A person or thing regarded with peculiar favor, preference and affection; one greatly beloved. Select favorites from among the discrete and the virtuous. Princes are often misled, and sometimes ruined by favorites. Gaveston and the Spencers, the favorites of Edward II, fell a sacrifice to public indignation. NWAD FAVORITE.2
1. The act or practice of favoring, or giving a preference to one over another. NWAD FAVORITISM.2
2. The disposition to favor, aid and promote the interest of a favorite, or of one person or family, or of one class of men, to the neglect of others having equal claims. NWAD FAVORITISM.3
It has been suggested that the proceeds of the foreign bills were calculated merely to indulge a spirit of favoritism to the bank of the United States. NWAD FAVORITISM.4
Which consideration imposes such a necessity on the crown, as hath, in a great measure, subdued the influence of favoritism. NWAD FAVORITISM.5
3. Exercise of power by favorites. NWAD FAVORITISM.6
1. Unfavored; not regarded with favor; having no patronage or countenance. NWAD FAVORLESS.2
2. Not favoring; unpropitious. NWAD FAVORLESS.3
1. To court favor, or show attachment to, by frisking about one; as, a dog fawns on his master. NWAD FAWN.4
2. To soothe; to flatter meanly; to blandish; to court servilely; to cringe and bow to gain favor; as a fawning favorite or minion. NWAD FAWN.5
My love, forbear to fawn upon their frowns. NWAD FAWN.6
To fit; to suit; to unite closely with. [This is a contraction of the Teutonic word, and the same as fadge, which see. It is not an elegant word.] NWAD FAY.3
Fidelity to a lord; faithful adherence of a tenant or vassal to the superior of whom he holds his lands; loyalty. Under the feudal system of tenures, every vassal or tenant was bound to be true and faithful to his lord, and to defend him against all his enemies. This obligation was called his fidelity or fealty, and an oath of fealty was required to be taken by all tenants to their landlords. The tenant was called a liege man; the land, a liege fee; and the superior, liege lord. [See Liege.] NWAD FEALTY.2
1. A painful emotion or passion excited by an expectation of evil, or the apprehension of impending danger. Fear expresses less apprehension than dread, and dread less than terror and fright. The force of this passion, beginning with the most moderate degree, may be thus expressed, fear, dread, terror, fright. Fear is accompanied with a desire to avoid or ward off the expected evil. Fear is an uneasiness of mind, upon the thought of future evil likely to befall us. NWAD FEAR.2
Fear is the passion of our nature which excites us to provide for our security, on the approach of evil. NWAD FEAR.3
2. Anxiety; solicitude. NWAD FEAR.4
The principal fear was for the holy temple. NWAD FEAR.5
3. The cause of fear. NWAD FEAR.6
Thy angel becomes a fear. NWAD FEAR.7
4. The object of fear. NWAD FEAR.8
Except the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me. Genesis 31:42. NWAD FEAR.9
5. Something set or hung up to terrify wild animals, by its color or noise. Isaiah 24:17, 18; Jeremiah 48:43, 44. NWAD FEAR.10
6. In scripture, fear is used to express a filial or a slavish passion. In good men, the fear of God is a holy awe or reverence of God and his laws, which springs from a just view and real love of the divine character, leading the subjects of it to hate and shun every thing that can offend such a holy being, and inclining them to aim at perfect obedience. This is filial fear. NWAD FEAR.11
I will put my fear in their hearts. Jeremiah 32:40. NWAD FEAR.12
Slavish fear is the effect or consequence of guilt; it is the painful apprehension of merited punishment. Romans 8:15. NWAD FEAR.13
The love of God casteth out fear. 1 John 4:18. NWAD FEAR.14
7. The worship of God. NWAD FEAR.15
I will teach you the fear of the Lord. Psalm 34:11. NWAD FEAR.16
8. The law and word of God. NWAD FEAR.17
The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever. Psalm 19:9. NWAD FEAR.18
9. Reverence; respect; due regard. NWAD FEAR.19
