feeze 
veeze,fazel(q. v.),etc.; <ME./ese, drive away, 
frighten away, put to flight, < AS. fesian, drive 
away, put to flight, sUsofysian, a later form of 
AS.fysan (> ME. fuscn, fouscn), intr. hasten, tr. 
hasten, incite, urge, send forth, drive out, in 
comp. d-fysan, hasten, impel, ge-fysan, make 
ready, hasten, drive, impel (= OS. fusian, a-fu- 
sian, make ready, hasten, = Iee\.fysa, urge, ex- 
hort, impers. wish, desire, = Dan. fuse, intr., 
rush, gush), < fus, ready, prompt, eager, quick, 
inclined, willing, = OS. fus, ready, willing, = 
OHG. funs, ready, willing, = leel. fuss, willing, 
wishing for, = Sw. dial, fus, eager. See fuss, 
which is from the same source.] I, trans. 1. 
To drive off; frighten away; put to flight. 
When he had etyn and made hyin at ese 
He tin PL lit Oye for tafese. 
MS. Cantab. Ff. ii. 38, f. 171. (HaUimll.) 
Ful foule schulde tin foos be/end, 
If thou mygte over hem, as y over thee may. 
Political Poemt, etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 1988. 
2. To drive ; compel ; urge. 
Those eager impea whom food-want feaz'd to fight 
amaine. Mir. for Mays., p. 480. 
3. To beat; whip; chastise. 
Come, will you quarrel? I wi\\feize you, sirrah; 
Why do you not buckle to your tools? 
B. Jomon, Alchemist, v. 3. 
4. To vex ; worry ; harass ; plague ; tease ; dis- 
turb. Ainsworth; Halliwell. 
Sir, what foode [creature] in faith will jou/ewe, 
That sott full sone my selfe sail hyin sesse. 
York Plays, p. 124. 
5. To do for ; settle or finish. 
Well, 'has given me my quietus est ; I felt him 
In my guts ; I'm sure 'has/eez'rf me. 
Villiers, The Chances (1682). 
[Obsolete or prov. Eng. in all senses.] 
II. intrant. To fret; be in a fume; worry: 
as, she frets and feezes. [Colloq., U. iS.] 
feeze 1 , feaze 1 (fz), [Alsofeese; < feeze 1 , 
feaze 1 , t'.] If. A race ; a run ; a running start, 
as for a leap. 
To leap without taking any race orfeese, nullo procursu 
salire. Baret, Alvearie (1580). 
And giving way backward, fetch their feese or beire 
againe, and with a fierce charge and assault to returne full 
butt upon the same that they had knocked and beaten be- 
fore. Holland, tr. of Ammianus Marcellinus (1609). 
2. Vexation; worry; fret. [Colloq., U. S.] 
When a man's in a feese, there's no more sleep that hitch. 
Haliburton. 
feeze 2 , feaze 2 (fez), v. i. ; pret. and pp. feezed, 
feased, ppr. feezing, feazing. [E. dial., also feese, 
fease; a corruption, by reduction of the diffi- 
cult initial combination fn, of ME. fnesen, < 
AS. fncosan, sneeze : see fnese, neese, sneeze.] 
To sneeze. [Prov. Eng.] 
feeze 3 , feaze* (fez), v. ; pret. and pp. feezed, 
feazed, ppr. feezing, feazing. [Sc., also faize, 
faise, intr. ; connected with ME. faselen, later 
fasyll, intr. , ravel out, = D. vezclen = MHG. vas- 
ten, G. faseln, ravel out: see fass, fasel 1 .'] I. 
trans. To untwist the end of (anything made of 
threads or fibers) ; ravel out. 
II. intrans. To untwist; ravel out. 
feeze* (fez), . i. ; pret. and pp. feezed, ppr/ feez- 
ing. [E. dial., also written feaze; cf. dial, fa- 
sil, dawdle; cf.feezeS anditsequiv./oseZ 1 .] To 
dawdle ; loiter. Halliwell. 
feeze 5 (fez), v. t. ; pret. and pp. feezed, ppr. feez- 
ing. [Sc., perhaps connected with OD. vijsen, 
screw, < vijse, a screw, a vise, < F. vis, OF. vis, 
a vise : see vise.'] To screw ; twist ; tighten 
by screwing. 
