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Savage; ravenous; bloody: 
X know thee, love! wild as the raging; main, 
More fell than tigers on the Lybian plain. Pope. 
Scorning ail the taming arts of man, 
The keen hyena, felljl of the fell. Thom Jon. 
FELL, f. [pelle, Sax.] The (kin; the hide. NotuJcd: 
Wipe thine eye; 
The goujers (hall devour them, fkfh and fell , 
Ere they fitali make us weep. Shakefpeare. 
Spleen : 
Sweet love, that doth his golden wings embay 
In blefl'ed neClar and-pure pleafure’s well 
Untroubled of vile feare or bitter fell. Spenfer. 
f.A Northumbrian word. J A barren and ftony bill. Cam¬ 
den's Remains. —Farmers and their families, efquires and 
their daughters haflening up from the dales, and down 
the fells. Gray's Letters.— Grey (lock town and caflle lie 
about three miles from Ulfvvater over tht fells. Idem. 
To FELL, v. a. \_fdlen, Ger.] To knock down; to 
bring to the ground.—Villain, (land, or I'll fell thee 
down. Shakefpcare. —Taking the fmall end of his mufket 
in his hand, he (truck him on the head with the ftock, 
and felled him. Raleigh. 
On their .svhole holt I flew 
Unarm’d, and with a trivial weapon felfd 
Their choicefi youth : they only liv’d who fled. Milton. 
It feems improperly joined with down or along: 
Whom with fnch force he (truck he fell'd him down , 
And cleft the circle of his golden crown. Shahefptare. 
To hew down ; to cut down : 
Proud Arcite and tierce Palamon, 
In mortal battle, doubling blow on blow ; 
Like lightning flam’d their faulchions to and fro, 
And (hot a dreadful gleam ; fo flrong they (truck, 
There feem’d lei's force requir’d to fell an oak. Drydcn. 
FELL, the preterite of to fall: 
None on their feet might ftand, 
Though (landing elfe as rocks ; but down they fell 
By thoufands, angel on archangel roll’d. Milton. 
FELL (John), an eminent Englifti prelate in the feven- 
tcenth century, (on of Dr. Samuel Fell, dean of Chrift- 
church, bom at Longworth, in Berkftiire, in.1625. He 
was admitted a (Indent at Chrift-church-college, in 1636, 
when only eleven years of age. In 1643, he bore arms for 
Charles I. within the garrifon of Oxford. After the Re- 
fioration, in 1660, he was made prebendary of Chichefter, 
dean of Chrift-church, and one of his majefty’s chaplains 
in ordinary. By his own liberal benefactions, or by what 
he was the means of procuring from others, many of the 
convenient and magnificent buildings of Chrift-church 
were either completed out of the imperfect (late in which 
he found them, or entirely raifed from their foundations. 
In 1675-6, he was promoted to the bifhopric of Oxford, 
with leave to hold his deanery in commcndam, that his col¬ 
lege and the univerfity might (till enjoy tlie benefit of his 
iervices. As one powerful means of promoting litera¬ 
ture, he paid great attention to the improvement of the 
univerfity prefs, and fuperintended numerous editions of 
ancient and modern writers. From the time of his be¬ 
coming dean of Chrift-church to'his death, lie annually 
publilhed a book, generally a claflical author, with a 
preface, notes, and corrections, which lie prefented as a 
new-year’s gift to the ftudents of his college. When he 
had filled the fee of Oxford little more than ten years, 
his health funk under his exertions, and he died in 1686. 
He was the author or editor of numerous works, among 
which were, 1. The Life of Dr. Henry Hammond, r66o, 
Svo. 1. Alcinoi in Platonicam Philojophiam IntroduElio, 1667, 
2>vo. 3. In Laudem Mujiccs , Carmen Smphicum ; which was 
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(e\ to mufle, and probably defigned for (ome of the pub¬ 
lic exercifes in the univerfity. 4. Hiforia £3 Antiquitatet 
Univerfitatis Oxonicnfis, &c. 2 vols. folio. 5. The Vanity 
of Scoffing, 1674, 4to. 6. An edition of the New Tdla. 
ment, which gave birth to Mill’s, and was entitled, Tij? 
y.ccivr : e hu 9 r,y.r<; awasifla, Novi Teftamenti I.ihri omnes — accejfe - 
runt Parallels Scriptures Loca necnon varientes Leclioms, ex 
plus 10O MSS Codicibus & antiquis Verfionibus colleEla;, 1675, 
8vo. 7. St. Clement’s two Epiftles to the Corinthians, in 
Greek and Latin, with’Notes, 1677, j2tno. 8. Account 
of Dr. Richard Alleftry’s Life, 8vo. 9. Of the Unity of 
the Church, tranfluted from the original of St. Cyprian, 
1681, 4to. ro. Sanbli Ceecilii Cypriani Opera s recognita £2 
Ulujlrata per Johamiem, Epifcopum Oxdnienfcm, 1682, folio. 
