Definitions
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- noun obsolete A consort, husband or wife; a companion; a fere.
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- noun obsolete Alternative form of
fere . (consort or spouse)
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Examples
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And whann our sprytes throughe feere are purg'dd fromm claie,
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 330, September 6, 1828 Various
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I feere mee, I have wroughte thee myckle woe [92].
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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Yette love wille bee a tore to tourne to feere nyghtes smoke.
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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When feere of dethe made hym for deathe to fyghte.
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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They shaue all their berde except the mustaches, vppon their breast wear painted the head of som birde, ant about the pappes as yt waere beames of the sune, vppon the bellye sum feere full and monstreus face, spreedinge the beames verye fare vppon the thighes.
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Iapazeus and his wife desired to have some conference with their brother, which was onely to acquaint him by what stratagem they had betraied his prisoner as I have already related: after which discourse to sleepe they went, Pocahuntas nothing mistrusting this policy, who nevertheless being most possessed with feere, and desire of returne, was first up, and hastened Iapazeus to be gon.
The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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Supper ended Pocahuntas was lodged in the gunner's roome, but Iapazeus and his wife desired to have some conference with their brother, which was onely to acquaint him by what stratagem they had betraied his prisoner as I have already related: after which discourse to sleepe they went, Pocahuntas nothing mistrusting this policy, who nevertheless being most possessed with feere, and desire of returne, was first up, and hastened Iapazeus to be gon.
The Story of Pocahontas Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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And where these are light Eros finds a feere; [30]
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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