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To investigate. [Obs.] Bailey.

To be agitated; to boil up; to effervesce. [Obs.]

A boiling up; effervescence. [Obs.] Boyle.

One of the movable peduncles which, in the decapod Crustacea, bear the eyes at the tip.

A small, lenticular, calcareous body, esp. an operculum of a small shell of the family Tubinid, used to remove a foreign sub stance from the eye. It is rut into the inner corner of the eye under the lid, and allowed to work its way out at the outer corner, bringing with the substance.

The tendon by which the eye is moved. Shak.

Most distant or remote; as, the farthest degree. See Furthest.

A small opening; esp., one of the apertures, closed by membranes, between the tympanum and internal ear.

Of or pertaining to a fenestra.

Having numerous openings; irregularly reticulated; as, fenestrate membranes; fenestrate fronds.

Same as Fenestrate.

The state or condition of being fenestrated.

One of the openings in a fenestrated structure.

superl. of Fer. Chaucer.

The fist. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A feast. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Of or pertaining to a holiday or a feast; joyous; festive. You bless with choicer wine the festal day. Francis.

Joyously; festively; mirthfully.

A fescennine.

To generate pus; to become imflamed and suppurate; as, a sore or a wound festers. Wounds immedicable Rankle, and fester, and gangrene. Milton. Unkindness may give a wound that shall bleed and smart, but it is treachery that makes it fester. South. Hatred . . . festered in the hearts of the children of the soil. Macaula…