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G. fegen, cleanse, scour, sweep; prob. < / "fag fazzolet (faz'o-let), . [< It. fazzoletto (= OSp. 
in AS. fasger, E. fair 1 , etc., and thus ult. from fazoletu), dim. of fazzolo, fazzuolo, a handker- 
the same source as fay 1 , q. v.] To cleanse; chief, perhaps < MHG. vetze, G. fetze, a shred, 
clean out, as a ditch. Titsscr ; Hall/well. [Prov. rag (cf . It. pezsuola, a shred or rag, also a hand- 
Eng.] kerchief).] A handkerchief. Percival. 
fay3 (fa), . [< ME. fay, < OF. fee, fete, fae (> F. 0. An abbreviation of Free Church (of Scot- 
D. fee = MHG. fei, feie, G. fee = Dan. Sw. fe), land) : as, the F . C. Presbytery. 
F. fee = Pr. fada = Sp. hada = Pg. fada = It. ~ 
fata, a fay, fairy, < L./ata, fern, sing., a fairy, < 
fatum, fate, pi. fata, the Fates: see /ate. Hence 
fairy, q. v.] A fairy ; an elf. See/air^. 
Elf of eve ! and starry fay ! 
Ye that love the moon's soft light, 
Hither hither wend your way. 
J. R. Drake, Culprit Fay. 
= Syn. Elf, etc. See fairy. 
F. D. An abbreviation of Fidei Defensor, De- 
fender of the Faith. See Defender of the Faith, 
under defender. 
Fe. The chemical symbol of iron (Latin/errum) . 
feab (feb), n. [E. dial., also fabe, feap, fa]>e, 
and esp. in pi. feabs, fabes, and fae, fay (in 
comp.feapberry,feaberry, faeberry) ; origin ob- 
scure.] bame as feaberru. 
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fay*t (fa), n. [< ME. fay, fey, fei, faith, < OF. feaberry, feapberry (fe'-, fep'ber"i), n.; pi. 
fei, orig.feid, whence the E. form feith, faith : feaberries, feapberries (-iz). The gooseberry. 
see faith.] Faith; fidelity; loyalty. [Prov. Eng.] 
Thowe shall se sothly thy son soffer yll, 
For the well of all wrytches that shall be his wyll 
Groselles [F.], gooseberries, thornberries, feaberries. 
Cotgrave. 
here in fay. York Plays, p. 447. feague (feg), v. [Prob. < D. vegen, sweep, strike, 
ye Heavens, defend ! and turne away 
From her unto the miscreant him selfe, 
That neither hath religion nor fay. 
Spenser, F. Q., V. viii. 19. 
Ah, sirrah, by my fay, it waxes late ; 
I'll to my rest. Shak., R. and J., i. 5. 
fay 6 , fey 4 (fa), a. [So., also fie, fye; < ME. fay, 
f e y< f e 'J e i f e , etc., < AS. fcege, fated, doomed, 
destined to die, dying, also dead, slain, also 
accursed, condemned, rarely timid, feeble, = 
OS. fegi = D. veeg, about to die, = OHG. feigi, 
MHG. veige, fated, doomed, accursed, miser- 
= MHG. vegen, G. fegen, cleanse, sweep : see 
/ay 2 .] I.f trans. 1. To beat or whip. 
When a knotty point comes I lay my head close to It, 
with a snuff-box in my hand ; and then I feague it away 
i' faith. Buckingham, Rehearsal. 
Heark ye, ye curs, keep off from snapping at my heels, 
or I shall BO feague ye. Otway, Soldier's Fortune (1681). 
2. To discomfit ; perplex. 
No treat, sweet words, good mien, but sly intrigue, 
That must at length the jilting widow fegue. 
Wycherley, Love in a Wood, i. 1. 
able, timid,' G. feig, feige, timid, cowardly, = f j J tra ^- Jo be perplexed. [Prov En g ] 
Icel. feigr, fated, about to die, = Sw. feg = t F a !& "' [ 9, f " feague ' r ' ] A dlrtr ' sluttlsh . 
