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n. One who lies with another in the same bed; a person who shares one's couch. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ See Buffalo. ] (Zool.) A small duck (Charitonetta albeola); the spirit duck, or butterball. The head of the male is covered with numerous elongated feathers, and thus appears large. Called also bufflehead. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One of a pair of horses employed to draw a coach; hence (Fig.), a comrade. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ See Fellowship, v. t. ] To exclude from fellowship; to refuse intercourse with, as an associate. [ 1913 Webster ]

An attempt to disfellowship an evil, but to fellowship the evildoer. Freewill Bapt. Quart. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ D. duffel, from Duffel, a town not far from Antwerp. ] 1. A kind of coarse woolen cloth, having a thick nap or frieze. [ Written also duffle. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Good duffel gray and flannel fine. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Outfit or suppplies, collectively; kit. [ Colloq., U. S. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. A sack to hold miscellaneous articles, as tools, supplies, or the like. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ Pref. en- + felon: cf. OF. enfelonner. ] Rendered fierce or frantic. [ Obs. ] “Like one enfeloned or distraught.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. See Filanders.

{ , n. [ G. feldspath; feld field + spath spar. ] (Min.) A name given to a group of minerals, closely related in crystalline form, and all silicates of alumina with either potash, soda, lime, or, in one case, baryta. They occur in crystals and crystalline masses, vitreous in luster, and breaking rather easily in two directions at right angles to each other, or nearly so. The colors are usually white or nearly white, flesh-red, bluish, or greenish. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The group includes the monoclinic (orthoclastic) species orthoclase or common potash feldspar, and the rare hyalophane or baryta feldspar; also the triclinic species (called in general plagioclase) microcline, like orthoclase a potash feldspar; anorthite or lime feldspar; albite or soda feldspar; also intermediate between the last two species, labradorite, andesine, oligoclase, containing both lime and soda in varying amounts. The feldspars are essential constituents of nearly all crystalline rocks, as granite, gneiss, mica, slate, most kinds of basalt and trachyte, etc. The decomposition of feldspar has yielded a large part of the clay of the soil, also the mineral kaolin, an essential material in the making of fine pottery. Common feldspar is itself largely used for the same purpose.

{ , a. Pertaining to, or consisting of, feldspar. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ AS. fela, feola; akin to G. viel, gr. &unr_;. See Full, a. ] Many. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. felix happy + -fy. ] To make happy; to felicitate. [ Obs. ] Quarles. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. felicitatus, p. p. of felicitare to felicitate, fr. felix, -icis, happy. See felicity. ] Made very happy. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I am alone felicitate
In your dear highness' love. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Felicitated p. pr. & vb. n. felicitating. ] [ Cf. F. féliciter. ] 1. To make very happy; to delight. [ 1913 Webster ]

What a glorious entertainment and pleasure would fill and felicitate his spirit. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To express joy or pleasure to; to wish felicity to; to call or consider (one's self) happy; to congratulate. [ 1913 Webster ]

Every true heart must felicitate itself that its lot is cast in this kingdom. W. Howitt.

Syn. -- See Congratulate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. félicitation. ] The act of felicitating; a wishing of joy or happiness; congratulation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Characterized by felicity; happy; prosperous; delightful; skillful; successful; happily applied or expressed; appropriate. [ 1913 Webster ]

Felicitous words and images. M. Arnold.

-- Fe*lic"i*tous*ly, adv. -- Fe*lic"i*tous*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a pleasing and appropriate manner or style, especially of expression.
Syn. -- felicity. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. Felicities [ OE. felicite, F. félicité, fr. L. felicitas, fr. felix, -icis, happy, fruitful; akin to fetus. ] 1. The state of being happy; blessedness; blissfulness; enjoyment of good. [ 1913 Webster ]

Our own felicity we make or find. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Finally, after this life, to attain everlasting joy and felicity. Book of Common Prayer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which promotes happiness; a successful or gratifying event; prosperity; blessing. [ 1913 Webster ]

the felicities of her wonderful reign. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A pleasing faculty or accomplishment; as, felicity in painting portraits, or in writing or talking. “Felicity of expression.” Bp. Warburton.

Syn. -- Happiness; bliss; beatitude; blessedness; blissfulness. See Happiness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. any of various lithe-bodied round-headed fissiped mammals, many with retractile claws; a member of the Felidae.
Syn. -- feline. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a natural family of lithe-bodied round-headed fissiped mammals, including the cats; wildcats; lions; leopards; cheetahs; and saber-toothed tigers.
Syn. -- family Felidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. felinus, fr. feles, felis, cat, prob. orig., the fruitful: cf. F. félin. See Fetus. ] 1. (Zool.) Catlike; of or pertaining to the genus Felis, or family Felidæ; as, the feline race; feline voracity. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Characteristic of cats; sly; stealthy; treacherous; as, a feline nature; feline manners. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖prop. n. [ L., cat. ] (Zool.) A genus of mostly small carnivorous mammals, including the domestic cat, puma, ocelot, and margay, which share the inability to roar due to bone structure in the larynx. The lion, tiger, and other large roaring cats were once included in Felis but are now assigned to the genus Panthera. The lynx (Felis lynx) is also called Lynx lynx. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. [ Cf. L. fel gall, bile, or E. fell, a. ] Gall; anger; melancholy. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Untroubled of vile fear or bitter fell. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OE. fel, OF. fel cruel, fierce, perfidious; cf. AS. fel (only in comp.) OF. fel, as a noun also accus. felon, is fr. LL. felo, of unknown origin; cf. Arm fall evil, Ir. feal, Arm. falloni treachery, Ir. & Gael. feall to betray; or cf. OHG. fillan to flay, torment, akin to E. fell skin. Cf. Felon. ] 1. Cruel; barbarous; inhuman; fierce; savage; ravenous. [ 1913 Webster ]

