F E T 
When evening grey doth rife, J fetch my round 
Over the mount. 'Milton. 
To perform with fuddennefs or violence: 
Not a wild and wanton herd, 
Or race of youthful and unhandled colts, 
Fetching mad bounds, bellowing and neighing round. 
Shakefpeare, 
To reach ; to arrive at; to come to : 
Meantime (lew our (hips, and ftraight we fetcht 
The fyren’s ifle ; a fpieenlefs wind fo ftretcht 
Her wings to waft us, and fo urg’d our keel. Chapman. 
To obtain as its price.—During fuch a (fate, filver in the 
coin will never fetch as much as the (ilver in bullion. 
Locke. 
To FETCH, v. n. To move with a quick return: 
Like a drifted wind unto a fail, 
It makes the courfe of thoughts to fetch about. Skakefp. 
FETCH, f. A ftratagem by which any thing is indi- 
redtly performed ; by which one thing feems intended 
and another is done ; a trick ; artifice : 
An envious neighbour is eafy to find, 
His cumberfpme fetches are feldom behind : 
His fetch is to flatter, to get what he can ; 
His purpofe once gotten, a pin for thee then. Tvjfer. 
FETCH'ER,/. One that fetches any thing. 
FE'THARD, a town of Ireland, in the county of Tip¬ 
perary. It is a borough town, and fent two members 
to the Irifli parliament : eight miles fouth-eaft of Ca(hel, 
and eighty-fix fouth Couth-weft of Dublin. 
FE'TI (Domir.ico), an eminent painter, born at Rome 
in 15S9, and a difciple of Civoii. He accompanied car¬ 
dinal Gonzaga (afterwards duke) to Mantua, and was 
patronized by him, and employed in decorating his pa¬ 
lace. He afterwards vifited Venice, where he improved 
his ftyle of colouring ; but falling into a diflipated courfe 
of life, he died in 1624, at the age of thirty-five. Feti 
painted with great ftrength, though often in a melancholy 
tone. His thoughts are uncommon ; yet his expreflton is 
grand; and there is a mellow foftnefs in his touch which 
is highly pleafing. His pictures are rare, and in great re- 
queft. They are mohly eafel-pieces, and are difperfed 
in different cabinets. Several have been engraved. He 
had a filter who painted well, and bectfme a nun. She 
adorned her convent, and feveral other religious houfes 
in Mantua, with her works. 
FE'TID, adj. [fztidus, L, 3 .t. fetid, Fr.J Stinking; ran¬ 
cid ; having a fmell ftrongand offenfive.—Molt putrefac¬ 
tions are of an odious fmell; for they fmell either fetid or 
mouldy. Bq,con. 
Plague, fierceft child of Nemefis divine, 
Defcends from Ethiopia’s poifon’d woods, 
From flifled Cairo’s filth and fetid fields. Thomfon. 
FE*TIDNESS,y. The quality of (linking. 
FETI'E, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the Arabian 
Irak, on the Euphrates : fixty miles north-weft of Balfora. 
FETIF'EROUS, adj. [fcetifer, Lat.] Bringing forth 
fruit or young. 
FETIS'LAN, a town of Servia, on the Danube : eight 
miles eaft of Orfova. 
FET'LAR, one of the Shetland iflands, three miles 
fouth from the ifiand of Yell. 
FET'LOCK,y A tuft of hair that grows behind tire 
pattern joint of liorles : 
White were the fetlocks of his feet before, 
And on his front a fnowy ftar he bore. Dryden. 
FE'TOR ,f [factor, Lat.] A (link ; a ftench ; a ftrong 
and offenfive fmell.—The fetor may dilcover itfelf by 
fweat and humour. Brown. —When the fymptoms are at¬ 
tended with a ftor of any kind, fuch a dileafe will be 
cured by acefcent fubftances, and none better than whey, 
Arbuthnot. 
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FETTE'E, a river of Hinaooftan, one of the arms of 
the Sinde, or Indus. 
