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The fist. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A feast. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Of or pertaining to a holiday or a feast; joyous; festive. You bless with choicer wine the festal day. Francis.

Joyously; festively; mirthfully.

A fescennine.

To generate pus; to become imflamed and suppurate; as, a sore or a wound festers. Wounds immedicable Rankle, and fester, and gangrene. Milton. Unkindness may give a wound that shall bleed and smart, but it is treachery that makes it fester. South. Hatred . . . festered in the hearts of the children of the soil. Macaula…

A festering. [R.] Chalmers.

To feast; to entertain. [Obs.] Chaucer.

sting or celebration; an anniversary day of joy, civil or religious. The morning trumpets festival proclaimed. Milton.

Hasty; hurried. [Obs.] -- Fes"ti*nate*ly, adv. [Obs.] Shak.

Haste; hurry. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Pertaining to a fest; festive; festal; appropriate to a festival; joyous; mirthful. I cannot woo in festival terms. Shak.

Pertaining to, or becoming, a feast; festal; joyous; gay; mirthful; sportive. -- Fes"tive*ly, adv. The glad circle round them yield their souls To festive mirth and wit that knows no gall. Thomson.

The condition of being festive; social joy or exhilaration of spirits at an entertaintment; joyfulness; gayety. The unrestrained festivity of the rustic youth. Bp. Hurd.

Pertaining to a feast; festive. [R.] Sir W. Scott.

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

A garland or wreath hanging in a depending curve, used in decoration for festivals, etc.; anything arranged in this way.

Pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling, festoons. Sir J. Herschel.

Of a straw color; greenish yellow. [Obs.] A little insect of a festucine or pale green. Sir T. Browne.

Formed or consisting of straw. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.