Feathering (n.) The act of turning the blade of the oar, as it rises from the water in rowing, from a vertical to a horizontal position. See To feather an oar, under Feather, v. t.
Feathering (v. t.) A covering of feathers.
Featherless (a.) Destitute of feathers.
Featherly (a.) Like feathers.
Feather-pated (a.) Feather-headed; frivolous.
Feather-veined (a.) Having the veins (of a leaf) diverging from the two sides of a midrib.
Feathery (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, feathers; covered with, or as with, feathers; as, feathery spray or snow.
Featly (a.) Neatly; dexterously; nimbly.
Featness (n.) Skill; adroitness.
Feature (n.) The make, form, or outward appearance of a person; the whole turn or style of the body; esp., good appearance.
Feature (n.) The make, cast, or appearance of the human face, and especially of any single part of the face; a lineament. (pl.) The face, the countenance.
Feature (n.) The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty, or an essay; any marked peculiarity or characteristic; as, one of the features of the landscape.
Feature (n.) A form; a shape.
Featured (a.) Shaped; fashioned.
Featured (a.) Having features; formed into features.
Featureless (a.) Having no distinct or distinctive features.
Featurely (a.) Having features; showing marked peculiarities; handsome.
Feazed (imp. & p. p.) of Feaze
Feazing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Feaze
Feaze (v. t.) To untwist; to unravel, as the end of a rope.
Feaze (v. t.) To beat; to chastise; also, to humble; to harass; to worry.
Feaze (n.) A state of anxious or fretful excitement; worry; vexation.
Feazings (v. t.) The unlaid or ragged end of a rope.
Febricitate (v. i.) To have a fever.
Febriculose (a.) Somewhat feverish.
Febrifacient (a.) Febrific.
Febrifacient (n.) That which causes fever.
Febriferous (a.) Causing fever; as, a febriferous locality.
Febrific (a.) Producing fever.
Febrifugal (a.) Having the quality of mitigating or curing fever.
Febrifuge (n.) A medicine serving to mitigate or remove fever.
Febrifuge (a.) Antifebrile.
Febrile (a.) Pertaining to fever; indicating fever, or derived from it; as, febrile symptoms; febrile action.
February (n.) The second month in the year, said to have been introduced into the Roman calendar by Numa. In common years this month contains twenty-eight days; in the bissextile, or leap year, it has twenty-nine days.
Februation (n.) Purification; a sacrifice.
Fecal (a.) relating to, or containing, dregs, feces, or ordeure; faecal.
Fecche (v. t.) To fetch.
Feces (n. pl.) dregs; sediment; excrement. See FAeces.
Fecial (a.) Pertaining to heralds, declarations of war, and treaties of peace; as, fecial law.
Fecifork (n.) The anal fork on which the larvae of certain insects carry their faeces.
Feckless (a.) Spiritless; weak; worthless.
Fecks (n.) A corruption of the word faith.
FeculAe (pl. ) of Fecula
Fecula (n.) Any pulverulent matter obtained from plants by simply breaking down the texture, washing with water, and subsidence.
Fecula (n.) The nutritious part of wheat; starch or farina; -- called also amylaceous fecula.
Fecula (n.) The green matter of plants; chlorophyll.
Feculence (n.) The state or quality of being feculent; muddiness; foulness.
Feculence (n.) That which is feculent; sediment; lees; dregs.
Feculency (n.) Feculence.
Feculent (a.) Foul with extraneous or impure substances; abounding with sediment or excrementitious matter; muddy; thick; turbid.
Fecund (a.) Fruitful in children; prolific.
Fecundated (imp. & p. p.) of Fecundate
Fecundating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fecundate
Fecundate (v. t.) To make fruitful or prolific.
Fecundate (v. t.) To render fruitful or prolific; to impregnate; as, in flowers the pollen fecundates the ovum through the stigma.
Fecundation (n.) The act by which, either in animals or plants, material prepared by the generative organs the female organism is brought in contact with matter from the organs of the male, so that a new organism results; impregnation; fertilization.
