fee-farm 
2. The estate of the tenant in land so held. 
His Ma'>' renewed us our lease of Says Court pastures 
for 99 yeares, but ought, according to his solemn promise 
(as I hope he will still perform), have passed them to us in 
fee-farihe. Evelyn, Diary, Jan. 12, 1672. 
Fee-farm rent, the rent payable by the tenant of a fee- 
farm. 
The Duke of Buckingham . . . hath about 19,600(. a- 
year, of which he pays away about 70CHM. a-year in inter- 
est, about 2000/. in fee-farm rents to the King, about 6000i. 
in wages and pensions, and the rest to live upon, and pay 
taxes for the whole. Pepys, Diary, IV. 102. 
fee-farmer (fe'far'mer), n. One who holds 
land from a superior lord in fee-farm. 
As when bright Phebus (Landlord of the Light) 
And Us fee-farmer Luna most are parted, 
He sets no sooner but shee comes in sight. 
Dairies, Holy Roode, p. 13. 
fee-farming (fe'far"ming), n. The act or prac- 
tice of conveying in fee-farm. 
He hath in vented fee-farming of benefices. 
Latimer, 6th Sermon bef. Edw. VI., 1549. 
fee-fund (fe'fund), n. In Scots law, the dues of 
court payable on the tabling of summonses in 
the Court of Session, the extracting of decrees, 
etc.. out of which the clerks and other officers 
of the court are paid. 
fee-grief (fe'gref), . A private grief, appro- 
priated to some single person as a fee or salary. 
Kares. [Rare.] 
What concern they? 
The general cause 1 or is it a fee-grief, 
Due to some single breast? 
Shak., Macbeth, iv. S. 
feeing-market (fe'ing-mar'ket), n. In Scot- 
land, a semi-annual market or fair, usually held 
in the public square or other public place, at 
which plowmen, dairymaids, and other farm- 
servants are feed or hired for the year or half- 
year next ensuing. Sometimes called feeing- 
fair. 
The men who, at fairs and feeing-markets, while con- 
tending for the good-will of some country beauty, ex- 
changed a few blows, more in fun than with bad feeling, 
were left to settle their differences in their own way with- 
out the interference of the sheriff's officer. 
Quoted in Ribton- Turner's Vagrants and Vagrancy, p. 366. 
Feejeean (fe-je'an), a. and n. See Fijian. 
feek (f ek), v. i. [Cf . feah, fike.~] To walk about 
in perplexity. Grose. [Prov. Eng.] 
feel 1 (fel), 0. ; pret. and pp. felt, ppr. feeling. 
[< ME. felen, < AS. felan, feel, commonly in 
comp. ge-felan, feel, perceive, = OS. gifolian = 
OFries. Veto = D. voelen = OHG. fuo'len, touch, 
feel, MHG. vuelen, G. fiihlen, feel, = Dan. fole, 
feel; not in Goth. orScand.; / */'i found per- 
haps in AS. folm = OS. folm = OHG. folma, 
the hand (whence ult. E. fumble, grope, famble, 
stammer: see fumble, famble 2 ), = ii.palma, the 
palm of the hand: see palm 1 .} I. trans. 1. To 
have a sensation or sense-perception of. Spe- 
cifically (a) To have a sensation or sense-perception of 
by means of the sense of touch, or through physical con- 
tact with the surface of the body. 
Now does he feel 
His secret murthers sticking on his hands. 
Shak., Macbeth, v. 2. 
A hand that pushes thro' the leaf 
To find a nest and feels a snake. 
Tennyson, Pelleas and Ettarre. 
(6) To be or become aware of through material action upon 
any nerves of sensation other than those of sight, hear- 
ing, taste, and smell; have a sensation (other than those 
of the above-mentioned senses) of : as, to feel the cold; to 
feel a lump in the throat (through involuntary closure) ; 
to feel an inclination to cough. [The application of the 
word to the normal action of the higher senses is obsolete, 
except in the abstract meaning of perceiving by means 
of sensation in general : as, the higher animals feel light, 
heat, sound, etc. See def. 2.J 
They [of Scio] also feel those earthquakes which do more 
damage on the neighbouring continent. 
Pococke, Description of the East, II. ii. 9. 
2f. To perceive by the sense of smell ; smell. 
The stretes were strewed with small grasse, and incense 
and myrre in fires in the stretes thikke, and in the wyn- 
dowea many lightes, and so swote sauoured thourgh the 
Cytee that fer [distant] men shulde/ete the odour. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 133. 
They /eft a most delicate sweete smell, though they saw 
no land, which ere long they espied, thinking it the Con- 
tinent. Quoted iu Capt. John Smith's Works, 1. 81. 
You complain much of that tannery, but I cannot say I 
feel it. Sir J. Sinclair, Observations, p. 83. 
3. To have a perception of (some external or 
internal condition of things) through a more or 
less complex mental state involving vague sen- 
sation: as, to feel the floor sinking; to feel one's 
mind becoming confused ; to feel the approach 
of age. 
