fand 
Now fare Philip the free tofonden his might. 
King Alimunder (eel. Skeat), 1. 108. 
3. To tempt; entice (to do evil). 
The deucll liaihle of him grot emiyeaud onde (hatred) ; 
O lone] tyme he cam to his smyththc alone him to /<mcfc. 
Life of St. Duiutan, 1. 69 (Early Eng. Poems, ed. Kurnivall). 
F. and A. M. An abbreviation of Free and Ac- 
cepted Masons. 
fandango (fan-dang'go), n. [Sp., from the Af- 
ricanname.] 1. Alively dance, very popular in 
Spain and Spanish America. It is danced by two 
persons, male and female. Both dancers use castanets, 
2137 
boasting, blustering, rodomontade, < /an/ar- 
row, a boaster: see faiifaroii.] A swaggering; 
vain boasting ; ostentation ; bluster. 
The second notification was the king's acceptance of 
the new constitution; accompanied with fn ufamnadei in 
the modern style of the French bureaus, things whii-h 
have much more the air and character of the saucy de- 
clamations of their clubs than the tone of regular office. 
Burke, Thoughts on French Affairs. 
The compact, clear-seeing, decisive Italian nature of 
him [Napoleon], strong, genuine, which he once hail, has 
enveloped itself in a turbid atmosphere of French fan- 
faronade. Cai-lyle. 
though sometimes the male dancer substitutes for them fanfaronade (fan-far-o-nad'), -' > pret. and 
p-p.fanfaronaded, ppi.fanfaronading. To make 
The latter [dance], called Congo also in Cayenne, Chica 
in Sa 
unde 
, 
n Domingo, and in the Windward Islands confused 
r one name with the Calinda, was a kind of Fandan- 
go, they say, in which the Madras kerchief held by its Up- 
ends played a graceful part. 
O. W. Cable, The Century, XXXI. 527. 
a flourish or display ; bluster. 
There, with ceremonial evolution and manoeuvre, with 
fanfaronading, musketry salvoes, and what else the Pa- 
triot genius could devise, they made oath and obtestation 
to stand faithfully by one another under law and king. 
Carlyle, French Rev., II. i. 8. 
fan-fish (fan'fish), n. A name of the sail-fish, 
Jlistioirfiorusgladius : a translation of the Malay 
name, ikan zuycr. 
2. Music for such a dance or in its rhythm, 
which is triple and often i ; ; ; |""| r~] 
based on the formula here J ^ J J J J J 
shown: akin to the bolero, -i- -> ,, ", 
chica, seguidilla, etc. 3. By extension, a ball fanfoot(fan'fut) ; .; pl.fanfootsorfanfeet(-futs, 
or dance of any sort, especially in the formerly -f et). 1 . A name of the gecko-lizards, from their 
Spanish parts of the United States; hence, spreading toes. A common species to which the term is 
i=ir anterrinrm pnr with or applied is the North African Ptyodactylus gecko, a perfectly 
humorously, any noisy entertainment, witn or ,, animali 60 mllcll ,i rea ded for its reputed venom- 
without dancing; a jollification. OI18 properties that it is called at Cairo abou-burt, father 
Here's how it wuz : I started out to go to a fandango; of leprosy. As in other geckos, the spreading toes end in 
The sentinel he ups an' sez, " Thet's furder 'an ye can go." a disk or sucker which enables the animal to adhere to 
Lowell, Biglow Papers, 1st ser., p. 18. 
The cost of the "lay-out" for the great fandango which 
is to get them [vulgarians] into society. The Nation. 
fandingt, n. [< ME. funding, fonding, < AS, 
perpendicular surfaces ; the claws are retractile, and a 
fluid, the supposed poison, exudes from the toes, whence 
the name Ptyodactylus, or spit-toe. See cut under gecko. 
