fettstein (fetstin)

[G., lit. 'fat stone,' [Rarely used by English authors.] fetuous, a . An improper form of featous . feturet, n. [ fetura , le correctly fætura , a bringing forth, brood, offspring, * fe , pp. fetus , generate, produce: see fetus .] Progeny or offspring. Davies . Some of them engendered one, some other such fetures , and every one in that he was delivered of was excellent politic, wise. Latimer , Sermons and Remains, I. 50. fetus (fe'tus), n. [L. fetus , le correctly fœ tus , a bringing forth, a bearing, hence also offspring, progeny (rarely of human kind), fetus , a., pregnant, breeding, newly delivered, pp. of fe , * fer , generate, produce, appearing in fecund us , fecund, femina , woman, etc., and in perf. fui , I was, fut. part. futurus , future, = Gr. φύειν , generate, produce, φύεσθαι , grow, = Skt. bhū , become, be, = AS. beón , E. be : see bel, future , fecund , female , feminine, physical , phyton , etc.] The young of viviparous animals in the womb, and of oviparous animals in the egg; the embryo in the later stage of development. See embryo . Also spelled fætus . - Fetus papyraceus, in teratol . , one of a pair of twin embryos which has been killed and reduced to a flattened remnant by the growth of the other embryo. Mammary fetus, the undeveloped young of a marsupial animal while it remains in the pouch attached to the nipple. Syn. See embryo. fetwa (fet'wä), n. [Also written fatra, fetva, fetvah, fetwah, repr. Ar. (whence Hind.) fatwa, a judicial decision.] A declaration in writing, by a competent authority, of the requirements of the Muslim holy law in any given case. There is besides a collection of all the fetwas or decisions pronounced by the different muftis. Brougham . feu (fù), n. [One of the forms of feud2 , fee: see feud and fee2.] In Scots law: ( a ) A free and gratuitous right to lands granted to one for service to be performed by him according to the proper tenure thereof; specifically, a right to the use and enjoyment of lands, houses, or other heritable subjects of perpetuity, in consideration of agricultural services or an annual payment in grain called feu - duty, and certain other contingent burdens. This was mend. When hit [the ark] watz fettled and forged and to the fulle graythed. Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), ii. 243. anciently deemed an ignoble tenure, as distinguished from ward-holding, where the service rendered was purely military, and from blanch - holding , where it was merely nominal. (b) The land or piece of ground so held; a fief. vest in one who pays the annual feu-duty. Frequently leased or feued out for a fixed duty. Encyc. Brit ., IV. 63. feuage