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<h1>Fee</h1> <Xpage=549>

<hw>Fee</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>fe</ets>, <ets>feh</ets>, <ets>feoh</ets>, cattle, property, money, fiet, AS. <ets>feoh</ets> cattle, property, money; the senses of "property, money," arising from cattle being used in early times as a medium of exchange or payment, property chiefly consisting of cattle; akin to OS. <ets>feuh</ets> cattle, property, D. <ets>vee</ets> cattle, OHG. <ets>fihu</ets>, <ets>fehu</ets>, G. <ets>vieh</ets>, Icel. <ets>f<?/</ets> cattle, property, money, Goth. <ets>fa\'a1hu</ets>, L. <ets>pecus</ets> cattle, pecunia property. money, Skr. <ets>pa<?/u</ets> cattle, perh. orig., "a fastened or tethered animal," from a root signifying <ets>to bind</ets>, and perh. akin to E. <ets>fang</ets>, <ets>fair</ets>, <tt>a.</tt>; cf. OF. <ets>fie</ets>, <ets>flu</ets>, <ets>feu</ets>, <ets>fleu</ets>, <ets>fief</ets>, F. <ets>fief</ets>, from German, of the same origin. the sense <ets>fief</ets> is due to the French. <?/ 249. Cf. <er>Feud</er>, <er>Fief</er>, <er>Fellow</er>, <er>Pecuniary</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>property; possession; tenure.</def> "Laden with rich <i>fee</i>."

<i>Spenser.</i>

<blockquote>Once did she hold the gorgeous East in <b>fee</b>. <i>Wordsworth.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Reward or compensation for services rendered or to be rendered; especially, payment for professional services, of optional amount, or fixed by custom or laws; charge; pay; perquisite; <as>as, the <ex>fees</ex> of lawyers and physicians; the <ex>fees</ex> of office; clerk's <ex>fees</ex>; sheriff's <ex>fees</ex>; marriage <ex>fees</ex>, etc.</as></def>

<blockquote>To plead for love deserves more <b>fee</b> than hate. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Feud. Law)</fld> <def>A right to the use of a superior's land, as a stipend for services to be performed; also, the land so held; a fief.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Eng. Law)</fld> <def>An estate of inheritance supposed to be held either mediately or immediately from the sovereign, and absolutely vested in the owner.</def>

<note>&hand; All the land in England, except the crown land, is of this kind. An <i>absolute fee</i>, or <i>fee simple</i>, is land which a man holds to himself and his heirs forever, who are called <i>tenants in fee simple</i>. In modern writers, by <i>fee</i> is usually meant <i>fee simple</i>. A <i>limited fee</i> may be a <i>qualitified</i> or <i>base fee</i>, which ceases with the existence of certain conditions; or a <i>conditional fee</i>, or <i>fee tail</i>, which is limited to particular heirs.</note>

<i>Blackstone.</i>

<p><b>5.</b> <fld>(Amer. Law)</fld> <def>An estate of inheritance belonging to the owner, and transmissible to his heirs, absolutely and simply, without condition attached to the tenure.</def>

<cs><col>Fee estate</col> <fld>(Eng. Law)</fld>, <cd>land or tenements held in fee in consideration or some acknowledgment or service rendered to the lord.</cd> -- <col>Fee farm</col> <fld>(Law)</fld>, <cd>land held of another in fee, in consideration of an annual rent, without homage, fealty, or any other service than that mentioned in the feoffment; an estate in fee simple, subject to a perpetual rent.</cd> <i>Blackstone.</i> -- <col>Fee farm rent</col> <fld>(Eng. Law)</fld>, <cd>a perpetual rent reserved upon a conveyance in fee simple.</cd> -- <col>Fee fund</col> <fld>(Scot. Law)</fld>, <cd>certain court dues out of which the clerks and other court officers are paid.</cd> -- <col>Fee simple</col> <fld>(Law)</fld>, <cd>an absolute fee; a fee without conditions or limits.</cd>

<blockquote>Buy the <b>fee simple</b> of my life for an hour and a quarter. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

-- <col>Fee tail</col> <fld>(Law)</fld>, <cd>an estate of inheritance, limited and restrained to some particular heirs.</cd> <i>Burill.</i></cs>

<h1>Fee</h1> <Xpage=549>

<hw>Fee</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Feed</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Feeing</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe.</def>

<blockquote>The patient . . . <b>fees</b> the doctor. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>There's not a one of them but in his house I keep a servant <b>feed</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Feeble</h1> <Xpage=549>

<hw>Fee"ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>Compar.</tt> <er>Feebler</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>superl.</tt> <er>Feeblest</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>feble</ets>, OF. <ets>feble</ets>, <ets>flebe</ets>, <ets>floibe</ets>, <ets>floible</ets>, <ets>foible</ets>, F. <ets>faible</ets>, L. <ets>flebilis</ets> to be wept over, lamentable, wretched, fr. <ets>flere</ets> to weep. Cf. <er>Foible</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Deficient in physical strenght; weak; infirm; debilitated.</def>

<blockquote>Carried all the <b>feeble</b> of them upon asses. <i>2 Chron. xxviii. 15.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Wanting force, vigor, or efficiency in action or expression; not full, loud, bright, strong, rapid, etc.; faint; <as>as, a <ex>feeble</ex> color; <ex>feeble</ex> motion.</as></def> "A lady's <i>feeble</i> voice."

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Feeble</h1> <Xpage=549>

<hw>Fee"ble</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To make feble; to enfeeble.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Shall that victorious hand be <b>feebled</b> here? <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Feeble-minded</h1> <Xpage=549>

<hw>Fee"ble-mind"ed</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Weak in intellectual power; wanting firmness or constancy; irresolute; vacilating; imbecile.</def> "comfort the <i>feeble-minded</i>."