Now all this provision of foyle, fencing, stoning, planting, were nothing without a continuall over-sight. Bp. Hall. Sermon, at a Publick Feast, an. 1628. And now, when the fence-fabrickes and all devices else requisite for a siege, were in readinesse, toward the end of the second watch, when the night happening to be very light with the moon shine, shewed all thinges evidently to those that stood upon the bulwarkes, suddenly a multitude gathered together in one plumpe, opened the gates at once, and sallied foorth.-Holland. Ammianus, p. 253. And if some that have bin good at the foils, have proved cowardly at the sharp, yet on the contrary, who ever durst point a single combat in the field, that hath not bin somewhat trained in the fence-schoole. Bp. Hall. Heaven upon Earth, s. 11. Eug. You little think he was at fencing-school Massinger. The Old Law, Act iii. sc. 2. Your son and t' please you, sir, is new cashier'd yonder, Cast from his mistress favour: and such a coil there is, Such fending, and such proving. Beaum. & Fletch. Humourous Lieutenant, Act v. sc. 4. And to explain what your forefathers meant, By real presence in the sacrament, After long fencing push'd against a wall, Dryden. The Hind and the Panther. A man, in his full tide of youthful blood, ix. That all the fencible men in the nation [Scotland], betwixt 60 and 16, be armed with bayonets and firelocks, all of a caliver; and continue always provided in such arms and ammunition suitable. Parliamentary History, an. 1705. App. No. 1. When he [the Marquis of Northampton] was crossed, or contentious with any, he never replied to any answer; which, he said, was a manifest sign of no strong spirit. It was a manifest sign indeed of no contentious spirit, and that delighted not in fending and proving, as we say. Strype. Memorials, vol. iii. b. ii. c. 28. He fends his flock, and clad in homely frize, In the warm cot the wintry blast defies.-Philips, Past. 6. The moderns, on the contrary, have their guards and fences about them; and we hold it an incivility to approach them without some decent periphrasis, or ceremonial titlegaudent prænomine molles Auricula. Where, then, ah! where shall poverty reside, Goldsmith. Deserted Village. The most prominent of these objectionable estimates, he agreed with the honourable gentleman, was that of the Manx fencibles. Windham. Speech. Army Estimates, Feb. 26, 1806. the American war the fencible regiments received aigher bounties for limited service, than others did unnited, and yet there was no complaint on the part of the atter. Id. Ib. April 3, 1806. FENERATION. "Fr. Fénération,—usury or the practice thereof," (Cotgrave.) Fenerator a fenore est cognominatus; fenus autem dictum a fetu, et quasi a feturâ quâdam pecuniæ parientis atque increscentis, (Varro.) The product or increase of money." To fenerate, Cockeram explains, " To put money to usury." And what vices therein it [the Hare] figured, that is, not only pusillanimity and timidity from its temper, feneration of usury from its fecundity and superfetation; but, &c. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iii. c. 17. FENESTRE.Sw. Fanster; It. Fenestra; Dut. Venster; Ger. Fenster; FENE'STRAL. Sp. Hemestra; Fr. Fenestre; Lat. Fenestra; perhaps arо Tov pair-ei, (q.) Phænestra, that through which light is admitted. (See Vossius, and Wachter, in v. Fenster.) Among the ancient Romans, Openings in the wall to admit the light; (perhaps-air, vent-us ;)—a wind-ow. He let caste thys traytor in the euenynge late Low how men wryten Of castell Angell the fenestrall FE/NIGREEK. Fænogræcum; Fr. Fenugrec. See the quotation. Fenigreeke commeth not behind the other hearbs before specified, in credit and account for the vertues which it hath: the Greeks call it Telus and Carphos: some name it Buceras and Agoceras, for that the seed resembleth little horns: wee in Latine tearme it Silicia or Siliquia. Holland. Plinie, p. 207. FENNEL. A. S. Fenol; Fr. Fenouil; Dut. Venckel; Ger. Fencher; all, says Skinner, from the Lat. Faniculum, which Vossius thinks may be from Fenum, quia ubi exaruit, feno similis sit. Isidorus, from Paweσbai, because its juice sharpens the sight. See the quotation from Pliny. A ferthing worth of fynkel-sede, for fastynge daies. Piers Plouhman, p. 106. Fenell being eaten, the sede or rote maketh abundance of mylke.-Sir T. Elyot. The Castel of Helth, b. ii. As for fenell, the serpents have woon it much credit, and brought it into name, in this regard, that by tasting thereof juice that it yeeldeth doe cleare their eyes: whereby we also (as I have already noted) they cast their old skin, and by the are come to know that this hearb hath a singular propertie to mundifie our sight and take away the filme or web that overcasteth and dimmeth our eyes. Holland. Plinie, b. xx. c. 23. The seed of ferula or fennell-geant is counted good meat in Italie: for it is put in pots of earth well stopped, and will continue a whole yeare.