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  • English Word Feuillants Definition A reformed branch of the Bernardines, founded in 1577 at Feuillans, near Toulouse, in France.
  • English Word Feuillemort Definition Having the color of a faded leaf.
  • English Word Feuilleton Definition A part of a French newspaper (usually the bottom of the page), devoted to light literature, criticism, etc.; also, the article or tale itself, thus printed.
  • English Word Feuilltonist Definition A writer of feuilletons.
  • English Word feuter Definition To set close; to fix in rest, as a spear.
  • English Word Feuterer Definition A dog keeper.
  • English Word Fever Definition A diseased state of the system, marked by increased heat, acceleration of the pulse, and a general derangement of the functions, including usually, thirst and loss of appetite. Many diseases, of which fever is the most prominent symptom, are denominated fevers; as, typhoid fever; yellow fever.
  • English Word Fever Definition Excessive excitement of the passions in consequence of strong emotion; a condition of great excitement; as, this quarrel has set my blood in a fever.
  • English Word Fever Definition To put into a fever; to affect with fever; as, a fevered lip.
  • English Word Fevered Definition of Fever
  • English Word Feveret Definition A slight fever.
  • English Word Feverfew Definition A perennial plant (Pyrethrum, / Chrysanthemum, Parthenium) allied to camomile, having finely divided leaves and white blossoms; -- so named from its supposed febrifugal qualities.
  • English Word Fevering Definition of Fever
  • English Word Feverish Definition Having a fever; suffering from, or affected with, a moderate degree of fever; showing increased heat and thirst; as, the patient is feverish.
  • English Word Feverish Definition Indicating, or pertaining to, fever; characteristic of a fever; as, feverish symptoms.
  • English Word Feverish Definition Hot; sultry.
  • English Word Feverish Definition Disordered as by fever; excited; restless; as, the feverish condition of the commercial world.
  • English Word Feverous Definition Affected with fever or ague; feverish.
  • English Word Feverous Definition Pertaining to, or having the nature of, fever; as, a feverous pulse.
  • English Word Feverous Definition Having the tendency to produce fever; as, a feverous disposition of the year.
  • English Word Feverously Definition Feverishly.
  • English Word Feverwort Definition See Fever root, under Fever.
  • English Word Fevery Definition Feverish.
  • English Word Few Definition Not many; small, limited, or confined in number; -- indicating a small portion of units or individuals constituing a whole; often, by ellipsis of a noun, a few people.
  • English Word Fewel Definition Fuel.
  • English Word Fewmet Definition See Fumet.
  • English Word Fewness Definition The state of being few; smallness of number; paucity.
  • English Word Fewness Definition Brevity; conciseness.
  • English Word Fey Definition Fated; doomed.
  • English Word Fey Definition Faith.