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Show FE FE Thexcefsof heat is but a fable We know the torrid zone is now found habitable Ermploy their wiles and unavailing care Cowley The female rhymes aré in ufe with the Italian i . every lme, with the Spaniard promifcuoufly, an with the French alternately, as appears from th Alarique, the Pucelle; or any of their later poems Dyyden's Pref. 1o Ann. Mirab - Feme Coverts u /. [French. woman; wh covert baron 1s alfc faid to be unde Blount Latin. Femal Thus we chaltife the god of win With water thatis feminine Until the cooler nymph abat Cleaveland 3. Effeminate; emafculated linefs no ma ther feminine Milton wanting man of war at all but altoge and {ubjected to eafe and delicacy Raleigh's Hiftory Fe/mININE. 7 /. A fhe; one of the fe that brings young; a female O wh did God create at laf This novelty on earth this fair defec adj [ femoralis Milton Latin. Be the thigh t longin The largeft crooked needle {hould be ufed in takin Sharp up the femoral arteries in amputation FEN wenne, Dutch. [penn, Saxon 7. / marfh ; low flat and moift ground moor a bog Mexico is a city that ftands in the midft of a grea marfh or fen Abbor's Defeription of the World I go alone e Like to a lonely dragon, . that his _fe Shak Makes fear'd and talk'd of more than feen The furface is of black fez earth Woodward He to Portina's wat'ry mar(hes went A long canal the muddy fex divides And with a clear unfully'd current glides Fr'nBERRY 7 f [ferr an kind of blackberry Addifin derry. Skinner Fexce. » [ [from defernce. 1. Guard fecurity outwork defence Fhat proved not jfence enough to the reputation o Decay of Picty ‘their oppreffors . There's no fence againft inundations, earthquakes L Efirange or hurricanes To put them out of their parents view, at a grea diftance, is to expofe them to the greateft danger of their whole life, when they have the leaft fenc Locke and guard againft them Let us bear this awful corps to Cefar And lay it in his fight, that it may ftan -A fence betwixt us and the vi€or's wrath. Addifon 2. Inclofure boundary mound {ki Spread with ftraw the bedding of thy fold With fern beneath to fend the bitter cold Drydex 70 Fenp. w. z a charge able to fend and prove with them Fairfax flefh an to fortify 2. To guard an hedge fortifie In vain did nature's wife cqmman clean.sh data import.tsv out README Divide the waters from the land Jenced againt a -And pafs at will the boundlefs deep Dryden Shall I mention mak Of the vaft mound that binds the Lucrine lake Or the difdainful fea, that, fhut from thence Roars round the ftructwse, and invades the fence Dryden Latin. A plant ¥e/swer. n [ [feniculum plant of ftrong {cent it beate Locke on the de A fav'ry odour blown Driving in of piles is ufed for ftone or bric houfes, and that only where the ground proves fenn Moxornt or moorifh is bred The hungry crocodile They fence and puth, and, pufhing, loudly roar Their dewlaps and their fides are bath'd in gore Dyyden A man that cannot fence will keep out of bullie Locke and gamefters company polemica bein arts, could n learned alone than fezcing or cudgelplaying Fe'ncrress In the cauldro Fe'nsuckep. adj. [ fer and fuck.] Sucke out of marfhes Withou owerf e e l fu e bg'b;m%, ' fogs drawn bmu:}‘ fenfuckk' 2y You fenfu { FE'OD and as dettrudive So the wind roars o'er the wide fercle/s ocean An heaves the billows of the boiling deep Alike from North, from South Fe/ncer # f teaches or prattife the ufe o One wh Another chafe weapons femce. [from feodum Latin. fervic to a fuperiour lord To FEOFF. «. a. [fef, feffer, Frencn 'To put in poffeoffare, low Latin. and enjoy his frets [fro Hanmer fefZon; to inveft with right Herberr A nimble fencer will put in a thruft fo quick that the foil will be in your bofom when you though it a yard off Dighy adj = / of fuit an he that let As cunning fercers {uffer heat to tire Frlopati. ads. [ feodal, French, from fiod. One who holds his eftate under the tenur may warm him at his fire Mark all his wand'rings Fee Dié tenure Fe'opary or {cience of defence Calmnefs i3 great advantage [ feodum, low Latin. #. f Held from another Rowe's Fane Shore [from fence. Shalefpeare boil and bake Fe/nnystongs. z /. A plant inclofare; open As terrible as hate Fillet of a _fenny fnake more b Kach motion of the heart rifes to fury And love in their weak bofoms is a rag Prior 2. Inhabiting the marfh Arbutbnot and Pope adj. [from fence. and hiffing fnake Lurk in tlie troubl'd-ftream and fenny brake foreft rattles, and the rocks rebound Thefe more pleas'd my fenf Fi/NNELFLOWER. 