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Possessing great sensibility; easily affected or moved; as, a feeling heart.

ue. There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart. Neh. vi. 8. The poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods. Shak.

-- 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 produced in a pretended action between two parties for the purpose of trying before a jury a question of fact which it becomes necessary to settle in the progress o…

to wish felicity to; to call or consider (one's self) happy; to congratulate. Every true heart must felicitate itself that its lot is cast in this kingdom. W. Howitt.

and smart, but it is treachery that makes it fester. South. Hatred . . . festered in the hearts of the children of the soil. Macaulay.

To cover or line with a mixture of ore, cinders, etc., as the hearth of a puddling furnace.

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.]

Affected with fever or ague; feverish. His heart, love's feverous citadel. Keats.

Vehement; ardent; very active; impetuous. Hath thy fiery heart so parched thine entrails Shak. The fiery spirit of his forefathers. W. Irwing.

A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling.

larification; also (Metal.), the conversion of cast iron into suitable for puddling, in a hearth or charcoal fire.

Fuel in a state of combustion, as on a hearth, or in

The part a chimney appropriated to the fire; a hearth; -- usually an open recess in a wall, in which a fire may be built.

A place near the fire or hearth; home; domestic life or retirement.

The thing first thought or done. The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand. Shak.

O, fix thy chair of grace, that all my powers May also fix their reverence. Herbert. His heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord. Ps. cxii. 7. And fix far deeper in his head their stings. Milton.

A person beloved; a sweetheart. Thackeray.

gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion; as, a flaw in a knife or a vase. This heart Shall break into a hundered thousand flaws. Shak.

In a good sense, tenderness of feeling; gentleness. There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart. Cowper.

Anything extremely hard, unimpressible, and unyielding, like flint. "A heart of flint." Spenser. Flint age. (Geol.) Same as Stone age, under Stone. -- Flint brick, a fire made principially of powdered silex. -- Flint glass. See in the Vocabulary. -- Flint implements (Archæol.), tools, etc., employed by men before th…