fell
To make something fall; especially to chop down a tree.
To strike down, kill, destroy.
(sewing) To stitch down a protruding flap of fabric, as a seam allowance, or pleat.
A cutting-down of timber.
The stitching down of a fold of cloth; specifically, the portion of a kilt, from the waist to the seat, where the pleats are stitched down.
(textiles) The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft.
An animal skin, hide, pelt.
Human skin.
(archaic outside Northern England, Scotland) A rocky ridge or chain of mountains, particularly in the British Isles or Fennoscandia.
The dwarves of yore made mighty spells, / While hammers fell like ringing bells, / In places deep, where dark things sleep, / In hollow halls beneath the fells.
(archaic outside Northern England, Scotland) A wild field or upland moor.
Of a strong and cruel nature; eager and unsparing; grim; fierce; ruthless; savage.
No words had been exchanged between Upjohn and self on the journey out, but the glimpses I had caught of his face from the corner of the eyes had told me that he was grim and resolute, his supply of the milk of human kindness plainly short by several gallons. No hope, it seemed to me, of turning him from his fell purpose.
"Yes, fell woman," answered Middlemas; "but was it I who encouraged the young tyrant's outrageous passion for a portrait, or who formed the abominable plan of placing the original within his power?" / "No—for to do so required brain and wit. But it was thine, flimsy villain, to execute the device which a bolder genius planned; it was thine to entice the woman to this foreign shore, under pretence of a love, which, on thy part, cold-blooded miscreant, never had existed."
(UK dialectal, Scotland) Strong and fiery; biting; keen; sharp; pungent
(UK dialectal, Scotland) Very large; huge.
(obsolete) Eager; earnest; intent.
Sharply; fiercely.
(obsolete, rare) Anger; gall; melancholy.
(mining) The finer portions of ore, which go through the meshes when the ore is sorted by sifting.