FELL, preterit tense of fall. FELL, adjective 1. Cruel; barbarous; inhuman. It seemed fury, discord, madness fell 2. Fierce; savage; ravenous; bloody. More fell than tigers on the Libyan plain. FELL, noun [Latin pellis.] A skin or hide of a beast; used chiefly in composition, as wool-fell. FELL, noun A barren or stony hill. [Local.] FELL, verb transitive 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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