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Show FE FI With titles blown from adulation ‘Will it give place to flexure and low bending Shak. Henry V. For who would virtue for herfelf regard Or wed without the portion of reward Than foul difeafes that infe the fold Dryd Men have fewer or more fimple ideas from without, according as the objects they converfe wit afford greater or lefs variety Locke The fewer fill you name, you wound the more Dryden He had never dreamed in his life, 'till he had th Jever he was then newly recovered of Locke 90 Fe'VER. @. a. [from the noun. put into a fever Bond is but one, but Harpax is a fcore Pope Patty is the madnefs of many, for the gain of Sew Sawift The imagination of a poet is a thing {o nice an T The white hand of a lady fever thee Shake to look on't delicate Shake/p. Ant, and Cleopatra fever [from fever. 2. Sometimes elliptically ; not many words To anfwer both allegations at once, the very fub- Jtance of that they contain is in fez but this Hyoker So having faid, he thus to Eve in few [ febris and fugo, Latin. Say, woman Common frverfe is the fort ufed in medicine Fe'verisH. edj. [from fever. 1. Difeafed witha fever And feveri/b nature burns in her own fire. Creech When an animal that gives fuck turns feveri/b that is, its juices more alkaline, the milk turn from its native genuine whitenefs to yellow A fEoerif diforder difabled me 3. Uncertain inconftant cold eve and broils A known quantity of feavel, all kindled at once will caufe water to boil, which being lighted gradually will never be able todo it Benutley's Serm Dryd 7o Fe'wer, @. a. [fro feed with fewel And now four days the fun had feen our woes And farther from the feverifb North retire z £ [from feverih. Fe'wness., # /o [from few. 1. Paucity 5 {mallnefs of number Dryd Thefe diftinguif embodied Fe'verous. adj. [ fevreux-fe, French; fro ever 1. Troubled with a fever or ague Thou mad'ft thine enemies fhake, as if the worl Coriol 2. Having the nature of a fever Convulfions, epilepfics, fierce catarrhs Milton 3. Having a tendency to produce fevers rain d cauf Jeverous difpofition of ‘the year; but with rain not Bacon's Natural Hiftory Fi'very, adj, [from fever. Difeafed wit a fever O Rome, thy-headb dv Is drown'd in fleep, and all thy body fev'ry Ben Fonf. Catil FEUILLAGE. n. /. [French. A bunc or row of leaves Of Homer's head I inclofe the outline, that yo may determine whether you would have it fo large or reduced to make room for fewillage or laure Fervas to Pope round the oval [French. 'Th colour of a faded leaf, corrupte monly to philemot com FE'UILLEMORY #. / I coul no from the numbers with whom they ar Dryden 2. Paucity of words; brevity; concifenefs Fewnefs and truth, 'tis thus To FeY. w. a. [ weghen cleanfe -a ditch of mud Shakefp Dutch. T Fe'urerer. 2 /. A dogkeeper: perhap the cleaner of the kennel.FEW. adj. [fpeo, peopa, Saxon; fua Danifh.| 1. Not many; not in a great number We are left but fiw of many So much the thirft of honour fires the blood So many would be great, fo few be good e FIB. ». /. [A cant word among children. A lie; a falfehood Deftroy his 4 or fophiftry in vain The creature's at his dirty work again Pope. 1 {o often lie Scarce Harvey's felf has told more fiés than 1. Pope 7o FiB. v, z. [from the noun. to tell Iyes; to fpeak falfely T lie If wou have any mark, whereby one may kno when you fi4, and when you {peak truth, you ha Arbuth beft tell it me Fi'BBER. 7 /. [from f£b.] A teller of fibs FI'BRE. 7. /. [ fibre, ¥r. fibra, Latin. 1. fmal thread or ftring ; the firft con ftituent parts of bodies Now {liding ftreams the thirfty plants renew And feed their fibres with reviving dew Pape 2. A fibre, in phyfick, is an animal thread of which fome are foft, flexible, and little elaflick; and thefe are either bollow, like fmall pipes; or fpongious an full of little cells, as the nervous an flethy fbres: others are more folid, flexible, and with a ftrong elafticity or {pring as th membranou an Sbres: and a third fort are har an flexible, as the fibres of the bones Som fo very fmall as not to be eafily perceived and others fo big as to be plainly feen and moft of them appear to be compofe of ttill fmaller fibres : thefe fibres fitk con ftitute the fubftance of the bones, cartil- ages, ligaments, membranes, nerves, veins arteries, and mufcles Quincy My heart finksin me while I hear him fpeak And every flacken'd fibre drops its hold Iike nature letting down the {prings of life The name of fatherawes me fill Dryden ¥i'sriv n fo [ fibrille, French. fibre or ftring Th mufcle A {mal confift of 2 numbe