T^_ .<-_ 7 _ _. -n ,rt -r-* J ~ J idle tellow. Onutf. 
"We'll turn again," said good Lord John. 
"But no," said Rothiemay, 
" My steed's trapann'd, my bridle's broke, 
I fear this day Vmfey." 
Mackay, Ballad of the Fire of Frendrangth. 
There's fey fowk in our ship, she winna sail for me. 
Bonnie Annie (Child's Ballads, III. 48). 
sharp twitch or pull. 2. A curl of hair. 
And can set his face and with his eye can speke 
And dally with his mistres dangling feake, 
And wish that he were it, to kiss her eye. 
Marston, Satires (1598), i. 
feak 2 (fek), v, t. [Prob. var. of feague, in orig. 
(D.) sense 'sweep.'] In hawking, to wipe the 
beak after feeding. 
"Puir faint hearted thief," cried the Laird's ain Jock, 
"There'lnaemandiebuthimthart^ fealH (fe'al), a. [Not found in ME. ; < OF. feal, 
2t. Dying; dead. ' f eel 'f il >J<?J" l <.f? ial .> fy an > ete.,fedeil, etc, 
There were fey in the flght, of the felle grekes, 
Eght hundrith thowsaund thro throngyn to dethe. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 13990. 
When ich flee fro the body and feye leue the caroygne, 
(mod. F. fidele), faithful, true,'< I^.'fidelis^ faith- 
ful, true, < fides, faith: see faith, fidelity, and 
fealty. ] Faithful; loyal. 
Piers Plowman (C), xvii. 197. f eal2> a . See f ee p. 
The tenants by knight's service used to swear to their 
lords to be feal and leal. Chambers. 
Then am ich a spirit specheles. 
Piers 
fayBf, n. A Middle English form of foe. f ea !3' (fel), v. i. [E. dial., < ME. felen, < Icel. 
fayahte (fi-al it),. [<Fayal(seed.ef.)+ -ite*.] /ete, hide. See filch.] To hide. [Now only 
A black, greenish, or brownish, sometimes iri- prov. Eng ] 
descent, mineral, consisting mainly of silicate H is godhed in fleis [flesh] was/eKd 
of iron and belonging to the chrysolite group. As hoc in bait. Metr. Homilies, p. 12 
It is found on the island of Fayal, in cavities in the rhyo- ffia 14 ,. re,, i Same us fnilt 
lite of the Yellowstone Park in the United States, and in i ea ' ' L , M Bame . as J a ' 
Ireland ; it is also a product of furnace-slag. fealty (fe'al-tl), n. [A partly restored form of 
- ,6 + -ooro.] The ME. feaute, feute, < OF. fealte, feelte, feaute, 
[Scotch.] feiaute, feelteit, later feaulte, < L. fidelita(t-)s, 
faithfulness, fidelity : see fidelity and feal 1 .] 1. 
1.1 in n. ... nc smut uiw u gioumy recKiessness 01 cnarac- Fidelity to a lord ; faithful adherence of a ten- 
ter. The simple people about said he was "under &fey- a nt or vassal to the superior of whom he holds 
(torn. . . At all events, this milmrmv nprsmn hail a dio. i *.* r 
fayclom (fa'dom), n. [< fa 
state of being fay or doomec 
Conscious, perhaps, of the disrepute into which he had 
fallen, ... he sunk into a gloomy recklessness of charac- 
imple people about said he was "under a. fey- 
dom." ... At all events, this unhappy person had a dis- 
mal ending. w. Chambers. 
fayence, n. See faience. 
fay let, and n. A Middle English form of fail 1 . 
faylest (falz), n. [See the second extract.] An 
old game, a kind of backgammon. 
He's no precisian, that I'm certain of, 
Nor rigid Roman Catholic. He'll play 
Atfayles and tick-tack ; I have heard him swear. 
B. Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, iii. 3. 
