Feed (v. t.) To supply (the material to be operated upon) to a machine; as, to feed paper to a printing press.
Feed (v. t.) To produce progressive operation upon or with (as in wood and metal working machines, so that the work moves to the cutting tool, or the tool to the work).
Feed (v. i.) To take food; to eat.
Feed (v. i.) To subject by eating; to satisfy the appetite; to feed one's self (upon something); to prey; -- with on or upon.
Feed (v. i.) To be nourished, strengthened, or satisfied, as if by food.
Feed (v. i.) To place cattle to feed; to pasture; to graze.
Feed (n.) That which is eaten; esp., food for beasts; fodder; pasture; hay; grain, ground or whole; as, the best feed for sheep.
Feed (n.) A grazing or pasture ground.
Feed (n.) An allowance of provender given to a horse, cow, etc.; a meal; as, a feed of corn or oats.
Feed (n.) A meal, or the act of eating.
Feed (n.) The water supplied to steam boilers.
Feed (n.) The motion, or act, of carrying forward the stuff to be operated upon, as cloth to the needle in a sewing machine; or of producing progressive operation upon any material or object in a machine, as, in a turning lathe, by moving the cutting tool along or in the work.
Feed (n.) The supply of material to a machine, as water to a steam boiler, coal to a furnace, or grain to a run of stones.
Feed (n.) The mechanism by which the action of feeding is produced; a feed motion.
Feeder (n.) One who, or that which, gives food or supplies nourishment; steward.
Feeder (n.) One who furnishes incentives; an encourager.
Feeder (n.) One who eats or feeds; specifically, an animal to be fed or fattened.
Feeder (n.) One who fattens cattle for slaughter.
Feeder (n.) A stream that flows into another body of water; a tributary; specifically (Hydraulic Engin.), a water course which supplies a canal or reservoir by gravitation or natural flow.
Feeder (n.) A branch railroad, stage line, or the like; a side line which increases the business of the main line.
Feeder (n.) A small lateral lode falling into the main lode or mineral vein.
Feeder (n.) A strong discharge of gas from a fissure; a blower.
Feeder (n.) An auxiliary part of a machine which supplies or leads along the material operated upon.
Feeder (n.) A device for supplying steam boilers with water as needed.
Feeding (n.) the act of eating, or of supplying with food; the process of fattening.
Feeding (n.) That which is eaten; food.
Feeding (n.) That which furnishes or affords food, especially for animals; pasture land.
Fee-faw-fum (n.) A nonsensical exclamation attributed to giants and ogres; hence, any expression calculated to impose upon the timid and ignorant.
Feejee (a. & n.) See Fijian.
Felt (imp. & p. p.) of Feel
Feeling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Feel
Feel (v. t.) To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; to have sensation excited by contact of (a thing) with the body or limbs.
Feel (v. t.) To touch; to handle; to examine by touching; as, feel this piece of silk; hence, to make trial of; to test; often with out.
Feel (v. t.) To perceive by the mind; to have a sense of; to experience; to be affected by; to be sensible of, or sensetive to; as, to feel pleasure; to feel pain.
Feel (v. t.) To take internal cognizance of; to be conscious of; to have an inward persuasion of.
Feel (v. t.) To perceive; to observe.
Feel (v. i.) To have perception by the touch, or by contact of anything with the nerves of sensation, especially those upon the surface of the body.
Feel (v. i.) To have the sensibilities moved or affected.
Feel (v. i.) To be conscious of an inward impression, state of mind, persuasion, physical condition, etc.; to perceive one's self to be; -- followed by an adjective describing the state, etc.; as, to feel assured, grieved, persuaded.
Feel (v. i.) To know with feeling; to be conscious; hence, to know certainly or without misgiving.
Feel (v. i.) To appear to the touch; to give a perception; to produce an impression by the nerves of sensation; -- followed by an adjective describing the kind of sensation.
Feel (n.) Feeling; perception.
Feel (n.) A sensation communicated by touching; impression made upon one who touches or handles; as, this leather has a greasy feel.
Feeler (n.) One who, or that which, feels.
Feeler (n.) One of the sense organs or certain animals (as insects), which are used in testing objects by touch and in searching for food; an antenna; a palp.
Feeler (n.) Anything, as a proposal, observation, etc., put forth or thrown out in order to ascertain the views of others; something tentative.
Feeling (a.) Possessing great sensibility; easily affected or moved; as, a feeling heart.
Feeling (a.) Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility; as, he made a feeling representation of his wrongs.
