fere

noun

1. (dialectal, obsolete)A companion, comrade or friend.

   “they swange oute their swerdis and slowe of noble men of armys mo than an hondred – and than they rode ayen to theire ferys.”

2. (archaic)A person's spouse, or an animal's mate.

   “And Cambel tooke Cambrina to his fere.”

   “The lamb rejoiceth in the year, / And raceth freely with his fere, / And answers to his mother’s calls / From the flower’d furrow.”

   “What if my Duncan be the youth whom his wicked brother hurled into the ravine, come again in a new body, to live out his life on the earth, cut short by his brother’s hatred? If so, his persecution of you, and of your mother for your sake, is easy to understand. And if so, you will never be able to rest till you find your fere, wherever she may have been born on the face of the earth.”

adj

1. (obsolete)Fierce.

   “Man's flesh they eat: their own they paint and sear, / branding with burning iron, — usage fere!”