of fibres, an each fibre of an incredible number of little fbril bound togethér, and divided into liftle cells Cheyne's Phil, Prine Fr'srovs. adj. [fbreux, ¥rench; fro Jibre.] Compofed of fibres or ftamina The difference between bodies fbrous and bodie vifcous is plain; for all wool and tow, and cotto Bacon and filk, have a greedinefs of moifture ¥ faw Petreus' arm A well-grown oak, t This way and that h The trunk was like employ'd aroun root it from the ground wrench'd the fibrous bands D#yd fapling in his hands The fibrous and folid parts of plants pafs unalArbuthnot on Alins tered through the inteftines leffer bone of the leg the tibia leg The outer an n. /. [Latin. FI'BULA much fmaller tha it lies on the outfide of th is no and its upper end, whic cartilaginou f high as the knee, receives the lateral kno of the upper end of the tibia into a {fmal It finus, which it has in its inner fide lower end is received into the fmall finu of the tibia, and then it extends into Jarge procefs, which forms the oute ankle FUCKLE. adj. [yicol, Saxen. 1. Changeable inconftant Quincy irrefolute change wavering ; unfteady ; mutable ful; without fteady adherence Remember where we are In France amongit a fick/e wavering nation A flave, whofe eafy borrow'd prid Shak Dwells in the fick/e grace of her he follows Shak The fickle penfioners of Morpheus' train Ailt Or likeft hovering dreams That all a dry Summer no water will yield By feying and cafting that mud upon heaps Commodities many the hufbandman reaps. ~ Tu/fer It hath heen noted by the ancients, thatfouther withou by teafon of their fewsnefs Such muddy deep ditches and pits in the field All fev'rous kinds much T Coawley That fewels the infernal flame flight diforder of the feverith kind Shakefp the noun. Never, alas! the dreadful name Four nights the moon beheld th? inceffant fire It feem'd as if the ftars more fickly rofe blowin Hooker, Dedication Denban 4. Hot; burning winds and fartheft of Others may give the fewe/ or the fire But they the breath, that makes the flame, infpire hot, no When all our eafe muft come by lying ftill For all the happinefs mankind can gain Is not in pleafure, but in reft from pain Were feverous, and did tremble the wood was green the peril thereof be greater in men, whofe minds ar as dry fewel, apt beforehand unto tumults, fedition We tofs and turn about our feveri/b will Fr'verisunsess wher from any inclination unto furiousattémpts, muft no Swif? to Pope no Dryden Pope If a fpark of error have thus far prevailed, fallin Arbuthnot on Aliments to fever Milton. Fe'wevr. #. /. [ fen, French. Combuftible matter ; materials for keeping fire: a firewood, coal To other climates beafts and birds retire 2. Tendin what is this which thou haft done Thus Jupiterin feww unfolds the charge The firm refolve I here in few difclofe and is found wild in many parts of England, Ailler Berkley to Pope A light feverer, or an old quartan ague, is not fufficient excufe for non-appearance Ayeliffe Fe'verrew, 2. A plant to one of the frw, who in any age, have com: up to that charaGer A fligh febricula that it is no eafy matter to find out image capable of giving pleafw Her blood all fewer'd, and with a furious leap She fprung from bed diftrated in her mind. Dryd Fe'veret. z. Dryd On Winter feas we fewer frorms behold Duncan is in his grave After life's fitful fever he fleeps well Shakefp Should not a lingering fewer be remov'd Becaufe it long has rag'd within my blood ¥1 They know how fick/e common lovers are Their oaths and vows are cautioufly believ'd For few there are. but have been once deceiv'd Dyyder We in vain the fickle fex purfue Who change the conftant lover for the new Prior 2. Not fixed; fubjet to viciffitude He would be lot Us to abolith; left the adverfar Triumph, and fay, fickle their ftate, whom Go Milton's Paradife Loff Mot favours Fi/lckrLExEss. #z /. [from fickle.] Inconftancy; uncertainty; unfteadinefs Neither her great worthinefs, nor his own fuffer ing for her, could fetter his ficklenefs; but, befor his marriage-day, he had taken to wife that Bacch of whom fhe complained Sidney Beware of fraud, beware of ficklenefs In choice and change of thy dear loved dame I am a foldier, and unapt to weep Fairy Queein Or to exclaim on fortune's ficklenefs Shakefp Inftability of temper ought to be checked, whe it difpofes men to wander fro one fchem of go vernment to another, fince fuch a fcklexefs canno but be attended with fatal confequences Addifor Whether out of ficklene/s or defign I can't tell 1 found that what fhe liked one day the diflike another D Addifor Fr'ckry |