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To subject by eating; to satisfy the appetite; to feed one's self (upon something); to prey; -- with on or upon. Leaving thy trunk for crows to feed upon. Shak.

al, observation, etc., put forth or thrown out in order to ascertain the views of others; something tentative.

To give a mental existence to, as to something not real or actual; to imagine; to invent; hence, to pretend; to form and relate as if true. 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.…

first, by Prometheus. -- Hog's fennel, a European plant (Peucedanum officinale) looking something like fennel.

An authoritative command or order to do something; an effectual decree. His fiat laid the corner stone. Willis.

To put into the head of, as something useless o [Obs.] L'Estrange.

An invention; a fiction; something feigned or imagined. Social figments, feints, and formalism. Mrs. Browning. It carried rather an appearance of figment and invention . . . than of truth and reality. Woodward.

One who, or that which, fills; something used for filling. 'T is mere filer, to stop a vacancy in the hexameter. Dryden. They have six diggers to four fillers, so as to keep the fillers always at work. Mortimer.

Something serving to rouse or excite. I take a glass of grog for a filip. Dickens.

To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a person. Searching the window for a flint, I found This paper, thus sealed up. Shak. In woods and forests thou art found. Cowley.

Something that gives the finishing touch to, or settles, anything. [Colloq.]

Like the of a fish; acting, or producing something, like the tail of a fish. Fish-tail burner, a gas burner that gives a spreading flame shaped somewhat like the tail of a fish. -- Fish-tail propeller (Steamship), a propeller with a single blade that oscillates like the tail of a fish when swimming.…

To supply with something that is suitable or fit, or that is shaped and adjusted to the use required. No milliner can so fit his customers with gloves. Shak.

That which is fixed or attached to something as a permanent appendage; as, the fixtures of a pump; the fixtures of a farm or of a dwelling, that is, the articles which a tenant may not take away.

To move, as something broad and flaplike; as, to flap the wings; to let fall, as the brim of a hat. To flap in the mouth, to taunt. [Obs.] W. Cartwright.

Something broad and flat in form; as:

To give flavor to; to add something (as salt or a spice) to, to give character or zest.

The repeated stroke of something long and loose. Johnson.

id, as to sustain weight, or to indicate the height of the surface, or mark the place of, something. Specifically:

To turn suddenly, as something broad and flat. [Colloq.] Fielding.