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n. [ Cf. OF. aforement. ] (Old Law) The act of affeering. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ OF. aforeur, LL. afforator. ] (Old Law) One who affeers. Cowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a training program in which a person is given information about physiological processes (heart rate or blood pressure) that is not normally available with the goal of gaining conscious control of them. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. pl. (Ethn.) A tribe of North American Indians formerly inhabiting the country from the upper Missouri River to the Saskatchewan, but now much reduced in numbers. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. to feed with a bottle; -- of infants or baby animals. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. to train, manage or instruct (a person) with great attention to detail. [ PJC ]

n. 1. a trifling sum of money.
Syn. -- small change. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Turk. qahveh, Ar. qahuah wine, coffee, a decoction of berries. Cf. Café. ] 1. The “beans” or “berries” (pyrenes) obtained from the drupes of a small evergreen tree of the genus Coffea, growing in Abyssinia, Arabia, Persia, and other warm regions of Asia and Africa, and also in tropical America. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

2. The coffee tree. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ There are several species of the coffee tree, as, Coffea Arabica, Coffea canephora, Coffea occidentalis, and Coffea Liberica. The white, fragrant flowers grow in clusters at the root of the leaves, and the fruit is a red or purple cherrylike drupe, with sweet pulp, usually containing two pyrenes, commercially called “beans” or “berries”. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The beverage made by decoction of the roasted and ground berry of the coffee tree. [ 1913 Webster ]

They have in Turkey a drink called coffee. . . . This drink comforteth the brain and heart, and helpeth digestion. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. a cup of coffee{ 3 }, especially one served in a restaurant; as, we each had two donuts and a coffee; three coffees to go. [ PJC ]

5. a social gathering at which coffee is served, with optional other foods or refreshments. [ PJC ]

6. a color ranging from medium brown to dark brown. [ PJC ]

☞ The use of coffee is said to have been introduced into England about 1650, when coffeehouses were opened in Oxford and London. [ 1913 Webster ]

Coffee bug (Zool.), a species of scale insect (Lecanium coffæa), often very injurious to the coffee tree. --
Coffee rat (Zool.) See Musang. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an evergreen shrub of Western U.S. (Rhamnus californicus), bearing small red or black fruits; -- called also the California buckthorn.
Syn. -- California buckthorn, California coffee, Rhamnus californicus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a cake or sweet bread usually glazed after baking, and having added nuts and fruits; it is often served with coffee.
Syn. -- coffee cake. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. A house of entertainment, where guests are supplied with coffee and other refreshments, and where men meet for conversation. [ 1913 Webster ]

The coffeehouse must not be dismissed with a cursory mention. It might indeed, at that time, have been not improperly called a most important political institution. . . . The coffeehouses were the chief organs through which the public opinion of the metropolis vented itself. . . . Every man of the upper or middle class went daily to his coffeehouse to learn the news and discuss it. Every coffeehouse had one or more orators, to whose eloquence the crowd listened with admiration, and who soon became what the journalists of our own time have been called -- a fourth estate of the realm. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who keeps a coffeehouse. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A covered pot in which coffee is prepared, or is brought upon the table for drinking. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. a tall pot in which coffee is brewed, especially one in which the heating of the water is accomplished by electricity.
Syn. -- coffeepot, coffee pot. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A public room where coffee and other refreshments may be obtained. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Enfeebled p. pr. & vb. n. Enfeebling ] [ OF. enfeblir, enfeiblir; pref. en- (L. in) + feble, F. faible, feeble. See Feeble. ] To make feeble; to deprive of strength; to reduce the strength or force of; to weaken; to debilitate. [ 1913 Webster ]

Enfeebled by scanty subsistence and excessive toil. Prescott.

Syn. -- To weaken; debilitate; enervate. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. same as debilitated, 2.
Syn. -- debilitated, infirm, seedy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The act of weakening; enervation; weakness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, weakens or makes feeble. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To enfeeble. [ Obs. ] Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. fald (E.fold) + E. fee. See Faldage. ] (O. Eng. Law) A fee or rent paid by a tenant for the privilege of faldage on his own ground. Blount. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. fe, feh, feoh, cattle, property, money, fief, AS. feoh cattle, property, money; the senses of “property, money, ” arising from cattle being used in early times as a medium of exchange or payment, property chiefly consisting of cattle; akin to OS. fehu cattle, property, D. vee cattle, OHG. fihu, fehu, G. vieh, Icel. fē cattle, property, money, Goth. faíhu, L. pecus cattle, pecunia property, money, Skr. paçu cattle, perh. orig., “a fastened or tethered animal, ” from a root signifying to bind, and perh. akin to E. fang, fair, a.; cf. OF. fie, flu, feu, fleu, fief, F. fief, from German, of the same origin. the sense fief is due to the French. √249. Cf. Feud, Fief, Fellow, Pecuniary. ] 1. property; possession; tenure. “Laden with rich fee.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Reward or compensation for services rendered or to be rendered; especially, payment for professional services, of optional amount, or fixed by custom or laws; charge; pay; perquisite; as, the fees of lawyers and physicians; the fees of office; clerk's fees; sheriff's fees; marriage fees, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

