Fidelity to one's lord; the feudal obligation by which the tenant or vassal was bound to be faithful to his lord; the special oath by which this obligation was assumed; fidelity to a superior power, or to a government; loyalty. It is no longer the practice to exact the performance of fealty, as a feudal obligation.

To be in apprehension of evil; to be afraid; to feel anxiety on account of some expected evil.

One who fears.

Full of fear, apprehension, or alarm; afraid; frightened.

In a fearful manner.

The state of being fearful.

Free from fear.

A fearless person.

Frightful; causing fear.

The quality of being feasible; practicability; also, that which is feasible; as, before we adopt a plan, let us consider its feasibility.

Capable of being done, executed, or effected; practicable.

To entertain with sumptuous provisions; to treat at the table bountifully; as, he was feasted by the king.

One who fares deliciously.

Festive; festal; joyful; sumptuous; luxurious.

Dexterous in movements or service; skillful; neat; nice; pretty.

Having a feat or trim body.

Dexterous; neat.

To grow or form feathers; to become feathered; -- often with out; as, the birds are feathering out.

Giddy; frivolous; lacking seriousness; given to frivolity; feather-headed.

The thin, new growth around the edge of a shell, of an oyster.

Having a feather-edge; also, having one edge thinner than the other, as a board; -- in the United States, said only of stuff one edge of which is made as thin as practicable.

Feverfew.

An aquatic plant (Hottonia palustris), having finely divided leaves.

A frivolous or feather-brained person.

Giddy; frivolous; foolish.

Light-heeled; gay; frisky; frolicsome.

Feather-headed; frivolous.

Having the veins (of a leaf) diverging from the two sides of a midrib.

a mattress stuffed with feathers.

A substitute for whalebone, made from the quills of geese and turkeys.

Clothed, covered, or fitted with (or as with) feathers or wings; as, a feathered animal; a feathered arrow.

The state or condition of being feathery.

Same as Foliation.

Destitute of feathers.

Like feathers.

A kind of embroidery stitch producing a branching zigzag line.

Pertaining to, or resembling, feathers; covered with, or as with, feathers; as, feathery spray or snow.

Neatly; dexterously; nimbly.

Skill; adroitness.

The make, form, or outward appearance of a person; the whole turn or style of the body; esp., good appearance.

Shaped; fashioned.

Having no distinct or distinctive features.

Having features; showing marked peculiarities; handsome.

A state of anxious or fretful excitement; worry; vexation.

The unlaid or ragged end of a rope.

To have a fever.

Somewhat feverish.

Febrific.

Causing fever; as, a febriferous locality.

Producing fever.

Having the quality of mitigating or curing fever.

A medicine serving to mitigate or remove fever. Antifebrile.

Pertaining to fever; indicating fever, or derived from it; as, febrile symptoms; febrile action.

The second month in the year, said to have been introduced into the Roman calendar by Numa. In common years this month contains twenty-eight days; in the bissextile, or leap year, it has twenty-nine days.

Purification; a sacrifice.

Relating to, or containing, dregs, feces, or ordure; f/cal.

To fetch.

Dregs; sediment; excrement. See faeces.

Pertaining to heralds, declarations of war, and treaties of peace; as, fecial law.

The anal fork on which the larv/ of certain insects carry their f/ces.

Spiritless; weak; worthless.

A corruption of the word faith.

Any pulverulent matter obtained from plants by simply breaking down the texture, washing with water, and subsidence. The nutritious part of wheat; starch or farina; -- called also amylaceous fecula. The green matter of plants; chlorophyll.

The state or quality of being feculent; muddiness; foulness.

Feculence.

Foul with extraneous or impure substances; abounding with sediment or excrementitious matter; muddy; thick; turbid.

Fruitful in children; prolific.

To make fruitful or prolific.

The act by which, either in animals or plants, material prepared by the generative organs the female organism is brought in contact with matter from the organs of the male, so that a new organism results; impregnation; fertilization.

To make fruitful; to fecundate.

The quality or power of producing fruit; fruitfulness; especially (Biol.), the quality in female organisms of reproducing rapidly and in great numbers.

imp. p. p. of Feed.

A feodary.

a member of an Arab paramilitary organization, predominantly Palestinian, which performs commando raids, especially against Israel or Israeli targets. Usually used in the plural.

an extremely fine pasta thinner than vermicelli.

See Federalist.

A federally chartered corporation that purchases and resells mortgages.

The principles of Federalists or of federal union.

An advocate of confederation; specifically (Amer. Hist.), a friend of the Constitution of the United States at its formation and adoption; a member of the political party which favored the administration of president Washington.

To unite in compact, as different States; to confederate for political purposes; to unite by or under the Federal Constitution.

A partner; a confederate; an accomplice.

United by compact, as sovereignties, states, or nations; joined in confederacy; leagued; confederate; as, federate nations.

United by compact under a central organization, as governments or commercial organizations.

The act of uniting in a league; confederation.

Uniting in a league; forming a confederacy; federal.

Turpitude; vileness.

A soft felt hat with a crown creased lengthwise.

To reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe.

A nonsensical exclamation attributed to giants and ogres; hence, any expression calculated to impose upon the timid and ignorant.

To make feble; to enfeeble.

Weak in intellectual power; wanting firmness or constancy; irresolute; vacillating; imbecile.

severe mental deficiency.

The quality or condition of being feeble; debility; infirmity.

In a feeble manner.

That which is eaten; esp., food for beasts; fodder; pasture; hay; grain, ground or whole; as, the best feed for sheep.

a canvas bag that is used to feed an animal (such as a horse or mule); animal feed such as oats are placed in the bag, and it is fastened at the top of the head, covering the muzzle. The animal may then eat the contents while thus wearing the feedbag.

the process in which part of the output of a system is returned to its input.

One who, or that which, gives food or supplies nourishment; steward.

the act of eating, or of supplying with food; the process of fattening.

See Fijian.

Feeling; perception.

One who, or that which, feels.

The sense by which the mind, through certain nerves of the body, perceives external objects, or certain states of the body itself; that one of the five senses which resides in the general nerves of sensation distributed over the body, especially in its surface; the sense of touch; nervous sensibility to external objects.

In a feeling manner; pathetically; sympathetically.

A consort, husband or wife; a companion; a fere.

The short run before a leap.

Fact; performance.

Destitute of feet; as, feetless birds.

Fretful excitement. [Obs.] See Feaze.

See Fehling's solution, under Solution.

Same as Vehm, Vehmgericht.

See Vehmic.

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.

Not real or genuine; pretended; counterfeit; insincere; false.

One who feigns or pretends.

That feigns; insincere; not genuine; false.

To feign.

To make a feint, or mock attack.

The Chinese name for a highly prized variety of pale green jade. See Jade.

See Feeze, v. t.