-Id. Ib. b. xix. c. 9. The most friendly to the stomach, is fennel. Arbuthnot. On Aliments, c. 3. You can by no culture or art extend a fennel-stalk to the stature and bigness of an oak.-Ray. On the Creation, pt. i. The species of caterpillar which eats the vine, will starve upon the elder; nor will that which we find upon fennel, touch the rose bush.-Paley. Natural Theology, c. 26. FE'NNOW, or In Kent, Junius says, is FINNOW. Smucidus, mouldy, from the A. S. Fynig-ean, mucescere, to be mouldy; Somner says, to wax fennewed; and fynig, finnewy. (See FEN.) Mr. Justice Blackstone has remarked, that in "the Preface to King James's Bible, the translators speak of fenowed," i. e. vinewed or Note on Shakespeare, mouldy translations. Troilus & Cressida, Act ii. sc. 1. See VINEW. The old moth-eaten leaden legend, and the foisty and fenowed festival are yet secretly laid up in corners. Dr.Favour. Antiquities. Triumph over Novelty, (1619,) p. 334. FE'OD. See FEUD. Godlinesse can give wisdome to the foole, eyes to the blind, life to the dead; it can eject Devils, change the course of nature, create us anew, free us from evill, feoffe us in good, honour, wealth, contentment, everlasting happinesse. Id. b. xxiv. c. 19. The IIypocrite. And though his majesty came to them by descent, yet it was but in nature of the heire of a feoffee in trust, for the use and service of the kingdome; as a king in his politicke; not as a man or proprietor in his natural capacity. Prynne. Treachery and Disloyalty, &c. pt. ii. p. 12. He ha's a quarrell to carry, and ha's caused A deed of feoffment, of his whole estate, To be drawne yonder. B. Jonson. The Divell is an Asse, Act iv. sc. 6. The iurisdiction as touching feofments upon trust, [Jurisdictionem de fidei commissis,] which was wont yeere by yeere trates, hee ordained to hold by patent for ever. and onely within the citie to be committed unto the magis Holland. Suetonius, p. 165. But the voyce went, and rumours ran abroad, that Constantius in his time had made his last will and testament, heire, and gave to those whom he loved, feoffments upon wherein he did set downe, as I said before, Julian to be his trust, and legacies.-Id. Ammianus, p. 185. A chamber of dependencies was fram'd, And the whole fief in right of Poetry, she claim'd. Dryden. To the Pious Memory of Mrs. Anne Killgrew. She [Spain] is a province of the Jacobin empire, and she must make peace or war according to the orders she receives from the Directory of assassins: in effect and substance, her crown is a fief of regicide.-Burke. On a Regicide Peace, Let.2. FERA'CIOUS. Į Lat. Ferax, acis, bearing; from ferre, to bear. See FERA CITY. FERTILE. Bearing, producing, fruitful. This firm Republic, that against the blast Of opposition rose; that (like an oak, Nurs'd on feracious Algidum, whose boughs Still stronger shoot beneath the ridged axe) By loss, by slaughter, from the steel itself, Ev'n force and spirit drew.-Thomson. Liberty, pt. iii. Such writers, instead of brittle, would say fragile, instead of fruitfulness, feracity. Beattie. Elements of Moral Science, pt. iv. c. 1. s. 3. FERAL. Feralia ab inferis, et ferendo; quod ferunt tum epulas ad sepulcrum, quibus jus ibi parentare, (Varro, lib. v.) Vossius thinks from the Eolic accus. npa, feram: quæ enim fera magis effera est morte? Of or appertaining to funerals; deadly. Mars and Hercules, and I know not how many besides of old were deified, went this way to heaven, that were indeed bloudy butchers, wicked destroyers and troublers of the world, prodigious monsters, hel-hounds, feral plagues, devourers, comon executioners of humane kind, as Lactantius truly proves.-Burton. Democritus to the Reader, p. 33. FERDNESS, i. c. fearfulness. Ferdly is st used, Jamieson says, as fearfully. In the Glossary of obsolete words in Wielif's! New Testament we find, ferdful, fearful, terrible; but the reference is to Jer. xvii. Cant. vi. (which remain in MS.) And that innocence sikerly withouten tenefull annoy among shrewes safely might enhabite by protection of safe conduct, so that shrewes harm for harm by bridle of ferdnesse shoulden restraine.-Chaucer. Test. of Loue, b. iii. This ielousye in ful thought, euer shuld be kept for ferdnes to lese his loue by miskeping thorowe his owne doing in lewdnesse, or els thus.-Id. Ib. FERE. FERINE. FE'RINENESS. FERITY. Lat. Ferinus, from fera, &npa: Eolic accus. for Onpa: from Oe-ev, currere, to run, so called from its speed, (says Lennep :) ab impetu fervidiori quo ruit, (Scheidus.) Of or pertaining to a wild beast; wild, savage, ferocious. 4. The only difficulty that seems to remain, is touching those ferine, noxious, and untameable beasts, as lions, tigers, wolves, boars, and foxes with which that continent abounds: for it is not probable that these should be transported by shipping.