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the Sulz, formerly imperial: twelve miles fouth-weft of 
Anfpach, and fcven north of Dunckelfbuhl. 
FEUD.y: [peahb, enmity, S,ax.] Quarrel; conten¬ 
tion; oppolition ; war. See Deadly Feud, vol. v. p. 
627.—In former ages it was a policy of France to raife 
and cherish inteftine feuds and difeords in Great Britain. 
Addifon, 
Scythia mourns 
Our gurLty wars, and earth’s remoteft regions 
Lie half unpeopled by the feuds of Rome. Addifon . 
FEUD,/. [feodum, barb. Lat.] A conditional allotment 
of land.—The ccnftitution of feuds had its original from 
the military policy of the northern nations. Blackfi. 
FEU'DAL, and FEU'DARY. See the articles Feod, 
Feodal, and Feodary. 
FEUD*BOTE,/ A recompence for engaging in a feud, 
and the damages confequent; it having been the cuftont 
in ancient times for all the kindred to engage in their 
kinlrnan’s quarrel. 
FEUD'IST, f. A writer on feuds. — Cujacius and the 
feudijls make proprietas, allodium , and hereditas, to be all in 
one feodal fenfe. Spelman. 
FEU'DERSDORF, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of Upper Saxony; and Ucker Murk of Brandenburg: 
fever, miles weft-north-weft of Storkovv. 
FEV'ENITZ, a river of Germany, which runs into the 
Drave : fix miles north-weft of Villach, in the duchy of 
Carinthia. 
FE'VER,/. [fevre, Yr.fcbris , Lat.] A difeafe which 
more or lefs attends every fpecies of inflammation. For 
its varieties, and modes of cure, fee Medicine. 
To FE'VER, v. a. To put into a fever. — The white 
hand of a lady fever thee ! Shakefpeare. 
Her blood all fever'd , and with a furious leap. 
She fprung from bed diftradted in her mind. Dryden. 
FE'VER ROOT,/, in botany. See Triostium. 
FE'VERET,/ A flight fever; febricnla.—A light 
feveret, or an old quartan ague, is not a fufficient excufe 
for non-appearance. Aylijfe. 
FE'VER FEW, /. [febris and fugo, Lat.] A plant. 
See Matricaria. 
FF.'VERISH, adj. Difeafed with a fever.—When an 
animal that gives fuck turns feverifh, that is, its juices 
more alkaline, the milk turns from its native genuine 
whitenefs to yellow. Arbuthuot. 
To other climates beads and birds retire, 
And feverifi nature burns in her own fire. Creech. 
Tending to fever. — A feverifi diforder difabled me. Swift. 
Uncertain ; inconftant; now hot, now cold : 
We tofs and turn about our fever if will, 
When all our eafe muft come by lying ftill; 
For all the happinefs mankind can gain, 
Is not in pleafure, but in reft from pain. Dryden. 
Hot; burning: 
And now four days the fun had feen our woes, 
Four nights the moon beheld th’ inceflant fire ; 
It feem’d as if the ftars more fickly rofe, 
And farther from the feverifi north retire. Dryden. 
FE'VERISHNESS,/. A flight diforder of the febrile 
kind. Sometimes ufed metaphorically.—Satiety, per¬ 
petual difguft, and feverfnefs of defire, perpetually attend 
thofe, who paflionately ftudy pleafure. Skaftfury. 
FE'VEROUS, adj. [ fevreux-fe , Fr.] Troubled with a 
fever or ague : 
Thou mad’ft thine enemies (hake, as if the world 
Were feverous, and did tremble, Shahefpeare. 
Having the nature of a fever : 
All fev'rous kinds 
Ccnvulfions, epilepfies, fierce catarrhs, Milton , 
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Having a tendency to produce fevers.—It hath been noted 
by the ancients, that fouthern winds, blowing much, 
without rain, do caufe a feverifi difpofition of the year ; 
but with rain not. Bacon. 
