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890 words match “FELL”

EMPRISE n.
In brave pursuit of chivalrous emprise. Spenser. The deeds of love and high emprise. Longfellow.
EPITHITE n.
A lazy, worthless fellow; a vagrant. [Obs.] Mason.
EQUALIZATION n.
act of equalizing, or state of being equalized. Their equalization with the rest of their fellow subjects. Burke.
EQUINOX n.
mnal and Vernal. When descends on the Atlantic The gigantic Stormwind of the equinox. Longfellow.
EQUIPMENT n.
al equipments; laboratory equipments. Armed and dight, In the equipments of a knight. Longfellow.
EQUIPOISE n.
h. Burke. Our little lives are kept in equipoise By opposite attractions and desires. Longfellow.
EVEN a.
Associate; fellow; of the same condition. [Obs.] "His even servant." Wyclif (Matt.
EXCOMMUNICATION n.
pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual.
EXTEMPORE adv.
Speaking or writing done extempore. [Obs.] Bp. Fell.
FAILANCE n.
Fault; failure; omission. [Obs.] Bp. Fell.
FAINEANT a.
A do-nothing; an idle fellow; a sluggard. Sir W. Scott.
FALL v. 16 definitions
; to drop; as, a child totters and falls; a tree falls; a worshiper falls on his knees. I fell at his feet to worship him. Rev. xix. 10.
FATEFUL a.
Significant of fate; ominous. The fateful cawings of the crow. Longfellow. -- Fate"ful*ly, adv.- Fate"ful*ness, n.
FEELING n.
feeling in the heart; our angry or kindly feelings; a feeling of pride or of humility. A fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind. Garrick. Tenderness for the feelings of others. Macaulay.
FELT n.
A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt. [Obs.] To know whether sheep are sound or not, see that the felt be loose. Mortimer.
FELTER v.
To clot or mat together like felt. His feltered locks that on his bosom fell. Fairfax.
FIELDFARE n.
ck are ash-colored; the upper part of the back and wing coverts, chestnut; -- called also fellfare.
FIENDLIKE a.
Fiendish; diabolical. Longfellow.
FIGULINE n.
ural objects. Whose figulines and rustic wares Scarce find him bread from day to day. Longfellow.
FIL n.
imp. of Fall, v. i. Fell. Chaucer.
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