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<h1>Feeze</h1> <Xpage=550>

<hw>Feeze</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Fretful excitement. <mark>[Obs.]</mark> See <er>Feaze</er>.</def>

<h1>Fehling</h1> <Xpage=550>

<hw>Feh"ling</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>See <cref>Fehling's solution</cref>, under <er>Solution</er>.</def>

<h1>Fehmic</h1> <Xpage=550>

<hw>Feh"mic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>See <er>Vehmic</er>.</def>

<h1>Feign</h1> <Xpage=550>

<hw>Feign</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Feigned</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Feigning</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>feinen</ets>, F. <ets>feindre</ets> (p. pr. <ets>feignant</ets>), fr. L. <ets>fingere</ets>; akin to L. <ets>figura</ets> figure,and E. <ets>dough</ets>. See <er>Dough</er>, and cf. <er>Figure</er>, <er>Faint</er>, <er>Effigy</er>, <er>Fiction</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To give a mental existence to, as to something not real or actual; to imagine; to invent; hence, to pretend; to form and relate as if true.</def>

<blockquote>There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou <b>feignest</b> them out of thine own heart. <i>Neh. vi. 8.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The poet Did <b>feign</b> that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to counterfeit; <as>as, to <ex>feign</ex> a sickness</as>.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To dissemble; to conceal.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Spenser.</i>

<h1>Feigned</h1> <Xpage=550>

<hw>Feigned</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Not real or genuine; pretended; counterfeit; insincere; false.</def> "A <i>feigned</i> friend."

<i>Shak.</i>

<blockquote>Give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of <b>feigned</b> lips. <i>Ps. xvii. 1.</i></blockquote>

-- <wordforms><wf>Feign"ed*ly</wf> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> -- <wf>Feign"ed*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<blockquote>Her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but <b>feignedly</b>. <i>Jer. iii. 10.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Feigned issue</col> <fld>(Law)</fld>, <cd>an issue produced in a pretended action between two parties for the purpose of trying before a jury a question of fact which it becomes necessary to settle in the progress of a cause.</cd> <i>Burill. Bouvier.</i></cs>

<h1>Feigner</h1> <Xpage=550>

<hw>Feign"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who feigns or pretends.</def>

<h1>Feigning</h1> <Xpage=550>

<hw>Feign"ing</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>That feigns; insincere; not genuine; false.</def>

-- <wordforms><wf>Feign"ing*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Feine</h1> <Xpage=550>

<hw>Feine</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t. & i.</tt> <def>To feign.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>