Part 4288

<blockquote>You kniw the <b>fiery</b> quality of the duke. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Unrestrained; fierce; mettlesome; spirited.</def>

<blockquote>One curbed the <b>fiery</b> steed. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>heated by fire, or as if by fire; burning hot; parched; feverish.</def>

<i>Pope.</i>

<blockquote>The sword which is made <b>fiery</b>. <i>Hooker.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Fiery cross</col>, <cd>a cross constructed of two firebrands, and pitched upon the point of a spear; formerly in Scotland borne by a runner as a signal for the clan to take up arms.</cd></cs>

<i>Sir W. Scott.</i>

<h1>Fife</h1> <Xpage=557>

<hw>Fife</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>fifre</ets>, OHG. <ets>pf\'c6fa</ets>, LL. <ets>pipa</ets> pipe, <ets>pipare</ets> to play on the pipe, fr. L. <ets>pipire</ets>, <ets>pipare</ets>, to peep, pip, chirp, as a chiken. See <er>Pipe</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Mus.)</fld> <def>A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music.</def>

<cs><col>Fife major</col> <fld>(Mil.)</fld>, <cd>a noncommissioned officer who superintends the fifers of a regiment.</cd> -- <col>Fife rail</col>. <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>A rail about the mast, at the deck, to hold belaying pins, etc.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>A railing around the break of a poop deck.</cd></cs>

<h1>Fife</h1> <Xpage=557>

<hw>Fife</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Fifed</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>fifing</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To play on a fife.</def>

<h1>Fifer</h1> <Xpage=557>

<hw>Fif"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who plays on a fife.</def>

<h1>Fifteen</h1> <Xpage=557>

<hw>Fif"teen`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>fiftene</ets>, AS. <ets>f\'c6ft<?/ne</ets>, <ets>f\'c6ft<?/ne</ets>. See <er>Five</er>, and <er>Ten</er>, and cf. <er>Fifty</er>.]</ety> <def>Five and ten; one more than fourteen.</def>

<h1>Fifteen</h1> <Xpage=557>

<hw>Fif"teen`</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The sum of five and ten; fifteen units or objects.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A symbol representing fifteen units, as 15, or xv.</def>

<h1>Fifteenth</h1> <Xpage=557>

<hw>Fif"teenth`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>fiftenthe</ets>; cf. <ets>fiftethe</ets>, AS. <ets>f\'c6fte<?/<?/a</ets>. See <er>Fifteen</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Next in order after the fourteenth; -- the ordinal of fifteen.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Consisting of one of fifteen equal parts or divisions of a thing.</def>

<h1>Fifteenth</h1> <Xpage=557>

<hw>Fif"teenth`</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One of fifteen equal parts or divisions; the quotient of a unit divided by fifteen.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A species of tax upon personal property formerly laid on towns, boroughs, etc., in England, being one fifteenth part of what the personal property in each town, etc., had been valued at.</def>

<i>Burrill.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Mus.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>A stop in an organ tuned two octaves above the diaposon.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>An interval consisting of two octaves.</def>