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Vexation; anxiety; care. [Scot.] Without further fash on my part. De Quincey.

robable as to be generally believed. -- To fasten one's eyes upon, to look upon steadily without cessation. Acts iii. 4.

Without a known author. Beau. & Fl.

The state of being without a father.

ation (Med.), a condition in which there is an excessive accumulation of fat in an organ, without destruction of any essential parts of the latter. -- Fatty tumor (Med.), a tumor consisting of fatty or adipose tissue; lipoma.

Without reality; illusory, like the ignis fatuus. Thence fatuous fires and meteors take their birth. Danham.

A suburb of French city; also, a district now within a city, but formerly without its walls.

Without fault; not defective or imperfect; free from blemish; free from incorrectness, vice, or offense; perfect; as, a faultless poem. Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be. Pope.

A group of spores arranged without order and covered with a thin gelatinous envelope, as in certain delicate red algæ.

inclined to fear; easily frightened; without courage; timid. What man is there that is fearful and fain-hearted Deut. xx. 8.

nheritance belonging to the owner, and transmissible to his heirs, absolutely and simply, without condition attached to the tenure. Fee estate (Eng. Law), land or tenements held in fee in consideration or some acknowledgment or service rendered to the lord. -- Fee farm (Law), land held of another in fee, in considerat…

To know with feeling; to be conscious; hence, to know certainly or without misgiving. Garlands . . . which I feel I am not worthy yet to wear. Shak.

A man without good breeding or worth; an ignoble or mean man. Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow. Pope.

Without fellow or equal; peerless. Whose well-built walls are rare and fellowless. Chapman.

r, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving. It were a delicate stratagem to shoe A troop of horse with felt. Shak .

inclosing structure of wood, iron, or other material, intended to prevent intrusion from without or straying from within. Leaps o'er the fence with ease into the fold. Milton.

Without a fence; uninclosed; open; unguarded; defenseless. Milton.

A brooch, clasp, or buckle. Mere fibulæ, without a robe to clasp. Wordsworth.

One who depends for salvation on faith, without works; an Antinomian. Hammond.

The space covered by an optical instrument at one view. Without covering, save yon field of stars. Shak. Ask of yonder argent fields above. Pope.