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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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FATHER n. 12 definitions

o God. (b) (R. C. Ch.) A priest who hears confession in the sacrament of penance. -- The Holy Father (R. C. Ch.), the pope.

FAWN n. 7 definitions

young of an animal; a whelp. [Obs.] [The tigress] . . . followeth . . . after her fawns. Holland.

FEAST n. 7 definitions

A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary. The seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord. Ex. xiii. 6. Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover. Luke ii. 41.

FEATHER n. 18 definitions

A thin wedge driven between the two semicylindrical parts of a divided plug in a hole bored in a stone, to rend the stone. Knight.

FEE n. 6 definitions

property; possession; tenure. "Laden with rich fee." Spenser. Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee. Wordsworth.

FELLOW n. 9 definitions

ale. When they be but heifers of one year, . . . they are let go to the fellow and breed. Holland. This was my glove; here is the fellow of it. Shak.

FELLOWSHIP n. 5 definitions

oe doth woe assuage. Shak. The goodliest fellowship of famous knights, Whereof this world holds record. Tennyson.

for defense. "They fitted their shields close to one another in manner of a fence roof." Holland. Fence time, the breeding time of fish or game, when they should not be killed. -- Rail fence, a fence made of rails, sometimes supported by posts. -- Ring fence, a fence which encircles a large area, or a whole estate,…

FERIAL a. 3 definitions

Of or pertaining to holidays. [Obs.] J. Gregory.

The act of keeping holiday; cessation from work. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A holiday. [Obs.] Bullokar.

FERRET n. 4 definitions

has been domesticated in Europe. Ferrets are used to drive rabbits and rats out of their holes.

FERVID a. 2 definitions

Ardent; vehement; zealous. The fervid wishes, holy fires. Parnell. -- Fer"vid*ly, adv. -- Fer"vid*ness, n.

FERVOR n. 2 definitions

Intensity of feeling or expression; glowing ardor; passion; holy zeal; earnestness. Hooker. Winged with fervor of her love. Shak.

Of or pertaining to a holiday or a feast; joyous; festive. You bless with choicer wine the festal day. Francis.

A straw; a fescue. [Obs.] Holland.

FETICHIST; FETISHIST n.

A believer in fetiches. He was by nature a fetichist. H. Holbeach.

One who holds a feu. Sir W. Scott.

The feudal system; a system by which the holding of estates in land is made dependent upon an obligation to render military service to the kind or feudal superior; feudal principles and usages.

FEUDARY n. 3 definitions

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