FELL, fel, _adj._ cruel: fierce: bloody: deadly: keen, eager, spirited:
(_Scot._) very great, huge.--_adj._ FELL'-LURKING (_Shak._), lurking with
treacherous purpose.--_n._ FELL'NESS.--_adv._ FELL'Y. [O. Fr. _fel_,
cruel--L. _fello_. See FELON.]
FELLAH, fel'ä, _n._ an Arabic name applied contemptuously by the Turks to
the labouring or agricultural population of Egypt--descendants of the
ancient Egyptian, intermingled with Syrians, Arabs, &c.:--_pl._ FELL'AHS,
FELL'AHÎN. [Ar., 'tiller of the soil.']
FELLIC, fel'ik, _adj._ obtained from bile--also FELLIN'IC.--_adj._
FELLIF'LUOUS, flowing with gall. [L. _fel_, gall.]
FELLOE. See FELLY.
FELLONOUS, fel'lon-us, _adj._ (_Spens._) fell.--_adj._ FEL'LONEST, most
fell.
FELLOW, fel'[=o], _n._ an associate: a companion and equal: one of a pair,
a mate: a member of a university who enjoys a fellowship: a member of a
scientific or other society: an individual, a person generally: a worthless
person.--_ns._ FELL'OW-CIT'IZEN, one belonging to the same city;
FELL'OW-COMM'ONER, at Cambridge and elsewhere, a privileged class of
undergraduates, dining at the Fellows' table; FELL'OW-CREA'TURE, one of the
same race; FELL'OW-FEEL'ING, feeling between fellows or equals: sympathy;
FELL'OW-HEIR, a joint-heir.--_adv._ FELL'OWLY (_Shak._),
companionable.--_ns._ FELL'OW-MAN, a man of the same common nature with
one's self; FELL'OW-SERV'ANT, one who has the same master; FELL'OWSHIP, the
state of being a fellow or partner: friendly intercourse: communion: an
association: an endowment in a college for the support of graduates called
Fellows: the position and income of a fellow: (_arith._) the proportional
division of profit and loss among partners.--GOOD FELLOWSHIP,
companionableness; RIGHT HAND OF FELLOWSHIP, the right hand given by one
minister or elder to another at an ordination in some churches. [M. E.
_felawe_--Ice. _félagi_, a partner in goods, from _fé_ (Ger. _vieh_),
cattle, property, and _lag_, a laying together, a law. Cf. Eng. FEE, and
LAW.]
FELLY, fel'[=i], FELLOE, fel'[=o], _n._ one of the curved pieces in the
circumference of a wheel: the circular rim of the wheel. [A.S. _felg_; Ger.
_felge_.]
FELON, fel'on, _n._ one guilty of felony: a convict: a wicked person: an
inflamed sore.--_adj._ wicked or cruel.--_adj._ FEL[=O]'NIOUS, wicked:
depraved: done with the deliberate intention to commit crime.--_adv._
FEL[=O]'NIOUSLY.--_n._ FEL[=O]'NIOUSNESS, the quality of being
felonious.--_adj._ FEL'ONOUS (_Spens._), felonious.--_ns._ FEL'ONRY, a body
of felons; FEL'ONY, (_orig._) a crime punished by total forfeiture of
lands, &c.: a grave crime, beyond a misdemeanour, as that punishable by
penal servitude or death. [O. Fr.,--Low L. _fellonem_, _fello_, a traitor,
prob. L. _fel_, gall.]
FELSITE, fel's[=i]t, _n._ a fine-grained, compact rock, a variety of
quartz-porphyry--also FEL'STONE.--_adj._ FELSIT'IC. [Fr.,--Ger. _fels_,
rock.]
FELSPAR. Same as FELDSPAR.
FELT, felt, _pa.t._ and _pa.p._ of FEEL.
FELT, felt, _n._ a fabric formed without weaving, by means of the natural
tendency of the fibres of wool and certain kinds of hair to interlace with
and cling to each other.--_v.t._ to make into felt: to cover with
felt.--_v.t._ FELT'ER, to mat together like felt.--_n._ FELT'ING, the art
or process of making felt: the felt itself. [A.S. _felt_; cf. Dut. _vilt_,
Ger. _filz_.]
FELUCCA, fe-luk'a, _n._ a class of small merchant-vessels, used in the
Mediterranean, with two masts, lateen sails, and often a rudder at each
end. [It. _feluca_, which, like Fr. _felouque_, is from Ar. _fulk_, a
ship.]
