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A blast from beneath. [Obs.] Bacon.

The layer of loose tissue, often containing fat, immediately beneath the skin; the stronger layer of connective tissue covering and investing all muscles; an aponeurosis.

Dexterous in movements or service; skillful; neat; nice; pretty. [Archaic] Never master had a page . . . so feat. Shak. And look how well my garments sit upon me --Much feater than before. Shak.

Dexterous; neat. [Obs.] Johnson. -- Feat"e*ous*ly, adv.

Neatly; dexterously; nimbly. [Archaic] Foot featly here and there. Shak.

hitting; to ward off; to shut out; -- often with off; as, to fend off blows. With fern beneath to fend the bitter cold. Dryden. To fend off a boat or vessel (Naut.), to prevent its running against anything with too much violence.

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

Neatly; gracefully; properly. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Neat; feat. [Obs.] Herrick.

s. -- Fifth wheel, a horizontal wheel or segment above the fore axle of a carriage and beneath the body, forming an extended support to prevent careening.

Represented by figure or delineation; consisting of figures; as, figural ornaments. Sir T. Browne.

Represented by figure or delineation. [R.] Craig.

A fanciful stroke of the pen or graver; a merely decorative figure. The neat characters and flourishes of a Bible curiously printed. Boyle.

Esp., two longitudinal bands of white nervous tissue beneath the lateral ventricles of the brain.

The bitter, alkaline, viscid fluid found in the gall bladder, beneath the liver. It consists of the secretion of the liver, or bile, mixed with that of the mucous membrane of the gall bladder.

A peculiar bony tissue beneath the enamel of a ganoid scale.

Neat; pretty; fine; elegant. [Obs.] Spenser. Her body gent and small. Chaucer.

Neat; trim. [Scot.] Burns.

Neat; spruce. [Prov.]

That part of the body where the girdle is worn. [Obs.] Sheathed, beneath his girdlestead. Chapman.