Part 4273

-- <wordforms><wf>Fe"ver*ish*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt> -- <wf>Fe"ver*ish*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Feverous</h1> <Xpage=555>

<hw>Fe"ver*ous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf.F. <ets>fi\'82vreux</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Affected with fever or ague; feverish.</def>

<blockquote>His heart, love's <b>feverous</b> citadel. <i>Keats.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Pertaining to, or having the nature of, fever; <as>as, a <ex>feverous</ex> pulse</as>.</def>

<blockquote>All maladies . . . all <b>feverous</b> kinds. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Having the tendency to produce fever; <as>as, a <ex>feverous</ex> disposition of the year</as>.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Bacon.</i>

<h1>Feverously</h1> <Xpage=555>

<hw>Fe"ver*ous*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>Feverishly.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Donne.</i>

<h1>Feverwort</h1> <Xpage=555>

<hw>Fe"ver*wort`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>See <cref>Fever root</cref>, under <er>Fever</er>.</def>

<h1>Fevery</h1> <Xpage=555>

<hw>Fe"ver*y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Feverish.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>B. Jonson.</i>

<h1>Few</h1> <Xpage=555>

<hw>Few</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>Compar.</tt> <er>Fewer</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>superl.</tt> <er>Fewest</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>fewe</ets>, <ets>feawe</ets>, AS. <ets>fe\'a0</ets>, pl. <ets>fe\'a0we</ets>; akin to OS. <ets>f\'beh</ets>, OHG. <ets>f</ets>\'b5<ets><?/ fao</ets>, Icel. <ets>f\'ber</ets>, Sw. <ets>f\'86</ets>, pl., Dan. <ets>faa</ets>, pl., Goth. <ets>faus</ets>, L. <ets>paucus</ets>, cf. Gr. <?/. Cf. <er>Paucity</er>.]</ety> <def>Not many; small, limited, or confined in number; -- indicating a small portion of units or individuals constituing a whole; often, by ellipsis of a noun, a few people.</def> "Are not my days <i>few</i>?"

<i>Job x. 20.</i>

<blockquote><b>Few</b> know and <b>fewer</b> care. <i>Proverb.</i></blockquote>

<note>&hand; <i>Few</i> is often used partitively; as, <i>few</i> of them.</note>

<cs><col>A few</col>, <cd>a small number.</cd> -- <col>In few</col>, <cd>in a few words; briefly.</cd></cs>

<i>Shak.</i>

<cs><col>- No few</col>, <cd>not few; more than a few; many.</cd></cs>

<i>Cowper.</i>

<cs><col>- The few</col>, <cd>the minority; -- opposed to <i>the many<i> or <i>the majority<i>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Fewel</h1> <Xpage=555>

<hw>Fe"wel</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Fuel</er>.]</ety> <def>Fuel.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>