tm FEE 
To prey; to live by eating.—Galen fpeaketh of the curing 
of the fcirrhus of the liver by milk of a cow that feedeth. 
upon certain herbs. Bacon. 
All feed on one vain patron, and enjoy 
Tli' extenfive bleffing of his luxury. Pope. 
To pafture ; to place cattle to feed.—Tf a man (hall caufe 
a field to be eaten, and (hall put in his bead, and (hall 
feed in another man’s field, he (hall make reftitution. 
Exod. —To grow fat or plump. A provincial ufe. 
FEED,/! Food ; that which is eaten.—An old worked 
@x fats as well as a young one : their feed is much cheaper, 
becaufe they eat no oats. Mortimer. —Pafture : 
Befides, his cote, his flocks and bounds of feed 
Are now on fale. Shakefpeare. 
Meal; add of eating : 
Plenty hung 
Tempting fo nigh, to pluck and eat my fill 
3 (par'd not: for fuch pleafure till that hour 
At feed or fountain never had I found. Milton, 
FEED'ER, f One that gives food : 
The bead obeys his keeper, and looks up, 
Not to his matter's, but his feeder's hand. Denham, 
An exciter ; an encourager : 
When thou do’ft hear I am as I have been, 
Approach me, and thou (halt be as thou wad. 
The tutor and the feeder of my riots. Skakefpcare. 
One that eats.—With eager feeding, food doth choak the 
feeder „ Shakefpeare. —One that eats in a certain mode j as, 
& nice feeder , a grofs feeder : 
But fuch fine feeders are no gue-fts for me ; 
Riot agrees not .with frugality. Dryden. 
FEED'ING, f. Rich padure.—He boafls liimfelf to 
trave a worthy feeding. Shakefpeare . 
That do rely 
Upon their feedings , flocks, and their fertility. Drayton. 
To FEEL, v. n. 'pxet.felt-, part. pa(T. felt, [pelan, Sax.] 
To have perception of things by the touch.—The fenfe 
of feeling can give us a notion of extenfion, drape, and all 
other ideas that enter at the eye, except colours. Addifon. 
—To fearch by feeling.—They (liould feek the Lord, if 
happily they might feel after him, and find him. Ads. — 
To have a quick fenfibility of good or evil, right or wrong. 
—Man, who feds for all mankind. Pope. —'Fo appear to 
the touch.—Blind men fay black feels rough, and white 
feels fmooth. Dryden. 
To FEEL, v. a. To perceive by the touch.—Suffer me 
that I may fed the pillars, fudges. —To try ; to found.— 
He hath, writ this to fed my affe&ion to your honour. 
Shakefpeare.— To have perception of.—The air is fo thin, 
that a bird has therein no feeling of her wings, or any re. 
fifiance of air to mount herfelf by. Raleigh.—To have fenfe 
of external pain or pleafure ; 
But why (hould thofe be thought to ’fcape who fed 
Thofe rods of fcorpions and thofe whips of fteel. Creech. 
T-o be affefled by; to perceive mentally : 
The well-fung woes (hall footh my penfive ghod; 
He bed can paint them who can fed them mod. Pope. 
To know ; to be acquainted with : 
His overthrow heap’d happinefs upon him ; 
For then, and not till then, he felt liimfelf. 
And found the bleffednefs of being little. Shakefpeare . 
FEEL, f The fenfe of feeling; the touch.—The dif¬ 
ference of thefe tumours will be diftinguiffied by the fed. 
Sharp. 
F-EEL'ER,/. One that feels: 
This hand, whofe touch, 
Whofe ev’ry touch would force Xhefeelefs fyul 
To th’©atff of loyalty, Shakefpeare, 
F E E 
The horn or antennae of infedts.—Infers clean their eyes 
with their fore-legs as well as antennae ; and as they are 
perpetually feeling and fearching before them with their 
feelers or antennae, I am apt to think that befides wiping 
and cleaning the eyes, the ufes here named may be ad¬ 
mitted. Derham . 
FEEI.'ING, part.adj. Expreffive of great fenfibility; 
Write till your ink be dry, and with your tears 
Moid it again; and frame fom ofeeling line, 
That may difeover fuch integrity. Shakefpeare, 
Senfibly felt. This fenfe is not fufficiently analogical: 
I had a feeling fenfe 
Of all your royal favours; but this lad 
Strikes through my heart. 'Southerner 
FEEL'ING, /. The fenfe of touch : 
Why was the fight 
To fuch a tender ball as th’ eye confin'd ; 
So obvious and fo-eafy to be quench’d, 
And not, as feeling , through all parts diffus’d, 
That die might look at will through every pore? Milton.. 
Power of adlion upon fenfibility : 
The apprehenfion of the good, 
Gives but the greater feeling to the worfe. Shakefpeare. 
Perception; fenfibility.—As we learn what belongs to 
the body by the evidence of fenfe, fo we learn what be¬ 
longs to the foul by an inward confcioufnefs, which may 
be called a fort of internal feeling. Watts. 
FEEL'INGLY, adv. With expredion of great fenfibi¬ 
lity.—He would not have talked fo feelingly of Codrus’s 
bed, if there had been room for a bedfellow in it. Pope. — ■ 
So as to be fenfibly felt.—He feelingly knew, and had trial 
of, the late good, and of the new purchafed evil. Raleigh. 
FEER'BER, a town of Afia, in Bukharia, or the river 
Gihon. 
FEES, /. in law, certain perquifites allowed to officers 
in the adminidration of judice, as a recompence for their 
labour and trouble; afeertained either by adds of parlia¬ 
ment, or by ancient ufage, which gives them an equal 
fanftion with an aft of parliament. At common law no 
officer, whofe office related to the adminidration of judice, 
could take any reward for doing his duty, but what he was 
to receive from the king. Co. Lit. 368. And this funda¬ 
mental maxim of the common law is confirmed by dat. 
Wedm. 1. c. 26, which enadds, “ That no ffieriff, or other 
king’s officer, (hall take any reward to do his office, hut 
(hall be paid of that which they take of the king; and that 
lie who fo doth (hall yield twice as much, and (liall be pu- 
nifted at the king’s pleafure.” This datute comprehends 
efeheators, coroners, bailiffs, gaolers, the king’s clerk of 
the market, aulnager, and other inferior miniders and offi¬ 
cers of the king, whofe offices in any way concern the ad¬ 
minidration or execution of judice. And fo much hath 
this law been thought to conduce to the honour of the 
king and welfare of the fubjedd, that all prefcriptions 
whatfoever, which have been contrary to it, have been 
lioiden void ; as where by prefeription the clerk of the 
market claimed certain fees for the view and examination 
of all weights and meafures, and it was held merely void. 
4 Inf. 274. Moor, 523. But it hath been holden, that the 
fee of 2od. commonly called the bar fee, which hath been 
taken time out of mind, by the ffieriff, of every prifoner 
who is acquitted; and alfo the fee of one penny, which 
was claimed by the coroner of every vifne, when he came 
before the judices in eyre, are not within the meaning of 
the datute, becaufe they are not demanded by the ffieriff 
or coroner for doing any thing relating to their offices, but 
claimed as perquifites of fight belonging to any of them. 
Staun. P. C. 49. Aifo it is holden by lord Coke, that with¬ 
in the words of the datute 34Edvv. I. which are, “ No 
tallage or aid (hall be taken or levied by us or our heirs 
in our realm, without the good will and affent of arch- 
bifiiops, bilhops, earls, barons, knights, burgeffes, and 
other freemen of the land 3” no new offices can be erefted 
with 
