncommon Ferret (Mustela furo). the salts of iron are the principal agents. ferocity in my countenance.' Addison. (6) A photograph taken on japanned sheetFeroher (fer-o'her), n. A symbol or repre- borrowed from a Romance word such as iron by a collodion process. Fr. furet, It. furetto, L. L. furectus, fure Ferruginated (fe-ru'jin-at-ed), a. (See FER- yellow colour, with red eyes. It is a native of Ferrugo (fe-rö'go), n. [See FERRUGINOUS. Feroher, from Bonomi's Nineveh and its Palaces. Africa, but has been introduced into Europe. In bot. a disease of plants, commonly called It cannot, however, bear cold, and cannot Rust. It is caused by the presence of myriads sentation of the solar deity, seen on many of subsist even in France except in a domestic of minute fungi, chiefly of the genera Credo the monuments exhumed from the ruins of state. Ferrets are used in catching rabbits, and Puccinia. |