erroneous writ be delivered to the sheriff, and he execute it, he shall have his fees, though the writ be erroneous. 1 Stalk. 332. It seems to be laid down in the old books as a distinction, that upon an extent of land upon a statute, the sheriff is to have his fees, so much per pound according to the statute immediately; but that upon an elegit he is not to have them till the liberate. Poph. 156. Winch. 51. S. P. Fees are now recoverable by an action for money had and received, which has been introduced in lieu of an assise. Money given to A. and claimed by B. as perquisites of office, connot be recovered by B. in such action, unless such perquisites be known and accustomed fees, such as the legal officer could have recovered from A. 6 Term. Rep. K. B. 681, 3. Action on the case lies for an attorney for his fees, against him that retained him in his cause: and attorneys are not to be dismissed by their clients till their fees are paid. 1 Lil. 142. But attorneys are not to demand more than their just fees; nor to be allowed fees to counsel without tickets, or the signature of counsel, &c. Stat. 3 Jac. I c. 7. An attorney may have action of debt for his fees, and also of counsel, and costs of suit as a counsellor is not bound to give counsel till he has his fee, it is said he can have no action for it: though it has been held otherwise, F. N. B. 121. Brownl. 73. 31 H. VI. c. 9. FEE FARM is a tenure without homage, fealty, or other service, except that mentioned in the feoffment; which is usually the full rent, or at least a fourth part of it. The nature of this tenure is, that if the rent be behind, and unpaid for two years, then the feoffer and his heirs may have an action for the recovery of the lands. FEE'BLE, adj. & v. a. Fr. foible; Ital. FEE BLEMINDED, adj. fievole, from Lat. flerFEE BLENESS, n. s. ibilis, pliant. Weak; FEE BLESSE, infirm; debilitated: FEE BLY, adv. as a verb, to render weak; now more commonly used with the prefix en (enfeeble): Spenser uses feeblesse, probably after the Old Fr. febles, for feebleness; state of weakness, or infirmity. Whanne thou makist a feest clepe pore men, feble, crokid, and blinde: and thou schalt be blessid. Wiclif. Luk xiv. Warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men. 1 Thess. Shall that victorious hand be feebled here, That in your chambers gave you chastisement? Id. King John. Feeble minds, when they meet with crosses they looked not for, repent of their good beginnings, and wish any difficulty rather than that they find. Bp. Hall's Contemplations. How I have loved, excuse my faltering tongue; My spirits feeble, and my pains are strong. Dryden. Like mine, thy gentle numbers feebly creep, Thy tragic muse gives smiles, thy comick sleep. Id. Rhyme is a crutch that helps the weak along, Supports the feeble, but retards the strong. Smith. Some in their latter years, through the feebleness of their limbs, have been forced to study upon their knees. South. We carry the image of God in us, a rational and immortal soul; and though we be now miserable and feeble, yet we aspire after eternal happiness, and finally expect a great exaltation of all our natural powers. Bentley. The hand of God sheltered this feeble plant from the storm, and by his care it was reared, and cultivated, and brought to maturity. Robertson's Sermon. Daughter of woe! ere morn, in vain caressed, Clung the cold babe, upon thy milkless breast, With feeble cries thy last sad aid required, Stretched its stiff limbs, and on thy lap expired! Darwin. } FEED, v. a., v. n. & n. s. Į Sax. pedan, fœdan; FEEDER, n. s. Goth. fodan; Dan. fede; Icl. fodr. To supply with nutriment; to nourish; entertain: hence to supply generally; to graze; consume by cattle; fatten: as a neuter verb, to take food; live by eating; to prey; to pasture: as a substantive, feed is used synonymously with food, also for a meal, and a given quantity of food: a feeder is either one who gives food, or one who eats; hence one who excites or encourages: also one who is devoted to the training or feeding of cattle for market or otherwise. If a man shall cause a field to be eaten, and shall put in his beast, and shall feed in another man's field, he shall make restitution. Exod. xxii. 5. Barbarossa learned the strength of the emperor, craftily feeding him with the hope of liberty. Knolles. You cry against the noble senate, who, In every mess have folly, and the feeders Besides his cote, his flocks and bounds of feed Id. Id. As You Like It. At his bed's feet feeden his stalled teme, Denham. What followers, what retinue canst thou gain? Plenty hung Milton. Id. Tempting so nigh, to