Fes"ti*vous (?), a. [See Festive.] Pertaining to a feast; festive. [R.]
Sir W. Scott.
Fest"lich (?), a. [See Feast, n.] Festive; fond of festive occasions.
[Obs.] "A festlich man." Chaucer.
Fes*toon" (?), n. [F. feston (cf. Sp. feston, It. festone), prob. fr.
L. festum festival. See Feast.] 1. A garland or wreath hanging in a
depending curve, used in decoration for festivals, etc.; anything
arranged in this way.
2. (Arch. & Sculp.) A carved ornament consisting of flowers, and
leaves, intermixed or twisted together, wound with a ribbon, and
hanging or depending in a natural curve. See Illust. of Bucranium.
Fes*toon", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Festooned (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Festooning.] To form in festoons, or to adorn with festoons.
Fes*toon"y (?), a. Pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling,
festoons. Sir J. Herschel.
Fes*tu*cine (? or ?), a. [L. festula stalk, straw. Cf. Fescue.] Of a
straw color; greenish yellow. [Obs.]
A little insect of a festucine or pale green.
Sir T. Browne.
Fes"tu*cous (?), a. Formed or consisting of straw. [Obs.] Sir T.
Browne.
Fes"tue (?), n. [See Fescue.] A straw; a fescue. [Obs.] Holland.
Fet (?), n. [Cf. feat, F. fait, and It. fett&?; slice, G. fetzen rag,
Icel. fat garment.] A piece. [Obs.] Dryton.
Fet, v. t. [OE. fetten, feten, AS. fetian; akin to AS. fÊt a journey,
and to E. foot; cf. G. fassen to seize. √ 77. See Foot, and cf.
Fetch.] To fetch. [Obs.]
And from the other fifty soon the prisoner fet.
Spenser.
Fet, p. p. of Fette. Fetched. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Fe"tal (?), a. [From Fetus.] Pertaining to, or connected with, a fetus;
as, fetal circulation; fetal membranes.
Fe*ta"tion (?), n. The formation of a fetus in the womb; pregnancy.
Fetch (fch; 224), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fetched 2; p. pr. & vb. n..
Fetching.] [OE. fecchen, AS. feccan, perh. the same word as fetian; or
cf. facian to wish to get, OFries. faka to prepare. √ 77. Cf.
Fet, v. t.] 1. To bear toward the person speaking, or the person or
thing from whose point of view the action is contemplated; to go and
bring; to get.
Time will run back and fetch the age of gold.
Milton.
He called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water
in a vessel, that I may drink. And as she was going to fetch it he
called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bred in
thine hand.