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{ } n. [ Bed + AS. fera a companion. ] A bedfellow. [ Obs. ] Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of deeds or exploits; active; stirring. [ R. ] “A deedful life.” Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of heed; regarding with care; cautious; circumspect; attentive; vigilant. Shak.

-- Heed"ful*ly, adv. -- Heed"ful*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A hundred times as much or as many. [ 1913 Webster ]

He shall receive as hundredfold now in this time. Mark x. 30. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Often cap. ] Same as Mediterranean fruit fly; -- a shortened form. [ PJC ]

a. Worthy of meed, reward, or recompense; meritorious. “Meedful works.” Wiclif. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. According to merit; suitably. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Full of need; in need or want; needy; distressing. [ Archaic ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

The needful time of trouble. Bk. of Com. Prayer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Necessary for supply or relief; requisite. [ 1913 Webster ]

All things needful for defense abound. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Need"ful*ly, adv. -- Need"ful*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A small North American dace (Minnilus cornutus, or Notropis megalops). The male, in the breeding season, has bright red fins. Called also red dace, and shiner. Applied also to Notropis ardens, of the Mississippi valley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The European linnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) (a) The blueback salmon of the North Pacific; -- called also nerka. See Blueback (b). (b) The rosefish. (c) A large California labroid food fish (Trochocopus pulcher); -- called also fathead. (d) The red bass, red drum, or drumfish. See the Note under Drumfish. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of speed (in any sense). [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a speedful manner. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n., a., adv., etc. See Stead, Steadfast, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

See drainable.
See dramatic.
See drinkable.
See durable.
See duteous.
See dutiful.
See earnest.
See eatable.
See ecclesiastical.
See edible.
See elaborate.
See elective.
See elusive.
See emotional.
See emphatic. See employable.
See employable.
See endurable.
See -English.
See entire.
See enviable.
See envious.
See episcopal.
See equable.
See errable.
See escapable.
See evangelical.
See eventful.
See evident.
See exact.
See examinable.
See exceptionable.
See exclusive.
See exemplary.
See exempt.
See exhaustible.
See existent.
See expectable.
See expectant.
See explainable.
See express.
See expressible.
See expugnable.
See extinct.
See factious.
See fadable.
See fain.
See familiar.
See famous.
See fashionable.
See fast.
See fatherly.
See fathomable.
See faulty.
See fearful.
See feasible.
See felicitous.
See felt.
See feminine.
See fermentable.
See festival.
See fine.
See fleshy.
See fluent.
See forcible.
See fordable.
See foreknowable.
See foreseeable.
See forgetful.
See forgivable.
See formal.
See framable.
See fraternal.
See friable.
See frightful.
See frustrable.
See full.
See gainable.
See gainful.
See gallant.
See genial.
See genteel.
See gentle.
See gentlemanlike.
See gentlemanly.
See geometrical.
See ghostly.
See glad.
See godlike.
See good.
See goodly.
See gorgeous.
See grammatical.
See grave.
See guidable.
See guilty.
See habile.
See habitable.
See hale.
See handy.
See hardy.
See harmful.
See hasty.
See hazardous.
See healable.
See healthful.
See healthy.
See heavenly.
See heedful.
See helpful.
See heritable.
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