FELL. (John), a learned Englifti nouconforniill divine, 
born at Cockerinoutli, in 1732. From his father, who 
was a fchoolmailer, he received fuch inftrudtion as qua¬ 
lified him for trade, which was his original deftination : 
but (hewing an avidity of knowledge, and that tafte for 
literature which afterwards marked his character, lie be¬ 
came a diflenting minifler of that clafs commonly ftyled 
Independents. In 1770, Mr. Fell received the paftoral 
charge of the independent congregation at Thaxted, in 
Elfex, where he refided for many years, active and ex¬ 
emplary in the difeharge of his profeflional duties. He 
died on the 6th of September, 1797, in the fixty-fifth year 
of his age. His.acquaintance with oriental, biblical, and 
claflical, learning, was very confiderable, as well as with 
metaphyfics and philology. Befides feveral controverflal 
treatifes, and four Lectures on the Evidences of Chrilli- 
anity, which after his death were publilhed in an octavo 
volume, together with eight difeourfes intended to com¬ 
plete the plan by Dr. Hunter, Mr. Fell was the author 
of, 1. An Efliiy on the Love of one’s Country, 8vo. 2. 
Genuine Proteftantifm, or the unalienable Rights of Con¬ 
fidence defended, 1774, Svo. 3. The Juftice and Utility 
of penal Laws for the Direction of Confcience examined, 
in a Letter to Mr. Burke, 1774, Svo. 4. Remarks on the 
Appendix of the Editor of Rowley’s Poems, printed at 
the End of Obfervations on the Poems attributed to 
Rowley, by Ruyner Heckford, Efq. 1783, Svo. 5. An 
Eflay towards an Englifti Grammar, with a Diflertation on 
the natural and peculiar Ufe of certain hypothetical Verbs 
in the Englifti Language, 1784, 121110. 
FEL'LA, a fmall river ol Germany, which runs into 
the Drave near Mochlir.g, in Carlnthia. 
FELL'ABLE, adj. Capable of being felled ; fit ta 
fell. Scott. 
FEL'LAHS, a tribe of Arabs which inhabit the villages 
of Egypt, and cultivate the land. They are the hufband.. 
men and peafants of that country. See Egypt, vol. vi. 
p. 3S0. 
IhEL'LE (William), a French dominican monk, native 
of Dieppe, took the vows at Metz, in 1660. After fir.ifh- 
ing his academical (Indies, he travelled into Africa, Alia, 
and over a confiderable part of Europe, and became chap¬ 
lain to John III. king of Poland. Among various work9 
of which he was the author, were, 1. !A Treatife againft 
Qujetifm, j n Italian, publilhed at Genoa, in 1702, en¬ 
titled La Ruin a del Ouietifmo, e del T Amor Pure. 2. Lapis 
Theclogorum, in Latin and German, defigned to refute the 
arguments advanced by proteftants againft the worfliip of 
the Virgin Mary ; and, 3. Breviffimum Fidci Propug-nacuhm, 
which was printed a fecond time at Venice, in 1684. He 
died at Rome, in 1710. 
FEL'LENBERG, a town of Germany, in the Tyrolefe: 
four miles weft-fouth-weft of Innfpruck. 
FEL'LER, f One that hews down.—Since thou art 
laid down, no feller is come up againft ns. Ifa. xiv. 8. 
FEL'LETIN, a town of France, and principal place 
of a difiriCt, in the department of the Creufe ; the chief 
trade is in cattle. Near it fs a medicinal fpring : (even 
leagues fouth-fouth-eaft of G ueret, and (even fouth-fouth- 
we(t of Evaux. Lat. 45. 53. N. ion. 19. 52. E. Ferro. 
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