To plead for love deserves more fee than hate. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Feud. Law) A right to the use of a superior's land, as a stipend for services to be performed; also, the land so held; a fief. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Eng. Law) An estate of inheritance supposed to be held either mediately or immediately from the sovereign, and absolutely vested in the owner. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ All the land in England, except the crown land, is of this kind. 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. In modern writers, by fee is usually meant fee simple. A limited fee may be a qualified or base fee, which ceases with the existence of certain conditions; or a conditional fee, or fee tail, which is limited to particular heirs. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Amer. Law) An estate of inheritance belonging to the owner, and transmissible to his heirs, absolutely and simply, without condition attached to the tenure. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fee estate (Eng. Law), land or tenements held in fee in consideration or some acknowledgment or service rendered to the lord. --
Fee farm (Law), land held of another in fee, in consideration of an annual rent, without homage, fealty, or any other service than that mentioned in the feoffment; an estate in fee simple, subject to a perpetual rent. Blackstone. --
Fee farm rent (Eng. Law), a perpetual rent reserved upon a conveyance in fee simple. --
Fee fund (Scot. Law), certain court dues out of which the clerks and other court officers are paid. --
Fee simple (Law), an absolute fee; a fee without conditions or limits. [ 1913 Webster ] Buy the fee simple of my life for an hour and a quarter. Shak. --
Fee tail (Law), an estate of inheritance, limited and restrained to some particular heirs. Burill. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Feed p. pr. & vb. n. Feeing. ] To reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe. [ 1913 Webster ]

The patient . . . fees the doctor. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

There's not a one of them but in his house
I keep a servant feed. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Feebler superl. Feeblest ] [ OE. feble, OF. feble, flebe, floibe, floible, foible, F. faible, L. flebilis to be wept over, lamentable, wretched, fr. flere to weep. Cf. Foible. ] 1. Deficient in physical strength; weak; infirm; debilitated. [ 1913 Webster ]

Carried all the feeble of them upon asses. 2 Chron. xxviii. 15. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Wanting force, vigor, or efficiency in action or expression; not full, loud, bright, strong, rapid, etc.; faint; as, a feeble color; feeble motion. “A lady's feeble voice.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make feble; to enfeeble. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Shall that victorious hand be feebled here? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Weak in intellectual power; wanting firmness or constancy; irresolute; vacillating; imbecile. “comfort the feeble-minded.” 1 Thess. v. 14.

-- Fee"ble-mind"ed*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. severe mental deficiency.
Syn. -- amentia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The quality or condition of being feeble; debility; infirmity. [ 1913 Webster ]

That shakes for age and feebleness. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a feeble manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

The restored church . . . contended feebly, and with half a heart. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Fed p. pr. & vb. n. Feeding. ] [ AS. fēdan, fr. fōda food; akin to OS. fōdian, OFries. fēda, fōda, D. voeden, OHG. fuottan, Icel. fæða, Sw. föda, Dan. föde. √75. See Food. ] 1. To give food to; to supply with nourishment; to satisfy the physical huger of. [ 1913 Webster ]

If thine enemy hunger, feed him. Rom. xii. 20. [ 1913 Webster ]

Unreasonable creatures feed their young. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To satisfy; gratify or minister to, as any sense, talent, taste, or desire. [ 1913 Webster ]

I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Feeding him with the hope of liberty. Knolles. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To fill the wants of; to supply with that which is used or wasted; as, springs feed ponds; the hopper feeds the mill; to feed a furnace with coal. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To nourish, in a general sense; to foster, strengthen, develop, and guard. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou shalt feed my people Israel. 2 Sam. v. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mightiest powers by deepest calms are fed. B. Cornwall. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle; as, if grain is too forward in autumn, feed it with sheep. [ 1913 Webster ]

