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Fecʹula

means sediment. Starch is a fecʹula, being the sediment of flour steeped in water. (Latin, fæces, dregs.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Feather
Feather in Your Cap
Feather One’s Nest
Feather One’s Oar (To)
Feather Stone
Feathers (The)
Feature
February
Fecit (Latin, he did it)
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Federal States
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Fee-penny
Fee Simple
Fee-tail (A)
Feeble
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