festoon 
Carpets were laid down, bed-hangings /ex/oonerf, radiant 
white counterpanes spread. 
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, xvii. 
festoon-blind (fes-ton'blind), . A window- 
blind of textile material, so hung that it is 
gathered in three or four rows of small festoons 
in its width. It is raised and lowered like a 
Venetian blind. 
festooned (fes-tond'), a. Inornith., specifically, 
lobed, as a hawk's beak : correlated with toothed 
or dentate. 
festoony (fes-to'ni), a. [< festoon + -y l .J 
Resembling festoons; decorated or coved with 
festoons. Sir J. Herschel. [Bare.] 
festrawt, [Also feasestrate ; var. of festue, 
simulating straw.] Same a,a festue. Danes. 
I had past out of Crosse-rowe, speld and put together, 
read without &festraw. Breton, Grimello's Fortunes, p. 6. 
Festuca (fes-tu'ka), . [NL., < L. festuca, a 
stalk, stem, straw, a rod, a straw-like weed 
which grows among barley, a particle, mote. 
Hence festue, corruptly fescue, q. v.] A large 
genus of grasses widely distributed over the 
globe, but chiefly in temperate and colder re- 
gions. The number of species is variously estimated 
from 80 to 230, of which about 25 are found native in the 
United States. They are commonly known as fescue-grass, 
and are mostly low, slender grasses, valuable especially 
for pasturage. The meadow-fescue or tall fescue, F. ela- 
tior, and the sheep's fescue. F. ooina, are the most common 
in cultivation. F. scabrella is one of the more valuable 
bunch-grasses of the western territories of the United 
States. Blue fescue, F . glauca, with fine pale-blue leaves, 
is used for edgings. 
festucinet (fes-tu'sin), . and n. [< L. festuca, 
a stalk, stem, straw (see festuca, festue), + 
-in* 2 .] I. a. Straw-colored. 
A little insect of a festucine or pale green, resembling 
in all parts u locust, or what we call a grasshopper. 
Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., v. 3. 
II. n. In mineral., a splintery fracture. ( 'rabb. 
festucoust ( fes-tu'kus), . [< L. festuca, a straw, 
+ -OH*.] Formed of straw. 
We speak of straws orfestucous divisions lightly drawn 
over with oyl, and so that it causeth no adhesion. 
Sir T. Bromie, Vulg. Err., ii. 6. 
festuet (fes'tu), . [Formerly or dial, also, by 
corruption, festure, festi/r, renter, also festrair, 
feasesti'ttw (in simulation of E. straw), also/ecc 
(q. v.) ; < ME. festue, fcstu, a straw, mote, < OF. 
festu, F.fetu, m., = Pi. festue, m., and. festuca, 
fesluga, f., = It. festuco, m., festuca, f., < ML. 
festueus, m., Ii. festuca, L, a stalk, stem, straw: 
see Festuca.'] 1. A straw; a mote. 
Lewed men may likne sow thus that the beeni lithe in 
gowre eyghen, 
And the /<( is fallen for gun-re defaute. 
Pitrt Plowman (B), x. 278. 
2. Same as fescue, 1. 
festuret, A perverted form of festue. 
fetH (fet), v. t. [< ME. fetten, feten (pret. fette, 
rarely fatte,fott,fot, pp. fet, fette), < AS. fetian, 
fetigan, in comp. ge-fetian, ge-fetigan (pret. fette, 
pp. fetod), bring, fetch (prob. = Icel. feta, find 
one's way, = MHG. fasten, refl. go), < "feet, a 
step, a going (only in comp. fait-ltengest. a road- 
horse, sitli-ftet, a journey) (= Icel. fet, a step, 
pace), prob. ult. akin tofot, foot: see/oo<. Cf. 
fit s . Prob. a different word from OHG.fazzdti, 
MHG. va~~en, G. fassen, take, seize, = D. fatten 
= Dan. fatte = Sw. fatta, take, catch: see/a*' 2 . 
