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Feater
(gcide) | Feat \Feat\, a. [Compar. Feater; superl. Featest.] [F. fait
made, shaped, fit, p. p. of faire to make or do. See Feat,
n.]
Dexterous in movements or service; skillful; neat; nice;
pretty. [Archaic]
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Never master had a page . . . so feat. --Shak.
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And look how well my garments sit upon me
Much feater than before. --Shak.
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beefeater
(encz) | beefeater,strážce Britských monarchů Zdeněk Brož |
defeater
(encz) | defeater,přemožitel n: Zdeněk Brož |
Beefeater
(gcide) | Beefeater \Beef"eat`er\ (b[=e]f"[=e]t`[~e]r), n. [Beef + eater;
prob. one who eats another's beef, as his servant. Cf. AS.
hl[=a]f[=ae]ta servant, properly a loaf eater.]
1. One who eats beef; hence, a large, fleshy person.
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2. One of the yeomen of the guard, in England.
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3. (Zool.) An African bird of the genus Buphaga, which
feeds on the larv[ae] of botflies hatched under the skin
of oxen, antelopes, etc. Two species are known.
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beefeater
(wn) | beefeater
n 1: officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British
monarch [syn: yeoman, yeoman of the guard, beefeater] |
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