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rent (Eng. Law), a perpetual rent reserved upon a conveyance in fee simple. -- Fee fund (Scot. Law), certain court dues out of which the clerks and other court officers are paid. -- Fee simple (Law), an absolute fee; a fee without conditions or limits. Buy the fee simple of my life for an hour and a quarter. Shak. --…

To turn, as a screw. [Scot] Jamieson.

Pertaining to the femur or thigh; as, the femoral artery. "Femoral habiliments." Sir W. Scott.

e not Athens. Shak. A sheepcote fenced about with olive trees. Shak. To fence the tables (Scot. Church), to make a solemn address to those who present themselves to commune at the Lord's supper, on the feelings appropriate to the service, in order to hinder, so far as possible, those who are unworthy from approaching t…

k of one of the Ferrara family of Italy. These swords were highly esteemed in England and Scotland in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Pertaining to a feast; festive. [R.] Sir W. Scott.

One who holds a feu. Sir W. Scott.

Fated; doomed. [Old Eng. & Scot.]

subject to the estate of a life renter. I am fiar of the lands; she a life renter. Sir W. Scott.

Fiddle pattern, a form of the handles of spoons, forks, etc., somewhat like a violin. -- Scotch fiddle, the itch. (Low) -- To play first, or second, fiddle, to take a leading or a subordinate part. [Colloq.]

a cross constructed of two firebrands, and pitched upon the point of a spear; formerly in Scotland borne by a runner as a signal for the clan to take up arms. Sir W. Scott.

o smooth or polish as with a file. Shak. File your tongue to a little more courtesy.Sir W.Scott.

Haddock cured in peat smoke, originally at Findon (pron. fìn"an), Scotland. the name is also applied to other kinds of smoked haddock. [Written also finnan haddock.]

n. The species are distinguished as the balsam fir, the silver fir, the red fir, etc. The Scoth fir is a Pinus.

A dry measure formerly used in Scotland; the fourth part of a boll of grain or meal. The Linlithgow wheat firlot was to the imperial bushel as 998 to 1000; the barley firlot as 1456 to 1000. Brande & C.

A public officer in Scotland who prosecutes in petty criminal cases; -- called also procurator fiscal.

ly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments. Any other fishing question. Sir W. Scott.

readeth a net for his feet. Prov. xxix. 5. Others he flattered by asking their advice. Prescott.

hich an arrow or flight may be shot; bowshot, -- about the fifth of a mile. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Within a flight-shot it inthe valley. Evelyn. Half a flight-shot from the king's oak. Sir W. Scott.

fragments. The tough ash spear, so stout and true, Into a thousand flinders flew. Sir W. Scott.