2. The apparation of a living person; a wraith.

The very fetch and ghost of Mrs. Gamp.

Dickens.

Fetch candle, a light seen at night, superstitiously believed to

portend a person's death.

Fetch"er (?), n. One who fetches or brings.

Fete (ft), n. [See feat.] A feat. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Fete, n. pl. [See Foot.] Feet. [Obs.] Chaucer.

||FÍte (ft), n. [F. See Feast.] A festival.

FÍte champÍtre (&?;) [F.], a festival or entertainment in the open air;

a rural festival.

FÍte (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. FÍted; p. pr. & vb. n. FÍting.] [Cf. F.

fÍter.] To feast; to honor with a festival.

{ Fe"tich, Fe"tish (?), n. }[F. fÈtiche, from Pg. feitiÁo, adj., n.,

sorcery, charm, fr. L. facticius made by art, artifical, factitious.

See Factitious.] 1. A material object supposed among certain African

tribes to represent in such a way, or to be so connected with, a

supernatural being, that the possession of it gives to the possessor

power to control that being.

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