Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FER'UL-ED, pp.

Punished with a ferule.

FER'UL-ING, ppr.

Punishing with a ferule.

FERV'EN-CY, n. [See Fervent.]

1. Heat of mind; ardor; eagerness. Shak.
2. Pious ardor; animated zeal; warmth of devotion. When you pray, let it be with attention, with fervency and with perseverance. Wake.

FERV'ENT, a. [L. fervens, from ferveo, to be hot, to boil, to glow; Ar. فَار, faura, to boil, to swell with heat, to ferment. Class Br, No. 30. Ferveo gives the Spanish hervir, to boil, to swarm as bees, whose motions resemble the boiling of water.]

1. Hot; boiling; as, a fervent summer; fervent blood. Spenser. Wotton.
2. Hot in temper; vehement. They are fervent to dispute. Hooker.
3. Ardent; very warm; earnest; excited; animated; glowing; as, a fervent zeal; fervent piety. Fervent in spirit. Rom. xii.

FERV'ENT-LY, adv.

1. Earnestly; eagerly; vehemently; with great warmth.
2. With pious ardor; with earnest zeal; ardently. Epaphras – saluteth you, laboring fervently for you in prayers. Col. iv.

FERV'ENT-NESS, n.

Fervency; ardor; zeal.

FER-VES'CENT, a.

Growing hot.

FERV'ID, a. [L. fervidus.]

1. Very hot; burning; boiling; as, fervid heat.
2. Very warm in zeal; vehement; eager; earnest; as, fervid zeal.

FERV'ID-LY, adv.

Very hotly; with glowing warmth.

FERV'ID-NESS, n.

Glowing heat; ardor of mind; warm zeal. Bentley.

FERV'OR, n. [L. fervor.]

1. Heat or warmth; as, the fervor of a summer's day.
2. Heat of mind; ardor; warm or animated zeal and earnestness in the duties of religion, particularly in prayer.

FES'CEN-NINE, a.

Pertaining to Fescennium in Italy; licentious. Kennet.

FES'CEN-NINE, n.

A nuptial song, or a licentious song. Cartwright.

FES'CUE, n. [Fr. fêtu, for festu, a straw; L. festuca, a shoot or stalk of a tree, a rod.]

A small wire used to point out letters to children when learning to read. Dryden. Holder.

FES'CUE-GRASS, n.

The Festuca, a genus of grasses. Lee.

FE'SELS, n.

A kind of base grain. May.

FESSE, n. [fess; L. fascia, a band.]

In heraldry, a band or girdle, possessing the third part of the escutcheon; one of the nine honorable ordinaries. Peacham. Encyc.

FESSE'-POINT, n.

The exact center of the escutcheon. Encyc.

FES'SI-TUDE, n. [L.]

Weariness.

FES'TAL, a. [L. festus, festive. See Feast.]

Pertaining to a feast; joyous; gay; mirthful. Chesterfield.

FES'TAL-LY, adv.

Joyously; mirthfully.

FES'TER, v.i. [Qu. L. pestis, pus, or pustula.]

To rankle; to corrupt; to grow virulent. We say of a sore or wound, it festers. Passion and unkindness may give a wound that shall bleed and smart; but it is treachery that makes it fester. South.

FES'TER-ING, ppr.

Rankling; growing virulent.

FES'TER-MENT, n.

A festering. Chalmers.

FES'TI-NATE, a. [L. festino, festinatus.]

Hasty; hurried. [Not in use.] Shak.