It [fayles] is a very old table game, and one of the nu- 
merous varieties of backgammon that were formerly used 
in this country. It was played with three dice and the 
usual number of men or pieces. The peculiarity of the 
game depended on the mode of first placing the men on 
the points. If one of the players threw some particular 
throw of the dice, he was disabled from bearing off any of 
his men, and therefore fayled in winning the game, and 
hence the appellation of it. Douce. 
fayne 1 !, a. and . An obsolete form of fain 1 . 
fayne 2 t, v. An obsolete form of feign. 
fayret, a. An obsolete form of fair 1 . 
fayryt, An obsolete form of fairy. 
faytort, faytxrart, . See/aitor. 
faze (faz), v. t. ; pret. and pp. fazed, ppr. fazing. 
[Also phase; var. of feaze, feeze.'] To disturb ; 
ruffle ; daunt. [Local, IT. 8.] 
A professor in V'anderbilt University, speaking recently 
of a teacher in Kentucky, said " nothing fazes him." 
Trans. Amer. Philol. Ass., XVII. 39. 
fazenda (fa-zen'da), n. [Pg., = Sp. hacienda : 
see hacienda.] Same as hacienda. 
Santa Anna is one of the largest coffee fazendas in this 
part of Brazil. Lady Brassey, Voyage of Sunbeam, I. Iv. 
136 
i > T j .1. T " ... , ., 
his lands ; the solemn recognition by the ten- 
fear 
Icel. /or, bale, harm, mischief, a plague, = Sw. 
fara = Dan. fare, danger (the sense and per- 
haps the form due to the D. and G.); not in 
Goth. ; cf. Goth.ferja, a spy, L. periculiim, dan- 
ger, peril, Gr. irelpa, an attempt, attack: words 
ult. connected, having orig. reference to the 
"perils of the way," as waylaying, sudden at- 
tack, sudden alarms, etc., the Teut. root being 
that of Goth, faraii, AS. faran, etc. , E. fare, go : 
see fare 1 . Cf.feer =fear%, a companion, from 
the same source. Hence fearful, fearsome, ferly, 
etc.] 1. A painful emotion or passion excited 
by the expectation of evil or harm, and accom- 
panied by a strong desire to escape it ; an active 
feeling of dread of which fright and terror are 
the intenser degrees; hence, apprehension or 
dread in general. Strong and sudden fear is accom- 
panied by extreme physical disturbances, as trembling, 
paling, impairment of the power of speech and action, etc. 
We lefte Modona tor fere of the Turkes ; it was but late 
Uenycyans, but nowe the Tnrke bathe it. 
Sir K. Ouylforde, Pylgrymage, p. 12. 
There is no fear in love ; but perfect love casteth out 
fear. i John iv. 18. 
They, bestill'd 
Almost to jelly with the act otfear, 
Stand dumb, and speak not to him. 
Shak., Hamlet, i. 2. 
Fear is au uneasiness of the mind upon the thought of 
future evil likely to befall us. Locke. 
All persons . . . are liable to be thrown by the pros- 
pect of pains into the state of passionate aversion which 
we call fear. H. Sidffwick, Methods of Ethics, p. 125. 
2. Anxiety; solicitude. 
The greatest and principal fear was for the holy temple. 
2 Mac. xv. 18. 
The truth is, I have some fear that I am more behind- 
hand in the world for these last two years, since I have 
not, or for some time could not, look after my accounts. 
Pepys, Diary, IV. 87. 
The minor forms of fear, expressed by anxiety, watch- 
fulness, care, use up the powers of thought, and exclude 
all impressions of a foreign nature. 
A. Bain, Emotions and Will, p. 56. 
3. A cause or object of fear. 
Or, in the night, imagining some fear, 
How easy is a bush suppos'd a bear. 
Shak., M. N. D., v. 1. 
Oh, good God, 
That I had never seen that false man's eyes, 
That dares reward me thus with fears and curses ! 
Beau, and Fl., Captain, i. 3. 
4. Formidableness ; aptness to cause fear. 
My love and fear glued many friends to thee. 
Shak., 3 Hen. VI., ii. 6. 
5. Reverence; respect for rightful authority; 
especially, reverence manifesting itself in obe- 
dience. 
