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"Section F, G and H"


[Written also Feringhee.]


Fer"i*ty (?), n. [L. feritas,
from ferus wild.] Wildness; savageness; fierceness.
[Obs.] Woodward.


Fer"ly (?), a. [AS. f&?;rlic
sudden, unexpected. See Fear, n.]
Singular; wonderful; extraordinary. [Obs.] --
n. A wonder; a marvel. [Obs.]


Who hearkened ever such a ferly
thing.
Chaucer.


{ Ferm, Ferme (?), n. }[See
Farm.] Rent for a farm; a farm; also, an abode; a place
of residence; as, he let his land to ferm.
[Obs.]


Out of her fleshy ferme fled to the place of
pain.
Spenser.


Fer"ma*cy (?), n. [OE. See
Pharmacy.] Medicine; pharmacy. [Obs.]
Chaucer.


Fer"ment (?), n. [L. fermentum
ferment (in senses 1 & 2), perh. for fervimentum, fr.
fervere to be boiling hot, boil, ferment: cf. F.
ferment. Cf. 1st Barm, Fervent.


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