2. In entom., a collectors' name of a moth of 
the genus Polypogon. 
fandung, verbal n. of fandian, try, tempt: see fan-frame (fan'fram), n. In organ-building, a 
/and 2 .] Trial; temptation. frame carrying a set of levers or backfalls whose 
forward ends are near together and the rear 
ends wide apart, so that the set radiates like 
the ribs of a fan. 
But first behoues sou bide 
Fayndyngix full ferse and felle. 
York Plays, p. 235. 
fane 1 !, [< ME. fane, vane, < AS. /ana = OS. f ang (f an g), v. [< ME. fangen, fongen (this inf., 
fano = OFries. /na, fona = D. vaan = OHG. w j tn p res- i n( j_ 3^ per8 . s j n g. fanges, etc., being 
fano, MHG. fane, G. fahne = Icel. fani = Sw. 
/ana = Dan. fane = Goth, fana, a flag, banner, 
= L. pannus, a cloth, piece of cloth, > ult. E. 
pane and pawn 1 : see vane, the mod. form of 
fane 1 , and pane, pawn 1 , ult. doublets of fane 1 , 
vane.'] 1. A flag; a banner. 
They trumpyd and ther baners displaye 
Off sylk, sendel, and many a fane. 
Richard Coer de Lion, 1. 3892. 
2. A weather-cock: now vane (which see). 
O stormy poeple vnsad and euer vntrewe, . . . 
Ay undiscret and chaungyug as a fane [var. vane]. 
Chaucer, Clerk's Tale, 1. 995. 
fane 2 (fan), n. [< L. fanum, a sanctuary, a 
assumed from pret. and pp.); inf. prop, fan 
(pres. ind. fo, fost, foth, etc.; prop, a strong 
verb, pret. feng, pi. fengen, pp. fangen, but also 
with weak pret. and pp. fanged, fonged), < AS. 
/on(contr. of *fohan, orig. "faniian; pret./e#, 
fl.fengon, pp. gefangen), take, catch, seize, re- 
ceive (the general word for 'take,' tacan, be- 
ing late and rare, of Scand. origin), = OS. fa- 
nan = OFries. fa, Jan, NFries./ea and/on<7 
= LG. fangen = D. vangen = OHG. fdhan, 
MHG. t'dhen, van, G. fallen and fangen = Icel. 
fit (pret. fekk, pi. fengum, pp. fenginn) = Sw. 
fa and/d#a = Dan./nae and/anj/e = Goth. /- 
han (pret. redupl. faifah), take, catch ; Teut. 
etically, any place consecrated to religion 
church. 
Of all the holy men whose fame so fresh remains, 
To whom the Britons built so many sumptuous Fanes, 
This .Saint [David] before the rest their Patron still they 
hold. Draylon, Polyolbion, v. 334. 
The dew gathers on the mouldering stones, 
And/oiiesof banished gods. Bryant, Earth. 
fanfare (fan'far), . [= D. Dan. fanfare = Sw. 
compact 2 , impact, impinge, peace, etc.), = Gr. 
vrryvvvat, fasten. The same Teut. root unna- 
salized appears perhaps in AS. fegan, join, 
unite, fix, E.fay 1 , unite, fit, and in Goth.fagrs, 
fit, adapted, = AS. finger, E. fair, beautiful : 
see /ay* and fair 1 . To the same ult. root be- 
long E. fee and its L. kindred, peculate, pecu- 
liar, pecuniary, etc. The phonetic history of 
IUIMM c l*44 i*i t, " L *" *^". ,/"'./ "' v .-/ " . ..'-*. ..iiii_j.ii -i T j 
fanfar, < F. fanfare = It. fanfara, a sounding fang is similar to that of hang, a. v.] I trans. 
"of trumpets, < Sp. fanfarria = Pg. fanfarra- l^To catch; seiz^; grip; clutch; lay hold of . 
ria, bluster, vaunting ; cf . OSp. fanfa, bluster, 
toasting, prob. < Ai.farfdr, talkative. Cf./an- 
/aron.] 1. A flourish of trumpets, either in 
hunting, in martial assemblages, or in the 
course of a musical work ; a noisy flourish. 
