Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FE'SELS, n.

A kind of base grain. May.

FESSE, n. [fess; L. fascia, a band.]

In heraldry, a band or girdle, possessing the third part of the escutcheon; one of the nine honorable ordinaries. Peacham. Encyc.

FESSE'-POINT, n.

The exact center of the escutcheon. Encyc.

FES'SI-TUDE, n. [L.]

Weariness.

FES'TAL, a. [L. festus, festive. See Feast.]

Pertaining to a feast; joyous; gay; mirthful. Chesterfield.

FES'TAL-LY, adv.

Joyously; mirthfully.

FES'TER, v.i. [Qu. L. pestis, pus, or pustula.]

To rankle; to corrupt; to grow virulent. We say of a sore or wound, it festers. Passion and unkindness may give a wound that shall bleed and smart; but it is treachery that makes it fester. South.

FES'TER-ING, ppr.

Rankling; growing virulent.

FES'TER-MENT, n.

A festering. Chalmers.

FES'TI-NATE, a. [L. festino, festinatus.]

Hasty; hurried. [Not in use.] Shak.

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.]