To the felt absence now I /e( a cause. 
SAo*., Othello, iii. 4. 
4. In general, to perceive or have a mental 
sense of; be conscious of; have a distinct or 
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indistinct perception or mental impression of: 
as, to feel pleasure or pain ; to feel the beauty 
of a landscape. 
If that he may felen, out of drede, 
That ye me touche or love in vilonye, 
He right anoon wil sle you with the dede. 
Chaucer, Second Nun's Tale, 1. 155. 
And ferthermore. as I this mater felt, 
In his conseyte, I say yow certeynly, 
Hym liked neuer creatur so wele. 
Generydes (E. E. T. S.), 1. 695. 
To feel, altho' no tongue can prove, 
That every cloud, that spreads above 
And veileth love, itself is love. 
Tennyson, Two Voices. 
We speak of feeling this thing and that, which we no 
doubt 0.0 feel, but which we only/( because we are self- 
conscious; because in/erftnjwedistinguishourselvesfrom 
the feelings as their subject. 
T. H. Green, Prolegomena to Ethics, $ 118. 
5. To regard with feeling or emotion; be aroused 
to feeling (especially disagreeable feeling) by : 
as, he felt his disgrace keenly. 
From the poet's lips 
His verse sounds doubly sweet, for none like him 
Feels every cadence of its wave-like flow. 
O. W. Holmes, Sympathies. 
6. Reflexively, to have a sensation, feeling, 
perception, or impression concerning; perceive 
clearly to be. 
She began, for the first time that evening, to feel herself 
at a ball : she longed to dance, but she had not an ac- 
quaintance in the room. 
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, p. 8. 
7. To try by touch ; examine by touching with 
the hands or otherwise ; test by contact : as, to 
feel a piece of cloth ; to feel the ground with 
the feet ; a blind man feels his way with a 
stick. 
Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, 
whether thou be my very son Esau or not. Gen. xxvii. 21. 
Three times he try'd, and studiously felt 
How to unbuckle his out-shined Belt. 
J. Beaumont, Psyche, iii. 70. 
The Doctor . . . felt her Pulse ; he yiew'd her Eyes. 
Prior, Paulo Purganti. 
Hence 8. To make trial of in any way; test 
carefully or cautiously : as, to feel one's way in 
an undertaking; to feel the market by a small 
venture. 
He hath writ this to/ee( my affection to your honour. 
Shak., Lear, i. 2. 
9. To have experience of; suffer under: as, to 
feel the vengeance of an enemy. 
Lete thi nei3e-boris, bothe freend & to, 
Freli of thi freendschip/eete. 
Hymns to Virgin, etc. (E. E. T. S.), p. 107. 
Whoso keepeth the commandments shall feel no evil 
thing. Eccl. viii. 5. 
Thinke you not that there were nianye more guiltye 
then they that felt the punishment? 
Spenser, State of Ireland. 
To feel out, to try ; sound ; search for ; explore : as, to 
feel out one's opinions or designs. [Rare. 1 To feel the 
helm, to come under the influence of the helm : said of a 
ship when she begins to have steerageway. = Syn. Feel, Be 
sensible of, Be conscious of, are all used of a recognition 
that comes close home, a frank confession to one's self. 
Often, to feel is especially the act of the heart : as, to feel 
one's own defects. To be conscious may be only the act of 
the understanding, apart even from reflection : as, to be 
conscious of the approach of danger ; or it may rise to a high 
degree of frank admission : as, to be conscious of failure. 
To be sensible is the act of a sort of inward sensuous per- 
ception. See sentiment. 
All men feel sometimes the falsehood which they can- 
not demonstrate. Emerson, Compensation. 
These are very sensible that they had tetter have pushed 
their conquests. Addition. 
My mother ! when I learn'd that thou wast dead, 
Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I shed ? 
Cowper, On the Receipt of my Mother's Picture. 
H. intrans. 1. To have perception by means 
of the sense of touch or by physical contact; 
experience sensation of any kind, except that 
received through sight, hearing, taste, or smell ; 
loosely, to have a sensation of any kind : as, to 
feel sore or ill; to feel cold. 
I then did feel full sick, and yet not well. 
Shak., Hen. VIII., ii. 4. 
If the skin felt everywhere exactly alike, a foot-bath 
could be distinguished from a total immersion, as being 
smaller, but never distinguished from a wet face. 
W. James, Mind, XII. 184. 
Feeling warm OT feeling hungry, we must remember, is 
not pure feeling in the strict sense of the word. 
J. Ward, Encyc. Brit., XX. 40. 
2. To have perception, especially vague per- 
ception or impression ; have a mental sense of 
something. 
Me think, ser, as ferre as I canne fele, 
These lordes and these knyghtes euerychone 
In this mater they haue not seyde but wele. 
Genmjdes (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1654. 
feel 
From sense of grief and pain we shall be free : 
We shall notfefl, because we shall not be. 
