Th 
than 
Felinia 
hairy legs, each of which appears as large as 
the abdomen: typified by F. npissa of India. 
Guenee, 1852. 
felinity (fe-lin'i-ti), . \< feline + -ity.] The 
feline quality ; the quality of being cat-like in 
manner or disposition. 
is idiosyncrasy of Msfelmil;/ tormented Bella more 
ever. M. Harlaiul, The Hidden Path, p. 342. 
Felis (fe'lis), n. [NL., < L. fells, more commonly 
fcles (in Varro and Cicero/ri'/wf in the best manu- 
scripts), a cat ; also applied to a marten, ferret, 
polecat; prob. < / "fe, produce, bear young: 
see felicity, fecund, fetus.} The eats as a ge- 
nus; the typical genus of the family Felidai 
and subfamily Feliiue: formerly coextensive 
with the family, now nearly the same as the 
subfamily, but excluding the lynxes, or still 
further restricted. The common wildcat of Europe 
is / '. catus t but probably not the original of the domestic 
varieties. See cut under Felidtx. 
felitomist (fe-lit'o-mist), n. [<felitomy + -ist.~] 
A dissector of cats. Wilder and Gage. 
felitomy (fe-lit'o-mi), n. [< L. felis, a cat, + 
Gr. Topri, a cutting.] The dissection of cats. 
Felitomy should be the stepping stone to anthropotomy. 
WUder, New York Med. Jour., Oct., 1879, p. 6. 
felk (felk), . A dialectal variant of felly 1 . 
fell 1 (fel), v. t. [< ME. fellen (pret. felde, feld, 
pp. feld), cause to fall, cut down, strike down, 
prostrate, destroy, < AS. fellan, fyllan (pret. 
felde, fylde, pp. fylled), cause to fall, cut down, 
strike down, etc. (= OS. fellian = OFries. fella, 
falla = D. vellen = OHG. fellen, MHO. vellen, 
G. fallen = Icel. fella = Sw. falla = Dan. ftelde, 
cause to fall), caus. of feallan, fall: see fall 1 .] 
1. To cause to fall; throw down; cut down; 
bring to the ground, either by cutting, as with 
ax or sword, or by striking, as with a club or 
the fist : as, to fell trees ; to fell an ox ; to fell 
an antagonist at fisticuffs. 
There cam a schrewde arwe out of the west, 
That/eW Roberts pryde. 
Robyn and Gandelyn (Child's Ballads, V. 40). 
Cease your Lamentings, Trojans, for a while, 
And/ down Trees to build a Fuu'ral Pile. 
Congreoe, Iliad. 
He ran boldly up to the Philistine, and, at the first 
throw, struck on the forehead, and felled him dead. 
Kingeley. 
He was not armed like those of eastern clime, 
Whose heavy axes felled their heathen foe. 
Jones Very, Poems, p. 151. 
2. In sewing, to flatten on and sew down level 
with the cloth : as, to fell a seam. 
Each, taking one end of the shirt on her knee, 
Again began working with hearty good-will, 
Felling the seams, and whipping the frill. 
Barhatn, Ingoldsby Legends, II. 126. 
3. To finish the weaving of (a web, or piece of 
cloth). [Prov. Eng.] 
fell 1 (fel), n. \_<fein, .] If. A cutting down ; 
a felling. 
Fir-trees are always planted close together, because of 
keeping one another from the violence of the windes ; and 
when a fell is made, they leave here and there a grown 
tree to preserve the young ones coming up. 
1'fpys, Diary, II. 73. 
2. In sewing, a flat, smooth seam between two 
pieces of a fabric, made by laying down the 
wider of the two edges left projecting by the 
joining seam over the narrower edge and hem- 
ming it down. A French fell is made by doubling in- 
ward both edges of the fabric on the line of the joining 
seam, and making a second seam through the folds, so as 
to hold the edges in. 