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. 
Prov. i. 7. 
Render therefore to all their dues : tribute to whom 
tribute is due ; . . . fear to whom fear. Rom. xiii. 7. 
Temporal power, 
The attribute to awe and majesty, 
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings. 
Shak., M. of V., iv. 1. 
For fear, lest ; in case. 
Receive the money now, 
For fear you ne'er see chain nor money more. 
Shak., C. of E., iii. 2. 
= Syn. 1. Bee alarm. 2. Concern, dread. 5. Veneration, 
reverence, awe. 
His [King Edwin's] Subjects Hearts was so turned against 
him, that the Mercians and Northumbrians revolted, and 
swore fealty to his younger Brother Edgar. 
ant, under oath" of "his iord's*paramount right. fearl (***) " [< ME - feren, < AS. fceran, fright- 
en, more commonly in comp. d-f(eran, frighten 
(whence E. afeard, q. v.), = OS. fdron = D. i-er- 
varen = OHG. fdrjan, lie in wait, plot against, 
Baker, Chronicles, p. n. frighten, = ODan. forfcere (Dan. forfoerde) = 
Sw.forfdra, frighten; from the noun: see fear 1 , 
.] I. trans. If. To frighten; affright; terrify; 
drive away or keep away by fear. 
Pacientliche, thorgh hus prouynce and to hus peple hym 
shewe, 
Feden hem and flllen hem anil fere hem fro synne. 
Piers Plowman (C), xviii. 285. 
I tell thee, lady, this aspect of mine, 
HeAhfear'd the valiant. Shak., M. of V., ii. 1. 
Art not ashamed that any flesh should fear thee 1 
Middleton, Mad World. 
Some, sitting on the hatches, would seem there 
With hideous gazing to fear away fear. 
Donne, The Storm. 
2. Fidelity in general, as of one friend to an- 
other, of a wife to a husband, etc. ; faithful- 
ness ; faith ; loyalty. 
Nor did he doubt her more, 
But rested in her fealty. Tennyson, Geraint. 
We keep our fealty to the laws 
Through patient pain. 
Whittier, Anniversary Poem. 
Oath of fealty, under 'the feudal system, an oath prom- 
ising fidelity on the part of the vassal to his lord, usually 
given upon investiture of a fee. 
The oath of fealty taken after homage is given by Brit- 
ton, lib. iii. c. 4. In case of fealty to the king it is this : 
"Hear this, ye good people, that I, such a one by name, 
faith will bear to our lord King Edward from this day for- 2. To feel a painful apprehension of, as some 
ward, of life and limb, of body and chattels and earthlv ; _.5i . !- _/.-; j - 
ward, of life and limb, of body and chattels and earthly 
honour; and the services which belong to him for the fees 
and tenements which I hold of him, will lawfully perform 
to him as they become due, to the best of my power, so 
help me God and the saints." 
Stubbs, Const. Hist., 462, note. 
= Srn. Allegiance, Loyalty, Fealty. See allegiance. 
fear 1 (fer), n. [Early mod. E. also feare, feere ; 
< ME. feer, fere, fer, fear, < A&.fcer, fear, ter- 
ror, in comp. generally implying sudden dan- 
ger, = OS. far, a plot, snare, = OD. vaer, D. ge- 
vaar, danger, = OHG. fdra, MHG. vare, a plot, 
treason, danger, fright, G. gefahr, danger, = 
impending evil ; be afraid of ; consider or ex- 
pect with emotions of alarm or solicitude. 
I will /ear no evil, for thou art with me. Ps. xxiii. 4. 
A beggar with a clouted cloak, 
In whom Ifear'd no ill, 
Hath with his pike staff claw'd my back. 
Robin Hood and the Beggar (Child's Ballads, V. 194). 
What ails this gentlewoman 1 
Alas, I fear she is not well, good gentlewoman! 
Beau, and Fl.. Coxcomb, iv. 4. 
Like an animal, a savage fears whatever is strange in 
appearance or behaviour. 
U. Spencer, Prin. of Sociol., 194. 
