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  • feed
    [OED idem now only colloq.] v. (of persons) to eat: 1966 Little goil....started feeding (Crowley 54). [Bush medicine] will make
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  • Feberary
    /fébareri/ n. February. (Black)
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  • featherbed
    [etym?; cf. DAE feather-beds different sp.] n. a shrub: 1920 Maba crassinervis (Britton 326). 1977 Diospyros crassinervis (Patterson 55). Cf.
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  • feather
    v. 1. [OED idem obs. except dial.] (of birds) to get feathers: Those chicks beginning to feather (Nassau). (Black) 2.
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  • feared
    [cf. Brit. dial. West idem (Orton L65), Scots CSD; also US dial. ADD] adj. afraid: 1880 I was 'fered to
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  • fe
    See FOR.
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  • favour
    /féyva/ [Atlantic (Hancock 1969:40); OED, to resemble in face or features, now colloq.; US dial. idem ADD] v. to resemble:
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  • fat pork
    [cf. PORK 2, female genitals, perhaps influenced by fat pork a fat piece of pork, salt pork DAE] n. a
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  • fat pine
    [cf. OED fat of wood: resinous (U.S.); cf. US dial. South fat-pine pitch pine ADD] n. 1. a resinous pine
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  • fathom
    /fádam/ [cf. Cayman "Both road and rope are measured.. .by fathoms" (Doran 1954:84); Cam. fadom two yards (of cloth) CCD;
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