See/etc/il.] To fetch. 
And thereupon the wyn vr&sfet anon. 
Chaucer, Geu. Prol. to C. T., 1. 821. 
A merneillouse meteles mette me thanne, 
That I was raliisshed rijt there and Fortune me fette, 
And into the londe of Longynge allone she me brou.jte. 
Pier* Plownum (B), xi. 7. 
Then Beauty bade to blow retreat, . . . 
And Mercy mild with speed to fet 
Me, captive bound as prisoner. 
Lord Vanx (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 75). 
Like wax this magic makes me waste, 
Or like a lamb whose dam away is fet. 
Sir f. Sidney, Arcadia, i. 
The metall was of rare and passing price ; 
Not Bilbo steele, nor brasse from Corinth fet. 
Spenser, Muiopotmos, 1. 77. 
fet 2 t (fet), n. An obsolete form of fat 2 . 
fet 3 , a. and n. An obsolete or dialectal form of 
JU*. 
fet 4 t, . A Middle English form of feat*. 
fetal (fe'tal), a. [Also written festal; < fetus 
+ -a!.} Pertaining or relating 'to, or having 
the character of, a fetus. 
Even if we admit that education is the only reason for 
this superiority [the right side being larger than the left 
in right-handed persons], we must believe that some cir- 
cumstances in thefcetal development, or in the conditions 
governing the nervous centres, are favorable to it. 
Science, IX. 185. 
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fetation (fe-ta'shon), n. [Also written/astatton ; 
< fetus + -ation.i' Gestation; pregnancy; the 
state of being with child. 
fetch 1 (fech), v. [E. dial, also fateh, fotch; < 
ME. fetchen, fecchen, also facehen, fochen (pret. 
fahte, feight, also fetchde), bring, fetch, < AS. 
feccan, feccean, in comp. ge-feccan, ge-feccean, 
bring, fetch; origin uncertain. (I) In one 
view AS. feccan is a variant of fetian, E. fet, 
which has exactly the same sense : seefeft. A 
change such as that of fetian tofeecan, fecchen 
(ti (ty), > ci (ki, ky), > ch, tch (ch)) is, however, 
otherwise unexampled in AS. , though a common 
fact in later LL., Rom., ME., etc. (2) In another 
view, AS. feccan is allied to facian (rare), 
wish to get (= OFries. faka, prepare), < fcec 
(pi. facu), a space of time, a space of length, 
distance, = OFries. felc, fak = D. vale, an empty 
space, = OHG. fah, MHG. vach, a part, divi- 
sion of space, a wall, etc., G. fach, a compart- 
ment, department, province, = Sw. fack, a 
compartment, = Dan. fag, a department, of- 
fice. The orig. sense of AS. fcec and its cog- 
nates appears to have been 'a division,' the 
correlative notion to 'a joining,' a junction, 
with reference to the adjacence of divisions or 
compartments; < Teut, / "fak, < *//, in Goth. 
faijrs, fitted, adapted, AS. feeger, E. fairl, AS. 
fegan, join, unite, E. fay 1 , etc. : nee fair* , fay* , 
'fangl, and /arfj/e 1 .] I. tram. 1. To bring; 
usually, to go and bring; go, get, and bring or 
conduct to the person who gives the command 
or to the place where the command is given : 
as, fetch a chair from the other room. 
Myn eorles ant my barouns, gentil ant fre : 
Goth Igo], faccheth me the traytours ybounde to my kne. 
Flemish Iiunmetim (Child 8 Ballads, VI. 271). 
Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good 
kids of the goats. Gen. \xvii. V. 
Good morrow, worthy Cwsar : 
I coine to fetch you to the senate-house. 
Shak., .1. ('., ii. -'. 
This new Marquess, honourably accompanied, is sent 
into France to fetch the Lady Margaret, the proposed 
Bride. Baiter, Chronicles, p. 187. 
Our children and others, that were sick, and lay groan- 
ing in the cabins, we fetched out. 
Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 10. 
2. To derive ; draw, as from a source. [Obso- 
lescent.] 
They will be kin to us, but they will fetch it from Japhet. 
SAot.,2Hen. IV., ii. >. 
Epiphanius also fetcheth their name from Sedec, which 
signifleth lustice. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 143. 
Noble patterns must be fetched here and there from 
single persons, rather than whole nations. 
Sir T. Browne, Christ. Mor., iii. 1. 
And fetch their precepts from the Cynick tub. 
Mtttnn, Comus, 1. 708. 
The reasons of most of the evangelical commands must 
be fetched wholly from the other world, and a future judg- 
ment. Bp. Atterbury, Sermons, I. xi., Pref. 
3. To draw; heave: as, to fetch a groan. 
At every step he fetcht a sigh. 
Rabin Hood and Allin A Dale (Child's Ballads, V. 279). 
Thick and pantingly 
The breath vtt&fetch'd, and with huge labourings heard. 
Armstrong, Art of Health, 1744. 
He had long wished to fetch his last breath at ... the 
place where he was born. Goldsmith, Bolingbroke. 
4. To bring or draw into any desired relation 
or state ; bring down, as game ; bring to terms ; 
cause to come or yield, or to meet one's wishes : 
as, money will fetch him if persuasion will not ; 
a strong pull will fetch it. [Colloq.] 
This will fetch 'em, 
And make them haste towards their gulling more. 
B. Jonson, Alchemist, ii. 1. 
When I say my prayers I'll ask to have her say yes. 
That'll fetch her. Fitz-Hugh Ludlou', Little Brother, ii. 
5. To allure ; attract; fascinate. [Slang.] 
"She is awfully lovely," says Mr. Bellair. . . . "You 
seem fetched," says his friend. 
Mrs. Argles (" The Duchess"), Airy Fairy Lilian, xxxiii. 
6f. To bring back ; bring to ; revive. 
In smells we see their great and sudden effect In fetch- 
ing men again when they swoon. Bacon, Nat. Hist. 
7. To cause to come; bring. 
Draw forth the monsters of the abyss profound, 
Or fetch the aerial eagle to the ground. 
Pope, Essay on Man, iii. 221. 
8. To bring as an equivalent ; procure in ex- 
change, as a price: as, a commodity is worth 
what it will fetch; the last lot fetched only a 
small sum. 
As money will fetch all other commodities, so this know- 
ledge [of arts and sciences] is that which should purchase 
all the rest. Bacon, Advancement of Learning, ii. 210. 
Perhaps his farm would be for sale, and perhaps Lady 
Lorna's estates . . . would fetch enough money to buy it. 
R. D. Blactmore, Lorna Doone. 
fetch 
In like manner, the barrel of forty gallons of crude pe- 
troleum, which in the days of monopoly sold at Baku for 
eight shillings, has latterly fetched fourpence, and by the 
latest accounts was further reduced to threepence half- 
penny per toll on the spot. Pop. Set. Mo., XXVII. 2M. 
9f. To go and take. 
I'11/elcA a turn about the garden. 
Shak., Cymbeline, i. 2. 
I made bold to see, to come and know if that how you 
were dispos'd to fetch a Walk this Evening. 
Congrene, Way of the World, iv. 4. 
10. To bring to accomplishment ; effect; take, 
make, or perform : as, to fetch a leap or bound ; 
to fetch a high note in singing. 
Fetch a compass behind them, and come upon them over 
against the mulberry trees. 2 Sam. v. 23. 
A ... race of youthful and uuhaudled colts, 
Fetching mad bounds, bellowing, and neighing loud. 
Sh'tlt., M. of V., v. 1. 
11. To deliver; strike; reach in striking: as, 
to fetch one a blow on the head. 
The conditions of weapons and their improvements are, 
first, the fetching afar off, for that outruns the danger, as 
it is seen in ordnance and muskets. 
Bacon, Vicissitude of Tilings (ed. 1887). 
