FELL, pret. of fall.
FELL, a.
1. Cruel barbarous inhuman.
It seemed fury, discord, madness fell.
2. Fierce savage ravenous bloody.
More fell than tigers on the Libyan plain.
FELL, n. L. pellis. A skin or hide of a beast used chiefly in composition, as wool-fell.
FELL, n. A barren or stony hill. Local.
FELL, To cause to fall to prostrate to bring to the ground, either by cutting, as to fell trees, or by striking, as to fell an ox.
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