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The fourth part of an acre of land. [Obs.] [Written also farding dale, fardingale, etc.]

Manner; custom; fashion; humor. [Prov. Eng.] [Written also farand.] Grose.

indness or friendship; a well-wisher; one who assists or promotes success or prosperity. [Written also favourer.] And come to us as favorers, not as foes. Shak.

A woman who favors or gives countenance. [Written also fovouress.]

To beat; to chastise; to humble; to worry. [Obs.] [Written also feaze, feize, pheese.] Beau. & Fl. To feeze up, to work into a passion. [Obs.]

The exterior wooden rim, or a segment of the rim, of a wheel, supported by the spokes. [Written also felloe.] Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel. Shak.

A mate or companion; -- often used of a wife. [Obs.] [Written also fear and feere.] Chaucer. And Cambel took Cambrina to his fere. Spenser. In fere, together; in company. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The name given to Europeans by the Hindos. [Written also Feringhee.]

Pertaining to, or derived from, asafetida (Ferula asafoetida); as, ferulic acid. [Written also ferulaic.]

lopment 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.

A small dog; -- written also fise, fyce, fiste, etc. [Southern U.S.]

feigned, invented, or imagined; especially, a feigned or invented story, whether oral or written. Hence: A story told in order to deceive; a fabrication; -- opposed to fact, or reality. The fiction of those golden apples kept by a dragon. Sir W. Raleigh. When it could no longer be denied that her flight had been volun…

nt or descant (although the term figured is more commonly applied to a bass with numerals written above or below to indicate the other notes of the harmony). -- Figurate numbers (Math.), numbers, or series of numbers, formed from any arithmetical progression in which the first term is a unit, and the difference a whol…

A native of the Fiji islands. [Written also Feejeean, Feejee.]

Same as Kilt. [Written also philibeg.]

don (pron. fìn"an), Scotland. the name is also applied to other kinds of smoked haddock. [Written also finnan haddock.]

A variety of pigeon, with a crest somewhat resembling the mane of a horse. [Written also finikin.]

and Eastern Europe, including the Magyars, Bulgarians, Permians, Lapps, and Finlanders. [Written also Fins.]

the sea, penetrating between high banks or rocks, as on the coasts of Norway and Alaska. [Written also fjord.]