Render to all their dues; fear to whom fear. Romans 13:7. NWAD FEAR.20
1. To feel a painful apprehension of some impending evil; to be afraid of; to consider or expect with emotions of alarm or solicitude. We fear the approach of an enemy or of a storm. We have reason to fear the punishment of our sins. NWAD FEAR.22
I will fear no evil, for thou art with me. Psalm 23:4. NWAD FEAR.23
2. To reverence; to have a reverential awe; to venerate. NWAD FEAR.24
This do, and live: for I fear God. Genesis 42:18. NWAD FEAR.25
3. To affright; to terrify; to drive away or prevent approach by fear, or by a scarecrow. [This seems to be the primary meaning, but now obsolete.] NWAD FEAR.26
We must not make a scarecrow of the law, setting it up to fear the birds of prey. NWAD FEAR.27
But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtility, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. 2 Corinthians 11:3. NWAD FEAR.29
Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward. Genesis 15:1. NWAD FEAR.30
1. Affected by fear; feeling pain in expectation of evil; apprehensive with solicitude; afraid. I am fearful of the consequences of rash conduct. Hence, NWAD FEARFUL.2
2. Timid; timorous; wanting courage. NWAD FEARFUL.3
What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? Deuteronomy 20:8. NWAD FEARFUL.4
3. Terrible; impressing fear; frightful; dreadful. NWAD FEARFUL.5
It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. Hebrews 10:31. NWAD FEARFUL.6
4. Awful; to be reverenced. NWAD FEARFUL.7
O Lord, who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises? Exodus 15:11. NWAD FEARFUL.8
That thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, Jehovah, thy God. Deuteronomy 28:58. NWAD FEARFUL.9
1. Timorously; in fear. NWAD FEARFULLY.2
In such a night did Thisbe fearfully o’ertrip the dew. NWAD FEARFULLY.3
2. Terribly; dreadfully; in a manner to impress terror. NWAD FEARFULLY.4
There is a cliff, whose high and bending head looks fearfully on the confined deep. NWAD FEARFULLY.5
3. In a manner to impress admiration and astonishment. NWAD FEARFULLY.6
I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Psalm 139:14. NWAD FEARFULLY.7
1. Timorousness; timidity. NWAD FEARFULNESS.2
2. State of being afraid; awe; dread. NWAD FEARFULNESS.3
A thing that makes a government despised, is fearfulness of, and mean compliances with, bold popular offenders. NWAD FEARFULNESS.4
3. Terror; alarm; apprehension of evil. NWAD FEARFULNESS.5
Fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Isaiah 33:14. NWAD FEARFULNESS.6
1. Free from fear; as fearless of death; fearless of consequences. NWAD FEARLESS.2
2. Bold; courageous; intrepid; undaunted; as a fearless hero; a fearless foe. NWAD FEARLESS.3
He gave instances of an invincible courage and fearlessness in danger. NWAD FEARLESSNESS.2
1. That may be done, performed, executed or effected; practicable. We say a thing is feasible, when it can be effected by human means or agency. A thing may be possible, but not feasible. NWAD FEASIBLE.2
2. That may be used or tilled, as land. NWAD FEASIBLE.3
1. A sumptuous repast or entertainment, of which a number of guests partake; particularly, a rich or splendid public entertainment. NWAD FEAST.2
On Pharaoh’s birth day, he made a feast to all his servants. Genesis 40:20. NWAD FEAST.3
2. A rich or delicious repast or meal; something delicious to the palate. NWAD FEAST.4
3. A ceremony of feasting; joy and thanksgiving on stated days, in commemoration of some great event, or in honor of some distinguished personage; an anniversary, periodical or stated celebration of some event; a festival; as on occasion of the games in Greece, and the feast of the passover, the feast of Pentecost, and the feast of tabernacles among the Jews. NWAD FEAST.5
4. Something delicious and entertaining to the mind or soul; as the dispensation of the gospel is called a feast of fat things. Isaiah 25:6. NWAD FEAST.6
5. That which delights and entertains. NWAD FEAST.7
He that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast. Proverbs 15:15. NWAD FEAST.8
