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FE A'TIIER GR ASS, f in botany, See Stipa. 
FEA'THER-CINCTURED, adj. Girt round with 
feathers.—Their fcather-cinclur’d chiefs and duflcy loves. 
Gray. 
PEA'THERBED, f. A bed (luffed with feathers; a 
foft bed : 
The hufband cock looks out, and ftraight is fped. 
And meets his wife, which brings her featherbed. Donne. 
FEA'TIIERDRIVER, f. One who cleanfes feathers 
by whilking them about.—A fcatherdriver had the relidue 
of his lungs-.filled with the fine duft or down of feathers, 
Derkain. 
FEA'TIIERED, adj. Clothed with feathers : 
So when the new-born phoenix firfi is feen, 
Her feather'd fubjetts all adore their queen. Dryden. 
Darkening the (ky, they hover o’er, and (hroud 
The wanton failors with a feather'd cloud. Prior. - 
Fitted with feathers; carrying feathers.—An eagle had 
the ill hap to be (truck with an arrow, feather'd from her 
own wing. L'.EJlrange. 
Not the bow they bend, nor boad the (kill 
To give the feather'd arrow wings to kill. Pope. 
FEA'THERED CO'LUMBINE,/. in botany. See 
Thalictrum. 
FEA'THEREDGE, f. Boards or planks that have 
one edge thinner than another, are called ftathered.se duff'. 
Moxon. 
FEA'THEREDGED, adj. Belonging to a feather 
edge.—The cover mud be made of fcatkeredged boards, 
in the nature of feveral doors with hinges fixed thereon. 
Mortimer. 
FE A'THERLESS, adj. Without feathers.—This fo 
high grown ivy was like that fcatherlefs bird, which went 
about to beg plumes of other birds to cover his naked- 
nefs. Howcl. 
FEA'THERLY, adj. Refembling feather.—The ac¬ 
cretion or pluvious aggelation of hail about the mother 
and fundamental atoms thereof, feems to be fome featherly 
particle of fnow, although fnow itfelf be fexangular. 
Brown. 
FEA'THERSELLER, f. One who fells feathers for 
beds. This avocation, in England, is chiefly confined to 
Lincolnfliire; where the geefe are plucked alive, five 
times a-ycar, to fupply the London upholfterers with fea¬ 
thers and down.—See the article Anas, vol.i. p.518, 
for particulars of this cruel operation. 
FEATHERY, adj. Clothed with feathers: 
Or whittle from the lodge, or village cock 
•Count the night-watches to his feathery dames. Milton. 
FEAT'LY, adv. Neatly; nimbly; dextroufly : 
The moon was up, and (hot a gleamy light; 
He favv a quire of ladies in a round, 
That featly Footing feem’d to fkim the ground. Dryden. 
FEAT'LY, called alfo by Wood, Fairclough (Da¬ 
niel), a learned divine of the church of England, and 
theological writer, born at Charlton in Oxfordlhire, in 
15S2. He was educated at Corpus-Chrifti college, Ox¬ 
ford. He commenced a diligent courfe of theological 
(Indies, and acquired a high reputation for profound (kill 
in pofitive divinity. When fir Thomas Edmunds was 
appointed by king James to be his ambafdidor to the 
court of France, the fame of Mr. Featly’s abilities and 
character occafioned him to be appointed chaplain to the 
embalfy; and be fpent three years in France as a domedic 
with fir Thomas. While he was in that country, he ob¬ 
tained diftinguifhed reputation as a preacher, and parti¬ 
cularly by his able, deputations with fome of the molt 
,reamed catholic clergy in defence of tire proteflant reli¬ 
gion. Even his opponents did juftice to his learning and 
talents, (fyling him Featleeusacutifunus & acerrimus. Upon 
bis return to England, he. was.rewarded with conliderable 
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Church preferment ; and was made the third and lad pro- 
voft of Chelfea-college, where he died in 1644, in the 
fixty-fifth year of his age. The eve of his life was em¬ 
bittered by perfecution and imprifonment, for delivering 
his fentiments too freely in favour of epifcopacy, and 
againft the covenant. 
