fangle 
fanglet (fang'gl), n. [Evolved from neic-fanglc, 
regarded, erroneously, as new and *fmgle, n., 
a fancy: see netc-fanale.] A new fancy; a nov- 
elty ; a fancy. 
There was no feather, no fangle, jem, nor jewel . . . left 
behind. Greene, Maniillia (1683). 
We may be assur'd that if God loathe the best of Idola- 
ters prayer, much more the conceited /angle of his prayer. 
Milton, Apology for Smectymnuus. 
A hatred to Jangles and the French fooleries of his time. 
Wood, Athenffi Oxon., II. col. 456. 
fangledt (fang'gld), a. [Short for new-fangled, 
q. v.] New-made ; new-fangled. 
Be not. as is our fancied world, a garment 
Nobler than that it covers. Shak., Cymbeline, v. 4. 
fanglenesst (faug'gl-nes), n. The state of be- 
ing fangled. Spenser. See new-fangleness. 
fangless (fang'les), a. [</</ + -less.} Hav- 
ing no fangs or tusks ; toothless. 
So that his power, like to a. fangless lion. 
May offer, but not hold. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., iv. 1. 
fangot (fang'got), n. [< It. fangotto, a nasal 
torra ot fagotto, a bundle: see fagot.} A quan- 
tity of wares, as raw silk, etc., from 1 hundred- 
weight to 2f hundredweights. 
fan-governor (fan'guv"er-nor), n. In macli. 
See fan, 1 (e). 
fanion (fan'yon), n. [< OF.fanion, a banner, 
another form of fanon : see/anon.] 1. Milit., 
a small flag carried with the baggage of a bri- 
gade. 2. A small flag for a surveying-station. 
E. H. Knight. 
fan-jet (fan'jet), n. A spraying and spreading 
device attached to the nozle of a hose or to a 
fountain. 
fankwai, fankwae (fan'kwT), n. [Chinese, < 
fan, a term applied to certain tribes in the 
south of China, and transferred to foreigners, 
+ kirei, devil, demon.] Literally, barbarian 
devil (or devils): an opprobrious epithet ap- 
plied by the Chinese, especially about Canton 
and Hong Kong, to foreigners. Also spelled 
fanqui, fangkwae. 
fan-lace (fan'las), n. Lace made with the Brus- 
sels point stitch, which produces a pattern of 
triangles somewhat resembling open fans, used 
both in ancient and in modern point-lace. 
fan-light (fan'lit), n. Properly, a window in 
the form of an open fan situated over a door in 
a circular-headed opening: now used for any 
window over a door. 
fannel (fan'el), n. [< WL.fanula, phanula, also 
fanicula, dim. of fano(n-), a banner, napkin, 
etc., in eccles. use : see /anon.] Same as fan- 
on, 3. 
fanner (fan'er), w. One who or that which fans. 
And [I] will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan 
her, and shall empty her land. Jer. li. 2. 
Specifically () pi. A machine for winnowing grain; a 
fan. [Eng.] (li) A blower or ventilating-fan. 
fan-nerved (fan'nervd), a. In entom., having 
a fan-like arrangement of the nervures or veins 
of the wings. Also fan-ret nrd. 
fanning-mill, fanning-machine (fan'ing-mil, 
-ma-shen"), n. A pressure-blower used to 
sencj a blast through screens upon which grain 
2138 
ML. fano(n-), a banner, esp. a priestly ban- 
ner, napkin, etc., < OHG. fano, MHG. fane, G. 
faline = AS. /, a banner, > ME. fane, a ban- 
ner, a weather-vane: seefancl, vane. The same 
word appears in gonf/nni/i, </// : sc>c ;/<- 
falon.] 1. An ensign; a banner. 2. One of 
the tails of the forked pennon. See pennon. 
3. Eccles. : (a) The cloth in which the deacon 
in the ancient or early medieval church re- 
ceived the oblations ; the cloth with which the 
subdeacon or acolyte held the holy vessels ; the 
offertorium, sindon, or offertory-veil. See pa- 
tener. (b) The cloth or offertorium in which a 
lay person brought bread for the offertory, (c) 
A napkin or cloth held in the deacon's hand or 
hung over his arm ; a napkin or handkerchief 
used by the priest or celebrant at mass ; a raap- 
pula or maniple. Fanon is a frequent name for 
maniple from the ninth to the sixteenth century. 