In the English church, feasts are immovable or movable; immovable, when they occur on the same day of the year, as Christmas day, etc.; and movable, when they are not confined to the same day of the year, as Easter, which regulates many others. NWAD FEAST.9
1. To eat sumptuously; to dine or sup on rich provisions; particularly in large companies, and on public festivals. NWAD FEAST.11
And his sons went and feasted in their houses. Job 1:4. NWAD FEAST.12
2. To be highly gratified or delighted. NWAD FEAST.13
1. To entertain with sumptuous provisions; to treat at the table magnificently; as, he was feasted by the king. NWAD FEAST.15
2. To delight; to pamper; to gratify luxuriously; as, to feast the soul. NWAD FEAST.16
Whose taste or smell can bless the feasted sense. NWAD FEAST.17
1. One who fares deliciously. NWAD FEASTER.2
2. One who entertains magnificently. NWAD FEASTER.3
1. Festive; joyful; as a feastful day or friend. NWAD FEASTFUL.2
2. Sumptuous, luxurious; as feastful rites. NWAD FEASTFUL.3
1. Eating luxuriously; faring sumptuously. NWAD FEASTING.2
2. Delighting; gratifying. NWAD FEASTING.3
3. Entertaining with a sumptuous table. NWAD FEASTING.4
1. An act; a deed; an exploit; as a bold feat; a noble feat; feats of prowess. NWAD FEAT.2
2. In a subordinate sense, any extraordinary act of strength, skill or cunning, as feats of horsemanship, or of dexterity; a trick. NWAD FEAT.3
Never master had a page - so feat. NWAD FEAT.5
1. A plume; a general name of the covering of fowls. The smaller fethers are used for the filling of beds; the larger ones, called quills, are used for ornaments of the head, for writing pens, etc. The fether consists of a shaft or stem, corneous, round, strong and hollow at the lower part, and at the upper part, filled with pith. On each side of the shaft are the vanes, broad on one side and narrow on the other, consisting of thin lamins. The fethers which cover the body are called the plumage; the fethers of the wings are adapted to flight. NWAD FEATHER.2
2. Kind; nature; species; from the proverbial phrase, “Birds of a fether,” that is, of the same species. [Unusual.] NWAD FEATHER.3
I am not of that feather to shake off my friend, when he most needs me. NWAD FEATHER.4
3. An ornament; an empty title. NWAD FEATHER.5
4. On a horse, a sort of natural frizzling of the hair, which, in some places, rises above the lying hair, and there makes a figure resembling the tip of an ear of wheat. NWAD FEATHER.6
A fether in the cap, is an honor, or mark of distinction. NWAD FEATHER.7
1. To dress in fethers; to fit with fethers, or to cover with fethers. NWAD FEATHER.9
2. To tread as a cock. NWAD FEATHER.10
3. To enrich; to adorn; to exalt. NWAD FEATHER.11
The king cared not to plume his nobility and people, to feather himself. NWAD FEATHER.12
To fether one’s nest, to collect wealth, particularly from emoluments derived from agencies for others; a proverb taken from birds which collect fethers for their nests. NWAD FEATHER.13
1. Covered with fethers; enriched. NWAD FEATHERED.2
2. a. Clothed or covered with fethers. A fowl or bird is a fethered animal NWAD FEATHERED.3
Rise from the ground like feathered Mercury. NWAD FEATHERED.4
3. Fitted or furnished with fethers; as a fethered arrow. NWAD FEATHERED.5
4. Smoothed, like down or fethers. NWAD FEATHERED.6
5. Covered with things growing from the substance; as land fethered with trees. NWAD FEATHERED.7
A board that has one edge thinner than the other, is called featheredge stuff. NWAD FEATHEREDGE.2
1. Clothed or covered with fethers. NWAD FEATHERY.2
2. Resembling fethers. NWAD FEATHERY.3
1. The make, form or cast of any part of the face; any single lineament. We speak of large features or small features. We see a resemblance in the features of a parent and of a child. NWAD FEATURE.2
2. The make or cast of the face. NWAD FEATURE.3
Report the feature of Octavia, her years. NWAD FEATURE.4
3. The fashion; the make; the whole turn or cast of the body. NWAD FEATURE.5
