Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FER'RET-ED, pp.

Driven from a burrow or lurking place.

FER'RET-ER, n.

One that hunts another in his private retreat.

FER'RET-ING, ppr.

Driving from a lurking place.

FER'RI-AGE, n. [See Ferry.]

The price or fare to be paid at a ferry; the compensation established or paid for conveyance over a river or lake in a boat.

FER'RIC, a.

Pertaining to or extracted from iron. Lavoisier.

FER-RI-CAL'CITE, n. [L. ferrum, iron, and calx, lime.]

A species of calcarious earth or limestone combined with a large portion of iron, from 7 to 14 per cent. Kirwan.

FER'RI-ED, pp.

Carried over in a boat.

FER-RI'FER-OUS, a. [L. ferrum and fero.]

Producing or yielding iron. Phillips.

FER'RI-LITE, n. [L. ferrum, iron, and Gr. λιθος, a stone.]

Rowley ragg; a variety of trap, containing iron in the state of oxyd. Kirwan.

FER-RO-CY'A-NATE, n.

A compound of the ferro-cyanic acid with a base.

FER-RO-CY-AN'IC, a. [L. ferrum, iron, and cyanic – which see.]

The same as ferro-prussic.

FER-RO-PRUS'SIATE, n.

A compound of the ferro-prussic acid with a base. [Obs.]

FER-RO-PRUS'SIC, a. [L. ferrum, iron, and prussic.]

Designating a peculiar acid, formed of prussic acid and protoxyd of iron. [Obs.] Coxe.

FER-RO-SIL'I-CATE, n.

A compound of ferro-silicic acid with a base, forming a substance analogous to a salt. [Obs.]

FER-RO-SI-LIC'IC, a. [L. ferrum, iron, and silex.]

Designating a compound of iron and silex. [Obs.]

FER-RU'GI-NA-TED, a. [infra.]

Having the color or properties of the rust of iron.

FER-RU'GI-NOUS, a. [L. ferrugo, rust of iron, from ferrum, iron.]

1. Partaking of iron; containing particles of iron.
2. Of the color of the rust or oxyd of iron. [Ferrugineous is less used.]

FER'RULE, n. [Sp. birola, a ring or cap for a cane.]

A ring of metal put round a cane or other thing to strengthen it.

FER-RU-MIN-A'TION, n. [L.]

The soldering or uniting of metals.

FER'RY, n.

1. A boat or small vessel in which passengers and goods are conveyed over rivers or other narrow waters; sometimes called a wherry. [This application of the word is, I believe, entirely obsolete, at least in America.]
2. The place or passage where boats pass over water to convey passengers.
3. The right of transporting passengers over a lake or stream. A. B. owns the ferry at Windsor. [In New England, this word is used in the two latter senses.]

FER'RY, v.i.

To pass over water in a boat. Milton.

FER'RY, v.t. [Sax. feran, ferian; G. führen; Gr. φερω; L. fero; allied to bear, and more nearly to Sax. faran, to pass. See Bear and Fare, and Class Br, No. 33, 35.]

To carry or transport over a river, strait or other water, in a boat. We ferry men, horses, carriages, over rivers, for a moderate fee or price called fare or ferriage.

FER'RY-BOAT, a.

A boat for conveying passengers over streams and other narrow waters.

FER'RY-ING, ppr.

Carrying over in a boat.

FER'RY-MAN, n.

One who keeps a ferry, and transports passengers over a river.