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To FEIGN, v. n. To relate falfely; to image from the 
invention ; to tell fabuloufly : 
Therefore the poet 
T)Ydfeign that Orpheus drew trees; flones, and hoods; 
Since nought fo dockifli, hard, and full of rage, 
But mu fie for the time doth change his nature. Shake/p. 
FEIGN-'ED ISSUE, in the Englifh jttrifprudence, is 
z- fiction of law : as if, in a fuit in equity, any matter of 
fa£l is drongly conteded, the court ufually diredts the 
matter to be tried by a jury; efpecially fuch important 
faffs as the validity Of a will, or whether A. is the heir at 
law to B. or the exigence of a modus dectmandi, or real and 
immemorial compb'fi'tion.for tithes. But aj a jury cannot 
be fummoned to attend a court of equity, the faff is ufu¬ 
ally directed to be tried in the court of kitig’s-bench, or 
at the affiles, upon a feigned ilfue. For this purpofe, a 
feigned tiffion is brought, wherein the pretended plaintiff 
declares that he laid a wager of five pounds with the de¬ 
fendant, that A. was heir at law to B. ; then he avers that 
be is 'fo; and brings 1 his a 611 on for the five pounds : the 
defendant allows the vvager, but avers that A. is not the 
heir to B. and thereupon that iflhe is joined, which is di¬ 
rected out of chancery to be tried : and thus the verdidt 
of the jurors at law determines the fa6t in the court of 
equity. ,3 Comm. 432. If it is a matter of great difficulty 
and confequence, the direction may be for a trial at bar, 
with leave of the court. 
FEIGN'EDLY, add. Infiiftion; not truly.—Such is 
found to have been falfely and fignedly in fome of the 
hpathens. Bacon. 
FEIGN'EDNESSj f. Infincerity.—As felfifhnefs in- 
creafes- in us, fo mult a certain fubtlety and feigriednefs of 
carriage frhich generally accompanies it. Shafttjbury. 
FElGN'ER,yi Inventer; contriver of a fiction.—And 
thefe three voices differ ; all the things done, the doing, 
and the doer; the thing feigned, the feigning, and tlie 
feigner ; fo the poem, the poefy, and the poet. Ben Jon/on. 
FEINT, part. adj. [from feign, Sox feigned-, ox feint, Fr.] 
Counterfeit; feeming.—The mind by degrees lofes its na¬ 
tural reliffi of real, folid truth, and is reconciled infenfibly 
to any thing that can be but dreffed up into any feint ap¬ 
pearance of it. Locke. 
FEINT , f [feint, Fr.] A falfe appearance ; an offer 
of fomething not intended to'be.—Courtly’s letter is but 
a feint to get off. SpeElator. —A mock alfault; an appear¬ 
ance of aiming at one part, when another is intended to 
be druck: 
But, in the bread encamp’d, prepares 
For well-bred feints and future wars. Prior. 
FEIT'KINGE, a town of Sweden, in the province of 
Schonen : fix miles ead of Chridiandadt. 
PEER A, a town of Portugal, in the province of Beira, 
founded by the Adurians, about the year ioco : ten miles 
fouth of Oporto. 
FEISiTIZ, a town of Germany, in the duchy of Ca- 
rinthia : three miles fouth-wed of St. Veit. 
FEIS'TRITZ, a town of Germany, in the duchy of 
Stiria : four miles north of Muehrau. 
FEIS'TRITZ, a river of Germany, in the duchy of 
Stiria, which runs into the Laufnitz, at Furdenfeld. 
FEIS'TEdTZ, a town of Germany, in the duchy of 
Carinthia : ten miles north-ead of Saxenburg. 
FEIS'TRITZ, or Windisch Feistritz. See Win- 
disch Feistritz. 
FEl'UM./ See Fayoum. 
FEKETEB/\N'J A, a town of Hungary : twenty-eight 
miles north-ead of Zatmar. 
FEKE'TELO, a town of Tranfilvania: twenty-three 
miles fouth-w.eft of Colofvar. 
FEKE'TE-PATAK, a town of Tranfilvania : twenty- 
five miles fouth-wed of Colofvar. 
FEKE'TE-PA'TOR, a town of Hungary: eighteen 
miles fouth-fouth-ead of Gros Wardein. 
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PEL 
FET,, f. [Lat. from folU's, a bag, becattfe 1 t is contained 
in a little bag or pouch.] The bile or gall. The leffer 
centaury is called fel terra, the gall of the earth, from its 
bitternefs. 
