Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FE'VER-ROOT, n.

A plant of the genus. Triosteum.

FE'VER-SICK, a. [Sax. fefer-seoc.]

Diseased with fever. Peele.

FE'VER-SORE, n.

The popular name of a carious ulcer or necrosis. Miner.

FE'VER-WEAK-EN-ED, a.

Debilitated by fever.

FE'VER-WEED, n.

A plant of the genus Eryngium.

FE'VER-WORT, n. [See FEVER-ROOT.]

FE'VER-Y, a.

Affected with fever. B. Jonson.

FEW, a. [Sax. fea, or feawa; Dan. föye; Fr. peu; Sp. and It. poco; L. pauci. The senses of few and small are often united. Class Bg.]

Not many; small in number. Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few; but few men, in times of party, regard the maxim.

FEW'EL, n.

Combustible matter. [See Fuel.]

FEW'NESS, a.

1. Smallness of number; paucity. Dryden.
2. Paucity of words; brevity. [Not used.] Shak.

FEY, v.t. [D. veegen.]

To cleanse a ditch from mud. Tusser.

FEY-ED, pp.

Cleansed from mud; applied to a ditch.

FEY-ING, ppr.

Clearing a ditch from mud.

FI'ANCE, v.t.

To betroth. [See Affiance.]

FI'AT, n. [L. from fio.]

Let it be done; a decree; a command to do something.

FIB, n. [See Fable. Ir. meabhra.]

A lie or falsehood; a word used among children and the vulgar, as a softer expression than lie.

FIB, v.i.

To lie; to speak falsely.

FIB'BER, n.

One who tells lies or fibs.

FIB'BING, ppr.

Telling fibs; as a noun, the telling of fibs.

FI'BER, or FI'BRE, a. [Fr. fibre; L. fibra; Sp. hebra, fibra; It. fibra.]

1. A thread; a fine, slender body which constitutes a part of the frame of animals. Of fibers, some are soft and flexible, others more hard and elastic. Those that are soft are hollow, or spungy, and full of little cells, as the nervous and fleshy. Some are so small as scarcely to be visible; others are larger and appear to be composed of still smaller fibers. These fibers constitute the substance of the bones, cartilages, ligaments, membranes, nerves, veins, arteries, and muscles. Quincy.
2. A filament or slender thread in plants or minerals; the small slender root of a plant.
3. Any fine, slender thread.

FI'BER-LESS, a.

Having no fibers.

FI'BRIL, n. [Fr. fibrille.]

A small fiber; the branch of a fiber; a very slender thread. Cheyne.

FI'BRIL-OUS, a.

Pertaining to fibers. Dr. Kinnier.

FI'BRIN, n. [See Fiber.]

A peculiar organic compound substance found in animals and vegetables. It is a soft solid, of a greasy appearance, which softens in air, becoming viscid, brown and semi-transparent, but is insoluble in water. It is the chief constituent of muscular flesh. Ure.

FI'BRIN-OUS, a.

Having or partaking of fibrin.