feu-duty 
feu-duty (f u'diV'ti), . In Scots law, the annual 
duty or rent paid by a feuar to his superior, ac- 
cording to the tenure of his right. 
Feuillant(fe-lyon'), " [F.] 1. A member of a 
congregation of reformed Cistercian monks, in- 
stituted by Jean de la Barriere. The reform aimed 
at stricter monastic discipline, and was approved by the 
Pope in 1586. In 1830 the congregation was divided into 
two: the French, called Notre Dame des Feuillants, and 
the Italian, called Reformed Bemardines. 
2. A club of constitutional royalists in the 
French revolution, taking its name from the 
convent of the Feuillants in Paris, where it 
met. It was broken up in August, 1792. 
The old Jacobins became absolutely republican, and, in 
contempt, called the Feuillants the Club Monarchique. 
Encyc. Brit., IX. 602. 
Feuillantine (fe-lyou-teu'), w. [< Feuiltant + 
-iwe 2 .] A member of a congregation of nuns 
organized in the last part of the sixteenth cen- 
tury, and corresponding to the Feuillants. 
Feuillea (fu-il'e-a), n. [NL., named after Louis 
Feuillet, a French' traveler and naturalist (1660- 
1732).] A cucurbitaceous genus of half a dozen 
species, of tropical America. They are frutescent 
climbers, and the large, bitter, and very oily seeds are 
both purgative and emetic. F. cordifolia is the antidote 
cacoon of Jamaica, which is employed as a remedy for 
various diseases and as an antidote to certain poisons. 
Also Fevillea. 
feuillemorte (fely-morf), and n. [F. feuille 
morte, lit. 'dead leaf: see filemot.] I. a. Of 
the color of a dead or faded leaf; of a shade of 
brown. Also foliomort. 
To make a countryman understand what feuillemorte 
colour signifies, it may suffice to tell him 'tis the colour of 
wither'd leaves falling in Autumn. 
Locke, Human Understanding, III. xi. 14. 
II. n. A color like that of a dead or faded 
leaf; filemot. 
It was one of the shades of brown known by the name 
of feuiUe-morte. or dead-leaf colour. 
Quoted in N. and Q., 6th ser., IX. 134. 
feuillet (fe-lya'), n. [F., a leaf, sheet, plate, 
gill, third stomach, dim. of feuille, a leaf, < L. 
folium, a leaf : see foil 1 , folio.} 1. The third 
stomach of a ruminant; the psalterium or 
manyplies. 2. lu diamond-cutting, the pro- 
jecting points of the triangular facets of a rose- 
cut diamond, whose bases join those of the tri- 
angles of the central pyramid. E. D. 
feuuleton (fe'lye-ton), n. [F., dim. of feuillet, 
a leaf, sheet: see feuillet.'] 1. In French news- 
papers, a part of one or more pages (the bot- 
tom) devoted to light literature or criticism, and 
generally marked off from the rest of the page 
y a rule. 2. The matter given in the feuille- 
tpn, very commonly consisting of part of a se- 
rial story. 
To most Parisians of any education, and to many pro- 
vincials, their daily paper, with its brilliant "leader" 
and its exciting feuittetvn, is as necessary as their daily 
breakfast. W. R. Grey, Misc. Essays, 2d ser., p. 130. 
feuilletonism (fe'lye-ton-izm), n. [< feuilleton 
+ -ism.'] Such literary and scientific qualities 
as find expression in the feuilleton ; an ephem- 
eral, superficial, and showy quality in scholar- 
ship or literature. 
Dignifying Schliemannism and spade-lore,/eut'Uetoniui, 
dillettantism, and sciolism with the name of scholarship. 
Fortnightly Rev., X. S., XLIII. 59. 
feuilletonist (fe'lye-ton-ist), w. [< feuilleton + 
-ist.] One who writes for the feuilleton of a 
French newspaper. 
If a great university deliberately discourages high lin- 
guistic attainments, and reserves her honours and places 
for smart but shallow fettilletonistg, rash and pretentious 
theorists in a word, for utterers of literary false coin 
and vendors of literary wares which were chiefly meant to 
sell, what place is England likely soon to hold in the world 
of letters and learning? 
Fortnightly Rev., N. S., XLIII. 57. 
feuilletonistic (fe/lye-ton-is'tik). a. ^feuille- 
tonist + -ic.~\ Characteristic or suggestive of 
a feuilleton ; ephemeral ; superficial. 
