Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FEATH'ER-LESS, or FETH'ER-LESS, a.

Destitute of feathers; unfledged. Howel.

FEATH'ER-LY, or FETH'ER-LY, a.

Resembling feathers. [Not used.] Brown.

FEATH'ER-SEL-LER,

or FETH'ER-SEL-LER, n. One who sells feathers for beds.

FEATH'ER-Y, or FETH'ER-Y, a.

1. Clothed or covered with feathers. Milton.
2. Resembling feathers.

FEAT-LY, adv. [from feat.]

Neatly; dextrously; adroitly. [Little used.] Shak. Dryden.

FEAT-NESS, n. [from feat.]

Dexterity; adroitness; skillfulness. [Little used.]

FEAT-URE, n. [Norm. faiture; L. factura, a making, from facio, to make; It. fattura.]

1. The make, form or cast of any part of the face; any single lineament. We speak of large features or small features. We see a resemblance in the features of a parent and of a child.
2. The make or cast of the face. Report the feature of Octavia, her years. Shak.
3. The fashion; the make; the whole turn or cast of the body.
4. The make or form of any part of the surface of a thing, as of a country or landscape.
5. Lineament; outline; prominent parts; as, the features of a treaty.

FEAT-UR-ED, a.

Having features or good features; resembling in features. Shak

FEA'TURE-LESS, a.

Having no distinct features.

FEAZE, v.t.

To untwist the end of a rope. Ainsworth.

FEAZ-ED, pp.

Untwisted.

FEAZ-ING, ppr.

Untwisting.

FE-BRIC'U-LA, n.

A slight fever.

FE-BRIC'U-LOSE, a.

Affected with slight fever.

FE-BRIC'U-LOS-I-TY, n.

Feverishness.

FEB'RI-FA-CIENT, a. [L. febris, a fever, and facio, to make.]

Causing fever. Beddoes.

FEB'RI-FA-CIENT, n.

That which produces fever. Beddoes.

FE-BRIF'IC, a. [L. febris, fever, and facio, to make.]

Producing fever; feverish.

FEB-RI-FU'GAL, a. [Infra.]

Having the quality of mitigating or curing fever. [Not in use among physicians, but only among unmedical men.] Lindley.

FEB'RI-FUGE, a.

Having the quality of mitigating or subduing fever; antifebrile. Arbuthnot.

FEB'RI-FUGE, n. [L. febris, fever, and fugo, to drive away.]

Any medicine that mitigates or removes fever. Encyc.

FE'BRILE, a. [Fr. from L. febrilis, from febris, fever.]

Pertaining to fever; indicating fever, or derived from it; as febrile symptoms; febrile action.

FEB'RU-A-RY, n. [L. Februarius; Fr. Fevrier; It. Febbraio; Sp. Febrero; Arm. Fevrer; Port. Fevereiro; Ir. Feabhra; Russ. Phebral. 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 this month, purified by sacrifices and oblations. The word februo is said to be a Sabine word, connected with ferveo, ferbeo, to boil, as boiling was used in purifications. Varro. Ovid. This practice bears a resemblance to that of making atonement among the Jews; but the connection between ferveo and February is doubtful. The W. çwevral, February, Arm. heuvrer, Corn. heuvral, is from W. çwevyr, violence; the severe month.]

The name of the second month in the year, introduced into the Roman calendar by Numa. In common years, this month contains 28 days; in the bissextile or leap year, 29 days.

FEB-RU-A'TION, n.

Purification. [See February.] Spenser.

FE'CAL, a. [See Fæces.]

Containing or consisting of dregs, lees, sediment or excrement.