-Hale. Origin. of Mankind, p. 202. A ferine and necessitous kind of life, a conversation with those that were fallen into a more barbarous habit of life and manners, would easily assimilate, at least, the next generation to barbarism and ferineness.-Id. Ib. p. 197. (Also written Phere.) A. S. Fera, FE'REHEAD.ge-fera: Socius, comes, sodalis; a fellow, a companion, a mate. We as yet sometimes say a feer in the same sense, (Somner.) Perhaps (says Skinner) from A. S. Far-an, ire, proficisci; (q. d.) itineris particeps; a fellow-paкTIKOU (his practical as well as judicative faculty, quite traveller. A fellow, a mate, an associate, a companion: also, company, fellowship. A dogter ich haue of gret prys, & noble & god al so, Godwyn, an Erle of Kent, met with Alfred, Him & alle his feres vntille prison tham led. Id. p. 138. R. Brunne, p. 52. If he be not absolutely arrived to Arrian's απολίθωσις του quarr'd and petrified within him) to that wрwors in the Gospel, that direct ferity and brutality, in comparison of which, the most crest-fal'n numness, palsie or lethargy of soul, were dignity and preferment. Hammond. Works, vol. iv. p. 576. And though the blindness of some ferities have savaged on the bodies of the dead, and been so injurious unto worms, as to disenter the bodies of the deceased, yet had they therein no design upon the soul.-Brown. Vulg. Err. b. vii. c. 19. They who use to eat or drink blood are apt to degenerate into ferily, and cruelty, and easiness of revenge. Bp. Taylor. Rule of Conscience, b. ii. c. 2. Rule 2. FE'RLY, n. I A. S. Farlic, ferlic, repentinus, FE'RLY, adj. suddain, unlooked for, (Somner;) which Dr. Jamieson says is undoubtedly formed from A. S. Faer, subitus, and lic, (like,) having the Tyll y saw the wyth syght. Lybeaus Disconus. Ritson, vol. ii. appearance of suddenness,-i. e. of coming from What wendest thou, fendes fere? Uncrystenede that were And right anon she for her conseil sente, Id. The Man of Lawes Tale, v. 4748. Fidelia and Speranza virgins were, Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 10. In which regards, she both delighted me, and also yeelded no small testimony of rare debonairity that nature had endued her withal; for she would make prety meanes to her nurse, and seem (as it were) to entreat her to give the brest or pap, not onely to other infants, like herselfe, her playfeeres, but also to little babies and puppets, and such like gawds as little ones take joy in, and wherewith they use to play.-Holland. Plutarch, p. 439. Weaver says expressly that the abbat brought back with him from Rome workmen and rich porphyry stones for Edward the Confessor's feretory; and for the pavement of the chapel-Walpole. Anecdotes of Painting, vol. i. e. 1. In 1163, Hen. III. lodged his [Edward the Confessor's] body in a costly ferelry, translating it from its pristine place. Pennant. London, p. 84. FERIE, n. Lat. Feria (Vossius) was oriFE'RIAL. ginally Fesie, for which FERIA'TION. FESTIVAL. The Glossarist to Wiclif says, "Feries, Lat. feasts, holydays. Levit. xiii. fairs." see They did learn to dance, and to sing, and to play on instruments on the ferial days.-Dugdale. Orig. Judic. c. 55. Why should the Christian church have lesse power than the Jewish synagogue? here was not a meere feriation, but a feasting; they must appeare before God cum muneribuswith gifts.-Bp. Hall. The Poole of Bethesda. Brown has words still more extraordinary, as feriation, for keeping holiday, dedentition, for falling the teeth, &c. Beattie. Moral Science, pt. iv. c. 1. s. 3. afar; for faer, subitus, is from A. S. Far-an, ire; and thus, ferly, (sometimes written, farly,) is— Any thing foreign, strange, and therefore, surprising, wonderful; surprise, wonder. Bot I haf grete ferly, that I fynd no man, And ferliche me thynketh.-Id. p. 291. A wilde fire upon hir bodies falle, Chaucer. The Reves Tale, v. 4171. My father hight Sir Edmund Mortimer, FERMENT, v. FERMENT, n. FERMENTAL. FERMENTATION, Mirrour for Magistrates, p. 273. Fr. Fermenter; It. Fermentare; Sp. Fermentar; Lat. Fermentum, q. fervimentum, a fervendo, quia massam in quâ continetur, quasi fervefacit, et attollit, turgidamque reddit; Vossius, from Isidorus; (because it raises and swells the mass in which it is contained.) FERMENTATIVE. To raise, to swell, (sc.) by the motion or action of internal parts; to cause or have, an internal commotion or tumult, an internal heat. And eke of our materes encorporing, Chaucer. The Chanones Yemannes Tale, v. 16,260. It is not more naturall for the sun, when it looks upon a moist, and well fermented earth, to cause vapours to ascend thence, then it is for greatnesse, and goodnesse, when they both meet together upon an honest heart, to draw up holy desires of gratulation.