Webster's Dictionary 1828

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FEATURED

FE'ATURED, adjective Having features or good features; resembling in features.

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FEAZE

FEAZE, verb transitive To untwist the end of a rope.

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FEBERARY

FEB'ERARY,FEB'RIFACIENT, adjective [Latin febris, a fever, and facio, to make.] Causing fever.FEB'RIFACIENT, noun That which produces fever.

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FEBRIFIC

FEBRIF'IC, adjective [Latin febris, fever, and facio, to make.] Producing fever; feverish.

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FEBRIFUGE

FEB'RIFUGE, noun [Latin febris, fever, and fugo, to drive away.]Any medicine that mitigates or removes fever.FEB'RIFUGE, adjective Having the quality of mitigating or subduing f...

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FEBRILE

FE'BRILE, adjective [Latin febrilis, from febris, fever.]Pertaining to fever; indicating fever, or derived from it; as febrile symptoms; febrile action.

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FEBRUARY

FEB'RUARY, noun [Latin Februarius. The Latin word is said to be named from februo, to purify by sacrifice, and thus to signify the month of purification, as the people were, in ...

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FEBRUATION

FEBRUA'TION, noun Purification. [See February.]

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FECAL

FE'CAL, adjective [See Feces.] Containing or consisting of dregs, lees, sediment or excrement.

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FECES

FE'CES, nounplural [Latin faces.]1. Dregs; lees; sediment; the matter which subsides in casks of liquor.2. Excrement.

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FECIAL

FE'CIAL, adjective [Latin fecialis.] Pertaining to heralds and the denunciation of war to an enemy; as fecial law.

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FECULA

FEC'ULA, noun1. The green matter of plants; chlorophyll.2. Starch or farina; called also amylaceous feculaThis term is applied to any pulverulent matter obtained from plants by ...

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FECULENCE

FEC'ULENCE,FEC'ULENCY, noun [Latin faeculentia, from facula, faces, fax, dregs.]1. Muddiness; foulness; the quality of being foul with extraneous matter or lees.2. Lees; sedimen...

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FECULENCY

FEC'ULENCY, n. [L. faeculentia, from facula, faces, fax, dregs.]1. Muddiness; foulness; the quality of being foul with extraneous matter or lees.2. Lees; sediment; dregs; or rat...

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FECULENT

FEC'ULENT, adjective Foul with extraneous or impure substances; muddy; thick; turbid; abounding with sediment or excrementitious matter.

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FECULUM

FEC'ULUM, noun [from faces, supra.] A dry, dusty, tasteless substance obtained from plants. [This should be fecula.]

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FECUND

FE'CUND, adjective [Latin facundus, from the root of faetus.] Fruitful in children; prolific.

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FECUNDATE

FE'CUNDATE, verb transitive1. To make fruitful or prolific.2. To impregnate; as, the pollen of flowers fecundates the stigma.

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FECUNDATED

FE'CUNDATED, participle passive Rendered prolific or fruitful; impregnated.

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FECUNDATING

FE'CUNDATING, participle present tense Rendering fruitful; impregnating.

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FECUNDATION

FECUNDA'TION, noun The act of making fruitful or prolific; impregnation.

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FECUNDIFY

FECUND'IFY, verb transitive To make fruitful; to fecundate. [Little used.]

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FECUNDITY

FECUND'ITY, noun [Latin faecunditas.]1. Fruitfulness; the quality of producing fruit; particularly, the quality in female animals of producing young in great numbers.2. The powe...

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FED

FED, preterit tense and participle passive of feed, which see.

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FEDARY

FED'ARY, noun A partner; a confederate; an accomplice. [Not used.]

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FEDERAL

FED'ERAL, adjective [from Latin faedus, a league, allied perhaps to Eng. wed. Latin vas, vadis, vador, vadimonium. See Heb. to pledge.]1. Pertaining to a league or contract; der...

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FEDERALIST

FED'ERALIST, noun an appellation in America, given to the friends of the constitution of the United States, at its formation and adoption, and to the political party which favor...