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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Library in Itself

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Fell

Fell (fell)
imp.(?)
Fell
  1. imp. of Fall.

Fell

Fell (fell)
a.
Fell
  1. Cruel; barbarous; inhuman; fierce; savage; ravenous.

    While we devise fell tortures for thy faults. Shak.

  2. Eager; earnest; intent.
    [Obs.]

    I am so fell to my business. Pepys.


Fell

Fell (fell)
n.
Fell
  1. Gall; anger; melancholy.
    [Obs.]

    Untroubled of vile fear or bitter fell. Spenser.


Fell

Fell (fell)
n.
Fell
Goth fill in þrutsfill leprosy, L. pellis skin, G. (?). Cf. Film, Peel, Pell, ]
  1. A skin or hide of a beast with the wool or hair on; a pelt; -- used chiefly in composition, as woolfell.

    We are still handling our ewes, and their fells, you know, are greasy. Shak.


Fell

Fell (fell)
n.(?)
Fell
[Icel. fell, fjally; akin to Sw. fjäll a ridge or chain of mountains, Dan. fjeld mountain, rock and prob. to G. fels rock, or perh. to feld field, E. field.]
  1. A barren or rocky hill.
    T. Gray.
  2. A wild field; a moor.
    Dryton.

Fell

Fell (fell)
v. t.
Fell
  1. To cause to fall; to prostrate; to bring down or to the ground; to cut down.

    Stand, or I'll fell thee down. Shak.


Fell

Fell (fell)
n.
Fell
  1. The finer portions of ore which go through the meshes, when the ore is sorted by sifting.

Fell

Fell (fell)
v. t.
Fell
  1. To sew or hem; -- said of seams.

Fell

Fell (fell)
n.
Fell
  1. A form of seam joining two pieces of cloth, the edges being folded together and the stitches taken through both thicknesses.
  2. The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft.













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