-Bp. Hall. A Sermon, 29 Jan. 1625. To which I add, (4.) That the familiar doth not only suck the witch, but in the action infuseth some poisonous ferment into her, which gives her imagination and spirits a magical tincture, whereby they become mischievously influential; and the word venefica intimates some such matter. Glanvill, Ess. 6. That containing little salt or spirit, they [cucumbers] may also debilitate the vital acidity and fermental faculty of the stomack, we readily concede. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. ii. c. 7. Some used to put thereunto [the juice out of mulberries] myrrhe and cypresse, setting all to frie and take their fermentation in the sun, untill it grew to hardnesse in the foresaid vessell. stirring it thrice a day with a spatula. Holland. Plinie, b. xxiii c. 17 Raven. This blood, I think, my lord, must be extravasated by the violence of his gripes, for it is proved he drank a great quantity of claret, and afterwards of small-beer, which set the blood upon a fermentation, that set him a vomiting. State Trials. Earl of Pembroke. an. 1668. Compound aromatical spirits destroy, first, by their fermentative heat. Secondly, &c.-Arbuthnot. Aliments, c. 5. But I had to do with another class of men, with holy in. quisitors of sordid minds, and sour spirits; priestly reformers, whose sense was noise, and religion fanaticism, and that too fermented with the leven of earthly avarice and ambition. Hurd. Dial. On Sincerity in the Commerce of the World. We can easily conceive how that high ferment, by which lightning is formed, may produce a natural phosphorus, in the same manner as a long process by fire makes the artificial.-Warburton. Of Julian's Attempt to Rebuild the Tem ple, b. ii. c. 3. It is not a fermentative process; for the solution begins at the surface, and proceeds towards the centre, contrary to the order in which fermentation acts and spreads. Paley. Natural Theology, c. 10. FERMILLET. Fr. Fermaillet,—a small buckle or clasp, (sc.) to hold firmly or fast. Those stones were sustained or stayed by buckles and fermillets of gold for more firmness. Donne. History of the Sept. p. 49. FERN. From A. S. Fearn; Dut. Vaeren FERNY.kruyd; Ger. Faren-kraut, from A. S. Faran; Dut. Vaeren; Ger. Fahren, to go; because this plant everywhere meets the traveller or way-faring man, (Skinner.) There is a change in the bread, saith M. Harding, but not In like in the accidentes thereof; ergo, in the substance. order of reason he might haue said, it is not a fearn-bushe. Jewell. Defence, pt. ii. p. 255. When they far'd best, they fed on fern and brack, As still this goodly train yet every hour increas'd, The seeds of fern, which by prolific heat Blackmore. Creation, b. x. prey, The host, like dogs contending o'er their Fawkes. Apollonius Rhodius, b. iv. It [Christianity] has abated the ferociousness of war. Blair, vol. i. Ser. 6. To this ferocity there is joined not one of the rude, unfashion'd virtues, which accompany the vices, where the whole are left to grow up together in the rankness of uncultivated nature.-Burke. On a Regicide Peace, Let. 1. FERREOUS. Lat. Ferreus, from Ferrum, FERRUGINOUS, or iron; which Vossius thinks FERRUGINEOUS. may be so called—a feritate. Having the properties of iron, irony. But this upon enquiry, and as Ċebeus hath also observed, is nothing else but a weak and inanimate kind of loadstone, veyned here and there with a few magnetical and ferreous lines. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. ii. c. 3. And if we yet make a more exact enquiry, by what this salt of vitriol more peculiarly gives this colour, we shall find it to form a metalline condition, and especially an iron property or ferreous participation.-Id. Ib. b. vi. c. 12. By a diligent enquiry, there may be discovered in England (and in divers other countries too) a far greater number than is yet imagined, of mineral waters, especially ferruginous ones.-Boyle, Works, vol. iv. p. 798. By this means I found the German spa to retain a little acidity, even here at London; but more than one of our own ferruginous springs did not, even upon this trial, appear to have any.-Id. Ib. vol. iv. p. 814. Hence they are cold, hot, sweet, stinking, purgative, diuretick or ferrugineous.-Ray. On the Creation, pt. i. FERRET, v. I Fr. Furet; It. Fierretto; Lat. FERRET, n. Viverra. Junius says, they are thought to be called from wp, fur, whence name them furunculi, because they are animals of wonderful subtilty in thieving stores. "Fr. Fureter,-to ferret, to search, hunt, boult out; pry, look, spie narrowly into every corner of," (Cotgrave.) some And when young men were forbidden boules, and suche other games: some fell to drinkyng, and some to feretlyng of other mennes conies, and stealyng of dere in parkes, and other vnthriftines-Hall. Hen. VIII. an. 18. Con. Make fast the doors, for fear they do escape, Let's in, and ferret out these cheating rake-hells. Cartwright. The Ordinary, Act v. sc. 4. Ferrets are in great account for chasing and hunting of connies; the manner is to put them into their earths, which within ground have many waies and holes like mines, and thereupon these creature are called Cuniculi: and when they are within, they so course the poore connies from out of their earth, that they are soon taken above ground at the mouth of their holes.