FELL

imp. of Fall.

Cruel; barbarous; inhuman; fierce; savage; ravenous. While we devise fell tortures for thy faults. Shak.

Eager; earnest; intent. [Obs.] I am so fell to my business. Pepys.

Gall; anger; melancholy. [Obs.] Untroubled of vile fear or bitter fell. Spenser.

A skin or hide of a beast with the wool or hair on; a pelt; -- used chiefly in composition, as woolfell. We are still handling our ewes, and their fells, you know, are greasy. Shak.

A barren or rocky hill. T. Gray.

A wild field; a moor. Dryton.

To cause to fall; to prostrate; to bring down or to the ground; to cut down. Stand, or I'll fell thee down. Shak.

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

To sew or hem; -- said of seams.

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

The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft.