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Fecial (?), a. [L. fetialis belonging to the fetiales, the Roman priests who sanctioned treaties and demanded satisfaction from the enemy before a formal declaration of war.] Pertaining to heralds, declarations of war, and treaties of peace; as, fecial law. Kent.
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Fecifork (?), n. [Feces + fork.] (Zoöl.) The anal fork on which the larvæ of certain insects carry their fæces.
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Feckless (?), a. [Perh. a corruption of effectless.] Spiritless; weak; worthless. [Scot]
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Feck (?), n. [Abbrev. fr. effect.] 1. Effect. [Obs.]
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2. Efficacy; force; value. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]
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3. Amount; quantity. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]

He had a feck o' books wi' him. R. L. Stevenson.

Coloq. The most feck , or Coloq. The feck , the greater or larger part. “The feck o' my life.” Burns.
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Fecks (?), n. A corruption of the word faith. Shak.
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Fecula (?), n.; pl. FeculÆ [L.faecula burnt tartar or salt of tartar, dim. of faex, faecis, sediment, dregs: cf. F. fécule.] Any pulverulent matter obtained from plants by simply breaking down the texture, washing with water, and subsidence. Especially: (a) The nutritious part of wheat; starch or farina; -- called also amylaceous fecula. (b) The green matter of plants; chlorophyll.
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Feculence (?), n. [L. faeculentia dregs, filth: cf. F. féculence.] 1. The state or quality of being feculent; muddiness; foulness.
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2. That which is feculent; sediment; lees; dregs.
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Feculency (?), n. Feculence.
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Feculent (?), a. [L. faeculentus, fr. faecula: cf. F. féculent. See .] Foul with extraneous or impure substances; abounding with sediment or excrementitious matter; muddy; thick; turbid.
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Both his hands most filthy feculent. Spenser.
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Fecund (?), a. [L. fecundus, from the root of fetus: cf. F. fécond. see .] Fruitful in children; prolific. Graunt.
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Fecundate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fecundated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Fecundating (?).] [L. fecundare, fr. fecundus. See .] 1. To make fruitful or prolific. W. Montagu.
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2. (Biol.) To render fruitful or prolific; to impregnate; as, in flowers the pollen fecundates the ovum through the stigma.
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Fecundation (?), n. [Cf. F. fécondation.] (Biol.) 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.
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Fecundify (?), v. t. [Fecund + -fy.] To make fruitful; to fecundate. Johnson.
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Fecundity (?), n. [L. fecunditas: cf. F. fécondité. See .] 1. The quality or power of producing fruit; fruitfulness; especially (Biol.), the quality in female organisms of reproducing rapidly and in great numbers.
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2. The power of germinating; as in seeds.
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3. The power of bringing forth in abundance; fertility; richness of invention; as, the fecundity of God's creative power. Bentley.
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Fed (fĕd), imp. & p. p. of .
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Fedary (?), n. A feodary. [Obs.] Shak.
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fedayee n.; pl. fedayeen. [(1950-1955). Ar. fidā'ī, one who sacrifices himself.] a member of an Arab paramilitary organization, predominantly Palestinian, which performs commando raids, especially against Israel or Israeli targets. Usually used in the plural.
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fedelini n. an extremely fine pasta thinner than vermicelli. [Sometimes spelled fedellini or fedelline.]
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Federal (?), a. [L. foedus league, treaty, compact; akin to fides faith: cf. F. fédéral. see .] 1. 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.
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The Romans compelled them, contrary to all federal right, . . . to part with Sardinia. Grew.
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2. Specifically: (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. (b) Consisting or pertaining to such a government; as, the Federal Constitution; a Federal officer. (c) Friendly or devoted to such a government; as, the Federal party. see .
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Coloq. Federal Congress . See under .
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Federal, n. See .
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Federalism (?), n. [Cf. F. fédéralisme.] The principles of Federalists or of federal union.
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Federalist, n. [Cf. F. fédéraliste.] 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.
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federalize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Federalized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Federalizing (?).] [Cf. F. fédéraliser.] To unite in compact, as different States; to confederate for political purposes; to unite by or under the Federal Constitution. Barlow.
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Federal National Mortgage Association prop. n. A federally chartered corporation that purchases and resells mortgages. [acron.]
Syn. -- FNMA, Fannie Mae.
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federary (?), n. [See .] A partner; a confederate; an accomplice. [Obs.] hak.
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Federate (?), a. [L. foederatus, p. p. of foederare to establish by treaty or league, fr. foedus. See .] United by compact, as sovereignties, states, or nations; joined in confederacy; leagued; confederate; as, federate nations.
Syn. -- federated.
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federated (?), adj. United by compact under a central organization, as governments or commercial organizations.
Syn. -- federate.
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Federation (?), n. [Cf. F. fédération.] 1. The act of uniting in a league; confederation.
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2. A league; a confederacy; a federal or confederated government. Burke.
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Federative (?), a. [Cf. F. fédératif.] Uniting in a league; forming a confederacy; federal. “A federative society.” Burke.
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Fedity (?), n. [L. foeditas, fr. foedus foul, filthy.] Turpitude; vileness. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
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fedora (fĭdôrȧ), n. A soft felt hat with a crown creased lengthwise.
Syn. -- felt hat, homburg, Stetson, trilby.
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Fee (fē), n. [OE. fe, feh, feoh, cattle, property, money, fief, AS. feoh cattle, property, money; the senses of “property, money,” arising from cattle being used in early times as a medium of exchange or payment, property chiefly consisting of cattle; akin to OS. fehu cattle, property, D. vee cattle, OHG. fihu, fehu, G. vieh, Icel. fē cattle, property, money, Goth. faíhu, L. pecus cattle, pecunia property, money, Skr. paçu cattle, perh. orig., “a fastened or tethered animal,” from a root signifying to bind, and perh. akin to E. fang, fair, a.; cf. OF. fie, flu, feu, fleu, fief, F. fief, from German, of the same origin. the sense fief is due to the French. √249. Cf. , , , .] 1. property; possession; tenure. “Laden with rich fee.” Spenser.
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Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee. Wordsworth.
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2. 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.
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To plead for love deserves more fee than hate. Shak.
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3. (Feud. Law) 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.
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4. (Eng. Law) An estate of inheritance supposed to be held either mediately or immediately from the sovereign, and absolutely vested in the owner.
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☞ All the land in England, except the crown land, is of this kind. An absolute fee, or fee simple, is land which a man holds to himself and his heirs forever, who are called tenants in fee simple. In modern writers, by fee is usually meant fee simple. A limited fee may be a qualified or base fee, which ceases with the existence of certain conditions; or a conditional fee, or fee tail, which is limited to particular heirs. Blackstone.
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5. (Amer. Law) An estate of inheritance belonging to the owner, and transmissible to his heirs, absolutely and simply, without condition attached to the tenure.
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Coloq. Fee estate (Eng. Law), land or tenements held in fee in consideration or some acknowledgment or service rendered to the lord. -- Coloq. Fee farm (Law), land held of another in fee, in consideration of an annual rent, without homage, fealty, or any other service than that mentioned in the feoffment; an estate in fee simple, subject to a perpetual rent. Blackstone. -- Coloq. Fee farm rent (Eng. Law), a perpetual rent reserved upon a conveyance in fee simple. -- Coloq. Fee fund (Scot. Law), certain court dues out of which the clerks and other court officers are paid. -- Coloq. Fee simple (Law), an absolute fee; a fee without conditions or limits.
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Buy the fee simple of my life for an hour and a quarter. Shak.
-- Coloq. Fee tail (Law), an estate of inheritance, limited and restrained to some particular heirs. Burill.
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Fee (fē), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Feed (fēd); p. pr. & vb. n. Feeing.] To reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe.
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The patient . . . fees the doctor. Dryden.
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There's not a one of them but in his house
I keep a servant feed. Shak.