12. To reach; attain to; arrive at; make: as, 
to fetch the cape by noon ; to fetch the Downs. 
Mean time Hew our ships, and streight viefetcht 
The Syren's isle: a spleenless wind so stretcht 
Her wings to waft us, and so urg'd our keel. 
Chaptnan. 
If they [ships] are bound to the Southward, they stand 
over, and many fetch Galleo, or betwixt it and Cape St. 
Francisco. Dampier, A r oyages, I. 4. 
13f. To carry off. 
Pruyde and pestilence ahal muche puple/eccAe. 
Piers Plowman (C), U. 350. 
To fetch a compass, see compass. To fetch a pump, 
to establish a connection with the water in a pump oy 
pouring water into it, the water thus poured into the pump 
lieing conceived of at fetching up the water already there. 
-To fetch headway or sternway (.), to move 
ahead or astern : said of a ship. To fetch up. (a) To 
cause to come up or forth ; go for and bring up. (6) To 
rear, as a child ; bring up. [Colloq.] 
Here you were, the child of a missionary, and from your 
i radle had been fetched up for the work. 
Putnam's Mag., Nov., 1870. 
() To cause to stop suddenly in any course; bring to a 
standstill. In nautical use, same as to bring up (g). (dt) 
To come up with ; overtake ; catch up with. 
The other vessel was then a league behind, which was 
marvelled at, for she was the better sailer, and could fetch 
up the other at pleasure. 
Winthrop, Hist. New England, II. 40. 
The hare laid himself down and took a nap ; for, says 
he, I can fetch up the tortoise when I please. 
Sir R. L'Eetrange, Fables. 
(e) To recover. 
She, by her natural swiftness, soon fetches up her lost 
ground, and leaves him again behind. 
Bacon, Physical Fables, iv. 
To fetch (or bring) up all standing, to stop suddenly 
and without warning or preparation, as a ship with all 
sails set. To fetch up with a round turn. Same as 
to bring up unth a round turn. See bring. 
II. intrans. 1. To move or turn : as, to fetch 
about. 
It is strange how long some men will lie in wait to speak 
sumewhat they desire to say, and how far about they will 
fetch, and how many other matters they will beat over to 
come near it. Bacon, Cunning (ed. 1887). 
The sons of Devon marched on . . . so as to fetch round 
the western side, and attack with their culverin from the 
cliffs. R. D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone, liv. 
2. Naut., to reach; attain; get. 
We shall fetch to windward of the lighthouse this tack. 
Falconer. 
To fetch and carry, to perform menial services, as a 
dog trained to recover game when shot, and to carry bas- 
kets, etc. ; hence, to be or become a servile drudge. 
Such a high calling therefore as this sends not for those 
drossy spirits that need the lure and whistle of earthly 
preferment, like those animals that fetch and carry for a 
morsell. Milton, On Def. of Humb. Remonst. 
To fetch away, to get loose : said of any article on board 
ship which is thrown about or loosened by the motion uf 
the vessel. 
My hats, boots, mattress, and blankets had all fetched 
away and gone over to leeward, and were jammed and 
broken under the boxes and coils of rigging. 
R. H. Dana, Jr., Before the Mast, p. 6. 
It is impossible to stand without holding on, it is diffi- 
cult to sit, it is almost as difficult to lie. Everything not 
securely lashed fetches away. 
W. C. Russell, Sailor's Sweetheart, x. 
To fetch up, to come to a stop suddenly or unexpectedly : 
come to a halt: as, the ship struck a shoal and fetched 
up all standing ; the tippler started for home, but fetched 
up at the tavern. 
fetch 1 (fech), n. [</ete*l, v.~\ 1. The act of 
going and bringing; a reaching out after some- 
thing ; a drawing in as from a distance. 
The observation of a complex of objects resolves itself 
into two factors of perception and explanation by means 
of appropriate fetches of the constructive Imagination. 
Science, VII. 289. 
