Webster's Dictionary 1913

703

Featureless

Fea″ture‐less (?; 135), a. Having no distinct or distinctive features.

704

Featurely

Fea″ture‐ly, a. Having features; showing marked peculiarities; handsome.Featurely warriors of Christian chivalry. Coleridge.

705

Feaze

Feaze (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Feazed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Feazing.] [Cf. OE. faseln to ravel, fr. AS. fæs fringe; akin to G. fasen to separate fibers or threads, fasen, faser, th...

706

Feaze (2)

Feaze, v. t. [See Feese.] To beat; to chastise; also, to humble; to harass; to worry. insworth.

707

Feaze (3)

Feaze, n. A state of anxious or fretful excitement; worry; vexation.

708

Feazings

Feaz″ings (?), n. pl. [See Feaze, v. t.] (Naut.) The unlaid or ragged end of a rope. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

709

Febricitate

Fe‐bric″i‐tate (?), v. i. [L. febricitare, fr. febris. See Febrile.] To have a fever. Bailey.

710

Febriculose

Fe‐bric″u‐lose′ (?), a. [L. febriculosus.] Somewhat feverish. Johnson.

711

Febrifacient

Feb′ri‐fa″cient (?), a. [L. febris fever + faciens, p. pr. of facere to make.] Febrific. Dunglison.— n. That which causes fever. Beddoes.

712

Febriferous

Fe‐brif″er‐ous (?), a. [L. febris fever + -ferous.] Causing fever; as, a febriferous locality.

713

Febrific

Fe‐brif″ic (?), a. [L. febris fever + ficare (in comp.) to make. See fy-.] Producing fever. Dunglison.

714

Febrifugal

Fe‐brif″u‐gal (? or?), a. [See Febrifuge.] Having the quality of mitigating or curing fever. Boyle.

715

Febrifuge

Feb″ri‐fuge (?), n. [L. febris fever + fugare to put to flight, from fugere to flee: cf. F. fébrifuge. see Febrile, Feverfew.] (Med.) A medicine serving to mitigate or remove fe...

716

Febrile

Fe″brile (?; 277), a. [F. fébrile, from L. febris fever. See Fever.] Pertaining to fever; indicating fever, or derived from it; as, febrile symptoms; febrile action. Dunglison.

717

February

Feb″ru‐a‐ry (?), n. [L. Februarius, orig., the month of expiation, because on the fifteenth of this month the great feast of expiation and purification was held, fr. februa, pl....

718

Februation

Feb′ru‐a″tion (?), n. [L. februatio. See february.] Purification; a sacrifice. Spenser.

719

Fecal

Fe″cal (fē″kal), a. [Cf. F. fécal. See Feces.] relating to, or containing, dregs, feces, or ordure; fæcal.

720

Fecche

Fec″che (?), v. t. To fetch. Chaucer.

721

Feces

Fe″ces (?), n. pl. dregs; sediment; excrement. See FÆces.

722

Fecial

Fe″cial (?), 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.] P...

723

Fecifork

Fe″ci‐fork′ (?), n. [Feces + fork.] (Zoöl.) The anal fork on which the larvæ of certain insects carry their fæces.

724

Feck

Feck (?), n. [Abbrev. fr. effect.] 1. Effect.2. Efficacy; force; value.3. Amount; quantity.He had a feck o' books wi' him. R. L. Stevenson.The most feck, orThe feck, the greater...

725

Feckless

Feck″less (?), a. [Perh. a corruption of effectless.] Spiritless; weak; worthless.

726

Fecks

Fecks (?), n. A corruption of the word faith. Shak.

727

Fecula

Fec″u‐la (?), 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 sim...

728

Feculence

Fec″u‐lence (?), n. [L. faeculentia dregs, filth: cf. F. féculence.] 1. The state or quality of being feculent; muddiness; foulness.2. That which is feculent; sediment; lees; dr...

729

Feculency

Fec″u‐len‐cy (?), n. Feculence.