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ne day, A walk so fine, a sight so gay. Prior. We cannot miss him; he does make our fire, Fetch in our wood. Shak.

To associate; to mingle. He had mixed Again in fancied safety with his kind. Byron.

Music. [Obs.] To fetch home May with their musical. Spenser.

e which substances of organic origin acquire during warm, moist weather; foul or sour and fetid; moldy; as, musty corn; musty books. Harvey.

ce from side to side; as, a narrow board; a narrow street; a narrow hem. Hath passed in safety through the narrow seas. Shak.

i. 3. And now do they thrust us out privily nay, verily; but let them come themselves and fetch us out. Acts xvi. 37. He that will not when he may, When he would he shall have nay. Old Prov.

Fetid feldspar, a mineral which, when struck, exhales a fetid odor.

Want of knowledge; ignorance; agnosticism. God fetched it about for me, in that absence and nescience of mine. Bp. Hall.

Offensive to the smell or other senses; disgusting; fetid. "Foul breath is noisome." Shak. -- Noi"some*ly, adv. -- Noi"some*ness, n.

A charm or fetich. [West Indies] B. Edwards.

rite or ceremony pertaining to burial; -- now used only in the plural. Spencer. I will...fetch him hence, and solemnly attend, With silent obsequy and funeral train. Milton I will myself Be the chief mourner at his obsequies. Dryden. The funeral obsequies were decently and privately performed by his family J. P. Mahaf…

Having a strong, disagreeable smell; fetid. [Obs.] Boyle. Sir T. Browne.

bilicus and mesentery; omphalomesaraic; as, the omphalomesenteric arteries and veins of a fetus.

At the peril of, or for the safety of. "Hence, on thy life." Dryden.

or medicine, or divinity, or he may enter into trade. If man's convenience, health, Or safety interfere, his rights and claims Are paramount. Cowper.

The secretion of fetid sweat.

To exceed in the price of selling; to fetch more than; to exceed in value. Fuller. Shak.

A discharge of fetid matter from the nostril, particularly if associated with ulceration of the soft parts and disease of the bones of the nose.

f the goddess Pallas; esp., the famous statue on the preservation of which depended the safety of ancient Troy.

A friend of the bridegroom who went with him in his chariot to fetch home the bride. Milton.