Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FEUD-AL, n.

Something held by tenure.

FEUD-AL-ISM, n.

The feudal system; the principles and constitution of feuds, or lands held by military services. Whitaker.

FEUD-AL'I-TY, n.

The state or quality of being feudal; feudal form or constitution. Burke.

FEU'DAL-IZ-A-TION, n.

The act of reducing to feudal tenure.

FEUD-AL-IZE, v.t.

To reduce to a feudal tenure.

FEU'DAL-IZ-ED, pp.

Reduced to feudal tenure.

FEU'DAL-IZ-ING, ppr.

Reducing to a feudal form.

FEUD-A-RY, a.

Holding land of a superior.

FEUD-A-TA-RY, a.

A feudatory – which see.

FEUD-A-TO-RY, n. [Sp. feudatorio; Port. feudatario.]

A tenant or vassal who holds his lands of a superior, on condition of military service; the tenant of a feud or fief. Blackstone. Encyc.

FEU-DE-JOIE, n. [Feu de joie. fire of joy.]

A French phrase for a bonfire, or a firing of guns in token of joy.

FEUD-IST, n.

A writer on feuds. Spelman.

FEUIL-LAGE, n. [Fr. foliage.]

A bunch or row of leaves. Jervas.

FEU-ILLE-MORT, n. [Fr. dead leaf.]

The color of a faded leaf.

FEU-TER, v.t.

To make ready. [Not in use.] Spenser.

FEU-TER-ER, n.

A dog keeper. [Not used.] Massenger.

FE'VER, n. [Fr. fievre; Sp. fiebre; It. febbre; L. febris, supposed to be so written by transposition for ferbis, or fervis, from ferbeo, ferveo, to be hot, Ar. فَارَ, faura or faira. Class Br, No. 30.]

1. A disease characterized by an accelerated pulse, with increase of heat, impaired functions, diminished strength, and often with preternatural thirst. This order of diseases is called by Cullen pyrexy, Gr. πυρεξια. Fevers are often or generally preceded by chills or rigors, called the cold stage of the disease. Fevers are of various kinds; but the principal division of fevers is into remitting fevers, which subside or abate at intervals; intermitting fevers, which intermit or entirely cease at intervals; and continued or continual fevers, which neither remit nor intermit.
2. Heat; agitation; excitement by any thing that strongly affects the passions. This news has given me a fever. This quarrel has set my blood in a fever.

FE'VER, v.t.

To put in a fever. Dryden.

FE'VER-COOL-ING, a.

Allaying febrile heat. Thomson.

FE'VER-ET, n.

A slight fever. [Not used.] Ayliffe.

FE'VER-FEW, n. [Sax. feferfuge; L. febris and fugo.]

A plant, Chrysanthemum Parthenium, so named from supposed febrifuge qualities. The common feverfew grows to the highth of two or three feet, with compound radiated white flowers, with a yellow disk.

FE'VER-ISH, a.

1. Having a slight fever; as, the patient is feverish.
2. Diseased with fever or heat; as, feverish nature. Creech.
3. Uncertain; inconstant; fickle; now hot, now cold. We toss and turn about our feverish will. Dryden.
4. Hot; sultry; burning; as, the feverish north. Dryden.

FE'VER-ISH-NESS, n.

The state of being feverish; a slight febrile affection.

FE'VER-OUS, a.

1. Affected with fever or ague. Shak.
2. Having the nature of fever. All feverous kinds. Milton.
3. Having a tendency to produce fever; as, a feverous disposition of the year. [This word is little used.] Bacon.

FE'VER-OUS-LY, adv.

In a feverish manner. [Little used.] Donne.