Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FEEL-ING-LY, adv.

1. With expression of great sensibility; tenderly; as, to speak feelingly.
2. So as to be sensibly felt. These are counselors / That feelingly persuade me what I am. Shak.

FEESE, n.

A race. [Not in use.] Barret.

FEE'-SIM-PLE, n. [See FEE.]

FEET, n. [plur. of Foot. See FOOT.]

FEE'-TAIL, n.

An estate entailed; a conditional fee.

FEET'LESS, a.

Destitute of feet; as, feetless birds. Camden.

FEIGN, v.t. [fane; Fr. feindre; Sp. fingir; It. fingere, or fignere; L. fingo; D. veinzen; Arm. feinta, fincha. The Latin forms fictum, fictus, whence figura, figure. Hence it agrees with W. fugiaw, to feign or dissemble; fug, feint, disguise; also L. fucus.]

1. To invent or imagine; to form an idea or conception of something not real. There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thy own heart. Neh. vi.
2. To make a show of; to pretend; to assume a false appearance; to counterfeit. I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner. 2 Sam. xiv. She feigns laugh. Pope.
3. To represent falsely; to pretend; to form and relate s fictitious tale. The poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods. Shak.
4. To dissemble; to conceal. [Obs.] Spenser.

FEIGN-ED, pp.

Invented; devised; imagined; assumed.

FEIGN-ED-LY, adv.

In fiction; in pretense; not really. Bacon.

FEIGN-ED-NESS, n.

Fiction; pretense; deceit. Harman.

FEIGN-ER, n.

One who feigns; an inventor; a deviser of fiction. B. Jonson.

FEIGN-ING, n.

A false appearance; artful contrivance. B. Jonson.

FEIGN-ING, ppr.

Imagining; inventing; pretending; making a false show.

FEIGN-ING-LY, adv.

With false appearance.

FEIL, v.t. [D. feilen.]

To wipe; to rub and cleanse. [Local.]

FEINT, a.

or pp. Counterfeit; seeming. [Not used.] Locke.

FEINT, n. [Fr. feinte, from feindre.]

1. An assumed or false appearance; a pretense of doing something not intended to be done. Courtley's letter is but a feint to get off. Spectator.
2. A mock attack; an appearance of aiming at one part when another is intended to be struck. In fencing, a show of making a thrust at one part, to deceive an antagonist when the intention is to strike another part. Prior. Encyc.

FE'LAND-ERS, n. [See FILANDERS.]

Ainsworth.

FELD'SPAR, or FEL'SPAR, n. [or FELD'SPATH, or FEL'SPATH. G. feld, field, and spar. It is written by some authors felspar, which is rockspar, or fel is a contraction of field. Spath in German signifies spar.]

A mineral widely distributed and usually of a foliated structure. When in crystals or crystaline masses, it is very susceptible of mechanical division at natural joints. Its hardness is a little inferior to that of quartz. There are several varieties, as common feldspar, the adularia, the silicious, the glassy, the ice-spar, the opalescent, aventurine feldspur, petuntze, the granular, and the compact. Cleaveland.

FELD-SPATH'IC, a.

Pertaining to feldspar, or consisting of it. Journ. of Science.

FE-LIC'I-TATE, a.

Made very happy. Shak.

FE-LIC'I-TATE, v.t. [Fr. feliciter; Sp. felicitar; It. felicitare; L. felicito, from felix, happy.]

1. To make very happy. What a glorious entertainment and pleasure would fill and felicitate his spirit, if he could grasp all in a single survey. Watts. More generally,
2. To congratulate; to express joy or pleasure to. We felicitate our friends on the acquisition of good, or an escape from evil.

FE-LIC'I-TA-TED, pp.

Made very happy; congratulated.

FE-LIC'I-TA-TING, ppr.

Making very happy; congratulating.

FE-LIC-I-TA'TION, n.

Congratulation. Dict.