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To form; to fashion. [Obs.] To the more mature, A glass that feated them. Shak.

Any pulverulent matter obtained from plants by simply breaking down the texture, washing with water, and subsidence. Especially:

Foul with extraneous or impure substances; abounding with sediment or excrementitious matter; muddy; thick; turbid. Both his hands most filthy feculent. Spenser.

The act by which, either in animals or plants, material prepared by the generative organs the female organism is brought in contact with matter from the organs of the male, so that a new organism results; impregnation; fertilization.

To supply (the material to be operated upon) to a machine; as, to feed paper to a printing press.

An auxiliary part of a machine which supplies or leads along the material operated upon.

To have the sensibilities moved or affected. [She] feels with the dignity of a Roman matron. Burke. And mine as man, who feel for all mankind. Pope.

One of a pair, or of two things used together or suited to each other; a mate; the male. 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.

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 .

To clot or mat together like felt. His feltered locks that on his bosom fell. Fairfax.

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

er space, or about any object; especially, an inclosing structure of wood, iron, or other material, intended to prevent intrusion from without or straying from within. Leaps o'er the fence with ease into the fold. Milton.

The materials used for building fences. [U.S.]

A mate or companion; -- often used of a wife. [Obs.] [Written also fear and feere.] Chaucer. And Cambel took Cambrina to his fere. Spenser. In fere, together; in company. [Obs.] Chaucer.

rmentation, and attributes them to the organized ferments in the body. It does not differ materially from the accepted germ theory (which see).

f high potential, and consisting of concentric tubes of copper separated by an insulating material composed of paper saturated with black mineral wax.

prussian blue. It is obtained by strongly heating together potash, scrap iron, and animal matter containing nitrogen, as horn, leather, blood, etc., in iron pots.

A small sore which becomes inflamed and discharge corrupt matter; a pustule.

A material object supposed among certain African tribes to represent in such a way, or to be so connected with, a supernatural being, that the possession of it gives to the possessor power to control that being.

A general name for the raw material, such as cotton, flax, hemp, etc., used in textile manufactures. Fiber gun, a kind of steam gun for converting, wood, straw, etc., into fiber. The material is shut up in the gun with steam, air, or gas at a very high pressure which is afterward relieved suddenly by letting a lid at t…