Feeling (n.) The sense by which the mind, through certain nerves of the body, perceives external objects, or certain states of the body itself; that one of the five senses which resides in the general nerves of sensation distributed over the body, especially in its surface; the sense of touch; nervous sensibility to external objects.
Feeling (n.) An act or state of perception by the sense above described; an act of apprehending any object whatever; an act or state of apprehending the state of the soul itself; consciousness.
Feeling (n.) The capacity of the soul for emotional states; a high degree of susceptibility to emotions or states of the sensibility not dependent on the body; as, a man of feeling; a man destitute of feeling.
Feeling (n.) Any state or condition of emotion; the exercise of the capacity for emotion; any mental state whatever; as, a right or a wrong feeling in the heart; our angry or kindly feelings; a feeling of pride or of humility.
Feeling (n.) That quality of a work of art which embodies the mental emotion of the artist, and is calculated to affect similarly the spectator.
Feelingly (adv.) In a feeling manner; pathetically; sympathetically.
Feere (n.) A consort, husband or wife; a companion; a fere.
Feese (n.) the short run before a leap.
Feet (n. pl.) See Foot.
Feet (n.) Fact; performance.
Feetless (a.) Destitute of feet; as, feetless birds.
Feeze (v. t.) To turn, as a screw.
Feeze (v. t.) To beat; to chastise; to humble; to worry.
Feeze (n.) Fretful excitement. [Obs.] See Feaze.
Fehling (n.) See Fehling's solution, under Solution.
Fehmic (a.) See Vehmic.
Feigned (imp. & p. p.) of Feign
Feigning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Feign
Feign (v. t.) To give a mental existence to, as to something not real or actual; to imagine; to invent; hence, to pretend; to form and relate as if true.
Feign (v. t.) To represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to counterfeit; as, to feign a sickness.
Feign (v. t.) To dissemble; to conceal.
Feigned (a.) Not real or genuine; pretended; counterfeit; insincere; false.
Feigner (n.) One who feigns or pretends.
Feigning (a.) That feigns; insincere; not genuine; false.
Feine (v. t. & i.) To feign.
Feint (a.) Feigned; counterfeit.
Feint (a.) That which is feigned; an assumed or false appearance; a pretense; a stratagem; a fetch.
Feint (a.) A mock blow or attack on one part when another part is intended to be struck; -- said of certain movements in fencing, boxing, war, etc.
Feint (v. i.) To make a feint, or mock attack.
Feitsui (n.) The Chinese name for a highly prized variety of pale green jade. See Jade.
Feize (v. t.) See Feeze, v. t.
Felanders (n. pl.) See Filanders.
Feldspar (n.) Alt. of Feldspath
Feldspath (n.) A name given to a group of minerals, closely related in crystalline form, and all silicates of alumina with either potash, soda, lime, or, in one case, baryta. They occur in crystals and crystalline masses, vitreous in luster, and breaking rather easily in two directions at right angles to each other, or nearly so. The colors are usually white or nearly white, flesh-red, bluish, or greenish.
Feldspathic (a.) Alt. of Feldspathose
Feldspathose (a.) Pertaining to, or consisting of, feldspar.
Fele (a.) Many.
Fe-licify (v. t.) To make happy; to felicitate.
Felicitate (a.) Made very happy.
Felicitated (imp. & p. p.) of Felicitate
felicitating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Felicitate
Felicitate (v. t.) To make very happy; to delight.
Felicitate (v. t.) To express joy or pleasure to; to wish felicity to; to call or consider (one's self) happy; to congratulate.
Felicitation (n.) The act of felicitating; a wishing of joy or happiness; congratulation.
Felicitous (a.) Characterized by felicity; happy; prosperous; delightful; skilful; successful; happily applied or expressed; appropriate.
Felicities (pl. ) of Felicity
Felicity (n.) The state of being happy; blessedness; blissfulness; enjoyment of good.
Felicity (n.) That which promotes happiness; a successful or gratifying event; prosperity; blessing.
Felicity (n.) A pleasing faculty or accomplishment; as, felicity in painting portraits, or in writing or talking.
Feline (a.) Catlike; of or pertaining to the genus Felis, or family Felidae; as, the feline race; feline voracity.
Feline (a.) Characteristic of cats; sly; stealthy; treacherous; as, a feline nature; feline manners.
Felis (n.) A genus of carnivorous mammals, including the domestic cat, the lion, tiger, panther, and similar animals.