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[Eng. fetter; -le .] Free from fetters or restraint; unfettered, unrestrained. "Yet this affected strain gives me a tongue As fetterle as is an Emperor's." IMG:content-1578.png:[blocks in formation] pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, IMG:content-1579.png:[blocks in formation] Feudal Arms , or Arms of Succe ion : Her.: The arms borne by the po e ors of certain lordships or estates. ( Glo ary of Heraldry .) B. As subst.: A fief, a fee, or feud. feudal system, s. A system of social polity, of which lordship and va alage were the e ential IMG:content-1580.png:[blocks in formation] ship inhered solely in the lord, only use, po e ion, feudataire .] or tenancy belonging to the grantee. Some traces of feudalism may be found in all monarchical countries, but the rise of the feudal system distinct- ively so called was in those parts of Europe in which the Teutonic conquerors of the Roman em- piro acquired paramount power. As early as the ninth century the term va als, or va i , was used of noblemen who attached themselves to the court of their sovereign, moved by natural, and as yet unpurchased loyalty. When in those unsettled times soldiers of fortune gained by the sword terri- tories which they were afraid to lose, they parceled them out among their superior officers, who again transferred all the land for which they had no im- mediate use to their soldiers on similar conditions. The regular sovereigns were nece itated in self- defense to adopt a similar policy. Four distinct forms have been traced in the development of the feudal system. First the land granted, if not resum- able at pleasure, was so on the expiry of the grant ee's life. Then it tended to become to a certain limited extent hereditary. Next it became com- pletely hereditary, and was called a feud. Finally the order of descent was settled, collateral relations admitted to inheritance, and the reciprocal obliga- tions of lord and tenant settled by fixed regulations known and published. In England certain traces of feudality in its milder form are traceable among the Anglo-Saxons. The feudal system itself came in with all its rigor under William the Conqueror. He would not ad- mit the existence of any "allodial" land, that is, land held in absolute po e ion, in England, though some exists in Shetland, once Danish isles. All belonged to him as lord paramount, to be par- celed out among his Norman va al knights. They were called tenants in capite - i . e ., in chief. These knights were allowed again to allot it to others. When they did so they were themselves called mesne (middle) lords, and their va als tenants paravail (lowest tenants). The appropriation of lands by conquerors, with the destruction, expulsion, or bondage of the original inhabitants, was an act of great wrong. When, without this initial blot, land was obtainable to be portioned out in the feudal way, an organized society in many ways adapted to med iæval times was the result. Every one had his place and his duties defined. He was taught loy- alty, good faith, and self-respect. [CHIVALRY.] But feudality had serious defects, and with the prog- re of society it was sure sooner or later to de- cline. When Henry II. dispensed with the inefficient service of the military va als, and accepted in lieu a tax called escuage, wherewith to hire proper sol- diers, one great prop of the feudal system was over- thrown. Feudalism fell during the Common- tance to the individual who has the former than to one who po e es only the latter. The system of conveyancing also is almost wholly feudal, with more or le modification to meet the exigencies of the times. feu-dal-ism, s. [Eng. feudal ; -ism.] The feu- dal system; the principles and constitution of feuds or fiefs. 1. An upholder or supporter of feudalism. 2. One versed in feudal law. feū-dal-1-tě, s. [Eng. feudal ; -ity; Fr. féodal- ité ; Ital. feudal ità ; Sp. feud alidad .] 'The quality or state of being feudal, or under the feudal system; IMG:content-1581.png:[blocks in formation] 4. Indicating or characterized by feverishne . "A babbling fellow, being never without an in flamm a- tion and feverous pulse." -P. Holland: Plutarch, p. 160. II. Fig .: Heated, excited, feverish, inconstant. "And now of late came tributary kings, Bringing him nothing but new fears from the east, With which his fev'rous cares their cold increased." Crashaw: Steps to the Temple. *fē-ver-oŭs-ly, adv . [Eng. fever ; -ously .] In "Nor [couldst thou] by the eye's water know a malady Desperately hot, or raging feverously." Donne, Elegy 7. *fe-ver-ý, a . [Eng. fever ; -y.] Afflicted with or suffering from fever; feverish. tar, malignant pestilential, pestilential, seasoning, a feverous or feverish manner; feverishly. Siam, and stranger's fevers, are different names for yellow fever (q. v.). Black, malignant, purpuric, neuropurpuric, petechial, purple and spotted fevers are different names for cerebro - spinal fever or cere . bro-spinal meningitis (q. v.). Articular, bouquet, breakbone, dandy, endemo-epidemic, eruptive rheumatic, red, and remitting bilions fevers are different names for dengue (q. v.). Biliary, remit- tent, bilious typhoid, famine, gastrohepatic, in- flamm a tory, Levant, recurrent, remitting icteric, few (ewas ū), *feawe, *feu, *feu we, *fewe, *fo, seven-day, short, and spirillum fevers are different *fone, *foe, *fowe, *veawe, *vewe, a . [A. S. feá , names for relapsing fever . Ague, chills and fever, feawe (pl.); Icel. fár ; Dan. faa ; Sw. fa ; Goth. congestive chills, congestive-malarial, intermittent, faws ; Lat. paucus =few; Gr. pauros =small.] Not periodic, and periodical fevers are different names many; small, limited, or restricted in number. It for malaria fever (q. v.). (For bilious, hectic, in is frequently used, by ellipsis of the noun, for not flamm a tory, malignant, nervous, petechil, puer per many persons or things. IMG:content-1582.png:[blocks in formation] Is drowned in sleep, and all thy body fevery ." Ben Jonson: Cat i line , iii. 2. fiancer to betroth.] One who is affianced, be- fi-ân-çê (m.), fî-ân -çêe ( f .), s. [Fr., pa. par. of trothed, or engaged. fox or badger. fi-ants, s. [ Fr.fiente =dung.] The dung of the IMG:content-1583.png:[blocks in formation] Do not believe his vows." Shakesp.: Hamlet , i. 3. (3) A good few : A considerable number. few-acred, a. "These, by reason of their fewne , I could not dist in- guish from the numbers with whom they are embodied." -Dryden: Hind and Panther. (Pref.) *2. Brevity; shortne of language; concisene . Fewne and truth, 'tis thus." fêy, v. t . [Dan. feye , feie = to clean out; Ger. fegen; Dut. vegen .) To cleanse or clear a ditch of mud. "By feying and casting that mud upon heaps, Commodities many the husbandman reaps. Tu er: June's Husbandry. fêy, *fay, *faie, *fæighe, *feye, a . [A. S. fæge ; Icel. feigr ; O. H. Ger. feigi ; M. H. Ger. veige ; Sw. feg ; Dan. feig .] 1. Killed, dead. "The freike hadde ben fay but for his fyn armour." Destruction of Troy , 6,590. 3. Tending toward a fever; resembling a fever. "A feverish disorder disabled me."- Swift : To Pope. II. Figuratively : 1. Uncertain, inconstant; now hot, now cold. "We to and turn about our feverish will." 2. Hot, burning. IMG:content-1584.png:[blocks in formation] "Nought suffered he the ape to give or graunt, But through his hand alone must pa the jiaunt ." Spenser: Mother Hubberd's Tale. IMG:content-1585.png:[blocks in formation] father; we, wet, here, camel, her, there; mute, cub , cüre, unite, cûr, rûle, full; try, Syrian. ӕ, cœē; ey = a. fibered