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nt; witchcraft; the exercise of a powerful or irresistible influence on the affections or passions; unseen, inexplicable influence. The Turks hang old rags . . . upon their fairest horses, and other goodly creatures, to secure them against fascination. Waller.

ow, head, quarter, breast, or stern fast; also, a post on a pier around which hawsers are passed in mooring.

Fertile; productive; as, a fat soil; a fat pasture.

The narrow passage from the mouth to the pharynx, situated between the soft palate and the base of the tongue; -- called also the isthmus of the fauces. On either side of the passage two membranous folds, called the pillars of the fauces, inclose the tonsils.

A false step; a mistake or wrong measure.

A painful emotion or passion excited by the expectation of evil, or the apprehension of impending danger; apprehension; anxiety; solicitude; alarm; dread.

o the Lord. Ex. xiii. 6. Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover. Luke ii. 41.

To place cattle to feed; to pasture; to graze. If a man . . . shall put in his beast, and shall feed in anotheEx. xxii. 5.

That which furnishes or affords food, especially for animals; pasture land. Feeding bottle. See under Bottle.

orry. [Obs.] [Written also feaze, feize, pheese.] Beau. & Fl. To feeze up, to work into a passion. [Obs.]

A projection on the bolt, which passes through the tumbler gates in locking and unlocking.

to shift off. The dexterous management of terms, and being able to fend . . . with them, passes for a great part of learning. Locke.

The price or fare to be paid for passage at a ferry.

-driven steel wheel, revolvable on its stationary axle, and carrying a number of balanced passenger cars around its rim; -- so called after G. W. G. Ferris, American engineer, who erected the first of its kind for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893.

To pass over water in a boat or by a ferry. They ferry over this Lethean sound Both to and fro. Milton.

A vessel for conveying passengers, merchandise, etc., across streams and other narrow waters.

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

accomplishment; to achieve; to make; to perform, with certain objects; as, to fetch a compass; to fetch a leap; to fetch a sigh. I'll fetch a turn about the garden. Shak. He fetches his blow quick and sure. South.

e horse and similar animals. Also, the joint of the limb at this point (between the great pastern bone and the metacarpus), or the tuft of hair. Their wounded steeds Fret fetlock deep in gore. Shak.

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