FELL

Definitions for the word, fell

() imp. of Fall.

(a.) Cruel; barbarous; inhuman; fierce; savage; ravenous.

(a.) Eager; earnest; intent.

(a.) Gall; anger; melancholy.

(imp.) of Fall

(n.) A barren or rocky hill.

(n.) A form of seam joining two pieces of cloth, the edges being folded together and the stitches taken through both thicknesses.

(n.) A skin or hide of a beast with the wool or hair on; a pelt; -- used chiefly in composition, as woolfell.

(n.) A wild field; a moor.

(n.) The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft.

(n.) The finer portions of ore which go through the meshes, when the ore is sorted by sifting.

(v. i.) To cause to fall; to prostrate; to bring down or to the ground; to cut down.

(v. t.) To sew or hem; -- said of seams.