FEV'ERSHAM, a flourifhing port-town in the county 
of Kent, which gives name to a very extenfive hundred 
in the lathe of Seray, and fituated on a river navigable 
for veflels of 130 tons burthen. The trade of the town 
is continually increafing, as well as its extent and number 
of inhabitants ; it at prefent confifts of four long and fpa. 
cious ftreets. It is a place of very great antiquity. Its 
name is undoubtedly of Saxon origin, though previoufly 
inhabited by the Britons. The firft fettlement from the 
continent, in Kent, was near 1000 years prior to the inva- 
fion of Julius Caefar. Other difeoveries afford a greater 
certainty that this ancient town had a being in the time 
of the Roman power in Britain. A Roman burying 
ground was difeovered a few years ago adjoining the 
town, where many urns were dug up of various iizes, 
and alfo feveral medals of the Roman emperors, from 
the reign of Vefpafian to that of Gratian. The church 
is a very ancient edifice of the original Gothic ftrudture ; 
but has undergone very conliderable modern improve¬ 
ments, at a vaft expence, under the direction of the emi¬ 
nent architeft Mr. Dance. Here is a free grammar-fehoo), 
founded by queen Elizabeth ; alfo a grammar-fehool, en¬ 
dowed by Dr. Cole, warden of All-Souls college, Oxford ; 
who, by indenture, dated the 10th of December, in the 
eighteenth year of Henry VIII. gave to the abbot and 
convent of Feverfham divers lands in the neighbourhood 
for the maintenance of a fchool, wherein the novices of 
the abbey were to be inftrudfed in grammar; but, the 
diflolution happening foon after, the lands became veiled 
in the crown, where they continued till the reign of 
queen Elizabeth, when its charter was granted. By this 
charter, the mayor, jurats, and commonalty, of Fever¬ 
fham, and their fucceffors, were appointed governors of 
the revenues of the faid fchool ; but the mafier to be 
appointed by the warden or fub-warden, and fix fenior 
fellows, of All-Souls college, Oxford. Here are alfo two 
charity-fchools, for educating and clothing twelve boys 
and twelve girls, fupported by a fubfeription of the in¬ 
habitants. Here are fix alms-houfes for fix poor women, 
and alfo fix others for fix poor men, who are aged and 
pad labour, with an annuity to each. The market is 
well fupplied with fifh, butcher’s meat, poultry, eggs, 
and butter. Market-days, Wednefdays and Saturdays,. 
Fairs, February 25 and Auguft 12. 
Here is a conliderable manufactory of gunpowder, the' 
works for which are very extenfive; the quantity annu¬ 
ally made is about 8840 barrels, each barrel containing 
one hundred weight. Thefe works are under the direc¬ 
tion of the board of ordnance, which appoints proper of¬ 
ficers to conduct the whole bufinefs. Upon the river 
adjoining, which gives aftion to the works, are eredted 
eleven fets of mill-ftones, and five others that are worked 
by horfes, all of which are employed in making tlijs de- 
ftrudtive compofition. To work in this hazardous em¬ 
ployment there is never a deficiency of hands; light 
labour, and good pay, are inducements eafily prevailing 
over the danger. In 1767, a ftove with twenty-five bar¬ 
rels of gunpowder blew up, which did confiderable da¬ 
mage to the town; but the moft terrible explofion hap- 
penedon April 17,1783, whenthecorning-milland dufting- 
houfe belonging to the royal works, in which were about 
feven thoufund pounds of powder, were blown up, by 
which three workmen were blown to atoms. The ex¬ 
plofion was heard at the diftance of twenty miles ; all the 
furrounding buildings, both in Feverlham and the adjoin¬ 
ing village of Davington, were wholly or in part un¬ 
roofed, the ceilings and chimneys thrown down, the 
window-frames forced out, and the glafs in all of them 
broken, and in many houfes the furniture was rendered 
ufelefs. Not far from the royal powder-mills, upon the 
Ore ftream, there are gunpowder-works in private hands, 
. which 