Fecundify (v. t.) To make fruitful; to fecundate.
Fecundity (n.) The quality or power of producing fruit; fruitfulness; especially (Biol.), the quality in female organisms of reproducing rapidly and in great numbers.
Fecundity (n.) The power of germinating; as in seeds.
Fecundity (n.) The power of bringing forth in abundance; fertility; richness of invention; as, the fecundity of God's creative power.
Fed () imp. & p. p. of Feed.
Fedary (n.) A feodary.
Federal (a.) Pertaining to a league or treaty; derived from an agreement or covenant between parties, especially between nations; constituted by a compact between parties, usually governments or their representatives.
Federal (a.) Composed of states or districts which retain only a subordinate and limited sovereignty, as the Union of the United States, or the Sonderbund of Switzerland.
Federal (a.) Consisting or pertaining to such a government; as, the Federal Constitution; a Federal officer.
Federal (a.) Friendly or devoted to such a government; as, the Federal party. see Federalist.
Federal (n.) See Federalist.
Federalism (n.) the principles of Federalists or of federal union.
Federalist (n.) An advocate of confederation; specifically (Amer. Hist.), a friend of the Constitution of the United States at its formation and adoption; a member of the political party which favored the administration of president Washington.
Federalized (imp. & p. p.) of Federalize
Federalizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Federalize
Federalize (v. t.) To unite in compact, as different States; to confederate for political purposes; to unite by or under the Federal Constitution.
Federary (n.) A partner; a confederate; an accomplice.
Federate (a.) United by compact, as sovereignties, states, or nations; joined in confederacy; leagued; confederate; as, federate nations.
Federation (n.) The act of uniting in a league; confederation.
Federation (n.) A league; a confederacy; a federal or confederated government.
Federative (a.) Uniting in a league; forming a confederacy; federal.
Fedity (n.) Turpitude; vileness.
Fee (n.) property; possession; tenure.
Fee (n.) Reward or compensation for services rendered or to be rendered; especially, payment for professional services, of optional amount, or fixed by custom or laws; charge; pay; perquisite; as, the fees of lawyers and physicians; the fees of office; clerk's fees; sheriff's fees; marriage fees, etc.
Fee (n.) A right to the use of a superior's land, as a stipend for services to be performed; also, the land so held; a fief.
Fee (n.) An estate of inheritance supposed to be held either mediately or immediately from the sovereign, and absolutely vested in the owner.
Fee (n.) An estate of inheritance belonging to the owner, and transmissible to his heirs, absolutely and simply, without condition attached to the tenure.
Feed (imp. & p. p.) of Fee
Feeing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fee
Fee (v. t.) To reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe.
Feeble (superl.) Deficient in physical strength; weak; infirm; debilitated.
Feeble (superl.) Wanting force, vigor, or efficiency in action or expression; not full, loud, bright, strong, rapid, etc.; faint; as, a feeble color; feeble motion.
Feeble (v. t.) To make feble; to enfeeble.
Feeble-minded (a.) Weak in intellectual power; wanting firmness or constancy; irresolute; vacilating; imbecile.
Feebleness (n.) The quality or condition of being feeble; debility; infirmity.
Feebly (adv.) In a feeble manner.
Fed (imp. & p. p.) of Feed
Feeding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Feed
Feed (v. t.) To give food to; to supply with nourishment; to satisfy the physical huger of.
Feed (v. t.) To satisfy; grafity or minister to, as any sense, talent, taste, or desire.
Feed (v. t.) To fill the wants of; to supply with that which is used or wasted; as, springs feed ponds; the hopper feeds the mill; to feed a furnace with coal.
Feed (v. t.) To nourish, in a general sense; to foster, strengthen, develop, and guard.
Feed (v. t.) To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle; as, if grain is too forward in autumn, feed it with sheep.
Feed (v. t.) To give for food, especially to animals; to furnish for consumption; as, to feed out turnips to the cows; to feed water to a steam boiler.