3. In weaving, the line of termination of a web 
in the process of weaving, formed by the last 
weft-thread driven up by the lay; the line to 
which the warp is at any instant wefted. 
fell 2 (fel). Preterit of fain. 
fell 3 (fel), . [< ME. fel, fell, < AS. fel, fell, a 
skin, hide, = OS. fel = OFries. fel = D. vel = 
OHQ.fel, Q.fell = loe}. fjall and/eZJ (only in 
comp.) = Sw. fall = Norw. feld, skin, hide, = 
Goth, fill (only in comp. thruts-fill, leprosy) = 
L. pellis = Gr. Trt/Ua, a skin, hide. From the L. 
pellis are derived E. pell, pelt 2 , peltry, pelisse, 
surplice, etc.] 1. The skin or hide of an ani- 
mal ; a pelt ; hence, an integument of any kind. 
[Obsolete or archaic.] 
He and alle his kyn at ones 
Ben worthy for to brennen, fel and bones. 
Chaucer, Troilus, 1. 91. 
The Chest-nut (next the meat) within 
Is cover'd (last) with a soft, slender skin, 
That skin inclos'd in a tough tawny shel, 
That shel in-cas't in a thick thistly feU. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Columnes. 
The good years shall devour them, flesh and fell. 
Shak., Lear, v, 3. 
2174 
2. A hairy covering ; a head of hair. 
The time has been, my senses would have cool'd 
To hear a night-shriek ; and my fell of hair 
Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir 
As life were in 't. Shak., Macbeth, v. 5. 
He spoke in words part heard, in whispers part, 
Half -suffocated in the hoary fell 
Ami many-winter 'd tleece of throat and chin. 
Tennyson, Merlin nnd Vivien. 
But who is she, woman of northern blood, 
With/eH of yellow hair and ruddy looks? 
R. H. Stoddard, Guests of the State. 
fell 4 (fel), a. [< ME. fel, fell, strong, fierce, 
terrible, cruel, angry, < AS. "fel, *felo, only in 
comp. wail-fel (once), bloodthirsty, lit. eager 
for slain (applied to a raven), eal-felo, var. cel- 
fcele (twice), 'very dire ' (applied to poison), = 
OD. fel, wrathful, cruel, bad, base, = OFries. 
fal (in one uncertain instance) = Dan. feel, 
disgusting, hideous, ghastly, grim. Cf . OF. fel, 
cruel, furious, perverse, < OD.fel. See felon 1 .'] 
1. Of a strong and cruel nature; eager and un- 
sparing; grim; fierce; ruthless. 
Sirs, the knyghtes of the rounde table haue take a-gein 
vs Afell strif, flor that the! be greved with oure partye. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 489. 
Sum sail be mildeand mekeand sum both f ers and /*//. 
York Playt, p. 12. 
I durst, sir, 
Fight with the/ee( monster. 
Fletcher, Mad Lover, Ii. 1. 
And near him many a fiendish eye 
Olared with a/eU malignity. 
J. R. Drake, Culprit Fay, p. 48. 
2. Strong and fiery; biting; keen; sharp; 
clever : as, a fell cheese ; a fell bodie. [Scotch.] 
And loke thou be wyse fcfelle, 
And therto also that thow gouerne the welle. 
Bakees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 13. 
Merlyn, that knewe well that these iiij com to inquere 
after hym, drough hym towarde oon of the richest of the 
company, for that he wiste hym mostefell and hasty. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), i. 30. 
Biting Boreas fell and doure. Burnt, A Winter Night. 
fel! 4 t, adr. [<fell*, a.] Sharply; fiercely. 
But tho' she followed him fast mi fell, 
No nearer could she get. 
