See Also: Fell(medicine)
fell(6)(dictionary)
fell(5)(dictionary)
fell(4)(dictionary)
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fell 1, verb(dictionary)
fell 2, noun(dictionary)
fell 3, verb(dictionary)

dulcitone (iou) and fell(4) (iou)


dulcitone (iou)



dulcitone noun. L19.
[from Latin dulcis sweet + TONE noun.]
Music. A keyboard instrument with steel forks struck by hammers.

fell(4) (iou)



fell noun2. Now chiefly Scot. & north. ME.
[Old Norse fjall and fell hill, mountain, prob. rel. to Old Saxon felis, Old High German felis, felisa (German Fels) rock.]
A hill, a mountain. obsolete exc. in proper names as Bowfell, Scafell, etc. ME.
A stretch of high moorland, a ridge, a down. ME.
Comb.: fell-field Ecology (an area of) a habitat characteristic of tundra, with scattered low-lying vegetation and stony soil; fell hound (an animal of) a variety of foxhound orig. bred for hunting in hill country.