Part 4266

<blockquote>They could n't <b>fetch</b> the butter in the churn. <i>W. Barnes.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>To fetch a compass</col> <fld>(Naut.)</fld>, <cd>to make a sircuit; to take a circuitious route going to a place.</cd> -- <col>To fetch a pump</col>, <cd>to make it draw water by pouring water into the top and working the handle.</cd> -- <mcol><col>To fetch</col> <col>headway &or; sternway</col></mcol> <fld>(Naut.)</fld>, <cd>to move ahead or astern.</cd> -- <col>To fetch out</col>, <cd>to develop.</cd> "The skill of the polisher <i>fetches out<i> the colors [of marble]" <i>Addison.</i> -- <col>To fetch up</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To overtake.</cd> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "Says [the hare], I can <i>fetch up<i> the tortoise when I please." <i>L'Estrange.</i> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>To stop suddenly.</cd></cs>

<h1>fetch</h1> <Xpage=554>

<hw>fetch</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To bring one's self; to make headway; to veer; <as>as, to <ex>fetch</ex> about; to <ex>fetch</ex> to windward.</as></def>

<i>Totten.</i>

<cs><col>To fetch away</col> <fld>(Naut.)</fld>, <cd>to break loose; to roll slide to leeward.</cd> -- <col>To fetch and carry</col>, <cd>to serve obsequiously, like a trained spaniel.</cd></cs>

<h1>Fetch</h1> <Xpage=554>

<hw>Fetch</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A stratagem by which a thing is indirectly brought to pass, or by which one thing seems intended and another is done; a trick; an artifice.</def>

<blockquote>Every little <b>fetch</b> of wit and criticism. <i>South.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The apparation of a living person; a wraith.</def>

<blockquote>The very <b>fetch</b> and ghost of Mrs. Gamp. <i>Dickens.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Fetch candle</col>, <cd>a light seen at night, superstitiously believed to portend a person's death.</cd></cs>

<h1>Fethcer</h1> <Xpage=554>

<hw>Fethc"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One wo fetches or brings.</def>

<h1>Fete</h1> <Xpage=554>

<hw>Fete</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>feat</er>.]</ety> <def>A feat.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Fete</h1> <Xpage=554>

<hw>Fete</hw>, <tt>n. pl.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Foot</er>.]</ety> <def>Feet.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>F\'88te</h1> <Xpage=554>

<hw>F\'88te</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. See <er>Feast</er>.]</ety> <def>A festival.</def>

<cs><col>F\'88te champ\'88tre</col> <tt>(<?/)</tt> <ety>[F.]</ety>, <cd>a festival or entertainment in the open air; a rural festival.</cd></cs>

<h1>F\'88te</h1> <Xpage=554>

<hw>F\'88te</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>F\'88ted</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>F\'88ting</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>f\'88ter</ets>.]</ety> <def>To feast; to honor with a festival.</def>

<h1>Fetich, Fetish</h1> <Xpage=554>

<hw><hw>Fe"tich</hw>, <hw>Fe"tish</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt><hw><ety>[F. <ets>f\'82tiche</ets>, from Pg. <ets>feiti<?/o</ets>, adj., <tt>n.</tt>, sorcery, charm, fr. L. <ets>facticius</ets> made by art, artifical, factitious. See <er>Factitious</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A material object supposed among certain African tribes to represent in such a way, or to be so connected with, a supernatural being, that the possession of it gives to the possessor power to control that being.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Any object to which one is excessively devoted.</def>