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His fellrcd locks, that on his bofom fell, 
On rugged mountains briers and thorns relemble. Fairfax. 
FELT-SPAR, See Feld-spar. 
FE.LTTNG,'/. The procefs of working up wool or 
hair into a kind of cloth or fluff, without the help of 
Spinning or weaving. Such is the fabric of felt hats ; for 
tlie in:ir. : failure of which, fee the article Hatting. 
-FEL'TO-N, or Felton" Bridge, a final 1 town in the 
county of Northumberland, ten miles north of Morpeth, 
and nine milesYouth of Alnwick, through which runs 
the great poll road from London to Edinburgh. JtsTitu- 
atiorfiis Angularly beau'iiful, having the river Cocquet 
running through it,'over which is a (lone bridge of three 
arches, well and handfomely built. The feenes are here 
uncommonly romantic : as well above the bridge to tire 
weft, as below to the ead, for feveral miles, are fine 
rocks and'htinging woods on each fide the winding river, 
and a riclr fertile country every way around. The river 
abounds with trout; and, towards its entrance, which is 
at.Warkwpfth, five miles and a half eaft, into the fea, a 
very cOnfiderable quantity of falrnon are taken. 
FEf/TON (Thomas Bernard), a French jefuit, was 
born at Avignon, in 1672, and died in 1759. He Had a 
talent lor Latin poetry, and Isis pieces, entitled Faba Ara- 
bica, Carmen ,■ and Magues, Carmen, both .printed in 1696, 
and afterwards reprinted in father Oudin’s Poe.mata Didaf- 
calica , are not unknown in tlie learned world. He was 
alfo the author of A Paraphrafe upon the Pfalms, 1731, 
121110. The Treatife by St. Francis de Sales, abridged 
and modernifed, in three volumes, 121110. and Funeral 
Orations for the Duke of Burgundy and Louis XIV. 
FEL'TRI, a territory in Italy, at the foot of the Alps, 
belonging to what was formerly called the dates of Ve¬ 
nice, now Maritime Au'ftria. It is for the mod part 
mountainous, and watered by many fulfill rivers.and the 
Piave. It is twenty-eight miles in length, and ten in 
breadth, and produces a fufficiency of grain, and an 
abundance of fruit (efpecially fine nuts), wine, filk, black 
cattle, dieep, fine wood, and game. The air is whole- 
lome. This territory contains, exclufively of the capi¬ 
tal, 120 villages, twenty paridies, and 42,000 inhabitants. 
FEL'TRI, the capital of the territory of Feltri, an 
ancient town, in a mountainous county, feated on a hill, 
at a fmall didance from which is the high mountain 
called Tomadego, almod perpetually covered with fnow. 
The town has broad and well-paved dreets, a fplendid 
triwn-houfe, a fine and large market-place with fountains, 
a cathedral church, the bidiop of which enjoys a yearly 
income of four thoufand ducats, and is immediately, under 
the archbidiop of Udine ; .farther, three monafteries, as 
many nunneries, a pawn-bank, and fpaeious fubnrbs, 
which are feated in a plain. The number of inhabitants 
amounts to 5,200, who, previous to the condnidtion of 
the new road o.f Balfagnana, were by far more opulent 
than they are at prelent. Lat.46.2-N. Ion. 29.32.E. 
Ferro. 
FELTRI'NO, a river of Italy, in the province of 
Ab'ruzzo Citra, which runs into the Adriatic, four miles 
iburh-ead of Ortona.. 
h'ELUC'CA, f. [ feku, Fr. felhon, Arab.] A fmall 
open boat with fix oars, common in the ports of the Me¬ 
diterranean'. A peculiarity in ihe formation of this boat 
is, that its rudder can be drifted to either end.—His other 
improvements have only been, to run through all forts of 
learning in a waggon, and found all depths of arts in a 
felucca. Butler. 
FEL'WORT, f. in botany. See Gentiana. 
FE'MALE, f. \_feme!le, Fr. fcmella, Lat.) A die;' one 
of the lex which brings young ; not male. —God created 
man in his own image, male and female created he them. 