pluck and eat my fill Marvell. We meet in Aristotle with one kind of thrush, called the missel thrush, or feeder upon misselto. Id. Vulgar Errours. A fearful deer then looks most about when he comes to the best feed, with a shrugging kind of tremour through all her principal parts. Sidney. The brachmans were all of the same race, lived in fields and woods, and fed only upon rice, milk, or Temple. herbs. He feeds on fruits, which of their own accord, The willing grounds and laden trees afford. Dryden. Id. Her heart and bowels through her back he drew, Riot agrees not with frugality: Then, that unfashionable man am I, With me they'd starve for want of ivory. Id. Till canker taints the vegetable blood, FEEJEE, FIDGEE, or Prince William's Islands, are a group of islands on the South Pacific Ocean, the exact number and extent of which are not yet ascertained. They are said to be situated from about 15° 33′ to 19° 15′ of S. lat.; and to about 175 of E. long. The missionary ship Duff counted from fifteen to twenty. They are equally fertile as the generality of the islands in the South Pacific, and produce the same kinds of roots and fruits. Sandal wood is plentiful, and attempts have been made to introduce this valuable tree from hence into Tongataboo, but without success. The inhabitants are a ferocious race, and greatly dreaded by their neighbours; being said to be cannibals in the strictest sense of the word. Englishmen have seen numerous baskets of human flesh, and many bodies of fallen enemies and slaughtered captives devoured. The stature and appearance of the Feejeeans is superior to those of the Friendly Islands, their complexion is darker, and their hair approaches more to a woolly texture. Their arms are neatly fashioned, their canoes of better workmanship, and they are more industrious in their habits also than most of their neighbours. They supply the Friendly Islands with the feathers of a red parroquet, with vessels of earthenware, stone for their hatchets, and all their cutting implements. It is uncertain what kind of government prevails. Some of them have been supposed subject to The frost will spoil the grass; for which reason Tongataboo, but this is very doubtful. take care to feed it close before Winter. Mortimer's Husbandry. The breadth of the bottom of the hopper must be half the length of a barleycorn, and near as long as Id. the rollers, that it may not feed them too fast. An old worked ox fats as well as a young one, their feed is much cheaper, because they eat no oats. Id. God advanced David to the throne that he might feed his people, not that he might feed himself; that he might do good, not that he might make his family great. Henry. Psa. lxxviii. 71. A constant smoke rises from the warm springs, that feed the many baths with which the island is stocked. These islands were originally discovered by Tasman in FEEL', v. n., v. a. & n. s. FEELING, part. adj. & n.s. Saxon Felan; Belg. voelen; Goth. falwa. To have perception by the touch; to explore by feeling: hence to have acute mental sensibility; to appear to the touch: as an active verb, to perceive by the touch; to try; sound; Boerhaave fed a sparrow with bread four days, in perceive mentally; know: as a substantive, the Id. Richard II. This hand, whose touch, Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, by. He feelingly knew, and had trial of the late good, and of the new purchased evil. Id. A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him must wear it every day but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made. Bacon. Great persons had need to borrow other men's opinions to think themselves happy for if they judge by their own feeling, they cannot find it. Id. But why should those be thought to escape, who feel Those rods of scorpions and those whips of steel? Creech. Nor did they not perceive the evil plight In which they were, or the fierce pains not feel. To such a tender ball as the eye confined; Thy wailing words do much my spirits move, They uttered are in such a feeling fashion. Sidney. The princes might judge that he meant himself, who spake so feelingly. smooth. Id. Blind men say black feels rough, and white feels Dryden. The sense of feeling can give us a notion of extension, shape, and all other ideas that enter at the eye, except colours. Addison's Spectator. Soon in smart pain he feels the dire mistake, Lashes the wave, and beats the foamy lake. Gay. The difference of these tumours will be distinguished by the feel. Sharp's Surgery. Of these tumours one feels flaccid and rumpled; the other more even, flatulent and springy. Sharp. Insects clean their