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Most distant; farthest. A spacious cave within its farmost part. Dryden.

nce; beyond a certain point; additional; further. Before our farther way the fates allow. Dryden. Let me add a farther Truth. Dryden. Some farther change awaits us. MIlton.

To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to lay on; as, to fasten a blow. [Obs.] Dryden. If I can fasten but one cup upon him. Shak. To fasten a charge, or a crime, upon, to make his guilt certain, or so probable as to be generally believed. -- To fasten one's eyes upon, to look upon steadily without cessation.…

That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event. Dryden.

Exempted by fate. [Obs. or R.] Dryden.

y, to sound the depth of; to penetrate, measure, and comprehend; to get to the bottom of. Dryden. The page of life that was spread out before me seemed dull and commonplace, only because I had not fathomed its deeper import. Hawthotne.

The cause of weariness; labor; toil; as, the fatigues of war. Dryden.

To make fertile and fruitful; to enrich; as, to fatten land; to fatten fields with blood. Dryden.

ded propitiously; support; promotion; befriending. But found no favor in his lady's eyes. Dryden. And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man. Luke ii. 52.

eut. xxviii. 58. Death is a fearful thing. Shak. In dreams they fearful precipices tread. Dryden.

o say that the king cared not to plume his nobility and people to feather himself. Bacon. Dryden.

recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe. The patient . . . fees the doctor. Dryden. There's not a one of them but in his house I keep a servant feed. Shak.

escribing the kind of sensation. Blind men say black feels rough, and white feels smooth. Dryden. To feel after, to search for; to seek to find; to seek as a person groping in the dark. "If haply they might feel after him, and find him." Acts xvii. 27. - To feel of, to examine by touching.

A wild field; a moor. Dryton.

out; -- often with off; as, to fend off blows. With fern beneath to fend the bitter cold. Dryden. To fend off a boat or vessel (Naut.), to prevent its running against anything with too much violence.

A piece. [Obs.] Dryton.

ing that confines or restrains; a restraint. Passion's too fierce to be in fetters bound. Dryden.

Hot; sultry. "The feverish north." Dryden.

nt; capricious; as, Fortune's fickle wheel. Shak. They know how fickle common lovers are. Dryden.

Unrestrained; fierce; mettlesome; spirited. One curbed the fiery steed. Dryden.