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▪ I. feak, n.|fiːk|
[Perh. related to feak v.3; possibly a sing. inferred from feax, fax n.1, mistaken for a pl.]
A dangling curl of hair.
1548Thomas Ital. Gram., Ciocca, a feake, or quantitie of heare. 1598Marston Pygmal. Sat. i. 138 He that..Can dally with his Mistres dangling feake, And wish that he were it. 1600Abp. Abbot Exp. Jonah 593 It doth not become thee to go with such feakes and lockes. 1650Bulwer Anthropomet. ii. (1653) 72 If anything be lopped off their feaks or foretops.
▪ II. † feak, v.1 Obs.
[var. of feague v.]
trans. To beat, to thrash.
1652J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 117 The foole was feakt for this.
Hence ˈfeaking vbl. n.; in quot. attrib.
1601Cornwallyes Ess. xxiv, Being without his feaking sticke, he is without himselfe.
▪ III. feak, v.2 Falconry.|fiːk|
Cf. feat v. 2.
[ad. Ger. fegen to cleanse, sweep.]
a. intr. Of a hawk: To wipe the beak after feeding.
b. trans. To wipe (the beak); also, to wipe the beak of.
c1575Perfect Bk. Kepinge Sparhawkes (ed. Harting 1886) 19 They must..haue tyme to feake. 1618Latham 2nd Bk. Falconry 146 When she hath fed, feaked, and reioyced. 1686R. Blome Gentl. Recreat. ii. 48 When she [your Hawk] hath Fed, say she Feaketh her Beak and not wipeth it. 1852R. F. Burton Falconry in Valley Indus iii. 28, I..gently pulled her off the pelf, feaked and hooded her.
▪ IV. feak, v.3 dial.|fiːk|
Also 9 feek.
[Cf. fike v. and ON. fjúka to drift, fly away, and its causative feyka to blow, drive away, to rush.]
1. trans. To twitch, jerk, pull smartly.
1548Thomas Ital. Gram., Dichiomare..to feake the heare awaie. 1879G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk., ‘I know w'en our Maister's in a bad 'umour, fur e' al'ays feaks 'is wescut down.’
2. intr. (See quots.)
1775Ash, Feake (v. int. in the Scotch dialect), to flutter, to be officiously busy, to be idle. 1811W. Riding Gloss., Feak, to fidget, to be restless or busied about trifles. 1878Cumbrld. Gloss., Feek, to be uneasy or anxious. |