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t. [FELICITATE, a.; Fr. félic iter; Sp. felicitar; Ital. felicitare.] *1. To make happy; to confer happine upon. 2. To congratulate; to wish joy or happine to. Crabb thus discriminates between to felicitate and to congratulate : " Felicitate signifies to make happy, and is applicable only to ourselves; IMG:content-1519.png:[blocks in formation] on the sole as to permit these animals to approach their victims with noisele tread. The species, notwithstanding great external diversities, so much agree in all e ential respects that it has been. doubted whether there is in the family more than a single recent genus, the typical Felis. Most. modern naturalists, however, break it up into various genera, as Felis, Leo, Leopard us, Lynx or Lyncus, . Representatives of the family exist in both the Old and New Worlds. [FELIS.] 2. Palæont.: The family has existed from at least the Middle Eocene. It became abundant in the Miocene. tfě-li-næ, s. pl. [ Lat.felis, feles (gen it. felis )=a cat, and fem. pl. adj. suff. -ina.] Zool .: The typical sub-family of Felide. When the family Felidae was made to comprehend the hyenas and dogs as well as the cats, as was the case in the arrangement of Swains on and his school, such a sub-family as Feline was nece ary; now that these are excluded, it has sunk into disuse. fë-line, a. & s. [Lat. felinus , from felis =a cat.] A. As adjective : 1. Lit .: Like or allied to a cat in outward form. 2. Fig .: Having the mental characteristics attributed to the species; sly, stealthy. B. As subst.: A member of the family Felidae (q. v.). fë-lis, s. [Lat.=a cat.] 1. Zool.: Cat. A Linnean genus of animals corresponding with FELIDE (q. v.). Some, however, break it up into various genera, though admitting the difficulty of obtaining any important characters to discriminate them. When the genus is not broken up, then Felis leo is the Lion, F. tigris the Bengal Tiger, F. leopard us the Leopard-of which the Panther ( F. pard us ) may be only a variety, and the Ounce ( F. uncia ) the half-developed young- F . jubata the Hunting Leopard or Cheetah, F. onca the Jaguar, F. concolor the Puma, F. lyncus the European Lynx. 2. Palæont.: The genus came into existence at IMG:content-1520.png:[blocks in formation]