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▪ I. fanning, vbl. n.|ˈfænɪŋ|
[f. fan v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. fan.
1. The action of fanning or winnowing (corn).
1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. i. (1586) 43 The..fannyng and wynnowing in Sommer. a1679T. Goodwin Wks. V. ii. 144 Others take this fanning (Luke iii. 16, 17) for that discovery which shall be made at the day of judgment. 1879Farrar St. Paul ii. vii. I. 123 ‘All the fanning in the world will not make you [a cornfield] so remunerative as commerce’, said Rabh.
b. concr. The siftings of tea.
1870Daily News 16 Nov., Common fannings mixed with broken stalks.
2. The action of moving the air with or as with a fan; an instance of this.
1528Paynell Salerne's Regim. T iv, The fier, without fannynge of the aier, is schoked and quenched. 1696tr. Du Mont's Voy. Levant 133 Where a Man may lie and enjoy the Pleasure of Fanning as long as he pleases. 1715Desaguliers Fires Impr. 41 Fanning..makes that Air feel cold or cool, which is otherwise warm. 1852D. Moir Hymn to Night Wind Poet. Wks. II. 381 The delightful fannings of thy wing!
3. The action of blowing gently as with a fan; an instance of this; a breeze.
1712Budgell Spect. No. 425 ⁋1 The Fanning of the Wind rustling on the Leaves. 1764Grainger Sugar Cane 562 The first glad fannings of the breeze. 1818Keats Endym. ii. 664 Exhal'd asphodel, And rose, with spicy fannings interbreath'd, Came swelling forth.
4. = fan-tracery (see fan n.1 11).
1851Ruskin Stones Ven. I. xxix. §4, I would rather..have a plain ridged Gothic vault..than all the fanning..and foliation that ever bewildered Tudor weight.
5. Also fanning-out: the action of spreading out like a fan (cf. fan v. 6); an instance of this.
1883W. C. Russell Sailor's Lang., Fanning, widening the after-part of a ship's top. 1889Geikie in Nature 19 Sept. 488/1 The fanning-out of the ice on its southward march.
6. Comb., as fanning-machine, fanning-mill. (= fan n.1 1 b.)
1747Gent. Mag. XVII. 438 A Fanning Mill, used in Silesia, for cleaning of corn from tares, &c. 1842Brande Dict. Sc., Fanning-machine. 1874Knight Dict. Mech., Fanning-mill.
▪ II. ˈfanning, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That fans, in senses of the verb. lit. and fig.
c1340Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 181 Fayre fannand fax vmbefoldes his schulderes. 1555Latimer Serm. & Rem. (1845) 442 Fear not the fanning wind. a1700Dryden Cymon & Iphig. 104 The fanning wind upon her bosom blows. 1725Pope Odyss. vi. 284 Inhaling freshness from the fanning breeze. 1818Byron Ch. Har. iv. xliv, My bark did skim The bright blue waters with a fanning wind. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Fanning-breeze, one so gentle that the sail alternately swells and collapses. |