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The act of removing or beating out the brains.

Brainless. [R.]

To disinherit. [R.] Huloet.

A disinheriting; disherisor. [R.]

A disinheriting; disherison. [R.] E. Waterhouse.

The range or reach of the eye; eyeshot. "A seat in eyereach of him." B. Jonson.

A woman who farms.

Clothed, covered, or fitted with (or as with) feathers or wings; as, a feathered animal; a feathered arrow. Rise from the ground like feathered Mercury. Shak. Nonsense feathered with soft and delicate phrases and pointed with pathetic accent. Dr. J. Scott.

A consort, husband or wife; a companion; a fere. [Obs.]

A lantern, or louver covering, placed on a roof, for ventilation or escape of smoke.

A mate or companion; -- often used of a wife. [Obs.] [Written also fear and feere.] Chaucer. And Cambel took Cambrina to his fere. Spenser. In fere, together; in company. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A portable bier or shrine, variously adorned, used for containing relics of saints. Mollett.

The officer in a religious house who had the care of the infirmary. [Obs.]

Seeming as if fettered, as the feet pf certain animals which bend backward, and appear unfit for walking.

One who fetters. Landor.

A dog keeper. [Obs.] Massinger.

A slight fever. [Obs.] Ayliffe.

Having fibers; made up of fibers.

Having fingers.

One who fingers; a pilferer.