FELAN'DERS, f. Worms in hawks. AmfcoortJi. 
FELAP'TION, f. in logic, a technical word, denoting 
the fecon'd mood of the third figure of a categorical fyl- 
logifm, wherein the fird propofition is an univerfal nega- 
tive, the fecond an univerfal affirmative, the third a par¬ 
ticular negative. 
FELD SEE, a lake of Germany, in the duchy of Ca< 
rinthia : eight miles north-wed of Welach. 
PELD-SPAR, F^lt-Spar, or Felspar, f. [ fddfpat, 
German.] In mineralogy, a done of the fdiceoirs clafs, 
called likewife fcintillating fpar, fuhble fpar, and rhombic 
quartz. There are many varieties': white, red, yellow, 
brown, green, violet, or iridefeent; fometimes crydal- 
lized in rhombic, cubic, or parallelopipedal, forms, and 
often irregular. See Crystallography, vol. v. p.423. 
It never conditutes veins or drata, but is either found in 
loofe maffes at mod two inches long, or mixed with fand 
or clay, or embodied in other done's, as granites. Mr. 
Kirwan fays, that this is undoubtedly the petuntfe, or 
petunze, made ufe of by the Saxons in their porcelain 
manufactories. The Labrador done is a beautiful fpecies 
oi this fpar, exhibiting a variety of colours, according to 
the pofition of the eye of the obferver, and the dirediion 
of the light which falls upon it.—See t lie article Mine¬ 
ralogy. 
FELD’BACH, a town of Germany, in the duchy of 
Stiria : fourteen miles north of Rakelfburg. 
FEL'DES, a town of Germany, in the duchy of Car- 
niola: fourteen miles north-wed of Crainburg, and forty 
fouth-wed of Lavanuind. 
FEL'DES-SEE, a lake of Germany, in the duchy of 
Carniola: two miles fouth-wed of Feldes. 
FELD'KIRCH (county of), a fmall country of Ger¬ 
many, formerly in the circle'of Swabia, but now cond- 
dered as a part of the Tvrolefe ; bounded on the north by 
the county of Montfort; on the ead by Pludentz ; on the 
fouth by the Grifons; and on the wed by the Rhine; 
fold to the. houfe of Atidria in the year 1376 : the edates 
were mortgaged to the count of Jockenburg, but redeem, 
ed in 1436. Feldkirch is the capital. 
FELD'KIRCH, a town of Germany, in tire Tyrolefe, 
and capital of a county of the-fame name ; it is well built, 
and dtuated on the III, near the Rhine. The inhabitants 
enjoy fome confide ruble privileges, as that of chufing their 
own magidrates; and of refuting to deliver up any who 
are under the ban of the empire ; and not being fummoned 
by any provincial judges : twenty-eight miles iTorth-north- 
ead of Coire, fixty north-wed of Tyrol, and ninety-two 
north-wed of Trent. 
FELDKIR'CHEN, a town of Germany, in the duchy 
of Carin:likt: thirteen miles north-wed of Clagenfurt, and 
ten weft of St. Veit. 
FELD'SBERG, a town of Germany, in the duchy of 
Carinthia, belonging to the archbifhop of Salzburg : four 
miles north-ead of Saxenburg. 
FELD'SBURG, a town of Germany, in the archduchy 
of Atidria : twenty-eight miles north-north-ead of Vienne, 
and thirty-two north-ead of Tulin. Lat. 48. 37. N. Ion. 
34. 33 - E. Ferro. 
FELDUA'R, a town of Hungary ; the inhabitants are 
chiefly fupported by fifhing in the Danube, near which it 
dands : twelve miles fouth-ead of Symontornya. 
FE'LENBRUNN (Ober), a town of Germany, in the 
archduchy of Atidria: three miles north-wedofSonnebe.rg. 
FE'LENBRUNN (Unter), a town of Germany, in the 
archduchy of Atidria: eight miles north of Korn Neuburg. 
FE LETPNO, a town of Italy, in the date of the Church 
and Compagna di Roma : eight miles north of Alatri. 
FEL'FEL TAU'IL,yi in botany. See Cynanchum. 
FELIBl'EN (Andrew), fieur des Avaox and de Ja- 
verci, bora at Chartres, in 1619, da died at Paris, and 
. obtained 