4. The make or form of any part of the surface of a thing, as of a country or landscape. NWAD FEATURE.6
5. Lineament; outline; prominent parts; as the features of a treaty. NWAD FEATURE.7
Any medicine that mitigates or removes fever. NWAD FEBRIFUGE.2
Pertaining to fever; indicating fever, or derived from it; as febrile symptoms; febrile action. NWAD FEBRILE.2
This practice bears a resemblance to that of making atonement among the Jews; but the connection between ferveo and February is doubtful. NWAD FEBRUARY.2
The name of the second month in the year, introduced into the Roman calendar by Numa. In common years, this month contains 28 days; in the bissextile or leap year, 29 days. NWAD FEBRUARY.3
1. Dregs; lees; sediment; the matter which subsides in casks of liquor. NWAD FECES.2
2. Excrement. NWAD FECES.3
1. The green matter of plants; chlorophyll. NWAD FECULA.2
2. Starch or farina; called also amylaceous fecula. NWAD FECULA.3
This term is applied to any pulverulent matter obtained from plants by simply breaking down the texture, washing with water, and subsidence. Hence its application to starch and the green fecula, though entirely different in chimical properties. NWAD FECULA.4
1. Muddiness; foulness; the quality of being foul with extraneous matter or lees. NWAD FECULENCE.2
2. Lees; sediment; dregs; or rather the substances mixed with liquor, or floating in it, which, when separated and lying at the bottom, are called lees, dregs or sediment. The refining or fining of liquor is the separation of it from its feculencies. NWAD FECULENCE.3
1. To make fruitful or prolific. NWAD FECUNDATE.2
2. To impregnate; as, the pollen of flowers fecundates the stigma. NWAD FECUNDATE.3
1. Fruitfulness; the quality of producing fruit; particularly, the quality in female animals of producing young in great numbers. NWAD FECUNDITY.2
2. The power of producing or bringing forth. It is said that the seeds of some plants retain their fecundity forty years. NWAD FECUNDITY.3
3. Fertility; the power of bringing forth in abundance; richness of invention. NWAD FECUNDITY.4
1. Pertaining to a league or contract; derived from an agreement or covenant between parties, particularly between nations. NWAD FEDERAL.2
The Romans, contrary to federal right, compelled them to part with Sardinia. NWAD FEDERAL.3
2. Consisting in a compact between parties, particularly and chiefly between states or nations; founded on alliance by contract or mutual agreement; as a federal government, such as that of the United States. NWAD FEDERAL.4
3. Friendly to the constitution of the United States. [See the Noun.] NWAD FEDERAL.5
1. The act of uniting in a league. NWAD FEDERATION.2
2. A league; a confederacy. NWAD FEDERATION.3
A reward or compensation for services; recompense, either gratuitous, or established by law and claimed of right. It is applied particularly to the reward of professional services; as the fees of lawyers and physicians; the fees of office; clerk’s fees; sheriff’s fees; marriage fees, etc. Many of these are fixed by law; but gratuities to professional men are also called fees. NWAD FEE.2
Primarily, a loan of land, an estate in trust, granted by a prince or lord, to be held by the grantee on condition of personal service, or other condition; and if the grantee or tenant failed to perform the conditions, the land reverted to the lord or donor, called the landlord, or lend-lord, the lord of the loan. A fee then is any land or tenement held of a superior on certain conditions. It is synonymous with fief and feud. All the land in England, except the crown land, is of this kind. Fees are absolute or limited. An absolute fee or fee-simple is land which a man holds to himself and his heirs forever, who are called tenants in fee simple. Hence in modern times, the term fee or fee simple denotes an estate of inheritance; and in America, where lands are not generally held of a superior, a fee or fee simple is an estate in which the owner has the whole property without any condition annexed to the tenure. A limited fee is an estate limited or clogged with certain conditions; as a qualified or base fee, which ceases with the existence of certain conditions; and a conditional fee, which is limited to particular heirs. NWAD FEE.4
