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property; possession; tenure. "Laden with rich fee." Spenser. Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee. Wordsworth.

ogres; hence, any expression calculated to impose upon the timid and ignorant. "Impudent fee-faw-fums." J. H. Newman.

Deficient in physical strenght; weak; infirm; debilitated. Carried all the feeble of them upon asses. 2 Chron. xxviii. 15.

tual power; wanting firmness or constancy; irresolute; vacilating; imbecile. "comfort the feeble-minded." 1 Thess. v. 14. -- Fee"ble-mind"ed*ness, n.

The quality or condition of being feeble; debility; infirmity. That shakes for age and feebleness. Shak.

In a feeble manner. The restored church . . . contended feebly, and with half a heart. Macaulay.

to; to supply with nourishment; to satisfy the physical huger of. If thine enemy hunger, feed him. Rom. xii. 20. Unreasonable reatures feed their young. Shak.

which, gives food or supplies nourishment; steward. A couple of friends, his chaplain and feeder. Goldsmith.

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

See Fijian.

f the skin; to have sensation excited by contact of (a thing) with the body or limbs. Who feel Those rods of scorpions and those whips of steel. Creecn.

One who, or that which, feels.

Possessing great sensibility; easily affected or moved; as, a feeling heart.

In a feeling manner; pathetically; sympathetically.

A consort, husband or wife; a companion; a fere. [Obs.]

the short run before a leap. [Obs.] Nares.

See Foot.

Destitute of feet; as, feetless birds.

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

To confirm; to assure. [Obs.] "The title is affeered." Shak.