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ety and abundance of food. Enough is as good as a feast. Old Proverb. Belshazzar the King made a great feast to a thousand of his lords. Dan. v. 1.

A substitute for whalebone, made from the quills of geese and turkeys.

n the other, as a board; -- in the United States, said only of stuff one edge of which is made as thin as practicable.

best can paint them who shall feel them most. Pope. Mankind have felt their strength and made it felt. Byron.

Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility; as, he made a feeling representation of his wrongs.

Made very happy. [Archaic] I am alone felicitate In your dear highness' love. Shak.

One of the same race or kind; one made by the same Creator. Reason, by which we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes. I. Watts.

tered, so that there is not that fellowship which is in less neighborhods. Bacon. Men are made for society and mutual fellowship. Calamy.

A cloth or stuff made of matted fibers of wool, or wool and fur, 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 .

The material of which felt is made; also, felted cloth; also, the process by which it is made.

he 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, within one inclosure. -- Worm fence, a zigzag fence composed of rails crossing one another at their ends; -- ca…

The person to whom a feoffment is made; the person enfeoffed.

A stuff made of silk and wool. I did buy a colored silk ferrandine. Pepys.

Partaking of, made of, or pertaining to, iron; like iron. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A kind of narrow tape, usually made of woolen; sometimes of cotton or silk; -- called also ferreting.

teel bars, strips, etc. Floors, columns, piles, water pipes, etc., have been successfully made of it. Called also armored concrete steel, and reënforced concrete.

Neat; pretty; well made; graceful. [Obs.] Full fetis was her cloak, as I was ware. Chaucer.

chain or shackle for the feet; a chain by which an animal is confined by the foot, either made fast or disabled from free and rapid motion; a bond; a shackle. [They] bound him with fetters of brass. Judg. xvi. 21.

A free and gratuitous right to lands made to one for service to be performed by him; a tenure where the vassal, in place of military services, makes a return in grain or in money. Burrill.

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.