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feign

feign is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

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  1. 1.The poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods. Shak.
  2. 2.To represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to counterfeit; as, to feign a sickness. Shak.
  3. 3.To dissemble; to conceal. [Obs.] Spenser.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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