Dryden, tr. of Lucretius, iii. 12. 
When truth or virtue an affront endures, 
The affront is mine, my friend, and should be yours. . . . 
Mine, as a friend to every worthy mind ; 
And mine as man, who /eel as for mankind. 
Pope, Epil. to Satires, ii. 204. 
3. To recognize or regard one's self as ; be con- 
sciously : as, to feel hurried ; to feel called on to 
do something. 
He felt obliged to sail again for the East in order to re- 
trieve his fortune. J. T. Fields, Underbrush, p. 21B. 
4. To experience feeling or emotion; be 
aroused to emotion. 
How heavy guilt Is, when men come to feel! 
Beau, and Fl., Honest Man's Fortune, iv. 2. 
But spite of all the criticising elves, 
Those who would make us/eei must feel themselves. 
Chterchill, Rosciad, 1. 962. 
The truth Is, the people must feel before they will see. 
Bancroft, Hist. Const, I. 444. 
5. To give or produce sensation or feeling; 
especially, to produce sensation of touch, or 
organic sensations. 
Blind men say black /eef rough and white feels smooth. 
Dryden. 
How the March sun/eel* like May '. 
Browning, A Lovers' Quarrel. 
6. To make examination by the sense of touch ; 
grope. 
I .Mt to his knees, and so upward, and upward, and all 
was as cold as any stone. Shak., Hen. V., ii. 3. 
Feeling all along the garden-wall, 
Lest he should swoon and tumble and be found, 
Crept to the gate. Tennyson, Enoch Arden. 
Two young hearts, each/eeKo towards the other. 
E. Dowden, Shelley, I. 420. 
7. To be inwardly moved: followed by an 
infinitive : as, I feel to sympathize with him. 
[Colloq.] 
"And you do not feel to oblige her? " asks Joan, with an 
expression of friendly interest. R. Broughton, Joan, i. 11. 
To feel after, to search for ; seek to find ; seek, as a per- 
son groping in the dark. 
If haply they might feel after him, and mid him. 
Acts xvii. 27. 
To feel called on. See to be called on, under calll ,v.i. 
To feel for. (a) To seek to find with caution or secretly. 
Orders were to move cautiously with skirmishers to the 
front to feel for the enemy. 
U. S. Grant, Personal Memoirs, I. 512. 
(6) To sympathize with ; be sorry for. 
Poor young lady ! I feel for her already ! for I can con- 
ceive how great the conflict must be between her passion 
and her duty. Sheridan, The Critic, ii. 1. 
To feel Of, to obtain knowledge of by the sense of touch ; 
make tactual examination of ; test by handling. 
They usually gather them before they be full ripe, bore- 
ing an hole in them, and, feeling of the kernel, they know 
if they be ripe enough for their purpose. /(. Knox. 
feel 1 (fel), n. [<feefl, .] 1. The sense or a 
sensation of touch. 
Dyed cotton fibre . . . was thinner and softer to the 
feel. O'Neill, Dyeing and Calico Printing, p. 209. 
Colours, mere states of the retina, are all we see ; 
sounds, mere ringings in the ear, are all we hear ; feels, 
mere states of our own (as warm or cold, etc.), are all we 
touch. Mind, X. 63. 
2. A sensation of any kind, or a vague mental 
impression or feeling. 
Oreen little vaulter in the sunny grass, 
Catching your heart up at the/e( of June. 
L. Hunt, Grasshopper and Cricket. 
3. That quality in an object by which it ap- 
peals to the sense of touch. 
Membranous or papery ... as to /eel and look. 
Is. Taylor. 
A small elevation, . . . like a vesicle, having a soft feel. 
Quoin, Med. Diet., p. 553. 
fee! 2 t, fele 2 t, . and pron. Q&E.feeleJele, feole, 
< AS. fela, feala, feola, feolo, "feolu, with gen. 
of noun ' much, many,' without noun ' much, 
many things ,' = OS. filu, fllo = OFries. fel, ful 
= D. veel = OHG. filu, MHG. vile, vil, G. viel 
= Icel. fjdl-, in comp., = Goth, filu (only in gen. 
filaus), much, many, prop. nent. of Teut. "filus 
= Olr. il = Gr. jroWf, neut. m>/W>, in comp. iroXu- 
(E. poly-, q. v.), = OPers. paru = Skt. punt, 
much; akin to E. fulfl, q. v. In mod. E. the 
place of this word has been taken by much and 
many.'} Much; many. 
Relykes ther be mony &fele. 
Political Poems, etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 131. 
So /e(e that wondyr was to sene. 
Chaucer, Parliament of Fowls, 1. 329. 
Rude was the cloth, and more of age 
By dayes/efe than at hir mariage. 
Chaucer, Clerk's Tale, 1. 917. 
ffeet scores nyne in lenght as/efe in wyde. 
Palladius, Hnsbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 48. 