The Count returned to the charge, and worried his Chief 
with what the latter called feuilletonistic remarks about 
the difficulties of his social and diplomatic position in 
Paris. Lowe, Bismarck, II. 42. 
feuteH, [ME., also written few te, foute, fute, 
and later (mod.) fuse, fusee (see fusee 3 ) ; origin 
unknown; perhaps connected with feuterer, 
but this is doubtful.] 1. Odor; scent. 
Fute, odowre, odor. Prompt. Parv. t p. 183. 
When the houndes hadde feute of the hende beste. 
H'iHia? of Pale me (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2189. 
2. The track or trail, as of a deer. 
Fewte, vestigium. Prompt. Paro., p. 159. 
He fond the feute al fresh where forth the herde [cowherd ] 
Hadde bore than barn [the child]. 
William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 90. 
2194 
feute 2 t, feuteet, . [ME., also fewtee, < OF. 
feaute, etc., fealty: see fealty.] Same ctsfealty. 
Homage non withsay 
Ac alle deden him feute. 
King Alisaunder( Weber's Metr. Rom.), 1. 2910. 
He lete make many newe knyghtes with his owne 
honde, whiche alle dide hyin homage ind/nrtM. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), i. 121. 
feuterH, fewterH (fu'ter), n. [Early mod. E. 
also feutre; < ME. feuter, fewtre, fewtire, etc., 
OF. feutre, fautre, faultre, faltre, feltre, a lance- 
rest, any such support; orig., according to the 
etym., a pad or padded socket, being a particu- 
lar use of OF. feutre, fautre, feltre, etc., F. feu- 
tre, felt, packing, padding, a cushion, carpet 
(whence feutrer, pack, pad), = Pr. feutre = Sp. 
fieltro = Pg. It. feltro, < ML. filtrum, feltrum, 
felt, a pad or socket for a lance, < OHG. file = 
AS. felt, etc., felt: seefelft, felter.'] Arestfora 
lance, attached to the saddle of a man-at-arms ; 
a lance-rest ; a support for a spear. 
These com in the first fronte with speres in fewtre for to 
luste, for grete myster hadde thel of horse. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 446. 
To William he priked with spere festned In feuter. 
William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3436. 
Streiget to him [he] rides, 
With his spere on feuter festened that time. 
William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3593. 
A faire floreschte spere infewtyre he castes, 
And folowes faste one owre folke, and freschelye ascryez. 
Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1366. 
feuterH, fewterH (fu'ter), v. t. [Early mod. 
E. also feutre; < feuteri, fewter*, .] To place, 
as a lance or spear, in the feuter or rest. 
His speare hefeutred, and at him it bore. 
Spenser, F. Q., IV. iv. 45. 
feuter 2 t, fewter 2 t, n. Obsolete variants of 
feature. 
Pewters of his face. Jlomeut and Juliet, p. 57. 
feuterert, fewterert (fu'ter-er), n. [With ad- 
ditional suffix -er, as in poulterer, etc., for earlier 
"fewter, vewter, a keeper of hounds, < OF. vau- 
trieur, vautreur, a hunter, a poacher, < rautrier, 
viautrier, viautrer, hunt with hounds, < viautre, 
later spelled raultre = Pr. veltre = It. feltro (ML. 
veltrus), a kind of bound, a mongrel between a 
hound and a mastiff, prob. < L. vertagus, also 
spelled vertaga, vertagm, vertraga, a greyhound, 
a word said to be of Celtic origin.] A keeper of 
hounds. 
Tho vewter, two cast of brede he tase, 
Two lesshe of grehoundes yf that he base ; 
To yche a bone, that is to telle, 
If I to sou the sothe shalle spelle. 
Babeei Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 320. 
If you will be 
An honest yeoman fewterer, feed us first, 
And walk us after. Massinger, The Picture, v. 1. 
feuth (futh), n. A dialectal variant offultti. 
feutredt, a. [< F. feutrer, pad as with felt, < 
feutre, felt: see felft, felter, and cf. feuteri.] 