Once in three years feed your mowing lands. Mortimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To give for food, especially to animals; to furnish for consumption; as, to feed out turnips to the cows; to feed water to a steam boiler. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Mach.) (a) To supply (the material to be operated upon) to a machine; as, to feed paper to a printing press. (b) To produce progressive operation upon or with (as in wood and metal working machines, so that the work moves to the cutting tool, or the tool to the work). [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To take food; to eat. [ 1913 Webster ]

Her kid . . . which I afterwards killed because it would not feed. De Foe. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To subject by eating; to satisfy the appetite; to feed one's self (upon something); to prey; -- with on or upon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Leaving thy trunk for crows to feed upon. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To be nourished, strengthened, or satisfied, as if by food. “He feeds upon the cooling shade.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To place cattle to feed; to pasture; to graze. [ 1913 Webster ]

If a man . . . shall put in his beast, and shall feed in another man's field. Ex. xxii. 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. That which is eaten; esp., food for beasts; fodder; pasture; hay; grain, ground or whole; as, the best feed for sheep. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A grazing or pasture ground. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An allowance of provender given to a horse, cow, etc.; a meal; as, a feed of corn or oats. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A meal, or the act of eating. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

For such pleasure till that hour
At feed or fountain never had I found. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The water supplied to steam boilers. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Mach.) (a) The motion, or act, of carrying forward the stuff to be operated upon, as cloth to the needle in a sewing machine; or of producing progressive operation upon any material or object in a machine, as, in a turning lathe, by moving the cutting tool along or in the work. (b) The supply of material to a machine, as water to a steam boiler, coal to a furnace, or grain to a run of stones. (c) The mechanism by which the action of feeding is produced; a feed motion. [ 1913 Webster ]

Feed bag, a nose bag containing feed for a horse or mule. --
Feed cloth, an apron for leading cotton, wool, or other fiber, into a machine, as for carding, etc. --
Feed door, a door to a furnace, by which to supply coal. --
Feed head. (a) A cistern for feeding water by gravity to a steam boiler. (b) (Founding) An excess of metal above a mold, which serves to render the casting more compact by its pressure; -- also called a riser, deadhead, or simply feed or head Knight. --
Feed heater. (a) (Steam Engine) A vessel in which the feed water for the boiler is heated, usually by exhaust steam. (b) A boiler or kettle in which is heated food for stock. --
Feed motion, or
Feed gear (Mach.), the train of mechanism that gives motion to the part that directly produces the feed in a machine. --
Feed pipe, a pipe for supplying the boiler of a steam engine, etc., with water. --
Feed pump, a force pump for supplying water to a steam boiler, etc. --
Feed regulator, a device for graduating the operation of a feeder. Knight. --
Feed screw, in lathes, a long screw employed to impart a regular motion to a tool rest or tool, or to the work. --
Feed water, water supplied to a steam boiler, etc. --
Feed wheel (Mach.), a kind of feeder. See Feeder, n., 8. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. the process in which part of the output of a system is returned to its input. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. response to an inquiry or experiment. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a canvas bag that is used to feed an animal (such as a horse or mule); animal feed such as oats are placed in the bag, and it is fastened at the top of the head, covering the muzzle. The animal may then eat the contents while thus wearing the feedbag.
Syn. -- nosebag. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, gives food or supplies nourishment; steward. [ 1913 Webster ]

A couple of friends, his chaplain and feeder. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who furnishes incentives; an encourager. “The feeder of my riots.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One who eats or feeds; specifically, an animal to be fed or fattened. [ 1913 Webster ]

With eager feeding, food doth choke the feeder. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. One who fattens cattle for slaughter. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A stream that flows into another body of water; a tributary; specifically (Hydraulic Engin.), a water course which supplies a canal or reservoir by gravitation or natural flow. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A branch railroad, stage line, air route, or the like; a side line which increases the business of the main line. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

7. (Mining) (a) A small lateral lode falling into the main lode or mineral vein. Ure. (b) A strong discharge of gas from a fissure; a blower. Raymond. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. (Mach.) An auxiliary part of a machine which supplies or leads along the material operated upon. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. (Steam Engine) A device for supplying steam boilers with water as needed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. the act of eating, or of supplying with food; the process of fattening. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is eaten; food. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which furnishes or affords food, especially for animals; pasture land. [ 1913 Webster ]

Feeding bottle. See under Bottle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A nonsensical exclamation attributed to giants and ogres; hence, any expression calculated to impose upon the timid and ignorant. “Impudent fee-faw-fums.” J. H. Newman. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. (Ethnol.) See Fijian. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Felt p. pr. & vb. n. Feeling. ] [ AS. fēlan; akin to OS. gifōlian to perceive, D. voelen to feel, OHG. fuolen, G. fühlen, Icel. fālma to grope, and prob. to AS. folm palm of the hand, L. palma. Cf. Fumble, Palm. ] 1. To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; to have sensation excited by contact of (a thing) with the body or limbs. [ 1913 Webster ]

