a sheep. This word seems to have given names to several places in the north of Scotland, as affording good pasture for sheep; _e.g._ Farr, a parish in Sutherlandshire); Farra, Faray, islands in the Hebrides and Orkneys; Fare, a hill in Aberdeenshire. [Sidenote: FEARN (Gadhelic), FAUR, or VAUR (great)--_v._ MAUR,] the alder-tree; _e.g._ Fernagh, Farnagh, and Ferney (a place abounding in alder-trees), in Ireland; Glenfarne (alder-tree valley); Ferns, Co. Wexford, anc. _Fearna_ (the place of alders); Gortnavern (the field of alders); Farney, Co. Monaghan, corrupt. from _Fearn-mhagh_ (alder-tree plain); Altanfearn (the little stream of alders); Sronfearn (the point of alders)--_v._ p. 178; Fearns (the alder-trees), in Ross-shire; Fearn, also in Forfar; Ferney, on the Lake of Geneva, probably with same meaning as Ferney in Ireland. [Sidenote: FEHER (Hung.),] white; Szekes-Fehervar, Ger. _Stulweissenburg_ (the throne of the white fortress). [Sidenote: FEKETE (Hung.),] black; _e.g._ Fekete-halam (black hill). [Sidenote: FEL (Hung.),] upper, in opposition to _al_, lower; _e.g._ Felsovaros (upper town); Alvaros (lower town). [Sidenote: FELD, or VELD (Teut.),] a plain or field; lit. a place where trees had been felled; _e.g._ Feldham (field dwelling); Feldberg (field fortress); Bassevelde, in Belgium (low plain); Gurkfeld (cucumber field); Leckfeld, Rhinfeld (the plain of the Rivers Leck and Rhine); Great Driffield, in Yorkshire (dry field); Huddersfield, in Doomsday _Oderesfeld_, from a personal name; Macclesfield (the field of St. Michael’s church); Sheffield, on the R. Sheaf; Mansfield, on the R. Mann; Lichfield, Co. Stafford (the field of corpses), A.S. _Licenfelt_, where, according to tradition, a great slaughter of the Christians took place in the reign of Diocletian; Wakefield (the field by the wayside, _waeg_); Spitalfields, (_i.e._ the fields near the hospital or place of entertainment), Lat. _hospitalium_. There is a watering-place near Berwick called Spital, also a suburb of Aberdeen called the Spital; Smithfield, in London, is a corruption of _Smethfield_ (smooth field); Beaconsfield, Berks, so called from having been built on a height on which beacon fires were formerly lighted); Coilsfield, in Ayrshire (the field of Coilus or King Coil). There is a large mound near it said to mark the site of his grave. [Sidenote: FELL, FIALL, or FJELD (Scand.), FEL, FELSEN (Ger.),]