In the United States, an estate in fee or fee simple is what is called in English law an allodial estate, an estate held by a person in his own right, and descendible to the heirs in general. NWAD FEE.5
1. To pay a fee to; to reward. Hence, NWAD FEE.2
2. To engage in one’s service by advancing a fee or sum of money to; as, to fee a lawyer. NWAD FEE.3
3. To hire; to bribe. NWAD FEE.4
4. To keep in hire. NWAD FEE.5
1. Weak; destitute of much physical strength; as, infants are feeble at their birth. NWAD FEEBLE.2
2. Infirm; sickly; debilitated by disease. NWAD FEEBLE.3
3. Debilitated by age or decline of life. NWAD FEEBLE.4
4. Not full or loud; as a feeble voice or sound. NWAD FEEBLE.5
5. Wanting force or vigor; as feeble efforts. NWAD FEEBLE.6
6. Not bright or strong; faint; imperfect; as feeble light; feeble colors. NWAD FEEBLE.7
7. Not strong or vigorous; as feeble powers of mind. NWAD FEEBLE.8
8. Not vehement or rapid; slow; as feeble motion. NWAD FEEBLE.9
Comfort the feeble-minded. 1 Thessalonians 5:14. NWAD FEEBLE-MINDED.2
1. Weakness of body or mind, from any cause; imbecility; infirmity; want of strength, physical or intellectual; as feebleness of the body or limbs; feebleness of the mind or understanding. NWAD FEEBLENESS.2
2. Want of fullness or loudness; as feebleness of voice. NWAD FEEBLENESS.3
3. Want of vigor or force; as feebleness of exertion, or of operation. NWAD FEEBLENESS.4
4. Defect of brightness; as feebleness of light or color. NWAD FEEBLENESS.5
Thy gentle numbers feebly creep. NWAD FEEBLY.2
1. To give food to; as, to feed an infant; to feed horses and oxen. NWAD FEED.2
2. To supply with provisions. We have flour and meat enough to feed the army a month. NWAD FEED.3
3. To supply; to furnish with any thing of which there is constant consumption, waste or use. Springs, feed ponds, lakes and rivers; ponds and streams feed canals. Mills are fed from hoppers. NWAD FEED.4
4. To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle If grain is too forward in autumn, feed it with sheep. NWAD FEED.5
5. To nourish; to cherish; to supply with nutriment; as, to feed hope or expectation; to feed vanity. NWAD FEED.6
6. To keep in hope or expectation; as, to feed one with hope. NWAD FEED.7
7. To supply fuel; as, to feed a fire. NWAD FEED.8
8. To delight; to supply with something desirable; to entertain; as, to feed the eye with the beauties of a landscape. NWAD FEED.9
9. To give food or fodder for fattening; to fatten. The county of Hampshire, in Massachusetts, feeds a great number of cattle for slaughter. NWAD FEED.10
10. To supply with food, and to lead, guard and protect; a scriptural sense. NWAD FEED.11
He shall feed his flock like a shepherd. Isaiah 40:11. NWAD FEED.12
1. To take food; to eat. NWAD FEED.14
2. To subsist by eating; to prey. Some birds feed on seeds and berries, others on flesh. NWAD FEED.15
3. To pasture; to graze; to place cattle to feed. Exodus 22:5. NWAD FEED.16
4. To grow fat. NWAD FEED.17
1. Food; that which is eaten; pasture; fodder; applied to that which is eaten by beasts, not to the food of men. The hills of our country furnish the best feed for sheep. NWAD FEED.19
2. Meal, or act of eating. NWAD FEED.20
For such pleasure till that hour at feed or fountain never had I found. NWAD FEED.21
1. One that gives food, or supplies nourishment. NWAD FEEDER.2
2. One who furnishes incentives; an encourager. NWAD FEEDER.3
The feeder of my riots. NWAD FEEDER.4
3. One that eats or subsists; as, small birds are feeders on grain or seeds. NWAD FEEDER.5
4. One that fattens cattle for slaughter. NWAD FEEDER.6
5. A fountain, stream or channel that supplies a main canal with water. NWAD FEEDER.7
Feeder of a vein, in mining, a short cross vein. NWAD FEEDER.8
1. To perceive by the touch; to have sensation excited by contact of a thing with the body or limbs. NWAD FEEL.2