Gen. i. 27.—If he.;offer it of .the herd, whether it be male 
or female, lie (hall offer it without blcmilh. Lev. 
Men, more divine. 
Indu’d with intdiledfual feme and foul, 
Are maders to their ft males, and their lords, ShaWkcare, 
Vol.VII. No. 428. 
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FE'MALE, adj. Not male : 
Swarming next appear’d 
The female Tee, that feeds her hufband drone. Milton. 
Not mafculine ; belonging to a die: 
Other funs, perhaps, 
With their attendant moons, thou wilt defery, 
Communicating male and femalf light; 
Which too great fexes animate the world. Milton. 
Female Rhymes. Double rhymes, fo called, becaufe 
in French, from which the term is taken, they end in t 
weak or feminine. Thefe rhymes are female : 
Th’ excefs of heat is but a fable ; 
We know the torrid zone is now found habitable. Cowley. 
The female rhymes -ext in ufe with the Italian in every line, 
with the Spaniard promifeuoufiy, and with the French 
alternately, as appears from the Alarique, the Pucelle, 
or any of their later poems. Dryden: 
FE'MALE FERN, f. in botany. See Pteris. 
FEME COVE'RT, in law', a married woman, faid to 
be covert baron. See the article Baron and Feme, vol. ii. 
p.742. 
FEME SOLE, in law-, a wornan alone, that is, unmar¬ 
ried ; and feme foie merchant, is a married woman, who, 
by the cudoni of London, trades on her own account, in¬ 
dependent of her lnifband, 
FEME'RN, an ifland of Denmark, in the Baltic, fepa- 
rated from Holdein by a narrow drait, called Fcmcrn Sound, 
about nine leagues in circumference. It contains the 
town of Burg, and a few villages." Lat. 54. 30. N. lop. 
11.5. E. Greenwich. 
FEMINA'LITY, /. [feemina, Lat.] Female nature.—- 
If in the minority of natural vigour the parts of femnaUty 
take place, upon the increafe or growth thereof the mai- 
culine appears. Brown. 
FE'MININE, adj. [ famininus , Lat.] Of the fex that 
brings young; female : 
Tims we chadife the god of wine 
With water that' is feminine. 
Until the cooler nymph, abate 
His wrath, and fo noncorporate. C/eavcIand. 
Soft; tender; delicate: 
Her heav’nly form 
Angelic, but more foft and feminine. Milton. 
Effeminate"; emafculated ; wanting manlinefs.—Ninias 
was,no man of war at all, but altogether feminiipf, and 
fubjedted to eafe and delicacy. Raleigh. 
FE'MININE, f. A die; one of the fex that brings 
young; a female : 
O! why did God create at lad 
This novelty on earth, this fair defeat , 
Of nature ? and not fill the world at once 
With, men, as angels, without feminine? Milton. 
FE'MININE GEN'DER, in grammar, a term applied 
to Inch nouns in the Latin as are declined with the feminine 
article h<sc. It Teems to intimate that the noun belongs 
to the female. We have no didindiicn by articles in the 
Englifh language ; the French, Italians, and Spaniards* 
have la, the Germans dic$ the Dutch de. 
FEMI'NITY, f. %/ernina, Lat.] Womanhood: 
And unto Pfyche with great trud and care 
Committed her, vfodefied to bee, 
And trained up in trew feminitee. Spenfer. 
FEM'OE, a fmall ifland of Denmark, between Zealand 
and Lapland. Lat.55.1-N. Ion,. 11, .32;.'E,. Greenwich. 
FEM'ORAL, adj. \_femoralis, Lat,] Belonging to the 
thigh.—The, larged crooked needle ftiould be ufed in 
taking up the femoral arteries in amputation. Sharp. 
FEM'SIO; a town of Sweden, in the province of Smai 
land : fifty miles wed of Wexio. 
FE'MUR,y. [fero, Lat. to bear, as being the fupport 
of the body.] The thigh-bone. 
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