I downa laugh, I clnwna sing, 
I downa feeze my fiddle-string. 
A. Doufjlas, Poems, p. 43. 
To feeze into, to insinuate or wind one's self into, as 
into favor. To feeze aff, to unscrew. To feeze up, to 
"screw up" ; work into a passion ; flatter. 
Fe-faw-fum (fe'fa'fum'), . [Nursery jargon.] 
A frightful thing or creature ; a malevolent, de- 
structive giant or dragon of old legend or fable. 
Is the Fe-faw-fum of literature, that snuffs afar the fame 
of his brother authors, and thirsts for its destruction, to 
be allowed to gallop unmolested over the fields of criti- 
cism? Anna Seward, Letter quoted in Miss Thackeray's 
[Book of Sibyls. 
fefft, 0. t. The older and proper English spell- 
ing of feoff. 
feffeme'ntt, . See feoffment. 
feg (feg), v. A dialectal variant of fag 1 . 
fegary, n. An obsolete or dialectal variant of 
vagary. Compare figary. 
I have had a nnefegary, 
The rarest wildgoose chase ! 
MiddMon, Spanish Gypsy, i. 5. 
fegs (fegz), interj. Same as/acfc2. 
By my/e.?*.' 
Ve've set anld Scotia on her legs. Seattle. 
2172 
fehme, fehmgerichte (fa'mc, fam-ge-rich'te), 
it. Same as fehmgerichte. 
fehmic (fa'mik), a. Same as velnnic. 
feide (fed), n. [Sc.: see/eurfl.] Feud; hate. 
The Land-sergeant has me at/<?td. 
IMAe Sable (Child's Ballads, VI. 100). 
feigh 1 (fa), v. Another spelling of fay 2 . 
feigfl 2 (fech), interj. [Another form of faugh, 
fy, etc.: see faugh.] Fy! an expression of dis- 
gust or abomination. [Scotch.] 
Ye stink o' leeks, O feigh ! Ramsay, Poems, I. 2B-2. 
feign (fan), v. [The g is a mod. insertion, in forced 
imitation of the F. ppr. feignant and Li.Ji>if/in 
(ME. feigne only in partly modernized editions 
of Gower) ; reg. fain or fein (as still in deriv. 
faint, feint), early mod. E. faine, fayne, < ME. 
feinen, feynen, rarely fainen, faynen, feignen, < 
OF. feindre, faindre, F. feindre = Pr. feigner, 
fenher, finher = Sp. Pg. fingir = It. fignere, 
fingere, feign, pretend, = D. fingeren = G. fin- 
giren = Dan. fingere = Sw. fingera, < L. fingere, 
pp. fictus, touch, handle, usually form, shape, 
frame, form in thought, imagine, conceive, con- 
trive, devise, feign (/ "fig m figura, etc. : see 
figure), = Goth, deigan, form (as clay, etc., > 
daigs = E. dough), = Gr. Biyyaveiv, touch, han- 
dle, = Skt. y dih, smear. See dough; and see 
fictile, fiction, figment, figure, etc., from the same 
L. verb.] I. trans. 1. To invent or imagine ; 
utter, relate, or represent falsely or deceitfully. 
And [he]faynet ay faire wordes vnder felle thoghtes, 
Holy lift hum to have the hestes before. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 994. 
If the things we couet to describe be not naturall or 
not veritable, than yet the same axeth more cunning to 
do it, because to faine a thing that neuer was nor is like 
to be proceedeth of a greater wit and sharper iuuention 
than to describe things that be true. 
Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 199. 
What heavens of joy then to himselfe ttefaynes ! 
Spenser, In Honour of Love, 1. 240. 