-Holland. Plinie, b. viii. c. 55. I am a Lord of other geere! this fine B. Jonson. The Sad Shepherd, Act ii. sc. 2. I know many of those that pretend to be great Rabbies in these studies, have scarce saluted them from the strings, and the title-page; or to give them more, have bin but the ferrets and mouse hunts of an index. Millon. Of Reformation in England, b. i. Has light legs eise I had so ferret-claw'd him. Beaum. & Fletch. Women Pleas'd, Act iii. sc. 4. The fingers' ends are strengthened with nails, as we fortifie the ends of our staves or forks with iron hoops or ferules.-Ray. On the Creation, pt.il. FE'RRY, v. A. S. Faru; Ger. Fære; Dut. A passage, (sc.) by water. Blow but gently, blow fayre winde, Browne. Britannia's Pastorals, b. ii. s. 5. But that a book in worse condition than a peccant soul, should be to stand before a jury ere it be born to the world, and undergo yet in darkness the judgment of Radamanth and his colleagues ere it can pass the ferry backward into light, was never heard before. Milton. Of Unlicensed Printing. A number of horses swam after the ships, haled by the bridle raines which were tied to the poupes, beside those, which being sadled and bridled, and fitted to serve the men of armes so soon as they were landed, were bestowed in barges and ferry-botes.-Holland. Livivs, p. 408. So forth they rowed; and that ferry-man Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 12. Physic, journeying, ferriage, carriage, &c. Strype. Life of Parker, b. iv. c. 25. But no one seems to have been the object of her admiration so much as the accomplished Phaon, a young man of Lesbos; who is said to be a kind of ferry-man, and thence fabled to have carried Venus over the stream in his boat, and to have received from her as a reward, the favour of becoming the most beautiful man in the world. Fawkes. The Life of Sappho. The next thing observable is the ferry-man, Charon; and he the learned well know, was a man of this world, an Egyptian of a well-known character. Warburton. The Divine Legation, b. ii. s. 4. FERTILE, adj. FERTILENESS. Fr. Fertile; It. Fertile; Sp. Fertil; Lat. Fertilis, (from ferre, to bear;) by corrupt usage, that can or may bear; properly, that Feltham uses fertile as a FERTILITATE. FERTILITY. FERTILIZE, v. can or may be borne. verb. That can or may bear or produce; productive; generally, with a subaudition of abundance or plenteousness. For neyther was the ayre more temperate in all the plentie of fayre and pleasaunt cyties. world than in Asia. nor the soyle more fertile, nor more Goldyng. Justine, fol. 160. He, according to the fertileness of the Italian wit, did not only afford us the demonstration of his practice, but sought to enrich our mind with the contemplation therein. Sidney. The Defence of Poesy. The Belgies for the most part were desceded of Germanes, who passing the Rhine time out of mind, and setling themselves there bycause of the fertillitye of the soyle, draue out ye Galles that dwelt there before. Goldinge. Cæsar, fol. 46. Now to certifie you of the fertililie and goodnesse of the countrey, you shall vnderstand that I haue in sundry places sowen wheate, barlie, rie, oates, beanes, pease, and seedes of herbs, kernels, plumstones, nuts, all which haue prospered as in England.-Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. iii. p. 132. But then again, he that hopes too much, shall cozen himself at last: especially, if his industry goes not along to fertile it.-Feltham, pt. i. Res. 81. We may say of this unhappy fecundity, that our earth needs no rain to fall upon it, that is, no external provocation to fertilize it, there riseth a mist out of itselfe that watereth it, to wit, our innate perversity. Mountague. Devoute Essayes, pt. i. Treat. 2. s 1. Superstition may seem in the name (saint-foim, or holy, hay) but I assure you there is nothing but good husbandry in the sowing thereof, as being found to be a great fertilizer of barren ground.-Fuller. Worthies, Kent. Her [Mantua] mighty walls, illustrious founders grace, Pitt. Virgil. Eneid, b. x. The quickness of the imagination is seen in the invention; the fertility in the fancy; and the accuracy in the expression.-Dryden. Letter to Sir R. Howard. Thou art the garden of the world, the home Byron. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, c. 4. And fertilize the field that each pretends to gain. FE'RULE. FE'RULA. FE'RULAR. Id. Ib. c. 1. Lat. Ferula, a feriendo, from beating or striking. The eye of the parent, and the ferule of the master, is all too little to bring our sonnes to good. Bp. Hall. A Censure of Travel. What advantage is it to be a man, over it is to be a boy at school, if we have only escap'd the ferular, to come under the fescue of an imprimatur.