Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FES'TI-NATE-LY, adv.

Hastily. Shak.

FES-TI-NA'TION, n.

Haste. [Not used.]

FES'TI-VAL, a. [L. festivus, from festus, or festum, or fasti. See Feast.]

Pertaining to a feast; joyous; mirthful; as, a festival entertainment. Atterbury.

FES'TI-VAL, n.

The time of feasting; an anniversary day of joy, civil or religious. The morning trumpets festival proclaimed. Milton.

FES'TIVE, a. [L. festivus.]

Pertaining to or becoming a feast; joyous; gay; mirthful. The glad circle round them yield their souls / To festive mirth and wit that knows no gall. Thomson.

FES'TIVE-LY, adv.

In a festive manner.

FES-TIV'I-TY, n. [L. festivitas.]

1. Primarily, the mirth of a feast; hence, joyfulness; gayety; social joy or exhilaration of spirits at an entertainment. Taylor.
2. A festival. [Not in use.] Brown.

FES'TIV-OUS, a.

Pertaining to a feast; joyous.

FES-TOON', n. [Fr. feston; Sp. id.; It. festone; probably a tie, from the root of fast, W. fest.]

Something in imitation of a garland or wreath. In architecture and sculpture, an ornament of carved work in the form of a wreath of flowers, fruits and leaves intermixed or twisted together. It is in the form of a string or collar, somewhat largest in the middle, where it falls down in an arch, being suspended by the ends, the extremities of which hang down perpendicularly. Harris. Encyc.

FES-TOON', v.t.

To form in festoons, or to adorn with festoons.

FES-TOON'ED, pp.

Made into festoons or adorned with them.

FES-TOON'ING, ppr.

Making into festoons or adorning with them.

FES'TU-CINE, a. [L. festuca.]

Being of a straw color. Brown.

FES'TU-COUS, a.

Formed of straw. Brown.

FET, n. [Fr. fait.]

A piece. [Not used.]

FET, v.t. [or v. i.]

To fetch; to come to. [Not used.] Tusser. Sackville.

FE'TAL, a. [from fetus.]

Pertaining to a fetus.

FETCH, n.

A stratagem, by which a thing is indirectly brought to pass, or by which one thing seems intended and another is done; a trick; an artifice; as, a fetch of wit. Shak. Straight cast about to over-reach / Th' unwary conqueror with a fetch. Hudibras.

FETCH, v.i.

To move or turn; as, to fetch about. Shak.

FETCH, v.t. [Sax. feccan, or feccean. I have not found this word in any other language. Fet, fettan, must be a different word or corruption.]

1. To go and bring, or simply to bring, that is, to bear a thing toward or to a person. We will take men to fetch victuals for the people. Judges xx. Go to the flock, and fetch me from thence two kids of the goats. Gen. xxvii. In the latter passage, fetch signifies only to bring.
2. To derive; to draw, as from a source. On you noblest English, / Whose blood is fetched from fathers of war-proof. Shak. [In this sense the use is neither common nor elegant.]
3. To strike at a distance. [Not used.] The conditions and improvements of weapons are the fetching afar off Bacon.
4. To bring back; to recall; to bring to any state. [Not used or vulgar.] In smells we see their great and sudden effect in fetching men again, when they swoon. Bacon.
5. To bring or draw; as, to fetch a thing within a certain compass.
6. To make; to perform; as, to fetch a turn; to fetch a leap or bound. Shak. Fetch a compass behind them. 2 Sam. v.
7. To draw; to heave; as, to fetch a sigh. Addison.
8. To reach; to attain or come to; to arrive at. We fetched the syren's isle. Chapman.
9. To bring; to obtain as its price. Wheat fetches only 75 cents the bushel. A commodity is worth what it will fetch. To fetch out, to bring or draw out; to cause to appear. To fetch to, to restore; to revive, as from a swoon. To fetch up, to bring up; to cause to come up or forth. To fetch a pump, to pour water into it to make it draw water. Mar. Dict.

FETCH'ER, n.

One that brings.

FETCH'ING, ppr.

Bringing; going and bringing; deriving; drawing; making; reaching.; obtaining as price.

FETE, n. [fate; Fr.]

A festival holiday or celebration of some day.

FET'I-CHISM, or FET'I-CISM, n.

The worship of idols among the negroes of Africa, among whom fetich is an idol, any tree, stone or other thing worshiped.

FET'ID, a. [L. fœtidus, from fœteo; to have an in scent.]

Having an offensive smell; having a strong or rancid scent. Most putrefactions smell either fetid or moldy. Bacon.