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The quality or condition of being feeble; debility; infirmity. That shakes for age and feebleness. Shak.

That quality of a work of art which embodies the mental emotion of the artist, and is calculated to affect similarly the spectator. Fairholt.

The quality or state of being fell or cruel; fierce barbarity. Spenser.

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…

The quality of being feminine; womanliness; womanishness.

The quality or nature of the female sex; womanliness.

The state or quality of being fertile or fruitful; fruitfulness; productiveness; fecundity; richness; abundance of resources; fertile invention; quickness; readiness; as, the fertility of soil, or of imagination. "fertility of resource." E. Everett. And all her husbandry doth lie on heaps Corrupting in its own fertilit…

The quality or state of being fetid.

The state or quality of being feudal; feudal form or constitution. Burke.

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

Quality of being fidgety.

The quality of being fiery; heat; acrimony; irritability; as, a fieriness of temper. Addison.

Passionate; easily provoked; irritable. You kniw the fiery quality of the duke. Shak.

The quality of being figurable. Johnson.

The quality or condition of being fine.

The quality of being finical; finicalness.

A limiting element or quality. [R.] The essential finific in the form of the finite. Coleridge.

The state or quality of being firm.

twelve at midnight; also, the men on duty during that time. -- First water, the highest quality or purest luster; -- said of gems, especially of diamond and pearls.

Of the best class; of the highest rank; in the first division; of the best quality; first-rate; as, a first-class telescope. First- class car or First-class railway carriage, any passenger car of the highest regular class, and intended for passengers who pay the highest regular rate; -- distinguished from a second-clas…