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Feeble (fēb'l), a. [Compar. Feebler (-blẽr); superl. Feeblest (-blĕst).] [OE. feble, OF. feble, flebe, floibe, floible, foible, F. faible, L. flebilis to be wept over, lamentable, wretched, fr. flere to weep. Cf. .] 1. Deficient in physical strength; weak; infirm; debilitated.
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Carried all the feeble of them upon asses. 2 Chron. xxviii. 15.
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2. Wanting force, vigor, or efficiency in action or expression; not full, loud, bright, strong, rapid, etc.; faint; as, a feeble color; feeble motion. “A lady's feeble voice.” Shak.
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Feeble, v. t. To make feble; to enfeeble. [Obs.]
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Shall that victorious hand be feebled here? Shak.
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Feeble-minded (?), a. Weak in intellectual power; wanting firmness or constancy; irresolute; vacillating; imbecile. “comfort the feeble-minded.” 1 Thess. v. 14.

-- Feeble-mindedness, n.
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feeble-mindedness n. severe mental deficiency.
Syn. -- amentia.
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Feebleness, n. The quality or condition of being feeble; debility; infirmity.
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That shakes for age and feebleness. Shak.
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Feebly (?), adv. In a feeble manner.
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The restored church . . . contended feebly, and with half a heart. Macaulay.
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Feed (fēd), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fed (fĕd); p. pr. & vb. n. Feeding.] [AS. fēdan, fr. fōda food; akin to OS. fōdian, OFries. fēda, fōda, D. voeden, OHG. fuottan, Icel. fæða, Sw. föda, Dan. föde. √75. See .] 1. To give food to; to supply with nourishment; to satisfy the physical huger of.
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If thine enemy hunger, feed him. Rom. xii. 20.
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Unreasonable creatures feed their young. Shak.
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2. To satisfy; gratify or minister to, as any sense, talent, taste, or desire.
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I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. Shak.
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Feeding him with the hope of liberty. Knolles.
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3. 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.
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4. To nourish, in a general sense; to foster, strengthen, develop, and guard.
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Thou shalt feed my people Israel. 2 Sam. v. 2.
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Mightiest powers by deepest calms are fed. B. Cornwall.
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5. 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.
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Once in three years feed your mowing lands. Mortimer.
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6. 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.
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7. (Mach.) (a) To supply (the material to be operated upon) to a machine; as, to feed paper to a printing press. (b) 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).
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Feed, v. i. 1. To take food; to eat.
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Her kid . . . which I afterwards killed because it would not feed. De Foe.
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2. To subject by eating; to satisfy the appetite; to feed one's self (upon something); to prey; -- with on or upon.
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Leaving thy trunk for crows to feed upon. Shak.
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3. To be nourished, strengthened, or satisfied, as if by food. “He feeds upon the cooling shade.” Spenser.
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4. To place cattle to feed; to pasture; to graze.
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If a man . . . shall put in his beast, and shall feed in another man's field. Ex. xxii. 5.
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Feed (?), n. 1. That which is eaten; esp., food for beasts; fodder; pasture; hay; grain, ground or whole; as, the best feed for sheep.
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2. A grazing or pasture ground. Shak.
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3. An allowance of provender given to a horse, cow, etc.; a meal; as, a feed of corn or oats.
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4. A meal, or the act of eating. [R.]
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For such pleasure till that hour
At feed or fountain never had I found. Milton.
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5. The water supplied to steam boilers.
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6. (Mach.) (a) 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. (b) The supply of material to a machine, as water to a steam boiler, coal to a furnace, or grain to a run of stones. (c) The mechanism by which the action of feeding is produced; a feed motion.
