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<i>Hooker.</i>

<h1>Fewmet</h1> <Xpage=555>

<hw>Few"met</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>See <er>Fumet</er>.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>B. Jonson.</i>

<h1>Fewness</h1> <Xpage=555>

<hw>Few"ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The state of being few; smallness of number; paucity.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Brevity; conciseness.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Fey</h1> <Xpage=555>

<hw>Fey</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>f<?/ga</ets>, Icel. <ets>feigr</ets>, OHG. <ets>feigi</ets>.]</ety> <def>Fated; doomed.</def> <mark>[Old Eng. & Scot.]</mark>

<h1>Fey</h1> <Xpage=555>

<hw>Fey</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Fay</er> faith.]</ety> <def>Faith.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Fey</h1> <Xpage=555>

<hw>Fey</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[Cf. <er>Feague</er>.]</ety> <def>To cleanse; to clean out.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Tusser.</i>

<h1>Feyne</h1> <Xpage=555>

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

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Feyre</h1> <Xpage=555>

<hw>Feyre</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A fair or market.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Fez</h1> <Xpage=555>

<hw>Fez</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F., fr. the town of <ets>Fez</ets> in Morocco.]</ety> <def>A felt or cloth cap, usually red and having a tassel, -- a variety of the tarboosh. See <er>Tarboosh</er>.</def>

<i>B. Taylor.</i>

<h1>Fiacre</h1> <Xpage=555>

<hw>Fia"cre</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F.]</ety> <def>A kind of French hackney coach.</def>

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