=Feeble= (_Francis_), a woman’s tailor, and one of the recruits of Sir John Falstaff. Although a thin, starveling yard-wand of a man, he expresses great willingness to be drawn. Sir John compliments him as “courageous Feeble,” and says to him, “Thou wilt be as valiant as the wrathful dove, or most magnanimous mouse.... most forcible Feeble.”—Shakespeare, _2 Henry IV_. act iii. sc. 2 (1598). =Feeder= (_Mr._), B.A., usher in the school of Dr. Blimber of Brighton. He was “a kind of human barrel-organ, which played only one tune.” He was in the habit of shaving his head to keep it cool. Mr. Feeder married Miss Blimber, the doctor’s daughter, and succeeded to the school.—C. Dickens, _Dombey and Son_ (1846). =Feenix=, nephew of the Hon. Mrs. Skewton (mother of Edith, Mr. Dombey’s second wife), Feenix was a very old gentleman, patched up to look as much like a young fop as possible. Cousin Feenix was a man about town forty years ago; but he is still so juvenile in figure and manner that strangers are amazed when they discover latent wrinkles in his lordship’s face, and crow’s feet in his eyes. But cousin Feenix getting up at half-past seven, is quite another thing from cousin Feenix got up.—C. Dickens, _Dombey and Son_, xxxi. (1846). =Feignwell= (_Colonel_) the suitor of Anne Lovely, an heiress. Anne Lovely had to obtain the consent of her four guardians before she could marry. One was an old beau, another a virtuoso, a third a broker on ’Change, and the fourth a canting quaker. The colonel made himself agreeable to all, and carried off his prize.—Mrs. Centlivre, _A Bold Stroke for a Wife_ (1717). =Feinai´gle= (_Gregory de_), a German mnemonist (1765-1820). He obtained some success by his aids to memory, but in Paris he was an object of ridicule. Her memory was a mine ... For her Feinaigle’s was a useless art Byron, _Don Juan_, i. 11 (1819). =Felice=, wife of Sir Guy Warwick, said to have “the same high forehead as Venus.” =Felic´ian= (_Father_), a catholic priest and schoolmaster of Grand Pré, in Acadia (now called _Nova Scotia_). He accompanied Evangeline in part of her wanderings to find Gabriel, her affianced husband.—Longfellow, _Evangeline_ (1849). =Felicians= (_The_), the happy nation. The Felicians live under a free sovereignty, where the laws are absolute. Felicia is the French “Utopia.”—Mercier de la Rivière, _L’Heureuse Nation_ (1767). =Feliciano de Sylva=, Don Quixote’s favorite author. The two following extracts were, in his opinion, unsurpassed and unsurpassable:— The reason, most adored one, of your unreasonable unreasonableness hath so unreasonably unseated my reason, that I have no reasonable reason for reasoning against such unreasonableness. The bright heaven of your divinity that lifts you to the stars, most celestial of women, renders you deserving of every desert which your charms so deservedly deserve.—Cervantes, _Don Quixote_, I. i. 8 (1605).