Fanfares by aerial trumpets blown. 
Longfellow, Falcon of Federigo. 
Hence 2. An ostentatious parade or boast; 
bravado. 
fanfaront (fan'fa-ron), n. [< F. fanfaron = It. 
fanfarone, a boaster, braggart, adj. boastful, 
bragging, < Sp./an/arron, a boaster, swaggerer, 
adj. (= Pg. fanfarrSo), boasting, vaunting, in- 
flated, < faiifarrear, brag, bluster, < fanfarria, 
bluster: see/an/arc.] 1. A bully; a hector; a 
swaggerer; anempty boaster; a vain pretender. 
Virgil makes /Eneas a bold avower of his owne virtues : 
Sum pius tineas fama super rethera notus : which, in the 
civility of our poets, is the character of & fanfaron or Hec- 
tor. Dryden, Essay on Dram. Poesy. 
2. Noisy or boastful parade ; ostentation ; fan- 
fare. 
To Sir G. Carteret; and, among other things, he told 
me that he was not for the fanfaroone, to make a show 
with a great title, as he might have had long since, but 
the main thing to get an estate. 
Pepys, Diary, Aug. 14, 1665. 
fanfaronade (fan-far-o-nad'), n. [< Y.fanfa- 
ronnadc = It. fanfarouata, < Sp. fanfarronada, 
[Now only prov. Eng.] 
Thus he fellez thi folke, and fangez theire gudez ! 
Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1249. 
Perchauns we salle thaym fang 
And mar them or to morne at none. 
York Plays, p. 88. 
Be abhorr'd 
All feasts, societies, and throngs of men ! 
His semblable, yea, himself, Timon disdains: 
Destruction fang mankind ! Shak., T. ot A., iv. 3. 
2f. To take ; receive with assent ; accept. 
He willede anon in hys herte tofonge cristendom. 
Jiobert of Gloucester, p. 73. 
She wold reneye her lay, 
And cristendom of preestes handes/owe. 
Chaucer, Man of Law's Tale, 1. 279. 
3f. To receive with hospitality, as a guest; 
welcome. t 
Than he fonqit tho freikes with a fine chere. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 366. 
4f. To receive (a thing given or imposed). 
The first dome he fanged, for treson was he drawn. 
Robert of Brunne, tr. of Langtoft's Chron., p. 329. 
Eniange the philosofers flrste 
Thcr fanged I my fame. York Plays, p. 220. 
5. To receive or adopt into spiritual relation, 
as in baptism; be godfather or godmother to. 
[Prov. Eng.] 
II. + intrans. To seize ; lay hold. 
fangle 
He fmigede faste on the feleyghes. 
Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3309. 
But faste late vs founde to f any on oure foo, 
jone gedlyng on-godly has brewed vs grete angir. 
York Plaijt, p. 319. 
fang (fang), n. [< ME. feng (rare and early ; 
fang not found), (a) a grasping, (b) what is 
taken, booty, prey, < AS. feng, (a) a grasping, 
(b) booty (the form fang (tor fang feng) oc- 
curs once as a var. of feng in the sense of 
'booty,' and also in the technical legal terms 
fcax-fang, a seizing by the hair, lieals-fang, a 
seizingbytheneck,/eo/i-/aHjr, fee-taking, bribe- 
taking, etc., also in verbal nouns andfang, on- 
fang, etc.) (= OFries./anj/, feng = D. vang = 
OHG. MHG. G.fang = Icel. fang = Svr.fdng (cf . 
LG. fangst = ^n. fangst = Dan. fangst), a catch, 
etc.), < AS. fan, pret. feng, pp. gefangen, take, 
catch, seize, etc.: see /a<7, v. Fang, in the 
sense of a tusk, tooth, etc., is not found in ME. 
or AS. ; it is rather an abbr. of fang-tooth, AS. 
faing-toth (= G.fangzahn), lit. catch-tooth.] 1. 