Who feel
Those rods of scorpions and those whips of steel. Creecn. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To touch; to handle; to examine by touching; as, feel this piece of silk; hence, to make trial of; to test; often with out. [ 1913 Webster ]

Come near, . . . that I may feel thee, my son. Gen. xxvii. 21. [ 1913 Webster ]

He hath this to feel my affection to your honor. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To perceive by the mind; to have a sense of; to experience; to be affected by; to be sensible of, or sensitive to; as, to feel pleasure; to feel pain. [ 1913 Webster ]

Teach me to feel another's woe. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing. Eccl. viii. 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

He best can paint them who shall feel them most. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mankind have felt their strength and made it felt. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To take internal cognizance of; to be conscious of; to have an inward persuasion of. [ 1913 Webster ]

For then, and not till then, he felt himself. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To perceive; to observe. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

To feel the helm (Naut.), to obey it. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To have perception by the touch, or by contact of anything with the nerves of sensation, especially those upon the surface of the body. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To have the sensibilities moved or affected. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ She ] feels with the dignity of a Roman matron. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

And mine as man, who feel for all mankind. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To be conscious of an inward impression, state of mind, persuasion, physical condition, etc.; to perceive one's self to be; -- followed by an adjective describing the state, etc.; as, to feel assured, grieved, persuaded. [ 1913 Webster ]

I then did feel full sick. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To know with feeling; to be conscious; hence, to know certainly or without misgiving. [ 1913 Webster ]

Garlands . . . which I feel
I am not worthy yet to wear. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To appear to the touch; to give a perception; to produce an impression by the nerves of sensation; -- followed by an adjective describing the kind of sensation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Blind men say black feels rough, and white feels smooth. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

To feel after, to search for; to seek to find; to seek as a person groping in the dark. “If haply they might feel after him, and find him.” Acts xvii. 27. --
To feel of, to examine by touching. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Feeling; perception. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To intercept and have a more kindly feel of its genial warmth. Hazlitt. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A sensation communicated by touching; impression made upon one who touches or handles; as, this leather has a greasy feel. [ 1913 Webster ]

The difference between these two tumors will be distinguished by the feel. S. Sharp. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, feels. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) One of the sense organs or certain animals (as insects), which are used in testing objects by touch and in searching for food; an antenna; a palp. [ 1913 Webster ]

Insects . . . perpetually feeling and searching before them with their feelers or antennæ. Derham. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Anything, as a proposal, observation, etc., put forth or thrown out in order to ascertain the views of others; something tentative. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Possessing great sensibility; easily affected or moved; as, a feeling heart. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility; as, he made a feeling representation of his wrongs. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The sense by which the mind, through certain nerves of the body, perceives external objects, or certain states of the body itself; that one of the five senses which resides in the general nerves of sensation distributed over the body, especially in its surface; the sense of touch; nervous sensibility to external objects. [ 1913 Webster ]

Why was the sight
To such a tender ball as the eye confined, . . .
And not, as feeling, through all parts diffused? Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An act or state of perception by the sense above described; an act of apprehending any object whatever; an act or state of apprehending the state of the soul itself; consciousness. [ 1913 Webster ]

The apprehension of the good
Gives but the greater feeling to the worse. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The capacity of the soul for emotional states; a high degree of susceptibility to emotions or states of the sensibility not dependent on the body; as, a man of feeling; a man destitute of feeling. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Any state or condition of emotion; the exercise of the capacity for emotion; any mental state whatever; as, a right or a wrong feeling in the heart; our angry or kindly feelings; a feeling of pride or of humility. [ 1913 Webster ]

A fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind. Garrick. [ 1913 Webster ]

Tenderness for the feelings of others. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. That quality of a work of art which embodies the mental emotion of the artist, and is calculated to affect similarly the spectator. Fairholt.

Syn. -- Sensation; emotion; passion; sentiment; agitation; opinion. See Emotion, Passion, Sentiment. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a feeling manner; pathetically; sympathetically. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Fere, n. ] A consort, husband or wife; a companion; a fere. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OE. fesien to put to flight, AS. fēsian, f&ymacr_;sian, f&ymacr_;san, fr. fūs, prompt, willing. ] The short run before a leap. [ Obs. ] Nares. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. See Foot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Feat, n. ] Fact; performance. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Destitute of feet; as, feetless birds. [ 1913 Webster ]