Sir Roland (Child's Ballads, I. 225). 
fell 6 (fel), n. [< ME. fel, fell, < Icel. fjall, fell 
= Sw. fjall = Dan. fjceld, a hill. Perhaps con- 
nected withdrew, q! v.] 1. A hill, especially a 
rocky eminence : as, Mickle Fell, Sc&wfell, and 
Scaw/eH Pike, the last the highest mountain in 
England proper. [Obsolete, except as retained 
in proper names. See scar.'] 2. A stretch of 
bare, elevated land; a moor; a down. [Prov. 
Eng. (in the Lake district and northwestern 
Yorkshire).] 
O he was ridden o'er field and fell, 
Through muir and moss, and mony a mire. 
Annan Water (Child's Ballads, II. 188). 
The night-birds all that hour were still, 
But now they are jubilant anew. 
From cliff and tower, tu-whoo ! tu-whoo ! 
Tu-whoo ! tu-whoo from wood and fell. 
Coleridge, Christabel, I., Conclusion. 
He went on until evening shadows and ruddy evening 
lights came out upon the wild fells. 
Mr*. Gaskell, Sylvia's Lovers, xxxiv. 
fellt (fel), . [< L. fel (fell-), gall, bile, fig. bit- 
terness, animosity, = E. gall 1 , q. v.] Gall ; an- 
ger; melancholy. 
Sweete Love, that doth his golden wings embay 
In blessed Nectar and pure Pleasures well, 
Untroubled of vile feare or bitter fell. 
Spenser, F. Q., III. xi. 2. 
felFt (fel), n. [E. dial.] In mining, one of the 
many names of lead ore formerly current in 
Derbyshire, England. 
fellable (fel'a-bl), a. [< fell 1 + -able.'] Capa- 
ble of being or fit to be felled. E. Phillips, 1706. 
fellah (fel'S), n. ; pi. fellahs, fellaheen (-&z, -a- 
hen). [ArV fellah, pi. felldhin, a plowman, "a 
peasant ; cf.falaha, agriculture, (falaha, cleave 
(the soil), plow, till.] An Egyptian or Syrian 
peasant, laborer, or tiller of the soil. The fellahs 
or fellaheen of Egypt, including all the working classes, 
but chiefly agricultural laborers, are of mixed Coptic, 
Arabian, and Nubian stock, and are socially and politi- 
cally degraded. The Turks apply the name contemptu- 
ously to all Egyptians. 
No impediment was ever placed in the way of ... [the 
soldiers'] going off, sometimes for weeks together the 
fellaheen to look after their crops and harvests, the Bed- 
ouins to graze their camels, and their flocks and herds. 
J. Darmsleter, The Mahdi, p. 117. 
The tax-oppressed fellaheen of Egypt still tread out the 
wheat with oxen and grind the straw with the feet of 
beasts and with wooden drags. 
U. S. Com. Rep. (1886), No. Ixvii., p. 481. 
feller (fel'er), n. 1. One who or that which 
fells ; one who hews or knocks down. 
fellow 
The flr trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars "f Lebanon, 
saying, Since thon art laid low, nafeUer is come uji against 
us. I*a. xiv. b. 
Short writhen oakes, 
Untouch'd of any feller's baneful stroakes. 
W. Broiene, Britannia's Pastorals, ii. 3. 
2. A sawing-, boring-, or chiseling-machine for 
cutting down trees ; a felling-machine. 3. An 
attachment to a sewing-machine, for the more 
convenient felling of seams. 
fellic, fellinlc (fel'ik, fe-lin'ik), a. [< L. fel 
(fell-), gall, + -tc.] Obtained from bile: as, 
fellic oifellinic acid. 
fellick (fel'ik), n. A dialectal variant of felly 1 . 
fellifluOUS (fe-lif'lij-us), a. [< LL. fellifluus, 
flowing with gall, < L. fel (fell-), gall, + ftuere, 
flow: see fluent."] Flowing with gall. 
felling-ax (fel'ing-aks), . An ax especially 
contrived for cutting down trees, as distin- 
guished from axes used in lopping, hewing, etc. 
felling-machine (fering-ma-shen*), n. A ma- 
chine for cutting standing timber; a feller. 
felling-saw (fel'ing-sa), n. A long saw used 
with steam-power in a felling-machine, or by 
hand, for felling trees. 
fellinic, <t. See fellic. 
fell-lurking (fel'ler'king), a. Lurking with a 
fell or treacherous purpose. 