While we devise fell tortures for thy faults. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Eager; earnest; intent. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I am so fell to my business. Pepys. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. fell; akin to D. vel, OHG. fel, G. fell, Icel. fell (in comp.), Goth fill in þrutsfill leprosy, L. pellis skin, Gr. pe`lla. Cf. Film, Peel, Pell, n. ] A skin or hide of a beast with the wool or hair on; a pelt; -- used chiefly in composition, as woolfell. [ 1913 Webster ]

We are still handling our ewes, and their fells, you know, are greasy. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Icel. fell, fjally; akin to Sw. fjäll a ridge or chain of mountains, Dan. fjeld mountain, rock and prob. to G. fels rock, or perh. to feld field, E. field. ] 1. A barren or rocky hill. T. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A wild field; a moor. Dryton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Felled p. pr. & vb. n. Felling. ] [ AS. fellan, a causative verb fr. feallan to fall; akin to D. vellen, G. fällen, Icel. fella, Sw. fälla, Dan. fælde. See Fall, v. i. ] To cause to fall; to prostrate; to bring down or to the ground; to cut down. [ 1913 Webster ]

Stand, or I'll fell thee down. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mining) The finer portions of ore which go through the meshes, when the ore is sorted by sifting. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. Gael. fill to fold, plait, Sw. fåll a hem. ] To sew or hem; -- said of seams. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Sewing) A form of seam joining two pieces of cloth, the edges being folded together and the stitches taken through both thicknesses. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Weaving) The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft. [ 1913 Webster ]

imp. of Fall. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Fit to be felled. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Ar. Fellahin E. Fellahs [ Ar. ] A peasant or cultivator of the soil among the Egyptians, Syrians, etc. W. M. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a form of sexual activity between two persons in which the penis of one is stimulated by the other's mouth, especially until orgasm is achieved. It is a form of oral sex. Compare cunnilingus. The act is also called by the slang term blow job. [ PJC ]

n. One who, or that which, fells, knocks or cuts down; a machine for felling trees. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An appliance to a sewing machine for felling a seam. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. AS. fealafor, and E. fieldfare. ] (Zool.) The fieldfare. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. fellifuus; fel gall + fluere to flow. ] Flowing with gall. [ R. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. fel, fellis, gall. ] Of, relating to, or derived from, bile or gall; as, fellinic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A dealer in fells or sheepskins, who separates the wool from the pelts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Fell cruel. ] The quality or state of being fell or cruel; fierce barbarity. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Felly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Variant of Felon. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Those two were foes the fellonest on ground. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. felawe, felaghe, Icel. fēlagi, fr. fēlag companionship, prop., a laying together of property; fē property + lag a laying, pl. lög law, akin to liggja to lie. See Fee, and Law, Lie to be low. ] 1. A companion; a comrade; an associate; a partner; a sharer. [ 1913 Webster ]

The fellows of his crime. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

We are fellows still,
Serving alike in sorrow. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

That enormous engine was flanked by two fellows almost of equal magnitude. Gibbon. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Commonly used of men, but sometimes of women. Judges xi. 37. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A man without good breeding or worth; an ignoble or mean man. [ 1913 Webster ]

Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An equal in power, rank, character, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is impossible that ever Rome
Should breed thy fellow. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. One of a pair, or of two things used together or suited to each other; a mate; the male. [ 1913 Webster ]

When they be but heifers of one year, . . . they are let go to the fellow and breed. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

This was my glove; here is the fellow of it. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A person; an individual. [ 1913 Webster ]

She seemed to be a good sort of fellow. Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. In the English universities, a scholar who is appointed to a foundation called a fellowship, which gives a title to certain perquisites and privileges. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. In an American college or university, a member of the corporation which manages its business interests; also, a graduate appointed to a fellowship, who receives the income of the foundation. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. A member of a literary or scientific society; as, a Fellow of the Royal Society. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Fellow is often used in compound words, or adjectively, signifying associate, companion, or sometimes equal. Usually, such compounds or phrases are self-explanatory; as, fellow-citizen, or fellow citizen; fellow-student, or fellow student; fellow-workman, or fellow workman; fellow-mortal, or fellow mortal; fellow-sufferer; bedfellow; playfellow; workfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

Were the great duke himself here, and would lift up
My head to fellow pomp amongst his nobles. Ford. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To suit with; to pair with; to match. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One of the same race or kind; one made by the same Creator. [ 1913 Webster ]

Reason, by which we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To share through sympathy; to participate in. [ R. ] D. Rodgers. [ 1913 Webster ]