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Coloq. Feed bag , a nose bag containing feed for a horse or mule. -- Coloq. Feed cloth , an apron for leading cotton, wool, or other fiber, into a machine, as for carding, etc. -- Coloq. Feed door , a door to a furnace, by which to supply coal. -- Coloq. Feed head . (a) A cistern for feeding water by gravity to a steam boiler. (b) (Founding) An excess of metal above a mold, which serves to render the casting more compact by its pressure; -- also called a riser, deadhead, or simply feed or head Knight. -- Coloq. Feed heater . (a) (Steam Engine) A vessel in which the feed water for the boiler is heated, usually by exhaust steam. (b) A boiler or kettle in which is heated food for stock. -- Coloq. Feed motion , or Coloq. Feed gear (Mach.), the train of mechanism that gives motion to the part that directly produces the feed in a machine. -- Coloq. Feed pipe , a pipe for supplying the boiler of a steam engine, etc., with water. -- Coloq. Feed pump , a force pump for supplying water to a steam boiler, etc. -- Coloq. Feed regulator , a device for graduating the operation of a feeder. Knight. -- Coloq. Feed screw , in lathes, a long screw employed to impart a regular motion to a tool rest or tool, or to the work. -- Coloq. Feed water , water supplied to a steam boiler, etc. -- Coloq. Feed wheel (Mach.), a kind of feeder. See , n., 8.
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feedback n. 1. the process in which part of the output of a system is returned to its input.
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2. response to an inquiry or experiment.
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feedbag, feed bag n. a canvas bag that is used to feed an animal (such as a horse or mule); animal feed such as oats are placed in the bag, and it is fastened at the top of the head, covering the muzzle. The animal may then eat the contents while thus wearing the feedbag.
Syn. -- nosebag.
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Feeder (?), n. 1. One who, or that which, gives food or supplies nourishment; steward.
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A couple of friends, his chaplain and feeder. Goldsmith.
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2. One who furnishes incentives; an encourager. “The feeder of my riots.” Shak.
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3. One who eats or feeds; specifically, an animal to be fed or fattened.
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With eager feeding, food doth choke the feeder. Shak.
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4. One who fattens cattle for slaughter.
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5. 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.
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6. A branch railroad, stage line, air route, or the like; a side line which increases the business of the main line.
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7. (Mining) (a) A small lateral lode falling into the main lode or mineral vein. Ure. (b) A strong discharge of gas from a fissure; a blower. Raymond.
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8. (Mach.) An auxiliary part of a machine which supplies or leads along the material operated upon.
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9. (Steam Engine) A device for supplying steam boilers with water as needed.
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Feeding, n. 1. the act of eating, or of supplying with food; the process of fattening.
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2. That which is eaten; food.
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3. That which furnishes or affords food, especially for animals; pasture land.
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Coloq. Feeding bottle . See under .
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Fee-faw-fum (?), n. A nonsensical exclamation attributed to giants and ogres; hence, any expression calculated to impose upon the timid and ignorant. “Impudent fee-faw-fums.” J. H. Newman.
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Feejee (?), a. & n. (Ethnol.) See .
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Feel (fēl), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Felt (fĕlt); p. pr. & vb. n. Feeling.] [AS. fēlan; akin to OS. gifōlian to perceive, D. voelen to feel, OHG. fuolen, G. fühlen, Icel. fālma to grope, and prob. to AS. folm palm of the hand, L. palma. Cf. , .] 1. 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.
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Who feel
Those rods of scorpions and those whips of steel. Creecn.
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2. To touch; to handle; to examine by touching; as, feel this piece of silk; hence, to make trial of; to test; often with out.
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Come near, . . . that I may feel thee, my son. Gen. xxvii. 21.
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He hath this to feel my affection to your honor. Shak.
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3. To perceive by the mind; to have a sense of; to experience; to be affected by; to be sensible of, or sensitive to; as, to feel pleasure; to feel pain.
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Teach me to feel another's woe. Pope.
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Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing. Eccl. viii. 5.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most. Pope.
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Mankind have felt their strength and made it felt. Byron.
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4. To take internal cognizance of; to be conscious of; to have an inward persuasion of.
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For then, and not till then, he felt himself. Shak.
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5. To perceive; to observe. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Coloq. To feel the helm (Naut.), to obey it.
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