Stuffed or bombasted, as a garment. Fairholt. 
fever 1 (fe'ver), n. [Early mod. E. alsofeaver; 
< ME./eiier, fevere, fevre (partly from OF ), ear- 
\ierfefer, < AS.fefer, fefor = OHG. fiebar, MHG. 
vieber, G. fieber = Sw. Dan. feber = OF. fevre, 
fievre, F. fievre = Pr. febre = Sp. fiebre = Pg. 
febre = It.febbre,< ~L.febris, a fever; perhaps 
orig. "ferbris or "ferbis, < fervere, be hot, burn, 
boil ; or perhaps lit. ' a trembling,' akin to Gr. 
QcileaBat, nee affrighted, <fiuf}of, flight, panic fear, 
fear, terror.] 1. inpathol. : (a) A temperature 
of the body higher than the normal temperature, 
appearing as a symptom of disease; pyrexia. 
The temperature of the body in health is between 98" and 
99" F. , and is maintained at this point by the adjustment of 
the production of bodily heat to its dissipation, both of 
these processes being largely under nervous control. Dur- 
ing the period of invasion of a fever, or at anytime when 
the temperature is rising, the heat produced exceeds 
the heat lost. If the rise is very rapid, the withdrawal of 
the blood from the skin which diminishes the loss of heat, 
may give rise to a cold sensation or chill, which may be 
combined with an attack of shivering. By the latter the 
production of heat is increased. During fever the produc- 
tion of heat, while it may be greater than in a healthy 
body at rest, does not exceed what a healthy body can dis- 
pose of without experiencing increase of temperature. 
The consumption of the tissues of the body in fever ex- 
ceeds ordinarily the repair, and there is more or less ema- 
ciation ; the excretion of urea is increased ; the pulse is 
usually quickened as well as the respiration; the bowels 
are apt to be constipated ; and thirst, loss of appetite, head- 
ache, and vague pains are commonly complained of. Fe- 
ver is caused by zymotic poisons, by local inflammation, 
or by overheating as in sunstroke, and is sometimes of ex- 
clusively nervous origin. It is unquestionably injurious 
to the patient when it is excessive or too long continued ; 
in some cases, where it does not exceed certain limits, it 
is very probably innocuous, or may even be advantageous. 
Fever would ordinarily be called slight up to 101 or 102 
F., moderate up to 103 or 103.5, and high above this. 
Temperatures above 105 F. would be called excessively 
high, and to such the name of hyperpyrexia is applied. 
fever 
The limits of the significations of these terms are not pre- 
cisely marked ; they vary somewhat in the usa^e "f ililfcT- 
ent individuals. The prognostic significance of pyrexia de- 
pends on the accompanying conditions, (b) The group 
of symptoms consisting of pyrexia and the 
symptoms usually associated with it. (c) A 
disease in which pyrexia is a prominent symp- 
tom: as, typhoid fever, scarlet fever, etc. 
For the feuere agu hath comounly alienaciouu of witt, 
and achewynge of thingis of fantasy. 
Book ofQuinte Essence (ed. Furnivall), p. 22. 
Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him. 
John iv. 52. 
He had & fever when he was in Spain, 
And, when the fit was on him, I did mark 
How he did shake. Shak., J. C., i. 2. 
Our first positive knowledge of the manner In which 
the organism is incited to the morbid action that results 
in freer dates from the observation by Naunyn, Billroth, 
and Weber that a febrile elevation of the temperature 
may be experimentally produced by the introduction of 
septic matter into the circulation. 
Buck's Handbook of Med. Sciences, III. 67. 
Some low fever, ranging round to spy 
The weakness of a people, . . . found the girl, 
And flung her down upon a couch of fire. 
Tennyson, Aylmer's Field. 
2. Heat; agitation; excitement by anything 
that strongly affects the passions: as, a fever 
of suspense ; a fever of contention. 
Duncan is in his grave ; 
After life's fltful/euer he sleeps well. 
Shak., Macbeth, iii. 2. 
Superstition Is a Hectick Fever to Religion ; it by degrees 
consumes the vitals of it, but comes on insensibly, and is 
not easily discovered till it be hard to be cured. 
StUlinyfleet, Sermons, II. 1. 
Abdominal fever, abdominal typhus fever, same as 
typhoid fever. African fever. Same as yellow fever. 
Aphthous fever, the aphthous stomatitis of neat cattle. 
See ttomatiti*. Ardent continued fever, a fever resem- 
bling simple continued fever, developing in' the tropics, 
especially among persons not acclimated. Army fever. 
Same as typhusfeeer. Articular fever. Same txdengue. 