-Milton. Unlicensed Printing. The generous nature likes himself then the worst, when he must appear a pedagogue with a rod or ferula ever in his hand, the good inclination is soonest wonne by fair and civill dealings.-Feltham, pt. ii. Resolve 40. If I had leisure, or that if it were worth my while, I could reckon up so many barbarisms of yours in this one book, as if you were to be chastiz'd for them as you deserve, all the school-boys' ferulas in Christendome would be broken upon you.-Milton. A Defence of the People of England. It may be he thinks of those ancient ferule-fingred boypopes; one of the Benedicts, a grave father of tenne yeeres old; or John the thirteenth, an aged stripling of ninteene. Bp. Hall. The Honour of the Married Clergie. Fr. Fervent ; It. Fervente; Sp. Herviente; Lat. Fervens, from Fervere, to warm, to be or cause to be warm; (of acertain origin.) FERVENT. FE'RVENCY. FERVENTLY. FE'RVENTNESS. FE'RVID. FERVIDNESS. FE'RVOUR. Warm, glowing, burning, ardent. What euer it be, yt me hath thus purchased Chaucer. La Belle Dame sans Mercie. Min hart welkneth thus sone, anon it riseth Id. Boecius, b. I. The yuer of Cydnus spoken of before, dyd runne through thys cytte where the kynge arryued about myddaye, y: Their bounty falls like rain, and fertiles all that's under beynge in the sommer season, what time the heat ys no them.-Id. pt. ii. Res. 39. where more feruent than in that countrey. And in the stead of their eternal fame Bp. Hall, b. i. Sat. 2. A cock will in one day fertilitate the whole racemation or cluster of eggs, which are not excluded for many weeks after.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iii. c. 28. Whence notwithstanding we cannot infer a fertilitating condition or propertie of fecundation.-Id. Ib. b. vii. c. 7. The fields, which answer'd well the ancient's plough, Spent and out worn, return no harvest now; In barren age wild and unglorious lie And boast of past fertility: The poor relief of present poverty. Cowley. To Mr. Hobbs. Brende. Quintus Curtius, fol 27. For those Christians, that were conuerted fro the heathe, in the whole world, dyd imbrace & receyue the Gospel, very desyrously & feruently framing theyr lyues in euery condicion ther after.-Udal. Reuelation, c. 7. Come vnto me with fayth and aske in the feruentnesse of soule.-Bale. Image, pt. i. sig. G 3. Our lorde then, as he sometime dydde in other thingis, touche and temper the zeale of Peter thorow feruoure and hete somwhat vndiscrete.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 1316. Where the mind was to be edify'd with solid doctrine, there the fancy was sooth'd with solemn stories: with less forvency was studied what Saint Paul or Saint John had written than was listen'd to one that could say here he taught, here he stood, this was his stature. Milton. Of Prelutical Episcopacy. Ev'n at the point of parting they unfold Daniel. On the Death of the Earl of Devonshire. Even so many there be who conceive pleasure in philosophy, and make semblance as if they had a ferrent desire to the study thereof; but if it chance that they be a little retired from it by occasion of other businesse and affaires, the first affection which they tooke unto it vanisheth away, and they can well abide to be without philosophy. Holland. Plutarch, p. 204. They were cloyed with God, while he was perpetually resident with them, now that his absence had made him dainty, they cleave to him fervently, and penitently in his returne.-Bp. Hall. Cont. The Remove of the Ark. While she seemed to hang upon a cross as it were by the feruentnesse of hir praier, she much comforted the rest of the saints.-Fox. Martyrs, p. 43. The first Persecutions. For Chaos heard His voice: Him all His traine Then staid the fervid wheels.-Milton. Par. Lost, b. vii. And whilst together merry thus they make, Consulting secret with the blue-ey'd maid, Pope. Homer. Odyssey, b. xix. Even David himself was fain to call upon his soul with repeated fervency, and excite every faculty within him, "to bless the Lord, who had forgiven his iniquities, and redeemed his life from destruction, and crowned him with loving kindness and tender mercies." Bates. Mr. D. Clarkson's Funeral Sermon. For though the person [Malchus] was wholly unworthy of As down the hill I solitary go, Pope. Homer. Odyssey, b. ix. Their fescennin and Atellan way of wit was in early days pronibited, and laws made against it, for the publick's sake, and in regard to the welfare of the community: such licentiousness having been found in reality contrary to the just liberty of the people. Shaftesbury. Advice to an Author, pt. ii. Besides these hymns, the Romans had their fescennine verses, so called from a town of that name in Campania. They were a kind of impromptu's, and made up of low wit, and scurrilous jests, such as the ignorant clowns and common FE'SCUE. See FESTUE. Fr. and Sp. Festival; Lat. to a dish in addition to the regular dinner, which How many festiuall hygh dayes to worship saints haue Vives. The Instruction of a Christian Woman, b. i. c. 11. