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▪ I. † ˈfausen, n. Obs.
Also 6 valson, 7 valsen, 9 dial. fazen.
A kind of eel. Applied variously to a fresh or salt-water eel, and to a small or large eel (see quots.). Also fausen-eel.
1547Boorde Brev. Health lxxxvii. 35 b, Take the fatnes of a valson ele. 1602Carew Cornwall (1733) 31 Of Eeles there are two sorts: the one Valsen, of best taste, comming from the fresh riuers..the other, bred in the salt water & called a Conger Eele. c1611Chapman Iliad xxi. 190 The wave-sprung entrails, about which fausens and other fish Did shoal. c1640J. Smyth Hundred of Berkeley (1885) 319 A fauson, or great fat eele. 1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 325/1 An Eel [is] first a Fausen, then a Grigg. 1708Motteux Rabelais iv. lx, Fausens, and Griggs. 1887Kent Gloss., Fazen adj. The fazen eel is a large brown eel, and is so called at Sandwich in contradiction to the silver eel.
▪ II. † ˈfausen, a. Obs.
1591Troub. Raigne K. John (1611) 53 The Friars chest filld with a fausen Nunne. 1654Gayton Pleas. Notes ii. v. 57 Fausen sluts, like Bartholomew Faire pig-dressers. |