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"Section F, G and H"


Buy the fee simple of my life for an hour and a
quarter.
Shak.


-- Fee tail (Law), an estate of
inheritance, limited and restrained to some particular heirs.

Burill.


Fee (fē), v. t. [imp. &
p. p.
Feed (fēd); 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.


Fee"ble (fē"b'l), a.
[Compar. Feebler (-bl&etilde;r);
superl. Feeblest (-bl&ebreve;st).] [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.


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