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Fr. _foiblesse_, weakness.

~Febling~, _s._ Weakness.

_Douglas._

_To_ FECHT, _v. a._

1. To fight; pret. _faucht_, _fawcht_.

_Wyntown._

A. S. _feaht-an_, Germ. _fecht-an_, id.

2. To toil, S.

_Burns._

~Fecht~, ~Facht~, ~Faught~, _s._

1. Fight, S.

_Douglas._

2. Struggle, of whatever kind, S.

_Burns._

~Fechtar~, _s._ One engaged in fight, S.

A. S. _feohtere_, pugnator.

_Wallace._

FEGHIE-LEGHIE, _adj._ A contemptuous term, conjoining the ideas of insipidity, inactivity, and diminutive size, Aberd.

f.e.c.k, FEK, _s._

1. A term denoting, both s.p.a.ce and quant.i.ty or number, S.

_Dunbar._

2. The greatest part, S.

_Wallace._

3. _Of f.e.c.k_, of value.

_Montgomerie._