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federated

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

Federation

The act of uniting in a league; confederation.

Federative

Uniting in a league; forming a confederacy; federal.

fedora

A soft felt hat with a crown creased lengthwise.

Fee

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

Fee-faw-fum

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

Feeble

To make feble; to enfeeble.

Feeble-minded

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

Feebleness

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

Feed

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

feed bag feedbag

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.

feedback

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

Feeder

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

Feeding

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

Feel

Feeling; perception.

Feeler

One who, or that which, feels.

Feeling

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.

Feelingly

In a feeling manner; pathetically; sympathetically.

Feere

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

Feese

The short run before a leap.

Feet

Fact; performance.

Feetless

Destitute of feet; as, feetless birds.

Feeze

Fretful excitement. [Obs.] See Feaze.

Fehling

See Fehling's solution, under Solution.

Feign

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.

Feigned

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

Feigning

That feigns; insincere; not genuine; false.

Feint

To make a feint, or mock attack.

Feitsui

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

Feldspath Feldspar

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.

Felicitation

The act of felicitating; a wishing of joy or happiness; congratulation.

Felicitous

Characterized by felicity; happy; prosperous; delightful; skillful; successful; happily applied or expressed; appropriate.

felicitousness

a pleasing and appropriate manner or style, especially of expression.

Felicity

The state of being happy; blessedness; blissfulness; enjoyment of good.

felid

any of various lithe-bodied round-headed fissiped mammals, many with retractile claws; a member of the Felidae.

Felidae

a natural family of lithe-bodied round-headed fissiped mammals, including the cats; wildcats; lions; leopards; cheetahs; and saber-toothed tigers.

Feline

Catlike; of or pertaining to the genus Felis, or family Felid/; as, the feline race; feline voracity.

Felis

A genus of mostly small carnivorous mammals, including the domestic cat, puma, ocelot, and margay, which share the inability to roar due to bone structure in the larynx. The lion, tiger, and other large roaring cats were once included in Felis but are now assigned to the genus Panthera. The lynx (Felis lynx) is also called Lynx lynx.

Fell

A form of seam joining two pieces of cloth, the edges being folded together and the stitches taken through both thicknesses.

Fellah

A peasant or cultivator of the soil among the Egyptians, Syrians, etc.

fellatio

a form of sexual activity between two persons in which the penis of one is stimulated by the other's mouth, especially until orgasm is achieved. It is a form of oral sex. Compare cunnilingus. The act is also called by the slang term blow job.

Feller

An appliance to a sewing machine for felling a seam.

Fellinic

Of, relating to, or derived from, bile or gall; as, fellinic acid.

Fellmonger

A dealer in fells or sheepskins, who separates the wool from the pelts.

Fellness

The quality or state of being fell or cruel; fierce barbarity.

Fellow

To suit with; to pair with; to match.

Fellow-commoner

A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table.

Fellowfeel

To share through sympathy; to participate in.

Fellowlike

Like a companion; companionable; on equal terms; sympathetic.

Fellowship

To acknowledge as of good standing, or in communion according to standards of faith and practice; to admit to Christian fellowship.

Felly

The exterior wooden rim, or a segment of the rim, of a wheel, supported by the spokes.

Felo-de-se

One who deliberately puts an end to his own existence, or loses his life while engaged in the commission of an unlawful or malicious act; a suicide.

Felon

Characteristic of a felon; malignant; fierce; malicious; cruel; traitorous; disloyal.

Felonious

Having the quality of felony; malignant; malicious; villainous; traitorous; perfidious; in a legal sense, done with intent to commit a crime; as, felonious homicide.

Felonry

A body of felons; specifically, the convict population of a penal colony.

Felonwort

The bittersweet nightshade (Solanum Dulcamara). See Bittersweet.

Felony

An act on the part of the vassal which cost him his fee by forfeiture.

Felsite

A finegrained rock, flintlike in fracture, consisting essentially of orthoclase feldspar with occasional grains of quartz.

Felsitic

relating to, composed of, or containing, felsite.

Felt

To make into felt, or a feltike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.

Felter

To clot or mat together like felt.

Felting

The material of which felt is made; also, felted cloth; also, the process by which it is made.

Felucca

A small, swift-sailing vessel, propelled by oars and lateen sails, -- once common in the Mediterranean.

Felwort

A European herb (Swertia perennis) of the Gentian family.

Female

Belonging to the sex which conceives and gives birth to young, or (in a wider sense) which produces ova; not male.

Femalize

To make, or to describe as, female or feminine.

Femerell

A lantern, or louver covering, placed on a roof, for ventilation or escape of smoke.

Feminineness

The quality of being feminine; womanliness; womanishness.

Femininity

The quality or nature of the female sex; womanliness.

Feminization

The act of feminizing, or the state of being feminized.

Femme

A woman. See Feme, n.

Femoral

Pertaining to the femur or thigh; as, the femoral artery.

femoris

The thigh bone; same as femur.

Femur

The thigh bone; -- it is the longest and thickest bone of the human skeleton, which extends from the pelvis to the knee. The proximal segment of the hind limb containing the thigh bone; the thigh. See Coxa.

Fen

Low land overflowed, or covered wholly or partially with water, but producing sedge, coarse grasses, or other aquatic plants; boggy land; moor; marsh.

Fence

To make a defense; to guard one's self of anything, as against an attack; to give protection or security, as by a fence.

Fenceless

Without a fence; uninclosed; open; unguarded; defenseless.

Fencer

One who fences; one who teaches or practices the art of fencing with sword or foil.

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