Suffer me that I may feel the pillars. Judges 16:26. NWAD FEEL.3
Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son. Genesis 27:21. NWAD FEEL.4
2. To have the sense of; to suffer or enjoy; as, to feel pain; to feel pleasure. NWAD FEEL.5
3. To experience; to suffer. NWAD FEEL.6
Whoso keepeth the commandments shall feel no evil thing. Ecclesiastes 8:5. NWAD FEEL.7
4. To be affected by; to perceive mentally; as, to feel grief or woe. NWAD FEEL.8
Would I had never trod this English earth, or felt the flatteies that grow upon it. NWAD FEEL.9
5. To know; to be acquainted with; to have a real and just view of. NWAD FEEL.10
For then, and not till then, he felt himself. NWAD FEEL.11
6. To touch; to handle; with or without of. NWAD FEEL.12
Feel this piece of silk, or feel of it. NWAD FEEL.13
To feel, or to feel out, is to try; to sound; to search for; to explore; as, to feel or feel out one’s opinions or designs. NWAD FEEL.14
To feel after, to search for; to seek to find; to seek as a person groping in the dark. NWAD FEEL.15
If haply they might feel after him, and find him. Acts 17:27. NWAD FEEL.16
1. To have perception by the touch, or by the contact of any substance with the body. NWAD FEEL.18
2. To have the sensibility or the passions moved or excited. The good man feels for the woes of others. NWAD FEEL.19
3. To give perception; to excite sensation. NWAD FEEL.20
Blind men say black feels rough, and white feels smooth. NWAD FEEL.21
So, we say, a thing feels soft or hard, or it feels hot or cold. NWAD FEEL.22
4. To have perception mentally; as, to feel hurt; to feel grieved; to feel unwilling. NWAD FEEL.23
1. One who feels. NWAD FEELER.2
2. One of the palpi of insects. The feelers of insects are usually four or six, and situated near the mouth. They are filiform and resemble articulated, movable antennae. They are distinguished from antennae or horns, by being short, naked and placed near the mouth. They are used in searching for food. NWAD FEELER.3
This tern is also applied to the antennae or horns of insects. NWAD FEELER.4
1. Perceiving by the touch; having perception. NWAD FEELING.2
2. a. Expressive of great sensibility; affecting; tending to excite the passions. He made a feeling representation of his wrongs. He spoke with feeling eloquence. NWAD FEELING.3
3. Possessing great sensibility; easily affected or moved; as a feeling man; a feeling heart. NWAD FEELING.4
4. Sensibly or deeply affected; as, I had a feeling sense of his favors. [This use is not analogical, but common.] NWAD FEELING.5
1. The sense of touch; the sense by which we perceive external objects which come in contact with the body, and obtain ideas of their tangible qualities; one of the five senses. It is by feeling we know that a body is hard or soft, hot or cold, wet or dry, rough or smooth. NWAD FEELING.7
2. Sensation; the effect of perception. NWAD FEELING.8
The apprehension of the good gives but the greater feeling to the worse. NWAD FEELING.9
3. Faculty or power of perception; sensibility. NWAD FEELING.10
Their king, out of a princely feeling, was sparing and compassionate towards his subjects. NWAD FEELING.11
4. Nice sensibility; as a man of feeling. NWAD FEELING.12
5. Excitement; emotion. NWAD FEELING.13
1. With expression of great sensibility; tenderly; as, to speak feelingly. NWAD FEELINGLY.2
2. So as to be sensibly felt. NWAD FEELINGLY.3
These are counselors, that feelingly persuade me what I am. NWAD FEELINGLY.4
1. To invent or imagine; to form an idea or conception of something not real. NWAD FEIGN.2
There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart. Nehemiah 6:8. NWAD FEIGN.3
2. To make a show of; to pretend; to assume a false appearance; to counterfeit. NWAD FEIGN.4
I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner. 2 Samuel 14:2. NWAD FEIGN.5
She feigns a laugh. NWAD FEIGN.6
3. To represent falsely; to pretend; to form and relate a fictitious tale. NWAD FEIGN.7
The poet did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods. NWAD FEIGN.8
4. To dissemble; to conceal. Obs. NWAD FEIGN.9