fell

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To cause to fall by striking; cut or knock down: fell a tree; fell an opponent in boxing.
2. v. To kill: was felled by an assassin's bullet.
3. v. To sew or finish (a seam) with the raw edges flattened, turned under, and stitched down.
4. n. The timber cut down in one season.
5. n. A felled seam.
6. adj. Of an inhumanly cruel nature; fierce: fell hordes.
7. adj. Capable of destroying; lethal: a fell blow.
8. adj. Dire; sinister: by some fell chance.
9. adj. Scots Sharp and biting.
10. idiom. at All at once.
11. n. The hide of an animal; a pelt.
12. n. A thin membrane directly beneath the hide.
13. n. Chiefly British An upland stretch of open country; a moor.
14. n. Chiefly British A barren or stony hill.
15. v. Past tense of fall.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To cause to fall; throw down; cut down; bring to the ground, either by cutting, as with ax or sword, or by striking, as with a club or the fist: as, to fell trees; to fell an ox; to fell an antagonist at fisticuffs.
2. In sewing, to flatten on and sew down level with the cloth: as, to fell a seam.
3. To finish the weaving of (a web, or piece of cloth).
4. n. A cutting down; a felling.
5. n. In sewing, a flat, smooth seam between two pieces of a fabric, made by laying down the wider of the two edges left projecting by the joining seam over the narrower edge and hemming it down. A French fell is made by doubling inward both edges of the fabric on the line of the joining seam, and making a second seam through the folds, so as to hold the edges in.
6. n. In weaving, the line of termination of a web in the process of weaving, formed by the last weft-thread driven up by the lay; the line to which the warp is at any instant wefted.
7. n. Preterit of fall.
8. n. The skin or hide of an animal; a pelt; hence, an integument of any kind.
9. n. A hairy covering; a head of hair.
10. Of a strong and cruel nature; eager and unsparing; grim; fierce; ruthless.
11. Strong and fiery; biting; keen; sharp; clever; as, a fell cheese; a fell bodie.
12. Sharply; fiercely.
13. n. A hill, especially a rocky eminence: as, Mickle Fell, Scawfell, and Scawfell Pike, the last the highest mountain in England proper.
14. n. A stretch of bare, elevated land; a moor; a down.
15. n. Gall; anger; melancholy.
16. n. In mining, one of the many names of lead ore formerly current in Derbyshire, England.

Wiktionary

1. v. To make something fall; especially to chop down a tree.
2. v. Simple past of fall.
3. v. To stitch down a protruding flap of fabric, as a seam allowance, or pleat.
4. n. That portion of a kilt, from the waist to the seat, where the pleats are stitched down
5. n. An animal skin, hide
6. n. A rocky ridge or chain of mountains.
7. n. A wild field or upland moor
8. adj. fierce, savage (e.g, one fell swoop)
9. adj. Pungent.
10. adj. Having an extremely cruel or irrational trait

GNU Webster's 1913

1. imp. of fall.
2. adj. Cruel; barbarous; inhuman; fierce; savage; ravenous.
3. adj. Eager; earnest; intent.
4. n. Gall; anger; melancholy.
5. n. A skin or hide of a beast with the wool or hair on; a pelt; -- used chiefly in composition, as woolfell.
6. n. A barren or rocky hill.
7. n. A wild field; a moor.
8. v. To cause to fall; to prostrate; to bring down or to the ground; to cut down.
9. n. The finer portions of ore which go through the meshes, when the ore is sorted by sifting.
10. v. To sew or hem; -- said of seams.
11. n. A form of seam joining two pieces of cloth, the edges being folded together and the stitches taken through both thicknesses.
12. n. The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. the dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal)
2. v. sew a seam by folding the edges
3. adj. (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
4. n. the act of felling something (as a tree)
5. v. cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow
6. v. pass away rapidly
7. n. seam made by turning under or folding together and stitching the seamed materials to avoid rough edges