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

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.

imp. of Fall.

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

Fit to be felled.

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

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.

An appliance to a sewing machine for felling a seam.

The fieldfare.

Flowing with gall.

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

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

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

See Felly.

Variant of Felon.

To suit with; to pair with; to match.

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

One of the same race or kind; one made by the same Creator.

Sympathy; a like feeling.

To share through sympathy; to participate in.

Without fellow or equal; peerless.

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

Fellowlike.

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

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

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.

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

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

Wicked; felonious.

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

The bittersweet nightshade (Solanum Dulcamara). See Bittersweet.

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

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

relating to, composed of, or containing, felsite.

See Feldspar.

See Feldspathic.

See Felsite.

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

To clot or mat together like felt.

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

See Felt, n.

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

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

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

A gallant.

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

A woman.

See Femerell.

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

Feminine.

Feminity.

Feminine.

Womanliness; femininity.

A woman.

In a feminine manner.

The quality of being feminine; womanliness; womanishness.

The quality or nature of the female sex; womanliness.

Womanliness; femininity.

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

To make womanish or effeminate.

A woman. See Feme, n.

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

The thigh bone; same as 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.

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

Sucked out of marches.

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

Affording defense; defensive.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Fiendlike.

To put money to usury; to lend on interest.

The act of fenerating; interest.

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

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

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

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

Having windows; characterized by windows.

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.

One of the openings in a fenestrated structure.

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.

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.

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

Pertaining to Fenians or to Fenianism.

The principles, purposes, and methods of the Fenians.

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

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

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.

Abounding in fens; fenny.

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

Corrupted; decayed; moldy. See Vinnewed.

Fencible.

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

A feud. See 2d Feud.

Feudal. See Feudal.

Feudal tenure; the feudal system. See Feudality.

An accomplice.

See Feudatory.

A fief. See Fief.

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

One who enfeoffs or grants a fee.

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.

Far.

A large, venomous serpent (Trigonocephalus lanceolatus-- now Bothrops atrox-->) of Brazil and the West Indies. It is allied to the rattlesnake, but has no rattle.

Fruitful; producing abundantly.

The state of being feracious or fruitful.

A group of mammals which formerly included the Carnivora, Insectivora, Marsupialia, and lemurs, but is now often restricted to the Carnivora.

Wild; untamed; ferine; not domesticated; -- said of beasts, birds, and plants.

Funereal; deadly; fatal; dangerous.

A child not raised in the company of humans; a child raised by wild animals. Romulus and Remus in Roman mythology were feral children. Authenticated examples of children raised by beasts are rare or nonexistent, though there are stories of children being raised from infancy in isolation from adults, or in the presence of deaf and dumb adults, resulting in an inability to speak human language.

imp. of Fare.

A measure of land mentioned in Domesday Book. It is supposed to have consisted of a few acres only.

Fearfulness.

To fear.

A portable bier or shrine, variously adorned, used for containing relics of saints.

Far forth.