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t. [Fr. vis =a screw.) To twist or turn, as a screw. (1) To feeze about : To hang off and on; to move backward and forward within a small compa . (2) To feeze on : To screw. (3) To feeze off : To unscrew. (4) To feeze up: (a) To flatter. ( b ) To work up into a pa ion. feeze-nail, s. A screw-nail. feēze, s. [FEEZE, v.] A state of excitement. *feffe, v . t . [FEOFF, v.] *feg, s. [FIG.] *fegs, exclam . [A corrupt. of faith .] In faith. Fêh-ling, s . [For etym. see def.] The name of the inventor of the solution called after him. Fehling's solution, s. hence we speak of a person's susceptibility to take cold, or his susceptibility to be affected with grief, joy, or any other pa ion: if an exce of sensibility be an evil, an exce of susceptibility is a still greater evil; it makes us a slave to every circumstance, however trivial, which comes under our notice." (Crabb: Eng . Synon .) IMG:content-1512.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1513.png:[blocks in formation] cold. (2) A mental sensation or emotion; mental state or disposition. "There was a faction among them which regarded him with no friendly feeling ." -Macaulay : Hist . Eng ., ch. v. (3) Moral conception, consciousne , conviction. "One word alone can paint to thee That more than feeling -I was Free!" Byron: Bride of Abydos , ii. 18. *(4) Experience, knowledge, acquaintance. "He had some feeling of the sport." Shakesp.: Measure for Measure , iii. 2. (5) Sensibility; readine to feel for and sympathize with distre ; tenderne of heart. "By objects which might force the soul to abate Her feeling , rendered more compa ionate." Words worth. Happy Warrior. (6) That element in our moral constitution which is po e ed of sensibility or sensitivene ; as, to hurt a person's feelings . II. Technically : 1. Fine Arts : That visible quality of a work of art which embodies the mental emotion of the artist, And similarly affects the spectator. 2. Phys. & Psychol .: According to Mr. Herbert Spencer any portion of consciousne which occupies a place sufficiently large to give it a perceivable individuality; any one which has its individuality so marked off from adjacent portions of consciousne by quantitative contrasts and which when introspectively contemplated appears to be homogene. Dus. Cla ifying them by their functions, they may be divided into centrally-initiated feelings called emotions, and peripherally-initiated feelings called sensations. These last again are subdivided into эpiperipheral sensations, being those which arise on the exterior surface of th the body, and endoperipheral sensations, those which arise in its interior. The proximate components of mind are of two broadly contrasted kinds, feelings and the relations between them. Quantity of feeling is of two kinds, that which arises from intense excitation of a few nerves, and that which springs from slight excitation of many nerves. ( H. Spencer : Psychol., ch. ii.) Crabb thus discriminates between feeling , sensation, and sense : " Feeling is the general, sensation and sense are the special terms; the feeling is either physical or moral: the sensation is mostly physical: the sense physical in the general, and moral in the particular application. The term feeling is most adapted to ordinary discourse; that of sensation is better suited to the grave and scientific style: a 2. So as to be sensibly felt; heartily. "How toilsome, nay, how dire it was, by thee Is known-by none, perhaps, so feelingly ." Words worth: To Thomas Clark son. *feel-le , a . [Eng. feel ; -le .] Without or destitute of feeling; insensible. *feelth, s . [Eng. feel ; suff. -th , as in warmth, .] Feeling. The act or proce of marking out the limits of a feër, fëir, s . [A. S. fyrian to make a furrow.] field to be plowed by drawing a furrow on each side. *feëre, s. [FERE.]