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A strong, offensive smell; stench; fetidness. Arbuthnot.

To fetch. [Obs.] Chaucer.

ade fast or disabled from free and rapid motion; a bond; a shackle. [They] bound him with fetters of brass. Judg. xvi. 21.

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

One who fetters. Landor.

Free from fetters. Marston.

The act of fettling. [Prov. Eng.] Wright. In fine fettle, in good spirits.

A mixture of ore, cinders, etc., used to line the hearth of a puddling furnace. [Eng.] [It is commonly called fix in the United States.]

Neat; feat. [Obs.] Herrick.

The young or embryo of an animal in the womb, or in the egg; often restricted to the later stages in the development of viviparous and oviparous animals, embryo being applied to the earlier stages. [Written also foetus.]

A written decision of a Turkish mufti on some point of law. Whitworth.

With feeling.

A caldron of boiling water into which an accused person plunged his forearm as a test of innocence or guilt.

The fetid gum resin or inspissated juice of a large umbelliferous plant (Ferula asafoetida) of Persia and the East India. It is used in medicine as an antispasmodic. [Written also assafoetida.]

A niche, cupboard, or sideboard for plate, china, glass, etc.; a buffet. A beaufet . . . filled with gold and silver vessels. Prescott.

ne side of a room, for the display of plate, china, etc., a sideboard. Not when a gilt buffet's reflected pride Turns you from sound philosophy aside. Pope.

One who buffets; a boxer. Jonson.

dversity. He seems to have been a plant of slow growth, but . . . fitted to endure the buffeting on the rudest storm. Wirt.

A restaurant or café at which the patrons serve themselves with food kept at a counter, taking the food to small tables to eat. [U. S.]

Pertaining to, or derived from, the tannin of coffee. Caffetannic acid, a variety of tannin obtained from coffee berries, regarded as a glucoside.