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. fi. c. 9. Thou unthankful wretch, Did our charity redeem thee out of prison, Massinger. The City Madam, Act i. sc. 1. Looks thou shouldst wear more grave and sad All festive jollities forbear, And whate'er else doth laughter cause, Much the same may be observed of the Roman drama, which, we are told, had its rise in the unrestrained festivity of the rustic youth.-Hurd. Notes on the Art of Poetry FE'STER, v. Of unknown etymology. PerFE'STRY, adj. haps connected with the Fr. Flaistrir, which Cotgrave interprets, to burn in the hand or eare, to brand on the forehead, to mark for a rogue, with a hot iron. To putrefy, to suppurate; to generate corrupt or virulent matter; (met.) any virulent sensations. O calcars dreaming heads: what helps her vows, and pilgrim deedes, What helps her temples sought? whan soking flame her mary feedes, This while, and festring deepe in brest her wound the One day as he was searching of their wounds, Now many a wounded Briton feels the rage Granger. Tibullus, b. ii. E. 5. If your peace be nothing more than a sullen pause from arms; if their quiet be nothing but the meditation of revenge, where smitten pride smarting from its wounds, festers into new rancour, neither the act of Henry VIII. nor its handmaid of this reign, will answer any wise end of policy or justice.-Burke. Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol. FE/STINATE. Lat. Festinare, festim sive FE'STINATELY. fertim progredi; hoc est, FEFTINATION. fertis sive densis gressibus, (Vossius ;) to proceed with thick or close steps; Sherburne. Martial, lib. i. Epig. 41. with steps closely, quickly following. And thus In the ancient Church when on days of festivities men began to adorn themselves sumptuously to show their pride, not to honour the day, and fared deliciously to surfeiting and drunkenness, the fathers did not thereupon forbid what before they allowed, but thought to reduce them from that pride and luxury.-Hammond. Works, vol. i. p. 654. Hence Theodoret writes, that the Christians of his time Prynne. Histrio-Maslix, pt. i. Act viii. sc. 3. Francis. Horace, b ii. Ode 3. Burnet. History of the Reformation, an. 1538. For them the voice of festal mirth Byron. On the Death of Sir Peter Parker. The merry voice of festival delight Imagination fondly stoops to trace West. Education. The parlour splendours of that festire place; Quick, hasty, speedy. Aduice the Duke where you are going, to a most festinate preparation: we are bound to the like. Shakespeare. Lear, Act iii. sc. 7. Quick. With all festination. Chapman. Eastward Hoe, Act ii. sc. 1. FESTO ON. Fr. Feston, (q.d.) sertum festum seu festivum, a festal or festival garland, (Skinner.) Generally, "a garland, bundle or border of fruits, and flowers; especially in graven or imbossed works," (Cotgrave.) What adds much to the pleasure of the sight is that the vines, climbing to the summit of the trees, reach in festoons and fruitages from one tree to another planted at exact distances, forming a more delightful picture than painting can describe.-Evelyn. Memoirs. Naples, Jan. 1645. Here is a vista, there the doors unfold, Dryden. The Art of Poetry. feskue," Cotgrave. A stalk or straw, and hence used for a wire or stick employed by schoolmasters in pointing out letters to children learning to read; also for the gnomon of a sun-dial, as in the quotation below Goldsmith. The Deserted Village. from an old Play. But I shall afterward anon lay it afore him agayne, and Bette him to it with a festue, that he shal not say but he saw it-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 1102. And with thy golden fescue, plaidst upon Thy hollow harp.-Chapman. Homer. Hymne to Apollo. What advantage is it to be a man, over it is to be a boy at school, if we have only escaped the ferula, to come under the jescue of an imprimatur -Mitton. Unlicens'd Printing. The fescue of the dial is upon the Christ-cross of noon. Anonymous. The Puritan, Act iv. sc. 2. Herein may be discovered a little insect of a festucine or pale green, resembling in all parts a locust, or what we call a grasshopper.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. v. c. 3. But we speak of straws or festucous divisions lightly drawn over with oyl, and so that it causeth no adhesion; or if we conceive any antipathy between oyl and amber, the doctrine is not true. Id. Ib. b. ii. c. 5. FET, i. e. Feat, (qv.) For Jamys the gentel suggeth in hus bokes The Pope after certain communications, perceyuyng hym in all poyntes fyt for his purpose sent him anon into Germanye wyth hys ful auctoritye (as afore is specyfyed) to do bys false fets there, and to bryng that styffe necked people vnder hys wicked obedyence, whome they call the holy Christian beleue.