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optional amount, or fixed by custom or laws; charge; pay; perquisite; as, the fees of lawyers and physicians; the fees of office; clerk's fees; sheriff's fees; marriage fees, etc. To plead for love deserves more fee than hate. Shak.

; pretended; counterfeit; insincere; false. "A feigned friend." Shak. Give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips. Ps. xvii. 1. -- Feign"ed*ly, adv. -- Feign"ed*ness, n. Her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly. Jer. iii. 10. Feigned issue (Law), an issue…

nson. Finally, after this life, to attain everlasting joy and felicity. Book of Common Prayer.

nd. Macaulay. -- Fer"vent*ly, adv. -- Fer"vent*ness, n. Laboring fervently for you in prayers. Col. iv. 12.

That part of the grounds reserved for the players which is outside of the diamond; -- called also outfield.

A ball payer who stands out in the field to catch or stop balls.

Any of the players who meet in the final round of a tournament in which the losers in any round do not play again.

To attempt, when second or third player, to make a lower card answer the purpose of a higher, when an intermediate card is out, risking the chance of its being held by the opponent yet to play.

Little flowers of ornament introduced into a melody by a singer or player.

Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.

A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything; a film; flock; lamina; layer; scale; as, a flake of snow, tallow, or fish. "Lottle flakes of scurf." Addison. Great flakes of ice encompassing our boat. Evelyn.

Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike. What showers of mortal hail, what flaky fires! Watts. A flaky weight of winter's purest snows. Wordsworth.

A game in which the players catch raisins out burning brandy, and swallow them blazing. Johnson.

To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different color. See Flashing, n., 3 (b).

one or more cheeks, the flask is called a three part flask, four part flask, etc. Erlenmeyer flask, a thin glass flask, flat-bottomed and cone-shaped to allow of safely shaking its contents laterally without danger of spilling; -- so called from Erlenmeyer, a German chemist who invented it. -- Florence flask. Etym: […

A player on the flute; a flutist.

See Flyer, n., 5.

Down; fur. [Obs. or Eng.] J. Dyer.

The quality of being florid; floridness. Floyer.

rd blue reflections. It is due not to the difference in the color of a distinct surface layer, but to the power which the substance has of modifying the light incident upon it. The light emitted by fluorescent substances is in general of lower refrangibility than the incident light. Stockes.