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FELCOUTH. L. _selcouth_, strange.
_Wallace._
_To_ FELL, _v. a._ To kill, S.
_Poems Buchan Dial._
_To_ FELL, _v. n._ To befal.
_Ross._
FELL, _adj._
1. Hot, biting, S.
_Burns._
2. Singular, strange, S.
3. Clever, mettlesome, S.
_Keith._
4. Acute, transferred to mind, S.
_To_ FELL, FELL OFF, _v. a._ To let out a net from a boat, S. B.
_Law Case._
Su. G. _faell-a_, dejicere, demittere.
FELL, _s._ A rocky hill, S.
_Wyntown._
Su. G. _fiaell_, a ridge or chain of mountains.
FELL-BLOOM, _s._ Yellow clover, S.
FELL SYIS, _adv._ Often.
_Barbour._
FELLIN, _s._ A disease of cattle, S.
FELOUN, FELLOUN, _adj._
1. Fierce.
_Barbour._
2. Violent, dreadful.
_Douglas._
3. Denoting any thing extreme.
Fr. _felon_, _fellon_, fell, cruel.
_Wallace._
~Felony~, ~Felny~, _s._
1. Cruelty.
_Barbour._
2. Wrath, fierceness.
_Wyntown._
FELT, _s._ Creeping wheat-gra.s.s, S.
_Statist. Acc._
FELT, _s._ Perhaps the same with _fellin_.
_Watson._
_To_ FELTER, _v. a._ To entangle, S. B.
Fr. _feultrer_, to cover with _felt_.
_Ross._
