a. [f. FEAT a. + -Y1.] † a. Neat, pretty (obs.). b. Handy, clever, wide-awake (rare).

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1621.  Molle, Camerar. Liv. Libr., II. i. 73. The grace of it cannot be wel expressed in English, beacuse of the featie conceits this Epitaph sheweth to haue with the antient Epitaphs.

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1844.  Camp of Refuge, I. 101. A maiden of Alftrude’s degree could not travel … without a featy handmaiden attendant upon her.

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  Hence Featily adv., in quot. = FEATLY 2 b.

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c. 1630.  in Risdon, Surv. Devon, § 225 (1810), 239.

        About they dance their measures cunningly,
And foot it on the grass as featily.

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