Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary -- Volume FH

Fe"ver·ous (?), a. [Cf.F. fiévreux.]

1. Affected with fever or ague; feverish.

His heart, love's feverous citadel.
Keats.

2. Pertaining to, or having the nature of, fever; as, a feverous pulse.

All maladies . . . all feverous kinds.
Milton.

3. Having the tendency to produce fever; as, a feverous disposition of the year. [R.] Bacon.

Fe"ver·ous·ly, adv. Feverishly. [Obs.] Donne.

Fe"ver·wort` (?), n. See Fever root, under Fever.

Fe"ver·y (?), a. Feverish. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Few (fū), a. [Compar. Fewer (?); superl. Fewest.] [OE. fewe, feawe, AS. feá, pl. feáwe; akin to OS. fāh, OHG. fō fao, Icel. fār, Sw. få, pl., Dan. faa, pl., Goth. faus, L. paucus, cf. Gr. παυροσ. Cf. Paucity.] Not many; small, limited, or confined in number; -- indicating a small portion of units or individuals constituing a whole; often, by ellipsis of a noun, a few people. "Are not my days few?" Job x. 20.

Few know and fewer care.
Proverb.

Few is often used partitively; as, few of them.

-- A few, a small number.

-- In few, in a few words; briefly. Shak.

-- No few, not few; more than a few; many. Cowper.

-- The few, the minority; -- opposed to the many or the majority.

Fe"wel (?), n. [See Fuel.] Fuel. [Obs.] Hooker.

Few"met (?), n. See Fumet. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Few"ness, n.

1. The state of being few; smallness of number; paucity. Shak.