Call hither to the stake my two brave bears, 
That, with the very shaking of their chains, 
They may astonish these fell-lurking curs. 
Shak., 2 Hen. VI., v. 1. 
fellmongert (fel'mung'ger), n. A dealer in fells 
or hides. Also felmonger. 
So I set out and rode to Ware, this night, in the way 
having much discourse with a fellmonger, a quaker, who 
told me what a wicked man he had been all his life-time 
till within this two years. Pepys, Diary, I. 204. 
fellness (fel'nes), TO. [< ME. felnes, felnesse, 
fierceness, also shrewdness; (fell* + -ness.] 
Cruelty; fierceness; ruthlessness. 
Then would she inly fret, and grieve, and teare 
Her flesh for felnesse, which she inward hid. 
Spenser, F. Q., V. xil. 32. 
It [his aspect] seemed not to express wrath or hatred, 
but a certain hot fellness of purpose, which annihilated 
everything but itself. Hawthorne, Seven Gables, viii. 
felloe 1 ,". See felly 1 . 
felloe'-'t, " An obsolete spelling of fellow. 
fellofft, . An obsolete dialectal form of felly 1 . 
In hope to hew out of his bole 
The fell'fs, or out parts of a wheele, that compasse in the 
whole. Chapman, Iliad, ir. 
fellont, n. See/e2on2. 
fellow (fel'6), n. [Early mod. E. also fellowe, 
felloe, felowe, feloe; < ME. felow, felowe, felaw, 
felawe, felaghe, felage, etc., a companion, as- 
sociate, < Icel. felagi, a companion, partner, 
shareholder, <felag, a partnership, fellowship, 
lit. a laying together of property, < fe, property 
(= E./ee 1 ), + lag, a laying together, fellowship, 
companionship, pi. log (orig. *lagu, > AS. lagu, 
E. law 1 , q. v.), < leggja = E. lay 1 , q. v. 'Fel- 
low-' in comp. is in ME. usually expressed by 
even-; cf. even-christian, etc.] 1. A compan- 
ion ; comrade ; mate. 
My Felawes and I, with oure jomen, we serveden this 
Emperour, and weren his Soudyoures. 
Marulemlle, Travels, p. 220. 
This old fader that is my felaw here, 
He canne telle that as wele as any wight. 
Generydes(E. E. T. S.), 1. 134. 
I can be a friend to a worthy man, who upon another 
account cannot be my mate at fellow. 
Lamb, Imperfect Sympathies. 
A shepherd had one favourite dog ; he fed him with his 
own hand, and took more care of him than of his fellows. 
Sir R. L'Estrange. 
2. One of the same kind; one of like character 
or qualities ; an equal ; a peer or compeer. 
It is impossible that ever Rome 
Should breed thy fellow. Shale., 1. C., v. 3. 
'Ti old dry timber, and such wood has no fellow. 
Fletcher, Loyal Subject, L 3. 
He's gone, and not left behind him his fellow. W. Pope. 
3. One of a pair ; one of two things mated or 
fitted to each other ; a mate or match. 
My liege, this was my glove ; here is the fellow of it. 
Shak., Hen. V., iv. 8. 
Two shoes that were not fellows. 
Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, p. 46. 
4. A masculine mate : applied to beasts. 
Heifers . . . are let go to the fellow and breed. 
. 
Holland. 
5. In a particular sense, a boon companion: a 
pleasant, genial associate; a jovial comrade; 
a man of easy manners and lively disposition; 
often with the epithet good. 