FEMALE, f[=e]'m[=a]l, _adj._ of the sex that produces young: pertaining to
females: (_bot._) having a pistil or fruit-bearing organ.--_n._ one of the
female sex, a woman.--_ns._ FEMAL'ITY, FEMINAL'ITY, the female
nature.--_adj._ FEM'INAL.--_n._ FEMIN[=E]'ITY, the quality of being
female.--_adj._ FEM'ININE, pertaining to women: tender: womanly: (_gram._)
the gender denoting females.--_adv._ FEM'ININELY.--_ns._ FEM'ININENESS;
FEMININ'ITY, the nature of the female sex.--FEMALE SCREW, a screw cut upon
the inward surface of a cylindrical hole in wood or metal; FEMININE RHYME,
a rhyme between words that terminate each in an unaccented syllable. [Fr.
_femelle_--L. _femella_, dim. of _femina_, a woman.]
FEMERELL, fem'er-el, _n._ a louvre or covering on the roof of a kitchen,
&c., to allow the smoke to escape.
FEMUR, f[=e]'mer, _n._ the thigh-bone.--_adj._ FEM'ORAL, belonging to the
thigh.--FEMORAL ARTERY, the main artery of the thigh. [L.
_femoralis_--_femur_, thigh.]
FEN, fen, _n._ a kind of low marshy land often, or partially, covered with
water: a morass or bog.--_ns._ FEN'-BERR'Y, the cranberry; FEN'-FIRE, the
Will-o'-the-wisp.--_adjs._ FEN'NY, FEN'NISH; FEN'-SUCKED (_Shak._), drawn
out of bogs. [A.S. _fenn_; Ice. _fen_.]
FEN, fen, _v.t._ an exclamatory phrase in boys' games, meaning 'Check!'
'Bar!' [Cf. FEND.]
FENCE, fens, _n._ a wall or hedge for enclosing animals or for protecting
land: the art of fencing: defence: a receiver of stolen goods, also a
receiving-house.--_v.t._ to enclose with a fence: to fortify.--_v.i._ to
practise fencing: to conceal the truth by equivocal answers.--_adjs._
FENCED, enclosed with a fence; FENCE'LESS, without fence or enclosure,
open.--_n._ FENC'ER, one who practises fencing with a sword.--_adj._
FENC'IBLE, capable of being fenced or defended.--_n.pl._ FENC'IBLES,
volunteer regiments raised for local defence during a special crisis:
militia enlisted for home service.--_p.adj._ FENC'ING, defending or
guarding.--_n._ the act of erecting a fence: the art of attack and defence
with a sword or other weapon.--_n._ FENC'ING-MAS'TER, one who teaches
fencing.--FENCE THE TABLES, in the ancient usage of Scotland, to debar from
partaking in communion those guilty of any known sin.--SIT ON THE FENCE, to
be still hesitating as between two opinions; SUNK FENCE, a ditch or
water-course. [Abbrev. of _defence_.]
FEND, fend, _v.t._ to ward off: to shut out: to defend.--_v.i._ to offer
resistance: to make provision for.--_n._ self-support, the shift one makes
for one's self.--_adj._ FEND'Y, shifty. [Abbrev. of _defend_.]
FENDER, fend'[.e]r, _n._ a metal guard before a fire to confine the ashes:
a protection for a ship's side against piers, &c., consisting of a bundle
of rope, &c.--_ns._ FEND'ER-BEAM, a fender of wood, protecting a ship's
side in dock: a permanent buffer at the end of a railway siding;
FEND'ER-BOARD, a board protecting the steps of a carriage from the dust
thrown up by the wheels. [_Fend_.]
FENESTELLA, fen-es-tel'a, _n._ a niche on the south side of an altar,
containing the piscina, and sometimes the credence: a genus of Polyzoa,
like the recent 'lace coral,' very common in Palæozoic rocks. [L., dim. of
_fenestra_, a window.]
FENESTRAL, fe-nes'tral, _adj._ belonging to or like a window: with
transparent spots--also FENES'TR[=A]TE.--_n._ FENESTR[=A]'TION, the
arrangement of windows in a building. [L. _fenestralis_--_fenestra_,
window.]
FENGITE, fen'j[=i]t, _n._ a transparent alabaster for window panes.
FENIAN, f[=e]'ne-an, _n._ a member of an association of Irishmen founded in
New York in 1857 for the overthrow of the English government in
Ireland.--_adj._ belonging to the legendary Fenians, or to the modern
conspirators.--_n._ F[=E]'NIANISM. [Old Ir. _Féne_, one of the names of the
ancient population of Ireland, confused in modern times with _fíann_, the
militia of Finn and other ancient Irish kings.]
FENKS, fengks, _n._ the refuse of whale-blubber.--Also FINKS.