FEMORAL, _a._ Belonging to the thigh. FEN, _s._ A marsh, flat and moist ground, a moor, a bog. FENBERRY, _s._ A kind of blackberry. FENCE, _s._ Guard, security; enclosure, mound, hedge. FENCER, _s._ One who teaches or practises the use of weapons; a horse that leaps. FERINE, _a._ Wild, savage. FERMENTATION, _s._ A slow motion of the intestine particles of a mixed body, arising usually from the operation of some active acid matter. FERN, _s._ A plant. FERNY, _a._ Overgrown with fern. FERRET, _s._ A quadruped of the weasel kind, used to catch rabbits. FERRET, _v._ To drive out of lurking places; to hunt rabbits with a ferret. FETLOCK, _s._ A tuft of hair that grows behind the pastern joint. FETTER, _s._ Chains for the feet. FEVER, _s._ A disease in which the body is violently heated, and the pulse quickened, or in which heat and cold prevail by turns. It is sometimes continual, sometimes intermittent. In horses fever begins frequently with a cold or shivering fit, although this is not essential to fever. The horse is dull, unwilling to move, with a staring coat, and cold legs and feet. This is succeeded by warmth of the body; unequal distribution of warmth to the legs; one hot, and the other three cold, or some unnaturally warm, and others unusually cold, although not the deathy coldness of inflammation of the lungs; the pulse quick, soft, and often indistinct; breathing somewhat laborious; but no cough, or pawing, or looking at the flanks. The animal will scarcely eat, and is very costive. While the state of pure fever lasts, the shivering fit returns at nearly the same hour every day, and is succeeded by the warm one, and that often by a very slight sweating one; and this goes on for several days until local inflammation appears, or the fever gradually subsides. No horse ever died of pure fever; if he is not destroyed by inflammation of the lungs, or feet, or bowels succeeding to the fever, he gradually recovers.