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   feebleminded
         adj 1: retarded in intellectual development [syn: {backward},
                  {half-witted}, {slow-witted}, {feebleminded}]

English Dictionary: feebleness by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
feeblemindedness
n
  1. severe mental deficiency
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
feebleness
n
  1. the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age)
    Synonym(s): infirmity, frailty, debility, feebleness, frailness, valetudinarianism
  2. the quality of lacking intensity or substance; "a shrill yet sweet tenuity of voice"- Nathaniel Hawthorne
    Synonym(s): feebleness, tenuity
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fable \Fa"ble\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Fabled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Fabling}.]
      To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction; to write
      or utter what is not true. [bd]He Fables not.[b8] --Shak.
  
               Vain now the tales which fabling poets tell. --Prior.
  
               He fables, yet speaks truth.                  --M. Arnold.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Feeble-minded \Fee"ble-mind"ed\, a.
      Weak in intellectual power; wanting firmness or constancy;
      irresolute; vacilating; imbecile. [bd]comfort the
      feeble-minded.[b8] --1 Thess. v. 14. --
      {Fee"ble-mind"ed*ness}, n.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Feeble-minded \Fee"ble-mind"ed\, a.
      Weak in intellectual power; wanting firmness or constancy;
      irresolute; vacilating; imbecile. [bd]comfort the
      feeble-minded.[b8] --1 Thess. v. 14. --
      {Fee"ble-mind"ed*ness}, n.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Feebleness \Fee"ble*ness\, n.
      The quality or condition of being feeble; debility;
      infirmity.
  
               That shakes for age and feebleness.         --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fiveling \Five"ling\, n. (Min.)
      A compound or twin crystal consisting of five individuals.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fopling \Fop"ling\, n.
      A petty fop. --Landor.
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