Ataxlc fever. See ataxic. Biliary fever, biliary 
remittent fever. Same as relapsing fever. Bilious 
fever, (a) Remittent fever. (6) Typhoid fever, (c) Diges- 
tive disturbance with rise of temperature and vomiting of 
bile. BillOUS typhoid fever. Same as relapsing fever. 
Black fever, cerebrospinal meningitis. See meningi- 
(i. Bladdery fever. Same as pemphigu*. Blanch 
fevert. See blanch. Bone-fever, acute cellulitis occur- 
ring in the fingers of workers in bone. Bouquet-fe- 
ver. Same as dengue. Breakbone fever. Same as 
dengue. Cacatory fever. See cacatory. Camp-fe- 
ver, a fever prevailing among soldiers in the field; spe- 
cifically, typhus fever. Carbuncular fever. Same as 
malignant anthrax (which see, under anthrax). Catar- 
rhal fever, (a) Bronchitis, (b) Catarrh of the upper air- 
passages with fever, (c) Typhoid fever of a mild form. 
Catheter-fever, fever incident to the use of the catheter; 
urethral fever. Its causation is obscure. Cerebrospi- 
nal fever, cerebrospinal meningitis. See meningitis. 
Chagres fever, a fever endemic on the isthmus of Pana- 
ma. Childbed fever, puerperal fever. Chills and 
fever. See chilli. Congestive fever, cerebrospinal 
meningitis: applied in a loose use to typhoid, typhus, and 
malarial fevers, and to pneumonia. Continual or con- 
tinued fever. See continual. Continued bilious fe- 
ver. Same as typhoid fever. Country fever. Same as 
intermittent fever. Cyprus fever, relapsing fever. 
Dothienterib fever. Same as typhoid fever. Double 
fever, intermittent fever in which there are two parox- 
ysms in each cycle. Double quotidian fever, intermit- 
tent fever in which two paroxysms occur within twenty- 
four hours. Double tertian fever, intermittent fever 
with two paroxysms having features distinct from each 
other, such as severity or distance from the last parox- 
ysm, in one cycle of forty-eight hours. Dynamic fe- 
ver, relapsing fever. Endemic fever, (a) Remittent 
fever, (b) Typhoid fever. Endemo-epldemlc fever, 
dengue. Enteric, enteromesenteric fever, typhoid 
fever. Ephemeral fever, a short simple continued 
fever. Epidemic fever. () Typhus fever. (6) The pest. 
- Epidemic remittent fever, relapsing fever. Erup- 
tive articular fever, dengue. Eruptive fever, a term 
applied to the various exanthemata. See exanthema. 
Eruptive rheumatic fever, dengue.- Essential fever, 
a fever of distinct zymotic origin and independent of a lo- 
cal inflammation. Exacerbating fever, remittent fever. 
Eranthematic typhus fever, typhus fever. Faint- 
ing fever of Persia, an epidemic in Teheran in 1842 : the 
attacks were characterized by fainting and choleraic symp- 
toms. Fall fever, (a) Typhoid fever. (6) Remittent fe- 
ver. Famine fever, relapsing fever. Fermentation- 
fever, fever produced by the introduction of fibrin fer- 
ment into the blood. Fever and ague, intermittent fe- 
ver. See ague, 2. Fever of the spirit, typhus fever. 
Fifteen-day fever, remittent fever with relapse on the 
fifteenth day. Gastric fever, (a) Typhoid fever. (6) 
Acute gastritis. Gastrobilious, gastro-enteric fever, 
typhoid fever. Gastrohepatic fever, relapsing fever. 
Gastrosplenic fever, typhoid fever. Gibraltar fe- 
ver, yellow fever. Hay fever. See hay-fever. Hectic 
fever, fever of the form which is typically exhibited in 
phthisis, with marked morning remissions and evening 
exacerbations. Hectic Infantile fever, typhoid fever in 
children. Hemogastrlc fever, yellow fever. Hemor- 
rhagic fever, the fever incident to hemorrhage. Her- 
petic fever, simple continued fever with herpes facialis. 
-Hungary fever, typhus fever. Icteric fever, per- 
nicious malarial fever accompanied with jaundice. Ic- 
teric remittent fever, ardent fever. Idiopathic fe- 
ver, a fever independent of local inflammation, as the 
various fevers of zymotic origin. HeotyphUS fever, 
typhoid fever. Infantile remittent fever, typhoid fe- 
ver in children. Inflammatory fever, (rt) Simple con- 
