Festlich (n.) Festive; fond of festive occasions.
Festoon (n.) A garland or wreath hanging in a depending curve, used in decoration for festivals, etc.; anything arranged in this way.
Festoon (n.) A carved ornament consisting of flowers, and leaves, intermixed or twisted together, wound with a ribbon, and hanging or depending in a natural curve. See Illust. of Bucranium.
Festooned (imp. & p. p.) of Festoon
Festooning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Festoon
Festoon (v. t.) To form in festoons, or to adorn with festoons.
Festoony (a.) Pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling, festoons.
Festucine (a.) Of a straw color; greenish yellow.
Festucous (a.) Formed or consisting of straw.
Festue (n.) A straw; a fescue.
Fet (n.) A piece.
Fet (v. t.) To fetch.
Fet (p. p.) Fetched.
Fetal (a.) Pertaining to, or connected with, a fetus; as, fetal circulation; fetal membranes.
Fetation (n.) The formation of a fetus in the womb; pregnancy.
Fetched (imp. & p. p.) of Fetch
Fetching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fetch
Fetch (v. t.) To bear toward the person speaking, or the person or thing from whose point of view the action is contemplated; to go and bring; to get.
Fetch (v. t.) To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
Fetch (v. t.) To recall from a swoon; to revive; -- sometimes with to; as, to fetch a man to.
Fetch (v. t.) To reduce; to throw.
Fetch (v. t.) To bring to accomplishment; to achieve; to make; to perform, with certain objects; as, to fetch a compass; to fetch a leap; to fetch a sigh.
Fetch (v. t.) To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
Fetch (v. t.) To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
fetch (v. i.) To bring one's self; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
Fetch (n.) A stratagem by which a thing is indirectly brought to pass, or by which one thing seems intended and another is done; a trick; an artifice.
Fetch (n.) The apparation of a living person; a wraith.
Fethcer (n.) One wo fetches or brings.
Fete (n.) A feat.
Fete (n. pl.) Feet.
Fete (n.) A festival.
Feted (imp. & p. p.) of Fete
Feting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fete
Fete (v. t.) To feast; to honor with a festival.
Fetich (n.) Alt. of Fetish
Fetish (n.) A material object supposed among certain African tribes to represent in such a way, or to be so connected with, a supernatural being, that the possession of it gives to the possessor power to control that being.
Fetish (n.) Any object to which one is excessively devoted.
fetichism (n.) Alt. of Fetishism
Fetishism (n.) The doctrine or practice of belief in fetiches.
Fetishism (n.) Excessive devotion to one object or one idea; abject superstition; blind adoration.
Fetichist (n.) Alt. of Fetishist
Fetishist (n.) A believer in fetiches.
Fetichistic (a.) Alt. of Fetishistic
Fetishistic (a.) Pertaining to, or involving, fetichism.
Feticide (n.) The act of killing the fetus in the womb; the offense of procuring an abortion.
Feticism (n.) See Fetichism.
Fetid (a.) Having an offensive smell; stinking.
Fetidity (n.) Fetidness.
Fetidness (n.) The quality or state of being fetid.
Fetiferous (a.) Producing young, as animals.
Fetis (a.) Neat; pretty; well made; graceful.
Fetisely (adv.) Neatly; gracefully; properly.
Fetish (a.) Alt. of Fetishistic
Fetishism (a.) Alt. of Fetishistic
Fetishistic (a.) See Fetich, n., Fetichism, n., Fetichistic, a.
Fetlock (n.) The cushionlike projection, bearing a tuft of long hair, on the back side of the leg above the hoof of the horse and similar animals. Also, the joint of the limb at this point (between the great pastern bone and the metacarpus), or the tuft of hair.
Fetor (n.) A strong, offensive smell; stench; fetidness.
Fette (imp.) of Fette
Fet (p. p.) of Fette
Fette (v. t.) To fetch.
fetters (pl. ) of Fetter
Fetter (n.) A chain or shackle for the feet; a chain by which an animal is confined by the foot, either made fast or disabled from free and rapid motion; a bond; a shackle.
Fetter (n.) Anything that confines or restrains; a restraint.
Fetter (p. pr. & vb. n.) To put fetters upon; to shackle or confine the feet of with a chain; to bind.
Fetter (p. pr. & vb. n.) To restrain from motion; to impose restraints on; to confine; to enchain; as, fettered by obligations.
Fettered (a.) Seeming as if fettered, as the feet of certain animals which bend backward, and appear unfit for walking.
Fetterer (n.) One who fetters.
Fetterless (a.) Free from fetters.
Fettle (a.) To repair; to prepare; to put in order.
Fettle (a.) To cover or line with a mixture of ore, cinders, etc., as the hearth of a puddling furnace.
Fettle (v. i.) To make preparations; to put things in order; to do trifling business.
Fettle (n.) The act of fettling.
Fettling (n.) A mixture of ore, cinders, etc., used to line the hearth of a puddling furnace.
Fettling (n.) The operation of shaving or smoothing the surface of undried clay ware.
Fetuous (a.) Neat; feat.
Fetuses (pl. ) of Fetus
Fetus (n.) The young or embryo of an animal in the womb, or in the egg; often restricted to the later stages in the development of viviparous and oviparous animals, embryo being applied to the earlier stages.
Fetwah (n.) A written decision of a Turkish mufti on some point of law.
Feu (n.) A free and gratuitous right to lands made to one for service to be performed by him; a tenure where the vassal, in place of military services, makes a return in grain or in money.
Feuar (n.) One who holds a feu.
Feud (n.) A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race.
Feud (n.) A contention or quarrel; especially, an inveterate strife between families, clans, or parties; deadly hatred; contention satisfied only by bloodshed.
Feud (n.) A stipendiary estate in land, held of superior, by service; the right which a vassal or tenant had to the lands or other immovable thing of his lord, to use the same and take the profists thereof hereditarily, rendering to his superior such duties and services as belong to military tenure, etc., the property of the soil always remaining in the lord or superior; a fief; a fee.
Feudal (a.) Of or pertaining to feuds, fiefs, or feels; as, feudal rights or services; feudal tenures.
Feudal (a.) Consisting of, or founded upon, feuds or fiefs; embracing tenures by military services; as, the feudal system.
Feudalism (n.) The feudal system; a system by which the holding of estates in land is made dependent upon an obligation to render military service to the kind or feudal superior; feudal principles and usages.
Feudalist (n.) An upholder of feudalism.
Feudality (n.) The state or quality of being feudal; feudal form or constitution.
Fedaliza/tion (n.) The act of reducing to feudal tenure.
Feudalized (imp. & p. p.) of Feudalize
Feudalizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Feudalize
Feudalize (v. t.) To reduce toa feudal tenure; to conform to feudalism.
Feudally (adv.) In a feudal manner.
Feudary (a.) Held by, or pertaining to, feudal tenure.
Feudary (n.) A tenant who holds his lands by feudal service; a feudatory.
Feudary (n.) A feodary. See Feodary.
Feudataty (a. & n.) See Feudatory.
Feudatories (pl. ) of Feudatory
Feudatory (n.) A tenant or vassal who held his lands of a superior on condition of feudal service; the tenant of a feud or fief.
Feudtory (a.) Held from another on some conditional tenure; as, a feudatory title.