fetor

[Lat. fætor, from fæteo =to stink.] A strong or offensive smell; a stench. fětt-bol, s. [Ger.=fat bole.] Min .: A variety of Chloropal. It is of a liver brown color, and occurs near Freiberg. ( Dana .) fet-ter, *fet-er, *fet-yr, *vet-er, s . [A. S. fetor , feter ; cogn. with Dut. veter ; Icel. fjöturr ; Sw. fjättrar; Ger.fe el ; Lat. pedica ; Gr. pede =a fetter; Sansc.páduká =a shoe.] 1. Lit .: A chain for the feet; a chain by which an animal is confined by the feet, and prevented from free motion either by being fastened to some object, as a post, or by having the two feet chained together; a shackle, a hopple. (It is generally used in the plural.) "With feteres ant with gyves ichot he wes to-drowe." Political Songs, p. 221. 2. Fig .: Anything which fetters, restrains, or con fines; a restraint. "Such the kind power whose piercing eye di olves Each mental fetter , and sets reason free." Thomson: Liberty , 427, 428. fět-ter, *fet-er-en, *fet-ere, *fet-er-yn, v. t. [FETTER, 8.] I. Lit .: To put fetters upon; to bind with fetters; to shackle. "He stretched forth his hand, fettered as he was."Goldyng: Justine, fo. 74. II. Figuratively : 1. To bind as with fetters; to enchain. "In the Fields of Bli above He sits, with flowerets fettered round." Moore : Lallah Rookh ; Light of the Haram. 2. To bind, to enchain, to confine, to restrain; to place under restrictions. "The words for friend and foe alike were made, To fetter them in verse is all his trade." Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel , ii. 427, 428. fět-tered, pa . par . & a . [FETTER, v.] A. As pa . par .: (See the verb.) B. As adjective : 1. Ord . Lang .: Chained or bound with fetters. "To him this dungeon was a gulf And fettered feet the worst of ills." Byron: Prisoner of Chillon , v. 2. Zool.: A term applied to the feet of animals when they are stretched backward so as to appear unfit for walking, or when they are concealed in the integuments of the abdomen.