The poets feign that Vulcan attempted the chastity of 
Minerva. Bacon, Physical Fables, v. 
The supposing another man's ill usage to be ours, is the 
giving ourselves a present sense, as it were a kind of 
feigned experience of it ; which doth, for the time, serve 
all the purposes of a true one. 
Bp. Atterbury, Sermons, I. ix. 
2. To make a false appearance of; counter- 
feit; simulate; pretend: as, to feign death. 
In going keep a decent gate, \\otfaining lame or broken, 
For that doth seeme but wantonuesse, and foolishnesse 
betoken. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 296. 
l.rttrrs,/.-/<mrr/ from Buch a nobleman, or such a knight. 
B. Jonson, Every Man out of his Humour, i. 1. 
Tills feigned madness of Hamlet's la one of the few 
points in which Shakespeare has kept close to the old 
story on which he founded his play. 
Lowell, Among my Books, 1st ser., p. 220. 
We are far, however, from thinking that his sadness was 
altogether/ei<pid. Macaulay, Moore's Byron. 
Men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals 
and mournful obituaries, and there they stand looking out 
of the window, sound and well, in some new and strange 
disguise. Etnerson, Nominalist and Realist. 
A fever in these paces burns 
Beneath the calm they feign. 
M. Arnold, In Memory of the Author of Obermann. 
3f. To dissemble ; disguise; conceal. 
Thowe shalt be as welcome nowe 
As he that synne neuer ded fayne. 
Political Poemt, etc. (ed. Furuivall), p. 162. 
Yet both doe strive their fearefulnesse to faine. 
Spenser, . Q., II. iii. 20. 
4f. Eeflexively, to show a sudden weakness; 
become weak or faint. 
ffeine gme noghte feyntly, . . . 
Bot luke xe fygte faythefully. 
Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1784. 
So they shewed [the child] to the moder, and when she 
it sough, she fayned her, and sayd, "This childe maketh 
me to haue grete feer." Merlin (E. E. T. S.), i. 14. 
Feigned exchange. See exchange. Feigned issue, in 
/'(", an issue made up for trial by agreement of the par- 
ties or by an order of court, instead of by the ordinary 
legal procedure. Thus it was usual in chancery, when a 
disputed question of fact, more suitable to be determined 
by a jury than by the chancellor, arose in a suit, to order 
it submitted to a jury by means of pleadings framed as if 
an action at law had been brought on a wager involving 
the question, so as to present the question to the jury as 
the exact issue to be decided. This practice has been 
generally altered or supplanted by recent legislation pro- 
viding for the framing of issues without the fiction of a 
separate action. =Syn. To affect, simulate, profess. 
II. intraits. 1. To make believe; practise 
dissimulation or false representation ; dissem- 
ble. 
Man, y loue thee ! whom lonest thou? 
1 am thi freend ; whi wolt thou ftyne ? 
Political Poems, etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 163. 
One god is god of both, as poets feign. 
Shale., Pass. Pilgrim, viii. 
If she professes friendship, be certain she is sincere ; she 
cannot feign; she scorns hypocrisy. 
Charlotte Bronte, Shirley, xiii. 
feld 
2f. To sing with a low voice, 
feignt, n. [ME. fayne; from the verb.] Dis- 
simulation; deception; falsehood. 
Sey me, modyr, with-outen /#?!, 
Why art thou put to alle this payne ? 
Political Poems, etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 86. 
feignedly (fa'ned-li), adv. In a feigned man- 
ner; deceitfully; falsely. 
Her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me 
with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the Lord. 
Jer. iii. 10. 
feignedness (fa'ned-nes), n. The quality of 
being feigned; fictitiousness ; simulation; de- 
ceit. 
The church is not the school otfcignednesse and hypoc- 
ricy, but of truth and sincerity. 
Harmar, tr. of Beza's Sermons, p. 39. 
feigner (fa'ner), n. One who feigns or simu- 
lates; a deviser of fiction. 
The attitude of the feigners and of the really dead. 
