Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FEINT, a.

or pp. Counterfeit; seeming. [Not used.] Locke.

FEINT, n. [Fr. feinte, from feindre.]

1. An assumed or false appearance; a pretense of doing something not intended to be done. Courtley's letter is but a feint to get off. Spectator.
2. A mock attack; an appearance of aiming at one part when another is intended to be struck. In fencing, a show of making a thrust at one part, to deceive an antagonist when the intention is to strike another part. Prior. Encyc.

FE'LAND-ERS, n. [See FILANDERS.]

Ainsworth.

FELD'SPAR, or FEL'SPAR, n. [or FELD'SPATH, or FEL'SPATH. G. feld, field, and spar. It is written by some authors felspar, which is rockspar, or fel is a contraction of field. Spath in German signifies spar.]

A mineral widely distributed and usually of a foliated structure. When in crystals or crystaline masses, it is very susceptible of mechanical division at natural joints. Its hardness is a little inferior to that of quartz. There are several varieties, as common feldspar, the adularia, the silicious, the glassy, the ice-spar, the opalescent, aventurine feldspur, petuntze, the granular, and the compact. Cleaveland.

FELD-SPATH'IC, a.

Pertaining to feldspar, or consisting of it. Journ. of Science.

FE-LIC'I-TATE, a.

Made very happy. Shak.

FE-LIC'I-TATE, v.t. [Fr. feliciter; Sp. felicitar; It. felicitare; L. felicito, from felix, happy.]

1. To make very happy. What a glorious entertainment and pleasure would fill and felicitate his spirit, if he could grasp all in a single survey. Watts. More generally,
2. To congratulate; to express joy or pleasure to. We felicitate our friends on the acquisition of good, or an escape from evil.

FE-LIC'I-TA-TED, pp.

Made very happy; congratulated.

FE-LIC'I-TA-TING, ppr.

Making very happy; congratulating.

FE-LIC-I-TA'TION, n.

Congratulation. Dict.

FE-LIC'I-TOUS, a.

Very happy; prosperous; delightful. Dict

FE-LIC'I-TOUS-LY, adv.

Happily. Dict.

FE-LIC'I-TOUS-NESS, n.

State of being very happy.

FE-LIC'I-TY, n. [L. felicitas, from felix, happy.]

1. Happiness, or rather great happiness; blessedness; blissfulness; appropriately, the joys of heaven.
2. Prosperity; blessing; enjoyment of good. The felicities of her wonderful reign may be complete. Atterbury. Females – who confer on life its finest felicities. Rawle.

FE'LINE, a. [L. felinus, from felis, a cat. Qu. fell, fierce.]

Pertaining to cats, or to their species; like a cat; noting the cat kind or the genus Felis. We say, the feline race; feline rapacity.

FELL, a. [Sax. fell; D. fel.]

1. Cruel; barbarous; inhuman. It seemed fury, discord, madness fell. Fairfax.
2. Fierce; savage; ravenous; bloody. More fell than tigers on the Libyan plain. Pope.

FELL, n.¹ [Sax. fell; G. fell; D. vel; L. pellis; Fr. peau; probably from peeling.]

A skin or hide of a beast; used chiefly in composition, as wool-fell.

FELL, n.² [G. fels.]

A barren or stony hill. [Local.] Gray.

FELL, v. [pret. of Fall.]

FELL, v.t. [D. vellen; G. fällen; Sw. fälla; Dem. fælder; probably from the root of fall.]

To cause to fall; to prostrate; to bring to the ground, either by cutting, as to fell trees, or by striking, as, to fell an ox.

FELL'ED, pp.

Knocked or cut down.

FELL'ER, n.

One who hews or knocks down. Is. xiv.

FEL-LIF'LU-OUS, a. [L. fel, gall, and fluo, to flow.]

Flowing with gall. Dict.

FELL'ING, ppr.

Cutting or beating to the ground.

FELL'MONG-ER, n. [fell and monger.]

A dealer in hides