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But he whofe noble genius is allow’d, 
Who with ftretch’d pinions foars above the crowd ; 
Who mighty thought can clothe with manly drefs, 
He whom I fancy, but can ne’er exprefs. Dryden. 
To like ; to be pleafed with.—Ninus, both admiring her 
judgment and valour, together with her perfon and ex¬ 
terna! beauty, fancied her To ftrongly, as, neglecting all 
princely refpeCt, he took her from her hufband. Raleigh. 
1 ' AN'CYMONGER, J. One who deals in tricks of 
imagination.—If J could meet that fancymonger, I would 
give him fome good counfel ; for he teems to have the 
quotidian of love upon him. Shakefpeare. 
FAN'CYSICK, adj. One whofe. imagination is un¬ 
found ; one whofe diftemper is in his own mind.—’Tis 
not neeeflity, but opinion, that makes men miferable'; 
and when we come to be fancyfick, there’s no cure. 
L’FJl range. 
FAND for Found. It is retained in Scotland : 
This when as true by tryal he out fund, 
He bade to open wide his brazen gate. Spcnfer. 
FANE,/ - . [fane, Fr. fanum, Lat.] A temple ; a place 
confecrated to religion. A poetical word : 
The fields are ravith’d from th’ induftrious fwains. 
From men their cities, and from gods their fanes. Pope. 
FAN’FARON, f. [French, from the Spanith ; origi¬ 
nally in Arabic it fignifies one who promifes what he can¬ 
not perform. Manege. ] A bully ; hector.—Virgil makes 
j 3 £neas a bold avovver of his own virtue, which, in the ci¬ 
vility of our poets, is the character of a fanfaron or heCtor. 
Dryden. —A blufterer; a boafierof more than he can per¬ 
form.—There are fanfarons in the trial of wit too, as well 
as in feats of arms ; and none fo forward to engage in ar¬ 
gument or difeourfe as thofe that are leail able to go 
through with it. VEJlrange. 
FANFARON'ADE, j. A binder; a tumour of ficti¬ 
tious dignity.-—The bilhop copied this proceeding from 
the fanfaronade of monfieur Bouffleurs. Swift. 
To FANG, v. a. [pangan, Sax. vangen, Dutch.] To 
feize; to gripe ; to clutch. To vang is yet ufed in De- 
vonfhire. — DeftruCtion fang mankind ! Shakefpeare. 
FANG, f. The long tufks of a boar orother animal by 
which the prey is feized and held ; any thing like ’em.— 
Some creatures have overlong or outgrowing teeth, which 
we call fangs or tulks ; as boars, pikes, falmons, and dogs. 
Bacon. 
Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, 
The feafon’s difference ; as the icy fang , 
And churlifii chiding of the winter’s wind ; 
Which, when it bites and blows upon my body, 
Ev’n till 1 Ihrink with cold, 1 fmile and fay 
This is no flattery. Shakefpeare. 
The nails; the talons. Any fhoct or other thing by which 
hold is taken.—The protuberant fangs of the yuca are to 
be treated like the tnberofes. Evelyn. 
FANG, a town of China, of the third rank, in the 
provinceof Hon-Quang: fifty miles fouth of Yuen-yang. 
FANG'ED, adj. Furniflied with fangs or long teeth ; 
furnifhed with any inftruments of deftruCtion, which can 
be exercifed in imitation of fangs : 
In chariots, fang'd with feythes, they fcour the field, 
Drive through our wedg’d battalions with a whirl, 
And firew a dreadful harveflon the plain. Philips. 
FAN'GLE,y. [from pengan, Sax. toattempt. Skinner. 
But Dr. Thomas Hench derives it of evangtlia, gofpels, 
q. d. new gofpels.] Silly attempt ; trifling fcheme. It is 
never ufe«d, or rarely, but in contempt with the epithet 
new ; as, new fangles, new fanglenefs. 
FAN'GLED, adj. This word feems to fignify gawdy ; 
ridiculoufly fhewy ; vainly decorated : new fangled is 
therefore nevv-fafltioned ; dreffed out in new decorations. 
•—Quick wits be in defire new fangled, and in purpofe tin- 
conltant. Afcham . 
FAN 
Be not, as in this fangled world, a garment 
Nobler than that it covers. Shakefpeare. 