Philadelphia. Evening Telegraph, XL. 3. 
feigningly (fa'ning-li), adv. In a feigning man- 
ner ; with simulation or pretense. 
King Ethelred required peace with the Danes, promis- 
ing to them stipends and tribute ; to the which they/am- 
in'ilii assented, but they never left their cruelties. 
Stow, West Saxons, an. 1011. 
feint, feinet, v. Middle English forms of feign. 
feint (fant), n. [< F.feinte (= Pr.fencha = OSp. 
Pg. It. finta), a feint, sham, pretense, fern, of 
feint, pp. of feindre, feign: BOO feign. For the 
equiv. noun in ME., see fain tine.] 1. An as- 
sumed or false appearance, or simulation; a 
pretense of doing something not really done. 
Revealing with each freak or feint 
The temper of Petruchio's Kate, 
The raptures of Siena's saint. 
Whittier, Snow-Bound. 
Scraps of their reminiscence reached Marcia where she 
sat in a feint of listening to Ben Halleck's perfunctory 
account of his college days with her husband. 
llowells, Modern Instance, xxi. 
2. A movement made with the object of de- 
ceiving an adversary or throwing him off his 
guard ; an appearance of aiming at one part or 
point when another is the real object of attack, 
as in boxing, fencing, battle, or a contest of any 
kind; a mock attack. 
Doubling on both sides of the arm, which is too compli- 
cated & feint to be frequently used in actual fencing. 
Encyc. Brit., IX. 71. 
feintf (fant), a. [See faint, a.] 1. Counterfeit; 
seeming; feigned: same a,s faint, 1. 
The mind by degrees loses its natural relish of real solid 
truth, and is reconciled insensibly to any thing that can 
be but dressed up into &ny feint appearance of it. Locke. 
2. Same &s faint, 2. 
feint (fant), f. i. [< feint, n.] To make a feint ; 
make a pretended blow, thrust, or attack at one 
point when another is intended to be struck, 
in order to throw an antagonist off his guard. 
He practised every pass and ward, 
To thrust, to strike, to feint, to guard. 
Scott, L. of the L., v. 15. 
Ben-Hur/tn(ed with his right hand. 
L. Wallace, Ben-Hur, p. 381. 
feintiset, n. See faintise. 
feiret, a. and v. An obsolete form of fair 1 . 
feist, n. Same as fist*. 
feistyt, a. Same as, fusty. 
feize, r. and n. See feeze 1 . 
felanders (fel'an-derz), n. pi. See filander 1 , 2. 
felapton (f e-lap'ton), n. In logic, the mnemonic 
name of that mood of the third figure of syllo- 
gism which has both the premises universal and 
one of them negative. The following is an example : 
The loss of energy of a radiating mass of gas which gravi- 
tates to its own center is an emission of heat ; but no loss 
of energy in such a mass of gas can tend to make the body 
cooler; hence, some emission of heat does not tend to 
make the radiating body cooler. According to some logi- 
cians, this reasoning is fallacious, because neither premise 
asserts that such a case actually occurs. The word ff lap- 
ton is one of the mnemonic names invented in the thir- 
teenth century, and found in the "Snmmulse" of Petrus 
Hispanus. The three vowels, '. ". o, indicate the quan- 
tity and quality of the three propositions, which are uni- 
versal negative, universal affirmative, and particular neg- 
ative, respectively. The letter / signifies that the mood 
is to be reduced to ferio, and the p that in the reduction 
the minor premise is to be converted per accidens. 
felawt, felawet, . Middle English forms of 
fellow. 
fel bovinum (fel bo-vi'num). [L. fel bovinvm, 
ox-gall: see/eH6 and bovine.] Ox-gall. An ex- 
tract of it is used by painters to remove the 
greasiness of colors, etc. 
feld 1 !, An obsolete form of field. 
feld 2 t, t'- An obsolete spelling of felled, pret- 
erit of fell 1 . 
feld 3 t, feldet, v. Obsolete forms of fold 1 . 
