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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.

To make feeble; to deprive of strength; to reduce the strength or force of; to weaken; to debilitate. Enfeebled by scanty subsistence and excessive toil. Prescott.

The act of weakening; enervation; weakness.

One who, or that which, weakens or makes feeble.

ch offensive matter, if he struck out epithets which are in the bad taste of the forcible-feeble school. N. Brit. Review.

See Enfeeble.

se were first found in the gypsum quarries near Paris; characterized by the shortness and feebleness of their canine teeth (whence the name).

To weaken; to enfeeble; to reduce; as, an old appalled wight. [Obs.] Chaucer. Whine, of its own nature, will not congeal and freeze, only it will lose the strength, and become appalled in extremity of cold. Holland.

Tendency to fall; the feebleness of old age; senility. [R.] [A] jumble of youth and caducity. Chesterfield.

A contemptible or worthless person; -- a term of reproach. [Obs.] "Old feeble carrions." Shak.

t; the first period. The childhood of our joy. Shak. Second childhood, the state of being feeble and incapable from old age.

nd about. Jonah ii. 5. But now thou dost thyself immure and close In some one corner of a feeble heart. Herbert. A closed sea, a sea within the jurisdiction of some particular nation, which controls its navigation.

lline substance, C18H21NO3, similar to and regarded as a derivative of morphine, but much feebler in its action; -- called also codeia.

gest in the mind; to devise; to make up; to contrive; to plan; to plot. He was a man of a feeble stomach, unable to concoct any great fortune. Hayward.

hip, resist disease, etc.; as, a robust constitution. Our constitutions have never been enfeebled by the vices or luxuries of the oid world. Story.

Hence, to move or advance in a feeble, slow, or timorous manner. He was hardly able to crawl about the room. Arbuthnot. The meanest thing that crawl'd beneath my eyes. Byron.

ief; a disposition to believe on slight evidence. That implict credulity is the mark of a feeble mind will not be disputed. Sir W. Hamilton.

To support on crutches; to prop up. [R.] Two fools that crutch their feeble sense on verse. Dryden.