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One who affeers. Cowell.

The act of affeering. Blackstone.

A tribe of North American Indians formerly inhabiting the country from the upper Missouri River to the Saskatchewan, but now much reduced in numbers.

The coffee tree.

A house of entertainment, where guests are supplied with coffee and other refreshments, and where men meet for conversation. The coffeehouse must not be dismissed with a cursory mention. It might indeed, at that time, have been not improperly called a most important political institution . . . The coffeehouses were the…

One who keeps a coffeehouse. Addison.

A covered pot im which coffee is prepared,

A public room where coffee and other refreshments may be obtained.

To make feeble; to deprive of strength; to reduce the strength or force of; to weaken; to debilitate. Enfeebled by scanty subsistence and excessive toil. Prescott.

The act of weakening; enervation; weakness.

One who, or that which, weakens or makes feeble.

To enfeeble. [Obs.] Holland.

A fee or rent paid by a tenant for the privilege of faldage on his own ground. Blount.

Sympathy; a like feeling.

To share through sympathy; to participate in. [R.] D. Rodgers.

The person to whom a feoffment is made; the person enfeoffed.

ch offensive matter, if he struck out epithets which are in the bad taste of the forcible-feeble school. N. Brit. Review.

To feel beforehand; to have a presentiment of. [Obs.] As when, with unwieldy waves, the great sea forefeels winds. Chapman.

A species of tenure in fee simple, being the opposite of ancient demesne, or copyhold. Burrill.

See Enfeeble.