FET'TER,/ - . It is commonly ufed in the ip\\un\ fetters ; 
[from feet; pertepe, Sax. ] Chains for the feet; chains 
by which walking is impeded.—Dodtrine unto fools is as 
fetters on the feet; and like manacles on the right hand. 
Ecclej. xxi. 19.—Pleafure arofe in thofe very parts of his 
legs that juft before had been fo much pained by the fet~ 
ter. AddiJ'on. 
Pafiions too fierce to be in fetters bound, 
And nature flies him like enchanted ground. Dryden . 
To FET’TER, v. a. To bind; to enchain ; to (hackle; 
to tie. It is properly ufed of th efeet, but is applied to 
other reftraints.—My confidence 1 thou art fetter'd. Shake- 
fpeare. —Doth a mafter chide his fervant becaufc he doth 
not come, yet knows that the fervant is chained and/cl- 
tered , fo as he cannot move > Bramhall. 
A chain which man to fetter man has made ; 
By artifice impos’d, by fear obey’d. Prior. 
To FET'TLE, v. n. [a cant word from/ec/.J To do trif¬ 
ling bufinefs; to ply the hands without labour.—When 
your mafter is molt bufy in company, come in and pre¬ 
tend to fettle about the room ; and if he chides, fay you 
though; he rung the bell. Swift. 
FE'TU, or Affetu, a country of Africa, on the Gold 
Coaft, to the eaft of Commendo, and well fituated for 
commerce with the Europeans. Grain, cattle, palm wine, 
and oil, conftitute its principal riches. The whole coun¬ 
try is about 160 miles in length. It was formerly very 
powerful; but much reduced by war with the kingdom 
of Commendo. 
FETUS, /! [fetus, Lat.] Any animal in embrio ; any 
thing yet in the womb ; any thing unborn. See Fcetus. 
—That paradox of Hippocrates fome learned phylicians 
have of late revived, that the fetus refpires in the womb. 
Boyle. 
FEU-ARDE'NT (Francis), a French monk, born at 
Coutances, in Lower Normandy, in 1541. In 1576, he 
was created dodtor in divinity by the Sorbonne. By his 
writings, his fermons, and his whole condudt, he (hewed 
himfelf a moft bitter enemy to the proteftants, againft 
whom he was unwearied in exciting the moft cruel per- 
fecutions. “ His temper (fays Bayle) was fo agreeable 
to his name, (Feu-ardent fignifying a ragingfire,) that 
never was the old maxim, convcniunt rebus vomina Japefitis 
■—> oft does the name the tiling exadlly fit,’ more true 
than in his perfon.” He lived, however, to fee his party 
ruined, and the proteftants enjoying the religious and 
civil rights and immunities which were fecured to them 
by the famous edidt of Nantes. He died at Bayeux, in 
1610, much altered with refpedt to his views of things, 
and “ as ardent for concord (according to l’Eftoile) as 
lie had been formerly for difeord.” He was the editor of 
fome of the works of the fathers; and among others of 
the five books of Irenreus againft herefies, with'ufeful 
and learned notes, reviled and corredted in many places 
by collation with an ancient manufeript, and augmented 
with five entire chapters, which were in that manufeript 
at the end of the fifth book, This edition was publiflied 
at Paris, in 1576, and afterwards appeared in an improved 
form at Cologne, in 1596, with the addition of the Greek 
paffages of Irenaeus, which are extant in the works of 
Epiphanius. Feu-ardent was alfo the author of notes on 
the treatife of Arnobius the younger, Dc Gratia & Libtri 
Arbitrii Concordia ; and of Commentaries on the-Books of 
Ruth and Efther, on fome chapters of Job, on Jonah, bn 
the Epiftle of St. Paul to Philemon, and on thofe of St. 
Janies, St. Peter, and St. Jude. 
FEUCHT, .a town of Germany, in the circle of Fran¬ 
conia, and territory of Nuremberg : eight miles fouth- 
fouth-eaft of Nuremberg, and fix weft of Altorf. 
FEUCHT'WANG, a town of Germany, i;i the circle 
of Franconia, and principality of Anfpach, fituated on) 
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