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▪ I. † fane, n.1 Obs. Also 5 fayne, 5–6 phane, 7 faine; and see vane. [Common Teut.: OE. fana wk. masc. = OFris. fana, OS. and OHG. fano (Ger. fahne), Goth. fana, ON. (gunn-) fani (Da. fane, Sw. fana; the mod.Icel. fáni, ‘buoyant, high-flying person’, is unconnected).] 1. A flag, banner, pennant.
a1000Boeth. Metra i. 10 Fana hwearfode scir on sceafte. c1325Coer de L. 3893 They trumpyd and her baners displaye Off sylk, sendel, and many a fane. 1459Test. Ebor. ii. (Surtees) 227 A grete salte salar gilte with banars and fanes. 1503Hawes Examp. Virt. iii. 31 The towres..With fanes wauerynge in the wynde. 1671R. Bohun Disc. Wind 72 The Fanes of ships. 1712Lond. Gaz. No. 5051/3 Ensigns, Jacks, Pendants and Fanes. 1806Naval Chron. XV. 194 On the fane of her fore-mast, is the date. 2. A weathercock. See vane.
c1386Chaucer Clerk's T. 940 O stormy poeple..ever untrewe..and chaungyng as a fane. 1483Cath. Angl. 122 A Fayne of a schipe..ubi a weder coke. c1510Barclay Mirr. Gd. Manners (1570) B iv, Varying as fanes erect vnto the winde. 1635H. Glapthorne Lady Mother iii. i. in Bullen O. Pl. (1883) II. 142 Light faines erected on the tops Of lofty structures. 1773J. Noorthouck Hist. London 611 The turret..from its top rises a ball that supports the fane. ▪ II. fane, n.2 poet.|feɪn| Also 7 fawne, 5–7 phane. [ad. L. fān-um temple.] A temple.
14..Lydg. Lyfe of our Ladye (Caxton) H j, To haue answer.. How long this fane ryal of asyse..sholde last. 1430― Chron. Troy ii. xiii, In this phane..they knele. 1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1596) 107/1 The idolatrous temples and phanes. 1637Heywood Dial. iv. 62 The phane Where the two brothers deify'd remain. 1727–46Thomson Summer 769 Where palaces, and fanes, and villas rise. 1814Scott Ld. of Isles iv. x, To old Iona's holy fane. 1850Tennyson In Mem. lvi, Man, her last work..built him fanes of fruitless prayer. transf. and fig.a1618Sylvester Du Bartas, Panaretus 656 Long live the Story Of Valiant Princes in the Fane of Glory. a1839Praed Poems (1864) II. 54 The fane where Fashion dwells, ‘Lyce's Academy for Belles’. Hence † faned ppl. a. [-ed2], having a fane; enshrined.
1633Ford Love's Sacr. ii. ii, Such..as might well become The shrine of some fan'd Venus. ▪ III. fane, n.3 Obs.|feɪn| (See quots.)
c1000Sax. Leechd. II. 138 Drenc wiþ feondseocum men, of ciricbellan to drincanne..fane, finul [etc.]. 1597Gerarde Herbal Supp. to Gen. Table, Fane, white Flower deluce. 1878Britten & Holland Plant-n., Fane..some white-flowered Iris, but we cannot determine the species. ▪ IV. fane, n.4 Sc.|feɪn| [Cf. Sw. fan the devil.] An elf, a fairy.
1806Train Poet. Reveries, Witch Inverness 100 Kate was haunted wi' a fane. Ibid. 27 Every fane..in thy breast. ▪ V. fane Sc. f. of fain, feign. ▪ VI. fane obs. f. of fan n. ▪ VII. fane Sc. pa. tense of fine v. to finish. |