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In or of the country. [R.] Epichorial superstitions from every district of Europe. De Quincey.

Stately; dignified. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Ostrich. [Obs.] Massinger.

each one; every one; each of two. See Every. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Every one. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Same as Vehm, Vehmgericht.

Fiendlike. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Festive; fond of festive occasions. [Obs.] "A festlich man." Chaucer.

Any object to which one is excessively devoted.

The doctrine or practice of belief in fetiches.

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

Pertaining to, or involving, fetichism. A man of the fifteenth century, inheriting its strange web of belief and unbelief, of epicurean levity and fetichistic dread. G. Eliot.

See FitchÉ.

A white crystallized mineral resin from the Fichtelgebirge, Bavaria.

A light cape, usually of lace, worn by women, to cover the neck and throat, and extending to the shoulders.

A group of small wormlike animals, having cilia on the ventral side. The group is regarded as an ancestral or synthetic one, related to rotifers and annelids.

Goodly. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Goodly. [Obs.] Chaucer.

An order of sponges, having simple siliceous spicules and keratose fibers; -- called also Keratosilicoidea.

An iron alum occurring in silky fibrous aggregates of a yellowish white color.