eyes with their forelegs as well as antennæ; and, as they are perpetually feeling and searching before them with their feslers or antennæ, I am apt to think that besides wiping and cleaning the eyes, the uses here named may be admitted. Derham's Physico-Theology. The well-sung woes shall sooth my pensive ghost He best can paint them who can feel them most. Pope. Not youthful kings in battle seized alive, Of all your royal favours; but this last Southerne. As we learn what belongs to the body by the evidence of sense, so we learn what belongs to the soul by an inward consciousness, which may be called a sort of internal feeling. Watts. He that will not fear, shall feel the wrath of heaven. Young. What is so hateful to a poor man as the purse-proud arrogance of a rich one? Let fortune shift the scene, and make the poor man rich, he runs at once into the vice that he declaimed against so feelingly: these are strange contradictions in the human character. Cumberland. The FEELING is one of the five external senses, by which we obtain the ideas of solidity, hardness, softness, roughness, heat, cold, wetness, dryness, and other tangible qualities. Although this sense is perhaps the least refined, it is of all others the most sure, as well as the most universal. Man sees and hears with small portions of his body, but he feels with all. The author of nature has bestowed that general sensation wherever there are nerves, and they are every where found where there is life. If it were otherwise, the parts wanting this sense might be destroyed without our knowledge. On this account it seems wisely provided, that this sensation should structure of the nervous papillæ is not absolutely not require a particular organisation. necessary to it: the lips of a fresh wound, the periosteum, and the tendons, when uncovered, are extremely sensible without them, though they serve to the perfection of feeling, and to diversify sensation. Feeling is, perhaps, the basis of all other sensations. The object of feeling is every body that has consistency or solidity enough to move the surface of our skin. To make feeling perfect, it was necessary that the nerves should form small eminences, because they are more easily moved by the impression of bodies than a uniform surface; and it is owing to this structure that we are enabled to distinguish not only the size and figure of bodies, their hardness and softness, but also their heat and cold. To the blind, feeling is so useful a sensation, that it supplies the office of eyes, and in a great measure indemnifies them for the want of sight. See BLIND. FEET BEARER, an officer in the courts of the ancient Anglo-Saxon and Welsh kings. He was a young gentleman whose duty it was to sit on the king's feet in his bosom all the time he sat the floor, with his back towards the fire, and hold at table, to keep them warm and comfortable.Leges Wallia, p. 58. FEHRABAD, or FAHRABAD, a town in the province of Mazanderan, Persia, situated at the mouth of a river, near the south coast of the Caspian. It carries on some trade in rice, salt, fish, and pottery. Some time ago the population was computed at 16,000 persons, the descendants principally of Armenians and Georgians. The environs produce sugar, cotton, and silk. It is 126 miles west of Asterabad, and 270 north of Ispahan. FEIGN, v. a. & v. n. adv. Fr. feindre; Old FEIGN EDLY, Fr. feigner; Latin, FEIGN'ER, n. s. fingo, to contrive. FEIGN'ING, To invent; imaFEINT, part. adj. & n. s. gine; make a show of; dissemble. As a verb neuter, to relate falsely or fabulously. Feint, as a substantive, is a false appearance; a false assault in fencing. And thei aspieden and senten aspieris that fayneden him just, that thei schulden take him in word and bitaken him to the power of the prince. Wiclif. Luk xx. No such things are done as thou sayest, but thou feignedat them out of thine own heart. Neh. vi. 3. cipal of which is his Dialogues on the Lives and Works of the most eminent Painters. FELICITAS, FELICITY, or happiness, was deified by the ancient Pagans. Lucullus built a temple to her, and she had another erected by Lepidus. The Greeks worshipped her under the name of Macaria. This deity is often represented upon medals, and generally with a cornucopia in one hand and a caduceus in the other. The inscriptions are, Felicitas Temporum, Felicitas Augusti, Felicitas Publica, &c. FELICITATE, v. a., part." Fr. feliciter, Lat. felicitatum; >felicito, to make happy: as an adjective, feliFelicitation is, con Each trembling leaf and whistling wind they hear, gratulation. Felicity, happiness; prosperity; As ghastly bug their hair on end does rear; Faerie Queene. Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods; Shakspeare. Such is found to have been falsely and feignedly in some of the heathens. May her feignings Bacon. Not take your word in! Ben Jonson. And these three voices differ; all things done, the doing, and the doer; the thing feigned, the feigning, and the feigner; so the poem, the poesy, and the poet. Id. Such is the greedinesse of men's natures (in these Athenian dayes) of news, that they will rather feigne T. Ford, 1647. than want it. No pretences, no privileges, can bear off a sin with God: men think either to patronise or mitigate evils, by their feigned reasons. Bp. Hall's Contemplations. Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feigned, or fear conceived, Gorgons, and hydras, and chimeras dire! Milton. The mind by degrees loses its natural relish of real, solid truth, and is reconciled insensibly to any thing that can be but dressed up into any feint appearance Locke. Courtly's letter is but a feint to get off. Spectator. But, in the breast encamped, prepares For well-bred feints and future wars. Me gentle Delia beckons from the plain, Then hid in shades, eludes her eager swain; But feigns a laugh to see me search around, And by that laugh the willing fair is found. Pope. But charity not feigned intends alone Another's good-theirs centres in their own. of it. Prior. Cowper. FELIBIEN (Andrew), born at Chartres in 1619, went secretary under the marquis de Fontenay Mareuil, ambassador to the court of Rome, in 1647. On his return, M. Colbert procured him the places of historiographer to Louis XIV., superintendant of his buildings, and of arts and manufactures in France. He became afterwards deputy comptroller general of the bridges and dykes, and died in 1695. He wrote several pieces relating to the fine arts; the prin Myself an enemy to all other joys; Which the most precious square of sense possesses, And find I am alone felicitate. In your dear highness' love. Shakspeare. Lear. Felicity, pure and unalloyed felicity, is not a plant of earthly growth; her gardens are the skies. Burton. Others in virtue placed felicity; But virtue joined with riches and long life, All pious dispositions are fountains of pleasant streams, which by their confluence do make up a full sea of felicity. Barrow, They might proceed unto forms of speeches, felicitating the good, or depreciating the evil to follow. Browne. Some of the fathers went so far, as to esteem the love of music a sign of predestination; as a thing divine, and reserved for the felicities of heaven itself. Sir W. Temple. How great, how glorious a felicity, how adequate to the desires of a reasonable nature, is revealed to our hopes in the gospel. Rogers. The felicities of our wonderful reign may be complete. Atterbury. What a glorious entertainment and pleasure would fill and felicitate his spirit, if he could grasp all in a single survey. Watts. Other ambition than of crowns in air, Young. Pound St. Paul's church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is, to be sure, good for nothing: but put all these atoms together, and you have St. Paul's church. So it is with human felicity, which is made up of many ingredients, each of which may be shown to be very insignificant. Johnson. FELICUDI, one of the Lipari Islands, the ancient Phænicusa. It consists chiefly of a vol FELIPE (St.), or St. Philip de Xativa, a town of Spain, in the province of Valencia, situated on the declivity of a mountain. It has an old castle built on a rock, containing several Roman and Moorish remains. The Roman name of this place was Setabis, changed by the Moors to Xativa. In 1706 it was taken by assault and burned; king Philip, on ordering it to be rebuilt, gave it the name of San Felipe. The adjacent country is productive in rice. Twenty-nine miles S.S. W. of Valencia. Population 10,000. FELIPE, SAN, a city of Venezuela, South America, was, a century ago, only a village, known by the name of Cocorota. A great number, however, of Canarians, and natives of the neighbouring districts, attracted by the fertility of its soil, having settled there, the company of Guipuzcoa, some time before its dissolution, established stores for the purpose of trading with the interior. From that time this place gained a new aspect; handsome houses, and streets regularly built, took the place of huts huddled together without order. It stands in lat. 10° 15′ N., fifty leagues west of Caraccas, fifteen north-west of Valencia, and seven northwest of Nirgua. The neighbouring district is watered by the rivers Yarani and Aroa, and by numerous rivulets. Copper