Golden Bowl

Dictionary

FELLpret.

of fall.

FELLa.

1. Cruel; barbarous; inhuman.

It seemed fury, discord, madness fell.

2. Fierce; savage; ravenous; bloody.

More fell than tigers on the Libyan plain.

FELLn.

[L. pellis.] A skin or hide of a beast; used chiefly in composition, as wool-fell.

FELLn.

A barren or stony hill. [Local.]

FELLv.t.

To cause to fall; to prostrate; to bring to the ground, either by cutting, as to fell trees, or by striking, as to fell an ox.