Feeze, n. Fretful excitement. [Obs.] See Feaze.
||Feh"ling (?), n. (Chem.) See Fehling's solution, under Solution.
Feh"mic (?), a. See Vehmic.
Feign (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Feigned (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Feigning.]
[OE. feinen, F. feindre (p. pr. feignant), fr. L. fingere; akin to L.
figura figure,and E. dough. See Dough, and cf. Figure, Faint, Effigy,
Fiction.] 1. To give a mental existence to, as to something not real or
actual; to imagine; to invent; hence, to pretend; to form and relate as
if true.
There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest
them out of thine own heart.
Neh. vi. 8.
The poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods.
Shak.
2. To represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to counterfeit;
as, to feign a sickness. Shak.