FANG'LESS, adj. Toothlefs ; without teeth : 
Tire king hath wafted all his rods 
On late offenders, that he now dotli lack 
The very inftruments of chafufement : 
So that his pow’r, like to a fanglefs lion, 
May offer, but not hold. ^ Shakefpeare. 
FAN'GOT, f. A quantity of wares: as raw filk, See. 
containing from one to two hundred weight three quarters. 
FANJ EAU'X, a town of France, in the department of 
the Aude, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift of 
Caftelnaudary : four leagues and a half weft of Carcaf- 
fonne, and two and three quarters fouth-fouth-eaft of Caf¬ 
telnaudary. Lat. 43. 11. N\ Ion. 19.4a. E. Ferro. 
FAN'ION, f. [Italian.] A banner or enfign carried by 
the officer of a brigade at the head of the baggage. 
FAN'KI, a town of China, of the third rank, in the 
province of Chan-fi : feventeen miles north-eaft of Tai. 
FAN'NA, a townof Italy, in the country of Friuli, be¬ 
longing to the ftate of Venice : feven miles north-north- 
eaft of Aviano. 
F ANNA'TIO, or Faonatio, f in the foreft law, the 
aft of bringing forth as does or hinds. 
FAN'NEL, f. \_fanon, Fr.] A fort of fcarf, worn about 
the left arm of a mafs prieft when he officiates. 
FAN'NER,/. One that plays a fan.—I will fend unto 
Babylon fanners that Ihall fan her. Jeremiah. 
FAN'NET, a townfhip of the American States, in 
Franklin county, Pennfylvania. 
FAN'NIA LEX, de Sumptibus, a law at Rome, made by 
L. Fannins, the conful, A.U.C. 588. It enafted that 
no perfon fhould fpend more than one hundred affes a day 
at the great feftivals, and thirty affes on other days, and 
ten at all other times. 
FAN'NIUS, an inferior poet, ridiculed by Horace be- 
enufe his poems and picture were confecrated in the li¬ 
brary of Apollo, on mount Palatine at Rome, as it was 
then ufual for fuch as poffeffed merit. Horatius. —Cains, 
an author in Trajan’s reign, whofe hiftory of the cruelties 
of Nero is greatly regretted. 
FA'NO, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of Naples, 
and province of Abruzzo Ultra :'-nine miles fouth-fouth- 
weft of Teramo. 
FA'-NO, a feaport town of Italy, in the ftate of the 
Church, and duchy of Urbino, on the Adriatic, the fee 
of a bifhop, immediately under the pope. It is furround- 
ed with a lofty wall of brick and ditches ; with towers at 
fmall diftances, and baftions tow'ards the fea. It has feve- 
ral monafterieS; and fome beautiful churches. Near this 
town Narfes, the general of the emperor Juftinian, de¬ 
feated Theia, the king of the Goths, who was killed in 
the battle. Here are the remains of a triumphal arch, 
ere£led in honour of Auguftus, who fent hither a colony, 
called Julia Fanetris : feventeen miles eaft of Urbino. 
Lat. 43. 52. N. Ion. 30. 40. E. Ferro. 
FA'NOE, a fmall iftandof Denmark, in the Little Belt, 
fituated about two miles fouth from Middelfahrt, in the 
ifland of Funen. - 
FA'NOE, a fmall ifland of Denmark, near the coaft of 
Slefvvick, in the German Ocean, about five leagues in cir¬ 
cumference, chiefly inhabited by filhermen. Lat. 55. 23. 
N. Ion. 8. 2£. E. Greenwich. 
FAN'SHAWE (fir Richard), a ftatefman and poet, 
youngeft foil of fir Henry Fanfliawe, knight, born at his 
father’s feat of Ware-park, Hei tfordffiire, in 1608. He 
ftudied at Jefus-college, Cambridge, whence he removed 
to the InnerTemple. He afterwards travelled into France 
and Spain, with fo much improvement, that lie obtained 
the appointment of fecretary to the embaffy at Madrid, 
under lord Afton. When the civil war broke out, he 
followed the royal party, and attended upon the court at 
Oxford. He w’as made fecretary of war to prince Charles, 
and afterwards treafurerof the navy under prince Rupert. 
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