Webster's Dictionary 1828

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FEUDAL

FEU'DAL, adjective1. Pertaining to feuds, fiefs or fees; as feudal rights or services; feudal tenures.2. Consisting of feuds or fiefs; embracing tenures by military services; as...

731

FEUDALISM

FEU'DALISM, noun The feudal system; the principles and constitution of feuds, or lands held by military services.

732

FEUDALITY

FEUDAL'ITY, noun The state or quality of being feudal; feudal form or constitution.

733

FEUDARY

FEU'DARY, adjective Holding land of a superior.

734

FEUDATARY

FEU'DATARY, noun A feudatory, which see.

735

FEUDATORY

FEU'DATORY, nounA tenant or vassal who holds his lands of a superior, on condition of military service; the tenant of a feud or fief.

736

FEUDIST

FEU'DIST, noun A writer on feuds.

737

FEUILLAGE

FEUILLAGE, noun A bunch or row of leaves.

738

FEUILLEMORT

FEUILLEMORT, The color of a faded leaf.

739

FEUTER

FEU'TER, verb transitive To make ready. [Not in use.]

740

FEUTERER

FEU'TERER, noun A dog keeper. [Not used.]

741

FEVER

FE'VER, noun [Latin febris, supposed to be so written by transposition for ferbis, or fervis, from ferbeo, ferveo, to be hot.]1. A disease, characterized by an accelerated pulse...

742

FEVER-COOLING

FE'VER-COOLING, adjective Allaying febrile heat.

743

FEVER-ROOT

FE'VER-ROOT, noun A plant of the genus Triosteum.

744

FEVER-SICK

FE'VER-SICK, adjective Diseased with fever.

745

FEVER-WEAKENED

FE'VER-WEAKENED, adjective Debilitated by fever.

746

FEVER-WEED

FE'VER-WEED, noun A plant of the genus Eryngium.

747

FEVER-WORT

FE'VER-WORT, noun [See Fever-root.]

748

FEVERET

FE'VERET, noun A slight fever. [Not used.]

749

FEVERFEW

FE'VERFEW, noun [Latin febris and fugo.]A plant, or rather a genus of plants, the Matricaria, so named from supposed febrifuge qualities. The common feverfew grows to the height...

750

FEVERISH

FE'VERISH, adjective1. Having a slight fever; as the patient is feverish2. Diseased with fever or heat; as feverish nature.3. Uncertain; inconstant; fickle; now hot, now cold.We...

751

FEVERISHNESS

FE'VERISHNESS, noun The state of being feverish; a slight febrile affection.

752

FEVEROUS

FE'VEROUS, adjective1. Affected with fever or ague.2. Having the nature of fever.All feverous kinds.3. Having a tendency to produce fever; as a feverous disposition of the year....

753

FEVERY

FE'VERY, adjective Affected with fever.

754

FEW

FEW, adjective [Latin pauci. The senses of few and small are often united.]Not many; small in number. Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few; but few men, in times o...

755

FEWEL

FEW'EL, noun Combustible matter. [See fuel.]

756

FEWNESS

FEW'NESS, noun1. Smallness of number; paucity.2. Paucity of words; brevity. [Not used.]