Fee
(Fee) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Feed (fed); p. pr. & vb. n. Feeing.] To reward for services performed,
or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe.
The patient . . . fees the doctor.
Dryden.
There's not a one of them but in his house
I keep a servant feed.
Shak. Feeble
(Fee"ble) a. [Compar. Feebler (-bler); superl. Feeblest ] [OE. feble, OF. feble, flebe, floibe,
floible, foible, F. faible, L. flebilis to be wept over, lamentable, wretched, fr. flere to weep. Cf. Foible.]
1. Deficient in physical strength; weak; infirm; debilitated.
Carried all the feeble of them upon asses.
2 Chron. xxviii. 15. 2. Wanting force, vigor, or efficiency in action or expression; not full, loud, bright, strong, rapid, etc.; faint; as,
a feeble color; feeble motion. "A lady's feeble voice." Shak.
Feeble
(Fee"ble), v. t. To make feble; to enfeeble. [Obs.]
Shall that victorious hand be feebled here?
Shak. Feeble-minded
(Fee"ble-mind"ed) a. Weak in intellectual power; wanting firmness or constancy; irresolute; vacillating; imbecile.
"comfort the feeble-minded." 1 Thess. v. 14.
— Fee"ble-mind"ed*ness, n.
Feebleness
(Fee"ble*ness), n. The quality or condition of being feeble; debility; infirmity.
That shakes for age and feebleness.
Shak. Feebly
(Fee"bly) adv. In a feeble manner.
The restored church . . . contended feebly, and with half a heart.
Macaulay. Feed
(Feed) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fed (fed); p. pr. & vb. n. Feeding.] [AS. fedan, fr. foda food; akin
to OS. fodian, OFries. feda, foda, D. voeden, OHG. fuottan, Icel. fæða, Sw. föda, Dan. föde. &radic75.
See Food.]
1. To give food to; to supply with nourishment; to satisfy the physical huger of.
If thine enemy hunger, feed him.
Rom. xii. 20.
Unreasonable creatures feed their young.
Shak. 2. To satisfy; gratify or minister to, as any sense, talent, taste, or desire.
I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
Shak.
Feeding him with the hope of liberty.
Knolles. 3. To fill the wants of; to supply with that which is used or wasted; as, springs feed ponds; the hopper
feeds the mill; to feed a furnace with coal.