FEAT'NESS, f. Neatnefs; nicety; dexterity. 
FEA'TURE, y! \_faiture, old Fr.] The cad or make 
of the face.—Report the feature of Odtavia, her years, 
Shakcfpeare. —Any lineament or (ingle part of the face : 
Though ye be the faired of God’s creatures, 
Yet think that death (hall fpoil your goodXy features. 
Spenfer. • 
To FEA'TURE, a.’, a. To referable in countenance j 
to favour. 
FEA'TURED, adj. Graced with good features.—How 
wife, how noble, young, how rore\y featur’d. Shakcfpeare „ 
FEA'VOUROUS, adj. Feverifh. Shakefpcare. 
To FEAZE, v. a. [jaifez, Fr.] To uhtwift the end of 
a rope, and reduce it again to its fird (lamina. To beat; 
to whip with rods. Ainfworth. 
To FEBRI'CITATE, v.n. \_fcbricitor, Lat.J To be in 
a fever. 
FEBRI'CULOSE, adj. [febricit/o/iis, Lat.] Troubled 
with a fever. 
FEBRLFIC, adj. \_febris and facio, Lat.] Feverifh,— 
The febrific humour fell into my legs. Chef erfeld. 
FEB'RIKUGE, f. [febris and fugo, Lat. febrijuge, Fr.] 
Any medicine that counteracts a fever.—Bitters, like 
choler, are the bed fanguifiers, and . alfo the bed jebri- 
fugesl Flayer '. 
FEB'RIFUGE, adj. Having the power to cure fevers. 
Febrifuge draughts had a mod furprifing good effect. Ar- 
buthnot. 
FE'BRILE, adj. [febrilis, Lat. febrile, Fr.] Conditut- 
ing a fever; proceeding from a fever.—The fpirits, em¬ 
broiled with the malignity in the blood, and turgid and 
tumefied by the febrile fermentation, are by phlebotomy 
relieved. Harvey. 
FEB'RUA, a goddefs at Rome, who prefided over pu¬ 
rifications.—The Feralia, facrifices which the Romans 
offered to the gods manes, were alfo called Fcbrua, whence 
the name of the month of February, during which the 
oblations were made. 
FEB'RUARY, [ Fcvrier , Fr. Februarivs, Lat. of 
Gr.] The fecond month of the year, containing 
twenty-eight days for three years, and every fourth year 
twenty-nine days.—In the fird ages of Rome, February 
was the lad month of the y'ear, and preceded January, 
till the decemviri made an order that February diould be 
the fecond month of the year, and come after January. 
This month is reprefented in painting and fculpture, by 
the image of a man, clad in a dark (ky-colour, carrying 
in his right hand the adronornical dgn Pifces. 
FEBRUA'TION, f. [from the Lat. fcbrua, facrifices 
for the dead.] The aft of facrificing for the dead; the act 
of praying for the fouls of the dead. 
FE'CAMP, a feaport town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Lower Seine, and chief place of a canton, 
in the didriCl of Montivili-iers. It contains about one 
thoufand houfes. The principal commerce is in linen, 
ferges, lace, leather, and hats : the herring fifhery em¬ 
ploys a considerable number of veffels; and (mailer boats 
fidi along the coad : five leagues north.north-ead of Mon- 
tivilliers, and nine fouth-we(t of Dieppe. Lat. 49. 46. N. 
Ion. 18. 3. E. Ferro. 
FE'CES, f. Xjxcesi Lat. feces^r.] Dregs; lees; fedi- 
ments; fublideqce : 
Hence the furfa.ee of the ground with mud 
And (lime befmear’d, the .feces of the flood, 
Receiv’d the rays of heav’n ; and, fucking in 
The feeds of heat, new creatures did begin. Dryden. 
Excrement.—The fymptoms of fuch a conditution are a 
four fmell in their feces. Arbuthnct. 
FECHT. 
