Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter F - Page 16

Fell () imp. of Fall.

Fell (a.) Cruel; barbarous; inhuman; fierce; savage; ravenous.

Fell (a.) Eager; earnest; intent.

Fell (a.) Gall; anger; melancholy.

Fell (n.) A skin or hide of a beast with the wool or hair on; a pelt; -- used chiefly in composition, as woolfell.

Fell (n.) A barren or rocky hill.

Fell (n.) A wild field; a moor.

Felled (imp. & p. p.) of Fell

Felling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fell

Fell (v. i.) To cause to fall; to prostrate; to bring down or to the ground; to cut down.

Fell (n.) The finer portions of ore which go through the meshes, when the ore is sorted by sifting.

Fell (v. t.) To sew or hem; -- said of seams.

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

Fell (n.) The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft.

Fellable (a.) Fit to be felled.

Fellahin (pl. ) of Fellah

Fellahs (pl. ) of Fellah

Fellah (n.) A peasant or cultivator of the soil among the Egyptians, Syrians, etc.

Feller (n.) One who, or that which, fells, knocks or cuts down; a machine for felling trees.

Feller (n.) An appliance to a sewing machine for felling a seam.

Felltare (n.) The fieldfare.

Felliflu-ous (a.) Flowing with gall.

Fellinic (a.) Of, relating to, or derived from, bile or gall; as, fellinic acid.

Fellmonger (n.) A dealer in fells or sheepskins, who separates the wool from the pelts.

Fellness (n.) The quality or state of being fell or cruel; fierce barbarity.

Felloe (n.) See Felly.

Fellon (n.) Variant of Felon.

Fellow (n.) A companion; a comrade; an associate; a partner; a sharer.

Fellow (n.) A man without good breeding or worth; an ignoble or mean man.

Fellow (n.) An equal in power, rank, character, etc.

Fellow (n.) One of a pair, or of two things used together or suited to each other; a mate; the male.

Fellow (n.) A person; an individual.

Fellow (n.) In the English universities, a scholar who is appointed to a foundation called a fellowship, which gives a title to certain perquisites and privileges.

Fellow (n.) In an American college or university, a member of the corporation which manages its business interests; also, a graduate appointed to a fellowship, who receives the income of the foundation.

Fellow (n.) A member of a literary or scientific society; as, a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Fellow (v. t.) To suit with; to pair with; to match.

Fellow-commoner (n.) A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table.

Fellow-creature (n.) One of the same race or kind; one made by the same Creator.

Fellowfeel (v. t.) To share through sympathy; to participate in.

Fellow-feeling (n.) Sympathy; a like feeling.

Fellow-feeling (n.) Joint interest.

Fellowless (a.) Without fellow or equal; peerless.

Fellowlike (a.) Like a companion; companionable; on equal terms; sympathetic.

Fellowly (a.) Fellowlike.

Fellowship (n.) The state or relation of being or associate.

Fellowship (n.) Companionship of persons on equal and friendly terms; frequent and familiar intercourse.

Fellowship (n.) A state of being together; companionship; partnership; association; hence, confederation; joint interest.

Fellowship (n.) Those associated with one, as in a family, or a society; a company.

Fellowship (n.) A foundation for the maintenance, on certain conditions, of a scholar called a fellow, who usually resides at the university.

Fellowship (n.) The rule for dividing profit and loss among partners; -- called also partnership, company, and distributive proportion.

Fellowshiped (imp. & p. p.) of Fellowship

Fellowshiping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fellowship

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

Felly (adv.) In a fell or cruel manner; fiercely; barbarously; savagely.

Fellies (pl. ) of Felly

Felly (n.) The exterior wooden rim, or a segment of the rim, of a wheel, supported by the spokes.

Felos-de-se (pl. ) of Felo-de-se

Felo-de-se (n.) 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 (a.) A person who has committed a felony.

Felon (a.) A person guilty or capable of heinous crime.

Felon (a.) A kind of whitlow; a painful imflammation of the periosteum of a finger, usually of the last joint.

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

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

Felonous (a.) Wicked; felonious.

Felonry (n.) A body of felons; specifically, the convict population of a penal colony.

Felonwort (n.) The bittersweet nightshade (Solanum Dulcamara). See Bittersweet.

Felonies (pl. ) of Felony

Felony (n.) An act on the part of the vassal which cost him his fee by forfeiture.

Felony (n.) An offense which occasions a total forfeiture either lands or goods, or both, at the common law, and to which capital or other punishment may be added, according to the degree of guilt.

Felony (n.) A heinous crime; especially, a crime punishable by death or imprisonment.

To compound a felony () See under Compound, v. t.

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

Felsitic (a.) relating to, composed of, or containing, felsite.

Felspar (n.) Alt. of Felspath

Felspath (n.) See Feldspar.

Felspathic (a.) See Feldspathic.

Felstone (n.) See Felsite.

Felt () imp. & p. p. / a. from Feel.

Felt (n.) A cloth or stuff made of matted fibers of wool, or wool and fur, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving.

Felt (n.) A hat made of felt.

Felt (n.) A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.

Felted (imp. & p. p.) of Felt

Felting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Felt

Felt (v. t.) To make into felt, or a feltike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.

Felt (v. t.) To cover with, or as with, felt; as, to felt the cylinder of a steam emgine.

Felter (v. t.) To clot or mat together like felt.

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

Felting (n.) The act of splitting timber by the felt grain.

Feltry (n.) See Felt, n.

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

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

Female (n.) An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or (in a wider sense) which has an ovary and produces ova.

Female (n.) A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant.

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

Female (a.) Belonging to an individual of the female sex; characteristic of woman; feminine; as, female tenderness.

Female (a.) Having pistils and no stamens; pistillate; or, in cryptogamous plants, capable of receiving fertilization.

Female rhymes () double rhymes, or rhymes (called in French feminine rhymes because they end in e weak, or feminine) in which two syllables, an accented and an unaccented one, correspond at the end of each line.

Female fern () a common species of fern with large decompound fronds (Asplenium Filixfaemina), growing in many countries; lady fern.

Femalist (n.) A gallant.

Femalize (v. t.) To make, or to describe as, female or feminine.

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