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To fetch. [Obs.] And from the other fifty soon the prisoner fet. Spenser.

Pertaining to, or connected with, a fetus; as, fetal circulation; fetal membranes.

The formation of a fetus in the womb; pregnancy.

point of view the action is contemplated; to go and bring; to get. Time will run back and fetch the age of gold. Milton. He called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink. And as she was going to fetch it he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bred i…

One wo fetches or brings.

A feat. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A material object supposed among certain African tribes to represent in such a way, or to be so connected with, a supernatural being, that the possession of it gives to the possessor power to control that being.

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.

The act of killing the fetus in the womb; the offense of procuring an abortion.

See Fetichism.

Having an offensive smell; stinking. Most putrefactions . . . smell either fetid or moldy. Bacon.

Fetidness.

The quality or state of being fetid.

Producing young, as animals.

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

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

See Fetich, n., Fetichism, n., Fetichistic, a.

he great pastern bone and the metacarpus), or the tuft of hair. Their wounded steeds Fret fetlock deep in gore. Shak.