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Characteristic of a felon; malignant; fierce; malicious; cruel; traitorous; disloyal. Vain shows of love to vail his felon hate. Pope.

Having the quality of felony; malignant; malicious; villainous; traitorous; perfidious; in a legal sense, done with intent to commit a crime; as, felonious homicide. O thievish Night, Why should'st thou, but for some felonious end, In thy dark lantern thus close up the stars Milton. -- Fe*lo"ni`ous*ly, adv. -- Fe*lo"n…

Savage wildness or fierceness; fury; cruelty; as, ferocity of countenance. The pride and ferocity of a Highland chief. Macaulay.

To be inflamed; to grow virulent, or malignant; to grow in intensity; to rankle.

The formation of a fetus in the womb; pregnancy.

A stipendiary estate in land, held of superior, by service; the right which a vassal or tenant had to the lands or other immovable thing of his lord, to use the same and take the profists thereof hereditarily, rendering to his superior such duties and services as belong to military tenure, etc., the property of the soi…

A tenant who holds his lands by feudal service; a feudatory. Foxe.

A tenant or vassal who held his lands of a superior on condition of feudal service; the tenant of a feud or fief. The grantee . . . was styled the feudatory or vassal. Blackstone. [He] had for feudatories great princes. J. H. Newman.

The quality of being fickle; instability; inconsonancy. Shak.

Like a fiend; diabolically wicked or cruel; infernal; malignant; devilish; hellish. -- Fiend"ish*ly, adv. -- Fiend"ish*ness, n.

rval of three tones and a semitone, embracing five diatonic degrees of the scale; the dominant of any key.

Of a definite form or figure. Plants are all figurate and determinate, which inanimate bodies are not. Bacon.

Support; maintenance; that which is provided for one; expence; provision.

Indicating firmness; as, a firm tread; a firm countenance.

d. (b) (Feudal Law) One year's profits of lands belonging to the king on the death of a tenant who held directly from him. (c) (Eng. Eccl. Law) The first year's whole profits of a benefice or spiritual living. (d) The earliest effects or results. See, Father, what first fruits on earth are sprung From thy implanted gra…

The state or quality of being fishy or fishlike. Pennant.

tures of a pump; the fixtures of a farm or of a dwelling, that is, the articles which a tenant may not take away.

y tail of a dog, as of a setter. Black flag. See under Black. -- Flag captain, Flag leutenant, etc., special officers attached to the flagship, as aids to the flag officer. -- Flag officer, the commander of a fleet or squadron; an admiral, or commodore. -- Flag of truse, a white flag carried or displayed to an enemy…

t flagellation was of equal virtue with baptism and the sacrament; -- called also disciplinant.

arries the commanding officer of a fleet or squadron and flies his distinctive flag or pennant.