Definition of Fell

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Definition of Fell

Fell

of Fall

imp. of Fall.

Cruel; barbarous; inhuman; fierce; savage; ravenous.

Eager; earnest; intent.

Gall; anger; melancholy.

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

A barren or rocky hill.

A wild field; a moor.

To cause to fall; to prostrate; to bring down or to the ground; to cut down.

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

To sew or hem; -- said of seams.

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

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

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Fell Quotations

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
Helen Keller

By that sin fell the angels.
William Shakespeare

My pride fell with my fortunes.
William Shakespeare

I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face.
Rodney Dangerfield

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
Marcus Aurelius

We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
Zsa Zsa Gabor

The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.
Benito Mussolini

Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

America fell in love with the innocence of a kid who just was honest, saying, I did the best I could, and I had no formal training.
Paula Abdul

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.
Alexander Pope

Fell Translations

fell in German is fiel, gefallen
fell in Spanish is derribar

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