FELL
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V10,
Page 242
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
FELL
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(1) (Through the O
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Fr. fel, from Low Lat. fello, felon), savage, ruthless, deadly; only used now in poetry
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(2) (Of Scandinavian origin, cf
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Danish See also: - FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
, probably connected with a Teutonic root appearing in German fels, rock), a See also: - HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
, as in the names of mountains in the Lake District in England, e.g
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Scawfell; also a lofty moorland down
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(3) (A word common to Teutonic languages, cf
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Ger. fell, and Dutch vel, cognate with Lat. pellis, skin), the pelt or hide of an animal, with the hair or wool and skin; also used of any thick shaggy covering, like a matted fleece
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(4) To cause to "fall," a word common to Teutonic languages and akin to the root of the Lat. fallere and Gr. vgaXAecv, to cause to stumble, to deceive
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As a substantive " fell " is used of a flat seam laid level with the surface of the fabric; also, in weaving, of the end of the web
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