Hypertext Webster Gateway: "fey"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Fey \Fey\, a. [AS. f?ga, Icel. feigr, OHG. feigi.]
Fated; doomed. [Old Eng. & Scot.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Fey \Fey\, n. [See {Fay} faith.]
Faith. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Fey \Fey\, v. t. [Cf. {Feague}.]
To cleanse; to clean out. [Obs.] --Tusser.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
fey
adj 1: slightly insane [syn: {touched(p)}]
2: suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness;
"thunderbolts quivered with elfin flares of heat
lightning"; "the fey quality was there, the ability to see
the moon at midday"- John Mason Brown [syn: {elfin}]
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