(d) A cloth or veil formerly worn on the neck 
and shoulders, or on the head also, by a cele- 
brant at the eucharist ; the amice in its older 
form. The Syro-Jacobites still use an orna- 
ment of this kind, (e) A similar veil or hood 
formerly worn in the Western Church by a prel- 
ate under his crown or miter; the head-dress 
or veil, formerly called orale, and still worn 
by the pope at solemn pontifical celebrations. 
This is an oblong piece of white silk gauze, ornamented 
with gold, blue, and red stripes. It Is first put upon the 
head like a hood, descending on the shoulders. After as- 
sumption of the chasuble, it is thrown back, and rests upon 
the upper part of that vestment, (f) Oneof the lap- 
pets, pendants, or infulffi of a miter. They are 
apparently derived from or formed a part of the 
veil or hood once worn by prelates. 
Take from your true subiects the Pope's false Christ 
with his bels and bablinges, with his miters and mastries, 
with his fannoms (read fannons) and fopperies, and let 
them haue frely the true Christ again. 
Bp. Bale, English Votaries, Pref. 
((/) A church banner or vexillum. Alsofannel. 
4. In sury., a splint formerly used in frac- 
tures of the thigh and leg, consisting of a cylin- 
der of straw, usually laid round a stick bound 
by cord or ribbon. Under it, next to the limb, 
was placed the false fanon, a compress of linen 
in many folds. 
fan-palm(fan'pam),n. Anypalm having flabel- 
late or fan-shaped leaves, in distinction from 
those with pinnate leaves Bermuda or Jamaica 
fan-palm, Sabal Blackburniana. Chinese fan-palm, 
Trachycarpus Fartunei. European or Mediterranean 
fan-palm, Chanuxrops humili*. Indian fan-palm, :i 
name of various species of Corypha, especially the taliput- 
palm. C. umbraadifera. 
fanqui, n. See fankwai. 
fan-shaped (fan'shapt), a. Resembling a fan 
in shape or form; flabellate Fan-shaped win- 
dow, in arch., a window bounded by an arc of rather more 
than a semicircle the circumference of which is cut out 
in semicircular notches : a type of window occurring in 
early German medieval work. 
fan-shell (fan'shel), n. A scallop; a pecten ; 
an individual of the Pectinidai, so called from 
the form and radiating ridges. P. P. Carpenter. 
fan-Structure (fan'struk'tur), n. In geol., an 
arrangement of closely folded strata such that 
the axis-planes of the folds dip, on each side of 
a mountain-mass or -range, toward the central 
axis-plane of the range itself, so that the whole 
has a structure, as exhibited in a cross-section, 
resembling that shown by an open fan held up- 
right. This arrangement occurs in the most 
marked degree in certain parts of the chain of 
the Alps. 
fantail (fan'tal), n. and a. I. n. 1. A fan- 
tailed flycatcher; any bird of the genus Blii- 
pidura, as the Australian fantail, B, motacilloi- 
des. 2. An artificial fau-tailed variety of the 
Fanning-tnill. 
is falling to clean it from the chaff and dust; 
a winnowing-machine. It usually forms a part of a 
threshing-machine, or is used in connection with grain- 
elevators. See thresher, separator, winnowing-inachine. 
fanning-OUt (fan'ing-ouf), " In printing, the 
twisting of a pile of cut paper by means of a 
turn of the thumb and forefinger, so that it 
will open like a fan, and be in position to be 
easily counted. 
fannont (fan'pn), n. See fanon. 
fanon (fan'on), n. [Early mod. E. fannon; < 
ME. fanonf, famine, fanun, fanen, < OF. fanon, 
F. fanon, fannel, pendant, lappet of a miter, < 
domestic pigeon. 3. A form of gas-burner. 
4. A splayed tenon or mortise. 5. In sli/i>- 
building, the projecting part of the stern of a 
yacht or other small vessel when it extends un- 
usually far over the water abaft the stern-post. 
fantastic 
II. a. Same as fan-tailed, 1: specifically ap- 
plied to small old-world warblers of the genus 
i 'ixticola, as C. cursitans of Europe. 
fan-tailed (fan'tald), a. 1. Having the fea- 
thers of the tail arranged in the shape of a fan ; 
eurhipidurous : applied to ordinary birds (Cari- 
nat<e), in distinction from bush-tailed, an epithet 
of the Ratita: 2. Having the tail exceedingly 
developed and complicate, as the variety of the 
domestic pigeon known as the fantail. 
fan-tan (fan'tan), n. [Chinese, <fan, number 
of times, + tan, apportion.] A Chinese game 
indulged in by gamblers, in which (in its sim- 
plest form) a pile of copper or bronze coins, 
called cash, is covered with a bowl, the players 
betting or staking money on what the remain- 
der will be when the heap has been divided by 4. 
