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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.

Fencible

A soldier enlisted for home service only; -- usually in the pl.

Fencing

The art or practice of attack and defense with the sword, esp. with the smallsword. See Fence, v. i., 2.

Fend

To act on the defensive, or in opposition; to resist; to parry; to shift off.

Fender

One who or that which defends or protects by warding off harm A screen to prevent coals or sparks of an open fire from escaping to the floor. Anything serving as a cushion to lessen the shock when a vessel comes in contact with another vessel or a wharf. A screen to protect a carriage from mud thrown off the wheels: also, a splashboard. Anything set up to protect an exposed angle, as of a house, from damage by carriage wheels.

Fenerate

To put money to usury; to lend on interest.

Fenes-tella

Any small windowlike opening or recess, esp. one to show the relics within an altar, or the like.

Fenestra

A small opening; esp., one of the apertures, closed by membranes, between the tympanum and internal ear.

Fenestral

A casement or window sash, closed with cloth or paper instead of glass.

Fenestrate

Having numerous openings; irregularly reticulated; as, fenestrate membranes; fenestrate fronds.

Fenestration

The arrangement and proportioning of windows; -- used by modern writers for the decorating of an architectural composition by means of the window (and door) openings, their ornaments, and proportions.

Fenestrule

One of the openings in a fenestrated structure.

Feng-hwang

A pheasantlike bird of rich plumage and graceful form and movement, fabled to appear in the land on the accession of a sage to the throne, or when right principles are about to prevail. It is often represented on porcelains and other works of art.

Feng-shui

A system of spirit influences for good and evil believed by the Chinese to attend the natural features of landscape; also, a kind of geomancy dealing with these influences, used in determining sites for graves, houses, etc.

Fengite

A kind of marble or alabaster, sometimes used for windows on account of its transparency.

Fenian

Pertaining to Fenians or to Fenianism.

Fenianism

The principles, purposes, and methods of the Fenians.

Fenks

The refuse whale blubber, used as a manure, and in the manufacture of Prussian blue.

Fennec

A small, African, foxlike animal (Vulpes zerda) of a pale fawn color, remarkable for the large size of its ears.

Fennel

A perennial plant of the genus F/niculum (F/niculum vulgare), having very finely divided leaves. It is cultivated in gardens for the agreeable aromatic flavor of its seeds.

Fenny

Pertaining to, or inhabiting, a fen; abounding in fens; swampy; boggy.

Fenowed

Corrupted; decayed; moldy. See Vinnewed.

Fenugreek

A plant (trigonella F/num Gr/cum) cultivated for its strong-smelling seeds, which are

Feod

A feud. See 2d Feud.

Feodality

Feudal tenure; the feudal system. See Feudality.

Feoffee

The person to whom a feoffment is made; the person enfeoffed.

Feoffment

The grant of a feud or fee. A gift or conveyance in fee of land or other corporeal hereditaments, accompanied by actual delivery of possession.

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