A grasping; capture ; the act or power of seiz- 
ing ; hold. [Obsolete or Scotch.] 
To London with him [Wallace] Clyffurd and Wallanggais 
Quhar king Eduuard was ryclit fayu off that fang. 
Wallace, xi. 1219, MS. (Jamieson.) 
2. That which is seized or carried off; Iwoty ; 
spoils ; stolen goods. 
Snap went the sheers, then in a wink 
The/an^ was stow'd behind a bink. 
Morison, Poems, p. 110. (Jamieson.) 
S. Any projection, catch, shoot, or other thing 
by which hold is taken ; a prehensile part or 
organ. 
The protuberant/an0s of the yucca. 
Evelyn, Calendarium Hortense. 
Specifically (a) A claw or talon; a falcula. (b) A fin. 
[Prov. Eng.] (c) A long, sharp tooth, as an organ of pre- 
hension, as the canine tooth of a dog, or the tusk of a boar 
or an elephant. 
Since I am a dog, beware my fangs. Shak. , M. of V., iii. 3. 
Some creatures have overlong oroutgrowing teeth, which 
we call/dmys or tusks. Bacon, Nat. Hist. 
(d) The socketed part of a tooth, as that by which the tooth 
holds on to the jaw. There may be one or several fangs. 
Occasionally the second molar becomes so eroded, 
through absorption of its posterior fang by the pressure 
of the wisdom-tooth, as to cause inflammation of the pulp. 
Quain, Med. Diet. 
(e) The poison- or venom-tooth of a serpent, through which 
venom is injected into a wound made by it. See venom, 
and cut under poison-fany. 
The fangs are longer, more curved, more movable, and 
more formidable in viperine than in colubrine snakes. 
Quain, Med. Diet. 
(/) The pointed and curved second joint of the falx or 
chelicera of a spider, pierced at the tip by the opening of 
the poison-duct. The term is sometimes applied to the 
whole chelicera. See cuts under clielicera and falx. 
Whilst the fangs of one section of spiders move lateral- 
ly, those of the Mygalidie move vertically. 
Quain, lied. Diet. 
(g) The tang of a tool. (*) Any projecting prong in a lock 
or a bolt. 
4. In mining : (a) A channel cut in the rock, 
or a pipe of wood, for conveying air. [Rare.] 
(6) pi. Cage-shuts. [South Wales coal-fields, 
Eng.] 5. The coil or bend of a rope ; hence, a 
noose; a trap. Through fang, in the manufacture 
of cutlery, the method of dri fling a hole completely through 
the handle and inserting a cylindrical or four-sided prong, 
riveting it at the opposite end. 
fanged (fangd), a. 1. Furnished with fangs, 
tusks, or something resembling them: as, a 
fanged adder. 
My two schoolfellows, 
Whom I will trust as I will adders fang'd. 
Shak., Hamlet, iii. 4. 
In chariots fanged with scythe they scour the field. 
A. Philips, The Briton. 
2. Having fangs as roots ; rooted ; radicated, 
fanger (fang'er), n. [< ME. fanger (= OHG. 
fangari), one who takes or receives, < fangen, 
take: see fang, .] 1. A receiver. [Prov. 
Eng.] 2f. A helper; a protector. 
Laverd, mi fanger art thou in lande. 
PB. iii. 4 (ME. version). 
fanging (fang'ing), n. In mining, bratticing. 
[Midland coal-fields, Eng.] 
fanging-pipes (fang'ing-pips), n.pl. In mining, 
a main of wooden pipes used as air-conductors, 
fangkwae, . See/afco;ai. 
fanglet, )'. i. [ME. fnngelen, appar. < fangen, 
take, seize; ef. fangle, n. (not found in ME., 
except as in comp. new-f angle). ~\ To trifle. 
For his love that 3011 dere bosth 
Hold sou stil muAfaiujrl nosth 
Sordem aperte deprecantes. 
Keliquiat Antiqnte, I. 257. 
