chaff, clippings, trimmings, garbage, slough, scurf; refuse, waste, sewage, drainage; slops, swill, pigswill, hogwash, draff; feculence, muck, filth, dirt, mud, offal. feculence, n. sediment, residue, scum; muck, filth. See feces (def. 2). feculent, adj. muddy, turbid, foul, befouled, messy, mucky, roily; marshy, miry, quagmiry, fenny, boggy, swampy; dreggy, scummy, grimy, dirty, smudgy; fecal, excrementitious, filthy, slimy, putrid, Physiol. stercoraceous.
fecund, adj. 1. fruitful, productive, fructuous, fruit-bearing, fructiferous, feracious, frugiferous; fertile, potent, generative, propagative, fructificative.
2. prolific, profuse, bounteous, teeming; alive with, pullalating, Inf. crawling with, swarming; proliferous, proliferating, spawning, multiparous; abundant, plenteous, full, copious, Rare, uberous, exuberant, luxurious, lush, rank, rich, rife; flush, thick, close, dense.
fecundity, n. 1. fruitfulness, fertility, fructiferous ness, prolificacy, prolificality; productiveness, generativeness, uberty, Rare, feracity.
2. abundance, wealth, luxuriance, lushness, exuberance, copiousness, bounty.
federal, adj. federated, confederate, in league, leagued, allied, in alliance; united, linked or banded or bound together. federation, n. 1. fusion, uniting, allying, confederating.
2. confederation, confederacy, league, Ger. Bund, alliance, coalition; amalgamation, combination, syndicate, combine; union, Ger. Verein, society, association, fraternity, brotherhood. fee, n. 1. charge, bill, toll, fare; expense, price, Brit, tariff, cost, Inf. damages, admission.
2. payment, pay, emolument, salary, stipend; wage, wages, hire, paycheck, Inf. weekly insult; remuneration, recompense, compensation; commission, allowance, honorarium, perquisite.
3. gratuity, tip, baksheesh, Fr. pourboire, Ger. Trinkgeld, douceur, handout, SI. beer money; gift, present, bonus, premium; reward, bounty, Archaic. meed, Literary, guerdon.
-v. 4. pay, remunerate, recompense, compensate; requite, reimburse; tip, leave a little something. feeble, adj. 1. weak, frail, fragile, delicate, slight, puny, Pathol, asthenic, anemic; weakly, sickly, not strong, unhealthy, Scot. shilpit, ailing; infirm, unsteady, Inf. dotty, shaky, trembling, tottering, doddering; impotent, powerless, impuissant, helpless; decrepit, old, senile, invalid, unsound, weakened, enfeebled, debilitated; enervated, enervate, languid, languishing, drooping, fading, failing, declining, dying.
2. feeble-minded, weak-minded, simple, simple-minded. See feeble-minded.
3. low, soft, gentle, dulcet, whispered, muted, stifled, muffled, inaudible, imperceptible; weak, thin, tiny, small, faltering, trembling; faint, dim, pale, dull, faded, distant, obscure, far-away; indistinct, unclear, blurred, blurry, vague, nebulous, hazy, misty, misted, foggy, fogged.
4. ineffective, ineffectual, unavailing, futile, useless, hopeless; feckless, incompetent, inefficient, poor, unsatisfactory, half-baked, SI. half-assed; lame, insufficient, inadequate, unconvincing, flimsy; wishy-washy, thin, weak, watery, watered-down; lax, loose, careless, slipshod, shoddy, sloppy; miserable, Inf. lousy, meager, mere, paltry, insignificant, unimportant, Archaic. seely. feeble-minded, adj. feeble, Inf. weak in the head, weak-minded, deficient, subnormal, retarded, slow;