Feigned (?), a. Not real or genuine; pretended; counterfeit; insincere;
false. "A feigned friend." Shak.
Give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.
Ps. xvii. 1.
-- Feign"ed*ly (#), adv. -- Feign"ed*ness, n.
Her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole
heart, but feignedly.
Jer. iii. 10.
Feigned issue (Law), an issue produced in a pretended action between
two parties for the purpose of trying before a jury a question of fact
which it becomes necessary to settle in the progress of a cause.
Burill. Bouvier.
Feign"er (?), n. One who feigns or pretends.
Feign"ing, a. That feigns; insincere; not genuine; false.
-- Feign"ing*ly, adv.
Feine (?), v. t. & i. To feign. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Feint (?), a. [F. feint, p. p. of feindre to feign. See Feign.]
Feigned; counterfeit. [Obs.]
Dressed up into any feint appearance of it.
Locke.
Feint, n. [F. feinte, fr. feint. See Feint, a.] 1. That which is
feigned; an assumed or false appearance; a pretense; a stratagem; a
fetch.
Courtley's letter is but a feint to get off.
Spectator.
2. A mock blow or attack on one part when another part is intended to
be struck; -- said of certain movements in fencing, boxing, war, etc.
Feint, v. i. To make a feint, or mock attack.
||Fei`tsui" (?), n. (Min.) The Chinese name for a highly prized variety
||of pale green jade. See Jade.
Feize (?), v. t. See Feeze, v. t.
Fel"an*ders (?), n. pl. See Filanders.
{ Feld"spar` (?), Feld"spath` (?) }, n. [G. feldspath; feld field +
spath spar.] (Min.) A name given to a group of minerals, closely
related in crystalline form, and all silicates of alumina with either
potash, soda, lime, or, in one case, baryta. They occur in crystals and
crystalline masses, vitreous in luster, and breaking rather easily in
two directions at right angles to each other, or nearly so. The colors
are usually white or nearly white, flesh-red, bluish, or greenish.
The group includes the monoclinic (orthoclastic) species orthoclase or
common potash feldspar, and the rare hyalophane or baryta feldspar;
also the triclinic species (called in general plagioclase) microcline,
like orthoclase a potash feldspar; anorthite or lime feldspar; albite
or soda feldspar; also intermediate between the last two species,
labradorite, andesine, oligoclase, containing both lime and soda in
varying amounts. The feldspars are essential constituents of nearly all
crystalline rocks, as granite, gneiss, mica, slate, most kinds of
basalt and trachyte, etc. The decomposition of feldspar has yielded a
large part of the clay of the soil, also the mineral kaolin, an
essential material in the making of fine pottery. Common feldspar is
itself largely used for the same purpose.
{ Feld*spath"ic (?), Feld*spath"ose (?) }, a. Pertaining to, or
consisting of, feldspar.
Fele (?), a. [AS. fela, feola; akin to G. viel, gr. &?;. See Full, a.]
Many. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Fe*lic"ify (?), v. t. [L. felix happy + -fy.] To make happy; to
felicitate. [Obs.] Quarles.
Fe*lic"i*tate (?), a. [L. felicitatus, p. p. of felicitare to
felicitate, fr. felix, -icis, happy. See felicity.] Made very happy.
[Archaic]