From the winnings of each player certain percentage, 
usually 8 per cent., is deducted for the benefit of the ITOII- 
pier or the good of the house : often abbreviated tan. 
There were only a few natives playing at fan-tan a 
game which, though a great favourite with the natives, 
appears very stupid to a European. 
Lady Brassey, Voyage of Sunbeam, II. xxiii. 
fantascope (fan'ta-skop), n. [Irreg. <fanta(sy), 
oifanta(stic). + Gr. amvelv, view.] An appa- 
ratus for enabling persons to converge the op- 
tical axes of the eyes, or to look cross-eyed, 
and thereby observe certain phenomena of bi- 
nocular vision. Brande and Cox. 
fantasia (fan-ta-ze'a; sometimes, wrongly, fau- 
ta'zi-a), n. [<It./ante*j'a,afancy: seefantaity, 
fancy.] In music: (a) Originally, any instru- 
mental piece, (b) Any composition not in strict 
form or style, particularly when somewhat ca- 
pricious, (c) An irregular composition, consist- 
ing of well-known airs arranged with interludes 
and florid decorations, similar to a potpourri. 
Nothing is more difficult in the whole navigation of the 
Nile than weathering a coffee-house when the barbaric 
music of i\\e fantasia throbs over the waters and the voice 
of the ;tl in. n is heard in the land. 
C. W. Stoddard, ilashallah, p. 185. 
Also fantasy, phantasy. 
Free fantasia, that part of the first movement of a sonata 
or symphony which comes between the double bar and tile 
reprise of the first subject. In it the materials of the pre- 
ceding part, with or without additional matter, are devel- 
oped and worked out. 
fantasied (fan'ta-sid), a. [< fantasy + -?2.] 
Filled with fancies or imaginations. 
I find the people strangely fantasied ; 
Possess'd with rumours, full of idle dreams. 
Shak., K. John, iv. 2. 
fantasm, fantasmal, etc. See phantasm, etc. 
fantasque (fan-task'), a. and n. [F., abbr. of 
fantastique : see fantastic."} I. a. Fantastic. 
[Rare.] 
The zodiac . . . 
Responding with twelve shadowy signs of earth, 
li\ fantasque apposition and approach. 
Mrs. Browning, Drama of Exile. 
II. n. Fancy. 
I have a Scribbling-Army-Friend, that has writ a tri- 
umphant, rare, noisy Song, in honour of the late Victory, 
that will hit the Nymph's Fantasque to a Hair. 
Steele, Tender Husband, ii. 1. 
fantassin (fan'ta-sin), n. [F., < It. fantaccino, 
< fante, a boy, servant, knave at cards: see 
fantoccini.] A heavy-armed foot-soldier. 
There were quaint fantassinx with matchlock, mnsket, 
tulwar, and bow. H'. //. Russell, Diary in India, II. 237. 
fantast (fan'tast), . [= G. Dan. Sw. fantast; 
<.fantayt-ic.] One whose mind is full of fan- 
tastic notions ; a person of fantastic ideas, man- 
ners, or mode of expression. 
He [Sir T. Browne] is a quiet and sublime enthusiast, 
with a strong tinge of the fantast; the humorist con- 
stantly mingling with, and flashing across, the philosopher, 
as the darting colours in shot silk play upon the main dye. 
Coleridye. 
A disciplined taste recoils from fantasts and contortion- 
ists like Mr. Carlyle, Archbishop Trench, and Mr. Brown- 
ing. /'. Hall, Mod. Eng., p. 151. 
fantastic (fan-tas'tik), a. and n. [Formerly 
also fantastick; < OF. fantastique, F. fantas- 
tique, and abbr. fantasque = Pr. fantastic = Sp. 
fantdstico = Pg. It.fantastico (cf. G.fantastist-h 
= Dan. Svr.faiitastisk), < \jLi.pTiantasticus, ML. 
fklsofantasticus, imaginary (ML. also as a noun, 
a lunatic), < Gr. 0avrao-of, able to present or 
represent (to the mind) ( 70 ^avraaTmov, the state 
of mind produced bv unreal or imaginary ob- 
jects), < ^airaoToV, verbal a'lj. ofijtavrafciv, make 
visible, present orrepresent : seefantasy,faney, 
phantasm.'] I. . 1. Of the nature of a phan- 
tom or fantasy; produced or existing only in 
imagination ; imaginary ; not real. 
Are not we both mad ? 
And is not this & fantastic house we are in, 
And all a dream we do? 
Fletcher, Rule a Wife, iv. 3. 
