Early Life. Gerald R. Ford Jr. was born Leslie Lynch King Jr. on July 14, 1913, in Omaha, Nebraska, but kept neither his name nor his hometown for long. In just weeks, he was whisked away by his mother, Dorothy Ayer Gardner, to her parents' home in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Fess definition, an ordinary in the form of a broad horizontal band across the middle of an escutcheon. See more.
femÂ·iÂ·nine. adj. 1. Of or relating to women or girls. 2. Characterized by or possessing qualities traditionally attributed to women, such as demureness. 3. Effeminate; womanish. 4. Grammar Relating or belonging to the gender of words or forms that refer chiefly to females or to things grammatically classified as female.