mines exist also there. The city is regularly built; the streets are in a line and broad; and the parish church is handsome and well maintained. The inhabitants, who amount to nearly 7000, are reputed laborious and industrious. They have only priests, and no monks or miraculous images among them. The atmosphere is hot and moist, and the town consequently not very healthy. FELIS, Lat. felis, the cat, in zoology, a genus of quadrupeds, belonging to the order of feræ. The characters, according to Gmelin and Kerr, are these six cutting teeth, all equal: grinders three the tongue beset with rough papillæ, which point backwards: the feet are provided with sharp hooked claws, which are lodged in a sheath, and may be extended or drawn in at pleasure: the head is mostly round, and the visage short. All the animals of this genus, though ferocious, are temperate; very agile in climbing trees; alight on their feet, when falling from a height; and seize their prey by surprise. The females bring a considerable number at a birth, and have all eight paps. This genus comprehends twenty-eight species. Mr. Pennant has arranged it in two subdivisions, viz. 1. those having long tails and plain ears; and, 2. those with short tails and ears pencilled at the tips. The latter comprehends nine different species of lynxes, and the former nineteen species, consisting of the lions, tygers, panthers, leopards, cats, and all the rest of the genus. This arrangement is adopted by Kerr. F. capensis, the Cape tiger, is the nsussi of Labat, who was the first that noticed this species which he describes as of the size of a dog, with a coat as much striped and varied as that of a tiger. Its appearance bespeaks cruelty, and its eyes fierceness; but it is cowardly, and gets its prey only by cunning and insidious arts. It is found in all parts of Africa, from Congo to the Cape of Good Hope. When Dr. Forster touched the second time at the Cape of Good Hope, in 1775, an animal of this species was offered him to purchase; but he refused to buy it because it had a broken leg. It was very gentle and tame. It was brought in a basket to his apartment, where he kept it above twentyfour hours, which gave him the opportunity of describing it more accurately than had hitherto been done, and of observing its manners and economy. These he found to be perfectly analogous to those of our domestic cats. It ate fresh raw meat, and, after it had been several times fed by our author, followed him like a tame favorite cat. It liked to be stroked and caressed; it purred and rubbed its head and back against the person's clothes who fed it. It had been taken when quite young in the woods, and was not above eight or nine months old; but had already very nearly, if not quite, attained its full growth. The doctor was told that the tiger-cats live in mountainous and woody tracts; and that in their wild state they are very great destroyers of hares, rabbits, jerboas, young antelopes, lambkins, and of all the feathered tribe. F. catus, the common cat. Of this species there are many varieties. Mr. Kerr describes mine. F. catus Angorensis, the Angora cat, with hair of a silvery whiteness and silky texture, and very long, especially about the neck, where it forms a fine ruff. It is a large variety; found about Angora, the same country which produces the fine-haired goat. It degenerates after the first generation in our climate. A variety of this kind, with pendant ears, is found in China, of which the Chinese are very fond, ornamenting their necks with silver collars. F. catus domesticus, the domestic, or tame cat, is of a smaller size, and has the hair shorter and thicker than the wild cats. Although when young they are playful and gay, they possess a perverse disposition, which increases as they grow up, and which education teaches them to conceal, but never to subdue. Constantly bent upon theft and rapine, though in a domestic state, they are full of cunning and dissimulation; they conceal all their designs, and seize every opportunity of stealing. They love ease, and search for the softest and warmest places to repose in. The cat is extremely amorous; and the female is more ardent than the male. The female goes with young fifty-five or fifty-eight days, and generally produces from three to six kittens at a litter, which are blind for nine days. She takes care to conceal them, and, when she is apprehensive of a discovery, she takes them up in her mouth one by one, and hides them in holes or inaccessible places. When she has nursed a few weeks, she brings them mice, small birds, &c., to teach them to eat flesh. The cat is inca |