-Bale. English Votaries, pt. i. And told me, That the bottom clear, Of seed pearl, ere she bath'd her there FETCH, v. Drayton. The Quest of Cynthia. In old authors also written Fetch, the noun, is applied to any thing fetched, or sought for, fraudulently. And thus, a deceitful trick or artifice. To fetch, implies to go or send for, and bring or carry to, back to. And, generally, To draw or derive; to deduce, educe or produce; and thus, to effect, to perform, to reach, to arrive at, to attain, to acquire. For in the farreste stude of Affric geandes while fette, And right, this cursed irous wretche Thus fortune chaunged her copy in such wyse, that they fetched in on euery side and slew those that stoode in good hope and possibility of wynnyng theyr campe. Goldinge. Cæsar, fol. 68. Than he sayd to the two hurt Scottes, go your wayes, and say to your king, that Wyllyam of Montague hath thus passed through his hoost, and is goyng to fetche ayde of the King of Englonde.-Berners. Froissart. Cron. vol. i. c. 77. He fell to perswading with the princes of Gallia, calling them backe one by one, and exhorting the to tary still in the maine land, and putting them in feare it was done for some further fetch that Gallia was thus robbed of all her nobilitie at once.--Goldinge. Cæsar, fol. 112. And now, thou threatst to force from me, The fruit of my sweat, which the Greekes gave all, and though it be (Compar'd with thy part, then snatcht up) nothing: nor ever is At any sackt towne; but of fight (the fetcher in of this) First the kyng with her had not one penny, and for the fetching of her the Marquis of Suffolke demaunded a whole 1ftene in open parliament.-Hall. Hen. VI. an. 18. Al hardy youth, from valiant fathers sprung, VOL I. Next, the word politician is not used to his maw, and How strange a rescue from the sackage of an enemy had This gentleman thinks he has a felch for that; he sub- I will only add here, that I have not observed in any of Boyle (Works, ii. 236) has a marginal direction, Filthy, nasty; having a foul smell or stench. is sweeter: which likewise may be, because the more felide So they have set down likewise, that a rose set by garlick juyce of the earth goith into the garlick, and the more odorate Dogs (almost) onely of beasts delight in fetide odours, They having now a congruity only to such fætid vehicles, The fator whereof may discover itself by sweat and urine, We find amongst their [animals] secretions not only the And as is credibly related of some animals, by driving away their pursuers by an intolerable fætor, or of blackening the water through which they are pursued.-Id. Ib. c. 19. FETLOCK, in a horse, the joint of the leg and foot, which locks or fastens them together, (q. d.) feetlocks. Dr. T. H. thinks from the long locks of hair that grow there. Yet this uneasy loop-hol'd goal, In which ye'are hamper'd by the fetlock, Dryden. Virgil. Æneid, b. v. And smooth'd his fetlocks and his mane, FETTER, v. Davenant. Gondibert, b. i. c. 1. generally, to bind, Byron. Mazeppa. A. S. Feter-ian, ge-feterian; Dut. veteren, compedire, (q.d.) footer, feeter, as the Lat. Pedica, a pedibus. See ENFETTER. To bind or fasten the feet; fasten or enslave. 785 And therefore he made a chayne or fetters of wood and put them about his necke, and prophesied agayne. and preached that they should be taken prisoners & led captiue into Babilon.-Frith. Workes, p. 167. Some act of Love's bound to rehearse B. Jonson. Why I write not of Love. Donne, Sat. 5. Well, this disguise doth yet afford me that Marston. The Malcontent, Act i. sc. 4. And truly, when they are ballanced together, this order seemeth more an infranchising, than a fettering of our nature, which without it seemeth rather bound, then free in revenge, such is the dominion of our irritated passions. Mountague. Devoute Essayes, pt. ii. Treat. 15. s. 1. If he call rogue and rascal from a garret, Dryden. Absalom & Achitophel. Congreve. The Mourning Bride, Act iil. The frequent contemplation of this world, with the grace of God (always at hand to assist the honest endeavours of men,) at least enable them to break their fetters, recover their liberty, and return again into one fold, under one shepherd, Jesus Christ the righteous. Warburton. Works, vol. x. Ser. 33. At last men came to set me free, I ask'd not why, and reck'd not where, I learn'd to love despair.-Byron. Prisoner of Chillon. FETTLE. To set or go about any thing, to dress or prepare, (Ray.) Fettle may perhaps be considered as a diminutive of Fit, or feat, (qv.) Mr. Brocket says, that Fettle is used by Ascham in his Toxophilus as a noun. The sturdy ploughman doth the soldier see Bp. Hall, b. iv. Sat. 6, FEUD. A. S. Fæhth; Dut. Veete, veede; Ger. Fede. Spelman says, A. S. Fehth, inimicitia, a Fah; Ang. Foe; hostis, inimicus: and Foe, qv. (any one hated,) past part. of fian, to hate. Hatred, enmity; hostility, quarrel. 5 H |