7. /f. [nigella.] A plant Fe/'NNELGIANT. 2. f. [ ferula.] A plant Fe'n~y. adj. [from fen. 1. Marfhy; boggy; moorifh The ftooping warriors aiming head to head Engage their clathing horns; with dreadful foun Th Latin Miltor If a throftle fing, he falls ftraight a capering He will fence with his own thadow Shakefpeare A beauteous heifer in the woo Grecum Than fmell of fweeteft fennel, or the teat Of ewe, or goat, dropping with milk at ev'n Locke [ fenu f Fe'Nvereek 3. To fight according to art, by obviatin blows as well as giving of defence Invade th' inviolable main ‘Th' eternal fences overleap The hare figured not only pufillanimity and timidity from its temper, but fereration and ufur Brown from its fecundity and fuperfetation Vice is the more ftubborn as well as the mor dangerous evil, and therefore in the fisft place to b Fe'ncisLe 1t daring fhips and men prophane, of increafing money by lending into fwords, and put into his fervants hands to fezc with, and bang one another 2. To guard againft; t the practic the gain of intereft Ufury 1. To practife the arts of manual defence to prattife the ufe of weapons hav paffes for a grea Fe'NDER. 2. /. [from fend. 1. An iron plate laid before the fire to hinder coals that fall from rolling forwar to the floor 2. Any thing laid or hung at the fide of fhip to keep off violence Feneraltion. =z [ [fanreratio, Latin. . He having got fome iron, fhoul to fhift of but it is learning diftin¢t fro Locke part of learning knowledge To fence my ear againft thy forceries Milton With love to friend, th' impatient lover went Fenc'd from the thorns, and trod the deep defcent Dryden ToFENcE To difpute The dexterous management of terms, and bein Aylifje's Parergon fenfive Of nature? And not fill the world at onc With men, as angels, without feminine Fe'morav wit Locke off; to fhut out So much of adders wifdom I have learnt delicate Angelick, but more (oft and femtinine wa m cent rail or other inclofure Her heav'nly for Ninia haft clothe moft a gentleman can attai Fen-crICKET. n. [ [grillstalpa. A infect that digs itfelf holes in the ground To Fenv. @. a. [from defend.] 'To kee He hath fenced up my way that 1 cannot pafs and fet darknefs in my paths b, xix. 8 Tho is th and every day exercifing 4. Skill in defence Before thoucam'ft this kingdom to invade whic to, unlefs he will be conftantly in the fencing [chool haft fenced me with bodes and finews Fob. x. 11 He went about to make a bridge to a ftrong city which was fenced about with walls. 2 Mac. xii. 13 See that the churchyard be fenced in with a de 1. Of the fex that brings young; female tender I bruifed my fkin th" other day, with playing a fword and dagger with a mafter of fence. ~ Shake/p Th' inhabitants each pafture and each plai Deftroyed have, each field to wafte is lade In fenced towers beftowed is their grain Fe'MININE. adj. [ femininus, Latin, His wrath, and fo concorporate fencer hedge . 1f in the minority of natural vigour the parts o Jeminality take place, upon the increafe or growth _ thereof the mafculine appears Brown 2. Soft 3. The art of fencing; defence ther mine fhould be a good wreftler than an ordinar 1. To inclofe; to fecure by an inclofure o famina nature Edpe 7o FEncE. v. a A fingle wo man; an unmarried woman Femina'viry. = [fro To pafs the fences and furprife the fair . Ifa man be to prepare his fon for duels, I had ra I'1l prove it on his body, if he dare Defpight his nice fence and his a&tive practice Shakefpeare A marrie ¥ems Sole. n. [ [French. FE ; feff Frorst's. n f. [fesffatus, Lat French.} One put in pofleflion Th Capabl late earl of Defmond forth into rebellion Addiforn conveye before his breakir fecretl all his land to fecffees in truft, in hope to havecut oft herm Sgei [7 jefty trem the efcheat of his lands Fe/mtiNneMASTER, 7. [. [ fence and maffer. 2. f. [feoffator, low Latm. One who teaches the fcience of defence, FrlorFer One who gives poffeflion of any thing or the ufe of weapons See FroreMENT Fe'ncincscHooL. m [ [ fence and fehool.] A place in which the ufe of weapons is { FrlorsMENT taught 2 fo [ fioff imentum, Latin. The a&t of granting pofleflicn 1 |