Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FEN'NY-STONES, n.

A plant.

FEN-OW-ED, a.

Corrupted decayed. [Not in use.]

FEN'-SUCK-ED, a.

Sucked out of marshes; as, fen-sucked fogs. Shak.

FEN'U-GREEK, n. [L. Fœnum græcum.]

A plant of the genus Trigonella.

FE'OD, n.

A feud. So written by Blackstone and other authors; but more generally feud, – which see.

FEO'DAL, a.

Feudal, – which see.

FEO-DAL'I-TY, n.

Feudal tenures; the feudal system. Burke.

FEO'DA-RY, n.

One who holds lands of a superior, on condition of suit and service. [Little used.] [See Feudatory.]

FEO'DA-TO-RY, n. [See FEUDATORY.]

FEOFF, n.

A fief. [See FIEF.]

FEOFF, v.t. [feff; Norm. feffre; Fr. fieffer, from fief. The first syllable is the It. fede, Sp. fe, contracted from fides, faith; the last syllable I am not able to trace.]

To invest with a fee or feud; to give or grant to one any corporeal hereditament. The compound infeoff is more generally used.

FEOFF-EE, n. [feffee'.]

A person who is infeoffed, that is, invested with a fee or corporeal hereditament.

FEOFF-ER, or FEOFF-OR, n. [feff'er.]

One who infeoffs or grants a fee.

FEOFF-MENT, n. [feff'ment; Law L. feoffamentum.]

The gift or grant of a fee or corporeal hereditament, as land, castles, honors, or other immovable thing; a grant in fee simple, to a man and his heirs forever. When in writing, it is called a deed of feoffment. The primary sense is the grant of a feud or an estate in trust. [See Feud.]

FE-RA'CIOUS, a. [L. ferax, from fero, to bear.]

Fruitful; producing abundantly. Thomson.

FE-RAC'I-TY, n. [L. feracitas.]

Fruitfulness. [Little used.]

FERAE-NATURAE, a. [Feræ naturæ. L.]

Wild; not tamed or not tamable.

FE'RAL, a. [L. feralis.]

Funereal; pertaining to funerals; mournful. Burton.

FERE, n. [Sax. fera, or gefera, with a prefix.]

A fellow; a mate; a peer. [Obs.] Chaucer.

FER'E-TO-RY, n. [L. feretrum, a bier.]

A place in a church for a bier.

FER'GUS-ON-ITE, n.

A mineral of a brownish black color, and conchoidal fracture, found near Cape Farewell, Greenland. Haidinger.

FE'RI-AL, a. [L. ferialis.]

Pertaining to holidays, or to common days. Gregory.

FE-RI-A'TION, n. [L. feriatio, from feriæ, vacant days, holidays; G. feier, whence feiern, to rest from labor, to keep holiday, D. vieren.]

The act of keeping holiday; cessation from work. Brown.

FE'RINE, a. [L. ferinus, from ferus, wild, probably from the root of Sax. faran, to go, to wander, or a verb of the same family.]

Wild; untamed; savage. Lions, tigers, wolves and bears are ferine beasts. Hale.

FE'RINE-LY, adv.

In the manner of wild beasts.